At the end of September 2037, the provincial highway of H City.

Weather, fine.

A dilapidated domestic van was driving on a provincial road, and the body was stained with a lot of red and black blood. The van shook and stopped by a stone bridge. A man with a long beard jumped out of the car, wearing only a dirty army-green vest, went around to the front of the car to take a look, and then said, "The car is out of gas, so it can only go here." ”

Then, several people got down from the car one after another, and one of them was an old man with gray hair: "Wang Wu, why is this car out of gas?" ”

There are a total of six people in this group, and it is Zhang Zhao who escaped from H City. When they got up this morning, they avoided the corpses and returned to the mall, only to find that the mall was empty, and there were still many zombie corpses on the ground. Many of the supplies they had collected before were also left in place, and it seems that they were in a hurry to leave and did not have time to pack their things.

"Dad, what can I do if the car runs out of gas, this is a broken car." Wang Wu said aggrievedly that this car was still the only car with a key, and it was estimated that the owner of the car also encountered an emergency at that time, so he dropped the car and ran away. Although there are many cars on the road, most of them are crashed, even if they are intact, how can ordinary people have the ability to start the car with the wiring, for laymen, the bridge in the TV, it is impossible to do it.

Several people sorted out the things in the car, and they all carried them on their backs, including some food left over from the mall, and everyone changed into a clean set of clothes. Lu Yang kept sneezing along the way, and after a night of rain yesterday, several people had some symptoms of a cold.

At the other end of the bridge, there is a small village, built by the water, but now it is estimated that there are no people left, and there is no trace of any living creatures. Zhang Zhao carried the heavy backpack on his shoulder, holding a cigarette that had been soaked in water and dried in his mouth, and he frowned: "Do you want to go into the village?" Maybe a survivor can be found. ”

Li Zijing and a group of them were nowhere to be found, and when the tide of corpses returned, almost the entire city was cleaned up. They probably encountered a tide of corpses, and then hurriedly drove out of the encirclement, but they did not leave any clues, and they did not know where to go.

Guo Rong had a headscarf on his head and a vest, wet, this ghost weather was too hot: "Let's go, it's good to try your luck, there are a lot of us, and there are guys." What he meant was that even if you came across zombies, or those survivors with schemes, you wouldn't have to worry about them with your people and weapons.

It's already two o'clock in the afternoon, and without transportation, you can't go far. If you go on, it will be difficult to encounter a village again, and in that case you will have to sleep in the wilderness.

The city of H has a vast area, and except for a small amount of plains, most of it is mountainous. Zombies have invaded cities and destroyed human civilization, and then in small villages, things are slightly better. In addition to the small population, more importantly, the rural areas are basically self-sufficient in food. Rice, vegetables, basically every household will grow.

If there is no hope for human society now, Zhang Zhao may also choose a relatively remote mountainous area with his family to live, grow some crops, raise some poultry, and barely live the second half of his life. It's just that he hasn't been reunited with his parents yet, and the south is densely populated, and many zombie armies have poured into the mountains. After all, two months have passed, and apart from the survivors who are hiding, there are basically not many people who can escape under the tide of corpses. Zombies are very tenacious, and unless their brains are disappointed, they don't necessarily die even if they break their limbs or don't eat for months.

Now the primary goal is to find Li Zijing and them, although it is the last days, full of killing and blood, but human morality is not completely degraded. Not to mention the others, just because Song Qing and Han Yue, two people who lived and died with him from the beginning, they should do their best to bring them to the East China Sea Islands. Besides, Han Yue is Guo Rong's girlfriend again, and suddenly disappeared under such circumstances, although Guo Rong didn't say anything, he just hid that worry in the depths of his heart.

People have feelings, and anyone you have ever dealt with, no matter what relationship you maintain, more or less occupies some place in your heart. Besides, if he abandoned his teammates like this, Zhang Zhao felt that it would be difficult to survive in the future.

This stone bridge is not spacious, at most three or four meters wide, about fifty meters long, the bridge deck is all paved with long stones, the bridge body is double-holed, such bridges are common in the south. The water of the small river is crystal clear, and for Zhang Zhao, who has fought a bloody way out of the sea of corpses for many days, this is undoubtedly a paradise.

If conditions permitted, he would like to jump into the river and swim for a while in such a hot ghost weather to wash away the fatigue on his body. Even if the river is not polluted by modern chemical industry, even if it is two or three meters high, you can still clearly see the fish swimming in the river.

