After saying goodbye to yesterday's continuous rainy days, we finally ushered in good weather, the clouds drifting in the sky from time to time blocked a moment of bright sunshine made people feel a short period of coolness, because winter has not passed, so even in this comfortable weather of the big sun, we still wear coats.

I walked up to a pickup truck, laid the map on the hood, pointed to the red pen around the map and asked, "Are we going to all these places?" ”

"Almost, how many can go count." One of the soldiers next to me said, "But it's better for us to take advantage of today's good weather and walk a few more places." ”

"Du Yuheng, are you sure that your body has recovered?" Wei Hong fiddled with the competitive crossbow in his hand and asked with an uneasy expression, "You were just able to walk a few days ago, so it's not good to go out with us on a mission so soon." ”

"It's okay, it's okay to run now, don't worry." I raised my eyebrows confidently and put on a smug look, and although Wei Hong was still a little skeptical, he didn't say anything more.

In fact, his unease is indeed reasonable. Almost a week ago, I had just regained my ability to walk in the real sense of the word, and I was finally able to walk normally without crutches, and even Dr. Liao Yuan couldn't believe that I was able to recover so quickly. Although I can still detect substances unknown to her and other doctors, overall my physical condition has returned to before the onset of the disease, which is at least a good thing.

Strangely, symptoms similar to mine's in the green mountains appeared, nosebleeds, dehydration, shock, and then no walking, and a strange disease seemed to spread quietly among the people. Panic spreads much faster than the virus, some people suspect that I brought the virus into Qingshan, and the gossip exaggerates things, and the number of people who are dissatisfied with me and hate and avoid me has gradually increased, and even Zhang Xizheng has also looked at me because of his daughter Zhang Wenyu's illness and coma, but he used to regard me as a thorn in his side, so I simply didn't think so. Except for Zhang Xizheng, my friends around me still support me as usual, which has helped me a lot.

After the disappearance of Huang Weizheng, Zhang Xiaoying, and Sister Liu, we fell into a period of confusion, and it was also at that time that Mayor Liao Daiping and her Battalion Commander Yang expressed doubts about my identity and asked me to immediately explain the task given to me by Liu Licheng at that time to prove my identity; In fact, I knew that the reason why they were like this was nothing more than to want to know my secret, so I simply told Liu Licheng all the information that Liu Licheng gave me and what we saw and heard in Tianyang. I guess if Huang Weizheng knew that I was doing this, he would definitely call me sloppy, but I just couldn't get used to the way they looked at me and the tone they talked to me, as if I was just a vexatious little kid.

Now Liao Daiping has admitted my identity, and Battalion Commander Yang has also affirmed it, according to the military rank, I can also be a cadre such as a deputy company commander, but because of the special forces I belong to, it stands to reason that I can be independent of the regular armed police force commanded by Battalion Commander Yang. In fact, these are all for nothing, at this time, who can care what kind of army you used to be, when you have not been a soldier, as long as you can hold a gun, it is useful. Although there are still some people who don't like me, because of my status as a soldier and the virus information that Liao Daiping and others care about, these people still can't do anything to me.

Of course, I'm also a sensible person, and in order to avoid those boring cynicisms and strange glances from others, I joined Aoyama's scout squad so that I could spend as little time as possible in Aoyama; But in fact, I did this not only for myself, but also for the opportunity to find Huang Weizheng and them. Although many people say that going missing at such a time is almost the same as losing their lives, I will never stop there, even if they become mutants or decomposing corpses, I will find them and bury them with my own hands.

"Brother Heng, Brother Heng!" In a trance, Long Hao woke me up, "You didn't sleep, right?" ”

"Nonsense!" I pushed Long Hao away and motioned for the soldier who had been interrupted by me to get on with business. I don't know the name of this guy, but it seems that he is a veteran who is familiar with the terrain reconnaissance in this vicinity, yes, he is the captain of Wei Hong's team, according to Qingshan's regulations, a scout team must have at least one military personnel, usually that person is the captain.

This person looks to be in his forties, wearing a combat uniform with armed police epaulettes, broad shoulders, and an old-fashioned 81 automatic rifle behind his back.

"Alright, let's get down to business now." The captain pointed to several red circles on the map that were closer to the Castle Peak Safety Zone and said, "Our mission today is to collect solar panels and related equipment. In accordance with the deployment above, we are responsible for the area along the fast loop and near the convention center. ”

"Well, it's not that hard." Long Hao shrugged and smiled.

"Not necessarily." The captain pointed to the city business district next to the convention center and a nearby park road around the lake on the map, "According to the latest information, small forests have formed in these areas. ”

"Dead City Forest ......"

