Although he knew it was impossible, he still asked: "Can you only choose one?"
The system said there was no room for negotiation.
"Okay, I choose... Wait, let me think about it again." Xiao Mo wanted to find someone to discuss it with, and it seemed that there was no one else besides Xue Lihong as this candidate for the time being.
Although he was just a child, Xiao Mo had no intention of looking down on him. That kid is so weird!
When Xiao Mo suppressed his hunger and turned back to look for the child, Xue Lihong had already turned back to the kitchen and squatted down to take a closer look at the burned Zhang Qian.
Although it was covered by the burn medicine, Xue Lihong still saw that Zhang Qian's injuries were obviously much better than before the treatment, especially his burned face. Apart from some obvious red marks, any other person could see that. No one would have thought that he had been severely burned before.
After seeing Zhang Qian, Xue Lihong slowly walked out of the hotel and stood under the eaves, watching the ink-like rain fall to the ground and seep into the earth.
There is almost no rainwater retention.
Under normal circumstances, such heavy rain will definitely cause large and small puddles in some low-lying areas, but now, the earth seems to have been thirsty for a lifetime, absorbing all the black rainwater into the soil without leaving a drop.
Or is it not that the earth is too thirsty, but that the black rain is too penetrating
Xue Lihong paid attention to the penetration of the black rain as it slid over various buildings, various vehicles, and various creatures. After watching for a while, she didn't know what he saw. A trace of surprise flashed in her eyes. He changed hands and took out an instrument from his backpack.
After collecting some rainwater and putting it into the receiving tank of the instrument, Xue Lihong pressed the analysis button.
Five minutes later, the instrument screen displayed a dense data graph.
Xue Lihong flipped through the pages.
The composition of the rainwater was quite strange, and there were some things that he couldn't analyze.
But all this rainwater... The child turned around and walked into the store, took out a box of empty beer bottles, put them outside and started to catch the rainwater.
In addition to these beer bottles, he also took out a small, exquisite bottle from his backpack and placed it next to the beer bottles.
"What are you doing?"
"Nothing." The child put the last collected rainwater bottle into his backpack and asked the man who walked out quickly: "What's wrong with you?"
The words "I have something to do with you" were clearly written on the man's face.
Xiao Mo nodded and told the child the rewards the system had just told him.
"You can help me analyze it, which one should I choose?"
The child pulled out two plastic stools and sat down under the eaves of the hotel. "Tell me all your previous interactions with that system."
Xiao Mo looked at the store, "In this case, let's find some medicine first and place the injured, and then I'll tell you slowly."
The child was speechless. He chose to let the man protect him for a period of time because of his good heart. However, at certain times, this kind heart was also very troublesome. The child still doesn't know that Xiao Mo, in addition to his acquired good heart, now also has a heavy sense of guilt and is even more eager to do something to make up for the tasks he has missed.
"I'll go with you to get the medicine." It just so happened that he also planned to replenish his supplies. He doesn't mind taking more of free things.
"The clinic is nearby, I will be back soon." Xiao Mo thought that the child was worried that he would leave him, so he quickly took out the key to the third floor and gave it to him, "You go to the third floor and take a hot bath. Don't worry." I have a cold, I will go to the supermarket later to buy a set of clothes and come back to change them for you."
"go together."
"No." Xiao Mo looked at the child*'s small appearance and rubbed his head distressed and apologetically, "I'm sick now, and it's hard to even find a doctor. Be obedient and good."
He was so focused on his family just now that he didn't notice that the child had been soaked in the rain for nearly two hours with him. Fortunately, it was summer.
"Brother, you are very annoying." The child didn't appreciate it.
"..." Xiao Mo held up the umbrella and turned around to leave. After taking two steps, he turned around and held the child's little hand. Forget it, let's take him with us, so as not to have to play with cats and dogs or do other things that cause him a headache when he can't see him.
The child looked at Xiao Mo's big hand holding his palm, then looked up at his expression. The corners of his mouth turned up slightly, and he held him firmly with his palm. He followed the man and jumped over the creatures that fell on the road. and non-living things.
Xiao Mo sighed in his heart that it was difficult to raise a cheap son. While thinking about it, he tilted the big black umbrella toward the child a little more.
Xue Lihong thought to herself, how long can this person persist in being kind to him? When troubled times come... It doesn't matter, it's only for a period of time anyway, maybe he will leave him first
The affectionate and slightly sad singing voice of the popular Sanqi star Yue Weiwei came from a barber shop on Yingjie in the community.
Dark night, lights, music, walking in the rain, if accompanied by the right person, it can barely be called romantic. But if all the life around you is motionless except for you and a child...
"Everyone is drunk and I'm the only one awake?" Xiao Mo couldn't help but sigh casually.
"It's a good time for robbery." The child said.
"Nonsense!" Xiao Mo laughed lightly and slapped the child on the back of the head, then pushed a stroller with a baby sleeping in it to the roadside under the eaves. The baby's mother was lying face down on the ground, and Xiao Mo turned her over and pulled her to the side of the road.
A van was parked near the stroller, and the black rainwater was particularly obvious against the white body of the van.
"It's strange, the color of the rainwater..." Xiao Mo finally noticed that the color of the rainwater was wrong. He reached out to catch some rainwater and looked at it carefully under the light of the roadside store. He was surprised and said: "It turns out to be black. Is this dirty rain?" Isn’t it harmful to the human body? Is it related to this virus? Or is it another new virus?”
