Chapter 13: An Unexpected Awakening
Plateau area, 300 km east of Naple town, highway service section. A slightly damaged "Dow" pickup truck with blood on the glass bypassed the abandoned car barrier on the road. Slowly stopped on the side of the road.
The sky had begun to slowly darken, and the gas station without lights, under the last rays of afterglow, looked like a dying old man. The cars around him twisted around him like the wrinkles on the old man's face. On the ground, bloody clothes, scattered waste paper, shards of glass scattered everywhere, shoes soaked in swarthy and dry puddles.
Silently recounts the tragedy that once happened here.
Zeng Tianqi pulled out Plata from his waist and looked at the magazine with only half of the bullets left inside. Looking at Su Xiaoyu, Su Xiaoyu also shook his head after checking his equipment. As he approached the service area, he unsurprisingly encountered a mad corpse. A few scattered corpses were squeezed out of the cockpit of the deformed car that had been hit. The skin and flesh were full of blood, and he didn't know it, and he rushed to him with his teeth and claws. was abandoned by Zeng Tian, and he flicked his tail and knocked him out with the butt of the car. The latter two may have been injured before their deaths and came up with a very unnatural crawl. was shot off by Su Xiaoyu twice.
Zeng Tianqi turned around and said to Bazhuo and Marin in the car: "Stay in the car." The two men began to search the entire common area. The two first searched for supermarket supplies, and after entering the supermarket, because there was no light, Zeng Tianqi gave Su Xiaoyu a gesture to search separately. Zeng Tian abandoned it to the tool shelf in the east end. And Su Xiaoyu went to the food shelf in the west.
The supermarket was clearly robbed and scrambled. The shelves in the convenience food and snack section were knocked to the ground, and the bags scattered on the floor were visibly trampled on repeatedly. Most of the food on the shelves had been emptied, Su Xiaoyu looked around to see if there was anything abnormal, and then slowly selected the existing edible things. And Zeng Tianqi's tool area here is obviously much more tidy, and most of the tools that are useless to ordinary people are quietly abandoned on the shelves. Zeng Tianqi groped and pulled out a brand-new fire axe from the bottom of the tool rack, and pulled out two pieces of spring steel plates of the car from the bottom of the next shelf, and then moved all the hammers, saws, and power tools on the shelves as if shopping. Uniformly placed on a shopping cart. Then he looked at Su Xiaoyu, who was sorting out the food, whistled, the two nodded when they met, Zeng Tianqi held a fire axe in one hand and a gun in the other, and slowly opened the back door of the supermarket, the back door of the supermarket was an empty storage room. Most of the items on the shelves of the storage room, which is less than 10 square meters, have been removed. Zeng Tianqi went into the storage room for a while, and actually dragged out a small generator from inside.
Towing the generator and a basket of tools aside, he was about to move out of the supermarket.
At this time, there was an exclamation from Bazhuo, who was in the car outside. The only glimmer of light vanished into the night sky, and the dormant corpse became furious again. Several crazy corpses crawled out of the gutter, and immediately stared at Bazhuo and Marin, who were still in the car. Marin was sleeping with his eyes closed, exhausted from days of flight. It wasn't until today that the tense nerves of Zeng Tianqi and his party relaxed slightly.
Hear Bazhuo's shouting. When he opened his glasses, he saw a huge hand in the window, with something like a suction cup on his palm and fingers, clinging to the glass, and next to him was a bulging fish-like eye staring at them from side to side. Then the eye left, replaced by a deformed head that slammed into the window. As the skull slammed into the car window over and over again, the cracks in the cobwebs grew. With a cracking sound, a huge fish-head-like head poked into the cab. In a panic, Marin grabbed the plastic bucket for water in the cab and snapped it to the fish's head. The hideous head of the fish was covered, and it shrank out sharply, flicking its head from side to side to remove the bucket that covered its head, and its large mouth full of sharp teeth was ready to bite into the wheelhouse.
At the critical moment, Zeng Tian abandoned three steps and made two steps, jumped on the front of the car, stepped on the back of the "fish-man" crazy corpse, and the fire axe in his left hand was rounded, and then his right hand relayed to give the crazy corpse a beheading execution. I heard a pop, and a huge fish head flew into the cab. The body was still hanging from the window, and the cavity sprayed Marin's face with blood on the passenger seat. Marlin's panicked hands rubbed across his face. Bazhuo was also frightened. At this time, the remaining few crazy corpses also surrounded them, one of the crazy corpse arms had been keratinized, and the tips of his fingers had grown barbs, which were deeply embedded in the iron sheet, and he was about to jump up when he grabbed the hood of the front of the car. I saw Zeng Tianqi holding the fire axe with his left hand. With his right hand, he pulled out the "Plata" pistol from his waist and fired three shots in a row with incredible speed. Hit the front limbs, palms, and head of this crazy corpse. The mad corpse was overturned by the huge recoil and slammed its back against the hood of the car, softening with a thud.
