Survival [End Times]

During the cold wave, almost all the elderly people in Laokang Village, such as Uncle Zhou Qi, died. For example, the original Pei Shufen and Zhou Jianye, who were in their sixties, could not be counted on five fingers. Without Uncle Zhou Qi and other older people in charge, it was more troublesome to organize disaster relief, so Yu Heng asked Zhou Qingrong to help and work with the few remaining village cadres.

After Yu Heng treated the villagers, the status of the Zhou family in the village became higher and higher, and more people obeyed Zhou Qingrong's words and deeds. Yu Heng set up a table at home to treat patients, and Zhou Qingrong called his cousins ​​to check the village together. Because there was a wolf disaster before the cold wave, they had to check the wall and put torches on the wall again. The second thing was how to deal with the many corpses in the village?

The road is really difficult to walk now, and it is already a big risk to go to the next village to pick up people. I don’t know what the situation is at the crematorium. Yu Heng guessed that there must be no one working there. It would be better to cremate the body in the back mountain. There is firewood available anyway. If there is not enough, go up the mountain to chop it.

"It's not a good idea to leave the body like this. Look at your sister Qinghu. She can't even see the body now, otherwise she will definitely scream again." Yu Heng felt a little sympathetic to Zhou Qinghu. Such a strong woman, now she has a mental breakdown when talking about the bodies of her parents-in-law. I don't know what happened in the cellar that caused her such a great shock. Later, I heard from her husband that she seemed to have nightmares and hallucinations. I don't know if it was because she had too many fights with her parents-in-law in the past. After her parents-in-law died one after another, Zhou Qinghu often dreamed of her mother-in-law. Living in the same environment with the corpse and having conflicts for many years, Zhou Qinghu was under great psychological pressure, which is why she became like this.

How can people say this? I can only help her vent her psychology and let the children distract her.

Zhou Qingshui lost one of the younger twins, and his wife was almost mentally collapsed. The older sister of the twins, Zhou Yuehan, now doesn't say a word all day. Her brother died in front of her, leaving a big trauma in her young heart.

That's why Yu Heng suggested that the funeral of the deceased be held first so that the living can start a new life. Now the situation outside is unclear, and it is impossible to move forward in grief.

After listening to his suggestion, Zhou Qingrong also felt that it made sense. He didn't dare to go to his third uncle's house now, because the atmosphere there was too sad. In addition, Qingshui had resentment towards his sister, and the relationship between the siblings was broken, and the family was always quarreling. Under such circumstances, Zhou Qingrong thought it was good to hold the funeral first. Zhou Qingrong went to discuss and persuade other villagers, so the funerals in Laokang Village were held one after another.

The thick smoke in the back mountain never stopped. Zhou Qingshui's wife was unwilling to do so. She held the child's body and refused to let go. Zhou Qingshui was afraid that she would die of grief, so he took the body away forcefully.

Because there were many things to do in the village, Yu Heng was too busy to go outside the village to inquire. What he wanted to know most was how the garrison in the town was doing now, and what the situation was of the terrifying cold wave.

After the work at hand was finished and the funerals that needed to be attended were attended, Yu Heng and Zhou Qingrong went to the town again. When passing by other villages, they saw smoke floating in the distance. It seemed that the disaster victims who were taking shelter also noticed that the cold wave had receded. There was only one car on the way to the town. Zhou Qingrong didn't dare to drive too fast. The road was too slippery. If he drove a little faster, the car might lose control and overturn.

There was no one in the town. Yu Heng knocked on the ice on the glass window and looked inside. There was no one. There were no footprints on the street, and it seemed that there was no sign of human activity. Zhou Qingrong felt creepy and even spoke cautiously: "Mom, let's go directly to the school to take a look?"

"Okay."

When they arrived at the school, the school gate was open. There was a whole row of military vehicles parked on the street in front of the gate, and there were two tanks, all covered with ice and frost. It was obvious that no one had touched them for a long time.

Such military equipment made people feel excited no matter how many times they saw it. Zhou Qingrong couldn't help but reach out of the window to touch the tank. He really wanted to steal it home. Their car was parked at the door and they didn't dare to drive in. After all, it was the army base. Yu Heng was also afraid that the two would be shot as invaders.

After opening the car door and getting out, Yu Heng climbed onto the roof of the car and looked into the school. There was a large passage inside the school gate. On the left was the playground and on the right was the basketball court. At the end of the passage was a whole row of office buildings, and behind the office buildings were the classrooms. Standing on the roof of the car, he could see that there were also a large number of cars parked on both sides of the passage, and there was something like a tent in the middle, all covered with a layer of frost. As the cold wave receded and the temperature rose, the main passage was a little damp, but it was still obvious that no one or car had passed this road.

His heart skipped a beat, and he signaled Zhou Qingrong to drive directly into the school.

The car drove in and the road was smooth, as if there was no one in the station. The car stopped in front of the office building, and Yu Heng climbed the stairs upstairs, looking and shouting, but no one responded. He pushed open an office at random. These offices had obviously been converted into soldiers' dormitories, and thick quilts were arched on the two-story bunk beds. He slowly uncovered the quilt on the lower bunk, and then covered it back, and checked the ten beds in the entire office.

"Mom, there's no one." Zhou Qingrong shouted at the door, "I looked in many rooms, and no one answered!"

"Don't look, if no one answered, there should be no living people in this school."

"Ah?" Zhou Qingrong frowned, "How could it be? The cars outside are all there, how did they leave?"

Yu Heng walked to the window and pushed it open with all his strength. The window glass suddenly broke into pieces and fell downstairs. In front is the teaching building, where most of the windows are closed, and only a small number of windows are obviously broken. Even if the window glass is broken and the classroom is dark, you can't see anything standing here. But Yu Heng already had the worst guess in his mind.

