It may be that this year's winter was extremely cold because of the outbreak of war.

After New Year's Day, the entire Middle-earth continent, both in the north and south, was covered with snow. Heavy snowfall fell for four or five consecutive days, with an average thickness of more than one meter, and living people everywhere launched relief operations.

People's action is high, people's hearts are naturally gathered, coupled with the issuance of the dead man's order, the dead people everywhere are congratulating the ancestor of the corpse from the customs, preparing gifts and rushing to the corpse mountain.

All of a sudden, the whole of Middle-earth fell into an eerie calm.

The living are recuperating and preparing to fight again, and the dead are distributing benefits and accumulating strength.

This year, news of the invasion of the dead spread throughout Middle-earth. Closer to the war zone, countless living people dragged their families and moved away from the land of the dead occupied by the dead.

But those old people who are unwilling to leave their homes, and those young people who are enthusiastic and want to regain their homes, still shuttle through the snow from time to time.

The general trend of the war has stopped for the time being, but skirmishes between the living and the dead continue everywhere.

In abandoned villages, in heavily guarded cities, in the wilderness, in the mountains, in the forests......

As long as there are people, there is fighting.

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Cold winds blow and snow falls, and a modified jeep trudes through the snow-covered national highway. The snow on the road was very deep, but some faint rut marks indicated that there were still cars passing by here, but it was not sure whether it was a fugitive living person passing by, or a dead man's scum patrolling.

Because there was so much snow, the speed of the jeep could not be increased. Seeing that it was getting late, the vehicle finally stopped next to a small village covered in snow.

The village is located right next to the national highway and is flanked by green brick houses and withered trees.

If it had snowed so heavily in normal times, the place would have been cleaned up by diligent residents and cleared out of the road. But when I looked around, I saw that the streets were covered with snow and that not even a single footprint had been left.

Since the outbreak of the war, there have been countless abandoned villages of this kind, scattered around the war zone.

The door of the jeep opened, and a man in a white combat uniform came down. He was muscular, his eyes bright, and a long purple sword hung diagonally from his waist.

The man glanced around and said, "Fourth! Let's spend the night here tonight! After this village, even if we enter the control zone of the dead, we must nourish our spirits in advance to avoid accidents. ”

I jumped out of the cab, and the white snow immediately left two deep footprints.

"Third Brother Yu, it took three days to walk less than 200 kilometers, and this snow is really annoying."

Yu Buren smiled: "It's the same." If the weather is too cold, the circulation of yin qi will slow down, and zombies will freeze crispy, even ordinary people can break one with a stick. The speed of the Yin will also become sluggish. ”

As he spoke, he opened the trunk of the jeep, took out his tactical backpack from it, and walked towards the village through the snow.

Although the village was abandoned, it was only the living people who fled and left, because they were in a hurry, so bedding, kitchen utensils, and even some bulky rice and flour were still left here.

All we had to do was unceremoniously open the door and we could make a good dinner.

It's better to have cold weather than to eat some cold canned food.

We each carried a package and were about to find the nearest house to go in and rest. Unexpectedly, Yu Buren suddenly grabbed me, pointed to the alley in front of me, and then made a silent gesture.

I looked in the direction he was pointing, and saw that there were a few pairs of messy footprints in the alley, judging from the size of the footprints, they should all be adults.

Seeing these footprints, I couldn't help but whisper: "Refugees? ”

You must know that in some abandoned villages, there are many old people who do not like to leave their homes, they think that they will not live for a few days, even if they are killed by fierce ghosts and zombies, it is better than being outcast.

If it's a refugee, since we're here, we have to take care of it.

But seeing Yu Buren, he shook his head lightly and said: "The distance between the footprints and the footprints is very large, obviously left by people with capable movements, and the elderly are slow and their steps are relatively small, so they can't leave this kind of footprints." ”

I nodded secretly, I heard that in the war zone, there were many murderers who aided and acted as intelligence officers for the dead. There are also some scum who are greedy for life and afraid of death, and in order to survive, they take the initiative to find blood food for the dead.

If it's one of these guys, we'll have to deal with it.

Yu Buren carefully looked at the direction of the footprints, then gestured to me and pointed to a small two-story building.

The small building was built in a boxy area, surrounded by some exorcism charms. It's just that now the wind is cold, and the exorcism charm has long been damaged by the wind, and it can't do anything at all.

When I looked closely, I saw that the snow on the ground had been treated very secretly, and on the surface it seemed that the snow was formed by natural snow, but if I looked closely, I could see that someone had actually stepped on it, and then it was deliberately treated.

