It's past 9 o'clock in the evening, which should be the busiest time for the metropolis.

However, in the sound of the brushing rain, Li Hao saw a silence. The neon lights of the street are still shining with the prosperity and splendor of this metropolis, and the rain is particularly distinct in the lights. There were many cars parked on the road like that, some with their doors open, some crashing into each other.

Such a scene will no longer make Li Hao particularly touched.

Looking back at Zhao Ji, this little policewoman who is strong but has a very rich inner world seems to have vomited out her emotions after vomiting up the contents of her stomach, and now she has no expression, just frowning and staring at this too quiet rainy night.

All the changes happened overnight, and if you want to count from the time Zhao Ji met Li Hao, it was less than 24 hours. However, once something happens, it is impossible to go back to the way it was.

Zhao Ji needed a car now, so she walked towards the cars parked on the street, believing that since there were many cars with open doors, there would always be one that could be used.

The heavy rain drowned out her footsteps, but as she approached an SUV that looked relatively intact, she suddenly heard a click that seemed to be chewing on bones, and she stopped and listened, the sound was even more pronounced. She picked up the HK416 and walked carefully towards the sound step by step, and saw that on the other side of the SUV, there were four or five zombies lying on the ground eating a corpse. They had already eaten all the flesh from the corpse, and they were about to gnaw all the bones and swallow them all.

One of the zombies was holding a skull and gnawing on it, and there was still half of the skin on the skull, which looked like it should be a young girl, and on that half of the face, one eye was still open, and despair was written in it.

A few zombies gnawed on themselves, and they didn't find Zhao Ji, who was only about ten meters away from them. Zhao Ji didn't have too many physical and psychological reactions at this time, she just picked up the gun, and the center of the cross in the scope was firmly on the zombie who was gnawing on the skull, and looking at the clothes, the zombie was also a flower girl.

Just as Zhao Ji was about to pull the trigger, she felt the muzzle of the gun being pressed down by one hand, while the other hand covered her mouth from behind. She half-turned around and saw Li Hao standing behind her, and her raised right elbow was lowered again.

Li Hao raised a finger and signaled Zhao Ji not to shoot or make a sound, then beckoned again and silently stepped back.

Zhao Ji glanced back at the zombies, but he could only give up the SUV and follow behind Li Hao not far away.

They walked for a while, and there were quite a few zombies on the quiet-looking street, either lying on the ground eating, or wandering behind some shadow blocked by an obstacle, or standing still. Zhao Ji saw a man wearing a suit and holding a document bag standing under the bus stop sign, looking at it from a distance, he didn't feel anything abnormal, but when he picked up the gun and magnified it with a scope, he would find that his eyes and the corners of his mouth were very dark.

The rain was heavy, but if it weren't for the heavy rain that obscured the zombies' sight, hearing, and smell, they might have been discovered by the zombies a long time ago.

Finally, Li Hao found a family car with its head crashed into the guardrail of the sidewalk, and was parked alone. The front of this car was not seriously hit, that is, the left headlight was broken, and it didn't cost a lot of money to repair it yourself without finding an insurance company. The car door was open, and the key was still inserted in the keyhole, so he gestured to Zhao Ji, Zhao Ji nodded, walked to Li Hao's side, and whispered, "I'll drive." ”

Li Hao didn't argue, because he didn't know the road anyway.

And as Zhao Ji started the car, the roar of the engine still startled the zombies hiding everywhere, that is, when she had just started and the speed had not yet been raised, she saw zombies coming out in all directions, and there were more than a hundred and ten in the blink of an eye. These zombies run very fast, except for their poor sense of balance and extremely easy to fall down on rainy nights, they run almost no different from normal people, and even faster than before they did not mutate!

But it didn't work, after all, Zhao Ji drove a car, and a few seconds later, those zombies were left far behind the car by her. However, if there is a drone taking aerial photography on it at this time, Zhao Ji's car is like following a group of piranhas, from a dozen, a hundred, to hundreds or thousands...... It wasn't until they were far away that they scattered again and again. And wherever Zhao Ji's car drove, it startled a crowd of zombies, and it was only because of the speed of the car that they could pass them before the zombies surrounded them.

Zhao Ji saw a mobile phone in the car, this mobile phone still has less than 20% of the battery, but it is useless, she does not know the boot password, she can only call all kinds of distress calls.

"It's useless." Li Hao looked at Zhao Ji and tried many times in distraught, and couldn't help but say: "It's been a whole day, and the streets are full of zombies, even those rescue agencies, and it's impossible to answer the phone normally." Can't you accept the reality yet? This is the end of the world. ”

"You're less yin and yang!" Zhao Ji threw away the phone and said sullenly. As soon as she finished speaking, she slammed on the brakes, and the car let out a scream, slid forward for more than ten meters before stopping, and the front of the car almost hit a roadblock blocking the middle of the road.

