The newly attracted charred corpses stopped and surrounded the girl like a crowd of onlookers, and I opened the door of the hotel and broke them all down.

The puppy squatted on the girl's chest, peeking out of her bag, with two drooping triangular ears out of her bag, and turned her head to look at us.

It has been proven that Tick's guess is right, the girl was controlled by invisible charred corpses before, indicating that she has no ability to expel them, but the puppy is with her, and those charred corpses just surround her and do not do anything to her.

I took a compressed biscuit out of the space and fed it to the puppy, and now that the haunting was clear, there was no need for us to go back to the cold storage.

I carried the girl and Tao Cong upstairs, put them in a room without cameras, and plugged in the electric heater and electric blanket to keep them warm.

Tao Cong was the first to wake up, and when he saw us beside him, his tense expression relaxed.

He looked at the girl lying on the other bed and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, if she hadn't suddenly broken in tonight, those ghosts wouldn't have found us." ”

Tick said indifferently: "It's her who caused the trouble, you don't have to apologize." ”

Tao Cong shook her head: "But the location is what I told her, but I didn't expect her to choose to come over today." ”

Seeing that his face was full of frustration, he comforted: "You can't predict the future, and thanks to your hot pot, because of it, those living corpses let us go." ”

"Because of hot pot?" Tao Cong turned around to look for the puppy, and when he saw it in my arms, he said, "It's not afraid of you?" ”

"I just bribed it with a cookie from the car, and now we're friends." I grabbed one of the puppy's paws and shook it up and down.

Tao Cong still can't seem to believe that his puppy has the ability to defeat ghosts, but a second before he fell unconscious, he did see the puppy bite the girl.

Tick told him that the black humanoids weren't ghosts, but might be a mutated new species of zombies.

Tao Cong was even more unconvinced, he said that zombies will definitely run out when they smell people, and ghosts will only come out at night.

It is difficult to reverse people's concepts for a while, and I and Tick have no tangible evidence to prove the reason why those charred corpses are different from ordinary zombies, so seeing that Tao Cong didn't believe it, we exposed this topic.

But one thing is for sure, and that is the puppy's restraint on the charred corpse, and it is indeed a special dog.

The girl woke up at this time, and cried out, crying and throwing herself on Tao Cong.

Tao Cong was frightened by her, reflexively dodged, jumped out of bed and ran to me and Tick.

The girl was stunned, crying more and more sadly, and sat on the ground kicking her legs and throwing her arms, like a three-year-old child splashing.

I didn't really shed tears for a long time, and I also howled and accused Tao Cong of having no conscience, saying that if she hadn't gone out to make money to support her family, Tao Cong would have starved to death, and now that he has a new love, he doesn't care if his old love lives or dies.

Tao Cong was angry and embarrassed, his ex-girlfriend counted how incompetent, how he ate soft rice, and how ruthless and unrighteous he was in front of the people he just met, whether these things were true or not, he was disgraced.

"Shut up, cry again and leave you outside to feed the ghosts." I couldn't stand her magic voice, and I threatened with a sinking face.

Tick walked to the window and reached out to open it, and as soon as the girl saw that we were going to move seriously, she immediately closed her mouth and only glared at her displeasure.

Tao Cong's frowning eyebrows relaxed, and when he looked at me, he seemed to want to laugh, if it was a fierce man, the girl just spilled, and if she didn't beat her hands, she would also scold back, but Tao Cong didn't, so I spoke for him.

From the appearance of the girl, Tao Cong showed resistance, but he couldn't help the girl if he couldn't see death, and even when she pointed at and scolded him, he chose to be patient.

Of course, there is a reason for his good temper, but I guess a bigger part of the reason is that they used to have a good friendship.

At least Tao Cong has a friendship with the girl, but the girl may not have affection for him.

Tick winked at me and said to me in a mouth shape: Outside.

I used the antenna to look outside, and found that there were charred corpses surrounding me, and the hotel corridors and room doors were all full of charred corpses.

I don't know if it was caused by the girl's crying just now, so I excused myself to get some fresh air outside, and left the room and went out into the hallway.

After dismantling the charred corpses in the hallway, go to the outside of the hotel and clean up the ones guarding outside.

If they were burned to death, there would be a lot of them, and I wouldn't have the time or energy to deal with them, so I had to clean them up.

In fact, what Tao Cong said also makes sense, if the charred corpse is a zombie, they will naturally bite and gnaw when they see a living person, just like seeing food.

The charred corpse that can use its stealth ability to sneak into the cold storage controls the girl to choke Tao Cong's neck in an attempt to strangle him to death.

When the girl and Tao Cong both fell unconscious, it turned to attack me, giving up the opportunity to eat again.

It can be seen that the purpose of charred corpses is to kill people, not to eat people.

Maybe they're really vengeful ghosts, taking revenge on all the living, so why don't they leave the quarantine zone?

Is it because you can't get out?

This begs on to the question of what keeps them moving, whether it is natural causes or man-made barriers.

If it's a natural cause, just find something they are afraid of, and you can eliminate the threat they pose.

