Chapter 20: The Rats Tide in the Night
Flipping the skylight and going to the roof to go back to his home, this extraordinary route Chen Dong has already taken a familiar road. Back home, before dark, Chen Dong sharpened the chisel, the steel gun, and the tip of the hammer to prepare for tomorrow's operation. Because of the cloudy weather for half a month and the foggy weather, it was dark very early, Chen Dong cleaned up and went to bed early.
There are only two zombies left in the household, and tomorrow, the key to the black sedan downstairs will definitely be found! If you have a car, you can leave Jinxiang City, and you can go back to your hometown in Feng'an County as soon as possible!
The car is parked at the door of the fourth unit, and as long as you move fast when you go out and get in the car, the zombies should not have time to find the attack. Chen Dong's building is very close to the north gate, as long as he drives out of the community smoothly and gets on the road, with the speed of the car, it is sky-high and the birds fly!
Of course, even if he has a car, if he really wants to leave here, Chen Dong must prepare in advance, food, drinking water and other materials must be prepared to take away, in addition to weapons, and some practical gadgets such as lighters and fruit knives, which are all planned and prepared. Thinking about the plan and preparation for escaping, Chen Dong was also thinking about the problems that might arise when driving out, such as what the road conditions were outside, how much gasoline was in the car, and how many miles he could run, these were all unknowns, thinking about it, Chen Dong suddenly thought of Jiang Xiaonuo and Xu Chunlei......
What about the two of them? How will they continue to live after they have escaped?
Xu Chunlei seems to be okay to say, he said that he opened the doors of all the residents in the unit building where he is located, and all the residents who have no zombies at home, he can find food, he should have some ability, and he has probably killed zombies in the past half a month. Xu Chunlei is a big man, and he looks very strong, it shouldn't be a problem to continue to survive, but what about Jiang Xiaonuo? Until now, she has locked herself in the house and is afraid to come out, and she doesn't know how she has solved the food problem by hiding at home for half a month......
For the two of them, Chen Dong thought about it for a while, and found that he didn't seem to need to care about this at all, everyone had their own choice, and at present, Jiang Xiaonuo and Xu Chunlei didn't seem to have the idea of leaving here. Hiding at home can indeed continue to live, Chen Dong chose to escape, although he took the path of sustainable survival, but the risk he took was to gamble with his life.
What if Chen Dong's choice is wrong? What if his car hadn't driven out of Jinxiang City, and he wouldn't even be able to drive out of the community? He doesn't force other people's wishes, Chen Dong won't pull them to work hard, what he thinks is right, just insist on doing it, and just take care of himself.
Thinking of these messy things, Chen Dong didn't know that after a few hours, he finally fell asleep groggily. In the first half of the night, Chen Dong slept quite peacefully, but in the second half of the night, Chen Dong was suddenly awakened by a piercing loud noise.
"Woo~~"
The moment he heard the voice, Chen Dong sat up from the bed like a catapult, Chen Dong slept very lightly for half a month, even when he was asleep, his spirit was in a state of high tension, he sat up from the bed, but it took a second or two to recover, and Chen Dong returned to a conscious state.
Outside the window, the strange screeching loud noise had slowly subsided, and only a small tail note remained. Chen Dong listened carefully, before the zombie crisis broke out, he had never heard this kind of sound in Jinxiang City, this sound sounded a bit like the whistle of a ship on the sea on TV, but now he heard this sound very loud, it sounded longer than the whistle.
Jinxiang City is not a coastal city at all, and of course there will be no ship horns, but where does this sound come from?
Just as Chen Dong was frowning and thinking, a small sound suddenly came from downstairs outside the window, and the sound was connected, very dense, and it was impossible to hear what the sound was. After hesitating for a moment, Chen Dong got out of bed and opened the curtains to look out, the night was very dark, the sky was cloudy and could not see the moon and stars, the fog was very thick, and the power was cut off, there was no light to illuminate, Chen Dong couldn't see anything at all.
"Woo~~" "Ah~......"
Downstairs, the sound of zombie howls suddenly sounded intermittently, the voice sounded violent and loud, but strangely unconnected, it sounded more like a forced helpless whimper. This is not the style of zombies at all, the roar is simply the label of zombies, the few zombies that Chen Dong encountered before, as long as they encountered Chen Dong head-on, before they were crushed heads, they were definitely roaring desperately all the time, and they would never scream so weirdly.
"Woo~ah!"
Not far away, it should also be within the scope of the community, an exceptionally loud and thorough zombie howl sounded, and then, the group of corpses roared intermittently, which seemed to echo the sound. This zombie cry is very penetrating, Chen Dong has never heard it before, this zombie roar seems to be full of deterrence, and it always makes Chen Dong feel something different.
After another two or three minutes, the howling of the zombies outside slowly subsided, but the dense and small sound outside still kept ringing, and the sound of the zombies disappeared, and everything seemed to be extraordinarily weird.
Sitting back on the edge of the bed, he picked up the cigarette on the table and took out one and stuffed it into his mouth, Chen Dong pressed the lighter, the flames on the lighter jumped, and the dark yellow light illuminated the room slightly, and then fell into darkness again.
It's not clear what the situation is outside, only zombies dare to move downstairs, is the sound outside being zombies moving? According to Chen Dong's previous observations, zombies will only move around mechanically without being stimulated by external forces, although there is the sound of zombies walking at night in the past, but it will not be as dynamic as tonight, and the whole night is relatively calm.
