Chapter 31: The Way Home (1)
The soldiers on the car raised their guns and shot, and the fleeing people ran desperately towards the side of the bus, and the zombies behind them were shot and fell to the ground.
The soldiers rushed over to refill the zombies' heads, and the few people they saved were brought to Jason.
Jason looked at the people in front of him, two girls named Kim and Hill, who were students at the University of Miami Law School, and another man named Thompson, who was a Texan, who had come to Miami for a vacation. All three were taken to the bus, and Jason began to ask about what had happened to them on the way.
The University of Miami in Coral Pavilion is widely regarded as the most prestigious university in Florida and is one of the country's star universities, producing many leaders of politics and business. Coral Court is a well-known affluent neighborhood in the city of Miami, formed in the 19th century and quite Spanish in style. The sun shines all year round, and it is surrounded by greenery and flowers. In the Coral Court neighborhood, home is the famous Baltimore Hotel, where Kim and Hill ran into Thompson when they escaped from school, and the three fled along Highway 106 toward West Palm Beach until they ran into Jason's team.
At this time, the city of Miami was rarely populated, and the once bustling neighborhoods and bustling beaches were now desolate. The streets of the city are clogged with a mess of parked cars, and garbage is blown up by the wind and flies in all corners of the city. Wild dogs are gnawing on the corpses on the ground, and only when the zombies are close to them do they hide aside and wait until the zombies have finished eating and leave, then return to the corpses to continue their lunch. Zombies don't seem to be interested in animals such as dogs, and occasionally crows land on the shoulders of zombies and peck at carrion from their faces.
Miami International Airport is in ruins, and when the mutation occurred, it was the first place to riot. By the time Jason's troops arrived, the airport security forces that were maintaining law and order had already been killed. The people in the airport ran and fled in all directions, constantly impacting Jason and the team they had assembled, and the crowd was mixed with zombies that had just mutated, and they frantically attacked the crowd around them, and many unsuspecting soldiers died in these sudden situations without warning.
The situation at the airport collapsed too quickly, and when Jason's troops withdrew, less than a third of the first troops remained, and many of the soldiers were wounded. Riots began to break out at the base, and the city of Miami seemed to be filled with smoke overnight, and the whole city fell into the fear of death.
Jason receives an order to retreat to Tampa, and on the way out, the wounded soldier mutates and pounces on the defenseless robes beside him.
The troops retreated to Tampa, the wounded were quarantined, and the remaining fighters numbered less than 10 percent of what they had set out.
When the city of Miami was just in turmoil, Kim was videotaping her boyfriend Paul in her dorm room. After his boyfriend answered the phone, his tone became very anxious, and he told Kim to find a safe place to hide, and then hurriedly turned off the computer. Hill, who lives in the same dormitory as Kim, is changing clothes in front of the mirror, and the evening party has made her look forward to it for a long time.
"Kim, how is this dress?" Hill turned around and struck a sexy pose and consulted Kim's opinion, "Which one do you think Adams would like me to wear?" ”
"Ciel, something was wrong with Paul just now......" Her boyfriend's words made Kim a little uneasy, and she told Hill what Paul had just said in the video.
"He probably just cares too much about you, baby." Hill didn't care, took out another skirt from the cupboard and compared it in front of the mirror.
There was a shout from the window, the glass of the upper floor seemed to be shattered, and a figure flashed out of the window and fell downstairs.
Hill ran to the window and looked down, there was a corpse lying on the ground downstairs in the dormitory, red blood spreading around him, and it seemed to carry the temperature of life.
"God, it's Lee." Kim knew the person lying on the ground, the Asian girl named Lee, from South Korea.
When Hill heard Kim's exclamation, he also came to the window, and the scene outside the window made her speechless in surprise.
The campus is chaotic, full of running and chasing figures, and Kim and Hill arrive at the door of the dorm room, ready to go out and have a look.
A few panicked girls ran through the hallway, and Kim and Hill followed.
At the gate of the girls' dormitory, several people were squatting on the ground, surrounding a person lying on the ground.
Kim walked up and patted the girl on the shoulder with her back to her, and the girl turned to look at Kim. A pale face appeared in front of Kim's eyes, the girl opened her mouth, and the blood foam and meat scrap that she was chewing dripped from her mouth, and another person squatting next to her was pulling a intestine out of the body of the person on the ground.
