Hyperthermal Hell || Apocalypse Paradise #1 [Complete]

17: Hot on the Heels

As if someone had added water to her memories and made some porridge with them, her memories were like a cloudy broth. She could only remember herself lying asleep in her own bed as it gradually became warmer and warmer. She became more and more thirsty... Suddenly, she felt gentle concern from the man beside her. She grabbed his hand and whispered, "I'm thirsty..."

"Just about then, you unconsciously activated your ability. In that daze, you unwittingly absorbed your husband. By the time you became clear-headed, only his pajamas were left behind..." Lin Sanjiu's cold voice reverberated in the dark room.

Toward the woman who was now sitting on the floor, Lin Sanjiu dreaded and feared her ability. 'How powerful is her ability? In that short time that she was in a daze, she actually managed to absorb an entire full-grown man? She did not even leave a strand of hair behind!'

Kong Yun stared blankly into the air. She had a weird expression, looking as though she was caught between crying or laughing. Her expression suddenly turned malevolent as she managed a "Ha", but her tears fell anyway. "Nonsense! What do you know? You only said that because you don't want me to absorb you! So you're spouting nonsense!"

"Really? Then, let me ask you a question. When you woke up, did you still feel thirsty?" Lin Sanjiu challenged softly.

This sentence was the last straw that broke the camel's back. It totally devastated Kong Yun. She let out a shrill cry. The others were so shocked that they couldn't help retreating backward. Thereafter, she buried her face in her arms and curled up on the ground. She rocked her body gently as if she was comforting herself as she started crying loudly.

"I... I don't know!" Kong Yun screamed and cried at the same time. Her face was covered in tears, and her words were muffled and unclear. "Everyone said that I was too good for him. But in fact, he was too good for me... Too good! He was such a nice person... such a nice..." Her cries sounded like fabric being torn, filled with deep wrath and pain, so much so that one could not help feeling fearful and uneasy when they heard it.

"Why are you still just standing there?"

Lin Sanjiu felt her arm being pulled. She turned her head to find that it was Marcie, who whispered to her, "Let's take this chance to get away! Do you want to wait for her to regain her composure and absorb you?"

Lin Sanjiu finally regained her senses. She saw that Luther, with a tensed look on his face, had pressed his body against the sofa and was already creeping step by step out of the living room. When he saw that the two of them were still standing in the same stop, he was incensed. He hurried mouthed, "Are you stupid?"

The two of them hastened their steps and slipped past Kong Yun. The latter seemed to have forgotten where she was as she wailed, heedless to the things around her. Her fingers dug deep into the sofa and made several deep holes in its soft material. She was absolutely ignorant to the movements of the people near her.

Just like that, under the sound of her anguished cries, they escaped quietly and sprinted downstairs. After the heart-stoppingly anxious situation, their trip back to the supermarket was a contrastingly less eventful journey. They jogged all the way back to the road in front of the shopping mall. They swiftly moved through the queue of cars, walking speedily between them.

The scurry of footsteps woke up the dying people who were in their cars. When their group walked past the cars, quite a few people in the cars managed to sit up and pound powerlessly on their car windows in despair. Even though they were alive, their expressions were no different from the dead, not a single spark of life within.

Lin Sanjiu looked at them with sympathy. She wondered how many of the dozen arms behind those car windows could survive until they successfully evolved...