I take skeletons to the apocalypse

"Who the hell is so annoying!" Zhang Lin stood up.

"Be careful, the knock on the door is so regular, maybe... it's not human." Xia Xi reminded.

"Not human?" Zhang Lin asked unexpectedly.

"There are so many mutated creatures out there, maybe some of them will knock on the door." Xia Xi said.For the time being, he didn't intend to reveal that he could perceive mutant creatures.

"You said those monsters would knock on the door? Don't they? If they are so smart, they will be turned upside down." Cao Jin strode towards the door with a face full of disbelief: "If you are afraid, stand aside, I will come open."

Xia Xi didn't argue with him, she stepped aside from the door and leaned against the wall on the side of the counter.

"Cao Jin took the key from Zhang Lin, and was still muttering: "Knock knock, knock knock, I'm so tired of knocking, let him keep knocking, how can I sleep today?It would be bad if the sound attracted real monsters again. "

The door was pulled open, and there was no one outside.The alleys were empty.

Cao Jin's face changed slightly, he took a big step back, and slowly poked his head out of the door, looking left and right in a panic.

Pa da, a fat mouse was attached to the tip of Cao Jin's nose, and fell to the ground at the door.It was the mutated mouse that chased Xia Xi in the morning, and its size didn't change much from the morning.Obviously, after staying away from the rats, they couldn't eat anything.On the side of his small head, a round hole the size of a soybean was cut out by a round sharp tool. Red blood soaked through the hair, seeped into the soil in front of the door, and mixed with some white brain.

"Ah!" Cao Jin yelled, obviously frightened by the sudden falling of the mouse corpse.But when he found out that it was just a corpse, he took a long breath and shouted to the empty door: "What are you doing, you pretending to be a ghost.

"Brother Cao, there." Qi Xiaoxue stood behind Cao Jin's side, pointing to the right edge of the gate, where a bird stood on a road sign protruding horizontally.The bird is only slightly larger than a sparrow, with a pointed and long beak, gray-green feathers, and a small red spot on the top of its head.

"This is a woodpecker." Zhang Lin recognized the species of bird in front of him: "There are quite a lot of them in this area. I have seen them a few times before."

Cao Jin saw that the bird was small in size and didn't seem to pose any threat, so he relaxed again: "What, I thought it was haunted. It turned out that this little thing was making trouble. It's no wonder. When the tree is pecked."

He stepped forward to wave his hand at the woodpecker, and said, "Go, go! Peck it in another place."

Unexpectedly, not only did the woodpecker fail, but it flapped its wings and flew into the house, bouncing and landing on Zhang Lin's shoulder.The chubby hairy head rubbed against the back of Zhang Lin's hand.

"This little guy is quite cute." Qi Xiaoxue whispered, stretched out her fingers, trying to touch the woodpecker's red head: "Sister Zhang, this woodpecker seems to like you very much, does it know you? "

"I don't know," Zhang Lin stared blankly at the little bird on her shoulder, with a confused expression.

Although she likes cats and dogs, she is not close to animals on weekdays.It was the first time a bird had approached her actively.

Xia Xi's face darkened.These people's knowledge of the monsters in the last days probably still rests on the obvious changes in appearance, and they didn't recognize that the woodpecker in front of them was also a mutant beast.But the dead mutant mouse should have alerted them.

The round hole in the mouse's head was about the size of a woodpecker's beak.And look carefully, the bird's beak is a bit too sharp.If Xia Xi guessed correctly, the part it evolved should be a long and sharp beak. Just now, it used this to poke the mutant mouse's brain.

Observing the actions of this bird, perhaps his evolution also includes intelligence. The theory of complementing form is not entirely groundless. This bird only ate the brains of mutant mice, but its behavior is much more humanized than that of normal woodpeckers. It didn't even rush forward to attack rashly, but chose the target that seemed to be the easiest to succeed, and approached it in a cute way.

If so, its next target should be Zhang Lin, or Zhang Lin's brain.

Xia Xi quietly took a coffee pot with a metal casing from the side, took off the lid, hid it behind her, and leaned towards Zhang Lin.

Cao Jin had already closed the door over there, while Qi Xiaoxue was completely unaware of the danger, and was still immersed in the joy of stroking the woodpecker.

"Let's keep it, it looks very good." Qi Xiaoxue reached out and poked the fluff on the woodpecker's head lightly, and the woodpecker lightly touched Qi Xiaoxue's fingertips with its sharp beak.

Zhang Lin hesitated, struggled for a moment, and said, "Let's send it away. These days, the streets are full of monsters mutated from animals and plants. Even if it is not a threat now, it will always be a hidden danger if it stays."

"Ah..." Qi Xiaoxue looked at the little woodpecker reluctantly. She liked this little guy a little, but she didn't want to argue with Zhang Lin over such a trivial matter: "That's good."

The woodpecker shook its head, bouncing from Zhang Lin's shoulder to Qi Xiaoxue's shoulder.

"Ahhhh, it's flying over!"

"Too rubbing against me!"

"I can feel its little paws, it's grabbing me." Qi Xiaoxue screamed exaggeratedly in her chest, looking like she was about to faint from being so cute.

She changed her mind and begged Zhang Lin: "Please, keep it. Even if he mutates, it's not necessarily a bad thing, right? There was a news in Shiyuan City before that a person was raised by a cactus Saved. Let's keep it, and when we develop a relationship, maybe it can protect us."

Zhang Lin didn't speak, her eyes wandered, a little undecided.

