Undead

Eight o'clock in the evening.

As night fell, the lights were not on.Looking out of the car window, the highway has become a huge abandoned parking lot, and the howling of zombies is heard from far away in the wilderness.

Zhou Rong was holding the steering wheel, his eyes were red, and he said nothing.

Sinan got into the driver's cab from the rear compartment, and the strong smell of nicotine rushed into his nostrils, and he couldn't help coughing: "Let me drive."

Zhou Rong shook his head.

"You've been up too long."

Zhou Rong didn't speak.

Si Nan was silent for a moment in the bumping of the car, and then softly persuaded: "You can't do this, Brother Rong. Dozens of people in the two cars are still counting on you. If you fall over, what will the others do? Changed hands twice."

"...The biochemical vehicle is not easy to drive." Zhou Rong finally said hoarsely, "The wilderness road is difficult, we have to go fast, the farther away from T city the better."

Just as Si Nan was about to say something, the radio rang suddenly: "Yan Hao called the car in front, Yan Hao called the car in front! Captain try it, our radio station is silent, how are you doing?"

Zhou Rong's eyes changed slightly, and he turned on the car radio.

Countless sizzling electric currents leaked out like a flood, and all the channels converged into the same dark sea.

- No signal on shortwave.

The three special forces in the rear compartment all woke up sensitively, as if they had sensed something, they got up and squeezed forward.Seeing that Zhou Rong's face became very ugly, he raised his hand and opened the base communication with a few clicks. However, the command center channel was like a fish that disappeared in the ocean of radio waves. No matter how he adjusted it, it was a desperate silence.

Zhou Rong stepped on the brake suddenly, took a deep breath, opened the car door and walked out quickly.

The minibuses behind also stopped, and the exhausted survivors woke up from their sleep, buzzing with confused discussions.

Yan Hao and Chuncao also jumped out of the car, both of them had exhaustion that could not be concealed on their faces, but Zhou Rong didn't say a word of nonsense, and said straight to the point: "The base communication can't be connected."

The remaining team members gathered around and stood on the grass, looking at each other in fear.

"...Nuclear bombs have no... signs." Yan Hao said softly, "Didn't it say it was launched at eight o'clock? It's already ten past eight o'clock."

"Will the plan change..."

"If the plan changes, the base should take the initiative to inform us." Yan Hao interrupted Chuncao and explained: "If it is changed to nine o'clock, the base will let us go to rescue more people, and the helicopter will send another trip; more The important thing is that delaying the launch time will cause zombies to spread from the city center to the periphery, and the sooner the nuclear bomb cleansing, the better."

Si Nan came from behind, stopped two or three steps away, and looked at them quietly with folded arms.

A terrible idea gradually rose in everyone's mind, but no one said it, or even made a move, as if as long as they kept their mouths shut, that terrifying possibility would not exist.

The night in late autumn is already very cold, the wilderness in the night is undulating, and the faint yellow light of the street lamp is faintly lit by the railway track in the distance.

"Your base," Sinan said in a calm voice from behind them, "Something went wrong."

Two or three special soldiers shouted at the same time: "Impossible!"

"The facilities of the B military region are well-equipped and impregnable. At the beginning of the virus outbreak, a large number of armed police guards were mobilized, and not even a fly could fly in! Moreover, all survivors in the national government agencies, the headquarters, and the entire North China region are all, all... "

No one spoke, and Chuncao's sharp voice gradually weakened.

Sinan looked at her gently: "No matter how strong a fortress is, it can't resist internal collapse. Once the virus breaks out from within, the subversion will only happen in an instant, you know."

Everyone shuddered instantly when they thought of the people who were sent to the refuge in Military Region B by four helicopters just this afternoon.

"Yingjie," Zhou Rong said in a low voice, "Notify the location."

The team member named Zhang Yingjie held a tablet computer in his hand. It was not of any brand known in the world. It must be a military product: "We took a detour, and we are still 57 kilometers away from the suburbs of City B. The highway ahead is seriously congested. Detour to the industrial zone, there are still eight kilometers away from our nearest industrial zone..." He thought for a while and said, "Maybe there are surviving residents."

Zhou Rong said slowly: "If City B falls, it will be wiped out by nuclear bombs in at most two days, and it will not be able to move forward."

The people on the minibus couldn't hold back, they got up one after another, looked out from the door, and hesitated to speak.

Zhou Rong pondered for a long time, and under the gaze of dozens of people, he finally made a decision: "Set up camp on the spot, count the supplies, and arrange board and lodging for the people."

"Yan Hao," he ordered: "Calculate the list of survivors, and prepare to work night shifts."

The sound of the wind mixed with the sharp whistle-like sound, swept from the wilderness in all directions, like thousands of innocent souls weeping and rushing to the sky.

Zhou Rong's proper arrangements at the beginning of his escape showed immediate results.There are rice noodles, oil and salt, canned meat and vegetables, and warm clothes piled up on the minibus, all of which he personally brought up from the shopping mall warehouse last night; there are also knives, medicines, generators, etc. collected little by little. The supplies were stored in the biochemical vehicles of the special forces.

The survivors ate canned food in groups of three or four, and suppressed weeping and lamenting came from time to time.Si Nan was sitting on the doorstep of the biochemical car, picking up a bottle of yellow peaches in syrup, when Zhou Rong walked over and stuffed two tablets of antipyretics into his mouth.

Zhou Rong's hands smelled of smoke, his fingertips were slightly salty, and they were all rough and chapped.

"Captain." Yan Hao suddenly said not far away.

Zhou Rong was lowering his head and wanted to say something, when he heard this, he waved to Si Nan and turned to face Yan Hao.

