On the road two kilometers away from the entrance of the village, six cars of all kinds are lying in the middle of the road, including Mercedes-Benz Jeep, Toyota pickup, Hyundai Jeep, in short, all off-road vehicles. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThere are more than a dozen sturdy men in different clothes standing on and off the bus, although these people are also wearing vegetables, but their muscles show no signs of atrophy, and they still maintain a strong posture - this shows that their nutritional supply is sufficient.

The men were armed with a variety of weapons, crossbows, longbows, small-caliber and large gas shotguns, and a few Type 54 pistols. At first glance, this is a robbery, but the team of more than a dozen people is not as murderous as imagined, but has the common characteristics of the rabble - panic and disorder.

"I'm cyou!" A black-faced strong man in a down jacket was kicking and beating a thin man, and his hideous face was so angry that his muscles were exposed and his face was purple, "What are you using to eat?" Which trick do you see that it is an ordinary person? Can ordinary people in your family tm machine gunners|grenades|bullets kill zombies? ”

"Boss, I was wrong!" Although the little man lying on the ground made him vomit blood from the kick, he didn't dare to resist at all, so he could only cover his head and beg for mercy, "Boss, spare me, I really thought they were ordinary people!" There are only 5 of them, so far away I can't see clearly. ”

"Boss, boss, forget it, forget it." A big man in a leather jacket grabbed the arm of the black-faced man from the side, "Boss, forget it, the dog didn't mean it; Who would have thought that they would be regular troops? ”

"Bullshit regular army! A group of stragglers! The black-faced man stopped kicking and beating under the steps, "TM's let Lao Tzu eat the 'ready-made' of the 'regular army', you really have the guts!" Do you know how much gas was wasted on this trip? ”

"Thank you, Boss, dog. Remember, next time! The big man pointed to the dog on the ground and said.

"Thank you, boss, thank you, second brother." The dog didn't care about vomiting blood, and quickly knelt on the ground to beg for mercy to the two, and his dirty head slammed on the asphalt pavement.

"Boss ——!" A frightened scream rang out from the Toyota pickup, and a thin man with a toy telescope shouted in a changed tone, "Boss, he's coming at us!" ”

"Boss, what should I do!" "Boss, let's escape!" "Boss" A group of men watched the black dot in the distance with smoke and dust becoming clearer and clearer, and chirped in horror like frightened sparrows; A rabble is a rabble, and when you meet a strong enemy, you know panic.

"Run away! Can you escape? Do you want to eat grenades? Get out of the way! The black-faced man's eyes widened like copper bells, and cold sweat flowed down his cheeks like a waterfall, "Give me all to lie on the grass on the side of the road, throw my weapon on the road, and raise my hands!" ”

When the people in the car heard the order, they jumped out of the car one after another, threw their weapons on the ground indiscriminately, burrowed into the grass on the side of the road, buried their heads in them, and raised their hands high, lest they be slower than others. Several drivers hurriedly opened the road to an aisle, and the doors didn't care about it, and they crawled into the grass, pouting their buttocks and raising their hands, not daring to look at the road. The man known as the eldest and second was about to hide, but he saw a dark green jeep getting closer and closer - he couldn't hide!

The two men knelt on the side of the road as if they had heard an order, their heads bowed, their hands raised above their heads, their bodies trembling like chaff, but they did not dare to gasp.

The jeep slowed down more than a hundred meters away from them, and the two men didn't dare to raise their heads, and kept muttering something in their mouths, begging God to bless the jeep to ignore their presence and hurry over.

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I saw a Beijing 2020 jeep driving murderously, and the powerful murderous aura overwhelmed this group of men. The body of the jeep was blue-black, and a blue-black liquid was dripping down continuously, and the broken camouflage net hung on the body and fluttered in the wind, and the wheels were covered with foul-smelling debris and dust; There were broken bones almost everywhere on the bumper, on the bonnet, on the fender, on the headlights, on the windshield.

On the body of the jeep stood a tall soldier who was staring ahead without squinting, the windshield in his eye sockets had turned black, and black liquid was still dripping on his shoulder; The steel helmets on the heads of the soldiers were covered with camouflage nets, and the long willow branches and the hem of the military overcoat hunted with the howling north wind; What's even more terrifying is that this soldier is driving a large gun that they have only seen on TV - the legendary heavy machine gun! The long chain of bullets hung under the barrel of the gun, and the muzzle of the black hole pointed straight at the road ahead, as if it was about to roar at any moment.

