Chapter Seventy-Two: A Turning Point
The inside and outside of the small building were boiling, the zombies surrounded the small building, frantically squeezed from the window to the house, and the later zombies circled around the building, it was difficult to squeeze into the small building, and then ran east along Qingli Street.
A hunter on the roof seemed to hear the sound of glass breaking on the second floor, gave up the roof, and instead climbed upside down towards the second floor and into the study.
The corpse boy is still lying on his stomach in the tree, and this strange beast seems to be watching an interesting farce, and its love for "fun" seems to be far stronger than "killing" itself.
Inside the small building, on the second floor.
Everyone was still resisting desperately, but even though everyone took turns to the front row to stop the zombies and give everyone a chance to breathe and rest, everyone still began to feel powerless, and their arms became more and more sore.
Ye Ran and Jin Yue's knives had been cut down, and Ye Ran found the only two remaining maces from between the tools.
"I'll go! Do these brutes have a head? I can't hold my hands anymore! Dong Yuan's voice was full of panic, and at this time he was in the front row, alongside Zhou Jitang. Zhou Jitang has been replaced by Qi Xian to rest in the front row for a while.
"Fat man less wordy! If you can't fight, change to someone else! Kill them until they retreat! Kill us or die! Zhou Jitang thought that the fat man's complaints affected morale and sprayed him loudly.
Dong Yuan stopped being verbose and concentrated on wielding the knife.
In fact, it wasn't just Dong Yuan, everyone's hearts began to feel panic and uneasiness, and they even felt that Xiaolou was shaking. Except for Dong Yuan, everyone did not dare to show this fear easily, but the fear spread through the clouds on everyone's faces, and this kind of emotion is something that is more contagious than disease. Qi Xian had even decided that he would die here at this time.
Suddenly there was a violent slamming sound in the study, only three solid slamming sounds, and the fourth door was smashed through, making a crisp clicking sound, and wood chips splashed on the wall.
The tension of everyone was mentioned to the highest, Jin Yue turned his head and looked at Zheng Jieming worriedly, Zheng Jieming commanded everyone from the beginning of this battle, and now at the moment of crisis, he has become the backbone of these people.
Zheng Jieming could barely stand up straight at this time, and he was also very anxious in his heart, if he stayed on the second floor, on the one hand, the staircase would be difficult to support, and on the other hand, there must be hunters in the study. Of course, he can divide several people to guard the study, but he doesn't know how many hunters there are in the study, in case the hunters rush directly into the middle of the crowd and cause the people blocking the ordinary zombies to be attacked before and after, the consequences must be very disastrous.
"Retreat to the corner of the stairs on the third floor! Jin Yue, Hua Feng, the two of you stand up first, and the others come behind them! Fast! Zheng Jieming decided to retreat again, at the corner of the stairs, everyone only needs to face the zombies and hunters coming from one direction, and they will be relatively active. Moreover, this can more safely protect the female dependents and the wounded on the third floor.
What he didn't expect at the moment was that this fortuitous decision would decide everything later.
Everyone evacuated upstairs one after another, and Jin Yue and Hua Feng blocked the stairs on the third floor and switched to the front.
"How nice it would be if there were bows and arrows and spears! We can step up our attack in the back! At this time, Wang Yueshan thought of the simple spear that Zhang Xiushan had made before.
Zhou Jitang and Dong Yuan also thought of the crossbow in camouflage uniforms, if the human hand could make one, it would be much easier now.
Zheng Jieming listened to it in his ears, and he was also pondering in his heart. Now the crowd mainly relies on hand-to-hand combat, which is both passive and dangerous, guns and ammunition are limited, supplies are scarce, and when they run out of bullets, they become decorations. If you survive this battle, you will have to find a way to craft or find a new weapon.
The corpses soon spread to the second floor, some rushing towards the corridors on both sides, while others turned a corner and rushed up to the corner of the third floor, where they were stopped by Jin Yue and Hua Feng.
Everyone's knives were about to be scrapped at this time, some were open, some were blunt, and only Hua Feng's Han sword was still very powerful.
"Hanabong, where's your katana?" Zheng Jieming suddenly thought that there was still a sharp weapon that had not been put into use.
"It's been submerged on the first floor for a long time!" Hua Bong shouted.
"Fresh and uninterrupted weapons! Blind. Wang Yueshan sighed when he heard that there was such a thing as a katana.
While complaining, there was a strange hinging sound from upstairs, followed by the sound of a metal door being slammed.
"What's that?" Zheng Jieming didn't hear the source of this voice, he took a few steps up and followed the sound.
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Earlier.
Li Yu was in the room, cleaning Zhang Xiushan's wounds. He was clumsy, accustomed to dealing with dead people, and now suddenly let him face the living, he didn't have much experience, Zhang Xiushan was hurt by his whole death.
At this time, the women also entered the room one after another. Li Yu and Zhang Xiushan saw Fang Xinping enter the house, as if they had seen a savior.
