Among the Other Creatures Chapter 2

"G? Isn't this the guy from that damn research institute? Why are they out in the middle of the night?" The boy in the front asked casually while speeding up, which was inexplicably inconsistent with the tense atmosphere of the race. "Do you know who they are chasing?"

Jack Wei smiled awkwardly but politely, "Me."

"Oh." The guy turned around and two seconds passed.

"What the hell???"

"Stop talking nonsense, brother. Run quickly. This is a test from God." Jack Wei said nonsense while turning his head to check. The distance between the convoy and the rear convoy was getting closer. The huge billboard in the distance was updated with an advertisement. The screen showed some new low-energy artificial food.

The growing power of the demon race is constantly squeezing the human food chain and resources, to the point that they can only survive through technological production.

The background music of the advertisement was an electronic version of horse racing, with a fast rhythm, which gave Jack Wei a headache. Many images flashed through his mind, including a black room, formations, magnetic fields, and blood that was about to dry up on the ground.

"Oh my god, this is my first day on a mission, why am I so unlucky."

Jack Wei, who always had an amazingly good attitude, asked habitually, "What mission?"

"Oh my god." The boy suddenly raised his right hand and slapped his mouth, "Did I just say the mission? I can't say it."

Jack Wei's mouth twitched: "...As long as you are happy."

A group of dirty barefoot kids ran over quickly, almost bumping into the machine with mechanical parts they had picked up from somewhere. The billboard changed again, with a line of big words on the screen - Endangered Species Protection Day.

Avoiding the children, the boy on the bike said, "What protection are you talking about? Humans can't even protect themselves, so you still have the nerve to come up with a protection day."

Jack Wei remained silent. He and the human boy were on completely different sides. In the eyes of most monsters, humans were just a link in their food chain. In the beginning, the monsters were mostly pacifists. When the monsters were growing stronger, they were willing to treat humans as an equal group and recognize their rights as human beings. But later, as the internal contradictions of the monsters deepened and humans were not satisfied with the rule of the monsters, the disputes between the two groups became increasingly serious, frictions arose, and wars broke out frequently.

When he was still alive, the Conservative Party of mankind held power and signed a treaty with the Demon World Alliance to achieve temporary peaceful development, but under this peaceful appearance there were still undercurrents.

Although Jack Wei was a scoundrel, he could tell the difference at this time. Humans and monsters had been grudged for thousands of years, his parents died in the war, and he himself died for maintaining stability, but he had never hated ordinary humans.

The vast majority of them are just victims.

Thinking of this, Jack Wei sighed silently, his eyes inadvertently glanced at the clock tower in the distance, and found the year, month and day in the lower right corner of the electronic display screen.

His heartbeat seemed to stop suddenly. He suddenly grabbed the motorcycle boy's shoulder and said, "The last time we fought back..." Before he finished speaking, he immediately changed the subject, "I mean, when was the human assault?"

The boy was startled, and the motorcycle swayed in an S shape. "The assault... was seven years ago. I was still a primary school student at that time. It's been a long time since I fought in a war."

Jack Wei's heartbeat was getting faster and faster, just like his confused brain.

Seven years...

Could it be that it took him seven whole years to come back to life?

Jack Wei grabbed the boy's shoulders. The wind was too loud, so he raised his voice and said, "You just said that you haven't fought for a long time. What's the situation now? Have you won?"

"Not really!" The boy's voice also rose, "How can they win? The ruling party of Fanzhou is now a puppet of monsters. Humans are in a miserable situation now."

Has so much changed in the years he was gone? Jack Wei asked again: "Humanity... I mean, is the current Prime Minister Song Chengkang?"

"Song Chengkang?" The boy seemed to react for a moment, then suddenly realized, "You mean him? He stepped down a long time ago! I don't know how many generations have passed. The current puppet party... well, I won't talk about it."

It seems that the puppet party he mentioned should be a political party controlled by monsters without real power. What about the former conservatives? And where are the radicals who always shout about fighting monsters?

