Chapter 5: Risking one's life to protect
Ma Tao subconsciously tightened his grip on Yun Rou's hand, causing her to cry out in pain. Only then did she realize that her strength had increased, so she loosened her grip and said:
"There's a zombie next to the electric door. I'll help you step on it and go in first."
After all, there were few zombies in the yard, and there were at least thirty zombies rushing towards them, and he couldn't deal with them.
"good!"
Yun Rou gritted her teeth and agreed. After all, saving her life was the most important thing now.
The two of them quickly went over, and with the help of Ma Tao, Yun Rou stepped on the zombies' heads and climbed up the 1.5-meter-high electric door.
Yun Rou turned over and landed lightly in the yard. Ma Tao breathed a sigh of relief. He had already put one foot on the head of the zombie that he was using as a pedal and was about to climb up.
Suddenly feeling a pain in his ankle, Ma Tao looked down and saw a zombie with only half of its body left, biting his ankle hard.
Ma Tao cried out in pain with a "woof". The sound and the flowing blood immediately attracted more zombies. Ma Tao was so angry that he directly inserted the door handle into the other party's head. Then he tried to retract his foot. Unfortunately, a piece of his skin was still torn off. Blood gushed out, which made the zombies who smelled the blood even more excited.
"Brother Tao, come in quickly!"
Yun Rou urged Ma Tao anxiously. She also saw the other party being bitten by a zombie, but she now relied on him to enter the house to hide, so she just pretended not to see it.
Ma Tao knew that he had to stop the bleeding now, otherwise he would attract more zombies along the way. The zombies in the yard had already surrounded him, and Yun Rou was still waiting for him to rescue her. He gritted his teeth and endured the pain, climbed over the electric door, and rushed towards Yun Rou.
Yun Rou relied on her petite and agile figure to constantly dodge the zombies' attacks and bites. She felt her strength rapidly draining away, and she felt a little dizzy. She couldn't hold on for much longer.
When Ma Tao saw Yun Rou was in danger, he immediately picked up the folding chair at the door of the guard room, swung it up, and knocked away the zombies that were surrounding her. Then he immediately went to rescue Yun Rou, and cleared a path to the unit door before the chair fell apart.
Ma Tao pulled Yun Rou and quickly opened the unit's security door, then blocked the chasing zombies outside.
But this time the zombies were extremely persistent. Unlike before, they did not give up after losing their breath. The strong smell of blood made the zombies even more excited. They began to scratch the security door with their claws, which blocked the delicious food.
"Brother Tao, you are injured. What should we do? Bandage it as soon as possible."
Yun Rou said in a trembling voice.
"hiss!"
Ma Tao sucked in a breath of cold air, his face became somewhat ferocious, and the blue veins on his forehead also emerged, which was a bit scary.
Yun Rou looked through the torn hem of the men's overalls and found that the place where Ma Tao was bitten had begun to turn black. This was not a good sign, so she immediately said:
"Brother Tao, which floor should we go to? You won't be able to bear it if the bleeding continues."
"Go to the sixth floor. Lianyi's rented apartment is in Room 602. The key is under the doormat at her door."
Sweat streamed down Ma Tao's forehead as he spoke through gritted teeth.
"Then let's hurry up!"
Yun Rou's eyes flashed, and she immediately spoke after confirming that Ma Tao would not change in a short period of time.
Ma Tao gritted his teeth and climbed the stairs in front, protecting Yun Rou behind him. When they reached the fifth floor, they saw two zombies wandering in the stairwell. Ma Tao scanned the mutated faces of the two zombies and found that they seemed to be Wu Lianyi's neighbors.
The two men wanted to go up to the sixth floor, so they had to get rid of the two zombies. Otherwise, they would not be able to go up such a narrow stairwell. Because of the smell of blood, the two zombies changed direction and pounced on the two men. Because they did not know how to go down stairs, the two zombies rolled down directly.
Ma Tao gritted his teeth, held the folding chair that had been deformed and only had a chair frame left, and slapped Wang Qiang, whose head was tilted and turned into a zombie, hard. After a burst of blood and flesh, he was completely sent away.
Next came Wang Qiang's lover. Her hair was disheveled and her face was covered in blood. She screamed and moved towards Yun Rou who was dodging. Ma Tao stomped on her head and it exploded. The corridor instantly became quiet.
Those who were hiding behind the peephole and peeking were frightened by Ma Tao's brutality. They dared not make any sound for fear that he would attack them.
Yun Rou looked at Ma Tao's trembling body, a dark light flashed in her eyes, and then she took a step forward, supported him, and whispered:
"Brother Tao, let's go up quickly and don't attract other people's attention."
Ma Tao felt that his mind was a little confused. He could only nod woodenly and mechanically went upstairs until he finally arrived at the door of Room 602.
Yun Rou followed Ma Tao's instructions and went to look for the key under the doormat, but unfortunately she turned the entire mat over and still couldn't find the key.
"Brother Tao, there is no key!"
Yun Rou bit her lip and said.
Ma Tao also saw it. His eyes were a little dazed at this time. He limped forward, pulled hard, opened the security door, then gently pushed the old wooden door, and the door opened smoothly. However, he also fell to the ground and lost consciousness.
The fear on Yun Rou's face disappeared completely at this moment. She rubbed her forehead and felt a little dizzy. She knew this was not a good sign. Looking at Ma Tao lying at the door, her eyes flashed. She did not rush to go in, but dragged him out of the room.
Then she pulled out the deformed folding stool from the other person's hand, gritted her teeth and smashed it hard on the other person's head. Anyway, the other person had been bitten by those corpse-like monsters and would become a zombie sooner or later, so it would be better for her to get rid of him now.
The dull sound of "bang bang bang" echoed in the corridor. Lianyi, who was in deep sleep, knew nothing about it. Otherwise, she would know how Ma Tao died, being smashed to death by the very Dodder she was protecting.
After the sound stopped, Yun Rou held onto the handrail of the stairs, gasping for breath. She felt herself becoming more and more dizzy, and she wished she could fall asleep in the next breath.
Yun Rou bit the tip of her tongue to keep herself awake, then dragged Ma Tao's body to the stairwell, and then rushed into Room 602 with her last bit of strength.
She closed the security door and the wooden door, then Yun Rou leaned against the door panel and slowly slid down. She was no longer able to exert any strength, and her eyelids felt as heavy as a thousand pounds, slowly closing. At the last moment before closing, she realized that the entire room was an empty room with nothing in it.
"asshole."
The remaining curses were completely silenced as Yun Rou fainted on the ground.
Before the sun rose on the second day, another wave of people began to feel dizzy and have a fever, and began the second round of evolution.
But at that time, no one knew that these fainted and unconscious people would turn into man-eating monsters after waking up. Some cruel people directly threw the unconscious people out of the room. Some people were unwilling to give up their loved ones, and in order to prevent accidents, they locked them up alone. All kinds of human conditions were played out in every corner.
(End of this chapter)
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