"Zhang Qian, why do you want to divorce, why do you want to leave me?"

"Because I've had enough, I've had enough of this slum, I've had enough of eating this filthy food every day, and I've had enough of you!"

"Aren't I greedy to go out to work every day in the dark and work hard to support you and our baby daughter?"

"So what, your so-called job is just to help with chores in the blacksmith shop, and the money you earn is not enough to buy basic food, let alone have the opportunity to leave the slums and move to the rich area of the metropolis, do you want me and Xiaoguo to suffer with you for the rest of your life? Liu Gongzi has already told me, let me go with his caravan, leave this slum, and go to the rich area of Vermilion Bird City, he will let me live a life of fine clothes and food. So I decided to take my daughter Xiaoguo and leave with Liu Gongzi. ”

"No—I'm not going to stop you if you're leaving, I know you've never really loved me since you've been with me, but you can't take my precious daughter with you!"

Chen Ning let out a roar and rushed towards his wife, wanting to snatch back the daughter whose wife was holding her little hand.

But when he rushed towards Zhang Qian, the dilapidated door of the house was kicked open with a bang, and several soldiers in black uniforms rushed in, although there were only a few people, but everyone's eyes were extremely indifferent, revealing a murderous aura all over their bodies. Their armband is covered with a tomahawk with the phonetic letters LIU underneath. People in the slums know that this pattern is the family crest of the Liu family's caravan.

After several caravan escorts entered, a handsome man with a shiny back, a white shirt and black trousers, and a pair of shiny leather boots on his feet also entered.

Chen Ning looked at this aristocratic man in shock, knowing that this guy was Liu Gongzi, Liu Ming, from the rich area of Vermilion Bird City.

Liu Ming was holding a white handkerchief in his hand, and after coming in, he smelled the rancid smell in the room, and subconsciously covered his nose with a handkerchief, he glanced at Chen Ning, and then took his eyes off Chen Ning and fell on Zhang Qian, who looked beautiful and charming. Liu Ming's eyes glanced at Zhang Qian's convex figure a few times before he calmly spoke: "Miss Zhang Qian, my caravan has been replenished and will leave here soon." What did you think about the suggestion I told you last night?"

Zhang Qian looked at Liu Gongzi, who was gorgeously dressed and had an extraordinary temperament, her eyes were hot, and she said without hesitation: "I promised to go with you, but I have a small request." ”

Liu Ming frowned slightly when he heard this: "Let's hear it." ”

Although Zhang Qian is plain-faced, and the clothes she wears are also very dirty and shabby, Liu Ming, who has been fooling around since she was a child, can still see at a glance that this woman is definitely a superb beauty, as long as she takes it back and dresses it up a little, she can be transformed into a beauty who captivates the country and the city.

Originally, in the general environment of the last days, in a lawless place like the slums, with Liu Ming's strength, he could have forcibly taken Zhang Qian away without any.

However, Liu Ming likes women to go with him voluntarily, and forcibly abduction is the last resort to lure him.

So Liu Ming threw out his identity as the third son of the Liu family in Vermilion Bird City, and asked Zhang Qian if he was willing to go with him and go to the rich area of Vermilion Bird City to live a life of fine clothes and fine food?

Since the outbreak of the global zombie virus hundreds of years ago, many villages and towns have fallen, small and medium-sized cities have been reduced to slums, and some metropolises have built high-walled power grids and established rich areas.

Living in a wealthy area is the expectation of the vast majority of slum dwellers, but in fact, 95 percent of people have no chance of entering a rich area even if they struggle all their lives. They would work hard all their lives in the slums, providing a steady stream of supplies to the rich people, who saw the slum people as the animals that worked for them.

If it's just a poor life, it's even more terrifying, wandering zombies often attack these slums without many fortifications. If there are only sporadic zombies, then the slums can naturally be handled, and the most feared thing is the zombie frenzy, where thousands of zombies gather together. Many slums have been completely destroyed by the zombie frenzy.

Zhang Qian had no choice at the beginning, a woman was lonely and couldn't survive in the slums of the last days, so she married Chen Ning.

When Liu Ming appeared in front of her and said that he could take her to the rich area, she was moved.

