Chapter 78 I Killed Me
There is an unclear black shadow in the corner of the screen. If you want to take a closer look, you need to use the surveillance camera on the side, but the screen there is still paralyzed black.
Some subsystems in the entire hazard forecasting system are still awaiting maintenance, and the warning interface is not fully displayed. Currently, only red coordinate points can be seen flashing on the screen.
Those are the locations of high-level zombies detected by the system. There are four points in total. The closest one is only 300 meters away from the base, and the farthest one is still a thousand meters away. The remaining two points are exactly in the middle and are moving towards the base.
The four high-level zombies did not obviously stick together, which was a blessing in disguise.
Li Ziyue sent a message: "How is it?"
Zhang Xingzhi responded quickly: "The internal surveillance of the base is fine."
His gaze stopped at a certain place, where there was half a footprint that did not belong to any of them.
Was it left by the sniper on the rooftop before?
Zhang Xingzhi remained calm and continued to reply: "The surveillance camera outside seems to be damaged by the weather. I'll go out and take a look. Do you find anything over there?"
"Please go and fix the surveillance camera at exit D25 first. The danger warning system warns that there are high-level zombies over there."
Thinking of the nurses and doctors he met in the hospital before, Li Ziyue felt a tingling sensation on his scalp.
He didn't want to injure his knee again or see Zhang Lian ignore [blood debt must be paid with blood].
"Isn't there no one in this base? Open the wind farm," Zhang Xingzhi said, "All beings are equal in front of the wind farm. No matter if they are zombies or humans, they can't get close to the base."
He added: "I am not affected by the wind field here."
The start-up of the wind farm went more smoothly than expected. Li Ziyue checked the subsequent stored energy. Thanks to the bright sunshine in the past few days, the energy is still sufficient and the wind farm can continue until night.
The wind farm started up instantly, with a deafening "boom" and everyone felt that the entire base was shaking. After it finally calmed down, they heard another crisp "bang!"
It came from the top of the base.
Zhang Xingzhi, who was outside, looked up and reported the situation to Li Ziyue: "It's okay. The opening of the wind farm has caused the snow to accumulate behind the base. Some of the snow fell from the top of the mountain over there and hit the top of the base."
"It was the back that was hit. Liu Yuche is at the front, so it shouldn't be a problem. I have connected the communication between her and me. If there is anything unusual, she will send me a message."
After dealing with the wind field and the alarm, Li Ziyue hacked into the main system again and found the personnel information of the base.
Most of the files were permanently destroyed, with only one sentence found in the corner of a file: "The base has completed preliminary repairs. Considering the lack of air defense, Wang Chi will be sent to the base to be responsible for air monitoring and early warning system maintenance."
The base's request was attached to the back of the document: "Please increase the number of sky defense personnel. Wang Chi alone cannot bear the 24-hour supervision and maintenance."
“The application has been dismissed.”
Wang Chi?
According to the above text and combined with the actual situation, Wang Chi should be the sniper guarding the rooftop of the base.
Is he the only one left in the base now?
Li Ziyue clicked “Continue reading”.
The system was still buffering when a muffled "bang" was heard from one side.
Li Ziyue looked up subconsciously, and after being stunned for half a second, he realized that the sound came from the side, not from the roof.
Maybe I was too nervous.
He moved his eyes over and saw Zhang Lian pinching the man's neck expressionlessly and slamming him against the wall.
"Zhang Lian!"
Zhang Lian then stopped and turned slightly, with one side of his face hidden in the shadow and no expression on the other side could be seen.
The hand that had grabbed the man before was now covered in warm blood. He did not make any comment on this, as if killing was as common to him as eating and drinking.
The man had been beaten unconscious by Zhang Lian, blood was rolling down his forehead, his facial features were shrunken in pain, and the pistol in his hand fell to the ground naturally because his fingers were weak.
There were two "clang" sounds.
The cause and effect are already very clear. The man was probably hiding in the corner and wanted to shoot Li Ziyue with a gun, which is why he was treated like this by Zhang Lian.
The wrist of his gun-holding hand had been ruthlessly dislocated by Zhang Lian. If it were an ordinary person, his hand would have turned into a pile of dead flesh, but Li Ziyue saw that his fingers were still shaking violently.
This is--
Li Ziyue narrowed his eyes slightly and did not speak for the time being.
The man looked really old, probably because he had been hiding in the dark for too long. When he saw the light coming on in the hall, his cloudy eyes closed quickly in discomfort, and two lines of tears caused by physical pain flowed down the wrinkles on his face.
