Chapter 31
The third brother didn't know what to do at the moment, looking at the height of the sun, Chen Xiaowu found that he had slept until noon unconsciously last night, and his stomach was a little hungry, he unzipped his jacket, took out a few corn kernels from his pocket that he put in his pocket yesterday and threw them into his mouth and chewed them.
While eating him, he went straight to the ladder he had climbed up to the dam yesterday and climbed down.
Under the bright sunlight, the surface of the snow on the shore also melted a little, and the water droplets did not have time to dissolve the snow below, so they were frozen into an ice crust by the cold air and attached to the snow.
Looking down at the black shadow on the dam, it was also clearly displayed in front of Chen Xiaowu in the sunlight at this moment, although he had seen it once in the blur last night, and he was mentally prepared at this moment, but Chen Xiaowu was still deeply shocked by the scene in front of him.
Thousands of meters wide, a cone-shaped black shadow stretched from the opposite bank along the dam of the hydropower station to his eyes, and it was all corpses frozen in the ice.
Some of the corpses have been soaked very inflated, some face down, at first glance it is a corpse floating down from the upstream, some face up to the sky, the moment I saw last night near the head, near the dam, there are even many zombies trampling on the floating corpse under their feet to show their heads.
Chen Xiaowu's scalp was numb, this is how many people have died to cause such a shocking scene, he glanced at it hurriedly, then turned his head and walked along the lake, preparing to go to the place where he found the rubber boat last night.
"Xiao Wu, why are you going?" Zhu Wen's voice suddenly came from the shore.
Chen Xiaowu turned his head in response and saw Zhu Wen standing on the dam with a railing.
"Ah, third brother, I want to see that rubber boat again."
"You wait, I'll go with you." Saying that, Zhu Wen also climbed down the ladder, and Chen Xiaowu noticed that Zhu Wen's hands and body were covered with black oil.
"What are you doing, all oiled?" Chen Xiaowu walked back to Zhu Wen and asked casually.
"Change the car!" Zhu Wen jumped off the ladder and replied. Seeing Chen Xiaowu looking at him with a puzzled expression, he continued: "There is not much food in the hydropower station, it is all the grain stored in the canteen before, even if it is rationed now, it can last less than ten days at most. We're going to get a big car and go to the resort across the street to get some food. ”
"There are so many houses opposite, maybe how many zombies are there, looking for food? I think it's about the same as sending food to zombies. Chen Xiaowu said with a smile.
"What can I do, I can't wait to starve to death, there is a kid in the hydropower station who has done auto repair, and there is a welding machine used to repair ships in the electric field, we are going to modify the * off-road vehicle, and wrap the car with an iron fence, if there is a zombie coming, people stab the zombie's head with steel bars in the car, the car has a lot of horsepower, dozens of zombies can't surround the car, it shouldn't be a big problem." While the two walked along the river, Zhu Wen explained to Chen Xiaowu.
"Iron fence? It's not reliable, that mutated big rat zombie bites off in one bite. Chen Xiaowu shook his head when he heard this.
"Rat zombies?" Zhu Wen frowned when he heard this, and then asked, "What is that?" ”
"Haven't you seen it?" Chen Xiaowu saw Zhu Wen looking at him with a confused expression, and it was also very strange, if there are the most mammals in the world, then in addition to humans, the most should be mice, he has seen a mutant mouse in that small battlefield, has Zhu Wen not seen it?
So Chen Xiaowu told Zhu Wen about the mutant zombie mouse he met in the sand factory, and when Zhu Wen heard this, his brows furrowed even deeper, and he stopped and was about to go back.
"No, I'm going to tell you about this rat." Zhu Wen was very anxious when he heard the news, if even the rats had mutated into zombies, then there would be no way for humans to live in this world.
"Hey, we've come here, you can accompany me to see the boat first." Chen Xiaowu hurriedly grabbed Zhu Wen's arm and dragged him back.
"This was already three or four days ago, you can't be in a hurry for a while, and that * just saw that my nose is not a nose and a face is not a face, what is the reason?"
Chen Xiaowu dragged Zhu Wen forward a few steps, and found a specific topic to divert Zhu Wen's thoughts.
"* is the deputy chief engineer of our power plant, should have been the chief engineer, but the year before last when the evaluation relied on his qualifications to make no money, so that Li Gong, who was not as senior as him, was promoted to chief engineer, and later because of this, he always relied on his nephew Zhang Chen to know some gangsters in Linjiang Town, and several times to find fault with the factory director trouble, so in the factory, especially not treated by the factory director, if not on the job, he would have been opened by the factory.
Before the outbreak of the virus, he was struggling with the factory director, otherwise it would not be the turn of a person in his position to be on duty. Zhu Wen said with a sigh.
When I first went to work, many people at the power plant were troubled by the dog-eat-dog of these two people.
"However, although he is not very flexible in his life, and he is still a little arrogant, he is also an old man in the factory, and he has been in this power plant for more years than the factory director, and he is a snake on the ground, so he is still quite afraid of him, and after the virus broke out that night, his nephew Zhang Chen happened to be in the factory, so these people in the power plant listened to him."
