Chapter III Temporary Cooperation
"Let go, let go quickly, we will both die if we hold on like this!" Ling Tian yelled anxiously: "Let me go up, and I will give you a hand!"
"If you don't let go, you will die if you let go!" Xiao Mo didn't trust Ling Tian at all, gritted his teeth and climbed up crazily. The two of them kept struggling and tearing in the air.
"Crash!"
Suddenly, a burst of white ash fell on Ling Tian's face, and he was so confused that he couldn't open his eyes. It turned out that due to the two people's constant tearing, the ladder that had not been maintained for a long time was overwhelmed, began to loosen, and even showed signs of falling off.
Ling Tian quickly stabilized his body, stopped moving, and allowed Xiao Mo to climb onto his body. Cold sweat flowed down Ling Tian's neck, bringing a chill.
"Huh~"
Xiaomo let out a long breath, thrust her body upwards, grabbed Ling Tian's belt, and wanted to continue climbing up.
"Yes, that's it, don't move, wait until I go up first." Xiaomo said in a hoarse voice.
At this moment, the zombies gathered around them had already run to the feet of the two of them, and one of the zombies with nimble hands and feet jumped up with a "pop!"
He pounced on Xiaomo's body, biting the flesh and blood on her back crazily.
"ah!!"
Xiaomo burst out with a shrill cry again, grabbing Lingtian's belt with both hands, and more and more zombies gathered around him.
"Wow!"
The ladder was already overwhelmed and was on the verge of falling off. Broken masonry powder kept hitting Ling Tian's face.
Ling Tian tilted his head and spat, holding the iron ladder with his left hand to re-fix himself, and with his right hand, he took off the baseball bat from his back under Xiao Mo's astonished eyes.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Ling Tian raised the baseball bat and hit Xiao Mo's head three times. The metal bat collided with the skull, making a dull and terrifying sound.
Xiao Mo stayed in place with his mouth wide open, not caring about the bites of the zombies behind him. The pupils in his big dull eyes gradually expanded, and a stream of blood slowly flowed down from his head.
Finally, Xiao Mo, whose eyes had lost their clarity, stiffly let go of his hands, and a zombie on his body fell into the pile of corpses below.
Ling Tian didn't look down anymore, picked up the bat on his back, and climbed up to the large platform of the gas station in a few steps.
"Huh~"
As soon as Ling Tian climbed up, he didn't even have time to take a breath.
"Ouch!"
In the darkness, a female zombie with only half her body left pounced on her with claws and teeth.
"Fuck!"
Ling Tian exclaimed, punched the female zombie in the face, and knocked it back. Then he "mounted on a horse" and rode directly on the female zombie's back.
Before he could take off the bat, Ling Tian pulled out the dagger from his waist, held down the female zombie's head, aimed at her temple, and stabbed her twice.
"Puff! Puff!"
The dagger plunged into the zombie's head, as if cutting a rotten dough. The tip of the knife stirred inside the head, bringing out a pile of black and yellow tissue.
Ling Tian was so stifled by the stench emanating from the tissue that he wiped the blade of the blade with the plaid shirt on the zombie's back, then lay down on the ground, breathing heavily.
Ling Tian was really exhausted. From leaving the supermarket to fleeing for his life, to climbing onto the platform of the gas station to kill the attacking zombies, it only took ten minutes.
But Ling Tian felt that it had been as long as a year just now. He felt that there was a thick smell of blood in his throat, and his lungs were wheezing like a broken bellows.
"Ahem! Bah!"
Ling Tian turned his head and spat out a mouthful of bloody phlegm.
"If another zombie appears now, let him eat it. It's too tiring to live these days." Ling Tian's heart collapsed.
…
In the early morning, a ray of sunlight shone on Ling Tian's sleeping face, causing him to turn his head sideways.
"Puff!" Ling Tian suddenly woke up and found that he had fallen asleep on the platform of the gas station last night. Ling Tian twisted his sore neck and made a crisp sound. When he turned around, he found that he had killed him last night.
The female zombie is still around.
Ling Tian cursed secretly, carefully moved to the edge of the platform, and looked towards the street.
Under the sun, groups of zombies were walking around in twos and threes on the streets. Compared with last night and the previous two days, the number of zombies increased dramatically at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Alas!" Ling Tian squinted his eyes, licked his chapped lips, took out the emergency water bag from his close-fitting pocket, and refilled the water in small sips.
Under the platform, Xiaomo's body had been devoured by zombies, leaving only a pale head looking desperately at the sun in the sky.
"It seems that there was too much noise last night. The density of zombies in the nearby area has increased by at least two levels." Ling Tian finished drinking the water and squeezed his sore legs. There are only two ways to leave now.
The solution is either to find a way to escape on your own, or to wait for other teams of scavengers to come to the rescue.
But judging from the current situation, no matter which one it is, the possibility is not high. If you escape by yourself, there are zombies under your feet, and it is possible to wait for other teams to come to the rescue, because even in a situation like No. 0209
In a small county town, there will be at least seven or eight teams in action.
However, most scavenger teams will not move during the day, because most zombies have the habit of sleeping at night, and will only come out in twos and threes during the day to look for food and wander around.
"I guess the other scavenger teams are very happy now, because fools like us have caused such a big noise in the center of the city and helped them attract zombies." Just when Ling Tian was feeling helpless and annoyed, two small stones came out.
