poor road [end times]

The Chen family's mother and daughter have been brainwashed for a long time, so naturally they will not be shaken by Yang Yiqin's words.

After all, under the flickering of the priest, they have devoutly believed in the Doomsday Sect for more than three months, and they firmly believe in those outrageous rhetoric.Under the baptism of the relatively closed doomsday environment, there are no sober outsiders to wake them up, and their stubborn ideas are gradually ingrained.

Mrs. Chen drove her own car, carrying her daughter in front.

Yang Yiqin and Feng Lin followed closely behind.

They are not afraid of the opponent's deceit. After all, the two of them are equipped with weapons and equipment. Even if the opponent does not know the depth of their force value, they will be afraid of them after seeing their modified steampunk off-road vehicle.

As Mrs. Chen said, the commercial area does not occupy a large area. Although it is close to the subway station, there is only a 20-storey office building and a five-storey shopping mall.There is a row of short commercial streets under the shopping mall. Some shops are open, and some shops are empty. It can be seen that it is not a lively place before the end of the world.

Yang Yiqin observed the facades of the buildings here, and found that the office buildings were obviously a bit old, but the shopping malls were newly built—or at least newly remodeled.

Newly built buildings in recent years have stricter specifications, so they are safer and stronger than previous buildings.

The priest used the shopping mall as his base, probably because there are enough food and supplies in it, enough for a few people to survive for a long time in the last days; Turn it into a strong fortress that is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

However, there are too few people in the base that can be mobilized at this stage, and the army has been busy saving people before, so there is no time to sweep up the supplies in the urban area layer by layer. Otherwise, given the distance between here and the base, it will not be long before they will be discovered.

In the end, either the priest ran away in a hurry, or the priest became a new man.

However, as long as the priest does not reveal his identity as an "angel" and pretends to be an ordinary survivor, even if he is discovered, as long as he insists on not leaving, the base will not force others, but will leave the supplies behind.

Mrs. Chen is obviously already familiar with the road.

She drove into a small alley in the business district, and then parked the car at the alley on the side of the mall. After carefully observing the surrounding situation, she took her daughter out of the car one after another.

Yang Yiqin and Feng Lin also picked up their weapons and got out of the car.

The two looked forward.

There is a small road in front of the vehicle. Walking along the small alley, you can see two tightly closed iron gates. On a section of the road between the iron gates, you can still see black and red blood stains that the heavy rain failed to wash away. There have been a few zombies.One side of the path is the side wall of the shopping mall, and the other side is the side wall of a restaurant. From the window of the restaurant, the bodies of two waiters can be seen lying inside.

There are safety stairs on the side wall of the mall. The first and second floors of the safety stairs are blocked with a small amount of debris to prevent zombies and animals from going upstairs.

Yang Yiqin had noticed before that the main entrance of the shopping mall had already been blocked from the inside. Looking in from the glass doors and windows outside the shopping mall, you could only see layers of obstacles of chairs and cabinets.Since the mother and daughter of the Chen family brought the two of them to this path, it should be meant to follow the safety stairs on the outer wall and enter the shopping mall.

Mrs. Chen knocked on the iron door, then turned her head, and said to Yang Yiqin and Feng Lin with a wry smile, "Sorry, this place is closed now, we can't get in. If you shout loudly, the zombies on the road outside will be attracted. .”

Yang Yiqin was noncommittal and asked, "How do you usually get in?"

"We come to pray at a fixed time every week." Mrs. Chen explained, "When we arrive at [-] pm every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, the priest will wait upstairs after lunch."

Feng Lin said, "Turn over, or break the lock."

"Turn... what?" Mrs. Chen looked at the three-meter-high iron gate, shook her head repeatedly, and said, "No, Xiaojia and I will definitely not be able to do it."

Xiaojia didn't speak.

Mrs. Chen is already in her 40s, and her body looks a little weak, which is really not suitable for opening the door.But there are also 50-year-old aunts in the base who are walking fast, and they can build walls faster than young people.

