They came to a very strange place, a series of low buildings no more than two storeys, with their doors locked like storehouses, and on its periphery there was a barbed wire fence that could not be seen!

Yin Zhen looked at the barbed wire fence in front of him in surprise, it was so tall that you almost had to tilt your neck to see the top, and the mesh was so dense that it seemed that even a bird could not escape.

"What is this place?" He was stunned.

Lao Lu smiled: "Guess." ”

“…… The prison of the criminal department? ”

Lao Lu almost laughed: "Ah Zhen, you are too funny." This is the City Drug Rehabilitation Center. ”

"Uh, yes......" Yin Zhen hesitated, not daring to ask any more.

Lao Lu took him around the barbed wire fence until he walked to the entrance, he took out pliers, unscrewed the wire at the entrance, and then opened the door.

"Come in." He said to Yin Zhen, "Don't worry, the living have long run out." ”

It's a funny saying, if the living are gone, what's in it?

Yin Zhen didn't ask much, just followed Lao Lu inside. Every once in a while, the old man had to open an iron door and lock it again.

I kept going inside, and when I got to the innermost point, there was a storehouse-like room.

Before he could get to the front, Yin Zhen heard the familiar low panting, like a group of locked beasts. His face turned pale, and he had an ominous omen in his heart, so he had to stop and look at Lao Lu: "Do you want to go inside?" ”

"You just stay here, wait a while, I tell you to go in, you go in again."

After Lao Lu finished speaking, he put down the heavy cowhide bag on his back, then took out his gun, walked to the door of the warehouse, and unscrewed the chain wrapped around the deadbolt.

The door opened, and a foul smell poured out of the house!

Lao Lu walked into the darkness alone, and about five minutes later, Yin Zhen heard his voice: "Come in." ”

He took two steps forward to the door, and couldn't help but stop.

There was something wrong inside, Yin Zhen could feel it, some terrible things that made him creepy were hidden in this room, and he had already caught it from the breath wafting out of the house: it was the breath of death.

Lao Lu seemed to feel his fear, and he said in a calm tone: "It's okay, I'm here." ”

Shaking the crowbar on his shoulder, Yin Zhen took a deep breath and walked into the house.

The scene in front of him made Yin Zhen unforgettable for the rest of his life!

It was an empty room, eighty or ninety square meters in size, and Lao Lu was standing near the door, behind him...... It's a row of zombies!

Yin Zhen was shocked into a cold sweat!

"Hey, don't be afraid, they won't move." Lao Lu hurriedly comforted, "Look, it's all tethered." ”

After settling down, Yin Zhen took a closer look, yes, they were indeed tethered. I saw that those zombies were wearing metal collars around their necks, and iron chains were attached to the collars. I don't know what the house was made of, but the walls were lined with rows of hooks, and the other end of the chains was tied to them.

The chains weren't too long, and the zombies were immobilized by their necks, so they couldn't break free even if they stretched out their arms to grab the living at the door.

Yin Zhen, who was frightened, still didn't dare to move forward, he looked at the zombies in amazement: "This ...... Where did it all come from? ”

"I caught it." Lao Lu smiled, "Look, it's my 'special forces'." ”

Wiping the cold sweat on his forehead, Yin Zhen calmed down and looked at it carefully.

The zombies were fixed in good order, and they were divided into ten rows of six each. The tall, muscular ones are placed in the front, and the slightly shorter ones are placed in the back.

The bodies of the zombies were all smeared with Arabic numerals in white ash, like orderly prison clothes. Each of them looks strong.

"Come in, see better."

"Lao Lu, it's dangerous here......" Yin Zhen tried to dissuade him.

"It's not dangerous, they can't bite." Lao Lu pointed to the zombies in front of him, "Ah Zhen, take a closer look at their mouths." ”

Yin Zhen took a closer look, only to find that the teeth of these zombies were all gone!

"I knocked it out." Lao Lu said lightly, and then pointed to a particularly tall and strong zombie in front of him, "This one was the most dishonest at the beginning, so I smashed it off along with its mandible, as well as its hand." ”

Yin Zhen looked at the two-meter-tall zombie, indeed, its jaw part was gone, not only that, but its hands were gone, only its bare wrists were left.

"Where did the chains and collars come from?" Yin Zhen was more curious.

"I did it myself." Lao Lu walked to the door, lifted the cowhide bag, "Pick up scrap metal and build it yourself." ”

He crouched down and opened the bag, revealing that it was full of crimson meat.

"Vole meat, rabbit meat, hedgehogs and whatever." Lao Lu said, "If you don't feed them meat at all, they will lose their strength." Although he will not starve to death for the time being, he will be slow to move. ”

As he spoke, he picked up the iron hook, hooked up a piece of meat, and stuffed it into the big zombie's mouth. It has no teeth or jaws, and cannot chew (in fact, zombies don't need chewing either), so it swallows the piece of rat meat with a clatter.

Next, Yin Zhen watched Lao Lu distribute the meat in the bag to these zombies piece by piece. When the last piece was eaten, Lao Lu shook the bag and clapped his hands: "This month's salary is in place." ”

Then he walked to the door: "Okay, let's go out in the sun first." ”

Locking the door to the storeroom, the two of them stepped out of the barbed wire fence and into the sun. After being exposed to the scorching sun for a while, Yin Zhen still felt that there was still the smell in the warehouse, the cold and stinking "dead smell".

