Chapter 99 The Day of Doom (Part 2)
Through the carved fence gate, Qiao Yuan caught a glimpse of a petite figure in the courtyard. She was walking around the garden with her back to Qiao Yuan, holding a watering can.
There are still people in the villa.
At this moment, the man seemed to have heard the footsteps and quickly turned around.
It was a gentle young woman, wearing a water blue floor-length dress, with dazzling jewelry on her neck and wrists. She was looking at Qiao Yuan with a puzzled look on her face: "You are..."
Qiao Yuan's plan to sneak over the wall was completely ruined, and he could only make up an excuse: "Hello, I am a resident living somewhere else. I just saw a figure jump into your house."
Hearing Qiao Yuan's words, the woman was obviously stunned. The watering can in her hand fell to the ground, and the fear on her face was not concealed: "W-what? But I didn't feel anything..."
Looking over the woman's shoulder, Qiao Yuan looked through the window of the room and saw his own shadow waving at her provocatively through the window.
But in the blink of an eye, the shadow disappeared again.
After knowing that Shadow was in this house just now, Qiao Yuan had made up his mind to go in: "I shouldn't be dazzled. Are you home alone now? I can go in with you to take a look, it would be safer..."
She did not miss the other person's subconscious movement to nod when he heard that someone was at home, and knew that she had made the right bet.
The young woman was obviously interested and looked at her carefully again.
When he noticed the young woman's gaze on him, Qiao Yuan immediately put on an innocent look.
After making sure that the person in front of her was truly harmless, the woman said, "That's troublesome," while pressing a button beside her.
With a creaky sound, the fence gate in front of Qiao Yuan finally opened. She immediately walked in. Her destination was naturally the duplex villa in front of her.
After opening the door, the living room of the villa came into view. It was decorated magnificently and filled with a luxurious atmosphere. The sunlight poured into the room through the window, making the floor and furniture spotless.
Qiao Yuan quickly scanned the living room, but saw no shadow. A woman's voice sounded behind him: "It seems not. Let's go look somewhere else."
This is exactly what Joe wanted.
When they walked to the kitchen, the woman said that the kitchen was a bit messy, so she would just go in and take a look. However, the kitchen space was not very large, and Qiao Yuan could get a general idea by standing at the door.
There was a pot on the induction cooker, cooking something. The aroma of meat mixed with steam spread in the room, exuding a strange fragrance.
When the woman turned around, she caught Qiao Yuan's eyes briefly on the pot, and smiled embarrassedly: "I'm cooking, we can eat together later..."
Because he was concerned about Yingzi, Qiao Yuan just smiled politely.
After searching the first floor and not seeing any shadow, the two walked upstairs again. The woman was obviously very nervous and kept trying to find a conversation. Qiao Yuan learned that her name was Xiaowei.
As his peripheral vision kept searching, Qiao Yuan soon noticed something unusual—
This house is too clean.
Even on the handrails, where dust easily accumulates, there wasn't a speck of dust.
Qiao Yuan asked calmly, "Do you live alone in this villa?"
Xiaowei smiled proudly, "Yes, my parents bought it for me when I was just an adult."
At this time, the two of them had already gone up to the second floor, which had several bedrooms and a study, but there was still no sign of anyone inside.
Xiao Wei breathed a sigh of relief: "Great, it looks like it was just a false alarm."
"But meeting is fate . My meal is almost ready. Let's eat together."
Qiao Yuan rejected Xiao Wei's invitation without hesitation: "Forget it, I'm glad you're not busy at home. My family has already prepared dinner and is waiting for me."
As she finished speaking, she felt Xiaowei's grip on her arm tighten a little: "Oh, even if it's just to taste it, I've always wanted to share the food I cook with others..."
Qiao Yuan took the initiative and said, "Okay, why don't you go serve the food?"
Xiao Wei: “…I’ll go right away.”
Qiao Yuan followed the woman downstairs. After Xiaowei walked into the kitchen, the smile on her face disappeared and she tiptoed towards the door.
There is something wrong with this house and Xiaowei.
Xiaowei's fingertips were covered with thick calluses, as if they were left from working, and she didn't look like a rich girl.
The other party said that he lived alone, but she saw a children's room on the second floor. Although Xiaowei said that this was for the consideration of future marriage and childbirth, Qiao Yuan noticed that the children's room had been decorated in a boy's bedroom style, and there were children's magazines and graffiti on the cabinets, indicating that a child had lived in this room before.
At that time, Qiao Yuan thought Xiaowei was lying, and what completely verified her guess was a photo of a family of three found in a magazine. On the back, there was obviously a child writing in childish handwriting, "Photo taken at the aquarium on X month X day of X year, my family members."
Xiaowei was not pictured, but the jewelry she was wearing appeared on the woman in the photo.
Even if Xiaowei is the stepmother, it cannot explain why she would hide the existence of other family members.
However, Qiao Yuan was not going to expose the truth. She just wanted to search around and leave after finding the shadow. However, it was obvious that Xiaowei would not let her go so easily. She could only change the subject temporarily and leave when Xiaowei entered the kitchen.
From the kitchen came the sound of Xiaowei opening and closing the refrigerator door, as well as the sound of chopping vegetables.
Using these noises as cover, Qiao Yuan managed to slip to the door smoothly.
The door and window were clearly not locked, but Qiao Yuan had no way to push them open. Instead, a faint voice rang out from behind him: "What are you doing?"
Xiaowei came out.
The moment she turned around, Qiao Yuan's smile reappeared. She saw Xiao Wei standing in the living room, holding a pot and looking at her.
