Chapter 64: Quid pro quo
But Gu Yu needs to report to his superiors, so the matter in the room can only be put on hold for the time being, he simply explained two sentences and went out, I asked him to help me inquire about the news of my parents.
While waiting for him to come back, my mood was always up and down, and I kept comforting myself that even if my parents were not in the safe zone, don't think badly, the safe zone is on the sea, and it is difficult for people who don't know the situation to find out, and they can continue to evacuate south to the capital.
When the sun set, Gu Yu still didn't come back, Ah Ying, Hu Tao, and Long Tao came to chat with me, they had already finished reporting their respective work, and they probably came to accompany me on purpose, I tried my best to pretend to be relaxed and happy, so as not to let my troubles be revealed.
Talking about dinner time, Ah Ying and Hu Tao went to the cafeteria to eat, and Long Tao and I stayed in the room, and he was talking about what happened when he and Gu Yu entered the hospital after I left.
I knew I shouldn't have asked too much about their mission, so I didn't ask about the whereabouts of the USB flash drive, but only asked him what the high-level zombies in the hospital looked like.
Long Tao said that Gu Yu had guessed correctly before, the two traitors trapped in the city had indeed mutated into zombies, and one of them was still a corpse.
"The captain captured him alive." Long Tao said proudly.
"Corpse?"
"Well, the other one escaped, but we got the USB flash drive, and without support, it's a big achievement."
"What special abilities does the one who escaped have?"
"Special ...... Is it quick to escape? We can't catch up with him anyway. Long Tao said helplessly.
This reaction was unusual for humans to choose to run away instead of attacking, so I shook my head and said, "I think it should be more than that, Shirley and Sister Guixiang see them as a threat, so they must be more than capable of running fast." ”
"If he has other abilities, why did he leave the USB flash drive and run away, and he didn't even save his companions?" Long Tao asked rhetorically.
"I don't know, maybe I'm thinking too much." The cruel environment of the end times has polished my innocence a little bit, I don't want to become a skeptic, but abnormal things always make me feel uneasy, maybe the days of fear have been too long, which has complicated my thinking, since Gu Yu got the USB flash drive and completed the task, why should I bother with my brains.
In the evening, Long Tao was called away by a guard, and I was left alone in the room, and when it was almost eight o'clock, Tuya knocked on the door.
She knew that Gu Yu was not in the room, so when I opened the door, she was not surprised, Gu Yu's transfer back was her brother's order, and she would naturally get the first notice that we would return to the safe zone.
I was worried that I couldn't find her, but now she took the initiative to appear, just giving me a chance to explain, but before I could speak, she put on a domineering posture and said first:
"I don't care what your relationship with Gu Yu is, but I hope that from this moment on, you have nothing to do with each other, I know where your parents are, do you want to see them, or stay here, choose for yourself."
When I heard the news of my parents again, I was not so happy in my heart, mainly because I had been deceived by Ouyang Mengmeng once, so I was full of doubts about Tuya's words.
Tuya saw that I didn't believe it, and snorted coldly and said, "This is a photo, you can see it yourself." ”
She said and handed over a stack of photos, the style of the photo paper should be taken in a standing photo, the first photo shows a man and a woman, standing next to an RV, I immediately recognized them as my parents.
The second photo still shows the RV in the background, but it is parked in front of a factory with a banner on the front of the factory with the handwritten words 'Peace Center' in red letters.
There are other people in the back photos, and the last one is a group photo of everyone, my parents standing in the front row, and behind them is the gate of the Peace Center.
"The people in the photo are all your fellow countrymen, and they withdrew to this place with your parents, but it's a pity that ...... This place is no longer the peaceful scene it is. ”
"What do you mean?"
"They had already made contact with the safe zone, and we agreed to send someone to the harbor to pick them up, but the day before they came, they were raided by a gang of bandits, this factory was occupied, and all the people in it became the slaves of the bandits, and the team we sent failed to come back, and now the safe zone is seriously understaffed, and they can't just collect important supplies, so this place can only be abandoned."
"Okay, I see."
Tuya is asking me to leave alone, don't expect the safe zone to send a single soldier, at this moment I have no anger in my heart, the safe zone is an organization after all, they have their own interests, and the people to save are my parents, I have no right to ask them to send someone to help me, when it comes to life safety, all I can fight for is my life.
I thought I would live in a safe zone for a while, but I unexpectedly got news from my parents quickly, and I should be glad that nothing is important to rescue them at the moment.
"I know you're capable, but you'd better be self-aware, and after rescuing your parents, go far away, and don't let me see you again." Tuya finished and threw me a backpack.
I watched her straight back disappear around the corner of the aisle, and lowered my head to open my backpack, which contained daily necessities such as flashlights and batteries, as well as two pistols and four magazines.
The guards at the door took me out of the rest area, and I wanted to say goodbye to Gu Yu in person, but the structure of the mothership was complicated, and the guards refused to tell me where he was, so their meaning of sending off the guest could not be more obvious.
