Chapter III: Temporary Cooperation
"Let go, let go, we both have to die if we catch it like this!" Ling Tian yelled anxiously: "Let me go up, I'll pull you!" ”
"If you don't let go, let go is death!" Xiao Mo didn't trust Ling Tian at all, gritted her teeth and climbed up frantically, the two of them constantly struggling and tearing in the air.
"Whoa!"
Suddenly, a burst of white ash fell on Ling Tian's face, and he couldn't open his eyes. It turned out that under the continuous tearing of the two, the ladder that had not been maintained for a long time was overwhelmed, began to loosen, and even showed signs of falling off.
Ling Tian hurriedly stabilized his body, not moving, and let Xiao Mo climb up his body, cold sweat flowing down Ling Tian's neck, bringing bursts of coolness.
"Whew~"
Xiao Mo let out a sigh of relief, his body jerked upward, grabbed Ling Tian's belt, and continued to climb up.
"Yes, that's it, don't move, wait for me to go up first." Xiao Mo said hoarsely.
At this moment, the zombies gathered around had already run to the feet of the two, and one of the zombies with nimble hands and feet "Oh! "I rushed up.
Pounced on Xiao Mo's body, frantically biting at the flesh on her back.
"Ahh
Xiao Mo burst out with a terrible shout again, grabbing Ling Tian's belt with both hands, and more and more zombies surrounded him.
"Whoa!"
The ladder was already overwhelmed, and when it came to the edge of falling off, the shattered masonry powder kept smashing on Ling Tian's face.
Ling Tian tilted his head and spat at the mouth, re-immobilizing himself with the iron ladder with his left hand, and taking off the baseball bat from his back with his right hand in Xiao Mo's stunned eyes.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”
Ling Tian raised the baseball bat and slammed it three times on Xiao Mo's head, the metal bat and the skull collided together, making a dull and terrifying sound.
Xiao Mo froze in place with her mouth open, ignoring the bite of the zombies behind her, her pupils gradually difled in her big dull eyes, and a stream of blood slowly flowed down her head.
Finally, Xiao Mo, whose eyes had lost their lustre, stiffly let go of his hands, and fell into the pile of corpses below with a zombie on his body.
Ling Tian didn't look any further, picked up the stick on his back, and climbed onto the big platform of the gas station in three or two steps.
"Whew~"
Ling Tian just flipped it over, and he didn't wait to catch his breath.
"Whew!"
In the darkness, a female zombie with only half of her body left pounced on her teeth and claws.
"it!"
Ling Tian exclaimed, and with a punch slammed into the female zombie's face, knocking it back, and then "turned over and got on the horse" and rode directly on the female zombie's back.
Before he had time to take off his bat, Ling Tian pulled out a dagger from his waist, pressed the female zombie's head, aimed it at her temple, and stabbed her twice.
"Poof! Poof! ”
The dagger plunged into the zombie's head as if cutting a rotting dough, and the tip of the knife churned within its skull, bringing out a pile of black and yellow tissue.
Ling Tian was choked by the stench emitted by the tissue, wiped the blade with the plaid shirt on the zombie's back, and then lay down on the ground, gasping for breath.
Ling Tian was really out of strength, from leaving the supermarket to flee for his life, to climbing onto the gas station platform to kill the sneak attack zombies, it only took ten minutes before and after.
But Ling Tian felt that it was as long as a year just now, and he felt that there was a thick bloody breath in his throat, and his lungs were panting like a broken bellows.
"Ahem! Bah! ”
Ling Tian turned his head and spat out a mouthful of bloody phlegm.
"Now if another zombie emerges, let him eat it, these days, it's too tiring to want to live." Ling Tian's heart collapsed.
……
In the early morning, a ray of sunlight shone on Ling Tian's sleeping face, shaking him so much that he couldn't help but turn his head sideways.
"Poof!" Ling Tian woke up suddenly, and found that he had slept on the platform of the gas station last night, Ling Tian twisted his aching neck and made a "rattle" crunch. When he turned around, he found that the female zombie he killed last night was still around.
Ling Tian cursed in the dark, and cautiously moved to the edge of the platform and looked towards the street.
Under the sun, groups of zombies walked around the streets in twos and threes, and compared to last night and the previous two days, the number of zombies increased dramatically at a rate visible to the naked eye.
"Alas!" Ling Tian squinted his eyes, licked his chapped lips, took out an emergency water bag from his close-fitting waist bag, and took small sips to replenish the water.
Under the platform, Xiaomo's body has been eaten by the zombies, and only a pale head is left looking desperately at the sun in the sky.
"It seems that there was too much commotion last night, and the density of zombies in the nearby area has increased by at least two levels." Ling Tian finished drinking the water and pinched his legs with sore muscles. Now there are only two ways to leave, either find a way to escape yourself, or wait for the other scavenger team to come to the rescue.
But as things stand, either way, it's unlikely. Escape by yourself, all the zombies under your feet, and wait for other teams to come to the rescue, because even in a small county like 0209, there will be at least seven or eight squads in action.
However, most of the scavenger squads will not act during the day, because most zombies have the habit of sleeping at night, and will only come out to forage and wander during the day.
"I guess the rest of the scavenger team is very happy now, because we fools have caused such a big stir in the center of the city to help them attract zombies." Just as Ling Tian was helpless and annoyed in his heart, two small pebbles hit the open space beside him with a "click".
