April 9. Monday. Afternoon, 14:59.

Sunlight poured through the cracks in the iron railings onto the white hospital bed and quilt-wrapped body. In addition to the smell of disinfectant water and medicine in the ward, there was also the enticing smell of shampoo in her hair. This long black and shiny hair has just been washed, can it wash away the dirt and secrets of the seven days and seven nights underground?

Facing this twenty-five-year-old young woman, Ye Xiao did not rush in, but knocked a few times outside the glass wall, until he heard a calm voice "Please come in", and he walked to the hospital bed in a serious manner.

"I know who you are." Without waiting for him to start asking, Mo Xing'er preemptively said. She didn't have an infusion tube on her body, but her face was slightly pale, her long straight hair was draped over her shoulders, and her bright eyes were very moving. Ye Xiao stared straight at her face, but his heart throbbed, and he wanted to turn around and stop looking at her eyes, as if just one more look would reveal some long-forgotten scars.

He forced himself to reply quietly, "Did the nurses tell you?" ”

"Well, thank you so much for saving us!"

Judging by the size of her shoulders and arms, and the shape of her body hidden under the covers, she was a very small woman, light and loving, as charming as her voice.

However, Ye Xiao would not be confused by the illusion of this gentle appearance, from Mo Xing'er's expression when he spoke, and from the depths of his seemingly friendly gaze, he found that this woman was beyond ordinary hardness.

"You know what I'm going to ask you?"

Mo Xing'er replied calmly: "Yes, you want to know everything that happens underground. ”

"Please tell me as it is."

"You know, we spent seven days and seven nights underground, and everybody thought the end of the world was coming, and we thought we were going to die, and we thought there would be no more hope of salvation. However, even if it is one more day, even a minute, anyone will do their best, except for those who want to commit suicide in the first place. ”

"You're trying to gather water and food underground?"

"Of course, instinctively. Is this news that moves the whole world? The reason why we help each other is just to live a few more days, and there is no friendship between us, it is purely for the need to survive. ”

"I'm sorry, I'm not a journalist, I'm a police officer, all I want is the truth, whether it is in line with the wishes and aesthetics of the public."

"That's what I think anyway, living is the only purpose underground, and I can do anything for this."

When these words came out of the mouth of a beautiful woman, they would always be reminiscent of something, Ye Xiao twisted his eyebrows: "Then what did you do?" ”

"Survival." She took a deep breath, "What do you want to hear?" ”

"I don't mean anything else, I just want you to be more detailed."

"Eat – everyone has a heap of hoarding and hiding in their respective shelters. It is strictly forbidden to use open flames for cooking underground, and everyone has moved a microwave oven and rice cooker, but the use time is fixed, and there is no electricity after the meal. In order to save electricity, the professor asked everyone to eat dry food that was not heated as much as possible. Fortunately, the price of housing has finally dropped to zero in the apocalyptic world, and everyone is looking for a shop, usually with a private space to use as a home underground. Most of these shops were located on the second and third floors, but the air underground became more and more cloudy, and many moved above the seventh floor. In addition to eating, it is sleeping, chatting, or boring in a daze, anyway, there is time...... Do you want me to say how to go to the toilet? ”

"No, you don't." Ye Xiao always kept his distance from her, and simply took half a step back at this time.

"Can tell you. At the beginning, there was still some tap water left in the water pipes of the mall, and by the next day it was all gone, not to mention that the toilet was unusable, and mineral water could only be used to wash the face. We went to the pet store and found a lot of cat litter and stuff that piled up in the toilet to temporarily solve the hygiene problem for a few days. ”

Cat litter? Is there a mistake, girl! Nima is too creative, isn't it? However, the vitality and imagination of human beings in extreme environments can never be underestimated.

"Well, since we've talked about cat litter, let me ask you again - we found a lot of animal carcasses, what's going on?"

Mo Xing'er's face changed slightly, shrunk into the quilt, only revealing one face, and replied with a strange expression: "You, finally asked the point." From the day we were buried in the ground, we started talking about the animals, the cats and dogs that escaped from the pet store, and the rats that ran down from the movie theater on the ninth floor, frantically foraging everywhere, and they spoiled a lot of food in the supermarket, and we were forced to fight with the animals for food. I hid a lot of canned food and snacks in the women's clothing store on the third floor, and after only two hours of sleep, I found that most of the packages had been opened, and the rats had eaten the melons and plums cleanly, and the whole bag of candy had been dragged away. ”

"So you're going to exterminate these animals?"

