Chapter 67: The Girl by the Lake
At this point, the town is surrounded by three barriers, the outermost part is a four-meter-high thick cement wall, then a nearly ten-meter-high battle zone, a wide corpse pit, and then the original two-meter-high inner wall.
Someone suggested that the outer side of the outer wall also dig a deep trap pit, we thought about it a little and felt that it was inappropriate, one is that the outer wall is the edge of the dense forest, if you want to dig a pit, you must cut down many trees, this project is not small, and another, let the corpses gather in the corner of the outer wall with a bow and arrow to shoot it is more convenient, the distance is close, if part of the zombies are in the pit, part of the pit opposite, this distance will test the level of the shooter, and the corpses of the zombies are not likely to exceed four meters no matter how high they are, not to mention that they do not know how to stack them, Most of the dead zombies will still roll to the ground.
If everyone has the second brother and the ghost, then no matter how far away it is, there is no defense, after all, resisting the corpse group requires the whole people to go into battle, which has to take care of the ability of the majority.
After the town was tightly encircled, we went up the mountain to pick bamboo and timber and came back to make bamboo bows and crossbows in large quantities.
In addition to making bows and arrows, the ghost and the second brother also seized the time to train novices who had never touched bows and arrows, our former friends and the original castle residents of Gu Muli were more worry-free, they were archers themselves, not to mention the level, they were all skilled workers, the first step of these two coaches was to let the warriors in the town learn to use bows and arrows as soon as possible, practice after the head, and find the feeling first.
The town has become lively, and the comfort and tranquility of the past will be gone, in fact, I naturally still like the tranquility that belongs to the town, but now survival is the first, one more warrior, and the town will have more certainty of surviving in the last days.
At the same time as the town built the wall, we divided a small group of people to go to the Guogai Mountain, carried the corpses in the cave to the cliff and threw them down to prevent them from rotting in the cave, making it smelly, and then cleaned up the whole cave, the empty mountain belly is warm in winter and cool in summer, and there is no need to install any air conditioning, no wonder the Black Dog Gang can find this place to set up camp.
Medlow is an old man in this area, he said that the cave on Guogai Mountain is naturally formed, there have been countless gangs occupying the mountain, and even a group of national soldiers have run here to hide for a period of time during the Anti-Japanese War, these are also what he heard from the mouths of the old people when he was a child, it is difficult to say whether it is true or false.
However, we studied the tunnel where Hong Jian escaped, and found that this tunnel was by no means newly dug and had been for a certain number of years, so it seems that this tunnel is not necessarily the back road left by a bandit or bandit leader for himself back then, and Hong Jian accidentally lived in the cave of the previous leader and discovered this secret tunnel, but he knew it without announcing it, presumably it was also a way back for himself.
This guy is cunning enough, and if he changes to Fenglin's pair, he can't shout and show off?
Speaking of Fenglin, we went to see him once, he lived very aggrieved in the detention center, and when he saw us complaining, Zeng Hua was very quiet, maybe he knew that time could dilute everything, we were not evil people, and sooner or later we would still let them go.
And Mei Xin, almost every day to visit Zeng Hua, and bring him good food, this little girl seems to really fall in love with Zeng Hua, even if she knows that he has physical defects, seventeen years old, full of romantic pure love, and she mentioned that physiology is not physiological, she is afraid that she will feel insulting feelings, Medlow is very worried about her, I advise him to go with the flow, seventeen years old is the rebellious period, the more you oppose what the child does, the more persistent she may be, follow her, and when she grows up, maybe she will understand everything.
Da Dong and Xiao Yan live in another detention room, isolated from Zeng Hua and Feng Lin, because we want to understand Zeng Hua and Feng Lin from Da Dong Xiao Yan's mouth, we can't listen to their words, and if they are isolated, they can't collude.
After the cave was cleared, we began to carry food and daily necessities to the mountain, at least enough food for a few hundred people for a month, or even more, to be forced by the corpses from the impregnable town to the mountains to hide, the number and attack power of the corpses must be unimaginable, and there is nothing to eat on the mountain, in case the corpses die or Hong Jian is too insidious to let the corpses leave, they can't be trapped alive.
So bags of rice noodles, vacuum-sealed meat and all kinds of canned food were transported to the cave, which is warm in winter and cool in summer, and is a natural storage warehouse, so you don't have to worry about food spoiling.
Because the Black Dog Gang connected the electricity to the mountain early in the morning, we carried a lot of large refrigerators with double doors to go up, and with the help of the power supply, put the food that needed to be refrigerated into the refrigerator, and improved the lighting in the cave, replacing the small broken lights with energy-saving lamps, which was both bright and energy-saving.
We threw away all the bedding used by the Black Dog Gang, and all the holes were sterilized, and after a few days of empty drying, we carried a large number of folding beds and tents up the mountain, and placed them in the holes where we intended to live in them, as well as the quilts and blankets sealed in vacuum bags. Cooking pots and various kitchen utensils are neatly stacked in a separate hole.
