Survival is the first step to not being able to survive, so in the end, he will not be able to survive anymore. If he intends to survive but is too cowardly, he will die in the end.
——Lu Xun
"Owen!" The child's figure could not be seen in the dark night.
Sandri was distraught and extremely upset.
If the negligence of three adults led to the death of this child, it would surely be a lingering haze in their lives even if they lived.
Tommy is not as good at making noises as Sandry. On the contrary, the more crisis comes, the more silent and calm Tommy becomes. He first found the footprints left by Owen, and it was obvious that he was himself I left the outpost and headed northeast. But there was a dark forest over there, and the trees were as stiff as dead objects fixed in amber. Even strong winds could hardly break them.
The dead leaves were as black as a deep cold pool. Tommy stumbled and ran forward, faster and faster, because he seemed to see the child's back.
Suddenly, another figure jumped out of the darkness.
Almost out of instinct, Tommy immediately fought back, and the two sides fought each other. When Shen Xichen followed and saw this scene, he was about to hide, and then he was hugged from behind.
Shen Xichen's body bones were obviously not as strong as Tommy's, so even if she tried her best to resist, she was still dragged into the darkness.
She noticed that the hands were very strong and covered with mud, as if they had been dormant in the darkness for a long time. Fortunately, she could still make a sound, and the mask of the cold-weather suit had not been broken.
She shouted for help.
Michelle arrived quickly. This blond angel transformed into the God of Death. After several attacks, three people fell in the forest.
They are all ordinary civilians, but they became ambushers in order to survive.
Putting away the blade, Michelle wrapped Shen Xichen, who was in shock, and then looked at Tommy: "Have you seen Owen?"
Tommy leaned against the tree and relaxed, lowered his head, and the light above his head reflected the face of the killed ambusher. She was a woman who looked to be in her forties.
Her eyes were open when she died, as if she was still longing for something.
Tommy looked away uneasily, then looked deeper into the forest and made sure that the footprints were still there.
"It shouldn't be far." Tommy stood up and ran deeper into the forest.
This time Damon followed his footsteps, and the two of them moved forward quickly in the forest one after the other. Along the way, they saw many strange figures swaying in the forest, but this time these guys did not launch an attack rashly. .
Damon frowned and said, "The temperature in this forest is very strange. It's only minus 30 degrees Celsius. Why didn't we notice it before?"
Tommy also discovered something unusual.
When he fought with the woman before, she was only wearing ordinary cotton clothes, but she was not afraid of the cold at all, and her strength was amazing. If Michelle hadn't arrived in time, he might have been strangled to death by the woman.
"I don't know, let's find Owen first." Tommy continued deep into the forest. After advancing for more than ten minutes, the road suddenly cut off, and a deep pit with a strange blue light appeared in front of Tommy and Damon. .
Damon stopped and frowned, "What is this place?"
Tommy glanced at the inaccurate imaginary coordinates. The accuracy of this kind of coordinates that purely uses AI algorithms to replace satellite positioning will become worse and worse with the distance moved. But the actual approximate location of the coordinates is still somewhat credible...
"It seems that we have crossed the border accidentally and have now entered Germany." Tommy said.
"Germany? Why don't I remember that there is such a large forest on the German-French border?" Dimon seemed to know this border very well.
Tommy asked: "Are you familiar with this place?"
"Well, seven years ago I hunted down a group of international fugitives on this line." Damon inadvertently revealed his past, and then he turned to look at Tommy: "You won't tell anyone, will you?"
Tommy shrugged: "Does it matter?"
Damon thought about it. He turned back to look at the figures in the forest who had not given up and said: "These people should have broken into this place when they were fleeing, but even if it is only a low temperature of minus 30 degrees, in this kind of place without the sun,
' In this world, if you want to survive, you still have to go to a shelter. Are they going to stay here forever?"
Tommy thought Damon's question was silly because there was no answer to it.
Just when the two of them didn't know where to go next, a timid voice came: "Brother Tommy."
Tommy and Damon turned their heads to the right almost at the same time.
It's Owen.
This little thing was dirty and didn't know what kind of damage it had suffered, but it seemed that the cold protection device was still intact and it didn't appear to be injured.
"Owen!! You guy! Why did you come to such a weird place?!" Tommy ran over and grabbed Owen, fearing that he would disappear again.
Damon let out a sigh of relief and sent the news of finding Owen back to Michelle and the others, but it was unknown whether it was because of the distance, so Michelle and the others did not respond.
"Actually... I was lost..." Owen felt aggrieved, and he added: "I saw a child waving to me, and I thought he was inviting me, but I got lost when I followed him..."
"Child?" Tommy frowned, then looked around, and said with some fear: "This place doesn't look like a place with good people. Let's go back quickly."
With that said, Tommy was about to take Owen away.
