Doomsday city

Esther ran crazily through the heavy rain.

Her destination was not the church, but Mr. Feeney's old villa—her temporary residence.

When Esther stepped into the front yard, she found the door was open, and she believed that the door was not politely picked, but was opened roughly. With muddy footprints, she quietly stepped into the living room breathlessly. Fortunately, no zombies were willing to stay in an empty house without prey.

But Frieda was gone!

Esses didn't let out any screams or exclamations. She stared wide-eyed and used the flashlight to go back and forth to check all the rooms and hiding spaces in the house, but Frieda just disappeared. Maybe she left with the group of zombie companions?Or join their ranks in search of fresh and delicious food?

"Ga...ga..." Esses, who was standing in the bathroom, heard the screams of zombies coming from the living room.

Those monsters from hell never have enough.

Esther sniffed a few times, and stepped out of the threshold carefully with the cloth in her arms.She couldn't describe her mood at this time, she could only act intuitively, pressing the churning thoughts in her head tightly to the bottom of her heart, slowly stepped up to the second floor, and locked herself and the fragile cloth in her arms in the narrow and dark attic.

Through the transom, she saw countless slow-moving zombies in the heavy rain. The number was not ten or twenty, which humans could get away with, but forty?Fifty?Even more, like locusts passing through the country will take away any food that can satisfy the hunger, and like migrating wild animals, they will trample down the places they pass.

Thunder and gunshots echoed in the night sky, and that location came from the church.Essers wasn't sure if it was Gavin or Pastor Carlodo who decided to stand up to defend the safety, or that the zombies smashed through the doors and windows one after another, and took the church in. Either way, Esses knew that the end would only be tragedy. ──An unsettling tragedy.

──'Give up. '

Esther, who was staring blankly out of the window, heard someone say that.

──'It's time to make a break, you can be a really kind guy and get rid of that ball of meat yourself. '

Esther recognized the voice, it was her own.

──'Look, that poor little guy is dying, he shouldn't have been born in this world, if he is lucky, he will die in his mother's womb instead of coming to the era of cannibalism. '

That voice was like a sticky and cold snake, sliding from left to right along the pinna of Esther's ear.

──'How about doing him a favor? '

Esses involuntarily picked up the baby on the wooden box. The newborn baby was only the size of one and a half palms, wrapped in a bloody towel.Except for the small cries of the newborn, Esses could hardly feel its vitality, quietly, as if it had died or gradually died.

──'Kill him. '

The voice spoke calmly.

──'Kill him. '

Esther looked down at the baby carefully. He was so fragile that he would die if he exerted a little force, and he was powerless to fight back and let others slaughter him. This kind of life sacrificed many people, including his mother, Bella, Tracy, Kane and everyone in the church. Life, just for such a vulnerable newborn, let everyone fall into the quagmire.

With a bang, the thunderbolt hit a pine tree outside the window, sparks sprang up from the top of the tree and were soon extinguished by the rain.

──'Kill him! ' the voice roared sharply.

"Woooo! Woowa! Woowa!..." The baby's violent cries brought back Essus who was in a daze.

The weak beings in the cloth group showed their existence loudly, their wrinkled faces were flushed, as if they were going to exhaust all their strength to declare war on the world.Esther stared at the baby in amazement, unknowingly lost in her thoughts for a long time, until the heavy rain outside the window stopped with the dawn.

Its daybreak……

Esses hugged the baby and stuck it to the transom to visit. The sun kissed the ground in the early morning. The mud and blood on the ground merged on the green grass. There were rotten corpses lying down everywhere, and those zombies abandoned by the group stared at it with their black holes and big eyes. The clear sky seems to accuse God of cruelty to them.

time to go.

Esther murmured to herself, unconsciously picked up the baby and walked out the door. She stepped on the stairs covered with broken glass and opened the door. The pine tree that was struck by lightning last night was split in two, and she walked back across the scorched trunk. On the street, when she passed by Madeline's residence on the way to the church, she didn't stop, and she walked forward step by step with dull eyes.

Until Gavin's cry was heard.

"Tracy! No! Tracy! Tracy!──" Far away, Gavin threw his gun into a group of zombies, and dragged the broken woman out from the bottom. Essers thought that it should be gnawed Tracy, who was exhausted——a woman who was once full of vitality and sunshine now has only a broken body.

