Chapter 9: I'm a Rogue and Who I'm Afraid of

The sky gradually darkened, Lin Zaishan quietly crossed an intersection and came to the block occupied by Yutai High School, and through the wall, he saw a few sluggish zombies wandering around the campus. On the opposite side of Yutai High School are the county cultural relics museum, gymnasium and library, except for the open door of the cultural relics museum, which has obvious traces of looting, the other two venues are closed and empty.

Pass Yutai High School and come to the next intersection. I saw a barricade made of cars and miscellaneous objects blocking the central street, leaving only a passage that could barely pass through cars, and a simple fence to seal the passage. On the rooftops on each side was an armed man with a firearm, chatting across the street.

"These two days are the happiest time in my life, and the supplies of the entire county are at your disposal! Look at the buddy's outfit from head to toe, all of them are famous brands, this is going to change before the end of the day, buddy can't afford a pair of shoes! The man on the roof on the left said.

"What's it to grab brand-name clothes, look at Brother Long, the surviving beauties in the county can be picked at will! The county TV station, the county art troupe, the county high school, and the county government office, Brother Long will do whoever he says, who dares to say nothing? Now there are seven or eight beauties hidden on the second floor of Longwei Hotel. What envy, jealousy and hatred! ”

"People are more popular than dead people! Who made Brother Long's ability, we don't! If you have a ability, you can be the boss and the boss's left and right hands like Brother Long and Viagra, without the ability, we are just the material for the younger brother, and if you grab it, you can be content. ”

"Listen to Viagra, tomorrow the big army will go to the villa area to make a fortune. That's the villa area, where officials, the rich, celebrities, and beautiful women like to live, and they can definitely make a lot of money. ”

A short conversation between two young people in society was too much information for Lin Zaishan, and he thought worriedly:

"Qian Long and Ah Wei have really become kings and hegemons in the county, and these two guys actually have special abilities. I don't know what kind of ability they are, do they have Li Yan and the superb's ability to drag? ”

Obviously, this section of the central street is no longer free to pass, so Lin Zaishan has to take a detour. The crossroads at the intersection are densely packed with zombies, but fortunately, most of them are zombies of normal size, slow speed, and slow reactions. Lin Zaishan with a backpack on his back hid like a big mouse, and finally walked around a small street parallel to the central street without danger.

As soon as he got on the side street, Lin Zaishan felt weird. This small street is known locally for its small goods and vendors. The streets were littered with defaced, deformed goods, and the shops on both sides were wide open to show signs of looting—to be expected; However, there is not a single zombie on this section of the street, and even the corpses on the ground seem to be "neat" and "clean".

"Did someone drive away the zombies and sort out the corpses?" Lin Zaishan was a little puzzled: "Qian Long and Ah Wei definitely don't have the leisure and ethical spirit to care for the deceased. If not them, who are they? Can the rampaging Qian Long and Ah Wei tolerate an unknown figure next to their nest? ”

Lin Zaishan thought about it again and again, while slowly sneaking against the root of the wall. Even though he knew that his movements were very hidden, he still had the feeling that he was being spied on up close.

"Am I taking the wrong path? It would be nice if Li Yan was here, and with Li Yan's thermal sensing ability, she could easily spot hidden people, zombies, or mutant beasts. Would it be a fatal mistake to stubbornly ask for a person to come to the county seat by yourself? ……”

Lin Zaishan quickened his pace through this block and came to another intersection, and only one more block was the county government building. In front of him, a zombie was walking with his back to Lin Zaishan, alone, slowly, dragging heavy steps. The zombie was tall and muscular, carrying a camouflage backpack, and if it weren't for the uniforms of the military and police, Lin would have almost mistaken it for himself.

"Will I be like this in the future? I've been running around day and night, working hard all these days, I'm so busy and tired every day, and what has changed for me? The future may end up like this warrior, becoming a zombie who is ignorant and dominated by evil microorganisms, either eating other monsters or being eaten by other monsters, or eating people or being killed by people. And the ending is all the same: despair and darkness. ”

"I'm tired, I don't want to go any further, I don't want to struggle anymore." Lin Zaishan slowly stopped.

