1150: Escape route

Click~

The ward door opened, and a clear smell of blood rushed in.

Hong Lei held a pot of Pea Shooter and walked out first.

Following closely behind was Lin Yue's wife, holding a Sunflower and a Pea Shooter, and at the end of the group was Hong Lei's daughter, holding a chair leg and a Pea Shooter.

The entire group of three, in a Hospital threatened by Zombies, would be normal if they were holding melee weapons.

But now, they looked like a family of three who had just come out of a flower shop.

Each person carried at least one plant.

The entire corridor was quiet, with only the clear sound of rain coming from the open window at the end of the corridor.

As he led Lin Yue's wife and Hong Lei's daughter towards the end of the corridor and the stairwell corner, Hong Lei glanced at the Zombie he had killed in hand-to-hand combat in the corner, then turned to carefully instruct Lin Yue's wife behind him.

In such a bloody situation, if he didn't give a heads-up beforehand, Lin Yue's wife would definitely be scared and scream.

However, even after quietly explaining the situation to Lin Yue's wife.

After seeing the Zombie lying in a pool of blood with its head shattered, she was still so scared that she tightly grabbed Hong Lei's clothes corner: "Husband, this... this is too dangerous, let's go back!"

In the lowered voice of Lin Yue's wife, Jiang Qun, there was a clearly discernible tremor.

"If we go back, we'll end up like this. Only by escaping now can we return to a normal life!"

"Don't worry, follow me, nothing will happen." Hong Lei patted Jiang Qun's shoulder, comforting her.

Actually, to be safe, staying a bit longer and accumulating some energy to exchange for more plants would indeed be more secure.

But unfortunately, they needed to move, to leave here, not to defend it.

Therefore, they couldn't carry too many plants themselves.

Plus the freezing rain had stopped, the energy accumulation speed had slowed down, and waiting for the next plant would take at least several hours.

The Army that had just evacuated had attracted a considerable portion of the Zombies in the Hospital away. If they hesitated any longer, the remaining Zombies would likely return one after another, and in that case, the situation would inevitably become more dangerous!

Moreover, their family had already been injected with the serum, so the risk they bore was not that great.

Under multiple factors, Hong Lei finally decided to leave with this plant armed force.

According to the previous estimate.

A Pea Shooter only needed two to three shots to kill a Zombie.

They had three Pea Shooters here, which were already enough to deal with a single charging Zombie!

After Hong Lei's comforting words fell, Jiang Qun still wore a worried expression.

"Let's go, Mom, if we keep standing here, the Zombies will come soon!" Hong Lei's daughter, Hong Yunyan, held a chair leg in one hand and hugged the potted Pea Shooter in the other.

After seeing this bloody scene in the corner area, her face did indeed change for a moment, but it was still within the range of what she could bear.

Perhaps also influenced by her Father, Hong Yunyan, having been immersed in it, was naturally much bolder than ordinary people.

"Keep up." Hong Lei dropped two words and continued walking forward.

Glancing at the Zombie corpse on the Hospital bed at the end of the corridor, Hong Lei looked at the pot of Pea Shooter in his hand, then looked downstairs.

The stairs downstairs, at a glance, were still empty.

A quiet rain sound even isolated the car horns on the street outside.

Signalling behind him, Hong Lei walked downstairs.

They were on the fourth floor, which was the highest floor of this inpatient building.

Judging from how the crowd had just escaped, people should have gathered on the lower floors.

After arriving on the third floor, Hong Lei glanced down the corridor.

Coincidentally, he just saw A Man pushing a wheelchair, with a woman whose leg was in a cast, come out of a ward and run towards the elevator.

They were also living people trying to escape, only this guy wasn't taking the stairs, he was taking the elevator.

Carefully peering down, Hong Lei roughly understood the reason he chose the elevator.

He saw.

On the second floor below, there was a Zombie pacing with its head down!

Hearing the faint sounds from the unseen area, Hong Lei even felt that there was more than one Zombie in the stairwell area on the lower floors!

For the guy who just took the elevator with his wheelchair-bound companion, the area below was almost a dead end.

"Ding~"

Amidst the slight sound of the elevator door opening, Hong Lei turned his head and saw that the elevator had arrived on the third floor.

The two people glanced in his direction, then directly entered the elevator.

The elevator opened without danger, they were lucky.

After the elevator doors closed, Hong Lei suddenly quickened his pace and came to the elevator entrance.

"2, 1, -1."

The floor they chose to go to was the basement level.

That was the Hospital's underground parking lot.

Seeing the choice made by those two guys, Hong Lei frowned and slightly shook his head.

Compared to the 1st floor, the underground parking lot definitely had Zombies, and the number would not be small!

When something like this happened at the Hospital, most people who escaped went to that place, thinking of driving their cars to flee.

With people gathered, it was absolutely impossible for there to be no infected.

Those two, perhaps they had a car in the underground parking lot and were thinking of getting in the car as soon as they got out of the elevator, but clearly, this was not the correct choice.

As if confirming Hong Lei's thoughts.

The next moment...

"Ah!!"

