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Chapter 221

It was too fast to see Nan Shao! Before the man and the bug could react, the monster had already run half the distance. Seeing that it was about to approach, Dudu finally woke up, screamed, and turned around and ran. While running, he felt a dull pain in his buttocks, and couldn't help but try to fly higher to avoid being bitten again.

"Ah, the monster runs so fast! Dudu, hurry up, we're going to be caught!" Zhang Ruiyang kept looking back, looking at the mutant lion-crocodile beast getting closer and closer, his little face turned pale. He always thought that Dudu flew very fast, and nothing could compare to it. Who would have thought that the big monster was so fat, had no wings, and dragged a long, clumsy and heavy tail to run faster than Dudu.

And even more terrifying things are still to come. It turned out that although Dudu was not flying very high, it was still about three or four stories high. Even if the mutant lion-crocodile beast caught up with it, it could not reach it. Who knew that it suddenly rushed to the building next to it, stepped on the concrete wall with its sturdy limbs, and rushed to the sixth floor with a few steps, then jumped down, spread its limbs flat, stretched its thick tail straight, and glided straight towards the man and the insect.

"Ah...ah! It's coming! It's coming! Dudu, run..." Zhang Ruiyang was frightened, waving his hands, and almost jumped off Dudu's back.

Dudu's body trembled, and he didn't dare to look back. His wings were almost cramped, but the huge shadow still quickly enveloped them, and a pair of dark iron claws appeared above them. It squeaked, suddenly made a big turn, and flew back. The mutant lion-crocodile beast could not change the direction at such a large angle in the air, and just missed them. However, since it could become the natural enemy of Dudu, it was not so easy to deal with. It slightly tilted its body at this time and rushed straight to the opposite building, stepped on the dark blue glass on the wall, and climbed to the height of the sixth floor as before with the sound of glass shattering, and then turned and jumped down to chase Dudu and Zhang Ruiyang. Although all this happened in a very short time, it still bought Dudu a little time.

Escape! Escape! Escape! Dudu became extremely clever when he was running for his life. The more fear fermented in his heart, the clearer his mind became. He knew that he could not get rid of the enemy at his own speed, so he simply drilled into the narrow place. Zhang Ruiyang lay on its back to avoid being thrown off at high speed.

Finally, after drilling into a gap between two buildings about three meters wide, the mutant lion crocodile beast could no longer rely on momentum to climb up the 90-degree vertical wall, and could only chase on the ground with four legs. Although the speed was not slow, it was not as threatening as before. Dudu tasted the sweetness, and his mind became more flexible. Before he could fly out of the alley between the buildings, he suddenly made a sharp turn and flew to the front of a building, crashing into a row of French windows, then barely turned sideways through the door in the room, ran from the corridor to the window in the stairwell, and rushed out from there. After several times, he finally left the mutant lion-crocodile beast without a trace. After

a frightened escape, Zhang Ruiyang had already forgotten about their rescue. Naturally, he didn't know that at the moment when the mutant lion-crocodile beast left, it was not a human survivor who escaped from the teaching building, but a long-eared donkey with mottled white and gray colors, like it had pellagra. This donkey is no different from an ordinary donkey except for its fur color. This is very rare in the end times when various strange species frequently appear, but there is no normal animal that humans are used to seeing. No one knows how it survived until now. As soon as it rushed out of the teaching building, it went straight to the small door next to the duty room at the main gate. Before the zombies gathered around, it jumped out of the electric telescopic door, rolled on the snow, and stood up again, covered in white, and then fled.

Without saying where this donkey came from, it was said that after Zhang Ruiyang and Dudu got rid of the mutant lion-crocodile beast, they fled directly out of the city without stopping. When they were tired, they rested their wings on the broken roof or on the rocks on the hillside, and then continued until it was almost dark. They found a slightly safer place to spend the night. At this time, they were already four or five hundred kilometers away from the city. Zhang Ruiyang had food with him, so he didn't worry about starving, not to mention that Dudu would occasionally find some mutant plant roots or fruits to bring back.

After flying for two days, survivors gradually appeared in front. Some were killing zombies, and some were collecting supplies. They were scattered on the road they flew over, but neither Zhang Ruiyang nor Dudu had any intention of approaching them. They would only make sure from a distance that there was no one they knew, and then fly away quickly. As early as in Wangyang Town, Zhang Ruiyang was taught by Zhang Yi to be wary of strangers when no adults were around, just like before, although he wanted to help the "person" trapped by the mutant lion crocodile beast, he didn't think about meeting the person after helping him.

"Everyone, pay attention, there is a mutant flying beast!" When the two friends flew over, a survivor discovered it and immediately warned his teammates, while quickly looking for a place to cover himself.

When everyone was terrified and ready to fight, the expected attack did not come.

"Did you see that mutant flying beast on its back..." After the false alarm, someone looked at the huge mutant insect flying away in confusion and said.

"It seems to be a child?" The person next to him answered uncertainly.

"It's impossible. I haven't heard of any mutant creatures being tamed. Maybe there is some special mutation again." Everyone was still in shock, and obviously no one believed that mutant animals and humans could coexist peacefully.

Such arguments often occurred in the places where Zhang Ruiyang and Dudu passed by, but the two little guys were unaware of it and had gone far away in a blink of an eye until they met a group of people.

In fact, it was at noon on the third day after they escaped from the city with the mutant lion-crocodile beasts. At the entrance of a cement road in a dilapidated village, five cars were parked. Seven or eight people were gathered together, kicking and beating something. There were some people standing next to them, pointing and talking about monsters, or leaning against the car with their hands on their chests, watching the show boredly. The atmosphere was rare and relaxed. It seemed that the survivors who had been tense had finally found a way to release their repressed emotions.

Zhang Ruiyang saw it from a distance and didn't understand what happened, but seeing that there were no acquaintances inside, he didn't take it too seriously. Who knew that Dudu would actually make a squeak mixed with joy and anger, and then suddenly rushed towards the group of people.

Zhang Ruiyang was startled, and his little hand unconsciously clenched the dagger.

Because Dudu rushed over at a speed comparable to escaping, when those people found it, they didn't even have time to react, and they were rushed to it. Several screams followed, and the seven or eight people who had surrounded and beaten him all fell to the ground without a sound, revealing a humanoid monster curled up on the ground with a shiny black body.

"Uncle Pumpkin!" Seeing the humanoid monster's swollen and purple face, Zhang Ruiyang recognized him at a glance, and jumped off Dudu's back and rushed over with a scream.

Feeling that the fists and feet on his body had stopped, the monster slowly raised his eyes, and the dark violence and the conflicting emotions that were trying to be restrained in his pupils were revealed without reservation. The fierce and cold eyes were cast on Zhang Ruiyang's face who rushed in front of him. After a long time, the bloodthirsty intention in it gradually faded, and a thin layer of warmth floated on it. Obviously, he recognized the little guy.

"Yangyang?"

"Uncle Pumpkin, don't be afraid, Yangyang will protect you!" Hearing the hoarse but very familiar call, Zhang Ruiyang's big eyes turned red, and he suddenly turned around, like a wounded little wolf, staring at those who hurt Nan Shao, and for the first time, his pure and dark eyes revealed a crazy and fierce look. Even when he was chased by the mutant lion-crocodile beast and had no way to escape, he never did this.

Those who were still watching the excitement had already reacted at this time. Seeing that their eight companions were killed by the mutant insect in just a blink of an eye, how could they have any fighting spirit? They screamed and turned to run to the car, not even caring about the bodies of their companions. Some of them even used dirty hands and kicked their companions down in an attempt to buy time for their own escape.

Dudu and Zhang Ruiyang did not stop them, and watched the five cars whizzing away like desperate people. After all, the people who did it themselves were dead, and as long as the rest did not take the initiative to attack them, the two little guys who were not very aggressive would naturally not take the initiative to provoke a war.

"It's none of our business, we didn't do anything!"

"Yes, yes, we also advised them not to embarrass this brother, but they didn't listen, and there was nothing we could do."

The two people who were left behind crouched shivering on the trampled snow, and defended themselves with pale faces. They didn't lie. They really didn't agree with others using such despicable means to ravage Nan Shao, who looked like an alien creature but still retained human emotions and intelligence. Unfortunately, they had no say in the team, otherwise they wouldn't have been secretly plotted against and left behind.

Zhang Ruiyang was skeptical and ignored them. Instead, he said to Dudu, "Dudu, keep an eye on them." Then he looked at Nan Shao, who had sat up but lowered his head, and whispered, "Uncle Pumpkin, what should we do?" If the other party was fierce, he and Dudu would have beaten them directly, but they begged for mercy right away, which made him at a loss.

"Let them go!" Nan Shao slowly raised his head, his eyes confused for a moment, stared at the little guy for a long time, and then answered coldly, without any resentment in his tone, as if what happened before had nothing to do with him.

"Oh." Zhang Ruiyang agreed, turned to the two people, and said loudly: "Uncle Pumpkin will let you go. Go quickly!"

The two people were as if they had been pardoned. Although they didn't really believe that the other party would let them go, they didn't dare to delay and turned around and ran. It was not until they ran a long way that they looked back and saw that the mutant insect was still standing with the child that they put their uneasy hearts back to their original positions, but their legs moved faster.

"Uncle Pumpkin, are you hungry? I have something here for you to eat." Zhang Ruiyang looked at Nan Shao, who was covered with scars and had a very strange appearance. He held it in for a long time and finally said only this sentence. In fact, the little guy wanted to ask whether Uncle Pumpkin's injuries were serious, why he became so strange, and where his father was... There were so many questions, but he felt that he should find a safe place first and wait for Uncle Pumpkin to get better before asking.

Nan Shao did not take the biscuits and instant noodles handed over by the little guy. He just touched his head and said, "Wait for me here." Then he glanced at Dudu, which made it shudder. It stood up with difficulty and staggered towards the mutant plant forest in the distance.

"Uncle Pumpkin, where are you going?" Zhang Ruiyang really stood there obediently, but couldn't help asking loudly.

Nan Shao raised his hand and waved it back, but didn't answer. But soon Zhang Ruiyang knew what he was going to do. Looking at the mutant plants disappearing in patches, he was so surprised that his mouth opened into an "oh" shape, almost enough to fit an egg. Dudu's round and dark eyes suddenly became crystal clear, and he became excited as if he had been injected with chicken blood. He spread his wings and rushed to the mutant forest, and gnawed the mutant plants like a competition with Nan Shao.

When Nan Shao came back, his injuries had completely healed, and not only healed, but his appearance had changed again. The two antennae on his head disappeared, and the two atrophied ant legs under his ribs also degenerated to only two fist-sized protrusions. His forehead was completely humanized, and the original half-ant face was now only the part below the eyes was black ant armor. From the front, it looked like he was wearing half a mask and black armor. As for the back... his hair was very long, and his wings were still there.

"Let's go." Nan Shao carried Zhang Ruiyang to his shoulders and sat him down, then strode towards the village. He wanted to find some clothes to put on, so as not to attract attention like before.

It turned out that since the ant mother's cocoon came out, his consciousness and memory have not been so clear these days. He only remembered to find Zhang Yi. Fortunately, he didn't meet anyone on the road until he met the survivor team here today. He didn't realize that his situation was shocking at all, and he went up to ask the other party where Zhang Yi was, but was attacked as a mutant and injured his wings. It's not that he didn't have the ability to resist. He even knew very well that if he took action, none of these people would be able to escape. But there was a voice in his heart that told him that if he killed these people at this time, he might be doomed and become a doomsday creature who enjoyed killing. He was not afraid of killing, but he did not want to completely lose himself and become a monster who would forget or even threaten the people he loved. So he always restrained the violent emotions in his heart, not letting himself be controlled by the dark emotions, and he was not so clear about everything happening in the outside world. Fortunately, after those people found that he was "weak and vulnerable", they actually had the idea of ​​playing with him, and used that kind of inferior method to vent their hatred for mutant creatures on him. Otherwise, if they insisted on killing him, he would have no choice but to do it when his life was threatened, even if he would completely lose his mind. Of course, if Zhang Ruiyang did not appear, the final outcome would not change.

Zhang Ruiyang's appearance awakened some of his memories, making his emotions more stable and his self-awareness clearer. He suppressed the dark consciousness of the mutant ant mother, and after replenishing enough energy, his body naturally changed, which also gave him a new understanding of the power in his body.

Seeing the two leave, Dudu hurriedly followed. After discovering that Nan Shao also ate mutant plants, it felt quite familiar with him and felt that he seemed not as scary as before.

"Uncle Pumpkin, are you okay?" Zhang Ruiyang sat in the long-lost seat, very happy, but he did not forget to care about Nan Shao's injuries.

"Yeah."

"Uncle Pumpkin, where is Dad?" This is what Zhang Ruiyang wanted to know most.

"Let's go find him together tomorrow." Nan Shao naturally knew where to find Zhang Yi after his sanity was restored a little.

"Uncle Pumpkin, how did you become like Ultraman? So cool."

"..." Ultraman is not like this, are you actually talking about a monster?

A big one and a small one found a fairly neat farmyard with a bug to settle down. The edible food and coal gas tanks in the village had been almost looted, but fortunately, a lot of firewood could be obtained by dismantling. Nan Shao started a fire, and then used a small pot to cook two packs of instant noodles that Zhang Ruiyang brought with him for the little guy to eat. He himself didn't need to eat, and Dudu certainly didn't need it.

Since being abducted by Dudu and leaving Song Yan's convoy, this was the first time Zhang Ruiyang had eaten hot food in more than 20 days. Holding the hot soup noodles, he smiled so hard that his teeth were not visible. Nan Shao put on a set of clothes at this time, and he looked nothing special except for half of his face. It's just that his mind is still a little unstable, sometimes sober, sometimes confused, but it's much better than before. Because of this, his personality seems unusually cold and withdrawn. Even when facing Zhang Ruiyang, he only knows to take good care of the little guy, and never thinks of asking more questions.

Chapter 222: Hearing the News

Zhang Ruiyang slept very well in Nan Shao's arms that night, feeling warm and at ease. He even had a beautiful dream in which he saw his father and chuckled with joy. Nan Shao opened his eyes, his cold and sober gaze fell on the little guy's face. The faint firelight shone on the childish little face, and the outline of Zhang Yi's eyebrows and eyes could be vaguely seen, which softened his eyes slightly.

Ah Yi.

A few days later, Nan Shao, who was wearing a hat and had most of his face buried in a scarf, sat with a child on his shoulder, followed by insects, and re-passed through the tunnel where the ant mother had been, returning to the shabby motel that had been occupied by mutant plants.

With Nan Shao and Dudu, the two nemesis of mutant plants, there, the mutant plants that were coiled on the frame of the dilapidated hotel shrank consciously to make way. The pickup truck that Nan Shao had driven into the hotel was still parked in the lobby. The front of the truck had been smashed, and the cargo in the truck bed had long been unloaded, leaving only two or three broken plastic bags scattered there.

Nan Shao looked at everything familiar in front of him expressionlessly, and his mind floated back to the time when he was carrying food from the truck under the siege of the ant colony, and the time when Zhang Yi stood at the door of the basement to meet him, with his legs bitten and bloody. A flash of anger flashed in his eyes, but in the end, because the flying ants had all become nutrients for the queen ant's evolution, and the queen ant was devoured by him, he had to swallow this breath. The originally densely packed flying ant corpses on the ground had long been cleaned up, and only a few could be seen in some corners. He did not stay in the lobby for long, and went straight to the basement. Not surprisingly, the room was empty.

Ah Shao, Yunzhou.

Four words were written on the wall with a burnt wooden stick. Nan Shao had never seen Zhang Yi's words before, but at first glance, he knew they were left by him. Instead of feeling lost because the person had left, he felt a little excited because he was sure that Zhang Yi was still alive.

"Oh, my father's handwriting." When entering the basement, Zhang Ruiyang had already been put on the ground. Seeing the handwriting on the wall, he couldn't help but rush up and touch it with joy, saying. It turned out that when Zhang Yi was still in prison, every time he wrote a letter home, his grandmother would hold Yangyang in her arms and teach him to recognize the words one by one several times. Over time, the little guy may not remember too many words, but he can recognize his father's handwriting almost exactly.

"Yeah." Nan Shao also walked over, touched the word, and lowered his head to meet the little guy's eyes. The big and the small looked at each other and laughed together.

"Ali, Yunzhou." The child pointed at the wall and read the words one by one. When he encountered a word he didn't know, he just read it according to the one he knew, and he guessed three words correctly.

"Shao." Nan Shao said.

"Ah?" Zhang Ruiyang looked up at him, a little confused.

"This word is pronounced Shao, the Shao of Nan Shao." Nan Shao pointed at the Shao word and said.

"Oh." The little guy nodded seriously, not feeling embarrassed, and repeated the four words several times according to the correct pronunciation, and looked around the wall next to him, and then said with a look of disappointment: "There is no Yangyang." It turned out that every time he read Zhang Yi's letter, the first thing he looked for was his own name. This time was the same, but unfortunately he couldn't find these two words no matter how hard he looked.

Nan Shao smiled slightly. In fact, he really had nothing to be proud of. Zhang Yi had left a message for him, so it was not strange to have his name. Moreover, Yangyang was not there at the time, so it was normal that he was not mentioned. Even Zhang Yi went to Yunzhou just to find the little guy. But it was obviously an ordinary message, because of the little guy's words, he suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of satisfaction in his heart, as if he was more important in Zhang Yi's heart. Although that was just a fantasy.

Knowing where Zhang Yi was going, the two of them and the bug did not stay in the motel for long, and turned around and headed for Yunzhou.

At this time, Nan Shao had recovered some of his consciousness, and did not want to cause any more trouble, so he did not use his wings to fly, but walked there, hoping to find a usable car on the road. Unfortunately, the survivors came and went along the way, and with the destruction of the flying ants, Zhang Yi and his friends did not gain anything until they met Chang Han's small county town. There were a few cars that were still intact, but unfortunately the oil was drained and could not be driven, so they had to walk on foot. The food was almost cleaned up, but Nan Shao could find some tastier mutant plants, and then roast them over a fire, and Zhang Ruiyang could eat them very well, so there was no problem in this regard.

Under the thick snow, from time to time, you would kick a few hard and cold zombie corpses, which was a common phenomenon. Not only was Nan Shao indifferent, but even Zhang Ruiyang was used to it and did not feel scared. With Nan Shao and Dudu, they encountered no danger on the road, but no survivors were seen until they were close to the Yunzhou base.

On a highway more than 100 miles away from the Yunzhou base, more than 40 shabby vehicles of various shapes lined up in a long line, fleeing desperately towards Zhongzhou. Most of the people sitting in the cars had bloodshot eyes, haggard and decadent expressions, staring at the front without focus, and there was almost no conversation between them, as if they had lost all the energy in their bodies.

"Huh? Someone is coming from the front, and there is a child?" The driver of the first car was stunned, staring at the two figures walking towards this side in the vast snow in front.

Hearing the sound, the other people in the car raised their eyelids and glanced casually, and then they were all startled and sat up straight.

"Are you kidding me? Just two people dare to walk around outside?" Someone raised his hand and rubbed his eyes, thinking he was dazzled.

"Is it a trap?" The people around him were suspicious. It was not because they were suspicious. It was because they had to be alert in the current situation. Moreover, two people were walking in the wilderness, and one of them was a child. It was too much to attract attention.

"Let's see." The leader-like person in the car spoke, squinting his eyes, and his sharp eyes were fixed on the two people who were getting closer and closer.

The big and small people who came over were Nan Shao and Zhang Ruiyang. In order not to cause unnecessary trouble, when they found a car coming, Dudu had already flown into the mutant plant forest. Nan Shao took Zhang Ruiyang's hand and moved to the side of the road, intending to wait for the car to pass before continuing. Of course, he also looked around to see if there were any familiar faces in the car.

"Hey, little guy, where are you going?" Surprisingly, the car in the front slowed down, and a big head with a beard poked out from inside and shouted at them.

Nan Shao looked back coldly without answering. Zhang Ruiyang blinked, grasped Nan Shao's hand, and answered honestly: "We are going to Yunzhou Base." Then he couldn't help asking again: "Uncle, have you seen my father?"

"Isn't he your father?" The man who took the initiative to talk to them smiled with narrowed eyes, pointed at Nan Shao and asked, seeming to be very interested in teasing the child, and there was no sign of vigilance. Of course, no one knew what he was thinking in his heart.

"He is Uncle Pumpkin." Zhang Ruiyang shook his head and explained seriously. "My father's name is Zhang Yi, and he is very handsome."

"Zhang Yi?" The man repeated subconsciously, and was about to shake his head, but suddenly he hissed, and his originally careless look was slightly restrained, and a hint of deep thought flashed in his eyes, "I seem to have heard it somewhere..."

"There is a missing person notice in the mission hall. Isn't the person who posted it Zhang Yi? It's been up for almost a month." A woman's face came over and reminded.

The man slapped his forehead and remembered, "Yes, yes. It's about finding a child named Yangyang and a woman named Li Muran." At this point, he looked Nan Shao up and down, and saw that only his eyes were exposed, but his figure didn't look like a woman anyway. Just as he was about to say something, he heard the little guy in front of him shouting excitedly.

"It's me, it's me! And Aunt Muran, Dad is looking for me and Aunt Muran."

Seeing that the little guy was so excited that he wanted to rush over, but was stopped by the man standing next to him, the two people who were talking in the car looked at each other, and the man smiled bitterly and said, "If that's your father, then he should be in the Yunzhou base." He paused, and without waiting for the child to cheer, he said, "But I don't recommend you go there now."

"Ah? Why?" Zhang Ruiyang was happy, and when he heard this, he was stunned and asked in confusion.

The man glanced at Nan Shao again, and his eyes met his. His heart was shocked. For a moment, he felt that those were not human eyes. He turned away in a panic. When his mood calmed down, he laughed at himself for thinking

too much. However, he did not want to look into the other person's eyes and expression again to confirm whether he had seen things wrong before. "The Yunzhou base is now surrounded by zombies and mutant creatures. People inside can't get out, and people outside can't get in. We are on a mission and barely escaped. You might as well come with us, otherwise it will be too late to escape when the mutant beasts catch up." Children are still cute. He thought, but this is actually said to adults, which is also a kind thing.

When these words came out, not only did the child's face change, but even the man who had never spoken a word flashed a trace of fear and worry in his eyes. What happened next was even more unexpected. He saw the man throw the child over his shoulder and run towards Yunzhou without even saying hello, let alone thanking him.

"How rude!" The woman next to him said unhappily, "If I had known this, why would I have wasted my time dealing with them."

"Knowing that my relatives and friends are in danger, how can I care about anything else?" The man said disapprovingly, waving his hand and signaling the car to continue moving forward. Now that it is becoming increasingly difficult for survivors to survive, he reminded them out of moral obligation, not expecting the other party to be grateful, and he would only do this step. It is impossible for him to rush to help save people. You have to know that among the dozens of cars that escaped together, some of the relatives and friends of the people were also trapped in the Yunzhou base. At this time

, they could no longer take care of them, let alone take care of others. The convoy continued their escape, while Nan Shao and Zhang Ruiyang, as well as Dudu who came out of the woods later, hurriedly ran to Yunzhou. If it weren't for Nan Shao's poor flying speed, I'm afraid he would have already shown his wings and flew over directly. As for being seen by others, so what?

However, after walking about fifty miles, scattered but continuous zombies began to appear, and occasionally mutant animals flashed by, making it difficult to move forward. After walking and killing for more than ten miles, the zombies had become dense enough, and there were mutated flying beasts circling in the air farther away. They could not move forward no matter what.

Chapter 223 Trapped in an Isolated City

In the northeast of Longren City, Song Yan's convoy encountered the same problem.

The entire Longren City was like an empty city. There were no zombies, no mutant animals, only gorgeous mutant plants, collapsed buildings, and vehicles blocking the road. The heavy snow suppressed everything. Except for the whistling of the cold wind, the whole world seemed to have returned to silence.

"All the zombies have left the south city and blocked the road over there. We can't get through." Xiao Sheng, who went to explore the road, reported with some worry on his face.

"Are they going to the base?" Song Yan got out of the car, looked up at the empty Longren City, and asked. Maybe because he was back in the convoy and the pressure was not so great, his mood was very stable during this period, so the alienation did not continue to worsen, and it seemed to have improved. He was very normal when talking to Xiao Sheng at this time.

"It should be. We can't get close. In addition to the dense zombies, there are also many mutant animals. The strange thing is that they don't attack each other. They are all rushing to the high-tech zone. It's really weird!" Xiao Sheng said with doubt.

"Let's take a detour." Song Yan said decisively. Their destination was not the Yunzhou base, but Yuling, at the junction of Yunzhou and Chengzhou, more than 400 kilometers southwest of Longren. There is a training base of the Benzhou military region there. Most of the people in the convoy escaped from there, and now they have to go back there, which shows how unpredictable things are.

However, they soon discovered that the zombies from several nearby cities had all come out in droves and pressed towards the high-tech zone. Even if they took a detour, they couldn't get around. Unless they changed direction and went to other provinces.

"The Yunzhou base is finished." Song Yan said, with a trace of sadness in his eyes. No one knows what happened, but a survivor base, perhaps tens of thousands of people, or even hundreds of thousands of people, may be swallowed up by this tide of corpses and beasts and no longer exist. The rabbit dies and the fox mourns. Watching all this happen, who can remain indifferent.

"What should we do?" Xiao Sheng asked. If they continue to travel west, they must confront this tide of corpses and beasts. If they throw in these two or three thousand people, I'm afraid they won't even splash a single drop of water.

Song Yan looked out at the snowy mountains, watching the ants-like corpses slowly moving on them for a long time. Finally, he made a very bold and important decision, and resolutely said: "Stand nearby."

"But if those zombies and mutant animals roll back, we are afraid..." Xiao Sheng did not object, but was diligently analyzing the possible consequences of this behavior.

"There--" Song Yan interrupted him, pointing his finger in the direction of the zombies, and said in a slightly harsh voice, "There is a survivor base there, with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of survivors. Should we turn a blind eye to it?"

Xiao Sheng was startled, saluted with a snap, and said no more, turning around to give orders.

The people who received the order were stunned for a moment, but after Xiao Sheng repeated Song Yan's words, most of them had no objection and went about their own business. The sense of honor and mission of the soldiers has never disappeared in their hearts, but they have been restrained and lurking due to the end of the world. Once needed, they will burst out without hesitation. Besides, obeying orders has long been deeply rooted in their bones. Of course, some people are dissatisfied.

"What, stay here? Isn't that courting death?" The members of the Corpse-luring Team were furious when they heard this.

"That's right, we're following you around, but we're not here to die. We said we were going to the capital before, but we didn't. If you don't want to go, then don't go. You can't hurt us like this."

"I strongly disagree with staying here. Don't think that you are soldiers with guns and superpowers and can ignore our lives."

In response to these opposing voices, Song Yan only said one sentence lightly. "Those who don't want to stay here can leave on their own. I will provide vehicles, as well as sufficient supplies and weapons."

However, this sentence did not silence those people, but instead they rebounded even more.

"Why? Do you think we are garbage that you can pick up and throw away as you please?"

"Yes, you are soldiers and have the responsibility to protect us. Why do you want us to leave?"

This time, they were answered with a gunshot. The bullet grazed the temple of the man who jumped the most violently, leaving a scorched hairline.

"You can stay, just shut up." Song Yan wiped the barrel of the gun, not looking at the man who had been shouting loudly before but was so scared that his crotch was wet, but at Li Muran who was standing with the sick ghost and a few children not far away. Seeing that she was talking to the sick ghost with a serious expression, she didn't care about what happened on her side at all. She only turned her head to look at him when the gunshot sounded, and then turned her head back, narrowing her eyes slightly, with a hint of dissatisfaction. The corpse-

luring team, who had not faced a life-and-death crisis for a long time, finally calmed down in front of the cold barrel of the gun.

"If these zombies and mutant animals can be cleared, the nearby cities will definitely become a piece of pure land." Song Yan regained his mind and said with a sense of longing. At that time, as long as high defensive walls are set up at some important traffic routes, a large area of ​​land suitable for human survival can be enclosed. Not to say that it is absolutely safe, but at least it is much better than the situation where zombies are running everywhere.

"Longren City alone has a population of more than four million, and the other cities combined definitely have more than ten million." Xiao Sheng added silently. Those are tens of millions of zombies, not tens of millions of dead bodies. They can be cleaned up just like that.

Song Yan glanced at him and said nothing more.

While Nan Shao and Song Yan were trying to figure out how to rescue the Yunzhou base, the Yunzhou base was in a bloody storm and devastated.

Having just survived a wave of mutant animal attacks, Zhang Yi sat in a sheltered place at the foot of the wall, pouring cold water into his mouth while closing his eyes and taking the time to rest. Next to him were Meat Tower Chen and his teammate, as well as Chang Han and his teammates. Everyone was also taking the time to recover, eating or absorbing crystal cores.

"It's so damn hard to find a place to live peacefully!" After chewing a piece of instant noodles, Chang Han took the water handed over by the boy next to him, gulped down half a bottle, wiped his mouth, and sighed. He didn't know whether they were just unlucky or the end of the world was like this. They finally escaped from the devil's cave and just settled down here, but they encountered a tide of corpses and beasts again. This time, they didn't know if they would survive.

The others were too tired to talk, so Routa Chen could only grin and said listlessly: "What a peaceful life, it's good to be able to save my life."

Zhang Yi opened his eyes and looked at the falling snow. His eyes were cold and silent. He seemed to be unconcerned about the situation in front of him, but he actually felt deeply guilty. He knew that if he hadn't wanted to find Yangyang, Routa Chen Shipengsan and others should be helping Qiao Yong build a camp in Ronghe River at this time. Although there were some dangers, it would definitely not be like the last ant plague and the corpse beast tide this time, where there was almost no chance of survival. But it was meaningless to say sorry now. He just hoped to fight to the death and earn a way out for them. As for Yangyang, who was now unknown, he didn't dare to think about it.

It turned out that after they arrived at the Yunzhou base, they separated from Chang Han and his group. Chang Han and his team planned to live here for a long time, so they directly bought a house with crystal cores. Since they had enough manpower and a car, they did not join any team. Zhang Yi and his team rented a small courtyard and tried their best to find Zhang Ruiyang and Li Muran. Not only did they post a missing person notice in the mission hall, but they also waited at the gate of the base and the exit of the mission hall, and asked various people in the base. There are more than 200,000 survivors in Yunzhou Base, which may not sound like a lot, but it is not easy to find two people among these more than 200,000 people, unless they are extremely lucky. And the facts proved that they were indeed extremely lucky, but it was bad luck. Before there was any clue in the search for people, the base was surrounded.

No one can tell what caused the mutant animals and zombies in the surrounding area to reach an agreement and gather together to attack the base. There are only vague rumors that the new believers hunted mutant animals and mutant zombies for beast crystals and top-grade corpse crystals, angering the beast king and corpse king, which led to this disaster. Some people also guessed that there was some intelligent creature driving these alien creatures, otherwise it would be impossible for the zombies without intelligence to run over from other cities at the same time, leaving the people in the base no chance to escape.

What is the truth, whether there is the legendary beast king and corpse king, these are unknown to anyone except the parties involved. But the scene two days ago was seen by everyone and will never be forgotten.

That morning, the gate of the base opened at dawn as usual, and each team started the car and lined up to slowly drive out of the base, ready to meet a new round of survival challenges. The Yunzhou base was built on the basis of a high-tech development zone, with an area of ​​about 30 square kilometers. In the last year of the end of the world, the defense wall has been built one after another. Only the four gates in the southeast, northwest and northeast are connected to the outside world. It is somewhat similar to the ancient city, but it lacks the simplicity and heaviness, but is more solemn and oppressive. At that time, the four gates were wide open, and people were walking out. Suddenly, they heard a thunderous sound, and the ground seemed to be shaking. They were all startled. After a while, they found that it was a dense crowd of mutant animals, running on the ground and flying in the sky, rolling towards the base like a storm. Everyone was stunned at the time, and I don't know who shouted, and then they reacted and fled back.

