Chapter 20: Get Out! Gather supplies

Nothing was said all night.

At 6 o'clock in the morning, the sky was already bright, there was no traffic on the road, and the whole world seemed to fall into absolute tranquility, except for those zombies wandering on the road in twos and threes, there was no longer a single living creature.

After sharing the last hard-boiled egg with Xiao Ran, and eating some rice and pork respectively, Lu Yu began to equip himself.

Lu Yu used scotch tape and sweater to wrap all the exposed parts of his body, used a wool scarf that was only used in winter to wrap his neck tightly, and finally put on a helmet and swimming goggles.

Xiao Ran's mother's pink helmet had been thrown downstairs by Lu Yu, and this helmet at this time was the safety helmet he turned out of the storage cabinet, which is the safety helmet commonly used on the construction site.

This helmet was given to him by the contractor when he went to the construction site for his first internship.

As for the swimming goggles, he bought them a long time ago, and when he took them out, the elastic bands were already aging, so Lu Yu had to wear them with a rope and put them on his face.

This can effectively prevent yourself from being splashed in the eyes by the zombie's body fluids when you are in close contact with zombies.

As if feeling that it was still not enough, Lu Yu took out three more masks and covered his mouth tightly.

And Xiao Ran didn't need so many strict protective measures, because she didn't need to engage in hand-to-hand combat with zombies, so Lu Yu put a thicker coat on her.

Looking at the little Lori's long hair, Lu Yu felt that something seemed to be wrong, so he took his swimming cap and wrapped the little Lori's hair in it.

After wrapping all the clothes in his body, Lu Yu took out the vinegar in the kitchen and poured it all on himself and Xiao Ran.

According to the information obtained by Lu Yu from testing the big-backed zombies before, the zombies rely on hearing and smell to lock on to their prey, so the method of covering the 'human smell' on the body with vinegar should be able to play a certain role.

After doing all the protection work, Lu Yu took his own hiking bag and filled it with iron wires, hydraulic tongs and other items.

In case you come across a door that is locked, your own hydraulic pliers will come in handy.

The destination of this trip is a large supermarket located two streets away, about 1 kilometer in a straight line.

Studying the map in his hand, this was printed out from the Internet when Xiao Ran was in a coma two days ago, at that time, it was not long after the catastrophe broke out, and the network was still in a smooth state, so Lu Yu took that opportunity to download a lot of maps and survival materials in case of need.

"I still decided to take this big road, although it is a little farther, but it has a wide view and is relatively safe." Lu Yu pointed to the route marked with a red marker on the map and said to Xiao Ran.

In addition to making arrows last night, Lu Yu also studied the route to the supermarket.

If it was before the catastrophe broke out, Lu Yu would definitely choose to pass through the alley between the two communities, but now this choice to cut corners has become extremely dangerous.

If there are no zombies blocking the road, then everything is easy to say, but as long as there are zombies blocking the mouth of the alley, then Lu Yu and Xiao Ran's situation will become very dangerous.

So I'd rather walk a little more and bypass the main road, Lu Yu doesn't want to joke with his life.

"Let's go!" After getting ready, Lu Yu tried to wave the baseball bat in his hand, and found that his movements were not hindered much, so he opened the door of the house and walked out with Xiao Ran.

Since there is a possibility of power outage at any time, Lu Yu did not dare to sit on the elevator, so he could only take Xiao Ran down the stairs step by step from the fire escape.

The fire doors on most floors are usually closed, so Lu Yu, who walked downstairs lightly, did not encounter any zombie attacks, but when he went down to the 22nd floor, the strange scene in front of him made Lu Yu stop moving forward.

Just on the staircase landing of the fire escape, there was a cat corpse, surrounded by scattered human bones and scraps of flesh.

This cat corpse is the size of a leopard, and judging from the color of its fur, it is the big orange cat that dragged away Xiao Ran's mother's corpse before.

"Looks like your mother's body was eaten by it." Lu Yu turned his head and pointed out this fact very without emotional intelligence.

However, Xiao Ran seemed to be used to Lu Yu's way of talking, and there were not many mood swings.

"But how does this cat's head seem to have been smashed...... Lu Yu carefully looked at the headless cat corpse on the ground, and found that there was a shallow pit on the cement ground below the missing head of the cat corpse.

"I remember that there was a big leech on the cat's back, and it was gone." Lu Yu thought in his heart, stepped forward cautiously, and poked the cat corpse on the ground with the baseball bat in his hand.

However, the cat corpse naturally did not react, and when Lu Yu poked it like this, a large piece of his body suddenly sank, and it seemed that the flesh and blood under the fur had begun to rot.

"I'll go over and take a look, you wait in the back, and if things don't go right, you'll go home right away, you know?" Lu Yu explained a few words to Xiao Ran, and when he saw Xiao Ran nodding, he tiptoed close to the headless cat corpse.

Xiao Ran was motionless on the stairs, the modified crossbow in his hand had been raised, and the good-looking heterochromatic pupils were staring at the cat corpse on the ground.

After Lu Yu approached the cat's corpse, he poked the cat's stomach a few times with the stick in his hand, but when he saw that there was still no reaction, when he was about to put his heart back in his stomach, a sudden change occurred!

I saw that the orange cat's belly instantly cracked a big mouth, and a yellow-brown thing popped out of it, shooting towards Lu Yu's face!

But at this time, Lu Yu was very defensive, and when he saw this, he immediately subconsciously wanted to use a baseball bat to push it away, but due to fright and excitement, this ordinary blocking action turned into a backhand blow, which just slammed the yellow-brown thing to the wall.

