Chapter 29: The Infected (5)
Zhao Gao opened the manhole cover, then turned around and pulled Lu Xun up. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Lu Xun took a deep breath and coughed violently, the sewer was filled with a strong smell of dust and organic decay, which was suffocating, Lu Xun held his breath and walked all the way, finally crawling out before the air leak.
"I don't know until now...... Mario turned out to be such a great character. Lu Xun exclaimed, "The lung function is extremely powerful, and it automatically filters poisonous gases." ”
Zhao Gao leaned over and closed the manhole cover, "We've arrived." ”
Lu Xun looked around, they were in a narrow alley, flanked by brown and gray concrete residential buildings, with cascading balconies with clothes poles, although long abandoned, they could still be recognized as typical old SH-style streets, this bustling international city had large swaths of such old and crowded squares before the end of the world, but they gradually died out in the process of development, and were replaced by glass-walled high-rise buildings.
The PDX district has seen such alleys for a long time, and only those decades-old districts have remnants of such areas...... It is home to thousands of locals, often for generations, who have lived behind a door in their apartments, and at nightfall families sit on the sidewalk downstairs with tables to eat, young students hurrying past them with their school bags, and the steaming heat of the hot pot is blown away by the evening breeze.
But that was decades ago...... Lu Xun said to himself in his heart.
"We're on the edge of the safe zone." Zhao Gao said, "If you go one kilometer further, you will enter the primary exclusion zone. ”
"How do you divide the security zone from the exclusion zone?" Lu Xun asked, "Is it according to the number of hunters?" ”
"Not exactly." Zhao Gao walked along the alleyway, "Most of the area is divided according to the number of hunters and infected people, for example, the place where the number of infected people per square kilometer is infinitely close to zero will be classified as a safe zone...... In this way, there is only one area in the entire city. ”
Lu Xun nodded.
"The standard for dividing the primary exclusion zone is about 100 infected people per square kilometer, and there is another criterion...... Zhao Gao continued, "The probability that you will encounter an infected person in this area is 50 percent, even if it is the primary exclusion zone." ”
"Where's the hunter?"
"Any area where hunters exist is a high-level forbidden area." Zhao Gao waved his finger, "Even if it is a hummingbird group, trespassing is strictly prohibited unless there are special circumstances." ”
"And where are we going next?" Zhao Gao asked.
Zhao Gao smiled, "Supermarket." ”
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Sure enough, it's a supermarket, and it's the largest supermarket in the world...... Zhao Gao took Lu Xun out of the alley, and his eyes suddenly opened up, and the two of them were in front of an empty and open three-way intersection, and across the road was a building, and on the roof of the building stood a huge red billboard that had faded - Wal-Mart.
It also has a better known Chinese name, Wal-Mart.
Zhao Gao crossed the road, and Lu Xun followed behind and looked up...... This product actually brought itself to the supermarket. But the building has been abandoned for decades, the walls are mottled and peeling, the window panes are shattered, and the doorways are pitch black, making it look like a haunted house.
Zhao Gao stepped over the broken glass in front of the door, the glass door of the supermarket had long been shattered to the point that only a pair of twisted metal door frames remained, "This is my teaching place, some dangerous things can't be left in the academy, so we will find another place to preserve, this supermarket building is the largest building in the vicinity, it is very suitable for this kind of work." ”
Lu Xun nodded, bent down to avoid a rag hanging from the top of his head, it looked like a banner, I don't know what was bitten into rags, he stepped into the door of the supermarket, the light immediately dimmed, and the heavy smell of dust came to his face. Lu Xun covered his mouth and nose and looked around, the first floor of a large retailer supermarket building like Walmart is usually full of jewelry...... The two passed between the shelves, and the glass windows that used to hold expensive luxury goods had now been smashed to pieces, and they were covered with dust, and Lu Xun reached out and touched it, about an inch or two thick.
Sunlight filtered in through the windows, casting bright spots of light on the floor.
Lu Xun once played the game "Resident Evil", and he felt that the supermarket he was in resembled some scenes in the game...... The gloomy light, the dead silence and the sound of hollow footsteps, the peeling walls and gray concrete, the unknown black stains on the walls and floors, the broken pipes and wires hanging overhead, it would be perfect if one or two more zombies came out of the corner...... They're the live-action version of Resident Evil or The Walking Dead.
Zhao Gao walked ahead, leading Lu Xun through the hall, and even began to hum softly in his mouth.
It's a two-hundred-five.
"These are the first places to hit when the disaster strikes." Zhao Gao pointed around, "When the social order completely collapsed, people began to loot food and daily necessities in the mall, they quickly ransacked the market, and then began to loot from house to house, and many people did not die of the doomsday virus, but died at the hands of the same kind." ”
Lu Xun was slightly stunned and did not speak.
"That's human nature." Zhao Gao sighed, "In the most extreme environment, the extreme good and evil in people's hearts are exposed, and the celebrities who are high-ranking on weekdays do not hesitate to send others into the mouth of hunters in order to save their lives, and the cowardly company employees dare to bring kitchen knives and shotguns to block zombies for their daughters, you can't judge the good and evil of that person from their appearance, because they themselves don't know whether they are good or bad." ”
Zhao Gao found a narrow door on the wall at the end of the hall, Lu Xun thought it would be a dressing room, but to his surprise, there was an extremely long staircase behind the door leading to the underground. The stairs are extremely narrow, only allowing one person to pass through, and there are walls on both sides, and Lu Xun can probably leave a punch of free space on his shoulders after entering, and if the person who comes is stronger, then he will have to turn sideways.
"It's a staff passage, and some supermarkets or malls have walkways like this, like the backstage of a theater, which are usually built in the cracks of the walls." Zhao Gao explained, while descending the stairs.
The staircase broke at a corner, and Lu Xun thought they should have reached the basement level, which was mostly an underground garage or warehouse, and there was a metal door on the wall in front of the two of them.
"We're here." Zhao Gao unscrewed the door.
The space inside the door is very large, about twenty meters in length and width, almost empty, only there is a crate in the opposite corner of the wall, there are no floor tiles or painted walls, gray cement on all sides, and there are two narrow windows at the upper end of the wall, which are sealed by anti-theft nets, which confirms Lu Xun's conjecture...... Sure enough, it is a warehouse, a place used by merchants to stock up on goods.
"Zhao Gao......" Lu Xun turned his head and frowned, he didn't know what he was doing here.
Zhao Gao stood outside the door, and suddenly showed a strange smile, as venomous as a poisonous snake.
Then he "clicked" the warehouse door shut.
"Zhao Gao!" Lu Xun was frightened and stepped forward to try to push the door open, but the door was obviously locked, and he couldn't even twist the doorknob, "What are you doing?" ”
"Oops, oops...... Don't be so nervous. Zhao Gao's voice came in through the door panel, "Look around, are you still satisfied with the burial place I chose for you?" ”