Sneer......

Ban Zhiyu was engrossed in twisting the FM dial of the radio, but all he heard was a disturbing noise. Huang Weizheng drove the car at full speed on the desolate highway, and without the speed limit, he could run unscrupulously; Although there were a few times when we almost crashed into a parked car on the road, after one or two such thrilling encounters, his driving skills improved considerably. The fuel on the car was fairly sufficient, and our stomachs were empty in comparison. The few rows of houses that occasionally passed my eyes seemed to be uninhabited, but now they were all the tempting lottery tickets, and I had been secretly wondering if I should try my luck and maybe find something to feed my hunger.

It wasn't cold in the south after autumn, although the pullover shirt I was wearing was already a little thin in the autumn wind, and the hunger pangs and annoying radio noises were getting stronger and the mood I had tried to adjust became irritable again.

"Don't try," I said lazily in my chair, "you've been trying for ten minutes...... It's annoying......"

"If there is a catastrophe, there will be an evacuation notice." Ban Zhiyu patiently explained.

"The problem is that I haven't received it! Maybe the rest of the place is already in chaos, just like we saw last night, with hordes of zombies swaggering through the streets. ”

"Don't talk about it." Chen Mo stepped on me and swore an oath, "We should be rescued when we arrive in Tianyang." ”

"Hmph, you're so naïve. Do you know that last night's zombie group didn't go to Tianyang? ”

"Come on! Say less. ”

Huang Weizheng frowned and shook his head at me through the rearview mirror in the car, and in desperation, I decided to shut up and obediently endure the remaining dozens of minutes.

After being silent for a while, Huang Weizheng suddenly said coldly: "Are you hungry?" ”

"I'm not Wei Liqin." I put my head on the car door with one hand and thought for a moment before deciding to calmly, "Okay, I'm hungry......"

"Me too! Can't take it anymore! Chen Mo raised his hand and shouted, "Let's find a place to eat." ”

We all knew we were running for our lives rather than traveling, but looking back we hadn't eaten anything since we set out from Bose, and that after all the troubles we had been through, our stomachs had almost forgotten the taste of fullness, and from time to time we made noises protesting against our master's neglect.

Outside the car window, there was a dead silence, the gray sky was as unrefreshed as my depressed mood, and the aggrieved weather also hinted at the approach of the next heavy rain. The area around the road from Baise city to Tianyang is not sparsely populated, and we also saw a few scattered villages along the way, but we didn't have the courage to stop and take risks, even if we were hungry. Until the road in front of us was blocked by the scene of a tragic car accident, so we had to stop and look for a way out.

Two head-on collision buses were traversed in the middle of the road, and all kinds of vehicles of all sizes on both sides were either planted on one side of the bus or stopped on the side of the road, and what was even more terrifying was that a military truck should have wanted to avoid colliding with the bus in time, and as a result, they rushed out of the road with a car and fell into the mud field on the side of the road. The charred bus has been turned beyond recognition, and the twisted charred corpses on the bus are also unbearable for us to look at, the pools of dried blood are shocking, and the car parts and various people's shoes and bags scattered all over the place seem to interpret the chaos of the time. The traffic from the wreckage of the car accident to Tianyang is at least two to three hundred meters, which reminds me of the congested streets of Beijing and Shanghai in the morning and evening. However, it was not the abandoned vehicles that I was most concerned about, but the disgusting rancid smell that permeated the dreary air.

"It's so smelly......" Chen Mo, who got out of the car and was about to look at the end of the car, inadvertently said our common thoughts, but she didn't notice the key point.