"Biological vehicles are running out of high-energy gasoline, and diesel can be barely replaced. We are going to check the fuel tanks of abandoned vehicles on the road after dawn. When we arrive at the industrial area tomorrow morning, we will try to send a positioning signal to the military area. If City B is not completely fallen, Someone will come to pick us up."

The two walked side by side to the leeward place, Zhou Rong asked in a low voice, "How many people are left?"

"36 survivors. Thirty men, six over 50 years old, two under 15 years old; six women, two in their 20s and four in their 40s. All Beta."

Yan Hao swallowed, and stopped:

"We have six left. You, me, Chuncao, Zhang Yingjie, Ding Shi, and Guo Weixiang."

"Everyone else is...gone."

The surroundings were quiet, and the night wind brought soft sobbing from the crowd.

Zhou Rong clenched his teeth so tightly that his cheeks twitched, and suddenly there was a bang!He punched heavily on the tree trunk!

The wood thicker than a person cracked instantly, making a dangerous creaking sound, and Yan Hao retreated half a step under the conditioned reflex of the fist wind.

"What are you doing!" Yan Hao roared in a low voice: "What if you attract zombies?!"

Red threads slowly appeared between Zhou Rong's fingers, and the extremely powerful and deterrent Alpha pheromone in the blood instantly broke through the inhibitor, roaring like a male beast, and drifting away in all directions.

Zhou Rong forced himself to inhale, and retracted his fist tremblingly.

Yan Hao took out a water bottle to quickly wash the tree trunk, and was about to splash water on Zhou Rong's hand, but he blocked it wordlessly, and then he licked the wound by himself, his eyes shining brightly in the shadows, like a wolf in desperate situation and unwilling to reconcile.

"...A group of three is on duty. We will leave at six o'clock tomorrow morning and go to the industrial area." After a long while, Zhou Rong said hoarsely: "If there is no movement in City B within two days, I will go into the city to explore by myself."

Yan Hao wanted to dissuade him, but seeing Zhou Rong turn around and leave, he had to chase after him in a hurry.

Sinan ate half a bottle of yellow peaches, and exchanged the remaining half bottle with a man on CMB for half a pack of Baisha cigarettes.The man gave the yellow peach to his wife and children, and Sinan looked for Zhou Rong with a cigarette in his mouth. When he reached the edge of the woods, he suddenly stopped sensitively.

There was a faint smell in the night air that made him uncomfortable.

That breath floated in mid-air, strong, mature, and extremely aggressive; he subconsciously searched for the source, but after standing here for a long time, suddenly his nerve endings twitched, and an indescribable dizziness slowly rose from the bottom of his heart.

...is the Alpha pheromone.

But how could there be Alpha in the wilderness? Could it be that there are corpses bitten to death by zombies deep in the woods?

Sinan looked around, the car lights were on in the open space, and the people who had rested were getting on the cars one after another to spend the night.The woods on the other side were hidden in the darkness, and the street lights in the distance were dim, which seemed to exude an ominous atmosphere.

"Are you okay?" A female voice suddenly sounded from behind.

Si Nan turned his head, and Chuncao was looking at him curiously.

"...do you smell something?"

"No?" Chuncao sucked her nose hard, then her eyes were dull and her face was delicate.

Simon: "?"

The next second, Chuncao sneezed in a shocking way, and instantly sprayed Sinan all over.

"It must be the smell of rotting corpses!" Chuncao rubbed her nose in embarrassment, and drove Sinan to the car while blushing: "Hurry up and go back to sleep, don't worry about it! Go!"

Sinan was slightly puzzled, and was forcibly pushed back onto the biochemical vehicle.

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That night the special forces were divided into three shifts, Chuncao Ding was on duty until twelve o'clock, Yan Hao and Guo Weixiang were on duty until three o'clock, and the last shift was Zhou Rong and Zhang Yingjie in the early morning.

Zhou Rong didn't sleep well, and woke up once in a daze when the shift changed at zero o'clock.

The seats in the rear compartment were raised, and several special forces laid down the floor in disorder, snoring one after another.He felt that someone was close to him, and by the car light coming out of the window, he saw that it was Sinan.

Si Nan's body temperature dropped in his sleep, so he subconsciously approached the heat source, wrapped one arm around Zhou Rong, and sprayed deep and steady breaths into his shoulder socket.

At that moment Zhou Rong was in a daze.

Those youthful and restless fragments in the memory rushed against the time, and even the soft and handsome face and closed eyelashes in the darkness at this moment quietly overlapped with the pictures that had long since disappeared in the years.

Zhou Rong raised his hand like a ghost, and brushed Sinan's broken hair behind his ears.

At this moment, footsteps were heard outside, and the car door was gently opened.

Zhou Rong immediately closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep, although he himself didn't know what the conditioned reflex was.A few seconds later he felt someone get into the car, cross the floor almost noiselessly, and stop in front of them.

Immediately afterwards, the person who came bent down and raised Sinan's hand with a slight and careful movement.

Si Nan took antipyretics containing tranquilizers, but he didn't wake up, and turned over while muttering.

Zhou Rong lay there motionless, and after a while, he finally heard someone speak, and said softly, "Thank you, you saved my life."

——It’s Yan Hao.

Zhou Rong's heart trembled slightly, and he narrowed his eyes almost imperceptibly.In the dim light and shadow of the carriage, Yan Hao lowered his head and kissed Sinan's temple, breathing tensely.

It was an anxious and pious kiss like a superficial kiss.

Zhou Rong's eyes were indescribable.

Like a child who stole candy, Yan Hao got up and got out of the car lightly, and closed the door behind him.

The carriage returned to darkness, and Zhou Rong remained silent for a while and closed his eyes.