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Chapter 121 The Stink

Nan Shao and Zhang Yi walked to the third floor, extinguished the candles in their hands, entered a guest room, looked out through the glass, and made sure that there would be no surprise attack, then quietly opened the window. The moment the biting cold hit them, a nauseating stench made the two unprepared stomachs churn, and they almost vomited all the food they had for dinner.

Zhang Yi's face calmed down, then he unzipped his coat, pulled up one side of his clothes to cover his nose and lips, and then continued to look out. Nan Shao heard the sound and followed suit. But after a while, they gave up and closed the window quietly. Except for the stench, there was no sense of danger. They left the room, closed the door, and relit the candle with a lighter to prevent the light from leaking out. In the dim candlelight, looking at each other's faces that were pale from the stench, both of them were stunned for a moment, and then laughed at the same time.

They have been going back and forth among the zombies for nearly a year. When they were at the Ziyun County Hotel, they even covered the hotel with the broken limbs and intestines of zombies in order to suppress the smell on their bodies. The weather was extremely hot at that time, and the stench was imaginable. They even thought that their sense of smell was broken, and they could bear all kinds of odors without changing their expressions. It was not until just now that they realized that there was an even more disgusting smell.

"It stinks so bad that I want to cut off my nose." Nan Shao complained, and then suddenly leaned forward, pushed Zhang Yi against the wall, lowered his head and kissed him.

Since Zhang Yi recovered completely, because he was squeezed into the same room with Gangzi and the others, the two had fewer and fewer opportunities to be alone. It has been a long time since they had such intimacy. Usually, they didn't feel anything when they were fighting bloody battles, but at this time, there were only two people in the dim corridor with shadows, and there was no sense of urgency about the approaching danger, so Nan Shao couldn't help himself.

Zhang Yi is a man with normal sexual orientation after all. Although he has established a relationship with Nan Shao and has even had more intimate contact, except for the time when he was seriously injured and felt distressed when he saw Nan Shao helping him to support his world with a seemingly strong but actually fragile heart, he rarely thought about it. This may have something to do with his own reserved emotions and his concern for Yang Yang, but it is undeniable that sexual orientation is still a major factor. Even a habit formed over 20 or 30 years cannot be changed just by saying so, let alone something like this that is born. Nan

Shao once joked that they did not even go through the honeymoon period and went straight into the old married couple mode. Zhang Yi felt guilty, but thinking back, he felt that old married couples were not bad, at least they could accompany each other for a long time. Every time Nan Shao hugged him privately, he hugged him very tightly, as if he was afraid that he would suddenly disappear. Perhaps they both knew that if it wasn't for this desperate end of the world and if they hadn't experienced so many things together, he wouldn't necessarily accept Nan Shao. Perhaps they would have passed each other by and become strangers who had nothing to do with each other in this life. So he understood Nan Shao's worries, but it was a pity that this emotion could not be resolved no matter how many times he used words to promise. Perhaps he had to wait until the last moment of their lives, when he would hold the other's hand with all the emotions he had accumulated throughout his life and say that he had no regrets in this life. Only then could Nan Shao feel truly

at ease. The candle fell to the ground and extinguished, and the surroundings fell into darkness. The ambiguous sounds of lips and tongues intertwined and the heavy breathing became unusually obvious. Both of them were wearing a lot of clothes, so they couldn't completely press their bodies against each other, which made Nan Shao unsatisfied. His hand slid under Zhang Yi's clothes, wanting to explore, but he stopped and instead hugged him tightly. After a long while, he reluctantly raised his head.

"I really want to..." He whispered hoarsely, but before he finished speaking, he just laughed to himself, with some regret and helplessness towards reality. The time is not right, the environment is not right, what's the point of thinking about it.

Zhang Yi was silent for a moment, and then spoke after his breathing became more stable: "When the shelter is built, discuss with Qiao Touer and give us a private space." At the end, he added: "We will live here for a long time in the future, and we can't all live together."

Nan Shao nodded, but immediately realized what he really meant. He was overjoyed and asked in a trembling voice: "Are you serious?"

Feeling his joy and excitement, Zhang Yi's lips rose silently in the dark, and his mood improved a lot. He said seriously: "Of course." Because Yangyang's whereabouts were unknown, he didn't really care, but he understood that they were now in the end of the world where they could not see the night from the morning. No one knew when they would encounter a powerful beast or be accidentally scratched by a zombie and could no longer accompany each other. For his own selfishness, he couldn't do such a thing as letting Nan Shao accompany him and wait forever. Or maybe he was afraid of leaving regrets between the two of them. When flowers are ready to be picked, pick them now, and don't wait until there are no flowers left to pluck empty branches. This saying fully expresses the feeling of cherishing in time.

After getting Zhang Yi's promise, Nan Shao was so happy that he almost went crazy. He picked him up and wanted to spin around twice, but ended up hitting the ground and the wall. Then he remembered that they were standing against the wall.

"Are you okay?" Zhang Yi couldn't help laughing and touched his head that was banged loudly, and asked with concern. Nan

Shao laughed and said it was okay repeatedly, which sounded quite silly, which was very inconsistent with his usual temperament. But with his current mood, he probably wouldn't feel anything even if his head was really covered with lumps.

Zhang Yi thought it was funny at first, but soon his heart softened. Facing this man who would be happy as if he owned the whole world with just a little response, he suddenly felt that even if he gave all his feelings to him, it would not be enough. This man deserves the best treatment.

After all, talking about love and affection is something that can only be done when there is a little time to spare. The two people's bodies are not made of iron, so they did not stay in the corridor any longer. Nan Shao bent down and touched the candle that had fallen on the ground and was still hot. He took out a lighter from his pocket and lit it. The flickering candlelight touched Zhang Yi's gentle and deep eyes, and he almost melted into them again. Leaning forward, the two people's lips, which were rough and cracked due to the cold and lack of nutrition, touched each other again, but this time they were full of strong warmth and only paused for a few seconds before separating. Zhang Yi stretched out his hand and intertwined his five fingers with Nan Shao's, and the two walked to the second floor in unison. The candlelight swayed, and the two hazy figures overlapped and reflected on the wall behind them, making it difficult to separate.

"Finally, it doesn't stink so bad that it makes people want to vomit." Nan Shao's voice was very brisk, showing the owner's good mood, and then he explained the intention of the kiss.

"Well... go down and tell them?" Zhang Yi asked in a low voice after being speechless.

"No, it's not dangerous... Think about it, whoever comes up will take a deep breath like us..." Nan Shao's tone was a little depressed, and there was a strong sense of mischief.

The tacit laughter went farther and farther in the corridor, and finally disappeared at the entrance of the corridor with the candlelight.

The night was peaceful and uneventful. When everyone gathered in the lobby in high spirits the next morning, the zombies that had gathered around the guesthouse had scattered, and only a few were still wandering aimlessly on the road ahead. Those who were not on night watch were curious about what happened, while those who were on night watch were talking about the stench that almost made people have nightmares.

"Maybe the stench covered our smell." Ah Qing scratched his head and said in a daze. And Hao Weiming was complaining that Nan Shao and his friends didn't come to say hello, so that they could be mentally prepared, so that they wouldn't subconsciously want to breathe in the air outside the window when they opened the window for reconnaissance and get caught.

Nan Shao didn't bother to pay attention to him. Zhang Yi smiled and nodded in a very good temper, saying that they were negligent, but he thought in his heart that such disgusting things really need to be shared with someone to be mentally balanced. You know, he and Nan Shao fell asleep last night, and the smell seemed to linger in their noses, which woke them up several times. In the end, Nan Shao half-lay on him, and the two buried their faces in each other's necks, breathing the air mixed with each other's smell, and barely slept until dawn. Because the posture has not changed, the body is a little numb when getting up.

Because the zombies have retreated, their original plan not to leave from the main gate was naturally cancelled. After breakfast, in case there is no food at the next place to stay, everyone carried two kilograms of food, either rice or noodles, and prepared to set off. Although they wanted to take all the food away, that would be a suicidal act. Even though some people reluctantly walked in and out of the warehouse, and some people caressed the unopened bags of rice and flour in the kitchen like they were caressing their loved ones, wishing they could carry them on their shoulders, no one really asked for this.

Shi Pengsanhua opened the metal that sealed the door, solidified it into a square iron block and placed it next to him, then stood aside, obviously not going to be the first to go out. Those who kept watch last night also looked at the sky and the ground, laughing and pretending to be stupid, and no one led the way.

Xiong Hua was not on duty because he was injured. He glanced at them suspiciously, "It's not that exaggerated." He shook his head and walked out with big strides, as if everyone was making a fuss. There were also those who felt that they had been influenced by the zombies and could withstand all kinds of stench, and followed him, of course, with the intention of clearing the way for the night watchers. After all, the night watchers worked as hard as they did during the day, but they had to sleep less than three hours at night because they were nervous. They were not heartless and could pretend not to see it.

But no matter whether they wanted to laugh at others later or they had good intentions, they regretted it as soon as they got outside. They dumped out all the breakfast they had just eaten, and even ignored the zombies that rushed over. In the end, Qiao Yong and others couldn't stand it anymore, and they all fired thunderbolts and killed the few zombies from a distance.

"Although the smell was a bit strange when I came here yesterday, it didn't seem to be this bad." Someone was puzzled.

No one could answer this question. I don't know who started it. Everyone was busy looking for clean cloth strips to cover their noses, and then checked the things they brought with them again to see if there was anything missing and whether it would affect their actions. Then they quickly left according to the combat arrangement of yesterday before the zombies on the street could sense their smell.

Chapter 122 Backlash

After a night of rest, everyone was in very good condition, and the formation also changed slightly.

Nan Wei was placed in the second echelon because he was not injured, but his combat power was very weak, and Zhang Yi and Nan Shao happened to be in front of him. But the two of them were full of tacit understanding when they first cooperated, not to mention that they had experienced countless battles of all sizes together. Nan Wei had no chance to help out at the side, and he only needed to move his legs hard to keep up. For him, if Zhang Yi said that he didn't mind at all, he would be a saint. After all, the other party was once the person Nan Shao loved, and as Nan Shao's younger brother, the only relative at the moment, he couldn't help but take care of him a little more. Although Nan Shao treated him as air most of the time, he was able to take him in, so he still remembered the blood relationship.

"Hush!" Liu Xia, who was in the front, suddenly rolled back with the wind and signaled everyone to stop.

Along the way, there were so many zombies that they could hardly move. At this time, Qiao Yong and Ah Qing's fire ability played a key role with the help of Liu Xia's wind. After a large area of ​​burning, a piece of open space can be cleared quickly. Then, before the temperature subsides, everyone has to rush over before the zombies gather, and they don't even care about the blisters on their feet. But the use of superpowers is not endless, and now they have no time to stop and collect corpse crystals to replenish superpowers. So unless they have to, they rely on the first echelon to fight through, and the superpowers will use superpowers to assist. Liu Xia's superpowers are more used in leg strength. A gust of wind swept out, and the zombies couldn't even catch their shadows, which was also a good way to explore the way.

However, from the beginning, the zombies on the road suddenly became sparse, as if they had returned to the periphery of the city. This was originally a happy thing, but no one was happy because it was too weird. So everyone slowed down, letting Liu Xia, who was fast and could control the airflow around him to conceal his smell, go ahead to scout the situation.

"Hide, find a place to hide first..." Liu Xia's face turned pale, and he didn't have time to say anything, just kept waving his hands.

Bang - several explosions made everyone's scalp numb, and they didn't even have time to see what it was, so they dodged with their instincts of keen perception of danger cultivated in countless battles. At this time, the gap between Nan Wei and the others was revealed. He was not even as good as Huo Rui, the youngest in the team, and Yu Bo, the oldest.

"Left." Nan Shao waved his knife to block the unknown object that was flying towards him, and at the same time quickly extracted the surrounding terrain he had just seen in his mind, and decisively reminded the few people around him. On the left was an old cinema that was being demolished and rebuilt. The construction was stopped only halfway through. It was separated from the surrounding area by a wall, and there were no mutant plants.

Zhang Yi retreated to the left without hesitation. A sense of danger suddenly came from the front and side. Several sharp whistles reminded people of arrows and bullets, but Zhang Yi, who was familiar with guns, could hear the difference. Therefore, he kept his feet steady, and then raised his knife to cut the object that was coming towards his head and could not be avoided at all. He only felt his arm numb, and the force almost made his knife slip out of his hand, but it also successfully changed the direction of the object and fell to the ground next to him. Because the angle of his knife was only to reduce the force of the object, rather than a complete head-on collision, he avoided the end of the machete breaking into two pieces.

"It's not a bullet, but it's very powerful. If you can't block it with a weapon, try not to block it... It's a plant... It might be some kind of fruit shell." He quickly glanced at the half-palm-sized black shell on the ground, and said loudly to others uncertainly. His entire right arm was paralyzed, and he lost his ability to fight. He could only hand over the machete in his right hand to his left hand and then speed up to retreat. At this moment, he noticed that Nan Wei was running around like a headless fly, and he seemed to be unable to distinguish left from right, and was about to rush to the opposite side. Opposite was an empty square with colorful mutant flowers and plants. If he rushed in, he didn't know what would happen. He didn't have time to think about it at this time. He quickly took two steps over, grabbed the man and dragged him to the left.

"Asshole, can't you tell left from right?" Nan Shao noticed Zhang Yi's movements, and felt the anger rushing up to his head. He was so anxious that he cursed, but he rushed over without hesitation and blocked the flying shells for the two of them. Those shells had sharp edges and were spinning. If they couldn't be blocked or avoided, they could directly cut through the cotton jacket and leave deep or shallow scars on the body. If they hit the head, face and neck, it would probably be directly cut off. He got hit on the back and was bleeding. Naturally, he knew how powerful it was.

Fortunately, the street was only about ten meters wide. With the full cooperation of the two people, although the three people were injured to varying degrees, they still stepped into the wall entrance safely. From beginning to end, Zhang Yi used his numb hand to hold the boy, fearing that he would get the wrong direction again in a panic. If it happened again, he felt that they could just go to reincarnation.

Many people had already retreated into the wall, checking with injuries to see if there were any zombies inside to avoid being attacked by surprise, while the earth-based supernatural powers were reinforcing and raising the wall to enhance defense. The rest of the people also retreated in an orderly manner. Most of the people were injured. A piece of flesh was cut off Chen Wei's face, and it was bloody and looked very scary. She covered her face and sat quietly on the side, not crying or making a fuss, but she no longer stood closest to Zhao Chun at all times as before, so as to do something for him, such as passing water and food or even protecting him with all her strength. Zhao Chun's arm was broken when he saved her when they passed through the snake forest, so she had been trying her best to repay him, but now she sat far away, as if some hope had been extinguished again.

Zhao Chun glanced at her, pursed his lips, and said nothing. The others checked their injuries and found clean cloth strips to wrap them to prevent them from being stained by the blood of zombies.

"Go away, don't touch me!" After feeling safe, the panic-stricken Nan Wei finally came to her senses, but found that she was brought all the way by the most annoying man. A huge humiliation suddenly rose in her heart, and she subconsciously pushed the other party, trying to shake off the hand holding her.

"Ayi!" Nan Shao was terrified to see Zhang Yi being pushed out of the protection of the wall, and at this time a piece of shell flew over. Even if he rushed over immediately, he couldn't save him in time. His hands and feet were cold, his mind was blank, and he was completely stunned.

Zhang Yi felt a little wronged. Under normal circumstances, with the boy's strength alone, he would not be able to push him anyway. However, he had to use his left hand to carry the man, so he could only use his right hand to carry him. His right hand had not recovered its blood and qi. He had just been trying to save people and had been holding on with gritted teeth. He had just reached a safe place and had relaxed. Even if the boy did not push him, he could not hold on. The push caught him off guard and made him stagger. As a result, he stepped on a broken brick hanging on the ground and fell backward without control. Under normal circumstances, before falling to the ground, he only needed a flexible back support and would not be injured. However, a piece of fruit shell suddenly shot at him. Even if he was twice as flexible, it would probably be useless. However, it was impossible for him to accept his fate. Almost as soon as he reacted, he immediately gritted his teeth, kicked hard with his feet, sank his waist, accelerated his landing speed, and pushed himself a few points to the street outside. At this time, he could no longer care whether it was dangerous outside or not. He had to get through this level first.

On the other side, Nan Wei's face turned pale. He didn't want to hurt the other person. He just wanted to get rid of the other person's hand. He hated himself for being so useless that he even wanted to snatch his brother's rescue. He just kept echoing in his ears what Nan Shao said, "Asshole, you can't even tell left from right." This was the first time Nan Shao scolded him. He knew that he couldn't tell left from right since he was a child, but he scolded him for this. He felt uncomfortable. He didn't really want to hurt anyone...

Just when everyone was worried, regretful, and trying to save themselves, a metallic arm suddenly stretched out from the side and grabbed the fruit shell in mid-air with a clang. Another normal hand just grabbed Zhang Yi's arm and stopped his retreat, avoiding the tragic situation of falling into the street and being shot into a sieve by the fruit shell.

"Brother Yi, be careful!" Then two more people came over to catch Zhang Yi, and joked in shock after entering the wall. It turned out to be Shi Pengsan, Wang Yuanwei and Sun Zhou who came back last. They were the farthest away, so they fell behind. Unexpectedly, they saved Zhang Yi.

Zhang Yi escaped death and broke out in a cold sweat. He helped Wang Yuanwei stand steady and nodded to thank them.

"Just thank Brother Shisan. If it weren't for him, Xiao Sun and I wouldn't be able to help even if we encountered this." Wang Yuanwei smiled, very self-aware.

Shi Pengsan didn't bother to be polite with them. He waved his hand and walked towards Qiao Yong, wanting to see if he was injured.

Everyone was relieved to see that Zhang Yi was fine, but they looked at Nan Wei with dissatisfaction. It's okay for this kid to be unsociable at ordinary times. Everyone has his own personality and no one makes things difficult for him, but it is absolutely intolerable for him to attack his companions. It was just for Nan Shao's sake that they finally held back and didn't say anything.

Qiao Yong, who was always kind, had a gloomy face. Just when he was about to speak, he saw Nan Shao, who had lost his legs and fell on the sand pile behind him for a long time because he saw Zhang Yi being rescued, suddenly jumped up, rushed over to grab Zhang Yi and checked him up and down, and after confirming that he was really fine, he turned his face to Nan Wei, who was pale, with a gloomy look.

"Is this how you treat the person who saved you?" he asked, his tone extremely calm, but it made people feel the dullness before the storm.

"I didn't let him save you!" Nan Wei had already regretted it, but when Nan Shao asked this question, she felt a sense of grievance in her heart, and couldn't help but raise her chin and said stubbornly.

Nan Shao's eyes gradually became cold, and his mind couldn't help but float up when he was scratched by a zombie in order to get him an apple. When a friend blamed him for asking for some fruit, he also raised his chin and said indifferently and disdainfully, "I didn't ask him to go!" How many times, how many times he enjoyed his efforts peacefully, but kept saying that it was his own will, and what did it have to do with me. If he was really tougher, tried to be independent, and didn't call me every time he had something to do, no matter how much he liked him, he would just suppress it in his heart, and why would he follow him like a lapdog to clean up the mess. Even without mentioning the person he likes, it is impossible for him not to pamper and protect his younger brother who he has raised since childhood, but the result... the result, ha...

"I have pampered him for more than ten years, but I have pampered someone like you! It's my fault, it's my fault..." Nan Shao felt his heart was as cold as ice. Even the last trace of blood relationship with the boy in front of him was cut off by this push and this sentence. Thinking that Zhang Yi almost died because of his momentary weakness, he felt that his whole body was trembling with coldness, and he couldn't tell whether he was angry or afraid. As he said that, he suddenly raised his hand and slapped the boy in the face.

Nan Wei staggered after being hit, covered his face and stared at the big brother in front of him who he had made up his mind to treat well, and murmured: "Brother, you hit me?" There was disbelief and heartbreak in his tone, and even some people who had some opinions about the boy couldn't help but feel sorry for him.

Nan Shao was unmoved and said coldly: "This is the first time I hit you, and the last time. You have nothing to do with me in the future. If you hit your teammates again like this time, then get out!" After saying that, he was about to leave.

"You actually hit me for a man, you actually... Who cares about having anything to do with you! There's no need for a next time, I'm leaving now!" Nan Wei's beautiful eyes were covered with tears. He stretched out the back of his hand and wiped it fiercely, yelling at Nan Shao's back, and then turned around and rushed out of the temporary hiding place surrounded by the wall.

Nan Shao's back froze for a moment, but he didn't move after all. Qiao Yong stood up from the ground, "Hey, damn it! Liu Xia, hurry up and bring the person back, what a bad temper!"

"No, let him go!" Nan Shao tightened his hands hanging by his side and spoke to stop him.

"Get lost! Stop interfering in this matter. Liu Xia, listen to me, go!" Qiao Yong scolded, and at the end he did not forget to remind him: "Be careful."

Liu Xia nodded, and in a blink of an eye, she was swept out like the wind.

Zhang Yi did not persuade him at first because he wanted to teach the ignorant boy a lesson. After all, no matter how broad-minded he was, he could not ignore this matter. He was really not afraid of death, but Yangyang was still waiting for him to find her. Nan Shao did not know how sad and painful this matter was, so he was very angry, very angry. It's just that he didn't expect the boy to be so stubborn... or maybe he was willful, and he actually ran away. This made him at a loss for words. He pressed his forehead, patted Nan Shao on the shoulder, then turned around and found a place to sit down, and decided to think carefully about whether he should not reach out to save people in the future.

Chapter 123 Corpse Eater

After Liu Xia left, Nan Shao stood there for a moment, and then began to check the injuries of everyone. If there were more serious injuries, he would stabilize their vitality first, and if there were no life-threatening injuries, he would cover their wounds with a layer of life energy to enhance the vitality of the cells there and speed up the healing of the wounds. He was busy calmly, as if he didn't care about Nan Wei's safety at all.

Suddenly, a hand reached out and grabbed him. He turned around and met Zhang Yi's face, which was unhappy and difficult to hide his worry. "You have a wound on your back. I'll bandage it for you first."

Nan Shao lowered his eyes to avoid his gaze. After a moment, he sat down silently and let Zhang Yi take off his coat for him and bandage the wound on his back with the clean gauze and bandages in his backpack.

There was no shortage of wood on the construction site, and soon someone started two fires. Although they didn't know what was going on in front, the scarcity of zombies nearby gave them some breathing space. The fruit shells outside had stopped shooting, but Qiao Yong didn't plan to send anyone out to investigate until Liu Xia came back. Bai Xi sat at the foot of the wall, closed his eyes and listened carefully to the movements around him.

"Ayi, am I wrong?" Nan Shao felt the man's hand wrap around her chest as if hugging her while wrapping the bandage. Thinking of how she almost lost him just now, she couldn't help but feel a chill in her heart again and asked in a low voice.

Even if Zhang Yi had a tacit understanding with him, he couldn't be sure whether the mistake he was talking about was that he spoiled Nan Wei too much in the past, or that he shouldn't have taken Nan Wei in this time. But what had already happened could not be regretted, so he just raised his hand and stroked his hard hair, saying, "I've only taken care of Yang Yang for half a year, and I don't know how to raise a son. I just want to give him the best things in the world..." When he said this, thinking of the little guy who was always well-behaved and rarely cried, his eyes became a little sore. He lowered his head and rubbed his eyes on Nan Shao's shoulder, and then continued with a slightly hoarse voice, "Even if he is also like... so ignorant, I will still do my best to love him." From the scattered fragments that Nan Shao had narrated, he sometimes felt that Nan Shao treated Nan Wei a bit like raising a son. If one day it was Yang Yang who told him that he wanted to eat fruit, he believed that he would also try his best to get it back for his son.

"Yang Yang is so sensible." Nan Shao raised his head and looked at the dark sky divided into many pieces by the building frame, and sighed. Yangyang is so young, but he still knows to smile and say thank you when facing other people's kindness. How capable is he to raise Nan Wei to be what he is now?

Zhang Yi was naturally very happy when his son was praised, but what followed was endless worry and discomfort, "I hope he is not so sensible." Because those sensible things were forced out by countless misfortunes. His father went to prison before he was born, and he was abandoned by his mother when he was two or three months old. Because his father was a prisoner, he was rejected and bullied by children of the same age. The grandmother who lived with him since childhood suddenly couldn't get up in the morning, and then the end of the world... For the little guy, in just five years, perhaps the happiest time was when he watched TV with his grandmother and sang "Sister Liu's Talk is Too Senseless". But he didn't understand why Nan Wei, who was already considered an adult, was still so clumsy and willful, even Yangyang had learned how to survive in the end of the world.

Nan Shao raised his hand and held Zhang Yi's hand, which was being bandaged for him. His lips tightened slightly, and he looked away. He said resolutely: "If he dies this time, I will do my best to collect his body." He rushed out recklessly, and he had no ability. Not only Nan Shao, but probably everyone present felt that Nan Wei was dead.

Zhang Yi patted his hand, but he didn't say anything, and there was no way to comfort him. No matter who it was, it would be uncomfortable.

But surprisingly, Liu Xia finally turned back after more than ten minutes, but there was no trace of Nan Wei, not even a piece of clothing that represented his identity.

"I clearly saw him running in the direction we came from, but I just couldn't find him... I suspect he was hiding from me." Liu Xia rubbed his cold hands by the fire, shook his head, and finally looked at Nan Shao and said apologetically: "Nan Shao, I'm sorry that I couldn't bring him back for you."

