Volume II, The Boundary of the Mirror 182, There's Something in the Water
Li Dong actually wanted to go out with Li Hao and Zhao Ji for a moment, after all, although he had enough food to eat for a while, there was always a time to finish eating, who knows how long this disaster would last? And in addition to food, drinking water is already a big problem for him now, and it is even more difficult to collect mineral water from his neighbor's house than to collect food.
What's worse is that when you are alone at home, you will be afraid and lonely.
The zombies outside the door may break into the door at some point, and even if they don't, they will be scared as much as ever.
However, after thinking about it, Li Dong finally chose to stay.
There are many reasons to go, and one reason not to go is enough.
He didn't want to go out.
If Li Dong doesn't leave, Li Hao and Zhao Ji naturally can't force it.
When they helped each other out of Li Dong's house, there were still a few zombies waiting for rabbits in the corridor outside, but they were just ordinary zombies, and because they hadn't eaten in the unit building for a long time, they were already very thin, they were just skinny and weak at a glance, whether they were people or zombies, they were a group of people who were destined to be eliminated.
They had followed Li Hao and Zhao Ji here before, and after waiting for a while, the other zombies had walked away, and they were still waiting here. Maybe they want to see their luck, maybe they don't have the extra energy to go anywhere else. But when they pounced on the two prey with steps weaker than Li Hao and Zhao Ji, the sword in the prey's hand easily killed them.
Li Dong saw Li Hao and Zhao Ji slashing and killing those zombies in the cat's eye, and there was a entanglement between leaving and staying in his heart again, but in the end, he left the cat's eye and returned to his bedroom without saying a word, covering his head with the quilt.
In the corridor, after Li Hao and Zhao Ji slashed and killed a few zombies, they all looked back at Li Dong's door, and after making sure that he would not come out, they continued to walk downstairs.
They walked very slowly, one was that they were already walking slowly, and the other reason was that they wanted to help Li Dong try their best to get rid of all the zombies in the unit building, which could be regarded as a return for his grace of opening the door and saving his life, and the fate of meeting Pingshui in this last days.
Li Hao's physical condition recovered relatively quickly, at least much faster than ordinary people, when they reached the bottom floor layer by floor, although Li Hao consumed a lot of physical strength, the injuries on his body had almost recovered. This is thanks to Zhuo Kai people who didn't break him or anything, anyway, as there are fewer and fewer zombies in the corridor, Li Hao is getting more and more energetic.
Finally, when Li Hao cut down the last zombie to the ground, he let out a sigh and said, "It's okay now, as long as the unit door is not destroyed, Li Dong can calmly collect food." However, these corpses will soon decompose, and it is impossible to bury or burn them in the corridor, hoping that he will not resist the virus, but he will contract the epidemic. ”
After all, this is the end of the world, do what you can, and leave the rest to fate.
There are a few floors left, and it is Li Hao's business to cut down the zombies alone, and Zhao Ji just stands aside, trying not to hold him back. Hearing Li Hao say this, she sat in the corner of the wall and looked up at Li Hao, and said, "With your recovery ability, it doesn't seem to be much worse than that monster." ”
Li Hao exhaled and said, "It's okay, I didn't really take a hard hit." The moment he grabbed me by the neck, I almost suffocated and tore it, but finally I was relieved, and then he threw me to the ground, and I felt a little pain in my head, and the rest of the world was fine. How are you? ”
Zhao Ji covered his lower abdomen and said, "My stomach hurts, my body hurts everywhere, but there is no fatal injury when it comes to it, and I can't die." How do we go now? Did you say his game was over? ”
Li Hao shook his head and said, "It's only been more than 3 hours and less than 4 hours, right?" He will come back. We went to find a shelter, and if there were still people in the shelter, a crowded place would be a cover for us. I always felt that he was looking for us with his sense of smell. ”
According to various information gathered by Li Dong in the first few days of the disaster, the city made a lot of efforts before it fell into a desperate situation, and the city hall, together with the military police, opened many temporary shelters to citizens. These shelters are the necessary defense infrastructure of a city, in preparation for sudden war, but in normal life, ordinary citizens do not know the specific location of the shelters.
