0021 Hungry
Under the scorching sun, on the chaotic street, five figures were slowly moving forward against the scorching sun.
Xiao Chu supported the injured Wolf, looking back from time to time.
'Xiaobu' quietly followed behind Xiao Chu, always keeping a distance of more than three meters from everyone. This was what Xiao Chu ordered her to do, because if she got too close, not to mention someone else, even Xiao Chu felt very uncomfortable. After all, Xiaobu's appearance is really unacceptable, especially Tiana and Cereal.
Unlike ordinary zombies, Xiaobu is not afraid of the sun, and even in the scorching sun, she will not have any sluggishness in her movements. After a morning of understanding, Xiao Chu found that Xiaobu seemed to have completely lost the ferocity of a zombie, not only obeying him, but also being very friendly to Tiana and others. But everyone still didn't dare to get too close to her, after all, no one knew if she would always be so gentle. In case of a madness, Xiao Chu and the others would not have the power to fight back at all.
"Sister Tiana, I'm so thirsty...... "Cereal took Tiana's arm, sticking out her tongue from the sun. Since they came out of Xiao Chu's house yesterday evening, they haven't drunk a sip of water or eaten a mouthful of anything.
"We'll find water to drink in a minute, don't worry." Tiana comforted, in fact, she is also thirsty now, plus last night's battle with Xiaobu, a lot of physical exertion, and almost no sleep at night, now she is really thirsty, hungry and tired.
"There's a mall in front of us, why don't we go there and have a look." Supporting Wolf, who weighed more than 100 kilograms, Xiao Chu was not happy, in fact, his physical exertion last night was the most, because he was bitten by Xiaobu, he tossed all night, and now not only has no strength, but the muscles in his body are still sore.
Getting into an unknown building in broad daylight is actually a very dangerous thing. Even with Xiaobu as a bodyguard now, everyone didn't think it was a good idea to rush in through the gate, so they went around to the back door of the mall.
This is a well-known shopping mall in Kowloon City, and it is also one of Xiao Chu's favorite places to visit with his girlfriend Lin Xin. The mall has seven floors, of which the lower six floors are all kinds of shops, and the seventh floor is a supermarket, which is the destination of Xiao Chu and others. A group of four people and one corpse made a detour through the backyard of the mall, and the sight made the four living people frown.
The backyard, which was not very large, was littered with corpses wrapped in white cloths, and at a glance, there were at least a few hundred, piled up like a small hillside. Under the scorching sun, it emitted a disgusting smell of corpses, attracting countless flies to bite them.
"How can there be so many corpses?" Xiao Chu asked in a low voice, his voice trembling slightly. It was the first time since he woke up that he had seen so many corpses, and he couldn't help but be a little flustered.
"Maybe this was the place where the wounded were housed." Wolfe explained that he was much calmer than Xiao Chulai. In the early days of the pandemic, many public spaces were temporarily converted into shelters, especially large buildings with large interiors.
"Be careful, there may be zombies here." Tiana walked in front of the sniper rifle, clutching the 'spear' converted from a sniper rifle. Xiao Chu supported Wolf with his left hand, followed closely with his right hand holding cereal, and Xiao Bu still followed Xiao Chu at the end of the line. The reason why Tiana took the lead this time was because now only she had the least injuries on her body, but her shoulder was bruised during the fight with Xiaobu last night. In the backyard full of corpses, there was only one path leading to the back door of the mall, and you had to pass through the pile of corpses to get there. Cereal covered her nose with one hand, hugged Xiao Chu's waist tightly with the other, closed her eyes tightly and didn't dare to look at the scene in front of her, and followed Xiao Chu's steps.
"Oops!" Cereal suddenly exclaimed, and as she passed the corpse pile, her ankle was suddenly held by a hand that suddenly stretched out from the corpse pile. Immediately after, a faint moan came from his feet. Xiao Chu was excited, and without thinking about it, he raised his foot and stepped on that arm.
Fortunately, it was just not tightly grasped, and as soon as Xiao Chu stepped down, the cereal escaped. Looking down the arm, the owner of this hand is a long-haired woman. But the woman was now left with only the upper half of her body, all missing from the waist down, and she was crawling down from the pile of corpses with her arms. A dark green mass of rotting internal organs, dragged from his waist to the ground, emitting a disgusting stench.
The woman looked up, revealing a purple-blue face. The face could still see a little bit of the woman's original appearance, and her eyes were white and cloudy, but they were still turning. The woman opened her mouth and let out a faint "Ah...... Ahh
Xiao Chu stared at the half-section of the woman crawling on the ground, and was stunned for a while, because he clearly saw a trace of despair and unwillingness on the woman's face. Although zombies are terrifying, they were once human beings, what kind of power are they to turn into terrible zombies after torturing people into inhuman form? Xiao Chu glanced back at Xiaobu behind him, and suddenly felt that the zombies were actually very pitiful.
Tiana slammed down the butt of the gun, her brain burst, and the half of the zombie woman completely lay on the ground and did not move.
