Doomsday Allure

Chapter 148 Di Ying and Xiao Zheng

The boundless gray-black wasteland, two people who almost merged with the wasteland.

Their hair—if that's hair at all—hangs down to half their waists, in a shape that cannot be described in words. It doesn't look like any kind of tree branches and leaves, but it feels like it has thick leaves. branches.

They had no clothes, and a few strands of hair that looked like their hair were tied around their waists, barely covering their lower bodies.

The color of the exposed skin is the same as the ground under their feet, but their skin is not smooth and smooth, but exactly the same as the old elm bark, with uniform, three-dimensional rough cracks, from the face to the calf, the cracks are distributed smoothly Very natural, as if born.

The slightly shorter person, starting from the ankle, is full of branches and branches that look like tree roots. The taller person's feet continue the shape of the upper skin, and the toes and other places also look like tree roots.

The two of them arched their bodies, walked with difficulty, and paused every step. Every time they pulled their feet up from the ground, it seemed that they had used all their strength.

But these two people dragged a very large bundle of branches behind them, and the bundle of branches was at least thirty times larger than the combined volume of the two people.

Shen Wei and Wei Buzheng could tell at a glance that those branches were exactly the same as those used to make the Tuwozi gate, and the cotton-like objects covering Cheng Yuanyang and the people around him were completely different from the breath emitted by these branches. same.

Shen Wei and Wei Buzheng ran towards them.

They ran to a place only seven or eight meters away from the two of them, and the two of them raised their heads completely, staring at them with almost no white eyes.

Shen Wei stretched out his hand to grab Wei Buzheng, and the two of them hurriedly stopped.

Those two people didn't just discover or feel them now, they just raised their heads now because their movements of raising their heads were as difficult and slow as raising their feet.

And their basically normal hands, originally clutching the vines that bound the branches, turned into sharp branches when they saw Shen Wei and Wei Buzheng.

"My name is Shen Wei, the captain of the special forces in the Central Continent theater." Shen Wei pulled Wei Buzheng back a few steps, then raised his hands, and said slowly and clearly, "I used to be trained at the Gaozhi Air Force Base, station chief Cheng Yuanyang He is my main trainer. When the end of the world came, I happened to be near Gaozhi for special reasons. In order to return to Central Continent, several comrades and I went to the base to ask the instructor for help, and he gave me a very special off-road vehicle."

Before he finished speaking, the big baby silently appeared beside those two people.

The appearance of the big baby is as ostentatious as its performance. If these two people were at Gaozhi Air Force Base and had never met, they should have heard about it from others.

The two people on the opposite side stared at Shen Wei motionlessly, as if digesting what he just said.

After about 5 minutes, the slightly shorter man slowly raised his branch-shaped hand, pointing at Shen Wei, and there was still a whimpering sound in his throat.

Shen Wei opened his eyes wide: "You are...Xiao Di? Di Ying?"

At that time, Shen Wei was cheating in Cheng Yuanyang's office, but Cheng Yuanyang said he was disgusted, but he kindly asked someone to deliver the food to the office. The doctor at the base is Di Ying. He is 25 years old. He applied to join the army after graduating from a medical university. He is originally from Qitian Province. In addition to his parents and grandparents, he also has an older brother and a younger sister. The person he admires most is General Chen Changjian, the commander of the Northern Theater Command. , the star I hate the most is Gao Ye, the double actor, because Gao Ye played the protagonist Taizhuang in a TV series based on a mission performed by General Chen, and he didn't even show a ten-thousandth of General Chen's demeanor...

As Shen Wei said these things slowly, Di Ying's dark eyes finally showed a slight fluctuation, from Wei Buzheng's point of view, it was the surging wind and cloud, the extreme sadness that could swallow people up.

Di Ying was crying bitterly, but he couldn't shed tears.

Wei Buzheng walked up to him, stretched out a hand, and imitated the rhythm of Shen Wei's speech, saying: "I am Shen Wei's lover, and my name is Wei Buzheng. Shen Wei and I have similar abilities to the two of you. Cheng Yuanyang Station Master and your comrades are safe now, I guarantee they will all survive.

If you believe in Shen Wei, please believe in me too.

I am treating you both now, don't resist what I put into you, imagine incorporating it into every cell of your body. "

As Wei Buzheng said, he put his two hands on the foreheads of Di Ying and the tall wooden man respectively.

These two people are basically at the end of their lives. On the surface, their vitality is stronger than those of Cheng Yuanyang. It is because of their obsession and special physique. Once the two of them fall down in this place, their vitality will be cut off instantly. , Wei Buzheng has no confidence in bringing them back to life.

Wei Buzheng's treatment today can be said to be devoted to everything.

His current dantian is fused with the Chaos Egg, and the fused body is like a vast, boundless, magnificent, thriving small universe, where Qingling lives like everything else, and he doesn't have to worry about his spiritual power being insufficient or overdrawn , but limited to his realm and cultivation, he is still very unfamiliar with the use of spiritual power,

In order to maximize the effectiveness of his spiritual power, Wei Buzheng warmed up Qingling with a directional effect in a planned way based on several emergencies encountered in the past two years.

The wood-type clear spirit was the first one he started nurturing, and it was the only clear spirit that had been blessed with chaotic spiritual power. Its function was to stabilize and enhance vitality.

Today, Wei Buzheng gave away this precious spiritual power for free.

He treated Di Ying and the two for 2 minutes, and then asked Shen Wei to use the air to send the two of them into the earth nest where Cheng Yuanyang was.

Shen Wei said to the two people: "Let's talk about what we have to say later, for now, let's save the others first."