"It seems that men have this mindset! The professor first came up with the idea, asking everyone to unite and get rid of all cats, dogs, mice, and all other animals. He said that this is hell on earth, not Noah's Ark, and that we don't need to protect these animals. Although it is cruel, it is necessary to leave enough space and resources for human beings to live. ”

"Sure enough, the professor was a Darwinian who believed in the law of the jungle."

"I think so too. However, the professor is our authority underground, and several of the survivors are his die-hard fans, and no one dares to disagree with him. What's more, from the perspective of reason, from the perspective of everyone's desire to survive, everyone also tends to exterminate animals, even those who have had pets. ”

"At that time, was there no one who objected?"

"Yes, it's the man."

"Which man?"

Ye Xiao felt very strange when she noticed that she said "that man", and even her eyelids trembled slightly.

"I'm sorry, I always call him that - he is the owner of the Future Dream Mansion, Luo Haoran, who is also wearing an Armani suit underground, leading a mischievous Labrador. He has reservations about the extermination of animals and hopes that there will be no mass bloodshed. And, in any case, his Churchill – the name of the Labrador – had to be protected. He is the owner of the building, not to mention that the dog is said to have saved many lives, so no one is against him. Luo Haoran also said that he would save his share of meat and leave it to his loyal dog. ”

"What's next?"

"The men began the brutal killing. There is a young mall security guard who lives in the countryside and eats dog meat, so he is proficient in various methods of killing dogs. Under his guidance, coupled with the ingenuity of the professor, a batch of tools for killing cats and dogs was quickly made. ”

"Who was involved in the hunt?" Ye Xiao stared into her eyes and asked relentlessly, "Can you tell their names?" ”

"First of all, it's the security guard, who seems to be called Yang Bing. The second is a supermarket employee, his name is Tao Ye. The third is a white-collar worker who works in the office building of the Future Dream Building, his minor injuries healed quickly, and he actively participated in the dog extermination operation, named Xu Pengfei. ”

Mo Xing'er paused suddenly when she said this, and Ye Xiao found an indescribable trace of fear passing through her flickering eyes, although only for a moment.

"Go on."

"In the end, it's that third-rate writer, Zhou Xuan."

Hearing such an evaluation as a "third-rate writer", Ye Xiao couldn't help but feel chilled for his old friend.

"What do you think of Circumference?"

The question silenced her for a few more seconds, and then suddenly a sentence popped up: "Is he dead?" ”

"Don't you know he's alive? He is also one of the six survivors. ”

"Oh." She replied so calmly, but shook her head, "This person is very strange. ”

"What's weird?"

"I don't know, he often says things that don't make sense, such as: If we can survive forever, we will change the whole world and create a new future for humanity - even if there are only twenty of us left in the whole human race, at least no more lonely than Adam and Eve."

Ye Xiao nodded secretly, this is indeed Zhou Xuan's style, a fantasist deep in his heart.

"What else?"

"Do you ask Zhou Xuan? This guy, I don't care too much, I just think he might be mentally ill. ”

Although, she said it lightly, Ye Xiao was expressionless, but she was roaring in her heart-you are lying!

Mo Xing'er's upper body leaned out of the quilt and took a big sip of water: "Can I continue to talk about the hunting operation?" ”

"Please—"

"The main thing is that the four of them are killing dogs and cats, using those terrible hunting tools, and we women are afraid when they look at it."

"Where's the professor?"

"He is a military advisor, and he has always commanded behind the scenes, and he doesn't have to do it himself."

Hearing this, Ye Xiao felt a burst of disdain in his heart.

Mo Xing'er continued: "The next night - although there is no day and night underground, in order to let everyone not forget the time, everyone will still be forced to inform each other of the time. Security guard Yang Bing grabbed the first dog, which was on the basement floor of the supermarket, and it was a poor little Pomei. What a sin, such a small dog, actually ...... Anyway, I didn't see it with my own eyes, and I heard that the four of them hanged the dog together......" With that, she paused again and covered her chest.

