This place looks like a beauty salon, with a rather large area. There is a circle of sofas in the front hall, and a square stone stove built with bricks where the coffee table should have been. A fire is lit in the stove, which is exactly what Shen Shian and others saw before. to the source of the fire. The space behind seems to be wider, but the black hole is not very clear.
Shen Shi'an looked at the boy: "You are the only one here?"
The boy admitted it very simply: "Yes, don't worry, it's safe here, and zombies can't come in." He looked handsome and a little shy, but he looked at the three of them with fiery eyes: "Are you thirsty? Are you hungry? Do you want to drink water or eat first?"
With too little information so far, Shen Shi'an is not sure what the situation he is facing. Even though the young man looks gentle and harmless, he has not let down his guard at all. But if it comes, let it be, unless there is an obvious abnormality, he can't do anything to a person who offered to help. Looking at the drenched child beside him, he asked the boy, "Do you have any clean clothes or towels? I'm worried that the child will catch a cold, so I want to change his wet clothes."
"Oh," the boy looked very guilty: "I'm sorry, sorry, I was negligent. I forgot that you must be uncomfortable in the rain. You have dry towels and dry clothes. By the way, do you want to take a hot bath?"
"hot shower?"
Chen Nan heard a word that he had almost forgotten the meaning of, and because he was so surprised, he almost yelled back the question.
The boy nodded and smiled a little shyly: "You should have noticed that this is a beauty salon. Five solar panels are installed on the roof, and the most important thing is hot water. There are showers upstairs and downstairs, and there are showers in the back compartment. You can also soak in medicinal baths, by the way, do you prefer roses or camellias?"
On a rainy night, when you are cold, tired and drenched in the rain, take off your dirty clothes and take a steamy hot bath. What kind of experience is it like
A heavenly feeling.
It was as if the whole person had come back to life.
Shen Shi'an stood under the shower head for half an hour, and rubbed it carefully three times from head to toe until his skin was burned red by the hot water. Then he turned off the water, dried himself, put on a bathrobe, and walked out of the shower. Nei stepped out.
The child was swimming in the round bathtub in the cubicle, sprinkled petals into the hot water while swimming, and had a great time playing, and even took the initiative to invite Shen Shi'an to take a bath together: "An'an, come down and take a bath together? This bathtub is still It can bubble!"
Shen Shi'an politely declined, and then briefly washed the clothes of himself and the children, and prepared to dry them by the fire later - there were clean and dry clothes in the space, but it was inconvenient to take them out except underwear.
Chen Nan was even more selfless in the bath. When he was finally willing to walk out of the bathroom, his skin was as red as a boiled shrimp, and he was floating even when he walked: "The hot bath is so comfortable!" Shen Shi'an reminded him that he remembered that his left foot was injured and "impaired movement", and he frowned quickly to show pain.
There were no children's bathrobes in the beauty salon, so Shen Shi'an could only wrap the child in a large towel, and sat back on the sofa in the front hall with Chen Nan. The three people's backpacks, crystal cores, and weapons are all within easy reach by the sofa.
A boy named Liu Fangzhou brought over a tray. There was not only hot tea in the tray, but also a lot of food: bread, biscuits, crispy noodles, ham sausage, eight-treasure porridge, canned meat... It was piled up like a hill, together with hot tea Put it in front of the three of them: "You must be hungry, eat quickly, if there is not enough for me, don't be polite to me."
Even Chen Nan felt that the young man was a little too enthusiastic. Not to mention that people in the last days are unpredictable and precious things are precious. Even before the end of the world, few people would invite strangers to their homes and treat them unsuspectingly, right
The firewood was beeping loudly, and no one moved for a while.
Liu Fangzhou seemed to have guessed their concerns, wringing his fingers and blushing slightly: "Oh, did I scare you?" He took the initiative to pour himself a cup of tea and drank it down, then opened a Ham sausage took a bite: "I don't mean anything malicious, but I'm so happy to finally see living people. You are the first and only survivors I met."
Shen Shi'an looked at Shen Xun, Shen Xun shrugged his nose, then nodded to him: Yes. Then he picked up a bag of bread and a cup of eight-treasure porridge from the tray, gestured to Chen Nan with his eyes, and said to the young man: "Thank you. You just said that we are the first batch of survivors you met. Could it be that other than you in the county? , are there no other survivors?"
