Chapter 5: A New Partner
The man squeezed his facial features together in pain, and Su Yi screamed and cried bitterly.
The man gritted his teeth and simply didn't do anything, and dragged out the door with one hand around the middle-aged woman's neck.
The "bang~" door was slammed shut. The room was quiet for a while.
The overhead fan continued to spin, and the faucet in the bathroom that I forgot to turn off now sounded exceptionally loud.
Sue sat on the ground and suddenly laughed, then changed from a smile to a cry. Emotions hovered back and forth on the verge of collapse.
Suddenly, she got up in a panic and hurried back to her room, grabbing the phone on the computer desk.
"Call the police! Call the police first! With trembling hands, she tapped the screen quickly, and as she pressed the dial button, she put her phone to her ear. She stood still and waited, unsure of how much time had passed, so she could only stare at the numbers in the bottom left corner of the computer monitor with her eyes stunned.
The numbers on time have jumped! But I didn't hear anything from my phone. She was reluctant to dial again, and after repeated attempts she realized that there was no signal.
She hugged her head uncontrollably and squatted down crying. The screams kept coming from all around, and she was so scared that she didn't even have the courage to close her eyes. The bloody and hideous faces echoed in my mind.
"Don't come here! Go away! She roared to her feet and strode toward the door.
It seemed that all the screams disappeared for a while, and then the sound was evoked in my ears little by little. She stood in front of the coffee-colored security door, and gradually calmed down.
She recalled the wall-mounted phone next to the door, which was more like a walkie-talkie than a telephone, and it didn't need to be connected to a public signal, but it could only reach users in the building. It was also installed for the convenience of rent collection.
Sue picked up the phone and pressed the corresponding number 3 upstairs.
"Hey." Marry walked over to the door and picked up the phone.
Sue didn't answer, but kept sobbing. After some communication, Ma Rui had a general understanding of the situation downstairs. Although he is not very familiar with their family, he has been a tenant for more than a year, not to mention facing a girl, he comforted:
"It's safe to stay at home, and it's better not to move around now. It's too dangerous out there. ”
"But I don't want to be alone, I'm afraid... Sue snorted.
"You just said that your parents ran outside the house. The current situation may not be optimistic, and you can't go to the corridor. ”
"Please, think of a way, I really don't want to be alone."
Ma Rui was silent, he looked back at Ye Yao who fainted on the ground, and the unrecognizable body of her boyfriend lying on the ground.
He pondered for a moment and said, "Let me think." ”
He looked up at the ceiling, then looked near and far, and finally stopped at the window.
"You wait for me." Ma Rui left the phone empty as he spoke, and then walked to the balcony, he moved out and looked downstairs, the height of the two floors was about 3 meters.
Then he glanced at the height of the curtains, which seemed to be almost the same, but the height of the balcony was still a little shorter, but it was more than enough to connect the two curtains.
Without much thought, Ma Rui pulled down the two curtains, but fortunately, the curtains were not made of silk but made of heavy cloth, so that they would not break.
He twisted the curtain into a twisted shape from end to end, then tied a dead knot to make a rope, and then went back to tell Sue.
Sue walked briskly to the balcony and looked downstairs, then looked up, and Marry, who had been waiting for a long time, threw the end of the rope down.
"Do you really want to climb?" Su Yi asked timidly, there was a mess below, and there were zombies wandering upstairs.
"Don't worry, just hold on, I can pull you up." As he spoke, Marry wrapped the other end of the curtain around the wooden chair, and then folded the chair horizontally and stuck it on the door frame.
Sue wiped tears from the corners of her eyes and grabbed the rope with both hands.
The sudden aggravation made it difficult for Ma Rui to adapt for a while, and his body sank down, if he didn't prepare in advance, he was afraid that he would be carried down.
It seems that he still overestimated his own strength. Ma Rui gritted his teeth, and his originally red and swollen arm was congested and swollen again for a while, and a feeling of soreness swept through his body. Because the palm of the hand was clenched very tightly, the nails had sunk into the flesh and began to force out a trace of blood.
"Girl, you really have a bit of weight." Ma Rui closed his eyes and couldn't help but say.
"I'm only over eighty pounds... Su Yi grabbed the perimeter of the balcony with one hand, and Ma Rui suddenly felt a burst of lightness. Immediately afterwards, he threw away the rope in his hand and hurriedly helped him up.
"Whew~" The two exhaled at the same time.
"It's not easy." Ma Rui shook his head, he originally wanted to say something, but seeing the tears remaining in the corners of Su Yi's eyes, he held back his words and simply said, "Let's go in first." ”
Sue walked in after Marry, and as soon as she stepped over the balcony, she noticed the corpse on the ground. Maybe it's because she has seen similar scenes before, she didn't scream, but covered her mouth and frowned.
"This virus is so powerful, as long as the person who is bitten will become a zombie, he will be infected, and he can only have an effect by hitting the head." Marry explained.
Hearing Ma Rui say this, Su Yi was even more convinced of his judgment, and his parents must be finished. A touch of sadness followed, not so much sadness as the emotion gradually got out of control, and the tears in the eyes kept rolling, as if they couldn't bear any care.
