Xiao Xiao's face looked very calm. He noticed the scrutiny in Yang Jia's eyes and explained: "The fact that you brought me here and found this... this mouse shows that you have a deep understanding of it and that you have a deep understanding of it.
When it came out of human skin, you reminded me in advance, which means that all these changes were expected by you. There is no tension at all on your face, which means that you didn't take it seriously at all...
…”
"The most important thing is..."
As he spoke, he knelt down, pulled out the dagger from the rat man's head, wiped it on the quilt next to him, stood up and handed it to Yang Jia, saying:
"I just saw that you took out the dagger very early and were ready to take action at any time."
He breathed a sigh of relief and said: "This thing is too scary, and it's the first time I've seen it. I'm not sure if there's anything else unusual about it. I don't think it's safe even if I have a gun in my hand.
"
"So, it's safer to hide directly behind you..."
"..."
Listening to his explanation, Yang Jia felt that it was extremely reasonable for a moment.
Although at first I just wanted to observe whether he still had the courage to shoot after seeing the rat man's true form...
But after listening to his analysis, I actually felt that it was most reasonable for him to hide behind me.
I'm the one who's so reckless?
But after a brief reaction, he suddenly got the key point. He took the dagger and said doubtfully: "Did you see so many details in such a short period of time?"
"this……"
Xiao opened his mouth arrogantly and said: "My reaction is a little faster than others, and I have always played the game well."
When answering this question, he deliberately spoke in a relaxed tone.
Ever since I fell into panic and headaches for no reason four years ago, I began to be unable to concentrate, and my thinking was chaotic and noisy.
In my own perception, time seems to stop from time to time, advancing extremely slowly, and every minute and second is extremely painful.
In that state, he couldn't speak or think normally. When he went out, he saw a car crashing into him and didn't know how to avoid it. He only had invisible and huge panic that overwhelmed him from time to time.
No problem was found after going to the hospital, and even my parents didn't quite believe me and thought I was faking my illness.
So, I could only suffer in the bedroom, trying to fight against this feeling, through games or reading, to let myself adapt to this panic state bit by bit, and to concentrate in this state.
After four years, I seem to have achieved some results.
At least now I can think effectively in a panic state, but the slowdown in time and sensitivity during a panic attack are still there.
This results in that my reaction seems to be a little faster than normal people...
In the game, this is obvious. Under the same mechanism, your speed will not be faster than others, but your reaction and thinking time will always be longer than others.
And this is also the reason why I like to use games to exercise my concentration more and more.
Of course, it was only now that I started going out that I realized that I can do it even in life.
Although his physical limitations prevent him from making some too complicated movements, he can still judge how to make the most correct choice in a chaotic situation.
He didn't elaborate, mainly because he thought it was nothing.
Anyone can do it with a little practice, or even do it better than themselves, right?
Do you want to tell Yang Jia that you have a brain disease?
The doctor didn't check it out and didn't give me a certificate of mental illness, so I didn't have the confidence to say that I was a patient.
Yang Jia intuitively discovered that Xiao Xiao seemed to have a somewhat vague answer to this question, but she could tell that he didn't really want to talk in detail, so he couldn't get to the bottom of it and just thought about it secretly.
From that class reunion to now, the performance of this old classmate always makes people feel that he has a temperament that is different from others...
"How come there is such a weird thing in this city?"
At this time, Xiao Xiao had already squatted down and looked at the completely dead rat man, observing it bit by bit, as if he wanted to press his face against it.
His brows were furrowed, as if he was also suffering from the nausea and visual impact of this twisted body.
But he happened to look at it very seriously.
Yang Jia watched from the side, suddenly worried that he would lick it.
After pondering for a moment, she sighed softly and said, "I think you'd better get used to it and adapt as soon as possible!"
"There are not only rat people in this city, but also some other deformed and twisted monsters."
"These things will breed in the dark corners of the city, and they are often twisted, terrifying, and can reproduce quickly."
"If it is not discovered in time, it will cause great harm to the city."
"And our mission is to get rid of these things to ensure that the city operates in normal order and logic and avoids the fate of panic and collapse."
"..."
"mission?"