He was too old, his hair was completely white, he had age spots on his forehead, his limbs were extremely shrunk, and his skin was wrinkled and stuck to his fragile skeleton. With just a slight bump, the bones in his body would fall down like dominoes.
"you……"
Li Ziyue looked him up and down, pursed his lips, and seemed to be hesitant to speak.
The system is talking.
[Danger warning: The wind farm's cooling device is damaged. Please repair it in time. The wind farm has been automatically suspended.]
The man was paralyzed on the ground, just smiling.
"What are you laughing at?" Li Ziyue's eyebrows twitched slightly, and a bad premonition suddenly emerged in his heart without warning.
"I laugh at the death of some people."
"What?" Li Ziyue's eyes were slightly cold.
He was about to speak when he suddenly started coughing. He huddled in a corner and trembled uncontrollably.
After a while, he spoke this dark curse with a hoarse voice and difficulty: "One..."
His old eyes, which seemed to have only a little black pupil left, rolled around strangely, staring at Li Ziyue closely. He forced a smile from the corners of his dry mouth, and red blood flowed out of the cracked wound: "You are blind, and have become a blind man."
Li Ziyue paused.
He leaned against the wall, laughed sinisterly, and looked at Zhang Lian again: "One, was cut into pieces, and his tendons were cut by a spear..."
Before he could finish his words, Li Ziyue grabbed his fragile throat with a dark face, and the next words were forcibly blocked in his stomach.
The old man still smiled strangely.
The smile became more sinister, and coupled with his difficulty breathing, a hoarse sound like someone pulling a broken bellows came from his throat. Li Ziyue loosened his grip slightly and listened to him speak again.
"There is another one, but it's not here."
"He died of a cut wound to his abdomen, his intestines were all over the floor..."
"Of course, there is one last one," he chuckled, "there is one last one, and he is dead."
"Died of what? Shot dead..."
"Who are you exactly..." Li Ziyue's eyes darkened, and the inexplicable sense of crisis he had felt before became even stronger.
His heart sank slightly.
Liu Yuche went to the rooftop to check on the sniper's body. Hasn't he responded in a while?
"All the guys who come here die this way," the old man answered irrelevantly. He laughed more and more wildly, and his body shook uncontrollably. "It's hopeless! Everything is hopeless!"
Without hesitation, he banged his head against the wall. Blood splattered and landed on the gray electronic screen, where there was still a snowflake.
"It's bad! Everything is bad! Winter will last forever, and spring will never come!"
"You have reaped the fruits of your own actions. You deserve this. Do you think you can save this? Do you think there will be at least one way out among these three paths?!"
"It's ridiculous! They are all dead ends! The sky is broken, no one can escape! We are all trapped here... watching ourselves die over and over again... over and over again..."
"Ugh!" His throat seemed to suddenly die and he could no longer make any sound. His old skin instantly fell off like damaged wall, revealing bright red flesh, which was then covered with sticky, foul-smelling dark green mucus in an instant.
The Eye of Reconnaissance is shown above.
[Humans who are mutating into Zombie No. 103: They have not been contaminated by the zoo, so they will not mutate instantly. They are relatively fragile during the mutation period. After the mutation, their physical fitness will instantly improve, and they can split infinitely]
[Weakness: Eternal Fire]
The moment Li Ziyue saw his palm twitching, he suspected that he might be a zombie. Fortunately, he was prepared.
“Puff!”
Li Ziyue's pupils shrank instantly, and he almost yelled: "Zhang Lian! What are you doing!"
The old man's head was like a bowling ball, rolling into the darkness with two "bangs".
Also rolling along was the rusty name badge that had just fallen off the old man's body.
Zhang Lian stood in front of Li Ziyue and covered the man's still bleeding body under his body.
"It's okay." Zhang Lian gently touched Li Zi's trembling eyebrows. His voice was soft and seemed to be a little bit smiling. "Brother, I know what you want to do. You can't do it."
"I..." Li Ziyue's voice was trembling, and his emotions exploded in an instant like a glass bottle smashed by a stone. However, this was far from the moment to be upset, he had more important things to do.
Without hesitation, he ran towards the stairs that Liu Yuche had left earlier, and saw only a series of human footprints going upwards.
Judging from the size and shoe prints, it belongs to Liu Yuche.
Li Ziyue returned to the lobby and checked the base map on the system. He confirmed from all aspects that the only way to the rooftop from the base was the staircase that Liu Yuche had walked by.
