"I'll go down and have a look, and you help keep an eye on the situation." Hao Jian grabbed the crowbar and the walkie-talkie and got out of the car. Lian Runing also got out of the car, holding the flashlight in her hand, and said, "I'll go with you!"     Hao Jian thought for a while, but didn't refuse. She walked to the iron gate, reached out and touched the lock, and found that locked. Looking up at the top of the head, the school gate is three meters high, and the iron gate is more than two meters high, and there are spikes on it to prevent people from overturning the door.     "From the lock on the inside, there should be someone inside." Hao Jian said.     Lian Runing turned her head and glanced at the road and the quiet houses that disappeared under the dark night, gritted her teeth and shouted angrily, "Is there anyone     ?     " Her voice echoed on the court, and at the same time it resounded through the sky. Finally, there was some movement in the private house, but still no one came out.     Hao Jian was startled by her cry, but he didn't stop her, but kept an eye out for attracted zombies.     After a while, there was finally a trace of movement in the school, and a ray of light moved over unsteadily. Lian Runing shone the flashlight, and saw a petite woman walking over cautiously.     Suddenly, Hao Jian yelled: "Open the door!" The     woman was so startled that she stood still. Lian Runing was wondering why Hao Jian was in such a hurry all of a sudden, but saw Hao Jian biting the flashlight and swinging the crowbar back.     "Ah..." The groan of the zombie rang in his ears, Lian Runing got goosebumps all over his body, and couldn't help knocking on the door quickly: "Open the door!"

    The woman was even more unwilling to open it now, her eyes were on Hao Jian who was fighting with the zombie, seeing Hao Jian unhurriedly smashing the zombie's head like a watermelon, her stomach twitched and she vomited immediately. out.

    "Open the door." Hao Jian knocked on the iron door with the crowbar, and the woman had already vomited, and after a moment of hesitation, she came over and opened the door for them.

    ______

    Hao Jian washed the blood and flesh on the crowbar in the sink, while Lian Runing also washed his face with water. The woman stood two meters away from them, looking at them warily.

    "We are not infected, you can rest assured." Lian Runing explained.

    The woman breathed a sigh of relief.

    "By the way, my name is Lian Runing, and her name is Hao Jian. I haven't thanked you for opening the door yet." Lian Runing said with a smile.

    "I, my name is Xin Ting." The woman said weakly.

    Xin Ting is an intern teacher here, and she is very far away from home, so she has always lived in the school's teachers' dormitory. When the zombie virus broke out, she had to stay at the school on duty, so she was not aware of the situation outside. When she realized it belatedly, she had already missed the time to escape, so she could only stay in the school and wait for rescue.

    She learned about the situation outside from Lian Runing's mouth, and also knew that rescue might never come, and she felt ashamed all of a sudden. She has always been timid and fearful. It is impossible for her to go home through the crowd of zombies like Hao Jian and Lian Runing. Thinking about it this way, it seems that she can only be trapped here to die.     "Woooooo..." Xin Ting cried out, and Lian Runing was a little flustered. She knew very well what it feels like when a person loses all hope, as if the whole world collapsed. If she hadn't been obsessed with finding her family back home, I'm afraid she would have lived like a walking dead.     She wanted to persuade Xin Ting to cheer up, but Xin Ting's timidity was rooted in her bones, and she couldn't persuade Xin Ting to find a living goal like her.     "I'm sorry." Lian Runing apologized in a low voice, she shouldn't have told Xin Ting this cruel fact.

    Xin Ting cried more and more, Lian Runing panicked and wanted to ask Hao Jian for help, but found that she opened the hood of the car and was concentrating on checking the car's accessories.

    "You know how to fix cars?" Lian Runing asked in surprise.

    Hao Jian turned her head: "No."

    "..." Lian Runing paused, and put out the thought of asking her to help comfort Xin Ting.

    Xin Ting was crying so hard that Hao Jian couldn't hear her, but she still pretended to be a car repairer even though she couldn't repair the car. She had only one purpose - not to interfere with Xin Ting's affairs.

    Hearing Hao Jian's answer, Xin Ting replied weakly amid sobbing: "I, I can repair cars."

