Volume 1: The Journey of the Corpse Chapter 23: The Bloodstained Ancient Sword Castle
After knowing that the monitor was off, Su Chen's mood did not improve, and he was blaming himself for his mistake.
Ye Yao on the side had a calm face and followed behind Su Chen quietly, no one knew what she was thinking at the moment.
On the spiral staircase on the second floor, Su Chen looked left and right, made sure that there was no hidden danger, and quickly went downstairs.
Su Chen didn't know the internal structure of the Ancient Sword Castle, but he could determine the location of the emergency exit, after all, he entered directly above the emergency exit.
In front of the safe passage door, Su Chen and Ye Yao glanced at each other, he didn't expect this road to be so smooth, not only did he not meet the survivors, but even the dead zombies were not seen.
The two stayed in place for a while, and Su Chen faced the safe passage door within reach, thoughtful.
Su Chen's operation this time was very successful, but the gains were limited, the combat equipment in the Ancient Sword Castle was far more than what he had gotten, and in the face of an increasingly severe post-apocalyptic life, these weapons in his hands alone could not satisfy him.
If you want more combat equipment, you have to consider the survivors of the ancient sword keep, which means that the two sides may fight for it.
Compared to the zombie hordes outside the Ancient Sword Castle, Su Chen was even more reluctant to face the survivors who could think.
"Ye Yao, I want to take some risks, I wonder if you are willing?" Su Chen thought about several plans in his heart, and after feeling that it could be done, he planned to explain it to Ye Yao.
"Which of your actions is not risky, just say, as long as it is not too hot, I will cooperate with you." Ye Yao looked sideways at Su Chen, she knew a little bit of Su Chen's thoughts in her heart.
"I'm not satisfied with what we've gained this time, and I think we'll meet the survivors here to bring this operation to a successful end."
"Tell me about your plans." Ye Yao obviously did not object to Su Chen's idea.
"There are a lot of plans, let's talk about the least dangerous plan A, we will bring in all the zombies outside and rely on ropes to go down from the fourth floor, which is the least risky, but if the other party is not hostile, our approach may be too cruel."
"Plan B, we make a small mechanism at the safe passage door, let it open regularly, and we take this time to talk to them, the negotiation is naturally the best, if it can't be negotiated, then continue the second half of Plan A, Plan B is more risky, but if the other party is not hostile, the risk will be minimized."
"Personally, I don't think the rest of the plans are very good, except for these two plans."
"I don't agree with Plan B, if the other party has a gun in his hand, we will send him to death, as for Plan A, if the other party has a gun in his hand, one will take a picture, our situation is equally dangerous, you don't have any other good ideas?" Ye Yao thought about it and refused.
"There's one worst idea, just doing it, I'm going to have a bad conscience."
"Let's talk about it."
"We made a small trap at the safe passage door, and when the corpses poured in, they would naturally come out, and we would ambush them outside." Su Chen hesitated for a moment and said the plan he didn't want to implement the most.
"That's a good idea, they fled in a hurry, and they definitely wouldn't think of an ambush, so they used this idea."
"But..."
"How can there be so many problems, since you thought of this idea, you must have calculated the consequences in your heart, the end of the world is a world of cannibalism, if you think it can't be done, then we will leave now, anyway, they will face the zombies outside sooner or later, we just speed up their pace." Ye Yao didn't feel that this idea was inhumane, but felt that it was beneficial to both parties.
Hearing Ye Yao say this, Su Chen felt that it seemed to make sense, the other party was trapped in the Ancient Sword Castle, unless he left with Su Chen, he would face the zombies outside no matter what, and it was impossible for Su Chen to leave with them, so it was a nature to let the zombies enter the Ancient Sword Castle and break through with them from the Ancient Sword Castle.
It's just that these are all Su Chen's self-comfort, and he can't accept fighting against his kind.
In this regard, Ye Yao had experienced the cruelty of the end times, so she was very decisive and not as hesitant as Su Chen.
"Let's go, there will still be a chance for war materials in the future." He wouldn't hesitate to let him kill zombies, but if he attacked his compatriots, he wouldn't be able to make up his mind at all unless he was a heinous bastard.
Ye Yao's face was calm, she was not surprised by Su Chen's final choice, she knew that Su Chen had kindness buried deep in her heart, otherwise he would not have rescued her and Ye Xin, she looked down at her heart, the bulging hill bag did not float at all, she knew that she was no longer the original self, and she no longer had a good impression of the survivors.
Outside the safe passage door, several dead zombie corpses exuded a putrid smell, Su Chen glanced back at the safe passage door with a gap, did not deal with it, and turned to leave.
An hour after Su Chen left, the warm winter sun slowly warmed up, and the survivors in the Ancient Sword Castle were discussing the issue of food, and now that their food had bottomed out, they were struggling to continue to stay in the safety of the Ancient Sword Castle or take the risk to fight their way out of the siege.
When you can't make a choice, Heaven sometimes helps you make it.
