Chapter 3: Midnight Terror

Lu Yu's family lives on the 29th floor, which is the highest floor of their house, and above is the rooftop.

The building has four households on each floor, with two households on the east side and two households on the west side.

There is a hanging corridor about 10 meters long between the east and west sides, and Lu Yu usually likes to enjoy the scenery downstairs on the corridor in his spare time, but Lu's mother is always very worried and tells him not to lie on the railing, for fear that he will fall......

Lu Yu closed the faucet tightly and listened attentively.

The scream came from next door, because there was only one layer of load-bearing wall between the two houses, and the screams were relatively sharp, that is, the sound insulation effect was better, and Lu Yu also clearly confirmed the direction it came from.

"It's almost zero o'clock now, ...... next door", Lu Yu frowned, got up and walked towards the door of the living room.

Next door lived a family of three, a young couple, and the man seemed to be the small leader of a company.

Usually, Lu Yu can always see him in a suit and leather shoes, with a shiny oil on his big back, and a hurried look when he is on the phone.

The woman is a housewife and is friendly, and she will always greet Lu Yu warmly.

The two have a lovely daughter, if Lu Yu remembers correctly, that girl should have just turned 9 years old this year......

Lu Yu tiptoed to the door and looked towards the cat's eye.

The door opposite the house was now half-open, and a milky white light leaked through the crack in the door, illuminating a small darkness.

Lu Yu was silent, raised his hand to turn off the switch at hand, extinguished the lights in the room, and continued to observe the situation outside the door quietly.

After a while, a woman in pajamas ran out of the door with a panicked expression, walked straight to the door of Lu Yu's house, hesitated in front of Lu Yu's door for a while, and then rang the doorbell of Lu Yu's house.

"Ding Dong, Ding Dong", the hurried doorbell rang. Lu Yu didn't move, still quietly observing the woman in front of him.

His kind and friendly neighbor has long lost his usual dignity and generosity at this time, and her eyes are filled with anxiety and uneasiness.

Why didn't Lu Yu open the door? Because Lu Yu saw a large patch of dark red stained on the woman's pajamas through the cat's eyes, the color was very similar to blood.

After ringing the doorbell for a while, she found that there was no movement in the door, so the woman stopped and continued to ring the bell, turned her head and ran towards her house, took her mobile phone, and held the door of her house to make a call.

"I pressed three buttons, is it to call the police or first aid?"

Lu Yu guessed in his heart, and still quietly watched the movements of the woman outside the door.

After a while, the woman put down her mobile phone, as if she couldn't get through, and when she was anxious, suddenly there were several dull crashing sounds in the house.

The woman was startled and immediately walked briskly back into the house.

Lu Yu was silent, he knew in his heart that the woman came to ring the doorbell of his house late at night, and the pajamas on her body were stained with a large area of dark red, so there must have been something wrong at home.

Coupled with the screams he had heard earlier, a terrible conjecture had taken shape in his mind.

I took out my phone and called the police.

Lu Yu thought in his heart that if the phone could be connected, he would explain the reason for the matter to the police, and if the phone could not be connected, it would prove what Lu Yu was thinking - the zombie crisis had broken out.

"Dut...... ......", Lu Yu listened to the busy tone on the phone, stood in the dark in a daze, and the last trace of doubt about Zhang Heng in his heart was dispelled.

"What he said is true......" Just as Lu Yu whispered to himself, there was a quick knock on the door.

The sound of "knock knock" was rapid and dull, like a dying man beating hard with his last strength.

Lu Yu looked at the cat's eyes, it was still that woman, but now her eyes were no longer only anxious and uneasy, but also full of despair.

But without empathy, he can't feel the despair of a woman at all, and at the same time, reason also tells him that if he goes out to help this woman now, he is very likely to cause trouble, after all, it is none of his business, hanging high, some troubles, and he can avoid it.

Therefore, Lu Yu still had no intention of opening the door, and still quietly observed the woman outside the door.

Outside the door, the woman continued to hammer the door to no avail, and staggered backwards.

Lu Yu suddenly found that there was an extra bright red wound on this woman's neck.

The woman was covering the wound with her left hand, but the wound was too big, and bright red blood flowed out of her fingers and dripped on the carpet in front of Lu Yu's door.

Wounding the neck is quite fatal, and judging by the amount of bleeding, it is likely that the artery has been injured.

Lu Yu began to struggle, he was afraid of trouble, and he really couldn't feel the despair of women.

But judging from the woman's injuries, if he sat idly by, the woman would probably die in front of her door.

With a "click", Lu Yu carefully pushed open a crack, and just as he was about to poke his head out to ask about the woman's situation, a strange hiss came from behind the woman.

"Bang", the door closed again with a huge impact.

Lu Yu hurriedly looked towards the cat's eyes, and the scene in front of him made him instantly creepy.

I saw that the woman had been thrown to the ground at this time, and from Lu Yu's perspective, I could only see her legs kicking incessantly, and her body was pressed against the door by a blood-stained figure.

The screams of women, the sound of skin being torn, the sound of muscles being chewed kept coming from outside the door.

Lu Yu slowly moved his hands off the doorknob, wanting to step away and retreat with his legs, but his legs were like being filled with lead, and he refused to move the slightest, Lu Yu suddenly lost his center of gravity and sat down on the ground.

That's right, Lu Yu was scared.

When the threat was separated from him, Lu Yu finally felt fear.

He can't feel the emotions of others, he can't empathize. But when he is frightened or threatened, and the rational brain judges that his life is threatened, then he will also feel fear like a normal person.

"Roar", another weird hiss came from outside the door, Lu Yu hurriedly got up and looked out through the cat's eyes.

At this time, the bloodied "man" no longer bit the woman on the ground, but as if he had found something, he poked his head into the cat's eye.

