Chapter 49: The Stranger in the Tunnel
With the wall, the entire Red Star community is safe, everyone has regained the sense of security that has been lost for a long time, with the end of dinner, early rest, even I relaxed the spirit that has been tense, with the roaring diesel generator being turned off, the community fell into darkness and silence.
The earth fell into darkness, and the stars in the sky hid, and in this quiet night, two hundred meters away from the Red Star Community, behind a large tree, two sneaky figures poked out two heads.
"Do you see who they are?" A deep baritone spoke, not so loud that even in the quiet night where a fart could be heard, only his companions could hear it.
"It's the army, it's definitely the army! I've seen them in military uniforms and with machine guns! ”
The man's companion spoke, his voice with a strange hoarseness, like that of a young boy in a voice-changing period, and it was clear that the man was not very old.
"That's a rifle, not a machine gun, an uneducated melon baby!" The man from before said angrily.
"That's a machine-gun-like rifle!"
"Iron Pillar, do you say they are really an army?"
"Yes, absolutely, didn't you hear that too? But they set off the cannon for half a day? "The iron pillar is a decisive way.
"Do you see how many of them there are?"
"No... No... I've been hiding here, I didn't dare to show my head, I was afraid of being hit by artillery, my mother said that the artillery of the People's Liberation Army can kill all cows, ghosts, snakes and gods, this time our village is saved. ”
Hearing Tie Zhu's answer, the man also showed joy, and then said strangely: "Why is the army firing cannons inside?" Are all those demons and monsters out there? Also, I haven't seen such a big wall in my 40 years of life, it looks like an ancient city wall. ”
"Oops! Uncle Zhuang, what do you care about so much, we just need to know that they are the country's army, they must be sent by the state to rescue us. ”
"That's not right! I still think there's something strange about this, since they were sent by the state to rescue us, why haven't they seen any big moves for a long time? And I think they're building positions as if they're going to fight someone. ”
Old Uncle Zhuang said the closest thing to the actual situation, and Tie Zhu hesitated a little after hearing it, but finally shook his head.
"Hey! No, they are machine guns and artillery, who would dare to fight them, is it possible that they want to start a war with the demons and monsters outside? Tiezhu didn't believe it.
"War with the demons and monsters outside? Yes! They are here to fight those man-eating monsters, and I heard from the militia captain in the village yesterday that the demons around them are gathering an army to move towards us, and it's broken! Mine hurried back to bring the news to the fire. The more Uncle Zhuang spoke, the more he thought that what he said was reasonable, and he simply slapped it on his thigh and exclaimed.
"Uncle Zhuang, be quiet, don't let the demons hear."
Tie Zhu reminded Uncle Zhuang while looking around nervously, for fear that the man-eating demon would jump out of somewhere.
With Tie Zhu's reminder, Uncle Zhuang also lowered his voice, but still muttered.
"Even if there is a war, it has nothing to do with us, they have guns and cannons, and walls, can't they deal with those man-eating demons?"
"What you say is reasonable, but what should we do when there is a war? At that time, there must be artillery and demons around, don't forget, our village is just below the Red Star Community. ”
"That's right! Then let's hurry back and ask Brother Zhou Zheng, he is a college student and educated, he will definitely be able to come up with a good way at this time, he used to lead everyone to avoid demons. ”
The two of them retracted back behind the big tree, and groped their way forward along an inconspicuous path, and in this night when they couldn't see their fingers, his speed was the same as that of a flashlight, and as the two of them ran and crossed, they became farther and farther away from the Red Star Community, until they came to a room in a small village after mid-twenties.
The room was very dark, but Tie Zhu and Uncle Zhuang were not affected at all, they came to the kitchen of the room with ease, and the two of them worked together to remove the big black iron pot on the stove in the kitchen, the big iron pot was very old, and the bottom of the iron pot was full of black pot ash.
Under the stove fire is a hole nearly one meter wide, Uncle Zhuang took the lead in getting in, and the iron pillar also followed half of his body, carefully looked around, and then stretched out his hands, and re-covered the big iron pot, and disappeared into the hole.
The cave was dark and deep, and Uncle Zhuang took out an old silver flashlight from his arms in the seventies and eighties, turned on the switch, and the flashlight emitted a dim light to illuminate the cave.
On the soil walls on both sides of the cave, some small lumps of soil fall with the light wind brought by people walking, and steel bars of different thicknesses, or wooden beams are supported on both sides of the tunnel, and the load-bearing beams are erected to prevent the collapse of the cave......
The two of them walked silently in the narrow tunnel, except for the strong smell of earth, they could not smell any other smell, the air was also very turbid, and from time to time they could see a plastic pipe buried in the soil above their heads, and the other end of these plastic pipes was exposed in a hidden place outside, which was the ventilation hole......
