ACT6: A riverbank fortress in a remote corner

"Where did it come from?" Luo Yu interrupted.

"I don't know...... The forest is not big, it is quite dark, Ah Hai and the others searched closely, and they really didn't find anything unusual. Jiao Ziqian was also puzzled, scratched his head and said: "I was about to drive, and suddenly the car door was opened, Ah Hai sat behind and slashed it, I don't know if it was cut or not, and then the back door also opened, and Ah Hai and the old boy were ripped off." ”

"I thought it was the remnants of the train station, so I went down to rob people, but the old boy screamed and shouted that it was a living corpse." Jiao Ziqian spat out a turbid breath and said: "I was a little panicked, I didn't know what happened to Ah Hai, I wanted to pull the old boy back first, if he died, we couldn't find the riverbank...... So I'm going to chase after it, Xiao Hei should be going to help Ah Hai. I heard them shouting, but I didn't hear them clearly, and when I saw them dragging the old boy into the woods, I went up and dragged him, but I couldn't pull ...... The man died so hard that I saw a few more of them coming, and the old boy's arm was cut off as soon as his head was hot. ”

Song Jiu and Luo Yu glanced at each other, and the meaning of 'so so' flashed in each other's eyes.

"I took the old boy back to the car, and Xiao Hei still had to chase Ah Hai, I was worried that I wouldn't be able to come back, so I drove away ruthlessly." Regarding his decision, Jiao Ziqian didn't know whether it was right or wrong, and regretted: "If I knew this, I wouldn't have run away." ”

"It's not up to you, keep talking." Song Jiu was relieved.

"I panicked, I went back the same way and was worried that the sound of the car would lead the walking corpse back at the station, so I went around in a circle, and somehow, a living corpse jumped on the front of the car, my brain was completely messed up at that time, I didn't hold the steering wheel, I hit a tree with my head, and I didn't notice that Xiao Hei was injured, and he came back like this."

Jiao Ziqian said quite clearly, but the issues involving living corpses are relatively vague, no wonder Jiao Ziqian, the incident happened suddenly, coupled with the rumors about living corpses along the way, it is not easy for him to take the two of them back to the stronghold immediately, and he can't ask for more.

"You can't stay here for long, leave as soon as you're done." Song Jiu's eyebrows were condensed with an indissoluble knot, since he left the camp, there was nothing smooth.

"We don't have enough supplies to maintain consumption." Luo Yu helped him calculate the account in a timely manner, and said: "The food reserves seized at the train station are barely okay, the water lasts for three days at most, and the gasoline is enough to run a distance, but the surrounding places have not explored the road in advance, and I don't approve of blindly entering." ”

"Yes, Brother Jiu, didn't you say to find a place to re-camp?" Jiao Ziqian also echoed.

"It's too weird here, it doesn't feel right." Song Jiu looked up at the empty night sky, with a little hesitation in his tone: "Especially those living corpses just now, we don't know anything about them, and there is no reasonable explanation for what we did just now and what happened to Ziqian, the hidden danger is too great." Luo Yu, let Mengfan stop, get the old boy up, and go to the river bank first. ”

Don't worry about having a lot of debts, Song Jiu and they are almost facing the same situation at present, there is trouble with a little girl on the surface, and there is a threat of living corpses and walking corpses in the dark, in comparison, they can only prioritize first, and they have to eat one bite at a time. Luo Yu stopped the bleeding for the railway guerrillas, and most of the remaining bandages and trauma medicine were used by him, if it weren't for him to lead the way, Song Jiu really didn't want to waste the last resources. After some tossing and waiting, the middle-aged man finally lived up to expectations and woke up.

Just as Song Jiu thought, the middle-aged man had been completely collapsed by the repeated changes of the night, and as soon as he woke up, he began to shout again, and the man with the tiger's back was full of snot and tears, how unbearable it was. Song Jiu was already upset, so he naturally had no intention of engaging in humanitarian care, and asked patiently twice, seeing that he still looked like a dead man, he gave two slaps without saying a word, which made him quiet.

