22. I am Lei Feng
Zhao Xinghua sat on the roof of a dilapidated house in embarrassment. Looking up at the sky, this meteorite rain has been falling non-stop for two days.
Day 1.
When the meteor shower fell, the citizens in the Nansha base were asked to hide in containers, and several meteorites fell in the base, causing a riot that was quickly quelled by the army.
The alarm of the base suddenly sounded, and all the loudspeakers broadcast in unison: "All personnel in the base evacuate immediately, evacuate immediately, due to a large meteorite falling on the Yuyako volcano, causing a 9.0 magnitude earthquake in South America." The tsunami caused by the earthquake has already formed and is predicted to reach the mouth of the Pearl River in the next five hours. All the personnel on the island were evacuated immediately, evacuated immediately, away from the river. ”
Nearly 10 million people, it took a few days to transport here, and now they need to evacuate, the Nansha base is completely boiling, everyone is crazy to the exit at the same time, the railing at the exit has been cleared, and the sentry posts have also been evacuated.
Due to the density of the chaotic crowd, vehicles could not move, and both soldiers and citizens were rushing to run. The important personnel of the command center of the base boarded one helicopter after another, and when the helicopter was lifted off and evacuated, an endless fire meteor appeared above the sky, covering the entire sky, and the density was very large, and almost all the helicopters in the air were shot down before reaching the ground.
From time to time, some people in the crowd who ran to evacuate were knocked down by meteorites with high temperatures, and it was very chaotic. Almost all the helicopters carrying high-level leaders were shot down, and without the decision-making level and without command, the army and citizens could only blindly follow the people in front of them and run out, and the scene was completely out of control and could no longer be controlled.
At that moment, Zhao Xinghua and his military police special service team were not in the base, but were on standby more than 10 miles away from the base. What happened suddenly also made the team members in the riot control car very confused, not knowing what to do next. But two hours later, there was an endless tide of zombies, coming from the direction of the base, and the riot vehicles hurriedly evacuated along the road to the city, and were hit by a meteorite on the way. The meteorite coming at high speed was like a cannonball, piercing the anti-riot car that Zhao Xinghua was riding from above the front of the car, killing the driver on the spot, and the vehicle rolled and slid towards the ravine on the side of the road.
A few minutes later, several dizzy people climbed out of the car and looked at the ruined city around them, in a daze. When a few people slowly chased the car in front, a large group of zombies appeared behind, several people fought and retreated, the zombies tirelessly pursued, some of the people were physically exhausted, and the speed slowed down between mutual support, and finally surrounded by the zombies following behind, everyone could only flee for their lives.
A day ago, Zhao Xinghua got rid of the zombies that followed, a tattered military uniform looked similar to that of a flower child, the bullets had been exhausted, the Type 65 saber had already been split and thrown away, and only a Type 63 triangular military spur was still on his body. This supposedly strongest bayonet is also as blunt as an iron rod, and it has no lethality, and I don't remember how many zombies I killed before rushing out of the sea of corpses.
Zhao Xinghua hid behind a window, cowering and looking at the zombies wandering on the street, the crazy escape of the past two days had exhausted him. Now hungry and needing to find food and water, I thought that if I hugged the big tree of the army, I would be able to have food and clothing in the last days, but it turned out that everything had to start from scratch.
There is a large supermarket two streets away, and you have to find a way to get there, rest inside, and then find a way to escape the city. Now he misses the safe house that everyone prepared before. There is food and drink there, and there are not as many zombies around as here.
If you have a war knife in your hand and dare to rush, now there is only a military stab similar to an iron rod, and unless it is inserted in the eye, it is not lethal. tiptoed downstairs, picked up a fist-sized stone, and threw it towards the street at the other end, a sound of glass breaking came, and the nearby zombies turned their heads towards the source of the sound, Zhao Xinghua then threw a second stone chip in that direction, and there was a sound of glass falling to the ground, and the zombies on the street began to stagger away in the direction of the sound.
