poor road [end times]

The owner of the vehicle was a pale man.

Like all survivors, his cheeks were thin and sunken, his eyes were cloudy and lifeless, and his whole body revealed the exhaustion that he had suffered for a long time in the last days.

This person was a resident of the first community they rescued, and Yang Yiqin had a deep impression of him.

Because that community was obviously bigger and had more buildings than the other community, but there were only three survivors.The three survivors were a man and two women, and the only one with a car was this man.

When fleeing to the meeting place, the man drove behind Feng Lin's car, Yang Yiqin turned his head to watch his surroundings, and remembered his face by the way.

Hearing Yang Yiqin's inquiry, the man saw no fluctuation in his lifeless eyes. He looked at Yang Yiqin slowly, as if he didn't understand the suspicion in the other person's eyes, looked directly at him, and said numbly, "Nothing."

His expression was in a daze, and his tone of voice was unwavering. It was too weird, but it seemed a bit untimely and natural, which made people subconsciously feel that he was telling the truth.

Yang Yiqin asked softly, "Really?"

The man repeats: "Nothing."

Yang Yiqin's expression was unclear, and his fingertips were still on the hood of the trunk.He closed his eyes slightly, feeling the elusive slight vibration under his fingertips, and confirmed that the suspicion just now was not an illusion.

Seeing this, Qian Guowei immediately took out his gun, pointed the gun at the man, and ordered in a deep voice: "Please open the trunk."

The man turned his head to look at him blankly, but didn't move.

He repeated again: "Nothing."

If it weren't for the lack of bites and scratches on his exposed skin, his pupils and skin would look like normal humans, and there would be no signs of mutation. This soulless appearance could almost seamlessly blend into zombies the masses.

Zhou Botao and others also reacted immediately, and quickly separated the other survivors to keep them away from the strange man and his car.Then he pointed his gun at the man vigilantly, so as to protect the safety of the survivors at any time.

Yang Yiqin asked, "Where are the car keys?"

Hearing this, the man finally made the first unexpected move—he took out a key from his pocket, and handed it to Qian Guowei who was closest to him, and when Qian Guowei reached out to pick it up, Suddenly he retracted his hands and raised his head, swallowing the key alive.

Qian Guowei didn't expect him to act like this, so he couldn't help being stunned for a moment, before stopping him in time.

But the keychain was huge, and besides the car keys, there were some small pendants hanging on it. It was not something that a human throat could swallow at all.If a man swallows forcefully, it will only slit his throat and esophagus.

Does this mean you don't want to live?

At this time, Feng Lin stepped forward with one step, and with his right palms joined together into a knife, he slashed at the man's back fiercely.

"Cough cough cough cough cough! Vomit..."

The man coughed violently, and coughed out the heavy keys stuck in his throat. The keys, mixed with saliva and blood, fell on the ground, covered in dirt, and extremely dirty.

Li Jiang put the pistol on his waist, walked over and grabbed the man, handcuffed him behind his back, and covered his mouth with a cloth ball to prevent him from biting his tongue and committing suicide.

Qian Guowei bent down to pick up the key, but was stopped by Yang Yiqin: "Captain Qian, don't take it."

The key was covered with saliva and blood, the man's complexion was unwell, his face was sickly, and his spirit was not normal. Even if he was not infected with the zombie virus, the possibility of other contagious diseases on his body could not be ruled out.

Qian Guowei stopped, then looked at the trunk of the vehicle with hesitation: "But..."

"It doesn't matter." Yang Yiqin just said, "We open it ourselves."

When he first discovered the abnormality, asking the car owner for the key was a necessary process, because they were just skeptical, and there was no definite evidence to prove whether the vehicle's trunk really contained "things" that endangered others.But now the various abnormalities of the car owner show that there are indeed things in the car that cannot be seen by others, so there is no need to pay attention to rules and manners at this time.

Reckless is over.

Qian Guowei didn't know, so he asked, "...Open it yourself? Do you have experience in picking locks?"

"No." Yang Yiqin shook his head, then looked at Feng Lin: "Are you sure you can open the trunk?"

Hearing this, Feng Lin silently put the ax in his hand on the roof of the car, then walked slowly to the rear of the car, and stretched his two wrists.He pressed the body with one hand, and clasped the handle of the trunk with the other, and then exerted a little force.

"Crack-"

It was the sound of the car lock being disconnected.

Yang Yiqin couldn't help but bend his eyes: "It's really so easy to open."

He noticed that in the recent period, Feng Lin hugged himself more and more cautiously, as if trying to control his emotions and strength.Therefore, it is reasonable to guess that after his evolution, the increase in strength may be far greater and more exaggerated than he imagined.

Li Jiang, Zhou Botao and others on the side were stunned.

