Chapter 973: The Victim
The trunk of the big tree at the entrance of the stone cave was smoking.
The trunk of the tree is still smoldering.
It turned out that when the heavy rain extinguished the wildfire, the big tree at the entrance of the cave was also drenched, but it leaned against the half of the stone cave, but because there was a stone wall to block the rain, the half of the trunk was not drenched with rainwater, although the open flame on the surface had been extinguished, but under the black bark that had been burned to char, the fire was still smoldering inside the trunk, emitting a faint green smoke.
The zombie stared at the green smoke of the tree trunk for a long time, suddenly, he stretched out his hands, pulled the coke bark that had been wet by the rain and fire, and threw the coke to the ground, the lone wolf lying at the entrance of the cave was startled by the coke thrown to his side, sniffed with his nose, stood up, and watched the zombie's inexplicable movements.
The zombie vigorously picked at the bark until it revealed the dry wooden core inside, which was smoldering, and after being exposed to the air, more fresh oxygen made it burn more vigorously, and when the wind blew, there was even a faint red light, which was an open flame.
The zombie suddenly blew the wind at the wooden core, and with his movements, the fire was bright and dark, and suddenly, a flame arose, and the fire was rekindled.
The zombie stared at the fire, watching it burn bigger and bigger, and in a few moments, the whole tree was rekindled, and the fire and smoke frightened the lone wolf away from the hole and lay down far away.
But zombies have a special interest in this fire.
He did nothing for a whole day, and watched the fire burn until the tree fell with a bang and fell into a few pieces of char with flames and smoke. The zombie picked up the largest piece of the burning coke, and the skin on his hands was scorched in the heat, but the zombie didn't care, he carefully held the coke, returned to the cave, and placed the coke on a higher stone platform.
Then the zombie left the cave again, and when he returned, he was holding a lot of dead branches that had not completely burned, and he piled them up next to the burning charcoal. Add one or two from time to time. It seemed that keeping the fire burning was a very important thing for zombies, and that night, the cave was always reflected in the red glow of the fire.
The lone wolf is back at the mouth of the cave, and it seems to be familiar with the flames in the cave. No more fear of getting around. Place your head on your paws. Fall asleep.
At night, in the forest after the fire, black shadows flashed from time to time. It was a beast hunting, a figure crept close to the cave, it was the smell of sheep that attracted the beast, but the lone wolf stood up vigilantly, howling at the night, the beast was not afraid of such a thin wounded lone wolf, the wolf was its food like a sheep.
However, the bright and dark light of the fire in the stone cave frightened its steps, and the natural fear of fire made the beast finally leave the mouth of the stone cave.
For the next few days, the zombies searched for charred animal carcasses in the ashes of the jungle by collecting branches and leaves to keep the fire burning in the cave. It was only in order to find fresh weeds for the ewes that he could not help but go farther and farther, and the lone wolf kept following him, eating food such as bones or dried fish thrown by zombies.
The zombie kept a large amount of dried fish, because he preferred to eat charred meat compared to dried fish, and all the dried fish that had maggots were thrown to the lone wolf.
With a few rains gone, green is back in the jungle, life is always so tenacious.
The lone wolf has completely recovered, it is guarding the entrance of the cave, no other beast dares to approach this stone cave that burns day and night, so that the lone wolf feels extremely safe, and the meat and bones eaten by the zombies feed the lone wolf to the full, and the lone wolf is more and more inseparable from the zombies.
The lone wolf consciously follows the zombies, where the zombies go, it follows, and even helps the zombies guard the ewes that are grazing, when there are small carnivores such as civets approaching the ewes, the lone wolf will take the initiative to pounce and expel them.
One day, the lone wolf killed a lynx that tried to attack the ewe, the lynx rarely attacked the large herbivores like the sheep, but after a wildfire, food became more and more difficult to find, forcing the lynx to take a risk, the lone wolf guarding the sheep immediately counterattacked, although the lynx is smaller than the lone wolf, but extremely fierce and difficult to entangle, but recently the lone wolf ate and slept soundly, after being scratched by the lynx's sharp claws several blood marks, a bite broke the opponent's throat.
