Chapter 660: Extra Chapter: Xu (4)
night.
The hospital was shrouded in an atmosphere even quieter than before. Xu, who had fallen ill again, had just calmed down from the severe pain in his body and was about to drag his heavy body to rest when a slight sound suddenly came from outside the door.
“Bang—”
A less obvious sound was heard.
Xu didn't react, but he could sense that someone seemed to be standing in front of his door.
“Bang—”
Another dull sound came, slow and heavy. Xu frowned, but walked over and turned the doorknob.
"Who is this? It's so late and you're still——"
Before the boy could finish his words, the moment the door opened, the person standing at his door suddenly bit down at him. Xu subconsciously raised his arm to block it, and a sharp pain came over him instantly.
But this pain.
Compared to the pain when his internal organs felt like they were dissolving when he was ill, this was still mild.
The person biting his arm was getting harder and harder.
The man's gray eyes were murky and lifeless. Sharp teeth pierced deep into his skin, sending a sharp, stabbing pain through him. The blood spurted out, seemingly fueling the man's madness.
In the corridor.
There were several staggering figures, as if stimulated by the faint smell of blood in the air, walking towards Xu's direction.
The flesh on his arms was torn and bitten.
The pain of instant blood loss was so severe that it numbed his nerves. Xu just silently looked at the stranger in front of him who was wolfing down his flesh and blood, and a feeling of pity and sadness rose in his heart.
turn out to be.
Some people are even less human than him and have become monsters.
Xu recognized the staggering figures following the smell; they were the people with high fevers who had been admitted to the hospital a while ago. The way they looked at him clearly revealed a desire for food.
Xu curled his lips sarcastically and murmured softly.
"I never thought someone would want to eat my dying body."
No need to guess, it must have been a bad taste. Because the few people who came over, after imitating the one in front, bit his arms and legs, drank a few mouthfuls of blood, and then quietly let him go.
That's normal.
Xu didn't find it strange. After all, his internal organs had long been dissolving and corroding from the disease. Wherever his blood flowed, it carried the virus throughout his body, and his entire body was slowly dissolving internally.
There is very little fresh blood.
Half of it was converted into brownish rotten blood. Every time he had an attack, this was the blood he coughed up along with the internal organ fragments.
It tastes very hard.
Even the monsters gave up after taking just one bite.
His injured arms and legs caused him to lose his balance and fall to the ground. Blood continued to flow from his wounds, and Xu's face turned pale. He could also feel the dissolving pain in his body that had just subsided at this moment begin to flood again.
I became ill after being bitten by some weirdos.
I guess he was also stimulated.
"Ugh..." The young man's frail body curled up on the ground, trembling slightly and occasionally groaning in pain. The dissolving pain was more intense than any previous one.
And those who bit him.
After giving up on his goal, he staggered off to another place. Xu's consciousness was completely blurred, his teeth were chattering, and his whole body was shaking violently.
The moment before consciousness completely dissipated.
He thought he might have to break his promise.
With Xu as the center.
The boy's body was like a hole with several holes in it, blood constantly seeping out, soaking his hospital gown and attracting more strange, staggering people out of the room.
They weirdos don't seem to have any sense.
Seeing Xu lying on the ground, he seemed to follow his instinct and eat the food first.
The wound deepens.
The constant tearing and the extreme pain had already caused the young man to faint. His palms were bitten and festering, and the white bones of his thin arms were vaguely visible.
Just the weirdos who came to eat him.
Everyone left after taking the first bite.
Xu had fainted long ago.
His breath was weak, his face was pale, and his heart, which was still beating, began to weaken as he lost more and more blood.
The pain that was shattering his internal organs inside him.
He seemed to be stuck in a cycle, his own serious illness kept recurring and dissolving.
The new virus that had just entered his body was constantly strengthening and devouring, as if it wanted to transform this weak body, and after devouring all the cells, it would mutate into its own kind.
It's just that the dissolution speed is comparable to that of the new virus.
The new virus wanted to strengthen this frail body, allowing it to control its nerve centers after his death. Meanwhile, his own disease wanted to dissolve his living body, disallowing the existence of anything not of its kind.
Both viruses are extremely domineering.
He kept switching in Xu's body, trying to seize the initiative of this body.
Just as two viruses that cannot coexist are fighting each other.
A certain special ability slowly emerged from it, seemingly quietly reconciling and balancing them. At the same time, it was also quietly taking its place.
The young man had already fallen into a coma due to severe pain.
