Chapter 180: True Purpose
I remember manipulating Xie Xin to make up a fake identity at that time, but casually making it up, the news of the black market is so well-informed, as long as I check it, I know that the organization I made up does not exist at all, but this still can't explain why Shangguan Li wants to thank me.
"I didn't save you."
"You killed Concubine Feiyun, she originally wanted to kill me." Shangguan Li's tone was affirmative, and he walked up to me, "If you don't mind, let's talk while walking?" ”
I continued to walk out of the city, Shangguan was half an arm's length away from me, and we walked the streets like old friends, when in fact I was on high alert.
Shangguan Li and Bai Junyang's temperament is very similar, both of them have the nobility of belonging to the children of the family, Bai Junyang is elegant, and Shangguan Li is gentle.
Shangguan Li in front of me is a little different from when he was in the black market, I can't tell whether it is vicissitudes or melancholy, in short, I feel that he is a person with a story.
He was controlled, abandoned his fiancée, and almost died at the hands of Xiao San, this kind of unfortunate thing will make everyone depressed.
"Sister Ling awakened her super sense of smell, and when she came back from the Song family, she said that Xie Xin was manipulated behind her back." Shangguan Li turned his head to look at me, "The search team found the bodies of Xie Xin and her bodyguards, in a car. ”
Shangguan Li recounted the process of my identity being exposed in a smooth tone, Xie Xin's body was secretly transported back to the capital by Shangguan's family, and the 'Sister Ling' in Shangguan Li's mouth was the 'Miss Shangguan' I had seen in the black market.
She is Shangguan Li's cousin, one year older than him, called Shangguan Ling, and she can smell my smell in the corpse cart through her super sense of smell, and this smell is the same as the smell she smelled in the Song family's reception room.
At that time, in order to take Xie Xin and her bodyguards, I stopped on the roof of the reception room, and I could smell the smell through the roof, and Shangguan Ling's sense of smell caught up with the scanner.
Shangguan Li said that he sold a pass: "How do you guess she knows that the taste is yours?" ”
It wasn't unusual for Li Duo to guess that it was me, because I had confessed my identity to him, so the second time I went, he thought that it might be me who had caused a lot of trouble in the black market.
But Shangguan Ling and I didn't know each other, and I really couldn't think of any connection between her and me, so I shook my head and simply admitted that I couldn't guess.
"Dr. LEN's assistant has jumped ship to the capital, and she has brought a sample of zombies, which Sister Ling has seen and smelled."
When I heard the name LEN again, I subconsciously paused, remembering the appearance of his assistant, but he had several assistants, and they all seemed to be very important to him.
"It's your sample, I'm sorry, you must have experienced something terrible." Shangguan Li's gaze swept over my right arm, and although he was quick to retract, I still noticed.
"He's cut a lot of flesh from me, what did he do?" Although I don't want to recall the strange feeling of the cold knife cutting through the skin, nor do I want to think about the pain of cutting the flesh, they are still hidden in my memory, stirred up by Shangguan's words, like mud and sand under the water.
"There's nothing like that of a replica ability, and I'm sure a lot of people want it."
"You too?"
"Yes, but don't worry, the research center's conclusion has already made everyone die, your cells can no longer be replicated, and no one but you can have this ability."
I frowned, being unique wasn't necessarily a good thing, since the Shangguan family knew that I was a person who was making a big fuss in the black market, and they knew that I had the ability to copy, they didn't take any action.
Shangguan Li seemed to see my doubts and chuckled, but there was indescribable bitterness in his smile: "The Shangguan family and the Song family are in competition, the Song family is ambitious, and grandpa doesn't want to make too many enemies for the Shangguan family, so he hopes to cooperate with Mr. Bai." ”
His eyes wandered to the end of the road, and people who used to live in the capital used to joke about the traffic jams during rush hour, but now it is difficult to see a car on the road.
Legs and bicycles became the most common means of transportation, and street vendors occasionally rode tricycles, but most people used wheelbarrows.
The once clean and tidy road is gradually showing its decay, not because of the cracks in the fingerboard or the lack of bricks on the sidewalk, but because of its desolation and decadence.
The station billboards that have not been scrubbed for a long time, as well as the small advertising stickers on the walls and the ground that have not been updated, waste paper and broken plastic bags swirl with the wind, sometimes pasted onto the lampposts of the streetlights, and then slipped to the feet of pedestrians.
It is estimated that no one is willing to pay for the cleaning of the environment, and the garbage heaps on the side of the street are as many as flowers in the mountains, and when they came out last night, it was already dark, and now the sky is blue and white, and all the dirt and ugliness are all on the bright side, and the people in ragged clothes are wandering around like wandering spirits.
Noticing that my eyes were attracted by the people and things around me, Shangguan Li sighed: "This winter is longer than usual, resources are more tight, and the situation was not so bad before. ”
I wondered, "You don't have a productive powerhouse?" ”
Thinking about it, I think it's impossible, there are so many supernatural people in Xindu, and among the survivors who have fled from all directions, there must be a third mutation of supernatural people, I'm afraid these people are all serving the rich and powerful.
