The only sounds in the secret chamber were of blood gushing from chests and the agonized screams of its occupants.
GURGLE GURGLE.
Blood continuously poured from their chests, a gruesome reminder to those not yet dead of what they were enduring.
Lu Ping felt a boundless chill and darkness close in around him.
'It's over.'
'Looks like I really screwed up this time.'
Just as his consciousness began to fade, the mission jade slip tucked in his clothes lit up.
A warm light gently poured into Lu Ping's eyes, ears, mouth, and nose.
Immediately after, a message from the jade slip flooded his mind: the mission was complete.
[Mission: Assist in the incubation of a new life (ovoid), complete.]
[Reward distribution in progress...]
'A reward?'
Lu Ping's mind went blank. He couldn't quite connect the events before him to his own situation.
