Chapter 35: Three times twice
Lin Yang and I went out looking for food, and as soon as we entered Yutian, we looted two stores and got some supplies. At this time, we saw a figure on the roof of a residential building not far ahead.
"What's that for?!" Lin Yang blocked the sunlight with his palm and looked at the roof of the building.
I'm also curious, what is this guy doing standing on the top of the building...... The man stood facing north, and the sun shone behind him, so shaking that I couldn't even tell if the man was male or female. After that, Lin Yang and I didn't speak, just looked at that person in a daze. But the man didn't move at all, as if he was watching something. From this, I also judged that it must be a human, and if it was a zombie, it would have swooped down a long time ago.
"Hey, I said," Lin Yang said, "He won't be looking at the two of us too, right?" ”
Perhaps, a survivor of the end of the world, hiding alone on the roof of a building, heard a sound below, and looked down...... But it wasn't so motionless that Ang had to react somewhat.
I pasted it against the wall, somewhat reducing the glare of the sun, and when I looked closely, I realized that the man was still holding something in his hand. Lin Yang followed my example and stuck to the wall, obviously his eyes were much better than mine. After looking at it for a while, Lin Yang said affirmatively: "That's a woman, she didn't look at the two of us, as if she was muttering something." ”
As my eyes gradually adjusted to the sun, I could also see that the person was indeed a woman, her hair was scattered over her shoulders, and she was saying something to the thing in her arms, which was not loud at first, and it became unusually small when it reached us, and as long as I gasped a little louder, I could not hear it at all.
Just when Lin Yang and I were at a loss, the woman suddenly stopped muttering, looked down quietly, and then raised her head to look up at the sky, and after a period of silence, the woman shook her arm gently, and then fell forward violently.
Commit suicide by jumping off a building! The thought crossed my mind instantly, and before I could think about it, the woman's body had fallen from the sky.
Boom!!!
The woman fell to the ground in an instant, made a dull sound, and then stopped moving.
I didn't expect to encounter a suicide, but I don't feel much about this kind of thing anymore. In these last days, people are struggling to survive every day, but they can never see the direction of the future, and there must be many people who choose to end their lives in order to find liberation. When I used to watch zombie movies, every time I saw this kind of suicide people, although the reasons and circumstances were varied, I would feel that they were fragile and escapist. But when I really experienced the end times, I realized that my previous conclusions were too one-sided. I am not in a position to judge other people who have nothing to do with me, because we have different lives and different paths.
I've seen people fall from the stairs before, and I have experience, so I sighed and didn't react again. Turning his head to look at Lin Yang, he saw that this kid was also staring at the corpse in front of him with a calm gaze, and he couldn't see any panic. His experience before he met us was not as difficult as mine, and he was not far worse than me, but this calmness should still be there.
"Let's go." I said lightly.
"Hmm......" Lin Yang was about to nod, but he was suddenly stunned for a moment and said, "Wait." Then he walked briskly over to the corpse.
I don't know what this kid is going to do, I just watched from the spot. I saw him walk to the corpse, ignoring the woman, but looking at something on the side, which the woman had been holding in her arms, and I didn't know what kind of treasure it was, and I didn't forget to take it with me when I committed suicide.
"What's that?" I asked. There was a car in front of me blocking the view, and I could only see one side of the thing.
Lin Yang ignored me, but slowly squatted down, and I saw that his expression had frozen. I secretly said a strange thing in my heart, and walked over quickly.
"What's wrong?" I walked over to Lin Yang and asked, then looked down at the thing.
When I saw that thing clearly, my brain went blank for a moment, my eyes widened, and an inexplicable breath rose from my stomach and rushed to my forehead.
It was a baby, maybe only a few months old, and I couldn't tell the difference between a man and a woman. The baby was facing the sky on his back, his eyes were tightly closed, and his mouth was slightly open, as if he was still waiting for his mother's breastfeeding, but the blood on his face announced the fact that he had died.
Lin Yang gently pressed the side of the machete in his hand against the baby's head, and then slowly flicked it, and the back of the baby's head was exposed, and what caught my eyes was a bloody and blurred head, bright red blood mixed with messy things flowed out of his brain, and slowly flowed to the ground, and the back of his head had been broken.
The breath in my body became more and more obvious, and I couldn't tell what it was like, whether it was anger, sadness, horror, powerlessness...... Or both.
A mother, alone with her newborn child, struggles on the verge of death every day, without assistance or support, and just survives in the last days. Until today, the mother's spirit collapsed, she could no longer live with the child, she chose to commit suicide, and this young child could never survive on his own, so the mother took him away from this world together, and in the future, there will be no more troubles.
