"Da da da da..."
The crisp sound of horse hooves, even the noise of raindrops falling to the ground, could not be covered up, echoing around as the two Peter moved forward.
None of them spoke, letting the horses lead them forward slowly, their eyes sharply scanning all the corners around them where they could hide their figures.
Holding the reins in one hand and the iron sword in the other, he is always ready to deal with zombies that may be attracted to him.
Their biggest purpose this time is to find more survivors to join them, speed up their assimilation into the world, and find opportunities to capture Avengers, who has turned into a zombie. Of course, they can no longer skim the surrounding environment as quickly as before, but must search carefully bit by bit.
Soon, the two of them were taken by horses to half of the villa with a hidden basement, a place they had never been before.
A subtle feeling of being watched and peeped came into Peter's mind. The hairs on his face stood up. Spider-Sense immediately helped him locate the direction from which the feeling came.
"Huh?"
"Bucky, there is a situation!"
Peter didn't look over, as if he hadn't discovered anything, but his voice sounded quickly, reminding Bucky who was walking parallel to him just enough to hear.
Bucky's hand holding the sword tightened, and even his eyes did not change at all. He did not even turn his head to look at Peter. He just glanced at the place where Peter secretly pointed with his raised finger from the corner of his eye.
"A ruin?"
"Could it be..."
When Bucky saw clearly where Peter was pointing, he was slightly startled by the collapsed ruins of the villa with only half of it left, because he could see at a glance through the gaps between the open doors and windows and the tilted and collapsed walls that nothing was hidden inside.
And Bucky knows how keen Spider-Sense is of Peter. He doesn't think Peter will lie to him. There must be something there.
After estimating the size of the ruins of the villa, Bucky concluded that only rich people could afford to live there, and rich people liked to build basements or secret rooms in their homes to hide things they didn't want others to know, or to use as their own safe houses.
Thinking of this, Bucky suddenly had a guess in his mind.
Bucky gave Peter a look, then simply pulled the reins and let the horse lead him towards the ruins.
The tacit understanding of getting along for a long time made Peter instantly understand the meaning in Bucky's eyes, and he couldn't help but get excited. He even couldn't wait to ride over, jumped off the horse, quickly surpassed Bucky, and ran towards the direction Spider-Sense was locked.
His horse followed slowly behind.
"Great, it's a pinhole camera, Bucky, there must be survivors here!"
As soon as they arrived at the door, the feeling of being spied on became obvious. Peter's pupils shrank, and he directly locked the specific position of the camera, and put the reflection of the imperceptible lens into his eyes, and he immediately became excited.
Obviously, the zombies will not hide from them and peek through the camera. They will probably rush up to them roaring and want to eat them.
Those who spy on them must be survivors.
Bucky jumped off the horse and ignored the excited Peter. Instead, he put his face directly in front of the camera so that the person behind the camera could see his face clearly, and then made a gesture that represented communication.
"Hey... guys, don't be afraid. I am your good neighbor Spider-Man. We will not do anything to you. Can you come out? We have something very important to discuss with you!"
Seeing Bucky's movements, Peter also showed off his battle clothes and deliberately took off his hood, revealing his expectant face.
The world has almost been destroyed, Peter doesn't care about such insignificant things as whether his face is exposed or not.
He didn't care whether the people inside could hear what he said, so he grinned and spoke to the camera. At the same time, he carefully observed the ground around him, trying to find the entrance to the basement.
And the pile of rags in the corner was so rotten that it stuck to the ground. Although several years had passed, it still bore obvious traces of man-made accumulation. It quickly attracted the attention of Peter and Bucky.
Mark is the owner of a small parts processing factory. Not long after the zombie virus broke out, his wife died unfortunately, and his parents who were far away were eaten by zombies in the early stages of the virus outbreak.
In the end, Mark could only carefully return to the villa that collapsed after being hit by artillery shells when the army attacked the zombies.
After repairing the surviving pinhole camera circuit, Mark hid in a sturdy basement he had built like other wealthy people who spent a lot of money because he was afraid of being affected by the increasing confrontation between super villains and superheroes.
He never thought that one day he would really rely on it to survive.
Just in case, Mark has stocked up enough food, water and other necessary things for the couple to consume for five years, but now all of these things belong to Mark I.
In order to still have enough power in the event of a power outage, Mark chose a human-powered bicycle generator and a set of high-end batteries with huge capacity and durability.
Not only does it solve the problem of electricity consumption, it can also be used for fitness.
Needless to say, there is no need to mention the bathroom. Considering the problem of water outage, Mark directly installed a huge bucket that can automatically purify the water quality. It also modified the hidden filter pipe on the ground to collect rainwater for flushing the toilet or washing. The excess water will be automatically discharged into the sewer.
Originally there was a mirror and shower head in the bathroom, but after Mark lived alone in the basement for several years, he gradually stopped cleaning himself and no longer paid attention to the changes in his appearance.
On that ordinary day, perhaps out of an emotional outburst, or perhaps because he felt that his reflection in the mirror was an eyesore, Mark smashed the mirror and the shower head into pieces with his bare hands. There were dense cuts on his fists, and the ground was dyed red with blood.
If the basement had not been fully stocked with supplies, including enough medicine and tools to deal with trauma, Mark's hand would have become useless, or even endangering his life.
In the days that followed, Mark refused to take a shower, wash his clothes, wash his four-piece bed set, wash his hair or cut his hair, shave his beard, or even brush his teeth. He turned himself into something worse than a homeless man, and his whole body reeked of stench.
Loneliness and despair have always been with Mark.
He could see zombies appearing from time to time outside through the surveillance screen, and the image of his wife screaming and wailing as she was being eaten in front of him kept echoing in his mind, which made him frightened and did not have the courage to leave here.
Through his dead wife, he thought of his parents who also died, which made his heart become hollow and numb.
He could only live like this, an empty shell of a living corpse, living with death, despair, and loneliness in this dark basement.
In addition to using the human-powered bicycle generator to consume excess energy, Mark spends most of his time looking at the monitoring screen in a daze.
Even he himself didn't know what he was looking at.
Are you looking at those dead and collapsed wrecks?
Or watch those zombies that occasionally appear?
Or looking for possible human figures?
Or even expecting that superheroes who can always create miracles can save the world again and then show a new world in front of him?
Mark didn't know, he just instinctively wanted to see if the dying hope hidden deep in his heart would appear on the cold screen.