Almost numbly, he took out the name tag he had just picked up from the ground. It read: Wang Chi.
The name tag fell off the old man. If the old man was Wang Chi, if the old man was the only sniper in this base.
So who was the sniper that Liu Yuche killed earlier?
Why did the information Zhang Xingzhi received show that there were two snipers in this base?
For a moment, Li Ziyue felt as if he had fallen into an icy cave.
He could probably guess what was going on.
No.
There is still a possibility of survival, if there is a place on the rooftop that allows humans to live temporarily...
Li Ziyue opened the system again, but at the critical moment he heard Zhang Xingzhi's voice in his mind: "D25 is not broken, it has automatically gone into sleep to save energy. I restarted it, and the monitoring will be restored in three minutes."
"Oh, the surveillance on the rooftop has been successfully restarted. You can take a look. Also, has Liu Yuche come down from the rooftop? Why didn't I hear her voice?"
Li Ziyue's voice trembled: "Zhang Xingzhi... Didn't you say before that there were two snipers in this base... How did you know? Did you see them?"
"I can't see clearly," Zhang Xingzhi wondered, "The information I bought with my points said this, wait...what do you mean..."
Zhang Xingzhi was not a fool. Based on Li Ziyue's words, he had already guessed most of the situation.
Li Ziyue remained silent with a pale face, staring at the surveillance screen.
The screen in the hall showed that the rooftop was just white.
[Query "residence"]
[Search range: rooftop]
[Your query is invalid, please query again]
Li Ziyue's cold hands trembled as he covered his forehead.
Surveillance at D25 was restored and a mechanical prompt sounded in the hall.
"The real-time video function is still restarting. We are now playing the video from 5 minutes ago."
The screen flashed snowflakes for a few seconds, and then a patch of white appeared with a small strip of red next to the snow.
Li Ziyue knew that it was the red pillar that appeared next to him when Zhang Xingzhi was trapped in the wind field cycle at the beginning.
The video plays silently.
Gradually, a person appeared, with his head lowered, walking slowly in the snow and wind.
As he entered the 300-meter range, he was immediately trapped by the wind field, and it became increasingly difficult for him to move. Then he seemed to be hit by something, and his body suddenly fell backwards.
Li Ziyue recalled that Zhang Xingzhi was wearing a human/skin/mask on his face when they rescued him to the alley, which meant that Liu Yuche, who was on the rooftop, might not recognize Zhang Xingzhi walking in the wind field.
Was the noise they heard from the top of the base earlier really just a simple avalanche?
Li Ziyue's fingertips were so cold that they seemed to be detached from his body.
[What the hell?! What does this mean? It can't be what I think! ]
[Too explosive]
[No, I don't quite understand. So what if Liu Yuche couldn't recognize Zhang Xingzhi wearing a mask? Is there any necessary connection between the two? ]
[Think about the previous one. Assuming that "there are two snipers in the base", one of them is known to be Wang Chi, and Wang Chi has been hiding in the base. The only person who has been to the rooftop is Liu Yuche. Who is the second sniper in the base? Only Liu Yuche]
[Previously, Zhang Xingzhi was shot by a sniper on the rooftop. Who was that sniper? Liu Yuche]
[Now, do you think there is a necessary connection between the two? ! ]
[Ah? ? ? ? You put it like that and I am even more confused, then... ? ? ? Holy shit! Didn't Liu Yuche later shoot and kill the sniper on the rooftop? Then the sniper on the rooftop killed by Liu Yuche was...]
The timer in the upper left corner of the screen ticked away.
Two more people appeared in the video, one of whom hooked the collar of the previous man with a spear. The three of them flashed past the camera and disappeared into an alley.
Li Ziyue closed his eyes in silence, listening to his heartbeat, which was like drums and thunder.
The danger prediction system has now been fully restored and is reporting an error: an error occurred while reconnaissance of [advanced zombies], the reconnaissance result was [human], and the error has now been corrected.
The four red coordinate points symbolizing advanced zombies have now disappeared.
He paused the surveillance video at a certain second, and the faces of the three people remained on the screen.
One of them was relatively unfamiliar, Zhang Xingzhi, who was wearing a human skin mask, but Li Ziyue was very familiar with the remaining two.
One is him, and the other is Zhang Lian.
This should have happened a long time ago, but the surveillance showed that it happened only 5 minutes ago.
A burst of hurried footsteps came from behind. The snow on Zhang Xingzhi's body had not melted yet. He leaned on the table and gasped: "Liu Yuche...what's wrong? Is he upstairs? I'll go check..."