Nan Shao shook his head, his expression indifferent, "This is his own choice, it has nothing to do with you. I'm sorry for causing you trouble." He knew not to run forward, which showed that he was not stupid to the extreme. He was slightly relieved that he didn't see the body.

Seeing that he really didn't mind, Liu Xia waved his hand and said disapprovingly: "We are brothers, why be polite!" To be honest, if it wasn't for Nan Shao's face, he really didn't want to find such a young master who didn't understand the situation.

It was only then that he had time to tell everyone what happened before. In his opinion, this matter was much more important than a person who would push his teammates.

"In front of us is a mutant tree that ten people cannot hug together. The trunk and branches are covered with black tumors as big as watermelons... uh, that's not the point." He wiped his face and said very quickly: "The point is, the tree was oozing dark red liquid like bleeding, emitting a strong smell of blood, and there were zombies gathered around it. Later, the ground suddenly turned over, and many things like roots and touch stretched out from the bottom, entangled many zombies and dragged them down. Damn, that's obviously a concrete road surface, but it looked like mud in a paddy field."

Everyone gasped when they heard it. Qiao Yong asked: "What about those fruit shells that were blown away just now?"

Liu Xia scratched his head, not particularly sure: "It looks like tumors on the tree, but I don't know how they blew up. It's not possible that someone used a bomb to blow up the tree after I left?" Before

Zhang Yi could speak, Qiao Yong shook his head: "It's not the sound of explosives exploding."

"Then I don't know, how about I go over and take a look?" Liu Xia asked.

"Forget it, it's too dangerous. Look, based on what you saw before you came back, can we get through?" Qiao Yong rejected Liu Xia's proposal and asked.

"It's difficult. There are too many zombies over there. Even if a lot of them were dragged underground, they still blocked the road. The most disgusting thing is that the tree grows in the middle of the road. There are only sidewalks on both sides, which are also occupied by zombies. And that road is not appropriate. Although the ground has returned to flatness after the roots of the tree rolled the zombies down, I really don't dare to walk on it. Maybe there is nothing underneath, and I will fall down if I step on it..."

"Didn't they say there are still many zombies?" Xiong Hua blurted out a sentence. What he meant was that if there was nothing underneath, those zombies would fall down.

Liu Xia rolled his eyes at him and was too lazy to explain to him.

It was the first time that everyone encountered plants that capture zombies, and they didn't know whether to worry or be happy. Although it was good to have mutant plants to help eliminate zombies, no one knew what kind of harm this plant would cause to humans. If there are too many zombies, causing it to reproduce and grow rapidly, this land may eventually become its territory. After eating all the zombies, will it start to attack humans? These are all unknown, and of course they are far away, so this worry only flashed by, and their attention returned to the current matter.

"It seems that this road is blocked, let's change it." Qiao Yong said, and his eyes naturally fell on Hao Weiming's face.

Hao Weiming smiled awkwardly, "When I came here, I went to Taozi, Taohua Village, Xinghua Village, Xiantao Township, and Taolin Town. I also know that there are several special hot pot snacks in the county town..."

"Fuck! Shut up, shut up!" Qiao Yong wanted to kick this foodie away. Wouldn't it be so greedy to mention those foods at this time that people would feel that they couldn't live like this? As for Liang Guanlun, he didn't count on it. Before the end of the world, big stars were probably picked up and dropped off by cars when they went in and out, wearing sunglasses and masks to avoid causing traffic jams, and it would be good if they didn't get lost.

"Okay, as long as we know the direction of the government compound, we can take the side roads, cross the roads when we see them, and climb over the walls when we see them. Damn it, I don't believe that a living person will die from holding their urine." Zhang Yi wanted to suggest finding a newsstand or bookstore nearby to get a local map. After all, it is a tourist county, so there must be a map. However, before he could say anything, he heard Qiao Yong say this. He thought about it and felt that this was more direct, so he didn't say anything.

"But why do we have to go to the government compound?" Huo Rui couldn't help but raise his hand and asked. He thought that they had already arrived in the county town, and they could live well as long as they found a solid hotel or something.

"Silly!" Ah Qing, who was sitting next to him, raised his hand and scratched his little head, and said, "That's because we need to find a good place to escape."

Everyone was upset, but they couldn't say he was wrong. When building a shelter, escaping was an issue that must be considered. Qiao Yong coughed, not intending to let Ah Qing mislead the child, so he said, "Because we need a place where we can attack and retreat, which can withstand the attacks of zombies and mutant animals without being surrounded to death. Even if we finally decide to stay in the air-raid shelter behind the county government, we must build a solid protective wall around it. In addition, if the air-raid shelter is really connected to a natural cave as rumored, then it will be more conducive to our storage of supplies and escape."

"What if it doesn't?" Huo Rui continued to ask. The question he just asked was answered solemnly, which immediately increased his enthusiasm for thinking.

"It doesn't matter if there is none. Stay there first and move to a better place later." Qiao Yong obviously had more patience with the child. While answering, he signaled others to quickly check their injuries and backpacks and prepare to leave.

"What if there are mutant plants all over there?" Huo Rui asked again, already worried at a young age.

"First see if it can be cleaned up. If not, move to another place." Qiao Yong touched the child's head and suddenly thought of Zhang Ruiyang, who smiled very well and liked to call him Uncle Hu Zi. He couldn't help but glance at Zhang Yi, and a little sadness surged in his heart. Although he had also heard of Li Muran's strange supernatural power, when he thought about how difficult it would be for a woman with a child to survive for several months in such an apocalypse, he, like the others in the team, thought that Xiao Yangyang might be gone, but he couldn't tell Zhang Yi this. He is also a father, a father who lost his daughter, how could he not understand the heart-wrenching pain. Rather than piercing that illusion, it is better to let her hold on to hope for the rest of her life, rather than seeing her being bitten to pieces by her mother like he did.

"Let's go, I will answer your questions later." He sighed silently, and at that moment he vowed to protect the only child in the team no matter what.

Chapter 124 Child Labor Child Labor

Neither Nan Shao, who first proposed to come to Ronghe County, nor Qiao Yong, who was in charge of the overall situation, had ever thought that there might be survivors in this county occupied by mutant plants. So when they saw a short humanoid creature wrapped in green-skinned large-leaf vines running like a monkey from the front street, they were all surprised. Without waiting for Qiao Yong's instructions, Liu Xia and Zou Zhe, who had a speed mutation, had already chased after it, but they soon turned back.

"That thing got through the zombie group. Damn, the place it ran through was so smelly that it made me dizzy!" Liu Xia said, obviously no longer considering that thing as a human.

"Why do I feel that there are more weird things in this county than outside?" Zou Zhe said with a frown. From the stench on the first night, to the corpse-eating tree that made them detour when they didn't see its shadow not long ago, to the thing in front of them that they didn't know whether it was a zombie or a mutant animal, none of them made people feel at ease.

"Could it be that the zombies have evolved again?" someone asked.

"I don't think so. I've never seen a zombie run away when it saw us." It's not reliable as soon as you hear it.

"Maybe their intelligence has evolved?"

"Fuck!" Are you going to let us live?

"Okay, stop talking nonsense. It's important to hurry on." Qiao Yong reluctantly interrupted all kinds of speculations. It's not that he didn't care about what he saw just now, but now their most important task is to settle down first. Otherwise, if they stop to check every time they encounter something strange, it will probably take another year to reach the county government.

It's also because the green little thing has no hostility to them, so everyone just talks about it casually. It's not that they have to get to the bottom of it. They can still distinguish the main from the secondary. Only Zhang Yi seems a little distracted, and he frequently looks in the direction where the green little man escaped.

"What's wrong?" Although Nan Shao was a little uncomfortable because of Nan Wei's matter, he still noticed his abnormality. After chopping down a zombie, he asked with his side face. It's not a good thing to be distracted at this time.

"I think the one just now... is about the same height as Yangyang." Zhang Yi wiped his face and said in a low voice. He was really scared...

"It's not Yangyang. If it was Yangyang, he wouldn't run away when he saw us." Nan Shao quickly put his hand on his shoulder, as if he wanted to pass on his firm belief, and then turned back to deal with the zombies: "But you are not concentrating now. If something happens, what will Yangyang do?" There was another sentence he didn't dare to say. If that thing was really Yangyang, it might not be the original Yangyang.

Fortunately, the latter sentence was very effective. Even if Zhang Yi was anxious, he had to suppress it and put all his energy into dealing with the dense zombies in front of him. Fortunately, the rest of the journey was relatively smooth. Except for the large number of zombies, there were no other major troubles. They stayed in a residential area for one night and finally arrived at their destination at noon the next day. As for Nan Wei, who had disappeared, except Zhang Yi and Nan Shao would frown when they occasionally thought of him, it seemed that he was selectively forgotten by others. In the end times, life and death are common. Except for close relatives and friends, who would pay more attention to a person who was willfully lost without considering the overall situation?

Zhang Ruiyang, who was worried about Zhang Yi, was carrying a stone and climbing up the wall. Dudu was running and flying beside him. He wanted to use a basket or backpack like the adults, but it was a pity that he couldn't carry it. Even if he could, he would be weighed down by the basket and couldn't even see his shadow. People looked at him from time to time, worried and amused, which diluted the gloom in his heart that was increasingly hopeless about the future because of this change.

When he found that Li Muran and Fu Dan were looking for him in the busy interval, Zhang Ruiyang put the stone on the ground with a bang, sat on it with his little butt tilted, and Dudu, who had flown a distance, stopped with a creak, turned around and ran back, squatting beside him.

"I'm here. It's so high up here, I can see far away." He waved his little hands at the two of them, shouting loudly in an attempt to cover up his mistake, and at the end he did not forget to emphasize solemnly: "I'm not blocking the way

." Not to mention that Li Muran and the others had already seen his little action, just the whispers of the people around him had already exposed his behavior of stealing stones. Li Muran had no choice but to compromise: "Yangyang, come down and help me load the stones." Rather than letting the little guy move the stones secretly by himself, and if something unexpected happens and he can't be rescued in time, it's better to keep him under my eyes so that he can take care of him if something happens.

"Okay! I'll be there right away." Zhang Ruiyang's eyes lit up immediately, and he stood up, picked up the stone he was sitting on and quickly sent it to the top, carefully placed it next to the pile of stones, and then took Dudu down the not-so-high protective wall, ran to Li Muran's side, and looked at her eagerly, as if he was afraid that she just wanted to coax him down.

"Okay, I know you are strong, help auntie put the stones into the basket quickly, and be careful not to crush your hands and feet." Li Muran sighed and said. Could she regret it?

Zhang Ruiyang immediately showed a joyful smile, walked to the side of the pile of stones, and stuck out his butt to move the biggest stone to prove to Li Muran that he could really work.

"Don't move too big, auntie can't lift it." Li Muran hurriedly stopped him and whispered in his ear.

Zhang Ruiyang blinked his long eyelashes, tilted his little head to think about it, and then said "oh" heavily, as if he understood, and then showed Li Muran an expression of you know me and I know, grinning, thinking that they had a common little secret. When he started to move stones again, he picked up the small ones.

Seeing that he finally fooled the child, Li Muran secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time felt sorry for Zhang Yizhi in his heart for raising his son like a coolie.

So, when the food was distributed, Zhang Ruiyang also lined up in the queue. When it was his turn, he looked up at the man who was a little dazed because of his appearance and said, "I also work." The man who

distributed the food thought that the child wanted to eat for free, and was about to wave his hand to drive him away, but he didn't expect that there were many voices of support from all around.

"Yes, that child is really amazing. I saw him moving stones all morning without a break."

"Yes, don't look at the little guy's small size, he is actually very strong and powerful. I don't know how to raise him. If my son wants to be like this, I will save the effort of the boss."

"Give him some food, you can't let the child work for nothing."

Under the chatter of everyone, the person who distributed the food retreated. Finally, after consulting the captain, he actually gave Zhang Ruiyang a portion of food, the same amount as Li Muran and Fu Dan, which made Zhang Ruiyang very happy and said thank you many times. Li Muran felt uncomfortable, and he couldn't bite the cake that the child handed to his mouth anyway.

When she returned to the hut at night, she saw a row of little hands stretched out, which were rubbed to a bloody mess. Li Muran's eyes were sore and she almost cried. She knew that she couldn't go on like this. She was an adult, so it was okay, but if she continued like this, the children's hands would be broken. They had to leave.

She boiled some water, got a piece of clean cloth, tore it into several pieces, threw it into the pot and boiled it for more than ten minutes, then picked it up and put it by the fire to roast. She boiled another pot of water and put a little salt she had gotten before. She carefully cleaned the palms of the four children. There was no medicine, so she could only let them dry like this. After drying, she wrapped them with the baked cloth strips.

"Does it hurt?" She couldn't help asking even though she knew it was nonsense.

"It doesn't hurt." After a round of washing, except for Fu Dan, the three children were almost in tears from the pain, but they still said this in unison with their lips pursed.

Li Muran felt tears welling up, but she couldn't help laughing, and ended up laughing and crying, which scared the children.

"Don't cry, Auntie, it only hurts a little bit." Zhang Ruiyang rushed over and hugged Li Muran's neck from the side, thinking that he was caught lying.

"Stupid Yangyang, it doesn't hurt at all." Wu Ziran thought Zhang Ruiyang said something wrong, stretched out his hand wrapped in a cloth, poked Yangyang's head, and corrected him seriously.

"But it hurts a little bit." Zhang Ruiyang was confused by the poking, but still did not give up to explain his meaning to the little sister.

"It doesn't hurt at all." Wu Ziran has his own incredible way of thinking, so he always speaks with confidence.

Zhang Ruiyang was confused and his eyes were spinning. He uttered "ah ah" twice, probably because he didn't know how to explain. Finally, he pursed his lips in frustration, snorted, and buried his face in Li Muran's arms. Fu Dan, who had turned his head to wipe his tears, laughed out loud, and suddenly felt that life was not so difficult. Li Yuanzhuo sat on a small stool and warmed himself by the fire. He looked at Yangyang with sympathy and felt that it was necessary to remind his little brother in private not to argue with a woman, because you will never win, and it will make you angry.

Li Muran found that she was easily moved and laughed when she was with the children. Even her nerves seemed to become more delicate and sensitive. She knew that this was not a good phenomenon in the end times, but she knew even more that she could no longer give them up easily. Perhaps it is easier to get along with children than with adults. As long as you are sincere, you will get the most sincere return. At least you don't have to worry about being attacked from behind.

Li Muran tossed and turned all night. Her shoulders were rubbed raw. When she warmed up, she felt a burning pain. The bones all over her body felt like they were broken and kneaded together again. She didn't feel comfortable at all. She couldn't survive a day of heavy physical work, let alone several young children. She touched Zhang Ruiyang's hand in her arms to make sure that the cloth belt on it had not fallen off. She thought of her previous plan again.

Leave. Instead of dying of exhaustion here and not having enough to eat, it is better to leave and seek a glimmer of life. But now there are dangers everywhere outside. They don't have a car and can't drive. How can they find the next place to live?

Bowei is too far away. It is said that the road is more than 2,000 kilometers. She can't walk there with her children on foot. Or, she is carrying several children without superpowers. No matter where she goes, life will probably be difficult. This is really a headache.

After thinking over and over all night, she still couldn't come up with a suitable solution. When she got up in the morning, Li Muran was not in a good mood. She boiled water and mixed it with cold water for the children to brush their teeth, but didn't let them wash their faces. Then she ate the coarse flour cakes saved yesterday with the remaining boiled water. Even though it was past morning, she didn't expect that someone would come to help her solve the problem while she was eating.

"We are going to Xiling City for a mission. Do you want to come with us?" It was Long Xia who came. She looked very impatient. She obviously didn't understand why Mr. Song asked her to ask. Wouldn't it be troublesome to bring these incompetent burdens with her on the road?

Li Muran was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt a sense of surprise and relief that the problem was solved. She nodded repeatedly, "Let's go." She looked as if she was afraid that the other party would regret it. Although she was not familiar with Dongzhou and didn't know which direction Xiling City was, for her now, as long as she could take them out of this base and safely arrive at another city where they could survive by killing zombies and collecting supplies, it would be good enough. As for where the city they were going to was, it didn't matter at all.

Long Xia was a little disappointed. She had hoped that the other party would refuse. But because it was Song Yan's idea, she did not do anything extra to change their minds. She did not stay for long and asked them to pack up some things they needed to take and follow her immediately.

Li Muran was afraid that if she was slow, Long Xia would have an excuse to abandon them. She quickly stuffed all the things she could take into the backpack and asked the children to carry them. She rolled up two quilts and carried them. Seeing this, Long Xia couldn't help but twitched her mouth. She wondered if Mr. Song had revealed something to this woman in advance, otherwise why would she be ready to leave and never come back.

Just as several people walked out of the temporary residence one after another, the door of the next room opened, and the sick man walked out with an empty, flat rag bag.

Chapter 125 Leaving the base

"Uncle Bing." Zhang Ruiyang and the other children greeted Bing Gui one by one, politely omitting the word "ghost" which they thought was not nice, and they were still smiling even if they didn't get a response. Perhaps influenced by Zhang Ruiyang, and with Li Muran leading them, Wu Ziran and Li Yuanzhuo became more like children, no longer always looking timid and worried. However, Fu Dan grew up very quickly, as if he regarded himself as half a pillar of the family, working very hard, and usually very calm. Li Muran had

already learned from Zhang Ruiyang and the others that Bing Gui had helped them before, so she also greeted him in a friendly manner. Not surprisingly, she also didn't get a response. The big and small people didn't feel embarrassed, they were used to it. However, it caused Long Xia to look at Bing Gui a few more times, and finally, after concluding that he was just a consumptive ghost who could die at any time, he stopped paying attention to him.

On the way, they met a few people who had dealt with them before and fought side by side with them. They were preparing to go to work. Seeing that Li Muran and his men were about to go on a long journey, they couldn't help but ask a few questions out of curiosity.

"I want to take the children somewhere else. It just so happens that Director Song's people are going to Xiling on a mission, so I plan to take their car out." Li Muran did not hide it. Because considering that ordinary people have no way to survive outside the base during this period, and the treatment of superpowers is extremely good at any time, if you want to leave, you are crazy. After all, with a strong base to rely on, it is much easier to face the attacks of a large number of zombies and mutant creatures than to fight alone. That is why, in addition to limiting the number of people on several large forces when they go out on missions to avoid taking time off and greatly reducing the strength of the base, the base does not care about the departure of ordinary residents at all.

Yu Jianjun was stunned, and looked at Huang Hai and others, with a look of interest on his face.

"Sister, wait for us for two minutes." Yu Jianjun said to Li Muran without any hesitation. He didn't care whether the other party agreed or not. He turned around and talked to Huang Hai and the others. Some of them nodded and some shook their heads. Finally, Yu Jianjun's usually gentle face showed a rare firm look. He ran to Li Muran and said, "Sister, do you think it's okay to take the brothers with you? There are not many people, just me, Huang Hai, and He Gui." At the end, he had a begging look on his face. Li Muran

wanted to ask them why they wanted to leave. After all, they were adult men. Even if they did hard labor, they could still eat half full. When the protective wall was repaired, maybe it would be better. Unlike her, she was worried that the children would not be able to endure it, otherwise she would hold on no matter what. After all, it is better to live than to die. Who would be willing to leave the base if it was not a last resort? But seeing that Long Xia was extremely impatient, she could only put the question aside for the time being. She nodded slightly and walked over to speak, but Long Xia had already waved his hand.

"Go if you want to, but you have to leave with them in Xiling. Mr. Song doesn't keep useless people." Long Xia said in a bad tone. They dispatched four cars this time, and there were many empty seats. If they could find a reason to let this woman leave voluntarily, it would be okay to take these people with her.

Huang Hai's face changed slightly when he heard the word "useless", but soon returned to normal. In the eyes of the superpowers, ordinary people like them who have not awakened their superpowers and are not strong in martial arts are naturally useless. What's there to feel humiliated and unfair about? Moreover, now that they are asking for something from the other party, they should be more humble.

"Thank you." Li Muran had no intention of following Song Yan's team all the time, and he thanked him without even hesitation. This made Yu Jianjun and the other two feel a little guilty. But such an opportunity is rare, and even if they feel sorry for Li Muran, they don't plan to give up. After struggling hard for so long in the end of the world, the survivors have long learned not to miss any opportunity that can allow them to live better, even if this may deprive others of the chance to survive. Yu Jianjun and his men still had some conscience. Although they had borrowed Li Muran's relationship, they did not intend to get rid of them after crossing the river. Instead, they decided to take them with them. In any case, with a few adult men to support them, their lives should be much better.

Long Xia looked at Li Muran strangely, as if she was looking at a fool, but soon turned into inquiry, as if she was wondering if she was planning something else. Sometimes people are like this. When they don't like someone, they will think that no matter what the other person does, they have other intentions.

Li Muran certainly didn't know what Long Xia was thinking, but she knew intuitively that this beautiful woman didn't like her, but there were many people who didn't like her, so she really didn't care. She was just grateful that she had saved her and Fu Dan, so she still respected her.

Zhang Ruiyang and his children were very happy to have a few more acquaintances. What surprised everyone was that they didn't notice that the sick ghost had followed until they got on the car.

"Sister, why is that guy here too?" Yu Jianjun widened his eyes and couldn't help but ask quietly. Perhaps he knew to lower his voice because he was in someone else's car.

Li Muran wanted to shake his head, but after looking at the various looks from the people around him, he stopped the impulse and just smiled without saying anything. So Yu Jianjun realized that the sick ghost was faster than them and had joined Li Muran's team, so he looked at the sick ghost with some intimacy, so intimacy that it was almost flattering. Just kidding, we are all family members in the future, so of course we should be as warm as spring to our own people.

The cars in Song Yan's convoy were as handsome and cool as ever. Not to mention the first three military off-road vehicles that had been strengthened in various ways, even the last luxury bus was armed to the teeth... wipers. The reinforced metal shovel in front of the car, when the car is accelerating, will shovel you in half, not to mention the zombies made of flesh, even the highest-level bulletproof car. On both sides are sharp meat grinders like propellers, which are connected to the power system of the bus. As long as the car starts, it will start to rotate. The faster the speed, the faster the rotation. The airflow generated by the rotation will in turn act on the body of the car, making it faster. If the bus is forced to stop, the independent control system can be turned on. As long as there is oil, it can continue to rotate for defense. The windows are metal reinforced glass, and the entire body is also reinforced with metal. Even howitzers cannot penetrate it. It's just that whether it will be thrown into the air by the impact is beyond control.

Facing such a car, the mood of Yu Jianjun, Huang Hai and others can no longer be described by the word envy. It's like a person who is still on the poverty line seeing a Lamborghini. It is a distance that can never be crossed and surpassed. After looking up, there is only numbness.

The air conditioner is not turned on in the car, but it is still very warm. Li Muran and others got on the car directly. They didn't see Song Yan, but saw a face that was so familiar that she felt physiological disgust.

This time, the corpse-luring team of Song Yan's convoy was also sent out, which should not be a small matter. However, there were only 40 to 50 people in the four vehicles, which seemed too few compared to the first time they met in Li County, when they even dispatched military trucks. I don't know if only so many people are needed, or if there is a shortage of manpower.

The reason why Li Muran guessed that there was a shortage of manpower was because she also heard that Song Yan's men were transferred to clean up dangers and maintain the safety around the base. In other words, almost all major forces have withdrawn many people, resulting in them no longer being able to hunt and relying entirely on the base for support. Therefore, when Long Xia came to tell her that he was going out on a mission, she was a little confused. But these things actually have nothing to do with her. As long as Director Song is fine, she will of course take care of herself and Yangyang first.

When Zhao Ru saw Li Muran, she was stunned for a moment, and then she smiled and greeted her as if nothing had happened, but she couldn't hide the jealousy in her eyes. Li Muran looked at her with disgust, but didn't respond. He chose a seat farther away, and the others sat around her. Now there were a few more men from Huang Hai around her. Although they were trash in the eyes of the superpowers, they had fought zombies and mutant creatures after all, and they were full of life-threatening energy, which was incomparable to the people of the corpse-luring team. Therefore, Zhao Ru, together with Qian Lai and others who liked to help her regardless of right and wrong, did not dare to trouble Li Muran again. As for Zhao Ru, Li Muran had her own decision in her heart. She had never given up the idea of ​​revenge, but she couldn't do this in front of Song Yan's men without considering his face, so she could only wait for the opportunity. If she couldn't wait, she would have to let it go. After all, what was more important to her at the moment was how to live with the children, rather than spending all her energy on revenge.

There are more than 200 kilometers of road from Dongzhou Base to Xiling City, passing through two counties on the way. The highway is flat and flat. It used to be the best fertile land in Dongzhou Province. Every harvest season, you can see wheat ears like waves and corn golden. But now this road is occupied by mutant plants in the jungle. If you want to pass, you have to cut through the thorns step by step like humans in the wilderness.

Although Song Yan's team is small, their combat effectiveness is very strong. When facing the zombies and mutant animals blocking the road, they don't even need to get out of the car. It's like a magic show. The ice field, the sea of ​​fire, the thunder and the wind, the soil and the vines are similar to those used by Qiao Yong and others in the past, but the level is obviously higher, which opened Li Muran's eyes and made him truly realize the gap between himself and the superpowers.

"It's amazing!" Zhang Ruiyang said in amazement, leaning on the back of the chair and looking out.

