Boom! Boom! Boom!
"Is anyone home?"
After a few firm knocks on the door, people outside asked questions.
Now it's just a polite inquiry. If no one responds for a long time, it is conceivable that they will undoubtedly adopt a tougher inquiry method in the future.
Like breaking through a door—
Mrs. Zora's pale and thin lips pursed tightly to the sides again, and finally made up her mind, she suddenly said:
"Big man, you've been fired."
"Ah..." The child-like voice suddenly rose upward, and the big man covered in blood seemed to not understand, but just stood blankly.
Then, Mrs. Zora repeated:
"You've been fired, and starting today, you don't have to work here anymore."
"I'm getting old, and I can't manage such a big herb garden. Next..."
The old woman pursed her lips again: "I'm considering closing this place down."
"There's nothing you can do here, so..."
"There is no place for you here."
"Get out of here, go where you're supposed to be, and—"
"Never come back!" the old woman said sharply.
The unfocused white eyes suddenly looked upwards, pointing in the direction of the big man in front of him. The old lady looked terrifying!
However, no matter whether it is severe or fierce, it is actually just an appearance. She tries to open her eyes wide. Her eyes are not completely invisible, but they are just broken from crying a lot. When there is light, she can still see Meng Meng. A hazy shadow.
Like Ronggui, like Xiaomei...
When they knocked on the door, she vaguely saw two little men coming in front of her, with clear and childlike voices, at first she thought they were two children.
The old man's eyes widened, staring at the big zombie in front of him.
She knew that it was time to drive the child away.
She may never see the child again.
A little bit, she wants to see the child's appearance a little bit more clearly.
However-
Her eyes are really not easy to use, and it is futile to use force, she can only vaguely see the size of the other party... He is really a big man...
Let's go! leave here! Don't get caught and never come to this town again!
Go back to the soil, or go to other people who are willing to give you a peaceful place. After all, don’t come back to this city, child, you—
A big mistake has been made, and it can no longer be accepted by this city!
Staring at the hazy dark shadow in front of her, the old woman pursed her lips tightly, not letting the true thoughts in her heart be revealed.
"Ah... ah..." The big man made two more shrill voices.
This time, he seemed to know what the old woman was saying.
Slowly, he took two steps back.
What does the world look like in the eyes of the dead
What do they see the world like
Or ask: Can they really feel the world as they do when they are alive
Feeling the slight trembling of Mrs. Zorah's body leaning against her chest, Ronggui hugged her tighter. His eyes were fixed on the big man in front of him, and his mind was filled with the above questions.
He couldn't answer a few questions, but—
The robot's eyesight is really good. At that moment, when the big zombie retreated, he saw the other's dirty eyes.
In those eyes with dilated pupils and obvious post-mortem symptoms, he saw Mrs. Zorah surrounded by himself, Xiaomei and Hana.
He and Xiaomei supported Mrs. Zorah's upper body and sat up slightly, while Hana's little hand held Mrs. Zorah's hand tightly.
"Ah!" The big man's cloak moved and lowered his head stiffly. He seemed to have found something under the cloak. Slowly, he took out from under the cloak...
A bottle of heart medicine
He threw the bottle lightly on the floor, and then he left.
Still moving a little stiffly, and dragging his feet, he slowly left.
He walked to the garden where he worked every day. Ronggui watched him slowly walk to the outer wall of the garden, climb up the ladder, and then disappeared.
"Now, give me a hand and go open the door." She closed her eyes and was silent for a moment. When she opened her eyes again, Mrs. Zora was the calm, self-controlled, cool and elegant person most often seen by Ronggui and the others. old woman.
Her hair was a little messy due to the coma just now, and she seemed to notice that her current appearance might not be neat. The old man reached out and wanted to straighten her hair.
Seeing that the old man's hands were trembling and he couldn't even comb his hair, Ronggui quickly took over the job.
After loosening the old man's hair, Ronggui gave her a neat bun.
Although he is usually clumsy, when it comes to dressing up, Ronggui can always do surprisingly well.
Hana looked nervously at Rong Gui and Mrs. Zora. The little girl admired how they could remember the pigtails at such a time. She didn't know what she could do to help, so she could only bow her head. Looking at Mrs. Zola, and finally helping her wipe off the red shrimp rice sauce dipped in her hand.
"Thank you, children, you are doing very well." He stood up with his palms tightly supporting Ronggui's arm. The old man was much taller than himself, and Ronggui was a little worried that he could not support him, so he quickly recruited Xiaomei. come over.
With Xiaomei supporting her on the other side, Mrs. Zorah finally stood up stably.
