Zhou Huai'an was awakened by the unexpected sound of a large heavy object collapsing;

Under the gloomy and dusky sky outside, he looked at his watch, it was between five or six o'clock in the evening, he had probably slept for two or three hours, his body was still a little sore, and his stomach was still hungry, but the obscurity and heaviness of the original body movement had been relieved a lot in the short rest, and the varicose veins and edema on his legs and feet had basically disappeared.

And the noisy hiss that had stayed in the distance had turned into fragmentary shouts at close range, and it was obvious that the small traps he had set up on the streets and at the corners of the alleys, or the early warning agencies, had been triggered one after another.

These small organs themselves are materials that can be found everywhere on the streets, and the one-time and simple finished products that are improvised are no different from the rubble and waste that can be seen everywhere on the streets, nor do they have any specific lethal and obstructive effects; The only function is that after being touched, there will be a more harsh sound and movement during the collapse process to remind Zhou Huai'an, who is hiding nearby.

And this kind of auxiliary skill or craft is one of the wilderness survival skills and experiences that he gained from the mutual benefit of those veterans in the African medical team, and in the escort teams of other Chinese aid units and resource development companies; After all, in this magical and wild land of Africa, there are too many surprises and possibilities.

Therefore, for a while he was in the medical team, he played the role of the kind of panacea that could do everything a little bit and many places could be temporarily put together.

And he learned these small traps not to have a specific killing effect, but to provide timely warning and delay in the early warning and action of the periphery against the endless wild animals or armed personnel wandering around.

Unfortunately, this time the preparation time was too short and the materials were limited, and he only had time to build some simple sound mechanisms out of the pile of bricks, stones, and wood chips.

Despite this, he quickly cleaned up the excess traces outside, re-arranged a few small mechanisms, and with the weapons around him, climbed up to the roof of the roof along the stacked objects, and gently picked open a gap in the white-black thatch covering the roof with the tip of a short spear, which was regarded as a condescending view of the street.

Then, in the distance to the west, he spotted a few figures stumbling and running for their lives, and the faint smoke and dust that followed behind them screaming and chasing.

Fortunately, although those fugitives touched the street warning on the periphery, they did not run directly to the dilapidated house where Zhou Huai'an was; And there didn't seem to be many people chasing after him, so he observed for a while, and only a dozen people appeared one after another, scattered on the streets, clamoring one after another, making some kind of roundabout outflanking and chasing and interception.

Subsequently, Zhou Huai'an noticed that the armed personnel in the pursuit were very miscellaneous, including knives, axes, nails, clubs, bows and arrows, and even lassoes and fishing forks.

But it seemed to be full of momentum and ferocity, and it seemed to be a little cooperative, shouting and screaming, and drove the fleeing people directly down the street.

In just a few moments, two people suddenly stumbled and fell on the street in pursuit of screams and pleadings, and then were brutally slashed by these armed men who came up with knives and splattered blood on the spot.

Then, one of the armed men stopped, drew an arrow from his back, and fired it with a bow, only to fall on the walls and ground behind and on the side of the only fugitive. At this point, the remaining three fugitives who had run for their lives were separated from them again.

However, in Zhou Huai'an's opinion, their performance and mental state are just the level of those black uncles who dare to go on the road with a cane knife and rob halfway part-time in the chaotic war in Africa, and even some local tribal armed forces that Zhou Huai'an has seen can't compare.

widespread malnutrition and lack of training, and the use of weapons is methodical and tactical, with only a slight threat in numbers; With his short-term martial arts and self-defense training, if he encounters it, he will face about three or four at the same time, but more than that, he will have to find a way to retreat and turn in; Zhou Huai'an quickly made a preliminary judgment, which is also a necessary vision and detailed experience when walking in Africa.

After all, in the face of the lower limits of morality and ethics that are constantly being refreshed in the name of humanitarian relief but selling dog meat on sheep's heads, even medical teams that are purely public welfare have the probability of being attacked indiscriminately; The most troublesome of them are not the organized rebels or tribal guerrillas, or the bandits who are committed to robbery, but the stragglers who are difficult to negotiate and only know how to kill and kill, and only the right amount of violence can make them retreat.

