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After driving away from the resort, he didn't actually go very far.Shi Xingchen's wound had been infected for quite a long time, and it was not easy to delay it until now. Not long after getting in the car, he fell into a semi-comatose state and needed to be treated as soon as possible.There are supermarkets, banks, and some residential buildings near the holiday villa. When driving by, several people found that the door of the supermarket was wide open, and it was almost emptied. The area around the bank was also a mess. It was probably at the beginning of the end of the world that someone took advantage of the chaos to rob .

If it was a month ago, there would be a large number of zombies wandering around on such a road day and night, and once someone passed by, they would pounce on them with their teeth and claws.But now, the streets are empty, except for some abandoned vehicles and corpses, there is no sign of human activity at all.On the contrary, some cats and dogs shuttle freely in the middle of the street, and some are still eating the dead bodies on the ground.Hearing the roar of the engine, they habitually jumped to the roadside steps or cars to avoid it, and then stood on both sides of the road, watching the off-road vehicle drive by with predatory eyes.

"Why are there no zombies?" Zhou Jing looked out the window and said uneasily.She didn't want to encounter zombies, but seeing such an empty street, the danger seemed to be hidden in the darkness, which was even more worrying.

"Everyone has run away, what are the zombies still doing?" Rong Yuan said.This situation was already in his expectation, which is also the reason why Rong Yuan had to wait for more than a month before leaving.

It is the nature of zombies to chase living people. They have infinite patience and inexhaustible physical strength. They will always follow the traces of living people they found last time, unless there is a new prey that makes them change their goals. Where there are no people, they are not Will always stay and wait for the food to drop from the sky.Therefore, after a month and a half, the initial scattered distribution of zombies has gradually gathered together. They will converge into streams like raindrops, and streams into rivers, flocking in thousands to the safe base where a large number of humans gather.And the city that was abandoned by humans because it was too dangerous at first will be gradually abandoned by zombies now, and it has become a relatively safe place at this time.

When people flee, they always try their best to search for all available resources, so most of the houses they see on the road have been smashed open and swept away. The open doors and windows are dark, as if there are countless hidden people watching them. monster.Zhou Jing rubbed her arms, feeling very uncomfortable, and always felt a little hairy in her heart.

Rong Yuan looked at Shi Xingchen's situation in the rearview mirror.Perhaps because the environment is relatively safe now, his physical condition deteriorated immediately after he relaxed, or in other words, all the suppressed symptoms were released. Although he still wanted to support himself consciously, his body could no longer hold on. , he tried hard to sit up, but he only moved his fingers slightly, and a few indistinct ravings came out of his mouth.

The car was parked in front of a fairly clean second-hand bookstore. No one came to a place like this in the last days, and even the glass on the windows was still intact.Rong Yuan pried open the door, pulled Shi Xingchen out of the car and carried him into the bookstore, and put it on a long table full of books.His movements were not gentle, probably because he was touched by a wound, Shi Xingchen let out a low moan, woke up again, opened his eyes and stared at the ceiling dimly, it took him a long time to roll his eyes.

Rong Yuan took the medicine box from the car to treat Shi Xingchen's wound, and asked Zhou Yuan to boil some hot water and get some food.His car and the trunk are full of various supplies, and they make full use of every ounce of space when they are arranged. Once opened, it looks like a department store.Zhou Jing and the others hadn't eaten enough for a long time. When they saw the colorful instant noodle packaging, their mouths were full of saliva, and they couldn't bear it.The two took out a few packs of instant noodles, hesitated, and took another pack of pickled mustard and two ham sausages. When Zhou Jing went to get the alcohol lamp, Zhou Yuan stopped her.

The fat girl holding a poke of pure water said: "Let's save alcohol, don't we have ready-made materials here?"

She felt that she had the lowest status in the car, and she didn't dare to speak at first, but seeing that Zhou Jing didn't know how to cherish supplies, she couldn't help but stop her.After finishing speaking, he felt something was wrong, and looked at the capable and beautiful policewoman in front of him anxiously.

Zhou Jing patted her head and said angrily, "Oh, you're right, I forgot about it!"

Zhou Yuan raised his eyes and smiled at her, with a bit of careful flattery, but not annoying.

