Chapter 560
No matter what I think in my heart, I always have to say something to stabilize the morale of the army. I don’t want them to be like this family dead in the next few hours.
If pain is inevitable, I hope they don't feel it in advance.
"Don't scare yourself. If the mine is occupied first, what will Ah Ying and the others do? They will retreat to another place first and make a decision after meeting with Gu Yu."
The three of them looked at me at the same time, but my face did not change and I did not avoid their sight. I knew very well that to convince others, I had to keep my composure.
"Then where will they go?" Chen Dong looked at me with hope.
"They don't have many people, but they are more likely to choose a nearby village to settle down." The more I said, the more I was, even I was almost convinced.
The three of them might also think what I said makes sense, and looked at each other, and the flame of hope rekindled, and the unhappiness just now was immediately thrown behind.
"Click on the map later. There are several villages nearby." Chen Dong rubbed his hands and smiled: "They must have left a mark."
The conversation finally started in a positive direction, and I listened to the three of them discussing how to scout along the way with a smile.
Gu Yu slept for two hours, not only recovered his energy, but also recovered most of his leg injury.
We went out again. Although Gu Yu said his legs were much better, Long Tao and Hu Tao were still worried. They hung Gu Yu's legs and felt uncomfortable, so they let him sit on the side of the car door and put his injured legs on their legs.
Pan Yijia is thin and lying under the seat in the back seat, giving her a sense of visualization of Spring Festival travel.
I sat in the co-pilot with Qiuqiu in my arms, and Long Tao continued to be his driver. Fortunately, we were not driving a sports car or an ordinary car, and the space inside the car was relatively spacious, and it was barely squeezed and could handle it.
Gu Yu heard that they wanted to stop in the village along the way and look for clues left by A Ying and the others, but he just looked at me and did not object.
Long Tao and the others had new hopes, so they only told Gu Yu about my speculation, without mentioning their desperate guess.
For the next four hours, we stopped and stopped, but we did not encounter dead bodies, zombies, robbers, or people, as if only we, the small carriage man, were left in the world.
When he passed by Chen Dong and met a group of dead bodies, he specifically pointed it to us. In fact, he was pointing to a bare field. No matter which direction he looked, there was no sign of architecture at the end of his sight.
The field was flat and open, and the north wind was whizzing by. I don’t think it was the first scene of corpses being infected. It was too breathable.
The dead body must have only escaped after being infected in a camp, and of course it may have been deliberately led there.
The mine is a secret stronghold that Gu Yu had chosen long ago and would not be easily discovered. Moreover, the mine is not rich in supplies. If the corpse before was really the survivors who camped in the mine first, their lives would probably not be better.
A Ying and the others knew that the mine was occupied first, so there was no possibility of joining. They had few people and many people on the other side. Once they entered the camp, they would have no choice but to stay or stay, so they would most likely choose to retreat elsewhere to wait for Gu Yu's instructions.
When Chen Dong and Hu Tao went out to find clues, I told Gu Yu all the thoughts. After hearing this, Gu Yu shook his head gently and said, "The Xinghe Mine cannot accommodate so many survivors."
His gaze was frozen outside the car window, and the snow was getting heavier and heavier outside. With such a snowfall, it is very likely that spring has passed and the earth cannot return to spring.
Gu Yu stared at the continuous snow curtain outside the car window, as if he had entered a state of empty thoughts, but I knew his mind was not idle.
Pan Yijia took this opportunity to get off the car and move her body. She was very quiet, and she walked around the car and occasionally reached out to pick up the falling snowflakes. She didn't know what she was thinking in her little head.
Long Tao turned his head and looked at Gu Yu and asked, if those dead bodies did not come out of the mine, where did they come out?
Gu Yu obviously did not introduce this secret stronghold in detail to them. Gu Yu did not answer his question, but just began to introduce the situation of the minefield.
The place we are going to is called Xinghe Mine, which is located on a plain a hundred kilometers east of Shuangshi. This name can only be found on the local map.
The mine was opened in the 1950s, and the year before the virus broke out, the mine was closed.
I have been mining for more than ten years and have basically had some resources available.
People who originally lived in the family area of the mine also moved away. There was a ghost town there. Even though the infrastructure was still there, there was not much farmland around and could not produce food for tens of thousands of people. Besides, the house was not enough to live in.
This year's winter is particularly long, and no one wants to sleep in the wilderness, it's just a matter of seeking death.
While talking, Chen Dong and Hu Tao happened to come back. They seemed a little excited. Something must have appeared.
Sure enough, as soon as he opened the car door, Chen Dong smiled and said, "I found the mark they left."
Hu Tao also smiled foolishly on his face and said, "This village has been burned by fire. They have been here. Let's go east. There is a village there."
All of us looked at Gu Yu, because we had to turn high when we walked east, which was equivalent to deviating from the established route. Gu Yu had to make the decision.
