"Don't come over here. Take Guo'er and go over there and wait for a while." Tang Cheng and his group finally walked out of the woods. The faint smell of blood floating in the air made Tang Cheng suddenly stop. He waved to the old man.
The couple took the little girl back to the grove. Tang Cheng drew his shell gun and walked forward quickly. He quickly ran behind a dead tree. Tang Cheng, who was standing close to the tree, listened to the goings on around him. The further he moved forward, the more intense the sound in the air.
The smell of blood became stronger and stronger, making Tang Cheng's palms sweat and his heart beat faster.
Slowly squatting down against the dead tree, Tang Cheng stuck his head out and looked around. Looking back and forth and finding nothing unusual, he couldn't help but feel a little restless. There was only a small forest between the place where the 12 Japanese soldiers were killed and here.
If those Japanese soldiers still have their companions around, it is only a matter of time before they catch up and find themselves, so they must not waste any more time here. Slowly picking up a dead branch on the ground, Tang Cheng forcefully picked up the dead branch as thick as an egg.
Throwing it to his left, the moment the dead branch fell to the ground, Tang Cheng, who had already stood upright behind the dead tree, quickly ran towards the crooked-necked tree a few meters away on the right.
After continuous testing, Tang Cheng had touched the outermost edge of the grove. Going forward, there was a field of crops with a wide view. Panting heavily, Tang Cheng paused for a moment and began to sneak to his left.
The bloody smell came from the left. Using branches to push aside a suspicious bush, Tangcheng saw several corpses. Judging from their clothes, they should be in line with the surrounding people. There were crops and corpses of people, indicating that this
There must be a village nearby...
"It's okay, let's get out of here quickly." After going back to pick up the old couple, Tang Cheng explained the situation in detail, and after repeatedly telling them not to talk loudly, Tang Cheng, carrying a shell gun, still walked at the front. He was stumbling.
After crossing a fork of the river, a village appeared not far away. He waved to the old couple and their children to stay by the river and wait. Tang Cheng went to the village himself.
It was almost noon, and the sun was shining warmly on people, but there was no warmth in Tangcheng's heart. The place where the bodies were found was too close to the village, and the bullet holes on the bodies showed that they were killed by gunfire.
It would only be the Japanese soldiers who shot the people and covered up the bodies. Maybe those Japanese soldiers who may exist are in the village in front now. If it were Tang Cheng alone, he could have bypassed this village, but he still had three people with him
They are an old, weak woman and child, and the physical exertion of the old couple is very great. If they can't find a means of transportation, they may not be able to reach Nanjing alive.
After lying on a field ridge and carefully spying for a while, Tang Cheng moved forward a certain distance. At this time, his position was only a hundred meters away from the entrance of the village. He could rush into the village in less than a minute if he ran at a fast pace.
But Tang Cheng didn't dare, because he was alone. Xie Bo's field notes contained records related to on-the-spot investigation. The first sentence in the diary was that caution can save lives, and carelessness can cost lives. Of course Xie Bo
Tang Cheng's understanding does not mean that the scouts are all timid. What Tang Cheng understands is that they must determine the target's situation before taking action, otherwise they can only wait.
After waiting quietly for more than ten minutes, Tang Cheng finally discovered something was wrong. This small-looking village was a little too quiet. Tang Cheng had followed Robert on his missionary journey since he was a child, although he had never lived there before.
The countryside in northern Jiangsu, but he also knew the situation in the countryside. There were at least more than 50 families living in this small village. There was no sound at all in a village with 0 people in the daytime. This was really weird, even if it was
People have gone out to work, so why don’t the domesticated animals make a sound?
After counting the number of bullets in the two pistols again, Tang Cheng took out a grenade from the bag and stuck it on his waist. Once a crisis situation arises, it will definitely be too late to get the grenade from the bag. He must be prepared to fight in advance.
Get ready. I found a place with soft soil and rolled around a few times. The soil on my body temporarily covered the blood stains on my clothes. From a distance, Tang Cheng, who was thin and thin, looked like a standard refugee.
As soon as he reached the entrance of the village, Tang Cheng asked about the smell of blood, but the whole village was quiet, and there was no blood in Tang Cheng's sight. He really couldn't figure out where the smell of blood in the air came from.
Holding a shell gun in one hand and hiding it behind his back, Tang Cheng slowly opened the door in front of him. The yard was small, but very clean. It was obvious that the owner of this house was a diligent person who knew how to live his life. "Is anyone home?
Please ask for a drink of water." This sentence was learned by Robert when he was a child in Tangcheng and preached everywhere. Most people would not refuse someone who came to ask for water.
No one answered, and the courtyard was quiet and strange. Tang Cheng, who was standing outside the courtyard, poked his head into the courtyard to look around, but in the end he didn't go in. Enduring the pain on his shoulder, Tang Cheng pushed away several other people in succession.
There was no one at the gate of the courtyard. The courtyard was so clean that it was impossible to tell whether the owner was out or at home. Anyway, no one answered Tang Cheng’s call. Tang Cheng, who was already feeling a little nervous, could only follow the blood in the air.
