Chapter 6: The Settlements of the North!
A battle without suspense, and it ended in thirty seconds.
Wang Qiang stabbed the bear in the heart with the first knife, and cut off the bear's head with the second knife, the killing method was so cruel and exquisite that the terrified onlookers didn't have time to scream, and the battle came to an abrupt end.
"Good guy, fat enough and big enough, it must taste good!" Wang Qiang looked at the bear that fell to the ground and smiled.
This is the appearance of hunting, and it is difficult to find such a large prey in the south.
So, Wang Qiang dragged the body of the bear with his left hand and the tail fin of the big shark with his right hand, and walked back step by step.
Naturally, there is a large group of children around.
The journey home was smooth sailing, the only trouble was when it came down to the sewers.
The bears and sharks were too big to carry, so there was no choice but to slaughter them on the spot.
After the blade, the shark was cut into equal pieces, and every child was very happy to hold a large piece of fish in his arms.
And the bear's fur is very precious, so naturally it can't be cut into eight sections by Brother Qiang's three-knife tossing method.
Under Li Qin's careful dissection, a brand new bear skin was shaved off.
"You can make a leather coat again!" Li Qin said contentedly, not enough to look at Wang Qiang with his eyes.
Look at what I'm doing, I'm not a bear, this woman has a strange look in her eyes, Brother Qiang thought.
"Uncle Blind said that you can't have both fish and bear's paws, it seems that Uncle Blind still doesn't have enough knowledge, I think sharks and bears can have both!" On the side, Wen Xi sighed from the bottom of his heart, it seems that Mencius's doctrine has been read in vain.
It was early in the morning when they returned to the base, and the people in the settlement started a new day, Uncle Kun and Uncle Da were packing the supplies that needed to be traded, but they saw Wang Qiang returning with a large amount of food!
Bear! Shark! Food! Rich in protein!
The people in the settlement are like a festival, and so much meat is enough to eat meat for a long time in the settlement.
Wang Qiang generously gifted, and the food went to the people of the settlement, and the hospitable T settlement reciprocated with delicious food.
Fish soup, grilled bears, the settlement took out the long-cherished drinks, and the party began all day!
You can never imagine how hungry people are for meat, who can't perform tooth sacrifices a few times a year.
Watching the children chase and play while nibbling with huge meat and bones, enjoying the laughter and laughter of the settlement, Wang Qiang felt very comfortable. Feast, feast. Men and women, young and old, enjoy the best life in the settlement.
The food eaten was only partial, and under the auspices of Blind Lao and Uncle Kun, the rest of the food was pickled into jerky, which was convenient for long-term preservation. Life is difficult now, it is not easy to get more food, so every day must think about the future, as the saying goes, people have no long-term worries, and the words of the ancestors never lie.
Seeing the settlement rejoicing because of his harvest, Wang Qiang enjoyed the joy of sharing very much, but he didn't notice that he had won a huge amount of respect in this settlement in a short period of time.
Weak settlements, although they retain the manners and traditions of the old era, still want to have strong people to lead and take care of themselves, only in this way can the settlement continue to survive.
When the wine was drunk, the blind old man put down the piece of meat in his hand and said to Wang Qiang earnestly: "Little brother Wang Qiang, the old man has something to say. ”
"Tell me, old man."
The blind old man pointed to the crowd of people singing and dancing in the settlement, and said, "I don't know what Junior Brother Wang Qiang thinks of this settlement?" ”
Wang Qiang nodded and replied: "Very good, very energetic, although there are fewer young people, but children are hope." Of course, it also follows ancient traditions and abides by moral constraints, which is much stronger than the outside. ”
The blind old man nodded: "Although the old man is blind in his eyes, he is not blind in his heart, I heard Ah Kun and Ah Qin talk about you, I know that you are a very powerful warrior and have your own followers!" Although I don't know where you're from, where you're going, or what business you have to do, the old man has a presumptuous request. ”
"Blind old man, what do you want?" Wang Qiang gnawed on the bear's paw, and his beard was full of oil.
