Chapter 11: The Land of All Blessings
Mid-Autumn Festival, ten days have passed since the day of hunting big snakes, I don't know how happened to my mother?
Zhang Jiaming's daily practice has not stopped, the two things provided by the big snake are really beneficial to the body, in addition to his ability to be partially enhanced, for several days, he does not need to eat, but the physical energy on his body is not exhausted, now the body is strong, the past clothes are no longer able to wear, plus not afraid of the cold, simply use the skin of the lamb slaughtered last time to make a leather apron for himself, this time it is completely a bit of the fan of Tarzan of the apes, and the lamb skin is also quite comfortable and suitable, although it has not been made with a salt sheathThere is also a slight smell of milk and sheep on it.
I had to prepare something for today's festival, and after making up his mind, Zhang Jiaming stretched his body, and after turning into a beast, he jumped into the cool river, and his target was a pier on the opposite bank.
When Zhang Jiaming was a child, this wharf was very famous in the local area, the land transportation was not developed at that time, waterway transportation is a major feature of the local area, whether it is upstream and downstream or the goods in the mountains, more than 70% of them are transported by boats, Luojia Wharf, Kangjia Wharf, Zhuangjia Wharf are well-known in this county, tea, cloth, daily necessities, persimmons in the mountains, chestnuts, precious medicinal materials and other are transported to this or where the wharf by the captains. When Zhang Jiaming had a memory, his father often took him to the dock area to watch the porters work, but he forgot a lot of what his father said, and only vaguely remembered a few words of encouragement.
"Study hard, don't be like those coolies below, they are not smart enough, but they haven't caught up with the good age of being able to read." Every time he finished speaking, his father always looked at himself with a very expectant look, and his feelings were still unreasonable at that moment, just habitually obedient, nodded, and then continued to look at the labor scene like ants moving, those laborers who do the handling work all year round are all black and brown skin, even on their faces, even on the days of the tenth winter wax moon, they can sweat profusely, but they don't necessarily have many painful expressions on their faces, some are still smiling, Shouting cheering and cheering each other, carrying the goods with a sigh, and climbing the green and quiet stone steps of the dock every time, there are 64 steps! It's hard to imagine how many steps he could walk if Zhang Jiaming's weak body before the end of the day was allowed to carry it? Now that the end of the world is coming, the ship is there, the dock is there, and the people are still the same people, the difference is that these living dead are no longer so enthusiastic, with corrupt faces, white eyes, dry mouths full of blood stains that I don't know if it is my own or one or several victims, and between the lips are two rows of yellowed sharp teeth, these former residents, merchants, workers, and peddlers are now wandering slowly in the dock area, and some are still looking at the river as before, as if waiting for the cargo ship that will never be able to dock! Zhang Jiaming came, climbed into a boat gang, and the two zombies noticed his arrival, with a foul smell, which was obviously a pair of zombies of a couple who were holding the boat and pounced, the orc was unceremoniously, the claws waved, and the heads of the two zombies flew out of the boat. After cleaning up the small boat, Zhang Jiaming jumped to the edge of the dock and began to kill in the zombie group, so that those zombies who moved stiffly could not take effective attacks at all, if the zombie group was dense, maybe they could line up in a cluster formation, besiege Zhang Jiaming, restrain his hands and feet, and make him unable to exert his strength! But zombies are not people, and there are no evolved zombies in the dock area, Zhang Jiaming is addicted to zombies, but in 5 minutes, Zhang Jiaming cleaned up more than 300 zombies on the dock, calmed down his anger, and Zhang Jiaming began to search the shops on the steps. This street used to be one of the most lively areas in the local area, a large number of peddlers and pawns, neighboring residents bought and sold here, all the streets on both sides were shops and non-staple food stores, Zhang Jiaming's favorite is the stall of the two old people who sell glutinous sugar and rock sugar gourds here, as long as he arrives here, his father will always mutter something quietly
"It's not good to eat sugar" or something like that, and then reluctantly took out five cents or a penny from his crumpled pocket under the forced gaze of his mother and handed it to himself, and then Zhang Jiaming could go to the two old grandfathers to exchange for his favorite sugar cubes.