There was no sign of the bite wound on his body; the blood had already coagulated and was even slowly healing. This strange scene would be shocking if someone could see it now.
Hoarse screams were heard from all over the hospital.
Or wailing.
The splattered blood quickly dyed the white walls red. Those who were sleeping heard bursts of knocks on the door, opened the door one after another and died one after another.
And those who heard the noise.
Those who had regained consciousness but dared not open the door hid in their own wards, trembling in fear and not daring to move.
The night of killing is underway.
It will continue until daytime, and will stop completely when there is no longer any sign of life.
Xu had a very long dream.
In the dream, he first met Qiao Xi at a shopping mall. He was very interested in the girl when he first saw her. Qiao Xi in the dream seemed to have a very strong power.
Don't be afraid of him.
Even had some ambiguous behavior with him.
The reality of the dream was as if he had experienced it himself, and he knew every detail of the event clearly. And he actually believed it without a doubt.
The first half of the dream.
It tells the story of his first half of life, which is exactly the same as what he is experiencing now. But the only difference is that this time he met Qiao Xi. In the past, in the hospital, he was lonely and free, and had never met Qiao Xi.
That dream was very real.
If he didn't know that he had met Qiao Xi in reality, he would probably have lost himself in his dream.
Him in the dream.
I am embarking on another life path.
After entering a strange state, he could stand in the sun, travel freely, and had a healthy body and would no longer be sick.
But.
People he met insulted him and looked at him with disgust and fear. They did not welcome him and even rejected him more than before.
So, he understood.
He is a natural outlier and will never be accepted anywhere.
So he watched himself in his dreams gradually lose his humanity and conscience. As the virus merged, mutated and evolved, his sense of morality also gradually faded.
It was also at that time that he met Qiao Xi.
Later, every private meeting with a girl was always full of excitement and exploration of the unknown. Xu could feel that the man in his dream was very interested in Qiao Xi.
He knows his own character.
The so-called strong interest is just a strong liking that you have not yet realized.
Obviously.
In his dream, he didn't realize that he liked Qiao Xi, and only regarded her as the only friend who could understand him. Perhaps he himself didn't realize that he would respond to Qiao Xi's every request.
so.
After the girl proposed the mushroom cloud cleanup plan.
Even though he thought Qiao Xi wanted him to die there, to go there and give up his life, he still agreed with a smile. Because he didn't take the girl's words of taking him away seriously.
But later...
They succeeded, and Qiao Xi took him back for treatment as she said.
It was only when he underwent a comprehensive examination at that time that he discovered it.
It turns out that in addition to the virus, his body also has a special ability that can heal itself. This ability harmonizes his body and balances the virus in his body.
He cannot heal others.
But you can heal yourself.
This was probably the best gift from God for him, but in the end the virus in his body could not be eradicated, and he could only suppress it by taking medicine regularly to keep himself normal and stop spreading the virus.
That dream was very long.
Yet it was also short, and felt as real as if it were something he had experienced himself. And in those moments when the dream shattered, countless fragments of the dream rushed towards him, and a strong stabbing pain penetrated Xu's mind.
at the same time.
The outside world also welcomed daylight.
The hospital was filled with a strong smell of blood. The pale-faced young man was still lying in a pool of blood that had already solidified at the door of his ward. Surrounding him were strange people moving slowly back and forth.
Their blue-gray pupils were cloudy and lifeless.
The purple-red skin looks quite strange, with purple blood vessel-like lines all over the surface. These strange people are wearing blood-stained clothes.
Take a closer look.
But we can find that some of their stomachs were ripped open on their blood-stained clothes.
Dark brown liquid flowed from their stomachs along with something, but these people seemed to be unaware of the pain in their wounds and continued to stagger along the corridor.
After the screams subsided for the night.
The hospital fell into an eerie silence.
But now it is more dead than ever, and the world has changed drastically overnight. No one knows who has connected the radio in the hospital, and it keeps broadcasting the emergency evacuation notice.
However.
No one responded.
Time seemed to have frozen here. The young man lying on the ground was unconscious, his body hovering on the edge of death and survival many times.
And the girl was locked in the room and fell into a deep sleep.
Just like the countless times she had slept in the past, she was sleeping peacefully, undisturbed by the noise and disputes of the outside world.
The living dead wandered aimlessly in the hospital.
They walked slowly out of the hospital, subconsciously searching for places where there was a scent of life.
And Qiao Xi was still sleeping in the room.
This time, she had an exceptionally long dream. She dreamed that she was not from this world, and everything that happened in this world was fake.
