Hurry up, Huaishi.

Hurry up, or it's too late.

Huai Shi gasped, clenching the iron pickaxe in his hand in the darkness of the moonlight.

I tried my best, shoveling the dirt under my feet, sweating profusely, but I didn't dare to stop, I was pulled by invisible fear, and I couldn't stop.

The shadow behind him swelled in the moonlight, smirking silently.

As if looking down, gazing at him abandoning the soil, sinking little by little, is like digging his own grave.

Until his shovel slammed into something invisible, and sparks flew.

Huai Shi was stunned for a moment, stretched out her trembling hand, brushed away the soil, and glimpsed the heart of iron and stone that was already cold, and under the soil, someone laughed softly.

So mocking.

When Huai Shi retreated in horror, a hand stretched out from the self-dug grave, and suddenly clenched his wrist, and in the dirt and dust, his own face appeared, raised his head, and smiled at him:

"Huaishi, what are you looking for?"

Darkness strikes.

The rainstorm fell, and the roar of trains could be heard in the distance, and the cemetery was completely clear.

Huai Shi stood in front of the tombstone, staring at the picture of her grandfather on the tombstone, and heard the sound of an argument behind her, a man and a woman, hysterical and impatient, arguing with each other, as if they wanted to blame each other for the world's faults.

Even if the funeral is not over yet.

The distribution of each inheritance is discussed.

When Huai Shi finally mustered up the courage and turned around, the voice disappeared without a trace.

Only two skeletons were left nestled in the drizzle, and the dark eyes were quietly staring at themselves.

Huai Shi's eyes were dark, and he covered his face tiredly, but suddenly a mocking voice sounded again, from all around.

In the interval after class, the boys gathered around him, laughing playfully, pushing and kicking, looking at the wooden man with his head down, expecting him to resist beyond his means.

"He's a thief! He's been here several times!" An impatient middle-aged woman tugged at his collar and pulled something out of his hand: "You still lie to me, where did you get the money to buy things!"

Suddenly teeth erupted from the collar, eating him from the inside, and when he opened his eyes, he saw the world rolling and contracting, and everyone spasmed, and his skin cracked like a lotus.

The blood in the lotus flower surged, engulfing him.

......

Nightmares, endless nightmares.

In the endless gloom, Huai Shi felt as if an invisible tentacle was wrapping him up little by little, shrinking, pulling, layering, making him fall towards the deepest part of the quagmire.

Reliving all the pain.

Endless.

Huai Shi stared at everything calmly, from beginning to end, without saying a word.

Wait quietly.

It wasn't until I returned to the barren world again, in the decadent mountains and forests, that I saw the haggard man on a horse again.

Wandering aimlessly.

But this time, there were countless stumbling figures behind his horse.

It's like the walking dead.

Moving forward numbly, there was no more glow in the empty pupils, just a shadow and pain.

With that person, he turned his head and looked at Huai Shi.

Again, humble pleas.

"Please, mourn for him......"

The hoarse supplication sounded like thunder, resounding from the depths of his soul again, constantly reverberating, filling every nook and cranny and will, and not allowing him to think or refute any more.

Huai Shi closed her eyes.

Deep, deep, take a breath.

Serious and solemn.

Answer.

It's like Conan, the barbarian detective in the comics, when he was lost in the night, he actually met a former villain organization researcher who was also injected with muscle-building drugs by the villain and turned into a giant.

From a long distance, roaring at each other:

"—Sorry for you!"

In an instant, he burst out, broke free from the shackles of the dream, clenched his fists, and smashed his angry punch into the opponent's face with all his might.

Rumble!

At that moment, the weak dream fell apart under the crow's eyes, and Huai Shi woke up from a long nightmare.

Intense wheezing.

All I heard was the sound of the wheels gurgling and turning.

In this brief trance, he felt his body swaying slightly, as if he was sitting in a carriage, and he didn't even realize where he was.

The long dream had exhausted all his energy, and he wiped the cold sweat from his face, only to feel a burst of exhaustion and weakness in his limbs.

I finally understood why the survivors had fallen into madness...... Now, though, he suspects he's gone crazy too.

He found himself sitting on a tricycle, his body shaking to the sound of the wheels clattering.

Walk through the dark and long corridors.

Friendship's puppy sat across from him, flicking his tongue and gnawing on his head, not knowing where it was, and unwary.

A deep voice rang out from the other side.

"Hey, you, you're finally awake. ”

The voice said, "You were about to cross the border, didn't you? almost broke into the ambush of the ......"

"Huh?" Huai Shi was stunned for a moment.

"When I found you, I almost thought you were dead too, do you feel okay?

With a rattling sound, Bai Gu's palm grabbed a cigar that had burst into skin and sent it to him.

Huai Shi looked up sluggishly and saw ...... Half a skeleton?

That's right, it's only the top half of the skeleton, as if it has just crawled out of formalin, and it has a pungent smell.

It wears an orange miner's hat, a large pile of gold chains, pieces of iron, etc., wrapped horizontally around the skull shelf, and two out-of-print limited cigarette cards.

