doomsday pilgrimage

There were many abandoned vehicles blocking the main road, and piles of mutated animals fled, making the progress of the six-member convoy slow.They set off before eight o'clock in the morning, but they didn't arrive at an ancient tourist town at the intersection of S city and J province until after four o'clock in the afternoon.

In the small town full of people in the past, now there are only zombies left.There were black and red blood stains and fragments of corpse parts everywhere.The picturesque waterside attic has also faded, and there is a sense of desolation everywhere, leaving a few zombie dogs wandering around the entrance of the town with red eyes.

Tang Mo took the road list and compared it with the map, silently calculating the time and distance in his mind.His slender and fair fingers tapped on the map, "According to this speed, it will take at least six or seven days to get to XZ. It must be on the premise that nothing goes wrong, otherwise..."

Mu Zheng drove over another zombie that was catching up to die, and said leisurely to Tang Mo, "It will arrive sooner or later, don't worry! There are quite a lot of zombies in this town." Kill a few.

Tang Mo put away the road list and the map, and stroked Dabai and Mao Xiaomiao who were crowded beside his legs. The two small animals were playing the game of staring at each other again. "It's getting late, let's find a place to rest first. The road is not easy to walk at night, and the mutated animals should also look for food."

Mu Zheng nodded and picked up the walkie-talkie. "Car No. 2 and No. 3, please pay attention. The convoy is stationed in this town tonight. Now start looking for a suitable station, now start looking for a suitable station, over."

I soon received replies from the two cars behind, "Car No. 2 understands, it's over." "Car No. 3 understands, it's over."

Tang Mo looked out of the car and saw that the doors and windows of the shops along the street were closed.He said thoughtfully: "This is a relatively famous tourist destination, and there should be a lot of materials to collect. It would be great if I could find the prefecture-level city map of TC City."

"It shouldn't be difficult. This must be a tourist area. It's convenient to find a map. You can find a grocery store tomorrow." Mu Zheng turned the steering wheel and turned to face the zombie dog that ran into him Run over hard.Fortunately, the Cherokee's powertrain is good, and two or three reverses finally shut up the dog.However, there was still a small group of zombies, attracted by the barking of the dog just now.

Tang Mo looked at the zombies slowly coming up with disgust. These monsters that looked like they were equipped with perpetual motion machines were really annoying.If they hadn't brought high-pressure water guns and diesel generators from the car dealership, they wouldn't know how to clean up the broken limbs hanging from the car.If you don't wash it, not to mention the visual impact, but also worry about whether pathogens will affect humans.Even if everyone is successfully awakened now, it is still unknown whether they can be immune.

"Look over there." Mu Zheng pointed to a gate not far away, seeing that the width should allow the convoy to enter and exit normally.

"Gaosheng Hotel." Tang Mo saw a plaque above the door with the name of the hotel written on it.

"How about it, let's do it!" Mu Zheng slowed down slowly, and finally parked the car in front of the hotel.

"Car No. 2, Car No. 3, Gaosheng Hotel, where we will be stationed tonight. Now start to clean up the surrounding zombies, get out of the car and meet up quickly. It's over." From the rearview mirror, Mu Zheng saw the lights of the two cars behind turn on one by one rise.

"Get out of the car." Mu Zheng picked up his Miao Dao, pulled out the car key and pushed the door out.Tang Mo carried the cheetah with the cat Xiao Miao in his pocket, and led Dabai to get off the car after him.

Shi Dai quickly ran up from behind and formed a three-person team with Mu Zheng and Tang Mo.Dabai flicked his tail and walked around the three of them.

The cooperation of the six quickly wiped out all the zombies on the street. Tang Mo stepped on Mu Zheng's shoulder and looked in from the wall.

"Going in is a big courtyard, and there is a well in the middle, and I didn't see any zombies." Tang Mo shared what he saw, and pushed himself up with a little force with both hands.Then Mu Zheng was pulled up, and the two quickly jumped off the wall and opened the main door.

The 3 cars drove into the Gaosheng Hotel quickly, "check the surrounding safety." Mu Zheng took out his knife and held it in his hand, and gathered his team members to start checking the entire hotel.This is the first project they need to carry out every time they arrive at a station.

"Who?" Li Dao waved the mace in his hand, and shouted at the shadow in the left aisle.

Liang Tao and Cheng Chen also tensed up for a moment, and the iron bars they held in their hands made defensive moves.After hearing the movement, the three-person team in front also rushed back to support.Dabai, on the other hand, took his time, like an old man who didn't care.

"I...I'm not..." A man with a dirty face and a skinny face fell to the ground with a bang.

The six people looked at each other in blank dismay, what is the situation?

"Hungry, so hungry!" the man said weakly, grabbing his front with his skinny hands.

