r18novel Chapter 164 Urban Demise
Chapter 164 Urban Demise
Hello!
Her voice sounded somewhat shy and self-conscious, like a girl going through puberty.
But Xu Si was certain it was a boy, about the same age as the little girl. Perhaps it was the price of the sequence, or perhaps he was going through puberty, which made his voice sound very feminine.
"Ah, it's a girl!" the little girl exclaimed in surprise.
She was so surprised and delighted that she almost cried because he sounded to be the same age as her.
She's such a social butterfly, there's practically no one in the team she can chat with.
That scoundrel Xu Si bullies her all the time.
However, she still didn't get out of the car; she was still quite vigilant.
Xu Si clearly sensed the boy opposite him stiffen. He felt ashamed and wanted to run away, but he didn't. He stood there and didn't speak for a long time.
"I'm Fu Xiaojian, the leader of the Xinhuo train team. Thank you for giving us directions earlier!" Fu Xiaojian broke the silence.
"You're welcome. Besides, I'm a boy!" Xu Si could sense the immense courage the boy had mustered to say that.
"By the way, what's your name? Where are the rest of your team?" Fu Xiaojian asked.
"Chen Pei, I'm all alone, and I have an older sister!"
The voice remained hidden in the shadows, or rather, the entire train crew with their salaries remained hidden in the shadows.
"Your team only has two people?" Fu Xiaojian asked, puzzled.
Could this be another lone wolf like Wenren Jiujiang?
"No, we don't have a convoy; we've always been in this city!"
"You didn't leave?"
"No!"
Everyone in the Xinhuo train crew fell silent, meaning he was a city dweller, a survivor of the city.
"Salt City... there are still survivors? How did you manage to survive?" Fu Xiaojian's voice was filled with barely concealed tremor.
"No, it's just the two of us now. I am Sequence 3—Rain Man. I am rain, and rain is me!"
"Jinxiu and I live near the theater. A few days ago, when I went out to find supplies, those deer attacked the theater. After hearing the deer's cries, Jinxiu was on the verge of death!"
"I'd like to exchange the Sequence Awakening potion with you to see if it can help her pull through this!"
The sound of dripping water continued in the dark tunnel.
Xu Si's starry eyes shimmered faintly in the dim light as he "saw" the boy named Chen Pei standing in a puddle deep inside the tunnel.
His body seemed to exist between solid and liquid states, as if it were about to liquefy and leave at any moment.
This is probably a characteristic of the "Rain Man" sequence!
But to be a Sequence 3 at such a young age? How can the rest of their team bear this?
"Why don't you take us to see your sister first? We have a doctor in our convoy," Fu Xiaojian said.
Chen Pei remained silent for a few seconds, seemingly hesitating.
"Thank you." Finally, he nodded.
Fu Xiaojian then noticed that there was another person in the passenger seat. It was a boy who looked to be about fifteen or sixteen years old, and he was very handsome.
He has a completely feminine appearance, and with that kind of voice, it's easy to mistake him for someone else.
"Those big guys won't come back, will they?" Fu Xiaojian asked before setting off.
"No, they come into the city to forage for food at this time every day!"
"That's good!" The convoy drove out of the air-raid shelter and, guided by Chen Pei, quickly headed towards the other side of the city.
"You don't live here? How come you're here?" The place was very quiet, so Fu Xiaojian had to keep asking around.
"Those deer destroyed all the supplies I collected, so I have to come to farther places to collect them!"
The best streets are those without traffic lights and congestion, if you exclude the car wreckage scattered all over them.
However, whenever the convoy approached, the wreckage would obediently line up on the side of the road.
It must be Chen Pei's abilities that paved the way.
More than ten minutes after the convoy started driving, Chen Pei's voice rang out again.
"The theater isn't far from here, just two blocks away."
Chen Pei's voice is very unique, still carrying that androgynous quality.
"What is this brocade you're talking about?" Fu Xiaojian asked.
"Just like me, a homeless child!"
Fu Xiaojian always felt that the child might have some kind of mental problem.
He always gives off a gloomy, almost lifeless feeling.
On both sides of the street, the buildings licked by the "building deer" looked particularly eerie under the car headlights.
The exterior walls were so smooth that they reflected the halo of car headlights, but this exposed the structural damage inside the walls, like a giant whose skin had been peeled off, revealing its jagged bones.
Jiao Jiao leaned against the pickup truck window, her big eyes fixed on the passenger seat of the van ahead, and whispered to Su Su, "Auntie, is he really a Sequence 3? He doesn't even look as old as me... How has he survived in this godforsaken place all this time?"
Su Su rolled her eyes at her, annoyed.
Based on what she just said, a Sequence 3 with a bad temper would have already started a fight.
After driving for a few more minutes, the convoy stopped in front of a relatively intact large building.
The building had a wide portico and towering Roman columns, and the blurred reliefs above the lintels still revealed the outlines of musical notes and masks, making it a theater from the old days.
At this moment, the theater's main entrance is half-closed, the glass already shattered, the dark entrance like a silent mouth.
"Right here."
Chen Pei didn't even bother opening the door; his figure solidified directly outside. The moment he touched the raindrops, his outline seemed to become even more blurred before settling down.
He turned to look at the convoy, his face expressionless, but a hint of anxiety was hard to hide in his overly clear eyes.
"Sister Jinxiu is in the backstage dressing room."
Fu Xiaojian made a hand gesture, and Su Su, Jiao Jiao, and Xu Si got out of the car one after another, while the others stayed in the car to keep watch.
Chen Pei led the group quickly into the theater.
The interior looked even more dilapidated than the exterior. Most of the red velvet seats in the audience area were rotten and collapsed, broken decorations and cables hung from the ceiling, and a thin layer of water covered the floor, reflecting the faint light coming through the broken skylight overhead.
The musty smell in the air was stronger.
Pass through the side corridor to reach the backstage area.
The place is very clean and tidy, but the signs of life are still very obvious, indicating that it is cleaned regularly.
A figure lay on a makeshift bed against the wall.
She was a young woman who looked to be in her early twenties. Her face was as pale as paper, her lips were chapped, her eyes were closed, and her breathing was so weak that it was almost imperceptible.
She was covered with a faded old curtain, and looked as if she had just undergone a funeral ceremony.
The little girl was so frightened that she shrank behind Xu Si.
"Three days ago, when I went out to find supplies, a deer suddenly appeared nearby for some reason. Sister Jinxiu must have heard the deer's cry and then fell into a coma. We can't wake her up no matter what we do... She can't eat anything today!"
He didn't finish speaking, but everyone understood.
Jinxiu was affected by the "eerie deer cry" of the giant deer, either falling into an illusion or suffering mental damage.