The base reacted not slowly, and immediately closed the gate, the whistle sounded, and everyone who could fight went up the defense wall to resist and kill the mutant animals rushing up the wall. However, the mutant flying beasts were able to directly cross the defense line from the air, fly into the base, and kill crazily. Although they were eventually killed by the joint efforts of people, they caused considerable casualties and losses. However, the more desperate thing happened the next day. Just when everyone was exhausted, a dark group of zombies appeared behind the mutant animals, pressing down like a dark cloud, and also pressing down on people's hearts like a dark cloud.

It was just that the mutant animals were limited in number after all, and they were living creatures that knew fatigue. If they rushed out, there might be a glimmer of hope, but when the endless zombies surrounded this place, everyone knew that their fate was doomed. Someone once tried to escape by digging a tunnel, but unexpectedly attracted mutant insects living in the soil, which made the already precarious base even worse. There is no way to go up to the sky, and there is no door to enter the earth. Perhaps this is a portrayal of their current situation. However, even if they have reached a dead end, they still did not give up resistance, not to live a moment longer, but simply unwilling to give up their lives in vain. Even if they die, at least they have to die worthily.

Chapter 224 Finally Gathered

A sharp whistle sounded, and the people who were resting jumped up and rushed to the defense wall. Ordinary zombies can only surround the base, but they have no way to deal with the tall and solid defense wall. There are mutant zombies, but their number is very rare. Of course, even if there is only one, it can kill most ordinary people and superpowers in seconds, so the Protestant Church has organized people to deal with them. As soon as they see one, someone will rush over to kill it. Therefore, the mutant animals caused the greatest losses in the end, because there are too many of them, and they can use their strong climbing ability to rush up the high wall, not to mention those who can fly freely in the air. However, because the defense line of the base is too long, there must be people defending the defense wall of more than 20 kilometers. Based on the total number of people in the base, it is impossible to arrange 10,000 people per kilometer, not to mention that one-tenth of them are incapable of fighting. In front of the ferocious and powerful mutant animals, the number of people who can fight will be greatly reduced. In other words, the defense force is too weak, and it is a luxury to want to rotate to play in order to gain more rest time. The only thing to be thankful for is that these mutant animals will also get tired, and even have emotions such as fear and retreat, and cannot continue to attack, otherwise no one can hold on.

Zhang Yi chopped the head of the mutant snake-tailed eagle that pounced on him. The blade did not leave any marks on the part that was chopped, but the snake tail of the mutant eagle stopped abruptly in the middle, and then stretched out weakly, falling to the wall with the body. Looking back, he saw Pei Yuan being bitten on the shoulder by a six-headed python. He hurriedly took a few steps, swept the blade across, and chopped off one of the big heads of the python. Because he did not awaken his superpowers, he originally trained harder than others. After Nan Shao lost the news, he was no different from an ascetic monk. There was a martial arts novel that only when you are extremely emotional can you be extremely good at swordsmanship, and this may be the case with him. Extreme concentration and no distractions finally allowed him to find a way to deal with mutant animals. After all, with his strength and the knife in his hand, he could not cut through the tough skin and bones of the mutant animals, so he gave up the idea of ​​causing damage to the mutant organisms, and instead used the impact of the blade to penetrate the skull and directly act on the brain tissue to destroy it, thus achieving his goal. Of course, thinking about it does not necessarily mean that you can do it. At least so far, he is the only one in the group who can kill mutant animals in this way.

"Xiaoyuan, go down there!" After knocking off one of the heads of the mutant six-headed python and drawing its anger and attention to himself, Zhang Yi dodged the sharp attack of the mutant python and shouted coldly.

Pei Yuan wiped the blood splashed on his face, quickly took out a bandage from his arms and tied up the bitten shoulder, but did not listen to Zhang Yi's words. Instead, he silently seized the opportunity to jump onto the mutant python's back, hugged it tightly with one hand, and then used the machete to cut it fiercely. His strength was not enough, and there was not even a trace of white where the machete landed, but he still chopped fiercely, desperately, as if he wanted to prove that he was not a useless waste.

Although this behavior did not cause any harm to the mutant six-headed python, it still succeeded in angering it. It bent its two heads and bit directly at Pei Yuan's head, while its long tail curled and wrapped around the boy's lean body.

Zhang Yi frowned slightly, stepped forward swiftly, and chopped the machete at a snake head that was already close to Pei Yuan's neck. Then he turned his wrist and chopped the other one horizontally, while leaning back and twisting his waist to let the snake head attacking him pass. On the other side, Jie Chen and Routa Chen also rushed over and barely blocked the remaining two heads of the mutant python for him. Surprisingly, Jie Chen actually cut off the snake head with one knife.

When Routa Chen stabbed the knife into the big snake's mouth and came out from behind its head, Zhang Yi also solved the last head of the mutant python and saved Pei Yuan, who was entangled with a red face and thick neck and almost died.

"Monk, how did you become so powerful?" Panting, Routa Chen put his fat hand on Jie Chen's shoulder and asked.

After kicking the body of the mutant six-headed python into the defensive wall, Zhang Yi did not listen to the two people talking, nor did he call Pei Yuan to go down. Not far away, one of Chang Han's teammates was torn in half by a mutant monkey, and his intestines, internal organs, blood and flesh were scattered all over the ground. It was too late to rescue him. Such tragic scenes can be seen everywhere on the defensive wall and in the base. The companions of the victims only let out a shrill cry when the tragedy happened, and they didn't even have time to cry and grieve for it, because countless mutant animals fell on the wall and inside the base like rain. Maybe, the next moment, they will die.

There are mutant animals trying to crash into the defensive wall. The earth-type and water-type mutants have to run around, repairing the broken wall at any time, and then sprinkle water on it to make it freeze.

"I have practiced the internal skills taught by my master for a while, and it seems to be effective." Jie Chen's answer rang in his ears.

Routa Chen sucked in a breath, obviously very surprised, "No way, didn't you say that your master and grandmaster didn't practice it?"

"I don't know about that." Jie Chen himself seemed a little confused. "

Brother monk, if we can survive this time, can you teach me how to practice this internal skill?" Pei Yuan begged with a little loneliness and a hint of hope. Now he is the weakest among the few people. He doesn't want to drag everyone down, otherwise he wouldn't have insisted on hiding under the wall without listening to Zhang Yi. Even though he knew that his existence was a burden to them. If death can stimulate his potential and give him power, then he is willing to give it a try. If the girl who had a way to awaken people's superpowers stood in front of him now, maybe he would follow her without hesitation, just because the longer he walks in the end times, the stronger his desire for power becomes, especially after discovering that the power of mutant creatures has far exceeded human imagination.

"No problem." Jie Chen answered very straightforwardly, without any sense of confidentiality.

Pei Yuan, who had been gloomy all the time, finally showed a smile, and there was expectation in his eyes. Zhang Yi exhaled, holding the knife to face a mutant lizard that had just climbed up the defense wall. Shi Pengsan and Xu Jing, who were working together to kill a mutant wing tiger, took the time to look over here, their eyes less solemn. As long as there is hope for the future, it's fine. The child's self-pity and depression in the past two days really made them a little worried, afraid that he would give up on himself, just like just now. If it continues like that, in such a bad situation, in less than two days, even if several people protect him with all their strength, I'm afraid they won't be able to protect

him. "Da Yan fifty, use forty-nine, and escape one without using." The sick ghost sat in the car with his eyes closed, not looking at Li Muran who asked him for help, and said lightly. "There is no deadly situation in the world. Even if the person who arranged it is a god or an immortal, it is impossible to make it perfect."

Li Muran was a little confused and didn't understand what he was saying. She only vaguely guessed that he might mean that the people in Yunzhou Base were not dead, but she didn't see a glimmer of hope from it. "Sick brother, what can you do?" Or just ask directly. Since Song Yan issued the order to assist the Yunzhou base, she had not thought about whether she should object or not, but first thought about what she could do. After several months of self-repair, her supernatural power could be used again. It was indeed as the sick ghost said. Not only could she bring six people at a time, but the limit had risen to ten times. But even so, she couldn't move all the people in the base away, so she finally ran to ask for advice from the sick ghost who was almost omnipotent in her mind. The

sick ghost opened his eyes suddenly, looked at her steadily, and smiled, "If I take action, the situation will definitely be a hundred times or a thousand times worse. Are you sure you want my help?"

Li Muran was speechless for a long time, and walked away silently. She knew that the sick ghost was always too lazy to say a word when he didn't want to talk, but once he opened his mouth, he would never lie, so it was better to believe him. The situation is already difficult now. If it gets a hundred times or a thousand times worse, will people still be able to live?

Fu Dan and the other two followed behind her, with bitter faces, racking their brains to help think of a solution. Since the sick uncle refused to help, they had to rely on themselves.

"There are several urban areas around the High-tech Zone, including Longren City, Xinlong City, Qin County, Qingyuan County, Gaogu City, and Zhang County. Zhang County is the closest, only 15 kilometers away, followed by Longren, more than 20 kilometers away, and the farthest is Xinlong City, 150 kilometers away, with six townships in between. We are now between Zhang County and Gaogu City, unable to pass in front, and blocked at the other end in Xinlong City, so Qin County, Qingyuan County in the northwest and Gaogu City in front are out of the question. We can only start from Xinlong, Longren, and Zhang County. Then the stationing place is very important. It is necessary to be able to attack and retreat. We can't sacrifice so many of us just to save people." Xiao Sheng unfolded the map of the surrounding area of ​​the High-tech Zone drawn by everyone in the convoy, and analyzed it for Song Yan. Others were checking the equipment and supplies to prepare for the war.

"Leave this to you. I'm going to check the situation of the Yunzhou base first. Don't rush to do it before I come back." Song Yan said after a moment of silence.

Xiao Sheng showed a look of disapproval in his eyes, and opened his mouth to dissuade him, but was interrupted by Song Yan's hand, "I have countless thoughts in my mind." He just happened to see Li Muran walking by with the three children from the corner of his eye, and immediately turned around and grabbed the person.

"Okay." Hearing that Song Yan wanted to take him to the Yunzhou base, Li Muran didn't think twice and agreed very straightforwardly. Now almost everyone in the team knows her ability, and she doesn't need to hide it anymore. It's always good to be able to do something for everyone.

After repeatedly asking the three children to follow the sick ghost, Song Yan's things were arranged. Li Muran was about to grab his arm, but he reached out and put his arm around her waist first. She was stunned for a moment, but didn't care too much. After all, she had been carried and hugged along the way, and she really couldn't care less if she cared.

"Is it going that way?" Their location was more than 20 kilometers away from the Yunzhou base. Li Muran had no way to detect the location of the base, so he could only point to the direction of the zombies in front and ask. Although she was a native of Yunzhou, she had never been to Longren, so she didn't know the exact direction of the high-tech zone.

"Southwest." Song Yan shook his head, and the direction he pointed was nearly 90 degrees off from what she had determined.

Li Muran was a little confused, but she still determined the landing position according to his instructions, and then activated her supernatural power. The next moment, the two of them were standing on the top of a stone mountain. The surroundings were all white, and the nearest mutant plants were also 30 meters away. Only from time to time, there were mutant flying beasts gliding over the head, and they were killed by Song Yan when they swooped down. There was a mountain road at the bottom of the mountain. Perhaps there were people coming and going in the past, and it was not occupied by mutant plants, but now it was filled with dense zombies.

Li Muran didn't need to release her mental power at all. She saw the Yunzhou base on the other side of the stone mountain, standing in the middle of a basin surrounded by mountains and surrounded by a tall ice wall. She looked back and realized that the road turned a big bend at the col halfway, so the direction was different from what she had seen before. Yunzhou is mountainous, so the roads are not as straight as those in the plains. It is common to see them going in circles.

As expected, the open areas around the base have been occupied by zombies and mutant animals. There are also countless mutant flying beasts hovering in the sky above the basin. Li Muran felt a little desperate to open a road in such a place and rescue the people in the base.

"Director, are we going into the base?" She asked carefully, looking at Song Yan who was carefully checking the situation around the base.

"Go." Song Yan did not hesitate at all.

Li Muran rubbed her face that was hurt by the cold wind, and sent out her mental power. For her, it was too easy to locate the places she could see with her eyes, but before that, she habitually scanned the surroundings to avoid unexpected dangers. Who would have thought that this scan would reveal an unexpected surprise.

When her mental power spread to a low hill covered with mutant plants two kilometers away from the base, her body trembled slightly, and then her eyes showed an ecstatic look. She didn't even have time to tell Song Yan that she had already appeared there with him.

Nan Shao, who was holding Zhang Ruiyang in his arms and squatting in the mutant forest with Dudu, looking at the base and thinking about how to get there, was startled by the sudden appearance of the two people. If Zhang Ruiyang hadn't called out the word "Auntie" in surprise, he would have killed them.

In fact, not only was he startled, but Song Yan, who was unprepared, was also startled. Dudu was so scared that he sat down on the ground. There were mutant plants all around, and he couldn't run away. He could only move behind Nan Shao trembling all over.

"Yangyang, why are you running around? I'm scared to death!" Holding Zhang Ruiyang tightly in his arms, Li Muran reached out and patted the little guy's butt twice. The worry in his heart burst out all of a sudden, and tears fell down.

"Dudu, take me to find Uncle Pumpkin." Zhang Ruiyang hugged Li Muran's neck and rubbed her face affectionately, making her face red. "Auntie, I missed you so much."

This sentence made people's hearts melt into water, so how could they be angry? Li Muran rubbed her eyes randomly and looked at Nan Shao who was staring at Song Yan indifferently. Although he covered half of his face with a scarf, she still recognized him at a glance.

"Brother Shao." She called with a smile, her eyes were still red, but sparkling, and filled with the joy of meeting an old friend again.

Nan Shao tilted his head slightly to look at her. The fragments of their life together in the small building in Wangyang Town and the past when they took refuge from the rainstorm in Ziyun County came to his mind. A trace of warmth gradually appeared in his eyes, which originally had no human emotions. His eyebrows moved slightly, and his narrow eyes slowly curved up. He slowly uttered her name: "Muran."

"Yes, it's me. Why are you here? Where is Brother Yi? Where is Brother Chen?" Li Muran was excited, and didn't care why Nan Shao covered his face so tightly. He just thought it was too cold. He looked around for other people and asked.

"Dad and Fat Uncle are in there! Uncle Pumpkin, Dudu and I are going to save them." It was Zhang Ruiyang who answered her. Nan Shao had already turned his attention back to Song Yan, because he felt a sense of being the same kind but extremely dangerous on the other person. And Dudu, who was hiding behind him, had carefully shrunk to a distance of more than ten meters.

"Mr. Nan?" Song Yan was the first to speak. He had lost some of his memory, but the Nan family and his family were old friends. The two knew each other a long time ago. Although their friendship was not so good, they would not fail to recognize each other when they met. It was just that the feeling Nan Shao gave him now was very different from before, so he did not speak at first, until Li Muran smiled like a flower as soon as he saw him, which made him very unhappy. Then he took the initiative to speak, but his tone was quite unfriendly.

"Song Er." Nan Shao narrowed his eyes slightly, keenly aware of a hint of hostility, and became alert in his heart.

"So you know each other." Li Muran was a little surprised, but more happy.

Unexpectedly, the two of them stopped talking after calling each other's names as if they were calling each other's names, and turned their heads away at the same time, colder than strangers. Li Muran did not care, but thinking that Zhang Yi and others were still in the base, he could not help but feel a little worried.

"Brother Shao, my special ability can be used, and I can bring several people. The director and I are going to that base, so why don't we go together?"

This was a pleasant surprise, and Nan Shao's eyes lit up at once, "Okay, let's go together." It turned out that he and Zhang Ruiyang were stopped by a group of zombies dozens of miles away and could not move forward. Later, he suddenly remembered that he and Dudu were not afraid of mutant plants at all. There were almost no zombies in the tangled mutant plant forest, and the tall and dense plants could effectively resist the attacks of most mutant animals. So naturally, they chose to pass through the forest without hesitation, crossing mountains and ridges all the way here. But the base was surrounded by empty space, and without the forest, they could only stop and think of other ways. He had wings, and Dudu could fly, but there were mutant flying beasts everywhere in the sky ahead. Dudu was still okay, and once he flew out and took Yangyang with him, you didn't have to think about what the result would be. Just when he was worried, Li Muran and the others appeared unexpectedly. For him, Li Muran, who possessed the ability to cross space, was like timely rain at this moment. Otherwise, he would have to take the risk and try to see if he could fly into the base if he was forced to do so.

Since the decision was made, Li Muran did not delay any longer. She held Zhang Ruiyang with one hand and was about to grab Nan Shao's hand with the other hand. However, Song Yan was one step faster than her, "I'll do it." While speaking, her free hand was already on Nan Shao's shoulder. Nan Shao glanced at him, then at Li Muran, as if realizing something. Li Muran, who

was completely unaware, tilted her head to look at Dudu who was hiding further and further away. After thinking for a while, she said to Nan Shao, "Brother Shao, let Dudu go back to the team and wait for us. Taking it to the base might cause misunderstanding." After experiencing Yangyang being kidnapped, she knew that only Nan Shao could really subdue the bastard Dudu.

"Did you hear that?" Nan Shao did not repeat Li Muran's words, but just glanced at Dudu who looked very honest with his head down and ears bent, and asked.

Dudu moved its antennae, and Li Muran took the opportunity to point in the direction they came from and said, "The convoy is over there." Only after Dudu flew away obediently did she lead the three people to the base at the foot of the mountain. Not wanting to wait for them to disappear, the guy turned and rushed directly to the base.

The landing point was chosen behind a remote factory building. The survivors with combat effectiveness have already reached the front line, and those with weak combat effectiveness are also preparing hot water, food, etc., to provide various logistical support for the soldiers. Therefore, the surroundings of the factory building are very quiet, and only occasionally one or two mutant animals or human corpses can be seen lying on the ground.

Several people did not go out immediately, waiting for Li Muran to use mental power to find Zhang Yi's location in the base. After a long while, a look that seemed to be joyous but a little strange appeared on her face, pointing to the north, "Brother Yi and the others are there..."

Before she could finish, Nan Shao had already rushed out. Li Muran swallowed the rest of the words.

Brother Yi's hair turned white.

After repelling another wave of attacks from mutant animals, Zhang Yi was already injured. He looked at the defense wall that was broken by the claws of mutant animals and the superpowers of the superpowers, and leaned back against the hard and cold wall with some fatigue. Because of sweat or blood, white mist was steaming around him. He didn't know how long he could hold on, but Xiao Peiyuan and Routa Chen, who had collapsed on the ground, obviously couldn't survive the next round of attacks. He had to find a way to send them to a slightly safer place. Although Xu Jing was a woman and had no superpowers, she was obviously not inferior to most male superpowers in such a battle. However, she was a woman after all, and she shouldn't suffer this. It would be better to let her leave, and she could also protect Routa Chen and the other two...

He was planning carefully with his eyes closed, and he didn't even have time to eat. Suddenly, a strong wind blew, making the hair on his body stand up all of a sudden. The hand holding the machete tightened, and before he could swing it, he was hugged tightly by a pair of strong and powerful arms.

"Ayi! Ayi..." A hoarse voice, a familiar call, the person came panting, biting his lips hard.

Moisture appeared in the corners of Zhang Yi's eyes, and the machete fell to the ground with a clang. He stretched out his hands and tightened the strong waist of the person who came, wishing he could rub it into his body. He didn't want to let go, didn't dare to let go... He didn't even dare to open his eyes, fearing that everything was an illusion caused by his excessive fatigue, and he didn't feel the pain in his body. It wasn't

until a childish voice that had sounded countless times in his dreams called Daddy, and a small body cried and threw itself on his back, that he suddenly opened his eyes in disbelief. The first thing that caught his eye was Nan Shao's face that looked like a half-ant, then Li Muran's eyes with tears in his smile and his fancy face, and a tall man he didn't recognize. The sound of a child crying was still ringing in his ears. He trembled, a little scared and a little expectant, and reached behind his back until he touched the wet and cold little face. His heart finally settled down. One hand was still holding Nan Shao tightly, and the other hand had already taken the warm little body on his back into his arms. The two big and one small hugged each other tightly, just like any perfect little family in the world.

Chapter 225 A hasty meeting

"Oh, my little darling, I finally found you!" Zhang Ruiyang's crying attracted many people's attention, thinking that someone else had suffered a disaster. Routa Chen, who was originally lying on the ground and was exhausted with only one breath left, barely opened his eyes. After seeing that it was Zhang Ruiyang, he was instantly revived, climbed up with his hands and feet, and took the little guy from Zhang Yi's arms, shouting with joy. He originally wanted to throw him a few more times, but in the end he had to give up because he had little strength left.

Zhang Ruiyang was crying hard at this moment, and did not respond. He just hugged Routa Chen's neck with his two little hands and continued to howl at the top of his voice, as if he had suffered a great injustice.

"Hey! Hey! Hey, little baby, don't cry, who bullied you, tell Uncle Fatty, Uncle Fatty will chop him!" Routa Chen was in a hurry and coaxed him murderously. He had never seen the little guy cry like this before, and his heart was tightened, fearing that he had suffered too much outside for the past six months.

Zhang Ruiyang just kept crying. After a long while, Routa Chen and the others were a little frightened. After a series of questions, the crying slowly stopped. He answered with hiccups: "No, no one, hiccups... No one bullied me... hiccups... I miss my dad... wow..." Well, he started crying again.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Routa Chen wiped the sweat off his forehead and handed the little guy back to Zhang Yi with a smile. His eyes turned and fell on Li Muran. He couldn't help laughing, "Sister Muran, where have you been with Xiao Yangyang for the past six months? We were so worried." As he said this, he was about to give Li Muran a big hug, but he was blocked by a tall and burly man.

"Hey, who are you?" Routa Chen was very surprised. Although he felt that the other party seemed to be difficult to mess with, he relied on the fact that they had more people and the most powerful Nan Shao was back, so he spoke bluntly. "Brother

Chen, he is the director of surgery at the hospital where I used to intern. His surname is Song." Li Muran poked his head out from behind Song Yan and said awkwardly. Even if she was slow, she could sense the possessiveness in Song Yan's actions. However, now was not the time to think deeply about such things, so she could only temporarily ignore her slightly disordered heartbeat and briefly tell him about Song Yan's motorcade.

Routa Chen heard from her words that she and Zhang Ruiyang were well taken care of by each other during the time they were apart, and her expression could not help but ease up. However, Song Yan was obviously dissatisfied with Li Muran's introduction and said lightly: "Now the hospital is gone, what director is there? My name is Song Yan."

"Oh, it turns out to be Director Song. I'm so sorry. I really don't know how to thank my family's Muran for taking care of me these few months. If you have any errands to run in the future, just tell me, and I, Old Chen, will do it for you properly." Routa Chen was also very shrewd. He could see at a glance that the relationship between the two was ambiguous. He couldn't help but wink at Li Muran and said with a smile, but there was not much substance in his words, and he was suspected of provoking people openly and secretly.

Song Yan's forehead veins twitched, and he looked at Routa Chen coldly. The bloody scene of cutting him with a knife appeared in his mind, but the corners of his mouth slightly raised, "Okay, okay." It's time to let the stupid woman change her address, otherwise everyone will show off their superiority in front of him.

Routa Chen suddenly felt like he was being stared at by an evil ghost, and his hair stood up. His intuition told him that it would be no good to continue to provoke the person in front of him, so he smiled and turned to celebrate Nan Shao's return alive.

But this place and time is really not a good occasion to reminisce about the past. The crying little guy has not been coaxed yet, and Shi Pengsan and others have not had time to say hello to Li Muran, and the sound of the police whistle sounded again.

"Xu Jing, take Xiao Chen, Xiao Yuan, and Muran to our place to get some food. Muran, help me look after Yangyang." Zhang Yi reacted quickly, his heart was still filled with joy, and he was ready for battle in a blink of an eye. After giving a few instructions, he stuffed Yangyang into Li Muran's arms and ran towards the defense wall.

Nan Shao snatched the knife from Routa Chen's hand, and followed closely with Shi Peng, San Jie Chen, and Song Yan was the last. Although Song Yan came to check the situation in the base, as long as he was a man of blood, he would not stay out of such a thing. Moreover, facing the battle head-on would allow him to find out the response capabilities of the base more quickly and thoroughly, so as to make a more detailed and thorough rescue plan.

"Take the people out first, and then come to pick me up." Before climbing up the defense wall, he pinched Li Muran's ear, and then without borrowing the knife, he stepped up in three or two steps.

Li Muran's face flushed, and she was a little flustered because of his increasingly obvious actions, but the situation was critical at the moment, so she had no time to think about it, so she could only concentrate her mind. Under the guidance of Xu Jing, she held Yangyang, who was still looking up at Zhang Yi's back with tears in her eyes, and helped Pei Yuan, who was covered in injuries, to go to where they lived.

From time to time on the road, people who were seriously injured and unable to fight could be seen retreating. Several people were injured, some were women, some were young, and they were not out of place among them. The place Zhang Yi rented was cheap, so the location was not good. It was close to the outskirts of the base, not far from here. It was a temporary three-story adobe house, and they lived on the third floor. There were many houses like this in the Yunzhou base. In addition, the factories where many people lived were for people to live. The best ones were office buildings, but the few office buildings were occupied as early as the beginning of the establishment of the base. Even if ordinary people had crystal cores, they could not live there.

"Brother Chen, I will take you out of the base first." Li Muran opened the door made of wooden boards and spoke after several people entered. The situation of the base was not good at the moment. If she disappeared with people in front of everyone, she was afraid that she would cause big trouble, so she had been patient until here. But people have different degrees of closeness and distance, and her ability is limited. Even if she is ready to help the base, she still has to come first with her own people.

"Do you have a way to leave the base?" Without waiting for Routa Chen to answer, Xu Jing raised her eyebrows and asked half-doubtfully.

Li Muran glanced at her. The two had not had time to introduce each other, so she was a little confused about the relationship between this woman and Routa Chen and the others. While she was hesitating, Xu Jing spoke again: "I am Xu Jing. If you have a way to leave the base, I will call Zhang Yi and the others back, and we will go together."

"Sister, Boss Xu is one of us. If you have a way, just tell me." Routa Chen also had a lot of injuries on his body. When he returned to the house, he sat on the wooden bed and didn't move. Pei Yuan was the same as him. He climbed three floors and now collapsed on the bed panting and could only breathe out.

Li Muran still trusted Routa Chen very much. Since he said so, she naturally had no intention of hiding it anymore. "My superpower is ready to use, but I can only take six people at a time. I'll send you out first, and then I'll come back to pick up Brother Yi and the others."

"Really?" Routa Chen jumped up all of a sudden, and it seemed that even the injuries on his body didn't hurt. He knew how amazing Li Muran's superpower would be if he could use it. "Then what are you waiting for? Hurry up and go, or you'll lose your life here."

Xu Jing glanced at him, suppressed her doubts, and didn't ask any more questions.

"Auntie, I want to go with Dad." Zhang Ruiyang, who gradually stopped crying after Zhang Yi left, rested his head on Li Muran's shoulder and whispered.

"Dad wants to fight monsters. Auntie will take you and Fat Uncle to see Brother Adan and Dudu first, and then come to pick up Dad, okay?" Li Muran discussed with the little guy in a gentle tone. The child was really too sensible and had never asked for anything on his own initiative. If the situation wasn't too special this time, she really couldn't bear to refuse.

Zhang Ruiyang pursed his lips, and finally managed to hold back his tears, and said obediently: "Okay."

Xu Jing rubbed her chest, stamped her feet angrily, and said: "I'll go and get Zhang Yi back." She had been trained to be hard-hearted and would kill people without blinking an eye, but she didn't expect that she couldn't stand seeing the palm-sized kid in front of her being so sensible.

"No, it's just a short while. Even if you go, Brother Yi won't come back." Li Muran said hurriedly. They have been together for a long time, and she knows a little about Zhang Yi's temper. He will never let a woman replace him.

"Yes, big sister, don't make trouble, don't you know what Brother Yi's temper is? With Brother Shao here, Brother Yi, the little monk, and Brother Shi San will be fine." Routa Chen also helped to persuade him, and answered him with a kick.

Two minutes later, several people appeared in Song Yan's convoy. After Xiao Sheng knew what Song Yan meant, he immediately found the healing ability in the team to heal the three people of Routa Chen. Zhang Ruiyang was hugged by Fu Dan and the other two. In his joy, he temporarily forgot about his father, and of course, he also forgot about Dudu who didn't appear. Until Li Muran left again, Xu Jing, Pei Yuan, and Routa Chen, who originally knew a little about his ability, were still confused by the miracle that happened to them, and let the healing ability people do whatever they wanted. When

Li Muran returned to the base, the place she chose to stay had been changed to the small house that Zhang Yi and his friends rented temporarily. She held a machete in her hand and carried food and water on her back that had been heated and kept warm by the fire ability people. After arriving at the small house, she did not go out immediately, but stayed in the small house until she found that the attack of the mutant animals had stopped, and then she went out to the defense wall. She knew herself well. In addition to having a special ability, she was really no different from a waste when facing mutant animals. In the battle, she would only drag others down.

With the addition of Nan Shao and Song Yan, Zhang Yi still felt a lot more relaxed even though Xu Jing and the other two had left. In fact, it was not just him. People around them had this feeling, so during the break, many people came over to say hello and chat, as if they wanted to know the origins of these two people who suddenly appeared. Of course, they didn't think of such a thing as falling from the sky, and they speculated more that they were sent by the Protestant Church. After all, there are many masters in the Protestant Church, which is a well-known fact. Unfortunately, Nan Shao and Song Yan were very cold and hardly responded. Zhang Yi was not a talkative person, and he was extremely tired, so he didn't have the energy to deal with them. So the speculation was just speculation in the end, but Nan Shao and Song Yan's alienation and indifference were seen as arrogance, which deepened this speculation.

Song Yan did not contact the top leaders of the base, but relied on his own eyes to observe silently to judge how long the base could last without external support. In addition to taking the time to treat the injuries of Shi Pengsan and Jie Chen, Nan Shao has been holding Zhang Yi's hand tightly, kissing his white hair from time to time with heartache, completely ignoring the eyes of others. The moment he saw Zhang Yi, his mind had completely recovered, but there were no mutant plants in the base, which could not provide enough energy for him to completely shed his ant form, so he still maintained his previous appearance until now. Although the omnivorous nature of the mutant ants determined that he could also grab energy from the bodies of mutant animals, he knew very well at this time that such a scene was too horrifying, and it would be better not to do it unless it was absolutely necessary. Anyway, Zhang Yi didn't mind. Zhang

Yi finally found his son, and naturally he was worried about him. He wanted to hurry back to take a look, but unexpectedly Li Muran had already come with food and water, and also brought the news that Yangyang and others had been sent away.

Chapter 226 Rescue Operation

"How many can you take at a time?" Since Zhang Ruiyang, Routa Chen and the others were all safe, Zhang Yi's heart was completely settled. He reached out to pull down Nan Shao's scarf and straightened it. His eyes stayed on the half of the ant's face for a moment. He didn't say anything, but took the lunch box handed over by Li Muran, handed it back to him, and then asked.

The lunch box was filled with a box of dry rice, a box of sour bamboo shoots and ham soup, and a pack of pickled mustard for each person. As soon as it was opened, the fragrance spread, and there were many sounds of swallowing saliva around, but no one came over. They were not blind people. Not to mention that the base was surrounded now, with the consumption day by day, food would inevitably be in short supply. Even before being trapped, it was an extremely precious thing. Who would ask others for food just because they were greedy? It's not like they really ran out of food.

