Chapter 42 Late-night "Visitor"
Youxi's hair stood on end and she had goose bumps all over her body. She wanted to pinch the worm out of her hair, but as soon as she raised her hand, the worm on her hairline began to twist again. Is this... because of the smell of blood?
She looked at the wound and hesitated for a few seconds.
Her intuition was always accurate, and at this moment her intuition told her that it was best not to get close to this black worm on such a wound.
She put down the flashlight, quickly took out the [Repair Foundation] from the Xingwu warehouse, opened the lid and squeezed it directly on the wound.
The squeezed liquid was milky white, slightly thick, and had a light medicinal fragrance. She spread the liquid with her fingertips. In two or three seconds, the cut shrank a little at a speed visible to the naked eye and then healed completely.
Youxi: ...!!
Although I know that the effect of the thing bought with 10 star coins will not be bad, the healing speed is too fast!
With this thing, Yunnan Baiyao iodine and disinfectant alcohol are all useless.
The wound healed and the bloody smell disappeared. She felt that the worm on the hairline calmed down again, lying there motionless, just like the hair.
She pulled the worm off with force, along with a few strands of hair, and threw it into the sink.
The bugs squirmed a few times along the smooth surface of the sink. The black bugs twisting on the white porcelain surface looked a bit disgusting.
She turned on the faucet to flush the bugs away, but the damp smell at the tip of her nose never dissipated.
Youxi had a bad guess. She pointed the flashlight at the top of her head again, and then looked carefully. The next second, her pupils dilated, and she immediately took the shower head from the shower room and wanted to rinse her hair directly.
But when she thought of the water carrying the bugs down and the sour feeling all over her face, she held back.
It is not good to have too strong five senses. If it were an ordinary person, he would close his eyes and rinse with the shower head, and he would probably not find out that there were so many bugs on his head after washing his hair.
You Xi suppressed her disgust and bought a bottle of [Instant Cleansing Oil] from Xingwu Mall. It was smaller than [Repair Foundation], but still had a screw cap and a squeeze port.
She squeezed it directly onto her face, and then spread it on her face with her hands.
Instantly, the oily substance on her face automatically extended to cover every inch of her skin. This feeling was very similar to the feeling of the protective film automatically taking effect when using [High Temperature Perfume] at level 3 or above.
The only difference was that the protective film was wrapped together with the clothes, while this [Instant Cleansing Oil] only covered her skin, and then isolated all the dirt that originally stayed on her skin.
Youxi saw the black bugs falling into the sink and on her sleeves, and immediately jumped into the shower room barefoot. She closed the door with her backhand and tore off all her clothes in a few seconds.
She really tore off her clothes. The bugs made her so disgusted that she forgot to control her strength in her anxiety. The suit, the thin sweater she was wearing underneath, and her underwear were all torn off and thrown away.
She saw black bugs constantly falling on the tiles and clothes under her feet.
Youxi left the shower room barefoot until all the uncomfortable and itchy feelings on her body disappeared. She looked back at the pile of clothes crawling with bugs, took out the [High Temperature Perfume] directly, adjusted it to the second gear, and pressed it.
The temperature of the second gear is slightly higher than the normal temperature, which is enough for this purpose. The clothes and the bugs were burned together. She continued to spray for a long time until the clothes and the bugs were all burned to ashes.
Then, she turned on the shower switch, closed the shower door, and let the pouring water wash away the black ash on the tiles.
There were also a few twisting black bugs on the floor tiles outside the shower. She put down the toilet lid, squatted on it barefoot, and used [High Temperature Perfume] to clean each location where there were black bugs.
Fortunately, this was in the bathroom, the floor and walls were all tiled, and there was nothing flammable. She cleaned it carefully and thoroughly. The tiles were burned black, but all the bugs were finally eliminated.
Youxi sniffed the air carefully, and the damp fishy smell that had been lingering in her nose since she left the subway station disappeared.
This meant that there were no more black bugs in this room, but she had smelled the same smell in the air when she walked out of the building in the afternoon. Does this mean that the bugs are already outside?
Where are they? In the water? On the grass? Or... on other people?
Youxi put on her clothes and changed into a pair of light soft-soled shoes. As soon as she walked out of the bathroom, she heard a familiar voice ringing in her mind.
