The scenery along the mountain road is slightly more beautiful and natural than on the highway. There are many mountains and mountains, and the mountains are lush and green. After driving for several kilometers, there are still endless mountain forests.
According to the map, there is a hot spring resort only a dozen kilometers away. Except for that section of the road, which requires special precautions, the rest of the road can be relaxed a little.
Hao Jian was still in a good mood and analyzed the system: "Unfortunately, Ding Gu Nian is too eager to take us down, forcing us to leave early, otherwise I can find out more about him and consider upgrading to a level. What kind of permissions will be enabled after 4."
System: Shut up, I'm no longer your cheating father, please allow me to retain some dignity as a system cheater, thank you!
"Hey, your number is 2018, that is to say, there are at least 2018 hosts, right? Maybe not only that few, after all, the population of the earth is more than seven billion."
"Does the host think that the system is a street product and can be seen everywhere?!"
Hao Jian stopped the conversation with the system because Lian Runing found that there were terraces and several private houses ahead.
"Do you want to go and see?" Hao Jian asked.
Lian Runing whispered in her ear, "I want to go to the toilet."
Hao Jian recalled that from the time they left the service area, they hardly ever went to the bathroom. Although they didn't drink a lot of water along the way, the rest of them could hold it until the next destination, but the situation of practicing Ruliming was different. On the "second day" when the volcanic eruption was likely to occur at any time, she would inevitably have to run the toilet frequently. Some.
After talking to Shi Gongwei and the others, the group slowly approached the private houses.
The highest of these houses is only two and a half stories, only two are built with tile walls, and the rest are either mobile prefab houses or tile houses.
Not far from the house, there are two or three acres of terraced fields, but at this time, the terraced fields are cracked, the crops are dry, and only the weeds are still stubbornly growing.
It seems that no one lives here, but Shi Gongwei still honked the horn. If there are zombies in it, they should come out when they hear the movement. If there were living people inside, the movement when they came over would have alarmed them long ago, and there was no need to hide their ears and steal the bell.
"Is there anyone, we want to ask the way." Peng Mao walked to the door of the nearest tile house and knocked on the door.
Although the roof of the tile-roofed house is covered with tiles, it is not the old house that was leaking every now and then.
"The door is not locked." Peng Mao found that the iron door was easily pushed open.
The inside is not big, only about 40 square meters, there is a lot of firewood piled up, and there is nothing else.
"What, it turned out to be a firewood house!" Peng Mao was quite lost, thinking he could pick up some supplies!
Hao Jian reminded: "There is someone here."
Peng Mao's alarm bell made a masterpiece: "How do you know, where is it?"
Hao Jian pointed to the roof of the three-storey building: "Well, why don't you lie down there!"
Everyone looked up and saw a woman sneakily hiding on the roof of the building. Although she couldn't see her appearance clearly, judging from her hair, it was a woman in her fifties.
Seeing that everyone found her, she quickly shrank back, pretending that she hadn't appeared.
"Auntie, we were just passing by and wanted to ask the way, no malice!" Shi Gongzhui shouted.
"Gan Linniang's aunt, I'm only in my thirties!" The woman got out and yelled.
"...?!" Everyone was shocked by her rude words, deafening voice, and her age when she blew herself up.
"Big, big sister, are you a programmer?" Peng Mao asked.
Shi Gongzhui glared at him: "Nonsense, female programmers in our industry don't do this, at most they have a little hair loss, dull complexion, excessive melanin, and acne... She is 80% a doctor, and she spends her days working on the thesis. If you use your brain too much, worry too much and get angry, you will have an early life!"
Lian Runing shook her head, stepped forward and asked, "Sister, can you ask me the way?"
"I think you are a good person, little sister. Of course, what way do you want to ask?"
"How do I get to Chengxiang City or Xiang City from here?"
"That's far..."
Shi Gongzhui interrupted her by holding his head: "Eldest sister, our neck is sore when we talk like this, can you come down, let's talk on an equal footing?"
The woman glared at him and yelled at him, "How do I know if you are good people, what should I do if you deceive me and do bad things to me?"
"..." Auntie, you are quite confident in your appearance.
"There are three female college students here. Although our two big men seem to be good at fighting, we are good citizens. What can we do to you? Besides, I don't believe that you are the only one living here. We are the ones who are in the nest, right?!"
The woman cast a questioning look, her eyes swept over them like a scanner several times, and finally nodded: "Okay!"
After a while, the door of the house opened, and a dark-skinned teenager stuck his head out from behind the door, looked around for a while before opening the door: "Come in!"
"Let's go in, you guys watch the car outside." Hao Jian said to Shi Gongzhui and Xin Ting.
