Chapter 562: Traveling Alone (4)
Eating meat does make people happy, and happiness drives away negativity, and everyone gathers around the campfire and tells their own stories.
Xie Hongyuan was a pawn commander in the northern army of Jizhou, and Zhou Cang was a horse archer under his command; Qian Pingzhi was born in a scholarly family in a county town in the south of Jingzhou; Xu Sihai used to be a blacksmith, and Xu Xiao used to be a guy in a shop;
Du Weiwei doesn't seem to be willing to reveal her background, only knowing that she and Xiaoling are from Jizhou.
The daughters of ordinary people are all learning piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and female red textiles, but Du Weiwei has a good martial arts, her appearance and temperament, manners and conversation, must be from a good background.
It doesn't matter if you're poor, you have to keep your head down for survival in both the prosperous and the last days. The rich are different, the huge life gap is difficult to balance their hearts, and some of the glory that has passed by is naturally difficult to talk about.
At night, a little deeper, the poisonous people outside the cave roared, so Xie Hong extinguished the bonfire, leaving only the burning embers, everyone hugged each other to keep warm, and fell asleep around the fire.
Early the next morning.
Before dawn, Xie Hong, Zhou Cang, and Du Weiwei began to get up and prepare, wrap themselves in leather armor, prepare bows and arrows, and sharpen their swords.
"Are you sure you don't want to change to a light sword?" Du Weiwei handed it back to Yan Yunting and asked.
Yan Yunting held the scabbard with one hand, seventy-seven forty-nine pounds, he didn't feel heavy at all, he smiled slightly: "I'm used to it." ”
"Let's go, it's almost dawn." Xie Hong beckoned, and together with Zhou Cang and Du Weiwei, he removed the big stone at the entrance of the cave.
"Huhuhuhu......" A biting wind and snow hit the face, and several people at the entrance of the cave were blown so that they couldn't open their eyes in an instant.
"Today's wind and snow are so big," Zhou Cang looked at Xie Hong, "It's better to wait another day and wait for the wind and snow to light up before going." ”
"If you wait one more day, you will be hungry for one more day, a blizzard is not all bad, it can also contain poisonous people, this is our chance," Du Weiwei protected her eyes with her hands, and took the lead in drilling out of the hole in the face of the wind and snow.
Yan Yunting followed, and Xie Hong and Zhou Cang could only follow.
Now there are eight people in the team, including Xie Hong, Zhou Cang, Du Weiwei, and Yan Yunting, who are responsible for going out to find food, and Qian Pingzhi and others are responsible for collecting firewood and taking care of the house.
In fact, according to the law of apocalyptic survival, there is no need for the strong to bring the weak, especially children, who can't do their work, not to mention, and have an extra mouth to eat.
However, this team did not treat the weak as a burden, and more generously accepted them as a bond for blessings and hardships.
The kinder the luckier, so they met Yan Yunting.
Although Yan Yunting decided to be an ordinary person, he still had life as the foundation, and would never let a kind person die in the mouth of a poisonous person.
"Mei Mingzhi, among the four of us, your force is the weakest, come, grab this wooden stick and step on my footprints." Du Weiwei folded a wooden stick, dragged one end by herself, and asked Yan Yunting to pull one end, one in front and one behind, all the way.
Yan Yunting smiled: "If you let me catch it, then I'll catch it......"
"You give me a serious face, don't be a hippie smile, the snow is very thick on this hillside, and there may be a poisonous person coming out at some point! If you step on the air, you and I will have to get out! Du Weiwei solemnly instructed.
"Understood,"
A group of four people, supporting each other, marched from south to north slope in the face of wind and snow.
Huangfenggang is not big, the two slopes are not too far apart, at most five miles of mountain roads, but today's storm is too big, blowing the snow and fog all over the sky, and the visibility can not be too much, so the group walked very carefully, and the weapons in their hands were also very tight.
No one knew what would suddenly come out of the snow and mist.
"Attention, the front is the north slope, Zhou Cang, you look to the right, Weiwei, you look to the left, Brother Mei, you can look behind!" Xie Hong reminded in a low voice.
The northern slope is much flatter than the southern slope, and the mountain road is very wide, although the road is also blocked by heavy snow, but the road ravines are still visible, and if you go down the mountain road, you can find the village that is lost halfway up the mountainside.
"Uh-huh!"
A poisonous man pounced from the snow mist.
Xie Hong resisted it with a knife and cut it in the snow, which is not a surprise, from the top to the foot of the mountain on the north slope, there are four hundred villages, and poisonous people must be indispensable.
"Captain, do you have a search plan?" Yan Yunting suddenly asked, at least since last night to today, he had never heard these people mention any plans.
It is very easy to make mistakes in blind warfare.
Xie Hong was stunned, with their usual style, they would kill poisonous people when they encountered them, and they would run away if they couldn't kill them, as if they had never mentioned any plans.
"Infiltrating the village together, cleaning up the poisoners together, searching for supplies together, is this a plan?" Xie Hong asked.
Yan Yunting shook his head, "It's a plan, but it's a very unreliable plan." It is indeed safer to enter the village in a group, but there are so many households in the village, it is too slow to search for supplies, and there is no telling how many poisonous people there are in the village, if they are surrounded, everyone will die. ”
Zhou Cang said: "The purpose of the team is to live and die together and face difficulties together, what's wrong with this?"