Tuya must have confessed before leaving, so the guards along the way kept an eye on me until I reached the deck, where I was almost escorted to the speedboat, without having a chance to say goodbye to anyone.
I only spent one day in the safe zone, which was too fast, but I had no choice, I should be happy to get news from my parents in one day, and think about the worst...... I control myself and only think about the good.
The bitter wind ruffled my hair, and the speedboat that had sent me had returned, and I stood on the shore, looking at the lights from the mothership in the distance, and it took a long time to move.
Tuya gave me a map in my backpack, the location of the peace center was circled with a red pen, the place is actually not far from the coast, it can be reached in half a day's drive, my parents are really unlucky, if you walk half a day earlier, you can reach the safe area smoothly.
Going around and around, I went on the road alone, although I didn't know Gu Yu for a long time, but at this moment, I think back to the scene when I was alone at the beginning of the last days, just like what happened in my previous life.
The security zone opened a passage in the harbor city, and Tuya marked it for me very 'intimately', and looking at the entrance to the subway station on the side of the street, I raised my eyebrows and stepped down the steps.
The subway passage had clearly been cleaned, there was a lot of blood trailing on the ground, there must have been quite a few corpses, more smudges on the walls, and countless holes.
It's just that no one cleaned up the broken glass all over the floor, and the security door to the platform no longer exists, so I jumped off the track and walked down the subway tunnel to the outskirts of the city.
When I came, Gu Yu drove the car, and I remembered that there was a safe passage on the ground of the city, and we were not in danger, but the passage marked on the map given to me by Tuya was this one, and she also deliberately marked it as a short road.
Isn't she afraid that I'll bring an army in and take off the safe zone?
At the end of the subway line is the city's newly built development zone, the streets are clean and sparsely populated, and even the wandering zombies are estimated to have been cleared.
Stepping out of the city limits and looking back at the buildings that had been left behind, I finally let out a sigh of relief and started using the Teleportation Egg.
Since the security zone can open up two passages in the city, one bright and one dark, then it must be okay to set up some observation points to monitor people entering and leaving the city, and I think it is always right to be cautious.
After leaving the city, I teleported all the way, anxious to see my parents, but also to test my limits, and 20 kilometers is the maximum range of my continuous movement.
This number is a bit more than I expected, I would never have been able to reach such a distance before, but my ability has improved during this time.
How? I don't even know it myself.
All I know is that the corpse mist tossed me half to death, and I was tortured to death by the poison of the blue beetle, and when I think about it, it is all a painful experience.
Unless my ability is constantly improved, it's hard to explain why it suddenly soars, but it's better to be bitter than unlucky, and it's a good thing to have my ability to improve, but unfortunately no one shares my happy feelings.
In the middle of winter, everything in the world is depressed, there are dead trees and rotting corpses in the wilderness, and the streets of the city that have not been cleaned for a long time are covered with all kinds of waste.
When I was a child, I used to fantasize that I was the only one left in the world, with endless toys to play with, and I didn't have to go to school.
If humanity is completely wiped out, I can only chat with zombies to relieve my sorrows, this picture is so beautiful, I don't want to think about it, it seems that I have to share more of the responsibility of saving mankind.
Packing up my mood and not stopping, I walked north along the coastal road and found the factory in Xingfu Township, which is under the jurisdiction of another city.
The factory is built in Heping Town, under Xingfu Township, and it is estimated that many people in the town work in this factory, and the snacks produced by this factory are very famous in China.
Presumably, my parents and other survivors survived by vacuum-packed food, especially bread and biscuits.
I walked around the outer wall of the factory a few times from a safe distance, and found that there were three warning nets drawn by fishing lines, each five meters apart, with a number of bells hanging on them.
Long Tao told me that this simple defense device is both effective and energy-saving against ordinary zombies, and the bandits who occupy the factory will not only prevent zombies, but also prevent others from grabbing territory with them, so when I crossed the last fishing line, I did not continue to move forward.
Whether they have dug a trap or planted a mine, it is not safe to use a teleportation egg at this point, as I don't know the exact location of the trap.
Rashly triggering the trap will only let the bandits know that someone is approaching, and I must keep the operation safe and be able to lurk at any time, that is, to maintain the secrecy of the operation.
After probing the three alarm lines set up for zombies, I retreated to the grove outside the factory, although it was already dark, the people inside were definitely not sleeping, and the best time for my action was midnight, when everyone else slept the heaviest except for the guards.
I squatted in the cold wind in the middle of the night until the middle of the night, and when I was about to move, I suddenly felt someone approaching, so I decided to make the visitor faint first so as not to interfere with my plan.
I hid in a tree, ready to teleport behind him to knock people unconscious, but this person was more alert than me, and stopped five meters away from me.
When I saw the appearance of the person who came, I was so excited that I almost fell from the tree, and I was so surprised that I forgot to call him by name first, and rushed down to appear in front of him.
Forgetting that trained people have a natural reaction, Gu Yu's fist greeted me as soon as he saw it, but fortunately he saw that I had retracted my strength in time, but still a tenth of the punch fell on my left eye.