Apocalyptic Tundra Age

Xu Sangui has always been an honest old farmer, and he doesn't like to meddle in anything.He listened to people gossip, and when people asked him something, he just grinned and stretched out his hand: I don't know, I don't know, don't ask me.

When the old woman was still there, he farmed the fields and raised chickens and vegetables without saying a word. If the village talked about him, they would have nothing to say about him.

However, he has an unspoken habit, and no one has said it: he must urinate once when he sleeps overnight, and he must go to someone's door to urinate.

This habit is very particular.

He had a serious illness when he was a child, and he always told his mother that there was someone in the family, and there was someone in the family; his mother took him to have a fortune-telling, and the fortune-teller with long beard and black glasses waved his hands repeatedly when he heard his horoscope , Shouting: "This fate can't be counted, it can't be counted, this is the evil body of Shui Zhaoyin. If you spy on the secret of heaven, the fortune-teller will die a bad death."

Xu Sangui's old mother almost fainted when she heard it, and hurriedly begged the fortune teller for advice.

After the fortune teller gave way several times, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he stretched out his hand to make a "one". After accepting the "Great Unity" at that time, the fortune teller gave a solution:

"His physique is especially yin at night, and ghosts are more attached to the water on his body. Come on, drink this bowl of spell water first, which can cover part of the evil spirit on his body. When you pee at night, you must remember not to pee. Solve it in your own house, it is best not to spread it at your door, remember, this is the key to avoiding evil spirits!"

Before Xu Sangui never urinated at night, since he drank the spell water, he fell asleep halfway through the night, and he felt uncomfortable everywhere, and his bladder was about to explode.

As soon as he urinates on the bed, he will be seriously ill.After being ill for several times, Xu Sangui realized: you still have to trust the fortune teller.

Xu Sangui has persisted in this habit of getting up in the middle of the night to urinate in front of his neighbor's house for more than 50 years.

Even in the few days after the earthquake, everyone lived together. After losing his neighbors, Xu Sangui would get up in the middle of the night and go all the way to the big pond to solve the problem.

It has been snowing heavily for the past few days, and people can freeze to death when going out at night, and the water column that comes out can directly turn into ice cubes, but even if Xu Sangui gets up in the middle of the night to put on his clothes, he has to go to his neighbor's village chief's house to urinate before he can sleep. Sleep till dawn.

Just in the past few days, when he went out in the middle of the night, he always felt creepy, as if something was staring behind him, but when he turned his head suddenly, there was still a piece of bare snow behind, without even a footprint.

The stars in the sky are still twinkling as usual, and the people in the village who are snoring and talking in their dreams are still noisy, and everything seems to be fine, exactly the same as the village in the past 50 years.

Xu Sangui rubbed his hands that were about to become numb from the cold, turned around and went home quickly by the moonlight.

In the shadows under the clear moonlight, several black shadows flashed past and left without a sound.

***

The heavy snow had stopped for three days, and Xu Sangui supported his 60-year-old body and chopped firewood for three days.

This day was really exhausting, he went home and dug a few mouthfuls of food in a hurry and lay down on the kang to sleep. In the middle of the night, the familiar feeling of bladder bursting hit, Xu Sangui reluctantly got up, so tired that he squinted his eyes to put on his clothes, put on his shoes, opened the back door, and then Repeating the road he walked dozens of times.

Turn right.

Across the little field he opened.

Turn left and walk six steps.

We arrived at the house where the village chief lives now, and the gate was just facing him.

He deftly unbuttoned his belt...

The sound of "wow" is endless...

"what!"

Harsh howling penetrated every corner of this small settlement.

A few creatures jumped out from nowhere and rushed up fiercely, especially the thing that jumped up and grabbed his back, making Xu Sangui unable to support his center of gravity, and fell directly into the snow.

More shadows came from all around, and Xu Sangui felt his legs, waist and abdomen, and the part where he was not wearing clothes to excrete, were hoarse and pulled by his sharp teeth.

The severe pain made him almost stick out for a moment. He only made a sound when he fell to the ground, and then something directly pressed on his head. Mao, his voice was firmly muffled.

The weather was extremely cold, and except for the exposed part, he was wearing thick clothes. Enduring the pain that exploded in his mind for a moment, he could barely feel those things pulling at his clothes.

The thing pressing on his head, after a few seconds of biting on his chest and abdomen, has almost groped to his most critical neck, where there is no clothes, a bite is fatal.

Xu Sangui's cry for help was drowned in his hair, and he could only make a dull voice.The moment the teeth pressed against his neck, he didn't know where the strength came from, and he shook off the thing wrapped around him with one hand, and his hands also broke away from the oppression.

He quickly shrunk his neck, covered his face with his hands, and crawled face down on the snowy ground. With difficulty, he turned around and crawled towards the village head's house. He couldn't go home, and there was only one person in his house, so he wanted to call for help!

Xu Sangui shouted at the top of his voice while crawling: "Help!"

"what!"

"Killed!"

The cold paralyzed his nerves, and the pain had become numb. He didn't know if there was something missing in his lower body, but the exploding pain just now was gone.

Glancing to the left, his old, blurry eyes could still see a big mouth with bloodstained hair and teeth chewing a piece of meat!

He saw clearly what was attacking him!

It's a dog, it's a dog!Dogs are going to eat people!

