On killing the protagonist

Cui Jiabao walked sideways into the counter, opened the drawer, took out a pack of Ruan Zhonghua from inside, and said with a smile: "It's just such a poor place, why are you still selling Ruan Zhonghua?"

After finishing speaking, he unpacked the package, took out the cigarette and held it in his mouth, and was about to light it.

Standing in the food area, Zhang Yuan looked at him coldly as he lit the lighter, neither stopping him nor stepping forward to join him.

Cui Jiabao noticed his gaze, put the cigarette in his pocket, spat on the ground, and sneered: "The little bastard still coaxed us to say that the thing is poisonous, I smoked it, why didn't anything happen?"

After finishing speaking, he took two more puffs, and then showed a comfortable expression: "It's been two days, but I'm suffocating, Grandpa!"

He raised his hand and pulled out a plastic bag from under the shelf, and began to look for things he wanted to take away in the store.

The first thing he took was alcohol. The beer had expired. He regretfully threw the things back on the shelf, and reached out to take a bottle of Erguotou from the shelf beside him, as well as some canned fish and meat, candy and so on.

At the same moment, Hu Yueshan was holding an iron rod tightly, and looked around vigilantly.

They passed by a store just now, and saw a few women standing at the door from a distance, but when they got closer, they realized that they were not women at all, but a few plastic models.

Ye Hanjiang looked at the clothes on the model, covered his mouth and coughed twice, and then said: "It seems that it should be summer when the accident happened here!"

Hu Yueshan turned his head, and sure enough, he saw that the models were all wearing summer clothes, and the style should be the same as a few years ago.

"Clap!"

A soft sound caught the attention of the two of them, and Ye Hanjiang and the others quickly ran to the place where the sound came from.

"Hey, what do you think? It turned out to be a cat!" Hu Yueshan heaved a sigh of relief, and put down the raised iron rod.

I was a little disappointed again for a while.

Right next to the shop, there is an alley that is two people wide.

At the end of the alley, a black cat stood hunched over the wall, staring at them with wary eyes.

Ye Hanjiang looked at the cat, with a thoughtful look in his eyes.

"quack!"

A flock of black birds flew by in the sky, they were crows!

"How come there are crows in this damn place? What a bad luck!" Hu Yueshan shook his head and said with an unhappy face.

The two ignored it and continued along the street.

"Hey, little brother, look!" Hu Yueshan happily pointed to a building across the street and said, "Stone City Post Office!"

Ye Hanjiang beside him looked at the yard full of fallen leaves, his heart sank.

Sure enough, there was a map of Stone City in the post office. According to the map, besides the road they came in, there was another road at the other end of the city, leading to a city in country T.

"Great!" Hu Yueshan was so excited that he hurriedly rolled up the map and put it in his pocket: "Now we can finally go out!"

Ye Hanjiang's face was pale. He counted the time in his heart and said to Hu Yueshan: "Let's go back! It's almost time."

Hu Yueshan raised his hand and saw that it was already past three o'clock in the afternoon, and it would take more than half an hour to take a shortcut back to the restaurant, so he immediately supported Ye Hanjiang and hurried back to the base camp.

When they arrived at the restaurant, Cui Jiabao and Ye Qiu had already returned and were sitting in front of the table drinking water.

"Xiao Jiu!" Ye Qiu rushed over as soon as he saw him, and asked worriedly, "Are you all right? Is there anything uncomfortable?"

Ye Hanjiang shook his head, looked around the room, and asked doubtfully, "Have Qinuo and Wang Ting not come back yet?"

Mei Xiaohui took a dry towel, asked Hu Yueshan to wipe the water drops on his head, and handed him another one, and replied: "Not yet, when Zhang Yuan and the others came back, they said that Qinuo and Wang Ting seemed to be going near the exit." Look, it should be a little later."

As soon as the voice fell, a bell rang at the door.

Everyone turned their heads, and sure enough, they saw Qi Nuo and Wang Ting walking in, covered in moisture.

Everyone sat down at the dining table, and Mei Xiaohui poured hot water for them: "I boiled it with the mineral water in the car, let's drink some!"

Ye Hanjiang took the water glass and thanked her, held it in his hand and didn't drink it.

The hot cup warmed the palms that had been eroded by the cold, and it took almost 5 minutes before Ye Hanjiang felt a little sensation in his numb fingertips.

Ye Qiu said: "Let me go first. Guolin and I didn't find anything special, but we found a big supermarket on the way. I took a look. The time on the label of fresh aquatic products was June 2016. Between the 6th and 8th of January."

"That is to say, it has been nearly four years since the city changed?" Zhang Yuan rubbed his water glass and said solemnly.

"Hasn't anyone discovered the abnormality here for four years?" Ding Huimin asked in surprise.

Zhou Guolin nodded: "I'm afraid it is, if someone finds out, it should have been reported long ago!"

Zeno and Wang Ting told everyone that they didn't find anything special. The exit was still covered in white fog, and they couldn't find the exit out of the city.

Zhang Yuan took something like an account book from his backpack and put it on the table: "We took this out from an archive when we passed by."

Ye Hanjiang took the notebook and started to read it from the beginning, but the more he turned back, the more ugly his face became.

"What's wrong?" Cui Jiabao asked anxiously.

