Monster Girlfriend(Apocalypse) 29

Chapter 29

The duty room was as silent as if no one existed. Xia Weishuang knocked on the door for the third time.

After a moment, a weak voice came from inside the door. “Is there something?”

Xia Weishuang took a step back and stood behind Sang Lu. “We’re leaving. Do you want to come with us?”

The pregnant woman inside seemed a little flattered. “Together? No, no, I’ll just stay here.”

Xia Weishuang asked, “Did you hear the commotion outside just now?”

The pregnant woman said weakly, “I heard it, but I didn’t dare to go out and look. There’s no sound now, so it should be fine, right?”

Xia Weishuang said, “Yes, it’s fine.”

The pregnant woman said again, “You’re really amazing. Since you’ve already killed a monster, and it’s not convenient for me to move, I won’t trouble you. I’ll just continue to hide here.”

Xia Weishuang tickled Sang Lu’s palm. She found that after getting closer, Sang Lu was looking at the door in front of her with an interested expression.

“Ma’am, that monster ate a lot of people. Why are you okay?”

The pregnant woman was silent for a moment, then said weakly, “I just came here yesterday. I’m not sure.”

“Ma’am, can you open the door?”

“I’m sorry, please understand that I’m alone and I don’t dare—ah!”

Crack, crack.

Sang Lu reached out and directly removed the door.

The door leaned crookedly at the entrance, threatening to slide to the ground at any moment, revealing a gap the width of half a person. It was already near dusk, and the light had softened a lot, shining into the duty room and forming an elongated patch of light at the entrance.

The patch of light extended to the small bed in the duty room. The dimness of the room enveloped the small bed, and the woman with messy long hair, pale and thin, was sitting on the small bed with a terrified expression.

“What are you doing? Didn’t I say I’d let you have everything outside? I have nothing. Please, please let me go!”

When such a weak woman pleaded with others so pitifully, it could almost instantly arouse their pity.

Xia Weishuang’s gaze swept over this simple little room. She saw food packaging bags all over the floor, a small table lamp on the table, as well as a lighter, a small medicine box, and a greasy knife, fork, and cutting board.

“Ma’am,” Xia Weishuang said in a low voice, “if we let you go, will you let others go?”

The pregnant woman’s eyes were filled with tears. She clutched the quilt and said, “I don’t understand what you’re saying.”

So Xia Weishuang said, “For the sake of the thing in your belly, you’ve killed so many of our compatriots. Don’t you feel any guilt?”

The pained expression on the woman’s face froze for a moment, and then she pleaded in an even more humble tone, “You can see that I’m pregnant? I’m just a pregnant woman. I can’t do anything. I really don’t know what you mean.”

Sang Lu pushed the door panel aside and took a step inside.

The pregnant woman immediately let out a small scream, covered her stomach with her hands, and shrank back. But behind her was a wall, and there was no more room to retreat.

Sang Lu walked up to her, bent down slightly, and stared at the belly hidden under the thin quilt with a probing expression.

“What are you trying to do?” the pregnant woman cried. “I really haven’t hurt anyone.”

Xia Weishuang seemed to close her eyes as if she couldn’t bear it and said, “Yes, you didn’t do it yourself, but the monster outside came from you. It preys on humans to feed the thing in your belly.”

“How is that possible? If I’m with the monster, why would I be obediently waiting for death here? You’ve really misunderstood!”

Xia Weishuang said, “Because you’re a smart woman.”

“No, I don’t understand…”

“You know that Sang Lu won’t let it go, so you sacrificed a pawn to save the king, just to clear your own suspicion, sacrificing the thing outside to trick Sang Lu into leaving. Although the loss is heavy, at least you can save your life.”

The pregnant woman was still shaking her head in fear. Xia Weishuang could only say, “Then stand up.”

The pregnant woman stopped moving.

Her excited expression gradually subsided, and she was a little puzzled. “How did you know?”

Xia Weishuang replied coldly, “That’s none of your business. I just figured out that the monster outside is not something else, but a placenta.”

The curve of Sang Lu’s lips widened. She seemed a little excited. She reached out, her hand once again turning into the shape of a claw covered in white scales, and was about to stab at the pregnant woman’s belly.

“Wait!” The pregnant woman quickly and clumsily fell to the side, crawling a few steps to avoid Sang Lu. A dark, thin tube seemed to have slipped from under the quilt. She said, “You can’t kill me!”

Sang Lu, like a cat toying with a mouse, followed the pregnant woman’s direction with her gaze with great interest. It was just that she was staring at the pregnant woman’s belly from beginning to end and seemed to have no interest in the pregnant woman herself.

The pregnant woman also knew that her and her baby’s chance of survival was in the hands of this human woman. She cried out to Xia Weishuang, “Why are you doing this to me? We are clearly the same kind. Your relationship with this woman is not ordinary, right? You are also raising this special life. Why do you want to kill us? Besides, I am a mother. Is it wrong to favor my own child?”

