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The sunlight outside the window struggled to break through the layers of haze, the fog dissipated in a soft drizzle, and the early morning Wanxiang City was exceptionally quiet, and the dust slowly wandered under the beam of light that was lucky enough to come in through the gaps in the wooden planks sealed through the windows. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 The guards who were standing by the extinguished oil lamps were still asleep, and a few people with sleepy eyes were occasionally seen in the living quarters walking towards the bathroom. After a night of planning, today Huang Weizheng, Chen Mo, Zhang Xiaoying and Wei Hong will go to the Dead City Forest, while Long Hao, Liang Minxuan and Ban Zhiyu will stay in Wanxiang City and follow the convoy of Jiang Shangren to the train station.

Zhang Xiaoying didn't tell anyone else about Huang Weizheng, so it's better to have more than one thing. Before going out, everyone hurriedly said goodbye in the residential area, but they didn't expect to face the separation like life and death for two consecutive days, and they were inevitably depressed. The footsteps of Huang Weizheng and the four of them as they walked to the maintenance room faded away, and they stopped by the fence to watch their friends now The only thing they could do now was pray.

There were only a few guards on duty in the training room, and the lights were not turned on, and a few oil lamps provided a faint light source. Last night, Liang Minxuan used his connections to find someone to arrange an SUV that had not been fully modified, and the car was parked next to the exit. Huang Weizheng and the others walked into the maintenance room, although no one stopped and interrogated, but they were fully armed and still attracted the attention of several guards nearby.

"Just like usual." Wei Hong said as he used his afterglow to warn around.

Among the four people, only Chen Mo trembled, and her stiff steps were particularly unusual for outsiders. "I, we're not doing bad things, no one should stop us, right?"

"Who knows." Zhang Xiaoying shook the compound bow she was carrying, this was a new bow she had bought from a weapon owner with great difficulty, and she also made simple adjustments in order to achieve the best results.

Wei Hong still held the competitive crossbow and Huang Weizheng also recovered the shotgun that Xie Tao gave him when he was in Tianyang, in comparison, Chen Mo, who only brought a pistol and a scimitar, was at best self-defense. But in order to save Du Yuheng, no one can shake Chen Mo's will, and this alone is enough for her to find her state as quickly as possible.

As soon as Chen Mo straightened up and calmed down a little, a row of heavily loaded guards suddenly rushed out from both sides. These are not the spontaneously armed men who are armed with homemade or stolen weapons from others, but in fact most of them have not received military training in the past. They were all wearing standard military combat uniforms, holding all military Type 95 rifles in their hands, and their movements were the same, and the queue was neatly lined up in front of Huang Weizheng and them, and before they could react, they raised their guns and aimed them at the shot. The guards who were originally in the maintenance room were nowhere to be seen, and this group of people just kept a distance of about twenty meters in front of Huang Weizheng and them.

Just as Huang Weizheng wanted to open his mouth to ask, a man who looked like an officer walked out behind that row of guards. "I heard that you are leaving today, so I came to see you off."

"Yang Shanao," Huang Weizheng called out the officer's name, "Did the mayor call you?" ”

"Oh no. It's all our own action. As the current supreme military commander here, I have the authority to stop you from interfering with our normal operations. Yang Shan was standing proudly in the middle of this group of special combat teams and armed police who should have been the only ones left in Qingshan.

"We have no reason for you to let go, but we just want you to give you a chance, a chance for us to save our friends......"

"A child is just a child after all. I admire your courage, but this is an adult's business, so you should go back honestly. Without waiting for Zhang Xiaoying to finish speaking, Yang Shanao shook his head and said.

"What if we don't go back?" Wei Hong took a step forward, holding a crossbow in his hand, he was just a national defense student who had not yet graduated, but standing in front of fifteen regular soldiers, he looked at it with contempt, showing an unstoppable momentum, "Are you going to kill us?" ”

"As a last resort, I will." Yang Shanao replied without hesitation, "This is related to the control of the epidemic in the future, and it is impossible to allow you to mess around." ”

"This is Du Yuheng's life, and it's not up to you to decide!"

