Chapter 53: Fire Elevator Falls
The group of people were packed like dumplings in an instant, with one person squeezing into every empty seat.
Completely disregarding whether the fire ladder can withstand the weight.
When Xu Shuyao got two-thirds of the way down, there were five or six young and middle-aged men squeezed on top of her, including Zhuang Moxing. The weight was obvious.
Even so, not counting the people who continued to squeeze down from the balcony, the fire escape was currently bearing a weight of at least 400 kilograms.
Xu Shuyao's hands began to tremble as she watched more and more people climbing up the ladder. She was worried that the fire escape would fall at any moment.
Suddenly she saw that the thick nails that fixed the fire ladder to the outer wall of the building were dragged halfway out of the wall, and the exposed half of the nails gradually bent downwards, and it was deformed!
The nail Xu Shuyao saw was certainly not the only problem. The fixing nails in a row above all had the same problem. The nail mouths and the wall were rubbing against each other, and the wall powder fell down.
"Ah! Don't come down from the upper level! The ladder is going to fall!" Xu Shuyao finally couldn't help but shout out, not caring whether it would attract zombies.
But despite this, the people in power still went their own way and sent people down one after another, fearing that they would miss this "escape ladder".
"Stop talking and get the next thing down quickly!" The young man urged Xu Shuyao fiercely not to delay.
It seems that Xu Shuyao's advice has no effect at all and has even annoyed others.
Liu Yu could see the situation clearly from below. The ladder could not hold on any longer and would fall in half a minute at most.
"Xu Shuyao, just jump down."
Hearing the sound coming from below, Xu Shuyao thought for a moment that she had misheard, "Huh? There are still five or six meters!"
"Jump quickly!" Liu Yu put the magic treasure down and placed it aside, then quickly ran to the fire escape to prepare to pick up Xu Shuyao.
Xu Shuyao's position was too crucial; without her, Zhuang Moxing could have simply jumped down. But blocking her would have made the plan impossible, so he had to remove the obstacle first.
"Obstacle" Xu Shuyao looked at the big guy below in disbelief, who was really planning to catch her, and her legs were shaking with fear.
"Really jump?!"
She was still hesitating, but Liu Yu's gaze at her from below became increasingly cold. She felt a chill on the back of her neck, closed her eyes, and instantly loosened her legs and feet.
The whole person was tense, like a straight wooden stick falling straight down.
The moment of landing was smooth, but she was a little unlucky when she was about to exit the fire escape. Her body tilted and her forehead hit the last step of the fire escape with a "bang", which made her dizzy.
Then I fell into a very safe embrace, not broad but very strong.
It took less than three seconds from falling to being caught steadily.
However, before Xu Shuyao could feel anything, she was thrown aside by Liu Yu and huddled together with Lingbao who was standing obediently against the wall.
Her forehead was still hurting. Lingbao turned his head away and stared at her with disgust, his big eyes revealing a sympathy and melancholy that was completely inconsistent with his age.
Then Xu Shuyao saw the child holding a piece of talisman paper in his little hand and handing it to her, "Take it, you are so weak."
Xu Shuyao: “…”
She swallowed bitterly at being pitied by a child who looked only three years old.
But he could not refute a word, so he could only angrily take the yellow talisman from the child's hand and stuff it into his pocket, then lean against the corner with his head down, feeling sad.
The fire escape ladder above fell down a section the moment Xu Shuyao jumped down, causing a cry of surprise from above.
"Ah! What's going on?"
"The ladder is falling!"
"I'm not going down anymore! I'm not going down anymore! Those of you up there, quickly climb back up! I want to go back!"
But the ladder only fell once and then stopped moving. The few people who had already climbed up the ladder thought that it would not break down so quickly and insisted on going down.
"Don't stop, keep going!"
Zhuang Moxing looked at the fire escape that was getting farther and farther away from the wall. He no longer hesitated and jumped down immediately when Xu Shuyao moved out of the landing point.
But it was too late. Before he could get out of the fire escape, the thick nails on the wall collapsed one by one, and the fire escape instantly detached from the wall and fell rapidly to the ground.
“Back off!”
In an emergency, Zhuang Moxing loudly warned Liu Yu on the ground to leave the danger zone.
The vertically descending ladder tilted to the right due to the panicked movements of the people above, which gave Zhuang Moxing a chance to get out of the fire escape.
He pushed the stairs hard with both hands in the air and moved down at a speed faster than the fire escape.
Under Liu Yu's dark and nervous gaze, Zhuang Moxing escaped from the fire escape at the critical moment when the ladder was only two meters from the ground!
His body fell rapidly to the ground, and Zhuang Moxing rolled forward the moment he touched the ground, using the force to relieve the impact and landing safely.
"Bang!!"
The heavy fire ladder crashed to the ground, and the people on the ladder hit the ground with unstoppable force.
The man who was halfway up the fire escape at the top fell to the ground with his upper body twisted. A large amount of blood foam came out of his mouth and nose due to the impact, and his fingertips twitched twice before he became motionless.
The people inside the fire escape were not much better off than him. The best-case scenario was that they had a broken hand and were lying inside the escape, groaning in pain.
Xu Shuyao looked at the tragic scene in front of her and felt no sympathy at all. She only felt a chill running down her back.
If I hadn't met these two people around me, I would have been half-dead or even crippled by this group of people.
Liu Yu took a quick look at Zhuang Moxing's condition and asked, "Is he okay?"
Zhuang Moxing shook his head. He would not do anything without certainty, so there was naturally no possibility of hurting himself.
"Then let's go quickly. The zombies must have been attracted by the movement here."
The man who was the least injured in the fire escape over there groaned and then slowed down, then he went out of the stairs and turned around and ran away, without caring about his companions. Only a group of people who had lost their ability to move were left in the stairs, cursing and howling in pain.
Liu Yu took out the floral water as usual and sprayed a thick layer on everyone. Zhuang Moxing and Lingbao were already used to the smell, but Xu Shuyao was the only one who was choked and wanted to cough but didn't dare.
Zhuang Moxing put the magic treasure on his back again, feeling that the spiritual energy in his dantian was still sufficient, he slightly practiced the breathing method. As the spiritual energy circulated, his ears and eyes became clear, and his breath was extremely low.
He faintly heard a group of heavy footsteps in the southeast, followed by gunshots and the roar of explosions.
"Damn, which bastard moved the supplies in the warehouse before us?! Didn't that old man say that this warehouse was full of food?" a man with full energy shouted loudly.
"Fuck, it's a pity I didn't spare that old man's life. How dare he lie to me."
Zhuang Moxing frowned after hearing this, then avoided the hearing blessing and gathered his spiritual power to cover up his breath.
With his clear eyesight, he planned a route that bypassed the zombies and reached the Hummer directly, and walked along the corner with Liu Yu and Xu Shuyao.
But the wall always ends, and there is a green path in front. It is easy to walk on the path because of the cover of trees.
But the only way to enter the green path is through an open space where many zombies are wandering around.
About ten meters to the right is a group of zombies gathered together. Clearing out these zombies will inevitably alert the group of zombies, which is too risky.
Several people stopped at the corner and couldn't move forward.
The ominous situation made her frown slightly, but then she thought of the pile of alarm clocks she had prepared in advance.
“Got it!”
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