Yang Yiqin took out a knife: "Then knock the door lock."

"Don't! Don't move!"

Suddenly, someone stopped his movement.

It's a male voice.

Everyone looked up at the source of the sound—a young man in his 20s was standing on the third floor of the safety staircase, waving anxiously at them.

Yang Yiqin did not withdraw the knife, and asked, "Is that the priest?"

Xiao Jia suddenly called out: "Father, priest, run!"

Mrs. Chen frowned, pulled Xiao Jia behind her, and warned her not to say a few words.

If the priest is really capable and has some special responsibilities, then he himself has the ability to resolve the current situation, and there is no need for her daughter to remind him regardless of her own safety.

She was willing to trust the priest based on the premise that he was truly powerful and willing to help them, so that her daughter could feel at ease.As soon as she breaks away from this premise, she immediately puts her so-called beliefs aside.

Although Xiaojia refused to accept it, she still compromised with Mrs. Chen's stern eyes, and stood quietly behind her, waiting for the priest to use his personal charm to enlighten the two people and cleanse their hearts.

Thinking of this, she secretly glanced at Yang Yiqin and Feng Lin, waiting for their confrontation with the priest.

Yang Yiqin: "..."

How to make them look like big villains.

"Don't smash the lock, I'll come down right away." After the young man finished speaking, he put aside the sundries on the first and second floors, and hurried downstairs, "Who are you, are you the new survivors? "

This young man known as the priest is relatively thin, his appearance tends to be delicate and dull, and he is more friendly when he speaks.Probably in order to conform to his status as a priest, he was wearing a strange long robe with a cross hanging on his chest.

He has great strength and can lift several heavy objects with one hand when carrying sundries.

The priest came in front of them, but he didn't immediately open the chain of the iron door, but looked at them through the iron door.

Yang Yiqin looked at each other: "We are neighbors who used to live next to Mrs. Chen."

"Neighbor……"

The young man thought for a while, and suddenly remembered that he had helped them make keys before, and his face flushed.This situation is a bit embarrassing. Could it be that the other party is here for revenge?

The young man asked: "Excuse me, are you here to ask for an explanation because of the door lock?"

Yang Yiqin glanced at the other party up and down, and said softly, "No."

It makes people feel inconsistent.

This priest is just an ordinary young man, and he has no evil intentions since he showed his face. He is not the villain Yang Yiqin imagined—of course, it may be that the other party is very good at hiding, so people can't see his thoughts. .

The priest looked nervously at the weapons in their hands. These people came so suddenly that he was unprepared, and he had to stop the other party from smashing the lock in time, so now he has no weapons in his hand.

"What's that for?"

Yang Yiqin pursed his lips: "I'm just curious about the Doomsday Cult and priests."

The priest smiled in embarrassment: "Since you are Aunt Chen and Xiaojia's neighbors, do you also want to live here? This is a good choice. We don't have many zombies here and we have enough supplies. If you want to live here , you can also join the Doomsday Cult, I will distribute food to you three times a week..."

"That's unnecessary." Yang Yiqin flatly refused, "We don't lack food."

Feng Lin glanced at his father up and down, and then said, "I'm not having fun."

Yang Yiqin couldn't help laughing twice.

Priest: "..."

Yang Yiqin shook the dagger in his hand: "You are the only one in the whole shopping mall... no, priest?"

The sharp blade in the opponent's hand flashed coldly, which made people tremble with fear. The priest regretted that he didn't come down with a weapon.But soon, he remembered his character design, and replied: "It's just me, this is the church of the Doomsday Sect, and I am the envoy who guards this place."

"Then Father." Yang Yiqin pointed to the lock on the door with the tip of his knife, "Please open the door."

"...Since you are not members of the Doomsday Sect, you don't need to call me priest, just call me Zhang Lin."

