Lang Hua and Mu Zhou walked very fast, and after half an hour they approached the destination marked by Mu Zhou.
This is an old-fashioned residential area in District 2 of Shashi. The crowded streets are filled with crashed and scrapped cars, as well as paper scraps, garbage, glass and other debris. On both sides of the street are multi-story residential buildings with red cornices. There is yellow paint on the walls, but most of it has peeled off. Under each anti-theft window, there are long and thin dark red rust stains, which cover half of the wall along the railings, making the building look very dilapidated.
Turning around an intersection, you will find a landscaped square in the center of the community, with flower beds, trees, activity equipment, and a spacious ground paved with granite. There are some ventilation shafts protruding from the ground around the square, and Lang Hua understood a little after seeing them.
Muzhou looked around and said, "We have to go around from the back. We usually live here."
As expected, this is a civil air defense shelter for the community and also doubles as an underground parking garage during peacetime.
The two walked around to the west of the square and saw the entrance to the underground parking lot, with the "Zhanshan Square Covering Project" standing on the side. Starting from the main road of the community, we walked down a twenty-meter-long downward slope and slowly entered the underground area. The two of them had rough non-slip ground under their feet, and a thick glass awning above their heads. They didn't walk long before they found that the way ahead was blocked by piles of obstacles.
Lang Hua said nothing and turned to look at Mu Zhou.
Muzhou smiled sheepishly: "We did this, mainly for safety."
"It's good. Safety comes first."
Lang Hua nodded in agreement. You must know that in his previous life, he had done more cautious things, so he was no longer surprised by this.
For example, Lang Hua once smeared the rotting and smelly internal organs of black corpses all over his body, just to ensure that he would not be blocked by black corpses when he was on his way, or he would sleep or eat directly among the corpses. The world has changed. If a person is not strong enough, he must learn how to become a mouse if he wants to survive. After all, even in the 22nd century with advanced technology, Lang Hua had never heard of any place where rats were completely extinct. Learning to embrace sewers and garbage dumps is one of the reasons why rats are so tenacious.
"Are we going to climb over?" Facing the mountain-like pile of debris, Lang Hua cast out his doubts.
"No, no, we've left a small door here."
Muzhou said, finding a wardrobe in the lower left corner of the clutter, opening the door and walking in. Lang Hua took a closer look and found that they had installed an anti-theft lock on the cabinet door, and the back of the cabinet had been opened to make another door. In this way, a secret passage open only to intelligent life was formed under the debris. The black corpse wants to break through here, unless the zombie tide breaks through here, of course, this possibility is very low.
"What's wrong?"
As soon as he entered the closet, Lang Hua noticed that Mu Zhou's body stiffened. He looked up and saw that the other door in the closet was open.
"They must be here." Muzhou took a deep breath and began to check his equipment, although he only had an iron rod and a knife.
Lang Hua didn't say much and quietly followed Mu Zhou into the underground garage. The two people went around and around, passing through several half-open fire shutter doors, and finally approached the hiding place Muzhou said, which was a ventilator room in the basement. Muzhou was walking in a hurry along the way, but he neither ran nor spoke, and never made too much noise. It was obvious that he had been suppressing his emotions.
As soon as he walked in, Lang Hua heard someone talking.
"Hey, have you thought about it? Isn't it better to hang out with our boss than to suffer from hunger here?"
"Just think about it carefully, do you really think we are willing to ask you to be a burden?"
Then there was a man's voice: "Since it is voluntary, then please leave. We are willing to find food by ourselves."
"Fuck, you are so fucking shameless, right?"
The man's refusal seemed to anger the other party, but then a girl shouted in a high voice: "You always come to steal our food, and this time you want us to work for you for free. Isn't it lawless?" ?”
"It's my sister." Mu Zhou gritted his teeth and clenched the fruit knife.
He looked at Lang Hua for help, but the other party didn't respond, as if he was watching a show that had nothing to do with him. There was no other way, Muzhuo had to come up with his own ideas. But he is just a first-level ability user who is not worthy of the name. How can he ensure that he can defeat those two second-level evolvers?
Sneak attack, only sneak attack. At that moment Muzhou knew that only by attacking him sneakily would he have a chance to win. And the best time is when these two people walk out of this door.
It's a pity that God's calculations are not as good as those of humans. Just as Mu Zhou was waiting for the opportunity, the quarrel in the room became fierce.
"Wang Fa? It's really funny."
"Little sister, don't you know what time it is now? We are the king's method, and our fists are the king's method!"
"I'm sorry, please leave. You are not welcome here!" Lang Hua's eyesight was very good. He saw a man in his thirties standing between the girl and the two gangsters in the darkness.
"Hey, buddy. I'm not telling you to think about your wife and children before you talk to me. You made us angry because of this little girl. If we get into a fight later and accidentally hurt the two of them, don't regret it!"
"Scum, scum, if my brother and Luoyang brother were here, how dare you be so arrogant!"
