Chapter 39
Gunshots rang out incessantly as Lina frantically scurried between cars. The clanging and banging sounds not only sent shivers down everyone's spines but also attracted a number of zombies.
"...Forget it, let's go. There are more and more zombies."
"That son of a bitch," the man said, firing a series of shots at the direction Lina had taken cover, until he emptied his magazine.
"Enough! Go ahead and die if you want."
The noisy sounds faded into the distance. Lina cautiously peeked out and saw that the parking lot was surrounded by walkers. The group drove off in their car.
Lina drew her knife, swiftly dispatched the zombies around her, and then began to run wildly in the opposite direction.
To explain why things turned out this way, we have to start from when she angrily pounded on the hood of a wrecked car and sang RPG.
The car in front of her was beyond repair, and even though Lina was furious, she could only grit her teeth and leave, otherwise she would suffer the consequences of the car exploding later.
The prison is quite a distance away, and walking back is impossible, so Lina urgently needs to find a means of transportation, even a bicycle would be fine.
Lena carefully put away her gun; she was running low on bullets. She had just been fighting with that group for a while, and besides shooting the governor in the stomach and a bald-looking, sleazy-looking man (Martinez: ?) in the arm, she had also punctured the man's fuel tank.
But Lina's car was also badly damaged; the fuel tank and tires were hit.
Perhaps they'll change vehicles here too. Lina narrowed her eyes and followed the tire tracks.
Anyway, she can't go back now, and she won't feel at ease until she finishes this matter. She'll talk about going back when she gets back.
Lina tried hard not to think about her family's nagging; she figured she'd be in big trouble when she got back this time.
The vehicle left obvious tracks, not only tire marks but also leaked oil, and the area they passed through also attracted a bunch of zombies, forcing Lena to clean up while tracking them.
She slowly entered the center of the town.
"sh%t!" She found the car and a dark mass of zombies.
Lena immediately ducked to the side of the car and peered through the glass at the other side. There were probably hundreds of zombies on the other side. Lena couldn't be reckless. There was no fresh bloodstains next to the car, so they must have gotten out and run away. She couldn't find the direction the messy footprints pointed to; the clues had completely died out here.
With no other option, Lina quietly retreated. Looking up through the glass, she thought she saw a zombie, if she could see it.
wrong!
Lina immediately turned around and stabbed him with a knife.
Looking at the zombie lying on the ground in front of her, Lina was still shaken. The faint shadow was clearly not on the other side of the glass, but behind her.
The commotion of the walking corpses falling to the ground was quite loud, and the walking corpses at the other end of the car became restless; they had spotted Lina.
Lena had no choice but to take off running. She glanced back casually and almost had a heart attack. The dense, dark mass looked quite spectacular.
So where did all these zombies come from?
That damned governor, he must have done it on purpose!
Just as Lina had expected, Philip, who had been observing from the rooftop not far away, sneered, clutched his still bleeding stomach, and slowly left.
Martinez and the others had already left. When they learned that Philip was going to drive here, they scrambled out of the car.
"Let them be," Philip sneered. The pain in his stomach was nothing compared to the heartache and his anger.
He'll kill that black guy sooner or later, kill everyone in that prison, everyone!
Lina had run off somewhere, relentlessly pursued by the zombies. She couldn't find a place to hide along the way, and by sheer coincidence, she ended up in a dead-end alley.
The roars and dragging footsteps behind her grew closer, and Lina painfully picked up her dagger. "I'm sorry, darling."
The knife was plunged into the wall, making a small hole. Lina's hands kept moving, digging several holes in a row. Then, with her short knife in her mouth, she grabbed the holes she had made and quickly climbed up the wall.
Several corpses lay at the other end of the alley. Lina carefully walked around them. She noticed that they had no wounds on their heads, so she guessed they were just resting zombies.
"Hey girl, you've really caused us a lot of trouble." Three dark gun barrels were pointed at Lina, and the leader whistled maliciously at her.
He seemed to want to strip Lina naked with his eyes.
Lena helplessly raised her hand. She looked at the three men coming towards her. They looked like they had been sleeping in the open for a long time and probably weren't the governor's men.
The gun fell to her feet, and Lina took a step back.
"Throw your gun over here," the leader laughed smugly.
The two men behind him laughed. "It's my turn to go first this time, isn't it?" said the man standing at the back.
"Go to hell, dream on," Lina thought, a hint of anger flashing in her eyes as she watched them casually discussing her future with their crude jokes, but it quickly disappeared.
Lina shrank back and burst into tears, "No, no..."
"Hurry up," the three men exchanged glances, their wariness vanishing, replaced by lewd sizing up of Lina.
Sobbing, Lina took the rifle off her body and shakily reached out her hand.
"Throw it over." Although they underestimated Lina, their guns were still firmly pointed at her.
"I'm not that stupid." A hint of impatience flashed in Lina's eyes.
She continued to cry, took a couple of steps closer, and, trembling, tried to throw the gun away under the men's shouts. However, due to her nervousness and fear, the gun fell to her feet.
Lina crouched down in fear to pick it up. Out of the corner of her eye, she glanced behind her and saw that the resting zombies had slowly gotten up.
