"Brother Heng! Are you alright? Long Hao grinned and put his arm around my shoulders, suddenly pulling me back to reality, "What's wrong?" Scolded by Brother Niu again? ”

"No, no. What is there to scold? Is! "I pushed Long Hao away, this guy really seized the opportunity to tease me all the time.

"Alright, we've all heard. You've been beaten pretty badly! Liang Minxuan came with a blue toolbox, accompanied by the cute Wei Liqin, who also held an oil-stained wrench in his hand, like a skilled auto mechanic taking his apprentice to load and unload some machinery.

He shrugged, and as soon as his round cheeks swelled, I knew he was going to start counting me down. "No! Du Yuheng was defeated after trying his best, don't you say? ”

I really wanted to punch Wei Liqin's expectant fat face, but I ignored him, changed the subject and asked, "What are you going to do?" ”

"Oh! Fat Boy said he could fix a motorcycle over there, so we found some tools to see if he could do it. Long Hao pointed to the three motorcycles parked in the corner not far from our SUV and said, "Professor Zhang said that those motorcycles have some problems, and Wei Hong used to remove some useful parts from them and install them on his motorcycle, so I don't know if these rags can still move now." ”

"Wei Liqin, are you sure you can get one?" I remember hearing that Wei Liqin was very interested in motorcycles in school, but if I really let this guy who was idle all day build one, it would really make me look at it differently.

Wei Liqin confidently shook his slightly bulging belly and smiled: "There should be no problem." ”

"I'll open it after it's repaired."

"Huh? Will you? ”

"And who else do you want to open it to?" Wei Liqin's questioning face made me unhappy.

In contrast, the guys in front of them seemed to have already had an answer, and they all looked at Long Hao, there was no doubt that the original motorcycle driver was him. Long Hao was stunned at first, then looked at me aggrievedly, and saw that I had no intention of backing down, so he had to reluctantly laugh and said, "Oops! Brother Heng will let him open it if he wants to, and I won't do it anyway. ”

After that, Long Hao returned the rifle that was behind him, and the gun was temporarily handed over to him for safekeeping because of the fight with Wei Hong. To tell the truth, this old friend of mine is really interesting, not only gave me a rifle but also gave up the motorcycle I originally wanted to drive; But then again, this fine-skinned and tender-fleshed boy brother is driving tremblingly even if he drives a motorcycle, even if I promise, it is estimated that Huang Weizheng will veto it.

"Oh yes, if you don't Du Yuheng, you will accompany me to find useful parts first?" Wei Liqin asked, "I checked before, and the spark plugs of those motorcycles are all broken, and some parts are missing. ”

"Okay, do you know where it is?" Anyway, I'm not in a good mood right now, and I just found an excuse to go out for a walk. It's just past noon, and the sun is shining outside, and it doesn't look like it's going to rain or turn cloudy suddenly, so it's definitely the best time to go out.

"There should be a walk around here, and you don't have to drive a car."

Seeing that Wei Liqin was so confident, I readily agreed, although I may have to listen to this guy's nagging along the way, but it is better than being locked up here and being angry.

"Is that good? Do you want to talk to Professor Zhang or Huang Weizheng? Liang Minxuan said out of rigorous concern.

However, I don't know why I was hot-headed and said, "You really think they're the boss?" It's not a bad thing, we'll come back after a walk. ”

"But ......"

"Oops! How did you become so indecisive? It's good to tell him when you see the cow. "Before Huang Weizheng went downstairs, I hurriedly took the stupid Wei Li to slip away.

Wei Liqin and I took a backpack and hurriedly left the factory; Since the plan was to move around the area, I didn't have much equipment with me, just my precious rifle and a little necessary emergency medicine and two or three compressed biscuits and two jugs of water. On the way back to Nanning, we have already set the rules, once we separate the action, we must not be less than two people, and weapons and emergency equipment must be brought, this is indeed a good rule, Huang Weizheng and I had lost contact with others in an operation to search for supplies, thanks to bringing enough food and water, the two of us finally returned to the others after walking for two days and two nights. That experience made me stick to this life-saving rule forever.

We first walked around the factory where we were stationed, and the nearby streets were empty, and we didn't see anything useful, let alone the motorcycle Wei Liqin was looking for. Although I have walked through uninhabited city blocks countless times, and I am used to the sound of my footsteps echoing in the alleys, I am still disgusted by the fact that this place used to be so noisy, and the crowded heads still loom in front of me, but yet it is so ethereal. Then again, after the outbreak of this zombie crisis, I still found perhaps the only improvement in this world - the warm sunshine, the quiet sound of the wind, and the fresh air, which people craved in the bustling past. At this time, we have exchanged the most painful price for these, which have become the hidden fetters of the rest of the life.

