End of the World

"You finally came out. I thought you were going to spend the winter inside!"

As soon as the three of them came out of the tunnel ventilation vent, they heard a familiar voice. Chen Guangjun was not far away on the mountain.

"It's a good idea, but widening the entrance is a big project!" After coming out, Dafeng was obviously in a good mood.

"What did you learn from this?" Chen Guangjun came down and asked with a smile.

"There is light at the end of the tunnel. It would be great if we could still have this kind of mentality when we are in a truly desperate situation!" Wu Bin said.

"Yes, you should learn from me and come out of the vertical pipe!" Chen Guangjun nodded. He was still a little reluctant, but one more skill could save his life, just like his situation at the bottom of Long Mountain.

"The only bad news is that there is no village or shop around here, so this is going to test your leg strength!" Dafeng looked around.

"Can the cars here move?" Wu Bin looked at the cars lying all over the highway.

"Difficult! They are all frozen by the snow!" Chen Guangjun shook his head. He had tried it.

"Then there's no choice!" Dafeng spread his hands.

The four people identified the direction and prepared to look for a few buildings. The situation was already so bad and they didn't know where the convoy was.

"The snow is a bit thick, watch your step!" Chen Guangjun was in front, exploring the way. The highway might be easier to drive on, but there were zombies, so they had to avoid unnecessary fights as much as possible.

Wu Bin coughed a few times. The wound was a little painful, but it did not affect his walking, it just made him walk slower.

"Brother Bin, what's wrong?" He Yuxin stepped forward immediately.

"It's okay!" Wu Bin waved his hand.

"I'll make you a sled, wait a minute!" Chen Guangjun walked to an abandoned car, removed a door, and then tied it to the window with a rope.

"Sit on it, Dafeng and I will pull you!"

"I can leave!"

"Just sit on it!" He Yuxin advised.

Wu Bin had no choice but to sit in the car.

"Haha, Brother Bin, it's your turn to drag next time!" Dafeng said with a smile.

Wu Bin shook his head helplessly and said, "You can lie down next time."

"hey-hey!"

"Unity is strength. This strength is steel, this strength is iron...!" Dafeng sang at the top of his voice, but Chen Guangjun just shook his head.

What is this? It’s such a simple song but he’s out of tune. So Chen Guangjun started a lively conversation with Dafeng, occasionally adding a few words.

He Yuxin looked at the two of them and chuckled. If she was good at singing, she would have surpassed them long ago.

"Why don't you sing?" Wu Bin looked at He Yuxin.

"How can you sing?" He Yuxin shook her head. She didn't have much musical talent.

"I've heard you hum a song before, it was pretty good!" Wu Bin said.

"Before? When?" He Yuxin couldn't remember.

“At the beginning!”

"Just at the beginning?" He Yuxin just remembered that it should have been when they were in the factory. It seemed like a long, long time ago.

"What you are humming should be the song from the cartoon!" said Wu Bin.

"Well, that's all I know. I can sing light music and pop songs!" said He Yuxin.

"One song?"

"...Okay!" He Yuxin agreed and began to compose the song. Wu Bin didn't know what the song was, but it seemed familiar and maybe a little out of tune, but it was much better than Dafeng's.

Near noon, the four people, or should I say three people, walked ten miles and came to a small stone bridge. There was a building upstream of the stone bridge.

The four decided to rest there. It was a water pump house, but it seemed to have been abandoned before the end of the world. Only a concrete base was left where the pump was originally installed.

"After the stone bridge is a village called Liushui Zhuang, which is surrounded by mountains. The nearest villages are separated by three hills!" He Yuxin studied the map, looking for possible shelters.

"Where there is a village, there is food. We will go into the village in the afternoon!" said Chen Guangjun.

"Why do I feel like there's a lot of banditry going on now?" Dafeng said, touching the back of his head.

The four of them built a bonfire in the pump room, had a simple meal, and left the convoy. Everyone felt a little heavy-hearted.

The current conditions do not support them to look for the convoy. It may take until the weather warms up, in which case the four of them can only go to their destination to meet up with the convoy.

The rest time passed quickly. The clothes of several people were not very thick, so they had to search for clothes before entering the village.

Although Liushuizhuang is not adjacent to other villages, it is not remote. From this location, Heding County is ten kilometers away.

At the entrance of Liushuizhuang Village, the four found traces of survivors' activities, rotten corpses that had long been frozen, and burned buildings.

Chen Guangjun speculated that these should have been left behind three months ago, which was good news. They might have left. The worry was that there would be nothing left in the village.

Continuing along the main road of the village, the four found more traces, including two off-road vehicles with bullet holes all over their bodies and several frozen bodies lying beside the vehicles, all buried in the snow.

"Don't worry, these traces were left before the snow fell!" Chen Guangjun half-knelt and swept the snow off the corpse with a wooden stick.

The four people didn't know when the snow fell, but they came from the highway and stayed on the side of the highway for about ten days. During this time, the murderer should have left here.

"There's nothing in the car!" Dafeng said after walking around and checking.

