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 “Boom!”

A huge black shadow fell from the sky, and looking at the black shadow in front of them, everyone was shocked. In front of them, they saw a warrior nearly three meters tall, wearing strange and terrifying thick armor, holding a huge war hammer, and looking coldly. Staring at them coldly. The skull-like helmet flashes with scarlet and cold light, making people tremble just by looking at it!

What's this? Is it a new species of zombie?

Facing this terrifying existence in front of them, even the people who were fighting against the zombies completely lost their courage at this moment. This terrifying warrior seemed to represent the end of everything, like the incarnation of death. When it comes here, they don't know how to resist...

 “Hoo————!”

In full view, the huge warrior suddenly swung his war hammer and instantly knocked away all the zombies surrounding him. Seeing those zombies being swept away as easily as baseballs, everyone stepped back in fear, and could only watch helplessly as the behemoth walked towards them and the others...

“Mr. Duanmu, if you continue like this, you will scare them to death.”

Fortunately, just when everyone was at a loss, a voice suddenly appeared, and then everyone saw two girls sticking their heads out from the left and right sides of the warrior's shoulders - seeing this scene, everyone was somewhat relieved, although I don’t know what this is, but at least it doesn’t look like a zombie?

 Probably not.

 “Excuse me, who are you...”

“We came from the train and saw your signal, so we came here to see what was going on.”

As he said that, Duanmu Huai took off his helmet. Seeing his face, everyone couldn't help but exclaimed again... Fortunately, anyway, it's good that he's not a zombie.

 Next, the survivors here also introduced themselves.

First of all, there was the group of four. They claimed to have come here for a school trip from somewhere else, but they encountered a zombie outbreak. In the end, only the four of them survived. This quartet is one boy and three girls, namely Komuro Takashi, Miyamoto Rei, Takagi Saya and their leading teacher Marikawa Shizuka.

In addition, they also rescued a girl named Shirley Alice. According to them, after escaping the initial zombie outbreak, they had been staying in the mall.

After that, other people joined in one after another.

Aiden Cladwell, who joined later, is a local who calls himself a wanderer - a so-called wanderer is a person who walks alone between various human strongholds in this abandoned continent, transporting goods and messages. .

 In addition, there is the pair of Joel and Ellie, of which Joel is an uncle and Ellie is a fourteen-year-old girl. Regarding their purpose, Joel didn't say much, he just said that he wanted to send Ellie to a certain place, and for some reasons, he had to stay here.

Well, Duanmu Huai swears in the name of Grandpa Kindianichi that the main mission is between them!

should.

 That's the best, don't let anything happen to me.

　　　Everyone was somewhat moved by Duanmu Huai's invitation to board the train. But someone soon raised a question.

“Although I know that trains are definitely more reliable in terms of movement than cars, but...”

The girl with twin tails named Saya Takagi stretched out her hand and pushed up the glasses on the bridge of her nose.

 “How do you plan to resist the blood moon?”

　　　……blood moon?”

"what is that?"

 “What? Don’t you know?”

Everyone was shocked when they heard Duanmuhuai's puzzled answer, but soon, Gaocheng Saya explained to them that the so-called blood moon is a very special mechanism in this world. To put it simply, every seven days, the moon in the sky will turn red. At the same time, the zombies that usually fish like mushrooms will become violent, and there will even be some powerful zombies that have never been seen before. , they will sweep across the city in a menacing manner, killing everything they see.

 In fact, when the zombie virus first broke out, human casualties were not particularly heavy. As long as they were gathered together, most zombies could still be defeated. However, the appearance of the blood moon dealt a heavy blow to these survivors. This is the reason why humans suffered such heavy casualties.

The reason why Aiden and Joel were willing to hide in the mall temporarily was because they counted the time and found that the blood moon was coming. At this time, continuing to walk around the streets was tantamount to suicide, so they thought of waiting here until the blood moon. The month is over, and then we move on.

 “Hey, what did I think? It’s just a big deal.”

After listening to Gaocheng Saya's explanation, Duanmuhuai immediately calmed down and waved his hand. “Don’t worry, it’s just zombies, they’re just giving you food!”