After a night of consideration, she began a showdown with Chen Ning, decided to leave Chen Ning, take her three-year-old daughter Xiaoguo, and follow Liu Ming to Suzaku City to live a good life.

Zhang Qian said her conditions: "Liu Gongzi, I can go with you, be your woman, but I want to take my daughter Xiaoguo to Vermilion Bird City together." ”

Liu Ming glanced at the timid three-year-old daughter who was holding Zhang Qian's hand, although the little face was dirty, but the well-defined lines outlined the childish shape of a stunning girl in the future, and the corners of Liu Ming's mouth rose slightly: "Okay, let's go." ”

"Thank you, Liu Gongzi!"

Zhang Qian pulled her little daughter Xiaoguo, and was about to leave here with joy on her face, she had no nostalgia for this dirty and dilapidated home and her former husband Chen Ning.

Chen Ning, who was so frightened by Liu Ming and others because of his humble identity that he didn't dare to move, saw Zhang Qian leaving with his daughter, his face changed drastically, he finally couldn't help it, his face showed anger, and he roared in a low voice: "You can leave if you want to, but you can't take my daughter away!"

"Daddy—"

Although Xiaoguo didn't know what was going on, she saw her father's appearance and realized that something bad seemed to be happening. Her father has doted on her since she was a child, she is more cordial to her father than her mother, and she was frightened by her father's low roar at this time, crying and shouting Dad, trying to break free of Zhang Qian's hand and rushing towards Chen Ning.

But Zhang Qian held her daughter's hand and didn't let her daughter pass.

Chen Ning knew that his wife actually had no feelings for him, but he really cared about his daughter very much, which was his belief that he could persist in living in this bad world, so when he saw Zhang Qian holding his daughter's hand and not letting go, he wanted to rush over angrily.

But when he just rushed towards Zhang Qian, one of the several Liu family caravan guards, a bearded man, stopped in front of Chen Ning, and without waiting for Chen Ning to react, this cheeked warrior had already flown up and kicked heavily on Chen Ning's chest, directly kicking Chen Ning upside down and flying out, smashing the dilapidated table in the room with a bang.

When her daughter Xiaoguo saw her father being beaten, she screamed all of a sudden, crying and making trouble, but Zhang Qian's face was indifferent and she held Xiaoguo's hand stubbornly.

Chen Ning was kicked by this cheeked man, and his bones were about to fall apart, his chest hurt like a hammer, he struggled hard, his throat was sweet, and he vomited a mouthful of blood with a wow. Only then did he hold his chest and stand up straight, looking at Liu Ming, Zhang Qian and others stubbornly, and gritted his teeth while walking again: "Give my daughter back to me!"

The cheeky man saw that Chen Ning, who was kicked over by him, could still struggle, and was a little surprised by the ability of this untouchable person's body to resist beating, but he was also a little annoyed and angry, and even procrastinated to deal with a humble untouchable, Liu Gongzi must have felt that he was not capable.

This thought rose in the heart of the cheeked man, and his triangular snake eyes flashed with murderous aura, squinting his eyes at Chen Ning, who came over again to rob people, and touched his waist with his right hand, which was a shotgun. This was originally a sharp weapon for caravan guards to deal with zombies or robbers at close range in the wilderness, but the bearded man now plans to use this gun to directly bombard Chen Ning.

Zhang Qian saw the cheeked man's hand on the handle of the shotgun, realized something, and hurriedly said, "Don't kill him." ”

But the cheeked man didn't even look at Zhang Qian, and these people only obeyed Liu Ming's orders.

Zhang Qian immediately turned her head to look at Liu Ming: "Don't kill him, I don't want my daughter to see her father killed in front of her, thus leaving a shadow." ”

At this moment, Chen Ning had already rushed over desperately, and the man with cheeks did not hesitate to take out his shotgun, and the muzzle of the black hole was pointed at Chen Ning.

However, at this time, under Zhang Qian's prayer, Liu Ming finally spoke: "Liu Lei, leave him a dog's life." ”

Liu Lei, the cheeked man who was already about to pull the trigger, heard Liu Ming's order, and faced Chen Ning, who had already pounced in front of him, he did not hesitate to smash the butt of his backhand towards Chen Ning's head.

