Chapter 17: Hunting in the Dead City
At dusk, the convoy finally made its way through the wind-blown sand wilderness and arrived at a dead city that the journey must pass.
The city has been abandoned for a long time, and it has been reduced to a living hell as early as the time when the walking dead are raging, and the once thriving second-tier city has probably collapsed in the face of the walking dead frenzy for about a week.
Time has passed, and many people in the convoy have even forgotten the original name of the city, and only in their vague memories can search for fragments of the city.
The once high-rise buildings still stand, covered in mossy vegetation, and from a distance, the steel jungle that was once criticized by people has become a rare oasis in the wilderness.
Compared with the desertification of the outside world, these legacy cities have bred one piece after another of verdant greenery.
It seems that it has just rained here, and the wind and sand on the surface of the houses on the floor have been washed away, and the vines and plants are full of life, and all kinds of mosquitoes are full of insects.
"Wouldn't it be much better to live here during the daytime heat?" Zheng Nannan had seen the city for a long time, and compared it with the towns in the lower city that he had seen during his travels, and on the surface, the city still seemed to be better off than the wilderness.
Tang Garlic smiled and said nothing, their Deep Blue Hospital was a jewel of urban civilization, and it did provide them with a lot of convenience. But the difference between a hospital and a city is too great.
Dozens of people can restore the hospital to its original state, but it takes more than just manpower to rebuild a city.
Zheng Nannan slowed down his car and looked at the vine-covered houses beside the street, and through the gaps in the plants, the traces of civilization could be faintly seen.
Much of the mottled handwriting is still legible; Occasional outcrops of garbage cans or other objects in the thick rotting accumulation of fallen leaves on the ground; From time to time, you can still see some fat and huge rats arrogantly crossing the street, tearing and biting some of the skeletons that have long been ossified, and the bones are chewed and creaking, and the scalp is numb.
"These rats are mutated, aren't they? Can you bite your bones? Sharman couldn't help but mutter.
Zheng Nannan frowned and thought for a while, and said: "It should be the remains of the walking corpse, the muscle fibers of the walking corpse are rotten, and the calcium in the bones is also constantly being lost. ”
The four women in the car were stunned when they heard this. Most of them had seen the walking corpses, and they had survived hard in those years, but they had never heard some of the details in Zheng Nannan's description.
Tang Garlic was quite curious and wondered, "You know the walking corpse very well?" You were still a kid at that time, right? ”
"Well, listen to my mom." Zheng Nannan nodded, and suddenly the conversation changed, pointing to a roof in front of the left, and said strangely: "What is that?" ”
The women followed the prestige, only to see a shadow passing on the top of a low building, moving quickly, like some animal, but the silhouette was clearly human.
"Oops." Tang Garlic was shocked and hurriedly braked: "There are rovers here." ”
"What's that?" When Zheng Nannan heard this title for the first time, he faintly felt uneasy.
Tang Garlic didn't rush to explain, and said to Li Qingjiao and Shu Onion: "You go to the front and back to inform the hoarse manor and Sister Hong, there is danger!" ”
Li Qingjiao and Shu Onion looked awe-inspiring, hurriedly opened the car door and ran back and forth, Zheng Nannan didn't react, turned his head to look at the hoarse manor truck behind, and at the moment when his eyes swept sideways, he caught the figure leaning out of the roof of the building directly opposite again, and threw an object in the direction of Li Qingjiao.
"Be careful!"
Zheng Nannan shouted loudly, but he was still a step late, and Li Qingjiao, who had just run to the front of the truck, was stagnant, and a spear was impartially in the middle of the head, piercing through the head, nailing him to the side of the road.
Zheng Nannan's scalp exploded, and he got up to greet Shu Onion while hiding and honking frantically, the silent dead city was instantly detonated, and figures appeared on the rooftops of the buildings on both sides of the road and the windows covered by vines, and they appeared with strange screams, throwing all kinds of murder weapons in their hands towards the convoy parked in the road.
The Deep Blue Hospital in front and the hoarse manor in the rear reacted quickly, realizing the danger when Zheng Nannan first roared, but it was obvious that neither side had much experience in this matter. The gunmen in the ambulance of the Deep Blue Hospital were the first to get out of the car and fire, but they all encountered Waterloo and ended up in the same fate as Li Qingjiao.
The man in the chemical protection suit who closed the road at the exit last night was pierced into a hedgehog by a javelin crossbow arrow in the front and back, and before he breathed, he was still unwilling to pull the trigger, and the submachine gun spewed tongue of fire, sweeping towards the viper's car window in the direction he fell to the ground.
Zheng Nannan hurriedly beckoned a few people to lie down, and at the same time slammed the steering wheel, stepped on the accelerator, and rushed towards the side of the road.
After the sharp sound of a hard object impacting, the viper stopped its momentum, Zheng Nannan looked up, and there was a mistake, the viper hit a door wall, and the body rushed smoothly into the rancid store.
"Help." Zheng Nannan sat down from the car and withdrew the oil cloth bag, threw the Uzi Weichong to Tang Garlic and Shaman, rolled down the car door himself, found cover next to the broken wall, and poured a shuttle of bullets towards the opposite window.
'Da Da'
The glass shattered, tongues of fire spewed, several figures in the room fell to the ground, and the broken brick walls and roof tiles fell, stirring up a puff of dust, and also giving the dumpling-making hospital gunmen a little respite.
