"Eighth floor, ninth floor."

The elevator stopped long ago, and Ning Shixi could only rely on her legs to step up to the ninth floor. She was out of breath after going up to the restaurant in such a high temperature.

"This physical fitness needs to be strengthened."

In the past few days, I have been preoccupied with buying supplies and finding a safe place to hide. Wherever I have the time and thought to exercise, it's good if I don't pass out.

"When this is done, find a place where no one is around and exercise your body. Only by being healthier and stronger can you live longer."

She silently made a note of this precaution in her heart.

I didn't meet anyone when I went upstairs. Did all the residents in this building run away?The whole building was as quiet as a tomb. There should have been cicadas and birds singing in summer, but there was no sound of Ning Shishi's panting in the corridor.

She sat down on the aisle from the eighth floor to the ninth floor, took out a bottle of water from her bag and sipped it.While drinking water, he listened for any sounds.

The high-rise safety stairs are rarely used by people. There are still some old furniture and some children's toy cars piled up in the corridor, covered with a layer of dust.Because the aisles on each floor are made of stainless steel guardrails and glass, the light is very good.

Ning Shishi drank a whole bottle of water and waited for his breathing to stabilize before standing up. He gently opened the door of the stairwell and stretched his head to look. There were two houses opposite each other on the ninth floor, and the doors were closed.She opened the door and walked out of the stairwell, then bent down and gently placed the empty mineral water bottle on the floor at the door before going to 913.

913 is the innermost room. There are peepholes on the door, and the old-fashioned lock with a key and a twist handle.

Ning Shishi put his ear close to listen, but there was no movement in the room.

This building seems to be a little too quiet.

Remembering the entrustment made by the man in the gas station before his death, Ning Shixi raised his hand and knocked on the door.

If no one agrees, it can't be regarded as my dishonesty.

She waited a moment to make sure no one was about to turn and leave when she heard the click of the lock.The door opened a palm wide with a "squeak", and a little girl about seven years old timidly poked out half of her head.

"Sister—who are you looking for?"

Her voice was weak, as if she was afraid of alarming someone.

Ning Shishi looked at the girl in front of her, and saw that she was wearing a homely pink pajamas, her hair was messy, and the broken hair on her forehead was already glued to her round fair face with sweat. Her facial features were similar to that of the honest man in the gas station Somewhat similar, a pair of big eyes on a little girl's face is much more pleasing.

"Are you Chenchen?" Ning Shixi asked.

The girl nodded.

"I'm your father's friend."

The girl was visibly nervous, and Ning Shixi ignored her shyness and continued, "I brought you something,...is there anyone else in your family?"

The little girl hesitated for a moment but answered honestly: "Auntie is sleeping."

Chenchen seemed afraid of waking up her sleeping aunt, her voice was low.

It turns out that there are adults at home... Ning Shishi was completely at ease. She was just about to take out the prepared water and food from her bag and take it as completion of the task. A beast-like growl with chills down the back.

The deep and suppressed roar was full of painful and piercing moans.

Ning Shishi instinctively took a few steps back to confirm that nothing rushed out of it before asking, "What's the sound?"

"Auntie, she's sick...it seems very uncomfortable, sister, do you have any medicine?"

The girl's trembling voice was obviously afraid of the sound.

Ning Shishi frowned: "Take me to have a look."

This is an ordinary residence, the living room is small but tidy.There is also a children's desk next to the wall, with some textbooks piled up on it, which is obviously a place where girls usually do their homework.

The girl took Ning Shishi into a second bedroom near the door. There was a bunk bed inside, and a woman about fifty years old was lying on the bed.Ning Shishi felt that if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he might never be able to imagine the scene in front of him.

The middle-aged woman was ordinary-looking, wearing a homely floral short-sleeved shirt and cropped trousers, which did not surprise Ning Shishi.What surprised Ning Shishi from ear to ear was that a white mycelium-like thing extended from the woman's ordinary mouth, nose, ears and eyes, almost covering the woman's neck.

The thing seemed to be still wriggling with the indistinct gagging moans coming out of her mouth.

Seeing this clearly, Ning Shishi hurriedly covered her mouth and nose and backed away, but the little girl named Chenchen looked at her beggingly.

"What disease is this?"

Ning Shixi took out a black anti-bacterial mask from her pocket and put it on. It was too hot when she went upstairs just now, she took off the mask and put it in her pocket.At this time, her first reaction was: Will this thing be contagious?

"I don't know." The little girl shook her head with tears in her eyes.

"Auntie said she had a stomachache and went to bed... small mushrooms grew from her mouth..."