"Cow," is the nickname I give to Huang Weizheng, a Taurus who is a chronic child, and every time I call him like this, he will look at me with a blank look; I took out my pistol and loaded it, opened the safe, and was alert to the wind and grass near the wreckage of the car accident, and beckoned him to come closer, "Didn't you find that there were basically no bodies here?" ”

"yes." Listening to my reminder, Huang Weizheng suddenly realized, "I'm afraid it will be safer to go back to the car and leave." ”

"No, if that's the case, there will be no way to Tianyang." Looking around, we are surrounded by a muddy ridge, with heavy rice seedlings waiting to be harvested, but unfortunately people have long since lost time to care about the harvest. Thinking about the time, thinking that this golden autumn is also coming to an end, this year's harvest looks pretty good, if in normal times the farmers would have been overjoyed in the fields to worry about it, but unfortunately the current rice field is covered with a thick layer of dead silence.

"So what do you want? Did you just go to Tianyang? Huang Weizheng sighed, "You also know that this is not safe, we can't take this risk and walk over on foot." ”

"But there's no going back."

"Maybe we missed some intersection before......"

"Actually, we are not far from Tianyang, maybe it won't be long before we can get to Tianyang."

"Then tell me, what are your plans when you get there?"

"I'll talk about it then, what's the use of thinking so much now!" Before I knew it, my voice had suddenly increased a lot.

Huang Weizheng lowered his head and thought for a moment before saying to me: "If that's the case, I think it's better for us not to do this, I'd rather stay here and find a way than rush in on a whim." ”

I complained in a wailing voice: "Big brother, don't be like this all the time, okay! The longer it drags on, the harder it will be for us to find Liang Minxuan and them, and the danger is getting worse every day, so we don't have time to think too much about planning! ”

"It's a hassle not to have a car." He wasn't listening to me at all.

"Cars are all over the place now! Let's go to the other end and find another one! ”

"But are you sure we'll get to that end safely?"

Huang Weizheng's doubts are also my concerns, after all, the distance of a few hundred meters is full of dangers, and no one wants any of us to encounter danger on this journey. However, we have no choice, but I can't make any promises to Huang Weizheng. His calm gaze did not have a trace of gloom, and even in front of me who was restless, he remained calm. So, as usual with the arguments between the two of us, I chose to remain silent.

"Actually, I think what Du Yuheng said makes sense." Ban Zhiyu's voice suddenly came from behind me, and along with his opinion, I was unexpectedly surprised, "If it drags on like this, we will have to face those monsters sooner or later, so it is better to cross this road during the day and find a place to settle before dark." ”

"You, you...... You see! Even Ban Zhiyu supports me! Ha! See what else you have to say? "I don't know why I'm so arrogant all of a sudden, and my previous suspicion with Ban Zhiyu seems to have been written off.

Huang Weizheng and I looked at each other for a few seconds and finally let go of our frowns, revealing a compromised look. "In that case, we also have to ask Chen Mo's opinion."

"What is there for her to ask......" I whispered a reluctantly complaint, but still did as I did, looking for Chen Mo's traces.

Before we could find her, Chen Mo suddenly hurried up to us and smiled excitedly as if she had found a treasure: "Come with me and see what I found!" ”

I rolled my eyes, and listlessly followed behind the radiant Chen Mo to a black Mazda sedan. This ordinary Mazda sunroof is stuck with a simple red flag made of red shirt and tree trunk, which can't be blown in the wind, but it's enough to catch our attention. The rear of the sedan was hit by another off-road vehicle, and the entire body also made a 180-degree bend with the strong impact, and several lines of crooked text were scratched out with a sharp weapon on the hood of the front of our car.

"Look, look!" Chen Mo pointed to each word with great interest, and read them one by one as if teaching us to read, "We are safe, prepare to go to the air base in Tianyang, don't walk into the convoy, there are living dead people inside." Keep quiet, walk through the fields next to you, bypass the convoy, and then follow the road to Tianyang. I heard that Tianyang is not safe, don't stay too long, and arrive at the air base as soon as possible to meet us. Liang Minxuan. ”

"Great! It's great that they're okay! "This is indeed good news for us, and Liang Minxuan's message completely made Huang Weizheng give up the idea of persevering, and I proudly raised an eyebrow at him and smiled at him to celebrate my small victory, but he seemed or deliberately did not notice my provocation.

