Seeing the forced smile on Lu Yu's face, Xiao Ran immediately understood what the other person was thinking.
The only escape route in front of me was locked with a padlock. If I wanted to go back to get the key, zombies would block my way.
And even if Lu Yu could kill the zombies in the corridor without any injuries and go upstairs to retrieve the key to unlock the door, the violently shaking residential building would not leave them much time to escape.
The only way is to quickly open the door in front of you.
Only in this way did the two have enough time to escape before the residential building collapsed.
"Is it possible that he planned to tear the padlock off with his bare hands?"
Xiao Ran thought to himself that at such a critical moment, the tacit understanding between her and Lu Yu was surprisingly high.
Without saying too much, the little Loli took a diagonal step and stood between Lu Yu and the fire escape.
"You take care of the door lock, and I'll take care of the zombies behind!"
The childish voice was full of determination. The girl loaded the modified crossbow in her hand and was ready to shoot at any time.
This modified crossbow was grabbed by Lu Yu when he pulled her out of the house. Fortunately, the modified crossbow was placed on the table at the time, and because of its small size, Lu Yu was able to take it out in a hurry.
Otherwise, the two of them would be really defenseless now.
Seeing Xiao Ran suppressing the fear in his heart and standing in front of the fire escape, Lu Yu immediately suppressed the smile on his face, holding the padlock on the door with both hands, exerting all his strength.
But the door lock only bumped against the door frame a few times and made a clanging sound. It was not broken by Lu Yu, and it did not even deform.
The huge strength that he used to fight against the muscle monster disappeared without a trace on Lu Yu. He turned into that ordinary young man when he pulled the door lock. No matter how loud he roared, the steel padlock still did not break at all. sign.
"Ouch!"
The secondary infected body walked out of the fire escape and howled excitedly. It smelled the smell of food, right in front of it.
Driven by instinct, the zombie stretched its arms forward, opened its mouth impatiently, and pounced in the direction of Xiao Ran.
"Whoosh!"
The sound of an arrow cutting through the air came from the modified crossbow. Xiao Ran pulled the trigger without hesitation. The crossbow arrow shot at close range had huge penetrating power and instantly stopped the zombie's forward movement and opened its head. A big hole.
Suffering such trauma, the secondary infected body naturally died. After twitching on the ground a few times, it completely stopped moving.
"Huh, luckily you brought the modified crossbow out..."
Xiao Ran took a breath, subconsciously relaxed her body, and spoke.
But before she could finish her words, intrusive roars came out from the fire escape one after another.
"Ouch!!"
Xiaoran's nerves were tense again, and she heard something. The residential building was no longer a safe zone, but a Shura field full of zombies.
There is more than one zombie in the corridor!
There are only five arrows left in the convertible crossbow.
Due to the relatively short shooting distance of the previous arrow, after piercing the zombie's head, the arrow hit the wall, causing the arrow body to burst and become unusable.
In such a small space, continuing to use a modified crossbow will inevitably cause the loss of crossbow arrows.
When all the remaining five arrows are used up, Xiaoran will be in a helpless and embarrassing situation.
"Did you pull it away? Several more zombies came from behind!"
Xiaoran asked. She didn't look back. She put another arrow on the modified crossbow with her fingers flying, ready to go.
"Um..."
Facing Xiaoran's question, Lu Yu answered with an exhausted shout.
The padlock was still the same padlock, and there was no sign of it being torn open.
Lu Yu even had some doubts about whether the memory of resisting the muscle monster was his hallucination.
"Where did the previous power go? Cut it off!"
Lu Yu was so anxious that big beads of sweat kept falling from his forehead, but the padlock in his hand remained unchanged.
"boom!"
The entire residential building seemed to have been hit by something. The sound of explosions spread rapidly from upstairs along the fire escape, sending up puffs of smoke.
However, this noise is nothing to the zombies moving down the fire escape. They have only one goal, and that is to go downstairs, tear their prey into pieces, and swallow it.
The leader of the zombies had a faint red light in his gray eyes, and the skin on his neck and chest also had regular scale shapes. He must have been able to transform into a soldier-level zombie given time.
It is precisely because of this that after discovering its prey, it ran faster than any secondary infected body and rushed to the front.
Xiao Ran, who was guarding the entrance to the fire escape, naturally could not wait for this zombie in the transformation stage to approach him. After the opponent entered the shooting distance of the crossbow, Xiao Loli decisively pulled the trigger.
The crossbow arrow, carrying the sound of wind, instantly pierced the zombie's open mouth and pierced through the back of its head.
If this kind of injury were placed on those ordinary secondary infected bodies, it would definitely be a one-hit kill situation.
But when it comes to this mutated zombie that is still in the transformation stage, it seems a bit unsightly.
