The drifting city of the last days

The business man raised his eyebrows and looked at them, "How about it, who will take me to the hotel manager?"

Hearing his words, Luo Zhen's eyes flickered, "Have you ever had a fever?" This person didn't know Manager Xu, and obviously he had never attended the "resident meeting".

The businessman nodded, and pulled off his glasses casually and put them in his pocket, "I fell ill on the day of the flood, slept for two days, and only woke up this morning."

"I'll go with you." Luo Zhen pointed to the mattress behind the door, "But I have to wait for 5 minutes." This person may be one of the patients who the doctor said was in a stable condition.

"it is good."

"I'll go too." The fat man hurriedly expressed his opinion. The businessman's move just now made him feel relieved.Besides, after all, he has never seen those mice with his own eyes, so his fear is limited. For him, food is the most important right now.

Telling the people in the house not to go out, Luo Zhen and Shao Yunfan closed the door tightly to meet the two residents, and walked along the corridor towards the safe passage.

Luo Zhen's eyes swept across the door of the room next to the fat man and his own. There were people peeping through the cat's eyes behind these two doors, breathing so heavily that he couldn't hide it from him.Seeing that they didn't intend to come out to participate together, Luo Zhen raised his eyebrows and remained silent.

On the way, the business man introduced himself as Wang Qi, a buyer of a large clothing company.Fatty's surname is Zhao, and he owns an international shipping company.Both were single residents with no companions.According to Wang Qi, he felt uncomfortable in the middle of the night on the day of the tsunami, and his body was extremely tired. After the water slowed down, he took two cold medicines and fell asleep. Unexpectedly, he fell asleep for 48 hours.When I woke up, I found that my body was different from before.

"I can harden any part of my body at will," Wang Qi slowly closed his five outstretched fingers into a fist, thinking about the appropriate words, "or strengthening."

"How powerful, can it withstand this?" Shao Yunfan curiously compares the Swiss Army Knife in his hand.

"I don't know," Wang Qi shook his head, and habitually pushed the frame on his nose, but it was in vain.He simply rolled up his sleeves and stretched out his arms in front of Shao Yunfan, "But you can try."

"Forget it." Shao Yunfan quickly waved his hand, this knife has killed mice, scratches are minor, and it would be bad if it got infected.

Luo Zhen stretched out his hand and pinched Wang Qi's arm, then pulled out his army thorn and stroked it tentatively on his forearm. The sharp tip of the blade moved against the skin, as if encountering a tempered glass block, smooth and hard to the touch .He frowned slightly, and looked up at Wang Qi.

"It's okay, try harder."

Luo Zhen grasped the military thorn, and slashed hard again. This time, only a ten-centimeter-long red mark was left on Wang Qi's arm, and the skin was not scratched at all.

Shao Yunfan's eyes widened, shit!Invulnerable!That's awesome!Let alone a mouse, a tiger might not even be able to eat him!

Fatty Zhao was also dumbfounded, and was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a while.

"Your glasses are plain glasses?" Luo Zhen put away his army spikes and inserted them into his short boots, and asked casually.Wang Qi's nose bridge has marks left by wearing glasses for a long time, and, judging from his habitual actions just now, he often wears glasses, but his pair of glasses have never been taken out since they were put in his pocket.

"I used to have myopia of more than 500 degrees, but now it is completely back to normal." When it comes to this point, Wang Qi himself is also a little puzzled.

"Perhaps, this is also part of the change." Luo Zhen's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Whatever, anyway, I feel great now!" Wang Qi swaggered and stretched, smiling confidently.The four of them had already reached between the sixteenth and seventeenth floors, went down another flight of stairs, turned into the corridor, and within ten steps they could reach the duty room set up temporarily by Manager Xu and the others.On the stairs near the [-]th floor, some sheets and cardboard boxes were thrown away by someone.

"It's here, it's here." Fatty Zhao saw the corridor door, and ran over in three steps at a time.

Then, he suddenly stood at the door of the corridor as if stuck to the carpet, trembling all over, unable to take half a step out.

"What's wrong?" Wang Qi walked up and patted him on the shoulder, his expression suddenly changed.

Shao Yunfan and Luo Zhen walked at the end, looked inside over the two people in front, and turned their heads to the side impatiently, averting their eyes.In the corridor lay two corpses that had been gnawed until they were bloody and bloody. To be precise, they should be called skeletons, and white bones had been exposed in many places.From the duty room, there was a faint sound of depressing disputes.

