He came in a hurry, and retreated in embarrassment. Originally, Lin Banxia still wondered if this would be the biggest setback in Song Qingluo's life, but then she thought about it, even bought the apple jade pendant and the peppa jar. Small things seem to be insignificant.
Li Su, who was guarding the door, was happily nibbling on a popsicle when he saw Song Qingluo from a distance. He originally wanted to laugh, but fortunately, his strong desire to survive forced him to suppress his smile and make a With a concerned expression, he asked, "Rolo, are you alright?"
Song Qingluo was expressionless and disgusted: "Disgusting."
Li Su: "Pfft."
Song Qingluo said impatiently, "Lend me your car to drive."
Li Su said, "What about your own car?"
Song Qingluo lied without blinking: "I came here by taxi, look at me now, as if I can get a taxi?"
Li Su thought for a while, and felt that as the logistics staff this time, he couldn't be so stingy, so he handed over the car keys in his hand. Of course, he didn't hand it to Song Qingluo, but put it in Lin Banxia, saying that Song Qingluo should sit in the trunk, his car is a leather seat, which is not easy to wash...
Of course, this is what he said casually. If Song Qingluo really listened obediently, it would be a ghost.
Lin Banxia hurriedly drove, intending to go home and let Song Qingluo have a good bath. Zhou Zhixiang and Li Xinyu also sat in the back seat, neither of them said a word. Needless to say, Zhou Zhixiang suffered a blow, while Li Xinyu Very dedicated, she took out her black leather notebook again, lowered her head and wrote it carefully.
Along the way, Song Qingluo did not speak in a sullen manner, her expression was like that of a spoiled girl, Lin Banxia was really afraid that when he opened his mouth, he would say "I'm dirty".
After a long drive, they finally got home. Song Qingluo took the change of clothes and went straight to the bathroom. Lin Banxia couldn't help laughing because of her anxious look.
After taking a bath for about half an hour, Song Qingluo wiped her wet hair and came out from the inside. As if receiving an amnesty, Zhou Zhixiang hurried into the bathroom to pick it up.
After taking a shower, Song Qingluo and Lin Banxia discussed what they had seen in the old city just now. Lin Banxia recounted what happened to herself and Li Xinyu.
Song Qingluo frowned after hearing this: "Become them?"
Lin Banxia said, "Yes, I just don't know what this sentence means."
Song Qingluo tapped her finger on the table and pondered, "Don't you have to be the companion of that thing in order to see it." If this is the case, it will be a big trouble.
The discussion was at an impasse, and Zhou Zhixiang over there had also finished taking a shower. What Lin Banxia couldn't figure out was that he was still in a low mood after taking a shower. He hung his head when he came out of the bathroom. Lin Banxia asked him strangely. What's wrong. Zhou Zhixiang smiled bitterly: "Just... I feel disgusting."
Lin Banxia: "What's disgusting?"
Zhou Zhixiang: "No, you all know that this liquid belongs to people."
Lin Banxia said, "Yes, what's the matter?"
Zhou Zhixiang was speechless for a while, and he and Li Xinyu looked at each other, and both saw deep helplessness in each other's eyes. For normal people, if they are splashed with this kind of thing, even if they are cleaned, they will leave a deep psychological shadow. But it was obvious that Song Qingluo was simply disgusting. After taking a bath, he didn't show any discomfort, and Lin Banxia even more—his dictionary didn't seem to contain the words disgust and fear.
Lin Banxia thought about it for a while, and found that her and Song Qingluo's reactions were a little wrong. She tried to make up for it, and said, "Yes... a little scary?"
Li Xinyu fell into silence, thinking to himself, Mr. Lin, you are really scared and perfunctory.
Song Qingluo did not have as delicate a mind as Lin Banxia, nor was she in the mood to comfort Zhou Zhixiang, and continued to discuss with Lin Banxia. Now it is completely certain that almost all the residents of the residential area have become companions. As for the formation of companions The conditions are still up for debate, perhaps it has something to do with this liquid.
"Then do you want to go and see it at night?" Lin Banxia said, "Will the heretics be more active at night?"
"It's possible." Song Qingluo said, "Wait, I'll take a call." He went to the corridor.
When he came back again, Song Qingluo's expression was slightly solemn, and he said, "The hospital has caught someone who wants to contact Lu Yinyin."
Lin Banxia said, "Oh? Did you find anything?"
Song Qingluo said, "I'm not sure yet. I'm currently testing for infection. Let's wait for the results."
The next time is to wait.
