Lu Yu's family lives on the 29th floor, which is the highest floor of their house. Above is the rooftop.
There are four households on each floor of this building, and the distribution pattern is two households on the east side and two households on the west side.
There is a suspended corridor about 10 meters long connecting the east and west sides. Lu Yu usually likes to lie on the corridor to enjoy the scenery downstairs in his spare time, but Lu's mother is always very worried and tells him not to lie on the railing, for fear that he will fall down……
Lu Yu turned off the faucet and concentrated on listening.
The screams came from next door. Since there was only a load-bearing wall between the two houses, and the screams were relatively high-pitched, even though the sound insulation effect was better, Lu Yu could clearly confirm the direction from which it came. .
"It's almost midnight now, next door..." Lu Yu frowned, got up and walked towards the living room door.
There is a family of three living next door, a young couple. The man seems to be a small leader of a company.
Lu Yu could always see him in a suit and leather suit, with his hair combed back and shiny, talking on the phone in a hurry.
The woman is a housewife, friendly and always greets Lu Yu warmly when she meets him.
The two have a lovely daughter. If Lu Yu remembers correctly, the girl should have just turned 9 this year...
Lu Yu tiptoed to the door and looked through the cat's eyes.
The door opposite his house was half open at this time, and milky white light leaked from the crack in the door, illuminating a small area of darkness.
Lu Yu was silent, raised his hand to turn off the switch at hand, extinguished the lights in the room, and continued to observe the situation outside the door calmly.
Not long after, a woman in pajamas ran out of the door in a panic and walked straight to the door of Lu Yu's house. After hesitating in front of Lu Yu's door for a while, she rang the doorbell of Lu Yu's house.
"Ding dong, ding dong", the doorbell rang hastily. Lu Yu made no move, still quietly observing the woman in front of him.
His kind and friendly neighbor had long lost her usual dignity and generosity, and her eyes were filled with anxiety and uneasiness.
Why didn't Lu Yu open the door? Because through the peephole, Lu Yu saw a large area of dark red stained on the woman's pajamas. The color looked very much like blood.
After ringing the doorbell for a while, she found that there was no movement inside the door. The woman stopped ringing the bell, turned around and ran towards her home. She got her mobile phone and held her door to make a call.
"I pressed three buttons. Should I call the police or give first aid?"
Lu Yu guessed in his heart, still quietly watching the movements of the woman outside the door.
After a while, the woman put down her cell phone, as if she couldn't get through. Just when she was anxious, there were suddenly several dull crashes in the house.
The woman was startled and quickly walked back into the house.
Lu Yu was silent. He knew in his heart that something happened at home because the woman rang his doorbell late at night, and her pajamas were stained with a large amount of dark red.
Coupled with the screams he heard before, a terrible suspicion had already formed in his mind.
He took out his cell phone and called the police.
Lu Yu thought in his mind that if the call could be connected, he would explain the cause of the matter to the police. If the call could not be connected, it would prove what Lu Yu thought - the zombie crisis had broken out.
"Beep...beep..." Lu Yu listened to the busy tone on the phone and stood in the darkness in a daze, dispelling the last trace of doubts about Zhang Heng in his heart.
"What he said is true..." Just as Lu Yu whispered to himself, there was a rapid knock on the door.
The sound of "dong dong dong" is rapid and dull, like a dying person banging hard with all his last strength.
Lu Yu looked towards the cat's eye. It was still the same woman, but now her eyes were no longer just anxious and uneasy, but also filled with a touch of despair.
But without empathy, he can't feel the woman's despair at all. At the same time, his rationality also tells him that if he goes out to help this woman now, he will most likely get into trouble. Just avoid.
Therefore, Lu Yu still had no intention of opening the door, and still quietly observed the woman outside the door.
Outside the door, the woman kept banging on the door to no avail, and staggered back.
Lu Yu suddenly discovered that there was a bright red wound on the woman's neck.
The woman was covering the wound with her left hand, but the wound was too big, and bright red blood flowed from her fingers and dripped on the carpet in front of Lu Yu's door.
Injury to the neck is quite fatal, and judging from the amount of bleeding, it is likely that the artery was injured.
Lu Yu began to feel conflicted. He was afraid of trouble, and he really couldn't feel the woman's despair.
But judging from the woman's injuries, if he sat idly by and did nothing, the woman would probably die in front of his door.
With a "click", Lu Yu carefully pushed open a gap. Just when he was about to stick his head out to ask about the woman's situation, a strange hissing came from behind the woman.
"Bang", the door closed again with a huge impact.
Lu Yu quickly looked toward the cat's eye, and the scene in front of him made his hair stand on end.
I saw that the woman had been thrown to the ground at this time. From Lu Yu's perspective, he could only see her legs being kicked continuously, and her body was pressed against the door by a blood-stained figure. .
The sound of women's screams, the sound of skin being torn, and the sound of muscles being chewed kept coming from outside the door.
Lu Yu slowly moved his hand from the doorknob and wanted to step back with his legs, but his legs seemed to be filled with lead and refused to move at all. Lu Yu suddenly lost his center of gravity and sat down on the ground.
Yes, Lu Yu was scared.
When the threat was just a door away from him, Lu Yu finally felt fear.
He cannot feel other people's emotions and cannot empathize. But when he is frightened or threatened, and his rational brain judges that his life is threatened, he will also feel fear like ordinary people.
"Roar", another weird neighing sound came from outside the door. Lu Yu quickly got up and looked out through the peephole.
At this time, the bloody "person" no longer bit the woman on the ground, but looked towards the cat's eye as if he had discovered something.
