A confined environnt, an endless wait without hope… The Survivors of Rosen Company succumbed to madness under the crushing despair, only to retreat into fear after their hysteria subsided. No one dared go near the staircase. The gruesoly deceased corpse had been thrown onto the second floor, while another employee, tied to the handrail, slowly withered away amidst screams of agony. Within just a couple of days, he, too, was dead.
The remaining survivors endured their suffering by clinging to self-reassurance, but days passed, and still, no rescue arrived…
“The food and water we’d originally gathered from the staff canteen barely lasted any ti at all. To stretch it out as long as possible, everyone’s portions were made very small. But once the supplies ran out, hunger beca unbearable almost imdiately. That’s when people started questioning whether rescue was even coming. So began suggesting we escape to look for food… But no one expected this-so many of us gathered here had already attracted a horde of Zombies. The Zombies couldn’t find us, but they could sense us. They surrounded the entire building, leaving us with no way out…”
The woman in white let out another peculiar laugh. “Back then, I was terrified-terrified of being torn apart by Zombies and terrified of starving to death… There was a girl from my departnt who was with . The two of us were always clinging to each other for comfort since we were both so timid. I guess most human girls are like that. Even though we’re fragile, if we have soone to lean on-or so motivation-we can hold on and endure… But at that point, no matter how much we tried to hold on, it felt aningless. I didn’t expect her to break down before I did, though. She cried and said we were going to end up just like those two corpses, lying there without a sound, only to slowly rot away…”
“Do you know what it feels like to wait for death? To sit in the all-encompassing grip of fear? Oh, but no, you wouldn’t know… Honestly, I don’t fully understand it myself. Sotis, when I look back on it, I feel this eerie detachnt, like I’m watching another version of … Just like now.” She continued to stare down at the female corpse and spoke in an odd tone.
Ling Mo didn’t respond. He was still searching-for a mont, an opportunity, that could give Ye Lian the chance to pull the trigger.
“But what I didn’t expect even more,” the woman continued, “was that her crying sohow brought about a change in everything… At a ti like that, no one cared anymore whether the things we were doing were horrifying, because nothing is more terrifying than death. To survive, nothing was too wrong to do…”
Amidst the girl’s sobbing and cries, a quivering voice suddenly broke the silence.
“Yeah… aren’t there still corpses?”
No one spoke, but soone looked up at him.
He tugged at the corner of his mouth and continued, “Instead of letting them rot like this… I an… they aren’t really human anymore, right? They’re Zombies… If Zombies can eat people, why can’t we… Even if we get infected, it would be better than now…” His voice grew louder, yet his body involuntarily trembled.
“Are you insane?” soone yelled.
“, insane? Ha-ha… Think about it, huh? Do you want to rot away? We were wrong from the start; we should have tried to escape days ago. Back then, there weren’t as many Zombies. Now, even if we wanted to escape, we don’t have the strength… If we had so strength, we could leave this hellhole. Anywhere would be better than starving to death here!” The man spoke and then broke down crying, but his tone grew increasingly manic.
Seeing that still no one spoke, he actually managed to get up, his eyes blazing fiercely as he said, “I don’t care about you anymore… I just don’t want to die like that. You all heard that guy’s screams earlier; I don’t want to die like that… I have to survive, I must…”
Everyone watched as he staggered toward the staircase, his muttering echoing in everyone’s ears…
Survive, don’t want to die… at least, not like that… It’s too horrifying, too hard to accept…
“Then… things spiraled out of control. It started with a few people, then most people… and in the end, everyone… So were vomiting as they ate, but they still forced themselves to swallow… Many weren’t eating out of hunger but out of fear. Especially once soone took the lead, the whole thing turned into a senseless frenzy,” said the woman in white indifferently, but Ling Mo felt a chill run through him.
In that environnt, the group had clearly been driven mad…
“What happened then?” he couldn’t help but ask.
Could it be that these events had such a profound psychological impact on her, leading to her later variation? But if that was the case, then this reference is too low, it could even be said, this is just a rare exception… For those who had survived such a disaster, who didn’t have so painful experiences hidden in their hearts? Incidents like the Rosen Company were common elsewhere. However, after their variations, these people did not end up like the woman in white…
“Hmm, that’s not right…” Ling Mo quickly dismissed the thought. He realized he’d overlooked a critical detail in this case. “What they ate were corpses of people suspected to be infected…”
“Afterward, everyone fell completely silent… It’s kind of tragic, really. Before that incident, everyone did their best to convince themselves that those two were infected persons. But after it happened, everyone started praying that they were still human… Because if they were truly human, then didn’t we commit an unspeakably horrifying act? Humans are so contradictory in their thoughts. Even now, I can’t fully understand what went through my mind back then. All I know is that everyone changed. People stopped talking to one another, retreating into their own corners and looking at everyone else with different eyes…”
As the woman in white spoke, her hands suddenly froze mid-motion. “But that night, everything changed. Of those two employees who died, one of them really was infected… And so, so of us started to mutate, while others remained normal. As for , I was in the group that mutated…”
“Fang Ying…” At the ti, the woman in white, gasping for breath, slowly crawled toward another girl. Fang Ying, startled and frightened, shrank into a corner and silently watched as the woman in white approached her.
