末世 二三 事

Qu Zhengchao took a torch from the person next to him, and looked into the entrance of the cave, and found that there was a path with steps extending down the entrance of the cave, and the entrance of the cave could only be passed by an adult man.

"Go down."

Qu Zhengchao pushed the man.

The man staggered and walked down, and everyone followed, walking cautiously.

The hole was dug quite deep, and the height was very low at the beginning. You had to bend your waist as much as possible, otherwise you would hit your head accidentally. up brick wall.

There are a lot of them, and even though they have lightened their footsteps repeatedly in this passage, they can still feel subtle movements.Soon, when they came to the side of a curve, a glimmer of light suddenly appeared in front of the darkness.

At this time, there were clear footsteps from the other side of the curve, and someone was walking towards them.

The torches in their hands were blown out long ago, Jing Lin and the others stopped immediately, hiding their figures in the darkness.

The light and shadow flickered, and the elongated figure twisted and danced on the cave wall. Seeing that the man was getting closer, when the other party turned a corner and just appeared in front of them, Guagua took a small step forward, and said The long tongue suddenly rushed out, wrapped around the man's neck, and dragged him over.

As soon as that person came over, several people swarmed up, tied their hands, gagged their gags, and didn't let him make a sound. They could only look at the group of people who appeared suddenly with horrified eyes.

After this person was dealt with, Jing Lin took a look with his head, and found that after turning this corner, and walking forward, he reached the center of the entire basement: a wide hall.

Jing Lin and the others escorted the people around the corner, voices gradually came from ahead, and as the light became brighter, they completely appeared at the entrance of the hall.

This hall is surrounded by brick walls, so it is not so humid.The hall is very messy, with various tables, chairs, beds and sofas. There are people in the hall. At a glance, most of them are old and weak women and children. They are lying or sitting. Most of them are sleeping. There are only a few young people sitting at a table. Before, when Jing Lin and the others appeared, these people were chatting leisurely, and they didn't react for a while.

However, soon, they discovered Jing Lin's uninvited guests, and saw and tied up their companions.

"Old Ding!" One of the honest and honest-looking people grabbed the knife on the table and rushed towards this side, but was pulled back by the people behind him.

The sound of "Old Ding" woke up all the sleeping people in the hall. The older ones shoved the children behind them with fearful faces, while the younger ones stood in front of them as protectors and looked at them defensively. Jing face them.

Qu Zhengchao took off the weeds from the mouths of the two people who were caught, and heard the man who brought them say with a bitter face: "Brother Dong, the brothers have all been caught."

The man named Dong Ge changed his face a few times and asked, "Are you all right, brothers?"

Lao Ding's expression was complicated: "It's okay, we're all alive." It's a pity that a few legs can't heal.

Brother Dong turned to Jing Lin and the others, stared at Qu Zhengchao and asked, "What do you want to do?"

Although Jing Lin and the others were victims, everyone looked at the old, weak, women and children in the hall and did not want to embarrass them.Qu Zhengchao said: "My people were bitten by your rats. We are here to get the antidote. Give me the antidote. If you are fine after taking it, we will release your people."

Brother Dong's eyes moved back and forth between the two parties, probably thinking that there are many people on the other side, and they are all in the middle of their prime. If there is a fight, it must be their side that suffers, so he said: "Okay, I will give you the antidote. I hope you keep your word and let my brothers go."

As he spoke, he turned around and rummaged through a cabinet in the corner. After a while, he found a small plastic bottle filled with a half bottle of transparent liquid.

Brother Dong unscrewed the bottle and smelled it. The smell should be unpleasant, so he flashed it, then put the cap on and handed it to Qu Zhengchao, saying, "Just smear the bitten person all over the body."

Qu Zhengchao took it, and said with a half-smile: "It seems that you are quite experienced." He often used that mouse to bite people and rob passers-by.

Brother Dong's face flushed, and he looked annoyed and ashamed. He seemed to know that it was wrong to rob others.He put his eyes on the thin old and weak body in the cave, and said with difficulty: "There is nothing we can do."

Jing Lin and the others had sympathy, but most of them showed sarcasm: You can't do anything, so you go to rob others?

With the antidote in hand, they still want to save people, and they don't want to talk to these robbers, they will go back with the hostages.

But at this moment, the little black dragon who had been hiding in Jing Lin's hood suddenly leaned into Jing Lin's ear and whispered: "There are still rooms hidden in this hall, and many people are locked in it, and many of them are going to die."

The scope of Jing Lin's spiritual consciousness is not as good as that of Xiao Heilong, and his spiritual consciousness has been released all the way, but because the basement is quite large, Jing Lin couldn't observe the inner part when he stood at the entrance of the hall.

