388, Lilliput 16

Holding the communicator tightly, Yu Heng asked in a deep voice: "What's the specific situation?"

There was a few noises over there, and Jiang Shujun's voice continued to come: "To make a long story short, the outsiders have a way to talk to us, and they directly release statements to major military regions and bases in the country through the Secretariat, claiming that if you are not handed over, they will directly start a massacre. I remember you said that they want to capture live people and take them back to raise that beast? They said this, which means they don't care about the original intention of coming to our world. Just to capture you!"

"The Secretariat has mixed forces. Although the Secretariat can convey Mr. Lin's orders, the armed police system is directly under the jurisdiction of Mr. Lin. I haven't been able to talk to Mr. Lin directly in the past few years. The Secretariat must be a mess, and the views of various forces are different. You must be careful."

"Now your image has spread, the survivor gathering area is too big a target, and it is not a good choice. I believe you, and I believe that it is better for you to live alone outside than in the safe zone. Zheng Dong, I'll leave it to you."

The breathing over there became heavier, Yu Heng heard Jiang Shujun say the last two sentences: "Don't contact me anymore. I'm afraid that one day I won't be able to hold on. I will destroy this communicator and no one will be able to get any news from me. Goodbye, take care."

The communication was cut off, and Zheng Dong looked at Yu Heng in confusion: "Your expression is not right. What did the captain say to you?"

"Nothing. Take a rest. We will go back tomorrow and enter Cuixu Park."

Zheng Dong was shocked: "Aren't we going to the Egret Base? By the way, why didn't you tell the captain that we are here? He must be very worried."

Even if he did, Jiang Shujun wouldn't want to hear it. Yu Heng knew that this was the last time Jiang Shujun offered help, and the other party was also suffering in his heart. It's a good deal to exchange one person for others. He was very grateful that Jiang Shujun could protect him this time.

"Captain Jiang said that I shouldn't go." He explained the cause and effect again, and Zheng Dong opened his mouth wide and fell into deep thought. No matter how simple and straightforward a person is, he has his own thinking ability.

Yu Heng sat aside and planned the route. Since we can't enter the safe zone, we should go to a place with few people, where there are fewer outsiders. After all, the degree of danger is not proportional to the amount of prey harvested. Those mutant plants and animals will be the most natural protective barrier. But how to get out of those deep forests is a problem...

In fact, it is not impossible to disguise and enter the Egret Base. Yu Heng stopped writing and looked at Zheng Dong, whose eyebrows were twisted into a piece. Facts have proved that we should not test human nature, and we should not put ourselves in a place where we can be tested. People's hearts are fickle, otherwise Jiang Shujun would not have cut off contact with him. Jiang Shujun asked Zheng Dong to listen to him in the future, which was also a framework for Zheng Dong's behavior.

If he wants to live, no one is wrong. Yu Heng picked up the pen again and continued to write and draw on the paper. He just wrote: disguise next to it. Zheng Dong came over and looked at him directly: "Mr. Peng, don't worry, I will definitely protect you, for sure."

"Okay."

After resting, they immediately left the vicinity of the Egret Base. The number of giant beasts they encountered began to increase. After all, they were outside the jurisdiction of the Egret Base and there was no manpower to clean up and kill them.

After a long period of living outside, Yu Heng gradually came up with a mud formula with a better ratio. Applying it on his body has made most giant beasts ignore the two of them. It's just... very smelly and very smelly. This time, the foreign visitors came back with great momentum. The sound of gunfire could always be heard in the darkness, and the light produced by the explosion cut the black curtain into countless pieces. All this told Yu Heng that the battle was fierce.

The foreign visitors were well prepared to come again, and the local residents were not willing to surrender. Time is the greatest wealth. It can give people endless motivation to rise again. As long as there is enough time, everything can be rebuilt.

He and Zheng Dong finally arrived at Cuixu Park, found a towering tree, and lived in its tree hole. It is indeed safe here, and there is almost no sign of outsiders tracking aircraft, but——

"Mr. Peng, hurry up and help me catch it, ah ah!"

Yu Heng asked Zheng Dong to cut off his clothes, and saw a leech curled up on Zheng Dong, strangling him to a pale face. The leech was originally quite large, and after the mutation, its length could directly wrap around Zheng Dong three or four times, sucking blood very quickly, and Zheng Dong's face was obviously ugly.

There was no time to light the fire, so he threw a bag of salt on Zheng Dong. The leech trembled and squirmed unwillingly. Zheng Dong seized the opportunity to slip out and kicked it angrily. The leech was soft and flexible, and it sucked blood very well. This kick was no different from kicking into cotton. But cotton doesn't bite, leeches do.

"Stop kicking, run quickly."

Yu Heng urged, bending over and continuing to sprinkle salt on the leech. The leech twisted uncomfortably, mucus seeped out of its body, and its body shrank. Soon after, it completely shrank and died. Zheng Dong screamed in the attic: "It hurts so much, Mr. Peng, help me apply medicine, I don't want to move because of the pain."

"Here it comes. Didn't you say you were going to get water? Why are you entangled by leeches again?"

"I just bent over, and the bastard fell from the top of my head and lay directly on me. I was already amazing that I could hold on and run back to let you save me. It hurts so much!"

After cutting off the bandage, Yu Heng patted Zheng Dong's head: "Okay, be careful next time, remember to wear a raincoat, this one is still small, if you encounter a bigger one next time, you will be sucked to death outside and your body will not be found."

"Got it, I forgot..."

