Chapter 45: The Corpses
Finally, the things in Jiangcheng were basically done, and the six of them drove the boat and went on the road quite relaxedly. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe Yangtze River is vast and steamy, especially in this rainy season. Lao Yuan is an optimistic character, seeing that the journey is so easy and freehand, the whole person is happy: "Ye Zi, we are blessed to follow you, you don't know that I was trapped in the studio at that time and thought I was dead, but you came to save me, you look at the fact that others are now trapped by this dead city, let's easily sit on the boat and leave, it's really comfortable." ”
Ye Quan was not so optimistic, although the resources and abilities of their team so far were much better than those of ordinary people struggling to survive in the streets and alleys of the city, it was not surprising that Lao Yuan felt good for a while. It's just that there are too many uncertainties in the end times, living people become zombies, animal mutations, supernatural people, and xenomorphic zombies that seem to have unknown tendencies, whether there will be more unimaginable things in the future, no one can say, before you have an insight into everything, it is better to be cautious.
There are many tributaries of the Yangtze River, and the six people have no experience in sailing, so it is easy to accidentally go to the wrong waterway, but fortunately, Tie Feilong let people install a navigation and positioning system for them, as long as they follow the route, it should not be a big problem. Another is the problem of fuel, this is simple, Tie Feilong is not stingy, the ship is basically full of oil drums...
At the beginning of July, the ship from Jiangcheng, according to the fastest speed to reach Fuling I am afraid it will take three to four days, this is already a good speed, if it is on land that is very sad, the car is basically useless, maybe the motorcycle will become a good choice, but the motorcycle can not carry many things, which means that the continuous supply along the way, so maybe one day will be the zombie group to make dumplings.
At this time, there is no busy ship traffic on the river in peacetime, it seems very empty, and this big ship that looks brand new is breaking the waves, it is very conspicuous, many survivors hiding in the buildings along the river, have revealed their figures, Ye Quan saw six or seven waves, some of them put smoke on the tall buildings, some put down the huge curtain from the window and wrote SOS in various colors, in the telescope, those people all climbed to the rooftop, waving their arms to the river patrol boat for help, they have men and women, dressed in rags, Looks like it's going badly.
None of the six people opened their mouths to save people, even Ye Quan could only silently put away the binoculars, and did not say anything about it, yes, they had weapons, food, and a boat, but in the face of thousands of zombies, they still seemed too small, if they wanted to act, they would undoubtedly be a mantis arm.
Lao Yuan didn't know if he was idle, he first wanted to shoot at the zombies scattered on the shore, saying that he wanted to practice marksmanship, Ye Quan didn't allow it, don't look at the zombies on the shore as if they were wandering around at will and didn't pay attention to them, but Ye Quan still found that since they set sail, there were only a few scattered zombies on the shore at first, but then the number was slowly increasing, Lao Yuan, a stupid musician, didn't think there was anything wrong, but even Li Mu could find that the zombies on both sides of the strait were starting to form groups, and there were at least three or four hundred that could be seen in the field of vision. And the survivors' call for help attracted more zombies that were originally far away from the riverbank.
The zombies were far away on the shore a hundred meters away, seemingly swaying, but from time to time they would turn their heads to look at a big ship on the river. If you keep an eye out, you'll be able to spot them moving west with the ship. The survivors saw that the ship had no intention of stopping, and after exerting their precious physical strength and shouting, they fell into despair, and then someone began to curse, and finally the ship was out of sight, and they could only sit on the ground and cry.
Some of the survivors ran out of the river as if they had found a life-saving straw, and they were about to jump into the river without hesitation, and then they lost nothing in this gamble, and the hordes of zombies surrounded them before they jumped into the river······ All of these people saw that they had no other way but to wait and see, and it was impossible for the ship to dock, and it would be too risky to do so.
The target of Ye Quan's ship is still not small, and the zombies are the most sensitive to things that can move, and it seems that the ship is also in trouble. Everyone is vigilant, only Lao Yuan is really too much, Ye Quan didn't let him let go of the gun, this guy simply didn't know how to get a deck chair and put it on the deck, and only a pair of pants were left on it: "We often fantasize about when we can drink wine like in the movie, sit on a yacht, and warblers and swallows by our side, that kind of life is very delicious, and today in the last days of the grass mud horse, I can also count my wish as fulfilled, hahaha, this patrol boat is more energetic than a small yacht, and the two beauties next to it are also many times more beautiful than the peripheral girls invited in the movie." , it's a pity, it's a pity, I didn't wear a bikini. ”
Qi Qiqi was checking the condition of the ship, and just arrived at Lao Yuan's side, and after hearing the fat man talking to himself and saying bikini, he quietly walked behind Lao Yuan and said with a sigh: "Do you want to see us wearing bikinis?" ”
Lao Yuan was immersed in boundless obscenity, and subconsciously said: "Of course, Li Mu, this girl is a water spirit, and the big breasts of the slot machine girl are even more heartfelt." ”
After finishing speaking, this guy realized that something was wrong, took off his sunglasses, and saw Qi Qiqi's smiling face, he didn't feel happy, but felt a trace of coldness from the smiling eyes.
