"Hey, wake up, wake up?"
Lu Sheng slapped the boy on the cheek a few times, and the boy's head shook back and forth, but he couldn't wake up.
He tried several tricks of waking people, but to no avail.
"trouble."
Lu Sheng supported the boy and looked around.
There was no sound in the space in front of the elevator or in the empty stairwell beside it.
The wind howled slightly, making a small sound. It also became more and more quiet.
It seemed like there was no one else here except myself and this little guy next to me.
Lu Sheng looked back at the elevator, and dragged the boy into the stairwell with both hands. Then go out from the stairs.
The sun outside was gloomy, and it was faintly transmitted from behind the clouds, and there was no feeling of any temperature.
In the empty community, some small pieces of rubbish were blown around by the wind.
"This place..." Lu Sheng felt a little weird. But he has been to many strange worlds, and he doesn't care about such a little abnormality.
"Let me take a look, the memory in this body."
He found a dark corner, put the boy against the corner, and sat down cross-legged.
"Let me take a look...."
Lu Sheng slowly covered the depths of his mind with his consciousness, digging out a little bit of memory belonging to this body.
'Thomas Jenney. '
This is the name of the original owner of this body. But unlike other worlds, this body is not a split of Lu Sheng in this world.
It's an ordinary individual that has nothing to do with him.
It was just by chance that he descended into this young man's body.
That's all.
"Let me take a look, Thomas Jenny, 21 years old, a college student, his hometown is far away from here in Silves, here is just a temporary rented house... .'
Lu Sheng looked through Thomas' memory, but found nothing of value.
What made him very strange was that before he came, the memory of this Thomas seemed to stay in a certain day long, long ago.
It's like a memory fault. There was no such desolate and dead scene in his memory at all.
After absorbing Thomas' short twenty-year memory, Lu Sheng took a short rest to adjust his state. Start examining this body.
"Physical strength, looks strong, but only some of the large muscle groups have flesh, and many key small muscle groups have not been exercised at all. It seems that this guy used to exercise only to look good." Lu Sheng made a precise judgment .
But then he became a little worried again.
This is also a high-energy level world, and the concentration of world rules is extremely high, almost dozens of times that of the previous world.
As a result, the restrictive power of the rules has become extremely exaggerated.
The power of his own body, except for a little bit of nourishing power, can't be used at all. It takes at least a year to get used to the rules here.
"In other words, do you have to rely almost entirely on yourself this year?" Lu Sheng pondered for a while.
"Hmm..." At this moment, the boy in the corner next to the wall let out a soft sound.
"Are you awake?" Lu Sheng stopped thinking and looked at this person.
Tang En slowly woke up from the daze. When he opened his eyes, his mind was still a little chaotic. "You...!" Suddenly he sat up. His face was pale, his whole body was trembling, and he was about to scramble and run away into the distance.
"What are you running for?" Lu Sheng grabbed his arm and forced him to sit down.
"You...you are human!??!" Hearing the voice, Tang En froze suddenly, and his consciousness finally became much clearer.
He turned his head and stared at Lu Sheng carefully, thinking that a traveler who had been walking in the desert for a long time suddenly saw a cool well to relieve the heat when he was most thirsty.
The sudden ecstasy left Lu Sheng a little confused.
"Of course I'm human. You've already asked this question twice." Lu Sheng replied quickly.
Tang En received an affirmative answer, and then looked at Lu Sheng's humanized actions and voice.
After staying for a while, he finally couldn't help it. The depression and despair accumulated in the past six years burst out like a flood breaking a bank.
Well... .
He tightly covered his mouth and nose, but the tears and snot still flowed down in a broken thread, and he couldn't stop it at all.
Lu Sheng was slightly puzzled, but he quietly waited for him to vent his emotions.
The venting crying lasted for half an hour before it gradually eased.
Lu Sheng sat aside, patiently waiting for the boy to calm down completely, his clothes were covered with snot and tears before handing over a piece of paper.
"Save it, it's just this one."
Tang En paused, took the paper, and wiped it on his face indiscriminately.
"Are you here to find the gathering place?"
His voice was hoarse from crying, but his tone was much calmer.
"What gathering place?" Lu Sheng didn't understand, "I've always lived here on the second floor." He pointed to the building where Tang En lived, and said in a low voice.
"Second floor!!?" Tang En was surprised and taken aback. He has stayed on the fourth floor for so many years, but he has never seen this young brother in front of him once.
"Let's go, find a place to sit down and rest. We need to talk about the situation."
It was obvious that Lu Sheng's body had just woken up from memory, and he still had a lot of doubts to answer.
"Okay!" Tang En nodded seriously.
