They walked through the narrow streets and came to the door of a rotten iron house.
Xu Yang held a gun in one hand and a flashlight in the other. He slowly pushed open the useless iron door and smelled a putrid smell inside.
There is a right-angle counter at the door, with a screen terminal and a cashier desk.
There is a simple small turret hanging in the corner. It cannot work because it is not powered on. In an unsafe place, people will try their best to buy defense facilities to protect themselves, no matter how cheap they are.
Going around the counter, Xu Yang saw a man dead on the ground.
The opponent's heart was torn open and blood was still flowing. He must have died not long ago.
Was this place attacked by some monster?
The dead man was wearing a blue vest and jeans, with his hat lying beside him. Xu Yang didn't want to look at it anymore, while Farosha turned a blind eye.
He turned his head and looked inside the house,
Several broken sofas were placed against the wall, with takeout boxes piled on them. There was an iron table in the middle, which was in a state of decay. There were nine metal game cabinets on the other wall, each two people high, and the shells were made of second-hand materials.
It's quite cheap, and probably only the host computer and neural synchronization device inside are purchased from the company.
Only now did Xu Yang realize that this place was an Internet cafe.
Bang, bang, bang——
There was a constant sound of knocking, and Xu Yang saw that the sound came from a game warehouse at the end.
No one was using any of the other game bays, and only that one still had the operating light on. It was probably powered by an internal battery, so it was not affected by this massive power outage.
Xu Yang walked towards the game room step by step. He initially thought that the knocking sound was coming from the game room and that someone was asking for help inside, but this was far from the truth.
A huge mouse poked its head out from the other side of the game barn, glared at Xu Yang with its bright yellow eyes, then continued to look back and started banging hard.
mouse?
Bigger than a human...rat!
Bang! The game warehouse was finally broken.
Xu Yang heard a sound of metal breaking, and there was a loud crash.
The mouse tore open the casing of the playhouse with force, and the pink nutrient solution tank inside burst open and spurted out, splashing on the dirty floor and walls.
Losing balance, the player inside also fell out of the game chamber, fell heavily to the ground, and screamed, it was a girl.
Maybe she was enjoying the game just before she was shot, and the electrode patch and nerve connection cable fell off her head.
The mouse screamed excitedly.
"squeak!"
"Help - help!" the player screamed.
The giant rat opened its mouth and bit at her, instantly severing her throat and greedily devouring the blood.
Rats break into homes, break into playhouses and eat people, just like opening cans to get food.
"This is-" Falosa frowned.
Xu Yang recovered from the initial impact, gritted his teeth, picked up the submachine gun, and pulled the trigger on the mouse.
Flames erupted from the muzzle, and several bullets flew through the air, piercing the mouse's forearm and damaging its aorta. It rolled back as if it was electrocuted, leaning against the wall with a scream.
The sound cut through the darkness, and Xu Yang's heart beat wildly.
There is no doubt that the sound will attract its kind! Xu Yang couldn't believe that there was only one such big guy.
But now that the shot has been fired, there is nothing that can be done.
Xu Yang continued shooting.
After a few more gunshots, the mouse quickly moved around a few times, but could not dodge. It was shot continuously and blood spurted out. It fell to the ground and twitched violently. Its torso shook for a while, and its hands and feet spasmed. Then, the blood loss finally took it away.
's life.
Its four legs stretched out weakly and its tail drooped.
Taking a closer look, you can see that this is not a big rat, but a "rat man" with sound hands and feet.
Its hands and feet are no different from human hands and feet, and its body is wrapped in simple clothes.
"Save her." Xu Yang quickly rushed to the girl who was bitten to death, knelt down on one knee, "Can you do it?"
"It's gone once it's used up." Falosa stretched out her hand, "The coffee gives you a little bit of strength, it can only be used once."
"use."
"The Law of Reply," Falosa whispered.
As soon as the red light lit up, it was as if the whole world had sunk into blood and started to gestate again.
Reset——
In an instant, the wound on the girl's neck recovered as before, the fracture was smooth and the blood began to flow again.
Because only this wound was damaged, after healing, her body began to function again.
Blood and oxygen began to flow throughout her body again, and her nerves, which had already sent out death signals, became active again, and they tried their best to save this "corpse".
The result of all this work was that her eyes that had lost their sparkle gradually came back to life.
Her body bounced and began to tremble like a motor.
The girl let out a long moan and held her head for a while, then raised her head to look at Xu Yang and Falosa.
Xu Yang looked at her appearance. She was a young girl about sixteen or seventeen years old. She had short hair, no makeup at all, a small nose and a small mouth. Her eyes were lazy and her face was tired. She was not cute. She looked like she had been playing games for more than ten days in a row. She was very haggard.
, wearing a simple white vest and jeans, in Xu Yang's opinion, she looked like an out-of-school girl addicted to games.
"Hiss--" She saw the mouse corpse in the corner and stood up. "Is it it? It has been knocking on my game room? I heard it just now. I thought it was the BOSS who was ringing the bell!"
"Yes, you still have memories? That's great. Now that it's dead, we have to leave." Xu Yang said, "Who knows how many things like it there are."
"It's a rat man, it must be a rat man." She looked nervous, obviously she hadn't recovered from the stimulation.
The Rat Man is one of the famous urban legends in modern society.
It is said that rat people are degenerate human beings. Some people were abandoned by the times and huddled in underground cities. They were also squeezed into darker places by the underground cities. They were not seen for a long time and hunched over in the sewers. Gradually, people became
rat man.
