The Sabbath

Boom!Boom!Boom!

"Is anyone home?"

After a few firm knocks on the door, someone outside asked questions.

Now it is just a polite question, if no one responds for a long time, it is conceivable that they will undoubtedly adopt a tougher questioning method in the future.

Like breaking into a door——

Mrs. Zora's pale and thin lips were tightly pressed to both sides again, and she finally made up her mind. She suddenly said:

"Big man, you're fired."

"Ah..." The voice of a child suddenly rose up, and the big man covered in blood seemed not to understand, but just stood there blankly.

Then Madam Zora repeated:

"You have been fired, starting today, you don't have to work here anymore."

"I'm old, and I can't manage such a big herbal garden. Next..."

The old woman pursed her lips again: "I'm considering closing this place."

"There's nothing you can do here, so..."

"There's no need for you here anymore."

"Get out of here, go where you need to go, and—"

"Never come back again!" The old woman said sternly.

The white eyes without focus suddenly looked up, and they were right in the direction of the big man in front. The old woman looked terrifying!

However, whether it is stern or fierce, it is just the appearance. She tries to open her eyes wide. Her eyes are not completely blind, but they are broken because of crying too much. When there is light, she can still see hazy eyes. A hazy shadow.

Like Ronggui, like Xiaomei...

When they knocked on the door, she vaguely saw two small people coming in front of them, accompanied by clear and childlike voices, she thought they were two children at first.

The old man's eyes widened, staring at the big zombie in front of him.

She knew that it was time to drive the child away.

She may never see the child again.

A little bit is fine, she wants to see the child's appearance a little bit more clearly.

however--

Her eyes are really bad, no matter how hard she tries, it's useless, she can only vaguely see the other person's size... What a big man...

let's go!leave here!Don't get caught and never come to this town again!

Whether you go back to the soil or go to other people who are willing to give you a peaceful place, you should never come to this city again, child, you——

You have made a big mistake, and you can no longer be accepted by this city!

Staring at the hazy shadow in front of her eyes, the old woman tightly pursed her lips, not letting the true thoughts in her heart be revealed.

"Ah... ah..." The big man uttered two more shrill calls.

This time, he seemed to know what the old lady was thinking.

Slowly, he took two steps back.

What does the world look like in the eyes of the dead?

What does the world look like to them?

Or to ask: Can they really feel the world as they did when they were alive?

Feeling the slight trembling of Mrs. Zora's body leaning against his chest, Ronggui hugged her even tighter.He stared at the big man in front of him, and his mind was filled with the above questions.

He couldn't answer a few questions, but——

The robot's eyesight was really good. At that moment, when the big zombie retreated, he saw the dirty eyes of the other party.

In the eyes with dilated pupils and obvious post-mortem symptoms, he saw Mrs. Zora surrounded by himself, Xiaomei and Hana.

He and Xiaomei supported Mrs. Zora's upper body and sat up slightly, while Hana's little hand held Mrs. Zora's hand tightly.

"Ah!" The big man's cloak moved, and he lowered his head stiffly. He seemed to have found something under the cloak. Slowly, he found out from under the cloak...

A bottle of heart medicine?

Throwing the medicine bottle lightly on the floor, he left.

His movements were still a little stiff, he dragged his feet, and he left slowly.

He walked towards the garden where he worked every day, Ronggui watched him slowly walk to the outer wall of the garden, climb up the ladder, and then disappeared.

"Now, give me a hand and go open the door." She closed her eyes for a moment of silence, and when she opened her eyes again, Madam Zora was the calm, self-possessed, cool and elegant person that Ronggui and the others usually saw most often. The old lady is gone.

Her hair was a little messy due to the coma just now, and she seemed to notice that her current appearance might not be neat. The old man stretched out his hand, wanting to tidy up her hair.

Seeing that the old man's hands were trembling and he couldn't even comb his hair well, Ronggui quickly took over the job.

Letting down the old man's hair, Ronggui made her a neat bun.

Although usually clumsy, when it comes to dressing up, Ronggui can always do surprisingly well.

Hana looked nervously at Ronggui and Mrs. Zhuo La. The little girl admired the fact that the two of them could still remember the pigtails at this time. She didn't know what she could do to help, so she could only bow her head Looking around on Mrs. Zora, he finally helped her wipe off the red shrimp rice sauce dipped in her hands.

"Thank you, kids, you did a great job." He stood up holding Ronggui's arm tightly with his palms. The old man was much taller than himself, and Ronggui was a little worried that he would not be able to support him, so he hurriedly called Xiaomei up. come over.

