Undead

Chapter 50

In late February, the south is getting warmer and the ice on the river is broken.

The car passed through the deserted villages, broke through the fields covered with residual snow, and sped south.

In front of an abandoned gas station on the outskirts of the town, the road is empty, with grass, dust and garbage flying in the cold wind.Zhou Rong stopped the car, signaled Sinan to stay in the warm compartment, went down and raised the diesel gun.

Si Nan closed the road map and saw a small convenience store in front of him. There was no obvious sign of looting, so he opened the car door: "Do you want cigarettes?"

Zhou Rong said politely: "No, I decided to quit smoking for the sake of my partner's health... Go back! Sit back!"

Zhou Rong fought against the car door desperately while refueling, while Sinan pushed the door hard: "Don't make such a sacrifice, brother Rong, I'm very democratic, it doesn't matter if you can smoke as much as you like, I'll help you get it... Let go! It's finally here A store, let me go!"

The two stalemate like a seesaw for a long while, and Sinan's eyes froze suddenly: "Come up quickly, there are zombies!"

Zhou Rong turned his head subconsciously, and there was nothing on the road behind him.

Si Nan ran out of the car door on the other side in lightning speed, carrying his special box for snacks in his hand, and happily ran towards the convenience store.

"You just want candy!" Zhou Rong couldn't laugh or cry, and said helplessly to his back: "Go and come back, we are running out of bullets!"

Sinan pushed open the door of the convenience store, ignored the numb and struggling zombies behind the cash register, and laughed, "So what."

Two minutes later, Zhou Rong filled up the gas and just hung up the fuel gun when he saw the door of the convenience store open again.Si Nan came out with his full special box in both hands, and a zombie with a half-rotten face and outstretched arms came out and staggered after him.

Zhou Rong's complexion changed at that time. As soon as he rushed out, Sinan turned around, jumped up, climbed up the zombie's shoulder and neck with a dazzling jujitsu movement, and smashed the zombie's neck bone with only his knees.

The zombie fell down with a howl, and Sinan landed swiftly, without even looking at it, and walked towards Zhou Rong with a lollipop in his mouth.

"..." Zhou Rong looked at Sinan's calm and innocent face condescendingly, and asked, "... Where's the smoke?"

"Forgot," Sinan suddenly said.

He stuffed the snack box into Zhou Rong's arms, turned around and went back to the store to randomly find a few packs of cigarettes and put them in his pocket.Zhou Rong casually flipped through the sandwich biscuits and Nutrition Express in the box, feeling a burst of sadness: "When we were in love, I sneaked out to steal some at night, and I didn't forget to bring me two cigarettes; the benefits plummeted as soon as I got married. I don't worry about my brother anymore, as expected, it won't be worth much after I get it..."

The worthless Brother Rong patted Sinan on the head twice, peeled off the candy wrapper with his own hands, and stuffed a toffee into his mouth.

Sinan was eating toffee and Alpine green apple flavored lollipop at the same time, leaning on the co-pilot with his slender legs crossed, frowning while flipping through the map repeatedly: "It's a bit weird."

"Really—" Zhou Rong held a cigarette, and said casually: "I just said that this road is not right, you insist that we have to follow the map..."

Simon: "I mean the toffee tastes weird, it must have expired."

Zhou Rong stopped the car immediately, took out the wrapping paper thrown in the glove box of the car door, and looked at it carefully. He was relieved to find that the shelf life would not expire until next year.

Si Nan was not very satisfied: "Why doesn't it taste like milk?"

Zhou Rong couldn't explain to this little mixed race why the [-] cents toffee sold in the township gas station had no milky taste, so he had to comfort him: "In the future, I will take you to Inner Mongolia, find a grassland to live in a tent, and raise it for you." Cows."

Sinan gave a reserved "huh".

"Continue to drive [-] kilometers south and bypass the town," he closed the map: "Avoid densely populated areas, and find a pier after arriving on the peninsula to see if you can go directly to the sea."

