Chapter 589 The Last Hiding
The glass walls were covered with thick dirt and water vapor, but the overall structure was intact, and the airtightness was far better than those dilapidated houses with air leaks everywhere. At least, it could temporarily block some of the deadly poisonous fog.
Pushing open the heavy glass door, a suffocating air mixed with dust and the smell of dead plants hit her face. It was empty inside, with only a few rotten rattan chairs and withered flower pots. Xiao Jin closed the door with her backhand, leaned against the cold glass, panted violently, and her body shook violently uncontrollably, like a dead leaf in the cold wind. This hour-long desperate flight completely drained all her physical strength and energy. Now that she relaxed, the extreme fatigue overwhelmed her like a tsunami.
What was even more terrifying was the impact on her consciousness! The erosion rate was 85%! The crazy whispers in her head were like a tsunami, one wave stronger than the other! Twisted and bizarre illusions kept flashing before her eyes, and it seemed as if countless cold worms were crawling under her skin! Something... was madly impacting the dam of her rationality, trying to break out of the shell and devour her completely!
"Get out!" Xiao Jin growled hoarsely from his teeth. His festering hands were shaking. Almost instinctively, he took out two bottles of purifying serum from the space equipment! The needle was shaking violently and even missed once, and then it pierced the skin on his neck that had not yet completely ulcerated!
The cold liquid brought with it a powerful purifying force, like a surging spring pouring into a polluted riverbed that was about to dry up! The black and purple color that was spreading wildly in the blood vessels quickly receded like the tide! The crazy roar and tearing feeling in the brain were forcibly suppressed, as if an invisible big hand was strangling the throat! The body on the verge of collapse got a chance to breathe.
"Hu...Hu..." Xiao Jin felt as if all her bones were pulled out, and she collapsed on the cold and hard ground. Sweat mixed with pus and blood spread a small dark stain under her body. She raised her hands with difficulty and took out a few heavy steel plates from the space. With a few clangs, she blocked the only entrance to the sun room.
After doing all this, she didn't even have the strength to move her fingers. Her consciousness sank into a semi-coma due to extreme fatigue and the brief peace brought by the serum.
**……**
The 64th hour of the black fog.
Xiao Jin lay on the cold ground in a state of near-death, half asleep and half awake. Every breath he took was accompanied by the pain of burning lungs, and every heartbeat was so heavy that it seemed as if it would stop in the next second. Outside the glass dome of the sun room, there was an eternally rolling, thick, indissoluble ink color, and occasionally a bleak, unknown light shone through, reflecting the condensed dirt and water marks on the glass like twisted tear marks.
The air was so stuffy that it was suffocating. Although the poisonous fog was mostly blocked by the glass, it still seeped in tenaciously, with a sweet and greasy stench. Xiao Jin coughed violently, and her throat was filled with a strong smell of blood. She struggled to take out a replacement compressed oxygen cylinder from the space - she had not brought any with her before in order to escape light, and now it became a life-saving straw.
The cold oxygen with a metallic smell rushed into her lungs, temporarily suppressing the burning sensation and rancid smell. She had no appetite, and her stomach was churning, but her mind told her that she had to replenish her energy. She forced herself to sit up, and her festering fingers trembled as she tore open a pack of high-energy nutritional paste. The sticky, tasteless paste was like chewing wax, and she mechanically stuffed it into her throat bit by bit, swallowing it with all her might, resisting the urge to vomit. Every swallow was like swallowing a razor blade.
Just swallowed the last bite -
boom! Wow!
There was a dull thump and shattering sound from the glass outside the sunroom!
Xiao Jin's nerves tensed instantly! He jumped up like a frightened cheetah, his body pressed against the steel plate inside, his left hand transformed into a metal wire that silently entangled him, his right hand tightly grasped the matte pistol, the muzzle pointed at the direction where the sound came from! His heart was beating wildly in his broken chest, hitting the black and purple blood vessels.
Through the murky glass covered with dirt, I could vaguely see a huge, hunched black shadow wandering and bumping outside. There was only one! It was an ordinary aberration that wandered over! It seemed to be attracted by the faint smell in the sun room.
A flash of anger flashed in Xiao Jin's eyes. We can't let it continue to crash! If more are attracted, this fragile shelter will instantly become a grave!
She took a deep breath of cold oxygen, and pushed the steel plate blocking the door open a crack! Her body slid out like a ghost!
The battle was short and fierce! The mutant was quite powerful, but relatively clumsy. Xiao Jin used the narrow terrain of the sun room and his remaining speed advantage to maneuver, turning the metal wire into a deep cut on its joints that could be seen through the bone! Finally, a precise purification bullet penetrated its head, ending the battle.
However, when dodging the last attack, Xiao Jin was a little slow, and his festering left arm was severely scratched by the sharp claws of the deformed monster!
scoff!
The already festering flesh was torn open even wider! Deep enough to see the bone! Even more terrifying, an ominous black-purple color instantly appeared around the wound, spreading to the surrounding area at a speed visible to the naked eye! The erosion rate was like a lit fuse, soaring wildly again!
"Damn it!" Xiao Jin's face was as pale as paper. The dizziness caused by the severe pain and the rapidly rising erosion made her almost unable to stand steadily. Without any hesitation, she immediately retreated to the sun room, blocked the entrance with a steel plate again, and then tremblingly took out the third-to-last serum and stabbed it into her arm!
The injection of cold liquid temporarily suppressed the madly spreading black and purple pollution, but it could not soothe the excruciating pain and the precious resources being consumed again. She slid down to the ground with her back against the cold steel plate, looking at the hideous new wound on her arm, feeling the little serum left in the space equipment, and a cold despair coiled around her heart like a venomous snake.
**……**
The 70th hour of the black fog.
The hissing sound of the compressed oxygen cylinder became the only sound in the sun room, like the sigh of a dying person. Xiao Jin curled up in the corner, her festering body trembling slightly due to the severe pain and cold. The suppressive effect of the serum was weakening, and the erosion rate was like an insidious poison ivy, quietly climbing back to more than 85%. The darkness in her vision was like a sticky oil stain, squirming wildly, transforming into all kinds of twisted and grotesque scenes. She forced herself to stay awake, counting the countdown to her return over and over again - less than ten hours left!
at this time!
A bone-chilling throbbing feeling filled with pure malice suddenly penetrated her nerve endings without any warning, like a high-voltage electric current!
There is something!
Extremely fast!