At four o'clock that afternoon, the car finally returned to Shiqiu, and it seemed that nothing had changed.
Upon reaching the mine in the mountains, everyone began unloading ore. This time, due to the saber-toothed tiger incident, the vehicle wasn't full, but in any case, they wouldn't be going to the canyon again until next spring.
An hour later, everyone except Gu Yuxin, Gu Yuxin, and Li Ruisi gathered in the cave to rest.
Inside the container, Lu Wuyai embraced Su Xi, feeling her warmth. His nerves completely relaxed, and he fell asleep in the blink of an eye.
When he woke up again, it was already the morning of the next day.
After sleeping for a full twelve hours, Lu Wuyai touched his hungry stomach and felt like he could eat a whole bison.
"It seems very quiet outside." Lu Wuyai walked to the cave entrance. As soon as he opened it, a blast of cold air sent a chill down his spine. At the same time, he also saw the white snow outside.
"It's really snowing." Lu Wuyai was stunned for a moment. There were still half a month until the beginning of winter, but it was snowing early.
Although snow isn't as cold as snow, the current temperature is much colder than in late autumn.
At this moment, Lu Wuyai remembered the three women living on the other side of the river, so he simply walked to the container, took out some winter quilts and down jackets, and gave them to them.
It's seven in the morning. Lu Wuyai is walking outside; the sky is still a bit overcast.
He tapped rhythmically on the wooden plank at the entrance of the cave, and soon someone opened the door; it was Gu Yuxin.
"How did you get here?" Gu Yuxin gasped for breath. The temperature outside was so low. If someone hadn't knocked on the door, she could have slept a little longer.
Lu Wuyai handed her the down jacket and blanket, informing her that it had snowed.
Gu Yuxin was surprised to hear the news of the snow, but he quickly accepted the fact.
"This winter might be very cold," she said helplessly.
Actually, not much snow fell, and it didn't accumulate on the grass. On the contrary, the rocks on the hill were a bit white, which was rather cute.
At nine o'clock, everyone gathered on the grassland and began a new round of hay harvesting.
The morning air was crisp and clear, and the golden sun shone on the earth, chasing away the snowflakes.
From that day until early November, for two whole weeks, Lu Wuyai and his women harvested grass from ten mountains. They not only filled the two previously excavated underground spaces, but also opened up a new one: a storage room.
This hay is enough to feed the cattle and goats for four months.
That night, they started a fire with stones on the fence. White snow drifted in the air. The perfect setting and the aroma of the barbecue were intoxicating.
Lu Wuyai took a bottle of red wine from the pool and placed it in the cool water at dusk.
The red wine is very rich and full-bodied. I heard Gu Yuxin say that a bottle of this kind of red wine might cost tens of thousands of yuan elsewhere.
“Eat freely,” Lu Wuyai said with a smile, pointing to several hundred bottles of this red wine in the container.
Bathed in the orange glow of the fire, everyone gradually became more talkative, while Lu Wuyai, as a man, was only responsible for handling the grilled meat.
The meat from these black panthers was brought back from the last expedition. After this period of consumption, there's not much left.
Recalling the infection incident he encountered in the canyon last time, Lu Wuyai dared not go hunting, because he could not guarantee that the animals he hunted would be healthy.
Tomorrow is the start of winter, and tonight they will bid farewell to late autumn.
As night deepened, the campfire gradually died down, and snowflakes began to fall from the sky.
Lu Wuyai stayed behind to clean up the "battlefield," while Tang Xin and the others were already completely drunk, supporting each other as they walked towards the stone mountain.
Upon arriving here, after the campfire in the pile of rocks had gone out, as they were preparing to leave, Lu Wuyai saw Gu Yuxin vomiting while supporting the cowshed. There was no one else on the grass.
Lu Wuyai walked over and patted Gu Yuxin, noticing that she was wearing a close-fitting black cotton sweater that accentuated her perfect curves and stunning figure.
Looking at Gu Yuxin, who had looked up at him, Lu Wuyai swallowed hard. With his flushed cheeks and dazed eyes, he couldn't even control himself.
