Chapter 54
Sang Lu was sniffing very seriously, her expression strange, and it was not known what she was thinking.
Coal Ball’s fur stood on end in nervousness. It opened its mouth and hissed at her. If it weren’t for the fact that its whole body was tightly wrapped, it would definitely have stretched out its claws.
Xia Weishuang stretched out her hands, ready to take the pitiful Coal Ball into her arms at any time. Her nervousness was not weaker than Coal Ball’s. She had seen the scene of Sang Lu eating the crystal in Coal Ball’s head.
Sang Lu finally had enough of sniffing. The corners of her lips curled up, and a rare hint of cunning calculation appeared on her face, but it disappeared in a flash, leaving only pleasure, making people unable to figure it out.
She let go of Coal Ball. The agile cat landed and rolled three and a half times, its soft body pouncing forward and into Xia Weishuang’s arms.
“Coal Ball!” Xia Weishuang nervously checked it and was relieved to see that it was fine.
When she looked up, she saw that the pleasure on Sang Lu’s face had disappeared, and she was looking at Xia Weishuang and Coal Ball with a chillingly deep gaze.
Coal Ball lowered its body, and a threatening growl came from its throat. Its ears flew back. Although it was trembling with fear, it still stood in front of Xia Weishuang to protect her.
Xia Weishuang thought for a moment, bent down, and gently put Coal Ball down. She said to Sang Lu, “Sang Lu, you promised me that you wouldn’t hurt it.”
Sang Lu did not say anything, her gaze on Coal Ball was full of deep meaning.
Xia Weishuang emphasized, “Feelings and feelings are different. You can’t confuse them, nor can you forcibly control others’ emotions. This kind of thing is not simply one plus one equals two.”
She didn’t know if Sang Lu understood. She tilted her head up, her long hair draped behind her, and moved the bones in her shoulders and neck. She no longer looked at them with that kind of gaze.
Xia Weishuang thought she had compromised and didn’t know how happy she was. She temporarily put down her suspended heart, picked up Coal Ball again, and climbed through the window into the shop, pouring some water for Coal Ball to drink.
Coal Ball’s soft little tongue licked Xia Weishuang’s palm, and its wet nose rubbed against her. After drinking two sips, it raised its head and looked out warily to prevent Sang Lu from launching a sneak attack.
“Coal Ball, what happened? Did you come to see me?” Xia Weishuang asked gently.
Now Coal Ball’s intelligence was very high. Without Bai Qian’s ability, Xia Weishuang could also communicate with it, but the other silly cats could not.
After drinking the water, Coal Ball licked its nose, meowed, and then tilted its neck up and kicked its neck with its hind paw.
When it tilted its head up, Xia Weishuang saw that there was a rope made of a black cloth strip tied around Coal Ball’s neck. Because it was the same color as its fur, she couldn’t see it if it didn’t show it on purpose.
Xia Weishuang reached out and untied the cloth strip. She unfolded it and saw that it was written with light-colored chalk: Are you safe? Reply to me by Bai
It was Bai Qian who was worried about her and had asked Coal Ball to come over. Xia Weishuang’s heart warmed. She looked around but couldn’t find a suitable pen, so she used her hand to wet the cloth strip and erased the other words, leaving only the two words “safe,” and then tied it back around Coal Ball’s neck.
“Coal Ball, thank you for your hard work. Go and find Sister Qian,” Xia Weishuang grabbed its paw and shook it, stuffing a crystal into it.
Coal Ball looked at her worriedly and meowed. Xia Weishuang picked it up and walked a few steps, sending it to a place far away from Sang Lu.
During this process, the person and the cat were extremely in sync. They would walk two steps and then look back.
“Let’s go, Coal Ball.” Fortunately, Sang Lu had been quiet all this time and had not done anything. Xia Weishuang breathed a sigh of relief and pushed Coal Ball’s butt.
So Coal Ball took Xia Weishuang’s reply and slipped into the night and disappeared.
Xia Weishuang ran back and hugged Sang Lu’s waist from behind.
Sang Lu looked down and smiled at her. Xia Weishuang said sorrowfully, “Sang Lu, don’t let me down this time, okay?”
