Twenty-first Bonfire
After the apocalypse, GZ City is like a hell on earth, full of gunsmoke, full of death and terror, and the surviving humans can only hide in dim corners like rats before the end of the apocalypse and struggle to survive. In the face of such a predicament, there are only two kinds of people left who have not collapsed and have the courage to survive, one is the person who has the courage to face the fear, and the other is the person who is really afraid of death.
But, just as darkness and light always go hand in hand, there will always be one or two corners of this dead city that will be safer, such as the main railroad line to the outside of the city.
The railway before the end of the day is an important transportation hub of the country, due to the country's six times to increase speed, in order to ensure the safety of the railway, the relevant departments on both sides of the railway have installed high isolation nets, and the places passed are sparsely populated.
In the green mist, four parallel rails stretch forward infinitely, leading directly to unknown directions, never intersecting. The feet are covered with small pieces of granite, and there is a rattling sound when you step on it, and the sky is green overhead, and the sunlight is blocked, and you can only see the outline of a sun, which makes the temperature around you a little cool, just like the shade of the trees at sunset.
You Xi and the others were working this silent railway at this time, with tall buildings in the distance and gunsmoke everywhere, but it had nothing to do with their group. There is hardly a single figure to be seen here before the end of the day, so they have not encountered any zombies, mutated animals, or surviving humans.
"How long will it be before we get out of the city?" Zhang Minghai wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked at the railroad tracks that he couldn't see and said.
"We'll probably be able to walk out at noon tomorrow, and we'll spend the night here tonight." Zhang Minghai took another puff of cigarette at this time, and replied with a map in both hands, and the other two Li Haowen's subordinates saw him smoking, and they were very greedy, but they didn't dare to ask him.
After a short exchange, the group continued to go on the road silently, even if walking on the granite boy would make the soles of the feet hurt, but no one complained, and the tiger girl climbed into the cold snow backpack to sleep at some point, as for the eighth brother is hovering above them, sometimes when he is tired, he flies directly to the front to find a big tree to rest while waiting for them, so uncomfortable.
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In the evening, the sun gradually set in the west, pulling a long line of shadows at the feet of the people on the railway. At this time, You Xi and the others came to a relatively desolate place, where there was nothing but some low shrubs around the railway, and the nearest residential building was at least 800 meters away.
After walking on the railway all day, Rao is You Xi also felt that his legs were sore, and the others were even more ugly, Li Haowen and the other two women sat directly on the railroad tracks to rest, and finally, they decided to spend the night here tonight.
A bonfire had just risen, and the last rays of the sun had left the city, leaving only endless darkness all around, and the moonlight had been obscured by a thick green mist.
The night in the wild is cold, and even more so in this last day when the green mist blocks the sun, You Xi and the others are sitting around the bonfire, each holding a wooden stick in their hands, and there is a sparrow stuck in the top of the stick, the sparrow has been disposed of its feathers and internal organs, and it is roasted on the bonfire to emit a rich aroma of meat, so that several people around the fire have their index fingers, and they want to swallow the uncooked sparrow immediately.
"Meow ......" The tiger girl sitting next to You Xi and Leng Xue stared at the roasted sparrow on the fire, her tail kept sweeping on the ground, and a pair of golden eyes flashed with golden light, as if the roasted fish was not a sparrow on the fire.
"It's time to go!"
Zhang Minghai shouted, and the remaining eight people immediately took off the wooden sticks, and several people were even scalded by the hot barbecue because they were too anxious, and the tiger girl was even more direct, biting off one of the wooden sticks roasted with sparrows, putting it between her feet, and began to gulp and compete with the test sparrow on her chest, which made You Xi and Zhang Ziyan wonder how the tiger girl, who was born not long ago, could eat meat more fiercely than them.
The sound of everyone gobbling began to sound around the fire, although You Xi did not have any spices in their hands, just added a little salt to the barbecue, but for them after a busy day of hunger, these barbecue meat was already the most delicious food they had eaten in the last days.
"Quack! I want it, I want it! Just as You Xi and the others were eating barbecue, the eighth elder brother, who had been staying in the tree, flew down, and he was anxious to eat the barbecue, but his wings were not as flexible as human palms, and the wooden stick was too small for his claws.
"Aren't you a vegetarian?" Li Haowen pushed his gold-rimmed glasses, looked at the eighth brother suspiciously, and asked.
"Humph! I'm not a monk! The eighth elder brother still spoke amazingly, he even knew the meaning of the monk, and he didn't know who taught him before the end of the world, helplessly, Zhang Minghai had no choice but to pick up a roasted sparrow meat and hand it to the eighth elder brother, anyway, they can't eat enough meat, and the meat will spoil after a long time.
When the eighth elder brother saw the sparrow meat handed over, he opened his big mouth, and with a click, he actually bit off the wooden stick and the sparrow meat together, chewing up and down in his mouth, and swallowed his stomach without even spitting out a bone.
"Delicious, delicious! Still, more! The eighth elder brother kept bowing up and down, and then looked at the barbecue meat held by the tiger girl, and a trace of crystal liquid flowed out of his mouth.
