Chapter 50: Strong Grace
New York, Manhattan Island, around 7:15 a.m.
Suddenly, there was a rush of footsteps in the quiet street, followed by the roars of zombies, mixed with the screams of men and women.
Don Quixy, who had barely fallen asleep after a sore lip for half the night, woke up in horror, rolled down the sofa, touched the gun, and walked quickly to the window, the other two people in the living room were also woken up at the same time, Jason rubbed his eyes, jumped up from the other sofa, put one hand on the backrest, turned over the sofa and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
Robbie slept under the window, and he slept on two large single couches for the night, at which point he got up from the couch, kicked one to the side, and stood on the ground with his hands on the window edge, looking straight out.
"Someone has come to this street...... Robbie frowned slightly, and looked through the window at the street below, less than forty meters above the ground, and everything was clearly visible.
"There are survivors......" Jason asked as he walked up behind Robbie.
"It's not anymore...... Tang Ji was already standing on the other side of Robbie, looking out the window and frowning slightly, and said solemnly: "What happened last night, how did the zombies become so many?" His voice was slightly out of tune, with a muffled feeling.
Jason looked downstairs and saw that on the street below, at least two or three hundred zombies were gathered in a staggering manner, divided into four or five groups, gathered in different directions on the street, and the zombies in the center of each group of zombies were leaning over to eat something.
Obviously, the survivors just appeared on the street, and they didn't run away and were besieged by zombies to share the food, and it is impossible to speculate whether these people who just died came out of other buildings on this street, or ran from some other places. And I can't guess how these zombies came from, they may have emerged from the buildings on both sides of the street at night, or scattered zombies from several other streets to gather together, and this small group was formed.
"Ahh God, help! ”
Next to an abandoned car that hit the wall on the street, the abandoned car formed an angle with the wall, a woman about thirty years old suddenly stood up from that position, ran to the building where the door was not closed, the zombie heard the wind, the woman screamed and rushed into the building, but was pounced out at the moment of entering, a zombie walked out of the building, grabbed her shoulders and pressed her down on the sidewalk on the side of the road, lowered her head and opened her mouth to bite off a large piece of flesh from the woman's face.
Blood splashed, other zombies roared and hula-la-la, the woman's figure was quickly overwhelmed by the zombies, and the screams quickly disappeared, and for a while, in addition to the roars of zombies on the street, only the sound of zombies tearing raw meat and chewing was left, which made people's hairs stand up.
Tang Ji and the three of them stood by the window of the guest room on the twelfth floor of the hotel across the street, looking at this scene that should have been familiar and adapted, but their faces were not very good-looking, Jason even felt that his body was a little cold, maybe not long after, this was the last scene before the end of his life.
Jason took two steps back, not wanting to look at it anymore, and when he turned his head back, he inadvertently glanced at Tang Ji's side face, and his figure immediately paused, looking at Tang Ji with a strange expression,
Robbie, who was standing next to Don Ji, felt this gaze first, because Jason's gaze was about to pass by him, he turned his head to look at Jason, and immediately followed Jason's gaze to Tang Ji, his expression was immediately moved, the corners of his mouth seemed to be upturned, and he wanted to laugh, but he didn't laugh.
The two people around him were staring at him, and of course Tang Ji could feel it, and when he turned his head to look at Robbie and Jason's eyes and faces, he immediately understood.
"Laugh if you want, don't hold back your ......," Tang Ji said helplessly, raised his hand and touched his lips slightly, turned away from the window, and walked in the direction of the bathroom.
The corners of Robbie's mouth lifted again, smiled slightly, and turned his gaze out the window again.
Jason covered his mouth all of a sudden, and his eyes kept following Tang Ji, but finally he couldn't help it, and said to Tang Ji's back with a smiling tone: "...... Don, I'm sorry, I really can't help it, hahahahaha, your mouth, hahaha......" Jason seemed to be a little unable to laugh, hurriedly took two steps forward, held on to the back of the sofa, patted the back of the sofa and continued to laugh.
Sometimes, Jason is so happy.
Tang Ji couldn't help but speed up his pace, entered the bathroom and closed the door with a bang, turned on the light and walked to the mirror, and glanced at it, his expression became more and more helpless.
After being bitten by Christine yesterday, Don Ji kicked everyone out of the room, cleaned the wound, and then stitched a stitch on his mouth, the opening was not big, but it was a little deep, so he had to get stitches, and besides, Tang Ji didn't have anesthetic, just a stitch, and soon, for Don Ji there was no need to take anesthetic, the anesthetic also hurt the brain, and after the wound was treated, Don Ji only sprinkled medicine on it, but did not bandage it, it was too difficult.
It hurt for half a night before I fell asleep, and when I woke up this morning, the wound on Tang Ji's mouth was naturally ...... It's swollen!
Tang Ji's lower lip was about to turn into a small sausage, it was very swollen, and the air was so dirty that it was easy to cause wound infection.
