◎ Act recklessly once, just this once◎
"It's incredibly agile and fast, like it's alive...and feels soft when I kick it."
"Does it bark or grunt in pain when you kick it?"
After thinking carefully for a while, Rong Xiao shook his head decisively: "No."
After hearing this, Shangguan Yu frowned and seemed to be thinking about something. Just looking at his expression, everyone else felt that something was not going well.
"Are zombies coming in?" Tian Yichuang tried to use his little brain to analyze.
"Didn't I say the shadow was very small?"
"Well... forget it, I don't know, you continue to analyze." Tian Yichuang stepped back and sat down.
Shangguan Yu glanced at Long Qingyu and asked, "How about we leave right away?"
The air was suddenly silent, so quiet that even breathing could not be heard.
Jiang Yao and her colleagues looked extremely ugly, and they kept their mouths open for a long time without saying anything.
Finally, Lin Munan, catching his breath, asked in disbelief, "Is this... so serious?"
Shangguan Yu hadn't wanted to waste time explaining, but since his team was there, he could only add impatiently, "The size rules out human and ordinary zombies. Furthermore, its speed, and the lack of pain after being hit, means it must have become a zombie."
"You mean, that's not a zombie transformed from a human?" Rong Xiao actually understood Shangguan Yu's meaning clearly.
Ling Xi shuddered, feeling a chill all over her body.
For some reason, she suddenly thought of the mutant rat she had encountered in the villa before.
After secretly calculating in his mind, Ling Xi felt that encountering zombies transformed from humans might be easier to deal with. At least they were large targets, and no matter how fast they were, they were limited by gravity, so they wouldn't be too outrageous.
But if the same attribute is applied to animals...
The consequences are hard to predict.
Almost instantly, Ling Xi jumped up from the floor, completely free of sleepiness: "Let's go, let's go, let's go now."
Everyone was busy packing up. This series of actions made Jiang Yao and her colleagues even more frightened. She grabbed Ling Xi and asked anxiously, "Is it really that dangerous? Then...should we leave too?"
"this……"
Ling Xi was in a bad mood to speak, and Shangguan Yu on the side spoke directly and bluntly.
"You guys should make your own decisions. It's not convenient for us to give you advice." Shangguan Yu glanced at the other people in the room. "You have quite a few people, so it won't be difficult for you to make a decision."
Some seemingly unconscious actions and words in the end times may very likely cause serious consequences.
Lingxi is an emotional and sensitive person.
If something I said casually caused trouble for this group of people, I would probably fall into deep self-blame.
Shangguan Yu interrupted Ling Xi and helped her stop Jiang Yao from asking for help.
There were obviously many people in the conference room, but it suddenly became quiet, so quiet that everyone realized the seriousness of the situation.
Not knowing what she was thinking of, Jiang Yao turned around to open the door, and the door of the conference room was knocked.
Everyone was startled, and a voice came from outside: "It's me."
Just as Zhuo Chengsheng finished speaking, Linlin's vague voice calling "Mom" was heard from the door again.
Jiang Yao quickly opened the door and let the person in. She also looked outside. Apart from the two of them, the place was empty. Neither Lao Yang nor the patrolman who was supposed to come back to change shifts showed up.
"What's wrong? You haven't come back yet, and I was worried about leaving Linlin alone in the dormitory, so I brought her here to find you." As he spoke, Zhuo Chengsheng patted Linlin's back and continued to coax her to sleep on his shoulder in a steady rhythm.
"Something happened," Jiang Yao said anxiously. "The first group of colleagues who went on patrol haven't returned. Lao Yang took people to look for them, but they haven't returned yet. Just now... Xiao Lin and Rong Xiao also went out to check. They found a pool of blood and a fallen weapon in the corridor. They also said that a strange dark figure was attacking people in the building."
Zhuo Chengsheng's expression changed slightly. He looked at Long Qingyu and asked, "Black shadow? What black shadow?"
After explaining the situation again, Zhuo Chengsheng patted the sleeping Linlin and stopped talking.
He looked at Jiang Yao, his eyes seeming to ask her whether she wanted to leave.
"But no one's left. I..." Jiang Yao looked at the door, her voice choked with sobs. "If everyone leaves together, I'm afraid we'll be too conspicuous and dangerous. But if only I leave..."
"Brother Yang hasn't come back yet, and I don't know if he's in danger." Lin Munan's eyes were red as he wiped his face vigorously. "No matter what, even if it's a corpse, I have to confirm Brother Yang's condition before I leave."
After saying that, he picked up the hoe on the ground, choked with sobs, opened the door and prepared to go out.
There was a person standing motionless at the gate.
Without a flashlight or moonlight, I could just make out an outline, the white brick walls of the corridor obstructing my view with darkness.
“Who…who is it!!” Lin Munan jumped back in fright and raised the hoe in his hand high.
In an instant, everyone in the room subconsciously grabbed their weapons.
Zhuo Chengsheng pulled Jiang Yao to his side and slowly retreated towards Long Qingyu and others.
"It's me." A familiar voice sounded in the darkness.
