Chapter 9: Survivors
Carl left the supermarket, but he was very hidden, walking the whole time by sticking to the corner, trying to avoid open spaces.
Luckily, the streets weren't as dark as they had imagined, and the faint and soft moon was the last light.
"There's one there, there's one under the lamppost, and ......" Carl spied out behind a car.
To his dismay, there was no safe way to cross the street, which was about 300 meters northeast of Pete Street, and was so rarely passed by cars that there was no cover for Carl to walk quietly through.
Looking at the entire street, there are only a few pickup trucks, and there is an overturned bus, which is so empty that it is a headache. It's really hard not to alarm those dark shadows, and Carl didn't know what to do for a while, so he could only hide behind a pickup truck.
"Damn, it's not an option, if they move, my track will be exposed." Carl thought distressedly.
Straight to the top? No kidding, there's not just one of them, and even if there's only one, do you want to hold out until morning? He rejected several immature ideas.
"Maybe I can use a piece of cloth to cover my whereabouts? Then sneak over and move over. Karl thought, but, it wasn't long before he laughed at his own stupidity, and the shadows could smell humans. Moreover, the black shadow is not a goldfish with only seven seconds of memory, can't it remember that there is nothing in that place?
A dead knot problem almost drove him crazy, he really couldn't think of any way to lure away those dark shadows, if he couldn't, then he could only rush hard, which was also the stupidest and most dangerous way.
"I always feel like I've forgotten something." Karl said with a headache, he was now anxious and extremely depressed.
"It would be nice if they couldn't smell humans." He was helpless.
Hey? Wrong!
"Human breath...... The human breath ......" A flash of inspiration flashed through Karl's mind, and the answer hidden in the fog gradually became clear.
He was so excited that he almost wanted to shout, but he couldn't help it, but his flushed face fully expressed his excitement, "Yes! It works! It works! ”
Since those black shadows will be attracted by the human breath, it will be much easier, he only needs to throw out one of his personal items, the sound plus the human breath, he is not afraid that they will not come, even if it is finally determined that the thing is not human, then he will have already fled.
Carl was so sure because he had experienced it himself, and it hadn't been long since his rucksack had verified the accuracy of the method for him.
"Carl, you're so smart!" He wanted to kiss himself a few times.
Once you've thought of the method, the next step is to carefully develop a plan for implementation. After the excitement, Carl calmed down, now what he needs is to put the ideas in his head into practice with his hands and feet, otherwise everything will be a pipe dream.
"The weight of a plastic bottle should be enough to throw a distance of tens of meters." Carl weighed it with his hand, too heavy will not be able to throw it, too light will be out of position, in case the wind blows back to Carl it will be tragic, so, the weight of the plastic bottle is just right.
In order to increase the human breath on the plastic bottle, Carl even pinched out some blood from the wound on his thigh and smeared it on the surface of the bottle, the price paid was almost negligible compared to his own safety.
"Big brother, the life of the little brother is in your hands." He patted the plastic bottle on his chest, took a deep breath, and slowly spit it out.
He gritted his teeth fiercely, and threw the animal force in the opposite direction, which made his arms a little sore.
However, the effect was also obvious, the plastic bottle cut an arc in the air and smashed next to a seven-person car dozens of meters away.
The quiet streets resounded with a crisp "clang".
This sound, as if it was a thunderstorm on the ground, attracted those guys who were in the dark and in the light.
"It's okay, it's good that I didn't rush over stupidly." Karl watched the scene in front of him in horror, his heart almost halting in fright.
The shadows rushed out of places you didn't expect, from the windows of the building, from the underground ditches, like flash floods to the plastic bottles, hundreds of them.
"Fight." Carl took advantage of them to bite at the plastic bottle, turned and walked out of hiding.
Although there were not many people on Sampson Street in the past, the length of the whole street was not short at all, at least more than 200 meters. At Karl's speed, it would take about 25 seconds, and with a leg injury, I'm afraid it would be more.
Carl rushed more than a hundred meters, the wound on his leg was torn again, and after experiencing that terrible pain, he just frowned and was fine. The leg injury was a small matter to him, but the black shadows that had reacted had moved towards him, and this was what he feared the most.
What's even more terrifying is that there are far more than a few hundred of them!
"Damn it! There's big trouble. Karl gritted his teeth.
When he came to the crossroads, he looked around and found that almost all sides were covered with dense black shadows, which was too far from his original estimate. Originally, he thought that there were only a dozen or twenty black shadows on a street at most, and even if there were some deviations, it would not be too outrageous, but it was a little unexpected.
"What should I do?" Carl was covered in sweat and his eyes were anxious.
"Follow me!" A childish voice came from not far away.
"Who?" Karl drew his knife and turned sharply.
"Little girl?" Carl was a little stunned, he never thought that a little girl about twelve years old suddenly appeared behind him, of course, in ACG culture, it is "Lori", "young girl" and other very strange titles.
"My name is Jisi, I don't have time to explain, come with me!" Kiss beckoned to Carl and walked up the stairs next to her.
"Oh... Oh..."Carl looked confused, and couldn't think of any good way to go for the time being, so he could only follow this "Lori" named Jisi first.
The two ran up the stairs, and Carl said that running the stairs was really tiring, and by the time the two reached the eighth floor, he was already gasping for breath.
"Can you, slow down?" Carl was so tired that he almost stuck out his tongue, and the hot sweat was dripping down.
Ji Si stopped when she heard this, turned around and frowned, "Are you really an adult?" When she said this, her eyes were visibly dissatisfied.
it! This handsome guy was actually despised by Lori, who was six years younger, and he couldn't bear it! I can't bear it!
"Let's keep walking." Carl squeezed out a smile, but gritted his teeth in his heart.
Kiss gave Carl a condescending look, then turned and continued to run, it was hard to imagine that she had such stamina at the age of twelve.