Abnormal survival in the end times

Chapter 173 West, Bai Hua

June 20th, one year and two months after the end of the world.

At six in the morning, two off-road vehicles were driving one after the other on the bumpy highway. The passenger window of the car in front was open, with an arm on it, and he would reach out from time to time to level the big potholes in front, but ignore the small ones.

"If you don't know, you would think there was a war here."

Zhang Shaoda looked at the highway in front of him, which could no longer be called a highway, and said sarcastically, "Let that grandson be the deputy base commander. Will he be able to take care of these things?"

"So this kind of thing is harmful to people if it lives in the world."

Kang Erbao, who was standing behind him, had a sinister look on his face. “Once I catch him, I’ll drain all his blood first. I can’t let him die too easily.”

His brother sacrificed himself for him. The gunman outside wanted to shoot him, but his brother threw him down and took the bullet for him.

So he wants to avenge this grudge personally.

Xi Yu, who was driving, spoke calmly, "Everything should be done by the captain and sister-in-law. Don't do anything stupid. It doesn't matter if you just talk nonsense, but if you dare to act on your own, I won't forgive you!"

Kang Erbao's face changed and he dared not say a word.

Lao Sheng, who was standing next to him, couldn't help but burst out laughing when he saw how cowardly he was.

Before he joined the army, this boy was a scoundrel. He was famous for fighting without regard for his life. After joining the army, he made mistakes in fighting many times and was almost ordered to retire. But Captain Jiang saw that he had achievements in shooting and a good physical foundation, so he took him over and handed him over to Xi Yu for training.

In their team, apart from Captain Jiang, the only one afraid of this guy is Xi Yu.

"Laugh your ass off!"

Kang Erbao glared at Lao Sheng and turned to look out the window.

This time Jiang Minglang only brought Xi Yu, Zhang Shaoda, Kang Erbao, Lao Sheng and Ren Bin, followed by their family of three in the car behind, as well as their bird and dog at home.

The reason for this combination was also well thought out.

Although Qiqi is young, he is the only second-element ability user in their place. Although his control of the gold element is not very stable at this stage, it is much better than at the beginning.

Furthermore, in terms of turning water into ice, he had already mastered it very smoothly because of Du Qiyan's intensive training. Coincidentally, there was no water system among their staff, so bringing him along made up for this shortcoming.

Not to mention that when they come from Pengcheng, they occasionally encounter some people from small bases investigating, and the combination of their family of three can also play a good role in confusing people.

Because of a heavy snow, the three major bases were not only overpopulated, but also many people starved to death and froze to death due to lack of food and cold. Of course, the deaths were not only from starvation and freezing, but also from "accidental" deaths due to unrest.

In short, after the heavy snow, the reputation of the three major bases not only declined, but also the number of personnel was greatly reduced. After a week of emergency meetings, the top leaders finally decided to split the large base into smaller ones. In short, some of the personnel in the large bases were transferred out to build small bases on the edge of the original cities or in more suitable places.

At the beginning of May, I heard that with the help of the leadership of the three major bases, three small bases were established in the suburbs of three cities closer to Kyoto.

The two major bases in the east and the west were unwilling to lag behind, and each allocated a part of its personnel to establish two small bases.

This can not only reduce your own pressure, but also improve your status.

In addition, ordinary people who had not reached the three major bases before were no longer obsessed with joining the large bases, but instead formed their own small bases.

I heard that Kyoto is sending people to inspect various places. Those who are qualified will be retained, and those who are unqualified will either be cancelled and transferred to other bases. If there are too many people, they will have to be renovated.

Pengcheng has not been found yet, at least not before they left.

This was the general situation of each base that they heard when they were still in Pengcheng. They didn't know how the eastern part was planned and managed, but for the western side... They traveled day and night, starting from Pengcheng, and it took them a week to reach the west. Now they are getting closer and closer to Hongshi Bay.

But everything they saw and heard along the way made them angry.

The temperature is now around five degrees. Because of the heavy snow, not only people are trapped, but also zombies and animals.

Yes, zombies!

As they headed west, they found that almost every city and outskirts, and even some villages, were roaming with zombies to varying degrees.

What made them depressed was that these zombies included not only the old zombies that were infected by the zombie virus at the beginning of last year, but also many new zombies wearing thick cotton clothes. If you look closely, you can see the bite wounds on their necks and the dried blood on their collars.

