Lin Tao turned off the intercom and walked into the basement. Wang Ran hurried over and asked: "How is it? Are there many living corpses outside?"
"Not many, seventy or eighty!" Lin Tao turned on his flashlight and walked into the crowd, but Wang Ran was stunned and said in surprise: "Seven...seventy or eighty isn't that much?"
"It's very little for me!" Lin Tao smiled nonchalantly and said: "It's relatively safe here at the moment. I'll go to the development zone to have a look. I'll wait until daybreak to talk about everything!"
"I...I'll go with you!" Wang Ran suddenly swallowed hard, looked at Lin Tao very seriously, and said: "I lived a useless life before, and this time I have to compensate the students no matter what.
Let me do my part with you!"
"Okay! As a man, you should have such thoughts!" Lin Tao patted Wang Ran on the shoulder happily, took off the Star Seizing Knife from behind and handed it to him. Wang Ran touched the cold scabbard of the Star Seizing Knife and looked at it.
The dark and fine scales on it made me curiously ask: "What kind of leather is this scabbard made of? The scales are so big!"
"Hell Ripper!" Lin Tao shrugged his shoulders. Seeing Wang Ran's confused look, he smiled and said, "Let's go! Believe me, you will never want to meet that kind of thing in your life!"
"Yes!" Wang Ran nodded solemnly and turned to look at his two underage wives. The two girls' faces were full of fear and they looked at him very reluctantly. Wang Ran gently hugged them.
Jin comforted him in his arms: "Don't worry, I'll come back as soon as I go. We can no longer live for our little family. The classmates all need our help and our care. Do you understand?"
"Yes! We are waiting for you!" The older girl nodded with tears in her eyes, and the other one also nodded and said with a sob: "You come back soon!"
"We will definitely be back before dawn!" Lin Tao took out a plastic flashlight from his pocket, turned it on and handed it to them and said: "This flashlight can be charged manually, and there is also this walkie-talkie for you. Just go upstairs.
You can contact the people in the library opposite. If there are any emergencies that cannot be handled, you can contact them. You two are the monitors now, so you must take good care of everyone!"
"Got it!" The two girls carefully took over the flashlight and walkie-talkie. Although going to the development zone seemed not dangerous at all to Lin Tao, it was an unknown journey for Wang Ran and the girls. Wang Ran
It was as if he was parting from life or death, and he reluctantly followed Lin Tao into the dark pipe with red eyes.
…
What does it feel like to crawl in a long, dark pipe? The answer is, of course, stuffy and hot! And the night has just fallen, and the high temperature on the earth baked by the scorching sun has not yet receded. Coupled with the damp moisture in the pipe, it makes people feel uncomfortable.
Lin Tao had the illusion that he was about to be steamed away. Fortunately, he didn't have any claustrophobia, otherwise crawling in the tube would have been a torture!
Lin Tao was sweating profusely while crawling in front, while Wang Ran followed behind him. He was probably suffering from long-term malnutrition and had to pay "public food" to the two little girls, so his physical strength was completely unable to keep up. Although he
He kept gritting his teeth and persisting, but Lin Tao still had to slow down from time to time and wait for him!
I don’t know how long I’ve been climbing, but the narrow cast iron pipe suddenly widened. Lin Tao knocked on the pipe subconsciously, and the material turned into a thin fiberglass. It’s probably that this section of pipe has not been used for long, and the bottom of the pipe is only
A very small amount of sediment settled, but a very difficult problem immediately appeared in front of him. The fiberglass pipe in front suddenly split into three. He had no idea which one to choose among the three black pipes.
Because the pipes became wider, the traces originally left at the bottom of the pipes were quickly buried by the remaining water. People who passed by before seemed to have disappeared. Moreover, the underground was not as good as the ground. Lin Tao could not tell what these pipes were even after climbing up to this day.
He had no idea what direction he was heading in. It seemed that Xiaochao was right. Climbing pipes was indeed a skill. If he got lost in a place with a more complicated pipe network, he would be trapped to death.
It's possible!
"What's wrong?"
Wang Ran panted and climbed up. There was enough room for the two of them to squat side by side. But when he saw the three exits standing in front of them, he immediately understood why Lin Tao stopped. He frowned.
He frowned and said: "We should enter the development zone. Pipes made of this material have only appeared in recent years, and they are so thick that they can only be used in newly built development zones!"
"Then which direction should we go?" Lin Tao looked at Wang Ran helplessly. He didn't want to be like a ground rat running around in confusion underground.
"this……"
Wang Ran scratched his scalp, his expression was very depressed, but his eyes suddenly lit up, and he pointed at the bottom of the pipe on the left and shouted: "Look, what are those white things? It seems to be rice!"
Lin Tao hurriedly crawled over after hearing this. Sure enough, a few very inconspicuous rice grains were soaking in the water. Lin Tao continued to shine with his flashlight, and the white rice almost became a straight line. Wang Ran immediately said excitedly: "It must be
Their rice bag leaked, haha~ It just pointed out the direction for us!"
