Chapter 52
Behind her was a cold and soft touch. Xia Weishuang was embraced, as if she had fallen into a swamp that she could not escape from.
She gently asked the monster behind her who was infinitely greedy for her, “Sang Lu, do you… still want to eat me?”
Just as she finished asking, she felt the arm that was wrapped around her tighten for a moment. The beautiful demon trembled behind her ear and let out a vague murmur, “I do…”
Along with her voice, there was a sound like a whisper in her ear, and also a chilling, fine sound like a hungry stomach. It was as if the monster that preyed on people was about to be unable to hold back its appetite and tear its prey apart and devour it.
Xia Weishuang gently covered her mouth. At this moment, she was actually a little afraid that her breathing was too loud, afraid that it would stimulate the person behind her.
No, it can’t be like this.
She said she would change.
Xia Weishuang’s cheeks twitched nervously. She thought of Sang Lu’s simple and cruel words and actions before.
Xia Weishuang softened her voice to make herself sound calmer. She slowly asked, “Sang Lu, how much do you still remember about the past?”
“Gulp.”
In the quiet night, a very clear sound came from Xia Weishuang’s ear. It was right by her ear, as if Sang Lu couldn’t help but swallow her saliva.
Xia Weishuang’s whole body immediately stiffened.
Fortunately, Sang Lu did not do anything terrible. She just suddenly sat up, panted twice, and made the sound of grinding her teeth and swallowing her saliva.
“So hungry…”
Xia Weishuang pressed against the bedsheet, her hand slowly moving up.
Crack! Creak—creak—
The sound of chewing on a hard object came from behind.
Before Xia Weishuang could touch the bottle of high-concentration white wine, Sang Lu, like a beautiful and terrifying Styx jellyfish in the deep sea, with her long hair hanging down like tentacles, slowly passed over her.
Xia Weishuang was as stiff as a stone sculpture, motionless, watching as she put a piece of crystal into her mouth and swam into the cool, watery night and gradually disappeared.
The shadows of the trees were swaying outside, and the night wind was cool. Xia Weishuang suddenly sat up, her heart pounding dully.
She closed the window, sprayed a thick layer of mosquito repellent on herself, sat back in the car, closed the car door, and began to pant.
Just now, she actually had a feeling that she was about to be eaten by Sang Lu. This was really too much. She thought she should try to believe Sang Lu, to believe her recent performance, but the price of wrongly believing Sang Lu was too great. Xia Weishuang could not afford it.
She had to be cautious and not let her guard down.
Xia Weishuang took out a few crystals from the bag in the back seat, took one and absorbed it. One at a time was her normal digestion amount now. After absorbing one, she had to wait for a day before she could calmly perform the next absorption.
In fact, Xia Weishuang was not too tired now. Although she was always a little on edge when she was by Sang Lu’s side, in fact, it was much better than a few days ago.
And for some reason, after seeing Sang Lu, the illusion had never appeared again.
Xia Weishuang thought, perhaps it was because she was unwilling to let the two appear at the same time, afraid that the psychological gap would be too great.
In terms of absorbing crystals, Xia Weishuang was already quite skilled, so her speed was not slow. Then she digested for a while, then took a deep breath, suppressed the negative emotions brought by the crystals, and began to try to perform the next premonition.
Counting the time, she could also use her ability. Then let’s see what she would encounter next.
Xia Weishuang kept thinking in her heart: Me and Sang Lu, me and Sang Lu, me and Sang Lu…
Slowly, she entered a mysterious feeling. The next moment, her consciousness seemed to be sucked into a kaleidoscope. The world in front of her blurred, and a new picture slowly unfolded—
It was early in the morning, and the sun had not yet risen. Xia Weishuang was lying quietly on the bed, sleeping very soundly. Her long hair was held in the hands of the woman behind her, who was gently fiddling with it, counting it over and over again, like a child.
Suddenly, Sang Lu picked out a broken hair. She stared at it for a while, then brought the broken hair to her lips and kissed it.
Then she ate it.
Xia Weishuang did not notice what had happened. After all, it was just that she was losing less hair. For everyone, it was a happy thing. How would she know that it was not that her hair was healthy and not falling out, but that the fallen hair had been quietly “disposed of” by someone else?
Xia Weishuang’s main consciousness felt a little helpless, both disgusted and moved.
Suddenly, a strange sound came from outside.
It was right outside the window, very faint, but it was still caught by Sang Lu.
Sang Lu, who was lying behind Xia Weishuang, immediately became alert. Her two big eyes were wide and round, like a venomous snake that had been instantly aroused.
She sat up quietly and nimbly. The tentacles behind her extended upwards and around, then she gently opened the window and flew out.
She was very careful and cautious, and hardly made a sound.
There were some strange sounds outside, like fighting, and a hissing sound, and a cat’s meow… but the sleeping Xia Weishuang did not know. She just frowned a little because she was disturbed.
And the sound soon disappeared, and she continued to sleep quietly.
Sang Lu came back from outside the window. Blood was splattered on her pale cheeks, arms, and claws. Her face was filled with a mixture of satisfaction and joy. She was holding a sparkling yellow crystal in her hand, still stained with blood, and a few black hairs.
She crouched by the bed, by Xia Weishuang’s pillow, and looked at Xia Weishuang with a strong, greedy, and hungry gaze. She swallowed the blood-stained crystal in her hand.
