Chapter 160: The Autumn of the Wilderness
After returning to the base, the people in the logistics department unloaded the gasoline from the pickup truck and the supplies on the off-road vehicle. He Miaomiao is still in charge of all the materials in the base, and it is not difficult for her to do things in an orderly manner. Since Zhang Zhao came back, Li Yan no longer secretly competed with her, and concentrated on being her little woman.
As soon as the goods were unloaded, raindrops began to fall in the sky, and the late autumn rain, with a chill, invaded this dilapidated land. Zhang Zhao stood on the balcony, looking at the surging sea, this sea area, there should have been a busy shadow of ships coming in and out, but at this moment, it was like a deep pool of endless hell.
Li Yan draped a coat over him and said softly, "What are you looking at?" It's so cold outside. ”
Zhang Zhao gently held her hand, she was pregnant, and her body shape did not seem to have changed much, but she was healthier and more energetic. For Li Yan, Zhang Zhao can't say that he loves her, but in his heart, there are always so many responsibilities that need to be fulfilled. And Li Yan is probably more dependent. In the apocalyptic world, all those loves are more precious. What was once valuable, now it can become worthless. And those things that originally had little value have become luxuries.
Death has never been so close to humanity. To a greater or lesser extent, people will seize the time and enjoy every minute and every second of their lives in the world.
Li Yan once said: Maybe you are not the best, if it was before, there might not be any intersection between us. But with you, I feel at ease, and I can feel alive every day.
If anything needs a naked cause, then the final world of people, even death, will become clear. Only by living the rest of your life in a daze can you bring a little comfort to a world full of fear.
"This year's weather seems to have become very strange." Zhang Zhaodao.
Li Yan hugged him, and through the thick coat, she could also feel the softness. She buried her face in Zhang Zhao's back and said softly: "Yes, if it goes on like this, it will probably snow." ”
Zhang Zhao's brows furrowed slightly, and he was worried in his heart: "If it really snows, our conditions will become even worse." ”
"Are you worried about food?" Li Yan was like a roundworm in his stomach.
Zhang Zhao smiled bitterly: "Yes, in the final analysis, there are too many people, we go out very often, and we can bring something back every time, but if this is winter, it will have a great impact on going out, I am afraid that when the time comes, everyone will really be hungry." ”
Li Yan held his face and said distressedly: "Otherwise, let's find a place to live by ourselves, anyway, there are no ships now, and we won't be able to leave for a while." ”
Zhang Zhao shook his head and said, "This may not be feasible, although we have been to many places, they are all empty, and there are places, but that is too risky." After all, the infrastructure of the resort is still well-developed and more secure than other places. ”
Li Yan pouted and said, "But I see you like this, very aggrieved, are you worried about the child in my belly." ”
Zhang Zhao was silent, not knowing how to answer. Li Yan said suddenly: "Otherwise, I'll make the child, it's also a burden to carry, it's still unstable, in case you have to run around again, it's not convenient to take a doll with you." ”
Hearing her say this, Zhang Zhaozhi, who was frightened, broke out in a cold sweat, and said a little angrily: "Don't say this kind of nonsense again in the future, whether it's you or the child, I hope you can be well." ”
At this moment, Zhang Zhao's mind suddenly became chaotic, and he turned around and went back to the room. Li Yan followed behind, and said with a strong flattery: "Don't be angry, I also said casually, this is your child, even if she dies, I will give birth to her." ”
The rain did not stop until it fell overnight, and the darkest season of the year is about to come.
Early in the morning, Zhang Zhao and Guo Rong went out with the field team and went south along Binjiang Avenue. While passing by yesterday's gas station, I saw a scrapped vehicle parked on the side of the road.
Several people got out of the car and checked around, but no trace was found. Fang Dong took a wrench in his hand, smashed the car window, and then opened the car door from the inside. There wasn't even a bottle of water in the car, and it seems that the person who abandoned it took everything with him when he left.
"The left front wheel is a spare tire, and it seems that it was only abandoned because the tire blew out and had no replacement." Fang Dong squatted on the ground and pointed to the shriveled tire lane.
"It's been a long time since I've seen another survivor, where is this person going?" Guo Rong squinted, looked at the distance of the road, and said, "Let's go, maybe we can really meet it." ”
The survivors of Harbour City seem to be hiding in places where no one can find them, and although there have been traces of them in the past month, they have never met a living person. This car must have been abandoned last night, and in the dark night of heavy rain, where can it go. According to normal people's thinking, when this happens, they will hide in the business hall of the gas station for the night, and wait for dawn before going on the road.