"I think Dudu is the best, and Yangyang is the second best." Wu Ziran took a glance and then looked away, seemingly lacking interest. When he heard Zhang Ruiyang's praise, he couldn't help but say it seriously.

Zhang Ruiyang's face flushed, but because there was a lot of dirt on his face, it was not easy to see. He reached out and hugged Dudu, and after a little hesitation, he whispered, "Dudu and I are not as good as uncles and aunts." Obviously, the little guy was not so blindly confident that he would fly to the sky when praised by others. He seemed to be afraid that Wu Ziran would say this in front of those powerful uncles and aunts in front of him, so he added, "Dudu didn't dare to move when he saw the director uncle." As if to support him, Dudu's thin legs curled up, and his two black bean eyes were fixed and motionless, pretending to be dead for a while, but after a moment, his eyes slid slightly to the right uncontrollably, and then suddenly retracted, and quickly put his head back into Zhang Ruiyang's armpit, leaving only his fat big butt exposed and trembling. The person sitting in the direction where its eyes were floating was a sick ghost who seemed to be indifferent to everything around him with his eyes half closed.

Zhang Ruiyang didn't understand why, so he could only touch its soft black butt to comfort it.

Wu Ziran scratched her messy hair and felt that what Zhang Ruiyang said seemed to be right, but she still felt that Dudu was the best and Yangyang was the second best. But she seemed to know that if she said that again, Yangyang would be unhappy, so she endured it.

Li Yuanzhuo listened to the conversation between the two, glanced at her secretly, then moved towards Fu Dan, and continued to look at the battle scene outside with bright eyes. Fu Dan also looked outside, but his eyes were dim. He was different from the two children. He didn't think about how powerful the superpowers were, but that they might never become a superpower or a mutant. As for him, he couldn't even be a normal person anymore. His right hand was useless, and he was a cripple.

"I'm afraid this world will become the world of superpowers in the future." Huang Hai looked out the window and sighed softly, and only two or three people around him could hear it clearly.

Yu Jianjun, who talked the most and loved gossip the most, rarely responded. A trace of sadness appeared on his ordinary face. However, He Gui said unconvincedly: "There are still so many ordinary people like us."

Once the threat of zombies and mutant plants and animals is suppressed and a certain balance is reached between them and humans, the contradiction between the awakened and the unawakened will erupt in full force, instead of being like now. Although the classification of levels between each other has begun to take shape, they still need to work together to deal with foreign enemies. Most of the superpowers will not go too far. By then, the survival of the unawakened will probably be more difficult and humiliating than it is now.

Huang Hai moved his lips, but he didn't say his worries after all. No matter what the future holds, we still have to survive now, and try to survive.

Because of the strong combat power, the convoy was almost not delayed before getting on the highway, even though it encountered no less than three attacks by mutant animals and zombies. With such combat power, it is no wonder that Wei Jingchi was afraid. At noon, they had already left the base far away, and the road became peaceful instead, until the dense jungle appeared in front of them, and the convoy stopped to rest. Ordinary people on the bus were allowed to get off the bus and move around in the safety range specified by the superpowers, stretch their hands and feet, and solve physiological problems.

When Li Muran saw the corpse-luring team on the bus taking out biscuits, steamed buns and other things from their bags and starting to eat, he realized a very serious problem. They had no food. It was not a question of whether they brought anything with them, but except for some salt and seasonings that were less consumed, the little things they had accumulated before had been consumed when they built the protective wall later, and there was nothing to eat. I don't know how many days it will take to walk on the road, and I can't let the children lick salt. Fortunately, they drank a few bottles of cold water when they left, otherwise they might not even have water to drink.

Huang Hai and his friends still had some, but they were all rice and flour that couldn't be eaten without cooking. They left in a hurry in the morning and didn't have time to cook these things, so they looked at each other and smiled bitterly. There was really no other way. The team was just taking a short break, and it was impossible to wait for them to slowly start a fire and cook food.

The corpse-luring team noticed their situation and immediately felt an indescribable sense of superiority. They even unconsciously amplified the sound of chewing.

"Muran, I'm not saying anything to you. Why don't you prepare some food before going out? You're hungry, but the children can't be hungry. If something happens..." The middle-aged woman who took the initiative to greet Li Muran last time they met began to teach Li Muran a lesson, just like an elder who was giving advice with a sincere heart. If she wasn't chewing on a biscuit and spraying biscuit crumbs, she would have been wrong. Her surname is also Li, Li Yulan. She used the name of a family with the same surname to approach Li Muran in various ways, but when she found that the other party was not as good as herself, she changed her attitude.

Li Muran suddenly stood up and walked under the car with the children, leaving Li Yulan's last sentence stuck there, unable to speak, and her face flushed. Finally, she spat at the backs of several people and cursed, "You don't know how to be kind! I wanted to share some food with you." The latter sentence was of course her way of covering her face, and no one would believe it.

Chapter 126 Sharing Food

When Li Muran and his companions got out of the car, Huang Hai and his three companions followed suit. They couldn't just stay in the car and watch others eat. Only the sick ghost was still sitting there, not affected at all.

Long Xia and his companions were standing outside to observe the road ahead that was blocked by the dense forest. Some superpowers were scattered around to be on guard. When they saw Li Muran and his companions getting off, they only glanced over here and stopped paying attention. Li Muran saw the familiar Xiao Sheng and a few people who had been in the same car before, but Song Yan and his closest bodyguard Yun Ze were not there.

Xiao Sheng nodded slightly at Li Muran from a distance, but did not come over. The superpowers were also preparing to eat, but they were eating military canned food. Although they did not light a fire, it was directly heated by the fire-based superpowers. It was fast and convenient, and it was hard not to envy them.

"It smells so good, I smell the aroma of meat and spinach..." Wu Ziran's drooling voice sounded in his ears. Fortunately, the little girl knew to lower her voice, otherwise Li Muran would be embarrassed even if she was thick-skinned.

"Don't say it, it's embarrassing." Li Yuanzhuo turned his dirty little face away, trying to pretend that he didn't know the girl next to him.

"It really smells good, I'm not wrong, it seems there is chicken... I'm so hungry, I wish I could have cola chicken wings again on my birthday." Wu Ziran's thoughts diverged greatly, and he didn't notice Li Yuanzhuo's disgust at all.

"I have drunk cola, it tastes good." Hearing the word cola, Zhang Ruiyang, who was holding Li Muran's hand and staring at the dense forest of mutant plants, suddenly reacted. The child remembered the bottle of cola his father brought back from Wangyang Town. He only drank a little at a time and drank for a long time. Later, it didn't sting his tongue, but it still tasted good.

"Yeah, I think it tastes good, but my mother doesn't allow me to drink it, saying that drinking too much cola will damage children's teeth. But my mother said that cola chicken wings can be eaten occasionally." Someone responded, and Wu Ziran was immediately happy, complaining all the time.

"I haven't eaten cola chicken wings, are they delicious?" Zhang Ruiyang shook his head and asked, with a look of yearning in his eyes.

"It's delicious. My mother can make it, and my mother can make many, many delicious things." Wu Ziran couldn't help showing off, just like when she was in school, she wanted to pull people directly to her home and put all the most delicious things she thought her mother made in front of them.

Zhang Ruiyang was confused for a while, and then hesitantly said: "I don't have a mother." For him, mother is just a symbol, which is equivalent to not having one. Zhang Yi's mother was not so generous. She helped to say good things to a woman who abandoned her son and his father when he was in the most difficult time. It was good enough that she didn't scold him in front of the child. As a mother, she never thought of stopping Yangyang from meeting his mother. Unfortunately, Yangyang's mother never came back. This is one of the reasons why she was most heartbroken and reluctant to mention it. Rather than letting her child yearn for his mother because of her white lie but end up being hurt by reality, it is better to say nothing. Fortunately, the child is still young and has never felt the existence of his mother, so when he said this, his meaning was very simple and he was not sad at all.

"How could it be, everyone has a mother..." Wu Ziran said in surprise, then shook his head in denial, but was stopped by Fu Dan.

"Shut up, Ziran!" Fu Dan was a little angry. Is she stupid? Who

still has a father and a mother now? Wu Ziran felt that Fu Dan was getting more and more fierce, but she was not angry. She just pouted her little mouth, then reluctantly said "oh", and really quieted down. Zhang Ruiyang looked at this and that in confusion, not understanding why he couldn't speak, but still shut his mouth.

Huang Hai and the other two, who were originally sitting stiffly while stretching their limbs and listening to the children's childish chatter, couldn't help but reveal a miserable look when they heard this. Who hasn't experienced a sad experience since the end of the world and is now left alone? After all, there are only a few people who have no father or mother, no wife or children, no brothers, sisters, friends or relatives. However, in a city with tens of millions of people, only a few tens of thousands of people survived in the end. In some places, even this number was not reached. It was lucky for two people in a family to survive. However, for more people, even this is a luxury. There were times when they were heartbroken, but later, under the torture of life in hardship and fear, it was normal to talk about it. They just felt that death might not be less pleasant than living.

"There is ground bamboo over there." Li Yuanzhuo, who had already separated himself from Wu Ziran, suddenly pointed to a place not far away and said.

Ground bamboo is a mutant vine plant, which looks like a flattened bamboo. It has whiskers on the nodes and stems, which are tightly attached to the ground, so it is called ground bamboo. The taproot of the ground bamboo is thicker than an adult's arm and contains a lot of starch. Although it tastes bitter, it is better than other edible mutant plants known to humans. At least it is not so difficult to swallow. It is very popular among the survivors outside the city. Although the ground bamboo will not actively attack people, it still has the ferocity of mutant plants. Once a creature intends to harm it, it will be strongly counterattacked. The fibrous roots on its stem nodes will break away from the soil, and the flat bamboo-shaped long vines will split into several pieces at the same time, like snakes and whips. When attacking, it is swift and sensitive, and the bamboo-shaped leaves will be like the mouthparts of leeches. Once they touch the object they attack, they will stick to it until the object is entangled and divided into several pieces by the split thin stems.

At the beginning, the survivors suffered a lot from it, and I don't know how many lives they have lost. Later, they slowly found a way to deal with it. But for ordinary people who have not awakened, there is no 100% safety after all. After all, there are other mutant plants around the ground bamboo. While trying to obtain the roots of the ground bamboo, they must also face the attacks from the surrounding areas at any time. In the eyes of the superpowers, they only need to throw a ball of fire from a distance to extinguish it, and they don't need to spend too much effort. This aspect gradually highlights the gap between superpowers and ordinary people. In

the direction that Li Yuanzhuo pointed to, you can see a scorched ground, which was obviously cleared by the superpowers who had cleared the way with fire. The place cleared by the superpowers is very large, including a large stone that can block people from solving physiological problems, but basically no one goes there. Eating less and drinking less, the weather is cold, where does so much waste come from?

And at the edge of the scorched earth, you can see a section of scorched ground bamboo, which has lost its vitality. Since there is ground bamboo, there must be ground bamboo roots. Li Yuanzhuo obviously knew that they had no food, so he paid special attention to this.

Li Muran glanced at the superpowers who were eating and discussing problems, and felt that it might take a while before they could leave. He nodded decisively and said, "Let's go and dig." Who knows what will happen at night? It's better to get some food first. It's panic without food.

"What are you digging?" Huang Hai and the other two were a little confused. Although they were at the lowest level in the base, they were adult men after all, and they were not lazy. They could pay a thousand contribution points every month. The food they collected from hunting was enough to keep themselves full and did not need to rely on mutant plants to feed themselves. Therefore, their understanding of edible plants was far less than that of the survivors outside the city.

Li Muran knew that this matter could not be concealed from others, so he told them roughly. Huang Hai and the other two were refreshed. They already knew that many mutant plants were edible in the base, but they did not need them before, so they did not ask much. They were probably cautious and waited for more people to eat them before trying them. Now they know how important it is for them to know this information in the current situation. They are already in a weak position in terms of ability, so they can only make up for it in other ways. The more they know about the apocalyptic creatures, the more beneficial it will be for them.

No one expected that this seemingly insignificant episode would become the cause of the formation of the future Yilin people, a mysterious race of unawakened people. While Li Muran was talking to the three, Fu Dan had already run over with a few children to start digging. They were very skilled at this, after all, they made a living from it. Huang Hai and his friends naturally couldn't fall behind, and they followed the children's method of identifying the main roots of the ground bamboo from the scorched earth, and then picked up the knife in their hands and started digging in the burnt and hardened land.

Compared to Fu Dan and the other two, Huang Hai and the others, who did not have the right digging tools, seemed much more clumsy. In the past, they had to be alert to the dangers that could appear at any time, which directly led to the children's speed of collecting and digging increasing in a straight line. So in just two or three minutes, they dug out two large sections of thick dark brown bamboo roots together. Huang Hai and the other two only dug out a small half. Seeing that the superpowers were already packing up and greeting people to get on the car and prepare to leave, they were so anxious that sweat broke out on their foreheads in such cold weather. The children had already regarded them as their own people. Seeing this, they hurried forward to help. You this end, I that end, and in a few or two strokes, they dug out the rest.

"Sister Muran, look." Fu Dan handed three light green crystal cores to Li Muran with a hesitant look. It has always been the case that whoever kills the zombie gets the crystal core, and the same is true for mutant creatures. This crystal core should not be theirs. Li Muran also held four bamboo crystal cores in her hand. She and Yangyang dug four roots. Of course, it was Dudu who did the main work. No one could compare to that guy's speed in digging the soil. Surprisingly, he was not interested in the dead mutant plant crystal cores at all, otherwise there would be no share for Li Muran.

"A Dan, you give it to Brother Xiao." Li Muran also put the crystal core in her hand into Fu Dan's hand. After thinking for a while, she took out three sections from the bamboo root in front of her and asked him and Li Yuanzhuo to hold them. "Send this one too." Although they dug it, after all, it was someone else who killed the bamboo first. Even if others didn't say anything, they couldn't pretend not to know.

Fu Dan responded, holding the bamboo root and the crystal core, and ran to Xiao Sheng with Li Yuanzhuo. Li Muran and Huang Hai collected the remaining four roots, cut them into small sections and put them in the backpack, otherwise it would take up too much space, which would not be convenient to carry, and it would be easy to be scolded by the corpse-luring team on the car. The bamboo roots here are thick, each weighing more than ten pounds. Four roots are enough for them to eat for several meals. Li Muran's heart, which was heavy because of the lack of food, couldn't help but relax a little.

"Can this be eaten raw?" Yu Jianjun asked curiously.

"Try it, it's not poisonous." Li Muran cut off a piece with a knife and handed it to Yu Jianjun, saying.

Yu Jianjun took it and stuffed it into his mouth without caring that there was some mud on it, but soon his face became strange. He endured it again and again, and finally forced himself to swallow it. Nowadays, no one is willing to waste food, even if it is unpalatable, it cannot be spit out. Huang Hai and He Gui saw his reaction and couldn't help showing an expression of wanting to say something but stopping.

Li Muran saw that he didn't doubt his words at all, and a smile appeared in his eyes. Then he said: "It's not that it can't be eaten raw, but it's a little bitter. Many mutant plants have this characteristic. It will be much better after being cooked or roasted."

"How can it be bitter! You should have told me earlier." Yu Jianjun made a bitter face. Several little guys chuckled. You know, they have all been through this. Now, looking at Yu Jianjun, they immediately felt a sense of closeness.

Huang Hai had other ideas. He also asked Li Muran for two slices. He put one in his mouth and chewed it slowly, and handed one to He Gui: "Try it and remember this taste." The stored food will eventually be eaten up. Even if it is not eaten up, it will spoil over time. If they have not cultivated food that can grow in the soil of the end of the world by then, they may really have to rely on eating mutant plants for a living, so the sooner they get familiar with their taste, the better.

Wu Ziran and Zhang Ruiyang were a little stunned when they saw this, because they didn't understand why the other party wanted to try it when they knew it was unpalatable.

"Uncle, are you hungry?" Zhang Ruiyang couldn't help asking, with sympathy in his eyes, and then stretched out his little hand to feel around in his clothes and pants pockets. After a long time, he finally picked out a damp biscuit. After thinking for a while, he divided the biscuit into two halves and handed one half to Huang Hai, "Here, uncle, you guys eat it."

Huang Hai was slightly startled, touched in his heart, but teased: "Why don't you give us one piece, there are three of us?"

He was tall, even if he was bending over, Zhang Ruiyang still had to look up to look at him. Hearing this, the little guy didn't feel embarrassed at all, but explained very seriously: "I only have one piece, I can't give it all to you, my aunt and I and my brothers and sisters don't have any to eat." At this point, he was stunned, and looked back at the bus: "And the sick uncle, all gone..." A biscuit was divided from eight to nine pieces. No matter how young he was, he knew that it was not enough. His expression suddenly became helpless, and he looked at Li Muran helplessly.

Before Li Muran spoke, He Gui thought the little guy was very funny, and teased him: "You can give your share to Uncle Sick."

Zhang Ruiyang's face was tangled. He felt that he still wanted to eat cookies, but Uncle Sick had helped him, took him to the director uncle, and then saved Auntie and Brother Adan, so he had to share with Uncle Sick.

"Yangyang, you saved the cookies again!" At this time, Wu Ziran suddenly pointed at Yangyang's palm and criticized loudly. "You eat so little every time, no wonder you don't grow tall."

Zhang Ruiyang trembled after being scolded, and the biscuit almost fell to the ground. He hurriedly grabbed it and stuffed it into Huang Hai's hand: "One biscuit won't make you taller." He lowered his head and whispered something back, then said to Huang Hai reluctantly: "Then I'll give mine to Uncle Sick, I'll eat the bamboo roots." When he said the last sentence, probably thinking of the unpalatable feeling, he couldn't help but grin.

"You still say that!" Wu Ziran heard his words with his sharp ears and couldn't help but yell with

his hands on his hips. Zhang Ruiyang pouted and stopped talking. It's not that he was afraid of Wu Ziran, he just remembered that his grandmother said that boys should give way to girls.

Although Huang Hai and the other two were somewhat moved by this result and felt that the child was so well-behaved that it made people feel distressed, they did not approve of this approach, because this is the end of the world. Before the end of the world, humility was a virtue, but now it means hunger and death.

"Thank you, Yangyang, the uncles are not hungry, you can keep the biscuits for yourself." Huang Hai took Yangyang's little hand, put half of the soft biscuits back, and then taught him earnestly: "Remember, in the future, you have to eat your own food before you can help others. Don't give your food to others, otherwise you will starve to death and never see your father again."

Li Muran smiled slightly, touched Zhang Ruiyang's little head, and said nothing. After being together for so long, she knew very well that children are kind, but they are not without their own bottom line. Sure enough, he heard Zhang Ruiyang raise his head and ask in confusion: "But there are bamboo roots, how could they starve to death?"

Huang Hai was stunned, and then suddenly reached out to wipe his face, turned his head and said nothing. He then remembered that before digging up the bamboo roots, the child had no intention of taking out the biscuits. It turned out that the child was able to give in on this matter because he knew there were other things to eat. He was worried and anxious about it, but in the end, the child only gave in a little bit on the taste. Although for a child, this is already amazing, but... this is really... who taught the child well!

Chapter 127 Courtyard Gossip

Fu Dan and Li Yuanzhuo came back soon, holding the bamboo roots they brought with them.

"They took the crystal core, and they tasted this one and said it was not tasty, so they asked us to take it back and told us to get in the car quickly and leave." Fu Dan said, handing over the bamboo roots through his thick sleeves.

Li Muran noticed that the three bamboo roots sent over had been roasted, with a layer of burnt black skin on the surface. One of them had traces of being caught, and white hot steam was still coming out of the dark brown flesh with a pink crystal luster.

This was the expected result, and the other party obviously gave them a favor in a tactful way, roasting all three bamboo roots, otherwise they would have to eat them at night when they rested. Li Muran took the roasted bamboo roots and quickly broke them into nine sections, giving each person one section. She handed the extra section to Zhang Ruiyang, "Take it to the sick uncle." The man was very strange, the cloth bag was torn and deflated, and it looked like there was nothing in it. She didn't know what he was doing here, but they were all here together, so she couldn't let him watch them eat. Even if she didn't bring it up, Yangyang would have hesitated and secretly given his share to the other party. It was only a matter of one or two days. When they got to Xiling, they would go their separate ways, and it wouldn't cost much.

Sure enough, when Yangyang heard this, his eyes lit up, and he picked up the bamboo root and ran to the car. Compared to his happiness, Dudu seemed a little reluctant to get back in the car, but he finally climbed up slowly, one step at a time. When he saw Zhang Ruiyang standing next to the sick ghost, he wisely got under the seat where Li Muran and the others were sitting, and hid himself tightly. Fu Dan

and the others followed behind, and just as he stepped on the front steps of the car door, Li Muran suddenly felt a tremor all over his body, and suddenly turned back to look towards the forest. Yu Jianjun was walking behind her and asked, "What are you looking at, girl?"

"There seems to be something over there..." Li Muran said thoughtfully, but finally shook her head, then suppressed the feeling that made her feel scared but couldn't help but want to get closer and got into the car. Her intuition told her that it was very important to her, but the team was about to set off and it was impossible for them to stop for her alone.

After sitting in the seat, she was still a little distracted, and was still thinking about what she might have missed. She heard Li Yuanzhuo whispered in her ear: "Sister Muran, the director uncle didn't come."

Li Muran had something on her mind, and it took a while for this sentence to reach her brain. She was stunned. Before, she took it for granted that Director Song was with them. When she heard that he was not there, she felt empty and confused for a moment, but she soon put aside this inexplicable feeling and felt that she was really unreasonable. Since Director Song was the leader of the team and was seriously injured not long ago, how could he follow the mission again?

She reached out and touched Li Yuanzhuo's head, meaning that she knew, but she didn't say anything. If the people in the corpse-luring team heard this, they would definitely ridicule her. It was really unnecessary. But she vaguely realized that this child was very careful and observant. Although he looked silent, he actually saw everything around him. If this point can be used well, it might be of great use. Li Yuanzhuo seemed to understand what she meant and shut up. On the other

side, Zhang Ruiyang returned with a bamboo root in his arms.

"Uncle Sick doesn't want it." The child said, with some confusion and disappointment in his tone.

If you don't want it, then don't want it. Li Muran didn't take it to heart. At this time, it was not appropriate to be polite. The car started, and the four cars slowly crawled into the ocean of colorful mutant plants like a few small beetles. Humans seemed so insignificant in front of this mutated world.

Li Muran and others were much more relaxed than Zhang Yi and his friends even though they were both driving on the highway. After all, Zhang Yi and his team were a mixed army, while this side was a well-trained supernatural soldier. In addition, the mutant animals seemed to have all gone to the Dongzhou base, and they were almost invisible on the road. They only needed to clear the mutant plants on the highway and the zombies trapped by the mutant plants, fill the cracks and push away the abandoned vehicles. This was too easy for the supernaturals in the team. Although it took a lot of time, it did not encounter too much danger. During the whole process, the people on the bus always sat in the car, as if they were traveling and watching a magical war. Li Muran finally understood what Song Yan told her that the people in the corpse-luring team had a good life. Compared with other people who were struggling in the end of the world, it was too comfortable. But for some reason, she always felt as if something was following them, or more accurately, staring at her, which made her feel creepy.

"In Mr. Song's eyes, everyone has their own use, and it is enough for everyone to do their job. Forcing them to do things they are not good at will not only waste manpower, but also cause trouble and drag down others." Xiao Sheng has his own explanation for not letting the corpse-luring team get off the car to fight. But in Li Muran's eyes, these corpse-luring team members are more like livestock that are raised. They are well raised, but they will definitely be slaughtered without mercy.

It was already night, and the team rested in a farmyard near the highway. When everyone was making a fire and cooking, Xiao Sheng came over. Xiao Sheng came over just to talk about something. His attitude was still the same as before, not particularly close, but not as repulsive and contemptuous as Long Xia.

"The base needs to keep the leaders of the major teams, so Mr. Song can't come out with us." After a casual explanation, he talked about the reason why Song Yan asked them to bring Li Muran out: "Dongzhou Base will be a little troublesome. We won't go back after we come out. That is to say, since you have followed us out, you have no other choice." After saying that, Mo Ran looked at Li Muran, as if waiting for her to be shocked, angry and regretful. After all, not saying anything before coming out is undoubtedly leading people into a trap.

Li Muran didn't plan to go back, and she didn't owe her anything. It was a favor to be able to take them with her before leaving, but there was no reason to blame her, so her focus was different. She asked with a little concern: "Director Song will be okay?"

Xiao Sheng was stunned for a moment, his eyes softened slightly, "Mr. Song has already arranged it, there should be no problem. He just left a few days later than us." The reason why he said should, not sure, was not that he didn't trust Song Yan, but that he was cautious by nature, and the environment in the end times was changing rapidly. No one knew what would happen in the next moment, so he didn't say it.

Therefore, when she heard this, Li Muran was not relieved. She hesitated and asked, "When we get to Xiling, I...can we wait until Director Song arrives before leaving?" As if she was afraid that the other party would misunderstand, she added, "We will be responsible for the food and safety issues ourselves." The director helped her so much and saved her life, but she left without even being sure whether the other party was safe or not. It was too heartless and ungrateful. Although she didn't know what the point of staying was, at least she could feel at ease. Don't say that you will repay me when you have the ability in the future. Even the word "in the future" before the end of the world is full of uncertainty, let alone now. Waiting for Xiling, it is possible that you will never see each other again in this life.

"Leave?" When Xiao Sheng didn't want to hear her request, his usually calm expression suddenly became stern, "Who said to let you leave? Since Mr. Song is willing to take you out, he will naturally ensure your safety."