At this time, a mad corpse jumped up from the side of the car, its mouth was cracked to the root of its ears, and it opened like a crocodile's jaw and bit Zeng Tianqi, Zeng Tianqi jumped up and avoided the bite. At the same time, the fire axe was brought into the air, a turn of body was gaining momentum, and an axe slashed at the left cheek of the crocodile's mouth, click, and the fire axe fell into the side of the head of the maniacal corpse, but because it was borrowed in the air, the fire axe was not cut in two, but stuck on the crocodile's head. Although he successfully repelled this mad corpse, at this time, Zeng Tianqi was already unarmed. And then, two crazy corpses swarmed up. Zeng Tianqi was in a hurry, and he didn't have time to pull out the fire axe, so he had to send the wooden handle of the fire axe forward to block the claws of one of the crazy corpses.
With a click, the wooden handle of the fire axe broke, and Zeng Tianqi only had time to pull out the only remaining half of the wood in his hand. The other mad corpse pressed up with its entire body. Opening the huge mouth of the blood basin, saying that it was too late, Zeng Tianqi turned his left pistol and turned his right hand, and sent the half-broken wooden handle with spikes directly into the eye socket of this crazy corpse.
A moment of dazzling action took place between the lightning and flint. Su Xiaoyu next to him rushed out, shooting several other crazy corpses while running towards Zeng Tianqi. Zeng Zhengdong had nothing in his hand, because he was old and couldn't grasp his balance, so he flipped off the front of the car.
Fierce fighting, wild corpses began to appear around one after another, and they were attracted by the sound of gunfire and the smell of blood. Zeng Tian gave up a roll, copied the pistol thrown aside in his hand, and pulled the trigger one after another in the direction of Su Xiaoyu, knocking down two crazy corpses that pounced on Su Xiaoyu from the side. Turning around, he shot the fuel tank of a truck not far from their car, and shouted to the two people in the car, "Get out of the car!" Fast! Marin, who had just wiped the blood off his glasses, opened the car door with shaking hands, and ran in the direction of Zeng Tianqi and the two with Bazhuo, who had just jumped out of the car.
Su Xiaoyu immediately shot at the fuel tank of the leaking truck again. The truck's fuel tank leaked and began to burn.
Zeng Tianqi turned around and ran towards the supermarket. As soon as I entered the supermarket door, I pulled the supermarket roller shutter door up and pulled it down.
Su Xiaoyu shot out all the remaining bullets in the magazine at this time, knocked down the two crazy corpses, quickly covered the three of them into the supermarket, and dodged in and pulled down the supermarket shutter door. Rumble! There was a loud bang, and it was the oil tank of the leaking truck that exploded. Overturned several nearby cars, and for a while, chain explosions and burns were produced one after another. The hot heat wave hit, the roller shutter door just fell, and the heat wave bombarded the supermarket roller shutter door with debris.
The screams of the mad corpses were heard from the flames, and their boiling blood began to evaporate out of their bodies. Avoided the flames as far away as the sun's rays. The flames spread to two trucks nearby. For a time, a large number of cars were ignited in the entire rest station square, mixed with sporadic explosions. Burn the entire parking lot to the ground.
After Su Xiaoyu saw it through the supermarket shutter door, he breathed a long sigh of relief. At least for the time being, this group of crazy corpses will not be able to come.
Zeng Tianqi pulled out the magazine and looked at the empty magazine. Xiang Su Xiaoyu said:
"Ten minutes for a mealtime, and then come back and help." With that, he picked up a pile of aluminum alloy metal rods on the ground and plunged into the warehouse.
He wants to transform the batch of materials in his hands.
First, an iron base table was overturned, the hand-held grinder was bolted to the base crossbar, and then a counter board was removed to serve as a machine platform. A large grinding wheel is then mounted on the grinder. Bolt the axles of the two doors next to the grinder. A crowbar next to it was welded to the other end of the shaft. A simple lathe will do just that.
Zeng Tianqi chose the thinnest spring steel plate for tricycles. Rubbing his hands, all he had to do was process the spring steel plate in his hand into a simple crossbow. Then the steel plate used for the car is re-polished and processed into a cold weapon. Under normal circumstances, the automobile steel plate is strong manganese steel, hardness and strength are excellent, Zeng Tianqi has been in Iraq for a long time, the forging flow operation of Iraq follows the double forging flow of the ancient school of the East Kingdom, that is, after the steel bar of different toughness is burned red, two people hold a large and a small two hammers in turn to forge the technology that closely integrates it, due to the different steel hardness and toughness bias of different carbon content, so the mixed forging of steel, rigid and soft, both too rigid cutting edge, and a certain toughness is not easy to break. The light and small industrial workshops in Iraq are developed, and they decompose the double forging flow in the east into two processes: the combination of a blacksmith hammer and an air hammer, replacing the blacksmith with a machine and a stamping hammer instead of a heavy hammer. He even learned to build a few daggers with special patterns for himself, which were very balanced and very easy to use.
