CHAPTER XVII
April 9. Monday. Night, 21:59.
"Zhengtai, I hope everything you say is true."
Ye Xiao's gaze shifted from the boy's pale face to the other side of the silent corridor of the hospital, some strange shadows flickering under the light, hoping that no one would disturb him to share his amazing secrets.
"Uncle, do you believe in the resurrection?"
"The resurrection of the dead?" Ye Xiao shook his head, but he felt that the boy in front of him had been dead for a long time, "What did you find?" β
"Nothing was found." Zhengtai's gaze suddenly wandered a little, "But, I dreamed. β
Dizzy, is this kid just talking about his nightmares?
Zhengtai stared at Ye Xiao's eyes intently: "When I was underground, I could always dream of some corpses. β
"Do you understand what a corpse is?"
"It's people who can't move anymore, they will soon disappear and will never be seen again."
"Aren't you afraid?"
"I was scared, but I didn't dare to say it." The boy's eyes narrowed, as if he was talking to the corpse, "I dream of all kinds of dead people, all like I see underground. β
"You saw the pile of corpses underground, too?" Do evil! Ye Xiao recalled the hell on the fourth floor underground, and even he, a big man with an incomparably strong heart, passed out in an instant, not to mention a child! "Which idiot let you see it?"
"I found it myself."
Ye Xiao touched his shoulder sympathetically: "You are a strong boy. β
"I dreamed of them, of uncles and aunts who were already dead, and suddenly opened their eyes underground."
"It was just a nightmare. You imagined it yourself. Every kid has nightmares, and I had them when I was a kid. β
To be honest, very few children would dream of a corpse unless they actually saw itβYe Xiao suspected that he shouldn't have said this.
"No, my dreams are different from others, and everything I have dreamed about will come true."
The last sentence made his heart tremble, remembering what Yoko Tamada had said - Shota has the superpower of predicting disasters.
"I don't believe it."
"I fell asleep in bed for a while after you talked to my mom and left, and I just woke up because I had a nightmare." The boy lowered his head a little shyly, and his voice was low, "I dreamed of you." β
"Me?" Ye Xiao smiled bitterly, "Little prophet, what will happen to me in the future?" β
"I dreamed that you were crushed under the rubble, covered in blood, and about to die." The boy said these words with great seriousness, and his eyes shot a cold light.
Ye Xiao couldn't help but snort, but he said strongly: "I bet that your prediction will definitely come to fruition!" β
"But all the dreams I had underground have come true."
"You see the dead resurrected?"
"Yes, on the third or fourth day, when my mother fell asleep, I sneaked out and saw the dummies in the dark corridor, like real people standing there."
"You see the dummy move?" Ye Xiao was a little excited, and he could finally confirm Ding Zi's words.
"Nope. I'd rather the dummies could move so they could play peek-a-boo with me - I was the only kid underground, and the adults were bored and I was bored. β
"Are you a naughty boy?"
"No, I'm just a little weird." Shota pointed to his head. That's right, he's weird, both in terms of appearance, personality, and superpowers.
"And what do you see?"
"I sneaked up to Tommy Bear on the fifth floor, which is my favorite place in the whole mall, and I wanted to find the switch for the console."
"Wait, what's Tommy the Bear?"
"You're so dirty!" The seven-year-old boy showed contempt for Ye Xiao, "It's Tommy Bear Happy World, all children like to go there and play all kinds of interesting things." β
Ye Xiao then understood. In fact, not only children like it, but adults are also addicted. Sometimes, when he feels the pressure of work, he will run to a similar amusement center, ride a simulated racing motorcycle, and speed through the streets until he crashes and kills.
Shota recalled: "When I walked into Tommy Bear alone and suddenly heard the sound of cheerful music from somewhere, I thought, is there electricity all of a sudden? It made me so happy. When I got closer to the dancing machine, I saw that it was all black, only the screen of the machine was lit. An aunt stands in front of the machine, dancing happily to the music. β
"Auntie?" Ye Xiao couldn't judge how old the aunt was in the eyes of the child, "Can you tell me more detail?" β
"She looks a little younger than my mom, she doesn't have any clothes on her."
Nude women?
"Do you see her face clearly?"
"Yes, I just wanted to see her face, so I walked around to her and realized that she was a dead man."
"How do you know she's dead?"
"I can tell the difference between the faces of the dead and the living." Shota replied with a blank face. In fact, looking at his own face, and then looking at Ye Xiao's face, it is an obvious contrast.
"And then?"
"No response. Her eyes were open, but she didn't seem to see me. β
"Did you dream of her?"
