Extreme germ phobia

Chapter 182: Autumn Turns to Winter
The situation is not complicated.

Ou Yang and Zhu Yiming were targeted by all the Lao Mis, and they instinctively thought that the Lao Mis were in the same group, which meant that the Lao Mis would be united and act in unison against the outside world.

But in fact, it is not the case at all. The conflict between ordinary Lao Mi and Zhuang Bai's subordinates is astonishingly huge!

Although Ou Yang only fired a few long bursts of shots, and they were all random shots, the casualties he caused were not small, and the American people were in a state of panic and chaos.

By the way, this also gave ordinary Americans a rare opportunity. Many of them took advantage of the chaos to escape, preferring to go into the woods full of landmines rather than stay on the road.

Some of them went around the car wall directly, intending to avoid bullets, but they all saw Zhuang Bai hiding behind it.

Zhuang Bai wanted to establish his authority by using the Oriental man, so he urged his men to chase after him. However, when he turned around, he saw several Lao Mi who were about to escape.

Zhuang Bai was furious. He was used to being bossy and never took ordinary people seriously. He immediately ordered his men to arrest the man.

But Lao Mi is also a human being. He had just been suppressed and coerced by Zhuang Bai, and was already furious. Seeing him hiding alone behind the car wall, several Lao Mis became furious and started shooting without saying a word. They shot Zhuang Bai into a sieve with a barrage of bullets.

Zhuang Bai, who was shot, had dilated pupils and died with his eyes open.

Until his death, he never understood how the lowly old Mi dared to shoot him!
Several Lao Mi immediately hid in the bushes and escaped.

When his men discovered that Zhuang Bai had been shot dead, they were in chaos and had no time to chase the Oriental man. They quickly shifted their target and hunted down Lao Mi, the culprit.

Lao Mi fought back angrily, and suddenly gunshots rang out.

Zhuang Bai's men were well-armed, while Lao Mi had a large number of men. The two sides were evenly matched and suffered casualties on both sides.

Most people were busy fighting, a few were busy running away, but no one was busy chasing.

In fact, it is not surprising. These old Americans come from various places in the epidemic area. They just get together temporarily in order to leave the epidemic area. They have no friendship with each other at all.

Most people think that anyone can die as long as they are alive, and no one will avenge their dead companions.

If they had not been oppressed by the Zhuangbai and forced to fight back, they would never have united.

It was by accident that Ou Yang and Zhu Yiming had the opportunity to escape.

If all the Lao Mi were united, even if Ou Yang held up a big pineapple in one hand, he would not be able to escape unscathed.

However, after a while, the gunshots disappeared.

Ou Yang and Zhu Yiming continued to hide in the jungle, with no intention of leaving.

After a while, a small group of defeated soldiers came out from behind the corner.

The two of them took a closer look and found that they were all ordinary rice.

They were like a group of defeated roosters, walking back dejectedly.

"What's going on?" Zhu Yiming asked curiously.

"I don't know." Ou Yang was also confused and felt a little regretful. It would have been better if he had brought the drone with him.

After waiting for a while, there was still no movement on the road. Zhu Yiming couldn't help but ask: "It should be all right now, right? Should we go now or wait a little longer?"

Ou Yang thought for a moment and said, "Wait a moment!"

After saying that, he left his hiding place, came out of the woods, hid in a roadside drainage ditch and walked west.

He couldn't let go of his worries until he figured out what had happened.

It was not until we turned the corner that we were shocked to find that the road, the roadside, and the edge of the woods were all littered with corpses.

The causes of death varied, but all were caused by gunshot wounds.

The cause of the intense gunfire was found.

In addition, all the vehicles were riddled with bullet holes. You knew without even trying that they were undriveable.

Ou Yang probably guessed what had happened and was about to go back, but when he turned around, he saw Zhu Yiming following him.

"Let's go back." Ou Yang said.

Zhu Yiming leaned over to take a look, his eyes widening in shock: "Are they all dead?"

"Those who are not dead will die soon." Ou Yang sighed softly, and his mood suddenly became heavy.

Seeing that he looked worried, Zhu Yiming asked with concern, "What's wrong? Are you okay?"

"What can happen to me?" Ou Yang pulled the corners of his mouth, but he couldn't smile.

Zhu Yiming was confused: "Why are you acting so bitter and resentful when nothing is wrong?"

