Chapter 13: This is just the beginning
"Bang!" The door was slammed shut.
Su Yi looked at the sweaty three people in front of him in shock, they leaned against the door at the same time, the door was constantly being hit, but the door seemed to be far harder than they imagined, except for the sound of the door, the whole door hardly produced any fluctuations.
The door slamming lasted for less than half a minute, and suddenly calm was restored, and the four of them looked at each other, only to see Qin Kai open his mouth.
"Looks like he's going to be picked up alive."
"That's what he did, too." Ma Rui straightened his back and twisted his head, the sweat on his neck reflecting the faint moonlight.
"Let's not stay too long, it's dark and eerie here." Sue poked upstairs.
The four of them were soon on the road again, but in the blink of an eye they were up one floor.
Qin Kai walked at the front of the line as always, he put one hand on the doorknob, and Ma Rui, who was standing on one side, held the Tang knife with both hands and aimed at the door.
The two of them looked at each other, and Qin Kai pulled down the doorknob little by little.
"Click~" The door was not locked, the hearts of the four of them tightened, and after seeing Ma Rui's firm nod, Qin Kai opened the door little by little.
Just revealing a gap, Ma Rui had already seen two zombies shaking inside, and he quickly frowned and shook his head. Qin Kai immediately closed the door.
"Let's take a look at it one level further." Marry looked up.
After entering the seventeenth floor of the staircase, the steps in the stairwell began to become wet, and when the four of them looked closely, they realized that the only window in the corridor on this floor was wide open, and it was already raining a lot.
Although the window is not big, the wind outside the house is not small, and the rain is sprinkled into the corridor in bursts.
Ye Yao went to push the window with her hand, and the moment she approached the window, the moonlight almost wrapped her whole body, and Qin Kai realized that the sparse clothes could no longer cover Ye Yao's figure.
The vision became blurred again as the window closed, and before Ye Yao could take a step, a piece of clothing was stuffed into his hand.
Maybe it was the experience just now that made her still not shake her mind, her mind was blank for a while, and she didn't look at Qin Kai until her hand touched the clothes.
"Put it on." Qin Kai has his upper body exposed, his arms are thin, but his body looks extraordinarily strong, this unusual body proportion, at a cursory glance, it seems to be a doll person.
Ye Yao hesitated for a moment while holding the clothes, and then looked at her body consciously. She realized that she was now unclothed, and hurriedly put on the clothes in her hand.
After doing this series of things, Qin Kai and Ma Rui stood at the door again, and like the previous operation, even the tense atmosphere did not change.
As the angle of the crack in the door gradually increased, Ma Rui's spirit became more and more concentrated, he didn't see zombies, only patches of blood on the ground.
A bad premonition bloomed in his heart, and he hesitated and never took the first step until the door was opened at a 45-degree angle.
The rain outside the house suddenly increased, and the sound of rain was like thunder, and the original restless mood became even more restless.
At this moment, a face with only half of the skull left suddenly appeared in front of Ma Rui's face. This so-called half of the face looks as if the entire mouth and chin have been chopped off by a large axe, leaving only half of the nose and more facial features.
But on closer inspection, the fractures don't look so neat. The bite marks remain not only on its face, but also on most of its body.
The sudden appearance of such an ugly face frightened Ma Rui, making him take several steps back, and the speed of the zombie was very fast, and he caught up with Ma Rui while he was retreating.
Fortunately, he had no teeth anymore, and he just hit Marry's arm with bloody flesh and skin.
Seeing this, Qin Kai pressed the door with his back and slammed it shut, and Ma Rui pierced the temple of the zombie in front of him with a backhand.
Immediately after that, the sound of banging on the door began to sound rapidly, and sure enough, there were a lot of zombies inside, Qin Kai thought to himself that he was one step ahead.
The tense and oppressive atmosphere always enveloped the night, no one spoke, and Ma Rui listened to the sound of the door banging, and walked upstairs without looking back. The other three followed, and only Sue would look in the direction of the door from time to time.
Eighteen.
When this number appeared in Ma Rui's eyes, the moonlight outside the window suddenly became a little brighter, and looking through the small window, the moonlight poured like a pillar, and the rainstorm became smaller in a moment, only the fire in the building that was still burning not far away was still burning.
"It looks like a shower." Marry approached the window and poked his head out to take a look.
At this time, Qin Kai had already put his hand on the doorknob, and before Ma Rui could get closer, he shook his head first.
"It looks like we have to go up, and the door on this floor is locked."
