The distance of five meters is not too far, and the fifteen-story building is not too high, at least Luo Youcheng has the courage to give it a try. So, he manipulated eight stones with his mind, built a stone path in the air, and walked up with ease. Every time you step on a stone, the stone on your tail will fly to the front. The stone path continues to advance into the building.

Shen Tao, who was hiding in the bushes, kept rubbing his eyes, he had countless guesses before: running and jumping in, with the help of climbing ropes, and even cutting down a five or six meter-high crooked neck tree to build a wooden bridge.

Luo Youcheng didn't let Shen Tao wait too long, and a quarter of an hour later, he walked up from the stairs of Pokan with a few small pieces of jewelry in his hand.

"When was the last time you saw them?"

"It's been almost a year, right?" Shen Tao said uncertainly.

"There's no one here for a long time, and the ashes are a finger thick. I saw a lot of broken bones, and I found these. Luo Youcheng spread out his hand, and in the palm of his hand were an earring, two rings and a necklace.

Shen Tao did not react to the jewelry, after the end of the world, this kind of pure ornament that could not be eaten or used was worthless to him. He was attracted by another word, and looked at Luo Youcheng suspiciously, "Broken bones? ”

"Well, broken bones, a lot, I don't know if it's smashed or bitten."

"You mean they eat people?" Shen Tao's face suddenly turned bloodless.

"Quite possibly."

"This is impossible," Shen Tao argued, although he lived in the last days, he had a relatively safe underground residence under the protection of his elders, and his understanding of the end times was far less thorough than that of a child like Luo Youcheng, he tried to convince himself, and also wanted to convince the big boy in front of him who was a few years younger than himself, "No, it will be poisoned, and people will not eat people." ”

Luo Youcheng smiled and shook his head, not interested in continuing the topic with him. "I'll send you back first, and then I'll go to a few other places."

After sending Shen Tao back to the Yidu Building, Luo Youcheng went to the four buildings with different doors and windows that he had found before, but found nothing. These places were once places of apocalyptic survival, but they have long since been emptied. Seeing that it was still early, Luo Youcheng returned to Yidu Building.

Seeing Song Shizhen again, everyone in the small settlement was there. Old man Song introduced the other six residents, and there was another round of greetings. Luo Youcheng is not used to it, how good it is to be straight to the point like during the interrogation. But since Old Man Song knew that Luo Youcheng was a powerful person, he was very polite. After chattering for a long time, Old Man Song cut to the point:

"I heard Taozi say, will they really be arrested for food?"

Luo Youcheng said while matching the projection equipment: "This possibility is extremely great. Seventeen years have passed since the disaster, and resources are already scarce. He has survived until now either he has access to safe food, or all food is safe for him. There are not a few individuals who are not afraid of drugs, and there are two of my companions. There is also a dog, which is also invulnerable. ”

Images appeared on the light screen, and there were bits and pieces of bones on the floor in the dusty room. The camera pans to another room.

At this time, Luo Youcheng's ears sounded with a gasp and a woman's scream. In the light screen, broken bones took up most of the room. No one questioned whether these broken bones were human bones, as there were quite a few complete or broken human skulls in the pile. No one has an impression of the jewelry that Luo Youcheng brought back. After the end of the world, they will not have the habit of carrying jewelry.

"It's been almost three days now, and I can't guarantee that those two people are still alive." Luo Youcheng said, "But I still want to work hard, even if I can't save people, if I can kill the ogre, it will also be a guarantee for your safety." ”

Everyone immediately thanked them, and Old Man Song asked, "Teacher Luo, what are you going to do?" ”

Teacher is a title that Yucheng people are accustomed to, regardless of men and women, young and old, they can be called teachers when they meet each other to show respect for each other. This habit has been going on for six or seven centuries, and the whole city has teachers.

"If you can't find them, you can only fish."

Old man Song was a little worried, a little moved, he held Luo Youcheng's hand: "Teacher Luo, no matter what, I will accompany you to find Mi Doudou." ”

Dinner was simple, with a few plates of boiled vegetables and a plate of boiled meat worms, and the staple food was cassava-like rhizomes. The meat worms are fat and chubby after cooking. This is the only source of protein for this small living site, and the bugs are kept in a safe and non-toxic sink in a tissue culture rack. Luo Youcheng tasted one, and the taste was not bad, the meat was very elastic and chewy.