"I didn't expect Feng Lin's strength to reach this level." Qian Guowei looked stunned, "The action of breaking the lock with brute force just now looks like he didn't use any strength."

"It was clever too." Feng Lin replied, while firmly pressing the back cover of the car with his hand, then looked at Yang Yiqin, and asked aloud, "Shall we open it now?"

Yang Yiqin looked around first, reminding Zhou Botao to protect the survivors and stay away from here, and then nodded to Feng Lin.

As soon as he nodded, Feng Lin opened the back of the car without hesitation, then took two steps back quickly, and stood side by side with Yang Yiqin, guarding against the upcoming unknown danger together.

The others were also on alert, cautiously looking at the contents of the trunk.

——It's a pity that the thing didn't have the chance to rush out and attack others.

Probably because he was afraid that the other party would make too much noise when he moved, and accidentally attract other people's attention, the male car owner deliberately tied up the other party's hands and feet tightly, covered his head with a thick sack, and stuffed it in a pile of In the cotton pulled out from the quilt.

Even though the things in the trunk were tightly bound, the head was covered, and balls of cotton blocked most of the body, everyone could still recognize it as a humanoid object at a glance.Everyone took a closer look, and found that the man's bare arm was bruised and purple like blood, and there was a bite wound that had festered long ago on the right thigh, and maggots could be vaguely seen wriggling in the wound.

Accompanied by the slight sound of teeth grinding, the strong smell of blood and rancidity gradually spread in the air.

Even if the sack on the thing's head was not removed, everyone present could be certain that it was a zombie.

The zombie's struggling movements were not large, and it only twisted from time to time, squeezing the cotton under its body tightly.I have to say that the car owner's behavior of binding and stuffing cotton is quite useful, which minimizes the noise made by the zombies, and when the trunk of the car is closed, it is almost impossible to detect any abnormalities.

Moreover, Qian Guowei had said long ago that in order not to scare the survivors, thinking that they and Shan Liang were on the same side, he allowed them to hide and handle their supplies at will.In contrast, they will not enforce the search of survivors' supplies, including vehicles.

If Yang Yiqin hadn't happened to hear a slight movement and decided to trust his intuition and five senses, when everyone discovered this thing again, the tragedy would not be far away.

Qian Guowei stepped forward, ready to remove the sack from the zombie's head.

Seeing this scene, the male car owner who was gagged and handcuffed seemed to have come to his senses, suddenly his face was red and blue veins popped up, and he whimpered and groaned in the direction of the car.Although the man looked thin and weak, he was not weak. Li Jiang, who was guarding him, underestimated the enemy for a while, and almost broke away.

Li Jiang quickly pulled him back, and immediately reported to Qian Guowei: "Captain, this person is a bit strange. He may have mutated, so his strength is stronger than it looks."

Zhou Botao was surprised: "Has he also evolved?"

Just looking at the appearance, the other party is a gloomy and thin middle-aged man, it is easy for people to ignore and let their guard down.

"I can't tell. Although it's stronger than it looks, I can still hold it down." Li Jiang also handcuffed the opponent's ankles, and then continued, "The possibility of the opponent's own strength is not ruled out."

At this moment, Yang Yiqin said, "Perhaps this is his trump card."

Li Jiang was puzzled: "The killer's mace?"

"Pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger." Yang Yiqin only said, "It's convenient to achieve my own goals."

Qian Guowei no longer hesitated, and lifted the bulging sack on the zombie's head.

Probably to isolate the roar of the zombies, the sack also has sound insulation measures. Anyway, the zombies don't need to breathe, so the car owner stuffed it densely with cotton and cloth strips.As soon as the sack was removed, the stuffing fell out in a messy heap.

The crowd looked intently.

"hiss--"

The survivors who were watching from the side gasped in unison.

From the appearance of this zombie, it can be inferred that it should have been a woman in her teens.

It has dyed yellow curly hair, as if it has been specially taken care of by someone, and it is not messy.Its eyeballs were covered with red bloodshot eyes, and there was clearly no wound on its face, but it was covered with blood plasma and meat paste.

Just because it is slowly chewing half of a person's palm.

The debris that obscured the sense of smell and hearing disappeared suddenly, and the zombie's ferocious eyes looked at the fresh and living food in front of them, and suddenly spat out half of the palm in its mouth, and roared hungrily at them.

The survivors who watched were taken aback. Even though they knew that the zombies were bound and unable to move, they all took a few steps back.

"It seems that a prefix needs to be added." Yang Yiqin said softly, "It's a raised zombie."

Qian Guowei looked gloomy, looked at the male car owner, and said sharply, "What's going on?"

Li Jiang pulled out the cloth from the male car owner's mouth.

The man's mouth regained its freedom, but he suddenly stopped struggling and moaning, and only quietly looked at the zombie in the trunk.His eyes were still as numb and silent as ever, without a trace of emotion, he looked more like a walking dead than the zombies in the car.