So, Lu Wuyai wrapped his arms around Gu Yuxin's slender waist. Seeing that she didn't struggle, an irresistible desire suddenly surged into his heart.
Gu Yuxin was clearly drunk and didn't realize that she was now incredibly alluring to men.
Lu Wuyai reached out to explore Mount Everest as he saw it. Just as I expected, he couldn't cover it with one hand... A subtle feeling spurred him to take the next step.
As a result, Gu Yuxin suddenly pushed him, covered her face, and ran away.
Staring at his opponent's retreating figure, Yang Jiao was stunned for three seconds. By the time he came to his senses, Gu Yuxin was already gone.
Under the night sky, cold snowflakes fell on Lu Wuyai's face, gradually extinguishing the desire aroused by Gu Yuxin.
With a wry smile, Lu Wuyai shook his head and left. When he returned to the cave, the women were already asleep in their small cubicles.
......
The next day, when Lu Wuyai returned to the cowshed and looked at Gu Yuxin, the momentous event of the previous night naturally came to mind. He sighed to himself; what he had seen was indeed different from what he had actually explored.
Noticing Lu Wuyai's eyes, Gu Yuxin's face flushed crimson. Although he had drunk too much last night, the scene hadn't been disrupted, and what had happened was still vivid in her mind.
"With a bang."
Suddenly, a series of muffled sounds came from the sky, the sound coming from afar and getting closer, like thunder.
Lu Wuyai looked up at the sky. Although it was cloudless, he felt an inexplicable pressure.
"What is this?" Su Xi asked curiously.
Everyone frowned. There wasn't much to cover nearby, but the sound kept getting louder.
Lu Wuyai waved to everyone, signaling them to come closer and not wander around.
"It looks like an airplane, but the engine is too loud," Lu Wuyai said.
As a result, just a few seconds later, a fighter jet suddenly appeared in the air and rushed toward the rocky mountain at an extremely high speed.
Seeing this scene, everyone's scalp tingled. They only breathed a sigh of relief when they finally saw where the fighter jet had crashed.
The plane eventually crashed on the gentle slope of a sunny hill, which was also the direction of the beach.
The plane exploded the moment it landed, and there was absolutely no chance of survival for the people and supplies inside.
However, Lu Wuyai and the others still carried buckets of water and quickly put out the fire.
The wreckage of the plane was exposed in the air, but Lu Wuyai was still surprised when he found that there was no one in the cockpit.
"What's wrong."
"There's no one in the driver's cab."
"Could it be that the bodies have all evaporated?"
It's not impossible. After all, falling from such a height, a body would most likely be crushed into pieces.
“The body shouldn’t have evaporated.” Gu Yuxin shook her head and said, “Look at the wreckage. It’s mostly intact, which means the plane wasn’t very high off the ground when the accident happened. The pilot may have escaped.”
Based on the crash route, the other plane likely landed on a deserted island.
“I’m going to look for something else, but don’t rush.” Lu Wuyai walked to the tail of the plane and searched the surrounding area for the remaining items.
A few minutes later, Lu Wuyai searched the wreckage, but unfortunately found nothing.
Soon, Su Xi returned in a pickup truck.
Everyone worked together to load the wreckage into a car and transport it to a deadwood forest for burial.
“Tell me, how many people saw what just happened?” Yu Mengrou said, distressed, on the way back.
Lu Wuyai pondered, "There probably won't be too many. Even if you see something that lasts for a few seconds, it won't mean much."
The plane wreckage has been disposed of. Even if someone were to come to the rocky hill out of curiosity, the traps set nearby would be enough to feed them.
Moreover, it was early in the morning when Lu Wuyai took his sickle and continued to cut grass on the nearby mountain.
The women would dry the hay at the appropriate time, then load the bundled hay onto the cart, and return to the cowshed at dusk.
Woof woof woof.
A few barks drew everyone's attention, and they saw several humans standing as straight as bamboo poles in the dry grass in the distance. The wolfhounds barked at each other, looking very tense.
"Come here." Lu Wuyai whistled, calling the wolfhound back.
He could tell that those humans were abnormal; they seemed to have conjunctivitis.
