doomsday survival

Chapter 148
Ivan ran forward with Lilia on his back, and when he was only 20 meters away from the hot air balloon, his foot slipped and the two of them fell to the ground together.

"Ah!" The two mothers, Ava and Zhenia, cried out at the same time, and they shouted together from above, "Hurry up!"

"Hurry up! We'll be there soon!" Others also cheered for the two children.

Shi Jian and Chen Qiong desperately fired grenades at the zombies, and the two women on the same balloon also shot guns at the zombies not far away, hoping to stop the zombies from rushing forward.Hearing that other people were cheering for the children, Shi Jian took the time to look back. Ivan was getting up from the ground, and he hurriedly shouted: "Hurry up, Ivan!".

But Ivan's condition doesn't look good, he seems to have injured his left foot.When Lilia found out, she hurriedly grabbed Ivan's left arm and helped him move forward together.The two supported each other, getting closer and closer to the hot air balloon.

However, at this moment, the frontal zombies also broke in, which made the already overwhelmed people even more flustered.Only Shi Jian and Chen Qiong could really form an attack power, and the other two women seemed to be trying to show their presence.Others had no choice but to shoot at the zombies in the distance in order to prevent breaking the rocky balloon after taking off in the balloon, and as the balloon rose, the accuracy became worse and worse.

Ivan and Lilia were only ten meters away from the hot air balloon, but these ten meters suddenly became so far away.The zombies had broken through to within 20 meters, and neither Shi Jian nor Chen Qiong dared to use grenades anymore.

The speed of the zombies was slightly slower than that of ordinary people, but it was about the same, but Ivan was slower than the zombies. Looking at the approaching zombies, Ivan was filled with despair.

Is this so far away?

"Lilia, I can't do it anymore, you go, leave me alone!" Ivan pushed Lilia away and let her go alone.

"No!" Lilia's face was full of tears, while shaking her head, she held Ivan's arm again.

Seeing that these two people were actually pushing and tugging, Shi Jian shouted anxiously: "Don't dawdle! Hurry up! Ivan, can you act like a man!"

Ivan heard Shi Jian's reprimand, and saw that Shi Jian was still waiting for them, so he stopped refusing Lilia's support, gritted his teeth to endure the pain in his feet, and ran towards the hot air balloon.

Seeing that they were coming soon, Shi Jian cut the ropes of the ballast sandbags first, and then cut a fixed rope, so that only two fixed ropes could restrain the hot air balloon.He had no choice but to, otherwise, if the zombies took the opportunity to climb up, then everyone would be finished.

The hot air balloon was originally fixed in a triangle by three ropes. After one was missing, it rose more than one meter upwards.However, because of the existence of the rope ladder, it did not affect the two of Ivan to go up.

Ivan and Lilia have reached the bottom of the balloon.Similarly, the nearest seven zombies were less than ten meters away from the balloon.The people on the balloon desperately shot at these zombies, buying the last time for Ivan and the two.

Ivan reached out and pushed Lilia, and said, "Come on!"

Lilia still hesitated and wanted to give in.

"You go first! I'm a man! I want to protect you!" Ivan roared loudly.

Lilia gritted her teeth, wiped the tears off her face with the back of her hand, grabbed the rope ladder and climbed up.The two women on the balloon quickly stretched out their hands, and when they were ready to pull Lilia up, they pulled her up with their hands.

Lilia had just climbed halfway, and Ivan grabbed the rope ladder, followed her, and climbed up together.

When the people on the two hot air balloons saw that they had climbed the rope ladder, they all cheered and applauded loudly for the two children who escaped death.

Seeing that both of them had climbed the rope ladder, Shi Jian immediately shouted: "Grab!" After speaking, he went to cut a fixed rope.

Chen Qiong kept shooting at the nearest zombie.But there were more and more zombies, and he couldn't handle it anymore.With the sound of "click", the magazine has been fired.

Shi Jian had just cut a rope at this time, and the balloon rose immediately.The rope ladder also swayed, and Lilia was taken aback, she grabbed the rope ladder and dared not move again.Ivan was blocked by Lilia, so he could only hang in mid-air, waiting for Lilia above to continue climbing.

Suddenly, the people on the two hot air balloons above let out an exclamation.

At the same time as this exclamation, a zombie jumped up while Chen Qiong was reloading, pounced on Ivan who was hanging in the air, and hugged his left leg at once.

After Ivan was embraced by the zombie, his body sank downwards, without grasping his hands, he fell down with a scream, and fell to the ground together with the zombie.

"Ivan!" There was an exclamation from above.Ai Wa's eyes darkened, and her whole body softened.Feng Chen beside her hurriedly hugged her, and then handed her into Andre's arms.

As soon as Lilia's hand was grabbed by the two women above, she heard Ivan's exclamation from below.She looked down and found that Ivan had been dragged down by the zombies. She yelled angrily, and then shouted to the top: "Let me go, let me go down! Ivan, uh..."

The people above were not willing to let go, and they tried their best to lift her up.Lilia wanted to jump crazily, but was held tightly by others.She could only lie on the side of the hanging basket, looking at Ivan below, and crying his name loudly.

