It was past noon. Now, it's the hottest time of the day. There was not a single cloud in the blue sky, and the unobstructed hot arrows that shot straight at the ground seemed to dry and melt everything.

At the end of the gray road, two women supporting each other walked in the distance.

Cao Rui's face was covered with sweat, and she put Zhang Jingjing's arm on her shoulder, almost struggling to move forward. The scorching heat quickly drained what little energy they had left, their eyes glazed over, their lips chapped, and their movements stiff and mechanical like zombies.

The clothes are sportswear from roadside clothing stores. The purple gold velvet cloth was covered in dust, as well as large patches of blood and dirt. Especially on the side of the left leg, there is a pool of dry feces with a dark yellow color and extremely disgusting.

Cao Rui knew that he was very stinky———— last night, he encountered a group of zombies. It took a lot of effort for her and Zhang Jingjing to take out one head. With nowhere to escape, they cut open the zombie's abdomen with knives, smeared the rotting internal organs all over their bodies, and lay on the ground with bated breath, covering their bodies with the corpses. That kind of scene that is infinitely close to death, I still can't help but tremble when I think about it now. As for the smell and the dirt on her body, Cao Rui felt that her olfactory nerves had become numb, and even if she sprayed her whole body with the most expensive "Chanel", she could not tell the difference between rotten flesh and perfume.

She didn't know how to deceive zombies with carrion and internal organs, but she had heard stories about bears not eating dead people. Crookedly, he survived.

Zhang Jingjing's right foot was broken, and her ankle was swollen like a steamed bun. Carrying her, Cao Rui felt like a mountain was pressing on her shoulders. She felt itchy underneath and could smell a strange smell through her pants. Some time ago, I was ravaged by men in the gym, and my vaginal discharge increased, and my secretion was not normal. Her biggest wish now is to get a good shower. Thinking of this, water subconsciously appeared in my mind, and my dry throat felt more and more thirsty.

She looked up blankly, and the shops lining the street were either closed or in chaos. Zombies can be faintly seen in the distance, and the surrounding area is white, and the dazzling sunlight is everywhere.

If it was before, I should have stayed at home now, or chatted in a café with my girlfriends and friends. There is a chilled strawberry ice cream, air conditioning, chocolate walnut cake, almond soufflé, apple cheesecake

You shouldn't think about it, the more you think about it, the hungrier and more uncomfortable it becomes.

"Sister Cao, I'm out of strength"

In his ears, Zhang Jingjing's voice was almost crying. Very weak and half-dead.

"You shut up ———— me"

Cao Rui looked at the few zombies wandering in the roadside alley in horror, and lowered her voice viciously and scolded angrily: "Don't talk, it's okay." If they find out, none of us will survive. ”

"I, I didn't want to live for a long time."

Zhang Jingjing's voice became weaker and weaker: "Put me down and you, you can go by yourself." ”

"It's all come to this, what kind of nonsense are you talking about?"

Cao Rui took a mechanical step forward, turned her head with difficulty to look at her companion lying on her shoulder, and the expression on her face couldn't tell whether she was laughing or crying: "It's not far anymore, as long as you walk through this street again, you can find those people who left us to eat last time." They said they lived nearby. ”

"Do you still believe men?"

Zhang Jingjing was silent for a few seconds, and suddenly laughed like a madman: "I have nothing." There will be no police, and no one will come to help us. Those people are nothing more than trying to deceive and take advantage of us, just like Meizi and Xiao Dan, who will be eaten after having enough. I don't want to be like them, I save my life————"

I don't know where the strength of the road came from, Zhang Jingjing suddenly broke away from Cao Rui's hand, tiptoed, limped and jumped forward and trotted forward. She was crying all the time, and her hair was completely out of order. The loud noise caught the attention of the zombies in the alley, and they slowly came out, trying to smell the smell of living people in the hot air, getting closer and closer to the two women on the road.

"Stand still, you stand for me————"

Cao Rui pounced with the most powerful force, pressed Zhang Jingjing down hard, and cried hoarsely: "Do I want to? I, I can't stand it anymore. I have nothing left, what else can I do? How can it be? ”

She picked up her arm and slapped Zhang Jingjing twice, the latter was completely stunned, and after a few seconds, she came to her senses and didn't fight back, just shook and hugged Cao Rui's shoulders, crying like a child: "Sister Cao, I don't want to live anymore, I can't live at all, let me die, just let me die, just let me die, it's a hundred!" ”

Cao Rui swallowed a mouthful of dry and sticky saliva hard, like wood, letting Zhang Jingjing sway back and forth. She wept silently, everything in front of her became blurred, and even the zombies that were swaying in the distance became chaotic images that could not be distinguished.

Oh, yes! Even if you survive, what can you do?

Die!

This thought has never been clearer than it is now.

She sniffed hard, hugged Zhang Jingjing, who was constantly sobbing, and glanced at the street corner in the distance that had been pinned on infinite hope, but was as infinitely distant as the end of the universe, closed her eyes dejectedly, gritted her teeth, and silently waited for the zombie to pounce and gnaw on her body.