“That is no longer your child. Originally, the umbilical cord was connected to the placenta, and the placenta was connected to you. But now, the nutrients the placenta is taking are the lives of others, not you… It is still hidden in your belly, not because you are its mother, but because it can hide its aura in your belly, which is safer,” Xia Weishuang said. “It wants the lives of others, and it will also drain your life.”

The image of the woman in the premonition, as thin as a dried-up human, was still in her mind. And now, this pregnant woman had not yet reached that weak state.

“I heard that a fetus will secrete hormones to make the mother produce maternal love, in order to ensure its own life. They continuously plunder the mother’s nutrients without stopping. Obviously, the one in your belly is even better at this.”

The pregnant woman huddled into a ball and pleaded, “No, no, that is my child. Isn’t the one next to you the same… We can be friends. Ordinary people won’t understand our feelings and situation. Please let me go. If there’s anything in the future, I will definitely do my best to help you, okay? Please, please, we are clearly the same. You can’t do this to me.”

Xia Weishuang said, “You’re wrong. We are not the same. I will not use the lives of my compatriots to feed Sang Lu, nor will I stand by and watch her hurt others without doing anything. Besides, Sang Lu is different from the thing in your belly.”

This ruthless statement directly divided them into two different kinds of people. The fearful and pleading expression on the pregnant woman’s face instantly turned cold and stern. “What nonsense are you talking about? How dare you say this woman is different? I thought you were so smart, but you’re just a self-deceiving fool!”

Xia Weishuang was unmoved. Sang Lu seemed to have had enough of the show and once again reached for the pregnant woman’s belly.

Just at this moment, the pregnant woman’s abdomen suddenly swelled, growing to one and a half times its original size at a frighteningly fast speed. The pregnant woman herself quickly became thin, her cheeks and eyes deeply sunken, and her arms were like skin and bones, as if in that very short period of time, the flesh and blood under her skin had quickly turned into nutrients to supply the thing in her belly.

At the same time, the pregnant woman suddenly jumped up. She herself screamed, because this was not of her own will, but the creature in her abdomen was trying to escape.

She had suffered internal injuries. This pain made her face contort and she broke out in a cold sweat.

“No—”

The pregnant woman trembled as she hugged her belly, rolled over, and fell to the ground. Her belly suddenly began to bulge with sharp, strange things. With a tearing sound, a spray of blood burst out, and a monster much larger than a normal baby drilled out, covered in blood.

Its head was the size of a basketball, and its body was more like an insect with a soft shell than a human. A one-meter-long broken umbilical cord was connected to its abdomen. The worst part was that this monster had only one large, vertical black eye on its head. It was covered in blood, and exuded a strange and sinister evil.

This one move had almost killed the pregnant woman. She lay on the ground, unable to move, but her eyes were still following her child.

The bloody monster jumped and screamed as it quickly fled towards the door, leaving behind a trail of bloody prints. Sang Lu’s eyes flashed with excitement, and she chased after it without hesitation.

Xia Weishuang couldn’t bear to look at the pregnant woman’s miserable state. She didn’t sympathize with her ending, but she was still not used to seeing such a miserable and bloody sight on a living person.

Xia Weishuang covered her with her thin quilt, hiding the miserable state of the woman’s abdomen.

“Why… why are you doing this to us? My child just wants to live. Humans eat animals, it eats humans. What’s wrong with that?”

Xia Weishuang suddenly felt a little absurd. Did the woman in front of her not realize that she was also one of the ones being eaten? So Xia Weishuang said, “There’s nothing wrong with it. Your child eats humans, and Sang Lu wants to eat your child. There’s nothing wrong with that either.”

The woman took a long, deep breath, making a sound like a broken bellows.

The excessive blood loss made the woman feel cold all over and she kept shivering. Her mind seemed to be getting unclear. She murmured, “His name is Yunfei. The great wind rises, and the clouds fly. He must be a very outstanding child… He is my hope, Yunfei, my Yunfei. You were supposed to soar to the sky. Will they remember your name, Yunfei…”

“What about you?” Xia Weishuang asked, looking at her gradually dilating pupils. “What’s your name?”

Even in death, she was still thinking about that monster. The controlled mother, did she not consider herself at all?

The dying woman suddenly fell silent. Then her cold, thin hands, like five wooden sticks, tightly gripped Xia Weishuang’s wrist, with a force that seemed to have burst out all the remaining energy of her life.

Her eyes suddenly became extremely fierce, staring at Xia Weishuang deeply, as if to see through her completely.