This was just a matter of a few breaths, and then, a fugitive crossed the dilapidated courtyard where Zhou Huai'an was hiding, and ran straight into the distance; Before Zhou Huai'an could breathe a sigh of relief, someone crashed into the loud trap that Zhou Huai'an shot outside the door, and with a bang, it was suddenly covered by the accumulated rubble and half buried.

Then the screams were caught by the armed men who caught up and dragged back into the street, it was actually a woman's voice, and then through the invisible corner behind the wall, it was transposed into some kind of suppressed pleading and hoarse howl.

Then, with the rather fierce beatings and curses, the movement of the women's struggles and begging slowly faded away, and finally only the sound of lifeless unilateral whipping remained.

"That's enough...

"It's boring when you're dead."

There was a sound outside the wall, which crossed the outer courtyard and came directly to the house, Zhou Huai'an couldn't help but sigh in his heart, it was a ghost.

"Son of mud gourd, are you afraid that people will look at you twice when you do this?"

"Lao Tzu is good at this, how can I get you."

"I don't want you to look at it in vain."

"Don't hurry up. Catch up. ”

"There's not much time left for us to come out."

"It's muddy. Hurry up and let me get things done. ”

In the undisguised muttering, dragging the unconscious woman's hair, and couldn't wait to walk in an open-chested and bareback figure, looking left and right and then roared and withdrew his crotch pants under the eaves.

Zhou Huai'an, who had already gone down to the room to occupy the ambush position by the door in advance, slowly pushed the short spear resting on the edge of the window wall and just thrust forward, as if it had pierced a certain water bag, without much resistance, and pierced through the neck of the person who was trying to find a suitable position, and the person who was looking for the target and path almost didn't make much sound, just covered the blood fountain that couldn't be blocked at all, and fell to the side weakly.

In the faint bloody aura that quickly dispersed, Zhou Huai'an straightened the body and pressed it on the unconscious woman to continue to disguise, and then flew a few times and leaned against the door, posing with a knife raised diagonally upward, and slowly crouched down with a breath.

"Is it over?"

After half a sound, I saw half of the body outside who couldn't wait to probe in and ask, and then twitched his nose and complained

"Why is it bleeding again?"

Seeing the sudden flickering of cold light, the person who came suddenly turned his head sideways as if he was startled, but was slashed by Zhou Huai'an and slashed the back of the neck and pressed his body and fell straight to the ground, whining and leaking air, covering the gap of spurting blood, but he was struggling in the rapidly expanding pool of blood and couldn't get up, and then he was dragged aside by Zhou Huai'an's hand, feeling lighter than expected.

As the smell of blood faded away, the people outside finally noticed that something was wrong, and they heard the chaotic footsteps and someone rushed in again.

"There is a burial. Volt"

Immediately, someone raised his hand from outside the door and poked forward with the tip of a snow-bright knife, but before the last word could be spit out half a word, it was once again interrupted by the short spear that penetrated through the door in front of his chest.

"Be careful."

"The thief his hand."

"The third",

Zhou Huai'an silently thought in his heart to knock down the bricks and stones piled up on the door, and drown and bury the enemy who slammed into the door; As he hurried, he quickly retreated to the wall, quickly stepped on the remaining masonry, turned over and jumped over the wall to the hole in the house on the side, and then began to follow the reserved gap and passage to the back of the men blocking the front door of the courtyard.

