The Fire Chaser of the Collapsing World

Anyway, she bit her lips tightly, and it took all her strength to restrain her instinct of laughing.

The leader-like man smiled, stretched out a hand from under the front of his coat to tighten his coat, and stood leaning against the wall.

He has only one hand - Mikael judged from the other's movements.

"Are you from the coalition government?"

"Let's say it."

"Hmph! There are drones, and these high-tech equipment, people who are not from the coalition government, who would believe it!"

The young man in red with a gun next to Mikael was full of distrust.

"I don't know if you have heard of the moth that chases the flame. The obvious explanation is that it is a mobile response department for special disasters. Of course, it is actually to solve this situation here."

The leader-like man frowned: "Aren't you and Luluye City Hall in the same group?"

"Boss, you can't trust him, they are all departments of the coalition government, so it doesn't matter!"

"Indeed not." Mikael spread his hands out, his action directly frightened the two men standing beside him with their guns raised back half a step.

"Flame Chasing Moth is only responsible for dealing with the monsters outside. Of course, there are also patients with Honkai disease like you. But whoever prevents us from dealing with Honkai, even the mayor of Luluye, will only Killed by us."

Mikael caught the expressions of almost everyone present. They didn't show any puzzled expressions when they heard about the Honkai disease. It seems that these people know some truths.

But when they heard "Luluye's Mayor", more than half of them were obviously breathing harder, with resentful expressions on their faces, which coincided with Mikael's guess.

The man who looked like a leader asked again: "Did you make the noise last night?"

"Well, I met a Honkai Beast that looked like a moth, and fought with it."

"?"

Everyone's eyes focused on him in an instant, staring straight at Mikael's scalp.

"You retreated from its grasp?"

The leader-like man asked eagerly.

"We killed it once."

Mikael wanted to say this, but when he said it, he felt that even if he said it, they might not believe it, so he changed it to a faint "Yeah."

But this still caused an uproar in the crowd, and everyone looked at him with surprise, admiration and vigilance.

The young man who spoke up first questioned: "Impossible, there were only three of you who entered the block yesterday, can three of you deal with that kind of monster?"

"We have received professional training, we don't know...we were born to deal with monsters like that. Have you heard the news that the city of Irkune was hit by a comet a few months ago? The actual situation there is worse than yours. Much worse, and I was there. There were only three out of twenty out of our team, the other pink-haired girl you saw yesterday, and me, two of them."

The crowd was silent for a while, silently focusing their attention on the leader.

The leader was silent for a few seconds, then threw a coin with his remaining left hand, and threw it at Mikael's feet.

"You bet right, they don't have bullets in their guns."

"My name is Harris, and welcome to the tower."

Chapter 36 One thousand

When he was outside, Mikael observed that this building where humans hide is nearly forty stories high. Although it is incomparable with the buildings on Luluye Island, it is indeed a bit out of the ordinary among these three abandoned blocks. Feel.

In this way, the nickname "tower" is really worthy of the name.

There seemed to be a battle on the first floor, with rubble and broken furniture everywhere, and the ceiling collapsed obliquely, forming a passage to the second floor.

After resolving the misunderstanding, most of the people did not rush back to the higher floors, but slowly slumped down on the first floor after unloading in one go.

With Aldemir's support, Harris climbed up to the second floor, led Mikael and Sakura through the maze-like floors, and finally stopped in front of an old elevator.

As if knowing Mikael's question, Harris answered first: "We found a small human generator, but the power is basically only enough for the elevator. There is no way, the survivors basically live in relatively high buildings, and We lacked food, lacked strength, and had no elevators, so it was too difficult to climb up to the [-]th floor by ourselves."

As soon as the voice fell, the button on the side of the elevator lit up, and at the same time, a "humming" roar began to sound in the hollow tunnel.

"It takes time for the elevator to start, so you have to wait a while."

Taking advantage of this time, Mikael looked around. The corridor was filled with the smell of corpses. Listening carefully, he could still hear delirious roars, which made him feel a little uncomfortable.

"How many of you are there?"

Harris replied without turning his head: "You should ask: How many people are left of you. A month ago, nearly a thousand people were accommodated here, but now...you have seen the ones that can move, and some have disappeared. Those who can’t move, add up to just over a hundred.”

Mikael took a deep breath and wanted to say something, but he was so choked up that he couldn't speak.

On the other hand, Sakura was more naive, covering her nose and asking bluntly, "What about those corpses? Are they all placed in these rooms?"

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw Mikael, Harris, and Aldemirzi looking at her.

