Ever since he woke up, Ye Xun has been staring at the wall in a daze.

A rental house of less than 50 square meters, with yellowed walls, a garbage can that exudes the rotten smell of instant noodles, and socks and coats hanging on the balcony that are too late to collect, tell the story of the difficulty of a city worker.

But in this ordinary rental house, there is an ordinary "monster" living.

In silence, Ye Xun lowered his head and looked at his body.

This is the third day of his "mutation".

On the arm, there are still a lot of lumpy scales like fish scales, these scales are very hard, and when you touch them with your hands, it feels like you are stroking a stone, hard and very awkward.

Ye Xun didn't know why he mutated, maybe it was because he was cheap and opened the strange express package.

He still remembers that last Friday, he finally took a few days off and returned home in high spirits, just about to enjoy the rest of the weekend.

But as soon as he turned on the TV, Ye Xun received a call from the courier.

At first, Ye Xun was still a little puzzled, he didn't shop online recently, where did the express delivery come from?

After getting the express, Ye Xun couldn't wait to look at the sender's information, and he was even more confused.

The sender's column is completely blank, and there is only an unfamiliar address.

With doubts, Ye Xun opened the courier and saw a small metal box.

The metal box was sealed, with a lock on it, Ye Xun tentatively pressed it, and with a click, the box automatically popped open.

Then he saw some gray gas gushing out of the box, and then his brain was completely unconscious, and he fell to the ground, not waking up until the next morning.

When I woke up, everything was different.

Ye Xun first felt lightheaded, as if he had a fever, his lips were chapped, and there seemed to be a fire in his throat.

He didn't have time to think about anything, so he rushed into the bathroom to wash his face.

But the scene reflected in the mirror made him shudder.

I don't know why, my skin turned blue-green, and my teeth were pointy, and they became fine and sharp.

The second is that at the end of his shoulder, a large number of lumpy scales have grown, crawling all over his arm in layers, like a layer of crocodile skin.

What's even more weird is that on Ye Xun's back, there are also some hard bones like a spine dragon, and when you touch it with your hand, it is as hard as a bone spur.

When he first discovered these things, he was frightened, and almost instinctively, grabbed a fruit knife, trying to scrape these "scales" off his arm.

The scale armor was very hard, and the tip of the knife scraped on it, and there was a hard touch, like scraping a stone.

Ye Xun thought of a lot of ways, and even tried to stuff the tip of the knife into the gap between the scales and forcibly remove them, but the scales had completely grown with the flesh and blood, and when Ye Xun used the knife to pry it, he immediately felt a sharp pain, and his arm began to bleed.

He didn't dare to mess around again, and eagerly thought of asking for help from the doctor, but just as he was about to call the emergency number, he forced himself to stop.

Ye Xun had never even heard of such a rare "case", and he was very worried, would the doctor arrest him as a "special case" and put it in the research room for biopsy research?

Thinking of this, Ye Xun sat down on the ground again.

Yesterday's metal box was still on the ground, Ye Xun moved over and opened the box again, but the box was empty, there was nothing.

It was precisely because there was nothing that Ye Xun was even more suspicious.

Who would be so bored to send yourself a delivery without anything?

Or, the box wasn't empty, but the moment it was opened, something unknown was sucked into the body, causing it to become like this.

"Damn it!" The extreme collapse made Ye Xun extremely angry, threw away the box suddenly, and slammed it on the bedroom door frame with his scaly arm.

With a bang, the wooden door frame was cracked.

And Ye Xun's arm didn't have any feeling of being hit.

He didn't get the slightest excitement, but was even more frightened.

It's as if he's really turned into a monster.

For a few days, Ye Xun had no choice but to lock himself up at home and constantly study the mutated body.

Gradually, he also mastered some laws of mutation.

The scales on the body are not always constant, and the appearance of this thing seems to be connected to one's emotions.

If you are irritable and become overly angry, these scales will burrow out of the cortex in large numbers and become a hard, strong "armor".

But as long as you control your emotions and keep your mind calm, these scales will retract on their own, quietly dormant under the cortex of your arms, and become less conspicuous.

It's just that it is already impossible to completely erase these traces.

Even if all the scales were retracted into his arm, his arm was still a circle larger than normal, and these weird "scales" actually had a tendency to spread to the rest of his body.

This made him extremely frightened, and he couldn't imagine what kind of monster he would become if he allowed it to spread.

He was immersed in panic, but his stomach "growled".

In the past few days, he has been busy studying his "strange disease", and he has eaten very little food, and he has never had much appetite.