Zhao Xinghua quickly ran to the next intersection after confirming that there were no more zombies behind. Suddenly, I twitched my nose and saw a trash can, and jumped in. At the corner of the street, a nearby zombie turned around, and just before turning into this street, Zhao Xinghua jumped into the trash can. Secretly frightened, touching the heartbeat, hey, it still beats very slowly in such a tense situation. Squatting in the trash can, listening to the sound outside, just now he relied on his sense of smell to sense the zombie approaching and escaped, and now squatting in the trash can, but because the sense of smell is too sensitive and sad. Listening to the staggering footsteps in the distance, he quietly poked his head out to look, once again confirmed that there were no zombies behind him, and crawled out slowly.
It's running fast all the way again, he doesn't dare to walk on the street with his chest held high and his head swaggering like he did more than a week ago, not to mention that there is no knife now, and he doesn't dare to have a knife. At that time, there were only a few scattered zombies on the streets, but now there are nearly 10 million zombies in the city, and wherever there is a sound of human activity, it will attract hundreds of zombies to gather. Even if he is given another riot car, he will be flooded by the tide of corpses every minute when he enters the city.
The speed after strengthening is still very fast, when approaching the supermarket, I heard the sound of procrastinating footsteps, gritted my teeth and jumped, put my hands on the horizontal frame of the billboard in front of the supermarket, and with a force of my arms, I turned over and rode up, which was almost three meters high from the ground. Carefully stood up and walked along the stand to the window on the second floor of the supermarket.
smashed the glass and climbed in, even if there were zombies underneath, there was no way, it was impossible to wait for someone to open it from the inside.
The city has been without power for a long time, and there is a smell of corruption in the supermarket, which should be something in the freezer. It was pitch black in the supermarket, but fortunately it was daytime, and with the sunlight shining in from the window, I quickly found the drink area. Picked up the water and poured two bottles first, then touched the daily miscellaneous area, found two large flashlights and turned them on, and shone around, he could confirm that no one had been here for a long time, and there were no footprints on the dust on the ground, which made him relax
I found a change of clothes, and brought a few buckets of water, which I couldn't take with me, and brought a large basin. So in the picture, a lewd beggar-like uncle stripped naked and entered the basin and began to take a bath......
The whole body was washed and translucent, he found a razor to shave off his beard, and saw that he had returned to the appearance of a handsome guy in the mirror, Zhao Xinghua was slightly proud. There was no weapon in the supermarket, so I brought a big back packed with water and food, a change of clothes, a long rope, and a boning knife with a package and inserted it on the back waist, and turned out an iron drill in the warehouse, more than half a meter long, 2.5 cm thick, about four or five catties, one end is a thin tip, and the other end is a flat head, which is an iron rod used by workers to pry things. This thing is not very sharp now, but it can barely be pierced, the weight is here, although the solid iron rod cannot be chopped, but it can be picked, smashed, and it is still very easy to smash the head of the zombie, mainly because it is not afraid of damage, it is strong and durable, and it is also inspired by the performance of the great monk in battle.
I put the iron chisel diagonally in my backpack, and I grabbed a slingshot in the sporting goods area, and grabbed a handful of glass beads in the toy area next to it, so that I could use it to hit other people's windows later. Passing by a large mirror, he looked at himself. Because the military uniform on his original body was in tatters, he took a new thick canvas blue and white worker's overalls from this supermarket, and the combat boots under his feet were also replaced by the kind of large suede shoes in the labor protection area, and the backpack on his body was also selected according to the principle of being able to fit and strong, which was not beautiful, plus the messy hair that had not been cut for a long time, and by the way, there was an iron drill inserted in the backpack, which was full of the dress of migrant workers who had just gotten off the train to find a job. After thinking about it for a while, I took the yellow safety helmet on the construction site and put it on. Now I look at myself in the mirror and am very satisfied.
Then, I found a corner, lay down and fell asleep.
I don't know how long I slept, I heard gunfire outside, and there was still an army in the city, could it be that the army was counterattacking? After listening carefully, the gunfire was sparse, and it seemed that someone was besieged. At this moment, Zhao Xinghua has regarded himself as a migrant worker, no longer a second lieutenant officer, let go of personal heroism, and the first thing is to live.
Zhao Xinghua adjusted for one night and slept for the most reassuring and steady sleep in the past two days. After waking up, my mind and body were back to my best, I brushed my teeth and washed my face, picked up a can, a carton of milk, and a ham sausage and sat on the windowsill and ate it, thinking about my next step.
