Chapter 4 (2/2)

His progress with storage talisman was not going well. He failed to make one when he thought everything was ready. It upset him the entire night. The whole night, Chu Yunsheng kept thinking that if he had made other talismans instead of storage talisman, he would probably have succeeded in his previous attempt. Now that his Yuan Qi had been wasted, he had to gather it again.

Nine days later, he experienced another storage talisman failure. A scream filled with fear and panic interrupted him while he was making a talisman. Chu Yunsheng failed to seal the talisman, and all of the Yuan Qi inside leaked out, and then he heard gunshots.

Chu Yunsheng was furious. He simply thought that it must have been someone trying to cause trouble. Riots have already spread to his area, so gunshots were quite frequent lately. When it is the end of the world, Despair, Chaos, and Hunger give people motivation to do all kinds of crime. Rape, Rob, Killing… etc, were acceptable, as long as it could help people live happily for several days, months or even years.

That neighbor, who lived upstairs, said that the army had already killed a lot of people. The order had been given: no time for prison, the only punishment is shoot-to-kill.

The new order was also used to intimidate the regular civilians, who might want to cause trouble in the future, and to prevent the situation from spiraling out of control.

That same neighbor also whispered to him that actually quite a lot of soldiers did some pretty bad stuff, but no one dared to stand out and accuse them.

Chu Yunsheng was a good person for twenty years. He was calm and a little bit timid. The number of people he had an argument with in the past twenty years could be counted by using one hand.

But this time, whoever interrupted him enraged him a lot. He gathered the courage he had been building up for twenty years and removed a small, unsealed metal plate on the window.

He wanted to curse loudly through the window at whoever was responsible for the scream.

The funny thing was, at the back of his mind, he actually thought that person was probably gunned down by the army, so he was not afraid that they would come after him.

However, when he looked outside, all of his anger was instantly erased by a complete spine-chilling feeling of horror.

Across the street, under the armor vehicle’s light, there was a huge monster. Chu Yunsheng swore that even the most vicious and ugly animals on the TV programme Planet Earth were better looking than that one. Under the monster, there was an Audi sports car, that was so badly destroyed, that it was hardly recognizable.

The monster was as big as a sports car. Covered with a red exoskeleton. It had four blade-like legs at the bottom, and two large deadly claws at front. Chu Yunsheng could not stop s.h.i.+vering. Through the binoculars, he saw the sharp teeth inside the monster’s mouth, and blood-red eyes on its head.

Green liquid dripped from its mouth, causing green smoke to rise as it touched the destroyed sports car. Chu Yunsheng could almost hear the sizzling sound.

A hole quickly appeared on the car, as if the liquid had corroded and penetrated the metal. Chu Yunsheng did not even need to think about how strongly corrosive that green liquid was. The answer was right in front of his eyes.

“We are doomed, we are doomed! They are here, they are here! What should I do? What should I do?” Chu Yunsheng mumbled uncontrollably.

He thought he had planned everything perfectly. He did not panic when the Sun disappeared. The worldwide chaos did not scare him. He was not afraid of the cold and the darkness because he had already completed his preparations.

But, this? This was something he was not ready for yet. His talisman was not completed, and the monster was much stronger than he expected. Tian Gui finally returned, as expected. But what should he do now? He lost his composure and his mind.

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