Chapter 116 It’s You
"Sister Wen, go get some sleep. I'll take over the night watch."
In the ruins of a certain building, there are two rooms with broken walls, where more than fifty people live.
The twelve-year-old girl yawned so hard that tears came out of her eyes. She was obviously very sleepy, but she still pushed the figure sitting by the window and whispered that she wanted to change shifts.
The unlit room was pitch black, with the dim light of the stars and the moon. A figure in the window was sitting with legs outstretched, her figure curvy and graceful, the kind of body that women would envy and men would stare at.
The woman looked up at the blood-red moon in the sky, her wavy hair casually tied behind her head, with a few strands hanging down against her cheeks, looking lazy.
Hearing the sound, she turned her head and smiled: "How can you keep watch all night? You can't even notice the strange mouse coming."
The little girl hesitated. "...My father should be back soon. I'll just stay with him then. You've been leading us all on a long journey. You need to get enough rest. We're all counting on you tomorrow. If you don't get enough rest, what will become of you if you run into danger and you're not in the right mood to look after us?"
"Tsk! Little girl, you're just as nagging as your dad."
The woman stretched out her slender fingers and flicked the little girl's forehead.
At this time, among the people lying on the floor in the room, someone was groaning and sighing in pain in his sleep, holding his stomach and turning over.
Then, two more people fainted and cried out in pain.
Everyone was feeling sick after eating moldy steamed buns and sleeping on the cold ground in late autumn and early winter. Soon, one person couldn't bear it anymore, so he got up and went out to have diarrhea.
The woman warned: "Don't go far!"
The man responded, walked out of the room, and squatted down behind a pile of rubble a few meters away.
The noise of the exhaust escaping woke up more people in the room, and then several more people got up to use the restroom. It was too dark to see clearly, so men and women squatted behind the pile of rocks to relieve themselves.
In the apocalypse, there's no point in being too particular. No one dares to go too far alone to relieve themselves, especially in the dangerous late night. If you're not careful, you might be hit by a club by a bad guy or bitten to death by a mutant beast, and never be able to come back.
"We can't go on like this." The woman frowned as she listened to the people screaming in pain while using the restroom. "Tomorrow, have Lao Guo go out and search for medicine. Otherwise, you'll all die of diarrhea before the epidemic even arrives."
Before he finished speaking, there was a sudden scream.
It's so tragic and cruel.
Everyone was so frightened that their hearts trembled and they stood up in horror.
The woman moved faster than anyone else. She jumped out of the house like lightning following the sound and pounced on the person who was screaming.
That was a man with diarrhea.
He was squatting on the ground, but suddenly he jumped up with a scream, jumping around like a zombie, rushing left and right, knocking down the people who were pulling him together.
The woman turned on the flashlight.
She felt the energy fluctuations, but in the darkness, even with the eyesight of an evolver, she couldn't see any mutated creatures.
The flashlight beam illuminated the hideous and distorted face of the screamer, and the expression of pain that made his eyes bulge out frightened everyone.
“Ah—Ah—Ahhh!!”
The man suddenly stopped running, stood still, and howled a hundred times more miserably than before.
"Where?!"
The woman shone the flashlight up and down his body several times, but found no wounds and no trace of the mutant beast.
The man began to bleed from his mouth and nose.
Then, the screams stopped abruptly, and he stood upright for a few seconds before falling to the ground with a thud.
There was no sound from him, but everyone could vaguely hear a series of tiny, hair-raising sounds coming from his body.
The woman's face changed, she drew the dagger from her waist and stabbed it directly into the man's bloody mouth.
The people around her were so frightened that they screamed, thinking she was killing someone.
But when she drew the knife, everyone saw a struggling and wriggling worm stuck in the tip of the knife, and the screams became even louder.
"What is this thing!"
"Is he going to mutate..."
The woman threw the insect on the ground, and before it could wriggle away, she chopped it into a pulp with a few crackling sounds.
At this time, the screaming man had already died.
"Hold it, lighting!"
