Chapter 411: Dawn
"You stay at home and don't move, I'll find a way to find you there," Yu Zuya told his sister-in-law Yuqing.
After hanging up the phone, he began to have a headache about going downstairs. The hustle and bustle of the neighborhood was gone, and the cries for help and screams outside seemed to evaporate like water under the scorching sun. Yu Zuya came to the edge of the flat top again, he looked down, and found that the zombies downstairs were still surrounding the corpses, and the corpses on the ground were no longer human.
Thinking that Yuqing was still hiding in her own home, Yu Zuya finally mustered up the courage to come under the canopy and turned the firewood knife out. Although the knife is full of mottled rust, the edge of the knife is still relatively sharp.
Yu Zuya came to the door, and Wangcai followed, and suddenly he felt the mobile phone in his trouser pocket vibrate.
Yu Zuya took out his mobile phone, took it in his hand and looked at it, and found that it showed that he had received a text message. "Urgent notice, a new virus is starting to spread around the world, people infected with the virus will mutate in a short time and start attacking normal people......, please do not go out of the house and stay away from populated areas."
"Don't go out......" Yu Zuya stared blankly at the words in the text message, and suddenly began to hesitate again in his heart.
"Viruses, zombies, oh my God!" The firewood knife in Yu Zuya's hand fell to the ground, and the person also squatted down, his hands on his head in a daze.
Wangcai saw Yu Zuya find the knife, thinking that the owner was going to take it out, the dog followed excitedly, but saw the master walk to the door and squatted on the ground.
Wangcai shouted at Yu Zuya a few times, as if urging him.
After being silent for a long time, Yu Zuya never mustered up the courage to go downstairs. He took out his mobile phone and dialed his sister-in-law's number, but no one answered on the other end of the phone. Yu Zuya's heart couldn't tell whether it was sad or helpless, the firewood knife was kicked aside by him, and Wangcai was driven back under the canopy.
Choking on chaff in his throat, Yu Zuya coughed violently, and people also came back to their senses from the thoughts of a few months ago. His lips were chapped under the cool winter breeze, and with great difficulty he got up from the ground, and then began to walk towards the water tank under the canopy.
There is a water tank on the roof of Yu Zuya's house, which was used to hold rainwater, but it was poured on the roof in the summer to cool down. After Yu Zuya was trapped upstairs, he moved the water tank under the canopy and collected rainwater through the sink at the edge of the canopy. This jar saved his life and allowed him to survive to this day.
Yu Zuya walked towards the water tank, there was still a small half tank of water in the water tank, the water was a little green, and there was a slight fishy smell. His throat and oral mucous membranes were so hard that he couldn't care much about it, so he reached out into the jar and picked up a handful of water and sucked it into his mouth.
His mouth finally moistened a little, and Yu Zuya swallowed the grains in his mouth that had not been chewed all in his mouth, and the burning sensation in his stomach caused by hunger was slightly better. He wiped his mouth and walked towards the hatchet in the corner.
Yu Zuya picked up the blade with dark brown blood stains on it, and walked towards the edge of the flat roof, where a tree grew by the wall, and some of its branches and leaves reached the upper floor of his house.
Yu Zuya hooked the branch at the edge with a firewood knife, and there was no longer a leaf visible on the nearby branch, so he pulled it hard to pull the branch closer. When he reached over, he could barely pick a few new leaves, and Yu Zuya pulled the leaves into his hand and began to stuff them into his mouth.
There was not much food left on the rooftop, and there was still a lot of dried grain and sweet potatoes on it at first, which had been eaten almost all over the years.
Wangcai died under the wood knife in the second week after the disaster, Yu Zuya had no extra food to raise it, and after watching the dog start to lose weight, Yu Zuya had to hack it to death with a knife.
The shaved meat from Wangcai made Yu Zuya eat it for two days, and finally he didn't throw it away until the leftover meat began to stink because of the relatively high temperature. The first time he ate raw dog meat, Yu Zuya almost threw up, but after eating a meal, his stomach began to get used to the taste of raw meat.
Yu Zuya chewed on the leaves, his mouth was full of astringent taste, if he had put it in the past, he would have spit out the contents of his mouth, but now for him, every bite of food is precious.
The cold wind poured into the cracks of the cotton wool, making Yu Zuya shiver, and he began to walk slowly on the roof of the building, looking from afar, like a zombie wandering aimlessly.
Yu Zuya came to the edge of the flat top again, his gaze was a little dull when he looked down, and he could see a lot of zombies nearby, but when he looked up, there was no shadow of a living person.
