The first puff of black smoke came out.

The chimney is not huge, but this first puff of black smoke has a certain inexplicable stirring in people's hearts - three days after the incident, the surviving people can finally burn those dead of their own kind. This is almost the only thing that can be done for the dead.

This is a place located in a remote place in the eastern suburbs of Minghu City.

The only purpose of this place's existence is to burn corpses.

A few days ago, it had been constantly rising black smoke every day, but for the first time in nearly three days, it was the first time.

Carloads of bodies are still being transported.

The people in charge of this matter were silent, one by one, carrying their dead compatriots.

Zhao Zijian stood in the courtyard outside the incineration room, looking up at the chimney in silence.

Including Qin Bingxuan, more than a dozen people stood there with him, looking up at the not too tall chimney with almost unison.

There are no statistics, not even rough statistics, cataclysms are sudden, countless people are killed, great enemies are around, and people are really unable to take care of the affairs of too many dead people. But there are probably a number of people alive.

The rest are all dead.

Luckily, it was already December, and even if the winter in Minghu City wasn't too cold, it was still enough for the corpses not to decay too quickly.

Suggestions for dealing with the dead varied, most of which did not believe that much time and effort should be devoted to dealing with the matter – burning in the streets was the opinion of the majority. Save time, effort, and manpower. Anyway, there is only one biggest goal, and that is not to cause an outbreak of epidemics.

But after knowing that there was a crematorium not far from the eastern suburbs, Zhao Zijian insisted that people must be transported over and burned - this is a bit capricious and seems a bit hypocritical, but the strange thing is that when the news came out, it was absolutely approved by most of the people below.

You know, when the previous meeting was held to discuss this matter, although no one at the top would eventually oppose him on this kind of matter, in fact, everyone was reluctant to do so.

Everyone has too many things to do, and it is really a bit unworthy to waste too much time and manpower for the dead in this kind of thing - Zhao Zijian understands their considerations, but he insists.

So, there is this scene today.

The first major thing that this small spontaneous organization headed by Zhao Zijian, Qin Bingxuan, Wei Lu and others after the disaster was to solemnly burn the bodies of the deceased after the large-scale cleaning of roads and the restoration of traffic.

At the same time, the collection and sorting of materials, the establishment of their own well-functioning small departments, the restoration of electricity, communications, etc., seem to be a little too logical and some are not worth mentioning.

Black smoke continued to rise into the sky.

Almost all of them have no family members, and there are so many dead that it is impossible to separate the ashes of a single corpse for them and put them alone. Their ashes will be collected and simply buried in a pit.

Therefore, the black smoke does not stop, and the corpse incinerator rarely does not stop burning and continues to burn.

Zhao Zijian stood in the courtyard for a few minutes, finally bowed his head, then turned around and said, "Let's go, go back!"

Qin Bingxuan nodded and followed his footsteps.

The two walked out slowly, side by side, and the others either stayed where they were and continued to organize the matter, or even if they were keeping up, they were all consciously seven or eight steps behind, giving the two of them space to talk.

Lately, both of them have been really busy.

Zhao Zijian was busy parading by force.

Since establishing a base at Qidong University, he has to take a helicopter around the city several times a day, and each time he travels, the circle around is getting bigger and bigger, using pure force to threaten at least hundreds of Beijing birds to continue to migrate around, for the survivors in the city, to win a safer space to clean up the situation.

This work, at least temporarily, has to be him.

And Qin Bingxuan was busy arranging everything and scheduling everything.

Personnel, materials, distribution, reconciliation, decision-making, almost everything is in his charge.

So much so that in the past two days, there has been little time for the two of them to come together and talk - there is, but there are meetings of several or a dozen people. But on that occasion, everyone is discussing problems and deciding big things together, and it is obviously not suitable for them to talk about things.

So, by burning the corpse, Zhao Zijian suspended his patrol, and Qin Bingxuan also took a short time to come out and accompany him, seize this time, and talk to him about some things.

