Undead

The canyon was almost dead silent, there were no birds, no animals, not even any mosquitoes, as if all creatures had escaped far from this world ruled by the living dead.

There are only abnormally dense plants, covering every inch of space from the ground to the sky.

The morning sun gradually rises, and the gray morning mist recedes from the woods, turning into gray and light blue mist, which is penetrated by the thin golden sunlight in an instant, and the shadows of trees and grass move back slowly with the sun.

Sinan raised the muzzle of his gun and moved silently behind the tree.

At this moment, behind the bushes more than ten meters away, suddenly there was a violent sway!

— bang bang!bang bang bang!

Si Nan suddenly opened fire, and the opponent ran away under the cover of towering ancient trees!

Si Nan dodged to follow closely behind, and fired a few more shots, but failed to hit them under the cover of the bushes and moving at high speed.The other party was obviously more familiar with the environment than he was. Si Nan was caught off guard when he drilled in a rough and difficult place, and was instantly submerged by countless dead branches and rotting leaves. The whole body weight plus thirty or forty kilograms of equipment.

"Fuck..." Sinan cursed inwardly, climbed up to the ground, looked up and looked around.

The man fled long ago and was completely lost, and he had chased to the edge of the canyon, far from the waterfall.

Si Nan observed the fallen bushes for a while, then got up and saw a rushing stream not far away—the man should have jumped into the stream and fled quickly, completely obliterating the traces and making it impossible to trace.

Si Nan walked to the stream with one deep foot and one shallow foot, and washed his face. His furrowed brows were reflected in the stream water.

Who killed those four special forces and led the zombies to the camp?

Who was it that deliberately lured him here just now?

Sinan splashed water on his face with the palm of his hand. After doing this a few times, he shook his wet short hair vigorously, and suddenly shouted in English: "Romuel! What trick are you playing?!"

It was so quiet that there was not even an echo.

"—Romuel!" Sinan snapped, "Come out!"

pat-

Si Nan looked back, the muzzle of the gun locked instantly, and saw a round ball protruding out of a crevice in the cliff not far away.

"..." The ball was stunned for a moment, and a voice came from afar: "Sinan?!"

Si Nan narrowed his eyes: "Tang... Chief?"

·

"It's Tang Hao, thank you." Five minutes later, Tang Hao pulled Sinan up and led him into a hidden cave behind a crack in the rock. It's really not my fault."

The cave was winding and twisting. After walking about [-] steps and making a turn, a space of seven or eight square meters suddenly appeared in front of us. Three disgraced and haggard special forces stood up one after another: "Lieutenant Colonel!"

Tang Hao signaled them to sit down, and Sinan suddenly caught a glimpse of a figure lying motionless in the corner, stepped forward to take a look, and took a light breath: "...Guo Weixiang?"

Guo Weixiang's eyes were closed tightly, his complexion was pale, his abdomen was in a mess with bandages, and purple-black blood oozing out, he didn't look like a human being at all.Sinan immediately checked his temperature and pulse. He had a deadly high fever, and it was obvious that he had been infected. If it dragged on, the situation would become very dangerous.

"That's how it was when I found him, and it's been almost 72 hours." Tang Hao said in a deep voice, "It's a good thing you came, otherwise Young Master Guo's little life would probably have to be accounted for here."

Si Nan dug out the antibiotics from his backpack, pinched Guo Weixiang's neck and forcibly poured them in, and then quickly prepared a life-saving injection for special forces and injected him into the blood vessels in the side of his neck, asking, "What's going on here?"

"Late at night on the day of the attack, I led the remaining team members to fight out of the zombie group. All the equipment and weapons were lost halfway. I couldn't see anything clearly in the chaos. I got separated from the others in a hurry..."

Si Nan glanced at him with the look of "and said you are not a non-chief".

"I soaked in the stream overnight, and returned to the camp the next day. I was lucky enough to see if there were any survivors, but I met him." Tang Hao pointed to Guo Weixiang and said, "At that time, he was hiding in a tree. In the pit, he was already infected with the zombie virus, probably because he had given himself a secondary antibody before he fell into a coma. Fortunately, he was not turned into a zombie. I dragged him out and saw that his abdomen was full of blood—it should be the night when the zombies attacked in the dark. Those who were hit by stray bullets from my own people were fortunately protected by the strong healing effect of the secondary antibody. After I dug out the bullets, it became what it is now."

