"Road? It's a miracle to survive. I laughed.

"Xie Tao, you throw another flashbang." Brother Kun shouted to Xie Tao in a sweat.

"No need." As soon as Xie Tao was about to take out the guy, I said, "It's useless to throw too much." ”

Seeing that the situation is getting worse and worse, the gradual exhaustion of physical strength makes our counterattacks start to become inadequate. If I'm not mistaken, we're running out of bullets. The group gradually transitioned from long-range shooting to close-range combat. I was about to jump down to support Li Qin when I caught the odds in the middle of a group of mutants in front of me. The sluggish footsteps and fat body can't be wrong, it must be a sarcoma monster.

"I see the fat man!" I shouted loudly, and before my teammates could respond, I set off and rushed towards the sarcoma.

The traffic jam just opened up a dedicated lane for me in the mutant-packed road. I stepped on the old cars, and I walked straight at the sarcoma monster like a plum blossom pile. There were no mutants stopping me along the way, and if they had a mind, they would have thought that I was strange as a "kind".

There were already more than a dozen cars under my feet, and the sarcoma monster was right in front of me, but just a few steps away, two wild dogs suddenly appeared out of nowhere. No, they're not wild dogs anymore, they're simply zombie dogs. There was no fur, only bloody smooth skin and festering limbs.

The two Cerberus swooped down on me without thinking, and I quickly cut off the head of one of them with my sword, but the other was overwhelmingly overwhelming. I was crushed against the front windshield of a car by a zombie dog, and the glass behind it had been cracked by me, making a creaking and cracking sound. My sword flew to the side just as I fell, and it was impossible to touch it, so I had no choice but to put my hands on the dog's neck. It propped its two front legs on either side of my cast, and its neck grew towards me, and its large, rotting mouth was in front of my nose, constantly exhaling a choking stench, and sticky saliva dripping all over my face. The heart-rending roar and the disgusting appearance made it impossible to imagine what a cute creature it was.

The glass beneath me eventually shattered like a hole in the surface of a frozen lake, but fortunately, car windshields are usually specially processed, and the whole windshield was crushed by us but didn't break too much glass shard. I lost my center at the same time as the zombie dog and fell into the cab of the car, and suddenly my right hand touched a long strip of metal, and I realized that it was the steering wheel lock of the car.

The zombie dog in front of me was ready to bite me again, and this time it was closer to my neck. In the midst of this, I grabbed the steering wheel lock and slashed through the entire cab and smashed the zombie dog's head. It whined, but didn't give up the attack. Seeing this, I quickly put the steering wheel lock sideways in front of me, and it just bit the metal crossbar of the lock. As soon as it bit down, I pushed it up so hard that its head hit the side of the windshield frame. The fierce Cerberus suddenly wanted to see its tail back away, and now it was my turn to hold on to it. I clamped my legs around the dog's body, and it realized that it could not retreat, and it looked backwards in a panic, and I immediately pushed it up again, and its head hit the side again, and it screamed in pain. I didn't stop, but instead took revenge and pushed up five or six times in a row, each time with more force and without giving it a chance to break free.

The zombie dog was powerless to struggle, in fact, it had already lost its breath, and when I put down my hand, its head was already embedded in the frame. I retracted into the cab, and the dog's body hung like bacon. I opened the car door, and the sarcoma monster had gone some distance, but not too far. So I retrieved my sword and strode through the crowd of zombies, the sarcoma seemed to sense that I was different, but it had no chance to resist, and when it turned around, I stabbed him to the ground with a thrust.

The mutants around me suddenly stood and convulsed in the same second, and I knelt on the ground with the sarcoma monster, and with a twist of my hand gripping the hilt of my sword, the yellow-green mucus of its upper body wrapped in a huge lump continued to overflow, and I lifted my hand upward, and the blade of the sword struggled to cut the bloated lump in two. The severed sarcoma revealed a blood-red sphere resembling a human head, so I pulled out my pistol and fired three shots at the object. The sarcoma's limbs twitched spasmodically with the sound of my gunshot, and eventually stopped moving...... It wasn't until two seconds later, when all the mutants around me had collapsed, that I rose from exhaustion in the undecided horror. In the distance, Xie Tao and the others already knew what was going on, and they all shouted victory to me excitedly.

Although Liao Zhuojun emphasized that even if these mutants had fallen, it was best for us to stab them in the head one by one, but everyone didn't want to stay here for too long, so after only killing a few of them, we hurried to leave this hellish place.