"What's wrong?" She felt that what she said was indeed a bit straightforward, but it seemed that there was nothing wrong.

"You really want to know?"

Mikael raised an eyebrow.

Young Aldemere spread his hands.

Harris pulled out a smile that was uglier than crying, "Then I will take you to see it."

The tower building is a standard beehive apartment. There are about [-] large and small rooms on the first floor, and they randomly found one.

Turning the doorknob, it only opened a small gap. The strong blood and corpse smell from the pavement almost made Sakura faint. Even Mikael silently covered his mouth and nose, but Harris and Aldemir seemed to be I have long been used to it, but there is no fluctuation.

Open the door completely, and in the darkness, you can clearly hear the sound of teeth grinding, chewing, and swallowing.

"Guru..."

Mikael and Ying Qiqi swallowed their saliva.

Sakura turned on the bright flashlight, leaving a bright circle on the ground.

The circle moved towards the voice, and then three silhouettes crouching on the ground appeared together.

As if feeling the long-lost light, the figure in the center suddenly turned around, Sakura screamed, her whole body trembled, and the flashlight fell to the ground.

With sharp eyes and quick hands, Mikael quickly closed the door, leaving only the flashlight in the room.Even he, who is well-informed, has an unstoppable heartbeat, sweaty hands and feet, and dry mouth.

The one who turned his head under the pale light was a dead soldier.Its face is half morbidly pale, half rigid black, covered with purple lines, and the eyes do not distinguish between the whites of the eyes and the pupils, only bottomless darkness.The corners of its mouth were split, and it was chewing bloody pieces of meat obsessively. The broken teeth were covered with crumbs and minced meat, and these things kept falling along the corners of the mouth as it bit.

Surrounded by the three dead men was a corpse that could barely make out a human form.

Aldemir locked the door expressionlessly, apparently as if he was used to such scenes.

But Mikael clearly noticed that his fingers were trembling as he turned the key.

Sure enough, even if you have seen such a scary scene a thousand times or ten thousand times, you still can't be truly indifferent.

"Keeping dead men in captivity! You... what are you doing!"

Sakura glared at Harris.

Harris sneered, his left hand tremblingly stretched out from under his coat, which caused Sakura to take half a step back silently, lowering his center of gravity, raising his hand slightly, ready to reach for the pistol at his waist at any time - being so frightened, Originally, she had no sympathy for the survivors, and only felt that those standing in front of her were demons.

"Sakura, calm down."

Mikael quickly pressed her shoulders and pulled her back.

Harris raised his one arm slowly, and the movement of such a magnitude caused the coat he was wearing to fall straight down, and he was wearing a dirty shirt underneath.The length of the shirt is slightly short, and it can be seen that its size should be small compared to Harris' body, but the shirt looks slightly wide at this time, and with the breeze blowing in the corridor, it is tightly attached to Harry's body. There were traces of protruding ribs on Si's body.

His fingers were tangled together and trembling violently, like a woodpecker working all the time.

He took off the sunglasses on his face, and there was nothing in the left eye frame, and there was even dried blood around the eye socket.

The only remaining right eye also squinted, staring at Sakura until the hairs on her body stood on end.

After a while, he grinned, revealing his black and yellow shriveled teeth.

"Perhaps in your opinion, this is enough to be one of the evidences for my trial, but what can we do? We are afraid of being discovered by the people of the city hall, so we dare not act during the day, and we also dare not act because of those monsters at night. No medicine, no food, no hope... More and more people died, we couldn't bury them. At first, we simply put them in the corridor, but at night, the corpses turned into dead men, killing more people……"

"Later, we threw all the corpses into the house and locked the doors and windows... Not all corpses will become dead men, and the corpses that do not turn into dead men often become their food..."

Sakura's hand lowered slowly.

"It's not that we haven't thought of a way, such as dismembering the dead body. This method is the simplest and the best. There are other uses for the dismembered body. Unfortunately, we lack the conditions for cooking..."

Harris spit out such a sentence coldly and expressionlessly.

Sakura swallowed the non-existent saliva, and suddenly her chest moved, and she almost retched.

"But we still couldn't do it in the end... After all, we are people who get along day and night... Besides, no one is willing to do this when they think that they will be treated like this after death." Aldemir hurriedly added road.

"Ding!" A notification sound came from the elevator not far away. Harris put on his sunglasses again, ignored the fallen coat, turned his head, and walked towards the elevator.

Mikael frowned, with one hand on his waist and the other hanging down, he followed behind.

