Shen Qing was puzzled. He was very familiar with this cave. Not to mention that there was no such passage before, even when he came up to put down the backpack just now, it seemed that there was no such passage... Could it be that he didn't notice it just now?
However, even if I am not the only one who wants to rest in this cave, it shouldn't be possible for anyone to carve a hole in it, right?
He walked into the tunnel curiously. At the end there was a hole as big as two people could hug together, just enough for an adult to pass through by bending over.
For Shen Qing, this was almost a surprise from heaven: the wild boar was still blocking the tree and couldn't get out. Now there was another exit. Although he didn't know where it led to, he thought he could bypass the wild boar and go down the mountain to the village. So he didn't bother to think about how this cave suddenly appeared.
He quickly put the small backpack on his shoulder and left the cave through the tunnel.
There was still a mountain on the other side of the cave, but it was not the mountain Shen Qing was familiar with. This mountain was made of large rocks, and the huge rocks piled together looked like the rockery built in the garden of a rich family, with no flowers or plants on it. He should be in the center of the rockery, and if he wanted to get out, he would have to go around in the winding path for a while. What surprised Shen Qing even more was that the ground under his feet was not land, but a gray, flat ground that he had never seen before.
Shen Qing was very familiar with the back mountain. There were some places he rarely visited, but he had been there once or twice with Old Man Liu. Even from a distance, such a rockery with huge rocks was very eye-catching, but Shen Qing was sure that he had never seen it in the back mountain. He was confused, but he was also afraid of getting lost in a place he had never been to, or encountering other wild animals.
He hesitated a little, but soon he heard the sound of wild boars screaming and hitting trees from the cave behind him. Shen Qing clenched the backpack tightly and encouraged himself secretly: What are you afraid of? If you don't try, how do you know if there is a way out? Maybe if you turn out of these huge rocks, you can see the familiar scenery.
Even if I don't see the familiar road in the end, I can just come back. It's not my style not to even try, how can I be willing to accept that!
Shen Qing took a deep breath, held the hatchet tightly in his hand, and began to walk out of the boulder group. However, the wild boar incident today taught him a lesson. Every ten steps he took, he had to leave a clear mark on the nearby boulder or on the ground, and he was extremely focused on listening to the sounds around him.
After walking about fifty steps and going down a long flight of stairs, Shen Qing finally got out of the boulders after he could no longer hear the wild boars behind him. Without the obstruction of the boulders, the view in front of him suddenly became wider.
He stood at the foot of the rockery, in front of him was an open flat land, and under his feet was still the strange gray flat ground, which was much harder to step on than the yellow soil. Looking up, there were some towering giants in the distance, some like pillars, some square, some round, and some could not be described in any shape, all of which were things Shen Qing had never heard of or seen before.
This is not the back mountain. Shen Qing's throat rolled. What...place is this?
This place is weird everywhere! It's not the place where he lived before. Shen Qing felt his heart beating faster and faster in his chest, so fast that his face and ears were burning. Reason told him that he should go back to the cave immediately, otherwise he would encounter the "wild boar" again, but for some reason, he stood there, took a few deep breaths, and moved towards the many tall rectangular pillars.
Shen Qing has always been brave. The brothers didn't dare to fight with the boys, but he did; no one dared to go into the mountains, but he did it to fill his stomach and survive. Not to mention breaking off ties with his own father and living alone with his mother... Time and time again, he did things that others didn't dare to do, but because he was brave enough, no one dared to bully him anymore, and he lived a good life today, right?
Now facing this strange and unknown world, he wants to be brave again and see what opportunities there are.
As the old saying goes, the brave will die of overeating while the timid will die of starvation, and Shen Qing has always believed that. Moreover, he couldn't explain it, but it seemed that there was some inexplicable premonition urging him to move forward faster and faster.
What awaits him ahead may be an adventure that can change his current situation and his destiny.
There was no one on the road. The scenery along the way was also bizarre, with excellent flowers and plants, planted in strange but regular shapes. There were tall and wide houses with no one, the doors were wide open, and there were scattered miscellaneous items inside. Shen Qing stood at the door and looked around for a while, but still resisted not going in to pick up the items. There were also more than a dozen fake horses in a circle, decorated with various gorgeous ornaments, and boats and sedan chairs suspended in the air.
I don't know what material it is made of, but it doesn't look like wood.
But large patches of dark red and black, like blood, could be seen everywhere on the ground and walls, and there were even a few pools of unknown rotten matter. The air was filled with a faint fishy and stench.
Shen Qing was nervous. He walked about two or three miles forward and heard voices in front of him. It was as noisy as several villages going to market together. Shen Qing was refreshed and was about to hurry up when he suddenly heard a huge roar behind him. He had never heard such a sound before. He stood there in a daze and looked back.