Ye Xun had no choice but to get up and walk to the kitchen to make a bowl of noodles.

But as soon as he ate a few bites, he felt a strong discomfort in his stomach, and he threw up all the essence in his crambled garbage can.

"What's going on?"

Ye Xun looked at the bowl of instant noodles, and felt more and more strange, he was usually busy with work, sometimes he was too tired to take care of cooking, he relied on instant noodles to make a living, but he had never had such a big sense of resistance to instant noodles.

"Forget it, let's go downstairs and get something light."

His stomach was still rumbling with hunger, so Ye Xun had to change into a relatively wide windbreaker to cover the scales on his body, and mustered up the courage to go out.

At noon, the sun was blazing, and Ye Xun hid at home for several days and became a little photophobic.

Rushing downstairs, Ye Xun was forced back by the dazzling sunlight, so he had to cover his eyes with his hands, planning to leave after getting used to the light.

But after a while, a rather sour voice came from behind him, "Boy, what are you standing in the corridor and looking at, do you know if you're in my way?" ”

Ye Xun was stunned, turned around, and saw an extremely nasty face.

It's his neighbor, Zhou Qiang.

Ye Xun didn't like this guy very much, because Zhou Qiang lived upstairs in his own house, and invited ordinary friends to play cards at home every once in a while, and often refused to stop until the second half of the night.

Ye Xun is an ordinary white-collar worker, usually very busy at work, and when he gets home, he just wants to have a good rest, but he is always noisy by the people upstairs and can't sleep.

He once looked for the property to react, but the next day he was directly blocked in the corridor by Zhou Qiang with a few indiscreet guys, warning him not to find himself unhappy.

Before the change, Ye Xun would hide far away when he saw Zhou Qiang, after all, he had no money and no power, and he couldn't afford to provoke this kind of gangster.

But this time, Ye Xun was in a very bad mood, and said coldly, "You go yours, I'll look at me, what's in your way?" ”

Zhou Qiang was stunned, this guy took the wrong medicine, did he dare to take this attitude to himself?

His tone was a little unkind, "The corridor is so wide, you block half of the exit alone, when this is your home?" ”

Ye Xun naturally knew that this guy was clearly deliberately finding fault. So he said, "Of course this is not my home, but I am also a tenant in this community, what's wrong with standing in the corridor for a while, the property doesn't care about me, which onion are you?" ”

"What do you say, you dare to say it again!" Zhou Qiang was angry, and his face had turned the color of pig liver.

He has been running rampant in the community for so long, and no one has dared to speak to himself like this.

Ye Xun didn't dare to do it originally, but who made him angry, and he was already holding back the fire in his stomach?

He completely ignored the other party's anger, "It's okay to say it a few times, you asked a few friends to play cards last night, and you have already lost everything, and now you are in a hurry to go out, are you busy borrowing money from your concubine, right?" ”

"Your concubine is almost fifty years old, and she is as hot as a lioness, and the old men of the whole street take a detour when they see her, so you can lick her so comfortably, and willingly spend money for you."

Ye Xun's words sounded excessive, but what he said was also the truth, and this open secret was known to everyone on the street.

Of course, it's one thing to know in your heart, and it's another to say it to your face.

Zhou Qiang, who was in a bad mood, was so angry that his head was bulging, and he punched Ye Xun's nose bone, "I'm going to let you beep blindly......"

This punch is very heavy, after all, Zhou Qiang is a gangster who fights professionally, and he shoots in anger, much faster than ordinary people.

But this seemingly fast punch seemed to be slowing down in Ye Xun's eyes.

He didn't do anything, just subconsciously waved his hand to block it.

The scales hidden under the trench coat all wriggled like a pair of armor.

Click!

The moment the fist collided with the arm, there was a click sound of a broken phalange, and Zhou Qiang's five fingers were instantly misplaced, and the severe pain pierced his heart, making him quickly cover his fist and squat down, crying wolf in pain.

"Ah...... What did you kid hide in your arm? ”

"Huh!"

Ye Xun sneered twice, didn't bother to look at him again, turned around, and strode out of the corridor.

On the surface, he walked easily, but in fact, he was panicked in his heart.

Of course, Ye Xun didn't want to make things bigger, in case the scales on his arms were exposed, he would definitely be regarded as a monster by everyone.

He didn't dare to pause for a moment, and quickly stepped out of the community to a place where no one was, only then did he roll up his sleeves and glance at the wriggling scales, his eyes flashing with a little happiness, but more resentment and distress.

What the hell is going on here?