Chapter 184: Flesh and Bone

“Lin Xian.”

KIKI, who was usually quite brave, was scared for the first time by such a scene. She hid by Lin Xian’s side and said with a disgusted look on her face, “How… how could this be? These people…”

Lin Xian frowned tightly at this moment. The scene in front of him had indeed given him a strong psychological shock. He observed the rows of flesh and bone and said in a deep voice, “It’s a bit strange. The degree of decay is very different from the corpses outside. It looks like it’s within a month.”

“Then that means this place is not safe at all,” KIKI said, adjusting her breathing. “Do we still need to investigate?”

“No need.”

Lin Xian shook his head and shone the flashlight row by row. But just as his flashlight reached the end, he found that among the flesh and bone in the last row of seats, there was a woman who was still intact.

“Lin Xian, there’s still a person!” KIKI exclaimed.

From a distance, the woman’s hair was disheveled and she was in a mess. She was leaning back in her chair, and it was unknown whether she was dead or alive.

“Let’s go and see.”

Without another word, Lin Xian ran up the aisle to the viewing platform. KIKI also forced down her nausea and quickly flew up.

As they got closer, Lin Xian became more and more certain that the woman might still be alive.

Click, click, click.

To be cautious, Lin Xian directly created a long pole and walked over to poke the woman’s back.

The woman sitting in the chair swayed to the side. Her body was not stiff, and she still had a faint breath. Lin Xian and KIKI’s eyes met. KIKI immediately raised her hand and used her Esper ability to grab the woman from the chair and then gently placed her on the aisle floor.

“She’s indeed still alive,” KIKI frowned. “But her heartbeat and breathing rhythm are very chaotic. She should be dying soon.”

Lin Xian walked over and shone the flashlight on the woman. The woman looked to be in her early thirties, her whole body was grayish-white, and she looked malnourished. Her hair and clothes were a mess, and she didn’t even have shoes on her feet. Her whole person exuded the aura of someone who was about to die.

He looked at the flesh and bone in this last row. The degree of decay was not high, and it looked very new.

“She might be a survivor.” Lin Xian squatted down, preparing to check the woman’s condition.

But when he shone the flashlight on the woman’s face, the woman seemed to be blinded by the strong light. She suddenly frowned and struggled to raise her hand.

Lin Xian and KIKI’s expressions changed. At this moment, the woman’s breathing also began to become rapid, and then she slowly opened her eyes.

The next moment, the woman saw Lin Xian and KIKI in front of her. Her eyes widened in horror, and she immediately shrank back on the ground in fear.

“Don’t be afraid, we won’t hurt you. Who are you?”

Lin Xian didn’t expect the woman to suddenly wake up. Seeing her fearful appearance, he immediately spoke.

But the woman seemed to be terrified and didn’t hear Lin Xian’s words at all. She kept backing away, then struggled to stand up, turned around, and ran.

“Catch her!”

Seeing this, Lin Xian decisively had KIKI make a move.

“Okay.”

The two of them cooperated tacitly. KIKI directly raised her hand and used her psionic power to grab the woman and drag her back.

“Don’t be afraid, we won’t hurt you,” Lin Xian said loudly.

The woman struggled frantically under the control of the invisible psionic power, but her mouth seemed to be unable to make any sound.

KIKI frowned and looked at Lin Xian. “Could she be deaf and mute?”

Lin Xian also subconsciously reacted. He was just thinking about how to communicate with her, but in the next moment, he saw that the woman’s face had become even more terrified, and her gaze was not on Lin Xian and KIKI, but on the corridor behind him.

Seeing this, the two of them quickly turned their heads and found that in the corridor behind them, a strange human face had appeared at some point!

It was actually a person walking upside down!

“Be careful!”

Seeing this monster, Lin Xian’s pupils immediately shook. He raised his hand and sent a power surge over.

Voom-zzt!

A bright silver electric light flashed and directly hit the white, upside-down monster, burning a charred hole in it.

The monster paused for a moment. In an instant, it suddenly climbed over at an extremely fast speed, without making any sound, and rushed in front of Lin Xian in less than a second!

Lin Xian didn’t expect this monster to be so fast. He didn’t even have time to create an iron gate. He could only reflexively wave out an ice shield.

And KIKI also decisively raised her hand and pushed the ice shield created by Lin Xian forward.

