ACT7: Raiders of the Castle (Part I)

Who would have thought that outside of a suburban forest, there would be a fortress of such a large scale?!

The thick logs with mottled bark surrounded the city with a tall and thick wall, four or five hundred meters from left to right, almost encompassing the large open space on this side of the riverbank! Because Song Jiu and the others were hiding on low ground, they couldn't peek into the grand scene behind the wall, so they could only guess from the towering quadrangular tower, and secretly slandered how exaggerated the internal environment would be.

Song Jiu's previous hesitation had vanished, and a pair of slightly narrowed eyes kept bursting with aggressive light.

"Brother Jiu, calm down." Jiao Ziqian swallowed his saliva hard and persuaded: "I know you want to... I also want... We can't take the key. ”

"Fart, how do you know if you don't try?" Song Jiu's eyes were red, he couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart, and his blood was about to boil.

"We-we're still-"

"You see, with living water on your back, it is more than enough for both living and watering! This log fence is three or four meters high, right? Don't talk about the walking dead, give it to you can climb up or not? Damn, there are towers on all sides, and the wind warning is also worked, and it saves the need to arrange hands and feet on the periphery...... Huh? There are also peripherals! See? The excited Song Jiu pulled Jiao Ziqian to change directions, pointed to the east side of the wall and said excitedly: "See? Deer, horses, barbed wire! The whole nine yards! Absolutely professional! ”

Jiao Ziqian listened to him patiently, and carefully poured a basin of cold water: "Brother Jiu, you also said... Professional, people are so professional, let's ......"

Song Jiu calmed down instantly, and the frenzy on his face disappeared.

Jiao Ziqian breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that Brother Jiu had finally not lost his mind, and was about to say a few more words, but he saw the raging flame in Song Jiu's eyes. De'er, daring is not to give up, but to concentrate on emotions.

"Ziqian, don't think I'm talking nonsense." Song Jiu closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths, opened his eyes, and his gaze returned to his previous calmness: "I know that it is definitely not an ordinary person to build such a fortress here, not to mention anything else, and the forest outside is not cut down by manpower." Plus their armed forces, material reserves...... I guess the people here aren't ordinary survivors. ”

"Of course, this is not ordinary." Jiao Ziqian looked taken for granted, and he didn't know why Song Jiu was doing this.

"Have you forgotten what the railroad people said? In addition to exchanging supplies, isn't there also wind here? If you can't get along, you can come and run. Song Jiu licked the corners of his chapped mouth and sneered, "What can you do to collect the survivors?" It is nothing more than expanding the productive forces, and a group of more laborers will work, and after a long time, it will become a system of its own. ”

"And then?" Jiao Ziqian didn't have much confidence in his ability to understand, and because Luo Yu and Mengfan were not there, he could only continue to listen.

"Of course you can't kill the dove to occupy the magpie's nest, and the flowering in the center is the king."

"What do you mean?"

Song Jiu punched him with hatred and said, "Hit the enemy!" Haven't you heard of the inevitability of house thieves? ”

"Brother Jiu......" Jiao Ziqian hesitated again and again, but couldn't help but pick up a basin of cold water again: "It's not that I don't believe you, it's just... We haven't even touched the door now, so you are thinking about occupying other people's hills, is it a little too much? ”

"No more." Song Jiu rolled his eyes, leaned short and pulled Jiao Ziqian down the dirt slope: "Go, go back." ”

"Huh? Don't go to the wind anymore? "Jiao Ziqian is completely stupid, he has to travel for an hour to get here, and he has to go back without doing anything?

"Things have changed, go back and plan well." Song Jiu calmed down, and finally showed a long-lost smile on his face: "I changed my mind, this place is weird, but it's worth fighting." ”

"What about the living corpses? It doesn't matter? ”

Song Jiu glanced at him amusedly, and said happily: "What's wrong with the living corpse?" It's good to enjoy the shade with your back against the big tree, and it's best not to come to trouble again, and dare to come...... Then you don't have to go. ”

Jiao Ziqian's eyes widened and he muttered, "Who ran faster than a rabbit last night." ”

Song, who was punctured through the pig's urine bubble, turned red, turned around and left.