[World Mission 1: Avoid the parasitic crisis and arrive home safely. The host has received 30 star coins. Number of star coins: 285]
This is - the world mission that was? ? ?
Although Youxi knew that the first mission was not too difficult under normal circumstances, she was still very happy that she had completed the first mission by accident, at least the threat of death was reduced by half.
After that, as long as she concentrated on surviving for a month, she would be able to return to the original world alive!
Youxi thought about it and sighed: "Xingwu, you are actually a good system, right?"
[……]
"Now think about it, whether it is the initial lottery or the newly unlocked goods in the mall before each apocalyptic world, they are exactly what the next world needs."
When she went to the tsunami and low-temperature apocalypse, she drew the [High Temperature Perfume].
When she went to the zombie apocalypse, high-attack products such as [Air Hair Dryer] appeared in the mall. Although the effect of using it may be a bit hard to describe, that's just because zombie headshots are more disgusting, and the killing power is impeccable.
Then there is this time, [Repair Foundation] that can heal any wounds, and [Instant Cleansing Oil] that can instantly clean all dirt. If you say that the Star House system has not added any water, she herself doesn't believe it.
Moreover, now that she knows the content of the first mission, plus the incident just now, it is easy to reverse the inference and get some very useful information.
First of all, the appearance of the worms should be related to the water leakage in the tunnel. The worms attach themselves to the human body with the water, and it is difficult to detect after being touched - even she did not notice it at the first time. The worms will move instantly after being attracted by blood.
But the last point of this information was later overturned by her.
No! She remembered that some passengers in their group were injured and bleeding at that time. Although it was not serious, with the blood-feeding nature of the worms, they should have moved a long time ago, and she would not have noticed it only now.
Maybe... Is it possible that the worms in the dripping water at that time had not yet woken up? Larvae... Could they be eggs?
This possibility is very high.
The second piece of information is that blood-thirsty people may allow worms to drill into the human body through wounds. It is unclear whether this is the reason for parasitism, or it may be through other means. However, worm parasitism will definitely cause negative changes in the human body, otherwise, avoiding parasitic crises will not become one of the missions of the apocalyptic world.
Finally, this underwater tunnel incident is probably not the first time this worm has appeared, because she smelled the same damp fishy smell when she left the building in the afternoon.
In this way, the water resources of this world - seawater or fresh water - may have been polluted. If we speculate further, perhaps some food is not safe.
The apocalypse has not yet begun, but there will be a latent period for the apocalypse.
This should be a parasitic crisis apocalypse, or an insect disaster apocalypse.
At present, she is more inclined to the former.
As for what negative changes will be caused by the black worms parasitizing the human body, we have to observe further. It may be a devastating disaster or it may be something else.
Fortunately, she thought carefully and put ten buckets of water in the original world, which is five tons of purified water. There is also enough purified water for her to drink, plus [Instant Cleansing Oil], so it will be no problem to last for a month.
As for the negative effect of having an oily face, it can be almost ignored in front of the worms.
**
After the analysis, You Xi turned on the TV in the living room.
It happened to be the evening news time. Such a big event as the collapse of the undersea tunnel will definitely be on the local news.
But she waited for half an hour and changed several local channels, but she didn't see any news reports about this matter.
Internet communication in this world has not yet become a common phenomenon like in her native world. If something happens around, the first reaction of everyone is to read the news. So when the accident happened in the undersea tunnel, no one immediately took out their mobile phones to shoot.
Neither the news nor the individuals were spread in the form of media, and the incident was naturally suppressed.
But if it was just an accidental subway entrapment due to tunnel collapse, why was it not broadcast?
Reverse speculation, it seems that someone in the upper echelons of Hairu City has already known something, so the news was suppressed.
Just now, Youxi was disgusted by the bugs. In the evening, she didn't want to eat meat. In the end, she took out a cup of fruit tea, a yellow rice jelly and a portion of almond tofu. Only sweets can defeat the aftermath of the disgust of bugs.
After a quick meal, she drank some fruit tea while using her mobile phone to search for relevant information online.
The appearance of the worm just now made her think of the iron worm at first, but the iron worm lives in fresh water. This is a coastal city, and the size and habits of the worm are completely different. The iron worm has no blood tendency, only water tendency.
So basically, the possibility of the iron worm can be ruled out.
After checking the information, she still found nothing.