Tang Hao always had an indescribable worry hidden between his brows. He sat on the wet floor against the wall and sighed wearily.

Si Nan was noncommittal, and suddenly asked after a while: "How did you find this place?"

"I wandered around with him on my back for a long time, until I met them—" Tang Hao gestured to the special forces, and said, "They found this cave. Fortunately, the terrain is high and hidden, otherwise Master Guo's bloody body would have The zombies were attracted. For the next two days, I went out to search for survivors during the day, but there were no weapons, and there were many zombies nearby, so I never encountered any living people, nor did I encounter any search and rescue teams."

Tang Hao wiped his face vigorously, changed the subject and asked, "By the way, how did you find this place? Where is the main force?"

Si Nan said, "Zhou Rong is behind."

Tang Hao: "..."

The two stared at each other, Tang Hao couldn't help asking: "What else?"

"I was lured here on purpose." Sinan said simply, "It's gone."

Tang Hao suddenly got up: "What? There are still people alive in the canyon? Who brought you here? What do you look like? Have you seen who it is?"

Simon: "No."

The two looked at each other again, Tang Hao's head was full of "...", while Sinan's eyes were flat and his expression was open, as if he had finished what he needed to say.

After a while, Tang Hao finally couldn't help but said cautiously: "Has anyone ever given you any friendly advice in terms of communication skills?"

"No, you want to mention it?"

Tang Hao: "...No, no, nothing."

Sinan dug out dry food and water from his bag and distributed them to the three special forces, got out of the cave, fired a signal flare at the edge of the cliff, then retreated, picked up his backpack and said, "The search and rescue team will be here soon, I'm leaving .”

Tang Hao asked in astonishment, "Where are you going?"

"Continue to find someone."

"Don't wait for Zhou Rong and the others to come and meet?"

Si Nan said lightly: "Actually, I don't like team action that much. I am faster alone."

Tang Hao stopped immediately: "No, the person who attracted you just now hasn't figured out the identity, it's too dangerous to act alone! I've searched the area several times, and there is no trace of survivors at all. In the absence of professional equipment, Even if you rely on manpower, it is impossible..."

Tang Hao's words stopped abruptly, and he saw Sinan's tightly clenched fist stretched out in front of him, and when he let go, a blood-stained steel nameplate fell into the air.

1180610, Yan Hao.

"There are two more." Sinan said calmly, "Until I find them, no matter what happens, I will not stop."

No one spoke in the cave. After a long while, a special soldier put down the kettle in the corner and said hoarsely, "I'll go with you."

"I also……"

The three got up one after another, but Tang Hao interrupted them: "No way! You guys are in a bad state!" Then he turned to Sinan: "Give me a gun, I'll go with you."

"Lieutenant Colonel!..."

Tang Hao's attitude was very firm, but Sinan hesitated for a while and didn't answer.

"If you're looking for Yang Chuncao and Ding Shi, I might know where they went. I was with them when we broke out late at night, and we got separated before crossing the river. If they didn't change direction halfway, they should be I can trace their traces along the river bank." Tang Hao opened his palm, looked at Sinan fixedly, and repeated: "Give me a gun, and I will go find them with you."

After more than ten seconds, Sinan finally untied the pistol from his back and threw it over.

Tang Hao caught it accurately, and saw Sinan turn around and walk out, and said calmly: "Don't worry, there are only five bullets."

·

The sun has fully risen outside the canyon. Except for the high-altitude stone walls, the mountains and plains are full of compelling dark green, and the sun is so dazzling that people can't open their eyes.

"I haven't seen it before." Tang Hao let go of the rope and jumped off the rocky cliff, with a short laugh: "There are no animals, no insects, only plants that grow creepily, as if all living things are genetically programmed to kill zombies." Virus fear, this planet will soon be occupied by the living dead and plants."

They crossed the tree ditch along the way and walked through the lush forest. After a meal, they finally heard the faint roar of the waterfall in the distance.

Si Nan carried dozens of kilograms of equipment on his back, and was a few steps behind. Tang Hao took the initiative and said, "Let me get it for you."

However, Sinan shook his head.

