NOVEL WEB Chapter 457: Traitor
In all honesty, Dacheng looked down on Bai Meiyue a little. What was that woman trying to do by carrying a child when the world was coming to an end? By letting that child grow in her belly, she was only putting her family, the Lei family and that child in danger.
He couldn't understand Lei Qian either. If he were in Lei Qian's shoes, he would have done everything in his power to get that child aborted. Bai Meiyue was a woman; naturally, she could not see things as clearly as a man could. After all, women were emotional fools like that, but what about Lei Qian? Why did he have to let Bai Meiyue have that child? In times like these, at that?
Now look at this. Because of their foolishness, an innocent child's life would be lost.
However, this had nothing to do with him. The one who was at fault was none other than Bai Meiyue and Lei Qian, who asked them to be stubborn in times like these.
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"Argh!" Bai Meiyue dry heaved. With her hands covering her nose, she looked at the dead rat that was being eaten by the white maggots. Yesterday, she had killed a mutated rat that snuck inside her bathing room through the plumbing. She thought that she would throw it away in the morning, as she was too tired.
Who would have thought that the scent of blood would attract these mutated maggots? She looked at the sight and almost threw up. However, Bai Meiyue knew that this was not the time to stand still like an idiot.
She stepped back from the bathing room and closed the door before freezing the space beneath it. She knew that there was no point in trying to kill these maggots with her abilities, after all, in her past life, these maggots had a really shocking reproductive ability, even if she killed them today, more of them would pop out.
After much thought, Bai Meiyue decided to post on the barter system, hoping for a solution. Fortunately, the barter system had never let her down. Just as she expected, it took one of the users less than ten minutes to respond. Bai Meiyue heaved a sigh of relief when she saw that someone had replied to her request.
She hurriedly joined the barter and purchased the potted plants that the woman was selling. According to the woman, these potted plants could be used to clear up pests, and they were known for their superb growth, as long as their seeds were planted they would grow up in a week or so and Bai Meiyue knew that with her mother taking care of these potted plants, they would grow up in a matter of hours.
Though Bai Meiyue didn't know how good these things were when it came to clearing the mutated maggots, the woman had sworn that these plants would do a really good job at clearing pests like them.
She turned to look at Ciyi and said to the little furball, "Though I don't believe that this thing would work, we can always try." Anyway, that woman had only taken fifty kilograms of brown rice, which was nothing in Bai Meiyue's eyes, as she had thousands and thousands of rice in her space pocket.
Taking out a little wouldn't hurt her. What was more, she was a third (gold) level user of the barter system. Unless the woman wanted to get banned, she wouldn't dare to cheat her.
Bai Meiyue opened the door and pushed the pot inside the bathing room. With her eyes fixed on the tuft of green leaves, she stepped back and continued watching. At first, nothing happened, but then a few seconds later, the tuft of the green leaves exploded. It was as if the entire place had been covered with an explosion of leaves.
Bai Meiyue stepped back even further. She was someone who had seen a lot of things, but she had never seen such a thing before. For a second, she thought that she had been cheated, but that was until she watched the tuft of green leaves turning smaller and smaller before they returned to their usual form, and the entire bathing room looked cleaner, devoid of the scent of blood and flesh.
"Wow", Bai Meiyue was stunned. She never thought that this potted plant would do such a good job. The entire bathing room had been cleaned up as if the maggots were just a fragment of Bai Meiyue's imagination.
Seeing this, Bai Meiyue nodded her head and picked up the potted plant. "It seems like I need to grow more of these."
While Bai Meiyue had succeeded in finding a way to eradicate the mutated maggots, some people were terrorised by the mutated maggots.
The old woman who had refused to burn the bodies of her granddaughter and even used her death to blackmail was stunned when she saw the mutated maggots eating the rotten flesh of her son.
"Mom! 'Do something,'" her son roared as he furiously scratched his arm, sending flesh and blood all over the room.
When the old woman saw the sight in front of her, her eyes almost rolled back in their sockets. She looked at her son with tears in her eyes and said to him, "What am I supposed to do?" What could she even do in this situation?
However, her son didn't seem to have listened to what his mother was saying to him. The mutated maggots were wriggling inside his skin. He raised his hands, which had been crippled by Bai Meiyue and rubbed them all over his face but nothing seemed to be working.
Frustrated and annoyed with the itching, he rushed to the wall in front of him and started banging his head against it.
"Son!"
The old woman screamed in terror when she saw her son banging his head against the wall. She tried to pull her son away but it was as if her son had lost his mind; he continued to bang his head and when he stopped —
His breath also stopped as his head had been cracked open.
"SON!"