Chapter 47 Righteousness
The Prophet muttered an inexplicable incantation, her cold dagger dangling in the air, and to prevent me from resisting again, she intended to cut my throat through the side of my neck. The man behind me was holding on to my hair, and he threw all the gravity on me, making me completely immobile.
The skin on my neck could already feel the chill of the dagger, and my body trembled uncontrollably. At that moment, the man who was grabbing my hair suddenly let out a scream, and the hand that was holding my hair immediately released and lay on his back beside me in pain. None of them knew what was happening, and I, like them, knew nothing but the short arrow stuck in the chest of the deceased.
That's my silver lining! The prophetess was distracted by a sudden accident, and her hand holding the dagger was still hovering over my neck; Although there was a convert behind me, he was also a little lax. In an instant, I sprang forward and bit the Prophet's right hand like a desperate hound!
The dagger in her hand fell with a scream, and she punched and kicked me like a mad woman in a frenzy. Seeing this, the converts behind me quickly grabbed my hair, but I also picked up the dagger that had fallen to the ground, and stabbed him in the stomach several times, driven by instinct and revenge, without even having time to think. The man's eyes widened, he looked at me in despair, and knelt beside me with his hands on his bleeding belly.
I let go of the Prophet and kicked the convert to the wound so hard that it would cause the dagger to pierce him like a resentful willow nail into his body forever. I stood in front of the Prophet, kneeling on the ground with my blood-red palms, and angrily spat out unswallowed blood from the corpse of the fallen convert; I don't want this woman's crazy blood to remain in me.
The converts around the square rushed forward to try to subdue me, but for some reason none of them dared to act rashly. It's just a pity that this awe of theirs didn't last long. Led by two or three bold converts, others rose and rushed towards me.
Luckily, all they surrounded me was a semicircle. Naturally, this place was not suitable for a long time, and before the crowd of people approached, I turned around and tried to flee, but the prophetess at my feet still refused to give up, and clung to my feet. I tried to shake my legs, but to no avail, so I had to punch her in the face, and when she let go of her pain, I quickly pulled my legs and ran.
Originally, there was only a gas station behind me, but when I rushed in, I was met by a few converts who had arrived, and although there were many of them, they were all clumsy. I didn't know what the way out was, so I had to wander around aimlessly, in short, as long as I got rid of the pursuers behind me. After a few dodges, gunshots rang out from behind me, and several bullets pierced the air and hissed past my ears. From time to time, the objects on the left and right sparked, and I quickly hugged my head and lowered my body, like a headless fly, constantly changing course and trying to find cover.
Dare to shoot in a gas station, they are really crazy! An empty room flashed before my eyes, and I plunged into it; The first thing you do when you break in is lock the door. But stupidly, I forgot the security net on the window! It's over, isn't this just killing myself? After a while, the door was pounding and kicking and making an ominous noise. I quickly pushed to a cabinet next to the door and blocked it, hoping it would hold off for a while. There was also invective from the converts, and the two windows on one side of the door were suddenly strafed, and the curtains hanging by the windows were torn to pieces, and I had to lie down and wait for their angry shooting to end.
After a strafing that was ineffective except to vent his anger, a short gap of respite ensued. I took the opportunity to crawl around the room, hoping to find some secret door or window without a security net. Alas, Du Yuheng, be realistic, there is no secret door at all, if you were really so lucky, you would not have fallen into the current field. But who put the life-saving arrow just now? Judging by the length of the arrow, it does not look like a bow and arrow...... More like ......
Crossbow!
"Du Yuheng." A man's deep voice came from the window on the other side of the room. I leaned over and looked, oh my! I didn't expect me to be so happy when I saw Wei Hong!
