Haicheng is located in a hilly landscape, with a prosperous city center, but there are still a large number of undeveloped mountain villages and tribes on the edge of the city, and there are even no cement roads in the deeper ravines.
Xuanzi pointed the way to an open space in the mountain that was artificially mined, and then said: "Further forward, they can hear the sound of helicopters. You shouldn't land directly, right?"
"That's not the case."
As Huo Yingqing spoke, he skillfully controlled the helicopter to land steadily. It wasn't until the landing gear of the helicopter really touched the ground that Xuanzi's heart slowly dropped.
After getting off the plane, Huo Yingqing relaxed his shins in the mountains and forests, turned around and asked, "Do you know where they are keeping people?"
Xuanzi shook his head and explained: "We searched with a thermal imaging camera. Team Ji seemed to be locked in a cellar, but the nearby villagers were very vigilant, so we were unable to investigate deeply."
Huo Yingqing thought for a while and continued to ask: "Have you not considered taking the villagers to a safe zone?"
Xuanzi replied: "Actually, we have tried. Maybe they are reluctant to part with their own land. No one is willing to leave."
"But the land won't grow long enough to escape, and now is a time when we don't need much farming manpower. There's no reason why we won't go to a safer place with you, right?"
Huo Yingqing's brows furrowed slightly, feeling that this matter was not as simple as villagers taking hostages for supplies. Xuanzi nodded and confirmed her guess: "Yes, we are also very strange."
Xuanzi led Huo Yingqing along the road into the village. The further they went, the more strange Huo Yingqing felt, and pointed out: "And look at these roads into the village, although they are not paved with cement, they are better than Ordinary country roads must be leveled, and the larger stones in the soil have been moved to the roadside to serve as fences. Are you sure the people in this village are educated?"
Not only that, the trees surrounding the roadside were neatly trimmed. It was hard to tell what kind they were, but judging from the appearance of the trees, it seemed that someone had deliberately maintained them.
Xuanzi thought thoughtfully: "Logically speaking, every village will have a village party secretary or a college student village official and some assistance policies. Completely uncivilized villages should not exist. But...civilized people The villagers won’t be so stubborn and rude.”
Huo Yingqing asked again: "Can you contact their village party secretary?"
"Their village party secretary is a native of the village, the one who led the team in not returning the season." Xuanzi replied with some embarrassment: "They also have a college student village official to help, but they have been unable to contact him. He should be gone. ”
Huo Yingqing and Xuanzi walked along the dirt path towards the village for a short distance. Suddenly they heard something moving, and she immediately took Xuanzi and hid in the woods.
Not long after, a male voice with a Haicheng accent came over:
"Village Chief, it's been so long since the Waking of Insects, why haven't these flowers bloomed yet? They won't be frozen to death, right?"
Another obviously older voice immediately scolded: "Don't talk nonsense, these are the plum saplings chosen by Yang Yatou herself. Didn't you see how well they bloomed last year?"
"Then why aren't you opening it? You've been taking care of it for so long."
"What's the point? Next time those helicopters come over, we'll ask them for some fertilizer. We can always make the plum trees bloom again."
"..."
There were also some conversations that were not very important. Huo Yingqing and Xuanzi held their breath, listening to them while quietly waiting for the village chief and others to leave.
After hearing no more news from them, Xuanzi snorted coldly: "What kind of flower is the plum tree? It's the end of the world and you still can't make people think about it?"
"I think the point is not the plum trees, but the people who plant them." Huo Yingqing reminded seriously: "If we can find the girl named Yang, maybe we can rescue Captain Ji without the threat of force. ?”
"Can't find it." Xuanzi broke Huo Yingqing's unplanned plan without hesitation, and sighed slightly: "Yang Ningxiu is the college student village official they disappeared... Wait a minute, you are going to use force at first Did you rescue Team Ji?"
"Don't you happen to be carrying a gun?"
Xuanzi was anxious and immediately covered his gun: "We have seven bullets in our gun. The first six are for zombies, and the seventh is for ourselves. Now we can give you the sixth at most, but we must not aim it at our own people." !”
"I know, I know." Huo Yingqing waved his hand, "Let's go to the top of the mountain to look at the terrain and look for opportunities to steal Captain Ji out."
Xuanzi was speechless and said in disgust: "Are you doing it secretly? I thought you would convince the villagers by convincing them of your feelings."
Huo Yingqing looked at him expressionlessly: "It's funny, I don't have any say at all. I can't bribe you and I can't put pressure on you. If you can really do it with your mouth, do you still need to call me?"
Laughing to death, then you are laughing!
Xuanzi cursed secretly, and then watched Huo Yingqing find a branch in the woods that he found handy, and waved it twice in the air with satisfaction.
Always feel a little unreliable?
The two rushed to a position halfway up the mountain with a better view. While getting familiar with the terrain, they quietly waited for dark.
Xuanzi was a temporary helper at the first aid station. He was not a formally trained soldier. After waiting in the woods for an hour, he became a little bored. However, Huo Yingqing beside him remained motionless until dark. If not for the occasional After blinking for a moment, Xuanzi thought she had passed away.
How can anyone be so patient? The bastard of the wishing fountain?
Before nightfall, a phone call broke Huo Yingqing's trance. She answered the phone, turned around and whispered something. , the words “take care of yourself”.
Xuanzi was shocked again:
Is such a young girl already married and with a baby?
On the other side, Zhou Zuofeng, one of Miss Huo Yingqing's two children, hung up the phone and stared at Huo Youyu, who was eagerly waiting for her parents to pick her up.
Huo Yingqing turned back simply: "It's getting dark, let's go."
Xuanzi didn't react for a moment and asked: "Where to go? Let's look at the cellars one by one?"
"Didn't you see?" Huo Yingqing pointed seriously at a tiled house in the southeast corner of the village entrance and said, "People have been coming in and out of that tiled house in the past few hours. Almost every villager has gone in. I passed, but it came out within a few seconds.”
Xuanzi wanted to laugh, and retorted: "The frequency of villagers coming in and out doesn't prove where Team Ji is being held, right? Could it be that they treat Team Ji like a monkey?"
Huo Yingqing glanced at him slightly, his eyes deep:
"But when everyone went in, they were holding bloody raw meat and bones in their hands."