Seeing that the contents of the cave are getting more and more complete, our mood is getting better and better.
And Hong Jian seemed to have evaporated from the world, in the past three months, he had no news at all, and there was no large-scale corpse group in the town, occasionally there were idle small corpses passing by, bumping a few times outside the high cement wall, roaring a few times, and being trained by the new archers as a live target.
Qin Xiaoman especially likes the lake in the town of Chunmanmei, she loves to take a walk when she has nothing to do, enjoy the light and water of the lake, there are really many people who like to walk by the lake, and when she meets someone she knows, she stops to chat.
Everyone has been very tired in the past few months, and finally can take a break, Qin Xiaoman's first thing is to run to the lake to sit together, she hopes that Zhu Hong can accompany her to sit together, but Zhu Hong seems to be a spinning top, and she always refuses to stop.
The weather is so good, Qin Xiaoman closed her eyes comfortably and lay on the grass, raised her face to feel the warmth of the sun, if only she could lean on Zhu Hong's shoulder, that guy, always like he couldn't wake up, but he worked like a robot, thinking, a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.
Suddenly, she heard a suppressed cry!
Who is it? Qin Xiaoman opened her eyes and looked around, under a tree by the lake, she saw the owner of the cry, a young girl, covering her face with her hands and crying, afraid that others would hear it, covering her mouth hard, and wanted to suppress the cry back.
This girl is short-haired, wearing a very neutral gray hoodie, with a bear on the chest, jeans, board shoes, a little thin, Qin Xiaoman is sure, this is not a little friend from Changxing Island, it may be a townsman from the town, this will see her crying so sadly by leaning against the tree alone, which makes Qin Xiaoman feel pity in his heart.
She stepped forward gently, and the short-haired girl was crying so hard that she didn't even know that someone was coming in front of her.
"That, little sister, why are you crying?" Qin Xiaoman was afraid of scaring her, so he stopped when he was two meters away from her and asked softly.
Unexpectedly, her voice was like turning off the switch for the girl to cry, and the crying stopped abruptly.
The short-haired girl wiped her face on her sleeve fiercely, raised her head, her eyes were red and swollen, but Qin Xiaoman still exclaimed in surprise, this girl is so handsome.
"Who are you?" The short-haired girl asked in a nasal voice, her eyes a little resistant, she didn't recognize the strange face in front of her.
"I just came to the town not long ago, my name is Qin Xiaoman, seeing that you are not as old as me, call me Sister Xiaoman." Qin Xiaoman said to the short-haired girl with a smile.
"Is it the new Northeasterners?" The short-haired girl snorted, Qin Xiaoman took out a pack of tissues from his pocket and handed it over, and the girl took it.
"yes, you're a townsman, aren't you? What's your name? How old is this year? Qin Xiaoman asked softly the girl who was blowing her nose.
"My name is Du Xiaoqian, and I am twenty years old." The short-haired girl stuffed tissues into the pocket of her hoodie and did not throw them away, and she really loved her homeland.
"Xiaoqian, why are you crying?" Qin Xiaoman knows that girls can talk about their troubles as long as they talk about them, and their mood will improve.
Du Xiaoqian glanced at Qin Xiaoman coldly, "So many women have come back alive and there is nothing to do, but my sister died in the mountains, I asked whom, they all said that she died of illness, but no one could tell what disease she had, hum, is it bullying our sisters who have no parents and family, don't you take us seriously?" ”
Qin Xiaoman was stunned, "Which one is your sister?" What is it called? ”
"Her name is Du Xiaomei, she is the one who was occupied by the zombie leader, she is only twenty-three years old, why did she have a terminal illness? Some people say that she died of cancer in the mountains, but I don't believe it! As soon as Du Xiaoqian said it, Qin Xiaoman knew which one she was talking about.
It was the poor young woman in Hong Jiandong who was infected with the tick virus by him.
"Xiaoqian, I know what's going on." Qin Xiaoman sat patiently in front of Du Xiaoqian, "Your sister is not suffering from cancer, but an infectious disease, a very terrible infectious disease, this disease was transmitted to her by Hong Jian, and when we arrived at the mountain, your sister had already lost her breath." ”
Du Xiaoqian looked at Qin Xiaoman suspiciously, "Is it true?" Hong Jian has such a powerful infectious disease, why didn't he die? ”
Qin Xiaoman listened to our discussion, and she didn't know the details very well, so she had to answer simply, "Hong Jian is a virus carrier, he should have antibodies, and others will be infected if they come into contact with him, but he himself is fine." Oh, have you seen the Ebola movie? It's similar to that. ”
Du Xiaoqian let out a long breath at this time, thinking that her sister was really miserable, but she was taken by this virus king, and she really couldn't blame us for not rescuing effectively, so her face eased.
"Now I'm left alone, without my parents and sister, what's the point of me living alone." Du Xiaoqian's eyes turned red, and she burst into tears again.