The wide body of the jeep is piled with mountains of grain, cooking oil, and plastic bags; crates of beef, milk, ham sausages, and some boxes of unknown things; On this hill, there are three lean soldiers, two light machine guns that have also only been seen on TV, pointed at the men peeking on the side of the road; The soldier sitting in the center still had a round object in his hand - a fool would tell it was a grenade. The men seemed to be able to see his "explosive" muscles in the sleeves of his wide camouflage uniform.

There was something on the faces of the three soldiers that made the men unable to see their true faces, all they could see was three pairs of blood-red eyes—the so-called red-eyed people were the kind of eyes. However, what made this group of men feel nightmarish and terrifying the most was the two big characters on both sides of the car body, although they were covered with black blood, but still dazzling!

The jeep slowed to 40 yards and drove through the aisle between the group, the screeching cracking of the discarded crossbows and machetes under the crush of the wheels; The men on both sides of the road who raised their hands wanted to cry when they heard this voice, but no one dared to say anything, and the scene in front of them made their intestines remorse-which tendon was wrong, how did they think about the idea of fighting this group of devils?

When the jeep finally disappeared into the billowing smoke and dust, the men climbed from the side of the road to the road with their sore arms, trembling bodies, and cramping legs, and no one dared to complain that their weapons were crushed to pieces, because a resounding name still echoed in their minds - "special forces"!

"Grandpa's!" The black-faced man trembled and got up from the ground, "Thanks to Lao Tzu's knowledge of current affairs, this group of people turned out to be special forces!" ”

"No wonder these five or five people dare to enter the village." The man in the jacket sat on the ground rubbing his cramped calves and upper and lower teeth and said, "It's really hanging by a thread, if this group of people didn't take us seriously, we would be in the dark today." ”

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"I can't hold it anymore." Wang Agui felt dizzy in front of his eyes and collapsed on the supplies, Han Yan and Song Wan'er couldn't hold back for a long time, so they hugged each other and rested on each other. Jin Yutang collapsed on the material all of a sudden, staring blankly at the hazy sky, he was so tired that he couldn't move anymore.

When the car rushed out of the village, Chen Ergou, who was holding a telescope, saw several cars on the road in the distance, and everyone immediately understood that these people were going to eat ready-made. But the scrawny ones had exhausted their already small physical strength from the high tension and vigorous exercise, and they could not meet a battle at all, not to mention that this was still a group of young men; Looking at the number of people, Wang Agui knew that this was the branch

(This chapter is not finished, please turn the page) the purely violent team I saw before, this kind of ruthless weapons are numerous, and fight with them, Wang Agui is not sure that he will not hurt a person, in this last days of lack of medical treatment, injury often means death.

So Chen Ergou, who still had physical strength, replaced the exhausted Jin Yutang, and Wang Agui ordered everyone to desperately pretend to be murderous to survive this section of the road, but in just a dozen seconds, the four of them exhausted their remaining physical strength; When the group of robbers disappeared from view, the four of them collapsed like noodles on the hill of supplies, and let the car pull like a dead man to the small gas station.

After making a big circle to make sure that there was no tail, the jeep took the path back to the small gas station, and then drove into the responsibility forest to the haystack behind the gas station. Chen Ergou opened the door and got out of the car, looked around vigilantly, put his hand into the haystack and pulled a rope and pulled it hard, a hollow haystack was gently removed, revealing the door of the garage inside, Chen Ergou parked the jeep in the garage and pulled the gate, and then sat on the haystack on the garage floor, and didn't care about the black blood on his body, wrapped his military coat tightly and fell asleep. They are so tired that they don't want to think or do anything, and a good night's sleep is what they crave most.

The terrifying night came again, and during the day it was only a light snow, and at night it turned into a heavy snowfall. The howling north wind mixed with goose feather snow blew the earth, and the already frozen ground once again piled up a thin layer of snow, and as the dense snow was blowing, the snow layer was increasing at a very high rate - not only cold but also heavy this year. In the dark, the forest was "whooshing" loudly, and the outdoor temperature quickly dropped to more than 20 degrees below zero with heavy winds and snow, which was already a low temperature in the century for the vast area of Hebei.