At the dinner table, except for Old Man Song, everyone didn't talk much. After some conversation, Luo Youcheng also had a general understanding. Nine people are not related by blood, and the other two families are reorganized husband and wife + adopted son (adopted daughter) + daughter-in-law (son-in-law) structure, which is a way to maintain family affection in the last days.

After dinner, Luo Youcheng changed into ordinary clothes and wandered around several blocks, pretending to be a scavenger. The winter night in the south was still very cold, and Luo Youcheng found a thin quilt in the apartment building to wrap around his body. The ash is large and can keep out the cold. In the first half of the night, it was dark and nothing happened. At two o'clock in the morning, the half-broken moon finally poked its head out and mapped the city buildings into a forest of steles, and Luo Youcheng received a warning from Guangxu.

Luo Youcheng sat on the steps and lit a cigarette. He doesn't know how to smoke, and most of the cigarettes are pretend, and he ordered a box from his uncle more than a month ago, and there is still the last one left.

Shen Tao said that the mutant man is like an octopus monster, which is indeed very similar, but he only has five wrists and feet, and two atrophied human legs can be seen between the wrists and feet, only the length of a child's legs, and the skin is covered with bones, which has obviously lost its proper function. The octopus monster's upper body is still in human form, but its two arms have also been extremely atrophied. His eyes were closed, or he couldn't open them at all, his mouth kept clicking, his ears were shaking, and his nose was shaking. Luo Youcheng immediately made a judgment, this mutant who had lost his sight relied on echolocation and smell to find prey. He's not so much a mutant as a beast.

The octopus monster locked Luo Youcheng's position, and the five wrists and feet crawled quickly on the ground, which was comparable to the speed of an adult's 100-meter sprint, and soon came to Luo Youcheng.

Tony said that illusion didn't work on the creature, and Luo Youcheng didn't care. He remained motionless and looked coldly at the monster in front of him. The octopus monster twitched its nose violently, made another click in its mouth, and then stretched out a wrist and foot, deftly rolled the cigarette in Luo Youcheng's hand, put it in his mouth and took a sharp breath, and spit out a round and full smoke ring. This is the most humane expression of the octopus monster after it appears.

After the octopus monster finished smoking, he flicked his wrist and foot, and the cigarette butt drew a parabola and landed in front of the glass door of the building, flicking on and off. The wrist and foot rolled up and wrapped Luo Youcheng, and the remaining four wrist and foot ran wildly and quickly went away.

The octopus monster's abode is a winged 4S shop, and it goes around the showroom and into the backyard, with its wrists and feet pulling open a heavy iron plate. The bright light came out, which made Luo Youcheng, who was accustomed to the night, feel a little dazzling. But at the same time, the heat exuded also made his slightly stiff body much better. The octopus monster descended the stairs, and a wrist and foot behind it grabbed the handle on the iron plate and reset it.

"There are three opponents, Brother Tony, and we are ready to support at any time." Guangxu warned again.

Luo Youcheng feels that Brother Guangxu is synonymous with safety, and as for Brother Tony, he still can't see through it. When Tony is quiet, he is like an autistic child, and he can go a day or two without talking; Once the chatter mode is turned on, it is not easy to brake the car.

After going down two flights of stairs, there is a hall in front of you, and more than a dozen lights illuminate the hall. In the corner of the wall was a desk-sized generator that hummed low. The temperature in the room was so high that Luo Youcheng, who had just come in, was sweating slightly on his forehead.

There was a familiar clicking sound from a corner of the hall, and the octopus monster holding Luo Youcheng turned around, and Luo Youcheng's perspective also shifted to the other side of the hall. There was also an identical octopus monster, a naked woman, whose limbs were pulled by four wrists and feet, in a large letter. On the fifth wrist and foot of the octopus monster, a sharp claw actually poked out and placed it on the woman's belly, as if it was about to open her intestines.

The octopus monster holding Luo Youcheng began to communicate with the octopus monster holding the woman, and the syllables of the exchange were dominated by clicks, with occasional low roars. The two mutants not only lost their eyesight, but also their ability to speak.

The two octopus monsters exchanged for a while, and the other left the woman and walked towards Luo Youcheng. The woman screamed, used her hands and feet together, and shrank to the pile of bones in the corner.

"In addition to these two, there's another one in the bedroom, which seems to be doing something like that." Guangxu said.

originally thought that he would have to deal with three at the same time, but now that there is one less, Luo Youcheng did not hesitate, and his mind was immediately activated.