Chapter 156 (Catching Bugs)
When the last ray of light on the horizon disappeared and night fell, the house fell into pitch-black silence.
The silence in the night amplifies other sounds from the outside world.
Not everyone is as rational as Yun Jinshu, and not everyone can realize at the first time that the "light in the darkness" is as conspicuous to those monsters as a bright lighthouse on the sea.
Therefore, the area that had been quiet for half a day became chaotic again after nightfall.
Yunmian and her mother stood behind the drawn curtains. In the darkness, the mother and daughter watched the lights in the buildings gradually turn off, but some rooms still kept their lights on.
"Mom, those people can't turn off the lights, right?" Yun Mian asked in a low voice while leaning against the window.
Yun Jinchu looked at the light of the building opposite, which was particularly dazzling in the dark night. He was silent for a moment and replied softly: "Well, they can't turn off the lights."
Maybe someone turned into a zombie, or maybe zombies broke in, but no matter what, more than half an hour had passed, and the living people should have realized that they couldn't turn on the lights at night, so those brightly lit homes... probably had splattered scarlet blood all over the floor and walls.
But this situation reveals a more terrible fact.
Unlike what is described in most movies, TV shows or novels, the zombies in the real doomsday have basically normal vision. At least they can see lights, hear sounds, and smell odors.
At night, Yunmian and her mother slept in the same bed. The little girl curled herself up into her mother's arms and whispered, "Mom, will there be zombies upstairs?"
"I think so." Yun Jinshu answered softly while holding her daughter, "We are on the 13th floor. There are two floors above us, and at least four people live there."
Yunmian: "Will they turn into scary monsters?"
Yun Jinshu shook his head: "Mom doesn't know either."
Yunmian asked again: "What if they fall from the upstairs and land on our balcony?"
Yun Jinshu stroked her daughter's hair and soothed her gently, "Don't be afraid, Mianmian. If a monster comes in, mom will chase it away."
"Go to bed, it's late."
Yunmian said softly, "Well, don't be afraid, Mommy. Mianmian will protect you, too."
"Good night, mom. Mianmian loves you~"
Yun Jinshu: "Good night, Mianmian."
Listening to her mother's gentle voice, Yunmian's fear of the unknown monster lessened a little. She shrank into the quilt, buried herself completely, hugged her mother's arms tightly, slowly closed her eyes and fell asleep.
This night may be considered a sleepless night for everyone in this world.
Overnight, monsters were rampant.
They worry that they will be discovered and eaten by zombies, they worry that they will turn into zombies after waking up, they worry that the people around them will turn into zombies, they worry...
Almost no one could sleep well through the night.
Yunjinshu can't do it either.
She was awakened by a shrill scream in the middle of the night. Her body's instinctive reaction in her confusion was to hold her daughter in her arms.
But it was this hug that made her realize something was wrong.
It's too hot.
Yun Mian's skin felt like it was being burned by the heat. Before he even put his hand on her, he could feel the heat spreading from her body.
Yun Jinchu suddenly became completely awake.
She turned over and sat up from the bed. Instead of waking up her daughter immediately, she took the mobile phone that had been placed beside her pillow, adjusted the screen brightness to the highest level, and shone the light on her daughter.
The little girl in my arms, who was full of energy during the day, now looked extremely pitiful. Her whole body was red and hot, and the sweat on her forehead had wet her hair, making it sticky and messy on her cheeks and forehead. The air exhaled from her mouth seemed to carry an unbearable temperature.
Seemingly in extreme pain, Yun Mian whimpered in a crying voice as she opened Yun Jinshu's hand that rested on her face. After a moment, she struggled and tossed uncomfortably in her arms. As she moved, she sweated even more, and even wet Yun Jinshu's clothes through her thin pajamas.
Yun Jinshu realized that the situation was not good.
Under the light of the screen that dimmed and brightened from time to time, her expression was frighteningly solemn.
