"Shhh ”

The little girl stared at the big watery eyes, her little face drooped in disappointment, and she whispered, "But I'm so hungry, Mom." ”

"Mom knows, Mommy knows," looked at the poor daughter, and the thin woman put her daughter's head in her arms, and tears could not stop falling.

Of course she knew that her daughter was hungry, for a month, only relying on some fruits and cold water to survive, talking about her daughter, even an adult herself couldn't stand it, she hadn't closed her eyes for a few days, the sound of heavy military boots rubbing the floor outside the door almost made her crazy with fear, the bloodshot eyeballs indicated that she was on the verge of collapse, and she even thought about suicide more than once.

But she can't, because Xiao Ann - her lovely daughter.

She held her daughter's head and patted her back softly, crying silently, she didn't even dare to let her daughter know that she was crying.

Knock knock.

Suddenly, the door of the ward rang softly three times, which was very clear in the quiet room.

The woman was taken aback, subconsciously hugged her daughter tightly, and hurriedly stopped crying, not even daring to come out.

Knock knock.

The door rang twice.

The woman heard it clearly this time, as if someone was knocking on the door of the ward with her fingers, and it didn't sound like the sound of monsters that eat people when they see them, at least she had never seen such a gentlemanly monster.

"Xiao An, don't move," she carefully whispered to her daughter, and then sat up with trembling arms to support her upper body, and leaned forward as hard as she could, carefully trying to see the person at the door.

It was a huge amount of work for her weak body, and even though the temperature in the room was cold, she was almost sweating profusely when she poked her head out.

A figure swayed in the doorway, and the woman couldn't see if the person outside was a human or a monster because of the dim light.

"Is there anyone?" Wu Zong gently knocked on the door twice more, and greeted in a low voice.

At his feet, the corpse of a zombie soldier lay down, black and red blood gushing out of the hole in its jaw.

Wu Zong gently tapped the microphone of the walkie-talkie with his fingers, and touched it step by step while listening to the sound identification, although it was more thrilling, but fortunately, the floor was relatively high, and there were not many zombies here, only five or six sporadically, which were also touched by Wu Zong one by one.

Wu Zong knew that the loss of the initial mutation only strengthened the sense of hearing and part of the night vision, as long as there were no accidents, with his own skills, he could completely touch the zombie not far away, once he approached the zombie within five or six meters, with his current physical fitness and super-first-class skills, he could accurately stab the blade into the zombie's head without making a loud noise.

"It's weird, I obviously heard movement here," Wu Zong said to himself, "Where are the zombies moving?

While pondering, Wu Zong was disappointed and prepared to try it in another room, but just as he lifted his legs, the door that had not moved suddenly opened a small crack.

Wu Zong looked back keenly—a cute little girl who was only six or seven years old was leaking half of her head through the narrow crack in the door, blinking and looking at herself cautiously.

"Little sister," Wu Zong was overjoyed, turned around and squatted outside the door to look at the little girl: "Are you alone?"

Wu Zong didn't want to scare the child, although he squatted down and asked the well-behaved little girl gently, but the dagger behind him had already fallen into his palm the moment he squatted down, and the countless escapes from death in his previous life warned him to always be vigilant when he was not sure whether any creature was zombie or not - even if it was a child.

In the face of strangers, the little girl looked a little timid, but finally spoke: "Also, there is mother." ”

Seeing that the little girl could speak clearly, Wu Zong breathed a sigh of relief and quietly pinned the dagger back to his waist: "Brother is here to save you, can I take you and my mother away?"

On the way here, Wu Zong had already planned, whether he could save people or not, he had to quickly find a car to go to Lin Xiao's house, after all, there were important materials there, enough to stay in a safe situation for two months or even longer, during this period, he could also go out from time to time to hunt some lonely zombies to try his luck, and find some strengthening cores to continue to strengthen his body, he began to strengthen his body in the early stage of the disaster, four or five years earlier than the previous life, as long as there were no major accidents, he was confident that he would find a solution when he faced the Heavenly Father again.

After getting her mother's consent, the little girl opened the door and let Wu Zong in, then turned around and gently locked the door again.

This ward is not big, there are two beds, and Wu Zong turned the hall and saw the weak woman lying outside.

The woman was half-sitting, with one hand hidden under the quilt, staring at him cautiously, her eyes full of vigilance, and in the vigilance, Wu Zong also saw her fear.

He knew that the woman must have a knife or something in her hand hidden under the covers.

"Don't be nervous, I don't have any malicious intent," Wu Zong raised his hands to his chest to signal that the woman didn't take anything: "I am also from the chest ward of this building, and I only came here when I heard movement here." ”

After speaking, the woman seemed to relax her vigilance, and Wu Zong half-jokingly added: "The fruit knife should be placed at the head of the bed, it is easy to hurt the child." ”

As soon as Wu Zong's words fell, the woman's body stiffened just now, and she couldn't help but be taken aback in her heart, she didn't know how this young man could see through the hand hidden in the quilt at a glance holding a fruit knife.

She subconsciously shrank back, and then simply pulled her hand out, holding the fruit knife in both hands, the tip of the knife was facing Wu Zong: "What do you want to do?"

Wu Zong really wanted to smack himself with a big mouth, and said in his heart Why should I make up such a sentence, I guessed it casually, but it turned out that I really got it right, which is too inch.

"I really don't have any malicious intent," Wu Zong took two steps back, spreading his hands a little helplessly: "I just want to know what happened in the past three days, I've been in a coma, and I really want to know where my companions have gone." ”

Seeing that Wu Zong really didn't look like he was going to do something, the woman thought about it for a while, although she didn't know how he could be so keen to find out that he was hiding a knife, but it didn't seem to matter, and the moment she saw Wu Zong, she also had her own thoughts in her heart.