In the map printed by Li Dong, there was a shelter very close to them. To get to the shelter, they only had to cross two blocks and an urban leisure plaza, no more than five kilometers in a straight line.
However, it is still more specific to walk, they can't walk the usually more prosperous city avenues, for the two of them as small individuals, as long as the number of zombies is hundreds, it is easy to block them, and once they are blocked, hundreds of zombies are enough to drag them, bite them to death, and eat them...... Not to mention the main city thoroughfares, especially in this bustling area, there can be tens of thousands of zombies on a street casually.
They can only walk through the middle of nowhere, using various obstacles to get rid of the zombies that found them.
Of course, this greatly lengthened the distance they traveled, and the weather was not very good, it was just a light rain before, but in the second half of the night it turned into a pouring rain, although the heavy rain can eliminate the smell on their bodies, reduce the probability of zombies finding them, but also increase the difficulty of their walking. And the rain quickly caused waterlogging, and in many low-lying sections, the rain directly flooded the cars parked on the side of the road, leaving them unable to get their feet in the dark.
"Swim over, right?"
Li Hao and Zhao Ji finally followed the route in the map through two blocks and found the leisure square, but in the gradually whitening dawn, the heavy rain still did not stop, and this leisure square has become an ocean.
How deep the water is, I don't know.
What will be in the water, I don't know.
"Are you sure?" Regarding Li Hao's proposal, Zhao Ji was obviously a little cowardly.
"Sure." Li Hao said as he began to take off his coat, trousers, and shoes, and put all these things in his bag. The bag is waterproof and not only suitable for clothes, but also has a blowpipe that can be used as a floating bag.
The area of this park is too big, it is about the same as a lake now, and the sky is almost dawn, they don't have the time or the physical strength to go around this lake again, not to mention that there are zombies following them all the time, like a snowball, they have followed at least a thousand of them, and then going back is looking for death.
And according to Li Hao's experience and immediate observations, zombies can't swim.
They don't go into the water.
Zhao Ji saw that Li Hao had already taken off only a pair of underwear, and the scars of different sizes on his body were shocking, and he couldn't help frowning and said, "Just swim, why are you taking off so naked?" Really, I'm not afraid of other people's needle eyes. ”
Li Hao ignored her, tied the sword to his backpack, and threw himself into the water.
Although Zhao Ji muttered in his mouth, he looked back and saw that the zombies that followed him were less than 100 meters, and he also took off his trousers and field boots quickly, and after hesitating for a second, he also took off his coat, anyway, she still had a black vest...... Take another 10,000 steps back and say, didn't Li Hao see everything he could see? Like Li Hao, Zhao Ji also packed his clothes into his bag, trumpeted his backpack as a floating bag, and threw himself into the water before the zombies caught up.
The water was deeper than expected, and it was also muddy, after all, it was not a real lake, but a large puddle formed by the rain. It's also very cold, although it's summer, but the rain in the sky keeps falling, the water level on the ground keeps rising, and the water flow is very irregular, which makes Li Hao and Zhao Ji swim very hard.
"Li Hao......" swimming, Zhao Ji suddenly felt that something seemed to be pulling her foot in the water, she subconsciously kicked around, but suddenly found that her left leg was a little cramped. This is absolutely deadly for swimming, especially in uncharted waters.
But Zhao Ji just shouted in her heart, and didn't really make a sound, along the way, she found that she often became a drag on Li Hao, which was something that made her difficult to tolerate. But the matter of foot cramps must not be wait-and-see, Zhao Ji just shouted Li Hao in her heart a second ago, and when she decided to really shout out, her mouth was opened, but her voice was drowned out by the muddy rain that poured in.
Then, Zhao Ji sank into the water.