"The old man is old, and he doesn't know how many days he has to live, although Kunzi is a good person, he can't keep the settlement yet. We have a small number of people in this settlement, and we are sandwiched between the two huge settlements of Hebei and Sanhe, and life is difficult, I hope that Wang Qiang's younger brother can join us in the settlement, I know that you will definitely not watch the old people and children go hungry. The blind old man said what he wanted.
Join you?
Wang Qiang put down the bear's paws, licked the oil on his hands, and said: "Blind old man, you don't know, I have a lot of people, and your settlement may not be able to support us." ”
Wang Qiang told the truth, there are still 2,000 people and horses in the Panshan base, and they have all come, and the people eat and eat the horses and chew this settlement and are eaten down in minutes.
The blind old man hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Little brother Wang Qiang, you misunderstood what I meant, I mean that while we want you to join, I also want to join you." ”
What is it, Wang Qiang didn't understand such words.
Chen Haonan, who was sitting next to Wang Qiang, put down the food in his hand and said to Wang Qiang: "Brother Qiang, the meaning of the blind old man is to let us take care of them, the old man said it tactfully." ”
"Join me!" Wang Qiang was stunned.
The blind old man nodded a little embarrassedly, and then said, "I don't have any special requests, I just hope you can feed everyone." ”
Wang Qiangqi said: "I have seen this place, although it is a little cold, but it is better because there are fewer zombies and rich products, and you don't have to go hungry just by relying on the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal." ”
The blind old man shook his head: "Little brother Wang Qiang, you don't know anything, the outside world is very scary, they are all ordinary people, I don't want you to be a powerful alienated warrior, you can roam outside." ”
Wang Qiang was stunned: "What is an alienated warrior?" ”
As soon as Brother Qiang asked this question, most of the survivors in the settlement were stunned, and the eyes that looked at Wang Qiang were much stranger.
"What is an alienated warrior?" Chen Haonan also asked with a big grin.
The blind old man sighed, and slowly unwrapped the black cloth wrapped around his eyes, revealing a pair of dark green eyes!
", zombie!" Mulcon screamed and picked up the machete.
Song Yi and Liang Zihao on the side also held down the handle of the gun, and the rest of the soldiers reacted quickly and drew their guns one after another, and for a while, the atmosphere of the settlement changed.
Wang Qiang stopped the excesses of his subordinates, turned to stare at the blind old man's eyes and looked at it, and then asked Chen Haonan beside him: "Look at what is going on?" ”
Chen Haonan is the former chief researcher of the Longcheng Research Institute and an expert in biology, and his attainments in this area are certainly not shallow.
Chen Haonan observed for a while, and asked the blind old man noncommittally: "You transplanted it?" ”
The blind old man turned his head, his ghostly green eyes rolled, and said, "I didn't transplant it myself, but it's almost the same." ”
Chen Haonan was puzzled: "What kind of scene is this, what are you transplanting the zombie's eyes into your own eye sockets?" ”
The blind old man slowly grabbed the black bandage on the table, blindfolded his eyes again, and then said, "What's the picture, it's not to get the vision of zombies." Do you know that these eyes are the eyes of a third-order zombie, which are rare, and the settlement has spent a great price to get these eyes. ”
Chen Haonan snorted: "The retinas of zombies are crystallized, and basically they don't have much static capture ability, in other words, they capture dynamic objects much stronger than static, just like frogs, but most of the time they are half-blind." High-level zombies rely on the three abilities of smell and biological echo system and dynamic vision to achieve stereotactic ability, what is the use of your entire eyeballs. ”
But immediately, Chen Haonan's face became strange: "No, why haven't you mutated?" You guys...... Is there a cure for the X virus? ”
Speaking of this, Chen Haonan looked at Wang Qiang in horror, and then looked at the old man!
"You cured the X-virus?" Chen Haonan asked again.
