Chapter 22 Out of context (1)

Xie Mian also discovered this - no matter which direction the car drives, it will always return to Cambridge Street.

Moreover, time seemed to have come to a standstill.

Three hours ago, the setting sun was as red as blood, dyeing the clouds in the sky fiery red; however, now, three hours have passed, and the sky still remains the same, without any change.

The area where the time was displayed on the phone screen was completely dark. It looked like something was strangely piled up, making it impossible to make out.

Xie Mian got out of the car and walked into the nearby shops.

The clocks hanging in the shop, like the ones on the cell phones, turned into an eerie darkness.

"What do you think is going on? Is it the bug monster or the bug-loving one?"

E Shifang followed behind his wife, his eyes fixed on her waist. When he heard what his wife said, he raised his head while covering his mouth in panic:

"Huh?" What did you say, wife?

Xie Mian repeated what he had just said.

“Ga ga ga!”

Hahaha, this is what my wife asked!

E Shifang quietly wiped the saliva from his mouth, pretended to think for a while, and wrote "insect followers" on the dusty table beside him.

He originally wanted to take his wife's hand and write on her palm, but his wife's eyes were too cold, so he could only write on the table in grievance.

Woo woo, the tips of the wings are covered in dust. My wife doesn’t love the goose!

Xie Mian stared at the three words on the table thoughtfully:

The insect monsters' attacks are often direct and violent, with the main purpose of feeding on human flesh and blood.

The insurmountable ghost wall, the weird time... these fancy attacks are indeed more like what insect followers would do.

"Let's go, get in the car!"

Xie Mian picked up E Shifang and returned to the car. This time he drove very slowly.

On the one hand, he wanted to try to find the insect followers hiding in the dark; on the other hand, he wanted to use his insect power - quiet words - on all living things along the way.

Silent speech can make the attacked person unable to speak, as if their mouth is stuck with glue and cannot open.

He didn't care whether the insect-follower could speak or not. What he wanted was another effect brought by Jingyan - the inability to open his mouth.

If the insect-fellow cannot open its mouth, it cannot eat or drink.

Humans need to eat and drink water, and insect-loving people are no exception. He wants to use hunger to force the insect-loving person to show up.

As the cars continued to move forward, the street became quieter and quieter.

Gradually, only the roar of cars remained on the streets.

After making sure that "Jingyan" had covered every area, Xie Mian parked the car in front of a hotel, picked up Rose and Strawberry Bear and got out of the car.

At the door of the hotel, a half-eaten head rolled down. The head's eyes were wide open, and black ants were constantly flying in and out of its mouth.

Xie Mian climbed up the emergency passage, went up to the second floor, and chose a room not far from the emergency passage to stay in.

There was no electricity in the room, and it was completely dark. Xie Mian opened the curtains to let the setting sun in.

Generally speaking, an adult can survive for about 7 days without food or water. He wanted to see how long this insect-follower could last.

…

I don’t know how much time has passed, but the clouds dyed red by the sunset still remain in the same position.

Xie Mian sat on the bed, crossed his legs, and threw another mango candy high up.

When the mango candy was about to fall into the mouth, it was intercepted by a yellow goose beak.

Xie Mian was not angry. He picked up another mango candy and peeled it.

"Ga ga!" No more eating!

E Shifang stopped Xie Mian from peeling off the candy wrapper:

“Ga ga ga ga!”

Wife, stop eating it, or you'll get cavities.

The candy was pressed under its belly, along with Xie Mian's hand.

Xie Mian pulled his hand away but couldn't, so he said, "My hand hurts."

The words were spoken in a light and cold manner, without any hint of coquettishness, but to E Shifang it was enough to make his ears blossom and his heart blossom with joy.

E Shifang moved his body away, peeled off the candy wrapper, and handed it to Xie Mian's lips:

“Ga ga ga ga!”

This is the last one, you are not allowed to eat any more!

Xie Mian put the mango candy into his mouth along with the goose's wings, and the sweet fragrance filled his mouth again:

"How much time do you think has passed?"