"Going east." Gu Yu didn't say much. Since he found the code left by A Ying and the others, it means that my guess direction was certain.
Long Tao steadily turned the car down high and drove a fork in the road. While driving, he repeated the situation Gu Yu had just introduced to us to the two.
Gu Yu said that the Xinghe Mine was permanently closed because of the depletion of the mine. It is said that an accident occurred at that time, causing a serious landslide.
"It's not an accident." Chen Dong's eyes shone and he interrupted mysteriously: "It's just that it's a waste of unlucky things that can't be carried out."
"Comrade Chen Dong, your thoughts are very dangerous. Just listen to some rumors." Long Tao shook his head and told another version of the 'truth'.
He said that the accident at Xinghe Mine originated from an earthquake. The mine collapsed and was damaged during the earthquake. It was originally a mine that was to be closed, so it was completely abandoned.
Chen Dong was dissatisfied and asked with his neck in his arms: "My comrade-in-arms is the person from Xinghe Mine. His father is a worker in the mine. This was seen by his father with his own eyes."
"Then tell me, what did you dig?" Long Tao didn't argue with him and asked as he followed his words.
"What else can I have? The coffin." Chen Dong deliberately lowered the tone by a few decibels.
"When you dig a coffin, you will collapse. What is that coffin? The foundation?" Long Tao curled his lips and glared at Chen Dong.
"Do you believe it or not? I heard that there was a woman lying in the coffin, soaked in blood, her skin was so white, and she was particularly cunning."
"Blow, keep blowing, your comrades tell you ghost stories." Long Tao shook his head happily, obviously not believing Chen Dong's words.
Under Chen Dong's vivid description, we had already felt its mystery before we even arrived at the Xinghe Mine.
Of course, Long Tao did not believe Chen Dong at all. According to his statement, if such a thing happened, the superiors would have assigned them a task long ago.
Chen Dong was assigned to Gu Yu and his team after the virus exploded. He didn't understand the tasks that Gu Yu and his team had taken on before.
When he was in the safe area, Gu Yu felt that this person was trustworthy and took him with him when he left.
Perhaps they had never talked about this before, so Long Tao took this opportunity to pick a few strange events they had dealt with and told him.
There are no restrictions on confidentiality now. Even if Chen Dong knows it, he will just listen to it as a story. After all, many things cannot be confirmed.
Several people were chatting about strange things. Time flies very quickly. When the village Hu Tao mentioned, Long Tao lowered the car.
The traces of people entering and exiting the road outside the village. Seeing these traces means that someone lives in the village.
If it were Gu Yu's people, they would send people to watch the way into the village, so Hu Tao jumped out of the car and whistled a few times at the white snow.
I sounded like a bird's cry. As soon as his voice fell, two calls of different tones responded.
Following the snow on the side of the road, two people jumped up from us, more than a hundred meters away, ran over with guns, and they were clearly our own people.
I was happy to see that I was not only Long Tao and the others were happy, and I also breathed a sigh of relief. Although I was very confident when I said it, I was actually not sure.
When I really saw someone, the stone in my heart fell to the ground. The two people came over and hugged Hu Tao and Chen Dong who jumped out of the car.
Reunion, reunion, in this deserted place, what else is more delightful than this?
After the greetings, the two of them ran back to the village to report the news. We drove into the village. Ah Ying was the first to run out of the village, with Nini on his back.
I got out of the car with Qiuqiu in my arms and was about to call them, but I saw Ah Ying waving at me and making a gesture of silence.
Gu Yu wanted to refuse to sit on the stretcher, but he could not resist Long Tao and Hu Tao's "sad" eyes, so he had to agree to let them carry him away.
We were led into the village committee's courtyard, and the yard was full of people, and Gu Yu sent all the people to the Xinghe Mine.
A group of people entered the house and the gate was closed before someone started talking.
It was only after A Ying that he spoke and explained: "There are monsters outside, they are very sensitive to sounds and cannot shout loudly."
"Team Gu, have you encountered that kind of thing on the way you came? Gray-skinned, not a zombie." The person who spoke was the deputy captain appointed by Gu Yu, who was responsible for leading the team to the Xinghe Mine.
"I met it, but it's okay." Long Tao rushed to answer.
I'm not sure if Gu Yu told these people about plane weapons, so I agreed to Long Tao's vague explanation.
Gu Yu did not continue this topic. He was concerned about why they camped in the village and did not go to the Xinghe Mine.
The deputy captain said they had gone to the mine, but someone had already set up camp. The only thing that was different from my guess was that they were driven out.
The deputy captain didn't expect to wait for Gu Yu so far. He wanted to find a village nearby to live in, but the other party refused to let him go, and he didn't want to have a conflict with the other party, so he had to retreat here.
Chapter completed!