Fortunately, Si Nan and the others didn’t have to wait long before Yang Wentao and the other two came back.
The three people's cars were empty. Seeing Si Nan and the others, Yang Wentao stopped the tricycle lane and said, "Brother Cheng, we found a place where a lot of supplies may be hidden."
Cheng Suming put the canned yellow peaches in the glass bottle on his tricycle and asked without looking up: "Where are you and what problem did you encounter?"
"It was a large shopping mall that had collapsed severely and was covered by layers of rocks. There were traces of people marking the area."
"Oh? Have you been marked?"
"Yes." It was Sheng Youqing who answered him. She braked the tricycle panting, jumped off the tricycle, stood up straight and said, "When we were looking for supplies nearby, Youbin found that the ruins had been obscurely sprayed with a 'X' symbol with white paint. He dug there for a while, looked down from a hole, and found a lot of food hidden inside."
Sheng Youbin supported himself with his only right hand and jumped down the driveway from the back of the car. "The ruins are buried too deep, and the light is dim. I can't see clearly below, but I feel that there should be a lot of rice and other food hidden inside. The area is quite large, and there are too many tons of rock beams and buildings piled on top. We can't move them away."
"These are not the main points." Yang Wentao continued, "This place is very close to the Stone Mountain. Logically, when the army came to rescue after the earthquake, the survivors here would follow the army to the Stone Mountain to seek shelter. But when we were checking the ruins, I found that many people were hiding in the nearby ruins and observing us. I tried to catch someone and ask them what they wanted to do, but I didn't expect those people to run very fast and disappear in the blink of an eye. Obviously, they are very familiar with the ruins. Those people were reluctant to leave the ruins and even marked and observed the people who came to the ruins to search for supplies. I guess there must be a lot of supplies hidden under the ruins, which is why they did this. With the current weapon capabilities of the five of us, it may be difficult to swallow the supplies in the ruins."
"If what you think is true, and we want to swallow those supplies, we will definitely get into big trouble." Cheng Su Ming stood next to the tricycle, sorting out the dirt on his clothes.
"But we knew there were supplies in the ruins, so why did we just give up?" Sheng Youqing said anxiously, "I'm not willing to give up. Didn't we come here to look for supplies and exchange them for points in the army?"
"Youqing, don't worry." Si Nan comforted her: "It's difficult for the five of us to get those supplies. If we want to get them, it's best to borrow the help of the army."
"You mean..." Sheng Youqing's eyes lit up.
Si Nan drank the last sip of the sweet soup from the canned yellow peaches in his hand and said, "What we can't eat, we can use the army's hands to eat. With so many supplies, we can inform the military and help them get the supplies. Not only can we smuggle some food, but we can also earn a lot of points. It's really killing two birds with one stone."
"So let's go back and report now?"
"For something like reporting a message, one person is enough."
"I'll go." Sheng Youbin came out: "I can't help with anything else, but I can report the news."
"You can't go." Sheng Youqing and Cheng Suming said in unison.
Sheng Youbin looked unhappy: "Why?"
Everyone understands that Sheng Youqing is worried that it is dangerous for Sheng Youbin to walk alone at night, but Cheng Suming opposes it, and the others don't understand.
"Those people won't let us out." Cheng Suming pointed at a shadow that flashed by in the nearby ruins. "We have been targeted. If we want to go back and tip off the enemy, we must have strong self-protection skills."
Sheng Youqing was shocked: "We were very careful all the way back, but we didn't expect to be tracked down."
Cheng Suming pondered and said, "Except for the forest farm on the mountain, there are almost no outsiders in this county. If I'm not mistaken, after the army that participated in the rescue after the earthquake left, they found the ruins and supplies. Those who wanted to covet the supplies were killed by the group that marked them. They should be waiting for some large crane or cutting equipment to take the supplies below, and they will not let us leave easily. In this case, whether we leave alone or with five people, they will not let us leave alive until they get the supplies."
"Then what should we do?" The color suddenly faded from Sheng Youbin's handsome face and he said with an uneasy look.