It seems that the people who live in this small building are very attentive.

Yu Buren and I were bold, and we didn't draw our weapons, our bodies jumped, and we were already firmly attached to the wall, only to see Yu Buren patting the window gently, and the window that was originally locked inside was opened by him, and then went straight in.

Fearing that he would be ambushed, I followed him and followed. When I entered, I found that the room was very warm, and through the crack in the door, I could see the light of a candle.

There's someone hiding in there!

Yu Buren and I looked at each other and smiled, then quietly walked to the staircase, looked down, and found that in the hall on the first floor, there were more than a dozen middle-aged men gathered in Jing'an.

The men were armed and kept warm around a makeshift marching stove. The light of the fire in the marching furnace was weak, and the light of the candle made the faces of the illuminated people red.

We didn't know where these guys came from, so we stood on the second floor and took a closer look. After a while, one of the men, who was carrying a pig-killing knife, whispered, "Three human skins have appeared in the next village, and seven old men and five women have died. Looking at this momentum, it is estimated that it will not take two days for those few human skins to arrive in our village. ”

A bearded man said angrily: "Brother Han! Are you scared? ”

The man known as Brother Han sneered, "Afraid? If I am afraid, I will not stay in Wang's Zhuangzi! I hid in Hebei with my wife and children! ”

"There is a yin and yang shop in that place, and those human skins will never dare to go there to make trouble!"

Another man with his back to us whispered, "Wang Laosan, can you think about it?" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Brother Han smashed a rice bowl with his hand, and smashed it right on the man's head. I only heard a clang, and it was heard far away in the silent night.

Brother Han suddenly stood up and scolded: "If you want to be a scum, Lao Tzu will kill you first!" Let you stand with the dead! ”

The man was also furious: "Wang Linhan! You're the fucking little one pretending to be high here! What's wrong? Are you still counting on the Special Cases Department to give you a promotion and make a fortune? Grandma's! Now that I can't even save my life, I still want to serve the country? Fighting for the living? ”

Both of them had fiery tempers, and they were ready to fight with their fists when they didn't agree with each other, but they were so frightened that the people next to them quickly dragged them together, and then sat down next to the marching stove.

An older voice scolded: "What a noise! When is it still noisy! King Hemp! If you're scared, you'll be able to leave early tomorrow morning! Go to Hebei and guarantee that no dead person dares to harm your life! But if you want to be the living dead, are you worthy of your dead father? ”

Wang Haozi snorted: "Who said I was going to be the living dead?" I just want Wang Laosan to give us a few talismans and stick them around the house to dispel those human skins. ”

Someone next to him advised: "Since everyone is in the same room, they are in the same boat." Even if we don't have harmony, how will we survive in the future? ”

Everyone chattered and said yes one after another, and only then did they separate the two people.

Yu Buren and I glanced at each other, and we already understood a lot in our hearts.

These men either can't escape, or they deliberately stay to avenge their dead relatives. I thought that with my own blood and courage, I could catch a few dead people and scatter their souls.

Who would have thought that when things came to an end, they found that dead people are not so easy to mess with. And now the heavy snow is closing the road, and civilian vehicles are unable to move an inch in the snowdrifts, and they can't walk away if they want to, so they can only be trapped here to survive.

As for the human skin in their mouths, it should be the 30,000 ghosts for the dead. After the death of the Demon Ancestor, the remnants of the Demon Army in the upper domain of the Ten Thousand Demon Pit created two bloody cases, got 30,000 human skins, devoured the living everywhere, and became substitutes for the dead.

There is no end to the ghost of the dead, you kill a person and you are free, but that person has to kill another person to free yourself again.

If this cycle continues, it is really poisonous.

Coincidentally, there are actually a few human skins in this place, and the nearby refugees who are tossing are panicked and dare not go out all day long.

And Wang Laosan, who Wang Haozi said in his mouth, should be the scum among the living.

In order to survive, these scum have long lost their humanity, and they look for the living everywhere, or deceive, or forcibly kidnap, and bring the living over to the dead as blood food.

As soon as these dead people came to see that they were useful, and secondly, in the cold weather, even the yin qi did not circulate smoothly, and they didn't bother to go out to find blood food by themselves.

Anyway, the living people are killing each other, and their despicability is all revealed, and they don't bother to kill these scum.

So this group of scum became the only people who dared to operate in the war zone and the land of the dead.

Some people call them scum, but others call them the living dead, which means people who are alive but are actually like the dead.