Hiding in the mountains to watch the end of the world

At the beginning of September, the weather suddenly turned cold, and people in the village had fever one after another.

Just like those people in Liujiatun who had a fever, except for the fever on their foreheads, there was nothing unusual about them. They should eat and drink, and taking medicine could not reduce the fever.

"Go back and pay attention, try to eat and use separately from your family." An Huaize told everyone when they came to see a doctor.

"I know, Doctor An." Everyone obeyed obediently.

On the surface, it is like this, but behind the scenes, whether everyone pays attention to it or not, it has nothing to do with An Huaize.

An Huaize suspected that it was the plague, but he had no evidence and could not diagnose it, so he could only remind him as much as possible.

In short, some people pay attention to it, and treat themselves like people who are plagued by the plague, and do things carefully, for fear of involving their family members.Some people are afraid but let down their vigilance, and sometimes they are careful and sometimes careless, and they don't know if something will happen.Some people don't care, thinking that Dr. An is too cautious, maybe this is a common fever.

An Huaize could only try his best to find out the cause of the disease, but he had no clue, so he could only forcefully tell everyone to be careful.

Soon, on the fifth day of September, people from Liujiatun suddenly ran over with someone on their backs in the middle of the night, looking for An Huaize urgently.

When I asked, it turned out to be a plague, and everyone didn't dare to delay, anyway, it was late at night, and the fence could not be seen, so they asked people to go to the ward at the back of the village to find An Huaize.

An Huaize took a look at the door and said, "This is someone who has a fever recently."

An Huaize was very sure that he had seen many people who were affected by the plague in Liujiatun, and he almost recognized them all.

"Yeah, Doctor An, you don't know, tonight, the head of our family just had dinner, and he said he was dizzy and fell asleep before he wiped himself off." The aunt standing by the bed wiped her tears, crying uncontrollably Look, "I finished my housework at night and went to sleep. When I lifted the quilt, I smelled a bad smell. I... I went to borrow a flashlight, and when I took a photo, the head of the house... just Like this."

The aunt couldn't go on, so she kept crying, and her son was next to her, so she continued, "My mother knocked on my door and asked me to carry my father back, and I found out that my father... He was actually infected with the plague, but It's going to be fine today."

An Huaize frowned, he couldn't tell anything, people had fevers one after another during this period, from August to now, it's been almost half a month, but it didn't look unusual, An Huaize didn't know What is the cause.

"Did it suddenly become like this?" An Huaize finally caught a point.

"Yes."

"Tell me what happened today, what did you do today." An Huaize suspected that something might have triggered the plague.

"This morning... and then my father was like this." Guo Peng tried his best to recall, and said everything, even going to the toilet.

There was nothing suspicious, and An Huaize didn't know how to look for it for a while.

An Huaize went to see Father Guo's condition. The skin on his body began to fester, which was quite serious. It was almost in the late stage. Something must have induced the virus in his body.

"Go and boil some hot water and clean yourself up." An Huaize directly cut off the clothes. It is estimated that it has only been about three hours since the onset of the disease. open.

"Come this way." A few aunts from Zhaojiatun led the way and just avoided them. They couldn't look at other men's bodies.

There is something to boil water behind the house, which was prepared by Zhao Er's family in the past, and it can be used now, and there is no taboo.

"Tell me what you ate today." An Huaize frowned, and could only find the reason from the food.

"It's just ordinary food." Guo Peng didn't know what to say, "It's almost the same as usual."

How many tricks can rural people do?This is good enough to fill your stomach.

"What meal? What did you eat? What is the dish? Where did it come from? Tell me all about it." An Huaize's tone remained unchanged.

"This morning, it's polenta, dried radish, and steamed buns. It's newly harvested corn. The dried radish is from last year. The steamed buns are made this morning. This year's wheat. It's a big pot of rice for lunch, it's..."

"What else is there for lunch besides the big pot of rice?" An Huaize didn't doubt the big pot of rice, otherwise how could it be his family that had the accident?

"No, it's gone." Guo Peng thought for a while, and there really wasn't one, "I'll go to work after eating."

"And at night?"

"The noodles I ate, I bought them in Shikou Village last month, and I ate rice, just the new rice harvested in autumn. There are also shredded potatoes, which are also from this year, and the chickens I killed at home."

"What did you just start eating today?"

"Chicken, rice, and noodles at night." Guo Peng said nonchalantly, then shook his head violently, "That's not right, I've eaten noodles before, only chicken and rice."

"Is this year's rice abnormal? Is it different from previous years?" An Huaize thought of something that Pingzi had muttered when he came to his house before. Xi took this matter to the public and everyone thought Zhao Xi had discovered it?

