320 Toad Man (Part 2)
◎Even if I'm crazy, Zhu Ning can't be crazy◎
Guo Zilin seemed to realize something. People have a premonition before they die. He trembled all over and suddenly covered his mouth with his backhand. His yellow tongue bulged quickly and several blisters appeared. Something was jumping on the surface of his tongue. He put his finger in to probe and his whole body froze.
There was a live toad on his tongue!
The toad filled his mouth, blocked his throat, and made a gurgling sound.
Guo Zilin couldn't help wanting to vomit. He beat his stomach with one hand to induce vomiting, and tried to pull the toad off his tongue with the other hand. But no matter how hard Guo Zilin tried, he couldn't pull it off. The toad was completely stuck to his tongue. To be precise, the toad grew out of his tongue.
Guo Zilin scratched his throat, and could only make a mumbling sound. His limbs were rapidly mutating, and his thigh muscles were swelling.
His face was flushed and his eyes almost popped out, as if he was using his last bit of life to beg for help.
Zhu Ning knew that the situation was hopeless with this level of contamination. She could only eat the man whole or shoot him to death.
Bang--
A bullet flew out from nowhere and hit Guo Zilin's head accurately, going through from left to right, and fell to the ground with a ding-dong sound.
Zhu Ning reacted quickly, but the distance between him and Guo Zilin was too close, and a drop of blood splashed on the back of his hand. It was not hot like human blood, but a little cold.
After the blood touched Zhu Ning, the surrounding area trembled slightly, and it rolled over like a living thing. Then the black mucus on Zhu Ning's spine churned, and blood dripped onto the ground.
Guo Zilin's companions finally lost control of themselves and suffered a mental breakdown after being suppressed to the extreme. They screamed and started to run away in panic.
The person who fired the shot was a man. Zhu Ning knew him. It was he who kicked Guo Zilin just now because he thought Guo Zilin's crying was annoying and kept him from sleeping.
He felt relieved after firing the gun. "I told you to stop making noise, I told you to stop making noise, it's so annoying!"
Guo Zilin was clearly dead, but he fired five or six more shots at the corpse. "Still making noise! Still making noise! Can you please stop shouting?"
Guo Zilin's legs and hands kept twitching, just like when a seafood store kills a bullfrog and the owner peels off the skin of the bullfrog, but the frog still flaps its limbs and its nerves are still moving.
Now Guo Zilin had completely turned into a toad, and his body was twitching constantly. The shooter was scratching his head, and was so annoyed that he was mentally exhausted. He beat Guo Zilin like a sieve, and the body finally stopped moving.
It stopped, the beeping sound disappeared.
The man had fired his last few bullets and was still trying to fire again. The people in the other tents were startled and they all looked out. "What's going on? Someone's been killed?"
"No," the man said, pulling his head back. "There's contamination. Wear a helmet."
The remaining few people did not leave the tent and went back to put on their helmets.
Zhu Ning took two steps back and put on her helmet with her backhand, not because she was afraid of being infected, but because she was afraid of becoming the target of public criticism. After all, she had just been chatting with Guo Zilin.
Zhu Ning stepped back and whispered to the tent, "Wear a helmet, something's wrong."
Bai Cheng and Pei Shu woke up early, but had not taken any action. After hearing Zhu Ning's instructions to come out wearing helmets, Bai Cheng took one look at the corpse on the ground and immediately frowned.
This man died tragically, and his whole body has become toad-like. His thighs are particularly thick, as if he had over-exercised, or like toad legs.
"Damn, how unlucky I am to run into someone who has become alienated."
"The dust storm hasn't stopped yet," someone next door muttered, asking, "What happened?"
"Pilgrim," the man sneered, "If you don't have the ability to learn to go outside the wall, you would have been infected long ago."
"Back off," someone said. "Let's get back to the car."
Zhu Ning thought someone would come to deal with the body, but since they knew Guo Zilin was a pilgrim, they seemed to treat this matter as an ordinary incident.
Outside the wall, most people don't want to bother with pilgrims. Their spirit values are too low and they can easily become new pollutants. They are not surprised.
The pollution has been dealt with in a timely manner, so they chose to stay away as much as possible and not cause trouble, planning to leave as soon as the dust storm stops.
After a commotion, the nearby tents were packed up and everyone looked for new locations. Most people chose to get on their own cars, which were farther away.
Guo Zilin's body was left on the spot, and his companions disappeared.
The bounty hunter who killed someone had a smile on his face, and he walked with a sense of relief, muttering as he walked: "Finally, I'm free. No one is yelling anymore."
Zhu Ning suspected that he was just like himself, not disturbed by Guo Zilin's crying, but was kept awake by the ubiquitous sound of toads.
"That's weird," Pei Shu walked over to her and asked, "What's wrong?"
Zhu Ning hesitated for a moment. Pei Shu and Bai Cheng definitely didn't hear the toad's call, otherwise they wouldn't ask like that.
Could it be that Zhu Ning had been infected? Had she already been mentally ill? Had she been experiencing hallucinations but was unaware of it?
What if Pei Shu and Bai Cheng were hallucinating? What if this shelter was an illusion? What if she had been hallucinating since the dust storm began?
If we look at it with an illusionary assumption, what is real and what is fake?
Is all of this fake, or half true and half false? Are some of these people not even human?
Is the reaction of others normal? Just leaving the infected person alone?
Why am I the only one who hears the toads? Is this a form of pollution?
