Chapter 24: The Pit

It was already past two o'clock in the afternoon, and it was safer to return the same way, but when he was halfway there, Zhang Zhao proposed to search a few other blocks. After all, if you come out to explore the way, you will find nothing, and if you can find some scarce materials, it will be enough to comfort people's hearts. Food is being consumed every day, and although it is still abundant, if it is not replenished in time, it will one day be reduced to gnawing on the bark of trees.

On the corner of Victory Street, there is a large store, which is an electric car brand store. The nearby streets, although also in a mess, are not too bad. Electric vehicles are undoubtedly the best mount for short-distance transportation in apocalyptic cities. The three of them cautiously approached the electric car store, and after making sure that there were no zombies around, they relaxed and walked into the store to search.

This store is about 200 square meters, and all kinds of electric vehicles are parked in the exhibition hall, and in the middle of the exhibition hall is a circular service desk. Guo Rong was in charge of searching for useful widgets, but after a while, he didn't find anything too useful. The entire exhibition hall is relatively intact, although there are traces of electric vehicles being moved, and those who were about before did not choose these as a means of transportation.

"Find out which ones have more power." Because it's a new car, a lot of batteries are empty. It's not a long way back to the mall, and you have to make sure you have enough power. Find a bunch of keys and try to pick some to ride around the store, this action is mainly to see the power reserves on the monitor. There are barely three high-power electric vehicles, and there is still plenty of electricity. Fortunately, the current electric vehicles are using new batteries, and the leakage is relatively slow, otherwise, the next part of the road has to go back.

It's been a long time since I've enjoyed such a free bike ride and enjoy the afternoon sun. During this month, I almost always took refuge in small spaces, and I could only feel the smell of the sun through the window every day. The mood of the three of them was particularly happy. Chase each other from time to time.

A zombie who had managed to get up from the mud, the sludge on his head had been dried, and he struggled to open his mouth and let out a low roar. This zombie, as if it was about to be reborn, looked up to the sky and roared, but it didn't want to be cut off by the sudden knife light. The broken body slowly fell back into the mud pit.

Guo Rong controlled the electric car with one hand, raised the knife in his hand with the other, and when he encountered a lone zombie, he raised the knife and cut off the zombie's head. Zhang Zhao, who followed him, also made the same move. One opened the way, the other mended the knife, and along the way, there were about a dozen unlucky zombies who experienced the same encounter.

"Turn the corner, go two more streets, and you'll be in the mall." Lu Yang shouted from behind, his voice echoing through the empty streets.

Guo Rong stopped at a sudden brake in front of him, and was scolded by Zhang Zhao, who was following behind: "What the hell are you doing with the pot." He was about to complain, but when he saw Guo Rong's solemn face, he asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Listen, it's like gunshots." Guo Rong frowned, listening carefully to the faint, but dense gunshot.

Everyone held their breath, and sure enough, they faintly heard a sound similar to a gunshot, and this sound was continuous. Such a fierce battle, except for the initial outbreak of the zombie virus, when the official army resisted with all its might, and in the period after that, it never appeared again. Now that the whole world has almost fallen, is it the official search team?

Guess a little, I think this is very unlikely. The spread of the zombie virus is already uncontrollable. In such a global catastrophe, even if powerful weapons are used to destroy more serious areas, it is inevitable that fish will slip through the net. So, from the very beginning, no one was willing to take this risk.

The most correct thing to do is to send ground forces to carry out resistance, elimination and search missions. The official did so, but it still failed.

More than a month has passed now, and the search and rescue missions, although carried out one after another, are all small-scale operations. And the initial resistance, elimination, search, and now only resistance and search remain. The word annihilation, which ended up becoming a fantasy. The human world collapsed in an instant, and small-scale forces could not compete with large-scale viruses.

"Let's go, go see what's going on." Zhang Zhao tightened his backpack and rode first.

Guo Rong is his good buddy, and whatever Zhang Zhao decides, he will follow. Lu Yang heard that he was going to take a look, and although he was reluctant, he finally chased after him.

Now the basic communication part is in ancient times, there is no telephone, there is no Internet, anything you want to know, you can only see it yourself. Even if you want to find someone who likes to watch things and inquire, you must first have someone, a living person.

Originally, they could have just gone back to the mall, then settled down first, and then thought of other things in a few days. But the sudden abnormality made Zhang Zhao feel a little panicked in his heart. If it is really an official rescue force and misses the opportunity this time, then it is very likely that they will have to rely on themselves to go to the East China Sea Islands step by step.

Any decision is dangerous in the end times. After about ten minutes of riding, the gunshots were clearly heard, and occasionally a few shouts and curses could be heard. Zhang Zhao quickly pushed the electric car into the green forest outside a building, and then waved his hand to Guo Rong and Lu Yang, signaling them to move quickly.

This place should be a business district, with four or five high-rise buildings, and then across a street, there is a park. The gunshots came from the direction of the park, which was no longer as dense and sparse as before.

In the office building here, there was already a company operating normally before the end of the day, and Zhang Zhao was afraid of zombies, so he didn't dare to rush in. After observing for a while, he and Guo Rong cautiously ascended the stairs to the second floor, and then climbed to a wide platform on the top of the building's gate.

