"I haven't seen it and I don't know what's going on." I replied as if I was shirking my responsibility.

"Fortunately, this is a bank, and there is explosion-proof ......"

"Big brother, don't talk so early......" I interrupted Wei Liqin and pointed my gun at the roller shutter that was slowly opening.

It is believed that the dead security guard had tried to open the roller shutter before, and turned the switch to the opening gear, which was supposed to be opened before the power outage, and then was forced to abort but kept the trend of opening, and the bank could not stay. Although mutants are photophobic, they are also keen to destroy light sources, so it can be said that they are both photophobic and phototaxitic, which is not a good thing anyway.

Sure enough, a group of mutants had already arrived in front of the bank, staring at the three of us living gift bags like a crowd of people eager to participate in the New Year's purchase. Although the glass of the bank has been strengthened, it gradually makes a creaking and moaning sound after several rounds of beating by the mutants, and cracks appear on the surface, and the small cracks expand little by little, and more and more mutants gather outside the bank, and many mutants lying on the glass are actually crushed by their heads alive by the same kind behind them, and become a puddle of flesh and mud. We can only stand there as if we were about to be executed, unable to do anything about what is happening outside the window.

I mustered up the courage to run to the opening and closing of the shutter to turn it back, but something seemed to be stuck in its card slot and the door could only get stuck in mid-air, and the mutants could easily walk under the shutter by crouching down, and after that the glass door was useless, and some mutants who noticed the hole began to approach the door. The first mutant to break into the bank had already broken through our already failed security guards, pushing open the glass door and rushing towards me.

Before I could react, a steel arrow swooped in front of my eyes, striking the mutant in the temple. The mutant fell to the ground in response, and Zhang Xiaoying immediately walked over, pulled out a steel arrow and pulled out something like a can. She pushed me behind me as if she was protecting her brother and said, "Go to the back of the counter." ”

"What are you going to do?" I looked at the calm Zhang Xiaoying and asked.

Zhang Xiaoying didn't explain too much, but showed the "can" in her hand. When I looked closely, it turned out to be a grenade!

"Where did you get that?"

My rambling was a waste of time, Zhang Xiaoying nodded with her chin in the direction of the counter and urged me to explain, "Xie Tao's." ”

Finding that I was a little cumbersome, I quickly shut down and honestly hid behind the safer counter, but I didn't expect Wei Liqin to hide here obediently and wait to see a good show. After I walked away, Zhang Xiaoying saw the opportunity, skillfully pulled open the safety ring of the grenade, quickly opened the glass door and threw her body outward, and then immediately ran towards us.

As soon as we saw the grenade roll into the zombie crowd, Wei Liqin and I quickly hid under the counter like two gophers, covering our ears and waiting for the earth-shattering explosion. Zhang Xiaoying ran into the counter and slid in front of me, and as soon as she shook her head and covered her ears, I heard a deafening explosion. The ground seemed to rise suddenly, and we thundered like many things around us, and the pungent smell of smoke filled the entire bank in an instant, and the chaotic air currents obscured our view with thick smoke, and we heard a series of echoes in our ears in a burst of humming. Wei Liqin and I were still choking our noses and busy fanning away the smoke and dust in front of us, and a slender hand and hands suddenly appeared in front of us.

Zhang Xiaoying pulled me and Wei Liqin up; Hazy could hear her urging her to leave. The three of us staggered out of the counter, the lobby of the bank was shaken beyond recognition by the shockwave, the flying papers and papers fell one after another, the limbs of the mutants were scattered to the ground, the glass was shattered, and the flesh and blood were scattered all over the bank, and the roller shutters were also blown out of shape, and the mutants who fell to the ground were like tortured ghouls in purgatory, dragging their mutilated bodies, struggling to approach us.

Still not to be taken lightly at this point, I stomped on the head of a mutant on the ground with only half of his face left, and examined the situation around me in disgust. The area around the shattered glass window seems to be relatively safe, and the mutants outside the street are basically attracted to the door to be eliminated by the explosion just now, but there are still many wandering in the street. Although the street lights have weakened their mobility, the sheer number of them is still a challenge for us.

"Follow me!" I raised my arms and trotted out of the bank, eliminating a few mutants along the way who were not dead, opening the way for Zhang Xiaoying and Wei Liqin, who were following in my footsteps.

Stopping and stopping along the way, we turned a corner and rested under a slightly brighter billboard. The mutants on this street must have been drawn to the bank, and there is no sign of them nearby.

