Chapter 26: Iron Teeth and Copper Jaws
The gun in his hand was pointed directly at me, and there was an inexplicable hostility in his cold eyes.
"Where did you get this knife?" the man asked again.
A knife? I was confused for a moment, then understood. His eyes fell on the Miao Dao at my side, and it seemed that he recognized it.
I pointed at the knife on my body and answered honestly, "Song Nanxing gave it to me."
After hearing Song Nanxing's name, the person in front was a little surprised: "Did he give it to you?"
"Yes." I nodded.
The man's small eyes were filled with great doubt. He hesitated for a second, then looked at me again and said, "You lied to me."
???
No, what did I lie to you about?
"Who are you?" the man asked again.
I was a little speechless. I glanced at the gun he was pointing at me and resisted the urge to roll my eyes. "I was just about to ask who you are. Also, please don't keep pointing the gun at me. I'm scared."
The man also realized that something was wrong, put down the gun, and asked coldly: "You, what's your name?"
"Ji Ling."
The man was slightly startled, as if a little surprised, and his eyes looked back and forth, scanning me up and down.
Then his expression softened a lot, and he said calmly, "Follow me."
Now it's my turn to be confused. Please give me a reason.
"Stop talking to yourself. You haven't even told me who you are." I frowned and looked at him suspiciously.
The man thought for two seconds and said, "You can call me Steel Lord."
What the hell is that name?
I don't know what this person is up to, and it's too strange that he asked me to follow him for no reason. Even if he wanted to sell me out, he should at least come up with a reasonable excuse...
I didn't intend to argue with him any further, so I just casually said, "Sorry, I have somewhere else to go."
After saying that, I turned around and left. Fortunately, although the man was a little confused, he did not stop me.
It was already past afternoon and the sky had grown overcast. I felt a little irritated, not knowing what would happen once night fell.
Although there was guidance in Morse code, it was just an Eastern message and I didn't even know what was there.
To make matters worse, I lost my gas mask at the farmers' market. If that strange fragrance appears again at night, it would be too dangerous to fall into the illusion.
Besides, I was running out of supplies, and since I hadn’t had any water for a long time, my situation wasn’t really good.
The more I thought about it, the heavier my heart felt, but there was nothing I could do. It seemed I had no choice but to keep walking.
I don't know how long I walked. I was carefully hiding my tracks, and would detour in other directions after walking for a while to prevent being tracked by An Xiaowei. At the same time, I had to be on guard against the monsters wandering outside that might appear at any time.
Every slightest sound in the ruins makes me nervous.
The sky was getting darker and darker, and the long journey and lack of supplies were causing my physical strength to gradually decline.
There was no way I could keep walking like this, so I hesitated for a moment and found a nearby residential building to go into.
Although it is dangerous inside a residential building, it is also the place where you are most likely to find supplies, and it can also provide me with a place to rest for a while.
I explored the residential building carefully and finally found a house with the door open. There was bloodstains in the room spreading all the way from the living room to the outside, but this scene was not enough to scare me.
I opened the family's refrigerator and there was nothing left, but there was still some water in the water dispenser. I excitedly ran over, found a cup, filled it with water, and drank several cups in a row.
After checking the room inside and out and making sure there were no monsters hiding or other safety hazards, I closed the door, dragged a few stools across it, and then fell asleep on the sofa.
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A strange fragrance lingered at the tip of my nose. I subconsciously felt a little repulsed by it, but there was nowhere to escape.
In a trance, I felt as if someone was talking in my ear, like a group of people whispering, or like one person humming. I listened carefully, but couldn't hear anything clearly.
I just felt my body become light and there was darkness all around me. I was floating like duckweed in the endless black ocean.
Besides, a wave of hunger swept over me, and I struggled to search in the darkness, trying to find something to fill my stomach.
In the boundless darkness, I only felt that the noise in my ears never-ending. In this almost maddening chaos, the only real thing was the primitive feeling of hunger.
Driven by hunger, I struggled to get up and looked around.
Finally, I smelled a scent. I can't describe the smell, but it made me ecstatic. I desperately looked for the source of the smell.
Suddenly, my head started to ache, which was unbearable. It seemed that two consciousnesses that did not belong to me were pulling at each other.
It hurts, but I can't stop.
Because I could feel that I was very close to what I was looking for, and the mouth-watering smell made me excited.
I couldn't wait to open my mouth and bite it hard.
The hard texture hurt my teeth, but it also brought some clarity back to my mind.
My vision gradually became clear, consciousness returned to my mind, and I suddenly opened my eyes.
However, the scene before me almost made me collapse - I was lying on the floor of the corridor, in front of me was the corpse of a monster, and I was biting something in my mouth.
"Ugh~" A feeling of nausea hit me, I knelt on the ground and retched, and the things in my mouth fell out.
It's a piece of wood.
wood?
At the same time, a chuckle came from above my head: "Good teeth, iron teeth and bronze teeth Ji Ling."
This voice is very familiar to me, it's Song Nanxing's voice.
I looked up and saw him squatting next to me, looking like he was watching a show, with a hint of smile in his eyes.
Behind him stood a man wearing a hood, with faint white hair visible under the brim - it was the man who called himself Steel Lord whom he met during the day.
I was a little dazed. My constantly tense nerves and repeated hallucinations made it impossible for me to distinguish between reality and dreams. I stared at the two of them blankly.
"Are you stupid?" Song Nanxing put his hand in front of me and shook it twice.
I subconsciously moved back and bumped into the monster corpse next to me.
Thinking back to the dream I just had, I had a terrible guess in my mind.
Thinking of this, my stomach churned again.
"vomit--"
I knelt on the ground and vomited violently, tears and snot streaming down my cheeks. I didn't dare to think too much. The scene in front of me told me that I was very likely to have bitten this monster.
I vomited so much that my body was shaking slightly.
Song Nanxing patted my back, calmed me down, and sighed, "Don't worry, you didn't eat that disgusting thing."
Then he pointed to the piece of wood on the ground and continued, "I found a replacement for you."
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