Global Collapse

Chapter 53 It was so hard to crawl out
This is a huge warehouse, surrounded by shelves.

The fabrics were neatly arranged on the shelves, but they were all on fire.

As far as the eye could see, there was nothing but a sea of ​​fire, with no way out. Thick smoke billowed into people's noses, making them cough.

Yuwen Hao covered his nose and looked around, only to find that everyone around him had long since disappeared.

"Is this the dream the disfigured woman spoke of...?"

The woman said that Zhong Min would appear in her dreams every night, getting closer and closer until he would eventually kill her.

He has clearly been pulled into the dream as well.

"Zhong Min must be in here too. I need to get out of here quickly... otherwise I might run into her." Yuwen Hao muttered to himself as he walked forward quickly.

The textile factory's warehouse contained a large amount of flammable material, and almost every part of it was licking at by the fire.

Some shelves had collapsed from the fire, and Yuwen Hao covered his mouth and nose as he quickly moved through the warehouse.

But he had never been to this place before, so he was not familiar with the terrain and wandered around for a while without finding the gate.

His clothes and hair were scorched, and choking smoke filled his nose, making him cough.

“No…” Yuwen Hao muttered to himself, “I have to find the exit quickly.”

Otherwise, he might have been overcome by the thick smoke from the fire before Zhong Min could even find him.

He understood that most people who died in the fire were first overcome by the thick smoke and then burned to death.

Yuwen Hao wandered aimlessly around the warehouse, but couldn't find the exit or encounter anyone else. Just as he inhaled another puff of thick smoke and was choking on it, he suddenly heard a familiar voice not far away.

"Is anyone there? Someone help me..."

It was Qinghuan's voice.

Upon hearing the sound, Yuwen Hao immediately ran in that direction. After only a few steps, he saw Qing Huan squatting in a dead end. Next to him, another person was slumped on the ground—the woman whose face had been burned.

A shelf collapsed in front of the two men, burning fiercely, separating Yuwen Hao from them.

At this moment, Qinghuan was struggling to pull on the arm of the person next to her. Through the shelf, Yuwen Hao could see that the woman's leg seemed to be injured and she couldn't move.

Seeing Yuwen Hao running over, Qing Huan became excited: "Brother Yuwen, come and help me quickly, I can't bear to see her drooling by myself."

There was a burning shelf between them. If they jumped over it quickly, they wouldn't get burned, but figuring out how to get the woman out of the dead end was a problem...

"Brother Yuwen?" Seeing that he did not move, Qinghuan looked up at him.

But now only this woman knows where the exit is.

Thinking this, Yuwen Hao resignedly rolled up his sleeves, then took a few steps forward and jumped.

The shelf was very long, and he couldn't jump over it in one go. He landed twice in the middle, but because he was fast, only his trouser legs burned.

When Yuwen Hao reached Qing Huan and the woman, he quickly bent down to extinguish the flames on his trouser leg, but a patch of skin was still burned, and it hurt a bit.

"I'm so sorry, I've dragged you into this again..." the woman said, pressing her leg.

Her leg looked like it had been hit by something; a patch of her pants was charred, revealing a large area of ​​burned flesh.

Yuwen Hao shook his head: "I'm fine, can't you leave?"

"If you support me, I should be able to..."

In front of them was a row of burning shelves; if they were to help someone across, all three of them would likely suffer burns to their legs.

Yuwen Hao paused for a moment: "Do you remember where the exit of this warehouse is?"

The woman gave a bitter smile: "I can't forget it."

"That's fine," Yuwen Hao squatted down with his back to her. "I'll carry you across. Just tell me which way to go."

Qinghuan spoke up from the side, "I'll help you up."

He actually wanted to carry the woman on his back, but when he tried, he simply couldn't manage it.

As Yuwen Hao carried the person on his back, he said to Qing Huan beside him, "Just stay close behind us, don't get lost... cough cough..."

The fire was growing bigger, and several more shelves collapsed in sight. Qing Huan nodded hurriedly, then suddenly seemed to remember something: "By the way, have you seen Dr. Gu and the others?"

Yuwen Hao shook his head: "No."

Since Zhong Min hasn't contacted them yet, it means she's contacted someone else. It's likely that either Gu Mian or Huang Yu is being hunted down.

We need to escape quickly while Zhong Min is chasing after others.

He took two steps forward with the person on his back, intending to jump over the burning shelves lying across the ground in front of him, but just then, strange noises suddenly came from the collapsed shelves in front of him.

"Creak, creak -"

"Squeak-"

It sounded like a joint that had become sluggish and was desperately trying to twist.

Along with the eerie sound, the three saw that a spot in the collapsed shelf in front of them had suddenly bulged up.

Qing Huan took two steps back, his eyes wide open as he stared at the bulging area on the shelf. He had good eyesight and spotted a human figure at a glance.

The person was on all fours, moving strangely, crawling like a spider. Her whole body was burned, revealing large areas of flesh and blood. Her neck was stretched out very long, as if it had no bones.

At this moment, her eerie face was fixed on the three people in the dead end, and then she slightly turned her head and made a giggling sound.

The woman on Yuwen Hao's back trembled violently: "It's...it's Zhong Min..."

Qinghuan had pressed her back tightly against the wall. This was a dead end; they had no way out.

Yuwen Hao also looked terrified.

Just then, they saw the person in front of them move.

She crawled closer to the group like a spider, her joints creaking with each step she took.

Her lips were gone, revealing gaping teeth that stretched to her ears, like a sinister smile.

Zhong Min is about to climb over the shelf.

Qinghuan almost burst into tears: "What should we do, Brother Yuwen!"

They had nowhere to retreat and could only watch as Zhong Min drew ever closer.

Yuwen Hao was also terrified. He shivered and backed away, saying, "I don't know..."

what to do! what to do!
His mind was screaming, but he was completely helpless.

I absolutely cannot let her catch me. Even being burned to death is better than being caught by her...

At this moment, Zhong Min was getting closer and closer.

One of her hands was already over the shelf, pressed against the ground, and her whole body was making a creaking sound. Just a few more steps forward... and she could grab them.

Yuwen Hao closed his eyes in despair.

He heard the creaking sound of the joints twisting, and then he heard the person in front of him suddenly burst into laughter.

The sound was so close, they were doomed—

But just as Yuwen Hao closed his eyes in despair, he heard the laughter suddenly stop, as if someone had pressed down on his throat.

He opened his eyes in surprise and saw a pair of shoes that had appeared on the ground in front of him.

Looking further up, you can see the very distinctive white lab coat.

Looking further up, you see Gu Mian's smiling face.

The doctor squatted down next to Zhong Min and forcefully pressed her head back onto the burning shelf with one hand: "Sorry, it must have been quite a struggle to climb out, right?"

Shocking! The protagonist of a certain online novel is terrifyingly powerful! ┌(。Д。)┐

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