Chen Mo took a step forward, but he didn't expect Yang Shanao to really take out a gun and point it at Chen Mo. Everyone except Chen Mo raised their weapons at this time, Zhang Xiaoying pointed an arrow at Yang Shanao, Huang Weizheng and Wei Hong each chose a target, and Yang Shanao's soldiers also pointed their guns at them.

"Kid, stop being vexatious!"

Chen Mo tore his throat and cried: "It's you who are making trouble unreasonably!" ”

"No way...... Yang Shanao raised his arms and shouted, "Take it!" ”

The soldiers standing in a row walked neatly towards Chen Mo and them, and the formation gradually turned into an arc, and the two sides who were in a stalemate always maintained the bottom line of shooting. Seeing that there was only one step away, a plastic can suddenly rolled off the ground. Everyone looked down in unison, and there was a white-green smoke coming out of the jar.

At this time, someone shouted: "Be careful! ”

"Don't shoot!" Yang Shanao shouted at the same time, "It will hurt your own people!" Hurry back! ”

Huang Weizheng, who was concentrated in the encirclement half-arc, covered his mouth and nose at a loss, Wei Hong's first reaction was to let everyone get closer, and then Huang Weizheng took the lead and ran out of the smoke. They were just starting out when a soldier in a gas mask appeared in front of them. As soon as Huang Weizheng's muzzle was raised, the soldier took off his shotgun with three strokes and five divisions, and with a twist of his backhand, the gun fell into his hands.

The soldier did not aim the muzzle of the gun at Huang Weizheng, but put down the gun, and before Wei Hong and Zhang Xiaoying could react, he grabbed Huang Weizheng, bowed his head and said, "My own people, follow me." ”

At this time, Huang Weizheng and the others had no choice, they were already choked by the smoke and couldn't speak, so they had to follow this unidentified guy and run out. Because the smell of the pungent smoke was so strong, everything the four of them saw in front of them was hazy, and the tears that flowed out of them were as hot as chili water. The soldier led them out as he ran out, telling them not to take too much breath to avoid burning their airways.

The hazy vision changed one scene after another, and when the tears stopped trickling and the breathing gradually became normal, Huang Weizheng and the others had been taken to an emergency exit outside the Wanxiang City maintenance room. There was an armed bus parked on the road in front of the exit, Huang Weizheng took a closer look, and was surprised to find that this was actually the armed bus used by the old wolf's mercenary team, Zhang Xing had stolen from the bikers. But if Huang Weizheng is not mistaken, this bus should have been left in the dead city forest in the end, or it should have been in the hands of the Jiangshang people...... But now, this armed bus has not only been refurbished and replaced with new steel plates, but also the wheels have been equipped with new protective plates, the protective nets of the windows have also been rewelded, and the conical shovel at the front of the car has also been reinforced, so it can be said that the whole car has been reborn.

"Surely you look familiar." Liao Daiping walked out of the bus with a smile, "This is the armed bus that Wanxiang used to be, Wei Jiahui gave it back to us, and now it belongs to you." ”

Huang Weizheng and Chen Mo looked at Liao Daiping in disbelief, and I had to say that he had doubted for a moment whether this would be a new trap for adults to fight each other. "Mayor?"

"I can only help you with this, and I'll leave the rest to Captain Zuo."

Liao Daiping walked to the soldier wearing a gas mask, and saw that the man took off his mask, and it was a man in his early thirties, with attentive eyes, a long horse face, and thick black eyebrows. Huang Weizheng and Zhang Xiaoying were not very familiar with this Captain Zuo, but Chen Mo and Wei Hong recognized him at a sight.

"Captain Left!" Chen Mo said happily, "I didn't expect to see you here!" ”

"Chen Mo, you were really brave just now, just like you were in the Hexagonal Tower at that time." Captain Zuo patted Chen Mo with relief, and when he caught a glimpse of Huang Weizheng and Zhang Xiaoying, who had not yet figured out the situation, he hurriedly smiled apologetically, "I almost forgot to introduce myself, I am Zuo Yunxiu, the leader of the special operations team stationed in the Hexagonal Tower in Qingshan." ”

Liao Daiping added: "Captain Zuo just arrived in Wanxiang City yesterday, he is my most powerful assistant, and like your friend named Xie Tao, he is a special soldier, and he will follow you to the Dead City Forest." ”

Without further ado, there were still shouts from the other end of the preparation room from time to time, and Zuo Yunxiu immediately suggested that Huang Weizheng and them leave immediately. Except for Huang Weizheng, everyone else has already gotten into the car.

