Chapter 33: Dark Shadows

In the ward, Chen Yaofei and Xie Changge looked at me and waited for my answer. I couldn't keep up with the train of thought of the two of them, probably because I didn't have many brain cells in the first place.

"So, we finally came down from the twentieth floor, and then after the darkness, I came down from the twentieth floor, and now you want me to go back to the twentieth floor?"

"It's not 20 floors, it's 19 floors," Chen said, "The 19th floor of Building 3 is the neurosurgery ward, and the neurosurgeon's office is also on the 19th floor. ”

Neurosurgery, neurology, I'm already messed up anyway.

"But how can you guarantee that after we reached the nineteenth floor, the neurosurgeon's office didn't move like Du Ming's office due to the change in the ward?"

"We can't guarantee it," Xie Changge said, "but it's not an option to stay in my hospital room anymore." I'm thinking that the reason why Chen Peihua can't stay in the same ward for a long time may not only be because there will be a modified corpse attack. Once there is a second time, there is a second time and there is a third time. ”

"The first time?" Xie Changge said about Chen Yaofei's madness. Did he go crazy twice?

"Have you forgotten that when you were trapped in that ward on the twentieth floor, didn't you scold me as viciously as you always did?

Ah, it seems like that's the case. Now that I think about it, what came out of my mouth at that time was not what I really thought in my heart.

"I've forgotten. Oops, let the past pass. ”

Xie Changge lowered his head and muttered: "If Chen Peihua is not only worried about transforming the corpse, but being in the sick room, people's behavior will be abnormal......"

"That is, the longer we stay in this ward, the more likely we are to go crazy. ”

Xie Changge said: "After all, it is in a sick building full of walking corpses, the space is small and the atmosphere is dark, and the suppressed emotions in people's hearts will inevitably explode and transform into negative emotions such as anger and resentment, destroying people's spirits to the point of collapse. ”

"Wait a minute, didn't Chen Yaofei say that he heard something, but I didn't hear anything. And," I pointed at Xie Changge and said, "You've been in this ward much longer than we have, why haven't you gone crazy?"

Xie Changge shook his head and said, "I don't know either." ”

Xie Changge stood up and said to me and Chen Yaofei, "In short, let's not stay here anymore. The road to the neurosurgeon's office was difficult, and our travel was made even more difficult due to the frequent changes in the wards. We don't have many options, though. Instead of sitting back and waiting, let's take the initiative and get things in order to get ready for the upside. ”

After entering the society, I have experienced many things that were promising at first and then turned into despair. I didn't talk to the two of you about those desperate experiences, because we need a little hope right now.

I looked at Du Ming and Xia Li in the photo, and whispered, "Both, you have to bless us." Thinking that Du Ming might still be alive, I was embarrassed to correct: "Doctor Xia Li, I heard Xie Changge say that you are a good doctor. I know you have a lot of grievances, but I beg you to bless us with a safe ride to your office. ”

"Yi Jiahe, it's time to tidy up your things. Xie Changge hung his left arm. I don't know if he hurts - it must be painful, but Xie Changge endured the pain and didn't say anything. His forehead was covered with sweat, but even so, he did his part and sorted out the belongings for the trip.

After sorting out the items, Xie Changge said to us: "It's unknown whether we can come back on this trip. I have my key card with me. If anything goes wrong, the rest of the people must come back here with their key card. The ward is no longer safe, but the safe time is still there. Yi Jiahe said that he had only seen Xia Li alone in the surface space, so the surface space may not be full of corpses. When that time comes, the rest of the people must protect themselves and try to survive. ”

"Xie Changge," Chen Yaofei said with a smirk, "How do I feel like you're saying your last words?"

And a strange last word. I echoed Chen Yaofei and said.

"As you said, the world is unpredictable, and we have to prepare for the worst. Xie Changge said to me.

