South-east.

The farmland in the north stretches as far as the eye can see, and the ground is covered with a thick layer of ice, and occasionally a few zombies walk around on the ground. These zombies are still wearing thin single clothes, and I don't know if the zombies will feel cold in the cold climate of winter.

"The car has been gone for a while, and I don't see a suitable place to settle at all." Geng Zhi said.

"Yes," Zheng Jieming drove the car, "It's getting dark, it's really winter"

"If you can, you can hunt too."

"Hehe, do you expect Zhongzhou to still hunt wild animals? Some of them have also changed to the table in the clubhouse. Zheng Jieming smiled and said.

"There's no way, the curiosity is too heavy. Believe it or not, if there were more humans than zombies now, someone would bring zombies to the table. Geng said straightly.

"Haha, that's very likely." Zheng Jieming said, "What do Zhongzhou people dare not eat? However, in addition to eating, zombies may also become pets and be raised. ”

"Otherwise, our group of people also have a zombie pet? Hahaha! Geng Zhi smiled.

Shunqiang stayed in the car by himself, sat with his wife, and no matter what his wife said, he always didn't talk.

"Shunqiang, what did you see just now? How did you come back like a dead fish? ”

"Go, go, go, what dead fish?" Shunqiang depressedly pushed away his daughter-in-law.

Her daughter-in-law was extremely dissatisfied, she was already approaching menopause, and she had no private time during this time, which made her hold back her anger.

"Forget it, you are a big man, holding back like an old lady, boring!" Shunqiang's daughter-in-law is also an aunt, and when she saw that Shunqiang refused to speak, she didn't bother to deign to ask.

Shunqiang sighed.

"What are you doing?! chirping! There is something to say and fart!! Why do you make a sigh!? Are you cheating, how to drop? Just your soft lying on your stomach," his daughter-in-law said endlessly.

When Shunqiang heard his daughter-in-law say this, he was unhappy and cut her off.

"What nonsense are you talking about! Shut up you give it to me!! Shunqiang shouted.

This made everyone else in the car look at them in surprise.

"Yo?! You're upside down, aren't you?! Shunqiang's daughter-in-law immediately spilled the strength of a tigress.

"What to see?!" Shun Qiang waved his hand, and the others had no choice but to turn their heads in amusement.

And her daughter-in-law is scolding endlessly.

Shunqiang endured it silently, and at the same time thought about it again and again, and waited until her anger was finished, and then pulled his daughter-in-law to the side.

"You come, you come, I'll tell you!"

"What the hell are you doing! You haven't been scolded enough by me, have you?! Shunqiang's daughter-in-law said dissatisfiedly, but moved towards Shunqiang.

Shunqiang thought about it, put his mouth next to his daughter-in-law's ear, and whispered

"Ah??!h Shunqiang's daughter-in-law shouted in shock, "What are you talking about?!" ”

The man next to him once again stared at the two of them.

"Shh Why do you do this? Learn from your husband and me! Steady down!! Shunqiang said, "I didn't say anything about you when you chirped crookedly just now!" What are you doing now! ”

His daughter-in-law was visibly proud.

"Shunqiang, Shunqiang, I didn't expect you to be a little clever, I didn't see it before, so what do you say?"

"Hmph, listen, when the time comes, let's be" Shunqiang continued to whisper to his daughter-in-law.

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The group finally arrived at another village.

It is also a common village in the north.

The difference is that the village is planted with a large forest outside the village.

"It's getting dark. If there is no food here, I will have to spend the night here. Geng said straightly.

"Huh! Isn't there a forest? I'm afraid it's really time to eat the bark tomorrow. Zheng Jieming said, "I'm curious about how those people ate tree bark to survive the famine for three years. ”

"Eager to try?"

"No, it's just that we're probably really going to get to this point." Zheng Jieming said, "Tomorrow morning, we have to let everyone go to pick bark together."

The sun has almost set.

In winter, the dusk left for everyone is not long, and after the car stopped, Zheng Jieming immediately instructed Zhuang Yi to prepare for cooking.

"Hurry up and find supplies! Except for the cooks and housekeepers, all go out!! Zheng Jieming arranged.

He ignored one point, Shunqiang's wife was left behind, and together with Zhuang Yi, stayed by the truck.

