Chapter 16: A Dangerous Game
Night, the second night after the end of the world, is destined to be a sleepless night for many, whether they are scrambling for their way, hiding in some unsafe place and trembling, or holding on to their bite wounds and waiting for death.
Darkness shrouded the once bustling city of New York, and in the quiet of the city, the steel jungle, and the occasional dim light could be seen, proving that there were still people alive.
Zombies tend to be much quieter and more honest at night, and only a few very rare zombies occasionally let out a roar. Tang Ji believes that everything can be explained by science, and the reason why some things cannot be explained by science now can only be said that the current technology is not developed enough, what you can't explain does not mean that it does not conform to science, the appearance of zombies is accidental, but it can definitely be explained by science, viruses kill humans, and then use special methods to "resurrect".
Zombies do not belong to the category of living people, but it cannot be said that they are dead, and dead people cannot move, so zombies can be called living dead, creatures between the living and the dead.
According to the law of conservation of energy, zombies can walk, roar and scream, they must be consuming something, then obviously, it should be the flesh and blood of other animals, including humans, after the night falls, is the silence of zombies also resting? Thus reducing the consumption of certain substances in the body.
Don Guy didn't know, he had been speculating.
On the second floor of the Dream House clothing store, the doors and windows are closed, the curtains are tightly drawn, and a table lamp is placed on the coffee table, shining with a pale yellow shimmer, illuminating the surroundings in a dim light, and everyone sits around the coffee table, making final preparations.
A pistol with five bullets inside, a fire axe, a wrench more than half a meter long, and two large fruit knives one foot long, these are all the self-defense weapons that everyone has, of course, this does not include Tang Ji's scalpel, there are many in his small backpack.
After packing up everything, everyone found some soft clothes piled up on one side of the room and spread them on the ground, put all the weapons within reach, and lay down on the simple "bunk" and fell asleep with clothes, anything could happen at night, so everyone was ready to wake up and escape before going to bed.
The night gradually fell silent.
Don Guy and Maniela were lying in the corner of the room, covered with thick clothes, very soft, looking simple but actually very comfortable, Maneela was holding Don Guy's arm, her loose silk hair covering her face, nestled in the crook of Don Guy's left arm, already deep asleep.
Suddenly, Tang Ji opened his eyes, and pulled out a scalpel from nowhere in his right hand, his eyes were sharp at first, but he immediately lost his vigilance, and his gaze became peaceful.
"What's wrong?" Tang Ji slowly put down the scalpel and asked softly.
"I'm scared over there alone, sleep here." In the dark, a pair of bright eyes looked at Tang Ji, it was Christine, she squatted beside Tang Ji with a pile of clothes, and whispered that she was sleeping on the sofa.
"Are you afraid?" Don Ji smiled.
"Hmm!" Christine nodded very seriously, and then without waiting for Tang Ji to say anything, she spread the clothes she had brought to Tang Ji's side, lay down, closed her eyes in front of Tang Ji and muttered, "Go to sleep, I'm so sleepy." ”
"Sleep." Tang Ji muttered, said nothing else, and closed his eyes.
Nothing was said all night.
It was early in the morning, half past six.
The sun shone into the room through the curtains, shining on everyone's faces, Don Ji slowly opened his eyes, felt a little strange, his hair made his chin a little itchy, looked down, Christine no longer knew when he got into his arms, sleeping sweetly, and on the other side, Maniela was lying on her stomach, half of her body was on the floor, half of her body was on the floor of the clothes, very unshaped, and she was also still asleep.
"Hi Christine, wake up!" Don Guy stroked Christine's blonde hair and nudged her head gently.
Christine woke up, her eyes widening with tenseness, and then relaxed.
"Hey!" Christine looked at Don Guy.
Don Ji tilted his head and smiled at her.
"Oh, I'm sorry." Christine immediately sat up from Don Ji's arms and moved to the side.
"It's fine!" As he spoke, he pulled out the scalpel from under his clothes, stood up, clapped his hands, and shouted in a slightly louder voice, "Guys, it's getting late, it's time to get up." ”
The others in the room woke up one by one, and Tang Ji had already walked to the coffee table and sat down, flipped through the travel bag containing the food, and said, "Everyone come and have something to eat, and we will leave in half an hour." ”
In the corner of the room, Manigla, who woke up, looked at Christine, who also looked like she had just woken up, and asked, "How did you sleep here?" ”
"I'm scared ......," Christine reluctantly explained.
