In the third week of the dungeon, the number of survivors admitted to the medical center reached a bottleneck. For three consecutive days, the number remained at 132 and never went up again.
The insect plague has lasted for two and a half weeks. Song Yue is worried that if it continues like this, there will be fewer and fewer survivors on the island.
He immediately stood up, took the protective suit hanging on the hanger, and put it on quickly.
Susan was about to come in to report the situation to her, but when she saw her fully armed, she couldn't help but be surprised: "You want to go out?"
Song Yue: "Yeah."
"Why? Isn't it safer to stay in the building?" Susan was puzzled.
Song Yue couldn't say she hadn't completed her mission, so she made up an excuse: "There might be survivors out there. I plan to look for them again."
Susan was silent for a moment, then raised her eyes and said, "Then you must be careful."
No one could persuade Song Yue to make a decision. This had been the case at work before. Susan knew this very well, so she did not stop her. She just hoped that she could return safely.
Hearing that she was going out, Bruce hesitated for a moment, and finally whispered, "If there's a chance... could you go to the mobile shop on the beach?"
Song Yue raised her eyebrows: "Is there someone over there?"
Bruce lowered his head slightly: "...Well, they are a few female colleagues in our department. I escaped at that time, and they are still in there. I wonder if they are still there now..."
Song Yue understood: "Okay, I'll go look for it."
After saying that, he slipped out of the glass door and gradually disappeared from Bruce and Susan's sight.
Since they were saving someone this time, Song Yue didn't plan to drive her sports car. She chose an open space out of sight of the medical center, retrieved her SUV from the space, filled the tank, and began searching along the island's perimeter.
As expected, there was no one alive on the road.
Not only that, there weren't even many corpses left.
It must have been washed into the sea by last week's storm, so there aren't many traces left on the street.
Without corpses, the black worms had no food source. Song Yue noticed that some black worms had begun to cannibalize each other.
Two black bugs landed on her car window.
The larger ones will pierce their mouthparts into the bodies of their smaller counterparts. When the latter's toxin takes effect and its pedipalps begin to struggle, the former will then reveal its broken teeth, step on the shell of its counterpart, and start to eat it with a crunching sound.
Song Yue thought this was a good way to clean up the black bugs, but a moment later, through the front car window, she noticed that the abdomen of the black bug that had swallowed the corpse of its own kind began to beat rhythmically.
After agitating for more than ten times, the abdomen slowly split open, revealing the grayish-white flesh inside. The flesh was thin and dense, and kept wriggling.
Even though she didn't have trypophobia or was not afraid of insects, she still got goose bumps after watching this scene.
This is how black insects lay eggs. The abdomen first splits open, and then rice-sized eggs are produced. These eggs are sticky and after being squeezed out by the mother insect, they stick to the windshield of Song Yue's car.
Song Yue: Her car is not clean anymore...
He immediately stepped on the accelerator and used the strong wind to blow the queen insect away.
As for the rest that is still stuck to the glass, burn it with fire later.
When the vehicle reached the beach, Song Yue slowed down and observed carefully.
Two strong winds and heavy rains were enough to overturn these makeshift shops, and the roofs, plastic stools, door panels... were scattered all over the ground.
I just didn’t see any colleagues from the same department.
After driving for a while, suddenly, I felt a strange crushing sensation under the car, which was completely different from the feeling of touching soft sand.
Song Yue's eyes flickered and she stopped the car.
She found that there was indeed something hard under the front wheel, so she reached out her hand (wearing protective clothing) and dug in the sand.
A skull gradually emerged.
The flesh on the head had been completely gnawed away, and it was impossible to tell who it was.
However, as Song Yue continued to dig deeper, she found part of a bikini.
Song Yue searched for this pattern and this bow in the original owner's memory, and finally remembered that this was one of the five female colleagues Bruce mentioned.
After confirming the result, Song Yue withdrew his hand, returned to the car and continued on his way.
After searching the entire beach area, she found nothing.
Alas, I couldn't help but sigh. There are still 28 people missing for the mission. It's impossible that there is really no living person left on the island now, right?
Turning from the beach area onto the main road, Song Yue decided to visit a few hotels.
Chef Zhang fled from Hotel Z at that time, so there might be survivors there.
In the supermarket, the cashier looked outside in despair.
These days, she watched helplessly as people on the street turned into mummies and were eaten by black bugs that broke out of their skin.
It's even scarier than the horror movies she watched when she was bored!
She simply couldn't understand why such strange insects would appear on such a beautiful island!
But what if I can’t understand?
She thought to herself with self-mockery, now that things had come to this, she couldn't make the call for help, and the rescue team hadn't arrived yet. What else could she do except stay in this supermarket where she worked?
Behind him, a young man's voice rang out softly: "...Sister, I'm hungry..."
The cashier immediately turned around and said, "Oh, okay, let me see what's left."
After saying that, he rummaged through a spare warehouse at the back that could only accommodate one person, and finally managed to find two boxes of biscuits and a bottle of Coke.
Without hesitation, she handed over a box of cookies and Coke: "Here, eat it."
The boy took the food, tore open the package, and immediately started to eat it voraciously.
The cashier looked at the scene and Ann sighed.
I don't know whether she is lucky or unlucky.
She was said to be lucky because when the insect plague broke out, she reacted quickly. She immediately closed the front and back doors of the shop, locked the small window of the warehouse, and hid inside waiting for rescue.
To say she was unlucky was because a girl with bandages on her hands bought most of the food in the supermarket during the day, and the supermarket had no time to restock, resulting in it having to use the limited food reserves in the warehouse.
She had taken stock before and figured out that if she was alone and ate sparingly, she could probably last a month.
But more than ten days ago, a young man suddenly came to the supermarket door.
