After dawn, Huang Weizheng and I, as well as Xie Tao and Huang Canmin, were already in the armory equipped with the necessities that could be used. The two GIs were skillfully wearing combat vests and protective gear, and there were spare magazines and other equipment inserted in a few pocket sockets, and after setting up the radios, the two of them found that Huang Weizheng and I were standing on the side with blank eyes, and the combat vests on our bodies were not properly dressed. In desperation, they decided to help us two recruits solve these common sense problems in the eyes of soldiers.

Compared with the outfits of the two special forces, the equipment on me and Huang Weizheng is much inferior. There were no black combat uniforms, no special military mountain boots, just a combat vest under our regular attire and two knee pads tied to the legs of our jeans. But I like the radio headset in my ear, at least it makes me feel like a mercenary from a private security company, and of course they are definitely beyond our reach.

Wear good protection, and the next step is naturally to choose a good gun. Liu Licheng didn't allow us to carry heavy equipment, so the machine guns and large-caliber sniper rifles had nothing to do with us. So I chose a Type 95 assault rifle that I had used at the beginning, but Huang Weizheng stared motionlessly at the three black frosted shotguns in front of a gun cabinet.

"Bonelli M4 Super 90 shotgun, Yankee's big killer." Xie Tao walked behind Huang Weizheng and smiled, "Are you interested in this?" ”

Huang Weizheng was like a little boy who saw his idol, and sighed with bright eyes: "It's so handsome." ”

"That's three, the whole team is three." Xie Tao opened the cabinet as he spoke, took out the shotgun and handed it to Huang Weizheng, "You can use it." ”

"Really?" Huang Weizheng held a gun in both hands and asked, "Chief Liu agrees?" ”

"This one is mine, I'm the assault on the team." Xie Tao raised his eyebrows proudly and said, "I'll go to the shooting range to try it later, if you want to use it well, you still need some essentials." ”

"Good! That's great! ”

It's been a long time since I've seen Huang Weizheng's excited expression, and when I think back to playing electronic shooters with him in the past, he would choose a shotgun, and I don't know why he loves this kind of weapon that can't go far. Looking at his thin body, I couldn't imagine shooting at the mutants in the street with a shotgun, but I was a little worried about whether he would be pushed down by the strong recoil.

After trying out the weapons at the improvised shooting range set up by the soldiers at the base, we can roughly confirm that it will be sunny weather today. Hwang Chanmin told us that he found that the mutants were as afraid of the sun as vampires, and rarely appeared on sunny days, but they could be found on cloudy days or in dark, clammy and cold places. Leaving aside whether his words are true or not, at least we can be sure that Hwang Chanmin will provide a lot of help for this operation.

Under Liu Licheng's compulsion, we spent three days carefully and comprehensively learning how to use the relevant firearms and simple combat essentials, which felt like an enhanced version of military training, and to some extent more rigorous than military training. As civilians and students, we didn't have the point where we could use weapons that were so lethal and uncontrollable as rifles or shotguns, and in Xie Tao's words, Liu Licheng only intended to let us take a pistol to protect us from the beginning. Therefore, if the results in the shooting range meet the standard, and pass Liu Licheng's assessment three days later, we will be qualified to walk out of the base with the rifles and shotguns in our hands.

It can be said that every day of the past three days has been spent in Huang Canmin's cynicism towards us, but I have to admit that his marksmanship is absolutely first-class, even better than Xie Tao. Under the rigorous training, we have gradually become proficient in the use of firearms. Let's not mention the accuracy, at least Xie Tao can rest assured that we won't hurt ourselves. Early in the morning of the third day, under the supervision of Liu Licheng, we successfully passed the assessment set by him. After the assessment, we immediately returned to the armory and prepared for the rescue operation.

With our heads held high and our guns on our shoulders, we attracted many curious glances as we walked on the main road of the base, both soldiers and civilians stopped in front of the gate of the base and silently watched us pack our equipment and load the car. When everything was ready, Huang Canmin started the engine, and we drove out of the Tianyang base in front of everyone in a green pickup truck.

It is quite a challenge to pass through the Tianyang city from the Tianyang base to the bandits' lair, because even a well-trained special combat team member will die in search of supplies in the dangerous city, not to mention a team like ours that is not strong in combat and has a tacit understanding to be considered. Not long after we entered the city, we had to make our way on foot, and the chaotic streets and poor security meant that we had to try not to make too much noise so as not to cause unnecessary trouble. With weapons in my hands and reliable teammates around me, the fear of desolation that I had a few days ago rose up again, as the air mixed with the faint smell of rancid smell began to draw closer to me.