In the distance, three people were seen riding a strange iron horse, two men and one woman, and their clothes were also very strange. This was the first time Shen Qing saw people since he arrived here. Just as he was looking carefully, the man in front of him convulsed and fell off the horse. The iron horse also fell to the ground and slid and rolled far away. The two people sitting in the back got up from the ground in panic, leaving their companions and running forward frantically.
"It's changed, it's changed! Xiao Wang has been infected!" the woman screamed in horror.
The man who fell off the iron horse twitched a few times on the ground, but within a few breaths, he stood up with a twisted body, let out a roar more terrifying than that of a wild boar, and chased after his two companions.
Shen Qing had a bad feeling. He took a few steps back and stood against the wall with his hand on the hatchet. He didn't know what was going on, whether he should run or where to run.
The man called Xiao Wang ran very fast. The two in front were about to be caught up. When they saw Shen Qing standing in front of them with the hatchet in his hand, the man and woman were surprised and shouted, "Save us!"
As they were talking, they had already run ahead of Shen Qing. Without these two people blocking the way, Shen Qing could see that the one chasing behind him, in the blink of an eye, all the exposed skin including the entire head and face turned blue and purple, the mouth and nose were rapidly rotting, and yellow and white mucus was flowing out, the eyes were scarlet, and the nails were black and green and long.
That's not a living person! The zombies in the stories told by the old people in their village are not so scary!
But he was a normal person just now, riding a bicycle...
Even though he was brave and strong, Shen Qing was frightened. He didn't even dare to face a wild boar head-on, let alone a ghost! The hatchet in his hand was not good enough, so he turned around and ran.
Shen Qing was used to farm work, and he often carried hundreds of kilograms of firewood on his back while walking on mountain roads. His physical strength was naturally not bad, and with his long legs, he could surpass the two people in front of him in just a few steps. The two people saw Shen Qing holding a hatchet and thought he was an old hand at killing zombies, but they didn't expect that Shen Qing had not yet solved the zombies behind him and was about to surpass them, which made them even more anxious.
The zombies behind were getting closer and closer. The man in the group wanted to push Shen Qing: "You have a knife, why don't you kill that zombie quickly!"
"I don't dare! I can't beat him!" Shen Qing replied, and just ran forward with all his strength: What a joke, this guy doesn't have a red mole between his eyebrows, and he is taller than me, he is obviously a man. He himself doesn't dare to kill this monster called a zombie, but he asks me, a brother, to go? What can I do with this hatchet that is less than two feet long?
Why would he stand in front of these two people he didn't even know and die? Shen Qing wasn't stupid!
Seeing that Shen Qing was unwilling to kill the zombies, the man gritted his teeth, turned around suddenly and kicked Shen Qing hard on the knee. Shen Qing did not expect him to do this and was kicked to the ground unexpectedly.
"Mr. Feng!" The woman was startled and looked at the man in front of her in horror.
"Why are you standing there? If we don't sacrifice him, we'll be the ones to die!" The man pulled the stunned woman and continued to run forward.
The woman's eyes flashed slightly and she glanced towards Shen Qing twice, but she did not stop.
People are evil! Shen Qing felt a sharp pain in his knee and fell to the ground, which agitated the wound on his arm. He was in so much pain that he couldn't stand up. He suddenly understood why there was so much blood on the ground and walls, and even what those suspicious decayed things were.
The people in this world will actually turn into monsters called zombies and eat humans.
Shen Qing was very unwilling to accept this. He was in danger twice in one day, and he regretted his recklessness very much, but there is no medicine for regret in the world, and the ghost was about to come to him.
He had finally gotten away from the Shen family and was going to live a good life with his mother. If he died, how would his mother live?
He couldn't die here! His mother was still waiting for him at home! Shen Qing cursed the person who pushed him in his heart. His strong desire to survive supported him to hold the hatchet tightly with his uninjured hand.
He kept brainwashing himself: This man wasn't very tall and strong before he turned into a monster. In the village, he could beat two of them with his bare hands! Now he has a hatchet in his hand, so he may not be able to defeat this monster!
Let's fight! Don't look at its face, don't look at its face, just treat it as a wild boar, just treat it as a wild boar——
Shen Qing was muttering something, and was about to fight the monster to the death, but the monster ran straight past him and was tripped by Shen Qing's legs. Time seemed to freeze at that moment, and the zombie paused for a moment, and then it was as if Shen Qing did not exist at all, without even looking at Shen Qing, and continued to chase the man and woman in front.
Shen Qing withdrew his legs in horror.
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