Guo Rong was playful, picked up some gravel from the bridge, aimed at the fish in the river, and then threw the pebbles into the fish. The fish were disturbed, and they fled four times in fright, causing Guo Rong to laugh. It's not because Guo Rong is too naïve, if you are a person who lives in the southern countryside and didn't have many things to play when you were a child, and you can only find trouble with these small animals in the mountains and rivers, then you have a deep understanding.

In a river like this, there are not only fish, but also under many stones, you can also touch the stone crab, put it in the oil pan and fry it, put some salt, and the taste is not too good.

In the village and outside the village, there are two different scenes. Originally, the outside of the village looked comfortable and tidy, but when it came to the main road of the village, it was the same as the city, not only messy, but also a lot of bloodstains, both human and zombie. It's just that there are no zombie corpses in this main road.

Donna leaned into the window of the opinion house on the side of the road and looked inside, it was dark outside and inside, and there was no movement. She tried to shine a flashlight, but was stopped by Zhang Zhao: "Look at the side of the road, although there are blood stains, there are no zombie corpses, obviously someone has cleaned it up, it seems that there are still many survivors in this village." ”

This is also true, they knew before they entered the village that there must be survivors here, because this is a mountainous area, even if the city of H is flooded with corpses. It is also unlikely that it will reach the rural areas in a short period of time. It's just that I didn't expect that the village here was also invaded by zombies, and judging from the blood stains on the ground, there must have been a lot of deaths at that time.

If there are only a few survivors left, it will be difficult to even make ends meet, let alone have the heart to clean up the corpses on the road. There are about fifty or sixty families in this village, and the population is two or three hundred. Except for some bloodstains, there was not a single zombie in sight. Then these people can only hide at home and keep their doors closed.

Walking to the end of the main road, along the houses on both sides of the road, every house has doors and windows closed, knowing that there are people among them, but they can't call out loudly, and now Zhang Zhao has no recruitment. Lao Wang pulled over a stool and sat down at the door of a family, deliberately raised his voice and said, "We pass by here, sleep for one night and leave tomorrow." It seems that there is no one in this village, so for the sake of safety, we should live outside the house. ”

This sentence seems to be said to his own people, but it is really shouted to the people in the house, this old fox, although this method seems abrupt, it is the best way at the moment. The first is to attract the attention of the people in the house, and the second is to show that these people are just passing by and have no malicious intent. The third is actually telling the other party that we know there are people in your house, but we don't mean to be offended.

"Uncle Wang, why don't we live in the house? How dangerous it is out there. Lu Yang, who was stunned and had no social experience, didn't know why, so he asked like this.

Fortunately, his voice was not loud, and I don't know if the other survivors heard it, Guo Rong hurriedly kicked his ass: "You are stupid, if there are zombies in the house, I won't bite you to death." ”

Lu Yang was aggrieved for a while, but fortunately Wang Wu came to play the round: "Lu Yang, let's go to the river to get some fish, and we can open meat at night." ”

For people living in big cities, of course, fishing is such an interesting thing that cannot be missed, Lu Yang responded, followed Wang Wu, and went to the stone bridge that had just entered the village.

Lao Wang and Zhang Zhao deliberately had a conversation outside the house, and their acting skills were comparable to those of the Oscar winners, which made Guo Rong next to him almost laugh. After talking for a while, the two of them were dry, and when they saw that there was no reaction in the house, they stopped these boring actions.

After working for a long time, Lao Wang wondered: "Could it be that there is really no one in this village, you see my Lao Wang, I have used all the skills I can make, if there are really people, I should have come out a long time ago." ”

Zhang Zhao trusted his instincts and was also very confident in his observation ability, he shook his head: "Impossible, there must be many people in this village." ”

Zhang Zhao has no special skills, and his only specialty is his observation and analytical skills. Anything, just by thinking about it, he can sort out a clear line of thought, and he has some intuition about unknown factors. This intuition is the result of observation and analysis, and it is not a lie.

You say that he is powerful, but he is far from the same, he is not tall, slightly fat, and he doesn't like sports. Since the outbreak of the zombie virus, he has been exercising every day and has significantly improved his physical fitness and speed. But this is just a lack of survival, he usually would rather sleep all day on weekends than go out, he has really changed a lot. Killing a lot of zombies along the way, not because of how strong his combat power is, but because in the past two months, he has been doing the same thing almost every day, drawing his knife, swinging his knife, chopping, and stabbing directly. These simple actions are the skills he uses to fight when he encounters zombies.

The play directed and acted by the two of them, Donna really couldn't stand it, and her attention was on the surrounding houses. In this squad, her identity is more like that of a vigilant guard, and whenever a zombie appears, she immediately raises her gun and shoots. This guard, Lao Wang and Zhang Zhao were still using the heart-attacking timer, but her gaze stayed at the entrance of the village.