Chapter 18: The Brutal Truth

Ma Le slept peacefully for a long time and made a simple breakfast with the remaining ingredients in the refrigerator. Anderson, this kid, hasn't bought vegetables since the day his parents turned zombies, and the vegetables and meat have all gone bad, but for Ma Le, who can even swallow zombies alive, this little thing is trivial.

After breakfast, Ma Le took the form of Anderson, put on his clothes and walked out of the room. Contrary to Ma Le's expectations, there were still a lot of pedestrians on the street, and it was hard to imagine that just a few streets away was an infected area infested with monsters.

Along the way, he asked Luke about it, and Ma Le finally found a gun shop two blocks away, but the door was locked and a closing sign was hung up, apparently no longer open.

Ma Le thought about it, in this kind of extraordinary period, sitting on a large number of weapons will definitely cause trouble, and closing the store seems to be the only option.

I have to say that the Americans have a very poor sense of anti-theft, and a flat key lock on the glass door means foolproof? How can this level be rare to stop Ma Le, he casually got a wire and stabbed the door lock in a few seconds, and in the eyes of others, it was as natural as taking the key to open the door of his own house.

Pushing the door into the house, there was no one in the house, the shelves had been emptied, and there was a flight of stairs going up at the back. Ma Le walked up the stairs, and as soon as his head was out of the floor on the second floor, he was held against a shotgun......

Ma Le raised his hands above his head and complained: "Damn, I'll just say that the door lock is so casual, it turns out that Americans don't need a lock for fucking anti-theft!" ”

"Be honest and walk up slowly!" The man with the gun was a middle-aged man with a big beard, and behind him there were men and two women, one of whom looked about the same age as him, and the other man and a woman were much younger, the man was only about twenty, and the woman was a few years younger, presumably the man's wife and children.

Ma Le obediently walked up to the second floor slowly, after all, he was here to get weapons, not to rob (harmonious) and fight, not to mention that in the face of a family, it was better not to make trouble or not to make trouble.

The bearded man snorted at Ma Lenu, and the son behind him walked up to Ma Le's side and touched it from top to bottom, and searched for Ma Le's pistol. The middle-aged man pointed at the corner of the wall with the muzzle of his gun and said to Ma Le: "Squat there!" Ma Le understood this, and squatted down obediently with his head in his hands.

"Who are you? What are you here for? The bearded man asked.

"I need a weapon!" Ma Le replied in a somewhat broken English.

"We don't sell guns anymore, don't you see the locked door...... Oh, I almost forgot, you just picked the lock and came in to steal the gun? ”

Ma Le understood part of this sentence, and hurriedly replied: "I'm not a thief, I brought money, and I don't buy a gun!" ”

The bearded man was stunned for a moment and asked, "Don't buy guns?" So what are you going to buy? ”

Ma Le stretched out his right hand and pointed to the wall behind the bearded man: "That! ”

The bearded man looked back and saw a black crossbow with a scope hanging on the wall, he looked at Ma Le, looked at the crossbow, subconsciously glanced at the bedroom door behind him, swallowed his saliva, and said to his son: "Give him the crossbow!" ”

Ma Le noticed the beard's abnormal behavior, but he didn't care, he took the crossbow, and he was relieved, the family is still reasonable, maybe it's an extraordinary period of nervousness.

"The crossbow has been given to you, go away, I will throw the crossbow and pistol from the window for you after you go out, don't come again, you are not welcome here!" The bearded man waved his gun at the stairs.

"Don't you want money?" Ma Le took out a wad of dollars and asked, the bearded man frowned, walked up and grabbed it, and threw it on the table without counting: "Now you can go!" ”

Ma Le shrugged his shoulders, walked to the stairs with a black crossbow, just went down a few steps, suddenly there was a noise from the bedroom, it sounded like something heavy fell to the ground, the family heard the sound, and suddenly they were all nervous, and the bearded wife opened the door and ran into the bedroom, not knowing what to clean up.

But the moment the bedroom door opened, a stench mixed with bloody gas came into Ma Le's nose, this smell was too familiar to him, it had been surrounding him for four days, this was the smell of zombies!

There's zombies in that room! Without saying a word, Ma Le jumped back to the second floor over the railing of the stairs and rushed straight into the bedroom!

"Don't go in! Bastard! The bearded man roared, and chased after him with his shotgun, and his son grabbed the pistol he had found from Ma Le and rushed into the bedroom.

The bedroom is not big, filled with a strong stench, the bearded wife seems to be frightened by Ma Le who suddenly rushed in, threw down the thing in her hand and hid in the corner, the "thing" also fell to the ground, Ma Le looked at it, it turned out to be a child tied to a chair by a rope! No, it's not quite accurate to say that it's a child, this child is rotten, half of his face is swollen, and his festering mouth is mechanically open and closed, and it does not hide its coveting of the few fresh humans present.

This child, who looks like he is only eight or nine years old, has become a zombie!

"You're harboring zombies!" Ma Le yelled at several people, his wife and daughter lowered their heads, the bearded man and his son still pointed their guns at Ma Le, and the bearded man yelled: "It's none of your business!" Get out of here, get out! It's none of your business! ”

Ma Le looked at the child zombie who was still struggling, ignored the bearded roar, and said in his heart that this child should also be his son...... Ma Le began to understand the pain of this family, and even felt that their family relationship was very great, but even so, zombies are zombies after all, this child can no longer become a human being, the moment he became a zombie, he was already dead!

