Chapter 22: The Siege (II)
Xue Qiong and the protagonists have been away from the river beach for twenty minutes.
Along the way, although there were many more zombies than in the original, this did not stop the footsteps of the seven. The Humvee's powerful engine roared, knocking the mantis arm zombie to pieces.
Xue Qiong and Hirano Kota sat on the roof of the car, Hirano Kota was responsible for shooting some zombies with troublesome positions, while Xue Qiong was using a telescope to observe the zombie group in front of him, which was not dense but seemed to be endless.
"The cherry blossoms are blooming..."Tsukiko Poison Island also came out of the skylight.
"If flowers are the biogenesis of plants," Xue Qiong said with a smile, "then this cherry blossom rain is the necrotic foreskin that is falling all over the sky." β
"Can't you just talk a little bit about it?" Poison Island Tsuneko rolled his eyes, if the object was not Xue Qiong, the bones of ordinary men would definitely be crisped off.
"Are you coming for a shift change?" Xue Qiong asked without looking back.
"yes, because when the zombies flew past the two of you, you were a little embarrassed..."
ββ¦ I'll go down, and you'll be in charge of cutting the zombies flying in half. Hirano-san, the warning from afar is also going to be handed over to you. β
βNoproblemοΌβ Kota Hirano flashed Xue Qiong's eyes with his teeth.
The sound of the Hummer colliding with the zombie's body kept sounding, and the inside of the car was extremely bumpy because of the zombie running over it from time to time.
After Xue Qiong sat down directly behind the driver's seat, he fastened his seat belt, rummaged through a pile of plastic bags next to him for a while, took out a map and a marker, and then looked at the surrounding scenery while tracing something along the road above.
"That's right, Xiao, you stare at the right side of the car, Yong, you come on the left, Gao Cheng-san, the view behind you will be handed over..."
"What are you doing?" Takashi Komuro asked.
"Before getting on the bus, I asked Gao Cheng to mark her house....really, the place where there is a century-old mansion is actually printed on the map as farmland..."Xue Qiong said expressionlessly, "Then I also prepared a few alternate routes, and now I am confirming our location, and..."
Xue Qiong will not forget the plot of the protagonists' team in the original work because of the sudden appearance of a large group of zombies. Although the protagonists still save the day in the end, from his point of view, he still hopes to successfully drive all the way to Gao Cheng's house.
"Three hundred meters ahead! A horde of zombies!! Kota Hirano on the roof of the car suddenly shouted, interrupting Xue Qiong's words.
"Shizuka-sensei! Turn left at the second junction ahead!! Xue Qiong immediately shouted to the driver's seat.
"Whew!!" Xue Qiong didn't want to complain about Shizuka Jukawa's driving talent, and only the two wheels on the right side of the high-speed turned to the ground, and there was still a thrilling pass...
"Then turn right after two hundred meters!" Xue Qiong's eyes kept wandering between the map and the car window, calmly issuing the next command.
"Hey, that's my house! Why do you know better than I do..."Saya Takajo said as he grabbed the bar in the car with one hand and pushed his glasses with the other.
Xue Qiong also pushed his glasses and snatched the pair from Wisteria's hand.
"Did I do my homework..."
The car made another exaggerated cornering motion, and with the collision with the zombies, everything was shaking. The protagonists unconsciously grabbed everything that could fix them, while Xue Qiong let his body stagger, but he didn't fly out under the effect of the seat belt, and his two arms clung to the map, and his eyes didn't deviate from the slightest.
"A dense group of zombies was found 100 meters ahead!!" Kota Hirano shouted again.
"!" Xue Qiong scolded her mother, "Turn left at the next intersection!" We went around to the outskirts and forced our way through where there were no roads!! β
"Phew, these guys are like they're stopping our way on purpose..."After the car drove to a remote place, there were significantly fewer zombies on the road. Xue Qiong breathed a sigh of relief, and didn't care that there were still ladies in the car, so she took out a lighter and lit a cigarette for herself.
"No, you can't relax yet..."Xue Qiong pinched his eyebrows with his other hand, and picked up the map again, "In this way, the distance will be doubled, and the danger will still exist..."
"Wait, what's that?!" Kota Hirano shouted.
