Chapter 4: Collapse
When I got up from the computer desk, it was already six o'clock in the evening.
The cold air from the air conditioner kept blowing out of the air outlet, and Su Yi looked up at the temperature displayed on it. 20 degrees, it seems a little low, she touched her cold arm, and then took the remote control to increase the temperature, in the process she saw that it was twilight outside the house, so she simply turned off the air conditioner.
It's been blowing all afternoon, and it's time to breathe. She pushed open the glass window, and the warm current wafted by the eaves, and the smell of the afterglow of the flames wafted through the air, and the exhaust fumes left by the whizzing of cars.
Just stood quietly for a while, and she began to feel that her body had become slimy, as if she had been coated with a layer of glue, which made people feel so unhappy.
She tapped the space bar on her keyboard, and the movie on the screen paused. Then she walked to the closet and got her underwear and underwear, intending to take a shower first.
At this time, a middle-aged woman with a round figure came in from outside the room.
"Daughter, do you want to eat anything at night? Mom is going out right now. β
"Bring me some stinky tofu." As she spoke, Su Yi squeezed past the middle-aged woman and went to the bathroom.
"Oh, how can you eat all that junk food. I'll bring you dates. β
"Look at you" Su Yi put the clothes on the shelf, then poked his head out of the sliding door of the bathroom, and said, "If you ask me and don't buy it for me, you don't want to buy what you have thought about a long time ago, so you might as well not ask me." β
"Okay, okay, I can't talk about you, just buy it for you." The middle-aged woman walked out with a smile.
Sue shrank back triumphantly. When the middle-aged woman was leaving, Su Yi also heard her and said, "Look at the daughter you taught, with sharp teeth and sharp mouths." β
"When did I teach this. It's not all inherited by you. A man's voice came from the living room.
Sue, who was standing in the bathroom, turned on the sprinkler and couldn't help laughing.
"By the way, the rent upstairs hasn't been received yet. Or you can go up and urge it then. The middle-aged woman said while standing in the doorway with one hand on the doorknob and wearing high heels.
"What's there to urge, the upstairs are all students, it is estimated that there will be no money for a while, so let's delay it for two days." The man flicked the silver ash from the cigarette butt into the ashtray: "Our daughter will also go to college in the second half of this year, maybe she will have to live off-campus by then." β
"I also said that I didn't learn from you, you see that what you said is also a set." The middle-aged woman smiled and walked out.
With a hint of a smile, the man took a deep puff of his cigarette, the end of which turned red sharply, then gradually darkened, and his eyes continued to stare at the content of the TV in front of him.
After a brief rinse, Sue wiped her hair and walked out of the bathroom.
Because of the hot weather, she really didn't want to use a hair dryer to dry her hair, so she went straight back to her room. The floor of the room was still covered with cold air, and Sue didn't wear slippers, and her wet pink feet stepped all the way in.
There are also clear wet footprints on the floor.
Every summer vacation, she spends almost all of her summer vacation in an air-conditioned room, and she has not been exposed to the sun for a long time, which also causes her skin to look a little white.
The height hasn't grown since junior high school.,Plus I like to wear some cute uniforms on weekdays.,The overall look doesn't look like a person who is about to go to college at all.,On the contrary, the immature face will always make people mistakenly think that he is still a junior high school student.γ
Fortunately, the second feature is more well developed, and when wearing tighter clothing, it can still clearly highlight the figure. This is not to make people doubt her age.
As soon as he sat down from his computer desk, Sue's mobile phone on the table vibrated again and again, and then rang like a drop of water. Then he saw a message from a male classmate. It basically means asking her out to dinner or something.
Although Su Yi is not a heartthrob, she is also a little beautiful, and naturally there are boys chasing her at school, but she has always been picky, even a little arrogant, and has always paid little attention to the pursuit of boys.
As usual, she typed a "no" and went back.
Strangely, the icon for sending the message kept turning slowly, and it didn't go out for a long time, she continued to wipe her hair with a towel, and after about half a minute, a red exclamation mark popped up on the screen.
This made her feel a little unhappy, and she was blocked before she said anything!
Angry, she took a screenshot of the chat history and planned to send it to her girlfriend to complain. Unexpectedly, the dialog box with his girlfriend also lit up with a red exclamation mark.
What's going on!? Su Yi was amazed, and a blast suddenly sounded.
She hurriedly leaned out of the window to look, only to see a truck crashing into the faΓ§ade of a bubble tea shop, and the billboard on the door frame hung diagonally to the ground. Immediately afterwards, a man wearing a dark blue T-shirt who was talking on the phone suddenly knocked down a homeless man next to him.
Su Yi could only see the man's back, so he didn't know what was happening, but passers-by had already started screaming, some were running wildly, some were chasing people. As the minutes ticked by, Sue still didn't see what was happening, but the place where the homeless man had been thrown down gradually began to seep out a cloud of black and red blood.
