Chapter 3: The Cursed Child
Time seemed to have passed a whole century, but it seemed that it had only been just a second, and after a long time of being groggy in the boundless darkness, Qianyu only felt a cold touch coming from his forehead, his brows couldn't help frowning slightly, and he slowly opened his eyes.
Suddenly, a cry of surprise came from his side: "Are you awake?" The voice was very petite and crisp, obviously its owner was not very old, and then she ran away with the sound of "pop" footsteps, and shouted from afar, "Sister Zhixue, that person is awake!" ”
Qianyu finally opened his eyes from the blur, but was immediately stimulated by the light that came into his eyes, and after a while, he slowly got used to it, opened his eyes and looked around.
It was a very dilapidated room, almost completely enclosed, with only a mossy passage leading to the outside.
In the middle of the room is an oil lamp, and the flickering light spills through all corners of the closed room, allowing people to see everything clearly.
There are some cotton mats on the ground, which are not large in length or width, and it seems that they are not the size of adults, but the beds of children. As for Qianyu's body, three of these cotton mats were used to spread them on the ground and paste them into a large cotton mat.
After looking at it for a while, Qianyu suddenly came back to his senses, suddenly remembered what happened before he fell unconscious, trembled with fear, and then turned his head with difficulty and looked at his left shoulder.
What caught his eye was the left arm of the human being, which had always been intact, and then he quickly propped up his upper body, shook his left hand, and after realizing that there was nothing abnormal, he looked at all parts of his body in disbelief, and there were no scars.
Even the deep wound on the side of the waist has returned to normal human skin.
"I made it through?" For some reason, Qianyu didn't have the slightest excitement in his heart, and inexplicably, a deep haze shrouded his head, making him silently stroke his left shoulder with his right hand, and his eyes sank.
If he really traveled to the world of pitch black bullets, then once the erosion rate of the gastrea virus in his body exceeded 50%, there was no chance of saving it.
Qianyu's salvation is an almost impossible fact. So, why did it cause such a strange situation, Qianyu can only think of the moment when he passed through the previous disappearance of consciousness, and the scene he saw when he disappeared consciousness this time-
Everything shattered like a mirror into a spider's web.
After thinking about it, Qianyu still couldn't figure out what connection this strange scene had to do with his crossing and suppression of the erosion of the gastrea virus, so he could only give up and think about more realistic issues instead.
Now that he has come to this world that is close to the end of mankind, how to survive is the most urgent question.
But there wasn't much time for Qianyu to ponder, and there was a sound of footsteps outside the moss aisle, and then several little girls walked in.
Qianyu saw at a glance that the leader of them was the girl named Zhixue who rescued him from the mouth of the protosagulars last night.
After Zhi Xue saw that Qianyu had already sat up, her little brows furrowed, revealing a calm expression that did not match her ten-year-old age, walked to Qianyu's side, squatted down and said, "You have been in a coma for three days with a high fever, it is best to continue to lie down and rest." ”
Three days? Qianyu was stunned by the other party's words at first, then felt it, shook his head and said, "I don't have any problems at all now, and my spirit is very good!" ”
"Really?" Although the other party's tone was light, Qianyu felt that she seemed to be relieved, and then Zhixue stood up, turned around and walked outside, without looking back, "Then you'd better stay here too, I'll bring you food." ”
"Hey......" Qianyu still wanted to stop her, but Zhixue had already walked out of the aisle with her back to him, and the rest of the girls just stared at Qianyu curiously, and followed Zhixue out.
Only a single ponytail girl with a timid face peeked at Qianyu, and then, as if frightened, hurriedly turned around and walked out behind the girls.
Am I scary? Qianyu touched his face, fortunately he did not mutate due to the virus infected with Gastrea, which made Qianyu greatly relieved.
It's not the same thing to just stay here, Qianyu got up uncomfortably, and after walking around the narrow room for a while, he hesitated a few times, and still walked out of the passage.
He also knew that the little girl named Zhixue asked him to stay here for his own good. The reason is that the outside world is dangerous for him.
Combined with the dilapidated environment here, and the fact that all the girls he saw were ten-year-olds, Qianyu almost guessed what this place was.
These little girls are all abandoned orphans. There's only one reason, they're all children of the damned!
The cursed child is a child born by the mother's ingestion of the original intestinal virus during pregnancy, which causes the virus to accumulate in the fetus, so that it has a certain ability of the original intestine, so the cursed child is hated and persecuted by most people.
