Chapter 281: A Late Miracle
Seeing the reluctant smile on Lu Yu's face, Xiao Ran immediately understood what the other party was thinking.
The only escape route in front of me is locked by a padlock, and if you want to go back to get the key, there are zombies blocking the way.
And even if Lu Yu was able to kill the zombies in the corridor without injury, and go upstairs to retrieve the unlock, the violently shaking residential building would not leave them much time to escape.
The only way to do this is to quickly break down the door in front of you.
Only then would the two have enough time to flee before the residential building collapsed.
"Could it be that he was planning to tear the padlock off with his bare hands?"
Xiao Ran secretly thought in her heart that at such a critical juncture, the tacit understanding between her and Lu Yu could be said to be surprisingly high.
Without too many words, Xiao Lori took a diagonal step, separated between Lu Yu and the fire escape.
"You get the door lock, I'll take care of the zombies in the back!"
The immature child's voice was full of determination, and the girl put the modified crossbow in her hand into her bow and arrow, ready to shoot at any time.
This modified crossbow was grabbed by Lu Yu when she ran out of the house with her, and fortunately, this modified crossbow was placed on the table at the time, and because of its small size, Lu Yu was able to bring it out in a hurry.
Otherwise, the two of them would be really unarmed right now.
Seeing that Xiao Ran was forcibly suppressing the fear in his heart in front of the fire escape, Lu Yu immediately restrained the smile on his face, held the padlock on the door with both hands, and exerted his strength.
But the door lock only bumped on the door frame a few times, making a clanging sound, and it was not torn off by Lu Yu, and even the deformation did not occur.
The huge force that had previously fought against the muscle monster disappeared without a trace on Lu Yu's body, and he who pulled the door lock turned into the ordinary young man again, no matter how he roared, the steel padlock still showed no sign of being broken.
"Whew!"
The secondary infected person who walked out of the fire escape howled excitedly, and it smelled the smell of food, right in front of it.
Driven by instinct, the zombie's arms stretched forward, and he couldn't wait to open his big mouth and pounce in the direction where Xiao Ran was.
"Whoosh!"
The sound of arrows cutting through the air came from the modified crossbow, Xiao Ran pulled the trigger without hesitation, and the close-range crossbow shot had a huge penetrating power, which instantly terminated the zombie's forward action and opened a big hole in its head.
After being so traumatized, the secondary infected body naturally whimpered, and after a few twitches on the ground, it completely stopped moving.
"Whew, it's good you brought out the modified crossbow......"
Xiao Ran exhaled lightly, subconsciously relaxed his body, and spoke.
But before she could speak, oozing roars came out of the fire escape one after another.
"Whew!!"
Xiao Ran's nerves tensed again, and she sounded something, the current residential building is no longer a safe zone, but a Shura field full of zombies.
There is more than one zombie in the corridor!
There are only five arrows left in the Modifiable Crossbow.
Due to the close range of the previous arrow, after piercing the zombie's head, the arrow collided with the wall, causing the arrow to burst and no longer be used.
In such a small space, continuing to use a modified crossbow will inevitably wear out the bolts.
When the remaining five arrows are all consumed, then Xiao Ran will face the embarrassing situation of being defenseless.
"Did you pull it away? There are several more zombies in the back! ”
Xiao Ran asked, she didn't look back, and between her fingers, she put another arrow on the modified crossbow, ready to fire.
"Uhh......h
Faced with Xiao Ran's question, Lu Yu replied with an exhausted cheer.
The padlock was still the same one, and there was no sign of it going to be ripped open.
Lu Yu even wondered if the memory of the previous hard resistance to the muscle monster was his hallucination.
"Where did the previous power go? Break it for me! ”
Lu Yu was anxious, and beads of sweat the size of beans kept sliding down from the corners of his forehead, but the padlock in his hand still did not change at all.
"Boom!"
The entire residential building seemed to have been hit by something, and the sound of explosions was quickly coming down the upper floors along the fire escape, sending puffs of smoke and dust.
However, this noise is nothing to those zombies moving down the fire escape, and they have only one goal, which is to go downstairs, and then tear their prey apart and swallow it into their stomachs.
Among them, the gray pupils of the zombie led by a faint red light leaked out, and the skin on the neck and chest also appeared in the shape of regular scale armor, presumably over time, it could transform into a pawn-level zombie.
It is precisely because of this that after discovering its prey, it runs faster than any secondary infected body, and rushes to the front first.
Xiao Ran, who was guarding the entrance of the fire escape, naturally couldn't wait for this pawn-level zombie in the transformation period to approach him, and after the other party entered the shooting distance of the crossbow arrow, Xiao Lori decisively pulled the trigger.
The crossbow bolt with the sound of the wind instantly pierced the zombie's grinning mouth, piercing through the back of its head.
If this kind of injury were placed on those ordinary secondary infected, it would inevitably be a one-hit kill.
