Chapter 42 Late Night Visitor(1/2)
[Exclusively published by Jinjiang Literature City]
You Xi's hair stood on end and she had goosebumps all over her body. She wanted to pinch the worms out of her hair, but when she raised her hand, the worms on her hairline began to twist again. Is this... because of the smell of blood?
She looked at the wound above and hesitated for a few seconds.
Her intuition has always been very accurate, and her intuition at this moment told her that it was best not to get close to this small black insect with such a wound.
She put down the flashlight, quickly took out the [Repair Foundation] from the Star House warehouse, opened the cap and squeezed it directly towards the wound.
The squeezed liquid was milky white, slightly thick, and had a light medicinal fragrance. She spread the liquid with her fingertips. In two or three seconds, the scratch shrank little by little at a speed visible to the naked eye and then completely
heal.
You Xi:......!!
Although I know that the effect of buying something with 10 star coins will not be much worse, the healing speed is too fast!
With this thing, there is no need for Yunnan Baiyao, iodine, disinfectant alcohol.
The wound healed and the smell of blood disappeared. She noticed that the bugs on her hairline had calmed down again and lay there motionless, just like hair.
She pulled the worm off, along with a few strands of hair, and threw it in the sink.
The tiny bugs squirmed a few times against the smooth surface of the sink. The black bugs twisting on the white porcelain surface looked a bit disgusting.
She turned on the faucet and flushed the insects away, but the fishy smell at the tip of her nose still lingered.
You Xi had a bad guess. She pointed the flashlight at the top of her head again, and then looked intently. The next second, her pupils dilated, and she immediately took the shower head in the shower room, wanting to directly point it at her hair to rinse.
But when he thought about the tiny insects being carried away by the current, and the sour feeling on his face, he still held it back.
It's not good to have too strong five senses. If you were an ordinary person and closed your eyes and washed your head in the shower, you probably wouldn't have noticed that there were so many bugs on your head after washing your hair.
You Xi endured her nausea and bought a bottle of [Instant Cleansing Oil] directly from Star House Mall. It was smaller than [Repair Foundation] and still had a screw cap and squeeze port.
She squeezed it directly onto her face and spread it on her face with her hands.
In an instant, the layer of oil on the face immediately automatically extends to cover every inch of skin on the body. This feeling is very similar to the feeling that the protective film automatically takes effect when using [High Temperature Perfume] for level 3 or above.
It's just that the protective film is wrapped together with the clothes, and this [Instant Cleansing Oil] only covers her skin, and then isolates all the dirt that originally stayed on the skin.
You Xi saw tiny black insects falling into the sink and on her sleeves, and immediately jumped into the shower with bare feet. She closed the door with her backhand and pulled off all the clothes on her body.
The clothes were really torn apart by her. The bug made her so disgusted that she forgot to control her strength in a hurry. The suit, the thin sweater inside, and the underwear were all torn apart and thrown away.
She saw tiny black insects constantly falling on the tiles under her feet and on her clothes.
It wasn't until all the uncomfortable itching on her body disappeared that You Xi left the shower room with bare feet. She looked back at the pile of clothes covered with bugs inside, took out the [High Temperature Perfume], adjusted it to the second setting, and pressed the button
Down.
The temperature at the second level was slightly higher than the normal temperature, which was enough for this purpose. The clothes and the insects burned together. She continued to spray for a while until the clothes and the insects were all burned to ashes.
Then, she turned on the shower switch, closed the shower door, and let the water pour down to wash away the black dust on the tiles.
There were also a few writhing black bugs on the floor tiles outside the shower room. She put down the toilet seat, squatted on it with bare feet, and used [high-temperature perfume] to clean every spot with black bugs.
Fortunately, this was in the bathroom, and the floor and walls were all tiles, and there was nothing combustible. She cleaned it carefully and thoroughly. The tiles were scorched black, but she finally eliminated all the bugs.
You Xi sniffed the air carefully, and the damp smell that had been lingering in her nose since she left the subway station disappeared.
This means that there are no longer black bugs in this room, but when she walked out of the building in the afternoon, she smelled the same smell in the air. Does this mean that there are already such bugs outside?
Where will it be? In the water? On the grass? Or... on other people?
You Xi put on her clothes and changed into a pair of light soft-soled shoes. She had just walked out of the bathroom when she heard a familiar voice ringing in her head.
[World Mission 1: Avoid the parasitic crisis and reach home safely has been completed. The host received 30 star coins. Number of star coins: 285]
This is——the world mission that was???
Although You Xi knew that the first task was usually not too difficult, she was still very happy to have completed the first task by accident. At least the death threat was reduced by half.
After that, as long as she concentrates on surviving for a month, she can return to her original world alive!
You Xi thought for a while and sighed: "Xingwu, you are actually a good system, right?"
【……】
"Now that I think about it, both the initial draw and the newly unlocked products in the mall before each apocalyptic world are exactly what the next world needs."
When she went to the Tsunami and Low Temperature Apocalypse, she won the [High Temperature Perfume].
When she went to the zombie apocalypse, a product with high attack power such as [Air Hair Dryer] appeared in the mall. Although the effect of using it may be a bit hard to describe, that is just because zombies are disgusting when shot in the head, and the lethality is impeccable.
