Chapter 36 How about we discuss the moonlight tonight
Chapter 36 How about we discuss the moonlight tonight
In a panic, they knocked against the tables and chairs in the hall and fell to the ground.
Pei Qianxing jumped out just in time before he fell down, and looked into the courtyard. With a slender neck, wide wings, and black and red scales, who else could it be if it wasn't Hugh.
The others finally saw clearly, and got up in shock.
"Hugh! What are you doing! Don't be so scary in the middle of the night!" Deng Qi complained.
"Aw!" Xio jumped into the gate a few steps, put the half chicken in his mouth in front of them, and let out a cry as if asking for credit.
This is half a boiled chicken, with soup still dripping on it. Obviously someone cooked it and ate it.
"Chicken!" Deng Qi rushed over, "Don't put it on the ground, it's so dirty!"
Shi Dong patted its head and gave it a thumbs up: "Oh!" Good job!
Pei Qianxing sniffed lightly, but there was no smell of blood. It seemed that he didn't snatch it after hurting someone, so he was relieved. He didn't want to get into trouble as soon as he came back.
"There must be someone nearby. Let's look upstairs and downstairs first, and then look elsewhere."
When Pei Qianxing lowered his head, he saw that Shi Dong had already divided the chicken. He tore off the chicken breast for Xio, ripped off the chicken thigh, and broke the rest into several pieces.
"Can you guys be more professional! We still don't know the situation!" Pei Qianxing said angrily.
Shi Dong looked at Pei Qianxing, then at the chicken thigh in his hand, wiped the chicken thigh respectfully, and handed it to him: "Oh!" Eat it!
The chicken exudes a tempting fragrance. It has been a long time since I have eaten such carefully cooked food. The tender white meat with golden skin almost blinded Pei Qianxing's eyes.
Pei Qianxing took the chicken leg, took a big bite, and immediately abandoned his professionalism.
Really delicious!
Shi Dong pointed at several other people with a chicken bone: "Oh! Oh! Oh!" Eat!eat!eat!
In the animal world, there is a rule of survival. Whenever you get food, you must eat it as soon as possible to fill your stomach. Otherwise, the food you have worked so hard to hunt may be taken away by other animals.
Shi Dong was right. Hunger would cause people to lose calories, lose energy, and be unresponsive. Maintaining physical strength and energy anytime and anywhere is the key to survival. Pei Qianxing and Shi Dong can endure hunger, but the other two may not be able to. Animals that are only full of bestiality cannot stand hunger.
The dire situation kept Pei Qianxing's nerves at a high level. Duxing was used to him, and he seldom considered the whole team. In comparison, Shi Dong was more thoughtful.
Pei Qianxing lowered his head and swallowed the chicken leg a few mouthfuls. He felt a little bored. He was full of hope that everything would return to normal after leaving the island. He could seal this week's horrific escape in his memory, but why was what he saw and so-called inexplicable?
What happened to this world? !
But he can't show it on his face. He is the backbone of the team, and his emotions have a great influence on other people. A group of people are frightened by Xio, and they are already frightened. It can be seen that everyone's nerves are stretched to the extreme. , Deng Qi and Tian Lexin clearly showed negative energy of disappointment and anxiety. If even he is flustered, then the whole team is not far from the end of the game.
Just as he was thinking, there was a sudden weight on his shoulder, and Shi Dong pressed heavily on his shoulder. Pei Qianxing raised his head and met his gaze. In the darkness, his eyes were as bright as stars, as if two blazing flames were burning in his eyes .
Shi Dong could fully understand what Pei Qianxing was thinking, and he also hid his worries deeply in his heart, showing a completely relaxed look on his face. He wanted and must bring confidence to the whole team.
Moreover, it seemed that as long as he flirted with Pei Qianxing, and then he stared at him a few times and scolded him a few times, he would feel better naturally.
