[Martial Arts] Infinite Chamber Game

Reality does not allow Chu Liuxiang to be sad for too long.

His hearing was much sharper than that of an average person. While looking at the bodies of the dead, he could already hear the sound of the zombies marching outside.

When there is no target, the zombies move slowly and make almost no sound. But when tens of thousands of zombies approach, the chaotic footsteps and the noise of their huddling together fall into the long silent night, like a black hand in the night. A keen person can feel the creepy feeling without even listening.

"There is no doubt that those people were killed by you. It was your incompetence that turned the help into trouble." During the live broadcast, Gong Jiu pointed this out bluntly: "It's been so long, and you still think of yourself as a lone ranger. Do you think that if you teach those people martial arts, they will spontaneously help you when you need them? Don't dream. You don't even know the basic coordination. The guy named Zhang Sirui is stronger than you, but not much stronger. He can only control thirty people at most."

"The two women around you are actually pretty good. Unfortunately, they also don't have the ability to lead. At most, they handle some trivial matters just because they want to help you, as if the mission itself has nothing to do with them."

"In the final analysis, they are too dependent on you. If even your teammates are like this, don't count on others."

Gong Jiu was not a talkative person. Sometimes he would not say a word for days, and he never liked to meddle in other people's affairs. But as soon as the live broadcast was connected, he started chattering, causing Yidianhong and Wuqing to look at him with strange eyes, and they even began to wonder if he had gone crazy doing math problems.

In response, Chu Liuxiang just smiled bitterly: "You are right, I have never thought about leading them, I just want the people who come to me to survive, and let more people survive, that's all." After that, he sighed: "It's just that there are some things that you can't do even if you understand them."

"Can't do it, or don't want to do it?" Gong Jiu sneered: "It's a pity that you have no choice but to do it now."

"Yeah...I have no choice but to do it."

He walked in the darkness, the knife at his waist already unsheathed. The darkness might cover its sharpness, but it could not hide its deadly danger.

The moment the blade was unsheathed, his entire person seemed to have changed in an instant, from sad to cold, and a cold light like a blade burst out from his body.

He was like a killer.

Yidianhong stared at Chu Liuxiang, as if a wild beast suddenly saw its own kind. After a while, he disconnected the connection.

Wuqing was surprised and asked, "Why? Didn't you say you wanted to go over there?"

The red eyes were still looking far away, but a cruel smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"Wait a little longer. I want to see what he will do."

"Isn't there a game in the city in a few days?" Yidianhong put his hand on Wuqing's shoulder, and said in a hoarse and low voice with a hint of joy: "I'll help you kick the ball first."

Wuqing said: "But many people are going to die over there soon."

"People will die everywhere." Yidianhong said, "If he doesn't make a choice, more people will die."

……

Amid the commotion, a new roster was announced. Of the original 322 people, only 273 were left. Those who had taken advantage of the chaos to escape were all young and strong men around 30 years old.

People of this age group are very popular in the community. They all have their own women, and some have more than one. Considering that the women have no objections, it is not easy for others to intervene. Now they ran away, but forgot to take their women with them. Among these abandoned women, there are three pregnant women, and their emotions are close to collapse.

And in the room, everyone, old and young, were crying, cursing, shouting and screaming in despair, and yelling at everyone to be quiet. The voices of all of them merged into the saddest picture of the end of the world.

Until the news that zombies were approaching broke the picture.

The basement finally quieted down, and someone quietly suggested, "Let's lock the outer door. The zombies shouldn't be able to find us, right?"

"They should just be passing by. Didn't Brother Chu say last time that zombies often gather together for no reason? The things we brought in should be enough to eat for several days, right?"

"What if they don't leave?"

"Where is Brother Chu? He won't abandon us and run away, right?"

As you and I chatted, the quiet basement began to buzz again. The intercom beeped a few times, and a terrified voice came out: "Third brother, north... north gate, zombies are coming in from the north gate!"

"And there's something else at the South Gate!" Another terrified voice followed: "The zombies' movements suddenly became faster!"

If it becomes faster, it means the zombies have found the target!

It’s easy to imagine that with hundreds of people staying in the community for more than half a year, how could the scent of human life be hidden from the evolved zombies?

Is the base in Luyuan District also like this...

The door slammed with a loud crash, and everyone shuddered instinctively, and the timid ones couldn't help screaming.

The person who came in was not a zombie, but Chu Liuxiang. He walked out from the shadow of the candlelight, and the light flickered on his face.

"Old people over sixty years old stay, children under fifteen years old stay, pregnant women stay, and everyone else, take out your weapons."

His voice was not loud, neither cold nor harsh, but it gave everyone in the room a chill.

No one moved.

Then Chu Liuxiang showed the knife in his hand to everyone. He stroked the blade and said calmly, "I have demolished the outer gate. If we can't deal with the zombies outside, everyone will die."

The crowd immediately became excited, but Chu Liuxiang did not give them time to curse, and continued: "Everyone, I hope you can understand one thing, with my skills, no matter how many zombies there are, I can escape unscathed. You are not fighting to help me, but to protect yourselves!"

"This time, I don't want to see anyone fleeing without a fight. I haven't trained you for so long just to train a group of deserters in the end. If I find anyone abandoning the fight and fleeing, I will definitely kill him."

After saying that, the blade plunged straight into the wall and slashed downwards, leaving a seven-inch deep mark and several feet long on the wall.

"If anyone thinks they can run faster than me, feel free to give it a try."