Zhang Lin told the other party his name truthfully, otherwise, every time he heard the word "priest" from the other party, he would have a feeling that his life was approaching and his life was not long.

"Zhang Lin..." Yang Yiqin read with a smile, then shook his head, "But Mrs. Chen and her daughter told us before that all survivors in this world should be your believers."

Zhang Lin: "..."

There is such a thing, he overblown at that time, which directly made it a little difficult to smooth things over now.

Today's confrontation can be regarded as the first time Zhang Lin has faced a threat from humans after the outbreak of the end of the world.

He watched the two strangers in front of him a little nervously.

These two are tall and handsome young men, they would definitely be at the level of school grass before the end of the world, and a group of people around them exchanged pleasantries, different from ordinary people like myself.But this is me, who first escaped the first round of indiscriminate infection by the zombie virus, and then occupied the entire shopping mall by chance... Finally, he even awakened a talent that is different from ordinary people-incomparable strength, resilience extremely strong.

This also made him firmly believe that he is different.

Only he can save ordinary people and lead them to fight a bloody path in the last days.

Zhang Lin turned his head quickly, and filled in the gaps in the previous words with righteous words: "Survivors are of course protected by the doomsday religion, except for those who have been polluted by the doomsday and have low morals... The last days are God's test for the world, These people have failed the test, we will not acknowledge their existence, and we firmly condemn their actions."

He thought he was well versed in human psychology, otherwise he wouldn't have made those dozen or so people go around.

Except that at the beginning, he was a little flustered when he saw the mother and daughter of the Chen family bringing two people who seemed to be hostile at first sight. people.

But Yang Yiqin and Feng Lin are not ordinary people.

Yang Yiqin asked with a smile: "So we are polluted by the end times and have low morals? How did the priest judge?"

The iron gate is a series of hollow railings, and they can see each other's every movement and every expression.There were some iron sheets scattered on the side of the path. Zhang Lin easily lifted a few and threw them aside, showed them his strength, and then replied: "Have evil thoughts, have done bad things, and sacrificed to other people for material and rights." Hand over."

"Bad things...have we ever done it?" Yang Yiqin looked at Feng Lin in embarrassment, "I don't remember."

"I haven't done it yet." Feng Lin said lightly, "But I can do it now."

After finishing speaking, he turned his gaze to Zhang Lin who was across the door, meaning something.

Zhang Lin: "..."

At this time, shouldn't you either reveal your true colors, or explain that you are a good person?In this way, he can take advantage of the opportunity to find the flaws in the other party's words, break through the defense line in the other party's heart, and make them trust his identity as a priest.

Mrs. Chen stood up and adjusted the stalemate between the two parties: "They are not bad people. This young man surnamed Yang saved me in the early days of the end of the world. He was the one who tied up my husband. And the two of them knew that I After staying in their room with Xiaojia, I didn’t get angry or blamed, but just said that I wanted to meet the priest. The reason why I brought them here is because the priest has a big heart, and he will definitely let them recognize the origin of the end of the world, which we admire. .”

As soon as she said this, she probably put Zhang Lin on the grill.

If he can't prove that the two young men in front of him are villains, and can't "influence" each other, then his status as an envoy is very suspicious.

This is the first time that Zhang Lin has been questioned by a "believer". Now he only blames himself for telling too many strange and unrecoverable lies in order to establish a perfect and awesome personality when he spoke, which led to the current I can only reap the consequences of myself, and I can't explain what I said.

Yang Yiqin continued to laugh and said, "It's fine if we can't find it. In this way, we are the people protected by the Doomsday Cult? Since we are classified under the protection of the priest, of course we have to come to see the priest."

"So—" Feng Lin picked up the ax and aimed at the door lock, "Open the door?"

Zhang Lin panicked.

He cleaned up the zombies around him in the early days of the last days, but since he took the mall as his own, he hasn't done much.Although his strength is getting stronger day by day, it doesn't mean that his fighting skills can also get better.

