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Chapter 261: Garage Incident (3)

Because she still had to send someone back, Li Muran did not delay any longer. She said hello to Xiao Sheng and hurried upstairs to find Song Yan.

When she left in the morning, Song Yan was outside killing mutant beasts. Because she wanted to send the team members back to the camp as soon as possible, and thinking about what happened last night, she felt a little uncomfortable and didn't know how to face him, so she left without waiting for him to come back. Now thinking about it, she felt a little uneasy. He has always had a bad temper, and it has become even worse after he turned into a monster. She left quietly, fearing that there would be some trouble.

Thinking of this, she subconsciously used her mental power to search the top floor, but did not see Song Yan. She stopped walking upstairs and expanded the scope of her mental power search. First, she carefully scanned the entire commercial building, then the area around the building, and finally found him in an alley more than 200 meters away from the building, covered in blood, fighting with a mutant beast.

As if sensing her presence, Song Yan, who seemed to be evenly matched with his opponent, suddenly jumped up and punched the mutant beast on the neck. He followed closely and took advantage of the moment when it was dizzy to punch it one after another, like a storm.

The mutant beast's neck, which was more fragile than other parts of its body, finally couldn't withstand the huge punch. The vertebrae were shattered and the huge body with armor fell to the ground. Around it, there were already four or five shattered bodies of mutant beasts. In comparison, its result seemed to be better, at least it left a complete body.

Song Yan didn't stay where he was. He reached out and grabbed the neck of the mutant beast that was lying on the ground and was dead, threw it over his shoulder, and then ran towards the mall with big strides. After he left, many mutant beasts who were watching from a distance swarmed up and began to fight for the remaining mutant beast corpses on the ground. Originally, the mutant beasts preferred to hunt their prey by themselves, but they were too hungry for so long that they didn't care so much.

Song Yan paid no attention to what was happening behind him. When he arrived in front of the shopping mall, he did not try to find a way in. He climbed up the steep wall like a monkey with his hands and feet. Every time his sharp claws fell, they would dig deep into the concrete wall.

Seeing that he was fine, Li Muran felt relieved, retracted his mental power, and continued to walk up. However, before she reached the second floor, she felt a cold wind with a bloody smell blowing past, and the next moment she was grabbed by the waist and lifted up. She just cried out subconsciously because of the suddenness of the incident, but soon regained her composure, and even reached out to grab the scaly thick arm that was holding her to keep her balance.

It was Song Yan who came, so there was nothing to be afraid of. If he really wanted to kill her, he could do it with just one claw.

Her cooperative attitude made the violent aura around Song Yan slightly restrained. When he reached the top floor, the action of putting the person down was much lighter. But then he ignored her and squatted aside to deal with the mutant beast he brought back.

"That... Director, I just went back to Hulugou and told them the news from our side, and took a few people with me." Li Muran coughed dryly and took the initiative to speak. She could feel that all the muscles in his body were tense, and he was obviously trying to suppress something. He was probably angry about her sneaking away in the morning. So no matter what, she had to explain.

Song Yan did not respond. Hua La pulled off the skin of the mutant beast and put it aside, and then continued to cut the meat into pieces with sharp claws. This is a bull-shaped mutant beast with a body length of five meters and a height of three meters. It is covered with hard black armor. It has no horns on its head, but has fangs like wild boars that can emit earth thorns. Song Yan spent a lot of effort to find its weakness.

"I also went to find Brother Bing and learned some things about the transformation of the beast from him." Li Muran was a little helpless and could only continue to talk to himself.

Fortunately, this time Song Yan was not indifferent. His hand paused for a moment. Although it was only an extreme moment, it was enough to encourage Li Muran, because he knew that he had really listened to her. So he quickly repeated the words of the sick ghost, not only about the transformation into an alien beast, but also about the origin of the end of the world, Yunzhou base, and all kinds of things, without missing a single thing.

Song Yan's movements of cutting the beast meat became slower and slower, and finally stopped. However, after she finished speaking, she suddenly sped up her movements, and she didn't say a word from beginning to end. Li Muran was a little discouraged, and his heart gradually cooled down. He began to think that he might be too sentimental. Maybe he didn't need her to accompany him. As soon as this thought came up, he suddenly felt embarrassed, touched his face, and stood up.

"Then... Director, you go ahead, I'll go down first, and I still have to send some people back." She tried to act as if nothing had happened. After she finished speaking, she waited for a moment, but didn't get a response, then she took a step and hurried downstairs with a little embarrassment in her heart. At the same time, she secretly vowed that she would never meddle in other people's business again.

Song Yan, who was two meters and five or six meters tall, squatted there with bulging muscles and bones, like a small mountain. He tore off the last piece of meat unhurriedly, and the huge mutant beast was left with only a white skeleton and internal organs. Then he took off the mutant beast's fangs, which were harder and sharper than metal, cracked open the skull, and took out the yellow crystal core the size of an egg. He

pulled the curtain cloth to wipe the fangs and crystal core clean, and then his claws. At this time, the suppressed anger and irritability in his body had dissipated completely, and there was even a hint of tenderness in his eyes when he looked at the direction where Li Muran left.

Li Muran, who had already gone down to the fourth floor, was in an inexplicable depression, which made her vaguely aware of something, and she couldn't help but panic. Before the end of the world, due to factors such as family environment and livelihood, her emotional life was completely blank. When she arrived at the end of the world, she had no time to think about these things. So when she found that she seemed to care about Song Yan in particular, she suddenly felt at a loss.

Love, in her opinion, is something very far away, and it will never happen to her. Especially in the current world, it is inappropriate to worry about love. Then, maybe she should...

Just when Li Muran was thinking about whether to decisively extinguish the newly emerged feelings in the budding state, the familiar cold wind with a bloody smell rolled up again, and then she was pinched by the waist and lifted against the wall next to her. The cold chest as hard as steel and the savage kiss made her, who was holding her breath in her heart, raise her hands and beat hard, trying to push away this inexplicable man. The result is of course self-evident.

When Song Yan let her go, she had no strength left, so she simply broke the jar and let him do whatever he wanted.

"No matter where you go in the future, you must tell me, do you understand?" The fourth floor is a home furnishing store. Song Yan directly carried Li Muran to the sofa not far away and sat down, then pressed against her nose and said, with an unquestionable tone.

"Oh." Li Muran wanted to say no, but thinking that he was influenced by his animal nature at the moment, he was afraid that if he said no, he didn't know what he would do next, so he could only respond sullenly.

"Come up after sending the people." Song Yan continued to give orders.

"Oh." Why come up, talking to yourself? Li Muran thought depressedly.

"Take this for self-defense." Song Yan seemed not to feel her passive resistance, and put the fangs that had been wiped clean of blood into her hands, and gave her the crystal core by the way. Although she didn't have much use for it.

The fangs were hard and sharp, but unexpectedly not as cold as metal, but had a very warm feeling, and it was very comfortable to hold in the hand. Li Muran was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but use his mental power to carefully look at the thing in his hand. After seeing what it was, the originally depressed mood was instantly swept away, and his lips curled up uncontrollably.

"Thank you..." She said softly, a little embarrassed, her face began to heat up, and she had already thrown away the idea of ​​nipping the feelings in the bud. The only thing she could think of was that he was looking for a weapon for her, and then she secretly laughed.

"Before..." Song Yan raised his claws and gently touched her hair. He wanted to explain why he ignored her, but gave up after thinking about it. He had just finished a fierce battle with the mutant beast, and the beast in his body was completely aroused. In addition, he was still angry that she left quietly. If he spoke at that time, he was not sure whether he would do something to hurt her. So he had been distracting himself by decomposing the corpses of the beasts and suppressing his boiling anger. He was worried that she would be scared if he said it out.

"What?" Li Muran asked. She was still a little embarrassed to be imprisoned in his arms, but she was not so resistant in her heart.

Song Yan did not answer, but kissed her again. In fact, he wanted more, but not to mention that his hands turned into claws and he would accidentally hurt her, even his current size was too much for her to bear. So, she could only continue to endure until he fully recovered his human form. Whenever he thought of this, he couldn't help but envy Nan Shao. At least the size of that guy after the beast transformation was not as exaggerated as his.

Li Muran went down with swollen lips. Others looked at her with a hint of ambiguity. Fortunately, she could not see it, otherwise she would be too embarrassed to see anyone for a few days.

It was more than 20 kilometers from the mall where they were to Hulugou. Li Muran had to teleport twice to get there. In order to transfer the people in the team as soon as possible, she finally discussed with Xiao Sheng and others to teleport only once and send them to a safe place outside Zhang County. At the same time, she took a few cars with her and let them drive back by themselves. Fortunately, the car was a dead object. Like other materials, she was not restricted when using her superpowers like she was with people.

As for whether she would be attacked by mutant beasts, it depended on luck. After all, it was the end of the world. It was impossible to keep all dangers out for them. As long as there were no mutant beasts gathering around the mall, everyone should face battles and difficulties. However, in order to increase the survival rate as much as possible, Xiao Sheng decided to arrange two superpowers to go back together every day.

The location Li Muran had chosen was only a few kilometers away from Hulugou. It would only take a few minutes to drive there. However, she had to teleport once more to reach the destination. It was a complete waste. Teleporting alone didn't take too much time. It only took two or three minutes for her to make three trips to deliver eighteen people and three cars. She watched them arrive at Hulugou before turning back. In addition to the four trips to and from Hulugou, the number of teleports she had used up for the day had already been used up. She would have to wait until her ability was restored before she could teleport again.

Chapter 262: All parties gather (1)

The next day, when Li Muran sent people back, she found that Yun Ze had sent fifteen people to wait there. All of them were highly aggressive superpowers, the most elite soldiers in the entire convoy. She was a little worried at first, but finally she was completely relieved. At the same time, she was also annoyed that she had forgotten such an important thing. The funniest thing was that even Xiao Sheng and others did not think of asking Hulugou to send people to meet them. It really felt like collective blindness. Fortunately, Yun Ze was not as confused as them.

So the two superpowers that were originally scheduled to play a protective role were saved, and he could focus on sending the non-awakened people back first. Of course, this non-awakened person did not include Yuan Jinshu. There is no doubt that he was placed last.

With strong protection, the work of transferring personnel was carried out in an orderly manner. Although they were attacked by mutant beasts on the way back, they did not pose a threat because there were superpowers, most of them were alone, and it was daytime and not far from the Hulugou station.

As for Yunzhou Base, Li Muran had not appeared for several days, which caused some people to feel uneasy. The Protestant side was fine, and there was no big reaction, but the power class of the base all rushed to the top authority Lei Xingbang.

"Old Lei, did the Song guy run away with his men?"

"Oh, what should I do? My grandson is still there."

"What are you worried about? Isn't there Sun Gui?"

"Song has many capable people under him, just himself and that kid named Nan. How can Sun Gui suppress them alone?"

The group of people completely lost their usual pretense in front of the civilians in the base, and chattered like an old lady. Lei Xingbang was so annoyed by the noise that he quickly lit a cigarette and took a few puffs before he relaxed.

"What are you afraid of?" He pinched the bridge of his nose and asked slowly.

This sentence made the scene quiet for a moment, but soon those people were dissatisfied and complained: "How can we not worry? We are not like you. Xiao Zheng is by your side, and the couple in our family are all with the Song family. If he runs away, where can we find him?"

Lei Xingbang was amused. Did his son risk his life to stay here and get the advantage? These bastards and cowards were just complaining about Song Yan's refusal to take them away from the base. Worrying about their families was secondary.

"At least they will still be alive." He said lightly, and then his eyes swept around these old men who were still pampered after the end of the world. They became powerful figures in the base for various reasons, but at this moment he had a very clear understanding in his heart that these people in front of him would soon be eliminated by the end of the world. So he waved his hand with some boredom and threw down a sentence: "Think about how to survive this level first. There is not much food in the warehouse." Then he left the room with a cigarette.

The people who were left behind looked at each other in bewilderment. This time they were really panicked, but they didn't dare to provoke Lei Xingbang, so they didn't chase him out again. However, their eyes flickered, and then they found excuses to leave quickly. It was obvious that they had begun to plan and arrange how to ensure their own food.

"Dad, are you okay?" After walking out of the door, Lei Zheng looked at his father, whose face was filled with fatigue and worry, and couldn't help asking. He had been following Lei Xingbang as a guard. In fact, Lei Xingbang was leading him and teaching him how to lead and govern a base. Although he didn't say it explicitly, the idea of ​​finding an opportunity to push his son to the top existed in Lei Xingbang's mind from the beginning. It's because there is no so-called democracy and equality in this world anymore. If you want to live well, you can only have greater power and stronger strength.

Lei Xingbang shook his head and said nothing.

Lei Zheng pursed his lips and asked hesitantly: "Dad, do you think Song Yan is really gone?"

Lei Xingbang turned his head to look at him, his eyes were deep, and he looked away uncomfortably, then he said: "Xiao Zheng, you must remember that if you want to survive in this world, you must never think of relying on others." At this point, he reached out and patted his son's shoulder, and said earnestly: "This world belongs to you. So, don't be afraid, face it." Facing all difficulties, only by facing them can you become stronger. It was also at that moment that Lei Xingbang realized how correct Lei Zheng's decision to stay was.

Lei Zheng was stunned, repeatedly pondering the meaning of his father's words, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

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After five days, almost all the unawakened people in the team have been safely sent back to Hulugou, and there are still more than twenty left. They will all be sent tomorrow, and then it will be the turn of the awakened. In addition to the individual mutant beasts that broke in and were solved, some of them have dispersed, and the situation is obviously getting better.

However, in the evening of that day, several uninvited guests came outside Hulugou.

"Open the door! Open the door quickly and let us in!" The visitor jumped out of the car, screaming, looking back frequently in panic, and rushed over to slap the big iron gate that closed Hulugou, pushing it in vain.

The car parked behind them was covered with dents and blood from the collision, and even the door had fallen off, and it was almost as broken as scrap metal. In the distance, there was a group of zombies running towards this side frantically, densely packed and boundless, occupying the originally smooth road.

The sentry guarding the gate saw it, his face changed drastically, and he blew the whistle and quickly lowered the sling to prepare to pull people up. As for opening the door, seeing that the group of zombies was about to arrive, opening the door would not be a joke for all the lives in Hulugou?

But something astonishing happened. Obviously, two slings were lowered, and as long as they moved faster, the five people below could be pulled in before the zombies arrived. However, the fact is that the five of them started fighting. The first person who grabbed the rope was stabbed by the person next to him. The person who stabbed him held his legs desperately and couldn't get away. He didn't even think about climbing up. The remaining three were also on guard against each other. Whoever tried to grab the rope would become the target of attack.

"Stop fighting, hurry up, the zombies are coming soon." Seeing this scene, the sentry couldn't help but yelled, but he had already crossed out these people in his heart. Even if he rescued them temporarily, he couldn't accept them into the convoy.

"Fuck you, why don't you open the door! Open the door quickly and let us in!" Probably unable to bear the anxiety of fighting for the rope, one person angrily cursed and began to knock on the door.

While he was away, the other two quickly grabbed a rope and started to climb up. The sentry was furious, but human lives were at stake, so he still held his breath and pulled people up. The one who wanted to curse suddenly reacted and grabbed his companion on the rope that was closer and pulled him down. As for the other person, he was not feeling well either. He was held by the two people who were fighting to the death, and no one else could get up.

The sentry was amused and angry, and more of a chill, but he still gritted his teeth and thought that he would just take advantage of these people pulling and dragging them together and pull them all up. It was a pity that his good intentions could not resist the consequences of his own actions. Just when they were pulled about one meter off the ground, zombies pounced on them. Although there were sentinels helping to kill zombies, there were too many of them. In a blink of an eye, five people were pulled down and eaten up amid heart-wrenching screams and curses.

"Fuck!" A sentry cursed, put away the empty rope, and threw his hat on the ground in hatred. I don't know if he was angry for not saving the people or hated the five people who had just died.

At this moment, a hand reached out and picked up the hat on the ground, patted the snow off it, and put it back on him.

"Sir!" The sentry was stunned for a moment, and when he saw who was coming, he was so scared that he stood at attention and saluted.

"It has nothing to do with you. They are looking for death themselves." Yun Ze said to the sentinels with gloomy expressions. He came quite fast and saw everything that happened just now, including the appearance of the people below. "I have seen these people. I met them when I led people to collect supplies in Longren City. They took a ride with the convoy and robbed the convoy of supplies. They were unwilling to kill zombies. Later, they saw that they could not live in the convoy, so they did not come back with us. There are seventeen of them in total. They are very weak. They were able to come here when Longren City was invaded by mutant beasts. If the other twelve people had not gone their separate ways, we can guess from what we saw just now where those people went."

Yun Ze's guess was absolutely correct. The five people just now were Zhang Hua, two superpowers under his command, and two other non-superpowered but relatively strong and capable men. After they left the convoy, they did not return to the underground supermarket where they had been hiding. Instead, they found a hotel without mutant plants and stayed there. They lived comfortably for a few days. However, when the corpse beast tide of Yunzhou Base dispersed and a large number of mutant beasts entered Longren City, they suffered.

A mutant beast found them, took one person away on the spot, and then regarded the rest as its reserve food. At that time, Zhang Hua and his party truly realized the horror of the end of the world, and finally remembered Song Yan's convoy. They knew that the convoy was stationed in Hulugou, and they were all locals, so of course they would not be unable to find the way.

The car had been found long ago, and they usually drove it to collect supplies in the city, so they were not short of oil. However, the process of escaping was not so pleasant. Not only the mutant beast that was eyeing them, but also other mutant beasts were attracted. With their abilities, they could not escape. But Zhang Hua was ruthless enough. He threw a person down every once in a while to attract the attention of the mutant beasts. First, it was a woman, and then an ordinary weaker man. When they escaped to Zhang County, there were only five of them left. The number of mutant beasts was limited, so they stopped chasing after the food. However, they soon encountered a group of zombies wandering aimlessly. The five people saw the opportunity quickly, so there were no casualties. However, they dragged more and more zombies all the way, and finally became a frenzy.

Unfortunately, they had done too much evil. When they were about to be rescued, they ended up with the same fate as their abandoned companions and became food in the stomachs of alien creatures.

"What's more, you have brought us such a big trouble." Seeing that the expressions of several sentinels had eased a lot and were no longer so self-blaming, Yun Ze snorted coldly and said, with anger and helplessness flashing in his eyes. If there were no these few people, the zombies would not necessarily come here. After all, Hulugou is located in a very remote location and is not a major traffic route. You can find them by just strolling around. However, people are dead, what else can be said? "They didn't die innocently. Even if they were really rescued, I would throw them out again. Keeping such people is a disaster."

That was about it. He patted the shoulders of the sentinels next to him, asked them to continue to pay attention to the situation of the zombies outside, and then turned and left. Behind him, in the open space under the sentry box, all the people in Hulugou who had rushed there after hearing the alarm had gathered, still waiting for news from him.

Chapter 263: All parties gather (2)

Hulugou was surrounded. This was something that no one could have expected. Or it could not be said that everyone did. At least when Xiao Sheng chose the camp, he had considered the possibility of being surrounded by zombies and mutant beasts, so he chose this place specifically. There was another person, the sick ghost. Whether he had expected this or not, no one could know.

Fortunately, there were many people in Hulugou, and there were many strong people. In addition, the special geographical environment meant that there was no need to worry about safety.

However, Xiao Sheng and others who were still outside had to face a problem, that is, whether to let Muran continue to bring them back? Zhang Yi and others faced another problem. Under the current circumstances, how could they rush back to Ronghe as soon as possible and convey the news to their old partners?

"Send all the non-awakened people back, including that Yuan Jinshu. The awakened people stay and kill the mutant beasts." Song Yan sat on the carpet, fiddling with the animal skins he had peeled off a few days ago, and said to Li Muran.

Wearing inappropriate pants was too uncomfortable, and it was easy to tear when moving, so he simply tore a piece of cloth around his waist. Anyway, he is not afraid of the cold after the transformation. If he does not retain his sense of shame, he would be more comfortable without clothes.

It is daytime now, and you can clearly see his black scales and huge claws. Fortunately, his facial features are still there, and his body still maintains a roughly human shape, otherwise he is really no different from a wild beast. His hair is not bad, unlike Nan Shao, which grew long all of a sudden, but is still short and has not changed. Otherwise, he would be even more annoyed.

Li Muran sat next to him. She was 1.6 meters tall, and his majestic body made her look like a child. She has been by his side since Song Yan's first transformation. She has basically witnessed the whole process of his transformation. So except for the initial shock, she has completely gotten used to it. It seems that no matter what he becomes, it is not strange.

"Tell Yun Ze to let everyone hurry up and practice the skills taught by the sick ghost. Any kind is fine, especially those who are not awakened. After a while, let them start to kill the mutant beasts." The animal skin was cut into several pieces under Song Yan's claws. There were two smaller pieces, and the shapes looked a little strange. He took it in his hand and poked holes in the edge with his sharp nails.

Li Muran didn't understand what he was doing at all and wanted to ask, but because he was giving orders, he could only hold back. He didn't see anyone except her now, and judging from his tone, he obviously didn't plan to return to Hulugou for the time being.

"Continue to strengthen the defense of Hulugou and build it as a long-term camp. Make sure that the camp is still safe when attacked by mutant zombies and mutant beasts. Let the wood-type ability begin to try to cultivate new edible plants that can adapt to the apocalyptic environment. Let them try to see if they can cross ordinary food crops with edible mutant plants. In addition, let Yun Ze include mutant plants and animals in the camp's diet."

Song Yan said as he passed the animal skin rope twisted into a rope through the hole poked before, connected the two pieces of animal skin together, and tied a knot. In this way, a simple and rough animal skin vest was ready.

Li Muran was stunned and admired. The director's hands were famous for being calm and flexible when performing surgery. Now that they have become claws, they are still very skillful, much better than hers.

"What are you looking at? Did you write it down?" Song Yan raised his head and asked unhappily when he saw her stupid look. But the light in her eyes was very gentle, not full of hostility as usual.

"I'll remember it." Li Muran came back to her senses and nodded quickly. She repeated his words again for fear of missing anything.

Song Yan hummed and said no more, but stretched his claws to her chest.

Li Muran was startled and reflexively shrank back, blushing and asking: "What are you doing?"

"Take off your clothes!" Song Yan's eyes flashed a trace of violence, but he quickly suppressed it. He didn't like her to be on guard against him like this.

"What...what?" Li Muran stuttered. Although the relationship between the two seemed to be clear, she was thin-skinned and couldn't let go no matter what, even though she had been bitten on the mouth by the other party for countless times.

"Fuck...fuck you? I want to fuck you and you waited until now!" Song Yan laughed angrily and cursed in her tone. Then he reached out and grabbed her, pressing her into his arms, but when his hand touched the zipper on her chest, he stopped, "Do you want to take it off yourself or do you want me to take it off for you?" As he said that, his sharp claws scratched the surface of her clothes threateningly.

His words were not nice, but Li Muran heard that he had no other intentions, and she was relieved immediately. In addition, she knew that if he did it himself, she would not have to keep the clothes, so she took off the coat honestly. But at this time, she was cautious and stopped after taking off the coat, and did not continue.

In the end, Song Yan really didn't want to do anything bad. He didn't force her to continue, but picked up the vest he had just made and put it on her head.

"For... for me?" Li Muran understood at once, and her eyes were red with emotion. She couldn't remember how long it had been since someone thought of her like this.

"Silly girl!" Song Yan touched her hair and scolded her unhappily. It's just a vest that you don't understand. What's there to cry about. Although he thought so, he couldn't help but feel pity in his heart. He asked her to put on her vest and put on her coat again, and then said: "Although your superpowers are good, your martial arts are too weak. This can only provide a little protection. You still need to work hard to become stronger. It is the right way." Protecting women is a man's responsibility. He agrees with this from the bottom of his heart, but it is his wish that she can become stronger. Because that will increase the chance of surviving in the end of the world. However, at the end, he couldn't help but add: "Next time I will get you a stronger and more comfortable one."

Song Yan has tried his best to soften the mutant animal skin, but it is still not very comfortable to wear. It is as hard as armor. Li Muran likes it very much. He nodded obediently when he heard his words. In the end, he couldn't help but reach out and hug his neck tightly with joy.

This was the first time she took the initiative to get close to him. Song Yan didn't react in time and froze for a while, and then raised his claws and gently hugged her. Even his breathing subconsciously became lighter, as if he was afraid of disturbing this moment.

Good times always pass quickly, especially in the end times, when there is a rush that makes people want to cherish but have no time to cherish.

Li Muran had to leave, and she had to convey Song Yan's order to Xiao Sheng and Yun Ze as soon as possible. She also had to seize every opportunity to improve herself, so as not to be eliminated by the increasingly difficult end times. After all, love is a luxury that can only be had on the premise of survival. She was very grateful to God for giving her such an opportunity, so she had to cherish it even more.

After listening to Song Yan's order, Xiao Sheng pondered for a moment, then understood what he meant, and began to make arrangements immediately.

Blindly escaping and hiding is not the rule of survival in the end times, and it is naturally not the same to give away your life rashly regardless of your weak strength. That is why Song Yan would let the superpowers challenge the mutant beasts head-on to stimulate the evolution of superpowers, so that the non-awakened ones can temporarily avoid the edge and accumulate strength for the future.

After so many days, although there are still mutant beasts outside, there are not as many as before. As long as they spend more time and think about everything carefully, such as where to launch the attack, how to cooperate with each other, how to deal with emergencies, and the retreat route, they may not be without the power to fight the mutant beasts.

Not to mention how Xiao Sheng discussed with the rest of the team members about killing the mutant beasts, let's just talk about Li Muran. Because the outside of Hulugou has been occupied by the zombies, she can only send people into the camp. In this way, only eighteen people can be sent a day. What could have been completed in one day will not be completed until the next day.

This is not a big deal, anyway, she has nothing else to do, and it is not her turn to kill the mutant beasts for the time being. However, as soon as she returned to the camp and conveyed Song Yan's order to Yun Ze, she was called to the sick ghost by several children.

"Get ready and follow me to the northwest." The sick ghost said.

There was only the sick ghost in the room, as well as four children including Yangyang, Li Yuanzhuo, and a donkey. Those half-grown children went to line up to kill zombies. Leng Fengchen was not there either. Maybe he lost face last time, so he didn't appear in front of the sick ghost for several days.

Li Muran was stunned. She had not forgotten her original promise, but she did not expect it to happen at this time. For a moment, she could not tell what she felt in her heart. It seemed that she was reluctant to leave, and it seemed that she felt that there were many things that had not been done. However, the sick ghost had waited for her for so long and helped her countless times. Now that the team was obviously going to stay here for a long time, she really had no reason to refuse.

"Wait for me to send all the non-awakened people outside back first." She said, "I also need to tell Brother Yi and the others." And the director. She was a little worried that Song Yan would let her leave.

"Go and finish all the things you should deal with." The sick ghost did not force her to leave immediately, but just reminded her that the time had come.

"Yeah." Li Muran agreed. Just as she was about to leave, she remembered something and hurriedly stopped and asked, "Brother Bing, is Hulugou safe?" She was worried that after she left, who would help Song Yan convey the message.

"They can handle it." As if he could see through her thoughts, the sick ghost answered very directly.

Li Muran opened his mouth, but in the end he did not ask anything else. She knew very well what she couldn't let go of, but she had to go on this trip, and it was useless to ask more.

"Uncle Bing, I want to go too." Zhang Ruiyang had been listening to them quietly with his big black and white eyes open, and suddenly said something.

Bing Gui glanced at him and didn't answer.

"You don't want your dad anymore, Yangyang?" Wu Ziran answered the fastest.

"Dad will go with you." Zhang Ruiyang answered as a matter of course, and obviously never thought about being separated from Zhang Yi. "And Pumpkin Dad, Dudu, Fat Uncle, Brother Pei Yuan..."

Before he finished his list, Wu Ziran interrupted him unceremoniously: "Are you moving?"

"No." Zhang Ruiyang was at a loss, not understanding what this had to do with moving.

"Then why are there so many people?" Wu Ziran rolled his eyes.

"..." Zhang Ruiyang.

Li Muran laughed, and her mood improved a little. She knew that in addition to Song Yan, she was reluctant to leave, and there were also these children, and Zhang Yi and others. She had nothing before the end of the world, but she didn't expect to get so much after the end of the world.

"Come on, Yangyang, let's go find your dad." She reached out and held Zhang Ruiyang's hand, saying.

Although she only called out one name, when she walked out the door, a string of little guys followed her.

Chapter 264: All parties gather (3)

Zhang Yi and others are suggesting to Yun Ze that the battlefield be widened. After all, being blocked by zombies is not a pleasant thing. Especially since the entrance to Hulugou is narrow, although it is convenient for defense, it also limits the number of zombies to be killed. This will not only extend the time for clearing zombies indefinitely, but also be unfavorable in responding to emergencies. Moreover, there are problems in the treatment of zombie corpses and the collection of crystal cores. Therefore, it is best to push the battlefield forward for a distance and leave enough space for maneuvering at the entrance of Hulugou.

"Going to the northwest? Have you decided where?" After listening to Li Muran's intention, Zhang Yi was stunned for a long time before asking. This matter was a bit sudden because it was too bad of a time. At present, the road was blocked and the team's communication with the outside world and the information about the surrounding areas all depended on Li Muran. If she left now, it would undoubtedly make the team blind and deaf, and fall into the same situation as Yunzhou Base.