At this time, Ye Yao, who was in a coma, also woke up in a trance, she first saw Su Yi stunned, and then seemed to suddenly remember something and looked in the direction of the corpse, and the next second her pupils dilated rapidly, as if she still couldn't believe that all this was true.
"Instead of sitting sad, let's think about how we are going to live." "We don't know when there will be rescue, but judging from all the food we can eat, we can only hold out for three days at most," said Ma Rui. ”
Neither girl answered, when a flash of lightning split the night like day, followed by a loud bang and a downpour began to fall from the sky. The windows were not closed tightly, and the wind squeaked.
Ma Rui walked to the window and closed the window, a woman jumped out of the opposite second floor and fell on the concrete floor covered with rain, the woman didn't care about the pain, ran barefoot into the distance, and the nearby zombies were quickly attracted to it. It wasn't long before she was drowned in the crowd of corpses.
"I'd rather kill myself than be stripped alive by them." Ma Rui looked at the picture and muttered to himself.
It is said that tomorrow or accident never knows which will come first, and now he can truly understand this sentence. I was still worried about working a summer job, but in a blink of an eye, I was thinking about how to survive.
The more I think about it, the more ridiculous it becomes.
"If you want to eat, I actually have a lot of boxed snacks downstairs." Sue whispered, she really didn't want to look at the corpse on the ground, so she kept standing far away.
"Then it looks like we can stay a few more days."
"Will there really be a rescue?" Ye Yao lowered her head and suddenly burst out of a sentence.
"Huh?"
"Could this be the same as the movie, it will become uncontrollable." Ye Yao said.
"As far as the current situation is concerned, it is indeed menacing. It's faster than the flu. Uncontrollable should also be included in our plans. If we can't wait for help, we have to find a way to save ourselves. Ma Rui analyzed.
"How can I save myself? Go out and surrender to the zombies? Su Yi smiled bitterly.
"We might have to go out when we have to. After all, you can't sit back and wait for the food to run out and die. Ma Rui said calmly: "In this way, we need weapons." ”
"You're not going to tell me to use that, are you?" Su Yi pointed to the arm force that was rubbing straight against the zombie's head not far away.
"It's the only one I've found that works." Ma Rui spread his hands.
"I think the Tang knife should be better than this, right?"
"Tang Dao?"
"Hmm... Su Yi lowered his eyes, his voice became a little softer, and said, "There is a Tang knife hanging on the wall opposite my father's bed, and he specially found someone to customize it." It's his most beloved baby. ”
"It should have been slashed, right? I remember that the ornaments were all unbladed. ”
"Of course it's a blade. Otherwise, I would have been cut on my hand. Sue was like reminiscing.
"That's the best! But either way, that's tomorrow. Ma Rui shrugged his shoulders, clapped his arms alternately, and said, "Now we all need to rest, I'll go back to the house first." ”
"So what should I do?" Su Yi asked, looking at Ma Rui's distant back.
"Just find a place to sleep." Ma Rui didn't look back, and quickly closed the door after entering the house.
There was no light in the room, but it didn't look dark, which may have something to do with the fire outside the window, and even the night sky was reflected in crimson. Ma Rui lay on the bed with his hands behind his head, quietly looking out the window, thinking a lot of things in his head.
But he wasn't sure what he was thinking, as if he was reminiscing about his childhood, and like he was thinking about a scene of playing with his mobile phone in class, and suddenly a moment of his favorite girl in school flashed.
Usually he would only think about these things when he was about to fall asleep, but today it may be because the mobile phone has no network, so he can only enter this state in advance.
"Bang bang." There was a soft knock on the door.
"Come in, the door is unlocked." Marry sat up.
A small head poked in from outside the door, and in the dim light, Suy's delicate and small face and slightly embarrassed look could still be seen.
"There's a dead man out there, and I don't want to sleep there. Can I lie here? Sue asked cautiously, always showing her head until she saw Marry nodding her head, and she didn't enter the room.
"And where are you going to sleep?" Sue asked as soon as he climbed into bed.
"Of course I sleep here." Marry raised his voice slightly.
"Huh? Wouldn't it be like we'd have to sleep in a bed, I've never slept with a man before. Su Yi looked disgusted.
"I've slept with a woman." Ma Rui glanced at her with disdain and said, "It's really not okay, you and I can sleep on our feet." ”
"I don't want to smell your men's stinky feet. Let's talk about it first, you don't have anything to think about," Sue moved to the edge of the bed and lay down on her own.
Ma Rui just thought about talking to her, but he didn't expect that the door would be pushed open again. Ye Yao walked in with a sad face.
"Come on, now the three of them can fight the landlord."
"I don't dare to sleep alone."
"Okay, then I'll give you both a bed to sleep on, and I'll sleep on the ground." Ma Rui consciously got out of bed.
"It's okay, the bed is big enough anyway, and it's safer for three people to squeeze together. I'm timid, so let me sleep in the middle. Ye Yao proposed.
"Then don't be in a hurry to go to bed now, aren't you afraid that half-sleeping zombies will suddenly break in?" Ma Rui crossed his hands and said, "Why don't we push that wardrobe behind the door?" ”
"What if I want to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night?" Sue, who was already lying down, propped himself up with his hands and said.
"I don't care anyway, I can pee when I stand at the window." Ma Rui said, "If you really need it, I suggest you go now." ”