"May the Lord bless our friend Otis, who gave his life for the sake of saving the life of a child. Now, it's our most valuable asset. We thank God and may He be in your arms forever and happy! Though he is dead, he is alive. ”

Standing aside, Luffy watched as Hershel presided over Otis's funeral, the first time he had seen a real foreign funeral. Under Herschel's auspices, Otis's wife packed some of Otis' relics into a box, and the rest of the farm piled up the stones they had just collected one by one, covering them over the box, and gradually piled them up into a tomb.

After the funeral, the time also came to the afternoon. Otis's wife was helped back to rest by Herschel's daughter, Maggie, the female knight they met in the woods. Luffy and the others gathered together to discuss the issue of finding Sophia.

"It's a pity that there is no map here, otherwise, it would be much easier, those places went, those places didn't go, it was clear at a glance." At the beginning of the discussion, Luffy Yang sighed.

Luffy's words woke up Rick, and Rick said in surprise, "Luther, what did you just say?" Map? Is it? ”

"That's right! What's wrong? Looking at Rick who was surprised, Luffy Yang was full of dazedness, not knowing why Rick was suddenly so happy.

"As Herschel, as the farmer here, I think he must have a map of the neighborhood here, we can go to Herschel and borrow a map! I'll ask if he has a map of the neighborhood," Rick said, with a smile on his face behind him, and hurriedly chased after Hill, who hadn't gone far.

Soon Herschel and his daughter, Maggie, took the map and laid it flat on the hood of the farm pickup. Holding down the map with two small pebbles to prevent it from rolling up, Maggie said, "This is the survey map of the county, and the terrain and altitude are marked on it. ”

Helping her daughter hold down the map, Hershel asked, "How long has that little girl been missing?" ”

"It's been two days and two nights!" Rick said, "Now we can finally plan how we are going to search for Sophia." In this way, we divided the area and went to find Sophia in groups......"

Before Rick could finish his sentence, Hershel interrupted Rick and said, "No! You can't go! In the past 2 days, you have transfused more than 1500cc of blood for your son. In this kind of hot weather, you may not have to go out for 5 minutes before you are carried back. ”

Saying this, Hershel turned to Sean and said, "And you!" You hurt your ankle, and if you don't take a break, work hard now, and you'll be in bed for the next month. ”

"Then it's just me and Luther?" Daryl turned his head to look, then said to Luffy, "That's fine, Luther." How about you and I go back to the creek and we search separately along the 2 banks of the creek? ”

"OK, no problem, I'm ready to go." Although Luffy Yang had already sentenced Sophia to death in his heart, he didn't see Sophia run around as a zombie after being bitten by a zombie. Since everyone is still thinking about going out to find Sophia, then let's do our part!

Sean continued, "I can't go out and look for it, but I can do something. In this way, I drove to the highway to see if Sophia was back. ”

"That's good!" Rick found himself unfit to go out now, and after a day of standing like this today, he felt very tired, which was impossible before. Seeing that the time was close to dinner, Rick said, "We'll leave tomorrow, and we'll look for it again!" ”

"Rick, since none of us can go out to find Sophia, let's teach the others to shoot here! For the sake of safety in the future, we can't except for a few of us in the future, and no one else will shoot. Seeing that there was nothing to do for the time being, Sean remembered to train the other people in the team to shoot.

Hearing Sean say that he would start shooting training for everyone, Hershel shook his head and said, "On my farm, you'd better not bring guns!" We didn't use guns, and we haven't seen anything happen to us for so long. ”

Sean and Luffy glanced at each other, and Sean wanted to object. But Rick immediately stopped Sean and said, "Alright, Herschel! This is your farm, your territory. Since you said so, then we will listen to you. ”

With that, Rick pulled out his pistol and gave Luffy and Sean a look. Although he was unwilling, but with Rick's eyes repeatedly, Luffy Yang still took out his Colt revolver like Sean.

Seeing that Luffy Yang and Sean both pulled out their pistols, Rick said, "Then we'll set up the tent first, and we'll go to find Sophia tomorrow." ”

Luffy Yang finally couldn't help but say at this time: "Although I don't want to say it, it's been nearly 3 days. What if we find Sophia and he's been bitten by a zombie? ”

"Do what you have to do!" After the people around the car looked at each other, Rick lowered his gaze and said in a low voice.

Seeing that Rick said this, Sean put away the gun on the hood and said, "Then I'll collect all the guns and don't let anyone else have guns in their hands." It wasn't until we focused on training that we handed over all the guns on the farm to ...... Leave it to Dale for safekeeping! He's a believable old chap. ”

"But I have a requirement, and that is that the patrol people must have guns, so that we are safer, and even if there is any danger, we will not be powerless to resist."

Looking at Sean's determined eyes, Hershel thought about it for a while, but nodded and agreed to Sean's request.