The woman chuckled strangely. “That woman is very scary. You can’t resist her, just like I can’t resist him. Have you ever thought that if one day she also wants to eat people… a monster is a monster. At that time, what can you do…”

Thud. The woman’s hand fell to the ground. She fell into an eternal slumber, with a curse and ridicule for Xia Weishuang.

Xia Weishuang pursed her lips and forcefully pulled her hand out of the woman’s.

It seemed that she had been squatting for a long time. When she stood up, her vision went black for a moment.

Xia Weishuang bent over and supported herself against the wall, taking a long time to calm down.

She followed the bloody prints on the ground and found that the monster had not yet escaped this small supermarket before it was caught by Sang Lu. A round, shiny crystal fell to the ground. The monster’s body seemed to have been cut open. Sang Lu’s hand was in the shape of a claw, and she had hooked out a piece of red meat from the inside.

This piece of meat was only the size of a palm, a small, long strip, with hundreds of fleshy tentacles extending radially from its periphery. When it was hooked out, it was still slowly moving, contracting and expanding.

Xia Weishuang subconsciously analyzed it and came to a slightly strange conclusion: this seems to be a piece of tenderloin…

Then, she saw Sang Lu tilt her head back, open her mouth, and swallow the piece of meat and the crystal together.

Xia Weishuang: “…Ugh! Wait, I’ll wash it for you!”

Xia Weishuang rushed to Sang Lu’s side and tried to pry open her jaw. Sang Lu’s face was splattered with some blood. She obediently opened her mouth for Xia Weishuang to see—sharp, white teeth, a tempting red tongue, and an empty mouth.

It’s over. She’s already eaten it.

Xia Weishuang hugged Sang Lu in frustration and lightly tapped her on the back. “You’re not allowed to kiss me for three days!”

Sang Lu: “…………”

“Really, why do you eat everything? I don’t even know if it’s clean. Fortunately, there are daily necessities in this small supermarket. You have to brush your teeth well later, sigh.”

“…”

“Sang Lu?”

Although Sang Lu was usually very silent and often willfully did not respond, it was rare for her to not react at all when the two of them were hugging.

At the very least, Sang Lu should have patted her head to comfort her, right?

Xia Weishuang was a little strange, and then she felt that the person in front of her was getting heavier and heavier. Xia Weishuang quickly increased her support and hugged Sang Lu, who was leaning towards her.

Sang Lu is really heavy, much heavier than before.

This thought flashed through Xia Weishuang’s mind, and then she had no time to think about anything else. She tried her best to support Sang Lu’s head so that she wouldn’t hit it. In the end, she herself also sat on the ground.

Sang Lu was lying in her arms, sleeping quietly.

This was the first time.

Xia Weishuang looked down at Sang Lu’s quiet sleeping face, reached out and brushed her long hair to the sides. It seemed that this was the first time she had seen her like this since their reunion.

Like a sleeping beauty. I wonder if the trigger for her to wake up is a true love’s kiss.

With this thought, Xia Weishuang became more and more itchy. Those crimson lips were so soft, like chilled jelly… Xia Weishuang gradually lowered her head, as if bewitched, and moved closer to Sang Lu’s red lips, completely forgetting the rule of no kissing for three days.

A desolate “Good children don’t!” instantly pulled Xia Weishuang’s soul back. Xia Weishuang shot up straight, coughed dryly, and looked at the front of the supermarket with a serious expression.

Outside the dilapidated window, Xia Qingxue’s two hands were stretched out in mid-air. “…look.”

Mi Lele covered her own eyes and sighed. “I know.”

Ke Xiaoxiao: “…”

Xia Weishuang’s cheeks were slightly red. “…Stop messing around. Come and help me first.”

So the few of them stepped into the supermarket, gathered around Xia Weishuang, and stared at the sleeping Sang Lu together.

She didn’t know if it was because she sensed someone approaching, but Sang Lu suddenly moved uneasily, her brows furrowed slightly, and her hand slapped the air.

Xia Weishuang held her hand comfortingly, briefly explained what had happened, and said in a low voice, “Sang Lu suddenly fell asleep. It seems she’s going to digest what she just ate. It’s late now. Can we stay here for one night and leave tomorrow?”

“I have no objections. Anyway, the monsters here have all been eliminated by Sister Sang Lu.” Xia Qingxue shrugged and made a joke. “Sister Sang Lu won’t let you be threatened by others. She will only threaten you herself. I believe it’s safe enough here.”

The others had no objections either. But if they were to spend the night here, they had to tidy up.

The duty room was not a place to sleep. They moved the body of the pregnant woman, whose name they didn’t know even after she died, outside and placed it together with the monster that was called the gasoline monster but was actually a placenta. The remains of the monster baby were also thrown there.

The bodies were not dealt with for the time being. These mutated monsters carried a smell similar to that of zombies, which could cover up the scent of living people.

