In another direction, Shao Shengan and his team encountered some difficulties.
Unlike Qiao Qingqing and the others, they also started looking for Ye Shan's location after leaving the car, but unfortunately they encountered a group of wild cannibals and were almost caught. The wild was really too big. Even though the base had often cleared the surrounding area in recent years and removed many large and small bad gathering places, the base's limited manpower could not reach the farther and more hidden places.
“Help! Help!”
"Wuwuwu, please let me go, please let me go..."
When he heard the faint noise, Shao Shengan cleverly hid with his parents and used a telescope to observe the front. This sight made his blood freeze. What kind of scene was in front of him? People were hung up and bled like livestock, blood was bubbling in the broken iron pot on the fire, and the tied people were curled up on the ground like piglets...
The people gathered around the stove pulled their hands out of the pot and started to take big bites of it. The people next to them cheered and joked. The atmosphere was as lively as if they were attending a hotpot party. The scene was cruel and absurd.
Shao Shengan put down the telescope, feeling a sour feeling in his throat and his stomach churning.
"How--" Shao's mother wanted to ask, but was stopped by Shao Shengan with a gesture.
"Don't talk, let's go first." Shao Shengan swallowed the nausea and vomiting feeling in his throat and said softly.
There are too many people on the other side, more than 20 people, both men and women. Killing people is like killing chickens. How can we afford to provoke them? The right thing to do is to avoid them as soon as possible.
Shao's father and mother always trusted their son, so they turned around and left without saying anything. Unexpectedly, just as the three of them turned around and took a few steps, a child's voice rang in their ears: "Uncle and aunt, are you playing hide-and-seek? Can you take me with you?"
The child's voice was clear and loud. At this moment, Shao Shengan seemed to hear the noise behind him pause. His face changed, and he turned around to see a boy of seven or eight years old tilting his head to look at them. When he saw him turn around, he waved and shouted, "Hey, don't go! I want to play with you too!"
"Let's go!" Shao Shengan pulled his parents and ran.
Mother Shao looked back worriedly: "Sheng An, that's still a child——"
"That's not an ordinary child, run!"
There were footsteps behind him, followed by the sound of a crossbow arrow breaking through the air. Shao Shengan let go of his hand: "Dad, get out of the way!" He dragged his mother to the side, and the two crossbow arrows missed and hit the ground.
"Get over there!" There was a ruin nearby. Shao Shengan pulled his mother over there, and his father followed closely. The three of them leaned on the ruins to catch their breath, feeling thrilled.
"Take out the bows and crossbows, suppress them with firepower and make them afraid!"
Arrows rained down, and Shao Shengan and his men retreated while shooting, finally escaping from the area.
In the temporary camp, the boys who returned to the camp were picking and choosing in the pot, but they didn't like any of them, so they sat beside it with their knees hugged, staring at the other prey tied at their feet, their young faces and eyes showing a madness that didn't match their age.
No one would believe that this is a normal child.
Ten minutes later, he heard a sound and looked up, expectantly: "Did you catch it?"
The five men sat down and put their crossbows on the ground. One of them said, "We can't catch them! The other side also has a crossbow. Why didn't you tell me, Xiao Jin?"
"Didn't I say that?" The boy tilted his head. "I did."
"You little brat, you almost killed me. I had no choice but to let them go. Don't go after prey like this next time. It's a waste of energy."
The boy said "Oh" and pointed to a girl among his prey: "I want her."
"No, it's still too young to be raised." The man grabbed something from the pot and gave it to him, "Eat it!"
Xiao Jin took it reluctantly, then climbed to the top of the ruins next to him and began to keep watch.
He thought to himself: They also have telescopes. You will definitely regret it if you don’t catch them. Telescopes are useful things.
He frowned again: Did I say that? Should I have said that? I don’t know! Never mind!
One thousand meters away, Shao Shengan and his men were still walking. The three of them had just suppressed the other side with a rain of arrows, causing them to give up on capturing them.
After walking a few hundred meters, the three of them slowed down.
"Anything can happen in the wild." Shao Sheng'an comforted them in a gentle voice, "We are lucky today that we didn't step in directly, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to escape so smoothly."
"What on earth happened just now?" Shao's father and mother were still confused.
Shao Shengan thought about it and decided to tell them. Shao's father and mother were stunned.
"I also read the base's weekly news that is posted at the entrance of the community... Is that what you saw just now?"
Shao Shengan nodded: "Actually, Qingqing and I occasionally encounter this kind of thing when we are on patrol, and we have caught some. Now it is very chaotic everywhere, and those people are even more unscrupulous without anyone to supervise them." He didn't say too much, and it was enough for his parents to digest it slowly. He looked up at the direction of the sun, and then recalled the route they had taken when they escaped just now. He roughly determined that their position had shifted a lot and needed to be adjusted.
