There is a warm flame burning in the fireplace. A woman is standing on tiptoes to clean the clothes racks. A young man wearing a loose and unfitting new velvet shirt is wiping the floor with a mop. There are two dining tables placed in front of the window, sitting on both sides and looking out.
Lovers looked like a scene on the street, and one of the middle-aged men who dragged him in even walked to the counter and poured himself a glass of beer to drink.
This peaceful and beautiful scene appears strangely and unexpectedly in the royal city at this moment, but the man desires from the bottom of his heart that these are real——
At this moment, York on the side put his arm on his shoulder.
"Welcome to the safe house, man."
The man named Webb took a long time to react, and he remained confused as if he had won a big prize but couldn't believe it.
He has been numbly looking for other survivors for a long time, and he did meet several guys and teams claiming to be survivors. But Webb couldn't believe them. He could always find various reasons to convince himself that the survivors in front of him were
Weird disguises, they are deceiving you.
It has nothing to do with observation, it's just that Webb no longer trusts everything after knowing that his wife is disguised as a weirdo.
And now...
Webb felt that the survivors should be like mice, hiding in the dark and cold underground and feeling uneasy. But this scene really touched Webb's tired and numb mind. "I was caught by them, and there was no place to run."
Webb said to himself.
Even as news, he had the benefit of choosing a set of clothes and a snack for free. He was not interested in the former and knew the origin of the young man's loose clothes, but he ate them all because he was hungry, even if there was poison in them.
Got it.
Jiminy Reid understands Webb's uneasiness very well. This damn paradise makes people no longer trust each other and is played with by weird people. If he meets Lu Li later, Jiminy Reid is not sure whether he can survive.
Believe him.
Webb's ambivalence that he didn't want these to be false and subconsciously questioned everything didn't last long, and was easily broken by Lu Lianna - they rushed out and dragged a figure back to the clothing store. They thought it was a survivor.
As soon as York met it, he saw Anna cutting off its limbs, and Lu Li used a psychic gun to vaporize it.
"Well, I thought it was a newcomer..." muttered York turned around to get the sack.
And this scene also made Webb truly believe in these survivors without reservation.
This absolute trust is more important than anything else at this time.
The body was taken to an alley for feeding by York and Red. After returning, Jiminy Red was approached by Webb who wanted to do something for this group of people and expressed his concerns, such as whether the food and water were enough to survive.
"We should save some food." Webb said to Jiminy Red, who had almost drank half a glass of beer.
Jiminy Reid put down his wine glass: "Lu Li said that the paradise will not last long, and it won't be long before the rules will be changed or the game will end."
Behind the good news is a harsh truth: fewer and fewer humans will make the "game" unplayable.
This speculation has begun to take shape: for a long time, no survivors passed by on the streets. All that came and went was weird, weird, and weird.
On the bright side, after the initial stage, people who have obtained identities choose to hide at home. As for the bad side... there are not many survivors in the royal city.
when--
The quartz clock in the corner suddenly sounded dull.
It's already 2 o'clock.
There are still four hours until dawn, but will everything be over after dawn...
They don't know it, but those who die will never see the dawn come.
Maybe they are too.
The quartz clock only rang twice briefly, but the echoes still echoed in their hearts.
Ten minutes later, Lu Li no longer waited for the survivors to pass by: "There are four survivors at Xiutes University. I will find a way to bring them out, if they are still alive."
"Am I with you?" asked York, who was lying behind the counter.
"Just me and Anna."
The safe house is handed over to Jiminy Red, as an exorcist he knows what to do.
"be safe."
The survivors watched Lu Li and Anna leave the clothing store.
Jiminy Reid hung a closed sign outside the door, locked the door, and returned to sit by the fireplace.
After Lu Lianna left, the atmosphere in the clothing store became much quieter. Even York, who had been active in the atmosphere, didn't like to talk and glanced at the clock every once in a while.
The most uneasy one was Emma, who had to clean the room to calm her inner uneasiness, and ended up clumsily knocking over a lot of things.
"What's wrong with you?" Ivo asked in confusion, Emma looked like she was frightened.
The questioning made Emma's hands holding the broom tremble, her face full of confusion, and the eyes of Jiminy Reid and others focused on her.
"I'm sorry I lied to you..." Emma entangled her hands nervously. "Actually, I... come from another group of survivors."
York and others all showed surprise. Only Jiminy Reid frowned: "Why do you say it now?"
Lu Lianna just left...coincidence or conspiracy?
But he didn't doubt that Emma was not human.
Emma lowered her head in shame: "I deceived Mr. Lu Li and Miss Anna at the beginning. After I believed you, I never dared to say..."
"What's the situation there?" Jiminy Reid asked.
Hiding in the church, more than two dozen survivors were short of food and water. This was the situation of another group of survivors. Emma was one of the survivors who went out to collect food, which is why her backpack contained so many cans of food.
"My brother is also there, so I must go back... Do you want to go with me? Or allow me to leave temporarily and go back to the church to tell them..."
Jiminy Reid thought for a moment and made the safest choice for them: "I can't make the decision, you'd better stay here and wait for Lu Li to come back."
But at this moment, there was a slow knock on the door and a shout——
…
"Help! Someone help us!"
Before heading to the last section of the alleyway to Xiutes University, a woman waved and called for help from behind the low wall in the backyard of the house.
Lu Li looked up and observed the Upside Down City. There was no one behind the low wall, indicating to Anna that she was a human.
"What happened?"
"Are you...are you human..." When the shout attracted Lu Lianna, the lady began to regret her previous impulse.
"If you hadn't called for help, we would have taken action." Anna replied. Lu Li took out his badge to prove his identity: "Exorcist Lu Li."
"The Exorcist..." The lady hesitated for a moment, then woke up and said hurriedly: "I am also a human being!"
"I know." Lu Li nodded lightly.
"We are a group of survivors... but the monster is among us. It is killing people inside now. Only I ran out... Please..." The lady covered her face and sobbed, looking like a woman in panic and fear.