When Ning Zhe first heard the report, he thought it was bandits coming, because in this vast desert, except for hunters and bandits, almost no one else would choose to come in and die, and hunters could not be too large to let them die.

The sentry was so nervous.

But when he climbed to the top of the sand dune, he discovered that the team walking in the desert turned out to be a large number of refugees.

The refugees were in ragged clothes, with sallow complexion and thin skin. A rough count suggested that there were at least several hundred people.

The sun was scorching, and people kept falling.

"What does it smell like? It's fragrant!"

"There's someone! There's someone over there!"

"saved!"

"...!"

Among the crowd, I don't know who was the first to smell the smell of food being cooked at the scientific expedition team's camp. The group became excited again and began to move in groups towards the sand dunes where the camp was located.

"Da da da!"

When the gunfire started, Ye Peng led the team and rushed up the sand dune.

When the refugees saw the mercenaries wearing uniforms and armed with live ammunition appearing from behind the sand dunes, they were all stunned.

The refugees have a deep-seated fear of the fortress people.

An old man in the crowd looked at the grandmother beside him, and his voice was so weak that only he could hear: "Honey, is there anything to eat?"

An old woman with sunken eyes rummaged through her empty baggage, stepped forward and begged: "Gentlemen, please give me something to eat! My old man is starving to death!"

"There's nothing, get out now! Stay away from us!" A mercenary's face was as dark as water, and he raised the gun without any sympathy. The sound of pulling the bolt of the gun was heard one after another in the team.

Xie Guangkun was also standing behind the sand dune at this moment. The first time he walked out of the fortress, he was deeply shocked by the scene in front of him. He looked at Ye Peng with some unbearability: "Captain Ye, give them some food.

These people are so pitiful."

Ye Peng was expressionless, showing no sympathy for the homeless people who kept falling down: "Professor, these bugs in the refugee areas are inferior races, and they are greedy. If you give one, they will attract a group of people. We don't know how to do it yet."

No matter how long we walk, we can’t waste food on them.”

"Gudong!"

At the same time, the starved old man fell weakly to the ground. The old woman turned around and went back to support him. Although she was sad in her heart, she could not shed tears because of the lack of water: "Old man! You must hold on. If something happens to you,

, how can I live!"

"Honey, if I die, I must find my grandson. If we adopt him, we must be responsible to the end..." The old man stretched out his withered palm and held the old woman's wrist: "I... I'm sorry for you!"

Seeing this scene, Ning Zhe was suddenly touched. He was a very hard-hearted person, but the old man's words reminded him of Mr. Lin who adopted him back then. After hesitating for a moment, Ning Zhe stepped forward and took out a water bag.

, and handed two bean cakes to the old woman.

Over at the camp, Tu Shi saw Ning Zhe's movements from a distance and raised his eyebrows slightly: "This kid is a bit interesting. He is reluctant to eat the food he brought, but he actually wants to share it with others!"

Ren Jiao looked at the miserable refugees. Although she felt sympathy, she did not take any action. She stared at Ning Zhe's back and said: "Overflowing sympathy will cause him trouble. Such people live in the refugee area."

not long."

"Sir, give us some too!"

"Please! My mother is starving to death!"

"Save my daughter!"

"I'll trade my wife for a bowl of water!"

"...!"

Perhaps it was Ning Zhe's actions that gave others hope, and refugees once again surrounded him.

"Pfft!"

Ning Zhe pulled out the knife from his waist and stabbed it roughly into the sand next to him: "You have no food, so you won't starve to death immediately, but if someone continues to come forward, I will definitely kill him!"

A group of refugees looked at Ning Zhe, who was wearing mercenary uniforms, and froze on the spot.

When Ren Jiao saw this scene, she shrugged slightly and said to Tu Shi, "Just pretend I didn't say what you just said."

The old woman gave the old man a few sips of water and found that his expression softened. She thanked Ning Zhe repeatedly and prepared to pack food and water: "Young man! Thank you! I will never forget your great kindness!

"

"You must finish what I gave you now!" Ning Zhe interrupted the old woman: "Others saw what I gave you. If you save the food, you will die."

"Okay! Okay!" The old woman woke up from a dream and began to feed her husband.

Ning Zhe saw the old couple devouring their food and was a little curious: "Who are you? Why do you come to the desert?"

"We are from Fortress No. 88, and there was an insect infestation there. Those beetles were as big as a human head, and they bit everyone they saw. The troops in the city came out to take care of them at first, but found that the insects were difficult to deal with, so they withdrew.

, began to hold on to the fortress, we abandoned refugees have no choice but to run away!" When the old man mentioned this matter, his eyes were still full of fear: "Many of our refugee villages over there were wiped out because of this, and everyone wanted to escape in order to escape.

Due to the insect infestation, we had no choice but to run to No. 87. At the beginning, there were thousands of people in the team, but the number of people was decreasing every day. We walked for dozens of days, and there were only this few people left... Young man, you know

How far is Fortress 87?"

"Go northwest. With your speed, we'll be close in two more days." As Ning Zhe spoke, he took out a handful of beetles from his bag, stuffed them into the old man's hands calmly, and then turned around and left.

Ning Zhe had heard about insect swarms and beast herds attacking humans, but that was a long, long time ago. It was precisely because of this that countless fortresses were built. He originally thought that the insect swarm was just a

The legend, I didn’t expect it still exists today.

Wolves attack people, insects massacre villages, and there seem to be more and more strange things happening in the wilderness recently.

Just as Ning Zhe turned around, Fatty Li came running from behind with some food in his arms: "Brother Zhe, I took some more food, do you want to share it with them?"

"No need!" Ning Zhe shook his head slightly and started to walk back, dragging Fatty Li: "We can't save so many people. They have all been exposed to acid rain, and various diseases will soon occur. From this distance,

Look, even if these people can really eat a full meal, it will be difficult for them to get out of the desert. The number of people who can reach Fortress No. 87 alive in the end should be less than one-tenth, and the number of people who can find a job to survive is probably another one-tenth."

…

As night fell, a bonfire was lit in the camp, and the aroma of cooking cans drifted to the refugees. Finally, someone couldn't help but want to storm the camp. With a burst of gunfire and several fallen corpses, the night fell silent again.

The whole night was not peaceful. The night in the desert was very cold. People began to fight for clothes in the refugee camp. At the same time, some women cried out that they had lost their children.

Losing a child in this situation reminded Ning Zhe of Zhuo Mingyuan who went crazy because of eating five-fingered sheep.

The situation was as Ning Zhe expected. When the sun rose the next day, at least a hundred corpses that had fallen due to cold and disease were left where the refugees were.

In order to prevent the refugees from starving to madness and storming the camp, the convoy set off at dawn, and the refugees swarmed up and began to pick up garbage, and some even began to eat the charcoal left in the campfire.

With a survival rate of one percent, countless people risked their lives to flee.

But if they don't escape, they won't even have this one percent hope.
Chapter completed!