Lu Sheng hit the boy's cheek several times. The boy's head was shaking, but he couldn't wake up.
He tried several tricks to wake people up, but to no avail.
"trouble."
Lu Sheng held the boy in his arms and looked around.
There was no sound at all in the space in front of the elevator and the empty stairwell next to it.
The wind whistled slightly, making a slight sound. It also seemed more and more quiet and dead.
It seemed like there was no one here except myself and the little guy next to me.
Lu Sheng looked back at the elevator, dragged the boy into the stairwell with both hands, and then walked out of the stairs.
The sunshine outside was gray and dim, faintly transmitted from behind the clouds, and I couldn't feel any temperature.
In the empty community, some small pieces of garbage were blown around by the wind.
"This place..." Lu Sheng felt a little weird. But he had been to many strange worlds, and he didn't care about such an abnormality.
"Let me see the memory in this body."
He found a dark corner, placed the boy against the corner, and sat down cross-legged.
"Let me see..."
Lu Sheng slowly covered his consciousness in the depths of his mind, digging out bits and pieces of memories belonging to this body.
'Thomas Jennie.'
This is the name of the original owner of this body. But unlike other worlds, this body is not Lu Sheng's split in this world.
But an ordinary individual who has nothing to do with him at all.
It was just by chance that he entered this young man's body.
That's all.
'Let me see, Thomas Jenny, twenty-one years old, a college student, his hometown is in Sivis, which is far away from here, and he only rents a house temporarily here...'
Lu Sheng looked through Thomas' memory and found nothing of value.
What made him very strange was that before he came, Thomas' memory seemed to have stayed on a day long, long ago.
It was like his memory was broken. There was no such desolate and lifeless scene in his memory.
After absorbing Thomas' short twenty-year memory, Lu Sheng took a short rest, adjusted his condition, and began to examine the body.
"The physical strength looks strong, but some of the large muscle groups are fleshy, and many key small muscle groups have not been exercised at all. It seems that this guy only exercised in the past just to look good." Lu Sheng accurately judged.
.
But then he became a little worried again.
This is also a high-energy 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 reached an extremely exaggerated level.
Except for a little bit of nourishment, he can't use any of his own body's power. It will take at least a year to adapt to the rules here.
"In other words, do you have to rely almost entirely on yourself this year?" Lu Sheng thought about it in his mind.
"Well..." At this time, the boy in the corner next to him slowly made a small sound.
"Are you awake?" Lu Sheng stopped thinking and looked at this person.
Tang En slowly woke up from his stupor and opened his eyes. His mind was still a little confused. "You...!" Suddenly he sat up. His face was pale, his whole body was trembling, and he was about to roll over.
Escape into the distance.
"Why are you running?" Lu Sheng grabbed his arm and forced him down to sit down.
"You...you are human!??!" Hearing the voice, Tang En suddenly froze, and his consciousness finally became much clearer.
He turned back and stared at Lu Sheng carefully, as if he were a traveler who had been walking in the desert for a long time and when he was most thirsty, he suddenly saw a well of refreshing water to relieve the heat.
That sudden ecstasy left Lu Sheng a little confused.
"Of course I am a human being. You have asked this question twice." Lu Sheng answered quickly.
Tang En received a positive reply, and then looked at Lu Sheng's humane actions and voice.
After staying for a while, he finally couldn't help it anymore. The depression and despair he had accumulated over the past six years burst out instantly like a flood that broke a bank.
Well....
He covered his mouth and nose tightly, but the tears and snot continued to flow downwards, unable to stop them.
Lu Sheng was slightly puzzled, but quietly waited for him to vent his emotions.
The venting crying continued for half an hour before it gradually eased.
Lu Sheng sat aside, patiently waiting for the boy to calm down completely and his clothes were covered with snot and tears before he handed over a piece of paper.
"Save it, this is it."
Tang En paused, took the paper, and wiped it on his face haphazardly.
"Are you here for the gathering place?"
His voice was hoarse from crying, but his tone and mood were much quieter.
"What gathering place?" Lu Sheng didn't understand. "I've always lived on the second floor here." He pointed to the building where Tang En lived and whispered.
"Second floor!!?" Tang En was suddenly surprised. He had been on the fourth floor for so many years, but he had never seen the young brother in front of him once.
