The Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 12: Live on with Wang Sisi

In an instant, the scene was utterly chaotic.

Mather's elbow was forcefully brushed against the ground by Lin Sanjiu, scraping the skin and causing a burning pain; before she could even utter the words "What are you doing," she heard Lu Ze shout from behind, brandishing a knife as he charged forward, slashing it fiercely across the two of them—

With a clang of metal, a slender, agile black shadow grazed Mather's face and was knocked away by Lu Ze. She blinked, realizing it was a degenerate's proboscis.

Lin Sanjiu rolled over and quickly sprang to her feet; then Mather also stood up, suddenly feeling a warmth on her face—she touched it and discovered that her skin had indeed been cut by the proboscis, and it was bleeding.

A few drops of bright red blood fell to the ground, staining a small area red.

"Ah gu... Auntie, can Sisi drink this?" A little girl's soft and bright childish voice timidly rang out.

The three people present didn't move, each with an extremely ugly expression.

The staff room door was wide open, and a wave of nauseatingly strong decay immediately rushed out. A degenerate, wearing a light pink dress with small floral prints—no one in the world could call this creature a little girl—stood at the door.

Unlike the security guard they had seen before, Wang Sisi was a size smaller and seemed a bit more plump. Although her skin was still wrinkled and layered in dark brown, at least the small floral dress was still properly worn on her body—only it was unclear whether it was the slime seeping from Wang Sisi herself or someone else's blood that had darkened a large area of the fabric on her chest. A few sparse, thick black hairs sprouted from the sticky skin on top of her head, tied with what was originally a pink bow.

That was probably Wang Sisi's ponytail.

She seemed very happy, shaking her skirt with her hands, and let out a "giggle" from her proboscis: "Thank you, brother, sister, and auntie, Sisi can eat again."

Lin Sanjiu was about to speak when suddenly her flexible, spike-like proboscis lunged forward—everyone jumped back in unison, avoiding it—the proboscis swept across the ground, and the bloodstain disappeared in an instant.

As soon as the blood entered her mouth, Wang Sisi immediately made a sound of disgust, and her proboscis emitted an angry buzzing sound. "It doesn't taste good! It doesn't taste good! I hate this!"—compared to the security guard, her pronunciation was much clearer. If you closed your eyes, it sounded like a normal child throwing a tantrum.

Immediately, her eyelid-less eyeballs turned and fell on Lin Sanjiu. "You're the sister who wasn't gentle at all just now."

Lin Sanjiu felt a surge of acid rising in her stomach—she suppressed her discomfort and said coldly, "We underestimated you. I really didn't know that your kind of degenerate could be so intelligent..."

She was much taller than Wang Sisi and was facing the staff room door, so with just one look up, she could see everything inside the staff room.

Behind Wang Sisi was a workbench, on which lay a middle-aged man in a supermarket uniform, his throat gaping with a large blood hole, and the stench was coming from this corpse. Although the body had decomposed quite a bit in the high temperature, the expression of horror was still frozen on his face, looking so conspicuous.

Lu Ze's "Eagle Eye" ability came into play at this moment—he glanced over and gasped: "Sanjiu, Mather, there's a name tag on the corpse... His name is Wang Zhiwei."

Mather shuddered, exchanged a glance with Lin Sanjiu, and both thought of the same thing. The next second, the guess was confirmed—

"...Do you know my dad?" Wang Sisi's snow-white, large eyeballs rolled in her shriveled, dark black eye sockets, almost falling out.

"You sucked dry your dad's—" Mather didn't finish her sentence, seemingly unable to resist nausea, covering her mouth, swallowing the rest of the sentence along with the gastric juice.

Lin Sanjiu suddenly realized why Wang Sisi looked a bit more plump than the security guard—because she indeed had a person's bodily fluids inside her body!

"I understand—when you attacked your dad, who saw it? The manager here? She must have been terrified and locked you in this room while you were sucking blood, right? The door's quality was too good, and you, a little mummy, couldn't get out." Lin Sanjiu said indifferently, while her muscles were tensed and ready to spring into action. "After we came, you heard our voices and thought of this trick to get us to let you out... It's really hard to see that your shriveled brain is still so good."

Stimulated by her sarcastic words, Wang Sisi immediately let out a piercing buzz, and screamed angrily: "You think you're great just because you're well-hydrated!" At the same time, her proboscis attacked Lin Sanjiu without warning.

Because Wang Sisi was small, her proboscis was also shorter, and with Lin Sanjiu already prepared, she rolled to the side where Lu Ze was, and the first strike missed. Then, without a second's delay, the sharp proboscis immediately swung towards the two, emitting a sharp whistling sound—

Lu Ze hastily raised the kitchen knife to block it, and with a clang, the proboscis was stopped for a brief moment, but the knife flew far away, leaving both of them empty-handed.