"Smack!"

The unidentified tawny object was stuck on the wall like a mess of mud.

Only then did Lu Yu see clearly that the thing he was whipping was the big leech that originally grew on the back of the orange cat, but now this leech has been whipped by a baseball bat, and its vitality has been completely cut off, turning into a mural pasted on the wall.

"You still want to sneak up on me......" Slightly relieved, Lu Yu signaled Xiao Ran to shoot an arrow at the stomach of the cat corpse, and after seeing that there was indeed nothing else hidden in it, he used a baseball bat to push the cat corpse to the corner of the wall, and after clearing the passage, he ignored it.

The next 22nd floor was calm all the way, because most of the residents in the building had become zombies, and they were locked up in their own homes and couldn't come out, and a small number of survivors like Su Daqiang didn't dare to go out easily before they figured out the situation, so Lu Yu didn't meet a zombie on the way downstairs.

But he also carefully closed the doors of each fire escape, which effectively ensured that there would be no alien creatures like orange cats in his escape route.

Finally went down to the bottom of the building, Lu Yu quietly stretched his head out of the door of the fire escape, and looked around vigilantly.

The community was quiet, there was no trace of zombies, only the big-backed zombies who fell from the upstairs two days ago were lying there, but at this time, the big-backed zombies were already a mess of meat and could not pose any threat to Lu Yu.

Seeing that the surrounding environment was indeed safe, Lu Yu slowly walked out of the gate, his movements were cautious, as if he would burrow back into the door like a groundhog and never come out again.

And Xiao Ran was tightly clinging to Lu Yu's back, his little face full of nervousness.

Seeing this, Lu Yu subconsciously used his body to block between Xiao Ran and the big-backed zombie, so as to prevent Xiao Ran from seeing the mess of meat directly.

The two slipped to the gate of the community like thieves, and just as they were about to leave the community, Lu Yu caught a glimpse of a figure swaying back and forth in the security booth on the side.

"Could it be that there are survivors?" Lu Yu was suspicious, but his footsteps did not stop, signaling Xiao Ran to stay where he was and waiting for him, and he came to the pavilion with his waist bent.

I saw a 'person' in a security uniform standing in the pavilion, his back to Lu Yu, his body trembling irregularly, as if he was engrossed in watching the screen on the monitor.

"Hello?" Lu Yu whispered hello and knocked on the glass window of the security booth with his hand.

However, the next scene frightened him so much that he almost sat on the ground, and hurriedly covered his mouth to prevent himself from making a sound.

The 'person' in the security booth heard Lu Yu's greeting and turned around, just like all the clichés in movies, he had been infected, and his face was quite terrifying.

This "security officer" is not like a big-backed zombie with black veins on his face, his face from the center of his eyebrows to his chin, the whole is cut open by a sharp weapon, a face is divided in half, both eyes are covered with a layer of white mist, and his tongue seems to have been dragged by someone, which looks thin and long.

The security guard turned around and didn't find the source of the sound, but instead crashed into the glass window of the security booth, apparently unable to understand what was making the sound.

Lu Yu cautiously stretched out his hand and tried to wave it in front of the zombie's eyes, but the security guard zombie turned his head back to the monitoring screen as if he didn't see it, and continued to stare at the screen.

"It seems that this zombie also has no vision." Lu Yu thought to himself, and carefully stayed in front of the gate of the security booth.

The door of this security booth has only one doorknob, and it is estimated that the security guard will not lock the door when he is on duty, so he simply installed an unlocked door.

Of course, this is not difficult for Lu Yu.

Taking out the tools he was carrying, Lu Yu tied the doorknob with a wire and the railing on the side, so that unless the security zombie could hit the handle in a targeted manner, it would not be able to easily come out of the security booth.

"Whew, that's it!" Lu Yu breathed a heavy sigh of relief, not that the work of tying the wire was tiring, but it was very exhausting to be careful to avoid the sound of this.

The zombie in the pavilion heard movement outside, and its big mouth split into two closed one by one, and a muffled grunt sound came out of its throat, as if it wanted to understand the direction of its prey, but without accident, it slammed its head on the window again, leaving a shallow mark on the glass.

waved to Xiao Ran behind him, and Lu Yu got out of the barrier and walked out of the community lightly.

The street was very chaotic, and the cars were in groups of three or five, twisting and staggering together. In a few of them, zombies can be seen pulling the windows of the car, as if they want to get out of the car.

The shops on the street have all closed, and the windows of those that have not been closed have been shattered, and the doors are open, as if they had been destroyed by a tornado.

Since most of the communities around Lu Yu's house are newly opened real estate, the occupancy rate is not very high, there are fewer people, and there are naturally fewer zombies after the outbreak of the catastrophe. At this time, on the empty street, there were only a few zombies wandering aimlessly.

Lu Yu was naturally happy to see such a scene, but he didn't dare to be careless, he kept looking at the surrounding environment, and walked forward quietly, with the baseball bat in his hand horizontal in front of him, looking ready to go.

Xiao Ran followed closely behind Lu Yu, and when he saw the barren post-apocalyptic scene in front of him, he also frowned.

Just as Lu Yu was about to cross the road to the opposite block, he suddenly felt that his clothes were being ripped off, Lu Yu hurriedly turned around and found that Xiao Ran was staring into the distance, and her look of fear was almost overflowing from her good-looking eyes!