Qi Qiqi kicked him off the recliner with just one kick, this kick really hurt Lao Yuan's flesh, but he couldn't say anything, Qi Qiqi stood in front of him and said: "Don't daydream next to the old lady, otherwise it won't be so easy next time..." ”
Simply speaking, Qi Qiqi didn't have any ill feelings towards Lao Yuan, but he saw that he was too slack, so he taught him a lesson with a little trick, if he was so relaxed, something would happen sooner or later.
The patrol boat went upstream, on both sides of the river are some towering buildings in Jiangcheng, it takes about an hour to completely leave Jiangcheng, and in this hour, the zombies are gathering more and more, and when they are about to leave Jiangcheng, there are already tens of thousands of people on both sides of the river following the boat.
The maximum speed of this boat is only 25 knots, this is still the situation of advection, and now the speed of light and water has the appearance of six or seven knots, so offset, the speed of the ship is only a little faster than the speed of the zombies, those zombies with the increase in number, from the beginning of the slow and leisurely state, immediately upgraded to a violent state, at this time you can see that they have run up with stiff steps, chasing Ye Quan on both sides of the river, their boats, due to the excessive number, the road along the river is not particularly wide, There are a lot of zombies that have fallen into the Yangtze River like dumplings in the pot, Ye Quan can still see from the telescope that after those zombies fell into the water, they waved their hands and feet vigorously, looking like they would never give up if they didn't get on the boat, and I didn't know if these damn guys would be drowned.
Six people went to the deck one after another, "observing" this incomparably spectacular side, tens of thousands of zombies, densely packed like two rolling torrents rushing on both sides of the river, Lao Yuan also understood the seriousness of the problem at this time, and he was nervous with a gun.
"Four minutes, it's been four minutes, you come and see, the zombie that fell into the water over there hasn't shown its head for four minutes, but he's still moving." Ye Quan pointed to a few zombies that had fallen into the water, put down the binoculars and said to everyone.
"You mean they don't need to breathe at all, and they're going to move like that in the water." Qi Qiqi asked.
"No, they still need to breathe, the energy they can move comes from nitrogen, they are like a plant, it's just that they are not like people, they die if they don't breathe, they can go a long time without breathing, maybe a few days. Pray they don't know how to swim, or we're in big trouble. Ye Quan explained.
Gradually, the boats have entered the waterway at the junction of urban and rural areas, there are no high-rise buildings on both sides, only some low houses, and the accompanying zombies Ye Quan does not know how many there are, anyway, they can't see the end of them for a few miles away with binoculars, they take a human ladder over the house, and follow the boats closely, completely covering the buildings along the river.
Judging from today's experience, Ye Quan can draw a conclusion that zombies have the ability to communicate with each other, in short, no matter what they can communicate specifically, they can call other companions anyway, and then form a larger and larger group of corpses.
Fortunately, it has now left the huge "cemetery" of Jiangcheng, otherwise if millions of corpses are formed, just building a human bridge can threaten the safety of the ship's navigation.
"Ye Zi, do you think we are single-handedly in an army of 100,000, we have never been so majestic in our lives." Lao Yuan picked up the 95-style palms and sweated, but he still pretended to be forced.
Others, like him, took up arms one after another to prevent the zombies from crossing the river. On both sides of the river, the corpses stretched for miles without their heads visible, and clusters of zombies gradually appeared on the bank in front of them, jumping directly into the river in front of them, and then struggling in the water.
"Grab your gun, maybe you'll have to fire later." Ye Quan had already seen some zombies struggling in the water for a long time, as if they had found something in their unconscious movements, and had begun to move their bodies regularly and swim over like dogs. At first, just one or two zombies did this, but soon the other zombies followed them and swam after them, and then the corpse brothers who were still on the river bank jumped into the water.
More than 100,000 people jumped into the water, Ye Quan was sure that no one in the world had ever seen it before. Xie Zhiming's face began to turn pale: "Damn, what the is this, it's so much trouble to walk by water." ”
"Don't panic, don't look at them fluttering and making a big splash, but the speed is very slow, what we have to worry about is the zombies coming from upstream, they follow the water, it is estimated that they will meet us, and the zombies downstream will not be able to catch up with us." Ye Quan lit a cigarette and took a deep breath.
Although what he said is true, there are far fewer zombies upstream than downstream, but there are thousands of them. The zombies that went down the river slowly approached, and although some of them were swept away by the current, many of them were still approaching the boat little by little.
On the front of the ship, you can see hundreds of zombies splashing up, and this scene is really terrifying.
"Hit the rudder to the left at 25 degrees and open full power, avoid them, and try not to open fire." Ye Quan said to Qi Ran, who was at the helm. They have tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition, but it is not enough to see in the face of such a group of corpses, especially among the six people, Ye Quan's marksmanship is good, and the others are not very easy to say.
The river patrol boat dodged clumsily in the river, and one by one the waves passed by, except for the helmsman, the other five people all set up their guns and guarded all directions of the boat. And from the high altitude, the dense white spots in the upstream river, that is, the waves stirred up by the zombie dog planing, are in full swing.