Chapter 8
Zhou Yuli wasted too much time, Pei Zhao thought, after turning two turns of the stairs.
It's not that he was impatient, but Zhou Yuli's mental state in this world was not good, and Pei Zhao was a little worried, especially when the three words "Puppeteer" lit up above his head, which meant that the red-skirted puppet was nearby. If Zhou Yuli is bewitched again...
Zhou Yuli just looked at the head in confusion, trying to figure out what had happened between the elegant old lady and the head? He couldn't help but wonder, before she turned into a zombie, she was such an elegant old lady.
Without him noticing, a thin black shadow slowly approached...
There was a loud bang, and Pei Zhao's curse was heard: "What are you standing there for?!"
Zhou Yuli was awakened and completely ignored the source of the loud noise. When he raised his eyes, the old lady in front of him had changed her appearance. She became hideous and hideous. Zhou Yuli was calculating how to kill her instantly without being touched, but the zombie's next move made him lose his fighting spirit.
Before the elegant old woman pounced on him, she slowly and carefully placed the girl's head aside - on a pile of tattered clothes.
That must be the cleanest place here, and also the most eye-catching place. It is a dark red skirt, and you can tell that the style is very familiar without even looking at it. Because he had seen the lace that was stained brown by blood on that family and on the little red dress.
The old lady looked so much like a human that Zhou Yuli felt dazed several times. But in just a moment, he picked up the blade again and quickly rubbed the old woman's neck before she opened her hands like claws and pounced on him.
The zombie's skin feels not as hard as a puppet's, but more brittle than a human's. The skin was broken by just a slight touch of the blade, and sticky pus gushed out. Zhou Yuli subconsciously dodged, but was pulled back by a hand and rushed directly towards the owner of that hand.
"Pei Zhao, get out of the way!" Zhou Yuli shouted, but Pei Zhao didn't move. Zhou Yuli's first reaction was to turn the knife over in his palm, but then he collided with him and felt a sharp pain in his palm.
Pei Zhao was knocked back a few steps by Zhou Yuli and cursed: "If I give in, you will fly out of the window, you know that?!"
On the narrow platform at the corner of the stairs, there is an open floor-to-ceiling window. Pei Zhao grabbed the window with one hand and pulled Zhou Yuli against the triangle formed by the window frame and the wall, motioning him to look at the stairs down.
A pair of green eyes stared at them closely.
"Little Red Skirt." Zhou Yuli frowned, "She's not in a good state."
As Zhou Yuli said, the little red skirt is in a very wrong state. Pei Zhao saw the whole process. The girl in the little red skirt jumped in from the window and followed Zhou Yuli, trying to take advantage of the opportunity to launch a sneak attack. After being kicked away by him, she ran towards him, but when Zhou Yuli cut the elegant old lady's throat, her movements stopped instantly, and she lurked in the darkness like this.
A tiny murmur sounded: "I am willing to become an idol."
Although there was only an oily green light, Pei Zhao and Zhou Yuli clearly saw that the black shadow was shrinking rapidly. A rotten smell came from above the stairs, and with a "gurgle" sound, a round object fell at Pei Zhao's feet.
In the dim light, both of them could see clearly that it was an eyeball.
[Congratulations to the host for completing the task of completely puppetizing this world and obtaining the puppet: Qiao Duo. Do you want to leave this world now? 】
"Wait a minute." Pei Zhao replied.
Qiao Duo? In the darkness. Pei Zhao picked up the puppet, which was completely silent.
"She is quite smart. She actually knows that she can stay alive temporarily by turning into a puppet completely." Pei Zhao sneered, but heard no movement from Zhou Yuli. Turning back, he saw that person staring at the puppet in his hand with a dazed expression.
Pei Zhao was stunned for a moment, then he thought of something, stuffed the puppet into his hand, and deliberately said: "Don't you think that a puppet will come back to life in my hands? I can't establish a connection with everyone."
He didn't lie. His body didn't have the strange feeling it had the last time Zhou Yuli turned into a puppet. He didn't know if it was because it was the first time or for some other reason.
Zhou Yuli was stunned for a few seconds after getting the puppet, but his mood suddenly brightened when he heard Pei Zhao's words, "Well, evil cleverness." Zhou Yuli added, then put the puppet into his pocket and was about to leave when he discovered something.
"This is..." Upstairs, the girl's head was decaying rapidly, pus was flowing through the zombie old woman's body, and among a pile of rotten organs, a complete transparent plastic bag stood out.
Pei Zhao looked at him, and Zhou Yuli thought he wanted to see the plastic bag, so he motioned for him to pick it up.
Pulled by Pei Zhao.
"What's wrong?" Zhou Yuli asked.
Pei Zhao touched his nose, "Your hand."
Zhou Yuli opened his palm and saw that the stinging pain was not caused by the knife cutting his hand.
The skin on the palm of his hand was pale and a little painful. Zhou Yuli was silent for a moment and suddenly spoke.
“…There shouldn’t be any cross infection, right?”
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The ruins were pulled apart.
The "family" who had been hungry for a long time was very excited. They turned on the lighter, but saw only Pei Zhao with empty hands. They were stunned for a moment.
"Why are you empty-handed... and there's a little brother?" The "mother" couldn't hide her disappointment. After a few seconds of embarrassment, she changed her attitude and asked, "Is he injured?"