The completely different reaction made Li Muran subconsciously look at Long Xia, but she soon realized that this action was inappropriate, and stopped in the middle, explaining: "We don't have superpowers, and we don't want to stay in the Corpse Lure Team all the time, so of course we have to leave. Besides, we have to go to Zhongzhou to find someone..."

Xiao Sheng waved his hand to interrupt her: "Whether to leave or not will be decided after Mr. Song arrives. If you leave without saying anything before, check your conscience, are you worthy of him? Think about this matter yourself." After saying that, he left unhappily. Of course, he didn't believe that Li Muran wanted to leave on her own, otherwise he wouldn't have asked that question before, and it was easy to find out who said to let her leave, because there were only a few people who had contact with her from beginning to end, Long Xia, and the people from the Corpse Lure Team. The people from the Corpse Lure Team didn't dare.

Seeing Xiao Sheng calling Long Xia out, Li Muran frowned, but did not pay much attention. Instead, he turned around and said to Huang Hai and the other two: "Brother Huang, you guys..."

"Wei Jingchi is very capable, but he is also ruthless. We don't want to be cannon fodder after being coolies." Huang Hai understood her doubts, and before she could ask, he took the initiative to talk about the reason for their departure. "Sister, if you want to stay, we three will leave by ourselves after arriving in Xiling. If you want to leave, why not come with us so that we can take care of each other. After all, it is not easy for you to take care of four children as a woman." At this point, he suddenly smiled and pointed at Dudu who was squatting by the fire with Yangyang, "Brother, I won't hide it from you. Brother and I are not as brave as you. If it weren't for it, even if you know a lot about mutant plants, I wouldn't dare to say this." To take care of four children for a woman, not to mention them, even the superpowers have to think carefully. Sympathy is sympathy, but sympathy can't save lives or make a living.

If he said he wanted to help her raise a few children, Li Muran would probably refuse without even considering it, but now he is a little hesitant. Although they had gone hunting together, Yu Jianjun and his two companions had never bullied her and had even helped her, but they were still not very familiar with each other. Now she was no longer alone like when she teamed up with Zhang Yi and his companions. It was easy for her to leave or stay. She also had to consider her four children. After all, she couldn't keep them under her eyes all the time. If something happened, she would have nowhere to cry. It would definitely be better to team up with the three of them than to be alone, but the premise was that they were worthy of her trust.

"Let me think about it." After a while, she said, looking at the bamboo root rice porridge boiling in the pot. In the current situation, no matter what decision she made, she would have to take risks. It was just a matter of whether the risk was worth taking.

"Of course you should. Think about it slowly. We are still far from Xiling." Huang Hai said cheerfully. After a pause, he couldn't help but persuade again: "In fact, if there is a chance, I think it would be better for you to stay in Mr. Song's team."

At this point, Li Muran finally showed a faint smile on his face and asked back: "Brother Huang, if there is a chance, would you like to stay?" As long as he can think about her, this friend is worth making friends with, no matter what his original intention is.

Chapter 128 Unexplained Raid

Huang Hai looked at Yu Jianjun and He Gui, and then the three of them shook their heads. Huang Hai still spoke, but his voice was lowered: "We don't want to become useless people like them." He pointed at the people of the Corpse-Sucking Team without leaving a trace. Obviously, they had the same feelings about the Corpse-Sucking Team as Li Muran. "We are men. No matter how miserable our lives are, we still have to rely on our own abilities. You can hold as big a bowl as you can. You women don't have such a saying. In theory, you should be protected. If it weren't for this world..."

The porridge was almost cooked. Li Muran picked up the spoon and stirred it, and began to serve it to everyone's bowl without saying anything else. Women and children should be protected. If she really believed this sentence, not to mention that she would not have survived until now, she might not even be able to go to college. And now if women and children regard themselves as weak and blindly seek protection from others instead of being independent, they will only become weaker and weaker, and will eventually be eliminated by this cruel end of the world.

The sick ghost still didn't ask for the porridge they had specially reserved. He just sat quietly against the wall with his legs bent. If you didn't pay special attention, you would almost forget about it. He didn't communicate or talk to anyone. The only thing he sat close to Li Muran told others that he was with them.

Close to him? Li Muran was halfway through eating when she suddenly reacted. She tilted her head slightly and glanced at the sick ghost sitting next to her. A strange feeling arose in her heart. This person had been a distance away from them all the way, so why was he sitting next to her at this time? She just wanted to get up and move to the side, and the sick ghost's characteristic hoarse voice rang in her ears: "If you don't want to die, stay here and don't move."

Hearing this, not only Li Muran, but everyone else was stunned and looked up at him at the same time. But he seemed to have said nothing, and returned to his usual appearance of an old monk in meditation. Everyone looked at each other, and they all felt that this sick ghost was a little weird, but they all signaled Li Muran not to move. It is estimated that nothing can be obtained by asking, so why not trust him once? Even if he cries wolf, it will take three times to be sure. In the end times, we are not afraid of people crying wolf, but we are afraid of no one shouting wolf.

There was a mocking laugh from the corpse-luring team. I don't know who said coward. Even the superpowers couldn't help shaking their heads, with a look of knowing whether to laugh or cry on their faces, thinking that this matter was very ridiculous. After all, when it comes to the perception of danger, superpowers are far more sensitive than ordinary people. Even they don't feel anything, so how can they say it is dangerous. Huang Hai and others have long been accustomed to the ridicule and contempt of others. They ignored it and did what they had to do. Only Li Muran was a little nervous. It was not that she didn't believe in the sick ghost, but she already believed it intuitively. Since she got off the bus to rest at noon, she always felt as if something was staring at her, but she didn't see anything unusual when she looked at other people. At one time, she thought it was her own illusion, but she didn't expect that the sick ghost would say it out loud. She was still holding a half bowl of bamboo rice porridge in her hand, but she couldn't eat it anymore.

Xiao Sheng and Long Xia walked in from outside. Both of them looked unhappy, and it was obvious that they had had an argument. Seeing that everyone had strange expressions, Xiao Sheng asked a question. Someone told Long Xia what happened just now. Long Xia glanced at Li Muran with a look of contempt in her eyes. "Waste!" She did not deliberately lower her voice, and almost everyone in the hall heard it. Some people laughed immediately, and some people thought it was a bit too much, but they would not offend their own people for an insignificant person, so they just pretended not to hear it.

Xiao Sheng's face was angry, but he didn't want to argue with her in front of everyone. He turned around and told others: "Be careful." Then he walked towards Li Muran and the others, wanting to apologize, but Li Muran spoke before him.

"Brother Xiao, count us in to keep watch at night." Since they are together, it is impossible for them not to help at all. When she said this, there was no suppressed anger on her face, but her expression was normal, as if she didn't know that Long Xia was scolding her. However, the hand holding the chopsticks pressed on Fu Dan's wrist with bulging veins.

Xiao Sheng's eyes slowly swept over Fu Dan, who lowered his head and covered his expression with half-long dirty hair, the ignorant Zhang Ruiyang, Wu Ziran, who was eating happily with a bowl in his hand and was unaware of everything around him, Li Yuanzhuo, who was staring at the fire with his chin propped up, and Huang Hai, who was smiling, and finally settled on the sick ghost with the weakest presence. After a long time, his face relaxed slightly, "Okay." He hesitated for a while, and added: "Be careful."

The superpowers could not put their lives in the hands of a few unawakened people, so even if Xiao Sheng agreed to Li Muran's request to keep watch, their own arrangements did not change because of this.

Li Muran let Zhang Ruiyang sleep. She originally wanted to let several children sleep, but then she thought that maybe she and the others would be the only ones in the future, and she couldn't hold on alone, so she had to harden her heart and let the children take this opportunity to learn to take turns to keep watch with adults. As for Zhang Ruiyang, he was too young. Not to mention Li Muran was reluctant, even the others were unanimously opposed.

Children are very sleepy, and now the night is cold and long, so keeping watch is an extremely painful thing. However, Fu Dan, Li Yuanzhuo and Wu Ziran are all very sensible and not at all unhappy. However, Li Muran still arranged them in the first and last rounds, and the adults kept watch in the middle of the night so that they would not have to sleep in the middle of the night and get up again.

"Uncle Bing, you can use my quilt." Li Yuanzhuo was in the first round. He picked up his quilt and carefully placed it next to Bing Gui, saying timidly.

It was not until he spoke that Li Muran and others remembered that Bing Gui had brought nothing with him, and he was wearing very thin clothes. They couldn't help but feel strange again. If it weren't for the wrong time, place and environment, they would have suspected that he was traveling.

"Take it back." Bing Gui said coldly without even raising his eyelids.

So Li Yuanzhuo silently took the quilt back again. Perhaps he was used to being rejected, and his expression did not reveal the feeling of damaged self-esteem. Yu Jianjun was about to say something when he suddenly realized something. He slapped his thigh and said, "Brother Binggui, you are not dumb!" When Li Muran was too sick to get up, the children asked Binggui for help, which proved that he was not dumb. After so many days, he finally realized it. I don't know where his reaction arc has grown. When he woke up, he immediately remembered the gossip he had talked about with others. He felt embarrassed and even forgot what he had planned to say. Binggui

ignored him. Seeing this, the others didn't bother themselves anymore. They wrapped themselves in quilts and found a place to sleep. Li Muran couldn't lie down peacefully because of the feeling of being spied on. He could only sit and close his eyes to rest like Binggui. However, until the sky gradually brightened, nothing happened. Li Muran, who sat all night, didn't know whether he should be disappointed or relieved. The people in the team cast their eyes at him, either teasing or mocking. Even Huang Hai and others were secretly muttering in their hearts, is it really Binggui who is bored and making a wolf cry?

"Mystifying!" Long Xia, who was in high spirits, came down from upstairs. She snorted coldly after learning about the subsequent development of the matter from her good teammates.

However, before her snort fell, something strange happened. Li Muran felt the air around her vibrate, and a murderous aura seemed to break through the space, and instantly enveloped her with a sudden shrill scream. The murderous aura was so fierce and majestic that she could hardly breathe. Although she knew that she had to fight back or dodge immediately, her arm holding the knife and even her whole body seemed to be tied up by something, and she couldn't move at all. Cold sweat broke out on her palms and back. In countless battles between life and death, this was the first time she felt the oppression of death so clearly. She had never felt this way even when she was pushed into the zombie group and awakened her superpowers.

Could it be that she really had to die here this time? She stared at him in despair. As soon as this thought flashed through her mind, before she even had time to feel unwilling, she felt her whole body relax. The heavy and suffocating murderous intent suddenly disappeared without a trace. It came suddenly and went away inexplicably, as if it had never appeared. She was a little dazed until a colorless and transparent crystal core the size of a nail cap was handed to her.

"Promise me one thing, and this crystal core will belong to you." The sick ghost said, holding the crystal core in his left hand, with blood stains on his fingertips, and holding a thing in his right hand that was half the height of a man, shaped like a monkey, but hairless and with long sharp claws. At this time, the round head of the thing was drooping, and sticky liquid dripped onto the floor, slowly forming a pool of blood.

Just like the attraction of the black stone to Nan Shao, the temptation of this crystal core to Li Muran far exceeded any crystal core she had seen before, and instantly freed her from the fear of death. Her intuition told her that this thing was very important to her, but she did not rashly reach out to take it.

"You say." The sick ghost just saved her life. Even if she didn't use the crystal core, as long as she could do it, she would try her best to do it. But if it was beyond this range, she would not take it even if she wanted it. The

sick ghost glanced at the surprised eyes cast around him, swallowed the words he wanted to say, and threw the crystal core in front of Li Muran, "You use it first, and we'll talk about it when we get to Xiling." "

But..." Li Muran caught it in a hurry, wanting to ask if he was not afraid that he would regret it after absorbing the crystal core, or that he could not do the request he made.

"This thing is important to you, but it's just a broken stone to me." The sick ghost coughed twice, and then said lightly, but a trace of disgust flashed quickly in his eyes that were always calm, but this trace of disgust was not directed at Li Muran, but at himself. He never thought that one day he would be reduced to threatening and bribing an ordinary person who was as low as an ant in his eyes.

Although he said so, Li Muran still felt that this crystal core was very hot, but she was reluctant to give it up. From childhood to adulthood, except for facing the matter of her mother, this was the first time she was so indecisive.

The sick ghost saw the hesitation in the woman's expression and felt a little annoyed. Finally, he decided to give her a reassurance. After all, if her ability did not improve, it would be useless to him. "Don't worry, what I am going to do will not embarrass you." It was his limit to explain to this point. After speaking, he no longer cared about what Li Muran would do. He lowered his head and looked at the mutant creature in his right hand with disdain. This thing seemed extremely cheap to him, but he seemed to be able to play a lot of roles for ordinary people. It would be better to add more emphasis to the favor for them.

Chapter 129 Domain of Supernatural Powers

After thinking for a while, he stuffed it into the arms of Fu Dan, who was standing beside him in a daze, and saw the young man hurriedly hugging it, then he said: "Take this, remove the skin and bones, and boil it into jelly..." He originally wanted to tell the use of it, but then he found that there were still many people staring at this side and listening, so he changed his tone: "You will know when it works." He knew very well that it was a crime to possess a treasure, and this rule applied to any realm. Although he was unwilling to help others, he also did not want to harm others.

Unfortunately, he underestimated the self-deception of humans. Until then, others came back to their senses from the sudden scene just now. Some were surprised and stammered: "There is really something... How, how did he know it?"

Others showed a look of understanding, curled their lips and said disapprovingly: "It's just a spatial supernatural power, it's a bluff." The people who said this were from the corpse-luring team. They didn't believe that any mutant animals would appear out of thin air like this, otherwise who could defend against it, and everyone would have died long ago.

There were many people who thought that it was a space ability, but they all had different concerns. Long Xia, who originally looked down on Li Muran and the others, rushed over without even looking at the mutant animal held by Fu Dan. She stretched out her hand as if to catch the sick ghost, and turned to Li Muran, but finally gave up. However, she did not hide her eagerness on her face, and asked anxiously: "Space ability? Who of you has a space ability? How big is the space? Can it hold living things?" She completely forgot her previous arrogant attitude, as if she was not the one who called others trash.

The sick ghost did not look at her, but turned and walked outside. Since he came to the courtyard yesterday, he has not left Li Muran's side until now, as if to announce that the danger has been lifted.

"I am a person with superpowers, but not a space ability." Li Muran did not have much resentment towards Long Xia. After all, this person showed on his face whether he liked it or not, and would not smile affectionately in front of you, but do something behind your back, so he could still hold back his temper and explain to her.

"What is your special ability?" Long Xia didn't know that Li Muran was a special ability user. Hearing that she actually admitted it, he was stunned for a moment before asking.

"I don't know, I can't use it, but I can absorb crystal cores." Li Muran smiled, not thinking that he needed to explain everything to her clearly. Even if she saved herself and Fu Dan, it was because of Director Song. I believe that if Director Song didn't say anything, she would never save them, these useless people. So even if she owed a favor, it was to Director Song, and it had nothing to do with other people.

How could Long Xia believe it? Just as she was about to ask again, Li Muran had already called Fu Dan and others to get on the car. Last night, they had already taken the time to cook all the food on their bodies and poured boiled snow water into it, so they could eat it on the road without having to start a fire, saving a lot of trouble.

"Hey, if you have special abilities, you can stay in the team, don't hide it..." Long Xia was not angry at all when he was humiliated like this. Instead, he changed his previous contempt and became extremely enthusiastic.

Unexpectedly, after hearing her shout, Li Muran and the others walked faster. They were sweating in their hearts. They never thought that this originally high-ranking female superpower could have such a silly side. It was really hard to accept. In comparison, they would rather she just gave them a look like she did before.

"Okay, Mr. Song knows that she is a superpower, so you don't need to help recruit her." Xiao Sheng rubbed his forehead and said weakly. It was because he knew that Long Xia was thinking about the team and Mr. Song, so he was patient again and again. Otherwise, he would have embarrassed her with her self-willedness.

"But the space superpower... there is a space superpower!" Long Xia looked out the door reluctantly and said unwillingly. One good thing about her is that she doesn't hold grudges. She had an argument with Xiao Sheng the day before, but she forgot it the next day. Or in other words, in her eyes, there are only superpowers and non-superpowers, and the difference between capable and incapable.

"It may not be a space ability." Xiao Sheng said, and then stopped arguing with her, because he knew that once this woman made up her mind, it would not be changed by others' words. As long as she did not cause trouble to Li Muran and the others, he would just turn a blind eye. But whether she really understood it or not, with her attitude that was so different before and after, even if there was a space ability person, she would probably scare him away first.

"It must be, otherwise how could that thing suddenly appear? Did you feel its existence beforehand?" Long Xia snorted, and her expression returned to normal. She probably knew that she was not liked by others, so she gave up the idea of ​​chasing after Bing Gui and Li Muran to let them join the team, and prepared to report the matter to him after Song Yan arrived. As long as Mr. Song wanted, what kind of talent could not be recruited? It must be said that she really had a blind admiration for Song Yan.

"So you are also a superpower, sister?" Yu Jianjun and the other two who had already got on the car asked Li Muran in surprise, revealing a little inferiority and discomfort in their expressions. They were used to being humble in front of the superpowers, and when this superpower became someone around them, they were a little overwhelmed.

"Well... it's just a useless superpower." Li Muran smiled lightly as if she didn't see the change in their expressions. "Usually, it can be used when saving lives, but not at other times." At this point, she couldn't help but tighten the crystal in her hand, wishing she could absorb it immediately to see what effect it would have. As for whether Yu Jianjun and the others would alienate her because of this, it was something that could not be forced, so she didn't think much about it.

"That's great." Yu Jianjun sighed a little, "Anyway, it's better than having no superpowers."

Huang Hai and He Gui nodded in agreement at the same time, looking at Li Muran with envy in their eyes. Li Muran smiled and looked at the sick ghost who had been sitting in the seat yesterday. In fact, compared to the thoughts of Yu Jianjun and the other two, she wanted to know who the sick ghost was. He looked like he might die at any time, but he was as easy as taking something out of a bag when dealing with the mutant creatures that made her helpless. Moreover, he knew what her special power was, and that the crystal core was very important to her. He knew more than she thought.

"What's your name?" Thinking of this, she chose to sit next to the sick ghost. When Zhang Ruiyang saw her, he immediately squeezed over. He seemed to have an inexplicable liking for the sick ghost, even though the other party always looked indifferent. Dudu was completely the opposite. He wanted to stay away from the sick ghost. At this moment, it was as if his butt had grown under the seat. For the first time, he did not change his seat with Zhang Ruiyang.

"Sick ghost." If it were normal, the sick ghost would definitely ignore her, but from the moment the crystal core was handed to her, they were destined to be tied together for a while, so he reluctantly opened his mouth and answered concisely.

Li Muran was choked, and Huang Hai and others who were listening to the sick ghost with their ears perked up and were also curious about the sick ghost were choked by their own saliva and coughed, as if the sick ghost really had tuberculosis and infected them.

At this time, the driver got on the bus, wiped his hands with a towel, put on gloves, heard them talking, looked back, and then started the bus with the cars in front, and slowly drove to the highway. Since learning that Li Muran was also a superpower, the people in the corpse-luring team looked at her differently. It was hard to tell whether it was fear or jealousy. In short, they were more careful in what they said and did, trying to avoid provoking her. Li Muran didn't care about this. Her goal had never changed. Except for Zhao Ru, as long as she didn't provoke her, she would never involve innocent people.

"That sick brother..." After calling this name, Li Muran felt embarrassed, and then continued: "Can you tell me, what is that?" She pointed at the monster that Fu Dan was holding in front of his chest. Knowing that the other party was unlikely to answer, she still wanted to ask. But when she looked over, she found that Fu Dan's face was pale, his body was stiff, and he seemed very scared.

That's right, let alone a young boy, even an adult would not feel relieved if they were holding a dead thing that looked a bit like a monkey but had no hair, which made people think of a child. But after hearing the sick ghost say that the body of that thing seemed to be of some use, she stood up and took it from Fu Dan. The boy felt the body that was slowly becoming stiff on his chest disappear, and he immediately took a deep breath like a drowning person who finally got air, and blood gradually appeared on his pale face, giving people a feeling that he was finally alive.

Li Muran laughed, but then his expression became stiff, probably because the feeling of holding the monster's corpse in his hand was really not very good. At this moment, the hoarse voice of the sick ghost sounded in his ears.

"It's called Yu, the same name as the superpower you awakened." The sick ghost said slowly, without any reluctance. Obviously, he thought it was necessary for Li Muran to know this.

"It looks like a child." Zhang Ruiyang finally had the opportunity to study the monster carefully because he was close. At this time, he suddenly interrupted and poked the monster's bluish-white and transparent back skin with his fingers curiously.

Li Muran felt that the hair on his back stood up, and his scalp was a little numb. He was a little afraid to look down at the thing in his hand. Then he heard the sick ghost continue to say: "Without Yu's crystal core, it is impossible for you to use your superpowers at will for ten or eight years... In such an environment, do you think you can live that long?" The last sentence did not contain contempt, but just stated the facts calmly.

Li Muran's mind was distracted, she pursed her lips and did not respond.

"The domain is only the lowest level of this kind. The middle level is called Kongxing, and the highest level is called Yinkong. You should be thankful that Kongxing and Yinkong will not appear in this wasteland, otherwise it would be useless even if you hide thousands of feet underground." The sick ghost's voice was flat and without ups and downs, but it gave people the feeling of being as distant and erratic as the morning bell at dusk, and they immersed themselves in it unconsciously, with a calm mind.

Not to mention the middle and high levels, even in front of this domain that he called the lowest level, Li Muran could only wait to be killed. She believed that even if Nan Shao and Zhang Yi were here, they would not be much better than her, just like Xiao Sheng and the others, who could not even detect its existence, let alone deal with it. So when she heard him say this, she couldn't help but feel an indescribable frustration in her heart, and she didn't even feel like asking questions.

But her not asking doesn't mean that others don't want to ask. What the sick ghost said was something they had never heard before, and from his words they could even vaguely feel that he seemed to know a lot about the end of the world they were living in. However, they felt that they were not bold enough, and if they asked him, he would probably not answer as he did in the past, so they endured it anxiously.

Chapter 130 Supernatural Breakthrough

"Uncle Bing, what is a wasteland?" At this moment, Li Yuanzhuo suddenly spoke up and asked everyone's question.

"A place where life is dying and death is everywhere, what else is it if not a wasteland?" Binggui didn't look at the child, half-closed his eyes, and said lightly.

Humans turned into zombies, animals disappeared, plants withered, the earth cracked, and the stars disappeared... Because of this sentence, everything that happened after the three days of darkness reappeared in the minds of everyone in the car like a movie. The only two people who were not affected were Zhang Ruiyang, who knew nothing, and Wu Ziran, who was like a silly girl. People almost believed that Binggui knew how the end of the world came, but this feeling was only a moment. Soon, someone in the corpse-luring team laughed and started talking loudly, as if they didn't want to listen to them talking nonsense and scaremongering.

"But these mutant plants are growing very lush. It's so cold, they don't wither and freeze to death like the plants before. The mutant animals are also very powerful." Li Yuanzhuo couldn't help but refute the words of the dying life.

"That's because it's summer now." To everyone's surprise, it wasn't the sick ghost who answered, but Wu Ziran, who had been listening to them with his head tilted.

"It's so cold, how could it be summer?" Li Yuanzhuo got a headache when he saw Wu Ziran answering, but he was a child after all, and felt that she was wrong, so he couldn't help arguing.

"It's summer. Today is June 8th, and Children's Day has passed..." At this point, Wu Ziran's tone was filled with some regret, because he missed Children's Day, but he soon cheered up again, "The day after tomorrow is my birthday, how could I remember it wrong? My birthday is in the summer."

Hearing this, everyone was embarrassed. Since the end of the world, the seasons have disappeared, either the scorching sun or the severe cold. Everyone is exhausted from surviving, no longer needing to go to work and get off work, and there are no holidays. The timekeeping of years, months, and days has lost its due meaning. Even most adults have forgotten the date, let alone a child.

"On June 10, 2016, I will be 12 years old." The little girl propped up her chin and said faintly, "Dad said he would take me to Disneyland to say goodbye to my childhood. But there is no more Disneyland, no birthday cake, no mom and dad..." At the end, she covered her eyes with her hands and cried.

Zhang Ruiyang, who was originally digging the corpse of the domain beast, was a little stunned when he saw this, and didn't understand why his sister started crying. Li Yuanzhuo rubbed his eyes roughly with the back of his hand and said impatiently: "Girls love to cry, aren't you annoying!"

Wu Ziran didn't argue with him this time, but just cried louder. As a result, several people who originally had many questions to ask were in no mood to continue. Surprisingly, the people from the corpse-luring team just looked over here and didn't scold them. Seeing the little girl crying because she missed her parents, Li Muran couldn't help but think of his mother and wondered if she was still alive. If she died... Li Muran shook his head and didn't want to think about it anymore. Whether she was resentful or forgotten, she still hoped that person was alive and well there, not for anything else, but because that was the person who gave birth to her.

The journey that followed seemed even more dull, and the words of the sick ghost had more or less had some impact on everyone in the car. Whether it was those who had already believed in it or those who still adhered to the scientific worldview, they could not help but think again about a question that was obscured by survival and frequent disasters: Why did the end of the world appear? However, this question was just like the question that many people inadvertently thought of before the end of the world, "What is the purpose of living?", and perhaps there will never be an answer.

