There were more and more early risers in the small building.

Maybe it's because of the experience of being really hungry, but they still value breakfast very much. Just as Su Hao was talking to the middle-aged man, two other men and women also walked into the hall.

They're not a couple, they're just living in the room next door. Both of them are in their forties, and the man's expression is a little arrogant, his belly is shy, and his head is very bright prematurely. The woman looks ordinary, not fat, but has accumulated lifebuoy-like fat around her waist. They glanced toward the table, and without greeting anyone, approached the vat by the wall, lifted the lid, and found nothing to eat.

"How is it empty?"

The fat man walked over, looked at the table with a frown, looked around the crowd again, and asked in a dignified tone peculiar to officials, "Why don't you have breakfast?" Who is responsible here? ”

Su Hao glanced at him, ignored it, and continued to ask questions and answers with the middle-aged man.

"Do you think someone will come to our rescue?"

"Absolutely. It is impossible for the government to abandon such a large city. ”

"As you said earlier, this is a very contagious disease. Didn't you think this place was locked down? No one is allowed to enter or leave? ”

"It's possible. But there should always be relief troops coming in with food and medicine. It's not Chernobyl here, the virus is not nuclear contamination, they can't and there is no reason to abandon us. The city is home to millions of residents. ”

"If there was help, it should have arrived a long time ago. After all this time, haven't you ever doubted it? What if this is not a disease, but a war? ”

"There is simply no possibility of any war. The world will only tend to be peaceful in the future, and any country that starts a war will be condemned and besieged. Hehe, this kind of thing is not going to happen, at least not in our generation"

The middle-aged man is very talkative, and Su Hao gradually understands where the stubborn thoughts come from from the other party's words.

They were locked up in the bathing center for a long time.

Three weeks and four days, to be exact.

They knew from the guards' words that there was a commotion outside the Dao, but they didn't know that the entire world of the Dao was no longer what they imagined.

They were lucky to be isolated from the world, and they were lucky to be rescued. For zombies, the concept of consciousness is still stuck at the moment of the virus outbreak. Coupled with the habitual thinking peculiar to human beings in the era of civilization, it is normal and not surprising to think about problems from the perspective of national order.

Of course, not all people will have the same consciousness. There must be some people who think that something is wrong and that something is wrong in the world outside. It's hard for them to believe, and they instinctively deny the results of this thinking. Coupled with the fact that the words from others are in a closed circle, it is easy for everyone to reach a consensus on the development and cognition of events.

To put it bluntly, this is actually the subconscious refusal to admit reality and the idealized self-anesthesia of everything.

Su Hao calmly looked at the middle-aged man with a confident face, his eyes full of pity.

Not only him, but the rest of the core members of the team also focused their eyes on the middle-aged man. There is indifference, ridicule, ridicule, and blandness, emotion, and sadness

"Hey! I ask you! Who is responsible here? ”

The fat man standing on the side was very dissatisfied with the situation of being snubbed by himself. He slammed his palm on the table angrily, repeating the questions he had asked before, but no one had answered.

"Why don't you have breakfast?"

Su Hao stretched out his hand to stop Du Tianhao, who wanted to beat him up, stared at the fat man for a few seconds, and said lightly: "If you want to eat, do it yourself." ”

This lukewarm sentence made the fat man choke suddenly. He suppressed his anger, eased the tense expression on his face a little, and said in a serious and threatening tone: "Young man, now is a society under the rule of law. Don't think that saving a few people is a great credit. Volunteers, as it sounds nice, are just to add an extra record to your resume, which makes it easier to find a job and be assigned. Hum! Don't use words like "self-denial" to dismiss me, this place does not belong to you, and the goods here are also in public ownership. I don't want to make any judgment on you, but since you're here and you've done something, you should keep doing it and do it well. ”

Perhaps it was Du Tianhao's fierce and cold eyes that made him feel threatened, the fat man swallowed his saliva hard, his expression became slightly softer, and his tone of voice was more kind, and he became more and more righteous: "You rescued us from those thugs." That's right and commendable. But you are not a police officer, nor are you a government functionary. I understand burnout and apathy to the same things. You are very tired, and there are some things that we can discuss and arrange, and make more reasonable plans. I'll write you a thank you note with a good review. But now, you have to get the job done. ”

Including Su Hao, all the core members of the team were surprised. They looked at each other, completely unexpecting the fat man to say such a thing.

A trace of confusion flashed in Liao Qiu's eyes: "What exactly do you want to tell us?" Why do I feel like I don't understand anything? ”

The smile on the fat man's face instantly froze, the corners of his mouth twitched, he completely gave up his patience with a pleasant face, and involuntarily raised his voice: "This is a large-scale disaster caused by an infectious virus. As a volunteer, but you don't want to help, what are you doing here? As I said, this building does not belong to you, and the materials here are the property of the state. If you refuse to serve the people in the affected area, then please leave————"

Du Tianhao's gaze suddenly became cold, he grabbed the automatic rifle leaning at his feet, stood up from the chair with a "whoosh", pointed the muzzle of the gun at the fat man's stomach, and pressed it hard.

