Even without cheats, we must survive the apocalypse

Chu Xiao had no idea of ​​the other party's intentions, and his expression did not change, but he remained alert in his heart - although he also wanted to trust Gu Ke's colleagues.

"I just started practicing. I'm sorry to have embarrassed you, Officer Li."

"Practice well. Only with skills like yours can you survive anywhere in this world."

Chu Xiao felt that Officer Li seemed to be hinting at something, and then he heard Officer Li whisper, "Maybe I shouldn't say this. The place we are going to is not a good place. Although it is called a shelter, it is a place without hope."

Chu Xiao was somewhat surprised to hear this. He knew now that it was not a good place, but he could only pretend to hear this for the first time: "But... isn't that a shelter established by the government?"

Officer Li snorted and said in a voice that no one except Chu Xiao could hear: "It's not an official base. We are all being used. It's basically a private concentration camp!"

Concentration camps… that’s a pretty serious accusation.

"...So, I suggest you leave here quickly while there are not many zombies around. Yuntai City is big, and you are good at fighting. You will definitely be able to find a better place."

"Why... are you telling me this?" Chu Xiao was a little surprised. This was just the first time he and Officer Li had met. Why would he say such heartfelt words to him?

"Why? I don't know." The exhausted police officer Li covered his face in pain. Chu Xiao felt as if he would cry at any time, but it seemed that even his tears had dried up. "Maybe... maybe it's because you look a lot like someone I know, and when I see you, I can't help but think of her..."

"Except for you, everyone else sitting here has been crushed by fear and death. Look at their eyes, they are numb with no other thoughts except to survive, so they have nowhere to go except that damn place, because at least they can survive there. But you are different from them, there is still light in your eyes, you shouldn't lock yourself in that cage..."

Chu Xiao looked at Officer Li's tired face. This policeman was obviously still very young, about the same age as himself, but his eyes had become very dim.

"Sorry, I still want to go there."

"Why?" asked Officer Li, but his tone did not change at all - he had already persuaded the other party, and whether the other party listened or not was not his business.

Chu Xiao smiled and said half-truthfully, "I decided to come here after watching the 'Survival Guide' video of your shelter. The female police officer in the video is very beautiful, and I fell in love with her at first sight, so I really want to meet her in real life."

Perhaps because he heard such a ridiculous reason, Officer Li widened his eyes: "You...are you here for Gu Ke?"

"Ah, so her name is Gu Ke, what a nice name."

Officer Li opened his mouth and suddenly laughed, a desolate and sad laugh, as if it came from despair: "Is that so, is that so, you like Gu Ke... That's great, that's great... But... why her, why at this time..."

Officer Li was smiling, but his face was already covered with tears.

"Brother, you are late. Gu Ke...is missing."

Chapter 20 Missing

Missing, at this time, missing is almost equivalent to death.

Chu Xiao's heart skipped a beat, but he remained calm: "When did she disappear?"

Last night, before the cell phone signal was disconnected, Chu Xiao contacted Gu Ke and told her that he was ready to set out to the shelter to rescue her, but Gu Ke was not happy. Instead, she excitedly tried to stop Chu Xiao from going over on the phone. But before she could finish her words, the cell phone signal was disconnected.

At that moment, the entire city was plunged into pitch-black darkness.

Chu Xiao didn’t know why Gu Ke didn’t agree with him going there. It was obvious that Gu Ke might have known something.

Therefore, at least until the time of the phone call last night, Gu Ke was fine, but something must have happened after that.

"When did she disappear?" Chu Xiao asked.

"Last night, the shelter lost power," Officer Li's loss of composure only lasted for a short while, and soon he regained his composure - perhaps because the separations and deaths during this period had made him somewhat numb, "the shelter had a backup power supply from the original mall. When the backup power supply started, everyone discovered that Gu Ke was missing."

The shelter is said to be big, but in fact it is just a fixed space. The police and volunteers searched for Gu Ke all night but could not find him.

"...We searched everywhere in the shelter, but we couldn't find her. It was as if she disappeared out of thin air..." Officer Li shook his head, "So brother, there's no need for you to go there. After all, the person you're looking for is no longer there."

