Lost Narrative Poetry

"What is 965-7 equal to?"

"What is 958-7 equal to?"

"What is 951-7 equal to?"

The arithmetic classroom is still going on, and the questions are constantly thrown out. Although it is a subtraction with no difficulty, each time it is just to continue to subtract a number like 7 from the answer to the previous question.

However, questions that are usually not difficult at this time have turned into death problems that are simply impossible to solve.

Physical pain, mental fear, facing the huge pressure brought by death and monsters, it is difficult for normal humans not to be on the verge of collapse at such a time, and it would be good if they don't go crazy on the spot.

Moreover, the time Xia Ran gave to answer the question was very short, only three seconds. If the answer was not answered or the answer was wrong, the bone sharp blade would fall mercilessly, causing more physical pain.

Under normal circumstances, for such a simple math question, and the rule is always to subtract a 7, three seconds is certainly more than enough time to answer the question.

However, while facing huge fear and pressure, and suffering both physical and mental torture, having to answer math questions at this time is completely unnatural for human beings... Moreover, the tragic injuries and continuous bleeding made it difficult for people to do it... The guy's physical and mental state was deteriorating rapidly.

Therefore, it is a pity that he did not finish this class after all——

"What is 951-7 equal to?"

Xia Ran asked again. After a few seconds, he still received no answer. However, this time he did not let the tentacle attack of the parasitic beast fall again. Instead, he tilted his head and sensed it carefully.

"Tsk, are you actually dead? What a useless waste..."

Kicking away the corpse with a ferocious face on the ground, and his eyes finally fixed with unspeakable fear, Xia Ran slowly turned his head and looked in the direction of the shopping mall door, and his eyes met Busujima Yako and others match.

"It's you, you are actually able to survive. You seem to be quite lucky..."

He greeted the person he just met yesterday with a calm face. The four split tentacles on his left hand were shaking like giant poisonous snakes, and then they quickly retracted them and returned to their original appearance.

Xia Ran also clenched his fist and moved the five fingers of his left hand, with a seemingly natural expression on his face.

"..."

"..."

Yako Busujima and the others did not speak. They just stared blankly at the scene that happened in front of them. It seemed that some invisible big hand had tightly grasped their heart and throat, and they could not make any sound at all.

They felt that their throat muscles were probably stiff and petrified, and their teeth were probably welded together by something. No matter what, they couldn't open their mouths.

What happened just now?

A living person was brutally killed by a monster in front of them? While asking incomprehensible math questions, he opened mouths on the other person, torturing the other person to death like Ling Chi?

Also, what is this monster that is not a zombie? Did those terrifying tentacles and sharp bone blades appear due to virus infection and mutation, or are they another species in themselves?

——Did wisdom evolve?

——Or can you speak?

These terrifying thoughts, as well as the thoughts they associate with each other, naturally appear in their consciousness, making them terrified.

It wasn't until the unlucky human being was tortured to death that the monster, with its snake-like tentacles, turned its head to face them at the same time. For a moment, their consciousness was completely blank, and their brains were unable to think.

——Am I going to die too?

This was probably an instinctive thought that occupied all the room for thinking.

And when the monster turned around, saw the other person's face clearly, and heard the other person's voice saying hello, not only were they unable to turn around, but they were shocked even more.

wait wait wait! Why... why is this guy? Why is he the monster...is he a monster to begin with?

At this moment, regardless of whether they had thought about it seriously before, almost everyone's minds seemed to be suddenly electrified. A flash of light flashed through, illuminating the fog, making them feel that their eyes were suddenly enlightened.

This person seemed to have said something like this before, saying things like "you humans are very fragile" and "human beings are really contradictory creatures". At that time, they didn't take it seriously and thought it was either a joke or a joke.

At most, I feel that this person is a little heartless. It seems that the end of the world has broken out, but he still feels like that.

However, at this time, these words and deeds have become the most powerful evidence, that is, this person is not heartless, but really... ordinary people like them cannot understand, and have never heard of it before. monster.

"It seems like you didn't make it to the other side of the river successfully? Is there something wrong?"

Xia Ran didn't care how dumbfounded these people were, and asked casually as if nothing happened. Without waiting for Busujima Yako and others to react or answer, he waved to the other side——

"You guys clean up these bodies."

