Chapter 199

The closer we get to the city, the more people we meet on the way. Many teams are refugees. Most of those who can get here are not ordinary refugees.

Either they are merchants with guards, or they are like Fengnan Village, or they are families fleeing. There are many people and they are not easy to mess with.

This makes the group of people from Fengnan Village less conspicuous.

Before noon when the sun is at its peak and when it is late at night, the teams on the road will find a place to rest on their own.

The merchants and the families fleeing the whole family tacitly divide themselves into two groups. They don't provoke each other when they are on the road. Even if they need help, they only talk to similar teams.

It's just that when choosing a resting place, everyone defaults to the rule of first come first served, but there are always people who are dissatisfied because they can't find a suitable place. Some people will take out silver and wait for a good discussion, but there are also people who will play some tricks, which will inevitably cause some conflicts.

This is the situation today. The sun is at its peak at noon, and all the shaded places suitable for rest nearby have been occupied. The team that came from behind did not want to move forward and could only find someone to "discuss".

There are more than 20 people in this team, wearing ragged clothes and thin bodies, but at least 20 of them are adult men, and the rest are women who are even thinner and keep their heads down in silence, but there are no old people or children.

After seeing the composition of the team, Wen Zheng was alert at the first time. It was not that he wanted to think too badly of people, but he had experienced too many disasters and had seen how evil humans could be.

The leader was planning to find a soft persimmon to bully, and his eyes were sweeping around, but at this time he met Wen Zheng's eyes.

Obviously, he was not afraid of anything along the way, and there were many brothers around him, but when he was stared at by this gaze, it was like facing a ferocious beast, and it was like facing a high-ranking official in the past. His body was stiff and unable to move, and he couldn't find his consciousness for a long time.

"Brother, there are too many people in this group, it's a bit difficult to start, brother?" The brothers around him saw the leader staring at the place where the people from Fengnan Village were, and asked in a low voice.

"So what if there are too many people? With so many old people and children, they dare not fight with us." Another person said, his eyes became presumptuous.

"No! We can't fight with them!" The leader woke up and began to refute subconsciously.

The people of Fengnan Village also noticed the eyes staring at them. They never took the initiative to cause trouble along the way, but they were not bullied.

All the men, children in their teens, and women who thought they were not inferior to men in Fengnan Village all stood up and picked up a sharpened bamboo pole from the car.

If they were really forced into a corner, they would also hurt people.

The momentum of so many people holding weapons was not small. Those who had spoken harshly before on the opposite side retreated a little, not to mention the leader who was paid extra attention by Wen Zheng.

They directly changed the direction of their gaze and looked for softer persimmons.

Just now, they retreated in front of the people of Fengnan Village. The deterrent power of this team was no longer so great. Every team they targeted stood up to express their refusal. In the end, after a long struggle, they continued to move forward for a while.

Except for Wen Zheng, the elderly and some guards who had traveled all over the country were well-informed and noticed something strange.

Most of the teams present breathed a sigh of relief when they saw them leave.

The vigilant people returned to their positions and relaxed.

The people of Fengnan Village silently gnawed the dry food in their hands. Since there were more people on the road, they never dared to eat too good food, and they were reluctant to eat it.

The tribe leader waved his hand and called Wen Zheng and Yang Hunter over to ask them what they thought about what happened in Jiao today.

"I think those people will not give up easily. We still have to be more careful next time. It's best to take turns on duty at night." Wen Zheng said, and Yang Hunter nodded beside him.

In the past, the big guys didn't keep watch very often. They were tired from traveling all day, and there were many of them. The strong laborers protected the old and weak inside, so no one dared to attack them.

Now it's not necessarily the case.

Worried, they finally arranged six young people in three groups every night to take turns to keep watch at night, and they could take turns to rest in the car when traveling during the day.

When arranging the order for them to keep watch, they referred to Wen Zheng's opinions and the tribe leader's own considerations. There must be a more careful person in every two teams of people keeping watch.

Tonight is the first night. The people keeping watch endured the fatigue and tried to keep their eyes open. They were afraid that they would fall asleep and pull up the hay on the roadside and weave ropes casually.

