poor road [end times]

This kind of vine, as early as last year after the heavy rain, has grown in every corner of the city and countryside.Almost as long as it is under uninhabited and maintained buildings, it can be found growing along the walls. After summer, the whole city will be shrouded in vibrant and lonely greenery.

When Yang Yiqin and Feng Lin saw this thing for the first time, they specially picked a bunch of samples and brought them to Dr. Liang because of their excessive growth ability.

Later, Dr. Liang only said that the growth speed of the vines is indeed fast, but there are no other strange things that can be seen so far. There are countless animals and plants that have changed in the last days. Compared with those mutated animals that threaten the safety of human life, it just grows faster. A little bit of the vine doesn't seem to do any other harm.

Therefore, in the case of limited experimental resources, they certainly give priority to research on zombie viruses and human mutations.

The four of them walked to the vine in the corner.

Father Yang explained: "As long as there are people living, it is not easy to grow this kind of vines, but we often water and fertilize the vegetable field in the front yard, and the soil even at the root of the wall here becomes fertile. So every now and then a plant or two pops up - I'd uproot it anyway if I saw it."

Yang Yiqin was puzzled: "So the reason why the building collapsed was also because of the growth of vines?"

If you think about it carefully, the desolate and dilapidated dilapidated houses will indeed be covered with weeds, and there is a risk of collapse at the slightest sign of trouble.But the biggest reason for the collapse is that the building itself has been exposed to wind, rain, sun and rain for many years, and the inside and outside have long been weathered and decayed. The weeds are just a symbol of neglect.

Now to say that vines cause buildings to collapse is really putting the cart before the horse.

Father Yang nodded and said, "I think so."

Mother Yang on the side asked in surprise, "But how do you know?"

"Occasionally, I saw a few collapsed huts. Come, you come with me—" Father Yang beckoned the three of them, and together they climbed up the stairs to the top of the building, pointing to an unused farmyard at the end of the village, "The end of the world broke out for a while After that, I got in touch with the village chief, and we took the risk to clean up the zombies in the village."

"At that time, there was already the second heavy rain, and we found that there were traces of vines growing everywhere in the village, but at that time, it was already exhausting to find a way to clean up the zombies and block the entrance of the village, so we didn't pay much attention to these Vines. As a result, when everyone finally blocked the intersection and cleaned up the zombies, and was about to go from house to house to check where there were fish that escaped the net, the wall of the master bedroom of the farmer was pushed by the zombies hidden inside. .”

Hearing this, Mother Yang immediately showed a worried expression: "Then why didn't you tell me?"

The house suddenly collapsed, and a zombie ran out of it... That's no joke.If someone was standing under the eaves at that time, or just at the position where the zombies rushed out, there must be an accident.

Father Yang smiled and hugged her shoulders: "I'm afraid you will worry."

"Then you have to say it." The wrinkles between Yang's mother's brows deepened a little, and Xu Xu said, "Then if you tell me, even if you dislike my physical strength, I will hold you back with you. At least I can remind you often. Look at how sloppy you are. I used to like to forget this and forget that, but now I don’t know how to be careful. Do you think you are still a young man in his 20s..."

Hearing Yang's mother's worrying chanting, Yang's father repeatedly promised that he would never hide it from her again, which made the gap between her brows loosen a little.

Yang Yiqin waited for their conversation to end, and then continued: "But many houses in our village are old, maybe it's just because the houses are too old, and they were hit by two sudden rainstorms, which caused the houses to collapse? Dad? What discovery confirmed that the collapse of the building was related to the vines?"

"It's not so much the evidence, it's actually the conclusion we have drawn by our own elimination method." Father Yang slowly explained, "Although there are many old houses in the village, the village chief will persuade the family to strengthen the house, and even Encourage the villagers in the village to help repair and repair houses. The collapsed main house, we only reinforced it in the first half of the year, and it will not collapse because of one or two heavy rains."

"The village head is very worried about this, and he is afraid that the self-built houses in our village will have this kind of problem. We checked everywhere to find out where the problem is. After eliminating all possible causes, there are only vines left. We found that , the vines outside this room grew the most lushly, and then we found a few walls for comparison—as expected, the more vigorous the vines grow, the easier it is for me to kick the walls.”

Mother Yang was thoughtful: "No wonder you later organized the villagers to pull weeds and vines..."

"Yeah, although it's just our guess, but for the sake of everyone's safety, we must eliminate all dangerous possibilities as soon as possible." Father Yang said with a smile, "and the grass and vines that have been pulled out can also be mixed with wheat. The bran is used as feed for pigs and sheep, so it’s not a loss anyway.”

After the village is on the right track, the villagers are very hardworking.