"The worst plan is to be unlucky together, how can there be anyone left. If there is anyone left, it must not be me. I didn't want to escape alone, nor did I want to be left alone. ”

Chen Yaofei touched the back of his head and said to me: "Yi Jia and your last words are even stranger than Xie Changge's last words. ”

I hit my head on Chen Yaofei's head and said to him, "Stupid, I don't want to die yet, your last words." ”

Three people, a backpack, a satchel, and a briefcase. In the action plan, I was in charge of material transportation, Chen Yaofei was in charge of the forward response to the enemy, and Xie Changge was in charge of operational command. I had a backpack and plenty of necessary supplies. Xie Changge was holding a satchel, allowing him to use his right hand to take the tools in the bag to deal with emergencies. Chen Yaofei was holding a briefcase. Ge Yingming's briefcase can store a large number of corpse-proof equipment, but now Chen Yaofei does not have many utensils in his briefcase, because Chen Yaofei's arm is injured and he can't carry the heavy briefcase. Originally, I wanted to be a striker, but I was rejected by Xie Changge and Chen Yaofei on the grounds that my combat effectiveness was not high, and to put it bluntly, they just thought I was useless.

"Two little ghosts, I'm twenty-eight years old, I'm an adult. The small ones looked down on the big ones, and it was really the back waves of the Yangtze River pushing the front waves, and the uncle was stunned on the beach. ”

Opening the door of the ward, Chen Yaofei went out first. There are no zombies in the aisles, and such a scene will lead us to the illusion that we have entered the surface space. Turning the corner, we saw the white-eyed zombie at the end of the passage in the distance, and we moved forward softly. Just then, a rotting corpse with a "uh-ah" cry appeared in front of us. Instead of spotting us, it switched direction towards the White-Eyed Zombie. Hearing the voice, the white-eyed zombie shifted to our side. I've always had a question: how do zombies distinguish their own kind? The rotting corpse moved slowly, and instead of roaring and rushing towards it, the white-eyed zombie stood still and looked at it. Sometimes it can be bad to wear a good pair of glasses, like now, I always think that the white-eyed zombies are looking at us. The rotting corpse crashes into the white-eyed zombie and then leaves our field of vision. The white-eyed zombie turned around, and we took advantage of the moment to walk softly and slowly to the elevator.

The staircase crossing door is unlocked and open. The elevators are operating normally, staying on the 1st, 1st, 20th floors and our floor. On our floor was elevator No. 1, not elevator No. 2 next door to the one I had taken before. It always felt like the elevator was luring us in, and in the end the three of us didn't choose to take the elevator but took the stairs.

Take the stairs to the nineteenth floor, and we didn't meet any zombies on the stairs. The lights are not bright enough, but there are no dark areas, and there are no black-eyed zombies lurking in the darkness. Unfortunately the door at the staircase crossing on the nineteenth floor was locked and we couldn't get in. We tried to smash the door with an iron tool to no avail, and we thought about taking the elevator to the 19th floor on the upper or lower floors, but the staircase openings on the upper and lower floors were locked.

The seventeenth floor is the otolaryngology ward, and my head is chaotic and I don't want to remember anything or anything. The elevator reached this floor but did not open for a long time, so we decided to go up the stairs in the east area of this floor. Entering the hallway, we saw a large group of rotting corpses trapped at the end of the hallway. It wasn't people who trapped them, but iron beds across the walkway. Thinking that the rotting corpse was really stupid, I followed the two people in front of me on a detour.

When we entered the staircase in the East District, all three of us were taken aback: on the half-floor between the seventeenth and eighteenth floors, Chen Peihua, who had turned into a zombie, was screaming "uh-ah" and hitting the wall over and over again. I have forgotten how long it has been since I witnessed Chen Peihua turn into a zombie and then be attacked by Ge Yingming. Originally, there were mobile phone clocks and radio broadcasts, but now mobile phone clocks do not display time, and radio does not tell the time on the hour, and since then time seems to be a strange thing to us.

"Let's go. "Xie Changge was the first of the three of us to start taking action.

Aware of the presence of the three of us, Ah Hua turned to face us. Her right eye is gone, and the remaining left eye seems to be falling off at any moment, which shocks us. Hurried around the slow-moving Chen Peihua, I glanced back at her as I walked up the stairs. She raised her arms to me and screamed "uh-ahhh With mixed feelings, I turned around and continued on my ascent.