"...You Omega," Tang Hao had to withdraw his hand, forcefully pushed aside the bushes half his height, and said inexplicably, "It's different from all the Omega I've seen. It feels like you can live without Alpha, why? In the end, I found Zhou Rong..."

boom!

Tang Hao's voice paused, and the bullet passed by, knocking down the zombies behind the tree dozens of steps away.

boom! boom! boom!

Si Nan shot one by one, killing all the zombies within [-] meters in the surrounding dense forest with extremely low visibility, and all those who were shot were headshot accurately.He scanned the surroundings from behind the scope with full concentration, and said softly, "Say it as if you've seen a lot of Omegas."

Tang Hao: "..."

"Clear," Sinan lowered his gun, "Let's go."

Tang Hao: "...Hey, let me tell you! Is there anyone who has had communication skills...that...forget it."

The sound of the waterfall roared, reflecting countless colorful lights in the sun.They bypassed the camp far away, Sinan never released the signal flare to notify the large troops, and Tang Hao didn't mention it, he just focused on recalling the retreat route late at night by identifying the environment along the way, and the two walked and stopped along the way.

After walking along the river bank for a meal, the terrain suddenly increased, the river turned sharply down, and the difference in height formed a cliff about seven or eight meters high.Tang Hao observed for a long time, and stood still very hesitantly: "Maybe... it should be here. When I broke out here late at night, the zombies chased me, and I was separated from the others in a hurry..."

Si Nan suddenly asked back: "They didn't care about you?"

Tang Hao laughed and said, "Everyone's bullets are gone, it's pitch black, the demons are dancing around, and the visibility is not even half a meter. How can they take care of me in that situation?"

Si Nan nodded, without saying a word, he half-kneeled in front of the falling cliff and looked at the river carefully, not knowing what he was thinking about.

Looking at his back, Tang Hao felt that sometimes he couldn't understand the former White Eagle instructor.He did not hesitate to betray the country A where he grew up for more than 20 years. However, after coming to country C, he did not show the slightest affection or nostalgia for this place; After Guo Weixiang was seriously injured and dying, apart from calmly and decisively spraying medicine immediately, he did not have any other emotional touch.

When everyone is together, he is the weakest and most silent one.But when the group encountered difficulties and everyone was at a loss, he was the first to solve the problem.

No one can know what is going on in his mind, and no one can predict what unexpected action he will take next.

Tang Hao lowered his eyes, hiding his complicated thoughts, and raised his eyes after a while and asked, "Hey, does the surrounding environment look familiar to you?"

"not very?"

"I was thinking...if you remembered the way after the crash and came with us a few days ago, maybe you could have found the antibody right then."

Si Nan glanced back at him: "Why do you make such an assumption that obviously doesn't exist?"

Tang Hao forcibly hooked the corner of his mouth, although it looked more like a wry smile: "It's nothing. I'm just afraid that there is only one tube of antibody samples in the world. If something happens and it disappears, it will really be gone."

Sinan said: "It is true that there is only this tube of samples. Maybe White Eagle Base still has paper materials, but it was probably destroyed when the virus broke out."

Tang Hao's heartbeat seemed to have missed half a beat, and his face suddenly became a little ugly: "Then what if it was lost by accident? I mean, just now you said that someone led you there on purpose, which means that there are very few people in this canyon except us. There may be another group of people, in case they get the antibody in advance..."

"It will be very troublesome." Si Nan said lightly, "So we have to do it as soon as possible."

It took Tang Hao a long time to forcefully cough, and said, "Really, I think so."

Si Nan looked at him carefully for a few seconds, but didn't speak.Tang Hao got up unnaturally: "I want to go down and check. If those people walked through the waterway, they may have left clues or guideposts on the shore."

"Don't look at it."

"Ok?"

"There," Sinan raised his finger and looked in that direction. There was something black hanging vaguely among the bushes by the river beach under the cliff.

Tang Hao was stunned, and then ran away.The two almost rolled down the steep and smooth cliff. The river beach was full of smooth pebbles, and weeds and shrubs grew wildly on the steep slope. Tang Hao took the lead in crawling up, and saw a long rope tied to the top of the dead branch. black cloth!

"It's our T-shirt!" Tang Hao pulled off the cloth strip and handed it to Sinan, took off his camouflage jacket, and pulled out the collar of the black T-shirt inside: "Look! It's this one! It must be them Tear it off and tie it here, to make a signpost for us, there must be more around here..."