"You have to find a place to hide right away." Zhang Xiaoying looked around and said, "With such a big movement just now, the mutants in this area must have been alarmed. ”

"Why don't you rush back to the factory."

Wei Liqin's idea is of course the best fantasy, and I hope to get it, but it must be impossible. "No, now we don't even know where we are, let alone go back to the factory."

"Don't talk about it yet, it's not very safe here."

I nodded in response to Zhang Xiaoying's judgment, but I didn't expect to glance at it in a hurry, and I seemed to see something flashing next to a private house next to me. Zhang Xiaoying was also aware of this, and she and I both glanced at the fleeting point of light in the darkness, and then tacitly looked at each other.

We both seemed to know what we wanted to say to each other, but I decided it would be better to make sure. "Did you see that too?"

"Well, it should be a flashlight or something." It seems that it is not an illusion, Zhang Xiaoying saw the same as me, if this is the case, then it means that there is someone hidden in that building.

In the face of Zhang Xiaoying's keen insight and me, Wei Liqin's clumsy reaction was a little dwarfed. He glanced back at the private building we were looking at, and asked impatiently with nothing, "What did you two see?" ”

"To that building,......" I had not finished speaking, and the sound of the gate shutting could be heard from far and near as a rain shower. In the blink of an eye, the entire neighborhood was once again enveloped in eerie darkness. Even so, I continued to finish the remaining two words on and off, "Again...... Say ......"

"Holy! What kind of joke is this? Wei Liqin looked up to the sky and complained.

"Attention, attention!" I picked up the gun to alert, and at the same time reminded Zhang Xiaoying and Wei Liqin, "Everyone get closer!" ”

The three of us were each responsible for one direction back to back, and we were on guard in a triangular formation. The dark wind that accompanied the darkness passed through us like an evil spirit, and the chill on my back instantly spread to my whole body, and I knew that it was the coldness brought by fear. The last street light in sight went out, and we could only see each other with the help of the moon's rays, and the visual distance was suddenly reduced to about five meters. I could hear the murmurs coming from the alleys around us, the howls of hunger and thirst like a sharp knife aimed at us, ready to pierce our tired bodies. Pairs of green fluorescent dots of light jumped and sometimes slowly surrounded us in the darkness, and the pungent rancid smell followed.

Creepy howls drew nearer and nearer, and ghostly figures paced out of the darkness, rotting skins wrapped around the soulless skeletons like a herd of hungry beasts gathering towards us. Zhang Xiaoying took it out of her backpack; I thought she was going to pull out some kind of grenade, but it turned out to be a survival signal baton. The flamed rods emitted an orange-red glow, which immediately lit up the surroundings, and we realized that at this time there were dense mutants gathered around us, they were startled by the firelight, and they fled backwards in horror, but after discovering that the light from the signal rods was just a candlelight compared to the infinite darkness, these walking dead slowly moved closer to us.

"Are you going to die here?"

"Impossible!" Before Wei Liqin's despair spread, I immediately interrupted, "We have survived all those bullshit things in Tianyang, how can we die here!" ”

Zhang Xiaoying, who had been concentrating on finding a countermeasure, woke up her nose, pointed to the house where we all suspected someone was hiding just now, and said, "Find a way to rush into that building, and we will be safe." ”

"You know again?"

"Just now, Du Yuheng and I both felt that there were people, and it seemed that they were trying to contact us, if that's the case, they should also be able to help us."

"What if they're asking us for help?"

Wei Liqin was right to think so, but we had no choice, and the only thing that could provide us with shelter was the one with a unit security door.

"I can only do what Zhang Xiaoying said first!" The flare of the signal rod was fading, and I immediately decided, "If we quarrel any longer, we'll all die here!" I opened the way, Zhang Xiaoying was in charge of support, and Wei Liqin covered our rear. ”

Wei Liqin was a little reluctant, but the current situation made him have to obey my arrangement, he picked up the submachine gun and turned sideways to prepare: "Okay, let's go!" ”

After adjusting the formation, after my gunshot eliminated the first mutant, the other mutants retreated in horror, but immediately gathered at us. Wei Liqin and I fired several more shots, and every time the shots rang out, the monsters instinctively ducked around, and we took advantage of this brief gap to immediately start approaching the house. In fact, we were not far from that building, but there were already countless mutants standing within a distance of more than ten meters, and they began to move gradually and rapidly under the fading signal rod held by Zhang Xiaoying, and the difficulty of hitting them also began to increase. Fortunately, the distance is not far, and even if you can't kill them with one shot, the damage to these undead ghosts is still relatively significant. I was busy blasting the mutant's rotten head and shouting for help, fantasizing that in the next second, someone in that building would pop up to give us fire support.

