Volume II: The Struggle, Chapter 5: The Pope

The sunlight was a bit harsh, and although it didn't affect the forest at all, Hood still brought his gold-rimmed glasses, and he picked up the shotgun on the corpse and looked at it to see if it was still usable.

"This place stinks." Hood entered the room, frowning and covering his nose.

The smell of decay didn't seem to be alleviated even after a day of escaping through the door, and the room was dimly lit, as if zombies preferred a dark environment.

Hood opened the curtains and saw the dead deer lying in the center of the room, its head separated, but the mouth on its head was still opening and closing. After sending it back to the west, Curry stepped forward to inspect it, guessing that the muzzle of the gun was hit in the neck at the beginning, and then it may be that the remaining tissues could not support the huge head, so the body was separated.

Curry checked it, stood up and said, "Adult stag, if we don't lose enough head to drink a pot, the meat should not be edible, but if it was killed yesterday, it shouldn't give off such a heavy smell today." ”

"There may be a few more." Hood pointed to a severed hand in the corner of the room, which was rotten and could be seen as white bones.

Curry looked in the direction of Hood's finger and immediately picked up the gun: "That's a human hand?" Be careful, there may be other zombies. ”

"Eh, I'm a little curious, do you think this zombie will continue to rot? If you can, wouldn't it be hot pot for a month or two? ”

"I don't know, but it's going to be winter soon, and I'll probably be trying to live until next summer."

"It's not too low now, it's the best for bacteria to grow, and didn't we just come all the way from the summer? Oh, yes, it's from the summer, so it's probably because the germ brigade didn't succeed in completing the mission. Hood felt like he wanted to smoke a cigarette to vent his grief.

"In that case, you should be more careful, it means that the owner of that hand may not be dead." Curry reminded.

Hood muttered quietly, physiologically dead.

"It doesn't seem to be going to work, and there's not much ammunition left." Hood flipped through it casually.

Curry looked at his leisurely posture, and felt that he didn't listen to what he just said, so he had to remind him again: "I advise you not to be so leisurely, that zombie will shoot, and it is not strange if other zombies will ambush, if you are bitten, I will not show mercy." ”

Hood turned his back to Curry and put down a third-rate novel on the shelf, smiled, and continued to tinker nonchalantly: "Don't worry~ Do you know what I call it?" There is a word in Chinese that describes me, which is called - lifting weights like light. Then he turned around and made a very assertive gesture of sovereignty and said, "That's how it was when I lived alone. ”

"But I'm guessing you haven't encountered a zombie that shoots." Curry was a little dissatisfied with this young man who was a little bit of a bad guy, but his Qi cultivation kung fu was very good, and it couldn't be seen on the surface.

Hood finished shopping in the living room and opened the bedroom door.

And at the moment when he opened the door! The zombie that had been dormant for a long time rushed out behind the door, and Curry reacted immediately, he raised his gun, but it was too far away, and if he shot it, he would tear Hood to pieces.

Hood still looked lazy, seemingly casually raised his foot against the zombie's stomach, gently sent it out, and then stepped up to raise the crossbow, and shot a sword through the zombie's eyebrows. When he had done all this, he feigned his non-existent hat and blew the crossbow in imitation of the movements of a western cowboy.

Curry watched and felt a little speechless, because the development of the plot was very different from what he thought.

After Hood finished blowing the crossbowhead, he suddenly pouted, "Huh?" Feeling familiar? ”

Curry decided to go with him in the future, although I don't know if he was really prepared or just lucky.

After strolling around the bedroom for a while, he felt that there was nothing worth taking with him, so he turned his head to check the backyard.

"There's gasoline, shall we move back?" Hood found a barrel of gasoline in the backyard, not very full, but not quite a bit. He leaned down to see if he could move things away when the bird swooped down from the sky and thrust straight into the back of Hood's neck, and when he heard the sound of flapping wings, Hood swooped forward and hurriedly retracted his legs, it was a sparrow that rushed straight to the ground, its feathers had lost a lot, but its size was unexpectedly large.

Hood's crossbow bolts had not yet been reloaded, so he hurriedly pulled out his pistol from his back and fired two shots at the sparrow, but he didn't hit. The falling sparrow adjusted its body and rushed towards Hood again.

"Why are NMDs staring at you, Young Master Hood!" Hood let go of the huge crossbow and rolled in a circle to dodge again.

Curry rushed out of the room, gun in hand, and saw Hood's comical pose.

"Why did you shoot?"

"Sparrow, there is a sparrow that wants to attack Lao Tzu." Hood didn't dare to look at Curry, keeping an eye on the sparrow's movements. He kicked his feet on the ground, and then with the help of his hands, he quickly got up, and immediately ran towards Curry, and the sparrow drew an arc in the sky, and rushed again at great speed.

