Survival [End Times]

When the wall was being built, Zhou Qingrong could occasionally see movement on the national highway outside the village entrance. The flow of vehicles and people became more frequent every day, as if they were moving. Some passers-by also came to the village entrance to inquire. As soon as they opened their mouths, they were frightened away by the villagers with red pimples on their faces. Uncle Zhou Qi was very proud of this, thinking that it would be better if this disease could scare away some bad people with malicious intentions.

Others were not so optimistic. They touched their faces cautiously and worriedly: "Uncle Qi, wasn't there medicine that could cure the disease last time? Why is it not available this time? What the hell is going on? Allergies can recur. An attack?"

"I think it's definitely not an allergic disease. It doesn't happen in other villages. It was said to be an infectious disease before, but it doesn't seem to be contagious to people. Isn't it okay when we go to town that day?"

Uncle Zhou Qishu and other village cadres knew that this was not an infectious disease. It was just that there were many people in the village and they were worried that they would accidentally leak it, so they hid it. At this time, it is even more unspeakable. After seeing the tough tactics of the garrison, Zhou Qishu could not imagine whether the other party would also shoot them when they found out that they were pretending that there was an infectious disease in the village to prevent outsiders from moving in and paying food. All chugged.

"It doesn't look like an infectious disease to me." Uncle Zhou Qi wiped his sweat and made another excuse, "But there's nothing we can do. The medical team came in to check us before, but nothing was found? It's not as good as Zhou's second daughter-in-law. The folk remedies are effective, so don’t worry. Zhou Laoer’s daughter-in-law is pregnant with her child and is about to give birth. Your Aunt Shufen is also busy. She told me that she will try her best to prepare the medicine. "

Finally, he reassured, "Actually, this is fine. Outsiders will know that this disease exists in our village and will not bother us. Let's work together to build the wall first."

The young man looked at the traffic on the national highway far from the village entrance, rubbed his goosebumps on his arms and nodded.

Eighteen days later, Zheng Han gave birth to her next daughter, whose nickname was Xiaofu and whose nickname was Zhou Yuenuan. On the same day, the third batch of grain requisition orders was issued, and the amount doubled compared with the previous one. It was said that the grain requisition team entered the village with guns and ransacked the villagers' cellars. Such acts of banditry made people angry. Villagers from each village once again organized people to protest in the town, but the town government still did not open its doors. After the garrison entered Xiangya Town, they settled in the town's high school. The students had been suspended from classes for a long time. I don’t know who suggested it, but these villagers forgot about the bloodshed last time and actually blocked the entrance of the high school. The protesting villagers were suppressed again, and I heard that guns were also used.

Xiangya Town fell into bloody terror.

No one dares to take chances anymore.

There was a faint sound of a crying baby in the Zhou family. Zhou Jianye heard it while wiping his face and said with a smile: "Xiaofu has such a loud voice and he doesn't want to suffer." Xianglan was making breakfast next to her and also smiled: " Yes, this child is only six pounds and eight taels, and it is rare for him to be so well-raised." The couple talked about their little grandniece with smiles on their faces. It was not until they heard another noise coming from outside that their faces dropped.

"Oh, Qinghu really has such a temper..."

"That was also learned in the Song family!" Zhou Jianye said angrily, "If a family like that is unreasonable and wants to survive, it has to be unreasonable." The daughter can now suppress her husband's family, but He also turned his good-natured face into a mean look, which made the parents feel bad and couldn't help it. "Tell her to stop scolding her. It will be embarrassing for the neighbors to hear."

"Hey, let's go."

Zhou Jianye's house next door was repeating the same conversation every morning. Yu Heng hung the towel on the hanger and turned to the kitchen when he heard the sound from next door gradually getting weaker.

In the bedroom, the little granddaughter was still crying at the top of her lungs, and her voice was extremely loud. Zheng Han quickly breastfed her, and then the child sobbed in aggrievedness and suckled vigorously.

"Mom, why does my sister love to cry so much? She cries every day. She is not cute at all."

