Chapter 114 The Day of Doomsday (Seventeen)
After hearing Liu Dong's words, Qiao Yuan also sensed something strange in his heart.
After all, hanging is not a quick way to die, even if it is suicide.
Especially at the moment of being on the verge of suffocation and almost losing consciousness, struggling is almost the most instinctive reaction, not to mention the pain one has to endure at the time, it is difficult for people to have time to manage their facial expressions.
Here, Yu Guo has already begun to urge Qiao Yuan to go in and take a look, but the latter does have this idea.
After some thought, Qiao Yuan decided to go and take a look. After all, the fact that Liu Dong and other players were able to come out safe and sound showed that the danger was not great.
Qiao Yuan and Yu Guo were going in, and Song Yanchi and Sheng Guiye would naturally follow.
Liu Dong had already taken a general look and had to comfort his frightened girlfriend, so he didn't plan to go in a second time. Although other residents wanted to follow, fear eventually overcame curiosity and they finally stopped outside the door.
Qiao Yuan and others have already entered the room.
As they walked further inside, the stench became stronger. When they turned around the entrance, the open bedroom door appeared in front of Qiao Yuan and the others.
Liu Dong did not close the door, and before Qiao Yuan approached, he saw two bodies, a man and a woman, lying on the ground, lying on their backs with their heads facing the door. So when Qiao Yuan walked over, he saw that most of their faces had begun to rot, and he could vaguely see white maggots nesting inside, and two pairs of eyes with little white in them were open.
Just as Liu Dong described, both of them had their lips curled up.
If it fell on the face of a living person, this smile could be called joyful, but when it appeared on the face of a corpse, it looked a little weird.
A quick glance at the man's body revealed no wounds, and it certainly looked like suicide.
Yu Guo commented: " It feels like I'm dying with my eyes open in happiness."
Just as Qiao Yuan was about to take a closer look, she heard footsteps behind her. She felt someone trying to grab her arm, so she subconsciously dodged. When she turned around, she saw that several people with real guns and bullets walked in. Their attire was similar to what she had seen at the door before.
And the one who wanted to catch Qiao Yuan just now was one of them.
After finding out that Qiao Yuan had dodged, the other party did not try again. Instead, they used their tall bodies to block the bedroom door, blocking the gazes of Qiao Yuan and others. “We are from the security team. You guys go out first and don’t disrupt the scene.”
Although it was the first time that Qiao Yuan heard of the security team, when he saw the gun in the other party's hand, he chose to retreat to the door.
The enthusiastic neighbors had already noticed that they were strangers and immediately began to educate them.
The security team of the District 9 base was responsible for maintaining stability, settling disputes, and other tasks, somewhat like the police before the apocalypse. Now that a murder had occurred in the building, the residents naturally had to contact the security team.
Qiao Yuan had gotten used to the absence of police in the apocalypse, so she was a little overwhelmed when she suddenly saw the police. However, she took advantage of the resident's words to find out the possible reason for the other party's suicide.
"I don't know. Life here is so good, why did he suddenly commit suicide?" The person Qiao Yuan spoke to was terrified and confused: "I have lived here for a long time, and this is the first time I heard of it."
Another neighbor added: "They came here about a month ago. I heard they were a young couple who got married not long ago before the apocalypse. They looked no more than 30 years old."
"The couple usually stay at home and don't go out often, otherwise we would have discovered them in time... Alas, the apocalypse is about to end, and these two people are gone..."
"If it was really suicide, it's a good thing they didn't have children. Otherwise, they would either commit suicide with the child or leave the child alone here. It's so pitiful no matter how you think about it..."
Soon the topic of conversation among the residents who were watching turned to the child.
At this time, the security team also came out, with one person walking in front to clear the way, and the others divided into two groups, each carrying a body bag.
It was not known whether the chain of the body bag was pulled up at all, or because of the security team's shaking, but the face of the corpse could be vaguely seen through it, as well as the strong stench of decay.
Although the face was intact, many people in the crowd subconsciously turned their heads away and pinched their noses to avoid the stench.
However, Qiao Yuan couldn't help but pause after his gaze fell on the male corpse's face——
The male corpse actually closed his eyes.
Qiao Yuan was sure that she had not seen it wrong at that time. After all, she still remembered what Yu Guo said, so she subconsciously looked at the security team carrying the bag wrapped with the male corpse: "Hello, did you close his eyes?"
She did know that in some places the custom was to close the eyes of the corpse, implying a departure without regrets.
The head of the security team was explaining to the residents that this was suicide and asked them not to be nervous. This caused a sigh from the residents. Then they heard Qiao Yuan's question and turned their heads to look puzzled. Then they said, "No, both bodies had their eyes closed when we went in."
Qiao Yuan looked at Liu Dong again, but got the same answer from him -
When Liu Dong and other players entered, the corpse's eyes were also closed.
Song Yanchi and the others were also stunned when they heard Liu Dong's answer. After all, what they saw was the same as Qiao Yuan's, that is, the corpse had its eyes open.
Qiao Yuan didn't think Liu Dong was lying. First, the other party didn't need to do so. Second, he said the same thing as the security team. Liu Dong, like them, had just entered the ninth district base and there was no possibility of collusion with the security team.
So the problem lies with these two bodies .
