The violent shock wave of the explosion brutally ripped all the plants in the forest outward, and a flock of forest birds flapped their wings and scattered in all directions, and a small seven-story building in the forest surrounded by huge vines collapsed in the smoke. A few hundred meters away, on a bus that had been transformed into a mobile bunker, several men and women dressed in different clothes let out savage cheers like warriors of the wilderness tribes.

Huang Weizheng, who was silent sitting in the bus, did not watch their "fireworks display" with the rest of his teammates. Zhang Xiaoying stood quietly against the wall, she didn't want to disturb Huang Weizheng's contemplation. Along the way, he sat silently in the back row of seats, staring out the increasingly dilapidated city outside the iron-clad windows.

Tossing and turning last night, he got the news and decided to go with the old wolf's mercenary team to find traces of the downed plane. In fact, Huang Weizheng had long thought of quitting the team led by this ruthless person who almost killed his friend, but the plane falling from the sky did still have a strong attraction to him, and Huang Weizheng also secretly decided to keep an eye on the old wolf, a guy with changeable intentions, and what was even more unexpected was that Zhang Xing particularly supported him at this point. So Huang Weizheng and Zhang Xiaoying, who had a quarrel with the old wolf, easily rejoined their team.

"Whew!" One by one, the old wolf and his subordinates triumphantly got into the car from the roof of the modified sunroof, and as soon as they entered, they shouted loudly about the grandeur of the explosion just now, "I guess the zombies in the whole city have heard our big fireworks!" It's exciting! ”

"Boss!" A scavenger who was still on the skylight said to the old wolf, "There are already dozens of zombies coming outside. ”

In fact, after the transformation, the location of the skylight became the machine gun battery of this pillbox. The ironclad bus that Wanxiang City snatched from Li Sicai's bikers is now a veritable armored vehicle, and an important tool for scavengers to safely enter and exit the forests of the Dead City. In addition to the two sunroofs with machine gun batteries with lookout functions, there are also three firing ports on both sides of the car, and a conical shovel is also installed in the front of the car, which can easily shovel away the obstacles in front of it. Huang Weizheng: They have all witnessed this. But of course, this thing is indeed dangerous, so the mercenaries all threw it at the end of the carriage, that is, Huang Weizheng's side.

"Come on in, ignore them." The old wolf beckoned the men on the battery to come down, and motioned for the others to pull up the roller shutters of the windows on the cars. The design of the roller shutter can be regarded as another major improvement of this armored car in Wanxiang City, a roller shutter iron door is installed on the top of each window, as long as they are all pulled up, then the car will become an iron can, and the mutants outside the car will not be able to find the people in the car at all, and even if they do, there is no way to take this car.

"There is still a little time before sunset, we will find a way to drive farther later, tonight the zombies in this neighborhood will gather near the building that collapsed just now, the farther away we are, the safer." The old wolf explained confidently.

"But Boss, there's no road on the map to the place where the plane fell, so we still have to walk a little way." A scavenger took out a map of the Dead City Forest, which was also captured by Wanxiang City along with the car, pointed to the red mark drawn on the map and said, "It seems that no one has ever been to that location." ”

"Nonsense, no one has ever been to this forest before, haven't we done it now?" The old wolf glanced at Huang Weizheng, who was sitting behind, but ignored it, and continued to say to the people gathered around him, "If everything goes well, we may be able to find that plane tomorrow, and then we can make another profit." ”

For the first time, as an outsider, I saw the old wolf and his team planning a mission, like bandits. Huang Weizheng couldn't help but sigh secretly, sighing that he was once like them, in the eyes of others, maybe he had become a mercenary gangster.

The belief and motivation of the past had long since turned into a dream at this time, and Huang Weizheng stared down at his scarred hands, as if his hands were stained with the blood of Du Yuheng and other Qingshan people. As soon as he thought of this, his eyes contracted slightly, and fear and remorse gradually took over his reason.

After all, I killed them......

"Wei Zheng?" Perhaps noticing Huang Weizheng's gradually disordered breathing, Zhang Xiaoying leaned down and gently comforted Huang Weizheng's shoulder with her hand.

Huang Weizheng raised his head, his moist eyes looked at Zhang Xiaoying helplessly, and the expressionless face seemed to make people see the hesitant sadness. Zhang Xiaoying sighed and said softly, "Remember, it's not your fault. ”

Huang Weizheng hung his head and said, "I know...... But ......"

