Volume 4: Shadows Under the Neon Lights Chapter 212 Residential Area
Ke Lan could only dodge to the side again. With the help of stimulants, his reaction speed was much faster than before. Otherwise, he would have been killed by the heavy naginata.
"...hiss...give it to me!" Victoria shouted at Ke Lan. Although it was only two short words, Ke Lan still understood what she meant and threw the modified rifle in his hand towards her with force!
Victoria suddenly jumped up, grabbed the gun in mid-air, and then landed lightly on Zhanci's back. At the same time, her feet transformed into a pair of sharp claws, which nailed firmly on the mass of hyperplastic tissue like an anchor!
Then, Victoria thrust the muzzle of the modified rifle hard into the wound that Ke Lan had just made, pushed it to the deepest part and pulled the trigger!
"Bang bang bang--" The dull sound of bullets tearing flesh and blood came from Zhanci's body . The next second, the barrel of the modified rifle exploded directly!
Zhanci turned his body frantically, trying to throw Victoria off his back, but Victoria seemed to be nailed to his back and the hook did not loosen at all.
"And this! Catch it!" Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ke Lan threw the fragmentation grenade he had looted to Victoria.
The latter, without saying a word, pulled the ring of the grenade and stuffed it into the muzzle of the gun on Zhanci's back, then released the hook and used the force of the swing to jump far away.
"boom!!"
With the dull sound of a grenade explosion, Zhanci's movements froze, and a large amount of blood plasma mixed with pus from mutated tissue overflowed from its facial features. Its tall body twitched, and then it fell heavily to the ground.
"Huh...finally solved..." Ke Lan just breathed a sigh of relief, but before he could finish his words, he fell straight down. He felt that every muscle in his body seemed to be cramping, and the indescribable pain made his face completely distorted.
"Ah...uh...ah...ah..." Intermittent moans came out of Ke Lan's throat. He wanted to turn his head to look at Victoria, but found that his neck was completely out of control.
"...hiss...normal...medicine...hiss...side effect." Victoria's unique mechanical sound rang above Ke Lan's head. He felt as if he was dragged several meters away, and then something pierced his arm. His eyes went black and he completely fainted.
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When Ke Lan woke up again, he found that he and Victoria were already at the outer edge of the residential area. The towering Arasaka Tower was less than one kilometer away from them.
"Have I... been unconscious for a long time?" Ke Lan glanced at Victoria who was standing next to her. She was holding a gun and keeping a vigilant posture.
"...hiss...only ten minutes...hiss...I injected you with...a relief potion..." Victoria whispered.
"Relief potion?" Ke Lan was stunned, but he soon realized what the potion did - at this moment, the severe pain caused by the side effects of the stimulants in his body had disappeared, and was replaced by an obvious feeling of fatigue, but fortunately he was still conscious and his thinking was clear.
"This is...hiss...a residential area. You have one last...chance...to choose...to go back..." Victoria glanced at him and said.
"Now that we've come this far, there's no point in going back." Ke Lan smiled and took the pistol handed over by the other party.
"Hiss... check... the outer residences first." Victoria nodded to Ke Lan and walked into the residential area first.
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This is a single-person apartment, and the unit floor area is 24 square meters, which is one level higher than Ke Lan's small house. In the outer area of the Arasaka family residential area, there are nearly 30 single-person apartments like this. If each building has 10 to 12 rooms, there are about 300 rooms.
From the information card at the door, we can learn that the resident of this single apartment is named Ryoya Arasaka , a member of the Arasaka family's side branch. His position in the Arasaka Group is a salesperson responsible for purchasing metal raw materials... This position is not even considered a mid-level employee, no wonder the residence he was assigned to is so simple.
The door of the apartment was not locked, nor even closed tightly. Through the gap in the door, Ke Lan could vaguely catch a glimpse of the flush toilet and washbasin installed on one side of the entrance.
Victoria pushed the door open and walked in, only to see a corpse kneeling on the tatami, with its drooping head against the kotatsu in front of it, and a black pistol dropped beside it… There was a bullet hole on one side of the corpse's temple, and the blood next to the bullet hole had already coagulated, and the eyeball on the side close to the bullet hole had bulged out due to the sudden increase in intracranial pressure, and it was almost out of the socket.
There was also a short suicide note on the warm table.
“…The package from our family has arrived, and inside is an injection and a sword.
I know what the headmaster means...
But... I really don't want to become a monster like that...
I am also afraid of the pain of seppuku...
Fortunately, the pistol I bought last month for self-defense can come in handy this time..."
The package and the sword Ke Lan mentioned in the suicide note were found in the corner of the room, but there was no trace of the injection. So it seemed that after Arasaka Ryoya committed suicide, someone must have entered his residence and taken away the injection. The open door was naturally the work of someone who came later.
As for the effect of the injection, Arasaka Ryo also wrote it very clearly in his suicide note: after using it, you will turn into a monster - but Victoria believes that the monster here should not refer to the radioactive monster they just encountered, but the Seed of Corrosion... If humans want to mutate into radioactive monsters, an injection alone is definitely not enough, but if it is a Seed of Corrosion, as long as there is a suitable inducement, the transition from the incubation period to the mature period can be completed within a few minutes at the fastest.
