The chaos that spread around due to the blasting of the Isohai Group had not stopped, but Li Wu saw an unexpected person.

Makoto Hirata ran out of the side alley with a potholed safety helmet on his head.

He took off the uniform of the Isokai Group he was wearing, changed into a jacket, put his right hand on the inside of his clothes, looked around sneakily for a while, and said eagerly: "It's not appropriate to stay here for a long time!" Follow me! ”

Glancing at the [former Blue Dream Group employee] written on his head, Li Wu followed.

He wasn't surprised that the drug thief he had a relationship with wasn't caught up in the explosion, after all, the few minutes he had been fighting with the Isokai group should have been enough for the thief who claimed to have figured out the route to take the stolen goods and run away.

But it was a bit of a surprise to him that this guy was still waiting nearby.

"What happened tonight confuses me."

Makoto Hirata panted, "But I know more or less who owes the goods to me - that being said, I'll be running away in half a minute, mainly because I'm afraid you'll come to the door later, hahaha." ”

Probably because he was given the medicine to worry about, he was much more relaxed than before.

As the two navigated the winding alleys of Hanayacho and exited through a narrow exit, Makoto Hirata deftly pulled open the door of a tattered car and took the driver's seat.

"Mr. Ram taught us to always have a plan for escape."

He triumphantly called up a well-known bank robber as he unscrewed the car keys.

The vehicle unobtrusively merged onto the road.

During this time, Lilia called and asked if he had something to do with the sudden explosion in Hanayacho.

Li Wu denied it truthfully.

During the course of their conversation, Hirata Makoto always maintained an attitude of focusing on one thing to drive, and waited until Li Wu hung up the phone before he hesitated to speak: "There is something that has to be explained first, I only had time to get a medicine." ”

He observed Li Wu's face from the rearview mirror and continued: "I don't know what your purpose is for coming to the Isokai Group tonight, I'll keep my mouth shut, but I really need this thing. ”

His right hand, which was on the inside, pulled out, revealing a test tube containing a blue liquid.

"I won't run, you can ask me to commit a crime or sell my organs, but please let me keep it......"

"My purpose is not money."

Li Wu interrupted him, "Didn't you say that you used to work in the Blue Dream Group?" I'm interested in it. ”

Now that the Isohai Formation has been razed to the ground, he can only follow this clue to find it.

"You're interested in this shit company?" The temporary driver burst into a foul mouth, "I'm sorry." I mean, I don't know much......"

According to Makoto Hirata, at the time of his tenure, the Blue Dream Group did not have the name it has today.

At that time, the company was called "Azure Pharmaceutical Company", focusing on medical technology and drug research and development, and its reputation was unexpectedly insignificant, at least Li Wu had never heard of this company.

Makoto Hirata's position is just an ordinary security officer, and he only knows that although his business has been in a half-dead state, his salary has been paid in full, and he even provides free medical care to employees and their families.

It is precisely for this reason that he realized that the technology of this enterprise is not simple.

"One of my relatives used to be seriously ill, and the company cured him."

He said lightly.

About five years ago, Blue Pharmaceutical collapsed due to a laboratory accident, and when it went public again, it had abandoned its old assets and transformed itself into the current Blue Dream Media Technology Group.

"A pharmaceutical company is looking into AI and media and entertainment?"

Li Wu asked rhetorically.

"Seriously, I think it fits the style of the company, it's all messy."

Makoto Hirata slapped the steering wheel, "I heard gossip at the time that the company was going to develop a superhuman potion, maybe it was a name change as a pretext to facilitate its mad scientists to conduct research!" ”

He felt that he had told a good bad joke and laughed dryly, but after experiencing the battle that took place in the Isokai group, Li Wu didn't think it was just a joke.

The vehicle pulled up in front of a crumbling-looking two-story apartment with a motel-like layout.

As soon as the engine went out, someone knocked on the car window: "Uncle, why did you come back so late?" ”

"How did you get out? Go back! ”

Hirata scolded him, but at this time Li Wu had already opened the door and got out of the car.

He met the gaze of Yui Hirata, who was wrapped in bandages and had blue skin.

