Traveler, High School Student, Homeless

He wanted to stand up, propped up his legs with a low moan, but immediately fell to the ground, cold blood covered his skin, but there was a blazing high temperature burning from the deepest part of his body When he got up, it seemed that his soul was completely burned.

No, stand up, stand up quickly.

It was as if he heard a voice ringing in his heart.

Gritting his teeth, he swallowed all the pain and anger back into his heart.

It felt like falling into the bottomless ocean, swimming upward with all my strength, struggling in the suffocating despair, and doing my best to the faint light. strength.

The boy finally regained his sanity, trembling, crawled up from among the corpses of those monsters.He was dripping with tears, in a state of embarrassment, with saliva still hanging from the corner of his mouth, and the blood stained his body. His original hedgehog hairstyle was now completely drooped and covered in blood, making the boy look like a ghost from hell.But he finally maintained his identity as a human being, and did not succumb to the pain that was still going on until now.

"Humans, use your inhibitor quickly, your infection has begun!"

Othinus' voice became so anxious for the first time.

Inhibitors, that's right, I have to use inhibitors...

One of the inhibitors has been shattered in the previous battle, but the second team is still carefully kept by the boy.Now that the infection is happening, if you want to avoid becoming the same kind of zombies, you must use it as soon as possible.Although personal will can occasionally produce unexpected effects in the transformation process, it can delay the progress of infection.But when the virus completely erodes the brain and body, no matter how powerful the willpower will be, it will disappear at that time. This is a reality that must be admitted.

Clenching his trembling and twitching right hand tightly, Kamijou Touma took a deep breath, finally recovering from the pain completely, and was about to reach for the suppressant hidden in his pocket.

"Having maintained self-awareness from the initial infection symptoms without falling into a coma? It's amazing, maybe you can perfectly integrate the Harlan virus and become a qualified person like me? No, this is probably impossible, The zombie virus that broke out in Harlan is different from T and G. It is a lethal virus that can completely destroy the human body, and there is no way to coexist. Then, according to the previous observation and test records, after the initial symptoms of infection have appeared, you should still Can maintain self-awareness for, uh, 15 minutes or so?"

Wesker, who was standing above, looked at Kamijou Touma who was struggling to get up below with a calm expression.

"Ugh!"

The stern roar suddenly sounded at this moment.

A tower guard who had already fallen into a state of severe infection completely transformed into a runner at this moment, roaring and rushing towards Kamijou Touma.

The rest of the guards and Bracken also showed symptoms of infection, and they couldn't stop it at this moment.Kamijou Touma, who was caught off guard, was thrown to the ground in an instant, and before he could make an effective counterattack, the guard bit him hard on one shoulder.Amid the splashing blood, the young man screamed uncontrollably, stretched out his right hand and punched the guard hard on the neck, piercing through the guard's neck with a bang.

Has the decline in willpower caused by the virus started to affect the use of my own power?

Holding the bleeding wound on his shoulder, Kamijou Touma stood up again tremblingly, but immediately fell to the ground wailing because of another outbreak of convulsions all over his body.

Pain, such intense and uncontrollable pain...

"Uhhhhhh-"

The severe pain that seemed to be burning the nerves of the whole body made the boy let out a scream.

"Kamijou, uh, damn it..."

Bracken, who was half kneeling on the ground, cursed in a low voice, trying to climb to Kamijou Touma's side, but also fell to the ground due to severe infection symptoms and was unable to get up.

"You're wasting my time. Well, in another 3 minutes, if you still don't kill the people around you, then I will randomly choose a cage to release the electric shock. This time I can consider the electric shock for a shorter time. , so that the people inside may be able to enjoy the second round of electric shocks alive, how about it?"

Wesker's voice came from above again, accompanied by the terrified shouts and cries of the people in the cage.

"Stand up, kill them quickly!"

Amidst the bloody smell, someone in the cage finally couldn't help shouting.

"Stand up quickly, don't fall to the ground again, you trash! The tower saved your life, stand up and kill them!"

"Please, I don't want to die, kill them, kill Bracken and the others!"

"Hurry up and die, if you don't die we will die, you guards stand guard in the tower every day without doing anything, can't you hurry up and die for us!"

"Kill them! Kill them! Stand up and kill them!!!"

"Die! You guards are all going to die!!!"