"That's right, that means there are quite a few zombies in these areas." The captain looked at me and nodded, "I heard that you have good abilities in this area, so do a good job." ”

"Hey, hey, whatever."

I was about to pretend to be embarrassed to boast, but the captain immediately returned to the main point: "Okay, then we will get off the overpass checkpoint and turn directly into the fast loop, and as long as we see a building with a large solar water heater panel or a solar water heater shop along the way, we will choose which building to choose." ”

"I, I have a question." I don't know why I can't help but raise my hand and ask, "Well, why are we looking for so many solar panels?" It's not going to be this to generate electricity......"

"That's right." Unexpectedly, the answer I thought was ridiculous was true, and the captain explained as he collected the map, "Because the city's substations are ceasing to operate one after another, even if the power plants outside the city are still generating electricity, they still won't supply us with electricity. Before you came, we had heard of attempts to restore a substation, but it seemed to have failed. It was barely okay to rely on the few generators we found to provide electricity, but it was quite a waste of oil, so the mayor decided to collect solar panels to generate electricity, and the model of the panels we were looking for also had requirements, ordinary solar water heaters use more solar tubes, and those are not useful to us; What you are looking for must be a solar panel that can be connected directly to the circuit. ”

"How much electricity does this provide...... I guess it's better to rely on a generator. I sarcastically said.

"How many can there be. And it seems that Wanxiang City has been using this method to supply electricity for a long time. The captain patiently said, "We just need to collect the panels, don't think so much." ”

"Oh, by the way, Captain, there should be someone joining our squad today."

As soon as Wei Hong's words fell, a girl's call came from behind me: "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm late! ”

I looked back, oh my God, it turned out to be Chen Mo! How could she join the Scout team too? Isn't there any strict review, as long as you submit the application, you can pass it? Chen Mo was carrying a rucksack that felt bigger than her, an old-fashioned police pistol on her waist, and a mountain cone in her hand. Although she coiled her hair up and looked a little neater, she still looked like a lame follower, and she couldn't tell if she would be in danger in the next second.

"Wouldn't it? Big sister, what are you kidding? Deliver food to mutants? Before the captain could speak, I rushed to sarcastically mock Chen Mo, "How can you also be a scout?" ”

"What's wrong? You may not be able to walk well and be half-handicapped, so why can't I? Chen Mo stuck out his tongue at me unconvinced, and then respectfully handed his license certificate to the captain, and said with a smile, "Hello sir, my name is Chen Mo!" ”

"Huh? Oh...... Hello. The captain took Chen Mo's certificate with a smile, cleared his throat and said, "Then get in the car, don't be late next time, remember to obey the order." ”

"Definitely! I'm not like some half-crippled fool. Chen Mo rolled his eyes at me as he spoke, and only replied in a serious tone when the captain reminded him of a deliberate cough, "Yes!" Be sure to obey orders! ”

I don't know what to say, in fact, after Huang Weizheng and the others disappeared, each of us realized that even in Castle Peak, we were not safe in the real sense. Before returning to Nanning, Nanning was our final destination, and at that time, we simply thought that as long as we returned to Nanning, we would be safe. You can sleep on a soft bed, you can eat delicious meals, you can find your loved ones, and you can find the warmth of home. But now it seems that all of this is just a dream, and the old life is gone.

So Wei Hong re-applied and joined another scout squad with Long Hao, Liang Minxuan deigned to change careers to help Wei Liqin's assistant, helping to modify vehicles and repair equipment, and Uncle Zhong became a sentry at the overpass, although I'm sure he is still a drunkard, as for Zhang Xizheng, I don't know how he did it, in short, he entered the leadership of Qingshan, in a sense, it was more convenient for him to come to me for trouble.

While passing through the overpass checkpoint, we met Uncle Zhong. I hadn't seen Uncle Zhong for a while, and when he saw me, he patted me vigorously on the shoulder and joked with me, but every time he would laugh to himself before we could figure out the joke. According to him, when it rained yesterday, gunshots and explosions could be heard in the forest of the dead city, and the location seemed to be not far from the convention center. This is a useful piece of information, and it also tells us that today's travel must not be easy.

In fact, today's task is indeed not simple, almost all the residential buildings on both sides of the fast ring road have installed solar water heaters, although we can't see some of the taller residential buildings, but those six or seven storey apartment buildings almost all have solar energy, so we were busy in the morning to remove half of the solar panels from the five residential buildings, and also found a lot of batteries in an electric bicycle shop. Leaving aside the usefulness of the things we found, we put all the equipment that might come in handy in the car, and when you think about it, it really feels like a community thief.

