Undead

06:08AM

The morning of the third day.

Zhou Rong paralyzed on the eaves, and at the moment when the eastern sky turned green, he exhaled exhaustedly.

There are 21 bullets left, four grenades, one tactical knife and one dagger, one assault rifle and one pistol.

All the water was exhausted.

Although he was at the end of his strength, he actually spent two long nights in the city of zombies. Even Zhou Rong felt that there was some kind of power protecting him in the dark.

But is Simon still alive?

Looking at the vast sea of ​​corpses, which corner of the city is he hiding in?

Zhou Rong glanced at his watch, 36 hours had passed since Sinan disappeared.

—Has he become disheartened, has given up hope, has even... died?

No, it won't - although there is no basis, Zhou Rong inexplicably thinks that Sinan will not be killed so easily.The biggest possibility is that he was unarmed and unable to break through, and gradually lost confidence in the return of the 118th team to pick him up, and he didn't know where to hide in a corner to wipe his tears; heliport.

Persevere, Zhou Rong clenched his back molars and forced himself to sit up.

If there is no result after searching for 48 hours, take a gamble and set off to the airport. According to the actual situation, you can decide whether to sit back and wait, or drive an armored vehicle back to the city to continue the search.

"Hold on." He murmured, not knowing whether it was to himself or to Sinan who was smiling and waving at him in the void.

"As long as you persevere, we will always meet again."

Zhou Rong tightened the bandage on his left thigh, and was chased by the zombie horde until he had nowhere to escape and could only jump off the tree. As a result, the wound larger than a slap pierced by the branch was no longer bleeding.The dirty and yellow bandages left only dark coagulated blood stains, which looked a little scary at first glance, but fortunately, it didn't affect the movement.

Zhou Rong jumped off the roof tiles with a loudspeaker in hand, ignoring the zombies that were gathering just a few feet away, and jumped from the treetops to the street, just as he was about to continue roaring loudly, his footsteps stopped suddenly.

——In the far corner of the street, a man with his back turned to him was walking into a hardware store and shot dead zombies that came out of the store one by one.

The man was wearing a hoodie, and his back was extremely majestic. Zhou Rong sized him up and thought he might be half a head taller than himself.What's more, that man's Yao Ming-like height is paired with Tyson-like muscles. From such a long distance, it makes people feel like watching the rocky mountain move on the flat ground.

There are still living people?

Zhou Rong pondered for a moment, without revealing himself, and followed silently.

·

"……what……!"

Romuel turned over and pressed Sinan: "—Jane!"

The female Alpha rushed into the room quickly, pinned Sinan's leg, and pressed her whole body to the ground, with her left handcuffed to the edge of the bed. The whole series of movements were extremely skillful, as if they had been repeated many times in the past day and night.

Si Nan frowned, curled up his body as hard as he could, and let out a painful roar.Romuel signaled the female Apha named Jane to go out, then straddled Sinan, suppressed all his struggles, squeezed his chin and shouted: "Noah! Look at me!"

Si Nan turned a deaf ear.

"Noah!"

Romuel pressed against his ear, repeatedly yelling orders, the volume was so loud that even the dead could be woken up.After several minutes, Si Nan's inhuman hoarse panting gradually stopped, and he opened his eyes in a daze.

"Look at me!" Romuel roared.

"..."

"What do you remember?" Romuel forced his eyes into his bloodshot eyes, and asked word by word: "How did you connect with the military of country C when you were at White Eagle Base? Where is the ultimate antibody? tell me!"

Sinan moved his lips.However, he had not had any food or water for more than ten hours in a row, and the continuous high-intensity interrogation made him extremely tired, and it was difficult for him to even speak out.

Romuel made a glass of sugar water with maple syrup, came back and half-kneeled beside him, condescendingly said: "Drink it."

Simon turned his head away.

"Drink!"

no answer.

"It's the same as chocolate, isn't it?" Romuel finally gave up trying and asked coldly.

Si Nan had no intention of responding at all, and closed his eyes.

The silent refusal made Romuel helpless. He shattered the maple syrup glass so hard that glass shards splashed all over the floor.

The shabby room was very quiet for a while, with the cold wind blowing through the window, other than that, Romuel was forced to suppress his angry gasps.

The suffocating stalemate lasted for several minutes.

"... Well, I admit it." Romuel said again, unexpectedly, he was not very angry, and the ending sound could even be called calm and self-control.He said: "OK, I admit, the chocolate thing is my mistake."

