The distance of 100 meters is not that big. Even if it's windy and snowy, they only need a few minutes to complete this distance.
After scanning the houses on both sides of the street, Brian discovered that most of the surrounding areas were actually hospital buildings and that there were very few places where he could actually settle.
Fortunately, those who choose to shelter in place will choose nearby buildings. They will not come that far and no one will compete with them and they will be able to choose as they please.
After discussing it, they finally chose a two-story tea restaurant, which was tall enough to observe the hospital.
Although it was impossible to see the whole situation clearly due to the wind and snow, as long as the movement of the convoy could be seen, a simple judgment could be made.
Observing the situation in the restaurant through the glass door and seeing that there was no infected person, Tracy opened the door directly and welcomed everyone.
"Hoar--!"
But with the noise of everyone entering, the single roar of the infected came from the second floor, and then an avalanche of footsteps could be heard above their heads, moving quickly towards the stairs.
This move naturally surprised everyone. They quickly pulled out their pistols and pointed them at the stairs, ready to fire at a moment's notice.
With the sound of "footsteps" coming from the stairs, the three infected people ran out of the stairs. When they saw the living person standing at the door, they smiled fiercely excitedly and rushed forward.
How could just three infected people be a match for humans with firearms? Tracy smiled contemptuously, raised her hand to prevent the people behind her from acting, took the rifle and fired three shots in a row, only to hear three shots and kill all the infected people accurately.
"You make a fire to keep warm. I'll go up and take a look." He looked at the infected person lying on the ground and told the people behind him. Then, without waiting for anyone to respond, he took a direct step over the body of the infected person on the ground. He ran to the second floor.
"..."
Wilfred looked at Tracy's back and was about to raise his hand to say something when the other person disappeared around the corner of the stairs. He squeezed out a helpless smile and said to the people around him, "This lady is really enthusiastic..."
Brian was completely on board with that idea: someone like that really shouldn't have been involved from the start. However, he never imagined that this person, concerned about the apparent fragility of a group composed mostly of women and children, would take the initiative to help, even risking dangerous tasks. To call it altruism would not be an exaggeration at all.
"Da, da, da—!"
Just as everyone was about to put down their backpacks and look for something to start a fire, a burst of gunfire suddenly came out of nowhere. Although the sound was not loud, it was clear to the ears and everyone present could hear it.
This caused everyone to be alerted in an instant and they looked in the direction of the gunfire, but the wind, snow, and the cement wall outside blocked their view. They could only hear the gunshots, but nothing could be seen.
Suddenly, an ominous premonition arose in everyone's heart, and they suddenly remembered what Brian had just said on the bus, and everyone looked at him.
Are all the things in the nightmare you just said true?
"What are you looking at me? Don't stay here. Go up to the second floor and take a look!"
Brian naturally understood what they were thinking, but if he didn't know what the situation was now, how could he make a decision like this? He quickly reminded him to go to the second floor to see if there was anything unusual about the trailer.
"Yes, let's go quickly," after his reminder, several people came to their senses, and then several people quickly ran to the stairs.
When they reached the second floor, they found Tracy standing in front of the window, with her back to them, rifle in hand dangling, not knowing what she was looking at.
Some people didn't say much. He ran to the other windows and looked in the direction of the caravan through the glass.
At this look, they were all like Tracy, standing stupidly by the window, staring out, their eyes full of disbelief.
In the hospital ahead, a dark shadow appeared in the wind and snow, advancing towards the entrance of the hospital, and as the distance between them got closer, more and more black shadows appeared.
As the shadow moved, bursts of rifles and grenade explosions came from inside. Such noises could be heard even a hundred meters away, let alone from the convoy in front of the hospital.
Suddenly, the entire convoy was in a state of excitement. The convoys were parked next to each other on the street, while the other row of cars stuck their heads out of the windows to check the situation. In those cars whose view was blocked, the doors remained firmly locked, and no one was allowed to leave. However, judging by the figures moving back and forth inside the vehicles, it was clear that the same turmoil had spread inside.
The dense black shadows rushed towards them like an overwhelming force. There were so many that one could not guess how many there were.
Just as the explosion sounded, a passenger bus suddenly pulled out of the convoy, pulling a vehicle that could no longer move, and parked directly at the hospital's electric gate, blocking the entire hospital door.
