Chapter 3 The Zombie Incident in a Southwest Province in 95 (Part II)
The rumors outside are developing more and more rapidly, and the order from the peak is pressing on each of us, Jiang Tao has not seen anyone else for two days since that conversation, and he has never told me where the remaining few dried corpses were transported by the man in black.
At around 7 o'clock in the evening of the 17th, after a day of refuting rumors and propaganda, I tiredly pedaled my bicycle on the way back to the military region. In the past two days, I can fall asleep when I close my eyes when I return to the dormitory for work reasons, and I rarely wonder about the authenticity of zombies.
Suddenly I felt that something was wrong. Looking at the streets where there should be a lot of people walking, but today there is no one, not even the vehicle has passed, and the heart is tight and rides forward, after turning an intersection, I see rows of willows, and I know that I have ridden to the Funan River.
I've been here for a while, and I've heard some weird rumors about the Funan River, but I'm only supposed to listen to stories, and there are no supernatural stories about the slightly larger rivers in the north and south of China.
There was a strange atmosphere in the dead street, and when I saw the night falling, I couldn't help but panic, and suddenly two figures flashed out of the alley next to me, and my heart jumped suddenly, and I almost fell off the bicycle.
When I looked closely, I was relieved to see two large caps printed with the national emblem.
When the policeman saw that I was wearing a military uniform, he also breathed a sigh of relief before saying, "Comrade, are you patrolling here?" ”
I didn't have a good chance to straighten the car, and looking at the expressions of the two of them, I knew that they were mostly arranged here to block and monitor the movement by the river.
"yes, why are you hiding in the alley."
One of the policemen blushed and said: "Recently, it has been rumored that there has been a lot of trouble, I heard that the troops in the military region came over today to find the zombies hidden, so they surrounded the Hejiang Pavilion, and we were dispatched to be arranged here, and we chatted in the alley with nothing to do." ”
They looked panicked, obviously not what he said, and I didn't want to expose the lie, so I waved at them and got on my bicycle and rushed towards the Hejiang Pavilion where the Fu River and the Nan River meet.
I don't know why I rushed towards Hejiang Pavilion, listening to the two of them, it should have been blocked by Qingjie, thinking that Jiang Tao might also be there, and being able to see the three rumored zombies with my own eyes, my foot strength suddenly increased.
After riding for four or five miles, I met more and more people, most of them wearing camouflage uniforms, and a few of them were policemen, and they knew what was covered by the bulging waist.
Probably seeing me wearing a military uniform, he thought that he was also coming to participate in the mission, but he didn't stop me, at most he looked at me twice and let me go, and when I turned a river bay, I saw the fire on the opposite bank in the distance, with some sporadic gunfire.
In a hurry, he put his bicycle down to the green belt and lay on the stone fence to look at the opposite bank, because the distance was far away, only seven or eight figures in white protective suits were sprayed by what looked like pesticide ejectors towards the two humanoid pillars of fire. Surrounded by soldiers with weapons wearing gas masks at a distance from the battlefield in the middle, the sporadic gunshots were released by them, and as soon as they saw the humanoid pillar of fire roaring towards the protective suit, they would shoot it back with their large-caliber guns.
Aren't there three?
I couldn't help but wonder for a while, has it been whitewashed? I searched the crowd and didn't find Jiang Tao's figure, was this guy scared and afraid to come?
I searched again, but I really didn't find him.
At this time, a thin layer of mist wafted on the river surface to cover the line of sight, and the opposite firelight became shadowy, like a demon dancing, and the mist carried a fishy smell, which was not very strong but made people involuntarily cover their noses.
I couldn't see the other side clearly, and when I turned to leave, I saw a dark figure standing there at the stone fence in front of me, facing the opposite bank, because of the influence of the fog, I couldn't see what kind of person was on the other side.
I walked over with courage, and after taking a few steps, the dark shadow suddenly looked towards the river, but why did he feel awkward about his action, what was wrong?
My head flashed, and I hurriedly stopped, thinking that something was wrong! The black shadow tilted his whole body to look at the river, a movement that would not be possible for a normal person, unless it was a person with a rigid body or a corpse.
Thinking of this, my heart is up and down, and I don't have any weapons on my body to defend myself, if it's really a zombie, I'm going to explain here today.
Then I saw the shadow reach out and make strange gestures into the fog, as if someone in the water was talking to him.
I was stunned, and looked curiously into the water by the light of the fire on the opposite bank, and immediately I was startled, and vaguely saw a black shadow the size of a bucket crawling in the water more than 20 meters long.
Immediately, a very strong fishy smell came to my face, and I couldn't help covering my mouth and nose and vomiting in disgust.
Oops!
This vomit woke me up, and I looked up at the figure on the stone fence, and saw that the figure was looking at me, and my whole body was full of excitement, and my legs kept calling and standing in place.
The figure swayed towards me, and the bean-sized cold sweat slid down my forehead, and I could feel the dense cold sweat behind my back wet my shirt, and it was cold.
The figure got closer and closer, and when I saw the face clearly, I couldn't help but blurt out, "Jiang Tao? ”
Hearing his name called, the figure was obviously stunned and walked over again, and when he was about ten steps away, he saw him holding a dagger in his hand, looking directly at me.
"What are you going to do! I'm Xia Zhu! ”
Seeing his cold gaze, his heart straightened, and he took two steps back, secretly thinking that he wouldn't be trying to kill me? Could it be because of the strange behavior just now?
Suddenly, the cold light peculiar to metal flickered into my sight, and I felt the wind in the back of my head, and the smell of rotten meat wafted from behind me.
Jiang Tao grabbed my shoulders and brought me to his side, fell to the ground in pain in my back, hit my head on the stone pillar, and the whole person felt light and fluttering, and my vision was blurred.
Leaning on the stone railing, I vaguely saw the shadow coming from behind me and Jiang Tao mingling, I couldn't tell who was who, I only heard a strange low roar from the throat of the shadow that attacked me, which made people's scalp tingle.
A stream of hot liquid rushed across my cheeks, I knew that I was bleeding, my vision was getting darker and darker, and I saw the figure belonging to Jiang Tao turn around and strangle another shadow from behind, and Leng Sensen's dagger instantly separated its head.
What will happen next, I don't know anymore. It had been three days until I came to my senses, and people from the military region came to ask me how many times why I was there, who killed the zombie lying next to me, and where was the head of the zombie?
I didn't know how to answer a series of questions for a while.
When the examination was over, the military region gave me a major demerit as a punishment for not observing discipline, and I was discharged from the hospital after a week without any serious health problems.
When I returned to the military region, the first thing I did was to go to Jiang Tao to ask for clarification.
When I came to Jiang Tao's company and asked about him, everyone looked at me with a strange look, and the answer I got made me feel cold.
There was not a single person named Jiang Tao in the company, not even the entire military region.
So who is the person I'm usually with?
I thought I was close to the truth, but I found that there was an even bigger mystery waiting for me.
What happened in 95 years is shrouded in many mysteries, what organization do those men in black belong to? Where did the dried corpses go?
What's more important is who is Jiang Tao who is with me? Why are those zombies not zombies? What does he know? After a year of chaos, I applied for demobilization and went home, but I accidentally escaped the maelstrom of death in '98, and I couldn't help but feel a little guilty and a little happy to see many comrades-in-arms on TV generously serving in that flood.
After the zombie incident, I didn't continue to investigate what happened, I knew that curiosity would kill the cat, so it's still good to live a dull life like this.
One day in the summer of 2000, the arrival of an old friend and comrade-in-arms shattered my peaceful life.