... ... ... ... ...
... ... ... ... ...
Inside an abandoned coffee shop.
Lu Sheng and Tang En sat down facing each other. The tables and chairs in the coffee shop were tilted everywhere, and some were even broken and bent by violence.
"After the catastrophe six years ago, the world has completely changed." Tang En lowered his head and sighed.
"I don't know what happened, I just know that when I woke up, everyone around me disappeared."
Tang En said in a low voice.
"Everyone, can you imagine? The parents, relatives, neighbors, classmates who were talking to you yesterday... all of them... can't see it anymore.
However, from time to time, there will be some unusual movements. Those guys....those guys, they....will show up every once in a while, and it's still the same, doing the same thing as before, but if you really think they're harmless...you're wrong Already..."
"Which ones? Which ones?" Lu Sheng frowned. This body is just an ordinary person now, and he doesn't want to encounter any extremely troublesome monsters.
"Haven't you encountered it before?" Tang En became puzzled.
"Well, I've been hiding at home. I eat and drink a lot at home. I haven't been able to come out until I finished eating recently..." Lu Sheng found an excuse.
Unexpectedly, this reason, which even he himself didn't really believe, made Tang En completely believe it.
He nodded.
"Yes... wise choice. Those out there who seem to be alive, don't know how many, don't touch them, or... you will be in trouble..."
"What kind of trouble?" Lu Sheng asked further.
Tang En was panting, as if he didn't want to recall his previous experience.
He covered his face with his hands and took a deep breath.
After a while, he slowly calmed down.
"I don't know what's going on or how those guys came to be. They look like our family and friends. But I can feel it and tell the difference. They... .are not human!! "
There was a frightening ferocity in his eyes, even Lu Sheng was taken aback by the madness in his eyes.
It's the fear of crashing anytime, anywhere. It is the madness that the personality is about to be broken.
"Calm down, hey, calm down, don't get excited!" Lu Sheng quickly pressed Tang En's shoulder, he could feel him trembling. in fear.
His nerves were strained to the extreme.
Tang En's muscles were tense and trembling, and he remained in this state for more than ten minutes before he calmed down.
"Thank you!" He lowered his head and said to Lu Sheng sincerely and in a low voice.
"Thank you....for being alive....for appearing before me....."
Lu Sheng shook his head, reached out and patted Tang En's shoulder.
"You need rest."
"I think so too." Tang En said with a muffled voice.
Neither of them spoke for a while.
Suddenly, the sound of splashing water came from the back kitchen of the coffee shop.
Then there was the clatter of cutlery and knives and forks.
It seemed that someone was standing by the faucet, washing the dishes here.
Tang En's expression froze and he didn't move.
Lu Sheng glanced at him, but didn't move.
"Want to see it with your own eyes? These guys..." He lowered his voice, trembling.
Lu Sheng nodded. Although he had just descended into this body, he didn't know anything about the situation here, so he happened to be able to get in touch with it, what made Tang En so afraid.
Tang En wiped his face vigorously with both hands, and slowly stood up.
Lu Sheng followed him, and the two quietly walked to the door of the back kitchen and looked inside.
At the same time, this coffee shop also sells pastries. The door of the back kitchen is made of glass, so you can clearly see every move of the chef inside and the hygienic conditions.
This is the glass door set up for the convenience of customers to supervise the chef.
At this time, the two stood in front of the glass door, and through the half-open door, they saw that the faucet was turned on.
A tall man in white chef's clothes, with his back to them, stood motionless in front of the sink.
The chef seemed to be in a daze, quietly looking down at the water flowing out of the faucet.
"Don't try to see their face. Because you can't see their face at any time. But once you are about to see their face one day, then close your eyes!"
Tang En whispered under the cover of the sound of water.
As he spoke, he pulled Lu Sheng quietly out of the coffee shop and out the gate.
"Why?" Lu Sheng asked puzzled. Not being ashamed to ask is one of his best virtues.
"I don't know..." Tang En walked slowly along the sidewalk. "In the year after the catastrophe, I met a normal person."
"Did he tell you?"
"... ... .No... .."
Tang En was silent for a while.
"Suddenly one day, he said to me that he saw the face of a guy..."
After speaking, he stopped talking and fell into silence again.
Lu Sheng thought he was sorting out his thoughts, but he didn't expect to wait for a long time without any further words.
"Then what?" He asked again.
"No more." Tang En replied. "Early the next morning, I saw him go out of my bedroom, and told him not to return. From that day on, I never saw him again."
Lu Sheng frowned.
"Is it infected? Like a virus?"
"I don't know... Maybe..." Tang En was depressed.