When Tang Ji walked out of the bathroom, everyone else in the suite except Christine had also come out, and they all gathered in the hall, in fact, they had already woken up when there was screaming and screaming on the street, but they could see the street from the window of their room, so they all came out after washing in the bathroom.
In the morning, everyone gathered in the living room to have breakfast together, Christine was dragged out by Maniela for a long time, she was a little afraid to see Tang Ji, but when she entered the living room and found that Tang Ji just glanced at herself, she didn't look at herself again, and her expression didn't change much, and her heart was full of a sense of loss.
"Jon, what are your plans?" Don Ji took two bites of bread and dropped it, took the unwrapped milk that Maniela had given him, and asked as he glanced at Jon with a straw in his mouth.
Qiang En can't be regarded as a real person for Tang Ji until now, they used to be together with the trend, and he had no other way to go with his daughter, so he could only follow Tang Ji together, but now it's different, it's safe for the time being, and Qiang En also has the right to choose.
"You are going to the countryside...... Qiang En held the canned fish in his hand, chewed the contents in his mouth, groaned for a while, looked at his daughter beside him, and looked up at Tang Ji: "Maybe we can follow you, with you, it will be easier for me to take care of my daughter, and ...... You are very capable! Jon pointed at Donji.
"Thank you......" Tang Ji replied noncommittally, picked up the beef jerky on the table, handed it to his mouth and thought about it, didn't eat it, stuffed it into Maniela's mouth next to him, swept his hand, and looked at Qiangen: "Introduce yourself, more detailed, our habits, everyone has introduced themselves......"
Qiang En looked at Tang Ji, glanced at the others, and saw that they all looked like they wanted to listen to their introduction, thinking that what Tang Ji said was true, he put the canned fish in his hand on the table, sat up straight, and there was nothing unnatural, or slurred, and said directly: "Qiang En, born in San Francisco in April 1955, is 22 years old...... That is, when I graduated from Yale in 1977, I originally wanted to become a basketball star, the NBA...... But then he chose to join the army, joined the Marine Corps at the age of 23, participated in the Panama War in 1989, the first Gulf War in 1990, and the Afghanistan War in 2001...... I never went to the battlefield in person, but I was promoted to major general in 2005, retired last year, and moved to New York with my daughter, where she attended high school in Manhattan. ”
After Qiang En finished speaking, he paused, looked at Tang Ji and put his arm around the shoulders of his daughter, and said, "She, Kellyti, is the only child between me and my second wife, and my youngest daughter...... After graduating from high school, she also plans to go to college at the Manhattan School of Music, but now ...... "Jon looked at Kellyti, his eyes were a little sad, there was no need to say anything, Kellyti can only be taken care of all the time in this situation now, and it is useless to introduce more, because the current Kellyti is completely different from the pre-apocalyptic Kellyti.
Bang Bang Bang!
Tang Ji clapped his palms, looked at Qiang'en father and daughter, and said, "You are welcome to join." ”
"Thank you!" Jon responded.
After everyone had eaten, they sat down on the sofa again and sat in a circle, Tang Ji said yesterday that he would discuss the plan today.
"Everybody...... Whatever you want, just don't go out, maybe you can get some sleep, we won't leave for the time being, and we'll talk about it in a few days. Don Ji came out of the bathroom, put on the leather jacket that had been washed and dried yesterday, and looked at the people gathered in the living room waiting for him.
"It's not ...... today," Jason, who was kind of talking, stood up and looked at Don Guy.
Tang Ji subconsciously licked the corners of his mouth and used a kind of "Don't you know what's going on?" He looked at Jason, helpless, and didn't speak.
Jason was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously turned his head to look at Christine, who was sitting next to Laura on the sofa next to him, and immediately looked away again, he couldn't keep staring at Christine, so Christine would be embarrassed.
Jason covered his forehead very funny, looked up at the ceiling, and lowered his head and said solemnly, "When I didn't ask." Then he turned his head and walked out of the sofa, walked to the side of the room without looking back, and said, "Auntie borrow your room for a while, and I'll go and sleep!" ”
Syllable!
Jason walked so fast that he didn't notice the only unbroken vase on the shelf against the wall in the living room that he touched and shattered on the ground.
"Oh, shit!" Jason was startled, jumped to the side before stopping, looked at the vase fragments all over the ground, and turned his head to look in the direction of the sofa, seeing that everyone was looking at him, Jason immediately showed an expression of "don't look at me like that", pointed to the fragments, and said quickly: "I'll clean up!" ”
"Shh Tang Ji, who was standing at the door of the bathroom and close to the main entrance of the suite, suddenly raised a finger and put it to his lips, silencing everyone, as if he had heard something.
Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang!
The main door of the suite suddenly began to vibrate, and there was a violent slamming sound.
There was silence in the living room.