The first thing we hear is the woman's muttering, and it may be the mother who is telling the last story to the child.
Why is this happening...... This newborn child was supposed to grow up healthily under the care of everyone, and then start kindergarten, play with children, and then grow up slowly...... Maybe he will have a wonderful life, but now, it has become a thing of the past, and he left this world with the person who loves him the most.
Why is this happening?!
While!!
I turned around and kicked hard at the front of the car next to me, and a crisp sound erupted, followed by the alarm of the car, which instantly filled the entire street.
While!! While!!!
With two feet again, I kicked harder and harder, and the machine lid on the front of the car was a little dented, but I didn't seem to feel any pain in my feet, I just wanted to vent the breath in my body!
Dangdang!! While!
"Grass you! I'm going to grass you!! "I used to tell myself not to swear again, but this time, I couldn't hold back.
"I !! in the grass" After kicking my foot, I punched the car again.
While!!
"Leizi!" Lin Yang shouted and said, "Don't toss! ”
While!! While!! While!!
"Leizi!!"
Roar!!
Suddenly, a low roar flashed through the air, but as if I hadn't heard it, there was another fist on the front of the car.
"Leizi! Grass your uncle! Lin Yang scolded, and then he rushed over, passed his hands under my armpits, and then bent back to directly frame my upper body.
"Let go...... Yes! Before I could finish shouting, Lin Yang didn't say a word, swung my body slightly to the right, and then threw it out to the left.
Boom!! I slammed directly into the wall on the left, making a heavy muffled thud, and retreated two more steps with the reaction force. This hit me enough, I covered my left arm, and suddenly became angry, turned my head and glared at Lin Yang.
Just as he was about to speak, Lin Yang took the lead and shouted: "Hurry up and get in the car!" The zombies are coming! Before the words fell, Lin Yang ran towards our car.
I looked back, and sure enough, there were more than a dozen zombies coming out of the far intersection in the east, and there was also a roar coming from the building next to me.
Call! I let out a hard breath, suppressed my anger and pain, and then turned and ran to the car. At this time, Lin Yang had already gotten into the driver's seat, and as soon as I ran over and got into the car, the door was not closed, and Lin Yang stepped out with one foot on the accelerator.
The car moved forward a little, and then Lin Yang hit the steering wheel, turned directly over the front of the car, and drove towards the road where he came. At this time, several zombies also drilled out of the building next to it.
Neither of us spoke in the car, and my mind was still a little confused. It wasn't until I drove for a while that I realized that the car I was sitting in had driven back to the entrance of Yutian City.
"What are you doing?" I asked coldly.
Lin Yang lit a cigarette and said, "Let's go back first, there are too many things here." Lin Yang pointed to the handbrake as he spoke. I don't know if he wanted to say that there was a lot in the car, or if we had a lot in our heads, but I didn't talk anymore anyway.
We didn't drive back directly, the road over there was blocked, and our car couldn't get through. Lin Yang drove east for a while, and then saw a fork, turned around and continued. Seeing that this kid is also looking for a way like that, I don't care. As long as I sit in the passenger seat, the line problem will be handled by the driver, which is a habit I have developed before.
I don't know how long it took, but our car finally stopped in front of the villa.
As soon as I got out of the car, the door was opened from the inside, and then Peng Miao Xiaoyu and Ao Xiang walked out, and kept saying things like shush and ask for warmth, I didn't remember it, gently pushed them away, and left a sentence: "I'll go to lie down, don't make any noise about me." Then he went straight to the room on the second floor.
Before entering, I glanced at the old man's door, which was still closed. With a twist of my head, I walked into the room where I had slept.
When I entered the house, I closed the door, took off my shirt and threw it aside, and sat down on the floor. I kept telling myself to calm down, but the image of the dead baby kept flashing in my head, and the sound of the mother's drizzle before she died kept hovering in my head.
"Oh yes! Calm down! I gritted my teeth and said to myself, but it didn't have much effect. At this time, there is no sadness and pain in my consciousness, only anger! I want to vent, I just want to vent!
———— you are still this virtue, I will discount your legs!!
Another voice jumped out of my memory, and I remember the owner of this voice, although he was long since left this world.
Maybe it was because of this sentence that I felt my anger extinguished in an instant, but the depression in my heart could not be released. I looked down at my arm, and the slightly shaped muscles seemed to tell me a way.
I turned around and got to my stomach, then put my hands on the ground and started doing push-ups.
One, two, three, four..................