"Wei Hong!" I was overjoyed and leaned at the window and laughed, "Were you the one who saved me just now?" ”
"Nonsense!" Wei Hong crooked his mouth proudly and took out a pair of hydraulic scissors, "You get out of the way, I'll open the window for you." ”
"Quick! They might be shooting again. ”
"Don't worry, they won't." Wei Hong smiled confidently, I was still wondering if he had brought someone else and was already preparing to attack the converts outside the door, "They will set fire." ”
As soon as Wei Hong's words fell, several rockets were immediately fired into the window on the side of the door, and at the same time, several incendiary glass bottles smashed in. But compared with me, who was terrified, Wei Hong, who was busy cutting the anti-theft net, was quite calm.
"Hurry up!" The fire spread in the room, but Wei Hong was still unhurried, and I couldn't wait to stick my body against the wall.
"I can't help it." Wei Hong used the hydraulic shears he didn't know where to get the anti-theft net out of a square, and moved out of the way to signal that I could escape.
The fire had consumed most of the contents of the house, and everything around it seemed to be burning; Aren't these fools afraid to set fire to a gas station? The sudden surge of toxic fumes in the air indicates that I don't have much time to think. With Wei Hong's help, I was embarrassed to get out of the hole in the security net. Before I could catch my breath, Wei Hong led me away from the building that had been engulfed in flames.
"How did you end up here?" I asked Wei Hongdao while I was busy checking my body.
"After you were taken away, we decided to divide the army into two ways, me and a few brothers came to save you, and the others went to find Huang Weizheng and them." Wei Hong walked in front with his back to me, although I didn't know whether he knew the way or not, but now I had no choice.
"Then we're ...... now"
"Now we'll meet up with the other people who have come to save you, and then we'll go to the others." Wei Hong led me to the glass door of a shopping mall. A circle was drawn on the glass door with graffiti spray, which should be Wei Hong's code. After Wei Hong saw this circle, the tense muscles on his face also relaxed slightly.
He turned around, looked at me, and laughed, "Dude, you really suck like this. ”
"yes, I think so." I shook the ashes off my body and looked at Wei Hong, who was dim and tired in the firelight, "You're no better." ”
Wei Hong led the way into the mall, his thick-soled combat boots made a crunch when he stepped on the glass shards, and the competitive crossbow in his hand was attached to a flashlight, which shone enough to make me see the road ahead. From time to time, some trivial sounds could be heard from the depths of the mall, and due to nervous tension, even the slightest sound was developed by my subconscious. I kept telling myself that the voices didn't matter, but the ghostly roars still made people tremble.
"Are you sure it's safe here?" After all, I couldn't help but ask Wei Hong this stupid question.
"It's hard to say." Wei Hong's voice was very low, as if he was deliberately hinting that I should also lower my voice, "Although they left a mark, I can't say what will happen after the commotion just now." ”
It's not the first time I've crawled through a dark mall, but my heart hasn't slowed down because of my experience. I was soaking wet, and the wind in the mall kept draining my body temperature, and I shivered from the cold. Our field of view is quite limited, and the only thing we can see is inside the aperture of the flashlight, and beyond that, it's pitch black. Wei Hong's flashlight swept over the messy shelves from time to time, most of the area here should have been scavenged by the survivors, and most of the rest were useless things, and the slick models on the clothing display cases made people feel inexplicably eerie at this time. Unlike outside the Dead City Forest, there are also many small plants growing in the buildings here, although they are not too dense, but you can imagine what will become of this place in a few years.
After walking for a while, I trembled and began to grumble. "Didn't you agree on an exact joint location before?"
"It's an area we're not familiar with. Besides, the time to save you was tight at that time, so how could I have the time to survey the terrain. Wei Hong was still concentrating on finding our companions, "But you're right, it's just a waste of time to do this......"
Before Wei Hong's words were finished, a series of noises suddenly came from deeper into the mall, first the fragmented sound of a large number of things being pushed down and falling to the ground, and then the sound of people running and knocking down the surrounding obstacles. With the sound of rapid running, several flashlights swept irregularly in front of us, and we could hear the hysterical gasps of two or three people as they ran wildly and the screams of the mutants who followed.
