117 Chapter 117

Chapter 117

Grandma Tang looked at her grandson who had already left the house, then turned to look at the old man who was weaving a bamboo basket with a lamp hanging under the eaves of the house next to her. The more she looked at him, the more displeased she became. She raised her eyes and glared at him in anger.

"You old man, why are you so idle all day? There's no bamboo left at home for you to weave, yet you're still weaving."

"Why are you taking your anger out on me? I'm helpless outside, aren't I?"

Grandpa Tang felt helpless after being scolded. He was also a little panicked when he heard that his godmother did not respond in such a situation, but there was nothing he could do.

If there is a practical way for him to contribute, he will definitely be the first to do it. But now there is no way.

They don't even know what their godmother's situation is. They can't just mess around without knowing anything.

He is considered to be one of the older generation in the village and has had the longest contact with his godmother. He is used to his godmother responding to his confessions or complaints.

Although they had to discover their godmother's response before the change, it did not affect their understanding of what the godmother wanted to express.

Suddenly, the godmother didn't respond. Not only Grandma Tang and Grandpa Tang, but everyone in the village who was a little older was at a loss as to what to do.

There was nothing they could do even if they were panicking. Before their godmother gave them clear information or told them what to do from some authority figures, they could not act rashly, lest their actions would have a negative impact on her.

Tang Rufeng walked to the village entrance in the rain, wanting to talk to the locust tree as usual, but he saw a person covered by a raincoat standing under the locust tree in front of him.

"Village Chief, you are here too."

Tang Rufeng recognized it without looking carefully.

"Well, I'm worried and can't sit still at home, so I still want to come and see her. What if Godmother wants to pass on some news to us and we miss it?"

When the village chief heard Tang Rufeng's voice, he didn't turn around, but kept his eyes on the locust tree in front of him. He answered Tang Rufeng in a low voice. His voice was a little blurred by the sound of rain falling around him, but Tang Rufeng still heard it clearly.

"I'll come back and take a look."

After hearing the village chief's answer, Tang Rufeng knew that the village chief had tried to communicate with his godmother before he came, but there was no response. He was unwilling to give up and still wanted to give it a try.

Unfortunately, it's useless.

The locust tree in front of him was like an ordinary tree before its spiritual energy was revived. Facing the call of human beings, it did not respond at all and remained silent.

The village chief who was standing next to Tang Rufeng saw that Tang Rufeng stood there for a long time without any reaction. He knew the result, sighed, and said no more.

The people on the mountain were in a depressed mood because of the locust trees, and the situation in the town at the foot of the mountain was not much better.

For several days, the emergency plans given by the leaders above were all to let the lower-level officials confidently take the people to take shelter. They failed to give a practical and feasible action plan. Seeing that most of the small high-rise buildings in the town were flooded, Mayor Xiao had no choice but to start organizing people to take shelter in the mountains as he had said before.

At this time, they could not care whether there would be any threats from mutant animals and plants on the mountain, or whether evacuating in such weather would cause unnecessary dangers. Given their current situation, if they did not evacuate in time, it would probably be even more difficult to travel later.

"Let's talk to the people outside about the possible dangers of going up the mountain now. Let's explain the situation first and let the townspeople decide for themselves whether to evacuate with us."

After making the decision, Mayor Xiao did not delay and directly ordered his subordinates to do it, and also put the choice in the hands of the people in the town.

In fact, there are not many options now, only three.

Either those whose homes are located at higher altitudes and have not been flooded choose to stay and wait for the rain to end and for officials to take over the town again; or some people with special abilities are confident in their own abilities and decide to take their families away from the town to find another way to survive in larger cities that are farther away and have faster resource rescue.

As for the majority of people in the end, they would probably agree to go to the mountains to temporarily avoid the flooded city, and then go down the mountain and go home after the rain subsides and the town returns to normal.

No matter which one it is, the town officials will not persuade you too much. The choice is in their hands. In the end, the wrong choice cannot be blamed on irrelevant people, which indirectly avoids unnecessary conflicts.