From the first person started to shout, to more and more people started to shout.

Fear clenched the bottom of everyone's heart. These survivors were crying, cursing all kinds of ugly words, or praying in a low voice with all their strength.Pray that the young man will stand up and kill all those who used to guard them; pray that these guards who have been with each other for a long time, who have been born and died many times for the people of the tower, commit suicide in exchange for their own chance of survival.

"You guys, do you know what you're talking about?"

Jed, who woke up, was so shocked that he could hardly speak when he saw such an unreasonable scene.But when she denounced these survivors for being ungrateful, she only got people's indifferent eyes, the fear of death overwhelmed everything, and the irrational frenzy brought by the crowd completely crushed the sobriety of a few people.

"Ah ah ah ah ah--"

The cries of the people who used to guard, coupled with the severe torment of the virus, finally caused several guards to collapse.Some of them jumped directly from the edge of the circular corridor and disappeared before the young man's eyes.Kamijou Touma stretched out his hand weakly, but couldn't save them because he couldn't even control his own body. He could only watch the kind and brave people he used to be familiar with being swallowed up by the dark abyss below.Some people wanted to escape from the torn door at the edge of the corridor, but as soon as they reached the door, there was a sudden noise from the device on the chest, and then a violent explosion completely shattered it, and the sputtered pieces of flesh even Flying into the cage, causing those shouting people to lose their voice for a while.But soon, under the fear of survival, they shouted again, demanding that all the guards commit suicide as soon as possible.

It shouldn't be like this...

Struggling to get up from the pain that was almost breathless, to support his body from the pain that seemed to be biting his flesh by countless poisonous insects, the young man took a big mouthful of breath, stood still and stopped falling, raised his head and looked at People who are terrified in those cages.

The people who wanted to live were screaming like crazy, many of them were crying and shouting at the same time, the boy couldn't tell whether the tears were from fear or guilt, or both.

Silent people also exist. Those who are huddled in the corner, unwilling to join these crazy crowds, and huddled with their heads in their arms, have they accepted their fate and accepted their fate that they are likely to die?

And the people who are crying, they are the families of these guards, people who are so painful, crying uncontrollably.

"wrong……"

What I want to see is not the picture like this.

"wrong--"

The reason I fought for it was to prevent such things from happening.

The memory of the past seems to be a little loose, and it seems that I can see those illusory and blurred pictures, and see myself being injured again and again, just for those people who are deeply in pain and despair.Because I saw such a tragedy, I must do my best to stop it.He has never thought about what is justice and what is right. He just can't accept such painful and crying people appearing in front of him, so as long as he sees them, he will risk his life to help them.

[I said, is it really worth it?Is such a person really worth your life to save? 】

On the edge of the spreading blood-red vision, it seemed that someone was asking himself.

Ha, this kind of thing, this kind of thing—

"Ugh!"

At this moment, the roar of zombies came from behind.

The boy turned his head hastily, seeing those familiar figures showing irrational expressions, Bracken and the guards dropped their weapons, and staggered towards the boy in front.After the guards who committed suicide by jumping off the building and escaped and exploded, there were only five tower guards left. At this moment, they gradually showed crazy expressions, and the speed of walking towards Kamijou Touma began to accelerate little by little.

"No, please, don't do this..."

Kamijou Touma took a step back and spoke in a trembling voice.

"You have no choice, human beings, they are dead, go, go and free them so they don't suffer anymore."

The voice of Othinus sighed, but pointed out the facts without any mercy.

Yes, they are dead.Bracken, who was not very good at thinking and always passionate, died, and the guards around him who loved the tower also died.Now these faces against their faces are just walking corpses.

"Kill them! Kill them quickly!!!"

"Please do it quickly, I don't want to die!"

"Don't hesitate anymore, they have become runners!"

The crazier shouts still sounded from those cages.Unprecedented, the boy began to feel that the voice was too loud.

The first guard roared and rushed at the boy.

Dodging sideways, then reaching out to hug the opponent's neck, twisting violently, Kamijou Touma ended the opponent's life as gently as he could think of.

Guard No. 2 and Guard No. 3 came forward from the left and right simultaneously. The young man leaped up and kicked one of the guards over, causing his neck to be broken with tremendous force.Turning around, the No.3 guard didn't get much closer. It was strange that the guard didn't move forward as quickly as the normal zombies, and his pace seemed a little slow.But when the boy looked over, it roared and rushed up again, and then he punched it on the neck, and also fell to the ground amidst the sound of bones breaking.

