Chapter 71 I am lucky to be able to save my life
"The weather seems to be getting colder."
Early in the morning, Kong Liang stood outside the mobile phone store and stretched.
He felt the coolness of autumn, touched his cold arms, and looked enviously at Zhao Yunduo and Zhou Michen who were wearing long sleeves.
He wore his long-sleeved shirt for almost the entire fall and winter last year, and it was worn out. He hasn't applied for a new one this year. How many mission contribution points does a long-sleeved shirt have... 10 points?
When Kong Liang thought of this, he felt a little sad.
After he simply rinsed his mouth, he heard a small noise coming from the gate of the mall. Kong Liang leaned on the glass door and saw that there were already many zombies outside the gate.
As Professor Cui had predicted, zombies began to appear around the house after the green giant disappeared. Fortunately, they had not let their guard down last night and had blocked the door tightly with sofas and chairs, thus preventing the zombies from breaking in.
When the sun shone into the shopping mall, the six people woke up. After a quick wash, they set off to the furniture store to meet Cui Zhende.
Liang Yuanyuan found a long stick for her brother to use as a crutch, but she didn't ask him to carry anything.
Zhao Yunduo could have asked Shen Linglan to buy a wheelchair or crutches for Liang Tuantuan, but she didn't ask, let alone think about it. After all, kindness is the key to success, and you should know when to stop being nice to others.
Several people walked one after another, like a master and apprentice on a journey to obtain Buddhist scriptures. Each of them had a submachine gun in his hand, so dealing with the zombies was a piece of cake for them.
But the journey was far, and by the time we arrived at the furniture store, it was already noon.
The six people stood outside the furniture store, all dumbfounded. The roller shutter of the furniture store was only halfway open, and from below they could see a lot of broken limbs and arms inside the house. Some were black and looked like zombies, and some were obviously human...
Wu An pulled up the roller shutter and saw the horrific scene inside.
One person's arm was still hanging on the roller shutter door. It seemed that he was trying hard to pull the door down before he died, but he ran out of strength after only pulling it halfway.
There were three zombies in the house, all with their heads pierced by sharp knives, and two humans who had stopped breathing and died before they mutated - they were their companions.
Wu An used the submachine gun in his hand to turn over the bodies on the ground, and after looking at their faces one by one, he said, "Professor Cui is not here."
Everyone immediately looked around the house, thinking that maybe Cui Zhende was hiding somewhere and had escaped. After searching inside and outside without any results, Liang Yuanyuan sighed, "Is Professor Cui..."
She didn't dare finish.
At this moment, Kong Liang's eyes suddenly fell on the box. "Before we left, the box was opened, right?"
The box is now closed, with a lot of bloodstains on the side and wire wrapped around the lock of the box.
Kong Liang immediately stepped forward and grabbed the wire to untie it, but Wu An held him down, "Be careful, even if there is someone inside, they may have turned into a zombie."
Kong Liang looked unusually serious. "Even if Professor Cui turns into a zombie, we have to bring him back to the base."
Wu An did not try to stop him. He let go of his hand and then tightened his grip on the gun, ready to shoot him in the head if there really was a zombie with a bloody mouth inside after he opened the box.
When the box was opened, it turned out to be Cui Zhende.
Cui Zhende, who was lying in the box, turned pale. His eyes closed tighter after seeing the dazzling light. It was his trembling eyelashes that made Kong Liang look happy. "The professor is still alive!"
After hearing Kong Liang's voice, Cui Zhende opened his eyes with great effort, "Kong Liang... Wu..."
His eyes fell on every familiar face in front of him, and finally looked at Zhao Yunduo, "Yunduo...you are all right."
"professor……"
Someone murmured. Compared to the relief in Cui Zhende's voice after seeing them, the six people standing there felt much more depressed.
Their eyes all fell on Cui Zhende's missing left leg - the part below the knee of his left leg was completely gone. It seemed that something had cut it off, and the broken part was tightly wrapped in a white coat, stained with blood red.
"What happened?" Wu An asked tremblingly.
Cui Zhende covered his thigh and slowly recounted what happened before: "After you destroyed the green giant yesterday, the five of them came back. I thought nothing was wrong, so I planned to rest for a night before looking for you. But someone mutated in the middle of the night. I think they were injured by zombies on the way."
As soon as these words came out, everyone knew what had happened.
Originally, several people were sleeping together. In the middle of the night, someone turned into a zombie, and the one who suffered was his companion.
Including Cui Zhende, after his calf was bitten, in order to prevent mutation, he immediately tied a belt around his thigh and swung the knife to cut off his calf without hesitation.
"I lost too much blood and passed out. Someone must have put me in a box."
Cui Zhende's eyes fell on the bodies on the floor, and his mood was heavy.
But soon, he retracted his gaze and looked at them with an admiring expression, "You fought beautifully in the battle against the green giant. When I return, I will report the truth to Sister Tao, and the mission reward will definitely be generous."
This did not cheer up the six people. Cui Zhende saw that they still looked dejected and asked, "Why do you all look like this?"
"Professor, your legs...we..."
Kong Liang didn't finish his words, but everyone present knew each other's worries.
The plane at the base had been scrapped, and Liang Tuantuan's injury and Cui Zhende's leg were a burden for them to walk back to the base. Moreover, without the plane, it would probably take them ten days or half a month to walk back to the base.
They were not sure whether they could make it back or whether they would collapse halfway. Their submachine guns only had a few bullets left, and they probably didn't have enough food. Survival and supplies were big problems. How could they not worry?
Seeing them like this, Cui Zhende comforted them instead, "I am lucky to be alive. I will wait for you here. Before they died, they had a lot of food on them, all in their backpacks. I can hold on for ten days or half a month. When you return to the base, send someone to pick me up."
"This……"
This sounds like a good idea. After all, Cui Zhende is old and has lost a leg. It would be faster to return to the base without him. But it is the end of the world again. If the rolling shutter door stops the zombies, it will be fine. But if he encounters humans, Cui Zhende will probably die.
Wu An did not support this decision, nor did Kong Liang. But Cui Zhende said that this was the only way for them to return to the base as quickly as possible and in the safest way.
When the argument was unresolved, Zhao Yunduo hesitated for a while, and when he opened his mouth and was about to say something, there was a sudden roar of airplanes outside, coming from far away and getting closer, making it hard not to notice.
"Plane? Where did the plane come from?"
Everyone looked at each other, even Cui Zhende looked at the sky outside the door in doubt.
Chen Fei looked at Cui Zhende and Liang Tuantuan's legs, then suddenly ran outside and waved toward the sky: "Hey - there's someone here -"
"Chen Fei!"
Cui Zhende called out to him, but his steps were too fast and had already attracted the attention of the people on the plane, and the plane soon landed in an open space nearby.
Except for Cui Zhende, six people were outside the furniture store watching the plane. Two men and a woman got off the plane. After the man in front took off his sunglasses, Wu An recognized him and said, "It's him."
"Who is it?" Kong Liang didn't know him, and the other four people didn't know him either.
"From the Y City Base." Wu An tightly gripped the gun in his hand, his eyes full of vigilance.