"Fuck, little girl, you must be impatient. Don't say they are not here, they are here, three late first-order rookies, why don't I take care of them if I want to?"
"Boy, what nonsense are you talking to them? You stop this man, I'm going to give this girl a try today and let her know what will happen if she talks to a man like this!"
"It's easy to say, but you have to leave the mother-daughter couple to me to enjoy themselves first."
"Two beasts, I will fight you."
The man and the girl took the initiative and started fighting with the two gangsters, but they were obviously no match for those two men.
At the same time, a shadow rushed past Lang Hua. It was Mu Zhou. He said nothing the whole time. He identified the person who was attacking his sister, got close and stabbed the opponent in the waist with a knife.
"Crack." After the sword pierced the fabric of the clothing, it seemed to have hit a hard board and could no longer move forward.
"It's a bulletproof vest." Mu Zhou lost the first move, but the momentum of running along the way also knocked the opponent to the ground.
"Damn it, you kid is hiding." The other party cursed, but Muzhou quickly attacked again.
"Be calm and careful, but you are willing to take risks for your family and friends, which is a bit interesting."
Lang Hua looked at Mu Zhou's back with admiration, and suddenly an afterimage flashed across his body. The next moment, he came behind another gangster and swept his legs. The unlucky guy flew out in the air under the gaze of others, and was photographed on the opposite wall as if he had been hit by a truck.
"Ah! You...ahem...who are you?" This man's yellow teeth were smashed into pieces by the concrete wall, and his mouth was full of blood and he couldn't speak completely. He slumped against the wall like a dead fish and fainted after saying this.
"Bang."
With another sweeping kick, the gangster fighting Muzhou also followed in the footsteps of his companions.
"Muzi, Muzi, how are you?" Muzhou looked nervously at his sister, fearing that she might be injured. According to Mu Zhou, Muzi is the little girl’s nickname, and her given name is Muzi.
"Brother, I'm fine. You came back at the right time." Mu Zi looked at Lang Hua with bright eyes, "Where did you find this superman? He is so handsome."
Facing this girl who was only one year older than Yang Xiaoxiao, Lang Huawen smiled and said: "Thank you brother, he saved you."
Mu Zhou looked at Lang Hua solemnly and said: "Thank you, uh..."
To be honest, Muzhou didn't expect Lang Hua to take action.
"My name is Lang Hua."
"Oh, thank you, Brother Lang."
"It's nothing, I always respect brave people." Lang Hua also looked at the man, "And you, the first-level mid-level dare to challenge the second-level mid-level, you are a man."
"For the family." The man smiled bitterly and introduced behind him, "Thanks to you, brother Lang Hua. My name is Qian Ming, and these are my lover Li Lan and my daughter Qian Xue'er."
The three members of their family were wearing the same style of down jackets. The girl had big eyes and looked like she was only 12 years old.
While several people were chatting, someone wanted to ruin the scenery.
"Don't be too complacent. Our boss is a strong man with more than ten brothers under his command. If you don't want to die, hurry up...ah..."
Lang Hua walked forward expressionlessly, raised his foot and stepped hard on the opponent's bloody left hand.
"You are very noisy, you know that?" Lang Hua looked at him as if he were looking at a dead person.
"You're not unconscious?" Lang Hua let go of the domain and felt it. "Is it the middle stage of the second level? It seems to be stronger than expected. Huh? Ghost man?"
Lang Hua suddenly narrowed his eyes. What he saw was a pair of eyes covered with blue and purple veins on a pale face.
"Have you ever eaten human flesh?"
"I...I don't know what you're talking about."
Lang Hua kicked another person awake again, and once again discovered the eye characteristics unique to the aberrant body. He breathed a sigh of relief and thought - it seems this is not an exception.
"What are you doing? Don't even think about it if you offend us! My boss is a second-level peak expert. If you touch us, we will die!"
The man who had just woken up became very angry when he saw Lang Hua. He didn't care about his companions winking at him and kept cursing.
"boom."
The back of his head suddenly exploded, and the red and white mixture sprayed all over the wall. Opposite the dead body was Lang Hua, who instantly raised his hand and fired, with a cold expression and a hint of boredom.
"I told you, you guys are noisy."
"Brother...brother, don't kill me, I will say anything..." The other person was already frightened. He was a mere second-level evolver who could not withstand the power of bullets.
"Bang." Another shot.
"Thank you for the information, that's enough." Lang Hua raised his eyebrows at the two corpses and said, "They are just people who cannibalize themselves to reach the second level of the peak."
"ah--"
The few people behind them had never seen such a scene before. Li Lan and her daughter were so frightened that they screamed. Although Muzhou and Qian Ming were fine, they kept their loved ones closely behind them and watched Lang Hua and the gun in his hand warily.
"Lang...brother." Mu Zhou stuttered.
"What's going on, who's shooting?"
"Muzhou, Muzi, where are you?"
At this time, two people came nearby. They were companions who went out to collect supplies like Muzhou. There is a man and a woman. The man is named Luoyang. He has a round head and a round face and is wearing a thick and wide black and green firefighting suit. The woman is named Lin Shanshan. She wears glasses, a ponytail, sportswear, and carries a flat black mountaineering bag behind her back.
