Chapter 140: Marking
Wang He drove all the way, passing by the farm without stopping the car, without navigation, relying on the pre-installed offline map on the motorcycle, so that he could not take shortcuts as he wanted, and could only follow the villages marked on the map, and walk along the road in a regular manner.
Tiger Mountain is 60 kilometers south of Haicheng, and Wang He's current location is more than 200 kilometers northwest of Haicheng, Haicheng is very large, nearly 7,000 square kilometers, so even if you go around the edge of the city to reach Tiger Mountain, it takes a short distance.
It is densely populated, there are very few places without people, towns and villages are dotted with chess, if the Wang River passes alone, some sections of the road can be directly rushed, but considering the hundreds of civilian troops, it is necessary to choose a safe and reliable road with little risk.
Wang He's plan was to go east first, and then turn south, he had encountered a large number of zombie swarms in that direction before, and if he set off directly to the south, he was worried that he would encounter the corpse swarms after the battle with the mutant mosquitoes just now.
If the plan is successful, Wang He's current direction of travel is exactly behind the corpse group, and it is very likely that he will bypass the sea of corpses, which will not only avoid danger, but also save a lot of time.
In one morning, Wang He ran hundreds of kilometers, but in fact only advanced about 50 kilometers, many sections of the road are either seriously congested, or there are too many zombies in the villages passing by, he has to turn back and forth, repeatedly marking.
It wasn't until around five o'clock in the afternoon that Wang He found a safe way to bypass the sea of corpses, and there were still a lot of zombies in the village where this road started, and after using up nearly half of the arrows, he solved them.
In the villages and towns after that, there were almost no zombies, probably carried away by passing corpses, and there were also some villages, obviously there were traces of human cleanup, according to his observation, very similar to the previous people in several villages in Salt River Town.
Following the trajectory left by these people, it saved a lot of time, Wang He went all the way south, and stopped more than 300 kilometers away from Hushan before dark.
It took more than 200 kilometers to advance in one day, which was slow enough before the catastrophe, but now, it can be said that it is a crazy speed, Wang He decided to stay here for a day, the surroundings seem to be very safe, and it is completely possible for the follow-up troops to transit and rest here.
After eating a few bites casually, he called Laifu over, and Laifu did almost nothing except sleep on the motorcycle that day, Wang He deliberately conserved its physical strength, and at the same time did not let it eat more.
"Follow the way we came, go back to find Wang Chong." Wang He stuffed a note in Laifu's suit and patted it on the head.
For ordinary dogs, running 200 kilometers a day is already the limit, but for Laifu, its speed and endurance are incomparable to ordinary dogs, and it is no problem to travel 200 kilometers back and forth in one day.
Laifu barked excitedly, and ran out, not for anything else, the delicious night demon jerky is waiting for it, for the mutant creatures, the more powerful the mutated creatures, the more delicious, after tasting the night demons, the zombies This low-level food is a little unpalatable.
Seeing Laifu go away, Wang He climbed the tallest building around, since he planned to use this place as a halfway resting place, he should take safety precautions, and it is best to eliminate the surrounding safety hazards in advance.
Standing on the roof of the building, Wang He was holding a sniper rifle, and no matter how good his eyes were, he couldn't achieve the visual range of a high-magnification scope, at least the scope could see things within two or three kilometers.
As with most of the southern regions along the way, there was little to block the view in the fields of the Plain River, except for a few small woods and unharvested corn stalks, with only a few cottages and a small village or two as far as the eye could see.
Wang He focused most of his attention on these places, carefully checking them one by one, and when he was almost about to finish the investigation, a distant village archway attracted his attention.
The archway was sprayed with black primer, and then on top of the black paint, someone sprayed a huge circle with white paint, and then a big exclamation mark with red paint next to it.
The exclamation mark seems to be sprayed in a hurry, the color is relatively light, and the bottom point is almost very random to draw a circle, it seems that the situation must be very urgent.
Due to the very long distance, the other situation was not very clear, Wang He quickly checked the other directions, and decided to go over and have a look.
The reason is very simple, this kind of punctuation marking, only Wu Ting and others who have been separated for many days, and Wang Chong Farm, who has just been taught, of course, does not rule out the factor of coincidence, but this probability is very low.
Since there was a trace of Wu Ting, Wang He would never let it go, so he immediately rode a motorcycle and rushed towards the target.
The closer he got, the more his heart sank, and there was blood everywhere under the archway, except for a small number of vehicles that had obviously been abandoned for a long time, and three crashed cars.
