However, the investigation of the corpse was also very unpleasant, because the crow and others did not find anything from the corpse, it could be called nothing. It's just interesting that when the crow lamented that the progress was not going well, the double-headed snake suddenly came over and pulled the skinny corpse's clothes to expose its back.
On the back of the corpse, there are words that seem to be carved out. It is the words written one stroke after cutting the bloody flesh with a knife. Although most of the wounds have healed, it can still be seen that when the words were carved The appalling.
The text above reads—
[If you are lucky enough to struggle to survive in the whirlpool of hunger]
[You must know what it wants most]
"Hunger..." When the owl said this, he was still clutching his stomach, and said slowly, "If I'm so hungry, I will try my best to get full."
"So, this monster just wants to eat." The crow frowned in embarrassment: "But it's already dead."
The two-headed snake said: "Even if it is not dead, it will not be full. You must know that before you came, there was still a lot of food in this compartment, but now, even the apple cores that people don't want after eating are all eaten by this car." It was swallowed in one gulp."
"Then where is the key to the carriage?" The crow became anxious, as if asking others or himself: "The monster will give us the key when it is full, but it has not been full, and it has already hung up—really Trouble, this is simply an endless loop."
Because they couldn't find any clues, a few people hurried around in the No. 9 carriage. There was nothing worth noting in this carriage. The layout and layout were similar to those of the previous odd-numbered carriages. They turned over, but even so, they still couldn't see any progress.
At this moment, Mr. Bad Wolf, who had been a bystander all along, suddenly said something. He squinted his eyes, staring at everyone present with malicious intentions, and said: "There must be something in this carriage that it hasn't eaten. The thing that dropped, as long as you eat that thing, it will give us the key."
"The whole carriage has been turned over, where is there any food?" The owl retorted immediately because he saw that the wolf was very displeasing to the eye.
"That's why I said you guys are so naive—" The wolf suddenly shifted his gaze to the two-headed snake in front of him, and said with a sneer, "Such a big food is here, and you just turn a blind eye?"
"You mean that the two-headed snake is food?" The crow understood what he meant, and stared at the wolf in disbelief.
"Isn't he like food?" The wolf's grin continued.
The crow was still shocked, he subconsciously stepped forward to block the two-headed snake, and said angrily to the wolf: "He is a human! How is it like food?!"
"Haha—" the wolf laughed, and looked at the crow mockingly: "Who said that human beings are not food? Have you ever seen the poorest people who live at the bottom of society? Those people are just like the ones in front of you now." Like a corpse, skinny and hungry! When they are extremely hungry, they will eat anything."
As the wolf spoke, he stretched out his finger and licked it. He seemed to have remembered something. There was no longer a smile on his face, and his voice was a little dark: "Since ancient times, those things that have been exchanged for food due to hunger and famine are really true. Countless... I don't have any memories either, but I think—I must have experienced this terrible hunger attack before."
The wolf feels that he has really experienced the feeling of being extremely hungry, so hungry that his chest sticks to his back is the most vivid adjective. Those scrawny bodies are as thin as bamboo poles, struggling, wanting to live, wanting to get the feeling of redemption, crazy and unbearable.
Because of hunger, creatures have this instinct to hunt and kill other animals.
"Who says humans are not food?" Therefore, the wolf laughed at the crow: "Humans are just a link in the chain of life."
What the wolf said made the crow speechless. The crow was silent for a long time. He suddenly felt that he had nothing to refute, because what the wolf said was right. Humans can eat other animals, and there will naturally be other animals Come to hunt and kill human beings, the strong will eat the weak, and the fittest will survive. This is why the natural world is endless.
But the crow did not move away from the two-headed snake, he still stood in front of the two-headed snake, silent but tenacious, and after a long time he replied: "You can turn yourself into a wild beast in order to survive, that's all right. Well, you can survive anyway."
"But I can't." The crow paused, then lowered his head and continued, "Because when I become a beast, I can't be a human again."
"Heh... that's really beautiful, but it's really reasonable." The wolf stopped laughing suddenly, and he stretched out his hand towards the crow... The angle and width of the hand stretched out, as if he wanted to grab the crow. The crow's neck, this move looked very abnormal at this stage, and even revealed a sense of danger, which made the crow palpitate for a while, and instinctively backed away from his hand.
The wolf was no longer aggressive, he slowly withdrew his hand, and raised that annoying grin on his face again: "I want to see how far you can persist."
"Enough! Shut up! You crazy!" The owl became more and more displeased with the wolf, despised him with eyes, and interjected: "What if it really treats the two-headed snake as food? That monster has already Dead, it just lay there, motionless! I don't believe it would have the strength to swallow the two-headed snake whole!"
The wolf turned his eyes to look at the owl, and grinned again: "That's not necessarily true. Like you, don't you still have the strength to eat? Maybe you can really swallow the two-headed snake whole!"
"When will your mouth be clean? Are you looking for death again!?" The owl spoke in a desperate tone. A broken broom stick that the wolf had thrown aside earlier.