When the moon rose to a similar position, they woke up the two people who were responsible for keeping watch.

Three days passed like this, and there was no trouble at night.

Originally, I noticed that Fengnan Village arranged people to keep watch. I had encountered that group of people before, and the team that had been on the same road later also took turns to keep watch.

It's just that the person who arranged this matter didn't have much prestige. After two days of keeping watch at night and traveling during the day, some people started to complain, and then the night watch was abandoned.

Wen Zheng and his team insisted on keeping watch for a little longer.

Two days later, when they found a place to stop and rest in the evening, Wen Zheng habitually went to a high place to observe the surrounding environment, and many villagers followed him.

At first, Yang the hunter followed, and later some people were curious and learned that every time the two of them were exploring, Wen Zheng would explain what he noticed and what he inferred based on these details. Every time they listened, they could suddenly understand.

At first, some villagers thought Yang the hunter was exaggerating, but after following Wen Zheng once, they really felt that they had opened their minds.

Later, more and more people followed Wen Zheng.

From the initial teaching guidance, it has now turned into checking homework and correcting. After Wen Zheng brought the people to a high place, he let them observe the surroundings and talk about what they noticed.

The sun sets in the west, but the world in front of us is still so bright.

"The leaves of the weeds are turning yellow and the trees are not energetic. There must be a lack of water. There is no water source around here."

"There are bursts of smoke in the distance, there may be a village."

"..."

"The weeds in that corner were lying there, as if they had been trampled on in the past two days."

"Where is it?"

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"That corner is so hidden, it's hard for you to see it."

"Looking at how many mosquitoes there are, I think this hidden corner is used... I guess he was anxious and wanted to go and deal with it before he saw it."

Along with the laughter of the smart people, Wen Zheng felt something was wrong and walked in that direction.

The people behind him dared to joke with each other, but they didn't dare to joke with Wen Zheng these days. Just when they were hesitating whether to follow him, they saw Wen Zheng wave his hand and followed him quickly.

Wen Zheng stopped before reaching the place where the flies were flying. The others followed Wen Zheng's gaze and looked forward, only to find that the color of a clump of weeds was a little different.

If you look carefully, you can see that the dark brown color on the weeds is not diseased, but infected.

This color makes people feel uneasy. Someone stepped forward, licked it with their fingernails, and saw the dark brown layer turning into powder and falling off. When he asked again, his expression changed instantly.

"Brother Zheng?" Someone looked at Wen Zheng and slowly calmed down after seeing his calm expression.

In the past, people in the village followed Wen Zheng's nickname of Dashan, and only those who were junior to Wen Zheng would call him uncle.

But during these days of escaping, even if Wen Zheng concealed something, what he showed was enough to convince them. It was not like he just knew how to study before, so he naturally changed his words.

"There is no one around at the moment. Let's go back first." Wen Zheng said, carefully avoiding the hay on the ground and trying not to leave any traces.

Before he brought people over to check, he made sure that there was no one else around, that his ears did not pick up any strange sounds, and that he did not act until he made sure that he would not alert the snake.

After returning home, no matter what is on his mind, try not to show it on his face, so as not to worry the old man and his wife.

Some of them didn't cover up well enough to hide it from the eyes of the clan elders, so the clan elder immediately called Wen Zheng to inquire about the situation.

Wen Zheng spoke slowly, and then comforted: "I just made sure that no one was around. If there are thieves here to harm us and other victims, they will definitely act at night. The night watchers should be more vigilant."

In addition to arranging for people to keep vigil, people who need to solve physical problems must work in groups with weapons, and there must be men waiting at a distance.

The victims have no money or even food. If they really want to kill people in secret, they will either have conflicts or lose their humanity.

Many people couldn't sleep peacefully that night. Even if they couldn't bear the fatigue of their bodies and fell into sleep, they were soon awakened by nightmares. The person in charge of the night watch didn't even braid a straw rope, so he just took a look if there was any trouble.

