Chapter 22 Confluence
I gasped for air, feeling like my whole body was drenched in sweat. For a moment, I really thought I was going to be hit, but fortunately, the reflexes I had cultivated on a daily basis saved my life.
Seeing the zombie bite my shoulder, I instinctively grabbed it by the neck and lifted it up. Fortunately, this zombie is not tall, and I grabbed it by the neck, so I could only wave my two claws and scratch around, making a "gurgling" sound in my throat.
Due to the sudden fright, my whole body exploded instantly, and I directly stuck on its neck and threw it off the roof with one hand.
"Bang"
After a while, I quietly poked my head out and looked down, only to see that although the zombie downstairs heard the movement, it couldn't find me, but just circled around the zombie in confusion. The zombie I threw down actually tried to struggle to get up, but maybe it was because it was broken somewhere, and it could only crawl on the ground all the time.
Phew, it looks like you have to get a headshot to kill them.
Just now, due to too much panic, this will ease up before I feel a dull pain in my whole arm.
"It won't hurt your muscles!" I was a little worried, and found that there was nothing abnormal in this arm except for some pain, and it should be fine, so I didn't dare to delay any longer, so I hurried over to pick up Xiaocui and them.
As the saying goes, once raw and twice ripe, this time when they climbed over the rope, they were already quite neat. When they all came, I told them that it was not safe to walk on the roof anymore.
Since they were hiding just now, and it was so dark, they could barely see what had just happened, so I casually explained a few words to them, and of course, I almost got bitten by a zombie. I don't want to cast another shadow on their already tense hearts.
I often walk by the river, and I almost got my shoes wet.
Although I can see things clearly in the dark, it doesn't mean that I can spot every zombie hiding in the shadows. After what happened just now, I feel that climbing from the roof again is too physically exhausting, and there are too many hidden dangers.
"So what do we do next?"
I looked at Xiaocui helplessly, and replied, "I can only use the second plan, and then take a break for a few hours, and when the zombies rest, we will pretend to be them and walk out of the street." I paused, then said, "Remember, even if the zombie is so close to you, it doesn't attack ......."
"Okay, okay, got it, don't shout about it." Seeing that I was about to start rambling again, Xiaocui hurriedly interrupted me. I smiled bitterly and said, "Aren't you afraid that something will happen to you?"
When I chopped up a dead zombie again and helped them start to "dress up", they naturally vomited. Seeing that I was smearing my body while chopping with a knife, my face was not red and I was not panting, and I looked calm, Xiaocui and Xu Man gave me a thumbs up at the same time, and then turned their heads and vomited.
When complete darkness fell again, the three of us whispered onto the stone pavement of the street. Maybe I've said it too many times, the two girls are very careful, even if occasionally one or two zombies come to investigate suspiciously, except for their ugly faces, they both bite their lips and don't say a word. Although we walked very slowly, after all, this pedestrian street was not long, and we walked almost half the way from the roof, so we walked out quickly, and there was no danger along the way.
It was only when we ran into the cornfield by the road that we stopped. I saw that neither of them looked very good, so I found a thatched hut in the field and rested for a while. Although they didn't go far, for the two girls, the psychological pressure caused by walking through the zombie pile was too great.
After resting for a short time, I pulled them up from the ground and let them continue on their way. Although we have a layer of clothing, we have to keep walking outdoors next, without the barrier of reinforced concrete walls, the danger factor is too great, so we can only take advantage of the fact that the sky is not completely bright, and go as far as possible. After all, there are hundreds of zombies moving towards this side on the other side of the pedestrian street, and it is estimated that there should have been many zombies coming from the other side of the river.
My hometown village is only about a dozen miles away from the pedestrian street where I opened my shop, and fortunately, there are crops along the way for us to cover, so we slowly and carefully walked through the cornfield, and finally saw the entrance of our village near noon, that is, when I was a child, my father and Uncle Zhu played men's doubles between me and the fat man.
When I came back again, I felt a sigh in my heart. Although he left home for a short time, everything was no longer in place by this time.
Sure enough, as the fat man said, most of the zombies in the village were walking along the road and didn't know where to go, and there were only a few scattered zombies wandering on the road in the village.
The old piles of wheat straw, tractors and pick-ups in the village became good shelter for us, and after quietly avoiding most of the zombies and eliminating two or three, we finally came to the gate of my house, and indeed as the fat man said, the gate was closed.
