Chapter 39: Monsters and Zombies, a Family of Three
There was a sound of Suosuo.
"What's that?" The sharp cry of the dumplings made Xia Mi's heart suddenly. Fixedly, her pale countenance was covered with a thin layer of frost.
Under a piece of red silk next to the iron cage, a mass of black and red objects moved. Holding back the discomfort in his heart, Xia Mi waved his hand behind his back, signaling the two of them to continue walking towards the top of the stairs.
Receiving her signal, the two merchants and Fu quietly moved against the light.
This moment seemed to ignite the flame of a firecracker, and the moving object instantly sped up its movements, and from time to time it let out a violent roar. Hearing its voice, the black bear and tiger, which had been standing still for a long time, also moved again.
There was a bloody breath wafting in the air, and feeling the longing gazes of the black bear and the lion, Shang Fu subconsciously wrapped Luo Fei in his arms tighter.
Xia Mi's eyes were like a black mist, and he couldn't see the end at a glance. The sweat on her forehead flowed into her eyes, and the tingling and sour feeling were superimposed layer by layer, but she didn't dare to blink.
The atmosphere in the performance hall became tense for a moment.
Just when the tense strings in the minds of the three of them were about to break, the black shadow finally moved completely out from under the red silk cloth.
Xia Mi's gaze froze, and his fingertips pinched into his palm. She could see clearly that the black shadow was a person. Perhaps, it is more appropriate to describe it as a monster.
There was no place on his body that was intact, and the black viscous saliva almost covered his whole body, and he could only see some of the turned wounds bitten by the beast sporadically stained with dark red blood. There was only one arm left on him, and he was weakly propped up on the ground, and he raised his head at the three of them.
"Ho-ho-ho-"
A low, high-pitched voice came into the eardrums, causing several people to frown.
Xia Mi subconsciously clenched the crescent moon, his eyes looked at the inhuman-shaped zombies underground, but he was wary of the black bear and tiger. To her surprise, neither the black bear nor the tiger moved.
Tentatively retreating to the position of the merchant, the black bear did not move again, but the zombie changed a little. There was a hint of excitement and pleading in its calm and numb eyes.
A guess faintly appeared in Xia Mi's heart: this zombie seemed to be able to not only control the beast, but even seemed to retain the emotions of a human being.
Suppressing the horror in her heart, she decided to take a gamble.
"Bai Jiang, you take Luo Fei to join Tang Jin first."
Not only Bai Jiang, but even the always calm businessman also showed two points of surprise. Unexpectedly, the dumplings that have been frequently fried since the appearance of the merchant did not say much.
blinked quietly, Xia Mi didn't explain much, and directly waved his hand to signal him to leave.
Bai Jiang pursed his lips slightly, looked at Xia Mi deeply as if he had something in common, picked up Luo Fei and left. As Xia Mi expected, neither zombies nor black bears and tigers stopped them.
Glancing at the exit of the performance hall, Xia Mi fell on the zombie again.
Obviously, he couldn't feel the breath of a living person, but from his actions, Xia Mi felt that this was a person who still had reason, not a zombie. Rao was so, she still didn't plan to act rashly until she figured out what the zombie had lured them into.
He Shang Fu piled up the ribbons he had just collected on the ground and lit a fire, and Xia Mi noticed that the black bear and tiger stepped back in fear before turning off the flashlight.
The ground was sticky with an unpleasant smell of blood, but Xia Mi sat directly on the ground without blinking. Her eyes were fixed on the movement below the high platform, but her mouth was talking to the merchant.
"There's something wrong with this zombie."
"Well, they caught Luo Fei to lure us over."
didn't expect him to think of going with himself, Xia Mi glanced at him slightly, but saw his side face red by the firelight.
"Be careful!"
A slender but powerful arm climbed up her waist, and Xia Mi reflexively wanted to struggle, but stopped when she caught a glimpse of Shang Fu's next move.
Where she had been sitting, a red-eyed rabbit with a pitch-black body froze straight there. After the mutation, the sharp front paws were bent forward, and it could be expected that if Xia Mi hadn't avoided it, he should have been caught at this moment.
The crisis was over, and she noticed that she was still half-leaning on the arms of the merchant. She thanked her coldly, but the tips of her ears were slightly red.
As soon as she stood still, she was about to kick the rabbit into the fire when she heard the zombie roar again, which had not been silent for a long time.
"Ahh......h Ho Ho ......"
He seemed to be saying something, and Xia Mi strangely heard a hint of eagerness in his tone. Retracting the foot that touched the rabbit, she turned it over with the crescent moon.
The completely silent rabbit straightened up and rolled on the ground before stopping, and a picture fell from its sharp claws.
Glancing at Shang Fu, he found that his expression was also full of dazedness, Xia Mi raised his eyebrows and bent down slightly. As she moved, the zombies on the ground raised their heads with difficulty as if they were expecting something.
In a terrifying creak, Xia Mi pulled a piece of red silk beside him and turned over the photo that was buckled on the ground.
Blue sky and white clouds, clear lake and green willows. The scenery is good, but what is more attractive in the picture are the three people in the center. In front of a pair of middle-aged men and women stood a little girl with two ponytails, and the smiles of the three of them were full of happiness and warmth.
Xia Mi was stunned.
In her previous life, she had never seen such a pure smile when she entered the palace, and most of the people she had met since the end of the world had exposed their ugly side, and she hadn't seen these warm things for seven or eight years.
After a moment of trance, she reacted.
Handing the photo to the Shang Fu, Xia Mi squinted at the zombie on the ground that twisted his neck into a strange arc. He seemed extremely excited to see her look over, and his only remaining hand struggled forward, leaving two scratches on the already dark ground.
The zombies' bodies were stiff, which was why they wouldn't go up and down the stairs, but under Xia Mi's gaze, the zombies on the ground curled up their thumbs, ring fingers, and little fingers with difficulty, leaving only their index fingers and middle fingers.
Two? Why?
Xia Mi stared at him for a while, but he still didn't understand what he wanted to express, his eyebrows were tightly twisted together, and a pair of hooking peach blossom eyes also showed a trace of doubt and impatience.
The zombie seemed to be in a hurry, and howled a few lowly.
In this shrill voice, she heard Shang Fu's voice: "Xia Mi, look. ”