Chapter 11: Liu Sheng's Traces

The city is full of buildings and should be crowded with people, but the streets are full of crashed cars, billowing smoke from high-rise buildings, broken signboards and broken glass from the shops on the street. The streets were littered with dead bodies with severed arms, and there were dried black blood stains everywhere.

A few thin black zombies on the road hunched their waists like hunting dogs and sniffed around, scurrying to another place from time to time to find something, moving swiftly like hairless black monkeys. In three days, the million-person city was slaughtered by zombies and turned into a ghost town with no people.

Since the zombies broke through the wall of the village that night, and the team of four people led by Liu Huangqiang's father disappeared, the village arranged for many people to search for a morning, except for Liu Sheng's walkie-talkie found under the wall, and no trace of the four of them was found within a radius of two kilometers.

Autumn always brings people a sense of sadness, withered leaves, autumn winds, falling leaves all over the sky, and after the black fog, the air seems to accelerate the speed of iron rusting, and there is rust everywhere. At eleven o'clock in the morning, the cool sunlight shone through the clouds on the roof of a six-story building. Liu Sheng, who was covered in blood, held a rifle in his hand and covered with a quilt on his body, lying motionless on the edge of the eaves and observing the corpses downstairs. It looks like he's been crawling here for a long time, and he's gray-faced, with a lot of eye at the corners of his eyes. Next to it was a piece of bread with half of the bread left over and three empty bottles of mineral water.

Back to last night, when the zombies broke into the wall, Liu Sheng took three villagers to the south gate to check the situation.

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In the dead of night, there are no street lights installed in the south, and the surrounding corn fields are a little eerie and terrifying when the cool breeze blows. The faint moonlight shone through the edge of the clouds, so that you could not see the road clearly. Of the four, only Liu Sheng was holding a flashlight. Each of the four men took a shovel as a weapon.

Luckily, there was no sign of breaking through the gate, and there wasn't even a single monster around.

"Uncle Liu, there doesn't seem to be any situation here, why don't we go back, look at the situation on the walkie-talkie, they don't seem to have enough manpower." One of the young men said with a trembling voice, holding his arms.

"Well, check it again, if there is no problem, let's go back to the tight point where this gate is reinforced." Liu Sheng climbed the ladder to the top of the wall, and used a flashlight to shine back and forth inside and outside the wall, carefully checking for omissions.

On the wall, Liu Sheng has walked a long distance on patrol, and the quiet night is quiet except for the "rustling" sound from the walkie-talkie on his waist, which makes people a little uneasy.

"I don't know what the city looks like now, and it shouldn't be safe to see this black light. I don't know when the country will send troops to rescue us, hey~". Liu Sheng looked at the direction of the city in the distance and said to himself sadly.

"Uncle Liu, the gate is reinforced, let's go back." Not far away, the shouts of one of the young men were heard.

Liu Sheng was just about to reply, when he suddenly heard a slightly strange voice in his ears. If you listen closely, the sound is coming from a long distance, and it is very familiar, but you can't tell what it came from for a while.

"Wait a minute, you guys come here first, I seem to hear something." Hurriedly beckoned them to come up and see if they could hear and recognize them.

The three of them quickly climbed the fence and ran over.

"When you hear what this sound is, it feels familiar, as if you've heard it somewhere, but you can't remember it for a while." Liu Sheng said to the three of them while listening.

The crisp sound is choppy, sometimes high and sometimes low.

"It's like gunshots!".

"Xiao Li, you heard it right, are you sure it's a gunshot?"

"Hmm~ Uncle Liu should be! Just like the gunshots in the TV series, these days on the National Day, the TV shows war movies every day, and my ears are calloused when I listen to it, I can't be wrong."

"Could it be that the country sent the army to rescue us?" Another young man said.

"It's possible, if it's really the army, we'll be saved." Liu Sheng said happily.

"Oh no, you see, the gunfire seems to be getting farther and farther away. The voice is getting less and less, and it feels like a retreat," said a tall, thin middle-aged man who had not spoken.

Listen closely, no, the dense gunfire just now has become scattered.

"No, we can't let the army withdraw, we have to catch up quickly and tell them what we are doing here." After speaking, Liu Sheng anxiously jumped off the wall and ran in the direction of the gunshot.

The other three didn't think much about it, and jumped off the wall one after another to chase Liu Sheng.

The four of them crossed the cabbage field, crossed the cornfield with their faces cut, and made a big turn to bypass the zombies gathered in the west. Quietly touched the back of the zombie and found a parked farm tricycle that I don't know whose family. Liu Sheng found the crank of the car from the back seat of the car. "Tong Tong Tong" shook the car with black smoke, Liu Sheng got up and got into the driver's seat, and the other three quickly turned over into the rear compartment without much hesitation. Liu Sheng stepped on the accelerator, and a puff of black smoke came out of the rear of the car, and the agricultural motor tricycle drove in the direction of the city. I don't know if Liu Sheng intentionally or unintentionally, the motor tricycle was too loud, and a large number of monsters were attracted to turn around and chase Liu Sheng's car.

