PFC Chapter 23 Laughing Slave
Chapter 23 Laughing Slave
While they were pushing each other around the elevator, trying to find a scapegoat, the mutated man who had eaten the girl on the other side entered another mutation phase.
Its body grew rapidly, its bones cracking and popping. Suddenly, a huge fleshy tumor grew from its waist, with bluish-black blood vessels bulging. Then the tumor burst, black blood spurting out, and a white bone emerged from it and grew rapidly. Muscles flowed and enveloped it like liquid. In just a few seconds, a new leg grew from that spot.
The same method was applied to the upper body, and the three tumors that appeared quickly differentiated into three new arms.
His skin and flesh swelled and proliferated, his entire body was covered with a black, crocodile-skin-like exoskeleton, curved barbs grew from under his skin, his nails became longer and harder, his three heads were covered with eyes from every angle, and his size and height doubled.
It puffed out its chest and stretched its body, its three heads emitting a high-pitched, baby-like cry that shattered the glass above.
With three heads, six arms, and four legs, the evolved monster is more agile than before and is no longer the deformed human who could be fooled by the slightest sound.
The monster, whose intelligence was just beginning to emerge, sniffed the air with its three noses. When it smelled fresh meat, dozens of pairs of eyes lit up. It let out a childlike giggle and chased after the monster once again.
……
The white numbers ticked up and down, and there was silence in front of the elevator.
Yan Shuzhou remained motionless in that position, staring blankly at the closed elevator doors. His breathing was shallow, as if all the life force in his body had been drained away, leaving only a clay puppet-like body.
As soon as Miao Yin came out, she saw him looking like a walking corpse.
Her pale fingers touched below his ear, the coldness making Yan Shuzhou shiver and bringing him back from his emotional breakdown.
Through his tear-blurred vision, he saw that person's cool yet gentle face.
"Have you gone idiots since I last saw you?"
Yan Shuzhou stared blankly, then slowly blinked, finally realizing who this person was.
"You...didn't..."
“Yeah, he’s not dead, and he’s even doing better than you.” Miao Yin pinched his cheek and glanced at the elevator that had already reached the sixth floor.
“You’ve been abandoned,” she said.
"...They...don't want me..." Yan Shuzhou's voice was hoarse.
"They have absolutely no taste."
Yan Shuzhou shook his head, his chaotic eyes devoid of any light: "No... I'm useless... They... threw me away... to feed the monsters... But... I don't want to die... I'm scared..."
He feared loneliness, brutal monsters, the unknown future, and even more so, dying unnoticed in some unknown corner.
But he was too weak to fight people or escape monsters. He had no home to shelter him from the wind and rain, and no one to protect him.
If no one is there... if no one is there...
he……
Yan Shuzhou suddenly grabbed Miao Yin's wrist urgently, seemingly with great force, but actually with very light force, as if afraid of disturbing something.
He tilted his head back, like a little rabbit shivering in a cardboard box during a rainstorm. Upon hearing the noise, he hurriedly stretched out his paws to hook onto the trouser leg of the person who was passing by, and then pitifully begged the passerby.
"Sister, can you take me with you? You survived all by yourself, you must be amazing! Please, take me with you, I don't want to be alone, please..."
His handsome face was close to her hand, his expression sorrowful and moving, his eyes red as if about to bleed. He was so pitiful and adorable that one could feel sorry for him and give him the whole world.
Miao Yin tenderly stroked his soft hair, then coldly withdrew her hand.
"I have no interest in raising a useless person."
"No!" Yan Shuzhou crawled forward a step. "Sister, I'll be useful. I can do anything. I can cook and clean, and I can even turn into a rabbit. Food is hard to find these days, so you can have my rabbit! Please, please give me a chance and take me with you!"
Looking at the other person's humble and pleading face, Miao Yin sighed: "A summoner who goes to such lengths is truly one of a kind."
Of all the summoning ability users she'd ever met, none of them hadn't been pampered and coddled. This was the first time she'd seen someone end up so miserable.
Que Song was only burned a few times by her curse, yet he claimed to be the most pitiful summoner. He should really see what misery is.
Miao Yin's expression suddenly changed as she looked towards the entrance of the amusement park.
"Evolution is over."
"What?" Yan Shuzhou asked, bewildered.
He followed Miao Yin's gaze and saw three heads hanging upside down under the sign for "Sunny Amusement Park," looking at them with mischievous expressions.
Yan Shuzhou jerked backward and bumped into the elevator.
"Monster...the monster is coming..."
He quickly grabbed the wall and pressed the down button for the elevator, but heard a loud crash, the elevator door visibly shook, and the down button went dark.
"What's going on... what happened..." Yan Shuzhou pressed the button again, unwilling to give up, but the number on it remained unchanged, stuck at "one".
"Don't press the button, the elevator is broken," Miao Yin said without turning her head.
"But everything was fine just now, and then they all went down!"
“There are monsters on more than just the eleventh floor. The sound of the elevator running could very well attract the monsters below, causing them to attack the elevator,” Miao Yin guessed.
Yan Shuzhou lowered his hand in despair, looking at the closed elevator doors with a mocking bitter smile.
Sure enough, people like him don't deserve any good luck.
Abandoned by everyone and having lost the only way to leave, what fate awaited him but death?
The mutated man leaped down, his three heads tilted to one side, their bodies covered in a dense mass of red eyes.
Miao Yin looked them up and down: "They've evolved quite well, they even have six arms..."
"..."
"Ok?"
Why does it look so familiar?
Miao Yin covered her mouth and pondered.
Three heads, six hands, hellish shopping mall...
Could this be the Laughing Slave, who later evolved into one of the Ten Scarlet Calamities?
She suddenly remembered that the superpowered individual who blew up the Hell Mall had a recording device on his wrist that transmitted back the last scene before his death, in which the word "red" was mentioned. It was later confirmed that he did indeed die from a red crystal core-level aberration.
If I hadn't come, the more than fifty lives in the control room would have been used as nourishment for it, and it would have been able to reach the level of yellow powder. Then, by going down the survival tunnel and eating its way down, it would indeed have been possible to reach the level of red crystal.
As she fell into deep thought, the three-headed mutant keenly sensed Little Bone's neglect of him, stomped on the floor in dissatisfaction, and when Miao Yin came back to her senses, it grinned and laughed, its laughter like the scraping of glass, grating and noisy.
Monsters with the intelligence of infants prefer to tease and frighten their prey before devouring them rather than simply eating them whole.
"..."
It's decided, this is it.
The "Laughing Slave" is, as the name suggests, someone with many hands and feet who also loves to laugh.