Extreme germ phobia

Chapter 189 Wolf and Man

A few days later, light snow fell all day long.

After the snow, the cold wave ended and the weather warmed up. The trio finally ended their cramped living conditions and couldn't wait to leave the camp.

Under the sunshine, the white snowfield stretches as far as the eye can see.

Ou Yang took out the drone and planned to conduct a patrol reconnaissance, but found that he had forgotten to charge it yesterday and only a quarter of the battery was left.

"Oh, forget it." Ou Yang carried 191 on his back, "Let's go hunting!"

He flew the drone and increased its altitude to look for signs of movement - the frozen land, and animals of all sizes going out to find food would leave footprints on the snow, making it the best time for hunting.

Zhu Yiming narrowed his eyes and looked up at the drone in the sky: "I bet I can kill a wild boar today!"

Ou Yang was about to speak when he suddenly saw a trail of animal footprints appear on the screen.

The drone was right above his head. He suddenly stood up and immediately saw the footprints on the snow in the distance.

"Hey, I'm lucky today, let's go, go, go!" Ou Yang walked forward while thinking about what he would gain today.

Only when I got closer did I realize that the footprints on the snow were a sole and four toes, which looked particularly familiar.

Jiang Yuwei blinked: "Is this a dog's footprint?"

Zhu Yiming's eyes lit up: "If the dog meat rolls three times, even the gods won't be able to stand still. Let's go, hurry up!"

Ou Yang recognized the direction of the footprints and was startled: "Are they heading towards the town?"

The three of them thought of the corpses in the town at the same time, and their faces looked unhappy.

Following the footprints all the way, before reaching the town, I saw a gray animal on the snow in front of me. It had its head buried in the snow, biting something. After a moment, it raised its head and looked around vigilantly.

Ou Yang immediately made a stop gesture and knelt on one knee with his rifle in hand.

In the sight, an animal that looked extremely similar to Alaska came into view, with sharp eyes and a sinister face.

Ou Yang instantly recognized the identity of this thing: the North American gray wolf!
He immediately took aim and shot the wolf in the head. A cloud of blood splattered, dyeing the white snow red.

When I got closer, I found a corpse buried in the snow, and the chest and abdomen were bitten beyond recognition by the gray wolf.

The three men immediately recognized that it was Christina's body.

Ou Yang handed the gun to Jiang Yuwei, and he and Zhu Yiming worked together to skin the wolf as quickly as possible.

This wolf had eaten humans before, and the three of them had enough food, so no matter how hungry they were, they would never eat wolf meat.

But the wolf skin was a valuable asset, and keeping it might be useful. However, it had to be peeled off while it was still warm; once the wolf carcass was frozen, it would be difficult to peel.

It wasn't the first time for the two men to do this job, but they weren't very skilled either. The peeled wolf skin was stained with a lot of blood, flesh and fat. Any professional would have to shake their head when seeing it.

Nothing else, too amateurish.

When he was halfway through peeling the skin, Ou Yang's eyes accidentally swept across the broken corpse under the snow. His eyes suddenly froze and his hands stopped moving.

Zhu Yiming urged dissatisfiedly: "Hey, what are you looking at?"

Ou Yang ignored him completely, threw away the wolf skin, grabbed a handful of snow to rub the wolf blood off his hands, and went into the snow pit to observe carefully.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Yuwei asked.

Ou Yang pointed at the huge wound left by the gray wolf and said, "Look here, that should be the lung, right?"

Jiang Yuwei nodded immediately: "Yes, it's the lungs."

Zhu Yiming came closer curiously, but only saw a mess of bite marks. He looked at the two of them suspiciously: Which part is the lung?
Ou Yang's face was solemn. "Strange, her lungs are normal, there's no fungal infection at all!"

During the time he was trapped in the underground bunker, he saw lung specimens from dozens of people, all of whom were lungs infected with fungi, with varying degrees of infection.

Although Ou Yang had never seen what a normal person's lungs looked like, Christina's body had been frozen at low temperatures and had been preserved intact, with no signs of infection in the lung texture.

Jiang Yuwei looked at Ou Yang: "What do you think?"

Ou Yang frowned. "Either the fungus has mutated, and the infected lungs are unlike anything I've ever seen; or she's immune to the phantom lung fungus!"

Zhu Yiming finally understood: "Immune? Then where does the mycelium she spits out come from?"

Ou Yang's eyes were complicated. "Could it be possible that she had a ball of mycelium in her mouth and was deliberately trying to infect the other old rice?"

"Impossible?" Zhu Yiming's hair stood on end. "This woman is too cruel, isn't she?"

A cold wind blew, stirring up a cloud of flying snowflakes.