The two stacks of haystacks outside the garage have become snow stacks, the small gas station in the dark night has also been covered by layers of snow, and the outside of the basement is already a bitter cold place dripping into ice. I don't know how many survivors who escaped the mouth of the zombies will die in this bitter winter.

Different from the bitter cold world outside, the basement of a small gas station is a different scene: in a large space, a circle of seats unloaded from the construction truck surrounds a table welded with steel plates and iron rods; Under the dim light of the table lamp, there are two basins on the table, one large and one small, shining with bright oil: in the large basin is half a basin of mustard and wild vegetables fried ham sausage slices, and in the small basin is black diced pickles, and the two basins are steaming hot mixed with the strong aroma of stir-fried vegetables. Five hungry wolf-like people sat on their seats, holding large porcelain bowls, desperately sandwiching vegetables.

Pull a mouthful of fragrant rice, sandwich a chopsticks of mustard, shredded ham sausage, a mouthful of diced pickles, and take a sip of the milk bag at hand from time to time; The five of them cried and ate at the same time, and the bitter tears, sad sweat, and fragrant white rice were so sour mixed together - for people who have not eaten properly in half a year, it is like a dream to be able to eat rice stir-fry in their lifetime!

"I've eaten three bowls of my tm, why does this stomach still feel empty? Where did all the food you just eat go? Chen Ergou took a spatula and scraped the bottom of the basin, and a whole pot of 6 catties of rice had bottomed out, but everyone still didn't feel full.

"Alright, let's eat less. Eating too much at one time is not good for your health. Song Wan'er dragged down the basin that Chen Ergou was holding, then looked at the coarse porcelain bowl in her hand and said, "Yes, I have eaten two bowls and I feel like there is nothing in my stomach." ”

"The body lacks energy for a long time, and the demand for nutrients is very strong, we digest while eating, stomach, and intestines at the same time, and naturally do not feel full." Jin Yutang took the last bite of rice and put down the bowl and said, "When we were doing physical training, everyone ate pounds and pounds at a meal, but how big is a person's stomach? The largest is no more than 2 liters of stuff, where did all that rice go? Naturally, it was quickly absorbed. ”

"If you continue to eat like this, you won't be able to eat so much in less than a week; A winter ensures that we can recover our strength. Wang Agui drank milk and said, "If we had meat, we would recover faster, and we need a lot of protein now—by the way, Wan'er, how much food did we get this time?" ”

"200 pounds of rice; 100 pounds of flour; millet 60 pounds; two barrels of cooking oil; 12 boxes of instant noodles; 6 boxes of mustard; 31 cartons of milk; 16 boxes of ham sausages. Song Wan'er said while eating, "There are also cigarettes, toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, toilet paper and other big plastic bags, I didn't count." ”

"These things are not enough for us to survive the winter; I'll have to go another day. Otherwise, I will have to starve again in the second half of the winter, alas, I can't eat and I don't have any strength at all, and my shoulder hurts when I carry a gun. Chen Ergou touched his bruised shoulder and said. By the way, why didn't the group of robbers I saw today starve and deform? We have also seen the weapons on the ground, it stands to reason that they are at most wandering around the farmhouse at the entrance of the village, and the food they bring is definitely not enough for them to ensure their physical strength, you see that their faces are not thin at all except for the yellow spots - where does their nutrition come from? I don't believe they can go into the heart of the village like we do. Jin Yutang said suddenly.

"Yes, that's the obvious anomaly; We had never been into a village before, and we didn't know how difficult it was to enter a village, so we took it for granted that we could eat as long as we raided a few farmers; But now it seems that this is not normal, these people do not have heavy firepower at all, how long can the farmers on the outskirts of the village loot? How long is enough for these dozen strong men to eat? Now it is not as strong as eating a vegetarian in peacetime, and in the environment of the last days, it is necessary to ensure sufficient meat intake to ensure strong physical strength, but where will there be enough meat in these last days? Hunt? Absolutely impossible - then, where did their meat come from? Wang Agui analyzed, as the logical reasoning became deeper and deeper, a bad thought flashed in his mind.

"You mean ——!" Chen Ergou sensitively thought of a reality that no one wanted to face.