——Before the car window, the road leads straight ahead, passing through the dilapidated rural areas.Residential buildings are like broken reinforced concrete coffins, and the silence is scattered under the gray sky.

Zhou Rong asked for the [-]st time: "Are you sure this is the way?"

"Not sure, but this national road map, published three years ago, indicates so."

"Three years ago, when my brother brought people here to carry out the mission, there was no such town here. It was deserted. If you want to talk about that time, the road did go around the town, and there was a mountain in front of it..."

"Remember all of this?" Sinan asked in surprise.

"Hmm." Zhou Rong breathed out a smoke ring deeply: "Brother traveled north and south, enjoying the rivers and lakes, stepping on the [-] mountains in Guangxi, wading across the Tarim River in Kunlun..."

Si Nan glanced at him suspiciously.

Zhou Rong: "..."

After 30 seconds of suffocating silence, Zhou Rong finally told the truth:

"I couldn't find any toilets on this road back then, so the whole team stood in a row and drained water by the side of the road, and by the way, there was a competition who could urinate farther away."

"I was very impressed, I lost to Yan Hao."

Facts have proved that the national road map published by People's Communications Publishing House in [-] did not compete with Zhou Rong's deep memory of failure-the map was wrong, and Zhou Rong was right.

At noon, the SUV left the road, leaving the zombie tide pouring out of the town center far behind, and headed over the hillside to the peninsula.

The sun came out from behind the cloud, reflecting the shimmering light of the distant harbor.

The once prosperous gambling city has long been razed to ruins, almost all high-rise buildings were blown up, the TV tower was cut in half, and the Garden Casino was burned.The bay port no longer sees the grand sight of ships coming and going, replaced by a desolate, silent, lifeless offshore.

Farther away, the South China Sea Islands are hidden in the mist, like a legendary mirage.

Zhou Rong turned his angle slightly.Looking along the end of the dust-flooded city, among the undulating hillsides, the sunlight reflects faint spots of light in the high-powered military telescope.

"What is that?" Zhou Rong narrowed his eyes and said to himself, "Why does it seem like there is a building?"

With his eighth Alpine lollipop in his mouth, Si Nan grabbed Zhou Rong's shoulders with both hands and jumped up nimbly.Zhou Rong staggered and supported the tree trunk to stand firm, and his shoulders and neck sank unexpectedly. Sinan had already sat on his shoulder with his legs spread apart, and took the binoculars.

After a while, Sinan said: "The base on the ground. The surface of the building seems to be covered with solar panels."

Zhou Rong raised his head and smiled, slightly malicious: "Comrade Xiao Si, do you know? Your action seems to be making some kind of cryptic invitation to me, for example, the wild car earthquake..."

"Do you want to try scissor kicks?" Sinan clamped the side of Zhou Rong's neck with his thighs, and said with a smile, "It is said that suffocation is very refreshing."

The two went up and down, looked at each other for three seconds, and suddenly moved at the same time!

Zhou Rong carried Si Nan back to the SUV behind him, and Si Nan flipped over to twist his cervical spine.With a loud bang, Zhou Rong bowed back and threw Sinan's back on the hood of the car. Amidst Sinan's loud laughter, he turned around and grabbed his ankles and lifted his whole body between his thighs. He made a frightening pose in a deterrent manner.

"Suffocation play?" Zhou Rong leaned over and stared at Sinan, asking condescendingly.

Si Nan asked back: "I'm showing mercy, you know?"

This is true.If Zhou Rong was a zombie, according to the position just now, his neck bone would have been broken by Si Nan's legs at this moment, just like the zombie whose body and head were neatly separated in the gas station.

Si Nan was half lying on the hood, his eyes were bright, his eyelashes were curved, and the corners of his lips were turned up slightly provocatively.From a top-down perspective, his neck is extraordinarily slender, his collarbone extends into the collar of his black shirt, and his blood vessels are clearly visible under his white skin.

Zhou Rong's breathing deepened, his heart became slightly hot, and he lowered his head and rubbed the center of Sinan's eyebrows with his lips for a moment, wanting to make some disciplinary mistakes in the wilderness.

