Chapter 40: The Feeling of Poking a Hornet’s Nest?

Chen Fengshi understood Little An’s caution. If they waited a little longer until those two groups of people scattered, they could indeed avoid a lot of unpredictable trouble. But he felt it wouldn’t be that easy. “I think a Parasite will soon find an excuse to come close and test us.”

Little An patted the helmet she had brought over and placed by her hand.

Chen Fengshi understood. It would not be too late to put on the helmet and jump up like Superman when the time came. “Alright, when the Parasites undergo Activation, we can directly see the specific floor and room connected by the red mist threads.”

Little An nodded, that was exactly what she wanted to say.

Sitting there waiting like this was quite boring. Chen Fengshi thought of how Little An always kept her distance when sitting on the motorcycle, and couldn’t help but tease her on purpose: “We don’t look like a couple coming here for a late-night private chat. At the very least, I should be hugging your waist, right? To eliminate the Fungal Demon, basic professional qualities are a must!”

Little An’s gaze slowly shifted sideways, and then stopped on Chen Fengshi’s face. After a while, she said faintly: “Do I look like someone who is easy to take advantage of?”

“Whether it’s easy or not depends on whether you are willing to fulfill a man’s reason.” Chen Fengshi didn’t mind, because he hadn’t expected to succeed in the first place. He just felt it was fun to tease her in this way because she was so careful and guarded. If she really agreed, would he have actually done it?

Of course not! Even if he had no one to love, he still had to discipline himself for the pure perfectionism he pursued in his heart…

Chen Fengshi felt that talking nonsense to himself wasn’t fun either. Having a terrible mood was probably just like this.

He didn’t try to make conversation. Little An, who clearly didn’t like talking, naturally just sat quietly without saying a word or fidgeting out of boredom. But this only made the area around the wooden bench under the tree feel so dead and silent that it was suffocating.

“Shen Ai was also controlled by a Protoplast before. How much do you know about what happened to her?” Chen Fengshi had actually wanted to ask this for a long time, but he felt it was too immoral to peek into Shen Ai’s inner world like this. Now, he finally asked anyway, feeling that it would be hard for anything to happen between him and her anyway, so knowing was just knowing.

“One of her ordinary friends, just a bit more handsome than most friends. Mature and steady in impression, very reliable.” Little An said this very calmly, which was what Chen Fengshi wanted to know the most, so he was both disappointed and very excited! “As expected! I knew Shen Ai specially appreciated this type!”

Seeing him so happy, Little An genuinely felt he was stupid. But she still continued speaking. “Because she had heard about a few things from your rebellious period, she was a little curious about you. She felt that since you are so mature and steady, and seem like a person with depth and thought, why were you a bad kid in the past?”

Chen Fengshi listened with great interest, and for a moment, his mood became especially good. Seeing Little An stop, he hurriedly asked: “And then? Is there more?”

“Then it’s your eyes. She really likes the way you look at her. Very clean, without any impure thoughts, deep as the sea, as if hiding wisdom and stories, and with an equal respect for her as a person.” After Little An finished speaking, without waiting for Chen Fengshi to ask further, she took the initiative to say: “That’s it.”

“That’s enough!” Chen Fengshi happily punched his palm. This basically confirmed the impression in his initial plan, and there was even an unexpected surprise.

Of course, it was impossible for Shen Ai to have a deeper impression of him. They didn’t have much contact to begin with. What he wanted was a good basic impression, the kind of impression that Shen Ai appreciated. This way, after graduation, when he created opportunities to slowly get in touch more, everything would fall into place naturally.

Chen Fengshi’s mood infected Little An, so she looked him up and down with the gaze one uses to look at a fool.

“Don’t be so obviously jealous, okay?” Chen Fengshi certainly didn’t like being stared at with such a look, so he purposely teased her.

“People who believe in love are all stupid in my eyes. I’m not targeting you, I’m saying everyone who believes in love is an idiot!” Little An stated it very bluntly.

Chen Fengshi smiled and nodded: “A modified line from the senior brother in King of Destruction. I watched that movie several times when I was a kid. It was only when I got older that I understood what I liked was the unyielding spirit in it, and I actually didn’t like the romance in it.”

Chen Fengshi’s focus shifted, so Little An also put away her aggressive prickliness. She liked Stephen Chow’s movies, and right now they needed to kill time anyway, so they chatted about this topic.

Unfortunately, this harmonious chatting atmosphere only lasted for a short while. Among a group of people playing skateboards, two of them rode their skateboards towards them.

Just in case, Chen Fengshi stood up, pretending to pee in the nearby bushes, and put on his helmet when he got up; Little An sat on the wooden bench, put on her helmet directly, and stood up, looking as if she was waiting for Chen Fengshi to finish so they could leave together.

The two on skateboards got closer and closer. When they stopped at the curb by the flower bushes, one of them got off the skateboard, jumped over the bushes, and walked towards Little An who was standing in front of the wooden bench under the tree. As he walked, he politely greeted her: “Beauty, sorry to bother you, can I buy a few cigarettes from you?”

This was quite polite. They didn’t know each other, and he didn’t say borrow, but buy. They had run out of cigarettes, and there was nowhere to buy them nearby. Helping out in an emergency was a common thing.

