After nearly two hours, Tang Wen and the others came back and brought back a lot of good things, mainly rice, bacon and sausages. Rural people are used to storing bacon. Even more fortunately, Tang Qi found several vegetable fields in the yard in front of a tile-roofed house. The people living there should be old people who live alone. They usually have leisure time, so they turned the front yard into a vegetable garden with eggplants, green peppers, cabbage and spinach. Because of the heavy rain, a lot of vegetables rotted, Tang Qi picked all the ones that were not rotten.
"Little brother, how about having hot pot tonight? Anyway, these vegetables won't last long." Tang Xin ran into the kitchen and said enthusiastically.
"Okay, you can soak the dried kelp, dried shiitake mushrooms and sweet potato vermicelli later." Tang Miao wiped the water off his hands.
"Me?" Tang Xin pointed at herself.
"It's you."
Tang Xin nodded resignedly: "Okay, I'll soak. Just soak in water, right?"
Everyone laughed.
In the afternoon, the heavy rain still showed no sign of stopping. Tang Miao simply made dinner earlier, so that he could go to bed early after dinner.
The hot pot is very simple. Tang Miao took out a pack of spicy hot pot base directly from his backpack. Except for Tang Sihuang, no one knows why he brought this with him when he went on a mission.
The dining table is lifted to the middle, the alcohol stove is lit, and after the water is boiled, the hot pot bottom material is poured in. Washed wax gourd slices, potato slices, cabbage sticks, cabbage leaves, Chinese cabbage, spinach, eggplant sticks, bacon slices, sausages, ham sausage slices, kelp, shiitake mushrooms, sweet potato vermicelli and vermicelli are all placed in a clean plate. After the soup is boiled again, put in the wax gourd slices, potato slices, cabbage gangzi, bacon, sausage, kelp, sweet potato vermicelli, which are not easy to cook, and then you can eat with vegetables when it is cooked. The room was soon filled with aroma.
"Wow woof..." Heiwei was eating with gusto, but suddenly he yelled out the door.
After a while, there was a knock on the door. The rain was rushing, if Charles and Heiwei hadn't been barking, they wouldn't have noticed the knock on the door at all.
"Tang Qi, go and have a look."
As soon as the door opened, seven or eight people drenched in water appeared in front of everyone. A man of all colors, his face was tired, and his lips were washed white by the rain.
"Help, folks. Can we come in and keep warm?"
Tang Qiyi raised his eyebrows: "We are also passers-by, and there are many empty houses in the village."
The man stared straight at the hot pot, paused, and smiled flatteringly: "Well, can you give us something to eat? A mouthful of hot soup is fine too. We escaped all the way to get here, and got lost halfway. I haven’t eaten anything since noon yesterday.”
The eyes of the other men kept looking into the pot, but they probably had never done such a thing like begging, and they all looked a little uncomfortable.
Tang Qi looked at Tang Sihuang.
"Where did you come from?" Tang Sihuang asked.
"A small village in Z City." Seeing him talking, the leader of the man seemed to have found hope, his eyes lit up, and he immediately replied.
"North? How's the situation over there? Are there many zombies?"
The man nodded in pain and said: "There are many, and I don't know why, the zombies are gathering in groups. We have come all the way, and we managed to escape."
Tang Miao and the others looked at each other. Gather in groups? After dealing with zombies during this period, they know that zombies have no intelligence, only the instinct to devour living people. Why and how did they gather together
Tang Sihuang motioned to Tang Qi: "Give them three catties of rice."
The man reached out to take it, licked his lips, and thanked solemnly: "Thank you!" Then he led the others away quickly, looking for an empty house.
Feng Ye went to the second floor to have a look, and it was no surprise that those people chose the house to the east of them, which was where Tang Liguang and others lived before.
"Gathering in groups, zombies have no brains at all, how could they gather together?" Tang Wensi asked. They have also seen zombies gather, but only because they found a common food.
Tang Miao guessed: "Maybe they also have a sense of the same kind? It's like when ants find food, they use their antennae to release pheromones and call their companions."
Several others looked at him.
Tang Miao thought they were blaming him for talking nonsense, and explained: "It's said in the animal world."
Tang Xin felt that his analysis made sense, nodded and said, "Maybe Tang Miao is right."
"Why do I feel a little creepy?" Tang Qi rubbed his arms.
Tang Sihuang glanced at them without expressing any opinion. He never likes to talk nonsense. These are questions that should be studied by the research institute, rather than the answers they can get by sitting here and guessing wildly.
The next day, the rain finally stopped. The autumn wind blows in bursts, mixed with water vapor, and it is cold and cold. Clear white smoke can already be seen in the air exhaled from the mouth. The temperature was obviously more than one degree lower than before it rained. Fortunately, I found a lot of warm clothes before, so everyone didn't feel cold, so they packed up their things, got in the car and continued to set off. The Black Wolves didn't know if they had been spying on them all the time, and they almost set off right behind them.
