Chapter 10: Seeing the Undead
"No matter how convenient and advanced technology is, it has little to do with the poor." Jock complained in his mind as he pulled the small cart full of goods with one hand and walked towards the "Spider Shop" under the leadership of Kate.
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The three of them walked all the way through the garbage mountains of different heights. The brother and sister changed their relaxed expressions when they first set off and looked around carefully at all times.
Jock saw Rupert holding a strange weapon shaped like a crescent moon with spikes on it in both hands.
Kate leaned closer to him: "Brother Jock, there are often contaminated rats around here. They are very fast. We must be careful."
'Mechanical mouse?'
Jock's mind instantly imagined what a mouse looked like, and then he nodded to Kate:
"Okay, I understand."
He had a lot of stones in his pocket, which were very useful throwing weapons for Jock now.
Kate took out the knife in her pocket and moved forward on guard.
After walking for a while, a "squeaking" sound came from behind a 5-meter-high garbage mountain in front of me.
"Clang!"
With the sound of metal rolling down, Jock looked up and saw three rats the size of adult rabbits appearing on the top of the garbage mountain.
As expected, these three mice were all contaminated by metal, but it was not very serious, and most of their bodies were still flesh and blood.
Jock stopped the cart and put his right hand into his pocket.
"Rat!" Rupert shouted, holding his weapon and pointing to the location of the garbage mountain.
"Don't worry, wait until they get closer." Jock ordered the Bolkin brothers and sisters.
At this time, there were several stones sandwiched between the five fingers of his right hand.
The rat standing high up with a pair of blood-red eyes grinned fiercely at the three of them.
One of them was using its shiny metal tail to continuously beat the scrap metal block near its butt, making a "snap, snap, snap" sound and splashing a few sparks.
'Haha, they will still demonstrate and show off their violence.'
"Kate, look to the side, Rupert, look behind you, leave these three little guys to me."
As soon as Jock finished speaking, he whistled at the three mice, with a mocking smile on his face.
"Come here!" The tone was even more disdainful.
"Squeak, squeak, squeak!"
The ferocious aura of the three mice surged, and they jumped directly towards Jock!
'Beasts are just beasts, they have no brains at all.'
With a disdainful snort from Jock, he flicked his right hand towards the mouse in the air, and all the stones between his fingers shot out like bullets!
"Squeak~"
With three screams in succession, the rats fell from the air one after another, their heads stained red with blood.
All were headshot!
"Can this rat be exchanged for money?" Jock pointed to the three rat corpses not far in front of him and asked Kate sideways.
"Ah?! Oh! Yes!" The battle ended in a flash of lightning. Only then did Kate react. She was just about to step forward to collect the rat corpses, but Rupert ran over excitedly.
"I'll do it!"
Rupert poked the three rats on the ground with the weapon in his hand. After confirming that they were dead, he took out a metal wire and skillfully passed the thread through the rats' bodies and strung them together.
Immediately afterwards, he took out something like tinfoil, wrapped the rat corpses tightly, and finally hung them around his neck.
Seeing that Jock was a little confused about his brother's behavior, Kate explained: "Silver tin foil can well isolate the smell of blood, which can effectively prevent it from attracting other beasts."
'I see.'
Jock nodded slightly.
"Sister! We have meat to eat again today! These mice have very few mechanized parts!"
Rupert patted the mouse hanging around his neck like a treasure and walked towards the cart.
But at this moment, Jock looked into Rupert's eyes, and his pupils couldn't help but expand rapidly.
The three dead mice actually had holographic images of the same size floating through the silver tinfoil.
'What's this?!'
'Exactly the same situation as what happened when I killed the cyborg dog before!'
'So, that's not an illusion!'
The image only lasted for a few seconds, and then it turned into tiny stars like exploding fireworks, gradually dispersing and disappearing.
"Brother Jock, what's wrong with you?" Kate seemed to notice that Jock's expression was abnormal, and Kate couldn't help asking.
Jock turned to look at Kate and pointed at Rupert: "Didn't you see anything strange just now?"
After hearing this, Kate looked at Rupert again. After several seconds, she looked at Jock again and said doubtfully: "No."
Seeing his sister and Jock looking at him, Rupert subconsciously lowered his head and looked at himself.
However, like his sister, he found nothing.
"Brother Jock, I...is there something wrong with me?" Rupert asked nervously.
"They can't see each other." Jock immediately understood in his heart.
He couldn't help but recall the content of the "fitting ceremony" for "mourning the dead" on the dark yellow page: seeing the dead and comforting them.
'What I saw just now was the undead?'
'It seems that I have really become what this world calls a transcendent person, but... I am just a hermit.'
'You have to see if you have any other special abilities...'
"It's nothing. Maybe after I lost my memory, I had some brain problems and my eyesight was dazzled."
"Let's get out of here quickly." Jock explained a few words casually, urging the brother and sister to leave.
"kindness."
The smell of blood on the ground is likely to attract other beasts. The purpose of the three people's trip is not hunting. The best choice is to leave here as soon as possible.
Jock pulled the cart again, and everyone continued to rush towards their destination.
As early as last night, Jock asked Kate whether humans would be contaminated by machinery. Kate clearly said no, but she didn't know the specific reason.
Before arriving at the spider shop, Jock killed 5 more rats one after another, and the harvest can be said to be very rich.
Moreover, he also saw "holographic images".
Perhaps, now we should change our tune and call them "undead".
This also confirmed Jock's suspicion.
‘Human beings in this world have 21 krypton. I wonder if the undead will appear when human beings die... Will real death be different?'
The attacks of these rats along the way also made Jock understand firsthand why the house of the Bolkin brothers and sisters was made of metal inside and outside.
'The living environment in the garbage area is indeed full of dangers for ordinary people.'
"We're here!"
Chapter completed!