Hyperthermal Hell || Apocalypse Paradise #1 [Complete]

3: Card of Something, What Kind of Nonsense is That?

Ren Nan sank his teeth into the fresh tender flesh of the young woman. The smell of iron rust filled the air as his chin dyed red by her fresh blood. He only needed to bite down a little harder, and Lin Sanjiu's fragile life would forever disappear from this world.

But Ren Nan could not move. It wasn't that he did not want to eat this good progeny, but that he just wasn't able to move. There was a kitchen knife in the back of his head. Its blade was fully embedded, and only its handle remained in sight.

There was still a shred of excitement in Ren Nan's eyes — even as he died, he could not comprehend the situation. Lin Sanjiu was bare-handed, she was just struggling uselessly with her arms in the air. How could he just die like that?

For a while, Lin Sanjiu could only hear the intense drum-like thumping of her heart. "Ba-dump. Ba-dump." Her heart pounded as she laid under the heavy corpse. Overcoming the sharp pain in her neck, she used all her strength and finally pushed Ren Nan off. "Thump!" The corpse rolled off her and laid supine on the floor. With that, the knife in Ren Nan's head was pushed further in. The blade pierced through, revealing itself in his large, opened mouth.

Lin Sanjiu held her neck tightly. One of her hands was already covered in blood. She rapidly took in a few large gulps of air before giving a ruthless kick to the corpse on the floor. She cursed softly with her hoarse voice, "Who told you that I only evolved to attain two abilities?" She only muttered a few words, but the acute pain around her throat was too unbearable.

Just seconds after kicking the corpse, Lin Sanjiu's vision went dark. She almost fell — the dizziness brought by her loss of blood hit her faster than she thought it would. Everything else did not matter now. Right now, the most important thing for her was to bandage her wound. She staggered around to find a towel. When she found one, she placed it on her neck and applied heavy pressure to her wound. She gasped. She sat on the floor again and pressed the towel to her neck with all the strength she could muster.

After being in a state of half-consciousness for some time, the bleeding finally stopped. It seemed like it was not her time to die yet; after all, the bite missed her arteries. After she had rested for a while, she managed to accumulate enough energy to somehow stand up to get herself some water.

After she had put the glass of water down, she noticed that Ren Nan's bizarre-looking corpse was still lying silently on the floor.

After some consideration, Lin Sanjiu dragged her weakened self and stood beside the corpse. Trembling, she put one of the hands on the corpse and whispered hoarsely, "Store this."

Just as she finished her sentence, a white light flashed across her palm rapidly. The corpse, with a knife sticking out of it, disappeared. With a "pa" sound, a card that was the size of a poker card fell to the ground.

Lin Sanjiu felt for her mobile phone and used it to illuminate the card. Just as she expected, there was a simple squiggly crayon drawing of a man with a wide open mouth and a sharp knife sticking out of his head. There was also a row of blank words underneath it: Ren Nan's Corpse.

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[Ren Nan's Corpse]

Name: Can't you read the card title?

Species: Human

Status: Dead

Potential Growth Value: 204

Murder Suspect: Lin Sanjiu

Passive Skills: Extreme Temperature Adaption, Strength Augmentation, Strength Augmentation Body Modification