The uniformed zombie with his back to Lin Zaishan in front turned around and let out a roar at him.

"What did you say?" Lin Zaishan asked at the subdued zombies, "Are you tired too?" It doesn't matter, our brothers are the same disease, the same fallen people, and the same zombies. ”

The zombie slowly approached, and another roar came out of its mouth.

"Hah, you agreed, didn't you? Come here, let's get closer. ”

The zombie stretched out its claws.

"Yes, shake hands first. Anyway, your hands are very unique. Lin Zaishan also stretched out his hand and said.

The zombie clamped Lin Zaishan by the neck.

"Brother, your hug is so unique. I was a little out of breath. ”

The zombie opens its mouth wide and bars its fangs.

"Brother, you just ate poop, this breath is still there."

The zombie "kissed" Lin Zaishan's neck.

"Hey, brother, this can't be done. I'm straight, don't engage in base! Lin Zaishan shouted, his arms struggling to push the zombie away. At this time, a cool breeze blew, and Lin Zaishan suddenly felt a lot clearer.

"What happened to me? Why did I suddenly lose my mind? Could it be ......" Before he could think about it, the subdued zombie in front of him pounced fiercely again.

"Smack!" The electric baton hits directly, and the zombie flipped to the ground. Lin Zishan said "I'm sorry brother, let's go on the road", picked up the bricks on the ground and smashed the zombie's skull.

He looked around, searching for suspicious conditions as his brain raced:

"I was like I had fallen into an evil spirit, and if it weren't for that cool breeze, I would have definitely become a zombie in uniform. Fortunately, the Buddha and Bodhisattva bless! So, is there something wrong with your own spirit, or is there some force that disturbs your own spirit? No, whatever the reason, I can't scare myself like that. I want to concentrate on the mission, and I must not let negative emotions such as fear and worry affect the fulfillment of the mission. No matter what terrible forces are trying to disturb or even control myself, I can't give up and give in. ”

At this time, Lin Zaishan only felt that the inexplicable loss of consciousness just now had completely recovered, not only did his strange feelings have decreased a lot, but he was also refreshed and courageous.

"It doesn't matter who you are or what you are? If you want to play with me Lin Zaishan for spiritual strength and willpower, I suggest that you go to your mother's womb and practice again! ”

Convinced that the feeling of being watched had completely dissipated, he swaggered down the street across the street toward the county government building.

Finally, the back door of the prefectural government building arrived. The iron gate was open, and scrap cars were parked in front of it. The entrance was originally a small garden shaded by greenery, but now it has become a corpse-strewn Shura field, and dozens of corpses with similar appearances (hot and burning) walk in the garden. Lin Zaishan walked quickly through the garden to the first floor of the office building, and he found that the zombies in the office building had obviously not had much chance to capture other creatures after the corpse transformation, and were generally weak. Lin Zaishan found a big wrench in the maintenance room, used it as a weapon, and killed it all the way, he only worried about zombies and survivors, and didn't care about looting intelligence and materials, and soon killed from the first floor to the fourth floor, and then searched from the fourth floor to kill back to the first floor. Twenty or thirty zombies were annihilated, but no living people were seen.

Looking at the bloodstained wrench in his hand, Lin Zaishan thought to himself: "Killing in a government office building is really a bit extreme and crazy. Where have all the staff gone? Didn't anyone survive? Suddenly, Lin Zaishan remembered something: "You can't just look at the surface, but also look at the bottom." ”

He carried a wrench and searched repeatedly on the first floor, and finally found a staircase leading to the ground in the corner, and went down the stairs for more than ten meters, and a straight corridor appeared, and the corridor was lit up.

"Sure enough, there is a play." Lin Zaishan's heart was overjoyed.

There were four rooms on either side of the corridor, and Lin Zaishan walked quickly to the first door, which was closed.

"Anyone?" He asked aloud.

