The car continued to speed down the empty streets, remembering that this section of the road used to be quite congested and almost impassable, but now it was unimpeded, but this was limited to this section, and the main road at the intersection was completely different from this, with endless traffic and rows of roadblocks blocking most of the roads in the city.

In addition to this, there are plants that grow unusually wildly. I don't know why, nature seems to be in a hurry to regain the territory that has been snatched by humans, and from the day the crisis gets out of control, the plants in this vicinity have strangely begun to grow, some places seem to have become forests overnight, others have begun to overgrow, and untended green belt plants have to dominate the streets. It is conceivable that in a few moments, the city will be submerged in an eerie forest of green. Although they didn't know why, there was one thing that the Merriam-Webster brothers always kept in mind: wherever plants grow wildly, there will be no shortage of ghouls. At first they didn't know where the monsters were hiding on sunny days, and where they came from at night or on cloudy days like now. Later, these questions all came up with some plausible answers. This city is not only above ground, it also has a complex underground labyrinth - the subway. In addition to the subway, there are also those gray buildings, dark, clammy alleys, unlit underground passages, etc., as long as there is a place that can be shaded by the sun, it can become a ghoul lair, and these places are also forbidden places for humans.

It was about a five-minute drive from the small supermarket to the abandoned hospital, but in these short five minutes, Wei Hui could already feel that his left leg was starting to heat up, and the stinging pain of the wound was like scraping off his flesh with a small blade, but he was never moved, and even chatted with Wei Hong as if he was fine.

Before dark, the two brothers arrived at the haunted-looking hospital. In the parking lot in front of the emergency hall, Wei Hui parked the car, took his luggage and walked out of the car first. He took the crossbow and carefully observed the situation in the vicinity of the car. Wei Hong also carried a backpack and walked out of the car with a baton, leaning against the door and casually glancing at the outpatient hall. There was no strange movement in the hall behind the glass doors, and no ghouls were seen, and fortunately, the lighting inside was working properly, which meant that the hospital still had electricity. And as long as the main headlights in the hospital are on, then the threat of ghouls can be basically ruled out; It's not that there are absolutely no monsters here, but you don't have to worry about running into a whole bunch of ghouls here.

There were a few ghouls near the pool at the entrance of the hospital who limped towards the Wei brothers like an old man, and of course this situation was naturally seen by Wei Hui.

"Let's go in, or someone will rush to get in line."

Wei Hong smiled and nodded, and together with his brother, he pushed open the glass door and walked into the outpatient hall in a two-person battle formation. Unlike Wei Hong, Wei Hui is a humorous person, even in the face of the worst problems, he can always find a topic to ridicule, and from time to time make the people around him laugh.

There was no particularly alarming movement in the hall, except for the sound of the two men's combat boots on the floor and making thick footsteps. The layout of the hospital is basically the same, the entrance is the welcome desk, one side is the registration desk, and the other side is likely to be a pharmacy. Of course, there is no need to register anything when it comes to this ghost. The two brothers soon found a pharmacy. It doesn't look like it's been ransacked by out-of-control mobs, and the furnishings are still pretty much the same as they were when people left.

After the crisis broke out, many people spontaneously formed small groups to protect themselves, and many supermarkets and hospitals, pharmacies and even some warehouses were looted by unknown elements. At first, these small groups were afraid of the police and the army, but after the situation got out of control and the government announced the evacuation of the city, the vast majority of the military and police forces focused on the plan to evacuate the citizens, and the places that had no time to take care of or were simply overstretched by the government became treasures for the mobs. Thinking about it, there is no way around it, and the world is almost in endless darkness in just one week.

I remember that at that time, the news was still reporting the news that the President of the United States announced a national lockdown, more than half of the infected population in Europe, Australia lost contact with the outside world, and there was turmoil in Southeast Asia. Immediately afterwards, bad news began to come out in this originally peaceful southern city. The unrest spread like a plague, and any administrative measures were ineffective. It should be said that the first thing that crushed humanity was not the zombie virus, but people's fear.

In the past few days, Wei Hui has seen the ugliest side of human nature, they have seen mobs slaughtering other survivors, living people being torn apart by a group of ghouls, explosions in the streets and alleys, and horrific violent attacks. Faith is crumbling, and the walking dead are not the monsters that have come back from the dead, but humanity itself. Therefore, before he leaves this sad world, he must ensure that his younger brother will stick to his last faith and live bravely. Even if this is so cruel to Wei Hong, he must live.