Shi Dai went to her bag in the car to find out the eight-treasure porridge, trotted all the way back and handed the opened jar to the man.

The rich sweet smell caused the man's eyes to widen instantly, and saliva flowed from the corner of his mouth.He took two or three sips of the jar and drank half of it, with a satisfied look on his yellow and thin face.

"Delicious, delicious." The man kept repeating this sentence while holding the jar, as if he had eaten the most delicious food in the world.After licking the soup overflowing from the edge a few times, he picked up the plastic cover that Shi Dai had just thrown away on the ground.There was a struggle on his thin face, and finally he used all his self-control to close the jar.

The yellow-faced man touched the wall behind him, and propped up his thin skeleton-like body.He moved his feet and came to Shi Dai, making a movement that no one expected...

puff

The skinny man knelt on the ground, smashed his head on the bluestone slab, and made a five-body salute.A grateful voice came out of the hoarse throat: "Thank you! Thank you!"

Shi Dai was so startled that she even raised her fire ax to defend herself.She thought that the man was going to attack her, but she didn't expect that someone would kneel down to someone for a can of eight-treasure porridge.What happened to this world?For a moment, Shi Dai didn't even think of stopping the man's action.

There was a trace of sadness in Tang Mo's eyes, and Mu Zheng took a few steps forward to lift the man up, which was too easy for him.This man was so thin that only a handful of bones remained, and Mu Zheng doubted that he could pull him up with two fingers.

"Brother, don't do this!" Mu Zheng helped him to the side of the stairs and sat down, his voice sounded hoarse through the scarf.

Cheng Chen watched this scene in shock, it overturned his worldview too much.From the day the virus broke out, being hunted down by the zombies turned into by his parents was the biggest disaster for him.But even so, Liang Tao came to rescue him.Afterwards, Liang Tao led the fight against zombies in search of food to avoid danger.When the two were most in danger, Mu Zheng, Tang Mo and others rescued them.

Therefore, Cheng Chen never encountered a lack of food at all.But now what happened in front of his eyes really frightened him all of a sudden.Thinking about it, if he didn't have Liang Tao's rescue.Is it not as good as this man now, who can kneel down to others for a bite of food?People who have accepted self-esteem and self-love since childhood, instantly crashed.

"Thank you! Thank you! Woohoo..." The man hugged the porridge jar tightly to his chest, and burst into tears the next moment.Who can understand the mood of a person who is about to be starved to death for nearly [-] days.At the beginning, he still believed that there would be a government to save him, but as the days passed, the hope became smaller and smaller, and the food became less and less.The result of long waiting is death, how can a person not despair.

Everyone felt a little sad when they heard his cry.What made a seven-foot-tall man cry like this, the grievances, fears, gratitude, etc. contained in the cry merged into something that could pierce the heart.

"Brother, why don't you finish the porridge?" Shi Dai asked with her eyes red, twitching her slightly congested nose.

"I...I want to leave the porridge for the children. We've been out of food for almost four days." The man showed an embarrassing look on his face, and he felt very distressed when he thought of his poor girl.The child is only 12 years old, no matter how hard he is, he will become thin and out of shape.

"Brother, eat it! I'll give you a new can, how can you protect your child if you're not full?" Seeing him like this, Shi Dai hastily persuaded him, thinking of her parents whose life and death are unknown.The two elders are abroad, will there be kind people to rescue them?

"Mu Zheng, go and get him something to eat. Brother, how long have you been here? Do you know if there are other people like you in the hotel?" Tang Mo diverted the conversation, and now there are more important things things to do.It's not too late to arrange for this man when he comes back after checking safety.

When the man heard Tang Mo say that he would give him something to eat, he stood up excitedly. "Thank you! Thank you, you are all good people!" Then I thought about the situation in the hotel, "There are no weird people who eat people in those rooms with the doors open. I don't know if the doors are closed. You still Don't take risks. Those monsters can eat people!"

"Here, elder brother, you take two flatbreads back to feed the child." Mu Zheng took out two sheets of dry flatbreads from the car and gave them to him.

The man wiped his hands vigorously, and took the pancake carefully.Looking at the noodles with bright eyes, showing an expression of hunger.

"Brother, go back and hide first. Come out in an hour or two. We will spend the night here tonight." Mu Zheng drew out his knife again, seeing that the sky was getting dark, he knew in his heart that now was not the time to talk.

The man tried a few more words of persuasion, but when he saw that he couldn't say anything, he stopped thinking.Carrying two dry noodles and half a jar of eight-treasure porridge, I moved to the back room.

The six-member team set off again, walking up the wooden stairs one by one.Along the way, I saw three or four vacant rooms with the doors open, and the rooms were turned into a mess.The man downstairs probably survived to this day by relying on some supplies collected in the hotel.

