Chapter 3: Fate hangs by a thread
"No... It's okay, just pay attention and be careful of the wound inflammation. With that, Ma Rui retreated to his room.
Judging from the current situation, it is clear that he still does not know that he will be infected. Otherwise, he wouldn't have just pulled up his sleeves and looked at it so lightly.
Ma Rui thought to himself that even if he told him now, he would not believe that he would become a zombie, so instead of wasting his tongue arguing, it was better to calm himself down and think about what to do next.
He took a quick look at his room, the second time he'd looked at his room so closely, besides the first time he'd been here to see a house. This level of detail allowed him to observe the peeling skin of the wall, exposing the cracked wall.
He glanced at it quickly, and finally landed on the bedside table. He stepped forward quickly, and there stood an arm force that had fallen into ashes.
I recall that this arm strength device was bought at the beginning of the year because I watched a fitness video on the Internet, but before I bought it, I didn't break it twice, so I threw it aside and never moved again.
At the moment, there is no better weapon for self-defense in the entire room other than this thing.
Ma Rui picked up the arm force machine and weighed it in his hand, which was still a lot heavier than a baseball bat. He tried to swing it, and when he shook it with one hand, he almost twisted his wrist.
It looks like it's going to take two hands. Marry twisted his wrist, then placed his arm on the bed and sat down along the edge of the bed.
Then he took out his mobile phone, he first tried to call the police, there was a blind sound on the end of the phone, he didn't show much frustration, according to the situation in front of him, it should be expected that he didn't connect.
But what he didn't expect to hear was a blind sound, which means that the signal has been blocked.
Having said that, Ma Rui still tried to broadcast a phone call to the landline at home in H City, and as before, there was no prompt tone.
He put down his phone and couldn't help but remember when the virus started to break out. He thought of the girl he saw at the convenience store who bought a band-aid, but it was only a fleeting memory.
It seems that the usual world has been suddenly broken, like a lightning bolt in the clear sky, without the slightest warning. He got up and walked to the window, opened the corner of the curtain, and the street lamp was still on as usual.
The buildings in the distance were still burning, and the streets were already in a mess, and it was impossible to tell whether they were zombies or living people. But Ma Rui still saw the bald uncle he met in the alley at a glance.
He walked in confusion under the yellow street lamp, his eyes were gray, the white vest on the front was torn into strips, his exposed belly was torn into a large gap, and the organs in his body were half-hung out.
Less than twenty minutes ago, he was still alive.
Is it only twenty minutes? This made Ma Rui's heart tighten, and he looked in the direction of the door of the room vigilantly.
After wandering back and forth in the room many times, he finally made up his mind and pushed the door open. He walked out with a tense face with small steps.
There was no one in the living room. Marley shook his head back and forth, and there was a packet of freshly opened potato chips on the sofa. Could it have been an accident? Ma Rui immediately retreated to the room and brought the arm strength device with him.
He clenched his arms with both hands, first passed the bathroom, glanced at the door, which had not been opened, and then quickly aligned his gaze to the room where the couple lived.
The door was closed and there was no sound. Ma Rui moved to sit on the sofa in the living room.
The TV was playing the cached movie silently, Ma Rui didn't look at the content carefully, and he didn't even know what kind of movie was playing, he just cared about the time shown on it, and his eyes kept sweeping to the room where the couple was.
After five minutes, a little commotion began to come from the room, and although the sound insulation was not good, it was still difficult to hear what was being said because the sound was so soft. Ma Rui held his arm force in both hands and couldn't help shaking his feet.
In order to ease the tense atmosphere, he also deliberately turned on the sound of the TV a little. Pretend to look relaxed.
Immediately after, the TV was filled with the words "Bang! Ma Rui was so frightened that he looked at it, and it turned out that he was playing a war movie. Immediately after, there was a "Bang!" from inside the house. "A bang.
Marry looked back and forth, reconfirming that it wasn't the sound coming from the TV.
"Bang!" Another bang. This time he heard clearly, something like glass was broken, he quickly clenched his arm force, and muttered in his heart: "Is it already a corpse?" β
Then I heard Ye Yao's noisy voice. After a while, she slammed the door and walked out. The tension dissipated.
Ye Yao's face was dissatisfied, but after seeing Ma Rui, she also restrained herself, she sat on another sofa and pouted.
"Quarrelsome?" Marry asked in a low voice.
"I don't know what kind of illness I am committing, and when I come back, I will find fault inexplicably." Ye Yao frowned: "I was bitten, and I didn't bite it, I was always angry with me." Before I could get angry, he dropped the glass first. β
"If only you were bitten and just get angry." Marry muttered.
