Chapter 42: There is an inner ghost
Confirm the abnormality of Minghe City with my own eyes, I finally believe what Gu Yu said now, Long Tao and the two of them must have heard Gu Yu say something here, so they are not particularly surprised by my analysis.
"Since there is no virus in the air, let's go ahead as we just did, as long as you don't drink the water here."
"The water we brought with us can last for three days with a little drinking." Hu Tao said.
"If nothing else, three days is enough time for us to return." Long Tao added.
There was still some food and water in the car, and they only carried three days' worth in their backpacks, so if we could get back to the parking place after three days, we wouldn't have to worry about water.
Although it was winter, the cold still couldn't hide the rancid smell in the air, Long Tao and the two put on gas masks, the putrefactive gas is harmful to the human body, and if you inhale it for a long time, it will make people sick even if it does not infect the virus.
I still took the lead for them, trying to get rid of the zombies in the route as much as possible, but once we entered the city, the clean-up couldn't be done, the streets were full of hordes of zombies, and it was impossible to imprison them all in the surrounding buildings, so we chose the 'air' route.
From one building to another, the buildings are connected by hooks and ropes, Gu Yu has long thought of this method, and the hand-drawn map he gave me has drawn the roof route in detail, we just need to follow the line he drawn.
In fact, I asked Gu Yu last night, why not transfer the helicopter and airdrop me to the designated position alone, so as to save time, effort and personnel, Gu Yu explained that the sky over Heshi City is not suitable for flying, and the two helicopters they sent and one none/person/plane did not return, and they lost contact with the safety zone as soon as they arrived over Minghe City.
It wasn't until we came here that we saw a layer of mist floating over the city, this fog was not thick, a thin layer, through which the sun shone down, it neither blocked the light nor dissipated.
I am afraid that the planes that lost contact are affected by this mist, but it should not cause such serious consequences as the destruction of the plane and the death of people, maybe there is another strange thing inside, I remind Long Tao and Hu Tao to be careful, there is no living zombie area, it is very likely that there will be fierce zombies that prey on the same kind, they act quietly and need to pay special attention.
Experience is a valuable resource, and Hu Tao encountered the kind of zombie I mentioned on the rooftop of a building, when he was the first to slide over, and was about to launch a hook at the next building, when a zombie quietly appeared behind him.
Long Tao just slipped to the middle of the rope ladder, the gun was on his back, and it was too late to take out the pistol, it was I who shot a crossbow arrow that pierced the zombie's head, Hu Tao turned around and found the zombie who had fallen to the ground, and hurriedly took the gun to look around.
Then Long Tao, who landed on the ground, also pulled out his pistol and stood at the foothold to cover me, and the three of us all gathered on the rooftop, and searched around, this rooftop was used as a storage room for waste items, full of old tables, chairs, iron shelves, beds and other things, under these waste items, there were many bones scattered, and by looking at the shape, you could know that it was human bones.
This place is undoubtedly the nest of the zombies just now, because I have to pass through here when I return, so I went downstairs to confirm that there are more zombies of this kind, this building is a chain hotel, but when the disaster happened, it was being renovated, the strong smell of paint still remained in the corridor, some rooms only painted one wall, and the new windows had not been torn off the wrapping paper.
I walked down to the lobby on the lower floor, closed the half-open door, and picked up a steel pipe to plug it in to ensure that no new zombies would come in after we left, and then returned to the rooftop.
After this small turmoil, the two of them became more careful, Hu Tao was very grateful to me for that arrow, talked more than usual, and his attitude was obviously a lot closer.
The monitoring station we are looking for is not in the city center, it is built on the bank of the Dragon River on the east side of the city, there are basically no residential areas nearby, otherwise Long Tao and Hu Tao will not be able to get by, but despite this, it still took us nearly a day to reach the target location.
The monitoring station is an independent four-story building, there are no other buildings on the left and right, facing the Dragon River, facing the park, there are only a few zombies on the river bank and in the park, which is a little different from what I imagined, I thought that the investigation team sent before was trapped and died in the monitoring station, so now there should be a large group of corpses gathered around the small building, but the scene in front of me is not related to the word 'blockbuster'.
Clean up the zombies wandering around, I asked Long Tao to wait outside the building, wait for me to go in and take a look first, if it is safe, use a flashlight to send them a signal, but Hu Tao objected, saying that I was protecting them all the way, and now that they are in place, they can't let me be alone anymore.
"Tsk, I'm a zombie, such a convenient identity, I don't need to use it in vain, I'm okay if I'm bitten into a sieve, can you do it, obey the order, stay put!"
"Who knows if you will destroy the data, we are going with you to supervise you."
"Long Tao? Sang Rou couldn't do that, the captain trusted her, and I believed in her. ”
"Okay, okay, I'll go back as soon as I go, if I can't get the data back, I'll take the initiative to ask Gu Yu for guilt!"
