Dominion's End

Dominion's End V5C5: Danger Lurks Around Every Corner of Lan City

Dominion's End Volume 5: Zhanjiang Garrison

Original novel in Chinese by: 御我 (Yu Wo)

Chapter 5: Danger Lurks Around Every Corner of Lan City—translated by Miaka_Mei (proofread by Faren & Arcedemius; C/E edited by lucathia)

I was squatting in a triangular shadow beneath the escalator. My whole body was covered with smelly blood. This was the result from just now when I'd dashed into a large hall that was covered with fresh blood and rotting flesh. The hellish place was actually heaven to me as I had immediately rolled around on the floor.

And just like that, the Yggdrasil Earthworm slithered back and forth on the streets for a while before reluctantly leaving.

Having been relentlessly pursued, I had attempted to strike back from time to time, but there were just too many factors—the heads were dreadfully fast, and they numbered too many. They were pretty much unavoidable. If the heads hadn't been slowed down by its enormous body, I would have already been swallowed into its stomach.

However, that Yggdrasil Earthworm was still very fast despite being slowed down. It moved much like a snake would, though I really had no idea what it had transmuted from. I had never heard stories of this kind of thing in my past life either.

I never imagined that Lan City already had such a horrifying aberrant. As expected of one of the three most dreaded cities in the later stages of the apocalypse. My reincarnation had allowed me to learn so much in advance, like knowing about the evolution crystals, but which of the aberrants in Lan City hadn't been devouring humans tirelessly upon coming to life?

I couldn't counterattack and had almost failed to escape. If I hadn't been relentlessly running into buildings to hinder its movement, on top of the rotting flesh masking the smell of my body, my corpse would have been torn into ninety-nine pieces!

Upon hearing the rattling sounds of the Yggdrasil Earthworm growing fainter, my body relaxed completely. I felt pain and numbness all over my body. The leg that originally hadn't received much injury had been bitten twice. If Xiaorong hadn't brandished his twigs to scare the enemy from time to time, the injuries on my thigh would not have been limited to only these two. However, it had resulted in a lot of Xiaorong's twigs getting snapped, leaving him clinging for life.

I cut off the ends of my pants to bind up my thigh's injury. Wrapping unclean fabric around it actually caused stabs of pain, but I had no other option. Moving around in a large city while dripping blood wasn't a good option either.

Even after wrapping up the wound, noises could still be heard outside—it was the sound of low, threatening growls. I had a rough idea inside my mind. Resigned, I could only form a knife with my hand and step out of the shadows with no other choice.

Ten dogmen had surrounded me. You really can't fool a dog's nose. You wouldn't be able to hide from them even with rotten flesh covering your entire body. They hadn't shown themselves until now, probably due to their fear of the Yggdrasil Earthworm. As long as it was around, other aberrants wouldn't dare to move at all.

As expected of aberrants in a first class city, these dogmen were one and a half times the height of a human. They had a dog's head and legs with a slender, human body. Only its thighs were especially thick and solid. If you got kicked by that, a broken rib was entirely possible.

Compared with this bunch, the previous dogmen at the outskirts of Zhongguan City were simply Chihuahuas.

When I stepped forward, these dogmen seemed to sense that their current prey was a bit of a challenge. However, no sooner had they retreated than it was my turn to retreat. Those ten had merely served as the tip of the iceberg, as there were more dogmen stepping out of the shadows. A single glance already revealed fifty to sixty, and some of them might still be hiding in the dark.