death to survive

In the ward, the moon casts the cold light through the transparent glass window, vaguely outlining the general shape of various medical instruments beside the hospital bed. The lights of various colors are constantly flashing on the instruments, and there are many connections of different sizes, thicknesses and colors. A tube was inserted into the body of the man who was closing his eyes on the bed. In the quiet room, only the regular sound of "di-di-" from the instrument could be heard.

Yang Zhi, who was covered in bandages and had plaster cast fixed in some places, was like a modern mummy wrapped in white cloth.

Hearing the sound of opening the door, Yang Zhi slowly opened his closed eyes, and asked in a casual tone: "Ning Jiang, did you find what you ate?" But he didn't want to, opened his eyes and appeared in front of him But his brother? !

"Big brother?"

"Yang Zhi, are you in good health? How do you feel?" Standing beside the hospital bed with a worried expression on his face, looking at Yang Zhi who was covered in bandages, Yang Yihang stretched out his hand to comfort his brother, But he couldn't find a place that seemed safe enough for him to touch it.

"Brother! Why are you here! It's dangerous here! Get out of here quickly!" Yang Zhi, who immediately became agitated when he saw his elder brother, spoke loudly and wanted to get up, but fell back on the bed with a groan of pain , as if he touched an injured part of his body during the movement, Yang Zhi's face turned pale instantly, and cold sweat continued to ooze from his forehead.

"Hey, be careful, you are still injured, don't move casually, the injury will be more serious." Shen Fang, who was standing on the other side, saw Yang Zhi moving around, and hurriedly pressed him to warn.While carefully checking the painful part of him, fortunately, he only moved a little and did not break the sutured wound.After Shen Fang carefully examined Yang Zhi's injuries, the results she got were worrying.

As Yang Zhi is now, he can only rely on instruments to maintain his health. In addition, he has serious injuries and fractures all over his body. At this time, he must not move casually, and must cultivate quietly.

Now that there are so many zombies outside, with his body, staying here to cultivate is the safest way for Yang Zhi. If he moves out at will, it is likely to cause his sutured external wounds and unstable internal injuries. All made it worse.

After listening to Shen Fang's opinions and views on Yang Zhi's injury, Yang Yihang did not speak, and sat silently on the chair beside the bed, looking at Yang Zhi on the bed, feeling sad and puzzled in his heart: "How can you come out so well?" A car accident? Why..." Why did you leave a message preventing us from contacting the army?Why avoid going out from Dongjiang?Why?

"Brother... I really didn't expect you to come to see me..." Yang Zhi, who was warned by Shen Fang and lay quietly on the bed, leaned his back on the bed rails padded with a few pillows, sighed, and his eyes began to change. He stared blankly at the bed sheet in front of him in a daze, and opened his mouth as if talking to himself: "I thought I would die here, and I would never see you, brother, or my family again...Brother, I I know you wonder why I got into a car accident? At that time, my mind was blank, and I didn't pay attention to or care about everything that happened around me."

Like a memory, Yang Zhi began to talk about the reasons for all this: "I went out of the shopping mall and met Ning Jiang who was on the way, and they returned to the place where we were stationed together, and went to our superiors to ask for help. Said that there are still people in the shopping mall who need to be rescued, and there are people who are seriously injured and must be treated quickly. However, the superior rejected my request coldly, and said that we acted without authorization and violated the orders of the superiors. Not only is it impossible to rescue everyone, We also need to punish us soldiers who went to rescue operations. In fact, I don’t care if I am punished or not. As long as the superior can send someone to rescue you, no matter how much I stand outside the door and beg, it will have no effect. The superior still In order to prevent me from causing trouble or sneaking away to transfer people, I was ordered to drag me to confinement forcibly.”

"I was locked up all night, and early the next morning, because of the lack of manpower in the army, they released me and ordered me to do a secret mission, a secret mission that must not be disclosed to the outside world..." Said This task, Yang Zhi seemed to recall something, his eyes suddenly opened wide, staring straight at the empty air in front of him, the pain of being on the verge of collapse flashed faintly in his eyes.

"When Ning Jiang, who usually likes to talk and joke, led me to perform the mission with a complicated expression, I didn't know what the specific mission was. I just hope that I can perform well, so that my superiors are satisfied, and maybe I can let go of it." , to send someone to rescue you. But I never thought that the task would be like that..."

The genius in the morning is bright, and there is still a hint of coolness.Yang Zhi, Ning Jiang and many soldiers who came to carry out the mission lined up neatly, and were sent to lead a group of ordinary people waiting to cross the bridge that had settled down earlier to a room by the river that was spacious enough to gather thousands of people. in the large warehouse.After entering the warehouse, Yang Zhi faintly sensed some bad feelings, because on the concrete floor in the warehouse, the whole floor was wet with water stains left on the ground, and there was still a smell of The smell of blood that soldiers are all too familiar with.

