Volume II, The Boundary of the Mirror 158, A place where no one is safer
"What is this place?"
"I don't know, but I think we're lost......"
That's right, they got lost.
Although Wei Lan was familiar with the road north through District 14 to Bifang City, and their car navigation was still available online, they still got lost.
The reason is actually very simple, that is, the roads that can be walked are blocked, either a large number of zombies are congested, or artificial barricades are created in order to block the zombies, and even a bridge that they have to pass through is blown up by explosives. Then they had to make a U-turn back to District 14, and then drive along the most deserted part of District 14, and after the navigation repeatedly prompted "internal road", "nameless road", "U-turn", etc., they finally found that there was no road in front of them.
At this time they came to a mountain, which was quite high, as could be felt by the winding road on which they had gone up, and at last they came to a deserted courtyard.
The small courtyard has a brick and stone wall more than two meters high, the wall is full of ivy, the courtyard gate has long been broken, but it is okay, so that they can drive the car directly into the yard, only to find that this yard is quite deep, the layout is a passage in the middle, there are two-story houses arranged on both sides, the passage in the middle has stairs to go up layer by layer, the top is a tall antique building, in the night, this tall antique building, giving people a very ...... Eerie feeling.
"What kind of place is this?" Gao Yang heard someone next to him ask, and he adjusted the headlights from high beams to low beams, otherwise, the headlights would be directly shining on the building, and it would look extraordinarily rash. As for what kind of place this is, Gao Yang can only answer: "I don't know, anyway, it's a place where no one is." ”
"I know," Li He walked to the driver's seat and said, "This is an abandoned funeral home." ”
"Ahhh......h
There was a scream in the car, but someone immediately covered his mouth again.
Li He glanced at it, it was Li Xinrou who was screaming in fright, and it was Ye Tingchen who covered her mouth. Li He spread his hands and said, "The funeral parlor is not terrible, as long as there are no dead people inside, you don't have to worry about zombies crawling out." In the current situation, we can no longer go blindly, we must stop and take a breath, this place is a very good campsite. ”
"No," Li Xinrou said with a frightened face, "I'm more afraid of those invisible things than zombies......"
Li He looked at her and smiled, the topic of who is more terrifying is ghosts or zombies, he and Mulberry have discussed it many times, but for them, ghosts are ethereal, and zombies are a mortal threat at hand. This abandoned funeral parlor looks eerie, the aisles, the surrounding area of the house is full of panicked weeds, and some vines have even crawled into the windows, but for Li He, this means safety, because there has been no one for a long time, and there are no zombies.
So, he was the first to get out of the car, looked around with a flashlight, and decided to use a small building leaning against the door as a campsite for tonight. Now there are only 3 cars and 14 people, and everyone needs to sit down and have a good talk.
That small building is the most common building in the funeral parlor, there is a hall on the first floor, which is a place to place the body for the deceased's relatives and friends to mourn.
There are chandeliers hanging from the ceiling of the hall, but naturally there is no electricity. Li Hao walked along the second floor of the staircase inside the building, which is a place for relatives and friends who came to mourn to rest, a total of three rooms, all of which are spacious, and there are many tables and chairs in them, because they are made of metal and plastic, although they look a little rusty, but they are not completely broken.
It seems that this is the place, Li He walked to the window and shook the flashlight downward, his strong flashlight was still taken out of Gao Yang's "Doomsday Chariot", this car is a treasure to him.
After getting Li He's signal, Gao Yang took the girls of the "peerless beauty" and Wei Lan and the people in the other two cars to go upstairs, and the people in the back car took an outdoor camping lamp, instead of Li He's strong flashlight as a lighting tool, the irradiation range of the camping lamp is wider than the flashlight, almost the whole room is lit up, which more or less makes everyone feel less afraid, the chairs in this room can still sit on people, and everyone does not sit on the ground, but the girls are pale one by one, They were also tightly huddled together, sitting with their backs against the wall.
It wasn't until this time that the people present saw clearly who there were.
Gao Yang and Li He had 9 people in the car, the largest number of people, and they all knew each other, and at this time they found that the camping lamp was the second male number Badram of the "Doomsday Border" crew, and next to him was his translator, a thin and fair-skinned boy, who probably looked like he had just graduated from college; There is also his assistant, this is a Caucasian woman, very tall, taller than Badram, estimated to be 1.9 meters, square face, a pale golden hair, if she is not wearing a vest, the chest is obviously bulging, I really can't see that she is a woman, Badram calls her Karin, in fact, if you look closely, some people will think that she is a little familiar, because she is often in Hollywood films.
