Chapter 3: Determination
Sleepless nights.
After Liu Lifan rested, the muscles all over his body hurt even more, and it was already three o'clock in the middle of the night after talking to Liu Qing, although he had slept for more than ten hours before, Liu Lifan's eyes were still painful and difficult to open.
Liu Lifan asked Liu Qing to go to his bedroom to rest, Liu Qing lay in the room for a while, as soon as he closed his eyes, his mind was full of the bloody faces of those monsters, and all he heard in his ears were Luo Jun's screams and wails before he died, almost collapsed himself, simply didn't sleep, and went out to sit with Liu Lifan on the sofa, she never thought that the man next to her, who had no car, no house, no deposit, and didn't like cleanliness, would give herself a great sense of security at this time.
The more Liu Lifan sat on the sofa, the lower his heart sank, and his brows were tightly locked into an inverted figure. In the hours since Liu Qing was rescued, there were constant door slams, screams, and roars coming from all directions, followed by the sound of cars banging with oil, crashing, and explosions, getting closer and closer, more and more, until finally all the sounds gradually disappeared, and only the terrifying roar of the monster was constantly echoing in the entire street. And what made Liu Lifan and Liu Qing nervous the most all night was the sound of the door opening from upstairs, as well as the roar of the monster that followed and the scream of a man. The man's cry grew lower and lower, like hope in the hearts of the two of them, until the last glimmer of luck was extinguished.
Liu Lifan, who used to like the Resident Apocalypse series, has already finalized the fact of the outbreak of Resident Evil in his heart, and the monster in their mouth finally has a familiar and suffocating name, zombie.
For a few hours, Liu Lifan could not remember how many phone calls he had made to his parents, and his mother, who was still talking to him at noon, did not answer a phone call all night. Similarly, Liu Qing, who was curled into a ball on the side, also kept crying while calling his parents, relatives, friends, and even all the people who could be contacted, but unfortunately there were very few people who could be connected, and the short exchange was cut off in a scream.
In the early morning, the sun rose from the eastern horizon as usual, and the warm and dazzling light sprinkled unreservedly on the earth, Liu Lifan mustered up the courage to go to the balcony to look at the street, and sure enough, it was exactly the same as he imagined, the street was not wide, scattered and full of zombies, most of them were wearing pajamas or only underwear, because the outbreak occurred in the early hours of this morning, most of them were bitten by the people around them in their sleep, or relatives, or lovers. Some people are lucky enough to escape the fate of being eaten directly, and after escaping from the house in a hurry, they will inevitably be devoured by the zombies outside or become a member of the zombies.
The blood had already stained the black road bright red, and the blood that had not yet dried up flowed on the road like streams of water. On the ground, in the flowers, on the branches...... There were stumps everywhere, and the air was filled with a thick smell of blood.
Electric cars, sedans, vans...... All sorts of cars crashed into each other, and some of them had people banging on the windows with the last shred of hope, hoping to drive away the zombies outside the cars. Some of the cars are still burning, and the black body that has been blown up means that another life has been lost.
"What's going on......" Liu Qing lay on the sofa and curled up in a ball, her eyes under the two dark circles were dark, everything that happened last night had already broken all the cognition of her life, and great fear was occupying her body and mind.
Liu Lifan shook his head, closed the window with his hand, returned to the sofa, took out the last cigarette in his trouser pocket and smoked it, without saying a word.
"What are you going to do?" Liu Lifan swallowed his saliva, pressed out the cigarette butt that was burning his last life in the ashtray, and asked Liu Qing on the side intently.
Liu Qing shook his head expressionlessly.
"Hungry?"
Liu Qing nodded slowly, still not speaking.
"Take it." Liu Lifan got up and went to the cabinet to dig out a large bag of breakfast biscuits, grabbed a few and threw them beside Liu Qing, regardless of whether Liu Qing moved or not, he took another carton of milk and ate it next to the table.
The breakfast biscuits, which I usually like, were particularly unpalatable today, and Liu Lifan threw the biscuits aside without eating a few and drank the remaining milk in one gulp. And Liu Qing, who picked up a pack of biscuits on the sofa and chewed slowly, also stopped, although his stomach was already rumbling with hunger, he didn't have the slightest idea of eating.
"That's it!" After a few minutes of silence, Liu Lifan suddenly stood up, walked to the sofa and pulled Liu Qing up, "Don't get distracted, Resident Evil is a fact, since it has happened, instead of staying like this, it is better to think about what to do!" “
"Heh, what should I do? What else can I do? There are man-eating zombies everywhere outside, can you still fly out? Liu Qing, who was pulled up by Liu Lifan, laughed miserably, "We're done, we're done......"
"Damn, Lao Tzu shouldn't have saved you last night, wasting Lao Tzu's strength." As soon as Liu Lifan heard this, he was angry, threw Liu Qing back on the sofa, went to the bedroom and took out a piece of paper and a pen, and began to count what he should do now.