"Oops!" Wei Hong immediately covered the light of the tactical flashlight with his hand and pulled me to hide in the corner.
"Go and save them." I was in a hurry, shook off Wei Hong's hand, and was about to run out, but was immediately pulled back by Wei Hong.
"Don't want to die? In this case, to encounter a mutant is to die. And we don't know if those people are friendly or not. Wei Hong shouted in a low voice.
Although it was not very comfortable to listen to, what Wei Hong said made sense. I poked my head out, and the group of mutants didn't run in our direction any longer. The three or two swaying flashlights, the rays of helplessness, and the gasps of helplessness almost made me imagine their desperate faces.
I couldn't bear it, and said to Wei Hong: "The sign at the door just now indicates that our companions are here, and I don't want to find out that these people are them after a while. ”
Wei Hong was no longer surprised by the angry expression on my face, and he frowned: "I don't want to, but we can't save them if we rush out in this state, and maybe we will send them to death." ”
To be honest, at this moment, I can't wait to take a picture of Wei Hong's expression with the camera, his current appearance and tone of speech are exactly the same as Huang Weizheng.
There was a thud, and one of the fleeing men fell to the ground, and I could see his flashlight slipping some distance on the ground. We couldn't see anything but the light of a flashlight, but a tragic picture of despair already came to my mind.
"No, I'm going to save them."
I made up my mind and was about to rush out of the corner, thinking that if Wei Hong stopped me again, I would move my fist. As a result, several gunshots rang out from the other side of the mall, and from the light of the fire, it was clear that the person who fired the shot was in a store not far from us. It seemed as if a few mutants had been knocked down, but the rest seemed to be enraged by the casualties of their companions, and their roars quickly approached the shop.
"Run!!" The gunman who saved someone's life was a woman, and she was still thinking about the man who fell down at this juncture.
The woman's voice sounds familiar, but due to the sheer volume of her voice, her voice has been somewhat out of tune. The sudden situation made me forget the righteous indignation just now, and at this time, Wei Hong behind me suddenly shouted: "It's Wu Fei!" Damn, it's Wu Fei! ”
I'm going to have to collect the body of that willful woman any longer, and I don't know why, but at this time, I even think it's a stupid move for her to shoot. Wei Hong gritted his teeth and thumped his chest, and I pulled his saber from his waist.
"Let's go!"
Wei Hong also decided to have a reckless confrontation with me at this time, he lifted the competitive crossbow in his hand, let go of the external flashlight, and in one fell swoop he hit the mutant who was about to rush into the store. Only a click was heard, and the bolt pierced through the rotting head of the mutant in the middle of the air. I took advantage of Wei Hong's cover and shouted and rushed towards the mutants, a rush of killing excitement arose in my chest, I didn't expect me to laugh as I ran, it was a bloodthirsty smile.
I slammed into a mutant with a sliding blade, and the saber in my hand took a look at its head, and after a cushion, it plunged right into the open space between the mutant and the shop. I heard someone in the shop behind me asking my name in surprise. I don't have time to introduce myself right now; The lights on Wei Hong's side illuminated the mutants I was about to face, and they swarmed in groups of three or five, like hungry wolves carrying a hundred meters of murderous aura as bloody as me.
But just as I was about to raise my knife and get up, the group of mutants froze in place when they were a short distance away from me, and were even knocked down by the latecomers who followed, and the mutants who followed were also frozen there like those puppet models, and for a moment, all the mutants who were going to fight with me were piled up in front of me. At this time, I remembered my current situation, and I didn't expect that the impatience just now made me forget that I am different now.
"God, what's going on here?" Wu Fei walked out from behind me and patted me on the shoulder in admiration.
Wei Hong trotted over and asked me the same question as Wu Fei, but at the moment they were more interested in the group of staggering mutants. The other person who was rescued by us also came over to watch the fun. Apparently they were all stunned by what they saw. As if experiencing a fifth type of contact, he was stunned and cautiously approached the mutants piled up in the middle of the aisle.
