Chapter Twenty-Three: Finding the Way
The weather was changeable, and it was only seven o'clock in the morning, and Zhang Zhao was woken up by the heat.
He got out of the car, grabbed a bottle of mineral water and drank it. Walking to the exit of the bathroom, Donna still sat on the ground in a leaning posture and was stunned, while Li Zijing had already dozed off. He gave a cigarette to Li Zijing and asked, "There shouldn't have been any big movement yesterday, right?" ”
Li Zijing rubbed his face and sobered up for a moment before saying, "Fortunately, at first, there were zombies who tried to crawl in and shot and killed a few, and the corpses blocked the entrance to the cave." ”
Last night's night of horror, thanks to the fact that zombies are unintelligent creatures, they will not move obstacles like humans, otherwise this mall is likely to become everyone's grave. "You all go and rest, I'll watch here." Although Donna is in good spirits, she still needs to take turns to take care of her in order to conserve her strength.
Donna refused, saying that Li Zijing and the two of them must have someone to stay here. Even though the zombies are fading, just in case. At present, in addition to the firearm in her hand, only Li Zijing has an air gun. Although zombies can't break through obstacles, they will inevitably slip through the net. The long-range killing of firearms is more reliable than any weapon.
And today, we are going to arrange people to go out to explore the way, this shopping mall is a temporary foothold, and safety is very important. After all, there are only four people in the team who have combat effectiveness. Such as Li Yan and He Miaomiao, unless it is when the zombies are alone, they can still give it a go, and in other cases, if they are surrounded by corpses, it is relatively difficult to even escape.
People woke up one after another, and today Li Yan was afraid that He Miaomiao would snatch her job again and become extraordinarily diligent. I went to boil a pot of porridge early in the morning, and at about half past seven, I called everyone over. After a night of horror, everyone had little appetite, so they ate a little pickles. The rest was left with more than half a pot, which was filled with several bottles of mineral water as lunch for those who would go out to explore the road.
Going out to explore this kind of work requires good physical strength and reflexes, not going out to fight zombies. Hiding and running is the most important thing. Zhang Zhao and Guo Rong took Lu Yang and the three of them to softly open the door and go out through a gap the size of a person.
Lu Yang has not recovered his mental state yet, more because he was beaten by Guo Rong last night, and he still has some thoughts in his heart. He looked at Guo Rong's eyes with obvious fear, deliberately slowed down his pace, and followed five or six meters behind the two. He himself found a baseball bat from a sporting goods store and carried it in his hand.
Most of the surrounding areas of the mall are residential houses, and because it is a new area, the occupancy rate is not high. It rained last night, and there was still a lot of water on the ground, so it was more troublesome to walk, and I had to deliberately bypass it. Occasionally, the zombies who met alone were easily killed by Zhang Zhao and Guo Rong. If you encounter a group of more than five small corpses, although you can also kill them, you are afraid that a miss will attract more zombies, so you choose to avoid them.
Along the way, Lu Yang's realizations were not as clumsy as before. Although he didn't help with killing zombies, he was able to keep up with the pace of the two. The three of them walked for about an hour before they reached the main road. On the other side of the street, there used to be a gas station, but now all that remains is a broken wall and a sign on the side of the road.
"Damn, what's going on?" Seeing the scene as if it was being attacked by an air raid, Guo Rong let out an exclamation.
Lu Yang wanted to ease the previous relationship between the two, so he took the initiative to say: "This is what happened in the days when the virus broke out, the gas station exploded. ”
Guo Rong glanced at him, and didn't say anything, more strange, a good gas station, how can it be said that it exploded.
For this question, Zhang Zhao thought more thoroughly. The ripple effect of events will cause even greater events. For example, if a person happens to be driving and suddenly mutates into a zombie, the vehicle will lose control and hit passers-by or buildings. The person who was cooking suddenly turned into a zombie, and the dishes in the pot were definitely going to burn. Some mechanical equipment that needs to be operated by a human will maintain its previous action. If a person is blowing their hair and suddenly turns into a zombie, then the hair dryer will be left on all the time, causing a fire. So, the explosion of the gas station, is not surprising.
Although a pair of months had passed, the stench could still be smelled across the street, and the three of them covered their mouths and noses and fled quickly. Along the way, every street lost its former life, except for the dilapidated buildings, the messy streets, and the corpses, not even a single normal living thing.
The temperature gradually rose, the scorching heat was unbearable, and after coming out for nearly two hours, it was really tiring to do it, so the three of them hid under the overpass to enjoy the coolness.
