Chapter 58: Escape
There was an eerie silence in the courtyard, and as everyone stared in horror at the bloody patch, a "hissing" roar came from the corner under the eaves, and only an unknown creature could be vaguely seen hanging upside down on the eaves, blood dripping from its body.
The two men who were close to it stared at its red eyes, and let out a quick scream, and the guns in their hands involuntarily shot past. The unknown creature screamed angrily and jumped several times in quick succession, almost only seeing its afterimage. After the chaotic gunfire stopped, the unknown creature finally revealed its true face, a small zombie with a body length of only fifty or sixty centimeters, limbs covered with scales, a mouth of fangs, and blood-red eyes. It was the little zombie that Tang Moqi met in the ruins of the research institute.
The little zombie bared his teeth and glared at the crowd in front of him, the dozen or so panicked gun-wielding robbers had been frightened to the point of bloodlessness at this time, and they wanted to run out, but before they could retreat to the door, the little zombie had already jumped up and jumped on a man's neck, and when he went down, the man's neck was bitten to the bone, and the blood spurted out instantly, sprinkled on the white snow, and with warm steam.
As the man fell, the dozen or so people who ran forward suddenly trembled in their legs, and it was obvious that this zombie was attacking in a targeted manner.
The screams immediately resounded throughout the area, and everyone in the courtyard was also pale with fright, and the old man who had stopped people just now trembled his lips, looking at this group of clansmen who had gone through hardships all the way from the grassland, and said sadly: "Run, run as far as possible." β
Seventy or eighty people stared at him with wide eyes, and then seemed to react, and stumbled back to the house to pack their things, but after five minutes, the whole courtyard was empty, leaving only the old man alone and sitting in the courtyard.
Tang Jianfeng chased after Wei Yu as soon as the little zombie appeared, Tang Moqi and Chen Weiliang and others left before entering the courtyard, the old man didn't seem to see them, and he was distracted.
Tang Moqi walked over and squatted down and said, "Why are you carrying it?"
The old man seemed to react at this time, stared at him, and suddenly left tears in his cloudy eyes, choked up and said: "We can't help it, it found me, it found me by itself." β
Tang Moqi helped the old man up, puzzled: "It found you?
The old man suddenly cried out: "He is my grandson, my grandson......"
Tang Moqi frowned suddenly, Chen Weiliang was also stunned, and said, "Your grandson, do you still recognize it after all this?"
The old man wiped his face and said in a deep voice, "I didn't recognize it, but it was it...... It sues me on its own. β
"Sue you, you can't say that this monster can talk, right?" Chen Weiliang interrupted him in disbelief.
The old man shook his head and said, "He gave it to me, at that time we had been trapped in the snow for a month, people froze to death every day, and there were man-eating monsters everywhere, and everyone was desperate. One night I had a dream, very real, I dreamed of a small child, he said he was my grandson, waiting for me there. β
Tang Moqi's heart skipped a beat, and he motioned for the old man to continue.
"It wasn't far away, and the next day I searched for it in a trance, but I didn't realize that it wasn't a child at all, but the monster. β
"Since it's a monster, why do you still say it's your grandson?" Chen Weiliang was confused.
The old man wiped away his tears again and said, "At that time, I was also startled and was about to run, but my grandson opened his mouth......"
"No, didn't you just say that he couldn't speak?" Chen Weiliang obviously thought that the old man was making up a story, and interrupted him impatiently. Tang Moqi motioned for him to be calm, then nodded at the old man and motioned for him to continue.
The old man recalled the scene at that time, and his eyes were still full of horror, awe, and fanaticism, and he said in a trembling voice: "What he said directly in my head, you ...... Do you understand?" the old man swallowed, his eyes full of fear.
Tang Moqi clenched his fists and asked, "And then?"
The old man seemed to be caught in a memory, rubbed his hands, shrunk his neck and sighed, and said, "He sued me that his mother, who was also my daughter-in-law, was killed by the bad guys, and the bad guys took him out and tortured him. I didn't believe it at first, thinking he was a monster, but then I ...... Later......"
Chen Weiliang frowned and asked impatiently, "What happened later?"
"I hugged him back, firstly because I didn't dare to mess with him, and secondly, I wanted the old people in the clan to see what kind of monster it was, but I didn't expect it...... Unexpectedly, it was not small, holding him, those man-eating monsters ran away from afar, and they didn't dare to approach at all. Afterward...... Later, the clan kept him. β
"Leave it? You have such a zombie, aren't you looking for death?"
The old man shuddered for a moment, and said with a wry smile: "At first, it was quite normal, and with him, those man-eating monsters didn't dare to come, and everyone wanted to live, so ...... So ......"