Gradually, I couldn't remember the number clearly, but I only knew that I was up, down, up, and down.
I don't know how many push-ups I did, but slowly the stuffiness in my body disappeared, and the floor was soaked with sweat. At this time, there was also a feeling of soreness and tiredness in both arms, and I made another one, and I lay directly on the ground, slowed down for a while, and then slowly got up.
At this time, the feeling is much better, except for the weak upper body. I walked over to the bed, pulled out a sheet, wiped the sweat off my body, and threw it aside and sat down on the bed again.
What was I doing! The momentary loss of control almost pushed himself and Lin Yang into danger......
I didn't sit for a while, and my stomach began to bark. A bowl of instant noodles really can't last long, not to mention after a lot of physical exertion. I got out of bed, picked up my shirt and put it on, opened the door again and went out.
When I walked to the first floor, I saw that everyone was sitting, all of them were frowning, and several bags of food were placed on the coffee table, and it seemed that no one had moved.
"Xiao Lei! Are you okay?! Sister Peng saw me coming down and asked with concern.
"Well, it's fine." I walked over to the couch and sat down. Looking around, except for Xiao Qi, who was sleeping, everyone else looked at me.
"I'm scared to death," Sister Peng said: "Lin Yang said that you haven't recovered, your body is still a little weak, and I'm worried that you have a fever again!" ”
I glanced at Lin Yang, and the kid also looked at me with a cigarette in his mouth, and neither of us spoke, but it seemed that he didn't tell everyone about my chaotic performance.
The watch on the wall showed that it was past 4 o'clock, and I didn't know how long I had been in my room. At this time, it is estimated that it will be dark before going out again, although the current weather is no different from summer, but after all, it is still January, and it will be dark at 6 or 7 o'clock in the evening.
I opened the bag and looked at it, there was no shortage of instant noodles, and I said casually, "I haven't eaten any." ”
Sister Peng said: "We don't know what's wrong with you, how can you ...... eat?"
At this time, Lin Yue continued: "That piece of wood can be eaten," and pointed to Xiao Qi as he spoke, and said: "As soon as the food was brought back, he ate a can, and then went back to sleep, hum!" ”
I looked at Xiao Qi and didn't say anything, I don't want to talk to him today, let's talk about it tomorrow. Besides, if I think about the time I went out today, even if I call him, I don't think it will be up.
I said, "Xiaoyu, you cook instant noodles for everyone, one bag per person, and one for each person if the eggs are not broken." ”
Xiaoyu nodded, took a few bags of instant noodles and eggs and walked to the kitchen. Sister Peng also went over to help.
"Ao Xiang, do you have an eyebrow on the route?" I lit a cigarette and asked.
Ao Xiang took a piece of paper from the telephone cabinet next to him and put it on the coffee table, and I saw that it was a simple and straightforward hand-drawn map, and various instructions were marked. Ao Xiang looked helpless and said: "Any road can be passed, but the problem now is that I don't know the distribution of zombies, and I can't judge which road is the safest." ”
"You find the nearest one, and then you find the three that go around." I said.
Ao Xiang nodded and said: "These are all easy to say, I can point them out to you immediately, but I estimate that the nearest road is hopeless, if the people of Yutian know the safety station, they will definitely find a shortcut, this road must be blocked." As he spoke, Ao Xiang pointed to a path and slid his finger from the north of the map to the location of the safety station.
"Can't you walk that river?" Lin Yue on the side.
Ao Xiang shook his head: "Impossible, we don't have a boat." Not to mention whether the pedal boat I was riding in before was washed away by the water, even if it was still on the shore, it was impossible to walk such a long way in the river. In addition, we can't go directly to the safety station by boat, so we still have to walk to the south of the city. ”
Then Ao Xiang said to me again: "I also went upstairs today to ask the old man about the situation. ”
"What did you say?" I asked.
"He doesn't know much," Ao Xiang said, "There isn't much information available." I also asked about these cabinets by the way. ”
As he spoke, Ao Xiang pointed to the display cabinets that blocked the floor-to-ceiling windows. Ao Xiang continued: "I always feel that it is unnecessary for a family to put so many cabinets in the living room. ”
Ao Xiang also went with me, and I asked, "What did he say?" ”
Ao Xiang said: "He said that his son got it before." His son likes to collect all kinds of things, which are placed in the cabinet, and some of the knick-knacks collected by the old man himself are also put into the display case. But then a group of survivors came and took most of the stuff, so they hid the rest. The knives you and Lin Yang found were also collected by them before. ”
Lin Yang said: "Ah, are there any weapons left?" ”
Ao Xiang shook his head: "The old man said no, I guess he won't say it even if he has it, and he has a very bad temper when I go up today." ”
This is expected, and there is an explanation for the display cabinet, so there is no need to ask in detail.
