I stared at it closely, holding more stones tightly in my hands. It was a dark and windy day, so I couldn't see it clearly enough to launch an attack. But I heard the sound that its gun was raised again, and the creaking sound of its finger bones also made me fully aware of its movements. I broke out in a cold sweat because I knew that it must be preparing to pull the trigger again.
Click!
My heart tightened, thinking that I only had one chance!
So he jumped away immediately when he heard the sound of sharpening a gun, and at the same time threw the stone in his hand towards the direction above the sound...
I rolled on the ground, listening carefully to the sound of the wind. Then I heard a loud snapping sound and I breathed a sigh of relief.
When I got up from the ground, that guy also fell to the ground. When he stood up again, he had no brain tissue and began to walk clumsily like those "zombies" just now, stretching his hands, looking up, taking one step at a time, making a clattering sound.
I stood beside the still burning fire pit and let him jump into the fire pit by himself. He had no brain tissue and could not distinguish anything. He relied entirely on instinct and some kind of judgment of the breath of living people to walk towards me until he fell into the fire pit and was swallowed by the flames. A crackling sound kept coming out of his body.
This was all that was done. I moved away from this end and walked back, but I saw the brain tissue fallen to the ground. A dent was made by the stone I swung. The brain was covered with black things. When I got closer, they excitedly tried to drill into my body.
The black mass was tightly connected, like rubber, and as it wanted to get close to me, it extended a thin tentacle. As the tentacle stretched too long, it turned from black to dark gray, and from dark gray to light gray. When it was about to touch me, the extended tip had become as light as ink and transparent.
I think this is the way this strange virus organization controls the corpses. It uses its own virus to extend tentacles and use them as the tissue fibers and muscle tendons of the corpses. This allows those "zombies" to be controlled and taken away like puppets.
They wanted to get close to me, probably because they wanted me to be their new host. When I pointed the fire at them, they immediately curled up and hid under the rocks. So they are afraid of light but not fire. The action of jumping into the fire pit just now shows that they have no concept of temperature.
"Brother Zhou Bo, when will you be done? I don't want to stay outside anymore, hurry up!" Song Yingchun shouted.
At this moment, an incredible scene appeared. When the black balls heard Yingchun's cry, they immediately dragged the brain tissue towards Yingchun, but because they were pressed down by the stones, they had some difficulty.
"It turns out that they were attracted by the sound. These creatures like sounds and living people, but are afraid of light. So we made a lot of noise tonight and made them excited in extremely dim light, which called them all out of the blockhouse, causing such a strange incident." I muttered.
If my guess is correct, this black ball virus was developed by that underground factory. It is truly a disaster and we cannot keep it. I hope the factory has been shut down and there are no more evil things like this in it.
Thinking of this, I used a torch to light the black ball of virus. A strange sour smell of chemical additives came out, and I quickly covered my nose and evacuated.
Before going back to find the girls, I recalled the night when we first arrived here and were kept awake all night by the noise from upstairs. That morning, the lights in the corridor were turned on by someone, and I thought it was someone among us who did it. But now I think it shouldn't be the case. The Song sisters are timid and it is impossible for them to go out in the darkness of the corridor at night. Yunwen is usually more obedient.
Besides, I hardly slept that night, and they didn't have the time to commit the crime, so it should have been done by a fifth person, and it might not be a human, otherwise there wouldn't be fresh traces of dirt on the switch.
Coincidentally, it must have known that these virus tissues were afraid of light, so it turned on the corridor lights in the second half of the night. As a result, we were able to have a light sleep in the second half of the night because the room upstairs was quiet.
Just as I was thinking about all this, I happened to see the red fox that Yunwen had dealt with not far from the campfire. It was squatting in front of the blockhouse, but some distance away from the campfire and behind the girls, so only I could see it. It looked at me with its orange pupils, and looked very serious.
I watched it, too. Not long after, it looked in the direction of the fire pit again, then licked its paws, strolled gracefully away from the place, jumped out of the hole in the wire fence, and disappeared into the bushes.
"Brother Zhou Bo, luckily you are smart and know how to deal with them, otherwise, we might all have our brains eaten tonight." Bai Lu said with lingering shock.
Eat the brain? Have you watched too many zombie movies or played too much Plants vs. Zombies? I thought to myself.
"Oh, I didn't expect that you, Zhou Bo, can even deal with zombies? Are you sure you are just a special forces soldier? Do you occasionally do some part-time work as a Maoshan Taoist priest?" Xiao Yingchun also said.
When she said this, everyone started laughing, and the terrifying atmosphere dissipated a lot in an instant.
"They are not zombies, they are just controlled by a strange virus organization. We have to be careful when living here to prevent being infected. Also, don't play music randomly on the speaker we just threw away. Not to mention calling out the zombies. If we upset the 'neighbors' around us and they send some raptors or wild beasts, we won't be able to handle it." I said.
"Sorry, Brother Zhou Bo, we won't dare to do it next time." Bai Lu replied quickly.
I nodded, and at this time, Yunwen also came over, pouted and held my hand, and said coquettishly: "Next time, don't always take risks by yourself, okay? I...we will also be worried about you."
I smiled slightly. She was the only one who took my safety so seriously.
"I get it. I won't be so heroic next time, okay?" I consoled him softly.
"Forget it, it's just talk. You definitely won't keep your promise." Yunwen pretended to be angry, but looking at her expression, she didn't seem angry.
You can't just listen to what a woman says superficially. Look at the gratitude in her charming eyes and you will know that she cares about you and doesn't blame you.
After all the trouble, no one was in the mood to hold a bonfire party anymore, but everyone was hungry. After all, the former had not eaten much for the whole day and had consumed a lot of energy because everyone was rehearsing the so-called program, while the latter had stimulated everyone's gastrointestinal motility due to the trouble just now, so hunger was inevitable.
Therefore, instead of holding a party, everyone was happy to have a food party. So, around the bonfire, everyone started to prepare food.
Grinding flour again and again is too slow, so Bai Lu asked Yunwen to sew a pocket specifically for holding flour. The material used was the trousers of a camouflage uniform. The jacket had been altered in size before, but the trousers were too difficult to alter, so she simply cut off half of it, sewed on the trouser legs, and used it as a pocket, which was extremely practical.
On a certain day before, all the wheat had been ground into powder using a stone mill and put into this bag. It could be taken out when eaten and tied up tightly when not eaten. It was very convenient. A total of two identical bags were made from trousers. After all the wheat was ground, two bags were just full.
So soon, two or three slices of freshly baked naan, rolled with vegetables and served with half a can of canned beef, were eaten together with some scented tea, and it was quite delicious.
I was using chopsticks to pick up some wild vegetables, dipped them in a special sauce, and took some beef, rolled them in a toasted naan and was chewing them, when I saw Song Yingchun sitting closer to me, coughing, and saying, "Well, does the result of the competition still count? Zhang Yunwen just said that we sisters won, and if we gamble, we have to admit defeat. Isn't it time for you to fulfill your promise?"
I almost choked!