Si Nan said: "It's okay, we will set up camp here, make a feint to the east and attack in the west, and send one person to sneak out. We just need to stabilize them before the army arrives."
After she finished speaking, she turned to look at Cheng Suming and said in a low voice, "You are a doctor, your words are more credible than ours, and you are also capable enough to protect yourself. This time, you go to report the news."
Cheng Suming was very reluctant: "Yang Wentao also has enough ability to protect himself..."
Before he could finish his words, Si Nan made an impatient sound and poked him on the forehead with his hand: "Just go if I tell you to. Why are you wasting your time? Can't you survive without me?"
Cheng Suming raised his sword-like eyebrows, put his hand to his forehead, and made a helpless sound in his throat, "I really lost to you. Okay, okay, I will follow your arrangements."
Sheng Youqing couldn't help laughing: "I can't believe that Dr. Cheng, who looks like a beast in human form, is actually a henpecked husband."
Cheng Suming gave her a glare: "It's better to be a henpecked husband than a single dog with no one to protect him and to rely on others to hold him back."
"You!" The sharp tongue and precise attack made Sheng Youqing keep saying "you" for a long time without being able to refute a word.
Si Nan didn't bother to care about their childish bickering and handed Sheng Youqing and the other two a large can of canned fruit. After they finished eating, the five of them gathered together and discussed in a low voice what to do in the evening.
As night fell, seven or eight strong men hid behind a broken wall in the desolate ruins.
They watched five people lighting a bonfire about fifty meters away from them. The five people were laughing and playing for nearly two hours. The two women ran to the toilet where they could not see them. After a while, the three men went to the toilet separately, and then came back with their backs to them and lay down under a pile of ruins about one and a half meters high to sleep.
These five people gave them the feeling that they were not out to look for supplies, but rather out for fun. They had no sense of crisis at all, and did not even have the basic vigilance in the wild.
A younger youth whispered, "Brother Zhang, I think these five outsiders must have stumbled into our territory by mistake. Do we really need to guard them like this?"
The man called Brother Zhang said coldly, "What do you know? Those people have tricycles, and they all have normal ruddy bodies. They are people who don't have to worry about supplies. Let's not talk about where they stayed before. The two older men among them are murderous. It's obvious that they are not easy to mess with. I don't believe they came here by accident."
"Brother Zhang, do you suspect that they came here with a purpose to spy on our supplies?"
"It's hard to say. Let's observe them first. Keep a close eye on them. Don't let anyone escape. If anyone wants to escape, don't hesitate and kill them! Before Brother Tian and his men deliver the crane and cutting machine here, don't let anyone leak the news!"
"yes!"
The night was getting darker. Perhaps because it was close to the mountains and forests, Jilin County would have a thin foggy climate every night and early morning, making the vision of Zhang Ge and his group a little blurry.
The campfire of the five people had long been extinguished, and the remaining few sparks emitted a faint light in the darkness.
The five men were sleeping soundly, and their even snoring and breathing sounds made Brother Zhang and his companions feel drowsy.
Several hours passed like this, and it was around two in the morning. When several young men lowered their heads one after another, Brother Zhang suddenly said, "No!"
"What's wrong, Brother Zhang? What's wrong?" The young man woke up in shock.
Brother Zhang stood up and said, "If those five people were really asleep, they would have moved a little and turned over, but they kept the same position as before and didn't move!"
"What's the meaning?!"
"Damn it, they fooled us!"
Brother Zhang immediately grabbed his weapons and led the group of young men to rush to the place where the five people were sleeping. There were only five coats of different colors stuffed with some garbage to act as human figures, and there was no sign of anyone nearby!
"Damn it! They found us and ran away without even taking the tricycle!" Brother Zhang angrily tore a piece of clothing and shouted, "Blow the whistle and ask Lao Wang and the others to come over. Let's find them together and tear them into pieces!"
In the dark night, a sharp whistle was heard, and soon a group of men, about fifty in number, appeared from all directions. They were hiding in the nearby ruins, watching the five men's every move.