Even if he said it, he didn't expect anyone to answer his question. As expected, the impersonal system remained silent as always.
A rain with an unusual color would have caused an uproar in the newspapers, television and networks in normal times, but now...
"Rain has nothing to do with viruses." Unexpectedly, the child answered him, and the answer was quite certain.
"Oh? How do you know?" Xiao Mo looked sideways at the child.
"Based on testing data."
"Test data... What is your IQ?"
"Biyou...Old Xiao, don't move!" Xue Lihong grabbed Xiao Mo.
Xiao Mo stopped and lowered his voice subconsciously, "What's wrong?"
The child slowed down his breathing and said in a lower voice, "Look ahead, don't move, and breathe softly."
The two stood quietly holding umbrellas, and Xiao Mo felt as if the sweat pores all over his body were exploding.
It was a hot day, but he felt cold all over.
There was something right at the entrance to the narrow alley in front of them.
The light and shadow cast by the street lamp faintly projected part of the thing's body onto the wall.
The half-opened huge silhouette looked like the bone wings of the legendary Western demon, still flapping slightly up and down.
Cold sweat dripped down Xiao Mo's forehead.
Although he hadn't seen that thing yet, the feeling of terror rising from the bottom of his heart spread throughout his body, making him afraid to move.
The aura of the child next to him seemed to have disappeared. He was clearly standing next to him, but it was as if he didn't exist at all.
"Thump! Thump!" Xiao Mo heard his heart beating faster and louder.
I don’t know how long it’s been…
"Whoa!" The huge bone wing-like silhouette flapped greatly and disappeared deep into the alley in an instant.
"It's gone." Xue Lihong said calmly.
Xiao Mo exhaled softly, "What is that?"
"I don't know, I just feel it's powerful."
Xiao Mo murmured: "The world has changed, and all kinds of monsters and ghosts have come out."
The child suddenly threw away his hand and ran towards the alley.
"Hey, come back!" Xiao Mo was worried that the child was in danger, so he quickly chased after him.
At the entrance of the alley, an electric car fell to the ground. A woman was pressed under the electric car, and two young men, a man and a woman, were lying next to the electric car.
The smell of blood was very strong, and all three of them were probably injured.
Xiao Mo wanted to look past the child to check the injuries of the three, but the child had already stood up from the ground, "They are all dead."
Xiao Mo wanted to freeze his bent waist.
"All three of them have lost their brains and blood."
"What did you say?"
"Look at their heads. Each one has a hole in the center of their forehead. Look at their skin. It has begun to shrink and the blood in their bodies has dried up."
Xiao Mo's pupils shrank, "You mean that thing that you don't know what it is... it sucks people's brains and blood?"
"The facts are right in front of us."
Xiao Mo took the child and ran out of the alley. It was too dangerous here. Who knew if that damn thing would suddenly come back
Knowing that the system might not answer him, Xiao Mo couldn't help but asked in his mind as he ran: "System, do you know what that is?"
"Can't answer without seeing the entity."
Xiao Mo didn't want to go to the clinic anymore. He just felt that there were so many terrifying monsters hidden in the endless darkness outside.
But it’s impossible not to go!
21:26 minutes.
Without exception, everyone in the clinic was unconscious. Xiao Mo hurriedly found some common medicines and first-aid items he knew, dropped a considerable amount of money, and took the child to leave.
Xue Lihong refused to leave. He was loading some syringes, anti-inflammatory drugs and some drugs that Xiao Mo didn't know what they were into his backpack.
"Hey, hey, hey, you really don't need money, right? Go back quickly!" Xiao Mo had no choice but to throw down two more hundred-dollar bills, pick up the child and carry him out of the clinic gate.
The child was very dissatisfied, "Are you stupid to spend money at this time?"
"You are stupid! Don't you think everyone will wake up? Be careful the police will arrest you and spank you!"
"Are you lying to children? Even if everyone wakes up, the police have a lot of things to do to stabilize the situation, and they have no time to take care of these small things."
Xiao Mo put the child down, patted the child's butt lightly, and taught him a lesson: "Don't do evil things because of small things, understand? Be careful if you do bad things and get caught by those monsters!"
After saying that, Xiao Mo felt unlucky again and quickly said "bah bah" twice.
The child touched his butt, stared at Xiao Mo with a strange expression, raised his head, and left first.
"What's that look in your eyes?" Xiao Mo held up a plastic bag and a big black umbrella, and chased after him dumbfounded.
"Believe it or not, there must be quite a few of the first batch of survivors out there harvesting things." The child turned around, put his hands behind his back, and said while walking backwards.
"They are other people, and we are us. If everyone really... in the future, you don't need to tell me, I will take you everywhere to search for useful items, but if it doesn't work now, maybe everyone will wake up tomorrow?"
Xiao Mo was afraid of teaching the children badly, so there was one thing he didn't say: How many survivors could there be in the first batch? The world is so big, how much supplies can they access? He and the child could afford to wait.
"You are right." Xue Lihong stopped, as if she had made some decision, and said to Xiao Mo: "Actually, this black rain..."
Before the child finished speaking, he suddenly closed his eyes and fell down silently.
"Xiao Hong—?!" Xiao Mo was shocked and rushed over to hug the fallen child.