Midnight Bookstore - Chapter 244
Chapter 244: Black-and-White Photo
It was late at night, and the door of the small mud house was half-closed.
Zhou Ze had deliberately arranged for the girl to sit on the doorsill. As for old Cui, he had Xu Qinglang tie her up with a rope, gagged her, and made her sit on the small bench in the living room.
Just as old Cui had said, he would rather the whole village be killed by zombies than have his “Granddaughter”leave him.
This was human nature,
it was normal to make such a choice and say such words.
And because of this..,
in order to protect the village he was born in, Xu Qinglang had the little girl stand outside the house as bait. It was normal and also unimpeachable.
Zhou ze planned to wait until the matter was over and send the little girl to Hell so that she could be reincarnated. After all, birth, old age, illness, and death were natural laws. The little girl had already died, so going to Hell to get another chance to reincarnate was the right path, staying in the world of the living would cause problems sooner or later.
Old Man Cui didn’t care about the lives of the entire village, so why should Zhou Ze and Xu Qinglang care about his opinion?
Most importantly..,
this old man’s bad temper was really annoying. Anyway, boss Zhou didn’t have the slightest impulse to help him do anything. It was fine as long as everyone did business. There was no need to talk about the exchange of favors. It was too troublesome.
Zhou Ze and Xu Qinglang stood behind the door and leaned against the door frame.
“Will he come?”
“It depends on whether this old man is hiding anything.”Zhou ze glanced at old man Cui, who was tied up like a “Dumpling.”.
“What else is he hiding?”
“A person who has yin-yang eyes since birth has lived until now. Is it possible for him to be so peaceful in his life?”
“That’s true.”
When it was late at night, Xu Qinglang was a little tired. She sat on the ground and leaned against the wall. Zhou Ze was fine. He smoked one cigarette after another. He didn’t need coffee or anything to resist his sleepiness, he couldn’t sleep without a freezer or Bai Yingying anyway.
However, it was quite boring to wait like this.
Old Man Cui was tired and fell asleep first. Meanwhile, the girl continued to sit on the doorsill obediently. She kept looking around and even turned around to look at her grandfather from time to time.
Zhou Ze felt guilty for using a girl as bait, but he couldn’t bear to let her go. Besides, the girl was a fetus, so there was no need to treat her like a pure child.
“Crack… crack…”
There was a sound from the vegetable field in the distance.
Zhou ze immediately straightened up, and Xu Qinglang, who had been dozing off, also stood up.
The girl hugged her shoulders. She felt the cold, but at the same time, she also felt fear.
“Crack… crack…”
The sound was getting closer and closer.
Zhou Ze looked outside through the crack in the door, but he could only hear the sound, and he hadn’t seen the jumping figure yet.
After waiting for another ten minutes, the sound was still lingering nearby, hiding itself in the darkness, but it didn’t show up for a long time.
“Zombies have intelligence too?”
Xu Qinglang exclaimed.
“…”Zhou Ze.
However, this wasn’t the time to argue. The zombie might have sensed something was wrong, so it didn’t dare to approach for the time being.
The girl turned around. Her fear was getting stronger and stronger. She subconsciously wanted to call her grandfather, but Zhou Ze, who was standing behind her, made a “Shhh”gesture. The girl held it in, but her eyes were red.
At this moment, Zhou Ze reached out his palm. Fingernails grew out of it, and layers of black mist began to encircle it. Zhou ze squatted down and pierced his fingernails into the ground.
The black mist began to spread out and pointed in a direction!
“There!”
The next moment..,
zhou ze directly rushed out of the door.
Since that thing was still not coming, then he would take the initiative to attack. It was just a zombie. Boss Zhou really did not feel that there was anything to be afraid of.
When he first met Bai Yingying in his life..,
bai Yingying’s aura was similar to Wu Zetian’s, but in the end, she was still stabbed until she cried?
In front of them was a vegetable field with a simple fence blocking it. When Zhou Ze rushed over, a figure also took the initiative to “Jump”over.
It was indeed a jump. The opponent was wearing a black t-shirt and shorts. When he jumped out, he broke the surrounding fence.
“Bang!”
Zhou Ze’s body collided with the opponent’s body. The hardness of the opponent’s body was like a steel plate. Moreover, the opponent’s momentum did not decrease. There was a terrifying determination in him.
Zhou Ze’s fingernails also pierced into the opponent’s chest,
in front of the fingernails..,
no matter how hard the chest was, it had to be turned into soft fingers.
“Bzzz!”
It was as if his fingers were inserted into a watermelon. It was greasy, crisp, and had a thick feeling to it.
The other party’s body trembled, then directly twisted and curled up on the ground, like a leech that had been sprinkled with salt.
“How is it?”
Xu Qinglang also ran over.
“It’s settled.”
Zhou ze squatted down beside the man. The man had gradually stopped twitching, and black mist began to rise from his body.
He took out his phone and took a look at the man’s face. Zhou ze found that he had seen this man during the day. He was one of the villagers who went into the water to save the drowning woman.
How could it be him?
