Chapter 46: Dark Fear
Jin Yue and Zhang Xiushan listened to Li Yu and Zheng Jieming's voices, and as soon as they turned around, with a loud noise at the door, their vision turned into darkness.
The four of them were vigilantly silent at the same time, holding their breath to catch the unusual sounds around them while trying to adjust to the darkness in front of them.
Except for the gentle tinnitus-like brain wave sound in my head, I can no longer hear the outside world.
The light was suddenly deprived, and his eyes did not adapt for a while, Zheng Jieming felt that in the dark vision, there were shaking snowflakes, which seemed to be a noise in the retina.
"Holy." Zhang Xiushan couldn't hold his breath, couldn't stand this absolute silence, scolded in a low voice, and wanted to walk to the door to open the door, but tripped over the corpse under his feet.
He happened to fall on a female corpse, his nose was facing the wound on the head of the female corpse, the smell of acid rot came to his face, the female corpse was blind, her eyes were cloudy, and she happened to stare at Zhang Xiushan. He didn't see it very real in the dark, he only felt that he was being stared at by the female corpse, his whole body was numb, and he screamed and hurriedly got up from the ground, staining a hand of the corpse's slime.
"What's wrong, Lao Zhang! Steady! Li Yu knew that something was wrong, compared the knife to his chest, and slowly retreated towards Lao Zhang.
Li Yu patted Zheng Jieming and motioned for him to return as well.
Zheng Jieming also raised his vigilance, holding the bone chopping knife firmly, while recalling where there were doors on both sides of the corridor when he came in, he touched the wall and retreated with Li Yu. He feared a surprise attack.
Jin Yue stood in place, not daring to move at will. Lao Zhang wiped the mucus on his hand to the wall, bent down and touched it for a long time, and touched his dagger.
"Walk back to the door, you guys are walking, I'm walking backwards." Li Yu whispered to the three of them, and the four of them slowly walked to the door.
It's been calculated! Li Yu thought to himself. When he saw the corpse, he felt unnatural at first glance, and the corpse spots on his neck looked like they were strangled by others, not the corpse transformation or symptoms of injury and death that he had always seen in the past few days.
Jin Yue noticed that there was a door in front of him that opened on the left side of the corridor, and patted Lao Zhang gently.
Lao Zhang also noticed the door, he was on the side of the corridor by the door, walking diagonally towards the door, preparing for people or zombies to suddenly rush out of the door.
But the door was closed and there was no sound.
Everyone's eyes had gradually adjusted to the darkness, and the color of the door was noticeably darker than the surrounding wall. In such darkness, this door seems to hide infinite danger.
Li Yu gently pushed Jin Yue, patted Zheng Jieming, and motioned for everyone to continue walking towards the main entrance of the corridor where they came.
On this section of the road, the four of them walked extremely cautiously and difficultly, and the corpses under their feet became a serious obstacle, and some corpses, due to the long time of death, began to appear as giants after death, and when they stepped on it, the surface of their feet fell into the swollen fat tissue, making a disgusting slimy sound.
Everyone's heart was filled with fear, as if the corpse under their feet would stand up at any moment and swallow itself in the darkness... Or among the foul-smelling mucus.
The four of them finally groped for the door, and Li Yu reached out to twist the doorknob, but found that he couldn't unscrew it at all.
Won't it be locked, will it? Li Yu felt a burst of anxiety in his heart. He felt that the four of them at this time were like ants sealed in a jar, obviously climbing to the mouth of the jar, but they couldn't get out.
"Can't push it away?" Zheng Jieming asked in a low voice.
Li Yu tugged the door back and forth, and the metal door made a rattling sound.
"It's locked." Li Yu's heart was already in a mess at this time. He had lost his judgment of the situation, couldn't figure out who was trying to trap them inside, and didn't understand what the purpose of doing so was.
", crash away!" Zhang Xiushan's heart was horizontal, and he began to hit the door sideways. Zheng Jieming wanted to stop it, but Zhang Xiushan had already crashed directly into the gate.
The door was made of iron, and it made an extremely heavy crashing sound, which was unusually loud in the darkness of silence.
"You're crazy! It's going to attract zombies! Zheng Jieming hurriedly hugged the impulsive Lao Zhang.
"Wouldn't it be worse to be stuck here!?" Lao Zhang turned around and asked Zheng Jieming. At this time, Lao Zhang was already panicking.
"Wait a minute! Don't talk! Listen! Jin Yue was standing at the back of the line and suddenly heard a strange sound.
Squeak –
It was the sound of a long hinge spinning from the depths of the hallway.
The sound of the door!! Zheng Jieming's mind was excited. There were countless possibilities in his mind, was it someone who was going to come in? Do we have a way out? Or will the zombies rush in?
The sound didn't sound like it was coming from the door on the side of the hallway, but it sounded like it was coming from inside the kitchen operation room at the end of the hallway.
Wind?
Zheng Jieming suddenly thought of the wind that blew the door of the operation room and hit the corpse back and forth just now. Since there is wind, it is likely that there is also an entrance to the operation room.
Could it be that the door is closed?
Thinking of this, Zheng Jieming couldn't hold his breath anymore, didn't care about the corpse under his feet, and walked quickly towards the operation room.
