Chapter 7: The First Item: Deserted City Notes
The reverberations of the collapse are still ringing in my ears.
Heart-wrenching screams were heard in the smoke and dust.
Across a narrow road, Chen Li saw the passerby on the opposite side covering his face in pain, with blood dripping from between his fingers.
He did not have a deep understanding of pain. Was that person in so much pain because he was touched by the "rain"?
He stood under the tree and stretched out his hand as if possessed by a ghost, with his palm facing up.
A drop of rain fell on his palm as he wished.
The fair skin turned red at first, and as the flesh was corroded, a sizzling sound mixed with blood was heard, and blood-colored foam spread to the surrounding areas.
The wound expanded further, but did not penetrate the entire palm.
Such pain was insignificant to him, as if he had already gotten used to it.
Li Dangxin, who was standing by, slapped him on the arm.
"Are you crazy? You don't know how painful it is!"
Perhaps it was because Shen Li's face was always filled with confusion and innocence, which made her feel a little disappointed in him.
The rain gradually got heavier.
You can’t stay indoors, but if you stay outside, you will die just the same.
Red Hair pulled a piece of tin sign from the roadside and held it against his forehead, pointing at a car parked on the roadside.
"Go hide in the car first!"
Just because they can’t stay indoors doesn’t mean they can’t hide in their cars.
These people cannot be said to be battle-hardened, but at least they have completed several delivery missions and have rich survival experience.
Red Hair smashed the window, climbed into the driver's seat and connected the wires, his movements were skillful and smooth.
"So awesome!" Chen Li praised Hongmao to the sky with just one sentence.
The rest of the people were crammed into the small trunk.
They now have to find a place to shelter from the rain as soon as possible. Although they are temporarily safe now, as the rain gets heavier, the roof will be corroded sooner or later.
"Drive! Drive faster!" The people in the back seat urged. Red-haired man gritted his teeth and stepped on the accelerator.
Chen Li was crammed in the middle of the back seat in a curled-up position, while Li Dangxin, who was squeezed on the left, frantically used iron sheets to block the broken window.
The socially anxious person on the right lowered his head and bit his nails frantically, with his messy hair covering his eyes. This kind of environment made him very uncomfortable. He was so anxious that he was about to explode. He wished he could rush out of the car and die the next second.
So Li Dangxin blocked the window while giving her brother psychological counseling, asking him to be patient.
The red-haired guy in the front seat was showing off his driving skills by holding the steering wheel with wild movements, making the car swerve from side to side.
The blind man in the passenger seat tried hard to hold back his anger and argued with him: "Who did you learn such wild driving skills from? Is the person who taught you to drive still alive?"
The red-haired man took his hands off the steering wheel and retorted defiantly: "You can do it? Come on! Come on!"
Only Chen Li sat there quietly, the chaos, panic, anxiety and irritability around him seemed to have nothing to do with him.
Although I am in the game, I always feel out of place.
Is this the life of an “ordinary person” that he has always longed for?
What kind of expression would ordinary people have in this situation? He carefully observed the expressions on everyone's faces.
Frowning, eyes and mouth wide open, is it fear or panic?
Without a mirror, his imitation was awkward.
While the red-haired man driving the car in the front row was arguing, he glanced at the rearview mirror inside the car and yelled with a look of horror on his face: "Hey! Honest man, what are you doing?"
The fleeing crowd suddenly quieted down, and several eyes fell on Shen Li.
"I'm learning how to be nervous." Shen Li answered obediently.
Red-haired man seemed to have heard a fairy tale and was extremely speechless.
"You need to learn when you are nervous?"
Do we need to learn something specifically for something that will come naturally?
Red-haired man stepped on the accelerator and turned the steering wheel sharply to avoid the bloody man in the rain.
The people in the back seat were like wheat that fell down during a typhoon. Due to inertia, their bodies fell to the left and then to the right.
"Look outside, there are corpses everywhere and so many people wailing in the rain."
