A month ago, a scarlet moon enveloped the entire Lake City, and a week later, the Blood Moon exploded and brought a terrifying meteor shower. At dawn the next day, the people of Hucheng found that some humanoid monsters similar to zombies appeared outside, and it was only after the troops withdrew from Hucheng that the remaining people found that the entire Hucheng was blocked by a strange light light curtain, and all objects that approached it would disappear. Although the people of Lake City can see everything behind the light curtain, it is untouchable. Including the insect tide that flew from Taihu Lake, all disappeared into the light curtain.

This layer of light curtain imprisoned them while also protecting them from the plague of giant insects in disguise. They clearly observed the insect tide composed of huge mutated insects flying from Taihu Lake.

The light curtain also cut off Lake City from all contact with the outside world, and it became a completely independent world. During this month, the old order quickly disintegrates, new rules are gradually established, and people go from shock to numbness to adaptation.

Liu Chao felt that everything he had experienced in this month seemed to be as long and bizarre as years. He was washing his dirty face by the lake when a sudden strip of cloth caught his attention.

You must know that since the appearance of the light curtain in Lake City, almost all the areas along the Taihu Lake have become stagnant, and no aquatic life can escape the light curtain in the water, and the only remaining fish and shrimp will soon become extinct.

Liu Chao tried to pick up the strip of cloth with a wooden stick, but he didn't expect that the strip of cloth seemed to be tied to something, and it sank so badly.

Creak? Is it a corpse?

Liu Chao felt that it was very likely, and it was very likely that this strip of cloth was from a sunken corpse. For a month, he would come to the lake almost every once in a while to wash, and he had never seen any floating corpses.

Could it be that he just fell? No, you have to pick it up, otherwise it will pollute the lake, and it will be disgusting to think about having to wash your face with water or something in the future.

In order to comfort himself, Liu Chao decided to scoop up the corpse.

"Hey, come here, there's something in the water!" He yelled at his companion.

There were four people on the embankment, a middle-aged man and a little girl, and two young men.

"Brother Liu, what's the matter?" The young man Xiao Zhang ran over and asked.

"It could be a corpse."

"Corpses? What are we going to do with the corpses? ”

Liu Chao slapped him on the back of the head, "Do you need lake water in the future?" Don't like it? ”

Xiao Zhang touched his head and hesitated, "But, that's a corpse, it must be a disgusting thief......"

"You've seen fewer dead people these days?" Liu Chao asked rhetorically, ", the end of the world has come for a month, and they have been able to survive to this day, without dying on the way like the vast majority of people, they are already regarded as "dragons and phoenixes among people", and I have to say that their endurance is off the charts.

Reluctantly, Xiao Zhang drove the boat to the water where the cloth strip was, he wore leather gloves, and took the cloth strip at the beginning, until his hands touched a hand, which made him frightened and determined that it was a corpse. He tied the lasso to the corpse's arm, and then made an OK gesture towards Liu Chao, who on the shore pulled the corpse in the water with another young seedling.

"Whew!"

Liu Chao and Xiao Miao were so tired that they finally fished the corpse ashore.

It was a strange man topless, like a dried mummy, his whole body was wrapped in dark green aquatic plants and plastic ribbon shards, and the exposed parts were bones wrapped in a layer of blue and purple skin, and the joints on his arms could be clearly seen.

"This death is too miserable!" Xiao Zhang jumped ashore from the boat, and the tragic condition of this corpse was so tragic that he could not look at it directly.

"I guess I was killed by that monster too." Liu Chao speculated that the ubiquitous vampires in Lake City were the only thing they feared when they went out.

"Lift him into the car, put him away and throw him away."

Liu Chao, as the leader of the outgoing team, commanded Xiao Zhang and Xiao Miao to carry the body to the back of the truck.

Xiao Zhang wanted to turn the corpse over, and reached out to touch the corpse's shoulder, but felt that the blood vessels under the stiff skin suddenly beat violently, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly retracted his hand, but he was accidentally hit by a sharp object, and a few slits were opened in his finger at once, and blood dripped on the corpse.

He screamed and stumbled backwards a few steps in fright.

"There are ghosts, there are ghosts, this corpse will bite!"

Liu Chao squatted down and gently lifted the corpse's other arm that was entwined with aquatic weeds, only to see that the corpse was holding a strange long black knife in his hand, and Xiao Zhang should have accidentally touched the blade just now, so he was scratched his hand.

"Don't make a fuss." Liu Chao said, reaching out and laboriously pulling out the long knife from the corpse's hand, the handle of the knife seemed to be embedded in the corpse's palm.

"Tsk, what a weird knife!" Liu Chao waved his knife and found that the surface of the knife was covered with a layer of asphalt-like substance, and only the tip of the knife was exposed.

"Ah, this corpse is actually dead and still holding a long knife!" Xiao Miao was surprised.

