under the tower

Yan Yi frowned, obviously disapproving, he never expected Ji Xi to spit out such cruel words with a blank face.

"Have you ever thought about Mr. Shen... What will he do if Shen Yuebing dies?"

"Do you think he doesn't know?" Ji Xi said slowly, "There is a chopped up dead person in the refrigerator at home. His daughter crawls along the floor in the middle of the night, making weird noises. He lives with Shen Yuebing. After so long, did you really not hear anything? I don’t believe it. He is clearly conniving at his daughter’s cannibalism, he is not innocent, he is also an accomplice.”

"This is just your speculation." Yan Yi said coldly, "No matter what they did, at least they did take us in when we needed help the most. Based on this alone, I will not do anything to them no matter what. "

"Okay, that's right." Ji Xi spread his hands, and he felt that this kind of statement was extremely absurd——

Ridiculous, is there a difference between good and bad deformed people, but he is too lazy to argue with Yan Yi in this kind of place.

In the evening, a group of people returned home with the harvested vegetables.

Today's dinner is tomato potatoes, fried corn kernels, boiled lettuce, pheasant stewed mushrooms.With good luck today, Yan San caught two pheasants before going down the mountain, which is a rare delicacy.

At night, after confirming that Mr. Shen had fallen asleep, Yan Yi and Mao Hei had a brief exchange of opinions.

In the end, everyone still decided to wait and see what happened.

Three more days passed without incident.

Compared with others, Ji Xi has the strongest stress response to abnormal people because of his previous experience, but he has gradually adapted to this state of fear, which is mostly due to Yan's inseparable Following him, he can be called a very competent bodyguard, which made him feel less at ease, so he did compromise with Yan Yi.

Waking up this morning, Ji Xi washed up and went downstairs to eat as usual, and Shen Yuebing enthusiastically served porridge and vegetables for everyone as usual. From this point of view, she has to be said to be a very competent hostess.

Even in the last days when supplies were so scarce, she didn't show any stinginess or hostility towards a group of strangers like them, and she was so kind that it didn't even feel real.

This is really strange.Ji Xi thought, even for a few intentionally deformed people, what she did was too much.

Then, in such a fleeting moment, the broken hair that he swept to the side of Shen Yuebing's face rose slightly when she turned around, revealing an extremely small wound under the hair.

With just one glance, Ji Xi was completely stunned.

He could see clearly that although the wound was very small, so small that it was easy to ignore, there was a circle of gray dead skin around it, with a little black blood in the middle.

It was a wound left by a deformed person, and a virus infection would occur.

The textbook clearly states that if ordinary people have such a wound on their body, distortion will occur within 48 hours, and they must be highly vigilant.

But she should already be a deformed person...

Why did such a wound suddenly appear?

If you look closely, today Shen Yuebing's complexion seems to be paler than usual, with a faint bluish tinge, but her skin is already fair, and you can't find this slight change unless you look carefully. Everyone will only think that she didn't sleep yesterday OK, so it looks a little haggard.

Next, Ji Xi made a move that he didn't expect, it was completely out of his subconscious, Ji Xi stopped Shen Yuebing: "Miss Shen." He said, "You here..." He touched the other party's jaw with his finger The position of the bone, "how did you get hurt?"

"Ah?" Shen Yuebing touched her face in doubt, and she really felt a small crack. She looked at the kitchen mirror, but suddenly her face became extremely gray, and she slammed down on the ground as if she lost her strength. , trembling like crazy.

It was difficult for Ji Xi to describe her expression at that moment. It was as if something more terrifying than death had happened.

Her eyes were desperate.

"It's over... It's over... It's all over..." Her throat seemed to contain something, her vocal cords were shaking wildly, but she couldn't even complete a sentence, "I...I'm still...still..."

"What's wrong?!" The noise was so loud that everyone rushed over, including Old Shen who was trembling when he walked.

"Bing, you... what's wrong?" Old Shen stepped forward with a trembling voice, trying to help his daughter up.

