Volume II, Boundary of the Mirror 101, Two o'clock in the morning
"In apocalyptic novels, the one who can survive and survive to the end must be the protagonist."
"On the other hand, if it's not the protagonist, you can hang up at any time."
"Li Hao, you are not the protagonist, it's time for you to go offline."
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Li Hao opened his eyes suddenly, and subconsciously put his hand on the holster of the pistol, but before he could pull out the gun, he saw a pair of clear big eyes on the other side looking at him, and asked in a suppressed voice: "Brother Li Hao, have you had a nightmare?" ”
That's mulberry.
Because they have no identity in this world, it is impossible for Li Hao and Sang Quinoa to stay in a hotel openly.
During the day, they didn't even dare to enter the elevator in the building, they wandered in the stairwells that were rarely frequented, and when no one was around, they sat and rested, and when they heard someone coming, they quickly changed places, and stayed like this until night, when they walked out of the underground parking lot.
In the meantime, Li Hao also reached through the back door of a restaurant and stole two packets of fresh bread. He lived to be 30 years old and had traveled through two worlds, and this was the first time he had stolen something, and it was still bread, and he felt that he was really a little bit of a mess and fell back.
It's simpler and much more atmospheric to grab it directly with a gun, but once caught by the police, how to explain their identities is a huge problem, not to mention that once they are locked up, I'm afraid they won't have a chance to find the author again until they die.
At night, they can only walk through back streets, parks, and corners where few people will notice them, and finally, when they are so tired, they can only find a bridge to rest. Fortunately, it was the height of summer, and it was cooler in the bridge cave, so you don't have to worry about catching a cold.
They discussed many ways to find the author, but each plan really wanted to be implemented, but it lacked feasibility, and the worst thing was that although there were no zombies in this world, the difficulty of their survival in the future was not low at all.
Later, while talking, Li Hao fell asleep somehow, and suddenly woke up, he only felt that he was sweating all over.
"How long did I sleep?" Li Hao was not only sweating all over his body, but also frightened in his heart, if he fell asleep in such a bridge hole in their own world, he was afraid that he would have entered the stomach of the zombie. Even in this world, the consequences of falling asleep like this are terrible.
"Less than 10 minutes." Mulberry smiled lightly and said, "Moreover, you woke up from a very sleepy sleep, and I just wanted to stand up and move, so I alarmed you." ”
Li Hao wanted to ask what time it was, but he didn't know what time it was, and Mulberry would not know either, the time their watch pointed to might not be the same time as the world of this world at all.
However, Sang Quinoa seemed to guess what Li Hao wanted to ask, and said, "It should be 2 o'clock in the morning." There was no need for Li Hao to ask her why she knew, she held her sniper rifle and said: "600 meters away, there is a bell tower, and on the rooftop behind the bell tower, there is a pair of young people who are setting off fireworks. She smiled and said, "That girl seems to be angry, so that boy is trying his best to coax her." I suddenly felt that this is the living world, our world, what we can see every day is either blood or death. You say, is it possible for us to stay in this world and not go back. ”
Li Hao smiled bitterly and said, "We have no identity in this world, and we can't explain our origins. Even if these problems can be solved in the end, no one knows if we will disappear from this world with the final destruction of our world. At the end of the day, we still have to find the author. ”
Mulberry sighed and said, "But we don't have a clue. ”
Li Hao said: "I had a dream just now, and I dreamed that the author was talking. ”
"Oh!" Mulberry hurriedly asked, "What did he say?" Can this clue be caught? ”
Li Hao still had a wry smile on his face and said, "He said that I am not the protagonist, and I should go offline......"
Sang Quinoa was stunned for a moment, and although he smiled bitterly, he still laughed and said, "Well, this is also better than having no clue at all." At the very least, it shows that you still maintain some kind of connection with the author, and the old people say that dreams are reversed, which just shows that you are the main character...... Belch...... I can't make it up......" She laughed as she pressed her knees together, resting her chin on her knees, tears falling down her cheeks, and muttering, "Li He, where are you?" I miss you so much. ”
Li Hao looked at the mulberry who was crying silently, but very sad, and only felt very depressed, so many people died, whether it was a coincidence or fate, there were only 8 of them left to travel through the space dimension and come to another world. There were no zombies, no killings and no deaths, but he found that in this world, he didn't become any superman, and he couldn't even live in a comfortable place with this little girl.
He heard the author say in his dream that he was not the protagonist, and not being the protagonist meant that he could hang up at any time, hang up, hang up, and he would have earned it compared to the thousands of people who had died. However, it has come to the world where the author is, if he hangs up like this without any effect, how unwilling should he be?
