Darkness is Coming

  No need for snowflakes and hail to testify, the sharp drop in temperature sends a message to everyone in Yuanjiang: winter is coming.

   This is good news for the corpse hunters and scavengers who are out and about, because they have some goodies they can bring back from the outside for money: winter clothes, blankets and quilts.

Whether it is Jiangxin Island or Xinyuanjiang, it is difficult to realize the heating system of air conditioning and heating. Therefore, the price of winter clothes and padded jackets has risen sharply in a short period of time. No one wants to be frozen to death. Death really isn't a joke.

Hou Jie pulled up his collar to block the cold wind that kept digging into his neck. He squinted at the port that was getting closer and closer. After strengthening his vision far beyond ordinary people, he could see clearly the banner on the port from far away. Word: The Star of Hope welcomes you.

   "The Star of Hope?" Hou Jie asked the man beside him in confusion, "Isn't this Jiangxin Island?"

   "It's Jiangxin Island." The man smiled apologetically, "Later, Vice President Yu asked people to change the name of the settlement to Star of Hope, which means that in Jiangxin Island, no matter who you are, there is hope."

Within three months, most of the residents and facilities on Paradise Island were transferred to Jiangxin Island. The monument that was originally erected in front of Paradise Island Casino was also transported to the center of Jiangxin Island. Every day, people came to worship. .

   "Oh, that's it, thank you, Boss Zhang." Hou Jie touched the back of his head and smiled embarrassedly, "I don't know anything, thanks to you for explaining it to me."

Zhang Deng even said he didn't dare. Although when he first met this guy in front of him, his ignorant appearance was really suspicious, but Zhang Deng didn't dare to show it at all. If it wasn't for this little brother Hou, his team would all be planted in Outside, the boat might have been overturned in the gutter long ago.

  Who would have thought there would be mutants hiding in a frozen food warehouse? In order to prevent the pork and mutton from going bad, people will put the pork and mutton in the freezer, which is common sense. But when this is reversed, the mutant freezes the human flesh in order to prevent the human flesh from rotting, who can imagine this? Zhang Deng couldn't think of it anyway.

   When Zhang Deng led the team into the warehouse and found that a mutant was taking out frozen human flesh for heating, his inner despair and panic were indescribable.

Unlike those corpse hunters with powerful firepower who dare to fight and fight, he is just a small boat owner who brings a few brothers to pick up garbage and eat. It's okay to deal with ordinary zombies, but it's a dead end when it comes to mutants.

Just when Zhang Deng regretted that he shouldn't be greedy and thought that he would definitely die this time, Hou Jie, wearing an iron fist, appeared, and saw that he was as fast as lightning, like a bull, and took the mutant's head with three fists and two feet. When it exploded, Zhang Deng and the others could see that the corners of their eyes were jumping, darling, that was a mutant. Zhang Deng had never seen anyone beaten to death with his bare hands.

  Strictly speaking, Hou Jie still wears iron gloves, so he can't be considered bare-handed, but the scene of using his fists to smash the mutant into rotten flesh is really explosive and shocking, making the audience automatically ignore some details.

  Zhang Deng guessed that this mysterious and strange Hou Jie must be an Awakener, and only those powerful Awakeners with fighting ability would dare to single out mutants.

Since the other party is an Awakened, Zhang Deng is of course the only one who follows him, trying his best to please him, only hoping to hold this thigh. They all say that it is good to enjoy the shade under the big tree. If an Awakened who can easily kill mutants can Take care of him a little, he will no longer have to live with his brothers in this miserable life after Zhang Deng.

   "Whatever you want, if it weren't for you, our lives would not have been saved." Zhang Deng smiled exaggeratedly, "And you specially escorted us all the way back. It's really big, don't forget it."

"Great kindness, great virtue, I will never forget it." Hou Jie corrected Zhang Deng's words and gave him a kind smile, "Boss Zhang is serious, let's drop by, thank you for bringing me here. By the way, this is Guang is in a hurry along the way, and while there is still some distance to go ashore, Boss Zhang, tell me what happened recently, what kind of power does Yuanjiang have?"