For now, the authorities do not have the energy to deal with conflicts and frictions between people, so they just do whatever is easiest.

As a result, there are not many people who want to stay or make a living on their own, compared to the number of townspeople who want to go up the mountain.

After all, people tend to follow the crowd. If you can keep your own thinking and make any other decisions at this time, you are being responsible for yourself.

In this situation, there are very few people who can give an answer that is completely opposite to the official decision based on their own thinking.

The commotion of going up the mountain was quite loud. The people who decided to follow Mayor Xiao and his team up the mountain had to find all kinds of tools in their homes to use in order to keep up with the official team as there were not enough boats.

If that doesn't work, just wrap your own quilt with a tape bag and try your best to make a tool that can carry the load to keep up with the official pace.

In this way, in order to keep up with the officials' pace, the townspeople tried their best to get vehicles that could travel in water and kept up with the officials' pace of going up the mountain.

Looking from afar at the uneven crowd of people following the official boat out of the town, the remaining people who did not leave were somewhat silent.

They don’t know whether their choice at this moment is correct, but since they have made the decision, they will not regret it for now.

Even though they already had a bad feeling after seeing so many people leaving with the authorities, they still held on to a hope and temporarily suppressed their chaotic thoughts.

When setting off, Mayor Xiao heard from his subordinates that some residents of the town finally chose to stay and look for other ways out.

"Since it's their own choice, let's follow their wishes. If they regret it later, we'll take care of it. If they don't, it won't have much to do with us. Let's just keep going."

After listening to the report from his subordinates, Mayor Xiao whispered these words and then stood in a slightly forward position on the deck.

He remained silent as he watched the people with special abilities squatting by the edge of the boat and fighting back against the aggressive mutant plants and animals in the water.

It seemed as if he really did what he said and didn't care at all about those who didn't keep up with the official actions.

Is this really the case? If Mayor Xiao really didn't care whether the town's residents stayed or went, he wouldn't have stayed in the town and served as a small mayor when the world was changing and the people were facing the threat of mutated plants and animals, even when they could barely save themselves.

If he is irresponsible to the people in the town, with his family background, even if he cannot be directly transferred to a safer area with many capable people to protect him to continue his political career, he will be able to have a safer and more secure place to go after he leaves office.

After all, isn't Mayor Xiao capable?

However, his abilities are different from those that can attack mutated plants and animals, and can only play an auxiliary role. However, with his abilities and background, even if his abilities are auxiliary, he can have a good place.

But after careful consideration, Mayor Xiao finally decided to stay in the town at the foot of the mountain, just like his elders and peers who were still sticking to their posts. He tried his best to coordinate the town's resources and calculate the resources in his hands to maximize their use so that more people in the town could survive. He had done enough.

At this moment, some people chose to give up following him, and he would not pay too much attention to it. After all, there were too many people that Mayor Xiao needed to be responsible for.

There are still many dangers in taking a group of townspeople up the mountain. Even if they follow the road that has been opened up before and regularly cleared of mutated animals and plants, they will inevitably encounter attacks from mutated animals and plants.

Fortunately, although the ordinary residents of the town have not come into contact with those mutant animals and plants with strong attack power in the past, it does not mean that they have not come into contact with the mutant animals and plants with little attack power that remain after the town was cleaned up.

Having come into contact with mutated animals and plants many times, and with the spiritual energy having been revived for quite some time, most people have become accustomed to the scene where mutated creatures may appear outside at any time.

After the mutation, the country built a better and more complete network. Even if these people have never seen pork, they have seen pigs running.

Be mentally prepared, knowing that protection will appear if attacked, and there are many people, so the crowd will not panic.

The sky did not soften its gloom just because the town's residents were moving. It continued to rain as usual. The heavy rain was accompanied by the official's instructions to the residents through a loudspeaker. A long line of people headed towards the mountain in a somewhat chaotic manner.

The mountain is high up, so even if it rains for a long time, the foot of the mountain is not flooded much. Instead, the people in the town have to get off the messy tool boats they are riding in, collect them, and continue to carry them up the mountain after they reach a place where they can step onto the mountain.