Wen Zheng was recently arranged to keep vigil, and he was one of the first to keep watch. When Yang Orion came to take over, he did not go back to rest, but went to check on the spot.

Except for the blood stains scattered on the grass blades and the ground, Wen Zheng followed the traces of weeds and judged that there were several walking traces, which were opposite to the main road.

He followed the traces and saw the scattered bones. The face was still rotten, and he could only see that it was a poor woman.

When the sun rose, the villagers who had not slept well last night were in a trance that nothing happened last night, and could not help but yawn, and were teased by uninformed people.

They kept their mouths shut and didn't say the reason, but because they lacked sleep and couldn't all get in the car to rest, which slowed down their speed, they even found a place to rest in advance at night.

After eating, the person responsible for keeping watch kept watch while the rest of the people fell asleep quickly, especially those who were so sleepy that they fell asleep as soon as they closed their eyes.

When someone shouted, they immediately jumped up from the ground, picked up their weapons as quickly as possible, and rushed towards the location where the sound came from.

Wen Zheng quickly stopped them and called ten people's names in a low voice. The rest stayed behind so that everyone did not run away in a swarm.

Wen Zheng was running very fast in front, but he didn't make much noise.

When he arrived, he saw several figures carrying a few desperate people away, and smelled the smell of blood. He immediately threw the sharpened bamboo pole in his hand as a javelin.

The bamboo pole flew away, and the tip pierced into the flesh like an arrow.

Those figures were attacked, and they threw the people in their hands to the ground. They became ferocious, and without feeling guilty about being hit, they rushed over with weapons in their hands.

The distance between the two parties narrowed, and under the moonlight, they discovered that they were faces they had seen before. They were the group of people who wanted to steal the place before and there were no old people or children in the team.

There were more bloodshot eyes in the other person's eyes, which looked like red eyes. His expression was crazy, as if he was crazy. The people in Fengnan Village couldn't help but take a few steps back.

Wen Zheng did not retreat at all, and with another bamboo pole in his hand, he shouted: "They are no longer human if they eat people."

There were several people on the other side, and more than a dozen people on Wen Zheng's side. Yang the hunter kept shooting arrows. Wen Zheng attacked in the front and secretly helped other villagers. In the end, he knocked down several people. The remaining few saw this and ran away. Wen Zheng stopped them from chasing.

After a fight, a villager was so excited that he found out that he had really killed someone. He dropped the bamboo pole in his hand and fell to the ground. He couldn't stop retching, but he was reluctant to vomit the food in his stomach.

Wen Zheng didn't have time to comfort them. He went over to check one by one. Two of the murderers who failed to escape were not dead, but they were injured and had no ability to escape.

He put the sharpened part of the bamboo pole in front of the injured murderer and forced him to ask what he had done these days.

This group of people can be said to have gone crazy a long time ago. Under Wen Zheng's questioning, they told everything.

As refugees, they were not as lucky as the people in Fengnan Village. They hid in the mountains early and moved most of the supplies.

Before the flood came, they found that only more than 40 people in the village escaped, but they were left with their lives, and the others were washed away by the flood.

The biggest feeling on the way to escape was hunger. There was really no way without food. They wanted to steal and rob at first, but they couldn't beat them, and several people were beaten to death.

Finally, they set their sights on human flesh. First, they killed the dead who had just died not long ago, and then they became living people. After eating and having strength, they set their sights on the rest of the victims again.

The team staying nearby tonight was Wen Zheng and others, and the other was a wealthy businessman with guards. They ambushed here and looked for an opportunity to attack. The wealthy businessman happened to be going to the bathroom at night, so he asked the guards to drive to the nearby area.

They launched an attack as soon as they made up their minds. Two guards were ambushed and outnumbered, so they were solved by them, but they failed to stop them, causing the guards to cry for help.

After hearing these words, the people who vomited stopped vomiting, and just felt that they had killed well, and such people should not continue to live.

They felt that they were getting a bargain by giving them a clean kill.

The murderer was completely out of breath, but Wen Zheng found another one. He went over and saw that the rich businessman attacked by the murderer was still breathing.

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