Kim was so frightened that she almost collapsed to the ground, and when she came back to her senses, she found herself being pulled outside by Hill. On a summer night, both of them were in a cold sweat, and Kim's shirt was already attached to his body, completely soaked with sweat. The two ran to the side of the road, where a car passed by, and Hill waved at the car and shouted.
The driver ignored the two girls, and the car drove past Kim and Hill, who saw the driver's side face, and the woman in the passenger seat cast a sympathetic look at Kim and Hill.
"Bastard Adams is messing around with Lily, the bitch." Hill was so angry that he almost ripped off his dress for the party.
Kim Kim and Hill ran towards the school gates, trying to avoid some suspicious people along the way. When they approached the gate, the two found that it was already jammed with cars, many people fighting together, and the air was filled with the smell of blood.
At this moment, the horn of a car was heard behind them, and a car stopped behind the two men.
"Principal Shalala!" Kim recognized the silver-haired lady sitting in the driver's seat at a glance.
"Get in the car, kids." Principal Sarala beckoned to Kim and Ciel, and the two hurriedly got into the car and sat in the back.
Principal Shalala has always been Kim's idol, and Kim will always remember the moment when Ms. Shalala presented the certificate to her at the ceremony of presenting the scholarship. This lady has been quietly helping students in need at the university, and her ideas about life and science have influenced many of the current and graduated students at the University of Miami. This elderly lady has another identity, she is not only the president of the University of Miami, but also the country's health minister.
The car went around the side door and drove away from the University of Miami and onto a boulevard.
Principal Sarala drove the car intently, soothing the emotions of the two girls from time to time. The old man's serene expression calmed Kim and Ciel from their panic.
Ahead of the Baltimore Hotel, lined with rows of palm trees, is a landmark of the hotel known for its role in turning into a hospital and accommodating large numbers of wounded during World War II. Opposite the hotel is a church with a white gate and high walls standing in the middle of the greenery.
Mansions abound in the neighborhood, and Principal Shalala's car is parked in front of the garage of a retro-designed villa.
The old man got out of the car with Kim and Hill and opened the door to the villa. Surrounded by greenery and tall palm trees, the villa is very secluded, and the noise outside seems to be blocked by a green wall. There are a few copper chairs under the tree, and the color palette gives it a bit of an old age. The path leading to the outside of the villa was sprinkled with leaves, and the light of the street lamps gently covered the lawn.
It was like another world, Kim thought to himself.
The trio arrive at Shalala's villa, where she pours Kim and Hill a cup of hot coffee before they sit down on the couch.
Principal Sarala returned to the living room after a phone call in the inner room, and said to Kim and Ciel, "I'm leaving for the Miami military base now, you two go with me, only there is safe in all of Florida right now." ”
"Madam Headmaster, what's going on out there?" Hill asked, putting down the coffee in his hand.
"It's hard to put into words, anyway, the situation is very bad, come with me." Principal Sarala didn't give Hill more time to ask questions, and turned to lead them back to the car.
The car drove up the boulevard of the community, and some zombies began to gather on the side of the road, following behind the car. The cars parked on the road in front of them caused a lot of obstacles to the progress of Sarala and the others, and the speed of the cars on the road could not be raised.
With a bang, the car tilted to the side of the road and hit a tree on the side of the road, the tire seemed to be punctured, and the car stopped under the tree.
Principal Sarala's right foot on the brakes was hit by the impact, and Kim got out of the car and went around the front and helped Sarala out of the car, and Hill stepped forward to help, and the two helped Sarala to flee forward.
Behind him was a group of chasing zombies, Principal Sarala had cold sweat on her forehead, her foot was swollen and she couldn't use her strength, and the speed of the three of them was dragged very slowly.
"Let's go, boys," Principal Sarala paused, moved to a tree by the side of the road, leaned against the tree and began to gasp.
"I can't drag you down," the old man wiped the sweat from his forehead, raised his head and said to Kim and Ciel, "you can't leave with me." ”
"Madam Headmaster," Kim took her hand, still hoping that Sarah would leave with her.
"I am old, and you are the future of the country." Sarala pushed Kim's hand away and pointed into the distance, motioning for them to leave.
Kim and Ciel leave with tears in their eyes, and the singing of "Star-Spangled Banner" can be heard behind them.
When he turned back, the old man singing by the tree was being thrown to the ground by the zombies, and the singing stopped abruptly at this moment.