The platform has a guardrail, which is just enough for three people to squat and show half of their heads. Since it is not a particularly high position, you can't see the specific scene in the park. Thousands of calculations, there will inevitably be omissions. Yesterday I was collecting in the mall, and no one came out with a telescope.

"It's the guy I met in the morning." Guo Rong said in a low voice. On the streets outside the park, there were more than a dozen cars parked, and it was determined that it was the same powerful team that had met in the morning.

"It's them, what are they doing here? is still shooting so desperately, is it to encircle and annihilate zombies? Zhang Zhao had a series of questions in his heart. Even if it is to encircle and annihilate zombies, this is too blatant, more than a dozen guns, even if there are endless bullets, it is too risky to eliminate zombies in such a slaughtering style.

Zombies are particularly sensitive to sound, and the sound of gunfire can be heard by ordinary people from a few miles away, let alone zombies?

The group fought for a while, and it was estimated that the target was almost dead, and except for a few gunshots, the rest of the people returned to the car one after another. Next to the leading jeep, a tall man in black was standing, whispering something to the people around him. Then the group of people drove away cleanly.

Seeing that this group of people was gone, Zhang Zhao was glad that he was not too reckless, if he appeared in front of this group of people at that time, he would definitely not end well. In addition, they are also a little disappointed, because this group of people is not an official person. It means that the next road is still dangerous.

Lu Yang had never seen such a real scene of firearms concurrency, and it took a long time to come back to his senses, and he was busy: "I remembered, I remembered." ”

"What do you remember?" Zhang Zhao asked urgently.

"The person who took the lead just now was the owner of a game machine hall in the early years of the district, and I would often go there to play when I was in junior high school." Lu Yang thought carefully: "It seems to be called...... Rotten orange. ”

Rotten Orange is a person's nickname, that is, the man in black who took the lead, a northerner, who operated game consoles in his early years. Later, for unknown reasons, he was arrested and imprisoned for three years. After coming out, he continued to develop some other unsightly industries, and with his ruthless methods, he mixed quite well in this area.

In other words, this team is actually composed of some idle people in society. Such a person is indeed easier to survive in the apocalypse than ordinary people. It's just that no matter how good you mix, it is inscrutable to have so many guns.

"Let's go, let's see." If you don't take a look, there will definitely be a pimple in your heart.

Lu Yang began to hesitate again, "Brother, can we not go?" This group of people is so fierce, they must have killed a lot of zombies. And now in the past, there may be some who are not dead, so it's too dangerous to do so. ”

Today's Lu Yang is not afraid of death, but has become very cautious. He stupidly went to open the door to the underground garage last night, and it didn't make any sense to talk about it now. When he saw Guo Rong's reaction, he also had a sense of precaution, afraid that he would say the wrong thing and be beaten again.

Guo Rong didn't make a move very abnormally, nor did he say some words, but said lightly: "If you don't want to go, you can stay here, no more of you, no less of you." ”

"Brother, don't." This sentence made Lu Yang suddenly shrug. In the past two days, he has also seen Guo Rong's methods and temper, and it is difficult for him to catch up with him at present. Listening to his words, it means that if you don't go, don't be with us in the future.

Despite being scared, he eventually followed the two with a baseball bat. After riding for so long, the electric car was still full of power, and the three of them crossed the street and crossed the lawn. I guessed that the zombies were being annihilated before, and everyone was somewhat prepared. When they saw the scene in front of them, Zhang Zhao and Guo Rong were dumbfounded, and Lu Yang simply held on to the tree and vomited.

It's a small river in the park that is dry and has only a shallow current. And on the lawn on the other side of the river, there are dead and bloody zombies. What made Lu Yang vomit directly was not the broken zombies on the other side of the river.

"Damn, it's a living person." Guo Rong scolded: "What they were fighting just now is not exactly zombies, these beasts. ”

I saw that the river was about to bottom, and it was covered with red blood, and the whole river was dyed red. In addition to the mountains of zombies, there were also twenty or thirty corpses of living people by the river. The difference between the river bank and the bottom of the river is not large, and it is only less than two meters, and standing here, you can almost smell the strong smell of blood.

"They're slaughtering the living, why!" Guo Rong seemed to be a little excited, and his eyes were bloodshot.

"It's not the first time they've done that, you see, the corpses down here are obviously not bitten by zombies, and they are all old people." Zhang Zhaodao.

A rough count shows that there are probably more than a hundred corpses. That is, these people, here, have taken the lives of more than a hundred old people. This is simply mad, the most terrible thing in the apocalyptic world is not the zombies, but those who have lost their humanity.

The general situation, seeing the current situation, can also guess a few points. The team, taking some old people, took the place and threw it into the river. The zombies on the other side saw a living person approaching, and they flocked to eat the living creatures. And this group of people annihilated all the zombies, along with the living.

"Why is that?" Guo Rong punched the tree, very angry.

It took Lu Yang a long time to recover, and he didn't dare to take a second look. The mood is heavier than being trapped in an apartment after the initial zombie virus outbreak. I have thought of such a situation to some extent, but I didn't expect that human nature could be reduced to something more terrible than a beast.