"I didn't say." Li Muran shook her head. She obviously knew how important she was to the team, but since the sick ghost had spoken, she couldn't refuse.

"Can we wait a little longer, and then go with you after we go back to Ronghe?" Zhang Yi asked after a long pause. In fact, as early as when he learned from Li Muran that she had to go to find something with Binggui, he had made up his mind to accompany her. Not for anything else, just because she was a member of Yangyang's team.

"You want to go back to Ronghe? I'll take you..." Li Muran was a little surprised, and said immediately, but she stopped abruptly before she finished speaking, because she remembered that she still had to go to the northwest with Binggui. "I'll go ask Brother Bing first to see if I can wait a few more days."

She was also a person who did what she said, and she left in a hurry, throwing the little ones to Zhang Yi and the others.

"It seems impossible to persuade Song Yan's convoy to let them settle in Ronghe in the short term. What are your plans? Go back to Ronghe, or stay here?" Zhang Yi looked at Routa Chen and the others and asked.

Shi Pengsan was definitely going to go back, so he didn't say anything. Routa Chen looked at this and that, and finally smiled and said, "Brother Yi, aren't we together? Why don't you just follow Sister Muran to the northwest?"

Zhang Yi shook his head and disapproved: "What I mean is that you guys had better find a safer place, practice with all your strength, and improve your abilities first." After a pause, he added, "Stay here. Ronghe...you won't be of much use if you go back." If they really encounter powerful mutant beasts, Routa Chen and the others will just give up a few more lives if they go back. And he must go on this trip. If he doesn't go, Nan Shao will definitely not go either. How can he feel at ease if Shi Pengsan goes back alone?

Routa Chen scratched his head, a little reluctant, but didn't object. Pei Yuan has made a few friends of the same age here, so it doesn't matter whether he goes back or not. Monks have always been easy-going, and Xu Jing has no feelings for Ronghe at all, so of course they just follow the crowd. In this way, things seem to be settled.

Li Muran came back very quickly, and brought back the news that "Bingge agreed, but he plans to go out with us. Then he doesn't need to come back, and can go directly to the northwest, which is just right to take other roads and bypass this area blocked by zombies."

"When are we leaving?" Zhang Yi asked with a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that Binggui would not agree.

"The day after tomorrow. I have to send all the non-awakened people in the underground parking lot back first, and then send the one named Leng to the base. And I have to tell the director..." When Li Muran said this, her face couldn't help but be bitter. She thought the director might lose his temper.

No one could understand her feelings. Zhang Yi even nodded and agreed: "It's time to tell him."

Hearing this, Li Muran's face became more bitter.

——Only

two trips were made that day. There were originally two teleports left, and six more people could be sent back, but Song Yan didn't let him, because if that happened, Li Muran would have to spend the night in Hulugou. He needed her by his side at night, because at that time, the violent energy in his heart was heavier than during the day.

Li Muran, who had been using various excuses to procrastinate for a long time, finally told Song Yan that he wanted to go to the northwest with Bing Gui, and then waited anxiously for the storm to come.

"Do you have to go?" To her surprise, Song Yan only asked this question calmly after a long silence.

"Yes. When Bing Ge gave me the crystal core of the domain, I was finally able to use my superpowers. His request was to go to the northwest with him and help him find something. I promised him, and I must do it. Besides, he helped me so much later." Although he was uneasy, Li Muran answered without hesitation.

"The time will be postponed for a few days. Send Xiao Sheng and the others back to Hulugou first." Song Yan said without question, but his tone remained calm.

It was like a different person. Li Muran became even more uneasy and quickly agreed, "I'll tell Brother Bing tomorrow. He should agree."

I don't know which word in this sentence hurt Song Yan. He was sitting in the dark with his back to Li Muran, but he suddenly turned around and grabbed her into his arms, with an impatient and irritable tone: "You are mine, when will it be his turn to agree!"

It broke out! It finally broke out! Li Muran's heart, which had been tightly held, loosened slightly, as if the bomb buried underground had finally been detonated. Although the scene was terrifying, there was no need to worry about when it would explode.

She felt his iron claws scratching all over her body, as if he wanted to vent his anger with violence, but he was afraid of hurting her, so he seemed to be a little timid and cautious, which made him feel more suffocated. She couldn't help but feel weak in her heart, kneeling in his arms, straightening her upper body, reaching out her hand and gently patting his cold and hard back covered with scales, and said along. "Yes, yes, I listen to you and not him."

Song Yan knew her as well as she knew him. How could he believe this? But he was comforted undeniably. It was just that there was a fire rolling in his body, but he couldn't relieve it, which really annoyed him. He couldn't help but pinch her waist gently and scolded: "Little dwarf, why don't you grow taller!"

"...My fault." Blame me? Li Muran responded somewhat weakly. Only then did he realize that men can also be unreasonable sometimes. But things just passed like this, which was much better than expected.

It's just that she was relieved too early. She didn't notice that Song Yan didn't ask her when she would come back, nor did she think about why he changed his mind and asked her to send Xiao Sheng and others back to Hulugou.

Chapter 265: All parties gather (4)

Bing Gui is usually easy to talk to. He did not object to the postponement of the time. He just told Li Muran not to send Yuan Jinshu back because he would take him with him.

The only surprise was that after Leng Fengchen knew their plan, he changed his mind and gave up the idea of ​​entering the base. Instead, he wanted to go to the northwest with them. No one knew what he was thinking, but Bing Gui still agreed because he still owed him a favor. After

Li Muran sent everyone back to Hulugou, she remembered that she should go to the base and take a few people who wanted to go back. However, the main thing was to inform them of the mutant beasts' scattering. She also mentioned that eating mutant creatures might improve physical fitness and promote the evolution of superpowers. As for whether they would take it to heart, it was not something she could interfere with. As for the materials originally collected for the base, after the convoy itself was trapped, it was naturally impossible to transfer them. Save yourself before saving others. This is the law of survival. Moreover, although that amount of supplies was not a small amount for the team, it was a drop in the bucket for the hundreds of thousands of people in the base and could not play a big role at all.

In this way, after more than ten days, everything in Hulugou became orderly again. The research institute for cultivating edible plants has been initially set up, and all the wood-type superpowers in the team form a core research team. Yun has set aside a place for them to experiment in a corner of Hulugou where there are few stones and more soil. The seeds used in the experiment were collected by the team when they usually collect supplies. In fact, Song Yan had this idea a long time ago, so the team has never stopped collecting various seeds, but has never found a suitable time and place to do it. Now that the team is trapped in Hulugou and cannot leave in a short time, this matter is naturally put on the agenda. The only regret is that there is no talent in this area, and they can only rely on the wood-type superpowers to fish blindly.

In addition, the rest of the people, regardless of whether they are awakened or not, take turns to clear the zombies every day. When they are not clearing out zombies, they can practice the skills taught by the sick ghosts and work hard to improve their strength. Some people can teach them how to kill and escape. There are also venues for two-on-two battles, allowing team members to practice their actual combat reaction abilities by fighting each other. Of course, there are still some people who dare not face zombies, such as the zombie-luring team. Yun Ze did not force them, and asked them to do some chores, such as cooking, chopping wood, burning firewood, washing clothes, etc., so that others can devote all their energy to fighting and practicing. However, the non-awakened people who were originally combat members in the team had no room for negotiation, and everyone had to seize the time to practice. For these people, Yun Ze was very strict. Not only did he send people to supervise, but he also held competitions every once in a while to test their practice results. Those who fell behind would enter the intensive class and receive inhumane whipping and training. In order not to embarrass themselves in front of everyone, and not to suffer, the team members could only practice hard one by one.

This period of time was almost a series of bad luck for the team. The third brigade was trapped, the mutant beast awakened its superpowers, Song Yan was completely transformed into a beast, the zombies blocked Hulugou, etc., forcing the team to do everything they could to improve their own strength. The only lucky thing was that although the zombie group was led to Hulugou, the mutant beasts did not visit in groups. Occasionally, one appeared and bumped into it accidentally. The team was fully capable of dealing with it. However, in order to prevent attacks at night, Yun Ze and Xiao Sheng still organized people to dig underground hiding places. In this way, they can move on the ground during the day and hide underground at night. It should be known that humans have no night vision ability, and it is too disadvantageous to fight mutant beasts in the dark. In addition, the use of the underground can also increase the activity space of the station. After all, more than one hundred acres of land can accommodate two or three thousand people, including material warehouses, research institutes for cultivating food, and training grounds. It is too narrow no matter how you look at it. However,

the threat of mutant zombies to survivors is still too great, even greater than mutant beasts. Because of his transformation into an alien beast, Song Yan did not dare to return to the camp until he completely suppressed the beast in his body. Nan Shao and Bing Gui, who were able to deal with mutant zombies, were leaving, so this became a problem that had to be faced, and also a test for the team members. After all, whether it was Nan Shao, Bing Gui, or Song Yan, it was impossible for them to always be the team's babysitters. Everyone had to grow up as soon as possible to cope with the difficulties of the end of the world. It can be said that this time was a crisis, but it was also their biggest opportunity, because no one would stand up for them.

Xiao Sheng was the last batch to leave the underground garage of the mall. Before he left, Song Yan met him. It can't be said to be a meeting, but just a few words across the curtain. Li Muran was not there, and he didn't know what he said. In short, after returning to Hulugou, he cooperated with Yun Ze and devoted himself to the construction of the camp.

Everything was ready. Li Muran ran twice, under the reluctant eyes of Fu Dan and the muttering of Routa Chen, and brought Zhang Yi, Nan Shao, Shi Pengsan, Zhang Ruiyang, Bing Gui, Da Qing, and Leng Fengchen to the underground parking lot. Yuan Jinshu was the only one left there, and there were two cars full of gas left for them. Without a

fire, Yuan Jinshu sat alone in the dark, like a person abandoned by the world.

Because they had to arrange some things and could not leave until tomorrow, Zhang Yi, Nan Shao and others found firewood and quickly raised the fire. The weather was too cold, and even a superpower could not stand it without fire.

The firelight pierced the darkness, and Yuan Jinshu's expressionless face showed a slight fluctuation of expression, as if he was alive again.

He looked at Bing Gui, with a gloomy look in his eyes, but he still walked over obediently and stopped beside him. On the contrary, he ignored Leng Fengchen, who was also a martial arts master.

Leng Fengchen looked at him and said nothing. The two did not seem to know each other.

Li Muran put a backpack in front of Yuan Jinshu and said, "This is for you from Mo Jin."

It turned out that after Mo Jin learned that Yuan Jinshu was going to leave the convoy with the sick ghost, he quickly packed a backpack with food, a few clothes, and daily necessities such as tissues, and asked Li Muran to bring it over. Mo Jin knew that Yuan Jinshu was not well-liked by others and no one would care about him when it came to food and daily necessities, so he thought of helping to prepare these things. They would not be used for a long time, but they would always be useful in case of emergency.

Yuan Jinshu was a little surprised, his eyes fell on the backpack, and he did not reach out to take it for a long time. Li Muran was impatient to wait, so he put the bag on the ground and turned away.

Yuan Jinshu hesitated, and finally reached out to pull the bag behind him, but did not open it immediately.

"Pumpkin Dad, why hasn't Dudu come out yet?" Zhang Ruiyang caught Nan Shao's pants while he was searching for firewood and asked after him. He was a little worried that Dudu would not be able to find it.

"It's timid and dare not come out." Nan Shao was a little helpless. Not to mention Dudu, even he, the moment he appeared here, felt the huge threat from upstairs, the hair on his body stood up, the animal nature in his body was stimulated and ready to move, Dudu, the coward, how could he be willing to get close.

"But... I miss Dudu so much." Zhang Ruiyang hugged Nan Shao's legs listlessly, a little depressed, "Why is it so timid?" In fact, the little guy left his familiar friends and uncles and aunts and began to miss them.

Nan Shao also wanted to ask this question. As a mutant beast, is it really okay to be so timid?

Li Muran, who was helping to collect the scattered wooden boards and cardboards and build a small space with two cars as a partition to keep warm, laughed when she heard the words, and subconsciously used her mental power to search around, wanting to see where Dudu was. Not to mention, she also missed the little thing.

Soon she "saw" the familiar fat butt of Dudu flapping its wings and trying to fly in the opposite direction of the mall. Apparently, it had sneaked over before, but was scared away again before it got close. As if it sensed her mental power, the fleeing fat bug looked around in confusion, but saw nothing, so it ignored her and continued to run with its head down.

Li Muran couldn't help laughing, but was a little worried that it would run far away like last time and couldn't be found, so she continued to follow it with her mental power. But soon the smile on her face faded, replaced by a serious expression.

"Brother Yi, I'll go up for a while." She greeted Zhang Yi who was also busy, and left in a hurry.

Zhang Yi looked up at her back, with a thoughtful look in his eyes. He obviously guessed that something must have happened, and this matter might be related to Song Yan, but it would not pose a danger to them. Therefore, he did not think much about it, turned around and put it aside, and continued to do his own things.

When Li Muran arrived at the top floor, Song Yan was sitting in front of the French window, looking outside, wondering what he was thinking. Although the floor was covered with carpet and her feet stepped on it silently, he still turned his head at the first time, with a cold and bloodthirsty look in his eyes.

Li Muran had long been accustomed to it and was not afraid. He hurriedly said what he had found: "Director, I saw Mr. Shen..." After a pause, seeing that he seemed a little confused, he quickly changed his words: "It was Shen Chi, we met at the Beijing base."

"Where is he?" Song Yan finally responded. His brain injury had been cured by Nan Shao a long time ago, so of course he would remember his childhood friend.

"There are more than 50 of them in a factory more than 10 kilometers away from us. They are surrounded by zombies. There are also several mutant beasts around, and some people are injured. The situation is not good." Li Muran never expected to see Shen Chi and his friends here. Seeing them in danger, he was a little anxious, after all, he had helped them before.

"Take me there." Song Yan knew what Shen Chi was doing here without thinking. She stood up and stretched out her huge black scaly claws with a cold glow towards Li Muran.

Because he was too tall, he rarely stood up in front of her. When he stood up suddenly, Li Muran felt a great pressure and her legs became weak. Fortunately, she didn't have time to experience this feeling deeply. She grabbed his claws and took him to the factory where Shen Chi and his friends were in a blink of an eye.

Chapter 266: All parties gather (5)

Shen Chi and his group never expected that there would be so many zombies in Longren City, and they were all blocking the road.

At the beginning, only one or two mutant beasts appeared from time to time. Although the density was higher than in other places, they were not too hard to deal with. However, as they got closer to Longren, not only did the number of mutant beasts increase, but they also ran into a wave of zombies face to face.

Along the way, they had encountered groups of zombies before. Generally, they would bypass them if they could, and if they couldn't, they would just rely on the powerful performance of the armored vehicles to rush through and crush them. Because Longren is the only way to Yuling, taking a detour would mean running hundreds or thousands of kilometers more, and no one could guarantee that there would be no zombie groups blocking the road in other places, so they chose to rush through.

Who knew that the zombie group here would have no end, and there was a trend of gathering more and more, plus the harassment of the mutant beasts, in the end, even if they wanted to turn back, they couldn't. After fighting in the zombie tide for two days and two nights, they still didn't see any signs of zombies decreasing. They couldn't bear it any longer and finally rushed into an abandoned wood processing factory and blocked the door, which allowed them to breathe a sigh of relief. However, they were trapped here.

Ordinary zombies were blocked outside, but the two-meter-high wall couldn't stop the mutants. Their existence was like a piece of fresh meat, and the place where they hid was not far from the main road. Not only did the zombies gather more and more, but even the mutants passing by also ran over.

There were surprisingly many mutants here. In the past, they rarely saw more than two different types of mutants appearing in one place at the same time, but here there was no such restriction at all. Not only two, but four or five different types of mutants rushed into the factory, or fought each other for the right to eat them, or attacked them at the same time. They were numb to the situation. Apart from desperately resisting, they didn't even think about whether they could leave alive.

When they were lucky, they could take turns to rest. When they were unlucky, everyone had to fight day and night. They have a healing psychic, but the healing psychic can only guarantee that they haven't died at this stage, but it is impossible to completely cure them because the frequency of injuries is too high. In a few days, I'm afraid someone will die.

"I say... Cong San, lend me a light." Shen Chi, who had just retreated from the battlefield, took out a wrinkled cigarette with trembling hands and put it in his mouth, closing his eyes and said. He was too tired, his muscles were overused and cramped constantly, and it was difficult to even lift it at this time. Cong

San picked up a bean-sized fireball with his fingers and flicked it lightly, brushing the cigarette on Shen Chi's mouth. Shen Chi seemed to have a sense of it. The moment the fire was lit, he took a deep breath, and then he didn't use his hands to take the cigarette off. He just puffed hard for a while, and soon the cigarette was finished. He spit out the cigarette butt and let out a breath. The whole person seemed to be alive. He opened his eyes and nudged Cong San next to him with his elbow.

"I'm afraid we have to stay here this time. Lao San, do you have any last words? Tell me."

Cong San, who always walked, sat and lay in a proper military style, seemed to be unable to hold on at this time. His back leaned slightly to the side tiredly against the wall. Hearing Shen Chi's words, he tried to cheer himself up and straightened his waist again, but did not reply.

"You are a person who can't make a fart even if you hit him with three sticks." Shen Chi smiled bitterly.

Cong San looked at his teammates who were fighting with mutant beasts at the gate and window with a calm look. At the moment when the end of the world came, when his family and friends were either transformed into zombies or died on the road to escape, he was mentally prepared to die at any time. As a soldier, without a country, without relatives, and without comrades, he didn't know what the meaning of his life was. He always strictly required himself according to the standards of a soldier, just to find a support for himself to survive. Now... Although he is still fighting desperately, he feels a sense of relief in his heart. It's finally his turn. Unfortunately, the task assigned by the leader was not completed...

Just when one was complaining and the other was silent, two figures suddenly appeared in the middle of the factory, causing the people who were resting to jump up alertly. Even if they were so tired that they could hardly move a finger the moment before, they seemed to be revived at this moment. The evil spirit and fighting spirit emanating from their bodies could stop the mutant beasts in their tracks.

"I am a human..." Li Muran was afraid of causing misunderstanding, so he immediately opened his mouth to report his identity the moment he appeared. At the same time, Song Yan had already rushed out of the door like lightning and fought with a mutant beast.

The people in the factory did not relax their vigilance, and looked coldly at the woman who suddenly appeared, until Shen Chi recognized her in surprise: "It's you!" Then he looked at the strange thing outside that looked like a human and a mutant beast, but did not recognize it as Song Yan. He just saw that it did not attack his comrades, so he waved his hand and said to others: "Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, she is Song Er's woman, everyone should do what they should do, don't scare the girl."

Li Muran was silent.

"Li..." Shen Chi turned his head and tried to talk to Li Muran with a smile, but found that he could not remember her name.

"Li Muran."

"Oh, Li Muran, that's a good name, I'll call you Muran." Shen Chi was quite familiar with the person. While taking out a few bags of food and water from the supply truck, he said admiringly: "Your ability is really amazing. When I heard Song Er say it, I thought it was exaggerated. Now I know it's true. Oh, by the way, how did you get here? Where's Song Er? What's that outside? Is it a mutant beast? Which base are you in? Technology has become so powerful that even mutant beasts can be controlled."

A series of questions came out like a machine gun, making Li Muran not know where to start. She declined the things Shen Chi brought over, thought about it, and decided to follow her own ideas.

"We were in Longren City and found you here by accident, so we came to help."

Shen Chi opened his mouth and wanted to ask how they found him, but Li Muran didn't give him a chance to speak. "My ability can take six people away from here. Give me the ones who are most seriously injured. I will send them there first. There are people there who can treat them. I will come back to explain other things to you."

Hearing this, Shen Chi, who had a lot of questions to ask, suddenly got stuck. He looked at the others. The others also looked at him.

Can you trust Li Muran? Who should leave first? These two questions made them silent for a moment. In the end, Shen Chi laughed and said nothing else. He just spit out a word and started to call people. Anyway, staying here would mean death. Following her to leave would give her a glimmer of hope. No fool would give up such an opportunity.

However, there was some trouble when choosing people. Originally, he wanted to choose the most seriously injured according to Li Muran's wishes, but those people refused to leave and insisted on leaving the opportunity for those with less injuries.

"I won't live long, why waste the opportunity... You go out and kill a few more mutant beasts... Even if it's revenge for us..." A soldier whose stomach was slashed by a mutant beast and whose intestines fell out, and who was finally hung on to life by the only healing psychic in the team, said weakly.

Shen Chi, who has always been careless, couldn't help but redden his eyes.

"As long as there is a breath left, my brother Shao can be saved." Li Muran said hurriedly, "My superpower can still run one more trip today, you don't have to worry. As long as we hold on until tomorrow, we can bring everyone back."

Hearing her words, Shen Chi no longer hesitated, and followed San and others to carry the six most seriously injured comrades to Li Muran's side without resistance, and those people no longer refused resolutely. After all, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, no one wants to die.

"Sister, I'll leave them to you." Shen Chi said solemnly to Li Muran.

During this period of time, she had been running around to send people off. Not only Li Muran, but everyone else was used to it. So she was still a little unaccustomed to such a serious scene. Although she felt it was unnecessary, she also knew that the other party was acting like this because they didn't understand her and cared too much about their comrades. So she nodded seriously and promised, "Don't worry, I will send them out safely."

In fact, Shen Chi had no choice even if he was worried, but he would always feel better if he could get the other party's verbal promise.

Li Muran didn't delay either. He grabbed the hands of the six seriously injured soldiers and disappeared in the factory in a blink of an eye. Looking at the empty ground, Shen Chi and the others looked at each other, with shock, doubt, worry, and faint expectation in their eyes. If everything she said was true, they naturally wouldn't have to wait to die.

But at this time, none of them spoke, but just looked outside the factory, watching the guy who looked like a human and a beast easily kill a mutant beast, and forced another mutant beast to flee. Now he was facing the third mutant beast, which greatly reduced the pressure on the comrades who participated in the battle. Several questions came to their minds at the same time. What exactly is it? After it kills the mutant beast, will it turn to attack them? With its force, can they deal with it?

While they were struggling, Li Muran turned back. She had handed the people to Nan Shao, and believed that Nan Shao would be able to cure them soon. But she didn't plan to take people back immediately. Because after she went back this time, she couldn't come again. She was a little worried about Song Yan.

"How is it? The people have been sent?" Shen Chi was overjoyed when he saw her return, but he asked nonsense.

Li Muran nodded. She could feel that the other party didn't trust her too much. If there was no other way, he would definitely not dare to hand the people over to her. But this is understandable. After all, she and he have only met once. Even if he thinks she is Song Yan's woman, it is not enough to expand this trust. After all, in the end of the world, in order to survive, even relatives may be betrayed, let alone a relationship between a man and a woman with no guarantee.

"Yunzhou Base... is just fifteen kilometers past Longren City. There was a mutation and it was besieged by countless zombies and mutants. Our convoy happened to encounter it when we came back. The director wanted to help rescue, so we stayed here." She glanced at Song Yan outside and saw that he was not in danger for the time being, so she began to explain to Shen Chi why they were here. She felt that it would be better for them to establish trust as soon as possible, because Song Yan's situation was very special. Even if all the mutants were dealt with, he might not come in. She had to deal with everything.

Chapter 267: All parties gather (6)

"Why did this happen?" Shen Chi asked.

Li Muran was afraid that the topic would be diverted and she would forget what she wanted to say, so she just shook her head and did not answer, and continued: "Our team settled in Hulugou, Zhang County, and helped Yunzhou Base to build a mutant plant defense belt. Then we collected supplies and killed zombies at the same time... At that time, both Zhang County and Yunzhou Base were empty cities. There were no zombies or mutant animals on the streets, so it was relatively easy to collect supplies."

Finding that she had gone off topic, she smiled embarrassedly, "It is speculated that in the several large cities that are connected to the Yunzhou Base, the zombies and mutant beasts in them all came out in full force and surrounded the base. The number of mutant beasts is unknown, but the number of zombies can be estimated, about 10 million."

Hearing this, Shen Chi and others couldn't help but take a breath of cold air. Thinking of that spectacular and terrifying scene, they felt a chill.

"The director originally planned to stay here for a year or so to wipe out the zombies. This would not only help the Yunzhou base, but also improve the safety of several surrounding cities. Who knew..." Li Muran took a deep breath and looked at Song Yan who was fighting the last mutant beast outside, with a trace of heartache in his eyes. At this time, the original combat personnel were idle. Although they were still on guard against Song Yan who had transformed into a beast, they were able to divide their minds to listen to Li Muran.

"Just over ten days ago, the zombies and mutant beasts around the Yunzhou base suddenly dispersed, and our convoy was trapped in Hulugou by the scattered zombies. We can't get out in a short time."

Someone couldn't help but exclaimed softly, obviously not expecting such a result.

"So now the convoy is in Hulugou, not far from here, instead of in Yuling?" Shen Chi finally reacted, and for a moment he didn't know whether to be thankful or speechless. If they hadn't been blocked by zombies, they would have run all the way to Yuling and might not have found anyone. "Is Song Er there too?"

Li Muran pursed her lips, raised her hand and pointed to Song Yan who had already dealt with the last mutant beast outside, and said with some difficulty: "The director is there."

"What?" Shen Chi, who was chatterbox but still calm, suddenly stood up and asked in a lost tone. His voice was a little louder and a little sharp, which made Song Yan, who was cutting open the mutant beast's head to dig out the crystal core, suddenly turn his head and look at him coldly.

"It's okay, it's okay." Li Muran waved at him repeatedly, until he lowered his head and continued to do his own thing, then he breathed a sigh of relief and whispered to Shen Chi: "Don't be so loud, he's in a bad mood now."

In fact, not only she breathed a sigh of relief, Shen Chi also breathed a sigh of relief. Just now, the moment Song Yan's eyes fell on him, he felt like he was being stared at by an ancient beast, and the hair on his neck stood up, and he didn't even dare to move.

"What happened? Is he really Song Er?" He swallowed his saliva and sat down slowly, fearing that his big movements would alarm the "beast" outside again, and even tried his best to lower his voice.

"Yeah." Li Muran saw Song Yan put the excavated crystal core on the ground. As she had expected, he did not come in to meet his friends, but carried the bloody corpse of the mutant beast away from their sight, and went to an unknown place. Her heart was slightly lifted, until she used her mental power to confirm that he was on the top of the factory building, she was relieved. "Do you know that when the director was in the Dongzhou base, he was taken to the laboratory by a man named Lin to do experiments?"

"Why, is it related to that bastard Lin An again?" Shen Chi nodded, and when he mentioned the word Lin An, he gritted his teeth, obviously hating this person to the extreme. He was Song Yan's childhood friend, so he naturally knew Lin An. It was precisely because he knew the relationship between Song Yan and Lin An, as well as Lin An's wife, that he hated that treacherous and treacherous thing even more.

"At that time, the director was injected with mutant beast extracts, but there was no other reaction except for memory problems. It was not until we came back from the capital that we were chased by Wu Zong's people on the way. The director was seriously injured and almost couldn't be saved. At that time, for some reason, his body began to change, showing some characteristics of mutant beasts." Li Muran said in a slow and soft voice. She knew that this kind of thing could not be concealed. Instead of hiding it and arousing suspicion, it was better to speak frankly. After all, no one knew when Song Yan would be able to return to normal. It was impossible for him to hide and not see anyone. And this matter was no longer a secret.

Unexpectedly, they sent people away from the capital so quickly, but they still couldn't escape Wu Zong's pursuit. If something happened to Song Er... Shen Chi's face gradually turned livid. This time they all evacuated the capital and returned to Ruzhou because they were forced by Wu Zong to stay. New and old hatreds added together, he knew that with Song Da's temper, he would definitely not swallow his anger. They and Wu Zong would probably have a battle sooner or later.

"It wasn't serious at the time. He was able to recover to normal after the transformation. Later, he helped Yunzhou Base intercept mutant beasts and build a plant defense zone. Maybe he overused his abilities, and the transformation became serious. Until a while ago, the mutant beasts and the zombies dispersed. In order to allow the third brigade to retreat safely, he single-handedly killed the mutant beasts... and became what he is now." Li Muran rubbed his face in frustration. Although the sick ghost said that transformation was not necessarily a bad thing, it was still unavoidable to worry before Song Yan completely suppressed the beast in his body.

"Then what is he now? Does he still remember people? Why don't you come in?" Shen Chi asked a series of questions again.

Others also became nervous, including those soldiers who were still on guard at the gate and window. If the chief knew that his brother, his only relative, had turned into a monster, the consequences... they couldn't help but shudder.

"Of course he is a human." Li Muran replied unhappily. The "what is he" irritated her. But she soon regained her composure and explained the story of the beast-turned-human to the sick ghost. Finally, she said, "He is no different from a normal person, except that he has a bad temper." As for the fact that he could not suppress his desire for the flesh and blood of living people like the mutant beasts, she decided to skip it.

Shen Yan was relieved, but curled his lips. He was not stupid. He could guess from the sick ghost's explanation of the beast-turned-human that there should be beasts in the body of the beast-turned-human. What is the beast nature of the beast? Cruelty, bloodthirstiness, bloodiness, etc., these are probably the current situation of Song Er. Just think about the scene of him killing the mutant beast just now, and you can get a glimpse of it. However, such a powerful ability is still a bit coveted.

"That kid is really lucky." He said with envy and hatred.