She walked in darkness.
Doubts arose in my mind.
Since she wasn't from this world, where did she come from? As if responding to her expectations, the darkness made her stop suddenly when she reached a certain point.
ahead.
No longer dark.
But it is a gray star.
The star was lifeless, floating in the vast universe, as if it had been abandoned and forgotten in a corner. It was a place where even the sun's light could not reach.
Qiao Xi stopped.
She looked at the desert-like stars in front of her, and felt the thick, dull atmosphere surrounding the stars. She understood more clearly and intuitively that this was a dead star without any signs of life.
In the range of her feeling.
That's right.
There should be no signs of life, but who is that person?
A lonely boy sat alone on a small hill, looking up at the dark universe and gazing at the stars that were so far away that they were almost invisible.
His back looks very thin.
He was also surrounded by a heavy aura of dusk, as if he was about to die, but even so, Qiao Xi could not detect any breath of life in him.
Like a candle about to burn out.
The handsome young man sitting there seemed to have noticed the intrusion of outsiders. He turned his head to look at Qiao Xi. A hint of doubt also appeared in his pair of indifferent and clear blood-red pupils.
“…”
He seemed unable to speak, just looking at Qiao Xi.
but……
A complete sentence, a language that she could understand, clearly emerged in Qiao Xi's mind.
It seems that they communicate directly through mental power.
The handsome young man's appearance was perfect, at least it was a superior beauty that Qiao Xi had never seen before. It was as if the best golden ratio recognized by mankind was assembled into one person.
He was wearing exotic clothes, giving people a cold and distant feeling.
It's like a lonely god living alone on a planet.
However, when Qiao Xi looked at the young man in her dream, she felt that he was very familiar.
It was as if she had seen this face somewhere before.
However, the dream was intermittent. Before she could figure it out, the surrounding scene suddenly jumped as if it was distorted.
She saw a white kitten in a white space.
He seemed to be busy preparing something.
There was a whole row of her standing in the white space, eyes closed.
The scene seemed a little creepy, but Qiao Xi didn't feel scared. For some reason, she even knew what that person was.
It's a robot she uses as a stand-in.
It is maintained by the white kitten and can be destroyed with one click after use.
The picture distorted and then jumped again.
This time, it was a place that looked like a family's living room. The difference was that instead of a TV, there was a huge virtual screen projecting images. The image on the screen was divided into twelve windows, each showing a scene from a different place.
It's amazing.
Qiao Xi, who was floating in a dream, also looked over.
The first window was a place similar to a university campus. There was a girl who studied dance and was going to the airport to pick up someone sponsored by her family. The girl waiting there was her.
Second window.
The house I saw was luxuriously decorated. The three brothers were all handsome and seemed to be the sons of a wealthy family. Meanwhile, a girl was packing her luggage in her room.
That girl is her.
Qiao Xi felt a little strange and looked towards the third window.
This time it's different.
The third window looked like a costume drama. Everyone was dressed in period costume, and the fighting scenes were so gorgeous they seemed unreal, like special effects. A playful little girl was staring at a formation, seemingly trying to break it.
This girl looks quite young.
It's her too.
In the fourth window, she has become an adult again, and her clothes have changed back to modern styles. She seems to be participating in the filming of a program, which is said to be a dating variety show.
However, this variety show feels a bit weird.
The fifth window seems to be from the medieval era of Western fantasy magic. Did she become a mermaid? That tail is really beautiful.
Qiao Xi looked at it a few more times.
Glancing at the next window, the sixth one had the same background, but this time she became a witch in a high tower, and she was much more mature than the one in the previous world.
It seems pretty good.
As for the seventh...
When Qiao Xi looked over, she was stunned. She had just been looking at it with the attitude of appreciating the dream, but unexpectedly, she saw a familiar figure in the seventh window.
Although the appearance has changed.
The temperament was completely different, but she recognized it at a glance. It was Xu!
A dark green-haired boy was wandering around the mall, his skin a sickly pale, unnatural color. The corners of his eyes, as if stained by smoke, had a faint, eroded red hue.
He was not the one Qiao Xi met in the hospital.
That thin guy who looks indifferent on the outside but is still gentle at heart.
The boy's breathing was very disordered.
It was as if the extremes of negativity and malevolence were cruelly combined into him: the hysteria and madness of despair, the powerlessness of self-abandonment.
It seems that all the unpleasant words can be used to describe him.
But.
He was in a good mood and was picking out something in the mall. After choosing everything, he started to change his clothes.