"How can sparrows fly so fast?!" Curry looked at Untitled moving rapidly in the sky, and was a little panicked for a moment, and hurriedly fired three shots in succession, finally dismembering him in the air.

Hood sat down on the steps, and in a moment his sweat came down, and he gasped for air, his physical energy was secondary, mainly because of the sudden shock of the incident.

Curry also took a deep breath and said to Hood, who was sitting on the stairs, "Are you still lifting weights?" ”

Hood cut and looked up at Curry and said, "This is obviously from the belly of that broken zombie, this belongs to your problem, it was solved yesterday and there is no such thing today." ”

Curry choked up and decided not to argue with him.

……

"Young man, why did you come to the reserve? Didn't you say the park was closed? Green came to Mo Xuan's bedside, the old man was in good spirits, not very strong, but he also looked stronger than the average young man.

Mo Xuan looked at the old man's face and wondered how to speak.

"It's such an old gentleman, the epidemic outside is already very serious, and the people infected with the epidemic will have some strange changes, and they will become ...... Zombies, you understand. Mo Xuan felt that it was better to tell the truth, and he didn't seem to be able to think of any better excuse.

Green lowered his head and was silent for a long time, smiled, looked up at Mo Xuan and asked, "Are you serious?" ”

"And some of them are already going to shoot." Mo Xuan pointed to his arm.

"Are you crazy?" Green began to make a lot of noise, considering if he was some fugitive he didn't know about.

"If you don't believe me, go to the house where I was attacked." Mo Xuan said slowly.

Old Green looked down and thought for a moment, then nodded and left.

After a while, Mo Xuan heard the sound of the door closing.

Mo Xuan leaned against the window, and suddenly felt that there were still such isolated people in this era, and the information was so closed.

Looking around, Mo Xuan found that the old man's home was almost nothing, no TV, no computer, no mobile phone, not even a radio, only a landline telephone, and now only a handful of people use this thing.

"There are only mountains and forests every day, how lonely is such a life." Mo Xuan said with emotion.

……

In the church next to the villa area of Mo Xuan's house

The church is not too big, but it is not small, with a wide, painted dome that is three stories high, and a bell tower higher than the dome rings the bell on time each day.

Although there are far fewer religious believers today, and the faith has become somewhat utilitarian, this Christian church still inherits its own philosophy.

The priest of the church chose to build the church structure here because it was undeveloped and far from the city.

It's inconvenient to preach," said the priest.

"But then whether the church goes to preach the gospel or the believers come to worship, they will become more religious." The bishop folded his hands and said.

Not only that, but he also set up a three-kilometer radius of the church as a road, which was not allowed for carriages and horses, and all those who came to worship had to walk a three-kilometer road to see the crucified saint. Strange to say, after doing so, there was an endless stream of dignitaries and dignitaries who came to pay homage, and the bishop was dressed in red at a young age when he was in his forties.

He left Christopher only a few times in his life, and was finally buried in the church he had built with his own hands, under the cross of the saint, and the soft light in the saint's eyes continued to soothe him for a hundred years...... Two hundred years .......

One hundred years after his death, he was approved by the Holy See to be named "holy" at a council, becoming the first saint recognized by the Holy See in the territory of Atlantis.

Less than 20 years ago, Mo Xuan's villa area used some unconventional methods, living next to the church, and building a road, which made this out-of-this world have the hustle and bustle of red dust. The bishop at that time strongly objected, and the matter even attracted the attention of the Holy See, but under the huge international public opinion, the community was still built, but it was slightly off from the original plan, and it was only about a kilometer from the church. The then bishop was filled with grief and indignation, and after cursing the developer with blood, he committed suicide by throwing himself into the sea and was posthumously named the Red Coat by the Holy See.

“…… Prove the truth, yes. I will follow you. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen. The kneeling man kissed the cross, and he slowly raised his head, revealing his scarlet eyes.

"I have heard your call, my lord. I have read your prophecy, Amen. He bowed to the saint one last and turned away.

"I'm going to preach."

The door of the church was slowly closed, and I don't know how many years have passed.

……

"Why are you here?"

As soon as Hood came out of the house, he saw Green with a shotgun outside the house, and he looked at the corpse thoughtfully.

"We call him Lao Ba, he likes to hunt, and he is a good person......

Hood looked at the unrecognizable corpse, then at the shotgun in Green's hand.

"Don't get excited, this situation is more complicated, you listen to me." He was a little afraid that the old man would suddenly shoot him and kill him, which would be too unjust.

Unexpectedly, Green waved his hand, put the gun behind his back, and left.

Hood turned his head and looked at Curry with an inquiring look.

Curry waved his hand to leave it alone, then picked up the gas and told Hood to carry the radio back.

"Hmm...... It's hard work. "Life is not easy," Hood sighed.