Chapter 48: Falling

Liao Shuzhen turned around and ran, and Liu Yanjiang also ran with us to save Xie Tao and them; Zhang Xiaoying and Huang Weizheng, who usually have a tacit understanding, did not have any eye contact at this time, let alone speak, as if the two of them did not know each other. In the past, if there was a brief separation, the two of them would have to look at each other with affection, and it is estimated that they are still in the cold war, and it may be that neither of them has time to care about this.

When we turned the corner on the sixth floor, I couldn't believe what was in front of me. The entire hallway was filled with mutants, who kept coming out of a room with double doors and all rushing to a semi-open glass counter room with a medicine window written on it. The door at one end of the room was closed, and the mutants could only surround the room, and although the glass windows on one side of the counter blocked them, the mutants still reached out to the counter with hunger, as if they wanted to shove themselves into the cracks of the counter.

"How so?"

"Wei Liqin opened the door of the warehouse of the big pharmacy, but he didn't expect it to be full of zombies." Liao Shuzhen said helplessly, "Now he and Xie Tao are trapped in that medicine room." ”

"Let me do it." I stepped out of the stairs and turned back to say, "Just close the door later." ”

Liao Shuzhen obediently grabbed the iron door, but Huang Weizheng didn't know what I was going to do. "Are you crazy?"

Liu Yanjiang grabbed Huang Weizheng and helped me explain: "Trust him, he did this once." ”

"What do you mean?"

"You'll understand when you see it." I pursed my lips confidently, which can be regarded as showing off in front of Huang Weizheng.

I took my first steps toward the mutants, apparently a few of them were already aware of my presence, and a few of them were limping back and limping towards me. In fact, my heart is still hairy, although I have experienced this miracle a few times before, but if something happens at this time, I will only end up being torn apart alive by the mutant.

Three, four, seven or eight mutants all walked towards me, their pace getting faster and closer to me, but they didn't stop. The little confidence I had in my heart was on the verge of bursting, and my legs began to want to run back. But I prefer a miracle to happen, no, it's not a miracle, it's something that will happen.

Stop! The mutants are still coming to me! Stop it! Their rotting clothes, their rotting faces, and their stench of sin are all closing in on me! Fast! Stop! Under!

Just about five meters away from me, the mutant who walked in front froze! Immediately afterward, the mutants who followed up also froze in place one by one. Behind me came the incredible exclamations of Huang Weizheng and Liao Shuzhen. But there's no time to show them off. I stabbed the heads of the mutants around me, and they didn't resist, gladly accepting the relief I had offered.

The mutants surrounding the counter had spotted me, and I seemed to be more tempted by them, but every time I got closer, I would stay five meters away from me, and wait for me to be stabbed in the head. The number of mutants surrounding me has increased dramatically, and I don't have the strength to stab them down one by one. Looking back, the ground was full of mutant corpses, and the decaying corpses had covered the tiles of the original floor except for the one road I had walked. I finally walked to the door of the medicine cabinet with difficulty, and Xie Tao hurriedly opened the door to greet me, but he was even more amazed by what was happening in front of him.

"Let's go!" I patted Xie Tao, Xie Tao nodded and was about to go out with me, but when I looked back, Wei Liqin was cowering under the table at the counter, with his arms folded and his head bowed and sobbing.

"Let's go, Wei Liqin!" I urged, "It's all right!" ”

"No...... No...... No...... You're just as ...... as they are," Wei Liqin lowered his head and read a long list of nonsense that I couldn't hear or understand.

Xie Tao felt that he should have been stupid by what happened just now, and stepped forward to pull Wei Liqin, who was in a hurry, but Wei Liqin shook Xie Tao's hand and scolded me angrily: "You are the same as them!" You're going to eat us all! ”

I reluctantly explained: "Wei Liqin, you come out first, and we will solve these things later." ”

"Nope! I'm not coming out! You'll be like this bunch of zombies! I've seen you turn into a monster! Right! You're a monster! Wei Liqin looked at me like a frightened child, his eyes wide and red with tears, but soon, he was afraid again, his head bowed and his body curled.

It's not a way to spend it like this, so I asked Xie Tao to go to Huang Weizheng and them first, and then go to find a way to pull Wei Liqin out. The mutants around me were still motionless, at least that gave me time to persuade Wei Liqin. Xie Tao took all the medicine and gauze to Huang Weizheng to stop bleeding and relieve pain. I walked into the pharmacy and patiently explained my current situation to Wei Liqin first, so that he could rest assured, but Wei Liqin seemed to hold on to my current situation.

