Chapter 27: The Eve of Departure

Liu Lifan, who had been in a coma for a long time, had a long dream, he dreamed that he was standing in a space where he couldn't see his fingers, and suddenly heard someone calling him. Step by step, he looked for the sound to pass, kept walking, kept walking, felt that he had walked for a year, ten years, a hundred years, the sound was getting closer and closer, but there was always no end. He was lonely, cold, and scared in the dark, and he tried to call for help, but no one paid attention to him; I tried to escape, but I couldn't find any exit, and there was darkness around me except the endless darkness.

He kept walking and walking, until one day, different voices appeared in his ears, he listened carefully, it was the roar of zombies, it was the screams of humans, it was the laughter of the strong, it was the low sobs of the weak, countless voices became more and more chaotic in his ears, louder and louder, and countless pictures echoed in his mind, but he couldn't remember it clearly.

He covered his ears in despair and ran forward, all the way ...... Until one day, a glimmer of light that had disappeared for a long time appeared in front of me......

"Brother Liu, Brother Liu?"

"Uh......" Liu Lifan wanted to open his eyes to see who was calling him, but his heavy eyelids couldn't open them at all, and the words he wanted to say turned around in his throat, and finally failed to turn into his mouth, only his fingers could move lightly a few times.

The woman next to her suddenly shouted happily when she saw Liu Lifan's fingers, "Wang De! Brother Liu woke up! ”

"Awake? It's true? A man immediately opened the door and ran in.

"He's not awake."

"Really woke up, I just saw his fingers move!" The woman retorted.

"Girl, I'm afraid you're not hallucinating, right? Brother Liu didn't make any moves, did you see it wrong? Wang De looked carefully at Liu Lifan lying on the bed again, and said helplessly.

"How is that possible! I really saw it! The woman said anxiously.

"Okay, okay, even if he wakes up, he can't get up to eat now, you just guard him well, and you can call me when he really wakes up."

Wang De closed the door and walked out.

The woman puffed out her mouth, and sat next to Liu Lifan with her head propped up and looked at him.

"Brother Liu, Brother Liu, how long did it take for you to wake up, we can't hold on......"

"Can't hold on? This is ......" Although Liu Lifan was lying on the bed and couldn't move, he regained some consciousness after all, and suddenly remembered that the woman guarding next to him seemed to be called Jian Qiu, and he seemed to have escaped from somewhere, but when he thought of this, his head suddenly hurt badly, and he didn't hold it up and fainted.

……

"Uh......" Liu Lifan didn't know how long he had been unconscious, but this time he could at least barely open his eyes.

Liu Lifan slowly looked around the environment, he was in an empty room, although the room was very clean, but in addition to the bed where he was lying, there was only a small chair and a small cabinet.

Liu Lifan lay on the bed for a while, smoothed his breath, and finally sat up with all his strength, and slowly walked out of the door by holding on to the wall.

"Brother Liu? You're awake! The woman outside the door looked at Liu Lifan and was slightly stunned, and then jumped up, if it weren't for Liu Lifan being too weak, she probably would have fallen directly on him.

"Jian Qiu?" Liu Lifan licked his dry lips, "What are we?" ”

"Hey, Brother Liu, don't stand, sit down." Jian Qiu hurriedly pulled over the stool he was sitting on and asked Liu Lifan to sit down.

"You've been in a coma for half a month! We thought you wouldn't wake up. ”

"Half a month? So long? Liu Lifan touched his head with a puzzled expression.

"That's right." Jian Qiu nodded.

"I didn't starve?"

"We wanted to cook gruel for you, but we couldn't find a grain of rice around here, so that ...... That's someone chewed something up and fed you......"

"Uh...... Chewed on what fed me? Who...... Who is it? Liu Lifan touched his stomach and looked at Jian Qiu with a confused expression.

"Of course...... Be...... I'm ......" As soon as Liu Lifan asked, Jian Qiu immediately blushed, and while answering, his neck shrank lower and lower, almost shrinking into his clothes, and he couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into.

"Uh......" Liu Lifan glanced at Jian Qiu embarrassedly, and saw that Jian Qiu was dying of shame, so he quickly changed the topic, "What about them?" ”

"Oh, Wang De and Du Qingqing are keeping vigil in front, they are guarding the outside and I am guarding the inside, so it is safer."

Liu Lifan nodded, "Vigil is still necessary, what about Liu Qing?" ”

"Liu Qing, she ......" said Liu Qing, Jian Qiu's eyes immediately dimmed.

"Huh?" Liu Lifan frowned.

"I was in the sewers before...... sacrificed ......"

"What? She's dead? How did he die? Liu Lifan instantly sat up straight and stared at Jian Qiu.

