Chapter 196: A Killer Hiding in the Shadows
"Team Zhang, where does this lead?" Song Muyuan was startled by his own voice, a little louder, and there was an echo in the corridor.
The staircase was covered with dust, and there were a few cobwebs hanging on the roof, presumably because they had been vacant for a long time and had not been cleaned. This staircase is no longer on the Internet, and there is no more corner, that is, there are actually only three and a half floors on this side of the building. Zhang Zhao didn't speak, he glanced at Song Muyuan, and the two of them went to the upper floor, where there was only a space of about fifty or sixty square meters, and there were no windows.
Most of the things piled up on this piece of land are display shelves and other things, covered with a thick layer of dust, and nothing else.
On the side of the staircase, there is a large iron door with a large black lock. Zhang Zhao instructed: "Pry this open and see what is outside." ”
Song Muyuan was carrying an iron rod, which could just be worn in the middle of the iron lock, to say that this guy is also tall and strong, and he will break the iron lock with three strokes and five divisions. Song Muyuan threw the broken iron lock aside, then inserted the iron rod into the belt buckle at his waist, held the doorknob, and pushed the iron door open.
"There's such a big platform here." Zhang Zhao walked out curiously, this platform has nearly 1,000 square meters, it is a rectangle.
I haven't come out for several days, and my head is up to the sky, and the state of the whole person is different. For a while, Zhang Zhao couldn't remember the structure of this shopping mall, since they arrived here, except for the front environment of the shopping mall, there was no time to survey other places, and the rest of the time, they stayed in the shopping mall.
The platform is spacious and flat, and there is no such thing as a fan. Until he saw the lines and arrows drawn on the ground, including a series of signs, Zhang Zhao felt that his whole body was about to explode.
"Team Zhang, this is ...... Parking lot? Song Muyuan also discovered the role of the platform here. The two walked around a low glass house and finally saw a curving road at the other end.
"This turned out to be a parking lot." Zhang Zhao muttered, his face was full of joy and sadness, and he came to the parking lot by mistake. The sad thing is that in this empty parking lot, not to mention the vehicles, there is not even a tire mark.
It is very likely that the Orange Home Furnishing Mall has a low passenger flow and the parking lot is not well occupied, so Zhang Zhao looked down and saw that many parking spaces were empty. Since there are no people here, the corpses will definitely not go here on a large scale for a while, but at this speed, it is difficult to say.
Ascending to the top floor of the mall, the surrounding view is suddenly widened, and it is a new development area with many residential buildings and office buildings still under construction. Lined with tower cranes and abandoned cement tankers, they look lifeless. The construction of the new area attaches great importance to greening, and as early as the completion of the infrastructure construction, many tall and short landscape trees have been transported from all over the place, and many have taken root and multiplied.
Looking down from the top of the building, there were many figures swaying among the dead branches, these were zombies gathered from the surrounding area. Zhang Zhao looked at it for a while, and the more he looked at it, the more panicked he became, this situation had never happened in the past. He took out half of the binoculars he picked up out of nowhere, and looked around in the distance, until he stopped in the direction of Kaifa Avenue, Zhang Zhao's face changed instantly, and he secretly screamed that it was not good.
I saw that on the development avenue in the distance, a group of gray corpses was surging along the road, and there were several mutated trackers shuttling among them. Zhang Zhao licked his thirsty lips, and said in a trembling voice: "Go and call Langchen and the pot, quick!" ”
Song Muyuan is not a person who likes to talk nonsense, Zhang Zhao, as the leader of the team, in his opinion, naturally has something extraordinary. He asked Song Muyuan to find Lang Chen and Guo Rong, and Song Muyuan didn't say a word, so he ran downstairs as fast as he could.
It is estimated that there must be tens of thousands of corpses in the development avenue, and the corpses gather, and every time something unlucky happens. Zhang Zhao faintly felt flustered, he wouldn't be lucky to think that the corpses would not come here. The menacing corpses were only about four or five kilometers away from here, and if it weren't for the high standing height, they wouldn't have been found by the estimates. Judging from the speed at which the corpses are moving, they will arrive here in about three hours at the earliest.
"Three hours...... These zombies can't be passing by. Zhang Zhao noticed a hint of abnormality, although the corpses were crowded with each other and scattered, the trajectories that could be walked were never too far off. Although there were dozens of zombies, after leaving the development avenue, they flocked to the surrounding wasteland, and it didn't take much time to join the army again.
The things I encountered in the past two days were like seeing ghosts, not to mention the corpses downstairs, without being disturbed and stimulated, they were desperately rushing to the mall. Just those zombies wandering around in twos and threes are not a normal phenomenon.
There are only two possibilities that can be thought of for such a strange phenomenon to occur, one is that there is something here that can attract the corpses and make them rush to this place with hunger and thirst. The second is that many zombies have evolved to a very terrifying point and can command the actions of other zombies. Either way, it's all surprising.
