Idol's Doomsday Survival Guide
Chapter 79 Small Town
Not long after the car drove on the highway, Zou Tu braked again, and gave Ji Nanze a painkiller with trembling fingers.
After drinking the last half of the small bottle of mineral water, Ji Nanze crushed the bottle in pain.
"Does it hurt?"
"It hurts, my bones are hurting. I'm worried about what to do when I go to the toilet."
"I'll help the senior." He thought about the ambiguity of the words, and immediately changed his words, "No, I don't look at you. I just hold you, just, just..."
"Okay, I know you have no bad intentions."
Ji Nanze lay pale on the backrest, sweating from the pain on his forehead.
"It's been so long since the second pill, why are you still not feeling well?" He stroked Ji Nanze's forehead worriedly, checking his body temperature, "No fever, it's okay."
"It won't take effect so quickly, it's not a panacea." He replied weakly, "It will take about an hour to say the least."
Hearing what he said, Zou Tu suddenly deflated like a balloon: "I guess I'll spend the night in the car tonight. When I go to the hospital to collect supplies, I'll get some blankets by the way, in case you catch a cold in the middle of the night."
"I guess there are medicines for reducing swelling and inflammation. Just in case, I need to get some things for bruises." Ji Nanze smiled wryly, "If you have a small injury in two days, and a big injury in three days, I don't think it will be too bad. How much is alive."
After taking the painkiller, Ji Nanze couldn't resist the sleepiness and squinted for a while.During this period, he woke up a few times in a daze, and every time he opened his eyes, he saw Zou Tu nervously looking ahead, holding the steering wheel in his hands, without speaking or making eye contact.He just drove on the highway, and it took two or three hours before he stepped on the brakes.
Ji Nanze woke up under the influence of inertia and rubbed his eyes.
"Where have you been?"
"A small town." Zou Tu looked at the wooden sign at the intersection, "What is it called Jiaxi Town?"
"Let me see." Ji Nanze said, propping up the seat with his hands, and just about to straighten his body, his eyes swept the windshield, and his whole body suddenly became refreshed.This scare, it is false to say that it is not spiritual.The place where the car was parked should be a road in the town, leading all the way to the central square of Jiaxi Town. Facing the road was a three-meter-high concrete wall with a door that was not too big or too small.After passing the gate, there are two sections of railcars parked in the middle of the road, directly blocking the way of the car, and the two carriages also form a sharp 30° corner.
The traffic lights were crooked, and even the cables were pulled to the ground by the collapsed billboards.
There are antennas on the roofs of several houses. Following the antennas to the south, there is an uphill slope. At the end of the slope is a hospital, and the red cross is crooked brightly on it.
Regardless of whether it is this road or the uphill, there are densely packed zombies as far as the eye can see.With his head down, he wandered aimlessly in the square wearing blood-stained clothes.Fortunately, their car was not very close to the center of the zombie tide, so Zou Tu pulled out the key. As long as there was not much movement, the zombies would not notice them for the time being.
"Do you want to bypass the center first?"
"It's probably not easy. There is only one road that can be opened here, and the other places are full of mud. I accidentally got stuck." Zou Tushou pointed the steering wheel, acting very anxiously, "Your physical condition does not allow it now, otherwise We can wade through the forest. If we leave this car, our speed will definitely slow down a lot.”
"You can't wait here." Ji Nanze said, "This is not the city center. It's unreasonable that there are so many corpses like this. It's probably not simple."
Zou Tu also felt that what he said was reasonable, but considering his situation, he still couldn't make up his mind so easily.
"We can run all the way through."
"No. There are too many, and there are too many roadblocks." He said, "If it's just a few people, there's no problem, but if all the zombies in Jiaxi Town are surrounded, it will be difficult for the car to move. Let's get out of the car and make a detour. "
"But your current situation..."
"The disaster is imminent, it's not the time to think about the injury."
Zou Tu couldn't resist him, so he insisted that he would go behind his back before agreeing.Seeing that his attitude was so tough, Ji Nanze immediately agreed.
