Volume II: The Federation, Chapter 10: Scarlet Evening
"Knock ......."
"Knock ......."
"Knock ......."
"Knock ......."
It was midnight, twilight was thick, the stars were hidden in the lamplight, and only one or two bright stars could be faintly seen in the thick of the sky, and the moon was illuminating the ground as always.
"Something is close to ......" Xili's abrupt voice startled Tianxia, only to see that she had already gotten up at some point, and her voice was extremely unnatural.
Tianxia followed her to the door of the supermarket, passing by Li Ang's group halfway, only to find that they slept very deeply, and the smell of alcohol on their bodies was so strong that it made people sick to their stomachs, even if the supermarket door was opened for ventilation, it could not blow away the sour smell of wine at all. Now in the face of this situation, they still have the heart to get drunk, Tianxia really doesn't know what they are thinking.
"A few fools," she hurried around them, cursing casually, and followed Ciri to the door.
Outside the window, the distant pillars of light became brighter and brighter in the thick of the night, but they also seemed more and more eerie to her.
Another slight tremor, as if something was striking in the distance, made her heart puff up and unable to put it down.
"Knock ......." this time she heard clearly, it was the sound of glass breaking, she turned her head to look at the tall building in the distance, in the darkness, the tall building stood like an ink mark in the distance, through the blurred moon sprinkled silver light, through the orange light in the distance, she seemed to see a thin rope-like thing winding back and forth on the surface of the tall building.
"Boom......." Another sound of broken glass in a tall building, and Tianxia looked at his companion worriedly, "The voice is getting closer and closer." ”
"We have to go......." Ciri said in the same voice, she didn't know what it was, but she might as well stay away from it as soon as possible. Wake up those students," Ciri turned and walked into the supermarket, "I'll go get my bag with me." ”
Tianxia walked up to the young students who were huddled together, she first shouted their names, Leon didn't respond, Leov hugged Leon's thigh and chanted Liu Liu's name, and the shy girl snored, she was so beautiful and lovely that she snored louder than gongs and drums, which really surprised Tianxia.
She shouted once, but still no one responded, and in a hurry, she kicked Leoff, but the other party slept too hard.
The voice sounded again, she quickly unscrewed the mineral water, and poured it on Leon's head, he wanted to pour wine on himself, I poured water on him, count him as earned, she thought so, and sprinkled two large bottles of 1.5 liters of mineral water in a row, Leon and Leov, who was holding his thigh, were suddenly woken up, and they panted and wiped away the remaining water stains on their faces.
"What's wrong?" Leov stood up in a panic and shouted, "How is there water, what happened?" Leon also got up in embarrassment, and the others were all awakened by Leof's shouting, except for the shy girl, who was still snoring, and louder.
"Something is near," Tianxia tried to keep her breath steady, "I don't know what it is, but I think it should be dangerous." ”
Li Ang obviously hadn't recovered from the alcohol, but the lively girl on the side noticed something, "Something's coming." ”
Another sound of glass breaking, this time everyone heard, because it was coming from next door.
"Tianxia," behind him, Ciri had finished packing his things, "let's go." ”
"Wait," the lively girl hurriedly stopped them, "they two are drunk, you can help." ”
"It's enough to wake you up, and besides, it's their business to get drunk," Tianxia reprimanded sharply, "I won't stop you if you want to wait with them for that monster to come to the door, but don't drag us to death." With that, she dragged Ciri to the door. Ciri just glanced back at them and left regretfully.
The shy girl was also woken up by her companion at this moment, and Leon leaned weakly against the iron frame, trying to walk, but her legs and feet did not obey the call, and Leov, who had drunk more beside her, could not even stand up.
.........The door of the warehouse behind the supermarket seemed to have been knocked by something, and the sudden sound startled everyone. Tianxia and Xili hurriedly quickened their pace and ran out, and when they saw that the two girls who came here with them slipped away quickly, the lively girl suddenly became dispossessed, she glanced at Li Ang, who was her first love, she thought about it and decided to stay and help him. Suddenly, the iron door was knocked open by something terrible, and the lively girl looked back, only to see that near the door of the back warehouse, a vine man like a sarcoma was slowly moving on the ground, like a wriggling bloody blood snake, which made people frightened and frightened, and the chill of the brain went straight to the top of her head.
She looked at the terrible flesh-covered vineman, and no longer thought about how to help the drunken Leon, but turned around and ran, as did the other boys and girls.
Among them, only the shy girl is surprising. Although she also looked frightened, she did not run, but turned around to help Leon, who stumbled and tried to escape, she was braver than everyone present. At least that's what Tianxia thought when she saw it.
