Chapter 5
The glass door of the pharmacy was broken, the shelves inside were tilted, and all the medicine had been taken away, leaving only a mess. A black SUV was parked in front of the store next door, and the three men from before were standing in front of the car.
"This car looks safe." It was much better than her car whose roof collapsed after being jumped by zombies.
Xu Zhou took a detour, approaching from the back alley. She didn't rush forward, but crouched down a short distance to observe, using the collapsed building as a shield. Looking at the tall SUV, she planned to take one.
Xunchun squatted behind her, lowered his head and pulled out the weeds from the cracks in the bricks.
"Indeed, it's been specially modified." The system can see more than just the exterior. A simple connection inside reveals the structure. "It can also withstand some thermal weapons."
“I’m envious.”
Xu Zhou wiped away the non-existent saliva.
I can’t imagine how happy she would be if she could get this car.
"System, can you help me modify the car? I want something safer than this off-road vehicle."
"Do you think the sun is round?" asked the system.
"Where is the sun? Isn't this the moon?" Xu Zhou looked up and saw the moon hanging in the sky.
"Yeah, the sun hasn't even come out yet, so it's not time to daydream yet."
"Then I'll give you a preview before the dream."
“…”
What went wrong?
Systematic contemplation.
Another day without a conversation.
Xu Zhou was planning in her mind how to modify her car. At this moment, an accident occurred. Four zombies came to the front of the pharmacy and stretched out their two arms to attack them.
"Are these the four trampoline zombies?"
Xu Zhou was worried that it was her who brought this upon himself.
"No, those four are still on the trampoline." The system had been connected to the car's central control before. It retrieved the data and checked the location of the car, showing that the four zombies were still happily on the trampoline.
Xu Zhou nodded and watched attentively.
The three men didn't panic. They kicked the zombies away, stepped back to create distance, and drew their machetes from their waists to attack. They coordinated tacitly, aiming at the zombies' heads, and attacked fiercely without hesitation, killing each zombie with one blow.
After chopping the body, one of the men with a crew cut kicked the body away, leaving a clear space.
Xu Zhou couldn't help but frown.
With such a high force value, why did they just wave to stop the car? Don't say they were asking her for help.
She immediately gave up the idea of looking for them.
The zombies lay on the ground, and then a horn sounded, and a van drove up in the distance. The waving man turned and raised his hand to greet people in the pharmacy.
Someone came out of the pharmacy, a woman, holding an unconscious woman. A van stopped, and a man in gray got out of the driver's seat. He opened the van door, let the woman in, and stood aside to chat with the three men.
"Are you stopping the car because you want a car?" Xu Zhou subconsciously said in a low voice as he watched this scene.
"It's possible." System.
"Let's go."
Xu Zhou no longer planned to stay. She patted Xun Chun gently, covered his mouth, and shook her head at him, signaling him not to scream.
Xunchun blinked but didn't move.
She then took him and walked away lightly and quickly. Xunchun also imitated her movements and walked on tiptoe.
Really sneaky.
System review.
This place is far away from the pharmacy. After its calculation and analysis, it is highly likely that they will not be discovered unless they can perform a huge fall on the ground.
Despite what it thought, it was kind enough to show them the way and took a photo of the tourists.
When he was about to leave, Xu Zhou looked back.
The four men were still talking.
The van was crushing the bodies of four headless zombies.
Xu Zhou found an SUV at a car dealership. It hadn't been modified, but she was satisfied with it; at least it was better than a flimsy car. It was a shame she hadn't learned how to repair a car, otherwise she would have let the system supervise the work while she modified it.
"Why."
Thinking of this, she sighed with regret.
He looked at Xunchun, who was acting as a pendant, and sighed even louder.
The whole team depends on her.
"Then I won't navigate."
The system objects. Its annual outstanding nomination system is useful. The zombie that can only scream is the real drag.
"Ah——" Xunchun didn't understand and yelled.
Yeah, it’s a duet, even more hopeless.
"Let's get going."
Xu Zhou started the off-road vehicle and drove towards Loujiang Town without looking back.
When we drove onto the national highway, the sun had already come out and it was a sunny day.
