On the Feasibility of Dueling with the System

The sky in the last days always gets dark very fast, and traveling is not as important as safety after all. Yuan Xitong found a private house before it was completely dark. This seems to be a small two-story house built by himself. Not only is the yard large, but There is even a garage, which saves them a lot of trouble.

"We didn't seem to encounter any zombies on the way just now?" Jia Mo leaned over to Qin Zhan and whispered, "Even if there were, it was just a few kittens, but look now." The shadow that was getting closer, "—there are more and more zombies now."

Oliver stood at the door and greeted them, "Come quickly."

Jiamo responded, and continued to talk with Qin Zhan, "Ah Zhan, tell me, does this have something to do with the sun? It was still daylight when we first came out of the hospital. Look at the sun we went from the city to the city. I bumped into so many zombies when I got on the highway, if it wasn’t for the jeep’s crashworthiness, it would probably fall apart. Later, when it was almost noon, the sun became bigger and the number of zombies decreased a lot, and now it’s getting dark again…”

Jia Mo babbled non-stop, and Qin Zhan gave him a sideways glance, "Who knows, anyway, the zombies in "Resident Evil" are not afraid of the sun. Oh, by the way, neither are the zombies in "The Walking Dead."

Gamo: "..."

Oliver in front knocked on the door and got no response, then took a wire and began to pick the lock. In order to avoid the tragedy in the morning, the three of Qin Zhan consciously spread their guard around.

The door lock clicked, Oliver turned the doorknob and pushed it open a little, Qin Zhan held his breath involuntarily, nocked the arrow and drew the string to the full bow.

Oliver pushed the door open all of a sudden, and the iron door slammed into the wall with a bang. He stood outside the door and listened carefully to the movement in the room. After making sure that there would be no emergencies, he walked in cautiously holding the Taidao.

The space here is not big, but the European-style decoration is very modern and fashionable. The living room, dining room and kitchen can be seen at a glance on the first floor, and the doors of other places are closed.The stairs leading to the second floor are made of tempered glass, and the handrails are made of black metal, which looks cold. However, at the bottom of the hollow stairs is a small pond, which even has a few brightly colored goldfish.

"I'll go to the second floor to have a look." Qin Zhan put his bow on the sofa and gestured to them.

Yuan Xitong said: "Then I will accompany—"

"I'll go with you!" Jia Mo rushed to pre-book before him, jumped to Qin Zhan's side and hugged his arm, and glanced triumphantly at Yuan Xitong.

Qin Zhan: "...we're not going on an outing, what are we doing hugging so tightly?" He broke away from Jiamo speechlessly, turned and walked up the stairs.

Oliver said from behind: "If there is a body, it will be carried to the roof first, and it will be thrown directly into the street after a while."

The second floor is probably used as a bedroom. Qin Zhan started to check from the first room on the left. This should be the master bedroom. There is a double bed in it. The quilt and pillows are warm lavender.The only fly in the ointment is that it is stained with a large amount of blood that has turned black and dried up.

Jia Mo opened the closet to check, and then lay down on the ground to look under the bed, there was nothing unusual.

They left the master bedroom and went to the second room.It's supposed to be a kid's room, with a beautiful Christmas wreath on the door and a 3D elk sticker.Qin Zhan fiddled with the golden bell and couldn't help smiling.

"Be careful," Gamo said.

Qin Zhan held the doorknob, pressed down and pushed the door open, and an unusually strong stench came over his face immediately.

He walked in, and the sword held tightly in his right hand was ready to strike, but everything in front of him made him stunned.

There was a female corpse lying on the ground, and next to the corpse lay a little girl in taupe-colored pajamas, who was concentrating on digging out flesh and blood from the abdomen of the corpse and stuffing it into her mouth.

Hearing some movement nearby, the little girl turned her head to look at them, grinning her white teeth and making a "heh, heh" sound like inhaling, and there were spider silk-like flocs floating in her inorganic gray pupils.

