Chapter 15: The Flowers Wither

Lu Yu quickly tied Su Daqiang firmly to the chair, and whispered pity.

"What a good canned herring, it's such a waste......"

It turned out that the unknown liquid that was sticking to Su Daqiang's face was not a powerful biochemical weapon, but the soup that Lu Yu obtained by opening two cans of herring.

This idea was also put forward by Xiao Ran, after all, Lu Yu is not a strong muscle practitioner, and if he wants to subdue Su Daqiang in an instant, the only way is to sneak attack.

Therefore, there was a scene similar to the joint brawl just now, Su Daqiang was coldly splashed with canned herring juice, and was slapped on the bald head by Lu Yuyi in a frying pan without defense, and directly unilaterally announced the end of the battle.

Seeing that Su Daqiang still looked unconscious, Lu Yu breathed a sigh of relief and observed the situation in the room distractedly.

Different from the decoration style of his own home, the decoration of the 2801 interior is simple and simple modern style, the original spacious living room floor is full of domestic garbage, cigarette butts are thrown everywhere, Lu Yu even found a sock in the dirty bowl on the coffee table.

Lu Yu, who had a slight habit of cleanliness, saw the messy scene in front of him, suppressed the irritability in his heart, and began to look for it with Xiao Ran in various rooms.

What are they looking for? Naturally, he was looking for the hostage in Xiao Ran's mouth, because according to Xiao Ran's guess, the reason why this bald man didn't come to the door immediately after the incident was to deal with the hostage in his own hands.

But after Lu Yu searched every room, he found no trace of the hostages. Lu Yu began to feel a little apprehensive in his heart, he felt that he really misunderstood something, and mistook the owner of 2801 for a robber and slapped him in a frying pan......

"Did we make a mistake......" Lu Yu looked at Xiao Ran uneasily.

Xiao Ran, who was holding his chin with one hand and seemed to be thinking about something, heard Lu Yu's inquiry, raised his head and glanced at Lu Yu angrily, pointed to the dirty living room and said, "If this was your own home, would you make such a mess?" ”

"Where is the hostage......" Lu Yu scratched his head, he searched everywhere. In the closet, under the bed, and even in the large drawers in the bedroom, I opened it and looked at it, but there was no sign of the hostages.

"Looking at these clothes, this is definitely not a single house." Xiao Ran pointed to the clothes scattered in the study, Lu Yu followed the direction of Xiao Ran's finger and found that in addition to the clothes of adult women, there was also a student's school uniform mixed in, as well as several underwear printed with cartoon patterns.

"But the layout of the study is obviously a live broadcast room, the woman who fell from the stairs is probably the anchor, and it is not surprising that there are more clothes for the anchor." Lu Yu shrugged his shoulders and said his judgment.

"Do you need a student ID to be an anchor?" Xiao Ran took out a student ID card from the schoolbag in the corner and shook it at Lu Yu.

Lu Yu took the student ID card and looked at it, it was really true. On the certificate, a rather sweet-looking girl was smiling at him, a junior high school student, as if she had just entered the first year of junior high school.

"Lin Tanying, this name is very good, as beautiful as an epiphany, as mysterious as a shadow." Lu Yu read out the name on the student ID card and expressed his praise in time.

"Could it be that Wang Xinran's name is very bad!" Xiao Ran gently kicked Lu Yu's calf, slightly dissatisfied.

"What kind of vinegar is this?" When Lu Yu saw Xiao Ran's reaction, he was also happy all of a sudden, and put his student ID on the table and looked for it again.

This time he searched more carefully, after all, a junior high school student, if such a big living person was still in this house, he would definitely be able to be found.

Xiao Ran also joined the search, but this time, there was still no trace of the hostage.

"Did we deduce wrong, this family is actually only the woman who lives alone." Lu Yu stuck out his tongue a little, looking quite like a tired pug.

Xiao Ran ignored Lu Yu and walked straight to the balcony, there was another place that neither she nor Lu Yu had searched, that is, the washing machine full of clothes.

Seeing that Xiao Ran ignored himself and walked towards the washing machine instead, Lu Yu also hurried to follow, but his heart was still full of doubts.

"If there is really such a hostage, then she is also a 13-year-old junior high school student, not to mention that she should be about 1.4 or 1.5 meters tall, how can she be hidden in the washing machine......"

As soon as he was halfway through his words, Lu Yu suddenly stopped talking, and his heart twitched fiercely.

Because Xiao Ran, who was standing on the balcony, had already ripped off the clothes on the washing machine at this time, the small space of the washing machine was strangely filled with a young body, and her mouth was wrapped with several circles of tape, which was exactly the hostage they were looking for, Lin Tanying!

However, at this time, Lin Tanying, looking at the ceiling with empty eyes, had long lost a trace of vitality.

Su Daqiang probably thought that it would be very hidden to hide the little girl in the drum washing machine, so he stuffed her in, but he didn't expect that in the small space, Lin Tanying, who was blindfolded, was suffocated to death because of difficulty breathing.

Lu Yu and Xiao Ran were silent for different reasons. Xiao Ran was shocked by Lin Tanying's strange way of dying, while Lu Yu was a pity that this beauty had not yet fully bloomed, so it withered hastily.

"Get her out."

Xiao Ran was the first to break the silence, and after dropping this sentence, he walked out of 2801.

Lu Yu, who was left, mechanically took Lin Tanying's body out of the washing machine and gently placed it on the sofa in the living room.

He didn't start searching for 2801 like he did for 2902, but after finding the key to the door, he sat quietly and waited for something.

After a while, Xiao Ran's figure reappeared at the door of 2801, and unlike before, Xiao Ran had an extra half-foot-long piece of wood in his hand, and one end of the piece of wood was stained with black slime that had not yet dried.