As they got farther and farther away from the Dongzhou base, mutant animals gradually began to appear on the road. The team's speed was not fast, and it was even slower at this time. Two hundred kilometers, which used to be just a few hours, now takes three or four days to reach.

At night, they stayed at a highway service station. After dinner, they also arranged a night watch. Li Muran couldn't wait to start absorbing the crystal core of the domain. The sick ghost glanced at her with a satisfied look in his eyes. Huang Hai and the other two followed the instructions of the sick ghost in the morning, removed the skin and bones of Yu, added snow water and boiled them in a pot, and the night watcher watched. As for Yu's meat, after confirming with the sick ghost that it was non-toxic, it was cut into pieces and roasted on the fire into jerky. Whether it tastes good or not is secondary. When there is really no food, it can at least fill the stomach.

Whether it was intentional or not, Li Muran placed the sleeping Zhang Ruiyang next to the sick ghost, and the other three children were also very close to him. Even the three adults in Huang Hai seemed to have a tendency to move closer to this side. The sick ghost didn't seem to notice this, or didn't care at all.

Because of the tight budget, Li Muran hadn't absorbed the crystal core for a long time, but it didn't mean that she had forgotten the feeling of absorbing the crystal core. What puzzled her was that the feeling of absorbing the domain core didn't seem to be any different... No, maybe there was still a difference, at least she could absorb it. As early as in the hotel in Ziyun County, they already knew that the crystal cores of mutant creatures were not like zombie crystal cores that could be absorbed by any awakened person. Different crystal cores could absorb different superpowers. Apart from this, it was just the same as absorbing zombie crystal cores, until a subtle popping sound was heard, as if something was broken, her mind cleared, and a strange feeling came up.

She was a little dazed, and after a while she tried very carefully to extend her perception to the outside world along that feeling. After a while, she opened her eyes suddenly, her heart pounding, as if it was about to jump out of her chest.

And at the moment she opened her eyes, the sick ghost also opened his eyes. For two consecutive days, he didn't lie down, just sitting against the wall, with a casual posture, making it unclear whether he had rested or not, or whether he was resting at any time.

The surroundings were very quiet. The night watchmen had already changed two shifts. At this time, He Gui was squatting by the fire, adding firewood to the fire, stirring the already sticky liquid inside, and muttering to himself: "The bones are melting... The bones can really be cooked, it's really strange." The skin bones still had a fragrance when they were first cooked, but at this time, except for the white hot steam that kept coming out, there was no smell at all, otherwise I'm afraid that people from the team would complain.

Li Muran stared at the pot for a long time before suppressing the excitement in her heart. It turned out that she didn't know how to use her superpowers, just because her superpower level was not enough, just like a person who can only lift 20 kilograms facing a 2,000-kilogram heavy stone. Let alone lifting it, it is impossible to move it. Now, although she still can't lift the stone at once, she has the ability to pry it.

Her palms began to sweat, not knowing whether it was because of excitement or nervousness. She closed her eyes and the scene outside the house appeared in her mind. Her supernatural power was activated. The next moment, she felt the space where she was sitting vibrate, and then her body became cold. She was already sitting outside in the snow. Enduring the dizziness, she grabbed a handful of snow, closed her eyes again, and returned to the place where she was sitting. It only took a few seconds. If it weren't for the churning in her stomach and the snow in her palms, she would probably even doubt whether she was dreaming, let alone alarming others.

"You, you..." He Gui opened his mouth and looked at Li Muran stupidly, then raised his hand and rubbed his eyes. Finally, he thought that he might be too sleepy and blurry. He shook his head and lowered his head to look at the things in the pot, fearing that they would burn. The supernatural person on the other side of the night watch also looked over here, with doubts flashing in his eyes, but soon retracted his gaze.

Li Muran quietly threw away the snow powder that began to melt in his palm, and his eyes fell on the sick ghost who had been staring at him from beginning to end, waiting for him to speak. But the sick ghost said nothing and closed his eyes again. Li Muran was a little dumbfounded, and then a little depressed, feeling that something very worthwhile had happened but no one shared it with. It was a pity that this was not a good time to talk, otherwise she might not be able to help but ask about the domain power and domain beasts, as well as the end of the world, regardless of whether he was willing or not. At this point, it was no longer a question of whether the sick ghost would pester them, but whether she was willing to let him go.

Li Muran did not sleep in the second half of the night. She spent all her time studying her supernatural power except for keeping watch. She found that the use of this supernatural power seemed to be limited by distance. When she closed her eyes and concentrated on sensing, she could clearly see the surrounding situation in her mind, where there was a table, where there was a crack on the ground, and the small movements of the sleeping person picking his nose and scratching his itch. The extension of her mind was the open space outside the service station, the highway stretching far to the horizon, the boundless mutant forest and the mutant animals that appeared from time to time in it... But when it reached a certain distance, it became a blank, nothing. She extended the direction of her spirit and used the road signs on the highway to roughly deduce that the maximum distance was 20 kilometers. This made her a little confused. She used to cross thousands of miles at a time, but now that her supernatural power has been improved, it has shortened to such a point? Of course, despite her doubts, she was still very content. After all, supernatural powers are no longer decorations and can be used. Being able to cross 20 kilometers at a time is much better than driving. Moreover, this ability also comes with an extremely accurate detection function that is not affected by the night. This alone is enough to make many awakened people jealous. So, she was like a poor person who was poor and hungry and suddenly became the richest person in the world overnight. She was very beautiful and unreal. She was still a little dazed until she got on the car the next day.

"Auntie, are you very happy?" Zhang Ruiyang saw Li Muran laughing to herself again, and couldn't help kneeling on the seat and stretched out his hand to twist her face, and asked while laughing.

Li Muran was secretly happy there alone. When asked like this, she rarely winked at the little guy, nodded repeatedly, and then laughed, attracting many people's sidelong glances. You know, in the end times, people have almost forgotten the feeling of laughing heartily, and her laughter really seems a bit abrupt.

"Why?" Zhang Ruiyang asked curiously, and Fu Dan and others also looked over. They were obviously infected by her good mood, their eyes were bright and their expressions were expectant.

Li Muran pursed her lips and smiled. Although she wanted to share it with others, she had not lost her mind. She knew that such things were not good to show off in public. Unless someone was sincere to her, it would only cause jealousy. Therefore, she just said, "Auntie has thought of a way to find your father and Uncle Pumpkin."

Zhang Ruiyang's eyes lit up when he heard it. "Really?"

Li Muran nodded, thinking that she was not lying to the child. Although it was only 20 kilometers, as long as they crossed 20 kilometers, they would reach Ziyang County in no time. The main factor that once prevented them from returning, the mutant plant forest, could almost be ignored in front of her ability.

After getting a positive answer, the child really laughed from the bottom of his heart this time.

Chapter 131 A New Resting Place

On the evening of the third day, Xiling City was in sight. Towering buildings, winding overpasses, abandoned vehicles that had rear-ended each other, and a silent city. The colorful plants were showing off their might, announcing that they had become the masters of this world. The sound of car engines pierced the hellish silence. In shopping malls, office buildings, small supermarkets, and overturned carriages... zombies emerged one by one, their throats making hoarse gasps like broken bellows, enthusiastically and excitedly welcoming their new companions or feasts.

The convoy did not enter Xiling City, but instead circled the city, avoiding large groups of zombies and heading for an abandoned factory area on the outskirts of the city. Xiling produces aluminum, and all the processes from mining to oxidation electrolysis to aluminum ingots and various aluminum products are completed in aluminum plants on the outskirts of the city, and finally transported to other places by train. They entered the area where several large aluminum electrolytic plants were located. There were many factory buildings and a vast green area. At this time, it was occupied by dense mutant plants, and you could see zombies wandering around.

The superpowers spent some time to clear the mutant plants that blocked the main road, and then drove the car to a staff dormitory. Everyone rested here that night. Seeing their familiarity with the road, it was obvious that they had decided to come here a long time ago. Li Muran didn't know if they had come here to explore the road before. When he went outside with Huang Hai and others to find firewood for the night, he subconsciously used his superpowers to explore around to see if there was any place to find some food. However, when he accidentally scanned the factory, he was startled by the oil tankers and military trucks covered with military green canvas filled with supplies. No wonder Director Song's fleet used the vehicles without hesitation. It turned out that there was so much gasoline.

This was the business of other teams. Whether it was a secret or not, it was not something that he could spy on. So Li Muran quickly retracted his spirit of extension and concentrated on picking up firewood. In fact, there was no shortage of coal in the factory area, but the people in the team did not look for it, so they could not run around. In fact, according to Huang Hai and the other two, they should get off the car and leave when they arrived at the outskirts of the city. They had no hope of forming a team with Li Muran, but they still wanted to know more about the end of the world from the sick ghost, as well as the use of the domain skin bone jelly, and to learn more edible mutant plants from the children, so they postponed the time of leaving. Fortunately, Long Xia did not give them a cold look, which made them feel a lot more comfortable.

"Brother sick ghost, tell me more about the wasteland." They probably had to live here for a while, so the whole dormitory was cleaned up. After the superpowers strengthened the defense of the doors and windows, they occupied the entire first floor, and the corpse-luring team also occupied a floor, which invisibly divided their respective boundaries. Li Muran and his friends had to choose a dormitory on the third floor to live in. For safety reasons, they still did not separate. Now that there were no other people around, everyone was less cautious when talking.

Unfortunately, the sick ghost seemed to have lost interest in this topic. He didn't even blink when he heard it. "The bone skin jelly in the domain can cover up the smell of people. You only need to apply a little bit of it on your skin, the size of a fingernail, and the zombies will pretend that you don't exist. It can last for two hours at a time... about four hours." This thing should still be very useful for ordinary people.

Answering the question irrelevantly. Yu Jianjun was a little depressed when he brought up the topic, but he knew that the other party didn't want to talk, so he could only stop asking tactfully. However, what the sick ghost said was enough to excite him. Looking at the pot of milky white jelly that was only as much as a mineral water bottle, he was a little skeptical but wanted to believe it, so his tone became stuttering because of this contradictory emotion, "You, you mean... this... it... how, how is it possible?" If there really is something that can allow people to walk freely among the zombies without being hurt, wouldn't the survivors go crazy?

Being questioned, the sick ghost gave him a rare look, which instantly made him regret his quick words. In fact, he was not the only one who had doubts. Even Li Muran, Huang Hai and He Gui were worried. After all, this was not a discussion of whether coal was easier to burn or wood produced more heat. If this was verified to be true, they might benefit a lot, but they were more likely to be in trouble and die early. Compared with zombies who had no thinking ability and ferocious mutants, their kind driven by interests were actually more terrifying.

Li Muran thought about it and decisively divided the bottle of bone jelly into two parts, keeping one for herself and giving the other to Huang Hai. "After meeting Director Song, I will take the children to Zhongzhou Province. Yangyang's father is there, so I can't go with you. Huang brother, take care of yourselves." At the end of the words, her voice lowered, and her heart was sad. Gathering and separation are common, but now is not the end of the world. Once we part here, I'm afraid we will never see each other again. Although everyone's friendship is not deep, they have known each other for a while and fought side by side. It's always sad to say goodbye.

"This... This was made by the sick ghost brother. You are female, the young one is small, and you are sick... You should keep it for yourself." Huang Hai held the bottle of bone jelly in his hand for a long time. He was reluctant to give it up, but he still put it on the ground and pushed it in front of Li Muran. "It's too far from here to Zhongzhou. Don't blame us three brothers for not going with you... According to my opinion, you should stay here with the young ones and wait until the situation gets better before going there." At the end, he couldn't help but persuade them.

Li Muran smiled and shook his head. After all, she didn't tell the three of them what her special ability was. After all, they were no longer in a team, so it didn't matter whether she told them or not. Huang Hai and others didn't continue to ask. As for the half bottle of bone jelly, Li Muran insisted and finally let them accept it. Regardless of whether this thing is as useful as the sick ghost said, it's better for everyone to have a share. If it's useless, there's no need to think about it and deify it. If it's useful... the benefits will be shared, and the disaster will naturally be blocked together.

Nothing happened overnight. Starting from the next day, convoys arrived one after another. They were all Song Yan's men who had been transferred from the base to clean up the perimeter and provide security. Except for the sick and ignorant children, Li Muran and Huang Hai were shocked by this posture. They almost thought that Song Yan had brought out all the main combat forces of the Dongzhou base. On the fifth day, when they woke up early in the morning, Long Xia and others were full of energy, looking relaxed and happy, as if they were waiting for something. Li Muran was told privately by Xiao Sheng that according to the prior arrangement, Mr. Song should arrive that day.

However, to everyone's surprise, at noon, several cars did arrive, but Song Yan was not seen. His chief bodyguard Yun Ze walked in with a gloomy face and an embarrassed look, and Yun Ze was supporting a handsome man who seemed to be seriously injured. A strange face.

Chapter 132 Old Friends Lin An

and Song Yan Anyone who has known him for a long time knows that he has a very good friend named Lin An. Together with Lin An's wife Su Hui, the three of them were once jokingly called the Three Musketeers of Shanghai Medical University. In the eyes of their class, and even the students before and after, they can be regarded as influential figures. Lin An's ancient gentleman style, Song Yan's chivalry, Su Hui's graceful and cold eyes are almost talked about by juniors and even teachers who like them. Through word of mouth, they are almost deified. Of course, to be noticed by many teachers, first of all, they must be outstanding in professional performance, and the reason why they can be known by juniors who have never seen them is the complicated love story between the three of them. Two outstanding men fall in love with a beautiful and intellectual woman at the same time, and they are also good friends. There is nothing more ridiculous than this. It is said that Lin An later chose to give in in order not to make his friend sad, but ended up getting the beauty. As for the loser Song Yan, of course he let go sadly and joined the army. It seems that he went abroad for further studies later. However, the friendship between the three was not affected. And the black and white that popped up in the process of listening to the story were just for fun.

Of course, the people around Song Yan should know more about this. Apart from other things, it is true that the three are good friends. So after the end of the world, Lin An was unable to stay at home because he went to another province to attend an academic seminar. Fortunately, his wife and children did not have zombie mutations. Later, Su Hui drove out of the community with his son to find Song Yan, and he has been protected by Song Yan. Originally, Song Yan planned to go to Beijing to return to his base camp. The reason why he took a detour to Dongzhou was to find Lin An. Unexpectedly, before he found him, a rainstorm occurred, and he was finally stranded here because of mutant plants blocking the road.

"You said Wei Jingchi turned against us and imprisoned Mr. Song and Miss Su?" Xiao Sheng frowned and looked at Lin An, who was being treated by a healing psychic, and asked Yun Ze in a deep voice. Of the three healing psychics, only one came except Long Xia, and the other one defected. Mr. Song performed a round of true and false things this time, one to take the opportunity to leave the base, and the other to eliminate those who were not loyal enough. In the end times, sand cannot be condensed into stone, and even the strongest forces will collapse. Mr. Song will not hinder people's lives, but he must not be indecisive at the slightest sign of trouble. As for the people in the corpse-luring team, of course they were not counted. It's just that eliminating people is one thing, but if you accidentally eliminate yourself, it will not be fun. Moreover, what's the matter with this Lin An? Why couldn't we find him before, and why did he show up at this critical moment?

"Those who came to Dongzhou to attend the neuroscience academic seminar and survived were controlled by Wei Jingchi, who was researching ways to awaken ordinary people's superpowers." Lin An saw the doubt in his eyes and took the initiative to explain. "I haven't seen the sun for a long time. I have been locked up in the laboratory. This time, the base was in trouble both internally and externally. Wei Jingchi focused on the unknown zombie and mutant riots outside the base, as well as Da Song. He relaxed his supervision on us, and I found a chance to escape. It was then that I learned that Da Song and my wife and son were in the base..." At this point, he smiled bitterly, his expression full of bitterness. "I am not an awakener. I can't escape the base by myself, let alone survive outside. So when I knew that Da Song was in the base, the first thing I thought of was to find him... find him and my wife and children. I didn't expect that I would implicate them because of this." He looked pale, partly due to blood loss, but more because of the weakness of not seeing the sun for a long time, which indirectly proved the truth of what he said.

"I was carrying important research materials. When the Song Dynasty learned about it, they immediately asked Yun Ze to send me away. He stayed there to stabilize Wei Jingchi and buy us some time. But Wei Jingchi reacted so quickly that we were discovered before we even left the base. We had to fight hard to get out."

As he spoke, Yun Ze kept his head down and didn't speak. He seemed to be extremely angry and annoyed that he couldn't fulfill his duty to protect Song Shao. His hands hanging by his legs were clenched into fists, and his veins bulged.

"Yun Ze, what are you doing? This matter obviously can't be covered up. Why don't you persuade Mr. Song to go with you? Isn't Mr. Song ready to fight directly if the other party doesn't let go?" A man who looked like a soldier slammed the table and asked harshly.

"Sorry, this is still my fault. Because of the information I brought out and here..." Lin An pointed to his head with a guilty look: "The things in it are very important to Wei Jingchi. If everyone leaves together, Wei Jingchi will definitely be desperate and will send people out to chase him regardless of mutual losses. You haven't settled down yet. If you are caught off guard, there will probably be heavy casualties. So Da Song... Alas... Da Song... It's all my fault! If I didn't go..." He hit his chest hard, and the wound that had not yet healed suddenly burst open. The psychic who treated him scolded him angrily.

Everyone was silent. After a while, he sighed again and spoke again: "Fortunately, I have what Wei Jingchi wants in my hands. He is afraid of the consequences and should not dare to embarrass Da Song... and my wife and children." Speaking of his wife and children, his Adam's apple rolled up and down, unable to hide his sorrow, and murmured to himself: "I left in a hurry and didn't even get to see them..."

At this time, most of the people who were able to enter the room knew what had happened, but who Lin An was and what treasures he had on him were not their concerns. They only cared about Song Yan's safety, and Yun Ze, who should have stayed with Song Yan, actually lost him, so no one could calm down. Immediately, someone punched Yun Ze, who was already seriously injured, and then someone else joined in. Yun Ze did not fight back until they had vented their anger for a while, and then said in a deep voice: "Mr. Song told us to listen to Mr. Lin in everything."

"Who is he? Why should we listen to him!" After leaving the room, Long Xia kicked the wall of the corridor and said angrily.

It's not that no one has thought about whether there is something fishy here, but since these words came from Yun Ze's mouth, they have to obey. Because when it comes to loyalty, even Long Xia himself dare not say that he can compare with Yun Ze. Yun Ze will not abandon Mr. Song, so they will definitely do whatever he says, even if they are dissatisfied in their hearts. What's more, Lin An's wife and children are also trapped in the base, so he has no choice but to do his best to plan to rescue them. After all, this man has a good brain.

Xiao Sheng soon told Li Muran that Song Yan was trapped. It was not a secret. Sooner or later, everyone would know about it, so he had to tell her about it. After all, her relationship with Mr. Song was different from that of others.

"Mr. Lin is trying to rescue Mr. Song." Before leaving, he said this sentence, his tone was calm, and people couldn't tell whether he had confidence in Lin An.

Unexpectedly, things would take such a turn. Huang Hai and others had little intersection with Song Yan, and they would leave soon, so they just thought that Mr. Song was a little unlucky and didn't think too much, but Li Muran was worried. She had planned to take the children away after meeting Song Yan... and maybe a sick ghost, but now it seems that she can't leave for the time being.

"Sister Muran, what should we do?" Fu Dan asked anxiously after all the children except Yang Yang understood what happened.

Li Muran lowered her head and thought for a long time, then shook her head, "Wait a few days and see." Song Yan has so many strong men under his command, it shouldn't be difficult to save people. But here... she... She suddenly remembered her superpowers, her eyes lit up slightly, but she didn't immediately ask Xiao Sheng for help. She was not very confident in using this superpower.

"Sick... sick brother, are there any restrictions on the use of domain superpowers?" She looked at the sick ghost who was sitting quietly in the corner and had no sense of existence, and asked. The other party hadn't said what he wanted yet, so he shouldn't watch her die. At the moment when this thought crossed her mind, she suddenly felt that it was not necessarily a bad thing to be asked for something by others.

"If you want to save people, prepare more crystal cores." The answer given by the sick ghost always seemed to be somewhat inconsistent with the question, but it was exactly what others really wanted to know.

Li Muran was stunned for a moment. "Crystal core?" Hearing these two words, she inexplicably felt depressed, as if she had a cell phone in her arms but it was out of power and she couldn't charge it. "You mean the crystal core of Yu, but I've only encountered one in such a long time, I'm afraid it's not easy to find, and..." Moreover, even if she could use her superpowers now, she didn't have the ability to kill Yu to get the crystal core. Did she still need his help?

"Zombie crystal core." The sick ghost said coldly.

Li Muran breathed a sigh of relief. She wanted to ask again what the crystal core of Yu and the crystal core of zombies were for her superpowers, but seeing his expression, she swallowed the question tactfully. It would be better for her to explore it slowly by herself.

In the next few days, Lin An made a series of arrangements in a swift and resolute manner, regardless of his mental state not being restored. Almost all the heavyweights in the team, such as Long Xia and Xiao Sheng, were sent out to lead people to attack the Dongzhou base using the wheel tactics, making sure that Wei Jingchi was exhausted and had to sit down and negotiate with them in the end. In addition, four groups of superpowers were asked to find a way to sneak into the base. Although they could not rescue the people, they could at least protect them. With these two methods, Song Yan's safety was ensured to the greatest extent possible. Because his starting point was to save Song Yan, even Long Xia, who was the most unconvinced, did not raise any objections. Moreover, this person had excellent manners and was very sincere and humble to others, which easily won the favor of many people. Even Li Muran and others, he took time out of his busy schedule to meet them in person, just because she was an old acquaintance of Song Yan. Even though all of them except Li Muran were unawakened, and there were no shortage of sick and young people, he did not show the slightest contempt.

"This Mr. Lin is quite kind." After the others left, Yu Jianjun said with emotion. They had not been treated so equally and kindly by superpowers for a long time. It would be a lie to say that they were not moved. As for the possibility that Lin An was not a superpower, he had never even thought about it. After all, letting an unawakened person lead so many superpowers might be more absurd than the end of the world. Besides, didn't you see that when the man came in, Dudu hid again?

Chapter 133 Eat and be eaten

There were several times when Li Muran impulsively wanted to find Lin An to tell him about his special ability and ask to join the rescue of Song Yan, but he finally held back and decided to take advantage of the past few days to intensify the practice of using special abilities and ask for help when he was sure he could help.

After realizing that it was difficult to get useful things out of the sick ghost's mouth, Huang Hai and the other two knew that it would be bad for them to stay, so they said goodbye and left after two days. As expected, the sick ghost stayed. Because of this, Li Muran had fewer concerns when practicing special abilities. Every day, he took the children out to hunt zombies and collect food around, while practicing special ability proficiency and finding out the number of people he could carry.

Zhang Ruiyang knew that he had to go to rescue the director uncle, so he was very obedient and didn't urge him to find his father. Or in other words, as long as the adults gave him a positive answer, he would not do things like chasing after him and urging him over and over again.

At the same time, humans were struggling to survive everywhere in the desolate wasteland, and the game of blood and escape was played every day. Fight against the sky, fight against people.

The slender and graceful blade reflected the firelight, silently harvesting a dirty head. When the head fell to the ground, it still had a hint of obscene and vulgar smile on it. On the fire burning in the middle of the room, a large pot was steaming, and the aroma of meat filled the air, even penetrating the cracks in the door and drifting into the yard outside.

Ignoring the unusual broth, the handsome young man bent down and searched the headless corpse, and found a palm-sized iron sheet. The iron sheet was dark and cold, and seemed different from ordinary iron. There were two ancient characters engraved on it, and there was a faint glow flowing under the firelight.

Xuan Er.

The young man frivolously sighed, shook his head and muttered: "The flood washed away the Dragon King Temple... It's a pity that it has fallen to this point." After that, he took out a piece of toilet paper from somewhere, wiped the iron sheet, and put it in his pocket.

His eyes searched the small room and finally walked to the storage room on the side. He stamped his leather boots on the ground, and then said with understanding, "Sure enough", pushed open a broken table, squatted down, and saw a padlock weighing about a pound. The Tang sword in his hand slashed out like lightning, and the padlock fell to the side with a thud. The young man stretched out his hand to grab the handle on the floor, and Zhama shouted, pulling up a thick iron plate weighing two or three hundred pounds.

A turbid air mixed with the stench of feces and urine came with a scream of fear, making the young man, who was not prepared at all, pale in the face, retreated two steps, and vomited on the side of his face. It was hard not to vomit up the food he had eaten at noon.

He cursed his mother, and instantly lost the desire to explore. He sheathed the Tang sword with a swish, turned around and left the place where he accidentally broke into but didn't expect to run into the descendants of the disciples of the sect. Xuan Er returned to his position, and the talents of the sect were dwindling. Grandpa should cry. As for what the situation in the cellar was like and what the people inside were going to do, what did it have to do with him?

He didn't know, and of course he didn't care. About half an hour after he left, a half-head poked out of the cellar cautiously. Only when she was sure there was no danger did she crawl out tremblingly. A little while later, another one...

The three women wrapped themselves in clothes and quilts they had found in the house, closed the door tightly, and scrambled to finish the pot of broth. No one cared about the woman lying in the cellar who was shaved to half her body but still breathing. The joy of a new life gradually faded, and how to survive was once again a concern in their hearts. They looked at each other, and their faces became bleak. After a long time, a woman stood up suddenly, found a very sharp kitchen knife in the kitchen, walked back, and began to cut the headless but fresh male corpse on the ground under the vigilant and fearful eyes of the other two. Her hands trembled, but it made people feel extremely determined. Not long after, the other two also joined in.