"What do you mean by that? Serendipity. ”

In the cramped room, Makoto Hirata's voice came from the kitchen with the smell of oil smoke, "I really didn't expect you to know each other!" ”

The long living room had little room for a low coffee table, placed on a dark brown carpet, and Yui Hirata, who sat opposite, stretched out his hand and rolled the reagent tube containing the blue liquid.

"Really, Uncle is doing this again."

She whispered.

"Do you need to take this medicine?"

Li Wu put forward his own speculation.

The zombie girl in front of her was completely different from what she looked like on the stage during the day, her skin was as blue and black as a corpse, one eye was wrapped in a bandage, and even left a trace of sutures on her neck.

She shook her head: "No! Ah, if you're looking at this side of the eye, it needs to be cleaned for the time being, and I've soaked it up. ”

Yui Hirata casually said something that would be enough to be a horror movie, and by the way, he denied his speculation.

She glanced at the kitchen and was a little depressed: "The boss said that even if ordinary people see me like this, they won't think that I am dead, and this is the case with my uncle." ”

"At first, I would faint with fear, and I would forget about it when I woke up, until the next time I saw me, and then I thought I was suffering from skin diseases and anorexia, and tried my best to 'treat' me with various medications."

Is this also part of the [everyday] corrective cognition?

"Sequelae, you say?" Li Wu noticed the word, "Your uncle said before that one of his relatives had been treated by the company, referring to ......"

Yui Hirata nodded, but his head fell off.

She fumbled around on the coffee table, and Li Wu picked up the head that had rolled to the edge and handed it to her.

"Thank you, I usually do a good job of fixing it during the day to keep it from falling......"

Yui Hirata, who was headless, held his head and stuck it back into his neck, "Hey, are you leaving?" ”

"You're pretending to be the opposite!"

Li Wu complained.

Before Makoto Hirata came out of the kitchen with her meal, she finally put her head back in place.

During this period, Li Wu listened to her tell the story of her "life".

Yui Hirata's parents died unexpectedly shortly after she was born, so she was raised by her uncle since she was a child.

But she may have really had a bad fate, and she was not talking about it since she was a child, and then she was diagnosed with some kind of terminal illness that is difficult to treat.

At that time, Makoto Hirata was still an ordinary white-collar worker, and the high medical expenses quickly emptied the small amount of family property.

Later, the Blue Pharmaceutical Company, which claimed to provide free medical benefits to employees, was like the spider's silk that the Buddha hung down to Jiantuo, which became a lifesaver in his desperate moments.

Until he was stunned by his niece, who was lying on the hospital bed and greeting him with bare internal organs that had not been stitched up in time, an eyeball hanging down in his socket.

"What did they do to you?"

When hearing this paragraph, Li Wu couldn't help but interrupt her narration.

Yui Hirata blankly touched the back of Li Wu's head—she hadn't straightened her head back at this time—and said, "I don't remember either, it became like this after I fainted." But I've been cured, so it's okay, right? And they did deliver on their promises. ”

She smirked.

Your optimism is too much.

Li Wu originally wanted to say this, but he still swallowed the sentence.

For a girl who is tormented by illness and is destined not to live long, it may be acceptable to become the current state between life and death.

However, from the vicious taste and madness of Azure Pharmaceutical, which did keep its promises and accompanied by weird human body modifications, Li Wu developed a certain sense of déjà vu.

"Click, click...... That, Li Wujun? Mr. Li Wu? Mr. Lee? Can you help me? ”

Yui Hirata leaned on the coffee table like a prisoner pressed to the decapitation table to be slaughtered, trying to torture his neck.

“……”

Li Wu pressed the top of her head and twisted it clockwise.

So when Makoto Hirata walked out of the kitchen and wiped his hands, he saw his niece with her head strangely tilted to the side, as if she had fallen into a pillow.

At this point in time, the food is basically a supper, and Yui Hirata uses the excuse that he has eaten dinner as an excuse to avoid eating indigestible food.

"I'm so happy!"

The middle-aged man pinched the empty beer can in his hand, lay between the leftovers on the coffee table, and hammered the top covered with plastic film.

"Yui is now an idol! Received by that...... It's called an otaku, right? Sought after by the otaku! ”

"Uncle, what are you talking about!"

Yui Hirata waved her hands in a panic, and there was an obviously unnatural sound from her right arm, which hung down softly, but fortunately her uncle couldn't see this scene.