Yun Jinshu carried her daughter outside, opened the window slightly to let the night breeze in to dissipate some of the heat in the room, and then took out the fever-reducing patch she had bought during the day and put it on Yun Mian's forehead.
The cool fever-reducing patch is undoubtedly effective for children with high fever. Yunmian, who was sobbing in my arms just now, calmed down a little, and her breathing was much smoother than before.
But Yun Jinshu did not let his mind go.
She thought of the movies and TV shows she had watched. A high fever could not only take away a life, but also allow humans in the doomsday to achieve self-awakening.
Yun Jinshu was sitting on the sofa holding Yun Mian. There was a basin of water on the coffee table in front of them. Even the water was not too cold on that midsummer night. Instead, it had a little residual warmth from the sunlight that had been shining throughout the day.
The fever-reducing patch could not relieve Yunmian's body temperature, so Yun Jinshu could only use a wet towel, wring it out slightly, and then gently wipe her daughter's body over and over again.
Only in this way can Yunmian feel a little better.
Yun Jinshu never woke Yun Mian up, because she didn't know what the result would be if she woke her up at this time. Would it interrupt her possible awakening? Would it make her suddenly turn into a zombie?
She didn't dare to act rashly and could only rely on the common sense she had accumulated from her daughter to take good care of her.
This care lasted the entire night.
Yun Jinshu held her daughter, whose fever was gradually subsiding, and sat on the sofa from late at night until the sun rose as usual.
From the second half of the night when she was awakened, to dawn, she heard four sounds of heavy objects falling from a tall building.
She knew that someone was jumping off a building.
Because before the first person jumped off the building, his sharp and shrill cries were so loud that the entire community could hear them.
He collapsed and screamed loudly, crying and shouting, "I can't stand it! My mother and my son have all turned into monsters, and my wife was eaten alive by them! Even if I survive, my family will be broken up, so what's the point of living? I can't live anymore!! "
Yun Jinshu covered her daughter's ears at that time, but she heard with her own ears that after the man finished speaking, there was a dull sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.
The man is dead.
He died on the first day of the apocalypse because he had completely lost the faith to live.
After him, three more sounds of people falling from buildings were heard one after another.
One of them collapsed and screamed like a man, leaving her last words in this world; the other two died quietly, silently, and silently like the inky black night.
For those who were still alive in the community, this night was probably the most tormenting night of their lives.
The people around me turned into scary monsters. The people hiding together in the dark broke down and died in despair. The zombies downstairs were enjoying the feast that fell from the sky, and their excited roars came one after another...
When the first ray of golden morning sun shone from the sky onto this land, even Yun Jinshu, who was trying to remain calm, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief silently.
It is undeniable that she, like all living people, was constantly looking forward to dawn in her heart.
Yun Jinshu took out the thermometer from her daughter's armpit, shook it vigorously and looked at the temperature value which had returned to normal. The brows that had been frowned all night slowly relaxed. She carefully moved her arm which had long been numb and had no feeling, and slowly put the child who had fallen into a deep sleep after daybreak on the soft bed.
I also lay down beside the little one and fell asleep together.
Yun Jinchu guarded Yun Mian for half the night, and the system also guarded the mother and daughter for half the night.
In the first week's plot, Yunmian did not awaken any superpowers at all.
But in this week, on the first day of the apocalypse, Yunmian began to awaken her own abilities.
The system doesn’t know whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, and it doesn’t know what Yunmian’s awakened ability will be, and whether it can help them survive the doomsday.
So after Yunmian's fever subsided, the system checked her physical condition immediately.
Then, he looked at the particularly familiar "Healing System" in the host's skill column and fell into a strange and long silence.
Healing system?
Is it the healing type it thinks it is?
It should be... unlikely, right?
Just as the system was denying and falling into continued suspicion, the child in bed, wearing pajamas and feeling refreshed, woke up groggily, rubbing his eyes.
