Andy and Adam stood in the room by the corner, pointing their gun muzzles towards the centre with solemn expressions.
What they saw in front of them was a male high school student wearing a green mountain climbing outfit, kneeling on top of the body of another high school student, and...
And it seemed that the male high school student who had his back to them was eating the corpse of the female high school student.
The high school girl's legs was still convulsing, it seems that her death was very recent.
*Tread--* Sean had hurried over.
When the sheriff came upon the scene, he couldn't help but hold his breath.
But, in the silent room everyone was able to hear the sound of movements which caused the male high school student to turned his head towards the doorway, smiling while his mouth dripped with blood: "It's delicious! She's so delicious, do you... want to taste it? Quickly... while she's fresh..."
"Oh!"
Adam finally reached the critical point of his tolerance and vomited out all the left over food residue that was in his stomach.
"Sir!"
Andy put his index finger on the trigger and asked: "Do you want me to shoot?"
"Hold." Sean narrowed his eyes and squatted before the male high school student, struggling to speak but asking aloud: "Kevin? Is that you?"
"Huh?"
The high school student who was named Kevin had his smile freeze, his cloudy eyes gradually became clear, and he asked in doubt: "Uncle Patrick?"
Seeing this, Sean gestured to Andy to continue his vigilance, before slowly approaching and helped Kevin stand, while saying: "Child, what are you doing, are you aware that you are eating [Sean looks at the corpse] Diana?"
"I...I know..." Kevin covered his face and started to wept, shaking his head and saying: "But I'm so hungry, I can't help it, I really can't help it. I can hear it right in my ears, and it made me eat (Kevin's voice was getting quieter and smaller)..."
At this time, Adam wiped the saliva from his mouth, picked up his gun and straightened up, before saying sadly to Sean: "Sir, (Adam stares at the corpse)... there are still six other children waiting for us to find."
Hearing this, Sean patted Kevin's back with his hand, trying to help calm his emotions.
After a while, he asked, "Kevin, where are your companions? Where are they?"
"Do not!"
Kevin, who had only just stabilised his emotions, suddenly broke away from Sean and ran to a corner of the room, squatting down with his head in his hands and pulled his hair abruptly, muttering to himself: "I don't want to eat them! I...I don't want to! I..."
The unexpected situation caused the three agents to maintain a high degree of vigilance.
Andy pointed his gun at Kevin, he then sounded strangely emotionally excited: "Sir! I said this kid is abnormal!"
"Sir?" Adam also rose his gun, pointing towards the student, before looking at Sean for instructions.
"..."
Sean frowned and also re-held the rifle hanging on his chest, but he didn't give his order to shoot yet.
"I think!" Kevin shouted suddenly.
The crazy high school student stopped struggling and turned around slowly.
His teeth were protruding from his mouth and looked very sharp, and his eyes had become muddy.
*Howl!!!*
The ex-student opened its mouth to an incredible degree, and yelled at the three agents.
"Open Fire!"
*Pop!*
Three .308-caliber rifles spat out dazzling tongues of fire, and all the bullets were vented on Kevin's body.
*Crrk—Crack—* Sawdust and broken debris fly randomly.
Kevin, who was directly hit by a large-caliber bullets, had his body twitch for a while, only to fall face down to the floor.
"What's the hell happen to him! Fuck!"
Even though Kevin didn't move, Andy couldn't help yelling while changing the magazine.
"Sir...What's wrong with him?"
Adam, who also changed the magazine, looked at the corpses of the two young students. The scene looked really unbearable.
"Don't know, and I don't care." Sean said grimly: "The main task now is to ensure that the spread of these anomalies is prevented as much as possible before the arrival of the containment forces. (Sean looks at the corpses of Kevin and the high school girl) If this situation develops, there could be around four anomalies. "
However, before any of them moved.
"Uhhhh..."
Kevin was not dead, or rather was never dead at all.
His hands and feet had began to grow rapidly, with his skin gradually turning grey, making him look even more skinny and malnourished.
"Sir, that was a .308! A .308!" Andy's emotions were a little out of control.
A .308 was truthfully called .308 Winchester, a 7.62 caliber ammunition developed by Winchester Arms Company of the United States.
The maximum pressure is around 62,000 pounds per square inch, which is 5,500 pounds less than the normal 7.62x51mm Nato bomb.
It has better ballistic stability and accuracy.
It was usually used for North American civilian hunting, or for ammunition for precision shooters in the US military.
Being hit by a .308 bullet at such a close range, ordinary humans or animals will be torn into nothing but pieces of meat.
However…
The thing in front of the three agents was now standing up.
This is beyond their cognition, and their index of mental tolerance dropped crazily.
*Waoawa!!!* Kevin, who was now completely mutated, raised his head and roared loudly at the roof.
*Woo--* There was a faint response from the corridor outside the room.
This thing has companions!
Sean quickly took out an incendiary grenade he was carrying with his gear.
*click~* He quickly pull out the pull-down ring.
*Dang~Dangdang~~* The incendiary bounced happily on the board, as it rolled down to Kevin's feet.
"Move!"
"Yes!" (x2)
*Boom!!*
As the three of them ran out of the room there was the sound of incendiary explosion behind them.
*Waoaw...Wow...* and the scream of that creature.
But the three of them didn't have time to check if the thing was dead.
Because in the narrow corridor that the three agents were in the centre of, there were three identical anomalies in the direction leading to the lobby.
And as they looked back.
There was also one in the direction of the second-story stairs.
They were completely surrounded.
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The three agents quickly moved back to back, Adam and Andy face the lobby, and Sean faced the stairs alone.
And with just a cursory glance, Sean guessed the general situation.
Among the four shelters, three of them are wearing modern winter clothes or mountaineering outfits, which means that they were made from the missing students.
But the one that Sean stares at was ragged, and could be vaguely seen that it was wearing a miner's uniform that looked as if it walked out of a picture from the last century.
It seems that among the thirty absentees fifty years ago, there was actually one survivor.
But they don't know how the hell it turned the eight high school students into the anomalous creature.
"Sir, please give an order." Adam said with only a ghost of a smile.
"Yes, sir, we are still waiting to go to the bar later!" Andy was still very unreliable.
But as Sean looked at the 'miner' who was approaching them, the corners of his mouth were slightly tilted and he boldly said: "Agent! Behind us is our hometown! Behind us is our relatives! So we will never step back! We will hold them until the containment forces arrive!"
"Yes Sir!" (x2)
*Roar!!* (x4)
*Crrk!* The .308 caliber gunshots were loud.
*Sqwelp* The guns were much louder...Then muffled sound of sharp claws piercing into a human body.