Upon seeing this, Lina screamed, fell to the ground, and pointed at the walker.
The three men impatiently raised their guns and fired, while Lina, terrified, didn't even bother to grab her gun and ran towards the alley entrance.
"Hey! Stop her!" one of them shouted.
How can you let a duck that's already in your mouth fly away?
The last of the three men reached out to grab Lina, but Lina swiftly severed his right hand with a single stroke. Amidst the man's screams of pain and the bullets flying from behind, she ran at top speed.
Fortunately, there was a parking lot in front of her. Lina used her petite figure and the numerous abandoned vehicles to hide, which led to the scene at the beginning.
Their indiscriminate firing of guns undoubtedly attracted the swarm of zombies that had initially been chasing Lina, and in a way, Lina was saved because of those zombies.
Lena ran out of the parking lot, panting, and leaned against a broken-down car by the roadside to rest. Now she was behaving herself and would find a car to go home.
Lina looked around. All she could see on both sides of the road were overturned, abandoned cars. She could have found a car in the parking lot, but it was too dangerous there, and Lina didn't dare to run back to her death.
Oh dear, she's not really going to have to walk back, is she?
Lina, with a pained expression, cautiously surveyed her surroundings as she walked towards the town entrance.
Anyway, let's get out of here first.
Lina wasn't foolish enough to walk right on the main road; she wasn't a target. So she carefully made her way through the alleys. While this made her a little safer, it had one downside.
She has no sense of direction.
She quickly lost her way again.
This gave Lina a heart attack. Daryl had taught her how to track in the forest, find her way, and determine direction, but he hadn't taught her how to navigate the various alleyways of a strange town.
Seeing that it was getting late, Lina knew she would be in trouble if she wandered around the town any longer. After thinking for a moment, she looked at the houses around her, found a small two-story house, and ran towards it.
The first-floor door was forcibly broken open as usual. Lina closed the door, used a table to hold it shut, then checked each door on the first floor, closed all the doors, and ran up to the second floor. There seemed to be no movement upstairs either. Lina opened each door one by one until the last door was locked from the inside.
Lina frowned. This was a bedroom at the end of the second-floor corridor, so it was either a zombie or a human inside.
The zombies are fine, but the human is troublesome. The noise she made when she pulled the door wasn't small, but there was no banging on the door from inside, so it was a human.
Lina didn't want to cause trouble, so they chose to hide instead of attacking her directly, which suggests they weren't particularly vicious people.
After thinking for a moment, Lina turned around and went downstairs.
Unfortunately, as soon as she went downstairs, Lina immediately went back upstairs. She tiptoed to the window and looked at the people outside.
It was those three men from before, no, two of them.
The man whose hand she cut off is no longer there; he's probably either dead or thrown away.
The two men looked around, closed the car door, and went into the house across the street.
"Great!" Lina thought, holding her breath. She wanted the two men's car.
The house across the street was also a two-story building. Lina could see from the window that they were all on the first floor, seemingly preparing a temporary place to stay.
Generally speaking, their car must have been unlocked.
A faint creaking sound came from behind her, and Lina immediately turned around and raised her pistol. It was a woman.
For some reason, Lina felt that she looked somewhat familiar.
"Get out of here," the woman said nervously, holding up her gun to Lina.
"Shh, lie down." Lina didn't dare stand up to confront them. Luckily, the two people were on the first floor and shouldn't have seen them, but if they looked up...
“Listen, there are people over there. Let’s go inside and talk,” Lina said, hooking her finger around the pistol to show the woman that she could take the gun.
The woman nodded, told Lina to put the gun on the ground, and pointed it at Lina. Lina crouched down and stealthily walked to the stairwell in the corridor, away from the window.
"Are you alone?" the woman asked nervously.
“I have a companion,” Lina said, sizing up the woman in front of her. “I advise you to leave here immediately. Those two men over there are not good people.”
Their eyes were utterly disgusting.
The woman looked at Lina hesitantly, but before she could say anything, Lina's expression changed, and she gestured for the two of them to nervously slip into a nearby room.
A loud thud came from downstairs, exceptionally clear.
Lina's heart sank; they must have seen it.
"Do you have a car?" Lina asked softly.
The woman listened intently to the sounds, hesitated for a moment, and then nodded. "But..."
Seeing her hesitant expression, Lina frowned. "Never mind," she thought. She wasn't planning on robbing anyway, so since those two were coming, she might as well go around and steal their car.
Lina quietly approached the window, surveyed the area, and realized that she could climb down to the next room from there. Below the next room was the roof of the first-floor porch, making it safer to slide down from there.
Lina listened to the sounds outside; there were noises on the stairs. Lina glanced at the woman and said, "Let's go."
“No, my companion, he…” the woman said nervously and conflictedly, anxiously licking her chapped lips, her eyes full of hesitation.
"Is he injured?" Lina asked. The man hadn't shown up for so long; he was probably either dying or already dead.
“Shot wound, but he’s not dead. He just needs some medicine,” the woman said anxiously.
The footsteps at the door grew closer. Lina sighed, gestured for the woman to stand in the center, and then quietly hid behind the door.
If there's no way to hide, just kill them all.
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