If it's the human factor, then there's nothing to worry about, because someone already knows about them and understands their weaknesses.

But if it is the latter, for the survivors of the Demon Capital, people are equivalent to grabbing their lifeline, the barrier is the gate, the charred corpse is the water, and the consequence of opening the gate and releasing the water is that the lives will be ruined, and the survivors will inevitably suffer.

In fact, there are many things that I don't want to extend to conspiracy theories, but reality has taught me that conspiracies are everywhere.

The quarantine area is like an occasional time/bomb hanging over the head of the magic capital, and whoever holds its remote control is equivalent to holding the power of life and death of the survivors.

And because of the rumors of haunting, few people dare to come during the day, and even less at night.

The death of the infected has left an indelible psychological shadow on the living, and naturally no one will come to crack the truth.

I stood on the street for more than ten minutes, and then I went back to the hotel.

The girl was tired and had already fallen asleep, so Tao Cong waited for me to come back and apologized again.

Just now the girl scolded him and brought me and Tick with her, Tao Cong was very upset in her heart, her head was slumped, and she lost her previous cheerful smile.

"It's her who is scolding, not you, can you take responsibility for all her actions? You're not a good ex. I said half-jokingly.

"She wasn't like that before."

I seemed to hear a classic line, and I felt a little helpless, emotional things are the most difficult to talk about, I chose to be silent and noncommittal to his words.

Tao Cong didn't seem to want me to say anything, and talked about their past.

Both were lost relatives in the early days of the disaster, when the orphanage was closed to teenagers like them.

They had a fixed gathering area, an unfinished building on the outskirts of the city, where Tao Cong moved after selling the house.

And his new neighbor is this girl named Jingjing, Jingjing left home penniless, was kicked out by relatives, Tao Cong saw her pitiful, so he sold the house and gave her food.

Fourteen-year-old boys and girls, snuggled up to each other for warmth, and naturally developed into a relationship that went beyond friendship.

Originally, it was enough for Tao Cong to eat food for half a year, but because there was one more person, he only ate it for three and a half months.

The two began to look for jobs everywhere, but they had no education, no skills, and physical strength, and there were not many jobs suitable for them, not to mention that there were many competitors.

Tao Cong washed dishes and picked up garbage in restaurants, but it became more and more difficult to find a job, and finally he couldn't find a job at all, so he had to go to the farmers' market to pick up rotten vegetable leaves to satisfy his hunger.

But even if it was rotten vegetable leaves, there were many old people and children to grab them, and Tao Cong was embarrassed to compete with them, so he didn't go later.

Jingjing followed him for a few days of hard life, and suddenly one day said that a good sister introduced her to a rich man's house as a nanny.

The nanny was asked to live at home because she was taking care of an old lady with limited mobility.

Tao Cong didn't doubt it at all, and felt that she had wronged Jingjing, and asked her to go out to do the work of serving people, and her heart was so moved.

Since then, Jingjing will get back a sum of money to Tao Cong every month, and Tao Cong sees that her complexion is getting better and better, not like she is suffering from hardships, and she is also a lot more relieved, thinking that the family is good to Jingjing.

Until half a year ago, Jingjing suddenly said that she was going to break up with him and confessed everything to him, it turned out that she was not going to be a nanny at all, but to be a young lady.

The more she learned in the circle, the more she learned, and hooked up with a rich man, who took her as a mistress, and it didn't take long for her to find out that she was pregnant with the other party's child, thinking that she wanted to be on top of the throne and come back to solve his hidden danger.

I used to think that I would go ashore in the future, and I had to find a good man to marry, so I never gave up Tao Cong, since I wanted to be Mrs. Kuo, this spare tire was useless.

Tao Cong almost vomited blood after knowing the truth, but he couldn't help it, he used the money Jingjing got back, and he didn't have the confidence to refute her extremely ugly words.

couldn't afford it, so he lost the courage to open his mouth to keep it, and the only thing he could refuse was the breakup fee paid by Jingjing.

At first, he hated and was decadent for a while, but the reality was that he had to eat, he had no effort to keep his soul, and he had no money to borrow wine to drown his sorrows.

In the past, he refused to do illegal things, and would rather pick up the dumplings thrown away by other people's families to eat than dare to take the risk of stealing and robbing them, he was afraid that something would happen to him, and Jingjing would have no one to take care of him.

After the two broke up, he finally had no scruples, he could steal and rob, although he couldn't eat the delicacies of the mountains and seas, but he finally didn't have to worry about starving to death.

The medicines he grabbed in the evening were a big deal that he dared to start after stepping on a spot for a month, and he deliberately came to the quarantine area, just to be sure that those people would not dare to stay here until dark.

Tao Cong poured out all the grievances in his heart, he usually had nowhere to say these words, because of the shortage of resources, the neighbors who used to live in the unfinished building have become survival competitors, and it has been calculated if he can not start harming him, and it is impossible to make a heart-to-heart.

The heart was happy, people began to be sleepy, Tao Cong yawned a few times, I returned the puppy to him, let him go to bed early, and I kept vigil with Tick at night.