Suddenly, she felt a slight tremor in the ground. Soon, the roar of a car engine could be heard in the distance.

"Bang————Bang Bang————"

The ears heard the dull and alarming sound of gunshots. It was unusually loud, unspeakably wild and brutal. Cao Rui felt inexplicably nervous, she immediately opened her eyes, only to see two zombies more than ten meters away from her frozen halfway, with several blood springs spurting out of her chest, front and back, and a clear bullet hole on each side of her skull. They swayed from side to side, their mouths wide open, and they fell to the ground in unison.

The car in the distance was already approaching, and through the front windshield, Shinyan's delicate face could be seen. Next to him, Su Hao leaned out of the roof of the car, holding a "95" automatic rifle and constantly shooting at the approaching zombies around him.

"Saved"

With these three words that appeared in his mind, Cao Rui, who was extremely tired, only felt that his eyes were dark, and he fainted with his body crooked

A faint fragrance tempted Cao Rui to wake up from her slumber.

It was a bowl of porridge with a crumbled surface of egg drops that looked comfortable and delicious.

The house was very clean and there were a lot of people around him. There were several faces that had been seen, men, women, and a woman with a child in her arms. They are very kind and they all smile at themselves.

Cao Rui subconsciously reached out and touched the side, and found that Zhang Jingjing was lying on the same bed as herself.

I'm alive?

She was sure it wasn't a dream. Because, it's all very real.

Xinyan picked up the bowl of porridge, scooped up a spoonful and gently blew the heat vapor, and cautiously approached Cao Rui's mouth.

It has a very light salty taste, and salt is added to the porridge, which tastes very fragrant.

A lot of the room was full of strangers. didn't know what Lu Dao was about, Cao Rui only felt more relaxed than ever, and tears dripped uncontrollably.

Xinyan smiled and took out a tissue, wiped the corners of her eyes, and said softly, "We went back to look for you with food and clothes, but there was no one in the gym anymore." Where have you been? ”

This question pierced Cao Rui's heart like a needle. She turned her head in pain and looked at Zhang Jingjing, who was crying next to her, and the two of them hugged and cried on the spot

Everyone has their own home.

The seven women who survived refused Su Hao's help, and they didn't want to stay in the gym full of rancid and sin. Everyone has different opinions about the future, but they are unusually consistent on the concept of "home".

They are all women specially left by Hu He, young and beautiful.

They don't know why the world outside the road is like this? It's also unclear where exactly the zombies came from. From the day they were imprisoned, they lost contact with the outside world. I only know that there is a terrible man-eating monster in the road. They want to go home, they want to be with their loved ones, whether they are dead or alive.

"We gathered the rest of the water and food in the gym, got some clothes, took the weapons you left behind, and left."

A bowl of porridge made Cao Rui and Zhang Jingjing recover a lot of strength. Let them relive the memories of death and gore in the depths of their minds.

Because of the plot to kill the guards, Cao Rui was elected by the women as the leader. She listed the addresses of seven people and marked a twisted line on the map according to their distance.

"We were all women, there were no police, there were no telephones, and no one knew what was going on outside the road. We can only rely on ourselves, trust each other, and look for our family in order. ”

Seven women in a group should admit that it was a very good idea under the circumstances.

Hu Weili's home is the closest.

They walked for only half an hour before they reached the first stop on the scheduled route. Luckily, there were no zombies along the way. When Hu Weili, who was full of eagerness, rushed to push open the door of the hidden room, a zombie who pounced out of the back room bit her arm fiercely.

That's Hu Weili's brother.

Including Cao Rui, the women didn't know how to deal with the zombies. They shouted like crazy, stabbed the zombies with knives and sticks, and even split the zombies in two pieces from their waists. The zombies that didn't hurt the vital point quickly gnawed the calf of the other woman, and their screams caused hundreds of huge corpses to panic and shock, and the five women had to abandon their companions and flee away. Until she rushed far away from the residential building, she could still hear Hu Weili's screams before being eaten by the corpses.

They have been locked up in the gym by Hu He, and they don't understand the weakness of zombies at all.

"I, I'm going home."

"There are so many people, the goal is too big. It's better to go separately. ”

"I don't want to die, I'd better go alone."

People have the problem of self-righteousness. Chaos and death threats split the makeshift group in an instant. Five women, three opinions, they can only agree that if they have problems, they will meet at the nearby square monument. At times like these, they can only trust each other, who have also suffered.

Cao Rui and Zhang Jingjing both live in the newly developed new urban area. There is only one road between the luxury community and the ordinary residential houses. They picked the lock of a bicycle on the side of the road, and the two men walked together.

The door to Cao Rui's house was open, and the expensive marble floor was covered with dried black blood. The LCD panel of the large screen rear projection was smashed, and the father's body was sandwiched between the refrigerator and the cupboard. He seemed to be trying to move the refrigerator to block the door in and out of the kitchen, but was weighed down by the overturned cabinet. His body below the abdomen had been gnawed away, leaving only a single vertebrae that could fall off at any moment. The remaining upper part of his body turned into a zombie, and he couldn't recognize his daughter anymore, and when Cao Rui, who was full of pain, picked up the kitchen knife and slashed it head-on, he still opened his mouth and struggled to bite.

