At the dark back door of the supermarket with no lights.
As a large group of crows suddenly knocked the door open, the dazzling sun suddenly poured into the house through the door.
In the chaotic supermarket, the middle-aged woman could no longer hold on. Without hesitation, she rushed upstairs, carrying the little girl. But the middle-aged woman, with a backpack on her back and a child in her arms, was no match for the nimble movements of a flock of crows.
In just a moment, the middle-aged woman was caught up by the flock of crows.
With a severe impact on their backs, the middle-aged woman and the little girl fell to the ground instantly!
“Bang!——” There was a loud noise.
The unconscious little girl's cheeks were burning red, and the back of her head hit the floor hard, making a muffled groan as a hard object hit flesh.
"It hurts, it hurts..." The little girl covered her head with her hands, frowned, opened her eyes slightly blankly, and moaned subconsciously.
Xia Runrun was awakened by a sudden burst of severe pain at the back of her head. Her head was still a little groggy, but when she opened her eyes she was suddenly startled!
A large flock of terrifyingly large black crows flapped their wings and swooped down towards her. The strong wind from the flapping wings hurt her cheeks. Before her brain could even start working, her body's instincts were much faster than hers. Xia Ruanruan almost subconsciously shouted at the flying crows, "Stop, stop, stop now!"
The child's soft voice was milky, soft and sticky, and clearly had no deterrent power at all.
But the flock of carrion crows seemed to have suddenly pressed the pause button, and the crows that had just swooped down on the two men ferociously were suddenly stopped in mid-air. Several of them even collided violently with each other because they had no time to turn around, and rolled into a black and furry ball with feathers flying everywhere.
Bang bang bang——!
The dark supermarket, which had just been tense and looked like blood would splatter everywhere in the next second, suddenly turned into a hilarious chain car accident scene.
The ones that were fast and nimble in flying were able to find a place to land quickly in the supermarket. The remaining crows either failed to dodge nimbly and crashed into the wall with a thud, or bumped into their companions and were sat on by the other crows that fell down.
The middle-aged woman who was almost frightened and curled up into a ball, thinking that her life was in danger and would be eaten by crows: ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? !!!
Are these the same ferocious crows that she just saw banging against the door?!
“Quack! Quack! Quack!—”
The big crows shook their feathers and got up from the ground one by one. They stared at the two people in front of them with their scarlet eyes. They looked particularly ferocious, especially their rough and hoarse voices, which made people even more nervous. The crows scratched the ground with their sharp claws at random, and several white marks appeared on the hard concrete floor in an instant.
The middle-aged woman silently clenched the steel rod in her hand, and beads of sweat oozed out of her back. She didn't know if she could survive under the claws of these corpse-eating crows today.
However, Xia Runrun's state at this moment was completely different from that of the middle-aged woman next to her. Her eyes twitched slightly, and her expression was difficult to describe.
These crows were so noisy, and what they said made her laugh and cry.
The fierce and noisy voices of the crows automatically turned into hoarse and low voices like drakes when they fell into Xia Ruanruan's ears. They flapped their wings and spoke in a coherent manner.
“Ga ga ga!——” (Oh my! Oh my! Oh my! Oh my! How come I just understood what this kid said?)
"Caw, caaa?! Ah caa!—" (Could this little cub be a crow like us? But it doesn't look like one! It doesn't even have a single hair. Does it have alopecia?)
"Waaaaa!? Gaaaa!——" (This isn't right! Why do I feel like it has two legs? Oh, it's quite pitiful when I think about it. This must be what those two-legged creatures were talking about before, which is abnormal development!)
"Wow! Ga-ga-ga!—" (Wow! Boss, you're really knowledgeable! You're worthy of being a bird that's been to college and received seven or eight years of cultural education there!)
A large flock of crows flattered the tallest one in the flock. The leader, who was twice as large as the others, and whose black, almost purple, feathers made him look even more handsome and imposing, tilted his head, took two steps forward, and hopped.
"Quack, quack, quack!—" Which crow colony are you from? Uh... although you have alopecia and look underdeveloped and a bit ugly... but if you look closely, you're actually quite cute.
The eldest crow scratched the ground with his claws, with obvious curiosity in his eyes. As he spoke, he patted Xia Ruanruan's furry head with his wings, looking like an elder.
Feeling that there was suddenly an extra-large, thick crow wing on her head, Xia Runrun struggled to crawl out from the pile of bird feathers, raised her head to look at the big crow, and spoke every word with a serious expression.
"I'm not a crow cub, I'm just an ordinary human."
The hard bird feathers scratched her cheeks, causing a slight pain. The little girl's expression was particularly serious, but her long and curled eyelashes trembled slightly, and her chubby little face was slightly flushed. It was obviously a little dirty and stained with white dust, but her bright black eyes looked like the finest glass jade.
They are clearly different species, but the eldest crow thinks that the little cub in front of him is prettier than the little crow it just hatched a few days ago!
The crow boss' eyes widened: "...It will shorten their lifespan! Could it be that they really like these abnormal-looking and abnormally developed cubs?!"
This is not the first time that Xia Ruanruan has been treated as a cub of the same species by other animals.
She has been able to understand what animals say since she was a child. As long as a creature has fur, she can understand what it is saying, and these furry creatures will involuntarily feel good about her and treat her as a cub of the same kind.
