IPT 40.2

“Shen meow!” In the darkness, Shen Qianqian’s voice was full of panic.

　　

“I’m here.”

　　

A small hand touched Chu Ya’s arm, and then the whole person pressed against him: “Shen Miaomiao.”

Chu Ya pulled Shen Qianqian to sit on the wheelchair: “It’s okay, it’s okay now.”

 

The door was still banging, and every time it banged, Chu Ya felt the child in his arms tremble.

 

“Are these big cats and dogs going to bite us to death and eat us?” Shen Qianqian’s voice was trembling.

“They are not big cats and dogs, but wild beasts you have never seen.” Chu Ya thought of the appearance of the monkey just now, and felt that it should be a mutant.

 

He only knew about mutants before, but had never seen one. Mutants are animal mutations that have been contaminated by viruses for many years. They are cruel and bloodthirsty. After several cleanups by the army, they were all driven to those high mountains. He has lived in Yundian since he was a child, and has forgotten that Keko Mountain is not far from here, and there are countless mutants in the mountains.

 

“Will they rush in? Will they rush in?” Shen Qianqian continued to ask.

“It’s okay. They can’t get in. They are locked outside by the door.”

 

Chu Ya comforted Shen Qianqian, but he was actually unsure. He didn’t know if the door could withstand the impact of the beasts. He only heard the continuous impact mixed with the ferocious roar of the beasts.

 

“I don’t like them, not at all.” Shen Qianqian turned his head and buried his face in Chu Ya’s arms, his hands tightly around his waist, “Can we go? Can we leave here? I don’t want to be here.”

 

Chu Ya recalled the scene when he hid in the theater last time. He remembered that there was a stage in the back and there seemed to be another space behind the curtain, so he turned the wheelchair and went to that direction along the aisle.

 

“Where are we going?”

“I’m going to see if there are other places to hide.”

“Can’t we leave?”

“Not yet.” 

 

Chu Ya held the dagger in one hand and pushed the wheelchair with the other. He couldn’t tell if there was a way out, so he said to Shen Qianqian: “Can you come down and lead the way? Try to walk slower.”

 

Shen Qianqian immediately shrank into Chu Ya’s arms and turned to hug him.

 

Chu Ya didn’t force him, but continued to push the wheelchair out, but immediately encountered a small step. The wheelchair tilted to the left, but it didn’t tip over thanks to holding the seat next to it.

 

Shen Qianqian slid down from his arms and whispered: “I’ll lead the way.”

 

Shen Qianqian grabbed the wheelchair handrail, stretched out one foot, tapped the ground lightly to test, and took a step when he felt that the ground was flat.

 

Chu Ya knew that although the door could block wild beasts, it couldn’t block quantum beasts. The black wolf could appear beside him at any time, so he didn’t dare to relax his vigilance at all.

 

“There’s a road out here, no steps, let’s go, let’s go…” It was dark all around, and there were continuous banging of iron doors and roars of wild animals in his ears. Shen Qianqian just held the wheelchair armrest tightly, and kept saying in a trembling voice: “Let’s go, we can go here. Shen Meow, are you still there? Are you there?”

 

“I’m here.” Chu Ya responded.

 

“Huh? It seems there’s no way here… Oh, the way turns this way.”

 

As soon as Shen Qianqian finished speaking, there was a sudden bright light on the left. It turned out that there was an unnoticed small iron door on the wall. Now the door was open, and the black wolf had already jumped in half of its body.

 

Chu Ya was blinded by the sudden light, so he dragged Shen Qianqian half a step back and punched in that direction based on his feeling.

With the dull sound of fists hitting something, he immediately stabbed there again.

 

This time, the stab did not hit him. Before he could retract his attack, his wrist was bitten by two rows of sharp teeth, and the black wolf’s fangs sank into his flesh.

 

“Roar!”

 

Chu Ya just felt the pain spreading from his wrist, but the black wolf had already loosened its fangs and let out a roar of shock and anger.

 

The black wolf fell outside the wall. Chu Ya quickly closed the small iron door and locked it. The black wolf stood up and pounced on it, slamming the metal door with several loud noises.

 

The strange reaction of the black wolf suddenly made Chu Ya think that the black wolf had bitten not only him, but also its body.

 

The surprise in his heart flashed by, and he said to Shen Qianqian: “Let’s go.”

 

“What’s going on? What’s going on?” Shen Qianqian was so shaken that he couldn’t open his eyes just now. He didn’t know what happened at that moment, so he asked in panic.

 

Chu Ya endured the pain in his wrist and said, “It’s okay, keep going… go on.”

 

The two continued to grope their way down in the dark, but the sound of the beasts hitting the door suddenly stopped. Shen Qianqian asked in surprise, “Are they going away?”

 

“No.”

