Chapter 44: Events of Growing Rules
"Thank you...... Thanks, did you save me?" the middle-aged man began.
I nodded, helped the middle-aged man up and sat down in his chair, "What just happened?"
A flash of fear flashed in the middle-aged man's eyes, and he said tremblingly: "All dead, all dead!" As he spoke, the middle-aged man grabbed my hand tightly, "Save me, save me, take me away!"
"Sir, please don't get excited, we'll take you to a safe place. At the same time, we want you to tell us what happened. Bernadette's hands glowed green, and the middle-aged man's excitement gradually subsided.
I glanced at Bernadette in surprise, I didn't expect her to have the ability to soothe people.
Bernadette looked at me and smiled, "My abilities are all auxiliary abilities, and I used to soothe the hearts of some exorcists in the church who were frightened by spirits. ”
I broke free from the middle-aged man's hand, looked at him and said, "Listen, we'll get you to safety, but you have to tell us what happened." ”
"Good...... Good ......" The middle-aged man calmed down his emotions and kept taking deep breaths.
"We were originally sheltered in a miniature bomb shelter under the government's arrangement, and we were not allowed to come out. Of course, we didn't dare to come out, after all, the changes in the city frightened us.
We just hid in bomb shelters, living on the food and water stored inside. It wasn't until ten days ago that we were notified that the city was in ruins and needed to be rebuilt, so let's continue to wait for the arrangement. ”
Speaking of this, a look of fear appeared in the middle-aged man's eyes, and his voice trembled slightly.
I gave Bernadette a look, and Bernadette understood and began to calm the middle-aged man's emotions.
The middle-aged man's voice finally calmed down again, "This kind of life was not until five days ago, when corpses began to appear in the bomb shelter. ”
"What kind of corpse?" my eyes lit up.
"Uh...... The whole corpse was extremely emaciated, like a layer of skin stuck to the bones, the eyes were deeply sunken, and all the internal organs and flesh disappeared without a trace. ”
I pulled up a picture of the deceased's body from the projection screen of the communication bracelet and asked, "Is this the case?"
"Yes, yes! That's right!" the middle-aged man exclaimed excitedly.
Bernadette began to calm him down again.
"And then?"
"The whole bomb shelter was in a panic after the discovery of the body, and there were eight government personnel in charge of guarding the bomb shelter at that time, after the investigation was inconclusive. The four stayed behind to continue guarding the bomb shelter, and the four chose to go out to ask for help.
But after the four men left, they did not return, and the bodies of the four people left behind were also found outside the bomb shelter the next day. ”
I frowned, the government personnel in the middle-aged population should be the personnel of the Alliance of All Races. Because of the fear of accidents, each bomb shelter has a different number of personnel responsible for safety according to the size.
The combat effectiveness of these personnel is not weak, and it is more than enough to deal with the black monster, but they are still dead, so it seems that the reason for the death may not be only the black monster.
The middle-aged man continued: "At first we chose to wait in the bomb shelter, but three days ago...... Suddenly a large number of dead people died in the bomb shelter, and a large number of people died at once!
In fear, we all fled from the bomb shelters. After leaving the bomb shelter, I lived every day in fear, and I was constantly worried about being attacked.
In search of food and water, I sneaked to the city center, which had already been built. As a result, I had just found a convenience store when I was attacked by the black monster. Speaking of this, the middle-aged man's expression finally relaxed, "Thank you for saving me, if it weren't for you, I would have died." ”
I was lost in thought, and judging by the accounts of middle-aged people, the number of dead was far more than the dozens. Moreover, the S City after the mutation is so big, to kill people and devour flesh and blood in different places, there must be a lot of black monsters, and there are even monsters that are more powerful than black monsters.
But those monsters seem to be killing people very carefully, constantly delaying time. So, what are they hiding by collecting flesh and delaying time? I have a vague feeling that this event is far more simple than we imagined.
I opened the communication bracelet to contact Sophia, and Sophia's virtual image was projected in front of me.
"What's wrong?"
"Sister Sophia, have you ever checked the bomb shelter?"
"Bomb shelter?" Sophia was stunned for a moment, "No." The bomb shelter is protected by Alliance fighters, and they will call us for help if something happens, so we haven't searched the bomb shelter yet. ”
I glanced at Sophia deeply, "Then Senior Sister should arrange for someone to go to the various air-raid shelters to take a look, the middle-aged man I rescued came from a miniature air-raid shelter, and it is currently certain that the soldiers of the alliance are all dead, and more than half of the humans in the air-raid shelter are also killed and injured." Even, it's almost dead. ”
"What!" Sophia's body shook, she already realized the seriousness of the matter! An accident in the air-raid shelter was not a trivial matter! Even if it was a miniature air-raid shelter, there were about 100 humans inside!
Thinking of this, Sophia regretted for a while, in fact, the real reason why she did not choose to send someone to inspect the air-raid shelter was that she did not pay enough attention to this incident, thinking that the air-raid shelter guarded by alliance fighters would not be in trouble.
Sophia forced herself to calm down and said, "I know about this matter, I will immediately contact Lin Ruoqian and Teacher Su, as well as the acting head of the alliance branch, and organize a team to conduct a search." "If the other party can even solve the alliance soldiers, then it will not be of much use to the members of the student union and the discipline committee, and they will mainly rely on the combat power of the alliance branch.
"Hmm. I nodded, "Nadette and I will go to the bomb shelter first." ”
"Hmm. ”
As soon as the conversation was closed, a document came from the communication bracelet, which was a projection map of S City after the expansion of the mutation and the distribution of various bomb shelters. Nearly ninety percent of the bomb shelters are in the outer city and suburbs, and there are only four in the inner city, and there are only four large ones.
"Okay, we've contacted the government and someone will pick you up soon, and they'll take you to a safe place when the time comes. "I'm humane to middle-aged.
"Thank you. The middle-aged man said with a grateful face.
"Hmm. I nodded, took Bernadella aside, and asked her what was going on with the wailing of souls.
Bernadette explained: "My abilities are basically support types, healing injuries, calming the mind, restoring physical strength, etc. I also have a special ability to hear the voice of the soul. ”
"The voice of the soul?" I raised an eyebrow.
"That's right. Bernadette nodded, "But this ability can only be heard when the soul fluctuates violently, and I can only hear it when the soul of this middle-aged man is devoured and wails." Speaking of this, Bernadette glanced at the middle-aged man, "Now his soul is broken, but because he found it in time, it is only a tenth missing, and it has little impact." ”
Devouring the soul, I rubbed my eyebrows, how did I feel that things were getting bigger and bigger. Devouring flesh and devouring souls are two completely different levels, at least for now, in terms of my strength, the existence of the soul is also very weak.