It was already noon. Now, it was the hottest time of the day. There was no trace of cloud in the blue sky, and the hot arrows hitting the ground without any obstacles seemed to dry up and dissolve everything.

At the end of the gray road, two women supporting each other came from afar.

Cao Rui's face was covered with sweat. She held Zhang Jingjing's arm on her shoulders and almost struggled to move forward. The hot weather quickly consumed the little energy left. Their eyes were dull, their lips were chapped, and their movements became as stiff as zombies and mechanical.

The clothes are sports suits obtained from roadside clothing stores. The surface of the purple gold velvet fabric is covered with dust, as well as large pieces of blood and dirt. Especially on the side of the left leg, there is also a pool of dark yellow, which is extremely disgusting and dry feces.

Cao Rui knew she was very smelly———Last night, she encountered a group of zombies. She and Zhang Jingjing spent a lot of effort to kill one. Without having a place to escape, they used a knife to cut the abdomen of the zombie, applied the rotten internal organs all over their bodies, held their breath and lay on the ground, and covered the body with dead bodies. The scene that was infinitely close to death still felt trembling when they thought about it. As for the smell and the dirt on their bodies... Cao Rui felt that her olfactory nerves were numb. Even if she sprayed her whole body with the most expensive "Chanel", she could not tell the difference between carrion and perfume.

She didn't know how to deceive zombies with carrion and internal organs, but she had heard the story of bears not eating dead people. She survived by accident.

Zhang Jingjing's right ankle sprained, and her ankle was swollen like a steamed bun. With her, Cao Rui felt like a mountain was pressing on her shoulders. She felt that her lower body was itchy and she could smell a strange smell through her pants. Some time ago, she was ravaged by men in the gym, and her vaginal discharge increased and her secretion was not normal. Her biggest wish now is to take a good bath. Thinking of this, water subconsciously appeared in her mind, and her dry throat felt more and more thirsty.

She looked up blankly, and the shops on both sides of the street were either closed or chaotic. In the distance, you could see zombies walking around, and the surroundings were covered with dazzling sunlight.

If it was in the past, I should be staying at home now, or chatting with my best friend and friend in a cafe. There is a cool creamy cream, air conditioning, chocolate walnut cake, almond pastry, and apple-stuffed cheesecake.

You shouldn't think about these things. The more you think about them, the more hungry you feel, the more uncomfortable you feel.

"Sister Cao...I, I have no strength anymore."

In my ears, Zhang Jingjing's almost crying sound came. She was very weak and half-dead.

"Shut up———"

Cao Rui looked at the zombies wandering in the alleys on the roadside in fear, and lowered her voice and scolded angrily: "It's okay if you don't talk. If you are discovered by them, none of us will survive."

"I, I don't want to live anymore."

Zhang Jingjing's voice became weaker and weaker: "Put me down...you, go by yourself."

"It's all this, what nonsense are you talking about?"

Cao Rui took a mechanical step forward, turned her head with difficulty to look at her companion lying on her shoulders. Her expression on her face was laughing or crying: "It's not too far. As long as you walk through this street, you can find the people who left us food last time. They said they would live nearby."

"... Do you still believe men's words?"

Zhang Jingjing was silent for a few seconds, and suddenly she laughed like a madman: "I have nothing left. There will be no police, and no one will come to help us. Those people just want to deceive and use us, just like Mei Zi and Xiao Dan, they will be eaten after playing for a while. I... I... I don't want to be like them, I... Help... Help----"

Not sure where the strength came from, Zhang Jingjing suddenly broke away from Cao Rui's hand, tiptoed, limped and jumped forward and trotted. She kept crying and her hair was completely dispersed. The huge noise attracted the attention of the zombies in the alley. They walked out slowly, trying to smell the scent of the ribbons with a living smell in the hot air, getting closer and closer to the two women on the road.

"Stop, stop for me———"

Cao Rui used the last strength to pounce on Zhang Jingjing, and cried hoarsely: "Do I think? I, I can't stand it anymore. I have nothing, what else can I do? What can I do?"

She swung her arm and slapped Zhang Jingjing twice. The latter was completely stunned. She woke up a few seconds later and did not fight back. She just shook her shoulders tightly and cried like a child: "Sister Cao, I don't want to live anymore, I can't live at all... Woo woo... Let me die, let me die like this, let me die, let me die all the time!"

Cao Rui swallowed a mouthful of dry and sticky saliva hard, letting Zhang Jingjing sway back and forth like a wood. She cried silently, everything in front of her became blurred, and even the zombies shaking in the distance turned into chaotic images that could not distinguish their original appearance.

Yes! Even if you can survive, what can you do?

Death!

This idea has never been as clear as it is now.

She sniffed hard, hugged Zhang Jingjing who was sobbing tightly, and finally looked at the street intersection that had been placed in the distance, but was as far away as the end of the universe. She closed her eyes dejectedly, gritted her teeth, and silently waited for the zombies to pounce over and chew on her body's death moment.

Suddenly, she felt a slight vibration on the ground. Soon, the roar of the car engine came from a distance.