Not only actively participate in the construction of the village defense wall, but also deal with all kinds of sundries in the village every day to ensure that the barren houses in the village can also be used for living and storing things - this is because they believe that their relatives and friends far away in the future Will be back sooner or later.

This is also the reason why no more collapses occurred in the village.

Feng Lin recalled the buildings he saw in Beishi, and said: "The urban and rural areas of Beishi also grow this kind of vines everywhere, but we haven't seen any collapses yet, except for the buildings that were knocked down by elephants before. "

Yang Yiqin also said: "We have been to Xinzhong City countless times, and we have not seen any buildings collapse."

Feng Lin nodded in agreement.

Mother Yang was puzzled: "Then why did our village collapse so early?"

"This is about the problem of aging houses that Chinqin mentioned." Father Yang said helplessly, "We have repaired the roofs and walls of old houses, but they are definitely not as good as the newly built buildings. And our village's The walls don’t have so many steel bars, and the old houses don’t even have concrete and are all red bricks and blue bricks, which must be more easily affected by vines.”

"My dad is right." Yang Yiqin continued, "It is also because of the low-magnitude earthquake in the neighboring city that the city center is full of ruins. The vines may affect the buildings, but the impact The process is subtle."

Feng Lin went on to say: "Once there is external interference, the process will be accelerated."

"Now that you have guessed the reason, you should hurry up and tell Comrade Shi and Comrade Han." Mother Yang urged worriedly, "I don't know how the situation in other parts of our country is, I hope everyone is safe and sound. Since the zombies appeared, All kinds of strange things happened one after another, and I don’t know when it will end.”

"Don't worry." Father Yang comforted her, "We will always have a solution."

Mother Yang leaned against him, silent.

Yang Yiqin took out the intercom device again today, contacted Han Wenliang for the third time, told him about the vines, and reminded him to contact Dr. Liang at the Beishi Base as soon as possible.Dr. Liang had studied vines as early as last year, and now he should have kept some materials from that time in his hands. After he has a research direction, he must be able to draw a conclusion as soon as possible.

Han Wenliang got the news, and as soon as he hung up the communication, he immediately went to Shishiming.

Father Yang told them a few times, and hurriedly took the walkie-talkie and the wolf green dog to find the village chief.

Although too many worrisome things happened, Mother Yang still turned her head and asked with a smile: "You two have been busy all day today, and you haven't rested for a while, what do you want to eat tonight?"

"Did mom and dad not eat? It's already very late."

"You and Xiao Feng went to show Comrade Han the way, but after we went we didn't come home for a long time. It was getting dark and we didn't see the helicopter. How could your dad and I eat in peace?"

"I made you worry." Yang Yiqin was a little embarrassed, "It is indeed an emergency."

Feng Lin's tone was also full of apology: "We will try our best not to go home after the scheduled time in the future. Even if the time to go home is delayed, I will protect Qinqin, and we will never have an accident."

"It's okay." The fine lines in the corners of Mother Yang's eyes were filled with a smile, "It's good that you're okay, and if it wasn't for the two of you, we certainly wouldn't have discovered so many potential dangers. When we were sorting out the food this afternoon, the village chief even praised you He is the hero of our village."

Yang Yiqin shook his head and laughed: "We can't bear this title, the whole village is a hero."

Feng Lin was expressionless: "Qinqin is right."

"Xiao Feng, you can't do this." Mother Yang laughed angrily, "You can't think that Qinqin is right for everything, or you will be eaten to death by him?"

Feng Lin's eyes gradually softened: "There's nothing wrong with it."

"Hey..." Yang's mother deliberately smiled and sighed, "Forget it, let's eat first, and when Qinqin's father comes back, we may have to 'work overtime' at night."

After all, there are a large number of zombies wandering aimlessly on the road dozens of kilometers away from here, and a small number of "vanguards" are on the way, and there is a possibility of attacking the village at any time.

They must seize the time and think about the countermeasures.

It was not until two hours later that Father Yang brought the village head home.

Mother Yang invited them to sit down first, and then said: "Qinqin's father, we have reserved a special meal for you, you can talk while eating."

"Okay." Father Yang nodded, "Thank you."

The village chief sat on the sofa in the living room of the main house, and Yang Yiqin poured him a cup of warm water from a thermos.

"Jianguo told me everything you encountered along the way, and we have also contacted Liu Wen and Zhang Weihua." The village chief said with a serious expression, "Let's prioritize things first and solve them one by one. The most important thing right now It must be something about the zombie group."

Yang Yiqin asked, "Does the village chief have any ideas?"

"It's not an idea." The village head shook his head, "Judging from the distance, those zombies probably won't be able to reach us in the next two days. I'm afraid that there will be the kind of strange-shaped evolved zombies you mentioned, and they will use special methods to go all the way. Run to our village...Anyway, in order to avoid this situation, we must step up night patrols, at least not like today, when you came back from outside and found zombies attacking the iron fence."