It wasn't until the four of them entered the elevator, the door slowly closed, and the elevator began to rise rapidly, that Mikael asked knowingly:

"So, what happened between you and the city hall? Why do you hide from them, for fear of being discovered? It's better to be discovered by them and sent to the hospital for treatment than to wait here to die."

"That's because you don't know the fate of those who get sick." Harris said coldly: "There are tens of thousands of people in our three blocks. Because of the appearance of monsters, most of them listened to what the city hall said. , left their home and was taken away by them for isolation. Then the Honkai disease broke out, and more and more people were infected. At the beginning, they even pretended to do some treatment, such as amputation. "

He shrugged his right shoulder, "I was amputated before the purple lines covered my right arm, but it doesn't affect me being infected again now."

"But later, the death rate became higher and higher, the time from infection to death became shorter and shorter, and people became more and more panicked. Until one day, a doctor left his manual in the quarantine area."

Harris took a deep breath, as if suppressing great anger and unwillingness, "It turns out that this disease called Honkai disease has long been treated with medicine-it is a kind of serum. And the principle of serum is also It's very simple: Most Honkai disease patients will have a small amount of antibodies in their bodies after death, as long as a sufficient amount of antibodies is extracted, a serum that can cure a patient can be obtained."

Ying Tan opened his mouth slightly, as if realizing something, he asked quickly: "How many people's antibodies are needed to synthesize a tube of serum?"

Harris glanced at her, and held out his index finger on what was left of his left hand.

"One... ten?" Sakura boldly guessed.

"No, one thousand."

Chapter 37 Weight

"One thousand! Are you kidding me!"

This was the first time Mikael saw Sakura getting angry. Her voice was not sharp, even a little depressed, but it was undoubtedly real anger. Standing beside her, one could even feel a slight chill.

But this anger was not directed at Harris.

"Shocked? Heh... Although I didn't react much better than you when I found out about it."

"How much serum can patients all over the world add up to provide? We seriously doubt that they deliberately spread Honkai disease among ordinary people like us in order to get enough serum. The medicines they gave us for treatment were all Some saline, glucose and other placebos, they are letting us die to renew the lives of those so-called big men!"

Harris turned around suddenly and grabbed Mikael by the collar. His hands shook violently, but he didn't have the strength to lift Mikael up. He could only forcefully push him against the elevator wall.

Sakura instantly pulled out her pistol and pointed it at Harris and Aldemir.Aldemir also wanted to take out the pistol, but he suddenly realized that the gun had no bullets at all, and it had no deterrent effect.

"Sakura! Don't be impulsive!"

Mikael quickly signaled Sakura to put down the gun, but Sakura was unmoved.

Harris gradually let go of Mikael's collar, but the anger in his eyes did not decrease by half.Looking at each other, Mikael could clearly see the dense bloodshot eyes in the white of his one-eyed eye, as if the bloodshots would turn into cracks in the next moment, and then this cloudy eyeball would collapse directly.

He knew that the mentality of the man in front of him had collapsed.

The huge blow of reality, the endless entanglement of illness, the extreme lack of material, and the despair of watching familiar people die one after another for 30 days but helpless...

Sure enough, the next moment, this man, who could be called a tough guy from any angle, squatted down with his head in his arms, and burst into tears.

"Hey……"

Mikael could only turn his attention to the younger Aldemir, "So, Harris ran away from the official hospital? The 502nd Hospital in Dagon District?"

"Yes, there were still thousands of people in the block who hadn't evacuated. He revealed the truth after he came back here, and we chose to stay here with him in the end."

"Why bother... You should be clear that if you stay here, you will either die from the Houkai disease or be killed by the Houkai beast... In fact, the ending is the same."

Mikael has never hated himself so much for a moment like now, he even wondered if the person who spoke at that moment was himself?How mean and cold-blooded he must be to say that sentence calmly: In fact, the ending is the same...

For him as a bystander, the ending is indeed the same, but for the people in front of him, it means hunger, death, and the end and dissolution of everything.

mean……

does not exist.

no longer exists.

means the end.

But Aldemir seemed to have expected him to say this long ago, and he replied seriously: "Actually, at the beginning, everyone was just hotheaded, and they stayed behind without realizing the consequences. It's not that no one left to join the municipal government. Hall... But I still think, well, there was a movie before, I don’t know if you have seen it, the villain asked the protagonist, why he still struggled and resisted when his fate had already been written, the protagonist’s lines were: Even if the final outcome has already been determined, I have to decide for myself the way to get to that ending."

Mikael pursed his lips, Sakura put down the gun silently.