Lu Yu quickly tied Su Daqiang firmly to the chair and whispered regretfully.
"What a wonderful canned herring, wasted like this..."
It turned out that the unknown liquid that smeared on Su Daqiang's face was not some powerful biological weapon, but the soup that Lu Yu got from opening two cans of herring.
This idea was also proposed by Xiao Ran. After all, Lu Yu was not a strong muscle trainer. If he wanted to subdue Su Daqiang instantly, the only way was to make a sneak attack.
Therefore, there was a scene similar to the brawl just now. Su Daqiang was suddenly splashed with canned herring juice, and was slapped on the bald head by Lu Yu without any precautions, unilaterally declaring the end of the battle.
Seeing that Su Daqiang was still unconscious, Lu Yu breathed a sigh of relief and distractedly observed the situation in the room.
Different from the decoration style of his own home, the interior decoration of 2801 is simple and modern. The floor of the originally spacious living room was full of domestic garbage, and cigarette butts were scattered everywhere. Lu Yu even found it in the dirty bowl on the coffee table. A sock.
Lu Yu, who had a slight mysophobia, saw the messy scene in front of him, suppressed his inner irritability, and began to search in various rooms with Xiao Ran.
What are they looking for? Naturally, he was looking for the hostage Xiao Ran mentioned, because according to Xiao Ran's guess, the reason why the bald man did not come to the door immediately after the incident was because he was dealing with the hostage in his hands.
But after Lu Yu searched every room, no trace of the hostages was found. Lu Yu began to feel a little uneasy. He wondered if he had really misunderstood something and mistakenly mistook the owner of 2801 for a robber and knocked him unconscious with a pan...
"Did we make a mistake..." Lu Yu looked at Xiao Ran uneasily.
Xiao Ran, who was holding his chin with one hand as if thinking about something, heard Lu Yu's question. He raised his head and rolled his eyes at Lu Yu angrily. He pointed at the messy living room and said, "If this was your own home, you would make such a mess. ?"
"Where are the hostages..." Lu Yu scratched his head, he had searched everywhere. I opened and checked the large drawers in the closet, under the bed, and even in the bedroom, but there was no trace of the hostages.
"Look at these clothes, this is definitely not a house where one person lives alone." Xiao Ran pointed to the clothes scattered in the study room. Lu Yu followed the direction of Xiao Ran's fingers and found that in addition to adult women's clothes, there were also clothes mixed in. A student's school uniform and several pieces of underwear with cartoon patterns on them.
"But the layout of the study is obviously a live broadcast room. The woman who fell down is probably an anchor. It's not surprising that the anchor has more clothes." Lu Yu shrugged and expressed his judgment.
"Do you need a student ID card to be an anchor?" Xiao Ran took out a student ID card from the schoolbag in the corner and shook it at Lu Yu.
Lu Yu took the student ID card and saw that it was true. A sweet-looking girl on the ID card was smiling at him. She was a junior high school student, as if she was in her first year of junior high school.
"Lin Tanying, that's a great name. It's as beautiful as an epiphyllum and as mysterious as a shadow." Lu Yu read out the name on his student ID card and expressed his praise in a timely manner.
"Is the name Wang Xinran so bad?" Xiao Ran lightly kicked Lu Yu's calf, slightly dissatisfied.
"How jealous are you?" Lu Yu suddenly became happy when he saw Xiao Ran's reaction. He put his student ID card on the table and started looking for it again.
This time he searched more carefully. After all, if a junior high school student and such a big living person were still in this room, he would definitely be found.
Xiao Ran also joined the search, but this time, there was still no trace of the hostages.
"Did we make a mistake in inferring that the woman actually lives alone in this house?" Lu Yu stuck out his tongue, looking quite like a tired pug.
Xiao Ran ignored Lu Yu and went straight to the balcony. There was another place that neither she nor Lu Yu had searched, which was the washing machine full of clothes.
Seeing Xiao Ran ignoring him and walking towards the washing machine instead, Lu Yu hurried to follow, but his heart was still full of doubts.
"If there really is this hostage, then she is also a 13-year-old junior high school student, at least about 1.4 to 1.5 meters tall. How could she be hidden in the washing machine..."
Just in the middle of speaking, Lu Yu suddenly stopped talking and his heart beat violently.
Because Xiao Ran, who was standing on the balcony, had already torn away the clothes on the washing machine. The small space of the washing machine was filled strangely by a young body, and her mouth was tightly wrapped with tape several times. This is exactly the hostage they are looking for, Lin Tanying!
However, at this time, Lin Tanying stared at the ceiling with empty eyes, no longer alive.
Su Daqiang probably thought that hiding the little girl in the drum washing machine would be very hidden, so he stuffed her in. Unexpectedly, in the small space, Lin Tanying, whose mouth was covered, was suffocated to death because of difficulty in breathing. .
Lu Yu and Xiao Ran were both silent, for different reasons. Xiao Ran was shocked by Lin Tanying's strange way of death, while Lu Yu felt it was a pity that this beauty that had not fully bloomed had withered so hastily.
"Move her out."
Xiaoran was the first to break the silence and walked out of 2801 after leaving these words.
Lu Yu, who stayed behind, mechanically took Lin Tanying's body out of the washing machine and gently placed it on the sofa in the living room.
He didn't start searching for 2801 like he searched for 2902. He just found the key to the door and sat quietly waiting for something.
After a while, Xiao Ran's figure appeared at the door of 2801 again. The difference from before was that there was a half-foot-long wood chip in Xiao Ran's hand. One end of the wood chip was stained with black mucus that had not yet dried.
The two looked at each other and still didn't speak.