Busujima Yako and others looked to the other side blankly, and then realized that there was another group of people in the hall, seven or eight adults and a dozen students, but they were not from their school. Judging from the school uniforms, they were probably from another school. People from colleges and universities.

However, this group of people were all trembling with fear at the moment, squatting in the corner over the counter with pale faces, obviously frightened.

Killing a chicken to scare a monkey, killing a chicken to scare a monkey. Since the chicken just killed was the chicken, it is self-evident who the monkey was. But they didn't dare to lower their heads or look away, because this was Xia Ran's order just now.

No matter how brutal and terrifying the scene just now was, they did not dare not look at it, and even forced themselves to carefully observe every detail——

Perhaps they are worried that they will face such inhumane abuse in the future. Many people even turned pale as they memorized the question just now and racked their brains desperately to think about and calculate the consequences of "951-7" Answers to more questions.

Because if you can’t answer it, someone will die!

It is precisely because of this that after Xia Ran spoke to them, many people did not react at all. They still stared at Xia Ran with their eyes wide open and their teeth clenched, with a look of extreme fear and bitterness. Center of the hall.

Until Xia Ran frowned and reiterated what he said——

"Did you hear that? Come and deal with these bodies!"

As a result, the group of people finally got excited, with a lucky expression on their faces as if they had been granted amnesty. They jumped half a meter high on the spot with great agility, and ran towards this side one after another!

——Since he wants them to work, it means that this monster does not intend to repeat the brutal behavior just now on them! At least we won't take action against them in the short term...

Thank God, as long as they can escape such a terrible fate, they are willing to do anything, even if it is to dispose of corpses, it doesn't matter!

The person who was a little slower rushed out when he saw the people around him as if the canteen was about to start dinner. Only then did he react belatedly, almost crying.

They were afraid that they would arrive late and not be able to grab such a safe and secure job, and then they would be mercilessly killed by the monster.

Probably because he was too frightened, one thug even used too much force and fell to the ground. His nosebleed came out, but he did not dare to make any sound at all. Instead, he rolled with his hands and feet. Climbing and continuing to move forward.

However, this guy was still lagging far behind, and as a result, tears of fear and anxiety flowed from his face, but he still gritted his teeth and did not dare to make any sound.

Thank God, under the indifferent, cold, and forbidding gaze of the monster, he quickly rushed into the pile of corpses, bent down and grabbed the arm of a corpse, intending to drag it away.

Xia Ran didn't know what his image was like in the eyes of this group of people. He just nodded with satisfaction. It seemed that the effect of killing the chicken to scare the monkeys was quite good.

The one who had done it before was killed by him in self-defense. He could chop melons and vegetables cleanly. However, the remaining half of the thugs were not easy to deal with. It seemed inappropriate to kill them all directly. After all, these students themselves What can be done?

But it would not be appropriate to let it go so lightly. Xia Ran simply interrogated him and selected the one guy he thought deserved the most for his public execution, using the crudest violence to establish authority over the rest. , let them understand what should be done and what should not be done.

As for the testimony, it is also very credible. Under the circumstances of the illusion amplifying the emotions, Xia Ran initially determined from the statements of the client, his companions, and the group of students that the guy who just happened was responsible for the disaster that broke out yesterday afternoon and paralyzed the city. When they were there, they took advantage of the chaos and killed an old couple.

And last night, he killed two girls in a very disgusting way... because the guy was very perverted and liked to choke the woman's neck when doing that kind of thing to get perverted pleasure.

To be honest, Xia Ran felt that she was actually a bit distorted, and she was somewhat self-aware.

If he does not live in a familiar and orderly society - to put it bluntly, it means leaving his familiar world, school, circle, etc. - he will also gradually become unrestrained, act randomly, and completely rely on himself. The trend of preferences comes.

but.

He is just not a good person in the absolute sense, but he is not a real bad person. He still has his own bottom line, so for such an extremely twisted maggot, giving him a math lesson really has no psychological burden at all. .

But Busushima Yako and others didn't know that their group arrived at the last moment. Not only were they frightened, but they also felt that Xia Ran was a terrible monster...

All the previous words and deeds were just casual disguises, and the vaguely revealed calmness and madness were part of its essence.

As for now, in their eyes, they feel that this monster has revealed its true colors and no longer intends to continue disguising it.