Chapter 53: Big Brother, I'm Just a Trickster
At the same time that Zhang Zhao pulled out the Tang knife, Guo Rong also immediately pulled out his long-handled war knife. The person behind him may not understand what is happening in front of him and may be a little nervous. When they walked out of the alley, Zhang Zhao and the others had already cleaned up the three zombies. Guo Rong was finding a cloth in the store to wipe the blood from the knife.
Speaking of his knife, there is actually a name, it is called Kangxi War Knife. It has appeared in many Qing operas, the handle of the knife is very long, 56 centimeters in size, the blade is wide, extremely sharp, and the shape is very powerful. His imitation of later generations is a little more plain in appearance. If it is only used as a work of art, it will be more luxurious in terms of materials, and gold-inlaid ones are not a problem. But his war knife is still more practical.
It's a small supermarket, about seventy or eighty square meters, and although the store is small, it has a fairly complete range of goods. However, the food and water on the shelves have basically been emptied, leaving only a few biscuits that have been eaten by rats. A few people entered the store and brought some useful things with them, but not many other practical items. Li Zhizhi helped Anna take a few packs of aunt towels and secretly hid them in a small backpack from the shelf.
These buildings along the street are all two-storey, like this small supermarket, which is a shop downstairs and accommodation upstairs, but now it is empty. The town of Five Rivers is occupied by corpses, and standing on the bank of the river, you can also see a lot of zombies wandering on the other side. I don't know enough about this town, and I don't know how many survivors there are until now.
Although every time I meet a survivor, it is a mixed blessing, but if there are only a few people left in the whole world, and the rest are zombies, I really don't know what the situation will be. But if this state continues, that kind of thing will definitely happen in the near future. Like many film and television dramas, the earth's civilization is declining, the environment is harsh, and human beings are surviving.
Zhang Zhao didn't dare to think about it, but he had to think that a person's life is very short, and he didn't want to be alive when the end of the world really came. Maybe that's a hundred years from now, and the only purpose now is to live, to live longer.
The zombies in the distance on the riverbank had discovered the existence of their group of people, and they were slowly gathering in this direction. Zhang Zhao and the others just wanted to supply some food, but they couldn't take risks for food. It's only been a few days, and I'm starting to feel a little tired from looking for food. After all, food is consumed every day, and wherever there are survivors, someone will do the same thing.
The attractions of Wuhe Town are in the four directions of southeast, northwest and northwest, except for the former residence, which is the set. Most of the restaurants and shops are concentrated in the town centre. I came across a few small shops along the way, but they all found nothing. There are more and more zombies that can be encountered, and the number of zombies that originally came in groups of three or five almost doubled the more they went to the center of the town.
"Do you want to go inside? There are more and more zombies, and I'm afraid that even if I find food, it will be difficult to get out of it. Guo Rong worried.
Zhang Zhao stared vigilantly at the zombies wandering in front of him, and said, "If you don't go, there's no way, the situation may be worse in other places." What's more, we are not familiar with this area, and we may not have such an opportunity when we meet the next town. "After this village, there is no such shop, and now we should not pin our hopes on the future. If you want to live longer, you should focus on the present moment. Li Zijing and their team don't know where they are now, maybe they will meet tomorrow, maybe they will never meet each other.
Although there are a large number of zombies in Wuhe Town, at least so far, no crazy zombies have been found. The zombies here are surprisingly clumsy, and even if they see humans, they may not necessarily chase after them. As long as you are careful not to provoke him, you won't run all the time like in H City.
"The zombies here don't seem to be so aggressive, you see, the zombies over there are staring at us, but they don't want to come." Zhang Zhao pointed to the zombie on an arched bridge, the zombie had a mouth full of brown liquid, and kept staring at them, but there was no action.
"What's the problem? Are all the zombies in this town stupid? Lu Yang smiled and smiled, and the expression on his face froze, "No, have you found it, these zombies all have a characteristic." ”
"What are the characteristics?" Zhang Zhao said strangely. Each zombie is different in appearance and dress, if they all have one thing in common, that is, they are all zombies.
"You see, these zombies have some clotted blood from their mouths to their chins, and almost every one of them has them." Lu Yangdao.
Li Zhizhi collected two small bags from the supermarket, gave one to Anna Park, and carried one on his back. The bag contained items that she thought she could use. New to the team, she wants to keep up with the pace as soon as possible and integrate into the team as soon as possible. Hearing Lu Yang say this, he observed several zombies as far as his eyes could see, and sure enough, as he said, most of the zombies had a circle of coagulated blood traces around their mouths. Li Zhizhi asked, "Is there anything special about this?" In her eyes, zombies represent blood, cruelty, and filth.
Lu Yang pretended to be deep and said: "You don't know this, haven't you found it?" The zombies they encountered in the past, although they were in different shapes, they were very excited to meet living creatures, and there were some zombies among them that they would not chase after like other zombies. Instead, I watched coldly, and I also thought of it just now, those zombies who will chase their prey frantically, their mouths are relatively clean, that is, they have not eaten flesh and blood. And those zombies with blood on their mouths have eaten living things. What does this mean? ”
"This shows that the reason why zombies eat human flesh is not only because of their own desire for flesh and blood, but also because of hunger?" Zhang Zhao thought thoughtfully: "And those zombies who have eaten flesh and blood have lost their temporary demand for living things, so to speak...... Zombies can even eat? Are they digesting it too? ”
Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but take a breath. If this speculation is true, then zombies are not just a bunch of numb monsters as people think. They have feelings, and they are changing. It's no wonder that in just a few days of the outbreak of the virus, evolutionary zombies that are stronger than other ones have slowly appeared. Zombies are evolving, and they're surprisingly fast.