What kind of face this was, the gray-white skin of a dead man was covered with black, bulging veins, and the two eyes had long since lost their luster and were covered with a layer of gray.

Blood mixed with saliva kept sliding down the corners of his mouth, and his distorted face was hideous and weird.

But Lu Yu still recognized the identity of the person outside the door.

Isn't this "person" who pounces on a woman and bites her as a prey, isn't it the woman's husband, with a big back!

I saw the big-backed zombie shaking its nose and sniffing towards Lu Yu's cat's eyes, as if the hound was following the smell to find its prey.

There was a sound of the doorknob shaking, and Lu Yu's heart trembled.

"Damn, this thing won't want to open the door and come in......"

Immediately, he was sure in his heart, "If it is a zombie, it should not have such a high intelligence...... right"

"Click", the lock slides, and the door is slowly opened. Lu Yu's heart suddenly 10,000 grass and mud horses galloped past.

"My mom, I'm really good at opening the door!"

Lu Yu didn't have time to think about it, if this zombie wanted to enter the house, he would be finished.

Hurriedly grabbed the handle and tried to close the door again.

But the big-backed zombie outside the door also sensed the breath of a living person in the door at this time, and pulled the door outwards violently, with surprisingly great strength.

The door couldn't be closed for a while, and Lu Yu and the big-backed zombie competed like a tug-of-war through the two handles of a door.

"the hell groove" Lu Yu shouted frantically in his heart, the huge power from the zombies outside the door was something he didn't expect at all.

This stalemate is not a solution, Lu Yu had tried to close the door with all his strength just now, but the door still slowly opened outward, and he saw that the crack in the door was expanding little by little.

Lu Yu's heart was horizontal, and he changed his pull to push, and pushed towards the door fiercely.

The big-backed zombie outside the door suddenly lost its balance and was pressed against the wall by the gate, and Lu Yu saw this and rushed forward and flashed past the zombie.

After three steps and two walks, he ran to the neighbor's house on the opposite side and locked the door.

Just now, the zombie was able to open the door of his house smoothly, it should be that he did not lock the relationship.

"Huh" Lu Yu was paralyzed on the ground, as an office worker who usually doesn't like to exercise, what seemed to be a series of simple actions just now actually consumed a lot of his energy.

Lu Yu looked around, the layout of the neighbor's house was similar to his, the left hand side of the door was the kitchen, the right hand side was the living room, the door was facing a short corridor, and on both sides of the corridor were the toilets, master bedroom, second bedroom and study.

The wooden door of the master bedroom was shattered at this time, and the upper part of the door seemed to be slammed open by brute force, leaning diagonally to the side.

Under the dining table in the living room, a pair of pitiful eyes met Lu Yu's gaze that glanced back and forth.

"Uncle Lu Yu......" The little girl opened her mouth glutinously, her voice trembling a little.

"Eh, Xiao Ran, your parents ......" Lu Yu was stunned for a moment, and was about to ask.

"My dad was sick, and my mom wanted to take my dad to the doctor and wanted to leave me at home alone."

"I was scared, so I begged my mother to take me with me."

"But Dad seemed to be angry and didn't seem to want to go to the hospital. Mom quarreled with Dad, and every time Mom quarreled with Dad, she would close the door and come out after reconciling with Dad. ”

"But this time it seems to be different, Mom and Dad have been arguing for a long time. Later, my mother ran out of the room in a panic and closed the door of the big room. ”

"Dad is so horrible that he yells and screams in the big room and keeps banging on the door."

"Mom said that Dad was crazy, Mom had a lot of blood on her body, Mom told me not to move, she went to Uncle Lu Yu for your help, but Uncle Lu Yu You don't seem to be at home, Mom called Uncle Police again, but Uncle Police didn't answer the phone......"

The little girl's voice gradually weakened, and her body kept shaking.

The girl in front of her is the 9-year-old girl from the neighbor's house, Wang Xinran.

Usually Lu Yu has seen him a few times, the little girl is very polite, and when she sees him, she will always greet him sweetly, calling Uncle Xiao Yu hello, she is a very likable girl.

Looking at the little girl's pitiful appearance, Lu Yu had already guessed the situation in his heart.

It may be that the little girl's father was infected with the zombie virus outside, and when he returned home, he launched a high fever, which made the little girl's mother mistakenly think that she had some disease and wanted to take her husband to the doctor, but under the influence of the virus, the girl's father became extremely irritable.

In order not to affect the child's mental health, the little girl's mother chose to close the door with her husband to solve the problem, but she didn't expect to close the door and come to the master bedroom to find that her husband had already lost consciousness and began to attack herself, so she closed the door and wanted to ask a neighbor for help.

After seeking Lu Yu's help to no avail, he called the police again, and found that the phone could not be connected, during which he heard the sound of heavy objects hitting the master bedroom, and turned around to go home worried about his daughter's safety.

Just as the woman was standing helpless in front of the door of the master bedroom, her husband smashed the door of the master bedroom, and the broken wood just cut her neck, and a large amount of blood irritated the big back that had become a zombie.

The magical sixth sense made the woman run to Lu Yu's house again at this desperate moment and knocked on his door.

It's a pity that the zombies have been released, and this poor woman was slammed down, torn apart, and died in front of Lu Yu's door, which incidentally caused the situation that Lu Yu can't return to his home.

"Well, your mother should be dead, dead in front of my house, torn apart by your zombie father."

"Oh, your dad is outside the door right now, looking for a chance to come in and tear me and you alive."

Lu Yu smiled bitterly, he was in no mood to take care of the little girl's emotions, nor did he consider whether it would leave a psychological shadow on the little girl.

His headache now is how to get back to his home safely.