He pulled off the seat belts on the two of them, opened the car door, and stepped out.Going around from the front of the car to Ji Nanze's car door, Ji Nanze patted Blueberry's head twice before finally waking up the dog.Blueberry responded weakly, raised her wobbly body, and jumped out of the car door.
Zou Tu put one arm on his shoulder, and carried him on his back with little effort.
Before the tide of corpses found them, they planned to climb over the wall and enter a two-story wooden house.Keep walking along the back alley, and you can reach the hospital without any accidents.
Zou Tu's attitude is still tough. I don't know where to find the next hospital. Why don't we try our best here, bring all the medicines we need, and leave here.
Zou Tu stepped on the fence, and the dense fog over the town suddenly covered his vision.He lifted his arms up and circled his forearms from his knee sockets, for fear that Ji Nanze's shoes would get mud on the ground.
"Is it heavy?"
"not heavy."
He shook his head.
Ji Nanze put his arms around his neck and said with a smile, "Really? Didn't lie to me? Didn't you try to be brave?"
"Really not." Zou Tu couldn't help laughing, "Why, do you doubt your weight?"
"A little bit, this is not a few months, eat whatever you can. There is no time to control your weight."
"It's lighter than before."
He said with some emotion.
"That's good." Ji Nanze hugged him and smiled, "It's good that you don't carry too much weight."
They climbed over a concrete wall around the town of Jiaxi, and found that there was a flat grass in front of the cabin they had initially set their eyes on.At a glance, Zou Tu knew that there were not many zombies inside, and staggering figures were faintly walking around the windows on the second floor.
"I don't know the quantity." Ji Nanze squinted his eyes and observed for a while, then said, "But approaching this terrain rashly is probably not a good strategy."
Zou Tu said: "If the quantity is small, the blueberries and I can clean it up."
"Why, if I'm injured, I'm not counted as combat power?"
"It doesn't count." He said, "Once you are injured, I am injured. Who wants to fight this losing battle?"
Ji Nanze reached out and pinched his nose, and the two of them and a dog walked towards the house not far away.The windows of the house were sealed several times, and there seemed to be no signs of damage, and it was unclear what was going on inside.The only open back door leads directly to the second floor.Zou Tu approached carefully, and just as he opened the door, a mechanical roar made his heart almost skip a beat.
At the same time, an arm full of black blood vessels smashed open the door with a bang.
Zou Tu moved very quickly, and there was almost no time for it to make a second sound. He picked up the hand ax and chopped off the zombie's head without saying a word.
He looked at the steep stairs again, and found that the zombie just now attracted many of its kind.He hastily kicked the door open and observed the messy cabin.
The first floor is a square space, and there is a toilet room on the left hand side of the entrance.Shelves are stacked in the corner, and old newspapers and plastic bags are scattered on the floor.They were also ordinary zombies, and they were cleaned up in two or three strokes.He carefully placed Ji Nanze at a corner, confirmed that his back was safe, and took a step forward with a flat hatchet.
If he heard correctly, there may be more than a dozen zombies just based on the movement of going downstairs at this moment.
Can handle.
He took a deep breath.
After cleaning out the cabin and making sure the front and rear doors were securely blocked by the shelves, he grabbed a few tissues from the table and wiped the brain spray off his face.The blood clotted on his shirt, sticking to his body and making him feel uncomfortable, so Zou Tu had to take off his shirt, freeing up an arm to pull Ji Nanze.
"Sleeping here today?" He asked with a smile.
"It looks like this." Zou Tu glanced out the window.I saw that the sky outside had completely darkened. If this point was still exposed to the outdoor environment, it would be even more dangerous. "Tonight, okay? I'll help the senior re-bandage the wound."
Ji Nanze didn't resist when he saw him hugging him head-on, and let him do it.
"Why are you acting more and more like a baby?"
"Senior, don't you like it?" Just as Zou Tu wrapped his arms around his waist, Ji Nanze couldn't help but kissed him on the cheek, "...don't, don't kiss indiscriminately, my face was very dirty just now."
"I stared at it for a long time, this piece is not dirty at all."
Zou Tu's face became hot.
"Come on, we haven't settled down yet."