Ou Yang took a few steps before saying, "I just feel that human life is too fragile."

"Hey, I thought you had some good ideas." Zhu Yiming was finally relieved and never mentioned it again.

I can't even take care of my own family, why do I care so much?

Ou Yang was only a little emotional for a moment, but he quickly calmed down. However, the scene of corpses everywhere was deeply engraved in his mind.

I would rather be a peace dog than a person in troubled times.

He suddenly had a deeper understanding of this sentence.

The return journey was not far, but it was not easy to walk back on foot. In addition, the group of people in front of them kept stopping and starting along the way, so the two of them did not reach the fork in the road until it was getting dark.

Zhu Yiming was exhausted like a dead dog: "I'm so tired, I won't listen to you next time no matter what you say!"

Ou Yang also regretted his impulsiveness. Before it got completely dark, he asked Zhu Yiming to go back first and he hid in the woods near the intersection.

Although I didn't see Lao Mi from the front or the back, I had to hide for a while to prevent him from following me.

Even though Zhu Yiming complained, why would he leave at this time?

The two men hid in the bushes and waited patiently until it was completely dark. When they were sure that no one was following them, they set out again to return to the camp.

Jiang Yuwei had already prepared dinner. As soon as the two of them got in the car, she asked angrily, "Where have you two been? Why are you back at this time?"

"Don't mention it." Zhu Yiming sat down, "I've been screwed by Ouyang!"

He briefly recounted what had happened today, and only then did Jiang Yuwei know what had happened.

She clasped her hands together, her expression serious and her eyes dignified. "Ou Yang, I know you're still thinking about leaving, but you know the current situation well. Leaving is simply unrealistic."

Ou Yang rubbed his face and said, "I promise I won't take risks again."

Jiang Yuwei pursed her lips and said, "I don't mean anything else. I just feel that safety is more important than leaving. Even if I have to stay here for three to five years, it's okay. At worst, I can wait until the epidemic is over before leaving."

Ou Yang was silent for a moment: "I hope there will be a day when it will end."

After these words were spoken, the three of them fell silent. After a while, Zhu Yiming broke the silence: "Who knows when it will end? In my opinion, there is only one way to end the epidemic, that is, all the infected people die, and only the immune people remain."

Jiang Yuwei squinted at him and said, "You're not that pessimistic, are you? Can't we find a cure?"

"I think it's difficult!" Zhu Yiming sighed, "It's been several months and there's still no news." "It's not that easy to develop new drugs," said Jiang Yuwei.

"Then we just have to wait until all the infected people die out?" Zhu Yiming laughed. "We're on the same page."

"Okay, okay, let's eat first. I have to get my equipment back later." Ou Yang said, "How to end the epidemic is not our business. I can earn money from selling cabbage, so don't worry about selling cocaine."

"What?" Zhu Yiming blinked. "It's late at night. You'd better be quiet for a while. What if you encounter a brown bear?"

Ou Yang felt a little guilty when he heard this: "Yeah, I won't go then. Let's talk about it tomorrow."

"Brown bear?" Jiang Yuwei was startled. "Did you encounter a bear?"

"There's one in the minefield," Ou Yang said. "I didn't expect there were bears here. But it doesn't matter. The weather is getting colder, and it won't be long before the bears hibernate."

"You have to be careful," Jiang Yuwei advised cautiously. "You can't leave your gun at any time, even when you go to the bathroom... No, you can't go to the bathroom alone from now on. You need at least two people!"

After a moment's thought, he added, "Also, don't leave the camp unless you have something to do."

She wanted to add a few more words, but for a moment she couldn't think of anything else to pay attention to.

"No need to be so exaggerated." Ou Yang smiled bitterly. "Starting tomorrow, let's focus on setting up some traps and protecting the camp first."

They acted immediately and started making traps early the next morning.

But they had no experience at all, and they couldn't make the kind of hidden and complicated mechanisms seen in the movies. Only traps were the most practical.

Just dig a deep hole and camouflage it with branches and fallen leaves.

It can protect against both humans and animals, perfect!

The only drawback is that it is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it takes a long time to dig each hole.

"It would be great if we had an excavator!" said Zhu Yiming, whose hands were covered with blisters.

Ou Yang scratched his head and said, "Forget it, let's stop digging holes and improve it."