The crowd was silent for a while, Shen Bijun and Lin Shiyin walked out first, followed by the third brother and Xiao Wu. With someone taking the lead, the others began to walk out one after another. Some were ready to die, some were numb, and some had tears in their eyes. When they passed by Chu Liuxiang, they looked at him with resentment. Chu Liuxiang hardened his heart and turned a blind eye.

Guan Minghui walked slowly at the back holding Xiaoyun. She was a little nervous. She approached Chu Liuxiang and bit her lip and said, "Brother Chu, you know me. I helped take care of Sister Lin's child as soon as he was born. He recognizes people. I'm a doctor, so I haven't had much training. I was busy like a bastard during the flu epidemic a while ago. You saw it, and... I... I'm having my period. Can I stay here?"

Chu Liuxiang looked at her and said calmly: "If you go out, you may not die, but if you stay, you will definitely die."

Guan Minghui was shocked: "Why?"

Chu Liuxiang said coldly: "Because I will kill you."

Guan Minghui's tears immediately welled up in her eyes. Those were tears of fear. It was the first time she saw Chu Liuxiang like this. Coldness and murderousness appeared on his face, replacing the smile that was as warm as the spring breeze.

He will really do it!

Xiaoyun, who was only a few months old, was handed over to a thirteen-year-old girl, and she didn't even cry. So only the elderly, the weak and the pregnant were left in the huge basement. All the rest stood outside the villa, each holding a weapon.

The door was indeed removed. Once the people outside were surrounded and killed by zombies, the people hiding in the basement would also be dead for sure.

This is undoubtedly a crazy and risky method.

Chu Liuxiang's voice appeared on the intercom.

“I’m sorry, I don’t have the ability to protect everyone when the zombies are surrounding us. I can only let you protect yourselves. But this is how the end of the world is. Only by uniting can people avoid extinction.

Many people will die tonight, maybe everyone will die, but no matter what the outcome, I will never escape. If the base survives, I will continue to live with the survivors. If the base dies, I will die here in battle."

This usually gentle and easy-going man had a fierce cold light in his eyes for the first time.

The dark clouds were blown away by the wind, revealing a ray of moonlight. The roars of the corpses were getting closer and closer, surrounding them from all directions. The brave man took the first step!
The heart is beating in the chest and the blood is rushing in the veins. At this moment, fear or hatred, sadness or cowardice, all under extreme oppression, turn into indomitable courage!
kill!

In the darkness, the zombies stretched out their claws, and then, corpse blood splattered and heads rolled. The days and nights of training in the past had been engraved in everyone's blood and nerves. The steel bars stabbed and chopped, and all the movements reached an unprecedented standard.

There is nothing to be afraid of, we have no way out.

There is nothing to be afraid of, your teammates are right beside you.

There is nothing to be afraid of, we can no longer lose!
Blood, roars, screams, long swords and broken limbs flying, flames and despair intersecting, wailing and madness coexisting.

A night of fierce fighting.

At dawn, the sun rose and hung high in the sky.

The weather was great, the sky was clear, the sun was shining, and willow catkins were flying, filling the pond...

It's just that the wind was a little cold. Bai Xiaobai shrank his neck. Something splashed on his face during the chaos, and he didn't have time to wipe it off. It seemed to be blood, which had already solidified and was a little itchy.

She held the intercom tightly, her voice trembling: "I didn't hear you clearly just now, please say it again."

"We succeeded! No more, no more zombies! All the way from the south to the north of Xinghuo, there are no zombies!"

"There are no more in the north. It seems there are some, but they are quite far away and don't seem to be coming this way."

"...Sister-in-law, why is it you? Where is the third brother?"

Bai Xiaobai exhaled lightly, put down the intercom, rubbed his arms, and said to himself: "It's almost June, why is it still so cold?"

Chu Liuxiang had seen scenes of corpses everywhere before. In the desert, the thrush bird slaughtered all of Shi Guanyin's disciples. Every one of them was tortured to death. The deaths of a group of strangers made him shocked and angry, but the corpses everywhere here were all his acquaintances.

——An acquaintance who was forced by him to fight to the death.

He held the roster in his hand, walked among sorrow and death, and crossed out countless familiar names one by one.

Guan Minghui squatted on the ground, curled up into a ball, and cried and trembled all over. Many people were crying, for their dead relatives and friends, and for their own survival.

After the battle, Lin Shiyin ran back to the basement immediately. The child was crying so hard that he was almost dying. Shen Bijun stood there in a daze, not knowing what to do for a moment.

……

"It's hard to survive in the city. We have to leave as soon as possible."

Chu Liuxiang proposed relocation again. This time no one objected, and no one spoke.

The basement, which was originally crowded, is now much emptier.

There was a map hanging on the wall, with the location of City C circled.

"There are two directions, south or north. If we go south, we will pass through S City and reach the Bohai Sea. There is a small island here. We can go to the island and avoid the city. It will take about three days. The journey is shorter, but the destination may not be safe. If we go north..." Chu Liuxiang's hand moved farther: "The land here is vast and sparsely populated. It is always safer to live in the deep mountains and old forests where few people go than on the island, but the journey is longer. After we go there, it is inevitable that everything will have to start all over again."

After a moment of silence, someone raised his hand: "It doesn't matter where we go, the question is, how do we get there? When do we leave? Do we have to pack up now? What if we run into a swarm of zombies outside?"

"Can we...get out?"

(End of this chapter)