When he was about to reach the window on the third floor, Liu Qian struggled to distinguish the sound that might come from inside, and was fully prepared for a possible sneak attack. But there was no movement inside until Liu Qian climbed in through the open third-floor window, and he didn't encounter any other zombies.

There are some sticky and greasy things on the windowsill on the third floor, it seems that there are zombies crawling through here, I don't know whether they crawled in or climbed out, which seems to mean that the small building is not safe inside, and a comprehensive cleaning and investigation must be carried out before moving in.

After retracting the dangling rope into the room, Liu Qian cautiously searched around the third floor. The layout of the third floor is simple, with only one room with a simple bathroom. There was a small bed and a wardrobe in the room, Liu Qian checked the bottom of the bed first, and found nothing abnormal, so he opened the wardrobe again, and there were some men's and women's clothes hanging and stacked inside, and there were no zombies hiding in it after pulling it open.

There is a simple dressing table next to the small bed, and there are cosmetics such as lipstick and nail polish scattered on the table, indicating that there was indeed a woman living here.

There is a dining table against the wall, on which is a simple alcohol stove, on which is a small stainless steel pot, in which some of the juice of cooked instant noodles remains, which has completely cooled down. There were several empty bags of instant noodles in the trash bin at the table, as well as some empty bags of biscuits; On the floor below the dining table were four or five crates of drinks, but they contained empty bottles, apparently drunk by the people who lived there.

On the third floor, except for some zombie-specific sticky things on the windowsill, nothing unusual was found anywhere else, there was no blood on the ground, no obvious signs of fighting, only a small stool fell on the ground, I don't know who knocked it down.

"Anyone? Is there anyone living here? If there were people we could leave and choose to settle somewhere else. Liu Qian shouted a few times into the small building, if there were people living in the small building, this level of shouting was enough for them to hear, even if there were zombies hiding inside, it should be enough to lure them out of the hiding place~ lure.

There was no response in the small building, so quiet that there seemed to be no people or zombies, only the sound of the wind whirring outside the window came in from time to time.

If the proprietress was forced to climb the window and go downstairs by the zombies, then it is very likely that the zombie chasing her also chased out of the window and jumped from the window, and did not stay in the small building, so Liu Qian's shout just now did not cause any movement.

The question is, where did that zombie come from? Did she put it in through the main entrance?

It feels unlikely, the roller shutter is locked, which shows that the woman has enough time to lock the roller shutter when she returns to the hardware store, at least the store is still safe at that time.

This must be clarified, otherwise it will be unsafe to stay here at night.

Liu Qian didn't find anything unusual or dangerous on the third floor, so he stood on the side of the simple staircase and turned on the flashlight to shine on the second floor, and after confirming that the range of the flashlight was safe, he went down the simple stairs to the second floor.

The layout of the second and third floors is similar, the same room has a bathroom, and there is a bed in the room, but there is a faint smell of corpse decay in the room on the second floor, similar to the smell emitted by the zombie body, which also makes Liu Qian highly vigilant.

But there are still no zombies on the second floor...... Except for the messy bed, the rancid slime on the bed, and some broken ropes......

After shining a flashlight on a group photo of a man and a woman on the table next to the bed, and carefully observing the various clues left in the room, Liu Qian roughly guessed what had happened here.

It is likely that when the plague epidemic that turned most of the people in the Trembling World into zombies opened, the shopkeeper and the proprietress were not infected, but were trapped in their hardware store.

Any game has its own independent background setting, and the background setting of some games is even very grand, with the consistent urine nature of the Three Domains Company, the game they produced will also have a very logical and rigorous background story, so the outbreak of the zombie virus in the trembling world will definitely have a suitable reason and a reasonable progress process.

Judging from the current situation, except for the players who came in and were not infected, almost all the indigenous inhabitants of this world were infected, but there were some people who survived to become survivors, perhaps the owner and the proprietress of the store were two of them.

As for the reason, it is not known for the time being.

Surviving such a near-extinction situation is not necessarily a good thing for the survivors themselves. With all of their relatives and friends turned into zombies, no power and water, no food and water, and no social order, it is still an extremely difficult task for the survivors to survive this chaotic apocalypse.

This kind of saving words not only requires food and water, but also needs the courage of survivors, the courage to persist in living in despair.

The hardware store is not too far from the small supermarket that Liu Qian went to before, and the owner of the store should have ventured to the small supermarket a few times for the survival of him and his wife after the zombie outbreak, and brought some drinks and food back, as can be seen from the packaging bags of biscuits and instant noodles, as well as the empty boxes of drinks.

The shopkeeper didn't have time to bring all the drinks and food over, and was bitten or scratched by a zombie attack while going out, but he still stubbornly escaped back to the hardware store.

The boss who escaped back was sick and lay on the bed, and the boss lady was worried that he would become a zombie, but she couldn't bear to abandon him like this, so she tied him to the bed on the second floor with a rope, but the boss who was bitten eventually became a zombie because of infection or death.

The boss who turned into a zombie broke the ropes that bound him and took the boss lady as a target for predation, and the boss was staying on the third floor at the time, and saw the boss who turned into a zombie break free from the rope and rushed to the third floor, and was forced to escape through the window on the third floor. The boss who turned into a zombie chased after him, and jumped directly from the third floor with the fleeing proprietress and caught up with the proprietress who tried to escape, throwing her to the ground.

It is likely that among the five zombies that gnawed on the woman's corpse just now, there was the husband of this woman who turned into a zombie. Or the first to eat women was her husband, and the other four zombies gradually gathered when they smelled blood.

This is a somewhat sad background story, judging from the clues currently available, the real result should be the same as Liu Gan's speculation of eight ~ nine.

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