008/Qiliu
Yingzhou closed the door hard, moved a chair, and placed it against the door.
He sat in a chair, his mind full of confusion.
One moment, the pig in front of me was rubbing against the door downstairs, and the other was the pig rolling on the floor in the living room.
The urge to vomit suddenly rose up in his throat, and Yingzhou could feel the sharp sour taste filling the base of his tongue.
He took out his cell phone and listened to the remaining few voices that Xu Wenling sent this morning.
"Zhouzhou. Your dad seems to have changed his gender these days. He told me to find a job in a while. He also said that he wanted to buy you a laptop when you were in college. I asked and he said yes. Friends who owed him money have paid off their debts.”
"By the way, after you are discharged from the hospital, remember to thank that classmate named Yuan Wenxin. He was the one who sent you to the hospital and paid for the medical expenses in advance. Such a good ward is expensive at first glance. My mother was very sad to hear that you were hospitalized. Yes. Mom has no future, I just want you to be safe."
Yingzhou rubbed his temples and turned to the contact list. After thinking for a moment between Lu Ren and Yuan Wenxin's accounts, he finally clicked on Yuan Wenxin's avatar frame.
Yingzhou: Is there any weird creature that can turn people into pigs? But no one around you can notice it?
Yuan Wenxin sent a reply a few minutes later: Are there only pigs?
This is a good question.
Yingzhou opened the door and walked to the entrance of the first floor with a stiff face. It's time to go home for lunch at noon, and there are people coming and going at the door.
"Hey, Yingzhou, why don't you go home for dinner? Your dad beats you again?" He said the words of concern, but his tone was a bit gloating.
After all, some people can only gain happiness from comparison.
Yingzhou glanced at it and saw that it was a frog. Its face turned white and its mouth became wide and big.
A motorcycle stopped at the bottom of the building.
The bear-like man walked into the unit door, with long dark brown hair sprouting from his skin.
This is the owner of the fruit stall downstairs. Enthusiastic and generous, he was criticized for a long time because he took pity on Xu Wenling and gave her fruits that were not bad several times. My wife also frowned several times.
Yingzhou also saw the mouse that was lame on one leg. He raised his head and glanced at him. The beard on his face twitched twice, looking very disdainful.
The mouse was a thief. A few years ago, he happened to be caught stealing something. He jumped out of the window and escaped, leaving him permanently disabled.
The neighbors are more or less alienated, but their faces are all vaguely recognizable.
Yingzhou felt like an outsider who had strayed into the animal world.
These people go out every day. If alienation occurs, no one will see it.
Therefore, the answer is that Yingzhou was the only one who noticed the abnormality.
Yingzhou’s hearing is very good now. He came home and stood at the door. Just as he was about to enter, he heard his stepfather's voice coming from inside. It seemed like he was on the phone.
"I suspect my son is crazy and I want to send him to a mental hospital. How much will you charge?"
"Yes, yes. I'm his guardian. The other guardian...oh, the kid fucking agreed. We can all sign."
Yingzhou's eyes lowered slightly, his mood clearly not fluctuating, but his fingers twitched slightly uncontrollably.
He smelled another scent in his nose.
The shadow on the ground suddenly separated into a thin black line, which floated and wrapped around Yingzhou's little finger.
Yingzhou raised his hand and looked at the sudden number of ring-like things with an expression full of surprise.
The inconspicuous trembling of his fingers stopped.
"Has grown up."
"Isn't it okay to be an adult?"
"So expensive?! It's a money grab!"
Yingzhou opened the door.
When his stepfather saw Yingzhou, his pale pig face turned red, and he hung up the phone abruptly, obviously too angry to speak.
"Hmph!" His voice turned into a pig's cry again, and there was a half-burned cigarette between the pink and white pig's hooves.
Yingzhou pursed his lips: "Don't move."
He raised his phone and took a photo of the human-pig in front of him.
In the photo, his stepfather is still the same as before; he is wearing a baggy POLO shirt and suit pants; the Sichuan pattern between his eyebrows is particularly obvious.
Therefore, Xu Wenling did not lie, she indeed did not see the pig.
But if everyone in the entire building became abnormal, how did Xu Wenling maintain the same condition?
Yingzhou returned to the bedroom and turned on his phone again.
Ying Zhou: More than that. There are other animals. And only I can see it.
Yuan Wenxin considered the language: There is a kind of scourge code-named "Farmer".
It was also the same thing in the previous life. The farmer's initial rating was E-level, and later it was adjusted to B-level.
Hazard levels: S, A, B, C, D, E.
The institute's overall evaluation of the disaster is the result of a comprehensive evaluation of three indicators: scope of the treacherous area, speed of spread, and individual intensity.
S-level, a rare species of world-destroying, an eternal nightmare. An attack can completely collapse human society.
Level A, the treacherous domain covers a very wide area and is estimated to cause tens of millions of deaths. Class B, one million. Class C, 100,000. D, ten thousand. E, hundreds of people.