With Xiaomei supporting her other side, Mrs. Zora finally stood upright.

His chin was raised slightly as before, and although the old man's face was still pale, his demeanor was no different from usual.

"Next, don't say anything, I will take care of everything." Standing like this, the old man didn't intend to move out, because it was unnecessary.

Accompanied by a loud noise, the people outside broke in after knocking on the door for a long time without answering!

A group of people came in from outside, all with weapons in their hands, nervous, as if there were some terrible monsters in the room.

Until they saw Lady Zora and... the three dwarfs?

Hmm... It's a little strange to say that there are three dwarves, but it should be three children, right?Although two of the three children are robots, it is obvious that the four people in the room, the old and the young, do not seem to have any offensive power, which makes the people who came in with weapons feel a little more relaxed .

"Did no one tell you that when you go to someone's house, if the floor is laid in other people's house, the first thing you do when you enter the house is slippers?" With his jaw down and his white eyes looking around, the old man said coldly.

Her aura was so full that everyone who entered the door was frightened, so everyone bent down and slipped their shoes.

But when they were slipping off their shoes, they saw that there were already five pairs of shoes under the steps.

The three pairs of shoes are obviously children's sizes, one pair is adult women's shoes, and the other pair... is also the pair with the most mud, but it is a pair of shoes that are obviously much larger than ordinary people.

Thinking of the reason why they came here, everyone's heart that had just relaxed a little bit immediately became tense again!

So, after taking off their shoes, they immediately questioned Mrs. Zora as originally planned.

"Ma'am, I see traces of overturned plates on the ground. Could it be that... an undead came here just now?" Someone immediately noticed the traces on the ground.

"I overturned the plate myself. In the afternoon, I had a heart attack. I had just cooked the meal, and it fell because it was not stable." Mrs. Zora answered neatly.

"Heart disease... This afternoon, an undead man went to rob a pharmacy. Coincidentally, what he robbed was heart medicine. Could it be... What's the relationship between you?" Someone immediately noticed the key words and immediately asked up.

"Are you talking about a tall...undead person?" Without any intention of vetoing at all, Mrs. Zora's white eyes followed the voice and accurately stared at the speaker's face, making the other person's heart tremble. At that time, she said again: "I don't know."

"The dead person can't speak, how could I know him?" The chin was raised a little more, and Mrs. Zora asked the other party.Her white eyes were still fixed on the face of the previous person, she said:

"However, he does come to my place a lot, to help me with my farm work."

"You...how can you hire an undead person to work! This...this..." The person who asked the question before was trembling because of her stare, and he talked for a long time, but finally didn't finish his sentence.

Instead, Madam Zora continued to speak.

"I don't have to pay him a salary, it's not an employment, let alone—"

"Before I posted a job advertisement in the city, everyone thought my old lady was scary, and said this house was like a haunted house. No one dared to apply for it. My garden is so big, no one came to apply for it, and there was free labor. Won't you let me use it?"

After speaking, as if she could see the other party, Madam Zora's white eyes stared at him again.

"This...the other party is very dangerous! You don't know, he robbed a pharmacy this afternoon. Because the store manager drove him away, he...he attacked the store owner and almost bit off the other party's neck!"

"That's not ordinary undead. The undead have evolved, and they're starting to attack ordinary people!" At the end, the man's voice became tough.

"Besides, when you had a heart attack, the other party went to rob the pharmacy, and what they robbed was heart disease medicine. If you look carefully, the heart disease medicine that was put there is the heart disease medicine he robbed, right? Why did he rob the heart disease medicine? He also attacked Humans, could it be—"

What did that person want to continue to ask, his voice became more and more tough, however, he was tough, and Mrs. Zora's voice was even tougher!

Mrs. Zora interrupted him mercilessly:

"I had an emergency heart attack in the afternoon. The medicine I ordered over the phone hadn't been delivered yet. When I had the attack, I was still on the phone. The other party claimed that the business was too busy and I could only deliver the goods later. I heard this. In a coma, you asked him why he went to grab the heart medicine, and you said I knew it?"

The mouth opened and opened again, but the man didn't speak for a while.

In fact, what Mrs. Zora said was the truth. When they stood in front of the door, they had already known who the owner of the family was through various means. They even knew that the owner of the house was robbed today. The store called and asked for the medicine to be delivered.

The questions they asked were answered truthfully.

however--

It was precisely because the other party answered all the truthfully that they didn't know what to do.

The undead who robbed the pharmacy to save people...

The process of being blocked by people hurts ordinary people, which...

In the end, they briefly checked the entire house, and after confirming that there were indeed no undead hidden inside, they left.

