Chapter 87: Mercy
These days, Ma Xiaofeng is harvesting corn almost day and night, but his strength alone is limited, even though Qingqing is well-behaved, but he is too young to do much work, speaking of which is the first time for Ma Xiaofeng, there is no one around him to guide him, so he can only do it in a mess according to his own ideas. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
At this time, the rain in Fuling has become less, but the weather is very hot, in the past, there was probably an air conditioner blowing at home, as long as the life was better in the house, now there are no these household appliances, the house is even hotter, but at night can not go out to sleep on the mat, but also to block the house everywhere for fear of being found by the wandering zombies.
Compared with a month ago, it can be said that from heaven to earth, no matter how strong a person's ability to adapt is, I am afraid that in such a period of time, the psychological condition will reach a point of collapse. He slept only three or four hours a day, and then ate very simple corn paste, and rushed to high-intensity labor, and the whole person quickly became haggard, and the circles under his eyes sank a lot, but fortunately he did not get sick.
And Qingqing, Ma Xiaofeng always thinks of ways to amuse her, trying to make her not think too much about the past. For children, in addition to the zombies wandering in the mountains and wilderness, which are really terrifying, this world still makes them have the desire to explore.
Nearly 1,000 acres of corn nearby can not be harvested by a person, and in the end can only be left to rot in the ground, as for whether to choose some land to continue to plant corn, Ma Xiaofeng has not thought about it, his family has not been farming for three generations, it can be said that he does not understand this aspect at all, in his mind, the most he can do is to clear out a piece of land, burn the corn stalks and bury them in the ground, and then turn over the soil and scatter the seeds, and then water some water regularly, all in all, there is only so much he can remember, But he knew that there was definitely a lot of knowledge in it, and it was not so simple.
"Slash-and-burn farming, yes, since you don't understand anything, it's better to choose this method, sow as many seeds as you can, and collect as many seeds as you can on one acre." Ma Xiaofeng thought like this, so he had to make some preparations.
"Brother, look, someone is coming, in the cornfield over there. It seems like a few older siblings, should we go over and say hello to them? At this time, Qingqing suddenly ran into a room full of corn.
Qingqing's house can now be said to be a small warehouse, which is full of corn from Ma Xiaofeng, and the rooftop is also full of corn, but unfortunately the weather is not very sunny, if the autumn is a little drier, the corn can be dried soon, then it can be stored and eaten for a long time.
Originally, a large part of the corn grown in the fields here was not for human consumption, and most of it was grown by nearby farmers as fodder for livestock, but now as long as it is for survival, who can take care of this.
"Have you been in contact with them?" Ma Xiaofeng's sallow face suddenly changed.
"Not yet, brother, didn't you tell me that you must be careful when you meet strangers, don't talk to people casually." Qingqing said seriously.
Ma Xiaofeng was very happy to see Qingqing's obedient appearance, but out of caution, he continued to ask, "So did they find you?" ā
"I don't think so..." Qingqing was a little unsure.
Ma Xiaofeng hurriedly pulled this righteous sister to the roof of the building, and secretly looked out, and he was relieved when he found a few figures of men and women at the mouth of the valley in the distance, and at the same time the axe that was tightly held in his hand was also loosened.
It's that he's too nervous, Qingqing is a more obedient child, and Ma Xiaofeng lets her move freely only within a small range at the door of her home. Now they can be seen to be at least six or seven hundred meters away from those figures, Qingqing will definitely not run that far, which means that there should be no contact between the two.
To be honest, Ma Xiaofeng didn't want Qingqing to be completely isolated from the other survivors, but the survivors in this area except for him and Qingqing were basically only Brother Huo and those students, and now it is obvious that the students have been completely conquered by Brother Huo in a violent way, and Ma Xiaofeng had killed Brother Huo at the beginning, even if he didn't succeed, but if Brother Huo knew through the students that he was still here, he would definitely not let him go, and maybe he wouldn't have been so lucky to escape at that time. Besides, this place has been operated by him for so long and is safe enough, Ma Xiaofeng is not easy to be chased around, the current world is not what it used to be, as long as it is not a familiar place, there will be many unknown dangers.
"What a bunch of fools, they dare to go out and move around without any preparation, purely looking for death, I just hope that they won't cause trouble to me when the time comes." Ma Xiaofeng looked at these people from a distance and said angrily, he could judge from the demeanor and behavior of these people and the clothes on their bodies that they did not have the experience of exploring in the wild after the end of the world.
