In an old and ruined village, the sky of the whole town is red with fire due to the riots, and everyone comes out to take refuge. These people were often in groups of several or a dozen, and each of them had extremely stiff and frightened expressions, as if they had experienced something very terrible, and they had become numb to the days of such a day of flight, and everyone wanted to have a stable place to live.

Some of the people here are mothers trying their best to coax their children not to cry, there are old people leaning against the corner of the wall and falling asleep, as if they are dead, and some people struggle and roll hard. But the only thing they have in common is a constant cough and determination to live, or perhaps a disease in this chaotic place.

They were all hiding in the shadows of the village, no one dared to go out, as if they didn't want to be spotted by something outside, and no one made any sound except coughing. Just after the time passed slowly, some shadows appeared at the dark exit where this group was, and when they found out, they all got up in great panic and wanted to escape, no matter how painful they were just now, the woman holding the child no longer continued to coax the child, the person who was struggling quickly gained strength, and even the old man who was leaning against the wall and seemed to sleep suddenly woke up with wide eyes. Then the men fled in all directions, and the only way out was another exit here.

Someone in the crowd cried, "They're coming!"

The men scurried in the other direction, but when they reached the other exit, their tracks stopped. The expressions of these people who had been frightened became extremely hideous, because there were such figures on the other side, and there were more of them on the other side, and the first few people were caught by those shadows before they could run back, and then the others heard a few heart-rending screams, which could only be made in extreme pain. Everyone else understood why that person was in such pain, and no one wanted to be caught by those shadows, because that person was actually dismembered alive by the shadows just now. The others were so frightened that their legs went limp, and they didn't even have the idea of running back, but slowly moved their steps backwards, and some were so frightened that they stood still and waited for death to come. However, neither of them could stop their tragic fate, and immediately after, screams were heard throughout the place, and after a few minutes, silence returned.

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In the darkness not far from here, there was another group of people, but it was safer for the time being, but no one knew if they would survive tonight. They were also coughing incessantly, and everyone's expressions were exhausted and listless, more from inner fear than physical exhaustion. These people almost use willpower to insist that they can't fall asleep, and they all know that once they fall asleep, there is only one way to die. But there was one man lying there motionless, and two people next to him were constantly whispering his name, but the man never woke up.

The two people who called him muttered quietly, one of them was a girl's voice, she said, "Brother, do you think Zhang Jian is dead?"

The one who was called Brother was Duan Guanghui, and this girl was Duan Guangting, and it was Zhang Jian who fell there and didn't move.

Duan Guanghui said nervously: "It shouldn't be dead yet, and there is still breathing." ”

"So what do we do?"

"We can't wake up just now, we just have to wait! See if this kid can wake up on his own, otherwise when those things come, we can only try our best to take him away." ”

Duan Guangting coughed twice without speaking, and Duan Guanghui also coughed, obviously they also seemed to be infected with some kind of disease here. Both of them had red pustules on their bodies, but there were not many of them, and they were nothing compared to an old man next to them who was covered in pus.

The old man said to them intermittently, "Don't give up hope, child, because the future here can only be handed over to you, and my old man estimates that he will not live long, ahem" The old man smiled bitterly after speaking, although he was dying, but there was a kind of hope in his eyes.

Duan Guanghui and his sister listened attentively, but they didn't understand what he meant, why he would hand it over to them in the future. The other man next to them said sadly, "Dad, don't do this, we won't leave you alone!" and the man's tone was a little comforting.

Duan Guangting also said, "Grandpa, let's take you with us!"

Duan Guanghui couldn't help but say, "That's right, everyone fled together, and you saved the three of us just now!

Duan Guanghui was right, not long ago, this town was still very peaceful and tranquil.

(A few days ago) Duan Guanghui and the others fainted in a part of this village, which was the door of the old man's house, and the old man saw the three of them and carried them to his own house.

His only son was stationed in a small town not far from the village. His son's name was Ah Sheng, and while he was standing guard, Ah Sheng heard that a plague disease had invaded the town and nearby villages, and it was spreading at an unknown rate. When Ah Sheng heard the news, he hurried home, and on the way back, he saw some people tearing at the bodies of others with their mouths and hands, and the town completely changed at this time.

