The autumn sun warmly illuminates the earth, but the world without its owner is still vibrant, without human activities, wild grasses grow wantonly, and in just one month, the once prosperous streets have the first sight of the wilderness. The air is getting fresher and fresher.

Meng Qingqiang, who retrieved his photo frames, marriage certificates, toys and other personal belongings from home half a month ago, told his wife what he saw and did on the road, and the couple couldn't help but sigh. I feel very happy to see the children playing around me.

And this incident also shows that there may be more humans surviving on this land than they previously thought. But they have not found any human beings since. They are the only ones who still live a peaceful pastoral life in the last days.

Meng Qingqiang still ran around collecting supplies every day, and as the number and variety increased, he had to clean up two more warehouses next to it, but the barricades did not expand, after all, for the three of them, the current area was enough for activities, and there might be unnecessary risks in places that were too large.

A month has passed, and life has not made much waves. But Bai Ying was a little worried, for some reason, Meng Qingqiang's height and weight have increased a lot in this short period of time, the original height of one meter seven has exceeded one meter eighty-five, although the growth momentum has slowed down in recent days, but the change is still very obvious, and the weight has unexpectedly exceeded one hundred and fifty kilograms, which is unimaginable from the appearance alone. A normal person with this weight must be bloated and obese. But Meng Qingqiang just looked stronger than before.

As a doctor, Bai Ying analyzed that the mutation may have changed the density of his bones and muscles. She didn't know if the change was good or bad. So she began to study her husband and the corpse with the tools she had. In addition, Meng Qingqiang's crippled leg was also completely recovered, not only that, but a translucent film appeared on the surface of the black blood vessels covered on his body and limbs, which looked like another layer of skin had grown, and the film texture was very tough, like a thick layer of cowhide. This leaves the blood vessels and the scar underneath already less clear and only faintly visible. The head without blood vessels does not have this layer of skin, which makes Meng Qingqiang, who hopes that his face will not be so hideous, is very disappointed. But what happened soon made him feel a little relieved about his regrets.

The weather was sunny that day, the breeze caressed the earth, and after nearly two months of hard work, Meng Qingqiang's family had accumulated a lot of resources, so he decided to rest for a day, while his wife and children played badminton in the barricade after lunch, while he washed his beloved truck on the side of the road.

Suddenly, there was a faint cry of human beings from the end of the road, and the roar of a large number of corpses, his wife and children stopped moving, quickly returned to the house and brought weapons to Meng Qingqiang, and Meng Qingqiang, who had already heard the voice, took it and jumped into the carriage violently, and the huge weight made a huge sound, and a dent appeared on the top of the carriage, which made him feel distressed.

The human who heard the noise in the distance also spotted the figure standing on the roof of the car, and couldn't help but speed up his pace and rushed in the direction of the barricade.

Meng Qingqiang, who was standing on the roof of the car, also saw the situation of the people who came clearly at this time, and it was not two people who ran over, but three.

A tall old man wearing an old-fashioned military uniform carried a little girl on his back, holding a short shovel in one hand and pulling a woman half-dragged in the other, and the woman was obviously out of strength at this time, relying on the strength of the old man to support herself, but she was holding a large mountain knife tightly in her hand.

The three of them ran forward desperately, followed by a large group of impatient corpses. And as the distance got closer and closer, the corpses gradually slowed down, and finally stopped, standing in place and roaring unwillingly, Meng Qingqiang did not move from beginning to end, just quietly watched them approach, until he saw that he was only a dozen meters away from the box of goods, the old man fell to the ground, and the woman also fell to the side, and the little girl fell on the old man's back because of the old man's subconscious protection, and finally couldn't help crying loudly.

There was an inquiry from his wife Bai Ying in the barricade, Meng Qingqiang responded and jumped out of the carriage to the three of them, the woman was already unconscious, and the old man struggled to get up, but failed, it seems that he is also the end of the crossbow. Meng Qingqiang picked up the child first and sent it to the barricade, and the little girl kept struggling and shouting for her grandfather, until she saw Bai Ying and the little guy, and then stopped crying.

Meng Qingqiang, who turned around, looked at the crowd of corpses wandering in the distance, picked up a brick, and threw it violently with a loud roar, and the huge force made the brick fly for dozens of meters before shattering the head of a corpse. This made the restless corpse crowd instantly quiet, and then scattered and fled.

After doing this, Meng Qingqiang turned around and picked up the old man with one hand, and wrapped the other hand around the waist of the unconscious woman to bring the two back to the barricade, and the old man who had just witnessed the violent blow was very cooperative throughout the whole process.

Bai Ying in the house did an examination for the woman, and found that the situation was very unoptimistic, the woman had several huge wounds on the left side of her face, which did not look much better than Meng Qingqiang's face, although it had been simply bandaged but had been infected, and there were more than a dozen new and old injuries all over the body, some of which had also deteriorated, and if she didn't treat it, she might soon join the corpse army. And the old man who stayed in the outhouse with Meng Qingqiang slowly relieved his breath at this time, holding a cup of tea and drinking it slowly.

Meng Qingqiang's son is called Meng Le, nicknamed Lele, which means happy and happy, never sorrowful. This year, he is in the third grade of elementary school, and at this time, he is happily pleasing his new friends with his snacks and comics. The little girl leaned against the old man and sobbed quietly.

The old man put down the water cup and wiped the tears for the little girl with the tissue paper handed over by Meng Qingqiang, and then whispered to persuade the little girl to let her and Meng Le play aside, the little girl nodded obediently and came to the back room with the elated Meng Le.

