12 Chapter 11 : Stage 2 Evolution

"ah?"

Listening to Brian's sudden inquiry, Sarah's face changed slightly. She hesitated for a while and said softly, "I let him go."

Shrugging, Brian didn't pay too much attention. He had already guessed this result. He glanced at the clock hanging on the wall, stood up from the sofa, and said, "Let's go; it's time to set off."

Exiting from the door on the other side of the house, the two went straight to the opposite house. Brian had just observed the route from the bedroom on the second floor. The roads here were blocked, so he could only see if he could You can't climb through the window on the side of the other person's house.

As usual, they still search for usable things. After all, they don't know what will happen along the way, so it is still necessary to collect more usable things.

Pulling out the window of the house next door, a huge crack in the ground appeared in front of the two of them. It should be the basement of some family. It may have been because of the explosion that a gap was blown out of the entire top surface.

Lowering his head and looking into the crack, he saw that it was filled with red lumps of fungus-shaped bacteria, and the air turned yellow-green. However, the basement was only less than a meter wide, and there was no infection inside, and the opposite side There was an open window, and if you went through it, you could walk through the basement in less than 5 seconds.

"What should we do? Do we have to go in?" Sarah asked with some uncertainty, looking at this place that was full of danger.

"No, there is something wrong with the air at first glance. Although we don't know whether those things can be infected through the air, we can't take the risk."

Shaking his head, Brian rejected the way into the basement and looked at other places. The left side was blocked, and the other was the passage leading to the main road. Now the streets are all infected, so he looked inside the window that opened behind him, wondering if he should go back and find a way again.

"Oh, we can walk up there."

Just as Brian was trying to find another route, Sarah, next to her, looked up at the two-story apartment building in front of her.

Looking in the direction of Sarah's finger, Brian looked at the height of the corridor on the second floor. He visually checked that it was about 3 meters high. His eyes lit up, and he said, "I remember there should be a folding staircase in the house. I don't know if it's high enough, so let's take it out and try it first."

He returned to the house where he came from. After a while, he moved a small staircase over one meter high from a utility room.

"It's done; be careful." After sticking one end of the stairs out of the window, Brian told Sarah to be careful. If it fell to the ground, it would attract the attention of nearby infected people.

After successfully carrying the stairs outside, he also climbed out, opened the stairs, and placed them against the wall.

"Why is it so short?"

Seeing that he was still a long way short of height, Brian scratched his head, then thought about it and climbed up the stairs, sat astride the seat in the middle, visually checked the remaining height, nodded, and looked at her below. Sarah waved and he said, "Come on, you should be able to go up by stepping on my shoulders. Then you tie the rope to the handrail, and I will climb up the rope."

"Um!"

Sarah did not hesitate after hearing this; she climbed up the stairs, took Brian's extended hand, and climbed up. When she stepped on his shoulders with her feet, she accidentally glanced down and immediately felt she was a little dizzy and her body was a little unstable.

"Sarah, don't look down." Feeling the girl's legs start to tremble, Brian knew she must have looked down. He grabbed Sarah's legs, supported her body, and quickly reminded her: "Take a deep breath, adjust your emotions, and don't be afraid I will support you."

"Huh~"

Brian's voice was like a tonic, giving Sarah incomparable courage. She took a deep breath, stabilized her emotions, looked up, leaned on the armrest, and kicked the wall twice with both hands. down, reluctantly climbing up.

But as soon as she climbed up, she saw an infected not far from the aisle with its back to her. This shocking sight made her unprepared, and she almost screamed in fright.

Quickly covering her mouth with her left hand, Sarah suppressed her screams. At the same time, she reached out and shook her left hand desperately, reminding Brian not to shout so as not to alert the infected people in front of him.

When Brian saw this, he realized that there might be an infected up there, so he just waited silently, not daring to make any sound.

After waiting for a while, Sarah secretly breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the infected person did not move. She gently took off her backpack and took out the rope from it. While paying attention to the infected person's movements, she fixed one end of the rope. On the armrest.