Li Muran was speechless, but he was very happy that they did not show fear or disgust.

Then Shen Chi asked carefully about the corpse beast tide at the Yunzhou base. Hearing Li Muran's explanation of the end of the world and the cause of the corpse beast tide mentioned by the sick ghost, everyone present was dumbfounded. This was beyond their comprehension, and it seemed redundant to believe or doubt. In the end, the topic was hastily passed.

After Li Muran's suggestion, Shen Chi knew that Song Yan was on the roof of the factory, so he deliberately amplified his voice and told him that they came to him under Song Ting's order, and mentioned the situation of the countries surrounding China. For some reason, he could feel that Song Yan must be able to hear them.

No one knew what Song Yan thought about this news, but Li Muran did not have a deep feeling. You know, they are now unable to move in their own country, who has the mind to care about things thousands of miles away.

Considering Song Yan's situation, and the fact that all the seriously injured members have been sent to Nan Shao, the remaining people should be fine in a day or two, so Li Muran did not move for the only remaining teleportation opportunity, and stayed in the factory with Shen Chi and others at night. Perhaps

it was because of Song Yan's presence, or perhaps it was because no mutant beasts passed by, in short, nothing happened that night. Except for the outermost iron gate that was creaking due to being pushed by zombies, it was a rare moment of peace for Shen Chi and others.

The next morning, Li Muran sent thirty people back, and there were still a dozen people left, who could only be transferred the next day. However, with Song Yan there, no major problems occurred. During this period, the large iron gate outside was damaged, and the zombies poured in, but Shen Chi and others quickly reinforced the factory gate and windows, barely keeping them out. Except for Li Muran, no one else slept well that night, but they finally got through it safely. As soon as Li Muran woke up, she immediately started the work of sending people back. It

took her four trips to do something that could be done in three trips. This extra trip was specially for taking Song Yan. After

two days of cold wind on the roof of the factory, Song Yan, who was almost shaped into a majestic statue by the heavy snow, seemed very satisfied with Li Muran's special care for him. After returning to the top floor of the shopping mall, he held her in his arms and kissed and rubbed her for more than an hour before reluctantly letting her go. However, Li Muran no longer dared to go down to see people.

Shen Chi, who was sent to the underground parking lot just after them, almost rushed over when he saw Yuan Jinshu. He had been in Beijing for a long time, so he naturally knew this famous pervert of Wuzong. Of course, he also thought of the fact that Song Yan was almost killed by this man, so he couldn't help it. Others didn't know Yuan Jinshu, but it didn't prevent them from sharing the same hatred with Shen Chi. Fortunately,

Zhang Yi stopped him in time and roughly explained to Shen Chi the reason why Yuan Jinshu was here, and then he barely calmed him down.

"Hey, buddy, let's have a discussion." After Shen Chi learned that Yuan Jinshu was actually used as a slave by the sick ghost, he laughed heartily at first, but then felt that this was too easy for him, so he smiled and approached the sick ghost who was leaning on Daqing, sitting there with his eyes closed and ignoring everything around him, and said. The sick ghost ignored

him.

Zhang Yi smiled and didn't care anymore. As long as there was no fight, he didn't care even if there was a big quarrel. At this moment, Nan Shao poked his waist, and he looked over in confusion. As a result, Nan Shao pulled him up and quietly walked towards the direction of the shopping center.

Zhang Yi pondered for a moment, and then he understood Nan Shao's thoughts. But before he could consider whether it was appropriate, he felt a small hand grabbing his pants.

"Dad, where are you going? I want to go too." Zhang Ruiyang raised his head and asked curiously.

Nan Shao suddenly raised his hand and pressed his forehead. Zhang Yi couldn't help but put his fist to his lips and laughed.

Chapter 268: Gathering of All Parties (7)

The sky was gray and heavy, and palm-sized fluffy snowflakes fell down. The ground was covered with mutated plants of brilliant colors such as fiery red, golden, and purple. The gray and white skyscrapers that pierced the sky like swords were entangled and pierced. Some were still as tall and straight as before the end of the world, while others had begun to fall and tilt. But without exception, only a little bit of the corners could be seen under the dense cover of mutated plants, just like the relics of a lost civilization buried in the primeval forest. Heavy

snow, dense forests, and silence became the theme of this world. The hustle and bustle of the past and the bright lights and feasting have become fragments that humans only remember when they dream at midnight, and then burst into tears. Perhaps in a few years, the new lives born and the children who have grown up will no longer remember these things. They will never know the warmth of the sun and the brilliance of the stars. Perhaps in their inherent cognition, the world is always like this.

Before that, just over a year after the apocalypse, people still remembered the bright and orderly times, even though life was bland and hurried, like white water. People still held hope in their hearts, hoping that one day the dark clouds would disperse, revealing the sky they had long been familiar with. To this end, they fought zombies, mutants, hunger and cold, and then waited hard for that day to come.

Zhafeng City is a border city in the west of Zhongzhou. Two hundred kilometers away is Kunyuan City in Yunzhou. Because of its rich mineral resources, it is the most industrially developed and richest city in Zhongzhou Province, even inferior to the provincial governor's city. However, strangely, after the apocalypse, there were almost no survivors here. There were only zombies all over the city and mutant plants that occupied the city, as well as the mist that was lingering around the city and the strange cries that came from time to time.

Most of the survivors passing by bypassed the city because no one was walking. Therefore, all the roads in and out of Zafon City were blocked by mutant plants with vines entwined around stems and roots. Only a long line of abandoned vehicles that had long been rusted and decayed could be seen, silently telling the chaos and panic when the disaster occurred.

Perhaps it was because of the traffic jam and the mutant plants that the zombies in the city could not get out, so the roads around the city were relatively quiet. In addition, the passing survivors cleaned up the roads, and there were almost no zombies except mutant plants.

At noon, on a road more than ten kilometers away from Zafon City, a group of people were walking hard in the wind and snow. There were tall adults, young children, women with vicissitudes of life, and old people with hunched backs. They supported their bodies with sticks, carried large bags, and supported each other in the wind and snow. Every step forward seemed to take all the strength of their bodies.

Plop! An old man finally couldn't hold on and fell to the snow. The people who were walking forward seemed to be frozen to the point of being sluggish by the cold weather. It took them a while to react. Except for a few men on guard, everyone else gathered around.

"Grandpa! Grandpa, get up..." A thin figure threw himself on the old man and pushed him hard, trying to wake him up. Next to him was a handsome boy, carrying a little girl of three or four years old on his back. The little girl struggled to slide off the boy's back, her green face full of panic, then squatted beside the old man, calling Grandpa in a soft voice, tears welling up in her eyes, but she didn't cry loudly.

"Qiaotou, we must find something to eat." A big man said to the man with two small mustaches, then walked over, probed the old man's nose, and then carried the girl on his back without saying anything.

Another thin and tall man looked at the boy who could barely stand, and without saying a word, he carried the little girl on his back and tucked another child under his armpit.

"What are you doing? Fuck your balls, put me down, damn it, I can walk by myself..." The boy who was caught under the armpit was not as obedient as the little girl. He kicked his two short legs and cursed, as if he hated being treated like this.

Slap! The little boy's butt was slapped lightly, and the little mustache threatened sternly: "If you say dirty words again, I will have someone throw Jian Jian here." Perhaps because the situation was too bad, he didn't laugh like usual, and his words were very harsh.

The little boy was a stubborn person. If it was other threats, he couldn't suppress him, but only Grandpa and Jian Jian were his weak spots. So he shut his mouth obediently, but looked at the little mustache with a very ferocious look, just like a wolf cub.

However, the mustache man didn't want to pay attention to him anymore. He looked up and looked around. Finally, he made a decisive decision and said, "There is a relatively intact house over there. Let's go there and not leave today."

Hearing this, many people in the team showed a look of relief, especially the three women and several weaker men.

The house that the mustache man pointed out was not on the roadside, but in the mutant plant forest more than 100 meters away from the green guardrail of the highway. Fortunately, there were many superpowers in the team, and they quickly cleared a way. When I got closer, I found that it was a three-story building with white tiles on the front. It was almost impossible to find it without paying attention because the mutant plants were too dense and tall. There was a yard outside the building, which was also occupied by mutant plants spreading around. After cleaning it up, the dilapidated building finally appeared.

The cracked walls, the broken roof, and the ground covered with deep and shallow grooves and potholes, the growth trajectory of the mutant plants was recorded one by one. The earth-type supernaturalists in the team had to cheer up and continue to work, patching up the broken places to prevent the cold wind and snowflakes from pouring in.

The men found firewood, and the women used their frozen hands to busy themselves to build a fire, then used a pot to melt the snow water, and carefully took out two handfuls of rice from a small cloth bag brought by Xiao Hu Zi and put them in. Another man wrapped the old man with a quilt he brought, then took off his shoes and socks that had been wet and frozen by the snow, and rubbed his feet and legs vigorously until they were slightly warm.

The water boiled, and the aroma of rice porridge wafted through the house, and many people couldn't help but swallow their saliva. The little girl couldn't help but squat beside the pot, watching the rice grains rolling inside without blinking, and then secretly took a deep breath from time to time, as if this could fill her empty stomach.

The little boy with her always stayed by the old man's side, imitating the adults, rubbing the old man's hands vigorously with his red, swollen and cracked little hands, and finally even unbuttoned his coat and put the old hand full of wrinkles and scars into his arms to warm it.

There was also a thin and tall boy of eight or nine years old in the team. He silently helped the adults move the chopped firewood to the fire, and then looked for something that could be used as firewood. Only the handsome boy stood aside a little at a loss, as if he didn't know what to do.

"Fuck you, what else do you know how to do besides eating you idiot? Old... why don't you go upstairs and look for anything to eat? You are standing there like an idiot waiting for shit to eat, right?" Seeing this, the child who was warming the old man's hands cursed, and was annoyed that the boy had no tact. If he didn't have to take care of his grandfather, he would have turned the house up high as soon as he came in. If he could find something to eat before others, hiding it would also be a good deal. But the boy had been following him for several months, but he didn't learn any cleverness.

Hearing his scolding, the mustache man who was discussing how to get food with several psychics looked over here, and rarely warned the child again. Once some habits are formed, it is really difficult to correct them, especially for children who have strong learning and imitation abilities. Of course, this is also related to his lack of energy. But deep down, he actually likes this rebellious and wild little guy.

The boy seemed to be numb after being scolded, and his face was completely expressionless, but his feet moved, and he actually listened to the child and started to search the house.

However, there were already many people searching in the house. The idle women and the unawakened men who could not fight against the mutated plants seemed to have nothing to do except turning the whole house upside down.

The kitchen was littered with overturned pots and pans, and the floor was covered with a thick layer of dust. It was obvious that no one had been here for a long time. The doors of the lockers and refrigerator were wide open, and the inside was empty, without even a single seasoning left. The boy searched for a long time inside, but found nothing except a layer of footprints on top of the footprints left by the searchers in front.

This was something that had been expected. Along the way, the houses they encountered were basically the same, empty, with no food, no warm clothes or bedding. The survivors who had passed by earlier than them had already searched this road thoroughly. As time went by in the apocalypse, the available supplies were becoming less and less, and no one was willing to waste them.

The second and third floors were obviously the same. Two men carried down a mattress. The mattress was spring-loaded and covered with a layer of cloth. They were lucky that it had not been removed.

The men put the mattress next to the fire and carried the old man up. The boy walked around and found nothing. He walked down empty-handed, and naturally was scolded by the children again.

The rice porridge was not cooked yet, but a woman took a bowl and wiped it clean with snow, set aside the few rice grains, scooped some hot soup, and handed it to the men, asking them to feed the old man. She turned around and filled the pot with snow water.

The sound of swallowing saliva rang out in the house, some adults and some children, but without exception, no one asked for a sip of soup.

After drinking two sips of hot soup, the old man woke up slowly, but when he felt the taste of rice soup in his mouth, he subconsciously turned his face away and raised his hand tremblingly to block the bowl.

"Give it to Junzi and the others... give it to them... don't let me, a useless old man, ruin it..." He said weakly. He

was referring to the awakened in the team. The awakened not only bears the safety of the entire team, but also has to find food. Moreover, the awakened need for food is greater than that of ordinary people, so he said so. He knew very well that if the awakened had no strength, no one would survive.

"Uncle, drink it, they have it, and no one can starve them." The man holding the bowl was a handsome man, but the long-term hunger had made him thin and out of shape, and only the contours of his facial features still retained a little of the charm he had on the screen.

The old man still did not open his mouth, his eyes fell on the little girl who had walked to his side at some point and looked at the bowl eagerly. That was his granddaughter. The round little body before the end of the world had long disappeared. Now she was as thin as a poor little monkey. The clothes of adults on her body were like a big cover, swaying, and she would fall down after walking a few steps. Deep sadness floated in his eyes. Even though his stomach was cramped and he was sweating from hunger, he still pushed the bowl away firmly.

"... Give it to the children..." Even if each person only gets one bite, it's fine.

"Uncle, you..." The man was a little helpless. He could understand the old man's thoughts, but he also knew that if the old man didn't eat something, it would be difficult for him to survive the next two days. When he was about to persuade him again, the little girl next to him spoke.

"Grandpa, you are sick, you drink, I won't drink, I will just watch." She swallowed hard, but she was determined to follow her words, without any intention of going forward.

"Grandpa, drink quickly, it will be cold soon." The little boy also helped to persuade, his restraint was obviously stronger, and he didn't even look at the bowl.

"Yes, it's hot now, it tastes so good." The little girl nodded heavily, half squinting her eyes, as if she had already drunk it.

The old man wanted to refuse again, but the mustache over there had already spoken, "Uncle, you drink yours, and cook the rice later so that everyone can have a good meal."

"But..." Hearing this, everyone was surprised, because they knew very well that the whole team now only had half a bag of rice that was less than two kilograms. If they ate it all at once, what would they do if someone fainted next time?

"I will find a way to deal with the food, don't worry." The mustache waved his hand, looking confident, which made many people hopeful.

Chapter 269: Gathering of All Parties (8)

They were the people who escaped from the Rong River. Because they fled in such a hurry, they were unable to bring anything with them. Without gasoline, the car was useless and they could only walk.

The severe lack of food forced them to eat mutant plants to fill their stomachs. However, not all mutant plants were edible. At least ordinary people in the Dongzhou base tasted them and then determined the edible types. However, the Bowei base did not pay attention to this. Only the survivors from various places brought some relevant experience. With this pitiful experience, the mutant plants they could find were really limited and could not meet the needs of more than 40 people. From two meals a day at the beginning to one meal a day later, it was still not enough. Because of hunger, people became weak, and it was naturally more difficult to find food. This almost became a vicious cycle.

Qiao Yong knew that this was not a solution. He once led people to take a detour to towns and villages far away from the main roads, but he only found some clothes and bedding, as well as a very small amount of food. Obviously, these places had been searched before the rainstorm, but no one visited them after the rainstorm. Otherwise, they would not even leave them clothes and quilts.

There was not much food. At the beginning, they could drink a bowl of hot porridge every day, and they could count the rice grains. Later, no one touched it. Because they had to keep it to save their lives.

Mutated plants became the staple food, but sometimes they could not see a single edible mutant plant for a whole day. At the beginning, they were very hungry, and they wanted to try other species, thinking that their luck would not be so bad. However, after five people died of food and they failed to find a new source of food, they had to give up this self-destructive behavior. There were not many people in the first place, and they could not withstand such consumption.

The bodies of the dead were buried in the snow, with pain and relief on their faces, while the living continued to embark on the road of survival, with confusion in their hearts, inexplicable persistence, and no sadness.

Every day, in addition to clearing the way and defending against the attacks of mutant creatures, the psychics in the team had to go out to find food after arriving at the camping site at night. They are the backbone of the team, so naturally they should be given food first, but even so, they often have to endure hunger. Although no one said it, many non-awakened people knew in their hearts that if they were left behind, the awakened people would not have such a hard time.

Under the influence of hunger, the physical strength of both ordinary people and awakened people decreased significantly, and the distance they could walk every day became less and less. As a result, after more than 20 days of escaping from the Rong River, they still could not get out of Zhongzhou, and even did not reach Zhafeng City.

In fact, Qiao Yong had been secretly worried that when they met the survivors' base, there would be a few of them left. And Jian Jian's grandfather fell down on the road, which directly sounded the alarm in his heart. So he made a decisive decision to cook all the rice so that everyone could eat.

"After dinner, come with me to Zhafeng City." His eyes fell on the faded sign on the highway in the distance, which clearly stated that it was only ten kilometers away from Zhafeng. Qiao Yong immediately made an extremely bold decision.

We can't go on like this, we will all be dragged to death. Lu Jun is right, we must find food as soon as possible. It's still early now, at least four or five hours before dark. If we hurry, with the strength of the awakened, we can reach the city before dark. Obviously, the non-awakened can't walk anymore, so it's better to let them wait here. As long as we can find enough food and get one or two cars if we are lucky, the road ahead will be much easier.

When they learned that Qiao Yong was going to take the awakened to Zhafeng City, the people in the team were stunned for a moment, and then their expressions became complicated. The ordinary people were more obvious, but they didn't say anything. They probably guessed that Qiao Yong wanted to abandon them. It's just that they are not related to each other, and he has done his best to take them to this point, so although he is sad, he has no resentment after all.

Qiao Yong saw the changes in everyone's expressions, sighed in his heart, and didn't make any promises. But when he only asked five people to go with him, the atmosphere that was originally a little depressed and sad suddenly eased.The fact that there were still more than a dozen Awakened left behind was enough to say it all.

In order for them to have enough stamina to deal with the possible dangers, the Awakened who stayed behind cleared a kilometer or two out of the front road in passing as they went in search of mutated plants that they could eat, while the non-Awakened who couldn't contribute in this area chose to give up their share of the food to them.

"Hurry up and eat! If you guys can't get anything, humph, eat the old ...... me and see if you don't rot your intestines!" Ge'ai was the first within the children to put the food in front of Qiao Yong and the others, only the words that came out of his mouth really made people want to beat him up.

With him taking the lead, Jen Jen, who had already put a piece of mutant plant root into her mouth and bit it laboriously, blinked, hesitated, took it out again, licked it reluctantly, and finally followed suit and stuffed it into Ruan Feng's hand, with a row of small teeth marks remaining on it.

"Uncle, eat." Ruan Feng had carried her on his back, so even if he always pulled a face, she was still closer to him.Then nine-year-old Huo Rui also silently walked over and placed his share of the food in front of them.

Although the children's words and actions were both infuriating and funny, the men who had become somewhat numb due to the end of the world could not help but get angry. They secretly vowed in their hearts that they would get food back no matter what, otherwise they would be sorry for those who trusted them wholeheartedly. After all

, they did not eat the children's food, but their steps when they set out were extremely powerful and firm, and they had the intention of not returning until they achieved their goal.

After the six people left, the remaining superpowers began to be vigilant and strengthen their defenses. Because they were also responsible for the safety of everyone, and the awakened bodies had a huge demand for energy, they did not give up the food. Ordinary people with empty stomachs lay down by the fire in a mess, trying not to move as much as possible to save calories. Only Ge Aizi slipped into the kitchen and began to search upstairs and downstairs. Even though he knew that he had been searched countless times, he still did not give up.

Nan Wei followed the little figure with the corner of his eye, and the corner of his mouth curled up very slightly, obviously thinking that such behavior was a complete waste of energy. However, due to the child's bad temper, he would not speak out to persuade her in order to avoid being scolded.

It took more than an hour for the child to come back. Her dark and thin face was wooden, and it seemed that she had not gained anything. Nan Wei muttered a few words in his heart and laughed at himself, but on the surface he did not look away, as if he had not seen anything.

However, after a while, he suddenly saw the child quickly reaching out and stuffing something into Jian Jian's mouth. The little girl suddenly widened her eyes, looked at Ge Ayi, and then looked at the others like a thief, then covered her mouth with her little hand, and her little mouth moved very carefully underneath, her big eyes curved into the shape of a moon, and she looked extremely happy.

Nan Wei narrowed his eyes slightly, thinking to himself, could this little bastard really find something?

His guess was soon confirmed. Because Ge Ayi then fed something into the mouth of the lying grandfather, but the action was too fast, even though Nan Wei's eyes were almost cramped, he could not see what it was. He became more and more curious, but he did not dare to ask. He raised his eyes somewhat angrily, and suddenly found that Huo Rui was also looking at this side. After noticing his gaze, he turned away silently.

What on earth is it? How did he really find something? Is this little bastard born in the Year of the Rat? Lowering his eyes, Nan Wei had countless questions in his mind, and at the same time, admiration rose. You know, he had looked for it before, and didn't find even a hair.

Just when he was thinking about how to find out, his hand was suddenly touched, and then something was stuffed into his palm. He was a little stunned, and looked at Ge Ayi as if nothing had happened, but the child glared at him fiercely, silently said two words with his mouth, and then ignored him and lay down.

Those two words were definitely not telling him something, but more like scolding him. Nan Wei was a little annoyed, but when he raised his hand and saw what was in his palm, all his dissatisfaction disappeared.

It was a candy the size of a fingernail. It was not a complete candy. It was flat and sticky, with black stains and teeth marks. He could imagine what this candy had been through. It was kicked into a crevice by accident, and when it was hot, it became irregular in shape, sticking to the candy wrapper. When it was cold, it froze hard again, and then was found by a child, who bit it in half or quarters with his teeth...

To be honest, according to his previous temper, he would have thought it was dirty to hold it in his hands, let alone eat it. But now he couldn't bear to eat it. He thought of the feeling of sweat on his head and trembling legs when he walked before. If he could have such a small candy in his mouth at that time, it would have been much better. It was a life-saving thing.

So he reached into his bag and took out a piece of paper. He carefully wrapped the candy and put it back in his pocket.

"I found it in the toy box." This is what Ge Ayi told him later. The big toy box was filled with various building blocks, cars, Ultraman, Teletubbies and other things. The adults lost interest after just one look. They couldn't eat or burn them, so what could they do with them? Ge Ayi wasn't interested in toys either. He only cared about whether there was something to fill his seemingly never-filled stomach. But he was different from the adults. His ideas had not yet been finalized. He didn't think that if there was nothing to eat in the toy box, it was not worth looking for. Not to mention the toy box, even if he saw a stove pit full of ash, he would probably use a stick to dig and search for a long time. So he found five candies.

He kept three, then took out two, and Grandpa and Jian Jian shared one, and he, Nan Wei and Huo Rui shared one. He gave it to Huo Rui purely because he was discovered by him and used it to shut him up.

As for Nan Wei... Nan Wei was used to being scolded, and always felt that Ge Ayi must dislike him and wanted to get rid of him, so he suddenly felt flattered. He really couldn't figure out what a child was thinking, even if he was only seven or eight years old. And he had to admit that, apart from having read a few more years of books, he really couldn't compare to this kid in any way. He could even pick something out of such a place, which was really unacceptable.

Thinking of how he had searched for something because the kid started to scold him, and how he was very perfunctory when he searched, his face suddenly became hot, and the candy in his pocket also became hot. But in the end he didn't take out the candy and return it to the kid. The experience of the past few months still taught him a lot.

Chapter 270: Gathering of All Parties (9)

Because there were only six people, and all of them were awakened, they did not need to clear a path like they did when they were with non-awakened people. They only needed to get rid of the mutant plants that were blocking the way and were aggressive. Therefore, Qiao Yong and his team advanced very quickly and arrived outside Zhafeng City earlier than expected.

Although there were many buildings along the way, they no longer thought that they could find anything from them after learning from their previous experience, so they naturally would not waste time and energy on them. This also increased their speed invisibly.

The viaduct at the entrance of the North City had been dilapidated and broken under the attack of mutant plants and the harsh climate. Seven or eight traffic arteries intersected here, but without exception, they were all blocked by rusted vehicles. The tall mutant plants stretched out their beautiful and charming branches and leaves to block the sky. Countless wispy plants hung down from them like silk vines, gently floating in the wind. The twisted and twisted vines appeared and disappeared in the forest like snakes, and sometimes came out from the broken glass of vehicles. There were also low plants like shrubs blooming strange flowers in the shade, twisting soft branches, and bearing strange and fragrant fruits, trying their best to find a living space for themselves.

This place was like a primitive forest in another world that had never been developed. Only rotten newspapers with a few words or pictures occasionally exposed from the roots of plants, beverage bottles accidentally swept away by a vine, and plastic bags hanging between branches silently retained traces of human existence.

No one has been here for a long time. Qiao Yong and others came to a conclusion after walking carefully for a distance.

Maybe there were survivors before the mutant plants appeared, because the vehicles on the road they entered the city were pushed to the sides, but for some unknown reason, they stopped moving and remained blocked. There were no zombies, but from time to time, one or two bones were stepped on. Some car windows still had half-rotten corpses hanging on them, and torn clothes fluttered in the wind and snow like gray butterflies.

Whether it was Ziyun County, Xianze City, or even Ronghe County where they later stayed, even though there were still many zombies in the city, the vehicles around the city and at the entrances and exits were cleared, and they were not completely turned into primitive areas by mutant plants like here.

It was not dark when they arrived outside the city, but when they walked into the forest, the light was instantly blocked, and only a little light was transmitted through the gaps between the branches and leaves, which was not enough for lighting. But the forest was not dark. Various plants gave off a faint halo, green vines, hazy yellow fruits, crystal-like transparent flowers, and many stars like fireflies, making people feel like they have entered a fairy tale world.

However, Qiao Yong and the other six knew that even if it was a fairy tale, it must be a dark fairy tale with terror and death. If they had a choice, they would never rush in here with only six awakened people. But they had no choice, so they could only be doubly careful. No

zombies were seen on the way into the city, and all the cars they encountered were looted. Obviously, even if they couldn't enter the city, the outside had been cleaned up. The wish of the few people who wanted to get as much as possible from the car and go back was dashed, and they had to bite the bullet and continue to walk into the city with the hair standing on end.

Many of the mutant plants here made them feel unfamiliar, especially those hidden and parasitic under the tall mutant plants. However, there was danger, but it was not beyond their tolerance. There was no rotten smell in the air, and the fragrance of plants floated in it, making people feel as if they had returned to the quiet and beautiful mountains and forests before the end of the world.

But for some reason, the few people hardly talked to each other, and only said something with simple gestures when they had to. So in this unsettling silence, they unexpectedly passed the most densely populated area of ​​mutant plants without any danger, and stepped onto the inner city road lined with shops and office buildings on both sides.

The familiar wheezing sound of the zombies, like a broken bellows, came into their ears, making them stop cautiously.

"It's ten o'clock." Lu Jun, the only one who was still wearing a watch, raised his wrist, glanced at it, and told the others.

They arrived outside the city at around four o'clock in the afternoon. They didn't expect to spend six hours in the mutant forest, but it didn't feel like much time had passed. They were just a little tired and their superpowers were consumed a lot.

It was dark ahead, and even the various luminous plants that they had seen along the way were very rare, like stars hiding in the dark sky. They determined that there should be fewer mutant plants ahead by the stench of decay and the sense of emptiness in the air.

"Let's find a place to spend the night first." Qiao Yong said in a low voice.

They had not planned to go back today, so they were not in a hurry to find supplies. They knew nothing about this place, and they would not know how they died if they bumped around in the dark. Fortunately, there were tall buildings nearby, so it should not be too difficult to find a place to hide.

Ah Qing threw several football-sized fireballs in succession, hitting different directions. The fireballs streaked through the air and soon went out, but this was enough for them to see the surrounding environment clearly.

In front of them was a wide, six-lane, two-way avenue, still full of cars. There were mutant plants, but most of them were distributed on both sides of the road, entangled with buildings. There were no zombies, obviously they were beyond the range of the fireballs, but they could hear the sound, so they should not be too far away. They had to find a place to hide before being discovered by the zombies.

Not far from them was a building with a black sign on a white background. Because of the light, the words on it were not very clear, but it should be a company. On the opposite side of the road was a row of storefronts, including a noodle shop with its doors open, and a small supermarket.

The target was set at the noodle shop. At the same time that Qiao Yong uttered the low word "go", several people rushed out of the mutant plant forest as fast and light as civet cats, without even lighting, and went straight to the noodle shop based on their memories. As for whether there would be zombies or other things in the noodle shop, they could not take care of it for the time being, and could only hope that their luck would be a little better.

Ah Qing rushed to the front, and the moment he stepped on the steps, he threw a fist-sized fireball into it. He controlled the temperature of the fireball and was not worried about causing a fire inside.

This was a very ordinary small noodle shop, with two rows of low tables and matching wooden chairs, and a not-too-wide glass window separating the kitchen inside. On the glass door outside, the names and prices of big-rib noodles and beef noodles were written in red paint. On the wall of the noodle shop, there was also a large menu written in brush. In addition to noodles, there were also rice noodles and stir-fried dishes.

There were bloodstains on the ground that had long dried and turned black. The tables and chairs were not very neat, but not too messy. After searching inside and outside the restaurant, no bodies were found, so the possibility of a fight here was not great, but it was not completely impossible. They were not police, let alone trace inspection experts. They had no way and no intention to do such things as scene reconstruction. They were happy that there were no zombies here.

After getting confirmation, Ruan Feng silently raised a wall of earth to completely isolate the glass door from the outside world. At the same time, with the help of others, he cleaned up the things next to the wall next to the small supermarket in the kitchen, and then opened a hole very carefully.

After listening for a while, there seemed to be no sound of zombies. Ah Qing picked up a small ball of flame with his fingertips and slowly moved over.