"Thank you, big brother, if it weren't for you, my old bones would really be going to see Comrade Marx, I'm fine, but what if I leave my granddaughter, she's so young, I can't close my eyes even if I die" The old man sighed while thanking. The old man has dark skin, a loud voice, a large skeleton, and a straight body sitting on a stool, but he may be obviously a little emaciated because of his poor diet.

The two politely said a few words, the old man himself said, his name is Chen Hanzhong, this year is close to the sixtieth year, in the early years in the army, after demobilization at home farming, later the wife died, the son and daughter-in-law are busy with work and the granddaughter has no one to take care of, so he came to the city to help take care of the children, living on the other side of the city. The old man's granddaughter is named Chen Xinyu, who is ten years old this year. Well-behaved and sensible. After the disaster, an old man and a young man waited for a long time and did not see their son and daughter-in-law come back, it is estimated that they have suffered an accident, the old man likes to store food and vegetables and fruits on weekdays, although he has been staying at home but has insisted on it for a long time, but after a long time, he still lacks food and drink, Uncle Chen saw that this is not a long-term solution, so he carried his granddaughter out of the house, intending to see if he could find the surviving human beings to huddle together for warmth, at least he could find some food and drink. The old man has been working in agriculture for many years, his body is very tough, and he has been a soldier in his early years, so he is not an opponent of the corpse, so he takes his granddaughter into hiding, hoping to find a settlement of surviving humans, until he meets the injured woman.

Speaking of this, the old man stopped, took out a small pocket from his pocket, the pocket contained cigarette paper and tobacco, Meng Qingqiang took out his own cigarette and gave it to him, but the old man Nunu mouthed, signaling that he was still proud of the dry tobacco, Meng Qingqiang did not reluctantly light one for himself, and then watched the old man skillfully roll the dry cigarette, while continuing to listen to the following words.

"This girl is also a poor person, listen to herself, her name is Wang Yan, the rock of the rock, the temperament, hehe is also as hard as a stone, no parents, with a disabled brother, living by driving a taxi, in his 30s has not yet started a family, since he was a child, if it were not for the death of his parents and a younger brother dragged down, he must be a national athlete or something, to say that this girl is really hard, if she didn't open the way with a mountain knife, it is estimated that we have already confessed, I heard the girl say that when she usually works, The lonely brother was taken care of by a neighbor, and on the day of the accident, when she drove a taxi and carried a machete to kill home, my brother also let the crazy neighbor be killed, that miserable, and then she wandered around to hunt this scattered monster, and injured herself, this is not to save us in the end, I am really ashamed, grateful, and admired, it is not easy to meet in Pingshui."

Hearing that Wang Yan was also an orphan, Meng Qingqiang was slightly stunned, but he didn't say much, but after hearing it, he couldn't help but be a little moved when he imagined that after her brother died, she rode thousands of miles alone and hunted corpses alone. Indeed, as the old man said, it is not easy. Looking at the old man who was calmly talking with a dry cigarette, I sighed in my heart that this old man was not simple.

In fact, this is normal, not that Meng Qingqiang is born with good luck and meets powerful people, but when disaster comes, people's safe and warm daily life is suddenly replaced by killing and struggling, just like a big wave of sand, only those who have experienced twists and turns in life, tasted hardships, and are incomparably powerful in the spiritual world, can avoid collapse in the despair of the end and strive for that glimmer of hope in life. When order and civilization reced, and fell into a chaotic and brutal primitive struggle, even the most kind old people, women with maternal brilliance, were forced to struggle by the most primitive means, and in such a situation, excellent physical and mental qualities represented the odds of survival. Therefore, it is not easy for human beings to survive until now.

Then the old man talked about what happened before, originally they were driving a car while avoiding the corpses, while looking for the traces of the surviving humans, but more than ten kilometers away, the car broke down, and the three people who got out of the car and walked accidentally missed their tracks, and were found by the corpses, just like Meng Qingqiang's family at the beginning, they were soon surrounded by a large group of corpses, but this old woman was very strong, and she was forced to kill out of the encirclement, but she still could not get rid of the pursuit of the corpses, and could only run around aimlessly like headless flies, Seeing that the corpses gathered more and more and the hope of surviving became more and more slim, the old man who had been keeping calm noticed a strange phenomenon, the closer to the direction of Meng Qingqiang's house, the fewer the number of corpses, so they went straight here along this direction, more than ten kilometers of fighting and escaped, even strong people like Wang Yan and Chen Laohan were exhausted, and Wang Yan, who opened the way, was even more scarred, and there was a loud bang at the last moment, Let them find Meng Qingqiang standing on the roof of the car and the obviously artificially built barricade behind him, and the three of them tried their best to finally be saved before Wang Yan fell into a coma and the old man lost his strength. Speaking of this, the old man couldn't help but laugh again: It is really an endless road" It's just that what the old man didn't expect was that when he came in, he found that there was only Meng Qingqiang's family of three here.

The old man looked at the man in front of him with a worldly gaze, a tall and strong body, a hideous scar on his face, and an inadvertently emitted a fierce one-eye, such momentum and murderous aura were only seen in those veterans who had retreated from the brutal battlefield and were covered with blood when they were in the army. And in the era of peace, I haven't seen it for many years, but with such a strong character here, it is not difficult to explain why a family of three can live peacefully in this cannibalistic world, I really want to know what happened to this man, but the old man didn't ask anything, just chatted with Meng Qingqiang like a normal old man, because he still kept flashing the bricks that flew out in his mind.

When Bai Ying finished treating Wang Yan's wounds and was ready to call them for dinner, they found that it was already dark, so the peaceful life of Meng Qingqiang's family had a little more waves, they had new neighbors, and their lives had changed.