"It's up to you, Brother Hua."
The white beam of light reflected on the closed fire door. Lu Yu raised his eyebrows and turned his gaze to Zhang Tiehua behind him.
"What's wrong with this door?"
Faced with the situation in front of him, Zhang Tiehua was naturally not clear at all. Seeing that the other party was so abnormal, he couldn't help but feel vigilant in his heart.
"Don't be too nervous. This door is just locked by me from the inside. You just need to break it open..."
Lu Yu said calmly.
The closed fire door in front of them was the one that Ma Long and Zhang Jike passed through when they went to Residential Building No. 7.
At that time, two soldiers were seriously injured, so Lu Yu and Xiao Ran chose the relatively safe path of the underground garage on their way back.
After retreating into the building, Lu Yu, who was in charge of the rear, asked Xiao Ran to lock the fire door again to prevent zombies from using it as an entrance to enter the residential building that had been designated as a safe zone.
"Did you lock this door? Now you want me to break it open?"
After hearing Lu Yu's explanation, the doubts on Zhang Tiehua's face not only did not subside, but became more intense.
Although the young man in front of him with sharp angles at the corners of his eyes and the tip of his nose was smiling convincingly, considering the current situation, it was difficult for Zhang Tiehua to believe him.
Because the other party was too calm, as if everything was under control, and he himself was the opponent's pawn, following Lu Yubu's good route into the abyss little by little.
"Yes, you look obviously stronger than me, even though you are not as tall as me."
Shrugging his shoulders, the smile on Lu Yu's face disappeared and returned to his original dull look.
The lack of empathy made it impossible for Lu Yu to immediately judge the other person's inner thoughts from their expressions, and could only make logical deductions based on factual calibration.
"It does seem so..."
Glancing sideways at Xiao Ran who was standing next to him, Zhang Tiehua murmured in a low voice and stepped forward to check the fire door.
Just as Lu Yu said, through the gap between the two iron doors, Zhang Tiehua clearly saw the lock hanging on the door under the flashlight beam.
This lock is not a large padlock specially used to lock doors. It is only the size of a baby's fist, and the lock rod on it is also pitifully thin. You can tell at a glance that it is not original.
"Maybe the fire door was really locked by Lu Yu. This guy lives in the Lanyue Garden Community. When he moved the food that night, he also moved it into this building. The details are all correct..."
Zhang Tiehua's lips were tightly closed. He looked at the situation behind the fire door through the crack in the door and recalled it carefully in his heart.
"But wasn't the food and water moved to the 29th floor? Why does Lu Yu now say that his family lives on the second floor..."
Memories slowly surfaced. Except for some differences between the floors in Lu Yu's words and Zhang Tiehua's impression, the rest of the details were consistent.
"Brother Hua, stop looking and rush away. Our time is not precious."
While Zhang Tiehua was thinking hard, Lu Yu's urging voice came from behind again.
"I know, it is indeed locked with a small lock inside. If you hit it a few times, it should be able to open it."
"But before I hit you, I still have to ask one more question."
Zhang Tiehua turned his head and stared directly at the young man behind him.
"There won't be any monsters here, right?"
As soon as these words came out, Zhang Tiehua could clearly detect that Lu Yu's expressionless poker face twitched, and then an embarrassed smile appeared on the young man's face.
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Lu Yu scratched his long hair and said.
"It's hard to say whether there are monsters inside. Although I have cleaned up this residential building before, the situation in the building changed after the accident. When Xiaoran and I escaped, we were still attacked by several people. There are only zombies chasing away..."
Having said this, Lu Yu turned to look at Xiao Ran, and saw Xiao Loli also nodded, expressing her approval of Lu Yu's statement.
"Are you not sure? That means you don't know if a monster will attack me after I open the door?"
To be honest, Zhang Tiehua had actually imagined Lu Yu's reaction many times in his mind, but the other party's truth was unexpected.
Such a frank meeting made Zhang Tiehua start to struggle.
At first, he thought Lu Yu had set a trap to trap him, but unexpectedly, the other party not only had no intention of trapping him, but also laid out all the situations in detail, allowing him to make his own choice.
If he hits the door, Zhang Tiehua will have to bear the unknown possibility.
If there was that kind of bloodthirsty, flesh-eating zombie monster inside, he would be the first to suffer a frontal attack.
But Zhang Tiehua insisted not to knock on the door, so the only candidate to hit the door was Lu Yu.
After all, Xiaoran looks only nine years old, and is still a little girl, so it is impossible for her to hit the door.
Lu Yu's body looks thin and his face is fair. At first glance, he looks like a powerless office worker before the disaster.
"First Evolution"
If a young man of this stature were to knock the door open, Lu Yu would probably have to break two of his bones before the door opened.
