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As night fell, darkness shrouded the entire town, and zombies with rotting flesh wandered around like ghosts. In the silence, a hand with finger bones exposed grabbed the withered grass on the ground, and the next second a zombie with gray eyes got up from it.
Its face has been half-destroyed, it is full of bite marks, one eyeball is gone, and there is a dark hole in its stomach, the intestines are covered with blood and flesh, and the biting cold wind can blow through the hole. directly through the inside, the entire abdominal cavity seemed to become a leaky box.
Like other zombies, it stood up and started wandering, but it kept walking along the road, as if it had a purpose. Without sanity, the five senses are only hearing and smell, but it seems to have a kind of obsession, and the constant transcendence drives it to move forward and keep moving forward...
Winter nights are always extraordinarily long, until eight o'clock in the morning before dawn.
Ji Ting and the others who got rid of the convoy, after wandering around City A all night, they finally found a temporary place to stay - an early education center.
Although resources are scarce, there are almost no zombies inside, which is safer than outside, and there are small blankets in the classroom cabinets to keep warm when sleeping.
"This side is relatively remote, but I checked it just now, and it's safe. Just find something to eat, let's make do with it first, and look around after the rest." Li Xiangming put the food on the table, his eyes full of tears. exhausted.
He didn't say a word about Zhao Heng's murder yesterday, and neither did the others. The four of them seemed to have forgotten about it at the same time.
Jiang Yu shook his head weakly: "Eat, I'm not hungry."
"I'm not hungry either, you can eat with Ji Ting." After only one night, Shen Tushu seemed to have aged ten years.
Li Xiangming looked at them, and finally turned his attention to Ji Ting: "You can persuade them, life will always go on."
Ji Ting was silent for a long time, and then said softly: "Let's take it easy, let them sleep for a while, and eat after waking up."
"... That's fine, I'll eat my share first, and I won't be able to sleep if I'm full." After Li Xiangming finished speaking, he unceremoniously divided the things into four, took his own share and sat down in the corner , Close your eyes and go to sleep after eating.
As soon as he left, Ji Ting looked at Jiang Yu: "Auntie, let's rest first."
"Go to sleep, I'm not sleepy." The sadness in Jiang Yu's eyes was almost uncontrollable, and she choked up every word she said.
Shentu hugged her silently, and after a long time comforted her in a deep voice: "Okay, since things have happened, we have to look forward, you know? Ji Ting needs us, we can't fall down."
Jiang Yu buried her face in his arms, groaning in depression, her shoulders trembling badly. Ji Ting stood beside them quietly until Jiang Yu was tired and fell asleep in Shentushu's arms while standing, then she said to Shentushu: "Uncle, you can sleep for a while too."
"Well, don't worry about us, you are exhausted, go to rest." Shen Tushu slowed down his voice.
Ji Ting saw that his emotional state was still normal, so he nodded, lay down in the corner silently, and pulled a blanket to cover his body.
Soon there was only the sound of breathing in the room, and the warmth brought by the blanket made everyone's spirits, which had been tense for a day, unbearable to relax. Even Ji Ting, whose mind was in a mess, couldn't restrain the drowsiness brought by his body. Soon fell asleep.
It's a pity that her sleep was not solid, the scene of Shen Tuchuan being thrown down by zombies was repeatedly played in the dream, until her brain could no longer bear the pain and forced her to wake up from the dream, she opened her eyes in a daze.
After a long silence, she sat up, looked at Li Xiangming and Jiang Yu who were still sleeping in the room, and found that Shen Tushu was gone. She hurriedly jumped out of bed and ran out to find someone. After rushing into the corridor, she suddenly heard a suppressed cry. She froze suddenly, staring blankly at the middle-aged man with his back to her at the end of the corridor.
His sideburns seemed to have turned white overnight, and his back was no longer straight. I remember that when we first met, he was still very young, but in just one day, his old appearance appeared.
Ji Ting stood quietly in the corridor, listening to his painful and desperate cries, and did not step forward to disturb him. He is a husband, a father, and the last belief and support in a family. Therefore, he cannot be sad when he is sad, and cannot be painful when he is in pain. go home.
Her eye sockets were slightly red, and her fingertips were trembling. When tears were about to fall, Li Xiangming walked out the door, stood quietly with her for a while, then turned and walked to another classroom. Ji Ting lowered his eyes and followed silently.
"Did Zhao Heng kill Shen Tuchuan?" Li Xiangming went straight to the point.
Ji Ting looked at him: "Yes."
Li Xiangming paused: "My condolences."