Based on their previous observations of Shen Li, he could laugh, at most a little slowly, and he was not the kind of person who was numb and had no emotions.
He is strong, but he lacks nerve, which is fatal.
"We are in the same situation as them. If we can't find a place to hide from the rain, we will die. Our skin will fester in the rain, and not even our bones will be left. Just imagine, you are about to die and become as miserable as these corpses on the roadside. Are you nervous?"
Red Hair felt that he was helping him face reality, think about the most important thing, and not think about those trivial things.
But Shen Li shook his head.
“Not nervous.”
Because there is a glass-roofed bus stop at regular intervals on both sides of the road, which is not indoors and can also avoid corrosion from sulfuric acid rain. As long as he can park the car on the side of the road, everyone will be safe.
The car body jolted, and I didn't know whose body was run over.
He's not nervous even in a life-or-death situation? Red-haired's palms were sweaty. "Well, I have to say, I don't have a driver's license, I've only driven bumper cars, and I just learned how to connect a car a while ago. I got into the driver's seat by accident. When you praised me, I got braver. This is my first time driving. Are you nervous?"
Red Hair saw Shen Li frowning amidst the scolding.
Red Hair was overjoyed, "Look! He's nervous! He's nervous!"
Everyone: "Stop the car, you bastard! Stop the car for me!"
The red-haired man stepped on the brake and the accelerator, drifting while shouting, "It's too late, hold on!"
The intersection ahead was blocked, and several cars had collided with each other and were still smoking.
The red-haired car was going very fast and he couldn't stop at all. He could only temporarily turn the car around according to the feeling of driving a bumper car.
"Bang!"
The person in the back seat was shaken violently and almost thrown away.
Broken glass rubbed his cheek and splattered, leaving bright bloodstains.
The car hit a street lamp and finally stopped.
There was a cloud of smoke at the front of the car.
There was no movement in the car.
Chen Li sat up dizzy, the cut on his forehead still dripping blood, half of his face was bright red.
He didn't know how long he had been unconscious.
Maybe a few minutes, maybe longer.
The good news is that the rain has stopped.
The bad news is that he is the only sane person left.
He quickly checked on everyone.
Li Dangxin was just unconscious and was not seriously injured. Li Yixin had a broken leg and the red-haired man in the front seat had several pieces of broken glass on his shoulders, so they should only have superficial injuries.
The passenger door was open and the blind man was nowhere to be found. Probably because he felt they were unreliable, he ran away early as a sign of respect.
Not knowing whether the rain would continue, Chen Li moved the people in the car to the bus stop on the side of the road.
At least everyone is safe now.
The most seriously injured among them was Li Yixin.
After Chen Li gave him a simple way to stop the bleeding, he decided to find some first aid items in a roadside pharmacy before it got completely dark.
When Red Hair was racing before, he had noticed the collapsed pharmacy outside the window, which should be in this direction.
Shen Li had full confidence in his intuition.
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When Redmao woke up in the waiting seat at the bus stop, it was already completely dark.
Sister Sa, who was standing next to him, woke up earlier than him and was making a simple splint for her brother.
Compared to the wounds on his body, he felt a familiar tingling sensation on his right forearm.
The light spot representing the blind man explored along the main road all the way south, while the light spot representing Shen Li did not follow the road and just went around in circles.
Generally speaking, for a map imprinted on the forearm, each person's light spot tracking will only cause slight discomfort when moving.
It doesn't hurt.
The pain is mainly caused by someone walking in a place that the map cannot determine is a road.
Red-haired man gritted his teeth and wanted to curse.
"Don't look at him. He's been walking around in circles for half an hour. There's no chance of him coming back to join us."
"Wait until I put the splint on my brother, and then we can go together. In his current condition, he can stay here until dawn. There is no need to worry about him running further away."
Red Hair was very annoyed. He stood with his butt sticking out and used a stick to pick out chewing gum from the cracks in the bricks under the ruins of the collapsed convenience store.
It’s one o’clock.
The ground began to shake again.