Instead, she browsed through countless pictures of similar worms. Her eyes and mind were overwhelmed with too much, and she felt that she seemed to be immune to it.
At half past nine, the night news began. This time, there was news about the undersea tunnel, but the content was that because the tunnel had fallen into disrepair, several subway tunnels and driving tunnels had been closed one by one since the afternoon.
This was a notice-type news, so that city residents could choose other routes to travel.
At ten o'clock, Youxi set a six-hour alarm on her mobile phone and planned to take a break.
She closed all the doors and windows, carefully checked the faucet, and then lay down on the sofa with her clothes on, and took out a blanket from the Star House warehouse to cover herself.
While she was half asleep, she heard a strange sound outside the door. The sense of crisis made her wake up quickly. She glanced at the mobile phone and it was a little after one in the morning. No matter who was outside the door and what they wanted to do, nothing good would happen at this time.
She threw her things into the warehouse of the Star House, took out a semi-automatic hand gun from it, then quickly entered the bedroom, used a quilt to pretend that someone was sleeping on the bed, and then hid behind the door of the room.
After a while, the lock made a creaking sound, and it was obviously opened.
Two breathing sounds entered the house one after another, one stayed in the living room to check, and the other went straight to the only room.
The man sneaked into the room in the dark, and Youxi could see it clearly even in the dim light. The other party took out a towel from his pocket and quickly covered the person on the bed. When he realized that the feeling was not right, he had been hit hard on the back of the neck.
Youxi snatched the towel from his hand and covered his mouth and nose, making the man who was knocked unconscious by the robbery even more unconscious.
She dropped the towel and hid behind the door again. When the second person came in, she pointed the muzzle
of her gun directly at his temple. "If you dare to move, you will be killed immediately." She opened the insurance of the gun, took out the towel soaked with sleeping pills from his pocket and threw it aside, then kicked him in the crook of his leg and pinned him to the ground. "Tell me, where are you from and what are you doing here?"
"Who are you?" The other party asked back in surprise and doubt, "You are not Youxi, Youxi is just an ordinary company employee. Where is she, I have to take her back immediately!"
"Tell me everything you know, and I will tell you where she is." Youxi took over.
But the other party is not stupid, and has received professional training. Even though Youxi put a muzzle to his head, he did not reveal too much information. He only said that he had no bad intentions, that there was something wrong with the subway that Youxi took today, and that he took her back for her own good.
In fact, Youxi already knew the part that the other party did not reveal, but the things he revealed were exactly what she wanted to know.
Therefore, the other party is a certain organization, or simply sent by the top management of Hairu City. They are looking for all the passengers who experienced the undersea tunnel incident this afternoon.
There were so many people on the subway at that time. It is not something that an ordinary organization can do to understand everyone's name, appearance, address, work and even some life characteristics in such a short time. What
the other party said sounded nice, but if he had no bad intentions, how could he sneak in with drugs in the middle of the night?
No matter what the other party's purpose is, whether it is inspection research or blood sampling observation, people who are taken away in this way will never come back.
"You can't leave. We have people downstairs. The whole community is under surveillance. Why don't you tell me where You Xi is and I will let you go."
You Xi sneered at this and said before knocking him out with a rob, "I am You Xi."
Ten minutes later, the people who didn't see anyone come out and couldn't wait for a response rushed upstairs. They searched the whole house. Except for the two people who were knocked unconscious in the room, there was no third person in the room. After that,
they checked the community surveillance, but did not capture the other party leaving.
This community has only one gate, and the other walls are very high and monitored. Even if she climbed over the wall to go out, she should be captured.
Several people secretly searched the community for a long time, but found nothing.
After dawn, the residents of the community began to get up and go to work. They monitored everyone who left the guard room. They knew what she looked like, and no matter how she disguised herself, they could find her.
A boy of seventeen or eighteen years old, over 1.8 meters tall, carrying a backpack, walked out of the community with the residents going to school or work.
He was calm and leisurely all the way. He waited for ten minutes at the bus stop opposite the community while eating breakfast, and then got on one of the buses.
The "boy" found a seat in the last row, took off his backpack and put it aside, and then continued to eat the egg pancake in his hand.
The validity of the [Fake Lipstick] is still 18 hours away. Fortunately, this [Fake Lipstick] was obtained in a lottery before the first mission, so there is only one chance left to use it, so she doesn't need to spend star coins to buy it again.
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