XXXIV. Evans Town
The weather seemed to be cooler, and Lin Yi tightened his already tattered clothes and shrunk his neck.
"What's going on?" Li Qiwen, who rushed to hear the news, walked to Lin Yi, who was depressed, and asked softly.
Lin Yi raised his head and quickly adjusted his mood, just a moment of sadness, seeing Li Qiwen with a lovely appearance, even if there was more sadness in his heart, it would quickly fade.
"Deputy of the regiment, there was a zombie just now, and it has been wiped out by the heroic me." Lin Yi pretended to be proud. As soon as he stopped Li Qiwen from coming with him, he promised her the position of deputy head of the regiment. In fact, there is such a small group of about ten people, where do you need to have so many positions. But I don't know if Li Qiwen is really so easy to coax, or if she just cooperated with Lin Yi at all, and she accepted the position of deputy head of the regiment.
"Oh, it's good that there's only one zombie, otherwise it would be troublesome." Li Qiwen looked behind Lin Yi, just in time to bump into Whitson II and Gar helping a woman over.
Lin Yi also turned around and took a look, the five of them had already returned, and it seemed that no other zombies had been found. It's just that the woman was also brought back by them, and it seems that there is something going on. To be honest, Lin Yi still has a very selfish side in his heart, for people he doesn't know, he is in line with the principle of saving if he has the ability, and pretending not to see if he is not capable. He is not a saint, there is no need, and he is not capable of doing it so well.
"Captain, this girl begs us to take her away." Tony was the first to come over and salute Lin Yi.
Lin Yi smiled bitterly in his heart, he was still looking for a way out, where could he take on the heavy responsibility of purifying all sentient beings? But at this time, we naturally can't chill everyone's hearts, and we can't save them when we die.
Lin Yi nodded, and then pulled Li Qiwen and walked back together. They don't have much time to waste on the road and must find a way out as soon as possible. Now everyone is unable to protect themselves, and can only rely on their own efforts.
A group of eight people quickly returned to the place where the convoy was, but everyone looked at the sudden extra person, and they all looked at Lin Yi and the others with puzzled expressions.
"Well, this lady has just been rescued inside, and she will act with us for some time to come." Lin Yi explained very simply.
"Welcome, welcome." Jiaojiao took the lead in clapping her hands, and the rest of the people began to welcome the new members under her leadership.
However, it seems that this new member has not changed his depressed mood because of everyone's enthusiasm, and he is still looking at the unknown direction with a dull face.
"Hey, what's your name?" Lin Yi suddenly felt a little embarrassed, he didn't know the other party's name at this time!
The beautiful woman seemed to have just woken up from her dream, and said in a hoarse voice, "Jones! ”
Fortunately, this Miss Jones did not continue to treat him as air, Lin Yi heard her self-introduction, and quickly made a round: "This Miss Jones was just very frightened, and now she needs to rest." ”
After Lin Yi finished speaking, Ao Linger stepped forward to help Jones by herself. Lingzi has always been a very caring person, and when Lisa was handed over to Froman to take care of by Lin Yi, Lingzi secretly cried. However, she also knew that she was in a bad situation now, and her strength was not enough to protect the poor little girl, so she didn't make a fuss about taking Lisa with her.
Seeing that everyone had no opinions, Lin Yi organized a few more people to go to this town to search for food and fuel. Since Jones was able to survive here, it seems that this place has not been abandoned for long. The town is not very large and may not have been formed for long, with only one large shop. However, it is messy inside, and there are fewer things to eat. In line with the principle of preferring to get the expired one rather than letting go of one, Lin Yi led everyone to sweep all the things. Luckily, there were small carts in the store, so the few people who went there each took a cart full of food. There was also a rudimentary gas station on the side of the road, with a few barrels of gasoline that were also taken to the car, and the fuel tank was filled with a gas pipe.
Seeing that everything that should be taken was obtained, everyone returned with a full load. Although they have not yet encountered real danger, it is always okay to be prepared.
A new exploration has begun, and it seems that the answer to the question of where the road lies is not so easy.
Jones and Lin Yi sat in a car, of course, this is not because there will be a bloody plot of Jones hooking up with Lin Yi. Jones is the only one alive in the town, and maybe she'll be able to provide useful information.
"Well, Miss Jones, what the hell is going on in this town?" Lin Yi asked this poor man who was already very frightened in a voice as gentle as possible.
Jones raised her head and brushed the hair on her forehead behind her ears, although she looked haggard, it could not hide the beauty of her face, she did not look very old.
"Just call me Jones." Jones's tone was slightly shy, and he didn't seem very good at talking to strangers.