Xiao Xiao was observing the extremely unreal mouse man in front of him. When he suddenly heard the word "mission", he felt extremely weird in his heart.
"Yes, mission."
But Yang Jia's expression was very serious, and she said softly: "Only by accepting this mission, will you get 'his' permission to live in this city."
Yang Jia said softly: "Don't worry, you will see 'him' soon."
Xiao Xiao was startled and hurriedly turned around to look around, but he only saw countless trembling eyes in the subway station.
Nowadays, the last subway has left long ago. There are not many people in this subway station anymore, but there are still some homeless people and drunkards like tramps. They are shooting here, making a lot of noise.
, has woken up many people, and they just looked at them tremblingly. For these people at the lowest level in the city, even the ability to fear seemed to have been lost. There was no shouting, and no one called the police.
They all just tried their best to shrink their bodies or cover their heads with quilts.
No matter whether Yang Jia and Xiao Xiao came to deal with some monsters or to kill people, they just wanted not to implicate themselves.
"Don't these things need to be dealt with?"
He felt extremely surprised in his heart, and looked at the broken and shriveled body of the homeless man in the corner, and then at the corpse of the rat man who was still staring with two red eyes.
When the passengers enter the station the next day, they will be frightened, right?
Yang Jia didn't expect Xiao Xiao to ask this question, and suddenly laughed and said: "He will solve it..."
"Look, 'he' is here."
"?"
Xiao Xiao didn't know why she said that, but he suddenly sensed something and turned around to look.
There was nothing behind him, only the shriveled human body and rat-man corpses, creating a bloody and grotesque scene.
However, the incandescent light suddenly trembled a few times, and something in this space seemed to have been faintly changed.
Xiao Xiao thought his eyes were blurred, so he rubbed them hard and saw that the wall in front of him was slowly moving.
He suddenly felt his throat was dry and his scalp was numb.
He saw that the floor and walls, which were clearly covered with ceramic tiles, actually became soft and squirming, revealing their bright red essence.
Then, bloated and indescribable flesh and blood tissue seeped out from the ground and walls with difficulty, submerging the ground in front of him bit by bit.
The shell of the homeless man, the corpse of the rat man, and even the flesh and blood that had been torn apart by bullets and splattered out were all wrapped up in this flesh and blood.
The flesh and blood squirmed, and from time to time a grotesque face would slowly slide under the flesh membrane. The flesh and blood seemed to be chewing something.
After a long time, the flesh and blood receded, and all the monsters and human shells on the ground had completely disappeared.
Even the bullet marks on the ground that had just appeared due to bullet shooting have been restored to their original appearance.
This nightmare-like scene made Xiao Xiao freeze on the spot and did not respond for a long time.
"Our city is alive"
The smile on Yang Jia's face showed a faint sense of alienation and helplessness: "He has his own will, even his body. His body is this city."
"So, you need his permission to continue living here."
"And now, he has begun to pay attention to you..."
"..."
At this moment, the expression on Xiao Xiao's face completely froze, and he was instantly pulled to the bottom of the nightmare by some powerful force.
Looking out slightly, I saw the gray walls in the subway station. Everything around me seemed to be melting, including the rusty subway rails and the colorful graffiti on the walls.
His head was slightly dizzy, and his eyes seemed to have penetrated the subway station and saw the city full of neon lights and vehicles.
I saw buildings one after another, suddenly turning into bloated flesh-like monsters.
I saw huge tentacles intertwining the roads and aerial railways that formed this city.
I saw numb bodies like walking zombies, standing quietly on the street, like robots on standby.
The entire city is a squirming living body. Everything I see is just its organs and blood vessels. They squirm and move, forming this indescribable huge living body...
I can even feel that the gaze cast by this life form on me reaches the deepest part of the spiritual world...
…
The indescribable shock left Xiao Xiao's mind blank for a long time.
It turns out that this is what Yang Jia wants to bring her to see. It turns out that this is the "him" she wants to take her to see.
Not long ago, I had doubted whether the thing about all the monsters around me was fake. Just now, I was trying to find evidence from the rat man that this might be his hallucination or some kind of sophisticated false model.
.
But it wasn't until this moment that he realized how naive he was.
Even the city I am in is a huge, bloated monster...
