Screaming Cycle

Chapter 16: Lost City of Ashes-16

The electricity in the city has been completely cut off, but there is still water in the water tower of the Express Hotel, so the restrooms are still available.

It’s just that this room is really small and the air conditioning and exhaust fans are not working. To prevent the lizards from crawling in, they even sealed the door cracks. There was no air circulation in the whole room. Ji Xuan stayed for a while, feeling If this continues, they should be smothered in the room due to lack of oxygen before dawn.

No way, they can only open the glass window a gap.

Fortunately, there is also a mosquito-proof window on the inner layer. They estimated that the little lizards that look like hexagonal dragon fish are not so powerful that they can bite off the stainless steel net and climb in.

However, they dare not blatantly set the lights on, but staying in the dark in the room is really frustrating. For safety's sake, after discussing with Mo Tiangen, they decided that the two of them will take turns to watch the night tonight, every four hours until It’s dawn for safety.

So they first dealt with the skin trauma from the fight with Brother Jie, and ate something casually, and after a rough wash, they hurriedly took the time to rest.

Mo Tiangen volunteered to guard the middle of the night.

Ji Xuan was really tired after all day, and lay down on the spot, and soon fell asleep as soon as he closed his eyes.

When people are extremely tired and exhausted, they don't even have the strength to dream.

He didn't know how long he had slept. When he woke up from sleep in a daze, he heard regular and loud snoring around him, as well as intermittent coughing.

Ji Lu suddenly woke up, turned over and sat up quickly, opened his eyes, and looked around.

He saw Mr. Dagen, who had said he was going to watch the night, leaning on the foot of the wall, raising his head and opening his mouth.

And Ren Jianmo, who was lying next to him before going to bed, woke up at some point, coughing low by the seam of the window.

It could be heard that Ren Jianmo was deliberately suppressing the movement of his cough, his body bowed into a shrimp shape, his head drooping, trying not to let his cough awaken the people in the room.

Ji Yu felt a trace of distress in his heart for no reason, and the look in Ren Jianmo's eyes became more gentle.

He remembered Xiao An, a member of his rescued when the maglev rail car had an accident.

The child is the youngest in the team, innocent and lively, but very well-behaved and sensible.

Once they went out to play in the same room, Xiao An just caught a cold, and when he lay flat, he coughed. In order not to disturb his captain’s rest, he went to the bathtub with the bedding while he fell asleep. I found out, that Guwazi can stay in the bathroom for the whole night...

Recalling this, Ji Tuan felt a faint dampness in the corners of his eyes.

He sincerely hoped that Xiao An could escape the danger smoothly at that time, and now he is still alive in their normal world.

"Hey."

Ji Shu stood up, moved gently to the side of Ren Jianmo, and gently patted him on the back.

"What do you think?"

Ren Jian coughed silently for a while, then slowly turned and smiled at him, "It's okay."

He answered softly.

There was neither a light nor a fire in the room. All the lighting depended on the flaming, blood-red evening light on the horizon. Ji Tuan could barely see Ren Jianmo's facial features.

He felt that it might be based on the principle of looking at beauty under the light. When the light was insufficient, Ren Jianmo's beautiful face with delicate features and soft lines actually appeared beautiful in this smile.

Ji Xuan's ears were hot, lowered his head, and responded, "Well, that's fine."

Ren Jian silently patted the floor beside him, "Come, sit with me."

Ji Yu sat down next to him obediently, but didn't dare to look up at Ren Dameiren's face.

"By the way, how did you get up?"

He felt a little embarrassed in the cold, so he had nothing to look for. After asking, he realized that his question was silly, because the other party had obviously woke up from coughing, and quickly asked for help:

"No... I mean, your body seems to be not looking good all the time?"

"I guess so."

Ren Jian quietly replied: "I can't remember."

Ji Shu: "..."

It seems that his second question is no better than the first one.

For a moment, not knowing what words he could answer, Ji Tuan could only artificially take out his mobile phone from his pocket and check the time.

They didn't know if the city's day and night changes were consistent with their original world, so they decided to assume that the flow of time was the same, and set the time they entered the room at eight o'clock in the evening.

The time displayed on Ji Shu's phone is now 2:17 in the morning, which means that they have been here peacefully for more than six hours.

—Oh, I hope it will always go so smoothly.

Ji Lu didn't say this sentence.

He knows that his luck has not been very good, as if there is a kind of metaphysics in the dark. In certain things, he often speaks a word, good but not bad spirit.

He was afraid that this time he would add DEBUFF to himself at a critical moment, so naturally he didn't dare to say much.

At this time, Ji Yu noticed that his mobile phone had run out of battery power.