Many of the zombies here are covered in blood, which means that most of the zombies are well fed and temporarily lose interest in living creatures. Zombies are rampant, human beings are hiding in Tibet, and zombies are cruel, after all, they have no thoughts. And human beings are currently the most intelligent creatures on the planet, in addition to the huge corpse tide encountered in H City, there is actually a reason for the zombies here to enjoy endless food?
You must know that the current number of zombies and the number of survivors may be one thousandth, or even lower. That is to say, a small number of zombies can catch humans and eat them cruelly, while more zombies can't even catch half a hair, and they have always relied on their own conditions to survive. How long zombies can live without eating, the question is unanswered and cannot be proven. Maybe it's three or five years, maybe it's ten years, maybe zombies don't die except for dying from external forces.
"In that case, are we going to continue? It's terrifying, isn't it? Guo Rong crooked his mouth, a little scared.
When Donna talked about this issue with Zhang Zhao and Lu Yang just now, she actually quickly understood that the scientists in the base were also studying the habits of zombies, as well as viruses, just like developing a serum or other more effective ways of resistance as soon as possible. But nothing has been found all along, and Zhang Zhao's blind conjecture seems to have some truth.
It didn't matter to her whether she kept going or retreated, she would rather find food to ensure that she would have more chances to return to the camp in the East China Sea Islands.
Donna tightened her face and said, "It's hard to turn back now, you see, the way we came was basically blocked by the corpses." ”
Sure enough, across the riverbank, I saw the alley I had just passed, and the zombies that had been cleaned up had sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and the number was several times more than before.
Sure enough, seeing this scene, Guo Rong stared at him exaggeratedly, and exclaimed: ", these zombies set us up, I thought there were no more just now, where did so many appear from?" "It's not so much that the zombies set them up, it's that more hungry zombies have appeared, and the zombies are resting, and it's time to eat.
Such a suspicious guess can only hit everyone's heart, if the zombies can use the art of war, their own people would have already folded halfway, how can they go so far. Most of these new zombies have dried blood on their mouths, which means it's been a while since they last eaten.
The law of biological freedom, zombies are also a type of living beings. These zombies slowly gathered in the direction of Zhang Zhao and them, the speed was very slow, and it was difficult to notice that they were actually moving.
Now Zhang Zhao's location has been separated from the edge of the town, and is at the junction between the center of the town and the periphery of the town. I think for the zombies behind him, the number of zombies in front of him is much less. Zhang Zhao gritted his teeth and said, "Run to the town quickly, don't stop." ”
Several people immediately worked hard and ran towards the center of the town, encountering zombies along the way, according to the old rules, they were killed alone, and the groups were carefully bypassed. After running for about half an hour, signs of various shops appeared in front of me, but the traces of zombies became fewer and fewer, replaced by more and more corpses on the ground along the street.
These corpses include humans who have been eaten, and zombies that have been killed. Generally speaking, as long as a person is knocked down by a zombie and can no longer stand up, he will basically be eaten up by the zombies who surround him, leaving a pile of skeletons with minced meat. Zombies like to eat the most internal organs, and then the muscles of the limbs, and it is rare for zombies to gnaw even the bones clean. And those who are bitten and transformed into zombies, most of the time when they are injured, are not fatal.
Walking all the way down this street, there are basically two kinds of corpses on the road, zombie or human. The shops and B&Bs on both sides are also full of the smell of death. Every seven or eight meters, there are protective fences piled up with all kinds of things, tables and chairs, garbage cans, beds, almost all the furniture appears here.
"There are survivors here." Seeing such protective facilities, Zhang Zhao said happily: "The living people in this town are concentrated in the center of the town!" ”
Humans and zombies are pitted against each other, killing and resisting incessantly. Looking at these staggered protections, Zhang Zhao felt that these survivors were retreating one by one, and every time they took a step back, they immediately established new protection, but they couldn't resist the zombie army. The zombies in the town, who regard this place as a real hunting ground, turn a blind eye to their group of people because there are many of the same people in this land, waiting for their harvest.
"We ...... Entered the real death zone. Zhang Zhao was desperate.
The zombies behind him had slowly climbed onto the nearest stone bridge to the center of the town. When Zhang Zhaogang wanted to turn around and continue to run, Donna next to him raised her gun alertly and shouted at the second floor of a homestay on the street: "Who! ”
Donna just saw the window on the second floor of the B&B, and a figure flickered. The reason why it is said to be people, not zombies, is because zombies will not hide at all when they see humans. And the person on the second floor just glanced out secretly, and immediately retracted his head.
"Hurry up or I'll shoot." Donna shouted again.
"Don't! I'm out, I'm out! At this time, the window on the second floor of the B&B slowly stretched out a head, followed by an upper body. Donna almost shot the head when she saw it, if it weren't for the frightened look it faced. It's a head with messy hair, and the skin on its face is the same as that of a zombie. And the eyes and mouth, I don't know what to use to smear the black and red, just like a zombie that has just eaten flesh and blood.
"Talking zombies!" Lu Yang exclaimed, even his jaw was about to fall, he had seen evolved zombies, and it was the first time he had seen a talking zombie.
The zombie head upstairs hurriedly explained: "I'm not a zombie, I'm a human, don't shoot, I'm just a trickster, big brothers, don't shoot." ”