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This village is not much different from the previous one, except that the main crop in this village seems to be apples.

In the woods, the apples rotting all over the ground are caused by no one picking them.

But these apples are definitely inedible.

Zheng Jieming only looked at the apple puree in this place, and his heart was half cold.

If someone were to live, how could this apple not be picked?

It's a pity that this village, like the previous ones, doesn't have much food.

They found some corn on the roof of one room.

However, the grains of the corn had long since dried up, and there was a thick layer of black ash on it. It seems that some time ago, the smog near Shijiazhuang did not decrease much because of the end of the world.

"That's it, there's no way, I have to tell everyone openly and honestly about the last meal tomorrow, leave a little spare food for Wang Chengnan, and the rest, from tomorrow, will be mixed with tree bark to make porridge. That way we'll be able to hold out one more time. Zheng Jieming discussed with Geng Zhi in despair.

"Bark porridge?" Geng Zhi thought, "Okay, it's really not good, give the dog"

"No way!" Zheng Jieming said, "That dog, it must still be useful, don't be in a hurry to kill, we are short of three or two meals, we can still persevere, just treat it as a collective valley." ”

"Hehe, the dog you rescued, that dog is very affectionate with you. In addition, if I dare to mention killing the dogs, I am afraid that the women will kill me first. Geng said straightly.

The crowd was indeed busy for a while.

There was nothing useful in this village, and it seemed that there was a house where people had stayed - just a man who had committed suicide

The others are zombies trapped in the house. Many of these zombies seem to be transformed in their sleep, so they can only hang around in the locked room.

Food? Yes. But most of them are broken in the freezer or refrigerator. A handful of things like beer are still edible.

The worst thing is that there is no commissary in this village.

"Admit it. I have to explain the situation to everyone tonight, tomorrow is bark soup, and we have to prepare. Zheng Jieming thought to himself.

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At the last normal dinner, everyone ate extremely depressed.

Zhuang Yi put the last bit of flour, rice and canned meat in the pot and boiled it in a large pot.

She didn't have the time to cook her food carefully.

What's more, in the current situation, no matter what virtue the food is, everyone has to eat it.

The only exception was that he boiled a little porridge in a small pot -- this was for Wang Cheng's difficulty.

That's the only privilege anymore.

Everyone got a bowl of food.

This food can be said to be very unpalatable and difficult to swallow.

It smells of salt, chicken essence is also put in, and even in order to let everyone take in vitamins, Zhuang Yi also put the last dried seaweed in it.

The stewed stuff smells weird.

But even then, everyone quickly ate up the contents of the bowl.

Even the bowl was licked by everyone, and there were no particles left.

The person who finished eating first rushed to the pot, poured out the bottom of the inside, and ate it cleanly.

Especially Shun Qiang's two sons, the first one ate all the food in the bowl, and almost wrapped the bottom of the pot around -- this is the "plan" that Shun Qiang said to his daughter-in-law, to eat a little more at night and replenish more energy. In Shunqiang's whisper, the only content is this.

"That's all for today? That's all we ate! The widowed aunt said that her husband, surnamed Liu, had died in the attack on the "chimpanzees".

Zheng Jieming thought about it and decided not to hide it from everyone anymore.

"That's right. That's all there is to it. It can be said that we have almost only one meal of food. Zheng Jieming took advantage of everyone's filling of their stomachs and said, "We only have a small amount of food left, and tomorrow morning, we have to entrust everyone to pick some bark and use it to make porridge and drink." If we can't find food tomorrow, I'm afraid we'll still have something to eat the day after tomorrow. ”

"What? What to eat the day after tomorrow? Zhou Jitang asked.

"Plenty of north-westerly winds." Zheng Jieming replied.

There was silence.

In fact, everyone expected this result.

As early as they came out of the amusement park, everyone had such doubts in their hearts

It's just that now this fact has come true.

"Northwest wind is northwest wind, tomorrow is our last chance, find more bark to spare, and then, drive to the next village, we still have gasoline, this is our hope." Hua Bong thought about it and said with Zheng Jieming.

"I'm afraid there's not much fuel, right? In these two villages, there is not even much oil replenishment. Huo Gong said, "If there is no fuel, we will be completely trapped." ”