"Huh? Brother Jiu, what should he do? Jiao Ziqian hurriedly grabbed his sleeve and pointed to the railway guerrillas lying motionless on the other side.

"Let's see if you're dead, don't worry if you're dead, make up for it if you don't die."

……

The fog slowly faded, and the warm morning light spread the warmth of the world, and the sunlight pierced through the dense canopy of trees, falling all over the ground in fine pieces of gold.

Xin Mengfan was lying on the roof of the car very comfortably, with a small and sexy black bikini lined with snow-white skin, spraying the charm of youth in the air; The young men and girls who stayed behind were bored, and they didn't have the big heart of Xin Mengfan, they were bored and tired of sitting, and they were lazily leaning on the wasteland to bask in the sun; Luo Yu lay in the cab for a nap, Song Jiu and Jiao Ziqian went for more than an hour and did not move, she couldn't sleep well, her body was very tired, so she had to lie on the seat, staring at the white calf sticking out of the roof in a daze.

"Mengfan, is there any movement?" Luo Yu shouted.

After a while, Xin Mengfan's lazy response came from overhead: "Not yet." ”

"I'm a little worried." Luo Yu said.

"Then you can go and have a look." Xin Mengfan replied.

“……”

The roof of the car sounded a few times, Luo Yu raised his eyes and saw Xin Mengfan poking his head down from the side, his long hair hanging down like a waterfall, like a hanged ghost.

"We've been together for so long, and I haven't seen you smile much." Xin Mengfan's posture was obviously not suitable for chatting, and before he finished speaking, his white and tender little face was already flushed.

"What's so ridiculous?" Luo Yu rolled his eyes and sat up, rubbing his fingers at the hanged man: "Is there any smoke?" ”

Xin Mengfan retracted his head, stumbled for a while, and threw a homemade cigarette from the roof of the car.

"I'm always stiff, not tired." Xin Mengfan pursed his lips and stepped on the window frame to get into the carriage, cutting off the hot gaze on the other side of the wasteland.

"Get used to it." Luo Yu spit out a puff of green smoke, smiled helplessly, pointed to her red toes, and asked, "Where did you get your nail polish?" ”

"The train station is smooth, those railway guerrillas are better than Brother Jiu, they will coax people." Xin Mengfan grinned, put his fingers into the thin corset, and pinched out a bright gadget: "How is it?" Not bad, right? ”

Luo Yu took it easily, crying and laughing: "Diamond ring? Did the conductor propose to you? ”

"Phew, this is my personal treasure."

"What's the use?"

"Get married."

"......" Luo Yu opened his mouth, and the words in his throat were held back.

"Do you want to say...... No one would marry a bus like me? Xin Mengfan blinked slyly, took back the ring, and carefully tucked back the corset.

"No, I wanted to ask you how old you are." Luo Yu shrugged his shoulders and smiled awkwardly: "It's always like a child." ”

"As soon as Valentine's Day is over 24, the legal age is early." Xin Mengfan didn't care about Luo Yu's insincerity, he happily played with his long hair, and muttered: "Growing up so big, I have experienced a lot of things that should have been experienced and what I shouldn't have experienced, but I have never been married." ”

"I'm not dead yet." Luo Yu threw away the cigarette butt and laughed casually.

Xin Mengfan looked at her with big eyes, and a hint of imperceptible gleam flashed in her beautiful eyes.

"What? Ever died? Luo Yu took off the rubber band on his wrist and tied up his scattered hair, and when he saw that she was silent, he asked with teasing.

"No, of course not." Xin Mengfan bent the corners of his mouth, leaned out of the car window and climbed back to the roof of the car, his clothes had been exposed to the sun for a long time, and there was a good smell of "sun".

