Chapter 54: Run, there are zombies inside
Zeng Zhi and his team have been trapped in the furniture store for more than a week. They worked hard to dig a road to the commercial city across the street. Almost all the edible things in the commercial city were taken away. After searching the entire commercial city, they only found a few snacks.
There were other shops nearby, but they simply didn't have the energy to dig through the snow, and were even more afraid of running out of energy and still not finding anything.
After all the food was eaten, they melted the snow into water and boiled it to satisfy their hunger. In order to maintain their strength and relieve their hunger, several people could only lie down and try to sleep. When they fell asleep, they would no longer be hungry.
The only thing to be thankful for now is that they don’t have to worry about heating because they live in this furniture store.
There is nothing more terrifying than slowly waiting for death to come.
Chen Wei huddled in the quilt, her consciousness already becoming hazy. She seemed to hear a roaring sound in her ears. The sound became louder and louder, and seemed to be the sound of a propeller. After a while, the sound began to move away from her, and the noise became quieter and quieter.
She was probably about to die, and she started to hear auditory hallucinations. The sound reminded her of where she lived before the apocalypse. It was next to a military base, and she could often hear the roar of helicopters day and night. It was so noisy that if the rent wasn't cheap, she would have moved out long ago.
The sound of the helicopter gradually disappeared. Chen Wei's mouth curled up slightly as many pre-apocalyptic scenes flashed through her mind. Her consciousness began to fade away bit by bit.
Rumble...
Chen Wei's consciousness gradually returned to normal due to the roar. She heard the sound of the helicopter again. After a moment, Chen Wei's eyes widened. No! This was a real sound!
She climbed up using her hands and feet, walked quickly to the window and pushed open the window that was left a crack to allow air to circulate. Chen Wei leaned against the window and looked around anxiously, then she saw a helicopter in the sky slowly coming towards her.
"Hurry! Get up! There's a helicopter in the sky!!!"
Chen Wei shouted loudly at the people sleeping in the room.
Xiang Cheng was the first to be woken up, and he was getting a little impatient, "Chen Wei, are you crazy with hunger? Why are you shouting?"
"Come quickly! There's a helicopter outside! Oops..."
Chen Wei didn't care about these people anymore. She grabbed a quilt, wrapped it around herself and ran out.
The other people in the room were finally woken up, and they looked at each other in confusion.
Chen Wei ran outside and looked up at the sky. She saw the helicopter gradually disappearing into the distance. She opened her arms and waved them rapidly, shouting, "Stop! Help! Wait, don't move! Help!"
But no matter how hard she shouted, the helicopter would turn around and fly away.
Zeng Zhi and others reacted and ran out quickly, only to see Chen Wei squatting on the ground crying. They looked around but could not see any trace of the helicopter.
"Chen Wei, where's the helicopter? Did it fly away?"
"Will he be able to come back? We have to figure out how to get his attention."
"Yes, what if he comes back again? Let's find something to use as a mark."
This helicopter is their only way to survive now. Chen Wei listened to what they said, quickly wiped the frost off her face and stood up.
Crying in this cold weather, her tears instantly turned to ice. Her eyes were so frozen that she could hardly open them. She rubbed them vigorously and said, "Draw SOS in the snow. The ground is all white now. It will be very eye-catching."
"Right! Come on, let's use our bodies to draw in the snow. Someone get some wood and light a fire. The thick smoke will also attract attention."
They prepared everything and waited for a long time but there was no sign of the helicopter. They really couldn't stand the cold, so they had no choice but to walk back with their heads down in frustration.
Just as they stepped into the furniture store, they heard a sound slowly coming from the air. The helicopter flew back again!
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The helicopter quickly arrived at the marked location, where several people were shouting and holding smoking sticks.
Qin Yu adjusted the height and hovered in the air, and Su Qing slid down the rope very skillfully.
The hurricane created by the helicopter's wings brought up the surrounding ice and snow. After Su Qing landed on the ground, Qin Yu adjusted the position of the helicopter to be directly behind Su Qing. The weapons equipped on the fuselage were also revealed at this time, intimidating the few people below without any concealment.
Su Qing held up his hat with one hand and shouted to several people, "Are you the ones asking for help?"
Zeng Zhi and his companions subconsciously raised their hands, their eyes filled with horror, when they saw the helicopter hovering behind Su Qing and revealing its heavy weapons.
Su Qing glanced back at the others' actions, then said loudly, "Don't be afraid, we have no ill intentions. Are you trapped here?"
"Yes, yes! We have been trapped here for a long time. Please take us away."
"Please move away for now." Su Qing nodded and signaled them to move a little further away from where she was standing. Then she took out a snowplow to clear the snow and make room for the helicopter.
Several people were surprised to see that it was a petite woman who jumped out of the helicopter, but they didn't expect Su Qing's subsequent actions to be even more unbelievable.
Had they been trapped for too long, and the world become so advanced? The woman quickly sucked up a large amount of snow with her machine. How could such a small device hold so much snow? Where did it all go?
Several people were looking at it with puzzled expressions. Su Qing had already cleared the area and contacted Qin Yu to allow them to land.
Soon the helicopter landed steadily on the ground, the cabin was opened, and Su Qing turned around and asked loudly: "Do you have anything else to take?"
The hurricane generated by the helicopter made Zeng Zhi and others shiver with cold. Hearing Su Qing's words, they shook their heads in unison and decided not to take the junk in the furniture store.
"Then hurry up."
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"Are you all… okay?"
Su Qing's words finally brought the people who were already sitting in the helicopter back to their senses.
"Wow... I thought I was going to die. Thank you so much." Chen Wei couldn't help crying as she felt the warmth in the cabin.
At this time, the few people who realized the situation later showed their excitement at surviving the disaster.
