Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Herringbone Ladder for Salvation
From the room on the second floor came the sound of noisy footsteps and a desolate wail.
At this time, the four people hiding in the utility room held all the weapons in their hands.
There was a hint of despair in their frightened eyes.
Li Siqiang said to An Jinglong.
"Uncle An, it's imminent now."
"We are just a door away from the living corpses outside the door."
"What the hell is going on out there, how many living corpses there are, it's impossible to know now."
"It seems impossible to get back to the safe house, we can only go through your second plan!"
Li Siqiang was unwilling to clench his big and powerful fists.
An Jinglong looked at Li Siqiang calmly, he knew that the five big and three rough men in front of him actually didn't want to choose the first plan, but when Li Siqiang saw the distance between the windows, he decisively retreated.
An Jinglong said to everyone.
"I know your concern is the distance, the distance of about three meters is a bit long, but that doesn't mean we can't get through."
"Jia Xingguo is the key to us, as long as we have him, then we will definitely be able to pass."
When Jia Xingguo heard that he was the hope of the whole team, the tall and thin man immediately perked up.
"Uncle An, do you have a plan?"
"Tell me what to do?"
"As long as I can save you, I won't be afraid of anything!"
Jia Xingguo looked at An Jinglong with a determined expression.
An Jinglong was moved by Jia Xingguo's words, and he replied.
"My plan is simple, do you see that ladder in the corner?"
An Jinglong's hand pointed to a corner of the room at the same time, and he saw a ladder standing straight there.
"We can break the glass on the opposite window and then extend the ladder to turn it into a simple 'bridge'."
"Then we can safely crawl through!"
While everyone saw hope, Li Siqiang raised objections.
"Uncle An, it's not that I like to pour cold water, there is something you have discovered."
"The distance between the windows is about three meters, and this herringbone ladder is only more than two meters at most, how can it be used as a bridge on the window edges on both sides!"
Li Siqiang's reminder can be described as a slap in the face for Wang Meiqi and Jia Xingguo, who are excited.
However, it is also true.
An Jinglong is so delicate, can't a criminal police captain even think of this detail!
An Jinglong said to Li Siqiang.
"I knew that someone would question this matter, so I said, Jia Xingguo is the most critical link for us to go to the opposite side!"
An Jinglong continued to explain his strategy to the others.
"This ladder is not long enough to reach the opposite side."
"But Jia Xingguo can jump over."
"Look what's under the ladder!"
An Jinglong's hand pointed to something under the ladder again.
Looking in the direction of their fingers, the other three saw a two-meter rope placed on the side of a herringbone ladder.
Maggie Wang asked.
"What's the use of that rope, it's only two meters long, and it can't reach the ground."
An Jinglong said to Wang Meiqi.
"That rope doesn't really reach the ground, but it can help us get into the window opposite."
Wang Meiqi asked curiously.
"Uncle An, tell us how we can get over?"
An Jinglong walked over and took the two-meter-long rope in his hand, then walked back to the three of them and continued.
"First of all..."
Just as An Jinglong's words were about to speak, the door of the utility room was slammed by the living corpses outside, and the sound of the slapping was getting louder and louder.
An Jinglong said loudly.
"Oh no, they've found us."
"I'll make a long story short, everyone listen to my arrangement."
The four people in the room were in a circle at this time, and everyone's eyes fell on An Jinglong's face.
An Jinglong said to Jia Xingguo.
"Xiao Jia, find a hard object and break the glass on the opposite side first, just in case you are scratched by the glass when you jump over."
"It's safe, you jump over with this rope, and when you get to the other side, you must be careful to make sure that the room is safe!"
Jia Xingguo nodded.
An Jinglong saw that Jia Xingguo had understood, and he continued to lay out the plan.
"Li Siqiang, your task is that when Jia Xingguo arrives on the opposite side, you stretch the ladder horizontally to the opposite window."
"The ladder isn't long enough to fit on the opposite window's edge, so you'll have to rely on your strong hands to hold it up."
"If it's just one end, can you put the ladder sideways?"
Li Siqiang said to An Jinglong.
"Don't worry, Uncle An, although I am not as smart as Sister Meiqi and Jia Xingguo, but I eat a lot, and my brute strength will be great."
After Li Siqiang finished speaking, he didn't forget to show off his strong biceps.
An Jinglong continued.
"The next step is for the two of you to cooperate."
"When Li Siqiang's ladder stretched over, Jia Xingguo, you use that rope to tie the herringbone ladder, remember that the stronger the tie, the better."
