At the border between City E and Province F, the group unexpectedly discovered a village with quite a few people still living there.
"It's strange that there is a village with so many people."
After hearing Mao Qiqi say that there were more than 200 people in the village, everyone expressed surprise.
"Should we go and take a look?" Lin Xiuyuan asked.
"If it's safe enough inside, it would be a good idea for us to take Dr. Pei and the others and rest there tonight."
Su Jin thought for a moment and said.
"Go ahead, I agree too."
Nie Qing also expressed his curiosity that there were so many people in this village.
Province F is located in a plain area, and the endless fields that once stretched as far as the eye can see have now turned into endless wasteland.
However, although it is a plain, there are occasionally a few mountains. Those mountains are basically made of rocks. From a distance, they are just yellow granite with no vegetation on them.
The village was located between several rocky mountains and looked like a good place that was easy to defend but difficult to attack.
At this moment, several people who had driven the car out of the village could not help but marvel at the towering rock wall in front of them.
Were these all built by earth-type esper using rocks from the nearby mountain? Even the door in the middle is made of stone.
"Oh my god, how do I open this door?"
Fang Zhengyang in the car behind said in surprise.
"It should require an earth-type mutant to use his supernatural powers to open it," Su Jin said, looking up.
"This... we can't even knock on the door? How are we supposed to get in?"
Lin Xiuyuan walked around the wall and found that it was completely blocked, without even a gap.
“There’s someone up there.”
Mao Qiqi pointed to the top of the rock wall and said.
The people above seemed to have discovered Su Jin and his companions. After sticking their heads out to look, they left. Su Jin guessed that they were going to report.
Lu Hao looked around the area. Since this area was relatively remote and covered with vast tracts of farmland before the apocalypse, they didn't see any zombies or mutated animals. However, it was also possible that the people inside had cleared out the area.
If they want to rest at night, there is no need to go in.
Just as they were discussing, the stone door next to them was slowly opened.
A little boy was lying beside the other half of the stone door that was not opened, looking at the people outside curiously.
Then, a group of people walked out from the other half of the door. While they were looking at the people outside, Su Jin and others were also looking at them.
The people coming out of the stone gate were both men and women, but without exception, they were all elderly, and some even had white hair.
"Grandpa, they are definitely not bad people. Look, there are old men and children among them."
The little boy pointed in the direction of Pei Yuan and then in the direction of Mao Qiqi.
Pei Yuan and Mao Qiqi, who were described as old men and children, could sense that the attitude of this village was extremely unfriendly...
A man in the lead walked over. He looked to be about thirty or forty years old. He was strong and healthy and stood out among the group of elderly people.
"Hello"
The middle-aged man said.
"Hello, hello. We are going to the S City base and happened to pass by here. We would like to see if we can stay here," said Nie Qing.
The man looked at the few people, then turned around and discussed with the group behind him for a while before walking over and saying, "Come in! Everyone agrees that there is room for you to stay inside, but there is no extra food."
Su Jin was quite surprised. He could enter without paying anything?
"It's okay, we'll figure it out ourselves."
Lu Hao also said that he had a good impression of the man in front of him, and the old, weak, women and children standing there did not seem to have any malice in their eyes.
Even if the stone door was only half open, it was enough for two cars to drive in. Even Ji Yue was still sleeping in the back. His body temperature had dropped, but it was unknown when he would wake up.
The man took Su Jin and his group to the courtyard of a two-story main house.
The yard had been cleaned thoroughly, and even the tricycles and wooden carts piled in the corner were neatly placed there.
"You guys stay here first. The two old people who lived here before have passed away. By the way, my name is Xing Taian."
The man introduced himself.
Xing Taian?
Why does this name sound familiar?
But they had never seen this person before. Su Jin thought hard for a while, but couldn't remember where this sense of familiarity came from.
"Do you know Xing Taining?" Lu Hao asked.
"Oh yes, it's Xing Taining! I was wondering why I seemed to have heard this name somewhere!" Lin Xiuyuan was also instantly enlightened.
The man looked at Lu Hao and the others with surprise and asked, "Xing Taining is my brother. Have you met him? He's not dead yet?!"
"We met once in City D. He was helping the survivors at that time," Lu Hao replied with a smile.
"That's good, that's good. I thought I had no relatives left in this world."
As the man spoke, he actually started crying.
“…”
The image of this 1.8-meter-tall man squatting on the ground and crying was so beautiful, although Su Jin and the others were also very happy for him.
“Sorry, I was too excited.”
Xing Taian wiped his tears with his sleeves, stood up and motioned for everyone to go into the house to rest and chat.
It turns out that Xing Taian and Xing Taining are brothers. They were both from City D before the end of the world. However, Xing Taian's army sent him to Province F as the chief examiner for an assessment. Not long after, the end of the world came.
Lu Hao finally understood why he had felt a sense of familiarity with this man. Although this man had a scruffy beard now, his whole body exuded the feeling of a soldier.
“This village was also established by me and some brothers.”
Knowing that his brother was also helping the survivors, Xing Taian said with some relief that a soldier should act like a soldier.
“Why does it seem like there are mostly old people and children here?”
Su Jin couldn't help but ask. When they came in just now, they found that the people coming and going on the street were mostly elderly people and children...
Xing Taian sighed and started talking to a few people.
Although Province F has its own base, the elderly and young children are not allowed to enter the base after it was first built. This is not only the case in Province F, but also in many bases nearby.
Although he and a group of comrades had already entered the base, they made a decision when they saw the helpless elderly and children outside hugging each other and waiting to die.
They wanted to find a safe place to provide a safe shelter for the elderly and children who had no place to stay. Although they knew that this decision was difficult to make, they did it anyway.
"It was thanks to a local uncle who recommended this place to us. There are few zombies here and it's remote. Although many people died along the way, we are very satisfied with the development it has now."
Xing Taian said with emotion.
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