"In the future, no matter how lonely you are, don't let the undead enter the house. They are no longer safe." However, before leaving, the leader still told Mrs. Zora like this.

For his words, Mrs. Zora only tensed her jaw and neck curve reservedly.

Then, they left.

Xiaomei took the initiative to repair the door with a toolbox, Hana went to help him, and Mrs. Zora...

Until this time, the old man who had been standing up straight before dealing with the crowd without losing ground finally relaxed his shoulders, his back was slightly hunched, and she finally seemed to be in line with her age.

"Actually, they were right."

"It's just loneliness."

"The dead person should rest in peace. I was wrong. I kept him here. Finally, I made him make a mistake."

Muddy tears fell from the eyes covered with white film, the old man stretched out a hand to cover his eyes, when Ronggui handed her a handkerchief, the old man thanked softly, and then covered the handkerchief on the face.

Squatting on the ground, Hana looked at Mrs. Zora who was still crying silently. The little girl raised her head, as if remembering something, and then lowered her head silently.

And Xiaomei——

Holding a hammer in his left hand and holding a nail with his index finger and thumb in his right hand, he is nailing the broken door panel back together.

His movements are methodical, and he seems to be completely absorbed in his actions.

However, that's just what it looks like.

The sight represented by the eyes fell on the nail, and there was another image in his mind that was scanned using the scanning wave.

That "picture" is even bigger.

Not only all the people and scenery in the yard are in his mind, but outside the yard, the caravan of people who have just visited here gradually leave the alley is also in his mind, the black cat in the alley is there, the rhubarb is there, and even——

Just now Ronggui watched him leave with his own eyes, and that big zombie was also in his mind.

The big man didn't leave.

It just seemed to leave, and he hid in a place very close to here.

The yard was quiet, and Madam Zora's cry became very obvious.

Xiaomei "saw" the gray shadow representing the big zombie walking back and forth hesitantly at the original position for a long time, and he even wanted to climb the wall again until——

"It's okay to go, he should go too."

"After working for so long, that child should also rest..."

Following Madam Zora's last words, she fell softly.

Xiaomei "saw" that big zombie finally moved.

This time, he withdrew his hands that wanted to climb over the wall, turned his head three times at a step, and left.

Leave the alley and climb over a wall again. Mrs. Zora lives very close to the outside of the city. After turning over that wall, you are outside the city.

This time, the big man left completely.

"Boom"

"Boom"

"Boom"

Steadily, Xiaomei knocked the last nail flat with her hands continuously.

That big zombie has nothing to do with Mrs. Zora, not a relative, not a partner, really nothing at all.

As Mrs. Zora said, when no one could be recruited for a long time, suddenly, one day, that big man came and knocked on the door.

"At first I thought he was a robber." Mrs. Zora frowned recalling the day the two met.

A few days after that day, the old man finally stabilized physically and emotionally. The evidence is that she even took the initiative to mention the big zombie to them.

"I almost called the police! As a result, he walked directly towards the backyard, picked up the hoe and started working without saying anything."

"Have you seen it before? Those undead people move very slowly. He was also very slow at the beginning, but with great strength, he finished my work for three days alone in one afternoon."

"At the beginning, he didn't understand what I said at all, but after a long time, I assigned him some work, and he seemed to know how to do it."

"Fingers are getting more and more flexible, but changing the light bulb is not enough."

"The cloak on him was all torn, so I sewed him a new one."

"And shoes."

The old man talked about the big zombie. Although she didn't seem to notice it, the old man was happy when she mentioned the other party.

"He is a very good employee! If he is still alive, I will definitely hire him. In the future, when I die, it will be fine to leave the garden to him!" Speaking of this, the old man laughed.

Then, Ronggui was stunned.

"Ah! Mrs. Zora, you have learned the accent of our native language!"

"Hahaha! Is there any?"

The always serious old lady seldom smiled, and seeing other people in the room laughing, Hana laughed too.

The room was full of laughter for a moment.

Except Xiaomei.

The only laborer in the huge garden is gone, Xiaomei and Ronggui have to go to work, Mrs. Zhuola still has heart disease, and when no new employees can be found, Ronggui decides to let Xiaomei go out and install a set for Mrs. Zhuola in the garden. Automatic watering nozzles, and then assemble an automatic harvester, it is best to have an automatic baler, so it's all there~

Xiaomei did not refuse the inexplicably assigned work to her head.

For him, instead of letting him chat with two women, one old and one young, he would rather face metal materials and machines.

Anyway, this is not difficult for him.

Rather—

Look at the woman on Ronggui's left - Madam Zora, and look at the woman on Ronggui's left - Hana.

