Three days have passed since the helicopter Lang Hua was riding was attacked that day.
During these three days, Lang Hua did not rush to trace the whereabouts of the attacker. He first found a cave and temporarily hid with the remaining eight people in order to have a place for the wounded to rest temporarily.
Fortunately, most of the injured soldiers had flesh wounds, and only one suffered some brief confusion after a concussion. Lang Hua asked other soldiers to take care of him and set off early on the third day, heading towards Shashi together.
From morning to evening, several people walked out of the mountainous area and finally saw a city gate at the end of their sight.
To be precise, it is the door of a shelter that is too small to be smaller.
"Master, this is a refuge base. Do we want to avoid it?" Haiping asked for instructions.
"No, let's go in through the city gate," Lang Hua said. "The suburbs are not peaceful at night."
After hearing this, Haiping and the two shadow guards responded in unison. As for the four young warriors, they immediately cheered up as if they had received amnesty.
Long live! Tonight they finally don’t have to sleep in a cave anymore!
The sun is about to set, and more and more people want to enter the base. Lang Hua led everyone to queue up in front of the city gate.
"No. 1, do you know where this is?"
A shadow guard looked at the map and replied: "Back to the deputy city lord, this is Chong County."
"Chong County?" Lang Hua murmured, "It turns out we have returned to Dongshan Province."
Speaking of which, Lang Hua is still visiting his old place.
He remembered that Chongxian County was a small county at the junction of Anyang City, Hebi City and Puyang City. Before the disaster, the county's permanent population was less than 200,000, and more than half of the population was distributed in some villages on the outskirts of the county.
Six years after the end of the world in his previous life, before preparing for the first major counterattack, Lang Hua had performed a mission near here. I still remember that the mission at that time was related to the Black Blood Altar, but at that time, the entire Chong County was already like a hell. There were not many people alive, so naturally there was no such refuge in front of me.
Before long, the long snake-like team had moved forward for a considerable distance.
When Lang Hua was bored, he looked at the layout of firepower points on the city wall. From time to time, he recalled some things from the past, and soon it was his turn.
Perhaps it was because they saw them armed with live ammunition, unlike ordinary people, that the people on duty did not make it difficult.
After briefly answering a few questions from the city gate officials, they found that they had no food to hand over as entry fee, so they had to take out a box of bullets instead. Before dark, Lang Hua and others finally arrived in the city as they wished.
"Deputy City Lord, look! There are so many people."
"Xiaohui!" his companion said anxiously. Before entering the city, Lang Hua had told him that he should be called captain in front of others. Instead of drawing attention to himself by telling the truth, Lang Hua would rather be regarded as a team of adventurers who went out to hunt black corpses and black beasts.
"Yes...it's the captain." The young warrior known as Xiaohui explained with a blushing face, "Captain, look, they are all lining up there."
Lang Hua shook his head and said it was okay.
Haiping also sniffed his nose and said, "Master, it's porridge."
Lin Qian said: "It's true, it smells like rice porridge."
Immediately afterwards, everyone smelled a faint fragrance.
Looking along the scent, I saw a crowd of people at the other end of the road. Many ragged survivors were waiting in a long line, each carrying a bowl. From time to time, someone raised his head and looked ahead, as if counting the number of people and figuring out how long it would be before his turn came.
Some people didn't have bowls, so they had all kinds of containers in their hands. Lang Hua only saw glass bottles, various plastic jars, and even one person holding a hat. A soldier leaned over to take a look and saw a dirty plastic bag in his hat.
Lin Qian smelled the smell and kept swallowing. For several days, they had been eating compressed dry food and were already fed up with it.
"Xiaohua...Captain, are you selling porridge? How about we buy some too?" She hesitated, "It's just that we don't have crystal cores in our hands. I don't know if they can collect pistol bullets..."
Lang Hua said, "It's probably not for sale. I think it's like giving up porridge."
"Giving up porridge? It's for free?"
Right here
By then, Xiaohui had come back with a lunch box.
"Captain, look, I've got some porridge."
