Chapter 37: living corpse
The living dead, a sad existence mixed between the living and the dead.
There are two known ways in this world to create the living dead.
They could only huddle in the abandoned house, reluctant to leave because they covet the residence.
No matter which one it is, it will eventually turn the living dead left in the world into out-and-out terrifying monsters.
When the living dead were just born, even the gods could not see the difference between them and the living. Because at that time there was still life force left in the bodies of the living dead, like human beings who returned to the light, and even the doctor didn't know what they would become in the next second.
But when the living dead stay in the world for a period of time, they will gradually appear many terrible symptoms, and they will be quickly discovered by the people around them.
First of all, the living dead do not eat cooked food, they prefer to eat raw food, even raw food.
This is completely unavoidable, because the life force in the body of the living dead is passing day by day, and one day it will become an immobile corpse, and only consciousness continues to be active in the decaying corpse.
In order to avoid such a situation, even if the living dead do not know their identity, they will instinctively draw life force from living things and blood. Perhaps subconsciously, every living dead person wants to continue to "live" well.
Second, if the living dead are injured, their wounds will recover very slowly, and if they don't eat enough, they may never recover.
The third point, the living dead will be repelled by all non-human animals, and may even be besieged. Under such circumstances, most of the living dead would choose to eat the animal that attacked them, because that was the food that was very important to them.
"In general, the living dead must eat raw meat?" Shen Si and Su Qingxing sat face to face on both sides of the blue wooden table, under which was a very comfortable-looking lazy sofa of the same color. "Those living dead hiding in Huaiyu City and Guizhu High School, shouldn't they realize this yet?"
"Probably not." Su Qingxing shook his head, "At least the 33 students and one teacher in the fourth class of the second grade of Guizhu High School seem to know nothing about this matter."
Meditation sitting in front of Su Qingxing is also a dead soul, and he has participated in the underworld trial with him, so he can be regarded as the "person" who knows Su Qingxing best in the human world.
In addition, this Mr. Shen is now trapped in the house and can't get out, so Su Qingxing just regards meditation as the object of communication. The mission of the underworld is not a secret. If you can rely on others to help you complete the mission better, why not do it?
"Your job is to bring their dead souls back to the underworld, so it shouldn't be too difficult." The blue wooden table in front of Shen Si has another mystery. After unfolding the table to both sides, the inside is exposed induction cooker and teapot.
But because there was no water or tea, Shen Si could only take a carton of milk from it and hand it to Su Qingxing, which he specially instructed the deliveryman to bring.
"It's not that simple." Su Qingxing glanced at the milk suspiciously, then looked at the thoughtful, and finally returned the topic to the issue of the living dead, "Everyone is still jumping around. , the current situation is almost the same as living people, if you want to take their dead souls..."
"We will kill them again!" Su Qingxing's expression became quiet, "I don't like this way of handling."
"What should I do then?"
"Wait." Su Qingxing took a sip of milk obediently, "The death of more than 30 people is only a number to me, but to the relatives and friends of each deceased soul, it is a number. A horrific disaster. The problem is that they are somehow alive now..."
"Since she is alive, no matter what method it is, it is not a dead soul." Shen Si quietly looked at Su Qingxing who was sitting opposite him.
"So I can't do it yet, I have to wait." Su Qingxing put down the milk, "Wait until the time comes, but I will never let them have any chance to harm humans!"
"But at the time of the car accident, maybe more than the second and fourth class of high school were killed. I still need to find help."
Su Qingxing said, closed the wooden table in front of him again, and put a lot of things on the wooden table.
"What is this, information about the living dead?" Sitting also looked at a lot of things on the table with some confusion, and the erudite Lord Death suddenly thought... Why does he seem to even have the covers of these books Didn't understand how?
"..." Su Qingxing was silent for a while, "No, it's today's homework."
“…”
"Mr. Shen." Su Qingxing suddenly lit up, "Can you do your high school homework?"
"..." fell silent in thought.
"It's fine, don't mind!" Seeing the thoughtful hesitation, Su Qingxing waved his hand immediately, "I can still do some homework."
Speaking, Su Qingxing opened the workbook, took out a pen sponsored by permission afternoon, and began to study human homework and practice problems seriously.