After Li Muran distributed the lunch boxes, she smiled and made a six sign to Zhang Yi, with a look of pride that could not be concealed, "Brother Yi, if we go to the hospital to get medicine now, I can do it alone." Thinking of the time when the three of them went to Ziyun County Hospital to get medicine for Routa Chen, she felt as if she was in another world. It turned out that without realizing it, their strength had improved a lot.

Zhang Yi smiled, gave her a thumbs up, and said, "Not bad." More than not bad, just the fact that she helped him bring Yangyang back safely was enough for him to repay her with his life.

Li Muran smiled and then asked in a low voice, "How about we leave now?" Because there were only five people left now, it would be fine for her to take them away on the spot. Anyway, they were all leaving, so why would she care if others were surprised?

Zhang Yi did not answer immediately. He took a few bites of rice and watched Nan Shao put the ham slices on his rice. He did not refuse, but took two slices of ham from his soup and put them in the other's lunch box. Then he asked, "Are you here to find someone?"

Li Muran glanced at Song Yan and said, "We passed by here and found that the base was surrounded, so we wanted to see if we could help."

Zhang Yi was stunned. Obviously, he did not expect that this was the reason.

"Does anyone know why the base attracts so many zombies and mutant animals?" Song Yan asked. If you know the reason, you may be able to find a solution. As for the overly intimate behavior of the two men in front of him, he completely ignored it. It is well known that Nan Shao likes men, so there is nothing strange about it.

Zhang Yi shook his head, "We have discussed this matter, but most people are puzzled." After a pause, he frowned and said uncertainly, "Some people speculate that the new church or the top leaders of the base may know something. But they may not be willing to say it, otherwise they should have said it long ago."

"New Church?" Song Yan was a little surprised. The martial sect in the capital city had already surprised him enough, and he didn't expect a new religion to appear here. It seems that when the world is in chaos, all kinds of monsters and demons will emerge.

"It is a sect that was established and rose up when the mutant plants and animals appeared in Yunzhou Base. There are many masters among them, helping Yunzhou Base to successfully survive the disaster. They fight under the banner of resurrecting zombies and eliminating mutant creatures, and they do not discriminate against those who have not awakened, so they are very popular among ordinary survivors and have a great influence in Yunzhou Base." Zhang Yi explained. At this point, he remembered the black iron piece and glanced at Nan Shao, wondering if the iron piece was still there.

Whenever Zhang Yi spoke, Nan Shao's eyes would always fall on him. Seeing him looking at him, he couldn't help but reveal a questioning look. Zhang Yi smiled and shook his head slightly to indicate that it was all right. Then he said to Song Yan, "There are rumors that this wave of corpse beasts may be related to the Protestant Church. No one knows whether it is true or not, but what is certain is that if there were no Protestant Church, those mutant animals and mutant zombies would have already attacked the base." Regardless of whether people hate the Protestant Church's overbearing behavior in search of the black iron sheet, the Protestant Church's responsibility in times of crisis is unquestionable.

Song Yan ate very quickly. While Zhang Yi was talking, he had already finished his lunch box and soup. He put away the box, threw it to Li Muran, and said to her, "I will stay here for one night to make the situation clearer. You take them back first and come to pick me up tomorrow."

Before Li Muran answered, Zhang Yi had already said, "Muran, you take Shi Sange and Jie Chen away first, and A Shao will stay with me. Maybe he can play a role." Since he found his son and Nan Shao, his heart has been completely settled, and he can finally look around. The disaster of mankind is right in front of us. If we can escape for a while, can we still shrink and live in peace for the rest of our lives? Before, they were forced into a dead end, and they would save their lives if they could, so they naturally could not care about other things. But now they have a choice and a way out. If they still watch a base with more than 200,000 people go to ruin and do nothing, I think their own end is not far away. If he wants to stay, Nan Shao will definitely not leave either. This is a certainty, and there is no need to ask.

"I will stay too." Shi Pengsan said simply.

"Amitabha, count me as one." Jie Chen said with a smile. Although his internal strength is not deep enough now, at least he is not a burden, and he can still help others, which makes him feel very happy.

No one left, Li Muran was a little dumbfounded, looking at this, looking at that, and finally said hesitantly: "Or, I will stay too."

"What can you do here? You are in the way. Go back!" Song Yan directly rejected her idea.

Li Muran felt that she seemed to have a tendency to be masochistic. When Song Yan spoke to her in this tone that was almost like a lecture, she suddenly felt relaxed. The previous panic and tension disappeared without a trace. As for the fact that her contributions were ignored and her abilities were belittled, that was not a big deal.

Zhang Yi was more thoughtful and seemed to have noticed something, but he just smiled. Then he seemed to remember something, glanced at Chang Han, and said, "Muran, I also think it's better for you to go back. By the way, help me take a few people."

"Okay." Li Muran responded very readily. As long as she could do it, she would basically not refuse the request of her trusted friends.

So Zhang Yi turned around and called Chang Han over and told him about the matter. When he heard that there were six places to leave the base, Chang Han was almost crazy with joy, but after all, he had been struggling in the apocalypse for a year, so he quickly calmed down.

"Why don't you leave?" He wanted to know why such an opportunity was given to them, after all, the relationship between the two parties was just superficial.

"Xiao Chen and the other two have already left. We have something else to do and can only leave tomorrow." Zhang Yi explained briefly.

After hearing this, Chang Han turned around and walked towards his team without saying anything. He soon brought seven people, including five teenagers and two seriously injured men. "Let's take them. Thank

you for your help." He bent down and bowed solemnly to Li Muran. Li Muran stood up hurriedly, so nervous that he didn't know where to put his hands and feet. He kept saying, "Don't do this, don't do this... It's not a big deal."

Idiot. Song Yan cursed in her heart, but she didn't move or say anything. You have to know that it was a matter of six lives. Let alone bowing, even if she knelt down and kowtowed a few times, she would deserve it. If she was smarter, she would just take the opportunity to make things more difficult to get favors. Unlike her, she would sabotage herself first. Stupid, dumb, petty, timid, submissive, not very good-looking, and not clean... He secretly listed a series of Li Muran's shortcomings in his heart, but finally he exhaled heavily and admitted that he really thought she was quite pleasing to the eye. Even if he could get a woman who was both worldly-wise, beautiful, capable, and a hundred times smarter, he would not be willing to change.

"You can only take six people." Zhang Yi did not think so much, but looked at the people brought by Chang Han and reiterated.

"I'm not leaving, I just came to take a look." A young man said with a smile, but it was the one who followed Chang Han.

Obviously, they had discussed it before, so Chang Han was not surprised to hear his words, but looked at him with a hint of tenderness. It was obvious that the young man stayed for Chang Han, otherwise, with Chang Han's status in the team, it would not be difficult to get a place for his people to leave.

Zhang Yi nodded and stopped talking.

Li Muran didn't say anything. She packed up the lunch box and put it in her backpack, then led a few people away. The destination was still Zhang Yi's rental house, and then she would take people away from there.

However, she did it secretly when sending people back to the team. She didn't dare to let Yang Yang see it, for fear that the child would ask about his father and cry again. Then she discussed with Xiao Sheng to see if they could clear a place to stay a few kilometers ahead so that she could bring more people back. After all, every time she went there, she had to use her supernatural power once more because of this short distance. There were only two round trips. She could have run five times, but this turn would only allow her to run three times. It was really not cost-effective. She felt that if a fight really broke out, she couldn't help much, so it would be good to be able to save a few more people. The maximum number of times she could bring six people was ten times. Because she was going back alone, she should be able to run six or seven times a day, and bring about forty people. Compared with the number of more than 200,000 people, it was indeed insignificant, but it was better than doing nothing.

Xiao Sheng agreed generously, and immediately sent a team of more than 30 wood and earth-type mutants to sneak forward from the mutant forest, and built a thick earth and stone wall at a mountain pass five kilometers away to cut off the zombie tide, and then sent a large force to kill them. There were many zombies on the five-kilometer road, but the zombies that had already walked past were blocked by the wall and could not turn back, and the city behind was empty and there was no replenishment, so it was only a matter of time before they were killed. The difficult thing was the mutant animals that occasionally pounced on them, but there were not many of them and they could not cause any trouble.

When the cleanup was almost done, it was already dark, and Li Muran still went to the Yunzhou base. She had not used up her superpowers for the day, and it would be a pity to waste them.

Although it was dark, the mutant animals' attacks did not stop, but became more fierce. Zhang Yi and the others were no longer in the original place, and it was unknown where they had fought, but Li Muran was not worried, because she knew how terrible Song Yan was when he got angry, and she also knew that if Zhang Yi was not sure, he would never let his companions follow him to take risks. She saw the boy who was with Chang Han and a man who was probably newly injured under a collapsed earthen building not far from the defense wall. The man lost a leg, and the boy was trying to stop the bleeding.

"I'll take you to the convoy." Li Muran quietly approached and said.

The bleeding could not be stopped, and the boy was sweating profusely. When he saw her, he couldn't help showing a look of surprise on his face, as if he was relieved, but shook his head and said, "You take Cheng Xin away, I want to stay here, and I can help if someone is injured." The hole formed by the tilted earthen wall was leaking air on all sides. There was no fire, and only a little weak light leaked in from outside. Without using mental power, Li Muran could only vaguely see the outline of the boy, but he felt that he was indescribably elegant and graceful.

You can't even bandage to stop bleeding, and you don't have any medicine or bandages. What can you do to help? Li Muran pointed at him, but didn't say anything to hurt him.

"Okay." She nodded, and was about to bend down to help the man lying on the ground, whose body had begun to feel cold due to blood loss.

"Wait... wait a minute." The young man suddenly called her. When Li Muran looked up at him, he pointed outside with some difficulty, "There are many injured people there, some of whom are unattended. Can you take them out too?"

Several high-wattage light bulbs were lit in the base. Although fuel was in short supply now, humans were not as good as mutant animals in seeing in the dark, so lighting at night was necessary. There was no snow that night. Under the light, many injured people could be seen lying on the open space outside, wailing and groaning one after another. Some were still being taken care of, while others were alone and motionless, as if waiting to die. There were limited healing psychics in the base, and they simply could not take care of so many injured people. As for organizing ordinary people to form a rescue team, it was completely unnecessary in the eyes of most people. Without the rapid repair ability of the healing psychic, even if they were rescued, these people would not be able to fight again in a short time, and would only consume resources such as food and medicine, which was almost equivalent to a burden. It was unknown how many days the base could last. Apart from relatives and friends, who would have the heart to save them?

Seeing the miserable appearance of those people, Li Muran felt a little uncomfortable, and without hesitation, "Okay, you go and get them over here, I can still run a trip."

In the darkness, the young man grinned foolishly, and then rushed out like crazy, and soon brought back a few of the most seriously injured people. He didn't dare to involve too many people, for fear of attracting the attention of others and causing trouble for Li Muran, so he gritted his teeth and dragged people to the dark place on this side of the house. When six people were gathered, Li Muran didn't delay and immediately brought the people back to the place that had been cleared before. Xiao Sheng left people and cars there to pick her up.

Chapter 227 Reminiscing in the Dark Night

Xiao Sheng settled down in a place called Hulugou. The place is located fifteen kilometers outside Zhang County. As the name suggests, it is a ravine with a small entrance and a large interior. A small stream flows through the middle of the ravine. At this time, it is already frozen solid, and there is no problem for cars to drive over it. Hulugou covers an area of ​​hundreds of acres, surrounded by mountains on all sides. There are forty or fifty households living in the ravine, forming Hulugou Village. There is only one road leading to the outside world. Because it is not far from the county town, it also has water and electricity networks. Of course, these are no longer usable. Except for the farmhouse, the rest of the place has been reclaimed into fields and some grains and fruit trees have been planted. After the heavy rain, it has become a paradise for mutant plants.

Remove the mutant plants in the ravine and the zombies trapped in the house, and repair the house a little, and you can move in. The rural house is large, and it is no problem to squeeze sixty or seventy people in, not to mention that not everyone can rest.

Originally, Xiao Sheng wanted to find a place with a retreat, but looking at the Yunzhou base, he suddenly felt that his idea was very dangerous. After all, the Yunzhou base is well connected, and it was surrounded anyway. How could he ensure that the retreat route he left behind would not be blocked? Besides, would they have to keep running for their lives? Therefore, when the people who went out to explore the terrain came back to report, he immediately took a fancy to the place of Hulugou. This place is easy to defend, surrounded by mountains and intertwined mutant plants. It is not easy for mutant animals to break in, let alone zombies. The road in and out of the ravine can only accommodate one large truck, which is really a place where one man guards the pass and ten thousand men cannot open it. The only thing to worry about is being trapped here and running out of supplies. So when everything was arranged, he immediately sent people to build a warehouse for storing supplies in the high place of the ravine, close to the mountain wall, and waited until dawn to start collecting supplies from the empty county town and Longren City further away. According to his idea, at least enough supplies should be prepared for the consumption of the entire fleet for two to three years. Although the Yunzhou base is nearby, the larger grain warehouses and warehouses are estimated to have been emptied long ago, but judging from the number of zombies, there should still be some things left in the city center, so there is no need to worry. After all, there are too many people who died, and the existing supplies in the entire country are enough for the survivors to use up in ten years, provided that they are not broken or rotten. The reason why many survivors are short of food and clothing is that the places where these supplies are stored are too dangerous, such as the city center. Who dares to break in? At present, many places are empty of zombies, which is the best time to rob supplies.

Another thing that can barely be regarded as a pleasant surprise is that when Li Muran came to Hulugou with the car, she found that Hulugou was less than 20 kilometers away from the Yunzhou base. It turned out that the road leading to Hulugou was almost parallel to the road leading to the Yunzhou base, but it was cut off here in Hulugou. This means that she can bring people back to the camp directly in the future, and she no longer has to let the people in the team wait outside to pick her up. So she didn't wait for Xiao Sheng to find Long Xia and several healing psychics to treat the injuries of the people she brought back, and went back to the base directly.

At that time, the boy had gathered more than six injured people, and was still busy.

"I can't take so many tonight." Li Muran sighed, helped him drag a man to the corner and leaned against the wall, and said.

"It's okay, I'll take care of it first... Can you come again tomorrow?" The boy smiled shyly, and then realized that he seemed to be a little wishful thinking, and asked nervously.

Li Muran nodded, selected the six most seriously injured, and was about to take them away, when she saw the boy carrying a pile of wood with snow flakes from somewhere, holding a lighter and struggling to make a fire, obviously trying to provide some warmth to the remaining injured as much as possible.

"What's your name?" She couldn't help asking.

The boy coughed because of the smoke, and raised his head when he heard the words, rubbed his eyes that were sore from the smoke, and smiled brightly: "Sister, my name is Yunhao."

Li Muran looked at him deeply and said, "Live well." Then he left with the selected injured, so he didn't see the boy nodded heavily.

Li Muran had just appeared in the camp with his men. He Ruan and Long Xia, who were waiting there, had already taken over the injured and started to treat them. There was nothing for her to do anymore. Her special ability was not enough to support her to run back and forth again, so she secretly went to see Zhang Ruiyang and found that the little guy had already gone to bed with Fu Dan and the others. Because they were in a safe place, the children slept in all directions, which was rare and hearty. She breathed a sigh of relief, said hello to the sick ghost, and found a place to take a rest.

While she fell asleep, the people in the Yunzhou base were still fighting hard. Compared with the daytime, the mutant beasts at night are much more fierce and tenacious. It has been four hours, but there is no sign of weakening the offensive. Many people died, but the survivors fought more and more bravely, and no one retreated. They couldn't retreat, because if they retreated, they would be really finished.

While resisting the mutant beasts, Nan Shao and his men walked around the defense wall of the base and had a clear understanding of the situation of the entire base. Their strange behavior did not attract the attention of others. You know, there have been many people running around in the base these days, just trying to find a way to escape from the base. But it was futile. If there was really a way, who would be so stupid to stay here?

"If there is no other backup, it will never last more than five days." Finally, Song Yan concluded. As long as you are a human, there will be a limit. The people who can fight in the base have been resisting non-stop for three days and three nights. Even if the superpowers take the time to absorb the crystal core, the superpowers cannot be replenished, let alone physical strength. But what they are facing is not humans with equal physical strength and combat power, but mutant animals that they have to be careful to deal with even if their physical and mental health is at its peak. Therefore, as time goes by, the death rate of survivors is increasing every quarter of an hour. Song Yan will not be arrogant enough to think that his team has the ability to open up a way to escape within these five days.

"Do you have any ideas?" Zhang Yi asked.

"It's too early to say these now. I'm going to contact the top management of the base." Song Yan shook his head. The situation was like this. With only his unilateral efforts, it would be difficult for him to do anything else except killing a few more zombies and mutant animals.

A mutant beast that could not be identified pounced on him, bringing with it a fierce wind blade. Zhang Yi was about to dodge when Nan Shao got there first. With Nan Shao around, anything slightly dangerous could not get close to him. Zhang Yi enjoyed the feeling of being taken care of in every possible way, so even in a bad situation, the corners of his lips were still raised unconsciously. It was a long-lost smile from the heart.

"If we shrink the defense line and everyone takes turns to resist, everyone can get enough rest and should be able to hold out longer." He said, looking back at the base that was still dark in the depths even under the light. "But if mutant animals attack, there will be less room for everyone to escape and move."

"It's not much better now." Song Yan pawed a mutant cat's belly, wiped his hands on its fur, threw it outside the wall, and then took out his gloves and put them on to cover the dark and cold scales. "Don't go, wait for me here." After saying that, without waiting for an answer, he jumped off the defense wall and ran to the high-level command center of the base that Zhang Yi had pointed out before.

"Mu Ran's friend has a very special ability." Zhang Yi turned his head and said casually.

"It's not a superpower." Nan Shao said. At this time, the attack had gradually weakened, especially around them. Maybe because of the presence of Nan Shao and Song Yan, there were basically no mutant beasts coming here. Nan Shao had time to turn around and face Zhang Yi, pulled off his scarf, and slightly opened his collar to reveal the black ant armor inside. "He is definitely a beast like me."

He did not avoid Shi Pengsan and Jie Chen. They had experienced so many things together and were familiar with each other's temperament. Although he rarely paid attention to other people except Zhang Yi most of the time, it did not mean that he did not trust them.

"What's the matter with the transformation into a beast? Oh, you haven't told me yet, how did you become like this?" Zhang Yi reached out and touched the small half of the ant armor under his eyes, confirming that it was connected to the facial skin and not a mask. The same was true on his neck. His face could not help

but become slightly solemn. He pulled his clothes back on and asked. People did not lower the defense wall. With the experience of the previous two nights, they knew that the next wave of attacks by the mutant animals would not be too long. It would be dawn by the time they survived. If nothing unexpected happened, they should have two hours of rest time. So they basically rested on the spot and did not waste energy running up and down.

Nan Shao hugged Zhang Yi tightly, not wanting to let go for a long time. Since the moment they met, there was a fire burning in his heart, hot and passionate, as if it could burn him to ashes, but because of the wrong time and place, he could only suppress it. At this time, when Zhang Yi touched him lightly, he couldn't control himself.

Jie Chen sat cross-legged on the ground and began to practice the skills taught by his master, striving to recover most of his strength before the next battle. Shi Pengsan stayed away from the outer wall and picked up two rotten stones from nowhere and sat together. The night before, someone was very tired and leaned against the outer wall to rest, but was bitten off half of his body by a mutant animal that came out of the darkness. Since then, people have never been willing to get too close to the wall when they rest.

"Look at those two idiots, they are about to die and still have the mind to hug each other." Someone in the distance saw the two people standing there like two pillars and sneered.

"I think you are jealous." His companion smiled bitterly, "I will die with a smile even if I die with my beloved." His voice was a little hoarse when he said the last part. I wonder if he was thinking of his wife or lover.

The man who spoke first fell silent. Zhang Yi also patted Nan Shao on the shoulder. When his emotions calmed down a little, the two finally separated and sat down shoulder to shoulder.

"I walked along the direction of the ant colony, and then found the queen ant in the tunnel. That thing was more than 300 meters long and attached to the top of the tunnel, like a big whale..." Nan Shao grabbed Zhang Yi's hand and casually recalled while repairing the crack on his hand. Zhang Yi's combat power was strong, surpassing most of the superpowers, but his body did not have the strong resistance and repair power of the awakened. In the severe cold weather, his hands had long been swollen and cracked. He didn't feel it when his attention was distracted during the battle, but once he relaxed, he couldn't even hold the knife.

Shi Pengsan, who had closed his eyes to rest, opened his eyes, obviously attracted by Nan Shao's words. Zhang Yi, however, cried out softly, feeling extremely upset. When they were searching in the tunnel, no one looked up. When he heard that Nan Shao had been swallowed by the ant queen, he was even more frightened and broke out in a cold sweat. He tightly grasped Nan Shao's hand, terrified.

"Have you been in the stomach of the queen ant for the past few months?" he asked, his eyes slightly red, and his voice was like filing sand. He was blaming himself. If he had found the queen ant on the top of the tunnel earlier, perhaps Nan Shao would not have been trapped for so long. Being locked up for a few more days can drive a person crazy, not to mention staying in such a confined space for several months. Don't even think about it. No food, no air, no one to talk to, and the danger of being digested into food residue at any time. How terrible it feels.

Nan Shao smiled and raised his hand to touch Zhang Yi's face, as if he wanted to comfort him, but when he saw the frosty white hair, his smile froze and his voice became low, "Compared to you, it was nothing. I was confused at the time, and I just kept absorbing the vitality of the queen ant, so I didn't feel any pain." Unlike you, you have to be sober to bear the pain of losing your loved ones. Nan Shao knew very well that if it were him, he would probably go crazy after not finding Zhang Yi.

"What happened next?" Shi Pengsan, who had been silent all the time, found that the topic was going astray, and he said something.

"Later, I sucked the vitality of the queen ant and finally escaped from the cocoon it made." Nan Shao glanced at him, and seemed a little dissatisfied with him disturbing his and Zhang Yi's world of two people, but when he said this, he suddenly laughed. "You can't imagine what I looked like at that time." He said this to Zhang Yi. Similarly, the smile was also directed at Zhang Yi, and it was definitely not for the annoying Shi San.

"What was it like?" Zhang Yi suppressed his heartache and asked with a little curiosity.

"I can't see it, but it definitely looks like an ant. There are two antennae on the head, the hands and feet are all ant legs, and there is another pair here..." Nan Shao described his image at that time nonchalantly. There was no trace of coldness and ruthlessness. Instead, he looked like a child eager to present treasures to adults, eager to make Zhang Yi smile, and then forget those unpleasant things. "The wings on my back are still there. You don't know, when I met Yangyang, I was almost destroyed by others as a mutant beast, and it was Yangyang who saved me." After speaking, he looked at Zhang Yi eagerly.

Receiving the expectation in his eyes, although Zhang Yi felt bitter in his heart, he still forced himself to smile and praised: "You look very handsome like this."

"Yangyang said so too." Nan Shao replied as if pretending to be indifferent, but he couldn't help it, and there was a smile in the corners of his eyes and eyebrows.

Chapter 228 Preliminary Plan

Unfortunately, the warm time was short-lived, and another wave of attacks by mutant beasts began. The sounds of fighting rose and fell in the dark night. The screams of humans, the sweet smell of blood, the roars of zombies outside the base, and the smell of rot mixed together, making people feel like they were in hell. Maybe you were still laughing with your companions the moment before, but at this moment you have already died under the sharp claws and teeth of mutant beasts, just like the man who laughed at Nan Shao Zhang Yi before.

Time passed so slowly, and dawn seemed to never come. The night is a fertile ground for negative emotions to grow. Finally, someone couldn't bear the despair and fear when he was exhausted physically and mentally, and chose to commit suicide. This was the first suicide incident that occurred after the base was besieged. Although no one else followed suit for the time being, it cast a heavy shadow on everyone's already uncomfortable hearts. Fortunately, the base responded not long after.

"Don't lose heart, everyone. The base just got the news that the army has arrived and is trying to help us build an escape passage outside. Cheer up, everyone. We have endured for so long. If we die before the passage is opened, it will be a shame, right? Suicide? That's something only cowards and fools would do. Think about your father, mother, son, daughter, elder brother, elder sister, younger brother, younger sister, wife and husband. If you don't live well, who can you be worthy of? Hey! Hey! By the way, is there anyone with earth-related superpowers? All earth-related superpowers should report to the command center. Hurry up, this is a matter of life and death for everyone." People walked by in various parts of the base, knocking on pots and pans with sticks and shouting. They were obviously saying things that could not be verified and were more likely to be lies, but they lit a little fire in the dark and cold hearts of the survivors.

"Is what you said true? How did the base know that there were troops outside? Aren't radios and other things unusable?" Someone asked loudly while dealing with the mutant beasts.

"Of course it's true. I lied to you that I had food to eat, wine to drink, and women to sleep with? As for how I knew that, can you ask?"

"Why do you ask the earth-type mutants?"

"You'll know when you go. You are earth-type? What, no? Then why are you asking? If you have the time, you should kill more mutant beasts."

Such conversations were played out all the time, and people's emotions were obviously aroused. Even if they didn't get a positive answer, it didn't affect their gradually active heartbeats at all.

"It seems that Song Yan's goal has been achieved." Zhang Yi whispered as he watched the person who conveyed the message walk away. "How did he make the top leaders of the base believe him?" Could it be that Song Yan really had the ability to make a passage through this dense tide of corpses and beasts? How could this be possible?

Soon he had the answer. Song Yan turned back at dawn, and in the distance behind him, a wall of earth was slowly rising from the ground.

"I promised to let Muran send their relatives out first." Song Yan didn't say the specific process, but directly threw out the result. When they reach a dead end, there is an opportunity in front of them. I believe that few people are willing to let it go easily, even if they are full of doubts. "I'm going to try to lure these zombies and mutant beasts away from here. As long as some of them are dispersed, the rest can be dealt with in the same way. But before that, the base must hold on, otherwise everything will be in vain."

"So recruiting those earth-based abilities is to build a city within a city?" After all, they had talked about it before, so Zhang Yi immediately reacted

when he heard this. Song Yan nodded and glanced at the survivors who were sleeping against the defense wall. Finally, it was dawn. The beast tide receded. People finally got two hours of rest time. Some fell asleep against the wall without eating anything, and some snored with food in their mouths, not to mention finding something to wrap around themselves to resist the cold. So some ordinary people walked along with quilts and blankets and covered them.

"The base is preparing to build a new defense wall inside, shrinking the defense line to one-third of the current one, or more. Then let the wood-type superpowers plant mutant plants in the open space between the inner and outer defense walls. At that time, the number of mutant beasts attacking should be greatly reduced. In this way, it is estimated that it can last for a long time. The food stored in the base is enough for everyone to eat for two months. I hope that this tide of corpse beasts can be eliminated during this period."

"Planting mutant plants, this is a good idea." Zhang Yi pondered, and then frowned again: "But there are probably not many wood-type superpowers in the base."

"Only two." Song Yan said lightly. In fact, at the beginning of the end of the world, the number of people who awakened the wood-type superpower was no less than that of other superpowers, but because it was difficult to improve and had no use in the early stage, it was always regarded as a waste superpower and was rejected by the superpower team. It was left to fend for itself, so most people died when their abilities were still weak. It was not until the mutant plants appeared that everyone realized the preciousness of the wood-type superpower, but it was too late to regret.

"With only two people, it may be difficult to complete the task in a short time." Zhang Yi said, and couldn't help but glanced at Nan Shao. Nan Shao was mistaken for a wood-type superpower at first, and he was quite good at promoting plant growth.

"Okay, I'll join." Nan Shao agreed without him saying anything.

"There are six wood-type superpowers in my team. Let Muran bring them here. That should be enough." Song Yan said slowly. Because of the special nature and personnel composition of his team, none of the wood-type superpowers were lost. Later, Xie Qiusheng, who came back from the capital, was also a wood-type. To be precise, there were not six, but seven. Add the two in the base and Nan Shao, which is equivalent to ten wood-type superpowers. If they still can't do this, they might as well die.

Zhang Yi and the others couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Regardless of whether Song Yan's plan was successful, as long as the mutant plants were planted well, with their growth rate, it would only take one night for anything to get close to the newly built defense wall. You have to know that mutant plants have no spirituality and can distinguish between humans and mutant beasts, as well as zombies. As long as you get close to it, it will attack indiscriminately. With this strong protective circle, the survivors in the base will feel much more relaxed. As long as there is enough food, they will probably have no problem holding on.

"Okay, don't worry so much, go to sleep." Nan Shao felt that Zhang Yi was paying too much attention to irrelevant people, and impatiently pushed him down on his legs, then picked up a quilt that he had asked for from an ordinary person passing by and wrapped him up.

Zhang Yi laughed, knowing that he was worried about him, of course he would not refuse, but just pulled the quilt to cover him, and said, "Let's sleep together." After all, they had been through a night and would have to fight hard later. If they didn't take the time to rest, they might not be able to hold on.

"Hmm." Nan Shao responded, raised his hand to cover his eyes, and closed his eyes and leaned against the wall.

Zhang Yi was indeed very tired, and he snored as soon as he closed his eyes. Nan Shao opened his eyes and looked at his tired and haggard face, his eyes full of heartache. He raised his hand to touch the white hair, but stopped halfway for fear of waking him up. He just kept staring at that face, as if he could never see enough.

Chapter 229 Zhang Yi slept very soundly in Hulugou

. He even felt that he had slept for a very long time, so long that his whole spirit and energy were restored. When he woke up, he realized that it was not an illusion at all, but because he had left the base and slept in a room with a fire burning not far away. Although he was still lying on the ground, compared with the base full of cold and danger, this place was like heaven. His head was still resting

on Nan Shao's legs, and Nan Shao's upper body was leaning against the long sofa behind him, also sleeping. The other half of the sofa was crowded with Shi Pengsan and Jie Chen, snoring loudly in the room. Everyone was exhausted and didn't even bother to find a place to sleep. In addition, there were other people in the room.

A small figure sat on a small bench, holding a toy car in his hand, playing there silently. But after playing for a while, he would raise his head and look at Zhang Yi. The first person Zhang Yi woke up to startle was Nan Shao, and the second was him. The little guy screamed, threw his toy car, rushed over, and fell into Zhang Yi's arms.

"Dad! Dad!" The little guy screamed very softly to avoid waking up others, but the joy in his voice did not diminish at all.

Zhang Yi hugged his son who had hardly grown any flesh, sat up, and kissed his dirty little face several times. The stubble that had not been shaved for several days made the little guy laugh loudly, but he hurriedly covered his mouth with his little hands. His big dark eyes looked at Shi Pengsan and Jie Chen, and found that he did not disturb them. Then he laughed and arched his head into Zhang Yi's arms.

Nan Shao bent his numb legs, leaned sideways on the sofa, and watched the father and son playing, his eyes full of pampering and relief. The melancholy and decadence that Zhang Yi had been unable to get rid of were finally swept away, and the whole person seemed to have been reborn. Even the frost-white hair seemed to be glowing, no longer making people feel heartbroken at first sight.

"Dad, are you hungry? I'll get you something to eat." Zhang Ruiyang asked quietly while holding Zhang Yi's neck. Before Zhang Yi could answer, he got up and ran out.

The child was so agile that Zhang Yi didn't have time to call him back. He was stunned for a moment, and then laughed. He patted Nan Shao's leg and stood up: "I'll get some water to wash up."