"Khuga !!!!!!" "Bang! Bang! β
"Click!"
"What's wrong!" Xue Qiong shouted towards it.
"A licker, but he was cut in half by Senior Sister Poison Island..."
"Wait, Joan, look over here!" Jing Haoyong, who hadn't spoken much, suddenly spoke.
"Again..."
Xue Qiong was a little annoyed by the two ends, but she still looked in the direction that Jing Haoyong was pointing.
"What the hell is this..."
I saw that on the road next to the car, there were thin, criss-crossing red lines densely, which looked like...
Blood vessels.
After half an afternoon, the length of day and night in early spring has gradually darkened the sky. And the changed road surface and the sunset shining on the horizon make the whole vision a shocking red.
"..."Xue Qiong swallowed.
"Turn!! Turn right at the third junction!! We're going to take another route!! Xue Qiong picked up the map again, staring at it with a desperate look of staring out, and at the same time shouted in the loudest voice.
"What's wrong Miyamoto? This earthly thing..."
"Even if it's speculation, I definitely don't want to face the unknown!!" While Xue Qiong spoke, she was still enduring the strong centrifugal force brought by the turn of the car, and the cigarette butt in her mouth was about to bite off.
(Not really, right?!) It's not true, is it?! If the monsters of that world also appear here, then the situation... Calm down, calm down! Now is not the time to waste energy and hormone tolerance... Emotional lock-in! Personality Restructuring Plan, Loading Three Phases! 50% sanity, 50% survival! Loading is complete. After twenty minutes, it will automatically reset to the second stage. οΌ
Xue Qiong closed her eyes and hinted to herself for about two seconds, her teeth chattering. When he opened it again, the expression muscles on his face had all relaxed, and his eyes had returned to the state of Gujing, and then he took a light puff of cigarette and focused on the map in his hand again.
"Sister Poison Island, four o'clock!!" Xiao Xiao, who had been told by Xue Qiong to pay attention to the right before, shouted, and his tone was much calmer than before.
And after Xue Qiong heard this, although he didn't say it to him, he still turned his head to look at the right side of the car, he wanted to confirm something.
"Sure enough..."Xue Qiong said expressionlessly.
"Tsuneko, Hirano-san, go back to the carriage and close the skylight! Shizuka-sensei, keep up the acceleration! I'll let you know in advance when it's time to turn. After Xue Qiong confirmed the situation, he continued to stare at the map without raising his head, and said in a voice that was not small but very calm.
"That monster is..."Poison Island asked Xue Qiong as she retreated into the carriage. Although she was confident in her current strength, she still did what Xue Qiong said. At the same time, due to the lack of space in the carriage, she decisively sat on Xue Qiong's lap, raised her hand and grabbed the horizontal bar on the roof to maintain balance.
"In short, it's a lot more troublesome than a licker." Xue Qiong didn't care about anything, and said in a tone without the slightest change.
The car was running wild on a road that was not wide. I don't know why, in this area covered with red living tissue on the ground, there are very few zombies blocking the way, so even if one or two sporadic zombies appear, they can't stop the Humvee's footsteps at all.
"Bang!" The car hit a zombie again, and the people in the car were shaking violently, fortunately, most of them were wearing seat belts, but the poison island who was sitting on Xue Qiong's lap blocked Xue Qiong's vision with his chest in the shaking. But Tsukashiko Poison Island immediately adjusted her posture and moved away from her proud erection.
Xue Qiong raised his head and stared expressionlessly into Poison Island Tsuneko's eyes for two seconds.
Then he wrapped his hands around Poison Island Tsuneko's waist, adjusted her posture to sit on Xue Qiong's lap with Xue Qiong, and then tightly fixed Poison Island Tsuneko's body with his arms, still holding the map in his hand, and put his head on the side of Poison Island Tsuneko's neck to look forward.
"Got rid of it?" Xue Qiong asked in a small voice, but he didn't mean to turn his head to look behind him, and he still kept confirming each other between the surrounding scenery and the map.
"It's still to come," Saya Takajo replied to Xue Qiong's question, "about a hundred and twenty meters away." β
"Is the distance growing?"
"It used to throw away some distance, but now it seems to be chasing closer and closer." Saya Takashiro replied. may have been infected by Xue Qiong, and now everyone in the car seems very calm.