"What a pity for this off-road vehicle, it was smashed!" Chen Guangjun pushed the car door, but it didn't close tightly. It was a Wrangler off-road vehicle.

"Damn it, I still feel sorry for my RV, I'd better not let that group of people run into me!" Dafeng said hatefully.

Speaking of this, the best infantry fighting vehicle was lying peacefully in the tunnel. It was hit by a missile and had been scrapped long ago. Fortunately, the people on board were not seriously injured and managed to get out of the tunnel.

"Life is unpredictable, especially now, it is enough to be healthy!" said Wu Bin.

"Let's go, we can't pick up scrap metal!" Chen Guangjun led the way.

Apart from the two places just now, the four people did not see any more traces. When they walked into the village, the buildings became densely packed.

"Let's choose a building!" Chen Guangjun said. There were already zombies on the road.

The four people randomly entered a private house. Unfortunately, they learned that someone had already been there. The furniture in the house was in a mess, and there were several highly skeletonized bodies.

It's winter now, so it doesn't seem that smelly.

"I suggest changing buildings!" Dafeng expressed his opinion. He didn't want to rest with so many dead bodies.

"The proposal is passed!" Wu Bin nodded, especially since he had wounds on his body and needed to pay more attention.

Chen Guangjun didn't care. It was just a dead person. He didn't ask you to hold him while sleeping.

The four of them skipped the next door and went to the next door!

This side is much better, things are not too messy. The dead body is on the first floor, and it looks like it has been cleaned up, as the last wave of visitors did not search it too thoroughly.

The four of them found the host's wine collection in the room, in a less conspicuous corner of the desk. There were eggs in the refrigerator, but they were only edible half a year ago, so let's leave them for the next group of people!

There are still some expired instant noodles in the house, but it doesn’t matter. The shelf life of noodles is relatively long, so just don’t use the seasoning packets.

Chen Guangjun collected melted snow to get water. There was a gas tank in the house. Generally, if it was not a large team of survivors, they would not take these sundries.

The four of us were also able to have some hot food, and although the noodles had no taste, they were still quite fragrant.

After the meal, it was dark. He Yuxin boiled some water to help Wu Bin change the medicine, while Chen Guangjun made sure all the doors and windows were locked.

Dafeng was looking through the owner's things in the house. It seemed that he was really full and had the energy to do other things.

"Brother Bin, does it hurt?" He Yuxin used hot water to help Wu Bin clean the wound.

"Hiss, a little bit!" Wu Bin took a breath.

"I'll try to be gentle. The wound doesn't look inflamed. It should start healing in two days!" He Yuxin learned some common medical knowledge from Fang Xiaoyun, and she could tell whether the wound had worsened.

"Oh, if we had been more careful and not crossed the bridge, perhaps this wouldn't have happened!" Wu Bin sighed.

"I think we should be thankful to be here!" He Yuxin said, "If we were still in the convoy, that plane would have blown up the entire convoy!"

Wu Bin was stunned, he had not thought of this. Chen Guangjun said that this must be a misunderstanding. It has always been puzzling, why would a military aircraft attack for no reason?

Chen Guangjun had analyzed before that it was impossible for the Flying Leopard to bomb indiscriminately and fly hundreds of kilometers to bomb the survivors. This was unreasonable.

The most likely scenario is that the Flying Leopard came to look for other targets, and the infantry fighting vehicle seemed out of place. In addition, there was no way to contact it, which might have made the pilot feel guilty, so he would rather kill the wrong one than let it go.

So what Feibao came to hunt were not zombies. Come to think of it, what kind of zombies were worth Feibao running hundreds of kilometers for?

Since the target is not zombies, the four of them are in greater danger. The army used Flying Leopards to blow them up, so they are obviously not easy to deal with.

Wu Bin was more worried about Qiao Xinghua and his men. They were too big a target and it would be bad if they met any of them.

At this moment, the convoy had just escaped from the previous wave of danger. For safety reasons, the convoy had turned into the mountains and got rid of the zombies and survivors.

The problem was that they were getting further and further away from the four missing people, and the convoy lost the Chenglong trailer and the excavator on the trailer.

The tanker truck was also lost. If the drivers of the two trucks had not driven fast, they would probably have died in the trucks as well.

Including the two cars carrying the four missing people, more than half of the convoy's vehicles were lost, which is a heavy loss.

The team is now in urgent need of rest. All the glass in the team was destroyed in the explosion and the cold weather directly penetrated into the cars.

Zhao Bofeng and his team need to remove the glass from other vehicles and replace it, which takes a lot of time. It would be okay for ordinary vehicles.

However, the vehicles in the fleet are basically not ordinary vehicles. They need to be modified for glass cutting, and even ordinary diamond cutting blades are not easy to find.

"Brother Bin and the others should have crossed the bridge. We need to go downstream and cross the bridge to find them. This may take several days!"

"You guys wait here. If you really can't stay here any longer and we haven't returned yet, then head north first, following the route we agreed on. If you change your route, leave a mark on the road!"

"We will be back in a week at most, no matter what the result is!" Qiao Xinghua reminded everyone before departure.

He and Chen Haitao will go out on this trip, so they don't need too many people to look for people.