hsntnovel Chapter 235 The Door That's Hard to Open
Chapter 235 The Door That's Hard to Open
Chapter 235 The Door That's Hard to Open (5k)
"Ugh...whoosh...what the hell was that sound?"
In Walmart's Warehouse No. 6, Sean opened his eyes in a daze, then quickly raised his hand to rub his eye sockets.
He slept very poorly yesterday, or rather—he can no longer distinguish between day and night.
In short, after the gunshots rang out yesterday, he pounded on the wall for hours with hope, and then, in despair, curled up on his mattress and couldn't sleep.
He finally fell asleep after completely losing consciousness, but he didn't know whether he was asleep or unconscious.
As for now.
After rubbing his eyes, he groped for his flashlight.
After finally finding a flashlight, I turned it on.
Click—
The white light made him involuntarily close his eyes, and he felt a sharp pain in them.
The dryness in his eyes made him stand up and reach for the bottled water.
He found the water bottle, poured out a handful of water, held it in his palm, and pressed it against his eye sockets.
The cold water made him more awake. Then, he put down the water bottle, picked up the megaphone he had prepared the day before, and walked toward the nearest wall.
As he walked, Sean couldn't help but ask himself the same question.
"Was there some damn noise that woke me up?"
"etc!"
At this point, Sean finally froze, then quickly lunged at the wall and turned on his loudspeaker.
"Help!"
"Help!!!"
Hearing the cries for help echoing from the loudspeaker, Sean couldn't help but lunge against the wall and shout.
"Did I hear that right? Damn it, am I hallucinating again?!"
"Mazefak, someone please save me!"
"Help!!!"
No one knows just how desperate Sean was at that moment.
Meanwhile, Martin and Otto were already browsing in Walmart.
Walmart's roller shutter door was no match for the two of them, especially since the crazed zombie had already used its own body to clear a path for them.
It wasn't until the two of them entered Walmart that they understood why only two zombies rushed out of the store.
There are still three zombies stuck in the passageway leading to the outside world, unable to squeeze out through the gaps in the broken revolving door and roller shutter.
Seeing this, Martin pulled out his hammer and struck each of the three zombies away, one by one.
Otto, meanwhile, desperately tugged at the zombies' clothes, pulling them out of their stuck positions.
When they dragged the third zombie, Otto was taken aback by the fact that this zombie was dressed in neat clothes.
Otto grabbed the zombie by the collar and said.
"Martin, this guy's dressed pretty neatly; looks like a warehouse manager's uniform!"
"Perhaps."
Martin said to Otto as he bent down and crawled into the supermarket.
"At 3 a.m., Walmart is mostly empty except for a few temporary workers who can't afford housing. The only other people there are warehouse guards."
"Since this guy looks like a warehouse manager, we can check if he has a warehouse key. If he does, things will be much easier."
"Of course, I'm looking for it!"
Otto responded to Martin, then searched the warehouse manager thoroughly.
Shortly after, after Martin opened the doors.
As sunlight streamed into the Walmart supermarket, Otto regretfully tossed away the zombie and shook his head.
There's nothing there, damn it!
"It's alright, maybe he left the key in the guard room. Let's go look for it there, but we need to check the supermarket first!"
As Martin responded, he used the sunlight streaming through the front door to locate the store's power valve.
Unfortunately, the switch placed at the main entrance only controls the curtains and lights. To power the entire supermarket, they would have to find the main switch and connect a generator with sufficient power.
Seeing this, Martin simply turned on his flashlight and, along with Otto, strolled through the dark supermarket, one in front of the other.
This Walmart only has five floors and doesn't look very big, but that's normal, since it's just a supermarket in Marin City, which is a small city.
The flashlight beam gradually moved away from the sunlight-lit area by the doorway and into the dim darkness.
Feeling the dark and quiet environment, Otto swallowed and spoke to Martin.
"Martin, should we—go and get the power back in this building? It's not that I'm scared, it's just—this feeling is awful!"
"Haha, feeling bad is just being scared, right? But logically speaking, there shouldn't be many people here."
Martin responded with a smile, but his steps suddenly froze afterward.
The flashlight in his hand was now shining on a corpse lying in the center of the hall, twenty meters away!
"Hiss!"
The sight of the rotting corpse made Martin and Otto both gasp. After a brief moment of stunned silence, they both walked toward the body without prior arrangement.
Martin approached the corpse, endured the stench, and used his hammer to turn the body, which was completely covered in mycelium, over.
rustling —
The sound of the corpse being turned over made Otto's hair stand on end, and the sight that came into view the moment the body was turned over made Otto gag.
Martin, shone his flashlight on a large, wriggling mass of white, rice-like maggots, and swallowed hard as he spoke to Otto.
"Don't worry, it's just a bunch of disco."
"Fuck, I saw it, I just don't like this kind of thing."
Otto shook his head unhappily, wanting to rub his nose but feeling disgusted.
Martin turned the body over completely and then tried to find the cause of death by looking at the flat face pressed against the ground.
A moment later, looking at the corpse's face, now covered in rotting flesh and broken bones—that is, infested with discomi—Martin looked up at the higher corridor and said.
