Translator: Superbulat

Proofreader: Jae

Slightly late update but here you go…

In a filthy and disorganised supermarket, a few men gathered to eat, cracking dirty jokes and laughing loudly.

On the ground beside the shelves not too far away from them, sat two tied up girls. The body of the younger girl was shaking as she cried. They were Lei Ruduo and Lin Jia who were abducted from the city square.

Lei Ruduo had intended to find Hong Ming and talk to him one last time before she left, but she was stopped by an evolved person who had wanted to strike up a conversation with her. She didn’t want to talk, but the person grabbed her by the hair and dragged her into the woods behind the square. Then Lin Jia, who had gone in search of her, was also knocked out.

Before the apocalypse happened, these people had been gangsters. They would gather together every day to hang out at internet cafes, engage in street fighting and extort protection money from people. After the apocalypse, three of them became evolved people, so they stuck together.

They were unwilling to travel north with the military because they did not want to be restrained. They wanted to rule over their own territory. As the military truck was about to leave, they took advantage of the chaos and drove out of the city after abducting Lei Ruduo and Lin Jia. They also took a different route from the one they had previously disclosed to others.

The reason why these people were so daring was because of the ability of one of their members. He had skunk-like glands that allowed him to control his sweating, and his sweat carried a foul odour that could mask the scent of others.  Even evolved people with keen senses could not get past it.

“These chicks are really cute. Later…Boss will go first, followed by me, and then…” the man said, his inverted triangle eyes fixated on the two trembling girls. The girls were scared out of their wits by his creepy smile.

Lei Ruduo and Lin Jia were in despair as they listened to these men discussing their fate in front of them. Despite the fact that the gags in their mouths had already been removed, they were too scared to make a sound.

The supermarket had been ‘visited’ by too many people. There was almost nothing edible left on the shelves. Instead there was rotten vegetables and meat on the floor that had been trampled on; the entire place stank.

Rotten meat had a strong odour and was a favorite of both large creatures and small insects.

Many finger-sized maggots were squirming in the blackish-red meat. The maggots were stepped on by the disgusted men, making puff sounds as they were squashed.

After dinner, they came to the decision to stay for the night and leave the next day.

In the middle of the supermarket, there was a hammock hanging between two shelves, which seemed to have been left by the people who were there before.

Lin Jia saw that the few men did not plan on doing anything to them for the night. They just stood guard at the entrance. She breathed a sigh of relief, then cast a glance at Lei Ruduo, who was crying beside her. Terrified.

It was obvious what lay ahead for them, but she tried to make the best out of the depressing situation. She touched Lei Ruduo’s shoulder and motioned for her to sit on the hammock, where it would be more comfortable.

Nobody made a bed for them. It was better to stay on the hammock than to sleep on the cold floor.

Now they could only pray that Lei Hongyi found that they were missing, and comes to their rescue.

The two girls huddled together, shoulder to shoulder, in the hammock. After the men finished making their beds at the entrance, they noticed the two girls nestling in the hammock and snorted,

“They sure know how to pick a place to sleep.”

“Let them be for today, when tomorrow comes…”

“……”

As night fell, there was a faint, continuous rustling sound, but the weird noises were completely inaudible under the thunder-like snoring of the few men.

Suddenly, a sharp scream pierced through the silence in the supermarket. Lei Ruduo jerked awake from her sleep and opened her eyes in a daze.

She could sense Lin Jia was beside her. As soon as she calmed down, she heard more screams, coming one after another from the entrance. She was so scared she couldn’t speak.

She heard some weird rustling sounds amidst the screams. She slowly turned back and through the moonlight, she saw an unforgettable scene.

Her pupils instantaneously constricted, and just as she was about to scream, a small, delicate hand firmly covered her mouth.

She shivered and looked back. Lin Jia had also awoken. She had the same terrified expression on her face, but she bit her lip firmly to prevent herself from making a sound.

The two girls leaned on each other. They could feel the tremors of each other’s bodies.

Under their hanging hammock, the floor was full of black beetles crawling towards fresh flesh and blood, like a huge black net. Those rustling sounds were the sounds of marching of countless beetle feet.

Even evolved people could not resist an entire army of beetles. Skunk Sweat Guy produced sweat frantically, and the foul odour in the air mixed with the sweet smell of blood was nauseating.

The biting sounds chuck, suck gave the two girls goosebumps. They could see the men surrounded by layers of black insects, biting their skin and entering their bodies through their mouths, eyes and noses. The beetles’ sharp mandibles were tearing at the men’s flesh excitedly. It was a living nightmare.

The fate of the two women was tied to the two thin ropes of the hammock. Watching the bloody scene at the supermarket entrance with wide eyes, they didn’t dare to move, praying in their hearts that nothing would go wrong with the hammock.

But God did not seem to listen to their wishes.

With so many mutated beetles around, their sharp jaws and hard feet moving past the lower shelves, the shelves gradually eroded.

The beetle tide had not yet dispersed, but one of the shelves supporting the hammock made a slight click sound. Then, they felt the rope sink and their stomachs sank as well.

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