Chapter 268: Trust
If it were really what Hu Tao said, Xun Bishan would not be infected, and we could set up the assembly point in the school.
This is the first time I've seen a group mutation failure, and from the headmaster's records, there was only a few minutes between the appearance of the first infected and the fall of the second.
In order to ensure safety, Gu Yu asked Long Tao to look at every corner of the town, he could see the virus in the air, if there was still a virus left in the town, it would definitely not escape his eyes.
Long Tao carefully checked all the places in the town, and found no new viruses, but he found that certain items would appear in different places regularly.
He went back to school and told us what he had found, saying that these objects were things that could be used in life, but they were placed in a strange place.
By weirdness, he meant that these ordinary objects were deliberately arranged in some kind of 'formation' and placed in different places in the town, a total of eighty-one places.
Gu Yu sent a signal to Xun Bishan and Gao Yan, asking them to come to the school to gather, there is no threat of the virus, the school is the most suitable place to stay in the town, the corpses here have been centrally disposed of, and the teaching building is quite clean.
Due to the heat of summer, all the corpses that were frozen in the winter were decomposed, and all towns where there were people smelled of corpses, and Wugou Town was no exception, so when I arrived at school, I didn't find the corpse pit in the back playground at the first time.
The six of us were used to the smell and didn't feel any discomfort in this environment, and the six of us gathered in the principal's office to discuss the next trip.
Xun Bishan's ancestors rode into the source stone mining area on horseback, and the means of transportation in that era were limited, and everyone had to rest, and the time marked on the map was five days.
However, there is no clear route marked on the map, and Xun Bishan needs to use her family's own method to calculate the distance and identify the direction.
Wugou Town is the beginning of the secret route and the most important link in determining the general direction, so we rested in place and gave Xun Bishan enough time to decrypt it.
Long Tao also talked about the eighty-one places he found, and Hu Tao and Gu Yu expressed their opinions while listening, they had participated in many bizarre events before the end of the world, including Feng Shui, which involved the placement and order of objects.
I also wanted to listen to it, but I was pulled out by Gao Yan, she seemed to have something to say to me alone, so I said hello to Gu Yu and walked downstairs with her.
"Say, they can't hear here." We walked to the door of the mailroom on the first floor, and I stopped first, turned to Gao Yan, and said.
Gao Yan deliberately pulled me out, definitely not for heart-to-heart or small talk, she stood and stared into my eyes, and paused for two seconds before asking softly: "Xun Bishan, is this person reliable?" ”
I was puzzled by this sudden question, Gao Yan listened to me talk about Xun Bishan with everyone when she was in the small city, and now I ask this question, is the reflex arc a bit long?
"What do you mean...... "There are many kinds of reliability, character, ability, trust, etc., Gao Yan's cold question makes me a little confused.
"I know she saved you, and you saved her, but for some people, friendship can only come second."
"Don't beat around the bush, just say it, did you find something?"
I believe in Xun Bishan, and I also believe in Gao Yan, although the two of them have different personalities, they also have something in common, such as never giving up until they achieve their goals.
Gao Yan took a small step closer to me, frowned, and said, "There are two copies of her map." ”
Seeing that I raised my eyebrows and showed a puzzled expression, Gao Yan continued: "Just now you went out to explore the way, she said that she was going to the bathroom, and after a while, I remembered that she didn't seem to have any paper, so I wanted to send it to her, but she wasn't in the bathroom." ”
After we entered the town, we stayed in front of the train station, and Xun Bishan had to go to the waiting room to go to the bathroom, and there were no other toilets nearby, which was indeed a bit strange.
But before Gao Yan's words were finished, she observed my reaction and continued: "I found her in an office, she was flipping through the map at the time, I didn't call her, I wanted to see what she was going to do, and then I saw her take out another old version of the map, there was no code on it, but it seemed to have changed a little in the route from the map she showed us. ”
Naturally, I didn't ask Gao Yan why she didn't call Xun Bishan, but chose to observe her secretly, because they hadn't been in contact for a long time, and Gao Yan had every reason to be wary of Xun Bishan.
The town is a whole, but each person is an individual, everyone has struggled to survive in the last days, and it is normal to be wary of strange people or things.
"Maybe a few different routes can lead to the end, as long as the end is the same, you can find the source stone."
"Dear, what if you go one way and come back the other way? Crossing the river and demolishing bridges have been happening throughout the ages. ”
Gao Yan stretched out her index finger and tapped my shoulder with her fingertips, her eyes were full of warning, and I was completely lost in thought, and I didn't rush to answer her.
