末世 二三 事

A group of eight people sat on the side of the road to rest, and Zhao Shaogan knocked on the door of a family.The hostess of the family is also a doctor, and works with his father in the Huangtai Town Health Center.

It took a while to knock on the door before someone answered.

It was the hostess who opened the door. When she saw Zhao Shaogan, she was taken aback, "Xiao Zhao? Are you looking for something with me?" But even for people she knew, she only opened the door a little under the current situation.

Zhao Shaoqian understood her precautions and asked, "Sister Hong, I just want to ask about the situation in your village. Apart from the crazy growth of vegetation, is there anything strange happening?"

Sister Hong heard the words and said: "Are there too many mosquitoes? By the way, someone from our village came back from the provincial capital yesterday evening. He learned from him that the outside situation is not good. If you want to know more about it, you can go to his house and ask." Bar."

As he spoke, he pointed to a small two-story building on the slope.

Unlike Chashanling, which is a village with mixed surnames, most people in this village have the surname Xie.Sister Hong's name is Xie Hong, and the man she pointed out just now is called Xie Wen. Those who came back in the evening were his younger brother Xie Shu's family who had lived in the provincial capital after years of separation.

Xie Shu saw that Zhao Shaoqian and others came to ask about the situation outside, so he gave a general account of what he saw: "The situation was better at the beginning. Every day, the water trucks sent by the government went to specific places to deliver water, and every three days it was still good. Receive relief food once, but the water is enough to quench people's thirst, not even enough to wash their faces, and the food is barely enough to make people half full. As time goes by, more and more people lose their breath. The situation of smashing and looting happened anytime and anywhere. After the earthquake, the situation became more chaotic. Some street gangsters began to organize and went to various communities to collect protection fees. They fought in the street in order to compete for the territory. The desperate posture was simply too scary. The police We couldn’t control it. Later we couldn’t take it anymore and decided to go back to our hometown. The day before we left, someone broke into the house downstairs in the middle of the night. The whole family was killed and all the food in the house was looted gone."

Xie Shu was quite calm at the beginning, but his eyes turned red when he talked about it later. His wife and two daughters looked haggard and couldn't help crying beside him, while the others were silent.In a few words, although they could imagine it, the people who were watching couldn't empathize with the despair and panic of the people who were in trouble at that time.

"The night before yesterday, we just arrived in the county seat. Because it was late and all the shops and hotels were closed, my wife and children and I found a shop that had been smashed open to spend the night." Speaking of this, Xie Shu had a frightened expression on his face. "Before I went to sleep, I took a closer look at the nearby shops, so I remember very clearly that there was a pot of morning glory on the street opposite the shop where I lived, with many flowers blooming. It was quite beautiful. Because of continuous Hurrying, our family is very tired, and we have already arrived in the county town of our hometown, so we feel a little relaxed. Usually we dare not sleep too hard, but that night our family slept very deeply, until the morning was hit by a loud noise. Wake up."

Following Xie Shu's words, everyone's eyes gradually widened.

Xie Shu jumped up from the ground in shock, and woke up his wife and children by the way. He carefully looked outside, and then saw a scene that made his legs go limp on the spot.The morning glory on the opposite side has turned into a big canopy at some point, the flowers have become as big as a water basin, and the color of the flowers has changed from the original single purple to gorgeous and mixed. Within a clear distance, a man's body was tightly wrapped by vines, and the petals of a funnel-shaped morning glory tightly wrapped the man's head. The man struggled for a while, then stopped moving. Then, the petals Leaving the man's body, he took his head with him.The petals actually twisted the man's head off!And his body was transported back to the root of the whole cluster of flowers by the vines like a conveyor belt, and was quickly hidden layer by layer.And the flower with its head in its mouth was even more bloody and weird because it was stained with blood.

This terrifying scene made Xie Shu terrified, but thinking of his wife and children behind him, he calmed down strangely, turned around and asked his wife and children to keep quiet, and they quietly left the shop door with their bags.But the morning glory was like a ghost, Xie Shu and they had just left the shop, almost all the petals turned towards them as if they had eyes.

Xie Shu knew that Morning Glory had spotted him, and his whereabouts had been exposed. Dang even let out a big roar, and rushed forward desperately, pulling his two daughters.As soon as they moved, the morning glory vine swam towards them like a snake.Fortunately, the morning glory occupies the other half of the street, which is still some distance away from them.Just as he was about to run out of the morning glory's attack range, his wife suddenly yelled.Xie Shu looked back and found that the backpack on his wife's back was bitten by the morning glory closest to them, and her whole body was dragged back by the morning glory.