“I don’t feel so good…” the woman in white said softly.
Fang Ying’s face was obscured by shadows, so her expression was difficult to make out. After a long mont, her trembling voice finally asked, “What’s… wrong with you?”
“I don’t know. The… the at we ate… it was rotten, wasn’t it…” the woman in white murmured.
Fang Ying imdiately raised a hand to cover her mouth. “Stop it! Don’t talk about that!” she exclaid.
“But… Fang Ying, do you feel sick?” the woman in white asked, her voice tinged with confusion. “Fang Ying, do you think I’m going to die? If… if I do die, what would you do to ? Co on, tell -would you help ?”
“Stop talking! You’re not going to die!” Fang Ying protested, retreating further as if rejecting the very idea.
“I feel so hot, but also so cold… My heart is beating too fast…” the woman in white continued. By this point, her mind was clearly becoming muddled.
Fang Ying finally started to sense that sothing was wrong. Hiding deeper in the darkness, she stared at the woman in white for a mont before suddenly letting out a terrified scream.
“What’s wrong?” the woman in white asked, her anxious eyes locked on Fang Ying.
“Your… your eyes… they’re glowing red! Oh no! She’s mutating! She’s mutating!” Fang Ying scread. Then, in a panic, she scrambled up and tried to flee, putting as much distance as possible between herself and the woman in white.
The woman in white suddenly snapped back to clarity. She grabbed Fang Ying’s ankle and, in a low, desperate voice, pleaded, “No! Fang Ying, please don’t scream! I don’t want to be beaten to death! Please help , Fang Ying. Let figure sothing out on my own… Wait! I can go out from the third floor. Just let leave, okay?”
“You’ll let the Zombies in!” Fang Ying cried out as she sobbed, her voice rising with hysteria. “Sobody help! She’s mutating!” Overwheld with fear, she abruptly lifted her foot and kicked the woman in white hard.
“After that, they tied up…” The woman in white slowly walked over to a collection of corpses and stopped in front of the body of a young woman. The young woman’s corpse was positioned closest to the mutated Zombie’s remains. “I knew no one else would have sympathy for , so I kept begging her,” she said, speaking to the lifeless young woman. “But she wouldn’t help . She just kept looking at with fear and disgust in her eyes…”
“And then I finally understood. When that employee was pleading with us, I must have had the exact sa look on my face…” She paused for a mont, then continued with a bitter smile, “And you know what? He wasn’t even an infected person. It was the other one that was…” As she spoke, the woman in white slowly raised her head. However, she remained partially turned away from Ling Mo, so he could only catch a glimpse of one side of her scarred face.
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“I didn’t want to die, but everyone looked at with those accusing, fearful gazes, and they didn’t hesitate to act… You know, once sothing like that happens, it’s easier for them to do it the next ti, isn’t it?” Her voice was calm, almost resigned. “Just when I thought I was going to die, screams started coming from downstairs. Soone else had mutated. But unlike , they hadn’t co begging for help. They’d just hidden in a corner by themselves. So by the ti they were discovered, they’d already fully transford…”
“I was tied up upstairs, unable to see anything. All I could hear was the endless screaming coming from below. Fang Ying didn’t dare to go down. She stayed near the railing, just a short distance from , crying uncontrollably. It was because she was crying that she didn’t notice my transformation progressing further. And she didn’t hear the sound of breaking free from the ropes, either. To be honest, when I got loose, I didn’t want to kill her…” The woman in white’s voice faltered for a mont, a flicker of genuine emotion crossing her face. “Even though we weren’t really sisters, she always called ‘sister’ when we were working together. It wasn’t like we were that close, but we had survived this long together. I held a certain kind of… connection to her in my heart.”
“But when I started climbing upstairs, I accidentally made a noise… By then, I was struggling to stay in control, and my movents were becoming erratic. When I turned around, Fang Ying was already standing there, staring at in a daze…”
The woman in white suddenly smiled again and said, “I said, ‘Let go…’”
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