One arrow hit the target, and the other missed because the man rolled sideways.
The arrow that hit the target made the attacker scream. He had realized that he had offended someone who was not easy to deal with, and now it was important to escape. After getting up from the ground, the attacker did not even have time to pick up the crossbow that fell on the ground, and immediately changed direction and ran to the side.
"Duo!" Another arrow pierced the spot where he had just stood. The attacker looked back and continued running for his life in fear.
Qiao Qingqing's sight was blocked by a pile of rubble, so she continued to chase forward.
After running over, she saw a crossbow dropped on the ground. In front of her was a man running away with his back bent and his hands covering his shoulders. Just as she was about to aim, an arrow flew past her from behind. The attacker was hit in the side by the arrow and fell forward.
She turned around and saw Shao Shengfei holding a crossbow. She had been hearing the sound of running behind her, and knew it was her mother and Shao Shengfei, but she didn't expect Shao Shengfei to behave like this.
"I'm very accurate!" Shao Shengfei shouted proudly, "Sister, did you see it?"
Qiao Qingqing smiled and nodded: "I see, big brother is very powerful!"
Qiao Songzhi, who finally caught up, asked worriedly: "Qing, Qingqing, are you okay? You lost a lot of blood!"
Qiao Qingqing looked at her arm and said, "I'm fine. Let's go see that person first."
"Still alive." Qiao Qingqing went forward and turned the man over. The man was still alive, with blood gushing out of his mouth and cruelty and fear in his eyes.
The man looked to be in his 30s or 40s, and like them, he was covered in sand. Qiao Songzhi pursed his lips and asked Qiao Qingqing, "How should we deal with him, Qingqing?"
Shao Shengfei looked at the man and cursed, "Bad guy!" Then he squatted down and pulled the arrow out of the man's back.
The man let out another scream.
After pulling out his own arrow, Shao Shengfei pulled out another arrow shot by Qiao Qingqing from the man's shoulder. "Sister, I'll give it back to you."
"Thank you, brother." Qiao Qingqing caught the arrow and still looked at the man.
"Please let me go, I didn't mean it..." The man struggled to get up, his blood moistening his cracked lips. The cruelty in his eyes was replaced by pleading, and he showed weakness and asked for help, "Please let me go, I'll leave now."
Faced with his pleas for mercy, Qiao Qingqing remained indifferent.
This man was hit by two arrows, neither of which was fatal. He looks weak now, but it is not impossible for him to survive.
"Don't move." Qiao Qingqing held him back and turned her head. "Mom, maybe he will die a few hours after we leave, or maybe he will survive, so I can't leave any hidden dangers." She had to confirm with her own eyes that the other person was dead, rather than an Avenger jumping out from the corner one day in the future.
"Brother, don't be afraid--" She looked into Shao Shengfei's eyes, "Don't be afraid of what I'm going to do next, and don't be afraid--" Me.
Shao Shengfei seemed to understand what she said, his eyes widened, and he said to Qiao Qingqing seriously: "I love you the most, sister, don't worry, I won't hate you."
She smiled, lowered her head and stabbed the arrow into the struggling man's neck.
The blood from the aorta splashed all over Qiao Qingqing's face, and also splashed onto the face of Shao Shengfei who was squatting beside him. He raised his hand to touch it, and looked at the palm of his hand quietly.
"Wipe it, wipe it." Qiao Songzhi wanted to take a towel from his backpack to wipe them.
"Mom, don't wipe it, it's fine like this." Qiao Qingqing pulled out the arrow and threw it directly back into the quiver. The blood on the tip of the arrow drew a red arc and then fell to the ground. She held Shao Shengfei's hand and asked him, "Are you scared?"
Shao Shengfei shook his head slowly: "Sister, he is dead, right?"
The man tilted his head and closed his eyes completely.
"right."
"So this is what death means. There was so much blood..." He seemed to have thought of a lot of things. He thought of the pig's father who died in the cartoon, Moon's mother who died, the swollen corpse like a hill that he had seen in the water, the raised ice grave next to the power room in Huacheng Community, the statue he saw in the morning... The ground cracked a few days ago, and many people fell down. He pulled his sister and Mother Qiao and ran desperately. He didn't want to die. Even if he stepped on someone's hand, he didn't have time to say sorry to that person.
Shao Shengfei cried, tears flowing from his eyes that looked very similar to Shao Shengan's.
"Fei Fei..." Qiao Songzhi patted his shoulder worriedly.
Qiao Qingqing blamed herself for being cruel. Why did she have to let Shao Shengfei see her doing this? Emotionally, she also wanted to protect Shao Shengfei's innocence. Shao Shengfei was her husband's elder brother at first, and later became her elder brother. How could she be willing to hurt him? But rationally, she clearly understood that if she didn't let him see it now, there would be many others who would let him see it in the future.
She has no regrets.
Shao Shengfei cried and grabbed Qiao Songzhi's hand, then leaned his head on Qiao Qingqing's shoulder: "I don't want to die, I don't want you sisters to die, wuwuwuwu... please don't die, wuwuwuwu..."
Qiao Qingqing said softly: "You won't die, none of us will die, and I will kill anyone who wants to bully us, no matter who they are."
