59: Chapter 62 What justice cannot illuminate, let darkness reign.

Step by step...

His staggering footsteps

seemed even more helpless and bewildered than before.

"Gurgle..."

The sound of intestinal peristalsis echoed.

After he came to his senses,

he couldn't help but clutch his stomach.

Oh~

So he was hungry.

Does mutation require eating food too?

The starlight was sparse, and the night sky was pitch black.

Late at night approaching dawn, there was obviously nowhere for him to eat or drink.

Just when he thought he could only endure the hunger,

not far away, by the sidewalk,

a large amount of takeout food and flowers were impressively placed.

Quite a few raggedly dressed people were carefully walking over them and rummaging through them.

"Is there... some kind of event...?"

Filled with curiosity,

he slowly walked over.

— —

"Hey, brother, are you also here to forage for food?"

"Come on, don't stand on ceremony, there's plenty here!"

The ragged man

shoved a bag of food over,

while wolfing down his own food and motioning for Chen Rao to open a box.

However,

immersed in the past,

and still in a bewildered mood,

he was clearly not interested in food, only numbly listening to the homeless man beside him rant.

'What do you mean "if you catch up to me, we'll start over"'

'What do you mean "a Kawasaki chasing a high-speed train"'

'What do you mean "I can catch up to the speed of a high-speed train, but I can't catch up to you leaving"'

'What do you mean "losing control and rushing out of the guardrail"'

'What do you mean "causing a sensation throughout the city"'

'...'

The sighing voices drifted past Chen Rao's ears,

but he acted as if he hadn't heard them, his numb face completely unresponsive.

He just instinctively shoved the food into his mouth,

filling his stomach like chewing on wax.

Unfortunately, it was all in vain.

The hunger in his stomach did not disappear;

instead, it grew even more intense.

One portion of food after another... was swallowed by him...

Beside him!

The homeless man with a sighing expression

gradually transitioned from watching the spectacle and complaining to being shocked by him.

Good grief!

Was this guy the reincarnation of a starving ghost?

In less than the blink of an eye,

he had already eaten thirty meals!

Even competitive eaters wouldn't be this exaggerated, right?

If it weren't for takeout orders constantly streaming in on the street from time to time,

the homeless man would have already chased him away.

With the way he was eating,

no matter how much food there was, it would be eaten up by him!

Just when the homeless man was about to reach his limit, afraid that he would burst to death and implicate him, and couldn't help wanting to call the police,

Swish — —

Chen Rao suddenly stood up.

His bewildered eyes

began to gradually regain their brilliance.

The homeless man's sighing words belatedly formed a rough outline in his mind.

Heh~

Was this another fool just like him?

He was cheated out of his money,

while the other party was cheated out of their feelings.

The only difference was that he had gained unprecedented power, while the other party's fate was uncertain due to impulse.

"Power?"

Chen Rao stared blankly at his fingers.

Seemingly flesh and blood, they were actually already parasitized by mycelium.

His entire body—

how much of it belonged to the human part and how much belonged to the mycelium part, even he himself could no longer tell.

The ground was littered with the takeout bags he had finished eating.

Chen Rao pursed his lips.

He thought he knew what he should do.

Chen Rao felt a complex mix of emotions in his heart.

Since Heaven had given him this kind of power,

then let him... slaughter all these heartless people...

Liars must swallow a thousand needles.

Since these people won't do it,

then he will carry it out!

What justice cannot illuminate, let the darkness do!

His gaze fell in front of him.

The takeout paper bags were torn quite messily.

Then, let you be the first one.

Chen Rao's deadened heart began to throb once more, as if it had found a direction for action.

Mycelium spread out from his body,

quietly spreading and exploring along the surroundings.

— —

Somewhere, a bachelor apartment!

Lin Shu was watching television.

The host was reporting with a sorrowful expression

on the importance of safe driving.

'Improper driving brings two lines of tears to loved ones'

However, as the other protagonist of the incident,

Lin Shu did not have the slightest expression of sadness on her face.

