Chapter 7: The most important thing between people is trust
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With the sound of bullets loading, hundreds of barrels rested on the snow-covered barrier, and the black muzzles were stained with white snowflakes, silent in the direction of the ice field.
The soldiers half-crouched to the side, their eyes peering through their sights at the end of the snow hill until a sporadic figure appeared there.
About twenty wolves came out from behind the snow mounds, their hair dirty and their hungry stomachs, slowly approaching the walls of the greenhouse.
These wild wolves were unusually large, with grinning mouths, baring white teeth, and constricted pupils, mixed with a dark green light. Most of the post-apocalyptic beasts have become more frantic and aggressive, and so have they.
On the white snow, the dark wolves were particularly dazzling, and they whimpered in an unpleasant voice, and their hoarse and dry whimpering sounded with the wind, which seemed to be able to reach the ears of the soldiers on the ramparts.
On the greenhouse, the Captain of the Guard's eyes were lowered, and the hand on his waist silently grasped the hilt of the knife.
The soldiers pressed their masked faces against their rifles, watched the wolves approach, and raised their somewhat frozen index fingers to pull the trigger.
As soon as the captain of the guard gives the order, they will open fire.
A salvo of hundreds of rifles would be enough to kill the wolves, but it would take a distance, a good enough distance.
It must be admitted that the rifles in their hands have a limited range and relatively insufficient damage.
This is an objective factor that cannot be ignored, because that sudden disaster caused a very serious fault in human science and technology.
The loss of civilization has undoubtedly made the light of this era even more dim.
As the wolves approached, their whimpering voices gradually turned into dull growls, and the beasts seemed to smell the food, just behind the gray-black walls.
The wolves began to get restless, and after a commotion, one of the largest wolves walked out of the pack step by step, with slow steps.
In addition to its black hair, the tips of its fur are somewhat pale, as if it were covered with a fine layer of white snow.
At more than two meters tall at the shoulder and nearly five meters long, this giant wolf was completely unimaginable in the pre-disaster era, and even after the disaster, it was a huge exception.
With a bloodthirsty glint beneath its pale green eyes, the giant wolf grinned open its scarlet mouth and spat out a white mist in the cold air.
As if demonstrating, it raised its head and let out a long howl: "Woo!! ”
The penetrating whistling whistle passed through the wind and spread in bursts.
The twenty or so wolves suddenly became excited, and they all raised their heads together, echoing the howl, and let out their own howls.
"Whew!!"
On the snowy field, the howls of wolves are enough to make most creatures shudder.
But this does not include heavily armed humans.
The captain of the greenhouse guard on the ramparts pressed the brim of his hat above his head, and then drew the saber from his waist.
The slightly curved saber stood in front of him, reflecting his indifferent side face and his dark blue military uniform embellished with snow.
"Ready." The blade tilted slightly towards the wolves.
The Greenhouse Guard's gaze drooped, as if he were looking at the giant wolf in the distance.
He waited, waited for the beasts to come closer, and then let them come and go.
Unfortunately, the giant wolf seemed to see what he was thinking, and did not come any closer to the greenhouse after letting out a howl.
Instead, he stood there with the wolves, as if sarcastically, silently looking at the guards in the greenhouse.
Jerk ······
The captain of the greenhouse guard tightened his grip on the saber in his hand.
It is undeniable that after the mutation, the intelligence of these beasts has also been greatly improved.
They understood that there was no point in attacking greenhouses at such times.
So the wolves were ready to leave after a simple demonstration.
But just before they were about to leave, the beasts suddenly stopped together.
They poked their heads into the air, their noses twitching, as if they had smelled something, and their ears twitched as if they had heard something.
The soldiers' fingers rested on the trigger, and the head of the greenhouse guard frowned slightly.
They all sensed that something was wrong, because behind the wolves, at the end of the snowfield, there was another faint black shadow.
The scout who was standing on the side hurriedly raised the telescope in his hand to look at the dark shadow, and then his body froze there.
It wasn't until half a bell that the scout turned his head with a complicated expression and said to the captain of the greenhouse.
"Sir, it looks like two travelers are driving a motorcycle toward us."
Two travelers are close to the greenhouse at this time.
Hearing such news, the face of the captain of the greenhouse guard suddenly became extremely pale.
Let's not talk about why these two people were able to survive on the ice field, just being close to the greenhouse at this time is a dead end.
Twenty wolves can split them into bones and minced meat in an instant.
