Late at night, Fang Mountain, near the visitor center, by the waterhole. The summer nights are not at all calm, and the frogs hide in dark corners and train their throats, and they become more and more unscrupulous without human harassment.

Xu Tianpeng sat on the edge of the waterhole with a can of beer, staring at the water in a daze, and four or five empty beer cans had been thrown behind him.

Li Shanshan walked over, sat next to him, opened a bottle of beer, and began to pour it into his mouth.

Xu Tianpeng stared at the water surface in a daze, the moon in the sky was reflected on the water surface, and a gust of wind blew, and the golden shadow shattered into a pool of golden light. The beer can in his hand was empty again.

"She wouldn't have died, if I hadn't let you go with her."

"If I had stayed in the car and watched carefully, she wouldn't have died."

Xu Tianpeng stopped talking, he rubbed the ring on the ring finger of his left hand, stunned.

Early the next morning.

"Have you seen Dr. Xu?" Cheng Yong woke up early in the morning and found that Xu Tianpeng was gone.

"No, did you go to the waterhole to wash your face?"

After yesterday's accident, everyone was in a very heavy mood, hastily cleaned up the battlefield, and returned to Fangshan. I wanted to reformulate the battle plan today, after all, there are more zombies in the shelter, and it is very dangerous to break in. Unexpectedly, early in the morning, Xu Tianpeng's shadow disappeared.

Everyone ran out of the visitor center and found that there was one less jeep parked outside, and everyone looked at each other.

"There's a note here." Cheng Yong found a piece of paper under the windshield wipers of another car.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please forgive me for not saying goodbye. Thank you so much for all of you who worked for me yesterday. In fact, if you don't say it, I also know that their chances of survival are very slim, and they may be long gone, but I have not seen it with my own eyes, and I am unwilling to give up. I didn't want people to risk it for me anymore, so I decided to go looking for them alone. Treasure everyone! The note was left by Xu Tianpeng.

"Shall we go to him? Since he still went to look for his family, he must have gone to yesterday. Li Shanshan asked.

Cheng Yong thought for a while and said, "Forget it, since he has seriously thought about his decision, we respect his meaning." We found a suitable place, built a new shelter, and tried to bring the survivors together. Do you agree? ”

"Agreed." Yuan Hang and Li Shanshan nodded.

"Officer Yuan, you are familiar with Jiangning, where do you think it is more suitable?" Cheng Yong asked.

Yuan Hang thought for a moment and said, "If you want to build a new shelter, first of all, there must be a ready-made building in that place, and it must be convenient to replenish. We have a small supermarket here, but there are too few things in it, and it will definitely not work for a long time. So we're going to a place with a big supermarket. ”

"Then let's just find a supermarket and settle down."

"No, no, I'm not done yet. Although supermarkets are abundant, supermarkets generally only have two or three floors, and the windows around them are relatively small or even none, and the view is too poor to be observed. Yuan Hang continued.

"That?"

"I suggest that we can find a large shopping mall, the kind with a supermarket, with a large area and a good view." Yuan Hang suggested.

"Agreed, and now whether it is a supermarket or a shopping mall, there should be almost no zombies in it, and it should be relatively safe to be a short distance from Jiangning Shelter." Cheng Yong said: "Let's pack up and set off today." ”

"So what about it? Xu Tianpeng is also gone, do we still keep it? Yuan Hang pointed to the house.

"Don't keep it, I'll dispose of it." Cheng Yong said and walked towards the house.

Around noon, a jeep and a police car left the visitor center where they had been staying for three days. Everything that could be used inside has been emptied. They put a note on the door that read, "Please go to a new shelter: Jiangning Xinlian Shopping Center."

The two cars disappeared, and the Fangshan Visitor Center returned to its previous calm. There are two more tombs on the lawn next to the visitor center, one of which has a wooden sign that reads "Yuan Jiajia's Tomb".

There were many more zombies roaming the roads in Jiangning than in the urban area, and there was a second outbreak before the troops could clean up the roads here. But fortunately, Yuan Hang has been a policeman in Jiangning for almost ten years, and he is very familiar with the big and small roads here, directing them to go around east and west, and finally arrived next to Jiangning Xinlian Shopping Center at three or four o'clock in the afternoon. At the last intersection, they got rid of a group of zombies that followed them by speeding up, but at this moment there were two more behind them, obviously unable to get rid of them. Cheng Yong and Yuan Hang got out of the car and solved them with daggers.

The mall is still as it was before the incident, and even the glass is intact. The doors are closed on all sides, and behind the glass doors are metal roller shutters.

"Officer Yuan, be on guard." Cheng Yong took down a fire axe from the car, which was brought from the Fangshan Visitor Center. He "clanged ......" and smashed the ring lock on the glass door a few times, then smashed the lock on the roller shutter door and opened the door. Fortunately, there were no wandering zombies on the side, and they were not attracted to it.

The three men walked in with guns in hand, pulled down the roller shutter door again, and pulled out a rope from the nearby shop and secured it.

It's past four o'clock in the afternoon, the sun is already setting in the west, and the orange sunlight shines through the windows of a row of merchants on the side, and the whole mall is full of warmth.

"Will there be anyone in the mall at night?" Cheng Yong asked.

"There will be security guards on duty inside, usually at least two." Yuan Hang said: "We have to find them before dark, otherwise we won't want to sleep peacefully today." ”

They searched from business to business, but the progress was much slower than they thought. After searching the first floor, there was no one or a zombie to be seen, and it was almost dark.

"We can only search the other floors tomorrow, and we will find something to block all the escalators and safe passages first." There are four escalators, 18 straight elevators and six safe passages throughout the mall. The doors of the elevator are closed, so you don't have to worry, but the other passages have to be closed. They moved out of the counters from the shops and piled them up at the entrances of the various passages. It took more than an hour to complete the work. Cheng Yong found many glass bottles and placed them in the gaps and on top of the obstacles.

"That way, if something invades at night, we can hear the movement and not be caught off guard."

There was a shop selling home furnishings on the first floor of the mall, and they sealed the door with a cabinet and found a bed in it. This was the first time since the disaster began, and everyone was able to lie peacefully in the same bed, and soon they all fell asleep deeply.

In the middle of the night, there was a bang, and the sound of glass bottles shattering came from the depths of the mall. Then there was another creaking sound, as if someone was pushing the cabinet on the floor......

None of the three seemed to hear the sound, and none of them woke up.