Chapter 13 Entering the Hospital

In fact, what I am thinking about most now is not to enter the hospital, but how to escape. To save Xiao Lin, you can think of other ways, but now the zombies pouring in from the north gate have crowded the construction site. It's too late to regret it, all retreats have been sealed, and the only way to survive is to move forward.

I looked down: it's so high! The corpses of the zombies have been laid underneath. The six floors are so terrifying, the tower crane is more than half higher than this building, and I am afraid that it will make people scatter when they climb up! That's not what worries me the most, I don't have a fear of heights, although I'm a little scared, but it's not impossible to climb the tower crane as long as I make up my mind. What worries me the most is how to get into the tower crane from the building, and the biggest possibility is to get back to the ground and then climb up. I wonder what the density of zombies on the ground over there is? Do I have the luck to cut my way out of them? So I unbuckled my belt and started moving along the scaffolding towards the crane.

When moving on six floors, you naturally have to be very careful, stop immediately when there is danger, and never take any unnecessary risks, after all, safety comes first. In this way, progress was slow, and more than an hour passed before approaching the west side of the building.

The sun is about to set, and it looks like there will be no going back tonight anyway. I looked at the hill in the distance and thought: I don't know what happened to Xiao Lin! Think again: ******, I can't even figure out whether I am dead or alive, so let's take care of myself first!

Because of the wall, the zombies can't follow me. Getting rid of them for a moment made my heart relax a little, but I was more relaxed to think about the next step. When I came to the west side, I was pleasantly surprised by the scene in front of me: there was a rope on the roof of the building, which led diagonally up directly to the control room of the tower crane! What an endless road! The ground is already crowded with zombies, even more than the students who did the recess exercise in middle school! But that doesn't matter anymore, just wait down there!

I climbed to the top of the building, ran to the rope, and was even more excited when I got to the ground, and there was a whole set of tools for climbing on the construction site: ropes, hook loops, lifts, gloves, safety belts, pulleys, all available. Hurriedly put on it and began to climb upwards. It's a lot less effort than climbing up on your own.

Crawling and crawling, there was a trace of doubt in my heart: this is also too smooth, why is the boom of this tower crane pointing to the hospital? Why is the hook parked right outside the hospital window? Why is there a rope connection between the tower crane and this building? Why do you happen to have climbing tools here? The only explanation can only be that this was specially prepared in advance, and someone must have climbed beforehand!

Who would have put it here? The tools were covered in dust and looked like they had been sitting for a long time. Could it be that the doctors in the hospital used this method to steal the medicine to their relatives or sell it on the black market? Or is someone trying to save someone trapped in a hospital after a zombie virus outbreak? Anyway, I can't think clearly, it's important to get down to business.

As the saying goes: a dog jumps over a wall in a hurry, a snake jumps a hole in a hurry, a rabbit bites in a hurry, and I can climb a tower crane when I am in a hurry. With the help of climbing tools, you can move forward little by little. Tie the rope tightly in advance, buckle yourself to the boom with a buckle, and even if one of them misses, there is a safety rope to protect me, so that the danger is greatly reduced. The road below was full of zombies, and I tried not to think about them, but I couldn't, they kept making weird roars underneath, and I don't know if they noticed me. I tried to keep all my attention on the rope and boom in front of me, just climbing better, and then sliding down the wire cable at the end. The whole process was very slow, and by the time we reached the hospital window, it was already late at night.

There is a rope on the hook that connects to the window sill of the hospital. This reinforces the fact that someone prepared it in advance. I don't know if there are any zombies in the hospital, I hope not! But this is simply impossible, after all, this is the place where the zombie virus first broke out, and it can be said that it is the nest of zombies. Then settle for the next best thing, and hope there isn't one in this room! There was a miniature flashlight inside the climbing tool, and I peeked in through the faint light as I approached the window.

This is a patient room with only two beds and two bedside tables, which is clear at a glance. I didn't see any zombies inside, I listened carefully, and I didn't hear the screams of the zombies, and after some careful temptation, I entered.