The city was quieter than I had imagined, and the once bustling streets and alleys were now nothing but abandoned vehicles and the remnants of the chaos. Nature has taken back its territory much faster than we have been able to renovate it, with handfuls of weeds growing in the cracks of the roads and dilapidated buildings that have become home to a few birds. From time to time, strange noises always remind us of the approaching danger, even the sound of breaking glass slag seems to have a lot of echo on the street.

I clutched my rifle in both hands and walked at the end of the line with Hwang Chanmin, we didn't talk much along the way, and in fact none of us wanted to deal with this nasty ghost, but for the sake of tacit understanding in the future, I decided to find something to talk to him.

"Uh, how long have you been in the army?"

What a terrible excuse to pick up a conversation, Hwang Chanmin's eyes were like a monitor that closely monitored the surroundings, and it took a long time for him to focus on me. "I'll talk to you, and your babysitter won't be in trouble again, right?"

"Don't say that, Xie Tao is our friend, he may have been a little nervous yesterday."

"It's so nice, I'm moved to tears." Hwang Chanmin grimaced at me and sarcastically said, "You don't have to worry, I promise you can find your friends, and then we will all go back safely." ”

I should indeed admit that Huang Canmin said that he was most concerned about the issue, and sometimes I really admired his keen insight. "Aren't you going to take the opportunity to leave Tianyang this time?"

"Hmph, you know I haven't thought about it?" Speaking of this, Huang Canmin pointed with his chin at Xie Tao, who was walking in front and talking to Huang Weizheng, "He won't let me go." He is Liu Licheng's most loyal lackey. ”

"Why are you talking so badly?" The disgust with Hwang Chanmin made me frown.

"The facts I said, he and Liu Licheng are not good people, believe it or not."

"You said yesterday that Captain Liu is not what I thought he was, so what kind of person is he in your eyes?"

"You don't believe me, and it only adds to your disgust with me." Huang Canmin stopped, he seemed to smell something abnormal, like the leading stag stretched his neck and looked, "Tianyang is not a good place, if you find your friend, leave here quickly." ”

I still don't fully understand why Hwang Chanmin told me this, but I do plan to discuss leaving Tianyang with my friends, after all, we have wasted too much time.

"Hey!" Huang Canmin suddenly shouted out to Huang Weizheng and Xie Tao, who were walking in front of us, "Let's not go there." ”

"But that's how Team Liu gave us the route." Xie Tao walked over and asked, "Do you know any other way?" ”

"Team Liu, Team Liu, I really don't understand why you believe in him so much." Huang Canmin disdainfully pointed to the intersection in front of us on the left, "The front is the area where we used to haunt, those bandits are estimated to have set up an ambush a long time ago, and I have walked the road on the left, and I can also go around the city." ”

Xie Tao looked at Huang Weizheng, Huang Weizheng looked at me again, and it seemed that I had to make a decision in the end. According to the route given by Liu Licheng before, it should be the safest choice, but maybe it was the words that Huang Canmin said to me that affected my judgment, and maybe if I made a choice other than Liu Licheng's arrangement, I would see his unknown side as Huang Canmin said.

"Listen to Huang Chanmin."

My decision may not have been against Xie Tao, but it somewhat avoided a pointless quarrel. Xie Tao was a little unconvinced, he glanced at me, as if to say, "You will not support me?" I smiled awkwardly at him, but it didn't do anything back, so I could only watch as he threw it at my back. Huang Weizheng also knew my embarrassment, and the two of us glanced at each other, so he followed Xie Tao with understanding, at least to give him some comfort.

"Yo? It was unexpected. Hwang Chanmin pushed me on the shoulder and walked forward smugly.

"This should be what you expected, right?"

"Yes, you can see it."

The ruffian aura on Hwang Chanmin's body makes people feel like a hedgehog, no one can approach him easily, but not only that, but his disdain for anyone has also made me feel the urge to hit him with the butt of my gun several times. "I hope you're worthy of my choice."

"Absolutely." He turned and winked at me, as if to hint at some surprise.

The streets that Hwang Chanmin suggested were as dirty as his people, and even if they weren't sheltered by tall buildings, the light on the streets was extremely dim. The narrow road was crammed with abandoned vehicles, the buildings on both sides were covered with a thick layer of moss, and even the ground had a layer of moss, and the air was so damp that even the eyes seemed to turn yellow-green. It hasn't been a long time since the epidemic got out of control to now, not to mention that it's still autumn and winter, but I didn't expect that buildings with green vines can be seen everywhere in the town, and the trees in the green belt have inexplicably become lush.

As the vegetation on both sides of the street grew, we invariably pulled the bolt of our guns, put our fingers on the switch of the safety, and were ready to shoot. However, the surroundings were as quiet as ever, and it seemed like we were the only ones in danger here. In the hazy light, I could clearly see tiny specs of dust floating in the air like dandelion seeds, and when I looked at it, it was really the spore of some kind of plant. Humanity has been driven out of its cities by nature, and at the same time, nature is taking possession of the territory that belongs to it in its own way. My eyes focused on this small spor, temporarily detached from the tense environment, and it was at this moment that a dazzling spot of light suddenly appeared in a small four-story building directly in front of me. It was fleeting, but when I looked at it again, its reflection convinced me that there must be something in that house.

