In Room 2901 of Building 19, Lu Yu, Xiao Ran, and Xu Xiaoxiao were sitting around the dining table.
The dishes and chopsticks on the table have long been cleared away, replaced by a piece of A3-sized white paper with a simple map of the community and its surroundings.
Lu Yu and Xiao Ran were frowning and staring at the map on the table, discussing something non-stop. The pencils in their hands kept writing on the paper, but then crossed it out after a few seconds. Xu Xiaoxiao, on the other hand, looked at the two of them nervously, not daring to make a sound.
"There are only two choices!" Xiao Ran seemed a little depressed. He kept poking the pencil on the paper. The sharp graphite tip was quickly flattened, leaving one ugly mark after another on the paper. of potholes.
"It's really..." Lu Yu looked at the uncrossed words on the paper and stretched.
"What two options?" Xu Xiaoxiao, who had been staying aside without daring to speak, saw that the two of them had finally finished discussing, and curiously approached Xiao Ran.
Now she has understood that her previous good deeds may have caused great disaster. As the initiator of this incident, her current attitude is simply as low as dust, just like a primary school student who made a mistake and wants to make up for it.
"The first one: we leave with limited water and food. The second one: we wait in this room for the other party to come to the door." Xiaoran casually dropped the pencil in his hand on the table, holding his chin in his hands, with a worried look on his face. look.
"If we leave with food, we won't be able to take much with us, not to mention there are so many zombies outside. If we can't save them all, we will be attacked..." Xu Xiaoxiao said to himself.
"You also know that it is dangerous to leave?" Lu Yu said angrily. If the kind-hearted girl in front of him hadn't sent food out regardless of the consequences, the news that his family was well stocked and the number of people was small would not have been leaked so early. , not to mention scratching your head thinking about how to deal with the next situation.
"Then what will happen if you stay at home and wait for the other party to come to your door?" Xu Xiaoxiao was choked by Lu Yu, his face turned red, and he hesitated.
"If you stay at home and wait for the other party to come to your door, you will face two possibilities. The first one: the other party has more people than us and has overwhelming strength. It may have better and more lethal weapons than ours. We Three of them will be directly suppressed or even killed." Xiao Ran paused and glanced at the modified crossbow on the sofa.
"The second possibility is that the opponent's number is about the same as ours, and their weapons and equipment are equally matched by ours. For food, the opponent may offer to cooperate with us and share the food."
When Xu Xiaoxiao heard this, his eyes lit up and he quickly interjected, "Then if it is the second possibility, it would be better if we refused to cooperate. Anyway, we have a lot of food and we have the initiative. At worst, we will have a protracted war with them."
"If we live in a well-protected fortress, it would be a good idea to fight for a long time, but we only live in civilian residences. Do you think the door of Uncle Lu Yu's house can be strong enough to withstand the demolition by brute force? ? Once we refuse to cooperate with the other party and refuse to share food, then the other party will inevitably fight us to the death and use violence to break in when they are short of water and food and dare not go outside to collect supplies. At that time, our Safety will still be at risk.”
"Is it possible that the other party has fewer people than us..." Xu Xiaoxiao seemed to have thought of something, but she swallowed her words mid-sentence, as if she herself felt that this possibility was relatively slim.
"The possibility that the number of people is less than ours is very small. Since the other party can send a man to visit the site, it means that the number of the other party is at least two or more, and if the other party has the intention to inquire about us, it means that they understand that we may There are supplies, I think we were targeted when we came back from collecting supplies from the supermarket two days ago." Xiao Ran didn't care about Xu Xiaoxiao's embarrassment, and still analyzed it in detail, while exchanging glances with Lu Yu.
"Okay, I can't blame you entirely for this. If Xiaoran and I hadn't been targeted when we came back from collecting supplies two days ago, they wouldn't have sent someone to check on the spot. I didn't open the door at first to drive that person away. The reason is also because we are afraid of exposing our actual number of people and supplies."
"In other words, if I didn't open the door and rush out at the beginning, the person checking the spot wouldn't know exactly how many people there are, so he wouldn't dare to act rashly, and we wouldn't have to give out the food for no reason..." Xu Xiaoxiao murmured Talking to himself, he finally understood how stupid his previous kindness was.
"The point is that we don't know where the opponent's stronghold is now. We only know roughly that it's in Building 7. We can't actively ambush. We can only wait for the opponent to come."
Lu Yu's eyes flashed with murderous intent. It was not that he had never thought about annihilating the opponent, but the information he had in hand was really limited, and a hasty ambush would only increase the risk.
"We can only wait for the other party to come to our door, and pray that their number is about the same as ours, otherwise we will really have to evacuate with only some supplies." Looking at the neatly stacked food in the house, in the end of the world, there is sufficient water. Food and food are the most important survival supplies. Xiao Ran felt a pang of pain in his heart when he thought that these things were about to be shared by others.
Just when the three of them were looking sad and helpless, a muffled sound of a heavy object falling to the ground came from the ceiling. Upon hearing the sound, the three of them looked towards the place where the sound came from. At this moment, a shadow quickly passed by the kitchen window and flew towards the distant sky.
"What the hell?" Lu Yu stood up first and looked out the kitchen window. He could vaguely see a huge bird creature with black and white feathers flying into the distance at an unimaginable speed.