The woodpecker hopped on Qi Xiaoxue's shoulder twice, as if feeling safe, its long and sharp beak brushed against Qi Xiaoxue's ears.Suddenly raised his head, and pecked hard at her temple.

"Xiaoxue!" Cao Jin slapped the woodpecker, but was dodged sensitively and cut his arm

Qi Xiaoxue was terrified, and while screaming and dodging, she covered the wound on the side of her face with all her strength. The wound was on the side of her ear, and blood overflowed from her fingers.The woodpecker was less than half a second away from driving its beak into her temple.

The woodpecker missed a single blow, flapped its wings and rushed towards Zhang Lin who was the closest, its pointed beak still aiming at the temple.

"Don't come here!" Zhang Lin was also afraid, and quickly reached out to block it.

The sharp beak was like a sharpened thorn, leaving a long and deep gash in her palm.

The moment the woodpecker paused, Xia Xi swung the long-prepared coffee pot and covered the woodpecker in it.

Then, before the woodpecker could react, he screwed on the cover as fast as he could.

"Tuk tuk tuk tuk tuk tuk." There was a constant knocking sound in the coffee pot, and some tiny bumps appeared on the metal surface of the coffee pot, but it was impossible for the woodpecker to figure it out for a while.

Zhang Lin breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at Xia Xi gratefully: "Thank you for saving my life."

Xia Xi shook her head, her smile was still polite and gentle: "Thank you, didn't you also save me this morning."

Zhang Lin retorted: "That's different. Even if I don't call you in the morning, I think you can find other places to avoid danger, but in the situation just now, if you didn't take action, we might really die."

"Yeah, I was scared to death." Qi Xiaoxue said weakly, clutching his wound.

"I've said it before, don't touch these things of unknown origin, you must listen." Cao Jin ran to Qi Xiaoxue's side: "Look, you almost died, right?"

Did you say that?Xia Xi glanced at Cao Jin. If Cao Jin insisted on opening the door, these things would not have happened.This person will pass the blame on to others after the fact.Xia Xi just wanted to say something fair when she heard Qi Xiaoxue say:

"Yes, I shouldn't have disobeyed my husband." Qi Xiaoxue took Cao Jin with her free hand, and apologized in a low voice, her tone was very skillful.

Cao Jin's face paled, and he said, "What if I don't make it in time, what should you do in an emergency like just now?"

Xia Xi: ...

He swallowed back the words he had prepared.Well, it's better for outsiders not to meddle in the accounts between lovers.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo on thi... It might be dead, and my legs are still weak from the fright.”

Cao Jin said nothing: "Okay, don't cry, I'll take you to the medicine."

"I want my husband to hold me."

"hug hug..."

Cao Jin and Zhang Lin took Qi Xiaoxue to clean the wound.The rest of the hall, Zhang Lin and Xia Xi, looked at each other.

Zhang Lin made a tongue sticking expression towards Xia Xi, indicating that she was tired of the sticky two people.

Xia Xi hooked the corners of her lips, and there was a slight smile between her brows and eyes.

"Hey, what should I do with this, why don't I just throw it outside?" Zhang Lin looked anxiously at the coffee pot that kept ringing.

Xia Xi hugged the coffee pot into her arms: "Throwing it outside and being opened by someone who doesn't know is also a hidden danger. Let me handle it."

"Alright, be careful when you handle it. This thing is small, but it must have mutated, and the mouth is too sharp." Zhang Lin said with emotion: "You are really kind."

Kindness?In a position where Zhang Lin could not see, Xia Xi chuckled self-deprecatingly.He is not kind.He is very bad.

He knew that the woodpecker was in danger, but in order to conceal his hole card, he let Cao Jin put the mutant beast in without warning.

He didn't take action to save people, and he didn't dispose of the kettle because he was worried about the pedestrians outside.He was to take the mutated crystal nucleus in the woodpecker.He used Zhang Lin and Qi Xiaoxue as bait, but earned their gratitude in vain.

After wandering for many years, he is no longer the kind-hearted little prince who was almost weak in the barren country.He is just a hypocritical human skin, an evil necromancer who is ready to take advantage of other people's lives by any means at any time.

Xia Xi put the coffee pot on the base, pressed the heating button cruelly, and listened indifferently to the sound of the struggle in the pot gradually diminishing, and finally completely quieted down.He opened the lid of the pot, and used chopsticks to pull out a small piece of transparent crystal from the charred meat.

The crystal was still in an irregular shape, smaller than that of the ivy before, and Xia Xi threw it into the pool to rinse it clean.

"Tuk-tuk-tuk." Suddenly there was another knock on the door, Xia Xi paused and tilted his head in doubt.This time he didn't feel any power fluctuations.The one standing outside should be a human being.

Xia Xi picked up the washed crystals in the pool and stuffed them into his pants pocket.Hearing the knock on the door, he had no intention of opening the door at all.

"Dong dong dong!" The person outside knocked on the door again, with a little more force.

"Who is it?" Zhang Lin responded from inside.

Xia Xi then went around the pool and walked towards the door.

Where Zhang Lin couldn't see, Xia Xi sighed softly.

Compared with him, Zhang Lin was really kind. She knew that there was not enough food, but she kept them in the shop one by one, preferring to starve herself.Obviously just met the monster that almost killed him, but he still misses the people outside the door.

Silly, but also a very nice guy.

"Why are you here again?" Hearing the voice, Cao Jin also ran out in a hurry, followed by Qi Xiaoxue who had already been bandaged.

Qi Xiaoxue looked like a frightened bird, and stopped Xia Xi: "Don't go, don't go, what if it's another woodpecker?"