"Hey!" Suddenly, Wei Hong interrupted Wei Hui, who was sitting on a chair in the corner of the pharmacy and was deep in thought, "Don't be lazy, okay?" ”

Wei Hong still didn't notice that his brother's life was a little gloomy, which was naturally what Wei Hui wanted. "How hard is it to find? I'm calling it a sentry, what if something sneaks up? ”

"There are so many excuses for being lazy." Wei Hong turned around disdainfully and continued to look for the fever reducer he wanted.

In the past, I never thought that there were many medicines in the hospital, not to mention the high price of medicines, and this small pharmacy with a small appearance did not look like a place where it could hold many medicines; And the vast majority of the medicines here are written with ingredients and drug names that laymen can't understand. Wei Hong relied on his intuition to find medicine that could reduce the fever, and the fever was also draining his physical strength, although he wanted to hold on, he still had to admit that his concentration was far below the normal level.

Wei Hong shook his head, trying to make his consciousness clearer, and happened to see the name of a fever and cold medicine that he was familiar with, who knew that when he took down the basket containing the cold medicine, he suddenly saw a gray and green dead face, although it was still moving, but it was just a soulless body.

"Ghoul!" Wei Hong screamed and stepped back, but he didn't expect the other party to reach out and try to grab him! The cabinet bar between them instantly lost its balance and fell to Wei Hong's side with a thud, and Wei Hong could only watch as the huge medicine cabinet overwhelmed him like a sea of mountains.

Thankfully, the cabinet was stuck on the shelf of another medicine cabinet behind Wei Hong, which didn't crush him into meat sauce, but his legs were just under the bevel of the cabinet. The ghoul pressed against the cabinet, reaching out through the shelf to bite Wei Hong's neck, one of its hands snapped off by the fallen shelf, and the other hand was constantly slapping the medicine cabinet.

Wei Hui, who wanted to take a break, rushed over and saw the ghoul at a glance. The ghoul must have smelled Wei Hui's presence again, it raised its head like a jackal still fierce in a trap, roaring at Wei Hui with its big mouth full of saliva, and kept scratching at him with its hands. It should have pounced on Wei Hui like this, but the hand under the cabinet made it unable to move.

Wei Hui thought that this ghoul was not much of a threat, but who knew that the guy suddenly tore off his arm, dragging the rotten and bloody severed arm with his tendons and bones and rushing towards Wei Hui like crazy. However, this is nothing more than a thug who is not willing to die for a well-trained and excellent defense student. Wei Hui was not flustered, raised the competitive crossbow, did not blink his eyes, and pulled the trigger when he saw the other party's head. With a search, the ghoul was shot through by a crossbow arrow and hung like a piece of bacon on the cabinet behind it.

The threat was lifted, but Wei Hong, who was pressed under the cabinet, still panicked like a stranded fish and kept pulling and slapping the medicine cabinet, but to no avail. Wei Hui said to Wei Hong in a half-mocking and half-concerned tone: "Brother, don't panic, that guy is finished." ”

"! Are you pressed underneath this to try? Wei Hong looked flustered and wanted to pull out his foot stuck under the medicine cabinet, looking at Wei Hui who was talking cool words on the side made him quite unhappy.

"I'm not as rookie as you, so what's going on with that?" After a few falls, Wei Hui still decided that it would be better to get Wei Hong out as soon as possible. As soon as he lifted his hands vigorously, the entire medicine cabinet immediately went upwards. Wei Hong took the opportunity to pull out his leg and just got out of the medicine cabinet.

The two of them were panting and leaning on the edge of the medicine cabinet, I don't know who opened the head first, and they both laughed because of the danger just now. With barely enough time, the two brothers decided to spend the night in the observation area of the ward on the third floor of the hospital. The wards on this floor are roughly divided into four sections, and the two of them chose an area that seemed slightly safer to settle in. The hospital was probably completely evacuated by then, and the observation area was filled with medical equipment and documents scattered on the floor, except for beds and wheelchairs that were pushed in the middle of the road.