With a bang, blood flashed on Chen Ning's face, half of his face was blurred with blood, and he flew out obliquely and fell to the ground.

Chen Ning was like a beast on the verge of death, lying in a pool of blood, staring at his daughter's direction, and a hoarse voice came out of his throat: "Give it back, give me back my daughter......"

Liu Ming took out a delicate pocket watch, looked at the time, and then said lightly: "We've been delayed here for a long time, let's go." ”

Zhang Qian picked up her daughter who was crying desperately and left with Liu Ming and others.

"Don't ...... Don't take my daughter ......"

Chen Ning wanted to struggle to chase after him, but he was too seriously injured, coupled with grief and anger, and his eyes went black and he passed out.

When he woke up again, he found that he was already lying on the bed, and an old man in ragged clothes appeared in front of him: "Chen Ning, you woke up, I thought you were going to die!"

This old man was none other than Chen Ning's neighbor, named Zhao Xing, who worked with Chen Ning in the slum bull blacksmith shop in Heishui Town. Zhao Xing is untidy, and he has a good relationship with Chen Ning on weekdays.

This time, it was obvious that Lao Zhao knew that something had happened to Chen Ning's family, and he came over in time to save Chen Ning.

Chen Ning struggled to sit up from the bed, took Lao Zhao's hand, and asked anxiously, "Lao Zhao, where are my wife and daughter?"

Lao Zhao glanced at Chen Ning with pity, sighed and said, "Chen Ning, Zhang Qian, that woman has already left with your daughter and Liu Gongzi's caravan." I have long seen it, but it has always been difficult to tell you that the woman is not a person who is willing to live a hard life, she was with you at the beginning, but she didn't have a good choice for a while. Even if a woman like her doesn't leave you because of Liu Gongzi, she will betray you because of a big boss. It's only a matter of time before she leaves you, but I didn't expect her to take Xiaoguo away, who doesn't know that Xiaoguo is your baby!"

When Chen Ning heard that Zhang Qian had already left with her daughter and went to the metropolis Vermilion Bird City to live the life she had dreamed of, he couldn't help but feel discouraged and desperate, and lay down again weakly.

Lao Chen brought a bowl of wild vegetable soup with a few oil flowers floating on it, put it next to Chen Ning's bed, and said: "Chen Ning, although your wife and daughter are gone, you still have to live, in addition to trying to live, how can we face this mocking world? After drinking this bowl of wild vegetable soup, you have been in a coma for two days, and you have not come to work in the blacksmith shop, and the boss Tian Liniu has already been angry, saying that if you don't come to work in the blacksmith shop tomorrow, you don't have to come again." You understand, if you lose this job, you will starve to death. ”

Lao Chen saw that Chen Ning seemed a little disheartened, his eyes rolled twice, and added: "If you die, you will really never see your daughter, as long as you live, you will have the opportunity to go to Vermilion Bird City and see her again!"

When Chen Ning heard this, he suddenly opened his eyes, and his originally desperate eyes once again showed hope.

Yes, if you live, you will have a chance to see your daughter again, and you will have a chance to snatch your daughter back!

Chen Ning struggled without hesitation, picked up the bowl of wild vegetable soup, and drank it gurglingly, drinking too quickly, choking, and tears came out.

The next day, Chen Ning returned to the only blacksmith shop in Blackwater Town, the bull blacksmith shop.

Tian Liniu is a middle-aged bald and fat man of more than 200 catties, and he can be regarded as a figure with status in Heishui Town.

He had dozens of workers under him to work for, and his blacksmith shop focused on crafting common sword weapons. Of course, they also help repair firearms on a part-time basis, and they are not capable of repairing complex firearms here, but problems such as damage to the wooden butt of a rifle, the bull blacksmith is absolutely competent.

