A thousand enlightenments in one night, starting from being a menial apprentice.

Chapter 606 Horror Night

In the living room outside, they had just found a few candles during their search, and they had already lit them, the candlelight flickering.

Duan Rong walked to the refrigerator in the corner of the living room, opened it, and found that it only contained eggs, green peppers, and tomatoes. This amount of food was barely enough for seven people.

He emptied the refrigerator and went into the kitchen.

The gas was turned on, and the blue flames, like strange fire, made Duan Rong's eyes flicker. Although these things felt familiar, he still wanted to leave this place as soon as possible and return to the Nine Provinces World. Especially after Du Wan was bitten, he had a bad feeling.

With two gas stoves, one for stir-frying and the other for cooking rice, the aroma quickly filled the air.

Everyone kept eating snacks, which initially seemed novel, but after a while, they started to miss hot meals.

Duan Rong brought out the cooked rice and dishes, pot and all, and said, "There are bowls and chopsticks inside, help yourselves!"

The aroma of the food made everyone's mouths water, and they immediately went to the kitchen to get bowls and chopsticks.

Duan Rong then took two sets of bowls and chopsticks and began to serve himself rice. After serving himself two bowls and covering them with vegetables, he took one of the bowls and sat down on the sofa in the living room to eat.

Although it was just scrambled eggs with tomatoes and green peppers, they ate it with white rice and it tasted delicious. The sound of them chewing echoed in the living room. Even Jiang Hanyan and Su Xinjue ate rather carelessly.

Duan Rong sat on the sofa, glanced at Lu Chu sitting at the dining table, and suddenly said, "Lu Chu, there is a bowl of rice next to you, which I just served. Take it to Du Wan."

As Lu Chu sat down, he noticed a bowl of rice covered with vegetables next to the rice cooker. It turned out that Duan Rongsheng had given it to Du Wan. Lu Chu responded and then picked up the bowl and stood up.

As he stood up, Duan Rong glanced at him and said, "Be careful."

Lu Chu's expression froze for a moment, then he understood Duan Rong's meaning.

He carried the bowl, his expression somewhat grave, and walked to Du Wan's door in the corridor. He placed his hand on the doorknob, turned it gently, and then pushed it open abruptly, taking a step back at the same time.

Inside the open door, Du Wan was lying on the bed, the beam of a flashlight shining on his face.

Lu Chu gave an awkward laugh and said, "Du Wan... Duan Rong cooked a meal... It tastes pretty good... You should eat some too."

As Lu Chu spoke, he carried the bowl inside. He walked very slowly, and his eyes were constantly watching Du Wan warily. At this moment, Du Wan was just sitting there blankly, her face pale and her forehead covered in fine sweat.

Lu Chu stood at the doorway, his body slightly pausing, because he noticed that Du Wan's eyes showed no reaction whether he spoke or walked in.

"Du Wan, are you alright?" Lu Chu's face flashed with suspicion.

Du Wan seemed to understand Lu Chu's words at this moment. Her eyes darted around, and she said in a stiff voice, "No...it's nothing. I'm just a little cold..."

"Cold? How can it be cold in this weather?" Lu Chu looked slightly surprised and said, "Eating something hot will make you feel warm."

As he spoke, he placed the food he was carrying on the table not far from the doorway.

Lu Chu set the food down and glanced at the floor beside the table. There, on the floor, lay the corpse of the zombie baby and Du Wan's severed leg. The severed leg had turned grayish-brown and looked quite gruesome...

Lu Chu's facial muscles twitched. He turned his head and carefully looked at Du Wan. He saw that apart from her somewhat vacant gaze and deathly pale face, Du Wan showed no signs of zombification. He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Du Wan, eat your meal and get some rest. I... I'll go out now..."

After Lu Chu finished speaking, he left the room as if fleeing without waiting for Du Wan's reply, slamming the door shut behind him.

Du Wan sat on the bed, and as Lu Chu left, his lips visibly trembled. "Lu Chu, why did you leave? Why did you leave me all alone...why?!"

Du Wan's face was deathly pale, and his forehead was covered in layers of sweat, yet he felt a chill run through his body. Under the beam of the flashlight, his leg, which Duan Rong had severed at the knee, was bandaged, and the skin at the edges of the bandage was gradually turning grayish-brown.

Du Wan suddenly felt an itch on his stomach. He lifted his clothes and scratched his stomach, only to see that his once fair and clean belly was now covered with dense, spiderweb-like bluish-black veins, and the bluish-black bloodstains were slowly spreading towards his chest...

Du Wan still had a sliver of clarity in his mind; he knew he was about to turn into a zombie.

Zombification is death!
Death in the realm of gods and demons is tantamount to the annihilation of real life.