"You used to cry a lot when you were little, but you stopped crying when your sister was your age."

Zhou Haojun nodded worriedly: "Okay, I'll wait for her to grow up before taking her to play."

Zhou Qingrong went out after breakfast. Now Laokang Village organizes young people to patrol the entrance of the village every day. The ones to guard against are not the feared garrison, but the homeless people nearby. How novel, the real locals have turned into homeless people wandering around stealing! It is true that most of them are idle men who usually do nothing to produce and are lazy to eat. Therefore, their homes are ruined quickly, and they start such activities. But even this is enough to scare the people in Laokang Village. After all, calling the police is almost useless now!

Two families living in Laokang Village had half a jar of rice and two bacon slices stolen from their yard, while the other family lost a big rooster. They were all very important things, and they were lost in the middle of the night without the owner's family noticing. The wall in Laokang Village is not high and relatively rough, about two meters high. It is not difficult to climb in with something on the outside.

At first, the two thefts did not attract much attention from the villagers. They felt distressed and quickly put them aside. It was not until four days ago that a lonely old man in the village was found dead in the kitchen, which caused an uproar. The old lady was only fifty-four years old and was usually in good health. However, she had a cold and cough in the past few days. The family was afraid of being infected, so they took the child away to sleep with her parents. Unexpectedly, there was a loud noise in the night. I rushed to the kitchen and saw that the old lady Tian had been strangled to death on the ground. The kitchen window was wide open, and the cold wind blew in wantonly, shaking the scattered pots and pans. ring.

After someone died, the village cadres were shocked. After an emergency meeting, they began to organize villagers to patrol. They were divided into six shifts a day, and they patrolled 24 hours a day. Uncle Zhou Qi also said honestly: "No one knows whose family will suffer next time. I'll say it in advance. If you don't want to work hard, don't blame others for not doing their best when patrolling your house."

When Zhou Qingrong went out, there were only the old and the young at home, and a young woman who was in confinement. He was naturally worried. Not only did he come to patrol, but he also asked another team to take a closer look when passing by his house.

When Zheng Han was out of confinement, Zheng Han realized that the outside world had become so chaotic. She thought of her brother from her mother's family who had lost contact for several months, and she secretly shed tears several times. Fortunately, the child occupied almost all of her energy, and she didn't have so much time to worry and cry.

Another New Year has come, and there is only less than a week left before the main task of "surviving for two years", but the outside world has become a mess. For example, although the national news was still broadcast on time every day, almost 70% of the local stations collapsed and had no signal. The news of the few stations that were still broadcast were just like the national news, and they were all superficial and ostentatious. After watching all the flowers and brilliance, the audience felt empty as if they were suspended in the air, with no support.

The Dasuhe Forum, which had been firmly controlling online speech for years and deleting posts as fast as a rocket, was completely closed last month, not to mention other large and small websites and forums. Although the posts were deleted quickly in the past, people could still get a glimpse of them. Without these channels to obtain information, the people fell into greater panic.

Mingming, who was far away in City C, completely lost contact with the Zhou family half a month ago. In the last phone call, Mingming said that the snow shelter where he was suddenly stopped supplying food, and the garrison decided to move all the victims to the snow shelter in the neighboring Jiangtian City. After that, Mingming lost contact.

Compared with the changes in the outside world in the wind and snow, Laokang Village was simply as beautiful as heaven. After the patrol team started working, Laokang Village was able to calm down.

The night before the main mission was about to be completed, a wolf pack entered the neighboring village at night. Not only did the evil wolves from nowhere attack crazily after coming down the mountain, but the wolf howls penetrated the darkness and crossed the low hills separating Laokang Village, instantly waking up Yu Heng who was sleeping. He got up, and the wolf howls in his ears continued, one after another blown by the night wind, telling him that it was not an illusion or a dream!

Yu Heng immediately woke up Zhou Qingrong, and then woke up Zhou Jianye next door. "There are wolf howling!"