Tearing up a few zombies that leaned up, Zhang Jiaming was fascinated by this familiar street, which carries too many of his own memories, whether it was childhood or adulthood, he still remembers the girl he first loved, the sweet girl with an apple face, the two of them, holding hands and walking on this street, the girl pointed this and that from time to time, sometimes whispered in his ear, and sometimes laughed unrestrainedly!
Zhang Jiaming felt a sense of loss in his heart, now there is nothing here, it has become a paradise for the living dead, hesitating in the period, are all cannibal demons who should go to hell, but are still wandering in the world, thinking of this, Zhang Jiaming angrily smashed the door of a shop, and crushed the heads of more than a dozen zombies who rushed to hear the sound!
This scene on the street was discovered by a figure in a Western-style building not far away! Zhang Jiaming also knew for a long time that there were living people around here, and he deliberately made a noise just to let these living people know their existence!
After determining his goal, Zhang Jiaming climbed over several courtyard walls and entered a large walled courtyard surrounded by high walls on all sides, with an antique building made of bluestone blocks and marble in the middle, and a cross erected at the top of the tower at the top of the building, yes, this is the largest church in the area, a place where Protestants sing and pray.
Zhang Jiaming didn't change back into human form, and he had no intention of changing, anyway, if he had malicious intentions, or if he was a man-eating demon, none of the living people here would be able to escape!
It's better to let them know what they're here for! Smelling the smell in the air, Zhang Jiaming once again determined his goal, the top floor of the third floor of the church, is the person who watched himself from the window of the bell tower just now!
"The Father in heaven tells us that the man-eating beast is between us, that the suffering unites us and gives us courage to face their threat, and God will give us courage, and He says: When the wolves come, the shepherds will rise up against them! Protect your own lambs! Whatever comes into the hands of mortals, such as us, to strike at evil head-on is a righteous move! ”
"All the hands of mortals such as us to strike at evil head-on are righteous measures!" Several emaciated believers kneeling on the ground chanted in unison,
"Beings who go against God's will, crawl out of the deepest depths of hell, hate all the evil creatures who walk on the lamb under the sun, listen, the holy will of the Lord, fight for the Lord! The Lord is with you! Amen! The French priest led the crowd to the end of the prayer with a pale face!
Several children standing on the windowsill shouted in a panic: "Father, it's coming in!" ”
"Calm down, child, come this way" A group of panicked people stood in three rows, a few young men in the front row, women in the back, and priests and children at the back, they stared nervously at the entrance of the attic staircase, and from what they had just observed, the long-haired beast easily climbed over the high fence and killed many man-eating monsters! These survivors have survived to this day, all of them are supported by strong will and faith, who would have thought that there would be such a terrible monster here.
"Bump!" With a loud bang, a big burlap bag fell in front of everyone, and everyone was so frightened that they took a step back, and then, the huge black-haired monster jumped directly from the lookout in the lower attic directly to the third-floor window sill, and smashed the glass window by the way!
Shaking off the fragments of the window lattice on his head and stepping on the broken glass on the ground, the orc spewed coarse white gas, revealing sharp claws, and slowly began to pace in front of the crowd!
Zhang Jiaming has always been very strange about these religious believers, he can't understand the impact of faith on human beings at all, the only thing he has ever understood is that religious fanaticism can make an ordinary mortal become a fear--terror-divide-son who is not afraid of death!
After everyone saw the appearance of the beast, they almost took a breath in unison, and then there were several timid girls screaming!
This is a monster that only appears in mythological stories!
"Is this a werewolf, Father Christopher?" The children are not sensible, they are just curious questioners, and they don't care about the sweat on the priest's pale face!