"Don't be stunned, hurry up and get to work!" Liu Chao threw the knife in the back of the truck and urged, he didn't want to touch those things, and the longer he stayed outside, the better the chance of "hitting the ghost".

On the truck were piles of woven bags, filled with all sorts of supplies they had collected from elsewhere. The body was placed at the outermost edge of the trunk, and the middle-aged man and the little girl sat in the trunk to secure the position of the corpse so as not to touch the supplies.

The little girl was about twelve or thirteen years old, wearing ripped suspender jeans, her little face was covered with dirt and gray marks, and her hair was in a few dead knots, as if it hadn't been washed for more than ten days.

She was looking at the corpse curiously, a pair of bulging glasses turning.

She cautiously approached the corpse and was about to reach out to touch it, but was stopped by a voice.

"What are you doing! That's a dead man! ”

The middle-aged man took her hand, and since her mother was gone, she had become stranger, making him feel extremely strange as a father.

The girl lowered her head in silence, and the middle-aged man sighed.

The truck stopped on a deserted street, which is also one of the "no man's land", and the middle-aged man jumped from the back compartment to explore this no-man's land and record the situation for the next time to get food. The little girl stayed in the back compartment to guard the supplies.

When the little girl saw that everyone was leaving, she secretly squatted down and stretched out her black hand to poke the corpse.

It was soft and even had a hint of warmth.

Shouldn't corpses all be stiff?

The little girl was puzzled, and just as she was about to explore further, the corpse's fingers moved.

The girl startled, but did not exclaim, and poked her finger uncertainly, noticing that the bluish purple on it was turning flesh-colored.

He's alive?

The girl tore away the weeds and plastic shards covering the corpse's face with her hands, and a withered and skeletal face appeared in front of her, his eyelids were weakly lifted in the deeply sunken eye sockets, and a slit opened in his dry, cracked blue-purple lips.

"Eat...... Eat ......"

He's really not dead! The girl looked at the scene in front of her in shock, the skeleton man was still alive, and she looked at the "resurrected" skeleton man curiously as if she had discovered something interesting.

Hearing the notes coming from his mouth, she thought for a moment, took out a bag of biscuits from the woven bag behind her, peeled off a piece, and tried to feed it to his mouth.

She didn't think about the complicated adult question of whether a person who was badly injured and hammered to death could eat cookies, she just stuffed it into the skeleton man's mouth, and then saw the skeleton man chew and swallow it without chewing. Then she fed it again until the bag of biscuits was finished, and the skeleton man still had a mouthful.

As if she had discovered a new world, she turned out all the food in the belt, and within more than twenty minutes, it was all stuffed into the skeleton man's mouth like feeding a shark, but the skeleton man actually ate it all!

You must know that a braiding belt is enough to feed their group for a month's worth of dry food, and this skeleton man actually ate it all in one go.

After eating a large bag of food, the skeleton man turned over as if he had suddenly gained strength, crawled in front of the other belts, and opened the belts himself to find all kinds of food to stuff into his mouth.

The girl watched in horror at this strange scene, and she leaned against the wall of the carriage and watched blankly as the skeleton man swallowed bags of food, not even the flour, and ate it all like milk powder.

After leaving four or five empty woven bags, the Skeleton Man finally stopped eating, and he turned his head to stare at the girl with blood-red eyes that were almost protruding, and his dry vocal cords hissed.

"You...... Be...... Who"

The girl tilted her head curiously, looking at the bizarre skeleton in front of her, neither frightened nor afraid, some just curious.

"Are you human?"

The skeleton man's blood-red eyes rolled downward, as if to look at himself, and after a moment, he chuckled at the top of his voice.

"Huh...... Scold...... Not dead yet...... Not dead! ”

He seemed to see himself clearly, and a horrible smile leaked from his protruding cheekbones.

After a moment, he glanced around again, and seemed to have woken up from the stupor of "death". Under the girl's incredible gaze, he actually rolled over and climbed up, leaned against the wall on the other side of the trunk, and stared at the girl with blood-red eyes.

"You...... Saved me? ”

By this time he was able to speak normally, but his voice sounded rotten and withered due to his vocal cords.

The girl shook her head.

He stared at the girl for a moment of silence, then asked, "Where is this?" ”

The girl pointed to the nameplate on the carriage, which read "Lake XXXX".

"This is Lake City?" He asked in surprise, and the girl nodded.

He was silent again, and after a while, he began to slowly tear off the weeds and plastic debris from his body, and the skeleton man wrapped in a layer of skin was completely exposed to the girl's field of vision.

Looking at the girl's surprised gaze, the skeleton man smiled self-deprecatingly, picked up the black broken knife from the car, shrank down the back door of the car, and limped with the broken knife.

"What's your name?" The skeletal face turned to look at the girl.

The girl was stunned for a moment before replying: "Salty round, salty fish, yuan." ”

The Skeleton Man smiled horribly, he was leaving the crowd, he was also a "monster" and could not be seen by others.