Chapter 10: On the Road Alone

It's a hill, the top of the hill is not wide, and you can walk to the edge in a few steps. "It's very steep here, it seems to be difficult to get down!" I replied weakly, and I was too tired to react.

Xiao Lin returned to me and gently squeezed my legs with both hands, and I felt unbearable pain, "Ahh

"Bear with me, I'll give you a massage." Xiao Lin said: "I don't like you, don't think nonsense, get your legs right before we can escape." ”

I nodded hard, gritting my teeth and leaving Xiao Lin at my mercy. Being on the top of a mountain, lying on the soft grass, looking up at the beautiful Milky Way, and a peerless beauty waiting for you, this scene can only appear in the poem. It's just that there is a creepy roar from below, which ruins people's interest. Looking down from here, I can barely see the shadows of the zombies, they are still climbing up, they have climbed more than half of them, and they are connected to remind me of the stands of the World Cup final.

After lying for an hour, it was already pitch black all around, and the roars of the zombies were getting tighter and closer. I was getting more and more scared, I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to go if I didn't go, so I stood up and carried Xiao Lin and walked towards the mountain. When I walked to the other side, there was a slope of sixty or seventy degrees in front of me, and I was surprised: why is it so steep here! In the darkness of the night, only a vague outline could be seen, and the mountain turned sharply, becoming more and more eerie.

When it comes, you can only bite the bullet. Xiao Lin said, "Be careful. I nodded, and watched cautiously as I grabbed the trunk of the tree at my feet and grabbed the rock; Kick your feet firmly on your hands, use your hands and feet together, and press down step by step. The mountain is too steep, and every step requires full strength and spirit. Since then, it has been very slow.

The stone under his feet suddenly loosened after walking a short distance, and the two rolled down together. I rolled a few times, hit a tree hard, and my body suddenly stopped, and I almost fainted in pain, and it took a long time to recover. Xiao Lin had disappeared and hurriedly shouted: "Xiao Lin, Xiao Lin!" ”

It was pitch black, and the roar of zombies could be heard from above, and it seemed that they had reached the top of the mountain. I was so anxious that I didn't dare to shout again, and I couldn't see her, and I was wandering when I heard a few moans not far away, and I hurriedly crawled over there in the dark. When she got closer, Xiao Lin hugged a rock, if she hadn't fallen directly from the mountain like this, she might have what the consequences would be, so she hurriedly pulled her up and asked, "How are you?" ”

Before Xiao Lin could answer, she heard the sound of a tree branch breaking above, and a dark shadow rushed down from above. It's a zombie! It swept past us and fell down the hill. "Pounding", it should be hitting trees and protruding rocks along the way. The sound is getting quieter and quieter, and it seems to be rolling farther and farther away.

Xiao Lin exclaimed: "They're catching up!" ”

Before the words were spoken, more zombies rushed down from above, trying to come to us, but they couldn't hold their feet and fell down the mountain. People here are very likely to fall down if they go down, and zombies are naturally more likely to fall. Seeing that there were too many zombies that had fallen, and they might hit us at any time, Xiao Lin and I hurriedly hid behind a tree sticking out of the mountain wall.

There is no place to stay here, the two of them can only lean against the mountain wall, Xiao Lin took out a lighter and lit it, through the firelight I saw that Xiao Lin's face and hands were covered with blood, and my own situation was similar. Xiao Lin raised the lighter and looked around, and saw a huge rock protruding from the distance not far away, and it seemed to be a good hiding place under the rock.

Xiao Lin and I hugged each other and moved against the mountain wall to the bottom of the rocks. The zombies smelled the blood on us and kept rushing towards us, but as soon as they stepped into the slope, they couldn't hold their feet and rolled down the hill in different postures, but fortunately they didn't hit us. Finally got under the boulder, Xiao Lin took a photo, the situation was a little better than it looked, it was quite flat here, a few meters square was enough for two people.

Xiao Lin said: "I don't know how deep and steep it is down here, those zombies who fell down don't know if they can come up again, you make a torch and throw it down to see." ”

I agreed, found a dead branch, broke it into several pieces and tied it together, and was about to throw it down after lighting it. He asked again: "Will it cause a fire if you throw it like this?" I don't want to burn myself! ”

Xiao Lin said: "It's the height of summer, it's okay, throw it!" ”

I threw the torch down, and the ball of fire rolled down the mountain wall, farther and farther away, and disappeared for a long time. Oh my God, this is too steep, if it hadn't been blocked by the trees sticking out of the slope, I'm afraid I would have fallen into the flesh. Xiao Lin said: "Great, these zombies will be seriously injured if they don't die." I also relieved myself and lay on the ground and began to rest again, just now I was hit by a tree and it hurt so much that I didn't want to move again.