This time it was the crow that grabbed the owl and said, "Calm down, fighting him won't do you any good."
As the crow said, he couldn't help but look at the owl. This time, the owl didn't cover his abdominal wound, but if he looked closely, he found that he didn't know when he bandaged himself with a cloth strip. Moreover, although there were holes in the owl's clothes, there were no blood stains, and they were very clean.
During the quarrel, the double-headed snake that was protected from the beginning to the end did not speak, and the black cat following behind did not speak. He was silent for so long that the people around him somewhat ignored his existence.
However, a conversation broke up so badly, the wolf continued to leisurely squat in the corner in a daze, while the crow, the owl and others continued to search in the No. 9 compartment unwillingly. But the result was still ignorance, so the owl took the lead to feel the passing of time.
"We only have six hours on this train, and I don't know how long it took before!"
"I know..." The crow also felt discouraged, and squatted next to the scrawny corpse again.
During the silence, the double-headed snake who had been with them suddenly said, "That guy codenamed Wolf... Actually, I think he's right."
"What's right, do you think you are food?" The owl got annoyed when it mentioned the wolf, with a disgusted expression on its face.
"Yes, I should be the food." The double-headed snake said: "Before you came to this compartment, there were only me and that monster in workshop No. 9. If you really want to eat people, you should be the first to eat me." .”
Hearing this, the owl began to retort: "Come on, you beat that monster until its brains came out. Could it be possible to cut you into pieces and feed it to his mouth?"
"It's worth trying." Just after the owl finished speaking, the crow spoke on a whim.
"What? What is worth trying?" The owl suddenly had a bad feeling and asked hesitantly.
"Just what you said!" The crow seemed excited, and said, "Feed the two-headed snake to that monster."
"..." The owl was silent for a while, looked the crow up and down, and said cautiously: "Have you... been brainwashed by that wolf?"
The crow also seemed to find it funny, and said helplessly, "That's not what I meant."
"I kept thinking, if the monster ate all the food in the car and still couldn't eat enough, so he jumped up and bit the two-headed snake. So I wondered, what is the limit that can make this monster full? What? Will it be full after eating the whole two-headed snake, or will it be full after eating half of the two-headed snake?"
The two-headed snake who was listening on the side shrugged uncomfortablely: "Although I know my real name is not a two-headed snake, but my current code name is this name, don't let me imagine the scene where I was eaten OK?"
"I know your assumption." The owl roughly understood the crow's meaning: "You are wondering how long the monster will be full, right?"
"Perhaps as long as the monster eats another piece of meat, it will be full." The crow continued to make assumptions.
"STOP! I don't want to cut a piece of flesh off my body yet!" The two-headed snake became nervous and touched his bitten arm.
"You don't need to lose the meat, how about putting some blood on it?" The owl was also aroused by this wonderful idea, looked up and down the two-headed snake, saw his slightly blood-stained arm sleeve, and said, "Anyway, your When the blood is shed, it is shed.”
"It's as if my blood doesn't need money!" The two-headed snake got goose bumps when he heard it.
"Try it!" The crow looked at the two-headed snake flatteringly: "Just take a little blood and sprinkle it in the monster's mouth, and see what happens."
"What if there is no response?" The two-headed snake remained expressionless.
The crow had a smirk on his face: "Try it before we talk! Anyway, we have no other choice now, so you have to make sacrifices, comrade!"
The two-headed snake had to compromise. It seemed that he had no choice but to make a huge sacrifice and give his arm to the crow. The crow removed the cloth strips on his arm and found He took a bottle and pressed the blood vessels on his arm, and a lot of blood flowed out drop by drop from the unhealed wound.
"Don't worry, you won't lose too much blood to death." The crow felt very experienced. Just filled the glass bottle with a small puddle of blood, it pinched the blood vessel of the two-headed snake, and wrapped the cloth strips again.
Then the crow squatted next to the dead body with a bottle of blood in it. The bottle was opened, allowing the blood to flow out slowly, dripping onto the withered lips of the dead body.
The owls, double-headed snakes, and even the black cats all came and squatted around to watch.
Unexpectedly, a few drops of blood actually had an effect. The monster was like nectar after a long time, suddenly trembled all over, opened its mouth, and even stuck out its tongue, greedily licking the blood dripping on its own mouth, but it looked really weak, only a few drops of blood, Also just let it move a little bit.
"Is there not enough blood?" The blood in the bottle was all poured out, and the monster was still lying there with its eyes closed.
The crow hesitated, and continued to look up at the two-headed snake.
"Don't even think about it!" The two-headed snake looked as pale as paper, and covered his arms, "If you continue the bloodletting, labor and capital will really die."
"Indeed, in this situation, even letting the double-headed snake dry will not satisfy the monster." Owl nodded thinking.
"How about bleeding together?" said the crow suddenly, but he kept his eyes on the owl as he said this.
The owl noticed this, and looked up at the crow: "Are you sure this will work?"
"There is no choice." The crow said, "As you have seen, this monster only responds to flesh and blood."