Under Shi Dong's gaze, Pei Qianxing's heart gradually calmed down.In fact, give him a little time, and he can naturally adjust his mentality, but it seems good to have someone who can help him sort out his emotions.
But when Pei Qianxing found the chicken fat in Shi Dong's hand, his face sank again: "Take your claws away! It's so dirty!"
Shi Dong wiped his trouser legs, Pei Qianxing looked disgusted.
Pei Qianxing began to search the house. He keenly scanned every corner of the house, recreating the events in his mind.
He walked into the kitchen, there were some eggshells piled up messily on the stove, there were overturned dishes and chopsticks on the ground, and thin egg liquid was condensed on the ground.He seemed to see the hostess was beating eggs in the kitchen. The host rushed in in a panic and grabbed the hostess's arm.
He walked up to the bedroom on the second floor, the cupboard door was wide open, the clothes were thrown messily on the floor, and a chair fell on the ground.He seemed to see the male master rushing into the bedroom, grabbing a few clothes indiscriminately, kicking over the chair when he went out, and almost falling down.
He pushed open the door of the next room. The room was decorated in pink and tender, with colorful plastic jewelry on the table and picture books spread out on the bed.He seemed to see the hostess hugged the little girl on the bed, and then ran out of the room. The little girl opened her eyes in confusion, not knowing what happened.
Finally, he walked into the room across the door, and Stone was inside. There were footballs and car toys neatly placed in the room, and in the photo frame on the desk, a boy of seventeen or eighteen was smiling brightly.
"A family of four, they left in a hurry." Pei Qianxing picked up the photo frame on the table.
Stone opened the curtain and looked out, half of his body was illuminated by the moonlight.
"Let's go and see other people's homes."
Stone nodded and walked out.
The moment his hand touched the doorknob, Pei Qianxing suddenly asked, "What time is it?"
"Hmm..." Shi Dong was about to speak, but when he realized something was wrong, he turned to look at Pei Qianxing.
This guy was lying to himself and almost fell for it!
Shi Dong raised his chin, nodded to Pei Qianxing, and smiled smugly, meaning: I exposed you.
Pei Qian walked out the door and passed him by: "For you have a quick reaction."
They walked through several houses one after another, all of which were empty, some with locked doors, and some with their doors open just like the first one.
Where did people go?
"Deng Qi, how is your search going?" Pei Qianxing asked.
Deng Qi's perception ability has improved again, and the search in a small area is much easier, but it still takes a lot of time: "I just felt a lot of people at the east end of the village, I think we should go there and have a look."
The group went straight to the east of the village, and under Deng Qi's guidance, they stopped in front of a house.
From the outside, it is no different from other houses. There is a small building in the small courtyard, and there is an attic on it. It is so dark inside and out that there are no lights.But as they got closer, something flickered past the attic window.
"Someone!" Deng Qi whispered.
Pei Qianxing pressed his hand, signaling not to be nervous, and knocked on the door. The metal door knocked loudly, especially in the middle of the night, and one's heart could not stop shaking.
"Is anyone there?" Pei Qianxing called out.
Still all was silent.
"Is anyone in there?"
Still no answer.
Deng Qi whispered in his ear: "There are people inside, more than 20 people inside and out."
Not only Deng Qi, but even Pei Qianxing could hear the breathing inside, but they were all very rapid and sounded very nervous.
Shi Dong walked half a circle around the wall and found a damaged gap in the wall, so he asked Pei Qianxing to take a look.The gap is still new, hastily filled with bricks, the cement is still wet, and there are many scratches and blood stains on the sides.
There were obviously people in the yard, and there were quite a few people, but they refused to open the door for some reason.
In desperation, they could only turn around and leave.
"Let's not wait anymore? Maybe they fell asleep?" Deng Qi fancied.
"They won't open the door. Uninvited guests in the middle of the night, I would also refuse the door." Pei Qianxing looked back, the small building looked lonely and pitiful in the dark night, "Let's come back during the day."