"What do you want to do? I'm going to sue you! You, you can't you don't have the right to do this————"

The fat man howled like a pig, took a few steps back, and slipped heavily without paying attention to stepping on a piece of oil under his feet.

Su Hao squinted slightly, sighed, patted Du Tianhao's shoulder, who was afraid of anger, walked in front of him, pressed the muzzle, squatted down, looked at the fat man with a frightened face, and asked coldly, "Where do you live?" ”

This sentence was asked very suddenly, and the fat man looked at him inexplicably, did not speak, and failed to react.

Su Hao's eyebrows furrowed slightly, he pulled out the M500 from the holster, the thick muzzle of the gun directly touched the other party's head, and repeated the question just now: "Where do you live?" ”

Cold sweat immediately oozed from the fat man's face. He looked at Su Hao in horror and anger, and then rolled his eyes to look around, and found that more than a dozen people had come down from the upper floors and walked into the hall, standing by in shock and fear, but no one came to stop or help say a few good words.

He felt the coldness emanating from the metallic ring on his forehead, which was hard and tingling his skin. It reminded the fat man of the horrific experience of being beaten with sticks by thugs in a bathing center a few weeks ago, lying on the ground and screaming in pain.

"Along No. 363 Yanjiang West Road, Yayayun Kangyuan Building 3, 4th Floor, Block B."

He looked at the gun in Su Hao's hand tremblingly, especially the finger that pulled the trigger. The fat man suddenly discovered: These people who saved themselves are not as easy to talk as they imagined, and they are not as docile and tolerant as ordinary people should be. They may be more terrible, more ferocious than the thugs before them. Volunteers: Are they really volunteers?

"You're right, this house is state property, not your home."

Su Hao's voice was flat: "So, you shouldn't stay here." Now! Go where you're supposed to be and go back to your own home. ”

The fat man's face suddenly turned pale. He shook his throat hard, his body shrank back in fear, and he almost cried: "No, I won't go out. You can't do that, you can't"

Su Hao's eyes flashed with a cold light: "Why not?" ”

"There's that monster everywhere out there."

The fat man was trembling all over, and a large piece of his crotch between his legs was wet: "They're going to eat me." ”

"Oh! It turns out that you know everything. ”

Su Hao pretended to be surprised and shook his head, he stretched out his left hand, maliciously picked it up from the fat man's face, patted it again, and said indifferently: "However, you got two things wrong. First: we are not volunteers. Second: This is my territory, and I have the final say on what to do and what to do. Since you feel very constrained here, then I am not difficult for you. Here! The door is over there, just walk out of it. ”

As he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed to the end of the hallway.

"No, I'm leaving! I'm not leaving————"

The fat man screamed, got up from the ground, ran to the table, and hugged the legs tightly. It's as if it's stronger than anything else, stable and secure.

An evil smile appeared at the corner of Su Hao's mouth. He raised his devilish hand and pointed at the fat man curled up in a ball. Du Tianhao strode over knowingly, and grabbed this guy who was once arrogant, but now he was almost frightened crazy. The threat of death caused the fat man to burst out with unimaginable strength, and he hugged the table legs, as if the whole person was welded to them, and he could not be pulled away at all. This kind of dead-skinned approach made Du Tianhao suddenly furious, and he roared and pulled away the fat man's two fingers and slammed them in the direction of the back of his hand. With a piercing "click", the poor finger collapsed loosely, and the unimaginable pain caused its owner to scream like a ghost, and immediately let go of his hands, covered the wound and rolled on the ground.

Du Tianhao bent down and grabbed the fat man's right foot, lifted it high, and dragged it out of the hall.

The crowd around immediately dodged out of the way, far away from this tall and rude strong man, who seemed to have a plague all over his body. He sneered "unruly", ignoring the fact that the other party's face was already bruised, crying and shouting desperately begging for himself, strode close to the side door of the small building, opened all kinds of obstacles in front of the door, and threw the dying fat man out of the room.

There was a dead silence in the small building.

The open space between the hall and the staircase was full of people, and all the doors of the upper floors were open, and many people poked their heads out from the top of the floor, watching with bated breath. No one spoke, no one made the same noise as yesterday's dinner, and no one objected to it.

Although, there is a spark of indignation in the eyes of many people. They clenched their fists, their teeth gritted, and the tense skin and muscles on their faces showed that they were trying to control their anger.

Su Hao turned around and found that the middle-aged man who had spoken to him earlier was pale, his clothes were soaked with cold sweat, and his legs were trembling unconsciously.

