This Damned Thirst for Survival

It was the surprise and self-doubt of the perennially unlucky man who had one lucky encounter after another, and Jiang Luo couldn\'t believe his luck was so good that the only two things he found in Bai Yefeng\'s room came in decisive handy

His expression grew odder and odder as he took out his pocket and counted over the money, five hundred dollars.

Not too much, but not too little, and in addition to what he used for himself, he was able to share it out to another person.

But when he turned his head, he saw Sai Liaoer taking out his wallet and handing out money to the others in piles, "Who doesn\'t have any money? I have money in my dream identity, I have enough!"

"......" Jiang Luo instantly recognised the jaggedness of people, and he pushed down his newly rising sense of surprise and cheekily shoved the five hundred back into his possession, following it up to Sai Liaoer to receive a pile of red notes.

"Every twenty minutes, the shop door would open and the shopkeeper would come out of the shop, so it seems that these shopkeepers are all ghosts who harm people," Jiang Luo thought to himself, "It is safe for these twenty minutes, but once the twenty minutes have passed, if the shop we stay in happens to be the shop that has been drawn, the shopkeeper would kill the customers in the shop and then run out and kill anyone on the street who didn\'t enter another shop. Twenty minutes is a regular time, but who knows where the initial time starts from, so we\'ll just have to see what happens."

There was no clock in the mall, but luckily everyone had a mobile phone. After dividing the money, the eight people immediately scattered to the various clothing shops to find the best clothes for them.

What kind of clothing suits you best?

Clothes that fit your size, of course.

Ge Zhu was following behind Zhuo Zhongqiu and Sai Liaoer, but as he passed a men\'s clothing shop on the way, he Yu Guang glanced offhandedly and stopped in his tracks.

In front of the men\'s shop there is a clear glass display wall with a plastic male model. The model looks just like his brother Ge Wuchen.

Ge Zhu was lost in thought for a moment, and in a trance, he seemed to see the male model curling his lips towards him.

He looks more like Ge Wuchen when he smiles.

Ge Zhu woke up and when he closed his eyes and looked again, the corners of the male model\'s mouth clearly still looked like a stiff smile. He hesitated for a moment and walked into the men\'s clothing shop.

In addition to him, there were a dozen other anxious-looking customers with dazed pupils in the menswear shop.

On the other side of the room, Jiang Luo\'s fingers dart through his clothes in search of his target, who is staying in the same shop as Lu Youyi. The shopkeeper sits behind the cash register, watching their every move like a viper growing out of a corner.

Jiang Luo had just finished turning the first row when a violent alarm suddenly sounded inside the mall. His spirits instantly tightened and he looked up and outside.

In a men\'s clothing shop diagonally across from him, the lights snapped out. The model in the shop moved stiffly and turned his head, his mannequin-like eyes fixed on the shop\'s customers.

A smile finally appeared on the grim face of the boss, who had been sitting motionless, as he rose from his seat and dragged out a huge axe under the table.

The shop\'s customers looked horrified and desperate as they flung themselves in front of the closed glass door, banging hard on it, "Help!"

"Smash the door, quick aaaahhhh!"

The customers locked up in the other shops looked at them with palpitations.

There was celebration and fear in those eyes, but none of them reacted to their cries for help.

Jiang Luo and Lu Youyi\'s faces changed dramatically.

They saw Ge Zhu in that men\'s clothing shop.

Without hesitation, they ran to the door, banged hard on the glass door of their shop and shouted, " Ge Zhu!"

But the glass door didn\'t budge, it was as hard as a diamond.

Jiang Luo turned his head and ordered the shopkeeper to hold back his anger, "Open the door."

For the first time the shopkeeper saw a human who threatened him, he sneered twice, "This door, I can\'t open."

Jiang Luo\'s anger could no longer be suppressed and he turned his head to look diagonally across the room, his fists creaking.

In the men\'s clothing shop, the plastic mannequin and the shop owner surrounded the customer. Jiang Luo was thinking of how to save him when he saw a child, who was being protected by Ge Zhu, shoved Ge Zhu, crying out in fear, and sent him right into the shopkeeper\'s axe.

The sound of the axe slicing into flesh was as clear as a whisper as Ge Zhu\'s head rolled twice on the floor until it reached the floor-to-ceiling window, where he met Jiang Luo\'s abruptly shrinking gaze, the shocked look on Ge Zhu\'s face still fresh.

The headless body that spurted out a large amount of blood slowly fell to the ground.

Jiang Luo\'s expression froze as he looked at the men, women and children who were screaming for their lives in the mist of blood, their hands still holding the door slammed shut.

Lu Youyi recoiled incredulously from his side, " Ge Zhu ...... is dead?"