I looked left and right, and after making sure that there was no danger, I ordered Xiaocui and Xu Man to hide in the messy wheat straw pile, sprint towards the wall, step on the wall and climb in, and after landing on the ground, I was on guard for about a minute, and when I saw that there was no movement, I hurriedly opened the side door to let the two of them in.
"Squeak"
I gently pushed the half-hidden door open, which made the dimly lit living room a little brighter. The room was a mess, and there seemed to have been a fierce fight, and the pool of blood on the ground, which had solidified and blackened, made my heart sink down.
I asked Xiaocui and Xu Man to wait here, and I went upstairs to take a look first, but I didn't find anything in the house. Some of the rooms on the second floor were so familiar, everything was well arranged, and if it weren't for the thin layer of dust falling everywhere, it didn't look like no one had lived in it for a long time.
I walked downstairs sullenly, and asked Xiaocui and the others to go upstairs to rest first, and then walked towards the backyard alone. However, as soon as I came out of the back door of the kitchen, I saw a rotting arm on the floor of the backyard that had been left there, and the dried blood trailed all the way to the back of the backyard wall.
And this arm is my father's. All I know is that my mind was blank at the time, but I didn't have a lot of sadness.
In fact, after so long, I have already guessed the result in my heart, but I am just deceiving myself and not wanting to admit it, and now, this arm has only confirmed my conjecture. I suddenly laughed, laughing loudly, but there was liquid left in my eyes, and the smell was very salty.
I found a sheet, carefully wrapped the rotten arm, and with the help of Xiao Cui and Xu Man, who rushed to hear the noise, I dug a pit on the spot and buried it. I knelt there without saying a word, and Xiaocui also knelt quietly next to me, for a long time, I kowtowed three times, and then pulled Xiaocui up and returned to the second floor.
Although I didn't find them, the facts are already in front of me, and maybe it's good for me that I didn't see them as they are now. Just like I can't face the corpse of Gao Jian, even if we meet, it can only be a situation of life and death. And I don't have much time to bask in grief, the dead are gone, and we still have to try to live, and there is a trapped fat man waiting for me to rescue not far away.
Xiao Cui, who interrupted me and comforted me softly, smiled hard and told her that I was fine, although I also knew how good my smile was.
Leaving Xiaocui and Xu Man at home, I ran out alone with a kitchen knife. After all, I don't have so many worries when I act alone, and the fat man's house is diagonally opposite my house, and the distance between climbing over the courtyard wall and rushing through the middle of more than ten meters is just a matter of an eye for me.
I quickly closed the door, and saw that the door was closed very tightly, and the windows were closed tightly, so I didn't dare to make too much noise, picked up a few small pebbles on the ground, and threw a few at the window of the fat man's room with all my strength.
I saw the fat man's window flicker and disappear, and not long after that, there was a "knock knock" sound coming downstairs from the room, and the fat man should have found me.
Slowly opened the door, the fat thief poked his head out to take a look, first glanced at the zombie on the ground with a surprised face, and then rushed out and hugged me.
Reunion after a long absence, especially in this case, I thought that the fat man would be excited to burst into tears and say a bunch of sensual words, but he just hugged me tightly and slapped me a few times, then pushed me away and said three words to me with a serious face.
"Is there any smoke?"
I:......
Well, I've long been used to it, after all, the person in front of me is Zhu Fatzi, my brother who grew up with me. Trying to get him to be polite to me is probably more difficult than getting a zombie to regain consciousness.
"Yo, this is Xiaocui girl, hello, hello, fortunately. I'm Zhu Pangliang, presumably the little beast should have told you about me. ”
As soon as he entered the door and saw two women in the house, the fat man was stunned for a moment, then thought about it for a while, and then ran over and grabbed Xu Man's hand is nonsense.
The corner of my eye twitched, and I walked over and slapped his salty pig hands, saying don't scream, she is not Xiaocui.
Xu Man seemed to be stunned by the fat man's appearance, and it took a long time to come back to his senses, smiled at the fat man awkwardly, and then stretched out his hand very generously and said, "Hello, I'm Xu Man." ”
"Poof~"
However, it was not Xu Man's self-introduction that broke this embarrassing scene, but a fart that suddenly popped out of the fat man.
"Fuck, fatty, why haven't you changed your old problem of farting when you see a beautiful woman? Wow, this smells. ”
In order to make the atmosphere more harmonious, I deliberately slandered the fat man, who knew that this guy complained with an aggrieved face, "Brother, how many days have I eaten raw sweet potatoes, do you think everyone is so moist like you, there are actually two sisters......"
I hurriedly kicked him, interrupting his gibberish. Immediately, I slowly told him what had happened since the catastrophe.