Of course, Liao Daiping would not follow them, Huang Weizheng asked her in front of the car door, "Mayor, why are you helping us?" ”

"What you said in the office yesterday was naïve, but there was some truth to it. I don't want to owe Du Yuheng this favor, after all, he also saved me......" Liao Daiping took a step back and said, "If you succeed, it means that Du Yuheng's life should not be extinguished." Alright, let's go. I'll leave it to me. ”

Zuo Yunxiu closed the door, and the armed bus moved forward. As she walked away, Liao Daiping's figure slowly disappeared from the end of her sight. Although they left the maintenance room, Huang Weizheng and they had not yet let down their vigilance. Sure enough, at the gate of the outer city wall of Wanxiang, the bus was stopped.

However, Zuo Yunxiu didn't wait for the interrogating guards to approach, he kicked the accelerator, and the armed bus suddenly rushed forward, so frightened that the guards hurriedly dodged in all directions. The wooden barricades in front of the buses are virtually non-existent in front of the conical shovel at the front of the armed bus. There was an uproar, and all the barricades set up at the entrance were smashed by buses. The guards who came back to their senses hurriedly opened fire, but the bullets hit the steel plate, as weak as his invective.

As soon as they drove two hundred meters away from Wanxiang City, more violent gunfire suddenly rang out from behind the already quiet area, and two off-road vehicles in pursuit suddenly appeared in the rear of the car, and someone in each car stretched out half of his body and fired at the bus.

"They're faster than us!" Seeing that the other party was about to go hand in hand with the bus, Huang Weizheng hurriedly shouted.

"The bus wasn't fast enough...... Wei Hong lowered his body and complained, but suddenly he shouted again, "Hey, but aren't we harder than them?" ”

"That's right!" Zuo Yunxiu twisted the steering wheel at a large angle and said, "Sit tight!" ”

With the screeching of tires, the bus suddenly changed lanes. Just about to overtake, an off-road vehicle that happened to be behind the bus did not have time to dodge, and was directly hit by the rear of the bus, losing its direction and hitting a big tree on the side of the road. Although he eliminated an enemy, it was difficult for Zuo Yunxiu to regain control of the direction of the bus due to the high-speed and large-angle lane change. The bus that swayed left and right and changed lanes back and forth in the middle of the road was like a rhinoceros that went crazy, and the cars that were originally blocked in one side of the lane were all overturned by the bus at once, but fortunately, the car was back under Zuo Yunxiu's control.

Zuo Yunxiu drove the car out of the congested traffic, and looked back to see that the road they passed through had been turned upside down, but there was still an off-road vehicle chasing after them, shuttling through the messy road, biting them tightly.

"And one!"

Chen Mo's reminder naturally couldn't help, and Zuo Yunxiu, who was engrossed in driving the bus, casually returned a complaint. "I know!"

After rushing straight into the Dead City Forest, the Armed Bus advanced in a more domineering way. Knocked out beyond recognition by the vines and overgrown vegetation, they first knocked away the abandoned cars that blocked the middle of the main jungle road, then passed through two or three layers of dense jungle walls, and then redirected and continued to drive on the barely walkable road. When they walked across the Nanhu Bridge in the middle of the city, the surrounding vision suddenly opened, and in these few short seconds, Huang Weizheng and the others were able to see the Nanhu Lake that had almost dried up in the forest, and the towering buildings around them were all sleeping in a hazy gray, only the sound of the engines of these two cars was trying to break the silence that had been silent for a long time.

"Do you know where we're heading?" Zhang Xiaoying reluctantly held on to the railing next to the driver's seat in the trembling carriage and asked Zuo Yunxiu.

"We should be on the right track." Zuo Yunxiu laughed at himself, "Damn, obviously the mayor gave me a map of the forest, but now it seems that I don't need it." ”

"The road is right!" Huang Weizheng, who was sitting in the back, shouted loudly to Zuo Yunxiu, "As long as you keep walking on this road!" ”

"That's great."

