Undead

"Can you persist?" Chuncao didn't answer.

After several hours of stressful delivery, Dr. Zheng was almost exhausted. He was holding a crying baby in his arms, and a gasping mother on his back. The heavy weight seemed to give him endless courage. , affirmed: "Yes!"

Si Nan said softly: "Be careful and go upstairs."

Chuncao led the way, the doctor was in the middle, and Sinan was in the back. Taking advantage of the short gap between the zombies going up from the first floor to the third floor, they tried their best to move to the higher floors.

However, even with all their efforts, this survival team still has no speed at all. The footsteps of the zombies dragging downstairs are getting closer and closer, and finally there is a wail at the corner at the end of the corridor, and the zombies are catching up!

Simon: "Fire!"

Chuncao turned around sharply, took aim, and the two pulled the trigger at the same time.

Dr. Zheng was a civilian in a peaceful era. He screamed in fright when the bullets exploded in an instant. In a trance, he felt someone pulling him hard, but in this dark night environment where bullets were flying everywhere, he couldn't even tell whether it was a human or a zombie. , can only subconsciously protect the child tightly.

"Run! Run, run!!" After a few seconds, he finally heard someone roaring in his ear, it was Chuncao: "Stairs! Go upstairs!!"

Dr. Zheng ran forward with his mother behind his back. Chuncao and Sinan used high firepower to suppress the group of zombies while dragging him to the stairs.However, when he was about to go upstairs, Chuncao suddenly yelled in a different tone: "There are zombies here too! Be careful!"

Si Nan stood in the corridor, while pouring bullets at the zombies in the corridor on this floor, he glanced at the lower stairs on the left.

I saw another group of zombies howling and walking up staggeringly under the light of the continuous spewing fire from the guns!

The situation suddenly turned into a pincer attack from left to right, which was simply the extreme point.Si Nan turned his gun and shot downstairs, forming a back-to-back defensive posture with Chuncao, and ordered Dr. Zheng without looking back: "Go up! Run upstairs!"

However, Dr. Zheng was carrying one on his back and holding the other on his back. There was loud gunshots in front of him, and bullet casings were flying everywhere in the dark night. He was not too young, and he almost tripped and fell down the stairs after running two steps.

Wang Wen tried her best to open her eyes.

It was obviously very dark, but she could still see her daughter's face with the gunfire behind her and a ray of moonlight leaking from nowhere.

The baby was so small, so delicate, his face was flushed, and he kept crying and crying.

She laughed and stretched out her hand as hard as she could.

This is my baby's little face.

This is my baby's little hand.

This is my baby's leg, kicking really hard.

Nice, she thought.My baby will definitely grow up strong, unlike her useless mother, who is about to die and drags down so many capable and kind people in the world.

Dr. Zheng grabbed the handrail and barely climbed up the last step. Before he could stand still, he suddenly felt a cold hand patted his back.

That was actually a bit scary, but at the critical moment, he didn't even react. He heard Wang Wen's hoarse and weak voice close to his ear, and said two words: "Run."

Immediately after the weight on his back lightened, Wang Wen actually struggled down.

"Don't—" Dr. Zheng realized something, and roared in an instant, seeing the black figure leaning forward and falling straight down from the half-person-high stair railing!

Chuncao turned her head sharply: "No!!"

With a bang, Wang Wen fell heavily into the crowd of zombies!

Chuncao and Dr. Zheng were stunned as the fresh flesh stopped the zombies swarming upstairs.

"...Run, run," Sinan roared tremblingly, "Don't look, run—!"

After just half a second of freezing, the three of them rolled and crawled, taking advantage of the gap between the zombies scrambling to eat their flesh and blood, they rushed upstairs in one go!

There were ten floors in the dormitory, Dr. Zheng staggered with the child in his arms, Sinan and Chuncao ran with him almost from left to right, and quickly reached the top.

After all, the speed of the zombies was not as fast as that of the living. When they reached the top floor, they could hardly hear the rustling footsteps of the zombies, only hollow howls sounded from all directions, echoing in the stairwell for a long time.

The top floor may have been the dormitory of the former boss of the fertilizer factory, and there was an iron gate blocking the corridor.Si Nan opened the lock with a single shot, letting Dr. Zheng and Chuncao go in first, then quickly moved debris from the stairwell to block the iron gate as much as possible.

"Sinan, hurry up! This way!"

Chuncao opened up a dormitory in the middle of the corridor, which contained a rather large suite with sofas and potted plants.Dr. Zheng collapsed as soon as he entered, slumped on the ground holding the baby, and he didn't even have the strength to get up.

Sinan locked the door, and Chuncao and others pushed the sofa, furniture and other things, blocking the doorway in a mess.

"Wow...wow..."

After quieting down, the baby's crying became very obvious. Before Dr. Zheng could coax her, Chuncao sat down on the ground and burst into uncontrollable tears: "Why is she jumping?"