"Hey! I'm not a philanthropist, so you'd better put that day aside. The old wolf interrupted Huang Weizheng's words noisily, swaggered up in front of him, and said with his chin slightly raised, "You yourself also know in your heart that the world is different from the past, the weak eat the strong, too much sentimentality will only make you give this little life." ”

"You ...... man"

"He's right," Zhang Xiaoying just wanted to refute the old wolf's words, but Huang Weizheng suddenly stood up, as if he had an epiphany, and suddenly realized, "It's time to forget old friends and meet new ones, no...... There are no more friends to speak of in this day and age, right? ”

Huang Weizheng's gaze became sharper and sharper, so that the old wolf, who was usually invincible, had a trace of fear. "No, that's right!" Perhaps impressed by the astonishing Huang Weizheng's momentum of grief and indignation, the old wolf's mouth couldn't help but stammer, but he quickly covered up the doubts and uneasiness in his heart, and forced a smile, "This is like a guy who is doing doomsday business with me." ”

Finding that Huang Weizheng was not as depressed as he thought, the old wolf had no choice but to leave with interest, in order to save a little face, he simply ordered the armed bus to start immediately to the plane crash site; It was a bold decision, considering that there were still a lot of wandering mutants out there, and if they caught their attention, they would be surrounded by hordes even during the day.

"Boss?" The scavenger in charge of the drive seemed to think the old wolf was joking.

The old wolf had no choice but to stride forward, walked to the middle of the bus, and commanded again with the pole erected beside him: "Didn't you hear what I said?" Let's go! ”

"But now it's out there...... And didn't you just say to ignore them for now? ”

"Fuck, are you the boss or am I? I just changed my mind, can I? The old wolf glared at the driver indignantly, and the man complied.

The bus with its engine turned on immediately attracted the attention of several mutants in the vicinity, who immediately flocked around the bus like a group of victims waiting for relief, only to be quickly left behind by the moving bus. The rusty abandoned vehicles in the middle of the road were pushed away by the conical shovel on the front of the armed bus. This shovel is like opening the door to a zombie carnival, and the road in front of the bus is filled with mutants roaming the streets; I have to recall the crowded scene of tourist attractions during holidays.

The buildings on both sides of the street were covered with dense vegetation, but the thick vines were connected across the street, and the thick foliage was like a huge awning that turned the hundred-meter-long street into a shaded square that could not be better for mutants.

"Oh my God......" Before the driver could exclaim, the violent jolt caused by hitting the hordes of mutants immediately made everyone in the car unable to stand.

After all, mutants are still flesh and blood, and those rotten flesh are even easier to break than living people, just like plates of spoiled spaghetti smashed on the bus, and the sound of the whole bus was immediately wrapped in a mass of rotten meat. The conical shovel unstoppably smashed the mutants in front of the car, the splattered flesh and blood scattered to both sides of the car, the wheels crushed the broken corpses again and again, the muffled sound of bones being crushed and the sound of flesh flying and the howls of the mutants were endless, and the disgusting stench in the air continued to pour into the nostrils of everyone in the car, and the 100-meter street seemed to be a bloody road to hell. After traveling dozens of meters, the armed bus stopped on the road for some reason and could not move forward, and listening to the sound of the wheels, it could be judged that the car had skidded in place.

"What's going on?" The old wolf scolded impatiently, "You go away!" ”

"It's slippery! The car is skidding! "Except for the oncoming windshield, all the windows of the bus are closed with roller shutters, and the driver has no way to further judge the condition of the car.

The team members began to panic a little, and the old wolf glanced at Huang Weizheng complainingly, as if he was shifting the responsibility to Huang Weizheng who tried to provoke him. He whispered, "Damn, who knew there were so many zombies on this road. ”

"When has our country ever been short of population? At this time, there is naturally no shortage of mutants. Huang Weizheng's hearing is not bad, he is like an outsider talking cool words on the side. Just as the old wolf was about to teach him a lesson, Huang Weizheng, who was staring at the seemingly chaotic situation outside the windshield, calmly pointed ahead and asked calmly, "Can you kill that guy?" ”

The old wolf looked in the direction pointed by Huang Weizheng, and among the waves of zombies that came one after another, there was a monster standing behind it with one finger twitching its fat and slippery body, this monster wrapped in honeycomb-like rotting polyps could not make people believe that it was once a human.