The atmosphere in the car was depressing, and Xu Zhou felt a little down after leaving the pharmacy.
"What's wrong?"
The system asked.
It thought back, but found nothing special.
"What do you think the base will be like?"
After thinking about it systematically, the answer was: "Nothing special."
Continue driving during the day.
Humans are social animals.
She imagined that she might meet other people on her way to Loujiang Town, and she would definitely choose to blend in with the crowd. In an unfamiliar environment, this kind of intimacy and trust came from deep within her heart, which would make the loneliness in her heart disappear in an instant, even though she was not afraid of loneliness.
All this is based on the fact that she has not met Xunchun.
Honestly, she was very excited when she met those people and wanted to approach them to talk, but the ferocity and ruthlessness they exuded in their swift and decisive actions made her timid.
They had lived through the apocalypse for four years and were accustomed to fighting zombies. But she was different. She had only woken up two days ago, and before that, it was still peaceful. She had no experience fighting zombies. Even though she was mentally strong, when she saw the zombies, she couldn't help but equate them with humans. She knew clearly that they were zombies, not humans, but emotionally, she was terrified. The moment the machete fell, the head hit the ground, and the person was dead.
The people they killed were originally human beings.
Plus, Xunchun was a zombie, so he wouldn't leave her. She chose to approach them. Judging from their behavior in the face of zombies, they wouldn't keep zombies around and cause trouble.
No one would choose to be with zombies.
She was afraid that Xunchun would die.
Xu Zhou looked at Xunchun in the mirror.
She understood that she might have to take another path, and the end of this path was called the unknown.
Xunchun leaned against the car window to look at the scenery.
The doomsday ecology continues to recover, and lush plants cover the sky and earth, competing with each other for beauty, magnificent and mysterious.
"System, you said..."
Before he could finish his words, two cars suddenly drove in from the merging road next to him. He looked and saw that they were the black SUV and van from before.
Three cars were driving side by side.
Xu Zhou closed the car window on Xunchun's side.
Looking through the car window, the SUV was driven by a man with a crew cut, with the remaining man in black sitting in the passenger seat; the van was driven by a man in gray, with no one in the passenger seat.
Looking closely, they all have scars on their faces, and the ferocity they exude becomes stronger the closer you get.
Xu Zhou was startled and quickly looked away, calmed his shaking hands, and concentrated on driving.
It's okay, they're just driving side by side, not in the same car. They don't know there are zombies in the car, so they won't hit her.
She comforted herself silently in her heart.
"System, how likely do you think it is that they will suddenly attack?" Xu Zhou talked to the system in his mind.
"It's not zero." The system said seriously, "Our available strength is less than one. I suggest you run."
"I'll do as you say. I'll run at the next fork in the road."
The atmosphere in the car was solemn.
They didn't say hello, just drove their own car, and everything went smoothly along the way.
Until Xu Zhou saw a fork in the road.
She breathed a sigh of relief and slowly slowed down, intending to let them drive away first and she would choose a different route from them later.
The vehicle approaches the fork in the road.
"ah--"
The zombies' screams were deafening.
Xu Zhou froze as if struck by lightning, her mind filled with the thought, "It's over." She swallowed, a slight sound coming from her dry throat.
Xunchun was restless in the back seat, scratching the seat and screaming non-stop.
The three men turned to look at her.
Two cars accelerated, blocking her car sideways in front. She was forced to step on the brakes, her hands shaking on the steering wheel.
They opened the door and got out of the car, holding hot weapons in their hands. The black barrels of the guns were cold and hard, and could not be violated.
It was a sunny day, but she just felt a chill.
Xu Zhou's pupils shrank slightly, his heart beat faster, and he pretended to be calm, but in fact he didn't dare to breathe.
The man in gray waved to the inside of the van and the woman got out.
The woman patted her wrinkled clothes and walked slowly to Xu Zhou's car window. She raised her hand and knocked on the window that was only a quarter raised.
Xu Zhou turned his head to look at her.
Her face was full of traces of vicissitudes of life.
"What's wrong?" Xu Zhou's voice trembled a little.