"If that's the case, this kind of person is pulled out and shot 10,000 times, which is not much." A trace of blue light flashed in Wang Agui's eyes, and it was as cold as June ice, which made Song Wan'er, who was sitting beside her, feel trembling unconsciously.

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The heavy snow has been fluttering for nearly a month but there is still no sign of stopping, the temperature has dropped to more than ten degrees below zero, the vast North China Plain has become a snow-white world, the thick snow covers up all the dirt and crime, and those shocking cruelty, but this short period of purity is just a flash in the pan, and the cold winter day brings more pain and despair to the survivors.

Although the frozen world and the low temperature of the century made the zombies' already stiff joints and muscles even stiffer, and their movement speed plummeted, making it much easier to enter the village to collect supplies at this time; But the cold weather made the survivors afraid to take a step out of hiding, and the vast majority of survivors were far more likely to die from hypothermia than from corpses – those who had become accustomed to heated cotton clothing simply could not readjust to the low temperatures that the older generation was accustomed to in the first winter. But there are always exceptions, and there are always people who can survive this harsh environment and live better and better.

"Phew!" A dull gunshot echoed over the vast snowfield, and a bloody flower splashed on the huge body of a cow that braved the bitter cold to forage for food, and it tried to run, but the thick snow severely hindered its movement, and it could only move slowly with a wound.

"Phew!" Another shot rang out, and the cow finally collapsed

(This chapter is not finished, please turn the page) on the snow, this time it was the huge bull's head that was lifted from the skull.

"Wha! There's beef to eat! The snowdrift not far away moved, and three men in snow-stained military coats, cotton hats sewn by themselves, and windshields crawled out of the snowdrift, howling excitedly, and stepping on the snow nest with difficulty to the dead cow, and three eighty-one bars swinging up and down with the height and low of their bodies in their hands, and a trace of green smoke from the muzzle of one of the guns. The shocked zombies on the vast snowfield could only watch the three of them run in front of them, but it was difficult to take a single step, and finally took a few steps, and the three living people ran away again.

"Okay, Agui, a headshot." Chen Ergou patted Wang Agui's shoulder and said enviously.

"Mengde—don't look at me, it's really blind!" Wang Agui couldn't tell whether Chen Ergou's eyes were envy or jealousy, so he slapped his hand away and hid to the side.

"Oh, this method is really enough to toss people, it freezes me to death." Jin Yutang shuddered for a moment and said, "Agui, do you have to toss yourself so much when hunting in winter?" ”

"yes, that's it. It's not like the other three seasons where you can dig traps, set bait or something, and if you want to hunt in winter, you can only do it: when you see prey, you can lie down in the snow and wait. until the prey is in firing range; If the body is not strong enough, it will not be able to withstand the low temperature at all. Wang Agui opened a box of cigarettes, took out two and handed them to the two, "Smoke a cigarette to relieve the cold." ”

"This bullfight is really not small, is this a domestic cow? Shouldn't the cattle here be skinny and skinny like people? Why is it still so strong? Chen Ergou kicked the dead cow and touched the thick fat layer of the dead cow and said.

"This is a cow, don't you see the ring on the nose? Unlike cows, horses, sheep, chickens, and pigs, domestic pigs will soon starve to death if left unattended, but the first four animals can live on their own; Remember the crops that filled the ground? You don't have to eat anything else, these alone are enough for them to survive the winter. Wang Agui explained, "How many have you fought today?" This must be the third one, right? ”

"Well, two sheep plus this cow, our brother's character exploded today! It's like a few days ago, when I ran for a few days and beat a dog, and I was as thin as a dry stick. Chen Ergou took a puff of his smoke and said, "He's it, so many things are pulled by sleds to the Year of the Monkey?" ”

Although the cold weather made it impossible for the zombies to move, this kind of low temperature, which had never been seen in North China, also made it impossible for Wang Agui and them to enter the village to collect supplies. The thick snow makes it impossible for a light jeep like Beijing 2020 to drive, and I don't know how many virus-covered zombies are hidden under the knee-deep snow, and I can't see, fight, or guarantee mobility, Wang Agui would rather go out hunting than venture into the village.

"If you can't pull it away today, bury it with snow first, there's no way, let it be stolen, just take it as a good deed." Jin Yutang took out the electrician's knife and was about to squat down, he planned to dismember the cow and pull it back little by little, he had practiced a lot with Wang Agui, and he had already learned some techniques about killing animals.

