Chapter 10by
Pocket drones the size of bees flew away from the windows, hovered over the city, and transmitted real-time images to the communicator during the monsoon rains during the flight, and then projected them into holographic images for easy observation.
"There are still survivors in the city." Zhou Mingxuan pointed to a picture, "Look, there is thick smoke here!"
On the screen, the face of the city is gradually revealed.
Dilapidated streetscapes and damaged roads are reminders that civilized society has disappeared from the city. Like the area where they are currently located, other streets are only traces of zombie activity.
"There must be survivors. Didn't we almost get hit by that space car just now?"
When Li Chun said this, he couldn't hide his anger and regret.
"Damn, if it wasn't for the space car, Brother Wen wouldn't have been injured like this... I really couldn't do better at that time!"
Ji Yushi said: "I reminded a little late."
Li Chun opened his mouth and said, "Consultant Ji, I didn't mean that."
"Okay, he didn't mean that either."
Song Qinglan used the telescope to look at the position pointed out by Zhou Mingxuan. In the shot, on the roof of the building, three or four people are stacking fuel into a large blue iron bucket, and a huge "SOS" is written in white paint on the ground, so it can be seen that they are calling for help.
"There are survivors who are waiting to die."
Not far away, the black wall that swallowed everything stood quietly.
There are zombies in front and black walls in the back. These people are just like them, they are barely surviving in the cracks, maybe they will be finished at some point.
As far as the eye can see, countless zombies are coming out of various buildings, communities, subway entrances and other places. In the absence of "predation" of the same kind around, these zombies move like ordinary people, walking neither fast nor slow, just wandering around aimlessly. As more and more zombies take to the streets, at a glance, the dense head of people is as lively as the New Year's Eve in the past.
Song Qinglan observed for a few minutes, then frowned: "These zombies still retain their social habits?"
Zhou Mingxuan took the binoculars and looked at it, and found this too: "Strange, they went home and went to bed and got up early in the morning to go shopping?! They really love life!"
On the other side of the black wall, the sun shines all over the city.
Song Qinglan looked at the drone footage during the monsoon season, her stern face tensed up, thoughtful.
When at the park management office, Song Qinglan used a saber to open the eyelids of the keeper's corpse to observe, that was the closest time, the murky gray-white eyeballs of the corpse suddenly appeared in Song Qinglan's mind, he suddenly figured it out: "It's the light. "
Everyone looked at him.
Song Qinglan said, "We arrived here at 4:30 in the morning. Except for the homeless man, we didn't encounter large-scale zombies on the road at first, until the sun came out—"
There is no need for Song Qinglan to say more about the next words.
The first wave of zombies the team encountered came from the first rays of sunlight that entered the city.
"Look." Song Qinglan pointed to the drone screen, "Zombies tend to gather. Many of the places where they come out are underground passages, subway stations, buildings, etc. Most of these places are open all night."
"I'm assuming the virus invades their optic nerve, damages their eyeballs, they can't see well, so they have a strong response to light. In addition to sound and smell, they instinctively follow their peers to chase where there is light and brighter light."
After listening to the captain's analysis, everyone was enlightened.
Li Chun looked up at the bright crystal lamp in the hall, then walked over and turned off the lamp.
Everyone acquiesced to this behavior.
But then, another problem came up.
Ji Yushi said: "If these zombies chasing light can barely be called light chasers, what does the dark chaser mentioned in the mission target mean?"
This question is currently unsolved, and no one can answer it.
Zhou Mingxuan thought for a while: "Then do we have to go at night to be safer, and these things will go back to the nest by themselves at night?"
"Not necessarily." Song Qinglan said, "Not all zombies will gather underground, and some will always stay outside. Compared to being sensitive to light, these zombies are more sensitive to sounds and smells, forgetting that we were in the corridor just now. There's a fight in here?"
Li Chun: "Yes, they are a bit blind, but they are fast!!"
Song Qinglan said, "The most important thing is that no matter what we look at, we can't wait that long."
In the hall, Duan Wen was still in a coma.
