"It's okay." Sid frowned and rubbed my hair uncomfortably, "Don't think about anything else. ”

I looked at him silently and nodded, my gaze brushing the boy's shoulders and falling on the spires of the brown brick houses beneath the gray sky in the distance.

The sky was a little darker.

An imperceptible chill, as if slowly seeping through the cracks in the tiles, bound the hurried ankles of pedestrians, wrapping around, climbers, vines covering every inch of skin, every pore, revealing a chilling coolness, the wind, silently brushing the ends of Sid's warm golden hair, blowing the strands of hair beside my cheeks.

I subconsciously tightened my coat.

Not far away, the small stage in the center of the square looked at the four-color lights, the yellow and white alternating light path projected the crowd on the brick wall of the low house on the side of the square, blurring the outline, the distant bell from the white bell tower in the distance, slowly echoing in the crowded square, the bell ringer, the bell knocking on the cold bell body, the ethereal bell with a bit of strength penetrated the noise of the crowd, as if contaminated with the sunset killing, the bell also sounded a little lonely, sad.

I leaned to the left and stood on tiptoe a little to graz the crowd.

The light of the small stage seemed to attract more onlookers, Sid held my arm, and with his strength, I saw the floating heads of onlookers in front of the small stage with the backdrop, the crowd was crowded and noisy, and there were constantly curious and approaching audiences at the outermost part of the crowd, and the light remaining on the surface faintly illuminated their side faces, and I couldn't really see it from a distance.

“…… What about Andrew? ”

"Who?"

"It's the black man who went out with us......"

A middle-aged man in a black coat scolded me on the phone and squeezed in front of me, I saw that the corners of his black briefcase were a little torn, a fashionably dressed girl was squeezed back a few steps by the middle-aged man, bumped into me, smelled a strong perfume smell on her body, I staggered a few steps, raised my eyes and saw Sid standing in front of me at some point, quietly blocking the crowd from the crowd for me, he looked at me with slightly lowered eyes, with some sweat on his forehead.

The crowd was crowded, and Sid raised his hand to wrap me in front of him, separating me from a relatively safe environment in the crowd.

“……”

I pressed silently against his chest, feeling his exhaled breath swirling around his hair, his peculiar breath all around me, and my cheeks were hot.

Sid didn't notice my thoughts, leaned down slightly, and frowned.

"I'm sorry Vera, what did you say? I didn't hear it clearly. ”

I looked up, the tip of my nose touching his rough denim jacket.

"The man who hit you is called Andrew."

Hearing this, Sid's face sank.

"I don't know where he is, I saw you run out of the convenience store and chased him out."

The sound of sound tuning came from the small stage in the distance, and the light swept through the crowd and hit me in the face, but the next second it swept away, and I narrowed my eyes slightly, and my eyes were uncomfortably blurred by the light for a few seconds.

"Sid, it's time to go......"

"Okay."

He would never object to my proposal.

Turning slightly in the crook of his arm, I climbed on the boy's arm and watched a red bus pass by a few heavy crowds, black street lamps stood on both sides of the road, and pedestrians walked towards the square in twos and threes.

I moved my sore feet forward, my shoulders squeezing a few high school students, and behind me, Sid leaned sideways with my movements, and I felt his hand on my arm to keep the crowd from breaking us up.

The crowd was bustling, and a few boys were talking loudly about the prettiest girl in the school, and they squeezed past me, their yellowed white shirts smelling of inferior tobacco, their black backpacks a little worn, and their wrists tattooed with patterns that I couldn't make out under their rolled up sleeves.

"Jingle Bell ......"

A hurried bell rang suddenly.

I was stunned, and my footsteps subconsciously paused, and Sid behind me couldn't stop and bumped into me.

A balding uncle next to me squeezed my shoulders, stepped on the upper of my shoes, and stumbled towards the outside of the crowd.

I gasped and shifted, my left foot numb.