Because of the Winter Olympics to be held in the urban area, many places around the city are being demolished and repaired. The road that Liu Sheng and the four of them drove on was a newly paved road, with no street lights installed on the side of the road, and on both sides of the wide road were rows of newly planted poplars with the thickness of bowls and small pine trees about one meter high. There is only one light on the dilapidated old-fashioned tricycle that the owner himself installed with a faint light, which can not illuminate the road at all, but fortunately the moon came out of the clouds at this time, relying on the bright moonlight not to drive the car to the roadside ditch, although he was anxious, but after all, it was night, and the sight was not very good, so Liu Sheng was not too fast. Always keep a distance from the zombies chasing behind. It won't be thrown off, and it won't be lost by zombies.

It had been an hour since the gunshots were heard, and it had been a long time since the gunshots were heard. The hearts of the four of them could not help but add a trace of eagerness and worry, they knew that if the army really withdrew, or all died, no one would know what the future of their village would be, and the result would definitely not be very good anyway. The four of them frowned, their faces were gloomy, and their eyes unconsciously focused on the direction of the previous gunshot, and they continued to try their luck. No one noticed the black shadow chasing in the middle of the green trees on both sides.

The mutation came suddenly, a rotting red-eyed zombie leaking out of the skull suddenly jumped up from the green belt like a hunting dog, and pounced towards Xiao Li, a young man sitting in the carriage on the side of the tricycle, a paw grabbed his neck, sharp nails inserted into the flesh, blood splattered out from the neck, and spilled against the other two people who were sitting, and before the other few people could react, the hound zombie pulled the young man Xiao Li off the carriage. Due to inertia, Xiao Li and the monster fell to the ground and rolled several times before stopping on the road tooth on the side of the road. There was blood all the way, and Xiao Li, the young man who was riding with him just now, is now a dead corpse covered in blood, with open skin, broken and twisted limbs, and separated heads.

"Xiao Li!" The car came to a halt, and everyone's frightened shouts had not yet fallen. The smell of blood wafted away attracted more zombies, tearing at the corpses on the ground like beasts.

It was as if this place was a nest of zombies, and the swarming hunchbacked zombies kept rushing out of the green belt. With sharp claws and leaky sharp teeth, he competed with the other party for the rotten flesh of the stumps, and the intestines and broken internal organs were pulled to the ground by the zombies.

The terrifying and terrifying scene frightened the remaining three people who were paralyzed and unable to possess their bodies.

"Quick, quick, drive!". The tall and thin middle-aged man was the first to react and slapped the carriage and shouted.

Liu Sheng came back to his senses, looked at Xiao Li, a young man with a broken body and a few pieces left, gritted his teeth and didn't expect to snatch back his body, he stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, and the tricycle rushed out with black smoke. At this time, Liu Sheng couldn't control it, and he couldn't see the road clearly. The zombies that came out just now were obviously much more powerful than the zombies who broke into the village and were dumbfounded, and at this moment, the three of them were so frightened that they didn't dare to stop for a second. The bumpy tricycle kept knocking the hounds and zombies that rushed over or crushing under the wheels, and the tricycle almost overturned several times, but fortunately it had many years of driving skills to survive.

Half an hour later, the hounds and zombies were finally shaken off, and the three of them entered the city.

The dead and silent city, without a trace of light, through the moonlight, you can see bloodstains everywhere, corpses, and a dozen zombies that are only half of their bodies and crawling slowly, and the rusty billboard reads "Beijing and Zhang Heart to Heart, Hand in Hand to Hold the Olympics" slogan, facing this scene gives people a strong sense of visual impact, as if coming to the entrance of hell. The three of them jumped out of the car and looked at each other, swallowed their saliva, their legs trembled, and no one dared to take a step first.

"Let's go in, it's all here, and the way back is also blocked by those brutes, and the left and right are dead, it's better to go in and look for it, if we find the army, we will be saved." Liu Sheng said with a trembling voice.

The three of them actually understood in their hearts that the gunfire had stopped for almost two hours, and even if the army did not withdraw, it was estimated that they were also killed by zombies. After all, the zombies in the periphery are so powerful, and the zombies in the city don't necessarily have to evolve to any powerful level. But I also know that there is no way back now, I can only continue to move forward, if I even have this idea of comforting myself, people face this terrifying city full of weirdness, despair will make the heart collapse at any time.

"Well, yes, let's go in, I've been running away for so long, I'm a little hungry from the car, so let's go in and find something to eat." Said the tall and thin middle-aged man.

The young man opened his mouth tremblingly, wanting to say something, but he was too frightened all the way, and his strength was a little insufficient, so he didn't make a sound for a long time, so he pointed to the pants of the two of them and looked at himself to signal them, and laboriously squeezed out a word from his mouth, "Cool!" ”。

"Then let's find some more pants by the way." Liu Sheng tugged at himself and said with a wry smile.

I don't know when the scared three people smiled awkwardly at each other.

The three of them crossed their legs side by side, facing the moon in an external figure-eight posture, and walked comically towards the once familiar city, and the moonlight stretched the shadows of the three of them for a long time.