"I just find it novel." Ji Nanze laughed, "Tell me, where have we not slept in this way? In the office or in the car, we have never slept in a strange town. Thinking of living here With so many zombies, it's even more novel."
"Not angry?"
"Why should I be angry."
"That's good. Just don't get angry."
He carried Ji Nanze all the way upstairs, followed by the limping blueberry.
The second floor is obviously much smaller than the first floor. The second floor is a small room with a sloping wall on one side. A series of numbers are densely recorded on the slant, which should be the number of days trapped here.
A sleeping bag and bundled bedding were laid out on the ground.
There was a table next to the iron door of the balcony. There were not many things on the table, just some fragmented newspapers, and dog hunting reminders were posted on the wall.
There are several cans of food in the home facing the iron gate, all of which have been pried open, and the contents inside are already moldy, and it looks like there are traces of rats gnawing on them.Zou Tu looked at the big iron gate on the window sill, and felt that it was not completely obstructing the sight of the zombies, and it was not very safe anyway, so he used a few cardboard boxes to block the gap between the railings.
After a quilt is spread out on the floor, the narrowness of the lounge is reflected. The entire space can accommodate at most two standing people, and it feels extremely crowded when lying down.
"It's not just a sleeping bag, I'll give you the quilt." He touched the hard wooden floor and said, "Senior is a sick patient, so he can't sleep on such a hard place."
"Are you serious? If you give it all to me, how do you sleep at night? My head is facing this way, and you are facing this way?" He pointed to the opposite direction, one against the door and one against the wall, and said with a smile, "No If you are careful, you will be kicked in the face, it is better not to sleep."
"It's okay if I don't sleep, but you can't sleep if you don't."
Zou Tu said and dragged the quilt under his body.When he felt that it was almost done, he put one arm around Ji Nanze's arm, put him on the quilt, and leaned his back against the wall.
He took off the bandage on Ji Nanze's knee, took out the disinfectant alcohol he carried with him, and first glanced at him: "I'm really going to start, don't..."
"I don't want to bark, right? I know, I definitely won't bark, and your hands shake again when you bark."
"Okay, then I'll start."
The wound still couldn't stop turning red, Zou Tu wiped the area around the wound, and at the same time felt distressed, and blew several breaths.
"Don't listen to those storybook nonsense, it's useless to blow. The more you blow, the more itchy I feel." Seeing him like this, Ji Nanze couldn't help touching his head, "The more itchy, the more I want to Grasp."
"That can't be done. It's going to bleed again when I scratch it. I almost can't stop it today." Zou Tu sprayed some Yunnan Baiyao on his wound, and he gasped in pain, and finally couldn't help it anymore, "Does it hurt?" ? If it hurts, I move slowly, maybe it will feel better."
"Don't, long-term pain is worse than short-term pain, please hurry up."
Zou Tu held the Yunnan Baiyao spray in his hand, and was a little afraid to do it now.
"That's not all, senior, you have injuries on your elbows and back. They all need to be sprayed, so it will be healed quickly. Otherwise, you will really be in pain all night."
When the knee was replaced with a new bandage, Ji Nanze lay face down on the pillow, with his only intact arm supporting his chin, looking up at the ceiling.Suddenly, he noticed something hanging on the wall. He raised his hand and pointed Zou Tu in the direction.
"Honey, get me something."
Zou Tu was still spraying medicine on his back, when he heard this sound, the spray in his hand almost hit the wound.His voice was trembling: "Xue, what did the senior call me?"
"Call you honey. Don't like it?"
"No, it's not that I don't like it." He shook his head desperately, even biting his tongue, obviously struggling to organize his words.
"That's why I like it very much." Ji Nanze laughed out loud.
"No... no! I don't like it very much, just..." Zou Tu began to speak incoherently, "That's right, I don't know what to call senior."
"You can call it whatever you like. I don't force it." Ji Nanze found it funny when he saw his red face, "Okay, show it to me quickly, or I'll call it more explicit?"
"Don't, don't tease me, I'm really going to explode."
Zou Tu was taken aback by him, stood up quickly, and handed the things on the wall to Ji Nanze.