Her pupils dilated dramatically for a moment, and fear squeezed into her throat before she was finally released.
"Ah~~~" Sue screamed loudly. The man in the living room rushed over when he heard the noise.
"What's wrong? What's wrong? β
"Dad, look!" Sue pointed to the street.
"Oh my God, what's going on?" As soon as the man's words fell, the homeless man, who had been bitten, stood up. The bite marks on the neck can clearly see the bloody Adam's apple inside.
He took two steps with convulsions, and then ran wildly towards a crying toddler not far away. Before the zombies could arrive, the young child had already been pounced on by another zombie.
Seeing this, the man suddenly reacted.
"Not good! Your mom is still outside. The man ran out as he spoke.
At the same time, the sound of the key turning sounded at the door, and Su Yi and the man walked out of the room simultaneously, only to see the middle-aged woman looking at the two of them with a strange expression.
"Why did you come back so soon?" The man was surprised and delighted.
"I don't know what's going on outside, I just didn't go far when I saw that someone seemed to be fighting, and there was a bite. I stood by and watched and was bitten, and it hurt me. The middle-aged woman pulled up her trouser leg as she spoke, the wound was not big, but a lot of flesh was bitten off at the foot and neck.
"You're still standing and looking at something, why don't you take out the first aid kit and bandage it for me." The middle-aged woman limped on the couch.
"Okay, sit still, I'll bring it to you." The man breathed a sigh of relief, went into his room, and pulled out a white box from the second level of the bedside table. In addition to some antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs, there was a thermometer and two large rolls of bandages.
The man knelt at the feet of the middle-aged woman with the box in his arms and bandaged it carefully, during which the middle-aged woman kept breaking thoughts in her mouth.
Su Yi stood aside and frowned, a bad premonition lingering in his heart. She hurried back into her room, and walked briskly to the window to look downstairs. The homeless man was nowhere to be found.
But she soon noticed the toddler.
One of the child's arms had been torn off, and the thighs had been eaten away from only bloody bones, and the whole body was lying in the street.
The nearby zombies seemed to be chewing on pieces of meat in their mouths, and then the young children slowly stood up like marionettes, except for some stiff movements, the rest were like ordinary people.
The sight was shocked like never before, and Su Yi suddenly attacked with a wave of nausea, covering his mouth and stumbling all the way into the bathroom.
"Gott~"
"Sue, what's wrong with you?" The man had just finished bandaging the middle-aged woman's feet and looked back in the direction of the bathroom.
"It's a bit sick to my stomach looking downstairs. Vomit... Sue felt her stomach squeezed again, and she could only retching some bile bitterness because she hadn't eaten dinner yet. After a while, it slowly eased up.
She stood up and pressed the flush toilet "whoo~", and the water flowed in a swirl shape and contracted towards the drainage hole. Then she turned on the faucet, took a little water from her toothbrush cup and rinsed her mouth, the corner of her eye already forced into a tear because of the pain.
"Xiaohua, what's wrong with you, Xiaohua!" A man's surprised voice sounded outside the bathroom.
Su Yi didn't care about the discomfort, and hurriedly pushed the door out.
"Ah~ It hurts! Hurt! Hurt! β
As soon as the door opened, Sue saw her mother biting the back of her father's hand.
The man pushed his hand violently in pain, and pushed the woman down on the sofa. He didn't have time to look at the wound on his hand, so he grabbed the middle-aged woman's two hands and squeezed them in his hands, and then clasped her neck with the other hand.
"Xiaohua is me!" The man's deep voice echoed through the room.
"She's not a mother anymore." With tears in her eyes, Su Yi stood aside timidly and said, "As long as the person who is bitten will be infected... β
The man subconsciously glanced at the wound on the back of his hand, and the bite marks were clearly visible. Looking at the woman who was pressed by herself, her skin became as gray as cement, and her blood was fading little by little. He began to realize that the woman in front of him was no longer his wife.
But there was no trace of sadness on his face, just a little unwilling. The man said unhurriedly: "Suy, don't be afraid, there is a father." I'll take mom out later, and you'll be home alone, and you'll be safe when the police come." β
"Nope! Don't leave me behind! Sue quickly ran forward and hugged his father's back.
"You should be sensible when you're so old, Dad never asked you to do anything before. I just hope that this time you can listen to Dad. The man pulled the middle-aged woman up from the couch, his palm pressed against her neck. Then he twisted his waist vigorously and got rid of Sue.
Seeing his daughter looking at him helplessly and scared, he couldn't help but shed tears and said, "Can you open the door for Dad?" β
"I don't! I don't! Sue retreated again and again, and accidentally fell to the ground. The man's eyebrows relaxed, his hands relaxed his vigilance for a while, and the middle-aged woman took the opportunity to bite his shoulder bone again.