Chu Xiao didn't say anything, but handed a cigarette to Officer Li - it was the cigarette he had left over from a previous cigarette and happened to still have with him. Officer Li hesitated for a moment, then took it, and Chu Xiao helped him light the cigarette.

"Officer Li, do you like Gu Ke?" Chu Xiao suddenly asked an unrelated question.

Officer Li was stunned and speechless.

"You should like it, otherwise your reaction just now wouldn't be like that." Chu Xiao answered for him.

Officer Li exhaled a puff of smoke, nodded, and then shook his head: "How can I not like her? Who doesn't like her? She is the most beautiful girl in our police force. Including me, a lot of people have a crush on her."

"Is that so? Then Officer Li, you and I are love rivals." Chu Xiao said with a smile, "Also, I am sure that although I have not met Officer Gu in real life, I am already ahead of you in pursuing Gu Ke."

"Why are you so confident?"

"Because I believe that the woman I like will never disappear in obscurity." Chu Xiao's eyes were sharp. This sentence was not only spoken to Officer Li, but also to himself. "Of course I will go to your shelter. I want to find her, and I will definitely find her."

Looking at Chu Xiao's eyes that seemed to be glowing, Officer Li couldn't think of what to say, and finally smiled weakly: "You are so tempted by beauty, which is quite impressive in a sense. Okay, okay, I hope you can really find her... No, I should ask you to find her."

"Of course." Chu Xiao certainly didn't believe that the strong woman named "Gu Ke" would disappear into the darkness without a sound. Even if they had only talked on the phone, even if she was just pretending to be strong, Chu Xiao firmly believed that the woman would burn with brilliant colors even in death.

At this moment, Chu Xiao, who learned that Gu Ke was missing, was even feeling fortunate: Fortunately, I decided to come. You see, if something really happened to you, girl, you still have to wait for me to save you, right?

"Since you want to find Gu Ke, there are some things I will tell you before we arrive at the shelter. We policemen are being watched too closely by that gang, and it will be more convenient for you, a stranger, to go in and act than for us." Officer Li lowered his voice to introduce the current situation in the shelter to Chu Xiao, and also told him the names of a few people he must pay attention to.

Chu Xiao had already known the general information from his online chat with Gu Ke, but not as detailed as Officer Li. In addition, Officer Li suspected that Gu Ke's disappearance must be related to Sun Baishi's group.

The reason is simple. Gu Ke has always been at the forefront of the conflict with Sun Baishi's faction, and before the disaster, Gu Ke was also participating in the investigation of Sun Baishi. Therefore, there are many people in the shelter who regard her as a thorn in their side.

"You want to find Gu Ke. I... we can't help you openly. At most, we can provide some help in secret." Officer Li finally reminded, "You must be careful. Although there is no evidence yet, my intuition tells me that the group of people is really dangerous."

Chu Xiao nodded, and the truck suddenly began to accelerate.

Officer Li shouted to the survivors, "Hold on tight, we're almost there, but there are too many zombies."

……

There are more than just too many of them. The densely packed zombies look like a tide, making one's scalp tingle.

The truck turned on its lights, signaling the people in the shelter, and then it accelerated towards the zombies. The zombies kept rushing towards the truck, hitting the big steel thing with their flesh and blood. The huge wheels crushed the flesh and blood, and the driver even let out a wild roar, as if releasing infinite hostility while crushing the zombies.

The survivors in the car screamed in terror, as if they were riding in a small boat rolling in the waves.

After receiving the signal, several construction vehicles suddenly rushed out from the shelter not far away that had been surrounded like a concrete fortress. These big guys rammed and crushed the group of zombies, relieving a lot of pressure on Chu Xiao and his team. With this help, the truck carrying Chu Xiao and his team rushed into the wall.

But there were also zombies hanging on the car and followed in. The people guarding the door rushed up very experiencedly, holding a variety of weapons and quickly eliminated the zombies that had sneaked in.

Chu Xiao followed the instructions of the staff at the door and got out of the car. He saw Officer Li walking towards a middle-aged policeman with a tired face: "Captain Chen, Lao Zhang is dead."

