Chapter 17: Tragedy
When several people returned to the fourth floor, they saw Zhang Hao, the leader of the rescue team, half-hugging a girl and whispering comfort. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info The girl looked bookish, and she was leaning on Zhang Hao's arms, her eyes were red and she was talking about something. Zhang Hao saw them coming back, and pulled his girlfriend forward to say hello: "Are you coming down?" I thought I heard a scream just now, was it from you? Are you all right? Got a zombie? ”
Qin Qin scratched her head a little embarrassed and said, "Uh, that, it's nothing, it's just a sneak attack, but we're all fine." ”
Zhang Hao obviously just casually greeted him, and did not delve into it, if he was really worried, he would have sent someone to check it out a long time ago. He glanced at his girlfriend and said a little embarrassed, "I'm sorry, we have to wait a little longer before we can leave." Li Jiajia," Zhang Hao pointed to the girl next to him, "My girlfriend." She said that her best friend lives on the sixth floor, and we have to go and rescue her first, so you guys are waiting here? ”
Qin Qin looked at her boyfriend and found that he still had no intention of taking the initiative to speak, and Yang Lan and Lu Letian also had indifferent expressions, so they had to make their own decisions: "Brother Zhang, you're welcome, we're not in a hurry to go, let's just go up with you, there are many people and great power, anyway, it won't be delayed for long." ”
Zhang Hao is very satisfied with the acquaintance of these people, although there is no shortage of those two combat forces (the previous attacks were due to the relatively small number of zombies, and the two girls did not shoot), but the relationship is like this. The other party was able to give him the face of the temporary captain and took the initiative to ask to go together, which made him feel a little more good about these people.
Because the fourth floor had been cleaned up, it was estimated that there would be no danger in a short time, so Zhang Hao arranged for the two girls who were obviously about to be frightened and the two boys who were in charge of moving things to stay where they were and wait for them to come back, and another boy with a weapon was left to deal with emergencies.
When the group walked across the fifth floor, Li Jiajia suddenly gasped, and then immediately twisted her face away, covered her mouth tightly, and looked like she couldn't help but vomit. Zhang Hao looked at the mess and said in shock: "Oh my God, you actually met two zombies at the staircase?" That's bad luck. Hey? What are you doing with zombie heads so badly? Actually, no, you can kill zombies by smashing your head. ”
As soon as Lu Letian wanted to speak, she was grabbed by Yang Lan, and she whispered in the little fat man's ear: "Don't talk too much, let Beichen explain." ”
When Zhou Beichen heard this question, he also squeezed Qin Qin's hand very covertly, signaling her not to speak casually. He was able to take the initiative to expose the existence of the crystal nucleus to Lu Letian, mostly because he saw that the little fat man was very arrogant, and even if he fooled him and said that he was guessing, he would not think much about it. And after all, the little fat man joined their team, and it didn't matter if he confiscated the little fat man directly after picking up the crystal nucleus.
And Zhang Hao is different, there are too many of them, if you tell the other party about the crystal nucleus directly, I am afraid that someone on the other party will think more about the source of this information. And the two teams fight zombies together, and the crystal nucleus is not easy to score. To be honest, considering that the current crystal nucleus drop rate is not high, there is really no need to risk it for those one or two. Zhou Beichen had taken these into account before, so he didn't check whether the zombies killed by the two teams had crystal nuclei.