The morning light poured in. Xia Weishuang slowly opened her eyes. What came into view was Sang Lu’s face, which was stained with some blood but was still smiling.
Xia Weishuang was startled. “Sang Lu, did you go and kill zombies?”
Sang Lu stared at her, as if she were thinking. Then a cunning smile appeared in her eyes, and she nodded.
Xia Weishuang said helplessly, “I’ll take you to wash up.”
She did not suspect, she believed her.
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Xia Weishuang woke up with a start. She grabbed her long hair in disbelief and pulled it. The pain on her scalp made her feel a little more stable.
A cat’s meow, blood-stained black hair and crystals, not a one-hit kill but it took some time…
The only thing Xia Weishuang could think of was Coal Ball. It couldn’t be such a coincidence that a second existence that fit the description of a “black mutated cat” would appear in the same place in A City.
How could this be? Coal Ball had secretly come to find her, but was killed by Sang Lu, and she knew nothing about it.
She did not doubt that Sang Lu would do this. After all, Coal Ball did fit the standard of a “threatening danger.” Before, Sang Lu would also kill the high-threat monsters near her resting place.
However, the way Sang Lu stared at her as she ate the crystal, like a child saving the most delicious snack for last… this made Xia Weishuang feel a chill.
This made her unable to help but suspect that Sang Lu was doing it on purpose.
At the same time, a sense of fear arose in her heart. Fortunately, she had predicted this scene, otherwise she would not have been able to prevent Coal Ball’s death.
After this stimulation, Xia Weishuang could not sleep anymore. She was afraid that Coal Ball would come over tomorrow morning. If she slept now, she would not be able to stop Sang Lu from acting.
And she could not contact Coal Ball. She could not tell Coal Ball not to come over, so she could only think of another way.
At this time, Xia Weishuang suddenly thought that when Bai Qian had left, she had mentioned that she had left some things in the lounge on the second floor and had told her to go and take a look. Maybe there was something she could use.
Xia Weishuang simply got out of the car, took a flashlight, and went to the shop where Bai Qian had lived before.
This was a shop that sold sofas. Xia Weishuang found some food, water, iodophor, band-aids, and painkillers that Bai Qian had left. She also found a brand-new mobile phone on the table.
Besides that, she also found a large, sharp pair of scissors, a personal alarm that was very loud when pressed, and a taser!
After packing these things away, Xia Weishuang also saw a plate of stale vegetable salad and olive oil and other seasonings by the table.
Xia Weishuang thought for a moment and also took the olive oil.
When she returned to the first floor, Sang Lu had already returned and was slowly circling the large bed where they were resting.
Her lonely figure looked a little desolate. As she got closer, Xia Weishuang saw the blood on her body and suddenly felt a little soft-hearted.
Sang Lu had said she would change, and she was indeed changing. Look, wasn’t she already learning to control herself? Even when she was gone, she didn’t get excited and chase after her, but had learned to wait and trust.
Perhaps, she should also trust her more. Coal Ball might have just been dealt with by her as a dangerous mutated beast, and it was not as complicated as she had thought.
Xia Weishuang put the things she had brought on another unused bed, walked to Sang Lu, mustered her courage, and held her hand, saying softly, “Did you go out and kill zombies?”
Sang Lu nodded.
So Xia Weishuang said, “I’ll help you wash up.”
But this time, before she left, she looked out the window. She did not see any signs of a fight nearby, nor were there any bloodstains or extra corpses.
Only then was Xia Weishuang relieved.
The process of washing Sang Lu was actually quite torturous. Although she said she had to try to believe her, she was really too afraid that Sang Lu would once again have those ruthless and terrifying thoughts.
She had already paid the price of Ke Xiaoxiao. The situation at that time was a bit complicated. She could barely convince herself that it was not entirely Sang Lu’s fault. Even though she felt extremely guilty, a person’s heart was still biased.
But she could not pay any other price. She really couldn’t afford it.
Sang Lu was too powerful. Nothing could control her. Even if she appeared to be influenced by Xia Weishuang, Xia Weishuang was a little terrified and did not think she could completely control her.
“Sang Lu, you’re clean,” Xia Weishuang helped her dry her long hair, trying to get back to the state she was in before Green Mountain Village.
Sang Lu suddenly reached into her chest and took out a handful of candy with somewhat damp packaging. They were all that old-fashioned sorghum candy and nougat.
She handed the candy to Xia Weishuang and looked at her directly. “For you.”
Xia Weishuang’s nose felt sour. She grabbed the few pieces of sorghum candy and said, “You still remember what I like.”
She didn’t like to eat candy, especially hard fruit candy. In this day and age, there were all kinds of new and strange candies, but she didn’t have any particular preference either.
But she would occasionally want to eat a few pieces of this old-fashioned sorghum candy and nougat. It was probably because her family was not well-off when she was a child, and this was the best candy she could eat at that time.
Even after her family’s situation improved, she still liked it. Later, after her parents left, when she ate this candy, Xia Weishuang would always feel as if she had returned to the time when her childhood memories were hazy, just sharing candy and cracking melon seeds with her parents during the New Year.
Seeing her peel a piece of sorghum candy and eat it, Sang Lu said with satisfaction, “I remember.”
Xia Weishuang peeled a soft candy for her and put it in Sang Lu’s mouth. Her own mouth also had a faint sweet taste. She asked, “How much do you still remember?”
Sang Lu thought for a moment, and the corners of her lips curled up again. “A lot, a lot.”