"Dad..." Shen Yuebing opened her big black eyes. The moment she saw Mr. Shen, this woman who always smiled gracefully and cheerfully burst into tears, "...I...I... sorry……"

Old Shen seemed to understand something, he yelled "Oh my God!" and then his legs gave way and he knelt down on the ground.

When Ji Xi heard Mr. Shen's words, the complete sentence was: "God, why do you still refuse to let us go."

Everyone was stunned, not knowing what was going on.

But the extremely sad atmosphere spread to everyone, Ji Xi saw Yan Yi's hanging hand tightly clenched, and then let go weakly.

They were all helpless and powerless.

After a long time, Shen Yuebing and Shen Lao's emotions gradually stabilized. Shen Yuebing's eyes were red and swollen from crying, but at this moment, everyone could see that something was wrong with her.

Her skin showed a blue-gray color visible to the naked eye, and the blood vessels under the skin were more obvious, like dense spider webs. The blood flowing inside was a very dark red, which made her originally beautiful face appear a kind of dark red. Half blue but not purple in the infiltrating appearance.

Everyone present knew very well what was going on. She was infected by the distortion virus and was about to die.

The moment her heartbeat stopped, the distortion virus would occupy her whole body and eat away her brain, turning her into a terrifying monster that could only attack and bite.

This process of gradually deforming a living person is too cruel, almost to the point where even just looking at it will make people feel uncomfortable and have difficulty breathing.

Ji Xi's heart contracted suddenly, and he closed his eyes forcefully.

"...You were not infected before?" Ji Xi said with difficulty.

"No..." Shen Yuebing knelt on the ground, but she suddenly realized what Ji Xi meant when she answered, "You... all found out? I thought..."

Ji Xi took a deep breath: "I heard the voice upstairs, and found the human flesh you put in the refrigerator."

"I thought...you were already a deformed person."

Shen Yuebing smiled, her smile was extremely ugly, her tone was bitter: "If this is the case..." She lamented with trembling voice, "That would be great..."

She leaned on the wall and stood up staggeringly, her muscles and joints had already begun to stiffen, and her walking posture was like that of an old man who was about to die.

She walked up the stairs tremblingly, climbing all the way to the third floor. She had already worked very hard during this process. Her gray skin was covered with sweat, and the color of her blood vessels became darker.

She opened the door of the bedroom, which was the bedroom where they first met Shen Yuebing.

Her bedroom is very simple, with a double bed, a maple powder-painted dresser in front of the window, and a group photo of the family of three on the bedside.

Shen Yuebing fumbled and took out a key from her pocket, and opened a small door in the bedroom.

Ji Xi realized that the small room being opened was facing their downstairs bedroom.

The moment the door opened, everyone held their breath.

This room was arranged as a children's room, with bright yellow paint, colorful foam soundproof floors, and various dolls, all scratched and tattered.

But on the children's bed, which was decorated innocently and cutely, there was a child who was tied up——

A deformed person who is only about five or six years old.

"It" was falling asleep at first, but when it heard the sound of the door opening, it struggled instantly. "It" waved its tiny paws, and howled ferociously from its throat, but "it"'s mouth was stuffed with cotton, and it could only Make a "woo hoo" sound.

Shen Yuebing smiled bitterly: "This is my son."

Everyone was shocked speechless.

Ji Xi looked at the scene in front of him with unbelievable eyes: "So...he is the one walking around at night?"

Shen Yuebing nodded with a pale face: "He has been too manic recently, if you don't release him at night, you will find out during the day."

From the beginning, Mr. Shen emphasized that there were only him and Shen Yuebing in the family, and they were led into a misunderstanding by preconceived ideas.Ji Xi realized that he had completely misunderstood before, he was so obsessed with the kind of deformed person who could still maintain his sanity that he completely ignored other possibilities.

Unfortunately, there is no such coincidence in the world.

"My husband died shortly after he was born, and his neck was bitten off." Shen Yuebing said intermittently, as if she was telling her last words, or just telling herself, "I really... It was too difficult, I took him alone, and finally he grew up to the point where he was about to go to school, I just... took him out to play... and was bitten by a deformed person."

"He was right in front of me, in front of my own mother, and he was caught by that deformed man...I...what can I do...he is my only son...how can I let him go... ...!"

