It was another day when Gao Dongye would come to the store. Qi Su waited in the store early and looked forward to it.
Gao Dongye arrived on time, but this time he brought another person with him.
He looks very old, and the white coat at the experimental station looks empty on his rickety body.
There was a smile on his face, and his cloudy eyes narrowed into small slits, which made Qi Su feel strangely disgusted.
And Gao Dongye no longer felt as relaxed as when he arrived in the past, his face was sullen and his back was straight.
Qi Su put away the excitement on his face and looked at Gao Dongye questioningly, but he unexpectedly avoided Qi Su's gaze.
"Why, why don't you introduce me?" The old man with cloudy eyes said in a hoarse voice.
Gao Dongye hesitated for a moment, and finally introduced:
"This is my superior, Dr. Li Si."
Qi Su suddenly realized that he was his leader. No wonder he was so unnatural today.
It seems we can't chat together today.
Qi Su felt sorry, and then he warmly invited them to sit down, served them desserts and coffee according to their needs, and hid behind the counter to observe them quietly.
Strangely, the two seemed to rarely communicate.
Gao Dongye raised his cup of coffee to cover the complexity in his eyes, and said in a harsh voice:
"What are you doing here?"
Li Si still had that smile on his face, and the fork in his hand stirred the dessert on the plate, stirring it beyond recognition:
"I heard you like coming here very much and are quite curious."
As he spoke, he looked around and praised:
“It’s really a nice store.”
Gao Dongye's heart sank, and for a moment he wanted to get up and drag him out of the store, but he could only suppress his composure and said:
"Go back early after drinking. Today's experiment is not over yet."
Li Si's mouth curved into a strange arc, the corners of his eyes drooped, and he said in a joking tone:
"You won't even drink a cup of coffee with me? I'm so sad."
Gao Dongye took a deep breath and could only sit aside and wait for Li Si's inexplicable interest to dissipate.
Li Si picked up the porcelain spoon in the coffee cup, smiled meaningfully at Gao Dongye, and then relaxed his fingertips——
The sound of breaking porcelain echoed through the store.
Li Si pretended to bend down and wanted to pick it up, but Qi Su quickly stopped him:
"Let me do it."
Gao Dongye's face turned pale, and he stood up suddenly, only to catch a glimpse of the coldness in the corner of Li Si's eyes, and stood there blankly.
Qi Su knelt down and started to pick up the broken porcelain pieces on the ground. Li Si pretended to want to clean them up together, and stared at his picking hands, and inadvertently cut a wound on the back of his hand with the broken porcelain pieces.
"I'm sorry..." Li Si apologized exaggeratedly.
Qi Su shook his head indifferently:
"It doesn't matter."
He threw the fragments into the trash can, rinsed the wound under water, and then went about other things.
Gao Dongye's face was pale, and he watched the smile on Li Si's mouth getting bigger and bigger. His hoarse laughter gradually emerged from his throat, and what he said sent chills all over Gao Dongye:
"Look, surprises often appear unexpectedly."
…
Qi Su did not wait for the opportunity to talk to Gao Dongye next week, because three days after he and Li Si left, zombies broke out in their city.
He happened to be in the store with his parents at the time. The three of them worked together to pull down the rolling shutter door of the store, and then huddled together and shivered.
The appearance of zombies caught people off guard. In the first two days, you could hear the gunshots of the army clearing away the zombies. After that, you could hear nothing but the wails of the zombies.
They had to desperately realize that at least the disaster seemed to last for a long time. Fortunately, there were still desserts and coffee left in the store, so they would not starve to death for the time being.
But it is a dessert shop after all, and most of what is left is a series of dessert ingredients such as eggs, flour, chocolate and cream.
If these things are not supported by electricity for processing, they will quickly deteriorate and become rotten, and the remaining things that can be preserved cannot be imported.
Qi Su and his parents hurriedly made these things into dry food that could be stored for a longer period of time before the power went out.
Qi's mother looked at Qi Su's hand worriedly:
"Xiao Su, your hands..."
Qi Su lowered his head and looked at the back of his hand, which he had accidentally scratched while picking up pieces two days ago.
It stands to reason that such a shallow wound should heal in a few days, but this wound has begun to fester, the edges of the wound are red, and yellow pus will ooze out from time to time.
Qi Su frowned, thinking that he might have been infected by touching something dirty, so he raised his head and consoled him:
"It's okay, Mom, it'll be fine in two days."
Later, there was a power outage in the city and they were unable to turn on the lights. In the dark environment, everyone gradually lost their sense of time. No one knew how long they had been in the store.
The dry food I made earlier has started to go bad, leaving a sour and astringent taste in my mouth.
The most important thing is that there is not much drinkable water left.
Qi Su developed a high fever, and the tiny wound on the back of his hand now covered the entire back of his hand.
The flesh on the back of his hand rolled up, revealing the rotten scarlet flesh inside. The stench and blood smell filled the entire room, even leaking out through the crack in the door.
Four or five zombies stood in front of the rolling shutter door and knocked wildly on the rolling shutter door, roaring and trying to get in.
In order to make the dessert shop look better, there is nothing behind the rolling shutter door except a glass door. Once the outside door is lost, the family of three will be completely exposed to the eyes of zombies.
At that time, the whole family will be killed by zombies.
The Qi family's parents left a large amount of water to Qi Su. They had no medicine and no knowledge of medical science, so they could only use the most primitive methods.
Little by little, he consumed the only water source and kept wiping Qi Su's limbs in an attempt to lower the temperature.
"Xiao Su, Xiao Su, don't sleep, mom is here, open your eyes and look at mom..."
The son's life or death was uncertain, and there were zombies outside knocking on the door.
All of this is irritating the mother's nerves.
Qi's mother wiped Qi Su's hands and feet, and finally couldn't help but break down and cry. She didn't dare to cry too loud for fear of irritating the zombies outside, so she could only hug Qi Su tightly:
"Don't fall asleep, mom, please..."
Qi Su opened his eyes half asleep and was suddenly startled. Then he used his hands and feet to get up from the ground:
"quick……"
Qi's father and mother hurriedly supported him, while Qi Su struggled to move his legs and staggered toward the rolling shutter door.
"What's wrong?" the two old men asked at a loss.
"Someone is coming, the army is coming!!" Qi Su said breathlessly.
Only then did the two of them hear the faint sounds of gunshots and rolling wheels amid the roars of zombies one after another.
Qi Su pressed his ear tightly against the door, and after a while he said:
"Later... when the sound is close... knock on the door hard... tell them we are still here."