Meditation just sat opposite, silently looking at the betrothed who bowed his head to study.
The soft black short hair reaches her ears, she remembers that Su Qingxing's hair used to be very long. Although the styles of short hair and long hair are different, they can give people a gentle feeling. When Su Qingxing lowered his head, his eyelashes cast a fan shadow, and he was muttering something silently.
Even in the world of trials, Meditation seldom looked at her dear betrothed so carefully.
"If you want something to eat, you can buy some after class tomorrow. I have a pot." Shen Si had a new understanding of Su Qingxing's conscientious attitude when he saw Su Qingxing's hard work. I couldn't help but pointed to the wooden table where the induction cooker was hidden, deeply feeling that I had to comfort the hard-working betrothed.
"Huh?" Su Qingxing, who looked up from the book, tilted his head, "I can't cook."
"It's alright, I can cook." Shen Si pointed to himself, "A skill that was specially trained for someone."
"Looking at it this way..." Su Qingxing suddenly thought, "This apartment is quite luxurious."
Su Qingxing doesn't know who arranged the room, but now he has asked for the predicament of being surrounded by walls. He has a comfortable nest and a cohabitant who can cook. It's not a bad thing to travel in the human world.
The room, of course, was re-arranged by the lovely Snail Girl Meditation.
The curtains, he installed.
The lampshade, he installed it.
Wallpaper, he posted.
The closet is safe.
The table he assembled.
Upholstery big enough to fill a room...he bought it.
Everything is bought by the home customization store opened by humans in Huaiyu City.
As a **** of death, Shen thought must know that the destination of every guide from the underworld when he travels to the human world is very simple, as long as his cronies pay a little attention when approving documents.
But because of some unresolved problems, Shen Si cannot change the "luxury apartment" where Su Qingxing is staying without authorization. Some small changes may make some malicious beings discover... Death God's marriage contract It is not in the Temple of Death, but a guide to the underworld at the entrance of the underworld.
Therefore, Lord Death came up with a new solution, which was to make the place where Su Qingxing stayed more comfortable.
According to Lord Death's original expectation, the people from the home furnishing store will deliver the goods to the door before Su Qingxing arrives in the human world, and when Su Qingxing arrives at the apartment, what he sees is the finished layout, and there is no need for contemplation. Think of too many other excuses.
Because of the unpredictable traffic jam in the human world, Su Qingxing still arrived at the "luxury apartment" one step faster than the deliveryman, so Lord Death had to find another way.
In terms of the layout of the apartment, Meditation still strives to be simple, quick and not exaggerated, overturning the original idea of destroying and rebuilding the entire apartment, and worrying that the painting and decoration will leave an unpleasant smell in the house The smell of it might not be good for the body of the betrothed.
So after thinking about it, Lord Death tried to put away his various plans and remodeled this "luxury apartment" in the simplest way.
In addition to these ordinary small furniture, Lord Reaper originally wanted to book a super big bed, enough for two people to roll on it without feeling crowded. It's the kind of round shape that can be covered with red sheets and quilts and sprinkled with some petals...
However, Lord Death didn't lose his mind, he clearly understood the consequences of his actions, and finally he reluctantly changed his mind and made a custom-made cushion that could cover the entire room.
Under such circumstances, no matter how Shen Si and Su Qingxing sleep in this room, they are all sleeping on the same cushion, and it is impossible to separate them no matter what.
So…
No matter how rounded it is, it is the same bed! !
It's just a plan!
Su Qingxing actually doubted what Shen Si said, but apart from the reason of "business trip welfare", Su Qingxing really didn't know who else would help him decorate the room.
It can't be contemplation, can it? This gentleman can't even get out of the room.
At the same time, Su Qingxing didn't think anything dangerous would happen around him. After all, no matter what enemies appeared, it was impossible to be kind enough to help him decorate the room, right?
In the case of more and more headaches, Su Qingxing felt that it would be better to believe in the so-called "underworld welfare" for the time being, even if there were people who were conspiring to do something wrong... They might not know much about what Su Qingxing, the guide to the underworld, was like. exist!
Just as Su Qingxing, the guide to the underworld with mysterious monster bloodline, was scrambling to write the homework of the second year students, the ordinary students of the second and fourth classes allowed to wander around their community for a good freshman year In the end, when the street lights turned on, he returned to the door of the house facing the night, and then continued to hesitate whether to go in or not.
