The sewer was filled with dead silence. Only the sound of water dripping could be heard.

Sinan tilted his head slightly.

More than ten meters away, Zhou Rong could see the shadow on the edge of his cheek, from the straight bridge of his nose to his lips and chin, like a silhouette painting.

"You guys go." Suddenly, he said, "I'll go back to the surface entrance and drive the old car back."

Before Zhou Rong could persuade him, he slammed the iron door shut and locked it.

Zhou Rong was furious. He rushed over and grabbed the iron bars. "Sinan!"

The iron door shook with a few loud bangs. Before the echo died down, Sinan had already stepped back several meters in the water. He said coldly, "What are you doing?"

"It's too dangerous for you to be alone. Come with us!"

"Don't worry about me!"

Zhou Rong looked at his handsome and cold face covered in blood. He couldn't understand.

Sinan, who took the initiative to whisper in his ear when he came in, who immediately cried when he saw him at the bottom of the pit, and who went crazy when he saw Zhang Yingjie's body was taken away, suddenly returned to the state when they first met in T City. He was alienated, cold, and even wary. He even kept a distance of more than ten meters at all times.

It was as if after experiencing life and death, all his vivid and even intense emotions had disappeared completely and retracted back into an invisible and cold shell.

Sinan's unreasonable vigilance against Alpha made Zhou Rong have some very bad guesses, but he didn't want to think about it. He just took a long breath. "Comrade Xiao Si, it will take at least two hours to get to the entrance from here. You're alone and have no weapon …"

Sinan stretched out his hand. "Give it to me."

“？”

"Gun, car key."

"You!" Zhou Rong pointed at his nose and said angrily, "Stop it!

You don't even trust your comrades?!

You … "

"You're not giving it to me?" Sinan said coldly and turned to leave.

Zhou Rong immediately put down his submachine gun and took out the keys to the old biochemical car they drove into B City. "Come here!"

Sinan did not allow him to refuse. "Throw it over."

As time went by, Si Nan's attitude was as unshakable as ice.

Zhou Rong pondered for a moment, but there was nothing he could do. He could only throw the car keys and his submachine gun over from the iron bars.

He thought for a moment and was still worried. "The base's drainage system is very complicated, and there may be zombie gorillas near Area E.

Wait here, I'll go up and get a signal flare. If there's any danger, immediately … "

Before he could finish, Sinan picked up the car keys and the submachine gun, turned around, and left.

Zhou Rongyi choked on his anger, "Hey!

Where the hell are you going?! "

"See you at the fertilizer factory," Sinan said flatly without turning his head.

Zhou Rong listened to the footsteps in the tunnel getting farther and farther away. Finally, he breathed a sigh of relief.

The distance between people was indeed like this. One party's endless pursuit would only cause the other party to retreat more urgently and vigilantly — he thought so self-deprecatingly. He turned around and walked back the way he came, but suddenly he sniffed and smelled a strange smell.

The stench that had been brewing in the sewer for many years was mellow and distant. It was mixed with the rusty iron door and moldy walls. It was like all kinds of smelly atomic bombs repeatedly wreaking havoc on his nasal mucosa.

But in this indiscriminate bombardment, there was a vague and indescribable smell where Sinan stood just now.

He could not describe what it was, but he felt a little fluttering in his heart.

But his footsteps paused for a moment, and it was covered by the aggressive smell of the sewer.

"Brother Rong!" Chun Cao's voice came from afar. "Where are you?

Are you okay? Where's Sinan? "

Chun Cao could not wait to come down and look for him. Zhou Ronghui came back to his senses and coughed.

"It's okay … I'm here. Come and help me."

Zhou Rong and Chun Cao worked together and carried Zhang Yingjie up.

Sinan jumped into the sewer early, so Zhang Yingjie's body was not damaged too much, but his eyes were still wide open. Zhou Rong tried to help him close his eyes, but he could not.

Ding Shi said that there was a saying in their hometown that people died with their eyes open because they still had something they missed. So Zhou Rong squatted on the ground and looked at Zhang Yingjie, saying, "Yingjie, Yan Hao is alive. Everyone is alive. We are going to take the information and antibodies to the South China Sea. After the mission is completed, we will steal a helicopter and go to the Northeast to take your wife and children to a shelter. In the future, as long as I have food to eat, your wife and children will have food to eat. As long as I am alive, your wife and children will have a good life …" After saying that, he reached out his hand and wiped Zhang Yingjie's wide open eyes slowly closed.

