Qiu Xuan lay on her back on the snow, holding a completely broken bone umbrella in her palm.

There were human bodies lying upside down around her, and a few of them were still standing, but all of them were stiff and standing beside them like marionettes.

As Qiu Xuan had expected, within a few minutes of the loudspeaker announcement, waves of hungry people near the Extremely Cold Corridor had all gone crazy and rushed in this direction.

The leader of the five-member gang before had wanted to take advantage of the chaos to avenge his recently dead companion and snatch food by the way, but in the next moment, he saw something even more unbelievable than the sudden appearance of Wendigo. He saw the "blind man" standing in the snow stretching out his hand and pressing it against a corpse on the ground, and then the corpse staggered to its feet.

The corpse fearlessly swept through the crowd, and something even more terrifying and incalculable happened, the plague virus spreading inexorably and spreading over every corpse that came into contact with the pathogen. More and more people fell, and later, more and more "people" got up again and joined the battlefield after the death of various functions of the body.

The "blind man" no longer needs eyes, because any "person" who comes back to life in the snow becomes her eyes.

At that moment, the leader suddenly understood why the "blind man" had shouted those words with a loudspeaker as if he had died together. She was born into a chaotic battlefield surrounded by mountains and seas, and the more people there were, the better, because if only one person in the population was infected with the plague virus, then the whole group was in danger.

This is the Elpis virus, the plague ability that once destroyed almost half of the plane.

The moment the leader understood this, a body with a hollow expression raised his hand and grabbed his neck. His face flushed and his toes lifted off the ground, and the next second, Wendigo's sharp jagged teeth snapped open, and the red and white snow blood in front of him lost all color.

Qiu Xuan lay on her back on the snow, raised her hand and scratched the lacing on her eyelids that was a little sticky because of the bloodstains, and saw that it couldn't be wiped clean at all, so she simply took it off whole.

She blinked slightly, but she still couldn't see any color in the snow.

"It's cold on the ground."

There was a murmur in her ears, and then she was pulled up from the snow and patted the flakes of snow on her back that had begun to melt into water.

Heavy on his shoulders, a blanket was draped over it, covering the soaking water.

"I've looked for it, and there's no trace of anything near the Arctic Corridor except for the hole I just stepped on when we came." Qin Jiuyuan gently hugged her shoulders and said this.

"Let's leave the Extreme Cold Corridor first, and then find a nearby official road and walk back slowly, don't be afraid."

The black merchant's voice was very soft, as if he was afraid that the slightly louder volume would startle the other party, as if he saw the women in the city coaxing the children. Qiu Xuan was a little amused, and couldn't help but say: "I just can't see in my eyes for a while, and it's not that there is a problem with my ears." ”

There seemed to be an old mother's sigh in her ears, and then the force exerted on her shoulders was a little heavier with a vengeance, but it seemed insignificant through the two layers of heavy blankets.

For a moment, all that was left was the faint sound of footsteps rubbing in the snow. Qiu Xuan still groped one by one, picked up the broken bone umbrella and stuffed it into the space, Qin Jiuyuan wrapped his shoulders around her and walked forward with her, and after completely losing her visual protection at this moment, her hearing was a little more sensitive.

Although at this moment, due to the large-scale vaccination of a considerable number of hungry people with viruses and a bit of mental and physical exhaustion, Qiu Xuan's overall state was even a little better than when he faced the five-person gang before.

The two of them walked in front, and then followed a group of "people" with dull faces but no obstacles between their movements.

This is the reserve food prepared by Qiu Xuan, and she has counted almost all the corpses of hungry people on the battlefield who are still intact with their arms and legs.

With twenty bottles of wine on her body, she had to be on guard against snatching and ready for a fight, even she was a little too busy to take care of herself. Originally, a few bottles of wine had been broken in the snow before, and she and Qin Jiuyuan had finished dividing the remaining wine with a few bottoms, and these foods couldn't be stored for too long on their bodies, so they still had to rely on bloodletting to exchange with Hengliang for the opportunity to enter Drow City after that.

As for how long this new "corpse team" will last, she doesn't know.

Anyway, if there is still a choice, Qiu Xuan doesn't want these corpses to really become "reserve food" in their sense.

The closest official road near the Extreme Cold Corridor had already darkened again when the two arrived. Qiu Xuan didn't know how long it would take to recover from snow blindness in the usual sense, but by the time she arrived at the 28th official road, her eyes were still not good.

Qin Jiuyuan beside him stopped, and his tone sounded casual, even very relaxed.

"The road is occupied, and there are two people throwing stones at us upstairs," he said. ”

Qiu Xuan: "...... What's so good about this? ”

"I'm not happy," the black merchant's tone sounded a little innocent. "Your situation is not suitable for traveling at night, let's find a way to spend the night near the official road first, and wait until dawn tomorrow."

"Tolls!"

Suddenly, an unfamiliar voice came from Qiu Xuan's ears. That voice sounded not very old or even a little immature, it came from the position above his head, it should be the two people who "threw stones at them" that Qin Jiuyuan said.

"This official way is ours! If you want to go from above, you have to give us ...... Well, twenty bottles of wine or equivalent! ”

"Twenty bottles of wine," Qiu Xuan heard Qin Jiuyuan beside him whisper something. "They really think of us as wronged."

"Hey, boy!" The black merchant tilted his head and shouted to the window, "There are no twenty bottles of wine, but we have one...... Fresh corpses. ”

In the place where Qiu Xuan couldn't see, the young man holding the stone in his hand widened his eyes slightly, looking a little surprised and even a little happy.

"But there are conditions," Before he could reply, Qin Jiuyuan followed up with another sentence. "We're going to spend the night near the official road, and we can give you half of the corpses now, and then we'll give you the remaining half when we're gone safe and sound tomorrow."