"Woo... I want Mama Mulo... I want Mama Mulo..." A boy cried and stumbled out of the church, covered in blood.

"Go back to the church! Jack! Go back and stay inside!" Gavin yelled with tears all over his face, leaving the broken Tracy behind and picked up the boy to hide in the church.Seeing that the stained glass windows of the church were almost shattered, and the door was precariously placed on the iron frame, Essers thought about what a terrible thing happened last night.

──'No, I know she hides well, she deceives everyone, but she can't deceive me, I know when she is in my stomach. '

That voice came to mind last night, but this time she was speaking of some truth from long ago.

──'She's a devil, Amy, and she'll ruin my family!Will hurt my Cary!she will! '

Essers backed away in a panic, almost tripping over a protruding stone.

──'Agatha, you are suffering from postpartum depression. The experience of premature birth has traumatized you physically and mentally. You should receive medical assistance, not prayers. '

She first walked slowly in the opposite direction, then trotted across countless moving houses.

──'Beth is a very good counselor. If you have time, you might as well talk to her. It will do you good and harmless. '

The baby in her arms was crying very loudly, but Essers was deaf to it. At this moment, her mind was full of eavesdropping on the adult's conversation, about everything her mother had accused her of.

──'You don't understand!That child, Esther is a devil!She almost killed me!

The sore legs couldn't be controlled, and the shortness of breath made Esses gradually slow down. Finally, she staggered to a stop beside the overturned abandoned truck. There was nothing around her, and she shed tears silently on a deserted industrial road. .

One drop, two drops, three drops...

──'She is the devil incarnate! '

"Woooo! Woowa! Woowa!..." The crying of the baby finally woke up the confused Esses.

She stared blankly at the baby in her arms. She was born into a hell on earth, and she will never see her mother, and may even starve to death or be bitten to death in the future. What does such a child even look like if he is happy? I don't know, I'm destined to live in fear, like a mouse in a dark alley, hiding from the sun.

How miserable it must be.

Esses put her palm on the baby's fragile neck, just a slight twist, and she would die.

──'She is the devil incarnate! '

──'She is the devil incarnate! '

──'She is the devil incarnate! '

There were black shadows screaming one after another, while her mother stood in the middle of the crowd and screamed with her face twisted.

──'Listen, you're a cure and not a monster, Eli, and you've got to believe that. '

"Wow! Woo..." The hand resting on the baby stopped suddenly, and then a soft, almost powerless little hand pressed against her skin. The weak touch made Esses stop breathing, and she just watched peacefully. The feeble little life in her arms, the baby's crying became hoarse, but she was still howling loudly.

He didn't give up.

Esther bit her lower lip choked with sobs, and big tears dripped down her chin between the baby's brows, "There is no hope in this world, you have seen it, it is full of cannibal zombies, and the relationship between people is lost." trust, a world of fear and despair..."

The baby cried instinctively, its faint, hoarse voice almost lost in the wind.

Esther covered her eyes with a self-deprecating smile.

let him die.

A voice was blowing in her ears, and that voice clearly explained all the conditions that were not conducive to the survival of the baby.She knew that everyone was in danger at the end of the world, and even she couldn't guarantee the safety of her own life, let alone a newborn baby?How to take care of him?How to protect him?How to feed him?

──'Don't let your soft-heartedness hurt him, Esther.Do it, he won't be in too much pain. '

Esther lowered her head stiffly, and gently placed the baby on the grass beside the road.

──'Do it!Esther, do it! '

"No! ──" Esses yelled in a moment of collapse.

The crying baby stopped crying, and he waved his hands in the air, gently touching Esses's hands around his neck.

Esers stepped back three steps in embarrassment and lay on the road, scratching her hair guiltily and muttering to herself, "I can't...I can't...I can't kill her...Damn! Damn! Damn! Just laugh !I'm a coward! Coward! Scum! I can't do it!  …”

The emotion of the embankment is like a great flood washing away the vitality. Esses experienced a brutal massacre all night. When she thought she could stay in peace, a group of zombies easily shattered her dream.

Trish died, Bella died, Madeline died, and those people she gradually became familiar with left again.

Even Frieda had disappeared.

Esther tremblingly crawled to the baby's side, and slowly picked up the almost weightless child.

She's neither good nor bad, and depending on the review, she'd be the stupidest.

Esther wiped her tears and stood up staggeringly.

In front of you is the hot and dazzling sun, and a straight and endless road.

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