Chapter 43: The Same Look
As the last bit of light in the world was swallowed up, what came into view was the bustling crowd around them.
Both Burke and Taylor froze in place, seemingly unaware of what had just happened.
"Yes... Sorry ......"
"I'm afraid of you... Eaten ......"
A timid voice came into his ears, and Burke stared blankly at the familiar and strange person in front of him.
This was the woman who had been hiding in the trash can next to the hotel, and Burke remembered packing her a box of Black Sea lamb.
Her clothes were in tatters, her hair was sticky with oil, dirty and smelly, and only her silver-white eyes were the only bright spot in her body.
"You saved us...?" Burke looked at her in disbelief.
She didn't dare to make eye contact with Burke, but lowered her head and nodded slightly.
"That's you! The woman who ran out of the mouth of the seventh pipe, I remember your silver-white eyes! Taylor, who reacted, also recognized her immediately.
"No... It's not me ......" she kept waving her hands in horror.
"It must be you, the Dark Witch's Shell." He was steady.
"I'm sorry......" After hearing this title, she was stunned, apologized and turned around and ran.
"Wait." Burke stepped forward to stop the woman.
"Don't go."
Taylor grabbed Burke first, and the woman quickly ran away.
"Don't go buddy, although she saved us, if you get close to her, you may still die." Taylor looked at Burke earnestly.
"Coming near her will you die? Why? Burke wondered.
"Don't you know the 'Dark Witch's Shell'?"
"I was actually trying to ask."
"The black witch is an evil thing, it will parasitize on others, and when the time is ripe, they will completely occupy the host's body and become a real black witch, and that woman is the shell chosen by the black witch, as long as it is close to them, the end is very miserable, basically nine out of ten are dead, and one has become a delirious madman."
Hearing this, Burke frowned slightly, and subconsciously asked, "Why is this happening?" The so-called Dark Witch can also have an effect on the people around it before taking the host's body? ”
"I don't know, no one wants to study this, one of their most striking features is that the bodies parasitized by the black witch are usually orphaned girls without a father or mother, the pupils of their eyes will turn silvery-white, and the overall performance is more harmless to humans and animals, but don't be deceived by their appearance, people who are close to them, so far there are really few people who have a good end."
Taylor's words made Burke ponder slightly, and he wondered why the girl had saved them, could it be just because Burke had casually thrown her a piece of Black Sea lamb at that time?
However, Taylor, who was on the side, slowly picked up a cigar, and he was about to cut one end of the cigar, only to find that the scissors had broken.
However, this did not affect him, as he also shaved the end of the cigar in the same way, and when he was about to light the fire, the lighter ran out of oil.
"Bad luck." He muttered subconsciously, but as soon as he finished speaking, he regretted it, and Taylor remembered that his luck had already been wiped out by himself.
"Don't think about it, if you want to repay her, go buy more food and put it behind some trash cans, where she usually hides."
He put the cigar away and gave Burke a suggestion.
"Anyway, do you know what the last thing in the world is?"
Burke had his own ideas about the woman, and he didn't want to dwell on it, so he took the conversation to another crucial place.
Looking back on that image now, he still felt a chill down his spine.
The incomparable sense of oppression is like something that can swallow the whole world in one gulp, and even the light can't escape it.
Taylor shook his head and said, "That must be beyond human understanding, the only thing I'm sure of is that that guy can eat the whole of Cardenas in one bite." ”
Seeing him like this, he was obviously frightened.
It's not that people who seek death are not afraid of anything, and when they encounter something beyond their cognition, people's instinct is still fear.
Although Taylor's answer was expected by Burke, he also felt a little regretful, and if he could have had some clues about that kind of thing, he might have been able to avoid it later.
What he saw and heard today once again refreshed Burke's perception of the world.
He had never thought that there really was a creature of that level in the world, and he thought that the snail mother was already the largest creature in the world.
After all, on Earth, the largest living creature, the blue whale, is only thirty or forty meters long, and in the entire history, the fragile double-chambered dragon can grow to 40-60 meters, not even as tall as a tree in that forest.
And the snail has reached a terrifying two or three hundred meters, which is almost equivalent to the height of a seventy or eighty story building.
As for the thing he saw today, Burke couldn't imagine how big its body was.
In front of Him, human beings are probably not even ants, and they may be similar to cells.
"I'm going to exchange the bounty, what about you, what are your thoughts on what's next?" Burke asked.
"I didn't have any ideas, so I smoked a cigar and went with her." He said.
"Are you sure?"
"Well, I didn't protect them well last time, and I can't let them do this again this time, they are so gentle and beautiful, they will be targeted by others."
He seemed to think of his wife and children, and a smile appeared on his face.
"Need I help you?" Burke asked.
"Don't worry buddy, you should still have your own business to do."
"Bounty, that kind was settled quickly."
"No, it's something more important." He said.
"What's more important?" Burke was puzzled by what he had said.
"I don't know, but I can see that you are longing for something, something that is enough to fight for your life, your eyes are very similar to mine, and now that I have my things, you should hurry up and look for them, if you delay it for too long, it will get worse and worse."
Taylor patted Burke on the shoulder as if he had come over, and then walked out without looking back, but after a few steps, his foot was broken, and he limped forward again.
He watched Taylor limp out of sight, and then gradually came back to his senses: "It really can't be delayed any longer." ”
Burke knew that Taylor had seen his desire to go home, just as Taylor wanted to hear his wife's true answer to the story.
Their eyes are the same.