"They also left two cans of canned yellow peaches and three compressed biscuits for us." Huang Weizheng took out a small cardboard box from the driver's seat of the car, which contained some emergency food he said, which was a relief for us.

The disputed plan paid off, and in order to save food, we just ate a compressed biscuit and hurried to hit the road. Sure enough, many messy footprints were found in the mud field, so we firmly believe that Liang Minxuan and others must have passed through here. Instead of following these footprints across the paddy fields, we walked along the ridges with great interest. The dirt road on the ridges is also difficult to walk, and if you are not careful, you will fall into the mud, which is a big problem, because there is no time to find a place to bathe.

There was no bright sun in the sky, gray clouds were leaping on the horizon, a breeze mixed with all kinds of strange smells brushed my earthy face, the rustle of rice ears blown by the wind seemed to deliberately confuse my hearing, and the sound of the road from time to time still startled us. Still, I felt that it was the most comfortable moment since I left Bose, with no zombies, no loud radio noises, no cookie-cutter highway skimming, and no shriveled stomachs. If you just look down at the road or look at the mountain village under the hills in the distance, you might mistakenly think that we are on an autumn tour in the wilderness.

"Hey, cow." I followed Huang Weizheng and said, "You said we should give this kind of zombie a name, okay?" ”

Huang Weizheng didn't answer me, and without looking back, he shook his right hand holding the gun in a circle in the air, indicating that it didn't matter.

Everyone knows that I am testing whether Huang Weizheng cares about the quarrel with me just now, as a classmate who played together in high school, Chen Mo is no longer surprised by this, Ban Zhiyu, who walked at the end of the line, forced a smile and silently looked at my slightly childish appearance, I also knew that the two of them must be secretly counting me down, and glared back at him.

In order not to embarrass myself, I still justified myself and said: "It's good to call zombies, but the living dead are not imposing enough, how about calling them mutants?" ”

"It's like a monster in some game." Chen Mo didn't quipped and said, "It's better to call it a zombie." ”

"Let's call it a mutant." Huang Weizheng's tone was surprisingly calm, sounding like he wanted to end this meaningless topic immediately. With that, he crouched down and stared ahead, and after turning on the safe, he leaned slightly towards his body with both hands on his pistol, as if he was guarding against something.

"What's wrong?" My attention was still on the topic just now, and Huang Weizheng tugged at my trouser hem to signal us all to squat, so the three people behind us did the same.

As soon as I squatted down for some reason, Huang Weizheng turned sideways and pointed to the paddy field in front of me on the left and asked, "Do you see that?" ”

I looked in the direction of Huang Weizheng's warning, and before I could see the movement, I heard Ban Zhiyu behind me whispering, "Ah...... Oh, there's a guy. ”

"He's so crossed in the mud and can't pull it out, aren't we going to help?" Chen Mo patted me on the shoulder and asked.

"Do you know he's still human?"

"yes......"

"Let's go check it out."

"Hmm." Huang Weizheng still said in a consultative tone as usual that I didn't need to test his mood with that stupid topic. At such times, no one cares about a momentary quarrel, and sometimes there is no need to quarrel.

I chuckled dryly and tugged at the corners of my mouth, looking down to check the gun in my hand. He made me embarrassed that he didn't remember the villain's mistakes, so I simply diverted my attention, turned back to Chen Mo and Ban Zhiyu and said, "You two stay here and don't move, Huang Weizheng and I will go to the front to have a look." ”

Chen Mo squatted on the ridge path like a rabbit, stared at me with big eyes and said, "Okay, be careful." ”

I turned around and signaled to get ready to go, and by the way, I also teased Chen Mo: "You think I'm as clumsy as you." ”

Without waiting for Chen Mo to refute, I quickly got up with Huang Weizheng and walked towards the thing trapped in the mud. After facing these encounters, we have unconsciously found some tricks to overcome the fear of mutants in our hearts, I don't know what Huang Weizheng's method is, my essence is - hate. As long as I don't forget the hatred of these monsters who are destroying our lives and taking the lives of our friends, my vulnerable side can be restrained forever.