At the same time, in the small Jie village in Zhongzhou hundreds of miles away, in the pigsty that was darker and colder than the cellar, it was time for the pigs to be harvested.

Xu Jing distributed the sharpened stone chips to Routa Chen and the other two and asked them to hide them. Her fever had subsided, but her body had not recovered. She was still far from her best condition, but they could not wait any longer. Otherwise, once the motor muscles were damaged too much and the tendon tissue was irreversibly damaged, even if the other party had a way to ensure that they would not die, they would only become human maggots crawling on the ground like those who came in earlier than them, and finally be knocked to the bones to make soup because they could no longer provide meat.

The stone chips were the stones they found under the pig trough. They smashed them into several pieces with the lock on the iron chain, and then quietly polished them on the wall for more than ten days before they became as thin and sharp as they are now. It was obviously a bit unrealistic to rely on such a thing to escape from a group of superpowers and fierce Jie people. But they had no choice. Either you fight for your life in a desperate situation, or you will be cooked into a meat soup.

The Jie people are very cruel, but also very cautious. Every time they cut, they will take the selected person with shackles and lock him in the cutting room. Then two people will guard him and one will hold the knife. The cutting room is divided into two rooms. The inner one is the bloody slaughtering scene, and the outer one is the people who are locked to be cut. They will be brought in one by one, cut and then taken back to the pigsty one by one. The reason for this arrangement is said to be to reduce the fear of the pigs, so as not to scare people to death. After all, the fear of watching others being cut and waiting to be cut is too strong, and not everyone can bear it. As for whether this can really reduce fear effectively, no one cares, but at least it can significantly reduce the noisy and chaotic feeling caused by the large number of people, and will not make the knife holder irritable and make mistakes.

The knife holder is a person who is very skilled in using a knife, but also a person with a strange personality. He doesn't like noise and people watching. This may be the real reason for dividing the room. The cutting process is very simple. After the surgeon selects the part to be cut, he will wash the area with clean water before starting. After cutting the required meat, he will quickly apply the ointment prepared on the side to the wound. The action is clean and neat, and there is almost no bleeding during the whole process. I don't know what their ointment is made of. It smells fishy, ​​but it has the function of stopping bleeding and promoting muscle growth, and the effect is amazing. The wound can scab in two days and completely heal in three days. Of course, the scar will remain, and the lost meat cannot grow back completely.

After several cuts, Routa Chen and his companions have silently memorized the whole process in their hearts. Of course, they also memorized the surrounding environment and the people they could contact during the rare trip. Although that is not the whole of Jie Village, waiting any longer will not collect more useful information.

There are only three people in the whole cutting room. This is their chance.

"I wonder if Brother Yi has found Yangyang." Routa Chen suddenly said. But Pei Yuan and Jie Chen were thinking about whether Zhang Yi and Nan Shao could still be alive under the attack of so many mice and birds, and whether Zhang Ruiyang and Li Muran could still be alive, so neither of them responded.

"A woman and a child, in such an environment where a random flower or grass can kill people, do you think there is still a possibility of survival?" Xu Jing had heard him talk about Zhang Ruiyang many times before, and when she heard it, she poured cold water on him very straightforwardly, leaving no room for people to have a fluke mentality.

"You are also a woman." Routa Chen was unhappy and retorted.

"You compare an ordinary untrained woman with me? You must be crazy." Xu Jing said in surprise. It's not that I'm unhappy, it's just a pure surprise. You know, she has been undergoing special training since she was a child, firearms, fighting, assassination... It's not that she looks down on Li Muran, but in fact, the two are not comparable at all.

"Ah... yes, I also think my brain is filled with water." That's why I compared Sister Muran with you, this evil woman. Routa Chen murmured, but he didn't have the courage to say the last sentence. This woman was too scary when she got angry. The three of them had suffered a lot from her before she came in.

He was obviously speaking in accordance with her words, but for some reason, Xu Jing felt that it was not right. Her eyebrows twisted in the dark, and finally she raised her foot and kicked him.

"Fuck, what are you doing!" Routa Chen growled, and moved his body to the side. He regretted that he shouldn't have saved the woman when she was sick, otherwise he wouldn't have been kicked all the time.

"You are scolding me in your heart, do you think I don't know?" Xu Jing whispered viciously.

Pei Yuan and Jie Chen silently stepped aside and continued to play dumb. Routa Chen rolled his eyes. Fortunately, no one saw it, otherwise he would probably kick him again. "Big sister, do you dare not accuse people of crimes?" "

Shut up! Here we go, guys!" Xu Jing's ears moved slightly and she shouted in a low voice. At the same time, she touched the stone piece in her palm, just like she habitually confirmed that there was no problem with the weapon before every action.

Hearing her warning, Routa Chen and the other two quickly lay down, their faces became numb, just like the other people in the pigsty. At the same time, the wooden cover above their heads was opened, and an ancient oil lamp with a glass cover hung down and hung on the hook next to the entrance. The not-so-bright light still allowed people to see the situation in the pen. Seventeen or eighteen people were lying on the wet ground in all directions. Some of them would shrink in fear because of the noise, but more people had no reaction at all. It made people feel that they had completely given up resistance and abandoned themselves. Despair was growing unscrupulously here.

A wooden ladder extended from above and rested on the ground, and then two people walked down one by one, and a gun barrel poked out from above and pointed at everyone in case of emergencies. Facing this group of people who didn't even dare to commit suicide and were obviously no different from real pigs, the Jie people had lost their initial defense, but they were still cautious and did everything they should do. Xu Jing didn't even need to look to know that the gun was brought by her. The Jie people didn't have guns. In China, whether before or after the apocalypse, guns were not so easy to get. Zheng Kun's vanguard team was purely lucky that time.

In order to extend the interval between taking meat and provide enough recovery time for the pigs, the number of people taking meat each time would not exceed five, so the people in the circle would be divided into three groups and take turns. This time it was the turn of Routa Chen and his group. However, what was not so lucky was that only Routa Chen, Xu Jing, and Jie Chen were mentioned, and the other two places were given to other people, and Pei Yuan was left in the circle. The moment the lamp was taken out and the wooden board was covered again, Pei Yuan's dull eyes moved and fell on the remaining ray of light, his eyes full of despair and unwillingness.

Chapter 134: A narrow escape from death

The iron chain was still on the feet, but it would be locked in another place later. Therefore, it was too heavy for the few people who were already weak to move, not to mention escaping or resisting.

Every step on the floor made of thick bamboo made people feel a tremor from the soles of their feet, which spread all the way to their hearts. In the middle of the wide house was a blackened fire pit made of stone. The flames were burning. There were several people sitting around. Two of them were carrying guns. They looked at the few people who had just climbed out of the ground with fierce and vigilant eyes until they saw them walk out of the door.

When the snow light pierced into the eyes that had been accustomed to the darkness, the numb expressions of the few people subconsciously closed their eyes. At the same time, the biting cold wind blew on the thin bodies, drilling into the blood and bones, as if it would freeze people into popsicles immediately.

They were passing through the bamboo corridor, and the slaughter house was next door. Looking up, you can see the white peaks, dense and colorful mutant plants covered with snow, heavy village buildings, and Jie people patrolling everywhere. With a whistle, a mutant bird passed by the sky above the village, causing the atmosphere of each sentry to be tense for a while, and it was not until the bird left that it returned to normal.

There are not many people in the village, but there are not few either. Combining the memory of when I first came here, plus the attention I paid to the few times I was taken out later, it can be judged that there are about thirty people, no more. No matter how fierce the Jie people are, they will not give any preferential treatment in front of the zombie mutation. But they can clean up the tribesmen who have become zombies, and fight against the mutant plants to save the village. These two points are enough for them to be proud of.

"How many times have I told you to give them more clothes, do you want to eat a mouthful of frozen dead meat?" A man wearing a fur hat opened the door to let them in, complaining to the two people who escorted them over.

"Do you want to give them a few more quilts and light two fires?" An escort mocked impatiently.

"You know that few of these pigs are good people who can survive until now. We should reduce their mobility as much as possible." Another person's tone was gentler.

The man in the fur hat made a sound, obviously not taking their caution seriously, but he did not continue the topic. Instead, he pointed at Routa Chen and said, "Let's get this fat one first." He turned and walked into the room, muttering, "It's a miracle that they can get fatter and fatter like this." When Routa Chen

heard this, the flesh on his chin trembled. He was scared and depressed at the same time. He couldn't afford to gain weight even by drinking water. Although the living conditions were bad and he was in fear all the time, he had food to eat. He had food to eat, even if he was almost hungry, but he didn't have to move. He ate and slept, slept and ate. How could he not gain weight? And... it seemed that his stomach was very adapted to the mutant plants.

"Cut more... I really want to kill it directly and eat it to my heart's content! Only one or two slices each time, not enough to fill the gaps between my teeth." The escort with a bad tone nodded in response, but couldn't help complaining, drove everyone into the house, and slammed the door shut.

"Why are you in a hurry? There will be new pigs coming into the pen soon, and we will kill them then." The butcher who had already walked into the inner room poked his head out and grinned.

Upon hearing this, the escort who put his gun on his back and took out the black cloth to cover the meat tower Chen looked up in surprise: "When did it happen? Why haven't I heard about it? How is the stuff?"

The other one who was holding a gun against everyone was also slightly distracted.

This is the time. Xu Jing, who had originally looked dull and numb, had a gleam in her eyes, and suddenly shouted: "Do it!" Before she finished speaking, the sharp stone in her palm was thrown out like a dart, straight across the butcher's neck, and hit him.

At the same time, Routa Chen punched the escort holding the black scarf on the nose, and while his nose was sore and his eyes were dizzy, he punched him in the stomach with another punch, then hugged the man who was caught off guard and bent over his nose reflexively in pain, and rolled to the ground, forgetting the existence of the stone, and punched him again and again. On the other side, Jie Chen also pounced on the gunman closest to him.

Bang! With a gunshot, Xu Jing, who was dragging the heavy chain and trying to run over after getting rid of the knifeman, changed her face slightly. Routa Chen's punch paused, and then suddenly screamed, and his fists fell like raindrops, like crazy.

Jie Chen was pushed back two steps by the momentum. He felt as if there was a hole in his chest, which seemed to be a little painful, but it seemed that he didn't feel anything. Blood rushed to his throat through the trachea. Routa Chen's roar full of anger and despair rang in his ears. He felt that it was over. Such a loud roar would definitely attract many people, but before that, he thought he should complete his task. If they were fast enough, maybe Xu Jing and Routa Chen could still escape. So he tried to control his retreat. Before the second shot was fired, the stone shard scratched the wrist of the man who fired hastily, once, twice...

When Routa Chen was kicked away and fell to the ground, he finally woke up and saw the bloody body of the Jie people in front of him. Not far away, Jie Chen, who was hugged by Xu Jing, was spitting blood foam from his mouth. His chest was pressed tightly by a piece of rag, but blood was still seeping out. Next to them, the gunman was being bitten frantically by the two "pigs" who came out with them, and he had completely lost the ability to resist.

"Idiot, what are you doing! Find the key!" Xu Jing tore a piece of cloth from the corpse and quickly wrapped Jie Chen's gunshot wound on his chest. She picked up the gun that had fallen to the side and growled at Routa Chen, who was still sitting on the ground in a daze.

There were gunshots and shouts, and he still lingered. Xu Jing felt that she was almost as stupid as a pig in the cage. However, looking at the fake monk who was only breathing out but not breathing in but still smiling at her, she felt that her legs were too heavy to move. But what made her feel even more weird was that no one came over despite such a loud noise. This was completely unreasonable.

"Key? Oh, yes, the key... Little monk, hold on to me, little monk, you are not allowed to die... Key... Where is the key..." The frightened meat tower Chen came to his senses, and while peeing, he frantically searched for the corpses around him.

Seeing him groping around like a headless fly, Xu Jing did not scold him as before, but sat back on the floor, holding Jie Chen in one hand and pointing the gun at the door with the other. She was never afraid of death.

"Found it! Found it... Little monk, hold on... Hold on... It will be fine soon, it will be fine soon..." Routa Chen finally touched the bunch of keys, and even forgot to open his own chain, and ran over here. As a result, because his legs were weak and the chain was too heavy, he tripped and fell to the ground, shaking the bamboo floor. He didn't feel any pain, so he simply didn't get up, and crawled over with his hands and feet, and then began to look for the key to open the chain for Jie Chen, but because his hands were shaking so badly, he couldn't even insert the key into the hole.

"Don't... cough cough..." Jie Chen grinned, wanting to tell Fatty not to worry, but he started coughing violently as soon as he opened his mouth, and blood and lung fragments spurted out of his mouth with choking coughs, scaring Routa Chen so much that tears fell even harder, and there was no way he could find the keyhole.

Xu Jing couldn't stand it anymore, so she grabbed the key and found the right one in a few seconds. She opened Jie Chen's door, then her own. When she was about to open Routa Chen's door, she heard footsteps outside. She looked stern, threw the key to Routa Chen, and raised the muzzle of the gun she had not put down when unlocking the door a few centimeters, alert.

The door was kicked open with a bang, and the door hit the wall and bounced back, but it did not prevent Xu Jing from seeing the two men standing outside. There was no gun, no one else, she breathed a sigh of relief, but she did not let down her guard. As long as the other party showed a little hostility, her bullets would be fired.

However, the next second, she heard Routa Chen's heart-wrenching howl. She turned pale and thought the fake monk had died. But after howling for a few times, she heard Routa Chen crying with joy: "Brother Yi... Brother Shao? Brother Shao, help me... Brother Shao, help me!"

It turned out that the two people knew each other, and they were Zhang Yi and Nan Shao, whose ears had been callused by Routa Chen.

——

At this time, half a month had passed since Zhang Yi and his team arrived in Ronghe County. During this half month, they successfully found the air-raid shelter on the hillside behind the county government, which was covered by mutant plants. The situation in the cave was just as rumored. The space was large and extremely strong. Even trucks could drive in through the entrance. It could accommodate about 20,000 to 30,000 people. In the innermost part of the cave, there was indeed a wall sealed with cement bricks.

After breaking through the brick wall, there was a huge natural cave behind it. It was infinitely deep, with many branches and a maze-like shape. Throwing 20 or 30 people in it was like rolling a few broken stones into a pit. They disappeared in a blink of an eye. If they were attacked by mutant animals or people, it would be a good place to hide. Of course, the premise is to first find out the twists and turns inside, at least don't get yourself stuck in it.

Therefore, in the next few days, they were divided into two groups, one group collected various supplies nearby, and the other group went into the natural cave to explore, and slept in the guesthouse near the government compound at night. It was not until they were completely sure that there was no danger in the cave and there were other exits that they really decided to move in.

Building a shelter is not a matter of one or two days. Zhang Yi always thought about the Xiaojie Village he passed by on the way. Therefore, after the initial defense of the shelter was built, he and Nan Shao decided to take a few days to go to Xiaojie Village to investigate. Because Rong County was trapped by mutant plants, there might not be many people who survived before the rainstorm, so they could still find a lot of gasoline, and the car parked outside the poisonous skin thorn tree came in handy

. Even if the two people's current abilities are not the best among the survivors, they are not bad. Unless they encounter a species that is too fast to be seen by the naked eye or whose skin is so thick that ordinary weapons cannot damage it at all, the two of them can still fight. There were some troubles on the road, but it was common for them, and they arrived at Xiaojie Village smoothly without any trouble.

What surprised them was that there were indeed survivors in Xiaojie Village. When the people in Xiaojie Village saw that there were only two of them, and both of them were unawakened, they were also very surprised, because they had not caught a new source of meat for two or three months.

Chapter 135

: Surprise turns to shock when meeting an old friend. Facing two non-awakened people, the Jie people didn't even have time to act. As soon as Zhang Yi and his companions entered the village gate, they were immediately held hostage by a row of black gun barrels. Then, without even a moment's delay, they were locked in the pigsty under the bamboo building and became meat pigs. They had to be thankful that for the people they had just captured, the Jie people always liked to scare them out of their wits before slowly taking their meat. Otherwise, it would not be easy to escape from a row of gun barrels. After all, Nan Shao's ability was not strong enough to knock down several people at once. Another lucky thing was that they were locked up in the room where Routa Chen and his friends were, so they met little Pei Yuan. Pei Yuan was surprised and happy, and he didn't have time to tell them the cause and effect, or talk about the separation. He only briefly told them that Routa Chen and his two friends were going to take action, and they had to escape quickly.

The weapons that Nan Shao and Zhang Yi brought were naturally taken away, and even their clothes were stripped off, but no one noticed the ring made of thin iron wire on Zhang Yi's index finger. This ring did not have any special meaning, but sometimes when they needed to open the lock, they had to look for tools everywhere. After a few times, Zhang Yi got annoyed. After using it once, he directly wrapped the iron wire around his middle finger. Originally, it was for convenience and trouble, but he didn't expect it to come in handy here. It

was not difficult for Zhang Yi to open the lock in the dark, but it took them a lot of effort to leave the pigpen. Making a sound to attract the Jie people guarding outside to open the entrance and check, killing people, seizing guns, cleaning... In a series of actions, Nan Shao's ability played a key role. Otherwise, even if Zhang Yi could open the lock, when they went out, Routa Chen and the other two would probably have been swept into a sieve by the Jie people who rushed over after hearing the sound, not to mention saving the little monk.

"You are good, much better than the fat man!" Xu Jing, who successfully killed one person with a sniper rifle, turned her head and glanced at Zhang Yi who was holding a submachine gun to suppress the opponent's firepower, and said. Because the people in Jiezhai were all rookies with guns, after she fired a shot, she just lowered her body without even moving her position, not worrying that the other party's random bullets would hit her.

Zhang Yi knew how to use a gun, but he had not received special sniper training, so after picking up the sniper rifle, he gave it to the woman who could fully utilize it. For him, the submachine gun was easier to use. Hearing her praise, he just smiled and said nothing.

Behind them, Nan Shao was stabilizing the vitality of the little monk. Fortunately, the man was close when he fired, and the bullet went straight through his right chest, and did not stay in the lungs, nor did it explode. Otherwise, even Nan Shao would not be able to take it out. In that case, even if he saved his life, he would still suffer a lot in the future. Next to them were Routa Chen and Pei Yuan, who also had guns but did not know how to use them at all.

"Of course, if I had brothers Yi and Shao as capable as I am, would I have been treated like a pig for so long?" Routa Chen replied. He did not think it was shameful to compare himself with Zhang Yinan and Shao. He even looked a little proud of himself, proud of having these two brothers. His unconditional and unreasonable trust in Zhang Yi was cultivated before the end of the world. When he saw the two of them just now, he cried like he saw his real father. After venting, he relaxed completely. He was no longer afraid or trembling. He even had the mood to mock Xu Jing secretly.

Ignoring Xu Jing's rolling eyes, he focused on Jie Chen's face. Seeing that it gradually became better, his heart, which had been tightly clenched, finally relaxed a little. After entering the end of the world, he was used to seeing life and death. He was in the vanguard team before, and later attacked the county town. There were many familiar people among the dead, and even some who had fought side by side. However, although he was sad, he had never been as sad as this time. Perhaps sharing hardships does make it easier for people to deepen their relationship. Not to mention Jie Chen and Xiao Peiyuan, who he had known for a long time, even Xu Jing, whom he met later, had completely regarded her as his own after this incident, and would not fight back no matter how hard she tried.

"Six." With the sound of a gunshot, Xu Jing raised a nonchalant smile at the corner of her lips and reported a number. There were only about thirty people in the entire Jie village. Apart from those who had been dealt with before, Zhang Yi had killed quite a few with his submachine gun. Adding those she had shot, there were not many left. The remaining people had obviously come to their senses and had found places to hide. They only needed to be dealt with slowly... one by one. Xu Jing had been holding her breath for too long. If she had not been careless at the beginning, she could have swept the entire small Jie village by herself. Even if there were many people with superpowers among them, she would not be afraid, and there was no need to endure so much humiliation.

Bang!

Another shot, just when Xu Jing counted to an integer, Nan Shao wiped the sweat from his head and looked at Zhang Yi: "Let's change places." The little monk's breathing has stabilized, and the next step is to rely on nursing. Of course, he can also make him completely well, but that will not be a short-term thing, and he must find a place to settle down first. There is blood and dead bodies here, and there are also several strings of pickled meat hanging inside. It is easy to imagine where the meat comes from, and it is not a place for people to stay.

Zhang Yi nodded slightly, "I'll go clear the way." Then he said to Xu Jing: "Please cover me." After getting Xu Jing's response, he stepped out of the door with a flash of his submachine gun.

"Fake monk, is he dead?" Xu Jing shouted while searching for suspicious targets with a scope.

"Don't worry, Sister Xu, Brother Shao is here, Brother Monk will not die." Pei Yuan has also recovered at this time, and he answered first with some excitement when he heard it.

Xu Jing didn't know how they got out yet. Hearing this, she thought Nan Shao had healing abilities. She heaved a sigh of relief and focused on protecting Zhang Yi, who had already swept the bamboo building and was now walking to the front yard. Then she heard someone behind her let out a long breath, and Jie Chen's voice rang out: "Amitabha, I'm dying of suffocation! Monks don't tell lies. Donor Xu, I've told you so many times that I'm a real monk, not a fake monk. Don't label me." He was able to say such a string of words in one breath. Although his tone was a little weak, it still made people feel that his condition was not too bad.

Xu Jing smiled and pulled the trigger. A person hiding behind the millstone just poked his head out and fell silently.

Even a person with superpowers is powerless in front of bullets. After all, the use of superpowers is limited by distance, and they can never catch up with the range of bullets. People with superpowers are not invulnerable to swords and guns. As long as they are not given the opportunity to get close, they will definitely be suppressed and beaten. Facing the Jie people who feed on humans, not to mention Xu Jing and others who have suffered greatly from them, even Zhang Yi will not show mercy.

"An AK47 and a Desert Eagle are missing." After counting the guns and ammunition retrieved from the dead and found in the warehouse, Xu Jing said, looking at Zhang Yi and Nan Shao with a heavy look.

At this time, they were staying in a bamboo building that had not been inhabited for a long time. There was a charcoal fire burning, and the house was warm. Although Jie Chen's vitality was stabilized, he was too seriously injured after all. He was placed on the bed and fell asleep soon. On the contrary, Routa Chen and Pei Yuan had been locked up for a long time and finally regained their freedom. So after they were sure they were safe, they immediately found some clothes to wrap themselves up, and then wandered up and down the bamboo building, which was both a way to be alert and to relax.

Nan Shao had used his supernatural power to deal with several people before, and then rescued Jie Chen. He was already exhausted at this time. Although he did not fall asleep on the bed like Jie Chen, he also took the crystal core and sat on the ground to absorb and replenish his supernatural power and physical strength, and ignored everything around him. Zhang Yi sat next to him, taking the knife he found in the warehouse and carefully examining it. His machete was lost, and he had to find a replacement as soon as possible. Although he had a gun, the bullets would run out sooner or later, and he could not rely on it after all.

Hearing Xu Jing's words, Zhang Yi paused and looked up: "Was he taken away? Or... did someone slip through the net?" At this point, his face changed slightly, and he stood up suddenly and walked to the door. When he saw Routa Chen and Pei Yuan lying on the bamboo railings of the aisle, paying attention to the surrounding situation and chatting, he breathed a sigh of relief and called them back.

"Don't be a living target." When Routa Chen asked why he called them back, Xu Jing answered. From her expression, it can be seen that she was very satisfied with Zhang Yi's reaction. However, with this simple sentence, he not only reacted to the deeper meaning of it at the first time, but also thought of the safety of the two people on guard outside. It can be seen that he is a man of affection, and Routa Chen has always been talking about it.

After understanding that two guns were missing, Routa Chen's originally somewhat nervous expression instantly relaxed, and he said, "I thought it was nothing, just two guns, maybe they fell somewhere, or maybe they were disassembled into parts by these bumpkins who have never seen a gun. We have searched this village from beginning to end, let alone a person, even a fly would not be missed. Don't scare yourself, you will scare your soul away..."

"It's rare that you can still maintain your innocence after suffering such a big loss." Xu Jing glanced at him lightly, smiling and saying.

Routa Chen thought it was a compliment at first, and couldn't help but laugh, but then he tasted the other meaning in the words, and couldn't help but grin, pretending not to hear it. A good man does not fight with a woman, this is his usual belief. Zhang Yi knows him very well, knowing that he looks careless and unreliable on the surface, but he is very meticulous in his heart. He said this just because he is used to talking down big things, not because he really doesn't care. How can a person who can get along well with all kinds of people be a person without a sense of crisis? Zhang Yi has known him for more than ten years, and he has fallen three times. The first time was when they first met, and the remaining two times happened after the end of the world. If the incident with Yu Baimei was because of the beauty of women, this time it was probably because he had just escaped death and saw his own kind, and subconsciously felt close to them, and ended up being tricked. I believe that after this time, he will be more cautious.

"Brother Yi, sister Muran's ability is for saving lives. Even if she is not doing well, she should be able to save her life. Don't worry too much." The two had a brief conversation when they were cleaning up the Jie village. Zhang Yi knew about the evil deeds of the Jie people, and Routa Chen also knew that Yangyang and Li Muran had not been found. Until this moment, Routa Chen had the opportunity to say words of comfort.