His thoughts were interrupted by something brushing past Jack Wei's ear, and finally hitting the helmet of the boy in front of him with a crisp sound, and at a very fast speed.

"What the hell?!" the boy cursed.

"They are armed." Jack Wei turned his head and looked behind him. Sure enough, the next second those people picked up their guns and aimed at him.

"Do you have anything that can block bullets?"

"No." The little boy's voice trembled, "Are they going to shoot soon?"

"Can you shoot if I give you a gun?"

"I won't. I don't dare."

"...Wow, you're awesome." Jack Wei took a deep breath and saw an alley in front of him. There seemed to be a barbecue stall or something like that at the entrance of the alley. "Hey, drive to that alley entrance."

The motorcycle made a sharp turn, and the body of the motorcycle was almost touching the ground. Jack Wei took the opportunity to stretch out his arm and pick up the folding table in front of the barbecue restaurant. He folded its four legs to block the flying bullet.

"You are so clever!"

"Your driving skills are not bad either. You're an experienced driver and this wave is quite steady." Jack Wei talked nonsense while looking down at the table carefully. Their bullets seemed to be special. The marks left on the table were very small, unlike ordinary bullets.

"Wait a minute, this alley..."

Jack Wei let out a breath and then took it up again, "Don't tell me there's a dead end ahead. You said I'd jump down and kill myself right now." Maybe he would have to reload the game and start over.

"No, it's the main road. I'm afraid they are blocking the other end!" Just as he finished speaking, the sound of sirens from the pursuit team was heard from the other end of the alley. The entrance to the alley was probably blocked.

The vision was not very clear, and Jack Wei suddenly found that not far in front of him, near the left wall, there were several one-meter-high metal trash cans, on top of which was a half-meter-wide discarded long wooden board.

"Go this way." Jack Wei leaned to the left, swung his arm and threw the folding table in his hand towards the first trash can under the wooden board. With a thud, the first trash can fell to the ground. The long door panel that was originally lying flat lost its balance and tilted towards them, with one end falling on the ground in a slope.

"Smart!" The driver twisted the handlebars hard and drove straight down the slope created by Jack Wei. "Hold on to me!"

Jack Wei's body and the motorcycle flew into the air together, and both he and the motorcycle drew an arc in the air, and finally passed the pursuit convoy defending at the entrance of the alley and landed about ten meters away.

"Oh my god! This feels so good!" The boy on the bike lowered his body and accelerated madly, leaving those bikes far behind.

"The excitement point is really low..." Jack Wei whispered, "If you could fly, you would be so happy."

The wind whistled past, and the boy didn't hear Jack Wei's complaints at all. He just kept talking to himself: "There's a very hidden road over there. They definitely can't catch up if we go there. Oh, by the way, I saw the clothes you're wearing... that logo seems to be from the damn institute, who are you? Why are they arresting you?"

"I entered a hunting dungeon as soon as I opened my eyes. I was also very panicked. There was no NPC to issue quests..." The internet-addicted teenager Jack Wei suddenly felt a pain in the back of his neck. He reached out and pulled out a needle. "What the hell?"

His vision gradually blurred, and before he could figure out what was happening, he fainted holding the syringe and fell on the back of the boy in front of him.

Jack Wei had a dream.

In the dream, he was not wearing a school uniform, but a black hat, and was wandering in a chaotic slum in human form.

By the way, isn’t this the dark zone?

He walked among a group of humans as if nothing had happened, looking no different from them. Anyway, there would be no demon detectors in such a place. The dream was cut by colorful lights, like a broken mirror, reflecting many strange and magnificent pictures.

His wrist was grabbed by a human boy, whose hair was blue, like the mermaids in Shangshan College, but also a little different. Jack Wei was dragged to the basement, which was full of humans swaying their heads to the music, holding strangely colored liquids in their hands, which humans called wine.

Monsters don't drink alcohol, or rather, they don't drink alcohol brewed by humans.

