Catastrophe Containment Facility
Chapter 173 - 171 Terror Spreads

Chapter 173: Chapter 171 Terror Spreads

Atop the Kewei Building, Bing He stood at the spire, the howling cold wind brushing across his cheeks, which could take away some of his anxiety.

The residue of Catastrophe Level qi here was so meager it was negligible, as if that Catastrophe Level existence had merely revealed its presence here, without doing anything else.

"It can’t be like that, every action of a Catastrophe Level existence holds meaning, what exactly does it want to do..."

Bing He fell into deep thought, utterly baffled by what that being intended by suddenly releasing its qi here.

Suddenly, Bing He lost his balance and slid down from the spire, nearly getting impaled between his legs by the sharp tip.

But there wasn’t time to think about that, he grabbed the spire with one hand and turned his gaze sharply in one direction, his face revealing an undisguisable horror.

"Catastrophe Level... no, even above that!"

"Damn, why does such a thing even exist!"

He hastily jumped down from the top, telling his still clueless assistants, "Follow me, a major crisis is upon us!"

Then, Bing He didn’t wait for his assistants; he jumped off the building directly.

Ice formed beneath his feet, creating a slide that propelled him forward at an unbelievable speed, his target being the residential district where Liao Jiaxin was located.

"Damn it, I knew it, a place with Catastrophe Level Strength won’t be this simple!"

"I know now why that existence revealed its qi, it was a warning, a warning that something big is about to happen here!"

Bing He finally thought he had figured out the reason why Wen Wen had released his strength.

"It seems that this being may actually have good intentions towards us..."

"Right, if it has been a Catastrophe Level existence that descended into the real world a long time ago, and hasn’t caused a disaster until now, that’s already a sign of goodwill."

In just the brief span of jumping from the building, Bing He had completed his own reasoning about Wen Wen’s stance.

...

In villa number seven of the Jiusan District, a seven or eight-year-old boy lay by the window, his eyes filled with anticipation as he looked outside.

His name was Zhou Nuo, his mother was always strict with him, scolding him whenever he wanted to go out to play, so he seldom had the chance to go out.

Usually, his greatest hobby was to stare at the villa opposite.

The neighbor, Aunt Chen, was once a small-time celebrity, the second most beautiful person in Zhou Nuo’s eyes, with his mom being the first.

At his age, he had no sordid thoughts, just pure admiration.

Suddenly, Zhou Nuo rubbed his eyes, thinking he must be seeing things.

On the window of the villa opposite, two red Blood Handprints suddenly appeared, then more and more handprints emerged, as if someone with hands soaked in blood was ceaselessly scratching at the window.

"Mom, Mom, come and see, what’s happening at Aunt Chen’s place?"

His mother didn’t respond, but Zhou Nuo didn’t mind and continued to look toward Aunt Chen’s house.

Suddenly, the window smeared with Blood Handprints shattered violently, and then, Aunt Chen crawled out!

Yes, crawled out, like a spider, her back sprouted eight spider-like legs covered in fine hairs, and her body was also joined with a strange substance that allowed her to freely crawl on the walls.

Zhou Nuo’s hair stood on end, he was terrified. At home, he was never exposed to horror movies, let alone such a horrifying scene.

Aunt Chen quickly crawled to the roof, and let out a bizarre roar towards the sky.

Accompanying her roar, Zhou Nuo noticed that the air was filled with a dark green powdered substance, making the sky turn a bit more gloomy.

The ground was changing color bit by bit, with something writhing inside, turning the original black soil into an unknown dark green substance. The hard concrete ground was also covered with a layer of dark green web-like matter with a slimy texture.

Zhou Nuo was so frightened that he was speechless. Just then, Aunt Chen noticed Zhou Nuo, her forehead now bearing eight crimson compound eyes!

Then, she crawled in the direction of Zhou Nuo’s home!

Zhou Nuo let out a cry of terror; he was petrified that the monster was coming to eat him.

But as she jumped from the villa, a thick arm with eerie patterns extended from inside the villa and yanked her back in, after which a terrifying scuffle erupted within.

Zhou Nuo, while sobbing, ran toward the kitchen; he needed to inform his mother that a catastrophe had occurred.

However, what puzzled him was that usually, as soon as he cried, his mother would rush out to comfort him, and his sister and father would react differently too.

But this time, there was silence, as if he was the only one in the grand villa.

As he looked up on his way there, he was so frightened that he fell to his knees—he saw a pair of swaying feet.

They belonged to his father.

The ceiling and chandelier were fused with a substance like green flesh and blood, sticking to it was his father’s upper body; only the legs remained intact, dangling and struggling weakly.

A foreboding feeling arose in Zhou Nuo’s heart; he ran and crawled toward the kitchen, stealing a glance inside from the doorway, but he dared not enter.

Because, with his peripheral vision, he also spotted those strange fleshly tentacles!

He didn’t want to witness what would happen next.

Zhou Nuo hurried back to his room and hid in the wardrobe, not making a sound, hoping no one would find him.

After more than half an hour passed, the entire villa was silent, but Zhou Nuo knew that unspeakably horrific things were silently occurring within.

Suddenly, his room door swung open, and Zhou Nuo’s heart skipped a beat.

"Nuonuo, Nuonuo, where are you? Mummy is so worried."

Hearing this voice, Zhou Nuo immediately felt relieved; it was his mother’s voice. As long as his mother was fine, that was all that mattered.

He peered through the slits of the closet and saw a gaunt woman holding a kitchen knife.

The woman’s expression was one of horror, as if she had suffered a mental breakdown, but still, she mustered the courage to look for her son.

So, Zhou Nuo opened the wardrobe door, whispered, "Mummy, come quickly, there is a monster outside, let’s hide together and keep quiet."

Upon seeing her unharmed son, the woman’s expression unraveled, and she burst into tears, flung herself at Zhou Nuo and held him tight; they hid together in the closet.

They chose not to run because they knew something even more terrifying lurked outside; by comparison, the villa seemed safe.

"Mummy, where were you just now? Nuonuo was so scared," Zhou Nuo whispered softly.

The woman hugged Zhou Nuo tightly, tears pouring down her face as she said, "Mummy was out buying groceries, I won’t leave you again, there are monsters outside, and we’ll just hide here until help comes."

"Okay, Mummy, we will always be together, never apart again."

Zhou Nuo tilted his head to look at his mother, smiling as a dark green, viscous liquid oozed from his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, looking as if twisted, malevolent substances were writhing in his brain.

It was only then that the woman realized that the wardrobe behind Zhou Nuo had mutated into a mass of flesh and blood.

That meant her son was no longer her son.

Her desperate search for her son had led her straight into the trap...

The woman’s despairing screams echoed from within the closet, before gradually subsiding.

Across the street, Aunt Chen’s villa had become akin to a spider’s nest, with over a dozen spider-like creatures with human body parts aimlessly patrolling.

And in Zhou Nuo’s home, the warm lights flickered on again...

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