But Xu Haihai and Ma Donglai checked the business hall, and there were no traces left by anyone inside. A group of people got into the car again and continued to hurry, coming out early today, there is still a lot of time to use. The boundary south of Harbour City is not so famous, although there are about a dozen or twenty towns and villages on the map that I have obtained before. But even the local residents of Xiangcheng have never heard of these places.
Along the way, all you see are bare tree branches, abandoned farmland, and undulating but empty seas. And those scrapped cars, three-way cars, are covered with a thick layer of sludge. On a cloudy day in late autumn, the whole world is like a black and white photograph, silent and desolate.
After driving about forty or fifty kilometers, I saw a village house on the side of the road. The houses on the boundary of Harbour City are very individual, and perhaps here, in the early years, was deeply influenced by the cultures of various countries. If it is before the end of the world, this village must also be a beautiful scenery.
Each house is a two-story house, the glass is colorful, on the balcony, it should be a small landscape planted with all kinds of flowers, but for a long time no one has taken care of it, those red, red, yellow and yellow flowers, also dyed in jet black, dying in the dead grass.
The village is not big, just next to the riverside avenue, across the road, there is a small park. In the small square of the small park, there is also a three- or four-meter-tall figure wearing ancient costumes, holding a hand and pointing into the distance.
The car stopped on the side of the road, and when he got out of the car, Ma Donglai pointed to a stone tablet on the side of the road and said: "This place is called Han Gong Village, it seems that Han Gong is referring to that person." "On the stele, it is indeed engraved with the life deeds of Han Gong, which probably means that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the harbor city was rampant, the officials and soldiers were incompetent, and they were defeated and retreated. The people were fished by pirates, and for a time they were mourned all over the wilderness, and the people were struggling to make a living. At that time, there was a scholar in this village who was not on the list, and when he saw the miserable situation of the people, he led the youth of the nearby towns to resist the pirates.
The stone tablet is engraved in classical Chinese, and if you want to explain it sentence by sentence, you can also remember 1,800 words. There are many meanings, and a few people can't understand them, but they just have a general understanding of the content.
In ancient history, there have been many similar stories, most of which were later added to mythology, in order to highlight the glorious image of the hero's wisdom and martial arts.
"Let's go into the village and have a look? The old rules, Fang Dong and Dong came to stay. "In the past, when I went to search villages and towns, I would always leave the two of them, so that the back foot would not be stolen by someone else as soon as the front foot left. The two of them are equipped with firearms, and even if they encounter a few survivors or a small group of zombies, they can handle it. If there is really a big danger, as long as you honk the horn, Zhang Zhao and a few of them will rush back in time.
Most of the doors of the houses in Hangong Village are closed, and in the experience of the past, there is generally no big gain when you enter a situation like this. Of course, with the exception of the time he met Han Dong, this kid was simply clever and speechless. After arriving at the base, he did not blend in, and often sat alone on the beach with wolf fangs, looking at the sea level in the distance.
This village is not large, there are only about 20 households, and the age of the building should not exceed 10 years. In other words, this village is likely to have been relocated here after the Great Reform of Harbour City, and the old village may not be far away.
Xiangcheng is a small Hong Kong, and Harbour City is a small Hong Kong among all the counties within the boundaries of Xiangcheng. The per capita income of this place is also among the best in the world, and the government has spent a lot of money to renovate and improve the image of Harbour City to the world.
The facilities in this village are very modern, and there are restaurants and cafes in the small village, which is rarely seen elsewhere. Because this is not a tourist attraction open to the public, even if residents want to get some side hustles and gimmicks, this scale is difficult to achieve.
The roads in the village are very clean, and there is not even a trace of zombie-related filth, as if it was originally an empty city. The garbage cans on both sides of the road were also empty, and there was not even a scrap of paper.
The emergence of such a strange reality is not a good thing, without domestic garbage, it is likely that the whole village will not be living in the first place. At least, it was uninhabited for a long time before the apocalypse.
Just as everyone was carefully observing the buildings on both sides, Xu Haihai suddenly pointed to a house in front of him and shouted, "There are people up there." ”
Just now, when he glanced at the second floor of the building, a figure flashed through the window. In this empty village, I originally thought that there were no living creatures, but suddenly saw a figure clearly, Xu Haihai for a while, only felt that the hairs on his whole body were countdown, if it weren't for so many people together, he would inevitably jump up in fright.
Hearing him shout like this, Song Dabao didn't have any worries, ran over and began to kick the door frantically. He kicked the wooden door a few times, and it cracked.
"Dabao, don't come nonsense." Before Zhang Zhao could stop it, Song Dabao had already kicked the door away.
(End of chapter)