The door of the 18th floor east staircase crossing is locked, and the door of the 19th floor east staircase crossing is locked. The door to the staircase crossing on the twenty-first floor opened, but the walkway on the twenty-first floor was pitch black. Xie Changge said that we couldn't go to the 21st floor: "I only took the elevator to the 21st floor once, and the lights there were broken, and it was completely dark and impossible to see. Later, I ventured up on the connecting passage to look up at the floor above twenty floors, where there were no lights, it was completely dark. "Caught between a rock and a hard place, after a short period of thought, we decided to go back to the twentieth floor.

Compared to before, there are more dark areas on the twentieth floor now, more than I remembered. Approaching the dark area, we can barely see something moving inside, and from time to time there is a sound of "ha, ha, ha", like a hunter exhaling excitedly when he sees his prey, which convinces us that the black-eyed zombie is among them. Fortunately, the road to the elevator is not completely dark, and the lights are still quite bright, and the black-eyed zombies dare not act rashly.

Passing through the room of the neurologist's office, we found that it had not disappeared. However, the door was locked and we couldn't enter. Not only that, but this room is next to a ward, but we have the impression that there is a studio next door to the neurologist's office, and now the wards are next door, and the space of the studio is gone, as if that studio is gone.

"I don't care about the disappearance of the studio. If the ward changes, the dark area expands, and we are embattled. I said to Xie Changge, who was thinking.

Three people worked, and we left the neurologist's office and headed for the elevator.

"Squeak", a voice came from behind. The three of us looked back and saw that it was dark in front of the neurologist's office where we had been standing. The sound came from the darkness, not far from us - it was supposed to be the sound of the door of the neurologist's office opening. I wondered: Did someone come out of the neurologist's office?

"Are you living?"

Clear words, is it a survivor? No, the other party will become food for black-eyed zombies in the dark.

A flash of inspiration flashed in his head, and the warning got stuck in his throat. I asked myself, "Where do I think I've heard this voice......?"

"Something is wrong. Xie Changge looked at the people in the dark and said to us.

"Are you alive?" said the other in a clear voice.

Chen Yaofei stood in front of us and made a combat posture and asked us, "Should we answer him?"

"Hey, I ask you, are you alive?" Damn, I can't remember. Where exactly have I heard it?

"Ah, it's you. "The man in the dark talks to himself. Or is he talking to whom?" "It's really you," listening to the other party's voice, the other party seemed to be happy, "Oops, I thought you were infected with the death virus by zombies, but I didn't expect you to live until now, it's amazing." ”

Let me think again. When and where did I hear this voice......? It seems like it's been a while. The location is in this ward. The tone is relaxed, as if there is no anxiety in the face of a big event. A slightly frivolous attitude of speaking, the content of the words in the self-talking style, this person ......

Like lightning streaked across the night sky, the thunder was deafening, and I felt an indescribable fear. At the same moment when I thought of this person, the other party said, "Yi Jia and classmates, you still owe me a living human skin." ”

The monster in the darkness appeared: a pitch-black body, black from head to toe, as if he were a black man drawn by a mischievous child, leaving a silhouette of his body, which was almost a black shadow. It held something in its hand, and I didn't see it for what it really was until it was completely out of the darkness.

"Ge Yingming?"

The pitch-black monster heard my cry as light as a mosquito, grabbed Ge Yingming's hair and lifted it up, and pointed at Ge Yingming, who didn't know whether he was dead or alive, with its pitch-black finger, and said to us: "He, yes, it's Ge Yingming." ”

I want to ask the other party what happened to Ge Yingming. As if hearing my heart, the dark monster replied to me: "Lao Ge lost his conscience and was caught by my little friend." Fortunately, I arrived in time, otherwise Lao Ge would have been squeezed out by my little friend. Isn't that right, old Ge?" the pitch-black monster shook Ge Yingming hard. Ge Yingming, whose head was broken and bleeding and his face was miserable, did not respond, probably he had no skills to recover.

"Ah, there are three of you," said the pitch-black monster, raising its head to us, "one looks pretty good, but ...... Well, you can try it too. Yi Jia and classmates, I will not treat you badly. And ......" The dark monster's attention seemed to be focused on Xie Changge, and he paused for a long time before speaking: "Xie ...... Long song?"

The pitch-black monster once used Xie Changge's face to trick us and bring us here. At that time, I thought that Xie Changge had died here, but I didn't expect that Chen Yaofei and I would be able to meet Xie Changge. It's just that in this way, isn't it strange that the pitch-black monster said about "living human skin"?