The zombies kept falling, crackling, like dumplings, but we didn't see anyone who could touch here, and we gradually felt relieved. Xiao Lin said: "It's too dangerous to go down the mountain now, I think it's safe here, why don't we spend the night here tonight!" Wait until dawn tomorrow to find your way down the mountain. ”

Spend the night here? It's not very far from the top of the hill and doesn't seem safe. But there's no other way, just what if a zombie gets in? It doesn't take much, just one and we're dead.

Xiao Lin seemed to understand my concern, and she said: "We took turns keeping vigil, and I stared at it in the first half of the night. You come in the second half of the night to rotate. ”

I wanted to be polite to Xiao Lin, but I was really tired and uncomfortable, and I thought that she was carried all the way by me, so I nodded in agreement. Despite the pain in his body and the damp and uneven ground, he quickly fell asleep.

When I woke up, it was already dawn, and the first thing I heard was the dense roar of zombies coming from above. I sat up slowly, and suddenly there was a sharp pain in my waist, and I screamed "ah", it didn't hurt so much when my waist was hit yesterday, what happened today? I saw Xiao Lin lying beside her, sleeping soundly. It's really strange, didn't it say that it was good to take turns keeping vigils? Why didn't she call me in the middle of the night?

I covered my waist with one hand and pushed her with the other: "Hey, get up, it's dawn!" Xiao Lin didn't respond after pushing a few times, I saw that her lips were chapped and her cheeks were like fire, and I suddenly felt bad, and when I touched her forehead, it was really hot, and she was having a fever. I nudged her a few more times, and Xiao Lin barely had a reaction, and she muttered, "Water, water." I quickly took the kettle and lifted her up, carefully feeding the water into her mouth.

Xiao Lin drank water and began to talk nonsense again: "Mom, Mom, where are you?" Why don't you want me? ”

I was stunned: Could it be that Xiao Lin's mother abandoned her? When my mother was sick and hospitalized, I used to accompany her bedside for two years, and I became a doctor after a long illness, so I knew a little about medicine. It seems that Xiao Lin is very sick and anxious, she must quickly find medicine for her, otherwise it is unimaginable, where can I find medicine in this barren mountain and wilderness? I peeked out from behind the boulder and looked at the top of the mountain, and I could only see the zombies at the edge, and I couldn't see anything in between, but there should be a lot of noise. Looking down again, I was shocked into a cold sweat: the steep mountain wall stretches all the way to the foot of the mountain, and there are even a few cliffs in the middle, even I can't go down by myself, if I carried Xiao Lin on my back last night and rushed down the mountain in a hurry, I would definitely have fallen to my death.

It looks like you'll have to go past the top of the mountain and go down from the way up yesterday. Xiao Lin was having a high fever, but there was no time to delay. The top of the mountain is now occupied by zombies, and they must be eliminated first. I remembered the night they had fallen off the cliff, so I stood up and shouted, "Hey, I'm here." ”

The zombies immediately screamed and rushed down, and I quickly ducked behind the boulder again. A large number of zombies rolled down from the boulder or on both sides, one by one, like a waterfall falling down the cliff. After a while, the zombies gradually decreased, and I poked my head out and shouted again, and they immediately increased again.

All morning, I had been luring zombies to fall from the top of the mountain. At first, I wanted to count the number of zombies, but later I found that there were too many to count, so I had to give up. These zombies are really stupid, even though the ones in front have been shattered, the ones behind them still jump down. During the interval between luring the zombies, I observed Xiao Lin, she was still unconscious, and it seemed that the situation was getting worse and worse, originally it was just a fever, but then the wound on her leg gradually swollen, and there were already signs of infection. I was anxious, but there was nothing I could do. It was almost noon when the zombies jumped off the cliff and gradually stopped. I poked my head out and yelled for a while before I dared to climb to the top of the mountain.

It took a lot of effort to climb the top of the mountain, and there were really few zombies here, and most of the zombies fell into the same cliff. I looked down the cliff from a good angle: it was full of corpses, and the layers were too many to count; Occasionally, a few zombies that have not yet fallen to their deaths are still moving, and they look like maggots from a distance. You deserve it, who let you chase us yesterday.

The density of zombies in the fields on the hillside is already very small, and they are all walking very slowly and not keeping up with the group, so they are almost no threat to us, and now we can leave with Xiao Lin on our backs. But where do we go? Standing on the top of the hill and looking into the distance, I soon saw a village, about 100 houses, not far and not close, and it seemed to be a good choice to go there to find medicine.

I went back to the boulder and tried to carry Xiao Lin on my back, but the slightest exertion hurt so much that I almost lost my breath. The old wound has not healed and a new injury has been added, not to mention Xiao Lin now, even if it is a three-year-old child, I can't carry it. I tried a few more times, and I knew that my current ability was indeed limited, so I had no choice but to stop.

