ACT283: Hail

Hou Xiong walked around the alley with Yu'an in his arms, and the yellow dog acted as a pathfinder, sniffing around, stopping at the fork in the road and pacing left and right, as if he didn't know which way to go.

"I've seen you." Yu An's face was pale, cold sweat was dry and soaked, and his body was trembling.

"Shh Hou Xiong raised his fingers and silenced, pulling her to disappear in the shadow of the corner, waiting for a while, there was a sound of footsteps on the side, and several field workers hurriedly rushed by, quickly disappearing into the corner of the street.

Hou Xiong looked in the direction they were running from, his eyes flashed with joy, he hesitated, bent down and picked up Yu An, and said as he ran: "I'll talk about it later." ”

"Where are you going?" Yu'an didn't have a strong support, and the loss of strength made him tired, and he was too slow to support him.

"Shh Hou Xiong waved his hand, pulled out the machete from his waist, beckoned the yellow dog to run out along the sidewalk, and slowly stopped when he approached the intersection.

This side of the intersection has been blocked, the city's emergency reserves do not seem to be sufficient, the large barricades are not enough, the field staff moved many containers from the stores on both sides to build an improvised defensive line, and a heavy off-road truck was parked horizontally behind, firmly blocking the swarming walking corpses behind the blockade.

Hou Xiong wandered around the city for a while, although he didn't keep up with Ming Junwei's footsteps last night, but they fled in the same way, they all changed their uniforms and fished in troubled waters, and tried and tested. Similar to what happened to Yu'an, Hou Xiong, who pretended to be a field officer, failed to take advantage of the chaos to escape, but was pulled by various busy field workers, who followed to fill in the gaps for a while, and then hurriedly cleared them at a fixed point, and completely became a volunteer laborer. In desperation, Hou Xiong found an opportunity to sneak out, decisively threw away his uniform, and restored the uninhibited demeanor of the disfigured dart man.

"The field service is not enough, there are many fragmented blockades, and the time for changing the guard is about three minutes." Hou Xiong sniffed, estimated the time when the team left just now, and turned around and said, "Your injury needs to be treated." ”

Yu An was stunned and said, "What are you going to do?" I'm fine, bandaged. ”

"Obviously unprofessional." Hou Xiong pouted and smiled, his scarred face twisted, looked up at the street storefronts on the left and right, and chose a flower shop.

The doors of the shops were not locked, and most of the living corpses, as emergency militia, had rushed to the central avenue, and the streets on the edge were basically empty, so there was no need to worry about being discovered. Hou Xiong pushed open the glass door, checked the small room behind, confirmed that there was no danger, put the rain down, and said, "You wait here." ”

"Where are you going?" Yuan asked.

"Buy some time." Hou Xiong didn't elaborate, picked up the rifle captured by Yu'an, checked it, and said, "Lend me as an envoy." With that, he ran out quickly.

The yellow dog honestly lay beside Yu An, his scarlet tongue drooping, and his expression looked very tired.

Yu An sat up on the wire bed, stepped on the stool and looked out of the ventilation window, and was suddenly startled...... Hou Xiong's choice of location was not ideal, the street outside the store was temporarily blocked, but the alley behind it had been broken through by the walking corpses, and outside the ventilation window was a crowded group of rotten corpses, and the stench of them could be smelled through the window. Fortunately, the field service and the living corpses who were blocking on the other side tossed a lot of movement, and Yu'an, who was separated by a wall, was safe for the time being, and there was no need to worry about being found by the corpses.

Just as he was thinking, a burst of gunfire suddenly sounded outside the door, and Hou Xiong was vaguely heard scolding, and then a 'boom' sound of a heavy object collapsed, and the noisy roar of the walking corpse followed. Yu An stood up and walked into the fragrant flower room, before she could react, the glass door suddenly opened, and the man jumped in the door as if he was burning his buttocks, shouting while closing the door: "Help me block the door!" ”

Yu An was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly pushed a display booth over, Hou Xiong found the bicycle lock from the door, and hurriedly tied the door latch, helping Yu An block all the booth containers in the store to the door.

'Bang! ’

There was a loud noise outside the glass door, Yu An was startled, turned his head to look, but saw a group of walking corpses broke through the blockade line that was still there just now, and the torrent poured into the street, and many walking corpses found the food in the flower house, staggered to the door of the store, and were swept away by the swarming corpses behind.

"Y-What did you do?" Yu'an froze.

"Gain time." Hou Xiong struggled to push the cash register over, and the warmly arranged flower room was made a mess by the two of them, the flower pots were toppled, and all kinds of flowers and plants were scattered all over the ground, which was miserable.

Hou Xiong breathed a sigh of relief, noting that there were not many walking corpses here, and the target of the corpse group was still the noisy area in the center of the city, and they were safe for the time being.

"The armed thugs are not going to search the neighborhoods occupied by the walking dead, and their cordon is shrinking. There were walking corpses outside, and no one came to disturb us for a while. Hou Xiong patted the dust on his hands, got up and walked into the small room behind, rummaged through the boxes and cabinets for a long time, and only turned out a roll of toilet paper, two packs of sanitary napkins for day and night, and half a box of unsealed cleansing wipes.

Hou Xiong frowned, the small room seemed to be just a temporary resting place for the owner of the flower shop, there were not many daily necessities, there was a kettle on the table, and there was water in the kettle.

"Come in." Hou Xiong looked at Yu An, who was dazed, and said, "Come here, you will be smelled by the walking corpse over there." ”

"What?" Yu An came back to his senses, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and walked back to the rest room with empty steps.