Just now, I was guessing about Shangguan Li's intentions, and then I found that Shangguan Li and I were enjoying the attention of the people around us, and these eyes of envy, jealousy and hatred were almost glued to us.
There were many people who showed greedy eyes, but none of them made any further movements, Shangguan Li's voice made me retract my gaze from looking around, he said: "Very few have survived, and those experts have not clearly said the direction of mutation of the third mutation tide, so ......"
"So when they had a fever, they were treated as pre-zombies." I spoke for him.
"Originally, it was a centralized quarantine, but their high fever did not go away, causing panic among the people, and tens of thousands of people marched in protest, and finally they had to be sent out of the city."
Survivors who are in a coma with a high fever are powerless to resist, and sending them outside the city is tantamount to a funeral, and there is no heating in the wild, and even if there are no animal or zombie attacks, these people will die in the bitter cold.
"I'm sorry, but knowing this, you definitely don't want to stay." Shangguan Li sighed softly.
"Don't you always apologize, I won't stay here, good or bad." is also a lobbyist, but Shangguan Li's impression on me is much better than Shangguan Mo, at least Shangguan Li is honest.
He didn't mean anything, I felt that the refusal just now was too rushed, so I eased my emotions and changed the subject: "Your fiancée forgave you?" ”
As a result, the topic didn't seem to be at the right time, and Shangguan Li's eyes immediately darkened when he heard this, "She's gone." ”
If she is gone, she may have left Xindu, or she may have passed away, I feel that this topic should not continue, and I was opening my mouth to pick up a topic, but Shangguan Li took the lead and said: "She is the third mutant person, after I woke up, I went out of the city to look for her, and I looked for her in the pile of corpses for half a month, but no, I searched all the temporary shelters, and there was no her, I hope she survived, and now she is living peacefully somewhere." ”
He said hope, but no matter how I heard him, there was despair in his tone, a large number of corpses would definitely attract nearby animals, and many corpses were afraid that there would be no bones left in the end, and if no one took care of him when he was in a coma with a high fever, his fiancée would not have survived on her own.
"Uh, ahem, you were confused by Concubine Feiyun, and I can't blame you for this." I don't have much friendship with Shangguan Li, so I can only say some comforting words that don't hurt.
"After all, I'm too weak, Miss Sang, I have a request." Shangguan Li suddenly raised his eyes and stared at me, his eyes like a dead soldier who was about to go to Huangquan.
We had already walked out of the shopping street, and I was relieved to get rid of the gaze that was glued to my body, and I was nervous when he stared at me like this.
"I'm limited in my abilities." No matter what his request is, I decided to leave a way out for myself first, something that the future head of the Shangguan family can't do, I think it's a big difficulty.
"It's simple for you."
"You speak first, and I'll listen."
"I want to be a zombie."
"Huh?"
"You heard me right, I want to be a zombie."
I hurriedly looked around to make sure that there was no one nearby, so I lowered my voice and said, "Do you want to shout that the whole city knows that I am a zombie!" ”
Shangguan Li also realized that his emotions were a little out of control, and when he looked left and right, the shops on the street were closed, and there were not many pedestrians on the road, but fortunately, no one noticed his voice.
"I'm sorry, but I'm sincere, Miss Sang, I'll bear the consequences alone, and I've already left a suicide note for my grandfather."
"What suicide note?"
"If I can't become a zombie like you and Mr. Bai, it's no different from dying, in fact, you should be able to see that Shangguan Mo is more suitable for the position of the head of the family than me, I am not that material at all, the Shangguan family will not lose without me, I just want to become stronger now."
"What nonsense are you talking about, what about your parents, they don't feel sad?"
"They only care about whether I can be the head of the family, I lost control, they didn't, but they watched Ziqing being thrown out of the city with a cold eye, and forced me to marry Tuya, they have no son in their eyes, only power."
Sad fiancée, vicious mistress, and Tuya, who is ruthless and almost became his wife, as a bystander, I feel sad for him, I can't help but take a closer look at Shangguan Li's handsome face, and want to see from above how many peach blossom calamities there are in his life.
"Hey, Lan Yan is thin." I sighed quietly.
My voice was too low, Shangguan Li didn't hear it clearly, but he didn't care, he continued to lower his posture and plead, and he wanted to be a zombie when he died, looking like he had seen through the red dust.
Turning the future head of the Shangguan family into a zombie is not a trivial matter, even if he agrees, what about the old man Shangguan?
His so-called suicide note, and the letter left by the runaway boy to his parents, are the same meaning, and he didn't get the consent of his parents at all.
"Miss Sang, please don't have any worries, since I had an accident in the Song family, my grandfather wants to cancel my inheritance, and now at this time, he will definitely not hand over the Shangguan family to me. And I asked Mr. Bai, and he said that if you don't agree, I can go to him, but I want to inherit your bloodline, and if the mutation fails, I also hope that you will kill me, because I owe you my life. ”
"When did the zombies become fragrant...... Well, I can help you. ”