In the calm morning, a few rays of sunlight formed colorful spots on the ground through the shade of the trees, and the dust floating in the air also loomed in the light, and the whining of the wind became a little noisy at this time, except that only the chirping of birds could be heard in the distance, and a few empty buildings were dilapidated in the long deserted fields.

On the gray asphalt road, a white van sped by, and the dust swept up followed closely in the sky, and the two charred black corpses in the wreckage of the roadside car accident were suddenly buried in the dust and mist, as if this tragedy was gradually forgotten.

Du Yuheng, who was sitting in the passenger seat, leaned on the seat boredly, holding a half-drunk canned soda in one hand, lazily leaning on the window, and holding the rifle that never left him with the other; This weapon, which was not owned by children of his age, has now become the greatest guarantee of their safety.

"Where are we?" Chen Mo, who was sitting in the back row, poked his head out and stepped forward to ask.

"Who knows." Du Yuheng glanced at the dirty and dilapidated map spread out in front of him, and replied casually, "This road is not on the map at all." ”

"Wei Liqin, you can't make a mistake, right? It's been three days, and I haven't seen a normal sign. ”

"Oh, you can't be wrong, my dad took me down this road in the past." Wei Liqin, who was driving, said impatiently, "Besides, even if we don't go like this, what can we do?" Neither the highway nor the secondary road can be walked. ”

Before coming to this country road that Chen Mo was not worried about, Du Yuheng and the others had already tried to return to Nanning from the roads marked on those maps, but they had left Tianyang for nearly two months, and the journey back to Nanning was not halfway there. No one could have imagined that what used to take only a few hours to complete would become so long. Not long after leaving Tianyang County, they ran into trouble in Tiandong County, not far from Tianyang County, and this seemed to be the beginning of a nightmare of a long journey home, and since then these young people, who have not adapted to the cruel life of the end times, have gradually learned how to survive in the gap between life and death.

In fact, they have mastered the rules of survival of the fittest after the end times, and in order to survive, they also have their own rules. The rule is also very simple - being bitten by a mutant is equivalent to death. No matter who is bitten or scratched, no one can save them. Anything else can be done as long as your team isn't threatened. As for the admission of other survivors, anyone can be taken in as long as they are not scratched or bitten and do not harm the interests of the original team. Before that, there were indeed a few people who joined their team, but they either "died" or left for some reason, and in the end, the remaining people were the same people as they were at the beginning, and only they would be so persistent in returning to Nanning.

"Wei Liqin's path should be right." Huang Weizheng, who was sitting next to Chen Mo, looked at the street scene outside the car window and said, "It seems that I have also walked this road in the past." ”

As a local in Pingguo County, the county seat they should arrive at next, Huang Weizheng's affirmation more or less made Du Yuheng and others feel a little settled, after all, Wei Liqin's words are not so reliable in the team.

"By the way, can we go to see my home after we arrive in Pingguo......" Chen Mo is also from Pingguo, which is one of the reasons why she feels that Huang Weizheng is more cordial.

With so much going on, what is happening to the family? It's a puzzle that everyone has in their hearts, although most of the time, people don't bring it up.

"Let's go check it out." Liang Minxuan in the last row agreed, "Since it's almost home, I have to go back and see what happens." ”

"That's right, we can get some supplies at your house!" Whatever Liang Minxuan said, Long Hao beside her seemed to support without hesitation, he pushed Huang Weizheng and continued, "Hey, Brother Niu, isn't your father a policeman?" Do you have a gun or something like that? ”

"Maybe, even if there is such a thing, I don't know where he put it." In fact, compared with whether there will be guns and ammunition hidden at home, Huang Weizheng is more concerned about whether his parents will still be at home. Maybe my father, who is a police officer, will bring enough ammunition and weapons to keep watch at home with my mother......

"Niu ......" Du Yuheng, who could slightly feel that Huang Weizheng's face was wrong, patted Huang Weizheng's shoulder meaningfully, looked into his eyes and said, "When we get to Pingguo, let's go and see the situation at your house." ”

"Hmmm......"

"Hey, guys!" Seeing that the atmosphere was about to cool down, Wei Liqin suddenly called for the people in the car to pay attention to the ahead.

"Someone sighs ......"

"What does that guy want to do?"

"What to do? He put the car across the middle of the road. Wei Liqin asked Du Yuheng at a loss while slowing down the car.

