Chapter 576 Fallen leaves return to their roots, why do they call home?
August 18th.
at noon.
The temperature has dropped again and has reached an outdoor temperature of 33 degrees.
Exactly 72 hours have passed since the volcano erupted.
Three days.
For three days in a row, the world has been in darkness.
It's not the kind of gloomy and overcast sky. As time goes by, the sky becomes darker and darker.
I couldn't see my fingers, it was even darker than at night.
Before, at least at night, there was still some moonlight, but now, even the moonlight was gone, leaving only darkness!
The black is very pure, and the black is scary.
Now, twenty-four hours a day, there is no difference between day and night, because they are all the same, and there is only darkness outside.
The night gives humans black eyes, but humans use them to find light.
Never before has humankind longed for light so much.
Before the end of the world, there was a kind of punishment called the dark room.
It was in a closed space with no sound and no light. It was difficult for ordinary people to stay in it for long.
Although it is slightly better now, it is not in a closed space.
But the occasional screams of zombies can be heard from all around, and the danger is everywhere in the darkness, which makes people even more heartbroken.
.....
Xincheng, a small town.
Basement second floor.
The door is closed.
It was originally a dark world, but in this closed basement, it became even darker and quieter.
Quietly, only the sound of people breathing can be heard.
"Second brother, where are you?" a man said.
The voice seemed to be full of pain and some kind of suppressed emotion.
Shanfeng heard the voice coming from the left and said feebly: "I'm on the edge of the right wall. What's wrong? There's something wrong with your voice."
A chirping sound.
The man seemed to have difficulty standing up.
Clang——
Maybe he accidentally bumped into something and hit the ground.
The loud noise was particularly prominent in this confined space.
The sound echoed and spread...
"Xiao Ning, don't move around. When I went out just now, I saw zombies outside. Didn't you see it too? Don't move around. If you make too much noise, the zombies will be brought in. Everyone will be ruined."
Shanfeng lowered his voice and said.
"Huh-ah-" a painful groan came.
It seemed that the man was injured, and he let out a low whine in pain.
Upon hearing this sound, Shanfeng immediately took out a box of matches from his pocket.
The matchbox is crumpled.
He carefully fumbled for the matches and took out one of them.
Made up a bit.
Zila——
The flame burned instantly, and the light instantly illuminated the entire room.
Shanfeng saw Xiao Ning falling to the ground, her body curled up like a mouth, and she was still trembling from time to time.
Half of the match had burned, and Shanfeng quickly reached out to fumble around.
He fumbled for a pile of pine needles, placed them on the ground, and then threw the match directly onto the pile of pine needles.
The pine needles were instantly ignited.
Wow——
The flames instantly grew bigger.
Shanfeng stood up, went to a corner of the basement, picked up a pile of wood, and then threw two pieces of wood on the pine needles.
The flames crackled and lit up the entire room.
There were four people in the whole room. When they saw the flames, three people came over.
But before they could come over, a woman saw Xiao Ning lying on the ground.
"Xiao Ning, what's wrong with you?" She walked over worriedly.
When other people heard the sound, they also focused their attention.
Shanfeng walked directly to him, knelt down and gently helped the man up.
Suddenly I felt my hands were wet. I picked them up and looked at the angle of the fire. I saw that they were full of blood.
"Carry him over to the fire, Xiaofeng, go and open the door a little, and guard there, watching the zombies. The room is burning wood, it's too closed, maybe everyone will be poisoned."
Shanfeng's face didn't look good and he said in a low voice.
"Okay." The woman named Xiaofeng looked at the fire and looked at the unconscious Xiao Ning with some worry, took a weapon and walked towards the door.
Kaka——
She unlocked the door and gently opened it a crack, and the outdoor air suddenly came in.
Although the smell outside has a bit of sulfur smell, it is much better than indoors.
There was a sour smell of sweat and a musty smell everywhere in the room, which made people's eyes irritate.
Huhu——
Xiaofeng greedily breathed in the sulfuric acid-smelling outdoor air.
The other side.
Shanfeng and the other two dragged Xiao Ning to the fire.
The light of fire beats like a heart.
It also shone on the face of Xiao Ning who was unconscious.
Shanfeng looked over attentively and saw Xiao Ning's face covered in blood.
hiss--
What's going on, why is he bleeding for no reason!
Shanfeng took a piece of cloth and wiped it for him.
After wiping his face, he saw nosebleeds coming from Xiao Ning's nostrils.