You can't live here forever, other people will come here soon, there are supplies for human survival, like an oasis in the desert, no matter how far away, humans will always find it. When more people get together, there will be disputes over the distribution of resources, and zombies will gather more and more around because of the human life here, and it will be too late to run. And it's a dead land, and sooner or later the food will run out. What's more, in the central area of the city, before you run out of food, this place will also be broken by zombies, and the rolling doors and glass doors on the first floor can't stop the zombies from impacting, and one or two powerful evolutionary zombies will die, and death is certain.
"The sooner you go, the better." Thinking of this, there was a sound of picking the door lock downstairs. It's coming so fast!
Zhao Xinghua opened the door from the inside, startling the people outside the door. Two guns were immediately aimed at him, and Zhao Xinghua said with a smile: "Everyone, it's not business hours yet." It won't open until later. ”
The sudden scene of the crowd at the door was a little unprepared, completely different from the various plans they expected.
Among the survivors were two soldiers of the army, and the other six also wore Nansha base identification badges, and two of them were young girls. At this time, the situation of the people was similar to when he first arrived, the clothes were in tatters, and some people's shoes were lost.
Hearing Zhao Xinghua's words, the two soldiers with guns were at a loss, the end of the world had just happened, and the military regulations and regulations engraved in the brain for many years were still deeply rooted, and the consciousness of the legal order had not disappeared, which restrained their hands and feet, and they did not have the consciousness of surviving in the last days.
"Then let's take a drink first." Zhao Xinghua looked at the honest people and invited kindly.
When the crowd outside the door heard this, they immediately swarmed in. Zhao Xinghua poked his head out and looked, there were no zombies on the street, he should have been attracted by the gunfire last night. Now it's time to leave, and after thinking about it, I went upstairs again, and saw that several people were pouring water violently, and the bottles were thrown to the ground in such a short time. There are also people who open food packaging bags and pour them into their mouths to eat.
Zhao Xinghua took a look, these people were just busy eating, and he wouldn't pay attention to them for a while, so he spoke first: "Who is the one in charge among you?" ”
When everyone heard this, they paused to look at each other, they should have gathered together temporarily, and they had not yet known each other, and finally turned their eyes to the older warrior, who seemed to have some command ability in the escape.
Zhao Xinghua said to the old soldier: "That's the case, two days ago, someone from my hometown told me to go back on a blind date, so I'm leaving, and I want to redeem this supermarket." Originally, Lao Wang contacted him first yesterday, but today you arrived first, and if you need it, I will give it to you, so I won't wait. ”
Someone next to him immediately asked: "Redeem, redeem!" How much? I'm out! "Everyone thinks it's a fool.
"Give me this, won't you?" Zhao Xinghua pointed to the Type 95 rifle in the young soldier's hand.
"No way!"
"Good!" "Good!" "Yes"
Except for the young fighters, everyone else echoed it, and the older veteran did not speak.
"Then I'll give the store to someone else! When you're done, go away. ”
The soldier looked at the others, sighed and took off the gun, still hesitating, Zhao Xinghua snatched it over, picked up his backpack from the ground and walked towards the window, "Don't let anyone else in, save some food, the food here is enough for you to live for a month." ”
Before he could finish speaking, he stooped down and slipped through the window from which he had come.
A person looked at the military uniform that Zhao Xinghua took off when he came on the ground, and muttered: "It seems that this supermarket is not his." ”
Zhao Xinghua got out of the supermarket, glanced at the direction, and silently walked towards the west of the city. He began to feel nostalgic for the pre-apocalyptic world, and everything that happened had been a month earlier, and he had made some preparations, but he still started from scratch again, back to the city center.
In a city full of zombies, Zhao Xinghua can't travel quickly, in order to cross an intersection, he often needs to wait for half an hour, the zombies on the street wander around irregularly, and several times he was almost blocked in the alley by the zombies before and after, but fortunately, he relied on the sense of smell beyond ordinary people to prevent it in advance, or hide or change the route to escape.
Nearly 10 million zombies in the city cannot be provoked, Zhao Xinghua even saw an armored car overturned by zombies, and when someone tried to drive a truck out of the city, a large number of zombies used their broken bodies to jam the wheel. These huge numbers of low-level zombies were undaunted, even more fearless than the most heroic death squads of mankind, and they could only turn and flee when the thousands of them gathered in front of them.
