Text Chapter 9 Foothold
Time passed little by little, he had to move, and the experience of history told him that no matter when or where, the night was always the most dangerous, and a safe place to stay was what he urgently needed now. /p
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Moreover, he can't stay in the trash can all the time, it is already the limit to be able to endure this half a day, there are so many bacteria in it, hidden in it, sooner or later he will get sick, and he doesn't even have a cold medicine on him. /p
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Because it is close to the university, there are many supermarkets, restaurants, and Internet cafes nearby, but almost all the portals are locked, and those who open the gates, he will not look at them, as if you are in the wild, there are two caves in front of you, one looks the same around it, the entrance of the cave is wide open, and the other is obviously inhabited, but the entrance of the cave is blocked by stones, which one will you choose. /p
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The unknown is often a sign of danger, and the other you want to get in is worth it, although it takes a lot of effort. /p
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He is like this now, although the supermarket has been chained from the inside, but it is absolutely safe inside, and there may be one or two zombies in those places that look like temporary footholds. /p
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As soon as a person relaxes, it will be very difficult to return to the previous state, Ye Ke only feels uncomfortable with every step. When he encounters a zombie, he slows down and rubs forward little by little, and sometimes even blocks his path, so he can only stop there and wait for him to walk away slowly, sometimes for ten minutes, sometimes for half an hour. /p
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By the time he found a medium-sized supermarket, it was already afternoon, and the name of the supermarket was "Kobayashi Cheap Supermarket", and he saw it at the corner of the street, so he slowly moved over. /p
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Stopped at the door of the supermarket and observed the surroundings, there were zombies at twelve o'clock, nine o'clock, and three o'clock, all of which added up to a total of nine, but they were all far away from him, as long as the movement was small, it was not very likely that they would be attracted to it. /p
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Holding the lower end of the trash can, he lifted it to a certain height and stretched out his other hand, his fingers bent and his joints regularly knocked on the glass door. /p
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Ye Ke couldn't see the slightest situation inside outside, the supermarket door was not only wrapped with thick iron chains, but also all kinds of boxes, cabinets, shelves and so on, which directly blocked the door. /p
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Knock knock, knock... Boom... Knock, knock, knock, he kept tapping according to the law of three short, three long and three short, this is an international distress signal, evolved from the Morse code, you can use anything to represent this kind of information, such as a flashlight, such as a car horn, or even a gunshot. I hope someone in there understands! Besides, it's impossible for zombies to make such rhythmic percussion sounds! /p
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Knocking on the three groups, Ye Ke stopped for a while, and then carefully observed the surrounding situation, the wait was always long, and after about five minutes, there was finally movement inside. /p
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He looked at the slowly moving shelves, the excitement in his heart can be imagined, and finally, a cardboard box in the middle of the obstacle was removed, revealing the face of a young girl, her long black hair was scattered, a little messy, her face looked like it hadn't been washed for several days, and the whole person looked very decadent, but the foundation was good, she should be a pretty girl. /p
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She looked around, obviously looking for the source of the sound, Ye Ke moved the trash can, and then stretched out a few fingers from the hole, so that the other party noticed her. /p
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"What's going on?" He heard a deep man's voice, and because it was close to the door, he could hear it very clearly, even if it was low. /p
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"There's a guy out there, hiding in a trash can." The girl looked to the side, with fear on her face, because there was an obstacle in the way, Ye Ke couldn't see the man, her voice was weak, not deliberately low like a man, as if she hadn't eaten much for several days. /p
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"Get out, there's nothing for you here, bitch!" As soon as the other party heard that it was a person, he suddenly seemed full of anger. /p
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Ye Ke saw a big hand grab half of the girl's face, and then pulled it back violently, and a middle-aged man with a fat head and big ears and a crimson wine trough nose appeared in the original place. /p
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Ye Ke felt very uncomfortable for a while, because he didn't hear the voice of resistance, such words and actions, but without resistance, it was already very good to explain something, and he suddenly thought of Shi Yeran, that lovely girl. /p
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The middle-aged man looked left and right, and then looked at the trash can. /p
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"Who are you?" /p
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"I escaped from the university, can you let me in first? I wasn't infected, and I didn't have any weapons on me. Putting the sympathy aside, his current situation is not much better, and as for the mad dog tied to his legs, it is naturally selectively forgotten by him. /p
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"We don't need men here, don't go out by yourself!" The middle-aged man looked at his expression like he was looking at a useless piece of garbage. /p
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"Also, don't knock again, if you knock again, I'll make some movement and bring all those things over." The man stuffed the box back in its place without even giving him a chance to speak. /p
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He looked at the shelves that gradually moved back to their original places, although he had such preparations in his heart, but when he really encountered such a thing, his heart was still cold, and he suddenly thought of a sentence: I have always speculated on human nature with the greatest malice. Although this sentence has been changed, it is very suitable for his current state of mind, people's hearts are good or bad, and they know their own warmth and coldness, he~. /p
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The people who are still alive now can be said to be frightened, and there is no reason for the other party to take the risk of accepting a college student who can't even see his face, and there is no external change, which is the best thing for everyone who is still alive. /p