Wei Hong found the key to the ward area and a nursing diary of unknown people on the scattered nurse's table. He straightened the lamp that was crooked on the table, and turned a few pages with great interest, which wrote about the feelings and what he had seen and heard in the past few days when the crisis was spreading, if it weren't for Wei Hui, who was sitting on the observation chair on the side, shouting and urging, I am afraid that Wei Hong would have to spend the night here.

The two of them searched for the nurse's table like robbers, hoping to find something useful, but unfortunately found nothing. In desperation, they had no choice but to go to the ward in the observation area that they had decided to rest in the soon, seemingly safer area. The four observation areas are actually corridors that extend from the hall where the nurses' station is located in four different directions, each with more than a dozen wards on either side, and there seems to be a workstation and a safe passage at the end of the corridor, and a double door at the end of the central hall leading to the nurses' station. As long as they lock the doors at both ends of the hallway, they can rest in this observation area for a night.

To be on the safe side, the brothers inspected the wards in the observation area; After confirming that it was correct, the two of them found a ward with relatively clean furnishings to live in. Wei Hong took two antipyretic pills and walked around the room casually. The window of this room was just right out of the street, and their van was parked right below it. The third floor is not very high, but it is enough to give them a good view, at least to confirm the situation in most of the area in front of the hospital.

It was getting late, and the street lamps and some big billboards were lit up, and there were a lot more ghouls wandering the streets. These demons in rotting human skins have taken over human cities, depriving them of their lives and eating their flesh and blood, and they don't know if the world will return to its original prosperity.

The sound of car brakes tore through the quiet dusk, and a maroon car sped through the street in front of the hospital. There were also three or four ghouls in the car, and the ghouls roaming around the neighborhood also heard the news. Perhaps because of the loud movement, a large number of ghouls gathered on the street, like a crowded street during the New Year, and the black pressure almost engulfed the lonely car.

Since the street lights are still bright, the ghouls don't move too quickly; These light-phobic monsters are as fast as cheetahs in the dark, and as slow as dying old men in bright light. But even so, the ghouls, who had the overwhelming advantage in numbers, surrounded the car. The car scurried around like a headless fly for dozens of meters and then slammed into the entrance of the hospital. The surrounding ghouls were smashed into the mud, however more ghouls were used by the mountains of land towards the crashed car. Wei Hong could clearly hear the screams and a few gunshots, and finally he was buried in the moaning and low roars of the ghouls.

This tragedy was supposed to end like this, but with a loud bang, the crashed car just now suddenly exploded, the earth shook, and even the power supply of the hospital was affected, and the lights of the entire hospital were instantly extinguished. Wei Hong turned his head suddenly, only to find that Wei Hui was holding on to the wall and panting weakly.

"Hey! What happened to you? Wei Hong jumped in three steps, ran to Wei Hui's side, and picked up Wei Hui, who almost fell to the ground, seeing that he was sweating profusely, he just wanted to wipe him, only to know that his forehead was so hot, "You have a fever?" ”

"Hey...... ...... infected by you" Knowing that his life was short, Wei Hui still joked weakly.

Wei Hong helped his brother to the hospital bed and lay down while asking, "What the hell is going on?" Wasn't it okay just now......" Before he finished asking, Wei Hong noticed that something was wrong, he carefully looked at Wei Hui again, and this time he finally realized the abnormality of Wei Hui's left foot.

He carefully lifted the blood-soaked trouser leg of his left foot, although the red gauze had blocked the wound, Wei Hong could probably guess what was happening. At this point, the gauze was no longer able to stop the bleeding, and to make matters worse, green patches had appeared near the wound.

"Was it in the supermarket?" Wei Hong asked tremblingly.

Wei Hui nodded. "I'm sorry, boy......"

"Shut the fuck!" Wei Hong, who was suddenly covered his head, touched his tears and scolded, "Why didn't you tell me earlier?" ”

"What's the use of telling you?"

"I ...... I ......"

"Come on, just for a while, can you be quiet......" Wei Hui touched Wei Hong's head, I don't know if it was because of the darkness caused by the lights off or his own increasingly blurred vision, Wei Hui couldn't see his brother's face clearly, but he could feel that the strong and young face was crying at this time.