    Lian Runing was so shocked that she didn't speak for a long while, Xin Ting wiped away her tears and explained, "Although I am Teacher, but my family owns an auto repair shop, so I know some simple car repair skills."

    "Then we are so lucky!" Lian Runing smiled.

    Sobbing, Xin Ting walked to Hao Jian's side and asked, "Can you help me?"

    Hao Jian nodded, held up a flashlight to help her illuminate, and explained the situation. Xin Ting first checked the chassis, and found no abnormalities, and then checked various ball joints. After checking the connecting rod of the balance bar, she found that there was a problem with the shock-absorbing strut bearing.

    "There is no new shock-absorbing strut bearing that can be replaced, but with this degree of damage, there will be no big problem." Xin Ting said.     Hao Jian scratched

    his head and said, "As long as there are no major problems, let's just make do with it!"

Laughed.

    "By the way, have you eaten yet?" Lian Runing took out the late-night snack that You's couple packed for them from the car.

    Xin Ting looked at the lunch box and swallowed imperceptibly. But her upbringing told her, "No, it's not easy to find something to eat at this time, you should eat it!"

    "It's not an easy-to-preserve food, eat it before it goes bad!" Hao Jian also said.

    Xin Ting took the lunch box hesitantly, looked at them again, and said, "Let's eat together!"

    Lian Runing and Hao Jian didn't object either. , but also very appetizing.

    After eating these meals, Xin Ting glanced at her watch and found that the pointer had already pointed to four o'clock in the morning. But Lian Runing and Hao Jian's rest time was too short, so they listened to Xin Ting's suggestion to sleep in the teacher's dormitory first.

    ______Xinhe

    Primary School is not big. There is only a three-story teaching building and a basketball court and badminton court. On the opposite side of the teaching building is a two-story teacher's dormitory with seven or eight rooms in total.

    "Usually, the teachers who are assigned to live far away live here. They don't have many things here, but they didn't take away the mattresses and other things when they left, so you can choose a room at will. Come to sleep."

    Lian Runing was embarrassed: "Where to sleep is the second priority, I just don't know if there is electricity and hot water..."

    Xin Ting understood that she was already sweating just now because she just helped look at the car. If I don't take a bath, I'm afraid my whole body will smell bad after another day.

    "We have already had a power outage here, but power outages here are commonplace, and in order to carry out normal teaching activities, our school will have a generator."

    "Forget it, if you use a generator to make too much noise, it will attract people. Zombies." Lian Runing said.

    After Lian Runing wiped her body with cold water, she went to rest first. She and Hao Jian agreed that one would rest and the other would watch the night, so as not to know the situation when zombies came. She rested for four hours first, and the walkie-talkie was placed next to the pillow, in case Hao Jian could wake her up at any time.

    When Hao Jian was patrolling around the school, she found several one-meter-long wooden sticks. She weighed them in her hand, then found a kitchen knife, sharpened one end of the wooden sticks, and tried the effect with a basketball. The effect was found to be significant.

    Hearing unusual footsteps, Hao Jian became vigilant and pointed back with a wooden spike.

    "Ah!" Xin Ting exclaimed. If she got any closer, the wooden thorn would have scratched her face.

    "It's you!" Hao Jian retracted the wooden splinter. The experience of the past few days made her nerves a little more sensitive and her movements more sharp.

    "You, don't you rest?" Xin Ting was so frightened that her heart was still beating.

    "I'll rest later." Hao Jian said, and asked suspiciously, "Why don't you go to rest?"

    "I, I can't sleep." Xin Ting took a deep breath, "I As soon as I closed my eyes, I saw the scene of the students who came back to clean up the campus and bit the children of the same age. At that time, the school was in chaos, with a dozen students, the teacher on duty... Everyone fled desperately. The dilapidated school became even more desolate after that, I'm afraid..."