Yunmian first subconsciously reached out to touch the place where her mother was sleeping. After making sure that her mother was right next to her, she immediately turned over and lay in her arms, yawned, and soon closed her eyes and went back to sleep for a nap.
Yun Jinshu was awakened by his daughter's actions.
To be precise, she didn't really fall asleep at all. She was always in a shallow sleep and any movement could wake her up.
Yun Jinshu raised his hand and touched his daughter's forehead. After confirming that the temperature had returned to normal, he patted the child on the back and coaxed the bedridden child to wake up in a gentle voice.
After Yunmian successfully woke up, Yun Jinshu pinched her soft and tender cheeks, hiding his tiredness and smiled, "Mianmian, do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?"
Yunmian thought seriously and nodded heavily after a moment.
Then, as her mother and Uncle System waited, she complained angrily, "Mom, I had a terrible nightmare last night!"
"I dreamed that Ultraman put me on skewers and grilled me over a fire!"
Not only that, the Ultraman also sprinkled seasoning on her while roasting her, and it smelled incredibly delicious.
If she wasn't the one being roasted, Yun Mian would have wanted the other party to give her a bite of the food to taste.
After saying that, the child seriously raised his paw and put it in front of his mother, eagerly asking her to take a bite to see if it tasted like barbecue.
Yun Jinshu: “…”
system:"……"
"Mom, I don't want to like Ultraman anymore. They actually eat children!!" Yun Mian put her hands on her hips and looked aggressive, the word "grudge" almost written on her face.
The system has nothing to say.
Yun Jinshu was silent for a moment, then rubbed his daughter's head. He didn't ask any more questions about what was wrong, but took the little girl to the bathroom to brush her teeth and wash her face, and at the same time control the stupidity that was bubbling out of her head.
Even when she sat down at the table to eat, Yun Mian was still very unconvinced.
After eating the bottom of the bowl clean like a puppy, Yunmian squatted in front of the basin, washing the dishes while recalling the scenes in her dream.
Then he smacked his lips, feeling a little hungry.
"Mom, can I have some delicious barbecue?" Yun Mian chased after her mother and asked a hundred thousand questions.
"Mom, will I really smell so good when I'm roasted?"
"Mom, why does Ultraman roast children?"
"Mom, can we eat the monsters outside? They should be delicious if sprinkled with seasoning, right?"
"Mom, is it true that monsters can't be eaten? Then why can monsters eat people?"
"Mom, I don't want to like Ultraman anymore. I want to like Zhu Bajie!"
"Mom, can Zhu Bajie really eat a thousand steamed buns in one meal?"
"Mother……"
The system was annoyed by Yunmian and squatted in the flowerpot like a thornless cactus.
Yun Jinshu was given a headache by her daughter calling her "Mom" over and over again.
Finally, I had no choice but to pick up the chattering child, pat her mouth and say helplessly, "If you keep yelling, I will punish you by making you recite Tang poetry."
Yunmian shut up for a second.
After being buzzed by Yunjinshu all morning, my ears finally got a moment of peace.
However, a minute later, the child's tentative voice sounded again: "Mom...is that a monster?"
Yun Jinshu's helplessness turned into horror in an instant. At that moment, the blood in her body from head to toe seemed to be frozen. Her pupils dilated unnaturally, like a stiff and frightened ghost.
The neck was like an unlubricated gear, jerking as it turned back.
Outside the balcony of the sliding door behind him, a zombie with dark skin and covered in blood slowly crawled down from the balcony on the upper floor, its scarlet eyes staring straight at the mother and daughter in the room.
Yun Jinshu and the zombie's eyes met without any hindrance.
She recognized the clothes; it belonged to the resident upstairs, a sixteen-year-old girl who practiced dancing.
At that second, Yun Jinshu's breathing stagnated and the blood in his body turned cold.
But her body moved faster than her mind.
