"Brother Hu, we withdraw!"
Staring blankly at the big hand reaching through the bottom of the car, Hu Xiaodong was slightly stunned. It was obvious that his tight nerves prevented him from reacting to what was happening outside.
But when Wu Chao's simple and worried face appeared behind his eyes, all doubts turned into nothing.
"OK, let's do it, brother!" With the help of Wu Chao's right hand, Hu Xiaodong kicked his legs and slid out from under the car.
Due to being under the dark car shielded by the corpses for a long time, Hu Xiaodong, who had just regained his sight, was not used to the dazzling light from above.
He subconsciously raised his hand to cover his forehead, and blinked his eyebrows twice hard. After relaxing for a while, he immediately asked the question he was most concerned about at the moment: "How is the situation now?"
"Uh~ The supermarket is too small to accommodate all the zombies, so Xiao Tang suggested that we evacuate as soon as possible!" Wu Chao briefly explained the current situation to the confused Hu Xiaodong, and at the same time handed the latter his compound bow. Said: "Hey, this is for you, Brother Hu!"
Wuzi nodded, and Hu Xiaodong glanced back towards the supermarket behind him, and suddenly a bone-deep coldness rushed to the top of his head.
Have you ever seen the shocking scene of refugees grabbing food during a famine? This is the case at the entrance of Melody Supermarket at this time.
It's just that those so-called hungry and helpless refugees turned into today's bloodthirsty zombies, and the frightening shock also evolved into endless fear.
"Withdraw!" Hu Xiaodong blurted out this word without any hesitation.
Just when he settled on the word "withdraw," Acheng's thin figure finally climbed out of the passenger seat.
There is no need for any action plan or any pre-war mobilization. The survivors understand very well that for them, "quickness and caution" will be the key to their life or death.
After everyone adjusted their backpacks and made sure they were secure, Hu Xiaodong once again took the lead and shouldered his responsibility as the pioneer.
As mentioned before, the rules that survivors need to follow when escaping at this moment are nothing more than two key words: quickness and caution.
Quick means that the survivors must run back to the base as quickly as possible.
And being careful requires them to reduce the chance of being discovered by zombies in the supermarket as much as possible.
Taken together, the hatchback seems to be quite contradictory. After all, it needs to be fast and not make any noise. If this is an unobstructed open space, it would be okay.
But right now...
Zombies that appear from time to time blocking the road, and all kinds of abandoned cars scattered in the middle of the road, all become obstacles for the survivors on their way to escape.
It is obviously impossible to overcome these obstacles silently.
Fortunately, Tang Xiaoquan had the foresight to deploy Wu Chao's ingenious trick of using canned fruit to stabilize the attention of the zombies, which greatly reduced the chance of them being reduced.
Even so, it inevitably attracted the attention of some peripheral zombies.
Hu Xiaodong could no longer remember how many zombies he had knocked down along the way. He only remembered that any living creature that appeared in front of him was chopped off by him with one blow.
If a living person appeared in front of him at this moment, he would probably kill him without hesitation.
"Go, go, go, kill, kill, kill!" All words lingering in his mind were similar to bloody and exciting words. Hu Xiaodong seemed like a killing god of war, his red eyes seemed to devour everything in the world.
This is probably the inner nature of human beings when faced with the dilemma of death.
Generally speaking, human nature is divided into two types: wolf nature and sheep nature.
In normal times, these two natures are restricted by secular ethics and are mostly buried inside. However, once encountering a crisis in the apocalypse, this latent nature will be exposed, thus showing two completely different forms of expression.
For example, when a person with a wolfish inner personality faces a threat, he will often turn the threat into motivation and burst out his potential abilities, making him like a hungry wolf that pounces on anything that attempts to harm him.
People with a sheep-like inner character will naturally turn fear into a reason to cower, and prayer and despair become their last resort.
His body was leaning heavily on the billboard at the bus stop. Hu Xiaodong's lungs were wheezing like a blower. The five-foot-long knife was covered with black mucus, which looked particularly special under the reflection of the sun. Horrible.
The short stretch of road was definitely no more than 300 meters in straight line, but for the survivors, it felt as if they had gone through a 10,000-meter marathon and were exhausted.
Wu Chao casually picked up the backpack in his hand. The originally thick body of the bag was now more than half shriveled.
And the reduced space is undoubtedly the canned fruit that he threw away.
Wu Chao was not sure whether it was 5 bottles or 6 bottles, but no matter how much it was, as long as it could keep everyone safe along the way, it would be worth it.
After a short rest of 2 or 3 minutes, the survivors embarked on the journey again.
The scorching sun above the head was still scorching, which made the upper-body-stretched survivors miserable. A large amount of body fluids drained rapidly along the dilated pores. Tang Xiaoquan, who was in poor physical condition, even began to feel dizzy.
It can be seen that water replenishment has become an urgent problem for the survivors, but the crisis-ridden streets are obviously not the place to solve this problem.
After another 20 minutes of stopping and walking, Hu Xiaodong finally led his companions to a car shelter outside the alley without any danger.
Looking at the base so close, everyone felt refreshed, and the wonderful feeling of returning home made their fatigue a little lighter.
However, Hu Xiaodong's joy did not last long. When he saw a few elongated figures emerging from the familiar alley, his thick black eyebrows furrowed involuntarily.
"What's wrong, Brother Hu? Is there anything wrong?" Tang Xiaoquan noticed something strange about Hu Xiaodong. He leaned close to him and asked in a low voice.
Wuzi nodded, Hu Xiaodong stretched out a finger, and then said to the black shadow reflected on the ground: "Did you see that there? There is movement in the alley!"
Indeed, following the direction pointed by Hu Xiaodong, Tang Xiaoquan did find several dark shadows that flickered.
So the question is, what are these black shadows?
people? Zombies? Or is it something else?
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