When her scream rang out, Tianxia thought of another sentence, which also died faster than everyone else.
They ran as wildly as the first supermarket before, followed by the other students except Leon, Leoff, and the shy girl, and everything seemed to be back to yesterday, but there was no young policeman to cut them off for them today, so she saw for the first time the vine man, who was feared by everyone, thin as a rope, as long as a snake, and red as blood, or perhaps it was a blood stain that had not dried up at all.
She saw that someone was entangled, it wasn't her, it wasn't Ciri, and that was enough. It didn't matter to her whether the people who were surrounded and haunted by Fujiman were the young students with Leon or the residents who didn't flee around, she just wanted to run as far away in the darkness as she could.
Soon, she encountered the first monster, two thumb-sized red eyes embedded in the short neck in front of the hound-sized limb trunk, these monsters spread out viciously along the place where the flesh vine man passed, they had a different number of claws, they looked like spiders, and the third evil eye was really on the upward back, huge as a volleyball, and the red eyes stared blankly at the sky, as if looking up at something.
There are also sharp hook claws, slender and folded, tightly sunk into the plastic pavement, like black cutters, and covered with dense hook thorns, which are hooked by those claws, and ordinary people have no way to escape. The most abomination of all were the rows of inverted dagger-like copper-brown frontal teeth, which turned blood-red and deep as it chewed and fed the corpses, and the skin like rotten milk looked like a layer of dirty snow in the silver moon, with a folded gray spot or two in between.
"It's white...... Tianxia couldn't believe it, "no one ever said it was white." ”
"Now you know," said Ciri, as she walked around a monster that was eating on the corpse of a little girl, trying to control her breathing, even though the innocent, pale head of the little girl was staring at them blankly, without looking back:
Tianxia followed and carefully avoided another monster that pierced the chest of an old man with a sharp claw, the old man was not dead, his cloudy eyes stared directly at the monster, his hands and feet kept twitching, and he whispered in pain, don't look back;
As soon as she turned the corner, Tianxia saw a monster pushing a young pregnant woman into the corner, and the pregnant woman wailed and prayed to it, but unfortunately the monster could not understand the federal language, and the pregnant woman turned to them and pleaded with them, she begged them to help the child in her belly, and leave it alone;
A schoolgirl who ran out behind her and was following closely behind her was suddenly pounced on by a monster jumping from the rooftop, and she begged Ciri to let her spray it with a fire extinguisher, and she begged her friends to take down the monster with an axe and leave it alone.
Death and screaming are tonight's theme songs, and this once-peaceful suburb has been reduced to a feast for monsters.
During this period, they saw countless residents who seemed to be able to save a little, and Tianxia also thought that Ciri might go to save people, or hesitate even a little, but she thought wrong, Ciri didn't even look at those people, and slipped straight into the distance, this guy ...... Tianxia secretly thought in her heart, "She has no conscience like me." ”
Fortunately, the vine spread slowly, and they walked along the road for a long, long time, until they could no longer see the vine, and then they stopped to rest.
Tianxia eased the cold sweat in his heart, and couldn't help but complain bitterly, "This thing can't be contained at all, and those monsters, how many of them are there?" ”
"If every corpse can hatch a monster, there are billions of them," Ciri's calm appearance really made her look sideways, could Valian be born extraordinary, and still be able to witness such a terrifying scene without changing his face?
"But today, it seems that there are not as many monsters as imagined, many people are directly eaten by those spider-like things, they can't become monsters, they can only become a pile of feces they discharge."
Tianxia couldn't laugh at her cold jokes, "I'd rather be turned into feces than be entangled in that vine, I see ......." she hesitated for a moment, "I saw Vineman corrupting the building, I always thought it was fake." ”
"The world is in chaos, people are displaced, the government that maintains order is falling apart, so much is happening, there has to be one real thing, but unfortunately, it is far worse than I thought, I thought they wouldn't be so brutal, they wouldn't be so ...... They're so fast, that's why I'm going to die with the pregnant woman and that classmate," Ciri's words revealed a little sadness, "it's the most evil thing I've ever seen, it's not a natural product of normality, there's something affecting them." ”
"You want to say...... Are they genetically engineered creations? ”
Ciri couldn't be sure, "Maybe it is, maybe not, I don't know." “
They've fled with all their hearts, oh, and the boys and girls who have abandoned their friends. They pale from the shadows behind, leaving only two girls, led by the lively girl they had first met.