Maniela muttered, "Really? He stood up with his hair brushed back, his eyes constantly looking back and forth at Christine.
"What's wrong?" Christine asked with some weakness and stood up.
"Nothing." Maniela smiled, gave Christine one last look, and turned to walk in the direction of the couch.
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May 22, 2015, 7 a.m.
"Are you ready?"
On the dim first floor of the clothing store, next to the back door, Tang Ji zipped up his leather jacket, turned his head and asked, seeing that everyone nodded slightly nervously, he no longer hesitated, and slammed open the back door of the clothing store.
"Hurry, everybody!" Don Ji shouted.
The first to rush out was old Mike, he was the driver, he had to get in the car and start the car first, the car in the alley was only ten centimeters away from the wall, the door in the car was just facing the back door of the clothing store, the door could not be opened, but the window was open.
Although old Mike is not young, he is still in good health, and he deserves the words old and strong, and the slightly bulging beer belly only has a slight effect on him, and he crawls in through the window.
Because after Tang Ji killed Andrew yesterday, he threw the body out, and the noise attracted the zombies around the clothing store, so now there are almost no zombies in this alley, however, it is troublesome to get on the car from the window, and it is inevitable to bring up the sound, so the zombies will soon be attracted over, and everyone has heard the roar of the zombies on the street, so the speed of getting on the car must be fast, otherwise the alley is blocked by zombies, and it is not easy to drive out, and the car can't bear the beating of zombies for a long time, The crowd was almost dead.
After Mike Sr. got on Laura, then Maniela, Christine, Jason, and Don Guy got in the car last.
Just a minute later, everyone got into the car, and many zombies had already roared and rushed into the alley, slapping around the car, and some zombies were even trying to climb onto the roof of the car.
"Let's go!" Finally, Tang Ji, who got into the car, closed the windshield of the middle door, old Mike had started the car, as soon as Tang Ji's voice fell, the car suddenly moved backwards, hit two zombies, and quickly retreated to the mouth of the alley, with a sharp brake and slammed the steering wheel, the car slid out of the alley, and stepped on the accelerator again, and the car rushed out like an arrow off the string.
The metal rock music of the famous death metal band "hardcore big name" sounded in the car, old Mike liked rock music when he was young, and listening to this kind of death metal music that is at the forefront of fashion again seems to have ignited his passion, with a faint shaking of his head, the speed of the car continues to increase, and he rushes through the streets.
Laura sat next to Old Mike at the front of the car, looking at Old Mike with a slight frown, as if she was very uncomfortable with this sound.
Of course, the reason why the music is played is not because of someone's fetishes or whether they think it is good, but to attract zombies, so Laura can't say anything.
Hickory Street, the street where the gun shop was located, was only two blocks away from Donji's original apartment, and six blocks away from the street where the Dream House clothing store was located.
This is a relatively prosperous commercial street, but only for the pre-apocalyptic world, now this street is completely unprosperous, abandoned cars, blood, stumps, and countless dense zombies, the smell of decay fills the air, the roar of zombies is spreading, one tooth after another teeth are blackened, eyes are blood-red, blood vessels bulge all over the body to form black lines, and the zombies covered in blood are wandering unconsciously, waiting for the next visitor to become food in their mouths.
Stirring heavy metal music accompanied by the roar of cars came from the western intersection of the street, and the zombies who heard the sound all raised their heads and looked in that direction.
Wow...... Click!
A Ford business car that looked tattered rushed out of the intersection and drove into Hickory Street, the zombies on the street all came to the spirit at once, let out an excited roar, and hurried towards the direction of the Ford business car, the number of zombies has reached thousands, too many to determine the specific number.
"So much!" Tang Ji leaned over the gap in the middle of the front seat, looked at the zombies on the street outside the windshield and muttered.
After the Ford car entered Hickory Street, it immediately slowed down, and when it drove in, it had already attracted a lot of zombies, and as soon as the Ford car slowed down, they chased after it, slapping the Ford car frantically.
In the face of the zombies catching up, Old Mike slowly stopped the car, and rock music was still playing in the car, constantly attracting the attention of zombies in the distance.
The people in the car were very nervous, the Ford couldn't withstand the long-term beating of zombies, as long as a piece of glass was broken, it would be extremely dangerous to stay in the car.
"Wait, wait......" Tang Ji muttered, his eyes staring at the surging zombie crowd on Hickory Street, which numbered in the thousands.