Although the little girl's mouth was full of blood, she didn't have any wounds on her body or face, and her pajamas were in perfect condition.Obviously, the corpse on the ground became the meal of the zombies without much resistance

The little zombie roared again, and Qin Zhan raised the knife in his hand, and the blade pierced its head precisely.

Gamo said: "This should be a family of three." He looked up at the wall, and there was a huge artistic photo of three people hanging directly opposite the bed. There was a young man and woman in wedding dresses and suits, and a princess in purple There was a beautiful little girl in a skirt, and there were several photo frames on the bedside table.

Qin Zhan looked up at the art photo, then looked down at the little zombie with a hideous face, unable to explain what he was feeling.

"I think...the situation may be worse than the one in the hospital." Qin Zhan said, walked to the window and opened the curtains to look out. Outside were hordes of zombies, covering the road in darkness.He frowned, and tried to take the arrow from the quiver with his backhand, but found that he didn't bring a bow.

"What's wrong?" Gamo asked him.

"The street lights are too bright, and the light and sound will attract zombies, so it's not safe."

As soon as Qin Zhan finished speaking, he saw two feathered arrows flying out of the downstairs window, shooting towards the street lights on both sides, one left and one right, and the road around the house suddenly fell into darkness.

Jia Mo snorted, "Green Arrow and you have a tacit understanding."

Qin Zhan ignored his yin and yang, and continued what he had just said, "It is still unclear what the reason for the mutation of the zombie is, but it should be a common phenomenon to have a fever before the mutation, and viruses and nuclear substances may cause it. Illness. And..." He looked back at the little girl again, "Many people probably think it's just an ordinary fever. After all, only a small number of people were sent to the hospital for treatment. It is estimated that more people went to the clinic and took medicine. .”

"so?"

Qin Zhan smiled, "So, the number of zombies is not optimistic. You said, if the country uses satellites or drones to observe a city full of zombies, and there are only a few discovered or undiscovered survivors, our result will be How about it?"

Send the army to clean it up?Impossible, the territory of the Celestial Dynasty is vast, and the country is not so free to send troops to every city.The most likely thing is to just throw an atomic bomb here to clean it up, which is direct and easy.

Jia Mo rubbed his toes against the floor and said nothing. Qin Zhan stabbed the disemboweled female corpse on the ground and turned to ask him, "By the way, I haven't asked you yet, Jia Mo, why did you show up?" At this?"

Jia Mo said: "I am your space guardian, if you are here, I am naturally here too." His face was calm.

Qin Zhan asked again: "Then what if I die? If an atomic bomb is really dropped, what will you do?"

Jiamo turned his head away from looking at him, hesitatingly unable to explain why, and only repeatedly expressed one meaning: "You will be fine, Ah Zhan, I will not let you die."

"But I don't have much enthusiasm for living." Qin Zhan said lightly, "I have lived enough, and I have experienced all kinds of roles. It doesn't matter if I die now."

People want to live because they have something that they can hold on to and cherish, but Qin Zhan doesn't even know why he is trying to survive in such a desolate world.

Jia Mo scratched his hair irritably, and unconsciously raised his voice, "Then you entered the system space after the car accident, why did you want to collect [-] points and come back? Why didn't you just give up at that time?"

"Can it be the same?" Qin Zhan smiled. He dragged Jiamo to the window and opened the curtain with a swipe, "Look at what kind of world it is now, with rivers of blood, corpses everywhere, hundreds of There is only one living person in a person. This is only the first day. In the future, the land, water, and air will all be polluted, and the number of living people will decrease, while the number of dead people will increase. In such a world, if we live, we will continue to live. has no meaning?"

Realizing that Qin Zhan's state was too negative, Jia Mo's complexion became more and more ugly. After a pause, Qin Zhan himself laughed first. The previous gloom seemed to have never existed. He waved his hand, "No Having said that, let's continue to look at other rooms, and go to bed early after checking."

The remaining rooms are guest rooms and utility rooms, nothing special. After confirming that the house is absolutely safe, Qin Zhan and Jia Mo carried the bodies to the roof together, where Oliver and Yuan Xitong were already waiting for them Yes, there were also three zombies lying at his feet.