Seeing the dead body and Lang Hua holding a pistol, Luoyang picked up a long-handled fire axe, while Lin Shanshan held a steel bat. Although they still didn't understand the situation, Luoyang and Lin Shanshan still surrounded Lang Hua in a tacit understanding, ready to start a fight if they disagreed.
"Brother Luoyang, Sister Shanshan, don't fight, he saved us." Mu Zi hurriedly pressed down the weapons of the two of them. It seemed that he had recovered from the shock just now, but he called Lang Huagao Have a look.
"What's going on?" Lin Shanshan asked.
"These two guys came to blackmail us while you were away, and they even wanted to do something to me and Sister Li Lan..." Mu Zi hurriedly told what happened.
"Sorry." Luoyang said as he put away his long axe.
Lang Hua shrugged and said, "No problem."
Muzhou was relieved when he saw this. He knew how powerful Lang Hua was. It would be best if Luoyang and Shanshan didn't suffer.
It turned out that the two people from Luoyang had just returned and found that the door lock had been opened, so they hurried to the ventilation room, but they heard gunshots on the way and thought it was Muzhou and the others who had an accident.
"What, was this outing not going well? Are you injured?" Li Lan couldn't help but feel worried when she saw that the backpacks behind the two of them were flat.
Luoyang said: "We are fine, but there has been a lot of movement of black corpses gathering in groups recently, so there is no gain this time."
"It's good that everyone is fine." Mu Zhou comforted.
"Have you ever thought about going to Langya City Base?" Lang Hua was a little confused.
"What base?" Qian Ming asked.
"There is an evacuation base organized by people on Fengwei Mountain in the southwest of Shashi. Have you never heard the broadcast?"
"Broadcast..." Qian Ming said sheepishly, "This is underground and the signal is not very good..."
"Is it safe there?" Li Lan asked.
Lang Hua said honestly: "It's better than staying here and being intercepted and eaten alive by the corpses."
At this time, Luoyang and Muzhou were working together to move the two corpses. Qian Ming sighed when he saw them.
"Brother Lang Hua, these two people were tied up, why did you still shoot..."
"They are aberrations and have mutated after eating human flesh. Otherwise, how could they be so much stronger than ordinary second-level ones?" Lang Hua thought about it and then understood, "You haven't seen the 'prophecy posts' on the Internet."
"What...prophecy post?"
"Forget it, they are no longer human beings. If you don't want to be eaten, you'd better stay away from these guys." Lang Hua's eyes suddenly became sharp, "Of course, if you also eat human flesh, I There will be no mercy either."
According to Lang Hua's words, Muzhou and the two men did find characteristics on the corpse that were different from ordinary evolvers. Mu Zhou was stunned for a moment.
Luoyang probed: "Zhouzi, can Yuting..."
"Who is Yuting?"
"My previous girlfriend." Mu Zhou said coldly.
Qian Ming rambled: "There were originally eight people here. Ever since those people came, Yu Ting went there voluntarily..."
Mu Zi's mood suddenly became a little excited: "Why are you mentioning that stinky woman? She is already engaged to my brother, and she went there to flatter her just for a few pieces of bread. My brother and her have been together for ten years in vain..."
"That's enough!" Mu Zhou said angrily.
Lang Hua looked at Mu Zhou and felt somewhat clear for a moment. Mu Zhou, Mu Zhou, is this your selfish intention?
"You want her to come back, so you recruited me to help?"
"Yes, I just want to prove that I can make this team stronger."
"I can help you fulfill this wish, but you must also be mentally prepared for the worse."
Looking at Lang Hua, Mu Zhou asked, "What do you mean?"
"It's nothing. You probably don't completely believe me about the aberrants, so we might as well go there now. Otherwise, when the other party finds out that two people are missing, you won't be able to escape the involvement."
"You want to fight a tiger up the mountain?" Luoyang said solemnly.
Lang Hua smiled after hearing this: "What a tiger, it's just a hyena nest. But do you dare to go together?"
"Why don't you dare?"
"I'll go too!" Mu Zi also shouted.
Muzhou scolded: "What are you going for? Are you going to die?"
Perhaps sensing that he was losing control of his emotions, Mu Zhou immediately walked to his sister, touched her hair and gently persuaded her: "Be good, you and Brother Ming stay, otherwise I won't worry."
Mu Zi also said with red eyes: "I understand, Mu Zhou, you have to pay attention to your safety."
"Don't worry," Mu Zhou took a deep breath, "If she is still alive, I will make an end with her."
He looked at Lin Shanshan, who nodded tacitly: "Brother Ming and I are staying to protect them, so you can go with peace of mind."
Lin Shanshan was Muzhou's colleague before the disaster, and she was one of the few people he could trust.
"gone."
Lang Hua, Luoyang, and Muzhou left the shelter one after another and ran towards a commercial building in the northeast.
