When we returned to the camp, it was getting late, and Liao Zhuojun and I were escorted back to the armed bus by the Jiangshang people, and we were locked up with Huang Weizheng and them.

Several of our prisoners were tied to the back of the armed bus, and they were chained to a handrail post, looking like a group of gang pickpockets had been swept away by the police. Huang Weizheng and I were handchained to the front position, Xie Tao and Ban Zhiyu were next to us, the old wolf and his two men were in the back row, but the guards in the aisle of the carriage could see their condition in the middle of the position, and the others were almost the same as us in other more conspicuous places.

Outside the window, under the red sunset, the people of the river were busy setting up the camp, and the bald man's hope of leaving the dense forest area before sunset was completely frustrated. They had formed a semicircle around the armed bus and a few other vehicles, and there was no campfire in the camp, and I guess they had listened to the advice of the two unlucky guys who were collecting samples with me and Liao, and doubted my ability to keep them safe from mutants.

In addition to a few of us, there were three guards in the armed bus, among them was the big guy of 1.9 meters, who took a chair and sat firmly in the middle of the aisle like a sculpture, like a wall to cut the carriage into two sections, and those eyes as big as bull's eyes were like surveillance cameras monitoring our every move.

I sat by the window, while Huang Weizheng leaned towards the aisle. In the carriage, except for the unbridled conversation of the few people on the river, several of us remained silent; I don't know why, Huang Weizheng and I, who talked about everything in the past, are like two strangers locked up together, but at this time, we are falling into our own contemplation.

The girl behind me was whispering, Xie Tao watched the guards' every move, I didn't look back at the situation behind me, and I didn't even pay much attention to the people around me, but from time to time I noticed whether they had a plan to get out. When the sun went down, everything outside the windows was painted black, and there was no obvious light source inside the car. The light in front of him seemed to be swallowed up by darkness, except for the sparks with cigarette butts in the guard's mouths and the bright moonlight in the sky.

I don't know who coughed sideways, I unconsciously turned my head, and happened to brush Huang Weizheng's eyes. Our eyes met for only a few microseconds, and he lowered his head slightly to look ahead, as if he didn't intend to talk to me, his deep eye sockets were especially evident on the side of his face, and the moonlight outside the window was also shadowing his eye sockets.

I tried not to care about my estrangement from him and refocused my attention on my other companions. At this time, he suddenly whispered, "I don't seem to have officially apologized to you yet." ”

"Apologize?" Just like the expression on my face, I didn't understand why Huang Weizheng said this coldly.

"Yes, what happened that day in Aoyama...... If it weren't for me, I don't think you would be what you are. As he spoke, Huang Weizheng turned his head to stare at me, and after a few seconds, I realized that his eyes were looking at me, yes, he was carefully observing me who looked like a dead corpse, maybe at this moment in this cold moonlight, I was more like a living corpse. He frowned and said guiltily, "I've been trying to pretend that nothing happened, but I really can't face you like this." ”

"Are you trying to say that I should leave you as Wei Liqin said?" I didn't question Huang Weizheng when I said this, and my tone was very calm.

Huang Weizheng could also hear that I was not stunned, his gaze kept wandering, trying to find a reference that could not appear to be deliberately avoiding my gaze. "No, we're friends, we're going to face it together anyway. But perhaps because of your current situation, we may go down different paths in the future, and it is I who caused this ending...... I'm sorry, Yuheng. I used to think that if I stayed calm, I could save everyone, but now it seems that I can't save anyone......"

"It's okay, it's too early to say that." I rubbed the frustrated Huang Weizheng with my shoulder, and tried to give him a smile that I guess should be good, "It's a big deal that we have changed places, but we are all alive after all, as long as we are alive." ”

My "crooked reasoning" may seem like bullshit in Huang Weizheng's eyes, but he still gave me face and ended the silence for several hours with a smile.

"Hey, you." Jiang Shangren was very tall and didn't know when a big mountain suddenly appeared in front of me and Huang Weizheng, and as soon as I looked up and saw his face, he nodded at me and affirmed in that deep voice, "That's right, it's you, go out with me." Brother Dong wants to see you. ”

I didn't answer the big man's words, and I didn't know what to answer, so I had to turn my head to look at my companions, their expressions were different, but most of them were uneasy, only Xie Tao looked at me calmly, no, it looked like he was more confident. As soon as I stood up, the big man pulled me out of my seat like a puppy. Although his movements weren't actually insulting, I stumbled a few steps down the aisle to get to my feet.

"Let's go." The big man gave way to half of the passage, and behind him stood a man on the river, watching every step I took with vigilant eyes.

As soon as I stepped out of the bus, I was refreshed by the cold wind in front of me, and although it was spring, the wind at night was still a little cool, the air was noticeably more humid than before, and there was a smell of rotting creatures. Not far away, the converted cargo van we had driven pulled open its sliding doors, and a heavily armed man from the river beckoned to me. I glanced back at the tall man, who nodded to make sure that was the way I was headed, and I headed for the van.

