Screaming Cycle

Ji Xuan's hand was very stable. Although he waved his broom in a hurry, he still hadn't missed his head and was hitting the monster.

With a "pouch", the insect was slapped flat.

Ji Yu was still worried, and took seven or eight shots one after another, until the worm's body had shrunk into a puddle of mud, and his wings stopped trembling, and he stopped his hand.

At this time, he finally saw clearly what the bug he had shot on his clothes looked like.

Strange insects are divided into three sections: head, thorax, and abdomen, just like ordinary insects.

Its head is very small, in the shape of an inverted triangular cone, but its pair of protruding compound eyes are large; and its belly was originally very round and bulging like a ping-pong ball. A large amount of white-gold serous flowed out from the breach; as for its tail section, it was as long as a little finger and was in the shape of a slub, slenderly dragging behind him.

Coupled with the two pairs of transparent thin wings on its back, Ji Xing thinks that this is clearly a very deformed dragonfly.

He is not an entomologist, so naturally it is hard to say whether there is any dragonfly with a round belly and long tail.

However, in his common sense, there is no dragonfly like this one. As long as it touches the human body, it can make a great living person burn to ashes.

The key question now is, after this one is killed, is there anything else?

Ji Tuan rubbed a tooth flake.

If this thing is also like a cockroach, and finding one is equivalent to hiding 10,000 in an invisible place, then the problem is serious.

—No, you can't just walk on the street like this!

Ji Tuan feels bad.

He felt that at least he had to find a safe place first, and then consider the long-term plan.

-correct!

Ji Lu remembers that not far from here, it was a business district in the city center. There should be two large supermarkets there, which could provide him with a place to hide.

And most importantly, you can definitely find food and drinking water in the supermarket. God knows how long he will spend in this ghost town. Eating and drinking is the key to life!

However, before setting off, he had to make a preparation.

Ji Lu found a clothing store nearby.

Fortunately, it is already the end of August.

Although the weather has not turned cold yet, as autumn approaches, various clothing stores have put on autumn clothes one after another.

Ji Yuan picked a long-sleeved men's hoodie, put it on directly, put the hood on top of his head, and then fastened the tie around his neckline.

After putting it on, he looked at himself in the mirror and felt that it was not safe enough. Then he took a pair of gloves and a mask from the accessories cabinet, and wrapped himself from head to toe so that only a pair of eyes were exposed. Arab women.

—Well, this should be fine.

In the encounter of the couple who were attacked, Ji Xing noticed a very crucial message, that is, that kind of dragonfly like a golden thief, seems to catch fire only when it comes into direct contact with human skin.

At the very beginning, the dragonfly hit the man's hand with the mobile phone, and the man was immediately set on fire just like oil wax meets an open flame.

But when she arrived at the girl’s place, the dragonfly first touched her shoulder, but through a T-shirt, the girl didn’t catch fire immediately. Instead, she touched the dragonfly when she swept away the foreign body on her shoulder with her hand in a panic. A flame emerged from the back of his hand.

So Ji Lu thinks that if he wraps himself up a little tighter, he can at least raise his safety factor by one level when he encounters that kind of weird dragonfly again.

Dressed like this in the summer is not only very hot, but also looks like a pervert, but compared with Xiaoming, these problems are just drizzle.

After tidying up, Ji Shu took a new belt and a matching U-shaped clip, and tied the kitchen knife sleeve to his waist.

Then he made a gesture, feeling that when he was in danger, he would be able to draw a handsome sword like an ancient swordsman.

As for the broomstick that killed the dragonfly, he didn't plan to give up either.

After all, compared to his bows and arrows and kitchen knives, it is more convenient to deal with dragonflies, such as flying insects, using broomsticks-in fact, if he can, he would like to find a fly swatter, but there is none in this store. .

When taking the belt, Ji Shun also paid special attention to the label card, and was taken aback by the four-digit price above.

Fortunately, in this ruined city full of sulfur, he didn't need to pay for anything, otherwise he would have to spend three full months of subsidies just because of his outfit.

After admitting that he was fully prepared, Ji Yu decided to set off.

He walked around the counter, returned to the store, carried his bow bag, and reached out to open the door.

However, just one second before his finger was about to touch the doorknob, Ji Shushu withdrew his hand abruptly, and at the same time "Teng Teng Teng" backed three steps, picked up the broom and lay in front of him in a vigilant posture.

Because, he saw that there was an abrupt crimson on the metal arc-shaped handle of the glass door. Although it was only a flash, the color contrast between the two was too sharp, making him suddenly aware of the danger.

