Chapter Twenty-Nine: Brothers Meet
The rubber boat was quietly docked on the shore, the upper part was dragged to the shore, and the lower part was frozen in the ice by the river.
Chen Xiaowu walked over quickly, and under the cold moonlight, he saw that the originally full of air kayak was half-deflated on the river beach for some reason, and all the things on the kayak were cleaned up.
I looked at the embankment made of cement and large bluestone and the dark woods above. Although he could vaguely see a few rows of footprints, Chen Xiaowu still gave up his plan to go ashore here to chase the two, the huge rat like a wild dog, so that he still has palpitations, if he meets in the woods in the dark night, then he has only a dead end.
Turning to look at the dark and neat black shadow in the distance, he hesitated, but still walked over, maybe the dark shadow was just a bridge across the river, since he found the place where the white warblers and they went ashore, there was no need to worry, he planned to find a shelter from the wind, quietly waiting for the dawn, and deciding his next move.
Chen Xiaowu walked a distance of several hundred meters along the ice, and finally saw the outline of the black shadow, which was an arc-shaped embankment more than 20 meters above the river surface, traversing the entire river surface, about a thousand meters long, he searched for the information in his memory; I vaguely know where the place I am located is, and I probably have some memories of the surrounding terrain.
Songjiang Hydropower Station! This is Flower Lake!
A few years ago, when the company he worked for organized outdoor team building activities, he came here, saying that it was an outdoor team building activity, but the company leaders paid for everyone to charter a bus, and more than 20 colleagues went to the resort in the lower reaches of Huahu Lake to eat and drink plus tourism.
At that time, Chen Xiaowu had just arrived in the company, and he belonged to the status of being called to drink tea and water in the company, and he was not very familiar with the company's colleagues.
When I was bored, I walked up to the dam of the Songjiang Hydropower Station, and it was summer, and there were quite a lot of tourists who came to Huahu, so I walked back and forth from the Songjiang Hydropower Station Dam in the crowd.
Looking down from the dam, the water jetted out from the dam body of hundreds of meters, shooting out a distance of tens of meters, and the splashing waves were magnificent, which was very shocking.
At this time, under the moonlight, I looked at the dam from the ice of Huahu Lake upstream of the dam, but it was a different scene.
The dark dam body is deep and quiet, and from a distance it looks like a dragon lying on the surface of the river, exuding both mysterious temptation and as if shrouded in dangerous clouds.
Chen Xiaowu carefully recalled the scenery around him, roughly judged his position, and had some spectrum in his heart: the river bank on the other side of the upstream of the Songjiang Hydropower Station is densely distributed with various mountain villas, several power station office buildings are built downstream of the dam, and a road less than ten meters wide passes through the dam, connecting the east and west banks.
Unlike the west bank, in addition to a few flood channels on the riverside of their side, not to mention tourism development, it is usually not open to tourists, as long as they do not run to the mountains and encounter some mutated beasts, there is basically no danger.
But when he walked to a distance of about fifty meters from the dam, Chen Xiaowu was frightened by the scene in front of him and broke out in a cold sweat, only to see the ice in front of him, until it extended to the shadow range under the dam, there were countless heads floating on the ice secretly!
Chen Xiaowu stopped and turned on the camping lamp brought out from the sand factory, and the dim light illuminated his range of more than ten meters.
He was deeply shocked by the scene in front of him, and saw that in the ice under his feet, a face was looking at him hideously, its whole body was frozen in the ice, its gray face was soaked in some puffiness, and its expression was hideous but its eyes were blank.
Far into the shadow of the dam, countless zombies that were frozen like this, showing a few hairs or half of their heads in the ice, lining the smooth ice surface with gloomy and terrifying.
"Hey, are you alive?"
When Chen Xiaowu was shocked by the scene in front of him, a strong flashlight light shone from the top of the dam, and the question of the person holding the flashlight came from the dam.
Chen Xiaowu was taken aback, and then couldn't help but feel a little funny, why do you need to ask. Who has ever seen a zombie carrying a lamp in the middle of the night?
But he still raised his head, squinted, looked in the direction where the flashlight was coming from, and replied, "Yes." The voice was hoarse and low.
After a three-day long journey on this ice field, and the fact that he hadn't spoken to other living people for more than ten days, when he opened his mouth at this time, even Chen Xiaowu didn't know how his voice had become like this.
"Don't dangle there with the lamp, you will attract the zombies in the resort and don't add food to them!"
The man above replied angrily, and shone the flashlight to the shore again.
"Come up from over there." Chen Xiaowu followed the light of his flashlight, and sure enough, he saw a row of iron ladders leading to the top of the dam next to the embankment on the shore.
Chen Xiaowu carefully dodged the heads of people on the ice, turned off the camping lights and put them in the package after walking under the ladder, and climbed up the ladder.
The iron ladder had been completely frozen in the cold winter, and Chen Xiaowu held it with the sleeve of his jacket through his hand, and there was a prickly coldness.
The man above also turned off the flashlight, stretched out a hand, and pulled Chen Xiaowu, who had climbed to the top of the ladder, to the dam.