"Don't be too quick to be happy, this might be a trap!" Lin Tao smiled disdainfully. Wang Ran's excited expression immediately stopped and he said in surprise: "Isn't it possible? They have such high IQs?"
"A person who is forced into a difficult situation can think of anything!" Lin Tao sneered, turned around and looked at the other two passages, and said in a deep voice: "The leader is very smart, he knows that someone will definitely catch up.
, so I deliberately erased the traces as soon as I got here. I couldn’t even see a single fingerprint in the mud. I can only say that these people had received the order and were all careful. And I don’t think there was such a big flaw like rice leakage.
Their luck is so bad, and our luck is so good, they are just trying to confuse themselves!"
"Then...then are there living corpses waiting for us in front of us?" Wang Ran asked with some horror.
"No! They are just delaying our time. They don't want us to catch them!" Lin Tao shook his head and crawled towards the other two passages, but there were still no traces of these two passages, which were dark and dark.
There is only a slight sound of air flow.
"Ding~"
Lin Tao took out a golden kerosene lighter and lit it. He climbed into the passage on the right and held it quietly, but the flame showed no sign of shaking. He frowned and had no choice but to find another passage and get in.
But this time when he lit the lighter, the flame immediately swayed slightly. Although it was very slight, it was enough to indicate that fresh air was blowing in from the front.
"This way!"
Lin Tao put away the lighter and tilted his head at Wang Ran. Wang Ran immediately climbed over. After the two of them climbed a few hundred meters, the missing traces reappeared. Lin Tao smiled slightly and said again.
He called Wang Ran and sped up again.
"Shh~"
About ten minutes later, a faint light appeared in the pipe ahead. Lin Tao immediately extinguished the flashlight and asked Wang Ran to stop, then drew out his pistol and climbed forward cautiously.
Soon, a broken section of the pipe wall appeared above Lin Tao's head. He peeked his head slightly and saw that there was a brilliant starry sky outside. He held his breath and listened attentively. It was quiet outside and there seemed to be nothing unusual at all. However,
He didn't dare to be careless. After suddenly coughing heavily, he didn't show his head and patiently pressed against the edge of the pipe to listen carefully to the movement outside.
The long wait was a matter of who was more patient. Wang Ran, who was leaning in the pipe, felt that a century had almost passed before Lin Tao finally jumped out with a gun in hand. There was nothing outside the pipe except bursts of cool breeze.
, Lin Tao smiled bitterly. It seemed that he thought too highly of the other party. Apart from setting up a maze in the pipe, they didn't leave any behind-the-scenes tricks. Look at the messy footprints on the ground.
, the other party was obviously very panicked!
"Wow! What a development zone!"
Wang Ran came out slightly excited and looked around at the familiar scenery. His face turned red with excitement, while Lin Tao raised his pistol and scanned the surroundings cautiously. They were standing under a row of red brick walls.
You can see the grooves on both sides,
This section of the water supply pipeline was still under construction, and the mounds on both sides had not yet been backfilled, and there were also some scattered factory buildings that were only half-built around it. It seemed that the entire development zone had just been built not long ago, and the area was very...
Withering look!
However, this place is obviously within the sphere of influence of the gathering place. Not a single living corpse can be seen, and even there are traces of cars running over it on the road!
Wang Ran took a few steps forward and stood behind Lin Tao and asked blankly: "Brother, how should we go now? These footprints on the ground are so messy!"
"Of course I'm going to where there's light. Where there's light, there must be people!" Lin Tao put away his pistol and strode onto the road under the moonlight. The wide cement road led all the way into the city. On the opposite side of the city,
A bright ball of light came from a distance very clearly, and there was also the faint sound of people's unbridled laughter.
"Let's go! I'll take you to the bar for a drink tonight..."
…
Naturally, the gathering place in Dengzhou City cannot be compared with the university town. According to Lin Tao's understanding, it is more suitable to be called a paradise for refugees, or simply a larger refugee camp! And the people here seem to have no idea about the incoming zombie wave.
, even corpses
Wang probably didn't even know what it was. The shabby walls were only three or four meters high. Lin Tao didn't know what they could block. The small gathering place in Jiangcheng where Luo Yudie and the others were originally met had walls that were seven or eight meters high. People
They are being added every day!
But here it is good. After occupying a large factory area, the fence is completely built based on the original fence. A mess of steel frames, steel pipes, and even garbage such as tires and car wrecks are piled on the fence.
From the outside, not only does it not look like a wall from a distance, it looks like a small garbage mountain!
When Lin Tao brought Wang Ran to the bottom of the garbage mountain, his expression changed from the initial excitement to one full of shock. He seemed not to understand what kind of people could live in such a garbage pile, separated by the old man.
A very strange smell hit his face from afar. Wang Ran felt deeply that even if he hadn't taken a shower for two years, his body would still smell much better than this!