After Mr. Zhou's research, he did not hide his secrets and told everyone all the information he knew about the bugs. However, Lu Ning didn't know whether he was selfless or trying to put pressure on people because there was nothing good to do.
"The two bugs don't have much in common in terms of traits. It's impossible to find commonalities in this aspect, and it's impossible to know their ability to infect. It's impossible for me to try to parasitize a second time. What I can know is that they cannot pass through the air channel after being taken out. Infection. The bad news is that these bugs probably really come from outdoors. I dissected two of them and found that there are no structures such as blood vessels or internal organs in their bodies, just pure flesh and blood tissue. Logically speaking, such things are not living things at all. .”
"Why are they outdoors but not indoors? There is no absolute boundary between inside and outside, right?" Michael asked.
Mr. Zhou glanced at him and said, "Because they do not have the ability to actively infect. This is the most likely explanation."
This means that they could only be dropped outdoors at that time, and then they lost the ability to move and could only be brought back by someone going outdoors to contact them. If this is the case, it is indeed safer indoors, but it also blocks the way for people to leave.
"But we have to leave eventually..." the wealthy businessman lamented.
"There is no way. I haven't figured out how they are transmitted outdoors. One of the two maids was on the arm and the other was on the leg. But at that time, both of them were outdoors. Theoretically, they should be infected throughout the body."
At this time, Feng Yuanxi interrupted everyone's conversation: "Everyone, it's almost one o'clock in the afternoon. We need to go to the garden to bring back a pot of flowers."
"Wait a minute, the garden isn't the greenhouse?" The lady suddenly stood up, "The garden is outside! How many flowers are still blooming outside?"
Since the Red Plum Pavilion has this name, there is indeed a plum garden behind the pavilion. The problem is that everyone has just concluded that they cannot go outdoors, but now they have to go to the plum garden outside to get a flower?
Now everyone hesitated.
"We might as well go over and take a look first. We still have time. If it's really difficult to handle, at least Mr. Zhou has the ability to treat us." Meng Juan said in a low voice.
Everyone looked at each other and could only go to the back door leading to the garden together.
After so many days of wind and snow, there were really not many plum blossoms left in the garden. Although this flower is resistant to cold, it cannot endure such harsh weather. Jiang Ai had been transplanted in the greenhouse before, but it did not meet the conditions.
"You must...recommend someone." Feng Yuanxi looked into the plum garden, "There are still some flowers, the nearest one is only about 20 meters away from here. Dear guests, we cannot do this for you."
"Who has the super power to pick flowers remotely?" Meng Juan asked.
Mr. Zhou immediately said: "I'm not sure whether the items brought back from outside will be carried..."
"Please rest assured, I am responsible for cleaning the servants' clothes. I have washed the clothes that Ye Yunmei went out yesterday. I have no problem now." Jin Xiuqing said.
"All right."
However, no one took the initiative to say that their abilities could make a difference.
Twenty meters is already beyond the range of normal abilities, and there are no suitable tools in the room. At this time, it was getting closer and closer to one o'clock in the afternoon.
"Then, vote, I promise to save that person. I have already rescued the two maids. Even if there is anything, it will be too late. In addition, I suggest that women should not go out this time. There is no ability to admit that they are body-enhancing types. Or, it is more convenient for men to get back and forth quickly." Mr. Zhou said lightly.
The wealthy businessman seemed to want to refute, but the rest of the people had no objections.
"In this case, we won't vote either." Miss Yan said proudly.
Everyone voted quickly. No one voted for Mr. Zhou or Professor Xu, but among the remaining people, He Shanyong actually got the most votes.
"Sorry, because you are stronger, you should be able to recover if something unexpected happens." Meng Juan explained, "Don't worry, everyone will do their best to help you."
He Shanyong's lips trembled twice, but he was not good at words, so he could only lower his head and rush into the garden. There were a series of footprints on the snow. For such a big man, it only took less than a few seconds to run twenty meters away and break off a plum blossom.
But in just a few seconds, He Shanyong's body began to slump downwards.
