Deinocrocodile

Doris was firmly pressed down by Padru, inhaling the stench like a beast in her nostrils, Padru's rough palm covered her mouth with force, and warned her and Yu Tianfeng in a very low voice :"Do not talk."

The cold wind was blowing, Yu Tianfeng lay on the wooden plank, propped his head up and looked at the slightly dilapidated wooden houses, the broken wooden planks ping-pong, and there seemed to be nothing unusual.

Padru groped and jumped off the car, tied the moose's mouth tightly with a hemp rope, and carefully led it away, "We must stay away from all places where there are traces of people."

Yu Tianfeng hesitated for half a second, got out of the car, and helped Padru lead the moose, while Doris looked back at the wooden house in confusion, what is there to be afraid of?

After walking for a long time, there was no sign of any wooden houses or tents anymore. Padru jumped onto the car, gave Yu Tianfeng a hand, and helped her sit on the back of the car.Yu Tianfeng asked her: "Why do you stay away from places where there are traces of people?" Padreu untied the hemp rope tied around the moose's mouth and whipped the moose, "It's hard to explain, I think you will understand soon."

Before entering Shan'aozi, I didn't meet any traces of anyone. I don't know if it's because the snow field is desolate and has no popularity at all, or if Padru deliberately avoided the scattered settlements.At nightfall, heavy snow fell in the sky. Fortunately, they rushed to the cave at the mouth of the col before it got dark.

The cave is very large, and there is a large triangular pyramid-shaped cave hall when entering the cave, where some conifers with crooked necks grow tenaciously.Padru tied the moose to the thickest tree among them, and the moose lowered its neck to eat the moss and hay hidden in the snow.

Yu Tianfeng explored the way with a dagger in his hand, and Doris followed behind her holding a torch.Yu Tianfeng asked: "Is it the only way to enter the snowfield?" Padre walked to the front in two or three strides: "That's right." Yu Tianfeng slowed down: "There may be people there, maybe someone will come later. "Padlu said: "People like you really don't exist anymore. Who would want to go into the snow field and stay in this hole for a night?"

After building a fire, set up a stone pot to boil snow water, Tao Ruisi peeled dried meat and mushrooms to make soup, Yu Tianfeng spread out the animal skin rolls, and tried to draw the route map along the way from memory, Padru sat Watching her quietly.Occasionally, Yu Tianfeng raised his eyes and saw Padru, but she just kept quiet, and Yu Tianfeng really couldn't see any emotion from her eyes.

It was really boring in the dull cave, so Yu Tianfeng had to find something to talk about: "After entering the mountain depression, how long will it take to reach the Xiaoyue tribe?"

"Dozens of sunrises and sunsets."

"How many tens?"

Padreu tilted his head and calculated with his poor arithmetic ability: "Four, five."

Yu Tianfeng nodded: "It will take almost two months."

Doris asked, "Do we have enough food?"

Yu Tianfeng said: "It's okay to be economical, but if you can't do it, you can hunt."

"it is good."

After drinking the broth, Padre got up and went to the entrance of the cave: "I'll watch the night." Yu Tianfeng persuaded her: "Let me come, you are tired from traveling during the day, and I can lie on the car floor and sleep during the day at night." Padre Lu said: "I don't mean to belittle, but you have to know that you are Homo sapiens, you can't rest well at night, and you can't fall asleep even when you are bumping in the car during the day. Can your body handle it?"

Doris wrapped the stone pot, tied a knot on the package, and said, "I'll watch the night." Padru hesitated for a moment, then sat back on the spot: "Please, but remember, don't call loudly when you are in danger. , you just need to gently call my name and I can hear it.” Doris was skeptical: “Gently?” The entrance of the cave is 800 meters away from the place where the fire is made, and can lightly wake up a sleeping person?Padru pointed to his ear: "I am a wolf."

Yu Tianfeng remembers her father telling her when she was a child that in the wild, a lone wolf is particularly fierce and its senses are sharper than those of its kind.

Doris shrugged: "Okay."

Only Yu Tianfeng and Padru were left in the cave, and Doris could at least have a chat with her when she was there, but with Padru, Yu Tianfeng really didn't know how to pry her mouth open.

How to chat with strangers?Start with the easiest topics.

"You were born and raised in the Xiaoyue tribe, right?"

"Ah."

"How big is the beast shape of the dire wolf? Is it the same as an ordinary wolf?"

"There are many kinds of wolves."

"Ah... that's about the size of a nettooth?"

"It's bigger than a nettooth."

"Heck, yeah."

"What is the Xiaoyue tribe like? Was it built in the wind and snow?"

"Deep in the cleft of the cliff, there's no snow there."

"Hmm... Does the Xiaoyue tribe have stone tablets carved with strange spells?"

"There are the Sacred Ruins Slabs."

"How do you know I'm talking about that?"

"Is there anything else like you said?"

"Then, what is Xiaoyue's Sacred Ruins Slab?"

"A picture."

"What painting?"

"Go and see."

"When did you leave the tribe?"

"26."

