Chapter 39: The Old Man
"First of all, no matter which option we choose, we must be safe." Carl pointed out this, "Life is the most important thing, as long as you save your life, you can start over again if you fail many times." ”
Rosa and Kiss also nodded secretly, Carl was right, the reason is simple and clear, saving your life is the most important thing, as long as you save your life, you can do more.
"You're right." Kiss nodded to Carl and said, "Well, there are two options in front of us at the moment, one is to take the lift, and the other is to run the stairs. As for the others, such as climbing the façade, it is not feasible, and there are no climbing objects on the façade here, so we have to choose one or the other. ”
"Although the two solutions in front of us are not necessarily very good, they can only choose the lesser of two evils." A look of helplessness flashed across Rosa's face.
"So which plan do you decide?" Kiss asked.
"If you ask me, I'd definitely choose to run the stairs." Carl laughed, "I actually chose it for security, at least I don't have to worry about it stopping suddenly like a lift." ”
"Sister, do you have any choice?" Kiss looked at Rosa.
"I'm okay with that." Rosa said with a smile.
"In that case, let's go right now, it's not too early. But don't be careless, be quiet. Ji Si said softly.
Carl glanced outside, the feeling of peeping was gone, but the doubts left in his heart had not dissipated, and he could only clench his fists in the face of this unknown feeling.
"What the hell is human...... Or ghosts. A ferocity flowed in his eyes, but he glanced at it for a long time, and he never found that feeling again, "Hide, keep hiding, I'll pull you out sooner or later!" ”
After speaking, he turned around and followed the footsteps of the two.
Squeak......
Soon, the three of them entered the stairwell, and the hotel was a standard fire door, and the gray-black surface presented a heavy feeling, and there was no sound when pushed open.
Just as Carl and his party were about to go up, a weak voice came from a pile of cardboard boxes.
"Yes...... Take me along? ”
"Who?" Carl shouted viciously, his gun crosshair aimed at the pile of cardboard boxes.
"Little brother, calm down."
A filthy old man stood up in the pile of cardboard boxes, his hands held high, looking harmless.
"Just standing there." Carl shouted, opened the safe, and aimed the gun at his head.
"Okay, I'll stand here." The old man gestured to his hands without any weapons, and then took a few steps back.
"What to do." Karl quietly glanced at Kiss.
Ji Si also looked surprised, she was surprised that there was an old man hiding in a pile of cardboard boxes. What's more, he seems to have survived for a while.
"Old man, how did you survive?" Kiss was also alarmed, but she kept it all to herself.
"Me? Hehe...... Just an abandoned old man. The old man shrugged his shoulders and smiled, that calm picture, as if he had seen through the world.
"Okay, let me introduce myself first, my name is Abbott, I was the manager of this hotel before the disaster, and after the disaster, there were less than twenty people in this hotel, and one of them was me." Abbott laughed.
"Originally, everyone was quite united, but one day the food ran out, and then everyone panicked. I could hold back for the first few days, but after a few days a man named Altai came forward, and five or six people led by him proposed that some people be expelled from the room, just as he usually did not agree with me. The old man smiled bitterly.
Karl frowned, and questioned in an unkind tone: "Then you were expelled by them like this?" Don't other people know the truth about the cold lips and teeth? ”
He had a gut feeling that what the old man was saying was too suspicious, and that normally people would huddle together in the face of the catastrophe of human extermination, rather than spending time fighting meaninglessly.
"Little brother, I can see that you are suspicious of me, right?" The old man Abbott didn't care either, and asked with a smile.
"That's right." Karl made no secret of the doubts in his eyes, "I can't believe what you say. ”
"Then little brother, how do you believe me?" The old man spread his hands helplessly and said, his eyes full of helplessness.
"He's right, we don't know if what you're saying is true or not." Kiss lowered her pistol, but her vigilance remained undiminished.
"Now it's not about how we believe you, it's about using your own way to prove that you're not lying." Karl frowned.
Although humanity is now very united under normal circumstances, there is no shortage of people who have been scum since birth, such as the thugs who burn and loot. Carl had heard from Kiss that there was a family in the south of the city who saved a critically ill thug for the sake of kindness, and originally thought that everyone would help each other in the atmosphere of disaster, but it backfired.
After the thug recovered from his injuries, he took advantage of the husbands of the two mothers and daughters to go out to collect supplies, and immediately showed that dogs could not change their nature of eating, raped the two mothers and daughters first and then killed them, and when their husbands returned, they used his ignorance to slash him in the spine from behind with an axe after he entered the house, which directly killed him.
This terrible incident came from the mouth of a veteran, who was said to have planned to snatch his backpack, but the veteran was much more vigilant than the average person, and instead of the mob's attack, the veteran broke a few bones, and in the case of a life-threatening situation, the mob told all the bad things he had done before.
This incident shocked the entire circle of survivors, and everyone talked about how human nature could be so despicable, and this incident had some impact on everyone's mutual trust, and no one had to be that good-hearted unlucky person. In an attempt to appease the outrage, the survivors' group at the Capitol had the rioter executed, first slashing him with a thousand knives and then dousing him with gasoline and burning him to death.
While the group punished the rioters severely, the rift of mistrust created among the survivors is irreparable.
Therefore, it is understandable that the three of them are very wary of this old man named Abbott.
"Little brother, it's hard for me to say that......" Old man Abbott scratched his head and laughed.
"However, it is not impossible to prove that you can escort me with a gun throughout the whole process, as long as you send me to Room A on the 28th floor of the hotel, I will tell you everything I know." Old man Abbott smiled, his face full of pride.
But he didn't seem to realize that everyone's faces were as black as the bottom of a pot, this old man was really ridiculous, exchanging an illusory promise for the protection of three people? It's a ridiculous joke.