"Why is that?"
"I don't know." I shrugged my shoulders and stepped forward, and Wu Fei looked at me with no worries like at the beginning, more excitement and amazement
"They...... He's dead? Wei Hong also raised his crossbow and aimed at the mutant closest to him.
"No, I just can't move." I walked over to the mutant in front of Wei Hong and stabbed it in the head; In fact, the rotten heads of these walking dead are so easy to pierce that it feels like they need to be used to poke through a cardboard box, "If we don't want them to get up again later, we're going to do it."
Hearing me say this, everyone else honestly took out the sharp weapons in their hands and pierced the heads of mutants one by one. Even I was the first time I had killed so many mutants so easily, easier than killing pigs, no, it was not so much slaughtering livestock as destroying the watermelons in the watermelon field.
On the other side, the team of people who were rescued by us were actually Wei Hong's companions, but I didn't talk about what Wei Hong had just told me, and they all thanked us over and over again. We were resting in a relatively secluded and secure warehouse on the higher floors of the mall, and after we had settled in, they began to talk about what had just happened in a scared manner, but I didn't care much about it. And Wu Fei was different from me, she actually took out a bag of melon seeds from her bag and started chatting with the other three people.
Seeing that I was not in place, Wei Hong kindly leaned over and took out a windproof jacket from his backpack and threw it to me. "You're all wet, why don't you change into this coat?"
"I don't know if it's sweat or rain." I might as well take off my clothes that had been ravaged to the point of obedience.
Wei Hong noticed that the knife wound on my shoulder was still bleeding, so he threw me a packet of hemostatic patches and a small bottle of alcohol in a plastic bottle. "This is a special hemostatic bandage for the troops. You wash the wound with alcohol and then stick it on. Let's wait until we're out of the forest to deal with it. I don't know if it was because of curiosity or concern, but he still helped me check the wound, and said to himself while helping me clean and stop the bleeding, "The wound doesn't seem to be as deep as I thought, but you still don't move your left shoulder as much." ”
"Hmm." I whispered a few words, put on the coat given by Wei Hong, and after zipping up, I took the wrong body to let my body temperature recover quickly. Strange to say, for a while I forgot that I still had a wound on my shoulder, maybe because my overdrawn body was used to the pain.
"You already knew you had that ability, didn't you?" Wei Hong found a seat next to me.
"Hmm......" I sighed, "it's been like this since I was bitten by a mutant." I said, pointing to the wound on my neck and shoulder.
"I saw it just now." Wei Hong lightly tapped me with his fist sympathetically, "If you don't die in a great disaster, you will be blessed." ”
"It's not like a blessing." I smiled wryly, "I know, you're all afraid of me like this...... I've gotten out of control a few times......"
Speaking of this, I immediately felt Wei Hong's subtle vigilance, so I hurriedly added: "But there is a reason, if I don't get injected with a drug, I will be fine, you can rest assured." ”
Wei Hong understood why I said this, and smiled awkwardly. "It's okay, if you have a problem, I'll kill you cleanly."
"That's good......" I stretched out my hand laughing at myself, "I didn't expect to meet you here, thank you for saving me just now." By the way, why did you suddenly come to the Dead City Forest? ”
"We arranged for the people in Wanxiang City to report that a group of people in Wanxiang City had been captured by the Jiangshang people, and Wei Jiahui from the Jiangshang people wanted to negotiate terms with Wanxiang City. When they learned that the captured scavengers were originally going to do some experiments in the Dead City Forest, Mayor Liao and the others became interested in this matter. Although Aoyama didn't care about Wanxiang City falling out with the people of the river, he was very interested in the experiment that was supposed to be carried out, so he sent us to find the camp where the scavengers were originally in the forest, and even if there was any equipment left behind, we could speculate what they were going to do. ”
I thought back to what I saw and heard in Wanxiang City, as well as my own embarrassing experience, and said, "Actually, there seem to be many breakthroughs in Wanxiang's research recently. ”
"Yes, since the Qingshan Incident, Wanxiang City has received the armed buses of the Bikers and the route map of the Dead City Forest, and has also received the plant vaccine of the surviving officers of the downed plane...... And, in fact, I found that they have been researching vaccines all along, and the manpower and material resources invested are much greater than those of Tsingshan, to be honest. ”
"Their primitive looting has provided a lot of resources for their research...... "Wei Hong was unwilling, "Qingshan also made some progress a few days ago. Did you know that there is a weather forecast station on Aoyama? ”
"Weather station?"