——In Romuel's life, there are only a handful of times when he uttered the words "I was wrong", and even his own father may not have heard it twice.

But Si Nan was indifferent.

"I shouldn't have punished you by asking you to turn on the electric shock device and use chocolate as an inducement method when you were extremely weak."

"——But you know," Romul paused, and then said coldly: "Being bitten by a zombie in the test scene would have been punished. As specially trained fighters, you and I have both experienced it." .While it is true that the intensity of your simulation is greater than that of anyone within the White Eagle Force, and you consider the use of food as an inducement to be an insult...”

Simon didn't respond.

"Are you listening to me?"

"..."

Romuel took a deep breath to control his emotions: "Your childish persistence is meaningless, Noah. Suppose you are starving to death now, and there is only a piece of chocolate in front of you, and you will die if you don't eat it. Will you still insist on this pale and ridiculous personality to me?"

What he didn't expect was that Sinan opened his eyes, turned his head, and said with a smile, "No way."

——The short three words were so hoarse and inflected that they could hardly be heard, but the slightly curved arc of the corner of the mouth was real, and Romuel was stunned.

"I've been eating chocolate for a long time." Sinan said, with an undisguised malice in his smile: "Someone gave it to me two days ago, and I ate a big piece."

Romuel didn't know what to say and froze there.

Si Nan sat on the ground, resting his head and neck on the edge of the bed again, as if those two words had exhausted all his strength.

In Noah's true nature, there is a deeply extreme and inexplicable side, which Romuel has always known.If you insist on comparing him with normal people, he actually looks like a child in some aspects, and he is still very naive and vengeful.

He hated others and hated himself.

When he was unbearably hungry, because of the extremely strong demand for the inducer-chocolate, he was willing to accept Romuel's conditions, press the electric shock device himself, and endure the double torture of physical pain and mental humiliation.

But he will also develop a stress disorder later, and since then completely refuse chocolate, and even vomit reflexively whenever he eats this kind of food.

Romuel observed that his vomiting, like some anorexias, was initially forced upon him out of self-punishment and disgust.But it soon turned into a real stress reaction, and at one point couldn't even touch anything chocolate-flavored at all.

——Paranoid, self-control, stubborn.Once you identify something, you will continue to strengthen your self-awareness, which will be deeply burned into your mind and catalyzed into a part of your acting instinct.

This personality usually does not change.

Romuel never expected that his so-called younger brother would one day be able to overthrow his self-consciousness—if he hadn't lied.

Something moved deep in Romuel's heart, as if he wanted to try something, but hesitated to speak.

After a long while, he coughed with complicated meaning, and pulled down the zipper of the jacket, revealing a corner of the inner scarf: "...Noah."

"Look at this, Noah." He squeezed Sinan's chin to make him look at him, but this time his hand was softer: "Do you remember?"

It was a very ordinary dark gray cashmere scarf with no pattern, and the texture was very thin, and the edges had been frayed due to old relationships. In fact, it didn't quite match Romuel's upper-class elite temperament.

Simon glanced at it.

"The year my mother died, I flew from New York to Los Angeles to attend her funeral, and you were there." Romuel said slowly: "After the funeral, I walked into the woods alone, it was raining, and suddenly you came over , gave me this scarf..."

"'Isn't it cold to stay like this?' At that time you asked me like this. And my response was to shake off the scarf with my hand and tell you to get out angrily. You didn't speak any more, looked at me for a while, turned and walked out of the woods."

Many years later, Romuel could still clearly recall all the details of that scene, including his brother's pale face wrapped in a black coat, his eyelashes that were extra wet from the fine rain, and when he turned away without saying a word, The arc of the hem of the clothes in the air.

The reason why it was so impressive was that it was the first time in Noah's life that he took the initiative to speak to him with such a soft attitude.

But that was also the last time, so Romuel never had the chance to verify the conjecture he repeated countless times later—if he had responded with a completely different attitude at that time, would many things have changed since then?

"When I left Los Angeles the next day, I went back to the woods and picked up your scarf, which I have kept to this day."

Romuel took off the scarf from his neck and stared closely at Sinan's calm eyes: "I brought it on purposely before going to China this time, because I know that an unprecedented disaster has begun, and human beings are likely to become extinct from now on. On the earth. Then when you and I meet again in the last days, many things that have ended before they have time to start, is there still a chance to go back to before they happened and start again?"

"—If you agree, tell me where the ultimate antibody is." Romuel whispered, his voice was almost a whisper: "After the vaccine is developed, human beings will build the ultimate security fortress, and you and I can become the entrance The first people in the safe fortress... I promise that all the painful past will be memories forever, and I will let you live a good life, a good life that you couldn't even imagine before, a good life."