When the man asking for rice heard the movement and ran out, they had already gone far. When they saw that they were going north, several big men looked at each other in blank dismay. They couldn't figure out why they said that there were zombie groups in the north, but these people still went north.
"Sir, the Black Wolves are following us. Damn it! The ghosts linger." Tang Wu cursed a few words, and he had a very dislike for the Black Wolves.
Tang Sihuang said: "Put the car aside and let them pass first. If they still insist on following us..."
He didn't finish his sentence, but everyone understood what he meant.
Hei Lang saw the three cars in front stopped by the side of the road, and couldn't help cursing a few words.
"Boss, what should we do?"
"What should we do? They kindly gave way to us, and of course we passed!" Hei Lang said with a fake smile. Tang Sihuang is definitely not someone who is willing to let others take advantage of him. He believed that if he dared to use the fruit army as a shield, Tang Sihuang would show him some color. Damn, why did he mess with such a character in the first place
Seeing the two cars of the Black Wolves driving to the front, Tang Wen and the others smiled.
A group of five cars temporarily reached a tacit agreement, lined up vertically, and drove forward quickly. When encountering a small group of zombies on the road, the Black Wolves were relieved to see that the people in the two cars behind were also shooting and shooting arrows at them.
Tang Miao shot off a zombie's head, resisting the feeling of nausea. The zombies washed by the rain became even uglier. The carrion on their bodies was soaked by the rain, making them look pale and bloated. Their bones seemed to become more fragile, as if they could fall apart with a kick. That's not to say they're easy to deal with, their speed and agility have also been increased.
In this group of zombies, the Fruit Legion harvested a total of more than 30 crystal nuclei, that is to say, there were more than 30 L2 zombies.
Tang Sihuang looked around and ordered: "Okay, let's go on."
Everyone has always carried out his orders thoroughly, and within thirty seconds, they all got into the car and started the car.
"Damn it, don't even say hello to me." Hei Lang watched them leave, cursed a few times, and quickly let the younger brothers get into the car.
The black wolf drove quickly to catch up with Tang Sihuang's car, side by side with him, and chatted with Tang Sihuang with a smile, as if they hadn't had any trouble before: "Boss Tang, why did you leave suddenly? There are still many evolved zombies over there. There must be a lot of crystal nuclei."
"The battle just now was just to test the strength of the zombies." Tang Sihuang said lightly.
Hei Lang wasn't stupid at all, he understood everything, and asked in amazement, "Could it be that the strength of the zombies will continue to change?"
"Perhaps." Tang Sihuang was ambiguous.
Hei Lang fell into deep thought and didn't speak any more.
Tang Miao rolled up the car window, looked at Tang Sihuang, and hesitated to speak.
"What?" Tang Sihuang looked at his profile.
Tang Miao coughed lightly, looked ahead, and muttered, "Daddy, why do I think you are very... tolerant of Hei Lang?"
Tang Sihuang's eyes were filled with a smile, and the corners of his lips curled up, still staring at him: "Because I answered his question? That's why you feel this way? You think they have dealt with us, so we Should it be at odds with them?"
"That's not true," Tang Miao unconsciously stepped on the accelerator, plausibly saying, "At least keep a distance from him for safety."
Tang Sihuang didn't speak, but looked back to the front with a wider smile on his face.
Tang Miao was flustered by his smile.
Tang Xin heard his words in the back seat, laughed, and said, "Tang Miao, don't you understand this? There is a saying in the business world that there are no permanent friends and no permanent enemies. There is also a saying, one more An enemy is worse than one more friend. Of course, Dad doesn’t want to be friends with the Black Wolves, but there is no need to be enemies with him. After all, we are in the same base, and we can see each other when we look down. Understand?”
Tang Miao had a smile on her face, but there was no smile in her eyes, and she didn't say a word. Of course he understands these, those just now are just his excuses. He still doesn't like Daddy's confrontation with the Heiwolves (not the Heiwolves), as if the two of them are rivals in chess and love each other... cherishing each other. This feeling made him uncomfortable. Is he too stingy? Even if he is with Daddy, he can't stop Daddy from making friends, can he? What's more, he is just Daddy's son now, that's all.
When approaching City D, the Heiwolves drove again and stopped side by side with Tang Miao's car.
"Boss Tang, City D is ahead. How about our two teams working together?"
Tang Miao glanced at him lightly. Leaning one arm against the window, do you think it's a cool pose
"Good attention. What's the specifics?" Tang Sihuang looked at Tang Miao amusedly, and quickly withdrew his gaze. No one noticed that his gaze passed Tang Miao.
Hei Lang had already considered this question on the way, and immediately replied: "We have a total of twenty-three people. After we found the seed company, we were divided into three teams. Two of the teams led the zombies away in two different directions, and the rest A team carrying seeds."