Chapter 24: Taking Root and Sprouting
Guo Zhenlei grabbed the rope, wrapped the rope around his wrist, climbed onto the windowsill, and carefully stretched his feet down the windowsill.
"Wait! You can't grab the tail of the rope! You're jumping straight down! Zheng Jieming's eyes were sharp, and he found that Guo Zhenlei was holding the end of the rope.
"Huh? Oh! Right, right! Forgot. Guo Zhenlei was obviously a little nervous and grabbed the middle end of the rope. He sat on the windowsill, hesitantly stretching out his feet, not knowing how to go down.
"Alright, buddy? Can you get down? No problem! Zheng Jieming saw that he didn't dare to go down, and wanted to cheer him up.
"I'll have to breathe a sigh." Guo Zhenlei adjusted for a while, finally got up and fell down the rope.
Guo Zhenlei sat on the ground with a heavy buttocks, obviously putting the rope too fast, the medicine box touched the ground, the lid was knocked open, and the medicine was scattered all over the ground.
Guo Zhenlei hurriedly bent down to pick up the medicine charge.
Zheng Jieming took back the rope and was about to jump down, but the zombies kept hitting the door, Zheng Jieming simply lifted the formalin bucket and splashed it at the door.
There was a lot of silence outside the door.
Zheng Jieming shortened the rope of the medicine box and closed the lid firmly to prevent his box from touching the ground and falling apart. When Guo Zhenlei finished picking up the medicine and vacating the place, he also grabbed the rope and fell to the ground.
"Let's go!" Facing the empty courtyard and carrying a heavy medicine box, Zheng Jieming felt relaxed.
Running through the morgue and about to climb over the wall, the sound of a pistol loading came from behind him.
"Stop!" A man's gloomy voice sounded behind him.
Zheng Jieming's father is a soldier, and he has been exposed to guns since he was a child, and when he heard the sound of the gun being loaded, he was startled and immediately turned back. In front of the door of the morgue, there stood a man in black wearing black sunglasses, with a gun pointed at Zheng Jieming.
Guo Zhenlei ran in front, thinking that Zheng Jieming was calling him, and continued to climb the wall.
"Three!"
The man began to count down.
This countdown sound made Zheng Jieming excited, where have you heard this!! It's a countdown shot!! Zheng Jieming couldn't think of where he heard it, but he felt that this person would really shoot!
He immediately stood still.
"Two!"
"Guo!! Don't move!! Don't move! Zheng Jieming raised his hands, he knew that it was too late to climb the wall at this time, and the two of them had no way to run.
Guo Zhenlei heard this hurried shout, stopped climbing, and turned his head.
"What's wrong?"
"One!"
At the moment when the man counted to one, Guo Zhenlei saw him.
Guo Zhenlei immediately raised his hand and stopped all movements.
There was silence.
The man in black and sunglasses did not shoot.
"Acquaintance." A gloomy smile on Black Sunglasses' face.
The two did not dare to move.
"What's in the box?"
Black sunglasses have a deep voice, typical of a bass with a guttural voice.
"Medicine."
"What are you doing in the morgue?"
Zheng Jieming suddenly realized at this time that in the morgue just now, the person who did the right thing to the door must be the person in front of him.
But the door in front of him was smashed open by Guo Zhenlei. It appears that Black Sunglasses entered the morgue through that side door of the hospital's surgical building.
"Just to get to the drug warehouse on the third floor." Zheng Jieming tried to stay as calm as possible.
Zheng Jieming secretly calculated in his heart that when he and Guo Zhenlei passed by the morgue, the door of the morgue was locked from the inside, indicating that this person happened to be in the morgue at that time where the corpse was stored. So what are you going to the morgue for? Is there something particularly important about a certain corpse?
"Open the box and see" Black Sunglasses' gun never let go.
Zheng Jieming and Guo Zhenlei opened the medicine box and showed it to the black sunglasses.
Black Sunglasses tilted his head sideways and seemed to think for a while, issuing an order to Zheng Jieming.
"Get out!"
Zheng Jieming heard this "roll", and finally remembered where he had heard this voice. This is what he heard when he was unconscious and Zhou Jitang was running wildly behind his back!
Zheng Jieming immediately understood what was going to happen next, and shouted loudly at Guo Zhenlei.
"Run over the wall!!"
Guo Zhenlei scrambled upwards and climbed onto the wall. Zheng Jieming followed, grabbed the upper edge of the wall with his hand, climbed up with his right leg, and then rolled his body outward, fell down the slope, and rolled from the slope to the open space of the closed courtyard in embarrassment.
Guo Zhenlei jumped down from the wall, his clothes hanging on the wall, and tore out a long tear.
"Are you alright?" Guo Zhenlei didn't have time to see if he was scratched, so he asked Zheng Jieming loudly first.
Zheng Jieming looked muddy and got up from the ground, "It's okay, it's okay." Shit, fucking get out of here. He patted the dirt and weeds off his body and looked up at the fence with a dejected expression.
At this time, Zheng Jieming noticed that Guo Zhenlei's clothes were torn.
"No scratches, right? Let me see. ”
Guo Zhenlei turned around, but there were no injuries on his body, his clothes were scrapped, and he went down a big hole from the middle.
"Rub! This is my favorite Yankees!! Guo Zhenlei put on a depressed face, completely forgetting that he was almost shot just now. Zheng Jieming's face was another black line.
"Saving your life is better than anything else."
"Where are you going in a moment?" Guo Zhenlei asked.