Xie Shu pushed the two daughters forward, roared and ran quickly, turned around and grabbed his wife's feet, told her to raise her hands, and then pulled them towards him.Although his wife was flustered, she was not completely flustered. Hearing this, she raised her hands and cooperated with the strength of Xie Shu's pulling back, and she broke free from the restraint of the backpack.

They didn't dare to look back, they dragged the two daughters who were standing there crying and reluctant to leave, and continued to run until they ran a long way before they dared to stop.After they stopped, they realized that the entire county had changed drastically. The roads had become potholes, weeds were overgrown in many places, and there were towering trees everywhere. Huge monkeys wandered back and forth among the trees, showing off their power with their sharp fangs.

Xie Shu's family, who had just escaped from death, immediately went to their village in panic.But Xie Shu, who only comes back every year for major festivals, is not familiar with the county town that changes every year. They got lost in the county town for a long time, and saw many animals and plants that had changed their appearance or had never seen them at all.In just half a day, they saw a cat the size of a wolfdog fighting with plants, a spider the size of a millstone spinning a web, and a python eating a huge wild dog biting a bucket... Finally, the family was full of heartache. Fear and hunger, before the emotional collapse, finally found the right way out, hurried on the road carefully, and finally returned to his village before dark.

For Xie Shu's family, the previous days in the provincial capital felt like years, but these were not as good as the short half-day in the county seat.The fear of being hunted as food at any time is always there, and it still feels like a shadow.

Xie Shu heard that they were going to Huangtai Town, so he told them: "No matter where you go now, remember to carry a self-defense weapon with you. Now any inconspicuous plant or inconspicuous animal may become a hunter. And listen to my elder brother It is said that there are many similar gangsters around our county, morality cannot restrain them, legal control has no effect, it will only make them worse and harm others, and people's hearts are terrible, so we must pay attention to these."

Although the environment changed suddenly, the people in the village did not expect the situation outside to be so severe.

Yan Fei asked, "Where are the people in the county?"

Xie Shu couldn't stop the exhaustion on his face, and said: "I probably hid. After all, the people in the city now have no other source of food except relying on government relief. It was chaotic enough before, and with the changes in animals and plants, we don't know what the future will be like." What will happen? Yesterday we wandered around the county for most of the day, and only saw a few residents who came out to look for food."

After the power outage, there was a rush of buying in the county town. Almost every household had something to store in the house. There was no shortage of food for a while, but after a long time, the food will always be eaten up one day, so I must stay in the house all the time. It is not acceptable.In addition to putting the hope of survival on the country, more depends on self-help.

At this time, many people in the room were thinking that although before that, they lived a very hard life as wage earners relying on coolies, but now that the real difficulties have come, they are the ones who are more likely to survive People, after all they have fields as security.

Hearing that the city is so dangerous, someone hesitated on the spot: "Why don't we go back, we won't go."

Yan Fei glanced at the man and said, "From Uncle Xie's words, it is conceivable that many changing animals and plants have begun to set up territory in the city, and they will largely be in opposition to humans in the future. Plants are growing and changing. , if one day the land is drawn into our village, will you move to avoid it?"

Yan Fei's words were harsh, but there was no way around it. In a village, the severe situation in the future would definitely not allow anyone to back down.There are many people and strength. As a villager, you must be twisted into one rope. At the beginning, I was afraid of this and that. I didn’t get exercise. Yes, that's too late.

Life is like this, if you don't advance, you will retreat.

That person was blushed by Yan Fei's words, but his character was good, otherwise he would not have thought of going out with him to check the situation outside, so although he felt embarrassed, he didn't take it to heart, and felt that Yan Fei's words were really good Yes, just scratched his head twice with a smirk.

Soon, a group of people bid farewell to Xie Shu's family, returned the energy they had spent on the journey before, and continued to walk to Huangtai Town.

The crowd soon came to a fork leading to the town. The left side leads to Jinhe Town, the right side leads to Huangtai Town, and the road ahead leads to another village.Usually, there are small supermarkets on both sides of this fork, as well as a lot of vegetable and meat stalls, a few teahouses in the middle, and two small clinics.No matter when I passed here before, this intersection was very lively.But now there is no one on the road, and it is very quiet.

The grass on the road has not been cleaned, but the traces of someone walking by it can barely be regarded as a road.The path is winding, and there are tree roots blocking the detours, or cars that were rotten on the road.Some cars were overturned by sudden roots, or vines were surrounded by vines as parasites.