All there was, was annoyance.

"Are these people ever done? All day long it's just this same news, it's annoying to death!"

Lin Shu curled her lip and resentfully turned off the TV,

intending to do some yoga to maintain her figure for a bit.

Just as she finished taking a pretty photo, intending to upload it to social media to continue luring her next sucker,

Swish — —

Indoors, the air stirred without wind.

Gray-black mycelium rose from the ground,

and amidst her terrified gaze, gathered into a snake-headed, human-bodied monster.

It took a step, walked closer, and a low voice rang out.

"Since your mouth holds no love, why did you agree to his solemn vows?"

The snake head stared at the report, the implication extremely clear.

But...

Lin Shu??

Of course there was only terror, boundless terror!

Not wailing out loud on the spot was already because she had been warned by the snake head, pressing her lips together not daring to make a sound, so how could she open her mouth to respond to his questioning?

Chen Rao's voice did not stop.

"Since you never thought of walking hand in hand together, why give him hope that was beyond reach?"

"I..."

"I, I,"

Lin Shu's mouth twitched.

Suppressing her terror, she wanted to open her mouth to fight for a chance of survival for herself,

wanting to argue that saying "if you catch up, we'll start over" was just something she said casually with no legal effect, and she never thought he would actually do such a thing, plus he had even borrowed a friend's Kawasaki.

Besides, legally speaking, she didn't force the other party to do it, so it wasn't a crime.

But being stared at intensely by the python,

the chill of its vertical pupils seemed to pierce straight through her heart, and her usually eloquent mouth couldn't open even a fraction at this moment.

"Heart..."

Chen Rao's voice paused.

He originally wanted to continue asking downward,

but...

A heart?

How could she possibly have a heart?

With a faint sigh,

Chen Rao's heart-piercing questioning stopped, just when Lin Shu thought the nightmare was over.

Swish — —

The gray-black mycelium spread,

transforming into eagle talons like cold blades on Chen Rao's hand.

Claw marks swept through the air, landing on Lin Shu's face.

"Ah — —"

A sharp, piercing shriek rang out.

The icy sharp blade left wounds deep enough to see the bone on her face,

at the same time tearing apart her hypocritical mouth.

Before Lin Shu could recover from the excruciating pain,

"Ah — —"

another miserable, agonizing shriek broke out.

A sharp blade flashed,

and her hands were brutally severed.

"This is to sever your unclean hands!"

Chen Rao's hoarse voice rang out.

The final step.

According to his plan, he was originally supposed to rip out her heart and lungs.

But, for a person like this, would she really have a heart?

Rustle! Rustle rustle!

As his gaze narrowed slightly, gray-black mycelium surged crazily.

In less than a blink of an eye, it wrapped her into a ferocious black cocoon.

The sounds of swallowing and chewing,

accompanied by agonizing wails, broke the silence of the night.

Chen Rao remained indifferent.

Ever since he fell in a pool of blood, was parasitized by mycelium, and mutated into a hard-to-define species,

he discovered that he seemed to have changed into a different person.

Not only the power in his body,

but even his original personality had undergone a drastic upheaval.

Given his cowardly nature,

seeing these scenes should have made his scalp tingle with terror, but at this moment, he felt unusually calm.

It was as if he had just done some trivial, insignificant matter.

Yes, just some small matters,

even less troublesome than slaughtering chickens and fish in the kitchen.

Chen Rao knew that his mentality was sick, but he could no longer go back.

The mycelium spread outward along the floor,

quietly arriving on the street.

Walking on this dead and silent earth,

after breaking away from the noisy insect chirping of midsummer, the world became completely dead silent.

Tap! Tap!

Moonlight shone upon him,

as if there was only one person in the entire world.

Walking,

walking,

just a few minutes later,

Chen Rao, who had left this old residential area, suddenly turned around backward.

"You've been following for so long."

"It's about time to come out, right?"

His sharp gaze looked toward a lush, leafy giant tree.