It seems that the army received the news first and emptied the vehicles in advance. Soldiers from the surrounding area climbed onto the roofs of vehicles and other high places, placed their weapons and pointed it at the hospital. Last time on Waskom, they used this method to block the infected.
But looking at the height of the hospital wall, Brian knew that with the infected person's excellent climbing ability, that height alone wouldn't be able to stop them.
At the same time, all the soldiers still resting in the truck were sent out. Some approached the wall to prepare fire support at any time, and the other side began evacuating all civilians still on the bus, escorting them away from the hospital entrance.
The sound of gunfire coming from the hospital gradually disappeared as the black shadow continued to approach.
Then six or seven figures in soldiers' uniforms ran out of the snow and fled. Even the firearms in his hands were abandoned because they hindered his running speed.
Immediately after, countless infected people with tattered clothes, bare feet, and ugly faces also rushed out, following them closely. Even from a distance, Brian could feel the bloodthirsty light in his eyes.
The few soldiers who managed to escape were running desperately, but the infected people behind them were getting closer and closer. The fear was evident on their faces. As they ran, they leaned forward slightly, clearly looking for an escape route. Wasting no time, they hurried towards the electric gate of the bus, leaping nimbly towards the roof, hoping to evade the infected who were already too close.
The soldiers who were prepared at the entrance of the hospital also quickly opened fire to cover them, preventing the infected from pursuing them.
One of the soldiers in front jumped nimbly, stepped on the door of the electrical switch, and quickly grabbed his partner's hand, managing to climb onto the roof of the bus safely. The soldiers who followed him tried to do the same, but, due to panic, they did not calculate their movements well. One of them, too nervous, stepped into the air instead of the platform, losing his balance.
The remaining soldiers behind him planned to do the same as the first one, but they didn't know that such a situation would happen. They were a little slow and couldn't get on right away.
But in that brief moment, the infected person who was very close behind them made a flying motion and threw all those people to the ground. The soldier who was trapped at the electric gate was also torn to pieces in the fierce fight with the infected people.
Immediately blood splattered everywhere, and the scarlet blood greatly stimulated the infected, making them advance as hard as they could, and soon several soldiers drowned in the tide of infected people.
"This ... it's really a wave of infected people..."
The people who were standing at the windows on the second floor of the restaurant looked at the horrific scene in front of them and almost gasped. Everyone looked at Brian in shock, not expecting the nightmare he had to be real.
Although everyone had a rough guess, Tracy didn't understand. Suddenly he came to his senses, eagerly picked up the walkie-talkie, and shouted loudly, "Ken, what's going on there now, answer me?"
"Sh~~Sh~~"
But he called for a long time, but only bursts of noise were heard on the intercom and no voice answered.
Hearing the noise coming from the intercom, Tracy's face slowly hardened. He hadn't noticed the growing chaos outside the hospital: infected people were constantly banging on the door, trying to climb up the front walls. Around him, other infected creatures were pouring in from all directions, overflowing everything in their path. The situation had gone from being controllable to a complete disaster in a matter of minutes.
In the gap between their communication, the simple line of defense couldn't stop the endless swarm of infected people and broke down in just a few minutes.
No matter how much the soldiers fired, the infected people who rolled quickly threw them to the ground and bit them.
In the end, looking at the line of defense that could not be defended, the soldiers knew that the situation was over and no longer defended there, but chose to take the initiative to escape. Suddenly, the morale of the army was shattered. They ran to the trucks that could still circulate, trying to escape by car.
The unstoppable infected chased in the direction of the escape from the crowd, as if there was a delicious meal there.
Screams suddenly erupted and the crowd that had evacuated in an orderly manner instantly collapsed after the infected ran out.
One after another, those who were running slowly were thrown to the ground by the infected who were chasing after them. Those who tried to hide in the bus and escape were still at the door of the car. The key is that the infected dragged them out.
Some people, feeling cornered, even intentionally bumped into their companions who were trying to escape, to buy them some time. If they were far enough away, they would shoot directly at the legs of those in front, or even attack the children of others, without any remorse. Selfish and merciless acts followed, and the true cruelty of human nature was exposed in its most brutal form at that moment.
Large expanses of blood stained all the snow, dividing the street into a boundary between life and death. The street that was originally peaceful now turned into an inferno in the blink of an eye, making everyone hiding in the surrounding buildings horrified.