Ten Days End

"So disgusting..." Qiao Jiajin frowned and looked at the dirty things on the ground, "This pungent smell, can't it be excrement?"

Excrement?

Qi Xia suddenly turned his head to look at Qiao Jiajin.

This is a very interesting point of view.

In other words, there are other people here besides the nine of them and the animal masks.

Or... other "things".

This person or "thing" seems to have lived here for a long time, otherwise it would not be possible to leave excrement all over the ground.

Everyone searched around, but couldn't find needles and gauze at all. And there was no pharmacy or clinic outside the convenience store. Han Yimo was afraid that he couldn't hold on for so long if he went out to search blindly.

"What should I do..." Officer Li put his hands on his waist and looked at Dr. Zhao helplessly, as if asking for his opinion.

Before Dr. Zhao could speak, there was a noise behind the cash register of the convenience store, and the door of the employee lounge slowly opened.

The nine people were shocked and immediately took a few steps back and looked at the slowly opening door.

A thin figure flashed out from behind the door.

A closer look revealed that the person who came out was a girl who was so thin that she looked unrecognizable. Her age was hard to tell.

Her cheeks were deeply sunken, and her eyes bulged outward, as if there was no flesh on her face.

She pursed her cracked lips and looked at the people curiously.

After a brief moment of daze, she seemed to have reacted, and hurriedly tidied up her dirty and worn clothes, and said in a hoarse voice: "Welcome..."

Welcome...to you?

Officer Li carefully understood the meaning of this sentence and seemed to understand it.

"Are you...a clerk?"

The girl nodded: "Yes."

No one said anything else, because this matter revealed a sense of irrationality.

Let alone why there are other humans here, even if she is really a "clerk", why would she work in a completely dilapidated convenience store?

Seeing that no one was moving, the clerk could only tentatively say, "Please feel free to choose."

Although that's what he said, where is the space for "choosing" here?

There were almost no products on the shelves, and the only things were rotten and covered with filth.

The clerk's eyes were dull, staring at the few people.

This look scared the girls a little.

"Do you have needles and thread?" Qi Xia asked the clerk without changing her expression.

"Needle... thread?" The clerk's lifeless eyes moved slightly, and then she stretched out her hand and simulated the action of threading a needle, "You mean... this kind of needle and thread?"

Only then did everyone realize that her hands were covered with dried black blood, which was very scary.

Qi Xia took another step forward and said, "This is the kind of needlework. Do you have it for sale?"

"Swindler, you..." Before meeting Qi Xia, Qiao Jiajin thought he was the most courageous person in the world, but now even he didn't dare to talk to this woman, "This woman is abnormal, can't you see it?"

"So what if you can see it?" Qi Xia said calmly, "Our situation can't be worse than it is now."

The female clerk thought blankly for a while, and suddenly opened the partition at the front desk and rushed out.

Everyone saw her full appearance.

She was wearing a dirty and baggy white shirt, which was as uncoordinated as clothes hanging on a hanger.

I don't know what was smeared on the shirt, it felt like oil and blood.

The shirt almost reached her knees, and she seemed to be wearing no pants, and her thighs were all covered with dried blood.

Qi Xia frowned slightly and wanted to take a step back, but was grabbed by the wrist by the female clerk.

He felt like his wrist was entangled by an old vine, dry and painful.

"I have it here!!" The female clerk opened her mouth, revealing her yellow teeth, "There is "needle and thread"! Come with me!"

Her hand kept pointing to the "employee lounge", as if she wanted Qi Xia to follow her in.

Everyone was really scared by her. Judging from the woman's current performance, it was not a good idea to go in with her.

"Forget it... We won't buy it!" Qiao Jiajin walked up and tried to pull the woman's hand away, "Let go first."

But the female clerk seemed not to hear it. She pulled Qi Xia to move her feet and smiled happily.

"There is "needle and thread" in this room! Come on!"

Her strength was even greater than that of Qiao Jiajin and Qi Xia, two big men combined.

"Hey! ! Come and help! "Qiao Jiajin turned around and yelled.

Officer Li and Doctor Zhao came to their senses and rushed forward.

The female clerk couldn't help but quicken her pace.

Qi Xia only felt a huge force dragging her, and she couldn't break free at all.The two were not far from the staff lounge, and now they had entered the door in six or seven steps.

Doctor Zhao and Officer Li were pulling Qi Xia out, but they didn't expect the female clerk to suddenly let go of her hand.

"Ah!"

With a cry of surprise, several people almost fell down.

After they stood up, they saw that the female clerk didn't care about them. Instead, she turned around and rummaged through the boxes in the house to find something.

The four men also looked around the room in shock.

It was a little cleaner here than outside. There was a folding bed in the corner, and the bedding had turned yellow.

There was a large pool of blood on it, which looked relatively fresh.

In another corner, a rusty iron pot was placed on a simple stove, and something was cooking inside.

The female clerk turned a blind eye to everything and was rummaging in an old box.

"Where is it... needles and thread..." She kept throwing things out of the box, which contained cans, old magazines, pots and pans.

Qiao Jiajin touched his nose and looked at the iron pot.

"Come to think of it, I'm really hungry." He whispered to Qi Xia, "If she wasn't a crazy woman, I would like to ask her if she could let me have a meal."

Qi Xia glanced at the iron pot, and there was something white cooking in it.

He also felt a little hungry.

"You dare to eat the food in this place?" Officer Li asked, "Who knows how dirty that thing is..."

"But it smells good."

Qiao Jiajin was right. Thanks to this iron pot, the smell in the room was actually fragrant, covering up the stench.

"What are you cooking?" Qiao Jiajin asked boldly, it seemed that he really wanted to share a bite.

"Piglets." The female clerk replied.

"Piglets?"

Qiao Jiajin was interested and was about to go to the iron pot to take a look, but the female clerk exclaimed.

"Ah! Found it!"

She turned around, holding something in both hands, and said to everyone excitedly: "Look! Needlework!"

Officer Li went forward and looked a little embarrassed.

This was not "needlework", but a rusty fish hook and a small bundle of messy fishing line.

He turned around and looked at Dr. Zhao, signaling him with his eyes.

Dr. Zhao thought for a moment, stared at the fish hook and fishing line and asked: "Girl, do you have any other needlework?"

"No more." The female clerk shook her head, "Only this, do you want to buy it?"