Looking at the sky, Luffy Yang didn't want to set up a tent here with Carol and a few other women, so he said to Daryl, "Daryl, why don't we go out and have a look now?" We'll be back before dark? ”

Daryl covered the sun with his hand in front of his forehead, squinted his eyes and thought for a while, then nodded, "It's okay!" Luther, let's go and tidy up first, bring the things that should be brought, and when we are done, we will set off. ”

Walking in the woods, Daryl walked cautiously with a crossbow arrow, and said to Luffy, who was holding the axe beside him, "Luther, why did you come out with me to look for it?" ”

Looking at the strange expression on Luffy's face, Darryl said, "From the expression on your face, I can see that you must have lost hope that you can find Sophia for a long time." Is that right? ”

Listening to Daryl's words, Luffy was silent for a while before he said, "Daryl, you must know that Sophia is just a little girl!" And she's been missing for 3 days, and it's still a forest, although the trees aren't that dense. But I don't think there are that few zombies here. ”

"This is not the west of the deep mountains and old forests of your Celestial Empire. Tibet, this is the Georgia of the American imperialists, there is not so much danger here! When Darryl said this, he suddenly said, "Luther, did you ever run away from home when you were a child?" ”

"No! How? Seeing Daryl suddenly change the subject, Luffy said strangely.

"I've had it before!" Darryl said: "At that time, I was about the same size as Sophia. One day I went into the forest, got lost in it, and stayed in the woods for nine days, living only by picking some fruit every day. In the end, I found my way through the woods and went home on my own. My dad was playing with the dancers in the bar every day, and Mohr was in a juvenile detention center, and they didn't know I had ever disappeared. ”

Speaking of this, Daryl smiled bitterly before saying, "I've been in the woods for so long, and after I went back, except for the fact that my butt was very itchy because I rubbed my butt with leaves, didn't I always be fine?" No one was looking for me back then, I came back, and now so many of us are looking for Sophia, and I'm sure Sophia will be fine. ”

Hearing Daryl say that he wiped his butt with leaves, which caused his butt to itch later, Luffy didn't hold back for a while, and laughed out loud. Being laughed at by Luffy, Daryl's face turned black at once. Looking at Daryl's darkened face, Luffy couldn't help but laugh and said, "Haha, I'm sorry." Daryl, I can't imagine that you, who have always appeared as a tough guy, would have such a mess. Haha, I want to laugh just thinking about the itchy butt you said. ”

In Luffy's laughter, Daryl said with a dark face: "What are you laughing at, now we are in the woods, your laughter is easy to attract zombies, and it doesn't stop!" ”

Knowing that Daryl didn't like to joke, Luffy laughed twice and finally stopped. Following Daryl, Luffy and the others soon found an abandoned house in the woods, the white walls had turned gray with the baptism of time, and the red roof had accumulated a thick layer of dust.

At Daryl's signal, Luffy walked around the house and then returned to the front to join Daryl. After shaking his head at Daryl, Luffy said, "There are no zombies around, and it seems that Sophia has been here, but then she left again, and I found her footprints." ”

Listening to Luffy's words, Daryl pushed open the door of the house, and after searching the house, he found the residue of the food Sophia had eaten, and also found traces of Sophia's hiding and resting in a cabinet. After coming out of the house, looking at Luffy Yang who was guarding outside the house, Daryl said in frustration, "We're late!" Like you said, Sophia had a night of rest here, but now she's out of here. ”

"So what do we do? Do you keep looking for it or do you ......? Luffy said.

"Don't worry!" Darryl said: "Let's look around carefully to see if there are any other traces of Sophia. Also, I thought we could try to scream, and if she was here, maybe she would hear us. In this way, the two of us searched the front and back of the house for half an hour, and after half an hour, we reassembled here, and if we still didn't find it, then we went back first. ”

"Sophia ......"

"Sophia ......"

Luffy and Daril searched around the house for nearly an hour, and they returned to the front of the house. On the grass in front of the house, when Daryl found a white flower, he plucked it, carefully kept it, and said, "Let's go!" We went back. ”

"What kind of flower is this?" Seeing that Daryl carefully kept the little white flower, Luffy asked strangely.

"This is a Cherokee Rose!" After seeing this flower, Daryl's eyes darkened, and he said softly: "Legend has it that when the American imperialists expelled the Indians from their homeland, many Indians died due to hunger, disease, and weather, and the most of them were children. At that time, the elders of the tribe prayed to the gods in order not to grieve the mother who lost her child, and the next day, these flowers bloomed in the places where the mothers had shed tears. ”

"This is the Cherokee Rose. When my brother Moore disappeared, I didn't think there would be a rose like this that would bloom for him. But Carol, I believe this Dodge Roki Rose was opened for Sophia's sake. Back on the farm, Daryl put the cherokee roses he had picked into a bottle and brought them to Carol.