There were also quite a few children in their teens, each of whom made ferocious "ho" sounds from their mouths.

Whenever I encounter them, I don't hide. I kill them all on the spot and burn them completely, leaving only a little ash on the hard ground.

This phenomenon became more and more common as they went west. At a service station in the middle of the highway leading to Red Stone Bay, they were chased by hundreds of zombies as they passed by.

The highway is less than a thousand meters ahead, and Red Stone Bay is about three miles west. The group of zombies just now is less than twenty miles away from here.

At such a close distance, the Western Base couldn’t completely clear out these zombies?

Is it impossible?
Still don’t want to?

"Coming?"

Bai Li woke up from her deep sleep. She pushed up the reclining chair, rubbed her face, and turned to look out the window at the sky which was already turning pale.

Because the highest temperature during the day was only around 5 degrees, and it was still below zero at night, it was relatively safe for them to travel at night, and they did not encounter large and aggressive animals.

But during the day, especially at noon when the sun is warmest, there are quite a lot of animals coming out to look for food.

Fortunately, except for those that are too hungry to bear and lose their minds, most animals have the instinct to avoid danger. They should be able to sense that the humans in these two cars are more dangerous than themselves, so every time they see them, they either turn around and run, or stand still and watch with full vigilance, neither attacking nor leaving.

Bai Li observed carefully and found that there are three types of animals nowadays: one is from the zoo. Although there are many large carnivores among them, they are not very aggressive because they have been raised by humans since childhood. It can be seen that most of their prey are small animals, not humans.

The second type is pet cats and dogs abandoned by humans.

Whether it was the lack of food at the beginning after the apocalypse, or the subsequent mutation that frightened the owner, or the possible madness during the heavy rain, all of them would lead to the same result: being abandoned!
But even so, most of these pets will not choose to attack people.

The third type is the main force that attacks humans, which are basically wild animals, such as wild boars, wolves, and monkeys in certain mountainous areas, and even those that are intentionally protected.

If it weren't for this trip, Bai Li would never have thought how these few wild animals living in the deep mountains could come out to attack human gatherings?
A few days ago, when they were traveling at night, they encountered a snow leopard. The leopard was so white that it glowed in the dark night.

She was shocked at the time. If Jiang Minglang hadn't told her, she wouldn't have known that it was a leopard.

I don't know whether it has mutated or not, but its body size has not changed, but its fur has become frighteningly white, like a searchlight, standing there and illuminating everything around it.

Fortunately, he did not actively attack them, but just stood there motionless, waiting for them to walk away and did not move until they were about to disappear from his sight.

Later, we rescued two 15- or 16-year-old boys in the village ahead. They said that the snow leopard was very powerful. It would come out every five or six days to bite adult men and drag them away after they were killed. Since the end of the world, there have been at least 80 adult men killed by it in this area.

That sounds scary!
Qiqi is a very bold man. He thinks the leopard's fur must have mutated. If he raises one, he probably won't need to turn on the lamp at night.

The naughty kid said with regret that he had never raised a snow leopard.

Jiang Minglang agreed with his son's statement, because although the name "snow leopard" means "snow", its fur is actually grayish white, and it is not a solid color, but has spotted patterns.

If there is no mutation, how can it be pure white?

"Get off the highway now. If things go well, we'll be at Hongshi Bay in about 20 minutes."

Hongshi Bay is not big. Not long after they got off the highway, when it was bright, they vaguely saw a tall sentry post appear in front of them.

To avoid being discovered, the two cars slowly stopped one after the other in front of an abandoned three-story building on the roadside.

At the same time in Pengcheng, Bai Yang brought Bai Wei, Liu Er and others to the North Expressway Intersection to hand over the shift.

After taking over from Li Nan's team, they said hello to each other and went to work. Li Nan's team went back to catch up on some sleep after working a night shift.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, a group of people came outside the gate.

At first, Bai Wei didn't care. With the propaganda of the grandsons in Ancheng, Pengcheng became the safest place besides the Kyoto base. So in the days when the temperature rose, there would always be some survivors coming to seek refuge.

But Li Nan didn't want any of them.

Because the current situation is different from before, he is afraid that someone with ulterior motives will sneak in, so even if he needs manpower to set up a factory, he will not consider any outsiders.