Ma Le couldn't accurately say what was in his heart in English, but he felt that it didn't matter if he didn't say it, the family must have thought about it for a long time before making such a choice, and they knew these things better than anyone else.

The black crossbow is equipped with an arrow carriage in front of it, on which are three spare crossbow bolts inserted for easy access when firing continuously. Ma Le didn't say a word, slowly pulled the crossbow, hung the string, pulled out a crossbow and put it on, then raised the black crossbow, and firmly aimed at the head of the child zombie.

"Bastard, what do you want to do, you fucking put it down! I'm going to shoot! Hear no, I'm really going to shoot, you fucking lay down your arms for me! ............" The bearded man saw Ma Le's intentions, and roared hysterically, the muzzle of the shotgun began to tremble, and the finger that pulled the trigger also turned white nervously. His son was also sweating on his forehead, and his hands shaking with his pistol......

Ma Le couldn't understand the English with the slang Yan zhòng out of voice, but he could think of it as a threat and abuse with his back heel, but he didn't care, Wangshan fixed the young man's forehead, pulled the trigger, the crossbow strings rattled, and the crossbow arrows whistled out! At the same time, the bearded man also pulled the trigger, and the muzzle of the gun spewed a burst of fire at Ma Le!

"Bang!" After the deafening gunshot, the child zombie had stopped struggling, with a crossbow bolt stuck in his forehead. Ma Le only suffered a slight injury to his shoulder, and the blood slowly oozed out, staining a small piece of his coat red.

The bearded man finally subconsciously deflected the muzzle of the gun, and only one piece of shrenchel hit Ma Le, which was insignificant to him with a superhuman physique.

The bearded man was a little unsteady on his feet, holding his shotgun to the ground, leaning back against the wall and covering his eyes with his hands, apparently hiding his tears. His wife collapsed to the ground in fright, and she began to cry. The son comforted his father, the daughter comforted her mother, and Ma Le was left standing alone, sighed, and slowly walked out of the bedroom and went downstairs.

When he walked to the door of the gun shop, Ma Le heard someone calling him behind him, and when he looked back, it was the bearded daughter.

"Sir, wait!" The girl ran down the stairs and chased after her, looking at Ma Le's injured shoulder and asking with a little concern, "Your injury doesn't matter, right?" ”

"It's a little bit, it's just some scrapes!" Ma Le waved his hand. The girl breathed a sigh of relief, took out a pistol and a dozen crossbows and handed them to Ma Le, and said, "This is your gun and crossbows, sorry, we also know that this is not right, but my father can't do it after all, and you are injured...... In turn, I want to thank you for resolving my father's knot! ”

Ma Le was a little overwhelmed by the long dialogue, but he could also hear the meaning of apology and thanks, Ma Le took the thing, said "It's okay", and was about to leave.

"Wait, sir!" The girl stopped Ma Le again, "I have something else to ask you for, is it okay?" ”

Ma Le was stunned, although there was no miracle badge prompt, but he could also guess that he probably triggered some side quest, he turned back to the girl and said, "Say it, but speak it slowly, my English is not very good......"

Ma Le is now the appearance of "Andy" Anderson, and he is also Chinese, and when the girl heard him say this, she thought that he was a tourist or a Chinatown, but she was not suspicious, and said slowly: "Actually, that child is not my own brother, he is actually my uncle's child." Half a month ago, my uncle and aunt came to visit us in New York with their children and stayed at our house temporarily. As a result, when the infection broke out more than ten days ago, the uncle's family was shopping outside, but unfortunately they were attacked by zombies, and the uncle and aunt were killed on the spot, only the injured children ran back, but ...... A few hours later, the kid ...... too."

Saying that, the girl covered her face and cried, Ma Le couldn't see the girl crying, held the girl's shaking shoulder, and comforted awkwardly: "Don't...... Don't cry, you can't come back to life after death......"

The girl steadied her feelings and wiped her tears: "I'm sorry, it's me who lost my temper...... Sir, I see that you are here to buy weapons, I wonder if you are planning to go to the infected area, if so, I would like you to pay attention to my uncles and aunts, they should also become ...... Those things...... If you do, please let them rest in peace......" As she spoke, the girl handed over a photo, which was a family portrait of the girl's uncle's family, the photo was very new, and the background was in Central Park, which should have been taken ten days ago when she was visiting New York. The boy in the photo is holding an ice cream in his hand, smiling very happily, and his parents are standing behind the child, and the family of three is happy, exuding a burst of enviable warmth.

Ma Le took the photo and looked at it, putting it in his pocket: "I'll help you keep an eye on it, but listening to your tone just now, it seems that many people want to go to the infected area?" ”

The girl nodded and said, "Well, now the infected area is a dead city, and the belongings in it are all ownerless, and many people are carrying weapons to loot, don't you know?" ”

"I ...... It's also about finding talent...... But with the outpost of the army, how can you enter the infected area smoothly? Ma Leshun lied, trying to find out how to enter and exit the infected area without going through the Black Watch.

The girl did not doubt him, and replied: "I heard that there seems to be a hidden passage, I don't know the specifics, you can go to Chinatown and inquire." ”

Ma Le had a bottom in his heart, and if he had a way, he smiled and said to the girl: "Thank you, I will help you pay attention, by the way, my name is Anderson Lee, what is your name?" ”

"Lauren, Lauren Smith!" The girl replied.