The fog hadn't cleared, but at least for the time being, there was no sign of the mutants. How long we have to go, we don't have a certain number in our hearts. I looked up at the foggy sun, and then at my watch, it was almost four o'clock, and if we couldn't find another shelter where we could spend the night, we would be in even more trouble.

"Look!" Uncle Zhong pointed to a gate in the bushes. Behind the gate was a deserted plaza with no sign of mutants or body bags.

"Are we there?" I craned my neck to look around, but I couldn't see the exact situation in the square under the fog, only that there was a tall building looming over there.

"This is the library." Liao Zhuojun pointed to the sign next to the gate, "It seems that we are almost there." ”

If I'm not mistaken, the library is not far from the plaza where we are going, and it can even be said that it is across the street, although it is now impossible to tell which street is which is which is the building. Xie Tao didn't say a word, easily climbed over the barricade of the door, and said to us through the door: "Let's go and have a look first, if the library is safe, we can still spend the night inside." ”

Everyone else also agreed with him, so Brother Kun also climbed over the door, as for the wide and fat uncle who had a little difficulty opening the door, and Liao Zhuojun also turned over with the help of me and Liu Yanjiang, as a female soldier, Li Qin naturally didn't need our help. The six of us were like fare evaders who had stumbled into some forbidden monument. In the past, I would have found it exciting, but now it's not just exciting, it's probably playing with life; Especially after the lesson of the chaos just now, we can't afford to encounter the toss of zombies again.

Maybe it was because we had just run out of bad luck, and we had a rare chance of getting to the library, where we didn't see a single mutant or a facility that was once used to deal with the virus crisis. Medical tents, isolation equipment, armed police vehicles...... There was nothing, and it felt like it had been forgotten without going through that virus crisis. The missing person notices and lockdown notices on the ground may also remind us that this place is not completely isolated, but when we see that the glass doors and walls of the library are intact, and the furnishings are still intact, the joy of discovering the last continent in the world arises, and this is a paradise!

A thick layer of ash has accumulated on the glass windows, and after erasing it, you can see that the inside has retained its original state before the epidemic, and although the potted plants in the lobby have withered, there is no other change. Just in case, we walked around the perimeter of the library, checking the doors and windows on one side of the first floor for signs of broken damage, and after making sure that no one had entered the library before us, we were relieved to find a back door that was slightly easier to pry open to enter the library.

Tens of thousands of books are preserved in this building, recording many of the wisdom of mankind, but when the end comes, they will be forgotten. Standing in the lobby of the library, looking at the reading rooms and library rooms with locked wooden doors around me, I couldn't help but sigh that if we survive this crisis, will there still be enough people who have the knowledge to rebuild the world, and maybe then we will find that the only thing we have at our disposal is killing.

Compared to the outside, the air inside the library remains relatively dry due to the locked doors and windows, but it is still difficult to breathe and feel oppressive. We went up to the second floor and decided to spend the night in a humanities and nature reading room. Uncle Zhong easily pried open the door of the reading room, and the dusty air suddenly formed a wind blowing in his face, and the sound of whining wind echoed throughout the library.

Rows of bookshelves occupy most of the space in the reading room, and there are rows of long tables at the end of the window, where people can sit and study. Ignoring the books on the shelves around us, we walked straight to the long table, and immediately sat down tiredly after dropping our bags. I sat on the floor against the wall, and I wasn't in much mood to pay attention to what the others were doing, remembering the small dagger that Chen Mo gave me before leaving. I decided to take it out and take a good look at it, I was embarrassed to look at it in front of her at the time, but now it's good that I finally have the time.

I hid the dagger on my waist, and I would never use it unless I had to. The sheath of the dagger is supposed to be made of mahogany, polished smooth, with only a simple ornamentation around the edges, and one side of the ear clasp is threaded through a red rope to help the sheath be securely fastened to the belt. Pulling out the dagger, the freshly sharpened blade immediately flashed with a cold light. Where did this girl get such a sharp guy? But if she wants me to use this little dagger for self-defense, I'm afraid she won't need it, and I'm going to use it as a talisman.

"Good thing, before leaving, Chen Mo gave it?" Xie Tao was holding compressed dry food, and his voice could only come from between his teeth.

"Hmm......" I glanced at Xie Tao, and my attention was quickly drawn to the dagger in my hand again.

"Let's take a sip of water." Xie Tao also sat down next to me and handed me the freshly unscrewed kettle in his hand.