The fat man's legs were shaking like chaff, he grabbed the doorknob to force himself to stand still, and finally spit out half a mouthful of acid water with a wow.

Wang Qi's face was not good-looking, but he was calmer than Fatty Zhao. He turned to look at Luo Zhen, "Did they encounter the man-eating rat you mentioned?"

"It should be." Luo Zhen rubbed Shao Yunfan's shoulders consolingly, and calmly glanced at the two almost gnawed corpses, both of whom should be women.A familiar black uniform can be found among the scattered clothes beside him, probably a hotel waiter. From this point of view, the people in the duty room may be in danger.

The fat man was still holding on to the doorknob and retching non-stop. Thinking of Judy's death on the tenth floor last night, Shao Yunfan couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable. He turned around and picked up the bed sheet on the stairs, and covered the two corpses.

"Promise me, don't go to the tenth floor by yourself." Luo Zhen squatted down to help him straighten the bed sheet. At this time, the dead are never as important as the living.

Shao Yunfan covered the sheet with his head sullen, looked up at him, "I know."

There was a sudden sound of heavy objects falling to the ground in the duty room. Several people looked at each other and stared at the direction of the duty room warily. Two middle-aged men ran out in a hurry holding two cardboard boxes.Shao Yunfan recognized that one of them was the one who knocked on the door for the meeting that day.

Seeing them blocking the stairs, the two turned sideways to protect the cardboard box in their hands, fearing that they would snatch it, and pouted towards the duty room, "There are still more inside."

"What's going on?" Wang Qi frowned and stopped the middle-aged man with receding hairline, and the other immediately slid against the wall like a rabbit and slipped into the safe passage.

"It's dead...a group of big rats came out last night and killed many people, including the people in the duty room. Everyone is scrambling for food, and there are still a lot of food in there. Just don't mess with that scumbag." See Companion After running away first, the man hid the box between his body and the wall, his eyes turned around Wang Qi, Luo Zhen and Shao Yunfan in panic.By himself, he is definitely not the opponent of these people.

"What's wrong with Bancuntou?" Luo Zhen frowned and asked.

"He, his nails can grow longer, faster than a knife. He can stab a mouse to death with a wave of his hand." Probably seeing the man do it with his own eyes, the middle-aged man still looks scared when he recalls it.Seeing that Luo Zhen and Wang Qi had no intention of doing anything, they panicked and ran away with the cardboard box in their hands.

again?Luo Zhen narrowed his eyes.

Shao Yunfan blinked, not knowing why, after hearing the man's description, the picture he made up in his brain was the movie poster of Edward Scissorhands.

Wang Qi looked back at Luo Zhen, and the two walked towards the duty room together.Fatty Zhao, whose calf was still trembling, barely straightened up, and followed behind Shao Yunfan, he didn't dare to stay here alone.

Manager Xu was not seen in the duty room. The desks and chairs were lying on the ground. Most of the boxes of food and mineral water that had been stacked against the wall had disappeared. Single bottles of mineral water, biscuits, instant noodles, and waste paper , Empty cardboard boxes scattered everywhere, a mess, almost nowhere to stay.Depending on the situation, they had at least two or three groups of people here before.Four people were grabbing the biscuits on the ground in the corner beside them, but none of them dared to get close to the crew-haired man in the camouflage jacket on the other side.

Shao Yunfan understood, this should be the "scissorhands" mentioned by the middle-aged man just now.Pingtou is not very old, he looks only 25 or [-] years old. He is squatting on the ground, holding a cardboard box in his hand, and is picking something in another big cardboard box with his head down. The cardboard box in his hand is full of the same smell of braised beef. instant noodles.Seeing him throwing a bucket of stewed chicken noodles with mushrooms aside, Shao Yunfan finally confirmed that this is a picky eater who only likes beef-flavored preservatives.

After he swept away all the beef noodles in the room, he lazily stood up with flat hair, glanced at Wang Qi and Luo Zhen at the door, threw another box of mineral water into his cardboard box, and walked away with his things in his arms. .

As soon as he left, the three or four people who had been huddled in the corner immediately ran towards this side like wild horses, and their goal was the instant noodles in those half-empty boxes.