"Is it another mutated creature..." Lu Yu was horrified. He had already seen an orange cat the size of a leopard, a self-launching corn cannon, a giant breathing melon in the supermarket, and now he saw an extremely fast flying melon. Giant birds, these phenomena could not help but confirm his suspicion - not only humans were affected by this disaster, but almost all animals and plants should have undergone tremendous changes due to this disaster.
"My mom, what is that? How could there be such a big bird..." Xu Xiaoxiao exclaimed. She had already heard about Lu Yu and Xiao Ran's experience of going to the supermarket to collect supplies. She had already known about the world after the disaster. She had a preliminary understanding of the fact of mutated creatures, but the huge mental impact of seeing a huge bird passing by her with her own eyes still made her open her mouth wide, and she froze in place without daring to move.
Different from Lu Yu and Xu Xiaoxiao, after Xiao Ran saw the giant bird flying away outside the window for the first time, his eyes did not stay there too much, but focused on the muffled sound coming from before. place.
The sound came from the ceiling, and Lu Yu's family lived on the top floor. In other words, the source of the sound was caused by heavy objects falling on the rooftop!
Xiao Ran was thinking rapidly in his mind as he walked quickly to the sofa and grabbed the modified crossbow on it.
"We have to go to the rooftop and take a look." Xiao Ran skillfully loaded the modified crossbow with arrows and shouted to Lu Yu and Xu Xiaoxiao who were standing at the window.
"Rooftop?" Lu Yu and Xu Xiaoxiao recovered from the shock of seeing the giant bird, and then they remembered that when the giant bird flew past, there was a muffled sound coming from above their heads.
"Okay, I'll get ready." Lu Yu immediately understood what Xiao Ran meant, picked up the helmet on the ground, and began to arm himself.
"I can help too!" Seeing Lu Yu and Xiao Ran looking like they were going out to help, Xu Xiaoxiao quickly raised his hands and shouted.
After all, Lu Yu had told her before that he would let her "work" to pay off the food she owed.
"You..." Lu Yu looked Xu Xiaoxiao up and down. The girl's figure remained unchanged, and one word was revealed all over her body - strong!
"Maybe this girl with a hole in her head can really help..." Lu Yu thought to himself, but nodded without any expression on his face.
"You can follow me, follow the instructions and pay attention to safety. Also, put on this down jacket."
Lu Yu briefly explained to Xu Xiaoxiao, then grabbed a black men's down jacket and threw it to the girl in front of him.
"Why are you wearing a down jacket? It's May now, isn't it cold?" The girl looked at the thick clothes in her hands, her face full of doubts and confusion.
"Just put it on, don't push too hard." Lu Yu returned to his previous Lu Bapi appearance, urging impatiently, while glancing at Xu Xiaoxiao's exposed long legs.
Xu Xiaoxiao was wearing a T-shirt and hot pants when he came, and he didn't change them during the time he came to Lu Yu's home.
"The long legs of a muscular girl are indeed very attractive." Lu Yu silently made a mental note and walked towards the bedroom.
As if he felt Lu Yu's gaze, and seemed to be frightened by Lu Yu's rugged appearance, Xu Xiaoxiao immediately put on a down jacket to cover up his strong figure.
When Lu Yu came out of the bedroom, he already had a pair of thick jeans, a thick scarf and a pair of gloves in his hands, which were thrown in front of Xu Xiaoxiao.
"Put them all on, cover everything you can, and don't expose your skin." After saying that, he stopped looking at Xu Xiaoxiao and turned around to check his metal baseball bat.
After a while, the three of them were ready. Lu Yu took the lead, Xiao Ran stood in the middle, and Xu Xiaoxiao stood at the end, and walked out of the door one by one.
Since Lu Yu's family lived on the top floor, all they had to do to get to the rooftop was walk up from the fire escape.
After carefully pushing open the fire door on the rooftop, Lu Yu quietly poked his head out from the crack in the door and looked around.
It was quiet on the rooftop, and there seemed to be no trace of zombies or other creatures.
"I'll go out and take a look first. You guys guard the door for me. If anything goes wrong, just meet me at the door." Lu Yu whispered a few words to the two of them and walked towards the rooftop.
Xiao Ran and Xu Xiaoxiao watched nervously as Lu Yu moved slowly, constantly observing the situation around them.
The sun hung high above his head, and the brightness on the rooftop was a bit dazzling, but for Lu Yu, such a good visual environment was very beneficial to his own safety.
Lu Yu was seen walking step by step, exploring the surrounding corners bit by bit, his movements cautious and slow, as if he would run away at the slightest sign of trouble.
But after checking around, Lu Yu found that the rooftop was surprisingly quiet, and there were no zombies or strange creatures wandering on it.
He breathed a sigh of relief. The only place he hadn't checked yet was behind the water tank in front of him. Lu Yu knew that that location corresponded to his living room, and the abnormal sound he heard earlier should have come from behind that water tank.
When he thought of this, Lu Yu's heart couldn't help but begin to beat violently. The nervousness triggered the secretion of adrenaline, making his breathing begin to quicken.
If someone were standing next to Lu Yu at this time, they would be able to clearly see that on Lu Yu's neck, which was not covered by the scarf, there were densely packed black small blood vessels. Those blood vessels seemed to be alive, and they continued to extend with Lu Yu's heartbeat. , slowly climbed up Lu Yu's chin.
But Lu Yu, who was so focused, didn't notice the changes on his body at all. He just moved his steps slowly, moving forward bit by bit.
Soon, a human leg appeared in Lu Yu's field of vision...