"This is the dwelling place of God, the temple of the Father, the cursed demons, and I exercise the Lord's will on behalf of the Lord! Filthy bottom hell devils, get out of the Lord's sanctuary! Get out! Get out! The priest seemed to have let himself out, holding a silver cross high, shouting loudly, and standing up from the crowd and walking straight up to the orcs, in fact, the priest was making a last-ditch effort, he wanted to buy time for these innocent children to be able to free themselves from the claws of the beasts!
Clearly, God's might was at work at this moment, and the beast began to retreat in fear, much to the priest's encouragement!
"The Holy Father will judge the fallen souls, the Lord is just and severe, retreat, the demons of the abyss, retreat, leave the Lamb of the Lord!" The beast curled up under the priest's reprimand, and let out a low wail, as if the priest's prayers really worked on it, Zhang Jiaming peeked at the smug expression of this divine stick, and continued to cooperate with him to act,
"The Lord will shelter His Lamb, but the Lord will not spare Judas, who betrayed His Son, and the Lord will send down His curse, that the betrayer will walk forever in darkness and not be bathed in the sun! Forever! Ying and the priest's almost crazy chanting, Zhang Jiaming fell to the ground and began to cry out in pain, but in the eyes of this group of children, it was a different scene, just like the big dog next door, this seemingly fierce big guy is not very hateful, not to mention that it was killing zombies just now.
A few good children took action, and they ran to the priest and the poor one, despite the resistance of the women in front of them
"Big Dogs" between!
"Father Grandpa, please don't hurt it anymore." The child is innocent and cute, Zhang Jiaming also stopped pretending to whimper, covered his head with his fingers to show a little gap, and continued to peek and see,
"Yes, the big dog is so pitiful, he didn't do anything to hurt us." Kindness, absolute kindness, Zhang Jiaming's heart suddenly swelled with an inexplicable emotion, before the end of the world, he was highly educated, he felt the cold state of Chinese society, ideal and reality intertwined, he suffered countless white eyes and setbacks, finally understood a truth, Chinese education and social reality are completely disconnected!
So many times, he always likes to tease a few children next door, because he knows that if he wants to see sincere eyes, only these children will have, the hardships and pains of reality have turned many once innocent and kind people into utilitarian beasts, for a little benefit, these people can give up family and friendship, and former friends and brothers, and even parents turn against each other!
Zhang Jiaming has seen too much, and sometimes, he feels that he is much older, and he feels very tired and tired, which is one of the many reasons why he chose to be an otaku.
"Children, children, get out of here, get out of this dangerous beast, obedient, you guys, don't come to help yet! No!! The priest let out a terrifying cry, the beast had returned to normalcy at some point, revealing its snow-white teeth, staring at Christopher with a fierce face, and what was even more terrifying was that it bent down and picked up one of the girls, the child's pure eyes made Zhang Jiaming love it very much, he gently held the child in his palm, the little girl did not have the slightest fear, she giggled, reached out to grab the hair of the big dog.
"Let her go! I am in the name of the Lord! Servants of Satan, Son of Lucifer, I curse you! Let go of this innocent lamb! Zhang Jiaming showed a hideous smile on his face, and with just a slight grasp and pinch, the silver cross in the priest's hand turned into a piece of scrap metal. The adults present have all been cold from the palms of their hands to the soles of their feet, and the two timid women fainted directly, and the tragic fate followed, although relying on Christopher's exquisite medical skills and some donations that the church usually hoards, plus the outer courtyard of the church is all surrounded by local marble blocks by the congregants, the whole church can be used as a fortress to live in, and they have spent the most difficult days together, but for now, this demon-like monster will not let go of itself. Christopher is dead! He had worked hard all his life, and the presence of the beast was about to destroy his last glimmer of hope! With devotion to the Lord, he quit his well-paid job as a doctor in France and followed the Order to preach in China, where he made a vow before the Lord's icon that he would convert at least 10,000 Chinese Christians before he could return to his hometown in France to visit his family. He's 47 years old! Had it not been for his pity for these poor women and children, coupled with his vows, he might have obeyed the Holy See's arrangement to continue his service to God long before the outbreak of the plague. Now he is looking at this demon who came out of an ancient oil painting in horror, a real medieval werewolf! The embodiment of countless killings and destruction! Lord, are the gates of hell really open? Christopher looked at the orc who was roaring in front of him in a daze, he couldn't run, he had already bent down and knelt, facing the monster that was ready to choose a man to eat,
"Please, let go of that kid and eat me! I'm old! He was still a child. The priest's sad tone made Zhang Jiaming feel a burst of darkness, didn't you have a lot of fun just now?