Lu Jun, who has the power of thunder, and Liu Xia, who has the power of wind, were on full alert. If they found anything wrong, they would immediately attack, one to attack, and the other to roll Ah Qing back.

Fortunately, nothing happened. The first thing that caught their eyes was a bed. It was empty, and the thin summer quilt was rolled up messily. Just seeing this, everyone had an idea. It should be at the beginning of the apocalypse that the owner of the small supermarket disappeared. Maybe he became a zombie, or maybe he escaped successfully. And after the heavy rain, no one should have been here, otherwise the quilt would not be there. Of course, it is also possible that the people who patronized this place did not like this thin quilt.

Ah Qing stretched out his hand holding the flame a little further, and the three of them saw a narrow space filled with cardboard boxes and white bags. Not only him, but everyone who saw the scene next door couldn't help but swallow their saliva, a little unbelieving of their good luck, and even began to worry about gains and losses, fearing that there was actually nothing in the boxes and bags, and they were happy for nothing.

"Qiao Tou! Qiao Tou..." Ah Qing and the others didn't go over immediately, but shouted to Qiao Yong who was smiling foolishly at the half-filled jar of salt.

"Call your soul! Look what I found!" Qiao Yong said unhappily, and then proudly raised the salt jar at the three of them. Salt is too precious nowadays, especially for their team.

Liu Xia looked at him with contempt and said unhappily: "Your requirements are too low." He never thought that before seeing the pile of things on the other side, if it were him, he would probably also have his heartbeat accelerated because of a little salt.

Sure enough, hearing his words, Qiao Yong's mustache rose, and he was about to retort, but he suddenly reacted, took a few big steps over, pushed Liu Xia aside and looked across, and then froze.

"Impossible..." He muttered, his eyes flashing green, like a hungry wolf, and grabbed Ruan Feng with his backhand, "Quick, quick, open the hole wider."

Ruan Feng especially hated others' physical actions, but because he guessed something, he just glared at Qiao Yong fiercely, shook off the hand holding him, and began to expand the hole in the wall without hesitation. As for Chen Changchun, who was rummaging outside, he also came over when he heard the noise here, but he didn't see the situation on the other side, so he was not as excited as others, just with a little expectation. After all, this is not the city center. Even if there are things left, it is estimated that there are not many, not to mention the value.

Two minutes later, Qiao Yong squeezed out Ruan Feng, who had done the most work, and under the faint blue face of the other party, he unconsciously rushed to the next room first. He held a ball of flame the size of a date in his hand. After making sure that the door to the outside was closed, he enlarged the flame so that the people who followed behind could see the situation in the room clearly.

"This is rice, flour, instant noodles, biscuits..." Lu Jun looked through the bags and cartons one by one. The more he counted, the drier his mouth became, and the more his voice trembled, making it difficult to tell whether he was excited or scared.

This should be the storage room of the small supermarket, because in addition to food, there are many daily necessities, and there is no sign of being touched.

Chen Changchun, who was unprepared, was so shocked that he couldn't even speak, and even Ruan Feng's face seemed to look much better.

The surprise came so suddenly that the six people almost fainted with joy. But after the great joy and excitement, their expressions slowly became ugly again. You look at me, I look at you, and no one speaks.

In the end times, supplies are so scarce, and this small supermarket is located at the entrance of the city, why has it not been touched?

Chapter 271: Gathering of All Parties (10)

Out of caution and inexplicable uneasiness, several people carefully searched the small supermarket outside. They were relieved only after confirming that no one had been there for a long time. However, the wall facing the street was made of glass, which was difficult for Ruan Feng to seal. So after locking the door from the inside, they took some things they needed and returned to the storage room. As for the rolling shutters, they did not dare to pull them down at this time, so as not to cause trouble by making too much noise. For

safety reasons, the door of the storage room was also sealed with an earth wall, leaving only a few holes for ventilation. Then, facing a large pile of supplies, several people looked at each other and reached for the noodles almost at the same time.

The gas stove in the small noodle shop could still be lit. They cooked nearly ten kilograms of noodles with mineral water, accompanied by two cans of braised pork and a few bags of pickled mustard. The six people ate all the noodles, including the soup. After a long time, their empty and cold stomachs finally tasted the warm and full feeling again.

"If we can get all these things back, along with the mutant plants, we'll have enough to eat for a long time." Liu Xia wiped his mouth with a tissue and said.

"Then we have to get everything back." Lu Jun glanced at him and said. "Don't even think about whether we can find a car. Even if we have a car and oil, there are no zombies at the door. How are we going to get out?" It took them six or seven hours to get in. They had to open a road that could accommodate vehicles. With just a few people, they didn't know how long it would take.

"We'll take some back tomorrow. If there's no problem, let everyone eat first, and then go out of the city together. Except for a few people who are slow and weak, everyone else will come in to move things." Qiao Yong licked his lips and habitually wanted to touch his beard, but he put his hand down halfway and said. He hadn't had time to take care of his beard during this period, and it had already become a mess. He felt bad every time he touched it. "Let's arrange the night watch rotation now. Leave one person to watch the night, and the others take the time to rest."

No one objected to his words. After all, if the team's temporary base is placed outside the city, they can move things ten kilometers less, saving a lot of time, which is especially important for them who have to rely on their feet for transportation. Moreover, there are many vehicles outside, and there should be some that can be driven. If they can find gasoline, maybe they can get more things.

The first person to watch the night was Chen Changchun. He was a strength mutation, mainly used to carry things. He hardly exerted any effort along the way and did not need to recover, so he was the first shift. Then came Liu Xia, Qiao Yong, Ruan Feng, and finally Ah Qing and Lu Jun. The middle position is naturally the worst. You have to get up in the middle of the sleep, so Qiao Yong took it on himself. As for Ruan Feng, he had to get up in the middle of the night to reinforce the defense, so he had to be ranked in this position. Because a person only needs to guard for an hour, as long as there is no accident, basically you can get enough rest and recovery.

Just as they each got a thin floral quilt and were about to wrap themselves up and go to sleep, Ruan Feng suddenly stood up, found a box of candies among the neatly stacked goods, tore open the packaging, grabbed some candies and chocolates and put them in his bag. Seeing him like this, several people were moved and put a lot of candies and chocolates into their pockets, even Qiao Yong was no exception. It was not that they wanted to hide it, but because of some unspeakable uneasiness, perhaps because when they fled Ronghe County in a hurry, they found that they could not touch anything on their bodies. It was also perhaps because of a subconscious behavior of seeking security.

The small bed could only accommodate one person, so it was given to Lu Jun who could sleep until the end. The others spread cardboard on the ground and prepared to fool around for a few hours.

In order to reduce the chance of being discovered as much as possible, the candles used for lighting were extinguished after everyone fell asleep. Chen Changchun sat alone in the dark. Even though he could not see anything, his eyes were still wide open, listening vigilantly to the noises around him. However, until Liu Xia got up to replace him, he did not find anything unusual.

However, what he didn't know was that when everyone was cooking noodles, or when they came out of the mutant Lin Chong, they were being watched. Those things climbed on the wall, hid in the corners, silently patrolled back and forth, and tried every way to peek inside, but no one noticed.

Liu Xia also didn't happen when he was on guard, and then Qiao Yong, Ruan Feng...

The night passed peacefully, and when the dim light came through the holes left in the earth wall, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. After eating something, they carried a few bags of rice and flour, and took some canned biscuits, oil, salt and other things, and hurried to prepare to leave. According to their thinking, as long as they could return to the camp safely, it would prove that this place was still safe. After everyone had enough food and water, they would call more people in to get enough food and gasoline to the next base, so that the rest of the way would not be so difficult.

But when Ruan Feng lowered half of the earth wall and looked out, he was dumbfounded.

"What's wrong?" Qiao Yong followed behind him, and seeing him in a daze, he had a bad feeling in his heart, so he asked in a low voice.

Ruan Feng didn't say anything, but just made way. Qiao Yong squeezed forward, stuck his head out of the earth wall, and then also froze.

"What happened?" Others couldn't see, but because they could hear the sounds of zombies, they didn't dare to make too much noise, and just lowered their voices to ask. Liu Xia, who was closest to Qiao Yong, simply took action and wanted to pull the man away to see for himself.

Qiao Yong didn't move for a long while, then he murmured as if talking to himself or asking others: "I remember, we are at the entrance of the city, right?"

"You are talking nonsense, we are out of the forest and not going in." Liu Xia was anxious, and pulled his hand harder, "What the hell did you see? Don't let people guess like this."

"Stop pulling, your clothes will be torn off." Qiao Yong slapped his hand back twice, but failed to slap the annoying hand away, so he had no choice but to move away: "Look for yourself, where is the forest."

Liu Xia finally got what he wanted, and hurriedly squeezed over, but after just a glance, he couldn't help but curse: "Fuck... Where are those mutant plants?"

According to their memory, they entered the noodle shop after they came out of the mutant plant forest last night. The distance between the noodle shop and the mutant plant forest would never exceed fifty meters. Even if there was an error in the dark, it would be about a hundred meters at most. But now, looking out, there are long streets and dense zombies on both sides, and there is no trace of the plant forest.

"Damn it!" After Ruan Feng sealed the earth wall again to isolate the zombies who had begun to pay attention to this side, the six people sat in the dim kitchen of the noodle shop, at a loss.

There were zombies everywhere outside. Although they did not block the door of the noodle shop, they believed that as long as they showed up, they would be surrounded immediately. Among the six people, Liu Xia, who had wind ability, was probably the only one who could escape in the end. However, there was a prerequisite, that is, they had to figure out where they were now.

What was a headache was that several people had never been to Zhafeng before, and they were completely unfamiliar with this place. It was impossible to judge the current location by the buildings.

"We didn't take a detour when we came in. As long as we follow this road straight ahead, we should be able to get out of the city. As for why those mutant plants disappeared, as long as we can get out, who cares if they go up to the sky." Lu Jun took off his hat, touched his bald head, and said.

Ah Qing twisted his fingers like he was playing with a lighter. A bean-sized flame appeared, and a pinch made the flame go out. He twisted his fingers again, and a flame appeared. He pinched them again, and the flame went out... He lowered his head, as if thinking about something, and was completely unaware that this action had caused the annoyance of the people around him.

Bang! Lu Jun slapped him on the back of his head, and he almost jumped up in shock.

"Don't waste your superpowers. This is a life-saving thing." Lu Jun said before he could get angry.

So Ah Qing pouted and stopped his meaningless behavior. He just said, "Can we go out?" It was clearly a question, but his expression and tone made people feel that it was a statement, a statement with negative meaning.

Hearing this, everyone else fell silent. After a moment, Qiao Yong pulled himself together and said to Ruan Feng, "Xiao Ruan, open a crack here and let's see what's going on." He pointed to the other wall opposite the gate.

Ruan Feng didn't waste any words and started to work. But soon everyone was disappointed, because there was also a street on that side, although it was not as wide as the one in front, there were just as many zombies.

Sighing silently, after Ruan Feng sealed the wall, Qiao Yong looked at Liu Xia, "Xia Zi, it's up to you. Let Zhao Chun and the others know that we didn't abandon them. Also, don't come to rescue us." Obviously, he had made a decision in a short time.

"If I go out from here, you might be blocked by zombies." Liu Xia frowned and disagreed.

"Don't worry about this, we won't die for a while." Qiao Yong waved his hand and said without question.

The remaining four people did not object to his decision, probably because they knew that at their speed, they might not even be able to run a hundred meters. Rather than being trapped here, it would be better to let one person go out and report the news. Therefore, after discussion, everyone packed some biscuits and instant noodles and other light and high-calorie foods for Liu Xia in a bag, trying not to increase his burden as much as possible, so as not to slow down the speed, but to provide some food for those who stayed in the camp.

"Take care. I will come again." Before leaving, Liu Xia glanced at his five teammates, and his eyes paused for a moment on Qiao Yong, whom he had known in Wangyang Town, "Old Qiao..." He seemed to want to say something, but after calling the other party's name, he turned around and motioned Ruan Feng to open the wall.

Only a width wide enough for one person to pass sideways was opened. As soon as he went out with his things, Ruan Feng immediately sealed the earth wall, not caring to see if he was doing well, because the zombies had already noticed the movement and swarmed over here.

"I hope everything goes well." Qiao Yong, who never believed in ghosts and gods, retreated into the darkness, clenched his fists, and muttered a prayer.

No one else spoke, silently listening to the sound of the zombies hitting the earthen wall. The wall was very solid, and these zombies should not be able to break it in a short time, so they were not too worried.

Crash! The sound of glass shattering sounded, and Ah Qing, who was lowering his head, couldn't help but move. But this was expected. Except for him, the other four people didn't react much. Even he was not frightened, but just felt a little irritated.

Chapter 272: Convergence of All Parties (11)

As soon as Liu Xia left the noodle shop, he used his supernatural powers to the fullest extent, and ran like a tornado in the direction he remembered. The zombies passing by could no longer see him as soon as they spotted him, and could only stand there in a daze. According to his estimation, as long as he did not make a

mistake in the direction and there were no mutant plants blocking his way like yesterday, he could get out of the city in less than half an hour. However, half an hour later, he stared blankly at the several forks in the road ahead and found that he seemed to be... lost.

However, he did not stay there for long, because the zombies around him had already started to rush over excitedly. Based on his intuition, he chose a road with the smallest bend, continued to use his supernatural powers, and ran away.

Half an hour later, he stopped again and turned back.

Half an hour, another half an hour... He rushed into a bookstore, searched for a while, and left quickly before being blocked by zombies. He ran to the next bookstore, then to the newsstand. It was not until noon that he found a tattered map of Zafon City.

With this map, he hid in the safe passage of a building, and only after making sure there were no zombies nearby did he spread out the map and slowly identify the place. First, he had to determine where he was, then how to get out, and finally where Qiao Yong and the others were. It turned out that after wandering around all morning, he was completely lost. Not to mention getting out, he couldn't even get back to the noodle shop he had been in last night.

Just as he was concentrating on finding a way out, there was a sudden sound of wind behind him. Since awakening his superpowers, his reaction has been very fast, but at this moment, the nerve reflex has not even been transmitted from his brain. Almost at the same time as he heard the sound of the wind, he felt a pain in the back of his head and his eyes went black.

A slender figure with no clothes on his body, a few hairs hanging from his bald head, pale skin, and pustules all over his face, was hanging upside down on the top of the corridor like a gecko with a stick in his hand. After confirming that Liu Xia had really fainted, he swam down the wall carefully, leaving a brown-yellow mark on the snow-white wall behind him. Then he found a bag from somewhere, put the person in it, and ran away quickly with him. He looked so anxious that he seemed to be afraid of being robbed. Wherever he passed, a few drops of pus fell from time to time, burning the ground with a sizzling smoke.

Qiao Yong and his friends didn't know that Liu Xia had not been able to escape from the city. In their opinion, no matter how strange it was, even if the mutant plant forest could disappear, it would be impossible for the road direction to change. If that were the case, he would be no different from a god, so why would they fight for their lives?

They sat in the small noodle restaurant until noon, and felt that the zombies outside were much quieter, so they started to move.

They couldn't get out no matter how they tried to get through the two sides. The only thing they could do now was to open the hole upwards. Ruan Feng stepped on the table and pressed his hand directly on the roof, slowly breaking a large hole that could accommodate one person. Ah Qing used a fireball to melt the steel bars and other objects mixed in it, and dripped them to the ground

. There was a resident upstairs, and the hole was right in the middle of the kitchen. Before they went up, they heard the sound of zombies dragging their shoes and excited roars. The five people looked at each other, and before they were sure how serious the zombies were, they saw a leg fall down with a click, and a pair of sandals fell at the same time.

The leg was skinny, gray and black, and full of wrinkles, like a dried corpse that had been soaked in formalin and then hung outside for a long time.

"Ho...ho..." The barefooted corpse's legs swayed in front of the eyes of several people, and the excited roars never stopped, mixed with the harsh sound of nails scratching on the ground, but after waiting for a while, the other leg did not fall.

It turned out to be a stupid zombie. Qiao Yong and others secretly breathed a sigh of relief, estimating that this zombie should be before the rainstorm, because it was locked at home, it has not evolved.

So Lu Jun took action, pressed on the sole of the zombie's feet, and directly released a not too thick lightning, which electrocuted the zombie to a scorch and made it silent. He raised his hand and pushed the finally resting corpse up. After the heavy sound of landing, no other sound was heard. He did not let others, and he was the first to stand on the table and began to climb up.

The room was very messy, the tables and chairs were overturned, and the floor was full of broken dishes. Lu Jun didn't pay attention, and his palm was accidentally cut, and blood dripped on the ground. He hurriedly found a broom and swept the debris aside before letting others come up.

The pillow fell on the floor of the living room. Lu Jun went over to pick it up and found dark, dried blood all over the sofa, floor, coffee table and wall. Finally, he opened a locked room and found two skeletons, one large and one small. The snow-white skeletons were hung with tattered clothes soaked in blood and long, incorruptible hair. They had obviously been dead for a long time.

The large skeleton was holding the small one tightly, sitting in a rocking chair in the room. Next to it was a long knife for cutting watermelons, which was stained with blood.

Lu Jun looked up and saw the family portrait hanging on the head of the bed. There was a thin and tall man wearing glasses, a woman with long hair tied into a bun and very gentle, and a little girl with big eyes hugged between the two. The family was smiling brightly. He stood there for a long time, and finally did not disturb the mother and daughter who were sitting in the rocking chair, and quietly withdrew, then gently closed the door.

Looking back, he found Qiao Yong standing there, and something seemed to be flashing in the corner of his eyes. Seeing him looking at him, he turned around in a hurry and yelled at the others: "What are you doing? What are you doing? Hurry up, are you going to nest here?"

Ruan Feng, who came out of another room, glanced at him and wanted to retort, but was suddenly stunned and swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth. Then, as if he didn't see anything, he continued to do what he was doing.

"Qiaotou, with that voice, do you want us to continue digging holes and climbing up?" Ah Qing came over from behind with a smile and joked.

"Bastard..." Qiao Yong scolded, but his voice was much lower. Then, he raised his hand to touch the corner of his eyes, muttering: "Oh, the dust is so heavy that it fell into my eyes."

"Of course, no one has lived here for a long time." Ah Qing didn't know at all and took over the conversation quite naturally.

Lu Jun, who was a little sad at first, was amused by the question and answer of the two people. He found a pack of unopened tissues in the house, opened it, took out two pieces and handed them to Qiao Yong: "Here, Qiao, don't use your hands, it's dirty." Since the other party didn't want them to see it, they just pretended not to see it. Everyone has times when they feel sad and don't want others to sympathize with them.

Qiao Yong hummed, took the tissue and wiped his eyes fiercely twice. Although his eyes were red, his expression had returned to normal. At this time, Chen Changchun, who was walking at the end, brought up a bag of flour and a bag of rice. He also had a few bags of salt, a pack of cigarettes and a few bags of biscuits hanging around his waist, and he was almost stuck there. It was only when Lu Jun went over that he got him up.

"Why are you carrying these? We may have to leave from down there." Lu Jun was a little speechless.

"I'm scared of being hungry." Chen Changchun smiled and said nonchalantly: "I'm strong, this little stuff is nothing." Obviously he was afraid of encountering another emergency, forcing them to flee for their lives. At that time, who would have the time to run back and carry things, so he brought as much as he could.

Lu Jun stopped talking, and the other people even had the idea of ​​jumping down to get some things to take with them. However, they had not yet decided how to leave here. Bringing too many things would be a burden, and they might have to throw them away, so they suppressed the impulse.

Through the window, they began to observe the situation outside, one to determine where this place was, and the other to find an opportunity to leave. Although Liu Xia said that he would come back, they could not wait here all the time. Wouldn't it be better if they could leave the city earlier?

The front of the building was full of zombies, and it was obvious that they had not dispersed after being attracted here before. In addition, there were an endless stream of zombies coming here from both ends of the long street. They were so far away that they might not smell anything, and it was more likely that they were attracted by the movement of the zombies in front of the building.

Opposite is an electric power company, which can be considered a landmark building. If there is a map, it is very likely to be found from above. Of course, there is another way, which is to go down to the street and confirm this through road signs or traffic signs. But if they could go down to the street, they would have run away long ago, and there is no way they would be trapped here.

"Let's go to the roof." After searching the house and finding nothing related to the address, let alone a map of the city, Qiao Yong said decisively.

They don't know how high this building is, but if the city exit is similar to the direction they remembered last night, they should be able to see something when they reach the roof. As long as the exit is not far away, their chances of escaping will increase infinitely, even if the downstairs is full of zombies.

No one was left here to guard the door. After all, there were not many of them, and it was not wise to disperse further. Moreover, sometimes opportunities are fleeting, and only when everyone is together can they seize them firmly.

When they were leaving, Qiao Yong saw Chen Changchun carrying two bags of food and other miscellaneous things. His lips moved, as if he wanted to tell him that it was not necessary to carry so many things everywhere, as it would affect his movements. However, he thought of the elderly and children in the team who were so hungry that they could hardly walk, so he held back his words and just motioned for others to help carry some.

The elevator could not be used, so they could only climb the safety stairs. Fortunately, the corridor was relatively clean, and there were no zombies or other things. The building was higher than they expected, and they still could not see the top even after climbing to the tenth floor. However, the higher the better, the farther they could see. As for physical strength, it was not a problem for them, the awakened ones.

The corridor was not wide, and there was no danger. Several people went back and forth for two full turns. The one who walked in front had already reached the fourteenth floor, and the last one was still on the twelfth floor. Because they were worried that Chen Changchun would not be able to react in time if something happened while carrying things, Lu Jun walked at the end. As for the leader, it was naturally Qiao Yong, who was equally sharp in attack.

However, as they walked, Lu Jun felt something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what it was, so he called out to Chen Changchun, who was walking a few steps above. Chen Changchun turned around and his face suddenly changed. Before he could open his mouth to warn, he was knocked unconscious by a black shadow that rushed out from nowhere. Lu Jun also fainted at the same time, because of his face, he had reacted very quickly and moved half a step to the side.

"Damn..." Ah Qing's curse sounded on the upper stairs, but he only uttered one word and then died.

Immediately after him, there were two more thumps of heavy objects falling to the ground. Obviously, the two people walking in front were also hit. It was too fast, and they didn't even see how the other party came out.

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Qiao Yong felt someone touching him all over. Before he woke up, his hands instinctively grabbed him.

A hoarse cry of surprise rang in his ears. He opened his eyes and saw a dark figure. In the darkness, he could vaguely see a human figure.

Where was this? For a moment, he couldn't remember what had happened or where he was, so he didn't say anything. He just held the man's wrist tightly like an iron clamp, waiting for the dizziness and the pain behind his head to ease.

"Hey... Hey! Misunderstanding, misunderstanding! I wanted to see if you were hurt too badly." The figure struggled twice and failed to break free, so he hurriedly explained. The

dizziness had passed. Qiao Yong squinted his eyes and could barely see that the other person was a person. Although his clothes were a little torn and his hair and beard were a little long, he didn't have the fierce aura of fighting zombies and mutant creatures for many years. So he let go of his hand and sat up with his hands on the ground, but he still ensured that if the man made any unusual movements, he could stop him with his hands.

"What is this place? Where are my friends?" When Qiao Yong sat up, he realized that in addition to the man in front of him, there were many other people around. The space they were in was dark and spacious, surrounded by a circle of stands filled with seats. The middle, where they were, was the lowest point in the entire building. It was very flat and wide, and it looked like a gymnasium. The air was very dirty and filled with the stench of feces and urine, which made his head, which had just recovered a little, seem to be dizzy again.

There was light coming in from the window, but it was very dim, maybe because it was almost dark. After such a while, of course he remembered everything that had happened before, but the person who attacked them was very fast, which was not something the man in front of him could do, which was why he let him go. But he thought it was very strange. If it was done by humans, why did they bring them here, and they were not tied up? Could it be that the other party's strength was so strong that they were not afraid of them running away or counterattacking?

"Here... you'll know soon. As for your friends, you mean the ones who were sent here with you today, right? They're fine. Look, over there, it's probably time for them to wake up." The man didn't know whether he was too bored or felt the huge threat from Qiao Yong. Anyway, he didn't want to escape, but squatted there and answered him honestly. Following his instructions, Qiao Yong saw several people lying on the ground.

What was depressing was that they were not put together, but were thrown here and there. He touched the back of his head and found that it seemed to be swollen, but there was no skin broken and bleeding. It was just that his hat was gone, and his head felt cold and uncomfortable. He couldn't care so much at this time.

He stood up, stopped for a while, and when the dizziness was slightly over, he raised his feet and walked over there. For some reason, the man followed him. "Fuck, who is trying to trick me..." At this time, Liu Xia also woke up. He was knocked out at about the same time as Qiao Yong and the others, and then sent to the same place.

This might be the only place that could be considered lucky, better than being trapped alone. "Xia Zi? You didn't go out?" Because he spoke, Qiao Yong saw him first, and Qiao Yong felt extremely bad.

"Old Qiao..." Liu Xia looked over here, then looked around, "What is this place? Why are you here too? Where are Junzi and the others?"

"I haven't figured it out yet. Okay, help me get them here first." Qiao Yong himself was still confused. If he hadn't been worried about Lu Jun and the other four, he would have caught the man following him and used every possible means to figure out what was going on. With the help of Liu Xia and the man who called himself

He San, Qiao Yong found a slightly remote corner and brought Lu Jun and the others over. Although it was called remote, there were actually people there, but there were fewer people. Those truly uninhabited corners were already filled with feces and urine, and there was no way to stay there. During the transportation process, Lu Jun and the others woke up one after another.

One reason might be that the awakened people had better physiques, and the other was that their injuries were not serious, which made Qiao Yong slightly relieved. The people who were originally there did not come out to interfere, but just looked at them with numbness and a bit of weirdness, like a group of hungry mice, timid and dark, but eager to try, as if they would pounce on you to snatch your things and eat your flesh and blood as soon as you are careless. Qiao Yong and the others felt a chill on their backs when they were looked at, and all the muscles in their bodies tensed up.

"Now you can tell me where this place is." Qiao Yong said as several people gathered together and surrounded He San in the middle. He did not intend to care about the other party's touching him before, but that would depend on how the other party behaved. Everyone's eyes had adapted to the dim light, and they could barely see the appearance of the people around them. He San was very thin, so thin that one could almost see the outline of the bones on his face. His hands and feet were as thin as matchsticks. He wore many layers of clothes, but they were all thin summer shirts, which made people feel cold just by looking at them. In fact, he was indeed shivering the whole time. Most of the other people in the room were also this thin. Of course, there were also fat ones, but they were not normal fat, but edema caused by severe malnutrition.

There were also some with limbs as thin as sticks but with a big belly. They looked completely lifeless and frightening. Hearing Qiao Yong's words, He San did not answer immediately, but laughed dryly twice, took out his hands from his chest and twisted them, and said greedily and obscenely: "Um... do you have any food on you? Give me some." Qiao Yong suddenly realized what he was looking for on him before. Thinking of the candy he had put in his pocket before going to bed last night, he reached out to touch it, but it was empty. He grabbed He San by the collar and yelled, "You grandson, you searched all my things, and you still dare to ask me for food?"

Then Liu Xia and others also shouted in shock and anger, especially Liu Xia and Chen Changchun, because they had the most things on them. When Liu Xia left, others prepared a lot of instant noodles, biscuits and other things for him. Chen Changchun even carried two bags of rice and noodles, and some instant foods tied around his waist. There was nothing left at this time, and the candies and chocolates that everyone had put in their pockets last night were gone. It was really a clean search, how could they not be angry. "Take out our things, or I will bury you alive." Ruan Feng, who looked mean, looked at He San like a knife, and his words were not a joke at all. He San seemed to be more afraid of him. He wanted to argue with him with a smile to see if he could get something out of him, but he didn't dare to do that. He ignored Qiao Yong's hand and just made a pitiful look: "Hey, guys, if I had the ability to get your things, would I still be here?"

" Who knows if you are still thinking of other things." Qiao Yong snorted, but he had already let go of his hand. Thinking about it carefully, he knew that it was unlikely that the other party took their things, and even if he really took them, would the six of them be afraid that they couldn't get them back? "It's really not me." He San curled up again, because this would reduce the heat dissipation as much as possible. He reiterated again, without any guilty tone. "Who is that?" Everyone heard another meaning in his words. He San looked at the side with the most people. There was a simple shack built with metal racks, GG signs, poster fabrics, etc. There should be someone inside, but it was too far away to see clearly. "Did the people over there take our things?" Ruan Feng narrowed his eyes, stood up suddenly, and pulled He San up at the same time, "Let's go find them." "Hey, don't worry, buddy, don't go yet, don't go yet, listen to me, if you still want to go, it's up to you, just don't drag me along." He San squatted with his butt sticking out, trying to back away, but his body was still involuntarily pulled out a long way. Although Ruan Feng couldn't stand being bullied, he was not a reckless person. Hearing that there was something strange in his words, and they really should figure out the situation here first, so he let go of him.

"Can I..." Seeing that everyone was listening attentively, He San returned to his old ways and wanted a piece of clothing or something. He was really too cold, and the things that could be used to keep warm here had long been looted. He was lucky to be able to survive until now with such a set of clothes. However, he was choked back by Ruan Feng's cold expression after just a few words.

