The electricity in the city has been completely cut off, but the water tower of the Express Hotel still has water, so the restroom can still be used.
It’s just that this room is really small, and neither the air conditioner nor the exhaust fan can work. In order to prevent lizards from crawling in, they even sealed the door, so there is no air circulation in the whole room. If this continues, they will suffocate to death in the room before dawn due to lack of oxygen.
No way, they can only open the glass window a crack.
Fortunately, there is a layer of anti-mosquito windows in the inner layer. They reckoned that those little lizards that looked like hexagonal dragon fishes would not be powerful enough to bite through the stainless steel net and crawl in.
However, they did not dare to blatantly light the fire, but staying in the room in the dark is really frightening. For safety reasons, after discussing with Mo Tiangen, Ji Thrush and Mo Tiangen decided that the two of them would take turns keeping vigil tonight, every four hours until Dawn, for safety.
So they first dealt with the skin wounds from the fight with Brother Jie just now, ate something casually, and after a rough wash, they took the time to rest quickly.
Mo Tiangen volunteered to guard for the first half of the night.
Ji Thrush was really tired after the day today, so he lay down on the spot and fell asleep quickly after closing his eyes.
When people are extremely tired, they don't even have the strength to dream.
He didn't know how long he had slept. When he woke up in a daze, he heard a series of regular and loud snoring sounds from his side, mixed with intermittent coughing sounds.
Ji Thrush woke up immediately, quickly turned over and sat up, opened his eyes, and looked around.
He saw Mr. Dagen, who had said he would keep watch at night, was leaning against the foot of the wall, with his head up and his mouth open, snoring loudly, with no demeanor at all.
And Ren Jianmo, who was lying next to him before he fell asleep, woke up at some point and was leaning against the window crack, coughing lowly.
It can be heard that Ren Jianmo is deliberately suppressing the movement of coughing, his body is arched like a shrimp, his head is lowered, trying not to let his coughing wake up the people in the room.
Ji Thrush felt a little bit of distress in his heart for no reason, and the eyes that looked at Ren Jianmo became more gentle.
He remembered the team member Xiao An who was rescued by him when the maglev rail car had an accident.
That child was the youngest in the team, with a naive and lively personality, but very well-behaved and sensible.
Once the two of them went out for a match and lived in the same room. Xiao An just caught a cold and coughed when he lay flat. In order not to disturb his captain’s rest, he even took advantage of the futon to sleep in the bathtub after he fell asleep. I found out, that melon baby can nest in the bathroom for a whole night...
Recalling this, Ji Thrush felt a little wet in the corners of his eyes.
He sincerely hoped that Xiaoan could escape the danger at that time, and now he is still alive in their normal world with all his beard and tail.
"Hey."
Ji Thrush stood up, moved lightly to Ren Jianmo's side, and patted him on the back gently.
"How do you feel?"
After coughing for a while, Ren Jianmo slowed down, turned his head and smiled at him, "It's okay."
he answered softly.
There was neither light nor fire in the room, and all the lighting depended on the burning blood-red sunset from the sky, Ji Thrush could barely see Ren Jianmo's facial features clearly.
He felt that it might be based on the principle of looking at beauties under the light. When the light was not enough, Ren Jianmo's beautiful face with exquisite features and soft lines looked so beautiful in this smile that it could be called gorgeous.
Ji Thrush's ears felt hot, he lowered his head, and replied, "Well, that's good."
Ren Jianmo patted the floor beside him, "Come, sit with me."
Ji Thrush obediently sat down beside him, but didn't dare to look up at Ren Damei's face.
"By the way, why are you up?"
He felt awkward in the cold, so he had nothing to say. After asking, he realized that his question was stupid, because the other party obviously woke up from coughing, so he hurriedly made up for it:
"No... I mean, your body doesn't seem to be in good shape all the time?"
"I guess so."
Ren Jianmo replied flatly, "I can't remember."
Ji Thrush: "..."
It seemed that his second question was no better than the first.
Not knowing what to say, Ji Thrush could only take out the phone from his pocket and check the time.
They didn't know if the city's day and night cycle was consistent with their original world, so they decided to assume that the flow of time was the same, and set the time for them to enter the room at 8 pm.
Now the time displayed on Ji Thrush's cell phone is 2:17 in the morning, that is to say, they have been here safely for more than six hours.
—Oh, I hope it keeps going this way.
Ji Thrush didn't say that.
He knew that his luck was not very good all the time, as if there was a kind of metaphysics in the dark. On certain things, he often made a prophecy, good or bad.
He was afraid that he would add DEBUFF to himself at a critical moment this time, so naturally he didn't dare to say anything more.
At this time, Ji Thrush noticed that his mobile phone had run out of battery power.