"She's turned into a zombie, and letting her die completely is the way to save him." Tiana's cold, emotionless voice came. It seems to remind Xiao Chu that although the zombies are terrible and pitiful, it is not what they want to be, and ending their suffering early is the way to help them.
"We have to hurry! They're waking up! Wolf urged, and almost half of the corpses in the pile had begun to squirm.
Xiao Chu knew that now was not the time to sigh, so he turned around and ordered Xiaobu to follow, and the four of them hurriedly quickened their pace and walked towards the half-open small door. Finally, when the corpse pile was almost fully awakened, Xiao Chu slammed the iron door shut. Finally relieved, Xiao Chu observed his surroundings; This is a dim stairwell, it looks like it should be a fire escape in the mall, only an emergency light emits a pale green light, Tiana carefully opened a crack in the door leading to the first floor, glanced inside, her pupils instantly shrunk into pins, and quickly closed the door.
"There are zombies?" Xiao Chu asked.
Tiana nodded: "A lot." ”
"Let's go upstairs." Xiao Chu whispered, and then ordered Xiaobu to take the head, and he and Tiana protected the cereal in the middle, while Wolf held on to the handrail of the stairs. In general, the higher you go in a high-rise building, the safer it is, as very few zombies can climb stairs, let alone use elevators. But there are always exceptions, and some types of mutant zombies prefer high places, such as hunters, who like to attack their prey from high places.
Xiao Chu and his party did not check floor by floor, they went straight to the seventh floor, and when they walked to the third floor, they found two corpses, and they were dressed as employees in the mall. Judging by the appearance of the corpses, they had only been dead for a few days, and had not turned into zombies. But to be on the safe side, Tiana used a 'spear' to make a hole in each of the heads of the two corpses. After that, there was no danger along the way, and he went straight to the seventh floor.
"The door seems to be locked." Tiana pushed hard, but the iron door didn't move. Xiao Chu tried, but it didn't work, so he had to try to order Xiaobu.
However, opening the door seemed to be a very complicated order for Xiao Bu, and it took Xiao Chu two minutes to make Xiao Bu correctly understand his order.
The force of the small cloth was very large, and with just a seemingly simple push, the steel deadbolt snapped with a "click". Xiao Chu and the others couldn't help but be stunned, Xiao Bu's two arms, only half of the shoulders and upper arms still have a little flesh, and the other parts only have bones and a few tendons, I really don't know what principle she uses to move without muscles. Especially the part of her body that was broken in two and connected by only one spine, what kind of strength did she rely on to support it?
After opening the door, Xiao Bu quietly stepped aside, staring straight at Xiao Chu with his eyes, as if waiting for Xiao Chu's next order. This action that can almost be described as "well-behaved" made Xiao Chu feel happy in his heart, it seems that Xiaobu can really help them a lot.
A group of people entered, and under the flickering fluorescent lights, the entrance to the supermarket store was blocked by a pile of shopping carts stacked haphazardly. The cash register in the back was also turned sideways, completely blocking the entrance, which was obviously caused by man. It looks like there may be survivors hiding here, but it's not known if it's friendly. Because his home was robbed, Xiao Chu is now extra careful with the survivors.
With the help of Xiaobu, Xiao Chu and Tiana quickly cleared a way, and the four of them walked into the store with one corpse. The shelves were neatly arranged, but the shelves in the food area were empty, and everyone couldn't help but be disappointed. But they still searched each shelf, hoping to find even a little bit of food, after all, they hadn't eaten for a day. But unfortunately, I searched all the shelves and couldn't find any food. Not even a single zombie, or a survivor, was to be seen.
"Looks like there's nothing left here." Wolf was wounded and sat down against the shelf.
Xiao Chu was also very disappointed, this is the largest supermarket in this area, I thought I could find some food, but there was nothing.
"If you haven't been eaten by zombies, are you going to starve to death first?" I thought about countless ways to die, but I didn't expect to starve to death. Xiao Chu couldn't help but think of his father, sister, Chenfeng brother and sister, and his girlfriend Lin Xin, and he didn't know if he would be able to see them alive.
The four of them sat down, Tiana's physical strength was close to the limit, after all, she was tired all night last night, and she hadn't slept yet, and now she couldn't hold on anymore. Wolf is injured, and it can be seen from the cold sweat on his head that he is also holding on now.
"So be it." After resting for a while, Xiao Chu suddenly said: "It should be safe here, you guys rest here, I'll take Xiaobu out to other places to see, I remember that there are other shopping malls around here, maybe you can find food." ”
"No! We can't be separated! Tiana was the first to disagree. And then Wolf and Cereal, of course, disagreed.
"Don't worry, it should be okay to have Xiaobu here, I'll be back before dark."
"To go, we have to go together." Tiana still disagreed.
"But you all have injuries and you have to rest. Don't worry, I'll be fine. Xiao Chu said firmly. Then he got up and walked straight to the shelves with sports equipment, and found a metal bat, as well as some protective equipment. After thinking about it for a while, he went to the clothing area to find a wide cloak, and wrapped it around the small cloth with trepidation.
It seemed that Xiao Chu had made up his mind, and Tiana had to tell him that he must come back before dark.