However, even under the surveillance of nearly sixty people, those five people were able to slip away without anyone noticing. Brother Zhang was so angry that he cursed and asked everyone to disperse and look for them.
Sheng Youqing hid in a drainage ditch under a collapsed restaurant, looking at the figures looking for them everywhere, retracted his head, and gave Sinan a thumbs up: "You are smart. When you saw this drainage ditch, you chose to camp nearby, and then slowly sneaked over here through the hole under the ruins. As long as we stay hidden here, with so many ruins covering us, they shouldn't be able to find us."
Si Nan said: "Don't be too happy yet, our tricycle is still outside, we have to find a way to get it back."
While she was going to the bathroom, she secretly took out a mountain bike from the space and hid it behind the ruins of the restaurant.
Cheng Suming's glasses have night vision function, which allows him to see everything clearly in the dark. He told Si Nan the location of the people hiding around them early in the morning. He avoided the crowd, picked up his bicycle, and left without anyone noticing.
Yang Wentao said: "Don't act rashly. It doesn't matter if those people took the tricycle. We still have a lot of tricycle parts at home. When we return to Jushi Town, I can assemble a tricycle and use it again."
Si Nan was about to speak when he suddenly noticed that Sheng Youbin looked pale and pale, so he quickly asked him, "Youbin, what's wrong with you?"
"I...I can't breathe..." Sheng Youbin's chest heaved violently, his eyes were wide open, his hands were shaking badly, and he kept pinching his philtrum, as if he would faint at any time.
The drainage channel was less than one meter wide. They smuggled here from a hole in the wall of the ruins one hundred meters away. The five of them were squatting closely together in the waterway, unable to make any big movements.
Above their heads there were densely packed, stacked layers of collapsed ruins of various buildings, which were crumbling and shed dust and dirt. This reminded Sheng Youbin of the horrific experience of being trapped under the ruins of a hospital for nearly a week during the earthquake. He developed post-traumatic stress disorder, and looking at the ruins above his head, he felt as if he was buried again and could not breathe.
"Youbin, don't scare me." Sheng Youqing stretched out her arm and held Sheng Youbin's trembling hand, almost crying in anxiety.
Yang Wentao was very knowledgeable. Seeing Sheng Youbin's condition, he frowned and said, "If he doesn't have any respiratory or allergic diseases, then he should be suffering from the stress left over from the earthquake. He has claustrophobia and can't breathe. We need to go to the ground and help him overcome his psychological trauma. Otherwise, he won't be able to breathe and will be in danger of shock and death."
Sheng Youqing hesitated and said, "There are so many people outside looking for us. If we really go up, what if they find us?"
"Then let's fight them." Si Nan slowly took out a crossbow from her bag among a bunch of crumbling buildings, and took out the sharp scalpel that Cheng Suming gave her, and said calmly: "Go up first, we can't joke with Youbin's life."
Sheng Youqing wanted to say something, but Sinan had already crouched and started to move. As he walked, he said to her and Yang Wentao, "Youqing, take Youbin back to the original position and hide near the cave entrance. Don't go anywhere and don't make any noise. Leave the rest to me and Yang Wentao. Yang Wentao, let's have a competition to see who can kill the most people."
They started fighting as soon as they had a disagreement, and even had a competition to see who could kill the most people. Sheng Youqing's eyes widened, and he felt that the image of his friend in his mind was about to change again.
Si Nan is certainly not the kind of pervert who kills for pleasure. He said this just to give Sheng Youqing and her brother a safe and reliable image so that they can hide without any psychological burden.
She and Yang Wentao went out mainly to lure that group of people to leave here. If they knew what was good for them and didn't attack her, she would naturally not do it. If they wanted to kill her, she would not be polite either.
Yang Wentao understood this and told her to be careful. He took out an iron ring from his pocket and put it on his hand. He then took out a solid iron rod one meter long and two fingers thick as a weapon. After climbing out of the cave with Sinan, the two ran in different directions, one east and one west.