So these days, except for Jiang Minglang leading the team out, the gate at the highway intersection has never been opened once.

Bai Wei thought this time was the same as before, until Liu Er, who was watching outside with a telescope, suddenly called out, "Bai Hua?"

Bai Wei, who was drinking water from a thermos, paused and turned his head to ask uncertainly, "What did you just say?"

Liu Er took down the binoculars, blinked, then handed it to him and said, "Why do I think the woman standing next to the car outside is Bai Hua, or does she just look like her? Take a look, she is your sister after all, you shouldn't be able to make a mistake."

Bai Wei was silent for a moment. He lowered his eyes to look at the telescope handed to him. After a while, he took it and raised it to his eyes. Perhaps he didn't even notice that his hands were shaking.

It’s been more than a year since the end of the world, and Xiaohua is still alive?

To be honest, he couldn't quite believe it.

But when the familiar face appeared in the telescope, his eyes widened.

"How is it? Is it her?"

When Liu Er saw him like this, he knew he had not recognized the wrong person.

Bai Wei took down the telescope and wiped the lens, then raised it again to look outside. Then he threw the telescope to Liu Er, took his knife and turned and ran.

"Hey, Brother Wei, slow down, don't open the door in a hurry, ask clearly first."

Liu Er was afraid that he would make a mistake, so he hurriedly ran down the sentry post and called his companions who were guarding below, "Liangzi, go up and take my place for a while. I'll go call Brother Shi and Bai Yang."

After saying that, he ran away like a gust of wind to find Shi Jiashu and Bai Yang who were on patrol.

Bai Wei ran to the gate panting only to remember that he didn't have the key.

The installed stone door and the small door in the middle not only have hidden locks, but also are equipped with the iron chain locks that were used previously.

Of course not everyone can have the key. Only the captain of each patrol team has it, and the previous captain hands it over to the next one when changing shifts.

The captain of their Yunxi Village this time is Shi Jiashu, so the key is in Shi Jiashu's hands.

Bai Wei was so anxious that he was running around. He tried to look through the tiny gap in the stone door to take another look at the white painting, but the gap was too small and he couldn't see clearly no matter how hard he tried.

There was no other choice, so Bai Wei had to shout outside, "Bai Hua?"

There were about fifty people outside today, and a dozen of them approached the gate and kept knocking on it from time to time to get them to open the door.

Originally, there was no sound inside, but suddenly a voice was heard, which scared the people leaning against the door and also made them quiet for a short time.

"Someone came over and seemed to be talking to us."

"Ah? What are you talking about? Listen quickly."

"Be quiet, don't talk."

Bai Wei waited until it was quiet outside, then shouted again, "Bai Hua? Bai Hua, is that you?"

The people outside realized that the person coming in had seen someone he knew. They looked at each other, and the one near the door subconsciously said, "He's calling Bai Hua, who is Bai Hua?"

Bai Hua, who had just gotten off the car and was standing behind the crowd, was silent for a moment, then immediately turned his head happily to look at the man next to him and said excitedly, "It's my brother, my brother is here, that's great!"

After that, she walked quickly through the crowd, walked to the gate and shouted anxiously, "Brother, brother, it's me, I'm Bai Hua"

Hearing the familiar voice, Bai Wei inside let out a long, heavy sigh of relief, then his eyes turned red and tears slid down his cheeks without warning.

He quickly lowered his head to wipe it off, took two deep breaths, and calmed down his excitement. Then he pretended to be calm and asked, "Where have you been? How have you been this year?"

"I'm fine. How about you guys? And mom and dad, are they all fine too? How about Duoduo and Xixi? They're both fine too. I miss them so much."

"." Bai Wei didn't know what to say.

"Brother, can you open the door for me? I miss home. I want to go home."

Bai Wei reacted and said, "Wait a moment, I'll go find the captain. He has the key."

After saying that, Bai Wei turned around and went to find Shi Jiashu, and by the way told Bai Yang that Bai Hua was back.

Outside the gate, the man who was with Bai Hua before also came over, holding a long sword in his hand. If Bai Wei was there, he would be able to recognize it at a glance, because it was an ancient sword that was almost exactly the same as the one in his hand.

Happy holidays goddesses!