The poker soldiers collapsed on the ground, like a pile of corpses.
Ten minutes after Sir Holmes left, a poker soldier pushed aside the others and stood up.
This person was Li Dazhuang.
Li Dazhuang looked blankly at the other fallen soldiers, then with hollow eyes, he checked their breaths one by one. After confirming they were all alive, he found a corpse with a pierced chest and hoisted it up.
Their mission as poker soldiers was to patrol and dispose of bodies.
Bodies would rot in the town and affect its aesthetics, so he had to take this corpse to the processing center.
Previously, they had been transporting corpses, but during the process, someone had fallen from the sky.
Li Dazhuang's actions were all performed according to a rigid routine. Thus, when encountering such a situation, his first reaction was not to report it, but to continue completing his task.
Carrying a person seemed to have no effect on him; he continued to move with great speed.
Soon, he arrived at a sealed courtyard. Upon pushing open the door, he found a large pit in the center of the yard.
The pit was filled with dense cockroaches, each at least the size of a lighter, piled together in a manner that made one's scalp tingle.
This was where bodies were processed. These cockroaches would gnaw away at the corpses until nothing remained.
As Li Dazhuang walked further, he felt increasingly uncomfortable. His temples throbbed violently, as if warning him not to proceed.
His memory told him this was a completely normal behavior. The creatures in the pool ahead were helpful beings who would clean the town for them. He only needed to complete his mission, which was the sole purpose of his life.
However, his body, his instincts, were telling him not to go near the place; it was very dangerous!
Caught in a great conflict, Li Dazhuang still approached the large pit, stared at the insects within, and raised the corpse.
At that moment, he suddenly awoke, cold sweat drenching his entire body and soaking the poker suit he wore.
"Why am I here? What am I doing? Where is Tao Wen? I... I..."
His head felt like it was about to explode. The forcibly implanted memories began to fade, and his true memories started to take over.
But in the process, the cockroaches in the pit had grown impatient and began to surge out of the pool, swarming towards Li Dazhuang.
Had Li Dazhuang obediently thrown the corpse in, he would have been in no danger. But now that these cockroaches were surging out of the pit, both Li Dazhuang and the corpse were simply food for these insects.
The cockroaches swarmed onto Li Dazhuang's body with an inescapable speed. In moments, they had gnawed the poker suit, leaving it riddled with holes. An indescribable terror seized Li Dazhuang's heart.
He stood up and thrashed as if he were mad. Every second, insects were crushed and killed by him, but it was utterly futile against the sheer number of the swarm.
These were not ordinary cockroaches, but human-devouring demon insects from the Inner World.
His struggles proving fruitless, Li Dazhuang finally gave up resisting, closed his eyes, and knelt on the ground, emitting a hoarse roar.
As he roared, he suddenly realized the world seemed to grow quiet. The expected pain did not come, and the insects on his body all fell to the ground. Those insects retreated to a distance of two meters around him, forming a semi-circle with a diameter of two meters, with him at the center.
The insects all faced him, their wings beneath their carapaces trembling slightly. It didn't look like they were preparing to attack, but rather like they wanted to escape at any moment.
Those insects seemed to be afraid of him!
"Why are they afraid of me? Could it be... could it be that I have superpowers!"
The superpower Li Dazhuang spoke of was the ability of superheroes he watched in movies. As a high school student, who hadn't dreamed of being a hero?
But dreams were dreams. Li Dazhuang knew in his heart that it was merely fantasy and could never appear in reality.
However, his experiences in this town told him that abilities beyond reality seemed to exist, and the fact that he was now feared by those insects suggested he had truly become a special being!
He swallowed hard and stood up, attempting to take a step forward. The cockroaches immediately recoiled, not daring to approach within two meters of him.
This emboldened Li Dazhuang. He walked towards the corpse being devoured by the demon insects, and the demon insects on the corpse all scattered.
"Since I have this ability, I cannot let your corpse be eaten by insects." Su Dan Novel Network
As he was about to take the corpse away, his entire body suddenly stiffened.
The morning sun shone on him, casting a clear shadow on the ground. In the shadow, above Li Dazhuang's head, was another human silhouette!
Li Dazhuang suddenly jolted awake. It turned out the insects feared not him, Li Dazhuang, but the shadow on him!
He mechanically turned his head to look and saw thick yellow-green smoke emanating from his back. These fumes formed a yellow-green monster above his head, as if it were clinging behind him.
When the monster saw him turn around, it bared a grin at him that was uglier than a cry.
Li Dazhuang hadn't expected that what allowed him to escape the insects was something even more terrifying. He finally couldn't bear it, rolled his eyes, and fainted from fright.
The monster scratched its bald head with only a few strands of hair, not understanding why its master had fainted after it had smiled at him...
...
A small figure appeared out of thin air and plummeted downwards, falling face-first like a starfish.
Then, she jumped up from the spot, rubbed her nose, checked the direction, and headed towards Fairytale Town.
Through the surrounding wall, she could see houses of diverse styles, so she knew this was likely her target location.
As she approached the wall of Fairytale Town, she was spotted by two facilitators. One was thin, the other slightly plump.
The slightly plump facilitator walked over, squatted beside Bai Xiaomi, and smiled kindly at her, saying, "Little sister, have you taken a wrong turn? There was an accident up ahead, and this area is temporarily inaccessible."
In his eyes, Bai Xiaomi was just a cute little girl in rabbit pajamas running around, and he didn't notice that Bai Xiaomi was an anomaly.
This was Bai Xiaomi's ability: she would appear before anyone in the most harmless manner.
Those weaker than her would find her very cute and let down their guard. Those stronger than her... well, she was truly harmless to them.
Bai Xiaomi stared blankly at the facilitator, then licked her lips. She was a bit hungry.
Although the facility had always provided her with meat, the cooked meat held no appeal for her compared to living humans.
"Uncle, I hurt my leg just now. Can you carry me home? My home is over there," she said, pointing to a house not far away, with tears welling up in her eyes.