"So you raised it?" Tang Moqi became more and more sure of the conjecture in his heart, this little zombie not only has an IQ, but also has an ability, according to this old man's statement, it is likely to be a spiritual ability, and in the previous life, the zombies with the ability were obviously the products of the fourth generation of the virus, but those zombies were still low-level monsters, and there had never been a zombie with an IQ.
The old man's tears came out again, his face was full of ice slag, and he cried and said, "Yes, I stayed, I left β‘β‘ annoying." We locked him in a cage, but the little thing soon became restless, and then we realized that the iron cage looked like him. It began to force us to move to Beijing, as long as anyone refused, he could gnaw anyone, and by the time everyone found out that they couldn't control him, it was already too late. β
"It's all my fault for being stupid, if I had killed him as soon as I saw him, I wouldn't have done so much evil. The old man went straight at the corpses in the yard
Wipe your tears.
"Then did it reveal why it came to the safe zone?" Tang Moqi stared at the old man with sharp eyes.
The old man nodded indifferently, revealing his wounded arm, and said, "Man, he wants human blood to make a living." β
Because of the little zombie, Tang Moqi and Chen Weiliang went straight to the place where the riot was in the safe zone after figuring out the situation of the little zombie. At this time it was already dawn, guns
The sound and screams were connected in a certain direction, and Tang Moqi rushed over at full speed.
When Tang Moqi arrived, he was stabbed by the abrupt ice wall in front of him, and that familiar feeling came to his face, this was the breath of the ability.
Sure enough, when he turned over the ice wall, he saw a man standing on an ice platform, shooting ice picks at the little zombies that were jumping around trying to hide.
Tang Jianfeng also blocked the little zombie in the other direction, the light blue flame in his hand was unleashed in front of everyone for the first time, and as the flame in his hand kept throwing out, pieces of snow evaporated instantly, revealing a dry gray-black cement floor. You can feel the tremendous heat of the flame from a distance.
Tang Moqi knew that the third evolution of the virus had fully begun, and the supernatural abilities in the human race would also usher in a big explosion.
The little zombie screamed, glaring at Tang Jianfeng unwillingly, obviously recognizing that Tang Jianfeng was the one who injured him in the ruins of the research institute, and fear flashed in his blood-red eyes.
Tang Jianfeng didn't remember the little zombie, but he heard Tang Moqi say it, and he also realized the difference between it and ordinary zombies from its eyes, and his subordinates were ruthless, and every move was to die.
The little zombie learned to be smart after suffering a few losses, it began to avoid Tang Jianfeng, and attacked the ability standing on the ice wall, the ability has just awakened the ability, and it is not easy to persist for so long, and the pressure of the little zombie has increased greatly after coming, and it is immediately overstretched.
Tang Moqi's eyes had been staring at it, and when he saw it coming this way, he immediately aimed the gun he had prepared at it a long time ago, and shot three shots in a row, but it still did not reduce the speed of the zombie at all. It only made it angrier.
While the battle was raging here, a shrill alarm suddenly sounded in the security zone, and the crowd began to run and shout, and the zombies surrounded the city!
Tang Moqi's hands trembled, squinting his eyes and staring at the little zombies, remembering where the old man said that the little zombies were, those zombies never dared to approach. And now that the zombies are besieging the city without warning, Tang Moqi has to associate this with the little zombies.
Taking advantage of the moment when the ice ability was stunned, the little zombie let a sharp roar penetrate the air, and it spread far away, everyone only felt dizzy in their brains, and when people looked at it again, the little zombie had already drilled a hole in the ice wall and ran, and at the last moment, Tang Jianfeng threw a huge flame over, only to hear a terrible scream farther and farther away.
Tang Moqi ran over and hugged Tang Jianfeng, the last big move consumed all his physical energy, and he felt his legs weak when he stood up.
The sound of artillery fire from the city wall proved that a large number of zombies had been summoned, Tang Moqi didn't have time to think about it, he took Tang Jianfeng to a secret place, and said to Wei Yu and Chen Weiliang: "You two go to find that old Mongolian man, watch him and don't let him run away, and go back to inform everyone, ready to retreat at any time." β
"Retreat?" Wei Yu was puzzled, shouldn't it be this kind of Cheng dΓΉ?
Tang Moqi nodded indiscriminately and said, "It's very bad, you go find that old man first." β
Tang Moqi suddenly thought of a suspicious point at that moment just now, the old man exposed the wound on his arm to show that he had been feeding the little zombies with blood, but the parasitic principle of the virus is to plunder the organism, so as to reproduce and replicate itself on the host, which is the instinct of life. And the blood that leaves the organism has no breath of life at all, and is not attractive to the organism parasitized by the virus. No matter how smart that zombie is, it is a zombie, and it is impossible to overcome this nature.
Then that old man's blood must have other uses, and it is likely to be the key to their safe relationship with that little zombie!