The two walked out for a distance, and he said: "In the past night, we got in touch with several cities, and the situation was similar to that of Yunzhou, which was not very good. ”

Zhao Zijian nodded slowly and said, "These strange beasts are a big problem. ”

Qin Bingxuan nodded and said: "We have exchanged information with other cities, we have even calculated it here, we have not found too powerful monsters for the time being, and two more cities have found a monster that is basically the same as what Binghuan found in Yunzhou, it is said that it is extremely difficult to deal with, they have no choice, they can only hide for the time being." ”

Speaking of this, he sighed and said, "The situation in their places is similar to that in Yunzhou, and they don't have the energy to take care of the corpse for the time being, so ...... Alas, the current situation is that, according to their observations, those strange beasts eat an astonishing amount of food, although they have the same kind of attacks on each other, but now the food is quite sufficient, so they will not kill each other, but then, the corpses will soon be eaten, as Binghuan said, soon the living people will face more and more threats. ”

Speaking of this, it seemed that he was a little uncomfortable with calling those people who died in the city "food", Qin Bingxuan couldn't help but say again: "They also said that they had tried to burn the corpses, but burning the corpses was particularly easy to attract a large number of foreign beasts, and those foreign beasts seemed to understand that people were damaging their food by doing this, so the reaction was extremely fierce, and many people who couldn't run died a lot." Slowly, everyone gave up. ”

Zhao Zijian nodded and did not speak.

This is understandable and conceivable.

Zhao Zijian has been dealing with these monsters for several days, and he already has a lot of understanding of their extremely high intelligence - and as the scope of the patrol gradually expands, yesterday afternoon, standing on the helicopter, he has already seen several strange beasts on the outskirts of the city that are completely different from the Beijing birds.

They are invariably characterized by their large size.

It's just that for the time being, I don't know where these guys came from all of a sudden.

At this time, Qin Bingxuan continued: "At present, the groups that have contacted us, what is known is that there are already six of them, and they are 'kings'. Two or three of them know you exist. ”

Zhao Zijian grinned, but still didn't speak.

It's a bit of a sneer.

The catastrophe struck suddenly, nine times out of ten, the whole society completely collapsed, the original order was no longer applicable at all, and in the case of strong enemies, we have to admit that it is indeed a small group formed with the strong as the core, which is easier to survive in the internal and external struggles, or at least more advantageous.

Obviously, it is not surprising that those who are capable and ambitious will swell further at this time - but they are too anxious to be kings, right?

Of course, for the time being, Zhao Zijian and their side can barely sweep the snow in front of the door, and they can't care about other places and other people at all-Zhao Zijian turned his head and asked him: "Zhou Guowei and Qin Binghuan teamed up, they should be able to control the situation in Yunzhou, right?"

Qin Bingxuan hesitated for a moment when he heard this, and said: "Our manpower, especially the manpower of the spirit cultivators, after all, there are only a few people, for the time being, we can live in peace with those small groups, but after a long time, it is difficult to say." ”

Zhao Zijian nodded.

However, Qin Bingxuan hurriedly said: "Don't worry, it's still too risky to try to go east now." At present, we have only contacted one city along the way, and the rest of the situation is unknown, and there may be great danger on the road. Moreover, the situation in Minghu City is only temporarily stable, and once you leave, the situation may completely collapse at any time, in this case, I really don't recommend you to go to Yunzhou in a hurry. We should trust both of them, and they should have the ability to buy you more time. ”

After a pause, he said, "Uncle and aunt, they're safe. Yuqing's parents, as well as Yu Mingxia, have already taken them over, and they are very safe. ”

Zhao Zijian nodded slowly and let out a long breath.

Seeing that they had arrived outside the door, the two stood in tacit understanding.

Seven or eight steps behind him, several entourages also tacitly stopped far away.

Looking at the endless stream of corpses, Zhao Zijian pursed his lips, and after a while, asked, "...... over there in the imperial capital?"

Qin Bingxuan said: "The troops that were urgently mobilized to go to the imperial capital have almost all disappeared without exception, and there is no news, everyone knows that because of this hasty transfer, those soldiers who may be as high as hundreds of thousands should have died halfway through." Therefore, there is no longer any authority, in the imperial capital, someone is called the king. ”

Speaking of this, he smiled, shook his head, and said, "My suggestion is that you can consider ignoring the existence of so many people in the future, right? There are more than a dozen organizations in the imperial capital, and there are already four or five of them just getting in touch with us, and one of them may be swallowed up at any time. ”

He turned his head, looked at Zhao Zijian, and said very seriously: "Don't care if you admit it or not, that era is over." Now, it's troubled times. The chaotic times can no longer be chaotic. ”

Zhao Zijian pondered for a moment and nodded.

Then, he suddenly took a step, walked to the armed helicopter parked on the road outside the crematorium, and greeted Huo Dongwen and the two armed police soldiers on duty today, "Let's go, continue patrolling!"

。 Nine Heavenly God Emperors