Several people returned to the first family's house, intending to spend the night in the house.It was already late at night, and they all needed to sleep to recharge their batteries.
There was no electricity in the house, and they finally found a candle in the kitchen to light it. Deng Qi lamented that they all came back and lived a primitive life. What kind of bad luck is this?
There was water, but there was a strange smell. After a few days of life and death, Deng Qi and Tian Lexin could smell it. It was the smell of rotting corpses.No one dared to drink. Fortunately, there was a bucket of clean water in the bathroom, and they washed it one by one.
They made their living in the master bedroom on the second floor, fed the old man something and let him sleep on the bed, while the others huddled under the bed and shared the last bit of food and water brought from the island.
Everyone knew in their hearts that something had happened, but none of them said anything, and they all kept silent in order to seek a short period of peace.
The candles were flickering, and the wax tears were falling. They formed a circle, and their faces were illuminated by a bean of fire.
"Open your mouth—" Pei Qianxing pinched Shi Dong's jaw.
"Ah—" Stone opened his mouth wide.
"Don't move your tongue, what do you want me to think? Don't stick your tongue out either! You licked my hand, it's disgusting!" Pei Qianxing was checking Shi Dong's throat.
"Ahhh!" Stone protested seriously.
Pei Qianxing couldn't see anything obvious either: "Does it hurt?"
Stone shook his head.
"Is it itchy?"
Shake your head again.
"If you are capable, don't talk for the rest of your life." Pei Qianxing said angrily.
Deng Qi was lying on the ground, writing quickly with a little light. He found the pen and paper from the boy's room.
"What are you writing?" Pei Qianxing wiped the saliva on Shi Dong's body.
"Writing novels." Deng Qi didn't even look up, "Look at how hardworking I am, my readers will definitely love me."
"Show me." Pei Qianxing picked up the manuscript and read, "Austin never expected that just after he came out of the tiger's den and into the wolf's den, he had just cut off the head of the abyss lord Amosile, and the fallen mage Xilin appeared in his before……"
"The fire of hell gave me eternal power!" Deng Qi said excitedly.
Pei Qianxing threw the piece of paper on Deng Qi's face: "Can't you write something auspicious!"
Deng Qi was indignant: "This is called plot twists and turns, ups and downs, readers just like this, you don't understand!"
"I hate your novels with tens of millions of words! You should write, Austin bravely cut down the abyss lord amoxicillin..."
"It's Amoxile." Deng Qi corrected.
"Don't interrupt! Amosile's head rescued the beautiful Princess Peach, and they lived happily ever after."
"I'm not writing a fairy tale! Who is Princess Peach? She looks familiar."
Tian Lexin leaned over: "It's the princess of Super Mario, Princess Peach of the Mushroom Kingdom."
Tian Lexin was combing Rolling's fur. After several battles, Rolling's fur was very knotted. Tian Lexin combed its fur carefully, trimmed off the lumps of hair, and rolled comfortably on the ground. Not moving at all, his plump body softened into a puddle of mud.
After combing, he laid Roll on it as a pillow, soft, warm, and extremely comfortable.He took out a long, pointed tooth from his bosom, pinched it in his hand, and closed his eyes.
It was the canine tooth of a saber-toothed tiger. It was broken by Pei Qianxing's punch. Tian Lexin put it away. He had to hold it in his palm every night so that he could sleep peacefully. Sometimes he would take it out as a weapon. The hard touch seemed to give him own infinite power.
Stone was dismantling his rifle. He was about to give up this gun that was not very useful, but he took out the bullets and wiped them carefully with a clean soft cloth, as if treating some precious treasure. Treat this bullet.
Pei Qianxing leaned against the edge of the bed and watched him patiently wipe the bullets from beginning to end.
Sensing his gaze, Shi Dong shot the bullet at him with a smile, and mouthed three words.
