Chapter 10 : Kenneth
The next day.
Brian and Sarah carried their backpacks and left the lakeside cabin, where they had stayed for a long time. On the fence behind them, Angela and Barton waved their arms reluctantly and shouted goodbye to the two of them.
Kenneth walked beside them and glanced at the assault rifle slung behind Brian's shoulder, intentionally or unintentionally, from the corner of his eyes, with a touch of greed in his eyes.
There was a gun shop in the town, but there was an explosion on the day the plague broke out, and all the guns and ammunition were destroyed. If not, he would not have coveted the rifle in Brian's hand.
"Haha, this guy isn't that kind."
Taking a sideways glance at the greedy look on Kenneth's face, Brian sneered secretly, knowing that the other party wanted to take this opportunity to take away his assault rifle.
But he didn't expose it; he just thought that he would teach this guy a profound lesson later and let him know the consequences of being greedy.
After walking for a while, the three of them passed the bridge with piles of dead bodies. At this time, the entire bridge had already turned into a breeding ground for fungi. The fungi used the corpses to grow germs and lumpy bacteria to adhere to the bridge. It spread rapidly and looked extremely disgusting from a distance.
Then they Came to the outskirts of the small town.
Brian took out a hand-drawn map of the town from his arms, with small squares drawn on it, and each square had the category of the location in the town written on it.
Currently, most of the squares with the words supermarkets and restaurants on the map have a red cross marked with a red pen, which means that they have either been looted or destroyed by explosions in disasters.
As his finger continued to move on the map, Brian said, "The population of the town itself is not large, so there are not many supermarkets and convenience stores. Plus, the survivors who are still alive must be collecting supplies, so I'm afraid there aren't many supplies left inside."
He kept moving his finger on the map and slowly stopped at an unknown area on the northern outskirts of the town. He pondered for a while and said, "I know there is a warehouse near here that used to store construction materials. Yes, there is a small area dedicated to storing food. We can go there to find what we want, and there happens to be a direct road to Dallas there."
"What?"
Kenneth, you look at where Brian is pointing with crazy eyes. You must know that they are located on the southern outskirts of the town. If you want to go north, you will have to cross the entire town. He is dissatisfied. he said: "Are you kidding? Do you know how dangerous this is, and how can there be food in the place where building materials are stored? Brian, listen to me. There should be some left in the convenience store we searched last time. There should be enough. Now that you have eaten, it will be safer to go to Dallas."
But Brian shook his head and rejected Kenneth's suggestion without mercy, saying, "No, we must go there."
"you!"
Kenneth looked at the annoying kid in front of him with an angry face. Although he wanted the assault rifle, he didn't want to lose his life because of it.
So he decided not to pretend anymore. He originally thought of letting the two brats act as porters and snatch their firearms and food after collecting the food. But now it seems that he can't. This is necessary.
He directly raised his pistol and pointed it at Brian's head: "Kid, I don't care if you are really stupid or pretending to be stupid. I know you are smart, and I am afraid you guessed what I was thinking. So you said you were going there."
"Are you taking action so early?"
But who knew that Brian was not frightened? Instead, a smile appeared on his lips. He raised his hands and said, "I thought you would at least wait until we collected the food."
"Stop talking nonsense!" Looking at Brian, who was not cowardly in front of him, Kenneth suddenly felt a little uneasy, but he looked at the pistol and immediately felt relieved. No matter what you say, I will kill you with one shot.
He showed a cruel smile and said, "Pull out your rifle. It's best not to play any tricks. Since you helped me in the first place, I don't have to kill you."
As soon as the word "we" came out of his mouth, Kenneth suddenly realized that there must be another person next to him. He couldn't help it because Sarah was a girl and she behaved very well on weekdays. She didn't seem to have much fighting ability, so subconsciously, he ignored her.
He looked sharply towards the position where Sarah was originally, only to find that the other party was no longer in the same place. He secretly said something bad and was about to pull the trigger and deal with Brian first, but suddenly he heard a voice coming from behind him. There was a gust of wind, and he felt a pain in the back of his head and instantly lost consciousness.