"Jingle Bell ......"

"Vera, your phone?" Sid's voice was so close to me that it seemed to come from behind my ears, and I could feel the arteries beating under his neck warm.

Phone?

I turned my face to the side, confused, and saw that he was looking at the bag I was carrying.

"I ......"

Before I could speak, Sidgu unzipped the backpack, through his clothes, felt his hand reach into the backpack, I held the strap of the backpack in confusion, and after a while, he took out a black mobile phone, the piercing ringtone was even more noisy without the blocking of the backpack, and the passers-by crowded next to him glanced at us dissatisfiedly.

Andrew put his phone in his bag?

I looked at the black phone in Sid's hand suspiciously, and seeing that I was also puzzled, Sid simply pressed the connection.

"Hello."

Sid answered the call and looked up, his gaze casually falling behind me.

It's impossible for a convenience store to sell a mobile phone......

I looked silently at the black phone in Sid's hand.

The cell phone should have been prepared by Andrew in advance......

Seconds later, I saw Sid frowning and pushing his phone to me with a cold face.

"Looking for you."

“……”

I guess I guessed who the caller was.

Taking the phone from Sid's hand, I leaned sideways.

"Andrew."

"It's me." On the other end of the phone, Andrew's deep voice was heard.

The crowd was noisy, his voice was a little muffled, and I bent down slightly, my ears closer to my phone.

"Where are you?"

"Little girl, get out of the square at once." Andrew rudely interrupted.

“…… Give me a reason. ”

There was a slight pause on the other end of the phone, as if there was a barrier that was not very real, mixed with some signal disturbances, noisy, and a few frightened cries of women were inexplicable.

What happened?

My heart sank, and before I had time to think about it, a woman's shrill scream came from the crowd not far away.

I subconsciously looked in the direction where the screams were coming from.

"Little girl, get out of the square, immediately!" Andrew's deep voice on the other end of the phone was murderous.

The crowd began to be inexplicably agitated, and the sound of cries for help and fighting was heard one after another from a few meters away, the sound of shoes stepping on the floor tiles was chaotic, a little dust was raised, and the inexplicable smell of blood gradually became stronger with the shouts that were getting closer and closer.

I clenched Sid's hand beside me, my fingertips running cold, and my body retreated.

"What happened?" In his ears, Sid's voice was questioned.

"Heavenly punishment has begun." I said the same thing at the same time as Andrew on the other end of the line.

Sid was stunned for a moment, I saw a few layers of people outside, a middle-aged woman in a dark green coat hurriedly turned around, and the next second, a pair of hands full of blood restrained her left shoulder, and a face dissatisfied with black blood vessels suddenly appeared behind her, and bit her neck with a mouth full of blood wide, and the next moment she bit hard! In an instant, the skin of the neck was torn, the blood vessels were torn, and the blood burst out.

Zombie!

Before I had time to think about it, I turned around and pulled Sid out of the crowd.

Panic, the fuse is generally lit in the crowd.

There was a strong smell of blood, and screams behind him came and went.

The sound of the small stage not far away was uncontrollably noisy.

The chaotic footsteps, the crowd pushing, the survival instinct dominated all reason, the unorderly pushing made the dense crowd lose all control at once, the screams that initially erupted from the center of the crowd began to gradually spread in all directions, I couldn't tell whether it was the shouts of the zombie attackers or the frightened screams of the crowd, the chaotic shouts were noisy, I gritted my teeth, and my shoulder was hit by the strangers around me in a painful way.

"Roar—"

The low roar of the zombie came from behind me, people pushed and shoved, a delicate girl screamed, and the next moment I heard the chaotic sound of flesh being trampled.

Near, closer......

I grabbed Sid's wrist and squeezed towards the outermost part of the crowd.

My palms were covered in cold sweat, and I heard Sid's rapid breathing, looking equally flustered.

"W-What the is going on?!" Behind him came Sid's panicked scolding.