It flows quite fast.
"Tear off two pieces of cloth quickly." Shanfeng saw this. Although he didn't know what happened, he knew that he had to stop Xiaoning's nosebleed first.
Tear--
The sound of a piece of cloth being torn apart.
Shan Feng snatched the torn cloth and stuffed it into Xiao Ning's nose and mouth.
His eyes were full of nervousness, Xiao Ning was his biological brother.
After the eldest brother left, he was the only biological brother.
The flowing blood quickly soaked the blocked cloth.
Shanfeng slowly dragged him to the wall and took two things to cushion him behind.
If you have a nosebleed, you cannot lie down, otherwise the blood may choke your bronchial tubes.
Another person touched Xiao Ning's forehead.
It was so hot that his hands felt like they were on fire.
"It's so hot, Shanfeng, his head is so hot. Could he be sick?" The man took his hand back, shook it, and said worriedly.
Hearing this, Shanfeng's eyes flashed with worry, and he slowly put his hand on Xiao Ning's forehead.
An abnormal temperature spread through the skin of Xiao Ning's forehead and reached the palm of his hand.
It's hot!
Shanfeng quickly looked down at Xiao Ning's body again. His whole body was hot and red.
"It's so hot, so hot, so hot." Xiao Ning closed her eyes tightly, frowning and wailing in pain.
Shanfeng heard what Xiao Ning said and said with some uncertainty: "It shouldn't be. Now the temperature has dropped so much, why do I still feel hot? It was okay to be so hot before, why is it like this when the temperature drops?"
"Do you think it's hot now?" Shanfeng raised his head and said to the man.
"It's not hot. I think the temperature is just right now."
"But looking at his current symptoms, some of them look like he has a fever, and some of them look like he has heatstroke. Why is he bleeding from the nose? What is going on?" Shanfeng couldn't figure it out. He was not a doctor and he had little life experience.
, unable to tell him what is going on with his brother now.
The oldest-looking man who had been standing next to the fire, who had been silent just now, finally spoke:
"I haven't eaten much recently, which has already caused my body to be weak. Moreover, it was so hot a few days ago. The temperature has dropped sharply in the past two days, and my body must not be able to bear it. Maybe it's because of Xiao Ning."
"Then, what should we do now?" Shanfeng's eyes were full of excitement. He had already lost his son. After losing this younger brother, he no longer had any relatives in this world.
Hearing the older man speak, Shanfeng seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw. He slowly leaned Xiao Ning against the wall and walked over in a hurry.
Said to the older man: "Do you know what to do? You must know right!"
The oldest one, with wrinkles on his face as deep as ravines, looked at the mountain peaks and then at Xiao Ning.
He lamented in his heart, but he probably knew that it was easy to have a fever under such a sudden drop in high temperature. If the fever was excessive, it would be difficult to deal with it without antipyretics.
He took out a kettle from his waist, handed it to Shanfeng and said, "Let Xiao Ning drink some water first. He probably has a fever. We don't have antipyretics here. Sigh..."
Shanfeng took the kettle and looked a little dull. He helped Xiaoning up and fed him some water.
Unexpectedly, after being fed some water, Xiao Ning's whole body began to tremble violently again.
"It's so cold, so cold, so cold, so ice. I'm going to die." Xiao Ning murmured in a low voice, her body shaking like a sieve.
Shanfeng quickly took off the cushion on the table.
Then he placed it under Xiao Ning.
"Cold, cold, cold, so cold."
When other people nearby heard what Xiao Ning said, they also grabbed some of the quilts behind them.
Three layers of quilts, wrapped layer by layer.
In this weather of more than 30 degrees, Xiao Ning's face was as red as a braised prawn, and white steam came out of her tangled hair.
Sweat flowed from the skin as if it were free of charge.
"Hot, hot, hot. It's so hot." Xiao Ning, who was in a coma, suddenly pushed away the quilt covering her body, trembling all over.
Shanfeng was busy and felt very uncomfortable when he saw his brother like this.
The oldest man had returned to the fire, his eyes full of sadness.
Suddenly, he spoke: "Shanfeng, I wish we had entered the Zhangshu base together. I heard there is a medical room there."
Kaka——
When Shanfeng heard this sentence, his hands instantly tightened the quilt, and the blood vessels on his arms bulged due to too much force.
The last time, when his son died, he had already heard someone say it once.
Although he knows that it is an unwise decision to not go through with it, he will never regret the things he has decided on, and he will not admit his mistakes, not even to the death!
