Who gave you permission to travel through time with Earth?

Chapter 19 An Incomprehensible Betrayal

Jin Fugui did not actually die.

Or rather, the way he lives now is quite different from life in the conventional sense; compared to humans... he is closer to a vampire, including in appearance and cognition.

The moment Jin Fugui entered the left corridor on the first floor, he was attacked. His neck was silently cut open, and a strange, turbid flow rushed in and filled his body through the cut.

The attacker completely absorbed the inner essence of the younger brother of the Kim family, leaving only the outermost, most insignificant skin as its core.

But the monster itself has no self-awareness; eating is merely its instinct, a way for it to fill the emptiness in its life, until it feeds on its personality and even its thoughts.

The blank side of the monster was filled in again. He took over Jin Fugui's body as an alien and even stubbornly believed that he was the original owner of this body, Jin Fugui's younger brother.

His characteristic is assimilation, achieving a state of mutual interdependence with the creatures he consumes, thereby growing and reproducing... Jin Fugui's consciousness was stuffed into this turbid current.

That's why his personality was reversed, his abilities were overturned, and Jin Fugui was even able to see through his senior's deception... because he was originally a part of his senior, a "new way of playing" developed by this monster.

Unfortunately... this immersive performance eventually got a little out of control; the alter ego "Jin Fugui" actually went against the will of the main body.

The last, pristine toy that I deliberately saved for last, wanting to let it escape, even brought it infinitely closer to success because the connection was severed...

This is so interesting… The main body couldn’t help but think this, and then he had an even better idea, so exciting that he almost collapsed.

He twisted the head of Jin Fugui, the toy, and poured out the whitish liquid inside. Then, he used the same trick again to cut open Jin Fugui's neck as he tried to escape and poured all the liquid in.

But this time, instead of letting her instincts digest her brother's inner self, she simply replaced the latter's blood circulating throughout her body, making herself and Jin Fugui... part of the "players".

Jin Fugui remained true to himself, and what he said was basically consistent with his memories. However, his perception was subtly influenced and altered by a certain vampire, and several hints were deeply buried.

Just like...

"Why am I here? Why should I be here?"

"Fugui... how did Fugui become so smart? He seems to be surpassing me almost..."

"No...no, I want to leave!"

"How did Fugui die? How did his bullet...? Was it me? I killed him...and stole the bullet!"

"Why did I become like this... How could I kill my own brother... It's the problem with this instance; it forces us to kill each other. It wants to see us all die!"

"..."

"So... only one person can survive."

"Only by killing everyone can I survive! That's the only ironclad rule in this instance!"

He is still himself, Jin Fugui is still Jin Fugui, but he has been completely brainwashed and firmly believes that surviving alone is the only way to pass the game. For this reason, he has even killed his own younger brother.

All these changes were witnessed by Fugui and his seniors, but the former struggled and cried out in despair, powerless to change anything, while the latter joyfully intervened in the team, reaching into the largest toy box.

...Just like now.

……

"I'm so sorry..."

"But I had to do it."

Lu Chen only had time to hear this one sentence before a tremendous force slammed into the back of his head, and his vision was instantly filled with darkness and snowflakes.

Jin Fugui painfully held Lu Chen's fallen body tightly, tears welling up in his eyes, apologizing and repenting repeatedly... but the expression on his face was a smile.

From Fang Jin's perspective, he could read three emotions on Jin Fugui's face: grief, hatred, ruthlessness, and ecstasy, as if three consciousnesses were vying and fighting within him, and now the final winner had emerged.

"What the hell are you doing?!"

Xu Rou screamed as she watched Jin Fugui silently step forward and smash Lu Chen unconscious with that big black book. Blood was still seeping down the spine of the book. How heavy must that blow have been?

The main point is that she simply cannot understand why Jin Fugui would betray her now? Kill and rob? But what do those equipment amounts to when faced with the temptation of surviving the dungeon?

All she felt was absurdity. The reason you killed your brother... was it just for those bullets, and not to survive in the toy box?!

"How could we have found a way out so easily...? The exit is fake, they're all lying to me, you...you're lying to me too!"

But Jin Fugui's will could not be changed. The blood flowing in his body was no longer his own. His brain had been brutally altered, leaving only the thought of killing everyone except himself!

He even seemed to derive pleasure from this realization, laughing... grinning maliciously as he raised his right hand and clenched it tightly in front of the empty corridor outside the window!

"...Slap."

"Clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap—!"

Countless bright red hands, feet, eyes, faces... appeared out of nowhere and pressed against the window! A large amount of slick, scarlet liquid slid down the glass surface, and the moving eyeballs stared intently at the people inside!

They blocked out all the sunlight streaming in from outside, plunging the entire room into a dark red and deep black. The darkness itself seemed to dance wildly in their vision like slippery tentacles!

Such a horrifying scene left everyone's minds blank for a moment... Although there was an internal rift, there was no reason for the commotion they caused to be discovered by the march, let alone such a premeditated ambush.

"..."

"...You can...manipulate the parade?"

Xu Rou said in a trembling voice, "This is even more unbelievable than betrayal. Besides... why is her equipment not reacting at all? There's nothing more suicidal than the current crisis!"

"Are you looking for this?"

Jin Fugui raised his right hand without Xu Rou noticing, the flesh of his palm twisting into a mocking, ferocious face, biting the lens that Xu Rou had hidden in her bosom through the split flesh.

Then bite it to pieces!

This is the "predecessor" the Kim brothers encountered on the first floor, a monster that infects and assimilates living beings with its blood, an anomaly among vampires... and also the prototype of the main body of the Blood and Flesh Parade.

Therefore, Jin Fugui was able to influence, and even manipulate to some extent, the movements of the marching crowd, expend bullets to dispel the prophecy, and at this moment, incite the march to drown them all! To complete his own "escape".