Chapter 95

A putrid smell also emanated from him. Xu Mo saw that his clothes were half-open and felt a jolt in his heart. He squatted down, grabbed the corner of his clothes, and lifted it up, only to be hit by an even more overwhelming stench.

"Ah!" Han Ying exclaimed, turning her face away, too afraid to look.

Xu Mo looked down and saw that large patches of skin and flesh on his abdomen had rotted, turning a nauseating purplish-black, making anyone who saw it want to vomit. At the same time, a deep chill rose in his heart. He asked in shock, "What happened to you? How did you end up like this?"

The man seemed to have lost all his strength along with the decay. His eyes could only open a slit, and he used all his remaining strength to try to shout, but the sound was extremely weak, "I don't know, kill me, please, kill me quickly."

As he spoke, he seemed to have aged a few more years.

Xu Mo was greatly alarmed and didn't know what to do. Suddenly, the man's head tilted to one side, as if his life had finally come to an end, and he died.

Suddenly, there were a few strange gurgling sounds from his stomach. Then, Han Ying loudly warned, "Be careful! There's something in his stomach."

Xu Mo looked at the man's stomach and saw something moving inside, as if it was about to come out. He suddenly remembered something and thought, "Not good!"

He pulled Han Ying and thought of going outside to avoid it. The man's stomach suddenly burst open, splashing both of them with a large amount of purplish-black, foul-smelling blood.

Xu Mo, with his controlled breathing, didn't feel much, but Han Ying couldn't help shivering. Xu Mo was alarmed and asked urgently, "How do you feel?"

Han Ying was flustered for a moment but then calmed down and replied, "I'm fine."

Xu Mo was still worried and asked again, "Are you really okay?"

Han Ying thought for a moment and said, "I just feel a bit nauseous, maybe because of the smell, but otherwise, I'm fine."

Xu Mo said, "Oh," and looked at her closely for a while, but didn't see anything abnormal, so he felt slightly relieved. He looked at the man's corpse again and saw that his stomach had calmed down. He guessed that the movement in his stomach earlier might have been the blood. Not wanting to stay in the room any longer, he said to Han Ying, "Let's go out."

The two of them left the room. Han Ying said, "How could he end up like that? Was it because of Mrs. Guo Lin's infection? What kind of disease is this that can make someone rot and age so quickly?"

Xu Mo couldn't explain, but he was certain that the disease had been transmitted from Guo Lin's wife. He thought, "Guo Lin was so eager to leave and warned us to leave as well, definitely because he knew the disease was contagious. But how is it transmitted? We've been here for so long; I wonder if we've been infected?"

Thinking about this, he felt an indescribable worry.

Han Ying asked again, "What about the others? Are they all like that person...?" She stopped speaking, but her meaning was clear.

Xu Mo, feeling烦躁 (irritated), couldn't help but shout, "Don't worry about the others, let's go quickly."

As he spoke, a gunshot suddenly rang out nearby.

Han Ying was startled, "It's a gunshot, there must be someone still alive. Let's go and check."

"No, let's leave quickly," Xu Mo said.

As he spoke, another gunshot rang out nearby. Han Ying exclaimed, "How could this happen? They... they... are they killing each other?"

"No, it's suicide," Xu Mo guessed, shouting, "Let's go quickly."

He pulled Han Ying and was about to run out when suddenly footsteps were heard. Then, a person emerged from behind a rock, clutching his stomach, staggering towards them, looking like he was about to fall at any moment. Seeing Xu Mo and Han Ying, he showed a look of relief and shouted loudly, "Save me!"

This person was one of the bodyguards, but Xu Mo and Han Ying didn't recognize him, clearly not having seen him before. The terrifying thing was that when he first appeared from behind the rock, he looked to be in his thirties, but as he ran, he aged rapidly, as if time had suddenly sped up. After just a few steps, he had become an old man in his seventies or eighties and soon fell to the ground, unable to move.

Xu Mo and Han Ying stood far away, not daring to approach. After a moment, the man's stomach, like the driver's, suddenly burst open, spraying foul-smelling blood into the air and covering the ground.

The two of them felt even more terrified, as if the end of the world had come. Han Ying's lips trembled, and her face was pale, unable to speak for a long time.

Xu Mo, who had no good feelings towards Li Helin and his bodyguards, felt a pang of sympathy at this tragic scene and sighed, "Let's go."

Han Ying, frightened by the continuous aging and death of the two bodyguards, no longer insisted and walked out with Xu Mo.

But they had only taken a few steps when a person came towards them from the front. Seeing them, he was overjoyed and said, "It's you, you haven't left yet? Heaven! That's great, help me!"