"Kill me, kill me, don't torture me..."The middle-aged man's eyes were glazed, looking at his empty right arm, a handful of snot and tears.

Song Jiu broke his face and stared at his eyes, and said word by word: "It's okay to die if you want to, now go to the co-pilot to show the way, and I'll give you a good time when you get to the riverbank." ”

"I'm not going... They have guns ... Please... You let me go..."

Song Jiu's chest tightened for a while, and he couldn't help but sigh with his forehead, this guy is not far from madness, and he really doesn't understand how people with this psychological quality have survived so far.

"If you don't go, then I'll chop off the rest of your arm, pick your hamstrings, and throw your backbone on the side of the road, and I'll let you die without pleasure." Song Jiu squatted in front of him, doing everything he could to threaten and intimidate, beating and appeasing him, and finally pulled back the little reason that the middle-aged man had left.

The middle-aged man's face turned pale, and he was pulled into the cab by Jiao Ziqian to replace Xin Mengfan's post, and after everyone was relieved on the side of the road, he turned around and went back. I only cared about running away before, but after asking, I realized that I had taken a fork in the road, and I lost enough gasoline, otherwise it would be a troublesome matter. The people in the car body chewed some cold and hard food and drink to replenish their strength in the night breeze, and the distance on the river bank was not close, and it was not known whether they would fight or kill at that time, so they had to make some preparations. Xin Mengfan saw that this posture was about to fight again, and sighed helplessly, she couldn't participate in the hands-on work, so it was better to sleep in the quilt.

The young men were silent, tired enough in the past few days, and the first confrontation with the living corpse ended in a complete defeat, which made them a little more hesitant in addition to apprehension, and developed a strong curiosity about the riverbank that could be in a safe corner of this environment. Luo Yu changed the ammunition for the two guns, and he had no clue when he thought about it, he wanted to discuss it with Song Jiu again, but he turned his head and found that he had fallen asleep against the basket.

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When Song Jiu was woken up, the sky was already dark, and the men and women in the car body were rubbing their sleepy eyes, looking around with confused faces, and they were all a little stunned.

The middle-aged man didn't lie, this riverbank is indeed more than just a "riverside bank", judging from the surrounding environment, they have obviously left the county. Luo Yu stayed awake all night, his eyes were red, and the situation on the road was roughly repeated, and then it was up to Song Jiu to make specific arrangements.

The truck was parked on a dirt road, with a barren land on his left hand and a dense forest on his right, and it looked like it was several acres at first sight. Song Jiu thought that this was a deserted farmland, but after getting out of the car to check it, he realized that this was not the case, the terrain was relatively flat, and the stumps of different thicknesses were densely covered like a mine array. After looking left and right for a long time, Song Jiu finally understood that the wasteland here seemed to be part of the woods before, but the trees here had been cut down. Although Song Jiu has not studied agriculture and forestry, he can also see some clues from many details, such as the cut surface of these tree stumps, without exception, which is very smooth and neat.

"Brother Jiu, what do you see?" Jiao Ziqian followed behind Song Jiu's buttocks, and saw him stop and go, but he didn't know why.

"Nothing." Song Jiu secretly pondered for a while, returned to the truck, and asked, "Do you want to go in from the forest?" ”

"Aang... Inside, inside, you have to go... A stretch of road. "The middle-aged man's face is extremely bad, he has lost half his life after a night of bumps, and he is humid and heavy in the early morning, and he basically has more air and less air intake at this time.

"Can't drive?"

"Open, can't open......"

"......" Song Jiu thought about it while pacing, and said, "Ziqian and I will go, and the rest of the people are waiting here." ”

"What? Just the two of you? That's not going to make stuffing. Xin Mengfan poked his head out of the car with his messy hair, stared sleepily for a long time, and muttered, "At least bring a few more people." ”

"The other party has a gun, and it's the same with all of them." Song Jiu said this, and the movements in his hands did not stop, he unbuttoned his coat and pulled out a few steel knives inserted in the leather holster around his waist and threw them into the car body, leaving only a short dagger and a slender steel knife.

