Chapter 28
Horton was stunned when he heard the cry, and then the whole person fell into a state of rage.
In fact, think about it, a woman, holding a child, in a state of shock and fear, ran up to the seventh or eighth floor in one breath, and it was almost normal for her physical strength to be consumed, but it was on the seventh floor, as long as she was one level higher, Horton would not fall into this dilemma.
"Ren Wei!" Horton yelled upstairs. "Ren Weiβ"
When Horton shouted for the second time, Ren Wei, who had already run to the tenth floor, faintly heard it.
"Houghton? You call me? Ren Wei shouted down.
"! Come down! Seeing that Ren Wei hadn't moved yet, Horton said hurriedly.
Ren Wei heard the anxiety in Horton's tone, and hurriedly ran down again, halfway through, he heard the sound of gunshots, Ren Wei paused, but only hesitated for a moment, Ren Wei gritted his teeth, and continued to run downstairs.
As he approached the seventh floor, the deafening gunshots in the corridor mixed with the cries of children came more and more clearly into Ren Wei's ears.
Ren Wei thought about it for a while, and probably guessed the purpose of Horton looking for him to come down, so as soon as he reached the seventh floor, Ren Wei shouted: "I'm going to find that mother and son!" Then he quickly rushed to the seventh floor of the office area.
But said that Horton, after calling back Ren Wei, the whole person jumped along the broken steps between the seventh and sixth floors to the sixth floor, and then began to block the monster moving upwards at the position of the fifth and a half floors, and he had to delay a little time.
However, Horton's situation is very unoptimistic, although he is condescending and seems to have an advantage, he has almost no shooting angles, and the only thing that can hurt is the non-vital parts of the guardrail that the monsters occasionally reveal outside the guardrail during their runs. Of course, the effect of this is minimal, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a waste of bullets, so after firing a few shots, Horton, who realized this, took two more steps down, ready for a hand-to-hand fight.
The stairwell in the office area is not wide, but it is not too narrow, and the width of nearly one and a half meters has now become Horton's only reliance. There is no way for monsters to advance side by side in this kind of space, so no matter how many monsters rush up now, at the same time, Holden only needs to face one monster.
"I'm going to find the mother and son!" Ren Wei's voice came from upstairs.
"Whewβ" Horton let out a long breath, and then the whole person focused on the downstairs.
Soon, a monster appeared on the fourth and a half floors, and as soon as it appeared, Horton decisively shot one of its eyeballs. At this distance, Horton's accuracy rate can reach almost 100%, but the problem is that at this distance, he does not have many opportunities to shoot.
The pain-biting monster went berserk and lunged at Horton's position, ready to tear Horton apart, but the small stairwell for it prevented it from doing so, and the monster that had just jumped up slammed its head into the bottom of the previous staircase.
This time the monster did it with all its might, Rao is strong and strong, but it was also not lightly injured, and the head made a bone cracking sound, and the monster covered its head and howled loudly.
Horton took the opportunity to shoot the monster blind.
The sightless monster slammed into Horton's direction with the sound of the gunshot and the previous impression, and then swung its claws, deforming the guardrail, and the bone spurs on the claws passed through the guardrail and slashed not far in front of Horton.
Horton broke out in a cold sweat and hurriedly leaned his body against the wall, widening the distance between them.
After the speed of the monster slowed down, the monster behind it looked extremely irritable, and finally couldn't help but start pushing the first monster forward.
Seeing this, Horton hurriedly pointed the muzzle of the gun at the monster behind, thinking that if the second monster was blinded in the eye, even if the monster behind pushed him, the speed of their upstairs would be greatly affected, and the purpose of delaying time had already been achieved, maybe Ren Weidu had already put the mother and son in a safe place at that time.
Just as Horton was aiming at the eyes of the second monster and was about to shoot, the second monster happened to make eye contact with him, and at this moment, the first monster in front of it suddenly locked Horton's position as accurately as if it had regained its sight, and its huge claws broke the guardrail of the stairwell and headed straight for Horton.
Caught off guard, Horton only had time to tilt to the left to avoid the vital point, and the next moment, the monster's bone spurs pierced the flesh of Horton's right upper arm, pinning him to the wall.
"Ahh
It's strange to say that at this time, the blind monster was no longer sharp, and the other claw was still attacking the vicinity of Horton's position.
Horton didn't have time to think about what was causing this, he came to the staircase between the sixth and seventh floors, which he had just blown apart, and Horton first slung his gun cross-body, then ran two steps, and jumped over one of the more intact sections.
Although he successfully jumped to that position, the steps obviously could not withstand the pressure exerted by Horton, and the steps kept cracking. Horton hurriedly jumped to another seemingly solid landing spot, but this time as soon as he made contact, the steps under his feet shattered, and Horton suddenly lost his balance and was about to fall towards the building where the monster was.
Fortunately, this second jump had already brought him close to the edge of the stairs, and at the critical moment, Horton stretched out his left hand and clasped the staircase handrail, so that he would not be attacked by monsters for the time being. But even so, if the monster moved a little further up, its claws could reach him. And he had his own blood on his hands, which became lubricant for the metal guardrail, and although Horton clenched the guardrail with all his might, he slid down inch by inch.
"Horton! I've found them! Where are you? Come back! At this time, Horton heard Ren Wei calling him from the seventh floor.