But the lone wolf did not eat the body of the lynx, it took the lynx back to the cave and put it at the feet of the zombie, and the zombie grabbed the blood-dripping lynx, put its mouth to the wound in its throat, sucked a few mouthfuls of blood, and for some reason stopped again, threw the lynx's body into the fire, and then covered it with a few dead logs - he had not eaten the charred corpse for a long time.
When the smell of barbecue permeated the stone cave, the zombie didn't care that it would be burned by the fire, and directly pulled out the blackened lynx from the fire, tore the half-cooked meat, and devoured it.
He ate a few bites, then suddenly stopped again, and glanced at the lone wolf lying at his feet, looking at the piece of meat in his hand, the lone wolf wagged its tail vigorously, and the zombie raised his hand and threw a big piece of roast meat to the lone wolf, and the lone wolf ate happily.
The days passed, and one day, with the sound of a rattle, the zombie ran in the jungle, and in front of him, a wounded civet was fleeing in embarrassment, and the lone wolf drove the civet on the side, preventing it from deviating from the route of the zombie pursuit.
A zombie and a wolf are cooperating with the hunt.
This is a game newly invented by Zombies and Lone Wolves recently. Zombies are not afraid of pain or injury, even pythons are not his opponents, leopards have to avoid him, but in the jungle, zombies are not as good as those beasts, and when chasing prey, they often chase and lose. The wolf is much more agile than the zombie in the jungle, but it didn't dare to provoke too fierce beasts before.
Now, a zombie and a wolf complement each other, and the zombie can chase the prey like a perpetual motion machine, while the wolf chases and watches, not letting the prey out of the course - as long as the prey keeps running, the zombie can consume the other person alive.
The civet cat that was running forward was injured in the leg by a stone thrown by the zombie, and after running in the jungle for so long, it was already exhausted and out of breath, and it ran slower and slower. Finally one stumbled and fell into the grass, and the lone wolf pounced on it and bit the civet's neck.
The lone wolf stood beside the corpse of the civet, found a loud bark, beckoned the zombies who followed behind, and saw the zombies running over, the lone wolf wagged his tail vigorously, showing his merits.
The zombie picks up the civet and carries it on his shoulder. Just about to return to the cave - chase this civet. After turning into a zombie for a long time, he has already left the stone cave far away.
Suddenly, the lone wolf jumped in front of the zombie and let out a whining sound. He also holds the python skin around the zombie's waist. Dragged him to the other side of the forest.
The zombies ignore the lone wolf. Striding forward, the lone wolf suddenly jumped up and snatched the civet cat from the zombie's shoulder. Buried in the woods, the zombies chased after them.
The zombie chases the lone wolf, through the dense forest, streams, and small hills, this area, located at the other end of the island, the zombie has never come, but the lone wolf seems to be very familiar with the terrain of this area, has been running in front, keeping a distance from the zombie, and sometimes deliberately stops, puts down the civet in its mouth, and barks at the zombie twice, as if to remind the zombie to go here.
After passing through a meadow and climbing up a small mound, the lone wolf stopped, and the zombie caught up with the lone wolf, and he saw at a glance that in front of the mound was a sandy beach, undulating waves, and on the reef on the shore, there was a huge thing standing, which was not a product of nature, and appeared on this remote volcanic island, which seemed so abrupt.
The lone wolf, suddenly screaming at the thing.
The zombie was indifferent, just staring blankly at the thing.
It was a boat, a private yacht.
The yacht ran aground on the reef with a large hole in the bottom, apparently pushed ashore by the tide, but was smashed by the underwater reef.
The zombie picked up the corpse of the civet next to the lone wolf, turned around and left, for him, the yacht was like a boulder.
The lone wolf barked at the zombie, and the zombie didn't look back.
The lone wolf suddenly ran towards the yacht, it jumped into the water, swam to the reef, and climbed onto the yacht neatly along the small platform at the tail of the yacht, the action was extremely flexible, as if it had been done countless times, the lone wolf disappeared into the cabin, and after a while, it came out again, holding a cylindrical object in its mouth.
The lone wolf swam back to shore, caught up with the zombie, put down the cylindrical object in front of him, and pushed his head and waged his tail at the zombie, which was given to the zombie by the lone wolf.
The zombie stopped, staring at the cylindrical object, the shell of which had been bitten by the lone wolf's teeth, and from it leaked a smell that was very familiar to the zombie's memory.