This was the first time I had heard him invective.

"Games." I answered him in a calm voice.

Several tall middle-aged men squeezed past me, and an elderly man was knocked to the ground by them, and before I had time to think too much, I stumbled around the old man's thin wrist and used all my strength to stabilize my body, and squeezed towards the periphery that was getting closer and closer. Behind him, there was the old man's shout, as if he would be annihilated in the sea of people in the next moment.

He will be trampled to death.

Look, the so-called morality, in the face of life and death, is also so vulnerable, everyone wants to live, in order to survive, they do not hesitate to step on other people's bodies, crush bones, and contain the last fragile whimper in the depths of their throats. It's good that you're alive, and no one knows that you've stepped on that old man who you were capable of saving his life.

I squeezed Sid's wrist and angrily pushed away a bespectacled student who was at a loss.

"Get out of the way!"

"Roar—" Behind me, the voice of the zombie was a little closer, but before it had subsided, the second roar pierced through the crowd and stabbed my ears.

Subconsciously turning around, I saw a meter away, a middle-aged man who had been bitten off half of his cheek stood up from the crowd, a person who was running for his life in a hurry flashed in front of him, the crowd was crowded, I saw the zombie with his head slightly bowed, a pair of bloodshot eyes staring at me, the corners of his mouth cracked, the dark red chewing muscles could see the direction of the blood vessels, and the gloomy teeth were exposed from the corners of his torn mouth.

"Roar—"

It opened its mouth and pounced!

A muscular man next to him subconsciously shouted, avoiding the zombies, without the barrier, I became the target of the zombies!

Damn it!

I was caught off guard, and the zombie's blood-stained hands had already grabbed my coat. In a flash of lightning, the zombie opened its mouth covered in blood, pressed my shoulder with its other hand, and squeezed through the crowd, screaming and biting down on my artery!

The next moment, I felt a heavy push on my back, and I stumbled out of the crowd, fell on the asphalt road, my shoulder brushed against the rough asphalt, and my cheek was broken, and the warm blood flowed down my cheek, and I felt a pain.

"Roar—"

The zombies roared, and the small square was filled with screams, and it instantly turned into a hell on earth.

I hurriedly raised my head, the zombie grabbed Sid's coat, he had no time to escape, his eyes looked fixedly at me who fell out of the road, his mouth opened slightly, as if he wanted to say something, a trace of emotion flashed in his dark blue eyes that I couldn't see, and the next moment, the zombie pressed his shoulder, and his teeth bit Sid's neck, instantly tearing open his carotid artery, blood gushed out, staining the upper body of the zombie red.

"Sid!!" My heart was clenched in an instant, and I shouted his name in a hoarse voice, but I could only watch him fall to the ground, his body trampled by the chaotic crowd, and the zombie lay beside him, tearing open his chest, and pulling out his still beating heart.

His eyes, looking in my direction, did not close.

Until the last moment, all life was lost.

"Squeak-" A sharp brake whistle whistled past my ears.

I hurriedly turned around and saw a truck on the road rushing towards me!

Damn it!

I subconsciously covered my head tightly with my hands.

"Squeak—"

There was a sharp turn, the tires grazed the rough ground, the crowd screamed and dodged, and the next moment the truck smashed into the window of the shop on the street, and there was a cacophony of chaos.

Turning my head in shock, I saw the back half of the truck exposed outside the window, the window was smashed, and the models that had been placed in the window were smashed to pieces, like a dismembered corpse discarded at random.

My heart was beating wildly, and my head went blank for a moment.

Scarlet words.

Dark red blood letters.

It was sticky and slowly oozing out of the window of another store.

As if bewitched, I silently stepped over the rough asphalt pavement, over the puddles of blood that were still sticky on the tiles, and over a dying passer-by who had been run over by a truck, and approached the window of the bakery.

The tall window reflects my figure.

Sticky blood letters, exuding faint blood.

【City Hall】