"Boom!"

Inside the motel.

The roar of thunder and lightning exploded above his head. In the dark room, Brian suddenly opened his eyes and sat up from the floor.

"What's wrong?"

Joel, who was already a light sleeper, heard the sound in his ears and opened his eyes immediately. He saw Brian getting up and looking out the window to look at the powerful situation outside the rain curtain. He also got up from the floor with the same caution.

In the room, Ellie's slight snoring could be heard from time to time. It seemed that the thunder just now had no impact on the girl at all.

Tess and Sarah also heard the sound, but they did not get up in a hurry, and quietly watched what the two people who got up were doing.

"Ah, nothing."

Hearing Joel's inquiry, Brian pinched his forehead, squinted his eyes and looked at the rain outside the window, and whispered hesitantly: "...just now...I thought I heard someone shouting..."

"Are you sure you heard correctly?"

Hearing this, Joel couldn't help but become alert. He didn't think Brian would make any joke at this time, so he picked up the firearms placed next to him and quickly came to the window.

But when he looked at the violent storm outside, he didn't notice anything unusual.

“….Maybe… hmm?”

Brian also didn't notice anything going on outside. His senses were spread out and he didn't notice any infected people or humans around him.

For a moment, he wondered if he had just heard a hallucination.

But when Brian cast his eyes towards the other side of the highway, as if he had discovered something, he narrowed his eyes slightly and let out a sigh, murmuring: "There...why does it seem like there is light?"

"bright?"

Hearing this, Joel couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. He didn't understand how the other party could see the situation on the other side of the road. You must know that there is such a long distance between here and there, and...it is raining heavily outside, where is the fire coming from?

.

However, he still picked up the binoculars and looked towards the other side of the road, and actually found that there was indeed a faint flash of light inside the convenience store inside the gas station that he had seen in the morning.

It's just that the gas station is diagonally opposite and it's raining heavily, so I didn't see the situation there just now.

"Is there someone...could it be someone from Huoying? Or a soldier from the quarantine area?"

Putting down the telescope in his hand, Joel had a lot of thoughts in his mind. He didn't think that any survivors would unexpectedly appear on such a rainy day. Needless to say, it must be for them.

Thinking of this, he pulled the bolt of the pistol and stood up and whispered: "I'm going to deal with them now!"

"Do not impulse!"

Noticing Joel's movements, Brian raised his hand to stop the other party's movements. He didn't think it was Huo Ying or the soldiers in the quarantine area. After all, if the target was them, how could they light a fire and have already been searched for it.

Although he was also wary of the appearance of strange survivors, he did not want to go on a killing spree at the first disagreement. He thought for a while and said, "Don't rush to take action yet. Go over and see what the other party's purpose is."

"Let's go out, please be careful about what's going on outside."

Turning around and exchanging words with Tess and Sarah who were standing up behind him, Brian took the lead in opening the door and walking out.

"Wow..."

outdoor.

As soon as he came out of the room, Brian felt that the temperature around him suddenly dropped, and the cold wind mixed with rain blew on his face. He lowered his head to check the pistol, turned his head and met Joel's eyes, facing the rain.

Run towards the gas station.

The dense raindrops instantly wetted their clothes. The two of them kept moving forward, slowly slowing down as they watched the increasingly clear firelight in the convenience store.

"Two people... they just came here not long ago..."

Entering the refueling area, Brian saw a few wet footprints in front of him at a glance. He squatted down, inspected and analyzed: "The footprints are larger and smaller, one is an adult male... the other... is not petite.

The woman is a younger child...or a dwarf, unlikely to be a firefly or a quarantine soldier."

"No matter what their identities are, let's catch these two people first."

Joel didn't care about this. No matter what the identities of these two strange survivors were, the most important thing was to capture them first and ensure that they did not pose a threat.

"...Fine."

Although he felt that this method seemed a bit simple and crude, it was indeed the easiest method. Brian did not object to it. As for any misunderstandings that might arise during this period, when the other party saw the firearm, he would naturally be patient and take care of it.

talk about.

The two quietly moved to the door of the convenience store. As they approached, they heard faint conversations coming from inside.

"You brat, why are you so scared when you see a corpse? You look so pale, you are really worthless!"

"I...I didn't...it was just that the lightning suddenly lit up just now, and that face shocked me..."

Listening to the commotion inside, Brian glanced at Joel, then raised his foot and kicked the door of the convenience store hard, and rushed in through the open door.

What caught his eye were the two figures in the center of the convenience store. He didn't say anything more. Amidst the astonished eyes of the other people, he quickly subdued the nearest man to the ground.

Brian doesn't want to be like the police in movies and TV series, who come in and yell something not to move.

If the other party is not afraid of death and raises a gun to fight back, should he shoot or not?

It would be better to attack and subdue the opponent before they can react, thus avoiding unnecessary casualties and keeping the initiative in your own hands.

"you!"

Carlos looked at the strange man who suddenly rushed in from the door. He was stunned and froze in place. When he saw his subdued father, he came to his senses and wanted to pick up the pistol next to the fire.

"Child, don't move!"

But just as he stood up, a muddy foot stepped on the pistol first, and a cold voice came from above his head, stopping the boy from reaching for the gun.

After easily dealing with the two people in the convenience store, Brian took the rope and tied the man's hands behind his back, and also tied the boy together.

Then he looked at the empty backpacks of the two people and the supplies placed on the fire, and said to Joel: "These two people don't have much, they only have this pistol."

With such a simple sentence, the two of them knew that they had been overthinking it before. The two survivors in front of them seemed to be just passing by by chance.

"You...who are you?"

Owen just felt that today was a bad day. He never expected that there would be other survivors in such an abandoned gas station. And judging from the fact that these two people started to attack when they disagreed, they were definitely not good people.

For a moment, he felt a little depressed. He just thought that he might have to confess here today. He glanced at his son beside him and begged in a low voice: "It's useless if you arrest us. You can take all our things."

Come on, I just ask you to let us live."

Listening to these almost begging words, Brian couldn't help but cough twice and said: "Well, don't be afraid, we are not bad people..."

As he said that, he didn't touch the man's things. He just put away the only pistol, then used a dagger to release the two people. Then he looked at the two people and explained:

"We... have some people who are not easy to deal with, so we plan to avoid these people. There are unusual things happening around the wilderness in the middle of the night during heavy rain. We thought you were those people, but now it seems that we have overthought it.
Chapter completed!