Chapter 254 A new round of torture begins
When they woke up the next morning, the four of them suddenly discovered that the banging noise outside was much quieter.
Wang Jia was a little confused. She picked up the intercom and asked curiously, "Do locusts also sleep? Then can we follow their schedule?"
Shi Jiaojiao did not say anything. She first walked to the second door and put her ear against it. After listening for a while and making sure there was no danger, she moved the second door away.
This time there are obviously more sounds.
There was no door, and her hearing was extremely sensitive, so she could hear the rustling sounds of food being eaten outside clearly.
Mu Ci blocked the door again, and Shi Jiaojiao picked up the intercom: "I just checked, and the locusts are more sober than each other."
Wang Jia and Tang Wei hardly slept the whole night and their minds were still a little groggy.
Wang Jia subconsciously asked, "Is it because the locust army has passed by and there are fewer of them that the noise is quieter?"
Shi Jiaojiao didn't want to say it at first, but seeing that Wang Jia was really curious, she had to explain tactfully: "They are eating."
Tang Wei was stunned, and then a little flustered: "Eat? What do they eat, iron gates or stones?"
Shi Jiaojiao: "They are the bodies of the brothers and sisters who were charging in the front."
All night yesterday, groups of locusts outside kept ramming into the door. The locusts in the front were squeezed to death, and then stuck to the door and the mountain wall, where they were fed by the locusts behind them, and continued to ram.
For a long while, there was no movement on the intercom.
Tang Wei and Wang Jia were so disgusted that the hair on their arms stood up and they felt terrified. They couldn't even imagine the scene and were afraid they would vomit just thinking about it.
This is great. I don’t have to worry about breakfast and I can even catch up on some sleep while I’m busy.
Shi Jiaojiao and Mu Ci entered the space.
Although there were air conditioners and ice cubes outside, it was not comfortable at all. Coupled with the noise made by the countless locusts around my ears, I felt really irritated.
After finishing breakfast, the two lingered in the space for a while before coming out.
As soon as we arrived at the cave, we heard increasingly louder banging noises outside. We guessed that the corpses had been eaten clean.
A new round of torture began.
Shi Jiaojiao silently took out her tablet, put on headphones, and used a movie to distract herself.
She has been watching zombie movies during this period. The one she is watching now is so popular that it has been filmed for several seasons, and there are almost two hundred episodes in total.
Shi Jiaojiao found the place where she paused last time and continued reading.
As a result, the plot was so exciting that she became more and more excited. Her mind was full of zombies, and she wished she could pick up a big knife and go out to kill two of them immediately.
Just when she was seeing the crucial moment, her headphones were suddenly taken off, and her mind was once again occupied by the heart-wrenching pounding sound outside.
She was still immersed in the plot, and her mind hadn't thought about it. She subconsciously turned her head and asked, "Are there zombies coming?"
Mu Ci pinched his brows and put the intercom into her hand: "It's Wang Jia looking for you."
Wang Jia was also confused. What? Isn’t it enough to have locusts now? Are zombies coming soon?
In a blink of an eye, it was the third day, and the locusts were still flying all over the sky, not affected by the high temperature outside at all.
The noise outside the door showed no sign of decreasing.
The four of them went from being irritated at first to slowly becoming numb.
In order to calm down, Wang Jia kept earphones in her ears all the time, and played "Don't Get Angry" and "Great Compassion Mantra" on loop.
Shi Jiaojiao had no solution to this problem. She could only wear earplugs every day.
During these three days, everyone tried not to make any noise, let alone turn on the lights. Even if there were batteries, no one dared to turn them on.
You know, locusts are phototactic. It would be fun if they were attracted by the bright light and didn't want to leave.
But the four people on the mountain were relatively safe, except that they were a little annoyed by the noise.
The situation for the survivors in the urban area was not so good.
The locusts after the apocalypse have indeed mutated. Not only are they not afraid of high temperatures, their teeth are also much better.
Except for things that are really hard to chew, they seem to eat everything else. Since there is no human activity on the ground, they are even more unscrupulous.
The situation in the shelter is currently under control. With the soldiers here, the locusts will not rush in and harm everyone.
The most miserable ones are those survivors who are hiding alone.
Some people were careless and did not take the locusts seriously, so they did not reinforce them carefully.
When the locust swarms came, they could only watch as cracks slowly appeared on their thin wooden doors from the repeated impacts until the door was completely knocked open.
The locusts swarmed over, as if they had entered an empty space, running around recklessly and unscrupulously. In the blink of an eye, the house was filled with locusts.
The continuous gnawing sounds made people feel uneasy.
Tables, chairs, bed sheets, clothes, rations, anything that the locusts could chew disappeared in a short while.
Of course, the crispy humans are the most delicious snacks at this time, so how could the locust army let them go?
Countless locusts broke open the door and pounced on people. The humans were left with nothing but screams and despair. They could only utter half of their screams before their mouths were filled with dense locusts.
All they could do was endure the pain of being eaten in fear.
Some people were bitten and eaten by locusts and collapsed, running away like headless flies.
But what were waiting for him outside were more locusts and the scorching sun.
After a while, only a skeleton was left on the spot, and the locusts, having eaten their fill, went looking for new food.
Tragic screams continued to ring out in every corner of the city.
The survivors who had previously been excited about eating locusts as food were now trembling and hiding in the corner, not even daring to make a sound.
Now I don’t even dare to think about eating locusts. I can only hope that I don’t become their food.
Many survivors hid upstairs from the underground garage. The smarter ones even used thick blankets to block the glass to reduce the impact.
The rest is all up to luck.
Those who were lucky enough avoided the wave after wave of locust attacks.
The glass shattered immediately for those who were unlucky, and only death awaited them.
It is still the most painful way to die since the end of the world.
On the fourth day of the locust invasion, the banging sounds outside continued.
Shi Jiaojiao looked at the scale on the thermometer and marked it carefully.
Now that we can’t open the door, we can only infer the temperature outside by the temperature changes inside the cave.
She had just put down the thermometer when Wang Jia's weak and deliberately low voice came from the intercom.
"Oh my god, when will these ancestors leave? It's been so long, and they should have eaten all the food outside. Could it be that they think S City has the best scenery and want to settle here?"
Shi Jiaojiao said, "You're overthinking it. At most, they're just having a buffet here. Besides, the locusts didn't mutate into eight mouths. It takes time to eat."
Wang Jia sighed deeply: "Okay, I'll try to tell them in my dream tonight, and save some food for the next city."
Shi Jiaojiao could only offer encouragement and hope that Wang Jia’s dream would be successful.
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