I've seen the night of the Dead City Forest, and it can clearly feel weirder in the dense forest than in the rest of the Dead City Forest. The moonlight could barely illuminate the path in front of my feet, and the surroundings were still dim in the darkness of the night. I could faintly see the dim shadows that were weaving in the darkness, but I preferred to believe it was my own hallucination. The breeze lingered in my ears like the whispers of the undead, the air touched by my fingertips brought a burst of dampness and coolness, and I could feel the hot breath of the big man behind me, and his steady breathing was like the rough of a black bear, maintaining a rhythm commensurate with my steps.

Approaching the van, I saw a familiar face, one of them was a red-haired man, his face was not very good, and the redhead hair on his head seemed to be gloomy, he greeted me with a forced smile when he saw me, and then turned sideways to let me in. I had just gotten into the van, and before I could get a good look inside the van, he closed the sliding door behind me.

I instinctively turned my head and saw only the closed door, and then turned my head to look at the people in the car, except for the bald man, there was Cao Lige. They sat side by side in a row, and the meaning was self-evident, and I sat down in the seats opposite them with interest. The two rows are located just below the gunner on the roof of the van, so they are relatively spacious and facing each other, just right for negotiations.

The bald man didn't carry a weapon with him, but Cao Lige had a dagger stuck in his waist, and he didn't bring the Han sword he saw in the morning. As soon as I sat down, they didn't speak immediately, but watched me as if they were measuring a commodity. This discriminatory look annoyed me not only sat on pins and needles, but I interrupted their calculations and said impatiently, "If you want anything, just say it." ”

"Nothing to ask for." The bald man seemed to have just come to his senses, and he tore open his chapped mouth and said in his non-standard Mandarin, "I want to thank you first of all for saving my two men, and secondly, to ask for a little detail about the danger you encountered today...... For example, why are those zombies still active when you are present? ”

"I'm not a scientist, how do I know?"

"Yes, you're right, but I need to know more, otherwise I won't be able to answer the boss." Cao Lige took the bald man's words and said to me in a slightly tactful tone, "Du Yuheng, we must understand your situation clearly, if we don't cooperate, it will be difficult to get out of this forest." ”

"Cooperation? You tie all of us there, it's called cooperation? ”

"Listen, little ghost. I could have tied all of you out of the car, or left you all dead in this except for you and a few worthy people, but I didn't. The bald man excitedly threatened, "You can bargain with me here now, in my opinion, it can already be regarded as cooperation, so stop talking nonsense, honestly explain what happened today, and then go back to sleep!" ”

"All I know is that even if I'm there, those mutants will still attack us, so I'm of no value to you!"

"Was it because he was later injected with some kind of drug that made him lose this ability?" In the face of my response, the bald man asked Cao Lige beside him inappropriately, "Didn't you say that he was injected with some kind of new medicine by that officer when he was in Wanxiang City?" ”

"Yes, the new medicine is here, too."

"Bring it."

"Okay." Cao Lige nodded and knocked on the sliding door, and the door immediately opened, and the red-haired man outside the car took a look at me.

After Cao Lige left, only me and the bald man were left in the car. He didn't ask me any more questions or try to provoke me, but he took out a pack of cigarettes and smoked on his own, spat on me contemptuously, put his hands on the back of the chair, crossed his legs, and embedded them comfortably in the leather chair. I always sat down and stared at him with my waist straight and without saying a word. Actually, I didn't do this to demonstrate to him, but to worry that the wire fern in the pocket of my hooded jacket would fall out, and if this guy found out, it would be difficult to do.

Suddenly, it dawned on me that it wasn't a bad thing for him to find the Clematis in my pocket, and in fact I would have preferred him to find out and confiscate this pair of plants that were dangerous except me, especially now! So I deliberately leaned back, and the branches of the fern were immediately exposed in my pocket. The bald Brother Dong also noticed the anomaly in my pocket as I thought.

"What's that?"

"It'......s nothing," I said, deliberately pretending to be unspeakable, "just a little useless." ”

"I don't think so." The bald man looked like a director of instruction who was checking on a student, smirking and putting his hand in my pocket.

As soon as he reached in, he suddenly withdrew his hand as if he had been bitten by a snake, leaned back in his chair and glared at me in horror, yelling, "What the did you put in your pocket!" ”

"Weeds." Impknowingly, I pulled out the clemat fern from my pocket, and I am afraid that it would be better to call it its new name by now, wasp grass.

Seeing that I naturally held the wasp but didn't react, and I felt so much pain after being lightly stabbed, the bald man was sweating profusely, and pointed at me in extreme pain: "What the are you doing!" ”

"No, you see, I'm fine with it." I looked at him innocently, and I didn't feel guilty at all about what I had done, but rather a condescending joy.

The bald man pointed to my hand, which was the right hand that had been stung by wasp grass, and before he could put it down, the hand immediately lost sensation and drooped numbly. He looked at me in a panic, the contempt he had had, and the instinct for survival forced him to open the door for help, but before he could reach the doorknob, I lunged at him, cuffed hands gripping the wasp on his neck. Bruises immediately appeared on his neck, and there were a few sporadic wounds, but none of them were the most problematic. The bald man then felt that he could not breathe, and he was about to open the door, but his hands were uncontrollably clutching his throat, tearing in pain, his whole face turned purple, his body twisted and struggling in his seat, as if he had been strangled by someone, his bloodshot eyes wide open like light bulbs, and he glared at me in hatred and fear, and exhaled his last breath, like a balloon after a leak spread out on the place where he was still complacent.