In other words, the two bodies were most likely alive, so when Liu Dong and the security team entered, the bodies had their eyes closed, and when they entered, they had their eyes open.
Qiao Yuan’s first reaction was that the two corpses were infected. Either they happened to open their eyes, or they were targeting them.
However, being treated specially is never a good thing, especially in a dungeon.
Yu Guo, who was also shocked, obviously had the same idea as Qiao Yuan and asked a question before her: "Could these two bodies be infected people?"
However, after hearing Yu Guo's words, before the security team could reply, the residents nearby started talking one after another: "How is it possible? How could there be an infected person here?"
"Yeah, if they were infected, they would have started attacking people by now."
"I've been here for so long that I've almost forgotten what the infected look like."
"Little girl, you just came in from outside, so you may not understand clearly that this place is different from the outside world where there are infected people everywhere..."
The security team also spoke up at this time, impatiently saying that the two bodies were not infected. And according to the rules of the base, the dead bodies would be taken away for incineration, so Yu Guo didn't have to worry about the two bodies being infected. They also bluntly said that Yu Guo's words wasted their time and asked him not to ask such stupid questions again.
There is arrogance and confidence in his words.
Judging from the respectful attitude of other residents, the security team has a high status in the base.
Qiao Yuan thought for a few seconds, then suddenly walked forward, reached into the body bag, and slapped the corpse in the bag hard.
A crisp slap made the living feel the burning pain, and made the dead bow their heads for her.
His head was about to be knocked crooked.
The atmosphere was eerily quiet for a moment.
Because Qiao Yuan's action was too sudden, or they didn't expect the other party to do such a thing at all, the security team didn't react at all. They watched the body being hit and the head tilted to the side, and then they hurriedly stepped forward to stop him: "What are you doing..."
Some security guards even subconsciously covered their faces, fearing that Qiao Yuan would slap them in the face in the next second.
But there was no need for them to stop him. Qiao Yuan had already retreated to a safe area after giving him a slap. He looked at the body in the bag with its eyes still closed and said, "Nothing. Just a test to see if he is infected."
She paused for a moment, then announced the result: "It seems not to be the case now."
People present: “…”
Isn’t this such a simple and crude testing method?
Someone trembled and said, "Why not draw another one?"
Qiao Yuan looked at the other body and said, "Is it okay?"
After hearing such remarks, the other body was still lying quietly in the body bag, as if it was not hers.
The security team members subconsciously surrounded the body with mixed feelings. They never expected that one day they would have to protect a dead body.
Qiao Yuan sighed and said, "Forget it, let's just treat it as a random survey."
Everyone was speechless, and could no longer look directly at the word "sample survey". If they hadn't known that the other party had just moved in and didn't seem to be familiar with the couple, they would have definitely suspected that it was a personal vendetta.
The security team member originally wanted to teach Qiao Yuan a lesson, but was blocked by the other party's words "Neither party has any objection". Although he was angry, he could do nothing.
Although they all know that the parties involved are likely to have opinions, they are not the parties involved.
A life education lesson appeared so vividly before everyone's eyes. Looking at the two silent bodies, many people present understood the meaning of life.
At least when you are alive you can defend yourself, but when you are dead you can only suffer in silence if you are slapped in the face.
After a while, everyone came back to their senses. Liu Dong stepped forward at Jia Xue's urging and asked if they could change rooms. After all, someone had just died opposite them and the key to the original room was broken.
However, Liu Dong's request was naturally rejected. The security team said that housing resources were tight and they could not be changed at will unless they were willing to separate and live with different people.
Naturally, Liu Dong and the others could not accept this, so the matter of changing houses had to be dropped. A security guard accompanied Liu Dong and the others to get new keys.
After the other security guards took the body away, the residents who had been watching gradually dispersed.
The strangeness of the two bodies had made Qiao Yuan realize that there was something wrong. She originally wanted to go into the room again to check, but the security guard locked the door when he left.
Going upstairs with Qiao Yuan and the others was their neighbor, who was a very outgoing person. Although it was the first time he met Qiao Yuan and the others, his words already revealed their familiarity.
Of course, it was everyone except Qiao Yuan. After what happened just now, she always subconsciously wanted to cover her face whenever she looked at Qiao Yuan. It became a new self-protection measure.
Song Yanchi didn't need someone who talked a lot, and Sheng Guiye also frowned. After all, they were still thinking about the two strange corpses.
Even Yu Guo didn't say anything, and it seemed that he was also thinking about the two corpses.
But just when Song Yanchi wanted to interrupt directly, Qiao Yuan stopped him. At this time, the neighbor was already nagging Qiao Yuan and others not to learn from the young couple, but to hang out with the neighbors more often.
"Also, you need to adjust your mindset. This is a place that many people want to enter but can't. When they first moved in upstairs, I heard them arguing every day about whether it was better here or outside..."
"Does that mean they want to leave?" Qiao Yuan noticed the key content in the other party's words, which reminded her of the words of the aboriginal on the bus. The other party's poster was also snatched from someone who wanted to leave.
"It sounded like that." The neighbor wanted to raise his hands to cover his face again, but finally held back and shook his head: "But I don't know the details, I just heard it vaguely. Because I thought it was a bit noisy, I talked to them, and then they weren't so loud anymore..."