"Okay, let me know if something happens." Shi Gongzhui patted Hao Jian, who took the bug and stuffed it into his pocket, and then went in with Lian Runing and Peng Mao.
In the house, the woman I saw just now had come downstairs. She was wearing a white T-shirt, a pair of black sweatpants, and a towel tied around her neck, which was very casual in a farmhouse style.
However, she had a lot of white hair growing on her head, her face was haggard, and dark circles and stains all came out. It is a bit exaggerated to say that she is fifty years old, but it is more like someone in her forties.
In addition to the woman, and the teenage boy just now, there was a thin girl and a middle-aged farmer man and woman in the house.
It's a weird combination.
However, they quickly figured out that this is actually a family, the middle-aged farmer men and women are married couples, the teenagers and girls are their children, and the woman who looks to be in her forties but is actually only thirty-five years old is a couple sister.
The woman's name is Huang Yueming. She was born and raised in Huangtian Town, Xiaochuan County, and this is their home.
Although there are no stores in front of the village or in the back, there were originally five or six families living here, but because they were too poor and backward, some people moved to live in the area of slightly popular resorts, and some went to the urban area of Chengxiang. Bought a house.
Her eldest brother and sister-in-law didn't move because they couldn't bear the few acres of terraced fields. One son and one daughter were only fourteen or fifteen years old, and they were boarding at Kanghe Middle School in the hot spring village.
And she originally contracted a boat in the "Green Lake Leisure Resort", the largest tourist attraction in Chengxiang, to receive tourists on weekdays and the like.
Later, when people were panicking about an unknown infectious disease outside, the government, which had already received the news, ordered the resort to shut down services in order to prevent more people carrying the infectious virus from flocking to travel. She also lost Industry.
She followed a group of unemployed workers and businesses to protest the sit-in, and was arrested. However, after being detained for a few days, the government seemed to have no time to pay attention to them, and she was released.
Later, public opinion became more and more out of control, and zombies also appeared in scenic spots and urban areas. She realized what happened, but at that time, the traffic in various areas had been paralyzed, and she was delayed for several days. After several hardships, I came back here two days ago.
Originally, the backward situation of not being able to go to the village or to the back of the store has also become a sweet pastry for refugees in the last days. When she came back here, she met people who passed by and threatened them with trying to drive away their family. Fortunately, the guards appeared later to drive those people away, and they escaped.
Since then, they have also been wary of outsiders.
However, they were not professionals after all, so Hao Jian easily found her hiding on the roof looking out for the wind.
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When Lian Runing came out of the bathroom, Huang Yueming was talking about the escort team. She was slightly surprised and said, "Is there actually a escort team here to help?"
Huang Yueming spread his hands: "How is it possible, those two guards were just passing by."
The teenager also said: "They have important missions on them, how can they do such trivial things as rescue!"
Hao Jian looked at this dark boy, and felt that he did a lot of work at home on weekdays, otherwise why would he be so tanned. At his age, he was also a middle-year-old. When talking about the escort team, he was quite longing. Even if he met the escort team for a few hours, it was enough for him to brag for a long time.
"Rescue is not a trivial matter. Every member of the escort team put their life and death aside in order to rescue and search for survivors. They are worthy of admiration."
After Hao Jian finished educating the second-year junior, he asked Huang Yueming, "Then they didn't tell you where there is a refuge nearby?"
"I came back from outside. I know the situation there best, so instead of going there to suffer, it's better to stay at home. There are no villages or shops here, let alone zombies, even people are I only see one once in a while. It is quite rare for people passing by like you to choose to take this country road.”
"This is also something that can't be helped. The traffic is paralyzed, and we can only take a relatively remote rural road."
Only then did Huang Yueming remember that their purpose was to ask for directions. Although he was wary of them at first, Shi Gongzhui was right. The three of them were female college students, and they looked soft and weak, not like bad people.
In addition, their house didn't have much supplies, and they were not afraid of being robbed, so they slowly started chatting with Hao Jian and the others.
"You said you were going to Chengxiang and Xiangshi?" Huang Yueming asked.
"Our ultimate goal is not these two places, but we just want to know how to go more smoothly and conveniently."
Huang Yueming said: "Then you are asking the right person. From us, after passing the hot spring resort, there will be a county road to Huangtang Town, and then there is a provincial road in the town that goes west to Chengxiang urban area. If you don't want to go through Chengxiang, continue to the southwest, there is also a provincial road that goes directly from Chengxiang to the periphery of Xiangshi."
"Thank you Sister Huang for pointing the way." Lian Runing expressed her gratitude sincerely.
They have met a lot of good people along the way, but more of them are people who threaten them because of their selfishness and selfish desires. People like Huang Yueming, although loud and scolding, are surprisingly kind-hearted. See you more.