The zombie suddenly picked up the cylindrical object and licked the juice oozing from the hole with his tongue, it was a completely different taste from natural food, it was full of the smell of various chemicals, spices, salt, etc., the zombie had been exposed to this same kind of smell, and his sleeping memory told him that it could be eaten.
The zombie gnawed at the cylinder with its teeth and slammed it the ground, but the shell of the cylinder was deformed, but it did not crack, and the zombie slashed the cylinder with a stone knife again, this time, the shell of the cylinder broke, revealing a mass of flesh-colored things inside.
It was a lump of luncheon meat.
The zombie grabbed the luncheon meat, stuffed it into his mouth, and ate it in large gulps, throwing a piece or two to the lone wolf from time to time.
After eating the luncheon meat, the zombie's fingers and the corners of his mouth were cut by the sharp corners of the canned food box, but the zombie didn't care, he just stared at the yacht, there was something to eat on it.
The zombie strode towards the yacht, the lone wolf following closely.
Led by a lone wolf, the zombie climbed onto the yacht, which was acceptable from a distance, but when it looked closely, it was found that many facilities such as radar and high-frequency antennas were damaged by the storm, and the glass of the cockpit was all broken.
The lone wolf familiarly led the zombies to the inner cabin, which was filled with water, and there were 4 corpses lying on a large bed in the center.
The corpses of three zombies that did not decompose, and one white bone.
On the corpses of zombies, without exception, there is a hole in the door of the head, a gun hole, but there is no white bone, but at the location of the heart of the white bone, there is a broken rib, and there is a bullet hole in the bed underneath, and the blood stains stain the sheets.
The corpses and bones were large and small, and if there was a criminal investigation expert at this time, it would be obvious at a glance that they were two adults, a man and a woman, as well as two children.
The zombie glanced at the bones on the bed, he didn't care, he saw that there were many bottles and cans in the cabin, including the luncheon meat he had just eaten, the zombie took a can, cut it open with a stone knife, sat on the side of the bones on the bed, and ate it.
The lone wolf was unusual, and did not beg for food around the zombies, it jumped on the bed, put the bones on its head, and found the sound of whimpering, suddenly, the lone wolf touched a small tape recorder on the bedside table, and the lithium battery in the tape recorder was still charged, and a voice jumped out of the speaker.
Suddenly hearing a voice, the zombie stood up, held the stone knife, and searched around, but when he found that the source of the sound was only an inanimate thing, he sat down again and continued to eat the canned food.
In the speaker, the voice came out in English. Don't say that the zombie can't understand it now, even when he was a human, he couldn't understand the English level of the three-legged cat he learned in college.
In the loudspeaker was a deep male voice, and he hurriedly said: "Survivor who heard this recording, I am already dead, yes, I am already dead, because I have been infected with a biochemical virus and am about to turn into a zombie." When our family escaped on the yacht Vera, we agreed that we couldn't be zombies no matter what, and once we got infected, our family would shoot them in the head. We were well prepared, there was food, water, medicine, a lot of seeds, all kinds of tools, and Nancy downloaded the encyclopedia in her e-book. ”
"Our plan is to leave the killing America forever, because the country has become a paradise for the anomalous, the dictator and the madman, who are fighting and killing each other, and the remaining military forces have become the largest fascist group, and they are capturing survivors everywhere for the research of vaccines. Our family decided to go to sea, or sooner or later, we would become test subjects for the military, and we would become those terrible monsters who only knew how to kill. ”
"Those monsters are more terrible than zombies, zombies just eat people for food, we can always avoid and resist zombies. And those military monsters, with a single order, can destroy a settlement, even the old people and children are not spared, they are armed to the teeth, and our small-caliber weapons will not be able to deal with them at all. What's even more terrifying is that I heard that in order to get more human beings for experimentation, the military is capturing a large number of women, and then using artificial pregnancy technology to make them fertility machines. ”
"I have two daughters, and I'd rather them die than fall into the hands of the military. So, after a year of collecting supplies, our family and our loyal dog, Barbara, set sail aboard the Vera. Our goal is an uninhabited island, far off the beaten track, and with the seeds we collect, we can be self-sufficient and build another Garden of Eden. (To be continued......)