Jing Lin's footsteps stopped, and the people behind him stopped for some unknown reason.

Jing Lin turned around and looked at Brother Dong: "Are there only people from your village in this basement?"

Brother Dong's pupils shrank suddenly, this slight change could not escape Jing Lin's powerful divine sense.

Brother Dong said: "Only the people in our village are here."

Jing Lin nodded, followed the crowd and turned around.Brother Dong behind the back just breathed a sigh of relief, but it might as well be hit by a long whip suddenly. He reacted quickly, rolled on the spot, and dodged the long whip, but the attack of the long whip was not slow at all, following one after another He came up and made him hide in a very embarrassing situation. In the end, he was whipped severely on the face, and blood burst out instantly.

Brother Dong leaned his back against the wall, feeling a burning pain on his face.He covered the wound on his face with his hands and stared at Zhao Zhiwen who was holding a long whip, and said indignantly, "You said you would let us go if you gave us the antidote!"

After Jing Linjing was reminded by the little black dragon, he pretended to turn around and leave, but at the same time, he gave Zhao Zhiwen a wink. After a long period of cooperative training, they had already had a tacit understanding, and any one of the four people could immediately understand the other with a look. Therefore, they relaxed Dong Ge's vigilance when they turned around, and the long whip in Zhao Zhiwen's hand came out immediately.

Jing Lindao: "This is based on the premise that you are telling the truth. You think you have imprisoned so many people. Do you really think we can't find out?"

The others were also confused by what Zhao Zhiwen and Jing Lin said, but they quickly realized that they stood beside them as their backing, ready to fight at any time.

The old and weak in the hall also curled up into a ball, clinging to the wall, afraid of being hurt.

At this time, the people who were with Brother Dong had already stood with him.

Brother Dong changed his loyal appearance before, put down his blood-stained hands with a gloomy face, and his voice became extremely vicious: "Everyone is here to eat, so it's not good to be kind?"

He knocked on the wall behind him, and there was a hollow sound from his hands.Then there was a gap in the wall, and more than two dozen burly men quickly walked out of it, staring at them fiercely.

It turned out that the wall was actually camouflaged, a door was pasted with bricks, and after it was closed, it would become one with the wall. If Brother Dong hadn't exposed it on his own initiative, there would be so many people in Jinglin and the others except for Xiao Heilong. Not one can be found.

It seems that there is a lot of space in this cave, and I don't know how many doors like this are hidden.

Seeing that the battle was about to break out, and those people on the opposite side were taller and stronger than him, Jing Lin didn't want to cause unnecessary casualties, so he patted the little black dragon on the shoulder with his backhand, "I have to work hard on you."

The little black dragon puffed out his chest and abdomen, "Leave it to me."

After the little black dragon spoke, he fell silent, and a layer of water mist visible to the naked eye suddenly appeared in the innermost part of the hall. Brother Dong and the others didn't know what the situation was, and waited until they saw Jing Lin and the others attacking them When I came over, I found that my arms seemed to weigh a thousand catties, and I couldn't lift them no matter how I lifted them. The same was true for my legs.

There were nearly [-] of them, as if they were frozen in place, they could only watch helplessly as the opponent's weapon greeted them, feeling pain and anger, but there was nothing they could do.

The little black dragon didn't hold on for long, so Jing Lin urged everyone to tie up people quickly, and knocked out those who couldn't be tied up. Fortunately, each of them had a lot of rope, which was more than enough to tie up these people.

Zhao Zhiwen tied up Brother Dong's legs and feet, and slapped him on the head several times angrily, "Naughty, just tell the truth, it's a waste of brother's time, you have to beat him to be obedient, this time It's cool."

After all the people were tied up, the big guys started to search around the walls for the brick doors. After Jing Lin was able to walk freely in the hall, his spiritual sense could expand the range as he moved, so he could find it very quickly.

Finally, everyone found all the doors, and found that almost all the rooms around the hall were dug out, with beds and furniture inside, which was much cleaner than the hall, and there were many old, weak and young people living in these rooms. , but compared with those people in the hall, their complexion is very good.

As soon as these people were caught, they were angry and frightened when they saw the men who were tied up. They all looked at Jing Lin with fierce eyes, as if they wished to eat them alive, including several who were under ten years old. The family is used to doting on the little children, relying on their small size, they scratch and bite Jing Lin and the others, they have to be tied up so that they cannot move, but they still keep crying.

Jing Lin and Yan Fei followed the little black dragon's prompt and came to the last room. The two of them felt countless black shadows in the door with their spiritual sense, and they all remained motionless.They looked at each other with a bad feeling in their hearts. After opening the door, the torches in their hands illuminated the small space, revealing the crowded people inside.

After seeing the situation inside, Jing Lin's eyes couldn't help but widen a little.