The rest are the two people in the other car, both are uncles in their thirties and forties, and the older one is a little thankful, he is the props master in the crew, everyone calls him Lao Liao, no one knows how old he is, but they all know that he is very good at props, and it is difficult to find anything wrong with the props in his hands. The other is younger, probably less than forty, and he is still tall, with a full beard, long hair, and looks a little cynical.
Everyone didn't introduce themselves, and now in addition to fear, there is one thing that is the most disturbing, and that is hunger. Originally, there was a dining car for the crew in the convoy that ran to the mine, so there were hundreds of people at that time, and Xu Xili didn't have to worry, at least for two or three days. But there was a change in the gas station, and people were dead and running, leaving them in 3 cars and 14 people here, but the dining car didn't know where it was left for a long time.
It's not that there is no food at all, when Li He was at the gas station, he took two boxes of instant noodles in the small supermarket at the gas station, and he was going to take more before checking out, but then he didn't care about it. At this time, he went downstairs and went back to the car to carry the instant noodles up, counted them, there were 12 packs in each box, and there were 14 of them, and the average person could only get less than 1 and a half packets.
Everyone was hungry, especially the girls, who hadn't eaten anything since they arrived on the set in the morning, and before they got to the set, they had eaten very little.
At this time, a pack of instant noodles was distributed by the hand, and Miao Keke was impatient to tear open the package and was about to eat it, but Yin Xiuna next to her grabbed it and said, "Coco, this is instant noodles, are you going to eat it dry?" ”
Miao Keke glanced around and asked, "But where is the water here?" There must also be hot water, bowls...... I'm starving! ”
The prop master Lao Liao and the bearded man stood up together, searched upstairs and downstairs, and found some disposable plastic bowls and plastic cups in a cabinet on the first floor for the bearded man, and Lao Liao found a large iron can for tea, there is a faucet at the bottom of the big iron can, when there are many people, there is tea in it, and it is good to use the cup to pick up the tea under the faucet. With these two things, they tinkered with the rusty water pipe in the bathroom, and the water flowed out of the pipe, at first the water was muddy, accompanied by a lot of rust, and after a while, the water was clear.
When they saw the water, they realized that they were not only hungry, but also thirsty.
But looking at the rushing water, no one dared to drink it directly. Then it was still Lao Liao and the bearded man, one of them began to scrub the big iron can, and the other began to look for something to make a fire.
It was the bearded man who started the fire, he first went downstairs to remove some bricks in the flower bed, set up a simple stove on the balcony on the second floor, and then moved a few broken wooden tables from the two nearby buildings, Li He also went to help, and the broken wooden table was brought up, and there were no machetes and axes, so he dismantled them with both hands and feet, and used them as firewood.
"To tell the truth," Miao Keke held the bag of instant noodles in one hand, touched her little belly with the other, and muttered: "This instant noodles can be eaten directly, is it necessary to toss it so much?" ”
Gao Yang looked at her and said very gently: "You can get more calories by eating boiled instant noodles, and you also need to drink a lot of water to eat instant noodles dry, but at this time, drinking raw water is looking for death, this is not a toss, from now on, you have to adapt to the easiest way to get the greatest protection." We're not traveling, it's all about getting alive. To put it another way, fire is the most important companion of human beings, especially at nights like this, making a fire will give people some sense of security. ”
Miao Keke said unconvinced: "Maybe the fire will also attract zombies!" ”
"Good, you have your own ideas!" Li He walked in from outside the balcony, he and Lao Liao and the bearded man worked together to make a fire, and fixed the big iron pot filled with water on the simple stove, and began to boil water, he walked in and continued Miao Keke's words: "But countless experiences tell us that zombies are also afraid of fire, or at least they don't like fire very much!" ”
"Okay." Miao Keke squatted down holding her stomach, and said pitifully: "You can say anything, I just hope to eat quickly!" ”
The big tin pot heated very slowly, and after a while, at least half an hour, it was considered to boil the water. It's not about giving them instant noodles one by one, but throwing everyone's instant noodles into that big tin can and cooking them together, and then using simple chopsticks made of tree branches to pick the boiled noodles into disposable plastic bowls one by one.
But no matter what, they finally ate the hot instant noodles, and at this time, even the girls who were the stars of girl idols didn't care about their image, and they blew it casually, and when it was not so hot, they began to eat it with a sigh. It's bitter for the two international friends, Badlam and Karin...... They don't know how to use chopsticks, and when they watch other people eat with simple chopsticks made of tree branches, they can only stare dryly, and when the instant noodles are not so hot, they will go straight to it......
When everyone had finished eating, the bearded man silently took the big tin can to the water pipe, washed it, and prepared to continue to boil less water for everyone to drink. As he grinned and shook his reddened hands and began to clean the inside of the large tin can, he saw a man standing in front of him.