"In this way," I said, "Tomorrow Lin Yang and I will go into the city again, one is to look for food, and the other is to go a little deeper, see the situation, and if we meet other survivors, we can also find out some news." Saying that, I looked at Lin Yang, and he nodded that it was no problem.
Lin Yue said: "It's really troublesome, let's just set off directly!" ”
Without waiting for me to speak, Ao Xiang said: "No, the possibility of our entire army being wiped out is too great, and the population of Yutian City is now our biggest obstacle." ”
Lin Yang took a cigarette in one hand, dug his nose with the other, and said, "Sister, you better go to the kitchen to help!" Go, go~go! ”
"Cut!" Lin Yue glanced at his brother, stood up and walked to the kitchen, and said, "Three stinkers!" ”
Lin Yang immediately continued: "Top horse Huateng!" ”
Hey...... How did you pick it up......
After that, we chatted casually, and it didn't take long for Sister Peng and them to come out with a bowl of noodles, one bowl per person. I took a look, and a bowl is estimated to be a bag, plus a smooth egg, which can deal with a meal. There should be some leftover, and when the old man comes down to give him some, he can also save for tomorrow's breakfast. They also made a bowl for Xiao Qi, but this kid couldn't wake up no matter how he screamed, so we divided the bowl of noodles, and no one in the bowl pushed the eggs back and forth, and finally Xiaoyu stuffed them directly into my mouth.
We chatted and ate dinner, and then we rested, during which the old man came down and took a little bit of food back to his room. At night, the three women all went upstairs to sleep, and the four of us stayed on the first floor to keep vigil, and Xiao Qi became a soy sauce maker and never woke up at all.
At night, I was on the first shift, lit a cigarette, sat down by the lamp, and I took out my notebook and began to write in my diary. I found out that the book was not on my body before.,I thought I lost it.。 Later, it was given to me by Sister Peng during the meal just now, and she kept it for me when Lin Yang changed my clothes.
The pen before had long run out of water, and this one was brought to me by Lin Yang from the convenience store today, saying that he had written a diary, so he took two of them.
When I finished writing the two days of chic things, the time for the changing of the guard was approaching, and I smoked a cigarette, so I called Ao Xiang of the second shift to be on duty, I lay on the sofa and fell asleep, and I had to be worth it after four hours, and I couldn't delay the rest time......
Wednesday, January 23, 2013, cloudy with light rain.
This morning, the weather was a little cloudy, but even if I had to go under the knife, I had to find something to eat, or I would starve to death this day, and the bowl of noodles last night didn't last long, and my stomach began to rumble with hunger when I was on duty for the second time.
Sister Peng boiled a few eggs, Lin Yang and I ate two by ourselves, and then drove out with our weapons, and we took the road we came back from yesterday. During the trip, Lin Yang asked me another question.
"Leizi, I have something to tell you." Lin Yang Road.
"What's wrong?"
"I wanted to say it yesterday, but I forgot it."
"Don't ink."
"I still don't think it's right." Lin Yang said, he drove with one hand, and the other lit a cigarette: "Don't you think this villa has more food?" ”
"......?"
Lin Yang Zhengse said: "It's been almost a month since the zombie broke out, according to the old man's meaning, he has never gone out of the villa, but he hasn't worried about food." Even after we came, we could still eat tightly for two or three days, would the average person store so much food? ”
I thought for a moment, and then said, "He must have gone out too, and besides, didn't he say that the foreigners who had driven his car away also left some behind?" ”
Lin Yang said: "If you say that, it seems to be able to explain it, but why do I always think it's weird." ”
I felt a little awkward to let him say this, but it didn't help to think so much now, so I said, "Let's go back and get down to business now." ”
Lin Yang nodded helplessly and said, "Okay." ”
Soon after that, we came to the intersection where we had just entered Yutian, the last time we turned east, but in the end because my toss led out zombies, so this time we decided to go west.
I seem to have gotten used to the rancid smell of the city, or the world is the same smell, and I can't get used to it.
There are also a few small shops and convenience stores on this road, but most of them are empty. It's a bit surprising that there aren't a lot of zombies here, only four or five in a few shops, and even the corpses on the ground are much less than in the east.
"Don't hide in a residential building or a corner." Lin Yang drove slowly while looking at both sides of the road.