For this reason, she often has to patiently explain to other animals that she is not actually their kind.
only……
Aren't these crows a little too big? She clearly remembered her height as 168...16...8? ???
Xia Ruanruan: Why do her fingers look so chubby and fleshy? That tight-fitting short down jacket is dragging on the ground?! And those jeans are so obviously too long that you can't even see her toes?!
What was going on?! She clearly remembered the accident... the accident...? She'd been in an accident, so why wasn't she in the hospital now, but in a shabby supermarket? She looked around at the crooked, scattered, and rusty goods.
moment.
Xia Ruanruan felt as if a bolt of lightning suddenly struck her head. Could it be that she, she, she, had traveled through time after the car accident and her body... her body had shrunk?!
There was no memory of other people in her mind, and the clothes on her body were particularly familiar. Xia Ruanruan held up her pants that were about to fall off, and at the same time, she picked up the hem of her loose down jacket without hesitation.
On the white and tender belly that is round like a little frog, there is a clear red mole tightly attached to the skin on the lower right side of the belly button.
Xia Ruanruan: …………
This, this is too much...
With this height, she is only three or four years old at most. Even a crow is taller than her... She silently looks at the leader of the crows standing outside in front of her, who is obviously a little taller than her.
Xia Ruanruan: …………
However, no one noticed that among the crows, a skinny little crow looked at Xia Runrun with eager eyes, and it looked like it obviously liked her very much.
The vaguely visible illustrated book above the little girl's head suddenly opened a page, and gold-plated fonts appeared.
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An image of a starling appeared right above the first page of the illustrations—
The illustrated book looked gray, as if it hadn't been lit yet, but the white light on the image was flickering...
It seems like it will be lit up in the next second.
…………
In a room in the far corner of the fifth floor, a young man and woman were crouching close together, their ears pricked up. The girl trembled as she hugged her boyfriend, her voice soft, afraid the crows downstairs would hear the noise. "There seems to be no sound downstairs... Tell me, do you think they were all eaten by the crows? I just heard screams..."
“Maybe…” The young man felt a little depressed and didn’t know what to say. He felt that the two people downstairs were most likely eaten by the crows. Otherwise, why didn’t they hear any footsteps downstairs after staying here for so long?
After the disaster, some animals stopped eating humans, but some took humans as their hunting range. The group of carrion crows downstairs were obviously not within the range of the former.
In the global food chain, humans are now almost at the bottom.
With each level down in the food chain, the number of natural enemies increases exponentially. People once treated animals as food, slaughtering them at will. Now, the situation is reversed, and no one knows whether it is karma or fate.
In the silent and depressing room.
The young man hugged his girlfriend tightly with both arms, and subconsciously tightened his grip on the weapon. He tried to comfort his girlfriend, saying, "Don't worry, we will definitely be able to return alive..."
"The carrion crows eat very fast. Let's wait two hours before leaving, and everything will be fine...it will be fine." The man didn't know whether he said these last two sentences to his girlfriend or to himself, but the two of them subconsciously hugged each other tightly, holding their breath, trying not to make any noise.
However……
After waiting for the young man and woman for two hours, they came down from upstairs cautiously.
The scene they saw almost made their jaws drop to the ground!!
They saw the little girl and the middle-aged woman, who they had thought were dead, sitting neatly in the open space in the middle of the door on the first floor of the supermarket. In the middle of the open space were some scattered supplies, which were obviously dug out from the rubble. There were candies broken into loose pieces, rice cakes, bowls and plates with holes in them, some kitchen knives, etc.
The abandoned supermarket used to be a small settlement of the Northwest District force, with about dozens of people living in it. Unfortunately, the giant cat disaster seven days ago caused a large area of the settlement to collapse, resulting in countless casualties. If the three of them had not previously conducted transactions with the people in this settlement, they would not even be able to find this place.
It's not surprising that there are supplies in this place, but what's strange is that the ones looking for supplies here are not two humans, but a group of crows with black feathers that glow purple!
A large group of crows were cawing as they searched among the collapsed shelves. From time to time, they would find one or two useful supplies from the heavy rubble. Everything from lighters to blankets were pulled out from the rubble.
Young girl: ?????
Young man: ?????
Wasn't it the way they just walked downstairs that was wrong?! ! Why was the scene before me so weird?!
Looking at the middle-aged woman sitting next to the supplies and sorting them, and then looking at the little girl in a yellow down jacket sitting in the middle of the pile of supplies, they felt as if they had discovered what was wrong.
The little girl held the largest black crow in the flock, tickling it from time to time while rubbing its flesh with her short, plump claws. The crow was incredibly well-behaved, occasionally barking but otherwise letting herself be manipulated, lying flat on its back, sprawled out, and doing whatever was comfortable for it. If they hadn't seen the crows aggressively feasting on two corpses pulled from the rubble just two hours ago, they would have believed they were merely harmless crows.
“What are you doing…?” The young man’s throat was dry.
The young girl stared at Xia Runrun with her eyes wide open, unable to move her feet.
Could this be the legendary love-at-first-sight bird? A mutant animal offering itself as a pet?!
The lemon-flavored chopped pepper and garlic water passed through my mind, sour, spicy and choking.
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