Jack slowly stepped onto a steep slope with an 81-style rifle on his back. Looking ahead, the world was still filled with Marcus sand, but what was different was that various reinforced concrete buildings wrapped in Marcus sand were everywhere, distributed in an orderly manner in every corner of this area. Jack frowned and shook the sand off his shoes, saying without looking back, "Fortunately, the situation is much better than I imagined!"
"Yeah, there are probably only a thousand or eight hundred of those living corpses!" Thomas Xu said with a bitter smile as he kicked a stone on the ground, then tightened the strap of his gun and said, "Fortunately, the hotel where Qin Yu and the others are trapped is on the outskirts of this development area. If they had recklessly run into the central area, I think we wouldn't even need to search; we could just head back home directly!"
"Xiao Yu, are you sure your brother is trapped in that building?" Jack turned to Qin Yu, who was holding onto his arm, pointing at a red five-story building several kilometers ahead. However, Qin Yu did not look in that direction; instead, she looked up at Jack with a complex expression and said, "Tao... maybe you shouldn't go. I really won't blame you!"
"What nonsense are you talking about? We've come this far, there's no way to turn back now!" Jack smiled as he patted Qin Yu's head, his eyes filled with a hint of affection. He then turned to observe the terrain for a moment before gently wrapping his arms around Qin Yu and said, "You should wait for me in the car. There are guns next to both seats; you remember how I taught you to use a gun this morning, right?"
"I remember!" Qin Yu nodded gently. Just as Jack was about to kiss her and leave, she anxiously grabbed him, her face filled with worry, and exclaimed, "Tao, don't go…"
"Haha, don't worry, it'll be fine!" Jack reached out and gently pinched Qin Yu's cheek, giving her a very tender smile. Although Qin Yu seemed to have a lot to say, she slowly released his arm under Jack's persistent smile, and all her unspoken words finally turned into one sentence—I'll be waiting for you to come back!
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"Boom~"
Jack kicked a zombie at the hotel's back door against the iron gate, and with a swift motion, he used a machete to sever its head. The zombie twitched and fell to the ground. Jack let out a slight breath, looking at the scattered limbs and bodies around him. He wiped the sweat from his forehead with his arm and turned to look at the steep slope in the distance. He noticed that despite having passed more than half an hour, that striking figure was still standing there, gazing at him. Jack felt a warmth in his heart but also some worry; that spot was not a good place and would soon be discovered by the sensitive-nosed zombies.
"Brother Lin, what bad luck!" Thomas Xu leaned against the hotel's back door, helplessly knocking on the security door, shaking off the sweat from his head, and said dejectedly, "Another high-end security door worth thousands. I'm really feeling a bit frustrated. Why is it that every time I'm with you, the doors we find are either locked or security doors? Is it that our fates are incompatible? Otherwise, our luck wouldn't be this bad, right?"
"I never thought about going in through that security door!"
Jack withdrew his gaze, smiled, and shook his head. He turned and walked to a truck, peering inside. After smashing the truck's window with a machete, he reached in and pulled out a long rope. He tugged on the rope to test its strength, nodded in satisfaction, and then pulled a rusty steel pipe from a zombie's body. Jack quickly tied the rope around the middle of the steel pipe and turned to the puzzled Thomas Xu, saying, "It's up to you now; throw this steel pipe into the second-floor window!"
"Hey, I can do this! I even won second place in the javelin throw at my school sports day!" Thomas Xu laughed as he took the steel pipe from Jack, weighed it in his hands, then stepped back several meters. Finally, he made a strong run-up, swung his arm, and with a whoosh, the steel pipe with the rope was accurately thrown into the open second-floor window. Jack quickly pulled on the rope, and the steel pipe, about a meter long, lodged horizontally in the window, firmly wedged between the two sides.
"Haha, this idea is really good; you've taught me a new trick!" Thomas Xu laughed happily, pulling on the rope, and suddenly shouted upstairs, "Qin Yu, Qin Yu, where are you? We're here to rescue you!"
Thomas Xu shouted at the top of his lungs for a long time, but while a horde of zombies was attracted, he didn't see a single person in the building. Thomas Xu had no choice but to hold his gun and "bang bang bang" shoot down a bunch of zombies, while hurriedly climbing upstairs with Jack, muttering under his breath, "Damn it, this guy can't be dead, right? I called for zombies and he didn't even come out, almost getting my ass bitten just now! No way, Lin Ge, when night falls, you have to give his sister a good beating, it's also a way to vent our anger!"
"Get out of here, you are full of dirty thoughts." Jack laughed and cursed, and while climbing up the window, he kicked Thomas Xu in with one kick.