Ji Ting stared at the cartoon characters printed on the floor, and said for a while: "I have no evidence, if you don't believe me, or think my methods are too cruel, we can separate peacefully, but first we have to wait for my uncle and aunt to find a scooter. "
Li Xiangming was silent for a long time, and after a long time, he glanced at her: "I believe in you, and I also believe in Shen Tuchuan." As she said before, the auras of good people and bad people are inherently incompatible. If they are bad people, then he will not will choose to help them.
Ji Ting nodded calmly: "Thank you."
The two of them were at a loss for words. After a while, Li Xiangming couldn't help but said, "Ji Ting, you're not in the right mood, can't you think about it?"
As soon as he said this question, the corners of Ji Ting's lips raised a little: "You think too much, as long as this world still exists, it is impossible for me not to think about it."
What she said was fine at first, but when she listened carefully, she found it strange. Li Xiangming looked at her and wanted to persuade her a few more words. Ji Ting heard Shentu's footsteps in the room several times, so he turned around and went back, leaving Li Xiangming looked worried.
When Ji Ting returned to the room, Shen Tushu's eyes were still red, and after seeing her, he lowered his head covertly: "You and Xiang Ming are not here, where did you go?"
"We went out to chat for a while, Uncle should sleep for a while, and we will eat after Auntie wakes up." Ji Ting pretended not to notice his fault.
Shen Tushu answered vaguely, and lay down beside Jiang Yu. Ji Ting didn't talk to him anymore, and after taking a look at Li Xiangming who followed in, he sat quietly in the corner.
An hour later, Jiang Yu woke up with tears in his eyes. After opening his eyes, he saw the gully between Shen Tushu's eyebrows. After wiping away the tears, he reached out to help him smooth it out. Shen Tushu woke up because of this, and held her in his arms silently for a long time before asking in a low voice, "Are you hungry?"
"... I'm hungry." Jiang Yu, who had no appetite, replied, and then felt the man holding her relax a bit.
Ji Ting, who heard them talking, greeted them immediately: "Uncle and aunt, get up and eat something." After he paused, he looked at Li Xiangming again, "Brother Xiangming, let's eat together."
"I've already finished my share, so I don't have the nerve to eat yours." Li Xiangming laughed.
Ji Ting smiled: "From now on, we will depend on each other for our lives, so don't care about these things."
Li Xiangming paused for a moment, then got up casually: "In this case, I'm not going to be polite." After speaking, he sat down with them.
Several people shared the tight food and discussed the future while eating.
"It's still too dangerous for the few of us to fight alone. It's better to find another organization to attach to." Li Xiangming ate the last bite of the biscuit. "By the way, what are you planning to do in City A?"
"I heard that there is a cousin here. We planned to join him," Jiang Yu said with a bitter smile. "At that time, I didn't expect to be stuck at the gas station for so long, and I didn't know if her cousin was still here."
"Let's look for it, anyway, we have to find a reliable organization by the way." Li Xiangming said immediately.
The remaining three also agreed, and the matter was settled.
In the next few days, a group of people embarked on the road of search.
And a zombie that degenerated in the small town is also approaching city a. It walked extremely slowly, but it didn't stop day and night. It just kept going forward by instinct. Even if the soles of its feet were worn out, the soles of its feet began to be bloody, and every step it took would leave a little blood on the snow. No reaction, just know to move forward.
One night, it smelled the smell of a stranger, roared and rushed towards where the smell came from, and there was a sudden chaos. Just as it was about to bite a woman's neck, a shovel suddenly chopped towards its head. Most of its neck was broken in an instant, and then fell to the ground with a plop.
The man with the shovel walked up to it, raised the shovel and slapped it on the head again, and it lay stiff on the ground, unable to move any more.
"Dead?" someone asked.
The man with the shovel kicked it on the head: "It's dead."
"Come over and eat, damn it, you don't go to the village and don't go to the store, where are the zombies, there's only one of them." Someone cursed.
The man holding the shovel walked over laughingly, and the whole group was in a commotion, but no one saw the zombie's finger move.
When they came back after eating, the zombies were gone. The person who held the shovel was hairy all over: "Did you see the hell? Who moved the zombie just now?"
"It's so dirty, who would touch that thing, didn't you say it's completely dead? Why did it disappear?"
"Then who knows, it's evil, it's better not to stay here any longer, just go away."
"How many fucking zombies have you killed, are you still afraid of these?"
"I'm not afraid of zombies, can't I be afraid of ghosts? Hurry up and hurry up..."
A group of people laughed and got into the car and drove on the road. No one saw that a zombie with most of its neck cut off was stalking the back of the pickup truck. The night and snow were reflected in its gray pupils.
And it can't actually see anything.
The car quickly drove into City A and went straight to a certain destination. When passing by the city's largest research institute on the way, the car stopped, and the conversation in the car came to its ears—
"This is the research institute?"
"What do you want to do? Boss is still waiting, we have to go back as soon as possible."