The two of them saw that I was resolute, so they didn't say anything, Hu Tao's psychology is very easy to figure out, he is a member of the special team, he used to play the role of a protector, today I am taken care of everywhere, and I don't want to go psychologically, and Long Tao is clearly using the agitation method, how can I be so easily fooled.
Leaving two people to guard the building, I entered the small building of the monitoring station alone, the hall was quite clean and tidy, I looked at the floor indication map on the wall of the hall, the first to third floors are office areas, and the fourth floor is the laboratory.
I went straight up to the fourth floor, and on the stairs leading from the third floor to the fourth floor, several corpses appeared, and at the same time I found that there were many holes in the wall, the corpses were decomposed, but the holes in the clothes were clearly visible.
In the corridor on the fourth floor, there were still seven or eight corpses lying on their stomachs, judging by the degree of decomposition of the corpses, which must have died at the same time as the people on the stairs, and there were several holes in their clothes, and four corpses were wearing camouflage uniforms and still holding guns in their hands.
There was only one open door in the laboratory on this floor, and there was a corpse in a white coat lying in the doorway, and a corpse in camouflage uniform sat under the wall opposite the door.
There were also holes in the walls of the lab, and they went all the way to the doorway, and there were a few more in the doorways, which were bullet holes, and if you went inside, you could see more bodies in white coats, and I counted them, and there were six in total.
Maybe it's because I'm living in a relatively simple environment, I never thought that the missing investigation team would die like this, they were shot, and from such a close distance, only a companion could do it.
Gu Yu told me the number of people in the investigation team, it should be two experts, six soldiers, one of whom is a major as the captain, their names Gu Yu wrote on a piece of paper, I turned out the piece of paper in the pocket of my jacket, and turned over the clothes of the corpse, took out the documents for comparison, and finally there were six people who met, one less expert and one soldier.
I stood in front of the window on the fourth floor and signaled to Long Tao and Hu Tao with a flashlight that there were traitors in the military, and that they had to come in and see it in person, and soon the two of them ran up to the fourth floor and saw the corpses and bullet holes in the wall, they knew better than me, and immediately realized what was going on here.
There were two people missing, and there was no test data in the laboratory, so Long Tao had to dismantle the hard disk of the computer, hoping that the data would be backed up, because the disaster had just happened, the electronic equipment was still in use, and the test results were calculated by the computer.
If it was a planned action, the two would not be so careless, maybe they would not have thought that someone would be able to enter Minghe City, which is full of zombies, after all, there are many people and the smell is heavy, and sending a large army will definitely lead to the zombie explosion of the whole city, but the weapons carried by the people are limited, and the firepower is insufficient, and the ammunition and food are exhausted, which is also a dead end.
However, there are no absolutes in the world, and those two must not have imagined that there would be a high-level zombie to bring people in, thinking of this, I can't help but feel a sense of pride, but I didn't find first-hand data, I don't know if Gu Yu will be disappointed when I go back.
Long Tao installed the hard drive, and I was about to go out, when Hu Tao suddenly shouted: "We are surrounded!" ”
Hu Tao was sorting out documents on the desk in front of the window, hoping to find useful information from the pile of waste paper, but when he unintentionally looked up, he looked out the window, only to find that the situation had changed, and shouted to me and Long Tao.
Long Tao immediately stepped to the window, I also walked back to the laboratory, stood in front of the window and looked out, and found that the street in front of the building had been occupied by zombies, I ran to the window of the stairwell and looked at the park behind the building, and saw that the originally empty park lawn was already crowded with zombies.
They were organized, as can be seen from the fact that they did not immediately rush into the small building, they just surrounded us, like an army waiting for orders, and no one acted casually.
With such a huge number of zombies, even a tank had to be overturned, Hu Tao's sweat was dripping down his forehead, and there were no buildings around the small building that could allow us to build rope ladders, so it seemed that we were caught in the urn.
Long Tao said fiercely: "Fight!" ”
The cartridges on the two of them added up, not even a fraction of the zombie group was enough, Long Tao turned out the cartridges on the corpses of the soldiers, and put the gun on his back, I saw this and hurriedly said: "Don't take too much, now you wrap your arms, legs, head and neck with something that resists biting claws, and quickly, use the tape on the table." ”
Long Tao realized what I was going to do, and hurriedly threw off the gun hanging on his arm, wrapped his forearm, calf and neck tightly with tape, and had a gas mask on his face, so he didn't need protection, Hu Tao quickly understood and did as he did.
We ran to the hall on the first floor, and the door was full of zombies looking inside against the door panels, their skin and soft tissues had rotted, and the muscles in the lower layers seemed to have become stronger, dark brown, and the most prominent thing was their eyes, not only rotten, but also darker, but the whole eyeball was all black, like aliens in science fiction movies.