16 years

It rained heavily in Lincheng.

The dark clouds pressed the heavy rain and fell heavily on the sky, covering the entire forest city in a shadow.

The black infected blood and broken limbs on the ground were carried into every corner by the rain. The trash cans on the street were overturned, and a thin milk tea sticker fell from it and floated a long way along with the rain.

In the cold chain warehouse of a large supermarket in the central area of ​​Lincheng, Fu Yan was leaning against a corner, facing a dozen survivors in the other corner of the room.

This large supermarket is four floors high, and the cold chain warehouse is hundreds of square meters. The dozen or so people are crowded together, occupying a diagonal line with Fu Yan, and the straight-line distance in the middle is at least a dozen meters.

They shivered and sat against the corner of the wall, their eyes brushed against Fu Yan from time to time, but they didn't dare to look at him.

Fu Yan didn't look at them too much. He held the gun loosely in his right hand, and the backpack was thrown on the ground casually. A long wound was exposed in the tear of the clothes behind the left shoulder. Fu Yan leaned against the wall, and there was a bloodstain when he moved. .

Fang Sining ripped off the clean inner lining of his clothes, turned his head and looked at the group of people opposite the warehouse.

"You don't have to be afraid." Fang Sining said dryly, "He scratched it on the iron frame, it has nothing to do with zombies, and it won't be infected."

The group of people didn't speak, they shrank their necks cowardly, although they looked apprehensive and frightened, there was no hostility for the time being.

Fang Sining reckoned that they were probably ordinary people who were frightened by sudden changes, so he didn't dare to tease their fragile nerves, but turned his back silently, tore the cloth in his hand into strips and joined them together.

The hospital is a high-risk area. Neither he nor Fu Yan has stored medicines along the way, so they can only make ends meet with this crude method.

Fu Yan unscrewed a bottle of mineral water, splashed casually on the back to wash the wound, then took the cloth strip from Fang Sining, avoiding his help, took off his clothes and wrapped the wound hastily.

Fang Sining looked left and right, and found that Fu Yan really did not intend to ask him for help, so he could only sit down idly and watch Fu Yan's movements.

In fact, it was a complete accident to enter this supermarket by mistake.

Fu Yan's goal has always been clear, which is to obtain information and send it back to the Yancheng Military Region.He didn't need to find a way out in the apocalypse, and he didn't want to play wilderness escape, so he tried to be as fast as possible along the way, hoping to arrive at the experimental base as soon as possible.

So he avoided those supply points that might be time-consuming along the way, including hospitals, large shopping malls and supermarkets.Even when looking for food and drinking water, his first choice will always be a small supermarket in a corner.Fang Sining followed him all the way from Pengcheng to Lincheng, and the place where he stayed the most was the open gas station.

It was the same this time, Fu Yanben planned to go directly through the urban area and turn to the foreign road in Lincheng, but just as he walked near this supermarket, he saw a little girl rushing out of an alley.

The child didn't look very old, only about six or seven years old. From a distance, he looked like he had rolled out of the mud. His body was covered in mud, and his face could hardly be seen clearly.She hugged a black plastic bag tightly in her arms. She didn't know what it contained. She clutched her chest tightly like a baby, and her whole body was soaked by the rain.

She jumped out of the alley, stepped on a depression under the stagnant water while running, and fell in the middle of the road immediately.

Such a big child was just being spoiled and spoiled, but the little girl not only didn't cry or fuss, but also gritted her teeth and got up, clutching the black plastic bag in her hand, wanting to run forward.

Fu Yan was still some distance away from her, so he stepped on the brakes without hesitation.

Fang Sining pressed his hand and said in shock: "It's so far away, can you be sure it's a human?"

He was obviously deceived a lot by some people on the road who hadn't had time to superficially infect him, and now he was a little bit like a bird, and he didn't feel safe looking at anything.

However, Fu Yan spent three years in the apocalyptic world in his last life, and he has developed his eyesight long ago. He can tell at a glance whether the opponent is a human or a zombie, whether he has been infected and has not had time to mutate.

"It's a human." Fu Yan hastily explained: "The movements are very quick, and there is no infectious stiffness."

In two sentences, the zombies chasing out of the alley were already approaching. The zombie chasing at the front jumped forward in a distorted posture, grabbed the little girl's ankles, and dragged her back hard. , I want to bite when I open my mouth.

The little girl screamed suddenly, scratching the ground with her fingers, trying in vain to crawl forward.

But the expected pain did not come, the little girl only heard a loud noise, followed by a layer of cold and slippery stuff sprayed on her leg, and the hand holding her ankle was released.

The little girl was in shock, and the scream seemed to be stuck in her throat and stopped abruptly.

For a while, she ignored the "experience" that the adults had repeatedly urged, and subconsciously wanted to look back, but before she could turn her head away, someone picked her up by the back of her neck and turned half a circle in mid-air. In a flash, nothing was seen.