"Okay, Jones, can you help us, we need to know what you're going through." Li Qiwen asked at this time, perhaps because she also noticed Jones's inconvenient words, and as a woman, she naturally thought that it was more suitable to communicate with women.
Jones exhaled deeply, as if to exhale all the repression in his heart. Everyone waited for about a minute before Jones seemed to be really calm and in a good mood before he began to tell what he had seen and heard in the past few days.
Jones, a senior at the University of Nairobi, is graduating from Nairobi and is about to start working this year. But a few days ago, a zombie cannibalism outbreak broke out in Nairobi, and she moved to a nearby town with her school teachers. But fearing for her father's safety, she decided to return to the town called Evans early. Originally, it was planned that my father would come to Nairobi to play with him when he graduated, but now this idea may not come true, but returning home is imminent.
Jones agreed with his father that he would return home and told him that he would definitely go back. Since martial law began in the capital, there were few vehicles in nearby towns, so Jones waited until the appointed day before arriving in Evans Town. It's just that this town, which was not prosperous when he left home, but also full of human touch, is only desolate at the moment. Jones was upset, but after getting out of the car and walking a short distance, he saw his father waiting for him in the square. Jones spent her childhood in the square, which is full of her memories.
Although her father's presence diluted her worries, the almost empty town still made her uneasy. She silently walked to her father, who was smiling at her, but at this time, his father suddenly had a hideous face and seemed to be very uncomfortable. Jones hurried over to his father and asked him what had happened.
The father grinned suddenly, and then crouched on the ground and told Jones something that was hard to accept. It turned out that the town suddenly had biting zombies in the early hours of the day, and these zombies were crazy to bite the people in the town. Everyone was frightened, and they abandoned everything they had worked so hard for and began to flee for their lives. Then everyone found out something even more terrifying, and it didn't take long for the townspeople who had been bitten to death by the zombies to "live" and began to bite others. Those who were still fighting the zombies were desperate, and they didn't care about anything and ran away like crazy. Before dawn, everyone in the town who could run had run away. Seeing that there was no one left, the zombies began to look for their next target.
Jones's father had been hiding in his room until dawn, and he was not without a chance to escape, and he was still thinking about his agreement with his daughter. But I didn't expect that there was a zombie in the town, and although Jones's father ran as hard as he could, he was still scratched by the zombie on the way to escape. Then he ran to a roof, and the zombie saw that it couldn't bite him, and wandered for a while before walking away.
But it's not over yet, Jones's father is not stupid, those who have been bitten by zombies will soon become new zombies, he is scratched by zombies, and nothing will happen. But the belief of waiting for his daughter has always supported him, and no matter what, he must wait until his daughter returns. And Jones finally came back, and after Jones's father, Jones Sr., finished talking about the bloody process, he suddenly smiled, and blood suddenly began to seep from his white miserable teeth. Jones was frightened by her father's appearance, but she didn't leave, just looked at him. But old Jones became more and more manic, and almost strangled Jones to death several times. Eventually, at her father's request, Jones found a steel chain and tied him tightly to the pillar. After that, the elder Jones completely lost his consciousness and only grinned at Jones. And the skin on old Jones's face began to dry and rot at a very fast rate, which had to make Jones even more afraid. Jones saw that her father was always looking at her with a fierce gaze that threatened to eat her, so she found some living creatures to feed him. At this time, she found that her father would become much quieter, but he would be more terrifying than the lion on the prairie to devour the food she offered.
But all this does not change the fact that old Jones has become a zombie, Jones only keeps looking for all kinds of living creatures left in the town for him to eat, and almost every time old Jones gnaws at nothing. It's just that old Jones is getting more and more crazy, and it seems that he is going to break the steel chain at any moment and eat the daughter he once loved the most.
"If we're a little later, maybe it will break free of the chain and eat you." After listening to Jones's story, Lin Yi sighed, there are too many tragedies, even if you can understand Jones's feelings, how many empathy feelings?
To Lin Yi's surprise, Jones didn't say any words of thanks, even if it was very polite. Jones looked out the window and said in a deep voice, "If I had been eaten by my father, I wouldn't have been so bad." For so many years, my mother was long gone, and he had been working hard to earn money for me to go to school. Now I can get a good job and let him live in peace, but he left me. If I could be with my father, even if he was eaten and died on the way, I could keep him company, and he wouldn't have to be so lonely all the time. ”
Tears slipped down Jones's cheeks silently, there were no ifs in the world, she could only watch this thing become a reality.
Farewell, my favorite Evans.
Farewell, my dearest father. Jones silently prayed, and she vowed to work hard to live, for her father, for Evans.