Si Nan sat slumped in the corner, panting violently and covering his eyes.

"Why seek death? She just gave birth to a child, how can she bear it?"

The baby seemed to be infected with the sadness and despair of the adults, and kept waving his hands and kicking his feet, crying hoarsely.Chuncao took the child and hugged her tightly, feeling very sad: "We are willing to protect her, why should we seek death? Maybe we can still live, and we haven't reached the point of no return yet!"

Dr. Zheng covered his face, his shoulders kept shaking, and he lifted his teary face and sighed after a while: "If the zombies come up later, I...let me lead them away, and you run away with the children quickly. You are soldiers." , is more effective than me, an ordinary person, and has a greater hope of survival..."

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Chuncao retorted fiercely: "You are a doctor, and there are more people who need you, you know?!"

Dr. Zheng said dejectedly: "I'm a useless doctor. If I help her give birth faster, if I run faster on her back, things won't happen. In the final analysis, it's because I'm useless, I..."

"Don't you say that I'm the most damned?" Suddenly, Sinan said coldly in the corner, "I'm nothing but a volunteer."

Doctor Zheng and Chuncao stopped at the same time: "Shut up!"

"So don't say such things until the end, maybe Zhou Rong will come to pick us up later." Si Nan took a breath and reminded: "Hurry up and calm the child."

——Will Captain Zhou really come back, in this situation of corpses?

Doctor Zheng's lips moved, but he didn't raise the question, and was immediately attracted by the crying baby.

It is a good thing that a 32-week-old premature baby can cry so forcefully, but zombies retain their basic biological instincts and will chase sound and blood. If they continue to cry like this, they will be attracted sooner or later.

A large group of zombies can knock down the iron door on the ground floor, how long can the debris in the stairwell and the locked door stop them?Once the zombies seek to chase after them, the three of them plus a child, there is no doubt that they will wait to die!

Dr. Zheng was in a hurry, took the baby from Chuncao, paced back and forth in his arms, and kept coaxing her in a low voice: "Be good, be good, don't cry, go to sleep, go to sleep, be good..."

However, the child was born without a sip of milk, and the more he cried, the hoarse he was, and he was almost breathless.With such a small baby, she couldn't help crying, and covering her mouth would definitely suffocate her to death. Dr. Zheng was trembling, and was in a dilemma for a while.

"It's about to come up," Sinan raised his head and whispered with his ear on the floor.

"Wow...Wow..."

The baby's urgent cry became a reminder for everyone. Dr. Zheng and Chuncao looked at each other, and the situation became more and more urgent as time passed.

"Give it to me," Sinan said.

Dr. Zheng subconsciously: "What are you going to do?!"

Si Nan pulled off the bed sheet, tore it into cloth strips, and tied the baby to his chest, tied the knot, and opened the window to look down.

The open space in front of the dormitory was densely packed with zombies, and it was hard to see how many there were.In the distance, the entire factory area has become a sea of ​​zombies. There may be tens of thousands of zombies in this formation, and they are still surging to the south.

Si Nan turned his head and looked up. On the top of the window was the drainpipe, and above that was the protruding roof.

"Too...too dangerous..." Dr. Zheng trembled.

Sinan tightened the gun shoulder strap, fixed the submachine gun on his shoulder, spit into the palm of his hand, and rubbed his hands together.

"Stay indoors, don't make a sound, Chuncao will take care of the doctor." He simply ordered: "Everyone, wait for Zhou Rong to come back and save us."

Then, under the tense gaze of Chuncao and the doctor, half of his body leaned out of the window, grabbed the drainpipe with his hooked hands, tested the gravity, and pulled up suddenly.

Dr. Zheng: "Ah!" Then he immediately covered his mouth tightly.

Chuncao leaned out of the window, ready to reach out to meet someone at any time.However, Sinan twisted his waist in mid-air, bent sideways, hooked onto the railing of the roof with his excellent flexibility, and then supported his body with the strength of one leg. His movements were as beautiful as a gymnast, and he grabbed the drainpipe on the top of the window and jumped up!

boom!

He also grabbed the railing of the roof with his hand, turned over and jumped up!

For a moment, he and the baby were completely in the air, and the only fulcrum they had was their ankle hooked between the gaps in the railing.Chuncao's heartbeat almost stopped, until Sinan's voice came from above her head: "It's done!" Then she suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Don't be afraid!" Si Nan stood on the roof and shouted, "Close the door and keep quiet!"

The baby was crying out of breath in his arms, and Sinan didn't know how to comfort her, so he politely rubbed her belly with two fingers, and strode towards the top floor and the only passage to the roof - the skylight.

The skylight is covered with wooden boards, and after the wooden boards are lifted, there is a wooden ladder. The workers’ dormitory facilities are old, and the cleaners who usually clean the roof use this wooden ladder to go up and down.

Zombie groups poured into the building continuously, and they were already very close to the floor they were on.The loud cry of the baby was like a signal to start the meal, and more and more zombies rushed upstairs, staggering towards the wooden ladder with their bodies covered in rot and blood.