After they calmed down for a while, Zeng Zhi slowly told Su Qing about their experiences.
After listening to Zeng Zhi's experience, Su Qing couldn't help but sigh at this miraculous fate. If they hadn't thought of saving fuel and set the route to S Province, if they hadn't decided to go to the city to look for zombies first, if they hadn't made a few more turns, and if Chen Wei hadn't discovered the helicopter, if any of these had gone wrong, they wouldn't have encountered it.
She grabbed a backpack that was lying nearby, reached inside, and used it as a shield to take out some compressed biscuits. She then handed them to the group, "You haven't eaten in a while. Come on, eat something."
Su Qing didn't know the background of these people and didn't want to reveal too much of his differences.
The few of them were really hungry. When they saw Su Qing handing them the food, they took it and started eating quickly while thanking him.
"Where do you live? We can send you back first." Su Qing asked.
"I...cough...cough cough..." Zeng Zhi was about to speak but was choked by the biscuit.
Seeing this, Su Qing quickly reached into his military bag and took out five bottles of water and handed them over.
"Ahem...thank...thank you. Our base is in a mining area near T City in S Province."
Su Qing and Zhao Jiajun looked at each other. Wasn't that where they were going?
Su Qing looked at Zeng Zhi and smiled, "What a coincidence, our route is roughly the same as the direction of your base."
When several people heard what Su Qing said, a hint of surprise flashed in their eyes, and they all said that they were so lucky.
Su Qing stopped disturbing them while they were eating and patted Zhao Jiajun beside him, motioning him to look at the bracelet, then stood up and walked towards the cockpit.
She sent a message to Zhao Jiajun, asking him to keep a close eye on these people to prevent any improper behavior.
Su Qing sat in his seat, fastened his seat belt, and put on his headphones.
Qin Yu glanced at Su Qing, reached out and pressed a few buttons, "I'll tune the headphones for the three of us to a different channel."
"You should have heard what I said before. They seem to be just ordinary people. There shouldn't be any problem. It's just that their base is in the mining area we are going to. It seems we have to move to another place." Su Qing said.
"You can go and take a look first."
The helicopter flew towards the destination at high speed, and soon they arrived at the navigation point.
Qin Yu maneuvered the helicopter to lower its altitude, and all he could see was a sea of white.
"Oh my god, how did our base become like this!"
A shout came from the headset.
Su Qing leaned over and looked down, only to see several rows of mobile cabins on the ground. Most of them had collapsed under the weight of the snow, and the rest were mostly buried in the snow. The surrounding walls were also mostly buried, and the entire base looked completely devoid of any living people.
"Do you want to go down and take a look?" Su Qing asked.
"The snow here is flat and there is no trace of human activity. I guess they either evacuated early or..." Qin Yu stopped talking here.
Everyone knew what Qin Yu had not finished saying, and if they did not evacuate, the entire army would be wiped out.
Du Wenming suddenly said, "They... maybe they've hidden in the mines."
"Could you please go to the mine and take a look?"
Qin Yu looked at the location of the mine shown on the navigation and flew towards it.
The mine here was much better built than the one they had visited before. The entrance of the mine was built into a long corridor. The snow around the entrance had obviously been cleared by humans, but there was no one outside and they could not see what was going on inside.
Qin Yu handed the control to Su Qing, and he went down to explore the way first.
Su Qing watched Qin Yu unbuckle his safety belt and put on his gloves and hat. She didn't know why, but she had been feeling uneasy ever since arriving at this place. It felt like something bad was going to happen. "I have a feeling there's something wrong here. Use your wristband to keep in touch after you go down. Come back quickly if anything goes wrong."
Then, she pulled out an automatic rifle from her backpack and handed it over, "Take this."
"Okay, don't worry." Qin Yu took the gun, smiled at Su Qing, then turned and left.
Su Qing hovered the helicopter at the place closest to the entrance, and Qin Yu slid down from the plane quickly.
Qin Yu put on his headphones and dialed Su Qing's bracelet. Then he held the flashlight under the barrel of the gun with one hand, held the gun with the other hand on the trigger, and slowly walked into the passage.
The area the flashlight scanned was rather strange. There was frozen blood everywhere, as if a fight had occurred not long ago. He told Su Qing what he saw as they walked, "It's indeed a bit strange here. There are bloodstains at the entrance of the passage, and there are a lot of scattered things on the road."
"Why is there still blood?" Su Qing's bad premonition became even stronger after hearing Qin Yu's words.
Qin Yu walked in for a while and came to a fork in the road. Two dark passages appeared before him. He shone his flashlight on one of them and then on the other. However, just as he was about to move the light away, a figure suddenly flashed past in the hole.
Qin Yu quickly shone the flashlight over there, but there was nothing.
"Hello! I'm from the Capital Army Group, and I mean no harm."
After saying that, Qin Yu waited there for a while. There was no movement inside. He picked up his gun and walked forward a few steps vigilantly.
"Qin Yu, is there anyone here?" Su asked softly.
"It seemed like a figure flashed by just now."
As he was speaking, he suddenly heard rustling sounds in the corridor, as if a lot of people were walking out.
Qin Yu heard the sound and thought someone was coming out, so he was about to move the gun away.
However, years of gunfire and hail of bullets had made him extremely vigilant. He suddenly felt a chill all over his body, and the pitch-black passage made him feel an unprecedented danger.
Gradually, a faint smell of decay floated in the air, and then a strong stench came out from the passage.
He retreated quickly without hesitation.
At this moment, Su Qing also received a prompt from the system.
"Warning, a large number of zombies detected around!"
Su Qing heard the system's warning and quickly shouted into the bracelet: "Qin Yu, retreat quickly! There are zombies inside!"
Ho! Ho!
A group of ragged zombies roared out of the passage and rushed towards Qin Yu.
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