"Well, we replied to the electricity, and the other day we received the first satellite map, the first survey of the terrain of Nanning. I heard that communication signals from other places were also received. ”
"You mean Aoyama got in touch with the outside?"
"No, the signal is good and bad, and the call hasn't been successful. Since you have seen the officer who crashed the plane, you should know about Hainan, right? ”
"Hainan?" In fact, all I know about Yang Shanao is that the so-called vaccine he brought is not a good thing for me, and I have never heard of Hainan or Henan. But when I was locked in the basement, I heard Lu Huaxiong talk about Yang Shanao's vaccine, and I know a little about that thing.
"That officer's name is Yang Shanao, right, Wu Fei reported his affairs after he came back. That person was an officer of the army who came from Hainan. According to him, government agencies in Hainan are still functioning, and the central government has established a safe zone there and developed a vaccine against the mutant plants. And that officer Yang is responsible for transporting vaccines to the military base in Gansu. ”
"It doesn't look as bad out there as it seems."
"That's what the officer said, and we can't take it seriously. So after getting in touch with the satellite, we tried to take a satellite picture of Hainan and try to get in touch with that side. ”
"And the result?"
"Controlling the satellite to shoot is also a decision that the mayor just made before we came out, but the communication signal, as I told you just now, there is a problem with the signal, after all, most of the signal base stations have lost contact."
"It seems that if Tsingshan and Wanxiang City cooperate, maybe the epidemic can really be solved."
"Du Yuheng, after going through so much, do you still believe that the two of them will cooperate? What's more, now the originally neutral Jiangshang people have been mixed in again. ”
"I don't believe it's possible, but it's really promising."
Wei Hong saw that my eyes were shining, and he didn't want to splash me with cold water, so he had to smile and say, "Alas, you said that you have become like this, and you are still like this." If you want me to say something good about you. ”
"Hehe, even if I don't have a chance to continue living, you should fight for all possibilities, shouldn't you?" When I said this, I didn't feel a little lost in my heart, and when I looked at Wei Hong, who was slightly gloomy, I still had some sympathy for him.
"Don't sit on the sidelines and talk to yourself." Wu Fei, who was sitting on the other side and listened to the story, suddenly interrupted our conversation, and beckoned Wei Hong and me to come over while laughing, "Listen to this." ”
Wu Fei's voice was raised a lot, and I don't know if she did it on purpose, I was worried that if I didn't go over, it would cause her to make trouble, so I motioned to Wei Hong to listen to their so-called wonderful experience.
"That's it." Wei Hong's words just gave Wu Fei and them a chance to tell the synopsis.
"After finding a relatively safe place, Sister Fei was in charge of staying behind, we originally wanted to leave a few guide marks for you in the mall, but we didn't expect to push open the door that should be a warehouse." A man I didn't know said, "Guess what we saw?" ”
"Oh, you just sold it, say it." Wu Fei said anxiously.
"A bunch of mutants."
"Yes, but not all." Another man corrected my speculation and said, "That's a room full of dead people." ”
"You can't see a room full of dead people for the first time." Wu Fei swallowed melon seeds disdainfully, maybe she forgot that she was an ordinary person in the past, not to mention a room of dead people, even if she saw a dead person, I estimate that she would be scared half to death.
"Yes, a room full of dead people is nothing, but those dead people have sprouted......"