Chapter 6: Fighting wits and courage
Liu Lifan climbed up to the third floor along the guardrail, and when he looked back, all the zombies were still crowded in the corridor on the second floor and roared at the sky, and there was no idea of going back to the third floor to intercept Liu Lifan.
After confirming his safety, Liu Lifan jumped back again, stabilized his body, and climbed in from the balcony lightly. Standing in the corridor on the third floor, he could still clearly hear the screams of zombies, Liu Lifan's body trembled, and he moved towards the room just now with the lightest steps.
"It's good that the zombies don't have intelligence, otherwise they would have confessed here today."
Liu Lifan closed the iron door of the room lightly, and after breathing a sigh of relief, he immediately began to observe.
Although the two zombies had all gone out just now, Liu Lifan couldn't be 100% sure that there was no third one in this house, he didn't want to die carelessly.
Liu Lifan carefully searched all the open rooms, and finally only one side bedroom was left with the door still closed.
For the sake of safety, Liu Lifan still grabbed a watermelon knife and a large pot lid from the kitchen before he was ready to open the door of the side bedroom. As the saying goes, be careful to make the 10,000-year-old ship, if a zombie pounces on you and bites yourself when you open the door, it will be a loss to the sky.
"Crunch" Liu Lifan slowly unscrewed the doorknob, and then kicked the door open, and at the same time, the pot lid and watermelon knife in his hand were all in place.
Although he was well prepared, Liu Lifan was still so frightened that he jumped back, because the moment the door opened, someone inside jumped up with him.
"Who!"
"I want to ask who you are! Why are you in my house? The woman in the room looked like a living person, although she was still vigilant, but she did not have the panic at the beginning.
"Your home? Hasn't this house always been lived in by two old people? Where did you come from? Liu Lifan withdrew his defensive posture, but the weapon in his hand was still clenched tightly.
"That's my grandparents! What about them? Hearing Liu Lifan say this, the woman suddenly ran forward and pushed him to the side, stretching out her head to look out of the bedroom.
"They...... Alas" Liu Lifan just wanted to speak, but sighed again and swallowed the words back.
"I know, I know......" The woman's eyes suddenly dimmed, "I knew last night, it was my grandfather who turned into a zombie, and then ...... my grandmother too"
Speaking of this, the woman covered her face and sobbed a few times, but soon stopped and turned her head to look at Liu Lifan, "You can put things down, I'm not a bad person." ”
"Then you're not afraid I'm a bad person?" Liu Lifan raised his eyebrows.
"Yes and what, no and what?" The woman went back to her bed and sat down, "It's already like this outside, do we still want to hurt each other?" ”
"By the way, how did you get in? What about my grandparents? They turned into zombies last night, and when I found out, I ran back to my room and hid until now. The woman pointed to the bench on the side and motioned for Liu Lifan to sit down.
Liu Lifan sat down without saying a word, and the watermelon knife and pot lid were placed on the small table in front of him.
"I live downstairs from you, and I lured them all out and climbed up from the balcony. Why, you call them zombies too? ”
The woman nodded, "Well, I've also read a lot of Resident Evil works, and I think these are very similar to zombies." ”
"My name is Liu Lifan, why haven't I seen you before?"
"My name is Jian Qiu. I have been living with my parents in other places for so many years, and every time I come back to see my grandparents, I don't live for a long time, but this time I came back to participate in the competition, and I came to see them by the way. Jian Qiu choked up, "They heard that I was coming, and they bought me a lot of delicious food, but they ...... on the first night."
"Well, overnight." Liu Lifan looked out the window and shook his head.
"How dare you come up when you're not at home? I heard the sound outside, there are a lot of zombies in this building. After a burst of sadness, Jian Qiu looked at Liu Lifan suspiciously.
"You think I want to come up?" Liu Lifan said with a wry smile while untying the gauze on his body, "I didn't eat or drink at home, and the only little rice and vegetables I had no water to make. ”
"You're quite bold, you're alone?"
"Well, no, two."
"And another?"
"There's one more." As soon as Jian Qiu asked, Liu Lifan was angry when he thought of Liu Qing, and slammed the table, "Fuck, that dead bitch." She lives across from me, and I only got her downstairs last night. I couldn't have come up today, there were too many zombies, so I was ready to retreat, who knew that she actually closed the door for me! I had to climb up the guardrail. ”
"You only saved her last night, and she sold you?" Jian Qiu was not calm when he heard it.
"It's not, whatever, there are no supplies at home anyway, it is impossible for her courage to dare to come out anyway, who knows how many days she can live." Liu Lifan waved his hand, "Don't talk about her, it's angry to talk about it." ”
"So what are you going to do next? Don't be happy, I don't have a lot of supplies, and I can't last long alone. Jian Qiu shrugged.
"Do you mean to dislike me for stealing your supplies?"
"No, even if you don't come, how long can I last? There are many people and many powers, and I don't want to just wait here to die. ”
"You want to escape?"