Tian Liniu likes to lecture the workers before they start work every day, and this morning he saw Chen Ning among the workers, and said with a sneer: "Chen Ning, I thought you wouldn't come to work here anymore, you are absent from work for two days, and you will be deducted half a month's salary this month, no opinion." ”

The people around looked at Chen Ning with pity, Tian Liniu is notoriously stingy, always looking for various reasons to deduct the workers' money, Chen Ning was absent from work for two days this time, and was deducted half a month's salary by Tian Liniu, which was unlucky.

Chen Ning bit his lip and said that he had no opinion, but his heart was sinking, not because he was deducted half a month's salary, but because he suddenly realized that in this slum blacksmith shop, even if he worked hard all his life, he would not be able to save enough money to go to the rich area to see his daughter, let alone go to Vermilion Bird City to argue with the Liu family and snatch back his daughter.

He had to make a change!

Just when Chen Ning was thinking this, suddenly there was an earth-shattering explosion outside, and even the earth trembled twice.

Everyone changed color one after another, and they all said what was going on, where did the explosion come from, shouldn't there be a zombie frenzy attacking Blackwater Town?

Chen Ning followed Tian Liniu and the others to rush out of the blacksmith shop in shock, only to find that the simple city gate used to defend against the invasion of zombies in Heishui Town was directly bombed open with explosives. Several large military trucks rumbled in, and then a large truck, the truck was welded with an iron cage, and in the iron cage was tied with an iron chain, a zombie more than two meters high and looked particularly burly and terrifying.

Behind the wagons carrying zombies, there were several large military trucks, and the trucks were full of soldiers, all of whom were soldiers from the southern provinces of the Chinese Empire.

It turned out that these domineering imperial soldiers, because the gate of the town was not opened in time, they directly smashed the city gate.

Tian Liniu, who was beside Chen Ning, was well-informed, and when he saw the zombies in the iron cage of the truck, he couldn't help but exclaim: "Oh my God, it's actually a fourth-level zombie among the zombies, a predator!"

Chen Ning was shocked when he heard this, and carefully looked at the big zombie with the iron cage of the truck in the distance, the zombie's head was rotten, and its whole body was green in color, but the body muscles seemed to be very strong, especially the arms, which were extremely thick, so thick that they looked a little out of harmony with the proportions of the body.

Chen Ning had heard that zombies would also evolve, and zombies also had levels, the lowest level was an ordinary first-level walking corpse, the most common and the most numerous category, characterized by slow speed, very unagile reactions, and strength comparable to normal people, depending on individual differences.

The second-level zombies are called zombies, which are evolved from walking corpses, and their body muscles are stiff and extraordinarily powerful, twice as powerful as ordinary people, but they move a little slowly.

The third-level zombie is called the Raider, which is also mutated and evolved from ordinary walking corpses, and its strength is similar to that of normal people, but it has a faster movement speed than ordinary people, so the Raider zombies are more terrifying than zombies and have greater lethality.

The fourth level is the predator in front of you, this zombie combines the strong and powerful body of a zombie with the speed of an assaulter, and it is a terrifying zombie that combines strength and speed. This kind of zombie is already a relatively high-level zombie, relatively rare, this kind of zombie is a headache for even the regular army of the empire.

There are more powerful zombies on top of the predators, such as the fifth-level Cerberus zombies, which have deviated from their human form and have obvious animal characteristics, attacking with sharp claws and sharp teeth.

The sixth-level Frieza zombie, this zombie evolved from the Cerberus zombie, half-human, half-beast, with a strong tail, and a certain amount of intelligence, knows how to gather wandering zombies together on a small scale.

The seventh-level one is called the Titan Zombie, which is generally produced by a pile of corpses that are fused together, generally more than three meters tall and weighing more than one ton. It has no head, but it has eyes all over its body, and it has a very large body and unrivaled strength, and is capable of destroying ordinary fortifications such as city walls.

In fact, there are more higher-level zombies, but Chen Ning and others in the ordinary slums don't know about it.

The imperial army in front of them is obviously elite, and it is estimated that they are capturing high-level zombies and returning them to the scientists for study. Humans need to keep studying these high-level zombies and understanding them before they can know how to fight them and completely destroy them.

The military truck and the truck carrying the predator zombies stopped as they entered Blackwater.

I saw the door of the first truck open, and an officer with a shaved head jumped from the cab of the big truck with a swift movement.