These words sounded horrifying, and Qiao Songzhi began to worry about her daughter's mental state, but Shao Shengfei was miraculously comforted. He did not show any fear of Qiao Qingqing, but instead seemed to have grown up.
He and Qiao Qingqing dug a pit and buried the body.
Under the guidance of Qiao Qingqing, Shao Shengfei pulled out the half arrow from her hand. Qiao Songzhi quickly sprinkled hemostatic powder on it, then blocked the wound with gauze and bandaged it.
After moving her arm, Qiao Qingqing's lips turned pale as she comforted them that she was fine: "It's just a flesh wound, no bone damage, it will heal soon. Let's go, let's keep going."
The blood on their hands and faces quickly solidified, making them look dirty and fierce at the same time.
Everyone who saw them was terrified: Did these two just kill someone? How scary!
People with no bad intentions stayed away from them, while those with bad intentions weighed their thoughts and gave up the idea. A woman glanced at their backpacks and said, "It's possible that there are bodies in the bags. Did you see the red color under the backpacks? It looks like dried blood."
"Forget it then, there are corpses all over the ground. Brother Zhao is calling us, let's go!"
"They seem to be afraid of us. It must be a blood issue." Qiao Songzhi said in a low voice.
"Well, people tend to bully the weak and fear the strong. After estimating that the target might be strong, they may shift the target in order to reduce the risk and increase the success rate." Qiao Qingqing said, frowning slightly.
"What's wrong?"
"I was working in the patrol team before, and my work areas were mostly assigned to the outskirts of the base or in the wild, so I occasionally met people from the army. In the past two years of Yongye, Yeshan seemed to have dispersed a lot of its forces to various places and set up many small outposts, probably to preserve its strength in the event of a major earthquake. There are also granaries and other resource points... I vaguely know a little bit of information, and I even know the location of a granary resource area. We have walked a lot in the past few days, so normally we should have met at least one military outpost."
Qiao Songzhi understood: "Probably... Probably haven't met him yet. After all, we are running around randomly and don't know where he is now. Maybe we will meet him later."
"Yes, I will definitely meet you, Mom, don't be scared by me, I'm just saying it casually."
Qiao Qingqing changed the subject: "What do you want to eat for lunch?"
It was cloudy today and it looked like it was going to rain. Before lunch, Qiao Qingqing decided to find a place to sit down and rest. Fortunately, there were no aftershocks, so they didn't need to go far away from the ruins and the ground cracks. A little distance would be enough. At noon that day, the three of them rested behind a ruin. Qiao Songzhi said, "The smell is less here."
They sat behind the ruins where there was no stench of corpses, eating lunch away from other people's sight. Qiao Qingqing didn't dare to take out anything with a strong smell, as that would cause trouble, so she took out rice balls and buns. After eating and drinking, the gloomy sky made people feel tired and exhausted, so Qiao Songzhi suggested, "Let's take a nap."
So the tent was rebuilt, and a new one was used. Qiao Qingqing was not very sleepy, and she kept her eyes closed to rest. Later, she slept for ten minutes in a daze. When she woke up, she felt a headache. She opened the door of the tent and saw two survivors sitting there to rest. When they saw her come out, they cast a tired and numb look at her, and mechanically put something into their mouths. Qiao Qingqing recognized it. It was some kind of weed, and the red one should be a mouse.
She withdrew her gaze, climbed up the ruins behind the tent, stood on it and observed the surroundings with a telescope to decide the next route to take.
At around three o'clock in the afternoon, the three of them set off again.
An hour later, the aftershock came unexpectedly. This time the shaking was more intense, and it lasted for more than ten minutes. Qiao Qingqing and her friends squatted on the ground waiting for the aftershock to pass. Qiao Qingqing saw with her own eyes that the crack not far away was slowly widening. Sure enough, when the aftershock ended, she walked over and saw that the widening and lengthening crack was connected to another crack next to it, and she could no longer jump over it.
"Let's take a detour."
"Is that a potato?" Qiao Songzhi suddenly pointed at the crack and asked. Qiao Qingqing looked over and saw something that looked like a tuber plant on the cut surface. The root system was quite long, and it was obvious that it was exposed after the earthquake tore the land apart.
"It looks a bit like a potato, but it's probably not."
“Can I eat it?”
Qiao Qingqing was quite interested in this plant that she had rarely seen before: "I'll go get some and take a look."
Qiao Songzhi hurriedly grabbed her and said, "It's so dangerous! Don't go. There were aftershocks just now."
"Okay, I won't go, don't be afraid, Mom."
They used the sun to determine the directions of east, west, south and north, took a lot of detours, and kept correcting their route. After walking for a whole day, they finally saw a little shadow of Ye Shan.
"Let me see..." Qiao Songzhi also took out the binoculars from his bag and looked in the direction Qiao Qingqing pointed. He said in surprise, "It's really Yeshan! I remember the top of Yeshan is shaped like a triangle."
Shao Shengfei nodded: "There really is a triangle."
"Have a good rest tonight, and work harder tomorrow. We may reach the outskirts of the base tomorrow night." Qiao Qingqing said with a smile. When we reach the outskirts of the base, we can fire a signal flare. Maybe Sheng An and the others are nearby!
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