There was a strange sound coming from outside the medicine cabinet room, and Wei Liqin and I both glanced nervously outside the room. Huang Weizheng and the others are still standing there, but Liao Shuzhen and Liu Yanjiang are gone, and it is estimated that they have rushed to deliver the medicine.

"Listen, Wei Liqin, you can stay away from me, I don't force it, but you have to go out with me now, understand?" I took Wei Liqin's hand. He stared at my gray hands in horror, and he trembled with fear. I zoomed up again and asked, "Got it?" ”

Wei Liqin nodded, and cautiously walked out of the pharmacy with me, he walked towards Huang Weizheng as if he were walking on thin ice, always caring about the mutants standing on both sides. To be honest, in addition to being rotten and smelly, I'm probably a mutant in his eyes. There was noise again in the room on the side of the hallway, probably a mutant who hadn't come out. I still don't feel at ease, so I asked Wei Liqin to speed up his pace, but he was already clumsy when he was frightened.

Huang Weizheng on the other end couldn't stand still, and finally came up to help. He trotted to Wei Liqin's side, took Wei Liqin and prepared to pull him back. At this moment, the mutants on both sides of us suddenly moved! There was a mutant who was right next to Huang Weizheng, and it grabbed Huang Weizheng's shoulder. I only heard Huang Weizheng's cry of pain, and Wei Liqin was so frightened that he ran to the staircase.

I pushed Huang Weizheng to run to the staircase, and Xie Tao also ran forward to answer when he saw this. Just as I passed the door of a room, a sarcoma monster appeared in front of me! Huang Weizheng and Xie Tao both ran to the top of the stairs, but I was stuck at this end of the corridor because of the truncation of the sarcoma monster.

"Du Yuheng!" Huang Weizheng shouted, "Come here!" ”

I thought, but such a disgusting monster is in the middle of the road, how can I run away?

The sarcoma clamour shoved me into the midst of the mutants who had come back to reactivate. I was slammed in the chest, and there was a sharp pain, but surprisingly, although I was now among the mutants, they did not attack me, but walked towards Huang Weizheng and them.

"Run!" I shouted to Huang Weizheng and Xie Tao, "Run!" I'm fine! ”

That being said, although the mutant didn't recognize me, the sarcoma monster was different, it walked in the opposite direction of the mutant and walked towards me step by step. I don't know where the weapon in my hand has gone. The sarcoma monster approached step by step, but I couldn't do anything. At the top of the stairs, Huang Weizheng and Xie Tao were still standing there.

"Let's go!" I yelled, "Don't look at it! ”

The sarcoma monster was already standing in front of me, its massive hands raised as if it were going to execute a traitor, ready to give me the final blow. Suddenly there were gunshots, and the sarcoma monster was shot several times, splattering pus and blood all over my body, and then fell to my knees. The surrounding mutants also fell to the ground at the same time and spasmed, stopping their struggles.

I wiped the dirty blood on my face, looking for the source of the gunshot, only to see Huang Weizheng holding Xie Tao's short assault rifle, letting out a long sigh, and leaning against the wall completely relaxed. I breathed a sigh of relief when I survived; I didn't expect that we, who usually don't leave our guns, would forget the weapon in our hands just now, and I couldn't help but laugh out loud against the corpse of the mutant.

Xie Tao pulled me up from the pile of dead people and helped me to the staircase. We didn't say much, and we didn't blame Wei Liqin for delaying the time, and we all rushed to see the old wolf.

Maybe it's because of the solution to these mutants, I feel that the hospital is a lot quieter, and Liao Shuzhen's medicine should have been delivered at this time, I hope Wei Hong and Ban Zhiyu have stopped the bleeding for the old wolf. We pushed open the door to the operating room, and what we saw was not what we wanted to see.

Everyone squatted around the operating table, Zhang Xiaoying shook her head apologetically after seeing Huang Weizheng, and everyone slowly stood up after seeing us come back, without laughter, just staring at us and slowly approaching the operating bed, looking at the cold corpse on the bed.

"We did our best." Ban Zhiyu's blood-stained hands were still shaking.

Huang Weizheng calmly patted Ban Zhiyu's shoulder, and stood on the side of the bed a little bewildered, staring at the old wolf with his eyes closed. He took off one of the pendants that hung around his neck, wrapped it around the old wolf's hands, and clasped his hands tightly together so that he could hold the pendant for all eternity. It was a half-blackened skull pendant, and I didn't know what it meant, but I'm afraid it was a bond between them.

