Chapter 11: The First Item: Deserted City Notes
The blind man's stick tapped on the road.
Shen Li walked quietly side by side with him.
Fengrao thought he was bragging, so he asked one of his men to follow them for about a few dozen meters.
"Brother Feng, it seems like there's really no problem!"
Although Feng Rao still had a hint of hesitation, Scarface next to him had already believed it.
"How about we follow them?"
Feng Rao's tightly closed left eyelid suddenly twitched.
Wealth on the left and disaster on the right, is it a premonition or God's will?
"Pack your things and follow."
Because they had the blind man leading the way, their "journey home" avoided many detours.
Darkness is a burden to others, but to the blind, it is like a duck to water.
When Red Hair heard the noise, he had almost finished the first can of chewing gum.
"Shen Li and the blind man are back!" Red Hair reached out excitedly, and ended up touching a bunch of...
In order to avoid getting lost, everyone lined up and walked with their arms around each other's shoulders.
Red Hair was stunned.
"Are you driving a small train? No? Where did you bring so many people back from?"
The blind man got angry when he heard him talking. He was too lazy to explain to him and walked to Fengrao with his blind stick tapping on the ground.
"Do you believe it now?"
A rich heart is filled with mixed feelings.
It was indeed a smooth journey just now. If it were not for the restrictions of the rules, he would have wanted to open his eyes right now to see which Buddha had such ability.
The group temporarily settled down in a convenience store. After Li Dangxin treated her brother and Hongmao's wounds, she also participated in the subsequent discussion.
Although Feng Rao loosened up a little, he remained tight-lipped and only revealed a few insignificant things.
"There are two kinds of people in this city. The first kind are the indigenous people. They are the characters in the book. They have a fixed route every day and do fixed things. They don't have their own thoughts. Even if they die, they will be resurrected at the stroke of midnight."
"There is another kind of people, people like us, who come from the outside world. We are very free here, but it becomes troublesome only when the rules come into effect. If we encounter danger, we will really die if we die."
Everyone else listened attentively, except Chen Li, who was not interested in what Feng Rao said.
He used the straight umbrella handed to him by Red Hair as a blind stick, walked out of the convenience store alone, and looked up at the sky.
The blood words on his wrist said that he was not allowed to open his eyes, so he opened his eyes.
The bloody words on his wrist said that he would go blind on the fifth day of the fourth month. He became blind, but now...
He seemed to be able to see a faint light.
The rules and restrictions of this place cannot suppress him at all.
So disappointing.
Compared to the seal on his body, it's just childish play.
He squatted on the side of the road, picked up a piece of broken glass from the flower bed, and vigorously made a cross on the bloody words on the back of his hand as if he was correcting homework.
The shadow covering the eyes gradually dissipated along with the bright red cross, and more and more light came in.
He suddenly recovered from his blindness, and the stimulation of the strong light made tears well up in the corners of his eyes.
The rule with a cross on the back of his hand suddenly disappeared for a few seconds, and a question mark was printed, as if it was talking to him across the air.
"????"
Chen Li looked at the question mark engraved on his flesh and said calmly, "I don't agree with this rule."
Ignoring the sting on the back of his hand, he continued, "Because I don't approve of it, this rule doesn't have to exist."
At noon, the sun was high in the sky one second and the sky was filled with gloomy clouds the next.
More and more dark clouds came over, with flashes of lightning in the clouds.
“Boom!”
A bolt of thunder struck towards Shen Li.
Fortunately, Shen Li took a step back in time, and the lightning struck the camphor tree on the roadside.
He openly defied the rules, as if he had angered some being.
The sudden loud noise made everyone in the convenience store panic.
"What's that sound?"
"What's going on?"
Shen Li came in from outside and said in the brief interval between the thunder: "I'm in some trouble, you stay here and don't run around."
After a brief reminder, the door closed.
At this moment, there was a violent storm with thunder outside.
Everyone's eyes are still closed, but... now they can actually feel a little light through their eyelids.
Huangmao was a little excited and randomly pinched a lucky teammate - Li Yixin.
"Do you feel it?"
"I feel it. My eyelids are letting light in!" Li Dangxin was also a little excited. "So can we open our eyes now?"
Everyone except the blind man felt the light.
Feng Rao touched the back of his hand and said, "The bloody words seem to have disappeared."
It was not until now that they were convinced that the rules had truly disappeared.
Combined with what Shen Li just said, he must have done something.
"I can really see it!" After opening his eyes, Li Dangxin eagerly pulled the glass to look outside.
The road had been shattered into pieces by lightning and looked like it would collapse at any moment.
There was a strong wind outside the convenience store, and the trees were falling down. There was no sign of Chen Li.
Red Hair lay beside her, and after looking at the road, he looked at the sky again.
After that, his hands began to tremble violently, and when he poured gum into his mouth to prolong his life, several pieces of gum fell out.
Li Dangxin took a step aside in disgust, "Are you crazy?"
Redhead pointed silently to the sky.
Everyone looked up at the sky at the same time.