"It seems so." Everyone did feel a little suspicious, but they didn't care too much, "But we fed the chickens in the village before and it was fine."

"Yeah, when the millet was drying, the chickens in the village also ate some, so it's all right."

An Huaize was still skeptical, "Go back and bring me the dinner and show me."

Guo Peng responded, "I'll go right away."

"Wait, is Fifth Uncle Shun here?" An Huaize called out.

"Yes, I'll go back and get the ox cart." Uncle Shun was on the side, and he knew what An Huaize was going to say when he heard it.

"Find one or two more people to go with, the road is not safe." An Huaize instructed, his heart beat violently when he fell asleep these two days, and he didn't know what happened to that bastard Zhao Mian in the mountains.

Uncle Shun took a few men from the village and Guo Peng away, An Huaize took a chair and sat down, and prescribed a prescription for Father Guo.

The new prescription, when he thought that something else might be causing the plague, and he hadn't found out the reason yet, An Huaize was afraid that Yoyo would also be tricked, so he had no choice but to make up his mind to do the experiment.

Most of An Huaize's prescriptions are medicines that strengthen the foundation and cultivate the essence, and the dosage of Sunburst Tree Powder in it is relatively large. The main reason is to experiment with new prescriptions and try to ensure that no one dies.

"I'll go back and get some medicine, wipe off my body as soon as the water boils, and I'll be back soon." An Huaize ordered, and then left quickly.

An Huaize came here after taking medicine. When he came back, Father Guo's body had already been wiped clean, and his aunt covered him with a new blanket. It's cold now, so he shouldn't catch a cold.

"Feed him." An Huaize gave the medicine to his aunt.

"Hey." Mother Guo responded, wiped away her tears and fed it little by little. Fortunately, people with the plague can swallow even if they are sleepy, so it is not troublesome.

An Huaize lifted the blanket and wiped the sunburst powder on the wound, "Keep it close, we will know the result after tonight. Call me at my house if you have anything to do. When your son comes back, let me He put things outside and I'll come back in the morning."

An Huaize has to go to class tomorrow morning, but he has no intention of staying here for a long time.

"I know." The aunt nodded.

"Let's leave, everyone." An Huaize told everyone not to hang around here.

"Ozawa, it's dawn, and the walls of our village will be discovered, and there are no people in our village who have suffered from the plague, which will also be discovered."

"The thing about the wall is that the big cat built it after going down the mountain. There are not enough stones. As I said before, when the big cat goes down the mountain, everyone in our village ward will be gone. Don't worry." An Huaize yawned.

"That's good." Everyone was mainly worried about this, so they felt relieved after hearing this.

"Hide Zeng Pei better. Before the people in Liujiatun leave, don't come out, and don't talk about Zeng Pei." An Huaize still pays more attention to Zeng Pei, even though he is now like a transparent person.

It's only now that everyone thinks of Pei Xiaozi, thinking, ouch, it's been a long time since I saw Pei Xiaozi.

"I stay at home every day, and I don't walk around the village, so I can't lose it." Zeng Pei's neighbor laughed.

Everyone dispersed for the first time, and An Huaize also went back to sleep.

The next day, Guo's father's condition worsened, with less air inflow and more outflow, and Guo's mother almost cried to death.

An Huaize changed another prescription. In the afternoon, his condition finally stabilized, and Mother Guo was relieved.

However, An Huaize became more and more worried. The condition fluctuated too much. In the past, even with medication, the effect was gradually seen, and he didn't know why it was so abnormal.

Guo Peng failed to bring back the food. The food at home was almost ready to be eaten. They regretted the food and would finish the food. There was no food left, only some steamed buns left. After washing it clean, Guo Peng searched the house, but couldn't find any leftovers.

"It's fine if you can't find it." An Huaize was a little disappointed, but it's okay.

Father Guo's condition was stable, so An Huaize asked Mother Guo to take Father Guo back, "Your family owes [-] points, hurry up and pay it off."

The Guo family is a family with a foreign surname in the village, and they are usually in a hurry to go to work, unlike the Liu surname in the village who ask for leave casually, but now they have to ask for leave.

"Doctor An, give my father another day's medicine. I'll bring the medicine the day after tomorrow." Guo Peng looked at An Huaize pleadingly.

An Huaize shook his head, "There are other patients in your village who have no medicine. Let's line up. Your father can last for a while."

What Guo Peng wanted to say, An Huaize turned his head and left.

The people in Zhaojiatun advised, "Go back, don't let your father catch a cold."