Bang!!!

The white, upside-down monster directly collided with it head-on. Its slender arms flew around wildly, sending the flesh and bone on the seats flying. All kinds of flesh and skeletons flew horizontally, making a clattering sound.

“Let’s retreat first.”

Lin Xian immediately had KIKI take the person and retreat outside the movie theater. With so many flesh and bone in this hall, it meant that this movie theater was definitely like the confined space of Underground City No. 8, with Aberrations even during the day!

“Okay.” KIKI couldn’t be flexible here either. She landed on the ground and used her Esper ability to grab the woman and start running towards the movie theater’s escape passage.

Lin Xian followed closely behind.

Puff, puff, puff!

He tentatively shot a few wind guns to see if he could deal with this Aberration, but the white, upside-down monster was extremely fast. After breaking through his ice shield, it caught up with a few climbs.

Voom!

KIKI attacked while running. A powerful psionic force suppressed the white, upside-down monster, but it only suppressed it for a few breaths before the monster began to struggle frantically. The two sides were at a stalemate. KIKI bit her silver teeth, directly raised her hand, and pushed. A shockwave burst out.

Boom, boom, boom!

The carpet in the corridor and the wall lamps on the wall exploded layer by layer, directly blasting the upside-down monster to the end of the corridor. Its strange limbs struggled in the shadows, and then it suddenly drilled into the shadows and disappeared.

Lin Xian looked at KIKI and found that her face was tense. He knew that this thing was probably not easy to deal with.

“Let’s go out first.” Lin Xian saw that this passage connected to the movie theater’s projection room, so he wanted to quickly move to the street outside. Although he could now create heavy firepower like the Roarer K23 electric rotary machine gun, he couldn’t instantly create a Gatling gun weighing dozens of pounds and hundreds of bullets in such a tight situation.

It was daytime outside now. This Aberration shouldn’t dare to follow them out. Even if this thing wasn’t afraid of the daytime sun, they could also run to the train. The 1130 would definitely be able to calm this thing down.

Taking advantage of this gap, the two of them quickly ran towards the corridor of the projection room.

But at this moment, there was no sound behind them. The white, upside-down monster didn’t seem to be following.

Lin Xian’s heart tightened. He sensed something strange. He raised his flashlight and was shocked to find a man standing at the end of the corridor.

The man stood motionless, a faint smile on his face as he looked at the two of them.

“Who are you!”

Without another word, KIKI, seeing this person’s strange appearance, directly raised her hand, preparing to restrain him with her psionic power first.

Who knew that the man suddenly opened his mouth wide, his face tearing open from the middle. Brownish-red tentacles continuously extended from his throat, and he roared and pounced over.

“Human-faced Aberration?!”

KIKI grabbed with her backhand, directly restraining the human-faced Aberration in mid-air. Lin Xian raised his hand, and a charged power surge directly pierced its head.

Pfft!

Aargh!!!

The human-faced Aberration roared and was directly slammed to the ground by KIKI. Lin Xian took a step forward, and his hands directly fired wind guns at the human-faced Aberration’s head at close range.

Swish, swish, swish!!

Flesh and blood flew. He took out the GK electric knife with his backhand, activated the electric arc, and split it open with a single slash!

Whoosh~

A piece of flesh flew out. In an instant, Lin Xian and KIKI both found that this human-faced Aberration was completely different from the ones they had seen in Underground City No. 9. A thin layer of human skin covered it, and inside the human skin was a writhing monster, like a ball of tangled red worms!

“This… how can this monster be wearing human skin??” KIKI said in surprise at this moment.

“So those people were all skinned by this kind of monster and disguised as humans?” Lin Xian’s expression was extremely grave at this moment, because before the tentacles came out, this thing was completely identical to a normal person!

This was even more chilling than humans mutating into zombies or human-faced Aberrations. If monsters became more and more like humans, the situation for humanity would be even more terrifying.

At this moment, Lin Xian suddenly sensed something. He immediately turned his head and looked at the woman he and KIKI had just saved.

Because he found that the woman seemed to have stopped struggling for a long time.

The woman who had been struggling to escape just now was now standing behind KIKI, a strange smile on her face. The corners of her mouth gradually turned upwards, her skin was peeled back, becoming sinister and terrifying, and she looked less and less like a human