Nan Shao naturally stood up as well. The two did not go to find the water-based superpowers in the team, but found an aluminum kettle in the house, knocked ice cubes from the river, melted them on the fire and heated them. There was a can of salt in the kitchen, so they took it and used their fingers to clean their mouths. They tore off a piece of curtain cloth, poured some hot water, and wiped their already dirty face and neck. While they were washing, Zhang Ruiyang came in with a few children, carrying several large bags of things. The series of noises woke up Shi Pengsan and Jie Chen, who both felt they had a good rest. So they stopped sleeping and got up to stretch their crackling joints. They each got some hot water and started to wash.

"Uncle!"

"Hello, uncle!"

"Uncle, are you Xiao Yangyang's father?"

The three children were very polite. Although their eyes were full of curiosity, they all called out to him. After Zhang Yi smiled and rubbed their heads one by one and asked their names, the chatterbox Wu Ziran began to revert to his old ways.

"Uncle, why is your hair white? How old are you? You are so handsome, but not as handsome as my dad."

"My dad is more handsome." Zhang Ruiyang, who was taking cans from the bag, was not happy and raised his head to refute.

"You haven't seen my dad, how do you know your dad is more handsome than my dad?" Wu Ziran pouted and pointed out the loophole in Zhang Ruiyang's words.

"My dad is the most handsome. Uncle Pumpkin is the second most handsome, and Uncle Fatty is the third most handsome..." Zhang Ruiyang announced confidently, not thinking that he had said anything wrong.

Wu Ziran pouted and said angrily, "Uncle Fatty is not handsome at all, okay! Uncle Director is more handsome than him."

"Uncle Director is also very handsome." Zhang Ruiyang thought about it, then nodded and admitted honestly.

So Wu Ziran curved his eyes into the shape of a moon with great pride, but he didn't realize that the topic had gone off track. Fu Dan and Li Yuanzhuo were much more reliable. They were busy helping Zhang Yi and the others set up the pot to cook noodles. Zhang Yi took over the cooking job while happily watching the two little kids bickering there. Nan Shao went out, and no one knew where he went. Shi Pengsan and Jie Chen finished washing up, said hello to Zhang Yi, and left the house.

"Uncle, you don't know that at that time, Sister Muran, Xiao Yangyang, and Dudu fell into our house and almost knocked over the soup we were cooking..."

With the little chatterbox, Zhang Yi soon learned what happened to Zhang Ruiyang and Li Muran after they were separated from them, how they met Song Yan, and the sick ghost, and even more so, that Dudu kidnapped Yangyang. The little girl was very eloquent, and Zhang Yi's heart was up and down, and his face changed several times. Especially when he heard that Li Muran and the oldest boy named Fu Dan almost died, he was even more scared. His eyes stayed on Fu Dan's deformed right arm for a moment, and thinking of his leg disease, he knew that Nan Shao should be able to restore it to its original state. But he didn't say it, everything depended on Nan Shao's intention.

Zhang Ruiyang was a little unhappy about Wu Ziran always following his father and chattering non-stop. He ran over and hugged Zhang Yi's legs, letting him drag him along, which immediately attracted Zhang Yi's attention back. Zhang Yi laughed and carried the little guy on his back. Although he wanted to clean the dirty little face several times, he finally decided to wait until he found something like antifreeze. After all, the child's face was tender. Even if he was wrapped tightly, it would still be easy for the cold wind to blow and crack the face in such weather, or even frostbite.

Looking at Yangyang lying on his father's back and playing, the three children showed envy in their eyes, as well as indescribable sadness and sadness, probably because they thought of their own father. Zhang Yi observed carefully and felt a little pity in his heart, but he said nothing. It's useless to say anything about the loss of a parent.

When the noodles were almost cooked, Nan Shao, Shi Peng and the three Jie Chen came back together, followed by the three Routa Chens who came back earlier than them, and Chang Han, each holding some food in their hands.

It turned out that the first thing Li Muran did when she woke up in the morning was to go to the base to find them. Song Yan had to come back to arrange the rescue, so there was no need for Nan Shao and the others to stay in the base, so she brought everyone back directly. Maybe because of Nan Shao's presence, Zhang Yi was sleeping very deeply at that time, so she didn't wake him up, and she brought the others directly to this room. There was also a person sent by the base who came back with them, obviously to confirm what Song Yan said.

Later, Li Muran ran a few more times, first bringing a dozen of the strongest fighters in the convoy to replace Zhang Yi and the others, and at the same time brought Chang Han and his people back, including a few wounded people that Yun Hao had collected. After a night, although Yun Hao tried his best to take care of them, several people died and were seriously injured. The only thing to be thankful for was that Yun Hao chose a good hiding place, and they were not attacked by mutant beasts.

"Fuck his grandfather's mutant monster! Fuck his grandfather's zombie! Fuck his ancestors' end of the world..." Chang Han kept cursing, a grown man crying like a baby in confinement. Nine of his brothers died, and they had supported each other and fought side by side all the way. How could he not feel heartbroken?

Everyone was a little sad, and the children were even more stunned, probably because they had never seen an adult cry like this. Even the noisiest Wu Ziran shut his mouth, and Zhang Ruiyang slid down from his father's back, leaned out half of his body, and tentatively touched the crying Chang Han, his eyes full of water, and said softly: "Don't cry, if you cry again, everyone will cry too." After saying this, he actually cried loudly.

Zhang Yi's eyes felt sore for a while, and he held the little guy in his arms, patting his back gently while slightly raising his head. When he was released from prison and returned home, he saw his mother dead in bed and cried like this. At that time, the little guy said almost the same thing, "Don't cry, if you cry again, I will cry too." Then he sat on the floor next to him and cried with him, even louder and more miserable than he cried. At that time, the little guy didn't know that he was his father. When this scene happened again, he found that he was still heartbroken.

Nan Shao was a little confused, but he reached out and hugged the father and son in his arms. With this disturbance, Chang Han was not so sad. He wiped his tears and snot with his hands embarrassedly, looking at the little guy crying in his father's arms, feeling embarrassed and at a loss.

"Yangyang, why are you crying?" Fu Dan and Li Yuanzhuo were still a little restrained, but Wu Ziran had no scruples. He squatted beside Zhang Yi and asked curiously.

Zhang Ruiyang didn't know if he heard it or not, but the crying didn't stop at all.

"But uncle has stopped crying. Now everyone is watching you cry alone. It's so embarrassing." Wu Ziran continued to cry, completely forgetting that he had cried in front of many people before.

"Burp..." Zhang Ruiyang shrugged his shoulders and burped. The sound gradually became smaller, but he was still humming softly. Then he struggled to get into his father's arms. He peeked at Chang Han sitting next to him from under his armpit and found that he really didn't cry anymore, so the humming gradually stopped. It's just that he cried too hard before, so he couldn't stop for a while and kept sobbing there.

"Ah, you're not crying anymore? But why are you crying?" Wu Ziran held up his chin, as if he had to get to the bottom of it, but almost immediately, he was dragged out of the door by Fu Dan and Li Yuanzhuo. It's

so embarrassing. The two teenagers, one big and one small, silently wiped the non-existent cold sweat from their heads and smiled bitterly at each other. If Wu Ziran was not a girl, they would probably have been unable to bear it and beat her up.

The adults in the room were dumbfounded at first, but soon burst into laughter, and the previous sadness was swept away. Zhang Ruiyang thought he was laughing at himself, and he was so embarrassed that he hid in his father's arms and didn't want to show his head.

"In fact, we are still lucky to be able to leave the base early, otherwise, there would be few people who could survive." Routa Chen patted Chang Han on the shoulder and said.

Chang Han had to admit that he and the surviving brothers were able to escape from that terrible place because of Zhang Yi and his group. Otherwise, they should still be waiting for death in despair in the base, just like everyone else in the base.

Xu Jing, Jie Chen and Pei Yuan distributed the noodles they picked up to everyone one by one. Although Chang Han had eaten some food before, he didn't feel embarrassed to eat more because he was in someone else's territory, so he didn't hesitate.

"Those wood-type abilities have collected enough mutant plants. Sister Muran sent them over, but she has used up her ability today. She should be here soon." Little Pei Yuan said while eating. Like Chang Han, the three of them had eaten something before, but they still felt that it was more enjoyable to eat noodles with everyone at this time. "Mr. Song only left more than a hundred people to guard the camp, and sent the others out to separately lead away the zombies surrounding the base..."

As they were talking, Li Muran had already walked in, and Routa Chen hurriedly put down the bowl and went to cook noodles for her.

"Brother Chen, you eat, I'll do it myself, otherwise the noodles will freeze." Li Muran didn't ask him to help, and he quickly boiled water and added seasonings. At the same time, he turned to Nan Shao and said, "Brother Shao, there are two people in the team who may need your help. They have been in a coma for several months, and no one knows what happened." At the beginning, Yun Ze and the other two were knocked unconscious by Lin An, and the healing psychics in the team were powerless. The first person she thought of was Nan Shao. If Nan Shao could cure the two, maybe he could also cure Song Yan.

Nan Shao hummed, which was considered an agreement. He was supposed to go with them to grow mutant plants, but Li Muran couldn't go to the base today, so he had one day to do some chores.

"There's also Uncle Sick Ghost." Zhang Ruiyang had stopped crying a long time ago. He was holding a large bowl commonly used in rural areas, squatting on the ground like the adults, eating happily. He raised his head and said.

Li Muran saw a small piece of noodles hanging on his little face and couldn't help laughing, "Yes, there's Uncle Sick Ghost." Although she said so, she was a little nervous in her heart. She didn't know whether Sick Ghost was willing to let Nan Shao treat him, and the same was true for Song Yan.

Zhang Yi couldn't help laughing, and reached out to wipe the noodles stuck on his son's face, and asked: "What is the origin of Sick Ghost?" He had heard about Sick Ghost from Wu Ziran before, and always felt that this person was a little weird.

"It's hard to explain, but he's very powerful..." Li Muran recounted the process of meeting Sick Ghost, and even mentioned that he had been refusing to eat.

"It was very, very powerful. In that place, Auntie, you disappeared. That night, a very fierce zombie ran in and killed many people. In the end, Uncle Sick Ghost came out and killed it in one go. I also saw the corpse of the zombie. It was very scary and no one could cut it with a knife." Zhang Ruiyang held the bowl and added seriously, "But the next day, Uncle Sick Ghost was very sick. It was the driver uncle who took me to ask for a lot of medicine for him to take, and then he was cured. Later, Uncle Sick Ghost taught Brother A Dan and the others to practice kung fu, and Brother A Dan and the others also became very powerful. But Uncle Sick Ghost didn't let me practice. Uncle Sick Ghost said that I should practice Big Tiger... Hey, by the way, Auntie Muran, I found a lot of flowers for you..." The little guy suddenly remembered what he had collected.

"Flowers?" Li Muran was confused.

Zhang Ruiyang tried to think about it, and finally remembered: "They said it was sanitary napkins. I took a lot of them and put them with the driver uncle. I'll get them for you." As he said that, he wanted to put down the bowl and rush out.

The sound of choking came from different directions, and several people sprayed noodles out of their noses at once. Li Muran was caught off guard and blushed. She didn't know whether she was angry or amused. She quickly held the little guy down, said thank you, and then pointed to the half bowl of noodles left: "Eat the noodles first." She knew the little guy's appetite, and a big bowl of noodles was not a problem at all.

"Okay." Zhang Ruiyang listened to her and picked up the bowl. Suddenly, she remembered that she had forgotten something, "Dudu is gone. Where did it go?"

No one could answer this question. Li Muran and others couldn't help but look at Dudu's "father".

"It's nearby." Nan Shao answered without hesitation. Since he turned into an ant, he began to feel the connection between himself and Dudu. He didn't know if it was because he used his supernatural power to hatch it.

"When will it come back?" Zhang Ruiyang asked.

"In a few days." Nan Shao used an affirmative tone, because even if the bastard bug didn't come back by itself, he would go and pull it back.

So Zhang Ruiyang quieted down, and the adults were able to continue their topic.

"If he doesn't eat, could he be an advanced zombie that has evolved?" Pei Yuan asked. They had encountered several evolved zombies in Xiaojie Village, and two of them seemed to have intelligence, so they couldn't help but guess this.

"He's not interested in people either." Li Muran shook her head. She didn't think this would be the answer, either emotionally or rationally. "I once guessed that he might be a member of Wuzong, but later I found out that he wasn't."

"What is Wuzong?" Everyone was a little sensitive to these two words.

Li Muran explained, and everyone fell silent. They never thought that there was another kind of person in this world. If they were in a peaceful world, they might never hear these two words in their lives.

"I don't know if Wuzong has anything to do with the Protestant religion. The Protestant people should also use martial arts that do not exist in the secular world, otherwise it would not be so easy to deal with mutant beasts and evolved zombies." Shi Pengsan, who had been silent all the time, suddenly spoke. There was no

conclusion to this matter, so they didn't continue talking about it.

"What does he want you to help him find?" Zhang Yi asked after a long time.

"I don't know. I will go and fulfill my promise after this is over." Li Muran replied.

Zhang Yi frowned slightly, and a thought flashed through his mind, but he didn't say it out loud. He just said, "Let me know when you leave."

Li Muran smiled and agreed. This was the right thing to do. With such a close relationship, she couldn't leave quietly.

Chapter 230 Reasons for the Siege

Nan Shao went to see Yun Ze and the other man and found that their problems were not serious. There were only a few black cracks thinner than spider silk in the two thin areas on the bottom of the brain on both sides and the surrounding area of ​​the front brain. If Song Yan saw it, he would know that the thin area was the hippocampus and the front was the frontal lobe of the brain, both of which were related to memory. Of course, injuries in the brain, no matter how small, are fatal.

In the past few months, the two men have been relying on nasogastric tubes to feed some liquid food such as rice porridge to maintain their lives. The two tall and strong men were now so thin that only skeletons were left. Even if they were cured, it would take some time to recover, and they would not be able to participate in the battle in the short term.

It only took Nan Shao half a day to solve the problem. After he absorbed the huge life energy of the ant mother, his superpowers were no longer the same as when he saved Zhang Yi, not to mention that the injuries of the two were actually not as serious as Zhang Yi's at the beginning. However, when he saw the sick ghost, he was stunned for a moment, and then turned around and left.

"It can't be cured. He is different from us." He said this to Li Muran who caught up with him, and then without waiting for her to ask, he carried Zhang Ruiyang and grabbed Zhang Yi and walked away quickly.

"What is the difference, Brother Shao? You don't explain it clearly." Li Muran scratched his short hair and muttered depressedly, but in the end he didn't chase Nan Shao to ask, but turned around and went back to the room where the sick ghost stayed.

"Brother Sick..." She sat cross-legged in front of the sick ghost. She wanted to ask directly, but the words slipped away and changed: "You know the reason why the base was surrounded, right?" She found it difficult to ask about other people's background.

The sick ghost lay on the sofa, breathing evenly, motionless, as if he was asleep. He was obviously able to move without any hindrance, but he would never stand if he could sit, and would never sit if he could lie down. He didn't know how he could stand not moving all day long.

"Sick brother, can you tell me why all those zombies and mutants are rushing to Yunzhou base?" Li Muran knew that he was not asleep, or rather, at any time, he could be suspected that he was not asleep at all, but just impatient to care about what was happening outside. "

As long as I don't do anything, it's okay to tell you. But are you ready to listen?" The sick ghost didn't open his eyes, but he spoke, his tone was as slow and indifferent as ever, as if nothing and no one in this world could move him.

Li Muran just asked this question with the idea that he was idle and wanted to see if he could get something out of him. This was the case every time he talked to the sick ghost. He never thought that he would really answer. When he heard his words at this time, he was stunned, and at the same time, he felt a great sense of uneasiness in his heart. His intuition told her that she couldn't continue, but she stiffened her neck and nodded her head after all. Because she knew that if she got this answer, maybe she could continue to ask another more important question.

The sick ghost still closed his eyes, but seemed to be able to see her movements. "It was Qin Xuan who did it." He said.

"Who is Qin Xuan?" Li Muran was startled. She had been prepared to hear a shocking answer, but she didn't expect it to be these few words. Although these words are extremely scary if you think about it carefully, they are still different from her psychological expectations.

"My friend." The sick ghost then revealed something more shocking than the previous one.

"Huh?" Li Muran was a little confused.

"In the past. I am what I am now thanks to him." The sick ghost said lightly.

"He is... a person?" Li Muran asked carefully.

The sick ghost did not answer.

Li Muran did not give up and asked again: "Why did he do this? How did he do it?"

The sick ghost finally opened his eyes, and for the first time there was a look of sarcasm in his eyes, but it soon disappeared without a trace, and returned to a calm look: "This whole world belongs to him, how do you say he did it?"

Li Muran was stunned, and then laughed out loud, a little helpless: "Sick brother, don't joke." Although she always felt that he disdained to lie, this answer was too ridiculous. Who dared to say that he owned the whole world.

The sick ghost sat up slowly and glanced to the side. He saw Yuan Jinshu, who was hiding in some corner, immediately brought out a basin of hot water with a clean towel in the water. Yuan Jinshu's legs had been connected, but he was no longer arrogant and unruly. He was as obedient as a chicken in front of the sick ghost.

"The entire planet was refined by him and filled with dark and foul air to cultivate the Dark Beast King." The sick ghost put his hand into the water to wash it, and said absurd words carelessly. "This is his true spirit world, so he can do whatever he wants."

God? He can't be talking about God... Li Muran's mind was buzzing, and this thought came to his mind.

Crazy! Yuan Jinshu, who was respectfully holding the water and bending over to help the sick ghost wash, secretly pooh-poohed. He would never believe these nonsense, even if the person who said it scared him very much.

It turned out that when Song Yan and others brought Yuan Jinshu, whose leg was broken, back to the base, the sick ghost thought that Yuan Jinshu was quite useful, so he used some means to control him and made him his special thug and slave. Yuan Jinshu hated him to death, but he didn't dare to run away. It was not that he was honest, but the lesson of running away was too painful.

"You mean... we humans are just like the pigs he raises?" Li Muran said with some difficulty. In fact, she didn't want to continue this topic, because the words spit out from the sick ghost's mouth were more absurd than a fairy tale.

"It's a Gu. It's like you raise Gu worms. Before he refined it, the wasteland you were in was full of all kinds of dark and negative emotions, which was very suitable for the growth of dark creatures. Then he drained the already scarce spiritual energy, and it became fertile soil for cultivating the Dark Beast King. In fact, humans are also one of the dark beasts. In his eyes, they are no different from those mutant creatures and zombies." The sick ghost corrected. "This time, he let the zombies and mutants besiege the human base, most likely because he likes to see others struggling desperately. If more bases are besieged at the same time, it means that he thinks there are still too many humans and needs to be reduced. You can verify this later. You'd better pray that it is the former, because the former is only what he will do when he is in a whim. But if it is the latter, then unless you stop multiplying and developing, you may face more than one purge."

Yuan Jinshu glanced at Li Muran with pity, wondering how she could listen to these nonsense, and listen so seriously. Sure enough, if you hang out with a psychopath, even if you are not a psychopath, you are almost the same. Then he thought that he would be with this charlatan in the future, and he suddenly became desperate.

"That..." Li Muran opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say. Finally, he laughed dryly twice, "Sick brother, you are really a joke." Then he got up and walked out in a daze, and swallowed all the other questions back into his stomach.

The sick ghost didn't look up at her, as if he had expected this result. In fact, he didn't care whether she believed it or not, just like he felt that there was nothing to hide about these things. He said what he wanted to say, and it was up to others to believe it or not. Of course, they had better not believe it, otherwise they would be overwhelmed by greater despair than now, because no matter how they struggled, they could not escape from this refined planet. In fact, it was better not to believe it. It took tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years to refine the powerful Dark Beast King. Qin Xuan couldn't have been paying attention to this place all the time. The written civilization of Huaguo was only a few thousand years, so these tens of thousands of years, or even hundreds of thousands of years, were enough for countless generations of humans to live happily, and even rebuild civilization. Knowing the truth was really of no benefit to them.

As soon as she walked out of the door, Li Muran's face froze. For a moment, she even thought that the sick ghost was actually a mental patient who was addicted to the novels of cultivation. However, his past knowledge of mutant creatures and his accurate predictions of some things dispelled her thoughts. Even so, she would not believe his words, and would rather think that he was teasing her because he was too bored. In today's world where science and technology have developed rapidly for nearly a hundred years, except for devout religious believers, who else believes that there are ghosts, gods, and Buddhas in this world, and God who can punish humans? And now suddenly someone came out and told her that he might be a god, God. She was polite for not beating him up like a lunatic. Did she have to bow down and worship him? Seeing

the children playing in the snow not far away and exercising their speed and agility, she rubbed her stiff face and walked over. As for what the sick ghost said, she had thrown it behind her mind and had no intention of telling others, not for the sake of keeping it secret, but because she felt it was unnecessary. What to say to others? Should I tell them that there is actually a deity who has been demoted to the earth around them? She could even imagine the reactions of the crowd when they heard this. Brother Yi was kind and would just laugh it off; Brother Pang would definitely laugh out loud and would bring up the past in front of her from time to time; the director would slap her in the face and scold her severely, asking if she had thrown everything she learned away... I'm afraid only Pei Yuan, who likes to fantasize, would be interested. Just

when Li Muran was annoyed that he was fooled by the sick ghost, Nan Shao was explaining the situation of the sick ghost to Zhang Yi.

"His body is very strange. You know, whether it is humans, mutant creatures, or even zombies, there will be thick or thin, deep or shallow light fog representing vitality, but he doesn't. What I see with my supernatural power is no different from what I see with my naked eyes."

"Is he really a zombie without vitality?" Zhang Yi was slightly surprised, remembering Pei Yuan's previous speculation.

Nan Shao shook his head, "It's not that he has no vitality. I can feel that he has a terrifying amount of life energy." After a pause, he said uncertainly, "I suspect that his vitality may have become so huge that it has become substantial, and I can't see through it even with my supernatural powers."

"It shouldn't be. If the vitality is as strong as you said, why is he so sick?" Zhang Yi asked.

"That's what I can't figure out." Nan Shao said. Thinking of the trembling feeling from the soul that the other party brought to him before, he knew that this person should not be provoked. You know, the ant mother who swallowed him in the stomach did not give him this feeling. That's why he turned around and left at that time. Now he was unwilling and uninterested to delve into this issue, so he changed the subject: "I'm going to get some mutant plants to completely eliminate the antification on my body." Because Zhang Yi was there, the dark and violent emotions hidden in his heart were not too strong and could be easily suppressed. But after all, it was still a time bomb. It would be better to recover as soon as possible.

Zhang Yi took Yangyang, who was staring with wide eyes and trying to understand what they were saying, from his shoulder, and patted the little guy's butt, "Go play by yourself." When the little guy ran away like a fly, he looked at Nan Shao, "I'll go with you." Since Nan Shao had no intention of hiding it from him, there was no need for him to deliberately avoid it.

"Okay." Sure enough, hearing his words, Nan Shao smiled happily.

When the two walked side by side out of the ravine, Zhang Ruiyang had already run to the house where the sick ghost lived and came to the sick ghost who lay back down.

"Uncle Sick, why do you look different from everyone else? Uncle Pumpkin is so powerful, but he can't help you cure your illness. What should I do?" The child lay on the edge of the sofa, his light eyebrows twisted together, and said with some worry.

"No need to treat, you won't die." The sick ghost looked at the child and answered very calmly.

"But you keep coughing and don't eat, how uncomfortable it is." Zhang Ruiyang sighed. "Uncle Pumpkin said that your life is very big..." He used his little hand to make a circle that he thought was already very big, and then said: "I don't know why you are sick. If your life is very big, you won't get sick, so why are you sick..." Unknowingly, the little guy sold out his father and Nan Shao completely.

The sick ghost was silent for a long time, and after he couldn't stand the mosquito-like nagging in his ears, he spoke again: "Wait until I find what I want, I will be fine." As for what Nan Shao said, he was not surprised. The first time Nan Shao appeared at the door, even if he didn't open his eyes, he already knew what ability the other party had. This ability is top-notch among humans, and even in the current wasteland, and may become one of the strong competitors of the Dark Beast King, but in his eyes, it is just a more powerful ant, just like Song Yan. How can his body be understood by ordinary humans?

Zhang Ruiyang still remembered what he was looking for, and he suddenly became energetic and said very actively: "I'll help you find it."

The sick ghost glanced at the little guy who was inexplicably excited, and he was no longer interested in talking.

Hulugou was peaceful and peaceful. The newly built defense wall in Yunzhou Base was also rising slowly at a steady speed. The nine wood-type mutants each divided a place and planted the mutant plant seedlings they brought. Even the survivors who were resisting the mutant beasts' attacks became more morale-boosted than the previous two days because they had hope. However, the various teams of Song Yan's convoy that were outside to attract corpses encountered unexpected troubles. They tried every possible way, even if it was self-harm, and the zombies would only chase them for more than ten miles at most, and then they would turn back without any nostalgia, as if Yunzhou Base had a greater temptation than fresh flesh and blood to lure them. It was not until the evening that

the teams that went out on missions returned one after another, bringing a lot of supplies that they had brought back from the empty city. These things were probably the harvest of the day.

Chapter 231 A night of chaos

Since the plan to disperse the zombies could not be implemented, Song Yan was very single and directly issued an order to block Longren City and the main roads leading to other places in Zhang County, encircling the two empty cities, and then began to collect supplies to prepare for the elimination of zombies. In addition to killing all these zombies and mutants, they had no other way to resolve the crisis of Yunzhou Base. However, there were tens of millions of zombies and an unknown number of mutant creatures. It would take years to really eliminate them. Therefore, during this period, both the consumption of materials for the convoy and the base must be taken into account.

Li Muran slept very badly that night, and had nightmares one after another. One moment she saw Hulugou being broken by zombies and mutant animals, and the next moment she saw a man with a blurred face standing in the sky, instructing groups of monsters on the ground to exterminate humans... When she woke up sweating profusely, she found that the sky was still dark, and there was a faint light of fire shining through the window. It was the night watchman.

She was still affected by what the sick ghost said during the day. Pressing her aching head, she got up quietly, put on her clothes, and then stood there for a moment to make sure that she didn't wake up others before walking outside.

Two sharp eyes were cast over, and after seeing that it was her, they retracted. It was Xu Jing. Although there were people on guard outside, people like Xu Jing and Shi Pengsan would not completely entrust their safety to strangers, so although there was no night watch, they still maintained a certain degree of vigilance when they slept.

Li Muran walked outside, took a deep breath of the cold air, and the whole person suddenly woke up, and the headache caused by too many dreams was much better. This should be the most intense time for the battle in Yunzhou Base. She thought.

The snow started to fall in the afternoon, and now it is all over the sky. The scenery two meters ahead is completely invisible. Such weather makes mutant creatures like fish in water, but humans are like falling into the icy polar region, moving slowly, and their combat effectiveness is greatly reduced, especially ordinary people. After this night, I'm afraid many people will die again.

Until now, Li Muran still believed that the words of the sick ghost were nonsense. In such a desperate situation, it is normal to have nightmares because of nonsense. So she did not think deeply about this issue, but just felt that she had not seen the sun for a long time. She thought that it was not just her, but many people were probably missing the sun. Whether it was the mild sun that changed with the seasons before the end of the world, or the hot sun after the end of the world, it seemed so kind after the cold and gloomy shrouded the world for more than half a year.

Light and heat are necessary conditions for human survival and the survival and growth of most normal organisms, but is it possible for them to see the sun? Li Muran could not see any hope. The only thing to be thankful for was that their bodies, the bodies of all the survivors, had changed to a certain extent after the end of the world. The lack of sunlight and the lack of various vitamins did not seem to have much impact on them, except for psychological depression and despair.

If there really was someone controlling all this, how terrible it would be? This thought came up unconsciously in her mind. Li Muran raised her hand to rub her cold face and stamped her frozen feet. She was unwilling to focus on this ridiculous assumption, but her thoughts kept spinning around it, making her irritable.

They were in a prison, and no matter how hard they struggled, they couldn't escape; they were glad that they had finally escaped from the first and second disasters, but they didn't know that their life and death were still in the hands of a certain "god"; the more than 200,000 survivors in the entire base fought for their lives, but it was just a fun for the "god" to kill time, just like humans playing with ants, like the ancient Romans' Colosseum...

"You are standing here in the middle of the night, drinking the cold wind, do you want to become an immortal?" A cold woman's voice sounded behind her. It was Xu Jing who saw that she had been away for a long time and was a little worried, so she came out to take a look.

Li Muran turned around and looked at her. The light was dim and she couldn't see the expression on the other's face, but she still smiled and shouted, "Xu Xiao..."

"Stop, don't call me Miss, call me Boss Xu." Xu Jing interrupted her firmly.

Li Muran couldn't help laughing again, but compared to the previous polite smile, this time it seemed more sincere.

"What are you laughing at! I'm asking you a question?" Xu Jing said unhappily. She originally thought that Li Muran was going to the toilet, but she didn't expect that he was still in the mood to watch the night view here. It was really unreliable.

"Xu... Boss Xu, do you think it's possible that everything that happened in the end of the world was controlled by a certain hand?" Li Muran pursed her lips, but she couldn't help asking. Knowing that it was ridiculous, but a person would really go crazy if he thought about it there, it might be better to have someone to share with, even if he was ridiculed.

"It's possible, why not? Heaven and earth are not kind, and treat all things as straw dogs. Isn't all this controlled by God? He can do whatever he wants." Xu Jing shrugged and said indifferently, and then a little curious, "Why? You don't sleep just to think about such groundless and meaningless things?"

That's not what I meant! Li Muran hit his head depressedly, wanting to explain but not knowing where to start.

"Yes, just hit it hard a few more times, and you won't have to think about it anymore, let alone face this annoying end of the world. Do you want me to help you?" Seeing her actions, Xu Jing did not comfort her, but said. The tone was very light, which formed a sharp contrast with the meaning of her words, giving people a strong sense of irony.

"Thank you!" Li Muran was speechless for a moment before spitting out these three words dryly.

"Okay, let's go to bed." Xu Jing yawned, waved her hand, turned around and walked into the house, muttering as she walked: "This group of people are really more funny than each other..."

Li Muran was slightly embarrassed, and suddenly felt that she was really bored, and was actually here worrying about such a groundless assumption. Besides, even if there is such a "god", what can she do? Or what can humans do? Who can resist such a powerful existence? Just like humans know that death is the final destination of everyone, but they are powerless and have to choose to temporarily forget it. She feels that there is no point in continuing to think about this problem. The most important thing to do now is to live well, and then on this basis, do your best to help more people survive.

Li Muran did not notice the change in her mentality. In the past, she mostly saved people passively. For example, when Zhang Yi or Song Yan planned to do something, she was in a team, so she naturally followed and helped, and would not think too much, but when she was alone, she basically would not go out of her way to save people, probably because she felt that she could not really help. But now she has the urge to help others. It can be seen that the words of the sick ghost still left a shadow in her subconscious, making her feel insecure. And the best way to eliminate this uneasiness is that the more people survive, the better.

Now that I have figured it out, I would be a fool to stand here and blow the cold wind. Li Muran rubbed his face and was about to go back to the house, but a voice came from the heavy snow in front of him.

"What did you hear?" Song Yan's tall and oppressive body appeared in the darkness five steps away, with a thin layer of snow on his head and shoulders. After walking three steps forward, he stopped and asked with his hands around his chest: "Why is the base surrounded?" It can be seen that he still knows her very well. He knows that with her pragmatic character, if there is no reason, she will never stand in the snow at this time and feel sad.

"Director... Director?" Li Muran was surprised. He never expected him to appear suddenly.

"Master what master?" Song Yan scolded unhappily, as if he wanted to say something, but he held back and tried to slow down his tone: "Speak."

"What?" Li Muran didn't react.