The black mucus in the zombie body quickly filled the entire wound. The attacked zombie staggered on the spot for a while, growling lowly, and planned to attack again.
"Are you okay? I can't stop it anymore!"
Xiaoran screamed, and with even faster speed, another arrow was placed on the modified crossbow, and he shot it towards the mutant zombie's eyebrows with his backhand.
Although the first arrow did not knock down the zombies, the second arrow that followed had an unexpected effect.
The steel arrowhead of the crossbow penetrated deeply into the mutant zombie's head. Driven by the kinetic energy, the already unstable mutant zombie lost its center of gravity and fell backwards.
Behind it were two secondary infected bodies that followed closely. Since they did not yet have the ability to see, these two 'followers' bumped into the mutated zombies that had fallen to the ground, temporarily blocking the path. It's a spacious fire escape.
"Do you believe me when I say the miracle is late?"
A wry smile appeared on Lu Yu's face. He really tried every method, except opening his mouth and biting it with his teeth, but the power in his body just couldn't come out. He seemed to be just an ordinary person, a slightly weak ordinary person.
"How long have you been kidding me?"
In this critical situation, even the little Lolita's immature voice became a bit shrill.
Seeing that the zombies blocking the fire escape were about to struggle to get up and rush towards the two of them, Xiao Ran was heartbroken, put a crossbow arrow on the bow, and held the modified crossbow with one hand.
The other hand held the remaining two
Crossbow arrows, with the arrow pointed downward, serve as daggers in close combat.
The sound of arrows breaking through the air was heard again, and Xiao Ran's target was the mutated zombie that was about to rise from the ground.
The effect of this arrow was not to penetrate the skull as the little Loli had expected, but to rub the skull and hit the hard concrete floor.
The entire crossbow arrow broke apart with a crisp sound and turned into debris all over the ground.
After all, the arrow body is made of furniture wood. Its toughness is very poor and cannot withstand severe impacts.
Blessings never come in pairs, and misfortunes never come singly. However, when Xiaoran's last arrow missed, the entire residential building trembled greatly. Cracks spread rapidly on the wall. The sound of the friction between steel bars and concrete was like the cry of a devil from hell. , announcing the upcoming ending of the two.
Lu Yu in front of the door also noticed the changes in his surroundings. In desperation, he pulled on the padlock more and more, but it was all in vain.
The padlock was not pulled open by the sudden brute force, and the miracle did not happen as Lu Yu imagined.
It seemed that everything had forced the two of them to a dead end, with no room for survival.
Just when Lu Yu felt that he was about to die, the door in front of him suddenly shattered completely.
The glass, metal frame, and even the sturdy padlock in his hand fell apart in an instant and turned into dust on the ground.
This happened so suddenly that Lu Yu didn't react for a moment.
By the time the young man came to his senses, Lu Yu's right hand had been grabbed by Xiao Ran and he was leading him to run outside the residential building.
The sound like the chirping of a swarm of bees filled his eardrums, and Lu Yu could only see an expression of surprise on Xiao Ran's face, and her small mouth kept opening and closing, as if she was celebrating something.
But no sound reached his ears.
"What's happening here!"
Lu Yu was confused. Although he couldn't hear Xiao Ran's words, he still took steps immediately, dodged to avoid the zombie scratching behind him, picked up the little Loli's body, and ran out as if lifeless.
After running for two steps, Lu Yu realized that he heard some kind of loud noise in his ears, and then he suddenly developed tinnitus symptoms.
The road in front of the young man was obscured by shadows, and the sunlight was driven out of this area.
The tall residential buildings in the past are like giants that have lost their lives, rapidly toppling and collapsing.
A large amount of gravel and bricks hit the ground like raindrops. Although Lu Yu ran very fast, he was still inevitably hit by some gravel.
Heart-wrenching pain came from his back. Lu Yu's eyes suddenly darkened, his steps were shaky, and he almost fell to the ground.
Seeing that he was about to lose consciousness, Lu Yu hurriedly bit the tip of his tongue, trying to use this method to cheer himself up.
More severe pain came from the tongue, as if a handful of pepper had been sprinkled on Lu Yu's Tianling. Tears were like water flowing from the gate, instantly pouring out of the young man's eyes.
I don't know if it was because Lu Yu bit down too hard, but the amount of bleeding from the wound on his tongue was extremely large. After being mixed with saliva, and accompanied by the young man's violent breathing, it overflowed between his lips and the corners of his mouth.
"It's so easy to blanch..."
Vulgar words burst out from his mouth, and Lu Yu ran towards the gate of the community with Xiao Ran in his arms like a crazy hen.
Behind the two of them, a figure flashed through the flower bed, quickly climbed over the fence of the community, and disappeared into the empty street...