At this moment, a slight sound sounded in the distance——

Click.

It was like the sound of a bird flying from a tree branch, passing through a distance of hundreds of meters, and reaching Zhou Rong's ears.

"who!"

Zhou Rong stepped forward quickly, and picked up the binoculars that Si Nan had thrown away from the ground.

Among the gray and yellow forests in winter, there are ghosts and shadows on the hillside, and a group of zombies are quietly surrounding them, and they have arrived within a hundred meters!

"—Get in the car!" Zhou Rong snapped, "Quick!"

The two got into the SUV at the same time, the engine started with a bang, and they sped towards the dark side of the hillside.Unexpectedly, as soon as they reached the halfway up the mountain, suddenly there were dragging footsteps in front of them, and another group of zombies seemed to emerge from the flat ground, densely blocking their way.

"Damn, why is there no movement at all, aren't the zombies screaming?" Zhou Rong frowned and said, "Have you learned to sneak attack?"

Si Nan held up the binoculars: "Ten o'clock forward, hurry up, there is a breakthrough!"

The SUV bumped and turned around, and the group of zombies chased after them, and finally let out dull wailing one after another!

Sinan pulled out two submachine guns from the back seat and threw one to Zhou Rong. The two lowered the car window and pulled the trigger at the same time, beating the zombies in front of them until their brains burst.

"They are encircling!" Sinan roared amidst the sound of gunfire.

Zhou Rong: "That's right! Zombies have no thinking!"

The car crushed the gnarled tree roots on the ground and bounced violently.Zhou Rong held the steering wheel with one hand, and shot off the zombies that rushed from the side with the other. The tires crashed to the ground, crushing several zombies to the ground!

"Roar--"

More undead staggered, and finally emerged from the woods, outflanking the front of the car in a fan shape—Zhou Rong's pupils constricted instantly, realizing that Sinan's observations were not wrong.

This is indeed encirclement.

Not only that, but also lurking, hiding and teamwork, the zombies have developed the initial wisdom of hunting animals in groups!

Senhan came from the bottom of his heart, Zhou Rong had traveled across most of the country, and he had never felt such a real fear like this moment.

When did zombies start to mutate?Do the living dead still have thoughts?

Is it present all over the country, or has the virus evolved along the coast?

Si Nan clicked on a new magazine, and fired backhandedly at the back of the car. Almost every time the trigger was pulled, two or three zombies that were chasing him could be eliminated.Zhou Rong yanked the clutch, only to hear him yell amidst the bullet casings flying: "There are too many ahead! Turn around and go down the mountain!"

On the muddy ground covered with thick fallen leaves, the SUV roared and turned around, and made a racing car drift in full view of the zombies, knocking half of the zombies into a fan shape and flying out.

"Hurry up!" Zhou Rong roared, and then stepped on the accelerator to the bottom!

Most of the zombies had already gathered in front of the car, and it was too late to catch up, so they could only watch the SUV make a 180-degree turn.The modified front bumper protruded with spikes, knocking the zombie head-on into the air, roaring into the forest, and rushing down the hillside between the rocks and tree roots!

--boom!

The heavy off-road vehicle flew over and landed, and the tires made sharp friction.

The two jumped up at the same time, Zhou Rong stretched out his hand and clasped Sinan in his arms, but the top of his head hit the carriage hard, and he groaned.

The engine-modified off-road vehicle didn't even hit a beat, leaving behind the undead who were trying to catch up with them, and drove straight away into the distance.

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"Very good, it escaped smoothly." Zhou Rong let out a hot breath: "The quality of this car is good, and I can express my gratitude from the people to my brother-in-law under Jiuquan."

"He's not brother-in-law," Sinan said coldly and sensitively.

Zhou Rong: "Okay, okay..."

The floor of the cab was full of shell casings, and the off-road vehicle circled the city and drove towards the hillside with buildings shining in front of it.Groups of zombies wandered on the side of the road, but they couldn't catch up with the SUV, so they could only reach out to the dust and smoke raised by the wheels in despair.

