Chapter 295
It was clear that Shen Ge had realized this far too late. On top of that, without his Red Mist Armor, he had no choice but to walk all the way to the banquet hotel.
Still, his original intention had been to test the feasibility of traveling through the Dream World. Besides, the research institute wasn’t too far from the hotel, so it was a good opportunity to check out the “final outcome” of this Dream Fragment.
Rain was drizzling from the sky, and the closer he got to the city center, the heavier it fell. Thunderclaps occasionally boomed overhead, and lightning split the sky, illuminating the dilapidated buildings on both sides of the road, making them look especially eerie.
After walking for nearly an hour, Shen Ge finally reached the city center—and immediately sensed something was off. Each district seemed to show a completely different scene.
Although everything was in ruins, with collapsed buildings everywhere, the architectural styles and neighborhood layouts were nothing like the Dajing he knew. Even though Shen Ge had already seen several versions of apocalyptic Rong City and Dajing during his previous trips through the Dream World, this was the first time he’d encountered a style that looked straight out of a post-apocalyptic shelter from those doomsday movies.
Shen Ge heard faint, strange noises coming from a bunker. Though the heavy rain made it hard to hear clearly, he still caught the sound. He walked over, amplified his strength, and yanked open the iron door—only to find the bunker crammed full of parasitic hosts, their bodies covered in fleshy petals and scorpion-like heads.
“Were these survivors hiding in the bunker who got infected by parasitic anomalies, or…” Shen Ge couldn’t help recalling the experimental records he’d seen in the underground lab on Sakura Island. The Sakura people had locked survivors in sealed rooms and released parasitic anomalies among them, turning everyone inside into mutated monsters for research material.
And this bunker didn’t have a single “living facility” in sight—it looked more like a prison for holding captives. The idea that it was used to store experimental subjects wasn’t too far-fetched.
Just then, the infected hosts inside noticed Shen Ge—a living, breathing human. The scent of fresh life instantly triggered a violent reaction among them, and they roared as they surged toward the door.