They cooperated in twos, one raised his hand and the other raised his foot, and threw the corpses as far as possible on the street farther away, like swinging on a swing.

I was sweating and felt cold when the wind blew.The temperature drops quickly in the apocalyptic night. Although it is enough to wear a T-shirt and a leather jacket during the day, it is not uncommon to even wear a down jacket half an hour after the sun sets.

Oliver went down to cook dinner for them after finishing the zombies, and Jiamo went to the utility room to see if there was anything useful.Qin Zhan remained on the rooftop, squinting at the railing and looking into the distance, Yuan Xitong stood beside him.

After standing for a while, Qin Zhan felt a little annoyed. After all, it was not a comfortable thing to be stared at all the time.He frowned and said, "Can you stay away from me?"

Yuan Xitong silently retreated to the corner of the roof.

Qin Zhan was still not satisfied, "Can you go down and accompany Huang Yi, and leave me alone for a while."

Yuan Xitong pursed her lips uncomfortably, "Azhan, I didn't—"

"Shut up," Qin Zhan said impatiently, "I don't want to hear it, and I'm not interested in listening to it. Get out and stay here. Don't bother me if you have nothing to do."

He didn't turn his head, but there was no sound after a rustle around him. Qin Zhan lay on the railing, looking bored at the zombies on the street.

A few minutes later, suddenly there was a pattering sound approaching behind him, and Qin Zhan, who had been tense for a day, suddenly had his hairs standing on end, and reflexively turned around and raised his knife to chop it off.

However, when he turned around, he was facing a pair of round black eyes.

The corner of Qin Zhan's mouth twitched, "...Jamo?"

"Woo." Alaska approached him, raised his head and rubbed Qin Zhan's palm.

"How did you become like this?" Qin Zhan squatted down and hugged the giant dog with soft and long hair into his arms, "Has anyone seen it?"

Alaska shook his head and quietly put his head on Qin Zhan's shoulder.

Jia Mo secretly sighed in his heart, there is only so much he can do for Qin Zhan at present.

They didn't go down to dinner until Oliver came up to call for someone. Jiamo changed back into a human form and staggered a bit when he was not used to taking the first step. Qin Zhan quickly supported him.

"Tsk, you can fall on flat ground, isn't it stupid?" He looked at Jia Mo with disgust.

"How stupid!" Jiamo cocked his neck unconvinced, "Try walking on four legs! Who will get used to it when you suddenly switch to two legs!"

Qin Zhan: "..."

The two went to the restaurant noisyly, and Oliver fried steak for them. Although it was a bit small, each of them also had a small bowl of rice and a handful of fried shredded potatoes.

Jia Mo was stunned: "...Oh, look at this Chinese and Western mix, it looks pretty decent."

Oliver smiled helplessly, "The materials are limited, and I have to save some for cooking tomorrow, so everyone will eat."

Qin Zhan pulled out his chair and sat down, "When are we going to go to City S?"

"I'll leave after breakfast tomorrow morning." Oliver said, "I just want to discuss with you, should we drive in the dark or wait until the sun comes out?"

"Wait for the sun to come out," Yuan Xitong said, "It's safer this way."

Oliver hummed, and Qin Zhan poked the broccoli next to the steak, and said in a muffled voice, "I didn't mean...have you noticed that the dawn is getting later and later, the days are getting shorter, and the nights are getting shorter and shorter? longer and longer."

In fact, he noticed this before the end of the world. At that time, Qin Zhan ate and drank well every day, was very energetic, and woke up early in the morning, so he also noticed the change of sunrise time.

"Uh..." Gamo said with some uncertainty, "Maybe it's because...it's almost winter? The point of direct sunlight moves northward from the equator, and the days are longer and the nights are shorter and the nights are shorter. This is a natural law." He said I laughed a few times.

oliver: "..."

Qin Zhan sneered, "Geography is pretty good, but when did you see that the sun didn't rise until seven in the morning in September?"

The two spoke in a joking and sarcasm tone, but in fact they didn't care much about this irreversible change, but Oliver's expression froze, "Climate change..."