Jiang Yuwei retorted, "She was almost eaten by Lao Mi. How could she have survived if she wasn't ruthless? This was all forced out of her!"

She hates the kind of scumbag who puts the blame on women without asking any questions.

Zhu Yiming quickly distanced himself from the situation: "That's not what I meant. I meant that she was too hard on herself. Even if she was immune to the fungus, holding it in her mouth would be too much, right?"

Ou Yang also thought this was too strange: "Those who are immune are all immune to spores. If the hyphae are directly inhaled into the lungs, will they be infected?"

Jiang Yuwei immediately shook her head: "I don't know, I need to do an experiment to find out the result."

Without her saying a word, Ou Yang and Zhu Yiming could guess what she wanted to say.

Ou Yang was about to speak when he suddenly saw a few gray wolves appear in the distance.

He immediately stood up, took the submachine gun off Jiang Yuwei's shoulder, and switched the safety to continuous fire: "Be careful, there are wolves!"

There are not many 5.8mm bullets left, so it is more appropriate to use a submachine gun at this time.

The wolves were extremely fast, and Zhu Yiming opened fire first, knocking down a wolf with a short burst of shots.

However, the other gray wolves did not flee, but continued to pounce on the three people.

Jiang Yuwei hugged 191 nervously, hesitating whether to shoot or not.

Ou Yang quickly removed the silencer from the gun, aimed at another gray wolf and fired. The continuous gunshots shook the wilderness.

The remaining gray wolves were frightened by the gunshots, but they showed no signs of running away and continued to rush towards the three people at an astonishing speed.

Why aren't wolves afraid of gunshots?
Questions flashed through Ou Yang's mind, but he didn't have time to think about it. He quickly turned the gun and fired a few short bursts, killing three gray wolves.

At the same time, Zhu Yiming also killed two gray wolves.

The two worked together to eliminate all the gray wolves in their sight.

It was not until the last wolf fell that Ou Yang realized he was sweating profusely.

I've only seen this thing in movies and TV before, and this is the first time I've encountered it in real life.

Ou Yang stood guard, gun in hand. Zhu Yiming quickly replaced the magazine, and then Ou Yang reloaded. After loading the two full magazines into the gun, the three men breathed a sigh of relief. Ou Yang looked around, wondering if there were more wolves hiding in the shadows. "Let's go! Go back now!"

The three of them immediately walked back, and only when they got back to the car did they feel relieved.

"Where did these wolves come from?" Zhu Yiming looked bitter and resentful.

They have been living here for several months. If there were wolves nearby, they would not have waited until now to discover them.

Ou Yang frowned, but couldn't figure out the reason.

Jiang Yuwei said, "There's something wrong with these wolves. I've heard that wolves run away when they hear gunshots, and they won't charge forward in the face of bullets."

"Really?" Zhu Yiming was very skeptical.

Jiang Yuwei: "If you don't believe it, forget it."

Ou Yang said nothing, but suddenly got out of the car and started the generator to charge the battery pack.

In the ice and snow, the battery pack is affected by the temperature and its power is greatly reduced. Charging with solar energy is fine, as it is a loss-making business anyway. However, using a generator is a money-losing business.

After returning to the car and taking a look at the charging power displayed by the coulomb meter, Ou Yang immediately charged the drone.

The military equipment charged very quickly, but he still felt it was too slow and wanted the battery to be fully charged immediately. "The wolves are too dangerous. Let's not go out for the time being."

"Can't go out yet?" Zhu Yiming wailed.

He is a person who cannot sit still. If the RV has enough power, he can play games to kill time, but the power is always in short supply. The radio and drones must be supplied first, and even the lighting has to be put on the back burner. How can he have extra video games?

"What are you yelling about?" Ou Yang glared at him unhappily. "Let's see what happens next!"

After more than an hour, the drone was fully charged and the battery pack was charged to more than 70%.

Ou Yang immediately released the drone.

The wolf corpses were still lying on the snow, without any change, and no other living creatures appeared around.

The drone circled the camp and found nothing more.

When we flew over Baifeng Town again, we made a discovery: there were at least a dozen gray wolves roaming around in the town. Many corpses that were originally buried under the snow were dug out by the wolves, and all of them were gnawed beyond recognition.

Zhu Yiming couldn't help but mutter, "It's frozen solid, it's a wonder they can bite it."

Jiang Yuwei whispered, "I heard from the older generation that in the old days, people who were eaten by wolves had their bones broken."

"Wow! So powerful?" Zhu Yiming was really shocked. He couldn't imagine how strong the wolf's bite force must be to be able to chew bones into pieces.

He looked at Ou Yang again: "Should we find a way to kill all the wolves in this town?"

