Chapter 254

Chapter 254: Holy Crap, That’s Awesome!

The pride, arrogance, cunning, and greed of those few people almost took shape in that moment.

At first, things really did go just as they expected. Among the crowd of ordinary people who were screaming and terrified by the sudden collapse of order, faces pale with fear, the Protagonist Team, who stayed calm and at ease the whole time, stood out even more.

Very soon, someone came to talk to them, hoping they could help deal with these strange and confusing emergencies.

The group had long expected this. They gladly agreed, then brought up a series of conditions that were basically daylight robbery.

To stabilize the situation as fast as possible, the person who came to negotiate gritted their teeth and agreed. The Protagonist Team did not let anyone down. At the start, they really did help a little.

But they soon realized things were not that simple. The bad results brought on by the breakdown of social order were not something a few people could reverse.

More and more criminals took advantage of the chaos to come out and stir up trouble, making ordinary people so scared they did not even dare step out of their doors.

But that was not the worst part. After man-made disasters came natural disasters. Earthquakes, landslides, mudslides, tsunamis, all came one after another. It was like nature itself was furious and wanted to swallow every living being in the world.

All this went far beyond what the Protagonist Team had expected, and they had no way to handle the situation that was slipping more and more out of control.

At the same time, something also started happening among the six people in the Protagonist Team.

The first to have an accident was the rich second generation. One morning, he and his parents were found miserably dead at home.

Their deaths were horrible. Their faces were destroyed, their bodies covered in pus. If not for their clothes and accessories, people might not even have been able to tell who they were.

Not long after, the lawyer also met his end. His body looked exactly the same as the rich kid’s.

It was worth mentioning that before he died, the lawyer even left them a message. The message pointed straight to the fact that the two deaths were not accidents, but the work of someone behind the scenes, and that this person was very likely a member of their own team.

Because of this message, the four remaining members, who had only gathered for profit in the first place and had already quarreled over recent events, instantly grew tense with one another.

These teammates who, in horror instances, could trust each other with their backs and fight side by side, fell into a crisis of trust just like that.

The third to die was Liu Tian Yuan, but he did not die from the same unknown cause as the rich kid and the lawyer. He died from the backlash of the little ghost that had stayed by his side this whole time.

And that backlash did not just take Liu Tian Yuan alone. It wiped out his whole family of four at once.

Seeing this, Du An Rao: “……”

Was this retribution? According to the way this plot developed, Liu Tian Yuan’s family had killed Mr. Liu’s whole family, and in the end, they were killed by the very person they had killed.

There really are gods three feet above your head. If you do not believe it, look up and see if heaven spares anyone!

Liu Tian Yuan’s death made the cause of these deaths even more confusing and made the three survivors even more on edge.

At this time, the female protagonist, who was also Liu Tian Yuan’s university teacher, died too.

The first time Du An Rao read up to this part, she had been very shocked. Protagonists were called protagonists because they had a protagonist’s halo. No matter what trouble they faced, they could always turn danger into safety. Who would have thought a protagonist could die before the final ending?

But facts proved that yes, they could!

As long as the author wanted, he could not only kill off the female lead, he could also take the male lead with her and easily write a big, capital B.E. – a Bad Ending.

Because of the female lead’s death, the male lead finally confirmed which teammate the lawyer had mentioned before he died, but it was already too late.

The one who, by herself, sent the Protagonist Team into a total wipeout was the most inconspicuous member of the team, the female reporter.

She had not meant to kill everyone. As mentioned before, in that Ghost Domain Village where Liu Tian Yuan first appeared, most of the villagers had starved to death during a famine. Their bodies had not been dealt with in time, so a plague broke out in the village and easily took the rest.

Although the Protagonist Team fought their way through the instance and returned to the real world, they were already carrying the virus from the village.

They knew this, so every time before they came back to reality, they would ask the female reporter to disinfect them, because her ability was Healing and Immunity to All Pathogens.

Nothing had ever gone wrong with this before. But at that moment, her ability failed. The virus she carried out from the Infinite-Stream World went out of control and infected the others.

The rich kid was the first victim, because he and the female reporter had long since started dating in secret. They were a hidden couple and had more contact than anyone else, so he was infected first.

The lawyer was the second victim. The rich kid’s death made him remember the shady things he had done before. He feared that someone they had hurt in the past had come to take revenge, so he went to discuss countermeasures with the female reporter, who was also an accomplice. He never expected that visit to be his death sentence.

Liu Tian Yuan and the female protagonist were infected for the same reason. But before Liu Tian Yuan had time to show any symptoms, the little ghost took him away in one move.

Even so, the three accidents in a row made the female protagonist suspect the female reporter, and she brought disaster onto herself.

When the male protagonist found the female reporter, she was already dying. She cried and confessed to him, saying she never wanted to hurt the other teammates. She was just afraid that if they knew, they would look down on her and abandon her.

She had always been a small healing type caretaker mom. What she needed most in daily life was her teammates’ protection. Without them, she would not be able to survive in this chaotic world at all.

The male protagonist, as a doctor, felt his temples jump and his head buzz when he listened to her.

He had a stomach full of curses he wanted to spit out, but he did not know what to say. After all, she was about to die. No matter what he said, it would not change anything.

But before the female reporter died, she still told him one very important thing. The virus they had brought back from the Ghost Domain Village had somehow mutated. Not only was it extremely toxic, it was also completely out of control.

She was about to die, but soon everyone would follow after her.

Soon after, the female reporter died, and the male protagonist went mad.

He tried like a madman to find a solution, but he could not do anything.

It was not until he also became one of the infected and lay on the hospital bed, barely hanging on, that he happened to learn the truth.

It turned out that after they returned to the real world, Liu Tian Yuan and the rich kid, in order to please that super rich second generation who had slipped into the lab, had forced a doctorate with the surname Du to death and stolen his research results.

Those research results were first meant to fight cancer cells. Using the fast spreading nature of cancer cells, they would fight poison with poison by endlessly copying new cells to keep cancer patients’ vital signs going.

But those lawless guys stole the research and drove the man to his death. Now that thing had combined with what they had brought out from the Infinite-Stream World and gained the ability of endless replication. The consequences went without saying.

Du An Rao: “???”

[Holy crap, that’s awesome!]