At noon, the sun is blazing, and there is no one on the road, so they are all looking for a place to hide from the sun.

Zhiwen and his entourage also found a piece of shade, leaning against the river, there are still more trees, even if it has been dry for a long time.

Take out the cakes prepared in the morning, and everyone is ready for lunch.

Even if it is not a year of great disaster, only a few families can eat three meals a day, not to mention that most families cannot even guarantee a meal on the way to escape now.

Therefore, they all avoided eating this meal at noon in a very low-key manner, but fortunately, it was hot, and there were no people on the road at this time, and it was not easy to be bumped into.

Niuniu sniffed, "Brother Zhiwen, what's the smell?" ”

Zhiwen sniffed left and right, there was indeed a faint rancid smell in the air, if it was in his previous life or before he fled, Zhiwen would not be able to eat with this smell.

But now, at night, there is a stronger smell of sweat and feet inside and outside the shack, not only others, but also themselves, they have long been accustomed to it, and it will not affect their eating, otherwise they will only starve to death.

People's adaptability is really strong, Zhiwen laughs at himself, such a light smell, if Niuniu doesn't remind him, he may not be able to smell it.

"It's a smell," Zhiwen said as he ate, "What's wrong?" ”

Niuniu is not a hypocritical person, no matter how strong the taste is in the shack, I haven't seen her eat less.

"It's nothing, I just don't think it smells right." Niu Niu shook her head and said.

"Let's see what's going on after eating!" Xiao Yingniang said on the side.

The original leisure time in the shade of the tree after the meal was mixed by this smell.

To be honest, the smell is indeed very light, unlike the smell of sweat on people (including foot odor), some of which are so strong that people can't open their eyes.

It's not like the rancid smell of rotting food.

But it's so tenacious that it gets into your nose and into your lungs that you can't ignore it.

As soon as he finished eating, the smell made Zhiwen unable to sit still, and he had to stand up to find its source.

"Brother Zhiwen, here!" Soon Niuniu was waving and shouting not far away.

So powerful!

Zhiwen was shocked, and like everyone else, they all ran towards Niuniu.

I haven't found that Niuniu's nose is so smart before, and it's almost catching up with the dog's nose.

It was a shallow grass cave, one large and one small, and the two people who looked like they should be mother and daughter were lying there, their eyes closed, motionless.

They were covered with a tattered quilt, and the yellow-brown back was tattered, revealing brownish-gray cotton wool.

The daughter clung to her mother, who lay on her side and curled up, enveloping most of her daughter.

Both were small and skinny, the mother's lower abdomen was sunken, apparently starved to death, and the daughter's belly was as large as a bulge, and she was strangled to death without knowing what she had eaten.

And the lingering stench was the stench of the two corpses.

As for the time of death, although Zhiwen was a doctor in his previous life, he was not a forensic doctor, so he can't accurately judge it.

It can only be roughly inferred from the unusually pale skin that has been exposed, and the purple-red fingers under the skin that only fade slightly, at least last night.

As for this rancid smell, the hot weather makes it possible to advance the time of decay after death and accelerate the process.

"Mother, why is this kid's belly so big?" Xiaoying asked her mother, and other people were actually very puzzled, when a mother didn't eat, she starved to death, and her daughter's belly was not small, how did she die?

"What a sin! This is to eat Guanyin soil support. Xiao Yingniang sighed, in the end, she is older and has more knowledge, "This is the mother who gave Guanyin soil to her daughter, but I didn't expect that my daughter didn't survive after eating Guanyin soil." ”

"Bury them!" took out a few hoes and shovels from the system warehouse and distributed them to everyone, and Zhiwen realized that he had eaten Guanyin soil and died of it.

As for helping the mother and daughter bury the corpses, it was not because of Zhiwen's love, but because of the occupational disease in his previous life, he would subconsciously clean up when he saw unclean things.

fled all the way, although it has been wiped out a lot by reality, such as sleeping without washing your face or feet, and you can go without bathing for several months, but the corpse of this dead man is still too big as a target, and Zhiwen can't look at it.

Besides, if you really want to let it go, Zhiwen is sure that within a day, he will be gnawed by wild dogs to only a few bones, thinking about this consequence, it is really unbearable.

Another point, which Zhiwen himself didn't notice, was that his subconscious felt that he was going to bury people, which was very important.

Half an hour later, a small grave appeared on the side of the road, and the unknown mother and daughter were buried here.

In order not to be ruined by wild dogs digging out the corpses of the two of them, Zhiwen spent some time and deliberately dug the pit very deep.

On the way afterward, Zhiwen's mood was a little heavy.

It's not that they haven't seen dead people, especially people who starved to death like this, since they fled, they have seen a lot of Zhiwen.

At the beginning, there weren't many people who died of starvation, most of them died because of illness, poor physical fitness, and lack of medicine, like Kobayashi's sister.

As food became scarcer, before Zhiwen and the others reached the river, the number of people dying of starvation gradually increased.

However, basically there are other people in the family who bury the body of the deceased, most of them are buried on the spot, and a very few will be cremated to ashes and put into jars, so that the family can continue to travel with them, hoping to return to their homeland one day.

In a situation like today, where corpses are abandoned in the wilderness and no one pays attention to them, it is really the first time that Zhiwen has encountered it.

What does this mean? It shows that there is less food, more people die, and the whole family is beginning to starve to death or be supported to death by Guanyin soil.

In addition to nosy people like Zhiwen and them, there are a few people who are willing to spend energy doing this kind of thing, and they don't know each other, with this idle time, it is good to lie down and rest for a while, at least to save some physical strength.

......

"Whoa......

"Whoa......

"Whoa......

Shovel after shovel of dirt covered the dead people in the pit, and it had been two days, and this was the tenth time that Zhiwen had buried the dead bodies on the side of the road that had been left unattended.

"Xiaozhi, it's not early this day, why don't you go dig some vegetables and come back first?" Xiao Yingniang looked at the sunset that was about to set and said to Zhiwen.

"Don't worry here, we'll get it done."

"Okay!" Zhiwen also knew that it was a little late, so he changed a small hoe and put a basket on his back, "Huahua, come with me to dig wild vegetables." ”

The main reason for shouting Huahua is that she is weak and weak, digging pits continuously, and touching dead corpses, afraid that she will not be able to bear it.

It's easier to find wild vegetables, and this girl is strong, she doesn't like to follow Zhiwen, she always wants to dig some wild vegetables to prove herself, and Zhiwen doesn't have to worry that she will break her little secret.

When he returned with Huahua, a fresh, earthy burial bag was already standing there, and he had done a lot of work in the past two days, and his movements were much faster than at the beginning.