The zombie's brain was blown out, and the brains and blood sprayed all over the floor. It was really not suitable for children to watch movies. Fu Yan kicked the corpse to a high place, and stroked the little girl's blood-stained calf .

——No injury, luckily.

The little girl seemed to have just realized what happened. She raised her head to look at Fu Yan, and subconsciously covered the plastic bag in her hand more tightly.

"I won't steal your things." Fu Yan said, "Why are you here alone?"

If a child is wronged, no one asks, but if an adult asks "what's the matter", the grievance can multiply exponentially in an instant.

However, Fu Yan didn't know anything about parenting, so he stepped on the thunder point of emotional counseling when he came up. The little girl grabbed the things in her arms and held back for a few times. Tears came out immediately.

Fu Yan: "..."

He wanted to comfort him, but unfortunately something happened around here, the road looked empty, but in such a short time, a dozen or so zombies emerged from every corner.

Fang Sining got a little farther away and could see more clearly. Seeing seven or eight dangling zombies jumping out from the back street across the road, Fang Sining couldn't help getting out of the car and calling Fu Yan from a distance.

"There are too many things!" Fang Sining said, "Don't stay for long!"

Fu Yan was also aware of this matter, the gun he got from picking the lock was short of ammunition, and he was almost not going to use it except for critical moments.

But if he used a cold weapon, in such an open environment, he could kill himself, but Fang Sining had to be a treat for others.

And there is this little girl who ran out of nowhere, so I really can't ignore it.

Fu Yan carried the little girl like a small sack. He put away the gun, pulled out the dagger from his boots, looked around, and took a few steps backwards in Fang Sining's direction.

"Is there an adult in your family?" Fu Yan asked.

"Yes." The little girl wailed and pointed at a large supermarket not far from the roadside: "It's over there."

Before she finished speaking, the gradually gathering zombies had invaded a safe distance. They smelled the smell of fresh human flesh and blood, and began to show their viciousness, rushing forward ferociously.

Fu Yan circled around and shouted at Fang Sining: "Run!"

Fang Sining sprinted quickly without his calling, Fu Yan put the little girl on his shoulders, turned and ran towards the supermarket.

It is obvious that people can burst out with unlimited potential in a desperate situation. Fang Sining, a scientific researcher who has been in the laboratory all year round, can barely keep up with Fu Yan's footsteps when he is in a hurry.

Fortunately, the heavy rain had some impact on the road conditions. The zombies lacked rationality and thinking ability, and often stepped on obstacles under the stagnant water. Sometimes they rushed too hard and bumped into each other.Fang Sining's lungs were going to explode, but he didn't dare to stop, for fear that Fu Yan would disappear in the blink of an eye and leave him on the street.

Fu Yan has been paying attention to him from the corner of his eye. Seeing this, he was quite surprised, and silently raised Fang Sining's evaluation of "self-protection ability".

It wasn't until the supermarket was right in front of her eyes that the little girl finally remembered the second sentence. She patted Fu Yan's shoulder desperately, unable to speak in a hurry: "Brother, don't go, don't go, there are... "

There are zombies, Fu Yan thought, I know.

After the disaster broke out, the large shopping malls must be full of ordinary people who came to buy supplies.But this kind of large gathering place is prone to secondary infection, when one bites ten or ten bites a hundred, it will be a nest for raising Gu.

Fu Yan felt that he was already mentally prepared, but he really didn't expect that there were more things in this place than he imagined!

When the little girl stopped him, he had already arrived at the entrance of the supermarket. He pressed the little girl on the shoulder, shouted to hold on tight, and then ignored the supermarket gate. up the second floor.

Then he turned around immediately, leaned out and held Fang Sining's hand, gritted his teeth and pulled Fang Sining up from the first floor abruptly.

The little girl obviously had never seen such a wild person like him, she was dumbfounded for a moment, her uncle and brother yelled indiscriminately, and she forgot everything she wanted to say just now.

When Fang Sining also managed to get up to the second floor platform, Fu Yan turned around, kicked the glass behind him, and dragged Fang Sining into it.

However, as soon as he stepped in, his heart sank heavily—the air was filled with a strong rancid smell, so spicy that it almost choked his eyes. Before Fu Yan raised his head, he knew that there must be a lot of zombies inside.

The second floor near the road is the sports area. It looks like it has been bombed now. Models and various equipment and clothes are scattered all over the floor. There are black and dark blood all over the floor. There are dozens of dogs wandering around in this sales area alone. Zombies, Fu Yan looked around, but saw a vast area in the distance, not to mention countless.

Fu Yan suddenly remembered the dying scene in his previous life, his stomach churned, and he forced himself to suppress it.

He subconsciously wanted to retreat, but he glanced back and realized that after such a short time, the zombies on the street had gathered downstairs together with the group chasing them. , struggling to reach out and scratch the signboard, as if trying to tear them off again.