"The troops have been evacuated urgently," the woman put down her knife and leaned against the pillow behind her. The confrontation just now obviously took her out of her already small amount of physical strength.

"Emergency evacuation?" Wu Zong was a little surprised: "This encirclement is like an iron bucket, presumably there will be no fewer troops stationed, what situation needs to be evacuated urgently?"

"It's like a dark cloud," the woman looked a little uncomfortable when she recalled, and those things were really terrible: "Living dark clouds, piece by piece, they will wrap people in them when they see them, and the troops have nothing to do with them." ”

"Worm Cloud," Wu Zong subconsciously said.

"What?" the woman didn't understand.

"Oh," Wu Zong shook his head: "It's nothing, you continue." ”

"And then it won't take long for those who are swept down by the clouds to get up and become, that kind of thing," the woman gestured more tactfully, not wanting her daughter to know too much.

"So the troops stationed ......," the woman continued.

Speaking of which, Wu Zong already understood what terrible things had happened here during the time he had been in a coma.

The dark clouds that the woman was talking about were not actually clouds, but a terrifying swarm of tens of millions of small flying insects only about a millimeter, whose scientific name is gnats - a small flying insect that lives in shady places, and may be found in ordinary toilets.

The harmless small flying insects will become very aggressive after being strengthened by the fungus, and will appear in groups from a single one, and once they appear, they will almost cover the sky and the sun, just like the woman said like a dark cloud, so it is called "insect cloud" by Wu Zong.

The tiny body allows them to smoothly enter the human respiratory tract or digestive tract, lay eggs in the human lungs or intestines, and turn healthy people into reproduction containers.

But don't forget, they carry super fungi that can "come to life" and become feeding machines, which provide an infinite supply of nutrients to the eggs, which will burst open when the time is ripe and a new batch of gnats will rush out of the human body down the digestive and respiratory tracts.

Wu Zong was "lucky" to see it once, the worm cloud that broke out of the eggs rose from the mouth of a walking zombie, and now he still feels his scalp tingle when he thinks about it.

Although disgusting, I have to admit that this is a peculiar way of parasitism in the biological chain, where humans are used as hosts to achieve secondary parasitism of fungi and mutant gnats.

"So the troops stationed there evacuated before they even had time to organize, right?" Wu Zong originally wanted to drink saliva to relieve the discomfort in his stomach, but after touching it for a long time, he remembered that he didn't take a water bottle, so he gave up.

The woman nodded.

"Then have you ever seen a girl who is about this tall," Wu Zong compared Qiqi's height: "With a ponytail and a school uniform from No. 2 Middle School, she is very beautiful." ”

The woman shook her head: "It was too chaotic that day, I don't remember it at all." ”

"Okay," although Wu Zong didn't have much hope, he couldn't help but be a little disappointed after listening to the woman's words: "But thank you." ”

"I want to ......" The woman looked at Wu Zong and said with some embarrassment: "I want to ask you to take my daughter." ”

Wu Zong was stunned for a moment, then smiled, waved his hand and said, "I'm here to save you." ”

"It's not us," the woman interrupted him, pulling the little girl who was standing aside at a loss, "It's my daughter." ”

Then, she lifted the covers.

Wu Zong was shocked to find that the trouser tube of her right leg was empty, and it had been amputated, and the only remaining left leg was also in a thick plaster, thick and thick wrapped in bandages like a zongzi.

She couldn't go.

For a moment, the room fell silent.

After a long time, the little girl said weakly: "Mom, aren't you leaving?"

The woman looked at her daughter's little face, not knowing how to answer, let alone why her naïve daughter was in such a disaster.

She held back her tears and pulled out an ugly smile: "Mom let's go, Mom will go to you after she is cured in the hospital, you go to dinner with your brother first, okay?"

Wu Zong's expression was complicated, he touched his body, took out the half pack of Yuxi that was left from the tiger's pocket before, took out a light stick, and turned his head to look out of the window.

"Then, when are you doing well, Mom," the little girl looked at her mother worriedly: "Then do you eat KFC, Xiao An will bring it back for you." ”

"I don't need to bring it to my mother," the woman took her daughter into her arms and patted her back gently, tears could no longer be controlled like a burst, and the faint light reflected by the tears flickered faintly in the dim ward: "When mom is well, mom will go eat with you." ”

"Well," the little girl looked a little embarrassed, "well, then mom, you have to hurry up." ”

"Okay, mom try," the woman sniffed, wiped away her tears with her sleeve, and then took off the small pendant hanging from her chest and put it around her daughter's neck, and said, "Go, go and eat with my brother." ”

Wu Zong also finished smoking, he didn't feel good in his heart, he took out a bottle of medicine from his bag and put it on the bedside table, then glanced at the woman and picked up the little girl and said, "Brother will take you to eat KFC." ”

"No," the little girl shook her head, "when mom is ready, mom will take me to eat." ”

"Okay," Wu Zong nodded relaxedly, hung the hook lock on the edge of the window, sat on the windowsill with the child in his arms, and then opened the window and turned outside.

He hugged the little girl tightly and nodded to the woman on the hospital bed, pulled the rope, and kicked his legs against the wall to slide downstairs.

The woman wiped away her tears, picked up the medicine bottle at the bedside and looked at it, it was a bottle of sleeping pills, she didn't hesitate, poured out a handful and swallowed it, and showed a last smile to her daughter.

Wu Zong pursed his lips and took one last look at the strong woman, and then moved the slip buckle and took the little girl and the sun to slide into the increasingly thick ink.

"Xiao An," Wu Zong whispered to the little girl in his arms, "Your mother is a hero. ”

"Of course," said the little girl, looking proud, "Mommy is strong." ”

Wu Zong hummed and stopped talking.

Women are weak, and mothers are strong.