But it was too late, the speed of the snowmobile was not slow, and even without binoculars at the moment, the figures of those two people had already appeared in the eyes of the greenhouse guards.
Of course, they also appeared in the eyes of the wolves.
It was two figures, one large and one small, sitting on a snowmobile coming from the other side of the slope.
The large figure was wearing a brownish-gray coat with no clothes on the inside, even her belly was exposed, and it was hard to believe that she didn't seem to feel any cold, but still drove the motorcycle smoothly.
And the other small figure, from a distance, seemed to be a child.
How could anyone enter the ice field with a child, the captain of the greenhouse guard held his hands tightly, and there was some anger in his eyes.
What is the difference between this practice and killing a child outright?
"Captain, what should I do?" One of the soldiers who was aiming at the wolves on the ramparts turned his head to the side and asked the captain of the greenhouse guard.
The wolves were ready to move, the captain of the greenhouse guard groaned for a while, gritted his teeth, and said.
"Shoot a warning shot, get them out of the way, and get the wolves' attention as much as possible!"
"Yes!"
The soldier on the rampart replied in a deep voice, and pulled the trigger hard.
"Bang!!" Tongues of fire spewed out, and the sound of a clear gunshot echoed over the snowfield, and the smell of gunpowder mixed with a trace of white smoke spilled out of the muzzle.
The sound of this gunshot did make the wolves panic for a moment, but how could a wild wolf, who was already hungry, give up such food that had already been delivered to him.
Their attention was not drawn at all by the guards in the ramparts, and their dark green pupils were just staring at the two figures that were getting closer and closer.
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"Huhuhu."
On the driving motorcycle, the wind in his ears was whistling, and Al pulled the corner of Yanagihara's clothes, looking at the greenhouse around the mountain not far away, his eyes were full of anticipation.
She knew that her sister was there, and that she would be able to see her sister as long as she got there.
But as she got closer and closer to the greenhouse, she gradually saw a black oppressive thing surrounding the walls of the greenhouse.
And by the time she saw what those things were, her face suddenly lost its blood.
It was a pack of wild wolves, staring in her and Yanagihara's direction with their teeth bared.
She had never seen so many wild wolves, or even a herd of beasts outside the greenhouse, but that didn't stop her from understanding the danger and deadliness involved.
Even if she had already tasted the wonderful taste of these beasts.
"Yanagihara." She looked at the person in front of her in a panic and asked, "What are we going to do?" ”
Yanagihara's expression didn't change at all, just like when they first met, calm, with some tiredness and looseness.
She had apparently noticed the wolves as well, which made her a little upset, but she didn't seem to show much panic or fear.
Hearing Al's question, she just grabbed her hair and asked after glancing at the girl.
"Excuse me, do you believe me?"
Al froze for a moment, then pursed his pale lips and nodded.
If it weren't for Yanagihara, she wouldn't have been here at all.
She only has one relative, her sister, but right now, Yanagihara is the only person she can trust.
And I don't know why, this wanderer's words always seem to have a magic power that can be believed.
"Then close your eyes."
In the car, Yanagihara shrugged his shoulders and said, as if there were no wolves ahead, just a flat road.
"When I tell you to open it, you open it again."
Al was nervous, but obediently closed his eyes.
Just as the girls closed their eyes, warning shots rang out over the greenhouse, presumably to signal them to leave.
Yanagihara, on the other hand, only sped up the speed of the snowmobile without hearing about it, and continued to rush towards the wolves.
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Seeing that the two men on the hillside heard the gunshots, instead of leaving, they rushed towards the greenhouse faster, and the face of the captain of the guard was extremely gloomy.
He didn't want to watch these two men die in the belly of a wolf.
In this era, every human life is extremely important, and it is not a matter of profit, but of the continuation of the race.
"One more shot!"
Almost without thinking, the captain of the guard ordered again.
"Bang!!"
The gunshots rang out again, but the snowmobile heading towards the greenhouse had no intention of changing direction, and even drove faster and faster.
Finally, under the watchful eye of the greenhouse guards, the two men on the motorcycle entered the predation range of the wolves.
Almost instantly, packs of wolves roared at the same time and rushed towards the two men on the snowmobile.
Rushing to the front is the biggest wild wolf, it is the wolf king of this wolf pack, and naturally has the right to enjoy food first.
The wolves didn't even think of the predation as a hunt, because in their minds, such humans had no ability to resist.
The wild wolves that rushed up were all fighting for food.
But what happened after that was something that neither the wolves nor the greenhouse guards expected.