Guo Peng clenched his fists, with a gloomy face, "I know."

Father Guo was like a signal. An Huaize had just sent the Guo family away in the afternoon, and was waking up again when he was resting at night.

"Doctor An, someone in Liujiatun is sick again."

An Huaize frowned, and walked to the ward. It was the same situation. After asking questions, it was similar to Guo's. The recipes were similar, and he couldn't see why.

"Is there any leftover food at home? Ask someone to go back and get some." An Huaize's face was gloomy, he was severely deprived of sleep, and his tone was naturally bad.

"No, it's hard to have leftovers at home." The other party was embarrassed, rural people, how could they have the habit of leftovers, even if they did, they would feed the chickens.

An Huaize gave the medicine, wrote down the points owed, and yawned, "I can stabilize tomorrow morning, and I can go home when the fever subsides below [-] degrees. Call me if you have any problems."

An Huaize didn't bother to bother, and went back to sleep. Before going to bed, he was thinking, Brother Mian has been away for seven days, and he should be back tomorrow.

However, Zhao Mian and the others changed a new route, relying on the strong premonition of the five along the way, they arrived at Beifengjian smoothly.

"It went so smoothly." Zhao Ping felt unreal.

In fact, it was not smooth, but what they planned was to explore the road, and they didn't intend to actually reach Beifengjian. They were almost spotted on the way, and they all avoided it.

"Uncle, do you want to go down?" Liu Mang was a little moved, he came here, and really wanted to take the cinnamon grass away, the next time he came in, it might not be so smooth.

"Go down." Zhao Mian nodded affirmatively, and took the lead to climb down.

"Uncle, those yellow flowers are cinnamon grass, and the snakes inside are yellow, so be careful when picking them." Liu Cheng followed up and reminded carefully.

"How about the quantity, is it a lot?" Zhao Mian asked.

"Not much, but it's hard to see. The colors are too similar. Last time, Yazi had better eyes." Liu Cheng shook his head.

Zhao Mian took out the short shovel and quickly divided into groups, "Pingzi, be careful, Mangzi Yazi will pick cinnamon and herbs, and Chengzi and I will dig."

"Got it, uncle." Several people nodded.

"Chengzi, be careful with the stick, if there is a snake, you will pick it away." Zhao Mian said.

Liu Cheng nodded, and Liu Mang and Liu Ya over there have also divided the work.

A few people soon went down to the valley, and the valley was full of cinnamon grass, clump after clump, big and small.

Liu Cheng saw that some osmanthus herbs had faded, some were still in bloom, and there were some small white things like seeds on some osmanthus herbs.

"Uncle, is this a seed?"

"Never mind, dig some back." Zhao Mian reached into the osmanthus grass with a short shovel, patted it, felt something shaking, and stretched out his head, Liu Cheng quickly picked it away.

Zhao Mian took a bag and dug cinnamon and vanilla. He quickly dug a lot and put it in the bag. The bag could still hold it. Zhao Mian wanted to dig some more when he heard Liu Mang growl, "Run!" .”

Zhao Mian and the others didn't care what it was, just took the things and ran, climbed up the valley, and when they looked back, they saw densely packed yellow snakes crawling out of the cinnamon grass.

"Foggrass!" Liu Cheng cursed and was shocked by the battle.

Fortunately, he still remembered to run away, so he turned around and rushed into the woods.

"Uncle, what are you doing?" Liu Cheng saw Zhao Mian spilling something on the bag from behind.

"Osmanthus herb has a scent, cover it up!" Zhao Mian threw the bottle to Liu Mang.

Liu Mang suddenly realized, no wonder they were discovered last time, it was Gui Xiangcao who did it, and they were moving targets.

Liu Mang quickly sprinkled some powder on the bag, and it was strange that the smell was covered.

The little yellow snake behind was quickly thrown away, and they ran to a safer place and took a few breaths, "Mistgrass, what is this? This bag doesn't smell at all."

"This is deodorant powder, it's cosmetics." Zhao Mian tied the bag on his belt.

"Let's go, we have to leave Beifeng Ridge quickly today." Seeing that everyone had almost rested, Zhao Mian urged.

Everyone knows the importance, Beifengling is also the place where the wolves of the Big and Big Wolf Mountain hunt, so they can't stay here.

A few people dared not go to the wind, and chose the leeward place, fearing that the smell would be smelled by the wolves. These guys are very difficult to deal with, and it is too difficult to get rid of them. Last time they were lucky.

A few people left Beifengling very quickly, ate dry food along the way, and found a leeward place to rest at night, because they didn't plan to go here at first, so there was not enough dry food.

