Chapter 27: Escape from the Troubled Times 25

Winter is over, but spring has not yet arrived.

This heavy snow lasted for four months, and even though it should have been spring and blooming season, the snow had not melted yet.

However, seven days ago, after the snow stopped, the long-lost sunshine began to shine on the earth, bringing a touch of warmth to people.

From that day on, Lin Xia resumed his daily meditation routine, but the number of purple light spots was far less than that during the dry and scorching sun.

Seeing that a week had passed and the snow was still piled high, Lin Xia made up his mind to find a way out of the mountain before the snow melted and the snow surface hardened. Otherwise, if such thick snow melted completely, there might be another mountain flood, blocking the road.

Having made up her mind, Lin Xia began to prepare the food.

The mushrooms and wild vegetables have been eaten, and there are currently 4 kilograms of dried bamboo shoots, 12 fish and a large amount of bear meat left. The bones of the bear meat were used up by Lin Xia to make soup. She has consumed it without saving for more than a month, and still has 70 to 80 kilograms of pure meat. There is no way. I can't bear to throw it away, so I can only try my best to take it away.

The meat yield of the dried meat was about one third, and in the end, more than 20 kilograms of dried meat was obtained, taking up half of the backpack.

Keep 2 of the remaining fish and throw away the rest. The fish in the pond here are okay to improve the food occasionally, but they are not good if you eat too much, as they have many bones and are fishy. She has no shortage of food now, so she can afford to throw away the fish.

Fine-tune the proportions of space, with one-quarter for warm water, the rest for half food, and half for miscellaneous items.

In the end, the weight was still more than 30 kilograms.

However, she didn't just gain weight in these four months. She now has back muscles, pectoral muscles, biceps and abs. She is no longer the same old Wu Xia A Meng.

This weight needs to be controlled!

The stars are twinkling and the full moon is high in the sky.

It was the fifteenth day of the last month again, and the date was exactly mid-March. She had entered the mountains during the heavy rain in September and left in mid-March when the snow stopped. She had been in the mountains for more than half a year.

This time Lin Xia didn't dare to be careless. She paid attention to her position at all times and made corrections continuously.

Half a month later, the sun sets.

The orange-red sunlight shines on the earth. On one side are mountains with white spots in the emerald green, and on the other side are wastelands with little green in the withered yellow.

At this time, a little man wearing a black animal skin coat, black knee pads, a black fur hat, a silver sword in his hand, and a khaki backpack on his back emerged from the forest at the junction of the two forests.

"Woo~"

The "wild" man in the forest suddenly let out a long roar, opened his arms, closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and his white face sparkled in the setting sun.

"I, Hu Hansan, am back again!"

Roared over and looked around.

No one.

fine.

Lin Xia patted her chest lightly. Luckily no one saw it, otherwise she would have been socially dead on the spot.

Two minutes of excitement.

Lin Xia suppressed his emotions and his face regained its calm look.

The earth before my eyes was silent, the snow on the ground had completely disappeared, and the once withered grass was full of vitality.

On the vast land, facing the setting sun, Lin Xia's tall figure disappeared into the sky.

Lin Xia walked south for a few days and found that although there was no one, there were occasional naked corpses exposed on the roadside. Some were swollen and rotten, some were intact, and some were incomplete.

In particular, most of the bodies, whether mutilated or intact, were naked.

It seems that the extremely heavy snow had frozen many refugees to death, and the survivors had taken away the clothes and parts of the dead bodies.

They didn't deal with it and just dumped the bodies along the way until they were buried by the snow. They were then taken out again when the snow melted.

I just don't know if it happened recently or a few months ago?

The temperature was too low before, as evidenced by the accumulation of snow in the forest, and the plains outside were not much better.

As long as the dead people died in the snow, they can be preserved for a long time. Even now the temperature is not high, and it is estimated to be in the single digits, so most of these bodies have not rotted.

Hopefully it doesn’t happen anytime soon, but if it does, that’s not good.

As I was thinking, suddenly, an idea came to me.

The corpse’s clothes were robbed…clothes!

Lin Xia realized that what she was wearing was inappropriate. She was used to wearing fur coats and almost forgot that she was a refugee. What she wore was too eye-catching. If she met a lot of people, she would be robbed in a minute, even her body.

It is often said that it is not cold when it snows, but when it melts. At this time, the snow on the ground has not melted for long, and there are even small clumps of snow in some places. Even though it is April, the cold wind is still biting.

It was impossible for Lin Xia not to wear animal skins, so she could only wear the animal skins inside.

Clothes in ancient times were very loose and could barely cover the entire animal skin.

After all, a black bear is not a brown bear and is not that big, so its fur is just enough for clothing. Plus, Lin Xia is thin, so she wears the innermost layer and puts on torn clothes on the outside. Apart from being a little too bloated, you can't tell that the clothes inside are precious.

After changing the order of clothing, he was still wearing the same tattered jacket on the outside, and judging from his appearance, he looked like he could go begging with a broken bowl at any time.

At first glance she looks like a beggar, but in fact, when you get closer, you will find that she has a straight posture, a sharp temperament, a rosy complexion, is full of energy, and holds a big knife in her hand. She does not look like a beggar at all, and it is obvious at first glance that she is not someone to be trifled with.