Grabbing the rope dropped from above, Brian stood up and stepped on the highest point of the stairs, climbing up easily.

Turning gently through the aisle, Brian looked at the infected man standing in front and drew out his dagger. He was about to step forward to deal with this threat, but a small hand next to him suddenly reached out to stop him.

He looked at Sarah next to him in confusion. Unexpectedly, the other party pointed at the dagger in his hand and then whispered, "This time, let me do it!"

Looking into Sarah's firm eyes, Brian nodded and handed the dagger in his hand to the other party. In this environment, everyone needs strength, so he had no intention of dissuading him and just followed behind her silently. to protect her safety.

Holding the dagger tightly, Sarah got closer to the infected person. At this moment, she was very nervous, but she could no longer accept that she was a person who could only be protected by others.

If she is in danger, Brian will protect her. If Brian is in danger, who will protect him? So she can no longer hide behind; she must stand up and face these dangers.

Seeing that the infected was much higher than her, Sarah recalled Brian's method of dealing with the other person, raised her foot, and kicked the inner side of the other person's knee fiercely.

Caught off guard, it fell to its knees in an instant, and then a slender arm appeared from behind it, tightly hugging its neck to prevent it from making any sound, and then the sharp dagger looked at the right time. The dagger pricked his temple directly, and the infected was resolved in a matter of seconds.

"Awesome, awesome." Brian, who had witnessed everything the whole time, couldn't help but praise Sarah when he saw Sarah's actions. "I didn't expect you to hide your strength, but I underestimated you."

"Okay, it's getting late; let's hurry up and get on our way."

Rolling her eyes at Brian, Sarah handed the dagger back to the other man's hand and looked at the infected man lying on the ground, feeling a little proud in her heart.

"Wait, there's someone there."

Just when they were about to move on, Brian suddenly saw a Young black girl walking out of a restaurant diagonally across the street, but the backpack behind her was scrambled. She got nothing out of it, and she didn't get what she wanted, food.

Just as she was hiding her figure and heading towards another convenience store across the street, an infected with half its head wrapped in a mushroom-shaped fungus suddenly appeared in the place where she was hiding. It grew out of the eye socket, destroying one of its eyes.

Uncharacteristically, the infected did not roar directly and pounce on the target. Instead, it followed closely behind the girl, seemingly closing the distance between itself and its prey.

"This... what's going on with the infected ?" Sarah pointed at the infected with a strange shape and asked in horror. She could see that this infected dog was completely different from other infected. It seems even weirder.

"Really!"

Brian looked at the infected with a familiar shape and an ugly expression. This was the infected with the largest fungus coverage he had ever seen so far, and it seemed that it had completed its "evolution" and entered the stage of... the second stage.

He knew that his conjecture was correct. As time went by, the fungus that infected the body were constantly transforming the host's body, making the host stronger so that it could infect more prey and "work" for the germs.

On the other side, just when the evolved infected was close enough, it suddenly let out a strange "hissing" cry and rushed towards the girl. At the same time, the strange cry also awakened the nearby people. All the infected people standing there seemed to have received some signal, and they roared and ran in the direction of the sound.

The girl quickly turned around after hearing the strange screams behind her. When she saw the infected people rushing towards her, she immediately panicked. However, she also killed a lot of infected people during this period, so she reacted quickly, raised her pistol, and shot the infected man in the head.

The bullet flew out and hit the part of the infected's head without any bias. The whole head exploded in an instant, but the infected seemed to be okay and continued to pounce on the prey in front of him.

Staring at the infected person, who was still alive with wide eyes, the girl screamed in horror, turned around, and tried to escape without hesitation.

But this evolved infected was faster than an ordinary infected. It caught up with the girl in a few steps and threw her to the ground.

"ah--!"

Suddenly, shrill screams resounded through the entire neighborhood, and the desperate wails deeply pierced the hearts of all the survivors hiding nearby.

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