Click!
There was a crack in the windshield on the left side of the back seat, and Maniela was sitting next to the windshield, and she screamed, holding the big fruit knife tightly in both hands, and squeezed in the direction of Christine on the right.
The zombies outside are getting closer and closer to the Ford car, the zombies in front are less than five meters away from the car, and the zombies around the Ford car are already in a circle, all of them are zombies from other streets, surrounding the car and slapping, and the whole Ford car is shaking.
It was at this time.
"Let's go!" Tang Ji immediately made a decision, patted the back of Old Mike's seat, and then sat down quickly, pulled on his seat belt and fastened it to his body.
Boom! Old Mike slammed the accelerator twice, loosened the clutch body and retreated a meter backwards, and then slammed the steering wheel, the tail of the large commercial vehicle with a body length of six meters was suddenly thrown out, and the whole car turned around one hundred and eighty degrees in a very small range, and the result was that the front of the car has been adjusted to the direction of the intersection, and more importantly, the group of zombies around the Ford car just now were all swept out, and the body was suddenly empty, and then stepped on the accelerator, and the Ford car soared out of Hickory Street again, Turn onto Waimera Avenue next to it.
This is the street where the Ford car just drove over, the Ford car put heavy metal music all the way, the speed was very fast, just now all the zombies on this street who were attracted by the Ford car and could keep up with the Ford car were attracted to the hickory street at the previous moment, surrounded by the body, and just now the Ford car flicked its tail and played a "Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers", those zombies were all swept out, either the whole body was fractured and could not get up, or the brain was broken and died on the spot, so now there are not many zombies on the street of Waimelai, There are only a hundred scattered at most, almost scattered throughout the street.
After the Ford drove into Waimylai Street, it drove forward at a sharp speed of almost 200 meters, and came to a sudden stop! The windows were opened, and the music of heavy metal was louder.
At this time, near the intersection of the west side of Hickory Avenue and Vimelai Street, due to the attraction of the Ford car just now, the zombie group has moved to that position, and the Ford car originally drove into Vimila Avenue and lost its tracks, so that some zombies became dazed, after all, there are a lot of zombies, and the zombies walking in the last are still some distance from the crossroads, but when the Ford car did not go far from Vimelai Avenue and stopped, the window was opened to amplify the sound of rock music, which was like a guiding light, The thousands of zombies on Hickory Street were generally very close to the intersection, so naturally they could hear the sound, and suddenly, all the zombies rushed towards Waimerai Street.
The speed of the zombies' rapid movement is almost constant, they will not get tired, the zombies pour into Waimerai Street, even if the first zombie walks the distance of two hundred meters, it will take at least a minute, this minute, the Ford car can not be threatened by this zombie group at all.
At this time, the only thing that could threaten the Ford car and the people in the car was the original zombies on Waimelai Street, and because these few zombies were distributed throughout the street, there were only a dozen zombies that could rush to the Ford car within a minute.
The windows were open, and it would be very dangerous if people were still in the car, so Tang Ji chose to get out of the car.
"Jason, come down with an axe!" With a few scalpels in his hands, Tang Ji pushed the door and stepped out of the car.
"Hey, let's get rid of this shit!" Jason smiled and got out of the car with a little excitement, and put down a zombie rushing over with an axe.
On the other side, Tang Ji pinched the scalpel, and a zombie ran towards him, ten meters ...... Nine meters ...... Eight meters ......
Sou!
Tang Ji threw out a scalpel and slammed it through the zombie's face.
In the car, Laura looked nervously outside with a gun, and Don Ji told her not to shoot as much as possible, because the gun did not have a silencer, and the sound of gunfire was enough to attract zombies from several nearby blocks, which was not conducive to everyone's plan to leave, so Laura was holding a gun now just in case, and if there were zombies pounced on the side of the Ford car, she would not be too late to shoot.
In case it happened, within half a minute, Tang Ji and Jason did more than a dozen zombies close to the Ford car, Tang Ji finally pulled the scalpel out of the zombie's head one by one, the mighty zombie group was only about twenty meters away from the Ford car, Tang Ji and Jason quickly got into the car, and the moment the door was closed, the car rushed out directly.
At this time, the entire zombie crowd has all poured into Waimelai Street, and the Hickory Street, where the gun shop is located, is basically empty!
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Very sincerely, the five bodies shouted long live for recommendation, for recommendation!!