It hit the open space next to him with a "snap" sound.
Ling Tian looked in the direction where the stone was thrown and saw the strong man who led the team last night waving to him in the convenience store warehouse below the gas station.
The strong man's name is Huang Biao, and he is the captain of the seventh scavenging team of the Eastern Alliance. Three days ago, he led the team into the infected area to search for supplies. Not counting the few individuals who formed the temporary team, he also brought three other people with him.
United brothers.
Now, the other three brothers have died from injuries. The tall and thin one did not receive timely medical treatment due to excessive blood loss, and died in the early morning.
The tall and thin man died in such a tragic manner that in order to prevent him from wailing in pain before his death, Huang Biao and others had to cover his mouth until he finally died in pain.
Now only he and two other men named Dongzi and Xiaowei are left.
Seeing Ling Tian lying on the platform of the gas station as if nothing had happened, Huang Biao's eyes were red with anger, but there was nothing he could do. He gestured to Ling Tian, and then wrapped the tall and thin man with a piece of tattered clothes.
mobile phone.
Huang Biao balled up the clothes containing the mobile phone and threw it towards Ling Tian from the window.
On the platform, Ling Tian caught the ball of clothes, took out his mobile phone and put it to his ear. When the call was connected, Huang Biao's cold voice came.
"The big guy is dead, he was stabbed to death by you!"
"Then what?" Ling Tian held the phone and asked in a calm voice.
"This matter won't just be settled like this...!" Seeing that Ling Tian didn't take it seriously, Huang Biao was so angry that he continued to say harsh words.
"Listen, if you gave me the phone just to scare me, then you'd better save it. I stabbed him because he wanted to rob me, but it's meaningless to say this now." Ling Tian interrupted Huang Biao.
, said calmly: "You definitely didn't call me to talk nonsense. If you have any good ideas, just explain it quickly."
On the other end of the phone, Huang Biao breathed heavily for a while. After forcing himself to calm down, Huang Biao said to the phone: "I have a signal baton, which is used by our scavenger team from Donglian when encountering danger.
Release a distress signal."
"But if we place this thing during the day, the visibility is too low. We need to put it at night, but if we put it outside the warehouse, the corpses will quickly surround us and kill us all, so I have to throw the signal baton to you.
, let you put it on a platform where zombies can’t get on.”
When Ling Tian heard this, he sneered in his heart. He didn't send the signal baton to save the tall and thin man last night because last night was the time when the corpses were the densest.
If he was released last night, he would probably be eaten by zombies before he could wait for the rescue team. He kept saying that he wanted to avenge the tall and thin man. To put it bluntly, it was all for his own survival.
"Okay, you can throw the signal baton over. We will wait until the zombies go to sleep at night." Ling Tian responded while observing the zombies on the street.
In this way, a temporary team was in a state of intrigue. In order to survive, they had to put aside their hatred and cooperate again, forming a strange grass team, quietly waiting for nightfall.
…
Around seven o'clock in the evening, the sky was dark, the cold wind was gathering dark clouds, and the whole sky was extremely dark.
On the platform, Ling Tian drank the last drop of water, stuffed the last piece of dry food into his mouth and ate it.
"It's time!" Ling Tian looked at the dark sky and tightened his grip on the signal rod in his hand. In such a dark night where he could not see his fingers, the light and colorful smoke of the signal rod would be evaporated to the extreme.
"Dip! Dip! Dip!"
The mobile phone in his hand vibrated three times. Huang Biao understood that this was a signal that Ling Tian was about to take action. He pulled the collar of another companion and whispered: "Dongzi, he will sound the signal baton in a moment."
, the zombies will move closer to him immediately, and as soon as the pressure on our side is relieved, we will leave through the back window immediately."
Dongzi nodded: "Understood!"
Huang Biao stared at Ling Tian on the platform and cursed in a low voice: "Damn it, I just couldn't avenge the big guy with my own hands!"
Dongzi hurriedly advised from the side: "Forget it, Brother Biao, letting him die in the hands of zombies can be regarded as revenge for the big man."
Under the cabinet next to the three of them, a tall and thin corpse whose belongings had been plundered was already stiff. He was lying quietly, looking at his three good brothers with a bruised face. Suddenly, the index finger of his right hand twitched unnaturally.
For a moment.
"Click, click, click!"
On the platform, Ling Tian broke off the signal rod, and orange flames and thick smoke immediately spurted out. For a moment, the entire gas station was illuminated like an orange ball of light.
"roar!"
"Ouch!"
As soon as they saw the fire, the surrounding zombies immediately roared and rushed towards Ling Tian as if they had been given blood.
Seeing the group of corpses being attracted by Ling Tian, Huang Biao happily slapped his thigh and growled excitedly: "The group of corpses has passed, everyone is ready to evacuate!"
Just when the three people in the room were extremely happy, Ling Tian suddenly made a move that stunned them.
Ling Tian was seen standing on the platform, raising the signal baton high and throwing it towards the small warehouse where the three of them were.
The signal rod sprayed flames and smoke, bounced on the ground twice, and finally landed under the corner of the warehouse where the three people were.
On the platform, Ling Tian turned around and ran away after throwing it away, without even looking back.
Chapter completed!