Screaming Cycle

Chapter 17: Lost City of Ashes-17

The crowd raised their heads following the sound.

The Wal-Mart where they are located has adopted a central open structure for lighting considerations. People standing in the lobby and looking up can see the glass dome on the top of the third floor.

Now everyone can see that there are many crimson fireballs scattered on the inside of the eggshell-shaped glass dome.

The number of lizards gathered on it was too much, and Jie Ge and others couldn't count how many tails there were. Only a rough estimate, at least hundreds.

If you don’t live in such a strange city of ashes and know how dangerous and deadly those lizards are, lighting the ball is scattered around, and after the refraction of the accumulated ash, the whole dome is as dazzling as a cloud of flames dyed by the glow of the sun. Romantic.

It's a pity that no one will appreciate the crimson beauty.

Everyone in the lobby only felt fear.

Suddenly, the entire lobby fell into silent silence.

Not only was no one speaking, they didn't even dare to breathe.

Everyone is afraid that the lizards on the dome will fall one after another in the next second, and which one will fall on him.

"Let's... let's get out of here..."

About half a minute later, someone whispered softly with a crying vibrato.

Brother Jie turned his head, gave the talking girl a fierce look, and then turned to look in the direction of the main entrance.

Immediately he found that not only the dome above his head, but also the dusty glass door was covered with lizards burning into fireballs.

Because Jie had watched the trailer in advance and got some "spoilers", in order to prevent some "thing" he thought was the most terrifying, he specially instructed everyone to pull the iron gate on the glass wall along the street. When it came down, the chain heads were all stuck with a solid wire from the inside to ensure that no "person" could break in from the outside.

Originally, he planned very well, to find a safe place where he could eat and drink, and hide if he could. As long as the progress bar on the watch was finished, he would survive the third time.

But he should have thought that he would not do it easily.

In "Peach Blossom Spring", there is an empirical talk that started from the flesh and blood of an unknown number of "predecessors".

That is, there are no shortcuts in the "world".

The more the participants want to escape the plot, the more they will fall into desperation unknowingly.

In fact, Jie Ge discovered that the situation of these people is just in response to this empirical statement.

They are now surrounded by a large group of lizards, and they seem to be unable to hide here any longer.

But he had already put down the iron gate for the exit, twisted the iron wire on the lock, and even let other people use debris to block all the exits he could think of for safety. So if you want to go out now, the only way is to take the risk of being attacked by a lizard to tear down the wire and open the door.

…But, does he really want to go out?

Thinking of the "those things" he saw in the trailer, Jie hesitated again.

…Perhaps, he should stay here?

The strong man in blue looked up again and looked at the glass dome full of fireballs.

After all, those lizards still seem to be very scary. As long as you be careful and don’t get bitten, you are much safer than facing "those things" in the dark outside...

"Ah!"

Before Jie could hesitate to come out, a short exclamation of the girl came from behind him.

But this time, the girl's voice sounded with a surprising trill: "Someone! Someone outside!"

She hurriedly picked up a flashlight from the ground, turned the aperture to the brightest, and projected it to the glass door separated by the iron gate, "Someone is here to rescue us—"

Halfway through the girl's words, the ending sound suddenly caught in her throat.

Because, with the lighting of the flashlight, everyone saw that there were six figures standing outside the iron gate of the fence.

Those people were tall and short, but they looked very burly-even fat.

Compared with the size of their heads, their shoulders are all too wide, and judging from the outline of their arms, they should be very stout.

It was too dark outside, and the glass was covered with a layer of gray. The light from the flashlight passed, and the people inside Wal-Mart could not see the whole picture of the people outside. They could only barely distinguish a human face. The outline of the facial features was a bit exaggerated. Especially a pair of eyes, they are as round as bull's eyes. Even if they are illuminated by a flashlight, they don't even blink, and their pupils are still yellow-brown.

At this moment, one of those people tilted his head to the left as if a little girl was so cute.

Seeing "him" movements, everyone in the room gasped.

Because the person's head was twisted more than ninety degrees, and his left eye was twisted directly below his left shoulder.

What's even more frightening is that when "he" made this head tilted posture, except for his head, the rest of his body did not move at all, as if his neck was directly folded down and then immediately restored to its original shape.

But which normal person’s cervical spine can be twisted to this angle?

"...Woo..."

In the lobby, someone couldn't bear this weird scene anymore, and couldn't restrain himself and let out a low sob.

The girls in the couple group try their best to shrink their bodies into the arms of their boyfriends, and the two girlfriends also hugged tightly, and each other can hear the trembling of each other's teeth.

At this time, the six "people" who were separated from them by an iron gate and a glass door moved again.

"They" took a step towards the direction of the flashlight light source.

It's just that these people's walking postures are also very awkward.

The two girls in the girlfriend group felt that the movement of the people outside was like the penguins they saw in the aquarium not long ago.