"Originally, I thought you were taking advantage of me, but you didn't have any physiological reactions, I believe you." Poison Island said teasingly, while adjusting herself to a more stable but closer posture.
Xue Qiong glanced at Poison Island Tsuneko's eyes again and continued the work at hand.
"Damn..."Xue Qiong took out the black marker again, and added a long straight line to the map that was already full of symbols that only he could understand.
"In this special area, we seem to have taken an L-shaped route, and the place where we came in was on the short side..."
(It's been ten minutes, and this state... οΌ
Xue Qiong's use of self-hypnosis is fundamentally "believing". Ever since he had this idea at the age of fifteen, he has been constantly trying to make the statements he has set for autosuggestion more plausible and perfect. The third stage of the personality reconstruction program refers to the integration of the three sub-personalities in an even proportion... It's certainly a lot harder than average.
The three-phase maintenance time of twenty minutes is neither too much nor too little, which is very much in line with the stereotype of "ultimate" in his mind. So now he says that twenty minutes is twenty minutes, and one point cannot be more, and one point cannot be less.
However, he also added a limit to the entire personality reconstruction program, which can only be used three times in 24 hours and four times in 72 hours, so that he can "value" this practice and improve the effect. And now, he's used it for the fifth time in seventy-two hours. It is precisely because of this that although he is forced by the situation now, he has involuntarily begun to fear what will happen to him after repeatedly violating the rules he has set for himself.
"I have a guess." "It's preventing us from leaving the area. β
"Why?" Jing Haoyong asked.
"It's just a guess..."Xue Qiong originally wanted to point his temple with his finger, but noticed that he couldn't take his hand away now, so he gave up.
ββ¦ HUNTER, yet another monster that shouldn't be in this world... First of all, let's assume that it has a certain intelligence, after all, the lickers we met before have also learned to make noise... And then substitute for the plot of the torture archetype, and it is also possible that there will be a high-level individual who can command it....of course, all this is based on the assumption that it is true. β
"Torture archetype? What is that? Another zombie movie? Kota Hirano interjected.
"A computer game, but in District 11, where there isn't much piracy and there's a grading system, you're unlikely to have access to it." Xue Qiong casually brought up the topic and glanced out the window again.
"I've already left this area..."Xue Qiong deliberately checked a few more times, and there were no twisted blood vessels everywhere on the ground.
"That thing, stopped," said Saya Takashihiro, who was in charge of monitoring the rear.
"The assumption is true... Is it? Xue Qiong shook her head twice.
And the number of zombies in front of them has also begun to increase gradually.
(Three minutes to go...) οΌ
Xue Qiong let go of Poison Island Tsuiko's waist, rummaged through the plastic bag next to him again, and found a red marker, quickly drawing something on the map.
"Okay, Xiao, you take this..."Xue Qiong handed the map to Xiao Muro, who was sitting in the co-pilot.
ββ¦ Why did you bring it to me? β
"The circles drawn with the red pen are places where you can't go, and the black lines are the routes we have taken so far. I probably won't be able to continue showing the way, so you can go around it yourself. β
"What's wrong with you!" Poison Island Tsuneko watched worriedly as Xue Qiong turned pale little by little, and began to sweat coldly.
"I'll leave it to you until I'm back in shape." Xue Qiong pushed her glasses expressionlessly, "And probably... Ten seconds. β
"Do your own thing, and don't do whatever happens... Vomit !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ahh β
Xue Qiong suddenly began to have spasms all over her body, foaming at the mouth, dilated the pupils of her eyes, breathing heavily and abnormally fast, cold sweat was running down her neck.
(It's a textbook panic attack symptom, I never expected this effect...) οΌ
(I can't control my body, I don't have any images in my head that can scare me, and I'm so clear about everything around me...) These guys all seem to be nervous... Do you want to admit that they are companions? In this short journey.....)
(Shout what Miyamoto Joan...) That's just the vest I use in this world, you two goods... οΌ
(By the way, the most unscientific thing is that I can still think now...) What a novelty... Experience... οΌ
Xue Qiong suddenly closed her eyes, lost consciousness, and the muscles in her body relaxed, just like a computer that was forcibly shut down by suddenly unplugging the power.