Chapter 23: Wintry

Meng Yun parked the car in the snow-covered birch forest. The four people on the car had not closed their eyes for more than 48 hours and could no longer hold it.
In the front row, Meng Yan and Liu Yan snuggle together, covering a jacket.
Zhang Huan was lying on the back seat, leaning on Cassia's thigh, and Cassia leaned against the window, all the windows were swung up, the heating was turned on, and he fell asleep drowsily.
No one had the energy to watch on duty, and this consciousness slept for ten hours, and decided to wake up first and found a zombie outside.
The sky was bright, and the zombie lay outside the window of the car, frozen. Its eyes stared straight at the people in the car, maintaining the posture of cutting the window.
Cassia reached out a finger and moved to the left.
The zombies opened their mouths, and the cloudy eyes moved to the left.
Cassia's finger moved to the right.
Zombie's eyes followed to the right.
Cassia fingers erected in the middle.
The zombie became the eye.
Jue Ming had his hands and fingers side by side, and when he was about to separate, Meng Yun also woke up.
"Dear, it is a bad kiss to make fun of a zombie." Meng Yun yawned.
Everyone in the car was awake.
Liu Ye sat upright, looked back at the zombie, and said, "Most of it was frozen, and my mind was still sober."
"Um." Zhang Ye sat upright with his feet upright, exhaling, and frowning. "With basic intelligence, what do you think their brains are thinking?"
Shrugging his shoulders, "Who knows, zombies, needles under the sea."
He started the car, squeezed the zombie against the trunk, made a funny noise, and then drove up the road and left.
Liu Ye had a bite to eat, opened a box of canned cold beef, and put some chili sauce on the steamed buns steamed with Mom three days ago, and began to have breakfast.
That was the material reserve that Meng Ye brought in the car before patrolling. Zhang Ye said, "How much do you eat?"
Liu Yan: "Four days of food reserves."
Zhang Huan busy consciously said, "I can eat less."
Meng Yan and Liu Yan glanced at Zhang Ye at the same time and were quite satisfied with his performance.
"I didn't intend to drive you out of the car." Liu Yan sincerely said: "But you are very interesting."
Meng Yun held the steering wheel and whistled, learning Lin Musen's tone wonderfully: "My favorite person, young man, do your best! Senge will cultivate you!"
All laughed in the car.
"Where are you heading now? Go back and look at it?" Meng Yun parked the car on the branch road, the zombies crossed the border, no grass was found, and there were messy footprints.
Liu Yandao: "No, it's not complete, there should be some left ... Besides, the food has been taken away by the convoy, what shall we go back for?"
Meng said: "Maybe you can find the rest ... forget it."
He also feels less secure, especially in the case of running out of food-this is the real running out of food.
Zhang Huan: "Can you contact your teammates?"
Liu Yan shook his head: "Without a communicator, even if there is, it is impossible to contact them if they are too far away."
Zhang Huan unfolded the map and said, "Well ... well, let's play the brain teaser game of" Where did everyone go ... "
Meng Yan and Liu Xie said in unison: "We are not your son! Go play with Cassia!"
Zhang Ye smiled, and Liu Ye said, "I have an idea to go to town for supplies."
He turned a box of tapes and shoved it into the old-fashioned radio in front of the car. The Beatles rang, and then he drove off the road to the west road. There was a village twenty miles away, which they had swept.
After arriving in the village and town soon, they were all confused, still maintaining the scene they used to visit. Meng Yan changed AK and went to inspect again. Liu Yan said, "Go and find the boxes in the dwellings."
Several crows were parked on the eaves, and mice were running on the cold ground.
A little mouse crouched in front of the headshot zombies, picking up food in the rubble.
"Look," Liu Yan said, "the mouse doesn't touch the body."
Zhang Huan got out of the car, put his left hand on Cassia, and opened the pants chain with another hand to pee: "Indeed, crows are also not interested in them, shouldn't rotten creatures eat corpses? Baby help Dad, just hold it ... ... don't shh, you can pee. "
Liu Ye stayed in the car and shook his head a little confused, saying, "I don't know. Maybe they know these can't be eaten? Animals' instincts are very keen, and their ability to perceive danger is higher than humans."
Zhang Ye nodded slowly: "This is good, at least human friends will not be infected. Baby, don't play, don't hold it, it's hard ... Dad will get caught if he pulls the pants chain Go away! You little jerk, huh? "
In fact, to this day, the only infected species on earth is humans.