Ou Yang thought for a moment and said, "Let's observe it a little longer."

It would be fine if there were only the dozen or so wolves in the town, but I’m afraid there are more wolves hiding in the dark.

After dinner, the three of them went to bed early. The faint howling of wolves could be heard in the darkness.

Zhu Yiming asked worriedly, "Will these things come to our side?"

"Just beat him to death if he comes!" Ou Yang turned over and said, "Go to sleep and stop thinking too much."

The next day, Ou Yang flew the drone again and found that the number of gray wolves in the town had doubled!
He couldn't help but wonder if a large group of wolves had migrated from other areas to the vicinity!
To this end, Ouyang expanded the drone's cruising range.

There was nothing found in other directions, but when the drone flew eastward over the ridge, it unexpectedly discovered that a group of Americans were walking through the snow on the other side of the mountain.

This is so unexpected. The last batch of Lao Mi left just a few days ago, and now another group is coming?
Out of curiosity, Ou Yang controlled the drone to continue heading east and soon saw the east exit of the tunnel. He discovered that there were several American guards outside the tunnel, including police officers and American soldiers.

This is strange. When did the police and the military join forces?

Not only that, not far from the tunnel entrance, there was a group of old Americans cutting down trees, at least more than 30 people.

Ou Yang remembered that there used to be a large dense forest there, but now it has become a pile of tree stumps buried under the snow.

In the camp further away, there are many tents and RVs, and some old Americans are hanging around in the camp.

Ou Yang was a little dumbfounded. He never thought that there would be people in the camp on the other side of the mountain... No, it might be that they had recently moved here from the epidemic area!
He really wanted to know what the relationship was between this group of old rice and those animals that fed on humans.

Just as Ou Yang was about to recall the drone, a truck drove out of the tunnel, the truck bed filled with gravel of all sizes.

There is a lot of gravel like this near the camp.

Keep observing, empty cars come in and full cars go out.

An alarm immediately sounded in Ou Yang's mind: Could these Americans be clearing the landslide and preparing to dig a tunnel?

He was really worried, so he continued to expand the cruising range. After a while, he found a group of American pirates not far away.

They were filling the craters on the railway with gravel, and a convoy of several trucks and off-road vehicles was waiting on the tracks.

Ou Yang once saw an interesting anecdote online. It said that the US military had a type of jeep whose wheelbase matched the railway gauge. After World War II, residents of a certain part of Southeast Asia drove this jeep on the railway...

Hmm, I seem to have read somewhere that the earliest railways were run by horse-drawn carriages, not steam trains!
Worried about being discovered by Lao Mi, Ou Yang took back the drone, but released it every once in a while to observe Lao Mi's progress.

Later that day, Lao Mi leveled the roadbed under the tracks, but had no intention of repaving the tracks. The convoy continued along the railway and soon arrived outside Baifeng Town, where it was blocked by a derailed train.

An off-road vehicle drove off the railway, intending to bypass the obstacle, but as soon as it left the tracks it got stuck in the snow and was unable to move forward or backward. In the end, it had to rely on a winch to get back onto the railway.

The off-road vehicle that escaped seemed to provide inspiration for Lao Mi. A modified truck stood out from the crowd. It had two winches in the front and back, one end fixed to a nearby big tree and the other end fixed to the train car blocking the road.

The truck started and the winch retracted the steel cable. The truck, which was originally parked on the railway, was pulled out of its original position by the steel cable, slid sideways on the snow, and finally stopped between the big tree and the carriage.

The steel cable at the front of the car was deeply bitten into the tree trunk, but the carriage at the other end did not move at all. However, the truck in the middle, which weighed at least five or six tons, gradually became empty.

One car was completely useless, so Lao Mi quickly stopped to avoid damaging the truck.

Then, more vehicles with winches drove out and joined in pulling the car hall.

It can be seen that Lao Mi was well prepared.

Finally, with the joint efforts of more than ten vehicles, the heavy carriage was finally dragged off the track.

Next, the vehicles untied the cables, re-secured them, and continued pulling the other car.

I kept moving around like this and was busy until late at night.

There were a few wolves in the middle who were ignorant of the danger and tried to attack the caravan, but they were shot to death.

The next morning, the convoy continued to drag the carriages until the afternoon when all the carriages along the way were towed away. The convoy finally arrived at Baifeng Town.

Lao Mi had enough manpower. He first eliminated the wolf pack in the town, then cleaned up all the corpses on the streets, and then a team of hundreds of people officially moved into Baifeng Town.

Ou Yang, who was watching the whole process, suddenly had a question: Did these old Americans discover the secret of cannibalism?
(End of this chapter)