It's not a plastic barricade she used as a traffic cop, it's made of sandbags, steel plates and barbed wire, making it difficult for cars and people to get through. In addition, barricades were erected next to the barricades, machine gun emplacements were erected at the two corners, and the red and blue warning lights on both sides of the road flashed very conspicuously on rainy nights.

Zhao Ji saw several figures in camouflage uniforms standing behind the sandbags, and as soon as she wanted to get out of the car, they roared and climbed over the sandbags and rushed towards them. They also wear bulletproof vests, riot helmets on their heads, and even guns on their backs, but they only use their hands and feet together, and they rush forward with bared teeth, looking no different from animals.

Zhao Ji shifted gears and was about to return the car, but Li Hao held down her hand and said, "There are only a few, I'll go and get rid of them!" ”

"And then?"

"Boom!" With a bang, a zombie had already pounced on Zhao Ji's car window.

"And they must have communication equipment!" After Li Hao finished speaking, he pushed the car door and jumped into the rain. After shouting, several zombies in camouflage uniforms pounced on him. Li Hao moved to the machine gun bunker in a few steps, and there was a zombie with only half of his body left, Li Hao stepped on its neck, and he didn't care about ending it first, and directly turned the muzzle of the heavy machine gun in the bunker.

However...... He doesn't know how to use a heavy machine gun, after all, he wears a police uniform, but he's really just a civilian.

Several zombies crawled into the machine gun bunker, Li Hao pulled out a tactical straight knife, and finally solved the problem with cold weapons.

Then, he saw two police explosion-proof vehicles parked behind the bunker. Soon Zhao Ji also followed, the door of the police explosion-proof car was not locked, she and Li Hao quickly climbed into the explosion-proof car and drove to the other side of the partitioned street.

In the police vehicle, of course, the car radio is indispensable, but Zhao Ji is constantly debugging different call channels while driving, but either there is no reply, or the radio is gunshots and cries for help, or there are all kinds of noises, and no one can say a complete sentence to her.

In the end, Zhao Ji was so angry that he smashed the walkie-talkie.

Zhao Ji didn't wait for the car to drive to the bridge, he slammed the steering wheel, and the explosion-proof car turned a 90-degree bend and drove quickly along a river. This section is a one-way street, and the road is actually jammed with cars, but Zhao Ji walked on the sidewalk, and hit a lot of objects placed on the sidewalk along the way, including many zombies, and after walking a few kilometers, it was another bridge.

However, the bridge is still blocked.

At two intersections, they heard fierce gunfire, but there were so many zombies that they couldn't get past the whole street near the gunshots.

And then go again, still blocked. Walk again or be blocked.

It was a detour of at least 100 kilometers, but all the entrances and exits were still blocked. Zhao Ji drove the car into a park, there were no zombies here, at least she could stop the car and take a breath.

The rain was still crackling, Li Hao looked up at the dashboard of the car, they had been running like this for almost two hours, and it was already more than 11 o'clock in the evening.

"Where are we now?" Li Hao looked out of the car window and saw the mountains and rivers in a small park, as well as a large lawn and tall trees in the middle of the lawn. There are still a lot of high-rise buildings around, but it's a bit far from the park.

Li Hao added: "Roadblocks have been set up at every entrance and exit intersection, and it should be said that the official response is still very fast, but the speed of the virus may be even faster." ”

Zhao Ji obviously didn't want to hear these analyses, she opened the car map and looked at it, and said, "We are still in the 5th district, and we are now at the entrance of the botanical garden near the Times Garden. ”

Li Hao asked, "Is there a way out of the city?" ”

Zhao Ji shook his head and said, "District 5 is the center of the entire Vermilion Bird City, and it is surrounded by urban areas, no matter which direction you go out of the city, you have to pass through at least two more urban districts. ”

"Where's your home?"

Zhao Ji said: "In the university town of District 4, my parents live in the police academy. ”

"It seems that you were born into a family of policemen...... District 4 next to District 5? ”

Zhao Ji pointed to the northwest direction and said, "In terms of administrative divisions, they are next to each other, the 5th district can be regarded as the administrative center of Suzaku City, and the 4th district is the cultural center, where there are many universities, some historical monuments, geoparks, ......."

"Then hurry over, trapped in a high-rise building, if you don't get bitten to death by zombies, you will starve to death in the end. It's only been a day, there are still lights on the street, and in a few days, power and water outages will be inevitable, and the city is not a place to raise people. ”

"It's ...... like this now," Zhao Ji said desperately, "I'm afraid I have to get a tank to get by." ”

"Let's walk," Li Hao said lightly: "At this time, you will find that the most reliable thing is your legs." ”