Song Yan's thick eyebrows were raised, and he was about to lose his temper, but he held back again, and just lowered his voice a little: "The reason. The reason why the Yunzhou base was surrounded, and where did you know it from." He didn't get more useful information from the top management of the Yunzhou base. If there was anyone who could figure out the reason why the base was surrounded, it must be her who had the ability to detect spirits.

Li Muran's eyes widened instantly, and she looked at the man in front of her with almost horror, obviously unable to figure out how he knew. Her brain worked quickly, and she recalled the whole process of talking to Bing Gui at noon, and found that there was no one else except Yuan Jinshu at that time. It couldn't be that Yuan Jinshu spread the words, right?

Why did he fall for such a stupid guy... Song Yan stroked his forehead, feeling a little powerless.

"Bing brother said that it was a friend of his named Qin Xuan, oh, no, now it should be his enemy, who wanted to create something called Dark Beast King, so he refined our earth, and then there was the end of the world..." Li Muran, who came back to his senses, lowered his head and spoke with some difficulty. The more he spoke, the lower his voice became. It was a little difficult for her to repeat this reason. What was she struggling with before?

"What else?" Song Yan asked calmly, without any extra expression on his face, and it was impossible to tell what he was thinking.

"And..." Li Muran really didn't want to say anything, but under his piercing gaze, she could only bite the bullet and continue: "Sick Brother said that there are only two possibilities for the base to be surrounded." She honestly repeated what Bing Gui said, and before she finished speaking, she had subconsciously shrank back.

Unfortunately, the expected slap still did not escape, and fell heavily on her head.

"Is this why you can't sleep?" Song Yan asked unhappily.

"Yeah." Li Muran nodded, and then quickly shook her head, "It was a nightmare." Speaking of this, she felt depressed. If it wasn't a nightmare, why would she take such a ridiculous statement to heart.

Hearing this reason, and looking at her lowered head as if admitting her fault, he couldn't help but feel a little funny, but also inexplicably pitiful. Song Yan's heart softened, and he subconsciously wanted to reach out and hold her in his arms, but his fingers moved slightly, and he regained his composure. His thick Adam's apple rolled up and down, and he opened his mouth again to scold: "I think you are idle! Come with me to kill zombies tomorrow." However, the eyes that fell on her were completely opposite to the tone of his voice, unusually bright and gentle.

Li Muran didn't see it, but he was refreshed when he heard it. Just as he was about to raise his head to agree, he was sprayed with dirt by a rude scolding.

"Go to bed!"

If you hadn't come, I would have gone back to bed a long time ago. Li Muran muttered in his heart, but didn't dare to say it out loud. He said "oh", took two steps, and suddenly reacted, and hurriedly turned back and said: "Good night, Director."

"Good night." Until the door was gently closed and the light footsteps disappeared, Song Yan's lips moved slightly, silently replied, and the cold and hard facial expression softened.

It turned out that he had been busy since the night before, and had only recently worked out a plan to eliminate the zombies with Xiao Sheng and others. Thinking that he hadn't seen Li Muran for a long time, he walked over unconsciously and happened to hear the conversation between Li Muran and Xu Jing. Just now, for a moment, he actually wanted to confess his thoughts, but he suppressed it in the end. It was not because he was afraid of being rejected, but because he was worried about disturbing her mind. If something went wrong while rescuing people or killing zombies, he would regret it. Therefore, he decided to wait until everything was settled.

As for him when he was alienated... After standing there for a moment, he exhaled heavily and turned to leave. The words of the sick ghost were just a joke to him who was rational, so he didn't take them to heart.

"Brother monk, I think what that sick guy said might be the truth." Because it was too quiet, and after the end of the world, both ordinary people and awakened people had better hearing, so the conversation between Li Muran, Xu Jing, and Song Yan was almost heard by everyone in the room. Among them, Pei Yuan was the most excited. He propped himself up and grabbed Jie Chen's collar and whispered.

Unexpectedly, a big hand slapped him on the head and pressed him back into the quilt. It was Shi Pengsan, "Sleep."

"Buddha has mercy!" Jie Chen whispered. Since he practiced that internal skill, he seemed to be much calmer. He didn't ignore this speculation directly like others, but he didn't have Pei Yuan's enthusiasm. He just prayed wholeheartedly. It was really just a joke, not a fact.

"Hey, Boss Xu, my sister Muran is shy, don't bully her." On the other side, Routa Chen quietly approached Xu Jing, who had just laid down, and said in a breathy voice, but was kicked out with a kick, making a heavy sound of hitting the floor. Others were used to it and didn't even ask a question. Only Li Muran sat up suddenly. Seeing that no one else responded, he finally lay back down in confusion.

"That man is not bad, but his temper seems..." Zhang Yi was interrupted by a rough hand that reached under his clothes before he could finish his sentence. He laughed, turned around, and greeted Nan Shao's lips.

Because there were other people in the room, and he was holding the sleeping Zhang Ruiyang in his arms, the two did not dare to kiss deeply. Nan Shao just gently rubbed his skin with his palm, pressing the hot and hard part tightly against his waist and hips, and then did not move.

Sooner or later, he will suffer internal injuries. Behind Zhang Yi's ear, Nan Shao sighed silently, and couldn't help cursing this damn world that made him unable to touch even his lover.

Chapter 232 United We Stand

The next morning, before everyone set off, Li Muran went to the base several times again, brought Nan Shao and Zhang Yi over, and brought back a limited number of relatives of the base's top leaders and the people designated by the new religion as agreed by Song Yan and the other party.

After the end of the world, only one in a thousand humans survived, and countless families died. It was a great luck for a family to have more than two people survive, and even these top leaders of the base were no exception. So in fact, as long as they didn't leave, Li Muran didn't need to bring many people. As for the new religion, they didn't seem to have any relatives. What they sent over were a few energetic young men and women, who should be the seeds that the church focused on cultivating. All of them together didn't make up to 30 people. So Li Muran took back a few seriously injured and dying people.

All this was done quietly, and the top leaders of the base didn't dare to publicize it. Li Muran was repeatedly told by Song Yan not to let anyone notice it, otherwise once the matter was leaked, it would inevitably cause a great commotion and accelerate the demise of the base. You have to know that this kind of thing cannot be understood by just a few words. When people are trapped in a desperate situation, they know that there is no way out, so they will fight desperately in the hope of getting a chance to survive. But when they find that someone can leave the base, and they have to fight desperately here, expectations, dissatisfaction, anger, hatred and other emotions will immediately erupt. No one will be willing to be a stepping stone for others. They will feel that leaving is hopeless, and they will eventually think of dying together. Who will resist mutant beasts and zombies at that time? Not to mention ordinary people, even if other leaders in the base who were kept in the dark knew about it, I am afraid they would have their own thoughts. By then, the whole base will fall apart, and there is no point in persisting until the convoy clears out the zombies outside.

In order to reach a cooperation with the base, Song Yan had to compromise a little and agreed to take a few important leaders and a limited number of people designated by the Protestant Church away first. This is considered a condition of cooperation, but he would never agree to take the base's senior leaders, the Protestant leaders and more relatives and friends of the leadership out. He came to save the entire base, not just for these people. Although they were both saving people, they still had to distinguish the priorities. Before they separated, he explained to Li Muran all the interests involved. Li Muran was naturally much more careful during the action. In addition to avoiding leaking the news, he also had to guard against being controlled and threatened by people who knew about it. Zhang Yi went with Nan Shao, mostly to protect her. Of course, another reason was to promote the birth of mutant plants.

Only after they were sure that Li Muran had left safely and would not come back in a short time, did Nan Shao and Zhang Yi go to the mutant plants they had marked out.

The newly built wall was almost two meters high, and a layer of soil had been scraped off the land between the inner and outer defense walls. The houses on it disappeared and became part of the new defense wall. Mutant plants were also planted, but they were sparse and wilted, far from the ideal sky-covering and intertwined roots. Six flat dirt roads about three meters wide ran through it, connecting the inner and outer defense walls, which was a retreat for the survivors who resisted mutant beasts and zombies on the front line.

Nan Shao's ability to promote plant growth was obviously far superior to that of other wood-type psychics. Wherever he passed, the mutant plants that had been transplanted and suppressed by the psychic power and had drooping leaves and branches suddenly became energetic, quickly flourishing and fiercely grabbing territory. Zhang Yi followed Nan Shao and blocked all external dangers for him. Although the nine wood-type psychics who had been busy for a day and a night were also promoting plant growth, their energy had long been exhausted. Seeing this scene, they were stunned at first, and they didn't expect that there were still people who were so awesome. Then they were overjoyed, because this meant that the mutant plant protection belt could be established earlier, and many people would die less.

"Brothers, be brave, we can retreat into the inner city in two days! Everyone has a way to survive, don't fall before that, it will be a big loss!" A small leader who was organizing manpower resistance on the front line turned back and saw this scene, and quickly shouted loudly to encourage everyone.

"Enter the inner city! Enter the inner city!"

"Live! Live!"

The survivors cheered hoarsely and frantically, shouting and rushing towards the mutant beasts with broken blades that could not be repaired in time. Some people directly chopped the mutant beasts to the ground, some were torn in half by the mutant beasts, and some simply threw away their broken weapons and hugged the mutant beasts, biting each other, and finally rolled down the defense wall together. This madness was like a storm, sweeping quickly along the defense wall to both sides. Flames, lightning, ice blades, wind and bloody remains intertwined into a gorgeous song of destruction, swearing the bloodiness and indomitable spirit of mankind!

I don't know if they were stimulated by humans or noticed their intentions, the mutant beasts' attacks became more fierce. Some did not attack humans directly, but rushed straight into the defense wall, using their mouths, claws, bodies, and all kinds of means they could think of, trying to make a gap in the obstacles that blocked them.

The earth-type mutants risked being injured by mistake, avoided the attacks of the mutants, and shuttled back and forth on the battlefield with difficulty, constantly reinforcing the cracked defense wall.

Boom! During the fierce battle, a piece of the defense wall suddenly collapsed, and the survivors and mutants fighting on it fell down at the same time. Dust and snow powder flew everywhere. The battlefield was still for a moment. Both the people and the mutants seemed to be stunned, but the zombies were not affected. When they saw the gap, they immediately swarmed in.

"The first team, the third team, follow me to block the gap. Hu Qi, Chen Dong, Bai Xiaolang, go to the inner city to call a few earth-type mutants to come and repair the wall. The others take care of their own territory! Speed!" Someone immediately responded, and one order after another was passed down. A big man with a beard and ragged clothes rushed to the gap first with an axe. Dozens of figures pulled out from all parts of the battlefield and followed closely behind, intercepting the zombies that were swarming into the base and trying to rescue the survivors who fell off the wall.

This scene happened right in front of Zhang Yi. He looked at the chaotic and tragic scene over there, and then looked at Nan Shao who was trying his best to give birth to mutant plants. The veins on his hand holding the knife bulged, but he finally resisted the urge to go over to help. He kept telling himself in his heart that there were many people over there, but Nan Shao was alone.

Nan Shao suddenly reached out and pulled out two mutant vines with long branches and leaves, and then strode towards the collapsed part of the defensive wall. Zhang Yi's eyes lit up, and he quickly followed and protected him.

"Get out of the way!" When he was about to get close, Nan Shao shouted loudly, and at the same time raised the two mutant vines in his hand, threw them at the gap, and smashed into the zombies.

People who have experienced life and death have very fast reactions. Even if they don't know who the shout is for, they subconsciously step back when the mutant vines fall from the sky. As soon as the mutant vines landed, before they penetrated the soil, they first entangled the nearby zombies, and then quickly took root in the ground, growing vigorously, and in a blink of an eye, they repaired the collapsed wall. It turned out that before Nan Shao threw the mutant vines out, he had infused them with enough life energy for them to grow and develop. Otherwise, before they touched the ground, they would be pushed and trampled by the zombies and disappeared without a trace, let alone blocking the wall.

The zombies that had already rushed into the base were quickly killed by everyone. Those who fell from the wall were either killed by the fall, or crushed to death by the earth wall and the mutant beasts that fell at the same time, or just fell into the zombie group, and none of them could be saved.

"The mutant vines won't last long." Nan Shao said.

"Enough, enough!" The bearded man covered in blood pointed at several earth-type mutants who had already run over here not far away, and said repeatedly, with a look of obvious relaxation on his rough face. "Brother, good job! What's your name?" He thought Nan Shao was also from the base, so there was no gratitude in his eyes, only praise.

"If you survive, I'll tell you." Nan Shao waved his hand, put his arm around Zhang Yi's shoulder, and turned away. The man was quite courageous and responsible, and it was worth him leaving these words.

"Okay! I'll treat you two to a drink then!" The man was not angry, but laughed.

Hearing the word "you", Nan Shao finally smiled and turned around and said, "It's a deal." He liked others to think of him and Zhang Yi as one, otherwise, no matter how much they valued him, he would be indifferent.

The earth-type mutants had already arrived and started to repair the defense wall, and needed manpower to protect them; the wounded needed treatment; the mutant beasts had not stopped attacking; the vine wall was pushed inward by the zombies squeezed outside, and people could not help but worry about when it would break... The man had no time to chat, and hurriedly made a gesture to make it a deal, and turned around to get busy.

"Ayi, did I do a good job?" Nan Shao suddenly asked Zhang Yi.

"Very well, I'm proud of you!" Zhang Yi was stunned at first, and then realized that he was referring to using mutant plants to repair the defense wall and buy time for the earth-type mutants, so he answered very seriously without any hesitation.

"Then is there a reward?" Hearing his words, Nan Shao was very happy, and wanted to laugh, but tried to hold it back, and asked again.

"..." Seeing him like a child asking for candy, Zhang Yi smiled first, his eyes were filled with deep affection like fine wine, he leaned over, kissed the corner of his lips lovingly, and whispered: "When we get back, we will go to Zhang County to help collect supplies, just the two of us, without Yangyang..." As he spoke, he finally couldn't help but burst into laughter. They really put a lot of thought into doing something!

Seeing him laughing happily, Nan Shao's heart was full of warmth and expectation, and he smiled softly: "This time we must be well prepared, not like the time in the hotel..." Except for pain and despair, there was no feeling of joy, but at that time, he felt that it was worth dying like that. Sometimes he wondered why he didn't meet Zhang Yi earlier, so that he could give his feelings to this man completely without any flaws, even if Zhang Yi didn't accept it, it would be better than being trampled on. But he was also somewhat fortunate. If it weren't for those things, maybe he would have passed by Zhang Yi directly and would have had no intersection in his life. It can be seen that every sip and every bite is predestined, so he should cherish this man and this relationship even more.

Hearing him mention that time, Zhang Yi's face felt slightly hot and embarrassed. Just as he was about to say something, he heard two muffled noises. Both of them were startled and looked over to find that two more defense walls in the distance had been broken.

"How could this happen? Aren't there earth-type psychics arranged to provide protection at any time?" Zhang Yi's face changed. After knowing that there was external aid and discussing the response plan, the base actually took more cautious measures than before Song Yan and the others came, so as not to be rescued. Although most of the earth-type psychics were arranged to build the inner defense wall, some earth-type psychics were still left in various places to repair the outer defense wall at any time. Otherwise, before the inner defense wall and the mutant plant belt were completed, the outer wall would be breached first. Wouldn't it be a waste of time?

"A group of mutant beasts that can dig holes have appeared, and they are specialized in destroying the defensive wall from the corners of the wall!" Someone ran past them and happened to hear Zhang Yi's question. He shouted in response while rushing towards the inner city, obviously to seek help.

Zhang Yi took a breath of cold air, and Nan Shao grabbed him and walked quickly towards the plant belt, "I'm afraid we can't stop them." He had given up on using mutant plants to help repair the wall because it was useless. It would be better to encourage the mutant plants to grow and flourish as soon as possible, so that all the survivors could retreat into the inner city.

Chapter 233: Defending the Homeland

Zhang Yi looked solemn, following Nan Shao closely, blocking all external interference so that he could give it his all. At this time, mutant beasts and zombies that could not stop them had already rushed into the base, disrupting the originally orderly resistance. Even if there were people like Big Beard who were calm, rational and quick to respond in time, they could not reverse the situation of the defense wall being breached. Once a gap appeared in the wall, if it could not be repaired in time, under the impact of a large number of zombies and mutant beasts, the gap would only get bigger and bigger.

Exclamations, scolding, screams, and excited howls of mutant beasts and zombies mixed together, one after another, as if the day when the end of the world was just coming was reappearing. The difference was that humans now no longer ran away, but rushed forward desperately to defend their homes. The fear that they had before was completely thrown behind their heads at this moment. The only thought in everyone's mind was to kill, kill! Even if they died together with the enemy, they could not give up their own shelter.

The base made timely adjustments, recalled all earth-type psychics, and built the inner defense wall with all their strength. At the same time, all the masters went out. In addition to protecting a few wood-type psychics, the rest went to the gap to block the zombies and beasts, buying time for the wood-type psychics. As for the elderly, children, and women who had not awakened, they helped to rescue the wounded and retreated into the inner city first. Although ordinary men could not fight against mutant beasts, they needed to help kill zombies to reduce the burden on the psychics. At this moment of life and death, even the most cunning and calculating people did not show dissatisfaction with these arrangements. They took on their responsibilities without a complaint and went all out. Because the core figures of the new religion and the base have stood at the forefront and resisted the most ferocious mutant beast attacks. The

nine wood-type psychics knew that they were carrying the hope of survival of more than 200,000 people in the entire base. At this time, they dared not save their strength. They mobilized all the superpowers in their bodies and poured them into the mutant plants without hesitation. At the same time, they held the crystal core in their palms to save as much time as possible for recovery. They only regretted that they did not have four hands to use. However, they had been busy for a day and a night. Although they would rest occasionally, their bodies and abilities were still far from their peak state. In addition, there were too few people and the area to be stimulated was large. They could not see any obvious results for a while. Hearing the collapse of the wall and the screams of the survivors from afar, they were so anxious that their lips and tongues were sore, their eyes were bloodshot, and their hands were shaking uncontrollably. However, they could only put all their hopes on Nan Shao after trying their best.

Nan Shao walked calmly through the sparse mutant plant forest belt. The mutant plants grew luxuriantly at a very fast speed wherever he passed. However, his leisurely appearance gave others the illusion that he still had some strength to spare. They wanted to push and pull him so that he could go faster. However, no one dared to do so, fearing that they would disturb him and delay time. Only Zhang Yi knew that he had no reservations at all, because the black ant armor that had been completely eliminated by chewing a large area of ​​mutant forest yesterday appeared on his neck again, and there was a tendency to spread to his face.

Zhang Yi did not have time to worry, as a mutant beast broke through the blockade and rushed over.

The flapping of its four huge wings generated a strong airflow, rolling up snow waves like rolling, covering the sky and the ground. It had a long head and dense thorns like a hedgehog, and its head and face were hideous. It was another species he had never seen before. Worried that the battle would affect Nan Shao, he rushed forward, his neck-length hair was blown messily by the strong wind, and the frost and snow powder were mixed together, making it difficult to distinguish one from the other.

The flying beast seemed dissatisfied with being provoked by the weak creature in front of it. Its original target was Nan Shao, but now it let out a long cry and swooped down towards Zhang Yi. Zhang Yi snorted coldly, his black eyes dark and calm, he held the machete upside down, his steps slightly wrong, and in the blink of an eye, the man and the beast had collided with each other.

Ding! Ding! Ding...

In the storm, there were several quick and crisp sounds of swords colliding, but the battle situation could not be seen. Nan Shao could not help but be distracted. Just when he was about to put down what he was doing and go to help, he heard Zhang Yi shouting, and his figure suddenly jumped out of the snow waves, seemingly jumping more than ten feet high, and then holding the sword with both hands, and with the momentum of falling, he chopped the head of the mutant flying beast heavily.

Thump! This time the sound was no longer crisp, but dull and interrupted, like a woodpecker pecking at a rotten tree, which made the people who heard it feel uncomfortable and unable to vent.

Nan Shao moved his ears, turned his head, and continued to do his own thing with undivided attention. At the same time when he retracted his attention, he heard a bang, and the huge body of the flying beast fell heavily to the ground, splashing countless snow dust, and Zhang Yi walked out of it with a slight breath. It was not until more than half a minute later that everything calmed down, revealing the body of the flying beast that was uninjured but had lost its vitality.

"Why did you jump so high just now? Did you awaken your superpower?" Nan Shao took a quick look at Zhang Yi, making sure he was not injured, and asked casually with a relieved heart.

"No, I borrowed the power of that thing..." Zhang Yi explained, but before he finished speaking, he suddenly stepped forward and kicked a thin figure out with a bang.

"Mutated zombie?" Nan Shao asked without raising his head, and his feet did not stop. While he was talking, a group of ferocious vines had begun to bar their fangs and claws, blocking the road behind.

"Well, don't worry about it, I'll take care of everything." Zhang Yi responded, but he did not chase the zombie, but stayed close to Nan Shao. He knew his own limitations. In terms of running speed and endurance, he could not compare with mutant beasts and mutant zombies, even awakened humans. If he was far away, if Nan Shao got into trouble, he would not be able to rescue him in time. It would be better to stay where he is and stay the same, unless he encounters a flying beast that is too big and fierce like the one before. Once they engage in a fight, Nan Shao will inevitably be dragged into it, and he will have to keep his distance.

Nan Shao hummed, and while walking, he increased the transmission of superpowers under his feet again, and held several crystal cores in each hand, absorbing them while walking. But even so, the recovery of superpowers still couldn't keep up with his consumption. In a hidden way, he also felt a little powerless, and he might have to use his own life energy later. But if he did that, he might not be able to suppress the ant characteristics in his body and turn into an ant again. Thinking of this, he hesitated.

At this moment, the mutant zombie appeared again silently, and Zhang Yi's knife seemed to have the ability to predict the future and was waiting there one step ahead, and it chopped it diagonally on the shoulder with a puff. Although it did not cause any damage, it was frightened to jump away and hide again. This is a timid mutant zombie who knows how to hide.

Zhang Yi sighed inwardly, but he was not depressed. There was no time for him to be depressed, because two more mutant beasts rushed over here, and several zombies staggered behind.

More and more mutant beasts and zombies broke in. Nan Shao's face was a little ugly, but thinking of Zhang Yi's previous words, he had to resist the urge to help. He knew that since he said so, even if there were several times more mutant evil creatures, Zhang Yi would block them by himself and would not let any of them threaten him. As for the consequences that need to be paid... it has to be done faster! Faster! Nan Shao told himself so, trying to calm down his disordered mood. He suddenly stepped forward, stretched out his hand to grab a bulge under the mutant flame wood on the left, and pulled out a columnar mutant worm with bumps all over its body, which looked wretched. He directly extracted the vitality of the mutant worm, circulated it in his body, and then injected it into the ground under his feet. Then a scene that surprised him appeared. With his feet as the center, the mutant plants within a radius of ten meters seemed to have taken a tonic pill. Within a few seconds, they grew tall and flourished, intertwined and tangled, making it difficult for people to move. In particular, the closer the plants were to him, the faster and stronger they grew. He even heard the rustling sound of snake-like growth.

It turned out that directly infusing vitality was much better than using supernatural powers! And because there was no need to assimilate and absorb the extracted vitality, it didn't take much time. Nan Shao's eyes flashed with brilliance and he walked out. Those mutant plants immediately made way as if they had spirituality. After he passed, they seemed to be afraid that their territory would be taken away, and quickly returned to their original state.

When he came outside, Nan Shao found that there were a few more people helping to kill mutant beasts and zombies. Zhang Yi was no longer fighting alone, and his expression was much better. In fact, if the base had always ignored them, he would definitely take Zhang Yi away by force when he could no longer bear the worry in his heart. As for the life and death of others, what does it have to do with him? Now it seems that there is no need to take this step unless it is the last moment.

"Ayi, lead the mutant beasts here, don't kill them, I have a use for them!" He shouted, and at the same time pointed to the mutant plants behind him that were obviously taller and more luxuriant than elsewhere.

Zhang Yi and he had an unparalleled tacit understanding, or rather trust. While others were still hesitating, he had already hit the mutant wolf in front of him with the back of his knife, then quickly dodged its fierce attack and ran towards Nan Shao. It was only a dozen steps away, and they were there in the blink of an eye. Just as the two were about to meet, Nan Shao suddenly stepped out from the side and punched the mutant wolf that was chasing after him. The mutant wolf howled, opened its bloody mouth, and revealed its sharp teeth as sharp as a steel knife. It directly swallowed the fist that was insignificant compared to its size into its mouth. With the momentum, it even wanted to swallow the human in front of it who was blocking its life and death. Unexpectedly, Nan Shao suddenly changed his fist into a claw and grabbed its upper palate at once. At the same time, he grabbed its lower palate with his other hand to prevent it from closing. After retreating several steps to relieve the impact, he stood firmly. At the same time, the supernatural power was activated, and began to extract its vitality and send it to all directions through the soles of its feet.

Zhang Yi, who was ready to help at any time, was relieved when he saw that the roaring mutant wolf was struggling more and more weak, while the mutant plants nearby were growing vigorously. He turned his attention to other mutant beasts and mutant zombies that might pose a threat to Nan Shao.

"Come again!" Throwing away the mutant wolf that had been drained of its vitality, Nan Shao shouted to the other people who were struggling with the mutant beasts.

When those people saw the fate of the mutant wolf, they were all refreshed, but they still did not lose their minds and swarmed to lead the mutant beasts over. Instead, they brought them here one by one in an orderly manner.

With the vitality of the mutant beasts, Nan Shao's efficiency in promoting the growth of mutant plants immediately increased at a double speed, and a dense forest gradually formed wherever he passed.

Chapter 234 Adjustment Plan

The defense wall inside the base is twelve or thirteen kilometers long. Although Nan Shao thought of using the vitality of mutant beasts to make up for his own lack of superpowers, even if he could produce mutant plants of forty or fifty meters in one minute, it would take at least five hours to roughly circle around the outer perimeter of the inner defense wall. To widen the plant defense belt, the time required would increase exponentially. Moreover, it takes time to capture mutant beasts and extract output vitality, especially those mutant beasts, which would foolishly rush over here at first, but then gradually stopped coming over. No matter how Zhang Yi and the others teased them, they would not be fooled. Wherever Nan Shao passed by, except for the mutant plants that were growing, it became a vacuum zone, with only a few zombies occasionally breaking in. As a result, the pressure from other directions inevitably increased. The five masters who were originally transferred to help the two had to be dispersed to help again, because they were not needed here anyway. As for capturing mutant beasts alive, the cost was too high. The base tried it again, and decisively gave up after a few people died. Fortunately, the new defense wall has taken shape. The worst result is that the outer defense wall collapses completely and all personnel retreat into the inner city. The situation may not improve significantly, but it can at least buy some buffer time for them to find another way.

"Everyone, put aside the area you are responsible for and work together to promote the mutant plants on the west line!" After checking the situation of everyone's promotion of plants, the top management of the base issued this order after urgent consultation.

The base is square. Instead of spending a lot of time and energy to force the mutant plants to surround the inner defense wall, but because the density of the plant belt is too narrow and thin to play a big defensive role, it is better to let the plant belt in one direction be dense and wide to not allow any zombies and mutant beasts to pass through. In this way, at least they can save the defense force on one side and defend the other three sides with all their strength. Even the defense wall can be raised first to the other three sides. The west is exactly where Nan Shao is. Not only does the mutant plants grow best here, but there are also the fewest mutant beasts attacking. The safety of various wood-type mutants can be guaranteed to the greatest extent, and more masters who protect them can be freed up to resist mutant beasts.

"That's fine." Hearing this order, Nan Shao said indifferently. He had already spawned nearly one kilometer of mutant plant belts, which took more than two hours, several times longer than expected. He knew that even if he had three heads and six arms, he could not complete the plant defense belt before the outer defense wall completely lost its function. Moreover, there were not many mutant beasts for him to borrow strength at this time. While absorbing the crystal cores provided by the base, he had begun to consume his own vitality. Without looking, he knew that the ant armor on his face had appeared.

"A Shao, how are you?" Zhang Yi saw his look and was a little worried. He almost couldn't help but say something to ask him not to fight so hard.

"It's okay." Nan Shao shook his head, then smiled and added: "Just don't think I'm ugly." At this point, he couldn't hold back any more. He knew too well how uncomfortable Zhang Yi would be if the entire base was destroyed. And this discomfort would not last for one or two days, it would probably affect all the days they would live in the future. Not to mention Zhang Yi, even someone as cold as him would not be able to bear it when that scene really happened in front of him. Instead of blaming himself later, it is better to try his best now, so that no matter what the result is, he

will have a clear conscience. Zhang Yi touched the cold black ant armor on his face, smiled, and whispered: "I want us to survive together." No matter what you become, no matter how bad the world is, no matter whether the base can be saved or not, you must save yourself first.

"Baby, don't seduce me anymore. This is really not a good place." Nan Shao sighed helplessly. He was most afraid of and enjoyed Zhang Yi saying such words that were almost equivalent to expressing his feelings in such an intimate way. That would make him want to press the other person under him and caress and ask for it. But every time he could only think about it. "You should help me adjust the other wood-type mutants, let them give birth to the mutant plants near the inner defense wall, and leave the outer ones to me. Be careful!" When he said the last sentence, his tone instantly became gentle.

Hearing his previous words, Zhang Yi was stunned at first, and then he gave him a slap with his fingers in anger and amusement, and then turned around and left quickly to do what he asked. Although even the mutant zombies seemed reluctant to approach Nan Shao, it was still not so reassuring. It was better to finish the work as soon as possible and come back to watch. It was not

until Zhang Yi walked away that Nan Shao raised his hand to touch his face, and then looked at the mutant beasts that no longer came to him. He sighed secretly, and soon his whole face would become like an ant. By that time, I don't know if he can still control his temper. If not, he should stay away from Ayi before he regains his sanity.

"Tsk, so this is what you look like after you are mutated." At this moment, a voice that was not so pleasant suddenly sounded in his ears, and Song Yan and Li Muran appeared in front of him. Seeing Nan Shao's half-ant-like appearance, Song Yan suddenly felt that his mutated appearance was not so difficult to accept.

"Brother Shao." Li Muran smiled awkwardly, and then added a superfluous sentence: "Very handsome." She was not sure whether Nan Shao liked others to see this side of him. Anyway, Song Yan didn't like it, so she said something nice first.

It turned out that after she brought people back, she was taken by Song Yan to kill zombies. As a result, during the break, she habitually used her mental power to scan the situation of the base and found that many parts of the outer defense wall had collapsed. Many mutant beasts and zombies rushed into the base. She was immediately frightened and told Song Yan. After Song Yan figured out the situation, especially asking about the progress of the mutant plant belt, he asked her to bring him here directly. Fortunately, she had left two opportunities to use her superpowers before, but she didn't expect to use them so soon.

"Since you are here, go catch a few mutant beasts. Alive." Nan Shao said lightly without even raising his eyelids. This sentence was naturally said to Song Yan. As for the other one, "Muren, if your superpowers can still be used, it's best to go back now." If she was seen by the top leaders of the base or the new believers, at this time, no one could guarantee what would happen.

Li Muran scratched her short hair that had become dry due to malnutrition, and looked at Song Yan involuntarily, whispering: "I can run again. Otherwise, I'll stay here. If I really can't stand it, I can take you away." As for more people, she could only say sorry.

"No, the base will not be destroyed today." Nan Shao shook his head, revealing a strong confidence in his tone. He was not very sure at first, but when Song Yan appeared, he knew that there was no problem.

"Go. Go back to the camp directly, have a good sleep, and then come to pick us up." Song Yan also said, his tone was unusually gentle.

Li Muran was not a fussy person, and knew that neither Nan Shao nor Song Yan was something she could worry about. As for Zhang Yi, with Nan Shao here, there should be no problem with safety. She would only be a burden if she stayed here, so she nodded, "Then I'll go back." As he spoke, his eyes slid around, obviously not wanting to waste six places.

