Apocalypse: Counterattack of a Cannon Fodder

Not far away, a young man was holding an old long-barreled shotgun. He looked only fifteen or sixteen years old. This age was when he was studying in the old days. He shouted excitedly: "Second Uncle, come quickly, I Hunted a sawtooth mouse!"

Not far away, a middle-aged man heard gunshots, stumbled over and saw a saw-toothed mouse lying on the ground motionless. We won’t be able to hunt any decent prey today, and we’ll have to continue to be hungry tonight!”

The boy was still very happy to be blamed, "Second Uncle, let's eat this sawtooth mouse tonight. I haven't eaten meat for more than half a year. Anyway, they don't want this kind of prey. Let's hide it secretly, don't turn it in, okay?" ?”

The middle-aged man looked around nervously, and said in a low voice: "Don't talk nonsense! It's okay to be heard by other hunters!"

The young man muttered: "Anyway, there is no one else here, only the two of us..."

At this moment, the dense bushes beside the road suddenly shook violently.

"Who?! Come out!" The middle-aged man snatched the shotgun from the boy's hand, and nervously prepared the bushes by the roadside.

Only then did Tang Shi slowly come out of the bushes and raised his hands to show that he had no malice.

When the boy saw a young stranger coming out of the bushes, he immediately became nervous. He hid behind the middle-aged man and stared at Tang Shi vigilantly.

The middle-aged man pulled the trigger and threatened: "Who are you?! What are you doing hiding here?!"

"I don't mean anything malicious, I just want to ask you something." The reason why Tang Shi didn't rush out suddenly was to not scare them, and Yan Xu was still hidden in the bushes and didn't let him out.Tang Shi's appearance was slender and kind, and anyone who saw him for the first time would definitely mark him as "harmless", so it was most appropriate for him to come out and strike up a conversation.

This shotgun didn't pose any threat to him, but he still raised his hand in harmony. The original tattered real iron furious armor on his body didn't waste the opportunity to summon the vicious blacksmith after killing Mayor Lin's group. , Let him repair it again, bullets can't pierce his real iron furious armor.

"What do you want to ask?" The middle-aged man did not relax his guard. In this era, no one can trust anyone. He is too naive and can only die.

"I came from Lincheng. I want to ask if you have seen the people evacuated from Lincheng pass here." Tang Shi promised to go to Long Mian, and he would definitely go to him.

"Lincheng?" The middle-aged man frowned, looked at Tang Shi from top to bottom, and then from left to right. Seeing that his clothes were tattered and his body was dirty and smelly, it was obvious that he had gone through a lot of trouble. , but he still didn't believe that he was the boy who came out of Lincheng and hid behind the middle-aged man, and said first: "Don't be kidding, Lincheng is a dead city right now, there can't be any living people inside!"

The middle-aged man glared at him, motioning him not to interrupt.

Tang Shi smiled and said, "I did come out from Lincheng. My brother is among the evacuated people, so I want to find out if I have passed in this direction."

Hearing this sentence, the hostility in the eyes of the middle-aged man eased a little. It is not easy for everyone in this era. This young man still knows to find his lost brother, which shows that his humanity is still there.The middle-aged man put down his shotgun and said, "We often hunt in this direction, and we haven't seen the crowds you mentioned passing by."

"That's it." Tang Shi pondered for a moment, and then said, "Then is there any gathering place near here?"

The boy's eyes flickered for a moment, but the middle-aged man pondered, and asked again uncertainly, "Do you want to go to the gathering place?"

"Yes, I've been walking for too long, and I want to go to the gathering place to rest." Tang shi had already confirmed that there was definitely a gathering place nearby.

"Yes, but we are hunting..." The middle-aged man looked at the sky and sighed, "It's getting dark, let's go, I'll take you there."

Together, the middle-aged man and the teenager tied up the saw-toothed mouse, put it on a tree trunk, and carried it back.

"Wait a minute, I have a friend who wants to go with me." After Tang Shi said this, Yan Xu came out from the bushes.

The middle-aged man was a little surprised, and couldn't help but start to be on guard again. As long as Yan Xu kept a cold face, he always had an aura of calm and self-importance, which made people feel pressured, and this time was no exception.

Seeing this, Tang Shi smiled and said, "He just has a cold face, he's not a bad person, don't worry."

Yan Xu nodded to the middle-aged man, and the middle-aged man looked Yan Xu from top to bottom, left to right, then turned his head and said, "Let's go."

The boy peeked at them out of the corner of his eye as he walked, Tang Shi was secretly amused.

Along the way, Tang Shi chatted with the middle-aged man without saying a word. When he learned that the middle-aged man's name was Guo Lihui and the boy's name was Guo Lang, Tang Shi was naturally not stingy about reporting his family.

After walking not far, Tang Shi suddenly felt that this area was somewhat familiar. After walking for about half an hour, a small town appeared in front of him.

Tang Shi was secretly surprised. This town was the place where he grew up—Mei Town. Although the surrounding environment of Mei Town had changed somewhat, the landscape around Mei Town was still the same as in the old days. The originally open place was opened by a straight road. It leads to Mei Town, but now that road is blocked by a high wall. The high wall was obviously built after the end of the world, and the mud bricks are still very fresh.Tang Shi had been taken here by his grandfather to live here since his mother's death, and was not taken back to the Tang family by Tang Minghai until after his grandfather passed away.After leaving Meizhen for so many years, it is reasonable to say that he is familiar with Meizhen. Not all the people in Meizhen know each other, but it's okay to be familiar with each other. But Guo Lihui's uncle and nephew did not know each other at all in Tang Dynasty. It was people fleeing from outside who fled into Meizhen.