They couldn't see the movements of the "legs", but their whole bodies swayed slowly from side to side, like a tumbler whose organs were stuck, approaching them with difficulty.

"This... these people..."

The young man hugged his girlfriend tightly, tried his best to open his two eyes that had been swollen by Jie Ge, and stared out the door in horror, "This...Is this... still a human?"

"Don't make a noise!"

Brother Jie shouted: "Don't be afraid, they can't get in!"

Now, he was extremely thankful that he hadn't gone out. After all, compared with the lizards, the big guys with weird movements outside looked a hundred times more terrifying.

Yes, this is what he saw in the trailer before entering the world.

In the thirty-second notice, most of the time was gray cities, ashes dancing in the sky, and fiery lava that did not exist anywhere.

Only the few shots passing by, let him see a few shaky figures walking in the fly ash.

Those figures were just like what he saw now, with thick waists and awkward movements. They couldn't see their faces in the dim twilight. Only a pair of huge yellow-brown bull eyes stared straight ahead.

—It's them!

Brother Jie clenched his fists.

—It must be them!

-The biggest crisis in this city!

While others were not paying attention, Jie Ge looked down at his watch and saw that the pointer on the progress bar on the watch had turned from yellow to red.

In other words, they have officially entered the "final chapter", which also means that the most dangerous moment is approaching.

"Don't panic!"

Brother Jie wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and forced his composure, "That gate is very strong, they can't get in!"

"That... those people..."

The girl sobbed and asked, "What are those people... on earth?"

Brother Jie clenched his fist hard and replied, "It's probably a zombie!"

When he watched the trailer, he guessed what those figures wandering in the ashes were.

In Peach Blossom Spring, he is a rookie who has not even broken through the difficulty of entry and has no abilities. There is no strong organization willing to accept him. Those who can usually speak up are just a few newcomers who are about the same level as him. That's it.

Therefore, he did not have the opportunity to ask more experienced people for advice. He could only guess wildly, and finally got inspiration from an old movie called "Ji ○ Ling", thinking that what he saw in the trailer should be zombies. .

Therefore, he chose a gun as a prop to bring into this world-when dealing with humanoid monsters such as zombies, there is no better way than a gun.

Thinking of this, Jie gritted his teeth fiercely.

It's all to blame for the curly-haired baby face that killed Qiandao, who even removed his magazine, which made him fall into an embarrassing situation where a gun can't be used!

—But it doesn’t matter...

Brother Jie grinds his posterior molars hard.

—Although this gate is only a fence-like iron gate, it is an alloy mesh structure that is claimed to be strong enough to withstand small blasts. It is strong enough that the zombies outside can never enter...

—It’s coming, it’s coming! The progress bar is almost at the end!

—As long as it lasts for a while...

—Stay till dawn at most...

"Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!"

Just when Jie Ge desperately encouraged himself, he suddenly heard a scream that panicked to the point of breaking the sound.

"Up, up!"

A girl tremblingly raised her hand and pointed to the three-story glass dome in horror.

"There are... there are people up there too!!"

Everyone looked up suddenly.

Sure enough, as she said, on the glass dome covered with lizards, there were seven or eight more figures.

Although the dust on the roof was too thick and the distance was far away, the light from the flashlight could not penetrate at all, and could only give a rough outline, but they could still clearly see that there was indeed something outside the eggshell-shaped glass roof. People" are the same as those standing outside, with small heads and wide shoulders, with strange proportions.

"I fuck!"

Brother Jie almost went mad.

He never knew that zombies could climb walls!

And before everyone noticed it, he quickly and silently climbed to the three-story roof!

In the next second, several "people" gathered outside the door suddenly moved.

"Quack! Quack!"

Everyone at Wal-Mart heard the sharp bird chirp that pierced the eardrum like a sharp tool pulling the glass.

Immediately, Jie Ge and the others saw that the figure of the "big guys" outside the door suddenly swelled many times.

Their "faces" split apart and turned into two huge wings with a wingspan of more than three meters!

That's not a zombie!

It turned out to be a huge group of owls!

They just folded their wings and blocked their faces with the two strands of long feathers on the backs of their wings, and simulated the appearance of human faces with the patterns on the feathers-this is just a mimicry for hunting, in order to let their prey relax their vigilance!

"My God, my God!"

Before everyone had time to digest this information, a few loud glass cracking sounds had already sounded above everyone's heads.

Everyone raised their heads in response to the sound, and saw several human-faced owls on the dome also spread their wings, pecking frantically at the eggshell glass with their hook-shaped beaks.

The bird's beak was extremely hard and sharp, and a cobweb-like crack was nailed in the glass after the two mouths!

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PS. The various big and small monsters in this copy have some interesting allusions. When this copy is finished, I will talk about the source of inspiration when the author has something to say~

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