Chapter 9: The Human-Faced Mouse
After a few hours, the sky of the Night City finally began to light up a little.
The day came.
The sky was bright, but there was still no sunlight, and the sky was obscured by lead-gray clouds.
Wei Yuanwu was the first to stand up and go out.
Lin Di grabbed him and said, "Squad leader, don't worry. Let's wait and see - no one knows if it's really safe during the day, so we'd better see if others have anything to do when they go out, you see, Xu Tianrui didn't move there. So, I'd better not be the first to go out. β
Wei Yuanwu looked at Ye Fang with a somewhat ugly face: "They are all classmates, like this...... All right? β
Ye Fang didn't say anything, just pushed the door open, squatted behind the outer wall and looked outside.
The benefits of having a general relationship with everyone are reflected, and he doesn't care so much about what other classmates are like.
Looking out, the garden in the center of the three group rental buildings was no longer dark after dawn, and it could be seen at a glance, the garden the size of a basketball court was empty, and the trees were all dead and twisted in strange postures, some of them looked like humans were crawling there, and only sporadic black-green blades of grass grew among the trees.
And other than that, there are no werewolves, and no other monsters.
But the large bloodstains on the two buildings opposite are always a reminder of the horrors of this world.
However, the first people who couldn't hold back were the people in the two buildings opposite. In less than twenty minutes after dawn, a few survivors who were lucky enough to survive ran all the way here, making a lot of noise, but they didn't alarm any monsters, let alone werewolves.
Seeing this, Ye Fang and the three of them also walked downstairs quickly, and happened to meet classmates downstairs who had just run from the other two buildings.
Everyone is not stupid, they all know that this building is the only one that has not been attacked by werewolves, and it is a safe place.
These classmates were frightened, and their faces were full of horror.
"They're all dead! They're all dead! β
"The werewolf! That werewolf wandered around our building all night, and whoever made a sound would die......"
Ye Fang's heart sank slightly, and he didn't give up and asked about his dead friend.
"Chen Song? You ask Chen Song, he's dead! He's dead! He knocked something over in the room, made a loud noise, and was dragged out by the werewolf on the spot, and now half of the body is still hanging on the fourth floor of our building, and he almost killed me...... You don't believe it yourself! β
Wei Yuanwu looked at Ye Fang worriedly: "Do you want to go and see?" β
"Nope." Ye Fang was silent for two seconds, "Hurry up, let's go out." β
At this time, the other groups also came down one after another, and everyone left the group rental building in different directions, and few people came into contact with these embarrassed students.
The few students who came from other buildings couldn't help but say, "Why are you going?" Aren't you going to help us? β
Wei Yuanwu wanted to reply a few words, but when he turned his head, he found that Ye Fang and Lin Di had gone away, so he had to follow immediately.
Although they are all classmates, the relationship between classmates is not so good. Ye Fang didn't want to waste time here.
When leaving, Ye Fang thought about bringing the wordless book, but the thing was too heavy, and Ye Fang didn't have anything like a backpack, so he had to occupy one hand and still be cumbersome to carry it, he weighed his physique again, and still didn't bring it.
The three of them went all the way to the outside.
Go downstairs. It is certain that the monsters and the terrifying voices have disappeared or hidden with the arrival of daylight.
During the day, it's really safe.
Ye Fang led the way, and followed the side of the garden and the triangular building group to the outside of the group building community.
Outside, too, there is a complex urban area, with a faint mist that adds a touch of unknown horror to the whole city, like a city of destruction that has died after the end of the world.
The buildings of the City of Darkness include old Western-style buildings in medieval Europe, low-rise buildings in China in the last century, and eclectic buildings mixed with two styles.
The houses were either as empty as the rental buildings, or there were only some moldy bread, not even anything that fit the 20th century, and even basic household items were scarce, and many places were covered in thick dust.
It is worth mentioning that Ye Fang saw traces of rummaging and searching in some corners, which means that there may really be other living people here, and the Celestial Council Shelter in Sophia's mouth, the place that looks like a survivor's base may really be somewhere in this Night City.
The streets are narrow, there are no modern means of transportation, the old-fashioned street lights are scattered on the streets, and there are no street signs. The writing on some of the abandoned shops on both sides of the street is also strange and unprecedented.
Surprisingly, they were able to understand it and it was as natural and smooth as their native language.
"Zhong ...... Table...... Wei Yuanwu also tried to read it, and there was no feeling of unsmoothness, as if he had mastered this language before they even knew it.
It seems that this general knowledge of the language may also be a "gift" of Paradise.
It's just that most of the words on the street are useless information.
Ye Fang noticed that this language seemed to be different from that of Sophia's Norton Empire...... It seems, that we, the invitees, have gained a "universal knowledge of the whole paradise language"?
And in this city, the only things that can be seen are long-coagulated blackened blood and foul-smelling rotten flesh.
Walk a few streets along the way...... I couldn't find anything to eat.
Wei Yuanwu couldn't help but whisper: "Is this place really our Great Huaxia?" β
Lin Di shook his head: "In my opinion, no matter where this isβthere is no shadow of the twentieth century here at all, doesn't Paradise say that this world has passed hundreds of years since 1999?" Perhaps, the world has changed more than we imagined......"
Ye Fang has been looking left and right, trying to find clues related to the Celestial Council Sanctuary or other living people in other paradises from this strange city.
However, their birth point seems to be a bit off, and Ye Fang didn't find anything.
At this time, they entered a darkly lit hotel store on the corner.
Wei Yuanwu and Lin Di went to look for something, but Ye Fang sat down along the table, ready to rest for a while.
Although everyone starved for about the same time, Ye Fang possessed others and practiced purification techniques, which consumed a huge amount, and two Kang Shuai Fu biscuits were not a big deal at all, and now he was almost faint from hunger.
However, before he sat down, he heard an exclamation from Wei Yuanwu's side.
Ye Fang immediately stood up, walked through the messy outer hall, and followed the sound to the back kitchen.
There was only a small window in the back kitchen, and the light was very poor, Ye Fang walked in, and saw Wei Yuanwu and Lin Di both standing not far from the door of the back kitchen, standing in the light, their bodies looked a little stiff, and they looked directly at something under their feet.
Ye Fang also took two steps forward, and when he looked forward, his face changed sharply.
In the corner of the back kitchen, at the junction of the sunlight and the dark shadows from the back window, there is a "mouse".
The rat was the size of a rabbit, with blood-colored hair, and its body was in the shadow of less than ten centimeters from the sunlight, and it was looking up slightly at the human in front of it.
And on the head of the rat, there was a hideous human face. Scarlet eyes, black fangs, humanoid arms...... It looked like a hideous mandrill, and its red eyes reflected the three humans in close proximity, grinning with fangs and tiny tongues as if they were making a strange grin.
It's a human-faced mouse!
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