Chapter 18: Rotten Grass Without Fireflies (Part 3)
The next morning.
“Ah ...
In his sleep, Xie Mian heard a sharp and piercing cry.
The screams came from the couple's cinema next door.
Xie Mian opened his eyes, was stunned for a few seconds, then closed his eyes again in a daze and covered his head with the blanket.
"How did this man die? Who killed him?"
"What a tragic death!"
"The head and body were separated. The person who killed him must be a psychopathic murderer!"
…
Noisy voices kept coming into my ears, accompanied by various sounds of footsteps, coughing, spitting... making my head hurt.
Xie Mian suddenly threw off the small blanket on his body and stood up from his seat.
After the dizziness in his head subsided a little, Xie Mian opened his eyes and turned on the flashlight.
The flashlight shone on the rows of seats in the theater, and Xie Mian saw E Shifang walking in from outside with a serious expression.
"Why did you go out?"
Xie Mian folded the blanket and wanted to put it in his backpack, but he found that the blanket was too big and could not fit in.
“Quack, quack, quack.”
The cockroach man I killed last night turned into a human.
"?"
Xie Mian didn't understand what E Shifang meant. He put down the blanket in his hand and followed E Shifang to the couple's cinema.
At this time, the entrance of the theater was already full of people. After seeing Xie Mian coming, they stopped talking and pushed each other to make way.
Xie Mian ignored these people and walked straight into the theater along the empty space.
He saw a headless body lying on the floor in the theater.
The corpse was not in the shape of a cockroach, but looked like a normal human body.
Not far from the corpse was the cockroach man's head, its mouth wide open, its two tentacles missing.
Xie Mian walked forward and took out two chopsticks from his backpack. He knocked on the corpse with the chopsticks as if he was knocking on a piece of iron.
The corpse under the chopsticks was not soft, but had a certain hardness, like a cockroach shell.
After examining the body, Xie Mian walked to the place where the head had rolled down.
The chopsticks slowly slid across the scalp, and suddenly, they seemed to encounter some resistance.
Xie Mian stretched out his chopsticks and slowly picked up the "invisible resistance". As the chopsticks continued to rise, an invisible tentacle seemed to appear in front of Xie Mian's eyes.
"A trick?" Xie Mian looked at E Shifang.
"Quack." E Shifang nodded.
Xie Mian understood what was going on. It seemed that there was a visually shielded insect-follower hidden among this group of people, and this insect-follower was most likely targeting him.
In addition to the stench of corpses, there is another faint smell in the air.
The taste is a bit bitter and very similar to that of Chinese medicine.
Xie Mian stood up and slowly glanced at the crowd behind him.
Just as his eyes stopped at a man in a baseball uniform, the man seemed to sense something, grinned at him, and shouted:
"You must have killed him. You are a murderer!"
"He just had an argument with you yesterday, and he died today. The murderer must be you."
The crowd became agitated again when they heard the man's words, and all kinds of questioning and fearful looks fell on Xie Mian.
"Oh, you said I was the murderer, do you have any evidence?"
"Evidence, this is the evidence!"
The man pointed his finger at Xiao Xing. He walked over to her and snatched the strawberry bear from her hand.
"Did you see the shoelaces around Strawberry Bear's neck? They're exactly the same as the ones next to the corpse."
"I asked the little girl and she said the shoelaces on the bear were tied by the older brother."
"Come on, little sister, tell everyone who the big brother is?"
Facing the man's aggressive questioning, Xiao Xing shook her head and shouted helplessly:
"Big brother is not the murderer, big brother did not kill anyone!"
No one paid attention to Xiao Xing's words. In their eyes, Xie Mian was the murderer, an extremely cruel and perverted murderer.
"For our own safety, we can't let him stay in the mall any longer. We might be the ones to die someday!"
"Let's go together and drive him out!"
"Murderer, get out of the mall!"
"Murderer, get out of the mall!"
…
The crowd was furious. Instigated by the man, they kept moving forward, shouting at Xie Mian to get out.
"Oh, I see."
Xie Mian's mouth curled up slightly. After knowing the man's purpose, he no longer hesitated and directly threw out the two chopsticks between his fingers.
The chopsticks shone silvery as they pierced into the man's left and right shoulder blades simultaneously.
The man screamed, took two steps back, and slammed his head against the door behind him with a bang.
Without giving the man a chance to react, Xie Mian stepped forward again and kicked the man hard in the chest.
The man's body slid down the iron gate.
Xie Mian stepped forward, looked down at the man and said, "You can untie it yourself, or let me do it!"
“You…you…”
Looking at the crowd with terrified faces and no one stepping forward, the man knew that his plan had failed.
"I'll solve it, I'll solve it."
He raised his hands tremblingly, unbuttoned his clothes, and lifted up his vest.
On his chest, there is an eyeball that only insects have.
The eyeball is yellowish-brown, hemispherical and protruding. On this big eyeball, there are countless densely packed small eyeballs.
"Monster! Monster!"
The crowd screamed and quickly retreated after seeing the man's eyes.
"Quick, kill this monster, kill this monster!"
"Yes, kill him, kill him!"
People kept shouting and clamoring for Xie Mian to kill the men, including Xiao Xing's father.
In the crowd, Xiao Xing huddled aside with her arms folded, head lowered, not daring to make a sound.
It was as if this group of people wanted to kill not only the man, but him as well.
Xie Mian glanced at Xiao Xing in the crowd and raised his voice slightly:
"This isn't a bug monster, this is a bug-follower."
"Insect monsters are just monsters, completely devoid of reason. However, insect-inhabitants are different. They simply have some extra insect-like organs and special abilities, but they still retain human reason and thinking."
"You can think of the insect-lovers as people with special powers in zombie movies."
Xie Mian's words caused a stir among the crowd.
"What kind of abilities does this person have? Why didn't we see it?"
"That's right, if you say insect-loving people are insect-loving people, then they are insect-loving people. Why should we listen to you?"
…
The crowd was chattering, and Xie Mian was a little impatient, but when he saw Xiao Xing's curious eyes in the crowd, he continued:
"Undo your insect power."
When the man heard Xie Mian's words, he nodded quickly.
As the eyes on the man's chest emitted a yellow-brown light, the real scene in the couple's cinema was revealed to everyone.
When they saw that what was lying on the ground was not a dismembered body of a person, but a cockroach-like insect monster, some people in the crowd could not help but vomit on the ground in fear.
"Fuck, why are there monsters here?"
“Isn’t this mall very safe?”
…
Xie Mian ignored the questions that kept coming from the crowd, but took the strawberry bear from the man's hand and put it into Xiao Xing's arms.
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