Chapter Five Hundred and Sixty Three: Nightfall

The emaciated calf shrank back, and after a while, he stretched out his hands to grab the damaged wooden door, twisted back and forth for a while and removed a few wooden boards.

A little boy in tattered clothes emerged from the dismantled gap, then knelt on the muddy ground, his face almost pressed to the ground, and whispered into the room: "After I leave, look for something. Block the door. When I find something and come back, I will knock twice, then pause and knock three times, remember, if it wasn't for this knock, don't open the door."

A pair of bright eyes in the room blinked, but did not speak.

"Now, close the door again."

The pair of eyes inside disappeared suddenly, and after a while, there was the hard rubbing sound of heavy objects moving, filling the fresh big hole that had just been smashed out.

Seeing that the wooden door was blocked again, the little boy breathed a sigh of relief, got up and walked outside.

There was no light in the alley, it was pitch black as ink, and he could not see his fingers, but this didn't affect the little boy's movements in the slightest. He was all too familiar with this place, and even with his eyes closed, he could reach his destination.

The little boy was leaning against the wall, tiptoeing, willing to keep his breathing low even when he was gasping.

From the loudspeakers on the roadside, he knew that it was a period of martial law throughout the city, especially at night. Once caught sneaking out at night, the night watchman will not be merciful.

But he had a reason for having to sneak out.

So he had to be careful along the way, to achieve his goal, and not be discovered by the night watchman.

I don't know if it was because of the martial law throughout the whole process, but the place that used to be very lively at night has now fallen into dead silence. After the feasting and feasting in the past, it was the city that the little boy was familiar with. At night, hordes of rats will appear, scavenging for the drinks and food spilled after people's carnival, and the garbage cans in the alley can be said to be their paradise.

For wild cats, the alley in the middle of the night is also its paradise. A battle of wits between cats and mice happens almost every night, and it ends with the feral cat licking its paws contentedly.

But today, I don't know if these little guys are human, and they understand the slogan in the loudspeaker. They all hid one by one, making this night without people extraordinarily quiet.

After walking for a long time, the little boy suddenly saw the dim lights at the intersection ahead and the lit street lights on the main road, and immediately shrank back in fright. I wanted to go straight over, but there are lights now, and if you forcibly break in, you will likely be found. I have nothing to be caught, but I can leave behind...

The little boy wiped his sweat and decided to take a long detour. He also knows a 'secret way',

It can lead to the other side of the road without knowing it.

After laboriously removing the manhole cover, resisting the stench, the little boy took a deep breath and climbed in.

Aisia's sewer passage is very narrow, even a thin boy can barely get in, and he has to bend his waist to move forward, and he can't even turn around.

The little boy was like a mouse, creeping in the sewer.

Every step of kneeling, hands and feet will sink into the mud and corrupt debris, like a man-eating quagmire.

The stench filled the sky, and the little boy held his breath and moved forward. Every time he wanted to breathe, he could only raise his head, and through the strip-shaped hollow water cover above his head, he could barely breathe the 'fresh' air outside.

Soon, the little boy climbed up the sewer that crossed the road. The street lights that used to be extremely dim now give people a particularly dazzling feeling. Even if there is a sewer on the top of the head, the light hits the back of the little boy through the hollow stripes. Every light that falls on the body is like a A knife, chilling his back.

The road is more than ten meters wide, but these ten meters are as long as a marathon for the boy.

The boy finally crawled across the street, and he couldn't help but glance back. The light through the gap gradually dimmed. He had successfully reached the other side of the road. Next, he only needed to climb out of the sewer in front and walk a few steps to reach this place. next destination.

But just when the boy turned around, a drop of water suddenly dripped from the sewer above his head, and it just fell on his forehead.

The boy froze for a moment, looking up at the top of his head.

Two more drops of water hit his face.

There seemed to be a pool of liquid outside, dripping down the sewer.

The boy slowly exhaled the turbid air, and then took a sharp breath of 'fresh air', and suddenly a strong and bloody smell that choked his nose shot straight into his nose.

How can there be such a strong bloody smell?