A wave of fear washed over Du Wan. Although the illusory world of gods and demons wasn't real, he still couldn't bear to see himself transformed into a zombie-like monster. He had never imagined he would die like this!

Why! ?

Suddenly, Du Wan's eyes turned ruthless. He abruptly raised the cleaver beside him, gripped the blade in reverse, and held it to his own neck. He raised the cleaver, looking at the gleaming blade pointing at him, his face contorted with rage and terror. He knew that with the cleaver's sharpness, a single backhand strike like this would be enough to sever his head.

However, looking at the gleaming cleaver, he hesitated. He remembered Lu Chu's evasive and distant gaze when he left.

"Why did I die so tragically?! You all escaped the illusion unscathed! Why?!"

Just then, Du Wan suddenly trembled, and the cleaver in his hand fell to the ground. At that moment, thick bluish-black bloodstains began to appear around his temples. The next moment, his eyes, which had just regained a sliver of clarity, were covered with a white film...

In the living room outside, Duan Rong and the others had already finished eating.

The portion sizes were limited, but it tasted quite good when mixed with rice. After finishing the meal, they drank a bottle of cola, and they all felt completely satisfied. This warm, contented feeling in their stomachs is something that snacks simply can't provide.

Duan Rong looked at them and said, "There are three bedrooms here. We'll stay separately. Jiang Hanyan and Su Xinjue will stay in the small bedroom in the hallway. Lu Chu, Xu Hui, Guo Tian, ​​and I will stay in the large bedroom."

Lu Chu's eyes flickered, and he said, "Four people in one room?"

Duan Rong said, "If you find it too crowded, you can share a room with Du Wan. He is injured and needs someone to take care of him. His bed is big enough for two people."

Upon hearing this, Lu Chu's expression changed. "No, no need. I snore when I sleep, which will disturb his rest."

Duan Rong had already stood up and was about to go to the master bedroom when he suddenly stopped, looked at them and said, "Remember to go to the toilet before going to bed, and it's best not to get up in the middle of the night. We still don't know what's wrong with Du Wan. Once he turns into a zombie, he'll just be a monster that bites people."

After he finished speaking, he glanced at the door to Du Wan's room in the corridor. This kind of lock could only be locked from the inside; otherwise, he really wanted to lock Du Wan inside.

Duan Rong relieved himself in the bathroom in the hallway and then slowly walked to the master bedroom. The bed in the master bedroom was quite large, but with four grown men sleeping there, they could only sleep sideways with their feet sticking out.

He took two more pillows from the cabinet, threw them on the bed, and lay down sideways.

Guo Tian, ​​Lu Chu, and Xu Hui also entered one after another and lay down. At this time, Duan Rong got up again, checked the room, locked the door from the inside, and then lay down and fell asleep peacefully.

Having climbed along the cables all day, their limbs were already exhausted, and once they lay down, they quickly fell into a deep sleep. In the middle of the night, the snoring of four grown men in the master bedroom rose and fell, quite clearly audible in the quiet darkness. In the hallway, in the room where Jiang Hanyan and Su Xinjue slept, the door was tightly closed, and Jiang Hanyan was already fast asleep. Su Xinjue, however, was wriggling around wrapped in a blanket.

Her hands were clasped between her legs; she couldn't hold back any longer and nudged the sleeping Jiang Hanyan beside her. "Hanyan, Hanyan..."

Jiang Hanyan was fast asleep when she was suddenly woken up. Still half asleep, she asked, "What are you doing?"

Su Xinjue said, "I need to pee, Hanyan, can you come with me to pee?"

"Huh!?" Jiang Hanyan said, "Didn't you go before bed?"

"I've already been there," Su Xinjue said, her voice sounding somewhat aggrieved. "But I drank two bottles of cola last night, and I feel really uncomfortable right now."

Jiang Hanyan said, "But Duan Rong instructed us not to go out at night. We still don't know what's going on with Du Wan. What if she turns into a zombie..."

Upon hearing about the corpse transformation, Su Xinjue hesitated for a moment in the darkness, but her eyes quickly lit up, and she said, "Hanyan, you're carrying the Longquan Sword... if you keep holding it in, I'm going to wet the bed!"

"How old are you? How can you sleep if you wet the bed?" Jiang Hanyan threw off the blanket and sat up.

“A living person can’t just die from holding in their pee,” Su Xinjue said. “You take the Longquan sword, and I’ll hold the flashlight to light your way. You’ll come with me.”

In the darkness, Jiang Hanyan remained silent for a moment.

Su Xinjue could sense the hesitation in Jiang Hanyan's silence, so she said, "Hanyan, have you forgotten? In the ruins of gods and demons, I accompanied you to relieve yourself several times."

