The helicopter soon arrived above the mall. Before coming, Gu San had already made contact with the survivors.

It is still in the early stage of the zombie epidemic, and the light on the horizon is faint, but the dawn has arrived. At the very beginning of the disaster, people still had the morals of a civilized society, so Murong Yuhua and Gu San's rescue generally did not encounter any obstacles - wait until another month...... No, maybe a week, another week, and the living people won't necessarily be so friendly and obedient.

Lies, hatred, hostility. In addition to zombies, the living will also become enemies that they can see everywhere. Resources are always limited, and sometimes the price of grabbing them in the face of the apocalypse is life.

Two of the nine survivors in the mall were injured.

One is a soldier in his twenties, and the other is a junior high school girl wearing a blue and white school uniform. Gu San didn't discuss with Murong Yuhua, and jumped off the plane directly, asking Murong Yuhua to take the other seven people back first, while he and these two people stayed in the mall to wait for the "second rescue".

They just sat on the rooftop and watched the sunrise. During this time, the soldier went downstairs and came up with two bottles of beer. The girl lowered her head and kept swiping her phone. Gu San and the soldier opened the beer and sat on the exhaust port on the rooftop, and the soldier said, "I watched your video." Do you stay, not afraid? ”

"I'm the only one who won't be afraid, so I'm staying."

As they spoke, the girl next to her had tears falling on her phone. She wiped away her tears. The girl was injured in the arm, wrapped in a piece of cloth, which temporarily stopped the bleeding. She looked at Gu San, "Isn't it possible?" ”

Gu San looked at her for a long time, and handed her the wine bottle in his hand, "This process will be very painful, maybe I can help you." ”

The girl didn't answer, but just asked "Am I going to die?" ”

"Not at first. But you've lost your mind by then. Over time, the virus will completely take over your body. ”

"So I'm still alive after I turn into a zombie?"

"Will live for a while."

"It's cruel...... the girl finally took the wine in her hand and drank it all, but then spit it out, complaining to Gu San with a crying voice, "The adult's wine is too unpleasant." ”

Gu San sat between the two of them, the sun on the horizon slowly rose, and the morning mist condensed on the ground, forming a strange curtain between the zombies walking back and forth.

After the soldiers on the side drank the wine in one gulp, they began to unload the equipment on their bodies and handed them to Gu San one by one, guns, bullets, body armor, tactical knives, and goggles.

"There were two grenades, but they were used to protect them from escaping." The place where he was injured was his calf, according to his own words, when he fled, he didn't notice the zombie lying on the ground with a broken leg, and he was bitten, "This rifle has to be wiped with oil every once in a while, and you have to protect it well if it is given to you." ”

And finally a pistol.

The soldier looked at the muzzle of the gun, and for a long time, he still handed it to Gu San, "If I become a zombie, will you shoot." ”

"Yes."

“…… Where to hit? ”

"Head. Only a headshot is the safest. ”

When the soldier finally unloaded his equipment again, he covered his face and sat down beside her in a somewhat broken face, "I didn't do anything wrong. I obeyed the order to come here, and after the death of the platoon commander and squad leader, I am still doing my best to protect these citizens. I didn't do anything wrong. I...... I don't understand why there are these damn zombies, I don't understand why they bite me. ”

At the end, he finally burst into tears.

When he laid down his weapon, put down his armor, and took off his helmet, he was really a young man in his early twenties.

He also looked about the same age as Murong Yuhua, with a shaved head, and his skin was tanned from long-term training. The soldier's cries infected the girl and made her even more sad. She sobbed and hugged her legs, "Nobody did anything wrong...... If there really is, it can't be us. When I escaped, my parents were already ...... for me Stayed on the road for me...... If I knew I would be hurt right now...... I would have stayed there. ”

The soldier wiped his face, patted her on the shoulder instead, and said, "But at that time, your parents must have thought that you could be rescued." At least...... Until then, you just have to go through the quarantine station and get to the other side, and you will indeed have no problem. Aren't we here to make sure you are rescued? ”

"No one knows if they will survive in the end. The only thing that is certain is that he is still alive. After a pause, Gu San lit a cigarette and took one out of the cigarette case and handed it to the soldier, "I'm sorry, I'm not going to comfort people." ”

The girl wiped her tears, stroked her hand on the bandaged wound, and looked up at the rising sun, "I was still worried about the results of today's weekly test, but last night, I didn't sleep well, and then my parents came to my room and pulled me away, and those zombies broke the anti-theft cage and smashed the glass and rushed in." My dad stayed there so that my mom and I could escape......"

After the girl said this, she pursed her lips, raised her head and stretched out her hand to Gu San, "My name is Xu Xiaojia, what's your name?" ”

"Gu San."