After turning two intersections, we came to the main road of the city leading to the city center, abandoned cars and various remnants of the chaos of people scattered all over the street, and the mess of blood and the remains of the burned car accident still showed us the tragedy of the time.

It's really like Huang Weizheng said, the long traffic here stretches from the intersection where we are to the end of the road, if we turn into this road, it is really a dead end. I jumped on the hood of an old sedan and walked ahead with impunity on the roofs of the cars, most of which were abandoned when they started and should have run out of fuel; Otherwise, it has been burned and damaged, and now it has basically lost power, so you can rest assured that the disturbing car alarm will not be triggered. And the reason why I chose this unusual path is not only to get a better vision, but also out of boredom; Doing something unconventional can more or less vent my inner dissatisfaction. Wei Liqin followed me with his pistol, he was not as uninhibited as me, his vision between the two trains was quite limited, and the ensuing sense of oppression also made him dare not slack off.

Today's weather is good, and the bright sunshine makes me basically not need to think about the threat of mutants, even if I encounter a few monsters that don't shoot to death, I won't have much combat effectiveness. They are like dried corpses in the sun, not only slow to move, slow to react, but also greatly reduced perception of their surroundings, if you don't provoke them, they won't find you at all, let alone take the initiative to attack. In contrast, the Marauders, or the bikers, are the ones I need to be wary of. But the smell of diesel and the rumble of the convoy gave me the best warning.

After some meaningless ridicule topics, I deliberately pretended to be casual and asked Wei Liqin: "Then again, why don't you come with Long Hao to find parts?" ”

"Long Hao? That idiot doesn't just talk about it, it's not as bold as you. If you don't show up just now, I'm going to assemble a motorcycle with those good parts first, and then I'll find a chance to hang out with you if there are any parts missing. Wei Liqin told me that he did not forget to observe the situation around him.

This guy's words are quite pleasant, and I laughed: "You say this Long Hao, be careful that I will go back to tell the whistle later." ”

"I don't care. Long Hao and I are not like you and Huang Weizheng. ”

As he spoke, Wei Liqin and I both stopped. I looked at him condescendingly and asked as if I were interrogating him, "What am I like with a cow?" ”

Wei Liqin, who happened to be covered by my back, looked up at me and said, "You two are our team leaders, but your personalities are completely different. You are a radical, Huang Weizheng is a rational, sooner or later you will quarrel. Long Hao and I usually mess with you, and we don't have to make any decisions, of course we won't fight from time to time like you. ”

I put the gun on my shoulder, changed my position and continued, "He and I just have a disagreement on some decisions, but we still have a good relationship. ”

"That's just because you still treat each other as brothers, and if one day there is any conflict between you, plus any differences of opinion, then your trouble will come."

Wei Liqin's prophecy really made me a little faintly afraid, and I smiled bitterly and said, "It should be...... Probably not. ”

"Isn't it, Du Yuheng, you are more naïve than I thought, I thought you had already discovered that the world is different now. Friends, brothers, this kind of relationship is likely to change now, oh, if you don't pay attention, you will suffer. ”

This is indeed an ironclad fact, and after hearing the conversation between Huang Weizheng and Chen Mo, I had to re-examine my relationship with Huang Weizheng. But in any case, these are just speculations, and the truth may not be as cruel as I thought. The top priority is to find those parts, and then go back early, and if you are unlucky, you will be nagged by my big brother Huang again.

"Come on, come on! Don't talk about this, keep looking for things. After checking the time on my watch, I picked up my gun and changed the subject, "Now, we can go around for another two hours now, and we'll be back in two hours." ”

"Self-deception ......"

We were ready to lean onto the sidewalk on the side of the road. Wei Liqin whispered a sarcastic sentence to underestimate me, and at this moment, my mind was a little trance when I was about to step into the hood of another car. What's even more tragic is that the car alarm I jumped on screamed hysterically, and I fell to the ground in fright.

Wei Liqin covered his ears and complained: "Don't be stupid, is it!" ”

How did this fat boy's tone suddenly become somewhat similar to Huang Weizheng, and I rubbed my ass and smiled bitterly as I motioned for us to leave the area so as not to cause unnecessary trouble. The big backpack I was carrying was just the right cushion for me, so I didn't get hurt from falling. However, the long-lasting car alarm is like a loudspeaker telling the surrounding monsters and humans that there is a surprise here. In any case, we can't stay here anymore.