Zhao Xinghua only walked out of three blocks in a day, which made him speechless, this is still when most of the zombies in the first two blocks were attracted by the gunfire in other places, and there were not many left. At this rate, it may take a month to get to the edge of the city and get out of the city.
Look at the sky, you need to find today's foothold before dark, look at the surrounding buildings, there are two towering office buildings, there is a computer city, behind the computer city is an urban village. Zhao Xinghua decided to go to the handshake building in the urban village to spend the night, the office building is not safe inside the room is glass partition, can not be concealed and defended, and there will be no food and daily necessities inside, there is no way to replenish supplies.
The alleys of the densely packed 6-story buildings in the urban village are like a maze, Zhao Xinghua walks lightly in them, using his sense of hearing and smell to always predict the number and location of the zombies in the next alley in advance, and in the case of only one, he will take the initiative to kill the other party, so as to save time and find a safe place to stay before dark.
Trying to pull through many doors, most of them were locked, and there were also open corridors, but they were full of corpse fragments, so he was not in the mood to go in. In front of a relatively new six-story building, Zhao Xinghua stood on his feet, and he heard someone talking in a low voice on the roof.
Didn't knock on the door, climbed up along the anti-theft window on the first floor, the first and second floors are equipped with stainless steel anti-theft windows, in Zhao Xinghua's view, it is like the first and second floors are afraid of thieves patronizing, directly set up a ladder, and tell the thief that you should go to the third floor to steal.
I climbed to the window on the third floor in three or two clicks, and it was dark inside, because the spacing between the buildings was too dense, and the rooms below the 5th floor were basically not seen all year round. Zhao Xinghua pulled hard twice and didn't pull it open, and the aluminum alloy window frame was locked. When he was thinking about whether to break the glass, he saw someone flash in the corridor at the door, and hurriedly knocked it twice with his hand.
The sound of percussion alarmed the person who had just passed by, it was a little boy, eleven or twelve years old, the boy saw someone outside the window, and did not come at once, but ran back to the room he came out of, and soon he led three men to rush over.
One of them asked through the window, "Who are you and what are you doing?" ”
Zhao Xinghua, who was wearing the kind of yellow hard hat on the construction site, stepped on the anti-theft railing on the second floor, and only one head leaked out of the window, showed a harmless smile. "Telecom broadband to the home."
"Fuck it, what the hell are you doing?" A younger man said.
"Passing by, looking for a place to rest."
"Let him in, without him our water won't last a few days, and it's a matter of time before we run out of food." The older man spoke up.
Another person stepped forward and opened the window from the inside, Zhao Xinghua used his arms to penetrate through the window and fall to the ground, this is how many people saw Zhao Xinghua carrying a big backpack behind him and a rifle on his chest, so they were stunned, they didn't expect that someone would have a gun, and they were not from the army, so they involuntarily took a step back.
"I'm just going to come in and borrow a room to take a break, and see if you guys need help."
"Who are you? What for? This time, the young man's tone was no longer sweary.
"My name is Lei Feng, and I do good deeds." Zhao Xinghua replied like a scoundrel.
"Forget it, I'll call you Lei Feng, since you're here, let's rest here first, it's just that we don't have much water, we can't hold out for a few days, you have weapons, it's better to leave here early if you can go."
"Don't worry, I'm really just looking for a place to rest. I brought my own takeaway. With that, he took out a piece of chocolate and handed it to the little boy.
Not long after the disaster broke out, the demand for living materials had not yet reached the point of being very thirsty, but the young man's eyes had been staring at Zhao Xinghua's gun, full of greed, which made Zhao Xinghua very uncomfortable.
This gun Zhao Xinghua checked, there are only 11 bullets left in the magazine, you can't shoot easily in the city, as soon as the gunshots sound, you basically blocked the way to escape, this gun is not absolutely unusable in the moment of life and death, maybe the deterrent effect in front of the survivors is far greater than its lethality.
"Come with me, there's an empty room upstairs, you can rest there first."