When Ah Sheng arrived at home, he found his father lying on the ground, Ah Sheng hurriedly helped his father up, but fortunately he found that his father had just fainted. But he found that his father had been infected with the plague and had grown a lot of pus, but he could not leave him alone.

When his father woke up, the old man pointed to the room of the three people he had saved, and Ah Sheng knew that his father wanted him to go in and get something, so he picked up his father and ran to the room, and saw three people alive. Duan Guanghui and Duan Guangting had already woken up, and the two of them were still coughing from time to time, and Zhang Jian was still asleep.

Ah Sheng knew that this was a symptom after being infected with this plague, and he didn't care who these three people were, so he immediately said: "You woke up, it was my father who saved you, and the three of you fainted at the door of our house before, are you okay?"

Several people present introduced themselves briefly, including Zhang Jian and Duan Guanghui, and then Duan Guanghui asked, "Where is this? Why do we have pustules on our bodies?" Duan Guangting also looked at the pustules on his body, and his eyes revealed despair and sadness.

Ah Sheng knew that it would be better to let them know about the situation now. Ah Sheng put his father on the bed, Duan Guanghui and Duan Guangting couldn't help but take a breath when they saw the person, pustules were already all over his body.

Ah Sheng said anxiously: "Listen carefully, this is a village in the spirit world, and now you have been infected with a germ, and these plagues only spread not long ago, so you must quickly escape from here with me!"

Duan Guanghui asked curiously, "Spirit Realm?"

"Don't you know? Are you from the human world? Well, so to speak, you're no longer in your original world, it's another world, and it's dangerous right now. I'll explain the rest to you slowly, but the most important thing now is to escape. Ah Sheng deliberately spoke very slowly, for fear that they would not understand.

Seeing Duan Guanghui's expression, he didn't feel much frightened, but became even more joyful, he said: "Although I don't understand very well, but you said that we are not in the original world, I think it is cool, don't you think?"

Ah Sheng didn't expect them to accept this place so quickly, let go of his hanging heart and said, "That's good!

After speaking, looking at the pustules on Duan Guanghui's body, Duan Guanghui seemed to understand what the pustules on his body were, so he wanted to confirm and asked, "We are all infected with this plague?" Ah Sheng nodded silently and did not speak, because he didn't want the two people who had just escaped from danger to fall into panic again.

As they spoke, the door of the house was suddenly slammed violently, and the sound of the crash came out one after another, as if there were many people outside. Duan Guanghui was just about to say something, Ah Sheng raised his hand to signal him not to speak, and then slowly moved to the door, looking out through the glass. Suddenly heard a scream of "Ah~!", a bloody face was reflected outside the glass, and his eyes were staring at Ah Sheng fiercely, this terrifying face was bloody and sticking to the glass, which scared Ah Sheng to the ground all of a sudden, Duan Guanghui and Duan Guangting couldn't help but run out, as soon as they came out, they saw the fire outside, the black smoke was swirling, and the people outside were running around like chickens, and there were people in the shape of rats with the size of humans chasing behind, and the ground was full of blood. Several rats were gnawing and biting at the people who were being chased, and the two of them were disgusted to watch.

Duan Guangting shouted in panic, "What is that??"

Duan Guanghui was stunned and didn't answer her question, and he didn't know what was going on. Ah Sheng eased up from the shock just now and said, "Then that's the person who was infected with this plague, and it will end up like that!" After saying that, he felt that he shouldn't say such things to the two of them, for fear that they would be even more disappointed when they learned their results.

Duan Guangting just sobbed and didn't ask much, Duan Guanghui reacted, and when he heard that he would become like that, he hurriedly asked, "Then is there an antidote to this plague?"

"The plague has come from a small town not far away, don't worry!

The sound of "bang!boom!" moved the spirits of the three people, and all three of them hurriedly looked at the door. It was a dozen rat men knocking on the door of the house, as if they were about to break in, Ah Sheng hurriedly ran to his father to pick up his father, and when he ran, he said to Duan Guanghui and Duan Guangting: "Quickly carry your friends out, we have to get out of here quickly!"