The little black dragon climbed onto his shoulder, looked inside, and shook his head regretfully: "Two people died inside."

Qu Zhengchao and the others also walked towards this side. Seeing the situation inside the room, they couldn't help but widen their eyes, "This is?"

Then he shouted at the brothers behind him: "Come here a few people."

The people in this room are obviously not the same group of people as in this village, because these people have messy hair and are all skinny. When they looked at Jing Lin and them with their slightly protruding eyes, their eyes were numb.Almost everyone is naked, and in this cold winter season, they only wear a thin, dirty black clothes with no original color, no shoes on their feet, and their hands and feet are like firewood. Chained, naked.The exposed soles of feet and palms are all blue.

Almost everyone in the team had a thought, is it a monster?

But now is not the time to think about it. Everyone was led out of the room with the help of Jing Lin and the others, a total of 52 people, not counting the two who died, and all of them were men.Judging from the anklets that enclose them, it means that they are imprisoned here. Their anklets and bracelets are the same chain, which means that if one person can't keep up with the pace, the movements of the others will also be disrupted. It is almost impossible to escape successfully.

When they came out, the old, the weak, and the young who had huddled in a ball and had been silent all of a sudden suddenly let out a loud cry, staggered and rushed towards those people, hugging some of them and crying loudly.

Only then did Jing Lin and the others understand why they didn't react at all when they saw those men being tied up. So, are these people their relatives?

Those who were originally numb were gradually affected by the cries of their loved ones, and they were no longer expressionless. They recovered from the abyss of despair and vented their long-suppressed negative emotions with crying.

During this period, the people in the team did not bother them.Rummaging in the living room, the clothes or bed sheets and quilt covers he found were handed over to those people to wrap them warmly.

In the corner of the hall, Yu Dafu was extorting a confession again. This time, the first person to be stabbed by him was the old man who brought them here.

"You lied to me." Yu Dafu said with a smile while rolling up Lao Ding's trouser legs in his desperate expression.

Lao Ding's mouth was blocked, and he could only whine and shake his head.Yu Dafu stared at the look of remorse and begging for mercy in his eyes for a while, and just when the other party thought he would forget about it, Yu Dafu took the knife.

Needless to say, all kinds of blood during the interrogation process, but seeing the miserable conditions of those who kept crying made them feel that even if these people died, they deserved to die.

Lao Ding was taken away, and Lao Ding quickly told the truth.

After the apocalypse, a group of ten miners from their village came back. Half a year after the earthquake, some villagers accidentally discovered a small landslide in a nearby mountain. These mountains were blue in color and very hard in texture.There happened to be a college student in the village who was engaged in chemistry. He dug up a piece with great effort. After several researches, he found that after pouring boiling water on the stone, it would soften and become extremely hot. A certain range of people is affected. If you have this stone in winter, put one in the corner of the house, just like turning on the air conditioner.After a blue stone the size of an adult's fist softens, the temperature can be maintained for at least a week.

This kind of stone has never appeared before, and it can be said to be a brand new energy source.

The college student told the various characteristics of the stone to the miners who discovered it. At that time, the urban area where they were located was building a base, and he wanted to exchange this thing for the residence rights of the villagers in the base.

But several of the miners were unwilling. Instead of handing over these things to others, they might as well hold them by themselves.

It is no secret that the stone is in the village. In order to keep this secret, they do not allow anyone in the village to leave.There are those who hold the same opinion as them, and some who are completely opposed. Animals and plants have mutated, the villages around the mountains and forests are completely unsafe, and the base in the urban area is safe. Those who oppose insist on leaving, but even if they promise not to reveal the secret of the stone It doesn't work even if you say it.

After a brief tug-of-war in the village, some objectors disappeared, including the college student and his family, and the rest stayed behind.

From that day on, they began to dig burrows, and they all lived in the ground. They only came up occasionally to dig some weeds, and they didn’t bother to go to other places, so they dug in the village, so the grass was much lower than outside. , Occasionally come up to clean the house, thinking that I can come back to live in peace in the future.

If they knew that it was these details that gave away their disguise, they would regret it.

After the shelter was completed, they began to think of ways to dig those stones.Unfortunately, the stone is too hard. A grown man may not be able to dig out even a single stone after digging for a long time. The tools are useless, and he is exhausted.

There were too few people in their village. One day when the man named Dong Ge met the escapee who was temporarily resting in their village, a thought suddenly popped up in his mind.

After that, just like what happened to Jing Lin and the others, they disguised the village as uninhabited, lowered the vigilance of passers-by, attacked them in the middle of the night, captured them, and turned them into free labor. The blue color is caused by digging stones for a long time.