Lin Xia was prepared to meet refugees, but in the end, not only were there no people, but even their bodies were nowhere to be found. This perfectly illustrates the saying "there is no human habitation for a thousand miles and no rooster crowing for ten thousand miles."

Continuing forward, Lin Xia climbed up the small hill in front and looked down, and was stunned.

Before my eyes was a vast plain shaped like a swamp, with sparkling water and rippling waves.

If you ignore the ruins of the houses in the water, it is indeed a beautiful natural scenery.

A winding river runs through the center of the "swamp". The river water spreads, destroying many houses and endless farmland. There are no traces of human activities around.

I wonder where the villagers went to escape the flood and the snowstorm?

Maybe he went to the county town. Humans will always find a way out for themselves.

Lin Xia didn’t know what to do next. If she wanted to go south, she had to wade through the water and cross the river.

But obviously, she couldn't do it.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Xia decided to go to the county town, perhaps there was a way to cross the river.

Lin Xia walked along the path by the river. The deserted village was left there. The vegetation by the river was getting less and less, and there were signs that it had been cut down. When he walked to the back, there were only bare yellow hills left. The only green was the grass with new sprouts.

She walked for half a day and found a new village on a hillside surrounded by mountains on three sides and water on one side.

The situation of this village was not much better than the previous one. Apart from not being in the water, the degree of destruction was incredible. From a distance, it looked like an abandoned village with no one in sight.

As she got closer, Lin Xia was horrified to find that the villagers had not moved, but something had happened!

A large number of houses collapsed in the village and a few bodies were found on the roadside.

Although the whole village was deserted, farmland was abandoned, and no one collected the bodies, Lin Xia still thought there were still people alive in the village, because many courtyards were closed and it didn't look like there was no one there.

Lin Xia walked to a house that was in good condition and saw that the door was closed. She knocked on the door, but no one answered. She also couldn't push it open, as it was locked from the inside.

I knocked on the doors of the remaining intact houses again and again, but they were also closed and no one responded.

Lin Xia randomly walked into a yard without a door. When she went in, she found a family of corpses huddled in the corner, with only a pile of burnt ashes left.

She had a rough idea of ​​what was going on.

The power brought by the previous heavy snow was much greater than she had imagined. The ancient people were simply unable to cope with such a horrible natural disaster. They were short of food and clothing, and all the trees within a ten-mile radius were cut down. In the end, they ended up with a tragic ending of freezing to death in their homes.

No one in the entire village was spared. Some were crushed to death inside their homes when their houses collapsed due to the heavy snow, while others died outside their homes when they tried to escape. Even those whose houses were of decent quality had their doors blocked by the heavy snow and they were unable to go out, and eventually froze to death in their homes.

Lin Xia did not search the village for supplies and turned away.

There were dead people in every household in this small village, and they looked very poor. There were only 20 to 30 households in the village, and it was not worth the risk of getting infected by bacteria to find something, and she didn't lack anything for the time being.

After getting away from this village, we saw several more villages one after another.

Those villages were not big, so they were not wiped out in one fell swoop. However, the situation was still not good. Every household with living people hung white flags and kept their doors closed.

Lin Xia originally wanted to go forward and ask for directions, but she smelled the aroma of meat. She knew that the person who was alive was either from a wealthy family or had a cruel heart, so she decided not to deliver the goods to their door.

After bypassing the village and walking along the main road for two hours, the world suddenly became normal.

Some people are busy farming and sowing.

Lin Xia observed from a distance for a moment and confirmed that it was an authentic farming household. There were a large number of houses with blue bricks and black tiles standing on the hillside in the distance. It looked like a large and powerful village.

After completing the observation, Lin Xia put on a friendly smile and walked up to the lady closest to her and called her. Unexpectedly, when the lady saw her, she started calling her friends, and the other villagers gathered around when they saw her.

Lin Xia saw that something bad was going to happen, so she decided to avoid a setback.

He glanced at the other woman looking at the knife in his hand, realized that she might be misleading, and quickly put away the knife.

Said: "Auntie, I have no ill intentions, I just want to ask for directions."

The others gathered together, holding various farm tools in their hands, looking at her quietly and whispering a few words. Finally, the woman stood up and asked, "Where are you going, stranger?"

It's a dialect with a heavy accent, but I can barely understand it.

"Auntie, where can I cross the river? I want to go to the other side. Or how far is the county town from here? I can go to the county town too."

The lady on the opposite side reacted for a few seconds, then turned back and muttered to the villagers for a long time, as if they were arguing, and finally came out and spoke again.

"Stranger, are you alone? We have a boat in our village." Then he glanced at Lin Xia's clothes and added, "It costs ten cents."

Lin Xia was pleasantly surprised. The other village seemed very powerful, with so many people surviving.

"Auntie, I'm sitting alone, where is the ferry?"

When the old lady heard that Lin Xia wanted to cross the river, her expression relaxed, and she called out a dark-skinned old man and a young man, saying, "Follow them."

Seeing the two unarmed men, Lin Xia made up her mind and agreed decisively.