Meng went out for ten minutes, and finally brought a large box of food.
Non-staple food, canned food, dry food, fresh food in small grocery stores packed in various cottages.
"My dear, come and eat the preservatives." Meng Yan threw a packet of phoenix claws.
"Ah, this is good." Cassia said.
Liu Ye smiled: "Some things I hid when we came last time."
"You thought about it then?" Zhang Yan said.
Liu Ye shrugged, "No, I just think that in the event of a fall with Lin Musen, there will be at least a lot of back roads and I can stand in the snow for a few more days."
"Danding Emperor, you can now take a sharp turn."
Cassia thought for a while and said, "Go ... here." He indicated on the map.
"There is the high seas." Liu Yan said: "How did you survive, forget me or come ..."
Cassia: "I just turned the wrong page ... um, I found it, what about here?"
Meng Yan glanced: "Yes, go north along the road, I hope everything goes well."
"Our oil can run for 900 kilometers," Liu said. "It would be better to find them before running out, or at least find some gasoline."
After two hours:
Zhang Ye put one hand on Cassia's shoulder, and hummed the song with the music on the old recorder, shaking it.
"That's right." Liu Ye suddenly remembered the drug actress and said, "Zhang Ye, your idol came a few days ago."
Zhang Ye said: "What?"
Liu Ye once said something about Tang Yixiao, Meng Ye and Zhang Ye were dumbfounded at the same time.
Meng said: "She is also my idol!"
Liu Ye gave a scornful and indifferent glance to Meng Yun and said:
"Oh."
Zhang Huan said, "Why didn't you help me find her signature? Oh my god! I wouldn't go on patrol if I knew it!"
Meng Yun said sadly: "Me too! Liu Ye! Why don't you ask her to sign!"
Liu Ye's expression was helpless and boring.
"Yeah," Liu said.
Zhang Huan: "How is she? Is the real person the same as in the movie?"
Jing Ming said blankly, "What are you talking about?"
Meng Yue said excitedly: "You are not kind, Liu Ye! Brothers both like her, so you just let her go ?!"
Liu Yan: "..."
Meng Yun: "How tall is she? Is it the same as the online one?"
Zhang Huan: "What happened to Lin Musen? Did she talk about her divorce?"
Liu Ye finally couldn't bear it: "She was taken away by Lin Musen. Now she should be chased by a large group of zombies, or should we save her?"
Meng Yun immediately said: "Forget it, it's too dangerous to drag the family around. Senge will protect her."
Zhang Huan: "Well, it's not cost-effective, I just want a signature, I can't take my life. Meng Ye is right, Senge will protect her."
Liu Yan: "..."
Cassia: "???"
Liu Yan: "She is your idol! Idols are chased after by zombies, don't care ?! Is there such a fan?"
Meng Yun: "Ah-you don't understand this mood-"
Zhang Huan: "That is, when I was a soldier, the entire company's brothers liked her ..."
Liu Ye really wanted to pick AK and give them a look.
For the next full hour, Meng Ye and Zhang Ye began a long exchange with the female movie star. From her famous work to the Berlin Film Festival's award-winning masterpiece, even the gossip that just debuted I didn't let it go, and the conversation was so hot that I was very happy.
Finally they stopped in the middle of the highway in front of a ruined armored vehicle.
The conversation between Meng Ye and Zhang Ye about the actress came to an abrupt end.
A huge footprint sinks deep into the middle of the road, stepping the front half of the simple armored vehicle into a discus.
Guns were scattered all over the ground, and there were still many zombies that had been trampled down. The two wheels at the rear of the armoured personnel carrier lean forward, while the smaller half remains intact. Liu Ye got out of the car and inspected the wreckage and the wreckage of the armored vehicle. He said, "Lin Musen ran in this car."
"There are more than one kind of giant." Zhang Huan speculated: "Lin Musen is really bad luck."
Liu Ye opened a cover under the car bucket and glanced at him, mockingly: "He is not only unlucky, but also stupid, he will not use this car at all ... you see here."
There is an iron box under the car body with two circular openings.
Meng said: "The entire front and engine have been flattened, but there was no explosion."
Liu Yan said: "Because I specially designed the spare fuel tank under the vehicle body, once the zombies chase it, the person in the vehicle body can unscrew the fuel tank cap, and the gasoline will be poured on the ground, pouring all the way, letting out a part as appropriate. Gasoline, finally ... light a fire, and the zombies on the road can be easily resolved. "
Liu Yan walked around the car and said, "It's a pity that the fire-breathing oil gun didn't come in handy."