Qiao Xi didn't react when the boy started taking off his shirt.
When the girl saw the well-proportioned body.
The young man's pale and slender fingertips casually untied the belt around his waist.
Realize it later.
Qiao Xi reacted quickly, she covered her eyes and stopped looking.
Qiao Xi was a little nervous.
I felt guilty, as if I had been caught doing something wrong.
but……
The boy looked very healthy, not as thin as she had imagined. When Xu hugged her, she could also feel the boy's thin body.
It’s indeed different.
In this dream, the person in the seventh window who looked like Xu was... the type who had muscles when he took off his clothes, but looked thin when he was dressed.
Qiao Xi peeked out from between her fingers.
The man was already dressed.
There is not a trace of fat on his tight waist and abdomen, and the outline of his six-pack abs is faintly visible under the tight black sports shirt.
He has a slender figure and exudes the charm of masculine hormones.
He looked older than the Xu Qiao Xi knew. The young man casually picked up a matching jacket with his bony hands, shook it, and then put it on.
After he did all this.
He seemed to be preparing to leave, but at this moment, he seemed to have noticed something.
The young man turned his head to look towards the door.
Qiao Xi was a little confused and didn't know why he suddenly stopped.
But soon.
She understood.
She saw herself again, no, to be more precise, she saw herself in the seventh window. The herself in this window was also slightly older than the current herself.
but……
It doesn't look very friendly.
Qiao Xi was a little nervous. Could it be that they were enemies? Also, what was that blurry thing behind her in the window?
A bunch of people?
No, it was just a bunch of... limbs crawling and moving around, but it seemed like she had dealt with them. After a few jumps, the limbs became motionless.
Neither of them knew what they said.
Then Qiao Xi saw the young man approach and kiss her lips. The two of them pushed each other unconsciously and came to a bench not far away.
The clothes that the young man had just put on were stripped off piece by piece.
Everything that happened next.
It severely refreshed Qiao Xi's young worldview, as if the world had collapsed. She knew very well that she couldn't watch such a scene.
but……
I couldn't control myself no matter what and couldn't help but sneak a peek.
But the strange thing is.
She actually felt very familiar. This was so strange. How could she feel so familiar with something like this? And she dreamed of having this kind of...sexual thing with the boy she liked.
Help! ! !
The shame level is off the charts! She is guilty, she shouldn't have coveted someone else's body!
Qiao Xi was confused and had a headache in her dream.
In the end, I gritted my teeth and forced myself to finish watching it, and finally things felt a little more normal.
It was like she was reading a story.
Watch what happened in the dream.
Qiao Xi's sense of the passage of time in the outside world became very weak, almost imperceptible.
And in the outside world.
When Xu regained consciousness, he felt a splitting headache and the broken dream forced its way into his mind.
But he still remembers his condition.
He subconsciously lowered his head to look at himself. His arms and body, which should have been disabled, were intact at this moment, without any sign of injury.
The pain that remained before the coma was still clear.
Xu looked at his hands which were not stained with a speck of blood, and moved them freely, just like before.
wrong.
It should be said that there is a big difference.
His limbs were full of strength, no longer feeling weak and powerless as before. His intact arm looked no different from before, but Xu could feel that he was getting stronger.
and.
There is some power in my body that is slowly growing stronger.
The strange disease he was born with makes him feel as if his body is dissolving at all times, and he can clearly feel his life slipping away.
However.
Now I don’t feel that way anymore, which is very strange.
There was dazzling sunlight outside the corridor window in front of me.
Xu was stunned when he saw the dazzling light and subconsciously wanted to avoid it. However, before he could make any move, he froze in place.
Into the sunlight.
He will have a feeling that he is dissolving faster.
But not now.
It was normal, just like an ordinary person. This discovery also made his pupils shrink slightly, and he became shocked and happy.
he……
Survived?
Not only that, but there's no disease. What about the others? Oh, I need to tell the others this news first. He was attacked yesterday.
Xu stood up.
He walked out along the corridor, but the moment he walked out, he was stunned.
Messy corridors.
It was not as neat and clean as before, and there were strange things scattered on the ground that were hard to tell what they were.
On the wall.
The dark brown stuff that splattered out seemed to be... blood.
There was a man with a nearly broken neck.
He staggered, wandering the corridor. His livid pupils and festering skin should have exuded a nauseating odor. Indeed, with his sense of smell, he should have smelled a nauseating odor.
but……
Xu looked carefully and found that he could not only smell a disgusting odor.
There's even a sense of being able to distinguish it.
This feels more like...