"What did you say?" Ye Yao looked sideways at Ma Rui, as if she noticed something unusual, turned around and sat facing him and said to him, "I felt like you had something to say from just now. β
Ma Rui kept turning back and forth and biting his lip, his palms slowly clenched his fists and said, "Don't you know the zombies in the movie?" Don't you worry about what will happen to you after being bitten? β
"Please, it's all a movie." Ye Yao shrugged his shoulders, then frowned, and said, "If you want to say that zombies will appear, it seems not impossible to be bitten and become zombies." β
"I can say for sure that it will be a zombie. Because I've seen it with my own eyes. Ma Rui's voice was lowered again, and his eyes unconsciously aimed at the hidden door.
"He's going to be a corpse?" Ye Yao's face was moved, as if he had suddenly lost his blood and turned pale. She slowly stood up, as if to approach the door, and took a step forward, but out of fear, she quickly backed her steps.
"I'm worried about when he's going to be a corpse." Ma Rui gradually blurred his gaze from the door, and then focused on Ye Yao who got up, and couldn't help sighing.
Before he could say comforting words, Ye Yao lowered his eyes and shed tears. But she didn't cry loudly, but her body kept shaking.
Marry knew well that she must be desperate now, but he reminded him, "I think you'd better not go in." β
"Obviously everything... Everything is fine. For... Why... Ye Yao said intermittently with a crying voice.
"If you wake up and don't have any information about paying your rent at the first glance, I think everything is really good." Marry quipped.
"You know, I've been talking to him for three years and have been through countless splits and reunionsγγγγγ" Ye Yao wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, choked up and said firmly, "No, I still have to go in and see him." β
As soon as Ye Yao's words fell, the door that was originally hidden was pushed open. The man staggered out of the room.
His coffee-colored skin turned gray for a while, and there were even signs of purple, the bite on his arm had begun to fester, and his pupils had begun to fade.
"What are you doing standing here!" The man seemed to suddenly see Ye Yao, and his originally dull face was a little more angry.
"I..."
"You what you! In addition to eating all day long, it is sleeping! The man's face began to become hideous, and the green tendons near the eye sockets also appeared gray, which was unusually conspicuous.
Ma Rui stood up vigilantly and tightened the arm strength weapon in his hand.
Suddenly, he glanced at Ma Rui, whose originally hideous face was even more distorted: "What are you doing sitting here!?" You two !! Didn't you do something behind my back! β
The man waved his fist and was about to hit Ye Yao.
"Nope! That's not true. Ye Yao hurriedly retreated and dodged a blow.
"You still dare to hide!" The man roared, and at that moment his pupils completely turned gray. The roar turned into the roar of a zombie in an instant. He pounced towards Ye Yao with his teeth and claws.
"Not good! He's not your boyfriend anymore! Ma Rui dragged Ye Yao behind him. Knocked the zombie away with his body.
The zombie took two small steps back, turned his target to Marry, and pushed him down on the couch. The arm strength machine, which had been prepared for a long time, was useless at the critical moment and rolled to the ground.
The zombie clattered and gritted his teeth, and Ma Rui pressed his hands against the zombie's chin.
"Help!" He struggled to get a voice out of his throat.
Ye Yao, who was standing on the side, picked up the arm force device that fell to the ground, hesitated slightly, and looked at Ma Rui, who was gradually blushing, she gritted her teeth and pumped towards the zombie's waist with all her strength.
The zombies lying on Ma Rui's body not only did not react, but struggled more intensely.
"Head!! Head!! Marry roared with all his might.
The zombie's open mouth of blood kept dripping saliva, and Ma Rui's stomach was a gust of wind that turned over the river, but compared to his stomach, his arms had begun to tremble violently, as if he couldn't support it at any time.
"Ahh With Ye Yao's scream, the arm force weapon was thrown out again, and this time it hit the right face of the zombie. His head tilted to the side for a moment.
Ma Rui took the opportunity to burst out with all his strength and pushed the zombie away, and stood up with a roll.
At this time, he realized that the zombie's head couldn't turn, and it seemed that the cervical vertebrae had been displaced. Ma Rui snatched the arm force weapon from Ye Yao's hand, and the red hands exerted force again, and the grip of one end of the arm force machine perfectly hit the temple on the right side of the zombie.
The entire zombie was knocked to the ground like a baseball for a while. Ma Rui seized the opportunity and stabbed his arm into the zombie's head straight from top to bottom. Black and red blood seeped through the ground with white brain fluid.
Ma Rui collapsed to the ground as if he had been drained of strength, his tumbling stomach gushing out of his throat like a volcano at the last moment.
Ye Yao, who was standing on the side, looked at all this with blank eyes, there were still tears in the corners of her eyes, she couldn't accept all this that happened in front of her, but she had to tell herself that this was how it happened.
She shook her head slightly, then fell to her knees and fainted.
At this moment, the wall-mounted telephone by the door rang...