"What's there?" Liu Lifan bit the ballpoint pen in his hand, "Hmm...... There is no shortage of anything else, now it is food, water, and electricity......"
"That's right! Once the power plant is not controlled, it will soon be blacked out. Liu Lifan thought of this, and quickly turned out all the charging treasures at home and charged them, I don't know if I didn't turn them, this one actually turned out four charging treasures, three of which were 20,000 mAh.
"Yo, I didn't know I had so many power banks before, but now it finally comes in handy." Liu Lifan looked at the charging treasures shining side by side on the table and nodded with satisfaction.
"And then there's the food and water." Liu Lifan ran to the kitchen to take a look, and went through the refrigerator, bedside table and other places where there might be food and water, everything added up, the food was only half a carton of milk, two packets of biscuits, half a bag of rice, some green vegetables, a few apples and a few pieces of bacon. And the water is even more pitiful, except for the small half barrel of mineral water, there are only two bottles of Coke left.
"Damn!" Liu Lifan sat on the sofa and looked at the poor things in front of him, grabbing his messy hair, "There is only so much to eat, and it will be eaten in a few days, and the water is only enough for four or five days. “
"I still have a few pieces of chocolate here, ......" Liu Qing, who had been watching Liu Lifan busy back and forth, suddenly spoke, and took out a few Dove chocolates from her sweatpants pocket.
"What can a few pieces of chocolate do, it's not enough for one meal." Liu Lifan smiled bitterly, but still took the chocolate in Liu Qing's hand and put it with other food.
"You can still eat for a while if you save food, water is the most scarce, quickly use a bucket to pick up a few buckets of water, if the water stops, it's over." Liu Qing looked at the "family background" of the two of them with a complicated face, and proposed it to Liu Lifan.
"You think you're smart," Liu Lifan shrugged helplessly, "I thought of it a long time ago, but unfortunately there is no water in the pipe." “
"Wouldn't it? Running out of water so soon? Liu Qing couldn't believe it, got up and hurriedly ran to the kitchen to turn on the faucet, but the only thing that responded to her was the empty sound of "woo" in the water pipe.
"Maybe the water pipes were burst last night, and with just such food and water, we definitely won't be able to stay at home for a few days." Liu Lifan leaned against the door frame of the kitchen and raised his chin at Liu Qing, who was flustered, "And it is estimated that there will be a power outage soon, and the natural gas will also be stopped, even if there are things like rice and meat, you won't be able to eat them." “
People who are accustomed to living in modern cities with water and electricity do not know how important they are when they suddenly want to leave them.
"Well, the rice can be made into rice balls and stored in the refrigerator." Liu Qing looked at Liu Lifan.
"Then I'll leave it to you, don't get bacon, this is the only meat that can be stored for a long time, you can make that half bag of rice into rice balls first." Liu Lifan nodded, and then took the opportunity to throw this matter to Liu Qing, and rescued her at the risk of his own life, and he couldn't count on this woman for other things, and all these things that could be thrown to her were thrown to her.
"It's no problem for me to do it, but I also need water to cook the rice ball, let's ......" Liu Qing broke the faucet in his hand with a bitter face, and looked at Liu Lifan with an innocent face.
"Damn, forget about this stubble." Liu Lifan slapped himself on the forehead, "We don't have enough water to drink, we can't eat half a bag of rice, just rely on that little snack, and starve to death in a few days." “
"I remember! I have a lot of water at home, because of my water pipe problems, the water is often stopped, so I am used to receiving three or four buckets of water, and I have a large box of snacks at home, enough to eat for a long time! That's it, my key ......" Liu Qing suddenly thought of his home, and before he was excited, he fell into depression again. His key was left downstairs last night, otherwise he wouldn't be at Liu Lifan's house.
"I'll go, can you do something." Liu Lifan scolded Liu Qing casually, then ran to the balcony to watch for a long time, and finally found the key that Liu Qing left outside the unit door. The key was lying about five meters outside the iron gate, but there were several zombies still wandering around, and the zombie whose finger was crushed by Liu Lifan with the big iron door last night still had his hand stuck in the crack of the iron door.
"I'll go, this guy will pick it up." Liu Lifan shouted while standing on the balcony, and the zombies below turned their heads to look at him in unison, so frightened that he covered his mouth and squatted down.
"Damn, do these guys have such good ears?" Liu Lifan patted his undulating chest, although he had killed a zombie with his own hands yesterday, but he was suddenly stared at by several zombies, if his eyes could kill, Liu Lifan would have lost half his life.
Liu Qing walked over, rubbed back and forth for a long time, and finally made up his mind to take a look down from the balcony, but before he could see the situation below, he was made to tumble in his stomach by the flesh and blood scattered everywhere on the ground, and when he turned around, he ran to the toilet and vomited.