The surroundings were quiet and dark, and there seemed to be a hint of tension in the desolate and moldy air. This was the first time Lin Man faced such a situation. He always had a feeling that something would suddenly jump out from the dark corner, or footsteps would suddenly be heard outside, and his heart beat a little faster.
Guan Guan whispered in my mind, "Can you calm down a little? Don't act so naive. It's not dangerous right now."
"I'm definitely new to the world," Lin Man distractedly said to Guan Guan. "And I'm actually pretty calm. It's just that my heartbeat is a little fast. I'll be fine once I get used to it."
Lin Man could actually enter the space and spend the night peacefully and comfortably, but she didn't do that. She regarded the current environment as a kind of experience for herself. She wanted to adapt to it as soon as possible and deal with it calmly.
She leaned against the wall and rested with her eyes closed, but her ears were perked up, and her right hand was gently placed on the handle of her kitchen knife.
But after one night, the situation she worried about did not occur.
When the morning light came in through the window, Lin Man let out a breath slowly. This night felt like the longest night she had ever experienced. Even when she was hungry and had to endure it, she had never felt that time passed so slowly.
Guan Guan didn't laugh at her, but instead reminded her, "Why don't you take a break now? You haven't slept all night. It would be bad if you encounter any problems on the road later."
Lin Man stood up and looked out the window, then said, "Let's go now. It's cooler."
And now she doesn't feel too tired even if she doesn't sleep for a whole night.
She took out a sweet potato she had cooked herself from the space, peeled it and ate it with water. The sweet and soft taste completely soothed her nerves.
Something that is both delicious and filling, which is great.
Guan Guan was constantly promoting his freshly made dried sweet potatoes: "They're sweet, sticky, and easy to carry. You can grab one while walking on the street. Look how much trouble it is to cook a whole sweet potato. You have to find a place where no one is around to eat it secretly."
Lin Man: "Can I buy it on credit?"
Guan Guan: “…”
The little chick went away in a depressed mood.
She quickly finished a sweet potato, put on her backpack for covering the space, and carried a water bottle filled with water in her hand, and continued on her way.
Walking through the town, Lin Man was sure that there was no one here, but there were some relatively new tire tracks and a small amount of relatively fresh garbage.
She guessed that it was left behind by those who had left the base before and passed by here.
Apart from the small town, there is an abandoned road. It is said that this road was originally a dirt road, and it has been in a state of disrepair for more than ten years. On both sides of the road are barren fields and hillsides, dry riverbeds, and dilapidated and collapsed factories.
Lin Man walked and walked for several hours and finally arrived at the legendary highway. Although the highway was completely unrecognizable, there was a fork in the road. There were three roads leading to three completely different directions. Unlike before, there was only one road and he didn't have to choose one, he just had to go forward.
Lin Man sat down under a bridge pier that was not exposed to the sun. She took off her cloth hat and was covered in sweat. After eating something, she leaned against the hot bridge pier and began to catch up on her sleep, asking Guan Guan to call her if anything happened.
The sleep she got was not sound. After two o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Man continued on her way and chose the road heading north, the same direction as the city where her home was.
She walked and stopped like this, and finally arrived at the first city on the afternoon of the third day.
The announcer on the radio said that the teams coming from the north to deliver supplies would give priority to some large and small bases. For cities without bases, they would send helicopters to hover over some landmark buildings outside the city center, but they would not sound the sirens for fear of alerting the remaining hidden zombies.
The broadcast also announced the landmark buildings corresponding to each city one by one. Lin Man wrote down the few that she needed to pay attention to. The landmark building of the city in front of her should be a tall TV tower.
But how do I get there?
Lin Man was holding the map that Zheng Gang and the others had drawn for him, feeling rather troubled. He knew the directions, but which way to go...
She identified the direction of the sun and randomly chose a path to walk towards the TV tower.
This city, like the several towns she passed by before, had become a deserted city. It was quiet all the way, but Lin Man was still walking very carefully. Suddenly, she saw a pile of familiar things in the garbage dump on the side of the road. It was human feces, which was quite fresh and should be no more than two days old.
She became careful and tried to walk in the shadows. After walking for a while, she saw some black bloodstains. In addition to the bloodstains, there were also several hand bones with residual flesh, as if they had been roasted and gnawed into this state. The air was filled with a very strange smell, a smell of stale blood, a strange smell of barbecue, and a stench of decay.
Lin Man immediately thought of the rumors that people in the outside world would eat humans if they had nothing to eat.
Lin Man felt nauseous and his feet felt cold. These hand bones, like the pile of excrement, were relatively fresh. There must be people moving around here!
At the same time, she didn't know if it was her illusion, but she seemed to hear a crunching sound, as if someone was gnawing on bones.
She tried to distinguish the sound and found it was very close. She approached quietly and saw two men squatting in a dilapidated house, each holding something in their hands and chewing on it.
Lin Man covered his mouth. That’s an arm and a leg, right?
There seems to be a mutilated...corpse in the corner next to it?
Lin Man was so nervous that her blood vessels seemed to be bulging. She had never encountered such a thing before, and not making any sound was already a result of forcing herself to hold it in.
She retreated quietly, but a voice suddenly sounded behind her: "Who are you?"
Lin Man turned around suddenly and saw a person standing not far away!
Under normal circumstances, Lin Man would have been able to sense someone approaching, but she was so shocked and nervous just now that she didn't notice it at all.
