Chapter 22: The decision to go to the fortress
I was about to shout for the thief, but Canaan covered my mouth in time and leaned into my ear and said, "Don't make a sound, I don't know if they have guns yet, go back and call everyone up, come out with guns, don't alarm them." ”
I'm rubbing, or my husband is thoughtful, in case this group of people makes a sudden surprise for the two of us, it's too late for my partners to come to the rescue.
When I entered the hall and woke up the thunderstorm, I saw that Rohan had also gone downstairs, and he had come to change the guard.
"Wake everyone up, make a little noise, there are a dozen people outside stealing things from our car!" I lowered my voice and said eagerly.
"Fuck me, what grandson would dare to play tricks right under my nose?" The thunderstorm suddenly became agitated, and it was also because he was so sleepy that he couldn't bear to fall asleep just now, but he didn't know that this would come, and he was a little annoyed and angry.
Everyone quickly gathered with guns and weapons, and came to the gate of the courtyard lightly, while Canaan was still closely monitoring the people outside.
Turning the door open, we all pointed flashlights and guns at the men in black, and the thunderstorm shouted, "Grandma, a bear thief!" Death! ”
It was only after this dozen flashlights that I could see that these were not people in black, but they were wearing dark and tattered clothes, and they looked like they were all dressed in black in the moonlight, and their faces were dirty, so to speak, like beggars on the street before.
I really overestimated them, not to mention guns, even sharp knives and spears, and most of them were empty-handed, holding the boxes on the pickups.
Seeing the situation clearly, we relieved ourselves and quickly surrounded them, and Luohan brought back a guy who tried to escape in time.
"Where did you come from? Why steal our stuff? Thunderstorm asked sharply.
The group huddled together, still holding the box, "Put down what doesn't belong to you!" Zhang Xiaomei shouted, and those people put the box back on the pickup.
I nodded, and there were thirteen of them, all men, mostly in their twenties and forties, not too young or too old.
"Speak! Why are you staring at us in a daze? I ask you what to say. The thunderstorm urged them, but none of them would answer.
"We, we were driven out of the fortress." A man who looked at the age of thirty-five or sixteen plucked up the courage to reply.
"What fortress? Is there a fort around here? "We're wondering, another survivor base?
"It's the fortress, sprinkle it in the mountain." The man pointed to the mountains in affirmativeness.
"You're talking about a shelter, right? Then why were you kicked out? Do you always steal things? Thunderstorm asked coldly.
"No, no, no, we are sick people, and the sick ones have to be driven out of the fortress so as not to infect the good ones." The man hurriedly waved his hands.
We all took a step back, got sick, drove away, and it reminded us of infectious diseases.
"What are you all sick with?" Zhang Xiaomei frowned and asked.
"Some of them are coughing, some of them are suffering from the wind and cold, and they are fine, but the head of the house stipulates that those who cough and have a runny nose will be driven away, and we will be better after a few days, but we can't go back."
We looked at each other, the rules of this shelter are too inhumane, colds are indeed contagious, but they don't have to cough twice and be kicked out to fend for themselves, right?
"We've been out for a month, we're too hungry, it's hard to find food, so we live in these empty houses, looking for food from room to room, and see how many cars there are here, and there are food in the boxes on the car......" The man was a little ashamed, he wanted to explain that he didn't know that this pickup truck had an owner, but in these years, how could a cart of food not have an owner?
"The voice is so soft, obviously I am afraid of waking up the owner of the car." Xia Xiaohan laughed, and the man lowered his head and sighed.
"If they go on like this, they will starve to death, and it is easy to encounter corpses being eaten up, look at their miserable appearance." Luo Han stared at the crowd and said.
"What do you mean?" Thunderstorm turned to look at him.
"Damn's fortress, I want to go and meet that head of the house, and see what kind of person is so ruthless." Arhat said quietly, but we could feel his anger.
"Tell me what the situation is in the fortress that drove you out, and how to accept new people." Rohan beckoned to the man just now.
"The fortress was originally there, in the mountains, with walls of big stones, sturdy. The surviving villagers in the vicinity all went in, but they had to work, they should farm the land, raise chickens and chickens, as long as they had hands and feet, they were not blind or disabled, they could go to the fortress to make a living, just like that, no matter who was sick, they had to be driven out and scattered. The man said honestly.
"It's easy to do, we can all get in and beg for a living." Arhat smiled, look at us, we understand what he means.
"Hey, you're living in an empty house around here, aren't you?" Zhang Xiaomei asked suddenly.
They quickly nodded.