Lu Wuyai pulled out his gun and told the other women to get into the car first, ready to leave at any time.
“There are people over there too,” Su Xi said, pointing to the other side.
Sure enough, on this unharvested grassland, a large number of people with conjunctivitis appeared. There seemed to be at least twenty of them. Standing in the grass, they were difficult to spot when the wind blew. They looked like ghosts.
"Go quickly!" Lu Wuyai shouted as he ran with the wolfhound.
The small truck sped toward the fence.
Behind them, the virus carriers were extremely frenzied, like wild horses that had broken free, relentlessly chasing Lu Wuyai at the speed of hunting dogs, baring their teeth and roaring incessantly.
"Lu Wuyai, hurry up!" Su Xi leaned out of the car and called out anxiously.
Lu Wuyai took a breath: "You go first, don't stop, don't worry about me."
After speaking, Lu Wuyai suddenly chose a different direction, swung his arms, and increased his speed to the extreme.
"Where are you going? What are you doing?" Su Xi couldn't help but call out again.
Gu Yuxin, who was standing nearby, suddenly remembered something and said, "There used to be a trap..."
No sooner had he finished speaking than a loud noise suddenly rang out from a fence, and the firelight was particularly noticeable in the dim light.
That was the sound of a grenade exploding. It was sudden and unexpected, caused by the conjunctivitis patients who were chasing Lu Wuyai, and it caused them great harm.
As for Lu Wuyai, he knew beforehand that there was a trap, so he ran wildly and killed several patients with conjunctivitis.
At this point, the car crossed the fence and continued rushing towards the rocky mountain.
"Gu Yuxin, please go back into the cave and don't come out," Mo Luoyi called out. Then Gu Yuxin and the other three people ran into the cave and locked themselves inside.
The remaining few people followed the car and stopped on the rocky hill. They all held guns and watched the approaching red-eyed patient.
At this moment, twilight completely enveloped the deserted island. In the darkness, red eyes flickered like sparks.
"uh-huh."
These infected people roared like wild beasts and charged toward the rocky mountain.
In the next second, countless mechanisms were triggered, some were arrows, some were rope traps, and some were even more terrifying firearms.
Inside the cave, Song Xiaoyou and Xia Qingming returned, carrying two submachine guns. This was their first time using them, so they seemed a little hesitant.
"I've been shot."
Bullets formed a fiery net on the rocky hill, their clattering sounds spreading rapidly through the silent night.
In less than half a minute, there were no more patients with conjunctivitis on the rocky hill; those people had been riddled with bullets.
As for Lu Wuyai, the humans chasing him were also killed in the continuous explosions. Blood was splattered everywhere, and dogs barked.
"Let's go," Lu Wuyai shouted to several wolfhounds that were sniffing human blood on the ground. Lu Wuyai was worried that they would be infected.
A few minutes later, Lu Wuyai came over with diesel fuel and a torch, picked up the corpse from the ground, and then burned it clean with a large fire.
On the rocky mountain, the same scene was unfolding. Su Xi and the others looked at the corpses engulfed in flames, their expressions solemn and their hearts heavy.
Soon, everyone saw that Lu Wuyai had returned, and as if they had found a pillar of support, their tense emotions temporarily relaxed.
"Lu Wuyai, why do you think there are so many patients with red eyes?" Su Xi and the others felt uneasy.
Lu Wuyai shook his head. Perhaps it was because it was winter; even they needed "food"...
That night, many people suffered from insomnia and fell asleep around dawn.
The next day, Lu Wuyai arrived at the laboratory and found that Song Xiaoyou and Gu Yuxin had already woken up and were making traps.
Based on yesterday's experience, traps are really effective, especially for these irrational patients. They're just magical tools.
"Do you need help?" Lu Wuyai asked proactively.
The two women nodded and made room for Lu Wuyai to help them.
Making a regular trap isn't difficult, but killing those with conjunctivitis requires a different kind of trap.
At nine o'clock in the morning, Lu Wuyai took all the mousetraps and went to the cowshed first. He re-covered the traps that had been blown up the night before and hid a powerful animal trap ten meters away.