"It's Li Helin!" Han Ying looked at the person and immediately recognized him, whispering to Xu Mo.

The man was in his seventies, the same Li Helin they had seen that day, but he looked to have aged by a dozen years. He looked disheveled and extremely anxious. Seeing Xu Mo and Han Ying, he immediately clung to them like a drowning person grabbing the last straw and shouted, "Help me! Help me quickly! Whatever you want, whatever amount of money, I'll give it to you."

As he spoke, he ran towards Xu Mo and Han Ying. His condition seemed much better than the others, although he had aged by a dozen years, he didn't continue to age while running, as if it had been suppressed by some method.

"Stop, don't come closer!" Xu Mo shouted as he approached.

Li Helin immediately stopped and shouted, "Okay, I'll stop, but you have to help me. Whatever you want, I'll give it to you."

As he spoke, he forcefully stabbed a long, thin needle into his abdomen. As the needle went in, he frowned and groaned loudly. When the needle was pulled out, blood immediately spurted out.

Xu Mo then noticed that his abdomen was covered in blood, and his clothes were stained with it, clearly from the needle.

"What happened to you? Why are you like this?" Han Ying, seeing him stab himself in the abdomen with the needle, couldn't bear to look but couldn't help asking.

Li Helin, a cunning man, turned his eyes and shouted, "If you help me, I'll tell you why I'm like this."

Xu Mo, hearing this, grunted in dissatisfaction and said coldly, "Say it or don't, I don't care." This was a response he had learned from Li Helin, using the same attitude Li Helin had when treating patients.

Li Helin, hearing this, became extremely anxious.

Han Ying asked, "What about the others? Did they all age to death? Why didn't you ask them for help, and why are you aging so quickly?"

Li Helin stabbed himself in the abdomen again with the needle and said even more anxiously, "They're all dead, or almost dead. That's why I'm asking you for help. Help me, help me quickly!"

Xu Mo, hearing him constantly shouting "help me," but not knowing what he needed help with, wondered if he should help him stab his abdomen. After a moment of thought, he was worried that Li Helin might die at any moment and quickly said to Han Ying, "Ask him about the medicine first."

Han Ying nodded and said to Li Helin, "Doctor Li, I have a question I want to confirm with you. I hope you can answer honestly. Once we clarify this, we can talk about other things."

Li Helin, hearing her gentle voice but firm tone, knew that he couldn't talk about other things until he answered her question. Although he was anxious, he had to say, "Ask quickly."

Han Ying thought for a moment and said, "Seven years ago, I met you once. At that time, you prescribed a medicine for my mother. Do you remember?"

Li Helin, hearing this, became extremely anxious and couldn't help shouting, "I prescribe thousands of medicines every year. How could I remember something from seven years ago? Be more specific."

Han Ying said, "You must remember. That year, my mother was in a car accident and fell into a coma. You prescribed a medicine for her, and in that medicine, there was a very strange herb called Nightlight Grass."

As she spoke, she took out a Nightlight Grass from her pocket, held it in her hand, and continued, "This is Nightlight Grass, very rare, you must remember it."

Li Helin looked at the small grass in her hand. The grass emitted a glow, and even though it was daytime and the snow was blinding, and the distance between them was not close, he could still faintly see the light from the grass.

After looking at it, he couldn't help but ask in surprise, "Is this Nightlight Grass?" His expression suggested that he didn't recognize the grass at all.

Han Ying, hearing this, her face changed, and her voice trembled slightly, "Doctor Li, don't tell me you don't recognize this grass?"

"Is it called Nightlight Grass? I'm seeing it for the first time today, but the name is indeed very fitting," Li Helin laughed awkwardly, and the smile pulled at the wound on his abdomen, causing his facial muscles to twitch.

But then, he completely ignored the pain, picked up the needle again, and stabbed himself in the abdomen. This time, he seemed to have hit a vital part, and he couldn't help frowning deeply and groaning loudly.

Han Ying pursued, "If you don't recognize Nightlight Grass, how could you have prescribed it in the medicine for my mother?"

"I prescribed Nightlight Grass in the medicine for your mother? What are you talking about? I've never seen it, and I don't even know if it's a medicine. How could I prescribe such a medicine?" Li Helin, hearing this, although his abdomen was in pain, couldn't help shouting in anger.

Just as he said this, he suddenly remembered something and shouted, "Heaven! I remember, you... you're..."

He then looked at Han Ying's face, about to continue, but suddenly noticed something and pointed at her, "You... you..." and then looked at Xu Mo, "You... you..."

Then he laughed loudly, looking extremely pleased, "So you've been infected too, ha ha! If I die, you won't live either, ha ha!"