"Mengfan." Luo Yu poked his head out, looked up at the bikini beauty above his head, and smiled: "If you get married, can I be a bridesmaid?" I haven't finished it either, so give me a try. ”

Xin Mengfan was stunned for a moment, then a familiar smile bloomed on his face, and he glanced at her: "No problem, but you can't keep your face tight, otherwise others will think that I-eh, they're back!" Meng Fan stopped talking and said hello, and the young men basking in the sun on the other side of the wasteland all ran back.

……

A circle of people stared at each other, watching Song Jiu and Jiao Ziqian drink half a bucket of water like a cow, and forgot to ask questions for a while.

"What's wrong? What about the old boy? Xin Mengfan put on his clothes and jumped off the roof of the car, looked left and right, and found no railway guerrillas.

"Dead." Jiao Ziqian burped with satisfaction, patted his belly that was swollen and sat on the ground, and gasped: "It's so far away, damn it, Mengfan beauty quickly help me pinch my legs, I'm going to die." ”

Xin Mengfan raised his bare foot and kicked him, and when he saw that the two were not injured, he was even more puzzled.

"It's okay, don't worry." Song Jiu also drank a full water, with an inexplicable smile on his face, beckoned everyone to the shade behind the truck, and waited for everyone to calm down, then he returned to his normal color, and said, "Luo Yu, give you a task." ”

"Huh?" Luo Yu raised his eyebrows and said strangely: "What? ”

"The car is left to you, and you take people on a detour to the other side of the river to feel the situation over there. Set up camp when it is safe to do so. Song Jiu lit a cigarette and gave the first inexplicable order.

"Across the river? Camp? The puzzlement in Luo Yu's eyes became even stronger, and he asked, "Didn't you say that you want to leave here?" How did you change your mind after a trip in? ”

"Changed my mind." Song Jiu smiled, pouted towards Jiao Ziqian, and said, "Ziqian, tell everyone what we found." ”

Everyone's eyes brushed to Jiao Ziqian, who was lying on the ground and hiccups, the protagonist who was surrounded by pupil spotlights pouted, and said helplessly: "We found the camp on the riverbank, and Brother Jiu decided to pull out the flag of the people and occupy the mountain as king." ”

"Huh?" The crowd exclaimed, and their eyes returned to Song Jiu.

Song Jiu scolded with a smile, so he had to take back the task of explaining by himself, and said: "The camp on the bank of the river is definitely a shelter fortress, there are log walls along the bank for four or five hundred meters, and there are towers five or six meters high on the four sides, and there are all kinds of fortifications behind the big river. It's not clear what happened inside, and I didn't venture into it, but it should be on a large scale. Don't we just want to find a place to settle down? This is a gift from God! There is living water, there is land, there is a wall, as long as you take this place, you will live in peace in the future. ”

“……”

The crowd that was still talking just now instantly froze, looking at each other one by one, and no one spoke for a long time.

"Look, look, I'll just say Brother Jiu, you're too anxious!" Jiao Ziqian pounded the ground with joy, laughing so much that tears flew from his eyes: "Do you think what Brother Jiu said is reliable?" Isn't it too much to take for granted. ”

"Reliable, absolutely reliable." Luo Yu was the first to express his attitude, and cut off Jiao Ziqian's laughter.

"Luo, Luoluo, why are you going crazy with Brother Jiu?" Jiao Ziqian originally thought that Luo Yu would be the first to echo him, but he only guessed the beginning, but not the end.

"It's not crazy, I'm serious." Luo Yu's face also showed joy, and his eyes became much more relieved when he looked at Song Jiu.

"What are you kidding?" Jiao Ziqian was not happy, and said: "Don't you see, where is the camp, it's a wooden castle, the wall alone is four or five hundred meters around, you see, the wasteland behind them was cut down by the trees!" Can ordinary people handle such a large forest? ”

"So what?" Luo Yu asked strangely.