But in the eyes of Chen Fengshi and Little An, red mist was surging out from this approaching man’s skin!

As expected, it was a Parasite testing them, whose details were unknown.

Once the red mist invaded them and caused a situation, the Fungal Demon inside this skateboard man’s body would immediately take over his thoughts and actions, or even directly awaken the aggressiveness of the crowd!

Little An didn’t say a word. Watching the skateboard man walk over, she suddenly raised her leg and swept him to the ground with one kick.

The skateboard man fainted from the blow. The skateboard man by the curb outside the flower bushes shouted angrily: “Are you crazy! Why did you hit someone just for buying a few cigarettes!”

This person’s acting was top-notch, because he didn’t need to deliberately act; this was his normal reaction at the moment.

It was just that, in the eyes of Chen Fengshi and Little An, the red mist inside this person’s body quickly released outward. Other than that, the bodies of the other groups of people they could see were all quickly covered by the overflowing red mist, and red mist threads rapidly extended out from the top of their heads!

Little An’s body crouched slightly, and her skin was instantly covered by golden mist. The next moment, just like Chen Fengshi had done, she suddenly flew up from the ground and flew directly to the garden on the roof of the fifth floor of the Hongye Residential Building!

The two of them stood firm and looked back, seeing that the red mist threads on the plaza were all connected to a certain apartment on the twenty-sixth floor. And at this time, the red mist threads shooting up from the surrounding plaza were so dense that they looked like a giant red spider web!

Moreover, in even further surrounding areas, it seemed that more Parasites were being awakened!

But what they cared about the most was that from the windows of the twenty-nine-story Hongye Mansion, varying numbers of red mist threads extended out, and all of them stretched into that apartment on the twenty-sixth floor.

The residents in this building were indeed all Fungal Demon Parasites!

Seeing this, and looking at the stainless steel security nets on every floor, Chen Fengshi gritted his teeth and said: “Since it’s like this, the faster we go up, the better! We might as well just jump up and grab the security nets. Jumping all the way up is faster than anything else!”

Before Little An could answer, as if snatching the chance to answer, Chen Fengshi saw a man walk out onto the balcony on the seventh floor holding a submachine gun!

That’s right, it looked like a Type 47!

It was a submachine gun!

Was there even a need to think about it?

Jump up? They might as well be living targets!

Chen Fengshi ran wildly, instinctively wanting to pull Little An, but found he grabbed nothing, because her reaction was not slow at all, and she ran extremely fast!

The two rushed to the elevator, pressed the up button, and then without hesitation ran straight for the stairs.

Chen Fengshi didn’t dare to take the elevator. Even submachine guns had appeared, so how hard could it be to cause an elevator accident? The property management here from top to bottom must all be Fungal Demon Parasites! If they were in the elevator when the time came, they would just be waiting to die!

No matter how much resistance they had to face on the stairs, compared to the elevator and the residents outside who knew how many guns they were hiding, the chances were much better.

Chen Fengshi and Little An rushed into the stairwell, jumped directly up to the seventh floor, then jumped to the seventh-and-a-half floor, and then jumped over a row of steps to the eighth floor. Fast, they had to get up there at the fastest speed!

This was their shared thought…

As the Fungal Demons lurking inside their bodies underwent Activation, the residents of Hongye had red mist threads extending from the top of their heads, and then, they woke up.

When the residents opened their eyes, whether male or female, old or young, there was no confusion that should come from waking up from a dream. They stood up without bothering to change their clothes; some who were afraid of the heat were just wearing briefs. Even like this, it seemed they didn’t care whether their clothes were neat or not.

Some of them moved their beds and dragged out boxes from the innermost corner against the wall; some took out heavy boxes from kitchen cabinets that hadn’t been opened for a long time; and some opened the lid of the toilet tank and took out boxes sealed in plastic bags…

These boxes and containers, at normal times, they didn’t even remember their existence. Even if they accidentally found them, the Fungal Demon inside their bodies would immediately undergo Activation, and then make them forget.

Now, these people whose thoughts and actions were controlled by the Fungal Demon took out submachine guns, pistols, and even sniper rifles of varying lengths from the boxes.

Holding guns, even the slender women who usually felt pain in their hands carrying a twenty-pound bag of rice, could currently hold submachine guns and run towards the stairwell.

The stairwell was crowded with people. Besides the men and women holding long and short guns, there were also elderly people living alone holding two bone-chopping knives; and children with no emotion in their eyes holding two fruit knives.

They poured into the stairwell, crowding into it from top to bottom.

The building’s security guards shut down the elevators. Carrying telescopic batons, with stun guns at their waists, pistols tucked behind their backs, and submachine guns in their hands, they guarded the main entrance on the first floor with no emotion in their eyes. After the crowd from the plaza outside had all entered the building, all four doors were closed and locked.

With Hongye as the center, among the crowds connected by the red mist threads in the surrounding area, patrol officers, traffic police… even the police on duty answering phones were all rushing over; many tough guys who were about to sleep for the night in massage parlors suddenly woke up, brought their weapons, and hurried over using the fastest means possible…