Drawn curtains cover the second-floor windows of the house.
"How is it?" York and the old couple looked at Jiminy Reid nervously.
Jiminy Reid looked downcast: "It's terrible...some weirdos no longer bother to hide their true bodies and shapes."
Although this change will not affect them for the time being, it is part of the deterioration of the situation - the rules are becoming ineffective. If it continues, there will be more and more weird things that are no longer disguised, and there will be more and more weird things searching for surrounding buildings.
More and more. Until the rules are completely ineffective, they will launch attacks on all existences that maintain the appearance of humans.
"Is it still useful for us to pretend to be a clothing store?" Webb asked, which was their concern.
"It will get smaller and smaller, but we have no better choice." The gangsters disguised as gentlemen are taking off their false coats, but wherever they hide, they will be discovered by this group of hyenas.
"We can pray to the withered claws in the cracks in the wall to help us!" York suggested.
Jiminy Reid was considering whether this method was feasible when he suddenly saw their eyes looking behind him in fear.
"Hide quickly——"
Just as Webb screamed in panic, he remembered that the window behind Jiminy Reid suddenly shattered, flying curtains rushed into the room with fragments, and a sharp sound broke through the air.
puff--
A sharp arthropod with dark patterns pierced through Jiminy Red's body and protruded from his chest. Jiminy Red lowered his head in shock. He had not yet felt the pain due to the sudden change.
A large amount of blood seeped out and quickly soaked into the new clothes that still smelled like fabric. A sharp pain suddenly came over, and the limbs that pierced Jiminy Red bent, hooked him and pulled him towards the window.
The limbs deep in his subconscious made him press against the window frame. It was as if Jiminy Reid, who had just woken up from a long sleep, realized that he was about to die, and shouted to York and others who were also unable to react: "York, take the lead."
They go to your place—"
The words finally turned into long-pitched screams. Jiminy Red was forcefully dragged out of the window and lay lying outside the window. The strange spider-like creature with eight jointed limbs led him up to the eaves.
"My place..."
York suddenly realized what Jiminy Reid was saying, gritted his teeth and rushed out the door: "Everyone follow me..."
The severe pain in his chest and the pulling caused by being thrown made Jiminy Red extremely painful and extremely sober. He even saw the blood spilled on passers-by when he climbed up to the roof wearing weird clothes, and they greedily
He raised his head and looked up.
Jiminy Red slipped from his limbs and fell on the edge of the roof. He felt that his lifeless body was like a steak on a dinner plate being cut by the swing of a knife and fork.
In the dark, Jiminy Reid suddenly recalled the words in the depths of his consciousness that he had probably forgotten long ago, like a Christian prayer he heard on the radio.
As his consciousness began to dissipate, he subconsciously followed the whisper deep in his mind and recited it silently.
The void trembled gently, indescribable, and illusory tentacles that could not be watched hung down from the sky. In a trance, Jiminy Reid seemed to see a reflected royal city in the sky——
Is this the Upside Down City that Lu Li saw...
The illusory tentacles fell on his lifeless body. Jiminy Reid felt that he suddenly had a connection with the Upside Down City. Incomprehensible whispers penetrated his mind, telling him all the truth before he died.
"So...that's it..."
Intermittent murmurs came from the mouth of blood gushing out, and Jiminy Red turned his head to look at the street below.
Will they remember me...
The streets downstairs were filled with more and more strange things due to the blood gathering. Four or five silhouettes climbed up the walls and approached the roofs.
Jiminy Reid wanted to hug Weird and fall down with him, sharing his flesh and blood with more Weirdness, but his strength had long since dried up and he could only hang his arms outside the eaves, letting the blood drip down his fingertips.
On the bodies of the weirdos below.
Before his consciousness completely faded away, he saw York and others walking around the entrance of the clothing store and looking up from a distance.
Their eyes looking at themselves were full of despair, pain and sadness.
They will.
…
"I know the story of King Hyena I."
Opposite the Amples Noble Bank is a ready-made clothing store, which specializes in serving the middle class who have interests in the bank and tailors clothing for them.
Lu Li and Anna stood in front of the second-floor window, watching the figures pouring into the bank on the street below, as if order had been restored. They were customers going to the bank to handle business.
Lu Li had already done what Albert had told Lu Li. At this time, Albert's voice was echoing over the entire block through the bank's radio: [Good dogs, you must be hungry, come in quickly, your good
Grandpa prepared dog food]
"What did you say?" Lu Li asked.
"Hyena King I's former family was exterminated by the enemy family, and he was the last heir. When the enemy family found him, he betrayed the family's honor and knelt down to beg for mercy, and offered all the treasures hidden by the family in the hope of surviving.
Go down."
"He managed to survive as a slave. The enemy family would take him with them wherever they went, tie a dog chain around his neck, and say to them, 'Look, how merciful we are.
, and allowed him to live and have his own family name'. Of course, everyone knows that this is a threat and mockery of this family, and what can be more inflated than stepping on a former enemy."
"Hyena King I has been a slave for seven years. The whole country knows that he is just a despicable low-class person without dignity and honor. Then he uses some methods to make the careless enemy family choose to release him."
"The title of Hyena King I began to manifest later. He kept his name anonymously, dug out some jewels hidden when his family was destroyed, bought several cargo ships, hired a group of desperadoes to go out to sea with him to rob enemy merchant ships, and finally accumulated enough strength.
He exterminated the enemy's family and established a pirate kingdom on the islands southwest of the Lennon Islands."
What Albert wanted to say was in the first half of the story - the Hyena King I was unable to resist the enemy family, so he could only hide part of the treasure, and then humbly offered his loyalty and everything he had, including his life.
This corresponds to the choices of the three major organizations.
They did have some strange paranoia about the "Tinder" project, as if they knew that weirdness would leave this world one day in the future.
Of course, it may just be that this is the only hope they can find.
Like the only white flower blooming in the dark mud of the dead swamp.
It's hard to praise the three major organizations for abandoning most people - including themselves. They also proactively set up traps to attract weirdos.
But compared to the demise of humankind, leaving behind the fire of civilization is more hopeful.
On the street below, a strange man with blood on his mouth began to walk out of the bank door. Lu Li left the window, and it was time for them to leave.
