Lord of Illusions City
Chapter 163 Take Good Care of the Little Ones
The fatty was very curious, sizing the boy up and down as he asked, "Do you know us?"
"I know you. I haven't met that big brother from the market!" the boy replied.
"Ah! You're from that orphanage?" The fatty looked closely at the boy, and indeed he looked somewhat familiar. He suddenly understood.
"Yes, yes, yes! From the orphanage!" The boy nodded repeatedly. By now, he had almost caught his breath, and his speech was more fluent. He pointed to the alleyway and said, "Our orphanage is surrounded by the monsters chasing me. We've been relying on the door to hold them back, but there are more and more monsters, and the door is about to give way…"
As the boy continued to explain, the fatty finally understood why this guy had rushed out of the alley, banging on a gong.
With the arrival of the Hell Silk, the orphanage had not escaped this disaster. But for some reason, the children in the orphanage had miraculously not mutated. It was the caregivers, teachers, and other adults who had mutated.
At that time, the orphanage had already finished dinner, and it was time for group activities. Almost everyone in the orphanage was gathered in a large auditorium.
When the disaster struck, and they saw the teachers and caregivers suddenly turn into monsters and rush towards the children, the other non-mutated caregivers and teachers all reacted in the same way.
They all rushed up, using their bodies to block their former colleagues. But they didn't know that these colleagues had become zombies and could not be restored.
Therefore, they did not attack the zombies, but only tried to block them, even shouting loudly, trying to wake these crazed people up.
Originally, humans became stronger than ordinary people after mutating into zombies. In addition, these people were mainly blocking, so how could they be a match for the zombies? They were immediately bitten and scratched by these zombies, and some were even bitten on the neck, allowing the zombies to tear and devour them wildly while convulsing!
At this critical moment, the old director of the orphanage and two other caregivers quickly organized the children to evacuate. While the zombies were tearing at the teachers and caregivers, they ran out of the front and back doors of the auditorium, and then locked the doors from the outside.
At that time, communication had been interrupted, and the old director felt a little lost as he listened to the busy tone of his mobile phone.
At first, he planned to take the children away from the orphanage, but before he could gather the children together, he heard chaotic knocking on the iron gate of the orphanage.
Opening the window in the iron gate, the old director immediately looked desperate. There were more than a dozen monsters outside the iron gate, just like those in the auditorium. If it weren't for the fact that this was an orphanage, and they were afraid that children would run away or that someone would come in to steal children, so they built high walls and a strong iron gate, I'm afraid the monsters outside would have rushed in by now.
So, the old director immediately changed his mind, directing the only two remaining caregivers, and children like the boy who had grown up in the orphanage and often came back to help, to take all the children into the dormitory building to hide!
Afterwards, the old director climbed onto the window outside the auditorium and looked inside, and found that everyone inside had become that kind of monster. There were no corpses on the ground, only large patches of blood that were shocking to see!
This made the old director understand that those who had blocked the monsters from attacking the children had also become monsters. The old director didn't know why, so he also suspected whether all adults would eventually become monsters?
So, after arranging all the children in the cafeteria on the first floor of the dormitory building, the old director called out all the adults and waited silently for a long time, and finally determined that they didn't seem to be turning into monsters.
So, the old director guessed that they would only become monsters like them after being bitten by those monsters.
Although this conclusion was not good, at least he and the two caregivers, and the four teenagers who came back to help, should not mutate for the time being!
There were a total of 52 children in the orphanage, ranging from just over one year old to twelve or thirteen years old. It was impossible to take so many children out, so the old director could only stay here for the time being, hoping that the rescue team could appear soon.
However, after the terrible incident that had happened before, all the children were frightened, and even with the comfort of the director and others, many children were still crying desperately.
The crying made the zombies outside and in the auditorium excited, and the zombies outside were tending to gather more and more. After two days and two nights, the iron gate, which had been squeezed and battered by the zombies, was finally about to collapse.
The old director looked desperate, because he knew very well that once this iron gate fell, death would await them all!
But he had no way to think about it. He was already over eighty years old, let alone taking those children, even if he ran by himself, it was impossible to outrun those zombies, and the orphanage had no weapons.
Previously, there were two security guards who had rubber police batons in their hands, but these two had been locked in the auditorium when they were blocking the zombies before, and had now become zombies.
So, the old director simply sent all four teenagers to the roof to see if they could call for someone who could save them!
But at this time, let alone there were not many survivors who dared to run outside, even if there were, the dozens of zombies blocking the entrance of the orphanage would be enough to scare them away.
Looking at the precarious iron gate, the old director tried to prop it up with something, but later found that the place where the iron gate contacted the courtyard wall was about to fall off due to squeezing and beating.
Once it broke there, even without the zombies pushing it, the weight of the iron gate itself would be enough to make it fall to the ground, losing its function as a barrier.
"We have to lure them away!"
A caregiver looked at the connection between the iron gate and the wall, gritted his teeth and said, "Otherwise, this door will be gone in an hour at most!"
Now their only reliance was this iron gate, because although there was also an iron gate on the dormitory side, all the windows next to it were windows, and the fragile glass could not block these monsters.
"How…"
A glimmer of hope rose in the old director's eyes. He looked at the caregiver and was about to ask how to lure the monsters away, but found that the caregiver turned around and rushed into the teaching building next to him. Then, he grabbed a suona and carried a ladder out.
Those were the instruments of the orphanage's children's band. The caregiver took the suona, put the ladder against the wall, then looked at the old director, smiled reluctantly and said, "Director! Protect the little ones!"
"Xiao Liu, don't…"
The old director suddenly realized something and tried to stop him, but the caregiver had already stepped on the ladder and climbed all the way to the top of the wall. Then, he looked at the zombies blocking the door, jumped off the wall, put the suona in his mouth, and ran frantically towards the outside of the alley.
The high-pitched sound of the suona soared into the sky, accompanied by the back of the caregiver going away…