108 The Lost Village (12)
◎Are you infected?◎
A pair of feet were hidden in the leaves. Perhaps because they were afraid of getting dirty, they chose maroon shoes, and the toe of the shoes was wet with blood.
Snap——
Blood was still dripping down, Li Nianchuan slowly raised his stiff neck, and he saw a very familiar outfit.
The black tweed skirt and white sweater were already yellowed from being worn out. When I saw the old lady in the First World, I thought she had good taste.
This is the desire to win.
Her silver hair was curled, and she looked well-educated and decent even in her old age.
Now she was hanging from a tree branch by a rope around her neck, and half of her head was blown off, as if she had been shot in the mouth.
They once entered Shengxin's house. The old lady loved smoking and hunting, and had a bad temper. She started her diary by nagging Lao Zhang.
At the same time, she is very conscientious and wants to find the secret of the disappearance of the happy villagers. She must be very good to Grandma Afen next door, otherwise Afen would not have tried so hard to pass her a note to help her escape.
What did Shengxin do after getting the note?
She...committed suicide?
Zhu Ning and Xu Meng both saw it. Li Nianchuan's camera was like a remote exploration machine, accurately transmitting the image to Zhu Ning and Xu Meng.
Xu Meng: "Look at what she has."
Xu Meng was the first to speak. After all, he was an old demon hunter and reacted faster when encountering problems.
Li Nianchuan followed Xu Meng's instructions and tremblingly touched Shengxin's body. It was a bit difficult because the body was hidden in the leaves. She seemed to have died not long ago, with blood still flowing and her body was warm.
Li Nianchuan often collected corpses, but he had never seen such a strange corpse. He reached into the pocket of his black tweed skirt with trembling hands and fumbled out a piece of paper.
The note was very long and crumpled, with brown bloodstains on the paper. Li Nianchuan unfolded it.
"Qin Fen has been contaminated." The first sentence, this person should be Afen's real name.
"Wu Dawei has been polluted." This is Old Man Wu's original name.
"Zhang Bohai has been polluted." This is Lao Zhang's original name.
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Next, Shengxin wrote down the name of every villager. She received a note from Afen and wanted to inform other villagers. The first person she thought of might be Lao Zhang, but it turned out that Lao Zhang was contaminated.
Shengxin thought that Lao Zhang was dead, and there were others as well. She had checked them one by one, and each time she confirmed one, she would write down the person's name on a piece of paper.
As time went by, Shengxin discovered that the names of all the villagers were on this piece of paper.
Including those villagers who had disappeared and returned, all the members of Xingfu Village were present.
Familiar villagers, whom I have known for decades, spend every day together like family, and even know all the gossip in each other's houses. But one day, they collectively become a different group of people, and the way they look at you seems like they are spying on you.
When everyone looked over, their eyeballs moved in unison. They had abandoned their souls and become puppets of the same insect.
"The missing villagers were infected, and when they returned they were not the same people they were before."
After Old Man Wu came back, other villagers came back one after another. They went back to their homes and closed the doors, but just like Old Man Wu, they behaved like unhuman beings.
"I am also contaminated and my eyes hurt."
Shengxin leaned against the big locust tree at the entrance of the village, covering her eyes and writing this sentence. She knew that she was dying and would soon become a puppet of insects.
"The electricity and internet in the village have been cut off."
Someone cut off the power supply, and this happy village was completely isolated from the outside world. She had no way to ask for help from the outside world.
"I will become like them in the future. Lao Zhang said the queen insect has taken a fancy to me."
She had hunted all her life, and now she didn't know who to shoot.
She thought of Lao Zhang, who was standing in front of her, his eyes full of bugs, asking, "Have you found the truth?"
The bug was talking, and it was also Lao Zhang who was talking. The bug inherited Lao Zhang's memory and even remembered what they had said.
At that moment, the bug was Lao Zhang, and Lao Zhang was also a bug. They became a new kind of creature.
Lao Zhang said: "I found it, I seem to be infected."
He raised his head and looked at Shengxin, "The queen insect has taken a fancy to you, you should leave quickly."