When they came in, seven of them were joking around, but when they left, only four of them were left standing. One of them was unconscious, and the other one would never wake up.

Zhou Rong and the others first returned to the central area and then went up. On the way, they encountered several waves of zombies, but Yan Hao and the others had brought a large amount of ammunition. After a few rounds of strafing and grenades, they wiped out all the zombies.

They arrived at the surface half an hour earlier than they expected. Zhou Rongyi looked at the explosion-proof armored car and said, "Hey, you guys are really good. You can even drive up like this?"

Guo Weixiang said, "We blew up a few doors to get to the surface. We originally wanted to turn back and steal a helicopter, but we were caught by zombies."

"So, a man who is never content is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant. You guys should have just waited at the original location.

But you guys are really good at running. You ran all the way from the South to the North. It was a loss for our track and field team that we didn't send you to the Olympic Games … Oh, there are mortars! "

Chun Cao said, "Come on, Brother Rong, you are almost drooling."

Zhou Rong smiled and tried to put the mortar on his shoulder. Then he threw it back into the trunk and slammed the door.

"Let's go!"

The armored car turned around and rushed through the base's parking lot. With a loud bang, it knocked the brake off the road and sped straight to the south.

At six o 'clock in the morning, the sky was dark and gray, covering the bloody ground.

Zhou Rong made a turn around the outer extension of the barbed wire fence. In front of them was the sewer that they used to enter the base. The broken biochemical car that they drove to the base was still parked on the side of the road.

A figure leaned against the car door and looked back.

Si Nan had obviously changed. He had found a riot police uniform from somewhere and was wearing a pair of thick black leather boots and an Uzi submachine gun at his side.

He looked like he was waiting for the sunrise, or he was just resting.

The dried blood on the side of his handsome face had been washed away. Because he was wearing black, his face looked cold and pale. As the armored car passed by, he looked at Zhou Rong calmly through the window.

Zhou Rong looked down at Sinan from above. His eyes were filled with scrutiny. Soon, Sinan's figure was left far behind the car.

In the rearview mirror, Sinan got into the car door. The biochemical car finally drove slowly onto the main road.

The distance between the two cars was less than 200 meters. Zhou Rong looked up several times and could see the shadow of the car behind him.

The sky was getting brighter. Along the way, Zhou Rong would stop at every supermarket and gas station. He would take people to find supplies and replenish water. Sinan also stopped, but he didn't get out. He sat in the driver's seat and slept.

Zhou Rong rummaged through the messy shelves. He mixed up the batteries, salt, soap, paper clips and other miscellaneous things into a cardboard box. He walked out of the supermarket with the box in his arms and kicked a stumbling zombie.

He took out the anti-inflammatory medicine and threw it to Ding Shi. He signaled to feed it to Yan Hao. Then he turned around and saw Chun Cao standing on her tiptoes by the window of the biochemical car. She stretched her neck and talked to Sinan.

Zhou Rong didn't feel good. He thought for a while and went back to the supermarket to shoot a few zombies. He went to the food counter and took out a few bags of candied fruit.

"Daughter!" Zhou Rong stood between the two cars and shouted. He raised the candied fruit and shook it.

Chun Cao looked up and said with disgust, "It's so sweet!

Who wants to eat this? "

Zhou Rong clearly saw Sinan's throat move, as if he was swallowing saliva.

"Forget it," Zhou Rong said disappointedly. He walked away with the candied fruit.

They stopped seven or eight times along the way and cleaned more than ten supermarkets in the third ring. They carried out a ton of rice, flour, oil, and dozens of boxes of daily necessities. It was a remarkable result.

Yan Hao's condition didn't get worse, but it didn't get better either. He was in a coma and had a fever in the evening.

Zhou Rong wanted to rob the hospital pharmacy, but the public hospital was a zombie disaster area. They only had four complete combat forces, including Si Nan, who was likely to leech off the water to gain experience, which made four and a half. They had no milk, so they didn't have the strength to rob the public hospital, so they had to give up.

Fortunately, they finally found a private cosmetic hospital before nightfall. The doctors and nurses all turned into zombies and ran away.

Zhou Rong took his cheap daughter and swaggered into the pharmacy. He didn't care whether she knew the pharmacy or not. He took all the medicine he saw.

"Don't try!" Zhou Rongyi's face was terrible. "You have no chance in this life. Don't even think about it!"

Chun Cao stretched her neck and stood in front of the mirror. She held the silicone fake breast and gestured to her own chest.