For ordinary people, this level actually has no reference value, and it is a dead end when encountering it.
Yuan Wenxin: After it develops, the mysterious realm it forms is called "Animal Farm." This mysterious realm is very special. Although a closed field will also be formed, people inside can enter and exit freely. Moreover, humans who have been alienated into animals still maintain their sanity and a certain sense of life form. *
Yuan Wenxin: Later, like the "Ship of Fools", it was even promoted as a paradise where people could take refuge in the doomsday, and some people went out of their way to find it and join it. But in fact, the animals inside are just slaves of the farm owner. There is no real Eden in the last days.
Yuan Wenxin: Have you met the farmer?
Yingzhou did not answer this question directly: Is this also what you dreamed about?
Yuan Wenxin:.
Yingzhou: What are the characteristics of a farmer?
Yuan Wenxin: It is a pig.
Yes, a pig. The breed is an ordinary large white pig. Because it is not strong enough to be a breeding pig, it has been gelded since childhood.
It died one morning, and people bled it. It was not dead at that time, so it screamed extremely miserably. It broke free from the rope and ran away, but was dragged back by several young and strong men.
People boil it with boiling water and pluck out the pig hair. The big pig was disemboweled and was taken from the farm to the meat market in bits and pieces.
The person who eats it becomes the earliest member of Animal Farm.
The farmer cannot be said to be alive, but his memory of being a pig slowly revives in the person who became a pig.
Finally, the minds of humans and pigs merged, and the original "farmer" was born.
Ordinary people who come into contact with these "animal people" will gradually begin to alienate and eventually become one of them. Just like people who die at the hands of the shadow will become the ghost that harms the shadow.
Yuan Wenxin continued to input: But it is difficult to detect animal people in the early stage, but the dark parts of their personalities will gradually be amplified. It will basically take a year for the infected people to complete the transformation from humans to beasts.
Yuan Wenxin: So, are you sure you saw Animal Man?
Yingzhou couldn't help but look up and glanced at the small mirror on the table.
In the mirror, his pupils were still light amber, like glass.
Yingzhou closed his eyes and opened them again. The shadow that should have been on the ground floated up, like a mist, standing behind him.
At this moment, his eyes showed a touching pink color. It's not as eerie as red, but it's also not the iris color that humans should have.
Yingzhou: Yeah.
Yuan Wenxin: Where?
Most people have little experience when encountering strange creatures for the first time.
By the time Animal Farm was discovered, Animal People had already overrun the city.
If farmers could be dealt with at the source in the early stages of recovery, the farm that caused so much chaos might not happen again.
This time Yuan Wenxin waited for a long time, and it was obvious that Yingzhou was weighing the pros and cons.
Finally, Yingzhou sent a message: My home.
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Half an hour later.
A black Mercedes-Benz stopped at the entrance of the alley. The driver stopped the car and respectfully opened the rear compartment door.
Yuan Wenxin stared at the smelly dirty water on the ground and hesitated for a full 0.5 seconds before stepping on his golden feet.
Yingzhou, who was waiting for him on the roadside, sneered: "Why don't you ask someone to lay out a carpet?"
"I think you may have some misunderstandings about me."
Yuan Wenxin has performed missions in even harsher environments. But after being back for so long, I did pick up some bad habits again.
The old community has complex terrain and narrow roads, with electric vehicles and tricycles parked on both sides. There were stalls on the roadside, and obviously there was no room for Yuan Wenxin's private car to use.
Yuan Wenxin followed Ying Zhou, looking left and right with great interest.
He said: "I dreamed about this place in my dream. But by then, it was already full of flowers. It was beautiful."
The so-called precognitive dream is just an excuse Yuan Wenxin made for himself to be reborn.
The flowers are left by Tai Sui. That day was Xu Wenling's death anniversary.
The Ability Bureau has been squatting here for a long time, hoping to catch it.
They did not see Tai Sui. They only smelled the fragrance of flowers in the second half of the night and fell into a deep sleep.
However, in the early morning of the next day, Yuan Wenxin was the first to open his eyes. The colleague beside him had a smile on his face, but there was no heartbeat anymore.
That action. More than half of people die in sweet dreams.
But in troubled times, such a peaceful death is not a blessing.
There are countless ways to deal with disasters in human beings, and Tai Sui uses the gentlest one.
Yingzhou was not very interested in his topic.
He led Yuan Wenxin home and asked casually, "In my eyes, everyone in the building has turned into animals. Except my mother, what's going on?"
Yuan Wenxin paused in his steps: "Some people are gifted and don't need a source of evolution. As long as they come into contact with strange creatures, they can evolve supernatural powers."
But the people at the institute collected thousands of cases and couldn't find any pattern.
It's like God rolling dice, it all depends on luck.
"Weird creatures and superpowers are essentially the same species. If they are already of the same species, they are less likely to be infected again. Your mother is not necessarily a farmer. Besides, isn't she not alienated?"
