Chapter 5: Iron Ladder

Holding her hand, I don't know if it was sweat or rain that made my palms **. As the temperature grew colder, the hot air we exhaled liquefied into a white mist.

I saw more and more dead people gathering around the window, and they were all rubbing shoulders, all vying to reach out and grab Xiao Lin's legs. If they relax at this time, then Xiao Lin will definitely become their feast.

"What to do? Help me......" she begged desperately.

"Hold on, I'll figure it out......" As soon as I finished speaking, I immediately noticed the bandage on her left foot, and the zombie's hand was grabbing that place.

"Quick, unbandage!" I shouted.

Xiao Lin also reacted immediately, and used her other hand to pull the bandage. But as soon as she pulled like this, the reaction force on me was even greater, and I gritted my teeth and tried my best to hold her.

"Hurry up!" I saw that an undead had already stuck his head out of the window, his mouth wide open, ready to bite Xiao Lin's calf.

"I can't solve it, I can't solve it......" she was so anxious that tears soared.

"What??"

Although the entire campus has fallen, we have not directly witnessed the transformation of zombies. But if the description in the movie is correct, then once her calf is bitten, no matter how small the wound is, it will inevitably become a companion of the monster.

I was anxious and distraught, but I couldn't do anything. Xiao Lin was still scrambling around, the zombie's blood basin was bubbling with star foam, and her neck had stretched to her legs. At this critical moment......

"Unraveled!"

She shouted in joy as she kicked the head of the living dead in front of her with her right foot. The living dead threw themselves into the air, screaming in their throats with unwillingness.

Although she was out of danger of being bitten, the reaction force also caused her to leave the window frame, and her body sank, almost pulling me downstairs.

We finally escaped the catastrophe and clinged to the water pipe, gasping for breath. At this moment, countless hands broke out of the window like maggots and wriggled in mid-air. I felt my scalp tingle for a while, and I didn't expect that in a moment, life and hell would be born.

I knocked on her, who was stunned, and motioned to continue climbing. But as soon as I reached out with my left hand to climb the flange above, I suddenly felt a cone pain in my elbow - oops, a dislocated hand. I gritted my teeth and climbed up in pain, knowing that the roof was our only salvation at this moment.

Since everyone is running down to escape, there is a high probability that the roof is safe. But if it drags on for too long, and even the roof of the building becomes the territory of zombies, we will really stop eating completely.

The rain blindfolded me so hard that I couldn't see clearly, and I had to lean my chest against the hose so hard that I could barely reach out and grasp the flange above. In the opposite of mine, Lin had to bear the weight of her hands to barely step down the next step with one foot. That's why we climb very slowly.

It took us a long time to finally reach the balcony on the roof, where we collapsed on the concrete floor with a sense of relief. Thankfully, the rooftop was empty and there was no sign of anyone ever setting foot here.

"Where are we going next?" Xiao Lin asked.

The wind and rain had stopped unconsciously, and the hazy remnant sun hung in the far sky of the city, and the dark clouds were dyed with an ominous layer of blood. After heavy rain, the ground is like a thin film of water, reflecting red light. We are like standing in a sea of blood, and the "water surface" reflects the embarrassment of the two of them who have died for life.

Where are we going? In fact, in my plan, the roof is the end. But to survive, it is impossible to survive in this empty place, where we cannot reach anywhere, we must find a better place to survive.

At this moment, a gust of evening breeze blew and swept a layer of ripples over the "water surface". Immediately afterwards, two teenagers ran in their minds, and their figures quickly swept over the water, until they ran to the edge of the roof of the building, and disappeared.

So I immediately walked over, and below the edge of the roof, I saw a 20-meter-long vertical iron staircase that led to the roof of the library building below. This ladder was originally used for air-conditioning maintenance work, but in the past, my friend Twilight and I used to sneak up to the roof of the library building, and then sneak into the adjacent store from the roof of the library building......

There must still be a lot of supplies in there now, and it is an ideal place to survive. Why didn't I remember it until now? I patted my cheeks, cheered up, and said to Xiao Lin, "I've already thought about where I'm going......"

But when I walked over to pull her, she looked into the distance and turned a deaf ear to my words. Following her line of sight, I couldn't help but look into the distance. At this time, an unexpected picture appeared in front of my eyes-

The ruins are ruined, the eyes are full of desolation, and the earth is scorched...... It seems that any word that can describe the collapse of a city in an instant can come in handy. Everywhere there were burning houses, people running around, and roaring everywhere. In addition, the sound of sirens, brakes, gunshots, wails and countless indescribable voices resounded in the sky, playing an unprecedented funeral song.

Seeing the once familiar city struggling in agony like a stranded giant whale in front of our eyes, there was nothing we could do. Whether it is biological weapons, genetic mutations, this huge black force in front of us is not something we can deal with, and the ultimate thing we can do is to survive.

Not victory, not conquest, just survival...... The first to understand this will be the ones who survive this new world.

"We're going to be brave enough to live, right?" I said.

She wiped away her tears with the back of her hand and nodded firmly.

We came back to the edge of the ladder, and I told Xiao Lin to climb down first, and I followed closely. The cold wind howled all over my white shirt, and the soles of my feet trembled slightly for no apparent reason as I stepped on the ladder.

I thought that the way down would be easier than coming up, but I didn't expect it to be more difficult, only I could move with one hand, I had to put my dislocated hand stuck between the crossbar of the iron ladder, so that I could move down in pain, and after a while, even Xiao Lin, who was down to my feet, left me far behind.

"Senior, are you alright? Need help......"

Probably sensing that my face was oozing with cold sweat, she asked worriedly. However, the moment she lifted her face, her expression froze.

There was a sudden vibration of the iron ladder, a strange, unusual tremor, with a terrifying wheezing sound rushing overhead. As soon as I looked up, a bloodless, bloody face swooped down.