Xu Huai opened the door, and a woman in a delivery uniform stood outside. She pulled open the top three buttons of her collar and said in a sweet voice:

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"Hey handsome, my colleague went to the restroom. Your fridge is really heavy, could you use a hand getting it inside?"

Xu Guo clutched a cigarette, took a drag, and stared at her, unable to help but swallow.

The woman seemed accustomed to it, bending down to roll the stroller wheels into the doorway.

After unloading the refrigerator from the cart, the woman had spontaneously sat down on the two-person sofa in the living room.

Xu Guo extinguished the cigarette butt and poured her a glass of water, "It's hot today, you worked hard."

On the coffee table, his tablet glowed, with a prominent red title reading:

A newlywed couple has gone missing in the mountains, with the prime suspect being a widowed elderly woman. Is this a moral decay or a distortion of humanity?

“Fifty sows at the village head squeal all night, and the culprit is him...”

“Even a tiger wouldn't eat its own cub, but this 70-year-old grandfather suffocated his seven-year-old grandson. Here’s why...”

With a click, the screen shut off. The woman looked up at Xu Hu, her face flushed, breathing rapidly.

That pulsating heart pumped fresh blood, and a rich aroma seeped from its pores, making one's mouth water.

"Why don't you watch some TV?" Xu Huo avoided her gaze and turned on the television. The female host's flat voice filled the room:

“In recent days, temperatures across the country have fluctuated dramatically, with many cities that experienced high temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius encountering unusual weather phenomena such as hail and snowfall…”

>Xu Huochuange: "A hiker was caught in a tornado deep in the mountains, livestreaming his last moments before disappearing..."

"Again, there's news: "A black cloud hole appeared in the sky above the city, and the air was sucked in. Experts say it is a pressure phenomenon caused by a storm..."

“In the past month, more than a dozen children have gone missing in Hamin City...”

“…During a period of high crime, the city of Ting was terrorized by a body-dismemberment maniac. The victims' bodies were mutilated and scattered... A warning was issued to all citizens: travel in groups and avoid going out after dark...”

Boom!

The sky, which had been clear just a moment ago, suddenly turned dark with heavy clouds. In Xu Huo's small one-bedroom apartment, the light dimmed and the sense of space constricted. His sense of smell heightened, making him acutely aware of the musky scent emanating from the woman sitting beside him.

"Gulp!" The sound of swallowing was abnormally loud, but it wasn't from Xuhuo himself. He turned his head and saw the woman approaching, her face inches away from his. Her mouth was wide open, a far cry from the sweet and charming look she had just minutes ago. There were suspicious red stains caught between her teeth, and her wide-open eyes were filled with greed and thirst!

She gaped and bit into her own face!

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Xu quickly ducked and grabbed a floor fan, smashing it into the woman's head as she jumped up!

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"Bang!" The face smashed the fan, but the woman bounced back onto the sofa as if nothing had happened, striking a frog squat pose!

“You smell so good.” She drooled.

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Xu Huogai put down the fan and lit a cigarette, "Smelling it, it doesn't taste good."

The woman didn't expect him to be so calm, instead she became wary and tentatively asked, "Have you also been on that train?"

Xu Hu's eyes lit up, but he didn't show any emotion on his face. However, the woman caught this tiny change and immediately became angry: "You dare to lie to me!"

The other party's speed far exceeded that of a normal person, and their jumping posture was unlike that of a human. When they jumped up, the force from their feet kicked the sofa three meters away!

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The old sofa screeched on the tile floor as Xu Huai snatched up the insecticide from the bedside table and sprayed it wildly at the woman, dodging her grabbing hand and kicking her with his foot before darting into the bedroom!

Behind him came a woman's angry roar, barely audible amidst the thunder. Xu Hu accurately sensed that the other party had followed him, and in the instant he entered the room, he slammed the bedroom door shut! Let me know if you have any other text you'd like translated! ?

"Bang!" The thick wooden door couldn't withstand the heavy blow, and along with it, the lock was ripped off. As the woman kicked open the broken door in a fit of rage, Xu Huai had already grabbed the fruit knife hidden behind the door. With lightning speed, he lunged forward, his long spear piercing straight into her chest!

The woman was fast and strong, but she was still human flesh. She fell to the ground, covering her chest where blood flowed freely.

“Ha...ha...” A fruit knife pierced through the woman’s lung, gasps escaping her lips. Her violent and ferocious eyes gradually turned mournful, “Help me...help me... You're an evolver too, haven't gone through the initial screening... I can help you live..."

The narrow bedroom was thick with the stench of blood, the cloying metallic smell making Xu Huo dizzy. He took a deep breath, ignoring the involuntary thoughts of "rich" and "aromatic" that his brain conjured, took two steps back to sit on the bed, lit a cigarette, and just stared at the woman.

The woman's rosy complexion gradually turned pale, but she was still alive and kicking. She stared intently at Xu Hu, "Hungry?"

She wiped the blood from her hand and held it out. "Smell this, is it not fragrant? The flesh of an evolver is tastier than that of ordinary people, sweet and delicious, more nourishing than mother's milk..."

Hearing Xu Huo's involuntary swallow, the woman's expression was smug. "Take a bite and you'll understand, only evolved beings like me are the strongest. Our survival rate on trains is the highest..."

Yet she remained silent. The woman's voice grew more urgent, "Aren't you hungry? Don't you want to eat me?"

" ...You don't understand how dangerous the initial screening was. More than half of the Evolvers died in the initial screening, you..."

Xu Huot puffed out a plume of smoke and crushed the cigarette butt before cutting her off: "You're getting more energetic."

The woman's expression froze. Seeing him walk towards her, she looked terrified.

"What do you want to do!"

“Haven't you been tempting me to eat you all along?” Xu Huo countered.

The woman's facial muscles hadn't adjusted, displaying a contorted smile before she proactively offered her white and tender arm.

Xu Huo grasped her wrist, his voice slow and deliberate: "There's been a body-parting demon terrorizing Tingcheng recently. One of your kind, isn't it? You dared to offer yourself to me, even knowing I might devour every bit of you. This hunger can be quelled with just a little blood and flesh, wouldn't you say? Or could it be that you could even regenerate the limbs you've lost?"

>The former possibility is more likely, isn't it?

"Those who have eaten meat have the highest survival rate on the train, so there are also...evolved beings who haven't eaten meat on the train?"

“Look at you, like you want to drag the whole world into this stinking ditch. The consequences of being stained with blood aren't good... You probably didn't know before eating people, did you? It was only after the initial investigation that it was discovered?”

The woman's expression shifted from astonishment and surprise to shock and anger. Her eyes darted wildly, her teeth grinding together, finally culminating in a bone-chilling hatred. "You evolved... I will kill you!"

As she lunged at Xu Huo, another fruit knife pierced her throat. Blood bubbles gurgled up, and the woman convulsed, flipping over onto her back. The knife in her chest had been pulled out sometime during the struggle, and the wound was already beginning to heal.

She can heal fatal wounds automatically. Give her a few more minutes and she could easily turn the tables.

Xu Huo tugged at her clothes, finding no trace of any medicine or drugs. But behind her shoulder, she discovered a red numbered tattoo: E33586.

He mused, “With your intellect, if I asked you where to find the initial inspection train, you wouldn’t know.”

The woman's eyes widened, and she swallowed her anger.

Xu Huo swallowed, not daring to look at the corpse by the bedroom door. He was going to the kitchen to get something to eat, but as he passed the living room, he saw the newly bought refrigerator. In a few moves, he tore off the packaging. As soon as he opened the door, a head just drooped softly.

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As expected... He sighed and called the police.