"Crack." Before the permission was considered, the door in front of him had already opened, and a figure much taller than him was standing inside the anti-theft iron gate, with his arms folded, looking a little unhappy. With permission from the door, "So you are willing to come back, Master Xu!"
"Promise...promise." Maybe because of the twin relationship, Xu sometimes doesn't like to use "sister" to call promise, even if the other person seems to be taller and more mature than himself.
"You are really bold now!" Xu Nuo stared, "I was just chatting with my friends in the next class after school, and you sneaked away?"
"Yes, I'm sorry, you've been talking for too long." Xu Xu looked at the iron door that was still closed, always feeling like a prisoner being interrogated in a prison, and the promise was The man who was aggressively interrogating the prisoner.
"Then you should also go home directly!" Promise looks very angry. Although she is tall, her appearance is not as delicate as her brother's, and she looks more like a plain-looking father, " Permit, what happened to you? Could it be dating?"
"No, no, absolutely no!" Permit almost jumped up, "There is absolutely no such thing!"
"Hmph, I think so too." Promise still didn't open the security door, "How could a girl like you like a matchstick like you."
"Promise! You..."
"Nuo Nuo, is Coco back?" Before the license could speak, a soft-sounding voice came from the house.
"Yeah, Mom." Promise opened the security door for Xie with a little disappointment, "It's our rebellious period, and there are Xie children who don't want to go back."
"What nonsense!" A beautiful-looking woman who looked very similar to Li walked back from the inner room and gave Xu Xu a dissatisfied look, "Your brother is not You wild girl. I believe that there must be a very important reason for Coco to come back late, such as sending a grandma with limited mobility home."
Come in, if you don't come back, Mom won't let me have dinner, I'm starving to death!"
"What are you talking about, it's like Mom and Dad are very partial." Xu's mother just read a sentence, and immediately took the schoolbag for permission and urged her son to go to the living room for dinner.
Sitting at the dining table was a man who was reading a newspaper. He was tall and tall, with a straight face in Chinese characters, similar to his sister's promise.
For men, the national character face may give people a sense of being upright and down-to-earth. But when the young girl has a Chinese character face... the promise of being a party is particularly unhappy.
"Okay, let's eat now." Dad Xu looked more dignified, and when he saw the late return permit, he asked seriously, "Permit, what's going on today ?"
"Sorry, I just think..." Xu Hui once said some messy things to the family, such as her sister's promise to be dead, and now the person staying at home is actually a ghost or something, so now He just glanced at the promise of his sister who was sitting next to him, and said nothing.
"Cough cough, forget it, let's all eat." Xu's father put away the newspaper, "Mom worked very hard to cook a good dish this time."
"Hmm." Xu Xu obediently took the chopsticks.
"Coco, Nuo Nuo, is everything going well at school today?" Like most parents, Xu's mother would ask her two children how they were at school during dinner.
"Yeah." Permit nodded, but Promise said nothing.
"Do you have a good time with your classmates? No one will bully you, right?"
"No, no!" Li Qiye shook his head immediately, "Everyone is very good and helps me often. And there is a promise, no one dares to bully me!"
"Cut." Promise turned his head away with some disdain.
But the next second, Mama Xu tapped on her daughter's forehead and said, "Be quiet, girl, if you are as well-behaved as Coco, I don't have to worry about you."
"Then why don't you give me the same face as Permit?" Promised backed up and started to look through the dishes with chopsticks, but for a long time he didn't decide what to eat one.
"You..." Xu's mother was a little angry, but she calmed down with the comfort of Xu's father beside her, and turned to ask permission, "Coco, is there anything new in school today?"
When my mother and sister were angry, Xu Xu was always engrossed in eating vegetables, and didn't want to mix at all. Instead, he shrunk himself to a small size and minimized his sense of existence.
It was not until Xu's mother asked a question that Xu Xing nodded and said, "Well, there is a transfer student in the class today."
"Hey, isn't the summer vacation coming soon? It's time to transfer students?" Xu's mother felt a little surprised, "Is it a boy or a girl?"