However, the locked security door of the unit is close in sight, but there is still no movement upstairs. Should I break the lock of the unit door and rush in? If we do, the door will be useless, and we will end up a dead end, but there is no other way for us to go. The aperture of the flare rod's fire is getting weaker, the mutants are getting more freaked, and our bullets are dwindling.

I'm really going to die here...... Listening to the repeated roar of the bullets fired from the chamber of the gun under the impact of the firing pin, the panicked shouts of Zhang Xiaoying and Wei Liqin beside me became blurred, and my hands clenching the rifle gradually became numb.

After firing a full 30 rounds, I quickly replaced the new magazine, and the ammunition that I had managed to replenish was on the verge of shortage. I yelled upstairs in frustration and said, "Damn! I know you're hiding inside! If you don't open the door again, Lao Tzu will break the lock of this door to see how long you can hide! ”

In fact, at this time, I have begun to wonder if there is anyone in this building, maybe it was just me and Zhang Xiaoying's hallucination. If so, it's better to burst the door lock, hide in the building, and live one more second!

We finally came to the door, and Wei Liqin changed into the last magazine. Zhang Xiaoying and I looked at each other, and she seemed to know what I was going to do, and nodded firmly in support of me. All right! It doesn't matter so much!

I aimed the muzzle of the gun at the turquoise security door lock, and was about to pull the trigger with my fingers, but the door suddenly opened, and a woman in her thirties pulled the door with one hand and a tin can in the other; This time I read that right, it's really canned, and I don't know what she's trying to do with this, but it's not a grenade anyway.

"What are you doing standing stupidly? Come on in! The woman shouted at the top of her voice.

Isn't this nonsense? It's been so long before you open the door, and you're embarrassed to say that! Of course, I'm just complaining in my heart, and now is not the time to curse.

After killing the nearest mutants, we hurried into the unit building. The woman took out a lighter from her jacket pocket, lit the "lead" on the can, calmly threw it out, and then closed the security door with her hand.

Wait, that thing has a "lead"?

There was a slamming sound outside the door, and the cat's eye of the security door and the gap in a furniture-blocked window in the room on the first floor suddenly flashed a long-lasting white light, followed by the howl of a group of mutants. These hellish wails sounded painful, and it didn't take long for them to dissipate into the night that had already been disturbed. We all looked back in amazement, wondering what was happening outside the door, only the woman walked up the steps to the second floor as if nothing had happened.

"Come on." The woman said with her back to us.

We looked at each other without saying much, and for some reason, whether it was politeness or something else, we walked up the steps very slowly. The woman led us to a three-bedroom and two-living room suite on the third floor, where several windows with security nets were opened, and a slightly cold breeze drifted into the messy room. As soon as I entered, I saw a soft fabric sofa in the center of the living room, with a thick quilt on it, and cans of various flavors and beer scattered around the sofa.

After entering the door, the woman closed the door, climbed onto the sofa lazily as if she wanted to go back to her own home, took out the dagger behind her back and hid it in the sofa, wrapped it in a quilt, found a comfortable position and looked at us on her side, thought about it and said, "There is still a quilt in the inner room, you can take it yourself." ”

"This ...... Is it your home? Wei Liqin asked.

"Sort of." The woman replied simply, "That's the flashbang I made just now, you don't have to ask." ”

Wei Liqin was still standing in place, Zhang Xiaoying and I had already taken out two other quilts and a thick blanket from the room, and found a slightly warmer position in the living room to sit down.

It's a little strange that this man doesn't worry about our bad intentions; Is it because we don't look like bad people? I didn't ask, and the woman didn't say much. She was just half-lying on her couch, watching us move in and out of her house as if nothing had happened.

Once everything was settled, the room was calm again, the wind whining outside the window, and the angry cries of mutants still echoed downstairs. Neither of us spoke, until it was me again who broke the silence. "Uh...... Thank you for saving us. ”

"No, I don't. I opened it when I saw that you scolded so fiercely just now, otherwise I wouldn't have survived tonight. ”

The woman didn't seem very friendly, and I smiled awkwardly, "Huh? Hehe, that's just a momentary rush. ”

I was still trying to save my face, and Zhang Xiaoying asked sharply: "We saw a light in this building just now, it was you ......"

