The exposed half of the young man's face was stained with dust and blood, but the skin was still clear and clean; his eyebrows and hair were shiny and thick, and he looked to be in his early twenties at most.
His uninjured eyes were long and narrow with pointed ends. Even though he was staring blankly at Lin Sanjiu's raised knife, seemingly frightened, he still couldn't hide his delicate look.
"You...what do you mean?" asked the young man who couldn't reply.
The fact that he raised a knife to ask questions in public was self-evident - it must have been a blow to him.
Lin Sanjiu did not regret at all that she had done what someone had to do, but she still felt a little guilty towards Batou De; she did not look at him, only stared at the young man, and said again: "Take your hands away.
Explain clearly and I won't hurt you."
The young man's face was pale, and his body was shaking slightly. He didn't know whether it was because of injury or fear. From among the dozens of people standing silently behind him, a little brown-haired girl suddenly ran out. She was only sixteen or seventeen years old.
She held the young man's arm tightly, as if there were many things she neither dared nor could say, and a pair of tearful eyes flickered back and forth between the young man and Lin Sanjiu.
The tip of the knife, soaked in cold light, stood motionless in mid-air.
"Hands away, I won't say it a third time." Lin Sanjiu said without looking at the little girl.
A few tears rolled down from the young man's intact and delicate eyes. He slowly took his hand down, revealing the other half of his blood-stained face - Lin Sanjiu heard some of the evolvers behind him even gasp.
Got a breath of air-conditioning.
Injuries are commonplace for evolved people, but the injuries suffered by this young man still make people want to shrink their necks: Lin Sanjiu can no longer see what the shape of his right eye is.
Not to mention the eyelashes, even most of the eyelids were bloody and bloody, as if they had been torn from the eye sockets.
Lin Sanjiu slowly put down the knife.
The young man's eyeballs after losing their eyelids are now exposed without any obstruction, and people can clearly see the wooden thorn deeply inserted into the blood. The wooden thorn is not long, no more than a few centimeters at most.
Because it was inserted so deeply, only a small section about half the size of a fingernail remained outside the eyeball, but it obviously did not damage the young man's brain.
"I..." His throat was rolling, as if he could vomit out a lot of gastric juice at any time. "I hid in a cabinet, thinking that there was a layer of wood blocking it, so that I wouldn't be smashed to death immediately... Who knew that the wooden cabinet would be damaged by those things?
A corner of the black shadow was shattered, and I... didn't even have time to hide. It seemed like a piece of something had pierced into my eyelids... and was immediately blown away again, taking my eyelids with it... only this
The thorn stayed. I fainted from the pain for a long time... I might be dying."
When he said the last few words, his tone suddenly became calmer - as if death had not come and he was already prepared.
Apart from the coincidence of the injury, Lin Sanjiu couldn't think of anything really suspicious. Whether it was to nip it in the bud or to let it go rather than kill it, the consequences seemed to be full of unpredictable and irreparable consequences.
——What should she do?
Badou De wiped his face heavily. Everyone present was a little afraid to look at the bloody eye; but he forced himself to look for a few seconds, and sweat broke out on his forehead. "You can stand up."
That's amazing. Go to the Xichengkou shelter," he said hoarsely, "tell the evolvers there. Batou De asked them to help you... pull out the wood thorns first. Later, we can think of other ways."
He paused and then said: "There are all kinds of wonders in the twelve realms. It's just an eye, there is always a way."
Badou De obviously didn't doubt the young man's injury at all.
Lin Sanjiu gritted her teeth and decided to believe him for once. She put away the long knife and stepped aside, watching the young man and the little girl, who seemed to be brother and sister, walking past in silence, supporting each other.
The little girl just glanced at her brother's face, and could hardly raise her head again. She kept hunched over, trembling and crying; when she passed by Lin Sanjiu, the little girl suddenly raised her head.
He looked at her face that looked like it was about to burst from tears and stared at her - as if it was a silent question.
Lin Sanjiu pursed her lips tightly.
After they entered the depths of the city, Dirty Pig finally let out a breath: "I thought...ah, luckily it wasn't."
Why, fortunately, it is not what, every evolutionist present will understand.
Badou De didn't hear him because he was busy checking his injuries, calling for comfort, and organizing the evacuation of ordinary people. Dang Zhuang specifically looked at his back first, and then whispered to the other evolvers: "Listen... the city is...
Isn’t it quiet now?”
……indeed.
