The words "Happy Garden" are written on the front door of the residential complex. It is a newly built community. The houses in it are very new. Only some of the houses have been renovated, and most of the houses are still vacant.
Looking in from the gate of the community, there are no zombies wandering around inside, only some corpses lying on the ground, which look very much like the corpses of zombies. According to Liu Qian's analysis, it was likely that the players or survivors in the large camp had previously searched for supplies in this community, and while searching, they killed the scattered zombies inside.
It seemed very peaceful here. Liu Qian considered placing Pan Hua and Lulu in the community and leaving them with food and water that they couldn't take away, which would be considered as a kindness to them.
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Five days ago, near Xingfu Garden Community.
Heavy rain, lightning and thunder.
A man in a suit without an umbrella was running on the street in the rain. His home was in the Xingfu Garden Community not far ahead. Half a year ago, he used the salary he had worked hard for five years to buy a house in Xingfu Garden Community. He had just decorated it and officially moved in a month ago.
The man in the suit is named Li Zhuoliang. He has a happy family, a beautiful and gentle wife, and a smart and well-behaved son. Today is the fourth birthday of Li Zhuoliang's son Dongdong, so even though it rained heavily and bursts of thunder sounded from time to time in the sky, Li Zhuoliang still ran towards home without hesitation.
After the heavy rain fell on the ground, it could not be drained away from the underground sewers in time, and a large amount of water accumulated on the roadside. This was originally a normal thing, but what seems very abnormal now is... the water is actually red! As the water on the roadside becomes thicker and thicker, the red color becomes more and more bright and dazzling, just like blood on the ground!
At the same time, a strange smell of blood filled the street.
Li Zhuoliang stood outside a courtyard with a sign saying 'Ningjing City Industrial and Commercial Bureau'. He subconsciously reached out and touched his face. Then he looked at his hands and saw the blood-colored liquid on them. He couldn't help but scream. He spoke with a look of horror and horror on his face.
At the same time, some other pedestrians who were running wildly on the road noticed that something was wrong. Like Li Zhuoliang, they looked around with extremely horrified expressions. Then they hid by the side of the road while screaming, deciding to avoid the rain of blood first. Say it again.
After Li Zhuoliang hesitated for a moment, he still sprinted towards the direction of Xingfu Garden Community. Anyway, he was already soaked to the skin, and he would be at the entrance of the community in just a few dozen meters. No matter what the situation was, he had to rush home first. Bar.
Soon Li Zhuoliang felt that something was not right. It seemed that his eyes, ears, nostrils, mouth, etc. had been soaked by the rain and had a burning pain, as if they had been corroded by something.
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The Happy Garden Community dozens of meters away.
"Mom, it's raining outside." Four-year-old Dongdong lay by the window and looked outside.
Dongdong's home is on the third floor. The building is on the right side of the community as soon as you enter. From here, you can see the situation at the entrance of the community. At this time every day, Dad would come back from get off work outside, so at this time every day, Dongdong would habitually lie by the window and look in the direction of the gate of the community.
"Well, don't open the window, be careful of rainwater falling in." Dongdong's mother, a young and beautiful woman, was busy with cakes and meals on the dining table, and casually replied to her son Dongdong.
"Will Dad buy me a toy airship?" Dongdong looked out the window longingly and asked his mother again.
"Yes, he will definitely buy it for you if he promises you." The young mother carefully placed a candle on the cake and replied to Dongdong by the window.
The young mother's name is Xu Jing. The company where her husband Li Zhuoliang works is very profitable. After giving birth to Dongdong, Xu Jing became a full-time mother. She took good care of Dongdong every day, prepared meals and waited for her husband to come home from work. This is her All in a few years of life.
"Mom, why is the rain outside red?" Dongdong looked at the red patches on the window glass and outside, and asked his mother again strangely.
"Because the street lights are red, the rainwater is also illuminated red by the street lights." Xu Jing inserted the second candle and continued to answer her son Dongdong's questions casually. The four-year-old child was in the middle of a hundred thousand whys. At this stage, there are endless questions that can never be asked.
"It's raining so hard, can daddy come back?" Dongdong stretched out her little hand, trying to clean the window so that she could see clearly what was going on outside, and see if daddy had appeared at the gate of the community as usual. But red raindrops were dripping on the outside of the glass window, and it would definitely have no effect if he reached out and wiped it inside.
"The rain will light up sometimes, and he will come back when the rain lightens up." The young mother inserted the third candle and then picked up the last candle.
At this moment, there was a rush of footsteps outside the door, and then the sound of a key unlocking the door. Xu Jing put down the last candle and looked towards the door. At the same time, four-year-old Dongdong had already rushed towards the door.
The door opened, and the mother and son looked at Li Zhuoliang coming back outside, and they both let out a shrill scream.
His body and face were covered in blood, and he looked like a bloody man.
"Don't worry! It's not blood on me, it's rainwater." Li Zhuoliang put down the toy box in his hand, quickly took off his clothes and pants and threw them outside the door, then closed the door and rushed toward the bathroom.
Xu Jing walked to the window and looked at the windowpane that had been dyed red. Her eyes widened and she couldn't recover for a while.
A few minutes later, Li Zhuoliang took a shower and walked out of the bathroom. The blood on his body had been washed away, and he put on clean clothes before walking back to the hall.
"What happened? Why is the rain outside red?" Xu Jing threw herself into Li Zhuoliang's arms in fear and asked him.
"I don't know. Turn on the TV. There will definitely be reports on the TV." Li Zhuoliang pushed his wife to the sofa, picked up the remote control and turned on the TV.
"Citizens please don't panic. Relevant departments have started to identify the components of red rainwater, and the results will be out soon."
"According to my preliminary judgment, all this may be related to the massive growth of red algae in seawater in recent years. The components of these red algae have been evaporated into the clouds and then fallen with the rain, forming this blood rain phenomenon..." TV A man who looks like an expert is sitting on the sofa talking to the host.
"Let me tell you? It'll be okay. Let's not delay Dongdong's birthday dinner." Li Zhuoliang patted his wife Xu Jing on the shoulder, and then walked to the dining table.