In the first half of the journey, the tools made in a mess were used to help the townspeople cross the difficult section of the waterway. Later, when they went up the mountain, in order to avoid wasting things, they took their own boats with them. This was already a spontaneous act of the people.

Walking on the mountain is not as smooth as walking on the flat streets in the town. The road up the mountain was cleared by the official team after the mutation to clean up the mutated animals and plants.

It's good enough to be able to walk. It's just a muddy road. People who often go up and down the mountain are used to it and don't feel anything. But people who don't often go up the mountain or do sports have to bring their own daily necessities and carry a vehicle that has been in water. It takes a long time.

The official personnel led the people for a while, and when they looked back, they found that there were only a few people who could keep up with their walking speed. Going further back, they could still see a few people carrying things and trying to keep up with them.

"They're walking too slowly, and the ground is covered in mud. The rain has made it even more slippery. At this rate, they're falling every few steps. How long will it take them to reach Daxi Village on the mountain?"

One of the members of the town defense team has been following Mayor Xiao to protect his safety. In addition to protecting him, he is also confident in his abilities. Taking advantage of some free time, he began to observe the townspeople who were following behind them and being protected by his other teammates.

When he saw several of them having trouble climbing the mountain again, and just after taking a few steps up the mountain with their things on their backs, they slipped and fell to the ground, and then fell back to the starting point, he couldn't help but speak to Mayor Xiao, with some doubt in his voice.

"Take it slow. Let them hold on as much as possible when they walk forward and backward. If they can't hold on, try to slow down their fall."

Mayor Xiao followed his subordinate's words and saw the current state of the people following behind him, but there was nothing he could do now.

Those with special abilities need to be on guard against mutated plants and animals that may appear along the way, and have no time to take care of the people who follow them up the mountain.

As they climbed the mountain, the slippery road was already the simplest difficulty they encountered.

The people in the town at the foot of the mountain knew that the mountain was flooded and they needed to go up the mountain to take shelter. Of course, they also thought of those mutated animals and plants.

The animals went straight up the mountain, but due to their own limitations, only some of the mutated plants were able to move up the mountain.

Although there are few mutant plants that go up the mountain, all the mutant plants within a hundred miles radius are running up the mountain, and there are a lot of them gathered together.

Not to mention the other mutated animals, they are more maneuverable and more likely to go up the mountain.

As soon as they set foot on the mountain, hungry mutant animals attacked their long line of people, but they were all stopped by the defense team members who were scattered around to protect the people.

Even if the defense team's ability users had the ability to kill the attacking mutant animals, they did not do so. It was a critical moment when they were bringing so many people up the mountain. If they really wanted to fight, there might be a gap in the position they were protecting. If there was no one to protect the people at that time, any casualties would be no joke.

People at the foot of the mountain were walking up the mountain in the rain. Although people on the mountain did not go out because of the rain outside, they were still a little worried at home.

In the past two days, people living on the edge of the village can vaguely see the situation outside the village from afar through the visibility of their homes. Those mutant animals that have inexplicably appeared and are wandering outside the village do not look like the mutant animals that used to move normally in the mountains. They are particularly aggressive.

It is also because of the mutant animals wandering outside the village that these days, carnivorous mutant animals like Ali no longer have to go far away in the rain to hunt, they can find prey directly outside the village.

"This is not a good sign..."

Village Chief Wu sighed softly as he watched the two big cats running back through the open gate in the rain.

"Are the times Ali and the others go out to eat getting shorter and shorter?"

Although Boss Wu looks careless, he still has a normal brain and can think things through.

"Yeah. It's because it's too short. That's not a good sign. There are more and more mutant plants and animals appearing outside the village."

The village chief nodded. Although he said so, he was still worried and acted quickly. He was afraid that Ali and Hu Hu would splash water as soon as they came in and spread the water all over the house. He hurried forward with a large bath towel to wipe the cats' fur.

"These two are pretty good too. At least they're sensible and don't cause any trouble after I give them some advice."

Grandma Shitou was watching right beside them, helping to pass towels with a smile on her face.