Lang Hua was happy: "You guys go to the front."
Xiao Hui opened the lunch box and said: "Captain, I didn't jump in line. I changed places with the person in front."
"Why would he be willing to trade with you?" Lin Qianqi asked.
Xiaohui scratched his head and said sheepishly: "I exchanged it for a piece of compressed biscuit, and that person was willing. Others also wanted to exchange it with me, but I didn't agree. No, I'll be back after making porridge."
"You are smart." Shadow Guard No. 1 gave a thumbs up. He was busy helping Xiaohui take off the lid of the lunch box, but when he looked out, he was dumbfounded.
"Is this porridge? Isn't this water? It's very turbid."
"Oh, brother." Xiaohui picked up a few rice grains with chopsticks and said, "Isn't there rice grains in this? Rice porridge, no problem."
"No problem, you idiot." Shadow guard No. 3 on the other side couldn't help laughing. "Look, apart from those grains of rice, what's on your chopsticks? It can't be straw, right?"
Haiping said at this time: "It seems to be wheat husks."
When the others heard this, they scolded Xiao Hui: "Why do you exchange good compressed biscuits for a bowl of wheat hull porridge?"
"Yeah, it just smells like water. It doesn't match the fragrance just now."
"Isn't your kid deceived?"
"Oh, how could it happen?" Xiao Hui said anxiously, "Listen to me. A pot of white rice porridge was brought in front, but they poured the porridge into a large vat, and added a lot of boiling water and a few bags of this Seed husks, don’t they become this kind of thing if you stir them up?”
Xiao Hui said firmly: "Believe me, no matter who drinks it, it will be like this."
"Wheat hull porridge mixed with water..." Lin Qian gradually frowned.
"It can't be said to be wheat husks. It should be called rice bran. It's normal to have some rice husks mixed in. It's actually quite nutritious." Lang Hua picked up the lunch box and took a bite and said, "It's quite warm. I've beaten it. , why don’t you drink some while it’s hot?”
"I... forget it." Lin Qian waved her hand quickly, "Isn't rice bran used for animal feed?"
"Anyway, it's edible." Lang Hua said frankly, "It's just that it's not full."
Under Lin Qian's attention, Lang Hua and others shared the bowl of rice bran porridge, and then continued to move forward. It seems that this place was originally a suburban manor. After the disaster, it was occupied by the survivors. Many iron sheets were nailed to the outside of the wall as a fence, forming a shelter. Take the three-meter-high iron gate at the entrance, which was temporarily welded with scrap steel plates after the disaster.
The manor was built on a gentle slope at the foot of the mountain. There was only one main road in the park, and both sides of the road were lined with survivors who had built shacks under the trees.
Some people are even setting up stalls, selling items from before the disaster, such as watches, mobile phones, necklaces, etc., on a raincloth. A sign was placed next to one of them that read, "In exchange for food, the price is negotiable." Every time he passed someone, he would raise his head and look at the person expectantly. When the person showed no interest and left, he would lower his head in frustration.
Lin Qian felt a little distressed when she saw this scene, so she dragged Lang Hua to the man.
"Hey, beauty! Handsome guy! Take a look, what do you want? I have everything here!"
The stall owner was a middle-aged man. When he saw Lin Qian and the others approaching, his eyes immediately lit up.
Lin Qian knelt down and rummaged through the raincloth. The stall owner kept thinking about it. What can I say? All you need is a piece of bread and you can choose whatever you want here. Also, I haven’t had any water or rice for more than ten days, so please take pity on me.
These words made Xiaohui roll his eyes.
If you don't eat for more than ten days, you will starve to death, okay? And isn’t there free rice bran porridge distributed here?
Lin Qian could naturally tell that although the stall owner was unkempt, he didn't look like he had been hungry for more than ten days. Just when she was hesitating about how to leave some food for this man without hurting his self-esteem, there seemed to be a little commotion at another stall not far away.
A man wearing trousers, boots and a leather jacket was dragging a female stall owner towards a tent. This man's body was still stained with blood, and he had a tiger-headed sword on his waist.