The chin was slightly raised as always, and although the old man's face was still pale, his demeanor was no different from usual.
"Next, don't say anything, I have everything." Just standing like this, the old man didn't mean to go out, because there was no need.
With a loud noise, people outside broke into the door after knocking on the door for a long time and no one answered!
A group of people came in hula-la outside, all with weapons in their hands, nervous, as if there were some terrifying monsters in the room.
Until they see Madame Zora and... the three dwarfs
Hmm... It's a bit strange to say that there are three dwarves, should they be three children? Although two of the three children are robots, it is clear that the four people in the room, old and young, do not seem to have any offensive power, which makes people who come in with weapons feel a little more relaxed. .
"No one told you that when you go to someone else's house, if they have wooden floors, the first thing you do when you enter the house are slippers?" As if she didn't care that her home was broken into by a group of people, the old woman raised her eyebrows. With his chin down and his white eyes looking around, the old man said coldly.
Her aura was so strong that everyone who entered the door was frightened, so everyone bent down and slippers.
However, when they were about to slip, they saw that five pairs of shoes had been placed under the original steps.
Three pairs of shoes are clearly children's sizes, one pair is an adult women's shoe, and the other pair... is also the most muddy pair, but a pair of shoes that are significantly larger than the average person.
Thinking of the reason why they came here, everyone's heart that had just relaxed a little bit immediately became tense again!
So, after taking off their shoes, they immediately questioned Mrs. Zora as originally planned.
"Ma'am, I see traces of overturned dishes on the ground. Could it be... Did an undead come here just now?" Someone immediately noticed the traces on the ground.
"I knocked over the plate myself. In the afternoon, I had a heart attack. I was just finishing the meal, and it was unsteady and fell." Mrs. Zora answered neatly.
"Heart disease... This afternoon, an undead man went to the pharmacy to rob it. Coincidentally, what he robbed was heart medicine. Could it be... What is the relationship between you two?" Someone noticed the key words and asked immediately.
"Are you talking about a tall... undead?" Without any intention of vetoing at all, Mrs. Zorah's white eyes followed the voice and accurately stared at the speaker's face, staring at the other party's heart trembling , she said again: "I don't know."
"The dead person can't speak, how could I know him?" The chin was raised a little more, and Mrs. Zora asked the other party. The white eyes were still fixed on the face of the previous person, she said:
"However, he does come to me often to help me with farm work."
"You... How can you hire an undead man to work! This... This... " She stared at the person who asked the question before, and her body trembled. After talking for a long time, she didn't finish her sentence.
On the contrary, Mrs. Zora continued to speak.
"I don't have to pay him, how can it be called employment, not to mention—"
"I posted a job advertisement in the city before, and everyone thought my old wife was scary, and said that this house is like a haunted house, and no one dared to apply for a job. My garden is so big, no one comes to apply for a job, and there is free labor Don't let me use it?"
After speaking, as if she could see each other, Mrs. Zorah's white eyes stared at it again.
"This... The other party is very dangerous! You don't know, he robbed a pharmacy this afternoon. Because the store manager drove him away, he... He attacked the store owner and almost bit his neck off!"
"That's not an ordinary undead. The undead have evolved, and they are starting to attack ordinary people!" At the end, the man's voice became tougher.
"Besides, when you have a heart attack, the other party robs the pharmacy, and it's still heart disease medicine. Look closely, it's the heart disease medicine he stole, right? Why did he rob the heart disease medicine? He also attacked It's hard for humans to—"
What else did that person want to continue to ask, his voice is getting tougher and tougher, however, he is tough, and Mrs. Zorah's voice is tougher!
Mrs. Zora interrupted him mercilessly:
"I had an emergency heart attack in the afternoon, and the medicine I ordered over the phone has never been delivered. When the illness occurred, I was still calling, and the other party claimed that the business was too busy and could only be delivered later. I heard this. In a coma, you ask him why he went to grab the heart disease medicine, do you say I know?"
His mouth opened and opened again, but the man didn't speak for a long time.
In fact, what Mrs. Zola said was the truth. When they stood in front of the door, they had already learned who the owner of this family was through various means. They even knew that the owner of this family gave the family to the robbed today in the afternoon. The store called to ask for medicine.
The questions they asked were answered truthfully.
However-
It was precisely because the other party answered truthfully that they did not know what to do.
The undead who robbed the drugstore in order to save people...
The process of being blocked by people hurts ordinary people, which...
In the end, they simply checked the whole house and confirmed that there were no undead hidden inside, and then left.
