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At 3:17 in the morning, the intercom on the east watchtower rang.

"Brother Lin." Da Liu's voice was very low, as if he was speaking breathlessly, "There is something moving in the direction of the national highway. It's not a person."

Lin Yue opened his eyes from his light sleep.He leaned against the wall on the second floor of the cold storage, covered with a work coat, and put the walkie-talkie to his ear.It only took him three seconds from closing his eyes to fully waking up.This was an instinct engraved into his bones during the five years of his previous life - no matter how deeply he slept, as long as the sentry said a word, his consciousness would immediately surface without any transition.

He grabbed the walkie-talkie: "Quantity, distance, direction."

"Visually there are more than a dozen, less than twenty. The distance is about 400 meters, coming from the national highway in our direction. The movement speed is not fast, but the walking posture -" Liu paused and lowered his voice a little, "They are definitely not human. The legs are not bent, some are dragging, and one is crawling on the ground, crawling faster than walking."

Lin Yue stood up, his work jacket slipping off his body."Everyone, combat positions. All non-combatants enter Cold Storage No. 3 and lock the door. Zhao Ming and Lu Hanshuang gather at the main entrance."

Footsteps sounded in the cold storage.Su Muqing and Zhong Guowei stood up from the folding table, and the virus model chart on the table was quickly rolled up.Zhao Dezhu stood up from the chair in the corner, wrapped the photo frame in his arms tightly with old clothes, held it against his chest and walked towards the innermost cold storage No. 3.Wang Hao ran out of the power distribution room, carrying a removed diesel filter in his hand, and bumped into Lin Yue at the top of the stairs.

"Do you want to stop the diesel engine?" Wang Hao asked.

"Don't stop. Lock the door of the power distribution room and enter cold storage No. 3. You are not allowed to come out without my order."

"But the motor is still in the running-in period, I originally planned to-"

"Go in." Lin Yue held his shoulders and used some force on his hands. "If the motor is broken, it can be repaired. If a person is dead, it cannot be repaired."

Wang Hao opened his mouth, but finally nodded, stuffed the filter into his pocket, turned around and ran towards Cold Storage No. 3.His running posture was a bit awkward, but his speed was not slow.Lin Yue watched his back disappear at the end of the cold storage corridor before turning and going downstairs.

Behind the main entrance, Lu Hanshuang has arrived.She stood in the shadow on the right side of the iron door, holding a semi-automatic rifle in her hand. The barrel of the gun glowed black under the cold white light of the cold storage lighting.She had already screwed the gun on the gun - that gun Lin Yue had not seen last night. It was a personal belonging that she dug out of the equipment box early this morning.Zhao Ming ran over from the other direction, carrying the sharpened engineer shovel and a bulletproof vest.

"Put it on." Zhao Ming stuffed the bulletproof vest into Lin Yue's arms.

Lin Yue put on his vest, tightened the Velcro, and pulled out the engineering shovel from his waist.The shovel blade was sharpened by Zhao Ming the night before yesterday, and the blade gave off a thin cold light under the light.He glanced at the blade, then pressed the intercom: "Da Liu, real-time location."

"The distance is about three hundred meters. Still walking this way. The speed is a little faster than before - wait, the leading one stopped for a moment and tilted its head, as if -" Liu's voice suddenly paused, and after three seconds he continued, "Diesel engine. They heard the sound of the diesel engine. The direction of the leading one's head is facing the power distribution room."

Lu Hanshuang had already reached out to push the bolt of the iron door.

"Wang Hao," Lin Yue pressed the intercom, "cover all the soundproofing cotton on the diesel engine and turn the exhaust pipe to the back. Once done, immediately enter the cold storage for ten seconds."

The sound of Wang Hao's running footsteps and the muffled sound of metal colliding came from the intercom, and then the sound of the iron door closing.

"Two hundred meters." Da Liu's voice became even lower. "I saw their faces. They were gray, with no lips and all the teeth exposed. One of them walked with folded legs, but it walked faster than the others - Brother Lin, is it the mutant you mentioned before?"

"Licker." Lin Yue said.

Zhao Ming, who was standing next to him, saw Lin Yue's fingers tightening on the engineer shovel.Not fear, something deeper.The kind of instinctive reaction you only have when facing a monster that killed three of your teammates in a previous life.

"Da Liu, don't shoot. Wait for them to come to the door. Keep the guard tower silent."

"Understood."

Lin Yue turned to Zhao Ming and Lu Hanshuang: "There are about seventeen of them outside. One licker and the rest are ordinary zombies. We have to deal with them outside the wall. We can't use guns - the sound of gunshots can travel three kilometers at night, killing a dozen of them and attracting hundreds of them. These are just scattered wanderings, not a tide of zombies."

Lu Hanshuang had already put the rifle behind his back and pulled out a dagger from his waist.The blade is matte black and barely reflects light under the light.She tested the tightness of the scabbard, then held the dagger behind her back, her movements as smooth as turning on a faucet.

"Kill at close range." She said, "Ordinary zombies have only one fatal point - the brainstem. Behind the neck, below the occipital bone, between the third and fourth cervical vertebrae. Stab upwards diagonally, and only three centimeters in is enough. If it is from the front, push it in from the temples, and the angle cannot be deviated, otherwise it will get stuck on the skull. Don't chop the neck, the body will still move after the head is chopped off, and the bite force can be maintained for several minutes."

Zhao Ming looked at her, silently shifted the engineering shovel to his left hand, and pulled out the outdoor dagger from his waist.

Lin Yue pushed open the small iron door next to the main entrance.It was a single entrance reserved in the wall project. It was located in a hidden location and could not be seen from the outside.Three people filed out.

The night wind outside was stronger than before, carrying a strong smell of burnt food and another smell - the sweet smell of rotting flesh and blood mixed with excrement.That's the smell of zombies.Lin Yue's nasal cavity seemed to have been activated by some ancient memory switch, and the hairs all over his body stood up and then fell down.Not fear, but validation.That's the taste.He had been smelling it for five years, and after death and rebirth, he thought he would never have to smell it again, but when he smelled it now, he only had one thought in his mind - it was finally here.

They moved against the shadows on the outside of the wall.The barbed wire above the head looked like the thorns of some kind of carnivorous plant under the weak firelight, and the burrs at the ends of the wire shone with a fine cold light.Eighty meters ahead, a group of blurry black figures were dragging towards this side.There is no beauty of life in their walking posture - they are walking zombies controlled by something, and every step is a blasphemy against the word "walking" itself.The leading one walked the fastest, lying on all fours, its spine arched, its pale skin tightly wrapped around its rugged bones, like a gecko that had been skinned and put back together again.

Licker.

Lin Yue killed eleven lickers in his previous life.Remember every one.The third one was in the underground parking lot in the north of the city and bit off half the shoulder of a team member next to him. The man's name was Sun Sheng, and he was still pulling the trigger when he died.The seventh one was at the entrance of the abandoned hospital morgue. He nailed it to the wall with a fire axe. The ax blade was stuck in his spine and could not be pulled out. He killed three more ordinary zombies with his bare hands before going back to get the axe.The eleventh one - he killed it before dying with the Corpse King. He stuffed the last grenade into its mouth, and the shock wave of the explosion blew him five meters away.

"I will be the main attacker." Lin Yue said, his voice so low that he could barely speak with his lips, "Lu Hanshuang, the lame ordinary zombie on the right. Zhao Ming, the slowest one on the left. Leave the licker to me."

No one questions it.Lu Hanshuang and Zhao Ming spread out to the left and right, their figures blending into the edge of the shadow of the wall.

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