, it looked like an adventurer who had just returned from a fight in the jungle.
"Wait, wait. Master, please let me close the stall first."
"Hurry up, you're delaying my business, or I'll kill you."
The woman whined and begged repeatedly: "Uncle, uncle, why don't you be kind enough to find someone else. It's really inconvenient for me today..."
The man in the leather jacket angrily scolded: "You're so verbose, I'm not going to give you a lot of money."
"Really, really can't, please..."
"Go faster!"
Not long after, people were already crowding on both sides of the road to watch the excitement. The female stall owner was quite pretty, and as the two of them were pulling each other, she showed off a bit of her youthful beauty, which was all white and dazzling.
"How dare he do this in broad daylight?"
Lin Qian was about to step forward, but was stopped by Lang Hua.
"Don't go." Lang Hua said.
Lin Qian was about to speak when she heard the stall owner next to her chuckle and say, "Oh, no matter what she does, that's what she does anyway."
Lin Qian said angrily: "Are you all blind? Can't you see that she is unhappy?"
"Hey, you don't understand this. Isn't this all homework beforehand? They all want to increase their worth." The man stared at the suffering female stall owner in the distance without blinking, looking very focused. , where is the weak look just now?
"When I first fled, I still had some property, and I experienced it twice with her. Oh, that skin, those long legs, not to mention how alluring. What a slutty little bitch, hey. That's it. This attitude of refusing to welcome, this expression of struggle and unwillingness... Hey, hey, if I could ride it again, it would be worth dying on the spot."
He pointed at the female stall owner, not caring that Lin Qian's face was getting darker and darker.
"As for her, she aborted a child years ago. She didn't know which wild man was the thief. But she couldn't think about it. What kind of meat is not meat? There are people in Guangdong Province who are just like this. What are you pretending to do? Hey, he pretended to be buried in the ground, and he was so sad that he hadn't received any guests for a long time. Doesn't this mean he is being ridden next?"
He didn't know that when he mentioned "the aborted child", Lang Hua had already stared at him. After all, this kind of thing was too common in the previous life. As long as he dared to say anything related to eating human flesh, Lang Hua would dare to kill him in the street as a warning to others. It's a pity that he didn't. Maybe it wasn't that he didn't think about it, but he just didn't get the chance.
The farce on the other side came to an end after the big man in the leather jacket stuffed another crystal core into the woman's breast.
"What is he looking at? Get out of the way!"
While the big man was chasing the crowd, he pushed the woman toward the tent not far away. The woman seemed to have accepted this fate. She held the three crystal cores tightly in her hands, and tears fell on her face. on the ground.
"Hey, Miss, beautiful beauty, why don't you buy it?"
When the stall owner saw Lin Qian turning around and leaving, he hurriedly shouted: "Half a piece, I only want half a piece of bread, you can choose whatever you want here! I haven't eaten in more than 20 days, please show kindness..."
But how could Lin Qian listen to his words again? She walked forward with her head down, her head in a mess, and she almost hit a car by accident. The car drove in through the gate. It was a brown-red Rhino pickup truck. The cargo box in the back was filled with the carcasses of small black beasts.
"parking!"
There was a sharp "squeak" sound.
"You don't have eyes, how can you walk!" The driver rolled down the window and shouted at Lin Qian. Before he shouted, he stared at her face.
A man jumped out of the trunk. He looked at Lin Qian from head to toe. He lingered several times in front of the two peaks in front of her chest and regarded Lang Hua and others as if they were nothing.
"What a beautiful woman, I want it!" the man said.
The driver immediately got out of the car and shouted: "Get out of here, I fell in love with this girl first!"
"Who are you!" Xiao Hui shouted angrily.
"Go away, if you say one more thing, I will kill you and feed you to the black corpses!"
At this moment, a "crack" sound suddenly sounded.
I saw the two horizontal knives behind Hai Ping being unsheathed at the same time, and the bright white sword light gave a startling glimpse. The time of life and death is only an instant!