"I came here before the heavy rain, otherwise I wouldn't be dressed like this. Damn, this broken sky is simply killing people." Putting away the idea of ​​taking advantage, He San began to talk about things related to this place. And if you want to talk about these things, you can't help but talk about himself. "I came from Kunyuan, Yunzhou. At that time, I heard that there was a base in Bowei, so I wanted to go there." Hearing

this, Chen Changchun couldn't help but interject: "Is there no base in Yunzhou?"

"There was no base when we came here, otherwise who would run to Zhongzhou? Of course, it's better to be in your own province." Qiao San said a little depressed. "If I hadn't come here, I wouldn't have encountered these bad luck."

Everyone was refreshed and knew that they were going to get to the point.

"There are three or four hundred of us here. Although I'm not an awakener, I'm strong and I dare to kill zombies, so I'm doing pretty well." Thinking back to his position in the team and looking at his current situation, Qiao San was wondering how he survived. "When we passed outside Zhafeng, we wanted to replenish some supplies. We didn't plan to enter the city at that time, so we just found some supplies on the periphery, which was enough for us to last until we reached Bowei."

"The captain arranged for some of us to clean up the zombies on the road, and some to move the car away. I was assigned to kill zombies." Qiao San said this, but his eyes turned around the six people, and finally moved his body back, squeezing in between Ah Qing and Chen Changchun, who were wearing the most and looked more friendly, and kept smiling, "Brother, squeeze in, squeeze in. It's damn cold today... When we came here, the sun almost dried us out. It was better then."

He smelled very bad, so bad that it was unbearable, but through the contact with the body, you could feel that he was shivering. The two people who wanted to move aside just frowned and endured it.

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"Speaking of which, there were cars everywhere on the road, but there were not many zombies. They were all stuck in the cars and the city. We dealt with them easily, but those cars were hard to move. We were too lazy to wait for them, so we went in first." They said they were too lazy to wait, but in fact they wanted to get some good things before others came in. After all, everyone knew that such a disaster was no different from a flood or an earthquake. With the country's strong financial and response capabilities, and with the support of all parties when one side is in trouble, it would be easy to recover. Because the government agencies were paralyzed, the army was paralyzed, all walks of life were paralyzed, and most people were dead. Who could care about anyone else? All kinds of daily necessities were cut off. Food and clothing were all left over from before the end of the world. The more they used, the less they had. So when there was a chance, they would naturally try to get as much as possible for themselves. You know, this is related to the guarantee of how long they can live in the future.

Qiao Yong and the others understood this, so there was no need for him to say it clearly. What everyone was concerned about was what happened next.

"We were originally planning to just look around the retail stores and roadside shops outside the city, and we didn't dare to go too far inside. Who knew we would still run into a ghost... You know, I saw you were thrown in, and you must have been hit by a club... Damn it!" He San muttered a three-character curse, obviously still regretting his greed at the beginning. "You are much luckier than us, at least you were still in the bag, at that time we were directly carried back, but before we got to the place, a few of us died... The stomach was burnt, and the intestines, livers and other things inside were all burned, you see..." At this point, he quickly lifted his clothes. Although it was only a short moment, he still shivered and hugged himself tighter. He looked extremely pitiful. It was a pity that no one wore extra clothes, otherwise it would not matter even if he was given one.

And just at that moment, although the light was not good, Qiao Yong and the others still saw the scary scars on his stomach, as if it had been corroded by strong acid, with pits and bumps, which made people's hair stand on end.

"I'm lucky." He San muttered.

Lu Jun couldn't help but touch the clothes on his waist. There was an irregular hole there, revealing the cotton inside. Obviously, even if there were pockets, if they hadn't worn so many clothes, they would have been burned.

"What... thing?" Qiao Yong asked in a deep voice. He originally wanted to ask who it was, but thought that people couldn't be so perverted, so he changed his mind halfway.

"Could it be a mutant zombie?" Liu Xia asked. Mutated zombies didn't appear often. They didn't encounter them when they were in Ronghe. They only knew about the existence of such things after hearing Zhang Yi and the others talk about what happened in Xiaojie Village. The reason for this speculation was that he felt that mutant animals shouldn't do things like knocking people unconscious and putting them in sacks.

"Who knows what they are. You will see them later... maybe not, but they are neither human nor ghost, just like stinky rats hiding in the gutter." He San swallowed his saliva and began to look at the athletes' passage and the surroundings, as if waiting for something.

"Why did they capture people?" Qiao Yong thought of the time when Routa Chen and others were trapped in Xiaojie Village, and couldn't help but guess in that direction, but Qiao San's answer was beyond his and everyone's expectations.

"For fun." He San seemed a little careless.

"Huh?" Not only Qiao Yong, but Chen Changchun, Liu Xia, and Ah Qing all asked puzzled and surprised questions at the same time.

"It's really hard to explain this." Attracted by their different tones of "ah", He San calmed down and became more serious: "Anyway, they don't eat people. You don't have to worry about this. I've been here for almost a year, and I've only seen people die of cold and starvation, but I've never seen anyone being eaten by them. On the contrary, they will now feed us at a fixed point. Oh, the moment you mention the devil, he'll appear. Hurry up, hurry up, or you'll miss it if you're late." Before he finished speaking, he had already rushed out, and his speed was completely different from that of the trembling person before.

Qiao Yong and the other six were completely unable to react, but they saw that the originally lifeless people in the entire gymnasium seemed to come alive all of a sudden, all rushing to the opposite stands, some of them fell to the ground after running a few steps because of severe swelling, and were stepped on by the people behind them, but they still kept crawling forward, and their crazy appearance was scary.

Qiao Yong and the others also stood up subconsciously, and then saw several slender figures suddenly stand up from behind the seats in the second row of the stands, quickly throw something down, then shrink back and disappear, while the people below started to scramble for things, and fights broke out frequently, not caring about the existence or departure of the things above. It was

too far away, and the other party moved quickly, so apart from vaguely seeing the human figure, it was impossible to really see what it looked like.

Should it be a person? Several people looked at each other, and couldn't figure out why He San was not sure about this. They could use sticks to attack, feed, and have the same hands, feet and body shape as humans. What else could they be but humans? Could it be a mutant zombie? If zombies could control their appetite and even know how to keep humans in captivity, wouldn't that mean they had become monsters? Or was it another form of resurrection?

They all felt that the speculation of mutant zombies was not realistic, especially when they found that a head popped out from the stands around them from time to time and peeked down cautiously, they were more certain of this idea. Because there are too many of them, if zombies mutate so easily, humans would have been gone long ago. Moreover, according to He San, they appeared long before the rainstorm, when plants and animals had not mutated yet, and they had never heard of zombie evolution.

Just when a few people were a little unsure of what their enemies were, He San ran back quickly with something in his arms, hunched over his skinny body, and was chased by a few men who were also as thin as homeless people in peacetime. He was almost caught by the other party several times.

Seeing that he was approaching a few people, he slid behind Qiao Yong. Seeing this, the men who caught up with him slowed down their pace. Finally, after comparing the strength of both sides, they decisively turned around and left without leaving any extra harsh words. After all, talking also consumes energy and time, so it is better to save it to rob others.

At this time, it was completely dark, and a star-like fire was burning near the simple shack. The flame was not big, and it was more like barely providing some lighting than for heating. Of course, if he had to shine, he would shine inside the shack. Anyway, Qiao Yong and his team couldn't get any light.

Ah Qing twisted his fingers, and a bean-sized light danced on his fingertips. In order to save his superpowers to deal with the battle that might happen at any time, and to last longer, he didn't dare to make the flame too big.

It was a pity that there was no firewood, otherwise it would be fine to make a bonfire. The weak light couldn't completely illuminate the faces of several people, but it didn't matter. What mattered was that there was light. A little light in the darkness would calm people's confused hearts.

He San, who was a little nervous at first, seemed to be startled by the sudden light, and then he seemed to forget everything, almost greedily approached the flame, stretched out a hand and carefully approached it as if he was afraid of extinguishing the flame, until the flame was about to burn his palm, he stopped, and sighed heavily with an expression of enjoyment, "It's really warm!"

Qiao Yong and others looked at each other, not understanding how warm this little fire could be, but seeing that his expression did not seem to be deliberately exaggerated, an indescribable feeling arose in their hearts, feeling both strange and pity. Ah Qing couldn't help but say: "Or, I'll make it bigger, but that will only last for a while." He didn't do it for a long time. After all, he still had to keep some superpowers to save his life. He didn't have a crystal core on his body, so he couldn't replenish it even if he wanted to, and could only rely on rest to recover.

Who would have thought that this suggestion would make He San shake his head repeatedly. He reluctantly withdrew his hand, and then rubbed his face with his palm, as if he wanted to pass the warmth to his whole body, "No, no, I just haven't seen fire for too long. It's not worth wasting my supernatural power on this." At this time, the obscene and flattering look on his face disappeared, replaced by a calm expression, and his tone of voice became neither humble nor arrogant.

"Isn't there a fire over there?" Liu Xia thought he was lying, pointed to the shack in the distance, and said.

He San smiled bitterly, "I can't get close to that. I'll tell you about this later, let's eat first." As he said that, he took out the thing in his arms, which turned out to be three pieces of fresh raw meat the size of a palm.

The meat was pink and crystal clear, a bit like a shelled shrimp. But Qiao Yong and the others would never believe that they could get live shrimp at this time, and they were particularly large.

"What kind of meat is this?" Qiao Yong asked.

"It must be from a mutant animal, but it's not human meat." He San replied casually, throwing two pieces to Qiao Yong and Lu Jun, leaving one piece for himself, "Share it with everyone, half a piece each." As he spoke, he rummaged through the layers of thin clothes for a while, took out a very sharp metal strip, and began to cut the piece in his hand. While cutting, he said, "Thanks to you, I was able to get three pieces today, so don't be polite." Otherwise, he would not be so generous. You know, even if he could grab it, he couldn't keep it. It was good enough to get some scraps, and he had to stuff it into his mouth the moment he grabbed it and swallow it quickly. If he didn't swallow it, it might be taken out of his mouth by others.

He gave his half to Ah Qing, and then lent the metal bar to Qiao Yong, letting them divide it among themselves. He was not afraid that they would covet his life-saving weapon. There were still a lot of metal bars. At most, he would spend more time to get them. Anyway, he was idle. But if he could make friends with these people, maybe he could escape from this hellhole. At the very least, life would be better than before.

"Roast it before eating." Ah Qing saw him opening his mouth to bite, and hurriedly said.

"Don't do that, it will cause big trouble." If he said he didn't want to eat cooked food, it would be a lie, but strong self-control and cautious style of doing things were the guarantee that He San could survive until now. Even though there were six new members who seemed to be very powerful around him, he didn't abandon these two points.

"Listen to him." Ah Qing wanted to say something, but Qiao Yong spoke. Without understanding the current situation, it wouldn't be wrong to be careful.

Ah Qing shrugged indifferently and stopped insisting, but he didn't touch the half piece of meat. Not only him, but also Qiao Yong and the others didn't move. Although they had eaten in the morning and were already hungry at this time, they still felt that they couldn't eat raw meat. Let it go first, and when they are hungrier, they should be able to eat it. This is their mentality.

Seeing them like this, He San seemed to want to persuade them, but he held back.

"You are lucky. You know, when we were first brought in, those things were not given to eat at all. We had some on us, but we couldn't last long. Later, many people starved to death, and they started to throw things in." He said while tearing the raw meat with his teeth. Noticing that many people were slowly approaching this side, he hurriedly said to Ah Qing: "Put out the fire quickly."

"What's wrong?" Ah Qing was puzzled.

"Put it out first, and I'll talk to you later." He San urged, his tone a little anxious.

Ah Qing frowned and looked at Qiao Yong. Qiao Yong nodded, and then he withdrew his supernatural power, and everyone's eyes became dark again.

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He San listened for a moment, and after making sure that no one was approaching, he said to the others: "If you don't want to clash with Wei Dong now, it's best not to win over other people for the time being."

Wei Dong? Win over people? Qiao Yong and the other six were confused. "What do you mean?"

He San did not answer immediately, but waited until he had finished his share of meat before saying: "Wei Dong is the boss here. He took all your things. He probably doesn't want to confront you yet, so he only took your things and didn't take off your clothes. Otherwise, your cotton-padded clothes and sweaters would have been gone long ago. But if you blatantly take away his men, even if he doesn't want to be your enemy anymore, he will have to come to you. Otherwise, who will obey him?"

Qiao Yong and the others were a little stunned. They didn't expect that they would still form gangs after all this. However, when they heard that the other party only took the food and didn't take off the clothes and asked his men to show mercy, several people couldn't help but laugh in anger, but they thought that getting more intelligence was the key, so they held back for the time being.

In fact, until now, He San has not explained clearly what imprisoned them. He talked about a lot of things, but there was not much useful information in it.

Qiao Yong was impatient and asked directly: "What exactly is the thing that brought us here? Is it a human?"

He San was silent until others urged him, and then he spoke: "At the beginning, we also thought it was a human. But after a long time, we found that they have low intelligence, are timid, can't speak, and don't know how to find clothes to wear in such a cold weather. The most important thing is that their bodies are very soft, as if they have no bones, can be twisted into any shape, and can climb on walls and roofs like geckos. Moreover, their bodies are covered with pustules, and the pus that flows out is more terrifying than aqua regia. It's impossible for a human to be like this." He seemed reluctant to say this, and his eyes showed deep disgust and fear, but because everyone was in the dark, others couldn't see it.

"It can't be considered a zombie, because I haven't seen them eat people. If they don't eat people... I guess they can't be considered a zombie." He continued, and the tone of the latter sentence was a little uncertain. The initial criteria for identifying zombies should be corpses that can walk, or living corpses. However, for humans in the apocalypse, the first thing that comes to mind when mentioning zombies is that they eat people. Those that don't eat people, even if they can fly into the sky, are probably not zombies, at most they are called flying corpses.

"But they should have been humans before." He San felt that he had said almost everything, and after saying this, he stopped.

"Oh? Why?" Although others thought so after seeing those things from a distance, Qiao Yong still asked.

"At the beginning, they still had some rags hanging on their bodies, which looked like clothes or something, but they didn't have them later. Moreover, they didn't wear clothes, and except for the fact that their hair had almost fallen off, their other physical signs were no different from humans, and you could tell men from women." After He San finished speaking, he pursed his lips tightly, trying to suppress the feeling of nausea. In order to figure out what he had fallen into the hands of, he spent a lot of time and took every opportunity to observe the characteristics of those monsters. However, their appearance was really unbearable to look at. For this reason, he had nightmares for a long time and often woke up at night for a long time. Then he looked around in fear and found something that made his hair stand on end.

"Maybe it is another alienation of human beings." Lu Jun suddenly said.

Everyone agreed with him. From then on, they called those things half-humans, meaning that they were half awake and half corpses, neither human nor corpse, neither human nor ghost.

"How many are there?" Qiao Yong asked.

"I don't know." He San shook his head. "They are very fast and like to hide in the dark. They never appear together and look almost the same, so it's hard to judge."

"How many people are there here?" Qiao Yong changed the question.

"Seventy-one." This time He San answered quickly, because he counted three times a day, once in the morning, noon and evening, to make sure no one disappeared without reason. This behavior also indirectly proved that those half-humans did not eat people.

"Why don't you run away?" Qiao Yong asked again.

"How could they not escape? But they couldn't." He San thought this question was stupid, but he still explained it with his temper. "At the beginning, they just left us here and didn't care. They didn't give us food and they didn't show up much. We couldn't just wait to die here, so we discussed escaping. We weren't intercepted when we left, but this is the city center, and there are zombies everywhere. We lost almost half of the people before we left two streets. The rest of us also got scattered. Some fled into shops, some fled into office buildings, and some fled into hotels, shopping malls, and movie theaters. Anyway, probably all the places where people could hide were gone. However, the funny thing is that even so, in the end, all the living people were caught back. Later, there were several more escapes, but they were all newcomers, and the old people didn't participate anymore. They knew they couldn't run away, so why bother to get another beating?"

"Didn't anyone escape successfully?" Ah Qing thought this was really weird, and couldn't help but interrupt and ask.

He San shook his head, then he remembered that it was dark and no one could see him, so he had to speak again: "No. Anyway, I haven't seen it."

"Didn't you say that those half-humans don't care about you at all? How come you can't run away?"

"I still want to know." He San muttered unhappily, "Anyway, no matter when you run away, no matter how far you run, you will be brought back before dark."

"What if you run away after dark?"

"No one runs away after dark." He San was already a little impatient with the question. "Running away is to survive, not to commit suicide."

"What exactly is the purpose of those half-humans bringing people here?" Qiao Yong didn't get angry after being choked by him, and continued to ask. In fact, he had asked this question once before, but He San's answer puzzled him, so he wanted to clarify more.

"I really don't know about this." He San felt that the heat generated by the meat he had just eaten was all consumed by talking, and he was a little dissatisfied, "Why do you have so many questions..."

"Give you some more meat." Qiao Yong said suddenly.

He San was refreshed, and his impatience instantly disappeared. "I want half."

"One finger." Qiao Yong bargained without any loss. Although all the meat was obtained by He San, if it weren't for them, he probably wouldn't be able to keep even half a piece. Now they have no food in their hands, so they naturally can't spend lavishly.

"Two fingers." He San said, looking like he took a step back, but the meat in Qiao Yong's hand was only half the size of his palm, and two fingers were actually about the same as half.

"One finger, take it or not." Qiao Yong didn't give him a chance to bargain.

"Okay, bring the meat first." He San said with a very regretful and unwilling tone, but his eyes hidden in the darkness were full of smiles. Perhaps he had a preliminary understanding of the character of several people, and he could rest assured to cooperate with them for the time being.

After receiving the meat strips brought by Qiao Yong, he did not eat it immediately, but hid it carefully in a secret pocket somewhere in his clothes. When he spoke again, he spoke in more detail.

"I really don't know why those half-men put us here. However, I found that they are very fast, make almost no sound when they move, and always like to hide in the dark and peek. As long as you don't take the initiative to provoke them, nothing will happen. But if you want to kill them all, you will usually die first. Because you can't match their speed if you attack from a distance, and you can't even find their shadows, how can you attack? If you fight in close combat, hey..."

Hearing this, Qiao Yong and others also felt that it was a bit tricky, and they couldn't help but think hard and look for a way to get out. But apart from the fact that they appear and disappear like ghosts, they didn't have a very intuitive impression of the half-men, so they were not too afraid. And their purpose was not to kill them all, but just to escape.

"By the way, what's the matter with the mutant plant forest at the entrance of the North City?" Qiao Yong thought of the plant forest that suddenly disappeared, so he asked.

"Yeah, it's fucking weird!" When Liu Xia mentioned this, he was full of bitterness. He complained a lot and told others about his experience, which made everyone dumbfounded.

He San was even more surprised: "There is such a thing? So, even if we successfully escape from here, we can't get out of the city?"

"You don't know?" Qiao Yong was surprised, and a bad feeling rose in his heart.

"It was still a hot day when I was brought in. There was not even a green grass, let alone a mutant plant forest. Needless to say, you all know what happened afterwards." He San said disappointedly. I was originally hoping that these newcomers who seemed to be quite capable could escape from here, but who knew that there was such a strange thing outside. Is he destined to stay here until he dies?

No one spoke, and the darkness engulfed everything. Obviously, everyone was worried about their situation, especially Qiao Yong and his friends. They had to consider not only themselves, but also the others who were waiting outside and had completely run out of food.

"Maybe it's because we made a mistake in our perception of direction and distance in the dark. As long as we figure out the terrain and roads in the city of Zhafeng, we should be able to find a way out." After a long while, Chen Changchun spoke up.

Although he felt that this explanation was far-fetched, after all, even if the perception was wrong, it was impossible for everyone to make the same mistake, and it was so exaggerated. But at this point, they always had to leave themselves a glimmer of hope. As for what the truth was, as long as they didn't give up on escaping, they would find out sooner or later.

"Do you know the way out of the city?" Qiao Yong asked He San. "

I don't know. I'm not from Zhafeng. I've only passed by once or twice by car before. This time I was knocked unconscious and carried in. How would I know?" He San replied listlessly, feeling that his plan might be in vain again this time.

"Then is there anyone here who is familiar with Zhafeng City?" Qiao Yong continued to ask without giving up.

"There were one or two before, but now there are none. The rest are all outsiders now." He San smiled bitterly.

Qiao Yong was stunned for a moment, thinking that it was really a double whammy, but he did not show too much disappointment, but said to others: "Then we can only think of another way... In fact, a map will do."

"I have it." Liu Xia said immediately, but soon sighed helplessly: "No more." But when he touched his body, he found nothing, and remembered that he was ambushed when he was checking the map. The map must have fallen where it was.

Everyone couldn't help but sigh with regret. But since one map can be found, then the second map can definitely be found. The most urgent thing is to find a way to get out of this place. However, it is dark now, which is not conducive to investigating the situation and making plans. Everything can only start tomorrow. Therefore, after knowing that there is no danger for the time being, everyone lost interest in talking, huddled together, thinking, sleeping, and returning to silence.

But in the houses five kilometers away from Zhafeng City, it was not so peaceful. After a whole day, from full of expectations to disappointment, someone finally couldn't help but explode.

"Did they leave on their own?" The speaker was a local from Ronghe named Tan Xing, who was in his thirties. He was one of the people who gathered after Qiao Yong and his friends arrived at Ronghe. He was not an awakened person, but he had learned some martial arts from others. He was in his prime, so although he was trapped in the county town, he managed to survive. After all, they were latecomers and had never shared hardships. They did not have as much confidence in Qiao Yong as the other old people, and they could not help but think too much when they encountered something.

"Impossible, Qiao Touer is not that kind of person." Liang Guanlun denied it. As a non-awakened person, he had no doubt about the character of Qiao Yong and his friends.

"If he is not, then are others not? As long as the other people have that kind of mind, and they persuade him a few more times, can he still hold on? Besides, just because he didn't do it before doesn't mean he won't do it now. After all..." After all, if they continue to drag on like this, I'm afraid no one will survive. This is what Tan Xing wanted to say, and his idea was not wrong, but he was interrupted by a roar before he finished speaking.

"Bullshit! Are you a fucking human? Old Qiao and the others risked their lives to help everyone get food. Now they are still alive and dead, and you are still here babbling and saying chilling words. Has your conscience been eaten by a dog?" Xiong Hua pointed at his nose and cursed. He had a very good relationship with Liu Xia, and was anxious, so he didn't want to hear such suspicious words from his teammates.

"I think Tan Xing is right." A handsome man in his twenties said lightly. His name is Bai Feng, and he is also one of the survivors in Ronghe County. He is a water-based supernatural. "In this world now, anything can happen. I don't doubt Qiao's character, but we should also be prepared." After a pause, he glanced at Xiong Hua and sneered, "We are just getting together to live, no one is more noble than anyone else, so it's better to be polite."

Tan Xing's face turned blue after being scolded, but due to Xiong Hua's identity as an awakened person and his current situation, he couldn't get angry. Hearing Bai Feng's words, his expression improved a little and he looked at him with gratitude.

"Fuck..." Xiong Hua was furious, but before he could say anything, he was covered by a hand.

"If we want to leave, we can leave at any time. There is no need to do this." He Yukun said coldly. "You too, if you want to leave, just leave." Then he ignored those people with suspicious eyes and turned to look at Xiong Hua, whose mouth was covered by him and whose forehead was throbbing with veins. "Now is not the time to argue. Find a way to figure out what happened and find the person back. That's the key." As he spoke, he let go of his hand.

At this time, Xiong Hua had calmed down. He glared at Tan Xing, Bai Feng and others with dissatisfaction, and turned his attention away: "I will take a few people to look for them tomorrow."

Hearing this, those who believed that Qiao Yong and others had abandoned them and ran away couldn't help but change their faces slightly, but they didn't say anything. Obviously, He Yukun's words just now still made them feel hesitant.

"The six of them are already the most capable among us. If we really run into trouble, even they can't come back. A few more people may not be of much use. Don't forget that Liu Xia hasn't come back either. Who can escape as well as Liu Xia?" The one who objected was Hao Weiming. He was not close to either side, so he could look at the problem rationally.

After this, everyone was speechless, and even He Yukun couldn't refute it.

"Do you have any good suggestions?" He Yukun asked after a pause.

"According to me, we should continue to open the road tomorrow until we are outside Zhafeng City, and then we will decide what to do based on the situation." Hao Weiming had obviously thought about this question carefully, and when he heard the question, he said it without thinking. It turned out that while waiting for Qiao Yong and others to come back that day, they were not idle. Instead, they looked for edible mutant plants while opening the road, and carried or supported everyone forward. Now they are at the new station. Because they were walking along the road, and there were always people monitoring the situation on the road and around, they were not afraid of missing Qiao Yong and others. "Besides, if Qiao Tou and the others are really in trouble, it will be too late even if we rush there now. And if they are just trapped, or they can't get back in time for some other reason, then they won't care about one or two days. But one or two days can allow us to make adequate preparations."

Although he didn't want to, He Yukun had to admit that this suggestion was a safe and steady approach. If you want to send people to look for them, five or six people are definitely not enough, but if there are more, you can't take care of the rest. So even if this method is not the best, it will not satisfy them who are worried about Qiao Yong and others, but it can minimize the losses as much as possible. For the current population of the team, the method that can minimize the losses is the most suitable method. Whether you like it or not, unless you can come up with a better way.

However, it is almost impossible to have the best of both worlds, which can save people and preserve the remaining people, with their current strength. Assuming that they decide to send more people to rescue people immediately, and then put their hopes on luck, praying that the remaining people will not be attacked by mutant animals and plants, the final result is likely to be that both sides will fail and the whole army will be annihilated.

Therefore, even if they are extremely anxious, they have to endure it.

Seeing that both sides have calmed down, the people who were silent beside them couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, and some people looked at Tan Xing with unkind eyes, hating him for provoking trouble. You know, it doesn't matter for the awakened ones, but the non-awakened ones are particularly afraid that the team will split. At that time, many of them may die here. Fortunately, although there are many people who are suspicious, no one shows it anymore, because it will not benefit them except to accelerate themselves into a desperate situation. Even Tan Xing and Bai Feng didn't want that to happen, so they shut their mouths and drank the soup silently.

The soup was made of blue lotus vine leaves. The blue lotus vine is a vine-like mutant plant. It got this name because its leaves are as thick and large as lotus leaves and light blue in color. It is one of the three edible mutant plants known to the team. However, the blue lotus vine is not as good as other mutant plants in terms of reproduction and combat ability, so it is becoming increasingly difficult to see. It may be eliminated at any time.

Today, Xiong Hua and his team walked a four-kilometer long road and found only such a vine. The vine is very long, but unfortunately the vine stem is too tough to digest at all. Only the leaves can be eaten.

Several women cut the thick leaves into thin strips, added water and boiled them until they were mushy. Each person can get a bowl. Of course, the awakened people in the team and the men who need to work can add an extra bowl and drain some. However, it is only this little bit of extra benefit.

There is no oil or salt, and even the only remaining rice was cooked yesterday. There is nothing in the blue soup except the leaves. It is bitter and astringent, which makes people think of the traditional Chinese medicine before the end of the world. But even so, it is a luxury to drink enough.

Ge Ayi put a small piece of milk candy the size of a mung bean into Jian Jian's bowl, and the little girl's childish eyebrows curved into a moon shape, and she looked very happy, as if she was eating some delicious food. Grandpa looked at his little granddaughter with a loving look in his eyes.

Children's bowls are smaller than adults'. After Jian Jian finished drinking the soup, she licked the bowl carefully, and then looked eagerly at the soup that Grandpa had not touched.

Grandpa raised the bowl and wanted to share some of his own with his granddaughter and Ge Ayi, but was stopped by Ge Ayi.

"No." Ge Ayi was thin and had a childish face, as if he was the same age as Zhang Ruiyang, but his eyebrows and eyes were mature and fierce, which Zhang Ruiyang did not have. He glared at Jian Jian, and the little girl turned her back with her mouth flat and holding the bowl.

"Ayi..." Grandpa seemed to want to say something.

"There will be food when we get to Zhafeng City." Ge Ayi interrupted the old man, with a stubborn look in his eyes, "Grandpa, you will die if you don't eat. If you die, no one will take care of Jian Jian." Grandpa

was stunned, then he sighed deeply, nodded, and drank the soup that had become warm without hesitation. He knew that he was old and there was no use for him to live, but no matter how useless he was, as long as he was alive, Jian Jian and Ayi would not be orphans, and other people would think of them when they encountered problems. And once he died, the two children would really be helpless. Not to mention in the current world, even before the end of the world, few people were willing to help take care of two children who had no relatives or friends.

Ge Ayi was very diligent, fearing that others would despise them for eating for free. After dinner, he helped to collect and wash the dishes, and then moved firewood and looked after the fire. He was busier than the adults. Finally, he sat down because he couldn't find any work to do.

"If they really leave, what should we do?" Nan Wei sat down next to the child and asked in a low voice. He had been abandoned before and was really scared. At that time, Nan Shao was bitten by a zombie, and he abandoned Nan Shao and left with the others. Later, he found that without Nan Shao, others did not take him seriously at all. Not to mention getting good food, even if he wanted to get a piece of moldy bread, he had to work hard. This was not a big deal. After Bo Wei, those people kicked him out of the team. So he met that beast in human clothing, and finally knew what the real human heart was. If he hadn't met Nan Shao again, he doubted that he might not be alive until now.