Tonight, the zombies will suddenly start to move violently, could it be affected by the sound similar to the ship's whistle just now?
Looking up at the window, there was only pitch black, and it was not an exaggeration to say that it was dark and couldn't see his five fingers, listening to the sound outside the window, Chen Dong couldn't sit still. After hesitating for a moment, Chen Dong pressed the lighter, barely lit it with the flames, got up and walked towards the kitchen.
There are two big oil drums in the kitchen, which are full of edible oil, Chen Dong has found a lot of edible oil in other households' homes these days, but not all of them have been collected, oil is a thing, it is essential when cooking, but when the power is out and you can't cook, the edible oil can't eat and drink, and you can't use it at all. Chen Dong began to collect edible oil, which is also the idea of the past few days, in the past two days, he has eaten the cold food that he cooked before, and he is going to use it as fuel, as long as he can set up a simple pot stove, it is not a problem to simply stew a hot dish and cook a soup, but Chen Dong has not been in a good mood in the past two days, and he has been busy smashing the door during the day, and has not implemented the construction of a pot stove.
Edible oil can be used as fuel to make a fire to cook vegetables and soup, and it can naturally be lit as a light source, as long as the fire is big enough to illuminate the ground downstairs, it should not be a problem to see the situation downstairs. When Chen Dong was a child in his hometown for the New Year's holiday, he used rotten winter melon to make melon lanterns, as long as the cooking oil was poured into the melon skin, and a wick soaked in oil could be lit, the edible oil is far less flammable than diesel gasoline, but it is also very bright to burn.
Bringing two barrels of cooking oil to the balcony, Chen Dong brought another basin and a piece of cotton cloth. Pouring oil into the basin, Chen Dong threw his clothes into the basin, soaked them in oil, and casually picked up a drying rack on the balcony, and Chen Dong used the drying rack to pick up the clothes in the basin and stretched them out of the window.
The clothes became very heavy after being soaked in oil, Chen Dong picked them up hard, and used a lighter with his other hand to ignite the clothes. The clothes were a little difficult to ignite at first, but after Chen Dong continued to burn for about ten seconds, a fire finally ignited on the clothes, and then the fire became bigger and bigger.
Pulling open the window, Chen Dong stretched out the burning clothes out of the window, and after opening the window, the sound downstairs was heard more clearly, and Chen Dong even heard a few "squeaks", which sounded a little familiar. The second floor is not high, and by the light of the fire, Chen Dong finally saw the scene on the ground vaguely. On the ground downstairs, a black oppressive thing surged like the surface of the water, and several zombies fell to the ground, fully covered by this group of things, and the zombies kept struggling, but they couldn't even howl.
Chen Dong was inexplicably frightened, the zombies had met their opponents, and the group of black and oppressive things downstairs kept moving, looking like living creatures, but what kind of creatures were they?
The clothes on the drying rack were burning more and more, and the flames had already reached Chen Dong's hands, Chen Dong's palms were painful, his hands shook, and the hanger fell downstairs with his clothes.
The clothes were on fire and fell downstairs, right next to a zombie who had fallen to the ground. The firelight fell to the ground, illuminating the surroundings, and the black and oppressive creatures on the ground avoided it, retreating like a tide, and all the creatures covering the zombies also retreated, and within a meter of the firelight, nothing dared to approach.
With the light of the fire on the ground, Chen Dong finally saw what those black creatures on the ground were. Those were all swarms of rats, a large group mixed together, in groups, so many that Chen Dong trembled a little.
The zombie that fell to the ground, its body was gnawed by rats and was full of wounds, the black liquid flowed all over the ground, in the mouth of the zombie, and even a few mice drilled into it again, the zombie couldn't make a sound at all, and could only struggle on the ground. Chen Dong didn't know if these wounds would kill the zombies, but the screams of the zombies in the community suddenly became whimpering, without the original ferocious mania, it should also be related to the rat tide.
The zombies in the community were fully attacked, and Chen Dong couldn't imagine how huge the rat colony could be covered by the entire community......
The large-scale rat tide composed of rats, Chen Dong has only seen it in the movie, although the city is indispensable to rats, but no one has ever seen so many rats gathered together, Chen Dong thought, these rat groups downstairs are probably all the rats in Jinxiang City. It is said that rats can predict disasters and will migrate on a large scale before disasters break out, could it be that the rat tide downstairs predicted something and began to migrate......
Just when Chen Dong was shocked, the sound similar to a ship's whistle suddenly came from outside again, the sound was extremely harsh, and Chen Dong couldn't help covering his ears. Downstairs, the zombie who was crushed to the ground by the rat was still struggling, but when this voice sounded, the zombie suddenly roared excitedly, jumped up directly, and ran quickly towards the darkness in the distance. On the ground, when the rats heard this sound, they also began to violently chaotic commotion, speeding up and surging away in the opposite direction of the zombies.
The whistle-like sound lasted for five or six seconds, then slowly faded away, and the roar of zombies sounded intermittently in the community. With the help of the unextinguished fire, Chen Dong saw several zombies running in a trance, the direction of these zombies and zombies running was roughly south, and Chen Dong also vaguely felt that the sound of the whistle sounded in the direction of the south city center.
That sound was attracting the zombies to run towards the city center.
"Woo~ah."
The roar of the zombies in the community continued, and the exceptionally loud zombie screams suddenly sounded again, and after half a minute, finally, there were no zombies running out, and everything was calm again.