Meizhen is just a small town on the edge of Lincheng. It has a small population, and the total number of people is only tens of thousands. Young people usually go to big cities to work hard, leaving only some old and young women and children at home. After the end of the world, there should be no people here. Affected by the "meteorite rain", the buildings in the town are still intact.

It was getting late, and there were a lot of people on the outskirts of the town wall, huddled together in groups of three or four, and some of them had already started to light a fire to boil water.Tang shi wondered, why didn't these people go in, what were they doing here? In such a small town, could it be possible to pay an "entrance fee"?It turned out that Tang shi's guess was right.

Guo Lihui said in a low voice: "This is the gathering place. If you want to enter, you have to find a way by yourself. I can only take you here."

Tang Shi asked, "How can I get in?"

Guo Lihui: "The mayor of Meizhen gave three conditions. First, if you are an awakened person and willing to serve him, you can enter; second, unless you can hunt two decent prey every day for rent , you can live in the town; third, if you can’t hunt decent prey, if you want to live in the town, each person must hand in at least three sawtooth mice every day. If it is a good prey, it depends on the situation. "

Tang Shi: "What kind of prey is called 'decent prey'?"

Guo Lihui shook his head and sighed: "I don't know the specifics, but in a word, those who don't know and haven't seen it should be the prey those people want. Those things are all kinds of strange things, some of them have human legs, and they are very fierce. , Many people want to hunt and kill them, but they are eaten by them instead, it is too dangerous."

Tang Shi already had guesses in his mind, those who didn't know, those who hadn't seen, even if the sawtooth mice were inflated countless times than before, their physical signs as mice hadn't changed, and they could still be recognized by people. Those who really don’t know and haven’t seen it are card creatures. The mayor’s desire for card creatures should not be for eating meat. It has been more than half a year since the end of the world. Now that the announcement has been made, it is not surprising that someone in this remote town knows about Yuan Nengjing.However, after the alien race is killed, the Yuan Energy Crystal must be taken out as soon as possible, otherwise it will dissipate into the air. There are requirements for the death time of the alien race and the integrity of the corpse.

Tang Shi tentatively said, "As long as it's an unknown or unseen prey, is there any other requirement?"

"That's not true. There are requirements. After a decent prey is hunted, the integrity of the body must be guaranteed, and after the hunt, it must be sent back as soon as possible. They will not accept it after two hours. Someone did hunt it before. Arriving at an unknown prey, I thought I could live in the town, but it was too late to send it back, and the mayor and the others refused to accept it, so it was a waste of work."

Tang Shi was surprised. Two hours was the time for the Yuannengjing to dissipate inside the corpse. The Yuannengjing taken out of the corpse could still be stored for a few days. I was afraid that it would dissipate quickly if it was placed in the corpse of a foreign race.It seems that this mayor is a character, and he can even grasp the disappearance time of Yuan Nengjing so accurately, it is not easy!

Tang Shi had already determined that the purpose of the mayor's collection of "decent prey" must be for Yuan Nengjing. Such things are very common, as long as he can get Yuan Nengjing, he can do anything.

Tang Shi glanced at the people gathered outside the fence, "Are they all people who can't pay the rent?"

"Yeah, these are all, and some people have left and want to go out to find a gathering place that can accept them."

Tang Shi noticed that among the crowd, there were some older elderly people who probably didn't gather from other places. Most of them were locals from Meizhen, so he asked, "Can't the locals from Meizhen live in it too?"

"That's fine, but they can't come out at will. Except for the awakened ones, I haven't seen ordinary people come out."

"Then what's going on with them? They should be from the town, right?"

Guo Lihui looked at it and said, "It's probably because he's getting old, and staying in the town is a waste of food, so he was thrown out."

While talking, they approached the entrance of Meizhen. Guo Lang didn't want to go there, so he stood still on the road, and Guo Lihui didn't move when he pushed him.Tang Shi and Yanxu's eyes were attracted by Guo Lang, and they didn't notice that a person who was planning to come out of the small town turned around and ran away like a cat seeing a mouse when they saw them.

Guo Lang secretly glanced at Tang Shi again, then stared at the sawtooth mouse for a long time, licked his chapped lips, with a slanderous look, obviously reluctant to hand the sawtooth mouse to the entrance of Mei Town, and someone held hands. A strong man with a rifle on his back and a ferocious face. Tang Shi knew they were awakened ones at a glance. There was a table next to them with a box on which were some small pieces of wood. When he saw them coming, He stood in the middle of the road and blocked the road.

"What did you hunt?" One of the men came over, and when he saw the sawtooth mouse tied to the tree trunk, he said displeasedly: "I didn't hunt any decent prey? What a bunch of trash, do you go out with guns every day to walk birds? ? Come back after hunting all these rubbish. I’m going to vomit from the sawtooth rat meat, put down the prey, and get out of here!”

Although the middle-aged man was angry, he could only swallow his anger.

The boy stared angrily at the man dragging the sawtooth mouse inside, which was the meat he was going to have for dinner!It was taken away by them again!

"What's that expression on your face? Are you not convinced that I'm taking you to eat rats or something? You are hunting some decent prey to pay rent and live in the town. Since you have no skills, you can only live outside the wall. Use a mouse." What are you dissatisfied with Rouxiaojing Lao Tzu? If I didn’t take care of this area, I’ll control you! Get out!” Another man noticed the young man’s resentful gaze, walked over, put the barrel of a gun against the young man’s chest, and slammed After poking him, the boy backed up non-stop until he hit Tang Shi.

The middle-aged man hurried over to say good things, and said timidly and respectfully: "Children are ignorant, don't be as knowledgeable as him, let's go now, let's go now."

Volume Two