"Aha......" When I was thinking, the monster suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed and startled me, "It's Xie Changge, it's Xie Changge." Amazing, amazing!"

The monster's laughter came to an abrupt end. He faced us, raised his arm and scratched at us. Just when I thought that the pitch-black monster wanted to do something wrong to us, it said excitedly, "Xie Changge, I want to make your body into a super body like him." ”

"Come," the dark monster approached us, "come, be my companion, and I will give you the best and best flesh!"

Without saying a word, the three of us quickly turned around and ran towards the elevator. The elevator broke down, but the stair crossing door was not locked.

"Ding-", four sounds in succession, and four elevators opened at the same time. We held our breath and slowly retreated softly towards the stairs.

"Don't go, stay with me again. "A black shadow appeared on our side, lifting Ge Yingming and throwing it over.

"Bang", Ge Yingming landed. As if because of the impact, he woke up on his back and said to us with his crumpled mouth, "Help...... I ......"

Looking up, the white-eyed zombies in the elevator on the opposite side all turned their attention to us. The same is true on the other side, and certainly on the side.

"Whew-"

White-eyed zombies swarmed in, and the three of us immediately rushed out of the staircase door. Chen Yaofei was the last person to come out. As soon as he came out, he closed the door to fend off the white-eyed zombies.

"Torch!" Xie Changge meant to let me make a simple torch.

"Quick...... "......Chen Yaofei tried his best, but the white-eyed zombies were numerous and powerful, and it took less than half a minute for them to break through the staircase crossing door.

Quickly completing the improvised torch, the staircase suddenly went dark. With the light shining through the clear glass window on the door of the staircase crossing, I lit the torch.

"Click-" A black-eyed zombie who climbed onto the handrail of the stairs howled and stepped back. Only then did I realize that there were already three black-eyed zombies in the darkness.

A black-eyed zombie pounced on Xie Changge and was dodged by Xie Changge. Xie Changge, who reacted quickly, endured the pain of a broken arm, pulled out a wrench from his satchel and gave a backhand blow to the black-eyed zombie. The black-eyed zombie was knocked to the ground. Xie Changge took advantage of the victory to chase and swung a blow at the head of the black-eyed zombie.

Yi Jiahe ...... Hurry up......"

I brought the torch close to the door of the staircase, and Chen Yaofei, who knew about it, slowly reduced its strength. There was a crack in the door of the staircase, and the hands of the white-eyed zombies reached in, but they retracted because of the torches. With a good idea, I used a torch to burn a white-eyed zombie who hadn't retracted his hand. The flames scurried to the white-eyed zombie and devoured it. The fire at the city gate affected the fish pond, and the white-eyed zombies near it were implicated.

The white-eyed zombie at the door retreated. Chen Yaofei could have relaxed, but he pulled out the stick in his briefcase and threw it at the black-eyed zombie who was close to me.

"Let's go, take the opportunity to go to the nineteenth floor!" Xie Changge commanded.

We went downstairs. The door to the staircase crossing on the nineteenth floor also opened. Rushing into the neurosurgery ward, we headed straight for the neurosurgeon's office.

"Cluck, cluck......"

Four red-eyed zombies appeared on the ceiling, two of them flashed past us, and two jumped in front of us to stop us from advancing. The enemy is caught in front and back, and only one fight can get the way.

"I'm so sorry. ”

The voice of a dark shadow came from behind the red-eyed zombie. At the same time, the red-eyed zombie is like playing a game of wooden people, and its posture remains unchanged and motionless. Driven by curiosity, I approached a red-eyed zombie slightly.

"Ahh

When it was too late, the other three red-eyed zombies pounced on the red-eyed zombie in front of me, pounced on it, and began to bite at its bony body. The picture is terrible. I couldn't be happy to get my life, but I couldn't help but feel sick.

"I'm so sorry. Zombies, you know. Infected with the death virus, a fool is a fool after all, and he can't raise his IQ. So, I'm going to find good human beings to do the ultimate flesh. Ah, it was an accident. Who made you run so fast, I was so scared that I hurriedly mobilized the white-eyed zombies to chase you, and almost killed you. I said you too, why run away if you have nothing to do, and I won't bite you. After the pitch-black monster finished speaking, only the sound of zombies gnawing on the zombies behind the nineteenth floor remained.

