Xiao Ran was about to scream in horror, but Dr. Zhao immediately covered her mouth from behind.

The scream turned into a muffled groan, suppressed in her throat.

Dr. Zhao saw that the three people who had just left had disappeared, and curiously followed to see such a bizarre scene, almost losing his soul.

None of the four dared to make a sound, silently watching the "person" in front of them, whose appearance resembled a cricket.

They saw him rapidly move his hind legs like an insect, constantly changing direction as if searching for something, occasionally lifting the two bloody holes on his face to look around.

His neck twisted, not like a human, but like an insect, with a horrifying range of motion.

A few seconds later, the "person" suddenly jumped high and leaped towards the wall of the convenience store.

Qi Xia quickly raised the torch to illuminate, attempting to follow the figure, as losing track of the target was the most taboo thing in this pitch-black environment.

But the moment the torch was raised, even Qi Xia's mental resilience almost made his legs go weak and sit on the ground.

The wall illuminated by the torch was crawling with "people" densely packed.

At least ten of them could be seen at a glance, all moving rapidly on the wall.

When the light shone, they seemed to sense something and crawled towards the darkness.

They looked like crickets, like cockroaches, like spiders.

In short, they didn't look human.

Qi Xia felt all the hairs on his body standing on end.

On their way to the convenience store, he and Lin Qin had been groping in the dark, constantly hearing the sound of insects.

Sometimes the insect chirping was far away, sometimes it was close.

It turned out that those were not insects... but one "person" after another.

Thinking that he and Lin Qin had been walking on the ground and walls surrounded by these things...

This feeling couldn't even be described as "fear."

Qi Xia broke out in a cold sweat and slowly turned around, waving his hand at the others.

Everyone understood his meaning and slowly retreated.

Qi Xia held the torch and stared at the "people" on the wall, then stepped back into the room with the other three.

They didn't dare to make a sound throughout the process, their movements extremely slow.

These people seemed to have their eyes gouged out and could only find their way through sound. Fortunately, everyone knew that staying alive was the most important, so no one made a sound.

After closing the door, Qi Xia brought a wooden board from the side and leaned it against the door. The others continued to retreat until they reached the corner of the room.

The cold and mottled wall gave them a sense of security.

"So... what exactly are those things..." Xiao Ran trembled and asked.

"They are people..." Dr. Zhao said, then immediately shook his head, "No... human skeletons cannot make those movements, they can only be insects..."

Qi Xia took a deep breath and said, "I also heard the rustling sound last night, which means these things didn't just appear today, they have always been here."

He turned around and said seriously to Lin Qin, "We are so lucky that we didn't step on these things all the way here..."

Lin Qin nodded, still in a state of shock, clearly frightened.

The four fell into silence.

Before seeing this terrifying scene, perhaps they could have slept peacefully at night.

But now, they couldn't dare to close their eyes and could only lean against the wall, staring at the door, ready to defend against those things breaking in.

The sleepless and soundless night felt exceptionally long.

The four stood by the wall for half the night, and now their waists and legs were sore.

They gradually noticed a problem.

The "bugs" outside the door seemed to really be just bugs.

They had no intention of breaking into this brightly lit place.

Qi Xia was using the rules here to explain the phenomenon here.

Even if they looked strange and their eyes were constantly bleeding, they were still just bugs.

If the "bugs" and the "store clerks" were the same thing, they would definitely play their roles seriously.

Thinking of this, Qi Xia slowly sat down and stretched his sore limbs.

Seeing someone take the lead, the other three also sat down, but their faces were still tense.

"Qi Xia... what should we do?" Lin Qin asked, trembling.

Qi Xia rubbed his chin and said, "Let's sleep."

"Sleep?"

"Sleep for a while and conserve energy." Qi Xia found a clean wooden board and placed it next to Lin Qin. "We'll set off after daybreak to find Officer Li."

"But those things outside..."

"Don't worry." Qi Xia said nonchalantly, "They won't come in. As long as we don't go out, there won't be any danger for now."

After hearing this, Lin Qin cautiously nodded like a child and lay down.

Qi Xia went to the corner of the wall, found a clean wooden board, and covered the pot with it. He sat on the wooden board, pressing down on the pot.

Xiao Ran and Dr. Zhao looked at each other, then glanced at Qi Xia and Lin Qin.

How could they sleep?

Even if they could completely ignore the bugs outside the door, Xiao Ran still felt that Qi Xia was a dangerous person.

In the story he told at the beginning, he was a fraudster who swindled two million. How could such a person be a good person?

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Sleeping next to him, would they inexplicably die again in the early morning?

Qi Xia completely ignored the expressions of Xiao Ran and Dr. Zhao, instead leaning against the wall and closing his eyes to rest.

To him, these two people had nothing to do with him even if they couldn't sleep all night.

Lin Qin, lying on the wooden board, looked at Qi Xia sitting in the corner with some sympathy, so she moved aside and said, "Qi Xia, this wooden board is big enough, you can lie down too."

Qi Xia lifted his eyelids slightly and said, "No need, I'm used to sleeping sitting up.""Sleep sitting up?" Lin Qin pondered for a moment after hearing this. She stood up, moved the wooden plank next to Qi Xia, then lay down again, continuing, "Then you can sleep sitting next to me."

Qi Xia didn't refuse. Compared to Xiao Ran and Dr. Zhao, the impression Lin Qin left on him was not bad.

Lin Qin lay on the wooden plank, looking at Qi Xia with a hint of curiosity, she asked, "Why are you used to sleeping sitting up?"

Upon hearing this, Qi Xia raised an eyebrow, then seriously considered the question, "Because sleeping while sitting doesn't put me in a 'relaxed' state, it allows my brain to start working at any time."

Lin Qin nodded, but seemed to think of something else, "Have you always slept sitting up?"

"Yes."

"For many years?"

Qi Xia found Lin Qin's question strange, so he turned to look at her, "Is this question important?"

Lin Qin swallowed, reorganized her words, and finally asked, "But you have a wife... Even if you two live together, do you sleep sitting up every night?"