"I'm sorry, you have to keep talking."

"I was just imagining what it would have been, but I've seen it with my own eyes! However, in the early hours of that day, in the midst of their painstaking efforts to capture the second dog, the Husky Malamute desperately resisted and ended up biting Yang Bing. In the end, it was hanged by their concerted efforts. Although Yang Bing was not seriously injured, and he was not worried about rabies, anyway, the end of the world would die sooner or later, but everyone raised strong doubts about their rough and barbaric hunting methods, especially the women among the survivors. In the early morning of the third day, there was a fierce quarrel between everyone, and the boy named Xiaoguang insisted on stopping the hunt and almost fought with Yang Bing and Xu Pengfei. In the end, it was the professor who made a ruling—the hunt continued, but the original method of force was changed, first, it was inefficient, and only two dogs were killed all night; the second is that the process is too bloody and cruel, which makes the survivors underground feel uneasy, affects everyone's mental state, and will also cause bitter fruits; Third, it is not safe and poses a danger to the predator. After discussing with everyone, the professor decided to use the gentlest method - poisoning. ”

"I've guessed it."

"There is only rat poison in the supermarket, which is not enough to kill cats and dogs. However, the professor used his ingenuity to collect some daily chemicals from the supermarket shelves, locked them in a small room and mixed them, and made a very toxic potion. Due to the abundance of raw materials, several large vats were concocted, not to mention poisoning these cats and dogs, and even poisoning all the survivors was more than enough. Therefore, only professors were allowed to access these poisons and keep the small room locked with several large locks. The professor personally applied poison to meat sausages, beef jerky, chocolate, canned fish, and other favorite foods of cats, dogs, and mice. What's even more amazing is that these poisons are colorless and odorless, and it is difficult for dogs' noses to distinguish them. Then, Yang Bing, Tao Ye, Xu Pengfei, and Zhou Xuan, these four men put poisonous food in all corners of the building. The professor also warned all the survivors not to pick up food when they saw it on the ground, especially to take care of Yoko to keep an eye on Shota and not let the child run around, but fortunately the child was very smart and he understood what poison was. As for the dog named Churchill, Luo Haoran locked it in a room and took it for a walk every day to make sure there was no poison - the dog was simply a goblin, and he could quickly tell what was poisonous. ”

"You succeeded?"

"Half the battle. That night, they found two dead dogs, three dead cats, and dozens of dead rats in the supermarket. On the fourth day, I found another poisoned dog on the sixth floor. However, some dogs and cats are not dead, and rats are still active. According to everyone's judgment, it may not be fatal immediately after poisoning, and some large dogs have tenacious vitality and may die after dozens of hours. There are also cats and dogs that die in some unknown corner, so sometimes we smell the rancid smell but don't know where it came from. ”

"Well, I saw the carcasses of those animals too."

"However, if that's the case, the most unexpected thing is that we are in great trouble because of this!"

As soon as these words came out, Ye Xiao's brows twitched, but his voice was still very calm: "Because of poisoning cats and dogs?" ”

"Listen to me – on the night of the fourth day, we found the body of security guard Yang Bing. He died in the men's toilet on the second floor of the mall, his whole face was bloody and his neck was almost broken. There is no doubt that he was bitten to death by a dog! ”

"Animal revenge? Because he was the first to make a tool to catch dogs, and he was the first to kill the first dog? ”

Two hours later, the second deceased was found, which was the rich second-generation Guo Xiaojun. He died even more tragically, his head almost gone, and he had to identify the body in a Dior suit - he was the only survivor who could wear that tight suit. There was a lot of dog hair left at the scene, most likely a huge golden retriever, and I have seen this bereaved dog roaming the ground with my own eyes. It's really surprising, isn't the Golden Retriever the most docile dog in the world, how could he suddenly attack a human and cause such a tragic result? However, recalling the cruel behavior of Yang Bing and others to those cats and dogs, in fact, there is no essential difference between humans and animals. ”

"Sometimes—" Ye Xiao also had to admit her sharp opinion, "It's true." ”

