Chapter 6. Recruit coolies

Ouyang Hao and Chen Feng walked around the market, today's sun is very good, the sun shines on people's bodies warmly, making people feel very comfortable, the feeling of spring is indeed very good, if it weren't for the soldiers with guns walking by from time to time, Ouyang Hao really thought that he was visiting the second-hand market on a certain rest afternoon.

Ouyang Hao saw a stall with a brand new anti-theft door lock, so he pretended to be careless and walked over, this kind of thing almost no one asked, Ouyang Hao and the stall owner didn't say much, so they exchanged a pack of instant noodles for a brand new door lock.

Then they continued to stroll, the market was not large, there were only more than 30 stalls in total, and there were only a few groups of people shopping. Ouyang Hao exchanged three cigarettes for a universal mobile phone charger, and exchanged two packs of instant noodles for two fast brand-name watches.

The value of these usually expensive and outrageous things is now only equivalent to a pack of the cheapest instant noodles in the past, and there is no way, in today's world, instant noodles can fill the stomach, but famous watches cannot.

After walking around the market and not seeing anything good, they finally exchanged ten packs of Su cigarettes for five catties of rice at a stall, and then Ouyang Hao and Chen Feng went home.

The contents of the trolleys they were pushing still attracted a lot of envious glances on the streets. When Ouyang Hao and Chen Feng returned to their residence, they found that the house seemed to be very lively, as if there were many people inside, so he hurriedly pushed the door in.

Ouyang Hao saw a few strangers sitting on the sofa in the hall, Zhou Tian was also there, he saw Ouyang Hao coming back and hurriedly walked over and said, "Come back, it's like this, this is my parents and my sister,"

Ouyang Hao hurriedly went over to greet them. Zhou Tian continued: "That's the case, I want them to move here, before their house was crowded with more than 40 people, and the noise was dead, so I ...... Do you think it's okay? ”

Ouyang Hao was stunned for a moment, then said with a smile: "Of course you can, you can do this kind of small thing by yourself." ”

Ouyang Hao said hello to Zhou Tian's parents and asked them to do it casually, and then found the tools to go outside the door to install the door lock.

Chen Feng asked Lin Xiao and learned that Han Mengna had left and wanted to come back in the afternoon, so Chen Feng went upstairs by himself. It took Ouyang Hao more than twenty minutes to lock the door, and was about to turn around and enter the house, when a soldier came out of the door and said to him: "Ouyang Hao, Zhou Tian, does Chen Feng live here?" ”

Ouyang Hao asked suspiciously: "Yes, is there something wrong?" ”

The soldier said: "In order to defend against zombies, the town decided to dig a deep ditch in front of the wall to stop the zombies, our troops are not manpowered, so we need everyone in the town to work together, the people called on the list will go to the west gate at one o'clock in the afternoon to gather, and the three of you are on the list."

Ouyang Hao said depressedly: "No, I just came here to do coolies." ”

The soldier said: "There is no way, if you want to live in this town, you have to contribute, besides, this is also for everyone's own good, and everyone has to take their turn, think about it, digging a trench is better than going out to find food, are you willing to go out?" ”

Ouyang Hao asked, "Go out to find food?" Going to another town? ”

The soldier nodded and said, "Yes, start a search from a nearby town and look for a qiē usable food and things, otherwise you think those foods are coming from there?" It's all people who go out to find food. ”

Ouyang Hao said: "Then if you go out to look for food, is there any reward for coming back?" ”

The soldier smiled and said, "Of course there is, you can get more things than ordinary people, what?" Do you have an idea to go? You can sign up in a few days, but it's a life-or-death thing. ”

Ouyang Hao said with a smile: "I just asked, I didn't say I was going to go, of course, if I wanted to go, I would go there and sign up." ”

The soldier said: "Go to the gate of the north camp to sign up, if you want to go, there will be a chance in three days, okay, don't talk to you, go to the west gate at one o'clock in the afternoon to meet, don't go, ask for names." With that, the soldier walked away.

Ouyang Hao entered the house, saw that everyone was chatting, and sat down, he took out the key on the door lock, a total of five, he gave Lin Xiao and Zhou Tian one each, kept one for himself, and then gave one to Zhou Tian's father.

Lin Xiao sat down beside Ouyang Hao and asked softly, "Just now I saw a soldier at the door talking to you about something, is there something wrong?" ”

Ouyang Hao said unhappily: "It's not a big deal, it's just that in the afternoon, let me and Zhou Tian and Chen Feng go to the door to dig a trench, saying that it is for blocking zombies, and I have to do coolies when I just come." ”

At this time, Zhou Tian's father said: "That's right, we have been living here for more than a week, and we have built the fence twice, and if you don't go, then the food will be ......."

