Chapter 86 Nightmare
What followed was a one-sided massacre. The people on the city wall had no power to resist the blue-white zombies. One after another, they fell down. The blue-white zombie stepped on the blood of countless people and slowly walked towards Su Qing.
Su Qing's eyes were filled with despair as he watched the zombie approaching without moving.
The pale zombie stretched out its hand, and its sharp fingertips stopped a few centimeters away from Su Qing's face. It glanced sideways and saw a dagger piercing its arm, and bright red blood dripped from the tip of the knife onto the ground.
Fang Qing quickly rushed over to Su Qing and pulled her backwards. She whispered to her, "I'll hold it back for a while. You run to the research institute. I've already ordered all the helicopters back to evacuate the institute. Leave here as soon as possible."
Su Qing grabbed Fang Qing's hand tightly, "No, you'll die if you stay! Let's go together!"
"Everyone who can escape must escape. There's no time to waste!"
The pale zombie held the dagger in one hand and slowly pulled it out. Blood spurted out from the wound as it moved. It shook it off nonchalantly, then threw the dagger in its hand away with a fierce look.
Fang Qing and Su Qing fell sideways to the ground to avoid the flying dagger. She helped Su Qing stand up, raised her hand and fired several shots at the blue-white zombie, then pushed Su Qing hard, "Run!"
Su Qing staggered after being pushed by her and took several steps back. She saw out of the corner of her eye that the blue-white zombie had come in front of Fang Qing and lifted Fang Qing in the air with one hand. Su Qing's eyes were filled with tears. She stopped, took out an automatic rifle from her backpack, turned around and shot it.
"Bang!" The bullet grazed the pale zombie's cheek, leaving a bloody mark.
It raised its eyes and gave Su Qing a sarcastic smile, as if mocking her arrogance.
Fang Qing, whose throat was being strangled, turned her head with difficulty and said to Su Qing, "Hurry... go!"
The pale blue zombie carried Fang Qing to the city wall and lifted her whole body outside the wall. Then he shook Fang Qing in his hand provocatively at Su Qing, and slowly moved the fingers that were holding her neck away one by one.
"System! Come out quickly!"
"Ah!!!" Su Qing watched Fang Qing fall down. She screamed and pulled the trigger to shoot at the zombies.
The blue-white zombie jumped quickly to avoid the bullets, leaving a trail of afterimages in the air, and in a few seconds it came in front of Su Qing.
The distance was too close to use the gun, so Su Qing threw the automatic rifle away and then took out a bunch of things from his backpack and threw them at the blue-white zombie.
The blue-white zombie watched as things kept popping out of thin air from Su Qing's hands and hitting it, with a moment of surprise in its eyes. It dodged back and forth, finding the right opportunity to reach out and grab Su Qing's hand, restraining her.
An icy touch came from his wrist, and a bone-chilling chill swept through Su Qing's whole body.
"You really... have some skills..."
"Come to think of it...we've seen this before."
"At that time... I felt that you were... different from ordinary people."
"I... have been following you..."
Su Qing's hands were pinned behind her back. She twisted and turned, unable to break free. She was stunned by the zombie's words. She had seen it... before? It had been following her all along? What did this mean? Where had she seen this zombie before?
Su Qing kept trying to recall where she had seen this zombie. After a while, a picture flashed through her mind and she suddenly opened her eyes wide. No wonder she always felt that the zombie in front of her was very familiar.
This zombie! She finally remembered that the high-level zombie she encountered when rescuing Professor Gu was the zombie in front of her!
"I want you to... take a good look... at your base and the people around you... and how they join me! I! Will eventually become... the master of this world!"
As the blue-white zombie finished speaking, familiar figures walked out from behind it.
"Why! Why didn't you save us?"
"You can save us!"
"Don't you have a system? Why are you watching us die?"
"Big sister! We trusted you so much, you really let us down!"
Lu Chen, Qin Yu, Fang Qing, Commander Qin, Li Yi and other people she was familiar with, were walking towards her with their rotten bodies and mutilated bodies. Their questions made Su Qing break down and cry.
"Look at this Dawn Base... Everything here is caused by your incompetence!"
The pale zombie pulled Su Qing to look inside the base. The entire base was littered with broken limbs. People in the base kept falling down and then stood up ferociously to pounce on others. Blood flooded the ground of the base like a flood, covering everything with bright red. In the light of the fire, this place looked like hell on earth.
"Host, my energy is exhausted. I can't save you! I'm leaving too! Host! You're the most incompetent person I've ever met! I'm going to find someone else to complete the mission!"
"Chief! Didn't you say you would protect everyone? Why are you the only one alive?"
"You should be the one to die!"
More and more people surrounded Su Qing. She trembled as she listened to the accusations, "It's my fault! It's all my fault!"
......
"Su Qing! Su Qing, wake up!"
"She has a fever! Call a doctor!"
Someone kept calling her in her consciousness. Su Qing opened her eyes hazily and felt a sharp pain in her head. She moaned softly and stroked her temples gently with one hand.
Seeing that she had woken up, the man said in surprise: "Su Qing, you are finally awake, that's great."
Su Qing was stunned for a moment, "Fang...Qing."
Fang Qing in front of her was clean and intact, and was looking at her with a worried look on her face.
She looked around and found that she was still in the room where she had slept before. The room was full of people. Lu Chen, Qin Yu, Li Yi and others were all looking at her with the same worry as Fang Qing.
"You...are all okay..." Su Qing's eyes gradually turned red and tears fell.