No wonder she felt that Xiaowei's words just now smelled like meat.
Qiao Yuan: "I'm checking the door locks for you. They seem to be in good condition now. I must have seen it wrong before."
“This room is truly luxurious.”
She noticed that Xiaowei seemed to like others praising the house. Sure enough, after hearing Qiao Yuan's words, Xiaowei's smile deepened and she quickly asked her to sit down and eat.
There were already dishes and chopsticks on the dining table. Xiaowei held a small bowl in one hand and a soup spoon in the other.
However, as the soup boiled, Qiao Yuan was able to see what was in the pot clearly. Of course, it was also possible that Xiao Wei deliberately let her see it, after all, the other party's movements were so slow that it seemed like he was using 0.5 times the speed, and his peripheral vision was still on her.
The first spoonful of liquid came up with two round eyeballs.
Qiao Yuan: "My vision is 5.0 in both eyes, so I don't need to get eye surgery."
Xiaowei paused, and her two eyeballs fell back into the pot. This time, she fished out a finger with red nail polish on it.
Qiao Yuan: "I'm allergic to shelled ones."
Xiao Wei's smile froze. She obviously didn't expect that nail shells could also be considered shells: "Then I'll help you remove the shells..."
Qiao Yuan: "I don't like to chew too many bones."
If Xiaowei was holding a knife, she would definitely not be so picky, but since the other party was holding a spoon, she had indirectly given up the right to speak.
Qiao Yuan just wanted Xiaowei to know what it meant to retreat when faced with difficulties.
Xiao Wei put down the spoon and looked at Qiao Yuan with a changed expression: "You are also infected."
Although he didn't know what the infected person meant, when he heard Xiaowei say the word "also", Qiao Yuan realized that the other party should also be an infected person.
Qiao Yuan looked shocked: "Are you also infected?"
As she spoke, she observed Xiaowei and had already made the decision to distance herself from him if he denied it.
Xiao Wei nodded: "Of course, we are the same kind."
As she finished her words, she lifted up the long skirt she was wearing.
Qiao Yuan's pupils trembled violently.
Xiaowei has no feet, and her legs are directly connected to the floor, so the color of her legs is the same as the original wood color of the floor. However, there are dense blood blisters on them. When she moves her legs slightly together, the blood blisters burst silently, but what flows out is not blood, but pus, which is quickly absorbed by the body and turns into blood blisters again.
The Xiaowei in front of him was obviously beyond the scope of human beings. No wonder she was wearing a long skirt.
However, Qiao Yuan still looked calm and composed.
After the display, Xiao Wei put down her long skirt. Looking at Qiao Yuan's calm appearance, she became more and more certain that she was not wrong: "I was wondering why you had no shadow when I saw you just now."
"But you smell like a human. I thought you were human. It smelled so good that I almost bit you. If you hadn't been so calm just now, I would have thought about what dish to make with you for the next meal."
Qiao Yuan silently recorded in his mind that the infected were in opposition to humans and that they seemed to feed on humans. After hearing Xiao Wei's words, he replied, "High-end hunters often appear as prey."
Xiaowei nodded . She was obviously very excited to find someone like her. With Qiao Yuan's deliberate guidance, she successfully opened up.
It turns out that Xiaowei was also a human being, a few years older than Qiao Yuan.
A year ago, she came to this villa as a nanny.
Xiao Wei stroked the table with her fingertips, her eyes revealing obsession: "When I first saw this house, I liked it very much. It is twenty times bigger than the place I lived in before, and the decoration style is also designed completely according to my preferences. At that time, I was thinking, I wish I were the owner of this house..."
But the real owners of the house are a couple and a little boy. The man is a businessman, the woman is a housewife, and the child attends an aristocratic kindergarten.
She once heard the host talking about the price of this villa at the dinner table, which was something she could not afford even if she worked for several lifetimes.
At that time, Xiaowei's psychology was distorted by the long-term gap between the rich and the poor, and she finally poisoned and killed a family of three. She wanted to briefly experience the life of a house owner before the police caught her, but she didn't expect that the end of the world would come.
Xiaowei didn’t know how the doomsday came, she only knew that she had become the so-called infected person in the news. Her legs were connected to the floor and could never be separated from the house again.
But this was exactly what she wanted. In addition, residents of the villa area who had asked for help broke in from time to time, were killed by her and frozen in the refrigerator, so she had no shortage of food.
This house has become one with her, so she treats it more like her own body, taking great care of it and not tolerating even the slightest speck of dust.
But later there was no signal in the house. She was trapped in the house, with no way of knowing what was happening in the outside world.
Before Qiao Yuan, she had never met anyone like him.
Xiao Wei looked at Qiao Yuan: "What about you? How did you become infected?"
"I have killed almost all the people in the villa area. Why haven't I seen you before?"
Qiao Yuan understood that it was her turn to make up... to tell her experience.
She had roughly understood that under the influence of the doomsday, the world was divided into two types: the infected and humans.
Infected people like Xiaowei still have body temperature.
No wonder she didn’t meet other people in the community, they were probably all in Xiaowei’s refrigerator.
Qiao Yuan felt that the shadow's sudden coming back to life was also related to this doomsday, but the most important thing at the moment was to get away with it.
After all, there is an infected person in front of us who is lurking there.
Xiaowei is not a good person, so she naturally cannot be a carrier of truth, goodness and beauty.
Qiao Yuan: "I won't hide it from you. Actually, I came from somewhere else."
"In fact, I was originally the shadow of a person. It was only when the end of the world came that I gained my own consciousness and replaced her as a person..."