The bathroom door was locked, and the doorknob was tightly tied with thick wire, and there was a "knock knock" knock all the time. A corpse of a man with a gnawed head lies on the passage connecting the bedroom. He had a vise in his hand, which was highly rotten. Despite this, Cao Rui still recognized from the ring on the deceased's left hand that this was her most beloved husband.

She trembled and climbed onto the barstool and poked her head into the skylight at the top of the bathroom. There's a zombie inside. He was old, gray-haired, and his cloudy eyes were filled with hunger and rage, devoid of human sanity. It tilted its head and stared viciously at Cao Rui, who was looking down on it, desperately reaching out to pull her out of the skylight, but because the height was not enough, it could only be trapped underneath and let out a terrifying howl.

That's my mom.

Cao Rui had forgotten how she had come out of that room. She felt like a brainless person with no normal mind. She cried desperately, shouted desperately, and smashed all kinds of furnishings in the house with a stick like a madman. Finally, he took out a bucket of gasoline from the garage, poured it from the bedroom with a romantic atmosphere to the living room, and under Zhang Jingjing's extremely frightened gaze, he took out the "ZP" lighter that originally belonged to her husband, lit the flames, and threw it into a mansion worth millions with tears on her face.

As for Zhang Jingjing's house, they couldn't get in. It is occupied by thousands of zombies, and the nearby streets and roads are full of roaming cannibals. Zhang Jingjing could only look at the window representing her home in the residential building from afar, standing on the side of the road and crying bitterly.

They returned to the square where they had agreed to gather and waited silently under the sculpture.

However, instead of waiting for the other three companions who dispersed the action, they waited for five strange men.

"I'm friends with Meizi and Dan. We had a place to stay, plenty of food and water, and they were safe there. ”

The man at the head was very young, only in his twenties, his messy hair was slightly long, and his eyes were always looking back and forth between Cao Rui and Zhang Jingjing. His lips were thin, and his smile looked exaggerated, with an uncomfortable smugness.

He was holding a double-barreled shotgun, and the rest of the men had a variety of homemade weapons in their hands. Cao Rui and Zhang Jingjing had no choice but to be caught in the middle, threatened, and held hostage to leave the square.

The residence is a bathing club in the east of the new town. Cao Rui has been here with her husband before, and the decoration style there is luxurious, and the consumption is not low.

The clubhouse is a six-story building that houses hundreds of survivors. When they saw Cao Rui and Zhang Jingjing, those men invariably released strange glances in their eyes.

They were confiscated of all their belongings and locked up in a room on the fifth floor. In the words of Liu Jiantao, the man named the leader: "Here, is the room allocated to you. ”

Someone brought them food regularly. Most of the food consists of a few small biscuits, or a little crumbs of instant noodles. As for the water, it smelled a little stinky, and there was a thin layer of dirt floating on the surface, apparently the liquid in the pool that was originally used for bathing.

Cao Rui spent half a day tearing the sheets on the bed into strips, connecting them into a long cloth rope, and Ji Lu rowed out of the window at night. As for whether she can succeed, even she is not sure.

This is the fifth floor after all.

The man delivering the meal wore a pair of glasses and looked a little kind. Zhang Jingjing took the initiative to strip naked, knelt in front of him and kowtowed, crying and begging the other party for help. Perhaps moved by her words, the man quietly shoved her with a knife and whispered to them that it was best to knock herself unconscious, and then escape from the loosely guarded sixth-floor fire escape.

The good-faced man said this.

"I've heard them talk about you. The two women who were caught before should be your friends. They were eaten yesterday. There is no food in the vicinity. Run away! ”

The two women ran down the street for a long time, and many men rushed out of the building to search around. They hid in an empty residential building on the side of the road and ate it for two days with the water left from the family's water fountain and soaked in raw rice they found in the kitchen. After making sure that no one was chasing, he left the hiding place and walked towards the stronghold that Su Hao had originally said.

When you encounter zombies on the way, you have to make a detour to avoid them, and sometimes you need to hide away from other survivors looking for supplies. They instinctively don't trust others. There is no food and no water, if Su Hao and Xinyan didn't happen to pass by that road, I'm afraid Cao Rui and Zhang Jingjing would have turned into two skeletons gnawed by zombies

The porridge bowl in his hand was warm, making the trembling bodies of the two rescued women calm again. They wiped away their tears and looked at the strangers standing around, their eyes full of pity and sympathy, anger and insipidity, but there was no evil and lust.

Xinyan stood up from the bed, looked at Su Hao, who was silent, and said seriously: "There are still some women who have not been able to escape, and they have to help them." ”

The gaze in Su Hao's eyes was complicated.

He'd seen too many cruel things than this, and he didn't want to have too much entanglement with this strange world. However, he was already a member of this plane and could not stay out of it, and in a sense, he was actually the leader of the group of survivors in the small building.

Looking at Xinyan's eyes full of anticipation, Su Hao nodded affirmatively.