Si Nan picked up the submachine gun, and just before he pulled the trigger, he suddenly remembered something. He tore off the corner of his clothes, twisted them into two small balls, carefully stuffed them into the baby's ears, and then shot the ladder in bursts.

"Hooho-"

"Hoohoho-!"

The group of zombies was smashed by two wooden ladders, roared unwillingly, and waved their hands upward desperately.

Under the stares of many living dead, Sinan slammed the board shut and heaved a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, the old-fashioned building is really backward. He just noticed that there is no safety ladder between the corridors to the roof. Otherwise, unless the baby is strangled to death, everyone will have to finish playing today.

It was already 04:30 in the morning, the darkest time before dawn, the moon was setting in the western sky, the stars were hidden, and the earth was like an abyss with a bloody mouth open.

Si Nan was shivering from the cold, and looked at his multifunctional military watch, it was minus six degrees.

The baby did not have a thick swaddle, and his face was already blue from the cold, and his crying was much weaker.He hugged the baby, found a slightly sheltered corner and sat down, nestled his body into a ball as much as possible, pressed the baby's small body between his chest and abdomen, wrapped his arms around him, and tried his best to maintain the fragile life in his arms with his body temperature.

At 32 weeks, her gastrointestinal, cardiopulmonary functions are not yet fully developed, and she has experienced so many ups and downs since she was born. It really makes people dare not think whether she can survive.

"You have to live," Sinan murmured, "Your mother is watching us from the sky."

He glanced at the child's head with soft lanugo, wondering if the girl was hungry, but he didn't dare to ask Dr. Zheng downstairs, lest they would attract the zombies if they made a noise.After thinking about it for a while, he didn't have any good solution. It's hard for a smart woman to cook without rice, so he had to lick his ring finger clean, and he used it as a simple disinfection, and then used it as a pacifier for the baby.

The newborn has a very strong survival instinct, and he actually sucked it twice, but nothing came out, and he felt cheated, "Wow!" and cried even more fiercely.

"Oh, I'll go," Si Nan thought, "This little girl is quite picky."

Heartbroken, he bit his index finger, squeezed out the blood, and leaned over to feed the baby.

At least there was warm liquid this time, the baby sucked it twice with his small mouth moving, and then started again: "Wow—" But the crying sound seemed to be quieter, at least not as heart-piercing as before.

Si Nan had no other choice but to keep pumping blood while praying for the girl's gastrointestinal function.Soon the ring finger couldn't be squeezed out, so I replaced it with the little finger, and then the ring finger of the other hand; the baby choked and held his fingertips, as if sucking the mother's milk, gradually calmed down, and became somewhat docile. mean.

Blood is nutritious anyway, and it should be able to satisfy a momentary hunger, but old feeding is definitely not enough.Sinan was afraid that if the child did not drink blood, it would be troublesome if he got gastroenteritis caused by the bacteria on his hands. Every time before feeding her, he carefully licked his fingers clean, and the result was that his mouth smelled like gunpowder.

05:30am.

The night is slightly lighter, and the sky is slightly ambiguous.Looking down from the top of the building, the mountain of corpses crowded last night was slightly clearer, and the devastated factory area showed a hazy outline.

Sinan's consciousness was a little drowsy, he shivered, and put the baby in his arms again.

Will Zhou Rong come back?

In fact, he is not very grounded.

Zhou Rong's motivation for coming back is actually untenable, but there are many reasons for not coming back.He must send anti-virus materials and serum to the South China Sea. He must lead the team to protect the safety of the two trucks of survivors. He is the leader of the special forces squadron. Anyone with a little brain really shouldn't come back at this moment.

But he is Zhou Rong.

He is the Zhou Rong who laughs and scolds, is domineering, carries hope forward in this dark world, and makes everyone in the team obey with their lives.

Sinan let out a long breath of white air, looked up into the distance, and wandered aimlessly in the sea of ​​zombies.

This was the umpteenth time he had repeated this action in the past hour, but this time, his sight suddenly froze.

At the end of the road in the distance, the bright lights of the car suddenly flashed, and with the roar of the engine, it approached from far away.The group of zombies were twisted into the chassis before they could dodge in time, and the long road of carrion and broken bones was endless behind the rear of the car.

The front of the car pointed directly at the isolated island of the chemical fertilizer factory that was completely surrounded in the vast sea, and then the window of the car was lowered, revealing a dark shoulder-fired mortar——

boom!

As soon as the shells arrived, the corpses exploded, and countless living dead were torn apart and thrown away!

The flames were like gorgeous fireworks blooming under the night, pushing forward against the overwhelming tide of corpses.Gunpowder smoke fills the air, gunfire flies, and the headlights are like a sharp knife from the end of the long night, splitting the sea of ​​death and flesh and blood, cutting through thorns and thorns between heaven and earth, invincible.