Du Weiwei looked at Yan Yunting: "Listen to what you mean, do you have a better plan?" ”
In the end, this girl has to be smarter, Yan Yunting nodded, and said: "The so-called teamwork does not have to live and die together, but also act separately-
So my plan is to choose a quick person from among us to act as a 'rabbit', lure away the poisonous people in the village, and the remaining three people will enter the village, and each person will be divided into a search area, so that the danger can be minimized, the time can be shortened, and more supplies can be searched. ”
Xie Hong and Du Weiwei both nodded in agreement, but Zhou Cang said: "Then the person who is a 'rabbit' will be hunted down and killed by all the poisonous people, won't he be very dangerous?" ”
Yan Yunting said with a smile: "That's why we have to find a person with quick skills to take on this important task...... If none of the three are willing, it is not impossible for me to be the one. ”
"No way!" Du Weiwei immediately objected, "Your strength is so poor, and you are carrying a giant sword of dozens of catties, where can you outrun the poisonous man?" I'll do it by myself. ”
Du Weiwei is petite and has good martial arts, so it is most suitable for her to be a rabbit.
"I'm the highest-armed force, and it's up to me to do this dangerous mission, Vivi, you-"
"You're the heart of the team, how can you take the risk?" Du Weiwei is firm and confident: "Don't worry, I'm fine." ”
A few people no longer pushed.
Then, after killing a few more poisonous people who pounced in the snow and mist, the shallow outline of a village appeared in front of the mountainside.
Yan Yunting roughly observed the surrounding terrain, first pointed to the hillside and rushed to Du Weiwei and said: "Miss Du, after you lure out the poisonous man later, you will run into the woods under the hillside, after the snow in the forest, and the terrain is complicated, you can trap the poisonous person, if you get out, you will detour from the mountain forest to the southern slope; ”
Then, he said to Xie Hong and Zhou Cang: "After Miss Du has almost lured the poisonous people away, we will enter the village together, Captain Xie will search the front of the village, Zhou Cang will search the village, and I will search the end of the village...... From the estimation of the time for Miss Du to lead the poisonous people to the mountains and forests, we only have half an hour to search for supplies, whether we have finished searching or not, we must leave when the time comes. ”
Then, he condensed a spirit talisman in his sleeve and handed it to Du Weiwei: "Miss Du, this peace spirit talisman I asked for from an immortal chief in Kunlun Mountain, it is very effective, you can bring it." ”
"This is your peace charm, what should you do if you give it to me?" Du Weiwei shook her head and refused.
Yan Yunting stuffed the spirit talisman into Du Weiwei's hand and said with a smile: "But you need it more than me, and I also know that you will definitely return it to me." ”
Du Weiwei was grateful, "Thank you." Putting the talisman in his arms, "Then I'll go too." He resolutely slipped into the snow and ran towards the village.
"Jingle bell ......" After a while, a crisp bell sounded at the entrance of the village.
Hearing the noise, the poisonous man began to be agitated, and the roar was everywhere, triggering a chain reaction, and the poisonous man approached the entrance of the village from all directions.
Seeing that the momentum had become louder, Du Weiwei hurriedly shook the bell and ran down the mountain, and the village and the surrounding poisonous people soon gathered into a small corpse tide, and chased after them.
"Snort...... I shouldn't have listened to your stupid plan, there are at least three or four hundred corpses in this corpse group, how can you deal with it called Weiwei?! Zhou Cang glared angrily at Yan Yunting for accountability.
"If you think she can't handle it alone, go up and help her get some of it away." Yan Yunting ran towards the village with a snowdrift.
"Captain, don't have supplies, let's go save Weiwei!" Zhou Cang looked at Xie Hong.
"Vivigi has her own nature, and I'm sure she can...... Well, now that you've decided, it's time to follow the plan and keep up! ”
Xie Hong also jumped out of the snowdrift, Zhou Cang hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and followed.
A large number of poisonous people in the village have been lured, but it is not complete, there are still a few wandering in the village, Yan Yunting killed all the way from the head of the village along the village road to the end of the village, and then searched for supplies from house to house.
The people of the north planted wheat, and every household had a surplus of grain, but before they could eat it, they became poisoners.
Flour was in the jar, garlic hung under the eaves, bacon hung on the beams of the house, crystalline lumps of salt, frozen lard, pickled vegetables soaked in jars...... As long as it can be taken away, it is all packed and hung on the body.
More than 30 households at the end of the village were all searched, and Yan Yunting obtained nearly 100 catties of flour, his neck was full of garlic, and he carried two pieces of bacon in his left and right hands.
Half an hour later, the three of them gathered at the entrance of the village as scheduled, and the materials added up by Xie Hong and Zhou Cang were not as good as Yan Yunting's alone.
"Jingle bell ......" The faint rattle can still be heard in the snow and fog.
According to the plan, Du Weiwei should have made a detour to the south slope at this moment, and she is still ringing the bell, which can only mean that she has been trapped.
"Captain, we have to save Vivi!"
"But so many supplies are on my back......"
"How can supplies be more important than Vivi's life?" Zhou Cang threw the supplies on the ground, turned around and was about to rush down the hillside, but Yan Yunting grabbed him:
"Brother Zhou, calm down first, if you give up these materials, Miss Du's efforts will be in vain."
"Isn't that your broken plan?" Zhou Cang shook off Yan Yunting's hand and shouted angrily: "If anything happens to Wei Wei, I will never let you go!" ”
Yan Yunting didn't want to argue with the fool, so he also unloaded the materials on his body and explained to Xie Hong: "You bring the materials back, I will save Miss Du, before dark, I will definitely take her back to the cave." ”
With that, he wrapped his black robe tightly and plunged into the snow mist.
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