A vertical ladder about five meters long leads to the top of the lighthouse. It should be the safest place, but children and men may be able to overcome their fear of heights and climb to it. Jojo can too, but the rest of the women and the elderly cannot do it.
Lu Li floated into the top of the lighthouse. The place was about the size of a living room, enough to accommodate the people here.
Moreover, the plague and the infected will spread to the lighthouse sooner or later, and the stairs cannot stop them.
Lu Li motioned Qiao Qiao to climb up. Qiao Qiao understood what he meant, said something to Aunt Mary, and approached the vertical ladder.
The administrator still wanted to stop them, but Qiaoqiao refused: "You have no idea what's going on outside. I'm going to go up there to see how far they are from us. You can come up too."
"they?"
An old scholar unexpectedly exclaimed, the whispers inside the lighthouse gradually became fainter, and people on the stairs looked at Qiao Qiao.
Qiaoqiao looked at Lu Li, and after getting his permission, said: "I only know that the plague broke out in the city, and many people were infected and turned into monsters... We wanted to leave the island, but the Queen's Harbor was blocked and all the boats on the beach were gone.
, this lighthouse is our last chance."
Qiaoqiao's words stirred up chaos. They only knew how to go to higher ground, but they didn't know the disaster that was happening on Queen's Island.
"This is impossible. The soldiers told me just now that they were just rebels..." A woman supported by her daughter argued in disbelief.
"We all came to the lighthouse because we were 'running to higher ground'. If they were just rebels, why would we do this?" Qiaoqiao looked around at his own eyes: "And how long has it been since the patrol soldiers showed up?"
"The lights outside are all out..."
"I passed Queen's Harbor when I came here, and it was pitch dark inside..."
"There's a power outage everywhere!"
People began to chatter about what they had seen and heard when they arrived, adding to the uneasiness in their hearts.
Only the administrator hesitated, still not able to believe it easily.
"What else do you think would make us so panicked..." Qiaoqiao sighed and pointed to the panicked people around him, "Hide in this lighthouse?"
"Is there really a plague...and monsters?"
"Um."
Qiaoqiao's words became the last straw. The administrator murmured his wife's name and pushed through the crowd on the stairs. People stood still and watched the administrator outside the narrow window running into the dark night.
Just then, there was a cry of fire.
Lu Li climbed through the wall of the lighthouse, looked across the woods, and saw the lights of the city in the distance.
It is unknown whether the fire started accidentally or whether the residents were trying to prevent the spread of the plague.
Lu Li returned to the lighthouse, and Qiaoqiao climbed up the vertical ladder with Aunt Mary's concern, pushed open the top trap door, and nimbly climbed into the top.
The extinguished searchlight shade carried residual heat, and Qiao Qiao looked out of the ring screen window outside the lighthouse guardrail - the once prosperous Queen's Island was now plunged into darkness, only lit by burning firelight and sporadic light.
Looking back, she saw sparse spots of light moving towards here from the beach.
The light from those oil lamps should not be monsters.
"We should take down the searchlights..."
But rather than removing the searchlight to save space, Qiao Qiao first had to find a way to get the people below to come up.
Qiaoqiao asked the young men in the crowd to climb up with the rope, tie the rope to the support, and let the people below grab the rope and pull it up.
First came the old people and children. Before the crisis was approaching, people still maintained their basic morality.
"I'm very old and I can't bear this kind of trouble..."
Aunt Roxanne was still complaining as she let Aunt Mary tie her up with a rope and drag her to the top.
But more and more people gathered on the stairs - residents who felt uneasy and knew how to "run to higher places" came to this lighthouse.
After being reminded by Lu Li, Qiaoqiao realized that they might bring plague and infected people.
But Qiaoqiao could not stop them, so he could only wait and wait at the top of the lighthouse to observe the situation and check their physical condition.
The only time the refugees disagreed was on whether to dismantle the searchlight. Qiaoqiao believed that dismantling the searchlight would allow more people to come up - but the number of people crowded at the bottom of the lighthouse was even greater.
But the old people hope to keep the lighthouse so that they can call for help.
"No one will come to save us." Qiao Qiao, who had already learned the truth from Lu Li, said in a deep voice.
The searchlight was eventually removed, but because it couldn't be moved out, it had to be temporarily piled in a corner.
There was a sudden noise outside the lighthouse, and some refugees who couldn't squeeze in had an argument. Qiaoqiao was about to go down to maintain order, but Aunt Luo Shan quietly tugged on the corner of her clothes.
"I want to save them..." The old man rubbed his painful belly and said, "But kid, you know, when I get old, I will be kind-hearted and do a lot of stupid things. If this is wrong,
,please stop me..."
"You did nothing wrong."
Qiaoqiao said gently, "I will try my best to save them."
Then, as Qiaoqiao climbed downstairs with determination, she heard shrill shouts from above her head.
"They're coming!
!”
A strong sense of suffocation enveloped Qiaoqiao. She heard the abominable things approaching quickly in the darkness, and heard chaos suddenly erupting below.
The order in the lighthouse collapsed in an instant.
With a blank mind, Qiao Qiao subconsciously wanted to go back downstairs to block the entrance, but this became a luxury. The crowd of people climbing up squeezed her back to the upper level. The people below screamed and stacked on top of each other, and they were torn apart due to the excessive weight.
The rope, the fallen person knocked down a large piece.
The monsters rushed into the lighthouse with roars and started this nameless feast with desperate shouts.
The middle-aged man who finally climbed up kicked off the hands that were holding his ankles and closed the trap door in fear. He and the other people who woke up pushed heavy objects to press the trap door shut, blocking out the hellish screams below.
Faint prayers, cries, and pleas were squeezed and mixed in the crowded lighthouse, dull and depressing.
At this moment, Lu Li's silhouette disappeared from Qiao Qiao's sight.
…
"A plague broke out on 'Queen's Island', and the infected residents turned into monsters and attacked humans, spreading the plague."
Lu Li informed the Swamp Mother about tonight's passage.
"The information I have collected is that there are traces of the secret sect in it."
Lu Li thought quietly, and the Swamp Mother quickly asked: "What did you think of?"
"There was more than one force attacking the Lennon Islands."
At least the source of the plague was not the same force that shattered the Lennon Islands.
"Deputy Dean Chris thinks the same, and she thinks so too."
It's like a pack of wolves surrounding a bison, chasing and biting the fresh flesh.
"Investigating the origin of 'run to higher ground', it should be related to the conspiracy." Lu Li said, a motto that appeared before the disaster could not have no reason.
"I'll do it."
The cave returned to peace after the merchant Anthony left.
The bonfire crackled and burned, and the firelight penetrated Lu Li's soul.
Lu Li quietly filled in the firewood, waiting for the third night to come and arranging what to do next.