"Holy shit" Thomas Xu fell flat on the soft carpet, but the next second he bounced up from the ground like a spring, shouting with panic on his face.
The box they climbed in happened to be a row of boxes with a trap door in the middle that could be connected to a stage or independent. The box at this time was not empty as they imagined, because a stage not far away was already densely packed with people. There were a large group of living corpses, and looking at the big red words "Happy" hanging on the background wall, a female living corpse was actually wearing Marcus's wedding dress. Needless to say, when Doomsday came, there must be a lively wedding banquet here, and living corpses were definitely indispensable.
"Ouch~"
The Living Corpse Bride standing on the stage was the first to notice the dull-looking Thomas Xu and the others. When it let out a hoarse roar, its mouth split open to the base of its ears. It waved its hands still covered in lace gloves. The Living Corpse Bride Thomas took the lead and rushed towards the two of them with a mouthful of blood.
"Come on, rely on, rely on..."
Thomas Xu said five words in a row. He ran out of the box in extreme fear and pulled the trigger towards the zombie bride. He saw a flash of fire and a row of bullets shot out in an instant.
The rotating bullet ruthlessly tore into pieces the young but decayed body of the zombie bride. It shot from its left rib into the right back and out, bringing out a large amount of fishy smelly organs. It sprayed directly on the face of a zombie behind it with a groom's corsage. The two zombies shook their bodies at the same time, but they continued to fly forward without any hindrance.
"Da da da…"
Faced with the simultaneous siege of one or two hundred living corpses, both Thomas Xu and Jack were in a hurry and almost couldn't resist. The two rifles tried their best to pour bullets. For a moment, fire flashed and blood and flesh flew everywhere. It was like a very crazy human flesh party. Broken limbs and minced meat were flying in the air unscrupulously. They could be seen everywhere. The disgusting smell also filled the entire hotel.
One by one, the living corpses were knocked down and torn apart by the bullet, but another one rushed forward desperately. The two of them fired their guns and quickly retreated. When they retreated to the outside of the box, they discovered to their dismay that there were also many living corpses in the corridor outside. As soon as they saw a living person coming out, they immediately joined the siege.
The front and back were blocked, and a large number of corpses were still pouring out of the box. The two of them instantly felt a sense of frustration that they were surrounded. At this moment, Jack suddenly shouted loudly, and whipped away the two fastest living corpses with two sharp whip legs. Then he shouted while changing the magazine, "Quick, rush to the stairs to the third floor."
"Okay" Thomas Xu nodded sweating profusely, turned the muzzle of his gun and rushed behind the place with the fewest living corpses. There were only about twenty or thirty living corpses there, but Thomas Xu no longer cared about using burst shots to hit the heads one by one. Jack, who was covering behind him, was also under great pressure, so he directly opened the rifle's firepower to the maximum, regardless of whether he could still How much kill rate is left, even if he just shoots down the living corpse, but Thomas Xu, who looked a little crazy, almost pulled the trigger, but after more than ten shots, the rifle in his hand suddenly made a "click" sound, and no matter how hard he pulled the gun bolt, he could not spit out half a bullet.
"Bah bang bang..."
In the critical situation, Thomas Xu quickly pulled out the 54th pistol from his waist and continued to fire. But when he hit the fifth bullet, the pistol that Qin Yu had just handed over to them yesterday also made a "click" sound, and the fierce firepower suddenly disappeared.
"Fuck" Thomas Xu angrily smashed his gun into the face of the living corpse closest to him, and then kicked it down. He didn't even have time to think about whether he didn't read Marcus' calendar when he went out today, but he encountered two misfired guns one after another. Fortunately, he carried two guns with him, and the other one was his Type 92 hand gun.
But just when he knocked down two living corpses with his gun, there was a strange but familiar "click" sound from Jack behind him. Jack cursed, and the Bayi bar was smashed out by him, and the pistol that had been inserted in his waist also rang.
After knocking down most of the living corpses on the stairs, Thomas Xu and Jack almost stepped on the struggling living corpses and ran up to the third floor. When they reached the third floor, which was the hotel's accommodation area, there were relatively fewer living corpses. After another bloody fight, the two worked together to lift a few Thomas beds and blocked the stairway leading to the third floor. Seeing that there were no traces of living corpses around, Thomas Xu fell softly on the dusty carpet, and all the strength in his body seemed to be drained.
Thomas Xu panted violently like a cow for a while, and finally remembered to light a cigarette for himself. After taking a good puff, he raised his head and looked out of the corridor behind him. The entire building was hollow in design, and the roof was a glass dome. A large amount of Marcus sand covered the laminated glass, and only a small amount of sunlight shone through. The corridor was also in a zigzag shape, so standing on the corridor and passing through the middle patio, you could almost see everything in the entire hall clearly.