"No, I have to go hunting." Zhao Mian looked at the dry food in the bag, there was only half a day's supply left at most.

Everyone also only had a little dry food left, and they had to take a little more to go into the mountains to survive until now.

"It's all my fault. If I had known it earlier, I wouldn't have said that I would have continued walking." Zhao Ping blamed himself.

"We'll keep going if you don't say so." Zhao Mian didn't blame him, the journey was so smooth, it was impossible to give up easily.

Zhao Mian took out a map. This geographical location is very awkward. It is on the edge of the wolf pack, next to a group of pumas, and on the edge of several carnivorous animals. It is not easy to hunt in such a small place.

"If I knew it earlier, I would have caught a few snakes, or eaten snake soup." Liu Cheng joked, and took a mouthful of dry food.

"Let's go find some traps." Liu Mang and the others wanted to try their luck.

"If we can't catch it, we have to leave in the morning. Even if we catch it, we can't go with something that smells of blood. It's too dangerous." Zhao Mian shook his head.

"Then what should we do?" Liu Cheng and the others looked at Zhao Mian, and they could only set some traps, or they could only eat dry food.

"It's September now, and there are a lot of wild fruits, or go hunting right now, but I don't agree with this." They are not hunters, and they are not familiar with how to hunt, and they don't know how to avoid predators following them when dealing with them. Of course you can't choose the latter.

"But, there are no wild fruits here, so we'll all be leaving by then." Liu Cheng looked at Liu Mang and Liu Ya, not knowing what to do.

"Mushrooms are hard to find now, and we don't know how to hunt. We don't have wild fruits here. We have to make a detour, or we have to enter the territory of big cats." Unless necessary, they don't want to enter any animals of the site.

Food rations must be settled, and it must be done quickly. Zhao Mian looked at the map again, "Let's go to the Xixi side. You can't go to the Dongxi side. You can go to the Xixi side, where you can still fish."

"Then we have to pass Xiaoxiong Mountain." Liu Cheng and the others looked at each other, unwilling, but they didn't follow the water, they could only rely on luck to find something to eat.

"Anyway, even if you don't eat fish, if you want to eat fruit, you still have to steal into other people's territory. Anyway, you have to work hard. It's better to walk through Little Bear Mountain. It's not so easy to find." Zhao Ping said through gritted teeth, but he was afraid. .

What Zhao Ping said was right, if they didn't follow the water and could only eat the fruit, they would have to go all the way to other people's territory to pick it up, and they would be discovered sooner or later, maybe Little Bear Mountain would not be discovered.

"Then let's take a detour and set off tomorrow morning." Zhao Mian took out a pen and drew a new route, which deviates quite a bit from the original route.

A few people ate dry food, arranged for duty, and went to bed quickly.

Zhao Mian was on the second shift. When he woke up, he felt something was wrong. He heard wolves howling and howling constantly. It was very lively.

People have three urgencies. When Zhao Mian went to make a convenience, he was still thinking about what was going on, and when he came back, he came back with a breath of wind.

Zhao Mian suddenly realized that the wind direction had changed, they were spotted, and the howling of wolves seemed to be getting closer!

"Get up, get up, the wolves are coming!" Zhao Mian ran over and woke them up.

Just as Zhao Ping fell asleep, he was pushed awake in a daze. When he heard the wolves, he woke up completely, and hurriedly got up to carry his backpack.

"Uncle, how come there are wolves?!" Zhao Ping was puzzled, and looked around, there were no wolves.

After all, Liu Cheng and the others had relatively rich experience, so they naturally knew that the wind direction had changed.

"Run!" Zhao Mian pulled Zhao Ping and ran, Liu Cheng and the others followed behind.

Zhao Mian didn't dare to run along the direction of the wind, but consciously shifted to a certain angle. As long as he didn't get caught up by wolves, he would run to the leeward sooner or later, and then he would have a greater chance of running away.

"Uncle Mian, here, go directly to the territory of the cougars. They just fought with the wolves to grab the territory last time." Liu Cheng wanted to divert the trouble.

"No, the woods are too far away, and there are too many cougars. If we can hide from wolves but not cougars, we will all die." Zhao Mian dare not bet that these animals are so smart now, and they must not be deduced by common sense. .

Liu Cheng and the others were also afraid of this kind of thing happening, so they could only run away sullenly.

But how can people run faster than wolves? The wolves are getting closer and closer. When they start running, the howls of wolves are not so frequent. Come over and stop once to determine their direction.