The tunnel was not long, and in a short time they descended to a wide hall, which was also rudimentary, but the floor of the hall was paved with neat red bricks, and the walls were carefully maintained.
The hall was quite spacious, with dozens of simple floors spread out in the corners, most of them were sleeping under their own quilts, and some of the more alert looked up at the two men who had just entered, and when they saw that they were acquaintances, they went back to sleep.
This is a war preparation tunnel, speaking of tunnels, I have to say that the North China Plain on the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression during the famous tunnel war, D city is in North China.
The tunnel began to develop continuously from the Ranzhuang of Baoding Qingyuan, from a single hiding to an underground fortification that can fight and hide, waterproof, fire and anti-poison, and gradually formed a house with a house, formed an internal and external joint defense, and cooperated with each other to fight the enemy. The Jizhong Plain, which was undefendable, became an important part of the Japanese invading army.
Now these tunnels during the Anti-Japanese War are being used by people again, but this time people are not hiding in Little Japan, but in cannibalistic zombies.
The two men did not stop in the hall, they carefully stepped through the messy bunks on the floor, and stepped over the sleeping men and women into a tunnel that was also paved with red bricks.
The tunnel is only a dozen meters long, and there is a hole dug by hand every meter on both sides of the tunnel, which is similar to a cave in the northwest, and the hole is also full of people, and the two of them walked to one of the holes and stopped, lifted the curtain that hung on the hole and was made of various rags of rags, and got in.
The cave is not very large, only twenty square meters in area, there is a kerosene lamp hanging on the roof of the cave, with the air flow of the two people swaying slightly, there is a dilapidated spring bed in the corner, in the middle is a simple foldable square table, on the square table crawled a twenty-seven or eighteen years old young man with basket glasses, the man held a pen and drew back and forth on several yellowed A4 papers, he was so attentive that he did not notice the two of them coming in.
"Brother Li Dong, we're back!" Tie Zhu stepped forward, under the illumination of the kerosene lamp on the roof of the cave, the appearance of Tie Zhu and Lao Zhuang Uncle was fully presented, Tie Zhu was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy, his body was quite strong, his two big eyes were very godly, and his face was the simplicity of a countryman.
Uncle Zhuang was in his early forties, wearing a shabby gray cotton jacket, his face was wrinkled, his eyes were slightly cloudy, his mouth was slightly open and there were two rows of yellow teeth, his skin was dark, and he looked like a farmer who often shaved in the field.
"Pillars! Uncle Zhuang, are you back? Take a look at the drawings I just designed, this time I'm going to expand a few areas on top of the original tunnel, so that we can be safer. The man said excitedly with the drawings.
"Huh!" Old Uncle Zhuang was not interested in these complicated drawings, "Zhou Zheng, we just found out that there is a group of people similar to the army in the Red Star Community. ”
"It's not like that, it's the army!" Tie Zhu immediately interrupted dissatisfied.
"Oh? So what do you talk about? The man named Zhou Zheng put down the drawings and straightened up, and the excitement on his face disappeared.
"They're fighting those man-eating demons, they're firing cannons, just as thick and long as they are on TV." Tie Zhu said as he gestured with his two hands.
"Did you see them shelling those monsters?"
"No... No...... I came here to hide, but the whole Red Star community was ringing, and I even felt the earth shaking, such a big movement was not a cannon, what could it be? Tiezhu still stuck to his guess.
Zhou Zheng frowned after listening to Tie Zhu's words, the people who resembled the army that Tie Zhu said were definitely not firing artillery, it sounded like they were blowing up something? But what can there be in the red star?
"Uncle Zhuang, what else did you see? For example, have people like you seen it? ”
"Nope!" Old Uncle Zhuang shook his head and continued: "However, I found that there is a very tall wall at the entrance of the Red Star Community, and I guess they are going to be stationed here for a long time. ”
"Fences? I don't remember that there is a wall in the Red Star Community? The man's eyebrows were already wrinkled together.
"Hmmm! It really wasn't before, maybe it was newly built by the army-like people. ”
"How many of them are there? Was the wall built to create a gathering place here? ”
"I don't know how many of them there are, but I don't think they're building a gathering place, but rather building a fortress to fight those man-eating demons. You see, if the two of them fight, we will be miserable. ”
"What? You said there were a lot of monsters around us, why did you tell me about such an important thing today? Zhou Zheng's face changed drastically and he jumped up from the square table.
Old Uncle Zhuang was taken aback by Zhou Zheng's reaction and said, "Didn't you say that you should concentrate on designing authentic drawings?" Don't bother you so that we don't have a big deal? I think these demons may have passed by, so I didn't tell you. ”
"Oops! Confused, Uncle Zhuang, we are miserable now, those people from similar armies are preparing for the corpse tide, and we are on the way to the advance of a large number of corpse tides. Zhou Zheng suddenly figured it all out, and now they were going to be finished.