Hehe, but this kid is really cute,
"Please, don't eat her, please!" There are examples of dedication to the faith in religions both at home and abroad, such as Shakyamuni cutting meat and feeding tigers in 500 B.C.!
Then there was a year of C.E. Jesus was crucified, and a few days later he was resurrected on the spot in a full state!
These religious maniacs always make people's eyes shine. Zhang Jiaming secretly admired in his heart, why can't we Chinese have some faith?
Zhang Jiaming tilted his head and caressed the cute little girl like a doll in front of him more gently, but his claws were too sharp, and he could only mean it.
His actions caused even greater panic, the priest knelt a few steps forward, tears rolling down his wrinkled old cheeks, in order to survive this difficult time, in order to shelter the children, the priest racked his brains, tried every means to get food and everything he could get his hands on, not a day he could rest well, just those terrible roars around the church day and night could make a normal person crazy!
"Merciful Lord, Heavenly Father! Forgive your children for the sins they have committed! Servant of the Devil! I beg you, spare this innocent child, if you want blood, take it from me, if you want meat, cut it from me!" The priest with a flushed face rushed to the ground with his head, almost wailing and begging for the beast in front of him, and the young girls behind him were already hugging and crying, and the boys were also dead, and the tragic fate was already doomed!
Now all we have to wait for is what the devil has in mind! Zhang Jiaming tilted his head and waited for them to cry for a while, and then slowly pulled the hemp bag next to him, deftly turned out a cloud cake from it, and gently handed it to the little girl in his arms, the child was only about 4 years old, it was the kind of age that was very easy to trust others, flashing big eyes, the little girl pouted and handed the food back,
"Big dog, bite it open, big dog, help Wenwen bite it open!" Zhang Jiaming cracked his mouth, revealing a smiling face, but in the eyes of this group of survivors, it was just a hideous face, carefully tearing open the package with his paws, and after handing it to the girl again, the child happily hugged the food and ate it in a big gulp, while not forgetting to break off the small pieces of food and hand it into the big dog's blood basin.
Zhang Jiaming was very proud, hugged the girl, found a few more cakes, and handed them to a few drooling children in front of him.
These children are happy, although they have caught up with the outbreak of the apocalyptic virus and spent a period of lack of food and clothing, today, they have welcomed an angel, although this angel image is real!
Appalling! Christopher looked at everything in front of him with incredulous eyes, this werewolf was indeed a werewolf, the frescoes left in the medieval period of Westminster Abbey in England, in the underground secret books of the Holy See, in the statues of the Holy Paintings and icons in the Vatican Cathedral, and even on the painting walls of the Danish Cathedral, he could find all kinds of records of seeing this terrifying creature, at that time, he was still young, and he did not fully believe in the existence of these demons, as the teaching age increased, he began to believe slowly, until now, The beast, which could only exist in a nightmare, stood in front of him.
Zhang Jiaming didn't care about the thoughts of this foreign monk, he continued to play the role of the weird appearance of his zoo gorilla, took out the clothes from the bag, and distributed them to these cuties!
Two bold young men and a girl about 15 years old walked forward and began to put on new clothes for the children, these were collected by Zhang Jiaming from the store outside, and some of the ill-fitting ones were also brought together, anyway, Zhang Jiaming could easily carry thousands of pounds of heavy objects, and he could take everything he could, and after a few innocent children were full, they began to noisily climb up Zhang Jiaming's hairy body, Zhang Jiaming was not annoyed, and let these children go.