I unceremoniously took the kettle, took a sip of it, and gave him a small "thank you......"

"Thanks? It's a bit like you. Xie Tao tore open the compressed dry food, broke a small half and gave it to me, "This is a private collection, there are not many of them." ”

I looked at the small wheat cube in my hand and reluctantly took a bite. "Heh, you brought it from Tianyang?"

"Well, this is the last piece, I found it the other day while I was packing up."

"That...... Do you remember how much of Tian Yang's incident, or what happened before that? ”

"Alas...... Now it's all about living one day at a time and forgetting one day ......at a time," Xie Tao sighed with emotion, "Otherwise, you will be tired of living in this world." ”

"Do you think Liu Licheng ...... them?"

"I guess it's hard to see." Before I could finish asking, Xie Tao concluded, "When I saw him for the last time, he was already surrounded by mutants. ”

"He's a good soldier." For a while, I felt Xie Tao's helplessness and sadness, but I couldn't comfort this strong soldier with words.

"Yes, he has always insisted on completing his mission......" Xie Tao lowered his head and hummed in a low voice, "...... Military ......"

No, I have to say something. Just when I wanted to comfort Xie Tao, he suddenly raised his head and looked at me with a word. Du Yuheng...... There's something I need to ......."

"Xie Tao!" Brother Kun, who was sitting at the other end of the table, interrupted Xie Tao's words at this time, and Xie Tao turned his head to look at Brother Kun in shock, he had been observing us, "Come here, I have something to discuss with you." ”

Xie Tao looked at me in embarrassment, so he had to get up and leave in embarrassment. In fact, as a soldier, Xie Tao would not be afraid of Brother Kun at all, even if he was our team leader, Xie Tao had no reason to be at his mercy. But I always felt that along the way, Xie Tao listened to Brother Kun's arrangement as if he was obeying the orders of the chief.

I hadn't even seen the look on his face when he looked at me...... No, I've seen it, I've seen it when I was in Tianyang...... Xie Tao didn't tell me what he wanted to say to me in the end, and in that case, I didn't ask too much so as not to embarrass him. At nightfall, the roars of mutants begin to be heard outside, as if they were having a zombie carnival, and we are carefully hiding in this forgotten building.

I couldn't sleep, so I decided to take a stroll around this reading room, and the others didn't sleep either, they were all doing their own thing, only Uncle Zhong slept properly. If you are more imaginative, you can think of the noise of the mutants as the sound of the waves on the shore at night. This is what Chen Mo told me, but unfortunately I am not as naïve as her. The rows of bookshelves are clearly a hint that I can rely on this hypnosis, yes, in the past, as long as I read a book, I could definitely sleep, at least this is the teacher's evaluation of me. I didn't expect someone to plan to spend the night with this method like me, Liao Zhuojun stood alone in front of a row of bookshelves with a flashlight, quietly and seriously looking at a book with the size and thickness of high school exercises in his hand.

"Can't sleep?"

My voice wasn't too loud, and I didn't mean to scare Liao Zhuojun, but she was still scared by me. She held the book to her chest in a panic, and the flashlight shot at me, and my vision was immediately occupied by white light. "Whew! Scared me. ”

"Alright, it's me." I said, covering my eyes.

"Sorry ......"

"It's strange if you're like this, if you don't get attacked." I walked up and saw her reading a book that was supposed to be about botany, "What are you looking at?" ”

"That's what I wrote." Liao Zhuojun proudly presented the book in front of me and said with satisfaction, "There should be a collection in every library in the country." ”

"Wow, you're really amazing. Look at you so young, so amazing. I quickly took the book in Liao Zhuojun's hand, looked at the position she pointed to, and really found that her name was written in the author's position.

Liao Zhuojun was obviously a little embarrassed, she smiled and scratched my hair and said, "You are just a seventeen or eighteen-year-old ghost, embarrassed to say that I am young?" ”

"I'm complimenting you." I smirked and flipped through this book that I couldn't understand at all, if it wasn't written by Liao Zhuojun, I wouldn't have even looked at it.

"I was stupid to think about it at the beginning, and I tried my best to write this book, but the natural disaster came within two months...... I guess few people have taken a good look at it......" Liao Zhuojun's words were mixed, but she still added strongly, "But it's okay, this is also a proof that I have lived." ”

"That is, there are libraries all over the country? Terrific. You see, at least your books will be well kept in this library, but no one will read them now. ”

"Hehe, I really don't know if you're praising me or hurting me." Liao Zhuojun smiled with tears in his eyes, and put the book back in its original place with relief.