As Kenneth fell to the ground with a "thud," Brian made a fist with his right hand and pointed his thumb upward, making a powerful gesture towards Sarah, who was holding a wooden stick in front of her and patting her chest desperately with a nervous look on her face.
Sarah just smiled softly when she saw it, threw the wooden stick aside, kicked the unconscious man, and said, "I didn't expect you to guess right. This guy just wants your gun." He didn't pay attention to me at all."
But then she asked you with some confusion: "Aren't you afraid? that he could have just shot and killed us all?"
"It does not matter."
Walking in front of Kenneth, Brian bent down to pick up the pistol in his hand, pulled out the magazine, gestured towards Sarah, and said jokingly, "I unloaded the bullets in his pistol a long time ago. so this trip is just to practice of your courage, so as not to make a fuss when you encounter an infected person in the future."
"I won't!" She glared at Brian angrily, and Sarah said again, "Then what are we going to do with this guy?"
Brian thought for a while, looked at Sarah seriously, and said, "My idea was to let you kill him. We will encounter this kind of thing often in the future so I can let you go. Adapt to dangerous situations in advance, but..."
He turned his head, glanced at the lakeside hut, and continued, "But he is Angela's father. If the child loses her father, I am afraid it will be difficult for her to continue to live. I know you have a good relationship with her, so I won't force you. It's up to you to decide what to do."
After saying that, Brian took out a bullet from his pocket, loaded it into the magazine, pulled the barrel of the gun back, put the pistol into Sarah's hand, and then walked into the town without looking back.
"I'll wait for you at the doorway of the bar."
Staring blankly at Brian's retreating figure, Sarah looked down at the gun in her hand and fell into silence for a moment, but then she took a deep breath, raised the gun, and pointed it at Kenneth, who was lying on the ground.
"boom!"
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Within the town.
The scorching sun shines on the dilapidated streets. This once lively town has become completely silent in just less than a week.
There were only scattered infected people wandering on the street. Most of the infected people just stood there blankly, with their knees bent and their heads slightly covered with their hands, as if they were fighting fiercely against something. Extremely painful.
At this moment, two figures entered the town from the south. They moved along the outskirts of the town where there were few infected people, and they stopped only after their path forward was blocked by collapsed houses.
"Let's go and take a rest in this house and, see if we can go around it later."
Looking at the blocked road in front of him, Brian sighed and led Sarah into the yard of the house next to him.
The door was unlocked, and there was an infected person was standing there, struggling in pain. Brian took out his dagger without thinking and sneaked behind it, ending its pain.
After dealing with the threat, the two searched the house for anything they could find and then sat on the sofa in the living room to rest.
Leaning on the sofa, Sarah still couldn't restrain her curiosity and asked, "I still don't know why we have to take such a big risk to find some food. There are so many houses here, so it should be enough no matter what."
"Okay, let me show you."
Looking at Sarah's curious little face, Brian couldn't help but reach out and pinch it. Then he took out a piece of paper from his backpack, put it in Sarah's hand, and said, " I accidentally saw it in the center of the town. You will understand after you look at it."
Curiously taking the message paper, Sarah looked at the content on it:
....
Damn it, Morris, where did you go? It's a mess outside. If you read this message, hurry up. The place where we hid last time was the Fair Steel Factory in the north. I won't wait for you too long. If you haven't looked at me for a long time, I'm sorry; you need to escape by yourself. I will leave you some supplies and a car. Don't worry, I locked the car, and no one will drive away. The password is 7736. I have put the car keys and supplies in the secret compartment under the desk. Remember not to die!
Good luck, Ford
....
"Okay, don't be so excited." Looking at Sarah's mouth, which gradually opened, Brian took the paper away from his hand with some humor and put it back in his backpack.
After coming back to her senses, Sarah looked at Brian with a look of disbelief and said, "Then you dare to come out like this. It turns out that it was planned long ago."
Hearing the other party's exclamation, Brian rolled his eyes and then approached Sarah with a curious look on his face and said, "I also want to know what you did to that guy, Kenneth."
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