After the zombie pulled Ivan to the ground, it opened its mouth full of sharp teeth and bit Ivan's calf.Ivan tried his best to kick off the zombie with his right leg, struggling to hide to the side.

Everyone knew that Ivan was hopeless, and they all covered their eyes, unable to bear to see Ivan being divided and eaten by zombies.

"Ah—" Shi Jian yelled, raised his gun and fired wildly at the zombies below.

This was the first time he saw that his companion was going to be eaten by zombies, and it was caused by his negligence. He was filled with regret for a while, wishing to kill all the zombies below.

The bullets poured down violently, knocking down several zombies to the ground, and the undead zombies still rushed towards Ivan.

Shi Jian's bullet had already been fired, and he was no longer able to extend Ivan's life for a moment. A living person was about to be devoured by zombies in front of his eyes.He closed his eyes, let the tears flow down, kept hitting the hanging basket with his hands, and kept muttering: "It's all my fault, it's all my fault..."

Chen Qiong, who was used to seeing life and death on the battlefield, reached out and patted Shi Jian on the shoulder, giving him silent comfort.Suddenly, Chen Qiong frowned, pressed his hand on his chest, and said nothing.

No one noticed Chen Qiong's behavior.All eyes were on their feet, they didn't dare to look at Ivan again, only Lilia kept crying and looked at Ivan without blinking, wanting to engrave his last image on the heart.

After kicking off the zombies, Ivan turned over and jumped to the side, ignoring the zombies behind him.Immediately, a zombie threw him down again, but Ivan still persistently crawled forward.Two more zombies surrounded and gnawed on Ivan's body, but they still couldn't stop Ivan.

"Ivan! What are you doing!" Lilia cried loudly.

Ivan didn't respond, and finally let him climb to where he wanted to go - the last fixed rope.

Because of Ivan's accident, Shi Jian has not cut the rope so far. The hot air balloon is fixed in mid-air by a five-meter-long rope, and a three-meter-long rope ladder hangs from it. Zombies can climb up just by jumping up.It's just that the zombies were attracted by Ivan on the ground and didn't notice the existence of the rope ladder.

All Ivan had to do was cut it!

Enduring the severe pain from being bitten by the zombies, Ivan struggled to pull out the dagger at his waist, and cut vigorously.

Finally, the rope was cut by Ivan, and the hot air balloon soared up to a high altitude.

Ivan tried his best to turn over, letting the zombies tear at his body.Looking at the hot air balloon flying far away, a gratified smile appeared on Ivan's face.Lilia was able to escape safely, and he was already satisfied.

Lilia's pretty face seemed to be right in front of Ivan's eyes. He reached out and stroked it, and murmured, "Lilia, I love you, I'm a man!"

Ivan shouted that sentence with the last of his strength, his outstretched arm hung sideways, and a small ring slipped from his finger.

Lilia cried so hard that she lay down beside the hanging basket, her whole body collapsed, and she was still murmuring Ivan's name.

At this time, she heard Ivan shouting from below: "Lilia, I love you! I'm a man!" Then there was the sound of a grenade detonating.

"Ivan!" Lilia stood up all of a sudden, lay down beside the gondola, and shouted loudly to the ground.

Scenes from the past were constantly rolling in front of Lilia's eyes, and the clear dialogue seemed to be ringing in her ears.

"Lilia, when I grow up, let Mr. Vasily betroth you to me, okay? I will protect you for the rest of my life!" A handsome boy said, looking at the girl seriously.

"You? Stop joking, it's not funny at all, you're just Mr. Kidd's woman." She sneered dismissively, flicked her long blond hair, and turned away.

That year, he was 12 years old and she was ten years old.

"Mr. Vasily, please let Lilia go, you promised me to leave her to me." The young man tugged on the sleeve of a bald man, pleading.

"Go away! You dead rabbit," the bald head kicked the boy away, and cursed, "Go wash it up and lean against the wall! Today we also had Kidd's addiction."

"Haha, okay, it happens that Kidd is not here, let's see why he is so willing to go through the back door!" The other three people beside him laughed at the same time.

After crying out in pain, the boy crawled to the girl's side, hugged her stiff body with his hands, and called out softly, "Lilia, Lilia."

The girl's tears flowed down her cheeks, her big eyes looked up at the sky without focus, and she murmured, "Is this how you protect me? You really are not a man!"

That year, he was 14 years old and she was 12 years old.

"Lilia, you can rest assured now. We have joined the new tribe, and no one will dare to bully you anymore. You don't have to be so haggard anymore." The boy said slowly, holding the girl's hand.

There was a gleam of light in the girl's empty eyes, but it disappeared in an instant, and she said coldly: "Yes, you are not yet sixteen, so you don't need to do what men do, you don't need to fight, right? You are not a man after all." !"

That was two months ago.

"Don't worry, I will rescue you back!"

"Lilia, I can't do it anymore, you go and leave me alone!"

"You go first! I'm a man! I want to protect you!"

"Lilia, I love you! I'm a man!"

(End of this chapter)