"When I used to work at Eggman's Grocery Store, Grandma Feng next door would always scare the kid L, saying that when Ninth Street disappears, the fox will start talking."
"I want to eat meat. She said that any disobedient child will be eaten."
In the still-moving RV, Hu Fei saw the giant kite floating in the night sky through the windshield, and couldn't help but tell Yan Yueming the rumors he had heard before.
By this time, the hail had stopped, and the heavy rain turned into moderate rain, then light rain, and finally turned into sleet. The weather changed faster than Hu Fei changing gears while driving.
Snowflakes were falling, but they had not yet begun to pile up on the ground. The hooligans dissipated, and the gloomy sky regained some brightness. The sun struggled in the boundless darkness and returned brightness to the earth.
Yan Yueming glanced at the time. It was actually only 16:46 in the afternoon, and it was still more than ten minutes before five o'clock. But the worries and anxieties in Yan Yueming's heart were even worse than before. The vigilance of small animals told him that temporary peace may bring greater disasters.
Especially after hearing what Hu Fei said, Yan Yueming's heart skipped a beat, "Where is the ninth street?"
"Here -" Hu Fei just opened his mouth when he was interrupted by Dahuang's urgent cry. Then there was the agreed knocking sound on the roof of the car, and Hu Fei braked quickly.
Yan Yueming quickly held onto the back of the chair with quick eyes and hands, and then stabilized her figure. Huo Ran looked up and saw that Li Zheng had jumped from the roof to the front of the car and was standing with his back to them.
Looking beyond his tall back, Yan Yueming looked forward cautiously, only to see that the big tree in front of them had been blown down, blocking their way. But to make matters worse, an elephant slowly stepped out from behind the dense canopy of trees.
[Elephants are gentle and appear occasionally. Do not touch them because a blind person touches an elephant. 】
The third child's voice was still in his ears, but Yan Yueming's heart was lifted again. Because this elephant was not the blue-gray elephant he saw the night he first arrived in Hudi, but white.
The sudden appearance of the elephant represents "phenomenon" in Hudi. Blue-gray elephants are the most normal phenomenon, just like elephants in the real world, but white elephants represent "dangerous situations".
The white elephant glanced this way.
In an instant, goosebumps arose on Yan Yueming's arms and chills ran down his spine. He grasped the ax handle almost instantly and whispered "big yellow". Dahuang let out a "woof" and was ready to go.
Soon after, Li Zheng made another agreed gesture, which meant: blow the whistle.
"Beep-beep-beep-" Hu Fei was so nervous that he pressed the horn several times, but before the sound could even hit the ground, there was a knock on the door.
"Hey." Loquat and Taozi were like two mirror images, leaning together and making a scared sound. Yan Yueming followed the sound and looked over, only to see a person standing outside the door of the RV.
It was a woman wearing a floor-length cotton and linen dress. Her long gray-white hair was tied with a straw rope and hung down on the side of her neck. Her face was smooth and wrinkle-free, but she had many eyes. In addition to where the eyes should be, she has eyes on her forehead, cheeks, and neck, seven in total.
The NPC who feeds elephants is called Blind.
Some of those eyes were looking at Yan Yueming, and some were looking at other people. Their shapes and sizes were different, as if different people's eyes were on the same person. She also used a wooden cane
,
Slightly hunched back,
He raised his hand and knocked on the door, as if he wanted to get in the car.
Hu Fei was a local after all and was familiar with the road conditions. He opened the car door without Li Zheng's further reminder.
Yan Yueming swallowed, held down the slightly anxious Dahuang that was about to move, turned off the mic manually, and took it back to the passenger seat. Loquat and Taozi were still sitting in the innermost position, on the sofa by the window.
Blind started to get on the bus.
Here are some rules that Yan Yueming already knows.
[If you blindly ask for a ride, don’t refuse it]
[Don’t turn your back to her (except the driver)]
[Please remain silent in the car]
[If she drops her crutch, pick it up and hand it back to her left hand. Please note that it must be the left hand. 】
The right hand is the attacking hand.
If you hold the cane in your right hand, the cane will hit your head in the next second, causing your eyeballs to pop out, and then be crushed by a car.
[If she closes her eyes, note that all eyes are closed, then you will have two choices. Either, get out of the car quickly and escape; or, put a mirror in her hand. When holding the mirror, she will not open her eyes again, and you will gain short-term freedom. 】
coming.
Blind, who was walking tremblingly, finally got into the car and sat on the two remaining seats in the RV, namely the seats next to the dining table. Fortunately, the seat was sideways, and Yan Yueming, the co-pilot, was slightly sideways, so it didn't count as facing away and it wasn't a violation.
But in this way, Yan Yueming has to face a face full of eyes all the time. The feeling is so destructive that if he looks at it more, he will have nightmares at night.
But he had to look, and outside the RV, real zombies were coming.
The drainage system in Hudi is a mixed bag. Only an underground garage in the community named Hu was flooded, which was considered good, but not necessarily in other places. No, the rain stopped, and the water started to be released somewhere. The sound of rushing water came from a distance, and within a few moments, the water came.