The moment he jumped into the hospital from the window, his heart fell back into his stomach with a "poof", and it was far more difficult for this tower crane to really get up than to look at it, it was simply a turn before the ghost door was closed, and he also pulled out a pinch of Hades' beard by the way. Originally, I thought that the first thing I would do after entering the hospital was to check whether the door was closed and locked, but I was really scared stupid when I crawled all the way, and my whole body fell directly to the ground, and my whole body was numb for a while, without any strength.

After a short pause, and having just gathered a little strength, I moved to the door, checked the door, it was locked, and saw that there was no other entrance to this room, so I was relieved. It's too dangerous to go out and search in the dark, and who knows where a zombie will suddenly pop up and give you a bite. You can only rest for one night and move tomorrow morning. It was pitch black all around, and it made people's hearts hairy. Putting his ear to the door and listening carefully, there was no sound of zombies roaring in the corridor, and it seemed that there were not many zombies outside.

After looking at the door, he was still a little uneasy, so he pushed one bed over and pressed the door against it, and then went to rest on another bed. As soon as I lay down on the bed, my whole body relaxed, and the soreness immediately began to torment me again, I rubbed the most painful place, according to the experience of the past few days, as long as I lay down for a while, this soreness will be reduced. I was very tired and wanted to fall asleep, but the howl of zombies on the street reminded me that I was in danger now, and I must not sleep, at most I could only lie here and rest.

I smelled a strong stench in my nose, which was very different from the stench emitted by zombies, it was an extremely strong putrid smell emitted from corpses, and it seemed that many people had died in this building. Although I shouldn't have fallen asleep, I quickly fell asleep because I was exhausted.

When he was in a daze, his ears suddenly heard a loud roar of "whoosh". I scrambled to my feet and drew my gun, when I heard a crash accompanied by a roar of "boom, boom". It seems that a beast trapped in a cage is going berserk!

What is it again? The world has changed so fast these days that new things can no longer be judged by previous experience! Whatever it was, it's big, it's powerful, and it's in this building.

I cowered in the corner, my pistol pointed at the door, not daring to move, feeling isolated and helpless like never before. It would be great if Xiao Lin was by my side at this moment, even if she couldn't help me, it would give me courage and strength, so that I would no longer be afraid and afraid. The crash sounded for a while, and then gradually subsided. I curled up there and didn't dare to sleep anymore, hunger and thirst began to torment me again, I didn't eat anything when I came out of Ganjiazhuang, there was no other way, now I can only endure.

In this way, I was alone in the dark for several hours until dawn. Looking at the rising sun in the east, I sighed and thought to myself: I have one more day to live, and I wonder if I will be able to see the sun rise again tomorrow.

There was no movement outside the door, so I first moved the bed blocking the door a little so that the door could only open a crack, and even if there were zombies squeezing in outside the door, I would have time to escape to the hook. But the caution was in vain, and the hallway was empty.

Since the corridor is flanked by patient rooms, there is no direct sunlight penetrating, which makes it look eerie. The makeshift beds were packed and the floors were so messy, badly decomposed corpses everywhere, no wonder they stinked; Garbage is everywhere, making the stench in the air even worse.

There was never a shortage of masks in the hospital, so I found one to bring on and began a room-by-room search. Tiptoeing around, trying not to make any noise, like a thief at work. But the result was disappointing, for a whole hour there was nothing, neither medicine nor food. Maybe the medicines are all in the pharmacy on the first floor?

I searched the nurse's station at the easternmost part of the floor, and as soon as I entered the door, there was a doctor sitting behind the desk, which startled me, and when I looked closely, I realized that it was a corpse. The first thing you do when you encounter a corpse is to confirm if they are zombies or not. I cautiously approached and took a closer look: the doctor had committed suicide, and he had plunged a sharp fruit knife into his jaw from the bottom up, straight into his brain. Judging by the degree of decomposition, the time of death should have been later than those corpses in the hospital beds outside. It seems that after the outbreak of the virus, he persevered in this hospital for a while. I'm a little disappointed when I think about it: if no one is trapped in this hospital, maybe there will be a little food left, but if someone is trapped, there will be nothing to eat.