But Song Yan slapped her on the back and urged her unhappily: "Hurry up and leave. Don't bring anyone with you this time."

Li Muran felt a little sorry, but she also knew that without Yun Hao to help collect the injured, she would not be able to send them away quietly, and others might not believe her. Once they were discovered, there would be a big mess. Therefore, even though she was unwilling, she had to give up.

As soon as Li Muran disappeared, Song Yan immediately strode to the place where there were many mutant beasts. Not long after, he came back with two mutant worms that specialized in destroying the roots of mutant plants and threw them to Nan Shao.

"Not bad." Nan Shao threw away the crystal core and grabbed one with one hand, very satisfied with the other party's speed.

Song Yan stood there with his arms crossed, watching the whole process of him extracting the vitality of mutant insects to promote mutant plants. He touched his chin and said, "The mutant plants you raise in this way seem to be more ferocious and more spiritual." When he passed by just now, he noticed that this patch of mutant plants would immediately attack any creature, zombie, mutant beast, or even human that came into their attack range, until the target turned into a pool of meat paste and became nutrients. However, for those who made them feel threatened, they would immediately make way. This virtue of bullying the weak and fearing the strong is simply... exactly the same as that dead insect Dudu!

"Really? I didn't notice." Nan Shao acted very indifferent, and didn't seem to care what the mutant plants he planted would look like. As long as he could stop most of the mutant beasts and zombies, it wouldn't be a waste of effort.

"You've changed a lot." Song Yan didn't care. He suddenly said this and went back to his own business. As for whether Nan Shao had changed or not, it didn't really matter to him. He just felt a little emotional. After all, although Nan Shao used to have a gentle smile on his face, he looked like a modest gentleman, but he was so hypocritical that he hated him. Now at least this fake skin has been torn off, and it's always more comfortable to face a more real person.

"Has it changed?" Nan Shao murmured, then shrugged and threw the words behind him. Or maybe he actually knew this very well, so he didn't care, because he was sure that Zhang Yi would never like the Nan Shao of the past.

"What changed?" Zhang Yi just came back and heard it, and couldn't help asking curiously.

Seeing him, Nan Shao immediately smiled, "Song Er is here, he can help me catch mutant beasts. According to him, these mutant plants I induced seem to be a little different, and seem to be more ferocious." As for the sentence that he had changed, there was no need to mention it. As for the past, let it be buried in the dust of time.

"Mr. Song? That's great." Zhang Yi was quite surprised, because he had seen Song Yan's skills, and with the other party's attack, Nan Shao should be much more relaxed. "Where's Muran?" "

Let her go back. It's not safe for her to stay here..."

While chatting, Nan Shao had walked forward about 200 meters, and Song Yan appeared again, holding two in his hands and two under his arms, all of which were mutant beasts that would cause harm to the mutant forest. Zhang Yi saw it and hurried forward to help. When he took over the knocked out mutant beast, he couldn't help but notice Song Yan's hands that had turned into giant scaly claws.

"I've seen it, it's not strange, is it?" Song Yan said coldly, but his eyes fell on Nan Shao who had turned into a half-ant, meaning that you should not make a fuss, your own man has also turned into a beast. In order to capture the mutant beast alive, he had to release the anger in his body so that his body could turn into a beast to enhance his strength. Fortunately, he still kept his rationality, but his words were not pleasant to hear.

"It's not strange." Zhang Yi smiled and answered seriously. Not to mention that he had heard Nan Shao mention that people who turned into beasts might have strange and violent tempers, so don't provoke them. Even from the bottom of his heart, he would not look at them with strange eyes. After all, there are too many changes in human beings in the end times, and it seems that there is nothing to be surprised about one more.

Song Yan looked at him carefully, and after seeing the sincerity in his eyes, he nodded, threw the mutant beast in front of Nan Shao, and turned away again.

"Ayi, he is in danger now, don't talk to him." The moment Song Yan approached, Nan Shao's hair stood up, and he warned Zhang Yi after the people left.

Zhang Yi responded. Since Nan Shao said so, I naturally had to listen.

Chapter 235 Defense Perfection

Three hours later, the survivors who had been fighting against mutant beasts and zombies on the outer defense line began to withdraw to the inner city one after another, first ordinary people and the wounded, then the awakened and the Protestant masters. It took another five hours for everyone to withdraw to the inner city. The mutant plant defense belt on the entire western front has taken shape. Various mutant plants have grown thick and wild, dense and lush, with vines entwined around trees, strange plants growing strangely, and dangers lurking everywhere, like a small primitive rain forest. On this line, the road leading to the inner city was blocked by the mutant forest after all ordinary people entered. Only the city gate was retained so that Nan Shao and others who were still busy outside could enter at any time.

It was dark long ago, but the war was still going on, but it was not as fierce as during the day. The people couldn't bear it, and neither could the mutant beasts. They fought hard at first, then they were weaker, and finally they were exhausted. Facing the newly erected defense wall, even if it was not as high as the previous one, they finally had no strength to break through it. Especially after the outer defense wall was breached, the survivors paid a huge price and hunted many mutant beasts that could dig holes and drill into the ground in a targeted manner, so the war returned to the initial stalemate.

It lasted for another two hours, and the mutant beasts finally stopped. The base roughly counted the number of people, and finally everyone fell silent. This battle lost nearly one-third of the survivors, and now there are only a little over 150,000 people, more than half of whom are wounded. Everyone was exhausted. If the mutant beasts launched another attack at this time, I am afraid that the inner city would be easily trampled to the ground. However, this battle was tragic, not only the human losses were heavy, but also the mutant beasts. As for the ordinary zombies, no one wanted to count them.

People were too tired to care about sadness. After eating the steamed buns and hot soup brought by the old, weak, women and children who entered the base first, they fell asleep anywhere. Putting up boards to block the wind and snow, making fires, delivering quilts, treating the wounded, those ordinary survivors who seemed to be almost useless and could only rely on the strong to survive, when the world calmed down and the soldiers snored loudly, they supported their bodies that also needed rest to do these things. Even the youngest children would pull a piece of cardboard to block the wind for the soldiers sleeping against the wall, or struggle to hold the quilt to cover them. Since

the moment they entered the inner city, all kinds of supplies in the base have been distributed uniformly, otherwise it is unknown how many people would suffer from cold and hunger, and cause more deaths.

Nan Shao and his team did not return to the inner city, but stayed in the mutant forest. The two wood-type mutants who went back were Song Yan's subordinates. They went to get a few quilts and food and exchanged information with the base.

"Someone saw that Nan Shao, it seems not to be a human. And Song Yan..." said a young man in his twenties with regular features in the base command center. His face was filled with fatigue, and his long black leather coat was stained with rancid blood and was in tatters. It was obvious that he had participated in the war.

"Not a human? Could it be a monster?" The middle-aged man who was sitting on the sofa with his eyes closed suddenly opened his eyes when he heard this, looked at the young man fiercely, snorted coldly, and waved his hand nonchalantly, interrupting the young man's explanation: "Don't say it's a monster, even if it's a devil, as long as they help us survive this disaster, I can call him ancestor." Then, seeing that the young man seemed a little at a loss, he sighed, and said earnestly: "Xiao Zheng, now is the end of the world, and there are countless zombies and mutant beasts surrounding us outside. If Song Yan didn't show up, without his people, without Nan Shao, how many people do you think would survive in the entire Yunzhou base?" As he said, he pointed to the door, "Go, take time to rest, there may be a big battle at night, so don't think about irrelevant things."

"Yes." The young man didn't dare to say more, just left a sentence: "Dad, you have to take care of yourself too." Then he turned and left the room.

After the young man left, the middle-aged man seemed to have suddenly lost all his energy and fell on the back of the sofa, his vicissitudes of life face showing a look of exhaustion. Now he only has this son left. Originally, he wanted to ask Song Yan to take him out, but unfortunately his son was stubborn and insisted on staying with him. Now he regretted not being able to use tough means to send the child away in the morning. Now he can't leave even if he wants to. He can only pray to God to open his eyes and let the base survive. As for what happened to Nan Shao and Song Yan, as long as they have no ill intentions, what does it matter? And Nan Shao's superpowers... He exhaled heavily, almost daring not to think about the terrible superpowers. I must talk to Xiao Zheng again tomorrow. If I am lucky enough to survive this disaster, even if I can't become friends with that young man, I must not offend him.

At the same time, the leader of the new religion was also discussing this issue with his people.

"This is probably another evolutionary direction for humans. However, although using the genes of alien beasts to change the body structure can quickly gain powerful strength, it is ultimately self-degrading and not the right way. You must know that human beings themselves are the greatest and most perfect masterpiece of the Creator. As long as we find the right way to stimulate our hidden abilities, then at that time, without relying on any external objects, humans will be able to become the masters of this world again. So you must not go astray like them in pursuit of temporary power." The man who spoke was in his forties, wearing a navy blue Zhongshan suit and a large woolen coat. He had a masculine and handsome face. If his eyes, facial muscles, and body movements did not reveal a frightening fanaticism when he spoke, even if his clothes were stained with blood and no longer neat and straight, he would still be an extremely charming mature man. "However, although they took the wrong road and could not turn back, they saved our lives this time. People of our new religion have always been grateful and repaying kindness. Pass the order down, all believers must not despise them. If they are found to repay kindness with hatred, they will not be forgiven."

"Yes, sir." The several people standing in front of him responded in unison, but they couldn't help but say something in their hearts. Sir, you think too much. No one dares to look down on those two people at the moment, let alone provoke them.

The leaders of the two major forces chose to ignore the transformation of Nan Shao and Song Yan into beasts. No matter what the reason, it did not affect the fragile cooperative relationship temporarily established between the forces, allowing the joint fight against the enemy to proceed smoothly. The two protagonists in question were sitting in the mutant forest at this time, getting a lot of beast meat and roasting it there.

Ordinary food could not satisfy their black hole-like appetite after the transformation of beasts, and Nan Shao could no longer chew the mutant plants he planted with his own hands. In the end, he had to focus on the piles of mutant animal corpses outside. It is well known that mutant beast meat is non-toxic. Although most of them taste terrible, there are still some delicious and tender ones, such as mutant insect beasts that like to eat plants. As for whether they have eaten humans, in the eyes of the two beast-transformed people, it is normal for mutant beasts to eat humans and humans to eat mutant beasts. There is no need to have psychological barriers for this. Of course, considering other people, they did not eat them raw.

"Your two claws are very useful." Nan Shao watched Song Yan use his huge claws covered with black scales to directly tear open the skin of the mutant insect beast, and then neatly break the meat into several pieces. After a long time, he said something inexplicably.

Hearing this, except for Zhang Yi, the expressions of the other wood-type mutants were slightly subtle. Or, since the moment they saw the two half-beast images, their expressions have never been normal, including Song Yan's men.

"It's really good. It's no problem to tear off your ant shell. Do you want to try it?" Song Yan answered calmly, but there was a fierce light in his eyes, which made people know that he really had this plan in his heart.

"Come on if you dare..." Nan Shao's aura burst out all of a sudden, like an ant king who felt his majesty was challenged, and a creepy red light flashed in his cold and ruthless black eyes. Song Yan almost immediately received the fierce killing intent he transmitted, and the muscles on his scaly arms bulged instantly, with blue veins twisted and swollen, more than doubled, and the black scales were even climbing up his face.

At that moment, the fierce aura emanating from the two half-beasts could be felt within a hundred meters. A huge sense of crisis rose in the hearts of the remaining people. Even the mutant plants that were secretly dragging the corpses back to enjoy also retracted their outstretched branches and became quiet. When the cold wind blew, the leaves did not move at all. Outside the eastern defense wall, a black mole cricket about the size of a half-sized calf seemed to have sensed something. It shivered, looked around, and then slid back into the resting mutant beasts, causing a commotion and startling the people on guard on the inner city defense wall. They thought the mutant beasts were going to attack again. Who knew that as soon as the alarm was issued, the outside world returned to calm again, but it was a false alarm.

All this happened in just a moment. Nan Shao didn't even have time to finish his words before he was interrupted by Zhang Yi.

"A Shao, how does the mutant insect beast meat taste? Give me some." Zhang Yi was eating the biscuits brought by the wood-type mutant, and suddenly said.

Hearing his voice, Nan Shao's words of accepting the challenge stopped abruptly. He looked down and put the half-eaten mutant meat on the fire for a while before tearing off a small piece, blowing it to cool it down, and feeding it into Zhang Yi's mouth. The whole process was meticulous, and there was no trace of the previous violent and irritable.

Zhang Yi chewed it twice, a smile appeared on his face, and nodded in praise: "It's quite delicious." Seeing that he liked it, Nan Shao naturally would not be stingy, and the frequency of feeding increased, so he had no time to compete with Song Yan.

No one took the challenge, and Song Yan did not completely lose his mind, and he could not rush up to beat people directly. He just felt that he had nowhere to vent his anger. He sneered and cursed contemptuously: "Coward!" He stood up suddenly and walked out of the woods. He soon brought back two huge human-faced spider-shaped mutant beasts, but the other one was beaten to pieces. "You are too ugly, and you dare to show up!"

Hearing his muttering, everyone didn't know how to react. Nan Shao, who was quietly serving Zhang Yi, nodded and said in agreement: "That's right." When Zhang Yi looked at him speechlessly, he hurriedly added: "This method is not bad." He was referring to the way to resolve the hostility. Just now, he actually wanted to see blood, so he couldn't help but provoke. If it weren't for Zhang Yi, maybe he and Song Yan would really fight to a loss, and the others present would probably suffer.

Song Yan didn't appreciate it, and sneered sarcastically, then picked up a piece of insect beast meat that had been cut and threw it into the fire. He hastily burned it for a few seconds, and started eating it without caring whether it was cooked or not. His situation was actually worse than Nan Shao's, because originally only one arm was transformed into a beast, and he didn't know why this time he took the initiative to transform, and even the other hand was affected, which made him feel a little uneasy. He didn't want to become a complete beastman one day, but he was helpless about what happened to him. This was another reason why his temper was even harder to control. After all, he was not like Nan Shao, who had someone to comfort him. As for Li Muran... He scratched his hair irritably. Fortunately, she was not there at this time, otherwise, with his current temper, he would probably drag her into the woods without caring about anything. This is absolutely not possible!

Considering that there were two gunpowder barrels next to them, they might explode at the slightest touch. The few wood-type mutants who gathered together to rest were very careful even when they got up to urinate, trying not to make any noise. Fortunately, until they recovered their energy a little and got up again to promote the mutant plants, there was no more helpless and terrifying internal commotion.

The mutant beasts were startled three times that night, and the survivors in the inner city were also woken up several times by the whistles, but what made everyone happy and surprised was that until dawn, the mutant beasts did not attack again. Perhaps the crazy battle yesterday not only caused heavy losses and exhaustion to the survivors, but also the mutant beasts. Anyway, in a situation that was already extremely bad, this was definitely not a bad thing. At least it gave them time to recover their fighting power.

"Look!" When dawn came, the survivors who were patrolling on the northern inner defense wall suddenly pointed outside the wall and shouted in surprise.

The mutant plants that seemed sparse and scabby yesterday actually sprang up overnight, forming a very wide area, towering and vast, covering most of the northern defense line. Under the gray sky, all kinds of gorgeous colors of red, yellow, blue and purple were intertwined, as if the most magical painting master had splashed them with watercolors overnight, indescribably bright and charming. The mutant beasts that had originally entered the base and chased outside the inner defense wall were forced to retreat to a more distant open area. As for the zombies, they were more entangled by the mutant plants and struggled and roared in vain in the invisible depths of the forest.

No wonder the second half of the night was much quieter. This thought came to the minds of the people who rushed up after hearing the news at the same time, and then they were occupied by great joy. You know, except for the western front that Nan Shao and his team focused on, the other three fronts had already prepared to defend with all their strength. Who would have thought that such a big change would happen overnight? This means that the front line they need to defend has been shortened, and the safety factor has increased a lot. How could they not be ecstatic? And not only that, news came from the south and the east, and a large number of mutant plants were found. Although they failed to completely surround the inner city, there were fewer open spaces left, and the mutant beasts could no longer surge up like a tide as before. After a day of transplanting and recovery, the mutant plants finally showed their strong growth ability.

Cheers rose and fell in the inner city, and people knew that they had finally won time. As long as they did not take the initiative to remove them, these mutant plants would only grow more and more, and grow denser and denser, and eventually surround the entire inner city and extend to the outside. As for becoming a prisoner in a cell, a bird in a cage, at this time, who cares. At least, in the short term, before hunger and cold come, most ordinary survivors will not care. After days of desperate fighting, they had had enough.

"The bodies of the survivors who died have not been collected yet." Someone suddenly said, cooling the heated atmosphere. People looked outside the inner city involuntarily, but this time their eyes did not fall on the beautiful mutant plants that saved them, but through the gaps between the branches and leaves, trying to find the bulges that had been covered by snow.

Most of the tens of thousands of people died by being torn apart and eaten by mutant beasts. There were actually few bodies left. Those bulges were actually more of the bodies of mutant beasts and zombies. It was almost impossible to dig out the bodies of the victims from the inside after the mutant plants grew up. Even their names might not be collected in full, and they would eventually be buried in the heavy snow and forgotten by people.

Now it is these nameless people, maybe tomorrow it will be their turn, or maybe there won't even be such a pile of snow by then. This thought suddenly occurred to many people, and an indescribable sadness spread silently among the crowd, until a terrified shout broke the depressing silence.

"Oh my God, what is that? What is it doing? What is it going to do!"

Looking in the direction the man pointed, they saw a black mutant flying beast that appeared from nowhere two or three hundred meters away, happily... wreaking havoc in the mutant forest, and wherever it passed, the mutant plants fell one by one.

"Fuck! It's it!" Someone recognized it, because it was so impressive. Two days ago, it suddenly appeared outside the eastern defense wall. Because of its high speed, it made the people on the eastern front nervous for a long time, but later it was discovered that it was just flapping its wings and hiding behind the mutant beasts, flying around stealthily, not attacking people. If it was accidentally touched by a superpower or hit by other mutant beasts, it would be scared and scream and quickly run away. Then, not long after, it would fly back carefully. It is really hard not to remember such a strange mutant beast.

"No matter what it is, we must stop it as soon as possible!"

"Yeah, we must find a way to kill it, otherwise the consequences will be disastrous."

"Damn it, I'll kill it even if I have to sacrifice my life!"

Everyone panicked. They finally saw some hope, and if it was destroyed like this, no one would be willing. At this time, the sadness that had risen before had been thrown away. Only when people are alive can they be sad and self-pitying.

"Huh?" Just as the crowd was preparing to rush out and tear the hateful mutant flying beast into pieces, the situation outside took another turn.

"It seems to be that person, who looks a bit strange, but is very fast in giving birth to mutant plants."

"His name is Nan Shao." Someone who knows the situation answered, and seemed to be very proud of knowing this name.

"Is he going to kill the mutant flying beast?"

The crowd crowded on the defense wall gradually quieted down, paying close attention to the development of the situation. What surprised them was that there was no fierce battle as imagined, nor was there any anxious drama of chasing and escaping. After Nan Shao appeared, the mutant flying beast seemed to freeze, and fell from the air to the ground with a snap, then slowly crawled to his feet in an unusually obedient manner, followed him and disappeared into the mutant forest.

"How could this happen?" Many people were confused and turned to ask the people around them in confusion, as if they wanted to make sure they were not seeing things.

"It can't be that he raised it." Someone said casually as if joking, but didn't know the truth about himself. Of course, no one would believe it except those who knew about it, such as Song Yan's men.

No matter how strange the scene was, the crisis was resolved, which made everyone feel relieved and smile again. As for the destroyed mutant forest, the gap was not large and was still within the tolerance of everyone. Moreover, not long after, Nan Shao turned back and promoted the growth and reproduction of the surrounding plants to fill it.

Dudu felt wronged. Under the cold eyes of Nan Shao and the reproachful or surprised eyes of others, it drooped its antennae and felt a kind of sadness that was not understood. If Yangyang was there, he would definitely praise it. Zhang Ruiyang's smiling little face floated in its mind, and it found that it suddenly missed the child.

It turned out that it didn't listen to Nan Shao's words that day and turned back secretly, completely out of instinct, as if something was calling it deep in its soul, asking it to go to the base. Because it has lived with humans since birth, it is different from other mutant beasts. When it sees humans, it will not rush up to kill and feast. Although it has been wandering around and unable to leave, it has never hurt a human from beginning to end. Of course, for some shameful reasons, it has not helped humans. Until a large area of ​​mutant plants appeared, in its past memories, mutant plants are also enemies of humans. It can't beat mutant beasts, so can't it beat mutant plants? The mutant plants in the east were not stimulated by Nan Shao, and did not give it a sense of familiarity. So it recklessly began its journey of helping others, and at the same time imagined the scene of the little hand patting its head and saying that Dudu was great, which was so beautiful that it was crazy, but it was greeted with such a sad ending.

"If you do such stupid things again in the future, I will put you back into the stone!" In fact, Nan Shao did not scold it, let alone torture it, but his eyes were a little fierce. He only said this sentence from beginning to end, and he said it in a very peaceful tone. In fact, with all the things Dudu did for Zhang Ruiyang, Nan Shao couldn't really do anything to it even if it was more mischievous.

Zhang Yi saw Dudu's pitiful appearance, and thought about the blunder it had done, he couldn't help but want to laugh. He reached out and touched its back, and asked in a gentle voice: "Where have you been these two days? Yangyang missed you very much."

Hearing the word Yangyang, Dudu's two tentacles stood up at once, but when he found that Nan Shao was still staring at it, and there was an even more terrifying Song Yan next to it, it immediately returned to its original state, its black bean-like eyes rolled, and it moved its huge body in a way that it thought was unnoticeable, and hid behind Zhang Yi.

Everyone else laughed and said, "It won't become a spirit."

Things here are almost over. Nan Shao spent another day, together with other wood-type mutants, filling the places that the mutant plants did not cover, and then did not even enter the inner city, let alone greet the top leaders of the base and the leaders of the new religion, and returned to Hulugou with Zhang Yi, Song Yan, and other people in the car team. Both he and Song Yan need to recover, so the fewer people they meet at this time, the better.

Li Muran's work of transporting personnel is still going on. This time, the base will organize it. The seriously injured, the elderly, the weak, women and children will be sent out one by one. The main purpose is to reduce the consumption of various materials and reduce the burden on the base. At the same time, it is to prevent mutant beasts from breaking into the base and causing unnecessary casualties. In addition to occasionally bringing Song Yan into the base to discuss various matters, her other task is to deliver supplies. Rice, grain, coal, etc. As long as there are these things, the base can hold on until the siege is lifted. At this time, her existence no longer needs to be concealed, and telling the public can actually play a role in calming people's hearts.

Chapter 236 Collecting Supplies

After solving the crisis of the destruction of Yunzhou Base in the short term, collecting supplies has become the primary task of the team. Because in addition to the daily consumption of thousands of people in the team, they also have to prepare for the food and heating of more than 100,000 people in Yunzhou Base. Although there are some reserves in the base, they are limited after all. Once they are exhausted, they will have to rely entirely on Song Yan's team to provide them.

Longren is an empty city, Zhang County is also an empty city, and Xinlong City should also be empty, but it is too far away. The city is more than 150 kilometers away from Yunzhou Base. It takes a big detour from Zhang County, and the distance is more than twice as long, nearly 500 kilometers, so it is not considered for the time being. And because Zhang County and Longren are too close to Yunzhou Base, some large reserve granaries and warehouses have been almost emptied, and only the shopping malls in the downtown area should not have been touched much. As for rural towns and other places, they had been plundered long before the plant mutation because there were fewer zombies. But after all, they are two large cities with a population of millions. Even if they search one by one, they can still find a lot of things. Moreover, the city was empty at this time, and both the safety and efficiency of collecting supplies were much higher than going to other distant cities.

The total number of people in the convoy was more than 3,000, of which more than 2,000 were Song Yan's original subordinates and escaped from the army, and the remaining more than 1,000 were ordinary people who were taken in on the way to Dongzhou. Among these ordinary people, there were some who awakened their superpowers, or dared to fight zombies, and gradually integrated into the original team and had equal treatment. The rest were Zhao Ru and his people. When they saw the zombies, the first thing they thought of was not to rush up and kill them, but to turn around and run away. Such people would not only be of no help to the battlefield, but might also implicate others. But after all, they were of the same kind. Song Yan's convoy had the strength to do so, so they could not abandon people. Moreover, when civilization was rebuilt in the future, a large number of talents would be needed. These people might not be able to kill zombies, but that did not mean they could not do other things. But before that, if they want to get protection from others, eat, and survive, even they still have to pay something, so there is the corpse-luring team, which also takes care of various chores. Like this time to collect supplies, because the danger is not great, they became the main force. In addition, in view of the existence of mutant plants, one-third of the combat power must be drawn to provide them with protection, and at the same time, they also help, and the remaining two-thirds will go to clear the zombies.

Zhang Yi and his group, as well as the survivors rescued by Li Muran from the Yunzhou base, about a hundred people, formed a group of their own. Song Yan gave them the opportunity to choose, they can leave on their own to find another survivor base to stay, or they can stay. If they stay, they must follow the arrangements. But in the end, no one left. Nan Shao and his team stayed half for Li Muran, and the other half was to help in clearing zombies and mutant creatures. Some of the others were for their relatives who were still in the base, some had the same purpose as Nan Shao and his team, and some felt that most of the convoy was soldiers, and they felt more reliable. These people had just escaped death, so they were still very willing to say hello. However, among them, except for Zhang Yi and others, they were either seriously injured and had not fully recovered or had little fighting power, so they were all arranged to collect supplies.

"We will also go to collect supplies." Nan Shao, who had never cared much about what he needed to do, rarely spoke when Song Yan arranged their tasks. It was not a request, but a request.

Song Yan paused, then looked at him with contempt, and said in a bad tone: "That's something only the old, weak, sick and disabled do."

"I'm disabled, can't you see?" Nan Shao pointed to the half of his face that had not yet recovered, and said very seriously, then put his arm around Zhang Yi's shoulder who was sitting next to him: "Ayi will go to protect me. Let Fatty and the others go with you to kill zombies."

Meat Tower Chen and others who stayed in the room playing poker sneezed several times at the same time, and looked at each other in surprise.

"Are you catching a cold?" Xu Jing, who was bending over to watch the game with her hands on her knees, rubbed her nose and asked Pei Yuan who was sitting cross-legged in front of her.

Pei Yuan shook his head and stared at the cards in his hand, wishing he could see a hole in them.

"Damn, when did sneezing become contagious? Bomb!" Routa Chen muttered while shaking his feet and threw out four kings, blowing up Shi Pengsan's double straight. Unexpectedly, Shi Pengsan threw out two old ghosts right after that, which startled him and made him jump up, "Fuck! What else do you have?"

Jie Chen came over and pushed him aside, "Fat donor, it's my turn." It turned out that Shi Pengsan had already played all his cards, and Routa Chen and Pei Yuan had lost all the biscuits in front of them.

Several people were playing fiercely, not knowing that they had been sold out by Nan Shao.

In the temporary meeting room, Zhang Yi received the gazes from everyone, and his face couldn't help but heat up slightly. He knew that Nan Shao must have remembered what he said that day, otherwise he wouldn't have insisted so much. Although Nan Shao would definitely listen if he spoke, he didn't want to oppose Nan Shao in front of others, just like Nan Shao would never disobey him. Besides, this matter, well... they had agreed on it a long time ago. After being tense for so long, now that the conditions are right, you can actually relax appropriately.

Song Yan pointed his finger at Nan Shao, and was almost speechless because of his shameless words. After a while, he squeezed out a few words from his teeth: "You mean, I am also disabled?" It turned out that his two arms had returned to normal, but his palms were still in the shape of black scales and claws, but because he was wearing gloves, it was not very visible.

"Do you think you are normal?" Nan Shao was in a good mood. Upon hearing this, he immediately retorted in an extremely surprised tone. Zhang Yi gently touched his chest with his elbow, so he immediately changed his words and smiled gently: "However, if you go to kill zombies like this, you will definitely be domineering and sweeping across the world. Don't waste it." The half-ant face did not discredit his appearance at all, but instead had a distinct contrast beauty, especially when he smiled like this.

Song Yan couldn't help but laugh out of anger, with a cold and cruel light in her eyes. She was about to say something, or make a move, but Li Muran, who had been staring at the two of them, stood up suddenly and said anxiously, "I want to pee!" As soon as she said this, the whole place was silent, and even she blushed, wishing she could find a hole to crawl into. In fact, she just wanted to interrupt and say that she had a stomachache and wanted to go to the toilet, but she didn't expect that she would become like this when she was anxious.

Most of the people present were men, and many of them had been saved by her. Although they thought it was funny, they held back for her face. It was just a few seconds of silence, which further highlighted her classic and incomparable words to smooth things over. Nan Shao leaned against the sofa with his arms around his chest, with an expression that seemed to be about to laugh or not. He obviously saw what she was thinking, but he couldn't figure out whether she was worried about the two of them fighting or for something else. Zhang Yi couldn't bear her embarrassment, and wanted to say something to save the situation, but Song Yan had already said, "Hold on."

This was simply bullying. Li Muran glared at Song Yan angrily, but before meeting his eyes, she quickly lowered her head without any backbone, sat back in her original position, and regretted it so much. If she wasn't worried that he would have a falling out with Brother Shao, and it would be difficult for him to ask for treatment, why would she bother to meddle in other people's business?

Others had also seen Song Yan's bad temper, and knew that Li Muran didn't really want to relieve himself, so no one bothered to dwell on this topic. Fortunately, her goal was achieved. Song Yan seemed to have forgotten about the dispute with Nan Shao just now. After a few words, he assigned their respective tasks and dispersed. It was not like some meetings before the end of the world, where they talked a lot but didn't get to the point. Nan Shao got what he wanted and was arranged to go with Zhang Yi to collect supplies, so the smile on his face never faded.

Just after leaving the door, Chang Han's shout came from behind.

"What are your plans?" Chang Han chased after him and asked in a low voice. He didn't say much about Nan Shao's weird appearance, and still treated it with a normal attitude. Not everyone has this mentality. Not to mention other people, even among the people who were in the meeting just now, some looked at Nan Shao with awe and alienation, as if he was something scary.

"After we relieve the siege of Yunzhou, we will return to Ronghe... Oh, maybe we need to do something else, I can't say now." It was Zhang Yi who answered. This was not a secret, so there was no need to hesitate.

"So, you don't plan to stay in the convoy?" Chang Han seemed a little disappointed.

"Well, I won't stay. What about you guys?" There are still many friends in Ronghe. Although they didn't stay there for a long time, Zhang Yi and his friends have long regarded it as a home they must return to.

"I do." Chang Han nodded and said without hesitation, "You know, the team is very strong, and it seems that everyone is doing well. Even those with weaker abilities are not bullied..." It turned out that he had been wandering around in Hulugou for the past two days, and he had a good understanding of the team's situation. He felt that staying would be a good decision. "But there is still a lot of time, let's see." Obviously, he was also scared by the fact that he had voted in the wrong place several times in a row.

Zhang Yi nodded in agreement. Chang Han chatted for a few more words, and when he saw Yun Hao playing snowballs with Fu Dan and other children not far away, he left first.

"By the way, A Shao, where did you put the black iron sheet given by the woman in Xiaojie Village?" Zhang Yi suddenly remembered this. He had arrived at Yunzhou Base more than a month before it was surrounded. He had personally experienced what Meng Zhan said about the importance that the Protestants attached to the black iron sheet. Combined with what Ge Yuanxiu said, he couldn't help but suspect that the iron sheet was really related to the end of the world, so he wanted to take a closer look.