She saw everything that happened outside, but there was nothing she could do. Human beings are still too small at the moment. Not to mention facing natural disasters, they are unable to cope with the encirclement of the mutant animals that have gathered in groups outside.

Fortunately, there was Godmother on the mountain. Although Godmother inexplicably no longer responded to their calls and inquiries, the defenses surrounding the three villages were still there and did not disappear because of Godmother's own abnormality.

At least they stopped the mutant animals outside, so the people in the village don't have to worry about the mutant animals running into the village and hurting people.

Because it has been raining outside these days, Shitou's children have been stuck at home and are feeling a little uncomfortable.

Thinking about the time when they ran all over the mountains and fields, and thinking about how they have been staying at home all day and not allowed to go out recently, it is normal for them to feel depressed.

"We've exhausted all the games on the consoles at home. Looking at these levels, I can figure out how to beat them without even having to think."

Shi Tou was fiddling with the game console out of boredom, watching the games with a dull sound.

Although their parents allow these children to play games, they do not allow them to play games that are connected to the Internet and require recharging.

Just because there was a brother in the village who liked to play games before he got a job, he inexplicably spent his living expenses on games. He had to use the remaining living expenses for a week before he confessed and told his family, and only then was the problem of food solved.

But since then, that brother has changed from liking playing games to liking eating, and most of his salary after starting to work is spent on showing off.

Thinking about the online games they wanted to ask me about, the popular games their classmates said, and the stories their parents told them about their older brothers, Shitou wanted to sigh even more.

"We don't have any money right now, so don't worry about us spending our living expenses on gambling."

Muttering softly, Shitou put the game console aside out of boredom and turned to look at his brothers and sisters who were playing together in his room out of boredom.

"This one is mine, yours is over there!"

"Momo! You stole my building blocks again!"

Xiao Ling'er just found a usable building block, and turned around to see that one of the buildings she had built was a little shaky. She stood up and took a look at the back of the building block, only to find that there was a small area behind the building block she had built, and a lot of blocks had been taken away by the steamed bun.

The supporting blocks of the building are missing, which makes the building built by Xiao Ling'er look a little shaky.

Momo heard Xiao Ling'er's roar from close range, reached out and touched his nose, then decisively took the blocks that had been built on his building block tower and returned them to Xiao Ling'er.

"I'm returning it to you. I couldn't find the right building blocks, so I borrowed them for a while, hehe."

Gangduan watched his two sisters playing and ignored the lawsuit filed by Momo and his sister.

He quickly took out the dirty things that the twins were about to stuff into their mouths, and turned around to see them preparing to stomp out of the door, their target pointed at the sewer pipe outside the door that was draining water from the roof.

“I’m not going out!”

Gangduan had no choice but to quickly stand in front of the two little ones, blocking their way.

Seeing that their way was blocked and they couldn't get through, the two little ones didn't lose their temper. If they couldn't get through, the water at the door would come over by itself!

Before Gangbi could react, the water that was flowing out of the sewer pipe at the door and into the small gutter flew straight towards where the three of them were standing. Gangbi was blocking the way, and the water did not change direction and directly splashed onto Gangbi.

“……!”

Gangduan felt a chill on his back; the water had already soaked his back.

"You two are too naughty. I don't care about you anymore. I will leave you with your parents and let your mother take care of you."

Gangduan said this, turned around and prepared to go out through the eaves to find his parents. After sending the child out, he didn't care about him anymore.

As a result, before he walked far, he felt the moisture on his back that had just been wet by the child's ability disappear, and was replaced by the dryness of dry clothes that came into normal contact with his skin.

Helplessly standing still, he turned around and glanced at the two little girls standing there in a daze, "You two little brats, all you know is to make trouble."

He rubbed the two girls' heads with his hands. Gangduan no longer had the heart to go out and find their parents to deal with the two little girls. He turned around and continued to look after the children and play with them.

"When will the weather outside be good?"

Shi Tou watched the excitement for a while, then began to mutter to himself as he looked at the rain outside.

