Stealing Pens: Travelers from the End of the World

The two of them quickly walked to the place where the heavy object fell.

The space here was still very narrow, and Zhang Qiling had to squat down so that Qin Yuchen could clearly see what that thing was.

The heavy object is nothing but a disfigured person.

The person was still alive. When he saw the two of them, he raised his hands anxiously and opened his mouth to shout for help.

But the man's voice was stuck in his throat, making intermittent sounds.

Qin Yuchen patted Zhang Qiling's shoulder and asked him to move aside so that he could go to the other side.

He also squatted down and checked the injuries on the man's body.

There were no obvious knife or gunshot wounds.

But apart from his raised right hand, his left elbow was turned outward, and one could clearly see the bone that pierced the flesh and was broken into two sections.

There was a depression in the chest cavity, probably caused by at least two broken ribs, and both legs were twisted in a strange posture.

As for this man's face...

Qin Yuchen looked at the face that was scratched by sharp claws and the flesh was turned inside out, and didn't recognize who this person was.

Even though he was injured like this, he is still alive. He is really alive.

Qin Yuchen thought so.

“…save…me…” The man uttered two more syllables without giving up. He was still somewhat conscious and could feel that the two people squatting there were looking at the injuries on his body.

He knew them; they had chatted with one of them at the hotel in Medog.

They didn't talk much, but the few words they heard gave them an idea of ​​what kind of people these two were.

So he held out some hope.

But no one answered his call for help.

He was answered with a smile and a joking tone: "You have a tough life."

Qin Yuchen took out the gun that the man had on his waist, weighed it and looked at how many bullets were left. After finding out that it could still be used a few times, he wiped it clean and put it in his pocket.

He threw away the blood-stained gloves, stood up in the man's shocked gaze, and looked at Zhang Qiling.

Zhang Qiling is looking at the hole above his head at this moment.

This hole was dug by some creature with its bare hands. The entrance is large and the surface is rugged.

Because someone had just fallen there, you could still see some blood when you shone the flashlight over there.

I don’t know what species it is, but judging by the wounds and holes on this person’s body, this thing is either a mutant or a ferocious beast.

It has sharp claws, but has no skills in killing people. It relies entirely on its claws to collide and throw people to make them lose their ability to move.

Moreover, the person lying in front of them had a faint smell of decay. Under the clothes that Zhang Qiling had just lifted up, the surface of the person's skin was covered with fine white hairs, like the new feathers of a bird, which had already formed a large area.

Just at this moment, a slight rustling sound came from the cave entrance.

The two looked at each other and immediately became alert. Qin Yuchen grabbed the man's collar and lifted him up, and together with Zhang Qiling, they moved away from the cave entrance.

The thing made quite a lot of noise, and the closer it was to the cave entrance, the more rapid the sound seemed.

A few seconds after they retreated, a white figure jumped out of the hole.

The thing was in human form, covered in white hair, and had a pair of green eyes staring at them.

Its front paws tightly grasped the rocks on both sides, and it stopped there in a posture ready to attack, and the roar from its mouth was urgent and violent.

Qin Yuchen and Zhang Qiling quietly waited for the monster's action, and the monster did not disappoint them.

The person in Qin Yuchen's hand struggled for a while, then rushed forward like an arrow.

Fortunately, Qin Yuchen had made preparations long ago.

Seeing that the monster's sharp claws were only a few meters away from him, Qin Yuchen picked up the person in his hand and held him in front of himself, acting as a human barrier.

The sharp claws pierced into the flesh with a "puff" sound, and then a tearing scream and the final whimper sounded in this small space.

Qin Yuchen loosened his hand, glanced at the arms on the corpse that were chopped off by Zhang Qiling, and calmly pulled out the black knife that pierced the monster's belly.

The monster, whose arms were cut off and whose abdomen was stabbed, was still breathing. His green eyes were full of hatred, but he stopped attacking and turned around to run away.

But how can it be as it wishes?

Zhang Qiling took a few steps forward and kicked the monster down. When it tried to get up, it was stabbed in the heart by a knife.

As if afraid that it still had a chance to survive, Zhang Qiling pulled out the black gold again and directly cut off the monster's head.

Seeing that it stopped moving, he shook off the blood on the knife and took two steps back.

Qin Yuchen raised his eyebrows and was about to wipe the knife when Zhang Qiling suddenly pulled him and then he fell into a warm embrace.

Qin Yuchen paused as he was wiping the knife, somewhat confused.

"Look." Zhang Qiling leaned close to Qin Yuchen's ear and raised his chin to signal him to look at the monster.

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Qin Yuchen turned around with difficulty, from facing Zhang Qiling to having his back to Zhang Qiling, and finally he could see the changes in the monster.

The strong monster twitched a few times inexplicably, and as it twitched, the white hair on its body fell off as if it had come alive, and it quickly moved towards Qin Yuchen.

Just because of Zhang Qiling's presence, Baimao, who had a clear goal just now, now lost his direction and was wandering around them in confusion.

The monster, which was covered in white hair, finally turned into a human.

However, it was a human-shaped mummy.

"What is this?" Qin Yuchen asked with a frown, moving his sore wrist.

The space here is so small that it is difficult for the two of them to stand sideways together.

Not to mention that if two people hugged each other, it would only make the small space even more crowded.

"A kind of microorganism that lives in hot springs." Zhang Qiling rested his chin on Qin Yuchen's shoulder and looked down at the creature under his feet.

"Hot spring?" Tan Yuchen thought of something and confirmed.

"The area we encountered when we came down?"

"Yeah." Zhang Qiling nodded and explained.

"They parasitize by entering the mouth, eyes and other parts of the animal."

“After losing their host, they will quickly seek out the nearest heat source to parasitize again.

If there is no parasitic host, it will stay in the hot spring forever."

"Normally, it is invisible to the naked eye. If it successfully parasitizes, it will appear in large areas like mold, thus controlling the movements of animals."