"Hi, thank you!" Huang Yueming waved his hand.
Hao Jian, Lian Runing and Peng Mao all left the Huang family and saw Huang Yueming's nephew chatting with Shi Gongzhui. He said it was a nagging, but he saw that the car was refitted to be safe, and he felt very rare, so he went up to ask Shi Gongzhui: "Are you also warriors with heavy responsibilities?"
"Why do you ask that?" Shi Gongzhui asked.
"Because it's all played like this in movies, your car has high protection performance and is very safe!"
Shi Gongzhui didn't expect to meet someone who was even more junior than him, so he proudly took out his equipment: "Boy, you are very knowledgeable! Since you are so knowledgeable, then I will bring out some dry goods to let me know. You know and know!"
"I've seen computers."
"Then have you seen this?" Shi Gongzhui pointed at the wireless dispatch station in disbelief.
The boy shook his head, and Shi Gongzhui felt that he had taken a turn, and the corners of his mouth cocked up: "This machine is amazing, it can collect radio waves to achieve communication. That is, when you listen to the radio, I can tune to what you are listening to. radio frequency, and then let you hear my signal."
The boy's eyes lit up, and he looked at the radio station eagerly: "It's amazing! If only the guards also had this box!"
"Why are there no guards, they are more advanced and clever than me!"
The boy said, "But the guards we saw that day didn't exist!"
Shi Gongzhui pondered for a moment and asked, "What is the origin of those two guards?"
The teenager shook his head: "I don't know, but they were injured, and the motorcycles were in tatters. At that time, after our home was occupied by bad guys, they shot and scared the bad guys away."
Hao Jian and the others happened to hear the boy's words, so they turned their heads and asked Huang Yueming who came out: "Did the two guards say what they were going to do? How did they appear here?"
"You can't tell us what they are going to do. As for why they passed by here, maybe they found that the traffic was paralyzed like you, or maybe... they were chased and killed?" Huang Yueming glanced around cautiously, and rarely lowered his voice. Said, "I told you, at that time, they had a person with blood on his body. We were so afraid that he was bitten by a zombie, but fortunately they left soon."
Hao Jian frowned, thinking of the missing guards in Xinghua City.
Lian Runing asked, "Which direction did they come from?"
The teenager hurriedly replied: "I know, they are from Jiangshi!"
Hao Jian and Lian Runing's eyes narrowed, and Huang Yueming asked her nephew, "How did you know?"
"I heard them when they bandaged their wounds. What else did they say... A spies exposed their identities, and nothing to hunt them down!"
"When did that happen?" Hao Jian continued.
"The night before yesterday." Huang Yueming was a little puzzled, "Hey, why are you so interested in the escort team?"
"I have a friend who is in the escort team, and there is no news of him later, so I will pay more attention to this aspect." Hao Jian dispelled Huang Yueming's doubts in a few words.
But she had an ominous feeling in her heart. From the young man's words, it has been determined that the other party is a member of the Jiangshi escort team, and their injuries must have been caused by being chased and killed by "no blame".
The day before yesterday morning was when they left Jiang City and arrived in Xinghua City. Because they had traveled a lot and spent the night at the Heshui Hydropower Station, the journey would be particularly long.
However, if they are driving motorcycles, they can directly take the high-speed or national road, and it really only takes half a day to come here.
That is to say, after Hao Jian and the others left Jiang City, Jiang City sent an escort team to perform some task.
But why didn't they continue to take the highway over Huangtian Town
Hao Jian put away his thoughts and said to the boy, "You can't say these words to others, or you will be unsafe."
The boy opened his eyes, and Huang Yueming understood. After all, Hao Jian has a friend who is in the escort team, and the warning she gave seems to have a lot of weight. She was afraid that she would cause some trouble, so she tugged at the boy: "Do you hear me? Don't say these words to the second person. Say it, or it will kill us!"
The boy replied gloomily, "I see, Auntie."
Hao Jian and the others kindly reminded Huang Yueming before leaving: "If you don't leave, food will be a problem after all."
Seeing that they were leaving, Huang Yueming did not have any greed, so he said: "This is not a big problem, there are forests here, and my brother's house also has fruit forests. They picked a lot of fruit before and marinated them. Now, the transportation here is inconvenient, so every time I buy things, I buy enough for half a year... By the way, there are still a lot of people in the village at the hot spring resort, so you have to be careful."
Shi Gongzhui said, "I didn't expect you to be such a nice person, Auntie."
Huang Yueming changed his face immediately: "Gan Linniang's dead fat stump, when she got some color, she opened a dyeing workshop, didn't she?!"
Shi Gongzhui was so frightened by her rudeness that she hurriedly drove the car away. Hao Jian and Lian Runing smiled behind them, greeted them, and left.