Zhang Jian poked his head out of the car and looked out. Meng Mao stood beside the crushed car, throwing a high heel from Tang Yixiao on the ground.
Meng Yun: "..."
Zhang Huan: "..."
Liu Yan: "You can pick it up as a commemoration, which should be more valuable than the signature. There is only one shoe, how do you divide it? Do you want to stop looking?"
Meng Yun consciously switched off the topic: "Where is Lin Musen? He ran away again? Really fatal."
Zhang Ye watched for a while, controlled the throttle and brakes with one foot, and pushed the Jeep head against the wreckage of the armored vehicle.
Meng Yun lifted the iron cover and found two fleshy feet, who could not be identified.
They unloaded the gasoline tank from the car, strapped it behind the spare jeep tire, and drove away.
November 22, 2012.
Today is the fifth day after the shelter was destroyed by the zombies. I lost my diary and temporarily borrowed Korean records of Jue Ming. The picture was drawn by him.
One month of food and two thousand kilometers of gasoline, one spare tire, three and a half people, we embarked on the road north.
The retreating partners didn't have any information, and I began to miss them a little. (A bunch of stick figures holding hands)
This year's winter has come earlier and colder than in previous years. This is real ice and snow. The world is deserted and there is no trace of people. The villages and buildings are all covered with a thick layer of snow. It reminds me of the last ice age before humanity.
In the white snow, one or two small sparrows foraging occasionally appear, and they will feed them with biscuit crumbs when they get off the bus.
We saw a street sign with an arrow on it, which should be the direction of government evacuation. After a brief discussion, everyone (except the decision) unanimously decided to go towards the arrow pointing north.
These days, we are galloping on National Road 108, and the life detector does not respond. Only the zombies are frozen in the wilderness like ice sculptures. The radio had no signal, and the street signs were covered with a thick layer of ice.
Are there survivors in this world besides us? The white snow, the endless national road, was as quiet as death everywhere, and the tapes of the Beatles were turned over and over and listened to hundreds of times, and it finally sticked to the magnetic strip.
Fifteen days passed and we entered Xi'an. The whole city was covered with frost, and East Changan Street was ransacked. Fortunately, food can still be found in the city. We changed to a larger car and found sufficient resources in convenience stores, chemical stores, and hardware stores, drug stores, Wal-Mart and Carrefour warehouses.
The arrow on the street sign was no longer found, and it was estimated that the end was the occupied Xi'an.
Meng Yun suggested that we stay in the city for a while, but in the end he rejected it. Because there are thousands of zombies in the sewers, they are actually protected from the cold underground.
In Linqu County, the tomb of Qin Shihuang is frozen for thousands of miles.
This is wrong.
It's not like winter in the north. What happened? This weather is really abnormal.
I even suspect that everyone on the planet is dead, the empty sky, the earth, the plains ... only the four of us are driving around the world.
We left Lintong and continued north.
On December 7, I finally saw a plane flying across the sky.
"Plane!" Meng Yan shouted.
He braked abruptly, stepped up to the roof of the car, waved his hands and yelled, "Hey!"
Meng Yun took off her coat and waved wildly towards the sky. Liu Ye put on a signal flare and fired a shot towards the sky. The green light flew into the air, then drawn an arc, and landed in the snow.
(Sketch of the plane) On December 8, we waited for a day at the place where the plane appeared, and Meng stepped out of the word SOS in the snow, and a fire broke out in the middle.
There were no further signs of search and rescue.
Is it a reconnaissance plane? bomber? A paratrooper or material transporter?
In any case, there is still someone alive, and there is always hope.
The snowstorm is getting stronger, and it seems that there is a cold current going south. Without weather forecast, life-saving is the most important.
We followed the leeward of the southern foot of Liupan Mountain, and at the same time we saw an arrow on a frozen street sign.
When I was about to drive and look closely, the wind and snow caught the car. The wind was too strong and the brand was scrapped away. We had to abandon the car and walk.
Zhang Ye got better quickly, and he was already able to walk on crutches. Meng Ye marked the parking place of the car and took us to the high ground to find a shelter from the wind.
On December 21, another wave of southerly cold currents passed and the weather turned fine. We came out of the cave, arranged our equipment, and continued to drive north. The food can also support for nearly two months, and saving on food can support the spring back to the earth. But I don't know why, I think spring might never come.