"It's a boy, my name is Su Qingxing." Xu Xu recalled the boy who patiently listened to his nonsense, "He is a very good person, and he is also very good-looking, many girls in the class are I like him a lot."
"Is it so popular on the first day?" Xu's mother carefully glanced at her grumpy daughter, "Then Nuonuo also..."
"Don't think about it." He promised to slam his chopsticks on the table, "My life is suitable for being an old man for the rest of my life. Anyway, you still have a precious son to pass on."
"Nuo Nuo." Mother Xu held her forehead with a headache.
"I'm full." He promised to turn around and leave.
"Wait!" Dad Xu glanced at the promised job, "Why didn't you eat anything just now? Because you have a bad appetite these days, so this table is all your siblings. Favorite food!"
"What's delicious?" Xu Xu glanced at the fish and meat on the table, but he felt nauseated and couldn't help covering his mouth, "Who would want to eat this kind of food? Stuff, it looks off-putting!"
"Nuo Nuo?" The whole family knows that promise has a bad temper, but they have never seen her lose such a temper for no reason.
"Ah, I remembered, is it because my mother forgot that!" Xu's mother suddenly got up and walked to the kitchen next to her, then came out with a basin of things, "It's Nuonuo the most Like drunk shrimp, Nuonuo must be angry because he didn't see this, right?"
Drunken shrimp?
When Xu's mother opened the lid of the glass basin, she promised to see her favorite dish on weekdays, the almost drunk shrimp, which occasionally bounced slightly.
Promised stomach growling, I didn't see anything I wanted to eat on the table just now, so when I saw drunk shrimp now, although I didn't really want to eat it, my body's hunger seemed to be It became more and more obvious that the promise finally returned to the table and sat down.
"Nuo Nuo, girls should..." Seeing her daughter come back for dinner, Xu's mother thought that the promise had disappeared, "Forget it, Mom won't say it, don't stare at the drunk shrimp and eat it If you eat too much, your stomach will not feel good, so eat more other dishes."
But the promise was as if he didn't hear anything, staring at the drunken shrimp and eating there, ignoring the other dishes on the table.
"Huh? Are the drunken shrimp so delicious this time?" Seeing promise to keep eating there, Dad Xu was also envious, "It seems that my mother's craftsmanship has improved a lot."
"It's alright, but it's a bit heavy. It would be better if there was no wine and no ingredients." When the promise stopped, there was still a little bottom left in the basin.
"If you don't let the wine and food, is that still drunk shrimp?"
"I'm going back to my room." After eating the drunken shrimp, promise was still hungry, but there was nothing she wanted to eat on the table, so she just patted her **** and went back to her room.
"This child is really becoming more and more rude." Father Xu was also angry.
"Dad, Mom... There is something wrong with the promise." After the promise left, Xu Xu lowered his voice, "There really was a burning smell just now."
"Didn't I tell you not to mention this matter?" Father Xu sighed, "No worries, big or small!"
"Coco, we have taken Nuonuo to the hospital, haven't we? Even the doctor said that Nuonuo is very healthy." Mother Xu patted her son on the shoulder, "that day you must It was a nightmare, so I couldn't tell whether Nuonuo and the others were in the car at the time."
"But..."
"Okay, stop talking."
"Dad, I don't want to go to school tomorrow." Although Xu was afraid, he finally made such a request with the feeling of asking his parents for help.
"What nonsense? The final exam is coming soon. Do you want to be mad at me? If you don't want to study, go out from the door now!"
Dad Xu glared at him, the dinner that was supposed to be very hearty, no one wanted to eat it anymore, so they had to break up.
"Ah!" I don't know how long it took, a girl screamed in the bathroom of the Xu family, causing the parents of the Xu family, who had rested, and the permission to slept to rush from their room. came out.
"What's the matter?" Father Xu knocked on the bathroom door anxiously.
"Nuo Nuo, can mother come in?" Xu mother tried the door handle, but found that the bathroom door was locked from the inside, "Nuo Nuo, open the door."
The sound of rustling soon came from the bathroom, which also relieved the Xu family outside the door.
When the bathroom door was opened, they saw the promise standing there in his pajamas, even his hair was dry.
"What's the matter?" Seeing that his daughter didn't seem to be in trouble, Dad Xu began to be unhappy again.
