The thrush walked southward for about one kilometer towards the city center.
During this distance, he found two more sets of clothes on the street, a men's suit and a women's suit, both from the outer shirt to the underwear, and the shoes, socks and backpack were also in place.
What's even more frightening is that this time, the two clothes not only maintain a roughly human shape, but also the left sleeve of the men's clothes hangs over the shoulders of the women's skirts, making it look like when a man is hugging his girlfriend, the two The human body was wiped out in an instant, leaving only a suit of clothes to prove that they had existed.
Ji Thrush realized that what he needed to worry about was no longer why he appeared in such a ruin of ashes, but what had happened to the owner of these suits to suddenly disappear
He didn't dare to just walk down the street like this.
Ji Thrush felt that it was insecure to be empty-handed, so he took a kitchen knife from a grocery store along the street and put it in the side pocket of the bow bag, and then felt that it was not safe enough, so he took a broom and put it beside him, acting as a leader The stick is used.
This city is where they come to train every summer. Since being selected for the youth team, including this year, Ji Thrush has been here three times.
He remembered that there was an overpass at the next intersection, and after crossing the overpass, turn right and walk along a long banyan tree street until the end, which was his destination.
Sure enough, tens of meters ahead, he saw an I-shaped overpass at the intersection.
There is not even a moving car on the road now, so Ji Thrush doesn't need to care about the traffic rules, just cross the road.
But there are two two-way maglev tracks in the middle of the road, and there are guardrails as high as a person on both sides. It is much more strenuous to climb the wall twice than to climb the overpass, so he obediently boarded the overpass.
When you look down from a height, you can more intuitively understand how weird the city looks.
Ji Thrush saw that as far as the naked eye could see, there were patches of gray.
In the past, when he went to the north to compete in the winter, he had also seen a city covered with thick snow and snow, but now the heavy snow has replaced it with dust, and the clean and innocent white has turned into a deep haze. The lead ash in the room immediately gave people a strong sense of psychological oppression as if the end of the world was approaching.
— No, it might really be the end of the world.
Ji Thrush stared at the dark clouds at the end of his field of vision, thinking gloomily.
Otherwise, how could such a good city become like this, where there is not even a single person in sight
-Hey!
He suddenly opened his eyes wide.
Because, he saw, besides himself, the second living person.
Although the distance is a bit far, there is indeed a person walking quickly along the street.
The man's back was facing the bridge, and Ji Thrush could only see his back.
Judging from the man's tall and straight figure, he felt that the man should be a tall man.
However, as a man, that man had long hair, jet-black and hanging down, almost reaching his waistline by visual inspection. The soft hair rose and fell with his steps, which was really eye-catching.
"Hey!"
Ji Thrush hurriedly turned towards the man's back and called out from a distance.
But the long-haired man didn't seem to hear his voice at all, not to mention turning around, he didn't even lift his head.
"Hey, hello!"
Ji Thrush panicked, clasped his hands on the railing, and yelled twice more with a louder volume than before.
The long-haired man still didn't look back.
He kept walking, walked forward along the ashes-covered street, and looked in the direction, which was directly south of the business district.
Ji Thrush's heart was beating crazily, "Bang Dong", "Bang Dong".
Although he didn't even see people's faces, it was always a comfort to meet another person in such a damned dead city.
And according to Ji Thrush's experience as a senior online game player, even though he can't see his face, he doesn't look like an ordinary passer-by just because of his tall and slender back and long flowing black hair—if it's in an RPG game , at least it must be a mysterious great sage who holds the task of Novice Village.
Ji thrush made a decisive decision and chased after him.
He made up his mind that he must catch up with that person, and then...
... And then how, he didn't think about it.
Anyway, no matter whether the other party is a powerful character or not, at this moment, it is always something to be happy to have a companion who can breathe and talk.
It's a pity that the tall and straight sage in black walked very fast, and Ji Thrush just ran down the overpass, and the other party had disappeared without a trace.
Fortunately, the ground is full of dust, as long as it is not a ghost without feet, it will definitely leave footprints when walking.
As long as Ji Thrush chased along the shoe prints, he would find someone sooner or later.
However, at this moment, he suddenly heard the voice of someone speaking.
To be precise, it was a woman's call.
At first, the sound source was quite far away from him, and it sounded vaguely blurry.
But obviously the other party just happened to be walking towards him, and as the distance gradually narrowed, the voice gradually became clearer.