What kind of face is this? The gray-white skin of a dead person is covered with black and raised blood vessels. The two eyes have long lost their luster and are covered with a layer of gray.
Blood mixed with saliva kept slipping from the corners of his mouth, and his twisted face was ferocious and weird.
But Lu Yu still recognized the identity of the person outside the door.
Isn't this "man" who knocked down the woman and bit her like a prey, the woman's husband?
I saw the big-backed zombie twitching its nose and sniffing towards Lu Yu's cat's eyes, as if a hound was following the scent to find its prey.
There was a sound of the doorknob shaking, and Lu Yu's heart trembled.
"Damn it, this thing doesn't want to open the door and come in..."
Then he decided in his mind, "If it's a zombie, it shouldn't have such high intelligence..."
"Click", the lock slid, and the door was slowly opened. In Lu Yu's heart, ten thousand grass and mud horses rushed past.
"My mom, she really knows how to open doors!"
Lu Yu didn't have time to think too much. If this zombie entered the house, he would be doomed.
He quickly pulled the handle and tried to close the door again.
But the big-backed zombie outside the door also noticed the presence of a living person in the door at this time, and violently pulled the door outward with surprisingly strong strength.
Suddenly the door couldn't be closed. Lu Yu and the big-backed zombie passed the two handles of a door and competed for strength like a tug-of-war.
"Holy shit, shit, shit, shit!" Lu Yu yelled crazily in his heart. He did not expect the huge force coming from the zombies outside the door.
This stalemate was not an option. Lu Yu had tried his best to close the door just now, but the door still slowly opened outwards, and he saw the crack in the door widening a little.
Lu Yu's heart skipped a beat, he changed his pull to push, and pushed hard towards the door.
The big-backed zombie outside the door suddenly lost its balance and was pushed against the wall by the door. Seeing this, Lu Yu jumped forward and dodged past the zombie.
Taking three steps and two steps at a time, he ran to the neighbor's house across the street and locked the door.
Just now, the zombie was able to successfully open the door to his house, probably because he didn't lock it.
"Huh!" Lu Yu collapsed on the ground. As an office worker who didn't usually like to exercise, what seemed like a series of simple movements just now actually consumed a lot of his energy.
Lu Yu looked around. The layout of his neighbor's house was similar to his. The kitchen was on the left hand side of the door, and the living room was on the right hand side. The door faced a short corridor. On both sides of the corridor were the toilet, master bedroom, second bedroom and study room. .
The wooden door of the master bedroom was shattered at this time, and the upper part of the door seemed to have been pushed open by brute force, leaning sideways.
Under the dining table in the living room, a pair of pitiful eyes met Lu Yu's glance back and forth.
"Uncle Lu Yu..." the little girl said softly, her voice trembling.
"Um, Xiaoran, your parents..." Lu Yu was startled and was about to ask.
"Dad is sick. Mom wants to take him to see a doctor and leaves me alone at home."
"I was scared, so I begged my mother to take me with her."
"But dad seemed very angry and didn't want to go to the hospital for medical treatment. Mom started arguing with dad. Every time mom and dad quarreled, she would close the door and make peace with dad in the big room before coming out."
"But this time it seemed different. Mom and Dad argued for a long time. Then mom ran out of the room in a panic and closed the door to the big room."
"Dad is so scary. He yells and screams in the big room and keeps banging on the door."
"Mom said Dad was crazy. There was a lot of blood on Mom's body. Mom told me not to move. She asked Uncle Lu Yu for help, but Uncle Lu Yu didn't seem to be at home. Mom called the police uncle, but the police uncle didn't answer the phone either... …”
The little girl's voice gradually became weaker and her body continued to tremble.
The girl in front of me is none other than the 9-year-old girl from the neighbor's house, Wang Xinran.
I have met Lu Yu several times in daily life. The little girl is very polite. She always greets him sweetly and calls Uncle Xiao Yu "hello" when she sees him. She is a very lovable girl.
Seeing the little girl's pitiful look, Lu Yu had already guessed the situation in his mind.
It may be that the little girl's father was infected with the zombie virus outside. He developed a high fever when he returned home, which made the little girl's mother mistakenly think that he had some disease and wanted to take her husband to see a doctor. Unexpectedly, under the influence of the virus, the girl's father became... Extremely irritable.
In order not to affect the child's mental health, the little girl's mother went to the door with her husband to solve the problem. Unexpectedly, she closed the door and went to the master bedroom to find that her husband had already lost consciousness and started to attack her. She closed the door and wanted to ask a neighbor for help. .
After seeking help from Lu Yu to no avail, he called the police and found that the call could not be connected. During this period, he heard the sound of heavy objects hitting the master bedroom. Worried about his daughter's safety, he turned back home.
Just as the woman was standing in front of the master bedroom door, helpless, her husband smashed the master bedroom door. The broken wood sliced open her neck, and a large amount of blood stimulated the zombie-like head.
The magical sixth sense made the woman run to Lu Yu's house again in this desperate moment and knocked on his door.
Unfortunately, the zombies have been released from the cage. This poor woman was knocked down by her beloved husband, torn to pieces, and died in front of Lu Yu's door. Incidentally, this also created a situation where Lu Yu now has a home and cannot return.
"Well, your mother is probably dead. She died in front of my house and was torn apart by your zombie father."
"Oh, your dad is outside the door right now, looking for an opportunity to come in and tear you and me alive."
Lu Yu smiled bitterly. He was not in the mood to take care of the little girl's emotions, nor did he consider whether it would leave a psychological shadow on the little girl.
What bothers him now is how to return to his home safely.