"There's something!" I pointed at the small building with the muzzle of my gun, "I saw something, something reflecting in the sunlight." ”

"Broken glass, maybe."

"No, I saw it too." Xie Tao denied Huang Weizheng's judgment, "It's like a telescope or something." ”

We all squinted at the building, and the light spots didn't reappear, which only piqued our interest even more. It was still early, so in order not to leave any hidden dangers, we decided to find out.

Hwang Chanmin volunteered to be at the front of the group, kicked open the half-hidden door of the apartment building, and swaggered into the room with his gun raised, completely ignoring the battle formation we had agreed on beforehand. The kicked wooden door stirred up a puff of dust, and as soon as I entered the room, I saw rotten food still on the round table in the living room. The structure of the rooms is the same as that of most private units in rural China, with two more spacious rooms on the ground floor and a living room or utility room on the first floor. The house we entered had apparently decorated the first floor into a living room and kitchen, and there was not much decoration here, just simple and practical cabinets, tables and chairs, and a motorcycle on one side of the hall that I didn't know if it could start.

There was nothing unusual on the first floor, so we went down the stairs and began to search the cold building. On the second floor, there was nothing special except for dusty furniture, but Hwang found a lighter from a locker and a few packs of cigarettes that were not damp. In a good mood, he also lit a cigarette and put it in his mouth, and the air in the room became even more turbid thanks to him.

We slowly climbed the steps, and the third floor was the floor where I remembered the light spots, and everyone became more cautious. As soon as I reached this level, I felt a chill down my spine, as if a pair of sharp eyes were hiding somewhere, staring at us deadly, and making a surprise attack while we were slacking off. After reaching the staircase on the third floor, there was a large room on the left and right waiting for us to search. The room on the left was as messy as if it had been ransacked, the huge wardrobe had been pushed to the ground, and the undragged closet was ajar and creaky in the wind. As soon as Huang Weizheng and Xie Tao walked out of the room on the left, Huang Canmin and I entered the empty and tidy room on the right to search.

The room was facing the street from which we came, with the tinted glass windows ajar, and the desk in front of the window was neatly arranged with the high school textbooks that seemed familiar to me. I flipped through a copy of "Senior Mathematics" and felt with great interest the wonderful finger touch brought by the textbook exercises, thinking that dozens of days ago I was worried about this damn course, and now I am running for survival, everything has become nostalgic, but I believe that everything will eventually return to the way it was.

"Something is wrong." Hwang Chanmin behind me pulled me back to reality, "It's so clean here. ”

Looking around the room we were, with its spotless furniture, clean clothes in the closet, and a few magazines still on the not-so-messy bed, it was not at all reminiscent of the crumbling neighborhoods and terrifying mutants outside.

"There must be people living here." Huang Canmin's finger flicked open the rifle's safety and said vigilantly, "And this person has been spying on us just now." ”

I motioned to Hwang Canmin not to be so nervous and said, "Let's go, we're just passing by, don't cause unnecessary trouble." ”

Xie Tao had already walked to the staircase, and while watching the movement downstairs, he said to us: "That's right, let's leave here first, and I'll report to the captain after we return to the base, and send someone to search here." ”

No one had any objection to this, Huang Weizheng found that there was another door in the room, and he planned to withdraw from this floor with me after checking the situation behind this door. I had already walked out of the room with Xie Tao, and I vaguely heard the sound of the bowstring being drawn from a corner, and before I could alert my teammates around me, Huang Canmin's stern warning sounded in the room.

As soon as Huang Weizheng opened the door, Huang Canmin threw him to the ground, and almost at the same time, a sharp arrow hit the wall behind them, bouncing open and slanting into the wooden wardrobe next to him. Before Huang Weizheng, who fell to the ground and escaped the fatal blow, had no time to figure out the situation, Huang Canmin had already jumped up and rushed into the room, but as soon as he rushed in, he leaned over and knocked down the door panel, rolled on the ground and took a few steps back, and in an instant, another arrow was inserted into the door panel he knocked down. Huang Weizheng got up and raised the shotgun, but before he could raise his hand, he froze in place and remained motionless; Xie Tao and I, who ran back to the room, couldn't see the person in the room at all, only to see Huang Weizheng standing honestly in place, an arrow aimed at his head.

"Don't move!" Hwang Chanmin, kneeling on the door, shouted at the room with his gun raised, his fingers already on the trigger ready to be fired.