"Ah? Hmm..." Nan Shao was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously reached into his pocket, but found nothing. He couldn't help but tap his forehead twice with his fingers, and then he remembered: "It seems to be lost. It should be at the motel where we separated." Although he was not afraid of the bites of flying ants, his clothes could not stop it. He didn't attach much importance to the piece of iron in the first place, and he put it in his pocket casually. After a back and forth of the flying ants, his clothes were gone, and there was no way the black iron sheet inside would be there. It was lost silently. If Zhang Yi hadn't mentioned it, he would probably never remember it.

"Uh..." Zhang Yi didn't expect this answer, and he smiled, "It's lost." He didn't care too much. After all, they had studied it before, and they couldn't see anything at that time. He didn't think that after this period of time, he would be able to find something valuable from it. He mentioned it at this time, just because the new religion attached too much importance to it and was a little curious.

"If you want it, I'll go find it now, I should be able to find it back... right." Nan Shao said without hesitation. After all, Zhang Yi had never asked him for anything, but he was not so sure at the end. He didn't know where it was lost, who knew if it was picked up by someone. And those flying ants might have a good appetite and just gnaw it clean.

"It's unnecessary." Zhang Yi shook his head. "It's a waste of time. The new religion can use it, but we may not. When we return to Ronghe, we'll take a look at it. If we can find it, we'll find it. If we can't find it, forget it. If we have it in our hands now, it may be a disaster." As for solving the mystery of the coming of the end of the world, or changing the end of the world to save mankind, that vision is too big. Let's live well first.

Nan Shao felt that what he said made sense. Of course, it was mainly because he had a strong premonition in his heart that the iron block might not be found.

On the highway where the motel was located hundreds of kilometers away, a handsome young man wearing a thick down jacket, wrapped in a scarf, and carrying a travel bag was walking on the road where most of the mutant plants occupied one foot deep and one foot shallow. Behind him, a very handsome blue-gray donkey was following not far away.

"Fuck!" Something fell from the sky, and he was vigilantly avoided. The thing hit the snow and sank directly into the thick snow. The young man walked over and kicked the snow away. He saw a piece of black iron. He bent down to pick it up, brushed off the remaining snow on it and looked at it carefully for a moment. He couldn't help but laugh, "Oh? This is really a lucky thing. Nothing can stop it." It was the piece that Nan Shao had lost. In fact, when Nan Shao rushed into the flying ant colony for the first time to get the truck loaded with food, he dropped it on the road in front of the hotel. Because of the ant corpses and the snow, no one noticed it. Later, it was run over by a passing car and finally wrapped up by the mutant plants that grew together with the ant corpses. However, it was not digested and absorbed for years, so it was thrown out directly like excretion. Unexpectedly, the young man happened to encounter it. It was really lucky.

If Nan Shao saw this scene, he would definitely be furious, because this young man was the one who took his Tang sword in the past, and now he picked up his black iron piece. It was simply picking up a bargain.

"Hey, man, you neither let me ride nor help me carry my backpack, but you always follow me. What's the meaning of that?" Putting the black iron piece into his pocket, the young man was in a very good mood, so he turned around and asked the donkey that had been following him.

After leaving Ziyun County, he went in the opposite direction of Bowei. After going around in circles, he did not encounter a larger survivor base except for a few small surviving communities. So he turned around and walked this way, went to Bowei, went to Xiaojie Village, and also went to Ronghe. Skilled and daring, he was completely different from other survivors who regarded the post-apocalyptic world as a den of dragons and tigers. Instead, he found it very interesting and even thought that driving was troublesome. He had to find gasoline and move the scrap cars to clear the road from time to time, so he always walked on his legs. This donkey suddenly appeared when he passed a town not long ago. It was really too long since he had eaten fresh and normal meat. At that time, he really wanted to kill the donkey for meat. Unexpectedly, the donkey was very clever. It would run away as soon as he approached it, and it ran incredibly fast. Even if he used his light body skills, he couldn't catch up with it. As soon as he turned around, it would catch up with him again. After several times like this, he gave up the idea of ​​eating donkey meat. It seemed that it could sense that sometimes it was willing to let him get close, but it would never carry him. Whenever it thought of this, it would kick its hooves. Gradually, he got used to it and felt that it was not bad to have a living creature to accompany him and listen to him talk.

This road led to Yunzhou. He met several teams of refugees, saying that there was a tide of corpses and beasts over there, and the entire Yunzhou base was surrounded. He had never seen a tide of corpses and beasts happen at the same time, so he was going to go over and take a look. This situation was too strange. If he didn't find out the reason, he would definitely be scolded when he returned to the capital.

The big gray donkey ignored him and held its head high, trotting and trotting, with a calm gait, like an extremely noble person.

It was all spoiled. The young man tutted, pointed at it, and said unhappily: "You are just a donkey. No matter how far you walk, you will never be able to walk like a human being."

The big gray donkey finally gave him a look of disdain. Most of the time, it responded to him like this. The young man was still a little uncomfortable if he didn't get such a look in a day.

Just as the man and the donkey were walking slowly towards the Yunzhou base, Nan Shao and his friends had already taken a car to Longren and started collecting supplies. Zhang Ruiyang would definitely not be taken with him. Several young children were not allowed to go, but teenagers like Fu Dan had to participate. Except for the people guarding the camp and those who were seriously injured and unable to move, among the adults, only Bing Gui did not move. Even Yun Ze, who was still recovering, participated in the action of collecting supplies. As for Yuan Jinshu, he was sent to kill zombies to avoid wasting his powerful fighting power. However, with Bing Gui, a big Buddha, sitting in the camp, the people on the team who were out on a mission felt much more at ease. They probably didn't have to worry about their temporary nest being raided by some powerful mutant zombies or creatures.

More than a thousand people were divided into four groups and went according to the routes decided in advance. Nan Shao and Zhang Yi chose the farthest route and planned to stay outside for two days. When they learned that the two had gone to collect supplies without them, Routa Chen and others had some subtle expressions, as if they wanted to laugh, but also seemed a little ambiguous, but after a closer look, they were actually very serious. Only little Pei Yuan kept asking why and why they had to separate, but was covered by Jie Chen's mouth and dragged away. Obviously, even the ignorant little monk knew that the two could not hold back their anger. Although Hulugou is very safe, there are too many people here, the living space is tight, and there is also a little Yangyang who will rush out to find his father at any time, so there is really nothing he can do. They expressed their understanding of this.

From Hulugou to Zhang County, and then from Zhang County to Longren City, this road was roughly cleared when Song Yan's convoy passed by. Later, when Song Yan was still discussing with the base how to get out of the siege, Xiao Sheng sent people to clean up the area carefully in order to collect supplies. Therefore, they basically did not encounter any trouble along the way. Even if there were some fast-growing mutant plants blocking the road occasionally, it was nothing in the eyes of the experienced convoy guards, not to mention the existence of Nan Shao, who had an abnormal control over plants. So it took more than an hour to reach the destination after traveling hundreds of kilometers.

The road from Longren to Yunzhou Base has been blocked by Song Yan's men. The five-meter-high earth and stone wall, with wild mutant forests on both sides, may not be able to stop some powerful mutant beasts and mutant zombies, but it can prevent a large number of zombies from coming. Moreover, there are people staying here to monitor the movement of the zombie beast tide. The convoy will receive the news at the first time if there is any movement, and there is no need to worry about being attacked suddenly. In addition, the main roads from Longren to other places have also been blocked to prevent the same thing as the Yunzhou Base from happening again. The convoy will not even have time to move and react. Although this possibility is very small, it is always right to be more prepared.

As expected, there is no food around Longren City, including some residential areas that have been pried open and looted. The material collection team drove slowly into the city. Although there should be no zombies and mutant beasts in the city, they still remained quite vigilant. This has become a habit.

After driving for more than an hour and clearing several streets blocked by abandoned vehicles, they finally found a shopping mall that had not been visited by survivors. There were many zombies trapped in the mall that could not get out. These zombies had not evolved and could even kill children. The guards did not need to take action, and the supply team cleaned it up by themselves. Unfortunately, there were a lot of clothes, shoes, socks, and bedding in this mall, but not much food, and many of them were already broken. After collecting some daily necessities, they rushed to the next one without emptying the mall. The focus at the moment was food, and everything else could be temporarily abandoned.

Because Longren was a big city, their team brought ten military trucks. At first, everyone was still full of confidence, thinking that as long as they were faster, they might be able to run two trips in a day. Who knew that it was not until after noon that they loaded one truck, and more than half of the food was not food.

Damn, is such a big city just for decoration? Everyone couldn't help but curse in their hearts, especially the people in the team. You have to know that they have been traveling all the way, whether from Yunzhou to Dongzhou, or from Dongzhou back, wherever they pass, whether in the city or the countryside, they can basically find a lot of things, and even leave some for those who come later. It has never been as clean as this time.

"Let's search separately. It's a waste of time for everyone to gather together." Finally, someone proposed. If every time we encounter a place like this, one car can't be filled, the other cars will have to wait.

"Okay, but everyone should pay attention to safety. Meet at the gymnasium we saw when we entered the city at night." The leader is Yun Ze. He has only woken up for two days, and his body functions have not recovered yet. He can't go to the battlefield. He doesn't want to hide in the camp to recuperate, so he took the initiative to ask to participate in collecting supplies. Because he is Song Yan's personal bodyguard, he has always been very prestigious in the team. Before he fell asleep, he was more powerful than Xiao Sheng, Long Xia and others, so he naturally became the leader of his team.

After hearing the man's suggestion, he thought about it and decisively agreed. He immediately divided more than 200 people into five small teams, each with about 50 people and two military trucks. For safety, the small teams are not allowed to separate, even if they can't collect supplies.

Fu Dan and Wu Qing were assigned to Zhang Yi's group. This was Zhang Yi's initiative, because before leaving, Li Muran asked him to take care of two children. As for Li Muran, he was still taken to kill zombies and couldn't resist. Yun Hao was also in their group. Before, everyone suspected that Yun Huo and Yun Ze were brothers, but later they found out that it was just a coincidence. They just had the same surname Yun. Zhang Yi and the others had a good impression of this young man, not to mention that Chang Han came over to say something, so they also had to take care of him more. Apart

from this, the people in the small team were basically not familiar with each other, but it did not hinder cooperation with each other. In order not to cause unnecessary disputes and dissatisfaction, the captains of the small teams were all soldiers from the escort team. The captain of Nan Shao's team is Zhao Cheng, a young man in his early twenties. He usually speaks softly and is very shy, but when it comes to killing zombies, he has the iron-blooded courage of a soldier. Everyone respects him and likes to tease him when he is not doing his work. They can't help laughing when they see him blushing and unable to speak for a long time. Zhang Yi and Nan Shao felt that the atmosphere of the team was very good, so they just did what they were supposed to do and didn't worry too much. They completely regarded this collection of supplies as a honeymoon trip.

Chapter 237: Marching in teams

The whole city was quiet, and only when the cold wind blew, the mutant plants would shake their branches and leaves, making rustling sounds. The snow stopped last night and has not fallen until now. Of course, looking at the thick clouds, don't expect the sun to come out.

Ten military trucks and five off-road vehicles were scattered in the huge city, and they couldn't even make a splash. In a blink of an eye, they were buried in the huge silence. Zhang Yi and his team took the East Avenue. There were many overturned vehicles along the road, and some zombies were trapped inside with half of their bodies exposed, and they couldn't climb out. When they saw this kind of thing, they would stop and go up to make up a knife, so that the dead could rest in peace and reduce a little danger for the living. As for the mutant plants, except for those that blocked the road and actively attacked people, they basically didn't move. Everyone knows that normal plants no longer grow now, and normal animals are nowhere to be seen. Not to mention that they have no ability, even if they really have the ability to eliminate all these mutant creatures, humans probably have no way to survive. After all, the food left before the apocalypse will eventually rot and be eaten up. By then, will we have to eat the dirt?

Along the way, some shopping malls and restaurants have been occupied by mutant plants, with walls and buildings collapsing, while others are wide open, with the inside in a mess. The moldy cooked food has long been blackened and its original appearance cannot be seen. The rice and flour are all over the ground, trampled and trampled beyond recognition, and it is hard to distinguish between dust and mud. It is luck to search for one or two bags of rice. Bars, restaurants, coffee shops, foot massage parlors, hair salons, clothing stores... I didn't get much food, but I brought back a lot of cigarettes and alcohol. I distributed some of the cigarettes to everyone on the spot, but I didn't touch the alcohol. It's not that I don't want to, but it's easy to get into trouble when drinking during a mission.

Walking the whole street, it was all small fights. I killed a lot of zombies trapped in the house, but the supplies I collected were very embarrassing. Bedding, clothes, shoes and socks could fill two cars, and there were also a lot of non-essential items such as cigarettes and alcohol, but there was not much food that could really save lives, only about half a car. They only collected half of the quilts, clothes and other things and stopped until they came across a large supermarket located underground.

This supermarket is located in the People's Square in the east of the city. It has two underground floors and occupies a very large area. Before the end of the world, it was a place for citizens to gather in the evening and on weekends. Occasionally, there were exhibitions or festivals here, so the flow of people was very considerable. Interestingly, the end of the world happened in the morning, not on holidays or weekends, so there were really no people except for a few elderly people who took their grandchildren to stroll here, so there were fewer zombies than in other places.

However, this place was occupied by mutant plants at this time, and the entrance of the supermarket was tightly sealed by the vines and roots of the mutant plants. Because several people in the team were very familiar with Longren, otherwise, seeing such a dense forest of mutant plants, no one would have thought that there was a supermarket underground. Nan Shao opened a path, went in to check it out, and soon turned back. "There's someone inside." Everyone was a little surprised.

Zhao Cheng was the first to react. He rolled up his sleeves and shouted, "What are you waiting for? Save people!"

Then he rushed forward first. When they got closer, they found that the supermarket's broken doors were tightly closed, and people used boxes and cabinets to block the back. Through the glass on the door, they could vaguely see someone pushing shelves up from the stairs. "There weren't these things just now.

It seems that the people inside don't want us to save them." Nan Shao shrugged and said inexplicably. "Uh." Zhao Cheng obviously didn't expect such a scene.

He was a little stunned. He seemed to realize that he was a little reckless. He raised his hand and scratched his head embarrassedly. "How about... asking?"

He was obviously not used to ordering people around. After saying this, he didn't call anyone else. He put his hands on his waist and shouted directly. "Hey! Don't be afraid, people inside. We don't mean any harm. We're just passing by..."

When he said this, he felt that this was a bit awkward. He couldn't help but look at the people around him and repeated it unconsciously: "Just passing by, right?" The person he saw nodded, so he cheered up and continued: "Do you need help? If not, we'll leave." Although they came for the supermarket in

the beginning, there were people inside now, and they were obviously on guard against them. They couldn't just fight with each other over something. After waiting for a while, he only saw a shadow swaying in the gap between the shelves, but no one responded.

Zhao Cheng touched his nose, waved his hand and said to others: "Let's go, let's go somewhere else." However, before they walked away, a hoarse question came from behind, with some hesitation and strong vigilance, but it was hard to hide the urgency: "Are you... soldiers? Did the government send you to rescue us?"

Zhao Cheng turned around, scratched his head, stuttered, and answered: "A few of them... were before, we are here to collect supplies, the government, the government, we haven't contacted you yet, if you want to leave, you can go with us." After a pause, he remembered to ask: "How many of you are there?" There was no sound for a long time inside, Zhao Cheng was a little confused, and asked the people around him helplessly: "Did I say anything wrong?" Why didn't you respond? The people around him couldn't help laughing, thinking that this captain was too stupid.

Fortunately, he didn't act like this when he really did things, otherwise something bad would happen. "No, they probably don't want to leave. Let's go. It's getting late. Don't wait until then to go back. Only our team didn't get anything. Hehe, captain..." The person who answered him was a member of the guard team, who also came from the army. He was already winking at the end of the conversation.

He looked slick. Thinking of his mission, Zhao Cheng couldn't help but be alert. He quickly turned around and led his people to leave. Unexpectedly, there was another noise behind him, but this time it was the sound of moving things. "Wait, take us with you!" It was still the same hoarse voice. When everyone turned their heads, they found that it was a man who was wrapped very thickly, with only a pair of eyes exposed. His clothes looked okay, but when he walked out, he hunched over and covered his eyes with his hands. He seemed not to be used to the light and cold wind outside.

"How many people are there?" Zhao Cheng asked again, and at the same time waved his hands behind his back, signaling everyone to retreat. Although he was a little clumsy in words, he was not stupid. Regardless of the other party's identity, he must be on guard until he was sure that he was really harmless. Seeing his gesture, the members of the escort team responded quickly, dispersing without a trace, each occupying an attacking or defending position, and controlling this area invisibly to prevent a sneak attack.

"There are fifty-two." The man stopped far away, obviously wary of them. "Are you really soldiers? Did you kill all the zombies outside?" He had seen the situation outside clearly from inside, and had never seen the zombies that forced them to hide in the underground supermarket. In addition, Zhao Cheng and his men spoke loudly, but they never attracted zombies, so he asked this question.

Zhao Cheng shook his head, "The zombies and mutants have all gone to the Yunzhou base. There are basically no zombies in the city now, except for those who are locked in the house and can't get out."

After a pause, he said, "Call your people out, we still have to collect supplies and can't stay here for too long."

"You said there are no zombies in the city?" The man did not follow Zhao Cheng's instructions and turned back to call his companions, but asked with some excitement in surprise. Looking around, there was indeed no zombie on the several intersecting streets, and he was a little convinced. "Yes."

Seeing that he was slow to call the others out, Zhao Cheng was a little anxious, but he still answered in a good-tempered manner. "What do you think mutant beasts are? And these... How come so many strange plants are growing?" The man seemed to not see the anxiety in Zhao Cheng's eyes and continued to ask.

This question stunned Zhao Cheng. Not only him, but everyone else present was also a little surprised. Not knowing about mutant beasts, not knowing about mutant plants, how long have you been isolated from the world? "Half a year ago, it rained heavily for a long time, did you know?" Zhao Cheng saw that the other party seemed not to give up until he got to the bottom of the matter, so he had to hold back his temper and explain to him. Seeing that he nodded, he continued: "It was after that time that these mutant plants appeared, and there were many mutant animals that were more ferocious than zombies." At the end, he couldn't help but ask: "You didn't stay down there all the time and didn't come out?"

The man hummed, looked around, and finally his eyes fell on the two military trucks and an off-road vehicle parked not far away by the squad. He was silent for a moment, and retreated until he retreated to the door of the supermarket, and then he said: "You go, our homes are all nearby, and we won't go with you." After that, he turned and rushed into the supermarket, and soon someone came to seal the door.

"Fuck!" Someone in the team cursed. It turned out that the other party just wanted to get some news from the outside world from them, and never thought of leaving with them from beginning to end.

Zhao Cheng touched his head awkwardly, and finally said: "Let's go." He was not angry, and kindly warned the people in the supermarket a few more words, asking them to be careful of mutant plants.

Unfortunately, the other party did not seem to appreciate it and never said a word again. Zhao Cheng was not angry, but just a little unhappy, probably because he had never encountered such a thing before. On the contrary, many people in the team secretly breathed a sigh of relief. After all, the other party had too many people, the same number as their team. If they really gathered together, who knew if there would be trouble? After being tricked, they seemed to have changed their luck, or perhaps they had found the right direction. They left the square, crossed the crossroads, and headed east.

They came across several supermarkets, restaurants, and hotels that had not been touched. By four o'clock in the afternoon, the two cars were full, and the team members finally didn't have to worry about being embarrassed by not being able to compete with other teams.

When they returned to the gymnasium they had agreed on in advance, some of them had already returned. "Hey, you're back now? We've been here for a long time, and dinner is ready." The other team leader, a thirty-something bearded man, came over and said with a smile.

"Well, I didn't find anything at first." Zhao Cheng answered honestly, not feeling that the other party was showing off at all.

"Tsk tsk! Let me see... What are you guys getting? Can you eat this kind of puffed food? It's not nutritious and takes up space. How can it be better than rice and flour? Oh, you guys don't all have this kind of stuff?"

Hearing this, the bad-tempered members of the team began to glare at him, but Zhao Cheng seemed to have heard nothing and still said seriously: "No, we also have rice and flour, but these can be eaten, it's a pity not to take them."

The bearded man actually had no ill intentions, he just liked to joke and deliberately make people angry, preferably to fight, but after a few words, Zhao Cheng didn't understand his deep meaning, and felt very powerless. Seeing that another team had returned, he patted Zhao Cheng on the shoulder, said that the young man had no future, and then went to find someone else to make enemies.

Zhao Cheng continued to command his team to park the car as if nothing had happened, and then found a place to rest in the gymnasium and make a fire to cook. When all the teams came back, it was already dark, and half of the cars were not full, which showed that Zhang Yi and his team were lucky. In addition to them, the team also met a few survivors and brought them back. They were people who were trapped in the city at the beginning of the apocalypse and were lucky enough to survive the mutation of plants and animals.

Zhang Yi looked at them from a distance and saw that the survivors were very thin and pale, with a timid look on their faces. He didn't know how they had spent the past year. At this moment, Nan Shao pulled him. "Captain, Ayi and I have something to do and we have to go out for one night. We will be back tomorrow morning." Zhao Cheng, who was eating noodles with a bowl in his hand, was stunned, with noodles hanging on his mouth. He blinked his eyes, sucked the noodles into his mouth in a few seconds, and asked subconsciously: "It's dark, where are you going?" Nan Shao just looked at him with a smile, but didn't answer.

The other members of the team unconsciously turned their attention to them, especially Fu Dan and the other two. Yun Hao looked at Zhang Yi, then at Nan Shao, with a hint of understanding in his eyes.

He obviously guessed what they were going to do. He couldn't help but smile at the corners of his lips. He no longer cared and lowered his head to continue eating his own food. Zhao Cheng scratched his head. Seeing that Nan Shao didn't say anything, he didn't force him. He just said, "It may not be safe at night. Can't we do it tomorrow? Our team's car is full. Tomorrow we should help other teams collect. I can talk to Brother Yun and let him allow you to do your own things." He meant well, but Nan Shao's eyes lit up and he went with the flow: "Then we will come back the day after tomorrow morning."

Collecting supplies is not a matter of one or two days. When the car is full and transported back to Hulugou tomorrow, most of them should stay here and wait, so he said that. Zhao Cheng suddenly shut up and looked at Nan Shao eagerly. His eyes were very tangled. He probably didn't understand why the more he persuaded him, the longer he wanted to leave. Zhang Yi laughed, patted his shoulder and said, "Don't worry, Nan Shao and I can handle it." I

n his eyes, Zhao Cheng was still a big boy, and he didn't want to embarrass him, so he explained a little: "Nan Shao's ability is quite powerful, and he is not afraid of mutant plants. We will go and tell Yun Ze, and if he agrees, we will leave." "Okay, then we will wait for you to come back the day after tomorrow morning, and then set off." Zhao Cheng had heard about how powerful Nan Shao's ability was.

Seeing that Zhang Yi said so, and thinking that they really had an emergency, he stopped persuading and nodded in agreement, but still repeatedly warned them to be careful. Zhang Yi also gave Fu Dan and the other two a warning, asking them not to leave the team no matter what happened, even if they went to the toilet, they had to go with others, and then the two of them went to Yun Ze's side. Yun Ze was rescued by Nan Shao, so naturally he would not deliberately make things difficult for them, and he knew that they had the ability to walk outside, so he agreed very readily. Apart from their weapons, the two men only carried two flashlights and nothing else. They left the stadium amid the puzzled or ambiguous gazes of the crowd and walked towards the depths of the city.

Chapter 238: Alone Time (1)

The beam of light from the flashlight projected straight out, piercing through the deep darkness and landing on the empty street ahead. The shadows of abandoned vehicles, buildings on both sides, and mutant plants intertwined, forming the only night scene in this city. There were no colorful neon lights, no noisy night markets, no clattering of mahjong, no drunkards singing and laughing, and no homeless people squatting in the dark corners of the street mumbling about pain and injuries that no one understood. There were only two footsteps of similar frequency that slowly approached from afar with the beam of light from the flashlight, and then gradually faded away.

Ten minutes later, Nan Shao and Zhang Yi arrived at a residential area not too far from the gymnasium. Considering that the food that could be found in the households was limited and they had to search one by one, the team decided to first target those shopping malls and supermarkets with more supplies. After searching all these, they would go to the residential areas. Therefore, they had not been here before. In the morning, Nan Shao asked several people in the team who were familiar with Longren City about the situation nearby, such as where there were supermarkets, clubs, residential areas, etc., and finally chose this place. It

was not difficult to find. Just walk along the main road, turn a few corners in the middle, and then enter a two-lane wide lane. From here, the thick snow on the ground remained the same as when it landed, without any car prints or footprints, proving that no one had disturbed it. The footsteps of the two people also turned into the creaking sound of stepping on the snow, which further highlighted the silence of the end of the world. Even though their hands were tightly clasped and their hearts were burning with what was about to happen, they still felt an indescribable sense of loneliness. This loneliness has nothing to do with whether there is a lover around, but comes from the depths of the soul, the anxiety about the mass extinction of mankind.

"There is a small supermarket here." Nan Shao said, the beam of the flashlight swept across both sides, and then stopped on a sign with the word Fuyuan Supermarket written on it a dozen steps away.

The shutters were pulled up, and it was obviously open before the end of the world. However, the double glass doors were broken, revealing a dark entrance. The flashlight swept inside. There were no living zombies except for a few skeletons with torn clothes on the ground, but the ground was messy, and the things in the supermarket were scattered all over the ground. The two walked in and found that there was no food at all, so they knew that this place had been visited by survivors. However, looking at the dust on the ground and no footprints, they knew that a long time had passed.

"Here are candles." Zhang Yi searched on the shelves with a flashlight, and saw a few packs of thumb-thick white candles that had not been touched. So he pulled two plastic tables from the cash register, handed one to Nan Shao, kept one for himself, and put all the candles in.

Towels, underwear, thermal underwear, socks, slippers, soap, toothbrushes and toothpaste, cups, clothes drying racks, a pile of plastic basins and buckets... No one had touched these things. I'm afraid there were no survivors after the rainstorm. Zhang Yi took them while thinking about what to do in the next day and night. Before he knew it, he had gathered a lot of things.

It felt like they were setting up a small home. Nan Shao wanted to laugh, but he didn't mean to stop them. He thought that at most he could take more. He walked to the depths of the supermarket without knowing it. "There's a door here." He pushed it, but couldn't push it open.

"Let me see." Zhang Yi casually touched a black clip pin from the shelf, walked over, and found that it was an ordinary lock. Without thinking, he took out a clip pin and pried it open a little, then inserted it into the keyhole. As if he had a key, he opened the door in a few seconds. He didn't think about whether there were any survivors inside the door. After all, if there were really people, the roller shutter outside would have been pulled down long ago. As for the zombies, the zombies locked in the house were really nothing to be afraid of.

As he expected, the door was quiet and nothing was inside. When the door was fully opened, they found that there was a staircase behind it. The two walked up one after the other, and the wooden stairs made a dull sound when their leather boots fell. Zhang Yi frowned and tightened the knife in his hand. Nan Shao tugged at his clothes, indicating that he would go ahead. Zhang Yi ignored him. The stairs were very narrow and only allowed one person to pass. If he didn't let him, Nan Shao had no choice but to be on guard just in case.

Fortunately, nothing happened. The second floor was a very spacious storage room full of things. The two checked around and found no danger, so they continued to walk up the wooden stairs to the third floor. There was a glass sliding door at the top that separated the corridor. Zhang Yi tried and easily pushed the door open, revealing the spacious living room inside. Facing it was a hall of more than 30 square meters, with sofas, TVs, tables and chairs arranged in an orderly manner, without any mess. The two of them stepped in, and after a moment they realized that this was a three-bedroom, one-living-room apartment, with a kitchen, two bathrooms, and a super large balcony. In addition to the stairs leading to the supermarket downstairs, there was also a door leading directly to the outside of the building from the other side. It is possible that when the end of the world happened, the owner of the house was either watching the supermarket downstairs or went out and never came back. In short, except for a thick layer of dust, everything in the house was well preserved, and even rice and flour could be found in the kitchen.

"Let's stay here tonight." Seeing the gas tank, Zhang Yi tried to light it and found that there was still gas, so he said. They originally planned to walk inside and find a safe and comfortable place to spend the night. Now everything is complete here, and the house has not been ruined, so there is naturally no need to go through the trouble of carrying a lot of things to find another place.

"Okay. I'll go down and close the shutter door." Nan Shao was also very satisfied with this place. The most important thing was that there was a supermarket storage room downstairs. If he wanted something, he didn't have to run out to look for it.

"I'll go with you. Let's get more snow in, clean the house, and then take a shower." Zhang Yi first made sure that the other door leading to the outside of the building was safe enough, and finally relaxed. He smiled and went downstairs with Nan Shao.

The two lit candles and first took the skeletons out of the supermarket downstairs. Then they tidied up the supermarket a little to facilitate passage, and began to collect clean snow outside with buckets and basins. The white snow was fluffy, and there was not much snow in a bucket when it turned into water, so the two used shovels to compact the snow as much as possible, and then put it in a bucket and basin before bringing it in. When all the containers they could find were filled, a large open space had been cleared on the street outside the supermarket, but they knew that once it started snowing, this open space would soon be covered again, and at most the snow would be a little thinner than elsewhere.

Pulling down the shutter door and fastening it from the inside, in the faint light of the candle, the two looked at each other's obviously relaxed expressions and smiled at each other. Loneliness, uneasiness, despair and confusion, all disappeared the moment the door was closed. At this moment, the only thing left in their eyes and hearts was the person in front of them.

It gets dark early in the end times, and it is only about six or seven o'clock at this time. In the past, because of the dangers around them, anyone with a little experience would seize every opportunity to rest and fall asleep as soon as they sit down, and wake up immediately to pick up a knife to fight if something happens. There is no question of whether it is early or not. This has become the rule of survival in the end times. However, since arriving at Song Yan's convoy, Zhang Yi and his team have been much more relaxed, especially this time when they came to collect supplies. There are no zombies or mutant beasts in the city, and no fighting has occurred throughout the day. It can be regarded as a complete vacation, so the two of them still feel energetic at this moment. However, they tacitly did not roll together immediately, but kissed briefly, and then started to do their own things, preparing to clean up the place where they would stay for a day and two nights.

"Eh? Ayi, there's an iron stove here." Zhang Yi was boiling water and wiping the tables, chairs, stoves, etc. when he heard Nan Shao's voice coming from downstairs. He perked up and ran downstairs with a rag in his hand that he had gotten from somewhere.

Nan Shao was standing at the entrance of the stairs on the first floor, bending over and shining a flashlight down the stairs. Zhang Yi squeezed over and looked over, and found a rusty iron stove squatting there quietly, with several pipes, a pile of honeycomb coal, and some messy mop paper shells and other things. He rubbed his hands and smiled, "Let's install it and light a fire, and the house will soon be warm. These coals are enough to burn for several days." Because burning coal is dirty and inconvenient, iron stoves have disappeared in many places. Most families use gas stoves or electricity. It is a pleasant surprise to find such a big one here. You know, in the absence of electricity, an iron stove is an excellent heating device, much better than burning a fire in the house. At least it doesn't produce smoke or choking, and you don't have to look after it anytime and anywhere.

Seeing Zhang Yi happy, Nan Shao was also happy. In the crowded position of the two, he kissed him on the lips, then bent his waist and went in, and picked up the iron stove with one hand. "Let's put it upstairs." He realized that he was very strong after waking up. The iron stove weighed about 100 to 200 kilograms, and he held it in his hand like a toy.