She ...... There were a lot of monsters at that time, and she sacrificed herself in order to save Wang De, and said......"

"What else?"

"She also said that she didn't disgrace you this time, let you take us and live for her......"

Liu Lifan clenched his fists, sighed after a while, and sat down on the chair.

"Alas, I didn't expect Liu Qing to be so heroic."

"That's right, if it weren't for her, Wang De would definitely have to die below." Jian Qiu nodded slowly.

"Where are we?"

"After escaping from the sewer before, you were unconscious, Wang De was also seriously injured, the three of us couldn't go far with you, but fortunately, there was a furniture city nearby, Wang De took us to break the glass and hide in."

"Where's the supplies? How did you solve the problem of this half month's supplies? ”

"Near here is the foraging area for those monsters, there are not a single zombie, and there is a small grocery store down there, which has so little supplies that we can't eat it for long if we empty it. A little farther away, there were so many zombies that we didn't dare to get close to. Jian Qiu paused and continued: "And those monsters come out to forage for food every night, and they almost broke in twice, but fortunately we found several flashlights in the furniture city, including two strong flashlights, which scared them back, before there was only one place to come in, and we could still deal with it, but now they are looking for loopholes everywhere, and we can't cope with it more and more."

Liu Lifan frowned tightly and asked, "Wouldn't it be good to block the entrances and exits?"

"No, Brother Liu, we found that although these monsters have no claws and have weak defense, their IQ is not low." Jian Qiu swallowed his saliva and continued: "They will not only ambush their prey, but also lock the location where the prey is hiding, and they will not stop at all if they don't attack, they come again and again, sometimes several times a night, sometimes they don't come for a few days, fortunately, they are all afraid of light, so we are all keeping vigil together at night and sleeping during the day."

"There are so many windows in this furniture city, relying on their explosive power, you can come in by finding a random window, how do you keep it?" Liu Lifan asked suspiciously.

"Not really, although they have some intelligence. But it's far from the point where it will sneak up on us from behind, it's just a matter of looking for opportunities from the front, otherwise we'd have been doomed. ”

The more Liu Lifan listened, the lower his face became, and finally said two suffocating words, "This is, evolution?" ”

Jian Qiu nodded heavily, "Yes, this is definitely a species evolved by zombies, we call them Bigfoot because their legs are too developed and their explosive power is terrifyingly high. But so far we've only found this kind of evolution, and the zombies on the street have paid their due, which is good news. ”

"We can't stay here any longer, we'll have to find a way to get out tomorrow." Liu Lifan thought quietly for a while, and said in a deep voice.

"However, your injuries ......" Jian Qiu looked Liu Lifan up and down worriedly.

Liu Lifan waved his hand, "It's okay, my injury is nothing more, now that I wake up, I recover quickly, besides, staying here is not safer than leaving." ”

"Okay, it's all up to you. You're hungry, I'll get you something to eat. Jian Qiu pointed to the room next to him.

"Grab some water." Liu Lifan smiled and nodded.

Jian Qiu turned around and walked into the room next to him, tinkered with it for a long time, took a bottle of mineral water and a pack of Laotan sauerkraut beef noodles and walked out.

"Brother Liu, we really don't have anything to eat now, you wait, I'll cook you instant noodles," Jian Qiu pouted, raised the instant noodles in his hand to Liu Lifan and showed them to Liu Lifan, and handed him the mineral water by the way, "Don't dislike it, this instant noodles is also the last pack, we have been reluctant to eat it, so we keep it for you, you can drink this mineral water, and I will use the rainwater I received two days ago to cook noodles for you." ”

Liu Lifan didn't shirk it, took the mineral water and poured a big mouthful, waved his hand at Jian Qiu to signal her to go quickly, his stomach was already rumbling with hunger.

Liu Lifan, who finished eating instant noodles in a few bites, begged left and right, and only then did he get a cigarette from Jian Qiu, which made Jian Qiu say that he was a dead smoker, and he just woke up and thought about smoking, but he would die if he didn't smoke for a day.

Liu Lifan was smoking a cigarette and standing by the window, he had just woken up from a coma tonight, and he was going to start embarking on the road of escape tomorrow, to be honest, now the world made him unable to see a glimmer of hope, even if he escaped from the city, what could he do? Every city is crowded with zombies, there is no technology in the wild, there is no civilization, there is nothing necessary for modern human survival, human beings can only retreat to the primitive era and start learning to survive again, not live.

But then again, no matter what happens tomorrow, no one is willing to give up their lives to compromise with zombies, even if there is no clear goal, but even for Liu Qing's sentence "live for me", they have to go the next way, in short, as long as there are human beings, as long as human beings have not given up resistance, there is a chance to turn the situation back in this world.