This seemingly abandoned gas station convenience store was bigger than the last time Hao Jian and the others encountered it, but there was a lot of rubbish piled up around it, and there was a smell of feces coming from somewhere. There was also a lot of dirty water splashed on the glass and walls, leaving large stains after it hardened.
From the outside, this place is abandoned, and most people will not try to get near here to get any resources.
After Hao Jian and the others were held hostage by two men, they found that there were several old and weak women and children hidden behind the shelves of goods piled up with a lot of cardboard boxes and bottles.
The older woman already had a lot of silver-white hair on top of her head, and the younger woman looked only twenty-five or six years old, with a ponytail on her head, her expression nervous and her eyes flashing. There is also a little girl about five years old and a little boy about three years old, shrinking in the arms of the two women, quietly watching the new faces appearing here.
Lian Ru Ning secretly breathed a sigh of relief, she thought that they were meeting people who were trying to take advantage, and the presence of these young and old here showed that these people were very likely to be a family.
People with families have a very small probability of being such a mad wicked person.
"A-chang-" the old woman opened her mouth.
The man with the axe pushed Hao Jian in front of her. She staggered a few steps and stabilized herself in the space in front of the man and the old man. Lian Runing and Xin Ting were treated similarly. The three women without self-defense weapons looked at them vigilantly, wondering what to do next.
"Mom, we're fine, the zombies outside were really cleaned up by them." Li Chang said, and couldn't help showing a cheerful smile on his face.
Seeing this, Lian Runing hurriedly asked, "Are you residents here? If you are avoiding zombies, why are you holding us hostage?"
The man with the knife put away the knife, changed his vicious face just now, and said with a smile, "This is also a last resort. With your skills, what if you don't cooperate with us and instead beat us? And there are still people outside. There are many unknown dangers lurking, so we had to hold you hostage first."
Only then did Lian Runing let go of a big stone in her heart.
Xin Ting's nose was sore, and she almost burst into tears. She wiped her eyes and said, "You scared us to death, I thought we were robbed!"
Only Hao Jian frowned and said nothing. Lian Runing glanced at her and was about to ask her to say a few words, but was interrupted by the old woman.
"Just clean it up, and the good grandsons don't have to be afraid." The old woman coaxed her with her two children.
"By the way, my name is Li Ge, this is my mother, as well as my brother Li Chang, my daughter-in-law Liu Shu and two children. I see that you can handle five zombies with ease. Have you trained?"
The man with the knife walked to the shelf aside, took out a bottle of water, twisted it open, and handed it to Lian Runing.
Lian Runing took the water, but did not drink it immediately, but replied: "My name is Lian Runing, these two are my friends Hao Jian and Xin Ting. This incident broke out suddenly, how could we possibly pass through effective measures? Training is just a matter of meeting a lot of zombies and figuring out a little way to survive."
"Then what did you guys do before?" Li Chang asked again.
"I—" Lian Runing followed up smoothly, but Hao Jian rushed back in front of her, "We are students, we went out to summer camp, and we happened to encounter these things on the way back."
Lian Runing and Xin Ting both glanced at Hao Jian and didn't go to dismantle the stage.
Li Chang and Li Ge exchanged glances, their brows loosened, Li Chang looked at Lian Runing, and said with a smile, "Then you are so courageous! Hey, sit down and have a drink, we just want to inquire with you. Check out what's going on outside."
"We don't know what's going on outside. We were attacked when we came out of the summer camp. We felt that those people were in a bad state and ran away. The road to here was almost blocked by cars. It's easy to come here. But what's the situation here?" Hao Jian asked.
Li Chang patted his thigh, and his face was a little worried: "I don't know what's going on. A few days ago, the group suddenly said that there was an outbreak of an infectious disease, so let's hurry and hide in the countryside with few people. It was the rumor that I ignored it, and it happened in two days—"
Li Ge was also silent for a moment before taking Li Chang's words: "My dad was bitten when he went out. We saw it with our own eyes. If we didn't remember the warning from the group, we would rush up and fight the zombie that bit my dad."
"We found that the outside world had changed, so we hurriedly took my mother, daughter-in-law and children back to the countryside. But it was too late. We didn't have anything to eat or drink, and we didn't have a car. Where can we go? We just found out. When there was no one here, I occupied it, and then I found out that you are here."
After listening to their words, Xin Ting felt the deepest feeling, after all, she also came out after hiding until she had no choice. She persuaded them in the mood of the people who came here: "But I can't hide here for a long time. Sooner or later, the food will be finished, and I don't know when those zombies will gather here again, and I can't leave if I want to leave. ."
Li Ge shook his head: "Affected by the rumors, many people have already brought their families back to the countryside, and some people have passed by before, and they have led away a lot of zombies, so it is relatively safe here."
At this moment, a young voice sounded crisply: "Mom, I'm so hungry."
