walking dead

Lin Tao turned off the walkie-talkie and walked into the basement. Wang Ran hurried over and asked, "How's it going? Are there still many living corpses outside?"

"Not many, seventy or eighty!" Lin Tao turned on the flashlight and walked into the crowd, but Wang Ran was taken aback, and said in surprise, "Seven...seventy or eighty are not too many?"

"It's very rare for me!" Lin Tao smiled indifferently, and said, "It's relatively safe here, I'll go to the development zone to have a look, and we'll talk about it after dawn!"

"I...I'll go with you!" Wang Ran swallowed heavily suddenly, looked at Lin Tao very seriously, and said, "I used to live too poorly, so I have to compensate the students for whatever I say this time. Let me do my best with you!"

"Okay! A man should think like you!" Lin Tao patted Wang Ran on the shoulder in relief, took off the Star Seizing Knife and handed it to him. Wang Ran touched the cold scabbard of the Star Seizing Knife and looked at it. The dark and fine scales asked curiously: "What kind of leather is this scabbard made of? The scales are so big!"

"Hell Ripper!" Lin Tao shrugged his shoulders. Seeing Wang Ran's blank face, he smiled and said, "Go! Believe me, you will never want to meet that kind of thing in your life!"

"En!" Wang Ran nodded solemnly, turned to look at his two underage wives, the faces of the two girls were full of fear, they looked at him very reluctantly, and Wang Ran gently hugged them Jin Huaizhong comforted: "Don't worry, I'll come back as soon as I go, we can no longer live for our small family, the students all need our help, our care, do you understand?"

"Yeah! We'll wait for you!" The older girl nodded with tears in her eyes, and the other one also nodded and said in a sobbing voice, "Come back early!"

"We will definitely be back before dawn!" Lin Tao took out a plastic flashlight from his pocket, pressed it on and handed it to them, saying, "This flashlight can be manually charged, and this walkie-talkie is also given to you. You can contact the people in the opposite library, if there are any emergencies that cannot be dealt with, you can contact them, you two are now monitors, you must take good care of everyone!"

"Understood!" The two girls took the flashlight and the walkie-talkie cautiously. Although Lin Tao saw no danger at all in going to the development zone, it was a great unknown journey for Wang Ran and the girls. It was like parting from life and death, and with red eyes reluctantly followed Lin Tao into the dark pipeline.

……

What's it like to crawl down a long, dark pipe?The answer is, of course, stuffy and hot!Moreover, night has just fallen, and the high temperature scorched by the scorching sun on the ground has not yet receded. Coupled with the damp air in the pipe, Lin Tao has the illusion that he is about to be steamed. Fortunately, he does not have any claustrophobia. Otherwise, crawling in the pipe is simply a kind of torture!

Lin Tao was sweating profusely crawling in front, and Wang Ran followed behind. He probably suffered from long-term malnutrition and had to pay the two little girls "public rations" frequently, so his physical strength could not keep up at all, although he I have been gritting my teeth and persisting, but Lin Tao still has to slow down from time to time and wait for him!

I don’t know how long it took to climb, but the rather cramped cast iron pipe suddenly widened. Lin Tao knocked on the pipe subconsciously, and the material has turned into a thin glass fiber reinforced plastic. Probably this section of pipe has not been used for a long time. A small amount of sediment settled, but a very difficult problem immediately appeared in front of him. The fiberglass pipe in front suddenly split into three, and he didn't know which of the three dark pipes to choose.

Because the pipe widened, the traces left at the bottom of the pipe were quickly buried by the remaining water. The people who passed by before seemed to have disappeared, and the underground was no better than the ground. He has no idea what direction he is heading in. It seems that what Xiaochao said must be true. Climbing pipes is indeed a technical job. If you get lost in a place with a more complicated pipe network, you will be trapped for life It's all possible!

"what happened?"

Wang Ran climbed up out of breath, the two of them could already be squatted side by side here, but when he saw the three exits standing in front of them, he immediately understood why Lin Tao stopped, and he frowned. He frowned and said, "We should enter the development zone. The pipes of this material have only appeared in recent years, and they are so thick that they can only be used in newly built development zones!"

"Then which direction should we go?" Lin Tao looked at Wang Ran helplessly, he didn't want to be a gopher scurrying around in the ground in a daze.

"This one……"

Wang Ran scratched his scalp, his expression was also very depressed, but his eyes suddenly lit up, and he pointed to the bottom of the left pipe and shouted: "Look, what are those white spots? It seems to be rice!"

Lin Tao hurriedly crawled over when he heard the words, and sure enough, a few very unremarkable rice grains were soaking in the water. Lin Tao continued to take a photo with a flashlight, and the white rice almost formed a straight line. Wang Ran immediately said excitedly: "It must be Their rice bag leaked, haha~ just pointed us in the right direction!"

