"Break of dawn!" Tie Zhu, who was guarding the first line of defense, recognized the boy who was wrapped up tightly and covered with snow. He walked over without hesitation and asked simply, "How much more is left?"
"Thirty short." Li Xiao himself was a little speechless, so he quickly added, "If it makes you embarrassed, forget it, I have another place to go."
In the final analysis, he and Tie Zhu could only be considered acquaintances, and the small favors they usually received from scavenging were not worthy of Tie Zhu's full help.
Thirty cents is not a small amount for Baoding. According to Dawn, Baoding's monthly salary is only two hundred cents. Although the rent can be reduced or exempted, Tiezhu still has a family to support and does not have much money.
"Ah?" Tie Zhu's black scarf frowned, but instead of following Li Xiao's words and going down the steps, he said, "Wait for me."
Li Xiao was in a state of confusion, watching Tie Zhu and other Baoding muttering, and couldn't help but look back. If it didn't work, he quickly retreated, but he realized that something was wrong. More and more people gathered behind him.
Some people shouted "I have money, let me pass quickly", but it aroused jealousy and made it difficult to move forward.
Another person exclaimed: "Who stole my money? Brother Baoding will uphold justice..."
But now and then, the guards don't dare to take out the iron thorns. Who will enforce the law against the thieves?
Li Xiao felt more and more uncomfortable. He quickly looked at Tie Zhu and saw that he was handing a package of things to the ten-man leader and pointed to his side.
"You can come in!" The ten-man leader shouted at Dawn.
Li Xiao was overjoyed. He didn't expect that Tie Zhu would really treat him as a friend and actually borrow money from his colleagues for him. He was extremely moved. It was the first time he felt the existence of friendship after growing up. It turned out that in this cold world, It’s not always that cold.
He quickly squeezed through the crowd at the front. Although it was difficult, he ignored it and found every opportunity.
At the small opening of the iron thorns, which could only allow one person to enter with a small waist, two guards crossed their arms with their long spears. When dawn came over, they raised their sharp spear points and let him in.
The people behind him became agitated: "Why did you let him in... He didn't pay the money..."
This is the ugliness of human nature. If I am not good, you should not think well either. If there is a slight flaw, you will insist on it. If you want to die together, no one can survive.
The ten people yelled, raised the small bag in their hands and shook it, and there was a crisp sound of copper plates colliding inside: "He has a friend to help him pay it. If you have friends, you can also pay it for you..."
There was silence for a moment. The word friend was already unfamiliar in the hearts of the refugees, but it did not prevent them from uniting together for a certain opportunity and bursting out with astonishing destructive power.
Li Xiao didn't say anything. He glanced at Tie Zhu with great gratitude and walked inside without looking back. He could feel the envy, jealousy, hatred, and despair in Qi Bei's eyes.
The silence behind him was only temporary. Watching Dawn successfully pass through the three lines of defense, an unknown refugee shouted: "Come on, everyone, do you want to stay here to die?"
Like a spark falling in a pile of firecrackers, the desperate people finally broke out. They all waved their long and short weapons and rushed towards the iron thorns, intending to force their way through!
"Seeking death!" Seeing this, the ten-man leader snorted coldly and gave an order, "Seal the pass and respond to the enemy!"
The two guards guarding the small entrance immediately pulled down the iron thorns rolled up above and sealed the entrance. The other guards on the first line of defense simultaneously raised their spears and stabbed out the iron thorns, forming a hedgehog-like defense with Juma.
But this alone was not enough to deter the revolting people. The ten people had cold eyes and suddenly shouted: "Fire arrows!"
At dawn, he had already set foot on the Ghost Market Street. He had just breathed a sigh of relief when he heard bursts of mechanical sounds from the roofs on both sides of the road. He looked back in shock and saw arrows raining down, killing those closest to the iron thorns. The people fell to the ground, bleeding like a stream, staining the snow red. Many of them were not completely dead. They had several arrows in their bodies and were nailed to the ground. They were still groaning and struggling. Their condition was very miserable.
This is the power of the bed crossbow, so terrifying.
"Stop!" The ten men raised their hands again to stop the movement, and the rain of arrows stopped.
The people who tried to riot were frightened and did not dare to move forward.
The ten chiefs snorted coldly: "Those who have money will be allowed to pay, and those who have no money, I advise you to run for your lives as soon as possible. This batch of corpses is enough to cause a zombie apocalypse."
What is corpse violence? Generally, the smell of a large amount of blood is overflowing, attracting at least hundreds of corpse demons. Their momentum is like a tide, and their damage is like locusts. Wherever they pass, no humans or animals remain, only bones are left.
Generally speaking, zombie outbreaks occur in winter, when the weather is cold and the ground is freezing. Most animals hibernate. People also make sufficient reserves in advance and do not have to go out for at least two or three months. This is called "winter weather".
Therefore, winter has become the most difficult time for zombies. Although they are walking corpses, they still have the instinct to eat. In other seasons, they can still prey on wild animals. However, when winter comes, animals are hard to find, so they can only move their targets to human settlements. When a large number of corpse demons gather together, it is easy to form a corpse storm.
The big city has a thick and towering city wall, which can be called a copper wall and an iron wall, and it remains unmoved in the face of the impact of the zombies.
And those human settlements outside the big cities will face the looting of zombies every winter, and a large number of people will die.
But humans are a relatively smart race and are good at summing up experiences and lessons from failures.
For example, a town with strict surveillance and complete defenses like the Ghost City can always break up the zombie outbreak as soon as it emerges and prevent it from forming, thus avoiding catastrophes again and again.
The Zombie group, which did not receive food supplements, became thinner and thinner until they were skinny and bones, but this did not affect their mobility and lethality. This was a major feature that was very different from human beings.
Liao Xiao's luck was relatively good. During the years of escaping alone, he didn't encounter a single zombie apocalypse. After arriving at the ghost market, he got shelter again, but he still never saw a complete zombie apocalypse.
Therefore, he had no intuitive fear of corpse violence, especially after entering the safe streets of the ghost market. With the idea that "other people's life and death is none of my business", he wanted to stay and see how corpse violence was caused.
However, his idea came to nothing. A Baoding who was serving as a guide on the roadside yelled: "That kid, hurry up and report to the gambling house!"
Ghost Market Street is a public place that can accommodate a large number of people. Apart from gambling houses, there is only an arena.
However, the arena is open-air and the gambling house is indoors, making it a suitable place to receive asylum seekers.
At dawn, he finally looked back in the direction of the west gate and saw that the people gathered quickly dissipated. Since they couldn't clear the level and it might lead to a zombie apocalypse, no one was willing to wait to die.
Cats have catwalks, and dogs have dogwalks. Next, I am afraid that the rich households will suffer. Everyone can see that Baoding is clinging to the streets of the ghost market, unable to get out, and the safety of the tile-roofed area is no longer guaranteed.
Li Xiao gloated at the misfortunes of those rich people. It was better to have a good friend than to have money. He was destined to be a friend like Tiezhu for the rest of his life.
He walked easily on the almost deserted ghost market street, and the shops on both sides were closed.
It was only at dawn that I noticed that there was only a thin layer of snow on the street. I couldn't help but look up and saw that it was still snowing all over the sky with no sign of weakening. Only the snowflakes above the street were sparse, as if they were being swept up by a wave from below. The air flow disperses.
There has been a drought for thirty years, strange things have happened every year, and there are so many monsters. It is no longer strange at dawn, and there is no fluctuation in my heart. I pass by the restaurants and Lan Kwai Fong that are also closed, and the gambling house is right in front of me.