"No," Li Ziyue said slowly, his voice hoarser than anyone could have imagined, "Don't go up there."
He moved a little unsteadily, as if he had lost all balance for a moment. Fortunately, Zhang Lian helped him up, otherwise Li Ziyue would have fallen to the side.
The moment he saw Li Ziyue turning around, Zhang Xingzhi felt like the blood in his body was freezing.
Li Ziyue's eyes were tightly closed, and blood flowed from the corners of his eyes without any warning.
"you……"
"There is still a way to save it," Li Ziyue coughed violently, "I... cough cough!"
"I have unlocked all the permissions of the base system and written the operating procedures. I'll leave it to you from now on." His eyes were in so much pain that he felt as if someone was digging out his eyeballs with a sharp knife. "I can't see anymore."
[The [Blood Debt Repayment with Blood] mechanism has reached 50%]
The screen behind him was still playing previous surveillance footage. In the distance, an inconspicuous black gun muzzle was seen, and then the muzzle was pointed at the top of the rooftop.
No one heard that "bang!"
The falling snowdrifts behind the base muffled the sound of the gunfire.
Zhang Xingzhi had just taken a step when he heard a sharp sound of clothes and flesh being torn. He widened his eyes in disbelief and suddenly fell to the ground.
Blood gushed out of his abdomen and his internal organs trembled.
[The [Blood Debt Repayment with Blood] mechanism has reached 75%]
Li Ziyue didn't dare to move now.
He was afraid that if he moved, he would touch Zhang Lian's warm blood beside him.
He was completely blind. He should have expected this to happen when he stabbed the NPC with the sharp weapon.
The surroundings returned to silence again. Snowflakes fell silently to the ground, covering the ground and concealing the silent blood-red.
Snow is the best killer. It can quietly cover up weapons, corpses and blood.
The world was silent, with tears and blood flowing.
Li Ziyue had been thinking about a question before.
Dungeons with a fixed team size usually have precise considerations for team members to ensure that everyone has their own unique tasks to do.
Liu Yuche is responsible for sniping in the team, in other words, "opening up the wasteland". Only if she kills the sniper of the human base No. 108 can they open the "new map" and move from the snowy alley to another place.
Zhang Xingzhi was responsible for intercepting information and covering the team. He had access to relevant information about the base, pointed out directions for the sniper, and at the same time created virtual scenes to cover the team's sneaking into the base.
Zhang Lian is responsible for the team's safety and dealing with emergencies and potential threats within the base.
So what about him.
If Li Ziyue's job is to manage the base operating system...
No, Zhang Lian can also do that derivative proof question, and his final result may not be worse than Li Ziyue's.
In other words, what Li Ziyue is currently doing, Zhang Lian can also do, and his functions can be replaced.
Li Ziyue's position in the team is not clear enough.
And now, he finally understood his position in the team.
The words Zhang Xingzhi said to Li Ziyue seemed to still ring in his ears.
[“This is actually nothing,” Zhang Xingzhi said after a short breath. “The biggest problem is that the guns here are very strange. Once you are shot, you will fall into a cycle within a certain range.”]
gun……
Li Ziyue's breathing became weaker and his nostrils were filled with a strong smell of blood, which made him feel like vomiting.
He couldn't vomit. His stomach was empty, and only the piece of fruit candy that Zhang Lian had handed to him was left.
The pistol in the system backpack appeared in Li Ziyue's palm.
So that's how it is.
Earlier, Zhang Xingzhi mentioned that there was a pistol in Li Ziyue's backpack. Li Ziyue himself was also wondering why the system put such a prop in his backpack. He could use a gun, but he was not good at it.
turn out to be……
There seemed to be another voice in my mind saying, "You are not completely dead yet, you are just blind. Once the gun is fired, you will be really dead."
"How can you guarantee that you will be trapped in the loop after you die? What if you don't? What if you really die?"
"Do you want to gamble your life on this?"
His hand was covered in blood, the hand holding the gun was shaking, and the finger on the trigger was so cold that it was completely bloodless.
The pitch-black muzzle of the gun was pointed at his temples.
"I'd rather die," Li Ziyue's throat seemed to be cut by a thousand knives, and he was so hoarse that it was difficult to hear the specific words, "I should have died long ago."
Zhang Lian knew that he could no longer see, so he was able to endure the backlash of [Blood Debt with Blood]. He endured all the pain without saying a word, just to prevent Li Ziyue from finding out.