Lu Yang is a local, and he is familiar with the general location of this area. Although Zhang Zhao and the others had also been to H City before, they relied on taking a taxi to go out at that time, so if they really wanted to go in one direction like this, where could they find it.
didn't encounter any zombies along the way, Zhang Zhao felt very strange: "It stands to reason that even if there are few people in this area, it is impossible for us to walk for two hours before we encounter so many zombies." "City H is a metropolis, much bigger than City N. When I was in N City, there were hundreds of corpses wandering around at every turn.
Guo Rong lit a cigarette and said with a smile: "Or maybe there is not much oil and water in this place, and the zombies have migrated." His actions startled Zhang Zhao, there must be no fireworks in the open air, and quickly signaled the reluctant Guo Rong to extinguish the smoke.
Zombie migration, according to Donna, the zombies in the Central Plains, after destroying the city, will spread like all around. Come to think of it, this is the only reason that can be explained at present.
"Brother Zhang, it seems that a car is coming." Just when Guo Rong and Zhang Zhao were talking nonsense, Lu Yang suddenly said.
Looking from afar, I saw a green car slowly driving away. Due to the good weather and the great view, the car was far away, but it was enough to see.
"Quick, hide." Although meeting survivors at the moment is a comforting thing at first sight, it is also a dangerous thing. Since ancient times, whenever there is chaos in the world, human nature must have been greatly challenged. In a society where big fish eat small fish, no one dares to take it lightly.
The three of them quickly ran into the grass on the side of the road and quietly observed. It wasn't one car, it was a convoy, a jeep on the road, and then about ten cars of various shapes. Each car was full of people, and in addition to weapons such as knives and sticks, several people were holding spears in their hands.
Seeing the convoy go away, the three of them walked out. "Who are these people? Civil society? And guns. Guo Rong shook the sand and gravel in his shoes.
It is impossible for ordinary people to own firearms, and the guns in the hands of these people are definitely not air guns or anything like that. A team of nearly 100 people, a dozen spears, what a big team this is.
"I guess it's that looking at their appearance, they don't look like soldiers, maybe it's a gang or something, hehe, when we see such people, we'd better hide away." has watched so many film and television works before, Zhang Zhao understands it very well. To be a lethal team, it must require extraordinary means in the apocalypse. And if you want to survive the apocalypse, according to the current team, it is impossible to last long.
The real apocalypse is not like what is written in the web novel, there will be mutated humans, enhanced abilities, and torture zombies like chopping vegetables. All I encountered was mutated zombies. So far, whenever I encounter zombies, in addition to running, I can only rely on the knife in my hand to fight. Ordinary people, no matter how lucky they are, they can only rely on their weak physical strength to resist.
Donna said that there are dozens of mutated zombies, and ordinary zombies, in addition to being knocked down, can basically be easily killed. Unless you burrow into the corpses, the harm to humans is not as terrible as you imagined. And mutant zombies have different abilities, and they don't know how to distinguish them. Just like the sneak attacker I met in the service area a few days ago, he quietly bit a person to death, and the speed and bounce power are amazing. Fortunately, the chance of zombie mutation is very small, otherwise there will be all over the street, as long as there are three or five, a small team will be wiped out in minutes.
After a little rest for half an hour, it's time to continue the journey. The three-person team with weak combat strength can only advance on foot. Although there are many cars parked on the side of the road, or some are still functional, no one dares to touch them. Unless you are as strong as the team just now, it is undoubtedly tantamount to killing yourself in this empty city to wander around in a small car.
"How long is this going to be? Lu Yang, where are you going if you keep walking like this? "I really can't walk, Guo Rong is a little unbearable, and the lazy personality explodes instantly.
He took the initiative to talk to Lu Yang, which meant that he let go of the mustard in his heart, Lu Yang was flattered, and hurriedly said: "Brother Guo, this direction is to go east, if you can get out of the city, you can go all the way to the East China Sea Islands." ”
There is no way to go on like this, and it is too difficult to cross the city, let alone walking more than 20 miles, but not seeing any hope. These more than 20 miles are only one-tenth of the distance, and if you continue to walk, you will not have time to dare to go back to the mall, so you will have to spend the night outside. Doing so was too risky, and Zhang Zhao suggested turning back.
This also had to be abandoned, and now the whole city is in lockdown. Since I saw an armed force just now, then in this city, there is more than such a team. In case you run into it, and the luck is not so good, even people have to get in.
Zhang Zhao planned that the shopping mall was also a relatively suburban place, so it was better to go west, as long as he got out of the city, and then think of other ways.
Each of the three of them drank a bottle of porridge, even if it filled their stomachs. This trip is empty-handed, the pace is very slow, the mood of the return trip is not the same, although the physical exertion is more, but the atmosphere is obviously much better. Lu Yang had something to say along the way, which also alleviated the blunt relationship between everyone. This beating was useless, at least I saw some changes in him. A person, once he opens his heart, will change from the inside out.