The boy subconsciously wiped the water droplets on his face with his arm, but it reflected the light shining from the gap. When the boy saw the strange blushing on his arm, his pupils shrank suddenly, and the hair on his whole body burst.

Just when the boy was shocked, the light of the sewer barrier above his head suddenly turned to darkness a little bit, and was blocked by something.

A kind of fear and anxiety grew in the boy's heart, as if a kitten was scratching his heart.

The shadow gradually expanded, completely obscuring the boy.

There was a chill in the air.

With the extremely weak optical fiber, the boy saw two violet-like stamens protruding into the sewer, gradually approaching him. And he could clearly smell the rancid smell that was worse than the sewers coming from directly above his head, as well as the heavy breathing that was constantly sprayed on his face.

Although he couldn't see the specific appearance of the creature above his head, but thinking of the alien creatures mentioned in today's lockdown and the broadcast, the boy's eyes showed a look of horror, and he twisted his body slightly and squeezed deeper into the sewer, for fear of being probed in. The tentacles of the two flowers are found.

The tentacles groped in the sewers, analyzing the smell of sniffing.

The corners of the shadow dog's mouth opened, revealing sharp teeth, and there was a gurgling in his throat.

It has already smelled the debilitating breath of life, which is definitely a gourmet food for a shadow dog.

The shadow dog gnawed at the rectangular hollowed out cover, and the teeth collided with the metal to produce sharp friction.

When did the little boy see such a terrifying posture, his pupils contracted violently, and he was shocked by the violent aura emanating from the shadow dog, unable to move. This feeling was even more terrifying than the aura emanating from the ferocious hound that was almost one person tall in Boss Hoover's house.

Fortunately, the gap between the barriers on the water cover is only two fingers wide, which is narrower than the shadow dog's jaw. After struggling for a while, the shadow dog found that he couldn't open the water cover, and tried to hit the water with the horns on his head. Gai, except for a scratching sound, nothing could be accomplished.

The shadow dog tried to insert the horn into the gap again, but because the root was too bloated, it was impossible to go any further by only piercing half of it.

The boy stared in horror at the thorn that was about to pierce his body with two punches, his whole body was numb, and he couldn't move at all.

The shadow dog struggled for a while, and found that the seductive breath in the sewer was like a piece of fat that could only be smelled but couldn't reach. No matter how hard it tried, it couldn't eat it. The angry shadow dog circled the sewer a few times, revealing jagged fangs and man-eating green eyes, and finally left in annoyance.

After the shadow dog left, the boy didn't move, even his breathing was half-stopped, only his heart was beating wildly.

After a long while, the tense muscles slowly loosened, and the breathing rate increased, and there was a feeling of the rest of my life.

The desperation of Shadow Dog when he tried to open the sewer above his head, he was like a lamb to be slaughtered, and there was nothing he could do except wait for fate to judge him.

At this time, the little boy finally understood that the bloody aura above his head was the food that Shadow Dog had enjoyed before, the corpse of an innocent man. This disgusting sewer saved his life.

After recovering for a long time, the little boy could no longer hear the voice of the shadow dog. After confirming that the monster had left, he turned around and continued to climb forward.

After reaching the opposite side of the road, the little boy waited for a while, then carefully lifted the water cover above his head, looked around with a pair of eyes, and after confirming that there was no shadow dog, he pushed the water cover aside and carefully climbed up.

The little boy walked into the alley with ease, and his pace quickened a lot because of his urgency.

Walking to the corner of the dead-end alley, he gritted his teeth and struggled to lift the smelly garbage can, lifted the waterproof tarpaulin close to the wall, knelt down and removed the bottom few red bricks. After removing the bricks, the little boy twisted and got in.

This room is a warehouse for stacking goods, and the loose wall tiles were temporarily repaired when the little boy was helping. It's just that before the masons were invited, the alien invasion broke out. The owner of this shop had to lay a waterproof tarpaulin outside, closed the shop door and drove home. As for the store, it can only be repaired after the crisis is over.