Originally, the sex of the fetus could not be chosen, but due to some influence of the protozoan virus, all known children affected by the protozoan virus were girls. Since the Aragutar Wars began to appear, so now the cursed children are all under 10 years old.
These children, who were ostracized by others, lived in the periphery very close to the megalith. Because there are relatively weak spots between the megaliths made of holmium metal used to deal with the original intestines, and occasionally one or two protograms will escape, so these little girls are needed to take on the job of guarding.
Qianyu may be unfortunate enough to be driven to the brink of death by such an intestinal animal that escaped into the monolithic monument.
Qianyu is very grateful that these cursed children saved his life, but if it really wants to be safe, it is better to let Qianyu go to the central area, which is much safer than here.
Qianyu took a step with half wanting to go to the central area and half wanting to thank him. Only then did he realize that this was just a basement, and when he walked up the stairs, the sunlight shone in through the entrance, and Qianyu covered it with his hand slightly, walked out of the aisle, and stepped on the soft mud floor.
It is a nearly completely destroyed residential area that was once a group of buildings, but now it has been converted into a rudimentary camp with borrowed facilities.
Not far away, Zhixue and a group of little girls were gathering tightly together, as if they were discussing something.
Then, one of the sharp-eyed little girls saw Qianyu, so she pointed at Qianyu and shouted: "Sister Zhixue, he came out." ”
Many little girls were taken aback, and Zhixue hurriedly turned her head to look at Qianyu, her troubled expression flashed, and then she strode over with a little anger and stood in front of Qianyu: "Didn't I say I wanted you to stay inside?" ”
Qianyu smiled apologetically at the ten-year-old girl who was getting angry, and said solemnly, "I'm sorry, I just want to thank you for saving my life." ”
Zhi Xue's words were stunned for a moment, as if she had never been thanked so solemnly, and after panicking for a moment, her tone was slightly lowered: "It's nothing, I didn't expect you to really survive." If I had fired, I would have been the one who killed me! ”
Qianyu didn't expect the other party to say this, so he was awkwardly silent for a while, then looked up and looked around, thought about it and changed the topic: "By the way, my name is Qianyu, and your name is ......"
"Qianyu?" Zhixue's face flushed inexplicably, and her voice was a little flustered, "Is this your name?" But we just know each other, so we just call them by name......"
Qianyu was puzzled by Zhixue's reaction for a while, and then suddenly seemed to remember something, and asked cautiously, "Here, is Tokyo?" ”
"yes, you don't know?" Zhixue asked suspiciously.
Qianyu didn't know how to answer, and then had to change the topic to the name again: "My name...... Chiyu, Chiyu Hoshino. ”
Qianyu took a Japanese surname at random based on his impressions of watching anime. If he wants to say that he is not from Tokyo, then it will be difficult to explain why he came to Tokyo and so on, so he can simply click on the vulgarity and change his name slightly.
"Hoshino-san." Oriyuki finally breathed a sigh of relief, and her expression was not so flustered, and then she said, "Hoshino-san, although I know that you all hate us cursed people, if you want to leave here and go back to the city area, I hope you can think again." ”
"Wait!" Qian Yu suddenly interrupted Zhi Xue's words, and his face became serious, "I didn't say I hated you!" I absolutely deny this! ”
In Qianyu's opinion, the cursed children are undoubtedly the most tragic people, they obviously have no fault, and even have been fighting with the original intestines to protect others, but they are hated and killed by such ignorant people, which is really unacceptable to Qianyu when watching anime.
They are just little girls, no matter how strong they are, they are still some little girls under the age of ten, and they are all blamed on them for their fault and hatred, and those people are too inhumane!
Ignoring Zhi Xue's stunned expression, Qian Yu took a deep breath: "Yes, I want to leave the outer periphery, yes, but I don't hate any of you!" It was you who saved me, I remember it clearly, and if I have the chance, I hope I can repay you for this kindness! ”
"This, this, this...... Hoshino-san! Zhi Xue was at a loss for some reason, and finally her always calm little face finally lowered, and her voice was lowered, "You don't hate us does make me happy, but, just...... If you really want to go back, hopefully you can take a look in the mirror first. ”
"Huh?" Qianyu let out a short surprised sound, and then saw Zhixue quickly turn around and walk away, and took a small mirror not far away, held it in both hands and handed it to Qianyu.
Qianyu still took the mirror in a daze, and then glanced at Zhixue suspiciously, then looked down at the mirror and reflected his own image.
In an instant, Qianyu's hands stiffened.
In the mirror, his eyes glowed with a faint blue.