The other well-trained fighters on the trucks also came down one after another, cheering, but there was only the sound of movement, and no one spoke.

Chen Ning and the other townspeople all looked at these imperial warriors in shock, it was obvious that these warriors were definitely the elite of the elite, the trump card of the trump cards.

The bald officer jumped down, looked around at the residents who were hiding far away around him with an expressionless face, and shouted coldly: "Who is the supreme commander here?"

"It's me!"

A well-dressed middle-aged man greeted him with two of his subordinates, this middle-aged man was the mayor of Blackwater Town, and his name was Xu Liang.

Xu Liang looked at the brochure of this bald officer, and then said flatteringly: "Hello this major, I am Xu Liang, the mayor of the town here, what can I do for you?"

The bald major pointed to his soldiers: "Prepare a lunch for a hundred people, move quickly." ”

Xu Liang was a little embarrassed when he heard this, after all, there was no surplus grain in the landlord's house these years. Although Xu Liang can handle the meal for 100 people, he can only take food out of his house to cook. In the apocalyptic era, food is very precious, Xu Liang is reluctant!

However, in the past, these were battle-hardened imperial soldiers, and they often fought with zombies, killing a lot of zombies, and of course, if they killed, they would definitely not blink. Xu Liang secretly weighed the pros and cons, gritted his teeth and said, "Immediately go to the kitchen and quickly prepare a lunch for a hundred people." ”

After Xu Liang finished speaking, he then said to the bald major flatteringly: "Major, please come to my house and sit for a while." ”

But the bald major didn't look at Xu Liang again, and looked at the signboard of Chen Ning's bull blacksmith shop, and then he strode over: "Who is the boss?"

Tian Liniu greeted him with a flattering smile: "Major, I am, I am." ”

The bald major said coldly: "When my troops were exterminating a group of zombies, the weapons were seriously damaged, do you have standard weapons here, hand axes or machetes are fine." ”

When Tian Liniu heard this, he knew that business was coming, and said with a smile that there were standard axes and daggers.

Don't look at these imperial warriors are very vicious and arrogant, but they often hunt zombies, and they are rewarded a lot, they are all very rich financiers, and they are especially willing to spend money on weapons.

Bald Major: "Fifty axes and daggers each, the price is easy to say, but the quality must be passable." If it's a failing product, I'll cut off your head with these weapons. ”

Tian Liniu hurriedly said: "Major, don't worry, the quality of the weapons produced by our bull blacksmith shop is absolutely excellent. ”

Bald Major: "Will you repair the rifles, we have a dozen rifles with broken hilts." ”

Tian Liniu: "Yes, I'm sure I'll help you repair it." ”

The bald major turned around and instructed his deputy: "Give them the damaged guns, and in an hour I will see the repaired rifles, or else I will bear the consequences." ”

Tian Liniu wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and kept hunching his waist to promise: "It must be repaired, it must be repaired." ”

The mayor of the town, Xu Liang, and the owner of the bull blacksmith shop, Tian Liniu, are recognized as the two most powerful people in Heishui Town, one is powerful, and the other is rich.

But at this moment, Chen Ning looked at these two rich and powerful people, but he was like two pugs to please this bald major.

Chen Ning was completely shocked, he looked at the bald major who was arrogant and in charge of life and death, and was deeply shocked by the invisible domineering aura that overflowed from the bald major's body.

When Chen Ning was deducted from his salary by Tian Liniu, he had already realized that if he stayed in the slums, he would never have the opportunity to argue with Liu Ming of the Liu family in Suzaku City, the capital of the southern province, and he would never want to get his daughter back, he had to make a major life change.

But he didn't know how to do it himself to have the opportunity to completely change his life.

Only at this time, he looked at the cold and domineering bald major, and a strong desire suddenly appeared in his heart. He wants to enter the Imperial Army, and he wants to be an officer like a bald major who can control the life and death of others. He wants to snatch back his precious little daughter, and he wants Liu Ming, the so-called wealthy son, and Zhang Qian, a ruthless bitch like Zhang Qian, to prostrate at his feet and beg for mercy!