"It is said that the zombie virus is caused by the improper operation of the research institute. If this is true, does it mean that there may be a way to eliminate the zombies?"
"Don't talk about it, let's not say that this zombie virus is global. Even if the rumors are true, if you give you the information, can you research the antidote?"
"makes sense."
The driver was convinced, the car started again and rushed forward. The zombie's hand holding the car loosened and fell to the ground with a plop. This fall made all its joints dislocated, and one calf twisted into a strange angle, but it didn't respond, it just struggled towards the research institute.
Someone in the pickup truck saw the zombie behind through the mirror, and was suddenly a little incredulous: "Is the one in the back the one we shot to death earlier?"
"What?" The others turned their heads, but they couldn't see anything.
The man was still in shock: "I seem to see the zombie that was shot to death earlier, is it really still alive?"
"How is it possible! Even if it is alive, how did it get to City A overnight? It won't come here by car like us, right?"
Everyone laughed immediately, and the people who saw it before were not bothered anymore, they just thought that they had been driving for a few days, and their eyes were a little dazzled.
The group quickly returned to the base. Before getting off the car, people from the base greeted them. Seeing them returning safely, they were all as happy as Chinese New Year.
"You guys are back. It's a day later than planned. Boss is worried to death. Come with me to see Boss." A beautiful girl greeted them.
After everyone handed over the car to others, they went to the base office with the girl, and told the story of last night's adventure as soon as they entered. The boy at the desk laughed straight: "I can still walk with my neck cut off? How can I go?" Have you ever seen such a strong zombie?"
"Really, boss, when did we ever lie to you?" The person who personally took the shovel to shoot the zombie said immediately.
The boy's eyebrows are curved, and his whole body exudes a gentle and jade-like temperament: "Okay, it's good to be back safely, and don't talk to me about the rest."
As soon as the words fell, there was a knock on the door, he answered, and Ji Ting walked out the next second: "Brother Beiyun."
"Oh, beautiful girl! Do you know Boss? Why are you still called brother?" the man said immediately.
The boy smiled: "Well, my distant cousin, I met when I was a child, just came to join me."
"Really? Since we haven't seen each other for many years, why did you come here suddenly?" The man was puzzled.
Ji Ting said slowly: "Although I met a few times when I was young, I always think that Brother Beiyun is the most powerful person in the world, so when encountering a wave of zombies, my first thought is to let Brother Beiyun protect me, so I came to City A to look for him wholeheartedly, but luckily I found him."
The male lead, Bei Yun, has a good personality and great abilities. The only shortcoming is that his memory is not very good. She told him a few things about his childhood in the original text before, so he accepted her as his "cousin" almost without doubt. '. Since none of the parties involved can see through it, let alone others.
"Hey, sister, you're right. Our boss is amazing, so don't worry if you stay here!" Sure enough, the man stopped being suspicious after hearing this.
Ji Ting smiled, and praised a few words in cooperation. Beiyun was a little embarrassed, and then changed the topic. The men who just came back wanted to get close to Ji Ting, and they opened their mouths to tell the story of the zombie last night. They were ashamed, and Beiyun sent them away as soon as they started a conversation.
"Is there anything you can do for me?" Beiyun asked with a smile.
Ji Ting was silent for a moment, then lowered his eyes and said, "I want to borrow a car from you..."
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After she came out of Beiyun's place, she went to the base doctor's again. When she returned to her residence, it was already getting late. As soon as she got back, she saw Jiang Yu and Shen Tushu sitting on the sofa with serious expressions on their faces. Also red. Ji Ting knew it at a glance: "Did Beiyun tell you the matter?"
"If he doesn't say, are you going to sneak away and make me and your dad go crazy at the base?" Jiang Yu said with tears in his eyes.
In the past few days, they have changed their titles, and Ji Ting was officially recognized as their daughter.
Ji Ting hurriedly sat down beside her, coaxing her gently: "How could it be, even if Beiyun didn't tell me, I still want to tell you, I plan to go out for a while."
"Life in the base is so stable, why do you want to go out, where are you going?" Jiang Yu was not fooled, and collapsed before she could explain, "Are you going back to that town, are you going to find Xiaochuan?!"
The past few days have been exhausting, and no one mentioned Shen Tuchuan again. When he was mentioned at this moment, Jiang Yu's tears kept falling like beads with a broken thread.
Ji Ting fell silent with reddish eyes.
Shen Tushu sighed: "Listen, Xiao Chuan has... Even if you find him, you will only find a lifeless body, and this body is not worth your risk, understand?"
Ji Ting sat there quietly, and after a long time said bitterly: "Dad, Mom, Xiao Chuan is not dead."
