A failed exploration temporarily dispelled the idea of people in the supermarket going out.
The bloody example before their eyes forced many self-deceiving and unbelieving people to admit that there were indeed monsters in the fog.
Or a monster that kills people...
"I have received a revelation from God. Everything out there is a test from God for us. It is our tribulation!"
"Only by showing our determination and sacrificing blood can we survive the divine punishment!"
At the back of the supermarket, David listened to Ms. Carmody's preaching voice coming from afar and sighed silently.
Next to him, a young woman named Amanda was playing with Billy, hoping that the poor child would not be traumatized by today's experience.
She suddenly whispered to David,
"Do you find it strange? Even if there is no evidence of a monster in front of you, there is an earthquake, people are missing and injured... Under such circumstances, why would your neighbor go out so recklessly?"
"Do I have to disregard my own safety and go against you?"
David hesitated for a moment and said, "I've thought about this too..."
He rubbed his forehead vigorously: "I always feel like something is wrong."
Amanda sat on the floor of the supermarket, hugged her knees, looked up into the sky, then looked outside, stood up and said,
"Hey, it's getting dark, I wonder if anything will appear in the fog at night..."
For most of the day, the people who had witnessed the danger in the fog showed great initiative.
They used materials available in the supermarket and built a defense against glass walls.
There are some gaps in this artificial defense wall to make it easier for people to observe the situation outside.
The first group of people on night watch were eating dinner while looking at the fog outside the glass wall.
The sound of a creature hitting the wall, and the subsequent human screams, cut through what was destined to be a difficult night.
"Snap! Snap! Snap!"
One after another, flying insect-like monsters the size of a human head rushed in and crashed into the glass wall!
"Ah——!"
"The scorpion-tailed fly...is much cuter than a fly."
You Huan did not hear the screams of the people in the supermarket when they saw the wall full of flying insect monsters.
He was walking forward in the dense fog, and when he saw a few scorpion-tailed insects flying under the barely lit street lamps, he made this comment in a low voice.
Suddenly, a figure much larger than the scorpion-tailed fly fell from the sky, grabbed a scorpion-tailed fly with its powerful hind claws and flew away again.
He remembered that this monster with a bird's beak and two pairs of forked membranous wings was probably called Kuang (second tone) or something like that.
The winged buzzard is the natural enemy of the scorpion fly.
The biological habits of the scorpion-tailed fly are similar to those of many common insects, and it is phototactic.
"Sir..." At this time, a hesitant female voice sounded beside him, "Are we near the supermarket...?"
You Huan did not move, but the King Cobra at the back of the supermarket paid a little attention and replied, "It's right in front of us."
The woman beside him stopped talking after hearing this and looked into the endless fog ahead.
This person was someone he met when he explored the vicinity of his temporary identity's residence. She was David's wife.
In the movie, when David rushed out of the supermarket and returned to his house, his wife had already been killed by the Gray Widow, and the whole house turned into a spider web nest.
However, in this real world - it was not You Huan who saved her.
When he met her, she was alone, carrying an axe, and walking all the way from her home to his neighborhood.
Obviously, although there are no panel prompts when entering the world, this world is different from the movie in many details.
For example, if he hadn't intervened, the fog would have invaded the supermarket, for example, David's wife's warlike behavior, and for example...
Although he had seen the black shadow that looked like a monster, King Cobra found that the lawyer and others still walked out of the supermarket.
And the mission itself...
He withdrew his thoughts and moved forward with David's wife, who looked wary.
The lady told him that when she just walked out of the house, she saw a large number of military vehicles heading towards the mountains, fighting monsters along the way.
If they hadn't attracted the monster's attention, she wouldn't have been able to escape even though she had killed two gray widows along the way.
As the two were walking in the mist, a buzzard slammed into them while trying to catch a scorpion-tailed fly on the glass wall of the supermarket.
With a desperate and crisp sound, a hole was knocked out of the glass wall of the supermarket!
Some scorpion flies flew into the supermarket, followed by the winged buzzards.
David realized that the lights attracted the scorpion-tailed flies' attention, so he asked everyone to turn off the lights.
However, when the scorpion-tailed fly entered the supermarket, Jim and others at the back of the supermarket misunderstood it and turned on the headlights instead, intending to guide everyone to escape from the monster.
The supermarket was in chaos!
David picked up a mop soaked in gasoline and tried to light it on fire to drive away the monster, with Amanda helping him.
In this short period of time, a scorpion-tailed fly has locked onto a target among the creatures running around the field.
Instantly rushed to the young cashier girl.
The girl immediately let out a high-pitched scream and shook her body and waved her arms.
This violent reaction immediately caused the scorpion-tailed fly to move, and the scorpion tail behind it gently stung her.
But within a few breaths, a horrible lump appeared on the part where she was stung, and then she fell to the ground, no longer breathing.
At this time, David finally lit the mop and used it to hit the two monsters flying around the supermarket.
"ah!"
On the other side, another person was holding a fire mop and trying to drive away the monster, but in his haste he kicked over the gasoline and fell to the ground.
He instantly turned himself into a human torch, and with howls of pain, the monsters around him were driven away by the flames.
David, who had just killed a buzzard, saw this scene and didn't know what to say. In the end, he could only shout, "Put out the fire!"
"dad!"
At this time, Billy's shouting attracted his attention again.
He looked sideways, then subconsciously held his breath.
In a dim corridor of a supermarket, his beloved son Billy stood stiffly, with a winged buzzard falling to the ground in front of him...
"Bang--"
A gunshot was heard at the same time as the supermarket door was pushed open.
The buzzard that was about to attack Billy was shot in the head by the gentle and harmless-looking Ollie.
Everyone's eyes turned to the supermarket entrance.
The large lock on the door fell off by itself for some reason, and the door opened.
Two figures appeared at the door.
When David saw his wife's face, he was overjoyed: "Honey! How come you--"
When he saw the not-so-familiar figure sitting in a wheelchair, his voice stopped abruptly.
The people crowded at the back of the supermarket also opened their eyes wide.
People's eyes were fixed on You Huan as he calmly walked into the supermarket and gently closed the glass door.
They even felt a sense of fear when they touched his face.
Yes... fear...
It was an indescribable feeling, but at this moment everyone felt the same emotion David had felt before.
It was as if the biological instincts that had been dormant for a long time due to "civilized life" had finally awakened, and when they subconsciously sensed the approach of an existence that ordinary people could not imagine, they sounded the alarm.
How could a person who was dragged into the fog by a monster come back alive and well after being outside the supermarket for most of the day?
This kind of unreasonable fear permeated the supermarket.
They didn't know whether it was their illusion or reality, but they always felt that the scorpion flies and buzzards hovering in the supermarket had also slowed down their movements.
You Huan sensed their fear.
Although not as profound as when facing monsters, judging from the types of chemical molecules - or pheromones - they emitted, his appearance was definitely weird enough for them.
In a sense, in his eyes, who can distinguish the pheromones emitted by humans, detect the thermal radiation of organisms, and have extremely sharp vision and hearing beyond the range of ordinary people, these ordinary people are completely transparent.
He was actually a little confused as to why David and the black lawyer felt fear when they saw him for the first time.
He thought he hadn't done anything.
But it doesn't matter anymore.
David's wife rushed forward to hug David, and he maneuvered his wheelchair slowly into the shopping area.
When passing by the careless unfortunate guy with flames still burning on his body, I wondered if it was an illusion of the people who were observing him.
The flame on the man's body suddenly dimmed, as if it was blown out by an invisible wind.
At this moment, a suppressed exclamation attracted everyone's attention again.
(End of this chapter)