"In the future, no matter how lonely you are, don't let the undead enter the house. They are no longer safe." However, before leaving, the leader still warned Mrs. Zora like this.
For his remarks, Mrs. Zora just tensed the curve of her chin and neck reservedly.
Then, they left.
Xiaomei took the initiative to carry the toolbox to repair the door, Hana helped him in the past, and Mrs. Zorah...
Until this time, the old man who had been dealing with everyone with a straight back before finally loosened his shoulders, his back was slightly hunched, and she finally seemed to match her age.
"Actually, they said something right."
"It's just lonely."
"The dead person should rest in peace. It was my fault. I kept him here all the time. Finally, let him make a mistake."
The turbid tears fell from the eyes covered with a layer of white film. The old man stretched out a hand to cover his eyes. When Ronggui handed her a handkerchief, the old man thanked her softly, and then covered the handkerchief over the handkerchief. face.
Squatting on the ground, Hana looked at Mrs. Zorah who was still crying silently. The little girl raised her head, as if remembering something, and then lowered her head silently.
And Xiaomei-
Holding a hammer in his left hand and a nail with his index finger and thumb in his right hand, he was re-pinning the broken door.
He moves in an orderly manner, and looks engrossed and distracted.
However, it just looks like it.
The sight represented by the eyes fell on the nail, and there was another image in his mind that was swept out using the scanning wave.
That "picture" is even bigger.
Not only all the people and scenery in the yard are in his mind, but outside the yard, the people who have just visited here are gradually leaving the alley of the motorcade is also in his mind, the black cat in the alley is there, the rhubarb is there, and even—
Ronggui just watched him leave with his own eyes, and the big zombie was also in his mind.
The big man didn't leave.
It just seemed to have left, he hid very close to here.
The yard was quiet, and Mrs. Zora's cry became particularly obvious.
Xiaomei "sees" the gray shadow representing the big zombie walking back and forth in the original position hesitantly for a long time, and he even wanted to climb the wall again until—
"It's okay to go, he should go too."
"After working so long, that child should rest too..."
With the last words of Mrs. Zorah fell softly.
Xiaomei "saw" that the big zombie finally moved.
This time, he withdrew his hands that wanted to climb over the wall, and turned back three steps at a time, and he left.
Leaving the alley and climbed over a wall again, Mrs. Zola lived very close to the outside of the city, and after climbing over that wall, it was outside the city.
This time, the big man left completely.
"Boom"
"Boom"
"Boom"
Steady, Xiaomei's hand kept knocking the last nail flat.
That big zombie has nothing to do with Mrs. Zora, not a relative, not a partner, and really has nothing to do with it.
As Mrs. Zola said, when no one could be recruited for a long time, suddenly, one day, the big man came knocking on the door.
"At first I thought he was a robber." recalling the day when the two met, Mrs. Zora frowned.
A few days after that day, the old man's body and emotions finally stabilized. The evidence is: she even took the initiative to mention the big zombie to them.
"I almost called the police! As a result, he walked directly to the backyard, said nothing, picked up the hoe and started to work."
"Have you seen it before? Those undead people are very slow. He was very slow at first, but he was very strong, and he finished the three days of work that I did alone in one afternoon."
"He didn't understand what I said at first, but after a long time, I arranged the work for him, and he seemed to know how to do it."
"The fingers are getting more and more flexible, but it's not enough to change the light bulb."
"The cloak on his body was rotten, so I sewed a new one for him."
"And shoes."
The old man was talking about the big zombie, although she didn't seem to notice it, but when she mentioned the other party, the old man was happy.
"It's a very good employee! If he is still alive, I will definitely hire him. In the future, when I die, it will be fine to leave the garden to him!" Having said this, the old man smiled.
Then, Ronggui was stunned.
"Ah! Mrs. Zora, you have learned our native accent!"
"Hahaha! Is there any?"
It was rare for the always serious old lady to laugh. Seeing everyone else in the room laughing, Hana laughed along with her.
There was laughter all the time in the house.
Except for Xiaomei.
The only labor in the huge garden has left, Xiaomei and Ronggui have to go to work, Mrs. Zola has a heart attack, and when she can't find a new employee, Ronggui decides to let Xiaomei go out and install a set for Mrs. Zola in the garden. Automatic watering sprinklers, and then assemble an automatic harvester, preferably another automatic baler, so that's all there is to it~
Xiaomei did not refuse the inexplicable job that was assigned to her head.
For him, instead of letting him chat with two women, one old and one small, he would rather face metal materials and machines.
It wasn't difficult for him anyway.