Sang Lu was still smiling at her. Xia Weishuang took her back to the furniture city.
They were lying on a bed. Xia Weishuang gently stroked Sang Lu’s face and looked at her deep purple, beautiful eyes. She wanted to smile at her, but she also had a strange sense of panic.
She was afraid that this time, it would end in disappointment again.
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“Fuck!”
Somewhere in A City, Wei Yunlang was driving wildly. Mi Lele was tightly gripping the back of the seat to prevent herself from being thrown off. She was wearing a motorcycle helmet on her head and at the same time did not forget to remind him, “Don’t say dirty words in front of a child.”
Wei Yunlang looked in the rearview mirror at the monster chasing the car and almost threw up.
“We’re about to die. Don’t worry about such a small thing!”
That monster was made of zombies. It was simply the zombie of zombies. Its body was about three meters tall and was made of different pieces of meat. There were three heads squeezed on its shoulders. One of them was already rotting and dripping with a mysterious sauce under Wei Yunlang’s ability attack. The other two were bald and had red eyes, and they could see in all directions.
Oh, it also had six arms, each of which was thick and long, exaggeratedly like a gibbon’s. However, three of them were already useless.
When Wei Yunlang saw it, he couldn’t help but wonder if this thing’s idol was Nezha. What was wrong with it? Because Nezha and Sun Wukong had been colleagues, so it had been chasing him?
“I’m going to overtake on a curve!” Wei Yunlang shouted. “Hold on tight!”
Mi Lele quickly hugged the back of the seat and pressed her whole body against it to avoid being thrown off.
So Wei Yunlang accelerated, passed an ordinary zombie, and drifted around a corner—his brows furrowed tighter and tighter.
“What’s wrong?” Mi Lele asked nervously.
“Why do I feel like we’ve already been on this street just now?” Wei Yunlang, who was not a local, said thoughtfully.
“…You don’t know the way,” Mi Lele said with emotion. “I don’t want to die.”
Wei Yunlang said angrily, “I don’t want to die either! Besides, I’m not from A City. What’s wrong with not knowing the way? As long as I know the direction, it’s fine. By the way, aren’t you from A City? Quick, quick, where do we run next?”
Mi Lele said calmly, “You can’t expect a 9-year-old child to know all the places in A City.”
Wei Yunlang: “…”
Thump, thump, thump! The three-headed, six-armed monster had caught up!
The monster bent down, picked up a landscape stone from the side of the road, and suddenly threw it at Wei Yunlang’s car.
Wei Yunlang looked in the rearview mirror, cursed “what the fuck,” and turned the steering wheel to dodge. The stone hit the ground hard and made a big pit in the concrete road.
The lethality was extremely terrifying.
If that had hit them, Wei Yunlang and Mi Lele would have been finished. But even if they had dodged the stone’s attack, the car had lost control in the sharp turn and had crashed into an abandoned vehicle on the side of the road and overturned.
Fortunately, the two people in the car had a good sense of safety and had done a good job of protecting themselves. In addition, the car itself had an airbag, so their lives were saved.
Wei Yunlang’s head was ringing. He probably had a concussion. He anxiously unbuckled his seatbelt and called out to Mi Lele.
Mi Lele whimpered like a newborn puppy, panting, and said, “I’m fine.”
Wei Yunlang said, “I’ll lure it away in a while. You go and find a place to hide. I’m sorry, little sister. I didn’t protect you well.”
He struggled to climb out of the car. The three-headed, six-armed monster saw that its prey could no longer run away. Its two heads turned back and forth, and a strange sound came from its chest. It walked towards them.
Mi Lele was small. If she was fine, it would be smoother for her to climb up. But she was also weak and injured, so her movements were not convenient enough.
“Big brother!”
Wei Yunlang was running with his head in his hands. He looked at Mi Lele when he heard her.
Mi Lele said, “Are you going to sacrifice yourself to save me?”
Wei Yunlang stumbled and almost fell. “You’d better shut up!”
Then he turned around and sent a beam of purifying light at the three-headed, six-armed monster. However, the monster had been injured by him many times before. As soon as it saw the light, it dodged it alertly, completely different from those brainless ordinary zombies.