What he said was exactly the only hope left in Zhang Yi's heart, so Zhang Yi's solemn expression eased slightly after hearing that. Apart from anything else, just for the sake of his son, he also hoped that during the time they were apart, Li Muran would not only be safe, but also be able to master the use of her strange supernatural powers.

Chapter 136 Dilemma

When the fifth dispatched team also lost contact, Li Muran felt something was wrong. Long Xia didn't come back, and Xiao Sheng didn't come back either. She learned this news from the private discussions of the remaining people in the team. The atmosphere in the team was getting more and more depressing, and some people even began to be dissatisfied with Lin An. Li Muran did not have any ideas, but she did not know this person, and she found that Lin An was also very anxious, and his mouth was full of fire. Even when he was alone, his expression was solemn and worried, and he couldn't sleep all night. Such behavior made her feel guilty if she had the slightest doubt. But she still felt uneasy.

"It's just a small matter, why is it so serious? I'll tell you a fortune." She was worried about Song Yan's matter, and the sick ghost finally couldn't bear it. One day, he took out the black shell that Zhang Ruiyang and others had mentioned in a surprised tone, and spoke. After

getting along with each other for these days, even if Li Muran didn't deliberately observe, she could feel that the sick ghost was not an ordinary person. Apart from anything else, the fact that he hadn't eaten or drunk anything for a few days had once made her doubt whether he was a mutant zombie. Fortunately, he didn't eat humans either. What made people speechless was that he didn't seem to care at all whether others noticed this.

"No (pi)?" Before a response was given, the black shell had been thrown to the ground and split into several pieces, some large, some small, some on the surface, and some on the bottom. The sick ghost glanced at it casually and said lightly.

Is that all? Li Muran felt absurd, thinking that even if it was a charlatan, he would at least pretend to ask a few questions and repeat the divination several times before giving an answer. It was a bit... "What does it mean?" she asked. This person was too lazy to even be perfunctory to others, so why bother to tease her with divination? So no matter whether it was accurate or not, she had to appreciate it just for his good intentions.

"The villain's way grows, the gentleman's way disappears. We should be patient in everything." The sick ghost slowly picked up the black shell, rubbed it into a complete piece under the surprised eyes of several people nearby, then put it back into his pocket and answered concisely.

"How can I be patient?" Li Muran asked, feeling a little puzzled, she thought she had always been very patient. Well, what else can she do if she has no ability and can't be patient?

The sick ghost raised his eyelids and glanced at her, and said word by word: "Hold back, don't force yourself." He didn't know that there were several times when she almost couldn't help but tell Lin An about her special ability.

Li Muran was silent for a moment, thinking that instead of being so vague and completely confused, it would be better to ask directly, "I don't understand. Why?"

The sick ghost suddenly regretted asking for trouble, but since he had started, he might as well be a good person to the end. He just cursed impatiently: "Stupid! Your director was tricked by a villain, you should be careful and don't get yourself involved. If you want to save people, go and save them secretly by yourself, don't act as if you are afraid that others don't know." He didn't seriously analyze the meaning of the hexagram for her. In fact, for ordinary people, this must be a hexagram that can't be worse, but in his eyes, there is no good or bad hexagram, it just depends on how people think. Good times come after bad times, the way of heaven is unpredictable, but it will never leave people with no chance of survival. Although Song Yan's situation at this time was already as bad as it could be.

Li Muran was a little awkward for hearing the director as the master, but he quickly reacted and was quickly diverted by the shocking information revealed in the words of the sick ghost. He stammered, "You mean... you, you said Lin..."

"I didn't say anything." The sick ghost spread his hands and refused to say a word no matter how much Li Muran asked.

Li Muran wanted to tell herself that she was thinking too much. Maybe the sick ghost really didn't mean anything special, just asked her to be more cautious, but no matter what, she still had a thorn in her heart, and she put away her thoughts of relying on Lin An and the remaining members of the team to save people because of Song Yan's death. In this world, the only one you can rely on is yourself.

After a few days of training, Li Muran has understood his superpowers. The maximum number of times you can use it every day is five times, which includes the number of times you continue to use it after absorbing the crystal core to replenish your superpowers. After that, you need to stop and let your spirit recover. Because each time you use it, you not only consume a lot of superpowers, but also a lot of mental power. Superpowers can be replenished by corpse crystals, but mental power needs sleep and rest to recover. Therefore, the limit mentioned is actually the limit of mental power. In addition, you can bring people with you when using supernatural powers. This was proved when she brought Zhang Ruiyang and Dudu to Dongzhou. But now she tried again, but found that she could only bring one person at a time, and because of bringing people, the number of uses was reduced to two. She was a little confused. She didn't know whether it was because Dudu was not considered a person, so it didn't take up a quota, or because her ability was greatly reduced compared to when her potential was fully stimulated, just like she could only cross 20 kilometers. But in any case, even if it was only twice, it would play a big role. However

, the next headache was that if she went to save Song Yan, what would happen to the children? She was worried about leaving the children here, and she was even more worried that after she left, the sick ghost would... eat the children? Although she thought her idea was ridiculous, if the other party really had bad intentions, it would be enough for him not to take action when the domain beast attacked her. Why bother? But compared to hiding the children alone in a hidden and safe place and letting them stay with the sick ghost, she was indeed more worried. After all, this person was a mystery.

"What do you need me to do for you?" Thinking that the longer they delayed, the more disadvantageous the situation would be, Li Muran finally decided to find out the real intention of the sick ghost following him, and then decide what to do.

Hearing this, the sick ghost's eyes flashed with a look of insight. After a moment of silence, he did not continue to pretend to be mysterious: "I'm looking for something. I calculated that it is somewhere in the northwest. You take me there and help me find it."

It turns out that there are things you can't do. This was the first thought that came to Li Muran's mind when she heard it. At that time, she realized that she subconsciously regarded this sick man as omnipotent. Of course, she immediately laughed at this idea. He was not a god, so how could he be omnipotent.

"What is it?" She asked casually. Anyway, she would know sooner or later, so it shouldn't matter if she was told now.

"I don't know." The sick ghost gave her an unexpected answer.

Li Muran was entangled for a while, thinking that if this person had no good intentions, it would be too easy. Who would be stupid enough to believe such a ridiculous lie. But what made her even more depressed was that she was really stupid enough to control her desire to believe it. Perhaps it was because the sick ghost gave her the feeling that he didn't even bother to fool people.

"Then how do we start looking?" If she couldn't find it, would she have to follow him everywhere? She wasn't afraid of this. What she was afraid of was that she had no clue but had to do it, which would make people feel helpless and hopeless.

"I'll have my own way when the time comes." The sick ghost didn't want to talk much. He knew Li Muran's ability too well. If he wanted to go to the northwest, he didn't know when he would have to wait. It was too early to talk about this now. Fortunately, he had a lot of time and was not in a hurry.

"Do you want to find something? I can help you too. I'm the best at finding things. In the past, I helped my grandma find things that she had lost." The two of them were talking without carrying a few children. Zhang Ruiyang, who had been listening silently, suddenly raised his little hand and said very actively. After saying that, he blinked his big, pure black eyes, looked at the sick ghost with some hesitation and hope, and whispered tentatively: "But, Uncle Sick, can you find Dad first?" As if afraid of being rejected, he quickly added: "Then you can ask Dad, Uncle Pumpkin, and Uncle Fat to help you find it."

The sick ghost looked at the little guy expressionlessly, and after a while, he slowly replied: "No delay." Of course, he had to solve those chores first before the woman could concentrate on helping him. He could still wait for this little bit of time.

What? Zhang Ruiyang was a little dumbfounded. He didn't understand whether this was an agreement or not, but he was afraid that if he asked again, Uncle Sick would be angry. While he was struggling, he felt someone touching his head, and Li Muran's voice rang in his ears: "Uncle Sick agreed." He immediately smiled happily, clenched his little fists and kept assuring the sick ghost: "Uncle Sick, I will definitely try very hard to help you find things."

The sick ghost naturally couldn't take the five-year-old's promise to heart. Moreover, even if other people wanted to help, it would be useless without Li Muran's ability to detect spirits.

This conversation obviously didn't help Li Muran to judge what to do. She also knew that she was at a loss when it came to these slightly complicated intrigues, so she decided to deal with it honestly. She put the three options she could think of in front of her, and then considered them over and over again, and finally chose the relatively safest one.

The first way was to hide the children in a place no one knew, regardless of whether the sick ghost minded or not, until she rescued the people and then went to find them, but if she couldn't come back, or if some mutant creatures suddenly attacked them, what would they do? The second way was to let the children stay with the sick ghost. The question that needed to be considered here was what the sick ghost was, whether what he said was true, and whether he had ulterior motives; the third way was to hand the children over to Lin An and ask him to take care of them, but compared to Lin An, she seemed more willing to believe the sick ghost. In fact, she was worried no matter which one she chose, but she really couldn't think of any other way, and saving people was imperative.

If it were a man, he would definitely think that she was thinking too much and worrying about nothing. Not to mention other things, even if Lin An really had bad intentions, as long as Li Muran prepared enough food and water before leaving and let the children stay in the house honestly, Lin An would not be idle enough to pay attention to them, let alone the sick ghost who could slap her to death.

However, caring too much will lead to confusion, and Li Muran has suffered losses before, so she wanted to find a foolproof way to ensure the safety of the children. But there is nothing in the world that is foolproof. Therefore, although she was fussy and tangled in her heart, she finally made a decision as soon as possible and chose the second method, entrusting the children to the sick ghost. Maybe... or she could try to trust the sick ghost.

Chapter 137 Prepare to rescue people

"One month." The sick ghost did not find an excuse to refuse, but gave a deadline.

"Enough, enough." Li Muran was stunned for a moment, then understood and agreed.

Since the matter was settled, she no longer looked back and forth. The next two days were to prepare enough food and water for the children to last for a month. Although she felt that it should not take so much time, it was always right to be more relaxed. Before leaving, she called Fu Dan's children aside and told them to find a way to escape and hide when they saw that the situation was not right. She would find a way to find them when she came back.

Fu Dan and Li Yuanzhuo listened carefully and solemnly. They obviously guessed her concerns, but Wu Ziran and Zhang Ruiyang looked confused. Zhang Ruiyang was okay. He would agree even if he didn't understand. Wu Ziran wanted to ask why several times, but was stopped by Fu Dan's glare.

"But why? Uncle Bing is not a bad person. Right, Yangyang." Wu Ziran finally asked until Li Muran left, not forgetting to make an alliance.

Zhang Ruiyang nodded heavily to show his respect, "Yeah, Uncle Bing is a very good person." But this was obviously not the focus of his attention. What he cared about was: "When will Auntie come back?" He didn't think that Li Muran would not come back, but since landing in the Dongzhou base, this was the first time he was separated from Li Muran, and he felt a little uncomfortable.

Wu Ziran was obviously also worried about this problem, and his attention was immediately diverted, and he started to worry with him. Li Yuanzhuo smiled at Fu Dan and suddenly found a way to deal with all kinds of stupid questions from this little girl. But Fu Dan felt heavy-hearted. You know, from this moment on, he will take on the burden of protecting his younger brothers and sisters, and he can no longer rely on Li Muran like he did when he was there. Even if Li Muran didn't tell him in advance, he knew that neither the people in the team nor the sick ghost were enough to rely on.

However, no one could have imagined that on the day Li Muran left, Bing Gui made a fortune telling and asked the children to pack up their things. He then led them to quietly leave the factory where the motorcade was located and headed for the center of Xiling City. No one knew how to drive, so they had to walk. This group of small and sick people walking on the road was a wonder.

"Why are you leaving? What if Sister Muran comes back and can't find us?" Fu Dan was obviously reluctant, but he remembered Li Muran's words that they should follow Bing Gui, so he could only keep following Bing Gui and asking questions, not even caring about his awe.

"When she comes back, I'll ask you to pick her up." Bing Gui was annoyed by being scolded and finally gave an unfathomable answer.

"Uncle Bing, where are we going?" Fu Dan had just calmed down when Zhang Ruiyang came over with Dudu in his arms. The difference was that there was no worry or suspicion like Fu Dan on that cat-like face, but full of trust.

The sick ghost looked down at the little guy and thought that he was quite interesting. He had the rare intention of teasing him: "I heard that the zombies of Xiling like children very much. I want to give you to me in exchange for delicious food."

Zhang Ruiyang was a little dumbfounded. He opened his mouth but couldn't make a sound. He thought blankly for a while, shook his head, and asked in confusion: "I don't understand, what are you talking about, Uncle Sick?"

Fu Dan laughed out loud, and the worries in his heart disappeared immediately. This person didn't even eat anything, and he exchanged for delicious food. If he said that he was going to find a place where no one was, he might believe it. It must be said that the boy didn't follow Li Muran for so long in vain. The two of them had surprisingly consistent views on the sick ghost. Moreover, what made the boy speechless was that this person was actually a little humorous, which was really beyond his cognition.

The sick ghost coughed twice, and the idea of ​​​​joking ended here, and he stopped talking, not minding that this teasing was not successful due to the language problem. He was known for his strange temper, and his attitude towards Zhang Ruiyang was considered good, probably due to the child's disrespectful and fearless attitude of being close to him.

But he dropped the topic after he started it, and Fu Dan could not ignore Yangyang's big eyes that were eager to learn, as well as Li Yuanzhuo and Wu Ziran's questioning eyes.

"Uncle Bing said he would take us to Xiling City to exchange food with zombies." He had good grades in Chinese and could still understand it roughly. It's just that I think Uncle Bing's humor is as peculiar as he is.

After listening, Li Yuanzhuo looked at the sickly figure walking in front of him who seemed to be blown away by the wind at any time, and then looked at the gloomy sky speechlessly, pretending that he had heard nothing. Wu Ziran had already burst into tears, stretched out his hand to grab Fu Dan's sleeve and dragged him back: "Why should we go with him... wuwu... I won't go... Ah Dan, let's not go..."

Zhang Ruiyang looked at this and that stupidly, and after a long while, he whispered: "But I think the sick uncle is telling a joke." At this point, he chuckled twice in support, "It's so funny!" It's not known whether he was funny because of the joke, or because his sister was scared and cried because of the joke.

Being laughed at by a much younger child, Wu Ziran stopped crying immediately, but he just flattened his mouth and looked at his friends with tears in his eyes, which was really pitiful. Li Yuanzhuo and Fu Dan couldn't help but turn their heads and laugh, thinking that Zhang Ruiyang was really a killer against Wu Ziran, a crybaby. The

originally tense and uneasy atmosphere was disturbed by this, and it couldn't help but relax a lot. If it weren't for the deserted road and no one around, it would have seemed like a trip.

——It

was midnight when Li Muran arrived at the Dongzhou base. After using her superpowers five times in a row, she smeared some domain beast skin and bone ointment on her body, and then found a relatively safe place to sleep for a few hours. After waking up, she continued to rush to the Dongzhou base. On the way, she spent almost no time except sleeping to replenish her mental power and absorbing crystal cores to replenish her superpowers. However, when she arrived a few kilometers away from the Dongzhou base, she did not go directly into the base to rescue people, but stopped at an abandoned house. First, the distance from Xiling to the Dongzhou base was more than 200 kilometers. She was in such a hurry that her mental power had reached its limit and her superpowers could no longer be used. In addition, she had to find out the situation inside the Dongzhou base and the location of Song Yan. More haste makes waste. Although she wanted to save people, she didn't want to get herself into trouble.

After eating two dry biscuits prepared before leaving, and then smearing some domain skin and bone ointment, Li Muran fell asleep. This place is not like the place where they rested last time. Because it is too close to the Dongzhou base, everything in the house that can be used has been searched away. Even the wooden bed frame, chairs and floors have been chopped or dug up to make fuel. Only some unwanted things such as TVs, washing machines and refrigerators are left, which look cold. Li Muran can only sleep on the ground directly. He dare not start a fire. Not long after, he was awakened by the cold again. Fortunately, she is a superpower. If it were an unawakened person, he would probably have frozen to death.

After the rainstorm, it gets dark early and gets light late. She walked to the window and looked outside. It was pitch black. Without a watch, she couldn't tell what time it was or how long it would take until dawn. But she was really too cold to sleep. She could only take out the crystal core she got from hunting corpses a few days ago to replenish her superpowers that had not yet fully recovered. After absorbing three crystal cores and her superpowers were full, it was still dark. Her mental strength had recovered a little, so she began to detect the situation in the Dongzhou base and its surroundings.

At this time, most people were still asleep. Compared with the survivors outside the base who were like frightened birds, jumping up at the sound of a noise, the survivors in the base slept more peacefully after a day of hard work. The tall city walls and the armed soldiers guarding the city were their guarantee of peace of mind. This was the main reason why people were trying their best to squeeze in. People like Li Muran and Huang Hai who went out either couldn't survive in the base or had other ideas. After all, only one out of a hundred was left.

The night was very quiet, as if a huge monster had swallowed up all the sounds. The jungle was vast, with nocturnal creatures shuttling through it. Mutated plants lazily digested the prey caught during the day, and the extended branches and roots slowly engulfed human civilization.

Villages, factories, bridges... without the hustle and bustle of the past, like a dead zone, occasionally a figure appeared, making people disappointed and sad after the excitement, because no one could wander around in a place full of mutant plants at night without fatigue or fear. Maybe they were once human, but that was a long time ago.

Even though it was not the first time that she used her mental power to sense everything around her, Li Muran still felt palpitations and trembling at the feeling of looking down on or even controlling the whole world. She calmed herself down and focused her attention on the direction of the base. She crossed the patrolled high wall, swept into the city with quaint buildings, and headed straight for the upper third district.

Li Muran did not know where Song Yan lived, so she could only take a stupid approach and prepare to search one house after another. However, it was as if God saw that she was sincere and pointed her a clear path. A large house with bright lights and people walking around broke into her perception range. Like moths, people also have a tendency to move towards light. Even though Li Muran's mental power detection was not affected by the night, she was still attracted to it involuntarily.

It was not yet dawn, but the postures of those people seemed to have never relaxed their vigilance at night. The defense was so tight that it was impossible not to wonder if there were any important people or things in the house. Li Muran was refreshed and peeked inside silently. Passing the screen wall, entering the hanging flower gate, and walking through the eaves corridor, she looked for the most heavily guarded place.

However, when her mental power entered the closed door, she was surprised to find that there was nothing inside. There was really nothing, including furniture. The emptiness inside formed a sharp contrast with the tight defense outside, which made people feel weird.

Could it be that they were deliberately setting up a trap to lure Director Song's men into a trap? Li Muran had a trace of doubt in her heart. Her mental power lingered in the empty house for a long time, but she was always unwilling to leave like this. She knew that her brain was not smart enough, so when she needed to make a judgment but could not analyze the twists and turns and make a decision, she always relied on her intuition.

She thought this place was very strange. Even if she wanted to perform the empty city plan, there was no need to clear out all the furniture. Unless, there was no furniture in the first place. But this was very different from other rooms she had scanned before. You know, even if no one lived in those rooms, there would be antique furniture and furnishings. It was completely different from here where there was no place for even a fly to rest. It seemed too abrupt in the whole house.

However, after carefully checking the whole room from top to bottom several times, she did not find anything unusual. Time cannot be wasted here forever. Just when she decided to search somewhere else first and come back if she found nothing, the floor of the room suddenly moved.

Li Muran was caught off guard and was startled. She quickly retracted her mental power. She thought it was an earthquake and was about to rush out, but she found that there was no shaking. She was stunned and felt it carefully. It was true that there was no shaking. She immediately thought that there was something wrong with the floor of that room and quickly extended her mental power over there.

The mental power was retracted and released in a blink of an eye, so when she returned to the room again, the ground was still slowly opening up to both sides, revealing a concrete staircase leading to the bottom at an angle. After a while, the floor stopped shaking, and two people in white coats walked out from inside, talking and laughing as they walked out, and the ground slowly closed behind them.

Li Muran was so shocked that she could almost fit an egg in her mouth. She didn't care about the two people who left, and directly probed her mental power underground.

Then, she saw Song Yan.

Chapter 138 A Thrilling Moment

In Song Yan's plan, it was a sure thing for the entire convoy to leave the base. He used a fake and real injury to expose the spies planted by other forces, and at the same time eliminated the wavering people, and finally evacuated in three batches.

The first batch was Xiao Sheng, Long Xia and others, and their loyalty was beyond doubt. As for the corpse-luring team, loyalty was naturally not in his consideration. He just took them out with the mentality of protecting his weak men. As for their wishes, he really didn't have time to think about it. The main purpose of this group of people was to clear the obstacles on the road and arrive at their place of residence first to arrange everything, so as to prepare for the smooth retreat of the next two groups. Because of the small number of people, it would not attract the attention of the base.

The second batch was those who were withdrawn. He did not inform these people of their departure in advance, but asked several leaders in the convoy who could represent him to lead the team to leave directly when they went out to clean up the mutant creatures and zombies around the base. This time was set two days after Xiao Sheng and others left. Because the incident happened suddenly, many people were caught off guard, and those who hesitated would be left behind. This is the personnel filtering. Although it is not guaranteed that the spies can be completely eliminated, at least those fence-sitters can be cleared out, and at the same time, the burden on the convoy can be reduced a lot. There are too many people, and it is really not suitable for long-distance travel.

The third group is Song Yan himself, his personal bodyguard Yun Ze, and a dozen of his most capable subordinates, as well as Su Hui and his mother and son. The reason why he left last was to contain Wei Jingchi, so that he would be afraid and dare not let go to chase the retreating people. Naturally, it is time for him to officially show up at this time, so that Wei Jingchi and the major forces know that he is really fine as the rumors have been released before, and he is not dead, and it is not the turn of his subordinates to make decisions. At the same time, it also makes those who are shaken and did not leave in time have more concerns before completely betraying their master. These people can also form a certain restraining effect on Wei Jingchi. As for how he is going to leave? Just kidding, of course he will walk out swaggeringly. He is not a prisoner, nor is he Wei Jingchi's subordinate. Who dares to control him? Want to cause dissatisfaction among other forces? Once he steps out of the gate of the base, Wei Jingchi can't do anything to him. You have to know that the two groups of people he left before were not for show. Even if Wei Jingchi regretted and wanted to hunt them down, he had to think about whether there was an ambush.

Everything was planned well, and even where there might be loopholes and accidents, they were repeatedly scrutinized and considered again and again, and the remedies were determined before they were finalized. It's a pity that he didn't expect Lin An to appear after all his calculations.

In a person's life, there are always three or two close friends who can be trusted with their backs. For Yu Songyan, Lin An is one of them. The two met in high school, went to the same university, and have known each other for nearly 20 years. They fought together, chased the same woman, and even shared their first love and the feeling of going to bed with a woman for the first time. Although they are not childhood friends, they are not much different in terms of feelings. Even after they fell in love with Su Hui at the same time, the two never blushed. In his opinion, it's nothing to compete openly and honestly, and if you lose, you lose. He did not feel alienated from Lin An because of this, but because he did not want to cause misunderstanding, he gradually distanced himself from Su Hui. He could not let him say that he was willing to lose while he was having a hot affair with his friend's wife. He, Song Yan, was not the kind of person who liked to be half-hearted. Until the end of the world came, Su Hui brought his son to ask for help, and at that time he had to lend a hand.

People like him are generally not wrong in judging people, but once they are wrong, it means a huge disaster. It is normal for the worst to lose their lives, not to mention turning things around. But he could never have imagined that the only person he had misjudged was Lin An. Twenty years of the same old thing, what kind of mentality and endurance does it take to hide the real self without revealing any clues?

When Lin An came, he was ragged and looked down and out, and he looked like he was having a hard time. He said that he had no special powers and had been living in a small survivor settlement two or three hundred kilometers away from the Dongzhou base. Until this time, the zombies and mutants rioted and the small settlement was captured. He followed a group of survivors in the settlement and went through untold hardships to get to the Dongzhou base, and almost all the people who came with him died. After arriving at the base, he learned from the place where tasks and various messages were posted that Song Yan was looking for him, so he came to find him.

Song Yan had been looking for him, and was very happy to see him. Fortunately, he came in time, otherwise he would miss him again. How could he not think about it? After all, his wife and children were here. If he had known earlier, how could he not show up. A gentleman judges others by reason, and a villain judges others by himself. Song Yan is neither a gentleman nor a villain, but in Lin An's matter, he was a gentleman for once, but he didn't expect to fall into this trap.

It's really unpleasant to be stabbed in the back by someone who is regarded as a close friend! In a daze, this thought flashed through Song Yan's mind, followed by some fragmented images, and he found that his memory seemed a little confused. He knew that he was harmed by Lin An, but he couldn't remember the process. He only remembered that Lin An seemed to have a very strange ability and tried to control his consciousness. Although he didn't succeed, it damaged his mind and caused memory loss. He tried hard not to forget Lin An's ability. As for the others, he couldn't take care of them. He could only feel them gradually fading in his mind and turning into a blank. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't remember them, and then they jumped out again at a certain moment.

This is an underground research institute, which was obviously built before the end of the world. It is huge and well-equipped. It is hidden under the ancient building complex, so we know that the things studied in the past are also not allowed to see the light.