"Listen, don't be like this..." Jiang Yu covered her face with trembling hands, tears streaming from her fingers.
Ji Ting hugged her, and said for a while with red eyes: "Really, I can feel that he is not dead."
"Listen..." Jiang Yu couldn't continue.
Ji Ting took a deep breath: "Mom, my intuition is very accurate, you have to trust me, do you remember the suitcase I carried when we first met?"
Jiang Yu in her arms paused, sat up straight and looked at her. Ji Ting turned his face away: "Everything in my box is to deal with this disaster, and everything is a must. Don't you wonder why I prepared the box before the zombie wave broke out? ?”
"Listen..." Jiang Yu looked at her in a daze.
Ji Ting looked at her calmly: "Because I had an intuition that there would be a disaster before the zombie wave broke out, so I prepared all this. Now I don't think he is dead, so I want to go back to find him."
Shen Tuchuan's death hit her too hard, and she only realized it in the past few days. If the male supporting role dies, then the mission of this world will be classified as a failure directly, and she will immediately pop out from here to proceed to the next mission, but looking at it now, the world is still fine, and the only reason why she is still here safely is It is Shen Tuchuan who is not dead.
Although I don't know why he didn't die, although the reader's resentment no longer responded to her question in her mind from the day he was overwhelmed by zombies, but Ji Ting also felt that he was not dead based on previous experience, so she wanted to go back Find him, must find him.
Jiang Yu looked at Ji Ting in a daze. Although she was told rationally that her son was dead, facing Ji Ting's firm eyes, she still felt a bit shaken in her heart: "Then... shall I go with you with your father?"
"No, I'll just go find him myself," Ji heard, saw what Jiang Yu wanted to say, and immediately held her hand, "Mom, I promised Xiao Chuan that you will be safe and sound. Would you like to leave the base?"
Tears welled up in Jiang Yu's eyes: "But..."
"You are not allowed to go, I will never allow you to be in any danger." Shentu Shu interrupted in a deep voice.
Ji Ting paused, looked at him calmly, and after a while, Shentu turned his face away. Ji Ting pursed his lips: "Dad, what I said is true, Xiao Chuan is really not dead."
"Son, you are too tired, rest." After Shen Tushu finished speaking, he went back to the room with red eyes.
Hearing that he didn't want to talk anymore, Ji fell silent immediately.
Jiang Yu calmed down and realized that she was in a daze just now. Shen Tuchuan was bitten by a zombie right under her nose, how could he still be alive: "Listen, Xiao Chuan has already left. If he knows about it, he probably doesn't want to." You are like this, mom believes that your intuition is very accurate, but this matter... "
Halfway through the conversation, he suddenly stopped talking.
"I know, Mom, go and rest." Ji Ting said softly.
Jiang Yu nodded, turned around and went back to the room. Ji Ting sat on the sofa for a long time, and then went back to his room, but he packed up his things as soon as he entered the room, left a note, jumped out the window, and drove straight away left.
She took the pass she got from Beiyun before, and drove out directly. When she was almost at the door, she met Li Xiangming, and immediately lowered the car window and said to him: "I'm going out for a few days, you help me look after my parents, don't let They left the base."
"Why are you going?" Li Xiangming frowned.
When Ji Ting thought that he was going to find Shen Tuchuan, he felt very relieved. He immediately waved to him and drove away. Li Xiangming yelled at her to stop, Ji Ting immediately stepped on the accelerator when he heard his voice.
There was no one on the road at night, and occasionally a zombie rushed over, Ji Ting was used to bumping directly into it without any hesitation. Driving forward smoothly all the way, when passing the research institute, he suddenly braked and stopped.
She stared at the gate of the institute with a strange light in her eyes. If Shen Tuchuan is still alive now, he is still in a small town full of zombies, and his current situation should be very dangerous. If he can directly find the medicine to kill the zombies and wipe out all the zombies, his crisis will be resolved directly Is it
The reason why it took five years to find the medicine in the original text is only because there are layers of traps in the research institute, and the male protagonist can only open these traps when he has practiced his abilities to a certain level. But it's different now, she can directly find all kinds of unlocking codes through the original text, and she only needs to use a very human way to open it, and she can go in directly.
... As long as she unlocks all kinds of locks first, and then goes back to call Beiyun, then when she arrives in the town in a few hours, Beiyun can almost spread the medicine, and she can take Shen Tuchuan home directly up.
The more Ji Ting thought about it, the more his heart became more and more excited, so he simply got out of the car and prepared to implement it directly. She fully armed herself, took the wooden warehouse that Beiyun gave her, and went to the research institute.
And on the basement floor of the research institute, the zombie with a broken leg was limping forward, with a murmuring voice as if talking. If you listen carefully, you can hear a few faint words—
season... listen...
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