Hao Jian didn't know either: "It may be that I bumped into those zombies just now, so some parts are damaged!"
Lian Ruling suddenly felt cold.
Hao Jian sighed: "Leave here first, then pay attention to the door. Even if it is locked, the lock seems to be broken. Don't let the zombies open the door."
The car drove away before the zombies came around, but the noise from the car was so loud that it felt like all the zombies around a mile were disturbed, and even if the car did not enter their field of vision, they all moved.
However, the zombies have no explosive power, and their speed is far less than half of that of humans, and soon they will no longer be able to see them. Even so, they know that although zombies don't have explosive power, they don't know what fatigue is, and they will keep chasing after them. Everyone understands the principle of the tortoise and the hare, and they will not be arrogant rabbits.
The sound of the car is getting louder and the speed of the car is also slowing down. Hao Jian gritted her teeth and asked Lian Runing to open her offline map to see if there was a suitable shelter nearby.
"There are town government offices, a health clinic, a bank, two primary schools and a middle school nearby."
"The town government office buildings and health clinics are not safe, while banks and schools are worth considering."
"There are many residential houses and supermarkets and other trading places near the bank." Lian Ruling reminded that this type of place is often the place with the most people, and it is also the place where zombies are most likely to roam. In contrast, elementary and middle schools would have chosen to go home when the incident happened, but there were far fewer zombies left in the school.
"The vicinity of the school is relatively remote." Lian Runing added.
The schools in the town are not as good as the schools in the city. Generally, these types of schools are relatively old and the students they take are also children from the nearby villages, so it is not too big and the location is not very good.
"Show me the way." Hao Jian said.
The car turned left, and after passing a dozen residential buildings on the side of the road, you could see a building standing alone on the side of the field. There was an iron sign in front of the door with the words "Xinhe Elementary School" engraved on it. .
There is a building next to the primary school. According to its style, it looks like a canteen. On the right side of the school is a rural road going deep, as well as private houses.
The primary school looks a bit shabby, even the iron gate is rusted and it looks like it has not been repaired for a long time. But the iron door was closed, and it was unknown whether it was locked or not.
"I'll go down and have a look, you can help me to keep an eye on the situation." Hao Jian grabbed the crowbar, grabbed the walkie-talkie, and got out of the car. Lian Runing also got out of the car, holding a flashlight in his hand, and said, "I'll go with you!"
Hao Jian thought for a while, but did not refuse. She walked to the iron gate, reached out and touched the lock, and found that it was locked. Look up at the top of your head, and the school gate is three meters high, the iron gate is more than two meters, and there are spikes added to prevent someone from flipping the door.
"From the lock on the inside, there should be someone inside." Hao Jian said.
Lian Ru Ning looked back at the highway and the silent houses that disappeared under the dark night, and shouted in angrily, "Is there anyone?"
Is there anyone... Someone... Someone...
Her voice echoed on the empty court, and at the same time it also resounded in the sky. There was finally some movement in the private house, but still no one came out.
Hao Jian was startled by her cry, but he didn't stop her, instead he paid attention to whether there were any attracted zombies around.
After a while, there was finally a movement in the school, and I saw a beam of light swaying over. Lian Runing turned the flashlight over, and saw a petite woman walking over cautiously.
Suddenly, Hao Jian roared, "Open the door!"
The woman was so startled that she stopped immediately. Lian Runing was wondering why Hao Jian was so anxious all of a sudden, but saw Hao Jian biting the flashlight and raising the crowbar and waving it back.
"Ah..." The zombie's groan sounded in his ears, and Lian Ru Ning had goosebumps all over his body, and he couldn't help knocking on the door quickly: "Open the door!"
The woman was even more reluctant to open it now. Her eyes were on Hao Jian who was fighting with the zombies. Seeing Hao Jian casually smashing the zombie's head like a watermelon, she even tumbled in her stomach and suddenly vomited. came out.
"Open the door." Hao Jian knocked on the iron door with the crowbar, and the woman also vomited. After a moment of hesitation, she came over and opened the door for them.
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Hao Jian washed the flesh and blood on the crowbar in the sink, while Lian Runing also washed his face with water. The woman stood two meters away from them and looked at them vigilantly.
"We are not infected, you can rest assured." Lian Ruling explained.
Hearing the words, the woman breathed a sigh of relief.
"By the way, my name is Lian Runing, and her name is Hao Jian. I haven't thanked you for opening the door yet." Lian Runing said with a smile.
"I, my name is Xin Ting." The woman said weakly.
Xin Ting is an intern teacher here. She is very far from home, so she has always lived in the school's teacher dormitory. When the zombie virus broke out, she had to stay on duty at the school, so she was always unaware of the situation outside. When she found out later, she had missed the time to escape, so she could only continue to stay in the school and wait for rescue.
She learned about the situation outside from Lian Runing's mouth, and also knew that the rescue might never come, and she felt a little heartless. She has always been timid and fearful. It is impossible for her to pass through the zombies like Hao Jian and Lian Runing and go home. Thinking of this, it seems that she can only be trapped here.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" Xin Ting's cries came, Lian Runing felt a little flustered, she knew very well the feeling after a person lost all hope, as if the whole world collapsed. If she hadn't been obsessed with finding her family, I'm afraid she would have lived like a walking corpse.
She wanted to persuade Xin Ting to cheer up, but Xin Ting's cowardice was rooted in her bones, and she couldn't instigate Xin Ting to find a goal to live like she did.
"I'm sorry." Lian Runing apologized in a low voice, she shouldn't have told Xin Ting this cruel fact.
Xin Ting cried more and more, Lian Runing panicked and wanted to ask Hao Jian for help, but found that she had opened the hood and was focusing on checking the car's accessories.