Then came this time, the [Repair Foundation] that can heal any wound, and the [Instant Cleansing Oil] that can instantly cleanse all dirt. To say that there is no water in the Star House system, she herself doesn't quite believe it.
Moreover, she now knows the content of the first mission, plus the incident just now, and by inferring backwards, it is easy to get some useful information.
First of all, the appearance of the worms should be related to the water leakage in the tunnel. The worms attach themselves to the human body with the water and are difficult to detect after being stained. Even she did not notice it at the first time. The worms will become active instantly after being attracted by the blood.
But the last inference of this information was later overturned by herself.
No! She remembered that some of the passengers in their group were injured and bleeding at that time. Although it was not serious, due to the blood-seeking nature of insects, there should have been some movement, and she would not have noticed it until now.
Perhaps...is it possible that the insects had not yet woken up in the dripping water? Could the larvae...be insect eggs?
This possibility is very high.
The second piece of information is that hemotropism may allow parasites to burrow into the human body through wounds. It is not clear whether parasites are caused by this, or it may be through other methods. However, parasites will definitely cause negative changes in the human body. Otherwise, avoid
Parasite Crisis will not become one of the post-apocalyptic world missions.
Finally, this undersea tunnel incident is probably not the first time this bug has appeared, because she smelled the same damp smell when she left the building in the afternoon.
From this point of view, the world's water resources - seawater or fresh water - may be contaminated. If we speculate further, some food may not be safe.
The end of the world has not yet begun, but there will be an incubation period for the end of the world.
This should be the end of the world with a parasitic crisis, or an end of the world with insect plagues.
Currently, she prefers the former.
As for the negative changes caused by the black microworms parasitizing the human body, we still have to observe them later. It may be a disaster, or it may be other aspects.
Fortunately, she thought carefully and filled ten buckets of water in her native world, which is five tons of purified water. There is also enough purified water for her to drink, plus [Instant Cleansing Cleansing Oil], it will last for a month without any problem.
As for the negative effects of having a shiny face, it is almost negligible in front of bugs.
After You Xi finished his analysis, he turned on the TV in the living room.
It happens to be evening news time, and an event as big as the collapse of the undersea tunnel will definitely be on the news in this city.
But she waited for half an hour and changed several local channels, but she didn't see any news reports about this incident.
Internet communication in this world has not yet become a common phenomenon like in her native world. If something happens around, everyone's first reaction is to watch the news. Therefore, when an accident occurred in the undersea tunnel, no one immediately took out the
Photographed by mobile phone.
Neither news nor individuals were disseminated through the media, and the incident was naturally suppressed.
But if it was just an incident of an accidental subway being trapped when a tunnel collapsed, why was it not broadcast?
Extrapolating backwards, it seems that someone at the top level of Hairu City already knew something, so they suppressed the news.
Having been nauseated by the bugs just now, You Xi didn't want to eat meat at night, so he finally took out a cup of fruit tea, a yellow rice cake and a portion of almond tofu. Only sweets can defeat the nausea after effects of bugs.
After a simple meal, she drank fruit tea and checked relevant information online on her mobile phone.
The appearance of the insect just now made her think of iron worms for the first time, but iron worms all live in fresh water, this is a seaside city, and the size and habits of the insects are completely different. Iron worms do not have hemotropism, only
Hydrotaxis.
So basically we can rule out the possibility of iron worms.
After checking the information, I still found nothing.
On the contrary, I browsed countless pictures of insects that resembled tiny insects, and my eyes and mind were overloaded, and I felt as if I was somewhat immune.
At 9:30, the night news started, and this time there was news about the undersea tunnel, but the content was that because the tunnel was in disrepair, several subway tunnels and traffic tunnels had been closed one by one since the afternoon.
This is announcement news, intended to allow city residents to choose alternative travel routes.
At ten o'clock, You Xi set a six-hour alarm clock on her mobile phone and planned to take a rest.
She closed all the doors and windows tightly, checked the faucet carefully, then lay down on the sofa with her clothes fully clothed, and covered her with a blanket from the Star House warehouse.
When she was drowsily sleeping, she heard a strange noise outside the door. The sense of crisis made her wake up quickly. She glanced at her mobile phone. It was past one in the morning. No matter who was outside the door and wanted to do anything, there would be nothing at this time.
Good thing.
She threw her belongings into the Star House warehouse, grabbed a semi-automatic hand from inside, then quickly entered the bedroom, used a quilt on the bed to make it look like someone was sleeping, and then hid behind the door of the room.
After a while, the lock made a rattling sound, obviously someone had opened it.
Two breathing voices entered the house one after another. One stayed in the living room to check, and the other went straight to this only room.
The man sneaked into the room in the dark, and You Xi could see clearly no matter how dim the light was. The man took out a towel from his pocket and quickly covered it with the person on the bed. When he realized something was wrong, the back of his neck was already covered.
A heavy blow.
You Xi snatched the towel from his hand and covered his mouth and nose, causing the person who was knocked unconscious by Roboto to fall deeper into unconsciousness.
She dropped the towel, hid behind the door again, and when the second person came in, she pointed her mouth directly at his temple.
To be continued...