"Whatever happens, it's the same." Ge Ayi rolled his eyes and answered impatiently.

Huo Rui also sat over, but didn't say anything.

Compared with the two of them, Huo Rui trusted Qiao Yong more, but he was worried that Qiao Yong and the others would get into trouble, and then the rest of the people would go their separate ways, so he was also very worried.

Ge Ayi glanced at him, his eyes flickering, as if he was thinking of something. He was about to speak to him to improve his relationship, but suddenly he saw Jian Jian squatting in front of the pile of mutant plants collected by the adults in the corner of the room. He was shocked, jumped up and rushed over to pull her back. Seeing the little girl's bulging cheeks, he didn't even ask, but directly put his fingers into her mouth to pick out the things inside.

Jian Jian shook her head and waved her hands around, but finally because of her young age and weakness, she was forced to spit out everything in her mouth.

"Are you okay? Where do you feel uncomfortable?" Ge Ayi panicked, and asked repeatedly while wiping the little girl's mouth and tongue with his sleeve.

"Brother, I'm hungry..." Jian Jian was hurt by the wiping, tears welled up in her eyes, and she sobbed as if she was about to cry.

Ge Ayi paused, and Grandpa walked over tremblingly, holding onto the wall. Nan Wei and Huo Rui followed. The other adults in the room were startled, and their eyes were all focused on the child. Hearing this, the air was stagnant for a moment, and sadness, sadness, helplessness, and self-blame gradually spread.

"You can't eat this. You didn't swallow it, did you?" After a long while, Ge Ayi asked again.

"Well. I swallowed it... I didn't swallow it." The little girl herself couldn't figure it out.

Ge Ayi's face changed slightly, and he wanted to stretch his fingers to continue digging her throat to make her spit out everything inside, but unfortunately the little girl closed her mouth tightly, tried to turn her head to the side, and refused to speak. He had no choice but to look at others for help.

"Forget it." Grandpa suddenly said.

Ge Ayi looked at him in disbelief.

"There's nothing to eat." Grandpa's wrinkled lips trembled, and his eyes were full of sadness. There was nothing to eat. If the little girl vomited all the food in her stomach, how could she survive until tomorrow? There was even a moment when he would rather she be poisoned to death than live in hunger, fear and hopelessness.

Everyone was silent.

Ge Ayi did not speak again. He lowered his eyes, took out a candy, peeled off the paper and stuffed it into Jian Jian's mouth, then picked her up and moved away from the pile of mutant plants collected for research.

"Brother will find you food tomorrow. You will be full." He assured the little girl, with a firmness and determination in his tone that even adults dare not show.

So, you must be fine.

——

"What kind of supernatural power is Weidong?" In the early morning, Qiao Yong stood at the top of the stands of the gymnasium, looking at the situation outside through the glass wall, and asked He San who was following him.

Through He San's narration and his own test, he discovered a very surprising fact.

They were very "free" before dark. They could walk around the gymnasium at will, go anywhere, and even walk out of the gymnasium. It was not like what he thought yesterday, that they were trapped or kept in the competition area below. However, the half-people would only throw food here. If you went somewhere else, you would probably miss the food distribution and then starve. Perhaps it was for this reason that, no matter how cold it was, people would rather stay here than move to a smaller place.

"Thunder. Very powerful, otherwise other people wouldn't be afraid of him." He San answered. When talking about superpowers, envy and awe appeared in his eyes.

"When did he come in?" Qiao Yong couldn't help but look at Lu Jun. Lu Jun also had thunder powers. As for who was more powerful, in addition to their physical fitness and talents, it also depended on what they had experienced. The latter was especially important for superpowers.

"Let me think..." He San lowered his head and counted on his fingers, muttering the days, and raised his head after a few seconds, "He came three months later than me. It started raining less than half a month after he came."

"You remember it clearly." Qiao Yong was surprised, and there was a hint of doubt.

"Don't mention it, I remember it clearly." He San seemed not to notice it, and admitted very frankly, "Because he killed several people the day after he came. Later, after figuring out the situation, he showed off his power again, and took the strongest people under his command, becoming the biggest boss here." Another thing he didn't say was that his memory and observation were originally better than ordinary people. Although he didn't awaken after the end of the world, these two abilities became more prominent. It was also because of this that he could live to this day.

Hearing this, Qiao Yong stopped exploring, but asked as he walked: "How many awakened people are there under his command, and what abilities have they awakened?"

Outside the gymnasium is a wide square, with lawns and green plants dividing the passage and leisure space, but now it is all occupied by mutant plants, and only through the gaps between branches and leaves can you vaguely find some shadows of open space and driveways. At the same time, under the cover of the mutant plants, you can hardly see the streets outside. Only from the height and direction of the various buildings on the opposite side can you judge that there is a three-way intersection ahead, and it is very prosperous. If it is prosperous, it means there are many people, and more people means more zombies...

"Forty-three." He San's answer made Qiao Yong gasp.

"How can there be so many?"

"A lot of people died, otherwise there would be more." He San said disapprovingly. "Those who can enter the city to collect supplies are basically the more capable people in the team. It is not uncommon to use ordinary people and the elderly, the weak, women and children as cannon fodder to explore the way, but it is rare. I have only seen it here once, but those people died not long after they were brought back. There are basically no weak people alive now, even those who are so weak that they can't even walk. If you don't pay attention, it's the least of your

worries to have a piece of meat bitten off." Qiao Yong stopped and looked back at the survivors who were huddled together like refugees and still sleeping. Looking at their lazy and lifeless appearance, they could not be associated with the word fierce in any way.

At this moment, several pairs of eyes in the crowd looked at him at the same time. The vigilance and viciousness in their eyes made the hair on his neck stand up all of a sudden, and his muscles instantly tensed up, automatically entering a fighting state. After a while, after seeing that it was him, those eyes closed again, as if nothing had happened.

"Don't be nervous, as long as you don't steal their things, no one will waste energy to deal with you even if you stick your eyes on their faces." He San smiled and said.

Qiao Yong looked a little embarrassed, he didn't expect those people to be so sensitive, and at the same time realized that he underestimated the people here.

Chapter 276: All parties gather (15)

At this time, Liu Xia and others who had gone to check other places also returned. They searched the second floor of the gymnasium in pairs, but did not encounter a single person. Only the corroded and pitted ground, walls and ceiling proved their existence.

The unguarded gymnasium was like a cage of wild animals with the door open. It was really difficult for the new members to suppress their desire for freedom and wait in ambush.

After finding out Wei Dong's strength, Qiao Yong gave up the idea of ​​asking for his things back. He was even too lazy to make a gesture, because they were leaving soon and there was no need to waste energy to make enemies and waste time. Although everyone felt a little uncomfortable, they still knew the importance of the matter and no one raised any objections.

"Forget it, I'll go out with you to stretch my muscles." He San, who had originally planned to wait here, suddenly changed his mind. He didn't think they could run away, but just wanted to take the opportunity to go out and see if he could get something back, such as food or clothes.

The last group of people who came in before Qiao Yong and his group was before the plants mutated. After the plants mutated, except for Wei Dong who took the awakened people out once and returned the same day, no one went out again. Because too many people died that time, killed by those mutant plants that once excited people who had not seen green for a long time. The brutality of the mutant plants, the large number of zombies, and the half-humans playing like cats and mice were enough to make them not think of escaping at all. Moreover, there was a daily supply of food. The quantity might not be enough, but it also made people lose the courage to fight back.

He San was not much different from the others here. Not being allowed by the conditions and not wanting to are actually two different things. He wanted to leave, but his own strength and current situation made him dare not think about it. The appearance of Qiao Yong and the other six was not a surprise to all the people trapped here. From the perspective of those who came first, their ending could even be predicted: trapped, escaped, caught again, accepted their fate, and finally became numb and desperate like the others here.

He San wanted to watch the whole process coldly at first, treating it as a rare entertainment, with a sense of superiority as a veteran and a condescending attitude that everything was expected. If he is lucky, he might be able to get something good. But after getting in touch with them, feeling the long-lost firmness, he suddenly felt that he might be able to think about it.

Think about escaping from here.

Try again and look outside.

When the group climbed up the stands and walked out towards the audience passage, the natives in the gymnasium looked over with a playful look in their eyes. Even a few men came out of the simple wooden shed. They were tall or strong, and they didn't have the malnutrition of others. Obviously, it was the hunger of others that fed their stomachs.

Qiao Yong and others turned around and looked at them from a distance. It was not even a simple confrontation, so they retracted their gaze. One side was thinking about their journey, and the other side was waiting for the other side to return in defeat and finally become one of them.

Coming out of the spectator lounge of the gymnasium, there is a very spacious platform. At the end of the platform is a staircase extending downwards, leading directly to the square below. At this time, both the second-floor platform and the wide square are occupied by dense mutant plant forests. Traces left by half-humans can be seen in between, either on the brick and stone paved road or on the thick branches and vines of mutant plants, connecting to form a road leading to the outside. However, this road is not accessible to ordinary people.

It is not difficult for Qiao Yong and his team to open a road through the mutant plant forest. Of course, the premise is that they will not encounter perverted guys like the exploding tree in Ronghe County.

The ones responsible for clearing the road are Ah Qing and Lu Jun. One of them has fire ability and the other has thunder ability. As pioneers, they are very sharp. The rest of the people followed behind with their backs to each other, forming a small circular formation, not only to guard against possible attacks from other directions, but also to guard against half-humans who may appear at any time.

He San followed at the back. When the fire dragon and the lightning snake appeared, the powerful energy contained in them and the supernatural control made him startled at first, and then he was overjoyed, deeply glad that he had not made a mistake. He had seen Wei Dong and his men use their supernatural powers. He could not say who was stronger or weaker in terms of control, but the strength was much different. This might be the difference between a dog living in the wild and a wolf kept in a cage. Of course, Wei Dong might be a wolf, but Qiao Yong and the others were not necessarily dogs. They were more likely to be wolves or even tigers, so this gap was more obvious and natural.

From time to time, one or two zombies could be seen trapped in the mutant plant forest. If they happened to be on the road to pass, everyone would give them an iron rod to help them kill them. If they were too far away, they would ignore them. After

walking about two or three hundred meters without any danger, a rusty and mottled iron railing and a cracked concrete pier appeared in front of them. The railings extended to both sides, some parts were still standing upright, while others were twisted and tilted by the mutated vines. Outside the iron railings, there was still a world of mutated plants, but between the closely connected branches and vines, a dead and abandoned car line could be seen, as well as more zombies and bones.

"Are there mutated plants everywhere outside?" He San gasped and asked in disbelief. He never expected that the wide street outside the gymnasium would also be occupied by mutated plants.

"Almost. But there were fewer places with poor greening before the end of the world." Chen Changchun, who was walking in front of him, answered, and then motioned him to be silent, because the zombies trapped in the vines between the branches had begun to get restless, obviously discovering their presence.

The greening around the gymnasium was obviously very good, and there were no survivors passing by, so the growth of mutated plants here had reached a point of being unbridled, which was beyond the expectations of Qiao Yong and others, but it was exactly what they wanted. You have to know that they have been prepared to face the swarm of zombies on the street. There are zombies now, but they are all stuck by mutant plants, so they don't have to flee in panic.

Ah Qing and Lu Jun stopped, and everyone briefly exchanged for a moment, then Qiao Yong and Liu Xia went up to clear the way, and Ah Qing and Lu Jun, who still had some strength, rested and recovered. The group did not look for the main exit again, but directly cleared the mutant plants around, and then climbed over the iron fence to get out.

Because of the isolation of the mutant plants, the number and frequency of encountering zombies on the way increased exponentially, but it did not cause them any trouble. It was a pity that they did not have the right tools, and they were in a hurry, so they had to reluctantly abandon the zombies and mutant plant nuclei they killed along the way.

The process of crossing the street and entering the opposite hotel was very smooth, so smooth that He San was amazed. He still remembered that when Weidong and his team broke into the mutant plant forest, people died, and more than one person died.

"The biggest weakness of plants is that they are rooted in the soil and cannot move. So no matter how ferocious it is, the threat is limited." Facing He San's surprise, Chen Changchun explained. "Of course, this is relative to the superpowers. Ordinary people, except for the extremely strong ones, still have no power to fight back against them." Speaking of this, he paused, thinking of the mutant exploding tree in Ronghe River that destroyed their hard-built home and almost forced them into a desperate situation. Two lines of sorrow appeared on the corners of his lips. He sighed softly and did not continue. In front of the power of nature, people are still too small after all.

He San was silent, his face was a little depressed, because he himself was an ordinary person who was helpless in the face of mutant plants. Therefore, if he wanted to get out of here alive, he seemed to have to hold on to the thighs of these superpowers in front of him.

He found some food in the hotel, and He San got a few hotel staff clothes to put on. Everyone filled their stomachs first, and then took some biscuits and other things with them. They could not find relevant maps, so they could only roughly determine a direction and continue to break out. What's strange is that during the entire process, the half-humans hiding in the dark corners of the gymnasium did not cause any interference, nor did they encounter any mutant beasts.

Four hours later, the mutant plants around them finally became sparse, but the zombies' range of activities and freedom also increased, making it more difficult for them to move forward. In the end, they had to hide in the buildings on the roadside and then leave from other exits of the buildings. In this way, not only did they slow down their progress, but they also encountered many unknown situations. After all, they didn't know where they were going. It was easy to get lost if they wandered around in the building, and it was even more difficult to guarantee that a mutant beast would suddenly appear in the dark passage. Of course, they did gain something. At least each of them had a backpack full of food, and He San's clothes finally changed from a mess to a neat and comfortable winter coat, thick pants and cotton boots.

The half-man never showed up, but no matter how they set up a trap to lure them, they didn't find any trace of them. This made everyone feel uneasy, and a little bit of luck rose. Perhaps as long as they seized the time and escaped from the city before dark, they might be able to get rid of those monsters. Although

this escape was largely due to trial, who would not want to succeed in one go?

——Two

kilometers outside of Zhafeng City, Xiong Hua and his group were making their way with difficulty. Even though they were superpowers, they were a little overwhelmed at this point, not to mention the others.

"We're almost in the city, hold on a little longer, and when we get there, we'll definitely give you a good meal!" Looking back at the old, weak, and disabled people who were walking with weak steps and supporting each other, Xiong Hua couldn't help but wave his hand to encourage them, even though he didn't even believe what he said.

However, even so, the people who were already starving like zombies suddenly became energetic, and there was a hint of life in their dead eyes. No matter how the world changes, the city still represents a lot of food, warm clothes, and a place to stay for the survivors, in addition to danger.

Ge Ai's eyes also brightened, but when he looked back at Jian Jian, who was crying like a dying kitten in Zhao Dong's arms, and Grandpa, who was being carried by Zhao Chun and could no longer stand, his heart was filled with despair again. Can they wait until then? And can they really find food when they get to the city? If it was that easy, why didn't the mustache guy who always loved to teach him a lesson come back?

He was not as naive as other children, who believed whatever the adults said. Last night, Jian Jian's eating of mutant plants was like a knife in his heart. He didn't sleep well all night. After setting off in the morning, he followed the adults who were leading the way closely, hoping to pick up some food. However, not to mention him, even the most capable adults didn't get anything. They were so hungry that their faces turned pale and their legs trembled. He felt that even if they walked all the way to the city, they would not be able to find food. He didn't believe Xiong Hua's words at all, not at all.

The child's eyes began to swirl around the two sides of the road. The steps that were originally following Xiong Hua and the others slowed down and gradually fell behind everyone. Suddenly, he walked to the left side of the road, thought about it, gritted his teeth, turned over and climbed over the guardrail, and then ran into the mutant plant forest below.

Two or three hundred meters away from the road, in the dense mutant plant forest, the broken roofs and walls of several houses could be vaguely seen. He thought he might be able to find something to eat there. As for the danger of mutant plants, he could no longer care about it at this time.

"Fuck! Little bastard, are you tired of living?" A hand suddenly reached out, grabbed his collar, and pulled him back. It was Liang Guanlun who noticed his abnormal behavior and took action in time to stop his near-suicidal behavior.

"Let me go, bastard! Let me go now, and mind your own business, or I will never let you go, old bastard..." Ge Ayi's actions were disrupted, and he was anxious and angry. While struggling with his legs and claws, he cursed and spit.

"Damn, what an annoying little brat, not as cute as Xiao Yangyang at all." Liang Guanlun was caught off guard and was spit on his face, which made him very depressed. He raised his sleeve to wipe his face, then unceremoniously turned the child over and put him on his knees and beat him up.

After being spanked, the child who was originally very combative suddenly became silent. It was obvious that he realized the huge gap between their strengths and felt that he had lost face, so he knew the situation and became honest. However, he had already cursed Liang Guanlun's ancestors in his heart and vowed to avenge this great vengeance in the future.

"That's good." Seeing that the little guy was no longer making trouble, Liang Guanlun stopped. His strength was limited and could not be wasted. However, when he let go of Ge Ayi, he still scolded him a few times: "Don't run around. If you are caught by mutant plants, you will be turned into fertilizer. Do you know?" This was really not to scare the child.

Ge Ayi made a face at him and ran to the side. Grandpa looked at the child and just sighed, but he didn't have the strength to speak. The others were also silent. Hunger and cold made their emotions become indifferent. Since someone was in charge, they naturally didn't need to say more. Besides, this child who was full of foul language was not likable at all.

However, not long after, when no one was paying attention, Ge Ayi once again broke away from the team like a little mouse and slipped under the road. His childhood experience taught him that if he wanted something, he had to find a way to get it himself, and it was not okay to pin his hopes on others. As for the danger, he survived in the county town with Grandpa and Jian Jian. Wasn't it dangerous?

"Wenbin, Kunzi, take him to look for him." Looking at the child who was brought back for the second time, Xiong Hua was helpless. He felt that if he didn't fulfill the child's wish, there would probably be a third and fourth time. Who would have the energy to pay attention to it every time? So he called Wenbin and the others over and said. Of course, he also had a glimmer of hope in his heart, what if he could find something to eat in those houses.

Wenbin and He Yukun both have earth-related abilities. They perform averagely in cleaning mutant plants, but their defense ability is very strong. Even if they leave temporarily, it will not affect everyone's cleaning of mutant plants on the road, but it is not a big problem to protect the child from the mutant plant forest back and forth. Of course, there is a premise here, that is, the mutant plants between the road and the dilapidated houses are almost all seen by everyone, and their habits are almost familiar, and they know how to deal with them, otherwise Xionghua would not let them take this risk.

"Now you should give up." After searching several houses with the children, He Yukun naturally found nothing. He Yukun said to Ge Ayi, who was leaning on the window and looking behind the house, in a bad tone. It is impossible to say that there is no resentment. For them who have no food, doing one more meaningless action is a waste, not to mention doing such a thing that they know is meaningless. How could there be anything left for them in the house on the roadside?

Ge Ayi did not answer, but still stood there unwillingly picking at the window and looking around. Just when Wenbin frowned and wanted to forcibly take the children away, he suddenly cried out.

"That... come and see! That is edible!" Ge Ayi pointed out the window, his eyes sparkling, and his voice trembled.

Wen Bin and He Yukun looked at each other, suspecting that the child was lying to them, but they walked over involuntarily, swearing to themselves that if the little bastard dared to lie to them, they would spank him like Liang Guanlun.

However, the fact was that when they saw what was outside the window, they were almost crazy with joy after being shocked.

Beauty hair! Such a large piece of beauty hair!

Beauty hair is another edible mutant plant they know. The plant is half a person tall, with a thick stem covered with black tumors. Slender red leaves like leeks grow from the top. After growing up for a while, they droop down densely and fall to the ground, completely covering the stem. From a distance, it looks like a head with loose red hair stuck there, so it got this name.

Beauty hair has strong reproductive ability and often grows a large piece. The slender leaves are sharp and sensitive, and can catch any living thing that approaches, then strangle it into pieces and turn it into nutrients. But if you cut open the ugly black tumors on its thick stems, you can dig out palm-sized gray-brown lumps, which are rich in nutrients and are not only edible, but also taste very good. Of the three edible mutant plants that the Ronghe team currently knows, only this one can provide energy and give people a wonderful sense of satisfaction when eating, rather than swallowing pig food or poison.

One plant of beauty hair can produce five or six nutritional blocks. There are hundreds of plants in front of us. If all of them are harvested, it will be enough to solve the urgent needs of the team.

The news soon spread to the road, and everyone was dumbfounded. Then they almost rushed down, tumbling and crawling, and even didn't care about their shoes falling off.

They could never have imagined that a helpless unplanned action would have such an unexpected harvest. That's all food. For them who have run out of food, it's like a big piece of pie falling from the sky. Everyone was very happy. Several ordinary women who hadn't awakened their superpowers even cried with joy when they saw the beauty hair. Some people even knelt on the snow, bent down to kiss the cold snow, and murmured to thank God. At that moment, they seemed to have forgotten that it was the unpredictable God who caused their current difficult situation. Ge Ayi, who used to make people feel annoyed and helpless, suddenly became the most popular person. Everyone who saw him would reach out and touch his head with a smile. He, who always hated adults' behavior, didn't care about this detail. He just laughed foolishly and urged them to dig the beauty hair quickly.

This is necessary.

The road cleaning work stopped, leaving only two people to pay attention to the road and the surrounding situation. The others began to hurry up to harvest the beauty hair. Of course, the main force is still the superpowers, and the others helped to cut open the tumor scar and dig out the nutrient blocks inside. However, for non-awakened people, it is also very difficult to dig open the tumor scar. Often, a few cuts can only barely leave a little mark on the rough stem bark. But no matter what, it is better than standing there and doing nothing.

Everyone was busy with unprecedented passion, and Zou Zhe, who was on guard on the roof, suddenly ran over quickly.

"Someone is coming." He was a speed mutant, and he arrived in front of him in just a moment, saying in a low voice. Because he was worried about being discovered, he left Bai Xi on top to continue monitoring the situation on the road, and he ran down to inform everyone in person, instead of using voice or other means to warn from a distance.

The busy people suddenly became quiet, with nervous expressions on their faces. If they had met other survivors before, they might have been very happy, but now... looking at the beauty hair that was still mostly unharvested in front of them, they couldn't help but feel a little worried. What if the other party snatched it from them?

"Could it be Lao Qiao and his group?" Xiong Hua asked, holding on to a glimmer of hope.

Zou Zhe shook his head, "It shouldn't be. Bai Xi heard that there were at least five cars, and the other party was very efficient in cleaning up the mutant plants." In their opinion, it was a stroke of luck for Qiao Yong and others to get a car and enough gasoline. Five cars was simply unrealistic. It's not that it's hard to find a car, but it's mainly a problem of gasoline. With the number of people they have now, getting a bus is the most appropriate. He believes that Qiao Yong also understands this.

Xiong Hua's face changed several times. He looked at the other people who came later and made a prompt decision: "Put all these in the house, and everyone go to the front." No matter whether the newcomers are friends or enemies, they must not let the other party find this piece of beautiful hair, because this is the life-saving thing for their team.

Probably because they were afraid of being hungry, the team members became very protective of food. Before Xiong Hua finished speaking, everyone had already carried the plant stems on the ground, which were thicker than elephant legs, into the broken house in front at a lightning speed, and then cleared all traces that might arouse suspicion to the back of the house. The previous weakness was completely gone.

"It's eight vehicles... Damn, there are five armored vehicles, two off-road vehicles, and a motorhome." Bai Xi on the rooftop sent the news, and at the same time, it also extinguished the last bit of hope in their hearts. It can't be Qiao Yong and his group.

Just when everyone was disappointed and worried, and Xiong Hua and others were even discussing whether to contact the other party, Bai Xi's slightly nervous voice came again: "Everyone pay attention, they are coming this way."

It seems that they can't avoid it, so it's better to take the initiative. Xiong Hua and the others no longer hesitated and walked outside, leaving only the old and weak in the house. However, just as they reached the gate of the courtyard, they heard Bai Xi upstairs exclaim, and then suddenly shouted in surprise: "It's Nan Shao and Zhang Yi, and Shi Sange!"

Hearing these names, the people who were nervous were all stunned, and then instantly exploded, and ran towards the direction of the road. Only the people who joined later were still confused, not knowing what these three names meant to them, but they could feel that they were not enemies, so they followed curiously. As

soon as the two parties met, they didn't bother to greet each other and reminisce about the past. Xiong Hua opened his mouth and said: "Old Qiao and the others are gone." The visitor was already full of questions, and was even more surprised when he heard it.

Chapter 277 Soul Wood Mystery City (1)

After meeting Shen Chi and his party in Longren City, Zhang Yi and his party did not delay any further and set off directly to Zhongzhou. Because Hulugou was surrounded and Song Yan could not return due to a mutation, Shen Chi and his party originally wanted to stay in the underground garage of the shopping mall temporarily and wait for him to recover, but later they received an order to go with Zhang Yi and his party. They

hardly encountered any major troubles along the way. They did encounter a few mutant beasts that they had expected to encounter. Their strengths varied, but they all appeared alone and did not form a beast tide, so they did not pose any obstacles. Instead, it took a lot of time to clear the snow and kill the mutant plants and zombies that blocked the road.

Even so, it only took more than ten days to reach Zhafeng, which was much less time than when Zhang Yi and his party went to Yunzhou Base. Li Muran had developed the habit of checking the surroundings at any time to avoid being caught off guard by accidents. Therefore, she found Xiong Hua and others who were clearing mutant plants on the road from more than ten kilometers away. There were quite a few of them, so she was a little confused. She didn't understand why they left Ronghe and appeared here. After a closer look, she immediately noticed that their condition was very bad, which increased the doubts and worries in the hearts of several people.

Fortunately, the speed of clearing mutant plants here was very fast. It only took three or four hours to open up the road. At this time, Xiong Hua and others had run to the back of the broken house under the road to collect the beauty's hair. If there were no people with mental power to detect, the two sides would probably miss each other. Li Muran knew their movements clearly, so as soon as she arrived, she went straight to find them.

She was accompanied by Zhang Yinan, Shao Shi Pengsan, and Zhang Ruiyang. In addition, there was Shen Chi, who was more curious. As for the others, some got off the car and were on guard around, and more waited directly in the car without moving.

However, several people never expected that they would hear a dizzying news as soon as they met.

Qiao Yong is missing! With Qiao Yong's ability, how could he just disappear like that? Besides, there were several top-notch people with supernatural powers who disappeared with him.

"Why did he disappear? When did he disappear?" The most anxious one was Shi Pengsan. He stepped out of the crowd, grabbed Xiong Hua's collar, and asked.

Seeing him, Xiong Hua almost burst into tears. He didn't mind being carried and answered, "The day before yesterday afternoon, the six of them went to Zhafeng City to find food, and they haven't come back yet."

"Didn't you send someone to look for them? You still have the mood to slowly deal with mutant plants here?" Shi Pengsan's eyes turned red and he asked angrily. It turned out that when they were in the car, they had learned from Li Muran that Xiong Hua and others were cutting mutant plants behind the dilapidated house, but they were only curious when they heard it, but now they became angry. As soon as

he said this, some people from Ronghe who didn't know him immediately glared at him. Zhang Yi was relatively calm. He noticed the physical condition of everyone and quickly spoke to smooth things over: "Since we are in Zhafeng City, it is not far away. Let Muran see if he can find someone first."

Hearing this, Shi Pengsan immediately shut up and turned his eyes to Li Muran, his eyes full of anxiety and begging.

Li Muran nodded slightly in response, closed his eyes, and quickly explored his mental power.

Shi Pengsan let go of his hand unconsciously. Xiong Hua didn't understand why. He didn't know that Li Muran's ability could be used, but seeing that Zhang Yi and others were looking at her quietly, as if waiting for something, he had to swallow his doubts.

After two minutes, Li Muran, who had originally looked calm, gradually frowned, and the few people who were staring at her could not help but raise their concerns. After a while, sweat began to seep out of her forehead, and her breathing became heavy, as if she was struggling.

Zhang Yi and Shi Pengsan's hearts gradually tightened, and even Nan Shao, who had a somewhat indifferent expression, fixed his eyes on her, with implicit concern.

Beads of sweat formed on his forehead. Li Muran suddenly opened his eyes, with an undisguised look of fatigue on his face: "I can't see. There is a circle of mutant plants outside Zhafeng City, as if covered by a layer of fog. The fog gets thicker as you go deeper, and the back is even darker. You can't see anything clearly."

Zhang Yi and Shi Pengsan didn't expect this answer at all. Their faces changed slightly.

"Do you know what the reason is?" Zhang Yi asked.

Li Muran shook her head, obviously puzzled by this. She had never encountered such a situation before. If her mental power could not detect places outside Zhafeng City, she would have suspected that there was something wrong with her ability.

"What are you talking about?" Xiong Hua couldn't help but interrupt. Although he seemed to understand what the two were talking about, he felt that the answer was a bit incredible. When did Li Muran have such a strange and awesome ability?

Zhang Yi glanced at him and said, "Let's not talk about this for now. It's still early. Zhafeng City is ahead. Let's go over and see what's going on."

"Okay, I'll bring a few people with you." Xiong Hua was overjoyed and responded quickly.

"We'll wait for you up there." Zhang Yi thought about it and didn't refuse. He left Zhang Ruiyang, who was reminiscing about the past with Liang Guanlun, and went back to the caravan with Nan Shao and the others. He had to say hello to the other people in the caravan. They would probably camp here today.

