Chapter 9: Mother

One of the footsteps was the most urgent and panicked.

The man rushed into Tama's room as fast as he could.

It's Little A.

Just now he had been holding his head and hiding in his room, his room was separated from Xiao Yu's room by two doors, and he knew that Shen Ran had entered Xiao Yu's room.

But he still didn't dare to come over and take a look.

Until the movement had subsided a little, more and more footsteps could be heard outside the hallway.

Little A knew that it was the others who woke up, and they all came out.

And if this is about to start a head-on conflict? He really doesn't know what to do alone, and he hasn't even recognized all his companions, so I'm afraid he has no chance of winning......

He didn't dare to hesitate any longer, and hurriedly ran to Xiao Yu's room, he wanted to see if Shen Ran was still alive.

Great, Shen Ran is still there.

And the guy next to him. Who is that person?

Xiao A suddenly remembered that there was a knock on the door downstairs just ten minutes ago, and it was precisely because of this that Shen Ran went out to answer the door.

Is this his friend?

And Xiaoyu, great, Xiaoyu is also there, he really saved Xiaoyu!

didn't have time to say more words of thanks, Xiao A shouted loudly at Shen Ran and Lu Cheng: "They're here, they're all out!" ”

Shen Ran immediately understood what he meant.

Although Lu Cheng didn't know it completely, after a fight with the long-haired girl, he probably knew that there was such a monster that was not human or ghostly.

Shen Ran clearly realized that they not only imitated human beings in behavior, but also imitated human beings in form, their original appearance was not like this at all, they were not human beings at all.

Lu Cheng looked at Shen Ran, it must be a tough battle for a while, they don't have guns, only simple tools, and those monsters don't know what tricks they will come out of.

Xu Guangyuan told him before he came in that if he was conscious and understood that the space he was in was not real, and if he wanted to escape from the present, he only needed to close his eyes, wake up silently in his heart, and count down to three numbers, and he would wake up naturally.

He wanted to see if Shen Ran would choose to leave here and wake himself up.

Shen Ran also looked at Lu Cheng.

If Lu Cheng chooses to leave now, he can fully understand.

However, just looking at each other quietly, another three seconds passed. Neither of them moved, their faces so close that they could almost feel each other's snorts.

At this time, another shout came from downstairs.

"What are you still standing there doing, come down! Daddy opened the door for you! ”

It's the father of Little A.

He left the door open?

Now all the enemies are concentrating on the second floor, if it is fast enough, now go downstairs and run in the direction of the gate, I am afraid that there is a possibility of escape.

Xiao A looked at Shen Ran with wide eyes, and there was finally light in his eyes.

"Let's go!" Xiao A turned around and ran towards the stairs, at this time there were already many "people" on the stairs walking up, Xiao A was worried that someone would stop him for a while, and he was a little hesitant, he was hesitating whether to jump directly from the corridor.

Shen Ran got up and ran out.

Lu Cheng also followed behind him.

Shen Ran was sure that he wouldn't leave now, he still had something to do.

Shen Ran didn't leave, and Lu Cheng wouldn't just leave him and go by himself.

In this way, Lu Cheng picked up the steel bar and rushed out of the room with Shen Ran.

They chose to rush out of the stairs with Little A.

Along the way, they took turns looking at Xiao Yu and Xiao A, not letting others approach, Lu Cheng opened the way in front, and from time to time they had to protect a few people behind them.

Shen Ran has simple fighting skills, and he has a few desperate hits, but judging from the degree of his breathing, this is indeed a relatively large load on his body.

Lu Cheng found that although Shen Ran did not have an advantage in strength, he would not be afraid of the enemy because of this, he had enough stamina, and he was trying to repel those who approached him with his reaction speed as much as possible.

Lu Cheng tried his best to help him block the enemies who were already close.

Those people did look more and more abnormal, staggering and walking, and there was no light in their eyes.

As long as there is no closeness, there is not much danger.

Some people also went to the kitchen to get props, held them in their hands and waved them, and slashed at Shen Ran and them unawares.

Fortunately, these are all small minions, and Shen Ran can handle it himself.

The most terrifying thing is that among their group, there are a few people who react violently, and they are about to catch Xiao A or Xiao Yu when they come up, and the two of them are relatively defenseless.

In the crowd, a hand came out, holding Xiao A's arm tightly, Xiao A shouted, Lu Cheng turned his head to look at him, and then saw a similar scene, only to see that the man tightly tied Xiao A's wrist with both hands, and suddenly, the hands holding his wrists cracked from their palms.

Seeing that the hands were about to "bite" Xiao A's arms, Lu Cheng quickly knocked off the hands with steel bars.

It turns out that these monsters, their mouths will not only grow on their necks, but also in the palms of their hands.

Maybe it can grow on the legs, on the feet, anywhere you don't expect.

It's weird.