The young man furrowed his face a little hesitantly, and he turned sideways and whispered to his companion who was guarding the road to continue staring at the two men, and he turned his head and hurried behind the window, as if talking to someone.

After a while, Qiu Xuan heard the sound of landing, and several figures should have jumped directly from the lookout.

"I'm the head of here."

A female voice sounded, and the woman standing at the front seemed to look at the two of them carefully for a long time before she said quietly: "First show me the 'capital' you are negotiating." ”

Qiu Xuan waved her hand to the back, and she ordered all the infected people to hide behind the stone pile not far away, and a "corpse" of moderate stature was thrown straight over.

"We still have one more person." Qin Jiuyuan is as good as a stream, "He has been hiding in the shadows, but don't worry, he won't come to your affairs if he doesn't follow the official road." ”

In fact, there was no one at all, and the body was thrown by another infected person.

The woman who was the leader of the team looked solemn, obviously really believing his words, and was a little afraid of the unknown "third person" hidden in the rear. But she didn't say anything, beckoning a member behind her to examine the body that had been thrown out, and the latter swallowed and nodded at her.

"I can agree to your terms." Qiu Xuan stood in place and waited for a while, she didn't know what was going on in front of her, and only after listening for a long time did the leading woman speak slowly.

"But we only have one room to spare, and you can only stay here for one night, and the next day at dawn, leave what you promised."

"Yes."

Without their hands, the members who stayed behind on this official road did not need to be greeted and went to divide the corpses themselves. Several members of the group were still swallowing as they cut, and they didn't let the fresh blood flow to the ground, not a single drop, all of them were brought into a basin with great preciousness.

One of the people in charge of dividing the corpse was the young man who had been questioned before, and he carefully blocked all the fractures that were oozing blood, and then very reluctantly held the remaining half of the corpse in front of Qin Jiuyuan by default.

Qin Jiuyuan: "......"

"Put it in a bag and send it to our room." The black businessman who has a lot of problems doesn't want to touch the dirty human body with his hands, and after leaving such a sentence, he naturally walks with Qiu Xuan to other people's bases, so freely that it is like walking through the door of his own home.

The young man crooked his neck and was still holding half of the corpse in a daze, and then the leading woman snorted and ran back to do business. The woman glanced at the half-human body on the ground in a blink of an eye, and her eyes also slipped a little joy, and when the two were about to pass by, she said quietly: "How far can you go with a blind man in this kind of place?" The right team will make you live longer. ”

Qin Jiuyuan: "You said you were a horse." ”

Woman: "......?" ”

Suddenly, the black merchant who had already approached the door of the room seemed to suddenly think of something and stopped, and the whole person gasped.

An inevitable smile appeared on the woman's face, and she turned around and said, "What, finally figured it out?" Stay for dinner, we were able to ...... today thanks to you Eat a 'big meal' that hasn't been seen in a long time. ”

Her smile froze as she realized that the man wasn't listening to her.

"I didn't say anything dirty, you heard me wrong...... No, no, yes, yes, I said it wrong, I was wrong, I shouldn't have said it, I shouldn't have said it, I shouldn't have said that......" The black businessman's whole body visibly tensed, trying to explain something to the "blind man" next to him who seemed to be good for nothing but good looks.

The woman looked confused with a stiff face, and the next second the "blind man" also turned his head a little inexplicably and said, "Why apologize?" Isn't it good to refuse? ”

The black merchant grinned.

The woman rolled her eyes directly at the two of them.

……

Qiu Xuan sat on the floor covered with two layers of blankets, holding her head and thinking about things with a pair of unfocused eyes.

The room that the gang had given them looked like a warehouse, and there was not even a bed in it, so they had to lay a few layers of blankets on the ground to make a living.

It should be lucky, the team that occupied the 28th official road seems to have barely some ability. Even if it's not as good as the organization of the Xihan Pavilion, it shouldn't be like sleeping in other unattended roadside houses, worrying every night that hungry people or black-robed people will break into the room and devour you.

However, in the second half of the night, Qiu Xuan slapped her face and didn't want to poison her milk in her life, and she didn't want to start with any of the words "should".

Before it happened, Qiu Xuan sat on the floor of the small storeroom and drowsy. For some reason, the black businessman beside her, who had been inexplicably excited since just now, asked her, "Sleep, I'll keep vigil." ”

Qiu Xuan didn't hold back and closed her eyes and squinted for a while, she was about to fall asleep in a daze, when she suddenly smelled a tempting aroma.

It seemed that because her eyes were no longer visible, her senses in other aspects were extremely sharp at the moment. The fragrance made her sober up at once, and the tip of her nose moved and moved, and she was a little fascinated for a while.

That's the taste of food.

Steaming, fragrant, rich and seductive, even at this moment, the night is sensitive, as if several times the sense of hearing, I can faintly hear the fat and thin slices of meat touching the iron plate, the oil juice penetrates through the texture of the meat, and the fire makes a crackling crunch and roasting sound.

Qiu Xuan's eyes were almost red because of her own thoughts, and since she retired from the gluttony contest three months ago, she has either drunk muddy wine mixed with water and mud or eaten black bread and synthetic cakes like stones every day. Now that I smell and hear such a barbecue sound, my stomach seems to be twisted and churned.

She paused to breathe above her head, and then Qin Jiuyuan's voice sounded, scolding.

"Are these people **? Make such a move at such a time, for fear that others will not know that they are barbecuing here? ”

That's right.

Qiu Xuan suddenly woke up from the still misty trance, she woke up completely, and when she smelled the aroma of a door panel outside the door again, she was no longer in a half-dreaming state.

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