Ji Thrush heard that a young woman was walking and shouting: "Is there anyone? Is there anyone else here?"
—Wait, there is a third person!
Ji Thrush was really surprised and delighted, he opened his mouth and was about to answer out loud.
But just a second before the words were about to come out, he suddenly remembered those strange sets of clothes that kept the human shape, and suddenly felt that yelling like this was too reckless, so he quickly swallowed his voice back, and went He took a step aside, hid behind a telegraph pole, poked out half of his head, and looked vigilantly in the direction of the sound.
Dark clouds covered the sky, the sky was filled with dust, and visibility on the streets was very low.
Ji Thrush opened his eyes wide and waited for a few minutes before he saw two figures, one tall and one short, vaguely appearing a hundred meters away.
Although he couldn't see their faces clearly, judging from the height and outline of the two people, he speculated that they should be a man and a woman.
They were very close, half of their bodies stuck together, and there was a circular light spot in front of them, it wasn't very bright, but it was better than nothing. Ji Thrush thinks that it is probably a light source such as a simple flashlight or a mobile phone flashlight.
"anyone there?"
"Hi, is anyone there?"
The woman yelled twice every few steps she took.
Ji Thrush still stood still and waited cautiously for a while.
When the two were close enough to him, he was finally sure that the visitors were a man and a woman, who seemed to be a couple, about 20 years old, with uneasy and bewildered expressions on their faces.
The man was wearing a light blue light blue long-sleeved shirt with the cuffs rolled up to the elbows, while the woman was wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt and jeans, both of which were normal summer casual attire.
The man hugged the girl's shoulders in one hand, and held up a mobile phone in the other hand. He switched to the flashlight mode and shook it left and right as he walked, as if he wanted the beam of light to pass through the flying ashes in the sky, trying to see the situation in the distance as clearly as possible.
When the distance between the three was only about ten meters, Ji Thrush took a step, flashed out from behind the pillar where he was hiding, and waved at the two of them.
The man and the woman hadn't noticed that there was someone hiding behind the telephone pole at all, and they were so frightened that they both screamed.
"Hey, you want to scare people to death!"
After screaming, the girl patted her chest, gasping for breath, then raised her finger and pointed at Ji Thrush, "You, are you a human or a ghost! Speak, speak!"
"Cough cough."
Ji Thrush cleared his throat, "Don't be afraid, I'm a living person too..."
The words were only half spoken, and then suddenly stopped.
Without warning, there seemed to be a golden light flashing in the peripheral vision of Ji Thrush's right eye, brushing his face and passing quickly, rushing straight towards the man and woman in front of him.
The speed of that smear of light is so fast that it can almost be described as "fast as lightning".
Ji Thrush didn't have time to react, and saw the golden light hit the strange man's hand holding the phone.
The next second, the man let out a heart-piercing scream.
In the mournful wail that went straight to the sky, a fluorescent blue flame rose from the opponent's right hand, and the flame climbed up his wrist to his arm, and then penetrated into his sleeve along his elbow, and finally his whole body was like a stick Like a lit candle, his whole body was surrounded by flames, turning into a blue and white flame.
"Ah ah ah ah ah!!"
The girl was obviously petrified by the sight in front of her.
She sat down on the ground with her buttocks open, her eyes were wide open, her eyes were stunned, and she couldn't make a sound except for hysterical screaming.
The man who was on fire, his entire body was like heated oil wax, making a puffing sound, melting and deforming quickly, and in the scorched smell of burning protein, it quickly turned into a handful of powder, "swish" It slid out from the gaps in the clothes, scattered on the ground, and mixed with the surrounding dust, without distinguishing each other.
But the most frightening thing is that his whole body was on fire just now, and not only the flesh, but even the bones were burned to ashes in just a few seconds, but the shirt and suit pants on the man were not affected by the fire at all. It landed on the ground intact, and the clothes even kept his last posture of stretching his hands forward, one foot bent, and the other straight before being burned.
The mobile phone, which lost its holder, fell straight to the ground, slid forward a short distance with inertia, and rolled to the girl's feet, and the lighting light fell on her left shoulder.
"Ah ah ah ah ah!!!"
Watching the male companion suddenly burn up and turn into a handful of fly ash alive, this kind of stimulation has obviously completely exceeded the limit of the girl's psychological endurance.
She was completely stunned.