We were just about to go back to where we were resting, when suddenly there was a commotion on the other side. Damn, mutants? Liao Zhuojun and I quickly turned off her flashlights and quietly hid behind the bookshelf. I saw a group of people rudely kick open the door of the reading room, and immediately controlled Brother Kun and Xie Tao after breaking in. The men were ragged and covered in a layer of rotting human skin, and several of them had blackened severed limbs around their necks. They were more or less scarred all over their bodies, and their faces were painted with the same totemic camouflage I've ever seen. Not wrong, they are converts.

The group were not young thugs, they were all strong, hideous-looking, with fresh traces of blood from their machetes, several of them armed with firearms, and they walked with a strong and powerful stride. Brother Kun and Xie Tao didn't have time to respond, and they didn't know where each other came from.

"Looks like rats are actually coming in." A bald-headed convert, fiddling with the axe in his hand, laughed in a deep voice, "Outsiders, you really don't give up. ”

"Are you converts?" Xie Tao asked.

"yes, it seems that you still know a little bit about us." The bald head approached Xie Tao, sniffed the smell on his body, glared and asked, "Do you know the Lord of Resurrection?" He's right here, isn't he? ”

Oops, how did he know about my existence? I guess they'll be searching this reading room, or even this library. You'll have to find a place to hide! Liao Zhuojun and I thought together, and she poked her head back, motioning for me to go with her.

"Lord of the Resurrection? Who would take such a funny name? "I told Xie Tao about this before, and he said this to ridicule me at the time, but I didn't expect it to sound like a bit righteous and awe-inspiring now.

The bald head punched Xie Tao in the face, and Xie Tao naturally couldn't fight back. Then, as I expected, the bald head ordered his men to search for my traces. We were two bookshelves away from them, and we couldn't fully grasp each other's exact location due to the lack of lights, but my night vision seemed to be much better than in the past after being bitten by mutants, so I could barely see what was going on around them, but more often than not, I could only judge if someone was approaching by the sound of footsteps around me. We found the back door before the converts approached, but it was locked and we couldn't open it. At this moment, one of the converts noticed the movement at the back door where we were, and he cautiously approached us with another companion.

Liao Zhuojun and I wanted to go back the way we came, but when we came, there was a convert standing next to the bookshelf on the way, and he was holding a flashlight to observe both sides of the bookshelf. The two converts who were walking towards us turned on their flashlights, ready to shine in our direction. I hurriedly pulled Liao Zhuojun to lean against the pillar beside me, just avoiding the light. Then the converts on the other end were already not far from us, and there were people approaching in both directions, and we were cornered. Should you rush out and fight with them? At this time, I really wanted to take out the plant vaccine and inject it into my arm, but not to mention that Lu Huaxiong reminded me not to do it, even if I wanted to do it, I didn't have the medicine on hand.

Liao Zhuojun and I leaned against the wall and racked our brains, and could only pray that the man would not come any closer...... The pillars blocked my view, and I saw that the circle of light shining on the door was getting wider and wider, and the sound of footsteps was almost close. Suddenly, a hand stretched out from the original position of Liao Zhuojun beside me, but I didn't see Liao Zhuojun. The hand came out of the wall, not from the fire door embedded in the wall.

I was hand-pulled into the fire door, and when I closed it, my eyes were dark, and I couldn't see anyone in the crowded space, I could only feel their presence. There's me, Liao Zhuojun, and another person, and we're trying our best to hold each other's breath, even our heartbeats are restrained.

Due to the lack of oxygen, my hearing began to blur and my consciousness was a little blurred, but I could still hear voices outside through the door. Don't open the door! Don't open the door......

The fire door was never opened, and after a long ten minutes, I heard a cathartic sound shutting the door as the gang left the reading room.

"Alright, let's open the door." A woman's voice whispered in my ear.

I hurriedly squeezed open the fire door and fell to the ground gulping in the air that wasn't fresh.

"Are you alright?" I looked up and saw Li Qin, dressed in camouflage uniform, crouching in front of me.

I knelt down and looked at Li Qin, who was not smiling, with a smile, and couldn't help asking, "Is it you?" How do you ......"

Li Qin pulled me and Liao Zhuojun to stand up, and said with a smile: "It seems that it is still a little good to be unable to sleep and read, isn't it?" ”