The most urgent task at the moment is to find a pharmacy to give Duan Wen medicine and anti-inflammatory.
Song Qinglan is a very active person. In a short period of time, he has already sorted out his thoughts. He zoomed in on the bird's-eye view of the current building: "Besides, it's actually good for us right now."
"Tang Le and Zhou Mingxuan took a look just now. In addition to the elevators that cannot be used, there are four fire-fighting stairs in Runjin Building."
"The one on the left corridor is blocked, let alone this one when we came up just now. Then there are only two left to choose from. If we don't think so, the one is better."
"Going down the fire stairs, you can directly enter the underground passage - almost all zombies are on the street now, and the underground is relatively safe. The underground passage connects to the main road, which is the ground exit."
Song Qinglan drew a green line on the holographic map and quickly analyzed it.
"According to the real-time situation returned by the drone, after exiting from the ground, we can take the route with the fewest zombies and find a pharmacy or hospital as soon as possible. This is an ideal way to break through. The only question is: which fire exit to choose."
Li Chun: "Choose one of the two, 50% win rate."
Zhou Mingxuan stabbed him with his elbow: "Why don't you say that 50% of the choices are wrong and you will die?"
Li Chun looked at Tang Le and blinked at Zhou Mingxuan: "You're wrong, Lao Zhou, people always think about the best!"
Just as he was talking, the drone screen suddenly flashed and the screen went black.
A prompt appears on the projection: [WARNING, UAV OFFLINE]
"Fuck!!! The black wall has moved!!" Zhou Mingxuan walked to the window and glanced at it, then cursed, "We have to leave quickly!!"
Everyone was surprised.
Sure enough, the black wall spread silently without knowing when, and has moved to the location of the convenience store street. Not only was the drone "eaten", it was about to move over!
Originally, the pictures sent back by the drone needed to be synchronized to generate the map, and there was a time difference of a few minutes. God knows they have just made a plan.
Song Qinglan couldn't help but patted the table.
During the monsoon season, he checked the storage situation: "It doesn't matter, I have written down the roadmap. I can draw the nearest pharmacy and hospital."
"The video files that have been swept through in a hurry, countless streets are distributed, can you draw?" Song Qinglan raised her eyebrows slightly, holding back the fire, "Are you more confident?"
Ji Yushi looked at the black wall, then looked at the time on the communicator: "What if I drew it?"
Song Qinglan: "..."
Knowing that he was in a hurry, Ji Yushi continued: "You don't need to draw so much. It's enough to draw the most suitable route. Give me five minutes."
Everyone: "???"
Is consultant Ji crazy? !
During the rainy season, it didn't even take five minutes to finish the drawing.
At first, everyone thought he was just talking. After all, how could one person remember all the unfamiliar routes and the road conditions on each road. However, as the map became more and more complete, the east, west, northwest directions were closely aligned, and the unthinking outlines during the monsoon season made everyone secretly startled and dared not underestimate it.
After the road map was completely presented, Song Qinglan swept it over hastily, then sent the road map to everyone's communicator, and hurriedly said, "Let's go separately, if we get separated, we will meet at the agreed place. Via the pharmacy, if the circumstances allow. Try to find bandages, anti-inflammatories, splints, etc. as much as possible. You must run as fast as you can when you see a black wall, zombies are nothing in front of a black wall."
Everyone: "I know!"
It was dark outside the window, and the black wall covered the sky, and it was about to be overwhelmed.
There are zombies in the building, and even more outside the streets. The seven teams have never been at this level in the two years since they were established.
Li Chun: "Tang Le and I go to the southeast corner!"
Zhou Mingxuan said with a gun on his back, "The captain, me and Consultant Ji, take Lao Duan to the northeast corner!"
"Fuck the PU-31, fuck the black wall zombie, I'm going to die, remember to write an address when you burn the paper!" Li Chun wiped his eyes, and the big boy's face was resolute, "Burn two more sister!"
"Go away, don't be afraid of other people's consultant Ji's jokes."
Li Chun scolded: "Bah, maybe Consultant Ji also asks to burn the macho."
The crowd pushed him.