Lu Yu took the piece of wood from Xiao Ran's hand and lightly stroked Lin Tanying's forearm.
The sharp wood chips immediately cut open Lin Tanying's skin. Black mucus stained the wound and began to grow into the flesh at a speed visible to the naked eye.
After a while, countless fine black blood vessels were faintly visible under Lin Tanying's pale skin, as if a terrifying monster was about to be born from this weak body.
"Let's go." Lu Yu greeted in a low voice and threw aside the wood chips in his hand.
Xiao Ran looked at the infected corpse in front of him, bit his lip, and unconsciously put his small hand on Lu Yu's big hand.
When the two were about to leave 2801, Lu Yu caught a glimpse of a bottle of Daughter's Red on the top of the wine cabinet at the door, so he stopped and took it down.
After the door was carefully locked, Lu Yu threw the key in his hand downstairs, took Xiao Ran and left 2801.
The wood chips Xiao Ran took were stained with the bodily fluids of the big-backed zombie. Lu Yu understood that the residue on them could give Lin Tanying a chance for revenge.
Not long after Lu Yu and Xiao Ran left, Su Daqiang woke up.
When Su Daqiang regained consciousness, the first thing he felt was the sharp pain in his head, and then there was the stench that could not be dissipated for a long time. It kept getting into his nose, making his head, which had just woken up, feel a little dizzy again. Feeling groggy.
"Damn, I was unexpectedly attacked by that kid!" Su Daqiang shook his head and twisted on the chair like an ugly fat maggot.
But Lu Yu's rope was tied very tightly and he couldn't break free at all. Su Daqiang struggled for a while and let out an angry roar.
Just when Su Daqiang was panting and ready to take a rest and think of a solution, he suddenly saw Lin Tanying lying on the sofa.
Didn't he hide her in the washing machine? Why is she lying on the sofa now?
A bad premonition arose from the bottom of Su Daqiang's heart, and he began to struggle desperately, trying to break free from the restraints on his body, but everything was in vain.
As time passed by, Lin Tanying's thin body began to move. At first, it was the twitching of fingers and toes, followed by unconscious movements of limbs and head. Finally, Su Daqiang waited for that sound A terrifying roar.
"Uh-huh!" The infected Lin Tanying seemed to be an awakened beast. She suddenly turned over from the sofa and rushed towards Su Daqiang to bite him!
"Help! Ah! Help!" Hearing the heart-rending screams coming from downstairs, Lu Yu finally put his uneasy heart back into his stomach, opened the daughter's red in his hand, and raised his head He took a swig.
Nerhong is a kind of yellow wine. Although Lu Yu is not good at wine, he has been lucky enough to taste it twice. It is a rich-tasting wine that combines six flavors: sweet, sour, bitter, pungent, fresh and astringent. It is soft and mellow in the mouth, slightly spicy and bitter, but as soon as the wine is drunk, endless sweetness reverberates in the mouth, leaving people with endless aftertaste.
The daughter Hong in his hand was obviously a dowry prepared by the head of household 2801 for his daughter. There is a custom in the Lu Yu family. It is said that a jar of rice wine is buried when the daughter is born. On the day when the daughter gets married at the age of eighteen, the jar is opened and given to guests to drink. This is called daughter's red wine.
But now the wine he drank could not taste the slightest sweetness. Only bitterness and astringency filled the tip of his tongue, making it difficult for him to swallow.
Xiao Ran looked at Lu Yu, who was silent at the table, and stepped forward to grab the small wine jar from Lu Yu's hand. He held it up and took a sip. The spicy taste stimulated her to cough repeatedly. She wiped the wine from the corner of her mouth. Sitting opposite Lu Yu.
The two were silent for a long time.
In the end, Lu Yu was the first to break the silence.
"Don't drink it, don't drink it. This is not Nuerhong. It doesn't taste good at all."
Lu Yu closed the lid and pushed the wine jar aside, and the atmosphere became silent again.
"Tell me, if we had concluded earlier that the bald man was a robber, and if I had chosen to go downstairs earlier instead of just sitting idly by, would Lin Tanying and that child not have died..."
Lu Yu's voice was choked with sobs. Xiao Ran didn't answer Lu Yu's question, but just said lightly.
"People can only do what they are capable of. You have to accept this fact and face it with a positive attitude."
Lu Yu raised his head and met Xiao Ran's beautiful eyes. There was a heart-warming smile on her delicate little face, as well as tears that had not yet been wiped away.
"What are your next plans?" Xiaoran wiped his face casually and asked.
"What else can I plan? Although the food reserve at home is sufficient, it still lacks many necessary resources. I am going to find an opportunity to go out and search." Lu Yu looked at the little Loli in front of him and said solemnly.
"So what do I need to do?"
"You..." Lu Yu was stunned. In fact, he had already noticed that Xiao Ran seemed to be a different person since he woke up from coma. This change is like the soul of an adult controlling the body of a little girl. Xiaoran's words and deeds are no longer as childish as before. Even to a certain extent, such as this robbery incident, Xiaoran's intelligence He also went above and beyond and provided himself with a lot of useful advice.
The little lolita who I thought would be a drag on me has actually become a powerful help to me!
But do you want her to go out with him to search for supplies? That's not enough preparation. As an adult, I don't have the ability to completely protect myself when facing zombies, let alone a 9-year-old girl.
Judging from the current situation, Xiaoran has only improved in intelligence, but her mobility is still the same as that of a 9-year-old girl. If she encounters danger while searching for supplies, there is a high possibility that she will lose her life.
After thinking for a while, Lu Yu finally came to his conclusion.
"You need weapons!"