Although you can't make phone calls and surf the Internet in this **** place, mobile phones are still very useful as a timing tool and lighting tool.

He thought that when he was escaping from Wal-Mart, he used to coin a power bank at the battery station in the parking lot. It just happened to come in handy right now.

Ji Shu took out the card-like power bank from the pocket of the hoodie, inserted the slot into the phone, and then pressed the charging button.

The screen of the power bank turned on immediately, but his phone did not show the sign to start charging.

—Is this thing broken?

Like all mechanical idiots, Ji Xiaoniao could only think of the explanation of "bad contact" when faced with such a situation, so he pulled out the slot and planned to plug it in again.

At this moment, he felt a needle-like **** from the skin of his palm.

"Ouch!"

Ji Yu gave a low cry. The first reaction was that the power bank had leaked. He quickly waved his hand and threw it out.

The power bank fell on the ground with a crisp sound, and the display screen went dark for an instant, and split into two halves from it.

Mr. Dagen's snoring stopped for two seconds.

Then he twisted his neck, changed to a more comfortable position, smacked his lips, and snored again.

"Well, it seems that the battery is out of charge."

Ji Lu shrugged, picked up the broken power bank, and threw it aside.

At this time, Ren Jianmo stretched out his hand and pushed him.

"Look at your watch."

He said.

Ji Shu immediately followed suit.

Then he was surprised to find that the small blinking arrow on the LCD screen had already moved to the three-quarters of the right side of the screen, and its color had also changed to yellow.

Ji Lu quickly broke the hand of Ren Jianmo's watch, and found that the small arrow on Ren Jianmo's watch had also turned yellow.

"What does it mean?"

He raised his wrist and asked Ren Jian silently.

Ren Jian silently shook his head, "I don't know either."

—Well, even if you are playing a game, you can't always ask the NPC for hints.

Ji Lu shrugged his shoulders and said he was not disappointed.

"but…"

Ren Jianmo suddenly spoke again. His tone was still flat, but what he said was inexplicably troubling:

"Yellow, does it mean vigilance?"

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At the same time, in the Wal-Mart supermarket.

The brawny man in blue and his four followers still stayed in the lobby.

Since Jie Ge showed his gun in public and tried to kill Ji Shu and the others, he no longer concealed his violent nature, and dignifiedly became a high-pressure tyrant in front of the other four people.

He returned to the lobby, first picked up the only man other than himself, beaten him for no reason, and vented his emotions. After he established absolute pressure among the crowd that he could not disobey, he took three more actions. The prettiest of the girls dragged into his arms and lewd him arbitrarily. If he hadn't been thinking about the unknown dangers in his heart, he couldn't get excited, and would definitely do something even worse.

After establishing his prestige, Jie Ge ordered the four of them to obey his command unconditionally, and then gathered the crowd in the lobby, sitting in a circle, and no one could sleep tonight.

They found a bunch of flashlights and put them all by their side. They only turned on one at a time, reducing the aperture to the minimum, and used them as lighting.

A few people stayed up until midnight.

Although they were frightened and frightened, they finally couldn't bear the dominance of tiredness one after another, and it didn't take long for them to fall asleep.

The brawny man in blue made fire several times for this, but later he couldn't hold it anymore and fell asleep in a daze at some point.

This time I slept until the early morning.

Brother Jie was awakened by the red light shining into his eyeballs through his eyelids.

He opened his eyes suddenly, thinking that the supermarket was on fire.

However, he quickly realized that it was not that Wal-Mart was burning, but that they were surrounded by many small fireballs.

"You **** don't sleep! Don't sleep anymore! Get up! Get up!"

Brother Jie jumped up and yelled while violently kicking the others awake.

They saw that there were more than a dozen fist-sized fireballs scattered on the floor two or three meters away in a circle with them.

The flames of these fireballs were crimson, much brighter than ordinary candlelights, and they were obviously living creatures, because they were circled around the five people, slowly trying to narrow the circle.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!"

One of the girls screamed instinctively when she saw this scene indifferently.

Then she immediately suffered a big mouth from the strong blue man.

"Smelly bitch, what's your name!?"

While scolding, Jie picked up a long iron pipe, stepped forward, and swept at the fireballs.

He swept away three fireballs in one click.

The other fireballs also seemed to be threatened and dispersed in a rush.

"Fuck me!"

Brother Jie yelled: "These **** lizards again!"

At this time, he finally saw it clearly, it turned out that there was a lizard in every fireball.

It's just that now they all changed from the original crimson to pitch black, like a piece of lit charcoal, their bodies glowing blazingly.

"Quick...look!"