Chapter 212 A Big Village
Without a horse, they could only walk. Su Ming and Sylvie trudged through thorns and bushes. On the way, Sylvie told Su Ming a few jokes.
"There was once a pair of men in the Investigation Bureau, one was a very beautiful transvestite, and the other was a decent man. At that time, almost everyone in the Investigation Bureau believed that the transvestite was a woman, and only a few senior leaders knew that the guy was a man.
Then, at that time, Yang Dong just wanted to do an experiment to see whether people of the same gender would fall in love if they were , so he sent these two people into the secret room for lovers.
Then guess what, those two people actually fell in love, and they were in a passionate relationship, so Yang Dong naturally came to the conclusion that the same sex would also be affected by the couple's secret room."
"That's not funny, Minister."
"I'm not done yet!"
"pain!"
Sylvie hit Su Ming's head hard, and then continued:
"Then one day, the transvestite and the male specialist couldn't help themselves. They left the couple's secret room and secretly found a hotel to spend the night together. Then when the transvestite took off her pants, the man woke up instantly, and the effect of the couple's secret room was instantly eliminated.
The final result was that the pseudo-girl's head was nearly twisted off by another man. After this incident, Yang Dong changed his original conclusion to at least comply with the minimum conditions for choosing a spouse, hahahaha!"
"That's not funny at all."
"A person with no sense of humor." Sylvie shook her head and walked out of the woods.
The sun was rising slowly in the east in the distance. The morning mist had not yet been dispersed by the sunlight. The woods below were shrouded in a hazy mist, mysterious and unpredictable.
Birds chirped in the woods. Sylvie said thoughtfully, "The early bird catches the worm," and then added, "There are only three days left. If you don't go back, things will pile up... Xiao Ming, work overtime when you go back."
"… Minister, are you too optimistic?"
"Is there?" Sylvie raised her hand and pointed to a place in the woods below. "They are there. Go and meet up there, and then head to the next Hope Church village."
…
Finally, everyone successfully reunited. Except for Jiang Yichuang and Arthur, everyone else was not in good condition.
Needless to say, Liu Feiyun suffered severe internal injuries and looked like he was dying. Flora took the blow of the hammer with one hand, and now her entire arm was covered with bruises and blue and purple.
Xia Xiaoyu was in okay condition, but her eyelids were drooping and she looked drowsy.
Alice was fast asleep on her back, tied to Xia Xiaoyu's back with a belt, and her saliva was flowing all over Xia Xiaoyu's shoulder.
"It seems that everyone is not in good condition. Xiao Ming, come over and treat the injuries."
"oh."
It took Su Ming a full hour to transfer Flora and Liu Feiyun's injuries to himself, and then to Sylvie.
After the injuries were transferred, Sylvie called Isabella and wanted to suck blood from her, saying that she needed to replenish nutrition to maintain her recovery ability.
Su Ming quickly stopped the other party and asked Xia Xiaoyu to take out a few blood bags for him, and then he gave them to Sylvie to drink.
Afterwards, Su Ming saw that Jiang Yichuan's knife was broken, so he took a standard spare knife from Xia Xiaoyu's storage box No. 7 and gave it to Jiang Yichuan. When Jiang Yichuan asked him a question, Su Ming fooled him with Xia Xiaoyu.
After a night of fighting, everyone was exhausted and in very bad mental state, but due to the situation, they had no choice but to keep up their spirits and persevere.
Now, the only thing that can make people feel comforted is breakfast.
After running all night, I can finally eat something.
Isabella and Jiang Yichuan skillfully made a fire, poured water, poured in various canned foods, and boiled a few eggs. The aroma of food soon spread.
Arthur and Liu Feiyun looked at the pot of food, feeling more or less disappointed. After all, they had enjoyed a feast of meat and fish last night, but after one night, their living standards dropped directly from the wealthy class to poor farmers. They felt more or less disappointed.
Alice woke up and the first thing she saw was Su Ming. She rushed over and shouted "Dad, Dad". Su Ming touched Alice's head, but he couldn't utter the words that a father should say.
Su Ming wanted to say something to break the awkward situation, but in the end he could only say, "Alice has grown up again."
Such a perfunctory answer naturally earned him a scolding from Xia Xiaoyu.
"Okay, okay, everyone can eat now!" Jiang Yichuang called.
Just yesterday, he was calling everyone to eat like a chef in the palace, but now he was like a disaster relief manager in a porridge stall, pouring canned food boiled into a paste into bowls, and everyone lined up to receive it.
Su Ming squatted aside holding a bowl, looking thoughtful; Xia Xiaoyu was eating beside him noisily, finishing in no time. As if it was not enough, she took out a can of food from storage box No. 7 and threw it into the fire to heat it up; Flora was eating by herself and feeding Alice at the same time, and was a little flustered for a while.