Now, I was looking up at Huaishi, chewing a cigar in my mouth.

He didn't light a fire, he chewed it.

In the eye socket of the black hole, there was also a little mouse that timidly poked its head out to look at Huai Shi, and then retracted it and hid it in its empty brain.

“...... Can corpses speak?"

There is no doubt that it is a skeleton, and the color of the bones is still dead for a long time, with no brains, no flesh, no internal organs, and no essentia fluctuations.

But he can still move, he can chew cigars, and he has no vocal cords, but he can still make sounds.

"Wow, that's rude to talk like that. The skeleton opened its mouth and spit out the tobacco leaves in its mouth: "This thing is not delicious at all, why do so many people like it?"

"Uh, that's for ignition......"

"Huh?" the skeleton froze for a moment, "Really?"

"Yes, probably after losing one end, light the other end, and use it to suck the ......" Huai Shi gestured for a long time, and it finally understood, and found a lighter from the garbage all over the tricycle body, and finally lit it under Huai Shi's guidance.

Want to take a deep breath.

But of course, without lungs, nothing can be sucked out.

But it makes sense in this kind of place.

However, even if you suck it out, there is no nose and no flesh to absorb nicotine......

The skeleton looked regretfully at the smoking cigar with its head down, and muttered in realization, "Is that so......?" Anyway, thank you. ”

"Well, it's a little thing. ”

Huai Shi smiled reluctantly, looked at the surrounding situation, and asked tentatively, "Did you put me in the car?"

"Yes, I almost thought you were dead and wanted to dig a pit for you, but your friend told me that you were still alive, and it would be nice to pour some water, and I brought you back. ”

The skeleton raised its eyes and looked at him, "You look very energetic, not like everyone else, who is crazy when you sleep well."

Is there anything you're not feeling well? Would you like some medicine?"

"Medicine?"

"yes, I'll see...... I have ...... here" The skeleton rummaged through the trash on the ground and pulled out a large pile of unlabeled potions, "I picked them up from a warehouse, it should work for you, right?"

"Well, that's free. Huai Shi rubbed the bridge of her nose and tried to clear her thoughts.

Figure out the cause and effect.

Roughly speaking, it was Huaishi, the little overlord of Tamba, who came to space, arrived at Helios, was pitted here by his teammates, chased and gnawed by a group of monsters, and almost alarmed something strange, and finally escaped after lurking for a long time, and after falling into syncope, he was picked up by a skeleton shelf?

"Hey, bro, do me a favor—"

The skeleton suddenly spoke, interrupting his thoughts, "Can you tell your friend...... Let it give me back my big rotor?"

"Huh?" Huai Shi was stunned for a moment, looked at the broken dog, and realized that this dog thing was actually grinding his teeth in someone's pelvis!

After tossing for a long time, I finally snatched the food, snatched the bones, and loaded the skeleton. The skeleton let out a sigh of relief, and twisted the lower half of its legless body with no legs, as if it had taken a breath, and felt a lot more comfortable.

“...... Well, man, there's a question I don't know if I should ask or not. Huai Shi scratched her head and asked tentatively, "Excuse me, what are you all the time?"

"Huh?"

The skeleton was stunned for a moment, and then replied with a loud voice: "I don't know wow!"

？？？

Huai Shi's expression twitched.

Ten minutes later, the skeleton broke the starch block he had picked up, fed the mice living in his skull, and explained to Huai Shi: "I woke up from the pile of corpses half a month ago and looked like this, I don't know what happened, it feels like it suddenly popped out of thin air."

I also wanted to find someone to ask me what I was, but everyone was dead, and no one was paying attention to me...... Aside from the two of you, the only thing found alive was this little thing.

But after asking for a long time, it didn't seem to be able to speak. ”

The skeleton shrugged his shoulders regretfully and let out a rattling sound: "I still expect you to know, I want to ask you, where would I have thought that you know less than me." ”

Speaking of this, his tone darkened: "Could it be that I am the only one left in my species?"

No, no, no, if you want to talk about corpses, I don't know how many there are in the whole situation.

It's just that there isn't a skeleton that can move and talk like you.

Huai Shi took a closer look and found that ...... It seemed to be the work of some kind of alchemy, but I couldn't imagine what kind of alchemy could make such a thing.

I can't think of anyone who would be so boring.

The most important thing is that there is not the slightest sign of the secret ritual, as if it is naturally generated......

What is this? Is the dead resurrected?

Huai Shi scratched her head and asked curiously, "That...... Do you remember your name?"

"Huh?"

The skeleton froze for a moment, scratching its head.

It's as if I've never thought about it.

"My name is ...... What's my name......"

He murmured sluggishly, as if trying to remember, but he couldn't be sure, and said to himself trivially: "Like, it's called ...... Pubu ...... What's the matter with Pubu?

In Huaishi's sudden shock, the skeleton suddenly raised his head and snapped his fingers: "I seem to be called Publius!"

“...... What?!"

Huai Shi exclaimed.