"Then I didn't mess with him when I first arrived, why is he not a nose and a face with my nose?" Chen Xiaowu was a little puzzled.
"What about him, that's it, don't take it to heart, mainly because there is not much food, it's okay, turn around and change the car, I'll go to the other side to fight back a few bags of rice, listen to the third brother, don't go to your heart, don't offend him, his nephew is not a fuel-efficient lamp, I heard that he has been in prison before, and it is impossible to offend them." Zhu Wen was afraid that Chen Xiaowu would hold a grudge against * and cause trouble to him, so he hurriedly explained the benefits and disadvantages and enlightened Chen Xiaowu.
"Oh, third brother, I'm not a child anymore, and I've been in the society for so many years, don't you understand this, don't you worry." Chen Xiaowu snorted, but in his heart he didn't think much of Zhu Wen's stoic appearance, people really change, the third brother who was the most naughty in the orphanage back then has now become so sleek and sophisticated.
The two talked and laughed, and soon walked to the place where Chen Xiaowu found the rubber boat last night, Chen Xiaowu walked into the rubber boat, and as he observed last night, the things in the boat were cleaned up and quiet, and nothing was left behind.
On the snow around the rubber boat, there is no trace of people walking by, Chen Xiaowu looked at the shore for a long time, and then heard Zhu Wen next to him say: "There is a country road on it, if you go north, you will pass the power plant building, and if you go southeast, you will pass through a small town called Linjiang Town." ”
Chen Xiaowu groaned slightly, if Bai Ying and Jiang Xiujing walked north along the rural road, they would definitely pass the power plant office building, the Huahu Dam is near the mountains, the terrain is dangerous, if they don't go north along the rural road in this winter, they can only go south and detour, but since the third brother and they didn't find them at all, did they go south? But their target should be Binjiang City, why go south?
Chen Xiaowu was full of doubts when he thought of this, he thought that Bai Ying and Jiang Xiujing would go north along the Songjiang River, but now that the two of them are turning south, where are they going to find the two of them in this huge China?
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel gloomy, I had already made up my mind to catch up with Bai Ying and Jiang Xiujing, and follow them all the way to Binjiang City to see if I could make a way out, but at this moment, I completely lost the direction of the two of them.
Is it to continue along Songjiang towards Binjiang alone? Or stay here and follow the third brother for their lives?
When faced with a choice again, Chen Xiaowu couldn't help but start to be a little confused again. He didn't know that the path was right, but it was obviously a temptation that he couldn't refuse to have a brother by his side than wandering alone in this apocalypse.
Let's stay for a while, Chen Xiaowu comforted himself.
His mind was confused and he followed Zhu Wen back to the office building of the power station, and was dragged by Zhu Wen to the second floor of the office, and Chen Xiaowu was interrupted by Zhu Wen's crisp knock on the door.
"Come in" said "Come in," and from inside the door of the factory director's office, there was a voice that was not salty or light.
Zhu Wen pushed open the door, and Chen Xiaowu saw that there were already four men staying in the spacious office at the moment, two of them sitting on chairs by the door, studying a dagger with a hippie smile.
One of the other two people was a man who had just met*, and the other was a strong man in his thirties, and the man's stature was no better than Zhu Wen's
There was not a single hair on the top of his head, and a large thumb-thick gold chain hung around his neck, leaking out of the gap between the collars.
The fierce look is almost written on the face with three big words: underworld
It looks like it should be *'s nephew Zhang Chen, right? Chen Xiaowu judged in his heart.
The big brother who is really mixed with society, which one would make this kind of exaggerated shape, except for the gangster, this thing probably can't do anything else, right? Chen Xiaowu was happy in his heart, and his senses for Zhang's uncle and nephew couldn't help but drop a little more.
"Zhu Laosan, this homeless man is your brother?" * Without speaking, his nephew Zhang Chen opened his mouth, seeing that he was strong and strong, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he perfectly interpreted the word male duck voice, his vocal cords were rough and relaxed, and his voice was a little hoarse.
"Hey, Brother Chen is also here, yes, this is my brother Chen Xiaowu." Zhu Wen hurriedly nodded and smiled.
"Your surname is Zhu, but his name is Chen Xiaowu? Did your mother remarry? Chen Xiaowu frowned, this Zhang Chen was really underwhelmed when he spoke. What is this called? was about to have a seizure but was grabbed by Zhu Wen, and he heard Zhu Wen laughing.
"Brother Chen, you are really joking, you don't know that I grew up in an orphanage, this is my brother who grew up together in an orphanage, just like my own brother."
"Hehe......" Zhang Chen smiled, glanced at him, and was noncommittal.
But I heard * standing at the window.
"Zhu Wen, you also know that there is not much food in the power station, and you have such a younger brother, whether you are close or recognized, this is to snatch food from the mouth of the big guy."
"It's okay,*, my brother's food is deducted from my quota, and the car is almost modified, so it's really not good, I'll drive our modified car to the other side to get some food." Zhu Wen said respectfully.