No one answered. Lin Zaishan pried open the door, and a figure rushed out of the darkness and rushed towards him. Lin Zaishan crossed his arm, and a sharp claw swept across his left arm—before coming to the county seat, Lin Zaishan deliberately wrapped a sturdy canvas around his arm—and the arm was unharmed. At the moment when he was touched by the black shadow, Lin Zaishan's left arm slapped the gloved hand of the figure and grabbed the figure's forearm, and then pulled and twisted, dragging the black shadow out of the door with a half-turned body, and looked at it through the light in the corridor, it was indeed a zombie. Lin Zaishan waved his wrench without hesitation, and the zombie's skull shattered and fell to the ground. Lin Zaishan fumbled left and right on the wall of the room and turned on the power switch. The room was empty and there was nothing. Soon, he searched all four rooms on either side of the hallway, and found nothing of value other than killing two zombies.

At the end of the corridor was another closed door, which Lin Zaishan easily pried open with a military thorn.

"Hah! I still haven't had an ability, but my ability to pick locks has improved by leaps and bounds. Lin Zaishan looked at the iron gate that surrendered to him and thought proudly. However, before he could reach the climax, he found three zombies rushing towards him behind the door.

"Phew!" Lin Zaishan shouted, and the big wrench pulled out a perfect fan, and the three zombies fell down together. Lin Zaishan was stunned by his victory, and then made up for it a few times on the ground. He quickly glanced behind the door, and there was another hallway, and at the end of the corridor was a wall, making up four rooms on either side.

"The last hope to find survivors is in these four rooms." Lin Zaishan thought as he pried open the door to the first room on his left hand, and there was nothing inside. Then he pried open the first room on his right, and the light was on in the room, and a skinny female zombie was burying her head in the heart of an obese female corpse. Lin Zaishan didn't wait for the female zombie to finish his "dinner", and rushed over to kill her.

He then made his way to the third room, the door was open, and inside was a male corpse and several stainless steel lockers. Mr. Lin found a cell phone in a stainless steel locker with a key in it. He pressed the button on his phone, and it turned on normally. Lin Zaishan quickly searched through the resources of his mobile phone and found a newly shot video (the day of the meteorite landing) in the camera directory. He clicked the play button, only to see the head of a middle-aged man appear in the video. The middle-aged man said in a trembling voice:

"I'm Zhu Weimin, the deputy head of Yutai County, and this may be my last image. It's 11:27 and there are still 3 minutes left before the meteorite landing. Communications were completely cut off, the county was already in chaos, and the county government had completely lost control of order in the county. However, at this time, more than half of the colleagues in the county government building were still sticking to their posts. A part of the masses has been transferred with us to the civil defense fortifications underground, and several of our surviving cadres are preparing their last words. I hope that one day, our families and our country will be able to see these last words, understand what we did before the end of the world, and affirm that we are worthy of who we are. …… Father, mother, wife, son, please forgive me for not being able to be there for you in the most critical moment, I love you! ”

Lin Zaishan closed the video, sighed and said:

"You're good. Thank you and your phone. ”

He took out the memory card from his phone, inserted his phone's memory card into it, and pressed the power button. In the time of waiting for a few seconds, Lin Zaishan's heartbeat suddenly more than doubled.

The phone is on! But this time it is different from the boot screen just now, only to see a progress bar appear in the center of the screen, with prompt text below: "Discover a new system environment, start the initialization process", "Initialization progress 10%...... 20%...... 100%”。

A cartoon character in ancient costume appeared in the center of the mobile phone screen, saying hello to Lin Zaishan. Lin Zaishan was so happy that he almost shed tears.

"It's great that we're able to see you again!"

"Master, can you tell me about the current situation as soon as possible?" "Master Lin" asked.

"Of course! After the meteorite landed, there was a super big bang ......, and it was full of mutants and zombies. ”

"What are the characteristics of each of them?"

Lin Zaishan told "Lin Fuzi" in detail what he had seen, heard and thought about zombies and mutant beasts.

"Have any survivors changed?"

"Some people have abilities?"

"What ability?"

