16 years

The height of the short hill near the provincial road is average, and the slope is steeper than the river beach on the other side. The zombies are uncoordinated, and they can only catch up to one-third of the way, and then they can no longer climb up.

This section of the path belongs to the forest protection area, and there are many chestnut and walnut trees on the mountain for people to use their strength to climb up. Fu Yanhui took Liu Ruosong and pushed him into the mountain nest he found.

There are traces of man-made excavation in this mountain nest, and an arc-shaped hole is sunken inward from the mountain wall, which can accommodate three or four people.

It was raining heavily outside, and the rain fell straight into the cave. Fu Yan took off his coat and nailed it to the side of the cave with a saber, blocking most of the rainwater for Liu Ruosong.

"Brother." Liu Ruosong poked his head out and pulled him, "You come in too."

"I'll be right away." Fu Yan said.

Fu Yan said that he turned around within 50 meters with the entrance of the cave as the center, and saw no danger, so he re-adjusted the position of the waterproof signal light, moved it to a position four or five meters in front of the entrance of the cave, buried it, turned over and turned back In the mountain nest.

Liu Ruosong dug a hole in the wall of the cave with a saber, temporarily buried the flashlight in it to make a simple "lamp", then took out two medical cotton swabs from his medical bag, and waved at Fu Yan.

Fu Yan sat near the entrance of the cave, but the area of ​​the mountain nest is not big, so he can get close to Liu Ruosong with a single bow.

"What's wrong?" Fu Yan asked.

"Forehead." Liu Ruosong reached out to wipe off the rain on his face, used a cotton swab to clean off the dust on Fu Yan's forehead scratches, and patted a Band-Aid on his forehead.

"You don't have to be so careful." Liu Ruosong said, "I can protect myself...I also have a gun."

"It's too dark, you can easily miss the danger." Fu Yan is very stubborn in this kind of thing: "You are a logistics staff, you have to obey the arrangement."

"Okay." Liu Ruosong looked at him helplessly: "The captain has the final say."

Liu Ruosong never argued with Fu Yan about the battle arrangement. He threw the used cotton wool out of the hole, looked at the beam of light outside, and said, "Aren't they in danger?"

Fu Yan fiddled with his communicator, shook his head, and said: "There is no news, so there should be no danger. Let's wait for a while. If there is still no news after 10 minutes, I will go out and look for it."

As soon as Fu Yan finished speaking, there was a sudden commotion in the sound of rain, followed by sporadic gunshots. Fu Yan switched from the relaxed state to the ready state, and pulled the safety of the gun.

But the gunshots disappeared quickly, and a beam of extremely bright flashlights came from the night, flickering towards them several times at frequent intervals.

Liu Ruosong recognized it, it was a signal of "safety".

About half a minute later, the figures of He Tang and Shao Qiu gradually appeared from the rain curtain. They were both soaked, like water ghosts who had just been fished out of the water. The door curtain quickly waved to the two of them.

"Hurry up." Liu Ruosong said, "Is it comfortable in the rain?"

He hadn't finished speaking when he suddenly noticed that the state of the two of them seemed a bit delicate—they were one behind the other, the flashlight used for signaling was held in He Tang's right hand, while her left hand was tightly pulling Holding Shao Qiu's wrist.

Shao Qiu seemed to have exhausted too much physical strength in the battle, and his footsteps were a little heavy.

Liu Ruosong and Fu Yan looked at each other, and they swallowed the doubts in their hearts tacitly, without saying anything.Fu Yan stood up silently and let the two of them go in.

When he reached the entrance of the mountain nest, He Tang let go of Shao Qiu's wrist and pushed him inside.Immediately afterwards, her eyes subconsciously swept around, and when she didn't see He Feng, her expression changed immediately.

"Captain, where's my brother?" He Tang said, "Haven't you come back yet?"

"No." Fu Yan said.

He Tang's face suddenly became ugly.

He Feng got off the car in the same direction as Fu Yan and Liu Ruosong, even if they were scattered by the group of zombies, they wouldn't be too far away, logically speaking, they wouldn't be slower than her and Shao Qiu.

She couldn't sit still for a while, and turned her head as if going into the rain: "I'll go find my brother."

Fu Yan grabbed her wrist from behind: "Sparrow Eagle, be safe and don't be impatient."

Fu Yan called the code name, which meant that it was the operation period, and she had to obey the command. He Tang gritted his teeth, held back his footsteps, turned around and said yes.

"I sent a message to Peregrine Falcon. Three minutes ago, he replied with a temporary safety signal." Fu Yan said: "There are still 3 to 7 minutes before the safety time limit is set. If there is no news from him by then, I agree to look for it."

He Tang felt relieved when he heard the words, she was confused just now when she was concerned, now she scratched her head embarrassingly, laughed at Fu Yan, and moved into the mountain nest step by step.

The area of ​​the mountain nest is limited and cannot hold so many people, so Fu Yan moved out by himself, and half of his body fell outside.He looked sideways at the signal lamp post outside, and after a while, he heard a rustling sound coming from his side, and then, a warm coat was put on him.

