Doomsday Wonderland

"So you were injured like this," An Ran sighed with a sad look on his face: "The evolver who can defend us... I'm afraid you are the only one in the entire Fanjia City."

Ye De cleared his throat sheepishly.

Except when he had to find a visa, most of the time, he didn't even remember that he was an evolver; he could withstand a little more damage than the people in front of him, so he stopped and let more of the damage fall on himself. It's that simple. It's not a spirit of self-sacrifice, but more like...a rational allocation of resources.

"That's not important. How are your eyes?" He changed the subject and looked at the cloth wrapped around An Ran's face. "The wooden thorn...taken out?"

Ye De tried his best to avoid the "mutation" issue - for An Ran, it must be a heartache that he didn't want to mention. He seems to be quite calm. He probably has the mutation under control and may not be able to live like a normal person in the future.

The young man with half his face wrapped in cloth nodded.

"Thanks to Anna," he glanced at his sister, smiled at her and said, "Who is not afraid of injuries like mine? But she can clean my wounds and bandage them... Without her, I would be alone. People really don’t know what to do.”

Anna lowered her hands and stood beside Ye De, saying nothing.

"Fortunately, you two brothers and sisters can support each other." Ye De shook his head, patted the armrest of the chair under him, and said, "I have had enough rest. Let's go. I want to find out as soon as possible what happened in the city. .”

"Are you sure? Let me take a look." An Ran said worriedly.

He had already approached Ye De when he spoke, temporarily blocking Anna; when he bent down to look at Ye De's back, a hot and fishy smell suddenly filled Ye De's nose. Maybe An Ran never had a chance to take a shower and wipe himself, so he smelled a little bit, but the smell didn't smell like sweat - Ye De instinctively sprayed out twice and held his breath.

He was embarrassed to say anything, lowered his eyes, and happened to see Anna's hands hanging in front of her.

The two hands were tightly twisted together, as white as bloodless, as if they were being twisted together, and they seemed to be broken off from each other. After An Ran straightened up again, he glanced at Anna - on her reappeared face, a pair of black and round eyes were also staring at him.

Ye De felt slightly disturbed and uncomfortable.

"The injury is too serious," An Ran's voice sounded from above his head. While amazed, he seemed to be a little interested: "You can actually walk into the city? The physical fitness of the evolved... turns out to be so good. "

Just as Ye De was about to talk about coffee, he saw Liana's dark eyes out of the corner of his eye, so he said nothing.

"It's quite difficult for me to walk and talk now," he said, suppressing a breath from his chest.

An Ran nodded, stretched an arm under Ye De's armpit, and said, "I'll help you." This was the first time since his evolution that Ye De could feel the power from ordinary people so clearly. He was tall and tall. His strong self was like a rag, and he picked it up easily.

...The smell is even stronger.

It doesn't sound like a stinky smell, but it doesn't smell bad. It makes people feel uncomfortable when they smell it. It's like every time you inhale, someone has stuffed a greasy worm down your nose and dug it out. The human throat.

"Is your physical condition...still stable?" Ye De asked blurtly.

"Pretty stable," An Ran replied without looking back, "I have a very strong self-control."

What he means is that he has never changed his shape again? It seems that only the first mutation is uncontrollable... As they gradually understand the physical condition, they should be able to stop mutating.

Ye De knew that he should feel relieved, but for some reason, he felt a little uncomfortable, but he couldn't explain why at the moment. Is there anything wrong with this sentence?

"Brother," Anna who was following behind suddenly whispered, "You are also injured, let me help you support him."

Before the two of them could respond, she got under Ye De's other arm, grabbed his hand, and put his arm around her shoulders. She was small and couldn't actually provide much support; thinking that even such a little girl felt that she had to support herself, Ye De felt even more embarrassed and hurriedly said: "Ahem, how can I use you..."

After just one sentence, he stopped talking.

An Ran turned to look at him. "Isn't Anna kind and enthusiastic? There really is no better sister than her."

"...Indeed, she is such a good child." Ye De replied slowly while feeling the "SOS" that Anna kept scratching in his palm.

Not many things have been passed down from human society before the apocalypse, but this concise and clear distress signal has become more popular after the apocalypse, and has spread to everyone in many worlds, even ordinary people are no exception - —Anna crossed out "SOS" twice and then stopped.

Ye De slowly drew a question mark on her palm with his thumb.

Anna did not respond by writing, but suddenly called: "Brother."

After being startled, Ye De immediately understood and his heart sank uncontrollably.

This is... the answer she gave herself.

"Huh?" An Ran seemed to dote on her very much and asked, "What's wrong?"

"No, it's nothing. I thought I saw a figure, but I just saw it wrong." Anna whispered.

In the dark and silent city road, Ye De heard An Ran smile - he didn't laugh out loud, but Ye De could still hear the silent laugh; because when the cheek muscles pulled the lips and opened the corners of the mouth, There will be a moist, low-pitched sound of the skin opening from the gums.

The three of them walked forward in silence for a while. The cold sweat coming out layer after layer made Ye De's wound sting. He was clearly aware that his arm was sticking to An Ran's back through his sleeve. The right wrist hanging down on his neck was tightly grasped by him, and he might not be able to break free for a while.