"Are you going to surrender?" Xin Mengfan pursed his lips and looked at Luo Yu, who had no intention of persuasion, and obviously acquiesced to Song Jiu's statement.

"Don't worry, leaving you outside is also to answer, Luo Yu will rest first later, Mengfan, you keep a little more heart, if there is a problem over there, I will send you a signal." Song Jiu asked Jiao Ziqian to bring a gun, and the two of them worked together to set up the railway guerrillas, and advised: "If those living corpses appear again, don't hesitate and drive away." ”

"We ran away, what should you do with Ziqian? Do you want to leave some markings? ”

"Specifically, you discuss with Luo Yu, in short, don't entangle with living corpses......" Song Jiu paused as he spoke, faintly feeling that he was a little nervous, why didn't he say much, it was like going to die if he talked too much. Thinking of this, he couldn't help laughing at himself, and said with relief: "Don't be too nervous, let's go to find out the situation first, and you can adapt to the situation." After that, he didn't rub it anymore, and Jiao Ziqian walked into the woods with the middle-aged man left and right.

In the early morning, the forest was still a little dark, and the cold and wet smell was everywhere, and there were mudflats everywhere beneath my feet. It was a few days ago to exchange the little girl for gasoline, and the middle-aged man also came, so he was familiar with the road, and occasionally stopped to identify the direction during the period, but he didn't delay too much time.

The middle-aged man said that the group on the river bank had a particularly large camp, and the forest would be cleaned regularly, as if it was the emperor of the soil here. Song Jiu was still a little suspicious at first, but now he gradually believed, and walked in the forest for more than ten minutes, without encountering any living creatures, and the more he went inside, he also found some more obvious marks.

"What is this?" Jiao Ziqian asked, pointing to the arrow symbol on a big tree.

"The one who shows the way, this forest is very large, and it's easy to get lost without a specific direction." The middle-aged man replied.

"It's really strange, other camps are afraid of being discovered, it's good, and put road signs?" Jiao Ziqian giggled, took out the dagger on his body, and added two more strokes to the arrow, and the good guiding arrow became a coordinate system.

"Can't find a way to do business?" Song Jiu snorted, didn't go to Guan Ziqian's graffiti, looked at the end of the direction, it was still a combination of tree trunk and canopy, and couldn't help asking, "How far is it?" ”

"It's coming."

Song Jiu looked back at the way he came, the wasteland was no longer visible, and he basically couldn't remember where the direction he came from, but fortunately he kept an eye on Jiao Ziqian to carve marks along the way, otherwise if something really happened, the brothers would not be able to escape. Then another trek ensued, and the flat terrain suddenly rose and fell, and after turning over several high mound slopes, the trees suddenly became thin, and as far as the eye could see, the outline of a building was faintly visible outside the forest.

Jiao Ziqian looked at his watch and couldn't help but smack his tongue: "! Walked for forty minutes! ”

Song Jiu nodded, but did not speak, he already regretted a little that he let the large army stay, and the middle-aged man did not talk about the distance at first, who would have thought that this forest was so big. Jiao Ziqian saw the hesitation in his eyes, and muttered in a low voice: "Why don't you go out and call someone?" ”

"I'm all in, let's go and have a look first." Song Jiu shook his head and said no, gritted his teeth and said: "It's too time-consuming to go back and forth a few times, so I'll send a signal if I can't do it later." ”

The guerrillas were almost running out of gas, and the second half of the road was almost dragged by two people, and their voices were getting quieter and quieter, so Song Jiu had no choice but to let Ziqian carry him on his back and speed up his pace. Although there were only some undulating dirt slopes in the forest, it was a real drain of physical strength, and from the time they found the outline of the building, until they actually got close to it, another twenty minutes had passed.

But at this time, Song Jiu had no time to worry about the distance, although he was used to seeing strange personnel in the past three years, but when he saw the whole picture of this "riverbank", he was still surprised, and then looked at Jiao Ziqian, his mouth was almost to the root of his ears.

"it, this is the camp?" Jiao Ziqian exclaimed.

"No wonder..."Song Jiu squinted, looking at the castle-like log façade and tower, and finally understood how the wasteland outside came from.