At this time, the sun had set outside, and the corridor was completely dark, and after everyone came to a room on the 5th floor, the older man opened the door and introduced:
"I'm the landlord here, everyone calls me Uncle Quan, and they're all my tenants. Before the disaster broke out, the government organized a resettlement site, there was a novel writer in this building, we all called him Xiaodong, that is, the young man you saw, he usually doesn't go out every day, he said that he was surfing the Internet in the room, at that time he said that he saw on the Internet that there were zombies, the government gathered people together to isolate, there would be danger, and the same was said when evacuating, we didn't take his words seriously, and we didn't take the government's words seriously. I hid here and didn't go out, and I started to prepare a lot of food and something, thinking that it would be back to normal in ten days and a half, but the water was consumed much faster than normal, and our water was almost gone. You say you're Lei Feng, can you really help us? ”
"No problem, I'll get it tomorrow at dawn." Zhao Xinghua deliberately yawned and said.
"Okay, excuse me." Uncle Quan took the door and went out.
After a night of nothing, Zhao Xinghua got up at dawn and came to the top floor, and unexpectedly found that a large number of plants were planted on the platform of the top floor, and it seemed that the new sprouts were very vigorous.
At this time, Uncle Quan's voice sounded from behind,
"This is the potatoes we planted, Lao Ma sells vegetables in the vegetable market, rented a room on the first floor of me, which is full of potatoes, a few days ago I pulled out the flowers and plants that were originally planted here, and planted some vegetables instead, especially potatoes are the most, this thing is drought tolerant, and the yield is large."
Zhao Xinghua had also seen the appearance of potato seedlings when he was a child, but the potato seedlings in front of him were different, obviously thicker and straighter, very dark in color, and the leaves were a little close to dark green color.
"Uncle Quan, what kind of potato is this?" Zhao Xinghua asked the landlord.
"It's just an ordinary potato, and I don't know why it grows so vigorously." A man in his forties who had just come up next to him accosted.
Zhao Xinghua bent down to look through it and found that new potato tubers had already grown in the soil, and if it was really just planted a few days ago, the growth rate would be too fast. In the future, there will be no shortage of this ration among the survivors to grow in large quantities.
"Pack me some." Zhao Xinghua requested.
"That's not good, this is our future food, why should we give it to you." A middle-aged woman who was watching the excitement replied.
"This is my mother-in-law, she is taking care of these potatoes." Lao Ma introduced.
"I'll get water in exchange. One bottle of water. ”?
"Okay, I'll find you a bag." After saying that, the middle-aged woman turned around and ran downstairs.
Lao Ma's wife filled Zhao Xinghua with potatoes, holding the 5 bottles of water in her hand, and her face was not happy.
"It's still too little, not enough for everyone to share. Give the little kid a bottle first, and the others will share it. ”
Zhao Xinghua smiled, it seems that this woman still has a good heart, and said:
"I promised Uncle Quan yesterday to get water, don't worry, this water will run out sooner or later, you have to prepare in advance."
When Zhao Xinghua came yesterday, he saw a water delivery station with bottled water at the entrance of the village, and there was a lot of bottled water that had not yet been delivered. It's not that hard to get through.
Zhao Xinghua told Uncle Quan his thoughts, and Uncle Quan nodded and agreed,
"Okay, take as many counts as you want, and pay back people's money in the future."
"But how do you get there?" A young man dressed as an intermediary stood next to him and asked, also one of the tenants here.
"You can kill those zombies, but after killing, there will be other zombies coming, and you can't kill them clean."
"Then let's kill these first, and then let's get the water before the next batch comes." The web writer interface said.
"Don't kill them, let's go upstairs." Zhao Xinghua pointed to the building next to it, which was only about 2 meters apart.
In this way, Zhao Xinghua jumped directly to the roof of the opposite building with a little force, and then entered the building below to solve the zombies hidden inside, and when it was safe, he asked a few men behind him to follow, and the others also found a wooden bed frame or something to set up between the handshake buildings.
In this way, the 6-storey buildings were connected by some bed boards and anti-theft window railings in half a day. In the process, a lot of people were rescued, a lot of food was collected, and some zombies mutated in the room were killed.
Before dark, he finally rushed to the water delivery station at the entrance of the village, and after killing a few zombies in the yard, Zhao Xinghua hung a bucket of buckets up, and more than 20 men had gathered on it, after they were rescued, they began to follow Zhao Xinghua to watch him kill zombies, and then a few brave people found axes and sticks, etc., and took the initiative to run up to help Zhao Xinghua, and then some of them went out alone to search for the nearby small building, courage is not born, and they can have it after fighting.