"Bang——————————————————————”

The ears heard the sound of dull and frustrating gunshots. It was extremely loud, with an indescribable wildness and roughness. Cao Rui felt inexplicably nervous. She immediately opened her eyes and saw two zombies that were only more than ten meters away from her, halfway through, with several blood fountains spurting out of her chest and back, and a clear bullet hole in each side of the skull. They were shaking left and right, their mouths were wide open, and they fell to the ground at the same time.

The car in the distance was approaching, and through the front windshield, you could see Xinyan's pretty face. Next to it, Su Hao leaned out of the roof of the car, holding the "95" automatic rifle and shooting at the zombie spots that were approaching step by step.

"Save..."

With the last three words that appeared in my mind, Cao Rui, who was extremely tired, felt her eyes turn dark and she fainted on the ground with her body tilted.

..

A faint fragrance tempted Cao Rui to wake up from her deep sleep.

It was a bowl of porridge, with a very shattered surface, which looked very comfortable and delicious.

The house was clean and there were many people surrounding them. There were several faces that had been seen, including men, women, and a woman holding a child in her arms. They were very kind and all smiled at themselves.

Cao Rui subconsciously reached out to touch her and found that Zhang Jingjing was lying on the same bed like herself.

I'm alive?

She was sure it was not a dream. Because, it was all very real.

Xinyan picked up the bowl of porridge, scooped up a spoonful and gently blew the heat away, and carefully approached Cao Rui's mouth.

It has a very light salty flavor, and the porridge is added with salt and tastes very fragrant.

Many of the houses were strangers. But for some reason, Cao Rui felt unprecedented relaxation and tears were dripping from her control.

Xinyan smiled and took out a tissue, wiped the corners of her eyes, and said gently: "We have returned to you with food and clothes, but there is no one in the gym anymore. Where are you going?"

This problem penetrated Cao Rui's heart like a needle. She turned her head in pain and looked at Zhang Jingjing who was crying beside her. The two of them hugged their heads and cried bitterly on the spot.

..

Everyone has their own home.

The seven surviving women refused Su Hao's help, and they didn't want to stay in the gym full of rancidness and sin. Everyone has their own opinions on the future, but they are unusually consistent with the concept of "home".

They are all women who are specially left by Hu He, young and beautiful.

They don’t know why the outside world became like this? They don’t know where the zombies came from. From the day they were imprisoned, they lost contact with the outside world. They only know that there is a terrible cannibal monster. They want to go home and want to be with their loved ones, whether they die or live.

"We gathered the remaining water and food in the gym, got some clothes, brought the weapons you left behind, and left."

A bowl of porridge restored Cao Rui and Zhang Jingjing a lot of strength. They allowed them to replay the memories of death and blood in their minds.

Because she planned to kill the guards, Cao Rui was elected as the leader by women. She listed the addresses of seven people and marked a curved and twisted line on the map according to the distance.

"We are all women, without police, and the phone can't be reached. No one knows what's going on outside. We can only rely on ourselves, trust each other, and search for our families in sequence."

Seven women who were hugging each other... should be admitted that under the circumstances, this was indeed a very good idea.

Hu Weili's home is closest to.

They only walked for half an hour and arrived at the first stop on the scheduled route. Fortunately, they did not encounter zombies along the way. When Hu Weili, who was anxious, excitedly pushed open the door of the Xubian, a zombie rushed out of the inner room and bit her arm.

That was Hu Weili's brother.

Women, including Cao Rui, didn't know how to deal with zombies. They shouted like crazy, stabbed the zombies with knives and sticks, and even split the zombies from their waists into two pieces. The zombies that did not hurt the vitals quickly bit the other woman's calf, and their screams also attracted hundreds of huge groups of corpses. In addition to panic and shock, the five women had to give up their companions and escape from the distance. Until they rushed out of the residential building, they could still hear Hu Weili's shrill scream before being eaten by the corpses.

They have been locked up in the gym by Hu He and have no idea about the weaknesses of zombies.

"I, I'm going home."

"There are many people and the goals are too big. It's better to go separately."

"I don't want to die, it's better for me to leave alone."

People have self-righteous habits. Chaos and death threats have caused this temporary small group to split instantly. Five women, three opinions... They can only agree that if they encounter problems, they will meet at the nearby monument in the square. At this time, they can only believe in each other who have suffered the same suffering.

Cao Rui and Zhang Jingjing both live in the newly developed new urban area. There is only a road between the luxury community and ordinary residential houses. They pried open a bicycle lock on the side of the road and walked together.

The door of Cao Rui's house was open, and the expensive marble floor was full of dry black blood. The LCD panels on the back of the large screen were smashed, and his father's body was sandwiched between the refrigerator and the cabinet. He seemed to want to move the refrigerator to block the door entering and leaving the kitchen, but was heavily pressed down by the overturned cabinet. His body below his abdomen had been gnawed, leaving only one spine that could fall off at any time. The remaining upper part of his body turned into zombies. He could no longer recognize his daughter. When Cao Rui, who was full of pain, swung the kitchen knife and slashed him towards him, he still opened his mouth and struggled to bite him.

