Chapter 456 Poisoning
"Since I can't get out anyway, I might as well take a good rest." Xiao Jin whispered to himself, a faint smile on his lips.
There was a humane light flashing in A-Mo's eyes. While swallowing the meat snacks given by Xiao Jin, he shook his head and stared at the tablet.
"Why? Do you understand?"
"Hiss~" Amo proudly puffed out his little chest.
However, while Xiao Jin was enjoying himself very much, the world outside was in dire straits.
At the same time, other players in the city are facing an unprecedented crisis.
"What the hell is this!"
A player stepped on a mutant cockroach to death, but soon more cockroaches came from all directions. They were so fast that they climbed onto the player's body in a blink of an eye.
"Ah! They're biting me!" the player screamed in horror, and he slapped the cockroaches on his body desperately, but to no avail. The venom of the cockroaches quickly penetrated his skin, and the durability of the protective suit dropped drastically.
"Run! Run!" the player's companion shouted.
But his voice was soon drowned out by the "buzzing" of the cockroaches.
A moment later, the player who first attacked the mutant cockroaches had his protective suit completely bitten by the cockroaches, with his flesh and blood exposed, and the cockroaches were gnawing at his body frantically.
"Help! Help!" the player wailed in pain.
He took out the nano-healing needle and quickly injected it into his body. The eaten flesh began to heal rapidly.
But he seemed to have forgotten that he had not yet escaped from the tide of mutant cockroaches.
This caused his flesh and blood to be eaten away while recovering over and over again, causing him excruciating pain.
"Ah——!" The player's screams echoed in the street, but soon his voice disappeared.
His body was eaten by cockroaches until only a skeleton was left. He fell to the ground and became a pile of dried bones among the cockroaches.
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"These cockroaches... are so scary!" A female player hid in an abandoned shop, looking out the window with a pale face.
Her protective suit was torn and there was a deep wound on her arm, with blood constantly flowing out.
That was a scratch caused by a mutant cockroach. The female player had just taken an antidote, otherwise the blood flowing from the wound would still be black!
"We can't stay here, we have to find a safer place!" her companion whispered, her eyes full of fear.
"But there are cockroaches everywhere outside, how can we get out?" the female player asked in a trembling voice.
Her companion didn't say anything, but just tightened his weapon in his hand, with a hint of despair in his eyes.
"Fire, let's burn these cockroaches with fire."
"Is this... okay?"
"Does that mean we have to use up all the tools and be eaten up?"
The other female player stopped talking.
After a moment she asked, "Where are we going after we get out?"
"There are basements in the villa area. The basements of rich people must be very well built."
The companion clenched his fist and said, "We will hide in the basement when the time comes. No cockroaches will ever step foot there."
"Okay, I'll listen to you."
As they spoke, the two men set fire to all the surrounding buildings, not caring about the lives of other people hiding in the street.
Fortunately, Xiao Jin’s safe house is not here.
In the children's activity room of the fast food restaurant, Xiao Jin was still lying leisurely on the sofa, playing a comedy movie on the tablet in his hand.
She had finished her lunch and there was a cup of hot tea on the small side table. The fragrance of the tea filled the room, dispelling the dull atmosphere.
The boards were nailed too tightly, and the room felt a bit stuffy.
But there is no way. What if a hole is left and the mutant cockroaches crawl in through it?
Just bear with it. If there is not enough oxygen, Xiao Jin has plenty of oxygen cylinders.
About an hour later, Xiao Jin stood up and walked to the window, listening carefully. The rustling sound outside had not stopped yet.
You have to... just stay still!
Sitting back on the sofa, Xiao Jin watched the movie for a long time but still felt it was not satisfying enough.
"Hiss~ No, I remember I collected a projector in my space!"
Thinking of this, Xiao Jin buried her head and searched through the space. Sure enough, after searching for about ten minutes, she finally found the projector placed together with some computers, speakers, and mobile phones.
Xiao Jin excitedly projected the picture onto the white wall opposite.
"Well, it's much better this time."
Xiao Jin stayed there until almost noon the next day.
Xiao Jin stood in the room and moved his ears slightly.
The "buzzing" sound outside had disappeared, replaced by dead silence.
She gently lifted the wooden board covering the window, and a strong scent blew in her face. The pungent smell made Xiao Jin frown.
The glass behind the wooden board had already shattered, and there was still a lot of black mucus left on it, which was obviously the trace left by the mutant cockroaches.
Xiao Jin looked out the window. The streets were in a mess, with cockroach corpses and traces everywhere, and many buildings were destroyed.
"Finally left..." Xiao Jin breathed a sigh of relief.
Not only are the mutated cockroaches disgusting, they also delay Xiao Jin's work. She can't bear to hide here for the next few days!
"Ok?"
However, just as Xiao Jin was about to push away and turn around, a prompt suddenly popped up on her game panel:
[Ding! You have been poisoned, and your Qi and blood values are continuously decreasing. Please detoxify as soon as possible! ]
"Poisoned?" Xiao Jin's pupils suddenly contracted.
She quickly checked her status bar and indeed found a "poisoned" debuff.
Her Qi and blood values are decreasing at a slow but steady rate. Although it will not be fatal for the time being, the consequences will be disastrous if not treated in time.
"Is it the smell?"
Xiao Jin looked at the black mucus everywhere around him, and quickly took out a detoxification pill from the space and swallowed it.
The effect of the detoxification pill is immediate. The health value stops decreasing and the poisoning debuff disappears.
Xiao Jin didn't dare to be careless, and took out a gas mask from the space and put it on carefully.
The gas mask's filtration system quickly filtered out the poisonous gas in the air, and Xiao Jin could finally breathe normally.
She opened the window and jumped out carefully.
On the streets, the corpses of mutant cockroaches were piled up like mountains, and black mucus formed a thick film on the ground, making a "crunching" sound when stepped on.
Some of these cockroaches died of starvation, while others died of freezing.
Although their bodies have been greatly strengthened after the mutation, their resistance to cold seems to have decreased a lot. The temperature here is only two or three degrees at night, and the mutant cockroaches can't resist it at all.