Chapter 15 The Murder in the Manager's Office
Since the lights were turned on on on the second floor, after going down to the bottom, the light was still relatively sufficient, and the three of them also reached the stairwell on the first floor smoothly.
"The stairwells on the first to third floors are safe," Chen Bin said, flipping through the map, "and the first floor passes through this door to the unloading area and the sanitation room." ”
"Let's go back to the second floor." Da Fei said, "The food area of Jiafu is on the second floor, so relatively speaking, the most important thing at present is to go to the second floor, and we will consider the first floor later." ”
"Okay." The three of them returned to the second floor and stopped by the door.
"The old rules," Da Fei asked.
"Well," Ah Cai slowly unscrewed the door, and Chen Bin raised his crossbow to prepare for cover.
The door slowly opened, revealing a passage with bones and corpses strewn across the floor. Leaning against the wall in the middle of the passage, the two zombies slowly climbed up, attracting them not only the sound of the door opening, but also the smell of the living.
One zombie instantly grazed the crossbow arrow on his head, and the other zombie didn't care at all about his companion who had just stood up and slowly fell, and threw himself at the three of them with a roar in his throat.
Da Fei waved the steel pipe and picked it up, and the steel pipe smashed on the zombie's neck, and the zombie's neck was broken, and his head was tilted to the side. The second stick made the zombie's head bloom, and the black-brown blood and gray and white brains scattered all over the walls on both sides of the aisle and the ground at the zombie's feet.
"It's violent," Chen Bin pouted.
"Flying violently, it makes it so disgusting every time", Ah Cai also expressed his dissatisfaction.
"This..."Da Fei was speechless for a while.
"I don't feel as hard as it used to be when dealing with zombies, is it because we've become stronger?" Da Fei raised his arm holding the steel pipe and looked at it.
"I think it's because I've dispelled my fear of zombies." Chen Bin said, "Fear is easy to make people panic, and in a panic situation, it is difficult to give full play to the strength, so as long as the fear of zombies is eliminated, I think we still have an advantage when facing a single zombie." ”
"I'm not afraid of zombies anymore, I'm just a little disgusting with them, especially like this." Ah Cai said and pointed to the corpse on the ground that had been hit by Da Fei's head.
Chen Bin stepped forward and pulled out a crossbow arrow from the head of another zombie, and wiped the blood and brain on the zombie's clothes. Now there are only 4 crossbow bolts left, so you need to save ammunition in use, and if you can recycle, you must recycle them.
"There's the second-floor office ahead," the three of them continued past the corpse on the ground. The aisles are lined with rooms with various signs, showrooms, cashier's changing rooms, etc. Da Fei took Chen Bin and Ah Cai to check the past one by one, and continued to check inside while cleaning up the scattered zombies.
The three of them went all the way to the innermost, where the door was hung with a sign of the manager's room, Ah Cai twisted the door and found that the door was locked from the inside.
"Can't be opened", Ah Cai signaled to Chen Bin and Da Fei.
"Did someone hide inside and lock the door?" Da Fei knocked on the door, then put his ear to the door and listened to the movement inside.
"There's no movement," Da Fei frowned.
"Let's find the key." Chen Bin said, and then the three of them looked around.
After a while, Ah Cai found a bunch of keys from the showroom, tried the door of the manager's room, and found that none of them could be opened.
"Why don't you smash it open?" The key can't be opened, and Da Fei wants to use violence to solve it.
"This door is quite sturdy, and it's not easy to smash it open." Chen Bin looked at the metal material on the door, and said in his heart, "Sure enough, it's the manager's room, and the decorated door is much more advanced than the ordinary office." ”
"Forget it, we don't care about here, anyway, the door is locked, and there are zombies inside and can't get out."
The three of them turned to go to the storage warehouse when a slight chair movement came from the manager's room behind them. Ah Cai stopped and looked into the manager's room.
"What's wrong?" Chen Bin asked.
"There seems to be a voice inside," Ah Cai said, pointing to the manager's office.
Chen Bin returned to the door of the manager's room, put his ear on it, and sure enough, there was a slight knock on the door.
"Someone," Chen Bin motioned to Da Fei and Ah Cai, and then whispered to the door, "Who's inside?" ”
"Help me, are you alive?" A faint sound came from inside the door.
"It's safe here, you open the door from the inside." After confirming that the people inside were alive, Chen Bin's heart was also relieved, and there were finally survivors.
The door was opened from the inside, and a frail body leaned against the corner next to it, it was a foreign man, only slightly shorter than Da Fei. The man's face was a thick beard, blue eyes were embedded in the sunken sockets, the high bridge of the nose was erect, the suit on his body was crumpled, and his sallow face revealed the weakness of his body.