The woman handed the flashlight to the little girl who was chasing her, asking her to use it to illuminate the body. Then she slashed the clothes on the dead man with a few knives and stripped him naked.
At this time, everyone could see that the deceased's chest and abdomen had collapsed, and his Adam's apple was soft.
Squeak!
The woman directly cut open the deceased's chest and abdomen with a knife.
Everyone was horrified to find that the deceased's internal organs were gone and his body was empty.
"It was a mutant bug that somehow got into his body and quickly ate up his internal organs."
The woman judged.
It turns out the reason the deceased was jumping up and down and screaming before dying was because his internal organs were being devoured by insects. What kind of agony must that be!
Everyone felt cold all over.
"I...I remember..."
A man who had just been relieving himself suddenly realized what had happened a few minutes ago.
He had just squatted down when he suddenly felt something strange below him. He immediately stood up and moved to the side. In the darkness, his foot seemed to step on something soft, but he didn't pay much attention to it. When he squatted down again, he heard a few unusual noises, like the sound of pulling a cork out of a red wine bottle. Then, the deceased next to him screamed.
"Could it be..." the man speculated horrifiedly, "It got in from... from the place where he pooped..."
That's not the sound of a cork being pulled out, it's the friction sound of a bug pushing its way into the body.
Several people who had just gone to the toilet together felt a tightness somewhere at the same time. They were terrified, and the feeling of stomachache and the urge to urinate suddenly disappeared.
Is this world not safe even for diarrhea?
Will mutant bugs burrow into your body and eat you into a hollow shell?!
"Everyone, retreat into the room, focus all your flashlights, and check the surroundings!"
The woman gave the order immediately.
Soon, everyone in the two rooms gathered together, with about ten flashlights in total, searching the walls of the room up and down, left and right, fearing that there were other mutant insects.
The woman took a flashlight and searched carefully in the place where everyone had just used the toilet.
Soon, two more wriggling reptiles were found under a large rock at the base of the wall.
The Awakened One's energy overflowed and enveloped the blade. She quickly chopped off the insects before they could escape, and also chopped them into minced meat.
Swish...rustle...
The subtle sound gradually became louder.
The woman frowned, stood up, and looked around.
I saw a worm crawling out from the crack of the stone.
Then, another one, and another one...
From the countless gaps in the pile of ruins, numerous worms emerged, densely packed and entangled, wriggling and crawling.
"Get out of here!"
The woman turned and ran, telling everyone to escape.
Everyone ran out of the dilapidated building in panic and came to the street full of obstacles.
Swish...rustle...
Looking back, they saw that the dense army of worms was chasing them out.
Although the wriggling speed is not fast, it is very scary.
"What...what should we do..." Someone was scared to death.
The woman's expression turned stern: "What should I do? Run!"
A group of people fled in panic along the street.
Just as they ran across a street corner, two people suddenly came out of a nearby alley and headed straight towards them.
"Dad?" The little girl following closely beside the woman was surprised. "Sister Wen, my dad is back! Mom, look, it's Dad!"
"Wait... that person next to Dad..." As they got closer, the little girl shone the flashlight clearly on the other person and became even more excited. "Short and plump, that's Sister Qiao Lan, right? Sister Qiao Lan who often comes to our house to eat hot pot! She was the one who gave me the medicine last time! Great, she's still alive!"
The little girl left her companions and ran towards Lao Guo and Qiao Lan.
He opened his arms and rushed towards Qiao Lan: "Sister Qiao Lan!"
Qiao Lan stopped and stood there in a daze.
Suddenly ecstatic.
Paji threw the sleeping Zhao Hui on his back to the ground and pounced on her with open arms.
“Boss!”
She shouted in surprise, even more excited than the little girl.
He walked right past the little girl, ran over, and hugged the woman named Wen.
"Boss! Boss! It's you!"
She simply picked up the woman and spun her around several times.
Little girl: ???
Looking at her arms that had reached out empty-handed, and then at Qiao Lan who was excitedly hugging someone else, she felt a little embarrassed amidst her deep confusion.
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