Chapter 14: Speak or Die
As night fell, the sun was left with only a glimmer of light on the horizon, and the moon was already faintly visible. Wu Zong ran with Xiao An in his arms, the afterglow of the horizon shining on their backs, pulling out a long shadow on the long and silent Yingbin Avenue.
The wide two-way sixteen lanes were filled with a number of tall headlight poles that had fallen apart, many twisted private cars parked in the middle of the road, covered with a thin layer of dust like dead steel beasts, and a few scattered zombies moved slowly, as if they were making a tireless gurgling sound in their throats.
Wu Zong wanted to find a truck, and he had to rush to Lin Xiao's house before it was completely dark, because he knew that zombies at night would not only have the same eyesight as during the day, but also be more aggressive, and there was only one way to die when they were found by the corpses at night in such a wide and flat place.
"Brother, why didn't they all move?" Xiao An asked, sitting in the crook of Wu Zong's arm, pointing to the car.
"They," Wu Zong ran all the way and panted slightly, "they are tired and want to rest here for a while." ”
"But Uncle Police will take them away," Xiao An said worriedly, having heard her father tell her more than once that cars left on the side of the road would be taken away by Uncle Police.
"Really?" Wu Zong pretended to be surprised and teased Xiao An: "Then let's drive the big car in front of us and leave quickly, otherwise the police uncle will come in a while." ”
As he spoke, he pointed to a large truck not far away. It was a Mercedes-Benz heavy truck, the pure black heavy patent leather was covered with dust but could not hide its luster, it looked like it should still be a new car, and there was a container dragged behind the front of the heavy truck, I don't know what it contained.
Xiao An giggled at Wu Zong's surprised expression.
Wu Zong turned around and looked behind him, the sun had completely set, he hugged Xiao An three steps and made two steps to rush into the truck.
What is surprising is that it seems that the driver ran in a hurry, and he didn't even pull out the key, which saved Wu Zong a lot of trouble, and he re-unscrewed the key.
With a roar, the engine of the Mercedes-Benz heavy truck with up to five hundred and fifty horsepower was running again like a revived beast, and Wu Zong put Xiao An on the co-pilot and fastened the seat belt for her.
At this time, the zombies on the road were also alarmed by the sound of the engine here, and they shuttled through the sea of cars with agility like sharks that found the smell of blood, and quickly leaned towards them.
As the car starts, Strauss's famous waltz of the sound of spring is heard in the car stereo, and the melodious concerto symphony is at odds with the dreary and oppressive apocalypse outside, like a rose blooming in the snow and ice.
Wu Zong let go of the hand brake and waved his hand at the zombies in the rearview mirror: "Bye bye!"
Then with a foot of the accelerator, the Mercedes-Benz heavy truck knocked the two zombies in front of the car like a bull out of the slaughter, accompanied by a violin concerto, roaring away.
The road conditions along the way are very complicated, many vehicles are abandoned on the road, it is hard to imagine that the city has become like this in less than a week after the disaster, which is enough to prove how much impact this crisis has caused to people's society, and the abandoned vehicles have made Wu Zong have to take two detours and drive for nearly an hour and a half to arrive.
Lin Xiao's home is on a hill in the suburbs, it is a single-family villa, this is the rich area of Jiyu City, a single-family villa is dotted along the winding asphalt road in the middle of the mountainside, here is surrounded by mountains and rivers The environment is beautiful, of course, the price is also high and scary, before the catastrophe, this may be the place where Wu Zong wants to live the most.
Two hundred meters away, Wu Zong stopped the car, in order to separate it from the residence and avoid unnecessary trouble caused by the movement of the car when it started to cause unnecessary trouble to the hiding place.
Wu Zong walked on the quiet winding asphalt road with the sleeping Xiao An in his arms, and he tucked Xiao An's down jacket and hat again, so that she could be as warm as possible in the cold winter night.
turned a corner, and Lin Xiao's villa appeared in front of Wu Zong's eyes.
The luxurious three-storey single-family villa looks bigger and bigger in the night, the unique relief lines of European architecture extend into the darkness, and the heavy spruce wood door is evenly wrapped in translucent pulp, like a huge vertical eye faintly shining in the moonlight, the whole villa looks like a Cthulhu monster staring at the eyes standing halfway up the mountain.