For a moment, Yu Zuya suddenly wanted to jump from here, but the scene where his wife once gnawed on his son's corpse was deeply seared in his heart. If it was just a simple fall to death, Yu Zuya might not be so afraid, but after falling, he would have to become food in the mouths of those zombies when he died, which made him unacceptable.
Yu Zuya was already a little numb to the concept of death, he knew that he would die, but he planned to leave a whole corpse when he died. So he chose to lie on the roof of the building most of the day, expecting when he would close his eyes and go.
Another gust of wind blew, and Yu Zuya's head cleared up a little. There seemed to be some sound in the breeze, and he was stunned for a moment, then his eyes widened.
It was the sound of the engine on the sand boat, and Yu Zuya was very familiar with this sound, and once upon a time, in the river not far from his home, such boats would pass by every day.
"Someone, it's a living person!" Yu Zuya's heart was filled with joy for a moment, because of the woods in front of the house, he didn't see the shadow of the boat, but the voice not far away would not deceive him.
The sound of the engine was a little louder, and the boat seemed to be approaching here, and Yu Zuya could even faintly hear someone talking on the boat.
"Help!" Yu Zuya shouted at the top of his throat, but the voice coming out of his mouth was hoarse and weak, his throat was already very inflamed, and the chaff he had swallowed before had cut some small wounds in his esophagus. Yu Zuya shouted with all his might, but the sound from his mouth was inaudible.
As if salt had been sprinkled on the wound, there was another sharp pain in his throat, Yu Zuya coughed a few times, and a mouthful of bloodshot saliva was spit out. He was so anxious that he circled around the rooftop, trying to find a way to get the attention of the people on the boat not far away.
"It would be nice if Wangcai was here," Yu Zuya thought of the dog he raised.
His gaze fell back on the wood knife by the wall, and then the man rushed over, grabbed the wood knife and slammed it on the water tank.
"What sound?" Da Fei was telling Wang Ping about Zhang Xi's deeds when he was in Jiafu Supermarket, when suddenly he heard some voices coming from the shore.
"Old Wei, stop the boat," Da Fei shouted to Wei Qiming in the cockpit.
"What?" Wei Qiming poked his head out, the cockpit he was in was very close to the engine position of the sand boat, and it was also the noisiest place.
"Stop the boat, there seems to be movement on the shore," Da Fei said to him as he ran into the wheelhouse, "I heard some voices over there just now. ”
With a "bang", the water tank shattered under Yu Zuya's knock, and the water in the tank flowed to the flat roof. Yu Zuya didn't expect the water tank to be smashed, and he was stunned for a moment.
The sound of the sand boat engine disappeared in the distance, Yu Zuya didn't know whether the boat stopped or went away, and as the water tank was broken, he changed from great joy to great sorrow just now.
Yu Zuya has now lost the water in the tank, and if the boat leaves, he will have to wait for death. Although we have long been prepared to die, when people suddenly come to life, the fear of death will increase exponentially.
Knowing that there is no way to live, people can wait for death with all their hearts, but suddenly find that a way to live is not far from them, then I believe that no one can continue to insist on waiting for death.
Yu Zuya looked in the direction of the voice that came from before, he prayed in his heart, and the person stood on the roof of the building almost looking through it.
There was a gunshot in the forest in front of the house, and Yu Zuya's tense heartstrings were finally loosened, and he fell to his knees with a pop, and tears suddenly flowed from the corners of his eyes that were a little red and swollen because of the inflammation.
After the sand boat pulled aside, Chen Bin, Da Fei and others came to the riverbank, where there were trees everywhere, and everyone began to search carefully in the forest.
The sound of the previous sudden sound had disappeared, the air had fallen silent again, and the only sound of the wind blowing through the leaves seemed to be in the ears, and the sound of birds and insects seemed to be much less in the winter season.
"There seems to be someone on the roof of a building behind the forest," said Chen Sheng's voice over the intercom, as he and Wei Qiming were left on the boat to assist in the search through a drone machine.
"Confirmed, it's a living person!" Chen Sheng's voice was a little excited, and he leaned over the drone and finally confirmed his identity as a survivor very close to Yu Zuya.
When Yu Zuya saw this thing suddenly flying over the trees, he didn't know that it was a drone machine, but out of instinct for help, he began to wave his hands at the drone in the hope of attracting its attention.
There are a lot of zombies wandering in the forest, and the village where Yu Zuya's house is located is adjacent to this forest, and when the disaster occurred before, many villagers who did not mutate fled to the forest, and they also attracted more zombies in the process of escaping.
Chen Bin and the others advanced in the direction provided by Chen Sheng, and many zombies appeared around them. In the process of raising the gun to shoot, many bullets were blocked by the trees.
"The terrain is bad for us!"