It was quiet at night. The two villages were about five or six hundred meters apart, and the slightest movement spread quickly. It doesn't matter if you sleep too deeply and can't hear it. As long as you wake up and listen carefully, you can really hear the wolf howling, and you are immediately scared and pale!

They have all heard the legend of wolves. Fifty years ago, Changping County had a large-scale wolf killing operation! The wolves on the nearby hilltops were killed and driven away. It can be said that except for some hunters who inherited the old craftsmanship of their ancestors and may have seen wolves in the deep mountains when hunting, ordinary people have a shallow impression of wolves. But no matter how shallow it is, there is common sense. Wolves eat people! Especially in the current season of food shortage and cold winter, the wolf must be a vicious wolf!

The patrolling young man hurriedly beat the gong and the basin, and the whole village of Laokang Village woke up! Every family lit a bonfire, and torches were inserted on the wall. Everything was tense and urgent. Uncle Zhou Qi had called the police, but no one in the town police station answered the phone. He was so anxious that he broke into a sweat in the middle of winter, so he had to direct the villagers to move firewood to light the bonfire.

"The elderly and children should hide in the cellar! Hurry up!"

Zhou's family, Zheng Han also hid in the cellar with two children, Yu Heng and Zhou Qingrong stayed upstairs, Zhou Qingrong and other young men were on the other side of the wall, and Yu Heng helped to light the fire under the wall.

It took less than half an hour from the discovery of the wolf howling to the implementation of emergency measures. The people of Laokang Village nervously held their weapons, iron hammers, steel bars, etc., and stared at the dark outside the wall with wide eyes.

"Awoo--"

"Awoo--"

The wolf howling became clearer and closer! The young man on the wall felt his legs trembling, swallowed hard, wiped his palms on his pants, and then held his weapon again.

Hearing the sound, Yu Heng climbed up the wall with the help of a ladder. Zhou Qingrong immediately came to help him: "Mom, what are you doing up here? It's so dangerous."

"Look." Yu Heng squinted his eyes and looked to the east. There was a green light flickering on the low hill. It was the wolf's eye.

Hiss--

There was a gasp on the wall. Uncle Zhou Qi climbed the ladder and whispered hurriedly: "Light it! Light it!"

The fire had already been lit, but there was nothing else to do except lighting it. More firewood was thrown into the fire, and the long steel bars were stirred in the fire, and the fire soared, creating a warm temperature in the cold night. The heat and cold mixed together, making the hearts of the people in Laokang Village suffer between ice and fire.

Yu Heng stared at the green eyes on the hill, and they seemed to be looking in this direction. Suddenly, a loud wolf howl sounded, leading the wolves to raise their heads and howl together. In the horrified sight of everyone, those green dots moved! It was like a large group of green lights swimming in the hills, sometimes high and sometimes low, and it can be seen that the running speed is very fast.

"Ahhh! The wolves are coming!"

I don't know who started shouting, and I don't know who fell off the wall with a soft foot. Yu Heng grabbed Zhou Qingrong's shoulders to stop him from moving in a hurry, and signaled him to look at the direction of the wolves' activities.

Because it was dark at night, when the wolves first started to move, the villagers were frightened and felt that the green eyes were coming towards the village. The same was true for Zhou Qingrong. At this time, he was reminded by his mother, so he calmed down and continued to look over, and then he saw that the green light was actually going into the distance. He breathed a sigh of relief, but Yu Heng said: "They changed directions and did not go back to the mountain. That direction is the national highway."

The green light began to change direction in the distance, and then disappeared completely.

Uncle Zhou Qi was sitting cross-legged on the escalator. His heart was beating so fast that it almost jumped out of his mouth. He shouted with trembling hands: "Help me to the office, I have to remind other villages!" His children and grandchildren quickly carried him on their backs and ran to the office.

The wolves have gone away, no one knows where they are going. When Yu Heng returned to his home to cook supper, he heard a loud explosion. The sound came from a very far away place. The sound weakened the momentum of the explosion during the propagation process, but it was still dull and subversive. The aftermath of everything makes people feel heartbroken.