Hearing this, Qin Zhan suddenly remembered that Oliver's mission was to prevent the situation from deteriorating.But things like climate change are obviously the result of some accidents on the earth or in the universe. Oliver is not a superman, he cannot fly out of the atmosphere, so how can he save the world?

For a while, no one at the dinner table spoke. Huang Yi knew he was not to be seen, so he could only bow his head silently to eat.

After a long while, Oliver smiled and regained his composure and composure, "If you don't try it, how will you know the result, let's take a step and see, first go to S City to have a look."

At this time, Huang Yi, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly said, "There should be a safe zone in City S, right? Now that things have happened, the government will always take some action."

Qin Zhan nodded, "There should be."

Huang Yi showed joy, and turned his head to look at Yuan Xitong, "Xiao Yuan, we—"

"You can stay there," Yuan Xitong interrupted him with an indifferent expression, "but I won't, I will go wherever Ah Zhan goes."

Qin Zhan heheed, "I think you'd better stay there together so as not to bother me." After finishing speaking, he put his chopsticks on the table and smiled at Oliver, "I'm full, you go on."

Qin Zhan went upstairs, and before the water and electricity cut off, he hurriedly washed what could be washed first.He took out a change of clothes from the system backpack and took a comfortable hot shower in the bathroom of the master bedroom.

Half an hour later, Qin Zhan went downstairs and saw Oliver sitting and doing sit-ups while watching TV. In order not to attract the attention of zombies, they turned off the headlights in the living room and only turned on the TV. Very disturbingly eerie and mysterious.

"Any new news?" Qin Zhan asked.

Gamo shrugged, "What new news can there be? It's nothing more than asking the surviving residents to stay at home as much as possible, saying that the government will control the situation as soon as possible. It also provided a number of safe zones that have been established in several provinces and cities, and there are regular troops. garrison, and people can go there for protection."

Qin Zhan nodded without expressing anything else, but Huang Yi looked at it seriously and seemed a little moved.

Qin Zhan saw a can of fish food in the mezzanine under the coffee table. He squatted down and stretched his arms to take out the fish food. He went to the stairs and studied where to put the fish food in.

Yuan Xitong also walked to him and squatted down. Qin Zhan found a groove like a small drawer. He poured the fish food into it, and the fine red and green particles slid into the water along the inclined groove.The fish seemed to be very hungry, and they all rushed towards him in a swarm, scrambling for food with their mouths wide open.

Qin Zhan flicked the glass with his index finger, and said calmly, "What's the matter?"

"Azhan..." Yuan Xitong whispered, "I love you, you don't have to accept it, but I just want to treat you well, if you really don't like it, you can treat me as someone else. As...anyone you the person I like……"

"Ha," Qin Zhan smiled sarcastically, "That really insulted the person I like." After finishing speaking, he stood up and left two words at the end, "I don't blame you, I chose what to do at the beginning." Yes, I can't blame others, and I can't blame you either. So Yuan Xitong, stop talking about whether you like it or not, it's really disgusting."

Yuan Xitong choked for breath, and the blood faded from his face little by little. He pulled the corners of his mouth, trying to smile and say it's okay, but Qin Zhan had already turned and walked away.

It was getting late, and Qin Zhan, who had been tense for a day, went back to his room to rest early, sitting on the edge of the bed and rubbing his sore arm due to excessive exertion.

Not long after, someone knocked on the door outside.

"Who?"

"It's me, Oliver."

Qin Zhan hurried over to open the door, and asked with a smile, "What's the matter?"

"We need to take turns to watch the night. Each person has two hours. Because he has been driving for a day today, he is allowed to rest. You are the last one in line. I will call you when the time is up."

Qin Zhan nodded, "Okay, no problem."

After seeing off Oliver, Qin Zhan went back to bed and lay down. It was very cold outside, and the cold wind beat against the window, making a whistling sound.

Staring at the ceiling in a daze for a while, Qin Zhan sighed silently, pulled up the quilt to wrap himself into a cocoon, turned over to face the door, and closed his eyes uneasy.