No weapons, no armor, no camouflage, Nima, are you here for a spring outing?
"Brother, why are they so stupid, I can't see where they are stupid." Qingqing asked suspiciously.
Ma Xiaofeng was happy, Qingqing was just a four or five-year-old girl after all, and if she said too much to her, she wouldn't really understand. But Ma Xiaofeng himself knows what things he must pay attention to in activities outside the academy, and these truths have been figured out little by little by him these days, and he has experienced too many dangers in the middle, and there have been many times when he can hardly step into this small red building again.
After living here for more than half a month, although there were not too many zombies around, he could occasionally suddenly bump into one or two in the cornfield, and Ma Xiaofeng encountered this situation more than once, which also forced him to make a decision between life and death with his own strength. Fortunately, the few times I met were lonely zombies, as long as he set his mind, Ma Xiaofeng could kill them with the advantage of flexibility.
But mutant beasts are undoubtedly more headaches than zombies, they fly from the sky to the ground crawling any kind, after the mutation, their respective abilities are even more diverse, just say the mutant mouse, after this thing mutated, the body shape has become similar to the average earth dog, but they are very cunning, but also very ferocious, in the face of human aggression is extremely strong, almost as soon as they look at the face of any situation they will attack, sometimes even three or five together to make undulating attacks, and their speed is extremely fast, meet one can also deal with, If there are two horses, Xiaofeng can only run.
Not to mention those mutant birds in the sky, they fly quietly, and they may swoop down from the sky at any time to kill them with one blow. With all kinds of unbelievable things in his mind that he has encountered these days, Ma Xiaofeng even feels that he can live until now, which is really a more praiseworthy miracle than any heroic epic!
By surviving the dead again and again, Ma Xiaofeng gradually figured out the general situation of these mutant beasts, in general, their numbers were not very large, at least he still found many normal animals. And the time period when they are most active is generally no different from normal animals, all at night, which is similar to zombies, and zombies are not active during the day.
Whether it is a zombie or a mutant beast, their perception ability is very strong, and the perception of ordinary people in the same environment is pitifully weak in front of them. Often they have already attacked, and you don't even notice it.
Therefore, before going out, you must cover up the smell on your body, and you must also make some camouflage on your body like a military operation.
If human beings want to survive and not become the prey of zombies or mutant beasts, they must learn to hide and disguise, and know how to effectively preserve themselves like moles living underground, that is, they must have corresponding survival strategies. And such a survival strategy can only be exchanged for the lesson of death with blood.
In short, this world has become extremely absurd, it is really a bit like those apocalyptic games, but it is a pity that Ma Xiaofeng did not feel any excitement when he was in it, and only infinite tension and fear.
Maybe after a while, the situation will get even worse, because Ma Xiaofeng found that the mutant beasts are constantly hunting their normal kind every day, not for prey, but just for the sake of killing. Every day, when Ma Xiaofeng goes out for activities, he can feel that his surroundings have become more and more indifferent and silent.
He also wrote down everything little by little when he couldn't sleep, trying to sort out any clues, combining all the information, he believed that if he wanted to live longer, he had to solve this dilemma, even if it was to avoid it, but there were too many things around him that needed to be done, and he didn't have time to calm down and think.
"Qingqing, you go downstairs, seal off all the places that are not sealed, and don't let these people find us." Ma Xiaofeng said.
"Oh, okay." Qingqing didn't ask much, and the small voice jumped downstairs.
At this time, those students were getting closer and closer to this small building in the process of groping, and Ma Xiaofeng's heartbeat accelerated sharply.
"One or two... There were seven people in total, three men and four women, all of whom seemed to have come to gather food. Ma Xiaofeng could see the bulging schoolbags behind the students, and he could also see that they were so tired that they couldn't breathe every time they walked a short distance, and all of them would sit down to rest.
Originally, Ma Xiaofeng was planning to deal with the corn field in front of him, so that it could harvest some grain next season, but now he could only let it rot if he couldn't finish harvesting.
"Poor people must have something to hate, you are now probably even more inferior than I was in front of Brother Huo, all because you are cowardly and cowardly, and you would rather be ruthlessly thrown into the fire pit than dare to jump over the fire pit, these corns should be my mercy to you!"