After helping Zheng Dong deal with his wound, he put on his raincoat and went outside to get water. He soon found the bucket that Zheng Dong had dropped. He stood the bucket up and climbed up the tree on the simple ladder he had built. A row of bamboo tubes cut in half could be vaguely seen between the trees, heading downwards. After climbing to the top of the tree, he carefully tilted leaves onto the bamboo tubes, and the dew accumulated on the leaves at night slid into the bamboo tubes and then fell into the bucket on the ground.

The sound of the flowing water was crisp, and the sound of dripping into the wooden barrel was even more pleasant. Fetching water was a rare leisure time, and a new day began with fetching water. Feeling that it was almost done, Yu Heng climbed down and covered the lid of the wooden barrel to prevent dust or other things from falling in. Carrying water and walking on the trampled path, he suddenly felt a weight on his head. Sure enough, the leech had attached itself again and was separated by the raincoat.

"Brother Zheng, come and help me spread some salt."

"Hey!"

Just after I finished cleaning up, it started to rain outside, and then the rain got heavier. Zheng Dong said happily: "I want to take a shower!"

"Please hold back. Is it time to take a shower now? Even if you are not injured, you can't go out like this. Do you want to be covered with blood-sucking worms?"

The rain was getting heavier, and the noise in the forest gradually disappeared, leaving only the sound of rain. Yu Heng lit a candle and played cards with Zheng Dong. There were only two people living here. In the past, they could transform the tree hole. After this small home is completed, they can only play cards when they are idle.

"One to eight--" Zheng Dong's body shook, and he looked at the hole behind him in surprise. The hole was covered with two layers of cloth to block the light. "Why is it shaking so much? Are there giant beasts fighting again?"

"Maybe, let's go and take a look."

The two climbed up the ladder. The ladder passage led directly to many large branches of the tree. The two climbed out from the highest point where the branches and the trunk were connected. The leaves here were so dense that even rain could not get in. After coming out, the sound was more obvious.

"Over there!"

Yu Heng looked through the telescope. In the darkness, he saw the shadows of the trees in the east swaying. The super-large beasts were shaking constantly. Judging from the shape, one of them was a giant python. "They are getting closer and closer. Brother Zheng, let's go down."

The two returned to the tree hole and felt the ground shaking more and more strongly. The trees were knocked down and hit the big tree where they lived. The furniture and utensils in the tree hole kept shaking. Yu Heng simply put them all in the storage ring and grabbed the handles nailed on the wall of the cave with Zheng Dong.

Bang!

The two beasts hit the big tree and then fought farther and farther. Yu Heng breathed a sigh of relief and climbed up the branches again to see that they had indeed gone far away. "It's done, let's continue playing cards."

Living in the dense forest, such things have happened hundreds of times. Today is still good. Sometimes you encounter a large group of wolves chasing sheep and deer, and the movement can knock down a large area of ​​trees. They were very patient when they chose the "house". Fortunately, they were patient and careful in choosing and building. This big tree is really resistant to wear and tear. It still stands tall and grows more and more luxuriantly.

"When will the sun rise?" Zheng Dong asked every day, which made Yu Heng nervous. He counted with his fingers and found that it has been more than 200 days since the last time it got dark.

"It's almost a year."

He originally thought that he would spend the rest of his life here, and when the sun rises again, he can go out. No, even if that day comes, he can no longer live with his original identity. He was thinking about it and didn't want to play cards. After saying hello to Zheng Dong, he fell asleep in bed.

He woke up on time the next day. He went out of the tree hole first and did some exercises on the tree branch. It was dark every day. If he didn't plan his living time and make a daily work plan, he would be exhausted. At about noon, he and Zheng Dong were having lunch. Suddenly, several explosions sounded, shocking them both for a while.

Where did the explosion come from in this desolate mountain?

Yu Heng quickly put down his chopsticks and climbed to the top of the tree to see. His eyes narrowed because of the dazzling white light. The explosion was in the west, and the sound did not stop.

"It was a tracking missile." Zheng Dong said excitedly: "It must be a certain military chasing foreign visitors! Let's go and see!"

"Okay, let's go!"

The roads were familiar, and some safe paths had been found in the past few days. The two of them were very fast and soon found the explosion site. The explosion had stopped, and a large open space was in sight. The trees and bushes at the explosion site were all burned. The nose was full of the strong smell of gunpowder, and the surrounding grass and trees were crackling and burning, and water vapor was steaming.

After carefully searching around, there were only ashes and debris, nothing left. "Hiss, it's so hot, Mr. Peng, let's go, there is a lot of noise here, and the giant beast should be here later." Zheng Dong tiptoed, and the soles of his feet were burned by the scorching ground and wanted to jump.

As soon as they entered the dense forest, a strong wind blew over their heads, and a large group of unknown birds flew by. Yu Heng stretched out his hand to press down the raincoat hat, but it felt hairy, so he threw the insects down. No wonder his neck felt heavy just now.

Back in the tree hole, Yu Heng took out the communicator, took a look at it, and put it back. The explosion that day quickly faded from their lives and did not cause any more waves. Time passed quickly, and soon two months passed. The sun finally rose again, dispersing the black fog in the deep forest inch by inch. All the heavy dirt was dissipated with the sun, and the heart became brighter.

Although I don’t know if the darkness will spread again, this moment is still worth cherishing.

"Come on! Mr. Peng, let’s have an outdoor barbecue!"

Zheng Dong jumped happily, opened his hands and made a gesture of embracing the sun. Yu Heng looked at him, and the two looked at each other. Slowly, Zheng Dong’s smile faded, and his eyes showed hesitation and uneasiness.

“So, shall we go back?”