Lin Banxia habitually picked up the hair dryer and waved to Song Qingluo. Song Qingluo held the phone and walked to the edge of the sofa, lowering her back to Lin Banxia. Lin Banxia leaned over, pressed the switch, and began to seriously help Song Qingluo blow her hair. Ever since he found out that Song Qingluo didn't like blowing his own hair, he was very honored to take over the job. Song Qingluo's soft and wet black hair was running through his fingers, and it was a little itchy. Lin Banxia remembered it. What, she pursed her lips a little uncomfortably.
Song Qingluo held her chin and lowered her head in a leisurely manner as she played with her mobile phone. The atmosphere between the two was extremely harmonious, completely forgetting that there were two outsiders at home.
Li Xinyu and Zhou Zhixiang are going to look stupid. They know that the monitors who partner with each other generally have a good relationship, but they are not so good. It looks like... in love. Are people so sweet
Lin Banxia didn't notice Li Xinyu's restlessness at all. Song Qingluo might have noticed, but he didn't care at all. Seeing that her hair was almost blown, Lin Banxia asked, "I'm a little hungry, why don't you order a takeaway? ,What do you want to eat?"
"It's all right." Song Qingluo didn't have high requirements for takeout, as long as he could eat it.
Lin Banxia consulted Li Xinyu and Zhou Zhixiang again. The two of them were in other people's homes, so they said they were casual, so Lin Banxia ordered four sets and added one more. Pizza.
When the takeaway arrived, the test report over there also arrived. Song Qingluo connected her mobile phone to the TV, and a few people watched while eating.
It was the first time that Lin Banxia read this kind of report. There were some test values in it. He couldn't understand it. look.
"What's wrong?" Lin Banxia said, "Is it bad?"
Song Qingluo said: "Well, it's not very good. Regarding the infection of heretical things to normal people, it is divided into five grades from D to S. S is the highest level, which means that the person and the heretical thing have had a positive and close relationship. distance contact."
Lin Banxia glanced at it and found that the test report contained a bright red S+.
"What about S+?" Lin Ban asked in confusion.
"S+ means that that person's body was once completely occupied by heretical things." Song Qingluo said, "For example, if Jiang Ruonan can still be regarded as a human being, then the companion of S+ is no longer human. Now, even if it looks like a human, it's something else inside."
Lin Banxia: "...Then if this person is caught, wouldn't he be caught with the heretic?"
Song Qingluo said: "This is the worst part of the whole incident." He casually left a neat tooth mark on the pizza, "The heresy is gone, or rather, it has been transferred."
Lin Banxia: "..."
"It only took about five minutes from when that person was discovered to when he was arrested, but it still moved." Song Qingluo said, "Who knows where it is now, maybe it's waiting downstairs."
Although they knew he was joking, Li Xinyu and Zhou Zhixiang couldn't really laugh, but Lin Banxia hooked the corners of his mouth cooperatively: "Hahahaha."
Li Xinyu listened to the laughter, thinking with a headache that these two people are really a good match.
"How is the person who was caught now?" Lin Banxia asked, "Is he still alive?"
Song Qingluo said, "I don't know. Fortunately, at least when the report came in, he was still alive."
Lin Banxia said, "This is a good thing."
Song Qingluo raised her eyebrows.
"At least it proves that even if this thing invades a person's body, it won't necessarily die." Lin Banxia pondered, "By the way, those people who blew themselves up in front of you must have been manipulated by heretics, right? Then would it have been manipulated at that time? Nearby? Also, is there nothing in the eighteenth building?"
Song Qingluo said: "I searched again, but I didn't find anything special. At that time, the time was tight, so I didn't search too carefully."
Lin Banxia said, "Well...then you can find it again."
Song Qingluo glanced at the time and prepared to take a two-hour break before passing. This matter seemed to be more serious than they thought, and the blockade would not last long, so it would be best to deal with it as soon as possible.
After tossing for a day, several people were a little tired. Lin Banxia and Song Qingluo went to the bedroom and gave the sofa to Li Xinyu and Zhou Zhixiang. After a short rest, they set off again.
At this time, night has come, and the whole world is shrouded in darkness. The lights of the traffic flow merged into two bright rivers of light, passing through the road.
The infrastructure of the old city is not so in place, there are not many street lights, and most of the lights are dim.
The road where people flowed during the day also became deserted at this time, and only a few police officers on duty could be seen still working hard.
Lin Banxia saw Li Su from a distance. He took off his mask and sunglasses. His snow-white complexion was so striking in the dark. Ye stood beside him with his rice bucket, his head bowed slightly, but his back was straight. From Lin Banxia's angle, he could just see his green eyes staring at Li Su who was eating with his head down.
"Li Su." Song Qingluo called Li Su's name.
The next moment, Lin Banxia saw it with his own eyes, the tenderness in Li Ye's eyes disappeared, and the green eyes returned to the alienation and indifference most commonly seen in the past.