The shopkeeper and the mannequin man were still in a frenzy of slaughter, a thick curtain of blood hanging from the glass doors. They soon finished killing the people in the shop and the door was opened, the shopkeeper dragging his axe with a vicious grin as he and the plastic mannequin stared as if on a rampage at the humans in the mall who had not yet entered the other shops.

Jiang Luo\'s hand was suddenly gripped firmly by Lu Youyi, his voice trembling, " Jiang Luo, Zhuo Zhongqiu and Sai Liaoer are still out there."

Jiang Luo snapped back to attention and followed his finger.

Zhuo Zhongqiu, with a scowl on his face, dragged Sai Liaoer to the front of the line. The clothing shop the two of them had just entered was small and they quickly finished checking it out, and when they tried to go out to find another shop, the alarm went off.

After escaping another attack by a plastic mannequin with Sai Liaoer, they see a pregnant woman with a large belly screaming helplessly "Help" to their left.

"Fuck!" Zhuo Zhongqiu was furious, "What the fuck is a pregnant woman doing in such a dangerous place?"

That said, she and Sai Liaoer quickly ran over to her, dragging the terrified pregnant woman forward.

But the pregnant woman was running very slowly, and Zhuo Zhongqiu didn\'t dare to run wildly with her, for fear of damaging her stomach. The three of them gradually fell behind, and when they saw that the plastic model was about to catch up with them, Zhuo Zhongqiu gritted his teeth and said, "Sai Liaoer, you take her and run first. I\'ll give you time to stall."

"Zhuo!" Sai Liaoer\'s eyes were red as he watched Zhuo Zhongqiu turn back and run away. He took a deep breath, knowing that he would not be able to live up to Zhuo Zhongqiu\'s sacrifice. Wiping his tears from his eyes, he continued to run forward with the pregnant woman, awkwardly reassuring her as he did so, "Don\'t be afraid, I will protect you. There will be a time limit for the ghosts to come out, we will be safe if we escape fast enough."

The pregnant woman looks up at him and Sai Liaoer is about to flash her a smile when she suddenly yanks him forward. Sai Liaoer falls forward in a daze, his chest poked through by the arm of the plastic mannequin.

He spat a mouthful of blood out of his mouth, his blue eyes confused. The pregnant woman didn\'t even look at him after she used him to block the gun, and ran away without hesitation at a faster pace than before.

"It hurts so much ......" Sai Liaoer spat out another mouthful of blood, her blue eyes fading to grey, "So death hurts so much ...... "

Little by little, his head finally drops lifelessly.

More and more people were killed outside the shop.

Jiang Luo would have found this extreme escape scene very exciting.

But he looked at Sai Liaoer and Zhuo Zhongqiu, who had been turned into corpses, and at Ge Zhu, whose head had been cut off in the clothing shop. The pleasure in his heart had changed, and the corners of his mouth were slowly depressed, a pallid look in his eyes.

Humanity, ghosts and monsters, this is what Chi You would like to see in your ideal country.

If the future is like this, his friends will definitely be the first to be sacrificed for sustenance because of their goodness and principles.

Lu Youyi had pulled himself out of his choking sob and, not knowing whether to comfort Jiang Luo or himself, kept repeating, "It\'s a good thing this is a dream."

Yeah, it\'s a good thing it was a dream.

But what if it\'s not a dream anymore?

......

In the end, the only person left outside to escape was a pregnant woman.

The boss raised his axe and smiled as he tried to smash the pregnant woman to a pulp, but she looked at him with fear and anxiety and suddenly shuddered, "Wait! I know the shopkeepers in the mall love to eat children, and I have a baby in my belly! If you don\'t kill me, I\'ll bring it to you when it\'s born, please spare me, please spare me!"

The pregnant woman crawled up on her hands and knees and kowtowed hard to her boss. With her clean-cut looks, messy hair and red, swollen eyes from crying, she looked pitiable. But after hearing what she had to say, that pity only vanished.

The boss\'s eerie eyes looked at her and then greedily at her stomach, as if debating whether to kill first or wait for the delicious baby to come.

But before he could think out loud, the alarm in the mall went off once more.

The owner\'s expression changed as he looked at the pregnant woman reluctantly and warned in a grim tone, "Remember, you have to bring him to me when you have the baby."

The pregnant woman wept with joy, covering her mouth and nodding repeatedly.

The owner and the plastic models returned to the men\'s shop, the owner sat behind the till, the models returned to where they were supposed to be standing and everything looked no different from before.

The various shop doors reopen.

Jiang Luo looks at the bodies all over the floor, lost in thought for a few seconds, and calmly picks up his phone to check the time.