Before dark, we buried the old wolf in the courtyard behind the hospital, which was a small garden of fun and quiet. Even though the hospital is partially covered with overgrown vegetation, it is barely in its original state. Maybe it's because the yard is closed with an iron gate, so mutants can't enter the plants inside the infection. The trees and flowers here are a little dilapidated because they are uncared for, but they are still normal.

Xie Tao and I helped dig a pit next to a flower garden in the middle of the garden, where we buried the old wolf. There is also a tombstone made of a casual wooden chair. We don't know what the old wolf's real name is, so we have to write only "Tomb of the Brave of the Last Days" on the tombstone.

The old wolf's funeral was very simple, after everyone buried him, they simply mourned for a while and returned to the hospital before dark. It was already evening, and we didn't have time to find another place to stay overnight, so we found a safe room in the hospital to rest; If you spend the night in the hospital, you can find a comfortable bed and get a good night's sleep. I went to the floor where the pharmacy was located with Xie Tao and Chen Mo and searched all the useful medicines. Because there were so many mutants roaming here, no one dared to come and take these medicines, and we had a good harvest because of it.

This fateful day is about to pass, but everyone has no appetite. We gathered in a slightly larger room, locked the door, and whispered about where we would go next. Liao Shuzhen also had time to explain to us what happened before the reunion.

“…… Therefore, Sister Xiaoying didn't mean to lie to you before. Liao Shuzhen chewed the biscuit given by Ban Zhiyu and continued, "After all, her uncle is on the boat." ”

"Anyway, it's dead now...... Zhang Xiaoying lowered her head and sighed.

"Everyone has their own struggles. I also think that my brother is using this to take advantage of you, which is too much, so I secretly got off the boat to find a way to help you. I didn't expect it to be so exciting! Liao Shuzhen shook her feet excitedly.

We all looked at this child with tears and laughter, and it is estimated that Wei Jiahui has no way to take him as a wild sister.

"Then Wei Jiahui knows about your disembarkation, what will he do with you?" I wondered, "He can't kill you, can he?" ”

"Confinement. But I don't have to go back or not. Liao Shuzhen shook her head indifferently, "This time, even if I ran away from home." ”

I pushed Liao Shuzhen and said with a smile: "I remember that you were like this last time, but you were almost caught by Li Sicai." ”

"This time is different, I'm not with you."

"In the future, Chen Mo, you will be responsible for taking care of her."

As soon as I heard that I proposed it, no matter how Chen Mo was, he could have four or five reasons not to be willing. "Huh? Why? ”

"I heard you're a lot better than you used to be? So I've left this most important task to you. I threw a sarcastic wink at Chen Mo.

"Why should I listen to you?" I expected Chen Mo to be unconvinced, so I didn't bother to quarrel with her.

Xie Tao cleared his throat and pulled us back to the point. "So how do we go now? Go back to Qingshan or go to Wanxiang? Or is it to find another way out. ”

"Qingshan can't go back. Even if we go back, they won't accept us. Wei Hong and Wu Fei glanced at each other, they seemed to be able to reach an agreement on this issue, and they would never lead the question to Qingshan.

"Liang Minxuan and Long Hao are still in Wanxiang." "And Wanxiang City seems to be developing faster than several other safe zones when it comes to vaccines, so I think we need to find a way to stay there." ”

"The problem is, Zhang Xing can't wait to get rid of us."

"Why did Zhang Xing want to do this?"

"Because he must get rid of the forces that may threaten his domination of Wanxiang City in the future, after all, compared to several other strengths, the threat within Wanxiang City is more deadly." Zhang Xiaoying carefully analyzed, "The old wolf's mercenaries only recognize money, in order to prevent him from being bought in the future, Zhang Xing must get rid of him." ”

"What about us?"

"We? We've made too much trouble. Speaking of this, Zhang Xiaoying pointed at me with her chin, "If Zhang Xing wants to continue to research vaccines, he must leave Du Yuheng, if this is the case, those of us who are related to him may become an obstacle to him." ”

"You're saying that in order to take me for research, Zhang Xing must get rid of all of you?"

"That's right."

"If that's the case, then wouldn't Long Hao and Liang Minxuan be very dangerous?"

"Let's hope they've managed to escape from Wanxiang City." Ban Zhiyu's words can only be a fantasy, if Zhang Xing had already set up such a big situation to borrow a knife to kill people, would he still let Liang Minxuan and Long Hao in his territory?

"In this way, we have to go back to Wanxiang City." I fiddled with the joints of my hands, "But I'll just go back, after all, Zhang Xing doesn't know my situation yet." ”

"A few of us can go with you, too." As soon as Wei Hong's voice fell, Wu Fei, Liu Yanjiang and Sister Jiang all agreed.