"Don't rush to be happy, this may be a trap!" Lin Tao smiled disdainfully, Wang Ran's excited expression froze immediately, and he said in surprise, "Impossible? They have such a high IQ?"

"People who are forced into a difficult situation can think of anything!" Lin Tao sneered, turned around and illuminated the other two passages, and said in a deep voice: "The leader is very smart, he knows that someone will catch up , so as soon as I got here, I deliberately wiped away the traces. I couldn't even see a handprint in the sand. Their luck is so bad, and our luck is so good, they are making their way!"

"Then... then is there a living corpse waiting for us?" Wang Ran asked in horror.

"No! They are just delaying our time, and they don't want us to catch them!" Lin Tao shook his head, and then climbed to the other two passages, but there was still no trace of these two passages. Only a slight draft sound.

"Ding~"

Lin Tao took out a golden kerosene lighter and lit it, climbed to the passage on the right and held it quietly, but the flame didn't even show any sign of shaking, so he frowned, so he had to change another passage to get in. But this time when he lit the lighter, the flame flickered immediately. Although it was very slight, it was enough to show that there was fresh air blowing in ahead.

"This way!"

Lin Tao put away the lighter and tilted his head at Wang Ran, Wang Ran immediately crawled over, and when the two climbed about a few hundred meters, the disappearing traces reappeared again, Lin Tao smiled slightly, once again Greeting Wang Ran, and speeding up again.

"Shh~"

About ten minutes later, there was a faint light in the pipeline in front of him. Lin Tao immediately turned off the flashlight to stop Wang Ran, then drew out his pistol and crawled forward cautiously.

Soon, a section of broken tube wall appeared on top of Lin Tao's head. He slightly probed to see that there was a brilliant starry sky outside. He listened intently, and the quiet outside seemed to be nothing unusual, but He didn't dare to be careless, and after coughing heavily suddenly, without showing his head, he patiently stuck to the edge of the pipe and listened carefully to the movement outside.

The long wait is more patient than anyone else. Wang Ran, who was leaning on the pipe, felt that a century had passed before Lin Tao finally jumped out with his gun in hand, and there was nothing outside the pipe except a gust of cool breeze. , Lin Tao smiled wryly. It seems that he thought the other party was too clever. Apart from setting up a maze in the pipeline, they didn't leave any bullshit behind them. Look at the messy footprints on the ground , the other party was obviously panicked!

"Wow! What a development zone!"

Wang Ran got out a little excitedly, looked around at the once familiar scenery, his face was flushed with excitement, while Lin Tao held up his pistol and carefully scanned the surroundings, they were standing under a row of red brick walls, from It can be seen from the trenches on both sides that this section of the water supply pipeline was still under construction at the time, and the mounds on both sides had not had time to be backfilled, and there were also some scattered factories around it that were only half built. It seemed that the entire development The district has just been built not long ago, and it looks very withered!

But this place is obviously within the sphere of influence of the gathering place, and there is no living corpse to be seen, and even the road has traces of being run over by cars!

Wang Ran stepped forward and stood behind Lin Tao and asked in a daze, "Brother, how should we go now? The footprints on the ground are in a mess!"

"Of course I went to the place where there is light, and there must be people where there is light!" Lin Tao put away his pistol and strode up the road under the moonlight. The wide cement road leads to the city, and in the opposite position from the city, Groups of bright lights were clearly coming from a distance, and there were also people's unscrupulous laughter faintly.

"Go! I'll take you to a drink tonight..."

……

The gathering place in Dengzhou City can't be compared with the university city, according to Lin Tao's understanding, it is more suitable to be called a paradise for refugees, or simply a bigger refugee camp!Moreover, the people here seem to have no idea about the tide of corpses, even the corpse king probably doesn't know what it is, and Lin Tao doesn't know what they can block the dilapidated wall that is only three or four meters high. The walls of their small gathering place in Jiangcheng were seven or eight meters high, and people kept building them up every day!

But here is a good place. After occupying a large factory area, the fence is completely built according to the original fence. The messy steel frames, steel pipes, and even garbage such as tires and car wrecks are piled up on the fence. From the outside, not only does it not look like a fence from a distance, it is simply a small garbage mountain!

When Lin Tao brought Wang Ran to the bottom of the garbage mountain, his expression changed from excitement at the beginning to full of astonishment, as if he didn't understand what kind of person could live in this kind of garbage dump, separated by the old man A very strange smell came from far away, and Wang Ran deeply felt that even if he hadn't bathed for two years, his body smelled much better than this smell!