"'Fatty'." The old wolf seemed to have understood Huang Weizheng's plan, and showed that somewhat evil but confident smile.

"We used to call it sarcoma." Huang Weizheng sneered, "Do you have a way to kill it?" ”

"You're smart kid." The old wolf turned around and snatched a homemade rifle with a scope from the scavenger behind him, he walked to the position under the turret, shrugged his shoulders and smiled, "Let the master teach you how to use a gun." ”

"Boss, there may be zombies on top too."

"Afraid of what? Isn't it just a pile of rotten meat? The old wolf quickly climbed onto the fort and suddenly opened the top cover, and sure enough, he was confronted by a mutant who was missing half of his body.

Undeterred by the living dead who greeted him, the old wolf disdainfully slammed the butt of his rifle into the mutant's head, and the rotten head was smashed in front of the old wolf like a tattered walnut. Before the mutants around him could rush up, the old wolf set up his gun and quickly calculated the approximate distance with the sarcoma monster and the parabola of the bullet, and then a gunshot rang out, and he saw the sarcoma monster kneeling on one knee in pain and swaying his bloated body from side to side, and the blood plasma and yellow-green mucus sprayed everywhere, but the monster did not fall down for a long time. The mutants around them convulsified in pain at first, and then rushed towards the old wolf. But the old wolf was not nervous, he didn't care about the danger of pressing at all, he didn't move the shooting position just now at all, and immediately pulled the trigger after a simple correction.

Two shots and three shots, when the fourth gunshot rang out, the sarcoma monster finally fell into the maroon thick plasma after a bloody footprint, and the body that swelled like a leaky balloon gradually deflated, pus and blood gushed out from those gunshot holes, and the unrecognizable body lost its movement after a brief convulsion.

After relaxing, the old wolf felt a chill behind him, and when he looked back, it turned out that a mutant had almost bitten his neck from behind. The thing spread its rotten arms like an apostle welcoming him to hell, its hideous face like a bloodthirsty madman. But with the death of the sarcoma monster, the mutants on this street have become decomposing corpses. Those hollow eyes were now covered with a haze of death, and they would no longer pose any threat to humanity.

After realizing that he had escaped death, the people in the carriage couldn't help cheering, and the old wolf also walked down the battery like a hero under the admiration of his teammates, he walked straight to Huang Weizheng, looking at this young man who was still hostile to himself but tried his best to restrain his anger with strong self-control.

"Looks like your plan has worked." The old wolf's tone was a little awkward, but he realized that Huang Weizheng's uncalm judgment was rare in his team, so he decided to try to use friendship to salvage the bad relationship with Huang Weizheng.

"Good marksmanship." Huang Weizheng, who was staring at the old wolf's eyes, barely squeezed out a polite smile on his face, which seemed to be completely unmixed with emotion, and he didn't plan to celebrate the thrilling victory with the old wolf.

Compared with Huang Weizheng's attitude, the old wolf is obviously more active, at this time he is more like a big brother who fell out with his younger brother, but tried to reconcile afterwards. After hesitating for a few seconds, he still felt that he was taking advantage of the current happy environment after escaping death to dispel Huang Weizheng's hostility in one go. "I'm really sorry about Du Yuheng's death, but it was really to save you. I didn't mean to kill him, besides...... I don't have any reason to kill him. That, I'm a person with a hurry, my mouth stinks, what I just said is not good, don't take it too seriously. ”

Huang Weizheng quietly clenched his fists, stared into the eyes of the old wolf, and told him clearly word by word: "I just said - forget old friends and meet new ones." ”

"Boss, can we go out now and see what's going on with this car?" The old wolf's embarrassment was just relieved by a deliberate and unintentional sentence from a stupid guy behind him.

"Go ahead, be careful." The old wolf tilted his head behind his back, and after agreeing to open the door, he turned his head and patted Huang Weizheng's shoulder. Although there is no more explanation and apologies, it is enough for Huang Weizheng to temporarily let go of the grudge with the old wolf, no matter what, the crisis of the mutant is the first priority at this time, not to mention that for a ruffian tough guy like the old wolf, being able to say the words just now has already made a big concession.

The situation outside the car was not resolved by eliminating the mutants in the vicinity, and the two rear wheels of the scavenger mercenary's armed bus were sunk in a pile of crushed minced meat. The mud and sticky flesh made the wheels slip in place like a swampy mire, and the thick layer of flesh mud also made the wheels lose their thrust.