There was really something in the water, it wasn't her delusion, but even though she tried to open her eyes wide in the murky water, she only felt a tingling pain in her eyes, but she couldn't see anything in the water at all. Feeling only a hand touch her calf, Zhao Ji kept her calm for a moment in a panic, she pulled out her sword from the backpack behind her back, and stabbed it towards the place where there seemed to be something in the water.
Then, in the murky water, she saw a blurred liquid darker than the murky water. Then, a hand was wrapped around her waist and she came to the surface with a thud.
As soon as Zhao Ji turned around, he saw Li Hao.
In fact, at this time, when Li Hao's hand was wrapping around Zhao Ji's waist, it seemed that his palm was pressed to something that should not be pressed. But in order to avoid embarrassment, he did not immediately remove his hand. Also to avoid embarrassment, Zhao Ji didn't say anything. Li Hao swam on Zhao Ji for a while, and it wasn't until they both stepped on the bottom that Li Hao let go of his hand.
That's when they found out they were stepping on the roof of a sedan.
Zhao Ji raised the sword in his hand and said, "There's something in the water, I'm not sure if I killed it, but at least it hurt." ”
"Is it a zombie?"
"Not sure, but it looks like a hand grabbed my foot before."
Li Hao didn't speak, if it's a zombie, it's not a good thing that zombies can swim. If it's not a zombie, it's not a good thing that something in the water has grown hands.
After a moment of silence, he pointed to a building in front of him that resembled the entrance to a pedestrian underpass and said, "According to the map, that's the entrance to the Vault." ”
Near the entrance, there were haphazard vehicles, taller, with a small roof exposed, and the lower ones, like the one they were treading on, and the whole thing was submerged. It was a desperate way to find the entrance to the shelter, only to be flooded, and the ground was littered with abandoned cars, most of which were still open.
Zhao Ji said: "Let's dive down from that entrance. ”
Although the entrance is flooded, it is impossible for such a shelter to be without waterproofing facilities, and there is a high probability that they will touch the door of the shelter by diving through the entrance. As for whether it can be opened, that's another matter.
It was almost dawn, but it was still raining heavily.
This time they ran back and forth for about 4 hours, but the Zhuokai people did not catch up. If you count it, a third of the time of the game has passed.
"Zhao Ji." Li Hao looked at Zhao Ji, whose face was pale because of being soaked in the cold rain, and couldn't help but shout.
"Huh?" Zhao Ji looked at Zhao Ji with some doubts, and he didn't know what he wanted to say.
"It's nothing," Li Hao smiled and said, "I want to live." ”
"Sensational!" Zhao Ji glanced at Li Hao, took a deep breath, and then plunged into the water.
Li Hao smiled, took a deep breath, and plunged into the water.
They quickly found the entrance to the passage, which was indeed a pedestrian underpass, but it was already flooded. But the distance they were flooded was longer than they expected, and they swam for a long time without seeing any exit or door. As time passed, their bodies became sluggish and stiff, and they had swam too far away, and even if they wanted to swim back, their bodies would never be able to support it.
Li Hao's physical fitness is good now, but his swimming skills and diving ability are not strong, and he used to swim farther than Zhao Ji with brute force. With holding his breath for too long now, he drank a few sips of water uncontrollably, and then scribbled his hands and feet, obviously unable to control his body. Fortunately, at this time, Zhao Ji swam back again, hugged his waist at his side, and swam forward with him. In fact, Zhao Ji was about to lose her breath at this time, so she came back to save Li Hao, which made her consume some physical strength.
Is it going to drown here in the end? Zhao Ji was still very aggrieved when she thought about it, but she felt that Li Hao, who was holding her in her hand, had no movement, even herself, and she had no strength.
Well, Zhao Ji only had the last bit of strength left, she turned Li Hao's face in the water, in the dark and muddy water, she couldn't see whether Li Hao was dead or alive now, but it didn't matter, she just held Li Hao's face and deeply put her lips on his mouth. Because of the water, she couldn't tell what it was, but it was a first kiss, and before she died, she gave an explanation of her life.
Then, let it go to the bottom.