Then, from the back of the doorknob, a small lizard with a long tail crawled out.

If it weren't for the wrong color, Ji Tuan would almost treat it as an ordinary gecko.

But although this thing has a gecko-like appearance, its color is very strange, not only as red as blood, but also with a metallic luster when viewed from the side.

This lizard also has a row of tentacles-like granulation protrusions on the two cheeks, which looks like the once-popular pet hexagonal dragon fish.

But Ji Shun didn't think that the aquatic hexagonal dragon fish could climb fast on the smooth metal doorknob.

At this time, the little lizard had crawled along the doorknob to the door leaf, swiftly over the glass, and got into the gap between the cabinet and the wall with a squeak.

Ji Shu shuddered.

Although he didn’t know what this little reptile, which looked like a gentle and harmless tail, was, but there was a precedent of a dragonfly that would burn people to ashes. What happened!

—It seems that in addition to dragonflies, I have to be careful of all the living creatures in this place!

Thinking of this, Ji Tuan quickly took off the bow bag on his shoulders, shook his arms up and down, and after making sure that there was no strange little lizard lying on it, he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and put it on his back again.

"Well, Ji Xiaoniao, come on! You can!"

He cheered himself up, took a deep breath, then opened the door of the ready-to-wear store, and returned to the outdoors full of peculiar smell and ashes.

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Ji Lu's current location is not far from the business district where the supermarket he is going to.

He tightened his hood and trot all the way, through the streets and alleys, towards his destination.

In fact, this area is quite far away from the youth training base of Ji Lu, so he only visited once two years ago.

Fortunately, he has a good memory and he knows the way anyway.

The supply point he chose was a Wal-Mart hypermarket.

The shopping mall is in a separate building with three floors above ground and two floors underground. It has everything from large pieces of furniture to personal items. You can also find plenty of drinking water and food, enough for him to eat and take for a long time. NS.

So, what about after you have enough food, drink, and rest?

Ji Yu was on the way, thinking about what to do next.

Although from waking up to the present, everything he has experienced is beyond the scope of common sense and rationality, but Ji Lu has never been a character that will succumb to difficulties, nor does he intend to confess his fate.

Since the city is no longer what he is familiar with, he decided to leave here and go to other places.

Even if it was the end of the world, he had to see what had become of the outside world.

Just in this way, Ji Tuan can't expect how far the "Eleventh Road" can go.

Besides, there are the kind of scary dragonflies that can burn people to ashes in an instant. Long-distance walking is too dangerous. He needs a car as a means of transportation.

But the key problem is that Ji Tuan can't drive.

This means that he badly needs a companion, someone who can drive and can take care of each other with him.

—I don’t know that person...Is he still alive?

Ji Lu thought of the long-haired man he saw on the flyover again.

—If you can meet again, should you try to invite the other person to go with you?

At the end of the long street, after crossing the intersection, you can see the main entrance of Wal-Mart.

Ji Tuan crossed the empty road to the front of the mall.

At this time, he saw that, beside the gate, a set of crow-blue suits were scattered, still maintaining a roughly human shape, in a posture of one hand reaching down to the ground.

With the familiar recipe and familiar taste, Ji Tuan knew at a glance that it must be another unlucky person who was burned to ashes by the "Golden Snitch".

This time, he did not step forward to check the clothes on the ground, but planned to bypass them and directly enter the supermarket.

Just as Ji Shu passed by the suit, he glanced sideways at them, and suddenly noticed a golden light, which flickered slightly.

With the previous experience of encountering dragonflies, he immediately became vigilant, roused all over his body, took a step back, put the broom in front of him, and assumed a posture that could make a defensive counterattack at any time.

After a few seconds, the clothes were silent.

Ji Yu breathed a sigh of relief.

He finally saw clearly that the golden glitter he had just glimpsed was just a coin slipping out of the side pocket of his suit.

Among the styles of coins currently in circulation in China, there is indeed one made of brass, which looks golden when it is new.

But at this time, the coin half-covered by the side of the suit is obviously a full circle larger than the coins in circulation on the market. It is almost three centimeters in diameter. It looks like some kind of game coin or commemorative coin. .

With a ghostly messenger, Ji Shun took two steps forward, stretched out his hand, and wanted to pick up the coin from the ground.

Just when his fingertips were about to touch the small piece of metal, he suddenly heard a rush of footsteps behind him, coming straight at his back.

Ji Lu suddenly turned around feeling bad.

His reaction was already fast, but he was still half a step slower. When he felt a strong wind behind his head, he was hit by a strong force on his shoulder and back, knocking him upside down and flying out!