"Yi Jiahe," Xie Changge, who was standing, whispered to me, "Slowly get up, hide behind us and see if the door over there can be opened." ”

The door Xie Changge was talking about was the door of the neurosurgeon's office.

"Oh, why do you still want to run away, it's really dead, but I like it. ”

Sensing something, I turned to the red-eyed zombie. They stop biting at their already messy kind and turn their eyes to us.

"Open the door!"

Xie Changge roared, and I immediately got up to open the door, and he and Chen Yaofei lifted the anti-corpse equipment to fight against the red-eyed zombies that rushed over.

Rotate the doorknob and the door opens. The room was pitch black, and nothing was visible.

"The door is open!" The moment I told the two of them, a third red-eyed zombie pounced on me. I dodged with a nervous reflex, and the red-eyed zombie jumped through the door.

"Come in!" Before I could tell me what was going on inside, Chen Yaofei and Xie Changge, who had dodged the two red-eyed zombies, pulled me in the door and slammed the door.

My heart was pounding, and I imagined the red-eyed zombies pounce on us and bite us to pieces.

"If the room is of the same structure, I remember that the electric light is here......" As soon as Xie Changge's voice fell, there was a "snap", and the light turned on, but the red-eyed zombie was not in the room.

Flawless white walls, neat desks, clean floors. Compared to the outside, this is a paradise on earth.

"Is the time up?, are we back in the watchspace?" asked Chen Yaofei.

I found that the red-eyed zombie that jumped in was not there, and my brain was already stuck.

"What the hell, what's going on?" Xie Changge didn't know what was going on.

The three of us silently looked at the neurosurgeon's office, rummaging through here and there.

"Ah, this is Natsuri's desk. Hearing Chen Yaofei's words, Xie Changge and I immediately stepped to his side.

"Is Du Ming's handwriting there?" As soon as it arrived, Xie Changge opened his mouth with this sentence.

The three of them rummaged together, and Du Ming's notes were not on Xia Li's desk. We continued to search for a long time in the neurosurgeon's office, but we couldn't find Du Ming's notes.

"In the end, the bamboo basket was empty. Xie Changge sat on the ground with his back against the wall and looked up with emotion. After a long time, he stood up and said to Chen Yaofei and me, who were tired of sitting in the chair, "I'm sorry, I caused your hopes to be dashed. ”

"It's okay, don't blame yourself. I stood up and patted Xie Changge on the shoulder. He didn't remove my hand, he didn't say anything like "go away", he just gritted his teeth and lowered his head.

"I'm hungry. Yi Jiahe, give me something to eat. Chen Yaofei smiled brightly. At such times, his smile has the effect of healing the tired heart. Although the effect is not very significant, something is better than nothing.

"I'll get it. Xie Changge silently took out the food from the bag with one hand. Thinking that it might not be a good time to comfort him now, I sat down on Xia Li's chair and pulled out the double photo of Du Ming and Xia Li in my pocket.

Xia Li's desk does not have a double photo of her and Du Ming.

"There's no going back to the neurologist's office. Dr. Xia Li, this picture is the same for you and for him. I believe that it is not the intention of the dead to curse the living. Now, I give you this picture and ask you to rest in peace. I wish you all lovers in your next life. ”

Putting the photo in the drawer, I heard Xie Changge's "hiss" and knew that he couldn't take things. Running to Xie Changge's side, I helped him take out the food, and he stared at me without saying a word.

"What the future holds, who knows. Just take everything out and eat it, and have a good time. "That being said, I didn't take out all the food. Deep down, I still have hope of escape. Perhaps, it was just my dying throes.

Taking out the food for three people, I took into account Xie Changge's situation and picked up the food and put it on the desk.

"Yaofei, why did you sit on Xia Li's chair again. Come, eat. Xie Changge stood up and distributed the food with me, but Chen Yaofei sat on Xia Li's chair with his back to us motionless.

"Yi Jiahe, you say," Chen Yaofei turned around, holding a notebook in one hand and a double photo in the other, and said to us, "Will Dr. Du Ming clip a double photo of him and Dr. Xia Li in his own notebook?"