"Wow, wow, wow!" She straightened it with a sad face, "I shouldn't have removed the splint at night......"

Zombies are amazing.

Just as Li Wu, who was watching the excitement from the sidelines, was thinking like this, Hirata Makoto, who was already a little drunk, pointed the finger at him: "Brother, are you right?" Is Xiao Yui the most popular of the three of them? ”

"It should be said that all three of them have been enthusiastically pursued by everyone, and there are fans fighting each other for them at today's concert (physics)."

Yui Hirata burst out laughing.

A neutral answer is not interesting! I like it the most...... If you think about it carefully, the girl with long black hair is still the best-looking, what valley is it from? ”

"Uncle—uncle—"

Yui Hirata glared at him with a terrifying smile, "The speed of your rebellion is inevitably too fast. ”

Frightened by her like this, Hirata Makoto sobered up a lot: "By the way, Xiao Wei, remember to use that medicine!" I've inquired, just take it orally, it should help your condition. ”

Yui Hirata was silent for a moment, then stood up and shouted to his uncle in an excited tone, "Please don't do this kind of thing again!" ”

She ran to the bathroom and came out with a glass.

There was an eyeball dripping inside, and the optic nerve floated from side to side as the water swayed.

The zombie girl lifted the bandage of her left eye, revealing an empty eye socket: "This is not a skin disease!" It's not a sequelae! That's how I exist now! ”

"Don't look for those weird pills anymore! Last time you almost went on a crime for money, and if it wasn't for the car breaking down, you would have become a robber! I don't know what you did this time, but it's definitely dangerous! ”

Makoto Hirata opened his slightly reddened eyes and focused on the terrifying hollow, as if his entire soul had fallen into the middle.

He slipped off the chair placed on the coffee table and fell to his knees on the dirty brown carpet like a child who had done something wrong, his hands tugging at his cheeks.

"I'm sorry, big brother! It's all my fault! ”

He howled and wept frantically, "Too much blood! The stuff inside is leaking out, and I want to plug it back! I want to plug it back! She's still smiling at me! ”

When Li Wu was sent out of the house by Yui Hirata, it was already after the collapsed Makoto Hirata fainted.

"Your uncle should be fine, right?"

He asked as he said goodbye.

Yui Hirata, who had reinstalled both eyes, nodded a little sadly: "Actually, I told my uncle before, but it won't be long before he forgets about it." ”

"For him, a moving corpse is a monster that should only exist in a horror movie. So when he woke up, he still felt that I was just cured and left some sequelae. ”

Li Wu didn't know what to say for a while.

So far, he has only regarded the inability of ordinary people to understand and remember supernatural powers, which seems to be engraved at the bottom of the world, as a law similar to gravity.

And in past events, this law has generally played a positive role, erasing or distorting transcendent events from the consciousness of the masses into another shape, maintaining the stability of the apparent society.

But today, for the first time, he saw its negative effects in some sense.

When he wakes up, Makoto Hirata will bury the scene he saw at the beginning and brought him a heavy psychological shadow into the corner of his subconscious, until the next stimulation comes, and then continue to run in vain to cure his niece's "sequelae".

It's like there's a barrier that the two can't understand each other, between humans and zombies.

Perhaps sensing that his expression was different, Yui Hirata waved his repaired right hand: "Don't worry! I've actually figured out a good idea! It's just a moment of excitement today, it's my fault! ”

In order to cooperate with her, Li Wu followed her words and asked, "What way?" ”

"As long as I become the best idol and make a lot of money, it's fine!"

She scratched her blue-black cheeks and said with some embarrassment, "It's what I said during the day." Uncle, isn't he worried about skin diseases and the like? If I'm done with my makeup, I'm welcomed by everyone, and I've earned money to buy any drugs, he probably won't worry about it, right? ”

The zombie idol turned his back on his hands and showed a smile that could be put into the "Resident Evil" series: "This is my dream." If anything, maybe I'm thankful for making me like this, and it's better than having nothing after I die, or now? ”

“…… Hope your dreams come true. ”

Li Wu sincerely blessed, "Then, I want to ask you something. ”

A few minutes later, Li Wu, who got the answer, left the apartment where they lived.

(End of chapter)