Zhou Rong looked away from the side-view mirror and asked, "About how many zombies besieged us just now?"

"Five or six hundred. What?"

"There are no wounds on those zombies."

Sinan stopped looking at the map.

"After the living people are infected by the virus, most of them start to rot from the place where they were bitten, and then spread to the whole body. But the rot of those zombies is very uniform, and some of them must have been bitten recently. There are no obvious bite marks."

Zhou Rong paused, propping his forehead with one hand, and furrowing his thick and sharp brows: "When the helicopters from the military region came to pick up the surviving people in T City, the sick nurses didn't have any injuries. Infected by smoke... Then what happened to the zombies along the coast, ocean currents? Has the virus spread to this extent, it's unlikely."

The only sound in the cabin was the bumping of the tires driving forward.Both of them were silent for a moment, and Sinan slowly turned a page: "They have begun to develop rudimentary intelligence, which may be related to this."

intelligence.

This word made Zhou Rong shudder.

"The city is too dangerous. In front are the above-ground buildings we saw just now." Sinan raised his head and asked, "Go and have a look?"

Just as Zhou Rong was about to answer, he suddenly yelled for the second time today: "F*ck!"

Zhou Rong slammed on the brakes, the tires scraped the ground again, and the two of them pulled forward at the same time.Immediately afterwards, before Zhou Rong had time to explain, he quickly reversed the car and turned the steering wheel sharply.

During the violent shaking, Sinan glanced back, and saw that in front of the front of the car, there was a wire-bound refusal rope across the road at some point!

"stop!"

"Stop!"

"Come down! Or you'll shoot!"

A dozen or so people suddenly jumped out from the side of the road, all dressed in camouflage and holding guns, shouting at the front of the car.

— Highway robbery?

Zhou Rong's eyes were cold. Just as he was about to step on the accelerator and run over these people alive, the leader shouted: "Stop, what are you doing? We are the People's Liberation Army!"

Zhou Rong's gas pedal slipped immediately.

Those men were obviously veterans, and must have done it hundreds of times.During this one-thousandth of a second of hesitation, several people pulled down their shotguns at the same time, smashing the entire front window of the car into pieces!

Amidst the loud bang, countless pieces and broken glass rushed into the driver's cab, Zhou Rong pushed down Sinan's head, and his eardrums buzzed from the shock.

He grabbed the submachine gun with his backhand, covered half of his face with his elbow, and was about to raise his head for a frontal snipe, when he was suddenly taken aback.

I saw that the dozen or so people were about to rush towards the SUV, when suddenly the head of the leader who shouted "We are the People's Liberation Army" burst into blood and staggered down.

Before his subordinates had time to scream, the second, third, and fourth were all shot in the head, and they became ghosts instantly for no apparent reason.

"Sniper!" Someone yelled, "Find cover, hurry up!"

Someone forcibly charged into the car. Zhou Rong was about to break his neck to send him back home when he suddenly saw that the man had sergeant epaulettes on his uniform.

"Si Xiaonan, hurry up!" Zhou Rong returned to the cab, and was about to step on the accelerator to forcibly punch the card, when he heard a crisp sound - click!

Zhou Rong: "..."

——Sinan doesn't care if the opponent is really the People's Liberation Army or not.As long as it wasn't for the special forces from Team 118 who shot him first, they would be dead in his eyes.

He stretched out his right hand out of the car window, pinched the visitor's throat with five fingers and twisted it, snatched the shotgun from the deceased with the crisp sound of the throat breaking, and pulled the trigger with his backhand.

The whole series of actions took less than three seconds.

--boom!

Most of those who blocked the road fell down, and the dead and injured had protruding sternums and rolled all over the ground.

The rest of the people rushed up the car even more desperately. Just as Si Nan was about to fire the second shot, he suddenly paused and pinched his earlobe.

"Zhou Rong," he said in surprise, "your fag locator is vibrating."