Two-on-one is a bit of a stretch.

It was the first time Mrs. Chen had seen the priest look so flustered.

Including the priest, there are a total of sixteen members of the Doomsday Sect, most of whom are weak survivors.Everyone has no ability to escape, and they can't trust people from outside, so they are attracted by the priest who generously gives them food, and they are willing to believe what the other party says.

Coupled with the various small "miracles" that happened to the priest, she and her daughter gradually believed in what the priest said.

But as Yang Yiqin said, shopping malls are not the property of priests, even they can occupy shopping malls.Although the priest did give them food, if the dozen or so of them joined forces and took over the big shopping mall, would they still need the other party's kindness?

Find food by yourself, at least you can take what you like, instead of looking at what supplies the priest distributed today, or telling the priest in advance what supplies you need.

She had no experience of belief in the past, but now she suddenly discovered that the things she believed in were full of doubts after clearing the fog, so she gradually became sober.

"Wait a minute, the door cannot be opened yet." Zhang Lin calmed down, "I want to confirm whether you are aggressive."

Feng Lin looked at him: "Don't you think you can block the attack through a door?"

"No." Zhang Lin said, "I just want...we can talk calmly."

Yang Yiqin had a good time watching the excitement, and asked, "What does the priest want to talk about?"

"Your purpose." Zhang Lin asked, "You left the villa and came back here a few months later. What exactly do you want to do? It doesn't seem to be for settlement."

Yang Yiqin: "In the beginning, I wanted to find supplies."

"I can give you supplies." Zhang Lin said immediately, "as long as you respect my authority."

Yang Yiqin bent his eyes: "Authoritative? Let's go in first."

"Yes, Father." Mrs. Chen also said, "Although this is a small alley, the end of the alley is close to the street, so it's not safe. Let us go in first."

Zhang Lin's abilities were limited, and he only used the structure of the shopping mall to clean up the zombies in the shopping mall. As for the zombies that occasionally wandered over the streets, he did not bother to eliminate them.

Because after killing one group, another group will come again, and it can't be destroyed at all.

The few of them talked in a low voice, just because they were afraid of offending a few zombies wandering on the street.

However, the more you are afraid of something, the more you will come.

The location of the small alley is relatively remote, just avoiding the place where the zombies gather. Usually, when Mrs. Chen brings her daughter over, Zhang Lin will guard the stairs in advance, and immediately let them enter the mall through the side door, so that they will not attract people. Attention the hordes of zombies.

Now that the few of them had stayed at the door for too long, the smell might have leaked out, and a few zombies staggered in following the smell.

After the baptism of heavy rain and sun exposure, the appearance of the wandering zombies became less and less flattering. The injured flesh and flesh had already festered and rotted, and the lingering corpse smell could be smelled across the street.Zombies wandered past the alley, looking for the source of the smell. Xiao Jia looked over the cars at the alley, saw their hideous and terrifying appearance, and suddenly let out a low voice.

Yang Yiqin had noticed before that when Xiao Jia came here by car, she kept her head down and didn't look out the window. She was probably well protected by Mrs. Chen, so she had never come into contact with zombies so close.

After exclaiming, she immediately realized that she had caused trouble, and immediately covered her mouth.

However, it was too late, the zombie had twisted its neck to the point of breaking, and slowly turned to their side.

Immediately afterwards, the ferocious zombies stumbled towards them excitedly, as if seeing a delicious delicacy.It roared wildly in its throat, and the stinky yellow saliva flowed from the corner of its mouth to the ground.

Hearing its movement, two more zombies ran over following the sound.

Xiaojia was terrified, and quickly grabbed Mrs. Chen's arm, trying to take her to a safe place.

The only places that could be called safe now were inside the car and behind the iron gate—but now that the zombies had approached their car, it was too late to go there, so they had to escape behind the iron gate.

Xiao Jia patted the iron gate and looked anxiously at Zhang Lin: "Father, open the door quickly, open the door quickly! Let us in quickly, the zombies are coming!"