I endured the nausea and reached into his pocket, fumbling back and forth, hoping to find some medicine, but again disappointed, my pocket was empty. Suddenly, I found a notebook on the desk in front of him, I picked it up and flipped through it, it turned out to be a diary, recording the situation here after the outbreak of the zombie virus. It doesn't hurt to read it, maybe there are clues about the medicine on it.

As soon as I opened the first page, suddenly there was another roar and a crash from downstairs, this time louder. "Boom" is like when I was a kid when I went to the zoo and saw a grumpy black bear shaking the iron cage frantically. Whatever it was, it didn't seem to be to be provoked. As soon as I looked down, I saw a crooked line written on the title page of the diary: Don't open the door to the radiology department! Absolutely not!!

Looks like the yelling thing downstairs is being locked up in the radiology department! Instead, I was relieved: since the thing was locked, I didn't have to worry too much. Plugging the door through the inside, I picked up the journal and flipped through it.

The diary was written after the outbreak of the virus, when the chaos, water and electricity outages, drug rationing, and unscrupulous appropriation of resources by officials were all written on it. I've experienced all of this, and I don't have anything new to do it, so I just ignore the past. Later, it was written that the zombies broke out, and the zombies soon occupied the first and second floors. The iron fence gate between the second and third floors was urgently closed, and a doctor and five volunteers, a total of six people were trapped. It was the doctor who wrote this diary. The six trapped people cleaned up the zombies on the third, fourth and fifth floors, and then waited for rescue.

Four construction workers on the opposite side were also trapped, climbed onto the tower crane, and used the last remaining bit of electricity to start the tower crane to connect the construction site to the hospital, and finally escaped. And then there is the perseverance of these ten people.

"On × ×, the last bit of glucose ran out, and we hadn't eaten for six days, and we were all very weak and had no interest in anything, so we could only sit or lie down in one place. It rained a little so that you wouldn't die of thirst............"

On ×, ×, Xiao He suddenly became stronger, everyone suspected that he had hidden food privately, and forced him to hand it over, and finally he told the truth, he did eat, and he ate the corpse of a zombie. We were all amazed that it was edible, and that it hadn't been poisoned after eating it. Xiao He ate one of the zombie's arms in front of us............"

"On × ×, everyone ate the carrion of the zombies, and there were no symptoms of discomfort, but they were in high spirits, as if they had taken stimulants. We comforted each other and said that we were eating monkey meat. I try to eat as little as possible, and I don't eat if I can............"

"On × ×, Chang Foreman climbed back to the construction site through the tower crane to see, and some of the zombies at the construction site were dispersed, and he said that when the zombies dispersed some more, he might be able to escape from there............

"On × ×, every time I eat the meat of zombies, I will feel refreshed, the corpses of zombies in the building are seriously decomposed, Chang Foreman proposed to directly catch the live zombies on the street to eat, everyone agreed, he used a rope to wrap the necks of zombies and lift them up............"

"× ×, I have some headaches today, and my tongue is a little numb, and my speech is slurred. It seems to be caused by eating zombie meat, and other people eat more than me, and the symptoms are more obvious. …………”

"On × ×, zombie meat can really make people's bodies extremely strong, this is not my illusion, but after careful measurement, my arms and thighs have become thicker than before in three days, eating zombie meat seems to promote the growth of muscle fibers again, I believe that soon we will all become as strong as Schwarzenegger. But at the same time, it seems that there is a virus that is damaging the brain. I can clearly feel that my intelligence is declining, and I am very forgetful, so I need to write down everything I can think of on paper to prevent myself from forgetting. It is extremely difficult to speak, and you have to use gestures to get the meaning clear............"

Seeing this, I also noticed some anomalies, the further back the diary became, the more ugly the handwriting became, and at the same time, there were more and more typos.

"Today I can't remember what day it was, but I found that my tongue was stiff and I couldn't speak. Others are in a worse situation, and now we can only communicate with gestures. Intelligence is still declining, Xiao He ate zombie meat the earliest, I gave him an intelligence test, and found that his current IQ is equivalent to that of a child about seven or eight years old. I don't know if I can recover from stopping eating zombie meat after the rescue arrives............"

