Doomsday city

Yes, her mother had always stared at her with that expression, the eyes of impatience, disgust, and fear that grew up with her.Esther is all too familiar with being called a devil, being bullied, hurt, and mistrusted. Her mother scratched a scar that will never be erased in her childhood. Once upon a time, she became the same as the mother in her memory.

Did she believe that Ivy Lehman was the devil?

A strong sense of nausea rushed up from her abdomen. Esses couldn't hold back her retching and rushed into the balcony in a panic. The incompletely digested breakfast was mixed with stomach acid and dripped on the tiles.The sun was very warm, but she felt shivering like being immersed in a cold ditch. Physiological tears dripped down the tip of her nose, one, two, three, and finally couldn't stop crying silently.

"Miss Lehman?" Gina knocked on the door.

Ivy raised her head instantly, picked up the bath towel and wrapped her thin body in a panic, and said, "I'm fine, don't come in..."

She wiped away her tears clumsily, and rubbed her cheeks and nose so hard that she didn't look like a dignified lady but a poor abandoned person.Ivy had never been treated like this. When she confessed to her parents that she wanted to be a girl, Mr. Lehman and Mrs. Rosa quickly accepted her change. The servants in the family included Harris butler, Gina and Everyone treats everyone calmly, only Esses shows her that kind of look...

As if accusing—you are guilty.

Esther struggled to adjust her breathing. She wiped away her tears and calmed down, and walked back to Ivy quietly as if nothing had happened.She restrained her trembling hands and tried not to let her eyes touch Ivy, calmly helped the girl up, and straightened her messy hair. Ivy was like a panicked rabbit trying to avoid her touch, and she didn't even dare to look at Esther for fear of another See those disgusting eyes on her.

Just when Ivy wanted to stop Esther, she felt the broken hair around her ears being gently hooked behind her ears, and then the warm palm was caressing the top of her head, and the quiet comfort made Ivy raise her head in surprise , but Esther quickly took three steps back. There was no hatred or fear in her eyes, only silence like a dead lake.

Ivy blinked her wet eyes, and stroked her hair in disbelief, the feeling of Esther's touch still remained there.

"I'm sorry... I'm really sorry..." Tears overflowed her eyes again. Ivy bit her lower lip and said vaguely. The step-by-step child staggered, and embraced the stiff Esses with open arms.

The petite and fragile Ivy Lehman hugged Esther tightly like a three-year-old child, and buried her face in her chest to apologize continuously. Pulling at the hem of her clothes, he leaned on her shoulder and sucked in air.

If Ivy Lehman is guilty, it must be asking Esther Eli to accept her incompleteness.

……

Before the sunset, Vinoa found a motel on the Long Road.

Most of the outdated large billboard advertisements have been blown away by the wind, and the broken posters are crumbling. They are parked in the empty parking lot. There is really nothing to look forward to in the container-type room, but at least it is more comfortable than four women squeezed into a small car overnight.

Ingrid found scattered keys from the side guard room. She randomly picked the door of No. 15. If she could not break the door lock, Vinoya would like to move in according to the normal procedure. The last monster seems to know how to turn the doorknob, and it's not bad to have an extra line of defense.

"God..." Red Scorpion pinched her nose immediately after stepping into the door, she pursed her lips and lifted the quilt, and said, "I want to complain! How long have these things been washed? Look, this is mold Or some sort of stain? Ha! Cheapest hotel without a kettle, the worst, worst hotel I've ever seen."

"Or you can understand that this is an iron box with a bed." Mabel lifted the dry quilt, and the mattress underneath gave off a damp and undried smell. You have to learn to comfort yourself, don’t you?”

Ingrid is standing by the door. There are two double beds in the not-so-spacious room, and there is only an old synthetic wood coffee table. After all, highway motels are meant to serve truck drivers who travel long distances. Don’t expect to have a jacuzzi. Or TV, as Red Scorpion said, not even a kettle is provided here.

"Take turns to watch the night, who will come first?" Vinoya asked as he closed the curtains.

Ingrid nodded, she occupied another empty bed with her backpack, "Me."

After taking off her shoes, Mabel fell to the quilt that Red Scorpion had opened. She lazily ran down her long hair, stared at Red Scorpion with a blurred gaze, and said with a smile, "Honey, let's sleep together tonight, I hope you don't like it." Will roll away the quilt or snore." After finishing speaking, he deliberately stroked Red Scorpion's arm, which made her have goosebumps all over her body.

After the sun has completely set, the room is plunged into pitch darkness, and without technology and entertainment, human beings become easy to be satisfied.Mabel fell asleep after eating two biscuits, facing the wall, and Red Scorpion sat on the other side.