They had all practiced lip language, and Pei Qianxing could see that what Shi Dong said was: my fate.
The bullet saved their lives when they were weak at the beginning, and now even though the mission is over, they still regard it as a talisman and treat it like life.
"Go to sleep." Pei Qianxing wiped out the candle.
On the seventh night after Pei Qianxing was kidnapped, they returned to normal society, but their journey had just begun.
Just after three o'clock in the morning, it was Pei Qianxing who kept watch.Just when he thought he could spend the night safely, he suddenly heard a sound from the room opposite the door.
Pei Qianxing got up quietly, leaned against the door and listened for a while.
There was a constant rustling sound, as if something had entered the room through the window and was scurrying about inside.
Pei Qianxing's eyes were slightly red, and he quietly turned the doorknob.
Stone woke up from his sleep, even if he was already asleep, any strange sound could wake him up.He made a gesture of two people together, and Pei Qianxing nodded slightly.
They opened the door a little, let out sideways, Gun Gun was also awakened, and followed them with a twist.
The two stood guard at the door, gesturing, three, two, one!Pei Qianxing opened the door abruptly, Shi Dong took a step forward, followed by Pei Qianxing.
A man covered with long hairs was lying on the cabinet, and the contents of the cabinet were thrown all over the floor. He held a biscuit bucket under his arm, and grabbed a lot of biscuits and stuffed them into his mouth.As soon as the man saw Pei Qianxing and Shi Dong, he immediately bared his teeth and let out a threatening sound.
They have seen many people with this kind of mutation on the island, and now they also exist here!
They felt chills down their spines, and could no longer deceive themselves that the world was fine, but something happened in the village. At this moment, the cruel reality was before their eyes.
The outside creatures have mutated!
Before they could think about it, the long-haired man dropped the biscuit barrel and charged at them.His nails were long and sharp, his skin was gray-black, and he could only make threatening sounds with unknown meanings, no different from a beast.
The two spread out to avoid his attack. Pei Qianxing grabbed the biscuit bucket that fell on the ground and threw it at him. He was in mid-air, bending his body at a strange angle, dodging perfectly.The cracker barrel hit the wall with a loud bang.
Shi Dong was on the other side. He was afraid that the fire would burn into the room, so he could only use his burning hands to grab the long-haired man's neck, but he didn't expect the long-haired man to be extremely flexible. He fled past with a short body and hid in the darkness.
The surroundings were disturbingly quiet. The long-haired man seemed to be very familiar with this room, and he didn't know where he was hiding. Even though Pei Qianxing could see in the dark, he couldn't be found.
The wind blew, dark clouds drifted, and the moonlight shone into the room. Shi Dong saw a long-haired shadow slowly standing up behind Pei Qianxing.
"Careful!" Stone yelled.
Pei Qianxing turned his head abruptly and saw the long-haired man standing behind him, just about to move, he jumped in from the door roaring, knocked the long-haired man down with his chubby body, bit off his throat, and hot blood spurted out several times rice.
The long-haired man yelled a few times and died.
Both Deng Qi and Tian Lexin were woken up, and when they arrived, they saw the scene of the long-haired man dying. Although they were used to seeing dead people these days, they still sighed.
The corpse on the ground was still twitching, and the blood was still flowing on the wall. They all understood that they could no longer escape.
"It's okay, go back to sleep." Pei Qianxing waved his hand.
Shi Dong stared at the long-haired man's body for a long time, and suddenly squatted down with a serious expression, a ball of flames appeared in the palm of his hand, and brushed away the hair on the long-haired man's face, revealing a tender and delicate face.
It looks familiar at first glance, where have you seen it before?
At the second glance, they thought at the same time, and looked at the photo frame on the desk at the same time.
The sunny boy's face in the photo is exactly the same as this long-haired man!
This long-haired man is this boy, that's why he came back to his room in the middle of the night to steal something to eat, and that's why he is so familiar with this room!