At the very beginning, Dong Ge and the others had to do it themselves, and at first they would miss and get injured. Later, they accidentally caught a few mice stealing food. After a series of processes such as being bitten by their own people and detoxification, they finally domesticated the mice as their own. use.Those who were bitten by rats were unable to move or speak. Rats attacked so fast that they bit one another and almost no one could escape.

Gradually, the number of successes increased, and more and more people were arrested. When they met Jinglin, even though there were many of them, Brother Dong's people didn't take them seriously because of a few mice. Was arrested.

Naturally, they have always considered the situation of being arrested back. When Yu Dafu first forced a confession, Lao Ding's false confession and other people's angry shouting and scolding were all rehearsed countless times, including being arrested in the hall. The young people stood behind to protect them, making Jing Lin think that it was the old and weak of their relatives, but in fact they were threatened by their family members so that they did not dare to speak, and they were forced to practice many times.The purpose of these is to show their harmless side even if they lose a few people or some grain when they can't beat the opponent, and use the old and weak to stimulate the opponent's sympathy and let them go.In this way, the secret of the stone will still be preserved by them, and after the other party leaves, they will live their lives as they should in the future.

In fact, Jing Lin and the others are indeed not extremely vicious people. They chose to believe that Dong Ge and the others did it because the food would not hurt people, and they were indeed affected by the old and weak in the hall. If the little black dragon hadn't reminded them, they would have Really just forget it and turn around and leave here.

The family members of those who were captured and those who went out to mine were imprisoned here so that they could not escape successfully, and these old and weak people were also threatened because of their families, so that they with low survival ability could only obey obediently, so they cared about each other. It became the biggest obstacle for each other to escape.

There used to be women in it, but they were either exhausted and starved to death, or they were ruined to death.

Guan Shuangshuang looked at the strong and strong family members of those men, threw out the vines, wrapped them around Dong Ge's neck, and said angrily: "It's the same old people and children, look at your family members, and then look at them, why are you so angry? If you have the heart to treat them like this, your conscience will be eaten by dogs!"

The blue veins on Dong Ge's forehead were swollen, his face flushed because of suffocation, and the vines became tighter and tighter. Seeing that Dong Ge's neck was about to break, Yan Lu reached out and patted Guan Shuangshuang's back.

Guan Shuangshuang gritted her teeth and retracted the vines, her eyes were red.

Qu Zhengchao asked, "Where is your base here?"

Lao Ding, who was already dizzy from the pain, said angrily: "It's just in the south of the city, called the Peace Base."

Yan Fei asked him: "Do you want to hand over these people to the base here?"

Qu Zhengchao sighed: "Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to take them with us."

These people are also pitiful, but it's too far away from their homes, and the car is only so big, and it is definitely not realistic to take them away after traveling through mountains and rivers.

When they were discussing the whereabouts of these people, the rescued people had stopped crying, and Yan Lu and Zhao Zhiwen went straight to break the buckle of the iron chain, liberating everyone, so that they could wear it properly. clothing.

These people had chilblains all over their bodies. Since they were rescued, their bodies have become much warmer. Many people thought they were still living in an illusory dream.They were very grateful to the people in the team, some old people even knelt on the ground to kowtow to them, but the people in the team couldn't bear it, they all dodged to help them up.

After that, half of the people left the cave with these people, and half of the people stayed behind, looking for the food supplies Dong Ge and the others hid here.

Yan Lu and Zhao Zhiwen closed the gap in the iron chain again, and put it on Dong Ge and the others' hands and feet.

As for their family members, seeing them alive and kicking, they still had the strength to point at them and beat them up. Although they didn't use iron chains to tie them up, the ropes were indispensable. Block their mouths with rags.

These people were accomplices in the first place, and they were so arrogant after being arrested. The team felt that there was no need to pity them at all.

On the ground, Jinglin set up heating arrays and rainwater arrays. The people in the team helped to boil hot water, asked them to clean up, and cooked some food for these people with the materials they found.

When cooking, everyone found that Brother Dong and his family lived a very nourishing life. Not to mention a lot of white rice, there was also a lot of dried meat and frozen meat, all of which were drinking human blood.But these people have been hungry for too long, and their stomachs must be bad. They can't eat too much at a time, so they cook meat porridge.

When Jing Lin was bathing one of the little boys, he found that his body was also bruised and purple. He touched the other boy's waist and abdomen full of ribs. After asking, he found out that these were beaten by adults and children in Brother Dong's village. People live underground all day, and rarely come up to let the wind go. In fact, they are similar to being in prison. Gradually, their temperaments are distorted, and tyranny breeds, and all kinds of emotions are vented on these captured people.

It seems that gagging with a rope and a rag is too gentle, Jing Lin thought as he twisted the towel fiercely, but when it fell on the child, the force was very light.