Of course, compared with true silence, Fanjia City is far from it. Between the sounds of wailing, footsteps, and dragging, there will also be a "rumbling" sound that seems to be the collapse of a brick wall from time to time -
—Lin Sanjiu discovered for the first time that the sound of "disaster" had a shape.
But comparing with just now, she immediately realized that in this noisy and painful chaos, one of the loudest sounds was missing: when all kinds of mutants poured into the city like a flood, shaking the floor and making it buzz.
, that heavy and numb momentum seemed to suddenly dissipate from the long and layered city roads.
"What's going on?" A female evolver with a round figure, a pointed chin and delicate facial features whispered everyone's suspicions: "Have all those mutants disappeared?"
Lin Sanjiu's mind immediately thought of the large number of arms that spewed out from the fracture.
Disappear? How could someone as mutated as that middle-aged woman disappear out of thin air immediately, and where could she disappear to?
Everyone seems to be holding the same questions; when you think more deeply about these questions, everyone's face becomes ugly again.
"I feel uneasy," the female evolutionist with exquisite features took out a small black box that looked like a communicator and said. She seemed to be a little older and a little chubby, but she had a very feminine and delicate flavor.
"How long has the man with the injured eye been gone for? I'll ask my friends at Xichengkou to see if they've arrived."
As a result, the young man had not yet arrived at the entrance to Xicheng City, but news from other areas in Fanjia City had spread to these evolvers first. "It really disappeared suddenly," a voice shouted in the small black box.
, perhaps because he was too excited, his hair was on edge: "Guihe's people went to look at it several times, but there was not even a shadow left! In some places, there were still some stumps that had been knocked off by the evolvers, etc.
…evaporated into thin air.”
Everyone exchanged uneasy glances with each other.
"Then what are you doing now?" the female evolver asked.
"I'm at Xichengkou, taking some precautions. The Hupi people have re-entered the city, because there are several mutants who were seen before they mutated. Hupi and the others went into the city to look for them.
Are there any... who look similar?" The man's voice became slightly more solemn, and he said in a lower voice: "If you have any good people over there, ask them to come over and help. There are a lot of ordinary people here..."
"Oops," Dreadlocks murmured, "What if the man with the injured eye is really...Nika, tell them to pay attention, if necessary-"
"Isn't there a splinter in his eye?"
When Badou De's voice suddenly sounded softly around them, the group of evolvers were startled. They didn't know when he approached. Lin Sanjiu looked back at him and noticed that his
His face was tight and there was no trace of happiness or anger.
"She explained to us that what she hit was airflow and had nothing to do with the wooden thorn." Batou De gestured to Lin Sanjiu and said, "And that wooden thorn actually penetrated into that person's eye. I
After reading it carefully...what questions do you still have?"
All the evolvers looked at him and fell silent. Even the man in the communication box heard it and remained silent.
"Actually, I know what you mean." Batou De looked at the group of ordinary people walking slowly from the other end of the city road and said, "You just want to say that ordinary people have become monsters, and then the monsters can turn into monsters again.
Change back to an ordinary person and continue to lurk in Fanjia City, waiting for the next attack, right? Have you heard of this kind of thing before? You are all well-informed people, never have you? Then, what's next for you?
What are you going to do, are you going to kill all the ordinary people?"
Everyone was quiet for a while, and finally the voice from the small black box spoke.
"Is it Batou De? I recognized that voice as soon as I heard it." After saying these two words, he left the communication box, vaguely said a few words to someone next to him, and then changed to
Another voice rang in the box.
"I am Chong Lin from Guihe. We have made some statistics and can initially determine that four to five mutants appeared in Fanjia City today, all appearing together in a short period of time." The man was so plain that he was even a bit dull.
The bored voice said slowly: "Just because we allowed you to organize your own manpower to patrol the city, it doesn't mean that we don't know your movements. Every place where these four to five mutants appeared today is...
The place where you, Batou De, have personally patrolled in the past few days. If our witnesses are correct, every mutant has had contact with you, Batou De, before. You said, it was a coincidence or not."
He paused and said: "I want to know what you have actually done by actively maintaining the appearance of being an ordinary person. I have always wondered how someone like you could really be so dedicated to doing this even though we have entered the apocalyptic world.
People who serve the people? Please come to Xichengkou in ten minutes and explain. I will wait for you here. If you don’t come... someone will naturally bring you here."
Just before cutting off the communication, the man named Chong Lin said again: "The evolvers patrolling with you had better come over to explain. Anyone who hears what I said is welcome to tell Batou De and
Bring his companions over to me. In the final analysis, Fanjia City is still our Guihe territory. Please consider it carefully and act according to the situation."