kingnovel Chapter 157 Cooperation
Chapter 157 Cooperation
"Wait, wait! Stop!" Seeing Adele also approaching, Howard quickly stopped her: "Don't come down! It's disgusting here! You don't have protective clothing!"
But Adele didn't stop, instead she said with a firm face: "Messiah, I'm here to help you!"
"Stop, stop, stop!" Howard had to wade back to the shore to stop her, but after seeing Adele's persistent look, Howard thought about it and squatted down in front of Adele.
"Come up!" Howard said, pointing to his neck.
"Messiah!" Adele looked flattered. "Is this... is this really possible?"
"Of course, come on up!" Howard continued, pointing to his neck. "Of course, I won't force you if you're shy or embarrassed, but no matter what, you can't go underwater without protection!"
Adele hesitated for a moment, then reached out and hugged Howard's head, then straddled Howard's shoulders.
Howard felt his body sink, and after Adele sat firmly, he took a deep breath and stood up. Adele screamed softly, and her legs unconsciously wrapped around Howard's neck in a strangled manner.
"Relax! Relax." Howard quickly comforted her.
"Sorry..." Adele untied her legs sheepishly.
Adele's height was almost up to Howard's second rib, but she was surprisingly light, probably only 60 or 70 kilograms. Howard looked at her calves stretched to his chest. There was no fat on her calves, and her kneecaps were clearly visible. It was obvious that she was also a child who often did not have enough to eat.
"My hands are already dirty, you better sit tight!" Howard said.
Adele, who was holding Howard, nodded hard, then she realized that Howard couldn't see her movements, so she replied, "Okay!"
So Howard continued to grope deeper into the puddle with Adele on his back.
Another half hour passed, and Howard still didn't find any trace of the plague zombies. He felt a little depressed, so he said to Adele, "Adele, can you do me another small favor?"
"Please...please give me your orders!"
"I need you to drop some of your blood into the water. Not too much... but preferably not too little either."
"I know!" Howard soon heard Adele's answer.
Then Howard saw a string of blood dripping into the water in front of his eyes.
"Wow!"
The moment Adele's blood dripped into the water, Howard heard a sound similar to a fish flapping in the water behind him. He carefully kept his balance and turned around. He saw a creature about ten meters away from him. It was covered with water plants, had grayish-white and transparent skin, and perfectly fit the stereotype of the word "water ghost".
After the first plague zombie emerged from the bottom of the water, more and more plague zombies stood up, and multiple water lines appeared in the distance. Those were the plague zombies swimming in the deep water and approaching this side.
"Messiah..." Howard felt Adele's thighs tighten and tremble slightly.
"Don't be afraid, I will take you to a safe place." Howard comforted Adele while evacuating to the shore.
The plague zombies slowly approached from all directions, their eyes fixed on Adele from beginning to end, completely ignoring Howard.
Howard waded through the water carrying Adele. He was in good physical condition, but carrying a person weighing sixty or seventy kilograms and groping in waist-deep water for more than half an hour was a bit exhausting. He could no longer maintain a normal walking posture. With every step he took, his whole body tilted. At the same time, he kept stretching out his hands to open those webbed hands or tentacles that were reaching out to Adele and dripping with disgusting mucus.
In the end, his submerged lower limbs maintained a walking posture, while his upper limbs in the air moved as if he was paddling in the water.
Howard began to deliberately control his breathing, filling only a third of his lungs with each breath before exhaling hastily. Each time he exhaled, a thin layer of mist formed on the goggles of his protective suit. When he inhaled, this mist dissipated a little, and as it accumulated, water began to drip down the inside of the goggles. His hair, already soaked, stuck tightly to his forehead.
Finally, after a lot of effort, Howard finally carried Adele ashore. As soon as he got ashore, Howard fell face down on the ground.
"Messiah!" Adele screamed. She jumped off Howard, grabbed his hand, and wanted to run with him.
"Don't worry about me, just run first! Let me catch my breath." Howard said.
"No!" Unexpectedly, the little girl burst into tears: "No, Messiah! I will never abandon you!"
Howard was stunned for a moment, realizing that what the young lady had just said was indeed easy to misunderstand, so he said again: "Silly child, don't you see that these zombies don't care about me? Run faster, or I'll catch up with you if I lie down for a while."
Adele stopped crying, "Really?"
"How could I possibly lie to you? Run away, silly boy! If my hands weren't covered in mud, I'd hit you on the head!"
Adele wiped away her tears and said to Howard, "Messiah, I'm waiting for you out front. You must come back!"
After saying that, Adele took one last look at Howard and then slowly backed away.
She soon discovered that although these aquatic infected people moved quickly in the water, they were as slow as dehydrated salamanders when they reached the shore. So Adele always kept a distance from these infected people. At the same time, she also kept a close eye on Howard's situation. If Howard encountered any danger, she would go back to save him without hesitation.
But it was just as Howard said, these plague zombies completely ignored him... Well, it can't be said that they ignored him, because some of the plague zombies would have stepped on Howard if they had followed their original route, but they chose to go around him when he was around.
Howard turned over, took off the air filter mask, and took a deep breath of the foul air.
After recovering a little, Howard opened the zipper on the front of his protective suit and crawled out from the rubber like a snake shedding its skin. His whole body was soaked in his own sweat, and he looked like he had just been pulled out of the water.
After crawling out of the protective suit, Howard bent over and took a few breaths. Then he took out a box from the pocket where he kept the pancake. When he opened the box, there was a vacuum needle inside.
Howard pulled out the seal on the needle, took a deep breath, then gritted his teeth and pierced the needle into his shoulder. Soon the vacuum tube was filled with his blood.
Then he caught up with Adele with the syringe. At this time, Adele had retreated two or three hundred meters, and many of the plague zombies chasing her chose to give up and retreat back into the water. Only the one closest to Adele was still holding on.
This was exactly what Howard wanted. He ran to the back of the plague zombie, raised the syringe, and inserted it into his frog-like wet and slippery skin through his neck.