Chapter 30: Soup
Ni Ya woke up after being attracted by a strange smell. When she opened her eyes, it was already noon.
"It's so fragrant......"
She sat up in a daze, smelling the rich scent wafting through the air. Ni Ya couldn't believe it, this was the taste of food!
"Xiaoya, you're awake." Liu Dequan stayed by the pot and saw her wake up slowly, so he filled a bowl of soup and brought it to her: "You fainted from hunger last night, but fortunately, we found something to eat this morning." Come, take a sip of soup to warm your stomach. ”
"Thank you." Ni Ya held the bowl excitedly, and didn't care about blowing, so she picked up the bowl and drank it. Liu Dequan sat beside her, watching the other party drink it all, and a trace of strange emotion flashed in his bloodshot eyes.
Ni Ya drank more than half of it, and then she put down the bowl with satisfaction and carefully studied the food in her hand. The soup in the bowl is milky white, and there is a layer of gold-colored oil flowers floating on it, and when she tastes it, Ni Ya shuddered, and an indescribable fragrance rippled between her lips and teeth, which made her have an endless aftertaste.
"It's ...... Meat? She looked at the small piece of white meat peeking out at the bottom of the bowl, and her eyes lit up.
Liu Dequan handed over a pair of chopsticks and nodded: "Yes, you can taste it." ”
Ni Ya has been hungry for a long time, and when it comes to meat, her eyes are straight. She nodded, without the slightest doubt, took the chopsticks and picked up the meat and put it in her mouth. This pot of soup should have been boiled for a long time, the meat was stewed very badly, and the juice overflowed in one bite, soft and smooth, and melted in the mouth, and the tender Ni Ya almost bit her tongue.
"It's delicious! I didn't expect there to be ingredients here! We still have to save it......" Ni Ya put down her chopsticks excitedly and asked Liu Dequan: "Where did you find food?" Is this pork? ”
"This ......" Liu Dequan's eyes were a little evasive, and he didn't dare to look at the other party head-on.
Ni Ya was a little strange, she looked around and found that Lin Jie had disappeared, while Yin Xiong and Meng Yu were silently guarding the fire, surrounding the boiling iron pot, holding the bowl and drinking the soup with a numb face.
And Xu Rui and Zhou Qiong are no longer in this room.
"What about them?!" Ni Ya realized that something was wrong, and asked sharply, "What did Lin Jie do to them?!" ”
"You misunderstood Xiaoya, they are locked up in the next room! It's okay, I don't believe you can go and see for yourself. Liu Dequan handed her the key and pointed to the locked doorway on the other side.
Ni Ya was puzzled, she didn't know what happened when she was in a coma, and when she heard Liu Dequan say this, she naturally had to determine the situation of those two people first. So, she opened the door and saw Xu Rui, who was tied up and thrown on the ground unconscious, and Zhou Qiong, who was still delirious and muttering in the corner.
Seeing that the two of them were fine, she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Why do this to them?" Ni Ya took out the dagger from her arms and cut off the rope for Xu Rui.
"Don't come here, don't kill me......" Zhou Qiong curled up in the corner, her frightened eyes full of tears.
"It's okay, don't be afraid." Ni Ya got up, wanting to appease the other party. However, at this moment, Liu Dequan behind him suddenly let out an exclamation: "Be careful! ”
I saw that Xu Rui, who was originally unconscious, suddenly opened his eyes and snatched the dagger from Ni Ya's hand, it seemed that he wanted to rush up and kill Liu Dequan.
"Are you crazy?!" Ni Ya was taken aback and immediately stopped the other party. If it was in normal times, she would naturally not be able to beat the other party. But Xu Rui was weak, had not eaten for a long time, and was seriously injured.
Ni Ya just pushed hard and knocked the other party to the ground.
She snatched the dagger from Xu Rui's hand and said solemnly: "If you kill the Dream Breaker in the mission, you will be disposed of by the space!" When is it now, why are you still thinking about killing each other? We've found food, and as long as we're united, we'll be ......."
"Food?! Hahahahaha......haha
When Xu Rui heard this, he repeated her words, and then laughed out loud as if he had heard some big joke: "Do you know why we are locked up here? Ask them again, what is the food cooked in that pot?! ”
He almost roared at Liu Dequan, the green tendons on his neck burst out, his eyes were blood-red, and his face was full of despair.
The dagger in Ni Ya's hand fell to the ground with a "snap", and her mind suddenly became blank.
She looked at Zhou Qiong and Xu Rui blankly, and her eyes shifted to the boiling soup again.
Yes, in the past twenty days, they have almost turned over the town, not to mention food, not even a single ant has been seen. But in just one night, Liu Dequan and the others found fresh meat......
"Old Liu, what exactly did you just give me to eat?"
Ni Ya's voice trembled, but she tried her best to pull out a smile, unable to believe what she was thinking. She still had the last glimmer of hope for Liu Dequan's answer.
"Xiaoya, you also know, in this situation, where to find food...... We can't help it! Anyway, people are dead, and we are only doing this to survive! ”
Before Liu Dequan finished speaking, Ni Ya had already rushed to the door, picking her throat and throwing up desperately. She threw up and wept at the same time, almost vomiting her bile.
What she had just eaten turned out to be the corpse of her dead companion!
Ni Ya was vomiting, and Yu Guang noticed a dirty dress stained with blood and dust at the door, which was the coat he covered for the other party when he buried Feng Huan yesterday.
What she didn't expect was that Liu Dequan, Lin Jie and others, who were crazy with hunger, took advantage of the night to dig up Feng Huan's miserable corpse and cook it into broth.
Although Xu Rui desperately opposed, he still couldn't resist everyone's wishes. Under hunger, the human instinct for survival has long surpassed the shackles of morality, no one cares about the past, for them, the most important thing is to fill their stomachs and survive.
"You ...... You're all brutes! Ni Ya pointed at Liu Dequan and trembled angrily: "Now I finally believe it, you killed Feng Huan!" But I didn't expect you to not only kill her, but also use her corpse as food! What's the difference between you and those monsters! ”
"You can't say that." After Liu Dequan's disguise was recognized, he immediately changed his face. The kind and smiling appearance before no longer exists, he stepped forward, grabbed Ni Ya's slender arm, and said viciously: "Didn't you eat it just now?" Who told me that the broth was delicious and delicious? You are now a demon who eats human blood and human flesh, just like us, and you have no right to blame others! Of course, I gave you the meat out of kindness, and you can eat it if you don't want to, just to save our rations. ”
"Hehe, you obviously want to pull me into the water!" Ni Ya sneered: "While you yourself fell into the abyss, you also wanted to bring someone else. ”
She looked at Yin Xiong and Meng Yu not far away with disgust: "But I'm different from you, I still have a bottom line, I'm still a person!" ”
"You lunatics!" Xu Rui staggered up, helped Zhou Qiong to the door, and said to Liu Dequan: "Even if I die outside, I don't want to be in the same room with you!" ”
Seeing this, Ni Ya broke free of Liu Dequan, picked up her backpack from the ground and stepped forward to him, "I'll go with you." ”
“.”
A cold voice came from behind him, Lin Jie walked down the stairs step by step, his pants and coat were splashed with blood, and he was still carrying a black plastic bag in his hand, and at this time, large drops of dark black blood were seeping out of the bag.
"The meat has been gnawed by ghouls, and a lot of it is inedible. The only thing that can satisfy the stomach is boiled into soup. Lin Jie licked the blood from the knife, and dismembering the corpse made him regain the pleasure of committing a crime in reality. He looked at the three people outside the door cruelly, and showed a weird smile: "So, you can't go." ”