Seeing the situation was not good, Mather accelerated and pounced forward, her nails already extended half a meter, straight towards Wang Sisi's eyeballs—But the proboscis was too flexible, coiling back like a snake, and with a flick, it scattered her attack.

Wang Sisi clicked her tongue twice, regretting that the person who fell in front of her was not tasty—Before Mather on the ground could see clearly, the proboscis buzzed and attacked Lin Sanjiu again.

But this time, Lin Sanjiu did not dodge, but instead rushed forward head-on. Just as the proboscis was about to touch her throat, she abruptly grabbed the tip of the proboscis, exerted force, and tore it away a bit.

Immediately, the skin on Wang Sisi's face was piled up layer upon layer, seemingly very pleased: "Haha, i***t, I can suck blood from your hand too!"

Lu Ze and Mather were both startled, and were about to rush to help when suddenly a flash of white light, followed by Wang Sisi's sudden sharp howl, she kept shaking her head, writhing, and struggling—the volume of her howl was so loud that it almost shook the items off the shelves.

The originally slime-covered spike was now deeply embedded with a kitchen knife that no one knew where it came from—and the handle was firmly grasped in Lin Sanjiu's hand. Hearing Wang Sisi's scream, she gave a vicious smile, holding the knife handle tightly with both hands, thus fixing the most dangerous proboscis—Then she shouted to the other two: "Lu Ze, kick her back into the room! Mather, close and lock the door!"

Everything happened in a flash—Even if Wang Sisi had heard the plan, it was too late for anything. A dark figure rushed up, delivering a heavy kick to the chest—

With a series of crackling sounds, it seemed that Lu Ze had kicked her breastbone to pieces—

Lin Sanjiu seized the opportunity to let go, and the proboscis, still stuck with a knife, fell back into the room along with its owner.

Mather, who was ready on the side, rushed up almost in an instant, grasping the doorknob.

At this moment, a clear little girl's voice wailed pitifully from inside the room: "Auntie, I was wrong, Auntie, don't lock me up—Wuwuwu, it hurts... Auntie Mather, I dare not anymore..."

Mather's body paused.

Then, she muttered under her breath: "Go to hell, I'm not your aunt!" Without waiting for the voice to fade, she slammed the door shut and reached for the keyhole—the keychain had been inserted in the door all along—two turns, and the door was locked tightly again.

Only then did Lin Sanjiu let out a big breath, unable to support her body any longer, and collapsed to the ground.

With a "thud," Lu Ze also lay down beside her, his face full of exhaustion.

Wang Sisi's piteous wailing continued, sometimes crying pitifully like a little girl, sometimes pleading with Mather, and when it was ineffective, it turned into a shrill angry scream—but no matter how she screamed or banged on the door, the three people outside seemed not to hear it.

"What can we do?" Lu Ze gave a wry smile, casually grabbing a few towels and throwing them to Lin Sanjiu and Mather. "Are we going to settle down in this place with a degenerate?"

Lin Sanjiu's heart was still pounding, she wiped the blood that had come out when her palm was injured with a towel, and then sighed, "Let's find some shelves to block the door... Otherwise, where else can we go?"

Mather nodded and said, "When we went out to find the key just now, we almost passed out from the heat..." Thinking of this, she said a little bleakly, "Clearly these degenerates still retain their consciousness, how can they be so ruthless to their own relatives?"

Unfortunately, no one could answer this question.

The three drank some water, rested for a while, and together they pushed several nearby shelves to the door, sealing it tightly. Each shelf was very heavy, and they deliberately left unnecessary goods on top, thinking that even Wang Sisi, who couldn't break the door, wouldn't be able to come out.

After finishing the work, Lin Sanjiu was too tired. From being woken up by the heat in the middle of the night until now, it had only been five or six hours, but her world had been turned upside down—she had never fought with anyone before, but now she could even kill without hesitation...

Since this supermarket didn't sell bedding, Mather brought out a stack of large bath towels to spread on the ground as a makeshift sheet. Lin Sanjiu carefully wiped the sweat off her body with half a bottle of water and then lay down on the towel.

The rolling door at the supermarket entrance had been let down and locked with the dead manager's key. The sunlight outside was intense enough to kill, but in this underground supermarket, it was still a dark place where people could survive. The three lay side by side on the bath towels, listening to Wang Sisi's sharp and helpless howling not far away, and gradually, the scenery blurred, and the sound faded...

Lin Sanjiu fell asleep like this.