"Be careful!"

With Wei Hong's warning sound, the road in front of the left side of the bus was suddenly blown open with a big hole. Zuo Yunxiu glanced at the crater on the road in fear, and then looked at the person behind him who was holding a rocket launcher and retracted into the car. Everyone in the bus couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

"These guys are crazy, aren't they, RPG?" This time, Zuo Yunxiu had to look ahead.

Before he could finish complaining, Wei Hong warned again: "Here we go again!" ”

This time, the rockets almost focused on the back of the bus, and the entire bus compartment jolted up and down with a loud roar, but fortunately the overall condition was barely good. The winding road made it difficult for the chasing SUV to catch up with the bus, but it seemed that the men were not going to catch up again.

Next time, I don't know if Huang Weizheng and they can be so lucky. Zhang Xiaoying made a quick decision, ran into the carriage, and climbed into the machine gun sunroof originally installed in the middle of the carriage without any support. The machine gun that was originally placed on the skylight has been removed, which just frees up enough space for Zhang Xiaoying to pull the bow.

The companions in the carriage were at a loss to warn Zhang Xiaoying of the danger, but soon they realized what Zhang Xiaoying wanted to do. The female archer slung sideways with arrows, drew the bowstring, and quickly adjusted her breathing, and at the moment she only saw the person in the off-road vehicle who was slowly emerging with a bazooka. The sound of the bowstring tightening, the trembling of the carriage, the sound of her own breathing, the sound of the wind passing by her ears, and the sound of her arrows bouncing back in an instant, the sharp arrow that rode away from the wind hit the man's throat. The man was hanging from the window, and before his companion could pull him back into the car, he saw that the bazooka in his hand suddenly went off, and the off-road vehicle instantly turned into a ball of fire, jumped upward, and finally landed in the mud puddle.

"Wow! How do you do it? Zuo Yunxiu, who was concentrating on driving, couldn't help but admire after seeing Zhang Xiaoying's arrow.

"It's just luck." Zhang Xiaoying's tense face barely showed a little smile, and she threw a wink at Huang Weizheng by the way; And Huang Weizheng only has nothing to say.

Removing the aftermath did not make Huang Weizheng and them happy for too long, and the collapsing road in front of them blocked their way. It used to be an intersection, and the explosion in the subway station knocked almost half of the road into the air, and the two subway trains that arched out of the road fell into the air, as if to tell them that the road was impassable. But luckily, there is a road in front of the burned-out department store building on the side of the road that leads directly to the main square. The bus's conical shovel was not too difficult to push away the cars in the way, and after a short ice-breaking journey, the armed bus finally made its way through the layers of dense leaves to the long-abandoned Grand Square.

Although there was no bright sunshine, everyone in the car was still dazzled by the sudden bright light when they first arrived in the square. The open meadow suddenly appeared in front of them, and they were speechless for a while. Just as they were taking the opportunity to relax in a green meadow, a loud noise suddenly sounded in the Great Hall standing behind the meadow. Then, along with the earth, the entire precarious Great Hall began to sway. The wreckage of a helicopter on top of half of the collapsed General Assembly Hall fell first. Then fell the other side of the synagogue, and at the same time the huge vines tied to the Great Hall suddenly withered and fell. The fragile walls of the City Hall began to crumble like dominoes, and the top of the massive pyramid struggled to hold up for a few seconds.

The huge concrete structure of the large building is like a weak beast or a sand castle built by children on the beach by the sea, sinking in the billowing smoke in just a dozen seconds. The smoke and waves lingered over the wreckage of the Great Hall for a long time, spreading slowly in all directions with the wind. The sound of a violent collapse lingered throughout the Dead City Forest, like an unfortunate piece of bad news.