Wei Hong's world was in jeopardy at this moment, and his heart was like a tower that had lost its supporting structure, ready to collapse at any moment. He squatted on the edge of Wei Hui's bed, trying to restrain his chaotic mood and holding back his sobbing, but the more he did this, the more he wanted to cry.

"Hi...... Brother ......" After a few minutes, Wei Hui, who had more difficulty breathing, said again, "I'm not dead yet...... What are you nervous about? ”

Wei Hong didn't answer, just sobbed there, and Wei Hui proposed to himself as if he had made his brother cry when he was a child, and then tried to make him happy: "Hey...... Let's talk about the past, shall we? ”

"You...... Don't you want me to be quiet? ”

"Huh...... Hehe...... My fault...... Okay, right? ”

"What are you going to say?"

"Do you remember...... Is that longan tree in the backyard of our hometown? When you were a child, you always had to ...... Always climb up to pick up the dragon's eye, let me keep a sentry for you...... Later, my parents found out...... I'll always be beaten...... You kid doesn't ...... anything."

Wei Hong smiled and sniffled and said, "Who called you brother?" Of course you're responsible for any trouble! ”

"yes...... Brother...... The trouble behind it...... You're going to have to ...... yourself I watched it myself......"

"Don't say that! Maybe...... Maybe there's another way! Wei Hong stood up, looked down at his brother, and deceived himself, "This, this is a hospital, isn't it?" What should be done...... Medicine, medicine, medicine! That's right! I'm going to find medicine! ”

"Come on, it's useless." As soon as Wei Hong was about to turn around, he was grabbed by Wei Hui's hand, "Brother, you are here to accompany me for a while...... Good no good? ”

"I ...... I ......" At this time, there was a dull pain in Wei Hong's head, perhaps because of the high fever that had not subsided and the fact that he was too impulsive just now. After thinking about it, he didn't find a meaningful way, so in desperation, he had to move a stool, sit in front of the hospital bed, and accompany his brother through the last part of his life.

The sun rose again, and Wei Hong, who was asleep at the end of the hospital bed, was woken up by the sound in the room, and he had taken antipyretic medicine to sleep the deepest sleep in the past few days, but when he woke up, his nightmare had just begun. Wei Hui on the hospital bed pounced on Wei Hong, who was not fully awake, like a fierce beast.

Wei Hong didn't react at all, but was woken up a lot by this sudden start. He retreated suddenly, although he immediately distanced himself from the other party, but his center of gravity was not grasped properly, and his feet slipped and fell to the ground. thought that Wei Hui would take advantage of this time to pounce on him, but when Wei Hong fixed his eyes, he saw the restraint belt tied to Wei Hui's waist and right hand; This is probably last night Wei Hui helped himself while Wei Hong was asleep in order to prevent himself from getting out of control at any time. The restraint belt specially designed to prevent the patient from going crazy can indeed subdue Wei Hui, who is already diseased. With a hideous face, it kept waving at Wei Hong with its left hand that was not tied with a restraint belt, and its body struggled frantically on the bed.

Watching his brother turn into a monster, Wei Hong could only stay helpless on the ground like a child, watching it open its teeth and claws towards him. The morning sun was exceptionally quiet, like a holy light that summoned the undead into heaven, and in the ward, the dead Wei Hui seemed to have been liberated from hell, and the revenant soul who could re-ascend to heaven was making a final resistance to the shackles of hell that had imprisoned his ascension to heaven.

Wei Hong tried his best to control his breathing, stood up as strong as his brother, solemnly picked up the competitive crossbow that still carried the person he admired the most, loaded, the sound of the bowstring tightening was as solemn as his breathing, aiming. Looking at those eyes that had lost their once deep pupils, and were covered with a gray-green haze, Wei Hong's hands couldn't help but tremble. He gritted his teeth, his thumping chest as if it was about to explode.

"I'm sorry...... I'm sorry...... Elder brother...... I'm sorry......" Wei Hong muttered over and over again, but he refused to pull the trigger for a long time, until the moment he started as if he was suicidal, he still roared and pulled the trigger, "Ahhh!!h ”

Wei Hong didn't blink, just like his brother killed every ghoul, and he had to remember those faces forever. And this ghoul who died in the early morning, for him, it was not only his beloved brother who died, but also his own innocent soul......