"I don't like to solve problems in a violent way. But for those who are stubborn, this is the simplest and most effective way. ”

The indifferent gaze slowly swept over everyone, and Su Hao's voice was still calm: "Now, you have an hour to pack up your things and clean your room." I want it to be clean, like a place for people to live, not a pig's nest full of garbage. I don't care what you once had, how noble your status was, as long as you are here, you must obey my orders and obey my arrangements. You'd better memorize every word I say, because I won't repeat it a second time, and I don't have the patience to tolerate anyone making the same mistake. Of course, if you feel that this is an insult to the so-called freedom, then you can leave now. ”

"Bang! Bang bang ————"

The fat man was slamming on the door, accompanied by crying and shouting.

The angry crowd remained silent, the people on the balcony also shrank their heads, and the sound of hurried footsteps was soon heard in the room.

No one opened the door, and the crowd in the hall thinned out. Some of the people who turned to go upstairs whispered, and from time to time they could hear words like "madman", "robber", "murderer", etc. Some people also picked up the steel bars and sticks at the corner of the corridor and quietly carried them with them.

"It was a mistake to get them out."

Lao Song looked at the crowd that disappeared at the end of the stairs, and said in a dry voice: "If you don't see it with your own eyes, it's really hard to believe that someone actually has such an idea." Don't they understand that this world is no longer what it used to be? ”

Xinyan's expression was solemn, and he said leisurely: "They have been locked up for a long time, and they don't know anything about what is happening outside. How much understandable. ”

Han Jing nodded: "They should be allowed to understand the truth." ”

It was almost noon, and two heavy trucks drove out of the bottom of the small building one after the other and drove out of the city.

The open carriage was filled with people, sitting or standing, silently looking at the core members of the team standing at the back of the carriage with cold and hostile eyes, fully armed.

Tao Yuan and Lao Song drove the car, and Su Hao and Du Tianhao guarded the people in their respective carriages. This posture is more about regulation than protection. People were reluctant to approach them, but gathered on both sides of the carriage, silently and blankly watching the scenery that kept sweeping back.

The convoy soon reached the junction adjacent to the southern ring road. The road was littered with several crashed and burned cars. From a distance of tens of meters, you can see charred human remains on the detached driver's seat, with fragments of severed limbs and tattered clothes everywhere. A dozen zombies search for food among abandoned vehicles, and the roar of the truck's engine gets their attention. So, slowly approaching, surrounding the rescuers in the carriage continued to scream and exclaim, the wheels were already slowly turning, driving onto the highway from the opposite direction.

The sun is dazzling and the scorching heat makes you drowsy. People were tired, but no one dared to close their eyelids. They still looked at Su Hao and Du Tianhao with vigilant eyes, and gradually turned their eyes to the familiar and unfamiliar world outside the car.

The road leading to the outside of the city is blocked by vehicles, and the long traffic is not in sight. There are constantly corpses or zombies coming into view. In the beginning, the hideous-looking man-eating creatures could also cause horrified screams. After seeing too much, the fear becomes diluted and even numb. Others counted the remains of the dead they saw along the way, and the number of one, two, and three bodies soon exceeded a thousand, and it became so chaotic that even the counters themselves were afraid. He simply turned around, leaned his back against the baffle of the carriage, held his head in his hands, and dug his fingers deep into his hair, and wept in despair.

Su Hao never said a word.

Instead of explaining, it is better for these people to see for themselves the world outside the world. Wreckage and corpses are the best evidence and cannot be falsified. The tens of thousands of cars blocking the roads are more spectacular than any scenery. They could see the dead rotting on the road, the heads gnawed off human bodies, the legs, feet, and arms discarded like garbage, crawling with maggots and flies, burrowing around and pregnant with countless blood-sucking insects.

More than ten minutes later, the convoy had already driven out of the city limits. The landscape on both sides turns into rolling hills. It is not very high, and there are flat fields in between. The vegetation is dense, with planted street trees and shrubs growing luxuriantly, and the occasional ragged zombie popping up from the roadside, waving their teeth and claws at the truck. There are also some mutant creatures who are not afraid of death, and they are hit by the speeding truck on the spot.

Su Hao leaned on the baffle of the carriage, smoking silently, and couldn't stop shaking as the vehicle moved.

Most of them were already sitting down, or slumped next to the baffle. Their faces were as dead as ashes, and their eyes were empty and blank. They were shaking, but the amplitude was less noticeable because of the shaking of the body. Many of them gasped for breath, and the expressions on their faces looked like they were crying and laughing. There was a slight whimper in the carriage, and it was impossible to discern the exact source of the sound. Heavy, dense, and heart-wrenching.

The truck turned at a fork in the road, pulled off the road, and drove along an abandoned trail for nearly ten minutes, stopping at the edge of a field overgrown with crops.

This is a wheat field. The wheat is already yellowish and will ripen in a few months. The rolling air currents bring the fragrance of the leaves and dispel some of the unbearable heat.

Su Hao and Du Tianhao jumped out of the car and pulled the baffle open. There were no orders or reprimands, and the people in the carriage understood that this was the end of the trip, silently grabbed the handrail, got out of the car, and gathered in a dandelion-covered clearing next to the wheat field.