"Brother Shitou, instead of yelling here, why don't you ask Ali to tell you about the situation outside? We are relying on you to know the things that the adults don't tell us."

Listening to Shitou mumbling to himself in boredom, Xiao Ling'er snatched back the building blocks that her brother had secretly stolen from her, and continued to focus on talking to her brother Shitou.

"I just heard that Ali is back. I'll go ask him after Grandpa and the others clean up the moisture on Ali."

Xiao Ling'er's words made Shi Tou feel like he had found something to do, and he immediately became energetic.

After saying this, he could no longer sit still, and hurriedly stood up, walked to Gangbi's side, and picked up Xiaoshu'er, "Come on, Xiaoshu'er, go have some fun with your brother."

As he spoke, he walked along the corridor towards the main hall outside.

"Brother, I'm going!"

The little girl turned around and found that there was someone missing, so she hurriedly pulled the coin and went out to play.

If the speed hadn't allowed her to wash quickly, Xiao Maner would have immediately squeezed next to Shi Tou and asked Shi Tou to hold her up with his other hand.

Twins are like this. Although they have different abilities and personalities, they behave the same way when facing adults other than themselves or their older brothers and sisters.

"Okay, okay, wait, right away."

Gangduan lowered his head and looked at the child who was holding him and pulling at his clothes to urge him. He quickly responded, bent down, picked up the child, and walked quickly in the direction where Shitou had left.

"Tsk tsk, what was Brother Shitou thinking just now? If Xiao Maner had been more serious, another child would have cried for a long time today."

Seeing that her brothers, sisters and brothers had all gone out, Xiao Ling'er put down the building blocks in her hand, clapped her hands, stood up and prepared to go to the main hall to take a look.

"Sister, wait for me."

Seeing that Xiao Ling'er was about to follow him out, Momo quickly prepared to get up. In this hurried movement, he did not forget to take away another building block from Xiao Ling'er.

Xiao Ling'er, who was called over nearby, was speechless after seeing this out of the corner of her eye.

"hurry up."

Although it was difficult to express her feelings for her brother, Xiao Ling'er still called him along when she went out.

As soon as I arrived at the main room, I saw two big cats standing in the middle of the room a little awkwardly, surrounded by several adults in the family who were wiping the water off their fur.

It's not that they don't want to move freely. The reason for being cramped is simply because Ali and Hu Hu are so big now. Even in the largest main hall of the Wu family, there is not much room left for people to stand after they come in.

"Ahri~ What did you see when you went out?"

As Shitou stepped into the main hall with Xiaoshuer in his arms, he couldn't wait to move towards Ali.

"Xiao Shu'er, come and get rid of the water."

As soon as he got close to Ali, Shi Tou started to move Xiao Shu'er, who was carried over, and signaled her to be a human dehumidifier.

Xiao Shu'er had just been carried all the way here by her brother. Through Shitou's shoulder, she saw her brother chasing after her with Xiao Man'er in his arms. He was giggling all the way. When she heard Shitou's words, she didn't hesitate because she wanted to play for a while longer, but directly put her hands on Ali and Hu Hu.

But after a while, it was visible to the naked eye that water vapor was rising from Ahri and Hu Hu's bodies. After the water vapor dissipated, Ahri and Hu Hu returned to their dry and fluffy appearance.

When the fur on his body felt dry, Ali shook it to get rid of the fur that had not yet spread out, and the big cat, which was just wet, regained its fluffy appearance.

"There are a lot of mutant animals out there, all brainless mutants. It's hard to believe they could rely on their instincts to come up the mountain after encountering this flood."

As Ali spoke, he turned around and rubbed his face on Shitou's clothes. Village Chief Wu and the others had just forgotten to wipe his face when they were wiping his and Huhu's fur, but it didn't matter. It would be the same if he rubbed his face on Shitou's body.

Seeing Ali's actions, Hu Hu followed suit and also leaned over to rub his face on the stone's belly, as if to wipe his face.

Shitou waited until the two big cats finished rubbing against him, then he continued to question them with his eyes, asking Ali to continue speaking.