Rather—
Look at the woman to the left of Ronggui - Mrs. Zorah, and look at the woman to the left of Ronggui - Hana.
Xiaomei felt as if she was gradually seeing a line.
A line that runs through the events of the demise of Cicero.
As a person with a delicate and complex brain, he couldn't imagine how a little girl like Hana could become a city slayer, so he asked Ronggui.
Just like Ronggui would ask him anything he thought of, he is now very casual to ask Ronggui questions.
I asked, and it was very straightforward.
"Under what circumstances would you commit the massacre?" Just yesterday, after Hana fell asleep, when the two were lying in bed, Xiaomei forced Ronggui to turn it on again.
Then, he asked him this question bluntly.
Ronggui was obviously taken aback.
"Slaughter the city? Do you mean to wipe out the entire city? For such a high-end foreign style that requires technology, I, I can't do it because of my lack of brain capacity!" Rong Gui's response was also very straightforward.
Xiaomei: ...Actually, I don't think you can.
but-
"Think about it." Even so, Xiaomei continued to ask.
Then Ronggui seriously thought about it.
After thinking hard, he finally managed to make up a situation: "Before, Rongfu and the others were probably bullied, and when they were bullied to the point where I couldn't help them get back, I might have this... Well, let everyone Do you want to die together?"
"But it's better to live, and you can settle accounts slowly!" After speaking, Ronggui retorted himself, and then—
With its head facing the ceiling, the little robot's black eyes stared at the pattern there quietly, Rong Gui said, "This kind of thing is basically not something that people like me can do, and there is a more possible situation."
"That is, when I am no longer my situation?"
"Haha, become crazy? Crazy?"
Ronggui was talking, and it automatically turned off again.
However, this sentence, like a match, lit the oil on the water, and Xiaomei's mind suddenly lit up.
Yes, this is the most likely scenario!
When Hana ceases to be Hana, she is most likely to become the City Slayer.
For Ronggui, he is no longer himself, and the only answer in his mind is madness, but here, there is obviously another situation.
That is to become undead!
Become a zombie in Ronggui's mouth!
When Hana turned into a zombie, she harbored some kind of unforgivable hatred in her heart, which was the only time she could commit the crime of massacre!
Taking Mrs. Zorah's employee, the big zombie as the fuse, the people in the city found that the zombies have begun to change, they have become aggressive, and people are gradually unable to coexist peacefully with the zombies. In this case, people will definitely start to be stricter. The restriction of zombies, and even various extreme behaviors, however, this is unacceptable to Hana whose parents are zombies, and then...
Yet this line is missing something crucial.
Quietly assembling the machine in her hand, Xiaomei thought, just a little bit, the truth of the entire city's demise was presented in front of him.
However, knowing the truth is not the most important thing for him. For him, knowing the truth is only to help avoid risks. The more important thing is to develop a strong nutrient solution, and then quickly soak Ronggui's body in it. .
Spend three hours a day reading in the library, and go back to Hana's dad's studio in the afternoon to get a strong nutrient solution.
By the way, although it is very incredible for the pharmacists here, Xiaomei has completely deciphered Hana's father's powerful nutrient solution prescription, and now he does the work every day to configure.
Refining the ingredients, yet getting ingredient A to react with ingredient C... It's a lot of tedious work.
Xiaomei divided all the work into two months, and did the work that should be completed according to the plan every day, and his life was orderly.
He even has the time and ability now to help Hana make some of the other usual medicines and sell them to Yani and the others when they bring them over.
Then, send Hana's dad back to the outside of the forest.
After the big zombie attacked ordinary people, the city really strengthened the control of zombies. They even have to use rhubarb to get Hana's dad in every day now and then send it out with rhubarb.
With nothing to do with things around, Hana's dad is still keen on research every day.
Instead, they made a new discovery when they sent Hana's dad back one day.
On that day, they walked a road they had not traveled normally, it was very desolate and there were few graves.
Then-
When he walked to one of the tombs, Ronggui suddenly made an "ah" sound and stopped, but he didn't move.
Looking along Ronggui's line of sight, Xiaomei found many purple flowers on the head of the tomb.
It was exactly the same as the pot of purple flowers from Kiki at home, and all the purple flowers were inserted on the scribbled grave bag.
"It's the flowers I gave him before."
"The big guy... just slept here."
Seeing Ronggui, who had a sad look on her face, and Hana, who comforted him silently, Xiaomei didn't say a word.
So, another fuse that caused the massacre in the future, the big zombies who may have evolved terrible abilities and intelligence, like Hana's mother, also rested in peace.
is true rest.