A youth story of a passerby at the end of the world

"Come to think of it, we have a companion waiting in the car outside. She must be hungry too." Uesugi Genshin mentioned casually.

"Really?" Another person immediately walked to the window and looked out through the tiny gap that was not opened.

At this moment, while neither of them was paying attention, Yukinoshita Yukino walked forward quickly and quietly, trying to take the opportunity to grab Uesugi Genshin's clothes. What did he mean by what he said just now?

Then I saw him take a quick look into the pot and reach in as if to fish something out.

That's a hot pot! Yukinoshita Yukino opened her mouth slightly, looking at his actions in surprise.

The next second, he drew his sword, and in the blink of an eye the tip of the sword pierced into the back of the man cutting meat and went through his chest.

There was no shrill scream because there was no time to react. Only a muffled sound of pain was heard, and no sound could be made after that.

The man who heard his companion's movement turned back from the window and saw him stabbing towards him with a knife.

"You?!" There was an expression of astonishment on his face, and these were his last words before his death.

Uesugi Genshin pulled the knife out of the corpse and shook off the blood.

Seeing his blood vibrate, Yukinoshita Yukino was startled, "What's wrong?"

The sudden attack scared her.

The whole process took only three seconds and he killed both people.

"No..." He shook his head first, then looked at Yukinoshita with a frown, "You said, we are all just eating meat in cans, why can they take out fresh meat."

"This..." It's indeed a bit strange, but there must be other reasons. However, the panicked Yukinoshita Yukino hurried to the pot.

Uesugi Genshin also returned to the pot with a little uncertainty, and stood opposite Yukinoshita. He picked up the chopsticks beside him and rummaged inside, stirring the pile of roughly cut meat that looked very unappetizing.

"I just saw..."

Then he fished a ring out of the pot.

This is a wedding ring.

Chapter 238: Just a Habit

"ring?"

After stopping breathing for a short while, Yukinoshita Yukino stared at the ring held on the chopsticks. It was a standard couple's ring.

Men who are getting married usually prepare three rings: a diamond ring for proposing and a wedding ring to be worn after marriage.

"Well, in that case..."

Putting the ring aside, Uesugi Genshin used chopsticks to search in the pot again, and indeed found the meat with a long bone.

He didn't need to look at it, as he had no interest in doing so, to know that it was a finger, and a complete finger at that. The nail on the side facing him had fallen off.

The end is part of the metacarpal bone, a very, very rough cut.

Uesugi Genshin looked at Yukinoshita's face worriedly, but she was not as frightened as he had imagined.

Yukinoshita Yukino was looking at him with sparkling eyes, then she lowered her head and looked at the meat on the table over there, "That is to say..."

There was a certainty without any doubt in his words. What else was there? It was probably anger.

She believes that life is precious, and everyone's life is the same.

He let go of his chopsticks without interest, his fingers falling back into the pot, and Uesugi Genshin put down his chopsticks.

He walked up to the bodies of the two savages and stabbed them in the heart with the knife again to make sure they were really dead, then smeared the blood on the knife on their clothes.

Holding her left arm with her right hand, Yukinoshita Yukino watched him do these things quietly and look at her.

"Let's go check out the other rooms." Holding the knife in his backhand, Uesugi Genshin picked up the meat on the table and wanted to throw it into the trash can, "......"

That's how he discovered that the meat was emitting a strange smell, a strange smell that seemed to have been there for who knows how long.

They really dare to eat. Ah, there is nothing they dare not do.

Seeing this, Yukinoshita Yukino also felt sympathy and lifted the pot, and poured out the brown liquid and everything in it.

"Aren't you just going?" The sweet breath and numbing voice in my ear made my heart itch. This was probably the only colorful thing in this gray world.

The distance was such that our breaths could touch each other and we could even hear each other’s heartbeats.

Uesugi Genshin answered his question, "Are there really only two of them here?"

"But..." Yukinoshita Yukino stopped talking before she finished.

Yes, the so-called two people just said what they said, it would be a miracle if you can believe it.

Seeing Yukinoshita's expression of sudden understanding, Uesugi Genshin sneered, "So I have to check it out."

"Yeah." Yukinoshita Yukino, who had been silent until now, spoke. While agreeing with his words, she also sneered.

It was the first time I saw her smile so cold, it looked more like frozen frost than snow.

Afterwards, Uesugi Genshin began to check each room one by one.

Office, dressing room, utility room...

Although no evidence of the existence of another person was found, other evidence was found.

The moment he opened the door with a knife, Uesugi Genshin smelled a familiar smell. The smell made him hesitate and he didn't want to open the door. He felt reluctant because of the person behind him.

However, his cruel way of thinking made him keep his hand and push the door open.

"This is..." Yukinoshita Yukino covered her mouth with her hands as if she was suppressing her fear, and her pupils shrank unconsciously.

For the first time in her life, she felt complete fear.

I could hear my own heartbeat. The coldness started from my feet and quickly spread upwards. My legs were so weak that I felt like I would fall down at any moment.

My mouth was dry and bitter, and I felt something pushing up even though there was nothing in my stomach. Was it my heart? Or was it my twitching stomach?

This was a female corpse without any clothes, with her lower body in a mess. It was obvious that she had been treated cruelly before and after death.

Both breasts were cut off, the abdomen was completely cut open, the arms were gone, as was the flesh on the thighs, and most of the femur was exposed to the air.

If there was anything intact, it was probably her bruised and now pale face.

He looked to be in his thirties, but now his state was between a mummy and a skeleton.