For the sake of safety, we did not immediately take the main road back, but first hid in the alley opposite the street for about ten minutes, and after about ten minutes, there was nothing unusual around, the car sirens stopped honking, and the deserted street was once again shrouded in dead silence before we began to return on the shaded sidewalk.

The search had to be brought to a hurried end because of this little episode, and the street trees lining the main road provided me with some low vegetation to provide me with good cover, although the resulting shade made me a little concerned. Crossing the sidewalk in the shade of the trees, I was lucky enough to fall two wrecked motorcycles, they were lying across the green belt next to it, one of them crashed into a street tree, and the splashed mud was scattered in an arc to the side, and the dense greenery blocked my view and made it impossible to see the specific situation.

"Walk shit luck!" Wei Liqin was overjoyed when he saw the two scrapped motorcycles and wanted to run there, but I stopped him immediately.

"Wait!" I pulled back the monkey anxious Wei Liqin, lifted the rifle and approached the motorcycle a little bit. The near-fading rancid smell in the air and the dense vegetation in this area are bad omen, and the mutants are likely hiding here. The vision gradually cleared, and sure enough, there was indeed a mutant who had been crushed by a motorcycle, and the other had completely evolved into a vegetative person, its limbs stuck under the roots of a large tree, and its head wrapped in a few sticky fleshy petals was a disgusting ball of bud flesh. Its body had almost merged with the tree next to it, and its rhizomes had been dyed an eerie red. The wrecked motorcycle was also wrapped around the trunk of the tree with thick roots.

"What should I do?" Wei Liqin, who was hiding behind me, asked.

I pointed to the other bike pressed against the mutant and said, "Let's take a look at that one first." ”

"Are you sure?" Wei Liqin's tone was hinting that I should eliminate the threat of mutants before he dared to approach. This dead fat boy would really think; But guess what, as the number one combat power of the whole team, who will do this kind of dangerous work except me?

The vegetation in a large area that had been run over by the motorcycle was not as dense, and it seemed like there were only these two mutants on the scene, but I always had the feeling that someone was eyeing me somewhere. The dark windows of the buildings beside the road were like a pair of magic pupils staring at me, sending hairs down my spine. After ensuring the safety of the site again, I cautiously stepped into the green belt, and Wei Liqin was in charge of covering as a matter of course; I don't know if this guy can provide me with cover in time at the critical moment......

Stepping on the grass fed by mutants made me feel like I was walking on thin ice, the floating soil was soft and insecure, and there was always the fear that I would step on a trap if I stepped on it. The mutant, who was crushed by the motorcycle, saw me walking towards it and excitedly scratched his thin hands at me, as if cheering for the approach of the food. This guy may have been crushed here since the crisis broke out, the motorcycle is not light, and the impact seems to have crushed its legs, and the entire lower body is estimated to have broken the bones under the pressure of the motorcycle fuel tank.

The poor ghost must have had a tragic story, perhaps he had fallen into the hands of another unlucky man while fleeing, and then pressed over and watched the people around him run past him and refused to help. And after becoming a mutant, it cannot break free, and it can only watch humans pass by hungrily, or gaze at the unchanging street scene day after day.

I stopped about three steps away from the guy, thought for a moment and took another step forward; It still flailed its teeth and claws at me, eager to leap to its feet, knock me down, and enjoy the taste of my flesh. Like a car burglar alarm, gunshots can be a scourge, so I'm not going to kill it with one shot. Now I understand why Zhang Xiaoying would have preferred to use a bow and arrow instead of a gun in the first place.

The mutant was impatient, and it wasn't sure if it foresaw its fate. Its scrawny body was a skeleton wrapped in rotting skin, creaking as it struggled hysterically again and again, as if it were about to fall apart after two more tosses. It would have been easy to smash his head with the butt of his gun, but I didn't want my gun to have those stinking brains on it. So I drew my dagger and decided to finish off the poor man quickly by the easiest way possible.

As soon as the dagger was raised, I felt a cold liquid dripping from my upper lip. Damn, it's nosebleeds again. Since I had my back to Wei Liqin, he didn't notice anything unusual about me. But this situation slowly began to make me worry about my health, there is no doubt that the injection Qin Rong gave me definitely had an important impact on my body, will I also become like this guy in front of me, helplessly watching others give me a knife?