"Yes." This woman's momentum is not weak at all, "I originally wanted you to come in, but I didn't expect you to attract so many zombies." ”

"No way, mutants are more difficult to deal with at night."

"Mutants? That's what you call those monsters? ”

"Hmm." I nodded sheepishly.

"A group of young people...... But you're also amazing, you can wield knives and guns, and you can kill so fiercely. The woman's first suppression and then promotion made me not know how to refute it, "It doesn't look like you are the people who have been here for a long time, where did you come from?" ”

"Bose."

"Great, just the three of you?"

"...... Return"

"No more!" Wei Liqin was just about to tell the truth innocently, but I immediately replied, "It's just the three of us." ”

"Hmph, that's not true." The woman had probably already seen through my thoughts, she looked out the window thoughtfully, her half-squinted eyes smeared with gray haze, "I can understand what you say, it seems that you still have a lot of partners...... You remind me of my students......"

"Students?" I wondered, "You're a teacher?" ”

"That's right, I'm a teacher at Guangxi University, teaching chemistry and chemical engineering."

I hadn't paid much attention to it before, but when she said that, I really thought that this woman looked a bit like a witch; Of course, I didn't mean to scandalize her, but if I had put a pair of metal-rimmed glasses on her pointy, high nose and held an old thick leather book, I would have said she would be the mysterious witch of a fantasy novel. Looking at her slightly faded youthful glow, I seemed to feel the coldness of her solidified heart.

"So you've been alone here for a long time?" I continued.

"Sort of, I didn't catch up with the evacuated team before."

"I see. You just said that you are a teacher at Guangxi University, so you should recognize Zhang Xizheng, right? "Since the other party knows that there are more than three people in our team, I simply don't bother to hide too much," I heard that he had organized an evacuation at the university before. ”

"Do you recognize Zhang Xizheng? He's alive? The woman was surprised, "He's a professor at the Faculty of History, but we all know each other." ”

"We've just merged with his team, so why don't you join in, there's a lot of strength in everyone." Wei Liqin took it for granted and said, "Anyway, no matter how powerful you are, you can't live here alone for long." ”

The woman seemed to be a little interested in Wei Liqin's proposal, but she hadn't put it down yet. She asked me tentatively, "You set up camp?" ”

"The camp is not a camp, but I just found a safe place to stay for a while." I took out a compressed biscuit from my bag, gave some to Wei Liqin and Zhang Xiaoying, and politely motioned to the woman if she could also taste it, but she declined, so she continued, "I'm not sure where I'm going next, it may be Qingshan, I heard that someone has set up a relatively safe base over there." ”

"You're going to Castle Mountain?"

"It should be, what's wrong?" This woman had ignored us a few minutes ago, but now the change in her attitude of concern was unexpected to me, and at the same time aroused my vigilance.

"It's nothing, it's just that the forces of the surviving camps over there are complicated, are you sure it's the right choice to go to Qingshan?" The woman asked, waving her hand to hide her secrets.

However, this sentence more or less resonated with me. Although Zhang Xizheng didn't say it explicitly, I am sure that this guy has already made plans to go to Qingshan. And after Huang Weizheng relinquishes the right to command, it will only cause us to lose the absolute decision power of the team. But then again, what's the use of me being in such a hurry? If I had said that, I would have been seen by others as a diehard against unity, and I would have to suffer this kind of dumb loss.

"So what are you going to do? Come with us or stay here? "Zhang Xiaoying has always spoken so directly, I guess she has forgotten that she only met us this morning.

The woman looked down and thought for a moment, then finally replied, "Okay, I'll go with you." ”

As soon as the woman agreed, Wei Liqin pulled me aside with concern and whispered, "Hey, you just brought another person to join, don't you plan to discuss with Huang Weizheng and them first?" ”

"Discuss? What to discuss? Wei Liqin's words sounded a little awkward, and I didn't understand, "Do you want us to go back first and then have a meeting with them and then come and invite them over?" Just kidding, I can't even call the shots about this? ”

Seeing that I was a little stunned, Wei Liqin hurriedly extinguished the fire and explained: "You misunderstood, I mean, are you sure that there is no problem with this woman?" ”

"What could be the problem? She saved us, okay! Are we going to give her an assessment test, so you say? Do you want to give Zhang Xiaoying a copy too? ”

As I spoke, my voice couldn't help but increase a lot, Wei Li Qinqiang smiled and pulled me to a farther room and said, "Du Yuheng, I know that you are angry now, but you also have to know that we can't accept a stranger so hastily, at least not at this time." ”

"Then why can we team up with Zhang Xizheng and them so hastily?"

