Chapter 56: Foraging
The ground of Liangcheng has regained its tranquility, the blood stains have been buried by the heavy snow, the corpses have been carried to the city wall, and the people patrolling the streets have been replaced by lions dressed in blue background and gold-rimmed long plackets, and the gold-embroidered lion head on the chest has an indifferent gaze, as if they feel that the prey in front of them is too small to fill their stomachs, and they can't arouse a trace of interest. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The lions didn't knock on the residents' doors, nor did they go to the alleys to run around, they just patrolled the main street, even if there were wolf guards hiding in the residents' homes, it didn't matter, they also had wolf guards on their side, and there were internal and external guards, and then they would search every corner of the city, and they could also find out the people who helped the wolf guards by the way.
The situation in the underground is different again, the following are all wolf guards and fortifiers, some of the fortifiers are the former wolf guards, some are ordinary citizens, they are all descendants of "helpers" and those who were bought and persuaded by those people, and the rest are the warriors brought by Bai Lang, they only entered Liangcheng after they started, and most of the people's foreheads are engraved with the obvious word "chase".
The wolf guards who did not tear off the embroidery of the wolf's head on the chest were fleeing to the steel warehouse, sometimes having to take a long detour, they were more familiar with this three-dimensional labyrinth, and some were lost, but it was much better than those who had never gone underground, such a maze, even if there was a map, few people could understand it, and the passages that could be used up and down were not only to the upper or lower floors, some were very long, and they didn't know where they were after drilling through.
The steel warehouse is the assembly point, and after the move, it has been announced to the entire Liangcheng by the scouts, and the reinforcements also immediately took action, wanting to occupy this point as soon as possible, this is the place where the battle in the entire Liangcheng is fiercest.
Three days is not a short time, although it has not been thoroughly prepared, but this is already a fortification that has begun to take shape, to deal with the strengthened people, the steel crossbow is a very good weapon, fast speed, great strength, and can directly shoot through the bone fragments of the strengthened people, and there are dozens of wolf guards guarding here, and they can be guarded for a while.
Qi Yunxiao, Sister Cong, Doctor Duan and the old thrush all stayed in the office of the steel warehouse, waiting anxiously, leaning against a steel gun in the corner, that was Sister Cong's weapon, although she took off her long placket for some reason and changed into a nurse's uniform, but the foundation was still there, and she was a qualified wolf guard when she picked up a weapon.
They didn't know the situation outside, they didn't know where Qi Feng and the others had arrived, whether they had encountered danger on the road, and whether they had turned into cold corpses.
There is also Chen Zhen who needs to be worried, he disappeared early in the morning, and he has not shown up yet, according to the original plan, Chen Zhen is going to come here as soon as possible, Lin Jin and the others will not let him go, at least it is safe to come here, and he can evacuate as soon as possible.
The problem is that he has to get here first.
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Outside the city, Bai Lang was still riding on a horse, looking up to enjoy the snow scene, and suddenly felt a little homesick, Jingcheng was in the northeast of Liangcheng, far away, where the winter was colder, and it snowed heavily every winter, and he used to take this for granted, until he went out this time and stayed in the center of the ruins for a long time without snow, and then he felt that something was wrong.
"The second son of Bai is homesick." Peng Ji stood aside, saw Bai Lang looking at the sky in a daze, and said with a smile.
Bai Lang didn't look back, just smiled and said, "Mr. Peng is from Yongcheng, right?" Yongcheng also snows in winter, but it is certainly not as big as Jingcheng, and the winter in the north is dry and cold, and it is much more comfortable and comfortable than in the south. ”
Peng Ji nodded: "It's rare for such a big snow to fall under Liangcheng, this snow is not as cold as a few days ago, but if Bai Ergongzi wants to enjoy the snow, it is best to find a place to shelter from the wind, don't look too involved, it's cold, although your horse is handsome, but your feet are buried in the snow, and it will freeze after freezing for a long time." ”
Only then did Bai Lang turn around, glance at Peng Ji's feet, and said, "Who let you stay here?" He also turned around and said that his feet were cold, and he rolled into the woods to hide, or found a big bug to sit on. ”
Peng Ji smiled honestly: "I'm careful about it, don't expose it to the second son, it's embarrassing, the big bugs will be spared, I'll go to the woods for a while." ”
He sneered, and was just about to turn around and walk towards the woods, when he saw that in front of the dense forest in the west, several large insects that were adjacent to each other suddenly turned around and faced the dense forest, which seemed very abrupt, and he couldn't help but be stunned in place.
Bai Lang and the few people on the horses behind him were also passively attracted and turned their heads to look over.
A few seconds later, I saw a person flying out of the woods, the big insect reflexively attacked him, but failed to touch it, the person was too fast, flew high, and ran towards Bai Lang after landing on the snow, but only rushed out a few dozen meters, and then loaded on the ground, no longer moving.