"Is the attack so fast?" Mr. Zhou frowned, "He Shanyong! Come back immediately!"
"I……"
He Shanyong let out a hoarse cry, turned around with a plum blossom branch, and yelled: "Where should I go? I can't see..."
Everyone was shocked to find that some small hands grew out of He Shanyong's face and neck. They twisted wantonly, and some even pressed into He Shanyong's eyes. Black liquid flowed out of his eye sockets. However, He Shanyong himself seemed completely He didn't realize this, but looked around to the left and right, very panicked.
"He Shanyong! Can you hear our voice? Come back immediately!" Meng Juan shouted.
"That man is lying!"
A sharp, female voice suddenly came out of He Shanyong's mouth. Then, many hands came out of his mouth, fell to the ground and began to crawl around in the snow with their fingers. Soon they became stiff and "died" due to the coldness of the ice and snow. On the ground.
"He told the truth!"
A rich voice came out again, and it was also not He Shanyong's original voice. After this sound, He Shanyong began to stagger forward, while some people in the room began to retreat slowly in fear.
"Those who lie should be punished! Those who tell the truth should be rewarded!"
He Shanyong began to get closer and closer. He began to raise his arms, and "hands" began to crawl out of his sleeves and trouser legs and fall to the ground. Those dead hands even began to form a road on the ground. Finally, He Shanyong, whose arm lost strength, let go of the plum blossom branch. At this moment, Tang Ling shook his hand, and several threads came out from his fingers. He caught the plum blossom branch in the air and pulled it back into the house, following Tang Ling. Zero simply cut off the lines and let them fall on the snow outside the house.
The exhausted He Shanyong fell outside the house. No one tried to save him. The situation at this moment once again proved that the risk of being outdoors was extremely high. He Shanyong could not even hold on for a few seconds before he was seriously infected to this point. No one knew why.
Five minutes later, He Shanyong's body turned into "hands" on the ground. These hands were all frozen to death in the snow. Before he died, he was still shouting "lies" and "lies" in an unknown voice. truth" content.
"Sacrifice one person to accomplish one thing." Miss Yan said softly, "But we still have no clue how to get out of here alive."
"Go back." Mr. Zhou shook his head, apparently no longer intending to study the corpse.
You can go back to your room to rest on your own between one to three o'clock, but after something like this happened, no one dared to stay in the room, for fear that they would quietly turn into monsters and not be able to call for help. He Shanyong was watched dead in front of everyone.
So everyone just went back to pack their luggage. No one wanted to keep this place anyway.
When Lu Ning returned downstairs, she found Tang Ling playing with a hard-shelled insect. Meng Juan sat aside and watched.
"You guys are pretty fast."
"I packed it up last night, but I just took the boxes downstairs. By the way, Lu Ning, have you studied these bugs?" Meng Juan asked.
"I can't study it with my ability."
"It doesn't matter, Tang Ling just tested it and her ability can be effective on these bugs."
Tang Ling moved his hand slightly, and the insect turned into a wire.
"No matter where they come from or what's special about them, they are still within the range of the supreme flesh and blood effect. Maybe we don't have to worry so much." Meng Juan smiled and said, "Lu Ning, you should also have certain defense capabilities, right? If you are not afraid If so, why not give those bugs a try and we can build a defense concept based on them."
"Building a defense concept? What does that mean?"
"Oh, this is my ability. If I can successfully construct this concept, I can empower it through my superpower, so that it can regulate natural rules within a certain range... This is my ability [Anti-God] The basic operating methods of [the son]." Meng Juan said, "Of course, only a few of us tourists know about it, don't tell others."
"Uh...I understand..."
Lu Ning was a little confused about Meng Juan's intentions, and Tang Ling didn't seem to have any objection to Meng Juan telling the secret of his ability. It seemed that Meng Juan's status in her heart was indeed not low. After that, Lu Ning went to the wooden plate to get a hard-shelled insect, and tested it with his own abilities. It turned out that the lightning on Judgment Day was too powerful, and any kind of it could electrocute the insect.
"How's the effect?"