During the time they spent together in the holiday villa, Zhou Jing was exhausted from taking good care of Shi Xingchen so that he would not let him play tricks, and guarding against other people's thinking about her. She had no communication with Zhou Yuan, but Zhou Yuan's actions She saw it all, and had a good impression of this chubby but hard-working girl, and Zhou Yuan was actually the same.The two locked the car, exchanged softly and went back to the bookstore. Rong Yuan stabbed Shi Xingchen in the outer room of the bookstore, and they went to another room where bestsellers were sold to boil water.But looking around, all around are the crystallization of human wisdom and precious cultural heritage, which may be of great use in the future, and cannot be easily destroyed. Finally, I picked a few romance novels and burned them.

When the water boiled, Rong Yuan walked in while wiping his hands with a wet towel, not a single drop of blood was on his body.Zhou Jing was taken aback, and asked, "How is that guy?"

"You can go and see for yourself." Rong Yuan didn't bother to explain, he threw the wet wipes into the trash can and sat down beside Zhou Yuan, and took the bowl of noodles she handed over.

When the cold fingertips touched, Zhou Yuan's body trembled, his hands shrank suddenly, and he clenched his fists on his legs, rubbing the backs of his fingers with his hands hidden in his sleeves, his heart beating violently.

Looking at her eyes, Rong Yuan knew that in this world, this girl still liked him, or in other words, still loved him deeply.Jin Yang had reminded him of Zhou Yuan's mood, and Rong Yuan himself was more or less aware of it, but he didn't really understand the mechanism of "love" as an emotional operation, and he didn't understand how it was different from family and friendship.Because of its enigmatic power to make people live and die because their IQ drops to sixty, Rong Yuan has always been cautious and in awe of it, but he is absolutely unwilling to get involved in it.Therefore, he did not respond or reject Zhou Yuan, and treated her no differently than others, waiting for the day when she figured out to give up or move on.

Zhou Jing walked around the outside room, and when she saw that the injury on Xingchen's leg had been healed, the bandage was folded back and forth in a spiral way, and the error between each refolding was probably not even a millimeter. It was so perfect that it was almost like art. Taste.Shi Xingchen's condition also stabilized, his breathing was even, his face was calm and slightly rosy, and he had already fallen into a deep sleep.

"Okay, you!" Zhou Jing couldn't help but exclaimed after she came back, and while blowing the heat in the bowl, she asked, "When did you study medicine?"

"I haven't learned it before, this is the first time." Rong Yuan said.

"Liar!" Zhou Jing immediately expressed disbelief, "How can you do it so well without learning? No, how dare you use a knife on someone without learning?"

"Read more." Rong Yuan said indifferently, and at the same time glanced at her, Zhou Jing immediately felt that her IQ had been hurt by ten thousand points.She looked at Zhou Yuan, but saw this girl looked like "Rong Yuan is omnipotent and you still question him if you are stupid".

Zhou Jing: "...hehe."

All friends capsize, tired and unloved.

……

Shi Xingchen slept until noon the next day and then recovered quickly.He has a good physique and usually pays attention to exercise. In less than a week, he can run and dance again.

All the way north.Rong Yuan has been paying attention to collecting detailed maps of various places. The radio broadcasts various private or official messages 24 hours a day. There are some red crosses marked on the map, which are the locations of various security bases.

Rong Yuan collects these, but not to seek refuge in a certain base, but to calculate the safest route based on factors such as the location of the base, the distance from the city, the distribution of the surrounding countryside, and so on.When the end of the world comes, people seem to be fleeing in panic. Some safe bases established by using prisons or banks seem to be very accidental, but in fact all behaviors can be traced.Pea uses the optical brain to establish a calculation model, and through this model, it can calculate the route with the least amount of people and thus the least number of zombies. Sometimes, after driving for a whole day, they can't even touch a single zombie.If you're lucky, you'll find plenty of neglected supplies.

Shi Xingchen and the others didn't know the existence of Peas and Guangnao, they only thought that these were calculated by Rong Yuan based on the limited information on the map, and they admired him so much that they had no second thoughts.Although they don't know Rong Yuan's purpose yet, they are full of confidence in him, and their eyes are full of hope.Infected by their demeanor, some people they met by chance on the road joined the team without any obstacles, and under Zhou Yuan's spare no effort to publicize, they respected and trusted Rong Yuan, the cold-faced and taciturn leader.