    She also wanted to escape, but where could she escape? She was assigned here as an intern. She was hundreds of miles away from home, had no means of transportation, and it was very chaotic outside. How could she escape from here?     "Can you stay here too? It's safe here. There's a canteen at the door, and there's enough food for us to last for a while. There are farmlands nearby, and we can also go to the fields to pick some vegetables to eat." Xin Ting was nervous to make her suggestion.     Hao Jian watched her silent for a while, and then said: "Lian Runing is also afraid."     Xin Ting looked at her in confusion, only to hear her continue: "Lian Runing is also afraid of all this, but, she has a thought, She wants to go home and go back to her relatives. So even if she feels scared, she will stand up bravely, go out, and go to the most dangerous place, just for the obsession in her heart."     "When encountering such a thing, fear is It's normal. But if you keep shrinking because of fear, it's like being caught without a fight, and you're a bit useless."     Xin Ting shook her head and said, "But you don't know how terrible that is!"     "The worst thing is to die." Hao Jian said lightly Say.     "Are you so disrespectful of life?"

    "It's not that I don't cherish life, it's that there are many ways to live, but you can choose the one that you think is the most meaningful. I choose to leave her, but I don't necessarily lose my life because of it, just like you don't necessarily have to be very happy if you stay here. It ’s the same as safe.”

    Xin Ting couldn’t understand, but after five hours, she clearly realized——Hao Jian was right.

Chapter 15

    After Lian Runing woke up, Hao Jian went to rest, and Xin Ting also fell asleep because of fatigue, but they didn't sleep for long, Lian Runing had to wake them up.

    "Zombies are chasing us, so we should go!"

    When Hao Jian fell asleep, it was already dawn, but everything was quiet, there was no wind, and even the grass and trees didn't make a sound. Lian Runing originally wanted to climb up to the roof through the teaching building to get a wider view, but the door on the roof was locked, so she could only wander around in the classroom.

    Behind the teaching building is the township road, and beside the township road are three or four storey private houses. Lian Runing suddenly found the shadow of a zombie in a private house from the window on the third floor. She panicked and forcibly calmed down again.     The zombie wandered around in the yard, when it found Lian Runing, it immediately let out a sharp cry, and rushed towards the door as if turning a blind eye. Lian Runing thought to herself: "Oops!" She immediately turned around and went downstairs to the school gate to take a look, only to find a group of zombies wandering aimlessly in the distance.     "Hao Jian, Hao Jian." She called through the walkie-talkie.     Hao Jian suddenly opened her eyes and sat up on the bed. She took the walkie-talkie to confirm the situation, and went to Xin Ting's room to call her.     Xin Ting also woke up in a jerk, and asked: " Zombies found us?" If they block the door, they can only be besieged to death!     Xin Ting shook her head subconsciously: "No, if I don't go, I will die if I go out!"     "But you will die if you don't go." Hao Jian is not good at persuasion, and every word is cruel, "Zombies will die one day !" They will surround this place, they may break through the rusty school gate, maybe they won't, but you can't leave, you can only try the taste of hunger over and over again, you will find that you will be hungrier every day, and finally you If you are so hungry, you can only open the door and let the zombies eat you."     "Ah——" Xin Ting shivered just imagining that scene, and she screamed. Hao Jian frowned, and covered her mouth after she uttered the first cry, "Do you want to die faster?"

    Xin Ting was so frightened that tears burst out, she pushed Hao Jian away: "Why do you care about me, you just go by yourself, just ignore me and don't tell me these things!"

    Hao Jian was a little surprised, she thought Xin Ting They will complain and resent their appearance for causing the current predicament, but obviously although Xin Ting is timid, she is not unreasonable. Or maybe she knew that even if Hao Jian and Lian Runing didn't show up, she would still face such a predicament, but she was just deceiving herself because of her timidity and cowardice!

    "Because you saved us." Hao Jian said.

    Lian Runing's voice came from the walkie-talkie. After Hao Jian replied, she grabbed Xin Ting's arm and said firmly and decisively, "There is no time for you to hesitate. Pack up and come with us immediately!"

    Xin Ting wiped her face. Tears, but tears fell again. Although she was crying, she moved quickly. She got up to find her luggage bag, put two sets of clothes in it, and ran to the office to find a medicine box. In addition to the gauze, the medicine box also contains traumatic medicine, band-aids, alcohol, and disinfectant.

    Seeing her appearing with this thing, Lian Runing said, "Nowadays this is a very precious item."

