"My skill is an A-rank ability called [Glutton King]."
"By consuming food, I can accumulate energy and unleash it in a single, devastating attack."
"But..."
"It has a 10-hour cooldown."
Wang Zichen explained, his voice weak.
Mu Chenyi's eyes widened.
"Then why the hell didn't you use it earlier?!"
Hearing the question, Wang Zichen looked guilty.
He rubbed the back of his head and coughed awkwardly.
"Well... last night, I couldn't resist... I invited my new girlfriend over."
"We'd only been dating for two days, but I thought, hey, why not?"
"But then, when I woke up this morning—"
"She turned into a goddamn green-furred monster!"
"...So, I panicked and used my skill to kill her."
"The body's still upstairs."
Mu Chenyi: "..."
"You deserve to die."
If it weren't for Chen Wan'er's ability, they'd all be corpses right now.
Trying to change the subject, Wang Zichen quickly asked,
"By the way, Mu Bro—how did you know that old lady was about to transform and ambush me?"
Mu Chenyi forced himself to calm down and explained,
"In one of my premonitions, I saw how these monsters transform."
"When she walked in, her eyes were full of greed—"
"Especially when she asked for your keyring—her eyeballs were practically bulging out of their sockets."
"And from what I've seen—"
"That's one of the first signs of transformation!"
Hearing this, Wang Zichen gave him a thumbs-up.
"Damn, Mu Bro—you've got hawk eyes!"
But then, his face turned serious.
"But wait—"
"Why do I feel like your premonition skill gives you way more details than it should?"
Mu Chenyi chuckled softly but didn't respond.
If Wang Zichen's previous explanations were correct, then—
His [Death's Eye] was probably one of the highest-tier prophecy abilities in existence.
An SSS-rank premonition skill...
Wait.
Something's wrong.
His face suddenly darkened.
"No—something's not right."
"Our identities have been exposed!"
"Huh?"
Both Wang Zichen and Chen Wan'er looked up in shock.
"What do you mean?"
Mu Chenyi's tone was low and grave.
"That old lady—the moment she walked in, she already knew we were human."
"But before that, none of us slipped up in our expressions!"
"That means—"
"She knew who we were before she even arrived."
"Someone had already exposed our identities!"
"W-Wait, what?"
Wang Zichen looked completely dumbfounded.
"You're saying—"
"It was my girlfriend from this morning?"
"No, not you."
Mu Chenyi shook his head.
Then, he turned his gaze to Chen Wan'er, who still looked exhausted.
"It's either me—"
"Or Chen Wan'er."
"One of us was exposed first—"
"Which caused all three of us to be compromised."
In his previous death replay, this old lady never came alone.
That meant Wang Zichen wasn't the one who exposed himself—
Otherwise, he would have been targeted even in the last loop.
So how did they get exposed this time?
Was it because of his phone call with 'Mother'...?
No—
According to the rules of this apocalypse, as long as they played their roles correctly and managed their expressions, they should have been safe.
Then what the hell went wrong?!
His phone call with "Mother"—he had played his role perfectly.
There was no way he had slipped up.
Mu Chenyi turned to Chen Wan'er.
"Wan'er, when you took leave from the police station, did anything unusual happen?"
He suspected that Wan'er had exposed herself at the station.
Chen Wan'er shook her head firmly.
"No, I didn't do anything strange."
"Unless it was your phone call that exposed us."
"The phone call...?"
Mu Chenyi hesitated for a second.
But then, he immediately rejected that possibility.
No—it wasn't the police station.
In his second death replay, after he called the police—
The station didn't just send one cleaner.
They sent two fully armed officers to kill him.
If the police knew their identities, they wouldn't have just sent one old lady to "investigate."
They would've sent an entire squad.
So... when exactly did they get exposed?
After his third death replay, the only monster they interacted with was the security guard at the villa gate.
Was it the security guard?
He couldn't figure it out—but there was no time to think.
If necessary, he'd leave the answer for his next [Death's Eye].
"We can't sit here. We have to move—now!"
Just thinking about the green-furred monsters surrounding the villa—
Mu Chenyi's mind flashed back to his last death.
His flesh, torn apart—His bones, gnawed clean—That agonizing, miserable death...
Just remembering it made his skin crawl.
"To the underground bunker!"
Ignoring the searing pain from his back, Mu Chenyi forced himself to stand and stumbled toward the bathroom.
Wang Zichen and Chen Wan'er exchanged glances—
Then, followed him.
Inside the bathroom, Mu Chenyi stepped aside and gestured at Wang Zichen.
"Open the toilet."
Wang Zichen: "???"
"Why the hell are you so familiar with this?
Whose house is this—yours or mine?"
But seeing how "Prophet Mu" looked so confident—
Wang Zichen sighed and obediently pressed his palm on the scanner.
"Click—"
The toilet split in half, revealing the secret passageway below.
For Mu Chenyi, this was his second time seeing it, so he felt nothing.
But Chen Wan'er—
Her expression twisted slightly.
A bunker under a toilet...?
She hesitated.
Then, a thought hit her.
"Wait... where the hell does all the flushed stuff go?"
The more she thought about it—
The more she didn't want to step in.
But then, after noticing how clean and pristine the passage was—
She finally let out a breath of relief and quietly followed the two men inside.
Once inside the secret passage, Mu Chenyi immediately took the lead, running ahead.
He already knew the layout from his last [Death's Eye] replay—so he didn't hesitate.
But something felt wrong.
A deep, gut-wrenching unease crept up his spine.
It was as if... some kind of beast was watching him.
Wang Zichen had no trouble keeping up—
But Chen Wan'er was already out of breath.
Her pace was lagging behind.
Seeing this, Mu Chenyi was forced to slow down, stopping for a moment.
"Seriously?" He glanced at her sweaty face and couldn't help but tease.
"How is it that a cop has worse stamina than a college student?"
"I'm still a girl, you know!"
Chen Wan'er rolled her eyes at him, panting heavily.
"And besides— I'm just a dispatcher!I don't go chasing down criminals for a living!"
As they spoke, the three finally reached the underground base.
Mu Chenyi rushed straight toward the surveillance room.
Inside, he immediately turned his gaze to the monitors displaying the villa's exterior.
And sure enough—
He saw them.
Several 'people' were slowly approaching.
Exactly like his last death replay.
Their human identities had been exposed.
The monsters knew.
And soon—
They would bring the entire city's nightmare down on them.
In his last death replay, Wang Zichen barely escaped with them, using his elite driving skills to reach the highway at the outskirts.
But in the end—
A single electric pole had ended it all.
This time...
Could they make it out alive?
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