Chapter 147: A Tragic Night (1)
Four large trucks drove in unison onto the lookout, and the two-lane road was filled with two rows of trucks running parallel to each other. Derek and the others still didn't turn on the lights, and they controlled the speed of the car within a certain range, so that the sound of the engine would not alarm the people standing guard at a relatively long distance.
"Cheer up, brothers," Derek's voice came over the intercom, "and after tonight's vote, if you're lucky, the president will invite us to Washington." ”
"Haha," Ian said with a smile, "if I had the opportunity to sit with the president, I would have to ask him how he managed to become the first black candidate in the history of the country to reach the national election stage and the first black president to be elected." ”
"What are you going to do, man," Bob asked.
"What? Hehe," Ian laughed even harder, "of course, to help you get some experience, and if you can run for president like him one day, then we will make a fortune." ”
Derek and Matthew both laughed, only Bob touched his bare head and said, "Running for president?" I never thought about it, but if I was president, it would be very uncomfortable to be surrounded by a bunch of people and cameras every day, and I don't like this kind of life without freedom. ”
"The president of the country is the most powerful man on the planet, Bob," Derek reminded him, and although it was just a joke Ian made to the man in sunglasses, Derek couldn't help but tell him about the benefits of becoming president.
"If rights do not bring freedom, then how can they be called rights?" The words that popped out of Bob's mouth made everyone else stunned for a moment.
"Play the piano to the cow," the word popped up in the hearts of several people at the same time.
"Slow down a little more," said Derek, "I've seen their fires, so be careful not to alarm them with the sound of cars." ”
"I see that too, Derek," Matthew licked his lips excitedly, his eyes filled with longing, a lust with violence.
"Here we are, lambs," Ian began dancing as he sat in the cab, shaking his head and twisting his body to the melody of pop music in his mouth.
There was a small sound in the cool breeze, and Norman looked up in the direction of the entrance to the parking lot, and it was pitch black as far as his vision could see, and he couldn't see anything.
Just when Norman thought he had misheard, several large black shadows suddenly appeared in the darkness, and the sound he had just heard gradually became clearer.
"What's wrong, Norman?" Nicola saw Norman looking in the direction of the parking lot, and he looked over that side as well, "What do you see?" ”
"There's a big guy coming," Norman picked up the gun in his hand and walked in the direction from which the voice came.
"There is a situation," Nicola heard as well, and he quickly woke up Chanin and Ivan and followed them.
"Boom," the headlights of the truck's front suddenly lit up, and the unsuspecting soldiers were blinded by the sudden lights, and the next moment, a burst of gunfire rang out in the parking lot.
Under the lookout, Jason, who was sleeping in his sleeping bag, suddenly sat up, his gun in his hand with agility, and several veterans in the team reacted in the same way.
"It's gunshots," said one of the soldiers who woke up.
"At the entrance to the boardwalk," Jason nodded, quickly judging where the voice was coming from.
"Wake up the other brothers," Jason instructed the soldiers who had already woken up, "and be careful not to alarm the others, lest there be confusion in the night." ”
"Yes, Major," the figures of several soldiers dispersed, and more and more soldiers around them woke up.
Their voices still alarmed some of the sleeping people, "What's going on, Major," someone asked in a daze.
"Something seems to be going on over there, I'll take someone over there right away," Jason explained in a low voice, "You just stay here and keep quiet to avoid unnecessary panic." ”
The soldiers were quickly assembled, led by Jason, to the boardwalk on the side of the lookout, and began to run towards the entrance to the parking lot.
After the gunshot, leaving only four bodies on the ground in front of them, Derek waved at his companions, and everyone quickly returned to the car and drove the truck towards the entrance of the boardwalk.
The wheels ran over the corpses on the ground, but the people in the cab didn't feel it, they made a U-turn in front of them, and then reversed the rear car towards the entrance of the boardwalk. The wheels continued to run over the fire, pouring the burning wood to the ground, and the flames suddenly dimmed, leaving only the scattered charcoal fires on the ground.
There are two walkways leading to the lookout, each of which is now blocked by the carriages of two box trucks.
There was a sound of footsteps on the right side of the road, and Derek told everyone else to turn off the lights, and then the four of them pressed the switch on the back door of the car.