I saw a blood-red eye hidden in the thick clouds.
That eye was as huge as the sun and the moon, its dark pupil was like a black hole, and the darkness deep in the pupil stretched and twisted outward like a tentacle.
Just by looking at it from a distance, the fear comes over us like a wave, making us feel like we are drowning.
And the direction that the bloodshot eye was looking in was exactly the direction Chen Li left.
The oppressive feeling brought by the sunspot-like pupils was a hundred times stronger than that brought by the ghost in the monster box.
The red-haired man was the first to kneel down heavily on his knees.
His body prostrated itself on the ground uncontrollably, over and over again, worshipping the huge blood-red eye.
Next came the brother and sister Li Dangxin and Li Yixin.
Gradually, more and more people knelt down uncontrollably, slamming their foreheads heavily on the ground, kowtowed endlessly with blood all over their heads.
The blind man stood there. Although he didn't know what was happening, the strong smell of blood in the air and the sound of people kowtowed during worship made him realize the crisis.
“Stop.”
He clenched his blind stick and hit the red-haired man hard on the back, trying to wake him up by force.
But it was all in vain.
Red-haired man's head was covered in blood. He kowtowed over and over again, crying out at the top of his lungs:
"I want to stop, but I can't..."
“Save me! Save me!”
Plenty wails with tears.
The smell of blood in the air became stronger and stronger.
Gradually, the wailing became quieter.
At a certain moment when the red-haired man crawled and stood up again, spots similar to sunspots appeared in his unfocused eyes.
The spots twisted and turned into pitch-black tentacles, a small shadow-like circle that twisted left and right around the pupil.
If they keep knocking like this, they will all die!
The blind man quickly fumbled around and took some dolls and cushions from the shelves and placed them in front of them.
This was all he could do. As for Chen Li, he couldn't help him at all and could only wish for the best.
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Shen Li didn't know how long he had been running on the street.
Although he was very tired, it seemed like he hadn't felt this sense of urgency of being chased by a crisis for a long time, which made him a little excited.
But soon, the sequelae of excessive blood loss appeared.
I felt dizzy and groggy. I barely dodged a bolt of lightning and it seemed like I would fall down in the next second.
The open air was no longer safe, so after getting far enough away from the convenience store, he started running towards a building on the side of the road.
It was an old residential building with twelve floors. There was a lightning rod on the roof, and the thunder from the sky could do nothing to it.
Going up the narrow stairs, there are doors arranged in order on the left side of the corridor and a half-person-high concrete handrail on the right side.
The thunder gradually subsided, but the heavy rain continued to fall.
The wind was very strong, carrying a fishy smell, and blew towards the open corridor along with the heavy rain, soaking half of his clothes.
Chen Li looked down from the railing on the third floor and saw more and more black asphalt people gathering here, as if they were being controlled.
Although they were still afraid of him, they could not resist the being who was controlling them at the moment.
The black asphalt man surged up the steps, you in me and I in you.
Chen Li returned to the entrance of the corridor, looked at the asphalt men surging up, bit his fingertips, put his fingers together, and quickly drew a blood line at the entrance of the corridor on the third floor.
The surging Asphalt Men were petrified one after another after coming into contact with the blood line, and finally completely blocked the entrance to the corridor.
After briefly getting rid of the trouble behind him, Shen Li continued to move forward.
The asphalt people downstairs were blocked by the blood line. After retreating temporarily, they began to gather and merge one by one outside the building.
As each group of Asphalt Men merged, its body grew immensely larger.
From one person high, it gradually developed to three stories, five stories, and ten stories high.
Seeing the dark and sticky body gradually rising, it raised its slimy hands, peeked inside through the fence, and reached out to the corridor where Shen Li was, trying to grab him.
Go up further and you will reach the roof.
A completely open-air environment would be even more disadvantageous to him.
"Meow~"
A cat's meow attracted Shen Li's attention.
Cat Man A strolled leisurely in the corridor, then turned and disappeared into a room.
Is this to help him find the way?
Shen Li ran in the corridor while drawing blood lines outside.
But the rain outside was too heavy, and his blood line was diluted by the rain before it could fall on the asphalt monster, so it had little effect.
When the giant hand swung towards Chen Li, it brought with it a disgusting pungent smell.
Shen Li only felt a chill on his back, and could only speed up and run towards the room where Catman A disappeared, and quickly closed the door.
Danger struck, and an abandoned bicycle that was placed in the corridor by someone was folded and deformed by the blow.
It was pulling at the clothesline hanging above the corridor, and five or six pieces of clothing were entangled in the giant hand, trapping it and temporarily unable to extricate itself.
Shen Li leaned his back against the door and finally got a moment to catch his breath.
His chest rose and fell, and sweat on his forehead soaked his bangs.
A flash of thunder passed by.
A window right in front of me was suddenly blown open, and the dark blue curtains fluttered up and down.
On the desk by the window, a pile of scattered papers were flying everywhere.
In a trance, Shen Li seemed to see a pale figure sitting beside the desk...
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