Desperate and shrill screams came from the underground parking lot, and even under the cover of the continuous rain, these piercing cries for help were still clearly audible!

"Bang bang bang~"

On the floors below, many Zombies quickly gathered towards the direction of the sound source!

After the elevator in front of Hong Lei stopped on the -1 floor, there was no sign of any movement.

It didn't go to the first floor, nor did it return to the third floor.

This was clearly because the elevator door was stuck by Zombies, and those two people had died inside the elevator.

"Dad, the Zombies downstairs are all gone." Hong Yunyan reminded him softly.

"Go." Hong Lei led his two family members and walked downstairs again.

After arriving on the second floor, as expected, the Zombie that had been lingering at the stairwell just now had been attracted away by the screams from the underground parking lot.

Looking from the second floor down to the first floor, with just one glance, Hong Lei's breathing couldn't help but tighten.

There were Zombies on the first floor, and in extremely large numbers!

At a rough glance, there were at least more than twenty!

With this number of Zombies, even if they brought several times more plants, it would be impossible to guarantee a safe escape!

Escaping head-on was already impossible.

"Ho~"

A Zombie's roar accompanied by footsteps came from a certain ward in the corridor behind.

Hearing this sound, Hong Lei turned his head to look.

He saw a Zombie walk directly out of a ward on the second floor, and its pair of pitch-black pupils immediately locked onto Hong Lei and his Lin Yue's wife and Hong Lei's daughter!

"Puff!"

"Puff!"

"Puff!"

Just as the Zombie was about to roar and charge over, the Pea Shooter on Hong Lei, including the two Pea Shooters held by Lin Yue's wife and Hong Lei's daughter, all spat out a round green bullet one after another at this moment!

"Bang bang bang~"

Three bullets successively hit the Zombie's head.

In just one breath, the head of this Zombie, which had successively taken attacks from three Pea Shooters, was directly shattered!

Under the cover of the rain sound, the Zombie leaned against the wall, slowly slid to the ground, and lost its life.

"This!" Hong Lei's daughter, Hong Yunyan, watched the Pea Shooter in her hand with wide eyes, then looked at the dead Zombie in the distance, and finally looked at Hong Lei. For a moment, her mind was full of questions and excited emotions.

"Ho~"

Suddenly, from that same ward, another sound emerged.

The next moment, another Zombie wearing a suit walked out aimlessly.

"Puff puff puff..."

Under the same circumstances, three bullets were fired simultaneously again.

One shot hit the Zombie's knee, directly breaking its lower leg, and two shots hit the Zombie's head, ending the life of another Zombie with the sound of its skull being blown open.

"Ho~"

Another Zombie was attracted by such commotion and walked out of the ward.

Seeing this scene, Hong Lei slightly frowned.

Hong Lei's daughter, Hong Yunyan, however, had already dropped the chair leg and was holding the Pea Shooter with both hands, aiming with it.

With another round of bullet firing, this Zombie unsurprisingly met its end.

"Follow me." While having a faint guess in his heart, Hong Lei called out to his Lin Yue's wife and Hong Lei's daughter, then took the lead and walked towards the ward where three Zombies had appeared consecutively.

The second floor consisted of single beds.

The three people who appeared consecutively included a farmer wearing a hard hat covered in dust, a Middle-aged man in a well-fitting suit who looked like a salesman, and an Old Man with a receding hairline and a checkered shirt who was over fifty.

These three people of similar age from completely different professions had a very small probability of being a family.

The high probability reason they appeared consecutively from the single-bed ward was that this room had an escape route, thus attracting these unrelated people to gather!

Maintaining vigilance, they arrived at this room.

Hong Lei just stood at the door and could see a ladder propped against the window!

His guess was correct!

"Husband, be careful!" Jiang Qun suddenly exclaimed.

Her words also shifted Hong Lei's attention.

In his field of vision, he only saw a shadow flash past, and the next moment, he was tackled by a Zombie that lunged out from a ward behind!

"Ho!!"

Amidst the Zombie's excited roar, its bloody maw went straight for Hong Lei's neck!

At the critical moment, Hong Lei extended his arm, blocking the bite for his neck.

"Puff puff puff~"

The surrounding Pea Shooters fired their bullets the next moment.

Amidst continuous dull thuds, bullets poured down, and the head of this suddenly lunging Zombie was directly shattered into pieces!

"Dad, you've been bitten!"

"Hong Lei!"

After seeing the bite wound on Hong Lei's arm, Lin Yue's wife and Hong Lei's daughter both seemed at a loss for a moment.

Looking at the wound on his arm, Hong Lei cursed inwardly.

He quickly got up from the ground and hurried to the window to look down.

The height from the second floor of the Hospital to the first floor was not low, more than five meters.

Normally, a ladder alone definitely couldn't reach this height.

The ladder placed here happened to connect to the roof of the bicycle parking shed outside.

At a glance, there were no signs of Zombies on the roof of the parking shed, which was rattling continuously from the rain.

However, more than ten meters away, under the streetlights, there were two figures swaying in the Darkness.

Leaving via the stairs head-on was definitely not possible. Relatively speaking, this parking shed connected to the second floor was an excellent escape route!