After trotting down a dirt road, Huang Weizheng and I were more or less unstable in our breathing, and I don't know if it was because of our physical strength or our inner tension. As we got closer, we could see the guy more and more clearly. Sure enough, he is no longer the same creature as us, and the hungry cry and the pale face and the fierce attack on us prove that he is like an evil spirit.

His legs were firmly sunk in the black mud, so that he could only show his teeth and claws at us out of thin air, posing no threat. Thanks to this, I can take a closer look at the monsters we're fighting. There was no doubt that the guy didn't look like a civilian, as evidenced by his green camouflage uniform and Type 95 assault rifle straddling his body, and the armband he wielded on his right arm was embroidered with a long sword entwined by snakes, but it did not have the code name of the unit he belonged to.

It is rare for us to see soldiers equipped with guns in our daily lives, and most of the military personnel will not be equipped with guns to rescue when a catastrophe comes. The guy in front of him was wearing an assault rifle, which was really rare. At least five bullet holes were found in this mutant's body, but they didn't seem to affect him much, and I guess the only way to kill this guy was to destroy its brain; At least that's what it's like in zombie movies.

"Kill him?" I pointed my gun at the poor mutant.

"Did you do it......

"It should work." I was sure of myself, but when I looked directly at the mutant in my combat uniform, my fingers refused to pull the trigger. After gritting my molars and struggling inwardly for a moment, I put down my gun and confessed to Huang Weizheng, "No, I can't do it." ”

"Me too...... He is supposed to be here to help us. It's a pity that I was bitten by other mutants halfway......"

"A bite?" I was confused, "What bite?" ”

"Look." Huang Weizheng put on a natural appearance and pointed to the mutant's shoulder and neck that was still bleeding pus, and he could clearly see a circle of green bite marks, the wound was very deep, and it was estimated that this was its fatal injury, "You have watched more zombie movies than me, don't you know that people will become zombies after being asked for by zombies?" ”

"But this is a mutant."

"Du Yuheng ......"

"No, I mean we're dealing with maybe real zombies now, but the virus doesn't have to spread like it did in the movies." The two of us began to disagree again in front of the immobile mutant.

"If that's the case, then why are these mutants still biting?"

"I'm hungry!" As soon as I opened my mouth to answer, I felt how unreliable my answer was, but there was a decisive phenomenon that could make Huang Weizheng speechless, "Anyway, I don't think it's necessarily the way to spread." Do you remember our car accident? ”

"What's wrong?"

"At that time, it was said that the only ones who really became mutants were the drivers and the teachers who were bitten, but why did so many mutants appear later? It's impossible for them to bite the people around them one bite at a time, and then they crawl out together, right? ”

"This ...... I really didn't think about it......"

"And there's that sarcoma monster, he seems to be the driver, but why is he the only one among so many mutants who has become that ugly? This is either because there are different variants of the virus, or because the virus is spread in this way. Didn't he keep spewing yellow smoke? You don't think it's just to distract us......"

"So, we might be infected, too?"

"I don't know, whatever, he's still alive anyway."

My series of conclusions did make Huang Weizheng unable to find a reason to refute, so he nodded in acceptance: "Maybe what you said is right." But we still haven't solved the problem of dealing with this guy. ”

"Uh......" I said, glancing at the mutant again, and let out a long sigh, "I'd better kill him." ”

"Okay." Huang Weizheng took a few steps back, as if he was trying to make room for me, trying to minimize my stress.

"Thank you for helping us in the past, although I don't know who you are, I believe that you must have been a great warrior in your lifetime. We have to do this to you in order to survive, I hope you can rest in peace......" I closed my eyes and said a simple prayer for the mutant, and when I opened my eyes again, the bullet of sympathy was fired along with the sharp gaze.