Even Ji Yu didn't feel that this group of people was not serious at this moment.
He raised his eyes and looked at Song Qinglan. How did the other party bring out this group of people under his command? It's not as annoying as he thought.
"Okay, brother will burn eight for you."
In the public channel, Duan Wen's voice suddenly came.
When they heard that he was awake, everyone quickly walked to the dimly lit hall after the lights were turned off, and they were all shocked!
Apart from the dark red blood stains on the sofa, Duan Wen has long since disappeared!
Song Qinglan realized something: "Duan Wen!!"
Duan Wen was no longer afraid of the captain's anger. He continued to say on the public channel, "I have a fever, and if I go out, I will die. Why don't I make a contribution. What the hell kind of mission is this, tsk."
A noise came from Duan Wen's communicator.
What was that voice, everyone could hear it clearly.
"Brother Wen! Where are you?!"
"Old Duan, where the hell have you been?"
Duan Wen said, "Young ladies, I'll help you save time."
"Don't go away separately."
"Captain, this road is blocked, take the fire ladder in the northeast corner, hurry up, the black wall is coming."
The chaotic footsteps in the corridor came through the communicator.
"Ho-ho.."
"Bang!! " gunshots rang out loudly.
Chapter 11
"Ho-"
"Bang bang bang!!"
The back door of the old-fashioned off-road vehicle opened, gunfire was fired on the back seat, and another group of zombies burst their heads and fell to the ground.
The underground passage was a mess, and the lights flickered in the scattered lamps, flickering on and off.
The car galloped in the direction of the exit to the ground, traversing the darkness, through the oppressive gloom, through the zombies wandering around in the passage, and in the pair of stiff and pale hands in the air, towards the dazzling sunlight - all around suddenly brightened, The sun at 9:30 in summer makes the body hot, but everyone's heart is cold.
The dark underground passageway exits farther and farther.
"Bang!" The off-road vehicle hit a zombie, and blood snaked down the windshield.
Zhou Mingxuan has great driving skills.
The main road was full of zombies, and the abandoned vehicles were scattered everywhere. Occasionally, they ran over the wreckage on the road, and the car slanted sharply. He landed smoothly at an extremely tricky angle before continuing to move forward.
Song Qinglan sat in the co-pilot, Shenmian opened the way, blasting the zombie's head with one shot. From the rearview mirror, Ji Yushi could only see Song Qinglan's tight jawline, as well as the slender fingers pulling the trigger from time to time.
No one spoke in the car.
They rushed through a wave of dense zombies in front of them, and the car left bloodstains in the frenzied chase of the zombies, gradually leaving them behind.
The Runjin Building became smaller and smaller in the rear view.
Gradually, it was swallowed up by the huge black wall, disappeared into darkness, and could never be seen again.
Leaving the most prosperous city center, there are relatively few zombies on the roadside, and occasionally you can see traces left by some survivors when they called for help and police resources after the explosion.
Song Qinglan took back her sleep, took out the half-pack of cigarettes left in this old-fashioned off-road vehicle, lit one and put it out the window, but she didn't smoke.
In the back seat, Li Chun couldn't help choking: "Before we set off on the mission, Brother Wen also said that he wanted to try to see what the smoke in Xijing would taste like in a few decades."
"Who knows that I didn't go to Xijing in 1460, and I didn't smoke decades later..."
"It's only been a few hours without two people, what a stupid mission this is, who the fuck is not going to die... It's really bad luck, landing in this hellish place, a good A-level mission becomes hell difficulty !!"
Although Duan Wen used his life to find the way, they still had a fierce battle in the fire escape in the northeast corner. It was hard to imagine what scene was in the fire escape where Duan Wen was. Li Chun was a little younger, escaped and lost his teammates again, and his emotions were uncontrollable for a while.
Ji Yushi noticed that Tang Le, who was beside him, had reddened eyes.
Ji Yushi had never had a teammate and always acted alone, so he wanted to comfort him, but he couldn't say a word.
He's too bad at expressing emotions.