That beam of purifying light had almost exhausted Wei Yunlang’s energy and had only grazed the monster’s skin. The monster roared angrily and chased after Wei Yunlang.
Mi Lele had finally climbed out of the car and was hissing softly. She glanced at Wei Yunlang and closed her eyes as if she couldn’t bear it.
The monster has already caught up to him. Big brother… is going to be eaten.
After big brother is eaten, it will be my turn. No, maybe we will be eaten together, because there are ordinary zombies running towards me.
Mi Lele gritted her teeth and looked around, wanting to find a place to hide.
Just at this moment, a pleasant singing voice came from the front. The singing voice had a strong calming effect. In an instant, it had quieted down all the active creatures on the entire street.
A middle-aged man in a white robe appeared at the end of the street, holding a flower pot in both hands. There was only one white, unknown flower in the flower pot, which gave off a faint white light. Behind him were two rows of people also in white robes. But unlike the middle-aged man in the lead, the two rows of people behind him were singing with their heads down, their expressions pious and serene.
The leader held his head high, his face filled with a look of compassion, and was also singing a song without lyrics.
Wei Yunlang was stunned for a moment and immediately reacted. He quickly ran away from under the raised fist of the three-headed, six-armed monster. The monster’s two heads swayed back and forth, as if it were drunk and didn’t know where it was.
“My child, don’t be afraid,” the man in the white robe came to Wei Yunlang’s side, held his hand, and said. “God has sent me to save you.”
Wei Yunlang looked at the three-headed, six-armed monster, which seemed to have been hit by a sunflower acupuncture hand, with awe and asked humbly, “Which religion are you from? Maybe we’re from the same family.”
The man in the white robe said, “We are from the Church of Light.”
Wei Yunlang: “…?”
This big brother, have you read too many novels!
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At night, the bed beside her suddenly became lighter. Xia Weishuang, who was a light sleeper, was immediately woken up.
Her mind was still filled with the thought of not letting Sang Lu hurt Coal Ball. She subconsciously reached out and, with a grab, she caught Sang Lu’s long hair.
Sang Lu turned her head, seemingly a little surprised.
When Xia Weishuang met her eyes, her consciousness gradually returned. Only then did she remember that Coal Ball had already left.
The sun had already risen outside the window. A faint light shone in through the curtains.
Xia Weishuang opened her phone and saw that it was past six in the morning. A day had not passed. It was only about an hour after Coal Ball had left.
“Shuangshuang is awake,” Sang Lu greeted her for the first time, with a hint of concealment.
Because of her chaotic sleep, her sense of time had also become chaotic. Xia Weishuang did not notice Sang Lu’s abnormality. She rubbed her head and said, “Yes. Are you going out?”
Sang Lu: “No!”
Xia Weishuang was taken aback and said, “Then can you sleep with me for a while longer?”
Was Sang Lu acting coquettishly? Xia Weishuang was not sure. Anyway, she was just going along with Sang Lu now, hoping that Sang Lu could regain some of her old feelings.
Sang Lu lay down obediently. Xia Weishuang tentatively leaned against her. Her body was cool and soft, and very comfortable.
“Sang Lu, do you still want to eat me?”
Sang Lu swallowed her saliva with a gulp. Her chest suddenly rose and fell. Suddenly, Xia Weishuang heard a faint sound of bones moving and the squelching sound of flesh and mucous membranes rubbing against each other.
On Sang Lu’s red dress, a watermark that gave off a faint sea-salty smell gradually appeared, from top to bottom, from her chest to her lower abdomen.
It was as if there was a hidden mouth on her body, which was uncontrollably secreting saliva.
“I do…” Sang Lu said with difficulty.
Xia Weishuang’s body stiffened. She still leaned against her and did not move. “You’re not allowed to think about it.”
Sang Lu let out a disappointed “hmm” and closed her eyes. Xia Weishuang breathed lightly and was so nervous that it was almost noon before she fell asleep again intermittently, and then she was woken up by hunger.
The next night, they still slept together.