"What are you going back for!?" Li Yu already felt overwhelmed at this time.
People often react in two extremes when they are in danger and at a loss. One is to avoid taking action and to compensate for the risks that may result from action by not taking action. The other is to act decisively and compensate for the risks that may arise from inaction with the possible benefits of action.
Zheng Jieming clearly belongs to the latter category.
"If there's someone over there, find that person! If there's a 'ghost' over there, then get rid of that 'ghost'! Zheng Jieming held a bone chopping knife in his hand and stepped on the swollen corpse.
"But I'm a person, at most, I only know that there are zombies, and I don't believe in ghosts and gods!" At this time, Zheng Jieming, just like him in the morgue, completely disregarded the possible danger, and must come forward to see what the haunting thing is before stopping.
"This kid is crazy." Zhang Xiushan looked at Zheng Jieming's figure and resolutely moved forward, spat on the ground, and followed closely.
"Stay or past?" Jin Yue turned her head and asked Li Yu, she couldn't see his face clearly.
"Let's go over. If the door is locked, who will open it? There is no other way to go. Li Yu replied. Zheng Jieming's decisiveness seems to have helped Li Yu overcome the fear in his heart.
Zheng Jieming passed the door in the corridor, stopped, and suddenly changed his mind. He reached out and touched the texture of the door.
Wooden doors.
"Lao Zhang, you stand here, Li Yu, you two stand here, don't stand in front of the door." Zheng Jieming suddenly had an idea. He led the three of them to the side wall of the door.
"What are you going to do? Aren't you afraid of attracting zombies? The three of them stood up as Zheng Jieming said. Zhang Xiushan guessed what he was going to do, but still asked, he felt that it was too risky to do so.
People are sometimes elusive, and when they panic and hit the iron gate, they don't think about the possibility of attracting zombies. But when someone else hits another door, it feels too risky. Stance and emotion, just like human nature, just change an environment, although not necessarily malicious, but there is no appearance.
Zheng Jieming didn't answer, his attention was all focused on the door. He took a step back with his right leg and struggled against the wall of the hallway, his left foot on the ground, and his right foot kicked forward and slammed it against the door. With a loud bang, the lock of the wooden door was directly kicked and broken, revealing a gap between the door and the door frame.
"Do you think the sound of the wooden door being kicked open is quite good?" Zheng Jieming didn't know which tendon was idle, so he came up with such a sentence.
Li Yu, Zhang Xiushan, and Jin Yue couldn't cry or laugh when they heard this.
Zheng Jieming kicked hard again, and the door was kicked open. His eyes quickly swept over the equally dark room, and immediately ducked towards Zhang Xiushan's side.
He was worried that a zombie would pounce on him the moment he kicked it away.
Or someone will shoot.
But the four of them waited for a minute, and there was still no sound.
"Let's take a look?" Li Yu asked in a low voice.
Zheng Jieming nodded, turned around and leaned against the wall and entered the house.
This room is much more spacious than the hallway, but it is neither a cafeteria hall nor a food processing room. In the dark, there seem to be several pools on the left and several trash cans lined up on the right. The room was filled with the smell of food scraps, which was supposed to be the place where the cafeteria disposed of leftovers.
Zhang Xiushan sensitively checked the ground first, which was still full of corpses, and it seemed to be denser than the corridor. He frowned, the experience of falling on the woman's corpse just now would make her not want to touch the woman again for a few days—though he didn't have much chance of touching it now.
"Do you need another test?" Zheng Jieming asked Li Yu. His words are not sarcastic and ridiculous, he just wants to know whether these corpses are zombies, or if they were directly killed by ordinary people.
The room was too dark, Li Yu didn't check it, he just stepped on the nearest corpse with his foot to see if it was hard.
The corpse is soft.
Then he shook his head.
"I can't see clearly, I don't know."
"What did you do before?" Zheng Jieming finally couldn't help the question in his head.
"Forensics." Li Yu said plainly.
No wonder this guy is so sensitive to the characteristics of corpses, Zheng Jieming thought to himself.
Since it is a leftover processing room, there should be a door that leads directly to the cafeteria hall. The four of them have now given up their original intention of coming to get the knife, and instead are thinking about how to get out quickly, and don't follow the way of others.
Directly in front of the room appears to be a darker color, as if it were a double open door. According to the structure of the general canteen design, Zheng Jieming judged that it should be able to lead to the canteen hall. And as long as you get to the cafeteria hall, you should be able to get out of this ghost place that doesn't even have a window.
The four of them walked along the side, bypassing the zombies and walking to the door. It was a double-open stainless steel gate with a latch hidden and unlocked.
There was a faint stench behind the door.
"Opened?" Zheng Jieming asked the three of them softly.
"Open." Li Yu answered for the three of them.
Zheng Jieming only pushed the left leaf of the door, and the scene in front of him shocked the four people.
There are windows in the hall of the cafeteria, but it seems that the curtains are drawn, and a faint light can penetrate the room.
If you look closely, where is the curtain blocking the light? It was clear that piles of corpses were piled up in a corner of the restaurant lobby, blocking the window tightly!
The light filtered through the cracks in the pile of corpses, barely illuminating the room full of corpses!