"Everyone close the car window," Du Yuheng threw away the filled Coke, "Coke at room temperature is just unpleasant." After checking the rifle in his hand, he turned around and glanced at Huang Weizheng, and then said to Wei Liqin, "Stop here, don't turn off the fire." ”

Du Yuheng opened the car door, stood behind the door and frowned at the gray car parked in the middle of the road in front of him. There were several large and small suitcases tied to the car that was almost smeared with mud and sand, a black rag hung on the open hood, and there were some bottles and cans and a few tool wrenches around it, and there seemed to be a little boy in the car who was lying on the window and staring at Du Yuheng and his party. The middle-aged man standing in front of the car, perhaps the boy's father, waved his hands slowly in the air, indicating that he had no weapons and no malice.

The other party doesn't seem to be a robber or something, Du Yuheng didn't threaten with a gun; At this time, Huang Weizheng in the car also opened the door and stood on the other side of the van with his shotgun; In the past, when they dealt with such emergencies, these two people with the most lethal weapons absolutely had to cover each other to deal with it together.

"Hey!" As the party with the better form, Du Yuheng shouted first, "Your car is blocking our way!" ”

This is not a more professional negotiation opening, but the other party should also guess that Du Yuheng would say this, he wanted to take another step forward, but Du Yuheng walked out of the car door with half of his body, revealing the rifle that was low in front of him, and the man immediately felt in his heart, stood in place and said: "Our car is broken, the fuel tank has basically run out of fuel, although I have repaired it, but we have no gas now...... Can you give us some oil...... You can do whatever you want! We've got some food here! ”

Du Yuheng glanced back at Huang Weizheng; Huang Weizheng whispered to him: "We can divide them a little, there are still a few pots in the car." ”

"We can give you a little, but you have to move the car first."

"No problem, but I need your help, I can't push this car alone."

"You get your little one out of the car, and we'll push together."

"He's fine in the car, and he's not heavy."

"It's a little bit less weight."

Du Yuheng's request was not excessive, and the man seemed to be a little reluctant, but in the end he nodded and agreed. So Du Yuheng stepped the gun and called Long Hao, who had been hiding in the back row, to come out and walk with him towards the broken down gray car. Seeing this, the middle-aged man hurriedly ran to the back of the car and prepared to push the car away with Du Yuheng and them.

The little boy, with his father's permission, stepped out of the car. He was wearing a thin coat that was noticeably larger, and he looked a little wilted, and his shoulders were drooping all the time. Seeing the boy standing alone, the girls, who were already overflowing with love, got out of the car with a few bags of snacks to cheer up the little boy. However, Huang Weizheng, who was standing outside the car, still had some concerns, Chen Mo and Liang Minxuan begged hard, which made Huang Weizheng not know what to do. The van was not far from the place where the boy was standing, and the child's father was about to push the cart with Du Yuheng, it seemed that there was really no danger at all, but for safety reasons, Huang Weizheng still asked the girls to go back quickly.

"Are you going this way to Pingguo? There is still about half a day to go. The man casually greeted him, but Du Yuheng was not in the mood to chat with a stranger at the moment.

But Long Hao was unsuspecting and said with a smile: "That's great, we thought we were going the wrong way at first." ”

"Pingguo is not peaceful, you had better be careful when you get there."

As soon as the three of them exerted, the heavy sedan immediately began to move forward reluctantly, and it didn't take much effort for the car to be moved to the side of the road. Du Yuheng patted the dust on his hands, sighed easily, and was about to prepare with Long Hao to get gasoline to fulfill his promise. At this time, Chen Mo, who was not far away, suddenly shouted and ran back to the van with Liang Minxuan in three steps.

"Du Yuheng, that kid was bitten!"

"What?" Before Du Yuheng, who heard Liang Minxuan's warning, could respond, the middle-aged man next to him suddenly pulled out an old-fashioned police pistol and slammed it on his back with the gun, and the severe pain almost forced Du Yuheng to kneel on the ground.

Seeing this, Long Hao hurriedly wanted to rush forward, but the middle-aged man locked his throat and grabbed Du Yuheng, who had no way to get a rifle, and put a gun at Du Yuheng's head, threatening: "Retreat!" Or I'll kill him!" ”

Long Hao was so frightened that he didn't dare to act rashly, and everyone else, including Du Yuheng, could only let the middle-aged man do whatever he wanted. Huang Weizheng took advantage of the man's inattention and ran behind his child. When the man found out, Huang Weizheng had already pointed a gun at his child and also warned: "Don't mess around!" ”

"Let my baby go!"