Father Yang continued: "After we communicated with you, Uncle Zhang, we agreed that we and the people from Houcun will help the Qiancun night patrol."

"The wave of zombies will definitely attack Qiancun first." Yang Yiqin mused, "But if they come from the east, if they want to approach the safe zone of our third village, they must pass the stone bridge that crosses the small river and connects to the national highway. Perhaps... we can use the bridge blocked?"

Hearing this, Father Yang and the village head were thoughtful.

Feng Lin looked calm: "If the bridge is to be blocked, the other small bridges must not be spared."

The three of their villages are facing the river to the east, so there is a north-south river along the road.

The river is about ten meters wide, and villagers often go fishing by the river, and the river is a little turbulent in spring and summer.Within a few kilometers from north to south, except for the stone bridge connecting the national highway, the others are arch bridges with a long history, which basically only allow people or bicycles to pass through, and cannot bear the weight of cars.

Blocking both sides of the bridge will stop the zombies from continuing to go north.Those unintelligent zombies might fall into the river, and now it's spring, and the current in the river is enough to wash them away.

In this way, the Sancun safe zone can be given another layer of protection.

"I think this method is feasible." The village chief said slowly, "If there are any disadvantages - one is to block the road, which may stop the survivors coming and going; the other is to implement the blockade outside the safe range, which must It takes a really strong person to do it.”

"I don't think it's a big problem." Feng Lin looked calm, "According to the concentration of zombies, there is a high probability that survivors will not come to the south, because people coming from that direction must break through the siege of zombies along the way. As for Feng Lin Blocking the stone bridge, I can drive the helicopter to drop materials downward, and leave a few people below to help with bulldozers."

Obstacles are not walls, and they don't need to be in order. As long as the bridge deck is filled with debris higher than two meters, it can stop the zombies from advancing.

"Actually, it doesn't matter if there are people." Yang Yiqin continued, "During this time, we will definitely patrol around the village every day. If there are survivors from the south, we will use helicopters to pick them up."

Village head Chen thought for a moment and said, "Okay, I will do as you said."

The danger is approaching step by step, and they dare not waste a minute or a second.

The next morning.

The east had just lit up with a little white belly, most of the sky was still dark blue, and the rooster hadn't crowed every day, so the village head and Father Yang knocked on the door of every villager.

The villagers have the habit of waking up early. Many people have already opened their eyes, and when they heard knocks and shouts, they hurriedly got up and opened the door.The two told them one by one that the village was facing a new crisis. Please finish your breakfast as soon as possible and gather at Miaokou for a meeting at 06:30.

The same situation also appeared in the front village and the back village.

At 06:30, the sky was a little brighter, but it still had a gray tone, and a pale white crescent could still be seen when looking up.

Except for the villagers who happened to be inspecting the village, more than 100 survivors from the three villages all gathered here.

The cousin led the big goose, and asked one after another: "The village chief, you called everyone here in such a hurry, what happened? Is it the research of the scientists in the laboratory? Is it the zombies? Has there been a new change?"

Her worry and anxiety affected the goose, which flapped its white wings and quacked non-stop.

Other villagers also asked questions in a hurry.

"Everyone, be quiet first." The village head made a stop motion, "Listen to Xiao Yang and Xiao Feng first."

Everyone became more anxious.

Yang Yiqin calmed everyone's emotions, and then briefly described what he and Feng Lin saw and heard last night in detail.

Afterwards, Feng Lin ignored the panic and uneasiness of the people after hearing the news, and continued: "So, we must block the stone bridge today. I hope everyone can finish this matter as soon as possible like when we built the iron fence wall."

The village chief continued: "I know, everyone has just finished building the wall with hard work, and received the food from the granary yesterday. They all thought that life was going in a good direction, and we could relax a little for a few days. If the world disappears, we cannot relax our vigilance for a day, any difficulties and dangers may occur, what we have to do is to discover difficulties again and again, and then find a way to solve them."

As soon as he finished speaking, the scene fell silent.

After a while, the cousin grabbed the quiet goose and said with a smile: "Village chief, are you coaxing us like children? We are all half-buried, how can the big guy have no tenacity? Anyway, as long as you find any danger, don't hide it from us, and if there is anything that needs us to do, just say it, we will definitely not complain."

"That's right, you're not the only ones who are worried day and night, everyone is willing to protect our Sancun safe zone."

"Hahaha, I still want to protect all human beings!"

"..."

Under the din of people, the eyes of the village were slightly red.

In this way, Feng Lin, as the main person in charge of the bridge blocking operation, selected survivors who cooperated with him.