The midday sun is particularly dazzling, which is the rhythm of the end of winter, but the cold wind still tells us that this winter is not completely over. After removing the last panel on the rooftop, everyone decided to rest in place before carrying the panel downstairs. We all found a random place to sit on the rooftop, Chen Mo took out a pack of compressed biscuits from her backpack, broke them into several pieces and distributed them to us, but not only so, she also brought a large pot of water, which is really a outing equipment. Of course, at a time like this, I would never waste the opportunity to count her down. Seeing that we were about to start fighting again, Wei Hong and the captain hurriedly got up and found another place to rest quietly.

Chen Mo and I just started to talk, and the captain, who had just found a place to rest on the other side of the rooftop, suddenly called for us to come over, I patted my ass and jumped up, leaving Chen Mo and Long Hao to clean up. As soon as I came to the captain and Wei Hong, I immediately understood why they were in a hurry to call us over. There was a school at the back of our apartment building, and the playground was lined with tents, abandoned military trucks, and pulled up fences, all of which clearly told us that this was the site of a temporary outbreak control center that had not been discovered by us or even by other Scout teams in Aoyama. What made us even more excited was the installation of a large solar panel on the roof of one of the school's dormitory buildings and the conjoined teaching building.

"Wow, we sent it." Long Hao sighed inexplicably, "With so many solar panels, it's definitely enough for the entire security zone." ”

As soon as Long Hao finished speaking, Chen Mo asked in a stunned manner as if he had found a shocking treasure, "Oh my God...... Why hasn't anyone found out about this before? ”

"Maybe that's because of that." Wei Hong pointed to the collapsed fence next to the school playground, and after that was the green forest, this "forest" spread from the school to the other buildings behind it, and several tall buildings were like the tallest "tree" that Wei Hong and I saw when we first saw the Dead City Forest under the leadership of Liao Shuzhen, wrapped around twisted thick vines, like hungry antelopes dying and waiting to be strangled alive by the python, "I guess most people thought that this area was about to be swallowed up by the forest, so they didn't search around here." ”

"So what do we do now?" I sighed and asked, "Shall I go back, or should I go down and make a profit?" ”

"Hehe, don't call us robbers." The captain laughed.

"Let's go down, take as much as you can, while the weather is good."

Long Hao's thoughts were the same as mine, but Chen Mo was a little worried. "It's not good, where people don't go, it means that there must be danger."

"Or maybe there's nothing but the supplies we want." I took Chen Mo's words, patted her head lightly and smiled, "If you're worried, go back first." ”

"You're going back first! I didn't say I wouldn't go with you. Chen Mo impatiently flicked my hand away and said angrily, "It's so annoying! ”

My provocation made Chen Mo suddenly the person who wanted to go downstairs the most, and everyone could just take advantage of this spirit to start a bang. There were a lot of obstacles around the main gate of this school, and our truck was too big to drive into the campus, so we had to get out of the car and walk. There is also a small gate next to the main gate for vehicular traffic, and a fence has been placed back and forth in front of the small gate, which is conceivably used to clear the residents who poured into the temporary control center, which means that there may be a lot of mutants hidden here. Thinking about it, I couldn't help but clench my rifle tighter, and my friends around me were just as vigilant as I was.

As soon as we entered the campus, we saw the school building on our left, and the building on our right looked like it was supposed to be a student dormitory building. After making sure that the surroundings were safe for the time being, we all breathed a sigh of relief and waited for the captain's order.

"The door to the dormitory seems to be locked." Since we were from a location where we could see the locked doors of the dormitory building at a glance, the captain immediately decided, "Look at the teaching building." ”

Luckily, the iron door of the school building was not locked, so I took the lead, and the others followed me and climbed up to the top floor of the school building. On the rooftop of the top floor, two rows of jet-black solar panels sparkled in the bright sun, and Long Hao was the first to take out the tools in his bag and excitedly said, "Whew!" Brothers, we're busy! ”

For the sake of safety, Wei Hong and I walked around the rooftop to check the situation on the rooftop, except for another wooden door leading to this end that was locked accidentally, there was nothing else worth noting. All of the solar panels here can be directly connected to electrical circuits, and it is estimated that they are the environmental power generation facilities of the former school. After a brief study of the structure of the panels and the direction of the circuitry, we began to busily disassemble the solar panels, and if we were lucky, maybe we could take all the panels from the roof of this school building today, and solve the remaining panels in the apartment building tomorrow.

"Hey, Du Yuheng, do you think there will be something useful in those tents downstairs?" A few of our big men were busy disassembling the battery board and sweating profusely, Chen Mo was fine, and she was easily in charge of the guard work on the grounds that girls are not very good at disassembling and assembling equipment.