"When I woke up today, I didn't remember who I was, my brain was in a mess, and I only remembered it after reading my diary. There was a little accident at noon, Lao Chang was bitten by a zombie when he was playing with a zombie, and he caught a little girl, which made him a little careless. As a result, he was bitten as soon as he was not careful. We put him in the radiology department............"

"The foreman has turned into a zombie, but it is very different from the zombies on the street, agile and strong, fast-moving, and even more surprisingly, it heals amazingly quickly after being injured. Maybe it's because of eating zombies, maybe it's because of radiation. In short, the door of the radiology department must not be opened, and I have to write this on the first page to prevent myself from forgetting ............"

"My body is getting stronger and stronger, and I can now easily bend a thumb-thick steel bar, but my behavior is becoming more and more childish, and I don't know if this should be called evolution or degradation. The most serious situation is Xiao He, who has become the strongest and has the most irritable personality, punching and kicking when he is not satisfied, and acting like a big boy. Others are in a similar situation. I don't want to be like him, just eat a little bit a day, I don't know how long I can last? …………”

"The others have completely changed, they have all become devils, they have completely lost their humanity, they are bloodthirsty and cruel, they are sluggish and indifferent, they are no longer sad about the current situation, and they no longer miss their loved ones. They no longer have any feelings, and like wild beasts, they take pleasure in hunting and killing every day. Putting the zombies on one by one, chopping off their limbs and piling them up in the room, it's like storing food. When they are bored, they come up with all kinds of ways to torture them. I don't want to be like that, but it's impossible, and although I eat very little every day, I can still feel the growth of the wildness in my heart, as if there is a devil in my body, and I am trying my best to suppress it with the power of my own humanity, but its power is growing, and the power of humanity is weakening. I don't know how long I can hold it down............"

"Today, out of curiosity, they opened the doors of the radiology department. Xiao Dong was killed by Foreman Chang on the spot, Xiao Dong is a volunteer, an honest rural baby, and he has become very strong after eating zombie meat, but he has no ability to resist in front of Foreman Chang, and he was directly dragged in by Foreman Chang and tore off his arm, and the screams scared everyone else stupid. I rushed over when I heard the voice, and hurriedly closed the door again while the foreman was biting Xiao Dong. The moment I closed the door, I saw the appearance of the foreman, and if I hadn't known before, I would never have believed that it was once a person. The door was closed, and Xiao Dong screamed inside for a long time before stopping. I suddenly envied him, and I really wished I had died. ”

"Today, I saw my wife and daughter, who had all been turned into zombies, and they were standing below, staring at me blankly. I was determined to end their lives, and at the same time mine. ”

This is the end of the diary, and when I put down the diary, I understand a little: it turns out that this is how the corpse eater came, and it is even clearer when he confirms it with the guys in the courtroom; They are strong, agile, cruel, bloodthirsty, they kill people on sight, and their intelligence is so low that they can no longer speak; What's the difference between this and a bear?

Originally, there were ten people, in addition to the doctor who committed suicide, the foreman surnamed Chang who was locked up in the radiology department, and Xiao Dong, who was killed, there were seven more below. Although I have a gun in my hand, after all, I am outnumbered, and it is better to avoid the seven strong bear-like corpse eaters. Originally, I wanted to enter the hospital and find the medicine, and then find a way out of here. I didn't expect the situation here to be so bad, so it was important to hurry back to the construction site to escape for my life, and I must not take my life because of looking for medicine. Although there are a lot of zombies on the construction site, as long as you are lucky, you can escape. Thinking of this, I decided to climb the tower crane again and leave here immediately.

As soon as I turned around, I crashed into someone's arms, it felt like hitting a wall, when he came in, how he got in, I didn't even notice it. The other man was two meters tall, and my head was just shoulder-level. Dressed in tattered clothes and showing his intertwined muscles, he picked me up with just one hand and threw me out the door.