Zhao Mian let go of Zhao Ping, and ran while looking at the map with a flashlight. Next to him was the territory of the puma. These guys were not easy to deal with. In front of him was the territory of the leopard. They were not easy to mess with.If you go a little further, you can enter the territory of the fox. Those guys are much easier to deal with, but it's a pity that it's too far away.

To choose one of the two, Zhao Mian chose the leopard, because the leopard is relatively close, and there is a forest in front of it, and the puma forest is far away.

"Climb the tree!" Zhao Mian entered the forest, growled, and pointed at several big trees.

"Pingzi, go up!" Liu Cheng and the others pushed Zhao Ping up the first tree trunk, and Zhao Ping climbed up the tree trunk.

"uncle……"

"You go up." Zhao Mian loaded the gun, and the wolves were very close.

Liu Cheng and the others didn't dare to delay, so they hurried up one by one. The first trunk was not high, only more than two meters, so it was not easy to stand on.

"Uncle Mian, you come up first." Liu took advantage of their skills, Zhao Mian pulled and climbed up.

The sound of footsteps was very close. At this height, the wolves were likely to jump up. Liu Mang and the others hurriedly pushed Zhao Ping onto the second tree trunk. Soon, Liu Mang and Liu Ya also went up.

The wolves are coming!

"Ow!"

The pack of wolves quickly surrounded the big tree. Liu Mang and the others loaded their guns and dealt with the pack of wolves. Hey, although they were afraid, their hands did not shake.

A few people thought that last time, the gun couldn't hurt the wolf at all, they could only hit the ear, which delayed a little time. It was really lucky to be able to escape last time, and they don't know what will happen this time.

Zhao Ping swallowed his saliva, and it took him a long time to load his gun. The five of them pointed their guns at the wolves. The wolves just surrounded the tree, raised their heads and looked at the man on the tree, bared their teeth, and had a fierce look in their eyes.

Zhao Mian made a gesture, Liu Mang and the others quickly fired, "Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Zhao Mian climbed up quickly, but Liu Cheng was a little slower, the wolf below jumped up, but couldn't get up, but scratched Liu Cheng's pants a little, but fortunately, he didn't scratch the skin.

"Brother Cheng!" Liu Mang and Liu Ya shouted anxiously!

Zhao Mian frowned, raised his gun, "Don't worry, climb up!"

Zhao Mian's voice was deep and deep, but inexplicably convinced Liu Cheng that Uncle Mian was right.

Liu Cheng hung the gun around his neck, and as soon as he moved, the wolves below jumped up one by one. Liu Mang and the others quickly fired, and they couldn't hurt the wolves, but they could interfere with the bullets, so the wolves couldn't come up.

Zhao Mian killed a wolf jumping in mid-air with one shot, Liu Mang and the others were so shocked that their jaws dropped, how could they kill them?

In the middle of the night, they didn't know how Uncle Mian beat them, but Zhao Ping suddenly remembered that Uncle Mian had rescued many of the people who hadn't escaped into the cellar before when the big cat went down the mountain. , Why didn't Uncle Mian say it?

Zhao Mian killed a wolf, and the pack of wolves surrounded his companion's corpse, howled up to the sky, looked at Zhao Mian viciously, with red eyes flashing in their eyes, and growled.

Liu Chengcheng climbed up, Liu Mang and others relaxed a lot, the wolves saw the opportunity and jumped up, Zhao Mian reacted quickly and killed one, but many others climbed the tree, enough to Seven or eight.

"Continue to go up." Zhao Mian calmly looked at the wolves below, and shot and killed another one.

Zhao Ping and the others climbed another tree trunk. The wolves below had already tried to jump up, but this time, only two succeeded. Zhao Mian killed one of the eight wolves on the first tree trunk.

"Roar..." The two wolves kept approaching with low growls, and the wolves below tried to jump up again.

Liu Cheng got closer to the wolf, raised his gun, and fired a shot, but it was useless. The two wolves slowly approached.

Liu Cheng did so subconsciously, only to hear two consecutive gunshots, and one of the two wolves fell dead, and the other fell injured.

Losing so many companions at once, the wolves didn't dare to act rashly, growling around the uncle, Zhao Mian raised his chin, "Go up."

Liu Cheng hurried up, and as soon as he stood still, Zhao Mian put away his gun and climbed up.

There was a wolf howl not far away, the wolves circled around a few times, growled a few times, looked at the tree viciously, turned and ran away.

"Leaving?" Zhao Ping couldn't believe it, and then laughed.

"Then let's leave quickly later." Liu Cheng and the others laughed, but they were still a little scared.

"I can't go." Zhao Mian looked at a tree next to him, "Don't forget whose territory this is."