After taking a quick glance inside the room, Uesugi Genshin turned around and looked at Yukinoshita, who was looking at him with eyes filled with a mixture of astonishment and fear.

"Feel sorry......"

She choked up and finally couldn't hold it in anymore. She ran out of the room, supported herself against the wall with her hands, and vomited violently.

Listening to her tragic vomiting, Uesugi Genshin bit his lip in annoyance and began to wonder if he was too cruel. He hoped to let her adapt and grow quickly.

I heard from Hayasaka that even if Yukinoshita had to work at night, she would still take time out to practice Suzhen, and even asked Hiratsuka sensei to teach her.

Uesugi Genshin understood her feelings very well, her stubborn obsession, or perhaps some kind of firm belief.

No matter what, she is making her own preparations for survival in the apocalypse, and I am just following her ideas and efforts.

"Ha...乻..." After a brief sigh, Uesugi Genshin took a step back and closed the door.

Looking at Yukinoshita who was still vomiting beside her, her slender and seemingly fragile shoulders were shaking constantly. There was a pool of brown-yellow liquid on the ground. The breakfast was basically digested, and the main part of what was vomited out now should be yellow bitter bile.

Without letting him see her face at the moment, Yukinoshita rubbed her eyes and cheeks with her sleeves, wiping away the tears that had just flowed from her pain.

When Uesugi Genshin saw her face again, only the redness in the corners of her eyes proved that she had just cried.

Her eyes were wet and her voice was trembling, but she tried to keep her voice calm.

"Why are you so calm?" Unable to help but wonder, Yukinoshita Yukino stared at the person who was looking at her tenderly, her expression was one of pity, as if she was looking at something fragile.

Is this what power is?

For the first time, she began to doubt her own weakness.

"You'll get used to it."

He smiled helplessly, hiding something in his eyes. Yukinoshita swallowed the sour saliva in her mouth, "Really..."

"Yeah. And you won't have such a violent reaction next time, right?"

"Haha, I really don't want this to happen again next time." She gave a self-deprecating smile at her own timidity, and turned her eyes away from the door with lingering fear.

"It's the end of the world now. We will eventually see all kinds of tragedies in the future." This is only the second month.

"And... this is not the most, the most..." Uesugi Genshin couldn't find the right adjective for a moment, and using "disgusting" would be disrespectful to the deceased.

"What's the scariest thing?" Yukinoshita Yukino became curious about what would make this person look disgusted.

"What the eyes see is nothing more than the refraction of light. The feeling it brings is merely a visual one. You won't really vomit just because of something you see in a movie." Uesugi Genshin said this while gesturing in the air with his hands.

He went on to say: "And the sense of smell is often the most affected. Just by smelling the smell, the brain will unconsciously imagine it, as if seeing it with their own eyes. And the mouth and nose are connected, so almost nothing of the five senses is not affected."

"Is that so, haha."

Uesugi Genshin stared at Yukinoshita who suddenly laughed out loud. She seemed to understand what was going on and lowered her eyes quietly.

But why laugh?

"Your expression when you were talking just now." This was the reason why she laughed. The pitiful expression made her laugh unconsciously.

"Yeah." Seeing her gradually recover, Uesugi Genshin finally felt relieved.

"Thank you, Uesugi-kun."

Uesugi Genshin realized that being called by his name like this and being stared at by those clear and transparent blue eyes was something he had not experienced in a long time.

The slightly flushed cheeks showed the girl's peach color.

The corners of her mouth were smiling like a blooming flower, and her beautifully shaped cherry-colored lips moved slightly, expressing sincere words of gratitude.

Then, the smile that was almost grand, like a passionate blooming flower, reminded him of the flower named Misaki. She wanted to say something else.

"boom"

But was interrupted by sudden gunshots.

It came from outside the building.

The two looked at each other, their eyes saying this.

"It's over there at Hayasaka." After saying this briefly, Uesugi Genshin raised the knife in his hand, quickly turned around and ran in the aisle towards the stairs.

Yukinoshita Yukino pulled her clothes at her chest and immediately followed.

He ran downstairs at the fastest speed possible to maintain his posture and climbed over the obstacles on the second floor.

Finally the two reached the first floor, outside the building.

"The car is gone." Yukinoshita Yukino exclaimed in a low voice.

There was no trace of the car in the open space in front of the building. Instead, there was a fresh corpse lying in the middle.

He was dressed as a homeless man, lying on his back with his hands covering his chest, his body twisted in pain.

It seems that he is the third person, but are there a fourth and a fifth?

But there is no time to continue the investigation now. The gunshot just now was quite loud, the original sound of a revolver without a silencer.

It should attract a large number of zombies nearby.

Thinking of this, Uesugi Genshin ran towards the street at a very fast pace.

When Yukinoshita Yukino saw this, she followed him. Although she didn't know what he was going to do, she followed him anyway.

When they were almost at the street, Uesugi Genshin leaned against a wall and stuck his head out towards the street.

Sure enough, the streets not far away were already full of wandering zombies.

This is the density of Tokyo. It is worthy of being the world's largest city and home to 30 million people.

"Wait for her for a while." Pulling his head back, Uesugi Genshin leaned his head against the wall, looking at the sky, breathing lightly.

"You really believe her." Yukinoshita Yukino teased meaningfully.

"Well, you don't believe her?" At this point there will be no problem if you just ask the question again.

"No." Yukinoshita Yukino gave her answer, "I don't believe her, but I believe you."