"Li Yu? It's okay, I think you've done a pretty good job. Fang Xinping still spoke coldly like that. After she entered the house, she first observed Li Yu's treatment, and she saw that her arm was tightly stabbed to death, avoiding heavy bleeding, and the position of the stabbing was not too high, so she was able to maintain Zhang Xiushan's ability to move her arm, and she was more relieved.
"Qin Qin, you also come over and watch the point, it's always good to learn a little more by one more person." Fang Xinping beckoned Qin Qin over again, this posture was like she was taking an intern doctor in the hospital.
"What did you do before?" Fang Xinping asked Li Yu that she and Wang Yueshan only lived in a community with Li Yu, and although they survived with Li Yu, Li Yu never talked to her about his career.
"Forensics... Specializing in corpses. Li Yu glanced at Fang Xinping with a headache.
"What?" Fang Xinping frowned, "Forget it, let me come!" No wonder you're so savage. β
"The forensic techniques are equally delicate, but I don't do clinical work!" Li Yu was relieved and handed over the tools at hand to Fang Xinping.
Lao Zhang kept screaming, and when he saw Fang Xinping take over, hope ignited in his weak eyes, and he finally didn't have to be tossed around like a corpse.
"Your knife is quite neat, you don't need and have no conditions to give you bone and flesh, but you have to get rid of the protruding bone spurs, so that you don't have to heal slowly and heal painfully, you want to heal well later, and you have to bear the pain now! Hold back! Fang Xinping informed Zhang Xiushan and immediately started. Fang Xinping came up to trim the stump, and his movements were much sharper. Although Zhang Xiushan is still in severe pain, he feels much better psychologically, he knows that he can "heal" and not become a corpse.
At this moment, Li Yu also heard the sound of hinges and metal doors.
"Rooftop lid!"
Li Yu realized the problem, could it be that the corpse boy in the corridor came in from the rooftop before!?
He still had bullets in his pistol, and he rushed out with the gun, and happened to meet Zheng Jieming who also rushed up.
The two of them looked at the rooftop together, but the lid on the rooftop was well covered.
"What's the noise?" Zheng Jieming asked Li Yu.
"I don't know, maybe there's something on the rooftop." Li Yu stood next to the ladder, the muzzle of the gun rushing up and pointing at the lid.
The hunter on the top floor was greatly less intelligent after all, and one of the hunters lifted the lid, but let go again, and now it lifted the lid again and tried to get into the house.
As soon as it stuck out its head, Li Yu was shot, and this shot hit the head, and the hunter died, and his head was still caught at the entrance, pressed by the lid. From below, it looks like a head hanging from the roof dripping blood.
The two hunters on the roof heard the gunshots and tried to squeeze in, but the entrance was blocked by corpses. The two zombies have been guarding the entrance and tinkering, and Li Yu has been guarding with a gun.
On the second floor, ordinary zombies poured into the corridor, some of them rushed down the corridor to the study, and then fell out of the window that had been smashed by the hunter, this window was facing north, after these zombies fell to the first floor, they did not look back, and ran along Qingli Street to Changchun Street with those corpses to the east.
And the hunter who was in the study just now, Hua Bong had been waiting for it to suddenly appear in front of him and pounce on the staircase, he was ready. But what he didn't see, and what he didn't expect, was that the poor hunter was knocked down by the oncoming corpses as he rushed down the stairs in the corridor, pushed back to the study, and then squeezed out of the window.
The survivors felt despair, but what they didn't know was that hope was creeping in their way, if only they held on a little longer! A little longer! The hordes may retreat to the east!
Although everyone has not yet discovered it, Zheng Jieming's decision to let everyone retreat to the third floor has inadvertently become the biggest turning point in this battle!
Jin Yue took the hammer and smashed it on the zombie's head, the hammer head of the hammer fell off directly and smashed into the corpses, Jin Yue was stunned, and then quickly retreated, Hua Feng saw this, and could only retreat backwards.
The corner of the staircase between the second and third floors was also lost, and now everyone has returned to the third floor landing. At this time, Li Yu kept guarding the entrance of the rooftop with a gun, and the others took turns to fight against the zombies coming up from the stairs, and all the survivors converged.
"How is Zhang Xiushan!?" Zheng Jieming asked Li Yu.
"It should be fine!"
While asking, Zhang Xiushan's pig-like roar came from inside the house, Zheng Jieming and Li Yu looked at each other, and a drop of sweat fell from their heads.
"Everyone, hold on! Keep it up! I'm sure I'll get through it! Zheng Jieming shouted loudly.
"Dong Yuan! Go and put the tables, chairs, benches, and everything you can bring over and block the corridor!! Li Yu shouted loudly, he planned to hold this place to the death.
At this moment, Wang Yueshan and Zhou Jitang were on the front line, Hua Feng was replaced to rest, but he never dared to retreat, he was ready to kill the hunter who came out of the study on the second floorββββ although he didn't know that this hunter had gone east with the tide of corpses.
Outside the house at this time, the canopy of the tree where the corpse boy had been squatting was empty, and the branches were swaying slightly.
And the two hunters on the roof were trying to squeeze in through the gap, and it was Li Yu's black hole muzzle that met them.