Seeing the other person's pale and thin appearance, she couldn't bear it and let him in.
The boy had a big appetite and ate twice as much as she did every day.
This made her very troubled.
She felt that it was too cruel to kick them out, but if she continued to keep them, the stock would soon be eaten up.
Unable to find a solution anyway, she was forced to spend every day in melancholy.
Suddenly, she felt the boy pulling at the corner of her clothes.
The cashier came to his senses and was shocked:???
You don’t want to eat anymore?!
However, despite being nervous, he still kept a smile on his face: "We are running low on food now, so we have to eat sparingly. Be good and bear with it a little longer, the rescue team will definitely come."
Unexpectedly, the boy shook his head and muttered softly, "...your cookies..."
The cashier realized that the other party wanted to eat her share.
"Well, I'm sorry, this one is mine. If I give it to you, I won't have anything to eat." She shook her head apologetically and told the other person in a kind tone.
Hearing the voice, the young man slowly let go of his hand and stopped talking.
The cashier stared at him for a long time, and when he found out that he didn't want any more food, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Just then, a car stopped outside the floor-to-ceiling glass window.
Her eyes lit up, and she quickly stood up, walked to the window, and waved her hands hard: "This way! There's someone here!"
The other person has a car and might be able to take her away.
Song Yue stopped because she saw someone in the supermarket, and it was the cashier of the supermarket she patronized.
She got out of the car and walked to the supermarket door, pointing at the door lock.
The cashier didn't recognize her, but when he saw she was wearing medical protective clothing with the medical center's logo printed on it, he thought she was a doctor out for the rescue, and his face was filled with surprise.
"Right away, I'll open the door for you." She said as she took out the key and inserted it into the lock.
However, at this moment, half a head suddenly appeared behind the cashier, and a knife slowly appeared right above her head!
Song Yue's pupils narrowed, and she quickly shouted, "Get out of the way!"
The cashier tilted his head, as if he didn't understand what she was shouting. It was not until he sensed something was wrong from Song Yue's nervous expression that he slowly turned around.
In the middle of her vision, she saw the young man looking at her sinisterly, holding a knife in his right hand, which he had taken out from somewhere, with the tip of the knife pointing at her face.
"Ah, help!" The cashier reacted and screamed.
Bang, bang, bang!
Three gunshots in succession!
The glass in the supermarket shattered all over the floor.
The boy was hit in the face by broken glass, and the wrist holding the knife suddenly became unable to move.
He shifted his gaze to look at the hand raised in the air, his expression gradually becoming one of disbelief.
The bullet hit his wrist bone exactly, leaving a bloody hole in front of him.
Song Yue put away his gun, rushed in, and dragged the cashier outside: "Go! Don't just stand there!"
The cashier was shocked and had no idea what had happened in that brief moment. His brain seemed to be in a state of shutdown, and he let the other party drag him away.
“Get in the car!”
In a trance, she heard the other party shouting.
"...Oh, okay... She hurriedly opened the car door and climbed into the passenger seat.
"Hold on tight."
Then came the order in her ears. She had no energy to think and subconsciously grabbed the handle with both hands, completely in a daze.
boom--
As the SUV accelerated as the accelerator was pressed, the cashier felt himself falling backwards and his heartbeat suddenly accelerated.
It was not until the car sped several hundred meters that the cashier regained his senses from his confusion.
"...You, you just now...I...was rescued?" He regained his senses, but his words were still clumsy.
Song Yue changed gears, slowed down the car, and pulled off the hood of her protective suit, revealing her true face. "My name is Song Yue. We met two weeks ago."
The moment he saw her face, the cashier covered his mouth in surprise: "It's you! How could you..."
Showing up here? And wearing medical center clothes?
Also, why did you use a gun? Aren't guns prohibited on the island?
Countless questions were colliding in the cashier's mind, and he felt his brain was in a mess.
"Do you know that boy?" Seeing that the cashier didn't say anything, Song Yue had to ask.
The cashier shook his head blankly: "...I don't know him."
"Then why are you staying with him?"
Thinking of the knife that nearly stabbed her face, the cashier swallowed hard, a chill running down her spine: "...I...I opened the door for him..."
Then he briefly talked about his interactions with the boy these days.
After listening to this, Song Yue sighed softly: "You are so lucky."
"Ah? Why do you say that?" The cashier blinked suspiciously.
Song Yue looked at the road sign and turned the car towards the hotel while explaining, "Two weeks ago, he and his sister came to the medical center. His sister had some behavior issues, so they didn't let them in. Just now, I saw his sister on the way to the supermarket."
After a pause, he said, "His sister is dead. She was lying on the main road with obvious knife wounds on her body."
"...What? ...Dead?"
And it was... a knife wound...?
After hearing this, the cashier was shocked.
Oh my god, she actually lived with a murderer? And she spent more than ten days with him day and night...?!
How careless was she that she didn't notice the other person had a knife!
The cashier looked ashen, unable to bear recalling the scene just now.
Fortunately, fortunately I met the girl in front of me today. If she hadn't shot and saved me, I'm afraid I would have become a corpse under the boy's knife now, right?
The cashier felt a tingling sensation all over her scalp, hugging herself. She was silent for a long time before she slowly spoke, "Thank you. My name is Yu Yin, the same as the lingering sound."
Song Yue nodded, indicating that she remembered it.
The car fell into silence.
Song Yue's eyes flashed.
In fact, there was one thing she didn't say. When she found the boy's sister, she found that several pieces of flesh were missing from her face, arms, and thighs.
Those wounds were not caused by the chewing of black insects, but could only be cut with a sharp weapon like a knife.
However, the truth of the matter was no longer important. What was important was that she would never allow such a situation to happen in the medical center.
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