   "You really forgot?" Zhang Deng glanced at Hou Jie. According to what he said, he had lost his memory and couldn't remember what happened before, but Zhang Deng didn't believe this bad excuse.

   Of course, it doesn't matter whether it is credible or not. Since Hou Jie asked, Zhang Deng will answer properly.

"Then let me tell you briefly, after the disaster broke out, President Yang of the Far Rescue Society came to Paradise Island. After the First World War at St. Nair Church, the evolutionary cult was wiped out, but the remnants of the cult actually colluded with mutants to build a cult in the southern suburbs. What **** kingdom of God, keeping humans in captivity like pigs and slaves."

"To be honest, I'm afraid when I think about it. If they are allowed to do this, I'm afraid that many people would rather run to be traitors and be raised in captivity. I heard that some people tricked the other survivors into the southern suburbs to save their lives and sent them to the southern suburbs. In the mutant's mouth, bah!" Speaking of which, Zhang Deng spat out thick phlegm, very disdainful.

"Fortunately, President Yang and Vice President Yu are not the kind of people who only care about their own safety. They immediately joined up with Commander Liu, who pointed to the corpse, and set up an ambush in the International Trade Building, attracting those mutants to catch them all. Now The Yangtze River Haichao of the 258th Division, oh, he was the battalion commander of the armored battalion of the 258th Brigade at the time, and he pushed the troops over and directly leveled that shit."

"In the International Trade Building, President Yang and the others used themselves as bait. After a **** battle, they finally wiped out all the mutants that came! My dear, every time I think of this, my old man can't help but get excited. Later, the former 258 Brigade The brigade commander sacrificed... I don't know the specifics, I just picked up the trash, hehe, I don't know much about these things, it's all hearsay."

"By the way, after going ashore, you can go to the Wuji Teahouse to listen to Boss Wu's storytelling. Before I went out this time, I happened to talk about the international trade war... Later, Jiang Haichao succeeded as the brigade commander of the 258 brigade, but this person is narrow-minded. , I didn't dare to say this at first, but we are now on the basis of the Far Rescue Association, so don't be afraid of his Jiang Haichao."

"Oh, I'm off topic, Jiang Haichao is narrow-minded and a bad person, so Brigadier Zhao doesn't buy it very well. Some people say that Jiang Haichao deliberately exposed the position of the headquarters to kill Brigadier Zhao... These things It's hard to say, anyway, there was a lot of chaos over there, and it almost started a fight, and then some troops who didn't deal with Jiang Haichao ran away with guns and guns."

"At that time, I heard from the people of the Yuan Rescue Association that Commander Liu might come to us. Commander Liu is a good person, a good person like President Yang. Hey, you will definitely understand these things gradually after you go ashore. I won't say more. Afterwards, Jiang Haichao built the Great Wall on the Far River and used the survivors in the entire refuge camp as coolies. Every move was a military punishment. One time, it caused a disturbance, and the refugees attacked his headquarters, and he directly ordered the use of machine guns. Hit, but don't mention how ruthless your heart is."

   It seems that this "direct" is Boss Zhang's customary word, Zhang Deng thought, he has heard him say "direct" many times in the past few days, probably because his vocabulary is poor, he has to use such a word instead.

   "It's farther away. In short, Commander Liu still stayed in Xinyuanjiang. Xinyuanjiang is also the miniature city inside the wall now, and only there and Jiangxin Island are absolutely safe areas in the entire Yuanjiang."

   "That's all I know. As for the big forces you're talking about, I don't know." Zhang Deng smiled naively, "You can go to the bar and ask, there are many well-informed people there."

Hou Jie was stunned when he heard it. When Zhang Deng stopped talking, he realized that the boat had already floated to the port, and the crew members all showed smiles when they returned home. Thinking about the reward of returning home with a load, the smile was even brighter. Frozen food and quilts, you should not have to worry about this winter.

   The morning sun shines on the beach and the shells twinkle like stars.