As a result, Damon stopped Tommy and motioned Tommy to look in the direction they came from.
For some unknown reason, those figures who had been hiding before came out of the shadows. When exposed to the spotlights carried by Tommy and Damon, they didn't even blink, looking extremely weird.
Most of these people did not carry weapons, only a few of them carried rough wooden sticks and the like.
They were all wearing thin clothes, and they were all thin, like refugees who had been hungry for an unknown amount of time. To be honest, Tommy only felt weird at this time, not scared yet. After all, he and Damon were both wearing mechanical outerwear.
The skeletons are also equipped with various weapons and have sufficient ammunition.
With the strength of the dozens of people in front of them, it was almost impossible to stop them, even close to them.
But these people are still slowly approaching.
Tommy frowned and said: "Damon, are they living or dead? Didn't we accidentally break into the subspace?"
Damon sneered and said: "Have you seen too much? Where is the subspace... If you ask me, the reason why these guys are like this must be related to the forest here, but I still can't figure out what happened in this forest.
What."
"Then... what should we do? Just rush over there?"
Damon said: "Don't worry, look over there, there are a lot of people there."
Tommy followed Damon's eyes and looked to the north. Sure enough, dozens of people were staggering in the forest. They were all wearing the same thin clothes. Owen hid beside Tommy in fear, and he hugged him tightly.
Tommy's thigh said: "Brother Tommy, what's wrong with these people?"
Tommy shook his head: "I don't know, but he seems to be sick... Don't be afraid, we will leave safely."
While waiting on the spot, Dimon was also determining a baseline route.
He activated the self-locking cannon on his shoulder, and then said to Tommy: "You can follow me with Owen in a moment, and we'll go to the left."
Tommy nodded, then squatted down and said to Owen: "Owen, get on my back, and I will carry you."
Owen immediately followed suit.
After activating the exoskeleton, Tommy did not feel burdened by carrying a burden weighing more than 100 kilograms. He gripped the pulse rifle and waited for Damon's signal.
Suddenly, a woman among the dozens of people advancing slowly in front of her rushed towards Tommy and Damon, and those around her also rushed over after a brief daze.
Damon's eyes changed and he said in a deep voice: "Let's go!"
After saying that, he immediately put the exoskeleton into full operation and rushed to the left with Tommy.
Damon did not rush to shoot, but decided to save as much ammunition as possible before those people closed the circle. Damon and Tommy were obviously faster than those strange silent men and women, and they chased the people in the blink of an eye.
Left behind.
After returning to the forest, Tommy smiled and said: "These guys are really not good at it. I thought it was going to be a zombie war."
Damon did not take it lightly, he always felt that something was wrong.
We were obviously following the marked route, but the forest ahead gave us a strange feeling.
Owen, who was lying on Tommy's back, suddenly said: "Brother Tommy, look in front! That's him! That's the kid! He asked me to come!"
Tommy was shocked when he heard this and looked forward quickly.
Sure enough, standing on the side of the road where Tommy and Damon were running was a boy with a faint blue light all over his body.
When he saw Tommy and Damon, his face was full of joy, and he seemed to want to ask for help.
Tommy hesitated for a moment and then heard Damon say: "Don't stop! Be careful of the trap!"
After all, due to Damon's experience, Tommy only lost consciousness for a short time and then continued to run forward with Damon. The two of them ran hundreds of meters away in the blink of an eye.
But this forest seems to have no end.
No matter how much Tommy and Damon ran, they couldn't see the forest thinning out.
While running, they noticed several lights appearing in the forest on the right. Damon was stunned for a moment, then immediately changed direction and took Tommy towards the light.
Sure enough, it was Michelle and the three of them.
Sandri was injured among the three people who were walking on foot. Fortunately, Shen Xichen was nearby at the time and treated him in time and sealed the cold protection device. Otherwise, Sandri would have died in the ice and snow.
After everyone gathered, they were naturally happy to see Owen and Michelle.
But then Damon led everyone into the ice cave with one sentence: "Are you lost too?"
Michelle was stunned for a moment and then asked: "Where did you come from?"
Tommy pointed to the west and said: "From over there, we found Owen near a huge blue crater. There are many strange people over there, looking like a group of zombies."
"Crate?" Michelle frowned.
"Zombies?!" Shen Xichen was startled.
Damon glared at Tommy and said, "Don't listen to his nonsense. It's just a cave like a mine that I don't know how deep it is. There is also a group of weird people who look like they are sick. They seem to be trapped in this forest as well." bingo."
After hearing this, Sandri smiled bitterly: "Oh my god...will we end up like that? I don't want...I want to go to Germany! I want to sleep in a warm bed in a shelter! Ouch..."
After crying for a moment, Sandry was punched in the abdomen by Michelle and grimaced in pain.