As soon as I opened the car door, the stench almost made everyone vomit out the unpalatable compressed dry food this morning. Zhang Xiaoying was well prepared, and in a previous supply mission, she got a gray plaid scarf that matched her style, which she didn't expect to come in handy at this time. After seeing Zhang Xiaoying pull up a scarf as a mask, the people around also followed suit and found some clothes to cover their faces.

"This rotten meat must be shoveled away." After completely checking the condition of the car, the mercenary who was originally in charge of driving the car confirmed the other equipment of the bus on one side, and there was no big abnormality except for a little deformation of the body.

"Okay." The old wolf whistled and motioned for the two scavengers who were standing nearby to come over, "There are just two shovels on the cart, you two go and get them." ”

The two unlucky ones realized that the old wolf was in charge of shoveling out the mud that the wheels had sunk in, and that it was definitely dirty, tiring, and disgusting. Both of them were reluctant, and one of them pointed with his chin at Huang Weizheng and Zhang Xiaoying, who were watching the situation in the distance near the car door, and deliberately complained in a low voice: "Why don't you let those two people do this work?" ”

"Did any of you just see the 'fat man' in that group of zombies? Who could have thought of the weakness of the zombie horde? The two scavengers obviously couldn't answer the old wolf's words, and the old wolf raised his eyebrows and smiled, "That kid can, obviously he is better suited to help us with the wind than the two of you." ”

The two unlucky mercenaries, who were speechless, had no choice but to admit it, shrugged helplessly and got into the car to get tools; When passing by Huang Weizheng, a slightly burly mercenary deliberately bumped into Huang Weizheng, who was talking to Zhang Xiaoying. Although Huang Weizheng didn't think so, Zhang Xiaoying, who has always been straightforward, stepped forward and called the big man who was two heads taller than him as if he had been hit by a reverse scale.

"Hey! Don't you think you should apologize for bumping into someone? ”

The big mercenary didn't just glance back at Zhang Xiaoying, but he didn't seem to have any intention of apologizing. Zhang Xiaoying stepped forward angrily; Before Huang Weizheng could stop her, she was already standing in front of the big man, one hand on the dagger hidden under her jacket, and said coldly: "Your attitude is not very friendly, brother." ”

The people who can be recruited into the team by the old wolf are not vegetarians in the first place, and some of them may have done some shady things in the past, in the face of such a ruthless role, Zhang Xiaoying did not flinch at all. And this big man is naturally not afraid of the threat of a little girl; Although he had seen Zhang Xiaoying's archery and fighting skills like a female warrior.

The big mercenary glared at Zhang Xiaoying, he twitched the horizontal flesh on his cheek, and his thick arm felt as if he could easily twist Zhang Xiaoying's neck. But just when he wanted to respond to Zhang Xiaoying's questioning, his gaze suddenly shifted from this unstoppable little girl in front of him to her back, and the fierce and vicious eyes instantly retreated, replaced by inexplicable panic.

Zhang Xiaoying turned her head and saw that the big mercenary was not looking at Huang Weizheng, but at the end of the street where the corpses of mutants were lying behind Huang Weizheng. Huang Weizheng, like everyone else, suddenly shifted their attention from the tense confrontation between their own people just now to an unknown creature in the distance that was rushing towards them.

A strange howl like a wolf echoed through the ruins of the city. The beast's furious roar, mixed with a fast-paced wheezing sound as it ran, approached Huang Weizheng and them. The appearance of the unidentified creature became clear as it approached. The monster looked like, or had been, a dog, but it didn't seem to have the silky fur of a canine, but a festering pustule and a trickle of pus and blood. The black-brown head barely made out what it had once looked like a dog, its rotting skin ripped and drooping around its mouth, and the sharp fangs were clearly visible on its mutilated face. Mixed with green specks of limbs running wildly, the Cerberus quickly swept across the long street like a black lightning bolt, jumping over the corpses of mutants, and in the blink of an eye, it was only a few meters away from the nearest mercenary who was completely terrified.

A sharp arrow flew by, piercing the mutant dog's head and carrying its corpse to the side. The old wolf hurriedly called back the mercenary, and at the same time ordered the others to hurry up and get into the car; The two mercenaries with shovels decided that it would be better to shovel the mud from the back wheels of the bus first, and the old wolf also helped to use the butt of his gun to throw away the mud like a small pile of sand.