Lin Munan put down the hoe, and the man walked into the meeting room in the dark, with a flashlight shining on his face.
Old Yang frowned, looked left and right, and asked, "Is Zhenjiang back?"
"Didn't Zhenjiang go out with you just now?" Ponytail asked stutteringly.
As he finished speaking, the furrow between Old Yang's brows deepened. "I was walking with him just now, one in front of the other, but as soon as we turned the corner of Warehouse No. 1, he suddenly disappeared. I looked around but couldn't find him. I thought he had returned on his own for some reason."
Ponytail said nothing and quickly pushed the door of the conference room closed and locked it.
"Brother Yang, there's a situation." Lin Munan recounted the incident with a serious expression.
Old Yang didn't say anything. He looked at Long Qingyu and the others getting ready to go. He probably guessed something and waved at Lin Munan: "Xiao Lin, take two people to protect them downstairs."
When Lin Munan heard the word "protection", he felt both amused and a little scared.
After seeing Rong Xiao's skills, he was really not sure who was protecting whom.
But it was indeed dangerous in the corridor just now, and Rong Xiao had saved his life. Lin Munan was grateful but embarrassed to express it. He could only grab his weapon and shouted loudly: "Let's go, I'll take you downstairs to get the car, and by the way, tell the people at the door to be careful."
"I'll see you off too." Zhuo Chengsheng followed with Linlin in his arms, without saying anything to try to keep them.
He knew that his wife was reluctant to leave her colleague with whom she had gone through difficulties before, and did not want to leave for the time being.
Zhuo Chengsheng sincerely hoped that Long Qingyu and the others would not be affected by the danger. At the moment, the best outcome was that they could leave immediately before things got worse.
After sending the person downstairs, Long Qingyu looked at Linlin who was still asleep, took out the gun on his body, and handed it to Zhuo Chengsheng: "Keep one for self-defense."
"No, no need. You keep it." Zhuo Chengsheng refused without thinking.
It's not that he doesn't know how to use it or doesn't want it, but such weapons are extremely precious and rare in the end times. How could he accept such a gift when they met by chance?
Long Qingyu handed him the gun and took out a few bullets: "You keep it, I still have a lot."
What's with this boastful tone...
Zhuo Chengsheng listened to his daughter's breathing beside his ear, hesitated to take the gun, and asked for some relevant knowledge.
A gun is indeed a very threatening weapon. Even if it is not used, just showing it can scare people away.
He has to protect his wife and daughter, and this weapon will come in handy sooner or later.
"Sister Yao, something bad has happened," the girl with a ponytail hurried out of the building, "something happened in the dormitory!"
"What's going on?"
"The door to Jiang Ji's dormitory was open, but they were missing. There was a lot of blood in the room."
Jiang Yao was no longer in the mood to exchange pleasantries with Long Qingyu and the others, and quickly followed them to check out the situation. Zhuo Cheng was afraid that something might happen, so he said goodbye and immediately followed them into the building.
"Be careful on your way," Lin Munan quickly explained the situation to the people at the gate and hurriedly said hello to Rong Xiao and the others, "Have a safe trip."
After saying that, he hurriedly ran into the building. The dark interior of the building was like a big mouth that gradually swallowed his figure.
Opening the car door, Tian Yichuan half stepped in, his movements hesitant: "Can they really handle it? There is not a single person with special abilities. What if there really is something strange? Don't let the whole army be wiped out."
"That's their own fate," Shangguan Yu emphasized calmly, "We won't stay here forever. We can rely on them once, but we can't rely on them a second time. The apocalypse won't disappear in a few days."
Long Qingyu did not deny Shangguan Yu's statement, but he kept thinking about Zhuo Chengsheng's eyes when he took the gun for the last time, which made him feel complicated.
"Xiao Yu, you're right, but... sometimes a single decision in life can change a lot of things," Shangguan Huai leaned against the car door, rubbing his cold fingers. "Some things have nothing to do with responsibility, and they're not something we absolutely must do. However, at some point, our intuition will keep urging us to act recklessly, just this once."
"But a team is a team. All interests of the team should be prioritized. Get in the car." After adjusting his emotions, Long Qingyu's rationality made the balance in his heart tilt towards the safety of his team members.
The captain has made the decision, and even though the others have some unspeakable feelings in their hearts, they can only suppress them and learn to get used to it.
The easiest thing to learn in the end times is to let go of regrets and remorse and move on.
"Help--"
Just as I was about to close the car door, a heart-wrenching scream came from the second-floor window.
There was a flashlight flickering in the corridor. Someone was running quickly, and the light went up and down or turned behind him from time to time, so he could barely see what was happening in the corridor.
A black shadow was occasionally covered by light. Rong Xiao only took a glance and realized that the shadow was the same size as the one she had kicked before.
That should be it!
Long Qingyu subconsciously drew his gun and followed the movement of the black shadow, aiming at the second-floor window. Soon, a nimble climbing figure appeared in his field of vision.
Rong Xiao ran over very quickly, climbed up to the second floor along an old tree with lush branches and leaves, kicked off, and climbed in through the broken glass window.
The whole process is so fast that people don’t have time to react!
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