The people who were arranged to walk into the warehouse and looked around curiously wondered why they had to go to a warehouse to gather without crossing the bridge, and they also wondered in their hearts that they blocked them in the warehouse after they came in soldiers.

The mother, who was still holding a crying young child in her arms, politely asked a soldier closest to her with a smile on her face: "Excuse me, I want to ask, when can we cross the bridge? My child It’s been a long time since I’ve had hot fresh milk, and I’d like to go over and buy powdered milk for him to drink.” However, the soldier in front of him stood like a rock, with a stiff expression, and refused to give the young mother any respond.

An old lady on the side also raised her head and asked the parents of the soldiers in front of her: "Little brother, I see you, you look exactly like my little grandson. My grandson is still studying abroad. Pity his parents died. It's early, I was an old man who worked hard to bring him up. Now he has grown up and is promising, and he knows how to be filial and calls me every day. There is an accident in the city these days, and I don't have time or place to call He called back, and after crossing the bridge today, I can quickly report to my grandson that he is safe. Little brother, how long are we going to wait here?"

And some restless adult men have already started to push and shoved the soldiers in front of them, asking loudly: "Why don't you let them go!! What are you doing? You don't want to shit when you come here What are you doing in the broken warehouse? Are you kidding us? Take us across the bridge and out of town!"

As the mood of the people became more and more irritable and the noise became louder, the senior military officer next to Yang Zhi who was in charge of supervising the task looked at the watch in his hand, and then asked the soldiers on the side to count with his eyes to confirm whether the number was complete , suddenly raised their hands high, and the soldiers around Yang Zhi neatly and quickly raised their machine guns, aiming at the rioting people in the warehouse.The originally noisy crowd became quiet at this moment...

"What... what are you going to do?" Swallowing, the people closest to the guns couldn't help shaking their limp feet, staring at so many real guns in front of them, and asked tremblingly.

With a cold face and an emotionless tone as if reciting lines, the senior officer shouted to everyone in the warehouse with his hoarse and piercing voice: "The ZF has an order that all people infected with the virus must be wiped out, and no one will be left behind." live."

Hearing this answer, the crowd trapped in the warehouse began to scream uncontrollably, pleading, refuting, and explaining repeatedly: "We are not infected! We are not!! We are safe!!! You want to Believe us! You really are not infected with the virus!! Don’t shoot, please!” However, no matter how anxiously the crowd shouted and explained, the raised hands and serious faces of the senior officers did not loosen at all. signs.

The sound of the soldiers pulling the safety catch of their guns finally made everyone realize that there was no room for explanation left to them.Everyone started to run around in panic, yelling and crying. Some people fell to the ground when they were pushed and shoved unpreparedly.

Before shooting, the situation in the warehouse is no different from the doomsday, chaos!There was only catastrophic chaos.Sitting down on the ground, Yang Zhi finally realized what mission he was here to perform. He angrily got up and grabbed the neatly buttoned collar of the senior officer, and shouted: "They are not infected with the virus! We cannot indiscriminately Kill the innocent!"

The senior officer's eyes just glanced at him, and Ning Jiang next to him immediately came over to drag the angry Yang Zhi away.

Said to him: "This is an order from the superior, and we must obey it."

"This is wrong! You can't kill them!! They are just ordinary people, not infected!" Yang Zhi, who wanted to struggle to stop him, was tightly held by Ning Jiang, preventing him from doing stupid things after struggling. impulsive move.

The senior officer looked back at him contemptuously, as if he had never seen such an impulsive and irrational soldier, and said coldly: "The superior said that they are infected, that is, they are infected, and they must be wiped out according to the order. Turning his head back, looking at the people running around but unable to escape the cement warehouse specially found for them, and absolutely unable to escape, the senior officer swung his hand that had been raised high , ordered loudly to all soldiers: "Shoot!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Yang Zhi covered his ears, his eyes were red, after breaking away from Ning Jiang, he slid and squatted on the ground leaning against the concrete wall behind, and shouted in pain: "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! !"

He only saw these innocent and innocent children in front of him, weak old people and women, all ordinary people who couldn't resist, were shot by machine guns without any strength, and fell to the ground in pieces. After a while, the ground of the spacious warehouse was already covered with rivers of blood, and many people who were still able to move in the pool of blood raised their hands and struggled and writhed among the dead, grabbing the air as if they were longing for something.However, these people who could still move were also aimed by the soldiers and continued to shoot, until the people on the ground fell into one piece, and no one could move anymore. The whole warehouse was like a purgatory on earth, a bloody purgatory.

When Yang Zhi came back to his senses again, the corpses on the ground had been dragged by other soldiers to another large room and burned collectively, and the burnt ash was buried in the soil for burial.The bloodstains on the floor of the warehouse were being washed into the drainage channel by the soldiers left behind with the tap water pipes, and the floor returned to the original gray cement floor. It was clean without any stains left, only that was still floating in the air. The strong smell of blood and the smell of gunpowder from the bullets indicate what happened here just now...