"Your physical condition is really bad," An Ran asked as if she was worried or assessing: "Is it a heavy burden for you to walk on such a messy road?"

Ye De just wanted to deny it, but suddenly his heart moved and he replied: "Yes."

Anna trembled slightly under his left arm; her steps were so heavy that she couldn't keep up, always trailing half a step away.

"Honestly, when I walk a little faster, I feel that my consciousness is on the verge of collapse." Before drinking coffee, Ye De was indeed struggling with fainting. He whispered: "Well... if you don't mind, Can you go explore the road ahead so I can take a rest?"

An Ran was silent for a while. "Where's your ability?" When he finally spoke, he asked, "Just use your ability to listen, so you don't need me to explore the way."

...He refused to leave himself and Anna.

Why?

Ye De thought of the situation when he just met Anna. She was hiding under the quilt in the corner, motionless and silent; not only did she not seem to want to reunite with her brother, she simply hoped that she would not be discovered - this "person" turned out to be her brother.

"Alas, I don't have any abilities," Ye De said hoarsely, "When I was attacked, I used my head to block most of the damage, otherwise I wouldn't be alive now... It's just that my abilities It’s no longer useful.”

"Oh?" Maybe it was his imagination, but there seemed to be a layer of vague excitement in An Ran's voice. “You can’t hear the message, and you can’t send it out?”

"Yes," Ye De replied, "I am completely isolated from others, that's why I don't know anything."

"You have made such a big sacrifice for us, Fanjia City will never forget it." An Ran's tone sounded heavy again. When Ye De mentioned it again, he thought about it and finally agreed: "Okay, you two sit down for a while. I won't go far. I'll come as soon as I go."

Ye De and Anna didn't look at each other. They said hello to him a few times and sat down in silence; until An Ran's figure completely disappeared in front of the dim and winding city road, they still didn't dare to speak. After waiting for a few more seconds, the little girl suddenly got up, came close to Ye De's ear, covered her mouth with one hand, and said angrily: "I don't think he is my brother."

Ye De was surprised: "What do you mean?"

"I...I don't know. When my brother was first injured...at that time, he was still my brother. At least I felt like...I helped him clean the wound and bandage it, and after I pulled out the wood thorn, I..."

Anna's quick wit just now seemed to have completely left her when she recalled that moment; the little girl couldn't help but fidget, as if she would bite her tongue when she spoke too fast. "After the wooden thorn was pulled out, there was a small bloody hole in the eyeball, which was about the size of half the nail of my little finger."

Was she stimulated? Looking at that kind of injury from a close distance, it is indeed easy to exceed the limit of human endurance.

But what Anna said next was far beyond Ye De's expectations.

"I just felt scared at first, and I didn't dare to look at the wound at all, but when I bent down to get the cloth..." Anna's voice became lower and lower, "I felt something shaking in my peripheral vision. one time."

She couldn't help but make a sound similar to nausea in her throat. "I thought it was my own hair at the time, so I continued to pack my brother's eyes...and then I discovered that there was still hair inside."

"What else is in there?"

Anna's face turned pale. "Inside the bloody eyeball hole... deep inside, there is an eyeball, very small."

If he could speak, Ye De couldn't find a word at this time.

"I feel... there's more than one. The eyeballs must be packed inside, so one happened to be exposed at the hole, and I saw it again..." Anna said, tears rolling down, staring at The ground murmured: "No, that's not right. I must have been frightened and saw it wrong, right? I also suspected that I had seen it wrong at that time, UU Reading www.uukanshu.net But at that time, the cloth strip in my hand It was already pressed up, so I didn’t dare to pick it up again and take a closer look... Besides, my brother was also staring at me at that time."

She swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "At that time, my brother had not mutated."

As soon as the words opened, Anna could no longer hold back, and poured out all the fear she had been holding back for who knows how long - obviously, she was still wavering between luck and fear: "You know better, you said Did I see it wrong? After all, the appearance of mutants is very scary, and I know that my brother has mutated once, so it caused my misunderstanding... If I just saw strange things, I wouldn't be like this... But my brother is different from before It’s different.”

"Why is it different?" Ye De asked dryly.

Anna suppressed her sobs, wiped her nose as quietly as possible, and said, "He seemed to know that I was afraid of him."

"he knows?"

"I felt like he knew. But he didn't say anything, didn't explain to me, didn't comfort me, he just kept staring at me." Anna whispered, "I may be crazy. But when he saw that I was scared, Seems...happy. My brother would never treat me like this—"

Ye De held her hand and cut off her unfinished words.

When Anna noticed his gaze, she also slowly raised her head; immediately, Anna's teeth couldn't stop chattering.

From the dim corner of the ceiling, a long flesh-colored strip was stuck between the cracks of the brick wall, gradually spreading towards where the two were sitting, like a snake that kept expanding its body outwards - at the head of the snake, there was An irregular shape with a black hole, wrapped in wrinkled and twisted flesh-colored shadows.

It took Ye De a few seconds to realize that it was an ear that had been stretched extremely long.