The door of the cargo box slowly rose, and I saw a steady stream of figures pouring out of the darkness, and they rushed up the two plank roads and walked forward.
The sound of footsteps attracted the figures on the boardwalk on the right, and their steps forward began to pick up noticeably.
The light of the tactical flashlight hanging from the barrel illuminated the plank road ahead, and the sudden appearance of a large group of figures on the opposite side made the soldiers walking in front stunned for a moment, and only when the light shone on the faces of these figures, they reacted.
The sudden appearance of zombies caught everyone off guard, and there was a brief confusion in the crowd, and at this time, the zombies had already rushed in front of them.
Screams mixed with gunshots rang out on the boardwalk, and next to the truck outside the plank road, Derek sneered at all this, he and his companions had already gotten out of the car with guns, and the four of them hid their figures in the shadows.
More and more people were alarmed in the lookout, and some people who did not know the situation began to ask others around them what was going on, and those who woke up early began to explain to them.
"There are gunshots!" Hill sat up, and she shook Kim, who was sleeping next to her.
"Huh?" Ciel's words woke Kim from his sleep, and the two climbed out of the tent to find the lookout full of panicked people.
"Thompson," Kim said as she saw the man with the gun about to walk in the direction of the boardwalk, and her voice stopped the man.
"Kim, Hill," Thompson turned his head and saw a familiar face, he ran over and said to the two men, "There seems to be a situation on the other side of the boardwalk, I have just asked Selena to take Dr. Mario and Dr. Martin up to the second floor of the lookout, you two better go up too." ”
"No matter what's going on over there, it's always safer to go up there." Thompson nudged Kim and Ciel by the hand, pointed to the metal staircase not far away, and said, "Listen to me, go ahead." ”
"Okay, you need to be safe, too," the two girls said together, and then turned and ran towards the stairs.
The screams in the distance intensified the fear and uneasiness in the hearts of everyone on the lookout, and several nearby fires were added with some firewood by those who had woken up, and the rekindled flames calmed the hearts of those nearby a little.
"Look over there, what's it?" A voice screamed, and Thompson, who was about to run in Jason's direction, turned his head, and he looked at the voice, only to see that at the fire at the mouth of the other plank road, a man who was adding firewood was thrown to the ground by several figures, and they fell into the fire together, disrupting the firewood that had just been piled up, and more figures appeared there in the firelight.
Screams rang from the fire, and fear began to spread like a plague across the lookout.
Through the glow of the fire, Thompson finally saw the faces of the figures.
"God, it's a zombie," a chill ran down the back of his back, and a layer of goosebumps spread across Thompson's body.
"It's a zombie, everyone pick up the gun," Thompson's voice was almost drowned out by other shouts in the panic, he rushed over with his gun in his hand, and began to shoot in the direction of the boardwalk. At this time, there were people around to join in, and the muzzles of the guns spitting out tongues of fire became more and more, making the zombies who had just entered the lookout platform rush for a moment.
The suppression was only short-lived, and the follow-up zombies poured in like a tide, and some people around him had already begun to throw away their guns and turn away, Thompson's head was covered with cold sweat, and the clothes on his body were soaked with sweat, but at this moment he didn't know it.
"MD," Jason, who was fighting, heard fierce gunfire from the lookout behind him, and when he came back to his senses, he remembered that there were two plank roads leading to the lookout from outside, and now all the soldiers were concentrated on this side of the plank road, and the defense of the other plank road was completely blank.
If there were also so many zombies on the other side, Jason's head broke out in a cold sweat at the thought of this.
"Stephen, I'll leave it to you," Jason shouted, "someone has entered through another boardwalk, and I'll have to bring some people back to protect the Doctor." ”
"Yes, Major," Stephen replied.
"The people who reported the double number in the queue before came with me, and the others stayed here to follow Sergeant Stephen's command," Jason's words had just finished when the man had already run a few meters in the direction of the lookout, and more than a dozen figures followed closely behind him.
Screams came from the second floor of the observatory, and the people above began to panic a little from below.
"Everybody's quiet," Dr. Mario's voice rang out through the crowd, "there are soldiers standing in front of us, what do we have to fear?" ”
The Doctor's voice silenced everyone, and the panic in the crowd dissipated a lot. Some leaned on the windows and looked down, trying to find their familiar figures among the figures below.