Chapter 8: The Weeping Child
In front of Situ Shize was a ruin, as if two mechanized armies had fought here, with ruins, craters, scorched earth, car wreckage, and corpses everywhere.
"What kind of battle does this have to happen for this hellish scene to happen?" Situ Shize got out of the car and walked into the ruins on foot. The east-west highway here is the G40 highway, which is said to be not densely populated, but the congealed blood and corpses everywhere are estimated to have killed no less than thousands, and these people must have been attacked by some high-level creature when they evacuated en masse.
Situ Shize walked in the ruins, and occasionally found the form of being suppressed half of his body, which should have been mutated after being suppressed after death, Situ Shize stepped forward to understand the pain of the other party. After looking around and seeing no useful clues or supplies, Situ Shize shook his head and returned to his car, the road to the north was blocked, so he had to make a detour to the east. The map shows that there are still a few more roads that can go north. What Situ Shize didn't pay attention to was that there were several paw prints in the place where the viaduct collapsed in the distance, and the pier of the viaduct was destroyed by the owner of this claw, and the detour to the east also allowed Situ Shize to pick up a life.
After crossing the Macha River, Situ Shize drove to a factory area, most of which had been temporarily closed before the end of the world. Therefore, there is no obstacle for Situ Shize to go all the way, and the major factories in Jinling Industrial Park are basically intact, which is estimated to be cheap Bagua Island and Jiangxin Island, Situ Shize thought to himself.
The road was relatively safe, there were few walking corpses on the streets, just a few small fish and shrimp wandering on the streets, and Situ Shize didn't see them at all. Last night, absorbing the life essence of that fourth-level walking corpse made Situ Shize's bottleneck to break through the law of contact have begun to loosen, and it is estimated that as long as the opportunity comes, the breakthrough will be logical.
Whether before or after the apocalypse, Situ Shize has never driven as happily as today, and after getting on the G40 highway from the industrial park, the road is unimpeded. At this time, Situ Shize slowly stopped the car, and a short figure appeared on the highway in the distance, a little boy was digging something in an abandoned car.
Situ Shize drove the car to a place not far from the little boy and stopped, judging from the child's movements, it is unlikely that he is a walking corpse, although the clothes are very dirty, but they are very neat, judging from the dress, it should be the child of a nearby villager. The little boy also noticed Situ Shize, staring at each other with big eyes and looking at each other uneasily, with his hands behind his back, and his body couldn't stop retreating.
"Children, don't be afraid, my brother has food here. After Situ Shize finished speaking, he threw a ham sausage at the little boy.
As if he really felt that Situ Shize had no malicious intent, the little boy bent down to pick up the ham sausage at his feet, tore open the package and ate it in a big bite. Seeing the child's appearance, even if he choked, he couldn't stop stuffing it into his mouth, Situ Shize knew that this child should have not eaten for a long time. Situ Shize slowly walked up to the child, handed over a bottle of water, and asked, "Little friend, what about your family? Why are you here alone? Aren't you afraid?"
The little boy timidly looked at Situ Shize who was squatting in front of him, took the water and did not answer, but took two steps back, bowed his head and destroyed the food in front of him. Situ Shize was not in a hurry, so he sat on the ground and looked at the little boy.
Finally, the little boy finished eating, smacked his lips with satisfaction, and didn't look back as if he was running on the right side of the road, running two steps, and the little boy stopped and looked back at Situ Shize. Situ Shize understood what the little boy meant, turned around and went to the car, picked up the backpack with food, and followed.
After a piece of farmland, Situ Shize saw several farmhouses from a distance, and the little boy in Situ Shize's arms pointed there and motioned Situ Shize to go there. This farmhouse is a typical two-story small building in the countryside, Situ Shize jumped into the yard with the little boy in his arms, put the little boy down, and then followed the little boy to the cellar of the farmhouse. It turned out that there were two other children in this cellar, one of whom had already lost his breath, and the body that was still warm told Situ Shize that he had just died, and the other girl had also fallen into a coma.
Situ Shize picked up the girl who fell into a coma, walked out of the cellar quickly, and said as he walked: "Follow me, she is now having a high fever, I have compressed biscuits in my backpack, put them in hot water to make porridge." After speaking, without waiting for the little boy to answer, he was about to enter the house, but as soon as he opened the door, Situ Shize was stunned. It turned out that there were four dead people lying in this house, who died after being inserted into the head by a fork, and it should have turned into walking corpses. Situ Shize exclaimed in his heart, the four walking corpses should have been killed by three children.
Without looking at these walking corpses, Situ Shize took the child to the second floor, wrapped the little girl who was in a fever with the quilt first, and then returned to the first floor to boil water. Situ Shize, who had never done farm work, was choked by the smoke and coughed, and walked out of the house to catch his breath before holding his breath and entering the house. Situ Shize walked into the house, threw a corpse directly out in one hand, and then looked at the little boy like a demonstration, and the result was still the disdain on the other party's face.
After a while, Situ Shize sat on a chair on the second floor and watched the little boy feed the little girl compressed biscuit porridge spoonful by spoonful, and joked: "This can't be your childhood sweetheart, right? How old are you? Not more than ten years old? Such a young child is in early love." ”
Situ Shize's joke still got a roll of the other party's eyes.
"Gotcha, get busy, I'll go down and deal with your companions. He's been a walking corpse wandering around the cellar for a while. Situ Shize said boredly.
"Wait, wait a minute!" the little boy spoke for the first time, and Situ Shize looked into the child's eyes as if he had discovered a new world. "That's my brother, leave it to me later. The little boy finished and continued to feed the little girl.
The world seemed to disappear as if there was a sound, Situ Shize sat there and watched the two children quietly, and at a certain moment, the little boy put down the bowl and walked out of the room by himself. Situ Shize knew what he was going to do, and he was afraid that he would lose, so he followed him downstairs.
The little boy didn't know where to find a farm fork, dragged it to the cellar mouth, looked at the little walking corpse in the cellar with blank eyes and raised his head and roared, the little boy couldn't stop crying down, and tried to do it several times, but the raised farm fork was put down.
Situ Shize walked up to the little boy, stretched out his hand to take the farm fork, and said in a low voice: "I didn't want to kill my colleagues and friends at first, but they became food for other walking corpses. The walking corpse will eat the same kind when he is very hungry, he is no longer your brother, if you are not willing to kill it, it is best to seal the cellar mouth, he will naturally die slowly if he does not get food. Later, when I have a chance, I will come back and pull him up and find a place to bury him. The world has changed, and sometimes we have to give up some things so that we can live better. ”
The little boy wiped the tears from his face, snatched the steel fork in Situ Shize's hand, gritted his teeth and stabbed the steel fork into his brother's head, after doing all this, the little boy couldn't stop his tears at all. Seeing this, Situ Shize leaned into the cellar, picked up the body of the little boy's brother, put it at the little boy's feet, and then quietly looked at the crying other party. He knew that he needed to vent at this time, and it would feel a lot better to cry out.