"Zhao Zhengguo."

"It's an honor to meet you." The girl's face was covered with tears and blood, which seemed to emit some kind of soft light in the sunlight, and as soon as she finished speaking, she turned her head and vomited on the platform. The soldier rushed forward with a brisk stride, seeing that the filth she spit out was full of blood, and hurriedly tore the fabric on her body to wipe her mouth, "Are you okay?" ”

Gu San stood aside, and everything he said sounded cruel to them, "vomiting...... is a sign of infection. The lining of your stomach is already starting to bleed internally. ”

The girl looked at her hands in horror, and blood began to appear under her fingernails.

"How long before I turn into a zombie?"

"Maybe a day, maybe an hour, maybe ten minutes......"

“…… So fast? ”

"If you die now, you'll be transformed in 20 seconds."

Before Gu San could finish speaking, the girl immediately rushed towards the edge of the rooftop, but was hugged by the soldier and embraced in his arms. She struggled and broke down and cried, "You heard what she said, maybe in a few minutes I will be a zombie!" Death is death now, and death is death when you wait! What's the use of you stopping me, aren't you the same! ”

The soldier hugged her firmly, "But not now, perhaps...... Maybe ......"

"Not maybe." She looked at Gu San in despair, "You asked her, she made it clear enough." Is there anything else, you ask, you ask? ”

Gu San stood behind them, and finally shook his head, not daring to look at the girl's gaze again.

The girl softened in the soldier's arms and cried out, "The two of us are dead, and she stayed just to make us clear about this, don't you understand?" She accompanied the two of us, not just to make a place for the survivors to escape by plane in one go. She stayed with us to make sure that no other survivor would be attacked after the two of us died! We are already dead. We are the source of infection. ”

As she spoke, the soldier simply lowered his head and held the girl firmly in his arms.

"Even if it's just a second longer...... It's just a second, you just listen to your brother, even if it's only for a second, you can live, okay? ”

The girl vomited blood again, and the blood stained the soldier's navy blue cotton long-sleeved shirt. Her gaze gradually clouded, and finally, tears seemed to drain from her eyes, and the bloodshot pupils of her eyes quickly spread, and the original black pupils also turned blue-white.

Gu San immediately raised his gun and reminded the soldiers: "Let her go!" She's converted. ”

But the soldier did not let go. He hugged the girl in his arms, and smiled helplessly at Gu San, "I'm already infected, whether I will be attacked by her, there's no point...... Uh-a-ah......"

The girl who turned into a zombie bit the soldier on the cheek. They were standing a step away from the edge of the rooftop, and the soldier hugged the girl's body hard, turned back to Gu San and said, "Remember, my gun needs to be oiled regularly." ”

Then he jumped forward with all his might—

At this moment, the sunlight broke through the fog and fell on the top of the city's buildings, and the light refracted between the tall buildings seemed to be waving on the two bodies that fell sharply from between the tall buildings. Gu San stood there, and finally sat down on the platform at the moment when the sun had completely risen.

In the end, everything is back to square one, and the despair that I once experienced is back to my side. Too many people who shouldn't have died have died, too many people who had hope for life have died. They are just a microcosm of the many people who have perished in this catastrophe, and at the end of the day, not many people are lucky enough to survive all the way to the end.

But they obviously didn't do anything wrong.

Some of them did everything to protect others, and some of them were the hope of all families, and they did nothing wrong, but they had to face this catastrophe and finally disappeared into the torrent of life.

In the distance, the helicopter approached the daylight, and the roar and the sound of the glass above the mall just falling attracted the zombies that had been scattered around the building. Murong Yuhua looked at Gu San, who was alone and stepped onto the plane with other people's relics, his mood gradually sank, and he didn't even open his mouth to ask where the two wounded people went.

When the plane took off, the zombies downstairs smashed the glass of the mall and rushed up. They smashed through the iron door on the rooftop, kicked aside the bottles that had been on the ground, and screamed with their hands outstretched at the people on the plane.

After Gu San and Murong Yuhua returned to the villa, they walked straight across the tarmac to the wine cabinet. Murong Yuhua tried to ease the sad atmosphere, so he said to her, "Do you know, among the people we rescued this time, there is also a pregnant woman." That means we saved one more person. ”

Gu San stopped and looked back at him.

Murong Yuhua pursed his lips, and he sighed, "I know that it must be very difficult to convince the wounded to give up hope of survival. But like you taught me, we just have to make decisions sometimes, don't we? ”

"I didn't convince them." Gu San looked at Murong Yuhua's eyes with a hint of surprise, and replied, "I didn't convince you. It's them, they make their own decisions. It's not a decision I made for them. ”