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Ye Ke held the garbage can, and began to move slowly, and then he found a large supermarket, he knocked for nearly half an hour, and no one paid attention to him inside, he found a small supermarket on the corner of a street, and the people in it were more resolute, only showed their faces, and when they saw him, they hadn't come to talk yet, so let him roll as far as he wanted, don't be there. /p
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Hehe! I finally escaped from school, is this the situation I faced? The sun had begun to set, and he moved to a corner, and sat on the ground, his head in his hands, despair beginning to spread in his heart. /p
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The temperature dropped rapidly, and he remembered a report he had read, there is a bird in this world, it has no feet, it can only fly all the time, when it is tired, it rests in the wind, and it only has one chance to land in its life, that is, death. /p
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He squatted up again, and it wasn't time to give up. /p
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24h supermarket, will there be people hiding in this kind of place? In the supermarket in front of him, all the windows were plastered with newspapers, and the door lock was much worse than other supermarkets. /p
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He approached the window, and tapped again and again, as was the old way, and he would try every chance he could. Because the store is smaller, the tapping sound is also easier to hear, and after he knocked on three sets, the newspaper in the window was torn open a corner. /p
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A handsome middle-aged uncle with a beard, perhaps he hasn't trimmed it for a while, and his beard is a little deep. /p
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He saw Ye Ke in the trash can, and was about to speak, when he suddenly put the lid back on, he was a little confused, he suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly covered his mouth and nose with his sleeve and slowed down his breathing. /p
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Ye Ke saw the expression on the other party's face, that is the fear and panic that only when you see a zombie, although the newspaper blocked the scene in the window, it did not affect the reflection, he saw a blurred figure standing behind him, tilting his head, his hands hanging weakly. /p
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When did he come over, why didn't he find out when he was on guard just now, he was about to cry in a hurry, when he was at school, although he was targeted, but he had time to react and save, now, he was like a deer, stared to death by a cheetah lurking in the grass, and the zombie behind him seemed to be very interested in the "green hat" on his head, standing there and not moving. /p
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Then, the trash can was hit, yes, it was hit, and he crouched in it and almost jumped in fright. /p
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Seeing that the trash can was still there, the zombie seemed to be a little annoyed, the range of action became larger, and the impact became more violent, Ye Ke supported the two walls of the bucket with both hands, trying to stabilize it and not let it fall over, he couldn't tell what his expression was now, as if someone behind him was pulling and pulling him, frantically testing on the edge of death, trembling everywhere on his body, the temperature was obviously very low, but the sweat wet his back. /p
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I might be going to die! His mind was blank now, and he couldn't think of anything clearly, but the memories of the past seemed to appear in his mind little by little. His parents drove him out to play, and the brothers in the dormitory went out to drink in the restaurant together, and he and Shi Yeran met for the first time in the corridor. /p
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The impact lasted for a few minutes, accompanied by a brutal roar, and then gradually became weaker, and finally stopped, through the hole, Ye Ke saw that the other party walked two steps around the trash can, and finally slowly left, probably losing interest! Fortunately, there were no other zombies around, and if he was attracted by the sound, he would really be finished. /p
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The crisis came suddenly, and he left suddenly, and he kept the same posture in the bucket for a while, before he relaxed. After about five minutes, the zombie was far away, Ye Ke looked around again, and found nothing abnormal, so he stretched out his hand again, and knocked on the window with a group of s. /p
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The person inside first opened a small corner of the newspaper, only revealing a pair of eyes, carefully looked at the situation outside, and found no danger, before opening half of the newspaper. /p
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"Can you let me in, I'm a college student, not infected, and I don't have a weapon, please." He said anxiously through the hole, no one is born omniscient and omnipotent, and no one is born fearless, although his psychological quality is stronger than others, but he is also frightened enough, begging, as long as he can enter a safe place, what is there. /p
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The middle-aged uncle seemed to hesitate, frowned, and looked at him deeply. /p
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"You wait a minute." The uncle put the newspaper down again. /p
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He didn't know if he would say yes or something later. /p
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Inside the supermarket, this 24-hour supermarket is much larger than the average storefront, about the same size as a gas station supermarket, and should be about 50 square meters. At this moment, there were four people in it, a young woman, a seven or eight-year-old girl, a middle-aged man in a suit, and one was himself. /p
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"Dad, is the monster gone?" The little girl stepped forward and took the man's hand, raised her head, and looked at him with bright eyes. /p
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"It's okay, the monster is gone." The uncle squatted down, touched the little girl's hair, and smiled dotingly. /p
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"There's a college student out there, hiding in a trash can, and I want him to come in." The uncle stood up and said to the man in the suit, casually glancing at the woman on the other side. /p
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"You're crazy, what if he gets infected, and one more person will eat less, just let him go to the big supermarket by himself, there must be people alive there." The man in the suit looked very excited, as if there would be some irreparable loss to let the college student of unknown origin happen. /p
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In fact, he guessed wrong, large supermarkets are not necessarily safe, like Wal-Mart, Rakuten, Lianhua and other super supermarkets with several floors, absolutely no one survives. /p
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"We've been here for too long, and now what we need is not food, but news, and he must know something if he can survive outside until now, and he says that he is not infected, so there should be no problem." /p