The blind old man sighed and said, "How can the X virus be cured, hey, it seems that you really don't know about alienation." My eyes were taken from third-order zombies, and the operation was done by a biological expert from the Hebei settlement. They already have the ability to transplant the limbs and organs of the zombies carrying the X virus into the human body, so as to obtain some of the zombies' abilities for their own use, which we call alienation. ”
"Alienation! Then you have a way to control the spread of virus X in humans! Chen Haonan jumped on the table and roared loudly.
The blind old man was a little dazed, and then said: "It seems that this is the case, the experts in the Kyoto settlement can use a medicine to induce the X virus to a fixed part of the human body, and then control the spread of the X virus. Thanks to this control, we were able to transplant the limbs and organs of the zombies into ourselves. The person who has completed this transplant and has combat effectiveness is an alienated warrior! ”
"Don't you have a genetic potion?" Wang Qiang was confused at this time, but finally understood a little, and then asked.
"Genetic medicine? What is that? The blind old man was also at a loss.
Chen Haonan jumped down from the table and said excitedly to Wang Qiang: "Brother Qiang, you don't know, this side is not the same path as us in the research of the X virus, we have put a lot of effort into gene imitation and gene lock decipherment, although the idea is clever, but because of the limited level of science and technology, it is often half the effort, and there is still no clue after decades of tossing." But this side is different, they should have started from the direction of biological modification, and they actually found another way to restrain the rapid infection of virus X! Although this method cannot cure the root cause, it is more than enough to treat the symptoms. ”
Chen Haonan did not elaborate on the fact that the development of genetic drugs was actually an accidental by-product of deciphering the X virus.
On the side, listening to Chen Haonan's words, he also seemed to understand whether he understood or not, Chen Haonan, as an excellent biologist, majored in this research, and it was normal for everyone to not be able to keep up with his thinking jump.
But the blind old man still understood a little, and hurriedly added: "Actually, it's not as good as you think, because transplanting zombie limbs to your body causes the X virus to get out of control is also a common thing." And even if the transplant is successful, the control of the X virus is time-limited, and in the end, the alienated warriors will not have a good home. ”
Speaking of this, the blind old man sighed and continued: "Including me, after transplanting these eyeballs, my mind has become more and more dull, and there is always something in my brain that wants to break through the constraints of will, especially recently, I am more and more powerless. ”
Chen Haonan nodded and said, "This is normal, the self-evolution ability of the X virus is very good, we have caught their tails five or six times, but in the end we still can't keep up with their evolution, so even if you have a way to control them temporarily, you will eventually be infected." ”
The blind old man nodded, looking lonely.
"So, I beg you, if you can help us with the settlement, after all, I don't have much time." The blind old man said.
The atmosphere in the settlement was a little silent, and the survivors were a little uncomfortable with the words of the blind old man.
Wang Qiang nodded and replied, "No problem, as long as everyone trusts me, I will let everyone live a good life!" ”
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"But before I can do that, I have some important things to do." Wang Qiang added.
Subsequently, during the exchange, Wang Qiang also learned about the situation in the Kyoto area.
At present, the Kyoto Settlement is a large number of troops stationed underground near the Fifth Ring Road for self-protection, and it is difficult for survivors to enter the interior of the Kyoto Settlement unless they pass through the city from the ground.
In the vast Jintang area, the three major settlements of Sanhe Settlement, Hebei Settlement, and Jintang Settlement each coerced some settlements and fought for the means of survival.
The T settlement where the blind old man is located is sandwiched between the Kyoto settlement, the Sanhe settlement and the Hebei settlement.
The blind veteran told the truth about the predicament of the T settlement, but Wang Qiang was a little unimpressed, Brother Qiang thought to himself, wait for Lao Tzu to teleport the troops over, what is the Sanhe settlement area, Hebei settlement area let you see if the pot is iron.
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Cheerful days always fly by.
On the third day, early in the morning, Wang Qiang led his men to follow the survivors and set out on the road to the Hebei settlement.
From Zhao Kun's mouth, Wang Qiang knew that the Hebei settlement was far away, and it was a two-day walk on foot, all because of the need to travel through the ground and underground, if it was a straight line distance in the old Republic era, it would take two or three hours at most by car.