"When we came back, we heard some noise down the mountain. It sounded a bit noisy, probably made by humans. But we weren't sure if it was people coming up the mountain from down there, so we didn't go over to check."

After Ali finished speaking, he took Hu Hu and prepared to go back to the backyard room to rest.

"Brother Shitou, what were Ahri and the others talking about just now?"

Hearing the question, Shitou turned around and saw the Xiaoling'er brother and sister who had just entered the room, as well as the Gangduan brother and sister who had followed him in before. Standing next to them was Xiaoshu'er, whom he had just put down when he wanted to use his ability to clean the rain water off the big cat.

Standing further to the edge were the adults who had been busy wiping the big cat and were sitting there with nothing to do and not talking.

When they heard the children's questions, they all turned their eyes to the stone, waiting for the stone's answer.

Shitou told his family everything he knew. After he finished speaking, Village Chief Wu pondered for a while, finally put down the old pipe in his mouth, turned around and walked to the corner of the main hall, and started calling the leaders of the two neighboring villages.

Someone came up from the foot of the mountain. Judging from the current situation, he probably hasn't contacted the people on the mountain, otherwise he wouldn't be here now and have to wait for the two mutant animals, Ali and Hu Hu, to get the news.

If Shitou hadn't had a sudden idea today and asked Ali a few more questions, perhaps the people in the villages around them would have had to wait until everyone at the foot of the mountain came up before they knew the news.

After contacting everyone on both sides, he felt relieved and began to contact the people with special abilities in the village, preparing to go down the mountain to pick up the people.

Although they came up from the town at the foot of the mountain, judging from the current situation, they will stay on this mountain for a long time, which may have an impact on Daxi Village.

But what can we do? We can't just give up taking care of people in advance because of those influences.

What if someone is attacked and killed by mutant animals because there are not enough people going up the mountain?

Although Village Chief Wu had not seen the tragic scene of the earthquake at the foot of the mountain with his own eyes, he had seen it in the photos sent back by the younger villagers who had come down the mountain at that time.

After so many casualties, he and anyone else in the village who knew the news would certainly not be happy to see such heavy casualties on their doorstep again.

"I want to go too, Master. Please let me come with you. I'll take Ali and the others with me. There will definitely be no problem."

Shitou was listening to his grandfather contacting people from the neighboring village, and then starting to inform the villagers about the situation. He didn't think of taking himself with him at all, so he quickly offered himself.

After hearing what Shitou said, Xiaoling'er and the others standing nearby also spoke up.

These children are the first group in the village to have special abilities. Although they don't have to fight against mutated animals and plants outside like Tang Tang and Tang Rufeng, their improvement speed is not slow at all. They are even considered to be at the top among the people with special abilities in the village.

This time, with the help of people with special abilities from the two neighboring villages, and the care of their brothers and sisters with special abilities from their own village, there will definitely be no problem with their safety during the trip.

It's nothing more than taking action in the mountains. These children often go around the mountains and are familiar with the surrounding environment. If you take them with you, they can help in many ways.

"No, it's raining outside. What if you catch a cold if you go out?"

Before the village chief could even respond, the self-recommendation of Shitou and other children was opposed by their parents.

"Yes, the rain outside is different from the previous rain. The longer it rains, the colder it gets. You will definitely catch a cold if you go out, and the adults will be busy taking care of you."

Hearing the objections from other family members, the village chief, who had been hesitant just now, did not agree with Shitou's idea of waiting for the children to go out and help.

"You guys stay at home. When we get to the mountain, you can help pack things and boil water to keep the people warm. That's also a way to help."

Before leaving, Shitou and the others wanted to say something, but the village chief was afraid that these kids would cause trouble, so he assigned them some work to keep them busy.

"Okay."

Seeing that their opinions were not suppressed and they had other things to do, Shitou and the other children did not insist on going out with them and agreed to stay to boil some water to ward off the cold.

The people on the mountain were in an uproar because of the news brought back by Ali, and they were busy looking for people to go down the mountain to meet the people.