The crunching sound of their footsteps on the ruins attracted the attention of Brother Zhang and his group: "There's movement!"
"Fuck, there are people on both sides, chase them separately!"
Sinan was still wearing the conspicuous red windproof suit before going out today. Under the light of flashlights held by nearly twenty-five people led by Brother Zhang, his slender figure looked so dazzling among the ruins.
Brother Zhang led his men to chase after them for a distance, but he felt something was wrong. He stopped and said, "I feel uneasy. I feel like that woman is leading us somewhere and ambushing us."
In today's world, there are too many cases of people using women, the elderly, the weak and the young as bait.
For example, the gang of robbers that Brother Zhang belonged to had repeatedly used beautiful, pregnant women to solicit help from passers-by who had a lot of supplies, lured them into traps they had set in advance, killed them all, and then took their supplies for themselves.
The woman in front seemed to be fleeing in panic, but her steps were always slow as she led them to an unknown place. Brother Zhang was too familiar with this routine and couldn't help but become suspicious.
The young man asked, "Are we just going to let her go?"
Brother Zhang thought for a moment and said, "Take half of the people and spread them out. Run ahead of her as fast as possible and stop her. We'll see what she's up to."
The night was dark and foggy, and if some people disappeared, the woman in front would not notice anything.
Soon Si Nan was blocked from all directions by the young man and his men on a cracked road. Brother Zhang arrived and saw the weapon in her hand. He spat at her and said, "You bitch, run!"
Si Nan avoided his saliva, opened his clear eyes, looked at him quietly, and said nothing.
The expression on her face was very indifferent, without the panic, crying and begging for mercy that Brother Zhang had imagined. This made Brother Zhang alert: "Bitch, where is your accomplice? Tell me and I'll spare your life!"
"What if I don't tell you?" Si Nan stood upright on the cracked road with the crossbow in his hand, and gave Brother Zhang a mocking smile, "Kill me?"
The night breeze blew by, and the ends of her ponytail fluttered in the wind, making her look like a red spider lily blooming in the dark night, mysterious, beautiful, and full of weirdness and danger.
Brother Zhang felt that his authority was challenged, and he gritted his teeth and said, "You're looking for death!"
He winked at the young man, and without hesitation, the young man led his men to pick up steel bars, iron bars, machetes and other weapons and attacked Sinan from all directions.
"You forced me to do this." Si Nan murmured in a low voice.
The next moment, she raised the crossbow in her hand, her eyes like an eagle, emitting a cold and sharp light, looking at everyone who attacked her.
Every time she turned her body, someone would fall down, utter a scream, and fall to the ground twitching and bleeding with an iron arrow stuck in the chest or forehead.
The young man and his group were stunned by her decisive and fierce archery skills. When she shot five people in one breath and turned around to aim the crossbow at him and the other three people, they subconsciously dodged to the side.
While they were distracted, Si Nan turned around and ran towards a ruin on the side of the road. Seeing this, Brother Zhang yelled, "What the hell are you all standing there for! Chase him!"
Little did they know that Si Nan was running not because he was timid, but because he wanted to load the crossbow in his hand with five arrows and shoot them like a kite while running. Then he took out the stun gun, chili powder, and □□ from the space and hid them in the large-capacity pockets of his windproof suit, then hid in the darkness and fought them to the death.
Soon Brother Zhang and his men realized that they were chasing the wrong person. The woman was running around in the dark like a ghost, holding a crossbow in her hand, and constantly launching sneak attacks and shooting at them. Every arrow she shot would definitely knock down one person.
When the flashlight shone on her, all one could see was her long hair flying in the wind and her eyes were cold as she gave everyone a weird smile. The next moment, death was coming.
Brother Zhang was secretly wondering who this woman was. Why was her arrow so accurate that she could kill someone with one shot? And she could also run in the dangerous ruins without lights or vision. Could it be that this woman had been a soldier?
As soon as this thought came to his mind, he saw the woman rolling down from the 145-meter-high rubble, letting out a dull cry of pain.
