Chapter Forty-Seven - The Midnight Visitor
The horses on the grassland were very curious and friendly to Zhou Zhiyuan and his party, constantly rubbing their side faces and wiping their faces with their tongues, but the people on the task really didn't have the time and mood to cultivate feelings with them, and everyone patted their horses on the face and then got into the car and left.
After crossing the grassland, they began to come into contact with the civilized world, and after riding forward for a while, they saw a gray elevated road in the distance, and at this time the sky had begun to darken, and everyone decided to camp on the grass before entering the road for the night.
When the equipment was unloaded, the wolves scattered to hunt, and the people began to set up tents and storage shelters, two tents for six people to sleep and rest, one for supplies and weapons and ammunition to keep them from rain and moisture, and two oversized canopy tents for the wolves to rest.
In order to avoid causing a fire, everyone dug a circle of tunnels to prevent the spread of fire in the five places where the fire was lit, and after the wolves returned from hunting, the five of them worked together to prepare the food for the whole team.
"According to our current direction of travel, the first half of the route taken by this provincial highway passes through the wilderness, and it will take 72 kilometers before a county town will begin to appear, and then we will have to turn to the rural road to scratch the county seat, and the rural road is estimated to take six hours to pick up the provincial highway and then go down to 310 kilometers to connect the military road to the base."
Chen Guohao looked at the tablet and said to everyone
"We only need to rush along the way, we don't need to clean and scout inhabited places, we just need to go straight to the base"
Zhou Zhiyuan said
"Well, it's the fastest and least troublesome route, but it's not the shortest."
Chen Guohao said
"Do we need to make a few plans in advance to deal with possible contingencies, and how are we going to respond if there are no survivors or something happens to the base?"
Zhang Hongda asked
"No need, no matter how we planned before we had any information, and now the situation of the living corpses has been changing, we will just deal with it after we get to the scene and find out the situation, don't waste time thinking about this now"
Zhou Zhiyuan said
"I also agree with Brother Yuan's idea, we are not a regular army, of course, we want to see the moves, and we will adapt to the situation."
Xie Dongcheng Road
"Well, I can't come up with any plans anyway"
Zhang Hongda shrugged his shoulders and said
"We never expected you to come up with anything good, okay?"
Liu Jianyu gave him a blank look and said
On a large tree next to the camp, a hunting climbing tree stand protrudes from a height of more than three meters, a special equipment that allows people to climb the towering trees, stand or sit on it, and use it as a backpack when not in use.
Because of the strange phenomenon of living corpses today, everyone decided to keep vigil with one person every night, carrying long-range cold weapons, precision marksman rifles, night vision goggles and other equipment on duty, each person kept vigil for four hours in shifts, and the wolves were also two or two pairs in a circle around the periphery to form a warning range, just in case.
In the middle of the night, Zhou Zhiyuan, who was sitting on the trunk of a tree, wore night vision goggles and looked left and right to observe the wind and grass around him, while Luo Luo sat at the bottom boredly, and occasionally his ears kept swinging, proving that he was actually paying attention to the movements around him.
Through the ultra-wide-angle range of the four night vision goggles, Zhou Zhiyuan noticed that dozens of meters away, there was a four-legged man lying on the ground, his tail stretching out and crawling forward slowly towards the camp.
Zhou Zhiyuan pulled the compound bow and gently held a triangular vertebrae arrow, secretly adjusting the state of the muscles of his whole body to prepare for a thunderous blow, while Luo Luo was lying on the ground motionless, but his pointed ears seemed to lock every move in a certain direction.
When the black shadow slowly approached, and when it was still 2 or 3 meters away from the camp, he instantly turned around and aimed at it and pulled the bowstring and released, Luo Luo let out a roar and pounced in the other direction of it, and the wolves took advantage of the situation and rushed towards the black shadow in all directions.
The black shadow jumped to the right to the trunk of the tree to dodge the first arrow shot by Zhou Zhiyuan, and jumped to the left on the trunk to dodge Luo Luo's pounce, and the black shadow fell to the campfire and picked up the roast leg of lamb that Ichizhi had eaten over from today's dinner, and jumped forward several times in a row to escape the encirclement of the wolves.
"I'm grass, what is so fast that it can dodge so many attacks"
Zhang Hongda exclaimed
"I don't know, I've only seen the shadow of a roughly four-legged tailed animal flash a few times."
Chen Guohao shook his head and said
"But he just took the roast leg of lamb and didn't fight back against us, probably attracted by the smell of roast meat"
Xie Dongcheng Road
"In the future, if you don't finish eating, you will set a few traps in the food, and at night the vigil will line up two people to cross the fire support line."
Liu Jianyu said
"Luo Luo means that it is a cat, and it has the taste of being domesticated in the city before"
Zhou Zhiyuan said
"Cats? I guess it's a leopard."
Zhang Hongda said
"It's nothing, is it? If you look around, it's logical that the dogs have become wolves, and the cats have become leopards."
Xie Dongcheng Road
"No matter, let's go to bed first, I'll have to hurry tomorrow, wait for the two people who take over the post to reach and Ah Jian."
Zhou Zhiyuan said to everyone
On the provincial road in the early morning, a group of people galloped all the way on the cement road, and the small valleys and small farms that appeared from time to time on both sides combined with the green mountains formed a very beautiful mountain scenery.
After riding for a while, the wolves scattered to hunt at a rest stop that no one was using, and the small rest stop was a gas station and a convenience store, and the empty storefront was already looted by the previous survivors.
"Shall we set a trap to see if the leopard will come to eat last night?"
Zhou Zhiyuan said
"You can try it, but most of the cats are nocturnal, and you can see that cats used to be less energetic and inactive during the day."
Xie Dongcheng Road
"Okay, then try it, I hope last night's roast leg of lamb is not enough to stuff his teeth, come and steal it again at noon, this time there will be no traps, and every meal in the future will deliberately leave a piece of meat for him to follow all the way"
Zhou Zhiyuan said with a smile
"Brother Yuan, do you want to fish for food and let it come with you?"
Zhang Hongda Road not far away
"I have this idea, just now I asked Luo Luo to tell the wolves to catch one more big fish, and when you are tidying up, you will give full play to your potential, and the fragrance will spread far away."
Zhou Zhiyuan said
"There's nothing wrong with that, it's my specialty, but I don't know what spices to use to spread it farther."
Zhang Hongda said
"It's okay, just do your best, I'll do the rest"
Zhou Zhidao
After the wolves came back with their prey, everyone was busy for everyone's lunch, and the big fish as bait was cooked by Zhang Hongda himself.