"Huh? Only by escaping from the city can there be room for survival," Jian Qiu pouted, "You don't look like someone who is willing to sit here and wait for death, right?" ”
Liu Lifan nodded slightly, "That being said, I don't have a clue about what to do next." It's almost evening, so let's talk about it tomorrow. ”
"Take your time, the supplies at home are enough for us to last for ten days." Jian Qiu also sighed softly, and looked out the window blankly, "Tomorrow...... Who knows? ”
After a short period of mutual understanding, Liu Lifan and Jian Qiu reached a consensus, and spent a few hours doing the urgent things at hand, first blocking the iron door with heavy furniture, then cleaning up the materials at home, making serious plans, and then charging all the electrical appliances that can store electricity while the power has not been cut off......
After everything was done, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening, and the summer sky had all darkened, and the two of them were eating rice and simple lettuce fried meat around the table, because the water in this half of their building was often cut off, so the two old men before, like Liu Qing, liked to take several buckets of water to store, although it was not a lot, but it was not a problem to solve the diet of the two in the short term.
Because they didn't know whether zombies were sensitive to light, Liu Lifan and the others didn't dare to turn on the lights too much, so they had to close the curtains and eat with a small table lamp.
"You're pretty good at it." Liu Lifan, who hadn't eaten much for a day, praised Jian Qiu while taking a big bite of it.
Although Jian Qiu had hardly eaten for a day, her eating appearance was much more elegant than Liu Lifan's, she looked at Liu Lifan with disgust, "Have you never eaten?" ”
"No, the main thing is that what you make is too delicious, much better than what I made." Liu Lifan finished the food in the bowl in a few bites, licked his lips with satisfaction, and gave Jian Qiu a thumbs up.
"By the way, you said you were back for the competition, what competition?"
"In the bow and arrow competition, I play with bows and arrows."
"So powerful? Do you have a bow and arrows? Jian Qiu's words aroused Liu Lifan's interest, but he didn't expect that the little girl in front of him was still a shooter.
"Yes." Jian Qiu put down his chopsticks, fumbled in the duffel bag on the side, took out a black bow and arrow and a quiver, and raised his eyebrows at Liu Lifan.
"I'll go, start with a bow, and the equipment will all depend on fighting?" Liu Lifan took the things in Jian Qiu's hand and looked back and forth with wide eyes.
"Poof, you've seen too much online advertising, right?" Jian Qiu was amused by Liu Lifan, and returned to the table to continue eating his own.
"And you can shoot zombies?"
"Yes, yes, but I only have more than a dozen arrows here, if I can usually recover them, if I shoot zombies, I will never return."
"It's also huh." Jian Qiu's basin of cold water directly extinguished Liu Lifan's excitement. But if you think about it, it's almost impossible to pick up arrows from zombies in the corpse horde.
"Do you think there are any other living people up there?" After Jian Qiu finished eating, he asked while putting the unfinished meal in the refrigerator.
"Quite possibly." Liu Lifan nodded heavily, "Although there are a lot of zombies in the corridor today, there are only about ten, and there are fourteen families in our unit, so there must be more than that." ”
"Shall we go and find out?"
"It's best to go if we can go, if we want to escape, one more person will have more strength." Liu Lifan snorted coldly, "But not everyone can be teammates." ”
"You're talking about Liu Qing, right? You're really not going to save her? Jian Qiu was amused by Liu Lifan, and after cleaning up, he took a glass of water and sat down opposite Liu Lifan.
"Why save her? Let her sell me again? ”
"I also think that this kind of person should be left to fend for herself."
"I have a method, I can try it tomorrow, and if it works, we can go upstairs at will." Liu Lifan suddenly snapped his fingers, and a good idea gradually came to mind.
"How?" Jian Qiu straightened up and looked at Liu Lifan with a curious expression.
"Haha, I won't tell you." Liu Lifan stood up and laughed, "Let's rest early tonight, I'll be busy tomorrow." ”
After speaking, Liu Lifan stretched his waist, turned around and walked into the bedroom where Jian Qiu's grandparents used to live, and was so angry that Jian Qiu scolded him in the living room for being mysterious.
After Liu Lifan entered the bedroom, he observed the room, although there were some dried blood stains on the ground, but the overall was not bad. He rummaged through the cabinets and drawers in the room, and finally found a box of needlework from the bedside table. ”
Liu Lifan took three relatively long sewing threads and tied them into one, tied one end to the doorknob, and the other end to his big toe. Lying on the bed and pulling with his legs, the length of the line was just right, if someone opened the door in the middle of the night, Liu Lifan would definitely wake up as soon as possible.
"Well, if it had been last night, I wouldn't have done it." Liu Lifan lay on the bed and thought, the reason why he did this was because he was afraid that Jian Qiu would not be good for him in the middle of the night, not that he didn't want to trust others, but what Liu Qing did today really made him dare not trust others at will, not to mention that he was still a person who had known him for less than a day.
Although it was still early, Liu Lifan fell asleep unconsciously, the roar of zombies outside the window has not stopped, today just from the second floor to the third floor, he has experienced fighting, betrayal, desperate situation and escape from death, all of which not only makes Liu Lifan's body very tired, but also makes his spirit exhausted, the originally peaceful and stable world has become like this in a blink of an eye, tomorrow, who knows......