"I have to go to the Anping Lake community. What about you? Back to the bank to the west? ”
"Yes, Zhongzhou Development Bank. It's not bad, it's easy to defend. Would you like to move here too? You can stay for another three or two. Guo Zhenlei sincerely invited Zheng Jieming.
"Not for the time being, there are seven of us, and we don't plan to move yet." Zheng Jieming politely refused.
"Do you know how to get back?" Guo Zhenlei asked.
That's right, how to go back, I can't walk in the small alley, and Qingli Road doesn't know if the corpses have dispersed now.
"I think it's safe to walk from the roof." Zheng Jieming said.
"Haha, yes! That's right, as long as you don't encounter that stinky monkey with a particularly strong bouncing ability, you will be fine on the roof. ”
Stinky monkeys? Zheng Jieming thought to himself, that zombie is a stinky monkey when it jumps, and it is a cheetah when it runs. He remembered that he had been crushed under that kind of zombie before, and felt like a lamb to the slaughter.
"Then, I'll hurry back. You should also hurry up and retreat, and go back to deliver medicine to your mother. Zheng Jieming looked up and saw that it was already noon, and his stomach was rumbling.
After the two separated, Zheng Jieming climbed to the roof by the slope and returned along the same path. He was afraid of encountering "stinky monkeys" and did not dare to get too close to the alley.
But for some reason, he always felt that there was a pair of eyes around him staring at him.
I looked around closely, but nothing out of the ordinary.
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Zhou Jitang killed the zombies hanging upside down on the burglar bar, climbed up the window, and broke the zombies' hamstrings.
The zombie falls downstairs.
Chang Bing heard the movement, came out of the bedroom, and saw Zhou Jitang standing on the windowsill, while Dong Yuan sat on the ground with a panicked face.
"What's wrong? I hear movement, what are you doing on the windowsill? Chang Bing looked puzzled.
"Just now, there was one just now..."Dong Yuan was about to explain, but Zhou Jitang interrupted him.
"Nothing! A zombie was calling outside, scaring Dong Yuan. ”
Zhou Jitang didn't want Chang Bing to worry, so he concealed the details about the zombies climbing the window.
"Oh..."Chang Bing was skeptical, "then what are you doing standing there?" ”
Zhou Jitang jumped down from the windowsill, "I'll just look at the situation outside." ”
Li Yuping's house, six people eat, search for the unit building. After a while, it was already afternoon.
"Why hasn't Zheng Jieming come back yet?" Chang Bing walked to the balcony and looked at the small courtyard.
A strong sense of jealousy welled up in Zhou Jitang's heart. He recalled the incident of Ma Qi again, he was always suspicious of Zheng Jieming, and he didn't want Chang Bing and Zheng Jieming to get too close.
He was worried that Chang Bing would be "deceived" by Zheng Jieming.
Zhou Jitang hesitated, and finally decided to mention a sensitive topic to Chang Bing.
"Chang Bing." Zhou Jitang walked to Chang Bing's side.
"Huh?" Chang Bing turned around.
"Can you borrow a place to talk?" Zhou Jitang's face looked serious.
"What's the matter?" Chang Bing subconsciously wondered, could it be an emotional matter?
"You come with me next door and talk about it, everyone is in the living room here, it's inconvenient to say."
Chang Bing had no choice but to follow.
The two went next door and stood on the balcony.
"Tell me, what's the matter?" Chang Bing leaned against the balcony, the wind blowing on her face and her hair fluttering in the wind.
"What do you think of Marzie's death?" Zhou Jitang went straight to the point.
Chang Bing was very surprised when he heard this topic.
"You mean the horse team?" Chang Bing asked.
"Yes." Zhou Jitang nodded.
"He... of death. It's a pity. The team is a man who knows how to lead. Chang Bing had a sad look on his face. At that time, when Ma Qi lost his breath, Chang Bing was also the first to face the facts.
"That's not what I meant. I mean, what do you think was the real cause of Mazie's death? Zhou Jitang tried to guide Chang Bing.
"The real cause of death? Well... If we had medicine, or if Liu Junluo hadn't gone crazy, he wouldn't..."
"I'm asking about the real cause of death!" Zhou Jitang directly interrupted Chang Bing's analysis.
Chang Bing didn't understand.
"What do you mean?"
There was silence.
Zhou Jitang suddenly choked back what he was about to say.
He felt that he couldn't identify that Zheng Jieming deliberately suffocated Ma Qi, he just suspected it, but there was no evidence. He was worried that once he expressed this suspicion to Chang Bing, it would make Chang Bing even more disgusted and disgusted with himself - after all, he knew very well in his heart that his image in Chang Bing's eyes was not tall. And Zheng Jieming didn't really do anything that needed to be scrutinized.
"It's okay... I... I just think that Ma Qi's death is strange, will it be ... infected. Zhou Jitang stammered in reply.
"Zhou Jitang, don't think too much. You've been stressed too much these days, and the wound hasn't healed, so you should rest more. Chang Bing looked at Zhou Jitang with concern and probed his forehead, "The temperature on my forehead is a little higher than yesterday, I hope Zheng Jieming can hurry up and come back safely with the medicine." ”
In Zhou Jitang, Chang Bing said, "I hope Zheng Jieming can come back safely as soon as possible." He felt a sour vinegar in his heart again.
Under the soil of the end of the world, Zhou Jitang's seed of doubt took root and sprouted more and more because of this kind of vinegar, making him lose his true judgment of Zheng Jieming.