"Keep running, keep running!" Brother Zhang shone the flashlight in his hand over there and saw that she had fallen with a bloody head. It seemed that her brain had hit a sharp stone, and her legs were scratched and stuck by some sharp steel materials. She couldn't get up for a long time. He couldn't help laughing, holding the long knife in his hand, and walked over carefully with the remaining less than fifteen people.
They walked to a position 20 meters away from Si Nan, and confirmed that the crossbow in her hand had no arrows and her legs were stuck and unable to move. Only then did Zhang Ge boldly walk in front of her, raised his hand and slapped Si Nan hard, gnashing his teeth and saying hatefully: "You bitch, you are quite capable after killing so many of my brothers! Keep running now! Keep fighting! I can't get rid of my hatred even if I kill you a thousand times! Today I will let you taste what it means to be worse off than dead!"
As he was about to use the knife to cut Si Nan's face, he saw a charming smile on her bloody face and whispered to him, "Be careful!"
“Bang!”
A gunshot rang out in the sky, and Sheng Youqing and her brother, who were hiding near the entrance of the ruins, felt their hearts tremble at the same time.
"Who is shooting?" Sheng Youqing sat up suddenly, "Did something happen to Yang Wentao, or..."
"No, no, no, it's impossible. Nothing will happen to Si Nan. She is so powerful now. She will be fine."
Sheng Youqing patted her cheeks, forced herself to calm down, and pulled Sheng Youbin to stand up: "Come on, Youbin, come with me to find Sinan. We can't be cowards here anymore and let her and Yang Wentao protect us. Let's go find her. If we die, we die together, and if we live, we live together!"
Her choked voice made Sheng Youbin's eyes red. He did not object and let her hold him tightly. The brother and sister moved forward in the dark towards the direction of the gunshot.
The gunfire continued, at least five or six shots were fired intermittently, which was particularly harsh in the silent darkness.
After hearing the gunshot, Yang Wentao paused slightly, then he punched the man in front of him in the eye socket and took back the bloody iron knuckles. When the man covered his eyes and wailed, he stretched out his strong arms, grabbed the man's head and twisted it hard, and the screams stopped abruptly.
Seeing this, the other people who were besieging him retreated one after another.
Before the apocalypse, they were all ordinary people who had hardly exercised. After the apocalypse, in order to survive and to rob other people of their supplies, they gradually embarked on the path of killing and seizing goods.
They thought they were ruthless enough, but in the face of absolute strength, with Yang Wentao's height of nearly 1.85 meters, his absolutely oppressive burly figure and fierce fighting skills, the 25 of them who besieged him together, now there are less than nine people left.
Looking at the bodies of the people who had been beaten to death all over the ground, the remaining nine people looked at each other, turned around and ran away without saying a word.
According to Yang Wentao's character of cutting the grass at its roots, under normal circumstances, no matter how these people run, he will catch them and get rid of them all, so that he can sleep peacefully.
But now, the situation on Si Nan's side was unclear, and he had to rush to save Si Nan, so he let them go and turned to move towards the direction of the gunshots.
When Sheng Youqing and her brother stumbled and found Si Nan, she was holding a pack of wet wipes and wiping the blood off her face.
Around her, there were corpses lying in pools of blood. Their deaths looked horrible, either shot in the head with their brains bursting with blood, or their throats cut. The blood dyed the ruins red, and the air was filled with a strong, sickening smell of blood.
"Sinan!" Sheng Youqing rushed to her without saying anything, tears falling from her eyes, and reached out to feel around her body: "Where are you hurt? Where were you shot? I heard a gunshot..."
"I wasn't shot, they were the ones who were shot." Si Nan shook the gun in his left hand and said, "I never told you that I once stole a gun from Wu En's night raid on the bandits before the water receded."
She smiled at Sheng Youqing, her smile as bright as the sunshine in the gradually brightening morning. "The gun in my hand is my amulet and my trump card. That's why I have the courage to fight so many people alone."
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