Chapter 12 Leaves

They crossed the narrow street and came to the door of a rotten tin house.

With a gun in one hand and a flashlight in the other, Xu Yang slowly pushed open the iron door, which was useless, and smelled a rancid smell inside.

There is a right-angle counter at the door, with a terminal and a cashier with a screen.

There was a simple small turret hanging in the corner that didn't work because it wasn't powered. In unsafe places, people will go out of their way to buy defense equipment 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 apart, blood was still flowing, and he should have died not long ago.

Has this place been attacked by some monster?

The dead man was wearing a blue vest and jeans, with a hat falling to the side. Xu Yang didn't want to watch it any longer, but Farosa turned a blind eye.

He turned his head and looked inside the house,

A few broken sofas were placed beside the wall, with takeaway boxes piled up on them, and an iron table in the middle, which was rotten beyond recognition. On the other side of the wall are nine metal game booths, all of which are two people tall. The shells are made of second-hand materials, which are quite cheap. Probably only the host and neural synchronization device inside are purchased from the company.

Only now did Xu Yang recognize that this place was an Internet cafe.

Bang, bang, bang—

The knocking sound continued, Xu Yang saw that the sound came from a game warehouse at the end.

No one used the other game bays, only the one was still running with lights on, probably powered by an internal battery, so it wasn't affected by this massive power outage.

Xu Yang walked to the game room step by step. At first, he thought that the knocking sound was coming from the game room and that someone was calling for help, but it was far from the truth.

A huge mouse stuck its head out from the other side of the game room, glared at Xu Yang with bright yellow eyes, then continued to turn around and tapped violently.

mouse?

Bigger than a human...a mouse!

boom! The game compartment was eventually knocked out.

Xu Yang heard the sound of metal shattering.

The mouse ripped open the shell of the game compartment, and the pink nutrient solution tank inside burst and sprayed out all of it, splashing on the dirty floor and walls.

Losing his balance, the player inside also fell out of the game compartment, and fell heavily to the ground, screaming, it was a girl.

Maybe she was still enjoying the game just before she was smashed, with the electrode patches and nerve connections coming off her head.

The mouse screamed in excitement.

"squeak!"

"Help - help!" the player screamed.

The giant mouse opened its mouth to bite at her, instantly biting off her throat, and greedily devoured the blood.

Rats broke into the house and smashed the game room to eat people, just like opening a can to eat.

"This is—" Farosa frowned.

Xu Yang recovered from the initial shock, gritted his teeth, picked up his submachine gun, and pulled the trigger at the mouse.

Flames spewed from the muzzle, and several bullets swept through the air, piercing the mouse's forearm, injuring the aorta, and it rolled back like an electric shock, screeching with its back against the wall.

The voice cut through the darkness, Xu Yang's heart was beating wildly.

No doubt the sound will attract its ilk! Such a big guy, Xu Yang doesn't believe that there is only one,

But since the shot has already been fired, there is no way.

Xu Yang continued to shoot.

After a few more shots, the mouse quickly moved a few times, but couldn't dodge. It was shot continuously, and blood spurted out. It fell to the ground and twitched violently, its trunk shook, and its hands and feet spasmed. Then, blood loss finally took it away. 's life.

Its legs stretched out feebly, its tail drooping.

Looking closely, this is a big mouse, completely a "rat man" with sound hands and feet.

Its hands and feet are the same as human hands and feet, and it is wrapped in simple clothes.

"Save her." Xu Yang quickly rushed to the side of the bitten girl and knelt down on one knee, "Can you do it?"

"It's gone when it's used up." Farosa stretched out her hand, "Coffee gives a little strength and can only be used once."

"use."

"The Law of Reply," Farosa whispered.

The red light lit up, as if the whole world sank into blood and began to breed again.

reset -

In an instant, the wound on the girl's neck recovered as before, the fracture was smooth, and blood flowed again.

Because only this wound was damaged, and after healing, her body began to function again.

Blood and oxygen flowed throughout her body again, and the nerves had already sent out a death signal, but now they became active again, doing everything to save the "corpse".

As a result of all this work, her lost eyes gradually regained their vitality.

Her body bounced and started shaking like a motor.

The girl let out a long moan, held her head for a while, and then raised her head to look at Xu Yang and Farosa.

Xu Yang looked at her appearance. This is a young girl of about sixteen or seventeen years old. She has short hair, no makeup, a small nose and a small mouth. Her eyes are lazy, her face is tired, and she is not cute. It looks like she has played games for more than ten days. , wearing a simple white vest and jeans, in Xu Yang's view, she is completely a drop-out girl who is addicted to games.

"Hiss—" She saw the dead mouse in the corner and stood up, "Is that it, has it been knocking on my game bay? I heard it just now, and I thought it was the BOSS coming and ringing the bell!"

"Yes, do you still have memory? Great, now that it's dead, we have to go." Xu Yang said, "Who knows how many things are like it."

"It's a Rat Man, it must be a Rat Man." She looked nervous, obviously not recovering from the stimulation.

The Rat Man is one of the famous urban legends in modern society.