Michelle said solemnly: "This forest is indeed not normal...and I don't remember there being such a large forest on the border between France and Germany...There is definitely something wrong."
After hearing this, everyone fell into deep thought. After a while, Tommy suddenly said: "That's right! That kid!"
"What?" Michelle looked at Tommy.
Tommy knelt down and put Owen down and said: "Owen said he saw a child waving to him and followed him. As a result, he got lost, and we just came from the meteorite... er... the mine. On the way to escape, I also saw a particularly weird child! It’s like...just like the one behind you...behind you?! Behind you!!!"
Michelle was stunned for a moment, then immediately turned around and raised her gun to shoot!
A child who appeared strangely in the forest was shot through the body without realizing it. He just looked down at the bullet holes in his body and then turned around and ran away.
Michelle immediately chased after him, and Tommy was startled: "Hey, Michelle, don't chase me!"
Michelle didn't care, looking like she was about to be driven crazy by the forest.
Damon frowned and said: "Take Owen and we will act together."
As he spoke, Damon walked over to help Shen Xichen support the injured Sandri and quickly caught up with Michelle.
Tommy was also very neat, but he felt vaguely uneasy.
Owen on his back whispered: "Brother Tommy, I'm so scared..."
Tommy smiled bitterly, why wasn't he afraid... But in front of the children, Tommy was an adult no matter what, how could he show his timidity, so he smiled and said: "Don't be afraid, we have guns in our hands."
After saying that, he carried Owen on his back and chased everyone, completely forgetting that Michelle had hit the child with a few bullets just now, but they were still undecided.
Everyone chased the strange boy along the road, and the boy seemed to be seducing him consciously.
As long as there was a pause on Michelle's side, he would get closer, forcing Michelle and the others to continue following him.
Unknowingly, everyone had completely lost their way, and Tommy discovered that Michelle and the others seemed to have become irrational. Along the way, Tommy reminded everyone many times that they should not continue to follow, but should take advantage of the fact that the road map was not yet available. Chaos found his way back as quickly as possible, but they turned a deaf ear.
Even Owen became weird towards the end.
He repeatedly said: "It's just in front...it's just in front..."
"What's in front of you?" Tommy walked uneasily. After passing through a dense forest, a large group of trees shining with a faint blue light appeared in the darkness ahead.
They look like works of art that have been splashed with fluorescent paint, standing quietly on the flickering land.
It was then clear to Tommy that everyone must have been possessed by evil spirits and they must be stopped immediately.
However, when Tommy wanted to rush over and stop Michelle, he saw many beings like the boy appearing in the forest. They were all shining with blue light, as if they were wearing fluorescent clothes.
Like a dancer, when walking on that piece of land that seems to be breathing, the steps are light and the bouncing seems to be dancing.
Tommy was dumbfounded.
Unknowingly, he also set foot on that land, and then the extreme cold sign that had been on the red warning line on the cold-proof suit turned green. At the same time, the thermostatic device built into the cold-proof suit slowly turned off, and the monitored external temperature
It actually rose to 26 degrees Celsius, the most suitable temperature for human habitation.
How is this going?
Also discovering the problem at the same time were Michelle and the others, who seemed to have come to their senses only after reaching this point.
The boy who led everyone here smiled and ran into the crowd. He hid behind a woman, only half of his head was exposed, and his face was full of smiles.
Seeing this scene, Tommy didn't feel weird at all for some reason. He even felt that he and his party had gotten help from the boy to come to this shelter.
But Michelle and Dimon, two extremely vigilant members, did not let down their guard.
On the contrary, because the vague memories of the past are still there, they even feel a little humiliated.
Michelle, who activated the self-locking cannon, stepped forward and looked at these people and said coldly: "Who are you? What do you want to do by bringing us here?"
The somewhat shy fluorescent people looked at each other, and then all of them laughed.
Michelle was very annoyed, but surprisingly unable to get angry.
Damon suddenly discovered something. He frowned and said, "Look behind them. Is there a line that is not easy to observe?"
"Thread?" Sandri's eyesight is not very good, so he doesn't see anything now.
Owen was the first to respond: "Yes! And there's more than one, there are many! Blue and shining..."
Tommy discovered it only after careful identification.
Indeed, there are many blue lines behind everyone here with blue fluorescent bodies, but they don’t seem to know that these lines exist, but judging from their movements when they turn around to check their backs,
It turns out that these people can understand what they say.
Shen Xichen noticed this, and she quietly said to Michelle: "Sister, they seem to understand what we are talking about?"
Michelle nodded, then walked forward with a cold face and said: "You...can you understand what we are saying?"
The little boy who brought everyone here before smiled and then looked at the woman beside him.
The woman who seemed to be the boy's mother came forward and nodded, but then pointed to her mouth, using gestures to indicate that they could understand but could not express.