Then they used shelves, cabinets, and the like to block the doors and windows of the small supermarket, swept the floor, and made do for the night in the supermarket.

In fact, this night was not difficult to get through. Because the gas station’s backup generator had not yet stopped, there was still electricity inside the small supermarket, and there was a lot of food in the supermarket.

The few of them decided to be extravagant for once. Tonight, they would just pick up whatever they wanted to eat from the floor. If they wanted to eat instant noodles, they would boil water. If they wanted to eat potato chips, they would crunch on them together.

Xia Qingxue was having a great time collecting things. This small supermarket had a pretty complete selection of things, which made Xia Qingxue a little troubled.

“What do I do!” Xia Qingxue grabbed her hair and said in pain. “My space is not enough!”

Xia Weishuang said helplessly, “You pick the useful things. Don’t take all sorts of random things.”

Xia Qingxue could only squat to the side and pick and choose. After she was done, she took out a crystal, held it, and began to meditate and absorb it. As the saying goes, sharpening a spear at the last minute is better than nothing. Whether it was useful or not, she would just sharpen it first.

And Xia Weishuang looked at this small supermarket and suddenly thought of something. She asked, “Do you have a mobile phone?”

After the power went out, the mobile phone became a decoration. In addition, they had been on the move all the way, so Xia Weishuang’s and Xia Qingxue’s mobile phones were lost.

Mi Lele and Ke Xiaoxiao both shook their heads.

So Xia Weishuang said, “Then everyone, look for a power bank. Charge it up. It might be useful in the future.”

This supermarket didn’t sell power banks, but they found one in the drawer of the duty room, charged it, and put it away.

It was late at night, so everyone began to rest. After all, there were no entertainment activities at night. The small supermarket did sell toys, but they were only suitable for the youngest Mi Lele. The child went to bed early and put them down after playing for a while.

To let Sang Lu digest quietly without being disturbed, Xia Weishuang and she rested alone on one side. When the lights were turned off, it was pitch-black. Only a little dim starlight would shine through the cracks in the window.

In the darkness, Xia Weishuang looked at the sleeping Sang Lu and couldn’t fall asleep for a long time. The scene of her devouring the piece of meat kept replaying in her mind.

The woman’s strange, mocking voice suddenly sounded in her mind: “Have you ever thought that if one day she also wants to eat people… a monster is a monster. At that time, what can you do…”

“Sang Lu.” Xia Weishuang moved closer from the side, gently hugged her, intertwined her fingers with hers, and said, “You are an esper. You have to be.”

**

August 17, 2021, morning, sunny.

Xia Weishuang and the others were leaving the gas station.

They had picked up a few car keys from the belly of the placenta monster, tried them one by one, and found that they all worked. So they simply drove two cars away, so they wouldn’t run out of cars.

Sang Lu was transported into a white car together with them. This car was driven by Xia Weishuang, and also carried Mi Lele.

The other black car was driven by Xia Qingxue, and carried Ke Xiaoxiao.

Before leaving, Xia Weishuang set fire to the broken fuel storage tank. The tank had long been broken with a large hole, and the oil inside was almost empty. In this state, it was not easy to cause an explosion.

And next to the gas station was a concrete floor, and the surroundings were barren, forming a natural firebreak, so there was no need to worry about the fire spreading.

The fire would burn the strange corpses in the gas station, so they wouldn’t be touched by zombies or something, and cause a new round of mutation.

Because the front of the small supermarket was covered by the collapsed ceiling, the fire generally couldn’t burn over. Before leaving, Xia Weishuang also poured some water that she couldn’t take with her in front of the small supermarket to reduce the chance of a fire.

In the afternoon, the sky suddenly turned gloomy, and a light rain began to fall.

On the eighth day of the zombie outbreak, it finally rained again.

The car window was open. When the raindrops floated in, they were cool on her face. Just as Xia Weishuang was about to roll up the window, Sang Lu suddenly opened her eyes.

She reached out and caught the rain, seeming to like it very much. She even climbed out directly, and with an incredibly soft posture, she climbed from the car window to the roof of the car.

Sang Lu sat on the roof of the car, her face tilted up, enjoying the baptism of the rain.

Drip, drip, drip, drip…

The fine rain was like a curtain. They passed through one after another, forward, forward.

Xia Weishuang suddenly wanted to know what Sang Lu was feeling now. Did she like the rain so much? Yes, she should like the rain.

So Xia Weishuang once again violated the traffic laws, driving with one hand and sticking the other out of the window.

She caught the rain with her hand, caught the coolness.

Suddenly, another hand held hers, from outside the window, from above, cool, soft, and moist, as if it were just a casual touch, yet so natural. Xia Weishuang was taken aback, smiled faintly, and intertwined her fingers with hers.

On this summer day with a light rain, they were half an hour’s drive from their destination.