Zhao Kun told himself that the Hebei settlement area was divided into four major regions of ABCD, each of which was not too far apart, but it was strictly divided into divisions and practiced autonomy.
I understood from Zhao Kun's words that this Hebei settlement area is actually composed of four large settlements.
"We're going to Area C, Hebei is very large, with a direct population of more than 100,000, and of course the Jintang Settlement and Kyoto Settlement are even larger." Zhao Kun carried a large amount of sundries, and said to Wang Qiang while walking.
was entertained by Wang Qiang, Wang Qiang was recognized by Zhao Kun as that kind of person who is very capable, and Zhao Kun respects those who have ability.
"More than 100,000 people, that's good." Wang Qiang replied, thinking in his heart, in the Huaxia Alliance in the south, there are dozens of cities with hundreds of thousands of people at every turn, and Longcheng has a population of more than one million.
"Although our settlement in Area C has little influence, we still have some connections, as long as we go there and ask, we can always find Old Man Peng Shen." Zhao Kun continued.
Peng Shen, the former electronic engineer of the North China Industrial Bureau, lived in the Hebei settlement.
Chatting all the way, Zhao Kun took Wang Qiang through the complex underground water channel and came to a manhole cover.
"Do you want to go up?" Wang Qiang asked.
"Yes!" Li Qin wiped the sweat from his face and replied.
Carrying weight forward for a long time makes the little girl physically exhausted.
Wang Qiang couldn't look at it, took the package from Li Qin's back, and looked closely, it turned out to be some animal bones, mouse skins, dry herbs and other miscellaneous items.
"What's the use of all this?" Liang Zihao on the side asked curiously.
"Take it to the settlement and exchange it for other supplies, hey, we don't have anything of value except this." The survivor Wen Xi opened his mouth and pointed to the package that was solemnly sealed by Zhao Kun by the way.
Wang Qiang followed the prestige and looked at the package behind Zhao Kun, wasn't that the zombie stump he cut off the day before yesterday, and these things were also valuable?
At this time, the survivors brought a simple steel ladder from the shadow of the sewer and put it under the manhole cover of the sewer, and then one of the survivors climbed up and opened the manhole cover with great ease.
Zhao Kun specially advised: "Hey, listen, the journey of the sewer loop is gone to this section, we have to walk on the ground and cross a distance of about five kilometers to reach the next loop!" The world up there is dangerous, so cheer up! ”
After saying that, Zhao Kun took the lead in climbing out of the sewer manhole cover.
Wang Qiang drilled out of the sewer, the outside world was in the daytime, and his vision was instantly clear and open, Wang Qiang couldn't help but be stunned.
Compared to the rugged mountain roads in the south, the plains in the north are truly amazing!
The end of the sewer represents the end of the city, and you are in the suburbs, feeling the vastness of the north.
Behind the city, towering skyscrapers silently tell the story of the decline of a civilization, and in front of you, an endless plain awaits you.
"Let's go, we still have a long way to go, everyone is in good spirits, the road behind is not easy to walk! If you encounter zombies, don't show mercy! Zhao Kun looked like a leader, and greeted the survivors loudly.
Wang Qiang shrugged, put Li Qin's package on his back, and then followed behind Zhao Kun.
Zhao Kun looked back, with deep meaning in his eyes.
The march in the wilderness was dangerous, and it didn't take long for the survivors to encounter a horde of zombies wandering unconsciously.
There were only about two or three hundred zombies, but for a human team of more than twenty people, the number was already huge! Moreover...... There are also second-order mutant zombies inside!
"That's bad luck, run, run back to the sewers!" Zhao Kun shouted loudly and ran first!
One hand grabbed Zhao Kun.
It's Wang Qiang!
"Hey, hey, Uncle Kun, you're the leader, what should we do if you run away?" Wang Qiang asked.
Zhao Kun settled down, thinking that the man in front of him was said to be a fierce man, could it be that he wanted to be an enemy?