"Is there any other way?"
Zhang Tiehua, who was hesitant, asked. He was really unwilling to take risks. His sixth sense told him that there was no safety behind the fire door.
"Yes, every residential building has two entrances to the basement, and the other one is at the front."
As he spoke, Lu Yu shined his flashlight forward.
Looking along the wall, there was indeed a fire door that was also closed at the corner not far away.
"If I remember correctly, the entrance on the other side should also be locked, right Xiaoran?"
With his index finger pressed between his lips, Lu Yu did not look at Zhang Tiehua, but thought about it and answered.
"Yes, the other side is also locked, with a big padlock."
Xiaoran nodded, his black and blue pupils flashing with convincing light.
"I'll go take a look, you two wait for me."
Holding the last trace of doubt, Zhang Tiehua raised his legs and left. After a few dozen seconds, the Northeastern man returned to the two of them in frustration.
"It's really locked. The fire door over there is harder to open than the one in front of you."
Zhang Tiehua sighed. He had already glimpsed the appearance of the padlock through the crack in the door. Compared with the lock here the size of a baby's fist, the padlock on the other door was simply huge.
However, this also completely confirmed that what Lu Yu and others said was not a lie. Such an unmatched padlock looked like a temporary replacement found at home.
The two fire doors now were probably locked by Lu Yu and Xiao Ran.
"Okay, you guys stand back and I'll knock on the door."
Now that the doubts in his heart have been dispelled by the facts, Zhang Tiehua is not a nagging person.
The heavy metal roller was handed over to Lu Yu's hands. The Northeastern man did a chest expansion exercise and moved his shoulders.
After retreating to a suitable distance, Zhang Tiehua's footsteps sank, and his strong body slammed into the fire door like a train at full speed.
"Bang!"
The dull sound echoed in the empty underground parking lot, making Yu Libo, who was huddled in the car in the distance, tremble all over.
"Huh? What is this sound? Is there a monster?"
Yu Libo, who was originally frightened, murmured in fear, and suddenly seemed to think of something important, and quickly put out the flashlight in his hand.
"If there really is a monster, I probably won't be discovered if I don't turn on the flashlight..."
Comforting himself in a low voice with a trembling voice, Yu Libo shrank his body tighter...
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"Fuck, this lock doesn't look big, it's quite strong."
After rubbing his painful shoulders, Zhang Tiehua took two steps back.
The impact just now did not knock the fire door open, but only caused the lock on the door to become slightly loose.
But as long as he hits it again, he will definitely be able to knock it away.
"Be careful, there might be real zombies inside..."
Looking at Zhang Tiehua who was a little unconvinced, Lu Yu said calmly.
But Zhang Tiehua didn't even look at Lu Yu. He just took a deep breath, exerted force on his feet again, and charged forward like a bull.
"Bang!"
A louder impact than before came from the fire door. This time the impact obviously had an effect. The lock that prevented the door from opening has been deformed, and the gap between the two doors has also become much wider.
But at this moment, a pale and withered arm stretched out from the door without any warning, scratching at the air.
Fortunately, Zhang Tiehua reacted in time and dodged sideways, so he was not scratched by the arm.
"Grandma, you, the crow's mouth, really got it right. There are really zombies in there..."
You don't need to look carefully to guess that the thing that can reach out from the door at this moment is definitely not a friendly existence.
Compared to the fear on Zhang Tiehua's face, Lu Yu and Xiao Ran narrowed their eyes and shined their flashlights on the arm sticking out of the door.
"This should be a secondary infected body, not a mutated zombie. It's okay."
After watching for a while, Lu Yu glanced at the little loli, then nodded.
"Secondary infected bodies? Mutated zombies? What the hell are these..."
Zhang Tiehua didn't understand what Lu Yu wanted to express and asked doubtfully.
"Ah, I'll explain this to you when I'm free. You just need to know that the zombies in the door are no different from the ones you dealt with before. They are all scum with a combat power of five."
"Just be careful not to get caught."
Lu Yu's explanation made Zhang Tiehua somewhat confused, but this did not prevent him from continuing to knock on the door.
"Give me the stick. Since it's a monster, break the claws first."
After asking for the metal roller in Lu Yu's hand with an expressionless face, Zhang Tiehua walked quickly to the fire door. Looking at the arms that were still grabbing in the air, a look of cruelty appeared on his face.
The stick was raised, then quickly dropped.
The sound of broken bones was heard, and the arm that was waving and scratching one second became a stump connected only by muscles in the next second.
And Zhang Tiehua, the instigator of all this, just leaned the metal roller against the wall nonchalantly, raised his foot and kicked hard towards the door...