Apart from the continuous screams, she couldn't react at all.
Compared with the overly frightened girl, although Ji Thrush did not lose her mind, she was still terribly frightened.
For a moment, he almost wanted to run without hesitation.
Just kidding, when a normal person encounters such an unreasonable scene that feels like a nightmare, no matter how thick the nerves are and how big the heart is, it is normal for a normal person to tremble and run away.
Suddenly, Ji Thrush saw that the neckline of the light blue shirt left by the man suddenly moved.
Immediately afterwards, a golden light flew out from the collar and jumped into the air.
"Hey!"
Ji Thrush heard his own voice trembling slightly, "Quick, get out of the way!"
It's a pity that the overly frightened girl didn't even give him a look.
The golden light that flew into the air paused, and circled above the heads of the two of them.
This time, Ji Thrush saw it much more clearly.
It seemed to be a strange-looking big dark golden bug, about the size of a ping-pong ball, with a pair of thin wings on its back and a long tail behind it. Snitch.
"Quick, don't sit on the ground!"
Ji Thrush made three steps in parallel, rushed forward, grabbed the girl's arm with one hand, and tried to drag her up, "Stand up!"
"Ah ah ah!"
The girl was caught by someone's arm so suddenly that she almost lost her soul. Apart from screaming, she didn't even have the strength to struggle and resist.
Her whole body seemed to be cramped, limp and weak, and her whole body stuck to the floor, screaming and shaking her head, sobbing, no matter how hard Ji Thrush tried, she couldn't get her out of it. Pull it up on the ground.
At this time, the golden flying insects that had been circled above their heads suddenly moved.
It seemed to be attracted by something, and it swooped straight towards the girl who was still paralyzed on the ground.
"Danger!!"
Ji thrush screamed out loud.
It seemed that these two words finally had an effect, the girl shuddered all over, and squeezed out a sentence from her throat: "What, what!?"
However, it was too late, the moment she spoke, the golden light had already flown to her shoulder.
The girl's dynamic vision was far inferior to that of Ji Thrush, so naturally she couldn't see clearly what the golden light really was.
She was already terribly afraid, but at this moment she was even more confused. In a trance, she instinctively reached out her hand, wanting to pat the thing that fell on her shoulder.
However, the skin on the back of her hand was just barely touching the worm's body, when a cluster of flames shot up, suddenly covering her hand completely inside.
"Yeah!!"
The girl screamed miserably.
Her eyes were wide open, and in the pain of her body being incinerated, she watched desperately as the flames spread upwards along her wrist, and wherever she went, everything was reduced to ashes and fell down.
"Help! Help me! Help me!! Help..."
Just a few seconds before the girl cried for help, the flames had penetrated into her clothes, climbed up her neck, covered her head, and burned her whole body into a shining white candle .
Ji Thrush only felt that his heart was about to stop beating.
The weight in his hand suddenly lightened, and when he looked down, he realized that the flames had already burned the girl's torso, and the embers shattered from her shoulders, wrapped in clothes, and fell to the ground with a "poof".
And Ji Thrush is now holding a part of the girl's arm, and there is still flames burning at the break, continuing to burn along that white broken arm.
He quickly let go of his hand and threw the stumped arm out.
Two big living people were burnt to ashes in front of his eyes one after another. This kind of visual and spiritual shock, if replaced by someone with weaker psychological endurance, I am afraid that he would be like the girl just now, kneeling in fright.
Ji thrush took three steps back, and the first thought that came to his mind was to turn around and run, it's best to run as far as possible.
However, the moment he turned around, he firmly nailed his footsteps again.
He thought of the flying speed of the "Golden Snitch".
If it was really what set the two men on fire, then there was a big problem.
Even if he turns his head around and starts a 100-meter sprint now, with the speed of that bug, it will take a matter of minutes to catch up with him.
And if his back is facing the worm, then he is completely in a state of being a knife and I am a fish. As long as he is caught up by the worm, he will have no chance to resist at all, and will immediately become a flaming human candle.
— No, you can't run!
The moment he made up his mind, the girl's T-shirt trembled slightly again.
The golden flying insect got out of the clothes, flapped its two pairs of thin wings twice, and was about to fly again.
—Damn it, can it still make you run away!
Ji Thrush didn't know where his courage came from.
Feeling evil, he picked up the broom that had fallen on the ground, and slapped down on that strange insect viciously!