I sell Coke in the doomsday

"Jasmine, you are a good child."

Suddenly, Jasmine took off all her disguises and started crying softly, her voice hoarse and aggrieved.

"Uncle...it hurts so much."

"It hurts."

"Am I... am I... going to die?"

I hugged Jasmine again, exhaled a trembling breath, put my mouth next to his ear, and spoke softly.

"Jasmine."

“Life is a very romantic process. You have done enough in this process.”

"You are very good, much better than me."

"Believe me, one day, everyone will come back alive, including you."

"At that time, there will be no zombies, no man-eating monsters."

"You can go to school well, do what you like, and go to faraway places with Little Orange to play."

The light in Jasmine's eyes brightened for a moment, but then dimmed again. He used up the last of his strength, grabbed my clothes with his left hand, and choked.

"sorry Sorry."

"Little Orange's mother...died because of me."

"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry."

"I didn't mean to do that. I didn't want her to die."

With the sound of sobbing becoming gradually weaker, the hand that was holding my clothes slowly dropped down and fell into the dust, lifeless.

At the last moment of her life, Jasmine told him why he took such good care of Xiaojuzi, as well as his self-blame, his shame, and his regret.

I held him in my arms, my eyes moist, and sat there blankly for a long time. Then I gently put his body down, closed his eyes with my palms, and whispered.

"Goodnight, Jasmine."

Chapter 165: City of Demons (VIII)

In the middle of the sky, the bright moon slowly appeared, peeking out from behind the dark clouds. I looked down at Jasmine's mutilated body and clenched my fists little by little.

In the end, Jasmine died as a human before becoming a zombie.

In this world, many people die every day. They die miserably and not even a complete body is left behind.

What I know is that beneath the bones lie countless tragedies.

However, those scenes that exist in our imagination can never compare to the bloody ones we see with our own eyes.

Those fleeting tragedies that exist in words and discourse are lives that have struggled madly. They have lived, they wanted to have self-respect, they wanted to live like human beings.

Step, step, step.

I heard footsteps behind me, walking cautiously and a little at a loss. I looked back and saw Tongtong, Lu Ruisheng and Xiaojuzi, standing quietly not far from me.

Lu Ruisheng stared blankly at Jasmine's mutilated body, his lips trembling slightly, and his face, which had been expressionless until now, was finally stained with sadness.

The blind little Orange could not see the brother who loved her the most. At this moment, only half of his body was left, lying quietly less than seven steps away from her. Instead, she timidly asked Lu Ruisheng.

"Uncle, have you found my brother?"

Lu Ruisheng didn't know how to answer. He opened his lips again and again, but in the end no sound came out.

I gave Tongtong a wink, and Tongtong tacitly took Xiaojuzi's hand and spoke softly.

"Little Orange, come with your sister."

"Let my sister tell you the rest."

Little Orange was a little uneasy, as if he was afraid of strangers, but he still obediently followed Tongtong and left this place and went far away. After the two of them left, I gritted my teeth and walked quickly towards Lu Ruisheng.

Lu Ruisheng didn't make any movement, but just stood there with a sad face.

Snapped!

I suddenly swung a punch and hit him hard in the face. Lu Ruisheng fell to the ground without any cry of pain, but just touched his beaten face with his hand.

After throwing a punch, I stretched out my hands, grabbed his collar, forcibly pulled him up from the ground, and then punched him in the face again.

Lu Ruisheng didn't dodge at all and just took my punch head-on. I punched him to the ground again. Lu Ruisheng lay on the ground, suddenly retching and spitting out blood, with a tooth falling into the blood.

I stood in front of him, looked at him coldly, and asked softly.

"Feeling better?"

Lu Ruisheng wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, looked at me with a look of crying and laughing, his eyes full of sadness, and spoke to me as if begging.

"It's not enough. Give me a few more punches."

I did not refuse his request. I took a step forward and kicked him hard in the stomach. His throat moved and he covered his stomach with his hands. He made a slight gasp sound and then said something that was not suitable for him.

"Damn, that's awesome."

"Come again."

This time, I didn't do anything. I just looked at Lu Ruisheng quietly. Lu Ruisheng, however, held his head in silence and cried in shame.

Sometimes, I feel that humans are strange creatures with self-abuse and self-destructive tendencies.

When guilt and self-blame make people emotionally collapse, some physical pain and a good cry can make people feel better.

Before finding Jasmine, I met Lu Ruisheng first. He confessed a lot of things. He had always known the truth here, including his plan for us when he first met Tongtong and me.

He really wanted to pull us into the bottomless abyss of this city at that time, because in this way, perhaps the children he had been taking care of could live another year.

The price was that Tongtong and I were treated as food.

But he didn't know that Tongtong and I were not edible food for zombies. Chen Ben would instinctively hate Tongtong and me and resist us.

So those few punches just now were not just to make him feel less guilty, but also to express my anger.

I waited patiently for a long time, until Lu Ruisheng stood up again and looked at me. Only at this moment did I ask him softly.

"Can you tell me now, what the hell is Chen Ben falling to the ground?"

Lu Ruisheng had a gloomy expression, looking at me like a puppet, as if he had lost all his life, and spoke woodenly in a low voice.

