"Hey...hey...please...hey...safety...hey..."
A few words were read intermittently by a female voice from the old radio, and then replaced by noise.
A pair of old and dry hands fell from the sky.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
He clenched his fists and pounded on the radio several times.
"Ouch, please be careful, don't let it fall apart!"
The white-haired old lady couldn't help but shout.
"It's okay. It's okay."
The owner of the old, dry hand chuckled, his face full of wrinkles and a gold tooth in his mouth.
"This radio is old, sometimes it needs to be banged on to make it work..."
"...We are the People's Government Army...Please pay attention to safety, go on your own, and transfer to the K Zone Security Base as soon as possible. The detailed address is..."
A female voice with a slight noise came from the radio.
It’s much clearer than the sound just now.
It can be heard that the Mandarin spoken is not official and has an accent unique to certain regions.
"Look, that's good now," said the old man with thinning hair, turning up the volume on the radio to maximum.
A female voice with a slight accent echoed in the room.
The news reached the room and reached the ears of more than twenty people, men, women, old and young, who were either sitting or standing.
Everyone listened carefully, their expressions varied, but all looked solemn.
"What should I do? Should I go?"
Someone asked.
Everyone looked at each other.
"...I think... we should go anyway?"
The middle-aged man with big eyes, square face, thick lips, wide nose and an honest and simple look couldn't help but speak.
Seeing that everyone was looking at him, he scratched his head and expressed his opinion: "When we went to the supermarket in front of us to move rice and flour today, we encountered several zombies and a bloody monster. If there weren't so many people, we would have almost..."
The middle-aged man paused.
"There are monsters everywhere outside now, and there are more and more of them. We can't stay here for long. Didn't the radio broadcast say that there are troops from the People's Government? There are troops in that place, and there must be a lot of people. At least we can be safe."
The zombies and bloody monsters he mentioned were all names given by everyone based on their appearance.
Zombies look similar to humans, but they have no consciousness and only know how to move mechanically. They attack and eat humans and are contagious. Infected people will soon become like them, with no reaction to pain, fear of light, cannibalism, vision degeneration, unchanged hearing, keen sense of smell, slow movements, stiff limbs and joints, and great strength.
The bloody monster was the same one that Lu Xi had encountered before. It was covered in blood and flesh, like a skinned human, revealing the flesh and texture inside. It still had the ability to attack people. Its limbs were flexible, tireless, fast, and its strength was only stronger than that of the zombies.
"You're right." The tall, fifty-something man wearing glasses agreed.
Then he changed the subject: "Staying here is not a long-term solution. We must go to where there are troops. The question is, how do we get there?"
"I know the location of the K-zone security base mentioned on the radio. I've been there before, but I didn't see any military base there. Maybe I haven't visited it enough. But it's a bit remote. Normally, it takes nearly five hours to drive from here to there. Now... I'm afraid it will take a day or two."
A middle-aged man in his forties, a little thin, took over the conversation.
"You need to take the highway, but it must be very congested right now. No one wants to drive the car, so it can't be moved."
"It will take a day or two to walk there? Well... there are so many of us, old people and children..."
The middle-aged woman sitting nearby was holding the little girl, her brows furrowed and she looked worried.
More than twenty people, one third of whom are old and young, walking brazenly on the empty highway, wouldn't they become sitting ducks for those monsters?
Everyone was silent, thinking about how to solve this problem.
"Bang, bang, bang."
There was a sudden knock on the door.
Not light, not heavy, just three times.
The person standing near the door immediately leaned forward to look in front of the cat's eye.
The rest of the people in the room looked over there, their bodies tense.
The atmosphere was stagnant for a moment.
"Xia Mozhi is back." said the person staring at the cat's eye.
Everyone in the room relaxed immediately.
"There was another person following him, a girl."
Um?
Everyone cast their curious glances over again.
"Don't just be curious, open the door for my grandson."
The white-haired old lady shouted.
"Yes, yes, yes."
The door was opened.
The handsome man outside the door held a half-meter-long crossbow in one hand and a huge bag in the other, which he carried on his shoulder. He nodded to the person who opened the door and walked into the house.