Wei walked all the way to the well under the big tree at the east end of the village.
"Ugh!" When Tang Cheng lowered his head and saw clearly what was in the well, he vomited out all the big cakes he had eaten in the grove in the morning. There was a corpse soaking in the well that had turned red, and the face that was exposed to the water was soaked.
Turning white, his lifeless eyes stared at the mouth of the well with no energy. After vomiting out the contents of his stomach, Tang Cheng, who was feeling weak all the time, staggered back to the foot of the big tree, and sat down against the trunk of the tree.
On the ground.
Tang Cheng didn't know how he came back to his senses. Anyway, he didn't dare to look at the well anymore, or even close his eyes. As soon as he closed his eyes, Tang Cheng would think of those lifeless eyes in the well. Thinking of being raped
He stayed in the family of three at the branch of the river. Tang Cheng, whose legs were weak, stood up hard. He still had to find a means of transportation. There was no horse-drawn carriage or donkey-cart, so a handcart would be fine.
He has followed Robert all over the country since he was a child. Tangcheng knows that ordinary farmers cannot afford to raise large livestock, but if they can afford livestock, they will treat them as treasures once they are born. They would rather live in a more crowded place.
There must be a livestock shed, so when Tang Cheng entered the village again, he went directly to the yards of those houses with livestock sheds. He searched the yards of several families, not to mention the big animals pulling the carts.
No cars were found, but these yards were all deserted without exception.
Knowing that the accident had occurred, Tangcheng did not turn around and leave immediately. He could not find food and transportation, so the old couple and their children by the river branch could not reach Nanjing. Perhaps it was because of the cute little girl that Tangcheng dragged her away.
With already tired steps, he kept pushing open one door after another, hoping to find what he wanted. Almost half an hour had passed since Tang Cheng entered the village, and the exhausted Tang Cheng still found nothing. Not only did he not find anything,
We found transportation, but we didn't even find much food.
Two eggs found in a grass nest, a piece of steamed bun that was almost hairy, and a handful of spring onions. This was what Tang Cheng had harvested in more than half an hour. In addition to the more than a hundred corpses that Tang Cheng later found in the village ancestral hall and the
There were corpses soaking in the well, and not a single living creature, grain, or other food could be found in the entire village. The entire village seemed as clean as if it had been looted.
Tang Cheng, who had chapped lips, finally gave up and continued searching. However, Tang Cheng did have some answers about this deserted village. Japanese soldiers must have been here, and they were the ones who killed everyone in the village, especially them.
They took away all the big livestock and food in the village. Bandits generally don't kill people when they steal money. Even if the bandits want to kill people, they won't kill all the people in the village. What's more, the bandits eat rice with knife heads, and they won't kill people in other people's ancestral halls.
Even if someone kills someone, no matter how bad a person is in the world, he still has to have some sense of morality.
After carefully putting the eggs and steamed buns into his pockets, Tang Cheng walked out of the village with the shell gun in one hand and the handful of spring onions in the other. In any case, the eggs and steamed buns were considered food. Adults would not be full, but at least children could deal with them.
Suddenly, Tang Cheng, who was grumbling with hunger, couldn't help but stuff a spring onion into his mouth. Tang Cheng, who was chewing a spring onion in his mouth, suddenly moved to the wall of a house, holding the spring onion in his hand.
The shell gun was immediately raised and the muzzle of the gun was pointed directly at the yard not far in front of him.
These families all had livestock sheds in their yards. Tang Cheng clearly remembered that he had pushed open their yard doors and did not close them for them. However, the door of the yard in front of him was now closed.
, if I didn’t remember it wrong, it means that someone has entered this yard or there are still people alive in this village. Tang Cheng’s body rubbed against the wall and began to retreat slowly, and the hand holding the shell gun began to sweat.
Tang Cheng, who grew up with Robert, did not believe in ghosts and gods, so he was not worried about what kind of ghosts this was. He was afraid that there were still living people in this dead village.
If Tang Cheng was not injured, with the two pistols and three grenades on his body, he would still have the ability to fight. But now Tang Cheng is not only injured, but he is also dizzy and weak from hunger.
A Japanese soldier or bandit jumped out of the courtyard. Tang Cheng might become the next floating corpse soaked in the well. He slowly retreated along the wall to the corner of the courtyard wall, staring with a pair of eyes.
Tang Cheng turned around and ran away. Tang Cheng, who didn't dare to stay, used all his strength to run. As long as he ran out of the village, the possibility of danger would be minimal.
"Swipe" A sword light struck down fiercely. Tang Cheng, who was about to rush through the corner of the next yard, could no longer stop and ran straight towards the sword light. "Ah" he was so frightened.
Tang Cheng subconsciously closed his eyes. Maybe Mao Wu and the others were right. It is best not to close your eyes when you are cutting someone with a knife, otherwise you will be even more frightened, just like Tang Cheng now.