"He is a zombie, one of the first five people in this city to be infected with the zombie virus."

"He was also a patient I was responsible for treating before the end of the world."

I asked coldly without changing my expression.

"Speak more carefully, I don't want to hear nonsense."

Lu Ruisheng took a deep breath, and a hint of deep-hidden fear flashed in his eyes.

"He...he has a very strange ability."

"Before the end of the world, he was a very strange child. He completely lost the feeling in his legs in an accident, but no one came to see him during the long time he was in the hospital."

"He had no friends and didn't want anything. The doctor who first took care of him was a friend of mine."

"But one day, my friend committed suicide by jumping off a building in the hospital. He just committed suicide for no apparent reason."

"Some people said that my friend said some nonsense that day about Chen Ben making more friends. Chen Ben looked at him strangely, and then my friend became strange."

Chen Ben seemed to have remembered something horrible. His breathing was slightly choked and his voice became a little lower, as if he was afraid of being heard.

"In the hospital, no matter who it is, as long as they say something that makes him unhappy, they will become weird, crazy, and mad."

"Later, the zombie virus appeared, and he was infected and regained the ability to walk, but he retained his consciousness, and those who were bitten by him also regained their consciousness."

"In the early stages, they would disguise themselves as normal humans, hide and eat people, and in this way, the number of intelligent zombies increased."

"When the zombie virus got completely out of control, the intelligent zombies disguised as humans took control of the entire city, and no one escaped."

"They looked down on zombies that had no intelligence, so they detained the remaining humans and began clearing the city of low-level zombies."

"Those low-level zombies were killed and imprisoned because they could not resist the intelligent zombies at all. Without intelligence, they could be lured into a trap by a living bait."

"Once they've cleared out the low-level zombies, the nightmare will begin."

Lu Ruisheng held his head and recalled with a grim look on his face.

"I watched them eat people, one after another. They treated the human corpses they had eaten as garbage and dumped them outside the city, forming a small hill."

"Soon, there were less than a thousand humans left alive in the city."

"Chen Ben felt that there were too many intelligent zombies, so he started killing them again and dumped their corpses outside the city."

Hearing this, I had a vague guess in my mind, and my mind moved, but I spoke softly.

"It sounds like he's very powerful."

Lu Ruisheng clenched his teeth, but his body was shaking with fear, and his voice became a little higher.

"No, you don't understand."

"He can control all intelligent creatures, humans, zombies, birds and beasts. He can control them."

"He can even modify our memories and imprint our thinking. I'm not even sure if my memory has been modified."

"If he just looks at you, it's all over."

At this time, Tongtong in the distance was holding Xiaojuzi's hand and slowly walked back. I glanced at Tongtong and then whispered.

"That's enough. No more talking."

"You should know where the remaining humans in the city are concentrated, right?"

Lu Ruisheng was puzzled, but then he noticed Xiaojuzi approaching, and tried to calm himself down, controlling his voice, and spoke softly.

"I know there are five places in total. Three of them are where people go out to 'graze' every year, 120 people, and the rest are... responsible for childbirth, a total of 150 people."

At this point, Lu Ruisheng was filled with sorrow and spoke in a bleak voice.

"There are only about two hundred living people in this city."

Hearing this, I couldn't help but sigh and said softly.

“Wherever you take Tongtong, she will protect your safety and rescue those people.”

"Don't worry, she is much more powerful than the Chen Ben you are afraid of."

After saying that, I didn't explain any more, but Tongtong had expected it and threw a pistol at me. I reached out to catch it, turned around and left.

Just after taking a few steps, Lu Ruisheng's panicked voice came from behind.

"Where are you going?!"

I replied softly.

"I'm going to kill that bastard and dig out his eyes and use them as bubbles to step on."

"Impossible, he's not a human, not even an ordinary zombie. If he looks at you, you're done."

Listening to Lu Ruisheng's panicked voice, I didn't know whether he was worried about me or worried that no one would protect them.

I didn't want to think about this question carefully, so I slowly turned half of my body, looked at the nervous and uneasy Lu Ruisheng, and spoke softly.

"I think it's hard for me to be considered a human being."

After saying that, I ignored Lu Ruisheng, turned half of my body again, took a look at Jasmine's body, and walked forward.

There are many complex problems in this world, but the answers are actually very simple.

If Chen Ben could control me, he wouldn't have shown a moment's surprise when he first saw me.

Recalling that before I set out, the monster under the carrion grass once told me that Cangwu was not the only human with special abilities.

Thinking about Chen Ben here, the answer is very simple. He is also a monster made by that kind of nebula body, and it is the nebula body that gives him the ability to control others.

The fact that he can become an intelligent zombie should be due to his ability. Perhaps after Cangwu becomes a zombie, he will retain his consciousness. It’s just that I have no chance and no way to try it.

But for sure.

Those nebulae have been fooling humans for a long time. They have absolutely no goodwill towards humans. Even if they succeed in escaping the time loop, they will never let the world go back to its previous state.

I don’t know how abnormal the abilities that Chen Ben acquired are, but the priority of the nebula body’s abilities is definitely not higher than the divine machines created by the nebula body.

Therefore, my immortal body, an ever-healthy immortal body, is absolutely immune to his abilities.