And promise just handed out her right hand with no expression, and everyone saw that the back of her hand was scalded and a blister appeared.
"What's going on?" Xu's mother felt distressed immediately.
"I don't know either." Xu Nuo frowned, "I just stretched out my hand to test the water temperature, but I didn't expect it to be so hot. It's been really bad luck recently!"
"It's okay! It's okay! Old Xu, go and get the ointment." Xu's mother started to deal with the promised burn, while comforting, "Your grandma often said that good fortune and bad luck go together, this time you are hiding After such a big disaster, it's nothing to encounter a little bad luck now."
"The water isn't hot, it's just warm." Dad Xu took the ointment and tried the water temperature, "Are all your girls so tender?"
"Humph." Promise turned his head away.
Mother Xu took care of the scald promised, but before the family went back to sleep, Xu Xu seemed to find that the scald on the back of her sister’s hand seemed to… spread?
"What are you looking at!" Xu Nuo noticed his younger brother's gaze, and gave him a direct glance, "Wake me up at the old hour tomorrow, or you will look good!"
Speaking, promised to close the door in front of the permission, and left the younger brother who was scared back out of the door.
After giving permission to return to the room, she still couldn't close her eyes. Sometimes he didn't know which one to believe.
Is it true that the promise is dead?
Still believe the promise to live?
Which answer did he expect? Permit shrunk himself under the quilt, but he still seemed to be able to smell the familiar burnt smell.
At four or five o'clock, when Xu Xu stumbled to sleep, there seemed to be a scald on the back of Xu Xu's hand in his dream. He dreamed that the scald was getting bigger and bigger. bigger!
Finally…
"Ah!" Permit woke up directly from the dream, obviously still very sleepy, but the alarm clock at the bedside seemed to have been ringing for a long time, and the window had begun to light up.
Jumped up from the bed as per the permission conditional reflex, then rushed out of the door, rushed to the door of my sister's room as usual, and knocked on the door.
"Promise, promise!"
"It's so noisy." The promised door opened with a displeased expression on her face. Not only did she put on her school uniform, she even had her schoolbag in her hand, "The alarm clock in your room rang for more than a dozen times. Minutes, I was woken up, and you just woke up now."
"I'm sorry, these days..." Xu said, but subconsciously looked at the back of the promised right hand, and found that she was wearing gloves?
"Promise, your hand..."
"Hmm."
Promise and Permit are twins born one after the other, not only in appearance but also in personalities.
People who know Promise and Permit feel that this pair of sisters and younger brothers seem to be acting in reverse. The sister Promise is tall, looks average, has a bad temper, and is impulsive in doing things. When I was in junior high school, I started to play with gangsters outside the school. After entering high school, although my grades were not very good, my actions were somewhat restrained.
My younger brother, Xu Xue, is a well-known good boy. He is handsome, has good grades, and has a good temper. Except for being a little timid, especially afraid of his sister, he doesn't seem to see any other shortcomings.
Whether the other party is a teacher or an elder, he promises to speak ill of each other.
Compared with permission, promise has an advantage, that is, it is very popular among peers. Everyone in Guizhu High School knows that promise is the eldest sister in the school, tall and powerful, and strong He is big, fights fiercely, and is very loyal when facing some things, and he can chat with anyone.
Female.
In any case, Licensing also knew very well that the person that the elder sister promised to hate the most was his younger brother.
But Permit doesn't know how she feels about this sister. Well, maybe it's also annoying... but permission never dared to say it.
Every morning, Permit goes out with her sister and follows the same road to school. But on the way, the two didn't say a word, one after the other, like two strangers.
Only this time, when Xu Xu walked behind his sister, his eyes were always on the glove on Xu Xu's right hand, and he suddenly wanted to know whether the burn on the back of her hand had healed ...or did it spread like the dream he had yesterday?
"Permit." A slightly familiar voice suddenly sounded behind Permit.
Permit turned around and saw Su Qingxing in civilian clothes standing behind him.
Su Qingxing did not wear the school uniform of Guizhu High School. When he went to the school to report yesterday, a teacher asked him to fill out the form to buy school uniform, but after looking at the price of the school uniform and the travel expenses in his hand , Su Qingxing still gave up solemnly.