“Ga ga ga ga!”

One day? Two days? Three days? Four days? Five days? Maybe more!

After hearing E Shifang's answer, Xie Mian twirled the candy with his tongue and lay on the pillow without refutation.

Here you can hardly feel the passage of time, not even the feeling of hunger, needing to use the toilet, or being tired.

If the mango candies in his backpack hadn't been dwindling, he might have thought only a few minutes had passed.

If we calculate based on the amount of mango candies that have decreased, at least ten days have passed. But why hasn't the insect follower appeared yet? Isn't he hungry?

Or is that insect-followed one also in stagnant time like them?

No, it won't.

No one would stab themselves with a knife unless they were a fool. A bug-loving person who could control the ghost wall and time was definitely not a fool.

If he wasn't a fool, if he wasn't a fool... Thinking of this, Xie Mian suddenly sat up from the bed.

From the very beginning, they fell into a misunderstanding, that is, they regarded "him" as a bug-community. What if "him" was not "him" but "it"?

The insect monster will not be affected by not eating or drinking for a few days, so it will not come out because of "hunger".

But how could a bug monster have such high intelligence to hide itself? And why would it want to hide itself?

The inference is again in contradiction.

Xie Mian gently rubbed his brow with his fingers, slowly sorting out the complicated thoughts in his mind. Suddenly, the little girl sticker on the back of his hand flashed before his eyes, and the chaotic thoughts in his mind instantly cleared up.

The answer was right beside him, but he ignored it.

Xie Mian got out of bed, picked up the pink strawberry bear on the table in front of the bed, and untied the needle and thread sealed on the back of the strawberry bear.

Yellow-green fluorescent lights danced in Strawberry Bear's belly.

The insect monster didn't appear not because of anything else, but simply because of the firefly that Xiao Xing put in the strawberry bear.

Because of the fireflies, the insect monsters didn't dare to appear or approach them.

"E Shifang, I have a new plan!"

Xie Mian put Strawberry Bear into E Shifang's arms. His plan was that he and E Shifang would go in opposite directions at the same time.

He went to the west where the sun set, and Goose Shifang carried Strawberry Bear to the farthest east.

The greater the distance between them, the smaller the impact of the fluorescence, and the greater the possibility that the insect monster will appear.

"Quack!" The goose disagreed!

When Goose Shifang heard this, his feathers immediately flew up in flames. How could he possibly let his beloved wife fall into danger alone?

“Ga ga ga ga!”

There are two choices. One is that you take Strawberry Bear away and I will attract the insect monster out; the other is to throw Strawberry Bear aside and I will go with you.

"First, it's people, not geese, who attract bug monsters. Second, we can't leave Strawberry Bear alone!"

Xie Mian did not agree with E Shifang's words. He directly put the strawberry bear and roses into the backpack, and then hung the backpack on E Shifang's chest.

“Ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga!”

Seeing that Xie Mian didn't listen to him and wanted to face the insect monster on his own, E Shifang was so anxious that he kept speaking in goose language.

"Stop, stop, stop, number two."

Seeing E Shifang's anxious look, Xie Mian covered E Shifang's mouth with his palm and suddenly said.

The fragrance of his wife came into his nose, and E Shifang calmed down.

The car drove all the way to a milk tea shop at the easternmost end of Kangqiao Street. Xie Mian said to E Shifang:

"Go put the bag into the milk tea shop!"

E Shifang twisted his body and sneered in the car, "Do you think the goose is stupid? What if you drive away after the goose gets off?"

"Go!"

Xie Mian leaned over and gently kissed E Shifang on the mouth.

"Quack, quack, quack!" It's a deal, you wait here for the geese and you are not allowed to leave!

E Shifang jumped out of the car in a daze and walked towards the milk tea shop with his bag on his back.

Watching E Shifang enter the milk tea shop, Xie Mian stepped on the accelerator and drove away.

The car drove quickly towards the setting sun. As the car moved forward, the sky became darker and darker - a huge black shadow appeared in front of the sun.