There were three people on the other side and he was only one, so Lin Man’s first thought was to run.
She did turn and run.
The man who spotted him yelled, "There's a chick, don't let her get away!"
The two cannibals in the dilapidated house immediately rushed out: "Where are you?"
The three of them immediately chased after Lin Man.
These three were all skin and bones, looking like they would be blown away by the wind. However, they had just eaten human flesh in the past two days, so they had strength in their bodies. With a delicious bait in front of them, their potential burst out in excitement, and they moved at an incredible speed.
Lin Man...wasn't familiar with the terrain here, and she ran into dead ends several times, either having to take a detour or climb over a wall, which slowed her down. Even if Guan Guan in her mind kept cheering her on, "Come on," it didn't help her much.
The four of them chased each other and were evenly matched.
Lin Man was once again trapped in a dead end. The wall was too high and there was no stepping stone underneath. She had no choice but to turn around and look at the three men who were rushing towards her arrogantly. She tore off her hat with one hand and put the other hand behind her waist, as if she was reaching behind her waist, but in fact she was taking out a wooden stick with a sharp end from space, and she gasped for breath and made a defensive posture.
The stick wasn't short, but the three men on the other side didn't bother to think about why they hadn't noticed it at first. They were breathing even harder than Lin Man, each one sounding asthmatic, but they were still incredibly proud. "Girl, run again!... No, it was you?"
The tallest man seemed to recognize Lin Man. Lin Man looked at him and recognized him. Wasn’t this man the one who used to patrol the base?
Looking at the other two, they also look familiar, they are both from the Peace Base!
"Are you from the base?"
"It's you, Lin, what's that?" The tall man said to the other two with a smile, "I knew this chick would show up too. What a shame she didn't leave with us."
"Where are the others?" Lin Man recognized these people and felt upset. He didn't feel the joy of seeing acquaintances at all, because these "acquaintances" had just been eating human flesh, and after recognizing him, they didn't restrain their malice at all.
"Others? Bah!" The tall man obviously didn't notice that Lin Man was trying to trick him, and subconsciously spat on the ground. Suddenly, he felt it was a pity. It was difficult to get some water now, so he had to save his saliva.
"A car was broken down when we got here, and those bastards left us behind. If the youngest hadn't contributed him to us to eat, we would all have died. But now it's good, you're here, and we can hold on for a few more days." The tall man said as he and the other two laughed.
Another person said maliciously: "But it would be a shame to eat it like this." The three of them smiled knowingly.
Lin's face was expressionless. She didn't expect that the people who would eat people would be those who had just walked out of the Peace Base, and they would eat their companions. After the initial shock, she calmed down. If there were only three people, it shouldn't be a problem to deal with them.
While they were laughing, Lin Man grabbed the ground with his feet, pushed off the ground and rushed forward, and the sharp end of the wooden stick unexpectedly stabbed into the tall man's abdomen.
She was very strong and this time she penetrated more than ten centimeters. The tall man screamed and was pushed directly against the wall by her.
The two men were stunned for a moment, then rushed up.
Lin Man pulled out the wooden stick in one go, and blood splashed on one of the men's eyes, causing him to close his eyes and step back in panic. Lin Man then took advantage of the situation and hit the third man with the stick.
She was strong, but not tall enough, and the wooden stick was not long enough, so she could only hit the other person. The other person screamed and tried to grab the stick from her. Lin Man kicked him hard, and there were several cracking sounds. It was unknown how many ribs were broken, but the stick in her hand was also broken.
As soon as the one fell down, the other one wiped the blood from his eyes and saw this scene. He finally gave up and turned around and ran away.
The other party was about to eat her, and they had already formed a blood feud. How could Lin Man let him go? She was determined and chased after him. She grabbed her kitchen knife from the space and jumped up, throwing it out.
To ensure a hit, she also used a bit of spiritual energy.
Right in the middle of the back.
Watching the man fall, Lin Man supported herself on her knees and gasped for breath, her hands and legs trembling a little. She realized belatedly that she had fought a bloody battle with someone and she might have killed someone.
She looked at her hands covered in blood and panicked for a moment. Guan Guan encouraged her: "Lin Man, don't be afraid! They wanted to kill you first."
"I, I know."
Before she was released, Zheng Gang and Lin's mother had counseled her, telling her not to trust anyone and not to underestimate anyone's ill intentions. Anyone who wanted to harm her was an enemy, and she should not hold back if she had the chance. Giving the enemy a glimmer of hope meant leaving herself with endless trouble.
Lin Man took a deep breath to regain his composure and told himself, these are all experiences. Wasn’t it something I had expected before going out?
She walked slowly forward and kicked the man, but there was no response. She turned the man over and found him dead.
She let out a long breath, not knowing what to feel in her heart. After trying several times, she finally pulled out the kitchen knife. She turned to look at the other two people lying there, and suddenly her eyes fixed -
The man she had kicked over was gone! The tall man was still leaning against the wall.
She took a deep breath and walked over cautiously. She originally thought that the man had escaped or hidden, but when she saw the traces on the ground, her pupils suddenly shrank.
A drag mark appeared where the man had just reached the bottom, and it followed a hole in the wall next to him and disappeared behind the wall.
The man didn't leave by himself, but was dragged away by someone!
The author has something to say: Sorry for yesterday's delay, this is yesterday's, and there are still some updates for today.
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