RPAGF Chapter 196 Hush
Chapter 196 Hush
Miao Yin felt that she must be a top-notch captain.
After finishing a battle, she didn't immediately force them to continue. Instead, she kindly gave her teammates time to rest and chose to go shopping in the mall by herself.
"I'm such a good boss. The family business should have been passed down to me much earlier," she exclaimed.
Last time she came, she didn't explore many places before being drawn to the eleventh floor, so this time it doesn't diminish her sense of novelty.
What attracts customers to shopping malls are nothing more than food, clothing, housing, and transportation.
For example, this luxurious chocolate shop in front of us seems to be a very famous brand in the post-apocalyptic world. It specializes in chocolate products, and even though the prices are high, it always attracts countless young people to line up and buy them.
After the apocalypse, some chocolates that could only be stored in the refrigerator had completely rotted, emitting a sour smell of decaying food, and the once exquisite chocolate cakes had grown mold.
However, many chocolate products that can be stored for a long time are packaged and placed on the counter.
—Logically speaking, that should be the case.
The shelves in front of them were completely empty.
Miao Yin looked around. All the spoiled chocolates were still in their places, while the well-packaged chocolates that wouldn't spoil in the short term had all disappeared.
This is not something a mutant would do.
With her sharp eyes, Miao Yin noticed something and walked to the counter. There, on the dusty surface, was a clear half-finished handprint.
Miao Yin raised her hand to compare, and found that the mark left by the other person in the same location was a size larger than her hand.
It's a man.
"They're really brave, daring to come to the hellish shopping mall looking for food." I wonder if the corpse is cold by now.
She thought to herself rather coldly.
Next, Miao Yin browsed through several shops nearby.
Sure enough, in every grocery store, many high-energy, filling foods were removed, and a whole row of instant noodles was gone.
In the clothing store, she also saw some tattered clothes that had been taken off, both men's and women's styles.
It seems there's more than one person involved. The fact that they can change into new clothes here after a battle suggests they're a superpowered individual, and quite capable at that.
But where did they come from?
The doors to the Sunrise Mall had been sealed before the apocalypse, and she didn't see any gaps in the doors when they arrived.
Is it one of the other two escape routes in the shopping mall?
Miao Yin touched the clothes on the ground.
It's already cold.
Yes, they must have left before she arrived, otherwise they wouldn't have escaped her notice.
It's so rare to see wild survivors; it's been a long time since I've seen any.
“Ayin.”
Miao Yin heard Ling's voice.
They looked like they had rested enough and moved upstairs.
"Are we about to cross the overpass?" Ling asked.
Miao Yin nodded.
Including those she had killed before, the number of deformed people in this shopping mall had been almost completely cleared out, and they should head to Building B.
Thinking of Building B, Miao Yin narrowed her eyes and looked at Yan Shuzhou, who had been silent for a long time.
Speaking of which, that's where Xiao Zhou's parents were buried.
……
After crossing the pedestrian bridge, they entered Building B of the Sunrise Shopping Mall.
The bright afternoon sunlight shone through the glass, illuminating the entire first floor. The mess was clearly visible to everyone, and the monsters hid themselves.
After some time away, Building B became increasingly dilapidated, even worse than before.
The crater created by Miao Yin remains in place, and the corpses that were not disposed of have long been devoured by the other mutants.
However, the most eye-catching feature is the three torn elevators located in the middle of Building B against the wall.
"Xiao Zhou, do you want to go take a look? Maybe we can find your parents' belongings," Miao Yin asked slowly.
parents?
Everyone looked at the person at the very end of the line without prior arrangement.
No wonder Yan Shuzhou was acting so strangely; it turns out that's why.
Yan Shuzhou raised his head somewhat slowly, as if he was just coming to his senses.
"……it is good."
So they tiptoed toward the dilapidated elevator.
Upon closer inspection, the elevator's condition was far more terrifying than what had just been seen.
The entire top floor of the elevator collapsed, leaving behind claw marks and dents from the monsters. All the buttons were shattered on the floor, and splattered blood covered the entire interior, with drag marks on the ground that stretched for more than ten meters outside.
Even though so much time has passed, standing here, they can almost hear the desperate screams they heard back then.
It's hard to imagine what kind of tragedy those people in that elevator went through.
Yan Shuzhou bit his nails, his lifeless eyes scanning from inside the elevator to the drag marks outside, before returning to the elevator.
"Are you alright?" Ling asked from not far away from him.
Miao Yin approached him silently, the lotus flower at the corner of her eye blooming slightly with her movement: "Can you see clearly? Would you like to come closer?"
Gong Jingming lowered his eyes and said coldly, "Is this how you talk to someone who has lost their parents?"
"Don't make me sound like a bad guy," Miao Yin patted Yan Shuzhou's head. "What if he's actually happy?"
"madman."
Although he already knew about this person's madness, seeing it in person was still unsettling, prompting Gong Jingming to speak up.
"Small boat?"
Yan Shuzhou turned his head to meet those golden eyes, his expression dark: "I see clearly, I'm not sad, sister, let's stay away from each other, okay?"
"Okay."
So they walked a little further away, and once they were away from the bloodstains, Yan Shuzhou suddenly hugged her and buried his head in her shoulder.
The boy's thin body trembled slightly, as if he were crying, but Miao Yin knew that there were no tears in his eyes.
Hmm... since that's the case...
Miao Yin raised one hand and gently put her arm around him.
...It's not that she can't cooperate.
Yao Yue looked puzzled: "Jingming, is this normal for them?"
"This is not normal. It seems that one party is willing to give and the other is willing to receive." Gong Jingming withdrew his gaze.
Across from him, Tu Hao was still staring at the elevator, looking somewhat puzzled.
“This trace…”
He kicked aside a watch blocking his way, walked to the elevator, and looked at the collapsed ceiling and the huge hole in it. His mercenary experience began to come in handy.
—This irregular shape is something that fell from above and collapsed the roof.
The people in the elevator probably didn't know what was going on. They were all standing when the rapidly falling heavy object and the elevator ceiling crashed down at the same time, which is why there are so many upward-spraying bloodstains here.
Even though the corpses had been eaten, Tu Hao could still roughly reconstruct the scene.
But why would something fall down?
Tu Hao lifted a piece of twisted metal and suddenly saw something black and yellow. He pulled a section of it out from underneath.
That was a climbing rope.
He seemed to have thought of something, and pulled out the entire rope. At the other end of the rope, there were obvious signs of burning.
He suddenly turned his head and looked at Miao Yin.
The woman, beautiful as a ghost, was also silently watching his every move.
Seeing him turn his head, she slightly raised the hand that was holding Yan Shuzhou and pressed it to her lips—
Oh...