Chapter 7 5. Strange call

September 23, 200X at 11:00 PM She was finally tired.Tired of crying, tired of shouting, tired of beating.And I'm tired, tired of listening, tired of watching, and bored. The single mother listened to the radio for hours without hearing any news about the incident until the MP3 ran out of battery and charged it.And at this time, she seemed to have turned off the power, and suddenly entered a state of excitement.She has been standing by the door since the afternoon, screaming, crying, banging on the iron shutter door, and calling her son's name like crazy.I don't know what was holding this thin woman up from 3:00 pm to 11:00 pm.However, now she is finally paralyzed, and I can feel the deep despair and chill from her prostrated limbs and slack eyes.

In fact, she was not the only one who felt hopeless?I think everyone in the supermarket, including me, is already chilling to the bone at this moment—this woman knocked and shouted for nearly ten hours, but there was no movement or response from outside—I try not to think about it, which means what. Now, it seemed that everyone was disheartened. No one spoke in the supermarket, and it was strangely quiet.Everyone was lying on the ground in a mess, and the scene looked like someone ransacked a funeral home. After the suffocating dullness lasted for a while, I saw the middle-aged man stand up from the ground, walk to the counter and ask the female clerk: "Do you have quilts in this supermarket?"

The clerk shook her head and said, "No. None of us have lived here before." The middle-aged uncle said: "It's autumn now, and the temperature at night will be relatively low. If we always sleep with our bodies like this, we will catch a cold easily-I think you must have no medicine in it. If someone is born Sickness can be troublesome." I was lamenting that the middle-aged uncle was thoughtful and considerate, but I heard the red-haired gangster opposite said in a sneering tone: "Uncle, it seems that you are planning to live here for a long time, right?" The middle-aged uncle glanced at him, but ignored him.He stared at the saleswoman and said, "Think about it, is there anything that can be used instead of a quilt?"

"Let me think about it... Ah, by the way, there are some tablecloths on the shelf over there, maybe they can be used as a quilt." "Okay, I'll get it." The middle-aged uncle nodded and walked in the direction she pointed. After a while, the uncle held more than ten brand-new tablecloths and began to distribute them to everyone in the supermarket.When it was sent to me, he specifically said to me: "Wrap up tightly at night, don't catch a cold." "Thank you." I said gratefully to him.He went to the opposite side and handed it to the red-haired punk. "Do you want it?"

The red-haired boy raised his eyebrows, but still took the tablecloth. Next, the uncle went to the door to personally cover the "quilt" on the single mother who was limp on the ground, and said some words of comfort to her.Afterwards, he sat by the wall and fell asleep wrapped in a "quilt". It was nearly twelve o'clock, and I'm not sure if everyone in the supermarket was asleep, but at least they all seemed to have their eyes closed.I found that since I was locked in this supermarket, I have some symptoms of insomnia.But I also knew I couldn't stay awake all the time, so I started counting silently from 1 to 100 in my head.Gradually, my eyelids became heavier and heavier, and finally they closed completely, shutting down all consciousness in my brain at the same time.

I don't know how long it took, and in a daze, I was woken up by someone, and I could barely open my eyes halfway under the harsh incandescent lights of the supermarket.I saw the single mother who was sleeping by the door just now in front of me. She stared at me with terrified eyes and asked, "Did you just... hear anything?" I looked at her in confusion: "Sound? What sound?" She put her finger to her mouth and gave a "shh", and said in a low voice, "Don't talk, listen carefully, outside the door." I did as she said, pricking up my ears to listen to the movement outside the door.After a while, I heard a low, howling sound like some kind of wild animal coming from a place that seemed to be far away from the door.Although the sound was not loud, it made my hair stand on end. I couldn't tell what kind of animal it was, because I had never heard this strange howling anywhere before.I looked at the single mother in horror: "What the hell is that screaming?"

"I don't know." She shook her head in fear, "I heard it just now when I was sleeping by the door." As we were talking, the monster's cry sounded again, and this time it was obviously louder than before, and I couldn't help crying: "My God, what the hell is that sound!" My cry woke up several people nearby. They sat up from the ground, and the middle-aged uncle asked, "What's wrong with you? What did you hear?" I pointed at the door in fear: "Listen... there is a cry outside." At this time, several people got up again, and they all looked at the door, listening carefully to the movement outside.The monster's cry sounded again, louder than last time.Obviously everyone in the supermarket heard it, and they all stood up, all staring in panic.

"God, what kind of strange noise is this?" The fat woman was pale and trembling constantly. This time, the sound made by the monster was no longer howling, but a roar.I could feel everyone in the supermarket overwhelmed with horror.The boy's face was as pale as the white tablecloth he covered, and he said tremblingly, "The voice...is getting louder." The female clerk left the counter and stepped back: "I feel... this thing is getting closer and closer to us." In fact, all the people in the supermarket were just like her, walking backwards unconsciously, trying to stay as far away as possible. The door is farther away.

"Hey, have you noticed that the sound is getting closer and closer to us, but... why can't we hear any footsteps?" The fat woman asked in horror. At this time, another loud roar came.My beating heart was about to burst out of my chest.I clearly feel that this thing is already close at hand, to be precise, it may be at the door now.At this moment, the air in the supermarket stopped flowing, and everyone held their breath, staring at the iron gate motionlessly. Five minutes, or ten minutes later, I'm not sure.But in short, we heard no more roars from the monster.The fat woman's voice pierced the dead silence in the supermarket: "Did that thing... leave?"

"Don't talk." The middle-aged uncle said vigilantly, "Wait a little longer." After waiting for another ten minutes, finally no more sounds were heard, and everyone was slightly relieved, and their tense hearts were slowly let go.The fashionable girl pressed her heart in shock and asked, "You...does anyone know? What was that outside just now?" "I think it's something beyond our cognition." The fat woman said solemnly, "The sound it makes obviously doesn't come from humans, nor does it look like some kind of animal." "Do you think... this has something to do with the 'scary virus' that the man mentioned?" the boy with a fair face asked tremblingly.

This is obviously a question that no one can answer.After a long while of silence in the supermarket, the bearded man cursed angrily, "Damn it! What has become of the outside world!"