Twelve big men are scrambling to clean up a clean house, and you have to understand how troublesome it is to drag the corpses of the house to the bushes behind the house in a short time, then break the frozen snow chips to wipe the blood stains off the floor, and finally wipe the crushed camphor seeds on the ground to make sure that the bloody smell is covered by the slight sour smell of the camphor seeds.

Honestly, many of them don't even understand why they did what they do, and if they meet survivors in a village in distress on a regular basis, they will at best squeeze out a little bit of worthless sympathy, shake hands, and direct survivors to the logistics team to make sure they don't drag down their supplies, and that's it.

Perhaps it was because the little girl's pitiful appearance tickled the hearts of a bunch of rough old men, and although they tried to convince themselves that the little girl was too young, not even much older than their own daughter, they still did not dare to swear in the name of the gods that they did not have the slightest crooked mind. Come on, of course, this special treatment will not be pure, but so far they can tell the difference between themselves and the beast.

"Don't be afraid, kid, you're safe now, would you like to eat something or drink some water?" Lloyd sat beside the girl, holding her shoulders and feeling an irregular tremble, and motioned with his eyes for the others to take out the iron kettle with water and hard bread from the package.

The girl took a small sip of water, tore off a thumb-sized piece of bread and soaked it in the water, and after chewing for a long time, she sobbed a few times, put her hands around each other, and said in a mosquito-like voice: "It's so cold." ”

Lloyd untied his cloak and wrapped it around the girl's body.

The girl timidly glanced at the location of the fireplace, and said, "Can you ...... Set the fireplace on fire. ”

Lloyd slapped his head: "Look at what we've been careless!" Parker, what are you doing standing there, stuff some wood into the fireplace, light the fire, and see how cold it is in this room." ”

"Captain, there's very little firewood in this house. Parker searched for a long time before pulling out a few bundles of firewood from the corner, looking at the water stains in the cracks in the wood, "and it's still damp." ”

"For the other houses, go and get the firewood from the other houses. ”

The people who went to the other huts to carry firewood soon came back with firewood, but there was not much firewood in their arms, and they were all relatively wet.

"Too little. Oliver looked at the stacked firewood and shook his head, "It's only enough to burn for two days at most, and the wood is damp, and the smoke from burning can choke the house." ”

"That ......," the girl's timid voice sounded again, "there is a row of small camphor trees outside, which can be cut down to make firewood." ”

Lloyd nodded: "That's a good idea." He was about to wave his hand and let the others go out to chop wood.

"Wait. Hodge suddenly spoke, "This snow has fallen for too long, and that camphor tree should be soaked too, so it doesn't make a difference if it burns, so let's finish burning this firewood first." ”

He didn't know why he interjected at this moment, but he faintly felt a little disobedient.

"It makes sense, too. Lloyd didn't think anything was wrong and readily accepted Hodge's offer.

The girl turned her head to look at Hodge, not knowing if it was his own delusion, he always felt that when the girl looked at him, the feeling of disobedience began to become stronger, and when the girl turned back, it suddenly disappeared.

The room began to get warmer, and Lloyd felt the girl's body gradually stop shaking, and thought that she was completely calm, before he spoke, "Son, can you tell me your name?"

"Alice. ”

"Alright, Alice. It's a bit brutal, but we need you to tell us exactly what happened in the village, and we need to understand what happened in the village. ”

Alice choked her voice, intermittently describing what she was seeing.

Sure enough, just as they had expected, the quiet and peaceful village was suddenly attacked by mutants, such as flying deer, wolf with long claws, and eagle with feathers sharper than arrows...... These mutant monsters appeared in the village, and the villagers were defenseless, and they were slaughtered before they could even stop it, and even Alice would not have been spared if it had not happened to be picking fruit in the bushes outside.

The young girl watched her parents be dragged out of the house by the wolves, their limbs brutally separated by their claws, and then eaten by the wolves, leaving only a head and dry bones on the ground, which frightened her, and she stumbled and hid in the woods, and did not dare to come out after the monster left, until she was discovered by Lloyd's team......

"Poor Alice. Lloyd stroked the hair on her forehead, and said lovingly, he had no daughter, but he remembered his little sister, the lovely girl with tiger teeth, who always liked to follow him when she was a child, but she was afraid to look at herself, and just called her brother timidly, which really sweetened his heart.

It's just that when she grows up, she has completely changed and become a real tigress, not to mention her brother in a stubborn temper, even her father can't control her, it's really ...... Hi, what do you want to do with this.

"Until then. Lloyd cleared his throat, not forgetting the really crucial question, "Has anyone else ever been in the village wearing this armor on us?"

Alice's pale little face looked at Lloyd's armor and shook her head affirmatively: "Probably not, no outsiders have been to the village for a long time." ”

"Well, at this point, you need to rest for a while. ”

He carried Alice to the bed in the small room of the house, her body was too weak and frightened, and she needed enough sleep to replenish her strength.

Closing the door to the room, Parker walked over and asked, "Captain, what's next?"

Lloyd understood that he was asking Alice about something, and after pondering for a moment, he said: "You should know Alice's current physical condition, even if you want to entrust her to logistics, you have to wait for the third team to enter the forest the day after tomorrow, before that, we will camp here to rest, and by the way, we can also take care of her." ”

After finishing speaking, Lloyd suddenly felt inexplicably surprised, when would he talk about "care" and think about the strange little girl?

Forget it, thinking about a headache, just care about him so much, just go with it.

As for the advance team, it is impossible for the twelve big living people to disappear out of thin air, and they will meet when they should meet them.

Right...... Well...... Is that really right?

In this moment of doubt, his vision suddenly tore apart, and the double layers of red and blue images overlapped and intertwined, and his mind buzzed incessantly.

"Captain, captain, captain!"

Parker shook his body until he screamed a third time before waking him up, "What's wrong with you, you suddenly froze like a piece of wood as you spoke." ”

"It's okay, I'll be gone for a while. Lloyd smiled roughly, hiding the embarrassment.

Strange, what was I thinking?