Hearing this, Duan Guanghui hurriedly ran into the room and carried Zhang Jian out, at this time Ah Sheng had already carried his father to the back door of the house, Duan Guanghui and her sister also stepped up and ran out of the back door with Ah Sheng, the front door was also broken at this time, and several rat people rushed in and rushed towards the back door.

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After coming out, Ah Sheng locked the back door tightly and said, "This can drag them down!"

Duan Guang would understand what he meant, but he might not be able to run far after he came out, because the whole village was full of such rat men, and a tragedy was being staged in front of their eyes, several rat men dug out a person's intestines and nibbled on the fragrant smell, and some were dissecting their brains and eating brains. Duan Guangting closed her eyes and lowered her head and didn't dare to look directly, several people felt that it was important to run for their lives now, and they didn't have time to look at those.

The three of them were already tired and couldn't run after a while, because they were all carrying one person on their backs, but Duan Guangting didn't carry anyone, but she was already out of breath after being frightened and tired. Suddenly, Duan Guangting found a hidden alleyway between two houses in front of her, and she immediately said to the two: "Let's go there and avoid it first!"

Both agreed with her and walked into the alleyway. They found a clearing and sat down, and the three of them finally breathed a sigh of relief. There were not just five of them in the entire alleyway, and there were people who had taken refuge here both around and across from them. Duan Guanghui and Duan Guangting were more seriously infected at this time.

Ah Sheng looked at his father worriedly, and he was already seeing that he was about to die, but Ah Sheng was strange that he was not infected, and there was Zhang Jian who had been in a coma and didn't know what was going on, Duan Guang would keep whispering his name and shaking his body, but he couldn't wake up no matter how he tried it, fortunately his breath was still there.

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After a long time, several people leaned against the wall and thought about things, perhaps because they didn't know where to run and felt desperate, at this time Zhang Jian, who had been asleep, opened his eyes, and asked in the first sentence: "Where is this?" The first thing he saw was Duan Guanghui and Duan Guangting looking at him with excited and sad eyes on the side, Zhang Jian didn't know what was going on, and he was still strange why the brother and sister cared so much about him, and he asked again: "Where are we?"

Ah Sheng came over and explained: "This is not your human world, but another world-the spirit world, and now we have a plague here, causing most of the people in the village to become a terrible rat man. We need to dodge the rats now. ”

Zhang Jian slowly understood these words, and at the same time recalled some of the things that had happened before, "I'm not in the human world, the spirit world?" Zhang Jian chewed these words carefully, and then he seemed to suddenly remember something and touched his chest, "Huh, nothing?" because Zhang Jian remembered that he was rescued by a tiger at that time, and then a glowing object flew to his chest.

Ah Sheng seemed to see what he meant, took out a pendant-like thing from his pocket, and said, "Are you looking for this? I found it on you!"

Saying that, Ah Sheng handed the object to Zhang Jian, Zhang Jian took it and took a look, it was a pendant, on the pendant was a tiger pattern with teeth and claws that was twisted into a circle, and there was a pattern of raised eyes in the middle of the circle, Zhang Jian was not sure if this thing belonged to him, so he asked, "Are you sure this is mine?"

Ah Sheng didn't understand why he couldn't recognize his own things, and thought he had amnesia and smiled and said, "That's it, I found it at our doorstep, so I put it up, because I think this should be yours, and judging by your expression, this should be important to you." ”

"Then, thank you!" Zhang Jian thanked him and then began to study it carefully in silence.

Duan Guanghui and Duan Guangting were constantly coughing there, disturbing Zhang Jian's research, "What's wrong with you?"

Duan Guanghui replied intermittently, "We are infected, and it won't be long before we will..." Duan Guanghui said expressionlessly, and looked at the others in the alley and said, "Everyone here will soon become the kind of rat man who eats people everywhere outside, only you and him are not infected." ”

Zhang Jian thought about it and looked at Ah Sheng, it was true that only the two of them were ruddy-faced, did not cough, and did not have pus. Zhang Jian didn't understand why this was happening, he didn't continue to think about it, but stood up and walked to some wooden sticks piled up in the alleyway and said: "If it's really as you say, then we have to fight for our own chance to survive now!

The other three glanced at each other and felt that what Zhang Jian said made sense, and they all took a wooden stick one after another.