At this moment, the man was no longer breathing, and his body began to weaken. Black pus and blood began to ooze out from his eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and mouth.
Being directly pierced by Zhou Ze’s nails was equivalent to disrupting his foundation. Even Bai Yingying could not stand being scratched by Zhou Ze’s nails, not to mention that this guy was obviously incomparable to Bai Yingying.
“I know this person.”Xu Qinglang also took out his phone to take a look. “He’s the third son of the Xu family’s aunt, his name is…”
“I know him too.”
Zhou ze interrupted Xu Qinglang and turned the man’s neck over.
On the left side of the man’s neck, there were two clear teeth marks.
Zhou Ze’s fingers caressed the teeth marks, and then his eyes suddenly focused:
“No, this is the substitute who was bitten by a zombie and turned into a zombie!”
The next moment..,
zhou ze immediately got up and rushed back to the small mud house. The girl who was sitting on the doorsill had disappeared.
When Zhou Ze rushed into the house, old man Cui, who had been tied up like a dumpling by Xu Qinglang, was also gone. There was only a circle of rope and a stool left on the spot.
He had fallen into a trap,
he had fallen into a trap.
When Xu Qinglang ran back and saw the empty house, he also frowned.
“How is this possible…”
Xu Qinglang found it hard to believe.
This zombie was not Zhou Ze, nor was it Bai Yingying, who had been nourished by madam Bai for two hundred years,
but it could actually play “Luring the tiger away from the mountain”?
“This old man was also eaten by the Zombie?”Xu Qinglang muttered to himself.
“That’s not right.”
Zhou ze squatted down and picked up the rope that was scattered on the ground.
“The broken part of the rope was made after repeated cutting. It wasn’t cut by the nails of the zombies. The old man broke free himself.”
As he spoke, Zhou Ze stood up and looked outside,
“We were in the vegetable field just now. If the old man ran out of the house, it’s impossible for us not to know. Moreover, the old man knew that there was a zombie eyeing him covetously outside. He shouldn’t be so stupid as to rush out and attempt to escape. At least in the house, we can guarantee the safety of him and his granddaughter.”
Hearing that, Xu Qinglang walked to the kitchen and looked around. Then, he walked to the bedroom and pointed at the bed:
“There’s a tunnel under here!”
Zhou Ze got up and walked over. Sure enough, the bed was opened, and there was a tunnel under it.
A lonely old man with only a ghost granddaughter to accompany him, and he was very unpopular in the village. Why did he dig a tunnel?
Could it be that old man Cui was obsessed with watching “Tunnel warfare”when he was young and got one for his own family when he had nothing to do?
“You go and deal with the corpse first. Bring it to the house and hide it well. I’ll follow the tunnel to chase after it. Pay attention to your safety.”
Zhou ze instructed Xu Qinglang.
Xu Qinglang nodded. The zombie had just been killed by Zhou Ze, but the corpse would inevitably cause a lot of trouble when villagers passed by at dawn. It really needed someone to deal with it first.
After Xu Qinglang left, Zhou Ze jumped into the tunnel alone. The tunnel was not spacious, and most of the areas had to be bent over or even crawl to get through.
Moreover, the tunnel was really not short.
Zhou ze began to admire the old bachelor’s ability to make trouble at night. He was farming and sowing seeds, so he dug a hole here.
About four minutes later, the tunnel began to move upwards. Zhou ze also noticed the traces of friction that someone had just passed by. The door panel above was also open. Zhou ze walked out very easily.
After entering..,
zhou Ze was surprised to find that this place was also an old tile house. It was very old, and it didn’t seem like many people would come here often.
There were many such houses in the countryside. In the past, they were usually for the elderly. After the elderly passed away, the younger generation had already moved into the built-up buildings. These old houses were either used as kitchens or places to store miscellaneous items.
As expected, when Zhou Ze turned a corner and walked into the hall, he saw a memorial table. There were two unlit candles on it, but they were also hung with spider webs. In the middle of the candles was an incense burner, and behind them was a black-and-white photo of an old lady.
The old lady bared her white teeth and smiled happily.
Old Man Cui’s tunnel led to this place. Could it be that this old lady was old man Cui’s lover?
Perhaps the old lady was widowed long ago, but she had children, so it was inconvenient for her to be with old man Cui. In the countryside, it was still very difficult to find a spouse for widowed parents. The key was that the children felt that they could not wipe away their face.
However, old man Cui’s spirit of digging a tunnel and having a private meeting was really touching.
But things have changed, people have changed,
the old lady left first,
it was estimated that old man Cui had not used this tunnel for a long time. This time, it was purely used as a means of escape.
“Hehe.”
Zhou ze shook his head and passed through the hall. He had to find old man Cui as soon as possible because he knew that the intelligent zombie was also looking for the grandfather and grandson.
Besides..,
that zombie was only stealing at first,
but now it was killing people!
What Zhou Ze didn’t see was..,
when he walked through the hall..,
on the spider-web-covered spiritual altar..,
the old lady who was smiling in the black-and-white photo..,
her smile..,
became even brighter.