"There is food... Food... Is it? Help me," the foreign man leaned weakly against the corner, and Ah Cai took out the steamed buns and flower rolls in his bag and handed them to him.
Taking the food, the man devoured it, and after a while he choked. Ah Cai looked at Chen Bin, and after seeing Chen Bin nodded, he handed the last Coke in the bag to the man, and the man took the Coke and poured it into his mouth, the stimulation of carbonic acid made the man cough violently for a while, and a lot of steamed bread foam that he didn't have time to swallow in his mouth squirted out.
The interior is very luxuriously decorated, just the air stinks, there is a smell of rotting stuff and excrement. On the couch on the other side lay a corpse, a female corpse, with long hair hanging down to the ground, and the skin on her face and arms covered with cyan corpse spots. Chen Bin walked to the sofa to check for a while, and several flies were startled by Chen Bin, flew away from the corpse for a while and flew back. The corpse had a wound on its forehead, and the wound was decomposing, and maggots were crawling on the wound. Between the sofa and the corner of the wall was a large pile of dried excrement, on which there were also flies.
The foreign man was eating, as if unaffected by the circumstances.
Everyone rested in the manager's room, and the man finished eating the steamed buns in his hand and looked at Ah Cai again.
"You can't eat anymore now, it's not good for you to eat too much when you're hungry," Mr. Chen said, rejecting the man's idea.
"Tell me about you, and the one on the couch," Da Fei walked over.
"Uh... Well, my name is Renaud and I am the senior manager of this supermarket. The man drank the rest of the Coke in one gulp and continued, "An incredible situation happened a few days ago, and many employees have become man-eating devils. My secretary and I hid here and didn't dare to go out, and then my secretary turned into the same monster as the ones outside, so I had to kill her. ”
"There was no food in the room, and I thought I was going to die. Thank you, my benefactor, for holding out until your arrival with the bottled water. ”
"Has your secretary been bitten or scratched by a zombie before?" Chen Bin asked.
"I don't know," Reynolds looked at the female corpse on the couch, then looked elsewhere.
"We don't have water, do we have any containers here to hold water?" Acai asked Renault.
"I don't know if there's one in the showroom, it's the second one outside," Renault pointed to that side, and stood up against the wall.
Da Fei went out to look around, but he didn't find a usable container, and he didn't dare to take the cups used by the employees who had turned into zombies.
"Renault, we're going to the storage warehouse and the second floor of the supermarket soon, will you come with us?" Chen Bin looked at Renault and said.
"I'll go with you." Renault finally saw a glimmer of life and quickly expressed his position.
"Then you take a break here, let's see what we can take with us, and we'll get out of here in a minute." After Chen Bin got Renault's reply, he began to search around with Da Fei.
Ah Cai sat on a chair with her backpack at her feet. Renault's gaze first fell on this backpack, and then moved up a little, when his gaze was fixed on Ah Cai's thighs and buttocks, Renault couldn't help but swallow his saliva, and then continued to sweep his gaze around Ah Cai unscrupulously. After Ah Cai noticed Renault's strange appearance, a slightly angry look appeared on his face, and a pair of big eyes glared at Renault.
"I'm sorry, beautiful young lady, I... I didn't mean to offend," Renault realized his gaffe and quickly apologized to Ah Cai.
"This guy doesn't look like a good guy," Ah Cai thought to herself, "I feel like a pervert and a hooligan." ”
After a while, Chen Bin and Da Fei both returned to the manager's room, and apart from finding another bunch of keys, they gained little.
"Renault, are you moving easily now?" Da Fei asked.
"I've recovered a lot, so it should be fine." Renault tried to trot a few steps around the office.
"Then you can help bring the bottled water, Da Fei and Chen Bin are responsible for safety and opening the road, and I am responsible for bringing food and other supplies. The last time we heard the Coke was given to you, and we didn't drink it without bringing the water. Ah Cai said.
"Uh," Looking at the water dispenser with more than half a bucket of water, Renault responded depressedly, only daring to complain in his heart.
Although everyone couldn't see what Renault was thinking, Chen Bin already felt Ah Cai's rejection of Renault. Chen Bin didn't ask, he knew that Ah Cai would talk to him about something.
Out of the manager's room, the formation of the squad temporarily changed. Da Fei still opened the way in front, followed by Chen Bin, who covered him, Ah Cai was in third, and Renault, who was carrying a bottle of water, was last. The four of them walked down the aisle to the outside of the storage warehouse.