"Good! Then it's decided. Tomorrow a few of us will find a base near Wanxiang City, and then you will go and save Long Hao and them. Xie Tao clapped his hands and said, "How is it?" Huang Weizheng? ”

As soon as Xie Tao said this, we all turned our eyes to Huang Weizheng, who was leaning against the window and facing away from us, who had been silent. The death of the old wolf was indeed a big blow to him, although he couldn't bear it, but we couldn't watch him continue to sink like this.

I walked up to him and comforted, "Alright, Niu, it's time to settle these things." ”

He didn't look back and didn't respond to me, which is a bit abnormal, because Huang Weizheng is also a person who is not surprised no matter how he is, and at this time, he will at least say a few words to me. When I tapped him on the shoulder, I realized that something was wrong. Huang Weizheng was not depressed, but had already fainted. My hands were covered in blood when I patted him on the shoulder, and he was sweating profusely and fainting with a fever.

I hurriedly picked up Huang Weizheng, who almost fell, and shouted, "Hey! Cattle! What happened to you? ”

When the others heard the sound, Xie Tao lifted Huang Weizheng's collar, but he didn't expect that there were three deep scratches on his shoulders, and the clothes on his shoulders had already been scratched.

"It's a mutant's scratch." Xie Tao looked at me with wide eyes.

"No...... my chest suddenly felt like it had been hollowed out, and my mind was blank at this time, "this ...... What the...... It shouldn't be......"

Suddenly, I realized something, Huang Weizheng must have been scratched when he took Wei Liqin away today. "You bastard!" Suddenly, my hot-headed head suddenly exploded, and I pushed Wei Liqin to the wall, "It's you bastard!" It was you who dragged your hands and feet this morning, and the cow pulled you to get scratched! Definitely! You're giving me my life in exchange! ”

Wei Liqin was so frightened that his face turned purple. "No...... Can't blame me! ”

Everyone hurriedly grabbed me, and Chen Mo immediately stood in front of me and stopped the fist I was about to throw. "Du Yuheng, calm down!"

"Yes, Yuheng, calm down." Xie Tao had a lot of strength and pulled me away at once, "There must be some way." ”

"There's a to that!"

Xie Tao also knows that there is only one result in this situation...... It's a fluke that I'm alive, and there can never be a second chance of that kind of luck. Everyone was silent, only Wei Liqin was sobbing quietly like a wreck.

"There's another way." Liao Zhuojun suddenly spoke, and everyone immediately looked at her, "That, that...... I remember that the bargaining chip that Zhang Xing proposed when he traded with Wei Jiahui was a vaccine that had already been researched. ”

"Is there a vaccine yet?" I was skeptical.

"It's not clear...... Liao Zhuojun's voice became quieter and quieter, "At that time, Zhang Xing said that this vaccine was researched based on your blood, so it was very reliable." ”

"Oh! Right! At that time, Wei Jiahui was still a little unconvinced! Ban Zhiyu took over and said, "Zhang Xing said that it was a meeting gift, and he also vowed that if the vaccine was successful after the physical experiment, it would be mass-produced immediately." ”

"Then I'll go to Wanxiang now!" I straightened up and decided.

"It's night, how do you get there? It's full of crazy mutants out there. Wei Hong wanted to hold me, but he also knew that I was impulsive at this time, so he withdrew his hand as soon as he stretched it out.

"You forget, ordinary mutants don't hurt me."

"But you've seen what happened today, and your abilities aren't 100% effective, especially when there's a sarcoma monster."

"Then don't touch it!" I roared and stopped Xie Tao.

"No! Du Yuheng, if you want to mess around, go by yourself. I can't take anyone else, take Huang Weizheng and you to play with your life. Chen Mo stood in front of me again, glared at me and insisted.

"According to this situation, Huang Weizheng should be able to last a few hours, and we can wait for the sun to come out tomorrow morning, so that there will be a lot fewer mutants on the street." Zhang Xiaoying, who was holding Huang Weizheng, said calmly behind me, "Du Yuheng, now we are all as anxious as you, but you calm down and think about it, even if you cross these streets and come to Wanxiang City at this time, the guards of Wanxiang City are lucky not to let you in, they may treat you as a mutant and beat you into a honeycomb." ”

Zhang Xiaoying's words make sense, I can only give up. Everyone was relieved to see that I was no longer impulsive. Chen Mo pulled me to sit down, but I just couldn't swallow this breath, a dead anger tried to ignite the spark again, and I could only look at my unconscious friend, restrain the anxiety in my heart, and wait for the time to pass a little bit.