"We can't take that road anymore. They are so reckless. Maybe they have swept the surrounding area. We need to go around a little further." But Shao Shengan had no way of being sure whether there was a second den of thieves further away. He could only take one step at a time.
"This is the only way. It's really dangerous outside. Everyone is having a hard time. Why do you still want to do bad things and hurt others?" Shao's father sighed.
"That's right. It would be great if we could work together to overcome the difficulties. We don't know how many people died in this earthquake. How come these are the only people left?" Shao's mother's eyes were red. "It's not like we have nothing to eat. We have encountered things like potatoes, which are edible. There are a lot of them once you dig them up. There are also wild vegetables. I saw a lot of people digging those things." She also put two in her backpack. They tasted delicious when roasted.
“Let’s go, let’s keep going.” Shao Shengan patted his mother’s hands.
The three of them had a narrow escape, and they didn't dare to rest, changing routes non-stop. On the way, they met a family walking towards their direction, and Shao Shengan reminded them: "There is a group there who are catching people alive to eat, you'd better not go there." He didn't say much, just this one sentence, and the family continued walking.
It is this simple and non-entangled approach that makes people feel credible.
The teenage girl asked fearfully, "Uncle, are we still leaving?"
"I don't think he's a liar. He has his parents with him, so he doesn't look like a bad person." The wife also looked at her husband.
The husband immediately said, "I've taught you not to let your guard down based on a person's appearance! The security team has taught us many times that we must be careful no matter if it's an old person, a child, or a woman!" After reminding his wife and niece, he thought for a moment and turned to look in the direction of Shao Shengan and the others.
"But they don't look like they are lying. What good would it do to lie to us? They just left after they finished talking. If they wanted to harm us, they should have persuaded us to go with them..." But now there was no trace of those three people! It was as if there was a ghost chasing them from behind, and they ran very fast.
He felt uneasy: "Let's change direction, walk a little, and don't go the same direction as the three of them - go this way!"
The family changed their route and avoided being cooked in their previous life, but being alive means there will be more variables and challenges, and nothing can be predicted.
It started to drizzle in the evening, washing away the sand in the air. Shao Shengan felt the air was much better.
"Let's take this opportunity to collect some rainwater." Shao Shengan thought that rain was a good thing for them. In the late spring and early summer, if there is more rain, the vegetation in the wild will grow better. The root system of the tuberous plants picked up during the day is very deep. If the earthquake had not turned the land upside down, these tubers hidden five or six meters below the ground would not be discovered by people. After all, no matter how much you dig for wild vegetables, you can't dig five or six meters deep. Shao Shengan suspected that the tubers grew during the previous high temperature and summer. It took several years for the roots to grow so dense and deep.
"I think God still left us a glimmer of hope." Shao Shengan said with a smile. He tried hard to use optimism to dispel some of the gloom on his parents' faces.
Mother Shao thought about it carefully and felt that what her son said made sense: "I watched the base's weekly news before, and an expert said that acid rain is effective against insects in thick fog. If acid rain falls when there is thick fog, wouldn't all the insects in the fog be killed? It's a pity that the acid rain came after the thick fog ended. Maybe this is the chance of life given by God! You see, it's been several days since the earthquake, and we also encountered a sandstorm. There is only a little water left in the bag, but it rained. Not only will we have water to drink, but other survivors will also have water to drink!"
The more she analyzed, the more hopeful Shao's mother felt.
Although she always cursed God for not leaving people a chance to survive, Shao's mother still often hoped in her heart that God would be kind and let everyone survive.
"Hurry up and fill it with water. I can't wait to drink it." Father Shao said with a smile.
They took out the empty bottles, filled them with water, and added water purification tablets, and in this way they finally replenished the water resources.
"The rain seems to be getting heavier, we have to find a place to shelter from the rain." Shao Shengan said that the emergency blanket can keep you warm, but it will not withstand being in the rain for a long time.
"Is that place okay? The houses there haven't all collapsed!" Shao's father looked around with a telescope and barely found a relatively good ruin. The three of them rushed over and dug a little, clearing out enough space for the three of them to huddle together and hide from the rain. This is actually very dangerous. If an aftershock suddenly occurs, they will most likely be buried, but there is no way. This is the only place to hide from the rain at this time. Shao Shengan covered his parents and his feet with the emergency blanket to block out the moisture a little. He looked at the gray sky and felt exhausted from running around all day. He looked at the rain curtain and couldn't help thinking of his wife, mother-in-law and eldest brother. He was glad that Qingqing had space. At least now they can live a little better, right?
Two groups of people who are connected by blood and share the same thoughts are trying hard to get closer to each other.
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