Sinan immediately refused: "No, don't watch it, talk carefully and don't take off your clothes."

Tang Hao hurriedly buttoned his coat, climbed down the steep slope and ran forward, and found more traces with almost no effort: "Come on! There is blood here!"

Si Nan followed up, about twenty steps away, the bottom of the rock and the ground were obviously smeared with dried blood.Going forward along the direction where the drops splashed, new drops of blood can be found every few steps. It seems that Chuncao and the others were seriously injured when they fled.

"They fired before." Sinan knelt down, took out the metal bullet casing from under the grass roots, and raised his head, "They encountered zombies here."

Tang Hao's expression changed: "Look, what is that?"

The river bank suddenly went up, and there was a hole on the cliff wall not far away, about three or four meters above the ground, and it could barely climb up with the help of raised rocks.

On the weeds growing in the vertical rock crevices, there were extremely obvious large bloodstains, as if they had been crushed by a blood-soaked person.

Tang Hao looked up at the cave, his voice was strange: "Could they be there?"

Si Nan's pupils were tightly squeezed, and he stared at the dark hole thoughtfully.

"Is anyone there?" Tang Hao shouted loudly: "Hey! Is there anyone! Come out!"

The rushing river rushed past their feet, and the wind shrieked and whistled across the valley, but otherwise there was no sound.

Tang Hao walked to the bottom of the cliff and signaled Sinan to come up: "Put down the gun and equipment, and step on my shoulder to have a look. Don't go too deep, be careful in case there are snakes inside."

However, Si Nan stared at him without moving.

"Come on, what's the matter?"

Sinan's eye sockets are deep, and the corners of his eyes are slanted and the outline is good-looking, but when he is staring at something so intently, his light-colored eyes, which are different from ordinary people, have a cold and breathtaking look.

"I will not put down my gun and equipment." He stared at Tang Hao, his voice was not high, but his words were very clear: "When I am alone with you, I will not let the weapon go."

Tang Hao was startled, then slowly turned around:

"Are you wary of me?"

·

"Hang it down carefully! Slow down! Don't hit it!"

With a submachine gun on his back, Zhou Rong personally commanded the soldiers above to hoist the simple marching stretcher off the cliff, and was firmly caught by several search and rescue teams on the ground. The medical soldiers immediately rushed forward and began to check.

"Xiangzi!" Zhou Rong stepped forward quickly, his face livid in an instant: "How is he?"

The medical soldier shook his head while administering the life-saving medicine: "The situation is very bad, the abdominal gunshot wound has begun to be infected, and surgery needs to be arranged as soon as possible."

Zhou Rong turned around and ordered: "Notify the headquarters, we found three survivors and one seriously injured, call the helicopter to pick them up immediately, hurry up!" Then he asked the three rescued special forces: "Where is the person who sent the signal flare just now? !"

The soldier looked at me and I looked at you: "He is going out to continue the search and rescue, and he has already left..."

"He said that he could act faster alone, and Lieutenant Colonel Tang insisted on going with him..."

Zhou Rong clenched his back molars, his mind buzzing.He was about to force himself to figure out the following action plan from his restless emotions, when someone touched the back of his hand suddenly: "...Rong..."

"He's awake!" the medical soldier cried out, "Don't, don't move! Don't talk!"

Zhou Rong turned around suddenly, and saw Guo Weixiang struggling to lift two fingers, his chapped and bleeding lips opened and closed silently, as if trying to make a sound: "Brother Rong..."

"Brother Rong is here, don't worry, it's fine." Zhou Rong said in a deep voice, "A plane will be arranged soon... Don't move around! Xiangzi!"

"Dang..." Guo Weixiang tilted his neck, as if he wanted to raise his head desperately: "Dang, be careful..."

Zhou Rong raised his eyebrows and raised his hand to stop the medical soldier who wanted to stop him. He leaned over and put his ear to Guo Weixiang's lips, only to hear him spit out a few words angrily: "Be careful...he..."

The next name caused Zhou Rong's face to change dramatically. He thought for a moment that he had heard it wrong, but then realized that he hadn't.

Guo Weixiang once again breathed heavily in his chest: "Brother Rong...you..."