Xia Weishuang had a nightmare. She dreamed that Sang Lu was following behind her with a stiff smile, blood dripping from the corner of her mouth. She was making a sound of being hungry, like a hungry ghost from hell that could never be satisfied, chasing after Xia Weishuang.
Xia Weishuang fled in terror, stumbling, and despaired to find that the entire world was left with only her and Sang Lu, with no third person.
This was a huge amusement park, a huge cage. When she was caught by Sang Lu and was about to be eaten by her, she was woken up by the nightmare.
Xia Weishuang sat on the bed, covered in a cold sweat, panting heavily. She angrily slapped the side of the bed, wanting to make Sang Lu, who had woken her up, also not sleep well.
But there was no one beside her.
A thin wind blew in from the crack of the window.
Xia Weishuang touched the place beside her, a little dazed. Sang Lu… where did she go?
Before dawn, Sang Lu came back, quietly and carefully, and lay down beside Xia Weishuang.
Xia Weishuang closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep. She opened her eyes a crack and saw that Sang Lu’s body was very clean, not stained with blood, nor with the rotten filth from the zombies. And she had not brought anything back, as if this trip out was just a walk.
Xia Weishuang dozed off. After she woke up, she asked as if she were not paying attention, “Sang Lu, what did you do when you went out at night?”
Sang Lu was sitting at the table, gnawing on a crystal. Because there was a box of finger biscuits in what Xia Weishuang was eating today, she learned from Xia Weishuang and ate the crystal with chocolate sauce.
Xia Weishuang disliked the fact that the crystal was dug out from a zombie’s brain and gave all the chocolate sauce to her.
When she heard Xia Weishuang ask her, Sang Lu’s hand holding the crystal paused, and she said, “Observing, the terrain.”
What she said was reasonable, so Xia Weishuang did not ask anymore. In fact, Sang Lu had also been very elusive before, but Xia Weishuang would usually respect her opinion. If she didn’t say it, she wouldn’t ask.
But she didn’t know why, but she was particularly concerned about her leaving quietly last night. She had always felt that her heart was heavy and she felt very bad.
However, Xia Weishuang had not been resting well these past two days because of various things, which had caused her energy to not recover. Now, when she wanted to try to mobilize her ability, she felt a sharp pain inside her head.
Predicting things related to herself would always cost her more energy.
Xia Weishuang rubbed her head, closed her eyes, and felt quietly for a while. She thought, I’ll try to predict again tonight.
She took a nap at noon, but she didn’t sleep well. She felt even more tired after she woke up.
At night, to lift her spirits, Xia Weishuang took a sip of wine. Then she took a deep breath and began to try to mobilize her ability…
Xia Weishuang saw that she was covered in blood, running on a wire mesh corridor in a factory. Suddenly, a zombie pounced out from a small compartment in her blind spot and knocked her over.
Xia Weishuang fell to the ground, and the sharp pain almost made her faint.
The zombie’s arm was broken, but it was still wriggling and trying to bite her. But before it could bite Xia Weishuang, its brain was shattered by a tentacle.
Sang Lu came to her, crouched down. Her red dress was a little mottled, and there were some faded marks on it, as if it had been splashed with bleach.
Sang Lu picked her up.
Then she bit her throat.
Xia Weishuang was woken up again.
It was already late at night.
She raised her hand and hammered her head. She didn’t know why she would have predicted such a scene. Hadn’t Sang Lu changed? Why had she become like this? She said she wanted to eat her—it was true!
Xia Weishuang turned her head and found that Sang Lu was still not in bed.
The sound of a car driving suddenly came from outside, but it soon sounded like an accident had happened. There was a piercing sound, and then a huge mutated beast crashed through the glass and rushed in.
“Meow!”
It’s Coal Ball!
Before Xia Weishuang could say anything, she saw a person roll off Coal Ball’s back—Bai Qian.
“Sister Qian!” Xia Weishuang quickly helped her up.
Bai Qian grabbed her hand and gritted her teeth. “Let’s go! If we don’t go now, it will be too late!”
But it seemed that it was already too late.
Sang Lu bent down from outside the broken glass window and poked her beautiful face in. Her deep eyes looked at the people in the room, and the moonlight was blocked by her.