Although this damn place can't make phone calls or surf the Internet, the mobile phone is still very useful as a timekeeping tool and lighting tool.
He remembered that when he was fleeing Wal-Mart, he had coined a power bank at the battery station in the parking lot, and it would just come in handy now.
Ji Thrush took out the card-style power bank from the pocket of the hoodie, inserted the slot into the phone, and pressed the charging button.
The screen of the charging treasure immediately lit up, but his phone did not show the sign of starting charging.
—Is this thing broken
Like all mechanical idiots, when encountering such a situation, Ji Xiaoniao could only think of the explanation of "poor contact", so he pulled out the socket and planned to reinsert it.
And at this moment, he felt a pinprick-like pain in the skin of his palm.
"Ouch!"
Ji Thrush let out a low cry, and his first reaction was that the charging treasure had leaked, so he quickly shook his hand and threw it out.
The power bank fell to the ground and made a crisp "click" sound, and the display screen instantly went dark and split in half.
Teacher Dagen's snoring stopped for two seconds.
Then he twisted his neck, changed to a more comfortable position, smacked his lips, and started snoring again.
"Okay, it seems that the battery is out of charge."
Ji Thrush shrugged, picked up the broken power bank, and threw it aside.
At this time, Ren Jianmo stretched out his hand and pushed him.
"Look at your watch."
he said.
Season thrush did so immediately.
Then he was surprised to find that the small blinking arrow on the LCD screen had moved to three quarters of the right side of the screen, and its color had also turned yellow.
Ji Thrush quickly snapped off Ren Jianmo's watch-wearing hand, and found that the small arrow on Ren Jianmo's watch had also turned yellow.
"What does it mean?"
He raised his wrist and asked Ren Jianmo.
Ren Jianmo shook his head, "I don't know either."
— Well, even if you’re playing a game, you can’t always ask an NPC for hints.
Ji Thrush shrugged, expressing that he was not disappointed.
"but… "
Ren Jianmo suddenly spoke again, his tone was still flat, but what he said was inexplicably frightening:
"Yellow, does it mean alert?"
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At the same time, in the Wal-Mart supermarket.
The strong man in blue and his four followers still stayed in the lobby.
Ever since Brother Jie showed his gun in public and tried to kill Ji Thrush and the others, he no longer concealed his brutal nature and acted as a high-handed tyrant in front of the other four.
He returned to the lobby, first picked up the only man other than himself, and beat him up for no reason to vent his emotions. He dragged the most beautiful of the two girls into his arms and molested wantonly. If he hadn't been thinking about those unknown dangers in his heart, he couldn't get excited, and he would definitely do something worse than a beast.
After gaining prestige, Jie Ge ordered the four of them to obey his command unconditionally, and then gathered everyone in the lobby, sitting in a circle, no one can sleep tonight.
They found a bunch of flashlights and kept them all by their side. They only turned on one at a time, narrowed the aperture to the minimum, and used it for lighting.
A few people stayed up like this until midnight.
Although they were startled and frightened, in the end they couldn't resist the domination of fatigue one after another, and they dozed off after a while.
The burly man in blue got angry several times over this, but then even he couldn't hold it anymore, and fell asleep in a daze at some point.
This sleep has been sleeping until the early morning.
Brother Jie was woken up by the red light shining into his eyeballs through his eyelids.
He opened his eyes suddenly, thinking that the supermarket was on fire.
However, he quickly realized that it wasn't that Wal-Mart was on fire, but that they were surrounded by many small fireballs.
"You fucking don't sleep! Don't sleep all! Get up! Get up!!"
Brother Jie jumped up, yelling, and violently kicked the others awake.
They saw that there were more than a dozen fist-sized fireballs scattered on the floor with a radius of two or three meters away from them.
The flames of these fireballs were crimson, much brighter than ordinary candles, and they were obviously living creatures, because they were circling around the five people, slowly trying to shrink the encirclement.
"Yeah!"
Seeing this scene suddenly, one of the girls turned pale with fright, and screamed instinctively.
Then she immediately got a big mouth from the strong man in blue.
"Smelly bitch, what's your name!?"
Brother Jie scolded, picked up a long iron pipe, took a few steps forward, and swept towards those fireballs.
He swept away three fireballs at once.
The other fireballs also scattered as if they felt threatened.
"Fuck me!"
Jack yelled, "It's those damned lizards again!"
At this moment, he finally saw clearly that each fireball contained a lizard.
It's just that now all of them have changed from the original crimson red to pitch black, like a piece of ignited coal, their bodies burst into flames.
"Quick... look!"
Another girl suddenly stretched out her hand and pointed tremblingly at the glass dome of Wal-Mart.
"There are... a lot of... a lot of lizards on it!"