The two looked at each other, but still did not speak.

Lu Yu took the piece of wood from Xiao Ran's hand and lightly swiped it on Lin Tanying's forearm.

The sharp pieces of wood immediately cut through Lin Tanying's skin, and the black mucus stained the wound and began to grow towards the flesh at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After a while, under Lin Tanying's pale skin, countless fine black blood vessels were faintly visible and squirming, as if a terrifying monster was about to be born from this weak body.

"Let's go." Lu Yu greeted in a low voice and threw the wood chips in his hand aside.

Xiao Ran looked at the infected corpse in front of him, bit his lip, and unconsciously put his little hand on Lu Yu's big hand.

When the two were about to leave 2801, Lu Yu caught a glimpse of a bottle of daughter red on the top of the wine cabinet at the door, so he stopped and took it down.

After the door was carefully locked, Lu Yu threw the key in his hand downstairs, led Xiao Ran, and left 2801.

The wood chips that Xiao Ran took were stained with the body fluids of the big-backed zombies, and Lu Yu understood that the remaining things on it could give Lin Tanying a chance to take revenge.

Not long after Lu Yu and Xiao Ran left, Su Daqiang woke up.

The first thing Su Daqiang felt when he regained consciousness was a sharp pain in his head, followed by the stench that could not be dissipated for a long time, and it drilled into his nose vigorously, making his head, which had just woken up, feel a little groggy at the moment.

"Damn, I was attacked by that kid!" Su Daqiang shook his head and writhed on the chair like an ugly fat maggot.

But Lu Yu's rope was tied very tightly, and he couldn't break free at all. Su Daqiang struggled for a while and let out an angry roar.

Just as Su Daqiang was panting and preparing to rest for a while to think of a way, he suddenly saw Lin Tanying lying on the sofa.

Didn't I hide her in the washing machine, why is she lying on the sofa again?

A bad premonition rose from the bottom of Su Daqiang's heart, and he began to struggle desperately, wanting to break free from the shackles on his body as soon as possible, but everything was in vain.

As time passed, Lin Tanying's thin body began to move, at first the twitching of fingers and toes, then the unconscious movement of limbs and head, and finally, Su Daqiang waited for that terrifying roar.

"Uhh The infected Lin Tanying seemed to be a beast that had woken up, and he suddenly turned around from the sofa and pounced in the direction of Su Daqiang!

"Help! Yes! Help me! Listening to the heart-rending screams coming from downstairs, Lu Yu's uneasy heart finally put back into his stomach, opened the daughter red in his hand, raised his head and poured it violently.

Daughter red is a kind of rice wine, although Lu Yu is not good wine, but also fortunate to taste twice, it is a kind of wine with a rich taste, set sweet, sour, bitter, pungent, fresh, astringent 6 kinds of taste in one, soft and mellow when the entrance, slightly spicy and bitter, but the wine belly, there is endless sweetness echoing in the mouth, making people reminisce.

And the daughter red in his hand is obviously the dowry that the head of the 2801 household prepared for his daughter. Lu Yu's family has this custom, saying that when the daughter was born, a jar of rice wine was buried, and on the day of the daughter's eighteenth marriage, the altar was opened and given to the guests to drink, which was called the daughter red.

But now the wine he drinks can't taste the slightest sweetness, only bitterness and astringency permeate the tip of his tongue, making it difficult for him to swallow.

Xiao Ran looked at Lu Yu, who was silent in front of the table, and also stepped forward to snatch the small wine jar in Lu Yu's hand, swayed it and took a sip, the spicy taste stimulated her to cough again and again, wiped the wine from the corner of her mouth, and sat opposite Lu Yu.

The two were silent for a long time.

In the end, it was Lu Yu who took the lead in breaking the silence.

"Don't drink it, don't drink it, it's not a daughter red, it's not good at all."

Lu Yu closed the lid and pushed the wine jar aside, and the atmosphere became silent again.

"You said, if we had deduced that the bald man was a robber earlier, if I had chosen to go downstairs early instead of sitting idly by, Lin Tanying and that kid wouldn't have died......"

Lu Yu's voice was a little choked, Xiao Ran didn't answer Lu Yu's question, just said lightly.

"You can only do what you can do, and you have to accept that fact and face it with a positive attitude."

Lu Yu raised his head and met Xiao Ran's good-looking eyes, her delicate little face was a warm smile, and tears that had not yet had time to be wiped away.

"What's your plan next?" Wiping his face casually, Xiao Ran asked.

"What else can I plan, although the food reserve at home is enough, but there is still a lack of many necessary resources, I am ready to find an opportunity to go out and search." Lu Yu looked at the little Lori in front of him and said solemnly.

"So what do I need to do?"

"You ......" Lu Yu was stunned, in fact, he had already noticed that since Xiao Ran woke up from a coma, it was as if he had changed as a person. This change is as if the soul of an adult controls the little girl's body, Xiao Ran's words and deeds are no longer as naïve as before, and even to some extent, such as this robber incident, Xiao Ran's intelligence has surpassed his own and provided himself with a lot of useful advice.

I thought that I would become a drag on myself, but I have invisibly become my own powerful help!

But do you want her to go out with you to search for supplies? That's not enough. As an adult, I don't have the ability to completely protect myself in the face of zombies, let alone a 9-year-old girl.

Judging from the current situation, Xiao Ran has only improved in terms of intelligence, but her mobility is still the same as that of a 9-year-old girl, so if she encounters danger while searching for supplies, she is very likely to lose her life.

Lu Yu, who thought about it for a while, finally came to his own conclusion.

"You need weapons!"