The No.4 guard ran up to meet him staggeringly, but the strange thing was that he fell to the ground when he was about to approach the boy, and his whole body trembled.This doesn't look like a zombie that has been completely transformed, but rather a symptom of a mid-transformation infection.The boy was slightly taken aback, but the fifth person, that is, Bracken, pounced on him, bumped into the boy with his muscular body, and sent him flying.Then, before Kamijou Touma got up from the ground, Bracken bent down and twisted the No.4 guard's neck, and then continued to walk towards the boy staggeringly in zombie style.

"wrong……"

Kamijou Touma stood up again, although he didn't see Bracken's movement just now, he still realized something.

"You, you haven't been completely transformed, you were just pretending to be zombies!"

The zombies that have just been transformed, that is, the runners, are crazy monsters that are extremely agile in speed.But the movements and agility of the five Brackens are not what normal zombies should have at all.It's normal to be like the crazy zombie who bit the boy's shoulder just now. One or two Kamijou Touma may not be able to find it, but the movements of the five people are so full of flaws, as if they were sent up deliberately for him to kill. It is impossible for him to be unaware of the truth in this situation.

"No, it shouldn't be like this..."

Has achieved greater power, already has the strength beyond human beings.

I should be able to change something, and I should be able to do more things.

He thought he could save these people who shouldn't be in hell, but at this moment he found that the tragedy still couldn't be changed.In the end, after working hard, I was like a clown on the screen, funny and ridiculous.

It shouldn't be like this...

Bracken, who was silent, accelerated in the next moment and slammed into the boy's body.

The young man who suffered from the pain of killing his companion with his own hands hardly had any fighting spirit at this moment, and was easily knocked down to the ground.Bracken raised his fist and wanted to attack again, but because of the intensification of the infection symptoms, he fell to the ground, gasping for pain.

"Infection, inhibitors, yes, I still have inhibitors..."

Struggling to get up again, seeing Bracken suffering from the symptoms of infection, the young man who suddenly remembered that he still had an inhibitor left hurriedly took it out of his arms.Later, because of the increasingly intense infection symptoms, he almost failed to hold the inhibitor and dropped it on the ground, but in the end the boy still held the life-saving injection while panting, and looked at Bracken in front of him.

As long as this is injected into his body, the other party will be able to survive.

"But in this case, you will not be able to save yourself, and your infection has developed to an advanced stage."

"Is it really worth it? To give up your life for a person you've only known for more than ten days, are you really willing to die like this?"

Othinus' voice was full of sighs.

Do you fear death yourself?

Kamijou Touma knew that the answer was yes, until now, his hands were still shaking, because he knew that as long as he used this injection, he would completely lose hope of living, and would be irreversibly headed towards death.

He doesn't want to die.

The boy named Kamijou Touma has never been a person who does not cherish his own life.

When the real death turns into severe pain, it is like a shadow at this moment, and at this moment, it is constantly eroding and peeling off his thinking, fear will also grow in his body, he will feel afraid, and he will be afraid of the coming, forever cringing in the dark.

But even so-

The boy's teeth were clenched tightly at this moment.

Even so, he would never accept that the lives of others would be wasted meaninglessly like this, so even if he would die immediately——

The next moment, Touma Kamijou met Bracken in front of him with an injection in hand.

"That thing is... no, you can't do that..."

Bracken, who originally wanted to continue pretending that the zombies were killed, immediately widened his eyes and showed a shocked expression when he realized what Kamijou Touma was about to do.Without hesitation, he immediately took a few steps back, turned to look at the edge of the railing in the circular corridor, and immediately decided to jump from there.

My 40-year-old life is of no value anymore, and I cannot let a child who is not even 20 years old sacrifice for me.

Bracken's thoughts were very simple and clear, and he didn't hesitate at all. He just ran a few steps, and he jumped up and stood on the railing at the edge of the corridor, and then he was about to jump down to the dark place below. the abyss.

Let it end like this, at least to give the child a chance to survive.

With this in mind, the man began to fall.But almost immediately, the young man who spread out the illusory dragon wings chased up from behind, reached out and grabbed Bracken by the back of the neck, and threw him back into the corridor with his backhand.