"Didn't you agree then? Didn't you go to negotiate with Huang Weizheng and them? ”

"Negotiations? What did I talk about? I didn't even give a room, so I got into a fight for no reason, and I was locked up for about an hour, and then we were on a team with that group. If you call me sloppy, then tell me what is it called? Well thought out? ”

I scolded all the unhappiness in my heart in one breath, and I guess no matter how good this room is, there is no way to stop my words from entering the living room. Wei Liqin, who was usually very arrogant, frowned and looked at me who was trying to adjust my breathing, and had nothing to say.

"I'm sorry to ......," Wei Liqin thought for a long time, held out a word of apology, and turned around and left the room.

I wanted to go out with him and try to apologize or something, but when I think about it, why would I do it? It's clear that the victim is me! So I let out a long sigh and leaned against the cold wall, hoping to calm my irritability.

"Hey......" After a while, the woman appeared in front of the door of the room, and she greeted me casually but with some embarrassment, "Are you okay?" ”

"It's fine."

The woman walked into the room, leaned nicely against the wall beside me, and said as if to enlighten me, "I have heard what you have just said, and I have caused you trouble." ”

"It's not your problem."

"The tone of your voice is a little different from your age, I think you are only seventeen or eighteen years old, I didn't expect to talk like us adults." The woman's tone was not as aggressive as before, probably to better bridge the gap between us, "But your thoughts are still simple. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"Do you know why I'm here alone?"

The woman must have a story to tell, so I gave her an introduction and said, "Why? Didn't you just say that you didn't catch up with the evacuated team? ”

"That's one of the reasons, but then I met a group of survivors. We spent a lot of time in a unit in a neighborhood near the university, but I left them anyway. ”

"Leave?"

"That's right, because we often quarrel over some decisions, and I later found out that it turns out that being together in a catastrophe is not necessarily the best choice, and only people who are like-minded can help you."

"And what happened to the survivors?"

"They joined a group called the Bikers, and I met them in the neighborhood yesterday."

"Bikers?" I really didn't expect that all these things I encountered recently were more or less connected, and I didn't bother to tell her more about the origin of the biker party; Maybe she knows, "Let me guess, you're on a par with them?" ”

"On the bar? Hehe, I don't have any strength. ”

I was surprised and said, "You ran away?" ”

"Hmm." The woman nodded and admitted, "They came looking for me everywhere, and of course, the intelligence of those fools was the only one who could find me." ”

It turns out that the group of marauders encountered today; Well, I'm going to change my words, the bikers are looking for this woman. It's really a hassle for us...... Otherwise, maybe I'd already be listening to Uncle Zhong's bragging at his campfire by this time, and then I'd have made some more complaints. But just now, I did think about what would happen if I left my old friends, and I don't know when the idea came to me.

Thinking about it made me suddenly vigilant: "Do you want me to go with you when you say that?" I said this with a mockery in my heart, if this woman really wanted to use this method to drive a wedge between me and my friend, then she would be too stupid.

Who knew that the woman smiled and said, "No, I just wanted to join you, and I want to make a split?" No one would be so stupid. I just want to tell you that your thoughts and ideas are yours after all, and if you insist on getting others to agree with you, then sooner or later you will fight like me, and you will be enemies of your own friends, and no matter how hard you try, you will only be alone. ”

"Oh, so you're using yourself as a negative example." I jokingly sarcastic.

"Hehe, please don't be thorough, can you?" The woman shrugged her shoulders and said as she set out to walk out of the room, "Come out, your friends know your suffering." ”

It seems that if I stay in this small room any longer, it will be a bit of a small family, so I also walked out of the room with the woman, I didn't expect the air in the living room to be more comfortable, maybe it's a psychological effect.

"By the way, I don't know your name yet? My name is Du Yuheng. ”

The woman looked back and said calmly, "Liu Yijing." ”

Liu Yijing was just about to turn back, but I stopped her again and said, "Sister Liu! ”

"Anything else?"

"Uh, you made the right choice...... Didn't join the bikers. ”

"Hehe, don't jump to conclusions so early."