"Alright. Let's go." Jiang Hanyan grabbed the Longquan sword from beside the bed and jumped off.

Su Xinjue was overjoyed and said, "Hanyan, I knew you wouldn't abandon me."

"Take a flashlight with you," Jiang Hanyan said with a slight pout.

Su Xinjue took out a flashlight, turned it on, and a beam of light illuminated the darkness. Jiang Hanyan gently opened the door; it was pitch black outside, with only the faint snoring coming from the master bedroom. This snoring, which was usually annoying, now made the two of them feel quite at ease.

Diagonally opposite in the corridor was Du Wan's room, but the door was tightly closed. Su Xinjue shone her flashlight in the corridor but found nothing unusual.

Jiang Hanyan said, "Let's go."

The two of them walked out of the room together. Actually, the bathroom was right next to theirs, and the bathroom door was directly opposite Du Wan's room door.

As soon as the two stepped out of the room, they saw that the door to the bathroom next door was half open, and it was pitch black inside.

Last night, the two of them used the bathroom first, and then Duan Rong and the others. Jiang Hanyan's eyes flickered; she guessed that Duan Rong and the others had used the bathroom last and forgotten to close the door.

Jiang Hanyan gripped the Longquan sword tightly in her hand, and with a light kick of her toe, the half-open bathroom door opened completely, and the beam of Su Xinjue's flashlight shone inside. The bathroom wasn't large, and the two of them could see clearly that there was no one inside.

Just as they breathed a sigh of relief, there was a sudden "bang" behind them.

A muffled thud suddenly came from the room behind them, as if something had gently bumped against the door. In the darkness, the sudden sound startled them both, and Su Xinjue almost lost control of her bladder.

Su Xinjue immediately shone the beam of her flashlight behind her. She saw that Du Wan's door was still tightly closed, but the muffled sound from earlier clearly came from Du Wan's room.

Just as the beam of light shone on the door, there was another soft thud, seemingly softer than before.

Jiang Hanyan was about to go back to her room when Su Xinjue suddenly slipped into the bathroom, sat on the toilet, and shone a flashlight on Du Wan's door across the hallway while pleading, "Hanyan, don't go. I'll be done in a bit."

Jiang Hanyan's face was somewhat grim. She gripped the Longquan sword tightly, her eyes fixed on the door of Du Wan's room across the street, as if afraid that a zombie might suddenly jump out.

Su Xinjue urinated and released, and the two of them stared nervously at the door across the hallway. After Su Xinjue finished, she quickly pulled up her pants, and the two of them fled back to their room.

After slamming the door shut, they both looked terrified. Just now, Jiang Hanyan's heart had almost jumped into her throat, but after Du Wan's door slammed shut twice, it never slammed again.

Su Xinjue didn't relieve herself for very long, but both of them looked like they had run a long way in the dark, with a layer of fine sweat on their foreheads.

Jiang Hanyan locked the door from the inside, gave Su Xinjue a reproachful look, and said, "Go to sleep. Accompanying you to the bathroom last time felt like being an assassin."

As she spoke, she took the Longquan sword, lay back on the bed, wrapped herself in a blanket, and turned to face away.

Su Xinjue sighed. Although she was quite shaken, she felt a sense of relief and quickly fell asleep on the bed.

Before long, it was already bright daylight.

Everyone had already gotten up and come into the hall.

After a hot meal and a good night's sleep, they looked much better.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Duan Rong said, "Let's go check on Du Wan now. If he doesn't show any signs of turning into a zombie after a night, he should be fine."

Everyone's expression shifted.

Jiang Hanyan and Su Xinjue recalled the two strange noises they heard from inside the room last night. Lu Chu, on the other hand, remembered Du Wan's unusually pale face when he brought her food last night.

Duan Rong walked into the corridor, stood in front of Du Wan's door, put his hand on the doorknob, quickly turned and pushed, and then stepped aside.

Looking in from one side, you could see a zombie lying on the bed, dressed in sportswear, with a severed leg wrapped in bandages, and the skin exposed outside the clothes was all grayish-brown...

Although Duan Rong was standing diagonally by the door, the zombie was still stimulated by the infrared light waves emanating from him. A primal hunger appeared in its eyes, which were covered by a white film, and it pounced on Duan Rong at the door.

But the zombie had lost a leg and fell to the ground as soon as it lunged out.

Duan Rong glanced at the fallen zombie and then left the corridor.

"How did it go?" Everyone asked immediately when they saw Duan Rong come out of the corridor.

Duan Rong stood there silently, and everyone was wondering what was going on when a zombie with a severed leg crawled out of the corridor...

(End of this chapter)