"Really," he said solemnly, "as long as you trust me."

After a long silence, Sinan said softly: "I never believed you."

"I know." Romuel paused, and asked back: "But like chocolate, those things that you thought would stick to the end changed in the end, didn't they?"

Sinan raised his uncuffed right hand and touched the frayed edge of the scarf with two fingers.

Romuel looked at him, his eyes were full of encouragement, and there was a faint trace of longing that he didn't even realize.

"..." Sinan suddenly smiled.

Although the smile was weak, it contained an unmistakable weirdness, and he immediately let go and shook his head.

"What?" Romuel couldn't help asking.

"I don't remember," Sinan said with a smile, "but I'm not the type to do this kind of thing, especially to you. So either you're lying..."

"I do not have!"

"Really?" Sinan said lazily, "It should be that I wanted to strangle you with a scarf when you were on the order, but I was misunderstood."

Romuel got up abruptly, his face mixed with blue and red; but before he could say anything, Si Nan's last words successfully became the lead that ignited his anger: "You are too sentimental, 'brother'." Si Nan sympathized, " Just like your father did to my mother... she didn't give him a straight look until she died."

Suddenly there was a sharp and inflected growl in the room: "Jane!"

The female Alpha quickly opened the door, only to see her boss standing by the bed, turning her head, her pupils had completely turned into a dark and terrifying dark gray.

"Confessional agent." He gritted his teeth, his anger made every word chilling: "...Bring in all the confessional agents!"

·

Abbas casually shot down a few half-rotten zombies in the alley, and stepped into the small courtyard with a cardboard box in his arms. He saw his female teammate standing under the locust tree with folded arms, and the sound of the floor being hit came from the closed door. There was a loud bang, and the clattering sound when the debris was overturned.

"Are you back?" Jane took out the cigarette in her mouth: "Have you gained anything?"

Abbas put down the carton in silence and took out the contents one by one.

Batteries, knives, hardware parts, half a pot of engine oil, and a small half bottle of white wine.

Jane picked up the white wine bottle, raised her head and took a sip, tsk-tsk said: "This place is not good, the supplies along the southern coast are much richer. Have you seen any living people?"

Abbas shook his head.

Suddenly Jane glanced behind him and shouted sharply: "Who?"

Abbas turned his head sharply, and the two looked at the courtyard wall covered by tree canopies at the same time.

There was no movement for a few seconds, and then the bushes moved, and a black figure screamed mournfully and flew across the wall like a wind—a bony gray cat.

"Little thing," Jane sneered, not knowing whether she meant the cat or the people in the house.

Abbas answered in a muffled voice: "That's not what you said when you were drilled by him in the army when you first joined White Eagle."

Jane laughed: "So don't you think it would be nice to see such a person being abused?"

"..."

"Especially a cruel and condescending instructor like him, who never looks at people directly... Torturing such a person really feels good."

Abbas thought for a while, but before he said anything, the door opened.

Romuel strode out violently, without looking at his two men who stood at attention: "North."

Jane didn't respond: "What?"

"The plane crashed in the north." Romuel said coldly, "He must have left his things there. Abbas, get him into the car and get ready to go."

The steel-cast subordinate answered yes, ducked into the room with his head down, and when he came out after a while, he carried a unconscious and motionless figure on his shoulders.

In the corner of the courtyard wall, under the cover of trees, Zhou Rong's pupils tightened silently.

——Although he had vaguely expected it along the way, when he saw it with his own eyes, the steel needle pierced his heart and lungs in an instant, causing his internal organs to convulse bloody.

That's Simon.

Sinan would not get close to an unfamiliar Alpha, let alone be caught easily.Zhou Rong could almost imagine the scene at that time: Sinan, who was thirsty and hungry, heard the sound of a car in the distance, and thought it was Team 118 coming to save him, so he ran out of his hiding place happily and shouted at the car; It was too late when he found out that the visitor was not good. The opponent was not only three well-trained Alphas, but also loaded with live ammunition...

Zhou Rong forcibly suppressed his scorching breath, and clung to the wall tightly.

His nails dug deep into the wall, leaving four clear white marks on the old masonry, and a trace of blood spilled out between the nails.

What should we do now?

Zhou Rong landed silently, and quickly moved to the corner of the courtyard gate. His whole body was hidden behind the wall, and he looked back and forth at the three Alphas from behind the scope.