But why can't he speak?Or there is no human consciousness at all.
Although Fabio and Quincy on the island will change in appearance, they still look like a person most of the time, retaining a complete human mind. Why is this boy completely like a beast?
Pei Qianxing and Shi Dong found surprise in each other's eyes.
No one can answer them, they can only temporarily bury the problem in their hearts.
Pei Qianxing sighed: "Move him to the bed."
The two worked together to move the long-haired boy to the bed and covered him with a quilt. Except for the ugly hair and the blood in the room, he really looked like a sleeping boy. Death might be a relief for him.
They closed the door and walked back without interest. When they were about to enter, Pei Qianxing suddenly grabbed Shi Dong by the collar and pressed him against the wall.
"Are you able to talk? Huh?" The raised ending sound meant that Pei Qianxing was not in a good mood.
Stone was extremely depressed, and when he yelled out the word "be careful", he knew something was wrong.At that time, the incident happened suddenly, and he missed the trap as soon as he was in a hurry. He also hoped that Pei Qianxing would not pay attention, but it turned out to be impossible.
"Hehe, a little bit." Shi Dong laughed dryly, his voice was very hoarse, and it is true that he has not fully recovered, but speaking is not a problem.
"Is it fun to be dumb?"
"No, I'm...um...maintaining my throat, alas, it still hurts." Shi Dong frowned.
"Come here!" Pei Qianxing dragged him to the little girl's room and threw him on the bed.
"Hey, take it easy, those who didn't know thought you were going to rape me."
Pei Qianxing looked at him condescendingly: "Don't you take care of your throat, there are so many nonsense!"
Stone stood up: "I just don't want to say more."
Pei Qianxing pushed him down: "Sit down, I have something to ask you."
Stone stood up again: "Let's talk about it tomorrow, I'm going to sleep."
Pei Qianxing pressed him down again: "No, I want to ask now."
Shi Dong patted Pei Qianxing's hand away: "Let go, I don't like looking up at others!"
He said this very seriously, and even brought real anger.
One high and one low, looking down and looking up, the difference in height brought a strong sense of oppression, and this was something Shi Dong couldn't bear, not even Pei Qianxing, when he was asking questions.
Pei Qianxing fully understood that if it were him, he would be angry too, so he dragged a chair and sat in front of him: "Let's do it this way."
Shi Dong froze for a moment, and then laughed. This person looks indifferent, sometimes he is very domineering and unreasonable, and he likes to order people around, but there is a little tenderness hidden deep in his heart, which can only be discovered carefully.
"You want to ask Professor Wu, right?" Shi Dong knew he couldn't get away with it.
"His surname is Wu? What else? What else do you know?"
"To be honest, I don't know much. I only know that his surname is Wu. He is a professor and a leading expert in genetic research. As for why he was locked up there, I don't know at all."
Pei Qianxing: "You don't know anything, but you dare to take the job? Who is the employer?"
"I really can't tell you this."
Pei Qianxing squinted at him, leaned back on the chair, and began to speculate: "After you rescued him, you can obviously go to Vietnam, but you must return to China. So the employer is in China? Is it Chinese? You must be able to hire Nightcrawler." He is a very rich person, but why do ordinary rich people spend money to save a genetic expert? If you want to save someone, it means that you have good intentions for Professor Wu, or at least hope that he is alive. Professor Wu’s specialty is genetic research. Someone is doing research like Ludwig's? Maybe it's not a certain person, but some organization? So what kind of organization can..."
Stone pressed his shoulders: "Why don't we discuss the moonlight tonight."
Pei Qianxing understood that he really didn't want to say it, and he didn't force it: "So, where are you going to send Professor Wu? Now..."
Thinking of this, Shi Dong was sad, and his eyes showed confusion: "I don't know anymore, someone would have come to connect with me, but now..."
Now maybe the whole world is messed up and they have to prepare for the worst.
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