In the early morning, Zhang Zhe and Mo Xi took advantage of the coolness of the morning to leave the villa with their daughter and embark on the road to find a new home.
Along the way, Mo Xi only asked Zhang Zhe lightly when the three of them walked out of the door of the villa.
"Hey, have you thought about it? Whose base are you going to take our mother and daughter to settle down in?"
After that, Mo Xidu just held her daughter's little hand and walked in front of Zhang Zhe, never saying a word to Zhang Zhe again.
Zhang Zhe has long been used to Mo Xi like this.
For five years, they have been like this. They would not speak to each other if they could, and for those words that were insignificant but had to be said, they let their daughters pass it on from generation to generation.
He was thinking about his wife Zheng Yiran and his three children, but she didn't have a trace of love for him in her heart. The so-called love between husband and wife was just a show of love between the two in front of their daughter Yuxuan.
To be more precise, the lives he and Moxi have lived for the past five years are more like two similar creatures making do with each other in this apocalyptic world and surviving together.
The only fundamental reason why the two of them would not abandon and betray each other was their common daughter Zhang Yuxuan. He could trust that she would not take her daughter away and abandon him alone, and she could also safely leave her daughter to him.
To protect.
Along the way, the family of three followed what Lin Ying said yesterday and did not enter the woods, taller grass, or walk under trees or shady walls. They were not attacked by mutated mantises along the way.
Lin Ying said yesterday that under normal circumstances, those mutated mantises will not move on the ground during the day. They will only lie on shady tree trunks and sunny walls, camouflaging themselves to the surrounding environment and quietly waiting for prey.
take the initiative to approach.
At night, these mutated mantises will come to the ground and actively search for prey everywhere under the cover of night.
At noon, the scorching sun was shining high above our heads, making the family of three who were hiking southward along the road feel somewhat hot.
Moxi, who had already taken off his white shirt and was only wearing a close-fitting black camisole, was walking ahead with a hiking bag on his back. After casually weaving a garland of wild flowers picked from the side of the road, he stopped and leaned over to put the garland in his hands.
He put it on the head of his daughter Zhang Yuxuan.
Then, Moxi leaned into her daughter's ear and whispered something.
After Mo Xi stood up straight, Zhang Yuxuan, who was holding a white stuffed toy rabbit in his arms, immediately turned to look at Zhang Zhe, who was standing not far behind him, smiling with two deep dimples on his cheeks.
"Dad, Mom said it's too hot. I want you to take us to a safe and cool place so that we can take a rest while preparing lunch."
Before Zhang Zhe, who was smiling and looking at his daughter's cute little face, could reply, a crisp sound of copper bells came from a fork in the poplar forest not far in front of him.
After hearing the crisp ringing of the copper bells, Zhang Zhe just looked at Mo Xi in front of him, then he immediately carried the mountaineering bag on his back and the samurai sword in his hand, and ran towards the fork in the road where the copper bells were heard.
Go up and check.
Zhang Zhe, who ran to the fork in the road, looked towards the fork in the road and saw dozens of black-haired werewolf zombies with black fur all over their bodies gathered in the tree-lined path between the poplar forests on both sides.
The dozens of black-haired werewolf zombies gathered on the tree-lined path seemed very quiet, unlike the black-haired werewolf zombies Zhang Zhe had seen in the past, which always roared from time to time, or seemed to be on stimulants. Like running around in the alleys of towns and villages.
They were very quiet at this time, just gathering quietly on this tree-lined path, tightly surrounding a black horse pulling a wooden flatbed cart behind it in the middle of the road.
Except for the zombie king, other types of zombies have no intention of actively attacking animals. Therefore, the black horse surrounded by dozens of black-haired werewolf zombies in the middle of the road looked very calm.
Maybe it was because there were too many mosquitoes on the tree-lined path. The black horse that parked the car quietly in the middle of the road would only occasionally shake its long black ponytail and head to drive away the wanton people around it. Mosquitoes harassing it.
As the horse's head swings, a fist-sized copper bell tied under the horse's neck will ring a crisp ringing sound on the tree-lined path.
At this time, her daughter Zhang Yuxuan, who followed Mo Xi, used the knowledge gained from reading pictures and learning calligraphy to raise her little finger and point to the black horse in the middle of the tree-lined path surrounded by dozens of black-haired werewolf zombies. Moxi, who was standing next to him, said in a childish tone.
"Mom, that's a horse, a black horse."
"This black horse is surrounded by black-haired werewolf zombies. Are they going to eat it? Are we going to save it?"
Moxi did not reply to the daughter's question beside him. He just reached out and caressed his daughter's little head with the garland on it, and then looked at the dozens of animals on the tree-lined path that had not yet discovered the three of them. The black-haired werewolf zombie asked Zhang Zhe who was standing aside.
"It's so quiet?"
"Hey, what are these guys doing here? Why are they surrounding a carriage?"
