Chapter 124: Hotel Utopia
It's natural.
Brother Lian eliminated the ability and let go of Sister Ming, who was forced to the wall, and the two knives inserted next to Mrs. Si. Anyway, no one can stop me when I want to plug it back.
The two golden knives that Brother Lian cut into the wall were a bit high, so Sister Ming had to tiptoe in order not to cut her throat. Although the time is not short, it is enough for her legs to be sore and not to walk the aisle.
Mrs. Si saw it in her eyes, felt pain in her heart, and smacked Si Qi beside her: "Why don't you go over and bring Ah Ming over to me." Stupid grandson. Why didn't I burn you just now. ”
Si Qi got up in disgrace. He didn't have any special abilities, so he kept hiding in the pile of debris next to his grandmother, and was almost injured by Qin Shen's fireball several times. Maybe the lack of abilities is the reason why he is disliked by his own grandmother.
Waiting for Sister Ming to perch on her lap, Mrs. Si slowly told Qin Shen and them about the cause and effect.
It turned out that Mrs. Si was a young lady from a large family when she was young, received a dual education of Chinese and Western, and was also a modern character back then. Later, her family fell into the middle of the road, and she refused to accept the reality that was not what it used to be, and still held the eldest lady's shelf, which made the already unbearable family situation even worse. In the end, the family had to take refuge in the shabby street behind the commercial street that no developer wanted to want.
When the end came, her son and daughter-in-law died to protect her and Si Qi, but in her opinion, it was Si Qi who dragged them to death. If it weren't for the need to have a helper to save her life, she would have left Si Qi behind a long time ago - this is what Qin Shen and the others summed up. In her own opinion, her approach was a matter of course. If there is no chess. Her son's family saved her at most her daughter-in-law alone, and her only son, who was only in her forties, would not die. -- They later fled to the abandoned hotel along with about 30 other survivors. In two months, two-thirds of them died. She was the first to awaken the wood-based ability, the strongest ability, and the oldest, and was elected as the leader by the survivors. Under her leadership, the survivors used the Xinyue Hotel as a base to get daily necessities from the nearby shopping mall, but they were able to get by.
Until the appearance of fire-breathing zombies.
The so-called fire-breathing zombies are zombies that have awakened their abilities. But Mrs. Si didn't know the word "ability". Including her own abilities. They all thought that she had been entrusted by heaven to lead her followers (that is, the other survivors in the hotel) to purify all beings and save this suffering world. After nearly a month, everyone except Si Qi awakened the wood ability. She was determined to leave the hotel. Complete the mission given to her by the heavens.
As a result, the first time I went out, I was blocked by fire-breathing zombies.
According to Mrs. Si's description. This fire-breathing zombie is no different from an ordinary zombie, but it has a big belly and is covered in oil. He walked staggeringly, taking earth-shaking steps. He would open his mouth a full five meters from the living person, and his jaw would extend to the collarbone, and a blazing flame would erupt from his mouth. If you can't dodge it, it will turn into a pile of burning fat particles in a matter of seconds. Even standing on the sidelines, the heat can roast and disfigure.
He blends in with the zombies and always attacks by surprise. Because he doesn't need to go to a position where the living can be found, as long as he opens his mouth, the zombies between him and his prey will be burned. Even if there were dense zombies separating him from the living, it would not affect him in the slightest.
The first time Madame Si and her men encountered this evolved zombie, they paid the price of five lives. In the face of flames, wood-based abilities are vulnerable. If it weren't for Si Qi running all the way with Mrs. Si on his back, even she, a big man "granted by heaven", would have to become a piece of barbecue.
Since then, Mrs. Si has never brought up the matter of going again. According to her, she wants to build an ideal and peaceful world, a worldly utopia, and this building is what this world is all about. Mrs. Si used all the advanced ideas she had learned abroad decades ago to fool people, not to mention, it really made the remaining survivors firmly believe that only their world was safe, beautiful, and superlative. Only they are the chosen ones, living in heaven with her as the leader. Those who live in hell outside don't even think about coming in if they sharpen their heads.
As a result, these survivors are in the ruins of the Xinyue Hotel, eating rats and bugs every day, drinking stinky water from the sewers, and praising the beautiful new life. If they were pious enough, Madame Si would give them mushroom soup to drink, and for them, that was the best reward - by the way, the mushroom was not really taken from Madame Si. It was an ornament on her body, a sign that she was unique.
Thanks to the fact that these people are all wood-based abilities, they have survived on rats and stinky water for so long, and only two of them have diarrhea to death. Although the Xinyue Hotel is old, a few decades ago, the tofu slag project was still rare. So the zombies outside can't get in. They're enjoying themselves.
If it weren't for fire-breathing zombies.
Originally, the survivors were staying in rooms in hotels. But then they found out that even if they didn't show up by the window, the zombies would be attracted to them. Ordinary zombies are okay, the survivors sealed the doors and windows on the first and second floors, and they couldn't get in, at most they gathered outside the building to scratch the wall. It's the fire-breathing zombies that are deadly. When he sensed that there was a living person behind the wall, he breathed fire directly into the wall. Even the reinforced concrete walls could not stand its ultra-high temperature flames.
The building collapsed, does the utopia still exist?
The survivors were in a panic.
At this time, it can be seen that Mrs. Si is not useless. When everyone was in a panic and thought that death was coming, she was the only one who calmly analyzed the zombies, especially the way this fire-breathing zombie behaved. Since the zombie would attack without seeing a survivor, it was only natural for Madame Si to use his sense of smell to find food.
Sure enough, after a few trials, she confirmed her judgment. So whenever fire-breathing zombies come, she will lead the survivors to hide in the upper floors, so that the zombies can't smell the smell of the living, and after a while, they will naturally be attracted away by other scents. Later, the staircase leading to the upper floors of the hotel broke, and she led the people to hide in the basement, which could achieve the same effect.
Fire-breathing zombies are like demons in every myth, threatening their safety all the time, but also constantly strengthening Madame Si's authority. Survivors took her words as a guideline. However, she herself was vaguely aware that something was wrong. Fire-breathing zombies are coming more and more often, leaving later and later. Other zombies, whether evolved or not, have become more and more accurate in judging the location of the living in the hotel. The damage to the building is also increasing. These "chosen people" "disdain" to repair it, and over time, one day they will make the fire-breathing zombies burn a hole in the wall.
Mrs. Si didn't say it explicitly, but Qin Shen and the others could sense between the lines that this day should not be far away. (To be continued......)