Ouyang Hao smiled bitterly and said, "Then let's go, let's just exercise, by the way, uncle, how did you escape the catastrophe at that time?" ”

Zhou Tian's father thought about it for a while, obviously he didn't want to think about it, and then said slowly: "At that time, I remember one night, I was walking outside, and suddenly I heard shouting around me, and shouting sounded in several places at the same time, so I found the nearest sound to check, and found that it ...... Kindness...... Two madmen were spotted biting. ”

Zhou Tian's father took the cigarette handed by Ouyang Hao, lit it and continued: "At that time, I thought that these two people were crazy, and they actually bit people indiscriminately, I wanted to pull them away, but I got closer and took a closer look, oh my God, they were not only biting, they were biting, but they also ate all the meat that was bitten, I almost vomited it at that time, and then I saw that the person who was bitten on the ground couldn't move." ”

Zhou Tian's father took a deep breath and said: "My first reaction was to call the police, but I didn't bring my mobile phone, I just saw a neighbor running in front of me, I hurriedly stopped him, he saw the situation on the ground, hurriedly pulled me away, and then shouted: "You go and hide, there are such cannibalistic maniacs all around, I came all the way." ”

Before I could speak, the neighbor ran away, and at this time, I looked back and saw that the two madmen had stood up and staggered towards me, and when I looked at their faces, they were already a little rotten, and I was so frightened that I hurried to my house. ”

Zhou Tian said with a smile: "Dad, I see that you are usually quite bold, why are you scared this time?" ”

"Nonsense, you're not afraid?" Zhou Tian's father said.

Ouyang Hao said with a smile: "You're right, Zhou Tian is really not afraid of these things, he is a zombie killer, and the zombies are unlucky when they see him." ”

Zhou Tian's sister said, "Do you call these monsters zombies? ”

"Yes, their human bodies are actually dead, but they are infected by a virus, and their brains still have a little basic ability to control physical activity, and only by destroying their brains can they completely kill it." Lin Xiao explained.

Ouyang Hao said: "What happened later, uncle, you go on." ”

"Later...... Then I ran to the house, called the two of them, and wanted to go out of town to hide outside, and as soon as I went out, I was found by a few of the corpses, and they surrounded us, and we had to go back to the house again, and close the door, and those crazy people banged on the door desperately, but fortunately they couldn't get in, and I looked through the window, and it seemed that the whole town was full of such crazy people, so I thought about it, and asked my daughter to turn off the lights in the room, and I asked them to take all the water and food they could find in the house, and go to the cellar to take shelter, I think someone will come to the rescue. ”

Ouyang Hao asked, "You just wait until the troops come over?" ”

Zhou Tian's father nodded with a smile and said, "Yes, the troops came in two days, and I secretly walked out of the cellar to check on it, and found that the whole town has become a ghost town, we have no choice but to wait, fortunately, I have a lot of food reserves in the cellar, and the facilities in the room can still be used, and it will be no problem to last for a few months, as long as the monsters don't find us." ”

Ouyang Hao said: "It's good to survive, it's good to survive." ”

Zhou Tian said: "You said that you were going to do coolies in the afternoon, so I had enough food at noon, and I asked my sister to cook." ”

Ouyang Hao said with a smile: "Just a little bit of food, if you want to eat enough, the guy upstairs will eat a few meals." ”

Zhou Tian smiled, and he said: "Haha, don't worry about this, my parents moved over, and the food also moved over, but it's no problem to eat for more than a month." ”

Zhou Tian's sister said: "Yes, Brother Ouyang, don't worry too much about food for the time being, I'll go cook, and I'll be able to eat soon." ”

"I'll help you." Lin Xiao also got up and said.

Ouyang Hao and they were chatting in the hall downstairs, and not long after, Han Mengna also came, and Ouyang Hao asked her to go upstairs and call Chen Feng down for dinner......

At about one o'clock in the afternoon, Ouyang Hao and the three of them stood at the west gate, there were already more than fifty people gathered here, all of them were sturdy young people, not long after, a truck drove over, and an officer came down from the car, and said loudly to them: "In order to strengthen the defense of the town and better resist the attack of monsters, starting today, we will dig a deep ditch outside the wall of the town to block the zombies, and you will work with our soldiers to be responsible for the excavation of the trench in the west. But remember, this ditch is all dug for yourself, so don't be lazy and finish it early. ”

Dozens of soldiers got off the truck, and then each of them was given a shovel or pickaxe, the officer ordered the west gate to be opened, and more than a hundred people walked out of the gate with tools and began digging ten meters from the wall.

Ouyang Hao took the pickaxe and walked to the excavation site, he saw that there were still many zombies in the mountains and forests in the distance, and some were slowly walking towards this side, but there were soldiers with guns and civilians with spears in front of them, and the scattered zombies were no threat.

Ouyang Hao raised the pickaxe and smashed it hard against the ground, and his hands were numb due to the reaction force. "A commoner is a commoner, and in the last days of the past and now, he will always be the lowest person." Ouyang Hao sighed.