Lao Zhang's speech became more and more stuttering, as if he was fighting for control of his body.
"Do me a favor, kill, kill, kill me." Lao Zhang looked at Shengxin eagerly. He couldn't stand it. This was the most painful punishment in the world. You could feel something crawling in your body and worms wriggling in the narrow blood vessels.
Kill him, he's gone.
Don't let him watch his body slowly no longer belong to him, don't erase his soul, don't destroy his will.
Kill him.
Shengxin looked at Lao Zhang. They had known each other for sixty years. Lao Zhang always disliked her, saying that she was not serious and was not serious enough to be an old lady. Other old ladies embroidered, but Shengxin went out hunting every day.
Lao Zhang has always wanted Shengxin to throw away the gun, but now Lao Zhang is begging Shengxin to shoot him.
End his life before he is fully infected.
Bang!
Shengxin shot Lao Zhang in the heart, leaving a big hole in his chest. Even though Shengxin hunted frequently, he was still very uncertain when he fired the first shot.
Old Zhang did not fall down. The damaged parts of his chest were full of wriggling maggots. He lowered his head and looked at his chest in confusion. Why wasn't he dead yet?
It turns out that there is no way to even ask for death.
Old Zhang walked towards Shengxin with a ragged chest, a smile on his face, "Shengxin, Shengxin."
Lao Zhang is no longer Lao Zhang anymore. You can tell from his eyes. He has a greedy look in his eyes and keeps calling her name.
The desire to win, the desire to win.
Shengxin ran away. She was old and couldn't run like a little girl.
But now she seemed to have wind under her feet, and she didn't know where the strength came from. She had never felt so young before. She ran through the village and down the village road, as if she had become the teenage girl again.
She ran to the village entrance in one breath, but stopped just as she was about to step out. She remembered that she had been infected and she couldn't escape. If she escaped, she would bring the parasite out of the village and might infect other people.
The village was abandoned, with no way to contact the outside world. All the villagers were infected and she had nowhere to go.
Guns are useless. Even if Lao Zhang's body is smashed, they will come back again.
It was almost sunset that day, and the setting sun became the backdrop of the village. Xingfu Village is quite famous, and for a while there were always people from inside the village coming here for vacation.
They thought the setting sun was beautiful.
Now the villagers came out of their homes, including Old Zhang who was shot, and they were approaching him.
Shengxin climbed up the old locust tree at the entrance of the village. Afen was right, the tree had grown up. Shengxin grew up in Xingfu Village and had never felt that the locust tree at the entrance of the village was so big.
When Shengxin was a child, it was this old locust tree that watched him grow up. Now it is Shengxin who watches the old locust tree grow up.
The disaster has already struck, and not only the villagers, but even the surrounding plants are not spared.
Pollution is eating away at the land and destroying humanity inch by inch, and she has no way of stopping it.
The entire village was destroyed, with only one person left alive, but Shengxin didn't know how long he could keep his sanity.
She climbed trees for fun when she was a child, and she continued to climb trees when she was old. She carried a gun and used her hands and feet to climb up the tree. The branches were thick enough for a person to sit on.
Shengxin sat on the branch and continued to write on the note. She densely wrote down the names of the villagers. She felt something moving in her eyes, as if a worm was about to crawl out of her eyes.
She doesn't have much time left.
Shengxin lit a cigarette and leaned against a tree branch to smoke. It was a very peaceful moment, a few short minutes that belonged only to Shengxin.
A cigarette quickly burned out and the butt was pressed against the tree trunk.
Shengxin stood up and made her own choice.
She swung the rope behind her over a branch and tied a strong knot. She looked at the villagers under the tree and wrapped the rope around her neck.
The hemp rope was extremely rough, a feeling that ordinary people could hardly experience, and she was actually trying to strangle herself.
She was seeking death, but at the same time she was seeking life.
What makes us human? What is the difference between humans and insects?
People have dignity, and they are willing to sacrifice their dignity in order to preserve their self-esteem.
If a person is destined to die, let her choose how to die.
Bang!
Shengxin shot herself in the mouth, and the bullet pierced her head. She was already standing on the edge of the branch, teetering.