If Xun Bishan had really cooperated, she would not have only taken out the map marked with code words, and hid the other one to look at it secretly.
Didn't she trust us and kept a back hand for herself?
In fact, I don't mind if she stays behind, she has received harsh training since she was a child, walking alone in the deep mountains and dense forests, the cruelty of survival has taught her how to protect herself, and it is probably her ability to keep a hand in everything.
Xun Bishan and I have only known each other for a short time, but I treat her as friends, and with only two maps, I can't doubt my friends.
Gao Yan had been paying attention to the changes in my expression, my emotions were all written on my face, there was no need to hide anything from her, and she quickly understood that I would not pursue this matter.
"I know this doesn't prove anything, so I'll just tell you one person, you can't have the intention of harming others, you can't have the heart to prevent people, be careful."
I don't know why, I always feel that Gao Yan is testing me, she knows that two maps can't prove that Xun Bishan has a ghost in her heart, and she deliberately said it just to see my attitude.
What is she trying to prove? This question makes me scratch my heart more than Xun Bishan hid the second map, I can never guess Gao Yan's mind, she is too elusive, cunning, and black-bellied?
It seems a bit discordant to describe my partner in such words, but it's a fact, and I can't beautify her with one click.
We walked around the ground floor again, pretending not to leave because we were going to talk about a particular topic, and when we went back, we picked up a few buckets, water was one of the necessities, the tap water system was down, and we had to use the primitive method to carry water.
Xun Bishan had just finished drawing the route she had deciphered, handed the new map she had drawn to Gu Yu, and then she lifted two buckets and asked me to go with her to fetch water.
Gu Yu and they want to make a simple water purifier, there is no river near the town, Xun Bishan and I decided to try our luck at the waterworks, the water plant has a reservoir, but I hope there are no corpses soaked in it.
It takes a long time to walk from school to the water plant, Xun Bishan found two bicycles, the tires have been flat for too long, I remember seeing a pump in the mailroom, so I went to get it to inflate the two bikes.
Although we had bottled water in the car, no one knew what would happen when we came back from the source stone mine, and in Nini's prophecy, Gu Yu and I rode a horse together, which means that the car must not be able to drive, and the equipment on the car is probably thrown away.
Only by preparing the necessary supplies at the assembly point can we ensure that we can go home smoothly, and water, fuel, and cars are all indispensable things.
When I arrived at the reservoir of the water plant, I looked at the bones soaked in the pool and sighed helplessly.
Xun Bishan took out the local map, pointed to the Yao River next to the provincial highway and said: "Let's go here, take a detour when you come back, and you can also pass by a bus station, maybe there are supplies we need." ”
There was a distance between the bus station and the train station, and maybe the previous group of people who had gone into town to search hadn't been there, but I thought it was feasible, so I nodded my head in agreement.
My spiritual ability can't directly transmit information like Li Huaiqing, but Gu Yu and I have a small code that belongs only to the two of us, similar to the mousse code, which represents words through the frequency of mental vibration, and what I passed to Gu Yu was the word 'bus station'.
There are more corpses in the bus station than in the train station, and it is supposed that when the disaster broke out, the panicked crowd wanted to get out of the town, but in places with many people, the speed of infection is also fast, resulting in more zombies here than anywhere else.
"I'll go check the gas tank." Xun Bishan jumped off the bicycle and pointed to the long-distance bus on the side of the road, which was full of corpses, but the fuel tank cap was not opened, and there was a thick layer of dust and maybe oil on it.
She checked the car, I checked the station hall, thinking that maybe I could find bottled water in the kiosk, but as soon as I stepped through the hall door, I felt that something was wrong.
The hall was so clean, there were no corpses, no corpse stench, no clutter, the windows of the ticket office, the chairs, the walls, the signs, everything was very clean, and there was no dust at all.
I turned around and wanted to go out, but I hit an invisible wall, I leaned out my spiritual power and wanted to inform Xun Bishan outside, but my spiritual power was also stopped back.
Only then did I notice that in the corner of the hall door, there were a pile of things, including chopsticks, drinking glasses, lighters, bricks, and spoons.
These things are very ordinary items, but as Long Tao described, they are arranged in a circular shape, like a trap hiding in a corner.
Although Gu Yu and the others had thought that these items were related to the Feng Shui Formation, they didn't know what it was for, after all, we hadn't seen any people or animals or zombies harmed by their presence.
If the zombies in the town were headshots because of them, they should have exploded in the first few hours we entered the town.
So obviously their purpose is not to kill zombies, and Long Tao found eighty-one such arrangements, and it doesn't make sense to say that they are traps, because he is not trapped.