It didn't take long for Guo Rong and Langchen to come. Zhang Zhao didn't explain, and directly handed the telescope to Guo Rong, let him see it with his own eyes, and said: "This group of corpses is very weird, I think we have to leave immediately." ”
Guo Rong handed the telescope to Langchen in a daze, and couldn't help but shudder: "Among the corpses, there is the kind of ...... we encountered at the dock."
"Don't you think it's strange? Since coming to Harbour City, when has there been such a large group of corpses...... It's not easy. Zhang Zhao said in a deep voice.
Langchen put down the binoculars, although he was not panicked, but he said a little unnaturally: "It seems to be coming at us?" ”
"Even if it's not, it's a little related, paralyzed, it's really back." Zhang Zhao squatted on the ground, holding his head.
"It looks like we have to leave immediately, if we don't leave, we'll really die." Guo Rong cried and said, "It's the first time I've seen a zombie chase so far." ”
Since you have decided to leave, you can't control a lot, and it doesn't matter what the corpses under the building, the clawed zombies hidden in the shadows, are nothing. Surrounded by this massive, disgusting zombie, it's better to live than to die.
Just as a few people were about to go back to the mall, they heard a cry from the stairwell. The faces of several people changed, and they secretly shouted that something was wrong.
The first to run out were Ni Jianrong and Wu Xiwen, Zhang Zhao grabbed her, she was still dancing with her hands, screaming in her mouth.
"What's wrong?" Zhang Zhao asked anxiously.
Wu Xiwen's hair was messy, and he was about to break away like crazy, Zhang Zhao suddenly became angry, and slapped her in the face twice.
Wu Xiwen paused for a moment, faced Zhang Zhao's fierce eyes, and said indistinctly: "Those two people were killed, and something came in." ”
"Something came in?" Guo Rong's heart was cold, just now they were in the mall, and they blocked all the places that could be blocked, logically speaking, it shouldn't be.
"Song Muyuan, you wait here, take them away, but don't go downstairs." Zhang Zhao explained to Song Muyuan, then took the rifle and handed it to him: "Will you use it?" ”
Song Muyuan looked at the rifle in his hand, his excitement was indescribable, and he nodded like a chicken pecking rice.
Then came Song Song, Zhai Jiayi, and Tian Chen, all of them panicked, as if they had seen a ghost. In addition, you can also hear bursts of gunfire in the shopping mall below, and the fire is fierce.
Zhang Zhao took three steps and two steps, jumped down the stairs, and pulled out the Tang knife casually. The location of the stairwell, some way from the window, is still hazy, although there is residual light.
The three of them turned on the flashlights and glanced up and down, left and right, except for the blood stains on the pillar where Li Qi and Guan Ting were tied, and the bodies of the two of them drooping to the side, there was no difference.
The people left behind in the mall, each with a flashlight and a rifle, stared vigilantly around. Zhang Zhao and the others ran quickly to the entrance, and Anna Pu and Li Zhizhi hid behind the bed frame, trembling with fright.
Zhang Zhao pulled the two out of it, called Han Weijun and Xiang Nan, and Tong Yuanquan, and said in a low voice: "You go first, go upstairs and meet Song Muyuan and them." ”
Li Zhizhi and Park Anna, with tears in their eyes, although they were reluctant, but considering that they stayed, they were only dragging their feet, so they had to follow them honestly.
"Who fired the gun just now, what's going on?" Guo Rong freed up one hand and put his backpack on his back.
"I heard some movement just now, and I heard the students inside say that those two people were killed." Xu Haihai said: "There are two black shadows, I don't know where to hide." ”
Li Teh curled up on the ground, motionless, staring at Zhang Zhao with those hateful eyes. Don't think about it, when an emergency occurs, he must want to rush over, how can he not be angry when his brother is killed. But anger turned to anger, and it broke out for a while, which frightened several people in the guards, and after a punch and kick, he couldn't stand up in pain.
"Then why are you still here?" Halfway through Zhang Zhao's words, he knew what was happening, and in the corridor, he could vaguely hear the low roar of zombies on the second floor.
The door on the second floor was broken, the corpses attacked, Xu Haihai and the others didn't know what was going on, they came back here to buy Zhang Zhao and them some time.
The group of corpses came quickly, and it didn't take long for a roar to be heard, several zombies slammed into the obstacle, and a small chair on top rolled down.
"There is a way out, let's go." Zhang Zhao waved his hand.
"How many of them?" Fang Dong pointed to the few people who were still squatting together honestly.
"If you don't want to die, go together." As soon as he finished speaking, in the distance where his flashlight shone, a black shadow flashed, Zhang Zhao panicked, raised his gun and fired.
Now that the corpses have rushed here with a purpose, there is no need to worry about what guns will attract them. This obstacle, which had been erected with great effort, could somewhat stop the corpses for a while. And now the most dangerous thing is the mutated zombies hidden in the mall.
I didn't see the real body of the zombie, and no one knew what it was. Moreover, if they can't deal with it in time, even if they escape upstairs, the monsters inside will become a tricky nuisance.
(End of chapter)