After getting it in his hand, Ji Nanze looked at it carefully, and found that it was an old-fashioned crossbow with a wooden shell, with only three wooden arrows, which seemed to be used infrequently.
After drinking the last half of the small bottle of mineral water, Ji Nanze crushed the bottle in pain.
"Does it hurt?"
"It hurts, my bones are hurting. I'm worried about what to do when I go to the toilet."
"I'll help the senior." He thought about the ambiguity of the words, and immediately changed his words, "No, I don't look at you. I just hold you, just, just..."
"Okay, I know you have no bad intentions."
Ji Nanze lay pale on the backrest, sweating from the pain on his forehead.
"It's been so long since the second pill, why are you still not feeling well?" He stroked Ji Nanze's forehead worriedly, checking his body temperature, "No fever, it's okay."
"It won't take effect so quickly, it's not a panacea." He replied weakly, "It will take about an hour to say the least."
Hearing what he said, Zou Tu suddenly deflated like a balloon: "I guess I'll spend the night in the car tonight. When I go to the hospital to collect supplies, I'll get some blankets by the way, in case you catch a cold in the middle of the night."
"I guess there are medicines for reducing swelling and inflammation. Just in case, I need to get some things for bruises." Ji Nanze smiled wryly, "If you have a small injury in two days, and a big injury in three days, I don't think it will be too bad. How much is alive."
After taking the painkiller, Ji Nanze couldn't resist the sleepiness and squinted for a while.During this period, he woke up a few times in a daze, and every time he opened his eyes, he saw Zou Tu nervously looking ahead, holding the steering wheel in his hands, without speaking or making eye contact.He just drove on the highway, and it took two or three hours before he stepped on the brakes.
Ji Nanze woke up under the influence of inertia and rubbed his eyes.
"Where have you been?"
"A small town." Zou Tu looked at the wooden sign at the intersection, "What is it called Jiaxi Town?"
"Let me see." Ji Nanze said, propping up the seat with his hands, and just about to straighten his body, his eyes swept the windshield, and his whole body suddenly became refreshed.This scare, it is false to say that it is not spiritual.The place where the car was parked should be a road in the town, leading all the way to the central square of Jiaxi Town. Facing the road was a three-meter-high concrete wall with a door that was not too big or too small.After passing the gate, there are two sections of railcars parked in the middle of the road, directly blocking the way of the car, and the two carriages also form a sharp 30° corner.
The traffic lights were crooked, and even the cables were pulled to the ground by the collapsed billboards.
There are antennas on the roofs of several houses. Following the antennas to the south, there is an uphill slope. At the end of the slope is a hospital, and the red cross is crooked brightly on it.
Regardless of whether it is this road or the uphill, there are densely packed zombies as far as the eye can see.With his head down, he wandered aimlessly in the square wearing blood-stained clothes.Fortunately, their car was not very close to the center of the zombie tide, so Zou Tu pulled out the key. As long as there was not much movement, the zombies would not notice them for the time being.
"Do you want to bypass the center first?"
"It's probably not easy. There is only one road that can be opened here, and the other places are full of mud. I accidentally got stuck." Zou Tushou pointed the steering wheel, acting very anxiously, "Your physical condition does not allow it now, otherwise We can wade through the forest. If we leave this car, our speed will definitely slow down a lot.”
"You can't wait here." Ji Nanze said, "This is not the city center. It's unreasonable that there are so many corpses like this. It's probably not simple."
Zou Tu also felt that what he said was reasonable, but considering his situation, he still couldn't make up his mind so easily.
"We can run all the way through."
"No. There are too many, and there are too many roadblocks." He said, "If it's just a few people, there's no problem, but if all the zombies in Jiaxi Town are surrounded, it will be difficult for the car to move. Let's get out of the car and make a detour. "
"But your current situation..."
"The disaster is imminent, it's not the time to think about the injury."
Zou Tu couldn't resist him, so he insisted that he would go behind his back before agreeing.Seeing that his attitude was so tough, Ji Nanze immediately agreed.
He pulled off the seat belts on the two of them, opened the car door, and stepped out.Going around from the front of the car to Ji Nanze's car door, Ji Nanze patted Blueberry's head twice before finally waking up the dog.Blueberry responded weakly, raised her wobbly body, and jumped out of the car door.