I bent over and got up, as a teenage high school student, the feeling after killing still makes me a little panicked, but this uneasiness will soon calm down, there is no time to think about this at this moment, either you die or I die, I don't think killing Brother Dong will make me feel the slightest guilt or guilt. I numbly looked back at the bald man one last time before opening the door, his hateful face stiffening, spit running down the corners of his mouth, and his hideous eyes were the last freeze frame before he died, what a pathetic bastard. Without thinking too much, I naturally opened the car door, and the red-haired man on guard outside the door was startled when he first saw me come out, and after finding the corpse in the car behind me, he looked at me hesitantly and did not take out his weapon for a long time.

"Aren't you going to arrest me?" I asked this mainly to test the position of the red-haired man.

The red-haired man shook his head, and the serrated knife propped up on the ground showed no tendency to be raised. "I'll give you three minutes, Brother Cao went to the armed bus just now."

"Thank you." After thanking the red-haired man, I walked quickly to the armed bus, not expecting myself to be so calm at this moment. The bus was in front of me in the night, but suddenly there was a rush of footsteps in front of me, and a man ran towards me without a master, and because his center of gravity was unstable, he fell in front of me. Realizing that there was someone in front of him, he grabbed my heels as if he had grasped a life-saving straw, and helped me to stand up in a panic. But when he saw me, he panicked and ducked to the side.

It was Cao Lige, a traitor to Wanxiang City, who just now seemed to be a betrayer in control of the overall situation, but now he was panting in front of me, his weapon had been taken away, and there were still a few bruises on his face, and in his nervousness, he glanced in the direction of the van, and after passing by me, he ran towards it without saying a word.

I don't know what's going on, but there's definitely something big on the other end of the bus. I didn't care about Cao Lige, who disappeared in a hurry, and ran to the bus at a faster pace. As soon as I entered the door, I saw Xie Tao and the others loosening their ties to each other, and the guards on the river all fell to the ground, even the one-meter-nine big one.

"Whew? How did you do that? I sighed as I leaned in the doorway.

Everyone who heard my voice looked at me in unison. Ban Zhiyu glanced at Xie Tao with a grin, and I roughly guessed whose masterpiece it was.

"What about you? They let you go? ”

I deliberately avoided Huang Weizheng's question in terms of both eyes and language, and he simply maintained a tacit understanding with me and did not ask any more questions.

I simply changed the subject: "Can we start this car?" ”

"No problem, I brought the keys." The owner of the voice didn't seem familiar to me, and I looked at it and realized that it was the man in the jacket, and he was still helping the old wolf loosen his ties.

"Is that you? Why ......"

"Because you saved me, for no other reason." The man in the jacket replied simply, and returned the bow and arrow on his body to Zhang Xiaoying, who was standing behind him, "This is your thing." ”

"Yes." Zhang Xiaoying took the recurve bow, pulled the bowstring neatly, and didn't thank the jacket man too much. On the contrary, she seemed to be disgusted, took out a piece of paper and carefully wiped her back carefully, and then threw it out the window.

"Alright, let's get out of here." The old wolf jumped up as soon as he loosened his ties, rubbing his hands as he walked to the driver's seat, "I need a navigator." ”

"I'll come."

Zhang Xiaoying volunteered to walk to the driver's seat with the old wolf, and the rest of us were looking for weapons while keeping an eye on the situation outside the window. The van in the distance had already started, and the modified cars driven by the people on the river also started their engines one by one; Perhaps for fear that the gunshots would attract mutants, no one used firearms to warn or attack. The old wolf kicked the accelerator, and with the roar of the engine, the bus turned around and drove into a large road with the sound of a screeching belt.

Aside from the headlights, the old wolf didn't turn on the other lights used to dispel mutants. The dark shadows on the side of the road flickered through the windows one after another, and the roar of the mutants seemed to be ringing in their ears, and from time to time four or five mutants in the middle of the road were hit by the bus, and the speed of the old wolf still did not slow down.

After turning a few intersections, the pursuers of the river disappeared into the rear, and we could feel that the road we were driving was wider than before, and the scraping branches and bushes were much less.

"Did we get rid of them?" Wei Liqin shouted from behind.

"It should be." Although Liao Zhuojun didn't know it herself, she still comforted Wei Liqin, who was a little impatient.

"We're out of the woods." Huang Weizheng staggered back from the front of the car and asked me in a low voice, "Only Cao Lige came over just now, so that the person named Brother Dong was with you at that time?" What happened to him? ”

I glanced at him, and then pretended to continue to look around, looking out the window. Huang Weizheng tilted his head as if he was going to deliberately force me to ask, and guessed: "You won't kill him, will you?" ”

"Perhaps......"