The bathroom door was locked, and the door handle was tied tightly with thick and hard wire, and a "dongdongdong" impact was heard from the inside. A male corpse with a chewed head was lying on the passage connecting the bedroom. He held a pair of vises in his hand, which was already highly decayed. Despite this, Cao Rui still identified it from the ring on the left hand of the deceased, that this was his beloved husband.

She climbed up the stool tremblingly and leaned her head into the skylight at the top of the bathroom. There was a zombie inside. She was very old, with gray hair and turbid eyes released hunger and violence, without the rationality that humans should have. It raised its head and stared at Cao Rui who was looking down at him. She desperately reached out to pull her out of the skylight, but because the height was not enough, she could only be trapped under her back and kept making terrifying howls.

That's...my mom.

Cao Rui had forgotten how she walked out of the room. She felt confused, like a brainless person without normal thinking. She cried desperately, shouted desperately, and waving a stick like a madman to smash the various decorations in the house. Finally, she took out a bucket of gasoline from the garage, poured it from the romantic bedroom to the living room. Under Zhang Jingjing's extremely fearful gaze, she took out the "ZP" lighter that originally belonged to her husband, fired, and threw it into a mansion worth millions with tears.

As for Zhang Jingjing's home, they couldn't get in. There were as many as thousands of zombies, and the nearby streets and roads were full of wandering human-eating creatures. Zhang Jingjing could only look at the window representing her home in the residential building from afar, standing by the roadside and crying.

They returned to the square where they agreed to concentrate and waited silently under the sculpture.

However, they did not wait for the other three companions who were dispersed, but waited for five strange men.

"I am friends with Mei Zi and Xiao Dan. We have accommodations, plenty of food and water, and they are safe there."

The man in the lead was very young, only in his twenties, with a slightly long hair, and his eyes were always looking back and forth on Cao Rui and Zhang Jingjing. His lips were thin, his smile looked a little exaggerated, with a bit of uncomfortable pride.

He held a double-barrel hunting rifle, and the rest of them also had various homemade weapons in their hands. Cao Rui and Zhang Jingjing had no choice but to be sandwiched between them, threatened and held them away from the square.

The residence is a bathing club on the east side of the new city. Cao Rui has been to visit with her husband before, and the decoration style is luxurious and the consumption is not low.

The club is a six-story building with hundreds of survivors gathered in it. When they saw Cao Rui and Zhang Jingjing, the men all released strange gazes in their eyes.

They were searched for all their belongings and locked up in a guest room on the fifth floor. In the words of Liu Jiantao, the man in charge, said: "This is the room assigned to you."

Someone brought them food regularly. The food was mostly a few small pieces of biscuits or a little bit of instant noodles. As for the water, it smelled a little smelly, and a thin layer of dirt floated on the surface, which was obviously the liquid originally used in the pool for bathing.

Cao Rui spent half a day tearing the sheets on the bed into strips, connecting them into a very long cloth rope, and planning to escape from the window at night. As for whether she could succeed, she was not sure.

This is the fifth floor after all.

The man who delivered the meal was wearing a pair of glasses and looked kind-hearted. Zhang Jingjing took the initiative to take off her clothes, knelt in front of him and kowtowed heavily, crying and begging the other party for help. Perhaps because she was moved by her words, the man quietly stuffed her a knife and whispered to tell them that it would be better to knock herself out and then escape from the loosely guarded sixth floor fire escape.

The kind-faced man said this.

"I heard them talk about you. Two women who were caught before should be your friends. They were eaten yesterday. There was no food nearby. You... run away quickly!"

The two women ran on the street for a long time, and many men rushed out of the building and searched around. They hid in the empty residential building on the side of the road, soaked the raw rice found in the kitchen with the remaining water from the water dispenser of the household, and ate it for two days. After confirming that no one was chasing, they left the hiding place and walked towards the stronghold that Su Hao had originally mentioned.

When they encountered zombies on the way, they had to take a detour in order to avoid them. Sometimes they had to hide from other survivors looking for supplies. They instinctively did not believe in others. There was no food or water. If Su Hao and Xinyan didn't happen to pass by that road, they might have turned into two bones gnawed by zombies.

..

The bowl of porridge held in her hands was warm, which calmed the trembling bodies of the two rescued women again. They wiped away their tears and looked at the stranger standing beside them. The eyes were filled with pity and sympathy, anger and dullness, but there was no evil and desire.

Xinyan stood up from the bedside, looked at Su Hao who was silent, and said seriously: "There are still some women who have not escaped, so we have to help them."

Su Hao's eyes were very complicated.

He has seen too many things that are more cruel than this, and he didn't want to get too entangled with this strange world. However, he is already a member of this time and space and cannot stay out of it. In a sense, he is actually the leader of the group of survivors in the small building.

Looking at Xinyan's eyes full of anticipation, Su Hao nodded affirmatively.
Chapter completed!