Xiaomei felt as if she had gradually seen a line.

A line that runs through the demise of Sisiro.

As a person with a delicate and complicated brain, he couldn't imagine how a little girl like Hana could become a city slayer, so he asked Ronggui.

Just like Ronggui would ask him whatever came to his mind, he is also very casual in asking Ronggui questions now.

When I thought of it, I asked, and the question was very straightforward.

"Under what circumstances would you do this massacre?" Just yesterday, after Hana fell asleep, when the two of them were lying in bed, Xiaomei insisted on turning Ronggui back on.

Then, I asked him such a question bluntly.

Ronggui was obviously taken aback.

"Massacre the city? Do you mean to wipe out the entire city? Such a high-end foreign style requires technology, I, my brain is not enough and I can't do it!" Ronggui's reaction was also very straightforward.

Xiaomei: ...Actually, I don't think you can do it either.

but--

"Think about it carefully." Even so, Xiaomei continued to ask.

Then Ronggui seriously thought about it.

After much deliberation, he finally managed to come up with a situation: "Before, probably Rongfu and the others were bullied, and when the bullying got to the point where I couldn't help them fight back, I might have this kind of...well, let everyone Do you want to die together?"

"But it's better to be alive, you can settle accounts slowly!" After finishing speaking, Ronggui retorted by himself, and then——

With its head facing the ceiling, the little robot's black eyes stared quietly at the patterns there, Ronggui said: "Basically, this kind of thing is not something that a person like me can do, and there is a more likely situation."

"That's what happens when I'm not me anymore?"

"Haha, become crazy? Crazy?"

While talking, Ronggui turned off the phone automatically.

However, just this sentence, like a match, ignited the oil on the water, and Xiaomei's mind suddenly lit up.

Yes, this is the most likely scenario!

When Hana becomes no longer Hana, she is most likely to become a city slayer.

For Ronggui, he was no longer himself, and the only answer that came to his mind was madness, but here, there was obviously another situation.

That is to become undead!

Become a zombie in Ronggui's mouth!

When Hana turned into a zombie, she harbored some kind of unforgivable and unrevengeable hatred in her heart. This was the only moment when she could commit the crime of massacre!

Using Mrs. Zora's employee—the big zombie as the trigger, people in the city discovered that the zombies had begun to change. They became aggressive, and people were gradually unable to coexist peacefully with the zombies. Strictly restricting zombies, and even doing various extreme behaviors, however, this is unacceptable to Hana whose parents are both zombies, and then...

Yet something crucial is missing from this line.

Quietly assembling the machine in her hand, Xiaomei thought, just a little bit, the truth of the entire city's demise appeared before his eyes.

However, knowing the truth is not the most important thing for him. To him, knowing the truth is only helpful to avoid risks. The more important thing is to research a powerful nutrient solution, and then quickly soak Ronggui's body in it. .

Spend three hours a day reading in the library, and go back to Hana's father's studio in the afternoon to prepare a strong nutrient solution.

By the way, although it is unbelievable for the pharmacists here, Xiaomei has indeed completely deciphered Hana's father's powerful nutrient liquid prescription, and now his daily work is to configure it.

Extracting the ingredients, but making ingredient A react with ingredient C... This is very tedious work.

Xiaomei splits all the work into two months, doing the work that should be done according to the plan every day, and his life is orderly.

Now he even has the time and ability to help Hana make some other commonly used medicines, and then sell them to Yani and the others when they bring guests over.

Then, send Hana's dad back outside the forest.

After the big zombies attacked ordinary people, the control of zombies in the city was indeed strengthened.They are now even just able to take Hana's dad in with rhubarb every day and send it out with rhubarb.

With nothing to do with the things around him, Hana's dad is still keen to study every day.

Instead, they made a new discovery when they sent Hana's father back one day.

That day, they took a road they hadn't taken before. The place was very desolate and there were few tombs.

Then--

When he walked to one of the tombs, Ronggui suddenly let out an "ah" and stopped in his tracks. He didn't move.

Following Ronggui's line of sight, Xiaomei found a lot of purple flowers on the head of that tomb.

It was exactly the same as the pot of purple flowers from Kiki at home, and all the purple flowers were inserted on the scribbled grave bag.

"It's the flowers I gave him before."

"The big guy... just sleeps here."

Seeing Ronggui with a sad expression on his face and Hana silently comforting him, Xiaomei didn't say a word.

Therefore, another fuse that caused the future city massacre, the big zombie who may have evolved terrifying abilities and intelligence, like Hana's mother, also rested in peace.

is the real rest.