"Let's go, find a place to sit down and rest. We need to communicate the situation."
Lu Sheng's body had obviously just woken up from his memory, and he still had many questions to answer.
"Okay!" Tang En nodded seriously.
.............
.............
Inside an abandoned cafe.
Lu Sheng and Tang En sat down face to face. The tables and chairs in the cafe were tilted everywhere, and some were even violently broken and bent.
"After the great disaster 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 was gone."
Tang En said in a low voice.
"Everyone, can you imagine? Your parents, relatives, neighbors, classmates... everyone who was talking to you yesterday can no longer see you.
However, from time to time, there will be some unusual movements. Those guys...those guys, they...will appear occasionally, still doing the same things as before, but if you really
If you think they are harmless... you are totally wrong..."
"Which? Which guys?" Lu Sheng frowned. This body is just an ordinary person now, and he doesn't want to encounter any extremely troublesome monsters.
"Have you never encountered this before?" Tang En became confused.
"Well, I've been hiding at home. There's a lot of food and drink at home, and I couldn't come out until I finished eating recently..." Lu Sheng found an excuse to block the pond.
Unexpectedly, this reason, which even he himself didn't quite believe, actually convinced Tang En completely.
He nodded.
"Yes... a wise choice. I don't know how many people out there seem to be alive. Don't contact them, otherwise... you will be in trouble..."
"What kind of trouble?" Lu Sheng asked further.
Tang En gasped, as if he didn't want to recall his previous experience.
He covered his face with his hands and took deep breaths.
After a while, he slowly calmed down.
"I don't know what will happen, and I don't know how those guys appeared. They look just like our relatives and friends. But I can feel and distinguish them. They... are not human beings!!
"
There was a terrifying ferocity in his eyes, and even Lu Sheng was startled by the madness in his eyes.
It is the fear that one may collapse at any time. It is the madness that one’s 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 that the other person was shaking and scared.
His nerves were tense to the extreme.
Tang En's muscles were all tense and trembling, and he remained in this state for more than ten minutes before he slowly calmed down.
"Thank you!" He lowered his head and said to Lu Sheng sincerely and deeply.
"Thank you... for being alive... for appearing in front of me..."
Lu Sheng shook his head and reached out to pat Tang En on the shoulder.
"You need to rest."
"I think so too." Tang En said in a muffled voice.
The two of them were silent for a while.
Suddenly, a faint sound of gurgling water came from the back kitchen of the cafe.
Then there was the sound of cutlery and knives and forks clashing against each other.
It seems that someone is standing by the faucet, washing the tableware here.
Tang En's expression froze and he did not move.
Lu Sheng glanced at him and didn't move.
"Want to see with your own eyes? These guys..." He lowered his voice and said with a hint of trembling.
Lu Sheng nodded. Although he had just entered this body, he didn't know much about the situation here. He just happened to go over and get in touch to find out what made Tang En so scared.
Tang En wiped his face with both hands and stood up slowly.
Lu Sheng followed him, and the two quietly walked to the kitchen door and looked inside.
This cafe also sells pastries. The door to the back kitchen is made of glass, so you can clearly see the chef's every move and hygienic conditions inside.
This is a glass door set up to facilitate customers to supervise the chef.
At this time, the two of them were standing 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 was standing in front of the pool, motionless, with his back to them.
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 front faces. Because you can't see their faces at any time. But once you are about to see their front faces one day, close your eyes quickly!"
Tang En, masked by the sound of water, whispered.
As he said that, he pulled Lu Sheng and quietly left the coffee shop and walked out of the door.
"Why?" Lu Sheng asked confused. Not being ashamed to ask questions was one of his best virtues.
"I don't know..." Tang En walked slowly along the sidewalk. "In the year just after the catastrophe, I met a normal person."
"Did he tell you?"
".......No....."
Tang En was silent for a moment.
"Suddenly one day, he said to me that he saw the front of this guy..."
After saying that, he stopped speaking and fell into silence again.
Lu Sheng thought he was sorting out his thoughts, but he didn't expect that he had been waiting for a long time and had no follow-up.
"Then what??" he asked again.
"Nothing after that," Tang En replied. "Early the next morning, I saw him walking out of his bedroom, and he didn't come back even when I called him. 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 in a low mood.