"Are you alright?" Wei Liqin said with concern.

"It's fine!" I wiped the nosebleed, quickly turned around and forced a laugh and immediately turned back, for fear that he would see the nosebleed that had not been wiped clean.

However, when I turned back again, the mutant who had been crushed under the motorcycle broke free and lunged at me. It is more appropriate to break free than to break free. Its spine could not support its frantic struggle, its crisp waist was torn alive, and its gray-white spine dragged behind it with strips of maroon rotten flesh, drawing a mud line with the trajectory of its movements.

I was startled, instinctively took two steps back, and my mind went blank for a moment. Luckily, I kept a distance from the mutant, and it just pounced, and its mutilated and prostrated body moved extremely slowly in the bright light of the day, giving me plenty of time to adjust my position.

And I happened to grasp the crucial moment, and stabbed it in the head, the sharp blade piercing directly through its wide open mouth and protruding from the back of the neck. With a twist of my wrist, I pulled out the melon with its withered head and thrust it hard into the mud.

"Holy shit, it scared the hell out of me." Wei Liqin stared at his big round eyes and trotted forward, patted me and said, "What happened to you just now?" ”

"What's wrong? You're embarrassed to say, what's the use of giving you a gun? If I hadn't reacted in time, it would have been over! I angrily flicked Wei Liqin's hand away and scolded.

"Gee, you didn't kill him anyway." Wei Liqin also knew that he was really useless just now, so he scratched his head embarrassedly and smiled, "Come on, come on, I'll see if there's anything I'm looking for." ”

The vegetative head next to the root of the tree has not yet "bloomed", which means that the big movement we just made has not attracted its attention. Thank God...... Otherwise, the green smoke it spews out will make us work in vain.

"How? Got what you're looking for? I asked, looking around.

"Find, find......" Wei Liqin skillfully took out tools such as wrenches from his backpack, and the whole person immediately became calm and began to disassemble the old motorcycle seriously.

The plants in this neighborhood have not yet grown wildly, except for the street trees in our area, which are a bit exaggerated, and the branches of the sky have extended to the buildings next to them, and some unknown vine has attached to the branches and spread all around. I always had a sense of foreboding, and my subconscious from the hairy restlessness I had just felt to the sudden rise of impatience had always hinted at some danger approaching, but there was nothing unusual around us.

"Okay?" I urged.

Wei Liqin shook the dirt off his body, held a part in his oil-stained hand that I couldn't name, and said, "Okay, there's still one missing." ”

"Then go look for the one in that tree."

"No......" I knew Wei Liqin must have cared about the vegetative man next to the tree.

This type of mutant is the least known of us so far, and we haven't found any other characteristics of it other than its disgusting appearance, its ability to spew unknown smoke, and the surprisingly lush vegetation in its location. Either way, no one would want to provoke a monster whose properties are unknown, let alone have a disgusting face.

The vegetative man is next to the root of the tree, and the motorcycle is tied to the trunk, in other words, in order to remove the parts from the motorcycle, you have to risk facing the mutant who may react at any moment and emit smoke. Although I don't dare to pack the ticket monster to stay where it is, the motorcycle in the tree is also a temptation.

Wei Liqin looked at me with incomprehensible eyes, as if he was begging me to change my mind. I rolled my eyes at him and impatiently tapped my chin in the direction of the motorcycle, shattering his last illusions with a threatening look.

"What if that thing suddenly moves?" Wei Liqin still said uneasily.

"That's my business, just focus on finding parts." I pointed my gun at the vegetative person, hoping to reassure my worried friend, "Go ahead." ”

After hesitating for a moment, Wei Liqin finally reluctantly moved his chubby body, slowly approaching the motorcycle entangled by strange vines like a movie slow-motion shot. I keep an eye on his progress from time to time, but my main focus is on the alien-like vegetative creatures. As the minutes passed, I didn't rush Wei Liqin, because it would make him even more scrambling. After a long time, I unconsciously focused all my attention on the vegetative person.

The sticky ball of bud flesh on its head squirmed slightly from time to time, and a few rays of sunlight shone on it to make the crimson color more obvious, and there seemed to be spores and other fine dust floating in the air, lingering around those few beams of light in a windless environment. Its gray-blue clothes were proof of its race, but they were now in tatters. In fact, I'm curious about why some of these mutants become ordinary zombies, while others become vegetative like this, lying here like fertilizer for plants in their area. Is there a clear division of labor between them? Or is there more than one outbreak of the virus?