"They probably have no food. Send some to them later." Zhang Yi whispered to the others as he walked. They had already brought enough supplies when they set out. Later, they would get some edible mutant plants and mutant beasts to eat along the way to slowly change their eating habits. The reserve food was not consumed much, so it was no problem to support Xiong Hua and the others.

The others had no objection. Not to mention that Nan Shao and Shi Pengsan were originally from Ronghe, and Li Muran also had an old relationship with Xiong Hua and the others, but Shen Chi couldn't say no when he saw the group of hungry and cold old, weak, women and children behind the crowd.

So, when Xiong Hua led the four psychics to the road, they saw two strong and heroic young men carrying a bag of rice and two large plastic bags stuffed full of things, easily jumping over the guardrail and walking towards them. The two young men greeted them with a smile, then brushed past them and soon arrived in front of the dilapidated house. I don't know what the young man said, but the people who were originally standing numbly seemed to come alive all of a sudden, and happily surrounded the two and walked into the house.

Xiong Hua and his companions couldn't help swallowing their saliva. Although they wanted to go back and get some food, they didn't hesitate, but walked towards the road at a faster speed.

The guardrail on the side of the road was removed, and the four earth-type psychics in Shen Chi's team went out together to build a three-meter-wide hard dirt road between the road and the dilapidated house. Five vehicles drove down one after another, leaving two armored vehicles and one off-road vehicle still parked on the road.

With these people around, Xiong Hua and the others finally had no worries. When they let the car pass and the three vehicles stepped onto the road, Zhang Yi was standing next to the off-road vehicle, his hand on the open door, leaning over to talk to the people in the car. Seeing them coming up, Zhang Yi turned sideways and waved: "One person sits here, and the others get in the car behind."

Xiong Hua walked over without hesitation, and the remaining four people consciously dispersed to the other two armored vehicles.

There were already three people sitting in the off-road vehicle, Shi Pengsan sat in the driver's seat, Li Muran sat in the passenger seat, and Nan Shao sat in the back. They were all acquaintances. After Xiong Hua got in the car, Zhang Yi closed the door, went to the other side to get in the car, and then took out a bag of compressed biscuits and a bottle of water and threw them to him.

"Just eat something first, and then tell us what happened."

Xiong Hua took it, but did not eat it immediately. Instead, he said, "Wait a minute, I'll share a few pieces with Kunzi and the others." He knew how hard it was to find food, and he didn't feel comfortable asking for more. After all, he didn't know the status of Zhang Yi and the others in this seemingly powerful team, so it would be better not to embarrass them if possible.

"No, they have some too." Zhang Yi waved his hand, signaling him not to worry.

Xiong Hua said no more, tore open the package, and stuffed a few biscuits into his mouth until he almost choked, then he slowed down.

Shi Pengsan looked at him silently in the rearview mirror, started the car, and turned around to drive to Zhafeng City.

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Seeing the five cars coming down and the young men getting off, and thinking about the two bags of rice and food that the other party had casually given away before, the people of Ronghe couldn't help but show envy in their eyes, and at the same time, there was a faint expectation, looking forward to joining this team. However, when they saw a big blue donkey appear, they couldn't help but be dumbfounded. After all, it has been too long since they saw a normal animal. Then their saliva overflowed, as if they saw the steaming five-spice donkey meat, donkey meat hot pot, donkey meat fire...

Feeling this sinister malice, the big blue body that had been arrogantly following the sick ghost suddenly stiffened, and then quickly trotted forward, almost sticking to the sick ghost, and then he breathed a sigh of relief, but still felt a chill on his back.

After Shen Chi got off the car, he led the people to disperse, sorted out the houses on both sides of the dilapidated house, and then began to build defenses. Seeing this, the remaining earth-type supernaturals in the Ronghe team also followed to help. In addition to making fire and cooking, the rest of the people continued to dig beauty hair. For people who are afraid of starvation, there is no such thing as too much food. Moreover, two bags of rice may solve their immediate problem, but they can only support them for a few more days. In the end, they have to rely on themselves.

Zhang Ruiyang's return was welcomed with the warmest welcome. Liang Guanlun and others were surprised and happy to see that the little guy survived and came back safely. They hugged him and rubbed him, almost rolling him into a ball and taking a bite.

Zhang Ruiyang was a little embarrassed at first, but he quickly became familiar with them again. He didn't even react when Zhang Yi left him behind. He just followed them closely and chatted with them very seriously.

"Dudu has grown so big..." He used his two short hands wrapped in thick cotton sleeves to make a huge gesture, "bigger than a cow."

Liang Guanlun bit his cheeks and stabbed the sharp knife more than ten times before it pierced into the stem of the beauty's hair. He couldn't help laughing when he heard it. Looking at the little guy squatting beside him who seemed to have not grown up, he teased: "So big! Is it so exaggerated?"

Zhao Chun and others on the other side also laughed. I don't know why, as long as they see this little guy who seems to never know sorrow, they will feel light and happy, as if there is no difficulty that can't be overcome.

"It's not exaggerated, it's true, Dudu can fly, and can carry me to fly very high." Zhang Ruiyang promised very seriously. In order to show that his words couldn't be more true, he nodded heavily.

"Wow, Dudu is so amazing!" Liang Guanlun was happy and exclaimed very cooperatively. "Then I must have a look. It would be so impressive if I could let it carry me to the sky for a spin."

Zhang Ruiyang was stunned for a moment, then he said in a coy voice, "That may not work. You are too big. If you were the same size as me, it would be fine."

Everyone couldn't help laughing. Zhao Chun almost made a dirty joke to tease Liang Guanlun, but fortunately he remembered that there were children and women around, so he swallowed the words back.

Liang Guanlun couldn't help but stretched out his hand to pinch the little guy's face, which had finally grown some flesh, and smiled, "Okay, I won't sit, so as not to crush Dudu."

Zhang Ruiyang was a little embarrassed, and then he remembered another problem, so he continued, "Dudu is too timid. It was afraid of the director uncle, so it ran away." At this point, he was a little depressed, "I haven't seen it for a long time, or it was Aunt Muran who said it had been following us. I almost thought it was lost. It's always like this, last time..."

Yangyang Dudu's adventures were brought up, and those who were busy listening couldn't help but slow down their movements. Liang Guanlun occasionally made one or two exclamations and inquiries to encourage the child to continue, but in fact everyone had already been sweating for Dudu's unreliability and the little guy's experience.

"Dudu deserves a spanking." Finally, Liang Guanlun came to a conclusion.

"But..." Zhang Ruiyang finally realized that he seemed to have stabbed his little friend in the back. He blinked his big black and white eyes, trying to explain anxiously, and finally came up with an idea: "If it weren't for Dudu, I wouldn't be able to find Pumpkin Dad."

"Then you deserve a spanking." Liang Guanlun thought for a moment, straightened his expression, and said in a way that the child could understand: "Yangyang, think about it, if you died outside, how sad would your father be, and how sad would your uncles and aunts be? Also, if Dudu took you away, Aunt Muran and the others would be worried and would look for you everywhere. If they were injured or died while looking for you, wouldn't you be sad?" If it was before the end of the world, he wouldn't mind agreeing with a few words to make the child happy, but he couldn't do that now. At least the little guy had to understand what consequences his actions would cause, so that similar things could be avoided as much as possible.

Zhang Ruiyang listened blankly, his face gradually became serious. After a while, he seemed to understand and nodded solemnly: "I will be very sad." After a pause, he said hesitantly: "I will let Dudu learn to be braver in the future, and stop running around. I won't run around either... Can you not spank its butt?"

Liang Guanlun smiled bitterly and nodded helplessly. He was just talking. Dudu was a mutant beast, and it was said to be extremely fierce. Even if he squatted in front of him and asked him to spank him, would he dare?

But Zhang Ruiyang didn't know this. In his eyes, Dudu was the most harmless, timid and lovely friend, because it would be too pitiful if he was timid and was spanked. After getting Liang Guanlun's promise, he couldn't help but smile.

Chapter 278 Soul Wood Mystery City (2)

In order to show that they were not freeloaders, Ge Ai caught the absent-minded Nan Wei and helped them to work. Although they could not cut the mutant plants or dig the nutrient blocks, they could help carry the cut beauty hair. Huo Ming was also helping. However, the two children's attention was on Zhang Ruiyang, the little guy who suddenly appeared and looked so happy that they were jealous. Listening to his conversation with the adults, they were sometimes curious, sometimes envious, and sometimes sad and thoughtful.

If I were him, I would do better than him when I encountered those things. Ge Ai thought indignantly in her heart, but suddenly saw Zhang Ruiyang stand up and run towards Jian Jian who was squatting against the back wall of the house. She couldn't help but widen her eyes, threw away the beauty hair in her arms, and ran over, just like an old hen with all her feathers raised to protect her chicks.

Huo Rui couldn't help but follow him, but he didn't throw away the things in his hands.

"You can't eat your fingers, little sister." Zhang Ruiyang stopped two steps away from Jian Jian and said seriously.

Jian Jian, who was already starving, looked up at him without any expression, with her thumb still in her mouth, licking it like she was eating a lollipop. The rice was not ready yet, and everyone was given two biscuits to fill their stomachs. After the little girl finished eating them, she kept her fingers in her mouth and didn't take them out.

Ge Ai staggered and stood there panting, glaring at Zhang Ruiyang fiercely, thinking that he was really making a fuss.

Seeing that Jian Jian ignored him and was still sucking her finger, Zhang Ruiyang frowned in distress. After thinking for a while, he took another step forward, then squatted in front of Jian Jian, stretched out his hand and carefully took out the little girl's finger, while coaxing her: "Be good, little sister, your finger is so dirty, it will hurt your stomach if you eat it... Oh, it's bleeding!"

Hearing the blood, Ge Ayi rushed forward and grabbed Jian Jian's little hand that was frozen like an ice stick. He found that a piece of skin had been bitten off on the thumb, and there were blood beads on it, but it was cold and froze as soon as he took it out of his mouth, and it didn't continue to bleed. It turned out that it was because the finger was numb from the cold, and Jian Jian was very hungry, so she didn't feel any pain when she bit her finger, but just subconsciously sucked the salty and sweet blood. When she couldn't suck it out, she used her little teeth to nibble it there. If Zhang Ruiyang hadn't been nosy, maybe this finger would have been bitten to pieces.

As soon as her finger was taken out, the little girl looked like she was about to cry. It wasn't because she felt pain, but because she felt that her delicious food had been taken away. Fortunately, Zhang Ruiyang was quick and took out a piece of chocolate from his bag, tore open the package in a few seconds, and stuffed it into her mouth. The little girl immediately forgot that Ge Ayi was still holding her hand, and laughed. Her originally numb eyes suddenly became bright.

Ge Ayi was originally a little angry with Zhang Ruiyang, but Zhang Ruiyang took out another piece of chocolate from his pocket and handed it to him.

"Brother, this is for you." Zhang Ruiyang said, and then took out another piece and gave it to Huo Rui, who was left behind and hesitated whether to go forward, "Brother, you eat too." His purse was like a treasure bag, as if he could never take all the food.

Huo Rui hesitated, but still couldn't resist the temptation of food. He took it and whispered thank you.

"You're welcome." Zhang Ruiyang replied with a smile, then turned back to look at Jian Jian's little hand, thought for a moment, took out a small handkerchief from his purse, gently wrapped it around her, and then tied a knot.

Looking at the fingers that were wrapped like a small carrot, Ge Ayi was a little speechless, but her hostility towards Zhang Ruiyang was much less. Jian Jian, on the other hand, didn't care at all about how others manipulated her little hands because she had food.

"Hey, how old are you?" Seeing that Jian Jian was fine, Ge Ayi stood up, put her hands on her hips, and shouted at Zhang Ruiyang, trying very hard to look down on him.

"Six years old." Zhang Ruiyang didn't feel provoked at all. He squatted there, stretched out one hand very seriously, and opened five fingers.

"Stupid, that's five, okay." Ge Ayi said contemptuously.

Zhang Ruiyang decisively added another finger. Actually, he is more than five years old, but few people talk about age in front of him after the end of the world. He is very vague about this. He feels that he has been four years old for a long time. After so long, he should be six years old. And six years old sounds more impressive than four or five years old, because he can go to school.

"Then you have to call me brother." Ge Ayi raised his head and said with a little pride. It turned out that he was holding back and waiting here, and the reason was because of Zhang Ruiyang's call of "brother".

Zhang Ruiyang was stunned for a moment, stood up, looked at Ge Ayi again, and said with some disbelief: "But...but I am taller than you." As he said that, he raised his hand and gestured between the tops of their heads.

Ge Ayi's dark and thin face suddenly turned red, and he was furious: "I am eight years old!" What he hated most was that others compared their heights with him.

"You are eight years old, how come you are shorter than me?" Zhang Ruiyang looked very surprised, and he didn't know that the other party was angry, and he continued to rub salt into the wound. He always felt that he was not growing taller, but he did not expect that there was someone who was even shorter than him. He was excited and felt that he had finally found someone who shared the same language with him. So he began to discuss this issue seriously: "Why do you think we are not growing taller? Is it because we do not drink milk? But now we can't drink milk. What if we are not growing taller? Oh, you said dirty words. You cannot say dirty words." At the end, he did not forget to give a warning.

"When did I say dirty words?" Ge Ayi glared, obviously irritated, and spoke in a very bad tone, but cleverly avoided the first question.

"When you say Laozi, Laozi is a dirty word." In Zhang Ruiyang's impression, these two words are bad.

"You big fool, Laozi means dad, how can dad be a dirty word?" Ge Ayi explained angrily, not understanding how someone could be so stupid.

"Then why did you say you are dad?" Zhang Ruiyang was very puzzled.

"..." Ge Ayi felt that he was going crazy.

Huo Rui, who was always taciturn, burst out laughing, while Jian Jian, who was slowly licking the chocolate, had no interest in their conversation. Her two big eyes stared straight at Zhang Ruiyang's purse, as if she wanted to know if there was any more delicious chocolate in it.

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"The whole Ronghe County was occupied by that big tree. It was luck that we were able to escape, not to mention bringing food and clothes." In the car, after Xiong Hua's hunger was slightly relieved, he briefly told the people in the car what happened in Ronghe. Finally, with endless fatigue and bitterness in his tone, he said: "Don't be afraid of you laughing at us. Yesterday, we only drank a bowl of mutant plant leaf porridge all day, and we haven't eaten anything today." This was also an indirect explanation to Shi Pengsan why they were digging for beauty hair instead of immediately looking for Qiao Yong and the others.

Zhang Yi and the others didn't expect that they had just had this worry not long ago, and discussed how to lead Song Yan's convoy to Ronghe to station down to fight against the increasingly powerful mutant creatures. Who knew that before they implemented it, something had happened here.

"If we can get rid of that mutant tree, do you still want to go back?" Zhang Yi pondered for a moment and asked across Nan Shao.

Nan Shao didn't like Zhang Yi to have physical contact with other people, so Zhang Yi deliberately went around to the other side to get in the car and let Nan Shao sit between him and Xiong Hua. And this seemingly unintentional action really hit the spot in Nan Shao's mind. Although he still didn't pay much attention to people, his eyebrows and eyes were covered with a touch of tenderness, no longer looking so cold and distant.

"No." Xiong Hua shook his head and smiled bitterly: "There are too few people, and there is no way to survive in the end of the world, not to mention..." What's more, there are still many old and weak people and non-awakened people in the team. It is too difficult and tiring to survive with them. He didn't say this sentence, but changed the subject: "We originally wanted to go to Yunzhou to see if we could find you, or a survivor base. Who knew that everything along the way was looted clean, there was no car and no oil. If we didn't find some edible mutant plants occasionally, I'm afraid we wouldn't see you."

Hearing this, Zhang Yi sighed silently: "Fortunately you didn't get a car, Yunzhou is already out of reach." He then gave a general account of the situation at the Yunzhou base.

Xiong Hua couldn't help but gasp after hearing this, and for a moment he didn't know whether he and his people were lucky or unlucky.

"By the way, where are Fatty and Xiao Peiyuan?" It was not until this time that he finally remembered to ask, but when he spoke, a trace of sadness flashed in his eyes. Most of the survivors who are still alive now understand that leaving and not returning only means one possibility, that is, they will never come back. However, people always inevitably have a fluke mentality.

"They are too weak, so they stayed in Yunzhou and were with the team surnamed Song." Unexpectedly, it was Nan Shao who answered.

"It's good that they are okay." This was really a surprising answer. Xiong Hua breathed a sigh of relief, and his mood finally improved a little, but he didn't ask again. In fact, he was a little afraid of Nan Shao, and even he himself couldn't explain why it was like this, because he didn't feel this way before.

There were no major battles during this period, and since he was inseparable from Zhang Yi, Nan Shao was in a very peaceful state of mind. The remaining half of the ant armor on his face had almost faded away, leaving only a little on the forehead, but it was blocked by his long hair and could not be seen. Therefore, Xiong Hua could only sense his change in temperament, but did not notice any other abnormalities.

There was a brief silence in the car. Fortunately, the destination was not far away and arrived in a blink of an eye. No one noticed the slight change in the atmosphere.

Everyone got out of the car. Zhang Yi and Shi Pengsan observed the surrounding situation. Nan Shao followed Zhang Yi closely, and Li Muran stood in the front of the car and stared at the overpass and high-rise buildings hidden in the mutant plant forest not far away. The last two cars stopped and the people in them got out. In addition to the four people brought by Xiong Hua, there were four people from Shen Chi.

"They did come here, and they should have entered from here." After a moment, Zhang Yi came to the conclusion. In front of him, although the rapidly growing mutant plants were intertwined and formed a plant wall, it was still possible to vaguely see that there was a section with a thinner density than other places, and even broken branches and leaves could be found on the ground.

Xiong Hua couldn't help but clench his hands hanging by his side. He couldn't tell whether he was relieved or worried. Qiao Yong and his team had lived up to everyone's trust. Now that they hadn't come out, they had encountered a problem that was difficult to solve

. "Muran, can we check the situation inside here?" Zhang Yi turned around and asked a question that made Xiong Hua's doubts arise again, but now was not a good time to ask, so he could only bear it for the time being.

"I've tried it, it doesn't work. Three hundred meters ahead, there's nothing to see." Li Muran was obviously not idle standing there. The city in front of her made her feel confused and inexplicably uneasy.

Zhang Yi looked up and frowned slightly, as if he was thinking about what was hidden there and whether they should make some preparations before entering.

"Let's go." Shi Pengsan spoke, leading the way and moving forward along the traces left by Qiao Yong and his team.

Zhang Yi took a deep breath and stopped thinking. He looked at Nan Shao and followed without saying anything. Nan Shao raised his chin to Li Muran and said, "You go ahead of Ah Yi." Then he walked closely behind Zhang Yi on the left. Only in this way could he take care of both of them.

In fact, with Li Muran's ability, she didn't need such protection, but she was a girl after all, and she had walked out of the slums with Zhang Yi and the others. Even though her personality became colder due to her ant mutation, Nan Shao still treated her differently from others and showed her more care, just like he would oppress Routa Chen a little more.

The process of entering the dense forest was not as dangerous as imagined, but the increasingly dim light under the forest and the various strange mutant plants that emitted a dreamy and beautiful glow made everyone amazed and very vigilant. The plant fragrance flowing in the air was fresh and lingering, making people almost forget the cruelty of the mutant plants.

However, unlike the others, Li Muran's complexion had not been very good since he entered the forest. The further he walked, the worse it became. When he had walked about four or five hundred meters, he suddenly trembled, bent over and began to retch.

"What's wrong, Muran?" Everyone was startled, and even the two people who were leading the way in front of him took the time to look back. Zhang Yi reached out to support her and asked with concern.

Li Muran's face turned pale, and he closed his eyes. It took a while for him to recover. He whispered, "This is not right. Very wrong..." Then there was a long silence, as if he didn't know how to describe his feelings.

Not right? Everyone was puzzled and looked around.

It was still early at this time. Although the mutant forest was dense and covered the sky, there were still a few rays of light leaking through the gaps between the branches and leaves. There were also luminous plants under the forest, so it was not dark. The abandoned and rusted car queue passing through the forest not far away could be seen clearly. Bones were half exposed in the broken car windows, and there were stray limbs on the ground covered with garbage, broken branches and rotten leaves. There were also zombie corpses whose heads were smashed but did not rot due to the cold weather. Except for the slightly different mutant plants, everything was no different from other cities they had seen after the apocalypse.

Although they wanted to know what was wrong, seeing that Li Muran was not in a good condition and out of trust in her, they did not urge her. Xiong Hua and the others were anxious and wanted to ask, but seeing the reactions of others, they had to hold back.

There was a sound of golden swords clashing, and Shi Pengsan and another person who were leading the way in front solved the golden mutant vines blocking the road, and did not continue, turning around and walking back.

"Since entering here, I have been using my mental power to investigate the surrounding situation..." Li Muran finally spoke, but her lips were still trembling. It was not because she was scared, but because she felt as if her mental power was attacked, nausea and dizziness. Therefore, she spoke slowly and laboriously, as if she was struggling to organize her words: "It was okay at the beginning, just blurry, and I couldn't see too clearly, but since just now, it's like watching a fast-forwarded landscape film. The images I explored have changed from one moment to another... and some are so distorted that I can't recognize what they are." At this point, she exhaled heavily, looking a little uneasy, "I don't think we can go on." Hearing this

, everyone looked a little solemn, but they were obviously not ready to give up so easily because of her words.

"What do you think?" Zhang Yi patted Li Muran's back soothingly, without expressing his opinion, and turned to ask others.

Nan Shao did not answer immediately, but activated his supernatural power, covered his eyes, and looked around.

"It's only about two or three o'clock now, and there are still a few hours before dark. So far, there has been no danger that we can't deal with. Just go back..." Xiong Hua couldn't help but say. He didn't know Li Muran's ability, and even if he had doubts about her judgment, he wisely didn't say it. He just couldn't bear to give up after finally gathering these powerful people for such an unfounded reason. After all, he didn't know what was wrong with Qiao Yong, and the longer the time dragged on, the worse it would be.

"The mutant plants around here are not alive." Nan Shao suddenly spoke, and his words shocked everyone present.

"Not alive?" Zhang Yi asked, a little puzzled.

"Yeah. Except for us, there is no living thing around." Nan Shao nodded, and a rare solemnity appeared on his face. "I don't feel any vitality. Even zombies still have some dim light, but there is nothing here."

Everyone gasped, and no one spoke for a while.

Shi Pengsan looked at the golden vine they had just cut off and thrown on the ground. It didn't look like it was lifeless. Although he was confused, he didn't refute it. Everyone knew what Nan Shao was like. He was definitely not the kind of person who spoke nonsense and made alarmist remarks.

"Forward? Backward?" After a while, Zhang Yi spoke to break the somewhat stagnant atmosphere.

Shen Chi's men did not express their opinions. They were here to help, and it didn't matter what happened. Xiong Hua had said this before, and he did not change his mind because of Nan Shao's words, so he just kept silent. But Shi Pengsan said after a moment of hesitation: "If we don't find out the situation here, we can't come up with a solution when we go back. Even if we withdraw now, we still have to come tomorrow. Going back and forth will only delay things. It's better to continue. Whether we can find people or not is secondary. At least we should find out what the problem is here first."

Zhang Yi glanced at Nan Shao, who nodded. Nan Shao did not want Zhang Yi to take risks, but he knew in his heart that if there was a problem with this mutant forest, they were now deep in it, and it might not be so easy to withdraw. If there was no problem, there was no need to worry.

"Then continue." Zhang Yi made the decision, and then did not forget to ask Li Muran: "Muran, how are you?"

"No problem, much better." Li Muran wiped the sweat from his head and stood up straight.

"Don't use your superpowers for the time being." Zhang Yi reminded.

Li Muran hummed, but was secretly worried. If she couldn't use her mental detection ability, it meant that her teleportation ability couldn't be used either, which was definitely not good news.

Chapter 279 Soul Wood Mystery City (3)

At four o'clock, the hungry people finally had a full meal. For long-term planning, and to prevent the stomachs that had become fragile due to long-term hunger from bursting, they still cooked porridge, but it was a little thicker, and the nutrient blocks of Meirenfa were also put in it. Add a little salt, it was quite delicious. After

the meal, because they didn't have to rush, the youngest child Jian Jian finally nestled in his grandfather's arms and snored. With chocolate as a guide, Zhang Ruiyang had already played with Ge Ayi and Huo Rui. Although one of them was always impatient and the other was very taciturn, after all, they were of similar age and the little guy was not temperamental, so the three of them got along quite well. However,

when dusk fell, Zhang Yi and his friends had not returned yet. Zhang Ruiyang, who was playing tractor with a deck of cards he had found in the house and huddled by the fire with his two friends, began to get restless, looking outside frequently and mumbling to himself.

"Dad hasn't come back

yet." "Dad hasn't come back yet."

"Why hasn't Dad come back yet?"

"Pumpkin Dad hasn't come back either."

"Aunt Muran and Uncle Shi San haven't come back yet."

"Where are they all? When will they come back? Haven't you found Uncle Moustache yet..."

"It's time for you to put away the cards!" Ge Ayi felt that his ears were full of buzzing, and he couldn't help but urge him impatiently, "Can you be serious? Dare you shut up? You're chattering and nagging. I'm dizzy with your noise. You've become a fool, haven't you!"

Zhang Ruiyang looked at him aggrievedly, and he really pursed his lips and stopped talking. However, he didn't stay quiet for a moment, and suddenly said, "You swear!"

Ge Ayi pressed his forehead and felt that he was really going crazy. Huo Rui bit his lip and tried to hold back his laughter.

Fortunately, Zhang Ruiyang was not in the mood to continue to worry about the swearing issue at this moment. He put down the cards and said to the two of them, "You guys play, I'm going to ask Uncle Sick when Dad will be back." After that, he stood up, ran out, and ran straight to the house where the sick ghost was.

Ge Ayi and Huo Rui looked at each other, and finally stood up at the same time and followed him.

The house had also been renovated, the leaky holes were blocked, and a fire was lit. Bing Gui, Yuan Jinshu, and Leng Fengchen each occupied a corner, while Shen Chi and several comrades sat around the fire, talking in low voices. Da Qing lay behind Bing Gui, squinting and dozing.

The arrival of the three children attracted everyone's attention. Just as Shen Chi was about to say hello, Zhang Ruiyang ran directly to Bing Gui. Ge Ayi and Huo Rui felt that the people in this house were not easy to mess with, so they stopped at the door.

"Uncle Bing, why hasn't my father come back yet? Are they in danger? I... I want to save them." Bing Gui closed his eyes as if he was asleep, but Zhang Ruiyang knew that he would always be like this. He had to wait until he opened his eyes. If there was no special situation, he would have to wait until tomorrow morning, so he didn't hesitate and asked directly.

After asking the question, Zhang Ruiyang did not ask questions like other children would do if he did not get a response. Instead, he waited quietly. Because he knew the temper of the sick ghost. If he was unwilling to answer, no matter how he asked, it would be useless. If he was willing to answer, he would usually take a while to respond.

Sure enough, after a full minute, the sick ghost slowly opened his eyes. However, he did not answer Zhang Ruiyang's question, but looked outside the door.

It was completely dark, and the snow had started to fall heavily.

"Let's go." He suddenly stood up and said to Zhang Ruiyang who was looking at him eagerly, and then turned to Daqing, "You stay here."

Zhang Ruiyang did not expect that he would go with him. He was very surprised and hurriedly grabbed his hand.

The sick ghost did not shake off the warm little hand, but looked at Shen Chi: "Give me a car." As he said, he walked out with the child, and at the same time, he seemed to glance at Yuan Jinshu who was squatting in the corner lazily.

Yuan Jinshu was startled and immediately jumped up to catch up. He had never seen Bing Gui drive a car, and that kid certainly couldn't drive either, so the job of driving was obviously going to fall on him.

Leng Fengchen, who had been observing Bing Gui coldly, picked up his backpack without hesitation and followed. Ever since Bing Gui knocked him down with one move, he had been very interested in this person and wanted to find out more about him, so he gave up entering the Yunzhou base and went with them instead. Now that Bing Gui was likely to make another move, how could he miss it?

"Call a few more people." Shen Chi asked.

"No need." Bing Gui said indifferently.

After traveling together all the way, Shen Chi had a rough understanding of his character. He stopped persuading him after hearing this, and just told Lou Nan and Cong San a few words, and then drove over himself.

"I'll go with you." He said, not to discuss. He might not have a deep friendship with Nan Shao, Zhang Yi, and Shi Peng San, but his brothers were going with them, so he couldn't just ignore it. And more importantly, Li Muran was there too. If Li Muran couldn't come back safely in time, he didn't dare to think about how Song Er would go crazy.

The sick ghost didn't object. So Yuan Jinshu, who was ready to drive, had to sit in the back seat very unwillingly, because Leng Fengchen had taken the passenger seat first.

"Hey, kid, are you going too?" Ge Ayi and Huo Rui stood side by side at the door, looking at Zhang Ruiyang who was about to get in the car with the sick ghost with strange eyes, and asked. After spending an afternoon together, although he felt that this kid was stupid and long-winded, he was not annoying overall, so he asked reluctantly.

"Yes. None of my dad and the others came back, and I'm a little worried." Zhang Ruiyang turned around and answered seriously.

"What can you, a stupid turtle egg, do to help?" It's almost a burden. Ge Ayi pouted and said unhappily. It was obviously a caring word, but I don't know how it turned around in his mouth and became like this.