But on this mutant zombie who is still in the metamorphosis period, it seems a little inadequate.
The black slime in the corpse quickly filled the entire wound, and the attacked zombie staggered in place for a while, roaring in his mouth, intending to attack again.
"Are you alright? I can't stop it! ”
Xiao Ran screamed in his mouth, the speed in his hand was even faster, and another arrow was put on the modified crossbow, and he shot at the eyebrows of the mutant zombie with his backhand.
Although the first arrow did not bring down the zombie, the second arrow that followed had an unexpected effect.
The steel arrow of the crossbow bolt pierced the head of the mutant zombie deeply, and under the drive of kinetic energy, the already unstable mutant zombie directly lost its center of gravity and fell backwards.
Behind it, there were two secondary infections that followed suit, and because they didn't have the ability to see, these two 'henchmen' crashed headlong into the mutant zombie that fell to the ground, temporarily blocking the not very spacious fire escape.
"I said miracle, it's late, do you believe it!"
A wry smile appeared on Lu Yu's face, he really tried everything, he almost opened his mouth and bit it with his teeth, but the power in his body just couldn't emerge, he seemed to be just an ordinary person, a slightly weak ordinary person.
"When are you still kidding!"
In this critical situation, even the immature children's voice of Little Lori has become a little sharper.
Seeing that the zombies blocking the fire escape were about to struggle to get up and pounce on the two, Xiao Ran felt a crossbow arrow on the bow and held the modified crossbow with one hand.
The other hand held the remaining two
Crossbow arrows, arrows pointing downward, are used as daggers in hand-to-hand combat.
The sound of arrows breaking through the air was heard again, and Xiao Ran's target was the mutated zombie who was about to get up from the ground.
The effect of this arrow did not pierce the skull as Lori expected, but grazed the skull and stabbed it into the hard concrete floor.
The entire bolt snapped with a crisp sound, turning into debris all over the ground.
After all, the arrow body is made of furniture wood, and the toughness is already very poor, and it cannot withstand violent impacts at all.
Blessing is unparalleled, disaster is not a single line, but in the case of Xiao Ran's last arrow missed, the residential building as a whole trembled greatly, cracks spread rapidly on the wall, and the sound of steel and concrete friction was like the cry of a hell imp, announcing the imminent ending of the two.
Lu Yu in front of the door also noticed the changes around him, and in desperation, he tried more and more desperately to pull the padlock, but these were all in vain.
The padlock was not pulled open by the brute force that suddenly appeared, and the miracle did not happen as Lu Yu imagined.
It seems that everything has forced the two to a dead end, and there is no room for survival.
Just when Lu Yu felt that he was going to die here, the door in front of him suddenly shattered completely.
The glass, the metal frame, and even the sturdy padlock in his hand crumbled in an instant, turning into dust and dust.
This happened so suddenly that Lu Yu didn't react for a moment.
By the time the young man came back to his senses, Lu Yu's right hand had already been grabbed by Xiao Ran and he was driven to run towards the outside of the residential building.
Like the sound of a swarm of bees filling the ear drums, Lu Yu could only see Xiao Ran's face showing a surprised expression, and the small mouth kept opening and closing, as if he was celebrating something.
But no sound reached his ears.
"What's going on!"
Lu Yu was puzzled in his heart, although he couldn't hear Xiao Ran's words, he still took a step as soon as possible, dodged the zombie scratch behind him, picked up Xiao Lori's body, and ran out as if he was dead.
After running two steps, Lu Yu realized that his ears were because he heard some kind of loud noise, which led to the symptoms of tinnitus in response.
The road in front of the young man was obscured by shadows, and the sunlight was driven out of the area.
The towering residential buildings of the past are like giants that have lost their lives, quickly collapsing and collapsing.
A large amount of gravel and bricks fell towards the ground like raindrops, and although Lu Yu had already run fast, he was inevitably hit by some broken stones.
The pain in his heart came from his back, and Lu Yu suddenly felt a burst of darkness in front of him, his steps were vain, and he almost fell to the ground.
Seeing that he was about to lose consciousness, Lu Yu hurriedly bit the tip of his tongue, trying to use this method to lift his spirits.
An even more intense pain came from his tongue, as if a handful of pepper noodles had been sprinkled on Lu Yu's heavenly spirit, and tears were like water that had opened the floodgates, instantly gushing out of the young man's eyes.
I don't know if it's because Lu Yu bit too hard, the amount of bleeding on the tongue wound was unexpected, and after mixing the saliva, accompanied by the young man's violent breathing, it overflowed between the lips and the corners of the mouth.
"Blanching is good ......"
Slurred swear words burst out of his mouth, and Lu Yu was like a crazy hen, carrying Xiao Ran towards the gate of the community.
Behind the two of them, a figure flashed through the flower bed, quickly climbed over the fence of the neighborhood, and disappeared into the empty street......