"That's it! Good luck today! There was good news from Wei Liqin's end, and when I looked back, he was happily waving a part the size of a phone charger at me, and then stuffed it into the pocket of his coat with satisfaction.

"Let's go."

I shook my head and was about to walk out of the green belt, but there was a sudden noise behind me, it turned out that Wei Liqin tripped over a protruding tree root, and he was "lucky" to fall in front of the vegetative person; Usually this guy is restless when he walks, but this time it's really a blood lesson. As I expected, the open slices of flesh on the vegetative man's head twitched alarmistically, and the sarcoma, which was supposed to have evolved from the skull, swelled rapidly, and the grunt coming from its body sped up the pace of time like a bomb counting down. Wei Liqin fell to the ground in front of the vegetative man, staring at the dangerous movement of the vegetative man close at hand, I think his mind was already full of despair at this time.

"Let's go!" I rushed forward desperately, dragging the frightened Wei Liqin out of the green belt as if I were dragging a dead corpse.

At the moment when we just left the boundary of the green belt, we only heard a flutter, and a burst of green smoke suddenly drifted around the big trees and vegetative people. I covered my mouth and pulled the frightened Wei Liqin to run away from the green belt wrapped in strange green smoke, and the two of them hid in the alley of the two civilian rooms out of breath, and sat on the ground against the damp wall.

"Are you alright?" I swallowed a mouthful of saliva and glanced at Wei Liqin, who was pale.

"It's okay...... It's okay......" The guy shook his head weakly.

Looking at his stupid face, I couldn't help but laugh breathlessly. Wei Liqin also knew what I was laughing at, so he slapped me with his hand in dissatisfaction and protested: "Laugh a fart!" ”

"I'm sorry, but you're so cowardly...... Aha! ”

"Holy shit! It's not like you haven't seen ......."

Seeing that Wei Liqin was about to talk endlessly, I quickly changed the topic and said, "Okay, okay!" Nothing has been left behind, has it? ”

"No......" Wei Liqin took out the parts from his pocket, "It's these gadgets that almost killed me." ”

I patted my ass and stood up, stretched out my hand to Wei Liqin, who had not yet calmed down his breathing, and said, "Come on!" Let's go, if we don't rush back, I'm going to be scolded......"

Wei Liqin stood up holding my hand, thought about it for a while, and suddenly said to me solemnly: "Du Yuheng, thank you for saving me." ”

"Come on, you'd do the same." I waved my hand disapprovingly, and turned to look at the street.

"What I said before about you and Huang Weizheng will turn against each other in the future, uh...... You don't take it to heart. ”

"Hmm......" I didn't look back at Wei Liqin, and I didn't know what his expression was at this time, but I didn't want him to see my melancholy at this time. I could hear that he was saying this only to comfort me, who was accustomed to being in a fit for myself, and that his prophecies could and could be my end......

"Actually, you ......"

"Shh I didn't interrupt Wei Liqin this time because I thought he was being long-winded, but because a familiar and dangerous smell wafting through the air triggered my alarm.

The smell of diesel fuel made me scoff as much as the dirty and greedy face, and then the arrogant honking of cars and motorcycles echoing through the streets and alleys, and the shouting full of expletives approached us little by little. I motioned for Wei Liqin to retreat deeper into the alley, while I quietly poked my head out to check the situation on the street outside.

A pickup truck with a bulldozer-like shovel on the front of the car was parked on the street leading to the main road where we were stationed, and they couldn't get close because of the abandoned trucks blocking the main road where we were. There were also about eleven or twelve marauders, who followed the pickup truck on motorcycles.

The convoy of men stopped at the intersection of the main road and the slip road leading to our factory, and a short, dark-skinned man stood majestically in the back of the pickup, shouting at the other marauders, as if on a mission. Then, to my surprise and what I didn't want to see, the robbers began a carpet search along the sidewalks on both sides of the main road in two columns, like a troop of hooligans looting the neighborhood. No matter what they're looking for, if Wei Liqin and I continue to stay here, sooner or later they will be discovered.

"Marauders?" Wei Liqin, who was behind me, whispered, "What's the situation now?" ”

"Very bad......" I looked at the group of robbers who were getting closer and closer to us, and the moment I wanted to shrink my head, I actually glanced at the leading bandit, so frightened that I quickly retracted my head, leaned against the wall tremblingly, and turned my head stiffly to look at Wei Liqin and said, "Pretty bad......