Chapter 17 Escape
After the five people in the room packed up, they prepared to leave the hotel and head to Qianji Shopping Mall.
After opening the door, a strong stench hit me in the face.
The corridor on the 25th floor was filled with hideous-looking zombie corpses, which looked quite shocking.
Since all three elevators in the elevator hall were broken, their only option was to take the stairs to the first floor.
Yan Chu followed the others to the stairs with light steps. She leaned over and looked down. It was very quiet down there, and she couldn't hear any unusual sounds.
"...Strange," Chen Qianxing said doubtfully, "When we came out the day before yesterday, the downstairs was filled with the sounds of zombies. How come we can't hear them anymore?"
Everyone walked down a few floors cautiously, only to find that zombie corpses were everywhere near the stairs. Most of the zombies gathered near the stairs had been killed.
Yan Chu subconsciously looked at Gu Qinyuan. He had a cold expression, as if all this had nothing to do with him.
But, he killed it when he went downstairs to get food that day, right?
Noticing Yan Chu's gaze, Gu Qinyuan turned around to look at her, then reached out and held her hand.
"Follow me closely."
The other three people who were unaware of the situation were not so calm. Chen Qianxing felt his scalp tingling when he saw the corpses of these zombies.
Could it be that those two people did this?
Who are these two people?
Since the zombies had been cleared out once, they went downstairs smoothly. Occasionally, a few zombies that escaped the net rushed towards them, but they could be killed with a single knife by Gu Qinyuan, who was walking in front.
Yan Chu also took advantage of the chaos and stabbed one or two zombies to death with a knife.
As long as you know that the brain is a weakness, ordinary zombies in the early stages are not that difficult to deal with.
Chen Qianxing went down to the 13th floor. When he was about to go down further, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a dead zombie in the corner of the wall.
He paused, his expression turning grim.
Luo Yu behind him took a breath and subconsciously blocked Luo Yiyi's sight with his hands.
Yan Chu noticed something was wrong with them: "What's wrong?"
"That man..." Luo Yu raised his hand and pointed to the corner of the wall in a trembling voice, "He was the one who hid in the room with us before, Li Guofeng."
Yan Chu followed the direction Luo Yu pointed and saw the zombie in the corner.
Its face was gray, and its hideous blood vessels bulged like veins. There was an empty bloody hole in the middle of its forehead, with the skin and flesh around the edges torn open and sticky with coagulated and dried blood.
Its entire left shoulder had been eaten away to a bloody mess, with even the white bones exposed. The rotten flesh was half hanging at its side, and it fell to the ground with a plop.
Luo Yu suddenly felt her stomach churning, and she immediately covered her mouth with her hands to suppress the urge to vomit.
The zombies he had seen before were all strangers. This was the first time he saw a living person turned into a zombie, and in such a tragic state. An unprecedented panic filled Luo Yu's heart.
Chen Qianxing gritted his teeth and pushed the stiff Luo Yu downstairs: "Let's go, stop looking."
They walked all the way to the first floor, and everyone peeked out from behind the wall at the corner of the stairs to observe the situation in the hotel lobby.
The number of zombies gathered in the hotel lobby was much denser than on any floor above, but they now had to pass through this dangerous hotel lobby before they could go to the street and find a car to leave.
"So many...what should we do? Should we just rush out?" Luo Yu asked nervously.
Chen Qianxing shook his head: "It's too dangerous to rush in directly, let's see the situation first."
Although Yan Chu had a gun for self-defense, he didn't want to fight the zombies head-on at this moment.
Is there any way to lure some of these zombies away?
When she lived upstairs, she often watched the zombies on the street from the window.
In addition to their strong reactions to humans, zombies will also attract their attention due to loud noises.
She turned to the others and asked, "Does anyone still have battery on their phone?"
In the end, everyone shook their heads.
Shortly after the hotel's power outage, their cell phones also stopped working and are now as useless as bricks.
Yan Chu had no choice but to find another way.
Apart from mobile phones, is there anything else that can continuously make sounds to attract zombies?
She stuck her head out to look again, and suddenly noticed the emergency escape passage not far from them. The "Emergency Exit" sign above the white door was emitting a faint green light.
Even if the hotel loses power, the backup power supply is still working, so the emergency exit lights are still on.
Yan Chu's eyes suddenly lit up.
She remembered that there was a small button on the right side of the sign that could sound a warning.
Assuming they first go through the hotel front desk and then make some noise to attract all the zombies gathered in the lobby over here, they can then escape directly from the other side of the hotel.
It just takes someone who runs fast to push the button.
After Yan Chu explained the plan to the others, Chen Qianxing immediately raised his hand and volunteered to press the button: "I can run fast, I'll go."
Yan Chu didn't hesitate or hesitate: "Okay, remember to run immediately after pressing the button, don't stay for even a second."
The team split up and Yan Chu bent down and used the half-person-high marble countertop at the front desk to avoid the zombies' sight, and tiptoed through the empty hotel front desk.
It was not until he reached the other end of the front desk that Yan Chu stopped and raised his hand to make a "1" gesture.
This is the action signal to Chen Qianxing.
Sure enough, only two seconds later, Yan Chu heard the rapid "beep beep" alarm sound from the other side.
The zombies in the hall, which were originally a little dazed, soon became agitated because of the sound, and many zombies were already dragging their broken bodies towards the source of the sound.
Seeing that the number of zombies in the hall was decreasing, Chen Qianxing also ran over at this time and successfully reunited with them.
Yan Chu made a quick decision: "Now, run!"
The group stood up without hesitation and ran quickly towards the hotel gate!
The remaining zombies, which were moving slower, immediately noticed the sudden appearance of the humans and rushed towards them excitedly with their bloody mouths full of fangs.
Then with a "bang", it hit the hotel's tempered glass revolving door hard.
Yan Chu, who was standing in another space behind the revolving door, looked at the zombies that fell to the ground with lingering fear.
Fortunately, zombies don’t go through revolving doors.
However, the real beginning is when you step out of the hotel.
Because the streets are also full of zombies, and their number is no less than that in the hotel.
Chen Qianxing took a deep breath and reminded, "We have to find a car that can be driven quickly."
Although the streets were littered with abandoned cars, Yan Chu was not sure which one could be driven away directly.
She is really not good at this kind of thing that relies purely on luck.
Just when she was thinking about choosing one randomly, she suddenly heard Gu Qinyuan speak.
"I have a car."
Yan Chu: “…Ah?”
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