Until this moment, he still couldn't figure it out: "Lao Lu, what do you want to do?" ”

"It's just a little unwilling." The old man unscrewed a bottle of water, poured a few sips, and wiped the corners of his mouth, "I always feel that dogs can be trained, bears can be trained, and people can be trained, so why can't zombies be trained?" If you can train them to move, maybe it will be of great use. ”

When he said this, he smiled, looking a little embarrassed: "I have been in the army for too many years, and training recruits has become a habit. I always wanted to try. ”

"Can they really be trained?"

Lao Lu was silent for a moment and shook his head: "The effect is not satisfactory." I've been training these zombies for almost a year, and I still can't fully grasp the meaning. ”

The failure is obvious, Yin Zhen thought, zombies have no pain, no fear, and they have no desire except to eat people. Only by pursuing advantages and avoiding disadvantages can there be a choice, how can this kind of thing obey the command of human beings?

"Julia knows you're doing this?" He asked.

Lao Lu nodded: "She knows." However, she has always objected, saying that it is too dangerous. The last time I caught a zombie, I almost got bitten. She blamed me for being whimsical and doing the impossible. She even thinks that if I continue like this, I will be as mad as Shao Tianming. ”

"What do you mean?"

Lao Lu was silent, he looked up at the sky, the sycamore in the drug rehabilitation center was very thick, and the branches were dense, covering the top of their heads, and they could only see the blue sky from the crooked gaps in the green leaves.

Back then, he turned Lu Ling into a zombie, in order to prevent her from biting Yuanyuan, he knocked out her teeth, put on her daily clothes, tied her wrists with ropes, held her by his side every day, and talked to her...... Because the rope had been tied for too long, his right hand had rotted and fallen, so he tied it with adhesive tape again. ”

Yin Zhen couldn't help but shudder.

"When I saw that scene, I also thought that my son-in-law was crazy: he was holding a zombie there and saying gentle words, hoping that the zombie would give him a little response." Lao Lu said this, and smiled sarcastically, "It's a pity that his former wife is only interested in the meat on his body, and can't do anything other than open her mouth to bite him." ”

Yin Zhen hugged his knees tightly, lowered his head, and couldn't speak.

"Julia said, in fact, I hate myself for not being able to save my daughter, so I vent my anger on these zombies, and I want to use coercive means to order them to obey me." Lao Lu said this, paused, he nodded, "Maybe, she is right." ”

Yin Zhen looked back at him, looking at his old and tired, ravine-filled face, and more than half of his hair. Suddenly, a sour feeling surged in his heart.

"Lao Lu, don't think about your daughter's business." He said in a dumb voice, "It's a good thing that you ended her life in time, so that she wouldn't drag her body to live in the world." ”

Lao Lu opened his eyes and smiled bitterly: "As you said, I have my reason, but Shao Tianming also has his reason." He hated me for attacking Lu Ling, and if I killed that zombie, he could only burn and bury his wife, and he would never see her again. He hated me, and the child hated me too, and Yuanyuan said to me, 'Grandpa, why did you kill my mother?' She won't bite me! After that, my granddaughter refused to see me, and they regarded me as an enemy, and they would rather suffer with that bastard of Sjepan on the other side of the river than come and live with me. ”

"Lao Lu, you didn't do anything wrong!" Yin Zhen insisted.

Lao Lu nodded, and said in a hoarse voice: "I didn't do anything wrong, I followed what I thought was the right path, but in the end I ended up betraying my relatives." Thinking about the things of the world, that's about it. ”

After he finished speaking, he stood up and patted the soil on his body: "While it's still early, I'll show you the results of my training!" It's not satisfying, hehe, it's not that it's not without results! ”

It turned out that Lao Lu did a job that surprised Yin Zhen: he systematized the chaotic attack of zombies.

He selected five or six extraordinarily strong zombies, untied the chains around their necks, and replaced them with a long stick, so that the distance between him and the group of zombies was always two meters. In this way, the operator is able to direct their actions without approaching them.

Seeing Lao Lu flexibly grasping the stick and guiding those zombies, Yin Zhen wanted to praise out loud, but at this moment, Lao Lu suddenly grabbed the two-meter zombie's shoulder, jumped up, and jumped onto its shoulder!

Yin Zhen was so frightened that he almost screamed!

"Ah Zhen, look! Command like this! Lao Lu rode on the shoulders of the tall zombies and shouted, holding the stick in his hand, leaving the rest of the zombies without a leader, but seeing the five or six zombies moving neatly, he couldn't help but gather around them and act with them, Yin Zhen finally remembered that zombies have clusters and convergence.

This scene is indescribably weird and terrifying: I saw Lao Lu riding on the shoulder of the big zombie, carrying a large piece of bloody rabbit meat with a bamboo pole, commanding the strongest five or six zombies, letting them walk in front of him, and the remaining dozens of zombies, like obedient sheep, tightly surrounded the five or six zombies.

Just like a shepherd dog commanding a flock of sheep, these sixty zombies, under the command of Lao Lu, circled around the house one after another, endlessly, not feeling tired or resisting......