"Do you think it's possible to save a plastic surgeon or something along the way?"

Chun Cao said thoughtfully, "Don't they say that most female Alpha are busty? Why didn't my chest move? I think I may be a fake Alpha …"

Zhou Rong said helplessly, "The secondary sexual characteristics of your other part of the body don't develop in this way."

Chun Cao said, "There's nowhere to use it, and I can't take a selfie to ask for likes."

Her words were very reasonable. Zhou Rong didn't have anything to say. He comforted her, "Next time you take a selfie and send it to your circle of friends. We'll give you likes."

They each held two medicine boxes, and Chun Cao's silicone fake breast was hanging around her neck. They went out of the plastic hospital.

Ding Shi was on guard with a gun, Guo Weixiang was urinating under a telephone pole on the side of the road, and the armored car behind them was opened. Sinan was leaning in and seemed to be looking for something.

Zhou Rong coughed.

Sinan immediately stopped looking. He took a bottle of water from the car and walked quickly to the back car while drinking.

"… Are you two really not talking?" Chun Cao asked in a low voice.

Zhou Rong didn't answer. Instead, he asked, "What were you whispering about?"

"It's … It's nothing. He doesn't like Alpha. He thinks it's not safe with the suppression of pheromones … I said that my pheromone is weaker than yours. He said yes, and then that's it."

Zhou Rong nodded and didn't say anything. Chun Cao said sympathetically, "I think Si Xiaonan may have been stimulated before. If the virus hadn't broken out, he would have been better off starting a Beta Rights Promotion Association to advocate for human rights and do charity work …"

As night fell, everyone returned to the armored car for dinner.

Because they had accumulated a lot of supplies, the stingy Zhou Rong was finally generous. He opened beer and more than ten cans of meat and vegetables. He dipped the bread in Lao Gan Ma sauce and ate it.

Sinan was still hiding in the biochemical car and didn't want to come over. Chun Cao went to find him with food and drinks. After a while, she came back and said, "He didn't want beer. He asked if there was any more Lao Gan Ma."

"Is he really going to cut ties with us?" Guo Weixiang was disappointed.

Zhou Rong said, "Tell him that if we cut ties, there won't be any more Lao Gan Ma."

Chun Cao took the order and left. This time, she came back quickly. "'If you don't have it, then you don't have it. We'll see. He wants two blankets when he sleeps at night.'"

Zhou Ronggang wanted to say that if they cut ties, there would be no blankets. Everyone in the car stared at him with condemning eyes.

Zhou Rong said, "… Give him three blankets!"

The night at the end of October in the north was very cold. Several people huddled in the depths of the rear compartment of the armored car and slept on the floor. Only Zhou Rong was a distance away from everyone. He slept in the outermost position near the door.

In the middle of the night, the moon was bright and the stars were few.

The door slid open quietly. Sinan was wrapped in a blanket. He only stretched out his right hand and rummaged through the carton of food beside the door.

His breathing was even softer than a cat's when it was hunting. However, there was no target in the carton, not even any snacks. There was only the bottom of a bottle of Lao Gan Ma left. The plastic bag was filled with unpacked soda biscuits and buns from the supermarket.

Sinan looked away. Zhou Rong's back was to him and he was snoring steadily. There seemed to be something stuffed in the pocket of his camouflage pants. A sharp corner of a bag was exposed.

Sinan: "…?"

Sinan didn't make any sound. He stretched out two fingers and pinched the sharp corner.

He was just about to pull the bag out when Zhou Rong suddenly turned over, raised his hand, and pressed Sinan's back. Like lightning, Zhou Rong wrapped Sinan up and pressed him under his body.

Bang!

The back of Sinan's head hit the mattress, making a dull sound.

Not far away, Guo Weixiang scratched his butt and turned over. He muttered a few words, as if he was talking about braised pork.

Sinan frowned. His tightly pursed lips were slightly red under the moonlight. He stared at Zhou Rong without saying a word.

The two of them maintained their overlapping position and didn't move. After a few seconds, the surroundings returned to silence again.

Zhou Rong stared at Sinan's amber pupils. A condescending smile appeared in his eyes, and the corners of his mouth curled up.

Then he took out the bag of apple preserves from his trouser pocket, shook it, and leaned over to Sinan's ear and said slowly.

"You …"

Before he finished speaking, his hand was empty. The apple preserves were gone.

Sinan pushed him away. He rolled up the blanket and rushed back to the biochemical car.