Zhang Yi hurriedly retreated outside to make way, waiting for Nan Shao to go up first. He found a paper bag, filled it with two pieces of coal, and then carried the aluminum pipes and went upstairs. He was an old hand at lighting stoves. After confirming that the stove would be installed in the living room, he knocked a not-so-big hole in the glass above the horizontal frame of the sliding door leading to the balcony, installed the pipe, and extended it out from there. By opening a window on the balcony, the smoke can be discharged, and there is no need to worry about the cold wind coming in. As for aesthetics and other issues, there is no need to consider so much at this time.

It is even easier to start a fire. Use firewood as the base and pour some grease on it, and it will burn for a long time. Gasoline, kerosene, and alcohol are all fine. Throw one or two pieces of woven bags or plastic bags into it, and it will burn for a long time. But it doesn't matter if there is no firewood. If there is only firewood, it will take a little longer to ignite the honeycomb coal, especially for a cold stove that has not been burned

for a long time. The coal stove lit up quickly, but the temperature in the house could not be felt for a while. They took a pot full of snow and put it on it. Zhang Yi and Nan Shao went down to get some coal and put the pots and buckets that were filled with snow in the living room. This way it can melt faster. After all

, it takes time to cook one pot at a time. Mop the floor, take off the dusty sofa cover and throw it aside, find a clean cover from the cabinet, and change the sheets in the bedroom. After all the busy work, even if the two of them are not slow, it took more than an hour, and this is just to clean up one bedroom and one bathroom. Needless to say, the living room and kitchen.

After brushing their teeth with mineral water and washing their faces with boiled snow water, the two of them collapsed on the sofa. It wasn't that they were tired, but that they were completely relaxed from the mind to the body. They quietly waited for the water to heat up. Apart from chatting from time to time, they didn't do anything too intimate, for fear that they couldn't hold back their passion and would just do it. After all, it was a rare opportunity, so they should take a shower first, because they knew that the smell on their bodies was really not that good.

"I wonder if Yangyang is asleep?" Feeling the warmth of the stove slowly spreading in the room, Zhang Yi half-closed his eyes lazily, and suddenly missed his son a little. "I should have brought him with me..." Cleaning the room with Nan Shao, staying together and chatting while waiting for the water to heat up for a shower was too warm, making him addicted. He couldn't help but think that if Yangyang was there, everything would be perfect. Isn't this the life he wants?

"Today and tomorrow, you belong to me." Nan Shao stretched out his arms, hugged Zhang Yi, leaned over and gave him a deep kiss, and only when he was about to lose control did he leave with a breath and declared with a smile. Of course, he would not compete with Yang Yang for favor, but he still didn't want Zhang Yi's heart to go somewhere else at this time.

Zhang Yi laughed, raised his hand, and pressed his rough palm on the back of Nan Shao's neck, who was still pressing on him, and rubbed it twice, then slightly raised his head and kissed his lips, saying softly: "Okay."

"I'll take a shower first." Nan Shao suddenly jumped up, picked up the water that had not yet boiled on the stove and rushed to the bathroom.

Noticing the small tent on his pants, Zhang Yi laughed, stood up, put another pot full of water on the stove to continue boiling, and went to the kitchen to see the pot of water boiling on the gas stove. Seeing that the water was almost hot, he took it down and sent it to the bathroom, and then lit two candles to illuminate it. The weather was cold, and they hadn't taken a shower for too long, so if they didn't boil a few more pots of water, it would not be enough to wash.

Nan Shao lingered in there for a long time, and Zhang Yi didn't urge him, but he was afraid that he would get cold, so he sent two more pots of hot water in.

"Ayi..." After wiping his hair, Nan Shao finally came out, but he looked a little uneasy and awkward.

"What's wrong?" Seeing that he was only wearing thermal underwear, Zhang Yi hurriedly took a blanket and covered him with it, and pushed him to sit on the sofa. At the same time, he took the towel and helped wipe his wet hair. His hair was very long, which had always been a headache for Nan Shao. He cut it several times, but it would grow longer again after sleeping. In the end, he had no choice but to ignore it.

"That..." Nan Shao was a little embarrassed to speak. After a while, he seemed to have mustered up the courage and slightly lifted up his thermal clothes. "Will you dislike me?" It turned out that his ant transformation had not yet fully recovered. Because he was too eager to be with Zhang Yi before, he completely forgot about it. It was not until he saw the black cold shell covering his whole body while taking a shower that his heart skipped a beat and he became worried.

Zhang Yi was obviously a little surprised. The two had never been naked together, so even if half of Nan Shao's face was ant-like, he didn't think about it. Or maybe he could guess it, but actually seeing it was another matter. Seeing Nan Shao's uneasy look, he collected all the thoughts in his mind, leaned forward slightly to touch it, and the cold feeling was exactly the same as the touch of the half ant face.

"Can you feel my touch?" he asked in a low voice.

Nan Shao nodded, and all the muscles in his body were tense. He didn't know whether it was psychological factors or his body was too sensitive.

Noticing his nervous and helpless look, Zhang Yi's heart moved, and his hand could not help but slide down, reaching into the waistband of his pants and gently covering it, "Here...what's the difference? Can we do it?"

Nan Shao's body almost bounced up, and he hurriedly pressed Zhang Yi's hand, and his breathing became heavy, "Yes. Ah Yi, don't take a shower." As he said that, he wanted to pull Zhang Yi.

Zhang Yi quickly retracted his hand, avoided him, and said with a smile: "How can that be. Wait!"

Even when he lay in the bathtub and enjoyed the wonderful feeling of the hot water wrapping his whole body, Zhang Yi's smile on his face could not be hidden, for his lover's childish fear and impatience. Even when he stretched his hand behind him and used the hot water to expand himself, Qingjun's eyebrows slightly wrinkled because of the unfamiliar discomfort, there was still a smile and tolerance in his eyes.

Chapter 239: Alone Time (2)

As a man, a naturally heterosexual man, especially a heterosexual man who is not weak in character, if he is to take the initiative to be submissive to another man, if he is not forced to do so, then he must really love the other person to the core.

The first time Zhang Yi and Nan Shao had sex, if Zhang Yi had not been physically exhausted and unable to move, he would probably not be willing to do the next one. Because at that time, the love component of his feelings for Nan Shao was far less than the friendship. But now he is willing to do it, just because the pain of the first time makes him curse when he thinks of it now. He can't bear to let Nan Shao suffer that pain, and he is even more worried that after they are done, Nan Shao will be unable to move, and if something happens, he will not be able to cope with it, so he can only bear it himself.

In addition to the physical discomfort of expanding himself, he also has to overcome the psychological shame, so Zhang Yi directly closed the bathroom door to prevent Nan Shao from suddenly breaking in. When doing this, he even tried to avoid his eyes from meeting the large mirror opposite him, but when he finished his shower and went out after getting everything ready, his face still couldn't help but feel hot. Fortunately, the light was not good, and his skin was neither delicate nor fair, so it was not very noticeable.

As soon as he walked out of the bathroom, he was hugged by a strong arm, a warm blanket was draped over his back, and then a dry towel was covered on his head. The next moment, he was pushed against the wall and a hot kiss fell. While kissing, he also helped him wipe his wet hair, which really didn't waste any time.

Zhang Yi was caught off guard and almost suffocated by the kiss. He raised his hand and weakly scratched the man's back a few times, and finally pushed him away a little. He took a deep breath and wanted to complain, but when he saw the other person's faintly red eyes in the dim light and his rapidly rising and falling chest, he stopped talking immediately and reached out to pull the man back.

There was a rustling sound, and the blanket fell to the ground. The half-wet towel that had been used to wipe the hair also fell to the ground... In the quiet room, there was only the sound of lips and tongues entangled, and the sound of heavy breathing.

Zhang Yi was startled by the feeling of his body suddenly floating in the air. When he found that he was actually picked up by Nan Shao, no matter how good his temper was, he couldn't help but curse. He twisted his waist skillfully, got rid of the hands holding his neck and knees, and landed lightly on the ground.

"Wait a minute!" He raised his hand to stop Nan Shao from coming to him again. Because of the intense kiss just now, his breath was a little unstable. Before he finished speaking, he had already walked towards the sofa with his long legs, and took the towel on the sofa. While wiping his hair, he walked around the rooms. Then he threw away the towel, took a roll of thin copper wire and a box of small bells that he had found in the storage room below, and began to pull them up and down, front and back, and even the stairs below.

Nan Shao followed him closely, looking a little unhappy, obviously upset about being interrupted, but still took the clothes to put on him, and at the same time diligently held the candle to light him up.

"Be careful, don't touch it." Zhang Yi warned.

"Ayi, is it necessary to be so troublesome? I can hear it." Seeing that he couldn't finish it, Nan Shao's heart was burning, and he couldn't help but say.

"Don't take it lightly at any time." Zhang Yi glanced at him and whispered. He was cautious by nature, and he had survived such dangers before, but he didn't want to fall into carelessness at a time like this.

Nan Shao touched his nose, smiled embarrassedly, and then suddenly reached out, hugged Zhang Yi's waist, put his chin on his shoulder, and urged coquettishly: "Then hurry up."

Zhang Yi turned his face to kiss the corner of his lips, and then continued to concentrate on the arrangement. This roll of copper wire is 0.05mm imported copper wire, which is about the same thickness as a hair. If you are not careful, you can cut your fingers. It is extremely lethal to both humans and ordinary zombies. Although it is not very useful against mutant creatures, it can play a role in blocking and warning. Under the current conditions, it is enough to do this.

Tie the last bell to the end of the copper wire and hang it on the bedroom door, and you are done. Zhang Yi exhaled, rubbed his cold hands, took off his coat and got into the quilt that had been spread out. As soon as

he entered, he was stunned because it was warm inside. "I packed a few hot water bottles. How about it? Is it still warm?" Nan Shao dripped two drops of candle oil, fixed the candle on the bedside table, and then got in and kicked the hot water bottle out of the quilt. In his heart, he was glad that this store was a supermarket and had everything.

"Yeah." Zhang Yi smiled. He had been concentrating on his work and hadn't noticed it before, but when he took a break, he realized that his body had become cold and numb. After a shiver, he felt a strong warmth surrounding his body, and immediately, from the inside out, from his heart to his body, he felt an indescribable comfort. However, he only responded vaguely and didn't say anything else, because Nan Shao had already come to him.

"Ayi..." Nan Shao sighed. He had been waiting for this moment for too long.

Zhang Yi turned sideways and hugged him.

The bed creaked, the quilt rose and fell, and with the rustling sound, several warm clothes were thrown out, followed by two pairs of flat underwear, and the heavy and rapid panting gradually filled the not-so-big bedroom.

The kiss moved from the lips, slid across the neck, gradually went down, and disappeared under the quilt...

Not long after, a muffled groan was heard, and it was hard to tell who made it. The big bed creaked and shook violently, accompanied by the sound of flesh slapping, dyeing the dark room illuminated by candlelight with a hint of ambiguous pink.

In the rapid shaking, the quilt gradually slipped down, revealing Nan Shao's back covered with cold and dark ant armor but still with clear texture. His long hair like crow feathers was intertwined with the short silver-gray hair below, forming a sharp contrast. Sweat slid down along the handsome face with a small half of ant armor, condensed into crystal drops on the beautifully curved chin, reflecting the candlelight, dripping, mixing with the sweat on Zhang Yi's hair, and finally seeping into his hair. Love

is as fierce as fire, burning the cold and silent night, and there is a pair of people who are inseparable, until the candle burns out. Until dawn.

"Hiss--" A low cry of pain and the sound of a bell made the drowsy Zhang Yi open his eyes alertly, but found that it was Nan Shao standing by the door with his back to him.

"What's wrong?" He spoke with a hoarse voice that even scared himself.

"Did I wake you up?" Nan Shao, who was trying to hold the bell to stop it from ringing, heard the sound and turned around and smiled, "It's okay, you go to sleep, I'll go outside to get some water." As he spoke, the blood on his finger scratched by the copper wire stopped bleeding, the wound healed quickly, and he returned to normal in a blink of an eye.

"Take off the copper wire first." Zhang Yi's eyes were dry, and he closed his eyes again, said softly, and then fell asleep again. Nan Shao had been bothering him all night last night. After all, his physical strength was not as good as that of an awakened person, let alone a young man full of blood, so he was still a little overwhelmed.

"Okay..." He heard Nan Shao's answer in a daze, and then it seemed that something touched his lips, the quilt was tucked tightly, and the surroundings became quiet again. Until the foreign object penetrated his back again, he suddenly woke up and whispered helplessly, "Let me sleep for a while." This bastard had amazing endurance, and he never stopped once he started, so he had to beg for mercy.

"Well, go to sleep, I'll help you wipe your body." Nan Shao kissed his hair, pressed his head in his arms, and said softly. It turned out that he went out to get a basin of hot water, ready to clean up Zhang Yi, especially there. If he doesn't clean out the things inside, it would be terrible if he gets a fever and diarrhea. And he didn't control himself for a while last night and hurt Zhang Yi, so it's a good opportunity to help him treat it.

Hearing his words, Zhang Yi didn't say anything, just turned around slightly, stretched out his arms to hug his waist, and fell asleep again. Only at this time, next to Nan Shao, can he completely let himself go and sleep soundly without worrying about anything. After today is over, he has to be alert again.

Nan Shao liked being relied on by Zhang Yi like this, and his hands became more and more gentle, but the whole process was another kind of torture for him. When he was done, he was sweating profusely, his eyes were slightly red, and the beast in his body was eager to come out. He had to cover Zhang Yi with a quilt in a hurry, picked up the water and hurriedly left the bedroom.

Zhang Yi woke up again because his nose was full of burnt smell. Since Nan Shao had used his supernatural power to repair his body, the discomfort in the morning had long disappeared, but he was still a little tired. After a long while, he realized that something must have been burnt, so he hurriedly put on his clothes and got up and walked out.

There was no one who saw Nan Shao. The copper wire in the living room had been put away. There was a pot on the stove near the balcony. Green smoke was coming out of the pot, and the whole room was full of burnt smell. He walked over and took the pot away. The coal was almost burned out, so he put another coal in and put the kettle on top. Turning back to open the pot, a thick green smoke rushed up. He fanned it with his hand for a moment before he could see that the rice porridge inside was already burnt.

This Nan Shao! Zhang Yi showed a helpless smile, called out twice, but heard no response, and couldn't help frowning. He went to the bathroom and several other rooms, but didn't see anyone. He was about to go back to the bedroom to put on his clothes and go downstairs to look for him, when he heard the sound of the roller shutter door being pulled twice downstairs, and then the sound of footsteps coming upstairs. From calm to hurried, perhaps he also smelled the burnt smell.

The sliding door opened, and Nan Shao, holding a plastic bag in his hand, was about to rush in with an anxious look. When he saw Zhang Yi, he was stunned at first, then happy, but soon became embarrassed.

"That... Ah Yi, I'm going to find some medicine..." As he said, he shook the bag in his hand, but his eyes kept glancing behind Zhang Yi.

"What are you looking for medicine for?" Zhang Yi was a little surprised, and asked while finding a cup to pour water and brush his teeth.

"Just in case." Nan Shao chuckled twice, walked over, and said vaguely. He was actually worried that Zhang Yi might feel unwell, so he wanted to get some medicine and a thermometer. He was not sure if his special ability would be useful for common illnesses.

Although Zhang Yi was curious, he did not ask much and went into the bathroom with the cup. As soon as he left, Nan Shao did not even bother to put down the medicine, and went to open the lid of the pot. He did not want to be hit by the burnt smell, and could not help but grin, feeling a little frustrated. He was not good at cooking. He occasionally tried to cook in the past, but it was a mess. Anyway, no one would care after the end of the world, and it was good to have something to eat. Today, he finally wanted to cook some porridge for Zhang Yi, but who would have thought it would turn out like this.

Chapter 240: Alone Time (3)

"Hey, don't pour it!" Zhang Yi came back from washing up and saw Nan Shao trying to pour the porridge into the trash can with the pot, so

he hurriedly called out to stop him. "It's all mushy." Nan Shao's face rarely turned red, and he subconsciously hid the pot behind him. He felt that the porridge would be more fragrant if it was cooked for a longer time, so he took the opportunity to go out for a while, and he didn't think that he should turn down the fire before leaving. He felt ashamed that the porridge was cooked like this.

"It's okay, let me take a look." Zhang Yi came over, stretched out his hand to take the pot, found a spoon, scooped some porridge to taste, and then nodded, "It's okay. Let's eat the top, just don't scrape up the bottom." As he said, he found the bowl that Nan Shao had washed before and carefully added two bowls. In fact, Nan Shao put a lot of rice and less water, so the porridge was not much different from dry rice, but it was soft and mushy, and had a heavier water vapor. And it was a big pot, it would be a pity to pour it out.

Looking up, he saw Nan Shao still following behind him hesitantly, wanting to say something but not speaking, so he said, "Go find a few packets of pickles, we'll have this for breakfast." As he spoke, his stomach growled in unison. Nan Shao, who had been trying to persuade him to throw away the rice and cook it again, shut up immediately, turned around and ran downstairs, and quickly found a bottle of pickled cucumbers and a few packets of mustard.

The porridge tasted burnt, but the two of them still finished it, leaving only the layer that stuck to the bottom of the pot because it was too burnt. At first, Nan Shao would steal glances at Zhang Yi while eating, not knowing whether he was afraid or waiting for Zhang Yi to show an expression of difficulty in swallowing, even if it was just a little bit, as long as there was just a little bit, he was afraid that he would get up and grab the bowl to throw away the rice, and then make something else to eat. Zhang Yi's eyebrows were relaxed from beginning to end, and he even squinted his eyes occasionally to show a satisfied look, as if he was eating some delicacies from the mountains and the sea. So he relaxed unconsciously, and felt that the porridge in his mouth was more delicious than ever before. Even the mushy smell became a flavoring scenery, which made him smile with nostalgia when he recalled it many years later.

Is the porridge really delicious? Of course not. Zhang Yi thought with a smile. It was simply unpalatable. He had never tasted porridge that tasted so bad. But he still ate it happily, and he ate several bowls in a row. Just because it was made specially for him by Nan Shao.

After dinner, Zhang Yi wanted to wash the dishes, but Nan Shao rushed to do it. He had to sleep in the morning, which was only an hour or two. There was nothing important to worry about at this time, so he simply fell into the sofa, ready to take a nap for a while, and enjoy this rare peace and leisure. Unexpectedly, he fell asleep within a minute of closing his eyes.

Nan Shao hurriedly packed up and came back. Seeing that he had fallen asleep again, he felt a little regretful, but he did not disturb him. Instead, he moved gently. Just when he was about to bend down and carry him to the bed, he stopped and took out the quilt to cover him. Zhang Yi was very alert. He thought that he had woken up before he could completely carry him.

After gently putting the quilt on Zhang Yi, the water on the stove had already boiled, and the steam made the lid of the pot jump. Nan Shao hurried over to take the water aside, and then stared at the extremely strong fire in the stove in a daze, not knowing whether to cover the fire, continue to boil water, or cook something.

If the fire was turned off, the temperature in the room would drop... Thinking of this, he no longer hesitated, changed a pot and filled it with snow water, and then went to the kitchen to search for a long time and found a bunch of things.

Dried kelp, dried fish, dried mushrooms, dried fungus, lotus seeds, wolfberries, red dates, brown sugar, white sugar... He even found preserved eggs, salted eggs and chicken eggs. But how to prepare all these things? He was a little at a loss. It was not impossible to mix them in one pot, but thinking that they had a rare opportunity and had to eat such pig food, he felt unwilling. However, he really didn't have the ability to make a careful meal. If he cooked it like porridge, it would not only waste the food, but also make Zhang Yi eat it, which made him feel bad.

Once again, Nan Shao squatted in front of a pile of dry goods in the kitchen, regretting that he had not met Zhang Yi before the end of the world. In that case, he could take Zhang Yi to eat the best things in the world. Even if he didn't go out to eat, he could learn to cook now, but now he could only feel depressed about these things.

Really... I can't even show my courtesy in front of my lover. He rested his elbows on his knees to support his chin, and his beautiful sword eyebrows were almost knotted. After a while, he tentatively reached out to the kelp. Kelp stewed with pork ribs? There were no pork ribs. So he turned halfway and brought the bag of dried fish in front of him.

It was a dried fish a little smaller than an adult's palm, without a head, and smelled like stinky salted fish. How could he eat it? He bared his teeth and threw it aside with a bit of disgust.

Should mushrooms and black fungus be soaked in water? Should lotus seeds and wolfberries be soaked? What about red dates... Damn, they are harder to deal with than ants. Nan Shao was a little discouraged. He was picking up a wolfberry with his fingers, wondering what he could do with it, when he heard a noise from the living room. He turned around and saw that it was Zhang Yi who woke up. For some reason, he subconsciously pushed those things under the table.

"What are you doing? Why don't you go to sleep for a while?" Zhang Yi yawned and walked over, putting his hand on the squatting Nan Shao's shoulder, looking at the man's busy movements in confusion.

He was a light sleeper. He had woken up when Nan Shao covered him with a quilt before, but he was too lazy to move, so he fell asleep again in a daze until he was woken up by a rustling sound from the kitchen. To be honest, the sound was not that loud, but it was hard to ignore for someone who was half asleep.

Nan Shao scratched his head, and suddenly felt that it was meaningless to hide it like this, so he simply dragged those things out again, "How do we get these things?"

Zhang Yi took a look, and then he was a little speechless, "Didn't we just eat? Are you hungry again?" Then he thought that he had a big appetite since he was alienated, so he changed his words, "Leave it there, I'll do it, you go find something else to fill your stomach." As he spoke, he rolled up his sleeves.

"No, no... I'm not hungry." Nan Shao hurriedly stopped him, because tiring Zhang Yi was contrary to his original intention.

"Not hungry?" Zhang Yi looked at him suspiciously.

"Really, not hungry." Nan Shao hurriedly nodded, and then suddenly showed a wicked smile, hugged Zhang Yi, "Since you don't want to sleep, let's continue..." Before he finished speaking, his lips had already pressed down and gave him a deep kiss.

"Don't you want to sleep for a while?" When their lips parted, Zhang Yi gently stroked the back of Nan Shao's neck with his palm, panting slightly and asking. Feeling the other's hot breath and the hard object against his waist and abdomen, his body, which had become extremely sensitive after last night, couldn't help but tremble. His legs became weak, his waist felt sore and numb, and he felt a little unsteady.

"I can't bear to..." Nan Shao said something unclear, and then kissed him again, greedily biting Zhang Yi's lips that seemed a little rough due to the cold and wind and frost, and then put his tongue between his lips, hooked his tongue, licked and sucked with pity but a little roughly. He couldn't bear to waste this hard-earned day and night on sleep. He knew very well that it would not be easy to find such an opportunity for the two of them to be alone in the future.

There was too much saliva in his mouth, and he couldn't swallow it in time, so it tended to overflow. Zhang Yi couldn't help but raise his head slightly. Nan Shao's lips suddenly withdrew, and kissed from the corner of his lips, along his chin, and down to his neck. He frowned, his Adam's apple slid, and his hand pressed Nan Shao's head. Before he could take a breath, he was pinched by the waist and put on the table. A hand with thick calluses and a little rough and prickly slid into his pants from behind, pulled down his pants, and then he was eagerly entered with his legs apart...

From the kitchen, to the living room, and then to the bedroom, the love was like fire, burning all the way, until the last bit of energy was exhausted, and the cold and hunger came at the same time.

It was already dark.

"The stove is out..." Nan Shao got up and went to find a candle to light it, and said when he came back. "Eat some biscuits first, I'll go light the fire and cook." It turned out that he saw that the stove was out and he couldn't cook for a while, so he went downstairs to find a few packs of biscuits and came back to give them to Zhang Yi first.

Seeing him still full of energy, Zhang Yi, who was so tired that he collapsed on the bed and didn't even want to move a finger, was a little jealous. At the same time, he sighed that the physical strength of the beast-transformed human was simply abnormal, but this was really something he couldn't envy, so he just thought about it and threw it aside, struggling to support his body, "Let me do it." For the whole day, he didn't eat anything except the porridge in the morning. He should have a good meal at night, after all, he would go back tomorrow morning. He couldn't go out for a day and two nights. When he recalled it in the future, it was all rolling around.

Just as he sat up, he felt something flowing out. He couldn't help but stiffen, his face was a little embarrassed, and he subconsciously wanted to clamp his legs together, but found that his legs seemed to be unable to close. It's

really... too indulgent! He was silent, pressed his eyebrows, and was about to reach out for his clothes, but was grabbed by Nan Shao first.

"I'll go boil water for you to wash." When Nan Shao noticed the mess while helping him dress, his voice was a little out of tune, and he turned his eyes away and said. He knew very well that he couldn't do it again, otherwise Zhang Yi's body wouldn't be able to bear it.

"No hurry, I'll light the stove first, and then boil water for a bath." Zhang Yi pulled the bed sheet to wipe it clean, said softly, and then began to put on his pants. "Change the quilt and sheets." It was simply impossible to sleep.

Nan Shao agreed, helped to zip up and button up, and took the coat to wrap him tightly. Once the fire went out, the whole room was like an ice cave, and you could catch a cold if you were not careful.

When standing on the ground, Zhang Yi found that his legs were turned outward and he was shivering. Even he himself was a little confused whether it was because he had done too much or was hungry. Nan Shao touched his nose, a little ashamed. If he hadn't been too demanding, how could Zhang Yi be like this.

"Let me go, you take a rest." He said hurriedly. After watching Zhang Yi light the stove, he felt that it shouldn't be too difficult.

"Yeah." Zhang Yi felt that he really couldn't walk at this moment, so he didn't insist and sat back on the edge of the bed. Then he took the biscuits, tore open the package, and prepared to eat a few pieces to accumulate some strength.

But after a few minutes, he had to get up, holding on to the wardrobe, and then the wall to slowly walk out, because the whole room was full of smoke.

Nan Shao was busy opening the window to disperse the smoke, and when he saw him coming out, he hurriedly closed it again, fearing that the cold wind would blow in and freeze him.

"It was burning vigorously, but it went out as soon as the coal was put in, and it kept smoking..." It was obviously no problem to make a fire, why didn't it work when it was changed to a stove?

Listening to Nan Shao's depressed complaints, Zhang Yi laughed, "It's okay, I was like this when I first learned to make a stove, and I got it after doing it a few times." He didn't do it, but just leaned on the sofa and taught Nan Shao how to do it step by step in an orderly manner.

It didn't feel special, but under his guidance, the fire easily burned the coal balls red. Nan Shao memorized the steps and planned not to ask Zhang Yi to do this kind of thing in the future.

Those who are capable should do more work. He asked Nan Shao to use the gas stove to boil a pot of warm water to soak the mushrooms and black fungus, and soak the small salted fish separately, and then go downstairs to look for vacuum-packed bacon, ham, vegetables and canned fruits. Zhang Yi washed the rice and put it on the fire. After thinking about it, he soaked the lotus seeds, wrapped himself in a blanket, and leaned back on the sofa. This day and night of tossing was more tiring than fighting with mutant beasts. He felt as if all the bones in his body were falling apart, and he couldn't breathe even if he did something small.

Not long after Nan Shao left, he ran up with a lot of things. There were vacuum-packed food, canned food, and wine. He really found what Zhang Yi wanted.

There were all kinds of seasonings in the room. Although there were no fresh onions, garlic and other side dishes, Zhang Yi still picked up the cooking skills that had not been used for a long time and made a table of dishes.

Bamboo shoots stewed with ham, corn kernels with salted egg yolk, ham sausage stewed with mushrooms and green beans, spicy meat fried with black fungus, fried yellow croaker, preserved eggs, and a pot of red dates and lotus seed soup. They were all made with existing materials. Bamboo shoots, green beans, and corn were all canned foods, but for people who have lived through the end of the world for a year, they are very rare. Even at the beginning of the end of the world, they had no chance to see them because they were at the bottom of the survivors. All the eggs were rotten, and the black egg liquid stuck to the shells, so they had to be thrown away. This was expected, but it didn't feel bad. Considering Nan Shao's appetite, Zhang Yi cooked almost a whole pot of rice, and in the end, all of it was finished, not even a bit of rice crust was left, and it was all soaked in soup and drunk by Nan Shao.

Drinking the sweet red dates and lotus seed soup, looking at Nan Shao who was still unsatisfied, Zhang Yi smiled slightly, and suddenly thought of Zhang Ruiyang, knowing that his son would definitely like this soup. But he didn't say it out loud in the end. He just decided to find a chance to make a good meal for the little guy. However, if he made sweet soup, he could put more sugar.

"Ayi, how do you have such a good skill?" After making sure that Zhang Yi didn't want it, Nan Shao directly took the pot and the spoon and sat on the armrest of the sofa to drink lotus seed soup. If his former friends saw that image, they would be shocked.

"I don't have brothers or sisters. When I was a child, my parents had to go to work. It would be very late to cook after they got off work, especially when they worked overtime." Zhang Yi shook his hand to refuse the soup that Nan Shao added, put down the bowl, took a piece of paper from the coffee table, wiped his mouth, threw it into the garbage bag, and then said. "When I went to primary school, because it was a factory-run primary school, students lived close to home and could not live on campus. There was no school cafeteria, so I had to go home for lunch. It would be too late to cook when they came back, and I would be late for school. I couldn't eat out every day, so I started to learn to cook. When the rice was cooked, my parents came back, and it was just right to cook. Later, I didn't know when I learned to cook..."

Recalling the past, Zhang Yi's eyes flashed with an unspeakable melancholy. The most painful thing in life is that a son wants to support his parents but they are no longer there. Even though he knew that his parents were alive, life would not be easy in the end of the world, but he still couldn't let it go when he thought of his mother's death

. Even eating can't stop your mouth! Nan Shao wanted to slap himself. He was extremely sensitive to Zhang Yi's emotional changes. He knew that he had accidentally touched the other's pain again, so he put down the pot, held Zhang Yi's face and turned around, and then kissed him hard twice.

"Hey..." Zhang Yi was stunned, thinking that this guy was full and warm and wanted to do it again, and he couldn't help but have a headache. He knew that his body might not be able to bear it, but they only had one night together and they would go back tomorrow. He really couldn't bear to refuse. Was he going to risk his life to accompany a gentleman?

But Nan Shao laughed, said nothing, got up and took the pot away, and began to clean up the dishes.

Zhang Yi was confused, but his attention was successfully diverted and he didn't think about the past anymore.

After that, Nan Shao was unusually well behaved. After boiling water and taking a bath, he didn't pester Zhang Yi again as he expected, but began to cover his palm with his supernatural power and massage his waist and legs.

Zhang Yi thought he wanted to help him recover some energy before doing it, but under this massage method, because it was too comfortable, he fell asleep unconsciously, and Nan Shao didn't wake him up again.

With Nan Shao's abnormal physical fitness, he naturally didn't enjoy it to his heart's content, but he was already very satisfied. He still wanted it, but he also knew that he couldn't just care about himself. Even though the risk of collecting supplies was low, even though he was confident that he could protect Zhang Yi, and even though he could shamelessly let everyone know what they had done in the past two days, all of this was not a reason for him to exhaust all of Zhang Yi's physical strength, leaving him in a weak state when he went on a mission, and forcing him to entrust his safety to others.

After covering the sleeping man with a blanket, he quietly got out of bed, holding a candle, first added coal to the stove and sealed it, and then, like Zhang Yi did last night, used thin copper wire to arrange a circle around the stairs and the living room before returning to bed. Lying on his side beside Zhang Yi, with his elbow bent to support his head, he focused on the handsome face that could no longer hide its deep fatigue after falling asleep in the dim candlelight for a long time, and then bent his head and lovingly kissed the firm lips that were swollen and broken by his kiss and were now tightly pressed together, then blew out the candle, lay down completely, hugged the man in his arms, and snuggled with him, hoping to meet him in his dreams.