Chu Xiao roughly knew the identity of the middle-aged policeman. He should be Gu Ke’s boss and the person in charge of the police in the shelter, the pedantic good man "Chen Zhiyun".

Hearing that another old colleague died while saving people, Chen Zhiyun's face became even gloomier. He patted Officer Li on the shoulder and said, "Take the people to the isolation room first. You are the last carload of people. The previous cars have already arrived. The rescue operation... ends here."

In fact, after paying a heavy price, the police did rescue everyone they could around them. In addition, now that the Internet is down, the call for help on the "Survival Guide" will never be updated again.

Chu Xiao glanced at Chen Zhiyun and said nothing. He then followed Officer Li and followed the crowd into the gate of the shelter.

As he walked past Chen Zhiyun, he seemed to hear the tired middle-aged policeman murmured in a low voice:

"...Since the mission of saving people has been completed, the next task is to catch the bad guys..."

Chapter 21 Girls

Just as they heard at the door, Chu Xiao's car was the last to arrive. Several vehicles carrying survivors had arrived before them. Including their car, there were nearly a hundred survivors in this batch.

Chu Xiao suddenly felt a strange gaze coming from him, but it was dark and the crowd was dense, so he looked in the direction of the gaze but saw nothing.

At this time, under the guidance of the management staff, this group of survivors was temporarily arranged in the isolation area - because they did not know whether any of these people were bitten or scratched by zombies, so before officially entering the shelter, these people had to stay in the isolation area for six hours.

It was called an isolation area, but in fact it was just a large room made of cement slabs, which was divided into several smaller rooms. Chu Xiao and a dozen other people were taken to one of the rooms and told that this was where they would stay temporarily. Since the space and time were very tight, it was impossible to isolate a single person, so they had to squeeze a dozen people into one room.

Relying on the dim light brought by the mall's backup power supply, Chu Xiao noticed that the environment here was very bad, and dirty bloodstains could be seen everywhere on the gray cement walls. Obviously, in this isolated area, some bad things often happened.

These dangerous signs caused panic among the survivors, and they rushed to the door to ask the administrator for an explanation, but the door to the quarantine area had been closed and no one paid any attention to them. One of the middle-aged men seemed to have not yet recovered from the world before the end of the world, and loudly denounced the administrator's indifference and irresponsibility, and asked to see his superior, but no one paid any attention to him, and the door was closed.

The man shouted a few words, as if asking who he was and which director he knew. When no one paid attention to him, he felt bored and found a place away from the crowd to sit down.

The others were not fools either. They naturally understood their current situation and moved away from others and found a place to sit down.

Chu Xiao saw all this and knew that the old rules were no longer applicable in this shelter. He looked at the steel rod in his hand and thought: No wonder they let us in without even taking our weapons. This clearly meant that if we encountered danger, we would have to find a way to solve it ourselves...

So, Chu Xiao also found a clean corner away from the crowd and looked around at everyone vigilantly.

Although we still don't know much about this virus, judging from the current situation, if someone is bitten by a zombie, they should quickly turn into a zombie. But if it is a scratch or something like that, the incubation period will be longer. The time will vary depending on the degree of exposure of the wound. Based on previous experience in the hospital, if we don't consider Xiaoyan's "special case", the longest time will not exceed six hours.

"I'm afraid it won't be that easy..." Chu Xiao muttered, remaining alert, closing his eyes slightly, pretending to rest, thinking quickly about his next plan. Now that he knew Gu Ke was missing, his time had become very tight, because the longer he dragged on, the more dangerous Gu Ke's situation would be.

——Besides, six hours of quarantine time… I have an appointment tonight…

At this moment, he suddenly felt someone approaching.

Chu Xiao opened his eyes and saw a petite figure appear in front of him under the dim light.

It was a cute little girl, not very old, probably still in primary school. From Chu Xiao's point of view, she should be from a wealthy family. She had cute pigtails and a black dress. Under the layers of lace, she had a pair of slender legs in white stockings and a pair of shiny black round-toed leather shoes.