From a human perspective, it smells disgusting, but from another perspective, it smells like barbecue, which is quite delicious.
“…”
Suddenly I discovered something unusual.
Two perceptions exist simultaneously.
Xu was stunned. He slowly raised his hand and placed it on his chest. He could feel the rhythm of his heartbeat, which was very weak.
Even when he was ill, he wasn't that weak.
but……
I can also feel another surging force, which is the same power called the same kind as the creature in front of me with a human appearance and an almost broken neck.
He... actually thought that kind of monster was the same kind as him?
What a joke!
For a moment, his cognition was confused, and he couldn't tell whether this was reality or a dream. Yes, he had seen this kind of monster before.
These monsters are called zombies.
It's a man-eating monster.
Yes...it is a man-eating creature, but why didn't the monster react when he was such a big man standing less than three steps away from the monster?
That real dream.
It was as if it appeared before his eyes, as if it confirmed what had happened to him. If he thought about it seriously.
yes.
Didn't he also wake up from a coma in his dream and find that everyone in the hospital was dead and turned into that monster? What did he do afterwards?
Collapse in despair.
He ate them all. Then, as time passed, his memory became increasingly blurred.
later.
He only had a vague memory of the past, having completely forgotten all about morality and human nature. He didn't even have a sense of being alive, and everyone he met later treated him like a monster.
but……
After all, it was just a dream, it couldn't be reality, and it was a fact that he was still alive.
Xu stood up, covering his head. He glanced at the blood on his body and could only return to the ward. There was still water here, so he cleaned himself up again.
However.
Xu fell silent when he saw himself in the mirror.
There is no other reason.
The person in the mirror had the corners of her eyes stained with a seductive, gorgeous, and bright red, as if it were a natural decoration near these already bright and clear eyes.
The originally dark pupils.
I don’t know when it developed a deep and beautiful color like jade, so natural that there was no abnormality at all.
And his hair was also dyed a color similar to dark green.
This look...
Wasn't he exactly the same person he had seen in his dream? If he still wanted to continue deceiving himself, it would be a little unreasonable.
That was most likely not a dream.
Probably something that really happened to him, in his past life? Never mind, no matter what, the result has already happened.
Even if he cared, it would be of no use.
After all, he had more important things to confirm. Xu didn't want to fall into despair and collapse like he did in his dream when he just woke up from the hospital.
He had to go and confirm whether Qiao Xi was still there.
Confirm whether the girl will still be by his side.
The young man changed his clothes and walked out of the room and went to Qiao Xi's ward.
The rest of the place was shrouded in the strong smell of blood.
There are no survivors.
The more he traveled, the heavier his heart became. He even saw familiar faces along the way, but those he used to hang out with were now like slow, sluggish zombies.
Arrived in front of Qiao Xi's ward.
Xu was stunned.
The door to the girl's room was spotless, without even a trace of blood. It was like a forgotten piece of pure land, and the zombies wandering around ignored it.
...Why is this happening?
Aren’t living people the most attractive to zombies?
Qiao Xi is still alive.
Why didn't any zombies come to her ward door? Just like the scene he saw in his dream, the zombies in the dream had no interest in the girl who looked very similar to Qiao Xi.
That’s not all.
Even he himself could not detect the fragrant scent like freshly baked bread that only humans have on Qiao Xi, but it would be wrong to say that she had no smell at all.
Qiao Xi now has a faint smell of disinfectant lingering around her.
Same with this ward.
Xu unlocked the door and pushed it open, but the slight movement failed to attract the zombies wandering around slowly. They ignored him and seemed uninterested.
He walked into Qiao Xi's ward.
The girl still had the same gentle, peaceful, and happy face as when she fell asleep. The atmosphere here was always peaceful and tranquil, as if it could heal the pain in one's heart.
As long as she is still here.
He doesn't want anything, as long as Qiao Xi is still here, he doesn't care about anything else.
At least like now.
With her by his side, he wouldn't have fallen into the abyss of despair and suffered a mental breakdown. He didn't want to go through that again, nor did he want to slowly lose his humanity and morals.
But.
He is now completely different from the original him. Xu is also a little afraid that after Qiao Xi wakes up, she will feel repulsed when she sees this unfamiliar self.
He sat silently beside the girl's bed.
Listening to the regular beeping of the instruments in the ward and looking at the world outside the window that had undergone earth-shaking changes at some point, I felt a little sad for a moment.
It doesn't matter even if the world abandons him.
As long as Qiao Xi is still here, it’s enough.
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