Pei Zhao ignored her, found a corner to sit, pulled something out of his pocket, and threw it in front of them: "Is this yours?"
The "mother" took one look and her expression changed.
"Honey! She...she's found!" The woman screamed and rushed towards the man. The light of the lighter went out and the surroundings fell into darkness again.
In the darkness, there was the voice of a man comforting a woman.
"Don't be afraid! It's just a puppet!"
"Didn't we... kill her? Who made this puppet?"
"Maybe it's her grandmother..."
"Mom, what's wrong with my sister..."
Pei Zhao snorted and unzipped his shirt, revealing half of a puppet's face. Pei Zhao gently poked the puppet's cheek and said, "I thought the cannibalistic society was a thing of the past. I've really learned something new. It turns out that cannibalism is everywhere."
He said this lightly, but clearly audible. The family's somewhat intense voices stopped.
Pei Zhao lit his lighter, and the light reflected the things he had just placed on the ground.
An opened plastic bag.
Pei Zhao was at his ease. He picked up a few pages of paper from the plastic bag with two fingers, unfolded them one by one, and began to read:
"The epidemic still broke out. People started to kill each other. I told my dad that we couldn't go out anymore... Only my grandma listened to me."
"I don't want to face death. It's so hard to persuade my stubborn family. I believe the government will send support. I have to hold on until then."
"Although some accidents happened, my parents and brother broke down my door and my grandmother was squeezed out by them... they were not infected. The food I stored should be enough for our family of four..."
"Dad, Mom, brother, why did you say those things? What do you mean by 'I only prepared my own food and didn't think about my family'? It was obviously because they didn't listen to my advice and killed grandma..."
Pei Zhao loosened his fingers, and several pages of paper fell to the ground. Under the firelight, Pei Zhao smiled coldly without any emotion: "I thought about it roughly, father, mother, brother," Pei Zhao pointed in the air, and for the last time, Pei Zhao's fingers passed over the girl with a blank expression and landed on the red skirt puppet, "Girl."
Pei Zhao paused. The space was completely silent and no one dared to speak. Pei Zhao continued to finish the story.
"A girl who was ostracized by her family was kicked out of the house and met her grandmother who was still conscious, and then a magical bug appeared. The grandmother who still loved the girl lost her sanity, and the girl who lost her love began to become a doll. At the same time, the grandmother who turned into a zombie fell in love with the girl."
Pei Zhao shook his head. The elegant old zombie lady must have loved her granddaughter very much, so whether it was for humans or zombies, there was love that should transcend race.
The love as a human being and the madly growing love as a zombie pulled the girl apart, allowing her to completely transform into a doll and a human.
Zombies have no consciousness, and when one person wakes up, thousands and millions of zombies will follow.
So, thousands and thousands of zombies followed the awakened old lady, unknowingly "fell in love" with the girl, and became her slaves.
But the only problem is, the girl is already dead.
The eyeballs rolling down the stairs came from the girl’s real head. To become a zombie requires a body. Like Zhou Yuli, he had a complete body when he became a zombie, and the girl... lost her head, but she can still become a zombie. The transformation happens after being infected and becoming a zombie.
Only zombies can survive on their limbs.
Pei Zhao said calmly: "You drove the girl away and brought another one here to be your daughter? Or to be your reserve food?"
"Mother" didn't speak.
The older brother of a boy of the same age stood up and tried to speak up: "Actually, it was just an accident..."
"You know whether it was an accident or not." Pei Zhao said firmly, with a somewhat harsh tone, "I am not a police officer who upholds justice, but I cannot accept that my puppet is wronged by others."
Pei Zhao pointed at the doll that fell on the ground and said, "She is your daughter. If you can't wake her up, she will always be like this."
The puppet Zhou Yuli, with only half of his face exposed, had eyes that flickered and then dimmed.
The woman finally couldn't stand it anymore. She rushed out and stepped hard on the puppet's body, saying in a sharp voice: "Why did you come back? Why!" She shouted at Pei Zhao in a harsh tone, "You guessed wrong. She wasn't kicked out of the house. She was eaten!"
Pei Zhao frowned and heard the woman continue to yell: "She was originally a piece of meat on my body! I'm hungry, I eat my meat, what's wrong with that?"
The crazy woman broke the secret that the "family" had kept tightly. The brother of the same age showed an expression of disbelief and covered his mouth and asked, "Were we eating our sister's flesh?"
The man left and rushed over to cover the woman's mouth: "Crazy woman, what are you talking about?" But from his expression, Pei Zhao saw clearly that the woman was not talking nonsense. The man just wanted her to shut up, but he didn't look at her like a lunatic at all.
The man and the woman scuffled.
His fingertips felt hot, and as soon as Pei Zhao let go, the space fell into darkness again. The woman's crying echoed and finally quieted down after a long time.
"Why do I need a daughter..." the woman cried sadly, but no one comforted her. The man was breathing heavily and covering the woman's mouth loosely.
"If you don't have the awareness of being a parent or brother, don't have a second child." Pei Zhao lowered his head, pinched the puppet Zhou Yuli's face with his burned fingertips, and said, "So, my unique puppet, do you want to take this little friend home now?"
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