These three cars have a distinctly post-apocalyptic modification style, with welded fences on the windows and striking angles on the front of the car, all of which indicate that they were destroyed here not long ago.
Wang He stopped the car and took a closer look, there was a large amount of blood plasma in the vehicle, bullet holes everywhere, a place of bullet casings and a few paint spray cans left under the archway, and he also found a few pistols and homemade cold weapons, as well as some broken limbs and minced meat.
But Wang He did not find a single body, he put the weapons he picked up together and wiped them clean, these firearms are very common models, the domestic army is generally equipped with this kind of pistol, and many people have a self-defense.
But these cold weapons are very unusual, the whole body is black, the slender grip rod, the front section is a narrow double-edged spear head, Wang He thought it was a homemade grinding iron weapon at first, but when he held it in his hand, he found that it was particularly light.
After wiping it clean, I found that these were all transformed from the forearms of the shadow corpse, you must know that this method was pioneered by him, and the only one who seems to have a great preference for this weapon is Li Jingou.
However, there were at least seven or eight of these short spears picked up here, and they were only the forearms of the most ordinary shadow corpses, not a single one at the level of the Shadow Corpse King in Li Jingou's hand.
Wang He was mixed for a while, happy that there was no king-level one like Li Jingou in the shadow corpse gun he picked up, which meant that others should be fine, but the worry was that it was not clear whether it was Wu Ting and their team.
The mark on the archway is according to the interpretation method formulated by Wang He, the circle represents the safety that can be stationed, especially the white circle, which means that no creature has been found and can be replenished, and the red exclamation mark is dangerous, extremely dangerous.
The two contrasting and contradictory markings, and the hasty marking of exclamation points, only indicate that the strikers who arrived at the beginning judged it to be safe, but were attacked by unprecedented danger.
In a hurry, for the safety of the follow-up troops, after losing a large number of men and three vehicles, they barely left a sign indicating danger, and the falling weapons showed that they had no time to clean up the mess at all, so they could only flee in a hurry.
In the same way, the weapons that fell also showed that it was not humans who attacked them, otherwise it would be impossible to leave those pistols behind, who would think that they had more weapons in the last days? The opponent has fled, and there is absolutely time to slowly clean up the battlefield, but only the corpses are towed, and what it means is self-evident.
This kind of habit of taking away food, and the combat effectiveness is so strong, Wang He only thought of a mutated creature-night demon, since he let him touch it, and also lost the suspected Wu Ting's subordinates, Wang He didn't plan to let go of this group of monsters so easily, simply killed them, and returned a pure land.
The sky gradually darkened, Wang He standing on the top of the archway held a bow and watched, a bonfire was lit every few meters around the archway, in order to resist burning, a lot of plastic, tires and so on were added to the bonfire, but the smoke was bigger.
The remaining more than 200 ox bone arrows were all carried behind their backs, and the short spear spears made of cow bones were also put into the backpack and hung on the archway, which could be obtained at hand, and more than 100 steel arrows that were not lethal to the night demon were also left, just in case.
The motorcycle was parked far away to prevent accidental damage in the scuffle, and although there was no chance of car thieves around, Wang He carefully disguised himself with plastic sheets and tree branches.
In order to ensure that he could lure out this group of night demons, he also caught two zombies from thousands of miles away, tied them with ropes to the back of the motorcycle and brought them back as bait, not that he didn't want to catch a few more bait, but he really couldn't bring more.
Two zombies walked around under the archway, the rope around their necks made them linger in place, Wang He stood quietly on the archway, like an experienced old hunter, patiently waiting for the cunning prey to take the bait.
It was completely dark, and in the silence of the winter night, all the tiny sounds were amplified countless times, the crackling of the bonfire, the whimper of the wind blowing into the empty house, and the rustle of the trees swinging in the distance, all the time affecting Wang He's judgment.
In the firelight, several black shadows flashed and disappeared into the night, just for that moment, people found that their target was the zombie as bait, Wang He's nerves tensed up suddenly, staring at the path of those black shadows.
"Whoosh!"
A steel arrow burst out of the string and passed through the eyes of a newly emerging black shadow, and a "squeak" scream broke the silence of the night, and it turned out to be a mutant rat, the size of a medium-sized dog.
There were a few arrows in a row, and several mutant rats who wanted to escape in the dark were all wounded in their eyes, it turned out that Wang He had already discovered this group of mutant rats, and deliberately switched to steel arrows, just for fear of being fatal with one blow.
This hurt some of their brains, making them unable to walk for a while, and screams and blood became the best bait, but the brains were not killed, and only he could do such tricky archery.