"I'm here!" Houghton shouted. "Help me!"
Ren Wei followed the sound and cautiously went downstairs, and saw Horton's tragic situation in a few steps, and hurriedly approached and grabbed Horton's hand, trying to pull him up.
Horton shouted, "It's too late, and the position you stand must not be able to stop the two of us, listen!" Take my gun and help me detonate the two liquefied gas canisters I had on the seventh and a half floors and blow up the stairs. The monster must not be allowed to rush forward, or the captain and Avril will die. β
Ren Wei was stunned when he heard this, and then he also saw the blind monster downstairs that had stopped hitting the wall and had already climbed to the fifth floor, as long as it took a few more steps, it would be able to reach Horton hanging on the sixth and a half floors.
Horton naturally found out, he immediately turned his head to Ren Wei, and glared at him deadly, the meaning was very clear: "Do what I say immediately, this is an order, if you delay any longer, we will all die here." β
The monster stood on the fifth floor and sniffed that there was the blood that Horton had just spilled nearby, which made the monster very excited, and it would soon follow the smell of blood to find Horton's location.
Ren Wei trembled and stretched out his other hand to get the gun, and Horton showed a relieved expression when he saw it.
No, halfway through, Ren Wei suddenly retracted his hand again, turned around and ran upstairs quickly.
As soon as Horton saw that his teeth were cracked, if he wasn't afraid of revealing his location, he would have cursed.
Seeing that the blind monster was already approaching directly below Horton, as long as Horton had a drop of blood on it, Horton would die in the next moment. At the same time, the second monster also came to the location on the fifth floor, and when it turned around, it might find Horton earlier than the blind monster.
Just when Horton felt desperate in his heart, a huge electric arc suddenly erupted from the fourth floor, and then flames also erupted from the monster that had just arrived on the fifth floor, and the smell of burnt smell came out in an instant.
The blind monster heard the movement behind it and turned sharply, and the unknown situation continued to let out a terrified howl from its mouth.
Horton reacted that the previous arrangement had taken effect, and suddenly, he felt a dark shadow pass overhead, accompanied by a gust of wind, and Horton hurriedly looked up.
Ren Wei jumped down from the seventh-and-a-half floor with a rope tied to his waist, and after he approached Horton, he immediately tied another rope in his hand to Horton's waist, and after making sure that it was firmly tied, he crawled back to the seventh-and-a-half-floor position, and lifted Horton up with both arms.
After rescuing Horton, Ren Wei didn't say a word, pulled out the knife on Horton's body, cut the ropes on the two of them, took a section, and then tied it tightly near Horton's wound to stop the bleeding.
Then Ren Wei tied the liquefied gas tank together again, and then took off the gun on Horton's body and copied it in his hand, and after doing this, Ren Wei picked up Horton and began to run upstairs.
It is very funny for a person of about 1.7 meters to run along the stairs with a strong man of more than 1.90 meters on his back, but Horton has a completely different feeling in his heart, just now he was holding on with one breath, and now he is very depressed under a large amount of blood loss, but he sees everything Ren Wei has done, which reminds him of his comrades-in-arms who fought side by side not long ago and are now heroic sacrifices.
Running to the eighth floor, Ren Wei saw Pierro's wife and son.
"Why are you still here? Run up! Didn't I tell you to run all the way to the top floor! Hurry up, I'm going to blow up the stairs. As he spoke, Ren Wei raised his gun and aimed at the liquefied gas tank.
The mother and son began to run upstairs.
Ren Wei was about to shoot when Horton's voice rang in his ears. "No! You can't shoot here, it's going to affect us. At least one more level to go. β
Since Horton said so, he definitely couldn't shoot here, so Ren Wei had no choice but to continue running upstairs.
"Bastard! Why is it so troublesome! As he spoke, Ren Wei walked without stopping and came to the ninth floor.
"Is it okay here? Is it okay here? Well? Damn it! It's too late! Whether it's safe or not, it can only be here! Ren Wei was about to ask Horton to reconfirm whether it was safe in this position, but a monster suddenly appeared in his sight.
What Ren Wei saw was the blind monster, out of biological instinct, it sensed the danger on the fifth floor, so it stumbled upstairs, and I don't know how it climbed up, and it staggered to the seventh and a half floors where the liquefied gas tank was placed.
If Ren Wei continued to run upstairs, the monster might have climbed to the eighth floor, and even if the liquefied gas tank was detonated and the stairs between the seventh and eighth floors were blown up, in case the explosion didn't kill the monster together, they, the remnants, would have to face a crazy monster that was dying crazy. So the safest thing is to shoot now, blow up the stairs, and let the monster fall downstairs, and it doesn't matter if the monster dies or not.
Having made up his mind, Ren Wei held his breath and pulled the trigger on the valve of one of the liquefied gas tanks.
"Boom!!" The air wave from the violent explosion spread up and down the stairs, violently knocking Ren Wei and Horton to the ground.
Ren Wei got up and hurriedly looked down, only to see that the stairs from the sixth floor to the eighth floor and a half were all shattered.
"Haha! Horton! See? We did it! It's safe! Ren Wei shouted excitedly.
Horton also showed a smile for the rest of his life.
"Let's go! Go to Avril and see how we can get out of this building. Ren Wei picked up Horton again and said with a fighting spirit.