Two men and one woman, the man who gave the orders made him vaguely familiar for some reason, but there was no time to think about it now.

Under the current shooting conditions, Zhou Rong is sure that with his own marksmanship, he can kill this person with one shot, or at least incapacitate the target; but the opponent still has two mobile forces left, what if Sinan is used as a cover?

They have cars, and once they drive away, it will be difficult to catch up. What will they do to Sinan? !

The muzzle of the gun was slightly shifted, and the sight was replaced by the strong man holding Sinan, Zhou Rong narrowed his eyes.

If you snipe at this person, Sinan will have a chance to break free and escape quickly; but from this angle, Sinan is motionless, and may have lost consciousness...

Calm down, Zhou Rong told himself, calm down.

He has worked in places with the strictest political review and the highest security level in the country. He has personally protected the top leaders and was also responsible for the security of more than a dozen foreign guests at the head of state level.

He has experienced many dangerous situations and made many achievements; on professional issues, Zhou Rong's official record error rate has always been zero.

——He has never felt a trace of uncontrollable anxiety and anger like this before, crawling along the spine and covering all the nerves in the whole body.

Zhou Rong moved the muzzle of his gun to the left, the front sight aligned with Romuel's leg, and he pulled the trigger with his index finger.

——But at this moment, the female Alpha yelled: "What's going on!"

Zhou Rong tilted his head.

Sinan convulsed suddenly in a coma, let out a terrifying whimper like a wild animal, and fell to the ground hard!

He had been on a hunger strike for nearly 48 hours, and his functions were extremely weak in all aspects, but the strength of this struggle made Abbas unstoppable, and he fell to the ground by surprise, and quickly shouted: "Come and help! "

Romuel and Jane flew up, and Abbas grabbed Sinan's arm and swung it away, and the sound of his elbow being dislocated could be heard clearly.

However, Sinan seemed to have suddenly lost his sense of pain, and even the heart-piercing pain didn't slow down his movements by half; in the blink of an eye, he actually flew up and trampled on Aba in the posture of twisting his elbows backwards. Si's back, the other elbow slammed into the opponent's cervical spine!

Abbas yelled in pain, he dodged and threw Si Nanfei out——

At this moment, Zhou Rong pulled the trigger three times.

The first bullet hit Abbas' calf, and the strong man suddenly fell to his knees;

The second bullet hit the female Alpha's shoulder, and the gun in her hand flew far away before being pulled; the third bullet flew into the air, Romuel turned around like lightning, and fired a series of bullets at Zhou Rong's hiding place. Shuttle bullet!

Zhou Rong quickly dodged, and the brick wall was beaten with dust everywhere!

"Over there!" Romuel roared, while suppressing Zhou Rong with high firepower so that he couldn't fight back, he strode towards the brick wall!

"Sir!" Jane's deafening scream exploded on the ground: "Come back! He's out of control!"

I saw Sinan standing up staggeringly, his pupils were extremely dilated, his eyes were bloodshot, against his pale face, he looked like a crazy zombie; he moved his elbow twisted in a strange posture, "Crack!" Reset it with a sound, and stared at Abbas.

There was a slow roar in his chest—the sound was like the deranged and maddened whine of some kind of trapped animal before it died.

Kill them, a voice kept repeating in his head.

Everyone turned into zombies with blurred faces, and the hallucinations caused by excessive confessional agents kept flashing in front of his eyes, and he couldn't see what kind of faces were in front of him at all.

kill them.

All moving things are zombies, kill them.

In an instant, Abbas felt chills in his heart, and he dragged his feet back two steps. Immediately afterwards, Sinan rushed forward with all his strength, without even having time to dodge, and punched him backwards!

The female Alpha cursed loudly, clutching her injured shoulder and rushing towards Sinan.

Zhou Rongfei leaned against the wall, facing the hail of bullets, and fell down in the air, knocking down Romuel.At that moment, all the bullets brushed past his carotid artery, and the two knocked out each other's guns at the same time. The AK47 poured bullets and flew into the air. Circle the crater!

Zhou Rong pressed his elbow against Romuel's throat and shouted, "Sinan!"

Simon raised his head.

At the critical moment, Zhou Rong saw his eyes, and his heart sank severely.

Sinan's vision was slack, his blood vessels bulged, and he was so thin that he looked even scarier than he was on the construction site that day, even a little bloodthirsty like a living dead.

—Sinan couldn't recognize him anymore.

The way he looked at Zhou Rong was no different from the way he looked at the other three Alphas, or even the way he looked at zombies.