"Bang!" Wang Qi casually picked up the varnished wooden table by the door, punched it through the table, and brushed away the wood residue from his hands as if nothing had happened.The faces of those people were terrified, and they froze in place as if they had been immobilized.God, why is there another evil star!

Wang Qi nodded to them in satisfaction, picked up a cardboard box and began to pick things, Fatty Zhao quickly picked up a box and followed suit, he came here with courage just for the food.Shao Yunfan and Luo Zhen looked at each other, took a cardboard box and began to fill it with food for the six of them for about two days, and after taking another box of mineral water, Shao Yunfan and Luo Zhen stopped and walked back to the door.

"Will Manager Xu be there?" Shao Yunfan found a small door next to the room, raised his chin there, and motioned for Luo Zhen.

"Even if it was there, it's definitely not there now." Luo Zhen noticed the small room when he entered the door. It was supposed to be a compartment for storing sundries, and there was no air-conditioning outlet. The people who hid in it last night did have a chance to escape. robbery.But now, there is no one there.

Shao Yunfan held the cardboard box and looked at him suspiciously, what do you mean?

"I guess he has been taken away." Luo Zhen stepped on the box of mineral water with one foot, leaned against the wall, and shook his neck.Apart from the two waitresses, there were no other corpses nearby. According to the number of people, there should be at least two people alive in the duty room.There are so many sundries on the ground, but there is no manager Xu's computer.So the most likely possibility is that Manager Xu hid in the next room with his colleagues last night and was taken away.As the duty manager of the hotel, he should be the person most familiar with all the hotel's materials, systems, and equipment.The person who took him away probably wanted to fight these things.At the same time, most of the food reserves in this room were probably taken away.

"You mean..." Shao Yunfan bit his lip, glanced at Wang Qi who was still picking things, and did not continue.It is estimated that there are nearly 400 people detained in the hotel, service personnel and refugees who later fled.Since both Wang Qi and Ping Tou have been "strengthened" to varying degrees, it is not surprising that there are a few more people with "strengthened" phenomena.If they took Manager Xu away by force with their enhanced abilities, he would indeed be powerless to resist.What are those people trying to do?

Wang Qi wasn't greedy either. He packed enough food for three or four days and stood up. Seeing Luo Zhen and Shao Yunfan standing at the door, looking at the box in Shao Yunfan's hand and the mineral water under Luo Zhen's feet, he smiled slightly. , "Let's go."

Fatty Zhao originally wanted to pack some more things, but seeing that they were going back, he reluctantly picked up the box, and the four of them returned the same way.

"I'll pay, give me something to eat!" When Shao Yunfan and the others passed by in the corridor, the door of the room next door suddenly opened, and a man in his early thirties with brown gold-rimmed glasses arrogantly reached out to stop Shao Yunfan, who was the biggest in the box. Wearing an elegant brown seiko thick cotton nightgown, with a light beige velvet robe inside, a gold watch gleamed on the wrist of his left hand.There is an air of luxury piled up with money all over his body.It's just a matter of hanging a golden title of "local tyrant" on his forehead.

The four people in the corridor stopped, Wang Qi shrugged his shoulders, Luo Zhen gave that person a cold look, and said nothing.Shao Yunfan raised his eyebrows and shook the box in his hand, "Not for sale!" He wanted to move it to the sixteenth floor by himself.

"Ten times! We pay ten times." A woman wrapped in a pink nightgown of the same style as the man walked to the door, her brows and eyes were full of flair, and her nails were painted with nude nail polish and beautiful rhinestones. Even the thick nightgown could not cover her exquisite curves.Seeing Shao Yunfan and Luo Zhen, the woman's eyes suddenly lit up.

Luo Zhen snorted coldly, carried the mineral water tank with one hand, lifted Shao Yunfan's neck, and walked towards his room.

"Hey, how about twenty times?" The man with gold-rimmed glasses shouted at their backs angrily.

"Forget it," Fatty Zhao glanced at the man, "If you have food to sell, I will buy it from you at fifty times." The people who live on this floor, who is worse than those hundreds of packs of instant noodle biscuits? money!

He choked on the gold-rimmed glasses and slammed the door resentfully.

"Remember to block the air-conditioning vents in the room and the vents in the bathroom when you go back. Those mice came out of these places." Standing at the door, Shao Yunfan reminded Fatty Zhao and Wang Qi who were opening the door.Fatty Zhao nodded gratefully, and Wang Qi also waved with a smile.