The near-zero shot hit its eyebrows unbiasedly, and the mutant who had been shot through the head stopped moving. Huang Weizheng patted my gloomy back comfortingly, and stepped forward to remove the assault rifle and two boxes of magazines on it. Huang Weizheng was more concerned about finding those notebooks and a few folded documents from the mutants than these murder weapons, so after handing me the assault rifle and magazine, he stepped into the field and immediately began to study those notes seriously.

Thanks to my previous love for the military, I quickly figured out this Type 95. After getting a new box of magazines, I turned off the safe, straddled the rifle behind my shoulder, and beckoned Chen Mo and Ban Zhiyu in the distance to approach while pulling out the few bullets in the replaced magazine.

"Oh my God, it's a soldier." As soon as Chen Mo stepped forward, he exclaimed, "Shall we bury him?" ”

"How to bury it? After burying him, he can wait for someone to bury us. ”

"Du Yuheng, are you so ruthless?"

"Yu Heng is right, let's continue on our way." Huang Weizheng put the notebook and those documents in his pocket, observed for a while, and said, "The gunfire we shot just now is estimated to attract the attention of the mutants on the road, so the sooner you leave here, the better." ”

Maybe Huang Weizheng is more secure, whether it is Chen Mo or others, they seem to be more willing to listen to his opinions, and I am like a troublemaker in the class in their eyes, and I don't think I can help much except for manual work...... The same proposal, from Huang Weizheng's mouth, can immediately get a response from other people, so I can only sigh with joy.

"Everyone......" Before we could take a few steps, Ban Zhiyu, who had been observing the mutant who had fallen to the ground, asked, "Have you ever wondered who shot and tried to kill this mutant?" ”

"People, who else?" I shook the rifle on my shoulder and said.

"In China, how can ordinary people rob it." Huang Weizheng's statement is indeed worth my thought.

Not only that, but even the whereabouts of the person this mutant chased and killed were a mystery, maybe he was still alive, and it was likely to be a soldier from the Tianyang base. But time didn't allow us to stay here any longer, so I decided not to think about it for now. "Don't think about it so much yet, it's important to hurry."

We walked quietly in the fields for about an hour before finally returning to the other side of the road. Just like Huang Weizheng said, not long after we left the mutant, we saw a few figures slowly approaching it, and of course they could only find nothing but their own kind that had fallen to the ground.

After returning to the road, the first thing I did was to look for a car that could be started with Huang Weizheng, which was related to our safety after nightfall. Chen Mo thought that Liang Minxuan should have left some clues for us, so she pulled Ban Zhiyu with her to carefully search for a place that we thought was safe for the time being. In order to ensure their safety, I handed over the pistol to Ban Zhiyu, hoping that he could stand up and protect Chen Mo in a critical moment.

After tossing for more than ten minutes, Chen Mo found nothing, and Huang Weizheng and I started a military off-road vehicle with a good body and sufficient fuel. The car is still spacious and clean, and there is a burst of warmth when sitting in it. This time, I sat in the passenger seat with an assault rifle and was responsible for guarding, and Huang Weizheng was naturally still responsible for driving; This car is a manual transmission, so for us, the safety factor is reduced a lot. As soon as I got in the car, Ban Zhiyu returned the pistol to me, no matter what I said, he didn't want to hold that cold killing weapon, as for Chen Mo, naturally we couldn't let this sports addict who could fall down even riding a bicycle use something so dangerous.

After confirming the direction of Tianyang, Huang Weizheng skillfully pulled the handbrake and started with difficulty, the car barely regained its calm after a shocking violent vibration, and the rolling tires were about to leave this dead and silent section. Just when we wanted to relax our tense nerves, the trunk behind the car was suddenly slapped by someone. Everyone looked back in horror and saw that it was a man in a green camouflage combat uniform. The man didn't seem to have lost his mind, but I didn't let that slack off, and quickly pulled the bolt to open the safety, and pointed the gun at the man behind the car, warning him to back off.

"Don't shoot! I'm fine! The man threw up his hands and shouted hysterically, "Don't shoot!" ”