The first step is to restore all broken circuits.
The street lights on both sides of the road lit up one by one.
Red-haired man stopped taking out the gum, and his hand holding the stick began to tremble again.
He looked up at the sky, and colorful neon lights illuminated half the sky.
The collapsed buildings were automatically reshaped, and the suspended bricks were pieced together and rebuilt in a short time.
In the blink of an eye, the ruins disappeared.
The city returned to normal at midnight. There were no corpses on the roadside and no wailing in the distance, as if nothing had happened.
Red Hair turned around in surprise. The lights in the collapsed convenience store were on and it had resumed business.
A light flashed in his eyes, and then he rushed in without hesitation like a robber, put five or six bottles of chewing gum in his pocket, opened one of them with a silly smile, and poured it into his mouth.
Crash.
The sweet fruity taste filled his mouth. Redhead chewed it a few times with satisfaction, and the familiar tingling sensation came on the back of his hand again.
Bloody words were engraved on his skin. He raised his arm to take a look. It read:
April 5th
Good: Blindness
Taboo: Open your eyes
It turns out that a new day has arrived.
Red-haired tilted his head back and resigned himself to putting a few more pieces of mixed fruit-flavored chewing gum into his mouth. The corners of his eyes were wet, as if he was holding back tears.
Crash.
He stuffed his mouth full and cursed incoherently:
"This is a fucking world."
Regardless of whether they are blind or have their eyes closed, the rule this time is to make them unable to see.
What a blind man the whole nation is.
In this situation, it would be unwise to ask for help.
Red Hair closed his eyes, felt for a straight umbrella from the shelf in front of the convenience store, and groped his way back to the bus stop.
I had only taken two steps when I heard a man screaming not far away.
"What is this? Ah...what is this..."
Apparently an unlucky survivor had run into danger again.
The danger is where he can't see!
The red-haired man stood still, not daring to move an inch.
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When the bloody words appeared, Shen Li still hadn’t found the pharmacy.
He closed his eyes according to the instructions in the blood words and groped forward in the darkness.
It was so quiet around him that his footsteps seemed unusually clear.
He remembered that before he closed his eyes, he was standing at the gate of an elementary school. If it was an elementary school, there should be a place like a medical room.
Chen Li explored forward in the corridor, and the figure of another person kept appearing on the glass window on one side.
Too bad he can't see it.
Shen Li felt the outer wall and lost his way in the gymnasium, missing the most important exit every time.
As time passed, human-like figures similar to black asphalt grew from the bottom to the top of the gymnasium floor.
Those asphalt people could not move and could only wait where they were. Anyone who approached would be devoured.
At this moment, Shen Li was unaware of the danger that had arrived.
He stopped touching the outer wall to explore the way, and instead groped his way forward to the left.
On the other side of the huge floor-to-ceiling glass door, the man stood there, watching everything coldly.
A thin layer of glass separates the two worlds.
The blood-stained boy closed his eyes, stretched out his hands, and walked forward slowly.
Asphalt monsters are everywhere.
There were three on the left, two on the right, and one that just brushed past his open hand, just a little bit away from devouring him.
He was lucky that his lack of sense of direction prevented him from walking in a straight line.
The original route deviated slightly and the disaster was avoided.
But luck won't always be on his side.
Because there are three asphalt monsters blocking his way, if he keeps groping around like this, he will bump into the monsters sooner or later.
The tiny silver snake coiled around his finger bones and swam restlessly.
The person on the other side of the mirror had already guessed his fate and wanted to turn around and leave, but the silver snake bit him at an inopportune moment.
There was a sharp pain in my index finger.
It forced him to stop and re-examine the existence of the young man.
"You want me to save him?" He raised his hand, and the small silver snake coiled around his fingers twice and nodded.
It’s not that he is overly cold, but the world is just like this, only the fittest survive.
Besides - when has he ever been so kind as to save anyone?
Ye Minglang lowered his hands, turned around and walked away quickly, saying sarcastically: "Why?"
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