"I can help." Zhang Ruiyang said solemnly, and at the end, he couldn't help but whispered curiously: "What is a stupid turtle egg?"

Ge Ayi rolled his eyes, disdainful to explain to this little idiot.

"Hey, when you find your dad, don't forget to bring back some delicious food." When Zhang Ruiyang waved goodbye to him, he suddenly shouted loudly.

Zhang Ruiyang was stunned for a moment, thought about it, and said, "It's too dark now, and we may not be able to find anything. However, if we can only come back tomorrow during the day, then I should be able to bring you some delicious food." After following the adults outside for a few months and wandering with Dudu, he still has some experience in finding food.

Idiot! Ge Ayi watched Zhang Ruiyang climb into the car speechlessly. The car started and drove away, and then he muttered a step slowly. Of course, he didn't really expect Zhang Ruiyang to bring him anything back under such circumstances. The reason he said that was just to hope that this little friend who he had just met and felt good about could come back safely. It's a pity that the idiot obviously didn't understand what he meant.

"He's very powerful, he will be fine." Huo Rui squatted down next to Ge Ayi, propped up his chin and looked at the taillights of the car that had gone away through the flying snowflakes, and said.

"What's so great about that? It's just that he has a good father." Ge Ai curled her lips and replied sourly. Although she said so, she was actually more envious in her heart.

Huo Rui stopped talking, not because he agreed, but because he remembered his parents. He thought that before he became a zombie, his parents were also very good.

——In

the gymnasium, Qiao Yong and others were awakened by He San. They felt a severe pain in the back of their heads, and they also had waves of dizziness and nausea. They reached back and touched it, and there was a lump as big as an egg. It is normal for the brain to suffer two heavy blows in just two days. If you are unlucky, you may even die suddenly.

Unlike them, He San seemed to be in a very good mood, not at all frustrated by the failure to escape.

"Damn it..." Qiao Yong covered the back of his head and cursed fiercely. A fireball appeared in his palm, illuminating the surroundings a little. It was no surprise that they were back in the gym. Of course, he also saw He San's face, which was too relaxed and happy compared to them. So he narrowed his eyes and glared at him fiercely: "How come you are okay?" At that moment, Qiao Yong was not without doubt in his heart.

"I know the situation." He San shrugged. He originally wanted to be nonchalant and unfathomable, but he couldn't help showing a slightly proud and gloating smile on his face.

When they were attacked, they were about to enter a relatively well-preserved hotel to spend the night. Since He San said that all those who escaped would be caught before night fell, since the sky began to darken, their already tense nerves became even more tense. They would rather walk slowly than repeat the same mistake because of a momentary oversight. However, even though they were cautious enough, they still couldn't avoid the attack.

The half-humans were so powerful in stealth and agility that they didn't even have the ability to detect, let alone fight back. This made the few people who fell down again feel a deep sense of powerlessness. As for He San, the reason why he was fine was entirely because he fell down without hesitation the moment he saw Lu Jun fall down from the corner of his eye.

There was no panic, nor did he try to resist. His reaction was as skillful as eating and sleeping. This was something that Qiao Yong and others who were used to surviving in battles could not understand or imagine, but it was undeniable that his knowledge of the situation enabled them to be awakened in time, and thus saved the food they had worked hard to find from being snatched away by others again.

When they passed by a shopping mall, they got a few backpacks filled with a lot of food. After being carried back, the backpacks were still on their backs, so apart from being hit by another stick, there was no other loss. This was also the reason why He San was still happy even though he couldn't run away.

After a day of hard work, it was impossible not to feel frustrated and disappointed with such a result, but it was not completely despairing, because at least they had explored the scope of their activities and could still find food around. If they were not worried about the people left outside the city, Qiao Yong and his team would not have to worry at all and could slowly find a way out.

"We haven't been back for so long, I'm afraid Lao Xiong and the others will send a few people to look for us? That would be troublesome." Liu Xia pressed the back of his head that was dizzy with pain, raised his head and looked at the dark roof, muttering.

"If everyone came in together, it might be okay. I'm afraid..." After a moment of silence, Ah Qing took over the conversation, but stopped abruptly before he finished speaking.

Everyone couldn't help but sigh. Although they were trapped here, they were not in danger of their lives for the time being, and they could even get food. Compared to them, the situation of people outside might be more difficult. Now we can only pray that Xiong Hua either ignores them and takes the others away from here to find a chance to survive somewhere else, or simply brings everyone in. In that case, there may be a chance that they will be brought here by the half-people, and everyone will reunite, which is also a ray of hope. Just don't send people into the city to explore in batches, which will weaken their strength.

Just when everyone looked at each other in silence and helpless, there was a commotion from the direction of the shed. Several black shadows drove away the people sleeping around and walked towards this side. Qiao Yong and others looked at each other and were secretly on guard.

"Brothers, I want to ask something." When they got closer, they could see that they were three men. They were not short, but they were all very thin. Of course, at this time of year, there are not many people who are not thin. Although the three were thin, they were strong, and compared with the others in the gym, their mental state was much better, and the clothes on their bodies were thick enough, which showed that their status was not low. The one who spoke was the tallest of the three. In the dim light, his sunken eyes were like two dark holes with two ghost lights flickering in them, which looked very creepy.

Without any introduction, Qiao Yong and others could guess that even if this person was not David Dong, the boss of the gymnasium, he must be his close subordinate. Of course, they didn't look good to these people, and they were in a bad mood, so they were all silent and lazy to pay attention to him.

"Hey, didn't you hear our boss talking to you? Don't give me face..." Perhaps he was used to being domineering here and couldn't stand such contempt at all, so the other person who came with him couldn't help but get angry. But before he finished speaking, he was stopped by the tall and thin man.

"Shut up!"

The tall and thin man pulled the corner of his mouth, revealing a smile that was not quite a smile, and then sat down cross-legged in front of everyone without being greeted. Although his tone was not polite, it was not condescending. It was just a normal chat with strangers. "Brother Weidong, you still have some say here." At this point, he tilted his head slightly and gestured to another person who was following him.

The man stepped forward and handed over a bag of things. Weidong took it, put it on the ground, and pushed it forward.

"There are still some. We will replenish them after we get the supplies."

The mouth of the black plastic bag was opened, revealing the candies and chocolates inside, as well as a few packs of biscuits, which were the things that Qiao Yong and his team lost the day before. Unexpectedly, the bits and pieces put together actually filled up half a bag. Weidong returned it like this, showing his sincerity, but there was no apology in his tone.

In fact, Weidong did not think he needed to apologize for snatching other people's food. It was OK in the first few months of the apocalypse. Although they were struggling to survive, most people still retained the most basic moral conscience of ordinary people in peacetime. Although there were acts of stealing and robbing, they did not take it for granted. Until they were caught by half-people and brought here, long-term confinement, limited food, and endless cold and fear, the etiquette and shame in everyone's hearts had long been worn out. The only thing left was the idea of ​​the strong preying on the weak and taking all the resources that could keep people alive by any means. So it was completely natural to plunder food from Qiao Yong and others while they were unconscious. Not killing them was considered a great conscience. Now the things are sent back only because they see their ability and value, and also to explore the situation outside and seek the possibility of cooperation. Otherwise, how could they spit out the things they got? Similarly, if his own side was not as strong as others and was robbed of things, he would not complain.

Qiao Yong obviously understood this and had no intention of pursuing the matter. He glanced at the things in front of him and said calmly, "What do you want to know?"

There was no deep hatred between them that could not be resolved. Given their current situation, it would be a win if they could gain one more friend or one less enemy to cause trouble.

——

"Let's look for something that can determine our location and surrounding environment."

In an ordinary three-story hotel, Zhang Yi and his group were standing in the lobby on the first floor with ugly faces and doubts. A door separated them from the others, and they were gathering together to covet the fresh flesh of the living people. The closed heavy wooden door could not stop the banging sound and the stench, but the people who had long been accustomed to all this could completely ignore it, and their emotions were not affected at all. After Shi Pengsan's voice fell, no one said anything extra, and they dispersed consciously, in groups of two or three, and began to search the entire hotel and eliminate the remaining zombies.

Flashlight beams crisscrossed the corridors and stairwells. The footsteps that were tried to be as quiet as possible, the sound of doors opening, and the roars of zombies that suddenly became clear and disappeared from time to time were heard by the separated groups of people. Everything was under control, which made them feel a little relieved.

Half an hour later, the thirteen people gathered in the lobby at the bottom again. They did not find a backup generator, but they did find a few packs of white candles that were slightly thicker than a thumb and more than 20 centimeters long.

A few candles were lit, covering the originally not-so-large space in a hazy yellow light, and also illuminating the strange faces of everyone. And all of this was entirely due to the experience before entering the hotel.

After continuing to move forward for half an hour, they successfully passed through the dense mutant plant forest belt at the exit of the city. It was not dark yet, and there were not many zombies around. However, most of the buildings on both sides of the road were occupied by various mutant plants. Most cities are like this nowadays. It was nothing, but the position they stood when they came out was quite puzzling.

It turned out that they entered the city along the six-lane highway, but after they stepped out of the forest belt, they faced a narrow two-lane road. The surrounding buildings were messy and low, mostly four or five-story buildings. Occasionally, those with more than ten floors were very old, at least more than 20 years old. There was no atmosphere and prosperity that a city entrance should have, but it was more like a forgotten corner in the city.

In this case, everyone reluctantly regarded it as the peculiar layout of this city, which was not impossible. However, when they searched around and could not find any traces left by Qiao Yong and his team, they saw that it was getting dark and were ready to return. When they came back tomorrow, they found that they were actually lost. They could not find the place where they came in, let alone leave. If they still didn't notice the strangeness at this time, then they would have been in vain. What is even more worrying is that the images that Li Muran detected with his mental power are still bizarre.

In this way, everyone knows that they may have encountered trouble. As for whether this trouble is big or small, it is difficult to judge. As night has fallen, they have to find a relatively well-preserved hotel nearby to spend the night.

On the wall of the hotel lobby is a map with the location of the hotel marked on it. It shows several bus routes from the train station, airport, and coach station to the hotel. Surprisingly, there are two scenic spots nearby that can be visited. After searching the entire hotel, only this one thing can make people guess the current location.

"From the map, this should be in Dongcheng District, but the place where we came in..." A group of people gathered in front of the map. Shi Pengsan held a candle and gestured on it with his other hand, his face becoming more and more gloomy.

Judging from the direction, they should have come in from the northwest of the city, which is not close to the East City District. Therefore, for those who have never been to Zhafeng City, the current situation is likely to be caused by their misunderstanding of the city's east-west, south-north divisions. No one would think that they would cross such a large area without knowing it. After a

long period of research without results, everyone had to disperse and began to make dinner with the food they found in the hotel, waiting to explore the surrounding area during the day tomorrow. As for not being able to notify other people outside the city, this is already unavoidable. Anyway, everyone knows that they have entered the city, so they are not overly worried.

Only Li Muran still stood there, with anxiety between his eyebrows, staring at the map, wishing to cut the lines on it and then directly draw a way out of the city.

Everyone brought her here, of course, not because they were attracted by her martial arts, but because her ability can not only help search for people, but also take everyone away when they are in danger or trapped. Who knew that this city was weird and made her ability useless, so her existence was meaningless. If that was all, people were already here, so there was nothing to say. After all, accidents often happen in the end times.

She was worried that Song Yan didn't know she was here.

Because Song Yan's body was completely transformed into a beast, he completely controlled his violent emotions and bloodthirsty desires. Before going to the camp, he didn't dare to get too close to the crowd, so he couldn't go back to the camp in Hulugou, so he simply followed Li Muran and the others to the northwest. But he didn't move with the team, but followed behind from a distance. Every day after the team camped, Li Muran would go to him and talk to him. Even if there was nothing to say, the two of them would just snuggle quietly for a night, and he would be very satisfied and his temper would be much milder. However, it was precisely because of this that she couldn't go today, and she didn't know if he would be unable to control his temper and make trouble.

"Don't worry, with Mr. Song's ability, there shouldn't be anything that can threaten him." Zhang Yi, who had originally wanted to go upstairs to look for clues, saw her thoughts and fell back to comfort her. Hearing this

, Li Muran smiled bitterly. She was worried about the opposite. She was worried that Song Yan would threaten others.

"I'm afraid that Song can't see Muran, so he will go to trouble other people." Nan Shao suddenly interjected from the side, hitting the nail on the head.

Zhang Yi was stunned, and Li Muran was embarrassed. Before he could speak, he heard Nan Shao snort again and continued: "But with the sick ghost here, I believe he can't turn the world upside down."

"..." Zhang Yi. Why does it sound like gloating?

Li Muran was suddenly awakened. Yes, isn't there a sick ghost here? The sick ghost should be able to handle this. Thinking of this, her tense nerves finally relaxed.

After dinner, they arranged the night watch and went to bed early. In order to prevent accidents, none of them went to the guest rooms upstairs, but each of them took a quilt and found a place to sleep in the lobby.

Perhaps because of their strong strength, even if they were trapped, the group was not very nervous, but just patiently waited for dawn.

Chapter 280: Soul Wood Mystery City (4)

In the dark night, a figure nearly three meters tall was running fast on the highway, sometimes standing up and walking fast, sometimes walking on his front legs like an animal, and the snow splashed wherever he passed, leaving deep and hideous claw marks. His deep eyes looked around in the darkness, as if he was looking for something. The huge pressure and anxiety emanating from his body made the mutant beasts walking at night avoid him.

Suddenly, he slowed down his pace. There was a row of four cars parked on the roadside in front of him. There was a familiar smell. There was no one in the car, and a thin layer of snow accumulated on the roof. He looked up at the city shrouded in darkness in front of him, as if thinking, and then he suddenly sped up and ran straight into the city following the smell.

Ten minutes later, another car stopped behind the four cars. Under the light of two headlights, the sick ghost took Zhang Ruiyang out of the car and stood in front of the dark and gloomy city.

His eyes fell forward. Even with the illumination of car lights and flashlights, the darkness of the end of the world was still too deep to melt. The city and the mutant plants were buried in it, making it difficult to distinguish. However, the sick ghost looked as if he could see through such a thick darkness. After a while, a look of surprise appeared on his face. Although this surprise was very subtle and would not be noticed if he had not been paying attention, it was very rare for someone like him who would not be moved even if the sky fell.

"They should still be in the city." Shen Chi took a flashlight and peeled off a layer of snow on the surface to check the traces around, and said. "Not long ago, a medium-sized mutant beast entered from here." After a pause, he asked tentatively: "Shall we go in too?"

"It's useless." The sick ghost shook his head, his eyes still fixed on the darkness ahead. "The plants here are weird. You may not be able to get out if you go in." As he said that, he looked down at Zhang Ruiyang who was looking at him in confusion, "Call back your bug."

"Are you talking about Dudu?" Zhang Ruiyang blinked, looked around, his little eyebrows knotted with worry: "But I haven't seen Dudu for a long time, I don't know where to call it."

The sick ghost then remembered that there were no cultivators around, and they didn't even know the most basic spells. The little guy should not have formed a contract with the bug. After a moment of silence, he said, "I'll teach you."

As he said that, he bent down and took Zhang Ruiyang's hand. He didn't know how he did it, but Zhang Ruiyang felt a pain in the palm of his hand. He cried out in pain and subconsciously wanted to retract his hand. The sick ghost held on tightly, dipped his index finger in the child's palm, drew a few quick strokes, and then let him clench his fist before letting go.

There was a faint smell of blood in the air, which Shen Chi and the other two might not be able to smell, but it could not escape Zhang Ruiyang's sensitive nose. He suspected that his palm might be bleeding, and wanted to open his hand to see, but he didn't dare to disobey the sick ghost, so he could only bear it.

"Press your fist on your chest and think about the bug silently." The sick ghost ordered.

Zhang Ruiyang said "oh" and did as he was told. A few minutes later, he groaned and covered his mouth with his other hand, looking at the sick ghost in fear.

"I... I seem to have been seen by Dudu..." He said in a low voice under his little hand, his eyes wide open, and timidly looked into the darkness around him.

Shen Chi, who was originally waiting for the big and small to finish the farce and go into the city to find someone, was surprised and showed a doubtful expression on his face. Leng Fengchen's eyes also flashed with surprise. Although he thought that it was just a child who was easily misled and had hallucinations, he was still a little curious about what the sick ghost had drawn on Zhang Ruiyang's palm. Only Yuan Jinshu curled his lips and didn't take it seriously.

The sick ghost seemed to be unaware of the reactions of the three people. He hummed as a response to Zhang Ruiyang's words, and then fell silent.

Zhang Ruiyang didn't know what he meant. He wanted to continue to do it as he had taught before, but he was a little scared. He hesitated, put down the little hand covering his mouth, quietly grabbed his sleeve, and moved closer.

The surroundings fell into a strange silence. After waiting for a while, Shen Chi, who had already believed it a little, saw that there was no follow-up. He was disappointed and impatient. He thought that the sick ghost was just playing tricks there. He was about to urge him to go to the city to find someone, but he suddenly heard the sound of the wind. Before he could react, he saw a black thing as big as a buffalo falling in front of Zhang Ruiyang.

The thing looked huge, but it landed silently, giving people a very light and agile feeling, which formed a sharp contrast with its heavy body. Not only Shen Chi, but also Leng Fengchen and Yuan Jinshu were startled and reflexively took a defensive posture. But Zhang Ruiyang cheered, opened his hands happily, and pounced on the head of the huge monster.

"Dudu, you are here? Did you hear me calling you? Where have you been? Why didn't you come back? I missed you so much. Oh, you seem to have grown up again. If you grow up, will you be as big as a building? I will definitely need to build stairs to climb up..." Seeing his long-lost friend, the little guy was curious and happy, and even his missing father was temporarily thrown aside.

Dudu was also very considerate, and his tentacles were shaking, as if responding.

I met the uncles and aunts I knew before, and met two little friends, one who likes to curse, one who doesn't like to talk, and a little sister who likes to bite her fingers... I feel that there are many things I want to share with my friends. Once Zhang Ruiyang opened his mouth, he couldn't stop, and the sick ghost had to interrupt him.

"Let's do something."

Zhang Ruiyang uttered an "ah" before reacting. He hurriedly pushed Dudu forward and said, "Dudu, my dad is missing again. Can you help me find my dad?"

Shen Chi couldn't help but twitch his mouth when he heard this. He wondered if your dad often disappeared. Although he thought so, he was still very surprised that the child could get along well with a mutant beast. Yuan Jinshu had seen Dudu, but he didn't think anything of it. Leng Fengchen had already begun to carefully think about the method that the sick ghost taught Zhang Ruiyang to summon Dudu. He really wanted to know if this method was effective for all creatures.

"Go and clean up the mutant plants on the way into the city. Don't eat the crystal core yet. Bring it back for me to see." The sick ghost said to Dudu. His tone was very light and indifferent. It didn't sound like an order, but it gave people a feeling that they should obey as a matter of course.

Dudu had always been afraid of him, so he didn't dare to pretend that he didn't understand what he said, and he didn't hesitate to cheat. He gently touched Zhang Ruiyang with his big head, then turned around, spread his wings, and dived into the dark mutant plant forest in front. There

was a rustling sound in the darkness, like silkworms eating mulberry leaves, or like wind blowing through bamboo shoots. Shen Chi took a flashlight to shine, and saw that the mutant plants were shaking wildly, vine whips waving, thorns cascading, smoke swirling, and all kinds of natural attack methods were used, as if they were fighting desperately with people, but he couldn't find the shadow of the big black mutant beast. However, this alone was enough to shock him, and at the same time he also saw the way to raise mutant beasts to protect humans and fight mutant creatures and zombies. He wished he could fly back to Ruzhou immediately and tell Song Ting. You know, if this matter can be done, the strength of their base will be greatly strengthened, and they will have more power to compete with the capital, and at the same time, it will also give the surviving humans more reliance to survive.

Boom——, there was a loud noise, and the ground seemed to shake. Under the headlights, snow powder and dust could be seen flying in the direction of the sight. Everyone subconsciously covered their faces to block it. The next moment, the eardrums in the ears vibrated, as if pierced by some sharp sound, and it hurt, but there was no sound at all. I just felt dizzy and nauseous. Even Leng Fengchen, who had been thinking about how to get the "summoning technique", frowned and looked up into the darkness.

All the sounds disappeared, and the surroundings returned to silence again. People seemed to have experienced a strange hallucination, until the bruised and battered Dudu limped and dragged something backwards and struggled to crawl out, confirming that a big battle had indeed taken place just now.

"Dudu, are you injured?" Zhang Ruiyang was shocked when he saw Dudu's appearance, and hurried over to help pull the thing. I didn't pay attention to what it was, but when I saw the little friend's wings were broken in half and drooping, and there were many deep and bleeding scars on the black shell, I was immediately heartbroken and tears welled up in my eyes, and I didn't know what to do.

Faced with this situation, as an adult with a relatively normal moral value of respecting the elderly and loving the young, Shen Chi could not just stand by and watch. He immediately stepped forward and helped drag the big thing that he could not see for the time being. Once he started, he found that it was very heavy. If he was alone, he might not be able to move it, so he couldn't help but become curious.

Dudu seemed to be very anxious about the things he dragged back. When Shen Chi came over, he shook his broken antennae vigilantly and opened his injured wings slightly. He looked like he would fight to the death if he dared to show the slightest intention of snatching it. He really didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and at the same time secretly sighed that there was such a human-like mutant beast. In addition, until now he didn't realize that the one in front of him was actually a mutated insect, otherwise he would be even more surprised.

Yuan Jinshu was not as self-conscious as him. He originally stood by with his arms folded, looking as if it had nothing to do with him. It was not until he was glanced at by the sick ghost that he slowly and reluctantly stepped forward to help.

Leng Fengchen was full of curiosity about Dudu and wanted to know what was dragged out, but he had no intention of dirtying his hands, so he just watched from a distance.

Even with the addition of two adult men, Dudu did not let go and walked away. He still took on the main force of dragging until he pulled the thing in front of the sick ghost, then he put it down and looked at the sick ghost flatteringly.

Shen Chi and the other two finally saw what it was and were immediately horrified.

The huge humanoid object, which was five meters long, had a head, limbs, and even facial features. It looked very much like a swollen corpse, but it was all black, with strange patterns and snake-like roots, making it difficult to determine what it was. This corpse-like object was also scarred, with broken roots and a big hole in the heart of the chest. Black liquid oozed from the broken holes, and the smell was fishy.

Mutated ginseng into a spirit?

Such strange thoughts popped up in the minds of the three people at the same time, but when they thought about if it was really a mutated ginseng, they couldn't help but shudder at the same time. That's too disgusting!

Dudu spit out a fist-sized heart-shaped black crystal core on the ground, and when he was about to continue, the sick ghost waved his hand to stop it. The sick ghost bent down and picked up the black crystal core. After examining it carefully, he seemed to have confirmed something. He asked Zhang Ruiyang for a dagger, came to the head of the "giant corpse", split open the eyebrows, picked out a dark brown shelled walnut-like thing from it, and put it away. Then he said to Dudu, "Eat it."

Dudu's two small eyes seemed to have a light flashing, and then he buried his head and bit the "giant corpse" without any hesitation. It ate very quickly. As one of the arms of the giant corpse gradually disappeared, the wounds on its body began to heal at a miraculous speed, shocking Shen Chi and others who were watching.

"What on earth is this?" Shen Chi couldn't help asking.

Yuan Jinshu's eyes shot out greedy light, and Leng Fengchen was also eager to try, wanting to keep a part of the "giant corpse" for research, but before taking action, it would be better to confirm the sick ghost's thoughts and the origin of this thing.

"Dark Soul Wood." The sick ghost replied, and then described the plant in a few words.

The Dark Soul Wood is a very special plant that only grows in places with thick dark and turbid air. It feeds on all kinds of negative emotions. In addition to the main roots and roots buried deep underground, it does not have stems, branches and leaves like other plants, but it can form projections of various plant communities on the ground, while emitting a hallucinogenic fragrance, creating a forest environment that is very close to the real thing, making it difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake. Not only that, wherever they grow, there will be overlapping and intertwining spaces, forming a natural dilemma, imprisoning all kinds of creatures that break into it, so that all kinds of negative extreme emotions are endless.

"The Dark Soul Wood is a great tonic for dark beasts, but it has no effect on humans." The sick ghost glanced at Yuan Jinshu and Leng Fengchen lightly, perhaps seeing their thoughts, and finally said this sentence and stopped.

At this moment, the Dark Soul Wood had been eaten for the most part, and the injuries on Dudu's body were almost healed. But it did not stop eating, and the sick ghost did not stop it.

No one expected that there would be such a strange species. After all, it was dark, and the three of them had not seen the so-called false forest projections with their own eyes. It was obviously impossible to believe it completely. But the sick ghost said it clearly and handled it so well, so it was really hard not to believe it. Unlike Yuan Jinshu and Leng Fengchen, Shen Chi was more concerned about Nan Shao and his group who had not returned until now, so after thinking about it, he picked up the flashlight and walked in the direction where Dudu retreated.

It was easy to tell whether it was true or not. After all, if it was true as the sick ghost said, some of the plant communities were formed by the projection of the dark soul tree and did not really exist, then when the dark soul tree had been dug out, those projections should have disappeared and a blank area would appear. What he had to do now was to find that blank area. Judging from the sound that had come before, the place where the dark soul tree was located should not be too far away, which was also the main reason why he chose to go there to verify. Otherwise, he would not be tired of living alone in the mutant jungle at night.

The one who moved faster was the curious Leng Fengchen. He disappeared in a flash, which cast a shadow on Shen Chi's heart. In terms of personal strength, even if he and his comrades awakened their superpowers, they still had an insurmountable gap with the Wuzong people. Can such a gap really be filled by hot weapons?

Shaking his head, he temporarily put this uneasy thought behind his mind. He gathered his thoughts and walked into the darkness ahead, not daring to be distracted at this time.

Yuan Jinshu glanced at Shen Chi's back with disdain, still standing there without moving. Without the consent of the sick ghost, he did not dare to act on his own. Now that there were two people to investigate for him, he did not need to beg the consumptive ghost in a humble manner.

"Dudu eats so much!" The childish exclamation came over, which diverted Yuan Jinshu's mind and looked at the child squatting next to the mutant insect that was biting the dark soul wood hard. Such a small ball always gave people the illusion that it would break with a slight pinch. He narrowed his eyes and saw that the kid had good roots. If he was brought back to the sect, it would be possible for him to be accepted by the elders or the sect master and become a disciple of the top three sects. Unfortunately, he didn't dare to think of this idea, at least not before he was completely out of the control of the sick ghost.

Zhang Ruiyang didn't know the complicated thoughts of the adults. Seeing that Dudu was fine, he was not so nervous. He squatted quietly beside him and waited for Dudu to finish eating.

Soon, Shen Chi and Leng Fengchen, who went to check the situation, came back one after another. The expressions of both of them were very subtle. It was hard to tell whether they were surprised or shocked, or something else. In short, the way they looked at the sick ghost had changed slightly, with a hint of inexplicable meaning, and they didn't say anything more.

It took a few more minutes for Dudu to solve the huge dark soul wood. The body that was originally as big as a buffalo seemed to have grown a circle. It burped, rubbed Zhang Ruiyang with its tentacles with satisfaction, and then looked at the sick ghost with respect, waiting for his instructions. Zhang Ruiyang also looked at the sick ghost, waiting eagerly for him to say that he wanted to go in and find his father.

"The dark soul tree does not grow alone. Go around the city and pull out the others. Bring these two back, and you can eat the rest." The sick ghost said to Dudu, referring to the heart core and brain core.

Dudu's two little eyes lit up at once, and he nodded repeatedly. Then he ignored Zhang Ruiyang, flapped his wings, and disappeared into the darkness in the blink of an eye. Zhang Ruiyang wanted to tell it to be careful, but he didn't have time. He shook his little head helplessly and sighed heavily.

"Let's go back." The sick ghost retracted his gaze and said to the others.

"Ah?" Zhang Ruiyang was dumbfounded. He had been silent all this time because he believed in the sick ghost and waited obediently for him to take him to find his father. Who knew that he had to go back before he even saw his father's shadow? It was a bit hard to accept for a while. "Uncle Bing, aren't we going to find Dad and the others?"

In fact, not only him, but also Shen Chi and the other two were a little surprised. Yuan Jinshu and Leng Fengchen didn't care much about whether to go to rescue people or not, but the sudden action of the sick ghost still surprised them a little. Shen Chi couldn't help but object, but the sick ghost spoke again.

"As long as they can solve the dilemma here, they can handle the rest by themselves. It's inconvenient to find someone in the dark. If they haven't come back tomorrow, we will come again." This is an explanation.

Shen Chi was speechless after hearing this. If Nan Shao and his group can't handle it, they will just be sent food if they go in. What's more, there is Li Muran. Even if they can't beat them, they can always run away.

Zhang Ruiyang seemed to understand, although he was reluctant in his heart, but he was used to being obedient, and he didn't learn the trick of using crying to force adults to achieve his goals, so he could only say "oh" sullenly. But after all, he was a little unwilling, and asked hesitantly: "What about Dudu, we won't wait for it? What if it can't beat the dark... dark soul tree?"

"No, it has a natural restraining effect on mutant plants." The sick ghost said lightly.

"But it was injured just now." Zhang Ruiyang still wanted to argue.

The sick ghost didn't say anything, just pinched his neck and carried the little guy into the car.