Under the moonlight, I saw that this man was burly, wrapped in a military coat, and the military coat raised a fur collar, covering most of this person's entire face.
This person pulled Chen Xiaowu up, looked up and down at Chen Xiaowu, who was unshaven, and snorted: "You are really fateful, I have been trapped here for a month, and I have seen a lot of dead and living dead people floating down from above, and it is the first time I have seen a living person coming down the river." ”
Chen Xiaowu put his hands to his mouth and rubbed his hands while exhaling and said, "Is it the first time?" Didn't there be two women on the rubber boat upstream? ”
"What dinghy?" The man heard Chen Xiaowu's question, and asked strangely.
As soon as he turned on the light, this person found him, but the rubber boat a few hundred meters away was so big, why didn't this person find it? Chen Xiaowu suppressed his doubts, did not answer the man's question, and asked instead.
"Big brother, it's too cold, is there a warm place?"
"Come with me." The man didn't ink, and he didn't ask Chen Xiaowu about the rubber boat, and turned around like a small two-story building by the dam.
"I'm the security guard of this power station, you can call me Lao Zhu." The big man who walked in front said without looking back.
"Ah, Brother Zhu, my name is Chen Xiaowu." Chen Xiaowu followed behind the person who called himself Lao Zhu, and when he introduced himself, he also casually told Lao Zhu his name in front of him.
saw that the man heard Chen Xiaowu's name, stopped suddenly, turned his head, and pressed the flashlight in his hand to shine on Chen Xiaowu's face.
Chen Xiaowu couldn't open his eyes when he was found by the strong light in front of him, and he was a little annoyed in his heart, this old Zhu is afraid that it is not a nervous disorder, why is he holding a flashlight to shine on his face?
", little five! Hahaha...... Are you really a little five? Lao Zhu's voice was suddenly very excited. Then the flashlight moved away from Chen Xiaowu's face, and the big man hugged Chen Xiaowu with a bear hug, and his strength almost made Chen Xiaowu breathless. Lao Zhu patted Chen Xiaowu's back excitedly and smirked loudly.
Chen Xiaowu was blinded by the sudden enthusiasm of the person in front of him, and secretly wondered if this person was his acquaintance? Lao Zhu? He began to carefully search for all the people surnamed Zhu in his memory, and said suspiciously: "Old Zhu? ......”
When the man heard Chen Xiaowu's question, he laughed, sent Chen Xiaowu away, put his whole face in front of Chen Xiaowu's eyes, and saw that the collar of his coat was a little in the way, so he simply took off his coat and threw it on the ground.
Excitedly pointed to himself and said, "You don't even recognize me, it's me, Zhu Laosan, Zhu Wen!" ”
Chen Xiaowu's heart was shocked! After thinking about it for a long time, I never expected that the person in front of me would claim to be Zhu Wen, who I hadn't seen in the past five or six years.
He hurriedly widened his eyes and looked at Zhu Wen, without the cover of the collar of his coat, the familiar face of the big man in front of him was not his third brother Zhu Wen in the orphanage!
He couldn't help but feel ecstatic in his heart, hugged Zhu Wen in front of him, as hard as Zhu Wen hugged him just now, and then his nose began to sour, saying that men don't flick when they have tears, but at this time, Chen Xiaowu felt that the tears seemed to be uncontrollable, and they fell from his eyes crackling.
"Third brother!"
"Little Wuzi ......" Zhu Wen's nose was a little sour, and his voice was a little choked.
Since they have become adults, they have gradually left the orphanage and began to wander in the society, Sun Zhihai left the orphanage when they were still young, although they would often come back to see the people in the orphanage in the first few years after leaving, but the feelings are still slightly shallow, Sister Shiyin is usually busy studying, and it is the most naughty Zhu Wen in this orphanage who usually takes Chen Xiaowu and Shao Kaiwen around to play.
Shao Kaiwen is four years younger than Chen Xiaowu, he often has a big nose, he is timid, and he loves to cry, Zhu Wen and Chen Xiaowu don't like to take him when they go out to steal melons and chase chickens and dogs, so when they are in the orphanage, the two smell like.
In terms of age, Sun Zhihai is the largest, Li Shiyin is second, Zhu Wen is third, Zhu Lili is fourth, and Chen Xiaowu is fifth and Shao Kaiwen is sixth.
After the two came out of the orphanage, the last time they saw each other was when Dean Li was 60 years old, and it has been five or six years since now.
After entering the society, the brothers and sisters usually have their own worlds and are busy in their respective small circles, even if they were as good as Zhu Wen and Chen Xiaowu back then, they only greeted each other in the circle of friends.
But what I didn't expect was that after so many days of trekking on the river at the end of my journey, God would give me such a big gift!
Zhu Wen also felt as if he was dreaming, he thought that he would keep huddle in this power station and wait for death, but he didn't expect to meet his brother who grew up with him when he took turns to pee!
At the end of the day, both of them had experienced life and death, and at this time, they could not help but have mixed feelings, and they could no longer control their suppressed emotions for a long time, and the two hugged tightly on the dam of the Songjiang Hydropower Station where the river wind was howling.
Cry!