"You let my friend go first!"

Seeing that Huang Weizheng was unyielding and had no intention of giving in, the man adjusted his tone and said in a slightly tactful tone: "We just want some gasoline, and we have no intention of harming you......"

"But your child has been bitten, he has a high fever, and he looks like he could turn into a zombie at any moment." Chen Mo, who was standing next to the van with Liang Minxuan, said.

"I know that, but anyway, he's my child......" The man's emotions were a little uncontrollable, and he said with tears in his voice, "I beg you, after giving gasoline, we will go our separate ways." ”

"Cow!" Du Yuheng, who was kidnapped, said at this time, "Let's give him gasoline, his business...... We can't do anything about it. ”

"Then we'll release people at the same time, I'll let a girl bring you gasoline, and you must release my friend at the same time." Huang Weizheng glanced down at the child standing in front of him. This groggy child, whose body feels crumbling, could turn into a mutant at any moment.

"Okay......" The man had no choice, after all, whether it was numbers, equipment or physical condition, he was at a disadvantage.

Liang Minxuan walked to the position almost close to the middle-aged man with a large pot of gasoline in both hands, and Long Hao hurriedly stepped forward to help; However, his strength may not be as great as Liang Minxuan's, and it doesn't seem to help much. The middle-aged man and Huang Weizheng glanced at each other, and the two released each other's companions at the same time.

The child had just taken two steps forward and suddenly stopped in place, and everyone present knew that something was wrong. The boy's father shouted twice more anxiously, but the boy did not react at all, and lowered his head and let out a purring moan like a hound warning.

The middle-aged man didn't care about any confrontation at this time, and ran to his child in a panic, who would have thought that at this moment, the little boy suddenly raised his dark red and miserable face like a crazy little devil, stared at the blood-red pupils, and ran towards his father with his teeth and claws, and was about to pounce on the defenseless man, or even the man who was about to die, suddenly several gunshots came from behind the man, and a few bullets just pierced the head of the little mutant.

The middle-aged man who did not die under the mouth of his mutant son stared wide-eyed and trembled and knelt in front of the corpse that had just arrived, and he was completely mentally broken, and he dragged his son's small purple bloodshot hand and chanted his son's name over and over again.

“…… It's you...... It's you fucking bastard! The heartbroken man turned his pain into hatred for Du Yuheng, he staggered to his feet, and stared at Du Yuheng who hesitated despite having a gun in his hand with endless grievances, "I'm going to break you into pieces!" ”

"No, no, no! I saved you......"

Du Yuheng didn't have time to explain, the man had already raised his pistol. After a deafening gunshot, Du Yuheng opened his instinctively closed eyes, but he didn't expect that his body was not hurt in any way, but the middle-aged man fell to the ground. His shirt was stained red with blood, the gun in his hand was tossed aside, and his limbs quickly stopped twitching.

Huang Weizheng approached the man's body without saying a word, and there were still a few wisps of white smoke from the muzzle of the Bonelli shotgun in his hand, Du Yuheng just wanted to speak, but he didn't expect Huang Weizheng to shoot the killer man's head again, which frightened everyone around him.

"If you don't get a headshot, you'll become a mutant." Huang Weizheng hastily explained to himself, and then walked up to Du Yuheng and asked, "Are you okay?" ”

"Hmm...... Uh, fine. Du Yuheng, who was shocked, looked at Huang Weizheng, who was so indifferent to what had just happened, and at the same time, he was both grateful and puzzled by his friend's actions.

After a brief lull, the others began to loot the car that had been pushed to the side of the road, and in Du Yuheng's eyes, their current behavior was no different from that of a robber. After confirming that Du Yuheng's health was fine, Huang Weizheng just wanted to help find supplies, but as soon as he turned around, he was stopped by Du Yuheng.

"Cow, that ...... Thank you. ”

"Well, you're so hesitant every time you're confronted with a human."

"Don't you hesitate?"

Facing Du Yuheng's question, Huang Weizheng did not answer immediately, he turned around, tilted his head back slightly, and said, "I won't ......"

"What if it's me?" Huang Weizheng had just taken two steps and was stopped by Du Yuheng, "What if one day I become a mutant or one day we will face each other?" ”

"There won't be that day."