"Hold on." Song Qinglan said, "Hold on until you finish the mission and go back, you can't let them sacrifice in vain. After I go back, I'll go to those bastards, why does this happen? Is it a bug or a man-made one? Let the entire command center take a capsule cabin for a day trip."
Everyone was silent.
Song Qinglan added: "Also, no matter what happens next, no one is allowed to make up their own minds. Taking the initiative to sacrifice is a fool's behavior, not worth learning, nothing is more important than survival. There are many other things in the team. Don't rush to die if you don't want to commit a crime."
Still no one spoke.
Song Qinglan snuffed out the cigarette and threw it out of the window: "Did you hear it clearly for me?!"
"Yes!"
"understood."
"Boom! Boom!"
Zhou Mingxuan hit two zombies one after another, and as the car went away, he could see several new zombies rushing out of a store at the back of the street chasing after the car.
"Fuck—" he cursed, "child."
Among the zombies was a small figure with a braided horn and a rag doll in a red dress in his hand.
"...Such a small zombie."
Tang Le said: "Zombie bites do not distinguish between adults and children."
Like a black wall swallowing all things.
"There is an old movie where the heroine's husband mutated into a zombie and bit his daughter first." Somehow, Tang Le suddenly brought up this topic, "Once mutated, there is no reason, let alone humanity. That movie plot It's a bit similar to what we did before, they were forced to hide in a building without a way to hide, but they were hiding in a shopping mall, so there was a lot of food.
"Dawn of the Living Dead." It was Ji Yushi who spoke, "but it was the heroine's daughter who bit the heroine's husband first."
Tang Le was a little stunned: "Really, when Tang Qi watched it, I followed it, and Consul Ji also watched it?"
Ji Yushi regretted talking to him: "When my classmates were watching, I accidentally saw it."
Song Qinglan picked up the binoculars and looked ahead, then looked at the road map: "Consultant Ji, why don't we take the avenue?"
Ji Yushi explained: "There is a roadblock 400 meters into the main road, and a damaged space car occupies the road."
There was a bump, and soon the car came out of the alley, and when it passed the intersection of the avenue, there was a roadblock.
The drone picture is overlooked from a high altitude, and the speed is very fast. It takes a lot of meticulous observation to see this.
Passing an alley and then crossing a bridge.
The scenery along the way is similar to the city center, either zombies or zombies.
This way, the car was almost destroyed by the crash. Carrion was everywhere on the doors and windows. Occasionally, a strand of zombie hair was blowing, and the scalp was sticking to the car shell and flying in the wind.
"where are we going?"
In the silence, Zhou Mingxuan finally asked a question.
It's a bit sad to ask this question.
In this world called PU-31, they seem to have nowhere to go except to choose less zombies and a little farther from the black wall.
Ji Yushi glanced out the window: "Turn left on the street ahead, walk two kilometers into the auxiliary road, and there is a bookstore on the side of the road. It's on a small slope, it's easy to defend and has a good view."
Bookstore?
What age is this, paper books have long been eliminated, and modern humans only need to press the communicator to project all the information they need. It can be said to be a crazy idea to open a bookstore, and it is so small that no one will set foot there.
Song Qinglan looked at him in the rearview mirror: "Then go to the bookstore."
10:20 am.
Sure enough, as Ji Yushi said, there really is a bookstore here. Obviously, even in the end of the world, it is not an existence that humans choose to use as a bunker. The bookshelves soaring from the first floor to the ceiling of the second floor and the smooth floor make people feel like they are back in the last century.
Behind the counter is a deceased elderly employee, with gray-white pupils and a set of false teeth. Even if he has been infected, he can still vaguely tell that he was a kind old man before the infection.
Song Qinglan turned him over and put him on the chair.
Ji Yushi looked at this scene and quickly looked away.
The store is very big. The teammates inspected the store separately and found that there was no one else except the old man. The arrival was too smooth, and there were not even a few zombies in this block. Having experienced what happened before, everyone had a feeling that it was too easy.
"The black wall won't be able to catch up for a while, so we can stay here for a few hours," Song Qinglan said, "The second floor has a high view, we use the second floor as a stronghold, and even zombies with short eyes can rush in immediately. Found out, now we can find something to eat."