"Damn it, where's my water?" She kept groping around, overturned her backpack but couldn't find the water bottle.

Ingrid saw that she kept putting her hands under the pillow like a fool, so she simply stuffed the water bottle at her feet into her arms.

"Thanks." Red Scorpion twisted open the PET bottle and took a sip. The compressed biscuits were not delicious.

Vinoya fell asleep on the pillow, and her unrelenting mental state caused her insomnia for a long time. Excluding the days of coma after exhaustion, she fell into the torment of tension and exhaustion.

Red Scorpion stretched his waist, lying on his side on the bed but didn't intend to take a nap, but opened his eyes and looked at where Ingrid might be, and asked softly, "Have you been bitten by a zombie too? To be honest, I'm curious." , you're a special group of people who know how to... change besides being felons? I mean... like you or the doctor, very special change."

It was rare for Ingrid not to ignore Red Scorpion, and said, "I'm willing to do anything for Esther."

When she said the name, Red Scorpion could clearly feel the atmosphere change, whether it was Ingrid or Vinoa, she always felt that she had opened a stupid topic.

"I will not leave Essers alone. If she turns into a monster, then I will become a monster. If she goes to hell, I will accompany her." In the dark, no one noticed that Ingrid's expression became very gentle, She spoke very slowly, and every word slipped out clearly from the tip of her tongue. Even if there was only the name, she wanted to cherish Esther Eli.

"...that's really... touching." Red Scorpion said awkwardly.她忽然想抽根烟，可惜路上全都抽完了，只留皱巴巴的包装纸塞在口袋里，”这么说，你是她的情人？虽然不太像……好吧，这样说可能很欠揍, but she doesn't seem to care much about you?" There are hundreds of lovers in the world, but in Red Scorpion's perception, lovers should stick together, especially young girls like Esther and Ingrid.

"As long as I love her is enough," Ingrid said firmly, "as long as I love her."

"That's not good, baby, you won't be happy if you don't get a response," Red Scorpion said in the tone of someone who has experienced it, waving his fingers in the air once and for all, "You know, it's a burden. Burden builds up loathing, and loathing sublimates into hate, if you really love her let her go, I mean... don't restrain her, think back then if I wasn't so hot and followed a jerk, Chrissy Ting wouldn't wander around with me either, that's not an experience to be proud of..."

Red Scorpion's involuntary experience made Mabel laugh in the pillow and couldn't help it.

"I didn't expect you to use the tone of a parent to teach us." She turned over lazily, pulled her long hair with her hands, and said, "It's just that you seem to have made a mistake, dear Red Scorpion, you are now a young girl who wants to enlighten you. Or do you want to influence the prisoner who lightly tortured and killed his father?"

"Just treat me as if I just couldn't sleep in the middle of the night and talk nonsense," she wrinkled her nose, and said, "And I never wanted to teach or influence you criminals. If you have the possibility to become kind, the end of the world won't come so early. After finishing speaking, Red Scorpion chuckled a few times mockingly at himself, "Of course, I can't change myself from eating shit."

She slumped her shoulders and fell back on the bed, staring at the dark ceiling without any sleepiness.

It is reasonable to say that living a highly tense life every day, the mental and physical burden should be the heaviest, but no one dares to relax easily, and even sleep is easily awakened by the slightest sound.Red Scorpion is used to this kind of life. Even if she saves Christine from Lehman, she can't sleep peacefully. There is a lump in the bottom of her heart that continues to swell, especially in the dead of night, she always thinks of Esther. Eli's face.

A breath stuck in her throat, like chewing gum sticking to her body made her feel strange.

"I know I'm an out-and-out bastard, and you won't believe me if I tell lies, but," Red Scorpion slowly closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and said, "About Essex, I'm sorry and I'm sorry." To them, it was despicable and selfish for her to exchange the other's most important person for her own, but Red Scorpion would never regret it.

She just felt sorry and sorry.

"You don't have to apologize," just as the red scorpion was making fun of herself, the dozing Vinoa suddenly said, her deep voice was like a tranquilizer to calm people's mind, "There is no right or wrong in this matter, Eli and you have reached an agreement." The agreement is her choice, you did not use any means or weapons to force her to submit, this is just one of the ways."

Red Scorpion tightly pursed her lips, her dry eyes gradually moistened, she didn't cry, but she was overwhelmed by emotion and guilt and couldn't help showing fragility for a while.In the darkness, no one would notice her solemn expression, except for the silent Ingrid, who watched Red Scorpion quietly wipe away the tears from her eyes, and understood what Vinoya meant.

This was the reason they didn't kill the Red Scorpion on the spot.

Esther Eli's departure was no one's fault.

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