"Even if there is, there is not much left. Either choose to leave here, or hide at home like me and dare not go out." Liu Fangzhou was very cooperative, knowing everything, "But those who hide at home probably won't live long, because There is no food. I was lucky, there is a small supermarket next door, I closed the iron gate of the supermarket, and cut a hole in the wall, I can go through to get food at any time, so you really don’t have to be polite to me, although It’s okay to eat.” As he said, he fixed his fiery eyes on the three of them.
Although the young man's hospitality was impeccable, Shen Shi'an inexplicably felt a little uncomfortable with this look, as if he was being viewed as something extremely rare. It’s just that we’re living under someone’s fence at the moment, so it’s not good to force too much. From another perspective, the other party’s enthusiasm is also a good thing. I just took this opportunity to inquire about the information I want to know: “When we walked all the way, we found that the number of zombies in the county There are so many, even far beyond the resident population here, do you know why?"
"It's not because of the food festival." The boy sighed, and poured another cup of tea for each of the three, his tone suddenly became sad: "I don't know if you are from other places, the food festival is our Lin'an County A grand event has been held since before I was born, and it has been held for 18 times. It starts on April 1st every year and lasts a full week. Because of its large scale, it has become famous. Tourists from other places will come here admiringly. No one expected that this year's food festival was only halfway through, and when the crowds were the most lively, the zombie virus broke out."
On the day of the food festival, the square was crowded with people, and someone suddenly mutated into a zombie, and the chaos caused can be imagined. "In fact, only a small part of them were infected with the virus or bitten and scratched by zombies at the beginning. What's more terrifying is the stampede accident caused by it." The victims in the stampede lost their mobility and were bitten by zombies. This leads to more panic and stampede, thus creating a vicious circle. "It's tens of thousands of people. If you say it's gone, it will be gone." The boy's eyelashes drooped, and he was so weak that it made people feel distressed: "My mother went out that morning and never came back."
Chen Nan felt the pain of losing a loved one, subconsciously asked: "What about your father?"
The weakness and sadness on the young man disappeared in an instant, and his glazed eyes glowed coldly: "I ran away with Xiaosan. I hope he will be bitten to death by zombies."
Chen Nan didn't know how to answer the question, and when he turned around, he found that Shen Shi'an seemed to be lost in thought, and couldn't help but shouted, "Brother Shen?"
Shen Shi'an looked at the boy: "According to what you said, after the outbreak of the virus, tens of thousands of zombies gathered in the square where the food festival was held in just one day?"
Liu Fangzhou said: "It doesn't even take a day. At that time, the virus infection speed is very fast. After being scratched or bitten by zombies, it will mutate in a few seconds. This is how several customers in our store died. People in the square Everyone wanted to run outside, but no one escaped because of the crowd.”
After staying with Shen Shi'an for so long, Chen Nan was able to catch up with his thoughts and think about the problem occasionally: "Brother Shen, do you think that the high proportion of mutated zombies in the square is related to the number of zombies gathered? "
Shen Shi'an nodded. Other than that, the zombie virus outbreak in the county sounded no different from other places. It didn't make sense that the zombies evolved so much faster than other places, and even supernatural zombies appeared. For a long time, he thought that mutated zombies mostly appeared in places where zombies gathered, and it was a matter of chance that they were rarely seen among scattered wandering zombies. The small number of mutated zombies must be easier to find in places with many zombies. But what if, for some reason, the group of zombies gathered together is more likely to spawn mutant zombies
In this way, the abnormal situation in the county can be perfectly explained: the food festival attracted a large number of people, and these people quickly turned into zombies and gathered together after the outbreak of the virus, and some unknown effect was produced in the huge group of zombies. The evolution rate of zombies has been greatly accelerated, and the proportion of mutant zombies is much higher than that of other places. After all, looking at the entire history of human evolution, social group living is also one of the necessary conditions for evolution.
If this assumption is correct, it would be both good news and bad news for Shen Shi'an and his party: the good news is that the county's distress is a special case, and as long as they avoid zombie gathering places in the future, the degree of danger will be greatly reduced. The bad news is that they can't avoid the city forever. The closer to the capital, the higher the population density, and the more zombies. It is conceivable that the difficulty of crossing the past will increase exponentially.
After hearing this speculation, Liu Fangzhou immediately agreed and breathed a sigh of relief: "It turns out that there are not so many mutated zombies in other places, and there are no supernatural zombies. I thought they were all the same here. A zombie king can control them well." Tens of thousands of zombies are too scary."