"I'll go." Zhou Mingxuan carried his laser gun on his back, "By the way, take a look at the situation nearby, you all pay attention to safety."
"I'm with you." Tang Le said.
In the end, Li Chun also went, leaving two of the five, only Ji Yushi and Song Qinglan were left.
Such an arrangement is rare. Ji Yu is not used to being alone with people. Fortunately, Song Qinglan said, "I'll go and see if I can find something here."
The two acted separately.
Song Qinglan found some electronic equipment. Because there was no internet, there was nothing to gain from it. When he returned to the place, Ji Yushi disappeared.
The bookshelves are row after row.
During the monsoon season, he stood in the corner, holding a bottle of mineral water that he didn't know where to find it, and swallowing something with his Adam's apple rolled.
The next second, Ji Yushi's wrist was caught.
"Consultant Ji." Song Qinglan asked, "What is this?"
When the monsoon rains, he holds a thin square pillbox in his hand.
When asked like this, he frowned and pulled out his hand. Song Qinglan didn't notice for a while, but he fled, and immediately went to grab it. When Ji Yu was aware of the strong wind behind him, he suddenly landed on his knees, folded his waist in an incredible arc, and his whole body almost slid past the ground.
He knew that melee combat was not Song Qinglan's opponent, so he got up to run after dodging, but Song Qinglan reacted extremely quickly, grabbing his shoulders with his big hands like iron tongs.
When Ji Yushi hit back with an elbow, Song Qinglan leaned back to give way, and there was another gust of wind in front of him. Ji Yushi's fierce fist was intercepted by him.
Taking advantage of her height, Song Qinglan pulled the person in front of her fiercely, but she stretched out her long arm and grabbed the medicine box in Ji Yushi's left hand.
When the monsoon rains, the eyes are quick and the medicine box forms a parabola in the air.
Unexpectedly, Song Qinglan didn't care about the medicine box, she simply cut his hands backwards in this posture, and pressed the whole body on the bookshelf!
Song Qinglan's tone was very unfamiliar, and a cold voice came from behind her ears: "During the rainy season, repeating the same time point many times will lead to a mental state of confusing reality, requiring medicine to stay awake - at least I have read a certain paper That's what he said."
During the monsoon season, he couldn't break free. Although he was separated by clothes, the feeling of being in close contact with another person was not a good feeling: "What do you want to say?!"
Song Qinglan said, "I think you didn't tell me the truth about many things."
From the convenience store, the beauty salon of Runjin Building, to the bookstore, from his point of view, they all look suspicious, and they are too familiar in the monsoon season.
Taking a step back, in the twelve mission crossings, there has never been a situation where the jump destination shifted and entered a strange time and space, until - when a monsoon rain was sent from above, Song Qinglan couldn't help but doubt it.
"Can you explain why you came to the bookstore, or how many times have you experienced our current situation?"
Ji Yushi suddenly understood: "Do you think I have something to do with that so-called Ouroboros?"
Song Qinglan: "That's right."
"I'll tell you if you let go!"
"Say it, and I'll let it go!"
Song Qinglan was a gangster in the first place, and even this team did not play cards according to common sense.
He couldn't let go if he didn't achieve his goal, not even a huge threat.
Ji Yushi put his face on the cold bookshelf: "It hurts."
Song Qinglan was startled, why did she still use such a trick?
"My hand hurts." Ji Yushi said again, as if begging, "Can you let go first?"
At that moment, Song Qinglan felt like she was bullying a weakling.
This is not in line with his usual style. Seeing that his face gradually turned pale during Ji Yu, he expected that he would not be able to escape from the palm of his hand anyway, so he let go.
Who knew that as soon as he let go, he was punched hard in the face.
The cheekbones are burning hot.
Song Qinglan was sullen, but when she saw Ji Yu, the ends of her eyes were red, obviously it was really painful, not pretending.
Ji Yushi beat up someone, but his expression was still very cold: "Song team, do you know that there is a disease in the world called hyperamnesia."