"You can repair cars?" Lian Ruling asked in surprise.
Hao Jian turned his head: "No."
"..." Lian Runing paused, and put out the thought of asking her to help appease Xin Ting.
Xin Ting was crying so hard that Hao Jian couldn't hear her. She pretended to be repairing cars even though she didn't know how to repair cars. She had only one purpose - not wanting to interfere with Xin Ting's affairs.
Xin Ting heard Hao Jian's answer and replied weakly while sobbing: "I, I can repair cars."
Lian Runing was shocked and didn't speak for a long time, Xin Ting wiped away her tears and explained, "Although I am a teacher, my family owns an auto repair shop, so I can learn some simple car repair skills."
"Then we are so lucky!" Lian Runing smiled.
Xin Ting walked to Hao Jian sobbing and asked, "Can you help me?"
Hao Jian nodded, raised a flashlight to help her illuminate, and explained the situation. Xin Ting first checked the chassis and found no abnormality, and then checked various ball joints. After checking the balance rod connecting rod, she found that there was a problem with the shock strut bearing.
"There is no new shock strut bearing that can be replaced, but at this level of damage, there will not be much problem." Xin Ting said.
Hao Jian scratched his head and said, "As long as there is no major problem, let's go ahead and open it!"
"Thank you for your hard work." Lian Runing handed Xin Ting a drink, and Xin Ting took the drink and smiled.
"By the way, have you eaten anything?" Lian Runing took out the supper that the You family had packed for them from the car.
Xin Ting looked at the lunch box and swallowed imperceptibly. But her upbringing told her, "No, it's not easy to find something to eat at this time, you can eat it!"
"It's not easy-to-preserve food, eat it before it goes bad!" Hao Jian also said.
Xin Ting took the lunch box hesitantly, glanced at them again, and said, "Let's eat together!"
Lian Runing and Hao Jian didn't object either. They had exhausted a lot of mental and physical strength after eating dinner. Although they were not hungry, they were still very hungry.
After eating these meals, Xin Ting glanced at her watch and found that the pointer had already pointed to four o'clock in the morning. However, Lian Runing and Hao Jian had too short a break, so they listened to Xin Ting's suggestion and took a nap in the teacher's dormitory.
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Xinhe Elementary School is not big, with only a three-storey teaching building, a basketball court and a badminton court. Opposite the teaching building is a two-storey teachers' dormitory with seven or eight rooms.
"Usually, the teachers who live far away are assigned to live here. They don't have many things here, but when they leave, they don't take anything like the mattress with them, so you can choose a room at will. come to sleep."
Lian Ru Ning was embarrassed: "Where to sleep is second, I just don't know if there is electricity and hot water..."
Xin Ting understands that she was sweating all over just by looking at the car just now.
"We have a power outage here, but power outages are commonplace here, and in order to carry out normal teaching activities, our school will prepare a generator."
"Forget it, if the generator makes too much noise, it will attract zombies." Lian Runing said.
After Lian Ru Ning wiped her body with cold water, she went to rest first. She and Hao Jian agreed that one person will rest and one person will watch the night, lest zombies come over and don't know the situation. She rested for four hours, and put the walkie-talkie next to her pillow in case Hao Jian could wake her up at any time.
When Hao Jian was patrolling around the school, she found a few one-meter-long wooden sticks. She weighed them in her hands, and then found a kitchen knife, sharpened one end of the wooden stick, and tried the effect with a basketball. The effect was found to be significant.
Hearing the unusual footsteps, Hao Jian became vigilant and pointed back while holding the wooden thorn.
"Ah!" Xin Ting exclaimed. If she got any closer, the thorns would scratch her face.
"It's you!" Hao Jian retracted the wooden thorn. The experience of the past few days has made her nerves a little more sensitive and her movements sharper.
"You, don't you rest?" Xin Ting was so frightened that her heart was still thumping.
"I'll take a rest later." Hao Jian said, and then asked suspiciously, "It's you, why don't you go to rest?"
"I-I can't sleep." Xin Ting took a deep breath, "As soon as I closed my eyes, I saw the scene where the students who came back for the campus cleaning activity were biting at the children of the same age. At that time, the school was in chaos and ten A few students, a teacher on duty... all of them fled desperately. The already dilapidated school became even more desolate after that, and I was afraid... "
She also wanted to escape, but where could she escape? She was assigned here for an internship, hundreds of miles away from home, there is no means of transportation, and the outside is very chaotic, how can she escape from here
"Will you stay too? It's very safe here, there is a canteen at the door, and there is enough food to support us for a while. There are farmlands nearby, and we can also go to the fields to pick some vegetables to eat." Xin Ting was nervous. to make her suggestion.
Hao Jian watched her silent for a while before saying, "Lian Ru Ning is also afraid."
Xin Ting looked at her in confusion, only to hear her continue: "Lian Runing is also afraid of all this, but she has thoughts, she wants to go home and go back to find her relatives. So even if she is afraid, she will bravely Stand up, go out, go to the most dangerous place, just for the obsession in your heart."
"It's normal to be afraid when faced with such a thing. But to retreat blindly because of fear, it's like being caught without a hand. It's a bit useless to die."
Xin Ting shook her head and said, "But you don't know how terrible it is!"
"The big deal is death." Hao Jian said lightly.
"You don't cherish life so much?"
"It's not that I don't cherish life, but there are many ways to survive, but you can choose the one that you think is the most meaningful. If I choose to leave with her, I won't necessarily lose my life because of it, just like if you stay here, it's not necessarily very good. Safe as well."
Xin Ting couldn't understand, but after five hours, she realized clearly that Hao Jian was right.