Near the safe passage door, the zombie corpses that emitted a strong stench attracted the zombies nearby, and the zombies' sense of smell was very sensitive, especially the rancid smell after the death of the same kind, which was an excellent delicacy for them.
The smell emitted by the corpses of the eight zombies was very strong, and after eating the corpses of the same kind, these zombies roared a few times with some satisfaction, and then wandered around wantonly.
At this time, a gust of wind blew, and the gap in the safe passage door widened slightly, making a subtle soft sound.
The zombies' heads involuntarily turn to the flashpoint of sound, and their sight is dispensable, which makes their actions rely mainly on hearing, and secondarily on smell.
The wind came unfortunately, and the zombie closest to the safe passage door had already crashed into the door, making a very crisp thump sound.
For a while, all the zombies who were "on standby" seemed to smell the fragrance of blood, and they began to go crazy, roaring, chaotic footsteps, and colliding sounds, mixed together to form an ugly symphony.
The zombies at the front slammed open the safe passage door and squeezed in through the gap, perhaps fearing that their companions would snatch the food, these zombies ran very fast, and passed ten, ten to hundred, attracting all the zombies on this side.
At this time, in the deepest part of the Ancient Sword Castle on the first floor, in the conference hall, there were seats that could have sat for more than three hundred people, but now there were only heads in the first and second rows.
Directly in front of the conference hall, yellow-haired youths were talking about their current dire situation.
There are a total of twenty-one people in the first and second rows, and among these twenty-one people, fifteen of them are Huang Mao's "little brothers", like Su Chen, they came here after the outbreak of the end times, and they wanted to find some weapons to take advantage of, but they didn't expect to attract corpses and were trapped here.
And the remaining six people, only one is a staff member in the ancient sword castle, and five are tourists, in fact, the number of staff and tourists in the ancient sword castle is more than that, but the arrival of Huang Mao is like a "devil entering the village", not only robbing them of their food, but also throwing all the men out of the ancient sword castle, and the women stay as 'sex' tools.
Before the end of the world, these gangsters were already a little extreme, but after the outbreak of the end times, their nature was completely stimulated, and it can be said that they burned, killed, looted, and did all kinds of evil.
When the corpses poured into the ancient sword castle, the leader Huang Mao was "speaking", he didn't know much, he only knew that the food had been eaten now, the more little brothers, the more mouths to eat, and if he continued to consume here, he would starve to death before anyone.
The leader Huang Mao is the craziest, and his work is simply inhumane, which barely stabilized this group of little brothers.
Huang Mao was only halfway through his words when there was a sound of noise from the wooden door of the conference hall, followed by the familiar roar of zombies.
Huang Mao was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly threw down the microphone in his hand, the microphone was originally a dispensable item, but now it is good, this dispensable microphone attracted all the zombies that broke into the ancient sword castle.
Don't look at the gangsters who bully ordinary people when they are very "awesome", they really encounter zombies and other dangers, and they are like rabbits drilling holes, no, as soon as the zombies block the door of the conference hall, this group of gangsters will be in a mess.
After the leader Huang Mao threw down the microphone, he looked around and found that there was an emergency exit in the conference hall, so he ran there without thinking about it, as for these little brothers, life and death have nothing to do with him.
These gangsters also have a lot of nimble masters, and a few of them make quick decisions and follow behind the gangster leaders, wanting to leave through the emergency exit.
At this time, the main entrance of the luxurious conference hall had been knocked by the "hungry" corpses, and one after another zombies squeezed in through the gaps, and on the other side, Huang Mao, who had opened the emergency exit, was bitten by the oncoming zombies before he could adapt to the darkness of the corridor.
Behind Huang Mao, several of the most agile thugs saw that the situation was wrong, and the thugs closest to Huang Mao kicked Huang Mao's ass.
Huang Mao's trachea was ruptured, and the severe pain made him tremble all over his body, and he wanted to insult the little brother behind him, but he found that he didn't have any strength in his body, and the dim world in front of him became turbid.
"!" Kicking away the yellow-haired gangster poked his head out, and found that the corridor was full of zombies, he just wanted to retreat, but the companions behind him were already crowding his back, so that he had to face the zombies in front of him and behind him, and like Huangmao, in such a narrow space, in the face of such a number of zombies, he had no way to survive at all.
At this time, the entire conference hall was already in chaos, more than a dozen thugs were struggling for their lives, and on the far left of the first row of the conference hall, the six female survivors were like ashes, they did not struggle, they did not resist, their eyes revealed the fear of death, although they were afraid, they were willing to accept death.
The rest of the gangsters quickly saw the cruel reality, they drew their weapons and resisted hard, but the zombies didn't know the pain, and there were many of them, and it was in vain to resist and struggle.
The battle of the survivors' impossibility lasted for ten minutes, the chamber was littered with blood and stumps, and occasionally the survivors who were not yet dead could be seen struggling on the ground for a few moments, and the faces of ugly zombies were in the pupils full of fear.