"Don't worry, He Feng should know it well." Liu Ruosong took advantage of the opportunity to sit beside him, and whispered to him, "It's the deputy team's condition that's not right, do you want to ask?"

Fu Yan shook off his coat, covered Liu Ruosong with his arms tightly, and shook his head lightly upon hearing this.

"It's not convenient for me." Fu Yan said: "...If you have a chance, you can ask for me."

Liu Ruosong thought so too, at Fu Yanchang's age, he didn't have the talent to be a confidant brother and a healing angel. He shouldn't have known Fang Sining in his life, so he rashly talked about this matter with Shao Qiu, and it was easy to talk about it. In a dead end.

"Understood." Liu Ruosong said, "Don't worry."

The two of them fell silent at the same time after they finished speaking. In the depths of the mountain nest, He Tang was worried after all. He used the light of the flashlight to check the time on the hands of the watch frequently, and fiddled with the communicator from time to time.

When He Tang stared at the second hand and circled around for the sixth time, He Feng finally appeared at the foot of the hill.

He was all beard and tail, intact, the only problem was... he brought back something extra.

There is no light source on him, and in the rainy night, he can only see what he is holding in his hand. It looks like a large plush toy, a large dark shadow, dragged by him on the ground.

He Tang couldn't control his thoughts and rushed out. Liu Ruosong squinted his eyes to recognize it for a long time, but before he could see what the big shadow was, he heard He Tang yelling. sound.

"Brother! Where did you get such a living person!" He Tang exclaimed in surprise.

He Feng caught the bluffing little girl head-on, and flicked her brains out: "You know how to watch the fun."

He Tang's words were astonishing, apart from Shao Qiu, even Liu Ruosong crawled out of the mountain nest.Fu Yan shook the flashlight, only to realize that what He Feng was holding in his hand was indeed a big living person.

Judging from the tattered clothes on his body, it was a male, about 40 to [-] years old, with layers of skin and flesh falling down from his face, like an old tree stump turned into a spirit, he looked quite old.

It was easier for He Feng to carry the clothes on the back of his neck than carrying a sack.

He was skinny, and he was covering his head and curled up into a ball. There were several scratches on his body. He didn't know whether it was cold or fear, and he was shivering.

He Feng pushed him towards Fu Yan, and said with a smile: "Captain, find a 'survivor'."

He intentionally put an accent on the word "survivor". The man bowed his head and hugged his head, his movements were obviously very skillful, and he looked like a "journeyman" who had been in the game.

Fu Yan and He Feng looked at each other, and they probably had a clue in their minds.

He Feng would not be so rude to ordinary people. Judging from the current situation, it is obvious that this man has something hidden.

"What's the matter?" Fu Yan asked.

"I was scattered by the zombies before, so I didn't go up the mountain immediately, but ran back along the provincial road for a while. I originally wanted to check the return route by the way, but I didn't expect to see him at the foot of the mountain. He was hiding in the In the drainage ditch next to the provincial road, thanks to my good eyesight." He Feng said: "I felt strange at the time that this kind of place with no front to the village and no shops to the back is not suitable for survivors to live in, not to mention that the tunnel in front is a zombie nest, so leave it alone." After thinking about it, I asked a few more questions."

"I didn't think so." He Feng sneered: "Captain, they made that zombie nest."

"It's really not me." The middle-aged man said with a bitter face, "I... I'm just a thug, and it's never my turn to do anything. I didn't dare to kill anyone..."

"Shut up." He Tang scolded, "Have you spoken?"

"This group of people were originally gangsters, jobless people in the village." He Feng said: "After the end of the world, they were lucky enough to survive. They got tangled up a few months ago and set up a robbery hole on this road. Cars blocking the roads, robbing the supplies of people passing by - and throwing people into the tunnel when they are done looting. Let them fend for themselves."

Liu Ruosong's heart sank, his eyes turned cold.

No wonder He Feng was so rude to him, it was an animal act.

"There were originally a dozen or twenty of them in this group, but there was an accident a while ago, and the group of people accidentally gathered and became infected and turned into zombies, and he was the only one left." He Feng said.

"How did he die?" Fu Yan said, "People like them should be very careful."

"It's the tunnel in front." He Feng tilted his head and said, "They blocked the intersection on purpose, the other side of the tunnel has been sealed, and this side is blocked by broken cars, maybe there are more and more zombies inside. Two cars were washed away, and someone from them went to re-block... Maybe they didn't notice that they were stained with zombie body fluids?"

He Feng himself was not too sure, he came back in a hurry, so he didn't ask too much detail, he probably dragged this person up after asking all the questions, and was going to see Fu Yan to ask more carefully, saving the effort to waste twice .

"Is it a human?" He Tang spat and said angrily, "There are still children in the pile of zombies!"

"Peregrine Falcon, do you believe what he said?" Fu Yan asked back.

"Half and half." He Feng said: "How can such a person speak the truth."

Coincidentally, Fu Yan didn't believe it either. He knelt down on one knee, supported his knee with his arm, and looked at this thin and shrinking man coldly.

"Who sent you to block us here?" Fu Yan asked.