"Squeak, squeak..." In addition to the inhuman roaring sound, there was also a teeth-grinding sound of bones rubbing against each other, which was getting closer and closer to the door.
"Damn, what should we do, Brother Gao? There are zombies!" Meng Xingxiu reacted. The two of them did not act rashly in the corner and kept their breathing to the minimum.
"Wait a minute." Gao Ziang didn't stare at the convenience store, but observed the surroundings. There couldn't be only one or two zombies. This group of monsters would gather together most easily. The sound inside sounded like there was only one, so where were the others?
"Ho ho ho..." The zombies were making louder and louder noises, and they were about to come out.
"Get ready!" Gao Ziang leaned against the wall, tightly gripping the iron rod in his hand. The next second, he suddenly jumped up and smashed the zombie that appeared with the rod.
"Bang!" The zombie didn't have time to turn its head. Its leg was still in the process of stepping out when it was shot in the head. It immediately lost its combat ability and fell down. Thick and black liquid spread on the surface of the ground. A crystal clear crystal core flew out. Meng Xingxiu, who was squatting below and preparing to make a second attack, caught it with his quick eyes and hands and put it away immediately.
Although it is useless for the time being, this thing doesn't take up space. Maybe someone will take it when I return to the base. There were people who specialized in collecting this thing before, and some people exchanged it for a lot of food.
"Let's go in!" After Gao Ziang shot the zombie in the head, he didn't have time to rest. He took a breath and pulled Meng Xingxiu to go in.
“Roar! Roar!”
“Sizzle!”
“Crack, crack!”
Suddenly, the commercial district, which had been relatively quiet before, was in turmoil. Howling sounds were heard everywhere, and countless zombies seemed to sense the taste of a feast and swarmed towards their location.
There were bumpy faces, blackened skin, broken bodies, and many of them were crawling towards them in various strange postures.
"Brother Gao! Let's go!!!" Meng Xingxiu didn't have time to see how many zombies were running over. As soon as he heard the noise, he pulled Gao Ziang and ran towards the depths of the commercial district. There was no other way. That was the only road without zombies. The army of zombies behind them was almost blocking the road.
"But..." Gao Ziang was dragged passively towards the convenience store. He turned his head and stared at the convenience store. Almost! He was just a little bit short! His supplies!
"Which is more important, supplies or your life?" Meng Xingxiu pulled him for a short distance and then let him go because he was going to chop the zombies with an iron rod and didn't have enough hands to pull people. Seeing that Gao Ziang was still looking at the convenience store and wanted to go in again, he shouted loudly in his ear.
"Fuck!" Gao Ziang suddenly came to his senses, raised his hand and shot a zombie in the head that was about to be killed by touching its head, venting his anger on these monsters that were neither human nor ghost.
"There are too many zombies. We must hurry to break out, otherwise we will die here sooner or later!" Although it was not the first time they faced these zombies, there were only two of them now, and the zombies here were already a large group with no end in sight. They were about to fall.
The two of them panicked and ran to the central area, with a large group of zombies following behind them. At present, the zombies' attack was not very strong. Their hearing and sense of smell were relatively sensitive, but their vision became very poor. Their movement speed was relatively slow due to their skeletons, so they now relied on being faster than them to temporarily get rid of them.
But they can't keep running unless they can quickly get rid of the zombies or kill them, otherwise the zombies will find them by sound and smell.
"What is that?" Just when they couldn't find where the breakthrough was, a large red cloth like a flag suddenly appeared in the sky ahead. It was held up by a long pole and fluttered high in the wind. A few large words were faintly visible on it.
"Is there anyone over there?" Gao Ziang looked at the flag that was waving. "What does it say? Sifang... Hotel?"
"Brother Gao, let's go, over there!!!" Meng Xingxiu gritted his teeth and chopped away a zombie that was approaching. The two of them ran towards the direction of the flag in a panic, one in front and the other behind.
On the other side, Shi Jiu raised the homemade flag and waved it vigorously. The height was definitely high enough for people at least a hundred meters away to see the bright flag by looking up.
"Hey yo hey yo!" Shi Jiu was waving the flag over there very vigorously, and the high-raised Sifang Hotel was very conspicuous against the backdrop of the red cloth.
"Help... Help!" Gao Ziang and Meng Xingxiu finally ran to the location of the flag and saw a woman waving the flag. The shop sign behind her read "Sifang Hotel", which showed the four words they had just seen.
Shi Jiu was standing at the door when she saw the guest coming in, with a large group of zombies behind him. Although she was protected by the system and could not see the faces of the zombies clearly, the black mass of them posed a great threat to ordinary people.
"Come in quickly!!!" Shi Jiu planted the flag on the ground on the side and waved to them.