"Be careful, the zombies may get out of control." The woman said slowly, handing Xu Zhou a card, "If you need anything, we can help."
Xu Zhou glanced at the standing men, then turned back to the woman, lowering his eyes to look at the card. The side of the card facing her was black with a red mark on it, which made people feel uncomfortable.
The woman smiles.
He held the card forward and raised his chin to signal her to take it.
The men cleaned their guns.
There was a sense of unease in the air.
Xunchun growled in a low voice.
"It looks like the zombies aren't very quiet."
The woman tilted her head, trying to see the zombies in the back seat.
Xu Zhou took the card and moved to block the woman's view. She said, "No need, I can take care of it quickly."
Hearing this, the woman nodded in understanding.
She turned to leave, and halfway through, she turned sideways and threatened, "If you need anything, you can contact us. Just use a card."
After that, she walked towards the man in black and said a few words to him. The man in black raised his eyelids and looked at her, his eyes were inquiring and faintly revealed excitement.
Continue to sound the alarm during the day.
"Walk."
His voice was low and hoarse, and when he raised his hand, there was a hint of red on his wrist.
"I'm looking forward to seeing you again."
Before the car started, the woman leaned out of the window and waved at Xu Zhou with a cheerful tone.
Xu Zhou remained silent.
They didn't care and just stepped on the accelerator and drove away.
The exhaust fumes gradually faded away.
Xu Zhou completely relaxed, loosened his clenched hands, collapsed exhausted on the seat, closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and told himself over and over again that it was over.
The feeling of oppression was so strong that she almost died here.
She raised her hand to touch her forehead, her hands trembling uncontrollably, her palms cold and covered in sweat.
Xunchun quieted down and lowered his head to scratch it.
The system reassured her in her mind, praising her for a good job and her perfect response.
The mood warmed up during the day.
The sun is shining brightly.
Xu Zhou flipped the card over, and it was exactly the same as the back. She held the card up to the sunlight, but it was completely dark, blocking the sunlight from filtering through.
She recalled the red on the black-clad man's wrist, and gradually overlapped that red with the red mark on the card. The look in his eyes before he left made her even more fearful.
I feel like I'm in big trouble.
I hope it's just her illusion.
Xu Zhou calmed down and drove towards another road.
"Do you know what happened to Xunchun just now?"
Xu Zhou asked about Xunchun, he was too abnormal.
"His brainwave fluctuations are abnormal. He must be affected by something." The system pulled out Xunchun's data, and the screen showed that the fluctuations reached their peak during that period of time.
Xu Zhou thought of them.
Intuition is inseparable from them.
"They kill zombies as easily as stepping on ants."
"All skilled workers are like this." The system is used to it.
“Will I become a skilled worker in the future?”
"Well... it's not impossible." It's just a bit of bullying to the zombies, so the system took back the second half of the sentence.
Xu Zhou fantasized about the scene of her killing a small zombie with one knife. She felt inexplicably resisted and shook her head, putting it behind her.
Instead of thinking about these things, it is better to hurry to Loujiang Town.
Xu Zhou stepped on the accelerator hard, and the off-road vehicle ran on the road like a cheetah.
After this incident, she became more determined to stay away from the crowd and let the system navigate directly to places where no one was around.
"Then why don't you abandon him?" The system was puzzled.
"Then why should I abandon him?" Xu Zhou asked back.
"Good question," the system said. "Let's go to the left. There's a deserted town over there."
It can't think of it, and the answer is not important anyway, so it doesn't worry about it and concentrates on navigation.
Days passed, and reward tasks were completed day by day. Xu Zhou did not encounter humans again, and Xun Chun did not experience the abnormal behavior like that day again. She became more determined in her decision.
However, she felt that Xunchun could understand her more and more.
For example, if she told him not to move, he would actually stand there motionless.
"system……"
A daytime emergency call system for passengers to get off the bus and rest.
"I saw it." said the system.
"Does that mean—"
Xu Zhou suddenly stopped, the hairs on the back of her neck stood up without warning, and a sticky chill slowly climbed up her spine. Even in the daytime, she felt creepy.
She turned around.
A pair of glowing eyes were staring at her.
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