After firing the gun, she lost her balance, her feet slipped, and her whole body tilted, but the rope held her neck tightly.
Her body was hanged from a tree.
Go to hell.
"Go to hell." This was the last sentence Shengxin wrote on the note.
She was saying that she should die, and she was also saying that the world should die, the polluted world should die.
There was no further information on the note, and the grumpy old lady didn't even leave a decent suicide note.
She wrote down the names of everyone in the village, and her last words to the world were "Go to hell."
They seemed to be watching Shengxin's death.
Li Nianchuan couldn't understand what kind of desperate mentality Shengxin had before she committed suicide. She was using death to survive.
After Shengxin died, the last living person in the village also died.
Is the source of pollution the desire to win?
But she is already dead. How can a dead person become a source of pollution?
Could it be that her willpower was so strong before her death that she wanted to live forever in this happy village?
But this old lady is not that kind of person. Even if she dies, she will definitely not make things difficult for herself and will be free from the matter as soon as possible.
Did she really commit suicide?
Shooting himself in the mouth first and then strangling himself with a rope is understandable, but Zhu Ning always feels that this choice is a bit strange.
Zhu Ning had encountered this before in the zombie world. Some people would choose to commit suicide when they are desperate rather than be infected by zombies.
But in the zombie world, people are 100% sure that zombies cannot infect corpses. How can Shengxin be sure that bugs cannot parasitize on dead bodies?
If bugs can parasitize on dead bodies, then wouldn't her suicide be in vain?
Crash——
A strong wind blew, blowing away large pieces of leaves and revealing something hidden among them.
Li Nianchuan's pupils suddenly contracted. The leaves above Shengxin's body, which had been tightly covered by the leaves, were now blown away by the wind.
There were other people hanging on the trees.
They swayed in the breeze, hanging from the trees like ripe apples.
There are fruit trees in this world, and there are also "human" trees.
A small number of people here were wearing casual clothes, probably villagers from nearby. Some of them were wearing windbreakers, looking like tourists or members of an expedition team.
What made Li Nianchuan even more unbelievable was that some people were wearing the blue protective suits of the garrison troops, and the blue protective suits emitted a strange light.
Did any garrison troops die here?
Zhu Ning and Xu Meng also saw it. What on earth was going on in this village? If Sheng Xin committed suicide to maintain human dignity, then what was wrong with these people?
It's impossible that the garrison and the expedition team committed suicide together, and why did they all choose to hang themselves?
It looks like... someone hung them on the tree specifically to display their trophies.
Who would kill someone and then hang them on a tree like an exhibit? Zhu Ning always felt that this person was even more antisocial than Gao Zijian. Perhaps this person had never been baptized by society.
It's such a barbaric and primitive way.
The infected villagers, Shengxin who was suspected of committing suicide, and the garrison soldiers hanging from the trees, all these things add up to make people frown.
Seventy years have passed since the incident in Xingfu Village. During these seventy years, other civilians who strayed in, expedition teams, and garrison troops have all died here.
What happened to this contaminated area that even the garrisoned troops couldn't escape?
Zhu Ning's voice was stern: "Come down, come down immediately."
Li Nianchuan also felt a little creepy here and was about to go downstairs.
Sudden--
"Zhu Ning!" Cui Kai's voice came, "Are you here?"
Zhu Ning's body stiffened and he slowly turned around. When did they come?
Even Xu Meng didn't feel the breath behind him. The three garrison soldiers walked into the shadow of the big locust tree. Because their expressions could not be seen, their emotions could only be judged by their voices. Their voices were very steady and there was no sense of panic.
They were clearly in communication before and had agreed to meet, but now Zhu Ning felt like he had seen a ghost when he saw Cui Kai again.
Crash——
The leaves shook, and the bodies of the garrison soldiers hanging on them swayed, appearing and disappearing among the leaves.
Zhu Ning was standing at the feet of the corpses of the garrison soldiers. Three garrison soldiers appeared in front of him. Because they were wearing blue helmets, the surface of the helmets emitted a strange light. The three of them looked like some kind of cold-blooded lizard monsters.