"What's wrong... Are you feeling unwell?" Fang Qing looked at Su Qing bewilderedly. She reached out and touched Su Qing's forehead, which felt even hotter than before. She turned around and looked at everyone, anxiously saying, "It seems like the fever has gotten worse."
"Where's the doctor? Why hasn't he come yet! Don't cry, sister! I'll go get a doctor for you right away." Li Yi said anxiously and ran out of the room quickly.
Su Qing looked at the people in the room and burst into laughter while crying. She sniffled and said, "I...I'm fine, I just had a nightmare."
"You don't know how scary it was just now. Your body suddenly convulsed and you cried heartbreakingly. We couldn't wake you up no matter what." Zeng Li walked over and handed Su Qing a handkerchief, gently put her arm around her shoulders and hugged her.
"What kind of nightmare did you have? Why are you crying like this?"
"I can't remember clearly, maybe I had a nightmare..." Su Qing didn't want to talk about the dream.
"Come on, come on, make way! The doctor is here." Li Yi panted and pulled a man in a white coat in.
The doctor was dragged all the way here by Li Yi. After entering the house, he gasped for breath several times before he could barely calm down. He first took out a thermometer and asked Su Qing to hold it under his armpit, and then listened to the lung sounds with a stethoscope.
When the time came, he took the thermometer Su Qing handed over. "39.5 degrees, a high fever, normal lung sounds, but a slightly fast heartbeat. It doesn't look like anything's wrong at the moment. Take some fever-reducing medicine and keep an eye on it."
"Is it that simple? My sister was convulsing just now! Are you sure we don't need to draw blood or take an X-ray to check? Are you any good as a doctor?" Li Yi looked at the doctor with distrust.
After hearing Li Yi's words, everyone in the room stared at the doctor with some suspicion.
The doctor, stared at intently by the group of bigwigs, wiped the sweat from his forehead and nervously replied, "Then...shall we go for a detailed examination now?"
"You're asking us? Who is the doctor? No! Don't be a quack and delay my sister's condition! Wait a minute, sister, I'll go get Mr. Chen over."
"No, I'm fine!" Su Qing quickly stopped Li Yi, then said to the doctor apologetically, "Doctor, please give me some antipyretic medicine. Thank you for your hard work."
"It's not hard, it's not hard. I'll get the medicine right away." The doctor said and quickly left this dangerous place.
As a renowned specialist at a former tertiary hospital, countless people begged to see him, yet now he was being called a quack! And he dared not speak out! He dared not offend anyone in this room... How the world had changed. He, an expert, actually had to act according to the wishes of patients and their trusted associates.
"How's things going at the base?"
Lu Chen's face was a little serious, but he couldn't hide the concern in his eyes. He whispered to Su Qing about the situation at the base, "Everything is normal at the base. The situation inside the institute has stabilized. It's very quiet outside the city. Not a single zombie has returned."
"Commander Qin and Dong Wen have rearranged the defenses of the base. There are several shifts on duty at all important posts. The alarm will be sounded at the slightest disturbance outside. Heavy weapons and equipment have been left on the city walls and have not been removed. They can deal with zombie attacks at any time." Qin Yu took over Lu Chen's words and added in detail.
"We also sent out helicopters to observe the surroundings and confirmed that the zombie horde has completely retreated. After leaving the base, they scattered like loose sand and it will be difficult for them to gather together again. They probably won't be coming back in the short term."
After hearing Qin Yu say this, Su Qing's heart, which had been beating wildly since he woke up, stabilized a lot.
After a while, a nurse brought some antipyretic medicine, and Su Qing's fever subsided quickly after taking it. Seeing that she was fine, everyone left, leaving Fang Qing alone in the room to accompany her.
Su Qing raised her hand to check the time. Only half an hour had passed since she fell asleep and woke up. The dream of this half hour was so real that Su Qing trembled with fear every time she thought about it. The feeling was so real, and the despair was so deep in her bones. She must not let the dream become reality!
The base was currently lacking in many areas. She needed money! Lots and lots of it to support the base's defense! And weapons. Half of the ammunition had been used up this time. The things Chief Liang had brought were almost gone, which made Su Qing a little uneasy.
She was going to the capital immediately. If the information given by Commander Qin was accurate, then this cooperation would be able to solve her urgent problem.
Su Qing looked at Fang Qing who was sitting beside him. Thinking of her desperately protecting him in his dream, he suppressed the bitterness in his eyes and said, "If Commander Qin wants to leave at dawn, I will go to the capital with him. Everything about the base will be left to you again."
"Okay, don't worry outside, I will take care of the base affairs." Fang Qing knew that Su Qing must be going out for the base.
"Send helicopters every day to check the surrounding situation. If you find any traces of zombies, tell me immediately and I will rush back as soon as possible."
"Also... arrange for people to dig an underground escape tunnel behind the base leading to the outside of the city. Try to make it as long as possible."
Fang Qing was a little surprised. "Underground escape passage?"
Su Qing smiled bitterly and said, "Yes, the situation is getting more and more serious. If... that day comes, we can't all be trapped in the city. We should look for a suitable hiding place outside the city, deploy the necessary supplies and equipment vehicles for escape, and assign someone to guard it."
She looked at the water cup in front of her with a somewhat vacant look in her eyes. In her dream, the base was surrounded and in the end, personnel could only be transferred by helicopter, which was too inefficient. In order to take precautions, Su Qing felt it was very necessary to prepare an escape route.
And the system... Influenced by the dream, she had many questions to ask the system.
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