Zhou Beichen thought about it for a while, and decided to remind Zhang Hao, after all, not being able to directly say that it doesn't mean that you can't make a guess, so the suspicion caused by this will be much smaller, after all, it is also common to write zombie novels now. "Isn't it for safety? We're afraid that if the light smashes the head, the zombie will come back to life after a while, and it will be endless. I don't believe that if I smash their brains, I can cheat them again. And my girlfriend said that in the post-apocalyptic novels I read before, zombies have crystal nuclei, and I also want to try it, but it doesn't seem to be. ”
Zhang Hao laughed after listening to Zhou Beichen's explanation: "Dude, you were also fooled?" My brother, Arwen," he gestured to a boy next to him, "He also loves to read novels, and he swears that zombies need to destroy their brains before they can die, and that they all have crystal nuclei in their brains, and they can get abilities if they eat them." The first one is accurate, and the last two are too nonsense. We've been laughing at him for a long time, but I didn't expect your girlfriend to believe this? ”
As soon as he finished saying this, the boy Zhang Hao pointed at muttered dissatisfiedly: "That's because Brother Zhang, you checked the two zombies, if you look for more, maybe you can find the crystal nucleus?" ”
Zhou Beichen and the two girls, who knew the inside story, were embarrassed with a smile on their faces, among these college students who have many people who like to read online novels, crystal nucleus is really a concept that is not difficult to explain, but why do so many people want to eat crystal nucleus?
Lu Letian, who was holding the snakeskin bag and followed last, was happy, walked two steps quickly to catch up with the boy, bumped his shoulder, and said, "Hey, brother, what's the name of the novel you read?" I'm also looking at the ability to awaken if you eat the crystal nucleus, do you believe that? If there is a crystal nucleus, do you dare to try it? ”
The boy was a little embarrassed by his self-acquaintance, but since they had the same hobbies, he didn't mind sharing his reading experience with the little fat man. Of course, he's not stupid, the first person to eat crabs is still left to other heroes, he just wants to be a trick who can live a few more episodes.
Everyone bypassed the broken zombies lying on the stairs, and when they reached the sixth floor, they were guided by Li Jiajia and came to the door of a half-open dormitory. There were some blood stains on the ground in the corridor near the door, which made Li Jiajia's face very ugly. She couldn't help but want to step forward to check, but her boyfriend grabbed her. Zhang Hao called the two boys together, cautiously pushed open the door, and after making sure that there was no one, he withdrew and said to Li Jiajia: "There is no one inside." Has your girlfriend run away? ”
Li Jiajia hurriedly shook her head and said, "Impossible, I will call Xiao Nan after you called me last night to tell me that something happened." After that, I didn't dare to fight anymore for fear that my voice would attract the attention of the zombies. However, Xiao Nan was very timid, and she didn't dare to run out by herself. The door was open, and she must have had an accident. After Li Jiajia finished talking about her guess, she stomped her feet anxiously.
Zhang Hao was helpless, so he had to continue to comfort: "Then maybe her roommate came back and rescued her by the way?" ”
Li Jiajia still shook her head, "No, if she leaves, at least she will tell me." Yes! Li Jiajia's face suddenly changed, and she exclaimed, she grabbed her boyfriend's arm tightly with trembling hands. I remember! Xiao Nan told me on the phone that one of her roommates was sick, and she came back to the dormitory to bring food to her roommate. Xiao Nan, Xiao Nan, her roommate, has she become a zombie? Xiao Nan, she ......"
Hearing this, the faces of the rest of the people were also ugly. Although I don't know this Xiao Nan, it is really unbearable to think of a poor little girl who died in the mouth of a zombie because she brought food to her roommate.