Some of them sorted out the unused cabinets, bed boards, boulders, etc. in the village one by one; some were in charge of mixing cement mortar to water the obstacles at both ends of the fixed bridge.Then Feng Lin drove the helicopter, hanging and holding a mess of obstacles, and blocked the two ends of the stone bridge across the river bit by bit.

Yang Yiqin drove down to meet them, directing the villagers to clean up the fallen obstacles while killing the zombies approaching them.

He keeps the actors safe at all times.

In order to ensure that they can pass through the stone bridge unimpeded after the crisis is resolved, the final blocking plan decided to build gates at both ends of the stone bridge.In this way, the time for dismantling in the future can be saved, and various problems that may occur now and in the future can be balanced as much as possible.

This time the operation was outside the safe range, so almost all villagers over the age of 40 were busy in the village, mainly responsible for logistical work.Only strong young people like Yang Yiqin and Yang Genbo, and middle-aged people like Father Yang and Zhang Bo who are busy with sealing off the stone bridge.

With everyone's concerted efforts, more than half of the stone bridge was quickly blocked, but it was a little complicated to install the gate, so it still needed to be busy in the afternoon.After they have installed the iron gates of the big stone bridge, they can block the three old and narrow stone arch bridges. According to visual estimation, they can all be completed before dark.

At noon, Yang Yiqin, Feng Lin and others returned to the safe village.

Mother Yang and Auntie Yang had already prepared a large pot of rice, and made enough steamed buns and flower rolls, just waiting for everyone to enjoy.

They have no staff who can change shifts, and only a few people can do the heavy work of the day. In order to avoid fainting due to overwork, lunch and rest are essential.Therefore, everyone quickly finished today's lunch, and then began to close their eyes for a short time to rest, and there was very little communication with each other.

It can be said that I dare not delay even a minute.

After resting for half an hour, Yang Yiqin and others immediately returned to both ends of the stone bridge.

However, the work in the afternoon was not as easy as that in the morning - because after a night and a morning of hard "race walking", sporadic zombies arrived here.

Feng Lin was driving the helicopter, and from a distance, he saw the group of zombies staggering towards from the south.He immediately notified the people below: "Five zombies came 500 meters to the south."

Yang Yiqin's expression turned serious.

He immediately informed the others to speed up and fix the iron gate on the south side of the stone bridge as soon as possible.Blocking the south side can temporarily resist the infestation of zombies, and buy time to block the north side.

In fact, it is reasonable to block only one end, but considering that zombies can fuse with each other, they may be able to use this feature to overcome a layer of obstacles, so they decided to block both sides.

If it weren't for the consideration of future traffic, they even wanted to pile up the entire stone bridge with obstacles.

After finishing the doors and obstacles on the south side, Yang Yiqin waved to Feng Lin.Seeing this, Feng Lin immediately drove the helicopter and slowly stopped in front of Yang Yiqin.

Yang Yiqin said: "The south of the bridge is blocked, let's deal with those zombies first."

Father Yang came over and said, "Well, you guys go. You, Uncle Zhang, are standing guard here. He is standing on the roof of an idle bus at the entrance of the village. If we encounter problems that cannot be solved, we will directly climb over the iron fence wall and go to the village. run."

Yang Genbo on the side said optimistically: "The barbed wire fence is very easy to climb, so you don't have to worry about not being able to climb it."

Feng Lin nodded.

He drove the helicopter and flew south with Yang Yiqin.

The two quickly dealt with the five zombies, and then flew south along the provincial road for a while to check the current movements of the large group of zombies.Later, they found that the crowd of zombies behind them was a little closer to the village.

Following this trend, they will arrive near the village on a large scale, and it will only take a few days.

With this bad news, the two returned near the stone bridge.

Yang Yiqin told Father Yang and the others the news, everyone was silent for a moment, and then the speed of blocking the bridge unconsciously became faster.It didn't take long before everyone was so tired that they were sweating profusely. They took off their coats and continued to move vigorously.

Soon, the gate to the north of the stone bridge was also built.

Yang Yiqin patted the ashes on his hands: "It's done, let's go to block the bridge."

The crowd nodded.

Just when they were about to drive to another destination, Feng Lin's voice suddenly came out of the walkie-talkie: "Get in the car, there are UFOs coming."

UFO?

Although everyone was suspicious, they still got into their vehicles according to Feng Lin's reminder, so as to avoid unknown dangers, and then looked up at the sky.

I saw that above the high altitude in the north, there were indeed two black spots flying towards here rapidly.The two black dots flew closer and lower, and what finally appeared in front of everyone were two handsome armed helicopters.

A thought flashed in Yang Yiqin's mind.

Sure enough, the people on the armed helicopter seemed to have seen them, and when they flew tens of meters away from them, someone opened the side door of the helicopter and waved at them.

It was an old acquaintance——

Qian Guowei.

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