The little girl intermittently described what she knew. The little mushroom might be her description of the white mycelium-filled object, which looked a bit like an umbrella-shaped mushroom.

While the girl was talking, the body of the woman on the bed suddenly bounced a few times like an electric shock, and there was a clearer purring sound from her throat, as if she wanted to speak, but she couldn't.Before Ning Shishi had retreated outside the gate, the woman had fallen off the bed and stood up in a very short time. The eyeballs covered by white hyphae were only white, as if they would burst out of the eye sockets at any time. It exploded.

More mycelium-like stuff poured out of her half-opened mouth, enveloping her chest in a few seconds, and she stretched out her hand as if to grab something.

"run--"

Ning Shishi ran for his life outside the gate without looking back after shouting this word.

Whether it's zombies or ghosts... No matter what it is, it seems that a weak chicken like me who just wants to survive the doomsday can't afford it. At this time, if I don't run away, I will die!

She ran to the fifth floor in one breath before turning her head to look. The thing didn't seem to be following.

"Chenchen?"

The little girl was obviously terrified, but fortunately she didn't just stand there in a daze, but followed Ning Shiyi stumbling while crying.

"Sister..." The little girl lost her slippers with disheveled hair, crying and calling her sister, Ning Shishi had already picked up her knife in her hand.

"Stand there and don't move."

Her voice was emotionless, and she made sure that nothing was following her before she stood at the corner of the stairs leading to the fourth floor. The little girl was still on the steps behind her, barefoot, with a frightened and disturbed face.

"Open your mouth and let me see."

Ning Shishi held a knife in his hand, with a cold face.If an uninformed person sees her like this, she will definitely think that she is a villain who murdered young children with a knife.

The little girl named Chenchen held on to the handrail of the stairs and dared not move. This sister suddenly became so fierce. She wanted to go home, but the auntie just now looked too scary, like a character in Plants vs. Zombies, but when the design in the game is cute Characters with rich colors really appear around, which is not cute at all.

She was so wronged that she wanted to cry, but before she could cry, she heard the elder sister in front of her say in a cold voice, "Crying again will attract that thing."

Ning Shishi did not let down her vigilance because the person in front of her was just a six or seven-year-old girl. She pointed the tip of the knife at the girl and kept a distance of five steps between them, and said again: "Open your mouth!"

Chenchen held back the whimper and opened his small mouth, it was normal inside.

Ning Shiyi breathed a sigh of relief.

"When did that aunt get sick?"

Chenchen narrated it intermittently, and after she finished talking about Ning Shishi, she probably figured it out. About three days ago, the weather was already hot, and the nanny felt uncomfortable. At first, she had a stomachache and then dizziness and fever. Tianchenchen's father is not at home on duty, and there are only her and her aunt at home. She has no car, and she dare not go out to go to the hospital by herself because of the chaos outside, and she can't get through to call an ambulance.I had to take antipyretics, thinking that I could go to the hospital when the situation improved or when Chenchen's father came home... But she never expected that she would never be able to stand up again.

"Does your stomach hurt?" Ning Shixi asked.

Chenchen seemed to have thought about it carefully before shaking his head: "My stomach doesn't hurt...Sister, I'm hungry."

Ning Shiyi was taken aback: "What have you been eating these days?"

"Cookies and ice cream."

The little girl told the truth that since the electricity was cut off at home, her aunt was sick again and her father couldn't get through the phone, so she had to eat some biscuits and finished the cold ice cream that melted into a lump in the refrigerator.

Ning Shishi wasn't sure if she was infected by that thing. According to the little girl, the nanny hadn't been out of the house for the past few days, which means that she was infected with some kind of virus or fungus at least three or four days ago, and she didn't fully attack until just now.

The appearance of that woman just now made Ning Shishi inexplicably think of a kind of fungus that lives on insects. Once an insect is infected, it will become a host, lose self-awareness, and become a slave to the fungus. Dare to think deeply.

She let Chenchen walk in front, and she followed the little girl, keeping a distance of at least two meters between them.Just in case the little girl transformed when she couldn't see, then she would die too unjustly.

"Where's your mom?"

She inquired as she went downstairs.

"Mom is on duty."

The adults in this family are really busy.

I heard the little girl say another sentence: "My mother asked me to stay at home and she will come to pick me up."

"When did your mother say that? Where is she?"

"Yesterday, the watch on the phone said that the watch is out of battery now, and my mother is working in the hospital."

"Your mother's a doctor? Well... shhh—you just keep quiet."

When Ning Shixi tiptoed to the door of the stairs on the first floor with a knife, he stretched his head to see that a short, bald man was smashing his car door.

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