"Are you okay?" Ning Jiang knelt down and looked at Yang Zhi who was crouching by the wall with red eyes.

"Why? Why didn't you tell me? So we've been doing this all the time?" I thought they came here to protect the people to leave the city safely.Unexpectedly, they turned out to be demons who came to execute the killing.Lead these civilians who don't know anything and think they can go home safely, gather together in batches, and take them to kill batch by batch.

"The superior said that they were infected with the virus, and in order to prevent the spread, they must be killed..."

"Bullshit! Fucking shit! Ning Jiang, just tell the truth as a man, do you believe these words?" Yang Zhi grabbed Ning Jiang's clothes and raised them in front of his eyes. Yang Zhi looked directly into Ning Jiang's eyes angrily and questioned him.

Unnaturally, he turned his head away, his eyes dodged and missed Yang Zhi's sad and indignant gaze, and Ning Jiang sighed softly: "We are soldiers, and our bounden duty is to obey orders, no matter what it is..."

"Fucking shit!" Standing up and pushing Ning Jiang away, Yang Zhi turned around and ran outside.

"Where are you going?" Ning Jiang asked closely behind him with a worried face.

"I'm going to find my superior! I must ask clearly!" Yang Zhi gritted his teeth and shook off Ning Jiang, who was holding him back, and ran towards the superior's building.

……

"Hey, yes! Yes, leader, don't worry, we won't let the virus in City B spread out, that's right! We will guard the only exit that can go out. As long as people come over, we will arrange for them to They are all wiped out. Yes, yes! The leader is right! It is better to kill a hundred by mistake than to let one go. We will not let a person from City B go to other cities to spread the virus. Yes, yes, there are definitely enough bullets Yes, it is more than enough to wipe them all out. Hahaha! Well, leader, you can rest assured that we will successfully complete this task. Okay, okay, that's it, goodbye leader."

Even though they were on the phone, they all bent over and showed a flattering smile. After hanging up the phone, the moment they turned around, their expression returned to a condescending and contemptuous look.He took off the sultry military cap on his head and put it on the table. The hair on the top of his exposed head was sparse, and a few strands of intentionally long hair were purposely covered to cover his bald head in an attempt to keep his hair Look a little more.The middle-aged man in the uniform of the supreme executive army sternly asked the senior officer who was waiting by the side and had just returned from a mission to report: "How is it? Have you guys from the F team dealt with that group of people?"

"Report! Sir, our F team has already dealt with all the people assigned to us."

"That's good. The other teams should also deal with those people. There are too many people in City B, and they are divided into seven or eight teams to keep killing, and there are still people coming. Now even ZF's They are also urging us, asking us to get rid of all these people quickly, and none of them can let them go. Well, you go back, and hurry up to prepare for the next batch of people to clean up."

"Yes! Sir!" After saluting, the senior officer walked out of the office with standard military steps.

"Hmph! There are so many civilians, it's really troublesome and in the way." One person snorted coldly, and the top executive officer sat back on his chair. For those people who were innocently killed just to prevent the virus from spreading , just showing an expression of disgust and trouble, without any mercy.

Hiding out the window and hearing the truth about their mission, Yang Zhi was stunned.I have been working hard for my dream from childhood to adulthood, and finally became a soldier, just to be able to defend my family and the country.Although he really didn't want to spread the virus to all parts of the country, he couldn't accept that innocent people would be killed because of this, and his mind became confused for the first time.

Should he obey the army's inhumane mission to protect the people outside City B; or should he take the opportunity to release the people secretly and let them out, but it is very likely that the people outside will be infected?

Tortured by the sense of morality, justice, and the test and challenge of human nature, Yang Zhihuang became a little dazed. He pushed away Ning Jiang who had been persuading him all the time, and walked alone on the road without knowing what he was thinking. , walking...until he was knocked down to the ground by a car on rampage.

This is the end of the memories and narration. After listening to what Yang Zhi said, everyone finally understood the complex and complex feelings of guilt that Ning Jiang and Yang Zhi had been hesitating to talk about. Yang Yihang was still on the sidelines. Digest the truth about him, who has been a soldier for so many years, and it is difficult to accept.

"In short, if they find out now, they will be sent to other people, shot in secret and then burned and buried?" Wang Yang asked conclusively.

Yang Zhi on the bed paused, then nodded slowly.

"Damn, where are we going to escape? There are soldiers in the front and zombies in the back. The only waterway to get out is still guarded. They want to go to other places but can't get out. They are willing to give up only to kill us. ..." Wang Yang squatted on the ground, scratching his curly hair irritably, expressing his speechlessness for the current situation.