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"He said he believed it without you, what if he lied to you?" Although the man in the suit looked excited, he still lowered his voice. /p
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"You know how your body will react when you get infected, and the chance of him getting here is very small." /p
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The uncle looked very composed, walked to the door, and slowly moved away from the shelves. /p
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"Also, this shop is mine, when you knelt down and begged me to let you in, you said that you were not infected, and I chose to believe you, my daughter is here, I will not joke with her life." /p
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The man in the suit looked unhappy and looked very unconvinced. /p
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"If you don't want me to make too much noise and draw those things in, come and help." The uncle glanced at him, his eyes did not fluctuate, and he turned his head and continued to move the obstacle. /p
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The man in the suit thought for a moment, and walked over in three steps and two steps. /p
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Night was about to fall, the sun was still making its last struggles in the west, some self-powered neon lights were lit up in the streets, but most of them were still in a dim state, and he listened to the sound of moving things inside, as if he saw the hope of life, and he never heard a more pleasant sound than this. /p
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He was not carried away by the joy either, and kept turning, paying attention to the movements around him. /p
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Finally, the obstacles behind the door were removed, and the uncle tore the newspaper to the outside to determine the situation, and then used the key to open the bicycle lock, and then opened the reverse lock of the gate, opening a gap for people to pass through. /p
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Ye Ke took off the green hat on his head, gently put it on the ground, and then got in, and the whole process was only about a second. /p
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With a breath of fresh air, it simply doesn't get much better than that. As soon as he came in, the uncle quickly locked everything and began to move the counters and shelves back to their original places. /p
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Everything fell silent, and the uncle and the man in the suit took two steps back and looked at him, not so much looking at him as on guard, although they let him in, they were not at ease with him. /p
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"Hello, my name is Ye Ke!" He didn't know what he should do now, so he only smiled and stretched out his hand, which was a heartfelt smile for the rest of his life. /p
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The two men did not respond to him or shake his hand. /p
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He looked at the other person's expression as if he understood something. /p
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"I'm really not infected, I don't have any wounds on my body, don't believe it, I'll show it to you." Without saying a word, he put down his backpack, took off his coat, and took off his tank top in one fell swoop. 、/p
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Then looking at the other party's still guarded expression, he hesitated for a second or two, and began to untie his belt. /p
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"Ahh Shame, brother shameless~" A childish child's voice suddenly came from the corner, which startled him, because it was almost dark outside, and the light inside was not good, his attention was on the two people in front of him, and he didn't notice that there was a woman and a cute little girl in the corner. /p
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"Tiny, close your eyes." The uncle's voice was a little hoarse, although he said it to the person behind him, but his eyes did not leave him. /p
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The young woman took the little girl in her arms and covered her eyes with her hands. /p
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The uncle took out a flashlight out of nowhere, and then blocked the light source with a few pieces of paper, making the light much weaker, and then the two of them carefully studied his body like treasure experts. /p
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After so many days of mutation, Ye Ke came in from outside, and they couldn't help but be careless. Although the uncle said that he believed him before, he looked more serious than the man in the suit at the moment, after all, her daughter was here. /p
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At this moment, his pants faded to his heels, and he was looked at like this by two big men, not to mention how awkward he felt in his heart. /p
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"Can you take your panties off?" The man in the suit suddenly said something that frightened him, and the woman in the corner hurriedly closed her eyes. /p
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"Forget it, a man can't even protect there, what else can he do." The uncle took the flashlight and took the initiative to stretch out his hand. /p
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"Sunan." /p
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"Ye Ke." The two hands were put together and they shook it, and sure enough, no matter what time it was, it was impossible for people to abandon the habits that they had left behind imperceptibly. /p
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"Li Haoran." Although the man in the suit was reluctant, he still stretched out his hand, he was thinking about his own life before, but now that Ye Kedu has come in, the matter is a foregone conclusion, if he still has an unhappy expression, he is likely to be hidden and isolated in this small circle, smart people, they should understand the situation. /p
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"Ye Ke." As a sign of respect, he repeated his name. /p
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"Comfort." The voice is a woman in the corner, and now it is basically invisible inside, but I vaguely feel that the woman's figure is not bad. /p
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"And me, my name is Su Xiaoxiao." The immature voice carried the innocence of an angel, and this was really the warmest words he had heard since his mutation. /p
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"Brother. Do you still have clothes? This smell on you. ”/p
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Don't say I don't know, the other party reminded him how big the smell was, after all, after staying in the trash can all day, the smell was surprisingly big. /p
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Fortunately, there was a set of shorts and shorts in his backpack, which he had put in when he was out playing alone, and he didn't take them out when he was loading. /p
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I put the changed clothes on the shelves, ate some water and food handed over by Sunan, and felt physically and mentally exhausted for a while. /p
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Although the room was filled with the stench of his clothes, it was finally safe. /p
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