"Keep living, maybe one day, you can go back to the fortress, don't run around, don't run away, don't blame us for not looking for it." Zhang Xiaomei said.
"Also, take the three boxes next to the car, save food, enough for you to eat for a few days."
These people couldn't believe it, they thought that they had been caught by the wrist, and they didn't know whether they were alive or dead, and they didn't expect that they wouldn't go back empty-handed in the end.
"You stay, there's still something to do." Zhang Xiaomei wanted to withdraw when she saw that the group had hugged three boxes, and stopped the man who was talking.
The man said to the others, "Go back, and when he is done, he will go back, and leave him a little to eat."
Luo Han looked at the man's Zhile, "You don't have to worry about going back and not having to eat, I'll give you a single one, take it." With that, Rohan threw him a packet of biscuits.
The man hurriedly tore it open and ate it, his mouth was full, and he asked vaguely, "Big brother, what did you tell me to stay?" ”
"There are some things that need to be asked, and besides, you can lead the way and send us to your fortress." Luohan looked down at the man, he was tall, and the man was thin and short, like an underage child in front of Luohan.
"Ask, ask......" The man swallowed hard, and Nian Nian handed over a bottle of water.
"How many survivors are there in your fortress? Do you have guns or anything in your hands? ”
"There are more than 100 people, and they don't see any guns, they all use knives."
"Do the survivors who went to defect need to abandon the things they brought? Weapons, food, and so on. ”
"Most people don't murmur anything when they go, so the head of the house doesn't set this rule, like he brought something, and the head master didn't ask for it."
"Alright, you wait here, I'll give you something to eat later."
"Okay!"
We retreated to the courtyard, quickly discussed, and decided to go to this fortress to see the situation, for the men's chivalrous actions, I was somewhat hesitant, this is different from Changxing Island, at that time we were optimistic about the base on the island, and when we went, we didn't know the dictatorship of the colonel, impeaching the colonel was actually a difficult decision to ride a tiger, now it's different, I know what kind of fortress the master is ruthless, not suitable for us to defect, just because I feel unfair to delay the time to take care of it, it is a little nosy.
But the men are the masters, and even Canaan did not agree with my opinion, in their words, "We just go and see, if we can't manage it, we will withdraw, if we can manage it, we will help manage it, and see if we can snatch the fortress from the hands of that arrogant boss and transfer it to these poor ordinary people." To have the ability to do good deeds without doing them is to be as selfish as the one in charge. ”
I'm a little confused by this theory, but one thing I believe in is that the principles of these people around me, what they want to do, and what they all want to do, is definitely right.
That's trust, whether I fully understand it or not.
Since we had decided, we saw that it was almost dawn, so we packed up our things, woke up Shuai Shuai and Tsai Tsai, and let the man lead the way, and marched towards the mountain to the fortress.
The man is also an acquaintance, he saw that we were all driving, so he took us on a curved mountain road, but also because we drove off-road, some places the slopes are steep, ordinary cars can not arch up at all.
In his own words, as they go up and down the mountain on their legs, they all take the wild road, and those who do not take this road, this is the road on which they drive back and forth.
The fort was built to be hidden, hidden in the middle of the mountains, and when we drove to the foot of the mountain, we found that it was impossible to drive up, so we pulled up in a recess and sent the man away.
The pickup truck was full of food and ammunition and had to be hidden, and the man knew we parked the car here, and if we couldn't keep it, he would come with the gang to steal something.
The men quickly took care of these things, and there were only three empty cars parked in the recess, and even the protective clothing and blankets and other things were hidden in a hidden cave, and the entrance of the cave was blocked by them with stones and weeds, and even the animals could not get in.
We hugged Shuai Shuai, dragged the boy, and crawled towards the looming stone fortress halfway up the mountain.
We hadn't gone far before the thunderstorm stopped abruptly and stopped us with outstretched arms.
"Ho! It's funny, and there's a trap. He pointed to a pile of weeds on the ground, and I didn't see anything unusual, and he pointed to the trees at both ends, and ah, I could see the thin ropes.
Thunderstorm looked at the humble boy with bad intentions, "Hey, boy, go over and try it, I'll save you anyway." ”
I glared at him, "What are you kidding, don't bully boys." ”
Thunderstorm laughed and picked up a heavier stone and threw it at the pile of weeds, and a circle of nets bounced out of the grass, and the big stone was carried up.
A net-like net rose into the air and lifted the big rock.
"This is for catching zombies? Cut, catch one at most, what efficiency. Rohan scoffed at the trap.
"No, it's for arrest." Zhang Xiaomei said behind him.