Lu Xi smiled politely and kindly at the person who opened the door, and quickly followed him in.
"My dear grandson, you've worked hard outside. You must be thirsty. Come and have some water."
The white-haired old lady smiled and held the cup of water to the man's lips.
He took a sip and put the big bag on his shoulder on the ground.
The sound of bottles and jars colliding with each other could be heard.
This big bag is full of medicines.
Cold medicine, anti-inflammatory medicine, antipyretic medicine, alcohol, gauze, hemostatic drugs... and so on, are all very useful basic and common medicines.
Use it for emergencies.
Medicine and food are both necessary items.
"Mozhi, come and listen to this."
The old man with the gold tooth shouted, turned on the radio and tapped it a few times.
The female voice with a slight accent sounded again.
"…We are the People's Government Army…Please pay attention to safety, go on your own, and transfer to the K-area security base as soon as possible. The detailed address is…"
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"Well, what do you think we should do?"
Everyone looked at the man, waiting for his opinion.
The man looked back at them in surprise, raised his eyebrows and asked in confusion: "Why do you believe this broadcast?"
"Why don't you believe it?" the thin middle-aged man wondered.
"You can't even speak standard Mandarin and your accent is so obvious, I don't think this is a scam call..."
Lu Xi couldn't help but complain quietly.
The man glanced sideways at her, then turned his gaze to the thin middle-aged man and nodded.
"Maybe... maybe there are not many people in the army over there, so they were temporarily recruited to make up the numbers, or maybe the person who broadcasted has a backdoor..."
The middle-aged man spoke more and more quietly, and finally he just shut up.
"Having said that, whether this broadcast is true or false, it is at least a ray of hope," said a man in his fifties wearing glasses.
"Besides, there are definitely more than just a few of us who can receive the broadcast. Others will also receive it. Even if this broadcast is fake, it can attract a lot of people."
The man was convinced by him.
So I decided to go and have a look by myself.
As for the people in the room, just stay at home and wait obediently.
Wait for him to bring back news.
A group of people in their twenties, old, young, women and children, could not stand the hardship of being on the road at this time.
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If you say you want to leave, act immediately.
That day, the man carried his bag and took the map drawn by the thin middle-aged man and went to the address mentioned in the broadcast.
There were abandoned vehicles everywhere along the way, blocking the middle of the road.
Since the car couldn't get through, he found a motorcycle.
He successfully got rid of several people who wanted to go with him and asked them to wait at home.
Lu Xi originally wanted to follow him, saying that he wanted to have the strength to protect himself, but now he had to be left behind.
After all, the noise made by a motorcycle is quite loud. If it alarmed a large group of monsters, the man could still escape alone, but bringing another person with him would be a bit of a hindrance.
So she was allowed to stay with everyone else, and if they needed to go out to carry food, they could go together, which was also a form of exercise.
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On the quiet streets, even with a muffler installed, the roar of the engine is particularly obvious.
From far to near.
If you listen carefully, you can hear the frequent and light "pop, pop" sounds.
Like flippers stepping on the ground and then quickly pulling themselves up.
The roar became louder and louder.
A motorcycle with smooth lines and a blend of black and white appeared on the street and sped past at a very fast speed.
There were seven or eight blood-red figures following behind him.
They were scattered behind, and from time to time one was thrown away because of the fast speed.
And because of the continuous sound of the engine, a new blood-red figure would suddenly jump out from a corner and join the pursuit.
The motorcycle was far ahead, and the blood-red figure's speed could not be caught up at all.
But even so, it made people who quietly lifted the curtains feel frightened.
"madman……"
He muttered to himself, but couldn't help but watch the motorcycle roar away.
The tall man sat astride the car body, his body bent low, wearing a black helmet, with a half-meter-long crossbow placed horizontally in front of him and a sheathed long sword hanging around his waist.
The scabbard is simple and elegant, with strong oriental characteristics and exquisite patterns.
This is the collection of the old man with gold teeth in the house, provided by courtesy.
When he took out the knife, he felt heartbroken.
The crossbow arrow in the man's hand also came from him.
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