"Why don't you help them......." With tears in her eyes, she asked Ciri and Tianxia loudly, "If you are willing to help me, Leon will not die, Leov will not die, and Hanhan, she will also ....... Neither will they...... If it's not you....... If ........," she couldn't cry, "if it weren't for my cowardice," her half-accusatory and half-reproachful tone made Tianxia really unable to get angry, this always lively girl was just a girl full of fear at the moment, she was venting her emotions.
"She should be glad for her wisdom....... "Ciri took a low breath and said in a loud voice, "Accusations won't help, classmate, at least we survived, come and drink saliva to suppress the shock, slow down, we must hurry as soon as possible, or no one knows when they will follow." ”
Her words seemed to rekindle the girl's fear, and the girl shook her shoulders even more, while the other schoolgirl beside her stared into the distance in a blank and speechless manner.
"Let's have a good rest," Tianxia couldn't help but speak, "Leon, they may not be dead. “
"They're dead, Leon, Leoff, Hanhan, and the others, they're all dead......" The girl screamed a little broken, "they can't escape, those monsters ......." She began to cry out again, afraid that she would not be able to summon the monsters.
Her screams made Ciri gradually bored, why do some women only shout when they are in danger, or hide their faces and cry, does she really think that if she covers her face, squeezes out her tears, and shouts her voice loud and sharp, the danger will disappear and the monster will be scared away??
"Look around you, classmate," Ciri couldn't help but interrupt her seemingly endless crying, "It's a long night, everywhere can be dangerous here, you have to be their ration to be happy,"
But she still cried, which made Ciri discouraged.
At this time, a scolding voice came from a restaurant, "Stinky bitch, noisy you are paralyzed and noisy, I am calling Lao Tzu, believe it or not, Lao Tzu will kill you." ”
The man's voice was deep and deep, hard as a file, and his vulgar tone was really flustering, so much so that even the crying and crying girl was too frightened to speak again.
"Be easy-going, the kid is next to you," another man walked over coldly and glanced at him, "just some frightened girls." ”
Five men and a little girl came out of the restaurant, Tianxia also found the middle-aged policeman and doctor she had seen the day before yesterday, and a little black-haired girl in a pleated skirt followed closely behind the middle-aged policeman, who was the policeman's daughter, she stared at Tianxia in surprise and fear, as if they were monsters from somewhere.
"You guys, it's the same ...... yesterday," the middle-aged policeman still had a little impression of Ciri, who was tightly wrapped in a scarf, "What's wrong with the supermarket?" “
"The pregnant woman has become a monster," Ciri replied calmly, "and we ran out." “
"Why are you still crying and screaming here at night?"
He didn't know when he looked at it, Tianxia couldn't help but explain, "That sarcoma has spread to our temporary resting place out of nowhere, and with Fujiman, there are also monsters, and we have seen white spiders as big as hunting dogs eating people everywhere. “
Her words made the hearts of several middle-aged men sink like stones, and their faces were even more bloodless.
"Daddy," asked the little girl, with wide eyes full of grief, "will they come?" Didn't you say it's safe here? “
"Of course it's safe," the police uncle hugged his daughter and kissed the ends of her hair, "I'll see your mother soon, good, go back and wait, I'll go over immediately." ”
The little girl was reluctant, but she reluctantly listened to her father. 、
Several men inquired in detail about the situation, and the results made them very worried.
"Why hasn't the government reported yet?" The doctor looked up worriedly against the railing beside the road, "The fleet has never landed, so the Supreme Council won't have abandoned us, right?" ”
"It's long ago, even the president of the Bundestag is dead, what role do you expect the rest of the bureaucrats to have, I'll have to drag on getting a starport pass for half a year.......," the scolding man spat into the garbage can, "Not to mention the high-tech work of saving the earth, don't even think about it for hundreds of years." "It seems that the news of the death of the Bundestag is spreading very quickly.
The police were even more gloomy, "At present, it seems that according to the speed at which the vines are spreading, the monster will flood the Changhe Military Base in less than half a month, and if the people in the army can't deal with this damn thing, then what's the use of us escaping there?" I'm afraid the entire Federation is hopeless, and we can only flee to the spaceport. ”
This news is indeed even more suffocating, they have always regarded the government and the army as saviors, but have they seriously considered what they should do at that time if they can't even cope with the fleet? Are you so desperate to die?
They are mired in the quagmire, and the only thing they can do is to grasp the only straw, they can't think about whether the other end of the straw is still a quagmire, they can only encourage themselves to move forward with the truth they think, and continue to move forward.
The discussion went on for half a night, and in short, it was another sleepless night......