"The next 20 minutes is 9.56," he said, "and in those 20 minutes we find the clothes first and grab the lift."

Lu Youyi held back his emotions and nodded through clenched teeth as they deliberately ignored the bodies of their companions and walked to the next clothing shop.

Within twenty minutes of this one, all five of them remaining had found their clothes. Jiang Luo\'s clothes were the hardest to find, a slim black suit that had been put on a model in the shop. After handing over the money to the shopkeeper, they darted to the lift at the last minute.

Also on the lift were the pregnant women who killed Sai Liaoer and Zhuo Zhongqiu, and two other middle-aged men who looked apprehensive.

There are no buttons inside the lift, but after the alarm goes off after twenty minutes, the lift automatically closes the doors and rises all the way upwards.

2nd and 3rd floors ...... The lift stops on the 5th floor.

The lift doors opened to a red gym sign, and two pretty women in tight sportswear with shapely figures stood in front of the lift doors with warm smiles, one of them with straight hair said, "We\'re leaving three guests on this floor to experience our fitness package."

Another curly-haired woman smiled and took over, "That\'s right. We have the best trainers, the most advanced equipment, and the best fitness program for you. If you don\'t come down at this stop, there\'s no place as safe as ours on the floors above."

The straight-haired woman\'s eyes were seductive and her red lips were perfectly curved like they were painted with blood, "We also have massage services here, and first-time customers can experience it for free."

The two middle-aged men in the lift were both somewhat distraught as they hesitantly asked, "Is it really safe for you to be here?"

"Of course," the curly-haired woman affirmed, "and if you\'re lucky, there might be a special treat in store for you."

As soon as these words were spoken, the two middle-aged men made up their minds and they walked out of the lift together.

With one of the three still missing, Lu Youyi, who prides himself on having the best luck, volunteered, "I\'ll go."

Jiang Luo glanced at the pregnant woman next to her, who was carefully hiding behind everyone else and didn\'t seem at all perturbed by what the two women in the gym were saying.

And yes, how else is a pregnant woman supposed to work out?

He glanced over to the pregnant woman\'s stomach.

Jiang Luo tried to stop Lu Youyi, but the rest of the group, whether Wen Renlian, Ye Xun or Kuang Zheng, had no better luck than Lu Youyi\'s, and his own was particularly bad. In the end, he just handed Lu Youyi the gym membership card in his pocket, "Wait for our news."

Lu Youyi gave a confident smile and gave them an \'OK\' until the lift slowly closed, then he turned to look at the gym with a hint of apprehension.

I don\'t think ...... is that scary here?

*

This time, the lift kept going up and up.

The lift is slow, stopping on some floors and skimming on others. Jiang Luo watches as the number of floors approaches "10" and turns his head to look intently at the pregnant woman.

The pregnant woman stiffened as he looked at her, and a ruthlessness flashed in her eyes before turning soft again in an instant.

"What do you keep looking at me for, little brother?"

Jiang Luo smiled at her and suddenly reached out and touched the pregnant woman\'s belly.

The bony fingers were slightly apart, this one hand touching the middle of her belly button as if it could at any moment pass through her flesh and pull out the contents with a hard grip of terror.

The pregnant woman\'s pupils clenched and she said sternly, "What are you doing!"

Wen Renlian and Ye Xun, still drowning in grief, looked back at Jiang Luo in surprise.

"It\'s a baby, isn\'t it," Jiang Luo said with a gentle expression, his eyes dropping, his long, slender eyelashes casting a faint shadow, "I don\'t know if it\'s a boy or a girl yet."

The pregnant woman kept shielding her stomach, trying to avoid his hand. But the beautiful-looking young man was like a demon, his hand kept firmly over the pregnant woman\'s stomach, and the slightest hint of coldness rose up her spine.

This hand suddenly squeezed hard on her stomach.

The pregnant woman lost her voice: "Get him out of here! Don\'t let him touch my belly! My tummy hurts, my tummy ......"

Wen Renlian and Ye Xun hastily pulled Jiang Luo\'s arm, anxiously, " Jiang Luo, we know you are upset, but let go of your hand, Zhong Qiu and Sai Liaoer\'s death has nothing to do with the baby in their bellies!"

"A child?" Jiang Luo sneered a few times, "That would only work if she actually had a child in her belly, but look at her, is that a child in her belly?"

Her companions hurriedly glanced at the pregnant woman\'s belly and were so shocked that they forgot to pull Jiang Luo back.

The pregnant woman\'s belly was squeezed and dented by Jiang Luo, this is not something that can be done by the belly, it is clearly ......

Jiang Luo\'s hand is so hard that a cotton pillow falls abruptly from the dress the pregnant woman is wearing to the floor.