But Jack Wei has always been a rebellious person. The more the demon clan forbids him to do something, the more he likes to do it.

Alcohol had messed up her consciousness. The only clear moment in the chaos was when he was dragged away. Her sight moved dizzily from the hand that grabbed her arm, up a little bit, to the large black coat, the crimson school uniform that was hidden inside and slightly exposed, the white side of her neck, and then up again...

It was a face that was more beautiful than any human or monster Jack Wei had ever seen. It was good in every way except that it didn't like to smile.

[You trespassed into the restricted area. Do you want to get me punished along with you?]

Suddenly woke up.

Jack Wei opened his eyes, and for some reason, he had a sense of loss.

He had indeed been to the dark zone before, and not only him, but that cold guy also came to take him back. But Jack Wei could not remember the memory between meeting him and returning to school to be punished, the gaps were intermittent.

The door of the room was suddenly pushed open.

"Hey, he's awake!"

It was a familiar voice, that of the motorcycle boy. Jack Wei raised his head and prepared to sit up, but the motorcycle boy smiled and pulled a chair to sit beside the bed, "Don't worry, I'll ask Leah to come over and see if you have any other problems."

"Lia?" Jack Wei was puzzled, but the person in question soon walked into the room with instruments. It was a beautiful girl with short brown hair. "It's me. I'm a doctor."

Although he was called a doctor, he didn't have a white coat. Instead, he was wearing a black belly-baring top and shorts.

Allowing this pretty female doctor to examine him, Jack Wei, who had nothing else to do, raised his chin towards the motorcycle boy and said, "Hey, you haven't told me your name yet."

"Me?" The motorcycle boy smiled brightly, revealing a row of big white teeth, which made his wheat-colored skin look even darker. "You can call me A-Zu." A-Zu rested his chin on the back of the chair. "What about you?"

"Wei..." Jack Wei blurted out subconsciously, and suddenly realized that it was a bit too rash to directly reveal his identity to a human he had only met twice, so he turned the words around and said, "Wei Heng."

Jack Wei reacted quickly, and A Zu didn't notice anything unusual about him. "Welcome to Wei Gui?"

He nodded. "Yeah, eternal."

"Then I'll call you Ah Heng."

Leah put away the instrument, her face expressionless, "The current condition is similar to when you were in a coma." After saying that, she looked at Jack Wei and said in a serious and cold tone, "You'd better confess your origins."

Jack Wei was shocked. Was he discovered? But he didn't even know the origin of this body, so how could he confess?

"What do you mean..." At this point, I can only play it safe.

Leah crossed her arms and raised her right eyebrow. "Your body is very abnormal." She opened a small black box beside the bed. "Inside are the chips I took out of your body. There are twenty-three in total."

Looking at the chip still stained with blood in the box, Jack Wei was speechless for a moment.

But the next second, Leah took out a dagger from nowhere and put it against Jack Wei's throat. "Tell me, what is your relationship with the people from the 137th Institute?"

Jack Wei raised his hands in surrender, "Hey, hey, hey, don't get excited, don't get excited. You are such a pretty girl, why do you always use a knife to attack others..."

Ah Zu also quickly grabbed Leah's hand, "There must be some misunderstanding here. Yesterday I saw with my own eyes the people from the 137th Institute chasing him. If it weren't for my divine soldiers, he would have been dead!"

Jack Wei had a smile on his face, but he was thinking, "If you hadn't hooked my clothes yesterday, how could I have gotten into your stolen car?"

Leah's expression softened a bit, but she still didn't retract her knife. "You are wearing the lab coat of 137's test subject, but none of 137's test subjects have ever walked out of the institute alive. Every morning, only carts of corpses from failed experiments that were transported to the cemetery come out."

Jack Wei had no idea that the research institute was in such a state.

So they were experimenting on living people?

"You must not be an ordinary human." Leah shook her wrist, put away the knife, and sneered, "Forget it. I don't need to do it anyway, you won't live long."