Christopher's face calmed down a bit, especially when he saw the beast treating the children so kindly, he wiped his tears and tried to make himself look more pleasing to the eye, he didn't want to provoke the beast's anger.
Zhang Jiaming stood up slowly, and gently put down a few children from his body, and his standing figure was two heads taller than this tall foreigner!
Even though it's still a beast form with a half-ricketed body! Zhang Jiaming dragged the bag over, turned out a bag of rice, which was 50 catties, and threw it to the priest, the priest's face became ruddy, he understood something, this beast was completely harmless to his own group of people!
After taking a few strings of sausages and a small amount of condiments handed over by Zhang Jiaming, the priest was completely relieved, he put down the things in his hand, walked to the cross of Jesus in a few steps, and knelt down uprightly
"Children, chant to me. Lord, we are your lost lambs, it is you, who have sent angels to save us after hearing our prayers, and your servants have brought us bread and butter! I beg your forgiveness for our ignorance and shallowness! May our Lord be with us! Amen! With that, Father Christopher fainted in a panic.
has carried too many hardships and responsibilities, and has experienced a test of life and death - the intimidation of Zhang Jiaming, who has become a beast!
Anyone will have a feeling of joy and sorrow! The priest is already good without cerebral congestion!
By the time he woke up, the church was already busy, and the girls who had changed into clean clothes were busy rolling dumpling wrappers and cooking in the church kitchen, while the young boys removed the clutter from the church hall, cleared an open space, and put the better tables and chairs in place.
Zhang Jiaming cleaned up the zombies around him when he came in, and he was not idle at the moment, collecting the corpses of the zombies and throwing them to the dock area.
The large iron door of the church was also reinforced by him with iron rods he collected, and he also made a movable door to facilitate entry and exit.
By the time he finished everything at hand, the hall had been cleaned, the windows and doors had been cleaned, and thousands of white candles had been lit in the church, almost swatting a pair of dog eyes from Zhang Jiaming, who was quite sensitive to optical fibers!
Now the crowd is no longer afraid of Zhang Jiaming, this werewolf in the myth has now become an angel in the mouth of the priest,
"It is a miracle that the servants of Satan the Devil, feeling the call of our Lord Jesus and being moved, have abandoned their evil beliefs and entered the hall of the Lord and returned to the arms of the Lord! A miracle of Doomsday judgment! Praise my Lord Jesus! "I've got a big fork!
Zhang Jiaming really admired it in his heart, these gods estimated that everything could have something to do with their God!
Seeing Zhang Jiaming slowly walking into the church, everyone was very happy,
"Look, our benefactor, our protector is coming, come, please come to the front, yes, please don't hesitate, our patron!" The priest smiled, and his harmless appearance made Zhang Jiaming unbearable to refuse him!
Hurrying in front of the holy elephant, Zhang Jiaming stood up straight, looking down at the group of people who fell down in front of him, he was thinking, how to bring this group of people to the small island, if they continue to stay here, there may not be any danger for the time being, and the wall outside can also make those ordinary zombies do nothing, but what if a zombie like Uncle Blacksmith comes?
Or a mutated serpent? Will they spare this group of innocent people as they did? Zhang Jiaming is different now, if he is physically weak, then he can shamelessly adhere to the original hamster principle and continue to escape, now he can't, he has the ability to protect this small group of people, if necessary, he must take them to a safe area, he does this for no other reason, he is still a human at heart!
As long as you are a human being, you can't live alone from the group! This is his belief, but it can only be implemented after he has the ability!
Picking up a little girl named Wenwen, Zhang Jiaming made up his mind, he still decided not to expose his true appearance to this group of people, he needed a mythical identity, just as this priest advertised, he was a guardian sent by God, if they let them know that they were just ordinary people, it was estimated that it would be difficult to ** them in the future.
After pushing away a few boys in front of him, Zhang Jiaming stretched out his long paws, and a group of people looked at Zhang Jiaming's lines quickly drawn on the ground in confusion.