"Meow!" Seeing that the eighth elder brother stared at his food, the tiger girl raised her front paws, exposed her sharp claws and waved them in the air, and then ignored the macaw, twisted her body, and pointed her butt at the eighth elder brother, and her tail continued to sweep. The eighth elder brother didn't know why, when he heard the warning of the tiger girl, he was frightened and immediately turned around and didn't dare to look at the tiger girl again, and his legs seemed to contract a little unnaturally.
"Wait for the next round, it's not baked yet!" Zhang Minghai was determined to pay attention to raising the eighth elder brother, and said to the eighth elder brother.
"Dead starling, if you eat my things, you have to do something for me, do you know?" You Xi saw the greedy appearance of the eighth elder brother, and said vaguely with a bite of meat in his mouth.
When the eighth elder brother heard You Xi's words, he rarely didn't talk back this time, I don't know if it was for barbecue or to be with beautiful women, but You Xi would never have thought that this glazed macaw would have become a high-altitude hunter like an eagle since tonight, and it was the first parrot in the world to hunt, and what was even more unbearable was that he would actually use the prey he caught to pick up girls!!
Late at night, after they had eaten a full meal, they gathered around the campfire and began to chat.
During the chat, You Xi met Li Haowen's other two subordinates, the guard who entertained them was named Qian Zhiqiang, who was called Xiaoqiang by them, and the other was named Huang Pengfei, because of his short stature, he was the youngest of Li Haowen's subordinates, and everyone called him the sixth son, as for the rest of his subordinates, they all died after the end of the world.
"I'm worried about my parents and I don't know what happened to them." During the conversation, Liuzi suddenly remembered his family, and the rest of the people fell silent when they heard it.
"I still have my sister and parents at home, but I can't contact them at all after the green mist falls, I guess it's more than lucky!" Xiaoqiang was reminded of the sad past, and his mood seemed very low.
"Why are we talking about this, the most important thing now is that we have to work hard to live, and survival is the most important thing, so that we are worthy of our dead comrades-in-arms, isn't it!" Li Haowen saw that his men were immersed in sadness, and hurriedly stepped forward to encourage him.
"Yes, yes, the most important thing now is that everyone is united, survival is the most important thing, hurry up and rest, and then we will take turns to keep vigil!"
In the end, Zhang Minghai stopped chatting tonight, and everyone fell asleep around the bonfire and pillows on their backpacks, and after a while, there was a sound of snoring.
You Xi is the first round of vigil, and the other is Li Man, at this time Leng Xue is sleeping on You Xi's shoulder, and the tiger girl is curled up in front of the fire, and the eighth elder brother is squatting next to the tiger girl to rest, and I don't know when these two will get better.
After a night of silence, two hours later, You Xi woke up Zhang Ziyan and Liuzi, and then also fell into a deep sleep until he was woken up by the night watchman the next morning.
"If everything goes well, we should be able to get out of GZ City today, but why did the green fog suddenly thicken a lot today?" Zhang Minghai frowned and pondered.
Just this morning, when You Xi woke up, they found that the visibility of the green fog had dropped to only about two hundred meters, which was a very bad information, and the good mood of the people who were about to escape was instantly diluted a lot, and the group exchanged glances, and immediately sped up, packed up their things and continued to hurry, breakfast could only be eaten in a hurry when they were in a hurry.
They were still in a hurry in the morning, and if they hadn't taken the railway, they would have wanted to find a car to get around, but even if they were given a car, they would still choose to take the railway on foot, because the road out of the city has long been blocked by various car accidents, or stopped by endless corpses.
The sun gradually climbed high in the sky, You Xi and they were lucky not to encounter the corpses all morning, only in some areas close to residential areas encountered a few zombies wandering around the railway, some of them found You Xi and them, if they were not very close, You Xi They didn't bother to pay attention to it, and accelerated their pace to leave, and some of them had already walked to the edge of the isolation net, You Xi They directly inserted a knife into the zombie's head through the iron net.
There was no danger along the way, and they came to the Dongjiang Bridge at noon.
"After crossing the Dongjiang Bridge, we will walk out of GZ City, and when the time comes, we will find a car, and we will never go back to this ghost place where birds don't, hahaha!"
The group was excited because they had finally escaped from GZ City, and when they looked back at the big city that represented death, they were all glad for themselves, and they didn't know how many zombies there were in the city, three million! Or five million? How many evolved zombies will there be?
Through the thick green fog, You Xi and they couldn't see the situation on the other side of the bridge, but this did not affect their speed, but not long after they walked into the bridge, the sound of human quarrels began to appear on the bridge in front of them.
Surprise! You Xi and the others were first extremely surprised, there were people moving in front of them, proving that there might be a team of human survivors in front of them, so they hurriedly quickened their pace and walked in the direction of the quarrel.
"Please, don't do this, I'll give you all the food, let our father and daughter go!"
This voice You Xi felt very familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere, who could it be? In confusion, You Xi pulled out the Tang knife and ran out, no matter who it was, at least it was a rare thing to meet acquaintances in the last days.
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