"Too good..."
The three people were discussing in low voices, and people upstairs were dragging backpacks and suitcases down one after another. Qi Leyin looked a little panicked when she went downstairs. She ran to Lu Ning in a few steps and asked in a low voice, "Did you hear the sound?"
"What sound?" Lu Ning was confused.
"When I go out, there is always a voice talking in my ear, saying something like [Are you leaving?] [It will be lonely] and so on. It is still laughing. It makes my skin stand on end."
Lu Ning shook her head, she had never heard such a sound before.
Qi Leyin then asked Tang Ling, Meng Juan, and Mr. Zhou and Professor Xu who came downstairs later, but no one heard the sound again. She immediately became nervous, muttering something like "Am I going to be infected?" and sat in the corner of the sofa.
People came downstairs one after another, and after everyone else arrived, the atmosphere fell into silence. This period was supposed to be rest time, but everyone was gathered in the hall, which made it a little weird. Michael finally spoke to break the silence: "Well...where are the servants? If we don't rest, let them come out too?"
"They are resting well in the servants' room." Miss Yan stood up, "I'll go call someone."
"I'll go to the kitchen and take a look. Mr. Wei usually doesn't take a break at noon." Lu Ning also followed suit, "Who will go with me? It's not appropriate to act alone now."
"Me, I just want to bring some food." The lady also stood up.
"I'm going with Miss Yan." Mr. Zhou walked to the other side.
After the teams were divided, Lu Ning walked to the kitchen with the lady. Wei Haonan is usually busy in the kitchen, and there are often some snack foods in the warming cabinet. But this time they didn't see the chef when they arrived.
"Huh? Mr. Wei is basically in the kitchen except after resting at night." Lu Ning has a very good understanding of Wei Haonan's living habits these days. He loves cooking very much and does not feel that staying here is tiring at all.
"The food is still here. Maybe I went to get the ingredients." The lady approached the thermos cabinet disapprovingly. Through the transparent glass, she could see some food stored inside. She also pretended to choose it carefully, then opened the cabinet and took out a piece of lava cake.
Lu Ning was still wandering around the kitchen, while the lady walked to the side, cut the cake and took a bite.
"Wei Haonan's craftsmanship has always been so good. I really hope he is my personal chef instead of this unreliable master." The lady muttered. Lu Ning was too lazy to listen to her gossip and walked to a pot of soup. When Wei Haonan introduced various kitchen supplies to her before, he said that this pot was used for making soup stock, and he usually had to make stock stock for the next day every day. However, no one will be here tomorrow, and I don’t know what will be boiling in this pot now?
Lu Ning gently opened the lid of the pot. Steam came out from the pot along with a fresh fragrance. Two whole chickens and some spices were rolling in the pot. Some of the scary scenes she had started to imagine did not appear.
"We'd better find Mr. Wei quickly..."
Unexpectedly, as soon as she turned around, she saw the lady's back...like lava, it began to flow out of the back of the internal organs. The skin and muscles had melted, and the contents inside began to flow out. The lady was eating the cake as if she didn't realize it.
At the same time, the door was opened, and Wei Haonan was standing outside.
His eyes were bloodshot and his face was purple. He was holding a bundle of green onions in one hand and a boning knife in the other.
"Chef Wei? Just in time for you to come back... Huh?"
The noble lady wanted to stand up, but because her body's center of gravity was unstable, she fell to the ground. Once she fell, she could not get up again.
Lu Ning looked at Wei Haonan with a serious look: "Mr. Chef, it seems that your situation is not good?"
"I have the ability to eat everything... I can taste the taste of everything, and I can also know what the most delicious things in the world are. In the final analysis, human digestion and physical fitness determine most of the delicious food in the world. They can't taste it." Wei Haonan stepped into the kitchen and gasped.
"Your situation is not good. What did you eat?"
"Ha, ha, I don't know exactly what that is, but I feel very good now, it's great! It's like... it's like being one with the gods!" Wei Haonan shouted loudly, "Miss Lu Ning, Don’t you want to experience what this feels like?”
