Chapter 69: The Cottage in the Woods (1)
Although he could not speak, he proved his loyalty to his master with his actions again and again, and every wound on its body told of its bravery, and now the mutilated corpse is a testimony of its faithfulness.
I vaguely remember that the thin figure was staring at me, and the slightly immature but very firm voice even sounded in my ears: "I want to follow you into the world......"
"Auntie, you can go with peace of mind, I will take care of your children like my own brother, as long as I am alive Chang Xueli will be alive......"
Scenes of past memories emerged vividly in Qiao Haoyu's mind, like a red-hot blade piercing his heart, which was an unbearable pain in life.
Qiao Haoyu knelt beside this pile of corpses, tears were silent but heartbreaking, his fingers trembled and stroked the two corpses, not far away, but it seemed that the end of the world had touched the coldness from the corpses, and he could no longer bear the pain in his heart and cried bitterly.
The night is already deep!
Crying has become a wail, and the pain that is difficult to vent torments Qiao Haoyu, and the wailing gradually becomes a mournful cry, like a wolf in the moon......
Just when Qiao Haoyu was in pain, a large number of daywalkers and an alien that had not been seen so far came. Was it Qiao Haoyu's wail? Or something else?
The aliens of the new form were special, they were on all fours like blind walkers, but they were noticeably bigger and stronger.
The head of the new alien has completely lost any human features, and resembles an insect. Their heads have tentacles and large compound eyes, and a strange mouth that resembles the mouthparts of some kind of insect, and when they hiss, they exposes their sharp teeth and swallows straw-like things. There is no organ like a nose in their heads, but there is a row of small holes on the side of their body that constantly spew out white breath, which may be their respiratory organs.
The limbs of this alien are very developed, especially the hind limbs are very locust-like, there are sharp saw spines on the tibia, and the forelimbs are full of murder weapons, not only have larger and sharper claws than blind walkers or day walkers, but also have sickle-like bone spur protrusions on the outside of the forearms. During their jumps, they occasionally display a pair of wings on their backs.
These aliens are light gray with irregular green spots, and their bodies can be vaguely reached in the bright light of the stars and moons, and their bodies have-like reflections, which means that their bodies may be keratinized hard shells. There are not many of them, but their status is obviously above that of Daywalkers, and it seems that they have to drive a large number of Daywalkers to kill Qiao Haoyu.
Can physical pain lessen the trauma of the mind? Everyone has their own answer, but one thing is for sure, there is a pain called hatred that cannot die!
Qiao Haoyu hated himself deeply, hated his misses, and hated this chaotic situation. In despair, he really wanted to give up the struggle at this moment and end his life like this, and die with his partner, but the two mutilated corpses in front of him told him that he had to live! Because, his life was exchanged for the flesh and blood of his companions, if he died here, wouldn't the sacrifice of Chang Xueli and Lu Tian'er be too cheap and ridiculous?
Qiao Haoyu stood up and turned to face the charging daywalkers, his heart swelled with infinite killing power, and the killing was about to begin!
An hour later, Qiao Haoyu crushed the head of the last Daywalker. His body was already covered with scars with interlaced canine teeth, many of these wounds were deliberately done by Qiao Haoyu, who could have avoided them but forced them up, longing for the instant sting to relieve the pain in his heart.
The dozen or so unknown aliens ran away when Qiao Haoyu slaughtered the Daywalker like a god, and their strong hind limbs exerted force, jumped up and instigated their wings to fly away.
The deceased is gone, and Qiao Haoyu tried to use his life system energy to revive Chang Xueli and Roaring Tian'er, but failed. The flesh of this man and dog is completely dead, and all the cells have lost their vitality.
Mourning all night, whispering to the shadows.
When Qiao Haoyu left at dawn, there were two more dirt bags in the place where he had been trapped, and his brothers and companions were buried deep underneath.
In the afternoon, Qiao Haoyu rushed to the "Taihe Vegetable Garden" not far from the main road leading to Donghuang Town. Most of the roads in the village are paved with square bricks, there is also an asphalt road, and three-story buildings abound.
What Qiao Haoyu saw was one after another houses that were like bandits, and the food, daily necessities, and even bed sheets, bedding and even stoves were basically cleaned up.
Qiao Haoyu wandered around nearly half of the village, but he didn't come across a single person who could move and run, and he didn't find many useful objects, only found a flattened but still usable iron bucket, and pulled out water from the water pressure well, and used this iron tong as a pot, found a stove to boil the water, and took a hot bath happily.
After cleaning up, Qiao Haoyu's mood calmed down a little, washed off the blood and dirt on his body, simply dealt with the wounds on his body, and changed into a set of clothes that fit him. In recent years, no one has a three, five, or seven sets of clothes, and there are a lot of picks that are pleasing to the eye.
I really didn't find the food, it can be seen that the scraping is very thorough, fortunately, Qiao Haoyu can now rely on some external forces to replenish energy to regulate the needs of the body, otherwise it is basically the rhythm of starvation now.
A small half bag of salt and half a bottle of chili powder are a bonus, and the nearby vegetable patches have basically been patronized, but there are always some omissions in a hurry, and it takes a little time to planing and sorting, and the meal is still no problem.
After filling his stomach with soup and water, Qiao Haoyu began to think about his next move.
The city is buried with a full set of camping items he has collected, and it would be nice to have those items after a long journey, but the question is whether it is worth going back and forth to the city again?
Qiao Haoyu felt a headache when he thought of those daywalkers and blind walkers, stalking and staggering and the number was amazing, with his current combat strength, he was not so afraid, but the matter of killing would make people feel tired, Qiao Haoyu was really unwilling to continue fighting. If possible, he would like to take a break, and he has some avoidance of killing.
"Well, let's go all the way east, I hope the situation over there is okay." Qiao Haoyu didn't dare to think that he could meet Wang Zhanwang and them again, he just hoped to see the people, to have a place for him to feed, breathe, and replenish, and find a way to gather some basic supplies and rush back to his hometown early.
Probably because he has struggled several times on the edge of life and death, Qiao Haoyu's groundless speculation and anxiety about his relatives can already be controlled within the scope of reason, but his thoughts about his relatives are much stronger than before, and the obsession of going home to find his relatives is becoming more and more prevalent.
As for those former eastbound companions, including those who abandoned him in the end, Qiao Haoyu didn't hate them at this time, everyone is human, survival is instinct, Qiao Haoyu can understand them. Everyone has their own fate, and he believes that after experiencing the epidemic incident, they have become more mature, and the advantage of being immune should not be too miserable.
I started to pay attention to it in the process of searching for food, and after some comparison, Qiao Haoyu decided to use a certain "forest villa", an attic deep in the mountains and forests, as a temporary base.
This "forest villa" is built in the depths of the mountains and forests, and I don't know who the owner is, but it seems that the owner has not been here for a long time. The only entrance is on the top wall of the third floor, which is a retractable hanging ladder, although the entrance is clearly placed there and has a pull ring, and the general alien should not have the IQ to open this kind of doorway.
This "forest house" is completely empty, and the wooden floor has accumulated a layer of dirt, which looks a little dirty, and a simple cleaning and laying some cardboard shells and worn-out clothes will make it a temporary floorbed. Qiao Haoyu also deliberately stepped on it and tried it, the bearing capacity of the wooden floor was okay and it would not make a squeaky sound after being stressed, which at least made him more steady.
When Qiao Haoyu settled down, there was still some time before it was dark, and the sunset breeze brought fresh air, this rare moment of tranquility made him relax his tense nerves, he was too tired, his heart was tired......