I couldn't take Xiao Lin with her, and her illness couldn't be delayed, so I had to go find medicine myself and bring it back. I stared blankly at Xiao Lin, she was unconscious now, wouldn't it be very dangerous for a zombie to come up during my absence? On second thought: there were not 10,000 but 8,000 zombies who jumped down just now, but none of them were able to enter this platform, which means that it is very safe here. Besides, the village is not very far away, and I can be back in the evening at most.

I've been acting with Xiao Lin, and I've become a bit of a habit of always relying on her, and now I have to act alone, and I really feel a little scared in my heart. Xiao Lin's illness could not be delayed for a moment, and I quickly made up my mind. I couldn't carry much because of my wounds, so I only had two pistols and a hundred rounds of ammunition with me. This bullet is not enough to meet the zombie horde, but now there are very few bullets, and they must shoot as little as possible. To save bullets, I brought another triangular bayonet.

The food and water were left for Xiao Lin, and some more were fed to her when she left. With a bayonet on the ground it was written: I'll go and help you find medicine, and I'll be back soon. After thinking about it, he added: Don't worry, I will never leave you. After writing it, he looked at her again: he must go and return as soon as possible, so as to minimize her danger, so he mustered up his strength to climb to the top of the mountain again.

As soon as I started walking, the old injuries and new injuries attacked together, plus I walked with Xiao Lin on my back for an afternoon yesterday, and my whole body was sore, especially my two legs, which hurt terribly when I walked. But now it's going downhill, and I can walk quickly even if it's very painful. I killed all the zombies along the way with bayonets one by oneβ€”β€”β€”β€” and I had to help Xiao Lin reduce the danger as much as possible. I hadn't eaten anything since last night, and when I arrived at the foot of the mountain, I was already hungry and thirsty, thinking that the sooner I arrived at that village, the sooner I would get provisions, I quickened my pace and walked in the direction of that village.

Looking at the village from the hill is not far away, it is not the same thing as walking step by step, and I haven't approached that village for two hours, but fortunately it is safe on the way, and I haven't met many zombies.

After a few more steps, I finally found a narrow road leading to the village, which was much easier to walk, and there were towering trees on both sides of the road, which gave people a gloomy feeling. After walking for another while, I picked up a broken bike, which was even more comfortable! But you can only hold the handlebar with your left hand, and you must always hold the pistol with your right hand.

The car was riding fast, and the village was already close in sight, but the first time I looked inside, I was shocked: there were zombies, and there seemed to be a lot of them! Hurriedly stopped his bicycle and hid behind a tree to look at the village: hundreds of zombies roamed back and forth in the village, they should be the original inhabitants of the village, as if they were leisurely reminiscing about the good old days.

There used to be people in the village, and now there are zombies, I should have thought of it a long time ago. There are about a hundred households in this village, and three hundred in each household, far more than the bullets on my body, and we must not alarm them, and we must avoid confrontation with them. I was a little anxious when I thought of this, and there was no one to ask for directions, so I couldn't go from house to house after I entered the village.

Hiding in the ditch in front of the village, the cat moved quietly forward with his waist bent and soon came to the entrance of the village. A large banner hung horizontally on a telephone pole in front of it, which read: Welcome to the people of Ganjiazhuang.

There is no order in this village, there are all kinds of tiled houses, thatched houses, and bungalows, and they are uneven, and the road is tortuous. The terrain is so complex that if there were a lot of zombies inside, I wouldn't have been able to spot them in advance. If it is easy in advance, it can only be found from the outermost level, first of all, the village committee: a small courtyard, with five or six bungalows. When the virus first broke out, antipyretics were rationed and distributed by the government, and perhaps there were still some left in the village committee. I spotted a gap in the zombie's walk away, and trotted in. But a few zombies spotted me and staggered after me. I hurriedly plugged in the courtyard doors of the village committee and blocked them out.

There were only a few rooms, and I quickly searched for them, but I didn't find a single pill, only a few empty boxes, and it seemed that the medicines had already been distributed. The roar of the zombies at the door attracted other zombies, and it was nothing, there was a bamboo ladder in the courtyard of the village committee, and I put it up and quickly came to the roof. And those zombies could only stand at the door and watch.

There was a small supermarket next door, and I was already very hungry, and I couldn't stand it even more when I thought that there must be a lot of snacks and drinks in it. I went to the roof of the supermarket and began to think about how to get in.

The supermarket is locked, and jumping directly to open the lock is nothing, the key is that there are a lot of zombies around, and they must not be alarmed. When he was lying on his stomach and scratching his cheeks anxiously, he suddenly heard someone shouting: "Comrade, comrade armed police, this way, this way!" ”

Someone?! I looked up and saw a man waving frantically at me in a small three-story building not far away.