"The Lord is above! You really are a mythical beast! "Damn, Zhang Jiaming covered his face, does your uncle really treat me as an angel!
The priest looked at the map and said,
"Follow the road, to the docks?" Zhang Jiaming nodded,
"Can you understand?" The orc continued to nod, and the priest's mouth was wide open enough to lay down an ostrich egg.
"God Almighty!" After another exclamation, the priest was heartily amazed. Zhang Jiaming's idea is very simple, there are two relatively complete boats on the pier, and the others can't be used, and the small island is only 20 minutes away from the dock, as long as it is under its own protection, get on the boat and enter the river, this group is safe, the mutant beast of the big water snake can only be regarded as a very small number of existences here, not many, the security work has its own, plus the big black, the small island is definitely a blessed land!
There are 14 adults and semi-adults between the ages of 15 and 30, plus 6 children under the age of 8, except for the priests, and any available boat can be carried by all of them.
"But we can't swim!" The priest said pitifully, Zhang Jiaming drew the appearance of two boats, and then without waiting for the priest to ask, he continued to draw a long line pointing to a map in the shape of an island!
"I see, you're letting us take a boat to the island with the lighthouse?" Zhang Jiaming nodded very gorilla-like,
"But there's no food there!" The orc patted his chest,
"No clothes!" Or pat yourself on the chest! The priest swallowed his saliva,
"There is no scripture hall!" Your sister's! It's only been a few days since I had a full meal! You're going to start kicking your nose right away, aren't you?
Zhang Jiaming snorted dissatisfied. Let the priest retract his thoughts,
"Well, since you are a guardian sent from heaven, we listen to you, and the Lord is with us!" The Mid-Autumn Festival was spent with a group of completely strange survivors, because of the lack of clean water, the crowd here is very dirty, even if they put on clean clothes, it is difficult to hide the smell, Zhang Jiaming doesn't care so much, after taking care of a group of people to eat and drink, he is full of energy and takes the priest who also can't sleep and 4 stronger men to the dock, at this moment it is 2 o'clock in the afternoon, a group of people and a werewolf cleaned up a relatively large wooden plasma ship on the dock, One of the young men who knew how to repair the engine also found a few boxes of diesel, and after the successful start, he began to load supplies on the ship, anyway, they were all ownerless things, and they could be loaded as much as they could, and the compassionate priest stood alone in the pile of corpses piled up on the side, muttering prayers for the souls of the dead, Zhang Jiaming was too lazy to care about this foreign monk, while vigilantly observing the surroundings to prevent zombies from appearing at any time, while carrying heavier items, and waiting for the water to soak in most of the waterline of the boat gang, Zhang Jiaming stopped everyone's movements, After returning to the church for a short rest, at half past five in the afternoon, the crowd began to walk towards the pier, and Zhang Jiaming jumped on the roof along the street and carefully took on his own security tasks.
This is the first group of people under his protection, and he will not allow even a small mistake! Fortunately, there was nothing to do all the way, and the cleaned streets were not happy to have the zombies that didn't open their eyes when they came out!
By the time the crowd arrived on the island, it was already dark, and the crowd cheered, landing on the island, they were proud, and under the guidance of faith, they arrived at a completely safe place!
The most excited was Mr. Priest, who took his head and bowed to Zhang Jiaming again
"The Lord blessed us and sent His apostles to give us hope, and Moses split the Red Sea and led the Lamb to the land of freedom flowing with honey and milk! Thank you, apostle of the Lord, praise my Lord! Forever! A group of people who did not forget to prayed sincerely, this time, Zhang Jiaming really began to be embarrassed.
Da Hei drove the sheep and ran to welcome the survivors, but the size of this goods was comparable to Zhang Jiaming, fortunately, the crowd was not frightened, Wenwen little girl was very bold, ran to Da Hei, and handed out the remaining half of the cloud cake eaten in the morning
"Big dog, here you go!" This cute gesture drew a lot of laughter!