It is said that the rat people are degenerate human beings. Some people were abandoned by the times and huddled into underground cities, and then they were pushed into darker places by the underground cities. They were not seen for a long time, and they stooped in the sewers. Gradually, people became Rat man.

This is the most terrible fate of man.

After several large-scale rodent eradication operations by the company alliance, the rat people have disappeared in most underground cities, not to mention the threat to the safety of the ground company society.

When Xu Yang was a child, he occasionally heard terrifying rumors about the Rat Man, but he never heard it again when he grew up.

For the generation of girls in front of me, the rat man has become a completely strange story on the Internet.

It has disappeared from the memory of people all over the world, but now it comes back alive.

"It's a rat man." Xu Yang affirmed.

"Did the Rat Man cause the blackout?" she asked.

This is apt, "big blackout", and that's exactly what we're facing now.

Xu Yang turned the flashlight out, and still saw nothing but darkness, the street lights were off, the equipment was offline, and all the technological products that modern humans were proud of had withered away.

It also seems that only extremely large-scale power outages can explain the situation.

It's weird, the rat people are also worthy of affecting the operation of society? I really don't know how they did it. The largest rat wave before, that is, it had a serious impact on the security of the underground city.

Right now, everyone loses their most important technology resources without energy, and they are also invaded by a group of rats. I am afraid that the surrounding situation is very bad.

However, when there is no electricity, no network, and all things are silent, you don't have to worry about being chased and killed for a while.

"Call me Xu Yang, she is Ms. Aquilia." Xu Yang said briefly.

"It's Miss Aquilia," Farosa corrected.

"My name is Kojima Yezi, just call me Ye Ye." She panted, her eyes fixed on Xu Yang, "I clearly remember that I was 'dead', and that rat man killed me, not even with a weapon, but with it the teeth of……"

"You are resurrected, this is the gift of God." Farosa announced, "Don't forget to praise God at any time, this is the best way for you 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 troublesome it would be. "Tell us everything you know, the more the better."

"You just arrived here?" Ye Zi scratched his messy hair and left immediately without listening to Xu Yang.

She went back to her broken game compartment and pulled out a satchel from under the seat, which appeared to contain several small boxes, purses, cards and documents.

Immediately afterwards, she rummaged through boxes and cabinets in this broken Internet cafe, found some handy tools and sundries and stuffed them into her bag, which soon filled up.

After a pause, she hurriedly took out the heaviest things in it and threw them away, opened the bottom of the game compartment, took out a stack of game data cards, and stuffed the satchel until it was full.

"Is the thing yours?" Xu Yang asked.

"It's all mine, my treasure, my treasure." Ye Zi said, "I play games every day."

"We're not going on an outing, why do we bring so many games." Xu Yang was puzzled, "We're escaping, this place is not right, it's better to go back to the ground."

"It's better to die if you don't play games," Ye Ye said.

"I didn't save you to let you come out and play. If we want to leave here alive, we have to do our best." Xu Yang was displeased, "How can we run away with something like that."

"I don't care," Ye Zi's voice sounded dissatisfied, "The social atmosphere on the ground is so bad, it's all calculation, all utilitarian, I've had enough, otherwise why would I hide in such a place? Just to enjoy the game of!"

"Don't talk nonsense, it must be that you ran out of money to come here to surf the Internet, you are just rotten here."

"I'm not rotten, although I do have no money..."

"You must have just arrived in this kind of place. You can't stand it for a few more months, and there is a 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 does a company person come to this poor place and tell me what to do!"

Is there such a strong corporate habit in me? Xu Yang muttered in his heart. Forget it, after 6 years in a giant company, whoever comes is the same.

"Pointing fingers?" Farosa said, "He was the one who called to save you just now. At that time, he must have only the simplest idea in his mind - saving people. Or, you should even deny the status quo of bringing yourself back to life. ? If I was the only one here, I definitely wouldn't help. I can't bear to see this guy's enthusiasm being pointed at by you like that."

Even Xu Yang felt embarrassed when he said this, and Ye Ye's expression changed.

"I'm really sorry." Ye Zi bowed deeply to Xu Yang, she looked at the Rat Man lying on the ground, "...Well, if I really rot here for a few months, I'm afraid I will also become a Rat Man. There is no difference."

"You ran away with your family's money, right?"

"No, most of them are the prize money from game competitions." Ye Zi said excitedly, "I was helping people to train for orders just now. Originally, after finishing today's game, I would have the money to change to a better Internet cafe, but I ended up playing half of it. When the power was suddenly cut off, I could only use the battery, and the frame dropped, my eyes were almost blind."

"What are these." Farosa found that she could not understand at least three words in each sentence.

Ye Zi explained to Farosa incessantly, while Xu Yang was lost in thought.

The Rat People were originally thought to be extinct, but now they appear in the Katagi district. At the same time, a large-scale power outage occurred. They were lost in the remote corners of the underground city, unable to collect outside information at all, and their digital minds were damaged.

Xu Yang looked out from the broken window, and saw that the underground world was vast and dark.

"Find a safe place first," Xu Yang said, "...have lights, food and vending machines, electricity, and internet. Then you can talk slowly."

Such places used to be everywhere, but now they seem to disappear out of thin air, only accompanied by countless rodents in the dark.