"Someone's coming." Although Li Hao was very depressed in his heart, he had been hovering on the edge of death for so long, his observation, attention, hearing and vision had improved a lot, and when Mulberry was crying silently, he was keenly aware that someone was walking in their direction.
At two o'clock in the morning, there are people walking outside, and it is not surprising that in a normal world, it is not an abnormal thing, and it is not surprising that they simply can't sleep and come out to hang out. But what Li Hao felt was not only someone coming over, but also a dangerous aura.
He was too sensitive to that feeling of death approaching.
Even the little girl Mulberry is the same.
They didn't need to say anything more, they each hid in the darkest and most hidden corner of the bridge, and then put on ultra-clear special forces-level night vision goggles...... That's right, they stole bread and couldn't afford to stay in a hotel, but they had very 6 equipment on them, which was put into a backpack in the arsenal of the amphibious assault ship "Vicente", and if there was enough time and a large enough backpack at that time, they could have loaded more and more advanced military equipment.
In fact, in the neon of the city, even if this area is more remote and the light is darker, even if they don't wear night vision goggles, they can actually see the situation near the bridge and cave, especially on the riverside promenade, but since there is a sense of imminent danger, they will never give themselves a chance to let their guard down.
Soon, they saw two people walking in their direction in the night vision goggles, a man and a woman, leisurely walking along the riverside promenade. Li Hao could tell from the distance between them that they were not a couple, but he couldn't see that they might be carrying any weapons, unless they were legendary martial arts masters, who had the ability to pick flowers and fly leaves and hurt people, otherwise he really couldn't see what threat they had.
However, the sense of imminent danger was still strong, and Li Hao looked away from the man and woman, and instead paid attention to the shadows near the riverside promenade, including the corners of the road, the green belt, and even the river.
This river is one of many rivers in the city, much wider than the two that Li Hao and Sang Quinoa have passed before, and it is precisely because of the wide river surface and the large enough bridges and holes across the river that they chose as a temporary shelter. But how deep the river is, they can't understand. As it stands, many parts of the riverbank have dried up and even grown with weeds due to the drop in water levels.
In Li Hao's repeated observations, as the pair of men and women approached, he found that a cloud of light and shadow from the barren grass on the riverbank was also approaching the pair of men and women.
Li Hao's night vision goggles are passive infrared night vision goggles, objects with infrared sources will automatically appear on his night vision goggles, at the beginning when the light and shadow did not move, and the surrounding wild grass is integrated, Li Hao did not find it, until it moved, there was a weak infrared source reflected on Li Hao's night vision goggles, but it looks very small, it feels like a kitten or rabbit all the time.
Sang Quinoa wears low-light night vision goggles, because the light source in the city is still relatively abundant, so what she sees in her low-light night vision goggles is much clearer than what Li Hao sees. But she didn't notice the grass by the river at first, and when she suddenly felt movement in the grass by the river, she saw a huge figure burst out of the grass by the river and pounced on the man and woman who were strolling.
Judging by the silhouette of the figure, it should be a large dog.
"Ahh......h
As the shadows in the grass burst out, the two men who were strolling let out a startled scream at the same time, and it was the man who screamed even louder. But the reason why he screamed louder was because the shadow fell directly on him, and the sharp pain of the bite made his cry even more terrible.
"Mulberry! Shoot! Li Hao took off the night vision goggles and saw more clearly, the shadow that suddenly emerged from the grass below the river bank was not a kitten and a rabbit, but a huge mastiff, although Li Hao didn't know why this huge mastiff only had such a small infrared source, but he knew that the man was now worried about his life.
Mulberry was not ambiguous, her Blaser R93 sniper rifle was equipped with a silencer, she was not too worried that the gunfire would travel far away, but the mastiff was biting the man, and the man was also struggling desperately, and if he wanted to hit the mastiff directly in the head, there was a risk of accidentally injuring the man. So her first shot hit the mastiff's very targeted torso.
With a slight gunshot, the mastiff's body also shook violently, and the huge kinetic energy of the bullet pierced its torso, and even carried a large piece of flesh away, but this did not immediately make the mastiff stop its attack, and after a pause, it continued to pounce on the man.
And the man took advantage of the moment when the mastiff was hit and bounced off him, and crawled a few steps back from under its mouth. Mulberry's second shot also took advantage of this opportunity to hit the mastiff's neck, this shot made the mastiff's movements seriously unbalanced, it could not continue to pounce on the man, and just as it continued to struggle, Mulberry's third shot hit it in the head.
But it wasn't until Mulberry fired the fourth shot that it stopped moving completely.