As soon as Qin Kai's words fell, the two women dragged their tired bodies and walked upstairs.
"Wait, don't worry." Ma Rui stopped: "If this door is locked, is it very likely that there is no one inside?" ”
"Maybe it's just that people on this floor never take the stairs, so the door to the safe passage is locked." Sue looked back and said.
"You can't think that the people on the floors down there climb the stairs on a normal day, do you?" Ma Rui raised his eyebrows: "It's more than a dozen floors." ”
"And what do you mean?" Qin Kai looked at him and asked.
"As Su Yi said, even if this door is always locked, if there are zombies inside, those who are still alive can't stand and wait for the elevator, right? So either there's no one in there, or there's no zombies, wouldn't it be the best for us either way? I shouldn't be wrong to say that, right? ”
"It seems to be the truth." Su Yi nodded: "But what if... ”
"There's nothing to pull in case I don't want to climb up any further." As he spoke, Ma Rui tugged at the doorknob and shook the door. The clanging sound echoed throughout the hallway.
"What are you doing here?" Qin Kai looked at Ma Rui on the side with novelty.
"Pry the door, I also have this kind of security door installed in my home, I forgot to bring the key once, and that's how I opened the door."
"Let's talk nonsense, how can the security door be shaken open like this." Su Yi looked at it with a look of disbelief, and his eyes were full of a trace of worry, after all, the movement of shaking the door was not small.
"You'll see." Ma Rui shook it more vigorously as he spoke, but the security door hardly showed any signs of being shaken open except for the louder noise.
Within two minutes, beads of sweat the size of beans began to seep out of Ma Rui's forehead, and the soreness on his arms became more and more intense. The three people who had been standing aside and watching also looked in different directions.
"There's no reason what's going on." Ma Rui took a long breath and shook it even harder.
"If you can't open it, this door must be locked." Qin Kai said.
"Yes, yes, yes, it should be locked up, otherwise it would be impossible to shake it off, but I have tried it myself."
"You think all the security doors are the same as yours, and the quality is too worrying." Sue said as he sat on the steps.
"No, isn't that where I live?" Marry asked rhetorically.
At this time, there was an unexpected sound in the door, and the four of them were alert for a while, and at the same time looked at the security door, followed by a "click". The door began to slowly push open.
A man in a formal suit appeared in front of the group. His shirt was stained with blood, and his eyes did not look surprised when he saw everyone, but were unusually calm. Behind him stood two men, who looked to be about the same age.
Ma Rui, who had experienced it before, was much more vigilant this time, and his palm never relaxed the Tang knife in his hand for a moment. And judging from the face alone, this team is even more difficult to deal with than the previous ones.
You can't be so lucky, right? What kind of demons and monsters have been encountered. I haven't done anything bad on weekdays. Ma Rui muttered in his heart, and hot and wet sweat began to appear between his palms.
The atmosphere continued to drop to freezing, and although it was only for a short minute, it seemed like half a century had passed.
"Great, and survivors. What are you doing standing and don't come in quickly. Feng Yibo looked at everyone with a happy face.
Hearing a voice break the deadlock, this made Ma Rui, who was holding his breath, finally relax a little.
"Wait, don't get busy coming in, have you been bitten?" Shook reached out to stop the crowd as they were about to go inside.
"We don't." Qin Kai looked straight at him, looking unconvinced.
"There is no basis for words." Shook watched calmly.
"And what do you want?"
"We need to get a physical check-up."
Hearing this, Ma Rui and Qin Kai's eyes turned to the two women behind them at the same time.
It seems that something is wrong, the two secretly make eye contact, and seem to have figured out how to deal with the three people in front of them in the shortest possible time.
At this time, Xiao Ke's voice sounded again: "You don't have to worry, women go to check women, men check men." ”
Immediately afterwards, Lin Xue appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
Lin Xue's appearance completely disintegrated the doubts and worries of Ma Rui and the others, and the face that had been tense finally showed a smile.
It seems that in just one night, people are more tired than ever, and those precautions and resistances that were once placed in the heart now have to be revealed in every look and action.
This kind of honesty after no rules is nothing more than the cruelest test of human nature.
It may be that human nature is inherently good, but the premise of inherently goodness has a fatal condition, that is, the situation in which oneself is in must not be a desperate situation.
In the sky where water and fire blend, the thick black smoke has turned into wisps of dust and drifted in every corner of the city. This adds a dead silence to the otherwise lifeless city.
For them, this is just the beginning.