Zou Tu put one arm on his shoulder, and carried him on his back with little effort.
Before the tide of corpses found them, they planned to climb over the wall and enter a two-story wooden house.Keep walking along the back alley, and you can reach the hospital without any accidents.
Zou Tu's attitude is still tough. I don't know where to find the next hospital. Why don't we try our best here, bring all the medicines we need, and leave here.
Zou Tu stepped on the fence, and the dense fog over the town suddenly covered his vision.He lifted his arms up and circled his forearms from his knee sockets, for fear that Ji Nanze's shoes would get mud on the ground.
"Is it heavy?"
"not heavy."
He shook his head.
Ji Nanze put his arms around his neck and said with a smile, "Really? Didn't lie to me? Didn't you try to be brave?"
"Really not." Zou Tu couldn't help laughing, "Why, do you doubt your weight?"
"A little bit, this is not a few months, eat whatever you can. There is no time to control your weight."
"It's lighter than before."
He said with some emotion.
"That's good." Ji Nanze hugged him and smiled, "It's good that you don't carry too much weight."
They climbed over a concrete wall around the town of Jiaxi, and found that there was a flat grass in front of the cabin they had initially set their eyes on.At a glance, Zou Tu knew that there were not many zombies inside, and staggering figures were faintly walking around the windows on the second floor.
"I don't know the quantity." Ji Nanze squinted his eyes and observed for a while, then said, "But approaching this terrain rashly is probably not a good strategy."
Zou Tu said: "If the quantity is small, the blueberries and I can clean it up."
"Why, if I'm injured, I'm not counted as combat power?"
"It doesn't count." He said, "Once you are injured, I am injured. Who wants to fight this losing battle?"
Ji Nanze reached out and pinched his nose, and the two of them and a dog walked towards the house not far away.The windows of the house were sealed several times, and there seemed to be no signs of damage, and it was unclear what was going on inside.The only open back door leads directly to the second floor.Zou Tu approached carefully, and just as he opened the door, a mechanical roar made his heart almost skip a beat.
At the same time, an arm full of black blood vessels smashed open the door with a bang.
Zou Tu moved very quickly, and there was almost no time for it to make a second sound. He picked up the hand ax and chopped off the zombie's head without saying a word.
He looked at the steep stairs again, and found that the zombie just now attracted many of its kind.He hastily kicked the door open and observed the messy cabin.
The first floor is a square space, and there is a toilet room on the left hand side of the entrance.Shelves are stacked in the corner, and old newspapers and plastic bags are scattered on the floor.They were also ordinary zombies, and they were cleaned up in two or three strokes.He carefully placed Ji Nanze at a corner, confirmed that his back was safe, and took a step forward with a flat hatchet.
If he heard correctly, there may be more than a dozen zombies just based on the movement of going downstairs at this moment.
Can handle.
He took a deep breath.
After cleaning out the cabin and making sure the front and rear doors were securely blocked by the shelves, he grabbed a few tissues from the table and wiped the brain spray off his face.The blood clotted on his shirt, sticking to his body and making him feel uncomfortable, so Zou Tu had to take off his shirt, freeing up an arm to pull Ji Nanze.
"Sleeping here today?" He asked with a smile.
"It looks like this." Zou Tu glanced out the window.I saw that the sky outside had completely darkened. If this point was still exposed to the outdoor environment, it would be even more dangerous. "Tonight, okay? I'll help the senior re-bandage the wound."
Ji Nanze didn't resist when he saw him hugging him head-on, and let him do it.
"Why are you acting more and more like a baby?"
"Senior, don't you like it?" Just as Zou Tu wrapped his arms around his waist, Ji Nanze couldn't help but kissed him on the cheek, "...don't, don't kiss indiscriminately, my face was very dirty just now."
"I stared at it for a long time, this piece is not dirty at all."
Zou Tu's face became hot.
"Come on, we haven't settled down yet."
"I just find it novel." Ji Nanze laughed, "Tell me, where have we not slept in this way? In the office or in the car, we have never slept in a strange town. Thinking of living here With so many zombies, it's even more novel."
