Enforcer Manual
Chapter 1139 - 962 - : Your 23 Ways to Die_2

Chapter 1139: 962 Chapter: Your 23 Ways to Die_2

"Retreat."

An option emerged in his mind, and almost concurrently, a scythe-like sharp claw tore through the compartment’s safety door, allowing a massive insect resembling a mantis to breach inside.

He narrowly dodged, and had it not been for the premonitory thought, he might have been torn apart by the insect’s sickle.

No, to be more precise, he had already witnessed himself being torn apart.

In that fleeting moment, Vadim saw the sickle tear through his torso, the giant mantis effortlessly ripping apart his prosthetic body, with the subdermal bulletproof coating scattering everywhere like toys.

But the crisis was far from over, the amber eyes of the giant mantis locked onto him once again.

With his prosthetic body damaged and the blessing of Nothingness lost, he was no match for the mantis now.

As the giant mantis lunged at him again, another directive surfaced in Vadim’s mind, and in this instant of life and death, it seemed as if a door had opened up to him.

Vadim collided with the unavoidable sickle, the blade slicing across his body and simultaneously severing the limbs behind him.

He witnessed another manner of his death.

Halved at the waist by the giant mantis, his organs scattered about.

But not this time.

For some reason even Vadim himself couldn’t understand, the slash that should have bisected him missed, and the movement of the giant mantis paused momentarily, its eyes focusing on the sickle-like forelimbs, displaying an almost human-like emotion of confusion.

"Escape through the drainage channel."

A new directive appeared.

Vadim did not doubt it, nor did he have the time to assess the thick fluid frothing with bubbles, because the visions in front of him made clear the consequences of hesitation—if he wasted even a second more, the mantis would catch up to him, severing his legs forever before he could submerge in the liquid.

You cannot leave a blood scent in the mucus; it would attract other things.

...

What has been happening since just now?

When Vadim emerged from the other end of the drainage pipe, he finally had time to ponder this question.

Why could he foresee the ways of his own death over and over again?

Each was vividly gruesome as if they truly happened.

And the two-meter-tall giant mantis, its speed and strength instilled fear in Vadim, its physical speed nearly reaching the state when the Overload system was activated, a scenario he never imagined where he’d be chased by an insect.

Here still lies the abandoned experimental facility, with two giant eggs placed on the ground and blood-vessel-like black limbs twitching intermittently on the compartment floor.

Just like the sequences in thrilling adventure games, after dodging the initial monster, Vadim found the first document in the room.

"Devourer Observation Data Five"

Yes, it was in this room that he first encountered the concept of the Devourer.

The observation data documented the entire process of the experimental accident.

The Devourers should have been securely contained in the quarantine zone, but due to a lapse in one experiment, researchers failed to notice the piece of flesh that separated from the Devourer’s body, which unnoticed hid in the crevice of a cabinet and then sneaked into the lounge under the cover of night, eventually parasitizing inside a senior researcher.

The next day, the parasitized researcher managed to open the isolation zone door undetected by the guards post-experiment.

The author of these texts was filled with remorse. Only when his life approached its end did he finally understand the biggest oversight in the entire research project—that they had never treated the Devourer as an intelligent being.

Human perspective made them blind, eventually becoming fodder for the monster.

This was the last observation data.

The records recognizable end here; the person’s mental state seemed highly unstable when writing these records.

The latter half of the observation data was filled with tadpole-like unknown characters, symptoms produced from the thinker’s mind being distorted after being parasitized by the Devourer.

After gaining control of the entire experimental facility, the Devourer didn’t immediately kill all the researchers but parasitized their bodies with chunks of flesh.

At the time of writing this last record, half an hour had passed since the parasitization.

This was an extremely important document, not only documenting what had once happened in this laboratory but also serving a more significant purpose.

As Vadim conceived this thought, the content of the text changed and became straightforward:

"1. The Devourer is an intelligent being, adept at setting traps to lure its prey."

"2. The severed pieces of flesh and limbs still possess vitality and cannot be completely eradicated."

"3. There’s a 30-minute time limit for being parasitized; you have only 30 minutes to end the corruption."

"4. You will certainly consult the data report; parasitization is unavoidable, but this is also your only chance."

Seeing this, Vadim felt his heart skip a beat.

If this was all a game, then the game’s designer must be malicious, delighting in tormenting players, bringing them pain.

But there are no regrets in the world; when he saw this text, a prickling sensation appeared between his index fingers, he saw a tiny creature burrow into the wound, and before he could react, the wound had already scabbed over and healed.