I also looked around, and because of the slow speed, I could basically get a panoramic view on both sides, and I didn't find a large number of zombies hiding except for the residential buildings.
"Head south." I said, looking at the intersection in front of me.
Lin Yang glanced at me and said, "Got out?" ”
Shaking my ring knife, I said, "Always check the situation, and it will be safer when we officially set off." ”
"Oh." Without saying a word, Lin Yang sped up his speed and turned left from the intersection in front of him.
The road here is also quite clean, and there are a few dead dogs lying on the street, which look almost rotten.
The speed of the car dropped again, and Lin Yang said: "It would be nice to see a few living people, it must be much better than us being so blind." ”
I nodded in affirmation, but in this kind of realm that is almost a dead city, it is not difficult to find anything, but it is difficult to find the living. We drove for more than ten minutes, not all the way to the south, but turned around when we saw a bend, and checked in this area, and found no zombies, let alone living people. However, because of this, I estimate that this section of the road is also relatively safe, but relatively speaking.
"There's a store there, go check it out." After turning another corner, I saw a shop on the side of the road in front of me.
Lin Yang didn't react, I looked at him, and said, "Lin Yang, Lin Yang." ”
"Ahh Lin Yang came back to his senses at this time, and he didn't know what this kid was thinking.
Boom! Dangdang!
When Lin Yang parked, he accidentally hit the garbage can on the side of the road, and the iron barrel fell to the ground with a crisp sound. It wasn't loud, but it was enough to be heard through the streets in such a quiet place.
"What's going on with you." I said something in a deep voice with a frown, my eyes quickly sweeping around.
The sound of the trash can falling to the ground also startled Lin Yang, and he was also excited, and then hurriedly looked around, and said at the same time: "I was distracted just now, sorry." ”
I ignored him, still around the examiner. After waiting for a while, I didn't find any zombies coming out, so I was a little relieved. I glanced at Lin Yang and said, "Let's go, go in and have a look." ”
Lin Yang nodded, and the two of us got out of the car together.
The scale of this shop on the street is not large, it is about twenty or thirty square meters, half of the signboard at the door has fallen to the ground, and the floor-to-ceiling windows next to the glass door have also been broken. Looking inside, you can basically see at a glance, there are no zombies, and there are no other living creatures.
Lin Yang and I each walked in with knives, and then we saw clearly that there were really a lot of goods on this shelf, and we all had food, clothing, housing and transportation. Although it is also mutilated and decayed, it is much stronger than the previous store.
We looked at each other and smiled, then pulled out another stack of bags from the counter and began to fill them. It's still instant noodles, and there's also water, all kinds of drinks and mineral water, and the most outrageous thing is that there are boxes of mineral water.
The more I pretend, the more strange I became, there are too many things in this store, which is unreasonable. There are so many people in Yutian City, the people who survived must be looking for food, this kind of shop should have been emptied a long time ago, and the few shops I went to before are the best proof, but why are there so many here.
I was still pondering while loading things, filling two bags and putting them on the counter, and when I took the two bags to the counter again, I saw Lin Yang in a daze at a string of lollipops.
"What's wrong?" I walked over and asked, placing the two bags in my hand on the table.
Lin Yang tore off a lollipop, then opened the package and looked at it, and said, "Xiao Yue used to like to eat this the most. A shallow smile appeared on the corner of his mouth as he spoke.
If someone you don't know hears it, you still think that this person named Satsuki is dead...... But in my opinion, this kid is a little sentimental.,I don't know what touched him.,The distraction when driving just now is also reminiscing about the past.。 This kind of thing is undoubtedly the most effective spiritual healing for us now.
I patted Lin Yang on the shoulder and said, "The shelf life of this thing should be quite long, bring it back to Lin Yue." ”
Lin Yang looked at the candy, then at me, then nodded slightly, and said, "Well, let's put these bags in the car first." If there is a situation for a while, I will not be in a hurry. ”
"Hmm" I replied, picking up three bags.
Lin Yang also picked up three, and the two of us were just about to go out. As soon as my feet stepped out of the door, the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground came from the shop behind me.
Boom!!
"Did you hear anything?" I asked, my eyes staring ahead.
Lin Yang paused for a moment and said, "No." ”
"Then go put something in first."
"Okay."
After saying that, the two of us continued to walk outside. When we got to the side of the car, Lin Yang opened the lid of the trunk, and the two of us threw several bags of supplies into it. After that, I pulled out the ring head knife, and Lin Yang also took out the chop. Knives, we both looked at each other, then turned around at the same time, and walked towards the store again.