Half of Zhao Xinghua's body was pressed under a large stainless steel sink, and the rising river water could submerge his mouth and nose by a few centimeters, and now he couldn't do anything but wait for a miracle to happen.

A huge falcon in the sky flew from south to north, seemingly searching for something along the waterway of the Yangtze River.

Zhao Xinghua didn't dare to cry out for help, because a few meters away from him, there was a zombie half-soaked in the water who was paddling the river with his limbs out of instinct, floating towards him. If the zombie soaked in the water and turned its back to the sky found that there was a human near it who was crushed on the shore and could not move, it is estimated that he would not even have time to wait for the Saker to land here. What's more, the loud roar of the rushing river will also mask his hoarse cries for help, and the only thing that can be summoned is the zombie.

Rewind the clock to a day ago.

Zhao Xinghua and Liang Hanba stood on the top of Yueyang Tower on the west gate of the ancient city of Yuezhou in high spirits, looking down at Dongting and looking at Jun Mountain.

Tang Dynasty poet Li Taibai once left here "the water and the sky are one color, the wind and the moon are boundless" couplet, the Song Dynasty Fan Zhongyan's "Yueyang Tower" is a household name, its "first world worries and worries, after the world of joy and happiness" ideological realm for thousands of generations.

Zhao and Liang have a heroic posture and a strong ambition, pointing to the country and pursuing the ancients, and suddenly a thunderous roar broke out in the distance, and the two only felt that the Yueyang Tower, which had stood for two thousand years, also trembled slightly, and when they were looking for the reason, the two oolong horses downstairs had fled quickly with a hiss, and the black cat lying at his feet was lazily basking in the sun suddenly raised his head and sniffed in the air, stood up and jumped down directly from the 20-meter-high eaves, and disappeared around the corner of the city in a blink of an eye.

Zhao Xinghua and Liang Hanba didn't understand that danger was coming, and when they were running towards the stairs, a huge wave of air rushed from the northwest, blowing the two of them to the east and west, and then raised their eyes to see, a tall wall of water had rushed straight from the corner of the Yangtze River on the opposite bank, and the surging river water was no longer extending the winding river forward, and chose the most direct and violent way to break the embankment and merge into Dongting Lake. After 2,000 years, the ancient city wall finally collapsed in front of the waves several meters high, and the two people upstairs were instantly swept into the turbid water.

Grabbing a large wooden table that is common in bars on the river, Zhao Xinghua floated groggily for nearly a night. In the end, after being hit by the waves, there were other things that were washed on the shore together, and a stainless steel sink that floated from nowhere happened to be pressed on the leg of the exhausted Zhao Xinghua......

Zhao Xinghua prayed silently in his heart, the zombie half-floating in the water did not find himself, the war knife on his body did not know where it sank in the river, the fanged dagger was tied to the calf again, and in order to reduce weight, the tactical vest was also taken off early and thrown into the river, and now he can only rely on two fists to deal with zombies. But swimming is also a physical job, and now the remaining strength is only enough to barely stalk the neck, try to tilt the head of the river to prevent the turbid undulating river water from flowing into the nose.

The miracle did not appear, the big bird in the sky flew away far away, and Zhao Xinhua vaguely saw that there was another person on the back of the bird in addition to Jiaojiao, no, Xu Wan'er, but before he could see clearly, the falcon had disappeared out of his sight.

Although there is still some distance from Zhao Xinghua, with the ups and downs of the big boat in the river, the water surface stirs up a layer of waves to spread around, and then this circle is not a big undulating ripple and just flooded Zhao Xinghua's mouth and nose. Zhao Xinghua, whose eyes were only staring at the zombie not far away, was unguarded, and a stream of river water was sucked into his nose.

The prayer and silence of the heart before have lost their effect,

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Because of choking on the water, the body involuntarily coughed violently. The zombie who tried to backstroke in the water also tried to turn its face sideways in the river, and then let out a roar of excitement. The result was similar to Zhao Xinghua, a stream of river water poured into its mouth, and Zhao Xinghua could hear the sound of "grunt, gurgling" water flowing into his stomach.

The zombie struggled for a while, and gradually adapted to the situation where the river water entered the stomach, and this was just enough to allow it to turn over in the river water, and not continue to float upside down. Now the zombie with a round belly regained its center of gravity, slapping the water and approaching Zhao Xinghua a little bit.

"Help~!"

Zhao Xinghua shouted these three words with a crying voice for the first time since the end of the world.

"Lily, someone over there is shouting for help!"

"Don't be nosy, now that most of the city is flooded, it will be more and more difficult to find food in the future."

Zhao Xinghua suddenly heard the sound of someone talking nearby, which made him feel very excited. He survived in the face of thousands of corpses, and if he really died under the mouth of this half-dead zombie, it would be too embarrassing.

So the two people over there continued to hear the sound of half-crying and half-shouting coming from the water's edge:

"Help~Help~"

"Lily, let's take a look, even if we get someone up, we don't care anymore, let him fend for himself."

……

Half an hour later, Zhao Xinghua walked to a school with difficulty behind a man and a woman, holding a wooden stick he had fished from the water's edge and dragging a stump leg.

"Hey, lame, we'll take you to the school in front, as for whether our boss takes you in or not, it will depend on your performance in a while, we don't raise people who eat white food."

"Don't worry, don't worry, I'll do a lot, laundry and cooking, mopping the floor and washing dishes, herding horses and sheep, driving cars, unclogging water pipes, everything."

"Applejack, I don't think we're going to come back with someone who doesn't quite be reliable."

"This person can still gag at this time, which means that at least the heart is not dead and not desperate."

"Of course he didn't despair, otherwise he would be so desperate to shout for help, and there are not many people who have such a strong desire to survive."

Speaking of this, the girl named Lily glanced back at Zhao Xinghua, who was stumbling behind her, and asked with a frown:

"Cripple, what's your name, when the boss asks, you have to pick and choose what to say, otherwise it is really possible to drive you out, and there will be less and less food to be found in this big water."

"My surname is Zhao, and it turned out to be ......"

"Okay, I'll call you Lao Zhao, it turns out that it doesn't matter who you are, even if you are the CEO of a listed company or a taxi driver, it makes no difference."

"It's good you didn't call me Zhao lame."

Zhao Xinghua secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.