Chapter 654: There Are Still Living People!
Just as Xu Lina was sticking the Concealment Talisman onto her body, she felt as if a cold snake had slithered along her back, that chilling, damp, sticky sensation making her skin crawl.
There were Anomalies!
Xu Lina stiffened all over, suddenly frozen.
"Human... human..."
A slightly damp voice suddenly sounded in Xu Lina's ear.
She shivered, and the tail behind her head sprang up like a cobra's hood, stubbornly raised and staring at everything around it.
Even Xu Lina's eyes split into six pupils in an instant.
The six pupils rotated slowly in their sockets.
Each pupil took responsibility for watching one direction.
Xu Lina glanced at the side window; aside from the darkening street scene, there was not a single person.
"Human, human!~~~"
That damp, sticky voice kept whispering in her ear.
Xu Lina's body remained rigid.
Her Superhuman instincts told her there was an Anomaly!
And it was extremely close to her!
Outside the left car window, she saw no shadow of an Anomaly.
The right car window...
Still nothing.
Outside the front windshield, still nothing!
Inside the car...
Even less!
Could it be under the car?
Xu Lina didn't dare move; she only let the tail behind her head slowly probe out the window.
The tail lengthened little by little...
An eye grew at the tip of the tail.
Xu Lina's six pupils changed to five; the left eye’s three pupils became two, and the missing pupil reappeared at the end of the tail.
The blood-red tail stretched and extended slowly.
If this were an ordinary time, Xu Lina wouldn't need to be so alert.
With Chen Ye, Sun Xixi, or Iron Lion around, low-level Anomalies normally couldn't approach the convoy.
But now she was alone...
Everything happening here would fall on her to face by herself.
"Human! Human!~~~"
That slick, cold voice sounded again.
A large bead of cold sweat formed at Xu Lina's temple and trickled down her exquisite face to her chin.
At the same time, her swan-like neck was dotted with crystalline sweat droplets.
In the blood-tinged moonlight, the beads glinted faintly red, like red gems hanging at her throat.
Xu Lina felt her heart pound, while images sent from the eye at the tail's tip reached her.
The scene slid across the dark sky and slowly approached the underside of the car.
As if fearful of disturbing the unseen Anomaly, the blood-red tail moved very slowly, so the image crawled at the same sluggish pace.
Finally, the tail swung the eyeball to the underside of the car.
Xu Lina received the footage from the eyeball at the tail's tip.
In truth, the environment was already very dark.
If not for the slim thread of blood-colored moonlight overhead, Xu Lina would not have been able to see what was under the car at all.
"Human!~~~ Human!~~~"
That slippery, cold, damp voice sounded once more in her ear.
Xu Lina felt the shock in her chest grow heavier; she could even hear her own heartbeat.
Xi City was remarkably quiet.
Perhaps because night had just fallen, the Anomalies had not yet fully become active.
So besides that sticky, damp voice, there was no other sound near Xu Lina.
Under the car...
There was nothing.
Suddenly...
Xu Lina suddenly felt an icy hand grasp the tail behind her head.
The coldness felt like the hand of someone buried underground for thousands of years.
There was no trace of a living aura, it was as cold as a block of ice.
Xu Lina felt as if she had been electrified.
Although she was a Superhuman, her human instincts remained.
"Human! Human..."
The voice kept going.
That thing...
Was in the back seat!
How could it be in the back seat?
She had clearly checked just now!
Xu Lina dared not turn around; she stared hard at the rearview mirror inside the car.
The mirror reflected the rear seat.
In that tiny rearview mirror, she saw a wrinkled hand probing out from under the back seat, then resting on the front seat's backrest.
It seemed an old person was trying to forcefully sit up from the rear seat.
An old woman with a head full of white hair and a face full of wrinkles slowly appeared in the rearview mirror.
The car's interior was dim.
But that old woman's face alone appeared in the mirror.
The blurred gloom coupled with that deeply wrinkled old face sent chills through Xu Lina.
Layer upon layer of wrinkles covered the old woman's face—wrinkles stacked on wrinkles.
Where her eyes should have been, there was nothing.
Only endless wrinkles.
It seemed as if whatever should have occupied those eyes had been gouged away, or perhaps eyes had never grown there at all.
Xu Lina's heart trembled violently!
How could this be...
How could there be an Anomaly inside Sun Xixi's car?
The eyeless old woman sniffed frantically in the air, as if desperate to catch the living aura.
Xu Lina could feel a warm sensation where the Concealment Talisman was affixed.
Clearly, the talisman was functioning.
The old woman sniffed for roughly half a minute, then, seeming to sense something, she strained to push her head between the two front seats.
Now the old woman's head and neck stretched out like some river turtle, extending more than a meter.
No normal person could have such a long neck.
She was now within two centimeters of Xu Lina's face.
The woman flared her nostrils and inched slightly toward Xu Lina; the original two-centimeter gap shrank to less than one centimeter.
Xu Lina tilted her face slightly to avoid the woman's nose.
The old woman sniffed madly, then paused in puzzlement for nearly a minute before slowly turning her head and sniffing furiously at the front passenger seat.
The whole process lasted a full five minutes.
Only then did the old woman slowly withdraw her head.
"Human! Human!~~~"
The old woman's slick, damp voice sounded again.
She even released the hand that had been clutching Xu Lina's tail.
This tail was the obvious manifestation of Xu Lina's mutation after becoming a Superhuman.
As such, the tail was the organ that least resembled what a living person would have.
Being grabbed by the old woman's icy hand had not revealed anything strange.
Xu Lina exhaled a little.
Because of her earlier nervousness, she had instinctively held her breath; even now, relaxed, she still did not dare to breathe deeply.
If Xu Lina were not a Superhuman, she probably would have suffocated by now.
She planned to retract the tail.
The thing in the car might discover her presence at any moment, and then a big fight would be unavoidable.
This blood-red tail was part of her combat ability.
But at that moment, Xu Lina shuddered.
Because...
In the footage coming from the eye at the tail's tip,
a pair of eyes that had grown there suddenly looked toward her.
They looked at her through the image.
Earlier there had clearly been nothing under the car, but now...
There was an old woman under there—exactly like the one inside the car, also without eyes.
The old woman tilted her head and stared straight at the eyeball at the tail's tip.
Blankly.
Xu Lina trembled all over.
She suddenly felt the area under the Concealment Talisman start to burn.
The talisman that should have lasted three hours probably wouldn't even last three minutes now.
The situation was not over.
Xu Lina's eyes, through the front windshield, looked into the distance...
There... a light seemed to be flickering.
Yes... ahead...
On this night in Xi City...
Ahead... there... were living people!!!