"He fell from upstairs. His clothes looked like those of a security guard who monitors surveillance. It seems he ran out of the monitoring room on a higher floor, then rushed over the upper-level railing and ended his life headfirst—especially by landing face-first."
"I really don't want to tear this bastard's clothes open to see if he has any bite marks. I think it doesn't matter to us whether he mutated naturally or was bitten by other zombies."
"We—wait!
Just as Martin finished speaking, he and Otto suddenly looked up and shone their flashlights on the escalator between the fourth and fifth floors.
Before their eyes, a silent, dark figure was leaping down from the fence!
"Damn it, that's—" Otto cursed instinctively.
As Martin began to curse, he suddenly grabbed Otto's arm and dragged him backward in a panic!
The next moment————
Boom!
A corpse crashed heavily onto the spot where they had just been standing!
"That's fucking shit!"
Watching the zombie fall to the ground and then wriggle towards him with difficulty, Otto took a deep breath, pulled out the fire axe from his back, and strode up to the zombie.
As he snatched the axe, he continued speaking to Martin.
"We weren't bitten by any zombies, but we almost got crushed to death by zombies falling from the sky!"
"My God, we were only two steps away from where he fell! I even suspect that the splattered blood and flesh of the zombie sprayed into my mouth, or at least onto my face!"
As he spoke, the fire axe slammed down on the zombie's head.
While the zombie remained motionless, Otto stepped on its back and pulled the fire axe out of its head.
Martin, standing nearby, couldn't help but nod. Then, while continuing to shine his flashlight over the two of them, he asked Otto with lingering fear.
"Otto, did you notice just now? That zombie didn't make a sound when it ran towards us from the rooftop!"
What was that sound?
Otto paused for a moment, then couldn't help but ask Martin.
"This zombie isn't wearing shoes, of course it's silent, what's so strange about that?"
"No, I'm not referring to footsteps, but the typical howl of a zombie, not as loud as a howler, but the kind of howl that all zombies make, the kind that 'ee-ee-ya-ya'!"
Martin explained to Otto, then stepped over the zombie corpses and continued walking towards the elevator.
Although the elevator was out of service due to the power outage, it still served the basic function of a staircase. The two of them groped their way up to a higher floor in the dark.
It can only be said that they were highly skilled and daring, or that the apocalypse had honed their courage.
The two of them, back to back, actually managed to spend more than fourteen or fifteen minutes walking around the entire supermarket.
In the past ten minutes or so, they saw two zombies one after another, one of which had lost both legs and its lumbar spine seemed to have been broken by something.
The other end was simply locked in the maintenance room.
While the two were searching for the main power switch...
Suddenly, Nikita's voice came over the walkie-talkies on their waists.
Nikita then spoke to the two of them.
"Martin, Otto, are you alright? Have you found anything?"
Upon hearing this, the two who were exploring on the fifth floor took out their walkie-talkies. Otto then put the walkie-talkie back on his waist and gestured to Martin, "You come here."
Upon seeing this, Martin pressed the intercom in response.
"Nikita, we haven't found the supermarket's power supply hub yet, but we only have the basement left to explore. I guess the emergency power supply is either in the basement, outside, or on the first floor."
"Okay then, do you need our help? We've already set up the RV campsite. I've chosen the largest trailer as our safe house, which should be able to accommodate at least ten to twelve people for a while."
Nikita responded, and her words made Martin breathe a sigh of relief. Martin then quickly said to Nikita...
"You're done with your work? That's great. Send two people over to help us out."
"Damn it, this supermarket is pitch black, and all the windows and portholes in the ceiling are electrically operated. I really hate this layout; pre-apocalyptic technology is making our exploration even more difficult!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Martin shone his flashlight on the glass roof above his head, which was firmly covered by a blackout panel.
Otto, amused, grabbed a fire axe and went into the monitoring room.
After a quick glance, Otto left the monitoring room, spread his hands, and said to Martin.
"There was nothing inside, just a bunch of black screens."
"However, I do think we could collect the surveillance footage; we might find it useful at home."
"I hope so."
Martin shrugged at Otto after hearing his words.
"None of us know how to install a surveillance system, especially one without a signal in the apocalypse. But—I'm sure we'll run into a couple of smart people. We—"
Just as Martin finished speaking, Nikita responded through the walkie-talkie on his waist.
Nikita said softly.
"Martin, Otto, I've sent Barn and Wang Ling to your place."
"Okay, Barn, and Ling, you two wait for me on the first floor of the supermarket."
After Martin gave a brief answer, the two left the fifth floor of the supermarket and walked down the stairs to the first floor.
Meanwhile, on the highway outside the supermarket.
Barn sat in the passenger seat, took off his gloves, opened the window, and lit a cigarette.
As she smelled the smoke carried by the wind to her nose, Wang Ling couldn't help but frown, but she didn't say anything.
Barn, just as he took another big drag of his cigarette, suddenly paused for a moment.
"Help----"
"What?"
The faint sound in his ear made Barn unable to help but ask.
His words made Wang Ling look at him with a puzzled expression.
"What happened?"
Wang Ling asked with a frown, while Barn raised his hand to Wang Ling and said.