That was just a hunch.
Until we saw the thirty-meter-high broadcast signal tower on the top of the mountain covered with snow and ice.
"Liu Ye! Look here!" Meng Yan said.
He shoves the snow away, and there are traces of fire under the tower. Liu Yanmei, squatting down and prying off the ice and snow, they turned the surrounding snow almost over and found a wet cigarette butt, a pine branch half burnt out, and a piece of rope.
"Paratrooper rope," Zhang Jian said, "where did the paratroopers come from?"
They stood on the top of the mountain and looked down. At the other end of the cloud and the mountain, a dark red light at dusk was shining.
"This is a signal tower for radio broadcasting." Liu Yan said, "Jingming! Take out the radio!"
Cassia is wearing a thick woolen cap, covering the earplugs with his ears, standing under the signal tower, pulling out a long antenna towards the top of the tower, turning the to the left and right.
Always quiet.
"Climb up and see?" Meng Yan said: "Point the antenna over a bit, I think let it touch the tip of the tower ..."
"I can't stand this for you, Meng Yun." Liu Yan reluctantly said, "Is it a waste of your time to read the manual before using things?"
Meng Yun: "My dad often does this. When I walk, I need an antenna ..."
Liu Ye: "You and your dad are wrong here. We are already standing under the signal tower. It has no signal but no signal! It has nothing to do with where you point! Even if you decide to hang it here, On the spire of the signal tower, he could not receive any signal! "
Meng Yun was furious: "Your grandmother can't get better, Liu Ye! Before going to your house, your grandmother would not even use the remote control, just shoot the TV! Can I change the TV? You show me Look?"
Liu Yan: "Enough!"
Zhang Huan laughed and fell on the side of the road, and decided that he didn't hear what they were talking about, and was still immersed in his alien signal, holding the radio and following Liu Ye.
Monk went back and drove the car and said, "Where are you going now?"
Liu Ye: "I don't know, ask your dad's radio to go and kiss."
Meng Yun drove and said, "Then ... look along the foot of the mountain, oh, baby, look, there are two snowmen?"
Liu Ye didn't look at him, and Menhui patted his face and said, "Turn your head and look there."
There are two piles of snow in the wilderness.
Zhang Ye said: "It's natural."
Meng Yun: "Well, what is the physics principle? Baby, explain it."
The car stopped, determined to look curiously, then got out of the car and staggered. There seemed to be something under the snow, and it was decided to pull away the snow from it, and touch a long, hard object, pulling it out.
Pull out a carrot.
Cassia: "?"
It was dumbfounded.
Three seconds later, Liu Ye realized what he was doing, rushed into the car, pressed Meng's hand, and pressed against the horn, and several horns rang out in the snow.
Meng Xun turned out his whistle in the glove box and blew with luck.
On the back of the foot of the mountain, a child came on the snow.
"Team ... Captain!" The little fat man yelled when he saw Cassia. "Captain Cassia!"
Meng Yan took a deep breath and took Liu Ye's hand to get off the car. The little fat man yelled, as if he had seen a ghost, and turned and ran.
"Wait!" Liu Yan shouted, "Where! Stop!"
The fat man fell down in the snow and ran wildly. They got on the car and raised the snow to catch up, bypassing the bottom of the tree-like mountains that ran across the snow, and they were suddenly cheerful in the front. Vast farm at the foot of the mountain.
The fat man rushed out with a group of people, each shouting loudly, Liu Ye stopped and rushed forward, yelling to hug the survivors.
On December 22, 2012, we finally found the lost partner, and they left an arrow and a word on the way out of the shelter-it turned out to be Hu's idea.
Then Wengege took everyone around Xi'an to the north and into the southern area of ​​Ningxia. At the junction of the two provinces, he saw a tall signal tower, facing the east along the foothills and turning to the north like us.
There is a highway here, at the end of which is a farm with the sign "Farmhouse" on the signboard.
Hu Yan led his combatable brothers to remove the ten zombies and buried them on the west side of the farm.
It's not too big, but it's much better than our last home.
It is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the rivers to the east have been completely frozen. Originally it was said that there were artificial hot springs, but it was frozen because of insufficient energy.
The farmhouse resort in the suburbs is like a Taoyuan.
In these days we are absent, seventy-nine people are headed by Hu Yan, Wen Qige took the responsibility of protecting everyone as the captain. When Hu Zheng returned my diary, he said to Mengmen A word.
"Great, our boss is finally back."