This man had a broken arm, which was directly ripped off, and the fracture was uneven, and the blood was probably gone, even if he fell to the ground, there was not much blood flowing out of the fracture.
"Dead?" Brown asked, looking at the man.
"Dead." Riding on a bareback horse, Kong Du said softly, his voice was flat and high-pitched, and it was hard to hear, but no one would doubt what he said.
"It's the people of the camp." The old man next to Kong Du also spoke, his voice deep and low, as if rolling in his chest.
"Wai Wei to save Zhao or run away?" Brown asked the old man again.
"It should be that the bones have run away, and the wolf guard is not so stupid." Peng Ji said.
"It's kind of interesting." Bai Lang said with a smile: "He was able to wake up early, and he could get out of trouble so quickly, and those people in Bone Paradise didn't stop him?" Well...... It's strange, the messenger has arrived, why hasn't he come yet? It stands to reason that he can kill the people of Bone Paradise and come to report the news, his strength is very strong, and it is impossible to catch up with this person, could it be that he deliberately let this person to report the news? He's hiding in the woods ready to play sneak attack on us? ”
"Let's take a look." Of the three horsemen who followed behind, the oldest man said, but did not move, but looked at Kongdu.
Kong Du still closed his eyes and nodded slightly, and then the three of them let go of the reins, turned their horses' heads and ran westward, without even looking at the corpse on the ground when they passed by.
All three of them carried swords on their backs, and they were all Kong Du's apprentices, the oldest in his early forties, and the youngest in his thirties, and his strength was high.
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The corpse was not deliberately put by Chen Zhen, but crawled out of the pile of corpses, one of his hands was torn off, and he was knocked away by the corpse of his companion, and he fell into a coma directly, escaped, and when he woke up, he found that this place had become a dead place.
The blood flowed too much, there was no strength, he knew that in such a cold day, these two situations could quickly kill people, so he injected the strengthening agent again, desperately ran this way, he did not come to report, but to survive, here are his own people, if there is still a breath left here, maybe he can be rescued.
It's a pity that he lost too much blood, and he was injected with two strengthening drugs one after another, he looked young, but in fact, his internal organs were overly senile, but after strengthening, he was not sensitive to pain and could not detect it, and he rushed out of the woods to see Bai Lang and others from a distance, and he breathed a sigh of relief, which became his last breath.
Chen Zhen was still looking for food in the forest at this time.
I had just tossed around in the clearing, and I had already digested all the food I had eaten last night, and I was hungry and had no strength, and I wandered around the woods like a dying old wolf.
Food is hard to find in winter, otherwise he doesn't need to go to Shangyi Street, eating plants can only relieve hunger, there is no way to recover his strength, and eating mutant creatures will get madness, and the cold winter is very difficult for his bones.
After wandering around for a while, he found a black ant nest.
Ants hide in their nests for the winter, and they also "hibernate", but unlike traditional hibernation, they will still be active, but with minimal activity to avoid unnecessary heat loss.
Chen Zhen dug up the ant nest, grabbed a lot of ants and sent them to his mouth, black ants have extremely high nutritional value, edible and medicinal.
There are acidic substances in the body of ants, and formic acid can be obtained after distillation, and it tastes sour, but it is more of the taste of earth, and wild ants may have bacteria on their bodies.
This ant nest was very small, a nest of ants was quickly eaten, and the strength did not recover much, he squatted on the ground, looked at the dug up ant nest with some disappointment, and as soon as he stood up, he found that he could not move.
The body did not obey the call, completely uncontrollable, and there was a sound in the body, heavy and trivial, obviously the footsteps of a large bug, getting closer and closer, and finally stopped behind him.
If it was a big bug, it should have attacked immediately the next moment, killing Chen Zhen and tearing him to pieces, but the attack did not come as expected, but instead a voice appeared: "Look at your dress...... You're Chen Zhen, right? ”
It was a young man's voice.
Chen Zhen didn't answer, he guessed that he couldn't move, it should be this person's ghost, but he didn't know how the other party did it.
"Strange, why are you here? Didn't they go get you? Even if you don't catch it, you should be in Liangcheng, why are you in this place? The man said again, as if he were talking to himself.
Chen Zhen still couldn't move, and he didn't speak.
Unable to get an answer, the footsteps of the big insect sounded again, coming from behind him to his side, and finally rounding around to the front of Chen Jin.
This is a large king tiger beetle, with a pair of sickle-like palates, which together can definitely twist a person in two, and on the body of the tiger beetle sits a young man in his twenties, wearing a tiled blue coat-style military uniform, and a white horn on the left side of the top of the head, which is very short.
If Chen Zhen came out of Liangcheng, he could see that this person looked exactly like the person in the mouth of the giant sandworm outside the north gate, but the horns were opposite, one on the left and the other on the right.
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