Even at this age, she already makes people feel astonished. When she grows up, she will surely be a disaster-level beauty. Because the light was too dim before, and the little girl was petite, Chu Xiao didn't see that there was such a lovely elf hidden in the crowd.

The little girl didn't say anything and sat down next to Chu Xiao.

"Little girl, are you alone?" Chu Xiao was bored and asked casually, "Where are your family members?"

"They didn't listen to me, so they died." The girl's voice was very nice, clear and melodious like the sound of a green flute, but what she said surprised Chu Xiao.

She exuded a very strange atmosphere, which was somewhat out of place in this dark environment. The girl's tone was very calm, and the self-proclaimed "this sir" was also very cute, but for some reason, it made Chu Xiao feel creepy.

She stared at Chu Xiao. She was obviously just an elementary school girl, but for some reason, Chu Xiao felt a sense of panic as if she was seen through.

"Over there." The girl pointed to another corner of the room with her little hand. "It could be dangerous."

Chu Xiao looked in the direction where her finger pointed, and saw several men huddled in a corner with dejected looks, including the man who had been yelling before.

Chu Xiao smiled and said, "How can I be so unlucky."

The little girl didn't say anything, with an expression that said "believe it or not" on her face.

Although Chu Xiao treated the little girl's words as a joke on the surface, he instinctively felt that the words of this strange girl were incredibly persuasive.

——It won’t hurt to be careful.

Not long after, Chu Xiao suddenly heard some noise and opened his eyes abruptly. At the same time, Chu Xiao felt the girl next to him shrank suddenly.

In the corner that the girl pointed to, a man fell to the ground in pain, holding his throat without any warning. Chu Xiao had seen this scene many times before, and it was clearly the prelude to zombie transformation. He looked at the delicate girl next to him in surprise, thinking: Could it be that what this little girl said was right?

The other people in the isolation room basically hid at home until they ran out of ammunition and food and were rescued. Most of them had never fought with real guns or zombies before, so when they suddenly saw this scene, they immediately panicked.

The bewildered people screamed in fear. The middle-aged man who had screamed before immediately ran to the door and slammed it hard: "Help! Someone has turned into a zombie!"

However, before the people outside could react, the man who had quickly mutated had already rushed in his direction. Obviously, this man had no experience in dealing with zombies, and he was immediately knocked down by the zombies, with a large piece of flesh torn off his neck.

Then, screams rang out one after another throughout the isolation room.

The zombies were alarmed and immediately let go of the man who was bitten to death and rushed towards other people.

"A bunch of trash." Chu Xiao cursed in his heart. It was too late to wait for the people outside to come in. Otherwise, if he continued like this, he would have to deal with more than just one zombie.

The young man grabbed the steel rod and immediately blocked the zombie. In a hurry, he only had time to use the rod to press against the zombie's bloody mouth, and then kicked the zombie away. Chu Xiao's strength now exceeded that of an ordinary person, and this kick almost dented the zombie's chest.

Then, without hesitation, he rushed forward and hit the zombie on the head with a stick, smashing its brain until it collapsed to the ground and couldn't move.

After killing one, Chu Xiao couldn't rest yet because someone had been bitten to death just now.

At this time, the unlucky guy had already climbed up from the ground. There was a big cut on his neck, and the blood vessels and muscles inside were torn, and black and red blood kept gushing out. The man's head was hanging down at an angle, and he kept making creepy howls.

Chu Xiao took a step forward and smashed the second zombie's head into pieces with a stick. The spurting blood mixed with brain matter almost dyed half of the wall red.

Chu Xiao shook off the blood on the steel pipe and looked at the rest of the people with a frown. He was full of murderous aura, and even though he had just saved the lives of these people, the fear and fear of him far outweighed the gratitude of the people.

(ps: The loli character officially debuts!)

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The appearance of this novel was actually an accident. I was in a bad mood due to the failure of the previous novel at that time, so I wanted to write some words to vent. That’s why I chose the theme of apocalyptic writing. Then, I wrote the first draft of this article.

The outlines of several main characters also appeared in my mind at that time.