The group of villagers began to run towards this side.

When everyone arrived, Wei Xiyin pointed to a young man who looked relatively energetic and went forward to ask him some questions.

"Where are you from?" Wei Xiyin asked.

The young man rubbed his hands nervously and replied, "My dear, I am a villager from Shitou Village at the foot of the mountain."

Wei Xiyin: "Do you know what the situation is like down the mountain? How is Yongning County?"

The young man's eyes instantly turned red when he heard this, and his lips trembled as he said, "The day before yesterday, the second son of Old Li's family next door suddenly went crazy and started biting people. My father and several people in the village thought it was a conflict, so they went out to mediate, but they were also bitten. By the evening, they all became sick..." When he said this, the young man seemed to think of something horrible, and shuddered all over.

His answer was irrelevant, but Wei Xiyin didn't interrupt him. She comforted him, "Don't worry, take your time."

The young man paused for a long time, and after recovering, he continued, "My father got sick and bit my mother. I wanted to go out for help, but I found that the whole village was in chaos. Many people were biting people, and people were shouting for help everywhere."

"I saw that the situation was not right, so I took my sister and ran to the county town, hoping to ask the county magistrate for help. However, the city gates were locked and I couldn't open them. We had no choice but to run to this mountain..."

"Later, people from nearby villages fled to the mountains one after another. Only four or five people from our village ran away, and the others..." As the young man said this, he sat down on the ground and burst into tears.

An elderly farmer, who seemed to be from the same village as the young man, saw this and quickly stepped forward to apologize, fearing that he had offended an important person.

Wei Xiyin waved her hand nonchalantly, and the old man immediately helped the young man back to the side.

"I'm afraid these people are just like us. After going up the mountain, they never went down again." Wei Xiyin sighed.

If you want to know the situation down the mountain, you have to send someone down the mountain.

Wei Xiyin then ordered them to rest on the spot and sent ten guards to act as scouts to go down the mountain to investigate the situation.

Yongning County is the only way home. In the past, to return to the fort, one only had to pass through the city and walk a few miles to get home. Now it is impossible to enter the city, and one can only take the road through the nearby village.

However, judging by the appearance of the villagers, the situation in the village doesn't seem to be very good.

Thinking of this, Wei Xiyin's heart sank. The virus was spreading faster than she had imagined. This place was so close to the Wei family's fort, and the situation in the fort was probably not optimistic.

The guards who went down the mountain to check came back soon.

Report: "The gates of Yongning County are tightly closed. Monsters are swarming beneath the gates. There are also many monsters wandering around the nearby villages."

Chang Ying frowned when he heard his subordinate's report and asked, "Have you found out how many monsters there are in the nearby villages?"

Several guards paused and asked hesitantly, "About two or three hundred?"

No living people can be seen at the foot of the mountain. During the day, these monsters wander around and are widely scattered. In addition to those gathered at the gate of the county town, there are many scattered in villages and fields. It is really difficult to estimate the number.

"The gates of Yongning County are closed?" Wei Xiyin's eyes lit up when she heard this. "Does this mean that the situation in the county is still under control?"

This is good news.

As long as Yongning County is not lost, the pressure on the Wei family fort behind it will be much less.

Chang Ying couldn't be happy, as they were numerous, with more than a hundred guards and villagers. Now they had encountered another group of villagers, and with the food and luggage they were carrying, the team going down the mountain would definitely be very long.

According to our current understanding of zombies, zombies will not run during the day, but will also search for living people according to their instincts. They have a keen sense of smell and sharp hearing, and it is almost impossible for them to sneak past quietly.

Moreover, they cannot just run forward. If a large number of zombies are attracted to the vicinity of the dock, it is likely to bring disaster to the dock.

It seems that the only way is to go down the mountain and clear out the zombies.

But when Chang Ying proposed to take the guards down the mountain to clean up the zombies, Wei Xiyin rejected it outright.

"We can't lose any more guards," she said.

Chang Ying was deeply touched, but if the guards were not allowed to go, how could they get through here?

"What is the girl going to do?"

Upon hearing this, Wei Xiyin stood up and walked to the edge of a cliff, staring intently at the mountain below. "Those zombies have no intelligence and rely on instinct to find prey. We just need to take advantage of this."

Wei Xiyin picked up a branch and began to draw a plan on the ground. "Take your men to find two such flat areas. Start digging a pit from these locations. Dig it into a slope. The bottom should be about seven feet deep. Try to dig it as large as possible."

"Also, have the guards take some civilians to cut bamboo and sharpen all the bamboo into pointed ends." Wei Xiyin ordered methodically, "and arrange for some more people to cut down trees and make wooden spears."

"Are you planning to set a trap?" Chang Ying carefully examined the pattern on the ground and frowned. "But those monsters don't feel pain. Their heads aren't broken and they can still move freely. I'm afraid a trap made of bamboo tips won't kill them."

Chang Ying doesn't think traps are useful.

Wei Xiyin couldn't help but roll her eyes at him. "You have to learn how to pull out the rhinoceros and the elephant, and achieve your goals with minimal losses."

Seeing that he still didn't understand, Wei Xiyin was too lazy to explain. Wouldn't it be exhausting to explain everything?

Chang Ying had no choice but to follow the order. He personally led dozens of people down the mountain to select a site and dig a pit. According to Wei Xiyin's requirements, the pit was seven feet deep and had a slope.

The two pits were quite far apart, almost a mile apart, on the east and west sides of the mountain. Everyone worked until sunset, but one pit was still unfinished, so Chang Ying immediately stopped everyone and asked them to return to the mountain.

The night is the domain of monsters.

The same process was repeated the next day. After two days of hard work, the two pits and all the necessary bamboo and wooden spears were completed.

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