However, the first thing he saw outside the door was the empty main door, and then he turned to the figure of the wind who was carrying a bow and arrow with his back to him at the corner of the street not far away; After judging the range of the opponent and the distance that can escape before reacting;

He took a deep breath and touched the holster that could be pulled out at any time on the side of his leg, slowly turned back and tiptoed forward, and took off violently, and slammed it on the crook of the opponent's leg that turned in shock, and stepped on the ground with all his body weight to make a dull fracture sound, and one hand squeezed into a cone fist and hammered it under the ribs from behind, and the other hand grabbed the opponent's head according to the learned grappling technique, and tightly strangled the mouth and nose that was about to scream with the angle of the arm bend, and used the body as the axis of rotation to struggle backwards and back and forth, pressing left and right and twisting several twists;

After the other party was released in the sound of clucking and slopping like mud, it seemed that the threat from long-range killing was temporarily resolved; And the people who rushed into the yard next door were even shouting and smashing everywhere to make a loud noise, giving themselves courage and momentum, and there were no more others left outside.

Since this is the case, Zhou Huai'an inevitably suddenly had a more adventurous idea; He casually tried the bow and arrows he had captured; Well, as a former amateur hunter, he has also practiced this thing in African tribes, although it looks rough and the strings are not very tight, but with the remaining few not very neat feather-tail arrows, it is also lethal at a certain distance.

Then, he slowly retreated to a street corner a dozen paces away, squatting down, revealing only a bowed palm and an observant half of his face; There was a figure between a few breaths, shouting loudly and running out of the yard left and right, Zhou Huai'an, who had no time to test-shoot, resolutely let go and released an arrow, but it drifted slightly to the left with the wind and missed the opponent's shoulder, and the shallow nail on the wall next to the door made him scream in pain on the spot.

At this time, some people peeked out from the wall and looked at it, as if they were actually avoiding the main entrance and planning to climb out against the wall; At this time, Zhou Huai'an, who had readjusted his accuracy and strength, was no longer in a hurry to aim at the target, and with a sigh, he pierced the opponent who had just crossed the wall with his front legs through his chest, and then fell back into the wall with a scream.

Then he wound it again, aiming a feathered arrow at the unfortunate bastard, who gritted his teeth and grunted, and tried to pull himself out of the door, and after the gentle sound of the strings and the terrible sound of piercing his chest, all was at peace; Then the courtyard seemed to be silent again, and then someone spoke loudly in a trembling voice, but it didn't sound clear.

"A ditch thief is crooked."

"Poof, you Eminem hiccup..."

After half a ring, when the strongest figure in a tattered leather suit also stuck the last two arrow feathers obliquely under his ribs, he picked up a knife and cut off the wrist holding the sword, and then stabbed it into the stomach and dragged it to the ground, twisted and kicked and dragged a large mass of blood, and cursed miserably after losing his mind and losing his breath.

In Zhou Huai'an's field of vision, there was only the last survivor who crept out of the yard with a cower, but was horrified by this scene and fell backwards and fell in the corner of the wall, but turned around and ran away against the wall.

Then, with a muffled sound of a light ping-pong under the silence and breathlessness aim, the feather arrow ran out of the opponent's back twenty or thirty paces away, and fell to the ground with a thin stream of blood arrows; Immediately, Zhou Huai'an advanced under the impetus of the residual adrenaline, and poked the corpse a few times with a bloodstained long knife before he could really feel at ease.

In this way, with the exception of a small number of men who had already gone away, he had left seven men in the place, and what had been seized were a hunting bow tied with cloth and four arrows, two knives with many openings, one long and one short, a mace, a harpoon, a rusty axe, and a tattered wooden shield.

Then the corpses were dragged into the yard by Zhou Huai'an, and after sprinkling the dust covering the big pool of blood, Zhou Huai'an felt the fatigue of weakness and body aches and congestion after the adrenaline burst effect passed, and sat down and gasped for a while before slowly regaining some strength.

The feeling of killing people with your own hands for the first time and killing several people in a row is not so impactful and psychologically shocking, perhaps because the other party is too weak, and the weapon in his hand is easily knocked away when facing the fight; Or rather, he had become a little insensitive, after seeing the scenes of the massacres along the coast and the bloodshed that followed.