"Yes, the night before, I dreamed of her, and I dreamed that she was lying in the middle of a pile of corpses, and suddenly opened her eyes."
"Even if you saw the dead resurrected, did you scream in fright?"
"No, I'm bold, I know she won't do anything to me. She suddenly turned off the dance machine, walked over to the wall and pulled down a switch, presumably the entire Tommy Bear's power switch. At this time, I saw a man coming out of the toilet, small, wearing a suit, I kept calling him Uncle Guo, but everyone hated him. The dead aunt followed behind Uncle Guo without making a sound. They walked one after the other, and not long after they left, the dead aunt grabbed Uncle Guo from behind and bit him by the neck. Uncle Guo fell to the ground and didn't shout. The dead aunt continued to bite him on the neck, her mouth covered with blood, and it took a long time to get up and leave without a sound. I walked over and shone a flashlight on Uncle Guo, who had become a dead man, and his face was as white as mine. β
Hearing "He has become a dead man, and that face is as white as mine", Ye Xiao didn't dare to look at the boy's face.
"You weren't scared to cry?"
"No, I went back to my mother and slept in her arms. The next day, the others found Uncle Guo's body, and it seemed that everyone was scared. β
"They think it's zombie killing?"
"I don't understand this, in short, Uncle Security, Uncle Tao Ye, Brother Xiaoguang, the three of them took weapons and went downstairs to find the murderer."
"Who is Brother Xiaoguang?"
"He's a killer."
This made Ye Xiao even more confused, there was still a killer among the survivors? Why not say that all those dead people were killed by this killer?
Zhengtai said that he was happy, and his eyes widened: "That night, I ran out again while my mother was asleep. β
"No wonder your mother is so worried about you, you kid is so disobedient."
Ye Xiao didn't think that Yoko Yuda was careless, but Zhengtai was indeed extremely abnormal, and it was difficult for anyone to manage him, unless the five flowers were locked at home.
"Actually, I went out to play with Xiao Ming."
"Who is Xiao Ming?"
Dizzy, why is there an extra "Xiao Ming"? Ye Xiao felt that he was going to be played to death by this seven-year-old boy.
"Oops!" Zhengtai showed a look of regret for leaking his mouth, scratched his head and said, "Xiao Mingβit's a friend of mine." β
"What friend? The first time I've heard the name! β
"A mysterious friend that no one else knows, only I play with him."
"You imagined it, didn't you?"
"Oh no!"
Ye Xiao didn't want to entangle these issues with a child anymore, so he cut back to the topic: "What happened to the security guard, Tao Ye, and Xiaoguang you just said?" β
"I hid behind these three men until they went into the fourth basement, where the dead were piled up."
"You're not afraid?"
"I'm afraid!" Shota showed a frightened expression at this time, "But I still want to see if what I dreamed about has come true." β
Pour! Ye Xiao thought to himself, your mother gave birth to you, it's really unlucky!
"As soon as I got to the underground garage, I saw the security guard running towards me. And behind him, followed by a group of strangely shaped people, either with blood all over their faces or crawling with bugs on their bodies. I knew they were dead people, I had seen them in my dreams. I also ran upstairs for my life, and there was a scream behind me, and I looked back to see the security guard uncle surrounded by those dead people. He tried to fight the dead men, but he was crushed to the ground, and each of them bit him several times. By the time I got to the supermarket, I couldn't hear the security guard's voice, and I thought he must have become a dead man. β
"Shota, have you ever seen a movie - "Resident Evil"?"
"Nope."
"Have you played this game?"
"Mom won't let me play computer games."
Late at night, at the end of the corridor on the fourth floor of the hospital, Ye Xiao's lips were trembling: "Do you know what a zombie is?" β
"I don't know."
"Well, what do you see next? All the dead on the fourth underground floor are alive? The living were killed by the resurrected dead? And then those living people who were killed, turned into zombies again? β
"No, it's not." Shota remained composed, his gaze focused on some distant place, "What I see isβ"
Suddenly, a woman's mournful scream shattered the grave-like silence of the hospital.
Something was wrong, Yoko Tamada ran out, the Japanese woman shouted frantically for Shota, and the little nurse was pushed to the ground.
Zhengtai just wanted to escape, but was grabbed by Ye Xiao. He picked up the seven-year-old boy, thought to himself that it was a big deal, and walked straight to Yoko Tamada.
"I'm sorry, Shota has something to say to me alone-"
Before he finished speaking, Yoko Tamada slapped him, quickly grabbed Zhengtai, and returned to the ward to lock the door.
This woman has such a big hand! Ye Xiao's cheeks seemed to have been scalded by boiling water, and they were hotly swollen.