When everyone looked at Guo Xiaojun's corpse at a loss, another man's scream came from upstairs. Everyone picked up shovels and sticks and the like, and I boldly followed behind and rushed up three flights of stairs - and as a result, at the end of the corridor on the fifth floor, there were at least three dogs and two cats, and a bunch of mice, stepping on a man and constantly biting at that man! I saw with my own eyes that a cat had a bloody finger in its mouth! There was also a dog that dragged a strange rope far away - it was later learned that it was Xu Pengfei's intestines. ”

Perhaps, only when Ye Xiao heard these disgusting descriptions, he would not feel vomiting. While imagining this picture, he paid attention to Mo Xing'er's expression. It's strange that she doesn't have the fear she had before, but the more she speaks, the more excited she becomes, and almost every word can arouse her passion, as if she has taken a drug - can it really make her happy to see a group of cats and dogs killing people? Especially, at the end of the three words "Xu Pengfei", a refreshing expression erupted on her face, as if she finally excreted smoothly after several days of constipation.

This is what really scares Ye Xiao.

"Xu Pengfei died like this, I think he must have died very painfully, no, it was very painful!" Mo Xing'er shuddered, maybe sitting in a position and talking for a long time, and involuntarily turned his neck, "The men attacked the group of animals, they were really enraged, and a black cat was slapped to death by someone's shovel on the spot, because it was gnawing Xu Pengfei's genitals - sorry, I said this bluntly, because I saw it with my own eyes, basically this man became a eunuch." Xu Pengfei should be glad for himself - he only became a eunuch and died in one minute! If you survive, it will be more painful. His face is basically intact, but the body parts are so miserable that they can't be described, so when we see his expression, it's almost like he can't survive or die, and he only hates himself for why he didn't die immediately. ”

"Enough, you're out of the normal range!" Ye Xiao interrupted her description. How can a seemingly weak girl face the cruel scene so directly? Remember how clearly and emotionally stimulating you describe it again? Either she's crazy, or the people listening to the story are crazy!

"I'm sorry." She lowered her head, cut her hair, and even dropped her hairpin in excitement just now, "In short, everyone was stunned by this scene, and the professor also realized the seriousness of the situation, he called everyone to live in a concentrated place as much as possible, and it was absolutely forbidden to move alone, and even to go to the toilet, more than two people had to go together, and they had to bring dog fighting tools - it was a war!" However, no matter how carefully we take precautions, tragedies continue to happen. First a female cleaner was found dead in the corridor on the third floor, and then the seriously injured were attacked by several vicious dogs overnight, all of them were impaired and powerless, and they were all killed in just a few minutes! ”

"Who else died?"

"I don't remember exactly, but a lot of people died anyway, it's so miserable!"

"The people who died underground were attacked by animals?"

"Yes, that's all I know. Later, we buried the bodies on the fourth floor of the ground - although they were not buried in the ground, they were considered graves one or two hundred meters underground. ”

"What about Luo Haoran's dog?" Ye Xiao remembered the life that was first discovered by him underground, and the Labrador stared at him, "Has it ever gone crazy?" ”

"Nope. I remember that Churchill was very tame, and he was the only animal that we could all trust. ”

"What about Luo Haoran himself? When was the last time you saw him? ”

"He? This man is more withdrawn, rarely talks to others, and spends all day with his dog. He is the owner of the building and is responsible for maintaining the generators underground, as well as the building's monitoring room and power system. He is the only one who knows the structure of this labyrinthine building best, and I am afraid I will not be able to figure it out even if I stay for another seven months. For the last two days, we barely saw him, and we were completely elusive. He was not too afraid of those vicious dogs, maybe his aura was so strong that as long as he carried an iron rod with him, no animal would dare to approach him - except Churchill. ”

"You didn't see him before you were rescued?"

"In the end, everyone rushed to the movie theater on the ninth floor, with a premonition that they might be saved, and then we were all crushed in the passage of the movie theater." Maybe because this memory was less than twenty-four hours, she closed her eyes and shook her head, "But I didn't see Luo Haoran." With that, she showed a tired look and yawned, suggesting that Ye Xiao should stop disturbing her rest.

Ye Xiao ended the investigation: "Thank you for your cooperation. ”

Before walking out of the ward, he turned his head to Mo Xing'er, who was about to sleep, and said, "You know? You remind me of a man. ”