"Not angry?"
"Why should I be angry."
"That's good. Just don't get angry."
He carried Ji Nanze all the way upstairs, followed by the limping blueberry.
The second floor is obviously much smaller than the first floor. The second floor is a small room with a sloping wall on one side. A series of numbers are densely recorded on the slant, which should be the number of days trapped here.
A sleeping bag and bundled bedding were laid out on the ground.
There was a table next to the iron door of the balcony. There were not many things on the table, just some fragmented newspapers, and dog hunting reminders were posted on the wall.
There are several cans of food in the home facing the iron gate, all of which have been pried open, and the contents inside are already moldy, and it looks like there are traces of rats gnawing on them.Zou Tu looked at the big iron gate on the window sill, and felt that it was not completely obstructing the sight of the zombies, and it was not very safe anyway, so he used a few cardboard boxes to block the gap between the railings.
After a quilt is spread out on the floor, the narrowness of the lounge is reflected. The entire space can accommodate at most two standing people, and it feels extremely crowded when lying down.
"It's not just a sleeping bag, I'll give you the quilt." He touched the hard wooden floor and said, "Senior is a sick patient, so he can't sleep on such a hard place."
"Are you serious? If you give it all to me, how do you sleep at night? My head is facing this way, and you are facing this way?" He pointed to the opposite direction, one against the door and one against the wall, and said with a smile, "No If you are careful, you will be kicked in the face, it is better not to sleep."
"It's okay if I don't sleep, but you can't sleep if you don't."
Zou Tu said and dragged the quilt under his body.When he felt that it was almost done, he put one arm around Ji Nanze's arm, put him on the quilt, and leaned his back against the wall.
He took off the bandage on Ji Nanze's knee, took out the disinfectant alcohol he carried with him, and first glanced at him: "I'm really going to start, don't..."
"I don't want to bark, right? I know, I definitely won't bark, and your hands shake again when you bark."
"Okay, then I'll start."
The wound still couldn't stop turning red, Zou Tu wiped the area around the wound, and at the same time felt distressed, and blew several breaths.
"Don't listen to those storybook nonsense, it's useless to blow. The more you blow, the more itchy I feel." Seeing him like this, Ji Nanze couldn't help touching his head, "The more itchy, the more I want to Grasp."
"That can't be done. It's going to bleed again when I scratch it. I almost can't stop it today." Zou Tu sprayed some Yunnan Baiyao on his wound, and he gasped in pain, and finally couldn't help it anymore, "Does it hurt?" ? If it hurts, I move slowly, maybe it will feel better."
"Don't, long-term pain is worse than short-term pain, please hurry up."
Zou Tu held the Yunnan Baiyao spray in his hand, and was a little afraid to do it now.
"That's not all, senior, you have injuries on your elbows and back. They all need to be sprayed, so it will be healed quickly. Otherwise, you will really be in pain all night."
When the knee was replaced with a new bandage, Ji Nanze lay face down on the pillow, with his only intact arm supporting his chin, looking up at the ceiling.Suddenly, he noticed something hanging on the wall. He raised his hand and pointed Zou Tu in the direction.
"Honey, get me something."
Zou Tu was still spraying medicine on his back, when he heard this sound, the spray in his hand almost hit the wound.His voice was trembling: "Xue, what did the senior call me?"
"Call you honey. Don't like it?"
"No, it's not that I don't like it." He shook his head desperately, even biting his tongue, obviously struggling to organize his words.
"That's why I like it very much." Ji Nanze laughed out loud.
"No... no! I don't like it very much, just..." Zou Tu began to speak incoherently, "That's right, I don't know what to call senior."
"You can call it whatever you like. I don't force it." Ji Nanze found it funny when he saw his red face, "Okay, show it to me quickly, or I'll call it more explicit?"
"Don't, don't tease me, I'm really going to explode."
Zou Tu was taken aback by him, stood up quickly, and handed the things on the wall to Ji Nanze.
After getting it in his hand, Ji Nanze looked at it carefully, and found that it was an old-fashioned crossbow with a wooden shell, with only three wooden arrows, which seemed to be used infrequently.
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