Seeing that he was not cooperating, Qian Guowei raised his voice and said, "Answer!"

His serious and loud voice made other people on the playground tremble, but the man remained unmoved.

The man seemed to give up, he didn't struggle or argue, he just looked at the zombie blankly.

Seeing the half of the hand that fell next to the roaring zombie's cheek, a thoughtful question suddenly flashed in Yang Yiqin's mind: "Captain Qian, haven't we told you that the neighborhood this man lives in is bigger than the other neighborhood?" Quite a few."

Qian Guowei was in a state of anger. After hearing Yang Yiqin's words, he couldn't react: "Is there any problem?"

"Since the men's community is much larger than the other community..." Yang Yiqin lowered his eyes and looked at the zombie's bloody face, "Then why, there are only three survivors left in their community ?”

Is it really just a coincidence?

At that time, he and Feng Lin specifically asked these people if there were any other survivors in the community, and they all said they didn't know.Is there a possibility that other people's "no" is a reasonable guess and hope that the army will take him away as soon as possible, while the "no" said by the male car owner is that he has specifically investigated his neighborhood?

When Li Jiang heard this, goosebumps arose: "...No way?"

"I think so." Yang Yiqin continued, "Otherwise, where did the palm in its mouth come from?"

Compared with the body of the dead, zombies prefer to eat living people, and they will never attack or eat another zombie.

In fact, the moment they saw the zombie, everyone had a vaguely reasonable guess in their hearts.But the facts are too horrifying. Even if people's reason has extracted the truth, it is difficult to accept it emotionally.

Reality is supplemented by imagination, and several survivors with relatively weak endurance retched on the spot.

Zhou Botao quickly guided the survivors to the second-floor building.

Seeing that the car owner refused to enter, Qian Guowei pointed his gun at the screaming zombie in the trunk: "I will give you one more chance to tell what you have done and why you are here, otherwise let this Only zombies can't even leave a whole body."

Tang Yongke also added embellishments and said, "Your bodies will be disposed of separately, and one will be thrown to the east and the other to the west."

The reason why he threatened the man so much was because the man had already foreseen his own destiny, so he behaved so calmly.But from his behavior of raising zombies, it can be seen that he cares about this zombie very much, and he does not hesitate to feed it against human nature.

Then there must be no problem starting from the zombies.

Sure enough, after hearing what they said, the man finally reacted.

His eyes blinked, focusing on the few people in front of him.After looking around for a week, Nana fixed his eyes on Yang Yiqin, his eyes gradually stained with a layer of gray hatred: "Your intuition is very sensitive."

Yang Yiqin: "Thank you for the compliment."

The man looked unmoved, the hatred in his eyes gradually condensed into insidiousness, and his face was distorted and ferocious like nervous.

Feng Lin's eyes were fierce, and he stepped forward to block his sight.

The man continued: "If it weren't for you, my plan would have succeeded."

"What's your plan?" Qian Guowei frowned, and said in a bad tone, "The plan to bring zombies into the gathering place and infect other survivors?"

"Oh." The man mocked lightly, "You shouldn't have come."

Qian Guowei's tone was cold and firm: "It's not up to you."

Although the man reacted, he didn't follow everyone's train of thought, but murmured to himself: "What can I do, my daughter wants to eat..."

Hearing this indirect acknowledgment of what he had done, Qian Guowei couldn't help but clenched the gun in his hand.

"The number of survivors is too small. Originally, there were only two people left in the community. Now that the army comes and rescues those two survivors, she will have nothing to eat." Speaking of which, the man Shaking his head full of pity, "I'm going to starve to death, and she's going to starve to death too, so I might as well go with you."

Qian Guowei is upright, strict and gentle in nature, and rarely gets angry.But since he came to Qingshi, he was angry more and more every time.

He roared: "What do you think of the lives of other survivors?!"

"Of course it's food, my daughter's food." The man was already crazy, and he even laughed in a low voice, "Everyone here is also food, as long as she is released quietly at night, she will definitely be able to eat very happily."

By this time, everyone knew exactly what he was thinking.

They will definitely arrange people to take turns to watch at night.

But there is always one thing in every secret, in case the man quietly releases the zombies to "look for food" when everyone is most defenseless, and unfortunately infects other survivors.Even if they control the situation in time and kill the zombies and the bitten people, huge losses will definitely occur.

When we met for the first time, the owner of the car looked like a wooden man who had nothing to love. Qian Guowei thought he was hit too hard by the end of the world, and planned to find someone to talk to him later to make him feel at ease. Now it seems that the numbness is completely cold-blooded Ruthless lead.

Seeing that he did not repent, Li Jiang, who was holding him down, snapped and said, "Your daughter has mutated and is no longer a human being. You kept her by your side and never thought that she would pounce on you one day?!"