This is the most terrible fate for man.
After several large-scale rat eradication operations by the corporate alliance, the rat people have disappeared in most underground cities, and they are no longer a threat to the safety of the above-ground corporate society.
When Xu Yang was a child, he occasionally heard terrible rumors about rat men, but as he grew older, he no longer heard about them.
But to the generation of the girl in front of me, rat-men are completely a strange story on the Internet.
It had disappeared from the memory of people all over the world, but now it is vividly back before our eyes.
"It's a rat man." Xu Yang confirmed.
"Did the Rat Men cause the blackout?" she asked.
This is quite appropriate, "big power outage", this is really the situation we are facing now.
Xu Yang shined his flashlight outside, but still saw only darkness. The street lights were shut down, the equipment was offline, and all the technological products that modern humans are proud of have withered away.
It seems that only a massive power outage can explain this situation.
It’s really weird. Are rat people worthy of influencing the operation of society? I really don’t know how they do it. The largest rat tide in the past had a serious impact on the security of underground cities.
Right now, everyone has no energy, has lost the most important technological support, and has been invaded by rats. I am afraid that the surrounding situation is very bad.
However, when there is no electricity, no Internet, and everything is silent, there is no need to worry about being hunted down for a while.
"Call me Xu Yang, she is Ms. Aquilia." Xu Yang said briefly.
"It's Miss Aquilia." Falosa corrected.
"My name is Xiaodao Yezi, just call me Yezi." She gasped and stared at Xu Yang, "I clearly remember that I died. The rat man killed me, not even with a weapon, but with it
the teeth of……"
"You are resurrected. This is a gift from God." Falosa announced, "Don't forget to praise God at any time. This is your best way to avoid the second disaster."
"God?" Ye Zi was puzzled, "What game?"
"Let's go." Xu Yang knew that the longer he stayed here, the more trouble he would get. "Tell us everything you know. The more the better."
"You just arrived here?" Ye Zi grabbed his messy hair and left immediately without listening to Xu Yang.
She returned to her broken game cabinet and pulled out a satchel from under the seat. There seemed to be several small boxes, purses, cards and documents in it.
Immediately afterwards, she rummaged through the boxes and cabinets in this shabby Internet cafe, found some handy tools and sundries and stuffed them into her bag. The bag was soon full.
After a pause, she quickly took out the bulkiest gadgets and threw them away, opened the bottom of the game compartment, took out a stack of game data cards inside, and stuffed her backpack until it was full.
"Is this thing yours?" Xu Yang asked.
"They are all mine, my treasure, my treasure." Ye Zi said, "I play games every day."
"We're not going on an outing, why are we bringing so many games?" Xu Yang was puzzled, "We are fleeing, something is wrong here, it's best to go back to the ground."
"It would be better to die if you don't have a game to play." Ye Zi said.
"I didn't save you just to let you come out and continue playing. If we want to get out of here alive, we have to do our best." Xu Yang was dissatisfied, "How can we run away with something like that."
"I don't care," Ye Zi's voice sounded a little dissatisfied. "The social atmosphere on the ground is so bad. It's all about calculation and utilitarianism. I've had enough. Otherwise, why would I hide in a place like this? Just to enjoy the game.
of!"
"Don't talk nonsense. You must have run out of money before you came here to surf the Internet. You are just messing around here."
"I'm not showing off, although I do have no money..."
"You must have just arrived in a place like this. You won't be able to bear it if you stay for a few more months. There is also the risk of being robbed."
"I don't care. Look at you. You have to be careful about everything. You are definitely a company person. Why would a company person come to this poor place and tell me what to do!"
Do I have such strong corporate habits? Xu Yang muttered to himself. Forget it, after working in a giant company for 6 years, it will be the same for everyone.
"Pointing fingers?" Falosa said, "He was the one who shouted to save you just now. At that time, he must have only had the simplest thought in his mind - to save people. Or is it that you even deny the fact that you have been resurrected from the dead?
?If I was the only one present just now, I definitely wouldn't help. I really can't stand it when you criticize this guy's enthusiasm like this."
Even Xu Yang felt embarrassed when he said this, and Ye Zi's expression also changed.
"I'm really sorry." Ye Zi bowed deeply to Xu Yang. She looked at the rat man who fell on the ground, "...well, if I really stay here for a few months, I'm afraid I will become like the rat man."
There’s no difference.”
"You ran away with your family's money, right?"
"No, most of them are bonuses from game competitions." Ye Zi said excitedly, "I was just helping people to play as a booster. I thought I would have enough money to buy a better Internet cafe after playing today, but I was halfway through playing.
There was a sudden power outage and I could only use the battery. The frame dropped and I almost went blind."
"What are these?" Farosha found that she couldn't understand at least three words in every sentence.
Ye Zi explained to Farosha incessantly, while Xu Yang fell into deep thought.
The Rat Men were originally thought to be extinct, but now they appear in the Pianmu District. At the same time, a large-scale power outage occurred. They are lost in remote corners of the underground city. They are unable to collect external information at all. Their digital minds are also damaged and they cannot contact anyone.
Xu Yang looked out of the broken window and saw the vast and dark underground world.
"First find a safe place," Xu Yang said, "...it should have lights, food and vending machines, electricity, and internet. Then you can talk slowly."
Places like this used to be everywhere, but now they seem to have disappeared out of thin air, and are only accompanied by countless rats in the darkness.