She subconsciously hugged Yunmian tightly, staring into the zombie's eyes and backing away step by step until she put Yunmian at the bedroom door.
The zombies' excited panting sounds after seeing the food could be heard from outside the door. They banged against the glass again and again. Yun Jinshu locked his daughter in the house at this time. He held the long knife for cutting meat himself, held his breath, and tightened the rough wooden handle little by little.
Yunmian was pushed into the house by her mother in a daze. She wanted to go out, but was stopped by Uncle Light Ball who also flew in.
"Mianmian, you just awakened an ability, come and see what it is!"
All its previous attention was attracted by the "healing system", but the host also has two abilities this time, just like in the puppet world!
If its guess was correct, the reason why Yunmian awakened her abilities in this week was because of the gift from the puppet world.
No matter how stingy the world consciousness is, it should not only give Yunmian one ability and deprive her of another.
As its database quickly inferred, a thin silver thread quietly appeared on the fingertips of the child's left hand.
All the system's words stopped abruptly.
Looking at the thin thread, it fell on Yunmian's shoulder with a plop as if it had lost its strength, and said weakly: "As expected... Mianmian, pierce this thread into the zombie's head, and you will know what to do."
Yun Mian stared at the silk thread emerging from her fingertips, tilted her head, and tried to imagine in her mind the scene of the silk thread slowly poking out from the crack in the door.
So smoothly, the silk thread was extended out lightly and silently.
The scene in the hall outside the door was also clearly presented in Yunmian's mind.
She saw the monster that was about to smash the glass, and she also saw her mother who was holding the boning knife tightly with a tense expression and determined eyes.
The next second, the silk thread stretched out through the crack in the balcony door, then climbed up the monster's neck little by little and drilled silently into its eye sockets.
Yunmian saw a new picture.
A white and lustrous glass bead.
The monster was completely unaware of what was happening to it. Due to its continuous impact, the glass door, which had been holding on for a long time, finally couldn't bear it anymore, and a sharp sound of shattering was heard in an instant.
Broken glass was scattered all over the floor.
Yun Jinshu had imagined countless times of himself fighting against zombies, but the scene of stabbing the boning knife into its head did not appear.
Because when she was halfway through rushing with the knife in hand, the zombie suddenly fell among the broken glass on the ground.
Yun Jinshu was stunned for a moment holding the knife. She was not sure whether the zombie was still alive or would suddenly come back to life, so after she came to her senses, she remained vigilant, picked up the stool beside her and smashed it hard at the zombie on the ground.
The zombie's head was smashed by the corner of the stool.
The bedroom door next to Yun Jinshu was secretly opened a little, and Yun Mian's soft voice rang out: "Mom, it's dead~"
Yun Jinshu lowered his head and looked at his daughter, who was looking up with bright eyes through the crack in the door.
Facing her mother's gaze, Yunmian smiled obediently. When she found that her mother did not stop her from going out, she quickly opened the door, ran out, and happily hugged her mother's waist as if she were a pendant.
Yun Jinshu took a full minute to digest this seemingly impossible thing.
He did not ask any further questions afterwards, but took out a mask and gloves from the drawer and put them on his daughter.
Most of Yunmian's face was covered by the mask, and her voice became muffled: "Mom, why are you doing this?"
Yun Jinshu also put on gloves and replied, "Corpses carry a lot of bacteria and are very dirty, so Mianmian, don't touch these corpses with your hands in the future, understand?"
Yunmian nodded as if she understood, and then watched her mother drag the body out little by little.
"Mom, should we throw it down from here?" Yunmian squatted beside and watched for a while. After her mother nodded, she pointed at the zombie's head and said, "But the beads in its head are very beautiful, like pearls."
Yun Jinshu stopped moving the corpse.
After a moment, she began to chop off the first "human head" in her life with a bone-chopping knife.