Li Su didn't realize what happened, and turned his head, with rice still on his mouth, and said, "Oh, it's coming so soon?"
Song Qingluo: "Well, how is the situation inside?"
Li Su said, "Nothing happened, but it was not normal. No one came out, no one went in. It was like death."
Song Qingluo: "No one came out?"
Li Su said: "I know what you want to ask, but it is not true. You have also seen the whereabouts of the person who went to find Lu Yinyin. It is not a person in the residential area, so the infection may have spread long ago." It is only now that they found out That's it.
Song Qingluo said, "Okay." He turned and walked towards the community.
Lin Banxia glanced at Li Su's bowl, laughed and joked, "It's delicious."
Li Su laughed and glanced in the direction of Li Ye. His eyes were self-evident, and it was obvious that the food in his hand was sent by Li Ye.
Song Qingluo was already far away, and Lin Banxia quickly followed.
This was the first time they came here at night. Compared with the daytime, the surrounding buildings looked a little more unfamiliar. After entering the community, Li Xinyu felt uncomfortable, hugged her arms, and whispered, "I always feel weird..."
Lin Banxia said, "It's very strange." Looking around, "No one has turned on the lights."
Li Xinyu: "..." After being reminded by Lin Banxia, she realized that there was no other light source besides the street lamps in the entire community. It's only ten o'clock in the evening, but every floor is pitch-dark. From a distance, it looks like a monster's mouth wide open, enticing them to enter.
Li Xinyu shivered inexplicably.
"Let's go to the Eighteenth Building and have a look." Lin Banxia suggested.
"Okay." Song Qingluo agreed.
In fact, it is a mystery whether that thing is in the community, but Lin Banxia thinks about it carefully and thinks that the organizational form of these people is indeed very similar to ants. Orderly, but without their own thoughts, can only be dominated by the collective, no, to be precise, only by the queen.
Ordinary ants are born to serve the queen. Whether it is looking for food or growing the colony, all behaviors revolve around the core queen.
So now, where is the ant queen who controls everything? Lin Banxia thought, can it move its body at will? No, it can't be the case, because if it can easily transfer itself, then there is absolutely no need to choose this old community as a nest, it is safer, because it can be unscrupulous in the populous city, looking for There is absolutely no need to create such a special and easily found abnormal area for an object that can be infected.
But at present, from the information that Song Qingluo and the others investigated, only this part of the area around the city is abnormal. Based on this, it is inferred that it must have some purpose in creating this place.
While thinking, Lin Banxia followed Song Qingluo forward. Seeing that she was about to reach the eighteenth building, Song Qingluo suddenly stopped.
Lin Banxia asked strangely, "What's wrong?"
Song Qingluo said, "It's not right."
"What's wrong?" Lin Banxia asked.
Song Qingluo said, "There are people around."
When Lin Banxia heard this, he looked around. There were no street lights nearby, and it was dark and vague. He saw that there seemed to be shadows moving in the darkness. around them.
Li Xinyu was startled, she quickly took out the flashlight from her backpack and looked around. It was okay if she didn't, but she almost couldn't hold the flashlight steady when she saw it. At some point, a large group of people appeared beside them. This group of people, men and women, young and old, dressed in different clothes, stared at them with the same eyes, but after a while, Li Xinyu was stared at by them. goosebumps.
At first glance, this group of people seemed to be at least a hundred in number, and they formed a circle to surround the four of them in the center, and then slowly moved towards them. The footsteps were silent, almost like a ghost.
"What should I do?" Lin Banxia said, his hand touched the dagger on his leg, but to be honest, he could attack monsters without any scruples, but there were all people around...
Song Qingluo didn't answer, and glanced around the crowd, as if looking for something: "Give me some time."
"Okay." Lin Banxia said.
Seeing that the people surrounding them were getting closer, Lin Banxia smelled the familiar sweet smell again. The source of this smell should be someone in the crowd, but there were so many people, it was difficult for him for a while. Finding it out, Li Xinyu, who has a keen sense of smell, pointed in a certain direction and shouted, "The smell here is stronger! Is that thing here?"
Song Qingluo turned his head to look, his dark eyes were like a piece of frozen ice, he glanced at Lin Banxia: "It's there, I have to pass through the crowd."
Lin Banxia gritted her teeth and said, "How do I get there?"
Song Qingluo said, "You throw me over there."
It was only then that Lin Banxia remembered that Song Qingluo's weight was not the same as ordinary people, it was much lighter. Lin Banxia carried him on his back and felt like he was at most twenty or thirty pounds, although Lin Banxia couldn't throw more than one hundred pounds. A normal person, but 20 to 30 pounds is still not a problem. He simply stretched out his hand and grabbed Song Qingluo's thin waist, and then violently threw Song Qingluo into the sky like throwing a sandbag.