To be honest, the three of them looked alive to the naked eye, but they were more terrifying than the corpses hanging above their heads.
"What did you find?" Cui Kai asked again, his voice very steady.
Xu Meng had already reached for the gun behind him. Zhu Ning reacted more calmly, his voice not even wavering, "We found the body of Shengxin, who committed suicide."
Cui Kai asked, "Who is Shengxin?"
Zhu Ning did not mention in the communication that the owner of the diary was Shengxin, so Cui Kai's first reaction was to ask who Shengxin was, without revealing any flaws.
Zhu Ning: "It's the owner of the diary from before. She committed suicide."
Cui Kai: “Why?”
Zhu Ning answered while listening to Cui Kai's tone, trying to guess whether this man was okay or not. He looked exactly the same as before, even had the same voice.
Zhu Ning: "Maybe he's desperate. He doesn't want to be parasitized by insects. It's hard for people to live in that kind of environment."
Cui Kai: "Humanity is truly great."
Zhu Ning frowned. What a strange sentence, such a deliberate answer. Why did his tone sound so much like Jiang Ping?
Zhu Ning continued to ask: "Any clues from Old Man Wu?"
Cui Kai: "Old Man Wu was previously infested with parasites."
Zhu Ning: "I know."
She stared at Cui Kai, trying to see if he could reveal any flaws. Cui Kai had just said that he had found an important clue.
Cui Kai added, "He wrote about a mother insect in his music score, saying that the mother insect is looking for a parasite."
Zhu Ning couldn't tell whether this sentence was true or false, but Shengxin's note also mentioned the queen insect. What is the queen insect?
If it is true, Cui Kai told himself that his motive is to seduce Zhu Ning, does he have to give something real?
Zhu Ning asked, "What is a queen worm?"
Cui Kai: "I don't know. I need to look for more clues."
Zhu Ning restrained himself from reaching for his gun and asked, "What should we do next?"
Zhu Ning was talking about us. At least from a language perspective, Zhu Ning still trusts the garrison troops. They are a team.
Cui Kai: "Let's go to Old Zhang's house. There should be clues there."
Zhu Ning had also planned to go to Lao Zhang's house, but he didn't know which family was Lao Zhang, so he asked, "Where is Lao Zhang's house?"
Cui Kai: "He said he lived in the first house at the entrance of the village."
Zhu Ning was standing at the entrance of the village. There was a house not far away. An old man was lying in the window. This man was Lao Zhang.
Cui Kai wants to take Zhu Ning and the others into Lao Zhang's house, as there might be something there.
It could also be a trap.
From beginning to end, only Cui Kai spoke to himself, while Jiang Ping and another team member remained silent.
Cui Kai was about to lead the team to leave. He had just taken two steps and had not yet walked out of the shade of the trees when he turned around and found that Zhu Ning had not caught up with him. Zhu Ning was standing in the shadow, and Xu Meng had disappeared.
Xu Meng is not the kind of person who attracts much attention, and it is completely unknown when she disappears.
"Why don't you leave?" Cui Kai took a look and asked, "Where's your captain?"
Zhu Ning stood in place. He was originally wearing a black protective suit and was hidden in the shadows, as if his body had melted into the shadows.
Zhu Ning didn't answer the question, but asked: "Cui Kai, are you infected?"
Cui Kai frowned: "What are you talking about? You doubt me too?"
It was a very rude suspicion to suspect that teammates were contaminated during a mission. Zhu Ning said, "I've been thinking about one thing."
Cui Kai: "What?"
Zhu Ning was watching Xu Meng's actions. The other party was hiding in the shadows and approaching Cui Kai quietly.
Zhu Ning looked directly at Cui Kai and continued, "I was wrong before. I always thought the source of the pollution was one of the villagers, but the source of pollution is not necessarily human."
Zhu Ning's previous idea was to sort out the relationships between these villagers, find out their "grudges", and determine who was the source of pollution.
But this is outside the wall, and it may not be just humans who possess intelligence. Humans are evolving, and flowers, plants, trees, and parasites are also evolving.
Zhu Ning had a terrible guess: the source of pollution might be insects?
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