The so-called improvement is actually to change the big pit into a small pit, which is only big enough to accommodate one foot and is only knee-deep when stepped into.

But there was nothing extra in the pit, so even if you fell in, you would be trapped and unable to get out.

It’s different with a small pit. It can’t trap people, so you can only put a sharpened wooden stick in the pit to increase the lethality.

In order to prevent his own people from getting hurt accidentally, Ou Yang also made some marks on the tree that only he could understand, and then explained them carefully to Zhu and Jiang until everyone could accurately identify where the traps were.

Although he said he would not leave the camp, in fact, Ou Yang still maintained his original habit and took some time every day to observe the town.

No one knew Zhuang Bai's identity. After he died, Baifeng Town was in chaos for several days. Then, a leader appeared out of nowhere and barely brought the situation in the town under control.

Then came a large number of Americans, who headed west one after another.

In the camp, the sound of mine explosions could not be heard, but on the ridge, explosions could be heard in the distance.

Ou Yang didn't see any infected people in the town, so the subsequent mine clearance work was all done by ordinary Lao Mi.

How many people will die?

This was his first thought when he thought of this.

But he listened to the advice and never went near the mine-clearing team again.

Ou Yang also thought about using a drone to check the progress of mine clearance, but the drone simply did not have such a long remote control range, so he had to give up in the end.

The weather was getting colder, and the yellowish leaves gradually turned completely yellow. The fallen leaves kept falling, covering the forest floor.

The road was still not opened, and Lao Mi gradually lost confidence.

The town was originally overcrowded, but with no hope of leaving, some people returned to the epidemic area with regret.

Those who stayed could only hold on for a while longer. As the weather turned colder, most of the people gradually left the town, and in the end only twenty or thirty people remained in the town.

When the first snow fell, Baifeng Town finally became completely quiet.

Heavy snow covered the mountains and fields, and it was all white as far as the eye could see.

Next, the three of them hid in the mountains and spent some quiet time.

The weather was too cold, so they stayed in the car from morning to night, relying on firewood to keep warm.

There is a heating device in the RV, but it uses either diesel or gas. With the remaining reserves in the car, it can only last for two days at most.

The wood-burning stove was found in a broken-down RV. The rectangular body of the stove is made of alloy, with a piece of transparent glass on each side.

When he saw this thing for the first time, Zhu Yiming doubted whether it was a stove. It was not until the firewood burned in the furnace and the glass was fine that he realized his ignorance.

In order to place the stove in the car, the three people made some minor modifications to the RV, removing the ventilation fan on the roof, extending the chimney out, and finally filling the gaps with wet mud mixed with grass stems.

This thing is really useful. It can not only keep you warm, but also boil water and cook. It just consumes too much firewood. The supply for three people is not enough at all. We have to replenish it whenever we have time.

Because of the heavy snow, Ou Yang no longer went near the town, so as not to leave traces and expose himself. At most, he would fly the drone around outside the town to see if there were any suspicious footprints on the snow.

As a result, no human footprints were found, but there were quite a few footprints of various animals.

Upon hearing the news, Zhu Yiming jumped up and insisted on hunting some wild game to improve the food.

With drones, tracking becomes very easy.

Hunting wouldn't be too difficult originally, as the range and accuracy of the 191 were enough to deal with most prey. But the caliber of the 191 was special, and Ou Yang was unwilling to waste even a single 5.8mm bullet.

The M249 has sufficient range and power, but it has no selector lever and can only fire continuously.

There are so many 5.56mm bullets, and Ou Yang doesn't feel sorry at all.

On the first day of official hunting, we brought back two pheasants.

Two wild turkeys, to be more precise.

This was a headache. Everyone said that turkey was not tasty. The three of them weighed the pros and cons of whether to eat it or not, and finally decided to give it a try.

As a result, he was severely beaten.

Ou Yang never imagined that there was a kind of meat that was so unpalatable, and he vowed never to touch it again.

In the following period of time, rabbits and wild boars became his main targets, especially wild boars, which he would not let go as long as he found them.

Anyway, the weather is cold, so the extra meat can be frozen in the snow without worrying about it going bad.

To be honest, the taste of wild boar meat is really hard to describe. It is far worse than that of domestic pig. Jiang Yuwei tried her best but there was not much improvement.

But no matter how bad it is, it is still much better than turkey, so it is acceptable even if the cooking is a little worse.

(End of this chapter)