After Zeng Tianqi finished the preparations, the three people in front of him also filled their stomachs with the messy food in the supermarket. They all came to the small warehouse, and the small room suddenly became a little crowded. Su Xiaoyu picked out some food and sent it to Zeng Tianqi. Zeng Tianqi ignored the oil stain on his hands, took it, and said vaguely while gnawing: "We must process this batch of weapons tonight, Xiaoyu, you will be responsible for teaching them to assemble the arrow shaft and the machine bracket later." ”
Tonight was destined to be sleepless, and the fire outside was burning to the sky, keeping most of the mad corpses away. But some of the crazy corpses were still hovering around, roaring unwillingly. They knew that there was food behind the fire and were reluctant to give up.
In the small warehouse, Zeng Tianqi sweated like rain, meticulously using electric welding and flywheels to tinker with parts one by one. The aluminum tube with the thickness of the little finger is also cut to the standard length, and the head is cut out of the diagonal cone and the tail is cut out of the cross. Bazhuo and Marlin used glue to carefully glue the cut plastic pieces to the tails.
Then he began to make the crossbow body, and Su Xiaoyu slowly cut the wood with a knife next to him. Zeng Zhengdong kept grinding and thinning the steel plate while heating and bending. A set of welded gas cylinders found in the warehouse came into play. Under the repeated calcination of the welding temperature of nearly 1,000 degrees, the manganese steel of the house can finally be slowly transformed into the required shape.
Zeng Tianqi felt the power of the fire axe before, he was heating a spring steel plate with a hot spray gun, and then using a tool hammer to gradually make it into a straight plate, and finally using a grinding wheel to continuously polish it, and finally leaving a 40 centimeter space at the end of the steel plate to narrow it and then reinforce it with other lightweight plates. A hideous straight knife was made, and in order to facilitate stabbing, Zeng Tianqi even opened a blood groove on the side of the knife. What kind of knife is this? It is made of 1.6 meters of steel plate as a whole, and the blade alone is 1.2 meters. There are no gauntlets. The blade does not need to be very sharp, and I believe that even if this knife is not sharp, as long as it can be held and smashed on the organism, it will be a broken tendon.
The three simple crossbow bodies were also formed, Zeng Tianqi picked up one of them and loaded a small roll of thin steel wire that Su Xiaoyu carried with him on the crossbow. This small roll of thin steel wire is standard for Blackwater. As a sharp weapon for assassination and strangulation. It is invincible in almost many situations, and it can be used as versatile as it is today.
Just when Zeng Tian abandoned the installation and was ready to debug. Suddenly the ballista fell from his hand. Zeng Tianqi clenched his right hand tightly in pain, sweating like rain. Look closely at the oil-stained black skin of his right hand rolling like charred dead skin. And the pain of the whole right hand pierced the heart as if it was calcined in an incinerator. The temperature of his right hand rose suddenly.
At this time, Su Xiaoyu and Ma Lin next to them raised their heads and saw a scene that shocked them, Zeng Tianqi's whole body burst out of a faint blood mist like a mad corpse. In the blood mist, there was a faint green light that flashed away. And the right hand he held tightly, the high temperature visible to the naked eye rose, which actually distorted the air around his hand, and the sleeve of his right hand had gradually carbonized and then turned into dark red ashes, which gradually flew around Zeng Tianqi with the high temperature, looking extremely weird. Zeng Tianqi turned his head, his face distorted by pain looked at everyone, and his blood-red glasses were like crazy corpses. Everyone's hearts tightened, and even Marin nervously picked up an iron bar from the side. I saw Zeng Tianqi with red eyes, his left hand holding his right arm, staggering as if he was going to walk outside the supermarket. After all, he didn't take a few steps and fell directly to the ground.
Su Xiaoyu was in a hurry, seeing that the blood mist on Zeng Tianqi's body was still steaming, and the person had lost consciousness. Even the high temperature of his right hand had burned the iron table leg in his hand and gradually turned red. I tried to rush forward several times, but I was forced back by the blazing temperature. She didn't even care that her hair was curled with a burn, emitting bursts of protein burning.
The first to calm down was Ma Lin, when he was in the high school, he dealt with all kinds of strange experimental subject emergencies, although Zeng Tianqi's situation today was weird, but he still habitually grabbed a large bucket of water around him to quench and poured it on Zeng Tianqi's body. Then he kept opening the bottles of mineral water he drank and pouring them on Zeng Tianqi. He wasn't without turmoil in his heart. This state of blood mist evaporating all over the body is like a mad corpse. But the mad corpse never had this kind of alienation of his right hand. This alienated nature he has come into contact with only recently out of control test subjects.
The heat meets the water, and the whole room is filled with dense water vapor. Especially Zeng Tianqi's right hand, almost as soon as the water was poured on it, it was instantly steamed dry. Under the leadership of Ma Lin, Su Xiaoyu and Ba Zhuo also reacted, and hurriedly brought buckets of water together to pour on them, as if extinguishing a fire. Finally, the temperature of Zeng Tianqi's right hand slowly lowered. The blood mist on his body no longer transpires.
The entire storage room, after such a toss, is in a mess. Marin carried Zeng Tianqi to the counter and laid it flat. Su Xiaoyu was feeding water in small sips next to him. And Bazhuo was very sensible in the room full of water vapor, groping for the reloading of the bundles of arrow shafts that had been made before.