The person who was asked closed the file and said in an unusually serious tone: "From 05 to 15, Stone City's economic source changed from tourism to medical industry. By the end of 15, the medical industry accounted for the entire history. 80.00% of Dongshi’s income.”

"What's the matter?" Cui Jiabao said indifferently, "It's just the medical industry! It's normal!"

Ye Hanjiang shook his head and said: "It's not as simple as you think. I have observed since entering the city. Whether it is an urban area or a suburban area, there are no large-scale factory buildings on the surface."

He went on to say: "Along the way, there are not a lot of shops selling medical equipment or medicines on the street, which shows that the source of medical income in Stone City is not the production or sale of medical related items, but the possibility of Focus on medical research."

The others couldn't understand what he meant, but the five medical students, including Ye Qiu, all changed their faces when they heard the words.

Ding Huimin said tremblingly: "It's not what I thought, is it?"

Zhang Yuan smiled wryly, "I'm afraid that's what you think!"

The coquettish girl looked confused: "Why do you think this way or that way? What kind of charades are you two doing?"

Zhang Yuan asked, "Have you watched Resident Evil?"

"What crisis?"

"Resident Evil is a science fiction movie."

Ye Qiu patiently explained: "There is a company in Raccoon City called Umbrella that manufactures pharmaceutical products. The Umbrella Company has developed a biochemical drug. Unexpectedly, the drug leaked and turned the entire Raccoon City into zombies."

Mei Xiaohui's complexion suddenly changed: "You don't mean to say that Stone City has also become a raccoon city?"

"No!" A firm voice denied her guess.

Just when everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Ye Hanjiang said again: "To be exact, it's a very similar experience to Raccoon City!"

"What do you mean?" Ye Qiu looked at him suspiciously.

Ye Hanjiang looked complicated: "Don't forget, the zombies in Raccoon City exist 24 hours a day, but here..."

Having said that, he paused and looked at everyone: "Zombies only appear for a limited time."

He used the word qualifier very delicately, and everyone became pensive.

The hour hand quietly passed four o'clock, and the pouring rain outside the window suddenly disappeared without a trace, as if the still button had been pressed.

A dense fog as white as milk once again enveloped the entire city.

Realizing this, Ye Hanjiang's dignified face paled a little. He pointed at the table and said to the others: "Now, let me tell you what I discovered, or in other words, the laws of this city."

As he spoke, he took out a pen and paper and began to write and draw on it: "Since entering the city yesterday afternoon, I noticed that we have gone through three stages."

"That is, from four o'clock in the afternoon to twelve o'clock in the night when entering the city, the representative sign is the dense fog."

"Then from one in the morning to eight in the morning, the representative symbol is the city full of zombies."

"There is also the stage we have just experienced. From nine o'clock in the morning to four o'clock in the afternoon, the representative sign is heavy rain."

"As of four o'clock this afternoon, the heavy rain has turned into heavy fog again. It can be seen from these that the changes in this city are regular.!"

Zhang Yuan stroked his chin and asked, "What can these laws explain?"

Ye Hanjiang bowed his head: "This means that in the early hours of tonight, we will experience the situation of being surrounded by zombies again."

As soon as these words came out, everyone's expressions changed. The zombie army left a deep impression on them last night, and no one wanted to experience this again.

He mentioned yesterday, Ye Qiu suddenly remembered, and asked: "By the way, Xiao Jiu, I forgot to ask you, how did you know last night that those zombies would disappear automatically at dawn? Could it be that you can pinch and count?"

Ye Hanjiang caressed the water glass that was getting colder, and smiled wryly: "How can it count? I'm just taking a gamble!"

"Gambling?" Everyone was surprised. Seeing Ye Hanjiang's swearing, they thought he had a chance to win!

Ye Hanjiang nodded: "Do you still remember the changes in the whole city after the siren went off?"

The others nodded in unison, Ye Hanjiang recalled: "I thought it was strange at the time, judging by the dust everywhere, this city should have been deserted for a while. For such a long time, it is impossible for us to be The only group of people who came here by mistake."

"If the zombies wreak havoc every time people come, the city would have been ruined long ago, so I guess there must be some mysterious power that will restore everything to its original state at a certain time. Thinking about the weather The change is eight hours, so I dare to bet that the zombies will disappear by the time."

While talking, he changed the water several times, but his cold hands still didn't feel any relief.

Just when Ye Hanjiang was thinking about whether to go to the small shop next door to look for a pair of gloves, a soft and warm thing was suddenly stuffed into his hands.

Ye Hanjiang took a look, the plush coat, what is it if it's not a warm baby?

He raised his head, and saw that Qinuo was standing in front of him, Ye Hanjiang was taken aback, and thanked him softly.

A gleam of joy flashed in Zeno's eyes, he hummed, turned around and returned to his seat neatly.

Ye Hanjiang couldn't laugh or cry when he saw how he acted resolutely and without sloppiness, this big guy really has a unique way of doing things.

In fact, thinking about it carefully, although Zeno doesn't like to talk, and his relationship with the tour group is also very distant, judging from the past two days of getting along with him, he doesn't have any malice towards the people in the tour group.

Maybe he had some unspeakable secrets, so he had to use this special method to enter their team.

Thinking about it this way, Ye Hanjiang lost a lot of his guard against him.

Thinking of this, he looked thoughtfully at a person in the corner: "It's him who has an ambiguous attitude towards the tour group. '