Huang Weizheng didn't dare to act rashly, because a sharp arrow was pointed right between his eyebrows, and it could be said that as long as this arrow moved forward even one centimeter, his head would be in danger. Xie Tao and I cautiously leaned forward and saw our opponent. In fact, standing in front of Huang Weizheng is a petite girl in a casual jacket, she is the same age as us, but her eyebrows are a little more mature than us. Her graceful long brown and yellow hair rests on the shoulder of her left shoulder, a few strands of fine hair flutter in the air with that steady breathing, her fair skin is like the first melting snow on a quiet snowy mountain, her pink cheeks are as elegant red as a summer morning, and the black and yellow competitive recurve bow in her hand and the modified practice arrow on the string make her more like a piercing blue poisonous thorn, which makes people dare not blaspheme.

"Put down your toys, kitten." The muscles in Huang Canmin's face twitched to one side, and he was not on the favorable side because of Huang Weizheng, who was separated between them.

"You put down your gun first, scoundrel." What a scoundrel, the girl did what I wanted to say.

"Impossible."

"You broke into my house, smoked my dad's cigarette, and are now telling me to lay down my weapon in my room?"

"We are an emergency investigation search and rescue team, and we are people from the army who can take you to a safe place." Xie Tao also raised the gun when Huang Canmin gave a warning, but in order to reduce the girl's sense of oppression, he still decided to put down the gun and pointed it at his armband and explained, "We have no ill will. ”

"I don't know what a search and rescue brigade is, but in short, you are not a good person like those robbers!" The girl suddenly pulled the bowstring fuller in excitement, causing us all to stare at the guns.

"Don't be nervous!" I didn't want to watch my brother get shot in the head, and seeing that the girl refused to back down, I had to signal Huang Canmin and Xie Tao to put down the gun, "Look, we put down the gun, should you also ......?"

"Think beautifully! You think I'm going to believe you? Get out of here! I won't leave here! ”

"Okay, we'll get out."

"Shut up!"

The girl scolded, and Huang Weizheng had to shut up aggrievedly.

"Beauty, I don't know what you're excited about, we won't hurt you......" I deliberately put on a relaxed look and smiled, "Besides, do you think I look like a robber?" ”

"Like." The girl didn't even think about looking at me and replied, her eyes turned, she glared at Huang Canmin next to me who threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stepped on it in disgust, and said, "He's more like!" ”

"Alright...... You're vexatious......"

"Shut up!" The girl cut off Huang Weizheng's complaint again, and my poor friend had to protest with white eyes.

"Listen, we just want to take you out of here, and we can provide you with safe protection at the Tianyang base." I put the gun behind my back and raised my hands a little closer to the girl.

"The people in your Tianyang base are the same as those robbers, colluding with each other to trade, it's not a good thing!"

The girl's words were beyond my expectations, and the specious words that Hwang Chanmin said to me flashed through my mind again. My thoughts were still a little dazed, and even Huang Canmin seemed to be a little surprised by this, but Xie Tao suddenly raised his rifle excitedly and pointed it at the girl and shouted, "You are talking nonsense!" ”

"No nonsense! I've seen the men of your troops negotiate deals with the bandit leaders and divide the districts into districts, completely ignoring the survivors of the other houses in Tianyang City! ”

Xie Tao naturally wants to protect the reputation of his troops, but there is no time to argue now. I grabbed the conversation and said, "We were sent by the base commander to rescue the captured survivors, and my friend was among them. I don't care what you think of the Tianyang base, and I don't know if what you say is true, but if you think of us as bad guys, you're very wrong. ”

The girl and I looked at each other, and there was a determined, scarred glow in her brownish eyes that questioned my soul again and again, and when I wavered, her slender fingers loosened and took my friend's life.

"Aren't you going to drive us away? Let's go. As I spoke, I motioned for Xie Tao and Huang Canmin to go downstairs, and the girl seemed to have no opinion, but Huang Weizheng was still her hostage.

"Hey, you just left me here?" Huang Weizheng asked innocently.

"No, when we get out on the street, this beauty thinks she's safe, I think you'll be fine." Speaking of which, I winked at the girl and smiled, "You said yes, right?" ”

"No problem...... But you are not allowed to tell others what happened today, if I find out that people from the Tianyang base are disturbing my life, you will definitely not end well! The girl's cold, sharp warning sent me shuddered, and I have to say that I had no doubt that she had the slightest resolve.

Huang Canmin and Xie Tao thought that my proposal was a bit unreliable at first, and they had to go downstairs with me when they were suspicious. After leaving Huang Weizheng with a dashing back, the three of us carefully returned to the door of the unit building, like three infatuated teenagers who admired the young girls living upstairs wandering the streets and waiting. I don't know if the girl will keep Chen Nuo, although she has no reason to hurt Huang Weizheng at all.