Wu Zong found that there seemed to be a faint light coming out of the third floor.
Someone?
Wu Zong couldn't help but be overjoyed.
He looked left and right and rang the doorbell.
After half a minute, Wu Zong heard the sound of the cat's eye turning in the door, and it was obvious that someone inside was checking the situation outside.
"Who?"
An unfamiliar voice came softly from the thick door, muffled.
Wu Zong, who was outside the door, did not answer, but knocked on the door twice.
"Who?"
The man in the door raised his alarm and whispered.
There was still no answer outside the door.
After a while, just as the people inside the door wanted to go upstairs, the people outside seemed to be unable to wait and knocked heavily on the door a few times.
The people in the door looked at the cat's eyes again, and it was still pitch black outside.
"," with a low shout, the door opened a crack, and then a thin man with a small velvet hat poked out half of his head and looked left and right, a pair of inverted triangular eyes swept around: "who." ”
In the dark of night, there was no one at the door.
Triangle Eye couldn't help but feel a little cold in his back, hurriedly closed the door, couldn't help but feel the hair in his heart, just wanted to run upstairs only to feel a cold neck, and then a voice came from behind: "If you make a sound, you will die." ”
Ghosts!
The triangular eyes were almost frightened, obviously they came down alone, why did a voice suddenly appear behind them, and they were about to open their mouths to call, but their mouths were covered by the person behind them.
A face slowly emerged from the back of Triangle Eye's head, like a ghost hatching from the night, and a cold spur was erecting on the major artery in Triangle Eye's neck.
"I'll say it one last time," the person behind him lowered his voice and warned Triangle Eyes, "If you dare to call me, I'll stab you to death." ”
"Oh," the triangular eyes trembled like chaff, and he nodded incessantly, tears coming down his eyes.
The person behind the triangular eye is none other than Wu Zong.
It turned out that when he rang the doorbell, Wu Zong had a heart, he casually pulled a small leaf and stuck it on the outside of the cat's eye in advance, so that the people inside looked outside and it was pitch black.
After hearing that the voice in the door was not Lin Xiao, the alert Wu Zong tiptoed and quickly climbed up to the spacious door, which was more than two meters long, hung the rope on the top of the door, and hung the other end on his body, and at the same time stretched out his foot and gently kicked the door twice, in order to drag this person.
Then, regardless of what the people inside said, Wu Zong was like a dexterous cat, relying on his strengthened physical fitness and coordination, holding Xiao An with one hand, and climbing the complicated carved roads of the building with the other hand, he quickly climbed to the second floor, and entered the second bedroom with no one through the window.
He put down the sleepy-eyed Xiao An, told her not to make a sound, and then threw the hook claw hanging on his body along the window, because the other end was tied to the edge of the door, the hook claw drew an arc by inertia and hit the door, and bounced it twice, like someone outside the door was banging on the door.
For Wu Zong, a frequent visitor, Lin Xiao's home is simply not too familiar, taking advantage of this time, Wu Zong quickly sneaked to the living room on the first floor and held the triangular eye hostage from behind.
The whole process was meticulous and fast, less than three minutes, no wonder the triangular eye regarded Wu Zong as a ghost.
"How many of you," Wu Zong asked in a low voice as he dragged his triangular eyes into the darkness.
"Three...... Three," Triangle Eyes was indeed frightened, trying to suppress his trembling voice, and even cried.
"What the hell. ”
"Little, thief, we sneaked into ...... Hmmm......"
Before Triangle Eye could finish speaking, his mouth was closed again.
Because Wu Zong heard that there seemed to be movement upstairs.
Sure enough, with the sound of the door opening, a low scolding came from the third floor: "What the are you doing, third child?"
"The third one?" the people upstairs called twice, but when no one answered, they heard the sound of leather shoes, and a man with a square face and thick eyebrows walked down, still holding a baseball bat in his hand.
The square-faced man who went down the spiral staircase saw the triangular eyes sitting on the chair in the hallway at a glance, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and just wanted to scold, only to feel a chill in his neck, and a bright military thorn was already on his neck.
Then, like a ghost, a face pressed to his ear and whispered, "Speak or die." ”