The clothes are too expensive, the money is not enough, and he can only stay in Guizhu High School for a few weeks at most, buying school uniforms has become a very tasteless thing.
However, now that the time is approaching the summer vacation, the weather in Huaiyu City in the south is getting hotter and hotter.
Although Su Qingxing couldn't feel the temperature, but when he went out, he thought about his clothes and told him not to wear a sweater around in hot weather.
So at this moment Su Qingxing was wearing a simple white T-shirt with a collar and five-point pants with blue and white edges. It looked a little sailor and was inexplicably refreshing.
But...
"Transfer student, are you a primary school student? Are you still wearing shorts to go to school?" Xu Nuo also noticed Su Qingxing at the back, and now came over from the front and looked at Su Qingxing up and down, "There is a sports event today. class, the gym teacher will be mad at you."
"Can't you wear it like this?" Su Qingxing was stunned like a bolt from the blue, "The family said it's okay."
Su Qingxing gave him a thumbs up with a serious expression when Su Qingxing went out.
Forgive the two underworld bosses who have never been to school and have no elementary school diploma...
"Forget it, whatever you want, if I had known that you could wear your own clothes without buying school uniforms, I wouldn't buy them either." Xu He Xian was wearing the standard summer school uniform of Huaiyu City, with a white and blue upper body. Side short-sleeved shirt, blue trousers.
Judging from the color, Su Qingxing really wore it right, but the length of the trousers did not meet the requirements.
"What's wrong with your hand?" Su Qingxing's eyes fell on the right hand that promised to wear gloves, "Are you injured?"
"Transfer students, don't meddle in your business." Promise didn't seem to want to talk about his right hand, he just carried his schoolbag on one shoulder, turned and continued to walk to the school, "If you don't leave, you'll be late."
"Su Qingxing, I'm so scared!" Xu Xu didn't know why he had so much courage yesterday to tell Su Qingxing, who was meeting for the first time, so many things.
But Xu Xu thought about everyone he knew in the city, and found that he really didn't have anyone to talk to. Except for strangers, no one might listen to him patiently at all those words.
In fact, 99% of strangers will let Xie Xie see a psychiatrist, and meeting Su Qingxing is also a kind of luck for Xue.
"Are you still worried about what happened yesterday?" Su Qingxing obviously knew why Xu Xing was afraid.
Permit nodded, but couldn't help but tell Su Qingxing about the scalding promised yesterday and the dream he had yesterday, and then said in a trance: "I can't tell the difference between dream and reality now. I always felt that I saw the burn on Xu promise's hand enlarged before going to bed, but after having that dream, I began to suspect that what I saw was also a dream."
"Actually, I think your biggest problem now is that you are too nervous." Su Qingxing is very experienced in psychological counseling, "You can't sleep at night because of this matter, and you finally fell asleep again. I will have nightmares, I will wake up the next day, my face is pale and dark circles are serious, and when I saw you for the first time yesterday, I thought you had just given birth to a serious illness."
"In this way, living this kind of life day after day will only turn your stress and panic into a vicious circle, becoming more afraid every day, and losing sleep every day." Su Qingxing smiled , trying to calm down the mood of permission, "Why don't you hypnotize yourself?"
"Self-hypnosis?" Xu Qingxing did not understand what Su Qingxing meant.
"Yes, didn't you say that the promise and the classmates in the class are all dead, and those living around us are corpses that can be touched?" Su Qingxing asked in a calm tone, "Then Do you think they knew they were dead?"
"Probably don't know." License shook his head.
"Then suppose, what would it feel like if you agreed and promised to be a dead body, but you still don't realize your death?"
Su Qingxing's voice echoed in Licensing's ears.
If he promised, how would it feel?
Think you are still alive, but walk with your corpse every day? License couldn't help shrinking, it was hard for him to imagine the feeling.
When the permission fell silent, Su Qingxing's own mood did not relax.
Because he knew that the change had already begun... He promised to be scalded by warm water, it should be because she was burned by high temperature when she died, so she was particularly afraid of temperature.
Thinking this way, Su Qingxing glanced at the sky, the morning sun has begun to show the temperature of summer, and the weather will soon become hotter and hotter.
"What a bad season." Su Qingxing couldn't help but muttered.