A disgusting gray stream of water mixed with corpses and rotting fish bones rushed from the end of the road and headed straight for the RV. Zombies are originally very slow, but when the fishermen in Hudi turn into zombies, they will follow their instincts in life and continue to stand on their special boats, holding fishing rods, and speeding along the current.
But in the blink of an eye, Bianzhou and the zombies were already in front of them. Li Zheng took another look at the sky. The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the sky was starting to get dark again, as if the light from the sky just now was just an illusion.
He reached into the inner pocket of his windbreaker and took out a fire bag. "Hoo", he blew it out in one breath, and the fire light lit up. As he threw the fire stick high, the fisherman zombie uncontrollably threw out the fishing hook.
Huo Zhezi easily crossed the height of the roadside roof. Fishhook chased after him but failed to catch up. "Wow--" It lit up the sky, and suddenly, the dark sky was burned into a piece, showing a brilliant red.
The next second, the fishing hook caught the burning sky, the boat continued to move forward, the fishing line stretched straight, and the two sides began to see each other.
The fishermen of Hudi fish for the moon, the sun, the sky, and the earth. They can catch anything except fish.
In this car, Li Zheng raised his hand to catch the falling Huozhezi, tapped the windshield with the tip of his knife, and signaled Hu Fei to reverse the car. Hu Fei immediately put down the handbrake, shifted into reverse gear, and stepped on the accelerator, all at once.
Yan Yueming did not miss the flash of excitement in his eyes. Looking at the face that was still shy and even
With a timid baby face, he thought: Maybe this "Hu Fei"
, is "acting wildly"
"Hu Fei".
The RV backed away slowly, away from the trees, elephants, and fisherman zombies caught in the sky. But the way back is also difficult, because not only do you have to reverse, you also have to go against the current.
There was an intersection fifty meters away, and they had to take another route.
It is absolutely impossible to reach Yihong Boat by walking, it is too slow. Abandoning the car was the last option, so even though Yan Yueming was scared, he still stared at Blind, waiting for her to close her eyes.
As time passed by, Yan Yueming felt that his mind was filled with eyes and he was about to be mentally polluted. The blind girl sat there motionless, with only her blinking eyes proving that she was a living creature.
One minute……
Two minutes...
three minutes……
Five minutes later, the RV backed up to the intersection with difficulty and chose to turn right. And just when the vehicle turned right, the blind eyes finally closed one by one.
Yan Yueming tried his best to suppress his joy, and while using a "shush" motion to signal Dahuang to never make a sound, he took out a small round mirror the size of a palm from his backpack and tiptoed towards Blind.
The blind man never opened his eyes again.
Yan Yueming walked up to her without any danger and quietly put the mirror into her arms. However, just when he was about to let go, the instinct of the little animal came online, and the alarm bell rang in his heart, and he stopped immediately.
No, something is wrong.
Yan Yueming bent her stiff waist and looked down, only to see that there was an eye with a slit open in the neck that was covered by the blind chin.
She saw it.
Their eyes met, and a drop of cold sweat slid down Yan Yueming's temples. He clutched the mirror in his hand tightly, without blinking or saying a word, and kept smiling, motionless.
The blind man was motionless.
The two sides are in a stalemate.
In order to keep calm, Yan Yueming bit the tip of her tongue. Seeing so many pairs of eyes at such a close distance made Yan Yueming's scalp almost explode, but he knew he couldn't panic.
He didn't lose until the mirror was completely down.
He hasn't committed a foul yet, has he? There is no rule saying that passengers in the car cannot be so close.
Yan Yueming gritted her teeth and held on without even making a sound from Dahuang. It seems to him that the human dog is playing a very strange game with him where he can't make any sound and can only stare. It's strange, but it's fun.
Dahuang's eyes widened and he stared for five minutes. Just when it was about to bear it no longer, Blind finally closed its last eye.
Yan Yueming quickly let go and put the mirror into her arms, then took two steps back to distance herself. "Huh..." He leaned against the car and gasped for air.
Outside the window, night falls.
Unknowingly, the car had arrived near Hudi Kindergarten. Yan Yueming glanced at the kindergarten signboard lit up outside, and thought of the principal, Hazel, and 108 Treasures.
etc.
Isn’t the kindergarten still some distance away? Why are you here now?
Big gap change?
Path shortened?
No, that's not right.
Yan Yueming braved the cold sweat on his back and thought of another possibility, an answer he had not yet received. Where is Ninth Street? Now he probably doesn't need to know the answer because it's gone.
A piece of the map was missing and it was automatically stitched, so Hudi Kindergarten, which should have been far away, was right in front of us.
Li Zheng, who was still standing on the roof of the car, escorting the RV, also looked at the kite that had flown over the inner city from a distance. Maybe it was a gust of wind blowing, maybe it was because of something else, half of the fox's mask had fallen off and was crumbling. !