But a person's dissipated body temperature cannot deceive anyone.
Li Ziyue's consciousness drifted far away, and when the gun was pointed at him, he remembered many things.
Zhang Lian felt very cold, as cold as every winter he had struggled through.
He never thought that Zhang Lian would die.
He remembered that he had pulled Zhang Lian back from the brink of death countless times. He saw little Zhang Lian lying safely on the bed, his eyes quietly closed and his breathing even.
Then Li Ziyue reached out his hand, held Xiao Zhang Lian's hand which was cold from the wind, and then pressed it against his cheek.
Poor people are prone to die in winter, but he took good care of Zhang Lian at that time, so well that he even had the illusion that he could see spring with Zhang Lian.
Li Ziyue's breathing stopped at this moment, and he saw his consciousness rising and falling in the depths of the ocean where no light could be seen.
The surrounding air pressure and cold made it hard to breathe.
He seemed to have gone back eight years.
At that time, he was just an ordinary high school student sitting at the back of the classroom, reviewing seriously. He didn't know about infinite flow, integrals, or his true past.
He forgot all the pain.
I just finished one test paper after another carefully, counted the days until the holiday, and occasionally looked out the window to think about what I would do in the future.
He knew that the girl sitting in front of him was interested in him, so he wrote a small note sincerely, telling her frankly that he liked the boy and was worried that the other party would be sad. He also practiced drawing a few cartoon smiley faces on the draft paper, and only moved them to the note when the smiley faces were not stiff.
At that time, many people were suffering from great academic pressure. Although Li Ziyue had forgotten everything in the past, the depression dormant in the deepest part of his memory made him enjoy this kind of peace very much.
For Li Ziyue, being able to finish a test paper safely and getting answers to all the questions he raises from the teacher is actually a very ordinary yet luxurious happiness.
Tears mixed with blood.
His fingertips moved slightly, and the trigger was about to be pulled——
But there was a crisp "bang!" from the front.
The bullet hit Li Ziyue's eyebrow right in the middle, but he was still conscious at that moment.
—There are other people in this room!
—Someone shot him first!
[The [Blood Debt Repayment with Blood] mechanism has reached 100%]
The man stood in the middle of a bloody scene, pinching his nose in disgust. The pistol with smoking muzzle fell steadily into his palm. He looked at Li Ziyue's body on the ground and couldn't help but complain.
"It's so slow even to kill myself."
He walked up the stairs to the rooftop and found Liu Yuche's body next to a pile of snow in the corner.
It was cold outside, and people's body temperatures dropped quickly, leaving their bodies frozen.
The sky cleared up, and the dazzling sunlight on the snow made him squint his eyes slightly. The gun he picked up from the ground was still in his palm, and the muzzle was stained with some human blood.
He pulled down his hoodie, put on the hood, looked toward the distant north, and muttered to himself.
"The fog has cleared, the snow has stopped, the sun has risen, and the ice and snow have melted."
"Under the sun, sins have nowhere to hide. This is the trigger point of the [Blood Debt Repayment with Blood] mechanism," he said with a "tsk". "Li Ziyue, how come you can't even think of this."
"But even if you think of it, it's useless." He raised his eyebrows slightly and yawned lazily, "Since the moment you obediently 'listened', everything was doomed."
…
[When Li Ziyue woke up, he felt a splitting headache and his nose was a little itchy. He couldn't help but sneeze and touched his arms.
As cold as an ice bar.
He opened his eyes with difficulty, and a dazzling white light instantly blurred his vision. Under the strong stimulation, he unconsciously shed a few physiological tears.
After I relaxed my body, I noticed that the balcony window was not closed properly, leaving a tiny gap. The bitter cold winter wind roared into the empty room through that gap.
The house is not big, with only a living room, kitchen and bedroom. It is obviously a bare house with no paint and rough concrete unevenly placed on the walls.
The mechanical disc clock was hung right above the entrance, still clicking, and it showed that there were still 3 minutes left until 10 o'clock.
The date is October 22. 】
Li Ziyue's fingers unconsciously moved to the wrist of his other hand, and then he applied a little force and pressed hard on the wound on his wrist.
The intense pain sobered him up a little.
Back.
He took a long, deep breath until the cold wind made him shiver again.
"System," the voice was like a knife rubbing against an old tree, "scan my brain and check for the bullet remaining in my head."
[Hello, player Li Ziyue, you currently have 3 pistol/gun bullets in your brain]
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