The team was walking up the mountain in the rain. The ordinary people were really nervous and walked carefully under the protection of the defense team's ability users with their necks hunched, to avoid the situation where their route deviated slightly, causing mutant animals to attack the crowd and eventually someone would be injured.

The defense team's ability users are more vigilant to prevent previous accidents from happening again.

Because of the notification from Village Chief Wu, Captain Dai and the leaders of the villages outside the village soon learned about the people coming down the mountain. They hurriedly led their people down the mountain to gather with the people with special abilities from Daxi Village and rushed down the mountain to help with defense.

"When will this rain stop?"

As the people with special abilities walked on the mountain road, they felt the temperature around them and couldn't help but shiver.

There was a chill mixed in with the rain, and even though they were people with special abilities and were wearing protective rain gear to protect against wind and rain, they still couldn't block the penetrating cold.

"Over there, isn't it?"

Although the rain was cold, it did not restrict their pace. They went down the mountain very quickly. After turning a few big bends, they saw a group of people walking slowly up the mountain.

"Yes, why are there so many mutant animals attacking them? There are even mutant plants mixed in. Is this a violation of the Heavenly Law?"

Looking at the mutant animals that were working tirelessly and launching attacks outside the defense range of the group of people going up the mountain, the number of them could only be described as terrifying.

"Could it be that all the mutant animals that ran up the mountain from below are attacking them? It's incredible that the defense team is so capable that they were able to protect most people in such a serious attack."

"Just chat, don't slow down. Hurry up, is this the time to waste time?"

When Tang Rufeng and his men passed by the two people who were chatting, he took a look at their walking speed and gave them a reminder.

As soon as he finished speaking, the crowd that the officials were leading up the mountain became a little chaotic, and screams began to mix in with the noisy voices.

Previously, the defense team's capable people could barely defend against those mutated animals, but they were human beings after all, not gods.

Even though they have better physical fitness than ordinary people after training, it was still consumed by the operation of going up the mountain. The fact that they can hold on until now is the result of their hard work.

Neither the ordinary people who followed them up the mountain nor the official personnel who had decided to go up the mountain had expected this. They had thought that there would be many mutations on the mountain, but they did not expect that there would be so many mutated animals on the mountain.

There are so many that they are beyond the protection range they can bear.

"If we keep going like this, most of us will die on the way up the mountain."

Mayor Xiao, who was walking in front and following the captain of the defense team, looked back at the current situation. A hoarse voice came from under the rain gear. After being hit by the surrounding rain, it became even drier when heard by the people next to him.

"Don't worry, everything will be fine. We made such a big noise going up the mountain, and the people there know the area so well, they will definitely be able to react and rescue us."

The defense captain said this, he didn't believe it himself.

It’s raining so hard that any sound will be drowned out by the layers of rain. What else can you hear on the mountain?

In addition, they had not contacted the people on the mountain before going up the mountain, so it would be strange if the people in the village on the mountain could discover that they had gone up the mountain.

It’s not that Mayor Xiao and the others didn’t want to contact the people on the mountain, but the power supply in the town below had already been out of order before they went up the mountain.

In order to avoid electric leakage, except for the official town government and some high-rise buildings that were not flooded and would not leak electricity, the power supply has been cut off in other places.

In the remaining places with electricity, they dare not turn on the power too strongly, for fear that something might go wrong and cause electricity in the water. At that time, not to mention whether the mutant animals in the water that still have the ability to attack will die, anyone who touches the water will probably be electrocuted to death on the spot.

Also because the voltage was too low, the town government used low-power loudspeakers to notify ordinary people one by one.

Not to mention charging the communicator, there is no electricity and no time.

"If we had known earlier, we should have charged our communicators before we set out. At least we could have notified them when we got to the mountain. We left in such a hurry."

The subordinate next to Mayor Xiao sighed and finished speaking.

"There seems to be some movement on the mountain ahead!"

Just as the subordinates beside Mayor Xiao were feeling regretful and thinking about whether they would not have fallen into their current situation if they had been more prepared, the defense captain noticed the movement ahead with sharp eyes.