Chapter 33: The Third Way
It didn't take long for me to wake up, and I found that the candles all around me were full of people. On the left are Gouzi, Fang Bin and Li Peiran, and on the right are Xiao Lin, Xiao Rou, Tang Qiaoyi and Xiao Jiu. I tried to move my hands, only to realize that our hands were tied with ropes and we couldn't move.
"Angkor, be careful of this guy, just now the three of us barely subdued him."
I saw Guan Fei sitting in front of all of us, his hands bound by heavy ropes. Following the prestige, among the rows of shelves, several men of considerable stature were looking down at us.
"Who are you? What do you want to do with us? Xiao Jiu raised his head and asked, his voice trembling a little.
"Hey, it's you who trespassed on other people's territory, what do you want to do?" A man with two ears leaned over and said, he looked as tall as Guan Fei.
I squinted my eyes and looked at the figures immersed in the light of the candles one by one, and in addition to the fact that they were all tall, I also found some clues. That's right, they all wore basketball jerseys, and they had a logo embroidered on their jerseys, which was the logo of a nearby vocational high school.
"You're a high school?" I blurted out.
"That's right," the man who was called "Angkor" came over, "tell me, how did you just get in?" ”
"What's going to get in?" I shifted my body, thinking to myself that they were attacking us on defensiveness, and that there was no obvious malice in his tone.
"We are hiding here because there are a lot of dead people 'guarding' outside the door, so that we can avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble. Seeing twenty or thirty zombies standing in front of the door, ordinary people did not dare to approach. He said.
So I explained how to divide the group, and how to attract the attention of the deceased after grouping, and then how to break each one.
"I see!" He nodded incredulously.
"Why listen to their nonsense, get them out quickly!" The man with the ear for a ride said.
"No, wait!" Xiao Jiu said, "Can we exchange some food with you?" ”
"Grasshoppers tied to bamboo, why should they talk about conditions?" At this time, a girl came out of the inner room of the convenience store, she was wearing a powder blue cheerleading uniform, and a pair of white thighs were exposed under the miniskirt.
Xiao Jiu continued: "I found out just now, the boy sitting in the corner should be injured, looking at his face should be feverish, if you are willing to exchange food with me, I can help him heal, and at the same time give you some medicine." ”
Following the direction of Xiao Jiu's finger, I realized that there was really a boy sitting in the corner, his calf hastily tied with a curtain cloth, his face was bitter and pale.
I saw that the cheerleading girl exchanged glances with several boys, and then nodded solemnly to Xiao Jiu. They untied us right away. The boy with a bruised face who untied the flying rope also pointed to his face and said, "Brother, you are so ruthless!" ”
At our request, they also helped to greet Lin Yu, who was looking after Lu Feng, outside the door, and when Lin Yu, who was confused, drove the car over, they helped to carry Lu Feng in carefully.
Once the deal was struck, they became acquainted in an instant. It soon dawned on me that it had something to do with the fact that they had been hiding in this convenience store and had never really faced a horde of corpses or ill-intentioned people, and that they had stayed in this place in the belief that someone would come to their rescue.
When Xiao Jiu carefully unwrapped the curtain cloth wrapped around the boy's calf, the man with the ear on the side asked me, "I see you are driving a truck, are you going to go somewhere?" ”
I pointed to Lu Feng on the ground and told him to go to the hospital in the city center to operate on him.
"What, don't you know!?" "There's no way to get to the city center anymore." ”
Soon after the outbreak, cars from the city center and from the outlying islands poured onto the main bridge at the same time, and everyone thought it would be safe to flee to the other side, but the main bridge was suddenly jammed, and the scene was really chaotic, the whole bridge was crowded with cars, and the sound of horns and shouts resounded in the sky.
And the crowd from both directions also rushed towards each other, like the opponents in American football, they collided, entangled, and fell on each other. At that time, it was impossible to tell which direction the deceased came from and where it was safe to flee. Standing on the bridge, the situation of zombies running towards you in all directions is really terrifying.
"Y-You were there? What happened later, and why are there traces of an explosion on the bridge? I was amazed.