Now their original off-road vehicle has been eliminated due to fuel consumption and small space. It has been replaced by two large trucks. Although they still consume fuel, they can hold more supplies.Handy people even remodeled the interior of the truck to look like a well-decorated house, and all kinds of materials are also organized very well, even Rong Yuan can't find any faults.The front car was mainly used for carrying people, and half a car of potatoes and vegetables was piled up in the back car, which was dug out together when they passed by an abandoned farmland.

Now in the car, apart from the first four people, there are also pregnant women, an old professor, several elementary school students, several teenagers, a couple, and three peasants... The people who are taken into this car may be the same as those in other teams. Not willing to ask for it, so Rong Yuan who is willing to take him in appears extremely kind in their eyes.Before the end of the world, many people like to scold the Holy Father and the Holy Mother, use a microscope to find faults in great people, and use the greatest malice to speculate on various good deeds in the news.But when I was in such a desperate situation, I realized how lucky it was to meet a kind person.

When someone was resting after dinner one day, when someone said this gratefully, it immediately resonated, and Shi Xingchen's smile, which was sitting on the side, carried a bit of meaning.

If he was really such a kind person, Shi Xingchen would not choose to follow.He will stay here all the time, naturally because he knows that Rong Yuan's true face is not so kind.

These people with low viability can survive until now, naturally because they had some other protectors.Those people were either very cruel to them, or they just used them as food reserves. When they met Rong Yuan, who was obviously stronger and more promising, they found that it was impossible to grab them by force, so they naturally chose to join.

The environment of the last days is full of naked jungle, and the dark side of human nature is maximized.Especially the people who controlled the team. Many people who were just at the bottom of society before the end of the world became the masters of a group of people after the end of the world because they were stronger and more fierce.The change of the rich from the poor has made it easy for people with bad mentality to become arrogant and self-centered. Bullying, insulting, killing, and stepping on other people's bones to survive have become the norm, but this kind of people is far away. It is not allowed to exist in the team.

So before long, they would "accidentally" encounter a group of zombies. Naturally, the combatants went up first, and then accidentally got scratched or died due to some "accident".

They met about 70 to [-] people along the way, and after repeated screening, only about one-third of them remained.

The person Shi Xingchen admires the most is Rong Yuan's ability to see people.He can tell traitors at a glance, and with a few words of conversation, he knows what this person is most suitable for.After choosing the direction, with a little training, the guy who could only be regarded as a waste suddenly became useful and reliable.They brought a few boxes of books in their car, and they have all kinds of skills in cooking, planting, breeding, smelting, repairing, etc. Rong Yuan sometimes seems to randomly hand over a certain book to someone, and after a while, there is an extra person in the team "expert".

There were a few people that Xingchen didn't agree with Rong Yuan accepting them at first, but after that, they were constantly discovered by Rong Yuan, and they were quietly guided. When Xingchen suddenly realized the difference, I found that those people almost seemed to be different people, even if he was so picky, he still had to say "good".

Panning for gold in the waves is nothing, but being able to turn stones into gold is the most rare thing.

……

"There is a deer farm in front, I think maybe we can kill a few deer to improve our food, and catch a few fawns to raise later. Do you think it is feasible?" Shi Xingchen pushed his glasses and asked with a smile.Although the tone is respectful, the attitude is calm and equal, and does not give people a sense of flattery and lowliness.

Rong Yuan frowned slightly, and said, "Just look at the arrangement."

"I see." When Xingchen stopped the car, he called a few people to surround him with homemade pistols and crossbow bolts, cheers and laughter came after a while.

In the carriage, Rong Yuan rubbed his forehead, wondering why he just fell asleep and changed the scene as if he had traveled through time.The people around him were all strangers, but their attitude towards him was very familiar.Fortunately, they are all very obedient and respectful, even the most dangerous guy seems to be loyal, making Rong Yuan feel that the current situation is not too bad, and the tension after waking up has eased a bit.

He tried to search his surroundings for any items that could provide him with clues, and when he moved his body, he felt something strange—a palm-sized hard-shell notebook was in his trousers pocket.Rong Yuan took it out, and as soon as he opened it and read the first page, his expression became strange.

——So, what the hell is parallel space? !When did crossing become a convenient express train that also sells round-trip tickets? ?