Oh, and Lu Wuyai also made a warning sign. How many people will heed it remains to be seen.
Similarly, near the rocky mountain, Lu Wuyai and his group laid out almost a whole circle of traps to protect all areas, including the pool.
In addition, Lu Wuyai and others completely restricted the freedom of the wolfhounds, tying them up outside the cowshed to prevent them from running around for the time being.
Two-thirds of the traps this time are bomb traps, which are extremely powerful and can be ignited if one is not careful.
"Everyone has been very careful lately, trying to familiarize themselves with the location of the traps as soon as possible, because danger could strike at any time."
Lu Wuyai also took out several crossbows and had the female soldiers practice shooting accuracy in order to improve the bullet hit rate in actual combat.
Bows and crossbows are highly flexible mechanical devices, whose power is actually no less than that of bullets, and may even be more lethal.
Numerous targets were erected in the cowshed and on the lawn dozens of meters away. Lu Wuyai even made full use of the wolfhounds, tying the targets to them and letting them run around anytime, anywhere.
Aiming at a moving target is difficult. During one morning of training, apart from Song Xiaoyou who was able to concentrate somewhat, the other female team members all failed, which left most of them very frustrated.
"It's best to aim at a fixed target first, and then you should eat the food one bite at a time," Song Xiaoyou said to Lu Wuyai.
Soon, the afternoon training focused on shooting at static targets, and the results were excellent.
Lu Wuyai also practices longbow here, because bullets will eventually run out, and he must plan ahead and consider the future.
Lu Wuyai is even considering raising a few horses next year, so that if there are no cars in the future, they will have their own means of transportation.
For the past two weeks, everyone has been improving their photography skills.
During this period, many patients with red eyes appeared in the nearby bushes, and some animals, such as wolves and tigers, suddenly went mad.
These animals cause more trouble than humans because they are so fast that bullets can hardly hit them.
Outside the cowshed, a pickup truck was always parked. Inside the truck were several wild rabbits, which Lu Wuyai used as a trap to lure animals.
Once a frenzied animal appears, Lu Wuyai will kill the rabbit and use its blood to attract the animal, while he drives the car at top speed towards the nearby deadwood forest.
The withered forest we see today was also built by Lu Wuyai and his group, especially the mud pits and quicksand. Once trapped, no one can escape.
Using this trap, Lu Wuyai killed five tigers and countless wolves.
In late November, as the weather grew colder, Lu Wuyai and his group continued practicing their shooting skills near the cowshed. The women's skills began to improve steadily, with noticeable results.
Although it was difficult to pinpoint exactly where to hit, at least seven out of ten static targets could be hit. Everyone was very satisfied with the result.
As for dynamic goals, I only recently started practicing them again, and I've made significant progress compared to before.
Occasionally, three raccoons will appear in the bamboo grove near the cowshed. Their innocent appearance always makes people want to pet them.
As the cold winter approached, Lu Wuyai and the others built a cement space underground in the bamboo forest. Although it wasn't very large, it was definitely warm.
That evening, in the cave, Lu Wuyai saw Song Xiaoyou write "30" on the page, and then he remembered that today was the last day of November.
"Tomorrow is the last day of the year," Lu Wuyai said.
"Yes." Song Xiaoyou was suddenly filled with emotion: "Unbeknownst to us, this will be our third New Year on this deserted island."
Su Xi and You Li returned from outside, each carrying a bucket. After hearing this, they also marveled at how quickly time had passed.
"Oh, by the way, it's snowing again outside," Su Xi said.
It was a heavy snowfall, and the snow continued to fall until the third day. A thick layer of snow was piled on the ground, like a blanket.
The outside temperature is very cold, below freezing, and it stings when I breathe.
Lu Wuyai returned from outside, brought a few thick bamboo poles, chopped them into pieces, and then measured his shoes.
"Making skis again?" Yuri asked instinctively as she emerged from the tunnel and saw Lu Wuyai's actions.
Lu Wuyai nodded. Skis are very useful on snow. In case of an accident in winter, these skis can play a crucial role.
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