"Presumably, but we don't have much time for that today." I wiped the beads of sweat from my head, and while screwing hard, I hastily said, "You pay attention to safety, and the game will be over when you fall, I'll tell you." ”

"Yes, yes." Chen Mo obviously took my words as the wind in her ears, she looked at the dark green forest in the distance and said, "Actually, it's quite beautiful to look at the dead city forest like this." ”

"Huhu, if you were in it, you wouldn't say that." The captain couldn't bear the loneliness and interjected, "Some scouts are more daring and will go in to find supplies, and those who come back alive are lucky with shit." ”

"I've heard it's not as dangerous as I thought, and there are survivors in it." Long Hao and Wei Hong had already removed a piece of the battery board, and he walked up to me and the captain and asked, "Captain, shall we carry this down first?" ”

"There must be someone in there, but there must be a lot of zombies. Oh, I'll go down with you and help you keep an eye on the situation, it's safer. ”

"There are no mutants now...... Uh, I'm talking about zombies. Long Hao and Wei Hong picked up the battery board and weighed the weight and said.

The captain pushed the door open for them, walked to the top of the stairs and said, "Well, it seems that when I lost contact with other cities, I heard that the situation in the United States and India is worse than ours." ”

"Everyone in the United States has a gun, which is like our stick and hoe."

"Not necessarily, don't you see that your brothers all have guns in their hands, besides, cold weapons are more useful now......

The captain, Long Hao, and the silent Wei Hong stepped off the rooftop, and their conversation gradually faded away, allowing me to concentrate on the work at hand. Although it is not difficult to dismantle the thing, it is indeed a hard work, screwing, moving the battery board, and if you are not careful, you may have to break this hard-found treasure.

As I was about to unscrew the last two major screws, I rubbed the half-dried dirt on my hands and said, "Chen Mo, come over and help me hold the battery board." ”

"Oh!" Sometimes, Chen Mo is quite willing to help, especially when he and I ask her for help. She ran up to me, holding the battery board with both hands, and lifted it up as if it took a lot of effort, and shouted, "Hey! ”

"Sister, you don't have to work so hard, there is an auxiliary support frame here, and it usually won't fall." Seeing her working so hard, I couldn't help but laugh and said, "If you push it too hard later, it will be miserable." ”

"You still call me if there is a support frame."

After that, Chen Mo let go of his hand, and the center of gravity of the battery board shifted, and immediately deviated to the side. Chen Mo panicked, and hurriedly stretched out his hand, holding the battery board motionlessly like a frame, but in fact, due to the support of the bracket, the battery board would not fall at all. I stood aside and looked at Chen Mo's startled appearance and couldn't help laughing, Chen Mo's first reaction after realizing that something was wrong was that I was playing a prank, and immediately regarded me as the object of venting.

"Du Yuheng! You're looking for death, aren't you? ”

I couldn't help but laugh while blocking Chen Mo's fist with my hand: "Hey, it's none of my business!" It's you who was careless, okay? ”

"You did it on purpose!"

"You're too bad, aren't you?"

"You must have done it on purpose!" My protest unexpectedly "angered" Chen Mo, she punched and kicked me even harder, and I could only see the tricks bitterly, "I know at a glance that you are not a good person!" ”

"Holy!" I grabbed her fist that wasn't a threat to me, and I smirked at her surprised look, "Have you ever seen a bad guy who would let you fight casually?" ”

"I ......" Chen Mo couldn't find anything to deal with me for a while, so he had to change the topic and shouted, "You hurt me!" ”

"Huh? Oh. I deliberately shook off her hand, and she leaned to the side by inertia, and the unresponsiveness made me laugh again.

Chen Mo knew that I was laughing at her, and I didn't know why, but at this time, she was able to quickly point to my nose and warn, "Come again!" ”

"Is it wrong to laugh?" I innocently retorted.

"Yes!"

"You're too ...... too"

"Ahem." My words were deliberately interrupted by Long Hao, who was leaning against the door, with a cough, "It's been a long time, and you two haven't removed a single battery board." ”

"Okay, okay, Chen Mo continues to be in charge of guarding, Du Yuheng, you quickly unload this thing with me." It's only been a day since the mission, and the captain seems to have been surprised by the scolding between me and Chen Mo, he looked at the sky and said worriedly, "I'm afraid this good weather won't last long." ”

I was a little unwilling, after all, I didn't have a chance to fight back after being unreasonably teased by Chen Mo, but listening to the captain's reminder, I unconsciously looked up and observed the weather. He was right, there were already several layers of thick gray clouds piled up in the sky in the direction of Qingshan, maybe it was already gray at this time, in short, it won't be long before we will be shrouded in this dark cloud, and by then, there will be many more mutants on the streets than now, and what is more troublesome is that their speed and strength will pose a fatal threat to us.