The little boy and his sister had planned to go back to the slum, but the martial law came too fast, they had no means of transportation, and it was too late to go back. The little boy hurriedly begged and found a utility room where the goods were stacked by his former employer. There was no food or water in the utility room because of the hurry, and the door was locked from the outside when the employer left.

The little boy really had no choice, so he found something to break open the door, and came out to find something to eat at night.

Passing through the warehouse, the little boy skillfully flipped the switch to turn on the light.

The lights came on in an instant, and the boy with the sudden flash of light couldn't open his eyes, and it took a while for him to gradually get used to the light.

The little boy came to the bathroom first, cleaned up the sludge on his body, and then cleaned up all the dirty places along the way. After doing this, I carry a bag to 'purchase' necessities on the supermarket shelves.

I don't know how many days this blockade will last. Monsters are rampant outside, and it is not every day that there is an opportunity to travel between the shelter and the supermarket, so the little boy needs to prepare enough food for several days at a time.

The first is a large bucket of drinking water, big enough to be lifted and stuffed down the drain.

The second is food that can satisfy the stomach.

The boy shuttled between supermarket shelves by himself, picking up grocery bags from time to time to check something.

After a while, the bag was stuffed with a lot of food.

After packing and sealing everything, the boy did not leave directly, but went to the payment front desk of the supermarket, found a pen, tore a page of paper and lay down to write something.

[Dear store manager, I am Sean who worked and helped in your store before, and I am very sorry to talk to you in this way. My sister and I were temporarily staying in the city of Essia because it was too late to leave the city, taking refuge in a utility room in the alley of Third Street. Had to come to your store to get some life-saving supplies due to lack of food.

I took a 5-liter bucket of purified water, five packs of instant noodles, four pieces of bread, a box of chocolates, and four hamburgers. I picked up all these things, instant noodles, bread, and chocolates were two days before their expiration date, and the four burgers you left in a hurry and forgot to put away that day.

I only have 30 wasteland coins on me now, and I leave it for you. If there is not enough money left, I will come to your shop and pay it back after the blockade ends.

Thank you again for your selfless generosity, working boy Sean Liu. 】

After writing, the little boy Sean took out the only 30 waste coins left on his body, put them on the table together with the letters, and used the objects on the table to hold down the money and letters to ensure that after the supermarket reopened, the boss would You can see it right away.

After all this was done, Sean breathed a sigh of relief. He felt the pressure on his shoulders was greatly reduced. He turned off the lights in the supermarket, and struggled to carry the life-saving food, with a smile on the corner of his mouth. I don't know how happy my sister will be when she sees that she has brought so much food.

Drilling a small hole and dragging the packaged bag out, Sean knelt on the ground and laid the bricks one by one, returning to the original appearance, and then carefully spread the waterproof tarpaulin. Finally, push the trash can back into place and block it in front of the tarp.

After everything was done, Sean sweated profusely, the smile on the corner of his mouth never faded, and he wiped the sweat off his face.

all the best!

But when Sean struggled to pick up the food and turned around to leave, the smile on his face suddenly froze, and the bag in his hand fell to the ground with a bang.

In the darkness, a pair of dark green eyes stared straight at Sean, and his mouth made a grinding sound.

The familiar sense of fear flooded into his heart again, and Sean trembled, knowing that he was doomed this time.

When he thought of being eaten by alien shadow dogs, Sean didn't have much fear. But my sister was still waiting eagerly in the utility room for him to go back, waiting for him to bring back food. She was born dumb and couldn't even call for help. If she died here, her sister would starve to death in the clutter...

Sean clenched his fists. He hated why he was incapable, why he couldn't protect his sister.

Sean wiped his snot, half hunched over, and decided to fight to the death.

Sean quickly grabbed the plastic bag on the ground and ran with all his strength.

The shadow dog flew towards Sean at the same time.

A thin and frail child, facing a shadow dog that can easily deal with a level 30 player, the power gap between the two can be said to be two dimensions.

Sean saw the shadow dog flying over, subconsciously hugged the life-saving supplies in his arms, and rushed across with his eyes closed.

Just at this critical moment, a black shadow flashed past, like a sharp sword, stabbing the shadow dog's head.