"Wait, stop the car! I think I heard something!"
What was that sound?
Wang Ling, puzzled, pulled her car over to the side of the road.
As the car stopped, Nikita's voice came through their walkie-talkie.
"Barn, Wang Ling, why did you two stop? What happened?"
"It's alright, Mrs. Jin, we just—I think I heard a cry for help!"
"What?"
Barn's reply over the walkie-talkie stunned everyone present.
Even Gavin and his group, who were driving, were stunned.
Their walkie-talkie signal is good; they can connect within a radius of 30 to 40 kilometers.
Now, just twenty minutes later, before Eugene, who wasn't driving fast, had even covered forty kilometers, he was able to receive a not-so-clear signal from the walkie-talkie.
So, on the Kaiberheh battle shield, Gavin frowned, picked up the walkie-talkie, and spoke.
"Someone's calling for help? Are you sure?"
"Huh? Boss? You guys can still receive messages? Wow!"
Gavin's voice made Barn sigh, and then he put down the walkie-talkie and listened silently.
At the same time, Wang Ling also heard the faint cry for help, so without waiting for Barn to reply, Wang Ling quickly picked up the walkie-talkie and spoke.
"Boss, Madam, this is Wang Ling. We did hear cries for help, and the sound seems to be coming from the direction of the Walmart warehouse area!"
"Mazefak, if there are still survivors, they are incredibly lucky. However, you two must be very careful when you check, lest you fall into traps set by other survival teams or survivors!"
Gavin turned on the walkie-talkie and reminded the two of their presence.
Upon hearing Gavin's words, Barn and Wang Ling couldn't help but look at their bulletproof vests.
After patting the sturdy, heavy bulletproof vest, Barn pointed to the warehouse area about 240 meters from the highway and said to Wang Ling.
"Ling, let's go take a look. You wait for me in the car for a while, and I'll get out and check it myself."
"Don't worry about me, I'm not a burden, Barn!"
Wang Ling shook her head, then drove the car onto the road directly in front of Walmart, then turned off the highway, bypassed Walmart, and drove towards the warehouse area.
As they passed Walmart, Martin and Otto emerged from the supermarket and immediately got into their car to follow Wang Ling and her companion's route, heading towards the warehouse district together.
About half a minute later, an armored car and a pickup truck stopped one after the other between warehouses number five and six.
Once we got there, the cries for help were already very clear.
Hearing the mechanical sound, Barn got out of the car and met up with Otto. The two followed the sound toward Warehouse No. 6, and Otto said to Barn as they walked.
"Be careful, young man. The cries for help are coming from a loudspeaker; it might be a trap."
"Maybe~"
Barn responded as he approached the door of Warehouse No. 6.
"However, I still think the cries for help came from someone trapped in the warehouse. Otherwise, if it were a trap, we would already be at the warehouse, so why haven't any bullets hit our bulletproof plates yet?"
"Haha, you're right, let's see how we open the door!"
Otto smiled at Barn, then walked to the door of Walmart Warehouse No. 6.
By the time they got here, the cries for help were already quite loud, so Otto stomped his foot hard against the roller shutter door in front of him.
Splash! Splash!
With the loud crash of the rolling shutter door, the cries for help inside the warehouse came to an abrupt end.
Meanwhile, inside the warehouse—
Splash splash splash—
The sudden sound from the roller shutter door made Sean instinctively turn off the loudspeaker.
He hurriedly grabbed the megaphone and ran towards the direction of the roller shutter.
Of course, he couldn't see the roller shutter door, because a moment later, he was thrown against a large metal door.
Walmart warehouses don't just have one door. These warehouses can be frozen when necessary, so they have multiple doors, and the innermost door can even insulate against temperature.
Outside, as the cries for help faded away, Otto and Barn suddenly exchanged a glance, then spoke to Wang Ling and Martin behind them.
"Look, haha, there really is a living person in the warehouse, but how did he get in? There's no sign that any of these doors have been opened."
"Who knows? Maybe they were already in the warehouse before the apocalypse, like the homeless we sometimes see, or maybe even better off?"
After responding, Martin went back to the pickup truck, retrieved two crowbars, and tossed one to Otto.
"Barn, keep an eye on the front door. Let's try to pry up the roller shutter. Roller shutters are usually easy to break down."
As they spoke, Martin and Barn worked together, inserting a crowbar into the bottom of the roller shutter and starting to pry it open.
soon----
Sizzle sizzle — Click!
The lock at the bottom of the roller shutter door was destroyed.
After locking the door, the two lifted the roller shutter and struggled to raise it.
When it was halfway up, the second door inside the roller shutter suddenly appeared.
After discovering there was another door inside, Barn no longer needed to be on guard, and the three of them together opened the roller shutter door.
Just as the roller shutter was retracting with a clatter, a new sound suddenly came from inside the mechanical door.
It was the same loudspeaker, but the content of the sound had changed.
At that moment, the loudspeaker inside the door was shouting at them desperately.
"God, I'm Sean Wright. I've been locked in this damn warehouse for so long, I don't even know how much time has passed. Are you here to rescue me? Please, you have to save me, please!"
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