　　　…………”

To be honest, everyone was a little uneasy looking at Duanmu Huai's confident appearance without any reason, but in any case, it is impossible to continue to stay in this city, and from the current point of view, the train is indeed relatively Ships and planes are also good means of transportation. Of course, the best thing is the plane, but... at present, it is impossible to find a usable plane.

Joel and Aiden had originally planned to move on. Now that they had transportation, of course they would not object. Others also felt that there was no point in staying here anymore, so the two parties agreed to Duanmuhuai's invitation after discussing it for a while. , walked towards the station together.

While on the road, everyone also learned about the origins of Duanmu Huai and others.

 “Inquisition?”

 “An organization I’ve never heard of…”

 “This is quite normal.”

 Aiden seemed very calm.

"After that disaster, the remaining people also formed various organizations, called whatever they were. Of course, it's hard to say what these organizations are like, but to be honest, using the train as a base This is the first one to take action.”

Perhaps because of his professionalism as a wanderer, Aiden is very interested in an organization like the Inquisition that relies on trains to operate. This is also normal. Wanderers have to walk from one stronghold to another in most cases. In this case, it is easy to encounter dangers and mistakes. If the next stronghold cannot be found within seven days, then One can only hope to find a good shelter, or simply die outside without help.

On the contrary, with trains, rail transportation will be more convenient and the freight volume will be larger, right?

After everyone boarded the train, with the sound of the whistle, the train continued to set off and headed forward.

“I didn’t expect that there is such an organization...”

Sitting on the soft and comfortable sofa, Miyamoto Rei couldn't help but sigh and stretched at the same time. Except for the front of the train, the entire train consists of a VIP room, a women's carriage, a men's carriage, and a dining car and freight carriage at the back. Of course, from the outside, this train has not been modified and looks just like an ordinary train. But when everyone got on the train and watched the dilapidated city go away, there was an indescribable complex emotion in their hearts.

“I don’t know what the situation is like in other cities... I hope we can go smoothly in the future.”

 “I don’t think so.”

 Aiden shook his head.

“Most important cities have basically been razed to the ground by nuclear bombs. Our city escaped because of its remoteness, but in central cities it may be a different situation.”

As he spoke, Aiden touched his backpack. This time he was going to one of the cities to deliver a letter. As for whether the owner of the letter was still there, it was hard to say.

“Compared with those, I’m more worried about the blood moon in two days.”

Looking at the setting sun, Komuro Takashi's expression became extremely stiff and serious.

"Although Mr. Duanmu said there was no problem, but... no matter how you look at it, isn't this just an ordinary train? Is there really no problem?"

　　　…………”

 Hearing Komuro Takashi's question, everyone was silent. They naturally knew how terrifying the blood moon was. You must know that every day of the blood moon, they will lock themselves in the playback booth of the movie theater in the mall, because this is the only place with soundproofing equipment so that the zombies cannot hear their voices. On the night of the blood moon, the zombies' hearing sensitivity more than doubled, and even the slightest sound of breathing could be detected, let alone this speeding train.

Although they didn't know what would happen on the night of the blood moon, no one wanted to know. After all, on the second day of the night of the blood moon, just looking at the mess outside was enough to scare them. .

As for what happened on the night of the blood moon, no one wanted to see what happened - after all, almost all those who faced the night of the blood moon died.

From the map, based on their current route, it would take almost two days to get to the next stop. I don’t know how things will turn out by then. If they are fast, they can find the next human gathering place before the blood moon arrives. If they are unlucky... that may be another story.

"I hope that gentleman can find a way instead of leading us to our deaths foolishly - well, anyway, his armor does make us feel quite safe."

Aiden made a small joke, and everyone nodded. After all, in this world, the most feared thing is being bitten by zombies. And if there was armor like Duanmuhuai's, then he would definitely not be afraid - but from the looks of it, he knew that that armor was definitely not something that ordinary people could equip.

 But what everyone didn’t expect was that the part that surprised them was just the beginning.