After Thomas Xu leaned on the railing and observed for a while, he immediately frowned deeply and said, "Brother Lin, something is wrong. There is obviously no living person here. The door of the main hall is completely sealed, and the back door cannot be opened. There are more living corpses on the first floor than on the second floor. There must be more living corpses on the first floor than on the second floor." We can't treat anyone, and we have been fighting here for a long time. Even if Qin Yu and the others are deaf, they should know it. There are no traces of footprints on the carpet on the stairs. Could it be that Qin Yu made a mistake? Her brother is not here, right? "
Jack did not answer Thomas Xu's question because he was disassembling a 54-hand gun in his hand. This gun was also given to him by Qin Yu yesterday morning. Originally, he didn't want to use this gun, but because he was afraid of Qin Yu's kindness, he simply found a gun holster that didn't fit the bill. It was hung on the other side of his waist. He didn't use this gun when he killed the living corpse. Now after taking it apart and holding a pile of parts, he frowned deeply and saw the expression on his face changing rapidly several times. Suddenly he asked with a sullen face, "Thomas Xu, why did your gun just become so dumb?"
"Uh..." Thomas Xu, while smoking, tried hard to recall and said with some confusion, "I pulled the bolt, it wasn't jammed, but it seems there's a problem with the firing pin, so it can't fire!"
"Look at the firing pin of this gun!" Jack said, handing over a slender part in his hand. Without waiting for Thomas Xu to respond, he turned around and lit a cigarette, while on the side that Thomas Xu couldn't see, Jack's expression was dark enough to freeze.
"Damn! This firing pin has been tampered with; it will definitely break after just a few shots!" Thomas Xu, also an experienced gun user, immediately noticed the oddity of the firing pin. He jumped up from the ground in anger and smashed the visibly damaged firing pin onto the floor, saying through gritted teeth, "Brother Lin, whose gun did Qin Yu borrow? They are trying to get us killed!"
"It doesn't matter whose gun it is anymore! The key is whether Qin Yu knows about this!" Jack sighed helplessly, turning around with a serious expression and said, "But it seems that Qin Yu is likely involved since we can't find Qin Yu here!"
"What? Brother Lin, are you saying that Qin Yu deliberately set a trap for us here, trying to get us killed?" Thomas Xu looked at Jack in disbelief, and the cigarette in his mouth fell to the ground with a 'thud' as his mouth dropped open.
"It shouldn't be that Qin Yu wants to kill us, but rather someone else!" Jack furrowed his brows deeply, leaning against the railing with his eyes closed in pain. After several minutes, he muttered to himself, "She came to find me suddenly the day before yesterday. I couldn't resist and ended up having relations with her. But at that time, I felt something was off. I originally thought she was acting out of desperation to save her brother, but it turns out it was for this reason. Now that I think about it, some of the things she said to me last night were actually out of guilt, not genuine feelings! I hope... she was forced into it!"
It seemed that everything suddenly became clear in an instant. The sweet words Qin Yu spoke last night now seemed to be more about deep guilt. Moreover, when Jack ran into Qin Yu while jogging yesterday, her incessant questioning about whether he had harmed the innocent was likely her way of trying to alleviate her own sense of guilt!
"Damn it, regardless of whether she was forced or not, this woman is too cruel! We took such a big risk to find her brother, and she actually pushed us into the fire pit!" Thomas Xu crossed his arms, angrily pacing back and forth. After a while, he suddenly stopped and asked in confusion, "Brother Lin, who exactly wants to harm us? They went to such great lengths to involve Qin Yu and even forced her to offer herself to you. It's unlikely to be Ryan, but it seems like Qin Yu and William haven't had any contact either!"
"I don't know!" Jack slowly shook his head, his expression blank as he said, "I've only been at that gathering place for a few days, and I haven't even recognized all the people there. I can't figure out who the real mastermind is, but this trap is really well set. From the outside, this hotel doesn't seem to have many zombies, appearing to be within our capabilities. But as you saw, there were actually more people inside during the wedding than outside with the zombies!"
"Brother Lin, I think we shouldn't guess randomly anymore. Let's just go back and find that woman Qin Yu to ask her clearly. With our skills, even with a gun, we can break back in!" Thomas Xu confidently cocked the bullets in his gun with a couple of clicks, showing a strong sense of confidence. But before he could maintain that confidence for long, the entire corridor suddenly shook violently, and Thomas Xu's confident expression turned into one of shock as he pointed at the large figure striding down the stairs, stammering, "Z... Zombie William..."