Zhang Hao patted his girlfriend's hand and wondered: "Probably not, there doesn't seem to be any blood in the dormitory?" These outside can't be said to be Xiao Nan's bloodstains, maybe they were left by other zombies. Why don't we go in and check it out? ”
In silence, the door next door was gently pushed open a crack, and then a girl with big dark circles walked out, patting her chest and letting out a long sigh of joy. "Hello, I heard you in the dorm room just now. Are you looking for Xiao Nan? ”
Li Jiajia looked overjoyed, and immediately asked, "You know?" Where is Xiao Nan? Is she okay? ”
The girl shook her head gloomily: "Alas, Xiao Nan, she's too unlucky." Yesterday I went back to the dormitory after dinner, and suddenly I received a call from my roommate, telling me that there was a big mess outside, and many people had become man-eating monsters. I thought they were joking, after all, it was Halloween yesterday, maybe someone was making up and playing tricks. But as soon as I put down the phone, I heard a scream outside, which came from Xiao Nan's dormitory. ”
The girl swallowed and spit, with a frightened expression, and continued: "I was startled, and hurriedly leaned on the door to listen to the movement outside, but I could only hear intermittent cries of pain and pleading. I didn't dare open the door, so I climbed into the bed next to the door and looked out through the window. As a result, I saw Xiao Nan running out with her bloody neck covered, her roommate chasing after her in pajamas, her mouth full of blood. I was almost scared to death, I didn't dare to close my eyes last night, for fear that a man-eating monster would come out of nowhere. ”
Before the girl could finish speaking, Li Jiajia's tears had crackled to the ground, she whispered Xiao Nan's name, and said that she regretted not letting Xiao Nan come directly to her dormitory to hide, she hurt Xiao Nan.
Zhang Hao patted her on the shoulder, sighed and said, "I can't hide from what I should have come." At that time, there were already many people who had become zombies, and Xiao Nan was unarmed, so he might not be able to run to your dormitory. Don't you remember the corpse on the fourth floor? When we went, there were four zombies roaming around, gnawing a large number of living people all night to the point where they could see the bones. Xiao Nan might be even worse if she ran down. ”
Qin Qin, who was listening quietly, suddenly pulled the girl next door and asked in a low voice: "You said that Xiao Nan's roommate was wearing pajamas, so do you remember what color it is?" ”
The girl recalled for a while, and said hesitantly, "I can't tell if it's light pink or light orange." The hallway was not well lit, so I couldn't see it clearly. ”
Yang Lan interjected on the side: "That should be pink, right?" Orange pajamas are quite rare, the lights in our hallway are all yellow, and the pink clothes look a bit like orange in the yellow light. Xiaoqin, why are you asking this? ”
Qin Qin didn't answer Yang Lan's question, and continued to ask: "Then isn't she too tall?" And it's long hair, right? ”
The girl nodded, a little curious: "How do you know?" Have you seen her? ”
Qin Qin shook her head slightly, walked up to Li Jiajia, who was sobbing quietly, and said, "Don't cry, although I don't know what happened to Xiao Nan, but the zombie on the stairs on the fifth floor should be Xiao Nan's roommate, she is dead, and it can be regarded as a loss for Xiao Nan's life." If you want to open some, maybe Xiao Nan really escaped alive? ”
Li Jiajia looked at Qin Qin with teary eyes, and asked cautiously, "Really?" Actually, I don't want to take revenge, she is Xiao Nan's roommate after all. As long as Xiao Nan can escape safely, it is enough. ”
Qin Qin nodded and said affirmatively: "Anyway, didn't we see Xiao Nan's corpse or the zombie she became in the dormitory building?" Then maybe she escaped. ”
Zhang Hao watched his girlfriend slowly stop crying under Qin Qin's comfort, let out a sigh, and handed Zhou Beichen a grateful look.
Zhou Beichen smiled back, but he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Qinqin still thought too simply, they didn't find Xiao Nan's body, but wasn't there a corpse on the fourth floor that had been gnawed beyond recognition and almost only white bones remained? He still remembered that in his previous life, he used that poor corpse to lure away the zombies blocking Qin Qin's door. Xiao Nan was probably bitten on the neck by her roommate, and in a panic, she wanted to escape to the fourth floor to find Li Jiajia to save her life, but she didn't expect to be caught by a few wandering zombies. Because if Xiao Nan's neck or head is seriously injured within half an hour, then she will lose the possibility of becoming a zombie and be eaten clean.
Of course, these were just his conjectures, and even if he could confirm it, he didn't want to say it and make Qin Qin sad to hear it. Such a tragedy is enough to be buried in the depths of my memory, and there is really no need to say it to add a little more sadness.