Zhang Lin stayed in the ivory tower of the shopping mall for a long time, and was stunned when he saw the group of zombies. After being reminded by Xiao Jia, he came back to his senses and hurriedly went to unlock the lock.

The moment the iron door opened, Xiao Jia immediately dragged Mrs. Chen in.

After being safe, the mother and daughter quickly turned their heads to look at Yang Feng and the other two. Mrs. Chen greeted them anxiously: "Quick, come in!"

However, as soon as she finished speaking, Zhang Lin quickly locked the door, locking Yang Yiqin and Feng Lin out.

Mrs. Chen exclaimed: "Zhang Lin!"

The other party's unexpected behavior shocked her so much that she called him by his first name, even forgetting the name of the priest.

Even Xiao Jia looked at Zhang Lin incomprehensibly: "Father, hurry up, there are people outside!"

"Hush." ​​Zhang Lin gestured his fingers and said nervously, "There are zombies coming outside again, and they didn't have time to come in."

"Ah."

Hearing this, Yang Yiqin laughed.

Mrs. Chen was able to run in, but he and Feng Lin were only too fast.The reason why they didn't move was to let the Chen family's mother and daughter go in first, and to ensure their safety first.

Xiao Jia didn't believe it: "How is it possible, they all came in just now!"

I don't want to be exposed as my true identity, and I don't want to lose everything I have now...

Zhang Lin was dazzled by the momentary evil thoughts. He said stubbornly: "For the safety of the believers who have already entered, I cannot open the door. You can open the door and come in. This is a test for you. After turning over, I will open the door." Just admit your identities."

Mrs. Chen frowned: "Stop talking! There is still time to open the door!"

Zhang Lin was unmoved, and even with Mrs. Chen's strength, she couldn't hide the key from his hand.

Yang Yiqin ignored the wobbly zombies behind him, turned his head to look at Zhang Lin through the door, and said with a relaxed smile, "Father thinks, do we really need you to admit our identities? At first, I thought you were not Hit the bad guys... Now, you are giving us an excuse to do justice for the sky."

Looking at his refreshing smile, Zhang Lin couldn't help being surprised: "What do you mean?"

Yang Yiqin grabbed the bow and arrow behind his back, turned around and opened his bow.

After several shots in succession, he accurately shot the three running zombies.

After that, he ignored the zombies who continued to run in, but slowly turned the tip of the bow and arrow to Zhang Lin's direction, and raised the corners of his lips.

Zhang Lin clenched the key in his hand in shock.

"Can you open the door now?" Yang Yiqin smiled and said with clear eyes, "There should be no zombies going in now."

Zhang Lin choked up and pointed behind them: "Also, and..."

Just halfway through speaking, Feng Lin raised the ax in his hand and swung it at the remaining zombies.The way he swung was extremely simple, without any fancy tricks, just using brute force to harvest the zombie's head.

Blood splattered everywhere, and heads flew around.

After a while, Feng Lin finished dealing with the remaining four zombies.

Yang Yiqin didn't even turn his head. He obviously trusted Feng Lin extremely. When he heard the fourth zombie's head fall to the ground, the smile on his lips deepened: "What about now?"

Faced with such a rough treatment, Zhang Lin was stunned.

Xiao Jia was also frightened and stupid. Fortunately, Mrs. Chen pulled her back and turned around, so she didn't scream out of fright.

Seeing that Zhang Lin didn't respond, Yang Yiqin withdrew his bow and arrow, bowed his legs slightly, and climbed over the iron gate three to four meters high in two strokes, and landed in front of the three of them lightly.Feng Lin put away the axe, followed closely behind, holding the ax in one hand, and clung to the iron gate with the other and turned over.

The key in Zhang Lin's hand fell to the ground.

It turns out...he didn't need to open the door.

They have been confronting him for so long, just wanting to find out about his background and character.

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