Chapter 48 The Stench(1/2)
[Only released by Jinjiang Literature City]
You Xi came out to investigate the parasite situation. She has been away from the hotel for two days.
In her opinion, the reason why zombies can maintain their ability to move without weakening is that one is because zombies are moving corpses. Their physical functions have been damaged, but they are controlled by some unknown virus.
Secondly, zombies are bloodthirsty to eat similar meat, which in a sense is also considered an energy supplement.
But the situation of parasites is different. After the attack, parasites lose their mind and self-control ability, become crazy and only know how to fight. But in terms of physical functions, they are still humans. If they are humans, they must eat to maintain their ability to move.
But they don’t bite human flesh like zombies, and they don’t know how to cook and eat like normal people. So how do they maintain their ability to move and keep themselves weak?
Normal humans will die if they don’t drink water for three days. If they don’t eat for about seven days, their body organs will gradually fail and they will die if they don’t drink water for about one month.
How long can these parasites last?
Can she assume that these parasitic people will die automatically in a month at the slowest?
Or... will there be some other changes?
After the three-day incubation period, the hotel also became chaotic. Her hearing could cover several floors. She was unable to deal with the chaos outside the hotel, but the hotel was still able to deal with it.
Most of the people hiding in the hotel are employees here and they know each other, so they all gather in the room on the floor not far apart.
There are a lot of supplies in the hotel, and there is no shortage of water for the time being. They originally thought they were very lucky. But on this day, a few of them were crazy at the same time, and they pressed their companions around them and beat them up. So many of them walked forward and dragged and pulled together, but they couldn't stop those people.
When the room was in chaos, someone pushed the door open and shouted "Get out of the way".
Afterwards, they only saw a man in protective suit rushing over with a bottle of fire extinguisher, and then sprayed at the crazy people, making them dizzy and unable to see anything.
Then the man took out the electric shock stick and shot them one by one.
"Look for a rope, if you don't have one, tear the sheets and tie the person up first!" The man spoke again. This time everyone heard it clearly. It was a cold female voice.
Some were shocked and shocked, but they had not recovered yet. Some people came over and dragged their legs to find the rope.
Finally, they locked the three crazy people in three rooms with no windows, but with surveillance cameras.
The entire chess and card room is very large. These three are the small suites inside. Each has a camera and the shooting angle is very clear.
Youxi asked the hotel people to help him go to the kitchen to get some food that they could not eat without outer packaging: vegetables, raw meat, cakes, fruits, cooked rice, and several prepared dishes. She divided the food into three parts and put them into several cabinets in the chess and card room one by one.
Parasites cannot see at first glance, but as long as they go and look for it, they will definitely find it.
The temperature is not high these days, and the food will not break even after two or three days.
Afterwards, a bucket of water was placed next to the cabinet.
She took turns to shock the parasites who had woken up in a chair and then took turns to put them into a coma. She untied their ropes, exited, locked the door, and asked the hotel's help to reinforce the door with wooden boards to ensure that they would not smash the door out by themselves.
After that, You Xi kept observing these locked parasites.
After the parasite woke up, because there were no other parasites inside and there was no living person, he was not as emotional as before.
After watching for a few days, they couldn't get out, but they didn't seem to have the desire to eat.
During this period, a parasite accidentally opened the cabinet and saw the food inside. He stepped forward and grabbed it a few times, but did not eat it. Finally, he buried his head in a bucket aside and drank a lot of water.
She originally thought that if the parasite possesses the characteristics of a worm, it might start eating raw food.
But they only drink water, regardless of whether they eat raw or cooked food.
Don't eat?
You Xi was confused.
If this is the case, in a month, this group of parasitic people will die due to physical failure.
When they die, what will happen to the black worm that originally parasitized on them? Leave again to find the next host? Or die with this parasite?
But no matter what type of creature, human or animal, or what kind of insects are like, survival is essentially an instinct.
Just like they seek blood, this is an instinct.
But after parasitization, if they die soon, then what is their parasitization purpose?
Parasitize and then let the host die, the process made her feel very unreasonable.
One problem has not been resolved, and soon another problem arose.
It was another parasite who was locked in the kitchen of the fifth-floor restaurant by others a few days ago. They came here to collect boxes of water. Unexpectedly, there was one hidden inside. When they saw them, they raised their kitchen knife and yelled and chopped over.
In a panic, they quickly locked the kitchen door, then blocked the door with heavy objects, and locked the parasite inside.
Within two days, when they came to the restaurant to move water again, they smelled a strange fishy smell.
Finally, they judged that the fishy smell came from the kitchen. The people did not dare to open the door, so they went upstairs to find You Xi and reported the situation to her.
You Xi's sense of smell was too keen. She had just stepped into the fifth-floor restaurant and smelled the disgusting fishy smell. It was like kitchen waste stored for several days in summer. The smell made You Xi's headache.
She turned around and asked the people: "Is there a surveillance monitor inside?"
"Yes!" Someone slapped his head, "Look at my pig's head, I forgot everything when I was nervous just now!"