 

The two groped their way into a passage next to the stage. Chu Ya touched the wall next to him, grabbed a piece of velvet and pulled it aside, and light immediately fell into the room.

 

Chu Ya closed his eyes and opened them again, and found that this was a small room on the right side of the stage.

The room was narrow, with only a small window with broken glass, which was mostly blocked by the spiral staircase on the wall, leaving only a small part of the top and bottom of the window.

 

Chu Ya knew that the gap in the window was small, and he and Shen Qianqian could not get out, and even if they went out, they would be discovered, which would be more dangerous than being trapped here.

 

“What’s wrong with your hand? It’s bleeding!”

Shen Qianqian saw two bloodstains on the back of Chu Ya’s hand, dripping down the pale and slender fingers to the ground, and his face turned pale with fear.

 

Chu Ya raised his hand and saw two more bites on his forearm above the wrist. The area was not large, but it was quite deep, and blood was still flowing out.

 

“Oh, does it hurt? Does it hurt?” Shen Qianqian was so nervous that he reached out to touch it.

“Don’t touch it, it will get infected.” Chu Ya turned around and took out a handkerchief from his pocket to bandage the wound: “It’s okay, it doesn’t hurt.”

“You were caught by that, that, that…”

“Monkey.”

“Were you caught by that monkey?”

Chu Ya didn’t tell him about the black wolf, so he said: “Maybe.” He saw Shen Qianqian looking at him with concern, and said: “You just saw it, the wound is small. It will stop bleeding soon.”

 

Shen Qianqian was relieved and began to look around the house: “Should we get out of here?”

Chu Ya looked out the window: “I can’t get out, the gap is too small.”

“I can dig a hole, I can dig out the one blocking it.” Shen Qianqian raised the iron rod in his hand.

“This is reinforced concrete, you can’t dig it out.”

“Believe me, I will definitely dig through it. I  also dig through the wall of the welfare home.” Shen Qianqian was full of confidence.

“…I don’t believe this.”

 

While speaking, Chu Ya looked out from the gap in the window, and then his expression slowly became solemn. From his angle, he could see that there was actually a row of military vehicles on the road outside the town of Mixin.

 

These military vehicles should have just arrived, and the doors were only now opened one after another, and a group of Morna government soldiers jumped out. This group of people were all armed with guns and bullets, standing outside the barbed wire, talking about something with walkie-talkies.

 

Chu Ya’s first reaction was that Gu Lin had sent people to search for him, but seeing the soldiers’ leisurely attitude, he thought it might be because of the mutants outside the house. Maybe they had also attacked Keko Town, so the soldiers chased them.

 

But no matter what, they would attack the culture and artistic center building because of these mutants, and they would definitely be discovered at that time.

 

“Squeak!” With a scream, an enlarged monkey face appeared outside the window, facing Shen Qianqian at close range. It opened its mouth fiercely, revealing a row of fangs with saliva and a black mouth.

 

“Ah!!!”

Shen Qianqian screamed, and then was pulled away from the window by Chu Ya. Chu Ya used a dagger to pierce the monkey’s paw that was probing in, but the monkey had suffered a loss before and immediately retracted its paw.

 

Shen Qianqian came to his senses from the shock, and immediately poked the monkey’s face with an iron rod, screaming: “If you catch Shen Meow, I will beat you to death, beat you to death, beat you to death.”

 

The mutants that were originally on the left side of the theater rushed over, and various animal faces kept appearing in the small window gap, roaring at the two people ferociously, and stretching out their claws to scratch.

 

The room was narrow, and a leopard had particularly long legs, so its sharp claws almost scratched Chu Ya’s chest. Shen Qianqian was shocked and angry. He hit the scaly leopard claws hard with the iron rod, and the leopard claws immediately changed direction and grabbed him.

 

Chu Ya quickly pushed Shen Qianqian back, backing him close to the wall. He stabbed the leopard claws several times, and the leopard shrank in pain and retracted its claws.

 

“I’ll stab you through and through!” Shen Qianqian’s anger was overwhelming his fear, and he yelled out the window with a red face: “You are not allowed to catch Shen Meow! Do you hear me? You are not allowed to catch him!”

“Roar!”

“You are so shameless, you are still talking back, right? I’ll stab you! Mental attack!”

“Roar!!”

 

Chu Ya looked out from the gaps between the animal’s feet and saw several soldiers using pliers to cut off a piece of barbed wire surrounding the town of Mixin, and everyone was entering the town in an orderly manner.

 

Although they have not yet noticed the abnormality on the building of the Art Center, if they enter this street, they will soon notice it.

 

The mutants squeezed under the small window, and several ferocious claws were digging in. The room was narrow, and Chu Ya kept stabbing the nearest claw with a dagger while Shen Qianqian kept hitting it with an iron rod.

 

But he would keep moving forward when stabbing, and Chu Ya had to pull him back at any time.