Yu Tianfeng wanted to ask her why she left the tribe and became a wandering orc, but looking at Padru's temperament, it seemed that she had experienced many bad experiences, so if she asked her directly, maybe she would not say anything, and would put the atmosphere become awkward.

Padru lay down: "Go to bed early."

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Doris was wrapped in a thick fur blanket and curled up in the cave hall, leaning against two moose to keep warm. The heavy snow outside kept falling, and the wind was a little weaker than in the evening. fell to the ground.

In a daze, Tao Ruisi heard the rustling sound of dragging, she struggled to open her eyes, and saw that the snow in the valley outside the cave was covered with dark things, each one was as big as a person, and she was terrified immediately. I broke my nerve.She didn't dare to go out to check what the black dots were, and she didn't dare to leave the cave entrance, for fear of sudden changes outside.In desperation, Doris recalled what Padru said, and called her name softly.

Padru in the depths of the cave really opened his eyes immediately, sat up and pushed Yu Tianfeng to wake him up, Yu Tianfeng followed her to the entrance of the cave, staring at the glaring black spots all over the mountain, dumbfounded.

"what is that?"

Doris stepped back: "Did you see that they are crawling here."

Padre turned around immediately, and quickly untied the moose hemp rope tied to the tree. Yu Tianfeng frowned, squatted down and asked Padreu, "What are you doing?" Jian Shidao stabbed the buttocks of the two moose twice. The moose neighed in fright and ran out of the cave desperately.

Yu Tianfeng choked Padrew: "What are you doing?"

Padru insisted: "You and the lizard boy quickly pack up your things, pick out important clothes, hide the heavy ones in the hole, pack up and come out quickly."

"what?"

Doris held Yu Tianfeng and ran into the cave: "Listen to Padru, they are getting closer, I saw them, they are a group of living dead—"

The moose was injured and ran in the snow bleeding, dragging out two blood marks, the black spots all over the mountain col quickly shifted direction, frantically gathering towards the moose like leeches, Yu Tianfeng looked terrified, and suddenly felt a rush of blood coming out from behind him. After a burst of heat, he turned around and bumped into a huge furry monster. When he looked up, he saw that it was a giant wolf shining black.

The giant wolf was blind in one eye and had twisted scars all over his body. White air floated out of the air between his breaths. He lay down on his front paws and said in a deep voice, "Quick! Bring the package up."

"Go." Tao Ruisi supported Yu Tianfeng from below, and pushed her up. Padru picked up Tao Ruisi and threw her on the back. meters, galloping in the opposite direction from the moose.

The big wolf was running with two living people in the snow, no matter how careful they were, the black spots that were chasing the moose quickly noticed them, and ran over a lot, chasing after them.There are also many black spots around and on the road in front, they heard the sound approaching, forming an outflanking posture with the black spots behind.There are more and more black spots, and the closer they get, the louder the whirring roar, Yu Tianfeng finally sees the true face of the black spots clearly under the reflection of the moonlight and the snow, and also understands what Tao Ruisi said "The Living Dead".

Those black spots are corpses that have been blackened by the cold, all of them are skinny and incomplete, lacking arms and legs, ears and eyes. Manipulating, crazily pouncing on all living creatures.

Yu Tianfeng asked subconsciously: "Will it be like that if you get hurt by them?"

"how do you know?"

Yu Tianfeng showed a dumbfounding expression: "I watched it in TV dramas." Europe and the United States like to shoot movies and TV works with that kind of theme, doomsday survival, zombie rampage, if it is in China, those fantasy ancient works like to be called puppet, Guren , although there are slight differences, they are generally a kind of ghost stuff.

In his panic, Padru had no time to question Yu Tianfeng's strange words at all. In the blink of an eye, the frozen dead corpses had rushed up. Run forward quickly.

"Throw fire in the back."

Yu Tianfeng and Tao Ruisi hurriedly hit the flint and steel, ignited all the spare firewood, and threw them in batches towards the chasing corpses.

"Hold on to me, I'm going to speed up, there's a big crack ahead, I'm going to jump over and shake them off."

"it is good."

"Be careful, don't scream, it's easy to cause an avalanche."

"understood."

At any rate, both Yu Tianfeng and Tao Ruisi had experienced strong winds and waves, so they wouldn't be scared out of their wits by jumping off a cliff in the air.At the big crack, Yu Tianfeng estimated that the crack was about [-] meters wide, and she was a little worried at first, but before she could recover, Padreu jumped across it.When flying over the cliff, Yu Tianfeng glanced down, the cracks have been filled with ice and snow, and there are piles of broken frozen corpses, some have been broken into pieces of flesh and bones, and some are still dragging half of their bodies. Wearily clawing upwards to the ice on the cliff.

Padrew landed firmly and walked slowly on the snow.

"You guys take inventory of the supplies and stay vigilant at all times."

"Is that why you say you have to keep away from human traces?" If there were people, there might be a lot of dead bodies.

"Ah."

"What are those? Zombies?"

Padru exhaled a long white breath, and icebergs reflected in the cold wolf's eyes: "I don't know. Since I was six years old, the wizard of Xiaoyue called it 'Ice Corpse'."