It's very hard. The skull should be more fragile than other bones in the human body, but zombies seem to be different. Their heads are very hard, even harder than the pig leg bones that Yun Jinshu had chopped to make soup for his daughter.
The structure of zombies' brains also seems to be different from that of humans.
Yun Jinchu was not a medical student and did not know what the structure of the human brain was like. However, the Internet was so developed and compulsory education was so popular. She looked at the zombie's cranial structure, especially the shiny crystal core protected by layers of sarcoma, and suddenly felt that this scene looked like something else.
mussel.
The kind of oyster that is ready to produce pearls.
The layers of flesh in the zombie's head are like the soft and sticky clam meat in a shell, and the crystal core is wrapped in the clam meat like a pearl.
It looks disgusting.
After Yun Jinshu dug out the crystal core, he picked up the corpse again and threw it down from the tall building.
The ground downstairs was still stained with the blood of the woman from yesterday and her husband who had turned into a zombie. The broken pieces of flesh had been licked clean by the zombies, leaving only the dried and mottled bloodstains that looked an eerie red under the sunlight.
Yun Jinshu threw the zombie's body down without changing his expression.
As the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground was heard, the zombies wandering in the community were obviously alarmed and ran over with low growls.
Yun Jinshu looked down at the zombie's body being torn apart and eaten by its own kind.
They seemed to have a special liking for its head, and seemed to be searching for something in it. When they didn't find it, they growled a few times in dissatisfaction, and then slowly wandered away again.
Yun Jinshu looked down at the crystal core in his hand.
This must be what the zombies are looking for.
But it seems that not every zombie has this thing in their head.
Otherwise, these zombies would have attacked each other to get what they wanted.
So this zombie is special, at least compared to the zombies wandering downstairs?
Yun Jinshu stood on the balcony, looking up against the scorching midday sun.
The zombie just now climbed down from the upper balcony little by little in such a silent way until Yun Mian pointed out its existence. During the whole process, it did not make any sound that could alarm her through the glass door of the balcony.
And, it is flexible enough.
At least it was much more agile than the zombie that was chasing the woman downstairs yesterday. Yesterday, the zombie was walking a little unsteadily, but this one was able to climb over from the balcony upstairs without falling down halfway.
As she was thinking, she stretched her head to look up and suddenly met another pair of eyes.
A pair of hateful eyes.
Yun Jinshu also knew her.
She is the mother of the sixteen-year-old girl just now.
Yun Jinshu originally thought that she should have died, but judging from the current situation, it might not be that simple.
The eyes had disappeared.
Yun Jinshu did not relax, but instead tightened the knife in his hand again and slowly walked to the door.
"Mom?" Yun Mian pulled her clothes in confusion.
Yun Jinshu stroked her daughter's hair and coaxed her gently, "Be good, Mianmian, don't come out. Just wait for mommy here, okay?"
Yunmian nodded obediently, stood behind the door and watched her mother open the door, walk lightly to the door of the fire escape, and then raised the knife in her hand high.
It was the first time that Yun Jinshu swung a knife to kill someone. She thought she would be scared, but she wasn't. While she was waiting, she heard the footsteps gradually approaching on the stairs, and her heart was surprisingly calm.
The door to the fire escape was opened, and a slightly fat figure walked out.
He also held a knife tightly in his hand.
But her knife never had the chance to reach the neck of the enemy who killed her daughter.
The moment she pushed the door open and walked out, Yun Jinshu, who had been hiding quietly outside, had already grasped the hilt of the knife and stabbed her hard.
After the tip of the knife pierced the skin, the blade cut through the flesh and blood, piercing deep into the body neatly and quickly.
From the heart, chest, abdomen, and internal organs...
Yun Jinshu looked down at the woman who slowly fell down in astonishment. He ignored the blood that kept oozing out of the wounds left by the woman's knife and said to her softly, "I never underestimate the hatred of any mother, but I'm sorry, I'm a mother too."
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