For example, in villages such as Laokang Village, almost every household has fields and land, and they grow rice, sweet potatoes, corn, etc. There are usually cellars for convenient storage. Even for new buildings built in recent years, it is customary to dig a cellar on the first floor. . However, very few people in the town dig cellars, and even if they do, they will be empty, so there is no need. It is even more impossible for this school to have such a thing as a cellar.

This regiment moved into the school and transformed the office and teaching buildings into dormitories for soldiers. When the cold wave came last month, they had no other place to hide.

"Let's go and take a look at the back."

Two hours later, Zhou Qingrong's face turned pale and he could no longer stand still. He looked at the circle of corpses next to the fire, the corpses he found while digging through the snow that tripped him on the road, and so on. It was the first time he felt so cold. Even during the more than a month he hid in the cellar, he was full of hope for the future. He has a mother, a wife, and two children, one of whom is a delicate and soft little girl! With relatives as a shield in his heart, he felt that he had steel and iron bones, which could withstand all severe cold.

But looking at the corpses under the quilts, holding electric heaters, etc., he finally felt scared.

Such terrifying power took away many people. He had seen it in Laokang Village and the next village. I just didn't expect that even the army that could be said to have crushed ordinary people like them before was helpless under this force, and it seemed that the entire army was annihilated? ! He had been afraid and resentful of this legion before, but now seeing them lying here so quietly, he only felt boundless fear in his heart! How powerful can he be compared to the Legion? He was so close, so close to losing the people he loved!

This realization made Zhou Qingrong's face pale and his eyes glazed over.

Seeing that Zhou Qingrong was too badly hit, Yu Heng patted him on the shoulder to comfort him and said, "Let's look for another place. I want to find their weapons arsenal. We can defend ourselves when we encounter wolves in the future." What is Zhou Qingrong listening to now? He didn't even listen, he just nodded. Yu Heng ignored him and went straight to find him.

The weapon was not found, so he found the food warehouse first. The auditorium was used as a warehouse, with mountains of food inside! It seems that all the food collected previously is here. There were also more than a dozen corpses in the auditorium. They were also frozen to death. The food was not well preserved. It was hard and icy when pressed. The rice bag could be punctured with a slight poke. The rice inside had become damp and moldy due to the constant heat and cold. . There are insects stumbling out of the clumps of moldy rice, showing their extremely powerful vitality.

"What a pity! So many people died here after collecting food." Zhou Qingrong said distressedly, "How many people were killed or injured in order to collect food..."

Looking at this full granary, I was so distressed that I was speechless. Yu Heng checked it roughly and made sure it was just a granary before leaving.

"Mom, don't you ignore these grains? What a pity!"

"There may be something edible inside. Let's tell the others when we go back and let them get it themselves." Their family is not short of food.

It took some effort to find the weapons depot, but after finding it, Yu Heng took away everything he could. When he returned to the village, he looked at the quiet buildings in the town. Yu Heng felt a little emotional. Are the owners of these houses already sleeping inside? The cold wave comes from the north, so where in the north does it start to spread? How are residents elsewhere?

He couldn't imagine that the south had suffered such huge losses. How serious would it be in the north?

After returning to the village, Zhou Qingrong went to tell other people in the village about the news in the town, and Yu Heng went to the cellar to sort out the weapons he had obtained. He planned to find some stable and reliable villagers in the village and teach them how to use guns. Now that the entire regiment in the town has been defeated, I will not comment on the exploitation of the villagers by their previous unreasonable food requisitions. I will only say that they have indeed fulfilled their responsibilities in killing wolves and protecting the safety of the people. Now that they are gone, you will have to rely on yourself to protect yourself from now on!

As for the food in the auditorium, there was no need to wait until the next day. When Zhou Qingrong came back, he said that the villagers had already set off.

There was only a thin layer of food left in each house. Now that they heard that there was a large amount of moldy food in the school auditorium, the villagers were almost crazy with excitement! Unable to wait any longer, they shouted to each other and headed to town. As for what Zhou Qingrong said about the weapons depot, it has been pushed into the corner by the news about the granary.

What they value is food! Weapons are still secondary.

"Come on son, mommy will teach you how to shoot."

Yu Heng put the gun into Zhou Qingrong's hand. Zhou Qingrong, who had been absentminded since returning from the town, was finally awakened by the explosion. He held the gun in both hands and did not dare to move. He looked at Yu Heng in confusion: "What?"

"Shoot." He corrected Zhou Qingrong's posture of holding the gun. Zhou Qingrong was so nervous that his whole body was stiff, staring at the gun tightly for fear of misfiring.

"Don't worry if you don't open the safety catch. Practice how to hold the gun first. Remember this posture and technique."

“…” Zhou Qingrong held the gun like a hot potato. He was just thinking about the town, but now all his attention was attracted by the thing in his hand. He calmed down and swallowed his saliva, and whispered: "Mom, how come you can even do this?" He thought his mother just went through the army's arsenal to store weapons, but he didn't expect his mother to hold the gun so skillfully.

"Because I am your mother." Yu Heng lowered his head to organize the weapons, "Put these things here for the time being, and don't tell anyone except your wife. When you see who in the village is more reliable and stable, bring them to me. I plan to give them weapons too, so that if there are wolves in the village again in the future, you don't have to be afraid."

"Oh, I see." Zhou Qingrong thought for a while, "Qingshui, Qingshan and Brother Qingfeng are all fine, and they are also from our Zhou family..." He said a bunch of names, and Yu Heng compared them with the people in his memory in his heart, and was quite satisfied. Zhou Qingrong has indeed been trained. The ten or so names he said are all close Zhou clan members, and they are of the same generation as Zhou Qingrong.

"Okay, you can call your family members over later."