Maybe it wasn't an illusion at all, but a preconceived notion she had after seeing the toad, and someone was deliberately making it mysterious, making her think it was an illusion.
Bai Cheng half-knelt to look at the corpse, "I can't control this corpse."
Zhu Ning asked, "What do you mean?"
Bai Cheng can control corpses. She is considered an expert in this field. She said, "The corpses I can control are usually ownerless. If I can't control them, it means that they are either not dead, or they are still under some kind of control."
What I mean is, there must be a real source of infection in this place, and those who died were infected?
Zhu Ning's attention was drawn to the red can on the ground. The cola inside had been drunk long ago, and the bottle was slightly dented by being squeezed.
But there is some transparent mucus at the mouth of the bottle, what is this?
When Guo Zi was dying, she rummaged through the man's backpack and found three holes in it from a gunshot wound, and everything inside was shattered.
Zhu Ning emptied his backpack and found only two bottles of nutrients. He couldn't find any mental healing agents or medical supplies.
Zhu Ning: "It seems they have been short of supplies for a long time."
Without spiritual healing agents, it is normal to transform into pollutants.
Zhu Ning found some odds and ends in it, including a Polaroid photo taken before departure, showing several young people smiling at the camera.
Zhu Ning continued to search, hoping to find something representative like a pendant, but found nothing.
Pei Shu followed and looked through the pages, saying, "There are no more bullets."
When their last bullets were used up, they had no weapons to commit suicide.
There were no diaries or investigation notes, no audio tapes or videos taken by the deputy brain. They really looked like young and ignorant people, just here for tourism.
Guo Zilin had clearly only been dead for a short while, but he soon began to stink. It was not the smell of an ordinary rotting human being, but more like the stench of seafood.
Zhu Ning told them everything that had just happened. Bai Cheng and Pei Shu both said that they had not heard any toad calls, and Bai Cheng did not see anything unusual when he was on duty until the killing started outside.
Zhu Ning looked at Lin Xiaofeng. Lin Xiaofeng was still invisible and said in a very secretive way that she didn't hear it either.
Bai Cheng asked, "Are there still toads croaking now?"
“No more.”
After Guo Zilin became completely stiff, the toad sound disappeared. On the surface, it really looked like the pilgrim's spirit value was too low and alienated, and he returned to peace after being killed.
Among the four people, only Zhu Ning heard it, which made it easy for people to think that Zhu Ning was the crazy one.
Pei Shu sneered: "Even if I go crazy, Zhu Ning can't go crazy."
Zhu Ning's mental strength is among the highest among humans. If she went crazy easily, Pei Shu would definitely be going crazy at this time.
He has a history of mental illness and has experienced several areas of cognitive-altering pollution, with Pei Shu being the most likely to go crazy.
Bai Cheng also thought so, "There should be a choice. I hope this method can make us doubt internally."
Being crazy is a good accusation. Once you are told that you are crazy, no one will believe anything you say and you will be left isolated and helpless.
It's like gaslighting, making you go crazy outside and giving people the impression that this person is irrational, and then you will be controlled by him.
But he underestimated Zhu Ning's spirit, or underestimated the trust between them, and would not easily suspect Zhu Ning.
Bai Cheng asked again: "Why choose Zhu Ning?"
If the toad sound could be heard by a specific person, wouldn't it be better to let Pei Shu go crazy first? Zhu Ning was difficult to control.
Zhu Ning: "There are three possibilities. First, if I go crazy, the harm will be the greatest."
If Zhu Ning collapses, everyone in the shelter will suffer.
"Second, it wanted to eat me."
The previous non-natural humans, whether Li Xin or Jiang Ping, looked at Zhu Ning as if he were food. High spirit value has a fatal attraction to some creatures.
"Third," Zhu Ning said, "it's coming towards me."
Someone wanted to kill her, and was very targeted, or someone wanted to plant some subconscious seeds in Zhu Ning in the process.
Zhu Ning asked, "Which exit should we use to get out of the wall?"
Bai Cheng chose the meeting place and said: "C-22"
There is an exit on each wall. There are 31 numbers under each letter from A to Z on the north wall. The starting point of Zhu Ning and Guo Zilin is very far away.
Zhu Ning: "I asked you guys if there was a shelter nearby? You all said no."
Bai Cheng thought Zhu Ning was suspicious of her, so she explained, "I've resurrected. I can connect with the corpse's line of sight and see someone rushing here."
"I don't doubt you." Zhu Ning said quickly. She knew Bai Cheng had her own secrets, but she would definitely not betray her. If she wanted to kill her, she would have done it directly in the Zombie City while Zhu Ning had lost her memory, and would not have dragged it on until now.
Zhu Ning: "This shelter seems to have suddenly appeared during the dust storm."
Bai Cheng and Pei Shu didn't know there was such a place, and the others had to rest here because of the dust storm.
Zhu Ning listened to the howling dust storm outside. It was even stronger than the previous wind and it might not stop until tomorrow. They had to stay for at least another day.
Zhu Ning: "What if this is the hunting method of the refuge?"
When encountering extreme weather, it attracts refugees, drives them crazy, and finally eats them.
The killing method is not so absolute, unlike the water ghosts on the Homecoming, who died with just one touch and had no chance to fight back.
But due to extreme weather conditions, they are trapped on an isolated island and easily kill each other under the temptation of illusions.
"There will definitely be more deaths. We..." Before Zhu Ning could finish his words, he suddenly heard another gunshot. Someone else died.
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