Before everything goes out

"Is it a ring?"

"Did Huanziqian do all of these?"

"Don't sleep, Lin Wen, you can't sleep, I can save you..."

Li Fei's eyes were red as he gripped Lin Wen's hand tightly.

He soon discovered that his palms were getting cold, his eyes were losing their luster, and finally his arms were sliding down limply.

"Xiao Wu".

These were the last two indistinct syllables Li Fei heard from Lin Wen.

Then.

A teeth-grinding cracking sound rang out.

Just like Niu Wenbing, whom I had just witnessed, that twisting sensation began to climb upwards, from Lin Wen's legs to her lower abdomen and then to her chest.

His originally calm expression turned ferocious with pain.

"No!!"

Li Fei released his grip and placed Lin Wen back on the ground.

The image of Niu Wenbing's mangled corpse flashed through his mind. In a moment of desperation, he pulled out a wood-chopping knife from behind his back and slashed at Lin Wen's neck.

Even if she's a zombie, he wants Lin Wen to live.

Once, twice.

As Lin Wen's head was completely severed, the twisting stopped, ending with her already shattered upper body.

Amidst the bloodstains.

All that remained was a broken body and a head with its eyes closed.

"ah!!!"

Li Fei knelt down, held Lin Wen's head in his arms, and screamed in agony.

Like Niu San, he held his head high, but no tears fell from his eyes.

Anger, self-blame, regret.

A torrent of emotions surged through him, causing his throat to tighten and his ears to ring incessantly in his head.

If he hadn't taken Liu Yongxiao away...

If he hadn't transmigrated into this damned ring...

If he could have discovered all of this sooner...

if...

A sharp pain abruptly interrupted his train of thought.

Looking down, he noticed that, without realizing it, his right hand, from his fingertips to his forearm, had also begun to twist and break, just like everything else in the village.

"This stuff is contagious!"

He was shocked and turned to grab the wood-chopping knife, only to find that it had already broken in the twisting motion.

Or.

The twist was as it climbed up his right hand along the machete.

In the midst of intense pain, driven by instinct, he used his remaining arm to pull out a pistol and fired repeatedly at his temporarily intact right shoulder.

Breaking the right arm would stop the spread.

The idea was correct, but he overestimated the power of the pistol.

His right arm wasn't broken, but within seconds, the twisting motion had already passed through his right shoulder, across his chest, and was climbing toward his head.

"Hold..."

In just a few seconds, his chest cavity shattered, and pale bone fragments pierced out.

Li Fei fell to the ground. After his alveoli were punctured, blood flowed back into them, which he coughed up.

Suffocation, excruciating pain.

The excruciating pain originating from the internal organs is worse than death.

In his previous life, he had never even imagined that humans could feel this level of pain.

"There's no going back..."

"I am a sinner..."

"This is God's punishment for me..."

On his deathbed.

Even he himself was somewhat surprised that, at the last moment, he would think about the problem from Lin Wen's perspective again.

In a daze.

He even wished that this agonizing pain could last a little longer.

Perhaps in this way, he can atone for some of his sins.

but.

Contrary to his wishes, he soon stopped feeling pain.

Losing all sensation, the body completely shattered, eyelids heavy and closed, consciousness fading away, darkness spreading.

in the dark.

Just when he thought it was all over, a ray of light suddenly appeared in his blood-stained vision and quickly covered everything.

Like the dawn.

Warmth, healing.

The physical pain disappeared, replaced by a light-footed body and a joyful, relaxed mind.

"What I read online is true; it turns out that people do feel comfortable before they die..."

Li Fei's consciousness dissipated.

Guided by that light, he felt himself rising higher and higher.

The noise around him, whether it was Niu San's exclamation or She Qingqing's gunshot, was quickly fading away.

ended.

Although I'm unwilling to accept it, it's all over now.

In a blissful sense of liberation, he heard some more familiar voices.

...

"Doctor, you must save my son!"

"It's alright, don't worry about the medical expenses, we'll prepare them, just focus on your treatment."

"Son, can you hear me? If you can, blink twice."

"Listen carefully, your father and I will sell everything we own to save you. As long as you're alive, five years, ten years, it doesn't matter, we'll wait for you..."

妈？

That's my mom's voice!

To his surprise, Li Fei discovered that the sound was getting louder and clearer.

Not only his familiar relatives, but as his consciousness rose higher, the voices of even more acquaintances emerged.

"Honey."

"I asked the doctor, and he said the patient's spirit is the most important thing. As long as you don't give up, you'll wake up one day..."

"I'm waiting for you."

She is his fiancée.

"Old Li."

"Get well soon, without you, the brothers will almost fall apart."

"Also, I went to the temple a couple of days ago and burned two sticks of incense for you. I know you don't believe in this stuff, but at a time like this, it won't hurt to give it a try..."

This was his most trusted friend.

In the light, various sounds converged and blended, pulling him upwards.

Like a lifeline.

At that moment, Li Fei suddenly realized.

He didn't die; he was just unconscious after the car accident, and his consciousness drifted into this disgusting world.

Without a doubt, if he dies here, he will be able to wake up in his original world.

"I want to die"

"Let me die."

"Let's end it all like this."

He has no body, yet he moves his arms by instinct, swimming upwards in the light.

As the sounds grew clearer and amplified at the bright top, until they were almost within reach...

He suddenly shuddered and froze in mid-air.

I don't know when.

A hand without skin rested on his shoulder, which did not exist.

He turned his head away.

A shameless man stood behind him in the boundless darkness.

Dressed in a suit and tie, with a refined and cultured demeanor.

His body was covered in blood, with not an inch of skin left, like an anatomical model.

As the mouth, with its exposed gums, opened and closed, Li Fei heard a sound that was definitely not human.

The pronunciation was extremely difficult to understand, and he couldn't find a correspondence between it and any other language he had ever heard.

Or.

His intuition told him that this language did not belong to humans.

Strangely, he suddenly understood its meaning.

"I didn't say you could leave."

The sound, like maggots, crawled into his ears and churned in his brain.

next second.

The warm light, or the voices of family and friends, these things that filled him with hope, quickly faded and drifted away.

The lifeline snapped, and a feeling of weightlessness washed over me.

Dragged along by that shameless man, he began to fall again into the darkness.

come down.

come down.

It didn't take too long.

Amidst the ruins of Shuanghe Village, Li Fei suddenly opened his eyes, as if he had been resurrected from the dead.