Zhang Zhe, who was also confused about the situation, shook his head and said calmly to Mo Xi who asked him a question.
"I don't understand either!"
As soon as Zhang Zhe finished speaking, Moxi, who was carrying a hiking bag and a sword on his waist, walked towards the tree-lined path in front of him and said to Zhang Zhe calmly.
"What the hell? Come over and take a look and you'll know everything!"
"Protect your daughter well and have a carriage to travel with you. It's better than walking on the 11th!"
As soon as Mo Xi finished speaking, Zhang Zhe, who was holding his daughter's little hand, followed behind Mo Xi and joked with a smile.
"Can't you tell that you can still drive a carriage?"
Moxi, who was walking slowly in front, said calmly.
"Have you never eaten pork, or seen a pig running?"
"In pre-apocalyptic costume TV dramas, don't there often be scenes of driving carriages? Isn't it just a matter of casually shouting, drive drive drive, uh uh uh, uh uh uh? It shouldn't be difficult!"
As the family of three approached, the unique aura exuded by the three people instantly attracted the attention of the dozen black-haired werewolf zombies gathered in the tree-lined path.
After discovering a family of three slowly walking towards this direction, the dozen or so black werewolf zombies surrounding the carriage instantly turned into birds and beasts and scattered, one after another diving into the poplar forests on both sides of the road.
And as the group of black-haired werewolf zombies that surrounded the carriage in the middle of the road dispersed, the secret hidden by them was immediately revealed to the eyes of the family of three who were about to approach.
On the road next to the carriage, a young man wearing a camouflage military uniform, with short hair, and his face covered in blood, whose gender could not be distinguished, was sitting on his knees next to a headless corpse with a piece of flesh and blood in his mouth.
His hands, which were stained with scarlet blood, were still holding a piece of white intestine with lots of blood stains that had just been taken out from the abdomen of the corpse.
A line of bright red blood that had not yet dried extended into the cypress forest on one side. Presumably this headless corpse was dragged out by this young man from the woods on one side, right?
The young man with a piece of flesh and blood in his mouth was very surprised by the sudden appearance of the family of three who disturbed his or her enjoyment of the meal.
He sat on his knees in a daze, forgetting to chew the piece of flesh and blood in his mouth. He also didn't know how to put the bloody intestine in his hand.
Although there was no expression on the blood-stained little face, the dark and bright eyes were full of fear.
From the weak aura displayed by the other party, Zhang Zhe sensed that the other party was a half-corpse man with the same identity as him and Mo Xi.
But what makes Zhang Zhe curious is that with such a bloody scene in front of him, he didn't smell a trace of blood in the air?
Presumably it was the smell emitted by the group of black-haired werewolf zombies that blocked the smell of blood here? Or maybe the young man in front of him used some special method to suppress the smell of blood?
After taking a look at Mo Xi, who had an extremely calm expression next to him, Zhang Zhe felt that Mo Xi, who was beside him, should have noticed what happened here.
But to be honest, Zhang Zhe was still a little excited to suddenly meet such a similar person here.
After all, in the past five years, in order to avoid encountering living people, they have been hiding in Tibet and have not come into contact with any of their kind. They have always felt that those half-zombie people created by the wolf tribe have long been hunted by military troops.
Almost exhausted.
They have always felt that in this apocalypse, they might be the only two remaining half-dead people.
But he was excited because most of the half-corpse people created by the wolf clan were members of the wolf clan. In his impression five years ago, there was not a single good person among the members of the wolf clan.
Just as Zhang Zhe was thinking this in his mind, the young man in front of him, who was kneeling next to the corpse, stared blankly at the three of them for a long time before swallowing the piece of flesh and blood in his mouth.
He forced a smile from his blood-covered face and spoke nervously to Zhang Zhe and Mo Xi.
"Brother, eldest sister, if you don't mind it, how about... how about you eat some too?"
"I, I, I... I can give it all to you. I, I... I'm going to leave now, can I leave here right now? I'll give it all to you, all of it to you."
Her voice sounded very soft and soft, like a girl's voice.
As soon as the girl finished speaking, Moxi, who was smiling, slowly walked towards the girl and said with a smile to the nervous girl.
"Little sister, don't be nervous, we are not interested in this body."
"The body still belongs to you, we just want the carriage. How about we take the carriage away and you continue to enjoy your lunch here?"
The girl, whose face was covered with blood, forced a wry smile on her face, then shook her little head to the ground like a rattle and said to Mo Xi, who came closer.
"Sister, I can give you this body. But this carriage is really not good!"
"If I give the carriage to you, I will..."
Before the girl could finish her words, Moxi had a murderous look on his face. He then released the five half-meter-long sharp claws hidden in each of his hands. He looked at the girl kneeling in front of the body and said coldly.
.
"Little sister, considering that we are all half-corpse, I am giving you a choice. Don't do anything that will make you regret."
"Come on, answer me again!"
"Give us the carriage and you can continue to enjoy your lunch here. Okay--"