"No...... No, no, no! Chen Mo knew that she might have to face the ending she didn't want to accept, but she still refused to give up, she ran to Zuo Yunxiu and cried, "You drive over quickly!" ”

Zuo Yunxiu didn't say much, and hurriedly drove towards the behemoth that fell in the smoke. As they walked through the meadows, the meadows were withering, and the trees around the square, and even in the neighborhoods, were withering. Some of the mutant plants were deeply rooted, and the buildings with only fragile shells fell with the withered grass and trees, and the tall buildings called "big trees" in the distance also swayed in the wind, and after several vibrations, the twisted and deformed steel bars sank into the smoke and waves. The earth trembled in a series of tremors, and the dark clouds on the gloomy sky also cracked a gap, and dozens of rays of sunlight pierced through the clouds to release a fantastic light. Heaven and earth seem to be refreshed in an instant, in the wide grassland, a piece of green in front of you is slowly fading into a withered yellow, flying in the sky is no longer only thick smoke, but also brown yellow dead leaves and dust scattered with the wind after the plants die.

"Did it work?" Zuo Yunxiu couldn't help but ask.

"Maybe......" Huang Weizheng's gaze was still staring at the collapsed Great Hall like Chen Mo, although it was like a withered leaf in the sky in autumn, and the withered grass on both sides was indeed incredible.

Zuo Yunxiu drove to the crumbling staircase of the Great Hall, where the large stone pillars on either side of the former main entrance of the Great Hall still stood to support the crumbling glass walls and the equally dilapidated gate. As soon as Zuo Yunxiu opened the door, Chen Mo rushed out and ran straight to the hall, but fortunately Huang Weizheng grabbed her.

"Chen Mo, calm down, it's still very dangerous here." No matter what Huang Weizheng said, Chen Mo refused to listen to persuasion.

At this time, Zhang Xiaoying suddenly appeared in front of her, and Chen Mo was slapped by her as soon as she raised her head.

"Calm down! Just because the building is down doesn't mean it's dead! Zhang Xiaoying not only slapped Chen Mo and the others present with a word.

"She's right......" Wei Hong sighed, looking around at everything that was desolate and ruined, this really looked like a post-apocalyptic world......

Chen Mo covered her red cheeks with sobs, but she didn't make any more noise, she wiped away her tears and looked up to see several figures exhausted outside the remaining gate of the Great Hall. In addition to Chen Mo and Huang Weizheng, they also saw those figures, and they walked down the steps in the dust.

Uncle Zhong, Liao Zhuojun, Xie Tao...... Other than that, there is no one else.

Huang Weizheng and the others hurriedly ran up the steps to help them down, and before Xie Tao, who was covered with dust, could catch his breath, Chen Mo grabbed him tightly and asked, "Just the three of you?" What about the others? What about Du Yuheng? ”

"Li Qin, Brother Kun, they are all dead...... Liu Yanjiang got lost with us when he ran out, and it is estimated that he ......"

"Du Yuheng! What about Du Yuheng? ”

"Chen Mo ......"

"Du Yuheng!" Chen Mo dragged Xie Tao's clothes and roared, her eyes were red, and tears were falling down, "Aren't you supposed to protect his safety?" Don't you want us to save him! Where is he! ”

Zhang Xiaoying gently asked Chen Mo to let go and held her in her arms like a big sister. Xie Tao didn't say a word, and looked at his partner in front of him, who was physically or psychologically unable to withstand the blow anymore......

The whining wind was like the sigh of the earth, accompanied by Chen Mo, and their last hope was intertwined in the wind of dead leaves and smoke and dust, drifting into the distance. The withered yellow grassland is using the last moments of its life to cover the cry of the sad person, and the sound of the rustling blades of grass fluttering first like the waves of the sea, then like the forest wind at night, and finally turned into a sigh. Although there was no one populated not long ago, the evergreen square was already yellow at this time, and only Chen Mo's cry was left in the wind...... The clouds over the forest also dissipated at this point, and the last rays of the setting sun returned the sky to the starlight after emitting the only remaining yellow.

Huang Weizheng walked up to Xie Tao, he raised his chin, as if he wanted to stop the tears from flowing like this, and after looking at Xie Tao bitterly for a few seconds, his trembling mouth said intermittently: "Du Yuheng...... He, how can he ......?"

"He chose to stay ......"

"What?"

He ...... He wants me to tell you that his last moments were like a hero......"

Xie Tao thought that Huang Weizheng would burst into tears like Chen Mo, but he didn't, but snorted while laughing, dropped his shoulders, shook his head and muttered: "'Like a hero'...... This bastard doesn't want to be a hero ......"