Chapter Seventy-Eight, The Ark
The rain showed no sign of abating, and as the light of lightning broke through the window, I saw a long corridor ahead. The cyan light elongated and distorted the wretched figures of us survivors, casting them on the walls, on the doors, and even into the pantry with the sofa at the end of the hallway.
Someone shouted from the side: "Chase, catch up!" ”
Turning behind him, several violent black shadows loomed in the blue light, frantically chasing everyone. Everyone rushed into the doors on either side of the hallway, and we were led into one of the rooms by the crowd. The door was immediately locked, and the clutter of wooden cabinets, desks, and stools piled up on the door, and then everyone pressed their bodies against the door to suppress the monster that was frantically banging on the door.
There were screams outside the door, and several people were too late to escape into the room, desperately banging on the door for help, but the sound was instantly swallowed up by the howl of the zombies. It took a while for the voices in the hallway to finally change to muffled chewing and whimpering.
With a sigh of relief, I looked around and saw that there were guns and ammunition, and that the rain was drifting in through the open windows, wetting the spears resting on the windowsill. Judging by the location, this should be the firing point that shot us before.
"Li Chen......" Guan Fei approached me at this time and asked in disbelief, "Where is Xiao Lin and her?" ”
I swept the faces of the tired crowd, there were six people who broke into here, in addition to me, Guan Fei and the madman, as well as the uncle who was rescued by me just now, and there were two people I didn't know...... But what about Xiao Lin?
My head thumped like a stick, and I immediately turned to pick up the debris piled up on the door and prepared to open it.
"Wait, calm down!" Guan Fei stopped. The rest of the people immediately piled the clutter back up.
My heart was anxious, but my mind was blank. I don't want to think about it, and I can't imagine the consequences of Xiao Lin staying outside the door.
At that moment, the uncle muttered, "I saw that little girl being squeezed into the opposite room just now......
"You mean really??" I grabbed him by the arms.
He nodded.
I breathed a sigh of relief, but then I thought, couldn't I be wrong in the darkness?
No, no, Xiao Lin will never be fine, I should be thinking about how to get to the opposite room through the hallway crowded with corpses.
I immediately ran to the window and stuck my head out of the window, and the wide courtyard had become a zombie mound, and a steady stream of dead people were still pouring in from all directions. Seeing this scene, it is no wonder that the fragile iron gate can't withstand the impact of zombies.
At this moment, there was a sudden "clang" sound on my left, which startled me. A head burst out of the window in the room on the left, and I immediately recognized it as a woman I had just met. She let out an astonishing scream, her eyes almost falling out of her sockets, and a hand desperately reaching out to me. However, the screams were soon lost in the rain, and a bloody head crawled up her neck, biting her throat, and dragging her back.
My chest was tight, and a long-lost feeling of turning over the river and the sea welled up in my heart. I sat down by the window with my head in my hands, the situation was far worse than I imagined, even if I hid in the house, but not every room has the conditions to block the zombies from entering, and a zombie may take advantage of it if you are not careful. In other words, the further back she drags Xiaolin, the more dangerous her situation will be, and of course it is the same on our side.
If it was Lu Feng, what would he do at this moment? I looked at the spears on the windowsill and remembered that we were charging through the passage with weapons in hand, only to be quickly overwhelmed by the sea of corpses. I smiled wryly and shook my head, what a bad idea, this road will definitely not work, and I must find another way.
Lightning kept flashing outside the window. By the light of day, I noticed that the room was filled with other things, in addition to guns: boxes of discarded paper, a simple toolbox, a rusty handsaw, and a large number of conference tables and chairs, as well as two long wooden ladders and an aluminum ladder.
Suddenly, I had a vague idea in my heart, and I was not the only one who had this thought, Guan Fei also thought of it, and he glanced at me. Yes, maybe it will! I stood up with determination.
There are only two ways to navigate the sea of corpses, one is to have a devastating means of attack, such as grenades or countless machine gun bullets, and the other is to have an impregnable means of defense. But for us, we just need to have a defense that will allow us to stick to the other side.
We had already tried this method when the school commissary reached the roof of the school building.
After making sure that the walking corpses outside had calmed down, we carefully removed the wooden cabinet and desk from behind the door, and then dismantled the large wooden planks with all our hands, and then used the removed screws and L-shaped iron pieces to enclose the wooden planks into a hollow cube from top to bottom. This cube will be our ark in the sea of corpses, and it will also be the mobile "Trojan horse" for us to reach the opposite side safely.
In order to accommodate 6 people, we spliced the space of the cube very large, and used a lot of screws and fixing tabs to make the ark stronger.
"I'd suggest adding some spinner wheels to the bottom...... "The madman said, pointing to the wheels under the office chair. So we installed the wheels at the bottom of the four corners, so that we could walk in the ark with less effort.
"Wait, I have a question," asked the strange young man with a face as pale as wax, "and we'll all go in later, so who's going to open the door?" He asked, his mouth still babbling, "After all, all this is caused by you outsiders......
Although he was complaining, he was right, everyone entered this mobile fortress, so who is going to open the door? The moment the door opens, the corpses may be flooded here, and it is unknown whether there will be enough time to escape.
"Let's, let me come!" The uncle raised his hand tremblingly. I looked at him in surprise, he was scared to death just now, what made him take the initiative to ask for help? He pushed his glasses, revealing a look of death.
We made a few small holes in the "wooden horse" for observation, then took guns and tools, and two wooden ladders, and climbed into the "ark" from the aluminum ladder in turn.
Everything is ready to go. I watched from the small hole, and the uncle put his hand on the doorknob in a panic. He needs to climb the aluminum ladder as soon as he opens the door and enter through the aluminum ladder. There was supposed to be plenty of time for this process, but I was particularly worried about him.
With a "click", the door opened. A foul wind and rot ensued, and a chaotic, shuddering whine flooded the room. I saw that my uncle had left the door, and I felt a little relieved. However, when the sound of the aluminum ladder shaking violently reached my ears, I knew that something was wrong.
"Guan Fei, quickly put the wooden ladder down......" I whispered, and climbed up the ladder from the side again. I saw that the uncle had just climbed halfway, and several zombies grabbed the aluminum ladder, and the aluminum ladder suddenly became crumbling.
I immediately reached out and motioned for him to grab me. His body swayed uncontrollably in the air, and he had to dance his hands desperately to keep his balance. And the moment the aluminum ladder fell, he jumped hard and barely grabbed my hand.
He showed a happy smile, but at this time, his body sank, and one foot was ripped down by the zombie. I hurriedly hugged him, but the whole "ark" tilted to one side because of its weight......