Gao Ziang looked at the strange woman in front of him and exchanged glances with Meng Xingxiu next to him. This kind of situation had happened before. In the early days of the apocalypse, gangs would cooperate by releasing a vulnerable person first to attract people to help or to lure lustful people into the trap.
Once they fall into their gang, any woman with a little bit of beauty will become one of the lures. Men either join them or lose the meaning of their existence. After looting the valuables from their bodies, they are thrown into the zombie horde to fend for themselves. Very few can escape. Has the gang now taken root here?
The two of them were worried that if this was that kind of gang, they would be caught between a tiger in front and a wolf behind.
The zombies behind are about to catch up. Putting aside the question of whether this so-called hotel is run by a gang that lures people, can this shabby wooden door really withstand the attack of zombies?
"Don't worry, you two, you don't have to worry about your safety once you come in!" Shi Jiu was standing in front of the counter, looking at the two hesitant people at the door, and shouted loudly, wondering in her heart, could it be that she was so active in recruiting people just now that she scared them?
Thinking carefully about her behavior just now, it seems that there is nothing wrong under normal circumstances, but now it is the end of the world, so it seems a bit deliberate.
Shi Jiu covered her head helplessly. She had not changed her mind. Just now, she really looked like the wolf grandmother who wanted to kidnap Little Red Riding Hood. If she didn't know her, she would tell others to come to her quickly.
She didn't expect that the other party had directly upgraded her identity. She was not just the wolf grandmother, but a hook released by the kidney-cutting gang, and was planning to drag them in to plunder and kill them.
"Brother Gao, should we go in or not?" Meng Xingxiu hesitated, "The zombies behind us are about to catch up!"
"Go in, even those gangs still have the strength to fight, but we really can't do anything about the zombies." He really had to accept his fate, what else could he do? He had already given up those supplies, and he couldn't be willful anymore, as his family was waiting for him to return to the base.
Gao Ziang's intelligence and calmness were restored when he was fighting with the zombies just now. Meng Xingxiu heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that his emotions had stabilized. He had temporarily left the zombies behind, but that didn't mean he had to continue fighting them. Even if this hotel was a tiger's nest, they had to go in and confirm it, rather than fighting with the zombies outside until they were exhausted and then died.
"Let's go." As the two stepped into the threshold of the hotel, the zombies behind them immediately lost their perception of them. After circling back and forth at the door a few times like headless flies, they returned stiffly and slowly, as if there was no need for them to stay here.
"Brother Gao, they... actually left!" Meng Xingxiu saw such an incredible scene, pulled Gao Ziang's sleeve, and signaled him to look at the movements of the zombies outside the door.
"I saw it..." Gao Ziang also looked at the scene in surprise.
"You should be relieved now, right? I just said that it's very safe here." Shi Jiu took the opportunity to say after seeing their reaction. No, she had to at least restore her image of the wolf grandmother. She was just an employee. As a worker, isn't it normal to greet customers?
This hotel... is so magical. The two of them looked at Shi Jiu in front of them, and this thought came to their minds at the same time.
"Excuse me, do you want to stop by for a meal or stay overnight?" Shi Jiu asked them with a typical smile on his face.
"What is 'da...dajian'?" Forgive him for not knowing, Meng Xingxiu asked her in a daze, still thinking about how the zombies left without any expression, and he hadn't come to his senses.
"Whether you need to rest here for a short while and have something to eat, or just book a room for the night," Shi Jiu explained with a smile. "If you just want to eat something, you can sit on the sofa over there and check the vending machine for what you need. There's also a water dispenser next to it for you to use."
"You guys here..." Gao Ziang suddenly spoke, staring at her straight in the eyes, and everyone present could hear his unspoken meaning.
But Shi Jiu didn't feel any fear. After all, she was invincible in the hotel. Even when she was waving the flag at the door just now, she was doing it within a safe range. She still cherished her life very much.
"I believe this gentleman has already seen that our hotel not only provides accommodation and food, but also guarantees the safety of our guests. As long as guests abide by the rules of our hotel, in principle, there is no need to worry." Shi Jiu was not angry, and slowly stated the actual functions of the current hotel.
"Are you the boss here?" Gao Ziang asked again. How could a woman who looked so weak like her protect such a strange and magical hotel?
"Of course not, I'm just working for the boss. Do you have any other questions? If not, you have to make a choice. Our hotel is also a small business." Shi Jiu responded while glancing at the pot of flowers on the table. That was the real boss. She was just an ordinary worker.
She did not directly claim to be the boss. Although she did not refute the guests' title before, she did not respond directly either. It was better to make her a mysterious boss for them to guess.
If someone comes to visit later, she can act as the boss's messenger to chat, which will reduce the pressure a lot. Although she is invincible, opening such an inn with invincible defense in the end times is bound to attract speculation from all sides.
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