When the dogs saw their prey escaped, they acted more viciously!The two dogs rushed straight at his face, Xu Sangui could only cover his eyes and forehead with his hands, retract his neck into his clothes, and shouted with his mouth open: "Help!" The back of the neck, hands, and scalp were bitten, and the smell of blood permeated the snow, and there was a large number of dogs breathing one after another.

The dogs that were tearing at his shoes and trousers got even more excited, nibbling bite after bite of bloody flesh on his exposed back.

Xu Sangui propped himself up on his elbows, and moved forward bit by bit with difficulty.

One step, two steps...

He was still calling for help, still screaming, the blood loss from his body made his sanity gradually disappear, his pupils began to slacken, he was shouting loudly, but he no longer knew what he was talking about.

The rapid breathing of dogs and the strong animal smell are getting stronger and stronger, and the village chief's house is getting closer...

There was bright red blood under the traces of his crawling, and those beasts licked the snow with red eyes.

"Village chief! Open the door! Open the door! Help!..." Xu Sangui hoarsely begged.

Just a few steps away from ordinary times, just such a rough wooden door, Xu Sangui poked through the fuzzy red through his fingers, but no one opened the door, or handed him a stick... He felt that he was about to die.

"There! There!"

"Be careful! Don't be bitten by a dog!"

"You fucking bastard!"

……

The noise came from far away, the "creak" sound of shoes stepping on the snow and the vibration of the ground reached Xu Sangui's ears, the door of the village chief's house opened with a "squeak", and Xu Sangui looked back, blue and clear It was a sunny day, a deserted moon, and people coming here with hoes not far away.

A beast with bright black and shiny fur bit off a bite of the meat on the side of his waist, and rushed into the night with a "wow", followed by more than 20 big dogs and puppies, and retreated in a hurry.

Xu Sangui had no strength, he couldn't even open his eyes, he could only hear the village head's voice: "Brother Sangui, Sangui? Wake up? Wake up! What's wrong with you?" The voice got farther and farther... …

***

Uncle Sangui's funeral was held in a hurry.

It was only dawn when Zeng Cheng ran over to inform Xu Zhonglei that Xu Sangui in the village had been bitten to death by a dog, and Brother Zhiping told him to go over and have a look.

Xu Zhonglei and Cheng Yuming hurriedly put on their clothes and went to the camp. Doctor Zeng had already covered Xu Sangui's face with a quilt with one hand.Through the thick quilt, Xu Zhonglei could only see a bloody head, and there was still a lingering smell of blood in the air.

The expressions of the people in the village were solemn, as if they were mourning a concubine, and there was a lingering panic on their faces, as if it was not the uncle in his 60s who died, but themselves.

According to the traditional burial custom, the soul of a person must stay at home for seven days after death, and the coffin cannot be lifted by the filial sons and grandsons until at least the eighth day, crying and yelling, and buried in the ancestral cemetery in the village.

But not long after the two arrived, they were pushed by Xu Zhiping to dig a hole to bury them.

Everyone knows that the hill where the village head used to bury people has now become the home of wild dogs.Xu Sangui was bitten to death by dogs, so he didn't want to be buried in that mountain anyway, so a small bamboo grove was picked here for Xu Sangui's cemetery, and seven or eight young men waved hoes to dig up the frozen The bottom layer is to bury people in the soil.

Usually group work, no matter what it is for, at least there is still a leader chatting there, but the atmosphere is very depressed, everyone hoes one hoe, as if they want to smash their grievances into the soil.

"What's going on?" Xu Zhonglei couldn't bear it anymore, he tugged at the hem of the middle-aged man beside him, and asked in a low voice.

Xu Zhonglei was really confused about this matter, he only found out early in the morning that Xu Sangui was bitten to death by a dog, and he was dragged here to dig out frozen ice as soon as he passed by.

"Ahem." The man seemed to have something to say, and he coughed to clear his throat.

"In the middle of last night, I was sleeping in the house. I heard someone shouting for help outside. I thought I had heard it wrong. Who was joking? Then the man kept shouting. I thought about what was going on, put on my clothes and go Look outside. I heard that something happened to the village head, and many people have heard it.” He paused, “You don’t know, when we passed by, all those animals ran away. There were at least thirty or forty of them, They all went to the mountains over there."

The man pointed to the mountain where the remains of the earthquake had been buried before, and continued: "Only Xu Sangui is lying in the snow, and the snow is red in large areas. Xu Sangui's face, hands, Half of the head is gone, there is still a big hole on the back of the neck, pieces of flesh are gone on the back, and the white bones can be seen. Eh, you know?"

He lowered his head and asked Xu Zhonglei mysteriously.

"Know what?" Xu Zhonglei really didn't know anything.

"Dr. Zeng also found that Xu Sangui had been eaten by dogs when he was inspected. Oh, what crime did you say Xu Sangui did! He couldn't die without a whole body. I think the village Chief, the village chief was sleeping in front of the place where he died, and the village chief was crying, tears streaming down his face, who knows if he really didn't hear it or pretended not to hear it?" The man lowered his voice and turned his head towards a person look away.

Xu Zhonglei also looked in the direction, it was Xu Wangqiang.

"Don't talk nonsense! I'm warning you! If you talk nonsense again, I will kill you and feed the dog!" Xu Wangqiang heard this, put down his hoe, and scolded with fists.