There are naturally monitoring areas like the kitchen, so a few people went to the monitoring room and adjusted the monitoring in the kitchen of the restaurant on the fifth floor.
The light inside seemed to be broken, and the whole picture flashed and it was not clear.
You Xi approached the screen and with his superior vision, he soon saw the situation inside on the screen where the lights were flickering. Perhaps because the parasite had no external stimulation, he lay motionless on the ground, as if he was asleep.
Because the lying position is behind the flow table, only the upper half of the body is exposed.
Will parasites sleep?
When You Xi was wondering, the parasite's eyes opened again. He was not sleeping, but just lying there, as if he was... resting?
But no matter whether the parasite is sleeping or resting, from the picture, there is nothing wrong with him, so why does the stench come from it?
"Is there anything else in the kitchen?" she asked the people next to her.
Those people kept looking at one of them. The man was doing kitchen-related work and knew more about the situation inside than them.
He thought about it for a while and said that this restaurant on the fifth floor is a seafood restaurant. There is a small room next to the kitchen with many glass water tanks and a lot of seafood and fish.
But that room had windows, because it was not a guest room, it was not double-glazed. Several windows were smashed on the day of hail, and the water tank was hit by hail, and the seafood and fish were contaminated by insect eggs.
Later, the hotel staff released the water and piled the batch of seafood together. They originally planned to dispose of it in a unified manner, but before they could deal with it, a series of things happened later.
"So, will that stench be the smell of seafood rot?" the man asked speculated.
Others asked: "Can seafood smell so smelly after it rots?"
"If it's been a long time, might it be?"
You Xi recalled the smell he just smelled, and always felt it didn't look like it.
But other than that, there seems to be no explanation.
She looked at the screen again, and the parasite was still lying there motionless. When she was about to withdraw her gaze, she suddenly saw that his stomach seemed to bulge.
That was just now?
You Xi stared at the screen again. In the bright and dark scene, the parasite lying on the ground was as usual. The changes she glimpsed at that moment seemed to be just her illusion.
In the next two days, she checked the surveillance several times. The parasites in the chess and card room were as usual. They occasionally sat still and walked around. When they heard some sounds, they began to destroy them, shouted fiercely, and even smashed the tables and chairs and kept hitting the walls with broken tables and chairs.
But depending on the situation, there should be no food.
The fishy smell in the kitchen on the fifth floor always exists. From the monitoring, you can see that the parasite has returned to normal. Sometimes they will walk around, sometimes sit or lie down, and sometimes they will even talk to themselves, which is not as fierce as the parasites in the chess and card room.
After two days of observation, You Xi had some doubts about the parasite in the back kitchen, and she decided to check the situation in person.
Several hotel employees looked ugly after knowing it. It was not that they didn't believe her ability. The smell from it was so smelly. When things were blocked, they could hear this fishy and disgusting odor. They really didn't want to get close.
"No need to open the door. Didn't you say that there was a window in the small room next to the kitchen? I'll go down from above." Her plan was to tie ropes from the sixth floor and climb down directly, to use the sound to lure the other party over, and observe through the undamaged glass window - just like the isolation room.
This idea is really good, but you have to climb out from the sixth floor. Ordinary people may not be brave enough to do it, but You Xi is not afraid.
She had professional mountaineering equipment in the Star House warehouse. With her backpack, she took out the rope and fixed it on the windowsill on the sixth floor, then fastened the safety lock on herself, and finally brought professional climbing gloves to prevent fingers from rubbing against the skin.
She fell directly from the sixth floor, and only urged the exterior wall once in the middle, and then successfully landed to the window below, where her feet could reach the upper part of the window frame.
She looked down at the six windows side by side. The three on the left were damaged to varying degrees, while the three on the right were intact. She immediately moved to the right and then descended again.
However, when she stepped on the window ridge to stabilize her body, one of the three intact glass windows was suddenly opened.
A face suddenly came out, and waved at her, grinning and grinning: "Hello, little girl!"
Youxi:…!!
If it weren't for those slightly abrupt red eyes, those black dirt sticking to his mouth and teeth, and the fishy smell that could still be smelled even through the n95 mask, she would almost think that this was a normal middle-aged man.
But the kitchen door has been locked for four days. Where did normal people come from except for one parasite?
The brighter the other person smiled, the more chill she felt in her heart. For a moment, her body's reaction was faster than her brain. She raised her foot and kicked the other person in the shoulder and kicked him into the window.
The middle-aged man who was kicked in still had a smile on his face when he got up again, but his smile became cold and cold. He stared at her, yelled, and suddenly climbed up to the windowsill, clasped the window with one hand and grabbed her with the other.
You Xi immediately stepped on the window ridge and swung himself open. When he fell back, he fell on the exterior wall on the other side of the window.
The parasite was caught and suddenly became furious and rushed towards her, but seemed to forget that she was on the windowsill, so she fell directly from the fifth floor.
With a bang, he landed on the concrete floor below, and his hands and feet twitched a few times and completely lost his breath.
Dead?
To be continued...