Yingzhou then slowly breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay."
Yingzhou was in and out a lot today. When he took Yuan Wenxin home, Xu Wenling was about to go to work.
She is currently working as a part-time cashier in a supermarket. Her working hours are from 2 pm to 10 pm, and her monthly salary is 3,600.
Xu Wenling used to work in a local shopping mall. She has no diploma, but she is young and good-looking.
During the two months of the Chinese New Year, the salary plus commission can even reach five figures.
It's a pity that his face is often stained, and his stepfather Li Yang will go to the mall to cause trouble if he doesn't get money. Although the team leader sympathizes with this poor woman, he still can only expel her.
When she saw Yuan Wenxin, Xu Wenling was surprised: "Isn't this Xiao Yuan? Are you coming to play at home?"
They met at the hospital.
Xu Wenling hurriedly opened the shoe cabinet. She originally wanted to get the slippers, but after looking at the cracked rubber soles of the slippers and Yuan Wenxin's expensive shoes, she felt awkward for a moment and closed the cabinet door.
"There are no slippers at home, so you can just step on them. You're welcome." The smile on Xu Wenling's face was very kind and gentle. "This is the first time for Xiaozhou to bring a classmate home. Unfortunately, Auntie has to go to work and can't entertain you."
Yuan Wenxin's reply was equally gentle and polite: "It's okay, auntie, I'm the one disturbing you."
I couldn't see the unconcealed arrogance that I had in the car before.
Yingzhou didn't like such courtesy: "Where is Li Yang?"
At home, except for the first few years, he never called his stepfather "Dad."
Xu Wenling was a little embarrassed: "Your dad went out to buy cigarettes."
Yingzhou grabbed Yuan Wenxin's arm and pulled him into his bedroom.
Xu Wenling looked back at his back and hesitated to speak.
After all, she didn't say anything and closed the door gently.
Yuan Wenxin turned to look at the door, suddenly narrowed her eyes and said, "Do you hate her?"
Yingzhou frowned, and the little goodwill he had left was in jeopardy: "We are not that familiar, right? Or do you want to use words to sting or anger me?"
Yingzhou always felt that Yuan Wenxin knew him too well, which made him feel uneasy and annoyed about the unequal information.
Yuan Wenxin smiled and did not answer.
Yingzhou pulled him to his bedroom. Single bed, desk, chair and window. There was no other furniture.
There were a row of storage boxes on the floor and a plastic stool next to the bed. There is a world map taped to the wall.
Yingzhou put away the debris on the stool, pulled out the chair in front of the desk and sat down, gesturing for Yuan Wenxin to sit on the stool.
The room is not big, the distance between two people is less than half a meter.
Yuan Wenxin had never held a meeting in such a narrow "meeting room", and no one served tea here.
He felt slightly uncomfortable.
Maybe it's because this location is too close to Yingzhou. It's really too close.
Yuan Wenxin felt that if he straightened his legs, he could kick Yingzhou's ankles. I don’t know how Ying Zhou is so tall, but his ankles are so... erotic? Especially his feet were turned up, and his straight legs were wrapped in school pants. The toes move little by little with the breathing.
Yuan Wenxin felt that he should find some more civilized words to describe it, but these two barbaric words kept turning over in his mind.
The air is filled with a special floral fragrance, very light.
Yingzhou asked straight to the point: "I saw two pigs in total. How can I tell who is the farmer? Or who is the scourge. After the scourge is eliminated, what will happen to the other deformed people?"
"It's early days now, and the Animal People are not completely deformed yet. This transformation is reversible. As long as they stay away from the source of pollution, they will gradually return to normal."
Just like eating, blood sugar will rise, but not all blood sugar rises will develop into diabetes.
"Also, what you see is not a scourge, it can only be said to be the early hosts of the scourge. And some people will transform into pigs. Which two pigs did you see? Take me to see them. Really meet these hosts , the bugs in my body will react."
"One is my stepfather, and the other is downstairs." Yingzhou couldn't hide his disgust as he thought of Wang Wenshan, "You go alone...forget it, I'll go with you."
He wanted to see how Yuan Wenxin dealt with it.
This is a very valuable experience.
Yingzhou took out his cell phone, turned to Wang Wenshan, whom he had blocked for many days, and removed him from the blacklist.
-at home?
Wang Wenshan’s reply was quick: Yes, yes.
He seemed to have no memory of what happened that morning, and his tone was full of ingratiation.
-Do you want to come and sit at home? I bought the snacks you like.
Yingzhou never eats anything given by Wang Wenshan, except if it comes in its own sealed packaging.
Yingzhou: OK.
He raised his head and said to Yuan Wenxin: "Let's go."
Wang Wenshan lives downstairs.
Yuan Wenxin followed Yingzhou and suddenly said in a good mood: "It's fun. We are looking for pigs in the city."*