"Understood, don't worry." Zhou Rong's voice trembled slightly at the end, but his tone was firm and forceful: "I understand, I will go immediately."

Guo Weixiang seemed to have completed some kind of obsession, his body suddenly sank and passed out, and the medical soldiers immediately rushed to give first aid.Surrounded by chaos, Zhou Rong hurried out of the crowd, grabbed the special forces rescued from the cave, and asked tremblingly, "Where did they go?"

The three soldiers looked at each other blankly, and then one of them suddenly remembered: "The river bank!"

"That person insisted on looking for Ding Shi and Yangchuncao. Lieutenant Colonel Tang said that they should search along the river bank!" Another person also remembered: "They may have gone in the direction of the waterfall!"

Zhou Rong let go of the soldiers, turned around and shouted to the search and rescue team, "Go!"

·

Meanwhile, the river bank.

The atmosphere was suddenly tense, and the sound of the river hitting the rocks became particularly obvious.Tang Hao turned around and stood still, his expression neither happy nor angry, before asking after a long time: "What do you think of me?"

The blood on the high rock wall was bright and dazzling, but Sinan seemed to be indifferent all of a sudden, "I have no objection."

"Then you still..."

"I once saved a person." Sinan said plainly, "I thought saving a life was equivalent to trust, but when I tried to cover him and left first, I was caught off guard and sprayed ether. He is not a bad person, on the contrary, he is a Good guy in the usual sense, but I've since learned that gratitude and trust are two different things, and if I can't trust you with my life, I can't put a gun in front of you, that's all."

Tang Hao was slightly stunned, then shook his head and sneered, pulled out his pistol and threw it away with a clang: "Is this okay?"

But Sinan still didn't move, looking past Tang Hao to a higher place.

"What else do you want?" Tang Hao became impatient: "You really want to climb on my shoulder with a [-]-kilogram weight on your back, right?! Okay, how about I climb up first, and you slowly go down..."

Si Nan suddenly said nothing, drew his gun and took aim——Tang Hao saw the muzzle of the gun facing him, his pupils constricted for a moment, and the next moment he only heard "Bang!"

The bullet passed by his ear, Tang Hao turned his head like a cramp, and a headless zombie fell down from the cliff.

"Roar--"

"Hoohoo-!"

The faint whistle in the wind was getting closer and closer, gradually turning into roars one after another.Tang Hao took a few steps back, only to see zombies emerging from the forest on the cliff in twos and threes, as if startled by their voices, more and more gathered in the blink of an eye!

clap clap!Snapped!

A few zombies staggered and fell off the cliff, and before their eyes, there was a splash of juice and five horses dismembering their bodies.More zombies stumbled and rolled down the steep slope, some fell to the ground and broke their lumbar vertebrae, and twisted and twisted to crawl forward along the ground; Come up!

Si Nan fired resolutely, and the submachine gun beat the first wave of zombies that rolled down the cliff to the ground.Tang Hao rolled his head on the ground and picked up the pistol, headshot the zombie in front of him with incomparable precision, rushed to the mountain wall and shouted: "Hurry up to the cave! Hurry up!"

Sinan glanced at him during the intense firing. At this moment, the second wave of more than a dozen ragged zombies staggered up!

Tang Hao only had four bullets left in the gun barrel, so he couldn't collide with the zombies at all, so he had to quickly grab the rock and climb up.In the nick of time, he dodged the zombie's rotten hands grabbing at his ankle, and was about to turn his head to see what was going on with Sinan, when he heard a loud sound——哗啦!

Water sound? !

Si Nan fired while retreating, and quickly retreated to the river bed.The submachine gun swept the rows of zombies, their limbs flew, their brains exploded, and the bullet casings jingled all over the ground. In an instant, the high firepower tore the zombies out of the gap.

Before the next wave of more than a dozen zombies had time to surround him, Sinan was about to take advantage of the gap and rush towards the cliff, when suddenly there was a loud splash in the river behind him, something rushed out of the river, and then something strangled him by the waist.

It's a pair of cold hands!

The change was really too fast, Sinan didn't react at all during the firing, and was pulled back by the opponent's tyrannical force, and his feet stepped on the ground in an instant——

There was a loud crash, and then the water was submerged!

Si Nan spewed out a stream of bubbles in the turbid river, realizing that he was ambushed.