Night is falling in Mei County.
Hesta found a convenience store and used the public phone there to dial Mihailo's number. Soon she heard a busy signal on the other end of the phone - the mobile phone number Mihailo had left for her had been Got an empty number.
This situation really made Hesta feel uneasy. She did not dare to delay and immediately rushed to Vera Nursing Center.
Although the barbed wire outside the glass door has come down, the lights are still on in the lobby of the care center and the front desk is still manned, albeit with a different face.
Hesta put down Eleven and quickly stepped forward to knock on the door.
The receptionist at night was a middle-aged man. He walked to the door and his face dropped when he saw Hesta's red hair.
"It's time to get off work!" Before Hesta could speak, the middle-aged man had already yelled at her in District 3 dialect, "Come back tomorrow if you have anything to do!"
"I'm looking for Dr. Mihailo," Hesta grabbed the barbed wire. "He asked me to contact him if I have anything to do, but now his phone can't be reached -"
"Doctor Mihailo is on vacation." The front desk replied, "No matter what you ask him for, please come back in two months!"
"On vacation?" Hestad couldn't believe it. "Why would he go on vacation if he's so good? He said yesterday morning -"
"Don't ask me! I don't know either!" The front desk began to turn the roller shutter on the inside of the glass door. "I will be responsible for watching the door at night. If you have anything to do, wait until tomorrow. Let's go!"
Hesta's loud banging on the door attracted the attention of passers-by. She forcibly retracted her hand, took a few steps back, and stared at the door in front of her without saying a word.
"simple?"
"Come." Hesta squatted down again.
"Where to go?"
"Mercury Needle Workstation," Hesta replied.
…
The street trees on both sides were flying backwards. The wind was strong at night and Hesta was running very fast. Eleven held Hesta's shoulders with one hand and held tightly to the basket of his car with the other.
However, at a certain corner, as Hesta turned sharply, the basket in Eleven's hand flew out with a "swish".
Eleven watched the scattered electrical panels and white car baskets scattered and tumbling on the ground. Her heart felt like a knife, but she still endured the heartache and tightly grasped the clothes on Hesta's shoulders.
"You owe me fifty yuan!" Eleven shouted, "Remember! You have to pay me back fifty yuan later!"
When there were still three blocks away from the workstation, Hesta put Eleven down. She handed her mobile phone into Eleven's hand and told her to stay in this place and not run around.
Eleven curiously took the phone and was about to ask Hestad what he was going to do, but Hestad had already run away.
Looking at Hesta's back, Eleven felt a little empty in her heart. She lowered her head and pressed Hesta's phone - even though it was a brick phone with a black and white screen, she quickly found the familiar greedy snake inside.
Shiyi looked around, randomly picked a closed shop, and sat directly on the steps in front of it.
There was only the sound of wind in all directions.
Suddenly, Eleven heard a strange sound. It sounded like the sound of an axe, but it came from a high place.
It's so late. Is anyone else upstairs doing renovations?
The pixel snake on the screen was moving at the fastest speed. Eleven held her breath and did not raise her head until a small amount of white dust fell from the top of her head and flowed from her bangs to the screen of her mobile phone.
"Why!"
Eleven made an operation error, and the words "Game over" appeared on the small black and white screen.
She stood up angrily and looked up to scold the culprit who caused her to die once in the game. However, the moment she looked up, she saw a face approaching quickly.
It can hardly be called a human face... On this bloody head, the skin coverage is less than 20%, which makes its round eyeballs directly exposed.
For an instant, Eleven seemed to be nailed to the ground, unable to move at all.
In just a few tenths of a second, it became as viscous as syrup. Eleven even saw a faint smile on this terrifying bloody face. There were obvious suture marks on the corners of its torn mouth. When it smiled, it was soaked in blood. The fresh flesh is pulled apart into black sutures——
"careful!"
The next moment, Eleven was carried by the collar more than ten meters away.
Behind her, there was a huge crash. The originally empty shop was filled with dust. The pillars at the door were broken, gravel was flying, and two afterimages were fighting in the hazy gray mist.
"……It's you?"
Eleven heard a familiar voice. She raised her head and realized that the person in front of her was the eldest sister who had taken her to a buffet before.
"Are you okay? Get out of here as soon as possible!"
Eleven opened his mouth tremblingly, but he still couldn't say a complete sentence. She watched the eldest sister who was by her side suddenly jump up, quickly climb up the outer wall of a nearby residential building, and then quickly rush towards the distant fighting point.
It wasn't until the man's figure disappeared that Eleven felt his limbs warm up a little, and regained some feeling in his hands and feet.
At this moment, a frightening siren sounded on the street, and some nefarious people quietly poked their heads out to see what was happening on the street. However, more residents along the street began to lock their windows, and there were people behind the windows and doors of each house. There was the sound of keys being released and the shutters being turned.
Eleven finally began to run away towards the way she came. She had never run as fast as she did today. Although the violent beating of her heart almost made her feel pain, she did not dare to slow down at all.
After rushing out of two blocks, Eleven suddenly remembered something and stopped suddenly.
She panted and looked back, then ran back two steps and hid behind a large potted plant.
The sound of fighting in the distance continued, and from time to time there were fierce collisions that echoed in the empty streets. Eleven tried his best to look far away, hoping to see the shadow of Hesta in the gray night. However, after a long time, except for those terrible sounds, nothing appeared there.
A series of tears fell. Eleven choked and looked around, wiping away the tears.
More soldiers came from the outer streets behind her. They drove away pedestrians and soon discovered Eleven behind the potted plants and forcibly took her away.
…
At the workstation, Hestad was filling out a visitor registration form under the watchful eye of two soldiers when the sounds of fighting broke out outside. Although she is currently not proficient in any language in the 14th District, most of the staff at the Mercury Needle Workstation can speak common language, and the communication between the two parties is smoother than outside.
The initial noise did not attract Hesta's attention. It was not until the unusual building damage caused the ground to tremble slightly that she realized that something was wrong.
She put down her pen and just stood up. The doors and windows of the entire workstation had automatically fallen down, and the familiar alarm sounded.
