Apocalypse Arrival

Chapter Nineteen: The monsters that strike terror in all mankind are the monsters made by mankind itself (Part One)

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The light inside the room was very dim.

There was a tiny window high up on the wall.
The little bit of cloudy light that passed through hit a shelf, shrouding the whole room in half darkness. 

There appeared to be a corpse hanging in chains from the shelf.
The head on the corpse’s horrific-looking body was drooping, and disheveled hair covered the face; the gender of the corpse could not be distinguished. 

Something was making noises in the dark, two monsters were desperately vying for a bite of their meal underneath the shelf. 

The room’s lighting was too dim to see clearly.

Only the nauseating sound of chewing could be heard echoing throughout the empty room. 

Chu Qianxun frowned, feeling that something was off. 

Generally speaking, monsters had no interest in corpses, only craving fresh human bodies.
Once a body lost its vitality, monsters would instantly lose their desire for this dead thing. 

This warehouse was tightly sealed, and the chains on the door outside were dusty.
Obviously, this place had been locked up from the exterior for a long time.

Why are the monsters inside still enthusiastic over a corpse that should have been dead for quite some time now? 

One of the doors had been rammed from the interior and was slightly deformed. 

Chu Qianxun held her breath and cautiously approached the gap between the doors, trying to survey the type and rank of the monsters. 

From what she could see, there were jagged white bones exposed all over the corpse.
It couldn’t be more dead. 

Suddenly, that “corpse” faintly stirred, letting out a low, guttural sound. 

Chu Qianxun was startled and accidentally flinched. 

The monsters in the room abruptly stopped moving and turned their heads towards her. 

Two pairs of crimson eyes shot straight towards Chu Qianxun’s position in the darkness. 

Chu Qianxun cursed in her heart,

bloody Wanderers! 

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These are Tier Two monsters.

Right now even Tier One monsters are incredibly rare, but here a pair of Tier Two Wanderers had actually popped up at the same time. 

What on earth is happening? 

Without the least hesitation, Chu Qianxun turned around and took off running.

There was a loud crash from behind her as the monsters collided with the doors. 

The two already misshapen doors were violently rammed by the monsters, and the chains on the doors rattled. 

After several loud smashes, one of the doors was finally knocked down with a bang. 

Two skinless monsters covered with blood clambered over the door frame. 

Their long tongues flickered out towards Chu Qianxun’s direction. 

They were so fast that they could run along the walls as if they were flying. 

Chu Qianxun bolted away and didn’t look back.

She rushed out from the warehouse entrance. 

“Qianxun jiejie came out!” Feng Qianqian pointed at the warehouse. 

Despite their young ages, Feng Qianqian and Jiang Xiaojie have their supernatural powers and are the first in the group to react.

Jiang Xiaojie stood up at the same time and nervously looked towards Chu Qianxun. 

He knew he had acquired extraordinary abilities. 

But that Qianxun jiejie and this little girl obviously had abilities like his. 

Particularly that Qianxun jie, who could have killed him in one move, was so powerful it caused fear in his heart. 

He could still clearly recall the feeling of that seemingly delicate hand clutching the back of his neck like iron clamps. 

Jiang Xiaojie is a boy who has looked up to those who were strong since he was a child. 

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Though his father was an abhorrent gambler, he had never held back when it came to fighting others.
When his father was around, Jiang Xiaojie was never bullied by other people. 

Having grown up in such messy circumstances, Jiang Xiaojie has been well-versed in the art of getting what he wants by pleasing others since he was a child. 

At this very moment, he wants to be better, so that Chu Qianxun would care about him, so that he could remain by her side, and she wouldn’t think of throwing him away on a whim. 

A bucket of diesel fuel sat next to Jiang Xiaojie.
According to Chu Qianxun’s instructions, he should use his ability to freeze it entirely into icicles. 

Chu Qianxun crossed the road as she dashed towards the reservoir.
Her speed was beyond human limits, and she nearly became like a shadow. 

Behind her, two scarlet figures scuttled out from the warehouse entrance. 

Two monsters that were a little smaller than human adults flung the doors from the frame, extended their blood-red heads, and looked around in a circle. 

Both panting heavily, they became two red lines as they chased after Chu Qianxun. 

Chu Qianxun never looked back, focusing on running like mad.

As she crossed the reservoir, she precisely stepped on the sole wooden pole under the film that could bear her weight, leaping over it in one go. 

The bloody Wanderers followed closely, but stepped into the pitfall. 