"Because Li Siqiang is very heavy!"
"When the ladder is tied, you can find a place to fix the other end by yourself, so I don't need to teach you this."
When this plan was fully revealed, everyone looked at An Jinglong with adoring eyes.
Wang Meiqi praised An Jinglong.
"It's worthy of being a leader, you can figure out this method, Jiang is still old and spicy!"
After seeing the other three all cast admiring looks, An Jinglong smirked with satisfaction.
Just as the four of them began to implement the plan.
'Bang...'.
The door to the utility room was slammed through by the hand of a living corpse, and using the hole, a living corpse actually squeezed its head into it.
The wooden thorns in the hole had scratched off a large piece of the flesh on the face of the living corpse, but how could the living corpse feel the pain. Its head was stuck in the door, and it yelled greedily at the four people in the room.
Li Siqiang exclaimed.
"They broke the door!"
Jia Xingguo also scolded angrily.
"Fuck it, damn it, it's too rubbish."
An Jinglong saw that the danger was coming, and immediately shouted to the two of them.
"There's no time, hurry up!"
Jia Xingguo immediately came back to his senses, and he casually picked up a beer bottle from the ground. Then he opened the window on their side and threw the beer bottle at the opposite side.
When you hear 'Hack... Village... Syllable... The glass on the opposite window had been completely smashed by the beer bottles.
Jia Xingguo took a few steps back, and then a run-up flew away like a window on the opposite side.
Just as Jia Xingguo was rushing to the opposite window for the second, he consciously looked down. The aisle between the two houses was already crowded with living corpses. Because of their height, these living corpses did not find Jia Xingguo's actions.
In just a second, Jia Xingguo's mind was thinking.
"Mom, it's terrible, if you fall down, the bones will be gnawed away by them."
Jia Xingguo's flying body pounced smoothly through the opposite window, and he made a cushion for himself with a tumbling motion to ensure that he would not be injured.
After Jia Xingguo came to this room, the first thing he did was pull out the machete from behind his back. This room is unfamiliar to him, and this is what Wang Meiqi specially explained to him before leaving, and he must ensure his personal safety after arriving at the opposite side.
'Bang... Smack...' The door to the utility room was under heavy attack again, and the head on the door was still yelling at the three people in the room.
An Jinglong said to Li Siqiang.
"Hurry up and get the ladder over!"
After hearing An Jinglong's urging, Li Siqiang immediately ran to the corner of the wall to move the herringbone ladder. He put the ladder down first, and then grabbed the two legs of the ladder with his thick hands, but the back wrist area used the strength to feed, and in an instant the ladder was lifted horizontally, and this terrifying wrist strength was only possible for Li Siqiang.
Li Siqiang said to Wang Meiqi and An Jinglong with difficulty.
"Let... Open... Get out of the way..."
When the herringbone ladder slowly stretched out of the window of the utility room, Jia Xingguo on the opposite side had already made a good inspection in the room. After everything was confirmed to be safe, Jia Xingguo came to the window and waited for the arrival of the herringbone ladder.
When the herringbone ladder has been sent to the limit position by Li Siqiang, there is still a palm's length left from the window edge. But it was this length that stumped these four people at first.
Seeing that the ladder was no longer advancing, Jia Xingguo untied the rope wrapped around his waist. He wrapped one end of the rope back and forth around the top of the herringbone ladder, while the other end he tied to the radiator under the window.
After making sure that both ends of the rope were tied strongly, Jia Xingguo whispered hello to his partner opposite.
"It's all tied up, come here!"
The reason why Jia Xingguo was so quiet was because he didn't want the corpses in the hallway outside the building to notice the movement above.
When Wang Meiqi, Li Siqiang and An Jinglong all received Jia Xingguo's message, Li Siqiang gently put the herringbone ladder on the edge of the window on their side.
Thinking that all the preparatory steps had been completed, they had succeeded after the last three people had crawled over.
At this most exciting moment, the lock of the door of the room was squeezed open by the living corpses, and now the only thing that could stop the living corpses from protecting them was the safety bolt on the door.
But that tiny chain shouldn't last long.
"Not good... Danger..."
Li Siqiang shouted as he ran to the door of the utility room, and he used his weight and brute strength to push against the door.
(The safety bridge has been built, but their danger is not over, the living corpses are already close to them, and now Li Siqiang can't get out, can the three people in the room reach the opposite side safely.) If you want to know the next story, stay tuned for the next chapter! )
To be continued...