"My dad and I, who have retired long ago, are the only ones left in our family. I had just been dismissed from the school, and I happened to take him out. I never believed that there is no cure for this disease..."

"Technology is so advanced now... One day..." A "ho ho" sound came from her throat, which was exactly the same as her completely deformed child tied to the bed, "One day...he will be cured...I The son will come back..."

Ji Xi closed his eyes, he already understood the whole picture of the whole story.

Shen Yuebing was reluctant to part with the virus-infected child, and insisted on taking him to live in the wild, feeding her son who had become completely deformed by feeding human flesh, but maybe she was careless when touching the child, last night she was killed by her own child Scratched the face and also got an infection.

She has not waited until the day when the distortion virus can be cured, but she is going to be one of them first.

"But I still have to thank you." Shen Yuebing forced a smile. Her bluish-purple face was very ferocious. It was a face that only a corpse had. There was not much time left for her. "Even if I knew it a long time ago , but you chose not to say it, and treated us father and daughter as usual. Really... Thank you..."

Ji Xi had mixed feelings in his heart: "It's not me, it's Yan Yi. He said..."

"...he said... no matter what, he won't hurt you."

Shen Yubing's eyes turned to Yan Yi who was always standing silently behind Ji Xi, his eyes were full of sadness, and there were complex emotions that Ji Xi couldn't see clearly.

She stared at Yan Yi for a long time, she seemed to be trying to maintain her sanity, and she seemed to be just talking nonsense, and the sentences she said were inconsequential, "If I wasn't...if I...we...would it be possible for us..."

"I'm really sorry." Yanyi said these few words, his expression was dignified and solemn, "I'm deeply sorry for what happened to you and your family."

Shen Yuebing opened her mouth: "I actually..."

"Sorry." Yan Yi said it again, still these two words.

Shen Yuebing smiled miserably, fully understanding what he meant, her tone was a little sad, a little relieved: "Yan Yi...you...why did you refuse to say a few nice words in the end..."

"My dad..." she said again, in an almost pleading tone, "he has bad legs and feet, I'm gone, can you..."

The old man was supporting her, but covered her mouth with his withered hand.

"Stop talking, girl." Elder Shen lowered his eyes, "Dad won't leave. Dad will accompany you to the end, and he will be buried with you, your baby, and this family when he dies."

Chi Miao's eyes widened, and she didn't have time to stop: "Grandpa Shen, you—"

"You are all good people." Old Shen smiled, and there was a sense of serenity in his smile. When his hands were stained with corrosive saliva containing aberrant virus, they began to turn gray and necrotic at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Let's go now. I wish you all the best in the future." There was not much expression on his benevolent face, but a calmness and indifference that transcended the world at the last moment of his life.

Yan Yi saw that wrinkled hand was wearing a finger wrench carved with an eagle pattern.

What thoughts flashed through his mind quickly——

That's the logo of the base's military.

"Do you know Wu Qianshu?" He asked quickly, with little hope.

The old man froze for a moment, and replied: "Yes. I used to be colleagues with him."

Ji Xi's blood almost rushed to the top of his head when he heard that name.

"Do you know how to contact him?" Yan Yi raced against the clock to ask, "We have an urgent matter with him."

The bruise on Elder Shen's body was the same as that of Shen Yuebing, and it almost immediately spread to his whole body.

"Before I left, he was the deputy chief of the equipment department of the United Front Work Force of the base. If you want to find him..." The old man coughed twice, almost coughing out his entire heart and lungs. He struggled to squeeze out a few words , almost exhausted all his strength, "You can pass the weapon factory..."

"Thank you."

Yan Yi thanked him sincerely, then pulled Ji Xi up, went downstairs, and hurriedly left Shen's house.

They ran wildly in the mountains until the red and white hut completely faded out of sight.

In the rapidly reversing field of vision, Ji Xi felt that something was splitting in his heart, and sour liquid flowed out.

They couldn't bear to kill Shen Lao and Shen Yuebing who were about to mutate, but for their own safety, they had to leave quickly.

Let their family, as deformed people, live well in this house where their small hopes and warmth are placed.