The windows of the shops on both sides were suddenly smashed by something, and the sound of something being hit could be heard everywhere, and a few mutant dogs could be vaguely seen scurrying among the abandoned cars, there should be five or six of them, as if waiting for the best time to attack.

The frightened scavenger had weak feet and crawled towards the bus. In order to hurry up, Huang Weizheng gave Zhang Xiaoying a look and motioned for her to be in charge of covering, while he ran up to help the guy come back quickly. The howling of wolves and beasts like death horns sounded again over the dead and silent block, and the approaching mutant dogs rushed towards Huang Weizheng and the scavengers, although they had not yet fully found any trace of these beasts, but the sound of hurried footsteps could be heard everywhere. Suddenly, a mutant dog jumped up in the air and pounced on Huang Weizheng with his blood open. With a whoosh, Zhang Xiaoying released the arrow again, and the blade shot into the mouth of the mutant dog, piercing the back of the head, and the monster fell to the ground in response.

Huang Weizheng and the scavenger mercenary who was supporting him didn't dare to look behind at all, and just cared about rushing back to the bus as quickly as possible. A mutant dog pounced, Zhang Xiaoying just killed it, but she didn't expect two mutant dogs to come out at the same time.

"Hell!" Zhang Xiaoying shot another arrow, but she could only kill one of the mutant dogs.

This moment seemed to be frozen in Zhang Xiaoying's eyes, the hideous face of the mutant dog, the expression of the fallen mercenary who closed his eyes, and Huang Weizheng, who was about to turn around but seemed to be too late. A short second became so long at this time, but at the moment when time regained its original speed, Huang Weizheng felt the approach of the vicious dog, he instinctively turned around, unloaded the gun, and loaded it in one go, completely relying on experience and instinct to pounce on the mutant dog, just inserting it into its wide open mouth. The mutant dog's violent impact pushed Huang Weizheng down, but Huang Weizheng's Bonelli shotgun was still firmly blocked in its big mouth. The mutant monster's razor-sharp fangs scraped at the black muzzle, and its flustered limbs struggled back and forth to no avail. The corners of Huang Weizheng's mouth raised, without a moment's hesitation, and as soon as he pulled the trigger, the mutant dog's festering head popped open like a bursting balloon.

The brains that burst out splashed Huang Weizheng's body, although it was uncomfortable, it was better than being torn apart by this guy. There were a few mutant dogs following in the distance, and at this time, a series of piercing gunshots were heard from the other end of the armed bus, and a mercenary on the machine gun turret held the heavy machine gun that the scavengers in Wanxiang City did not know when they got it, and repelled the last attack of the mutant dogs as if they were playing a game of balloon in the garden.

"Are you alright?" Huang Weizheng picked up the mercenary who had just fallen in fright, and shook the rotten flesh on his body.

"I was scared to death just now!" As soon as Huang Weizheng picked up the mercenary, Zhang Xiaoying hurriedly ran over, and while looking at Huang Weizheng's sloppy body, she said with concern, "Are you okay?" Tell me you're okay! ”

"Probably so." Huang Weizheng took off his torn jacket that was basically inworn, and although the short-sleeved T-shirt on his body could no longer be seen as white, at least it was not full of foul-smelling brains. The temperature at this time was not too low, but Huang Weizheng's thin body still couldn't help shivering, he rubbed the arm of his black hand, and said with a smile, "It's just a little cold." ”

Huang Weizheng didn't mean to say it, but she didn't expect Zhang Xiaoying to suddenly hug him tightly, I don't know if it was to warm him or for some other reason, she put her head into Huang Weizheng's not strong body.

Zhang Xiaoying's sudden hug overwhelmed Huang Weizheng, flattered, he immediately forgot the moment of crisis just now, the pounding heart may not be because of palpitations at all, his open hands did not dare to hug Zhang Xiaoying back, "Oh! I...... I think so too...... Uh, I mean ......"

"Don't speak!"

"Oh......" Zhang Xiaoying's order made Huang Weizheng dare not move, so he could only stand there stupidly like a statue.

At this time, the old wolf stepped forward, gently hung the brown clip on Huang Weizheng's open hand, and joked: "Hug it for a while and get in the car, you may still have to wear this later." ”

"What about you?"

"I have one more." The old wolf who jumped in the car turned around and winked teasingly, hinting to Huang Weizheng that this kind of opportunity was rare and let him enjoy it. It seemed that both of them had forgotten their grievances more than ten minutes ago.