Ling Tian looked in the direction where the stone was thrown, and saw that in the convenience store warehouse below the gas station, the strong man who led the team last night was waving at him.
The strong man's name is Huang Biao, he is the leader of the seventh waste picking team of the Eastern Union Union, three days ago, he led the team into the infected area to search for supplies, not counting a few scattered people who formed a temporary team, he also brought three brothers who were also the same Eastern Union.
Now, the other three brothers died of dead and wounded wounds, and the tall and thin one died in the early hours of the morning because he was not treated in time due to excessive blood loss.
The tall and thin man died in such a tragic state that Huang Biao and the others had to cover his mouth until he finally died in agony in order to prevent him from wailing in pain before he died.
Now only he and two other men named Dongzi and Xiaowei are left.
Seeing Ling Tian lying on the gas station platform like a nobody, Huang Biaoqi's eyes were red, but he was helpless. He gestured to Ling Tian, and then wrapped the tall and thin mobile phone with a torn dress.
Huang Biao clumped the clothes wrapped in his mobile phone, and then threw them at Ling Tian from the window.
On the platform, Ling Tian grabbed the clothes ball, took out his mobile phone from it, and put it to his ear. The phone was connected, and Huang Biao's cold voice came.
"The big man died, and you stabbed him to death!"
"And then?" Ling Tian took the phone and asked back in a calm voice.
"It's not going to be like that......!" Seeing that Ling Tian didn't care, Huang Biao was angry and continued to talk ruthlessly.
"Listen, if you gave me my phone just to scare me, then you might as well save it. I stabbed him because he wanted to rob me, but there is no point in saying that now. Ling Tian interrupted Huang Biao and said calmly: "You call me, it's definitely not for, if you have any good ideas, hurry up and draw a way." ”
On the other end of the phone, Huang Biao's voice gasped for a while, and after forcibly calming down, Huang Biao said into the phone: "I have a signal stick, which is used by our OUCC scavenger team to release distress signals when they encounter danger. ”
"But if you put this thing in the daytime, the visibility is too low. We need to put it in the evening, but if we put it outside the warehouse, the corpses will soon surround us and kill us all, so I'll have to throw you the flare stick and put it on the platform where the zombies can't get up. ”
When Ling Tian heard this, he sneered in his heart, he didn't put the signal stick to save the tall and thin man last night, because last night was the time when the corpse crowd was at its densest.
Released last night, I'm afraid I won't be able to wait for the rescue team, so I will be eaten by the zombies first, and I keep saying that I want to avenge the thin and tall one, to put it bluntly, it's all for my own life.
"Okay, you throw the flare baton over, let's wait until the zombies go dormant at night." Ling Tian observed the zombies on the street and responded.
In this way, a team that was already temporarily formed in a state of intrigue, in order to survive, could only put aside hatred and cooperate again, forming a strange grass platform team, quietly waiting for night to fall.
……
At about seven o'clock in the evening, it was dark, the cold wind was rolling up dark clouds, and the whole sky was extremely dark.
On the platform, Ling Tian drank the last drop of water, and then stuffed the last piece of dry food into his mouth and ate it in a big gulp.
"It's time!" Ling Tian looked at the pitch-black sky and clenched the signal stick in his hand, in this kind of dark night where he couldn't see his fingers, the light and colored smoke of the signal stick would be volatilized to the extreme.
"Drop! Drip! Drip! ”
The mobile phone in his hand vibrated three times, Huang Biao understood that this was a signal that Ling Tian was about to act, he pulled the collar of another companion, and whispered: "Dongzi, as soon as he pulls the signal stick in a while, the zombie will immediately move closer to his direction, and as soon as the pressure on our side is reduced, we will immediately go through the back window." ”
Dongzi nodded when he heard this: "Understood!" ”
Huang Biao stared at Ling Tian on the platform, and scolded in a low voice: "Damn, I just couldn't avenge the big man with my own hands!" ”
Dongzi hurriedly persuaded on the side: "Forget it, Brother Biao, letting him die in the hands of zombies can be regarded as revenge for the big man." ”
Under the cabinet beside the three of them, the tall and thin corpse that had been looted was already stiff, and he lay quietly, looking at his three good brothers with a bruised face, and suddenly, the index finger of his right hand twitched unnaturally.
"Click, click!"
On the platform, Ling Tianyi broke the signal rod, and orange flames and thick smoke immediately erupted, and for a while, the entire gas station was illuminated like an orange ball of light.
"Roar!"
"Whew!"
As soon as they saw the firelight, the surrounding zombies immediately rushed towards Ling Tian with a roar as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.
Seeing that the corpses were attracted by Ling Tian, Huang Biao slapped his thighs happily and roared excitedly: "The corpses have passed, everyone is ready to withdraw!" ”
Just when the three people in the room were happy, Ling Tian suddenly made a move that stunned them.
I saw Ling Tian standing on the platform, raising the signal stick high, and throwing it towards the small warehouse where the three of them were.
The flare baton sprayed flames and smoke, bounced twice on the ground, and finally landed under the corner of the warehouse where the trio were.
On the platform, Ling Tian turned around and ran after throwing it, without looking back.
"I ...... I'm CNM! Huang Biao looked at the flimming signal stick that was thrown in front of him, and all of a sudden his hemorrhoids cracked!