The voice attracted everyone's attention. Liu Shu hugged the five-year-old little girl, opened the tattered cardboard box from a corner, and took out a bread and a bottle of water for the little girl.
Li Ge touched his head, whose hair was only an inch long, and asked Lian Runing, "Have you eaten lunch? Is there anything to eat in the car?"
Practice such as lemon shaking his head. To be honest, since she had dinner last night, she hadn't eaten anything except for drinks, and she was already so hungry that her chest was sticking to her back. If there are zombies coming later, she can't guarantee that she can still hold a knife to deal with the zombies.
Li Ge glanced at Li Chang and took out two packs of biscuits from the side to give them: "We don't have much food anymore, you eat this pad to support your stomach!"
"Thank you!" Lian Runing took the biscuits to give to Hao Jian, but Hao Jian waved her hand while covering her stomach.
"What's wrong?" Li Ge asked quickly, noticing her strangeness.
Hao Jian asked back, "Is there a bathroom here?"
"Next to the utility room." Li Ge pointed to the outside.
The restroom and utility room of this gas station are separated from the convenience store, about ten meters apart. Usually this distance is not far, but now is an extraordinary period, no one knows whether they will encounter zombies after going out. After the Li family came here, it was convenient to hide in the corner.
"I'll go to the bathroom." Hao Jian got up, but Li Chang suddenly stopped her.
Hao Jian looked at him strangely: "What's wrong?"
"It's dangerous for you to go there alone, shall I accompany you there?"
Hao Jian's expression changed. She looked outside for a while and said, "There are no zombies outside now. I'll come back after solving the physiological problem, you—"
She didn't say what she said later, but anyone could guess what she meant. After all, what Li Chang did was too abrupt.
Li Ge touched Li Chang's arm, and the latter also reflected it, pursing his lips and not explaining. Lian Runing felt that Hao Jian's reaction was a bit strange. If she still couldn't respond, it would have been a waste of a few days for them to live and die.
"I'll go with her. After all, it's better for girls to settle some things." Lian Runing smiled.
"That's not good!" Li Chang stared at Lian Runing, and she felt uncomfortable being stared at.
"Why not?" Lian Runing asked rhetorically.
Li Ge smiled and pulled Li Chang aside: "Let's help them keep an eye on them here. If you don't need to go to the bathroom, just eat something to fill your stomach and talk about it!"
Li Changshun followed his gaze and saw Xin Ting who was eating, so he nodded, gave up his seat to Hao Jian and Lian Runing and left.
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The moment Hao Jian stepped into the bathroom, Lian Runing heard a soft voice saying, "Be careful."
Lian Ru Ning's heart suddenly lifted. The moment Hao Jian let her out, she had already guessed something, but she didn't notice it, so she wanted to ask Hao Jian for confirmation.
The door of the bathroom was not closed tightly, and Lian Runing stood outside the door, listening to the sound from the crack of the door.
"You really deserve to be pure-hearted college students. You were fooled so easily." Hao Jian said coolly.
Lian Ru Ning pouted: "How did you find out the difference?"
"If it weren't for the fact that our weapons were still on the ground after being held hostage by them, I would have almost believed that they held us in the convenience store for safety reasons."
Lian Ru Ning was shocked, yes, their weapons have been threatened to be thrown away, and they have not been recovered!
"Secondly, don't you think their combination is weird?"
"Don't be a fool. Time is running out. If we don't go back, they will be suspicious."
"Li Chang is Li Ge's elder brother, he looks like he's already in his thirties, and according to their words, these two brothers live with their parents, right? Besides, from the beginning to the end, Li Chang never said that he has If he gets married, he will most likely be a bachelor."
Hao Jian's voice paused, "Although I maliciously speculate that an older leftover man is not very friendly, in this world where morality is lost, I don't have much kindness for them. So I will say it straight, Li Chang's eyes are always Putting it on you, he had a crooked mind towards you, and in order to lower our guard, he deliberately pretended to be very kind."
Lian Runing had goose bumps all over her body: "No, if he is interested in me, why didn't he resort to coercion?"
"The whole family is there, and there are three of us, can he force it? So I guess he must first imprison us, control us, and then brainwash you when we don't have the strength to resist. You follow him with all your heart. Plus they see that our combat effectiveness is okay, so they will use our minds too!"
Hao Jian's words weren't over yet: "I just found out that Li Ge brought you water from the shelf, and I didn't hear the sound of unscrewing it for the first time, so it's very likely that the bottle of water has been opened. His child I was hungry, but Liu Shu turned out the food from under the layers of covered cardboard boxes, not the food on the shelf..."
Speaking of which, Lian Runing still couldn't understand. She glanced at the convenience store, only to find that Li Chang's deep eyes were staring at her, so scared that she had goosebumps all over her body. pimple.
"I said we were college students, which lowered their vigilance, but it didn't last long, so we had to figure out a way."