Chapter Sixteen: Practicing skills in a deserted village
The sunset in the countryside is very beautiful, without any dust or a ray of flowing light, like a mother's smile, brilliant and comfortable in the gentle sunset.
That night, I was so excited that I didn't feel sleepy. I lay on the kang and chatted with my parents for a long time. I told them about the escape, introduced them to the brothers who had been sworn, and told them about the misfortune of the third brother... Their parents' faces also became sometimes frightened, sometimes relieved, sometimes moved, and sometimes regretful. They seemed to see that their son in front of them had grown up in so many hardships and was no longer so naive.
My parents told me that there are more than 30 people in the farm now, and they all came in to take refuge during this period. The residents of the suburbs thought that zombies would not run so far to the village to eat people, so they didn't care. They continued to work during the day, but their doors were closed at night and they didn't leave the house. Later, there was a problem with the power grid here, and it was not restored and the phone could not be reached. My family was very worried about my safety, but they could not contact me.
Later, I heard from the old man who grazed sheep in the Hou Village that all the people in the city died and the zombies had no human flesh to eat, so they ran to the suburbs. So everyone planned to escape, but where could they escape? Viruses broke out in the surrounding areas, and they fled to wild ridges and were caught and eaten by wild animals or zombies. It was better to die at home. In this way, a group of people ran towards the mountains, and the others stayed, prepared food at home and hid all day long. Later, the zombies ended.
Yu ran to the countryside, on the mountains, by the fields, and in the river, everywhere, as if they had crawled out of the soil overnight. I heard that a family was dead and was having funerals. The zombies rushed over and bit many people. The dead man was bitten, and they actually came alive and turned into a zombie who ate human flesh... The elderly people in the village sighed regretfully, saying that this was simply a sin, because modern people digging graves and offended the King of Hell in the underworld...
The zombie group was like crazy wolves. As soon as they arrived in the suburbs, they kept attacking the people. The walls in the countryside were not tight and the height was not enough. Most of the doors in the house were wood, so they were only stalemate with the zombie group for a few days before they were broken. Several households were bitten into zombies in a few days, and very few were lucky enough to escape.
That day, my father and mother hid at home like others. Because the house was on the slope, I could see the situation of the entire village. The zombie group was so fierce that it would be unsafe to stay at home, so I hurriedly brought some food, drove a tricycle, and took a detour to the farm. The fence of the farm was more than one person high, with bricks and iron doors, which should be safer than home. So in the following days, they spent the farm. In order to save the surviving villagers, their parents thought of a way. On the two long bamboo poles used to set off firecrackers in the factory, they hung a white bed sheet and wrote the four conspicuous words "Safe here". Unexpectedly, the method worked. During the following days, villagers who fled continued to rush here, including the village and the neighboring village, among which the fourth mother was one of them. Soon, the number of people here increased from a few to dozens.
My parents were very enthusiastic and friendly to these people. They distributed the food to them and poured out the breeding shed for them to live in. The people who were helped were very grateful. As there were more and more people, there was not enough food and luggage. In order to make it easier for my parents, everyone spontaneously formed a team and took the risk of transporting food, clothing, firewood, and daily necessities in the village. Now the grain in the factory has been piled up in mountains, and there is enough clothing and daily necessities. There is tap water in the factory, so everything is settled, just because they are worried that the zombies outside will suddenly attack.
In a dangerous environment, the people in the factory were united and harmonious, and worked together, as if they became a big family in an instant. Therefore, my mother mentioned the sentence that often taught me: "When you help others, you are helping yourself, and you can only see the true feelings in times of distress."
I have always kept this sentence firmly in mind and dare not forget it at all.
At night, sleeping on the warm earthen kang, I suddenly feel extremely happy. I can survive, be with the people I am close to, and be able to walk through every bumpy life with hope. This is really much better than the walking corpse wandering in the wilderness. This time, I firmly believe that for those living dead, we are truly alive.
There were five young men lying on a small kang. Of course, the one that was extra must be Xiaohao. Because Xiaomo and Jiayi were girls, they were arranged by their mother to another small house. The room was relatively comfortable. There was a simple wooden bed made of mixed wood by carpenters who were sheltering in the factory. This time, I could finally wear shirtless and get into the warm quilt. At this moment, Xiaorui was already asleep and kicked off the quilt... Uh... He just farted comfortably...
The door suddenly opened again. The fourth mother and my mother walked in gently, helped us cover the quilts, and then smiled with relief, and said softly: "What a few good kids..." and then quietly closed the door.
The days that followed were simple and happy, but exercise and practice never stopped.
My boss and I got up every morning to run around the wall of the farm for an hour to improve our endurance; we set up a shelf in the corner, hung sandbags, and practice hits; we have been doing push-ups and pull-ups for a long time, and now we have started to carry weights; in order to make the arm and wrist strength stronger, we used the factory to make a barbell with the remaining cement; the big knife and warhammer is an indispensable exercise content every day...
Nowadays, the time of day seems to be so long. I am no longer as busy as before. Instead, I feel that life has become monotonous and boring. This may be the difference between humans and animals. After all, people must live in a creative, tortuous, colorful and complex environment. However, this is compared to the past world. In today's chaotic times, even such times will be a humble extravagant request for people in suffering.
When the people in the factory saw that my boss and I were always practicing passionately, they were puzzled. They said that the zombies were so fierce that they would die with just one bite, no matter how strong you were. There was a butcher Zhang in the village who was tall and strong, and he had a lot of strength. It usually took four or five people to hold it down. As a result, he knocked it down in just a few seconds. Although he had divine power, on the day the zombies attacked the village, he was bitten and had no power to fight back.
When I heard everyone's puzzled remarks, my boss and I felt a little funny and a little surprised. These sheltered people seemed to have lost their sense of defense. They were used to living in a closed and relatively safe environment. They never thought about how to resist with zombies, nor did they consider whether to go to the ground to farm, but only wanted to hide in a comfortable world. Every time they went to the village to move food, they were using the same routine - knocking basins at the entrance of the village to attract the attention of zombies, and then taking the opportunity to pick up things from the fallen house.
This time didn't last long until one day, something happened finally.
Chapter completed!