"Who?" Wang Agui suddenly shouted, and he put his shoulder on the ground and aimed at a place, "Come out!" Shoot if you don't come out again! ”

Jin Yutang and Chen Ergou quickly stood back to back with Wang Agui and posed in a "hedgehog array", three guns pointed in different directions, such a vigilant posture could prevent someone from sneaking up behind, and the three of them were on guard back to back to maintain a 360° all-round vigilance.

"Agui, is there anyone?" Chen Ergou asked while looking warily in the direction he was in charge of, he didn't find any signs of people; Jin Yutang also didn't notice anyone nearby. But they believe that Wang Agui, people who have been on the real battlefield are definitely not comparable to soldiers like them who have never used a gun, especially the superhuman sixth sense, which can only be forced out on the battlefield of life and death.

"I didn't see it, but I could feel that there was definitely someone in the snowdrift." Wang Agui whispered while aiming in that direction, "Just that one person, you don't have to be vigilant." ”

Jin Yutang and Chen Ergou turned around, and the three of them walked slowly in the same direction with three guns. The knee-deep snow was trampled by the trio with a "crunch, crunch" sound, and they got closer and closer to their goal.

"Say it again, come out at once, and get on your knees with your head in your hands. Otherwise, you won't be killed! Wang Agui yelled again, and the fingers on the trigger began to contract slowly; At this time, Chen Ergou and Jin Yutang saw clearly that Wang Agui was pointing to a small bulge that was slightly raised, which could not be seen at all if they didn't look carefully in the vast snowfield; The two couldn't help but sigh in their hearts: The veterans who have been on the battlefield are really different.

"Don't kill me. I can't move. An arm slowly reached out of the snowdrift, and the bulge moved, and a faint cry for mercy came from below.

Sure enough, it's a person! Listening to the voice, it seems that this person has frozen, but the three of them still dare not relax their vigilance, and still maintain vigilance step by step to move towards that person, the end of the world is cruel, a small relaxation can lead to the consequences of a catastrophe, be careful and careful is one of the survival rules of the end of the world.

"Frozen." Jin Yutang kicked the person, the man just squirmed with Jin Yutang's feet, and the three of them put their minds at ease, Wang Agui and Chen Ergou put away their guns and squatted down to check, Jin Yutang was still holding a gun and looked around on guard.

This person was lying on the ground, and his whole body had been covered by snowflakes falling from the sky, and it seemed that this person had been lying here for a long time. Wang Agui turned the person over and made him lie on his back, this is a man, he looks quite honest, his bearded face has a thin layer of ice, his face with high cheekbones has turned pale, his lips are purple and black, his eyes are closed, and he is almost no longer breathing. The dirty cotton jacket on his body froze tightly on his thin body, and a pair of rotten overalls and pants were stuffed with thatch.

"God, I dare to come out dressed like this, it looks like I'm really hungry." Wang Agui put his hand into the man's torn cotton jacket, but what he took out was a handful of thatch and a small amount of waste paper, this man actually relied on this little thing to keep warm.

"Can it still be saved?" Chen Ergou looked at the man's frozen bruised hands and feet in single leather shoes and asked, he expressed little hope that this man would be alive.

"It's ok, the heartbeat is weak but regular. This guy used to have good physical fitness, and he should be a person who does manual work. Wang Agui touched the man's carotid artery and nodded, "Pour him some wine first, rub his hands and feet with snow, and then freeze like this, even if he survives, his hands and feet will have to be amputated." ”

Chen Ergou took out a military kettle from his arms and stuffed it into the man's mouth, pouring him liquor. Although the man was choked and coughed, he was still able to drink the wine, which shows that the man's vitality is very tenacious.

"Go under the haystack over there, and make a fire to keep him warm; If he can save him, it is his fate, and we will do our best if we can't save it. Wang Agui searched the man's body, and there was no weapon except an electrician's knife - this was an ordinary survivor.

The man was put under the snowy haystack not far away, Chen Ergou grabbed a handful of thatch in the haystack and stuffed it into the man's clothes, he couldn't take off his clothes and put them on him like on TV, it was okay to act in a movie, but it was tantamount to suicide.

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