Adding up the second and third floors, there are a total of 36 rooms.Twelve of them were empty, and the other 12 had zombies in them.But today, the mere zombies can hardly threaten this team.Except for a zombie dog that suddenly jumped out of room 24, making Mu Zheng, who was standing at the front, instantly phantom in armor.Later, zombies, cats and dogs were encountered in the room, and they all died under the hands of six people.They are also becoming more and more proficient in slaughtering these small zombie animals.

Pack up supplies all the way from the last room on the third floor to the first floor below.A total of 3 bags of Lay’s potato chips, 7 bags of multi-flavored peanuts, 6 bags of dried fish slices, 3 bottles of canned soda, and 21 bags of various pickled snacks were harvested.By the way, they also found four vacuum-packed local specialty chickens in room 17 on the third floor, which were probably gifts for tourists to take home.Everyone who hadn't eaten chicken for a long time unanimously decided to kill it at night.

When I got downstairs, I first adjusted the three cars, and then assigned personnel to fetch water, wash the cars, chop firewood and cook.Fortunately, the running water in the well was not blocked, which saved them from finding another source of water.

The man who had fainted from hunger before probably heard the voice, and came out with his wife and children after a while.

A middle-aged woman with a sallow face followed behind him, looking at Tang Mo and the others in horror.Especially after seeing Dabai and Mao Xiaomiao, she was so scared that she hid behind her husband.

The daughters of the two followed closely behind.Seeing Tang Mo chopping vegetables and cooking, the little girl trotted over here with yearning on her face.

"Hey, that...there is liquefied petroleum gas in the kitchen at the back. No, it's such a trouble." Seeing that Liang Tao was chopping wood with an ax, the man hurriedly reminded him.He also pulled his daughter who was as thin as a skeleton, and scolded her with some embarrassment.Attracting his wife, she hurriedly guarded the child behind her.

"Then I'll bring the liquefied petroleum gas and gas stoves here, but the firewood still needs to be chopped. At night, we need to light a fire to keep warm." Liang Tao put down his ax and settled for food first.

"I'll go with you." Shi Dai put down her work, she was helping Tang Mo wash the vegetables.

At the moment, Li Dao and Cheng Chen are fetching water by the well to wash their cars; Mu Zheng, a strong man, is cleaning the room for their convenience; Tang Mo is cutting potatoes and washing rice for cooking, and he is the only one in the team who knows how to stew them over fire. The rice is not burnt; Liang Tao is chopping firewood, and Shi Dai herself is the emptiest.

"Okay, then you come with me." Liang Tao picked up his iron rod and returned the fire ax to Shi Dai.The two walked towards the back kitchen. In these chaotic years, they had to carry weapons no matter where they went.Otherwise, how do you know which corner will jump out to pose a threat to your life.

The man came up with his wife and children, and kept thanking Tang Mo.His wife also bowed again and again, and thanked her daughter together.In the end, it was Mu Zheng who tidied up the house and came out to relieve Tang Mo's siege.

"Don't be afraid, that's my dog. It's a mutant albino breed that doesn't bite. It just has a bad temper, so just stay away from it." Seeing that the family of three had been secretly looking at Dabai, Tang Mo used Excuse explanations that came to mind earlier.

"Okay! Okay! We won't get close, we won't get close!" The man pulled his wife and children and hid away.

Seeing that the child was so thin that only a layer of skin remained, Mu Zheng felt sorry for her.I gave her a bag of the potato chips I found just now, and the little girl's eyes immediately lit up when she saw the red bag.But she still patiently handed the bag to her mother. Seeing this scene, Shi Dai, who came back with the gas stove, almost cried.This child is too sensible.

"Niuniu, eat! You eat!" Her mother cried while holding the girl with a desolate expression.The man was also secretly wiping away his tears, secretly blaming himself for being incompetent, not even able to support his wife and children.

Mu Zheng sat on the chairs that had just been moved out, talking with the man.I found out that his name is Fang Cheng, and he came to work in Shanghai from Anhui.Before going back to my hometown before the Chinese New Year, I brought my wife here to celebrate my child's birthday.The biggest wish of the child is to come here and play around.Almost all the classmates in her class have come here to play, but she has not been here.But who would have thought that such a thing would happen.

While the man was talking, his wife was crying beside him.The little girl was holding the bag of potato chips, unwilling to open it to eat.She looked at her father for a while and her mother for a while, and took out a handkerchief whose color was almost invisible to wipe her tears for her mother.

Shi Dai hurriedly comforted them, "Brother and sister-in-law, you have to think about the good. After all, your family survived in one piece. How many families are there outside because of this virus? You have to think about the best. ..." In the end, Shi Dai choked up.

Cheng Chen came over and patted her on the shoulder a few times, he is also a lost person in the world!