    "The school is small and there are no medical staff, so we trainee teachers will also learn basic first aid knowledge, and the medicine box is also Put it in the office."

    Hao Jian's voice came from the intercom: "The door is about to open."

    Lian Runing stopped chatting with Xin Ting, and according to Hao Jian's plan, she was responsible for driving, and Hao Jian went to open the door. When driving, there will inevitably be noises that will attract the zombie crowd, so you should quickly meet Hao Jian at the school gate, and then drive in the opposite direction of the zombie crowd.

    Lian Runing didn't want Hao Jian to do such a dangerous thing, but Hao Jian said: "You have enough sleep, don't stop after driving, keep driving, so I can catch up on sleep later."

    Lian Runing felt that what she said It makes sense, and I can't refute it myself.

    Hao Jian held the crowbar in his hand and looked ahead. Because of the screams of the zombies in the residential building next door, the group of zombies wandering aimlessly noticed something and were walking this way. And at a distance of 600 meters, they obviously found Hao Jian, and after a strange cry, they all quickened their pace and rushed over.

    At this speed, it would take less than five minutes to come to Hao Jian and kill him. Hao Jian's heartbeat quickened, and she urged, "The zombies are around, and there are still four minutes to escape!"     Lian Runing was also very flustered, and at that moment, she found that the car would not start! Her heart was beating wildly, and she kept trying. Seeing this, Xin Ting got out of the car decisively and shouted: "I'll push, you continue to start!"     Hao Jian also noticed something was wrong, but she couldn't leave. If the car still wouldn't start after four minutes, she had to close the door. In that case, it's another scene.     Unknowingly, she tightened her grip on the crowbar, and her knuckles turned white.     "System!" She couldn't help calling the system.     "What's wrong with the host?" The system's voice is always so calm and mechanical.     "Is there any quick task that can save us from danger?" At the critical moment, Hao Jian had to put down his guard against the system and compromised.     "The host's current main task is to deliver Love Lianru to Nanfang City. Other than that, I haven't received any tasks!"     Hao Jian gasped for breath, never feeling so depressed. It really is impossible for this system to directly intervene in the external situation.     Lian Runing finally started the car when Hao Jian was already prepared for the worst when he saw the zombies rushing towards him in two or three hundred meters. She shouted to Xin Ting: "Get in the car."     Xin Ting quickly climbed into the back seat, she didn't close the door but let Lian Runing step on the accelerator and rush forward. Hao Jian also opened the door completely at that moment, and the car rushed tens of meters away from the school gate. Hao Jian ran over and got on the open car door.

    The moment Lian Runing saw her sitting up, she immediately turned the steering wheel and turned the car to the opposite direction from the zombies. Hao Jian calmly put away the crowbar and closed the car door.

    The zombies rushed in front of them a dozen meters away, and Xin Ting's voice trembled: "Hurry up!"

    Lian Runing was also very nervous, her palms were sweaty, but the more she got to this point, the less she could panic. The leader of the zombies had already rushed to the side of the car, causing a muffled "bang" sound from the car body. Fortunately, the zombie doesn't know how to open the door, Lian Runing drove the car away smoothly, leaving the zombie behind.

    Xin Ting glanced through the rear window, then turned her head and breathed a sigh of relief. She found that her hands were shaking, and instead of sweating in the scorching summer, she felt chills all over her body—the feeling of death was too terrifying, and the feeling of remaining alive after the catastrophe was also very wonderful!

    Lian Runing was driving the car and suddenly laughed. Xin Ting was feeling surprised when she saw Lian Runing laughing and shedding tears. She remembered Hao Jian's words: "Lian Runing is also afraid of all this, but she will stand up bravely even if she is afraid."

    Lian Runing is also afraid, but she never thought of giving up, so they escaped.

    Xin Ting suddenly realized something, she looked at Hao Jian gratefully, but found that Hao Jian pursed her lips and said nothing, while her body was soaked with sweat, soaking her clothes.

    Calm and resolute like Hao Jian would also feel scared, but she also never thought of dying in vain, she is very responsible for every decision she makes, she has the confidence to live, so she will not think