I don't know what came to mind, the man suddenly started to cry crazily, and murmured to himself indiscriminately: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, just eat it, anyway, everyone is dead, no one can live. I'm tired too , I can’t fool so many people into giving her food, isn’t it that the living have to finish eating? But every day makes troubles... every day makes troubles... Obviously my wife asked me to take good care of my daughter before she died, I can’t do it, really I can't do it..."

It's not that he doesn't know about the behavior of coming to the gathering place. There is a high probability that the father and daughter will die together, but he and his daughter will die sooner or later, just like the living people in the community will be eaten up sooner or later.

In this case, it is better to have a good meal before death.

Qian Guowei asserted: "Crazy."

After speaking, he gestured to Li Jiang.Li Jiang understood, and decisively ended the man's life with a knife.

Qian Guowei went to the trunk and stuck the knife into the zombie's eyes.

"Bengkai people are everywhere." Yang Yiqin said slowly, "Captain Qian, for safety's sake, I think all survivors' supplies should be checked."

"Do as you said, and the original survivors will also be investigated."

Due to Shan Liang's oppressive enslavement, the original survivors generally don't have much stuff, and they can check it out soon.

The inspection was left to Qian Guowei and the others, while Yang Yiqin and his team flew out in a helicopter again while it was still dark, and rescued more than a dozen survivors again after more than an hour.

This time, when they were in the community, they simply checked everyone's vehicles in advance to make sure that they were not carrying anything threatening.When everyone returned to Qingshi Primary School, the rest of the people conducted a more rigorous investigation on them, down to the detail that they never let go of a single package. No one knows whether there are poisonous or harmful objects hidden in the package.

At first, some people objected that the other party deprived them of their privacy.

At this time, Yang Yiqin asked them to see the zombie corpse that had not been processed, explained the reason clearly, and told them that they could choose not to cooperate, but they would be sent back to the original community.

When explaining the reason to those people, several people showed unconcerned expressions, but when the words "send back to the original community" were mentioned, they immediately changed their attitudes, saying that they would definitely cooperate with the inspection.

In order to restrain these divergent survivors, Qian Guowei decided to gradually implement strict militarized management on them from the next day.

After the hot big pot meal, the seven of Qian Guowei held a meeting on the playground and exchanged ideas on how to save lives while the cold wind was blowing.The reason why they don't go to the teaching building to discuss is because they still have to be vigilant about the situation outside the school.

After experiencing all kinds of things that happened today, they are not at ease handing over the work of vigil to those survivors.

People can't tense their nerves for a long time, and the tasks of going out to save people need to be carried out alternately.Yang Yiqin summarized the specific essentials of their two rescues, carefully informed other people who did not go, and analyzed the problems encountered during the rescue process, as well as some matters that need attention.

Tang Yongke and another pilot listened very carefully.

After the communication, Qian Guowei said: "It's nine o'clock at night, seven of us will take turns to watch the night tonight, and each group will watch for three hours - Yang Yiqin and Feng Lin are in one group, Tang Yongke and I are in one group, and the remaining three A group."

"clear."

"Well, today, Yang Yiqin and Feng Lin are the two young people who will watch the first half of the night. Tomorrow, the order of the three groups will be reversed clockwise."

"it is good."

After ordering the important things, Qian Guowei and others went to rest first.

The night in Qing City was much colder than that in Bei City. Yang Yiqin and Feng Lin put on thick coats and patrolled the area between the school gate and the playground with weapons, keeping an eye out for the situation inside and outside the school.

The first floor of the small second floor was lit with fire, some survivors lit candles, and the shadows in the classroom were projected on the windows.Candles are also considered scarce supplies, and the man only lit them for a short while, and quickly extinguished them after finding what he needed.

A starless and moonless night, quiet and dark.

Fearing that the light of the flashlight would attract hordes of zombies, the two only used night vision goggles to look around.

The two walked side by side.

"Will anyone want to become a monster? Anyway, I don't want to. It would be more dignified to die generously." Yang Yiqin suddenly asked jokingly, "What are you going to do if I become a zombie?"

Hearing this, even though he couldn't see his eyes under the night vision goggles, Feng Lin still stubbornly turned his head to look at the position of his eyes, and couldn't stop talking without surprising him.

"Then I will die with you."

Yang Yiqin froze for a moment, then smiled and said, "Then I have to live well."

"Yes." Feng Lin assured again tirelessly, "I will protect you."

"me too."

"it is good."

Survivors who have no fighting power and no shelter in a safe zone are just lambs to be slaughtered.The two of them were luckier than most people, escaped the indiscriminate large-scale infection, and possessed the ability to fight against the end times from the very beginning.

This ability not only protects the one you love, but also protects the people you meet.

That being the case, it is even more important to live well.

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