The older man saw the mountain like this through the firelight, and sighed secretly. He also regretted a little, why didn't he just leave the team and follow directly to the Da Zhangshu base.
On the ground.
Xiao Ning, sometimes she was cold, sometimes hot, and sweat kept pouring out.
The cloth on my nose was accidentally pulled out during the shaking.
The blood was no longer blocked and continued to flow out of the nostrils.
This blood is fresh...
With the crack in the basement door, the smell of fresh blood spread silently and through the air to the outside of the basement...
Outside the basement, by the small bridge, there happened to be a few zombies walking this way.
.......
Big camphor tree base.
There are still some little bits of light.
The searchlights come on.
Ju Tianrui drank some porridge and rested for two days, and he has completely recovered.
Then he was taken back to the Second Outer City by Dongtai. He saw with his own eyes that the Da Zhangshu Base had rescued so many people, and his recognition of the Da Zhangshu Base became higher and higher.
He could not imagine how much effort it would take to build such a great base in the apocalypse.
But what he didn't know was that most of the walls inside were built before the end of the world.
Otherwise, in the apocalypse, the manpower and material resources required to build such a wall would be trivial. The key is the zombies that appear around from time to time. This is the biggest trouble.
The temperature is thirty-three degrees.
Ju Tianrui stretched out his hand outside the Second Outer City and felt the volcanic ash falling from the sky.
This volcanic ash has been flying for three days, and it shows no sign of stopping.
"Dongtai, how many people are there in total?" Ju Tianrui flicked the volcanic ash on his hands, clapped his hands, turned to Dongtai next to him and asked.
Dongtai looked around and said slowly: "I haven't made any specific calculations.
The place where you were just now, where Xiao Jun and the others were, is called the First Outer City. They are all people stationed at the Da Zhangshu Base, and there should be more than a hundred people there.
We are now in the Second Outer City, and we are all cooperating with the Da Zhangshu Base, or what they call non-staff personnel. I did a rough calculation, and in total, there are at least 1,300 people.
I heard from them that there is an inner city behind the wall in front of me. I have never been in it, so I don’t know how big it is or how many people there are.
But from what we have seen so far, the total number of people totaling is at least 1,600. This is a conservative estimate."
Ju Tianrui nodded, his eyes full of emotion.
Dongtai thought about the mortars and heavy machine guns and other heavy weapons he saw when he first came in, and decided to talk to Ju Tianrui.
Ju Tianrui listened quietly to what Dongtai said, his eyes filled with brilliance.
"Okay, okay, it's strong enough to have the ability to protect itself. This Da Zhangshu base is very good. It's very good. Although I haven't had much contact with it in the past two days, I can feel it from every aspect of the details.
There is a world of difference between this Da Zhangshu base and Ganshang in Chengzizhoutou."
Dongtai agreed with this point, nodded heavily, and said to Ju Tianrui: "I found that many of the people here are from the army, or are armed police, and Mr. Li's third uncle, it's really
What an incredible person."
After hearing Dongtai's words, Ju Tianrui's mind instantly thought of that ordinary-looking man who looked like an old farmer.
With a lot of emotion in my heart, I breathed a long sigh of relief and said: "That person was my idol before, and he is still now."
Dongtai looked at Ju Tianrui in surprise. He had never seen the battalion commander praise someone so highly.
He had some calculations in his mind and asked in a tentative tone: "Then are we going to join them next?"
Ju Tianrui was noncommittal, looking at the boundless darkness, and sighed faintly: "If you were the person in charge of the Da Zhangshu Base, would you rashly let a team of nearly a hundred people with weapons join in?"
Dongtai heard this and thought to himself.
Sometimes when there are too many people, it can cause fear.
Especially in the last days.
Frowning his brows, he couldn't help but said, "Then, where else can we go?"
Ju Tianrui thought for a while and said: "Don't worry, if they have concerns, they will naturally consider it. We also have to do what we should do. Besides, we also have to get to know this big camphor tree base better.
But for now, at least, Xiao Jun's attitude can prove something.
Moreover, judging from your introduction, the system that joins the Da Zhangshu Base is actually very good in the apocalypse.
First ensure the safety of people in the city, and if possible, appropriately expand your influence.
The most important thing is that Mr. Li knows how to lead people to survive in the apocalypse better than I do.
this point is very important."
Dongtai listened quietly beside him, and when he saw the darkness around him, he felt indescribable melancholy in his heart.