The tarp over the pitfall caved in, and the deep reservoir engulfed the two monsters.

The bottom of the pool had been filled with gasoline in advance, and there was no way that even the nimble Wanderers could quickly climb from such a slippery bottom. 

And Chu Qianxun had already stopped and turned around.
She tossed the burning lighter in her hand into the pool bottom. 

The reservoir lit up with a bang, a large fire emerging.
Bright blue flames arose initially, then dark orange flames soared into the sky. 

When Feng Junlei came to his senses, his job to start the fire had already been done.

The monsters’ piercing screams could be heard from within the fiery pit. 

He hastily pressed the safety pin to remove the pull ring, flinging the two hand grenades into the pit of fire together. 

Loud blasts of gunpowder went off in succession in the pit, exploding freely in bursts of flames. 

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Feng Junlei shielded Feng Qianqian in his embrace.
When the earth-shaking noises passed, there was no other movement in the trap except the raging flames. 

Relaxing, Feng Junlei was about to come out from the shelter on the high ground.

“Don’t come out!” 

Chu Qianxun scolded, grasping the long iron rod prepared earlier as she nervously kept her eyes fixed on the edge of the fiery pit. 

Sure enough, a monster covered from head to toe in raging flames crawled from the blazing pool a moment later. 

It opened its mouth wide in agony, and thick black smoke gushed out. 

Holding one end of the iron rod, Chu Qianxun accurately punctured the monster’s mouth and stabbed it back into the fiery pool.

The other monster climbed out at the same moment. 

As soon as it clambered from the burning pit, the flames on its body receded at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Its bright red body continuously emitted black smoke, but the flesh on the surface of its body was healing rapidly. 

Chu Qianxun swung the rod in its direction.
The bloody Wanderer stretched its hand out to stop it, grabbing the other end of the iron rod and forcing Chu Qianxun into a deadlock. 

A Tier Two monster’s strength was extremely great. 

Chu Qianxun planted her feet in the ground, gritted her teeth, and exerted all her efforts into pushing it back a bit.

As the flames on the monster’s body gradually died down, Chu Qianxun felt the strength against the iron rod was growing more and more great. 

The bloody wanderer fell back a step and stopped at the edge of the fiery pit.
It stabilized its body and began to push back against Chu Qianxun.

A yellow icicle shot through the air and hit the monster.

The icicles formed from gasoline rapidly melted in the heat, splashing the monster’s whole body with diesel fuel and igniting its body anew.

The bloody Wanderer let out a shrill noise that was extraordinarily similar to a human woman’s scream. 

Four to five icicles flew over one after another. 

The fire reignited in a blaze on the monster’s body, and it finally loosened its grip on the iron rod. 

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Chu Qianxun used her strength to poke it down into the burning pool of flames. 

The first monster that fell into the fiery pit now emerged over the edge. 

This time, without waiting for Chu Qianxun to act, a thin iron chain suddenly flew up from the ground and twisted around the monster’s entire body.
The severely injured monster didn’t know where to direct its efforts, and fell back into the raging flames once more. 

Chu Qianxun closely watched the edge of the fire pit. 

Fortunately, no more monsters crawled out again. 

A cold sweat broke out on her back. 

This time, she miscalculated the situation.
She hadn’t expected that the monsters inside the warehouse had already advanced to Tier Two so quickly. 

Even though they were only in the initial stage of Tier Two, she still wasn’t able to withstand them alone. 

By good fortune, the monsters fell into the pitfall. 

And furthermore, the companions at her side helped out.

Chu Qianxun glanced back at Jiang Xiaojie and Feng Qianqian. 

Although they only used a little bit of power, these two novices who had recently awakened their abilities have exhausted all their strength. 

The girl wilted into her father’s arms, and the teen boy numbly sat on the ground.
Despite their exhausted panting for breath, their eyes shone with the swaying light of the flames.
They excitedly looked towards Chu Qianxun, each face revealing expectant expressions.

Expecting praise, expecting affirmation. 

As a matter of fact, they don’t just want to be regarded as targets to protect.
Rather, they wish to become helpful companions. 

Chu Qianxun’s ice cold heart lit up with a little bit of warmth. 

This was the same road, she was the same person, yet she came out with a completely different feeling. 

TL notes: (edited) deleted prev note because it related to content in 19.2.
oops.

If you’re curious, this chapter’s word count is 5000-6000 words compared to the usual 2000-3000.
It took me half the day to translate 3/4 of it, sadly I translate slow af T_T I will try my best to post Part 2 by tomorrow.