Li Xinyu and Zhou Zhixiang were both dumbfounded. Before the two could react, they saw Song Qingluo being thrown out by Lin Banxia like an acrobatics. He directly disappeared into the night sky lightly and disappeared without a trace. .
The people surrounding them were getting closer and closer, and their space was getting smaller and smaller. Seeing that they were about to touch the tip of their nose with these people, Li Xinyu suddenly collapsed a little, and shouted: "Don't come near, come near me again, I'm welcome!" He said, waving the dagger in his hand.
It is a pity that this kind of threat obviously has no effect on these people. After a few words, the space for them to stand was forced to be reduced again, and the three of them were forced to be close to each other.
Lin Banxia was always calm, not because he was not afraid of death, but because he remembered what the old man said yesterday.
"If you want to find him, you have to be him." - This exhortation always made Lin Banxia feel that it was the answer to this riddle.
He wanted to think about it carefully, but he didn't have much time at this time, and the surrounding crowd moved closer to them again. Just when they were about to stick to them, these people suddenly stretched out their hands towards the three of them.
This was the first time that Lin Banxia had such an experience. Before he could even pull out the dagger, countless arms buried him. It was as if the ropes were being slammed onto the body, and in the blink of an eye, the three of them were firmly pressed to the ground, almost completely unable to move.
The sweet and greasy smell was very strong and poured into the nasal cavity. Lin Banxia vaguely heard the sound of fighting coming from the black. Lin Banxia was about to look over there, but there was a crisp sound in his ear. , as if something exploded next to him.
"Ah!!!" Zhou Zhixiang cried out in horror, "It's here again, here it is!!!"
At first, Lin Banxia didn't realize what this sentence means again, until the second puff sounded again. He saw with his own eyes a person standing not far from him, like a balloon filled with water. Yes, bang burst. The sticky and moist liquid splashed Lin Banxia all over.
"What are they going to do?" Li Xinyu screamed, "Help me—"
Then came the third, the fourth, a lot of sugar water, falling on them constantly, sticking them to the ground like worms, the sweet smell seems to be running down the nose, It poured into his mind, and the tired Lin Banxia felt a pain in his forehead.
However, even so, those people still pressed them tightly, without letting go for a moment, as long as Lin Banxia looked up, all she saw were expressionless faces, they were like ghosts under control, completely Losing his consciousness, he can only be manipulated to act.
The sticky liquid adhered to the skin, which made Lin Banxia feel particularly uncomfortable. Zhou Zhixiang next to him suddenly coughed heavily. At first Lin Banxia thought he was just choking, but his coughing sound became more and more intense. Then suddenly stopped, completely quiet.
The hands that were controlling him were also released, Lin Banxia watched helplessly as the struggling expression on his face gradually calmed down, turning into a look as numb as those around him.
What will happen next, obviously you don't need to guess anymore. Li Xinyu screamed in horror and started struggling with all her strength. However, her struggle was only a drop in the bucket in front of dozens of people. Not surprisingly, they were like being nailed again. Like a dead bird, it was pressed to the ground.
"Help, help, I don't want to be like that, help—Mr. Lin—" Li Xinyu cried, her face was on the ground, she looked helplessly at Lin Banxia and wanted to ask for help.
Lin Banxia was about to say something when she saw her complexion change, and then, just like Zhou Zhixiang, she coughed violently. Those sticky liquids seemed to have penetrated through every pore of her, like begging ants, they devoured her and assimilated her completely into their companions.
In the end, the hand on Li Xinyu's body also loosened, she slowly got up from the ground, and stared at Lin Banxia on the ground with those familiar, indifferent eyes. Lin Banxia even suspected that the next moment she would stretch out her hand and hold her like the others.
Lin Banxia was a little helpless. He didn't expect things to develop like this. The only thing he could do at this time was to wait quietly, waiting for himself and the two of them to end in the same way.
Time passed so slowly at this time, and the change that Lin Banxia was waiting for didn't come for a long time. Looking at countless pairs of eyes, Lin Banxia felt a little embarrassed inexplicably.
It was as if everyone was asking him with their eyes: How can you still be the same
Lin Banxia was also muttering in her heart, thinking why she didn't react at all, could it be that the absorption effect was not good? It's so embarrassing.
After an unknown period of time, seeing that the atmosphere was getting worse and worse, just when Lin Banxia was worried that this thing would turn into anger, he grabbed his hand and moved again. This time, they did not stop Lin Banxia. Xia, but like an ant carrying food, he lifted him abruptly - heading towards the building.
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Lin Banxia: I don't know what's going on, I just don't like it
Song Qingluo: It seems that we still have to pickle it from the inside
Lin Banxia: ?