"Brother Jiang! Another bowl!" After Liu Feiyun sucked up the last bit of residue, he handed the bowl to Jiang Yichuang.
Arthur also ate the mushy canned food without looking up.
Hunger is the most powerful seasoning. If you are extremely hungry, you can eat even a plate of durian and stinky tofu in front of you.
It’s so chaotic. Everyone seems so unprofessional, Su Ming thought.
In his mind, a professional investigator should always maintain a serious mental state, eat in an orderly manner, and even be alert to his surroundings while eating, just like a wild animal drinking from the water.
But now, looking at this group of people, only Jiang Yichuang was discussing the details of yesterday's battle with Sylvie, and the others were extremely lazy. If they were wild animals drinking water by the river, they would surely all be dragged into the water by the crocodile.
"Ah~ I'm full. I want to sleep after eating." Liu Feiyun burped and said carelessly.
"Time is running out. We have to hurry up and do what we should do next. I guess if we want the God of Hope to take it seriously, we'll have to massacre at least two or three more villages." Sylvie said expressionlessly.
The atmosphere suddenly became silent. Liu Feiyun yawned and felt even more sleepy.
"I'll come later." Arthur sighed heavily, "It's better to freeze to death than to burn to death."
Sylvie nodded and continued, "There are a few infected people nearby, so it's not a big problem. Besides, a large army has already caught up with us in the direction we came from."
"One of ours?"
"No, the large force refers to the large force of the dreamer. They used a tool that looked like a mechanical mobile castle, which should be used to carry the dreamer's body. Judging from the speed, they should be able to reach our current location before dusk. Let's act quickly."
After saying that, Sylvie stood up, looked into the distance, and said slowly: "There is no time for you to rest. Let's set off now."
…
The village that Su Ming and his friends were going to next was built on a dangerous cliff and stuck in a crack in the mountain range. According to Sylvie, the safe way to get to this village was to climb to the top of the mountain, then find the hidden path, walk down from the top to the mountainside, and then you would reach the village.
But doing so would take too long, so now they could only climb to their destination via the nearest route, which was to climb directly up the cliff.
Su Ming and his group came to the foot of the mountain. After walking for several kilometers, they reached the entrance of the crack. They entered from the middle. At first, the entrance was only one person wide. After walking forward for dozens of steps, the space above their heads gradually became wider, and then the road ahead also became wider.
Gradually, the sound of water could be heard, and soon we reached the end, a dead end.
"We have to go up from here." Sylvie pointed above her head.
Su Ming looked up and saw the winding mountains with vines and trees growing on them. The overlapping green shades blocked out most of the sunlight. At the bottom, he could only see a ray of sunlight coming through the trees.
This place is exactly the same as Sylvie described. Even if the person in the dream had really walked here and stood here looking up, he would never have imagined that there was a village above.
"Why did they build a village here? It's too remote." Flora sighed.
Sylvie looked up at the sky and explained according to her own understanding: "It should be to have a key, unified stronghold.
You see, it is almost impossible for the infected to attack this place. If you want to enter the village in a normal way, you must climb to the top of the mountain and find the entrance. That entrance is very hidden and difficult to find.
The area and scale of this village is almost five times that of the previous one. It should be a village that the Hope Sect attaches great importance to.
If we are lucky, we may be able to communicate directly with the God of Hope without having to massacre the entire village."
"The problem now is how to get up there." Su Ming muttered to himself.
Su Ming didn't think it was dangerous to climb up. With his current physical condition, climbing such a steep cliff with bare hands was not a problem.
What's more, he also had Xia Xiaoyu, who brought a complete set of tools, hammering in climbing nails and hanging ropes along the way, which was safe and reliable.
But now they are pressed for time, and climbing up slowly may take a lot of time, and it will be even more troublesome if they encounter difficult-to-climb chasms along the way.
It would be great if there was a faster and more convenient way to climb at this point.
"It will be much more convenient with water, leave it to me." Arthur stepped forward and said.
Su Ming suddenly realized that he almost forgot about Arthur. With Arthur here, climbing would not be a problem.
Arthur stretched out his hand and touched the wet rock wall. White frost spread on it. The water dripping from it was frozen in the middle. Gradually, protruding ice ridges appeared on the rock wall. He leaped onto the first ice ridge, jumped hard a few times, and nodded with satisfaction.
But to be on the safe side, he still extended other fulcrums on the ice edges for people to step on, to share the force.
"Come on up! Just go up like this." said Arthur.
"Wait! Not yet!"
Just as everyone was about to climb the ice ladder, Su Ming stopped them.
