Chapter 72: The Instinct of Life

At this moment, everyone was stunned, and the flashlight in the hand of the man with the child flashed, and the light shone on our side. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The mobile phone in the elite man's hand had been rolled out for a long time, and he was now lying on the ground, his body limp, and he didn't move. By the light of the flashlight, I could see blood gushing from the back of his head from between his black hair, and it looked like a black mass in the dark.

The smell of fresh blood seeped into the end of the nose, and the nose, which had just adapted to the fishy smell of the space, felt extremely uncomfortable at the moment. Because the distance was too close, the scene in the eyes was intertwined with the blood, which made people feel sick to the stomach for a while, and almost nauseated.

Behind the elite man is the man who has been overlooked by all of us - the old lady. She also held a sizable gray-white stone in her hand, the edges of which were stained with bright red blood.

At this moment, the strength of her hand seemed to be no longer enough to bear the weight of the stone, and the stone slipped from her hand and fell to the "ground" below us with a "thud", shaking a few wisps of fine earth from the top of our heads.

It was actually her, at a moment that no one expected, she directly picked up a stone and knocked the elite man who was confronting others to the ground.

The man lying on the ground did not move, blood gushed out from the back of his head, and he did not know if he was still alive.

We were all stunned, and the child's father instinctively quickly removed the light of the flashlight and pressed the child into his arms so hard that he would not see the moment.

"Brute! You are the dregs of society, and all of a sudden, you think of killing people! In order to live, do you even ignore your conscience? The old woman changed her gentleness and kindness just now, panted vigorously, and said sharply in a deep voice.

I felt a chill creep up my spine, for her words were all about justice and self-defense, and there was a grim and vicious light in her eyes that shouldn't have belonged.

In the past, my consciousness was relatively dull, and I was never able to see through the hidden face of people and see what they were thinking. But at some point, my intuition became extremely sharp, and when I saw it, many things became certain in my heart.

The old man's shot was too decisive, too accurate, and too heavy, and the position and strength of the blow seemed to be to directly deprive the elite man of his ability to act, and even to say that she didn't mind directly beating him to a severe head injury and causing death.

For this blow, she used the strength of her whole body, so now she is panting hard, and her whole person is paralyzed.

Among us, she is old and infirm, so if what we decide is to reduce the number of people alive in order to survive, she must be the first to be sacrificed, for she has neither the value to be preserved as a labor force, nor the ability to resist and can be destroyed with little effort.

If it was before, I would definitely believe that it was because she saw through the terrible conspiracy of "our" and was emotionally agitated that she would fight back and use all her strength to defeat this man, which is an act of justice and self-defense.

But now, I understand that the truth of the matter is not so. Although this mother-in-law is very old, at this moment, her whole body is burning with a strong desire to survive, and it has not decreased in the slightest because of her age.

As shown in the film, the elderly give up the chance to survive and say, "I've lived enough," and the like, which simply can't be applied here. In the face of life and death, anyone's survival instinct is equally strong.

Appearing in such a posture is the only way for her to survive. She must have been an ordinary person when she was young, at least, she was a woman with an iron will, much stronger than me now.

The reason why I decided this in my heart was also because my inner eyes had just been unconsciously opened under the horror.

This already terrifying small space filled with six people suddenly turned into an even more terrifying scene.

If possible, I don't want to see the monsters in them up close in this situation.

Six people, if you add the temporary residence of Xi Sang Zhiyan on my body, everyone has a strange body, even the child's body. Now our bodies are crowded together because of the cramped space, so when I open my inner eye, I can see that some of the monsters are almost close enough to stick to my face.

When the inner eye is opened, darkness is no longer called darkness to me. I was able to see clearly in the dark, and I could see their souls through their monsters.

Directly opposite me was the thin, slender old lady, whose figure had suddenly more than doubled in my eyes. Because her whole body was heavily entwined by the thick roots of a giant python, she looked like a bloated giant.

Obviously, these giant roots, which were originally invisible to the naked eye, are a "monster".

Name: Root of Life

Rank: Low Order

Quantity: Extremely much

Attributes: Formed by the will to survive, it can produce excitatory stimulants, motivating people to take survival as the first priority and use any means to achieve the purpose of survival.

Food: Death Fear.

Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm approaching the end of my life, and my physical condition is getting worse day by day, so I have more and more fear of death, right? Life in the world, as long as the life is not too bad, will have nostalgia for this world of flowers, no matter what kind of wind and candle old age, saying "through life and death", most of them are just comforting themselves and others.

It's just that the inevitable death is the helplessness that people have to accept as human beings.

Such nostalgia and fear will form a huge root of life in a person, and help him to strive for hope in life. The number of such monsters is extremely large, so many people who are unfortunate enough to fall into a desperate situation and struggle on the verge of death should have such monsters, right?

Actually, this monster cannot be considered "evil", on the contrary, in most cases, the monster should play a rather positive role. It is only in extraordinary circumstances such as the present that it prompts people to do things that can be very cruel. I believe that it was this monster that made the old woman burst out with such great power, and that she could quickly make up her mind in such a short time.

In novels, in film and television dramas, many people have fantasized about the situation when the end times come. At that time, all the good material conditions had been shattered, and people were fighting each other for what few resources they had to survive, and they did not hesitate to kill each other, just as we had just come to a close.

If the end times really come, then most people's bodies will be entrenched and covered by this stout "root of life", right?

Look at the elite man lying on the ground without moving, although he has lost consciousness, the monster that accompanied him has not had time to get out of his body. The strangeness in him is a completely different look.