Hou Xiong helped her to sit on the bed, swept away the messy tabletop, and put the paper towel he had just found on it.

"So, you just demolished the barricade?" Yu An reacted half a beat slower, and muttered, "Just to keep this place from being searched by the field?" ”

"Or do you have a better way?" Hou Xiong spread his hands, cut the quilt cover with a dagger, pulled out the lining fabric, cut it into strands of cloth, raised his eyelids, and said, "Take off your clothes." ”

"Huh?" Yu An was slightly stunned, looking confused: "What? ”

"I'll look at your injuries." Hou Xiong coughed dryly twice and said, "Is it a walking corpse scratch?" ”

"It's not." Yu An suddenly had an epiphany, shook his head and said, "No need, I've already taken care of it." ”

"It's not handled well." Hou Xiong didn't force it, put down the things in his hand, poured her a glass of water, moved the small bench and sat opposite her, and asked, "You said you had seen me?" ”

"Well, the night the roundabout was attacked." Yu An nodded, and immediately remembered the stubble, and wondered, "Who are you?" And what's going on with this dog? ”

"That's a long story." Hou Xiong's eyes were thoughtful, as if he remembered the scene that Yu An said, he pondered for a moment, and said, "I came with the one-eyed dragon." ”

"One-eyed...... Brother Ming? Yu An was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help exclaiming: "Brother Ming is not dead!?" ”

Hou Xiong was taken aback by her startled voice, hurriedly signaled to lower the volume, and whispered: "I didn't die at that time, it's hard to say now." ”

"What's going on? How did you end up here? Yu An covered his lips lightly and whispered, "What are you doing here?" ”

"Didn't you lose a girl when you went around the island? He came to the girl. Hou Xiong said.

"Yinuo..."Yu An remembered that this girl of the same age, when she was in the roundabout, she took good care of herself, nodded silently, and muttered: "Did you find it?" ”

"I don't know, we're separated." Hou Xiong sighed and said helplessly: "Who would have thought that this would also be impacted by the walking corpse...... By the way, didn't you leave in the first place? Why are you here? ”

"That's a long story." Yu An's tight strings loosened, and a wave of sleepiness came up, and he fell softly on the side of the bed, and said in a low voice: "I was also separated from the army, I don't know...... I don't know how they are......" Yu An's voice gradually lowered, his expression was sluggish, he said a few words in a daze, and fell into a deep sleep.

Hou Xiong sat for a long time, got up and carried her to the bed, and when he helped her turn over, his face changed, and when he raised his hand, his palms were full of blood.

"Ugh..."

After hesitating for a moment, he still untied the uniform on her body, and Miaoman's figure appeared in front of her, and a damp smell of blood came to her nose, turning her over with force. The gauze wrapped by Yu An himself was already soaked with blood, Hou Xiong frowned, lightly removed the blood-stained gauze, looked at the flesh and blood blurred smooth back, and froze.

"Good guy, this is also called being dealt with..."Hou Xiong's expression was stunned, the hideous gaps crisscrossed, and the rolled flesh even began to white, and if it continued, this girl would definitely die of blood loss.

The conditions in the flower room are limited, Hou Xiong originally thought that she was an ordinary trauma, but he didn't expect it to be such a scene, toilet paper and bed sheets are obviously useless, and she has to go to the hospital. Hou Xiong hesitated, he had no impression of Yu An, let alone friendship, saving her here was just a convenient move, Ming Junwei didn't know whether he was alive or dead at this time, and he was also uncertain about the future, did he really want to risk saving her?

Hou Xiong sighed, wetting the sheets and wiping the bloodstains, the stinging pain of the wound made Yu An's body twitch unconsciously, and let out a little pain from time to time. The girl's pale side face had a kind of morbid beauty, Hou Xiong looked at her silently, his heart was chaotic and calm, and Xu Aifei's appearance appeared in front of him...... I don't know what she looked like when she was on the verge of death.

Behind the door, the roar of the walking corpses was clearly audible, and the removal of field and living corpses in the distance continued, the sky was overcast, and the wind was howling, as if it was going to rain.

"I'm sorry." After Hou Xiong wiped the blood, he wrapped her wound with a strip of bed sheet cloth, there was no medicine, the strip of cloth was stained on the wound, and the blood slowly faded away, which was useless.

"I can't save you." Hou Xiong wanted to pretend to turn a blind eye, so he continued to move in his hands and said to himself: "I'm really sorry, I can't do anything." ”

"It's okay..."

Yu An, who was in a coma, suddenly murmured in a low voice.

Hou Xiong was stunned, followed the prestige to the pale side face, and his heart was mixed.

The sky was dark, the clouds blocked the daylight, and the wind penetrated into the room through the cracks, like a ghostly whining.

'Boom'

Thunder exploded in his ears, from far and near, and the muffled sound rolled in.

Hou Xiong squinted his eyes and looked out the window, the rain splashed down the window, leaving a sinuous wet mark, as the muffled thunder echoed more and more frequently, the raindrops gradually became larger, the sound of the rain hitting the banana leaves almost overshadowed the roar of the walking corpse, and the sound of water droplets falling became more and more crisp.

'Wow'

The window with flowing water marks suddenly shattered, and the wind and rain outside the window penetrated through, instantly wetting Hou Xiong.

Hou Xiong stood for a long time, came back to his senses, picked up the chestnut-sized thing that fell on the table, and was cold in his hand, melted into a pool of turbidity by the body temperature.