PFC Chapter 47 What is a Demonic Embryo?
Chapter 47 What is a Demonic Embryo?
A Bloody Mary first thing in the morning completely woke Miao Yin up.
After the mutant finished eating the three people on the ground, it evolved a green crystal core. Miao Yin killed it and threw the crystal core to Yan Shuzhou.
Yan Shuzhou stood frozen against the wall, his mind still reeling. He didn't catch the crystal core that was thrown at him, and it fell straight to the ground.
Miao Yin didn't even glance at him, and went back to her room to wash up.
After she left, Yan Shuzhou picked up the crystal core, trembling.
He knew that Miao Yin was very good to him and wouldn't harm him, and he was also very dependent on Miao Yin.
But it's like a tiger carrying a rabbit back to its den and telling it it won't eat it. The rabbit might believe the tiger and occasionally rub against it affectionately, but when the tiger stands up and reveals its blood-stained fangs that gleam coldly, the rabbit will still tremble with fear.
This has nothing to do with trust; it's simply the rabbit's subconscious fear when it senses a predator threatening its life.
After washing Miao Yin's entire body clean and changing her into new clothes, her irritable emotions finally calmed down, and she returned to her usual noble and lazy demeanor, as if the terrifying killing god she had been before was just an illusion. Only then did Yan Shuzhou secretly breathe a sigh of relief.
The two sat down at the dining table to eat breakfast together. The R18 movie that had played so early in the morning had affected Yan Shuzhou's appetite, while Miao Yin was eating with great relish.
After eating and drinking her fill, Miao Yin opened the curtains.
It was another bright and sunny morning. The morning breeze carried the fresh scent of grass and trees. Only a dried-up patch remained where people had fallen yesterday. The mutated people had all hidden in the shadows. Sparrows chirped on the branches. At first glance, it seemed like the apocalypse was just a dream.
"Xiao Zhou, ask your rabbit if anything happened in the property management lobby."
"Okay, I'll ask now."
As a summoner, Yan Shuzhou can contact his summoned creatures as long as they are not separated by vast distances.
After a while, Yan Shuzhou's expression changed slightly: "Sister, Nine-Tails Rabbit said that the people in the delivery room have become very noisy for some reason, which has attracted several mutants. Their door was smashed open, but fortunately they had ammunition and drove the mutants away."
Miao Yin basked in the warm sunlight, lost in thought.
Even if the noisy mother and son started making a fuss after she scratched their eyes, Peng Si and the others could easily suppress them and prevent them from causing any trouble.
Could it be a demonic fetus?
In the decade following the apocalypse, especially in the first few years, many fetuses underwent abnormalities without the pregnant women's knowledge.
They live inside their mother's womb, sleeping peacefully in the amniotic fluid like ordinary babies, absorbing nutrients from the umbilical cord, and growing slowly with the help of their mother.
But once the time comes for the baby to ripen and fall, the little infant will tear off its mask of innocence and reveal its true nature as a half-human, half-demon, evil infant.
They bit their mother to death, ate her internal organs, then tore open her stomach and crawled out.
Each demonic fetus possesses at least a green crystal core and intelligence beyond its capabilities.
In the later stages of the apocalypse, scientists discovered that the reason these babies mutated so drastically was largely because they absorbed a substance from their mothers that caused deformities, and their evolution began in the womb.
They are pregnant for ten months and grow for ten months. Unlike other mutants, they don't have to find their own food; their mothers provide them with nutrition.
In other words, they shielded their mothers from disaster, allowing them to live for a few more months until the time was right, when they would crawl out and collect their due.
After a fetal malformation, most pregnant women do not experience any changes themselves. At most, they may become weaker and their blood vessels may darken. After all, pregnant women are special cases. Rather than a mutation, it is more likely that they are weak due to insufficient food. Unless they undergo specialized equipment examinations, it is difficult to tell whether the child has a problem.
Miao Yin was able to identify the abnormal thing in the pregnant woman's belly because she had seen and killed many demonic fetuses over the past ten years, and she was very familiar with the symptoms of some demonic fetuses. In addition, she had a very keen sixth sense and a sense of crisis.
Back then, in the early days of the apocalypse, humanity was not entirely lost. People would help pregnant women to some extent, which is why so many people died when the demonic fetus crawled out.
Later on, when people learned of the existence of the demonic fetus, they avoided pregnant women and wished they were dead. They also had to be careful to prevent the people around them from getting pregnant, and they would even bring back a box of birth control pills when they went out to find medicine.
This wave has dealt a fatal blow to human reproduction and development. No one can guarantee that the child they give birth to will be a normal human being. The only solution is to nip it in the bud, resulting in the number of newborns being close to zero for nearly three years.
It wasn't until scientists invented instruments that could specifically detect abnormal substances that every pregnant woman had to undergo a check-up every month to ensure the baby was healthy before it could be born, which boosted the birth rate.
Those that fail the inspection can only be killed. Whether the mother can survive the killing process is purely a matter of luck.
Of course, not all demonic fetuses are born after consuming their mothers' bodies.
One of the ten scarlet calamities is the Fertility Mother Goddess, where the child first undergoes a mutation, then infects the mother, and the two evolve and grow together, truly achieving mother-child twinhood.
Miao Yin had no idea how it turned out this way, since no one in the world could possibly tie Scarlet Cataclysm to an operating table for research.
Humans only know that the fetal mother god usually hunts outside while the child hides in its belly and is fed by it. When they encounter a dangerous opponent, the child crawls out of the belly, connected by an umbilical cord, and attacks together.
This situation is quite similar to the previous Spider-Man, but Miao Yin believes that the little spider should have hatched from the eggs that Spider-Man produced after the mutation, rather than being there before the mutation, but it is still very special.
There was no food left in the delivery room. Even with the food provided by Miao Yin, it could only keep them from starving for a short time; the people inside would only grow weaker and weaker.
The growth of a "demon fetus" requires more nutrients than that of a normal baby. When it senses that the mother's body cannot sustain itself, it will accelerate the process of devouring to ensure its own birth, causing the mother even greater pain.
But to outsiders, it's no different from premature birth.
Just then, Yan Shuzhou received another message from Nine-Tails Rabbit: "Sister, the rabbit said that a lot of people have arrived in cars and are approaching the property management lobby. Could it be a rescue team?"
"should be."
Miao Yin suddenly took out a hair tie and tied up her long, loose hair, making her look neat and refreshing.
"Get ready, if I'm not mistaken, there's going to be a fierce battle."
Seeing Yan Shuzhou's sudden change in expression, Miao Yin chuckled and said, "I wasn't talking about us."
She cupped his face in her hands and said affectionately, "You know my abilities, don't you?"
Warm breath brushed against his cheeks, and Yan Shuzhou's pale skin flushed crimson. He pursed his lips shyly, nodded, and dared not look directly at Miao Yin.
Do you know what we should do at this time?
Yan Shuzhou thought for a moment and guessed, "Go... collect crystal cores?"
Miao Yin flicked his nose: "Idiot, as a resident of 7803, when the rescue team arrives, of course you have to follow their instructions and evacuate in an orderly manner."
She wanted to see what the root cause of the second rescue mission's failure really was.
Let's start with the rescue teams.
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Twenty minutes later, a white sheet with "SOS" written on it in black marker appeared on the window of room 7803.