"There seem to be a lot of different abilities, and different people get quite different abilities. Wu Chaoqun gained the ability to shoot quickly and accurately; Li Yan is the female reporter we rescued, who has gained the ability to sense heat sources and emit fire; Wang Xiaoya is said to be able to keep busy; Du Lili can command men; The little fat man Gao Dawei can actually pass through the wall at a critical moment; Even Qian Long and Ah Wei heard that they had abilities. ”

"Master, zombies, mutant beasts, and anomalous phenomena are beyond my knowledge, and I can't give a reasonable explanation. I need to collect more data. ”

"Of course."

"Master, this phone lacks sufficient sensing and actuators, and at the moment I can only obtain information from the outside world through simple functions such as cameras and audio recordings."

"How should 'Lin Fuzi' upgrade you? I would like to remind you that the world is now full of blackouts, water outages, paralysis of communications and transportation, and severe damage to infrastructure of all kinds. ”

"I need some electronic and mechanical components, which are relatively common and should be found in a computer, mobile phone store or electronics factory. Here is the list of components. ”

"As far as I know, Yutai's pillar industry is tourism, with a weak industrial base and no electronic processing factories; There is a computer and mobile phone store, but it is mainly concentrated in the neighborhood controlled by Qianlong and Ah Wei, and it is difficult to get close. ”

"Then there should be a computer or mobile phone repair shop in the county."

"Yes, I remember, there is a 'Chaoyang Computer Clinic' in the east section of Central Street. But I don't know if this store is still there. Even if it is, there is a question mark over whether there is a power supply or the required components. ”

"Don't worry, master, try it when you have time."

"Okay, I'll go tomorrow, and the top priority is to search the county government building." After Lin Zaishan finished speaking, he put his mobile phone in his personal pocket.

Lin Zaishan was in a good mood, and when he came to the door of the last room, he whistled and aimed his military thorn at the crack in the door. Crunch, the door was pried open. Another figure swooped down in the darkness.

"These zombies are still coming behind the door to sneak up on this set? I'm annoyed if you don't bother! Lin Zaishan's left hand stabbed a block, and the big wrench in his right hand was ready to be pulled out. He felt that he was aiming at the head of the black shadow, but at this moment the black shadow's head was exposed to the light of the corridor, with long black and slightly messy hair, a beautiful but slightly pale face, a small but slightly dry cherry mouth, a tall but slightly gray nose, a pair of bright but slightly red and swollen eyes, and a slightly crooked but delicate black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of the nose.

"It doesn't look like a zombie, right? Are zombies so beautiful? Lin Zaishan stopped the wrench while thinking wildly.

"Smack!" The "pretty zombie" kicked Lin between the legs, and the latter screamed and fell to the ground crotch. The "beautiful zombie" held a hard object in his hand and bent down towards Lin Zaishan, who immediately had a bag on his head. "Pretty Zombie" continued to do more damage, and a large stick more than a foot long and glowing with lightning was aimed at her beautiful face. The "pretty zombie" immediately screamed and shook out of the room.

Lin Zaishan raised his head in pain, only to see the back of a white-collar woman in a white shirt and black skirt, showing slender calves, bare left foot, and a high heel in her right hand.

"I was beaten down by a woman, and I was beaten with high heels!" Lin Zaishan only felt an unprecedented depression: "Not only was his head broken, but his crotch was burst!" And the perpetrator turned out to be a weak otaku! If I found out, he would laugh at me for at least a week! How else can I raise my head in front of my brother? ”

After a long while, Lin Zaishan struggled to stand up. He felt the power switch in the room, turned on the light, and saw that the room of about 15 square meters was full of boxes of documents, a computer was placed on a desk at the door, and some leftover biscuits and empty drink bottles were placed on the desk. Lin Zaishan turned on the computer and popped up the user password login interface, he tried a few times at random, but couldn't log in, so he had to give up. I walked inside again, picked up a folder of documents and looked through them, all of which were work records and file information. Unable to find any useful information, he went out and returned to the first floor of the building.