The institute was divided into several laboratories by glass. Song Yan could see people who were imprisoned like him in other laboratories by just turning his head slightly. Some were fixed on the laboratory table. Several researchers in white coats were surrounding them and doing something unknown. Blood was dripping down the table and onto the ground, which was bloody and dazzling. Some were injected with a tube of liquid medicine and soon their expressions became distorted and painful, violently hitting the glass of the laboratory with their bodies. In some compartments, human bodies that had been opened and lost their vitality lay quietly... There were many people in the institute, but because the soundproofing facilities were too good, Song Yan could not hear any sound at all, as if he had been forgotten by the whole world.

A needle pierced the blood vessels in his arm, and cold liquid was pushed in. Song Yan was awakened from his weak and drowsy feeling. A corner of white clothes swept past the corner of his eyes, and then there was the sound of the door being closed.

Soon, he felt a burning sensation in his body, and his muscles, bones, and internal organs seemed to be torn apart by something. He lay naked on the bed, but he did not feel the slightest bit of coldness. Even his forehead, chest, abdomen, and back were sweating. To prevent him from hurting himself, his limbs were fastened to the experimental bed with an extremely strong non-metallic ring, so he could not roll over and wail even if he wanted to.

His fingers loosened and clenched, he stared at the ceiling with his eyes wide open. In the hellish pain, he felt as if he had been here since birth, being used for various human experiments, and could not leave until he died; then he remembered that he had just come in and was harmed by Lin An, and he should find a way to escape and then take revenge; then Su Hui brought a bowl of hot soup noodles to him with a faint smile; then he saw Lin An gently narrating his full hatred for him... Even if the ugliest side of his heart was exposed, Lin An's eyes were still clear and upright, and his smile was still sincere and warm, as if he was really such a person.

So hateful! The picture in Song Yan's brain became chaotic again, making him almost crazy. The only thing that did not change was the hatred in his heart, the hatred that wanted to kill everything because of the physical pain and the betrayal by the person he trusted the most.

Li Muran suppressed her temper and observed for two days. While she was shocked and angry at the tragic scene in the underground research institute, she finally found a glimmer of opportunity. Whether it is day or night, there are researchers busy in the institute, but at eight o'clock in the morning, there is a gap of more than ten minutes. Just like the hospital inpatient department has a morning meeting every day, all researchers in the institute will also have a meeting in the morning. Li Muran can't hear the content of the meeting, but he guesses that it should be nothing more than reporting the progress and results of the experiment. This meeting usually lasts about forty minutes to an hour, but when the meeting is about ten minutes in, the person on duty will leave and inspect the various laboratories.

The meeting place is in the first meeting room down the stairs, separated from the laboratory inside. The wall is not made of glass, but of alloy that looks very solid. I don't know what the mentality of the builder is. Is he guilty, so he wants to leave an independent space where tense nerves can be relaxed temporarily. Li Muran naturally won't waste energy thinking about these insignificant things. She only knows that if she wants to save Director Song, she only has these ten minutes.

If she wants to make sure everything is foolproof, she should have observed him for a few more days, but Song Yan's condition is not very good. Those people will inject him with a drug every few hours. I don't know what harm it will do to his body, but looking at his expression that is sometimes drowsy and ignorant of the world and sometimes furious and twisted, I know that he is not a good person.

Because the time is short, all preparations must be done in advance, such as how to open the things that imprison Song Yan, and get a set of thick clothes, shoes and socks. There may be heating facilities in the laboratory. All experimental subjects are naked, and the researchers don't wear much. Let's not talk about the embarrassment. Even if Song Yan is smuggled out, no matter how healthy he is, he can't resist the severe cold naked.

In the morning, when it was slightly light, Li Muran confirmed for the last time that all the researchers in the laboratory had entered the conference room. He was holding a set of clean clothes stolen from a house in the upper third district, a pair of leather shoes in one hand, and a machete in the other. After positioning himself, he activated his supernatural power and appeared in the laboratory where Song Yan was in a blink of an eye.

Song Yan had just been injected, and he was changing from his previous drowsiness. His muscles were tense and bulging, one by one, as if they were about to burst through his skin, his blood vessels bulged, and blood and sweat were faintly oozing out of his bronze skin. He let out an uncontrollable low roar like a beast being injured. When he noticed that there was suddenly one more person in the laboratory, he suddenly turned his head and looked over, his eyes red and violent, like an evil ghost who wanted to choose someone to devour.

Li Muran's heart jumped, but she didn't care about being scared. She quickly put her clothes on his naked body, put down her shoes, and then made a silent gesture, whispering: "Director, it's me. I'll take you out."

Song Yan still stared at her fiercely. After a few seconds, a trace of confusion slowly appeared in his eyes. Then, whether it was because she was not the white coat that he often saw these days, or because he recognized her, the hostility in his eyes gradually subsided, but his guard remained unchanged.

Li Muran couldn't care so much. Even if he would hurt someone, she couldn't make this trip in vain. At least take the person out first. So she ran to the control console not far away, pressed the red button she had seen before, and the ring that imprisoned Song Yan's hands and feet was retracted under the experimental table.

She breathed a sigh of relief and was about to turn around when a shrill alarm suddenly rang in her ears, and her face changed drastically.

"Something's going on!" Nan Shao, who had exhausted his mental energy because of saving people, was pushed awake by Zhang Yi. At the same time, except for Jie Chen, the others also jumped up, quickly took a gun in their hands, and each found a place that was both concealed and suitable for observing the outside, squatting or standing, and carefully peeking out.

Under the dim light of dawn, countless humanoid creatures were walking towards the bamboo building where they were on the bluestone road in the village, which was full of traces of the vicissitudes of time. The nearest ones had already walked to the stone steps in front of the bamboo building. The slightly clumsy figures, the unhurried walking posture, and the increasingly strong stench all told them one fact.

Zombies. A lot of zombies.

Chapter 139 Dilemma (1)

"Damn it! Where did all these people come from?" Xu Jing had good eyesight and was the first to see clearly. She couldn't help but feel nervous and cursed. At a glance, there were at least thousands of them, and that was within her field of vision. There was no telling how many more there were in places she couldn't see. It was as if all the people in the village had gathered here.

"We're surrounded." Nan Shao walked to the other side of the room, looked out the window, and said calmly.

Xu Jing cursed, put down the sniper in her hand, turned around and went to get the assault rifle, reminding Routa Chen and Xiao Peiyuan: "You two, don't forget to pull the safety!"

"Got it, women are always nagging." Routa Chen muttered, and was kicked in the butt and almost fell out of the door. He turned his head angrily and met Xu Jing's fierce eyes. He swallowed his curses immediately, shrank his neck in frustration, made a zipper motion on his mouth with one hand, and then moved to the side, trying to stay away from the tigress.

In the shadow of dawn, Xu Jing's lips curled slightly, and without delay, she walked neatly to the place where the guns were piled up, picked up a submachine gun and an assault rifle, bent down and dragged a box of bullets to where she threw the sniper rifle.

Nan Shao and Zhang Yi saw this, called Routa Chen and Xiao Peiyuan together, moved all the guns and ammunition over, and then distributed them to everyone.

Xu Jing had a total of four boxes of bullets in her car, 3,000 rounds. For convenience, she chose bullets of the same specification that could be used for all the guns she carried. Although it might be inferior to special bullets in range and lethality, it could be ignored for a gun expert like Xu Jing. One box of bullets weighed nearly 100 kilograms, and no one knew how she got it into the car.

"My dear, big sister, where did you get all these good things from?" This question had been in Routa Chen's heart for a long time, but he didn't know Xu Jing well at the beginning, so he didn't ask. Later, he was treated as a pig and didn't have the heart to ask. At this time, he finally couldn't help it.

"I'm telling you, you can't get it. Even if you get it, you can't use it." Xu Jing glanced at him with contempt and answered lazily.

"You look down on me. Wait..." Routa Chen curled his lips and muttered unhappily.

"Is it okay?" On the other side, Zhang Yi asked Nan Shao while checking whether the magazine was feeding normally. The two had never discussed this issue before, and he didn't know whether Nan Shao could use a gun.

"I've practiced." Nan Shao picked up an assault rifle, pulled the safety off skillfully, leaned against his right shoulder and aimed outside, and smiled. Although the situation was very dangerous, he was not nervous. It seemed that as long as Zhang Yi was by his side, he would not feel anything to worry about even if the sky fell.

"Try not to use your superpowers." Zhang Yi handed him a knife that he had picked out yesterday, then patted him on the shoulder and said to be careful, then turned and walked to another window, squinting his eyes to carefully observe the situation outside. "How come so many zombies suddenly appeared?" He didn't think they were attracted. You have to know that the houses nearby are sparsely distributed except for the small Jie village. It is not easy to gather so many zombies at once. Compared with them, the ogres in the small Jie village are more in number. If they wanted to attract zombies, they should have been attracted long ago, not now.

"If it's not a mobile group of zombies... then it's very likely that they were attracted by humans." Nan Shao answered him.

"Damn! Brother Yi and Brother Shao, you don't have to guess, they are all Jie people." Routa Chen was very interested in guns. He was aiming at this and that, and suddenly he cursed.

In fact, he didn't need to say anything. As long as he looked a few more times, he could see that these zombies were abnormal. Unlike the zombies outside who had been exposed to the sun, rain, wind and snow, and whose clothes were all tattered and worse than beggars, these zombies were all dressed neatly, all in the formal attire that the Jie people would wear during major festivals. Although some of them were missing limbs and flesh, and their faces were rotten and mutilated, the clothes still gave people a very formal feeling. A creepy formality.

"How did they do that?" Xu Jing's eyes widened as she murmured to herself. The scene before her was completely beyond her cognition, and she couldn't help but feel a little numb.

No one could answer this question, and the most important thing for them at the moment was not to figure it out. There was no doubt that someone must have been behind this, so that so many Jie zombies suddenly rushed out to surround them. What they needed to consider now was how to solve the crisis in front of them.

Xu Jing brought a lot of bullets, but no one could guarantee that every shot would hit the target, especially when there were so many zombies. If it didn't hit the head, it would be a waste if it hit the body. Especially for novices like Routa Chen and Pei Yuan.

"It depends on the situation. The house will not be knocked down for the time being." Nan Shao lowered his head to confirm the solidity of the house. After all, they were in a bamboo building, not the usual reinforced concrete. What was a little lucky was that the root of the bamboo building was built with rocks, two and a half meters or nearly three meters high. The bottom was specially used for raising pigs. Routa Chen and his friends were lucky enough to live in it for a while, and they could guarantee that it was very solid. No matter whether they chiseled on the wall or dug from the ground

, they could not make a hole. "Then focus on dealing with the front." Zhang Yi said decisively, and at the same time made arrangements for Routa Chen and Pei Yuan: "You two come to me and A Shao with guns, pay attention to the zombies behind, and don't shoot as long as they can't climb up." The situation is different now, and it is better to save bullets as much as possible.

Few men don't like guns. Routa Chen and Pei Yuan were eager to try after getting the guns. They couldn't help showing disappointment when they heard it, but they didn't object. It was probably because they knew Zhang Yi's character very well and knew that he would not deliberately deprive them of the opportunity to use guns.

"Get to work, guys!" Zhang Yi's arrangement was just what Xu Jing wanted. She didn't want two rookies to waste bullets for her, so she greeted everyone in a good mood, and then said to Zhang Yi and Nan Shao: "I say you two, don't let me drive you to squat at the window." As she spoke, her finger pulled the trigger, and the bullet flew out, killing a zombie walking in the front, opening the prelude to the war.

The two people squatting at the window looked at her sadly, touched the gun in their hands, and sighed in their hearts. Just squat honestly.

Zhang Yi smiled slightly and didn't respond, but Nan Shao curled his lips without any smile: "You'd better pray that it's better not to be like that." If he and Zhang Yi were to be the same as Routa Chen, Xu Jing would definitely be the unlucky one.

Xu Jing's thin eyebrows twisted slightly, and she had to admit that what he said was true, although she didn't like him, because his fake smile made people feel very uncomfortable.

Bang! A zombie's head exploded, and it fell backwards due to the impact of the bullet, but was soon pushed to the ground by the zombies coming up from behind, and then stepped on.

Zhang Yi gave Nan Shao a thumbs up, and then, unwilling to be left behind, he fired a gun in his hand and killed one of them.

"Will the crystal core be broken?" He asked casually. After all, there was no time to care about so much at this time. Even if the crystal core was really broken, there was nothing to do. Zombies were still pouring in. I'm afraid that all the zombies in the village had come. I just don't know where they were hidden before.

"Brother Yi, don't worry, it won't be broken. Xu Jing got a big bag of crystal cores." It was Routa Chen who answered him. He and Pei Yuan saw them shooting heads one after another, and they were itching to death, so they said sourly, "It's a pity that she can't use it." Isn't it true? With Xu Jing's ability, if she wants supplies, she can go to the city to find them herself. She is not a superpower, and those crystal cores are collected purely as collections. This has to be said to be another kind of sadness.

"Some people can use it, but even if they do, they can't compare to me who doesn't use it." If they weren't far away, Xu Jing would have kicked him or slapped him, but now she didn't have the time to move, so she replied in a sarcastic tone. As she spoke, two more zombies fell down with two snaps.

Meat Tower Chen rolled his eyes, knowing that he couldn't compare to others in terms of hand skills or mouth skills, so of course he wouldn't be stupid enough to argue with her, but suddenly pointed outside and shouted: "Oh, they're climbing up... Climbing up! Watch me!" After shouting, he raised the gun in his hand and fired with a bang.

Pei Yuan was stunned for a moment, his eyes fell on the place where his gun was pointed. The zombie there was indeed stretching its hands upwards with its teeth and claws, but it didn't climb up. He instantly understood his idea, so he grinned silently and fired a shot.

"How is it?" Zhang Yi heard that both of them had fired, so he looked back.

Meat Tower Chen and Little Pei Yuan were rubbing their shoulders, which were numb from the recoil of the rifle, with their teeth bared. When they heard the question, they put down their hands and pretended to be nonchalant.

"It's okay, it's okay, we killed him. We are here, don't worry, Brother Yi!" Meat Tower Chen waved his hand and answered without turning his head. He also knew that as long as he turned his head, Zhang Yi would see his expression and would definitely find out that there was something wrong.

"Yes, yes." Pei Yuan nodded in agreement, but his face was thin and his ears were red. There were so many zombies below that any shot could hit them. At such a close distance, the two of them didn't see where their bullets fell.

Zhang Yi didn't say anything else. He was an experienced person, of course he knew the excitement and eagerness when he first got the gun. As long as the two of them did not lose their sense of proportion, he would turn a blind eye. It was Xu Jing who was more strange. She clearly heard the trick inside, but she rarely spoke out to expose it. So Jie Chen, who was lying on the thick mattress in the middle of the room, was envious. If he hadn't injured his chest and lungs, he would definitely be able to touch the gun, and he might be much better than Fatty and Xiaoyuan. After working together for a long time, he had already figured out Routa Chen's temper. He knew that if that guy really hit him, he would not just say it in a word, but would definitely nag and show off until your ears were numb.

With the sound of gunshots, the number of zombie bodies in the yard increased, but it did not affect the subsequent ones to continue to surge forward. Although these zombies were not conscious and did not know to drag the bodies aside to make way, the food was in front of them. As long as it was not an obstacle that could not be pushed down, it would not hinder their pace forward. They were not afraid of stepping on the corpses to move forward, so under this huge force that was unstoppable, the corpses of the zombies that fell in front were either trampled into meat paste or squeezed to the side, and then used as foot pads by the zombies that squeezed in from the side. Fortunately, under the strong fire blockade of the three people, no zombie could squeeze to the front of the stairs, giving them time to catch their breath. Thanks to the nearly meter-high platform, it was not easy for the zombies around to climb up. However, the zombies pouring out from the stone streets and alleys did not decrease at all, making them more and more nervous.

Chapter 140 Dilemma (2)

After Nan Shao changed two rounds of bullets, he stopped shooting and used his supernatural power to cover his eyes, slowly searching for something in the zombie group and the nearby village buildings. Because he stopped, Xu Jing and Zhang Yi were the only ones who could not stop the zombie group.

"Hey, are you lazy at this time? Are you kidding me?" After neatly killing a zombie that broke through the bullet blockade and was about to walk into the blind spot of vision, Xu Jing found out the reason and yelled at Nan Shao angrily.

Nan Shao did not answer, but Zhang Yi understood him and said without even turning his head: "A Shao is looking for any living people. There is no way that so many zombies can find this place without someone to lead them." No matter what, those living people are the biggest threat. It is impossible for the other side to stab them again before we have solved the problem here.

Xu Jing cast a strange glance at him and said nothing more. She knew from Routa Chen and the other two that Nan Shao had supernatural powers, and they were life supernatural powers. If there were any living things, they might not be able to escape his eyes.

"I wonder if those people left." Zhang Yi suddenly remembered the other people in the pigpen where Routa Chen and the others were imprisoned. Yesterday, after rescuing Routa Chen and the others and cleaning up the village, they did not forget to throw the keys they got to those people, and put down the ladders so that they could save themselves. But since then, they have not seen the shadows of those people. I don't know if they were imprisoned and didn't know how to escape, or if they had already left the Jie village.

"If they want to leave, they can leave naturally. If they don't want to leave, that's their own choice." Xu Jing didn't care about this question.

"Don't worry." Nan Shao distractedly comforted him briefly. He knew Zhang Yi too well. He was soft-hearted. In addition, his previous job made this man always subconsciously worry too much. But facing a group of people who didn't know how to save themselves or ask for help when opportunities were in front of them, there was really no need to waste sympathy. Before Zhang Yi could speak, he changed the subject: "There were no living people in the group of corpses, but at the highest point of the whole village, there were three people, one ordinary person and two people with superpowers. But what's a little strange is that the ordinary person's vitality is the strongest among the three."

Xu Jing was really surprised this time, or she even had some doubts in her heart. It was not that she doubted whether he really saw people, but that he was bragging because they were not superpowers. How could he recognize whether the other party had superpowers from a distance? This was too magical. Although there were many magical things that happened after the end of the world. Since she had this idea, her attitude towards Nan Shao seemed a little cold. She didn't hate people who boasted, like Routa Chen, but she hated people who still talked nonsense and deceived their comrades in this situation.

Nan Shao didn't care about other people's thoughts and attitudes. Since he was sure that no one would pose a threat to them for the time being, he naturally put all his energy on solving these zombies. When he found himself surrounded, he thought about whether he could escape. However, the bamboo buildings here were very far apart and built independently. There was no possibility of them connecting to each other. They also had to bring Jie Chen with them. It was too risky to fight their way out of the zombies. Unless they had to, they could not take this road. Now they could only use guns to kill most of them, and take advantage of the terrain to kill the rest at close range. As for how many zombies there were in the village, and whether they could survive with the strength of a few people, he did not think about it. Sometimes the more you think about it, the more frustrated and discouraged you will feel. It is better to fight first and see.

Time passed quickly with the sound of gunfire. There were already hundreds of zombies piled up in the yard. They could no longer be squeezed out of sight like at the beginning. So there were piles of zombies on the spacious courtyard, one on each side, and the stone-paved ground could no longer be seen. The crowded zombies and the dead bodies lying in all directions were a very creepy scene.

"You let a few zombies in, I'll take Xiao Chen to stretch his arms and legs. Pei Yuan, pay attention to the surrounding situation." Nearly half of the bullets have been used, but the number of zombies below has not decreased significantly. Zhang Yi rubbed his eyes, put down the gun, and said.

Xu Jing made an OK gesture. Nan Shao was a little reluctant. He really felt that the fat man was too stupid and not so reassuring. But Zhang Yi was the only one who went here. If he left again, Xu Jing might not be able to intercept so many zombies alone, so he responded reluctantly.

"You should do your best and don't drag down Ayi!" At the end, he did not forget to point his finger at Meat Tower Chen to warn him.

Meat Tower Chen was depressed, "Brother Shao, I haven't seen you for so long, why do you still look down on me? Okay, I know you are good friends with Brother Yi. Even if something happens to me, I will definitely not let anything happen to Brother Yi. Don't worry."

"Don't worry, we are at the stairs." Zhang Yi laughed, and when he passed by Nan Shao, he shook his outstretched hand tightly, both to reassure him and to encourage each other.

Xu Jing was watching from the side, and she always felt that something was not right between the two of them, as if they were too close. It was not a life-and-death separation, so what? In fact, to be honest, there was nothing wrong with the conversation between the two. Even close friends often showed care and encouragement. What made Xu Jing feel weird was the tenderness between the two, which made her think wrongly. It must be said that women's intuition in this regard is always very sharp. Fortunately, she is not a nosy person. Even if she felt something strange, she did not intend to delve into it or ask. The relationship has not reached that point, and asking too much will only make people disgusted, not to mention that she is not interested in other people's affairs.

Compared with a gun, Zhang Yi is obviously more comfortable with a knife. He and Routa Chen stood at the stairs, and Routa Chen had almost no chance to shoot. In the end, he simply let Routa Chen stand aside, and the two took turns, so that they could take a break. And sometimes when you can't take care of it, there will be someone to help you.

Even so, Nan Shao couldn't help but divide half of his attention to the other side, just in case he could help in time. So the firepower was weakened by Zhang Yi's departure, and with his distraction, the zombies that were originally blocked finally found an opportunity, broke through the blockade and rushed to the stairs. No matter how fast Xu Jing's gun was, it was impossible to make all the zombies fall down with a burst of shooting like a machine gun. If she had so many bullets to waste, Zhang Yi wouldn't have to restrain Routa Chen and Pei Yuan, let alone pick up a machete to fight in close combat. Seeing more and more zombies crowding upstairs, Xu Jing was angry again.

"Nan, if you want to die, don't drag others with you! Your woman is not over there, do you need to keep looking over there? Shit! Even if your woman is really over there, she will be killed by your absent-mindedness!"

Nan Shao also noticed the reversal of the situation below. Even if he was worried, he could only temporarily concentrate his attention and work with Xu Jing to cut off the flow of zombies rushing to the stairs. After nearly half an hour, the situation was under control again, so he finally had the mood to slowly reply to Xu Jing's words: "My man is over there."

"Ah?" After a round of rapid bullets and killing, Xu Jing had long forgotten what she said. She was stunned when she heard it, and suddenly reacted after a moment. Even with her calmness, she couldn't help but be confused. After saying "ah", she only uttered an "oh" and didn't say anything else.

Nan Shao hooked his lips, but didn't care. He just enjoyed the process of saying this. Zhang Yi is his man, he is Zhang Yi's man, and this must be made known to everyone who deals with them, so that they don't have any thoughts when they see Zhang Yi.

Using a gun for a long time will not only cause a great burden on the ears, arms and shoulders, but also be like using a knife for a long time, because the mechanical repetition of a certain action will make the mind numb, and the nerves will be tense for a long time, which can easily lead to collapse. In order to minimize this negative impact and give full play to the maximum combat effectiveness of each person as much as possible, together with Xiao Peiyuan, several people took turns to form a team to fight the zombies in close combat. Later, as the number of bullets became less and less, the focus of clearing the zombies has shifted to the entrance of the corridor.

In the yard, at the entrance of the corridor, and under the courtyard, the corpses have gradually piled up into a mountain, and the zombies are still climbing over the mountain of corpses to the bamboo building, although not fast. Whether it is Xu Jing or Zhang Yinan Shao, in addition to physical fatigue, they also feel a kind of fatigue from the heart, not to mention Pei Yuan and Routa Chen, who have a slightly lower stress resistance. Only Jie Chen is not affected. He lies on the floor of the bamboo building alone, looking at the roof with intertwined bamboo branches, chanting the Buddha's name again and again. I don't know if he is praying for the Buddha's blessing for everyone, or for the salvation of the zombies who have died once and have to die again.

How many people are there in Xiaojie Village? The five people who were almost losing their minds from killing regretted for the first time that they had not made a deeper understanding of the Jie people except for their violent impression.

"The bullets are almost used up." Xu Jing said, except that her eyes were red and her arm holding the gun was a little stiff, her tone was still so calm.

It was getting dark. Fortunately, when the situation was not the most serious in the morning, they each took the time to drink some water and eat something. After noon, they were completely unable to get away.

With three thousand bullets, even a gun god might not be able to guarantee that every bullet would hit the zombie's head in the case of continuous shooting. With a combination like Nan Shao, an average of one zombie can be killed for every three bullets, which is considered good. Of course, it is more likely that this ratio has not been reached. In addition to the close-range slashing later, the number of zombies they killed that day should be no less than a thousand. But it is obvious that there are more than a thousand people in Xiaojie Village, more than two thousand, maybe three thousand, maybe four thousand, or even tens of thousands, who knows. They only knew that the number of zombies pouring out of the stone streets and alleys had not decreased, and the piled corpses under the front yard of the bamboo building had gradually filled the height difference. Later zombies no longer needed to go through the stone steps and bamboo ladders to directly climb up the yard and climb up the bamboo building. Zombies poured in from all directions, and they could no longer be stopped by just a few people.

"Retreat!" Zhang Yi said decisively.

As this word fell, Xu Jing stopped shooting, picked up two rifles with bullets, and quickly retreated into the door. The other people who were blocking the zombies outside also began to retreat in turn. Zhang Yi and Nan Shao were the last to retreat. As soon as the two stepped into the door, Pei Yuan and Xu Jing quickly blocked the door from both sides, and Meat Tower Chen pushed the heavy old wooden box in the room over. Several people worked together to close the doors and windows tightly, but did not stop. Instead, they chopped the zombies that they had dragged back into pieces and threw them all over the house. Then they quickly and orderly went down to the pigsty with an entrance on the side of the house, and pressed one or two mutilated corpses on the lid, and closed the lid from the inside. After they were on solid ground, they pulled out the stairs.