After a brief disadvantage, they ran into the pavements on both sides of the road, found cover, and began to counterattack.
In comparison, there were more chicken thieves in the hoarse manor, and they didn't get out of the car to help after seeing the tragic situation of Li Qingjiao and the gunman in the hospital.
Yu Xiuzhu could see that the attackers' attack weapons were very primitive, and their trucks were enough to resist, so there was no need to get out of the car and face the rocks and javelins in the sky to fight for their lives.
Looking at the hospital gunman who was scurrying around, Yu Xiuzhu smiled very reservedly.
But that's where his laugh ends.
The attackers who reappeared on the roof of the building threw plastic bags-like items at the truck, which shattered and scattered, splattering puddles of grease that soon spread all over the truck.
Then, the attacker lit an open flame and threw torches down, and with a 'boom', the Big Mac truck was instantly engulfed in flames.
"Boss, run, there are too many people!" Tang Garlic grabbed Zheng Nannan, who was about to rush out, and said hurriedly: "It's too late, there are too few of us!" ”
Zheng Nannan gritted his teeth, shook off Tang Garlic's hand, and shouted, "You two hide first!" With that, he picked up the door panel and put it on his head, and ran wildly along the street corner to the head car Red Bird, shouting the names of Hong Coriander and Hu Qi while shooting indiscriminately.
In the chaos, Zheng Nannan heard someone shouting for himself, followed the sound, and saw Shu Onion hiding in a dilapidated shop opposite without knowing when, and Hong Xiangcai and others were also inside, setting up a firepower net to fight back frantically.
Hong Coriander, who looks infinitely enchanting, is especially crazy, pouring fire and laughing uncontrollably, and I don't know what is flowing in this person's veins.
Seeing that Shu Onion was fine, Zheng Nannan was also relieved, and looked back at the burning truck, the people inside finally couldn't continue to shrink their eggs, and escaped one by one shouting, and were smashed all over the ground by the oncoming stone javelins.
The attackers upstairs saw that Zheng Nannan and the others had basically been forced out of the car, and they jumped down from the upstairs with a strange scream, and pounced on the nearest person like crazy demons to start a desperate hand-to-hand fight.
Zheng Nannan didn't pay attention, and was almost knocked down by the attacker who fell in front of him.
Fortunately, Shu Onion on the opposite side was quick-eyed, and raised his hand to knock the attacker into the dust with a single shot.
Zheng Nannan rolled over, pulled out a hacksaw blade and nailed it to death, and sneaked past the red bird with a low body, just in time to see a comical scene in the cab of the truck.
The hoarse manor, huddled in the car and watching, was simmered by the attackers, and the gunmen in the back compartment fled, and the two people in the cab were ready to slip away.
However, a throw from upstairs shattered the car window, and the attacker who jumped downstairs tore Yu Xiuzhu's collar from the car window. Yu Xiuzhu hung his seat belt and failed to pull out his gun in a hurry, and was stoned into a blood gourd by the attacker hanging by the car window.
The co-pilot's Xiao Zhengtai saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly opened the car door to slip away, but was unexpectedly dragged by Yu Xiuzhu and begged for help.
Xiao Zhengtai couldn't break free, and saw the attacker climb into the car window, and in a panic, he raised his huge revolver and fired, but he didn't want to blow Yu Xiuzhu's head with one shot.
Zheng Nannan also had no time to care about whether Xiao Zhengtai could survive, the gunmen of the hoarse manor were fierce, and they knocked down the attackers who fell in hand-to-hand combat, and each hid in the bunker, the whistle on the upper floor kept cornering, and the sound of running the stairs was trembling, and it was impossible to imagine how many people gathered here.
"What are these things?" Zheng Nannan wiped the blood on his face, and probably glanced at the remaining gunmen in the hospital, in the ambush battle that lasted less than three minutes just now, the number of fighters on their side had been sharply reduced by half, and almost all of them who were lucky enough to hide in were hung up.
Hong Coriander took a sip, changed the magazine for the submachine gun, and scolded: "Dead City Rangers, damn, I didn't expect it to be true." ”
"What's that?" Zheng Nannan felt that he had heard a very strange term.
"Wanderer." Shu Onion hurriedly explained: "I had only heard it before, saying that there were many survivors who could not enter the upper city and were unwilling to move to the lower city, so they gathered in the dead city and the wilderness to hunt other living people for a living. ”
"It's not sick, but you have to be a wild man when you're a human being." Zheng Nannan was also convinced, just based on the scene in front of him, there were hundreds of attackers in this group, so many people, it was enough to build a raw meat town again, who would have thought that he would actually lie dormant in the dead city as a hunter.
"It's too late to explain, it looks like we're going to be unlucky this time." Hong Xiangcai said seriously, but her expression did not have any sense of solemnity, on the contrary, she was full of excitement.
After changing the magazine, he took out the syringe and threw it to Hu Qiu, and said, "No matter what, I will definitely go to the fishing ground, we are very close." Next, life and death are fateful, and everyone is fine. With that, he rolled over and jumped out of cover, shot and killed several of the attackers who pounced, and walked into his own red bird to restart the car.
The rain of bullets outside the car was chaotic, and the Hong coriander in the car was calm, although the red bird was already scarred, it was still strong and roared.
"See you at the fishery." Hong Coriander squeezed at a few people, leaned out of the car window with one hand and fired, stepped on the accelerator under his feet, and the red bird shook the tongue of fire all the way to the dust, and sped away towards the end of the road.