Finally, the four of them rushed out of the stairs, eschewing the narrow walkway and the crowd, and they quickly ran towards the gate.

Little A was the first to rush to the gate, and he pulled the doorknob and tugged down hard.

The door didn't open.

What's going on, this door is not difficult to open.

The door has a simple doorknob, except for a built-in cylinder that can be opened with a key.

If you don't lock the door, you can open it with a twist of the handle.

He tugged again, but still didn't open it.

The door was locked.

Little A touched his pants, but the key was not in his pocket.

After running around so nervously just now, he couldn't remember where he left the key. Maybe he put it back in his bag when he got in, maybe he had dropped it somewhere in the house.

None of that matters anymore.

It's too late.

He turned, looking at the three behind him with a desperate expression. Shen Ran immediately understood.

But how so?

Didn't his father just open the door for him?

He looked at Little A, who received the question from his gaze.

yes, Dad didn't mean it......

Shen Ran remembered that he wanted to ask Xiao A in the room, but he hadn't had a chance to ask the question.

He asked Xiao A before if the person who wrote the note to him was from the kitchen.

Little A said yes.

He also said that he couldn't be sure whether it was his father or his mother who wrote the note, and that the meat had recently been cut more finely and not in large pieces as it used to be.

First of all, there are only two possibilities to be able to put meat into the dish, one is that the chef has done something in the dish while cooking.

But Xiao A said that his parents, like him, don't eat that kind of meat, and they are the same kind as him, ruling out this possibility, then it can only be that they were tampered with in between serving.

This is in line with what he said, in the past, the meat was very rough and put in large pieces.

But now that there has been a recent change, and the meat is finely cut, another possibility cannot be ruled out.

It's the people who cook the dishes who do it.

Xiao A said that he was not sure whether the note was written to him by his mother or his father, so is it possible, all this time, only one person wrote the note to him. One of his parents had already changed.

No longer with him.

This was Shen Ran's speculation at the time, but this idea was too cruel, and Xiao A would definitely not accept it. So he hesitated.

However, now, even if Shen Ran doesn't say it, Xiao A has to face this possibility.

Did his father deliberately lie to him so that he would be helpless and end up being eaten?

Where is my father? Wasn't he just downstairs?

Little A looks around, trying to find his father in the crowd.

At this time, he no longer wanted to escape, he just wanted to ask his father for clarification.

My father is gone.

Maybe my father had blended in with the crowd, or maybe he was standing in the distance at the moment watching it all indifferently.

Little A didn't understand, he couldn't believe it.

If his own father will betray him too......

He thought of something more important.

What about mothers?

If the father has become an outlier, the mother who accompanies him day and night is not more likely to be calculated by him!

"Mom!"

Little A shouted and ran towards the surging crowd.

He wanted to go to his mother, but this time he was undoubtedly sent to death.

Over there, Lu Cheng had just smashed the wooden door with a steel bar, just enough for people to pass through the hole.

Xiao A turned around again and didn't leave.

Lu Cheng simply lost his temper, he looked at Shen Ran.

Seeing that Shen Ran also followed Xiao A back without hesitation, he swallowed all the bad words back into his stomach.

Quickly shove Xiaoyu into the hole in the door and let her run away. Lu Cheng turned back and continued to keep up with Shen Ran's pace.

It was still the same staircase, which would have caused them to run against the flow of people again, towards the second floor.

Shen Ran knew that Xiao A was going to find his mother.

How could he be sure that his mother was upstairs? However, there were only a few places in this house, and now there were enemies outside, and if his mother was still alive, she should be hiding in the room.

Finally, they passed five levels and six generals, and ran back to the second floor again. Little A saw a note in the crack of the door of his room.

It's a new note.

It must be Mom!

"Come to the innermost room, I'll wait for you."

Shen Ran hadn't carefully counted how many rooms there were on the second floor, and when he ran inside after Xiao A, he felt that this corridor seemed to be an endless tunnel.

Verse after verse, verse after verse, stretching into darkness.

Finally, in a place where there is no light at all, Little A stops.

He turned and gently pushed open an old wooden door.

There was a little light coming through the door, but it was still dim.

The light outlines a person.

The man was sitting on the edge of the bed, with his back to the light source, facing the door.

Little A recognized it at a glance, it was his mother.

"Mom!"

Little A was about to pounce on her.

The woman stopped him, "Wait, little A." ”

Little A stopped, and at this time, a strong smell invaded Little A's nostrils, stimulating his sense of smell.

Not only Xiao A, but all the three people present smelled this rich atmosphere.

Lu Cheng is very familiar with this taste, it is blood......

Little A looked up, then in the dim light, and looked at his mother carefully.

The mother's face and body were splattered with blood from different angles.

Mother raised her hand, and she was holding a bright knife in her hand, only to see her pick up the knife and stab herself in the stomach!