Are They Really Human?

Chapter 13: Crisis

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The utility room fell into an eerie silence. The air seemed to solidify. Aiden could hear his heart racing wildly.

It’s over! The other party must have heard the conversation just now!

He turned to look at Sophia. The latter looked expressionless, but her mind was also racing.

‘What do I do?’

Earlier, she had used her ability to check Aiden Thomas’ identity. At this moment, she was weak. If the man was a ferocious beast, she had no chance of winning alone.

Taking a step back, even if she controlled the other party and escaped, their identities would still be exposed. They would not live for more than a few days.

The two of them did not speak, but the man did not mind. He walked into the room with a smile and closed the door behind him. Then, he turned around and slowly sat on a chair at the side.

“Don’t be nervous. I was just passing by and happened to hear some commotion inside, so I stood at the door and listened for a while. Tell me, what were you guys talking about just now? It sounded quite interesting. What ferocious beast? What rules?”

Aiden’s heart sank. As expected, the other party had eavesdropped on their conversation. Since that was the case, it was now impossible for him to fabricate a random excuse to get away with it.

However, the other party did not attack immediately. It was possible that he did not hear the entire conversation and was not very sure of their identities. In that case, there was a way.

However, there was another even more terrifying possibility. That the reason the other party did not make a move was that he wanted to play with them. It was like a cat playing with a mouse. He would only sentence the mouse to death after he was tired of playing with it!

“We were actually, just now, talking about a movie…” Aiden stammered, trying to fabricate a reason to cover it up.

“Oh? Hehe, so it’s a movie.” The man smiled and sighed. “I really envy you young people. Unlike you, I don’t usually watch movies.”

“Hehe, that’s right, that’s right,” Aiden chimed in. At the same time, he glanced sideways and raised an eyebrow at Sophia.

‘See, I’m the one who has to be relied on at the critical moment.’

However, the moment he turned his head, Sophia’s expression turned abnormally ugly.

“Be careful!”

Aiden’s heart skipped a beat. He subconsciously turned and saw a black shadow rapidly pounce on him.

Sophia reacted very quickly. Almost immediately, she pulled his arm and fell to the side, narrowly avoiding the black shadow’s attack.

BANG!

There was a muffled sound from the wall. Aiden turned around and his pupils instantly contracted.

“This, this is…”

On the wall behind him, a strong arm slowly retracted, leaving a few hideous claw marks on the wall.

Instead of calling it an arm, it was more like a claw that looked like a xenomorph in a movie. It was extremely thick and muscular, with bulging veins like steel. The back of its huge hand was covered in scales like lizard skin, and the nails on its fingers were a few centimeters long. They were hard and sharp, like the sharpest blade.

Looking to the side, the owner of the arm was the middle-aged man who had been chatting and laughing with them just now. Now, his appearance had changed drastically. His body and head still retained the appearance of a human, but his limbs had completely changed. He was overly thick and strong, and his pants and sleeves were torn, making him look extremely incongruous.

“The two of you are Awakened ones, right? Hahaha, two, there are actually two…” The man’s voice was unusually excited, mixed with inexplicable anger and deep gratitude.

“Mine, all mine!”

Aiden sat on the ground and stared blankly at the monster in front of him. He even forgot to breathe. By measure, the man was several times stronger than Lily. Just based on this, Aiden was certain that the beast was even more terrifying than Lily.

Sophia’s face was pale, but she was much calmer than Aiden. Her large eyes moved quickly as she thought of a countermeasure.

The man in front of them approached the two of them step by step, his body trembling with excitement. Not only that but as he continued to approach, a thick tail emerged from his back.

The tail grew very slowly, emerging bit by bit, accompanied by sticky and turbid body fluid like amniotic fluid during a pregnant woman’s delivery.

It pressed on the man’s spine, forcing his body to bend forward.

Finally, a tail that was as thick as a thigh and two meters long grew out. It dragged it on the ground and let out the rustling sound of a python squirming.

In Aiden’s mind, this image was like that of a lizardman in a sci-fi movie.

Aiden, who had witnessed the entire process, felt fear in his bones. He even forgot to breathe for a moment. The intense feeling of suffocation caused his mind to blur. He had thought that after experiencing life and death once, he would at least be able to remain calm when facing the ferocious beasts again.

However, in reality, other than trembling and waiting for death to descend, there was nothing he could do.

He knew very well that he was definitely not a match for this monster. If Sophia had not pulled him away, his outcome would not have been any better than that wall.

At the moment of life and death, he was actually distracted.

In a daze, he recalled the scene of crushing ants on the farm when he was young.

At that time, there were many ant nests on the farm. When he was young, he always liked to squat beside the ant nest and watch the ants move. Then, he would raise his foot excitedly and stomp it to death.

Aiden felt that he was like a tiny and hopeless ant.

The man raised his huge arm, his brown eyes filled with malevolence. Aiden closed his eyes and quietly waited for death to arrive.