At this moment, the man with the ear for a ride was suddenly hit on the head, and he snorted dissatisfiedly.
"Don't listen to this guy's nonsense," the short powder blue skirt came to me, "This guy's name is Sun Yifan, we usually call him annoying, he was playing basketball at the time of the incident, I still remember a second before the riot, he was shaken by the opposing guard, and he fell and ate." ”
The girl let out a silver bell-like laugh, then approached me affectionately, touched my head and said, "By the way, my name is Hatsumi, you should be younger than me, right?" Just call me Sister Chumei, I like the handsome little brother the most! ”
When she approached me, her plump breasts were exposed under the shallow placket, and I was embarrassed to stay away: "I—my name is Li Chen." ”
"Hatsumi, let's make it clear, who was thrown and eaten? That's a feint, to paralyze the other party and underestimate the enemy, and then wait for an opportunity to defeat them. ”
Hatsumi grimaced at me, as if to say, look, he's so good.
Then she suddenly became serious and said, "We were on the basketball court at the time of the incident, so what he said just now was our hearsay." In fact, there were different opinions about the situation on the bridge at that time, some people said that the bridge was blown up in order to annihilate a large number of zombies on the bridge in one fell swoop, and we did see fighter jets flying low at the time, but there was another terrifying theory......
"Horrible statements?" The candlelight in the convenience store is dim, and Hatsumi's face looks a little oozing.
"Someone said...... Saw a monster on the bridge! Bombing the bridge is all about destroying the monsters......"
"Monster, what monster??" I couldn't help but think about the sprinters and whistles I encountered on campus, could there be any other kind? But on the scale of the need to send fighter jets to blow up bridges, this monster ......
"I don't know." Hatsumi said a disappointing answer, "No one can say clearly, the people I meet are all panicked and stumbling, and I don't even know if it's a monster or a group of monsters." ”
The churning black waters of the water came to my head again, and deep whirlpools swirled there. We were standing on a bridge like that.
"Alright, rebandaging complete!" Xiao Jiu's voice came. Angkor, who had been nervous, breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank you, thank you for saving my brother!" ”
Xiao Jiu waved his hand: "It's too early for Xie to speak, he was pierced through the Achilles tendon by a sharp weapon, and then contracted tetanus due to improper treatment, and he still needs to take antibiotics and clean the wound on time to recover." Then again, why did he get hurt? ”
The boy said: "I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Wu Chenxing, my brother's name is Wu Chenxi, last week we ventured out to see if there were any rescuers, and when we came back, we met a group of dead people in the cold alley, but my brother was too scared, and fell to the ground when he climbed over the wall, and just happened to be pierced into his ankle by a protruding steel bar on the wall......"
Xiao Jiu nodded, and after explaining how to use medicine and clean the wound, he walked over: "Then what are we going to do now?" If I can't get to the hospital today, I'm afraid Lu Feng will ......."
I looked at the shadow of the candle on Lu Feng's face again, and the shadow shook like a candle in the wind, as if it was about to be extinguished. I suddenly remembered something and turned to Hatsumi: "By the way, you just told me that there is no road to the city center, but just now you only talked about the situation of the main bridge, isn't there an old bridge?" ”
The main bridge is a two-way two-lane bridge that was built in the last two years, but until then people had been passing through the relatively narrow old bridge.
Hatsumi said: "The old bridge was not blown up, but it can't be passed, and as long as you go to the site and see it, you won't have the courage to pass there." ”
She said that just like the main bridge, it was crowded with vehicles, and not only cars, but even the spaces between vehicles were crowded with zombies. Of course, it is not necessary for her to describe in detail such a scene has already jumped into view.
What should I do? If Hatsumi is telling the truth, let alone driving, it is impossible to reach the other side even on foot. But if you can't get Lu Feng to the hospital today...... I clutched my head, helpless.
"No, there's a third way!" I looked up instantly, and it was Wu Chenxing who spoke, he showed a hearty smile and pointed at himself with his thumb: "I am the third way!" ”