Shen Shi'an's eyes flashed, and he glanced at Chen Nan. This time Chen Nan didn't understand what he meant until Shen Shi'an asked the young man: "Since the outbreak of the virus, have you stayed here and never gone out?" The young man nodded: "Yes, there are too many zombies in the county. The value is too weak, and the food is plentiful, so I dare not go out and take risks. You are the best, and even broke through the county square.” Then it suddenly dawned on me: no, if Liu Fangzhou has never been out since the outbreak of the virus, how did he know? How did the mutated zombies know that there were supernatural zombies in the square? !
Surprised in my heart, I looked at the young man with an instant vigilance: Why did he lie? What was the purpose of opening the door to let them in? Is this a trap? But for what? Brother Shen's off-road vehicle didn't come over, so they didn't have anything on them. unless-
Chen Nan glanced at the zombie crystal cores that were full of three canvas bags next to the sofa. The canvas bag was tied tightly, and it was not obvious from the outside, but what if they were already being watched when they were picking up crystal nuclei in the square? Could there be other people hiding in this house? What are they going to do? Do you directly grab the crystal nucleus? Crystal nuclei are only useful to people with supernatural powers, so do teenagers also have supernatural powers?
The more he thought about it, the more anxious he became, the more panicked he became, until he looked at Shen Shi'an again, and then he slowly relaxed: Huh, it's okay, brother Shen is here. Brother Shen is no problem with one enemy ten thousand, no matter how many people are hiding, he is not afraid.
No matter how dark and turbulent the heart is, at least on the surface it is still kind. Several people drank tea and chatted around the bonfire. Shen Shi'an dried his clothes. The child was so hot that he took off the towel, revealing the pink and blue floral pants with puppies and bones printed on them.
An electronic clock hung on the wall, still running normally. At about half past ten, Liu Fangzhou stood up from the sofa: "It's getting late, do you want to rest? There are beds in the beauty room, and there are bedrooms upstairs. I live in the front one on the left. You can live anywhere you want.” Then I found a lot of scented candles from the cabinet: “The firewood has to be extinguished at night, if you want to light up, use this one, the brightness is similar to ordinary candles, and there are various flavors, I recommend orange scent Son, it smells good. Then you can take care of yourself, I'll go upstairs to take a shower first. "
When Liu Fangzhou's footsteps gradually drifted away on the stairs, Chen Nan immediately leaned over and lowered his voice: "Brother Shen, what should we do?"
Shen Shi'an asked Shen Xun: "Did you smell anything?"
Gou Zijing nodded, pointing to the dark back hall: "Inside!"
Shen Shi'an carried the long sword on his back, and Chen Nan was going to help hold the Tang knife, but unexpectedly he staggered forward due to the weight, and almost dropped his hand and hit his foot. Shen Xun sneered, and after putting on his clothes, he held the handle of the knife and carried it on his shoulder lightly. He almost knocked off a vase by accident, but Shen Shi'an took the knife back and carried it on the other side: "Don't be so handsome, hurry up and lead the way .”
Each of the three held a scented candle and walked in the direction pointed by Gou Zijing, twisting and twisting, and bumped into a wall at the end. After studying the wall for a long time, they found a secret door. , connected to the basement.
Shen Xun opened his eyes excitedly: Oh, there is a situation, exciting.
Shen Shi'an picked up the child, and he held the candle and held the hilt of the sword with his backhand. He and Chen Nan stepped through the secret door one after the other and walked down the stairs. The light from the candles was limited, but after turning the corner of the stairs, the scene in the basement was clearly displayed in front of the three of them:
There is a long table in the center, and there is a zombie on the long table. The limbs of the zombie are fixed at the four corners of the long table, and there is almost no decay. His belly was disembowelled, his ribs were broken, his muscles rolled out, his internal organs were placed on a plate beside the long table, and his body, table, and white cloth were all stained with red and black stinky blood. Even if it looked like this, the zombie with a good head was still alive, and when it smelled the smell of a living person, it desperately raised its head, and let out hoarse howls with a hideous face.
Chen Nan had never seen such a scene before, his face turned pale, and he started to retch.
Shen Shi'an frowned and quickly let go, and was about to walk over to take a closer look, when there was a "click" on the stairs, and someone locked the door from the inside.
Liu Fangzhou walked down the stairs, and stopped in the middle of the walk, half of his face was illuminated by the candlelight, and half of his face was covered in darkness.
"Oh," he whispered, unable to tell whether he was more frightened or more excited: "I was discovered by you."
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