After turning a corner, the Huang family was no longer in sight. Lian Runing said with emotion: "There are still good people in the world."
"Why, am I not a good person?" Hao Jian asked with a smile.
After practicing for a while, she hugged Hao Jian's waist tightly, and said affectionately, "Of course you are a good person, you are a great good person, my favorite good person."
If he wasn't driving, Hao Jian might have turned around to get some experience and points.
Peng Mao's voice clearing his throat came from the walkie-talkie: "That... you forgot to turn off the bug."
Lian Runing's face flushed, Hao Jian took out the bug without changing his face, and said in a particularly clear voice, "I thought you guys wanted to listen."
Get what you want to hear, don't any of us want to hear your showy hobbies? !
"Foreman, what's wrong with this thing? I want to eat hot and fragrant food, and I don't want to eat a mouthful of dog food." Peng Mao said.
After a while of clamoring over there, it finally subsided.
After Lian Runing's shyness faded, she remembered what she heard before leaving.
Her preliminary analysis was similar to Hao Jian, and she also thought that the day before yesterday, on August 4, it had been two days since the guards broke through the conference center and rescued Yu Jiyou and others.
The signal shielding system of the conference center was also destroyed. The guards should be able to reconnect with the official upper management. Their actions should be assisted by various places. Why did they happen to be hunted down? What other tasks did Jiang City's escort team have to rush to perform
If it was the same as the escort team in Xinghua City transporting food, it should not have only two members.
She asked her doubts, and it happened that Hao Jian was also thinking about this matter, but her point of entry was a little different: "Why did they avoid the road where we met Ding Gu Nian's group?"
"Could it be..."
"I suspected that they were being chased there, so I had to run to the side road here."
Lian Ru Ning was shocked: "Could it be that Ding Gu Nian and the others..."
"It doesn't have to be them. If they sailed to Huangtian Town, it should have happened yesterday."
"But why didn't they meet Wujiao? Didn't they have a conflict with Wujiao when they were in Xinghua City? With such a large team, it's bound to attract Wujiao's attention. ."
You must know that they were just driving a car past, and they were followed everywhere. It is impossible for Ding Gu Nian's group to not attract the attention of the "Wugui" members in Huangtian Town.
"Either 'Wugui' set up a bureau there to hunt them down and ran after them. But this is unlikely, because Huang Yueming and the others didn't see anyone else passing by later. So it may be 'Wugui' After the man misses the hand, he retreats to the town and lurks..."
The walkie-talkie rang: "I have an amazing idea."
"You just want to hear our private words, what are you pretending to be?" Hao Jian said.
"...Ahem, we just opened it just now." Peng Mao explained.
"Tell me, what amazing idea?"
"You said, there shouldn't be any members of 'Wugui' in Ding Gu Nian's team, so even if they appeared in Huangtian Town, they were not attacked..."
It was Xin Ting who spoke, and after she finished speaking, everyone was silent for a while. Hao Jian smiled with relief: "You have mastered the tricks of survival."
"Ah?" Xin Ting was a little unhappy.
Lian Ru Ning took over the walkie-talkie: "What she means is, Xiao Ting, you are very smart, and your thoughts coincide with hers."
When Xin Ting heard this, she didn't know whether she should be happy or not. If it was before, she might have been a little excited, but she was a little embarrassed when she said this through Lian Runing.
But she can think of this, which shows that she has actually adapted to the high-intensity operation of her brain, and at the same time, she has become more and more clear about the existence of "no blame". Only by learning about their enemies and potential dangers can she increase her odds of surviving.
Peng Mao was a little scared: "Doesn't that mean that we were actually in close contact with Wugui just now?"
"Probably yes, and we may also be in the sight of 'Wugui'." Hao Jian said something that made them a little uneasy.
Forget it, after all, she used a pseudonym, and Lian Runing didn't reveal too much information, but Peng Mao, as Peng Sheng's younger brother, was afraid that his details would be known.
And if he continues to act with Hao Jian and the others, "Wugui" can use his identity to confirm the whereabouts of their group.
Peng Mao first worried about the safety of his companions, and then thought of his younger brother.
But he didn't say anything. After all, Peng Sheng and him were already strangers. Whether Peng Sheng was deceived into "Wugui" or out of Ding Gu Nian's control in the future, it was his own choice.
"Then are we going to Chengxiang City next?" Peng Mao asked again.
"Since there is already a direct road to Xiangshi, why do you want to detour?" Shi Gongzhui asked back.
"so… "
Hao Jian responded, "Go directly to Xiangshi!"
Lian Runing silently hugged Hao Jian's waist.
Fragrant city...
After the incense market is the southern city, that is to say, when they get there, it is the place where God will test their fate.