One morning passed, Gu Zhuo and Chao Ying took a bath respectively, and Sam lay down in his kennel to sleep. Ever since cleaning up the battlefield, Sam had been languid. Fortunately, there was nothing serious wrong with him. He was just disturbed by the noise.
Tortured all night.
After taking a bath, the two of them felt refreshed and their moods were lifted.
Chaoying stayed in the car to rest, while Gu Zhuo got out of the car to check on Akashi.
Akashi was still lying in the small shed at this time, and when Gu Zhuo went to see him, he happened to wake up.
"you're awake?"
Seeing Akashi wake up, Gu Zhuo sat next to him and talked to him.
"This is,"
Akashi stood up halfway from the bed, looked around, and saw that he was still in the small shed. It was already bright outside, and it was already daytime.
"Have all the monsters been dealt with?"
he asked again.
"Everything has been resolved. I think you can have a peaceful sleep tonight. The screamer has also been killed."
Gu Zhuo answered him.
Finally, he asked again:
"What happened in the little room yesterday, do you still remember?"
Hearing this, Akashi shook his head and tried hard to recall what happened after entering the small room yesterday. He only felt a pain on his head after being hit by a blunt object:
"I entered the house yesterday, and just as I was about to kill that guy, I was knocked unconscious by something. I guess it was the screamer who broke free from my restraints."
"Then look to see if there are any injuries on your body?"
Hearing Gu Zhuo ask him this, Akashi quickly checked his body and confirmed that except for the dull pain from the hit on the back of his head, there were no other injuries.
After telling Gu Zhuo about the situation, Gu Zhuo nodded. He felt that Akashi would not lie to him about such a thing.
"Thank you very much. Without you, we would definitely not survive tonight."
After confirming that there was nothing wrong with his body, Akashi was thanking Gu Zhuo gratefully. Suddenly, as if he remembered something, he quickly got up from the bed and couldn't wait to walk out of the shed.
"Why are you going?"
Seeing this, Gu Zhuo asked him.
"I'm going to find my team members."
Last night, Akashi asked them to climb over the high fence and run away first, while he diverted the monster's attention. Now that it was dawn, he didn't know what the condition of the dozen or so people was.
Hearing this, Gu Zhuo followed him and walked towards the high fence together.
As soon as they stood behind the high fence where they were last night, the two of them paused. The expression on Akashi's face changed from surprise to anger, and then quickly to grief. Gu Zhuo stood next to him and could only helplessly click his tongue.
tongue.
I saw that the high fence that was originally intact was now torn open with a big hole. It can be guessed that it was torn apart by a group of monsters.
Judging from the messy traces at the scene, Akashi should have lured away a group of monsters, but another group of monsters further away were attracted by the screamers and surged up from the flat ground behind the high fence, destroying the high fence.
That means that as soon as those dozen young people climbed over the high fence yesterday, they were intercepted by monsters attracted from a distance...
Akashi didn't speak. He silently got out of the big hole, and Gu Zhuo followed behind him.
There is a faint smell of blood in the air, which makes people feel inexplicable fear in their hearts.
There were no corpses of monsters on the ground, so they were probably part of the group of monsters killed by Gu Zhuoqing in the early morning.
There was bright red blood on the ground, which was very fresh and looked like it had just been left last night.
As he walked along the blood trail, the further back he went, the more desperate Akashi felt.
Finally, following the blood trail to the source, the blood on the ground was like blooming flowers, completely raging. Akashi was also completely bent by this last straw.
More than a dozen corpses were piled up like a hill. Blood flowed from the wounds of the corpses, like branches of a stream, slowly flowing to Akashi's feet. Akashi walked forward and stepped on a pool of blood. He felt the soles of his feet
It was sticky, as if countless hands had grabbed him.
After stepping on the blood of a dozen young people, we arrived at the pile of corpses.
Akashi saw how miserable their deaths were, as if they were being pecked by vultures. Not a single piece of flesh on their bodies was intact. Their internal organs were mixed with blood and flowed all over the floor, lying softly like cotton wool.
"No..."
Looking at this scene, Akashi's legs became weak and he couldn't support himself, so he knelt down on the ground.
In front of him, the head of the youngest survivor was rolling on the ground. At this time, the head had its eyes wide open and was staring at Akashi.
Akashi could see how unwilling and resentful this young man was before he died.
At this time, these eyes seemed to be accusing Akashi, accusing him of improper command as a leader, which caused all of their lives.
"No...no...no..."
Akashi murmured, his voice becoming hoarse, as if he had lead in his mouth.
He didn't care about the blood and filth all over the ground. He knelt on the ground, buried his head in his right hand, and cried silently.
Seeing this, Gu Zhuo was filled with emotions. He gently put his hand on Akashi's shoulder and said in a deep voice:
"It's not your fault, you don't have to blame yourself too much."
Akashi was silent for a few seconds, then raised his head and looked at Gu Zhuo.
His face was covered with tears, and there was no other expression on his face except despair, just like a dead tree that was dying of old age.
"If I had shot that mutant earlier, if I had let them run with me instead of climbing over that damn, damn fence, they wouldn't have died! They wouldn't have died!"
Akashi roared, but his voice was very low. He seemed to have lost all his strength:
"I was their only hope. They believed in me so much, but I killed them! I killed them all!"
Gu Zhuo knelt down, grabbed his shoulders with both hands, and repeated sharply:
"This is not your fault. Things are unpredictable. You have done your best! If I were you, I would make the same choice as you!"
However, no matter what Gu Zhuo said, Akashi shook his head numbly. His eyes were covered with dead white gray:
"There were so many people, but in the end I was the only one who survived. I was the only one who survived..."
He murmured and repeated these words, and tears rolled down unconsciously, dripping on the blood on the ground, like a bright red painting that had been blurred.
Gu Zhuo sighed, he no longer chose to enlighten Akashi.
He has already seen one thing. While the group of survivors see Akashi as hope, Akashi also sees the group of survivors as his motivation and goal to persevere.
It is precisely because of his determination to protect everyone that he and the group of monsters can survive until now and endure the mental erosion of the screamers without falling into madness.
As the group of survivors died one after another, his spiritual support collapsed. Now if a little more stimulation is applied, Akashi will completely collapse.
Gu Zhuo stood up and stood next to him.
The only thing he can do at the moment is to wait for Akashi to recover on his own. He can't help with the rest.
He sighed and looked at the surrounding scene.
This place has experienced too much destruction, first by Liu Yihu, and then by those monsters. City A, which was once full of vitality and prosperity, is now a dead city, a huge tomb where thousands of people are buried.