You must know that when he was in Africa with the medical team, he not only shot and killed those ferocious beasts such as bison, hyenas, and crocodiles, but also used guns to deter and live with those suspicious people with bad intentions.

On the contrary, the hunger after exhaustion is even stronger; But he still thought about it, picked up the thickest piece of broken tile and pinched it hard, only to hear the sound of the horn brittle into several pieces, this is an inch thick hard pottery eaves corner; It seems that it is not that those people are too poor, but it is that their strength and reaction after crossing have increased to varying degrees.

"Ennen..?"

"Stranger ?。。"

A heavily accented tone sounded around him, reawakening him from his rapid flow of thoughts and memories.

But it was a fugitive who was out of breath before, and he actually turned back from an unknown hiding place nearby, and was tearing off the woman whose clothes were torn and covered in blood and fainting to the ground, trying to wake up and help her slowly get up from the ground; Then he carefully pulled this woman who looked like a walking corpse, and knelt on the ground with a humble and flattering expression to Zhou Huai'an, who was pulling out the arrows one by one and sorting out the seizures.

But Zhou Huai'an was a little stunned and surprised, he actually saved a chased and killed Fan man? , look at the other party's appearance, although it is the ancient dress of the right side of the long shirt with a knotted head, but standing up close, it looks like it is on the curly brown hair and light gray eyes. It's obviously more like a foreign bloodline.

It's just a belly and shiny fat that is soaked in sweat and tightened by cloth, obviously the family and living conditions in this era are not bad, so the other party should be able to get enough information, Zhou Huaian couldn't help but think so.

It's just that the accent is too heavy, at least the other party's voice said a few words in a hurry, and Zhou Huaian didn't understand it, and finally it was a good time to complete the preliminary communication and understand the general meaning of the other party.

Then, as he talked and gestured with each other, as if he had turned on a certain opportunity and switch, his understanding and mastery of the other party's accent and language gradually became clear.

"Villain Shannuo, dare to ask how the strong man is well."

"Thank you for your help."

"Great kindness, don't dare to forget."

It's just that with the awe-inspiring other party, he knelt on the ground without caring about the image and thanked him repeatedly, so that Zhou Huaian couldn't help but seem to see all kinds of blessings when he encountered the picture in the public picture area of a certain forum.

"Good men."

"A safe journey"

"Send the strong man on the road."

"A good man has a safe life."

“1024。。。”

"Take out all the valuable things on your body."

Zhou Huai'an, who came back to his senses immediately, shouted at the other party without hesitation.

"Also, tell me everything you know"

"Yes, yes."

The other party hurriedly got up from the ground and responded.

In the end, he only took out a few small silver cakes that had been deformed and curled but could be used as circulation, a copper coin of different textures, a gold belt ring, a small knife, a bag wrapped with needles and threads, a flint for lighting, and a bag of knife stones, and on the inscriptions of many copper coins, he saw words such as "Kaiyuan Tongbao" and "Qianyuan Tongbao".

And then

"The grass thief who hunted you ?。。。"

Zhou Huai'an couldn't help frowning when he heard this name.

"No, no, now it should be the righteous teacher of the Yellow King"

The other party said with a trembling spirit.

"Yellow King ?。。。"

Zhou Huai'an's heart couldn't help but move.

"It's the Huang who claims to be the commander of the righteous army of all roads and the general who rushes to the sky...

The other party said as if he had palpitations.

"It must be known that Li Yuanjun, who controlled Lingdong in the imperial court, was all hung on his head. ."

"When the soldiers and horses under his command entered the city, they closed the gate and opened a killing ring...

"The officials, soldiers, and civilians of all sizes in the city are all dead and wounded, and their corpses are all riddled with corpses."

"My generation really has no way to hide, nowhere to hide, only to find the dilapidated area here to hide for a while"

"I didn't expect that when I came out to get water, I was still discovered by the wandering thieves."

"That's why there is such calamity and suffering."

Speaking of this, this guy's face fell more and more.

"Everyone scattered and fled, but they didn't think that only me and Sister A survived."