Di Ying looked at Shen Wei, and a series of indistinct sounds came out of her throat again.

Shen Wei said: "I swear, Station Master Cheng and everyone in this room will not die."

Di Ying slowly raised his hand that had withdrawn from the attacking state, pulled the tall wooden figure, and sat beside Cheng Yuanyang.

Wei Buzheng put a basket of fruit in front of them, and ran out with Shen Wei.

In the end, they stabilized the lives of 98 people and collected 660 dead bodies.

Identified by Di Ying and Xiao Zheng, they selected 32 remains of soldiers belonging to the space base, and these were brought back to the air force base for burial.

The other 1000 people were people who had fled from other places one after another after Cheng Yuanyang established this camp, and these people will not be taken away.

After finishing all this, twilight began to fall. Although the temporary camp was even more creepy in the dark, Shen Wei and Wei Buzheng decided to spend the night here.

The body is no longer a living thing, and Feng Haoxi's strange space does not recognize it. If there is no Qingling imported by Wei Buzheng to maintain it, the body will soon be wiped out after being taken in.

Moreover, in the current situation, if they act separately, the safety of Li Dongyuan and Feng Haoxi will not be guaranteed. We should finish the business here tomorrow and go back together.

In the Tuwozi where Cheng Yuanyang lived, Wei Buzheng called out a dining table and several wooden sofas, and took out some bowls of noodles with fried sauce, and invited everyone to sit down.

As soon as Feng Haoxi sat down, he picked up the bowl and devoured it. At the age of sixteen or seventeen, he was able to eat and drink to grow his body. Today, even if Qingling, who is invincible, has been feeding him, he is not lacking in nutrition. Feng Haoxi still feels hungry died.

Di Ying and Xiao Zheng shook their heads slowly, expressing that they couldn't eat.

Wei Buzheng looked at the apparently severed branches on the feet of the two people, and asked, "Can you only absorb nutrients from the soil through the roots now? When did this situation start?"

The two looked confused.

Wei Buzheng and Shen Wei understood that their minds could no longer remember such seemingly insignificant things at the moment.

Wei Buzheng took back two bowls of noodles and took out two glasses of water: "Then drink some water, drink as much as you can, and tell us about the relationship between Mr. Cheng and you. Just talk, I can understand .”

Di Ying and Xiao Zheng picked up the cup tremblingly, and slowly brought it to their mouths to take a sip. They didn't know how much they drank, but what spilled out wet the silk linen jacket that Wei Buzheng and Shen Wei had just given them. Xiao Kuai, the two people's perception was already very slow, and they didn't feel the water was spilled, so they began to purr.

While listening, Wei Buzheng translated to Shen Wei, Li Dongyuan, and Feng Haoxi in concise and clear language. Although Di Ying and Xiao Zheng's memories were broken and missing, they still quickly figured out the ins and outs of the matter.

On the second night after Shen Wei borrowed the big baby to leave, obvious cracks appeared on the Linjiang Town Bridge, and the concrete began to pulverize and fall off. Because the pulverization of concrete was not obvious from a distance, the police and the soldiers sent by the base followed the bridge. At the request of experts, when the temporary fence was pulled out to isolate the bridge and pedestrians were not allowed to pass through, someone took the lead in making a fuss.

Once the Linjiang Town Bridge is completely broken, it basically means that the north and south sides will become two worlds. I don’t know when the next time it will be opened. People get hurt.

Cheng Yuanyang was very angry when he got the news. He personally led people to the Linjiang Town Bridge and shot and killed the two men who took the lead in beating a policeman to death. Only then did the scene get under control.

Cheng Yuanyang gave a short speech at the south end of the bridge. He talked about Shen Wei's prophecy before he left, and told those waiting to cross the river that all the personnel in his air force base would move out of the barracks and live in tents. Take a ride in his car and have a look.

He launched Xiao Zheng again and asked him to demonstrate the ability on the spot.

Xiao Zheng was one of the correspondents sent by the Western Theater Command to the air force base to convey assistance to the Xiling and Gaofeng county governments. When his comrades mutated into zombies, he aroused his supernatural powers out of fear.

Cheng Yuanyang told Shen Wei at the time that Xiao Zheng had inspired the dual-element abilities of gold and water. In fact, Xiao Zheng had five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. The third element of wood, fire, and earth was too weak, so he didn't show it at the time.

The golden long knife and water polo that appeared out of nowhere in Xiao Zheng's hand played a big role. Cheng Yuanyang told the people waiting to cross the bridge that a greater disaster has come than five years ago. No one knows how many ways this disaster will present. , fast corrosion and dissipation of mechanical tools and metals and composites are just the first few phenomena to show. He let people take advantage of the normal road and some cars can still run. Life, be ready to deal with it, so that when the disaster really strikes, you can have enough physical and mental strength to deal with it.

After the stranded people left, Cheng Yuanyang scolded the person in charge of the Gaozhi County Police Station. Because he was afraid of public opinion, when the mobs frantically attacked the officers on duty, he asked his subordinate police officers and supporting soldiers to remember that he was a public official. Cheng Yuanyang pointed to his nose and said: "The duty of these soldiers is to protect the safety of the country and the people, not to be a punching bag for the scum of society. You really like to be beaten, so please do it yourself. Don't pull my soldiers, from now on, we will independently perform the task of guarding the bridge and no longer obey your management."

Then, Cheng Yuanyang really gave this order to the air force base personnel guarding the bridge, and told them that they could withdraw to the base when the bridge showed enough danger from the outside.

On the morning of the third day after Shen Wei left, three soldiers in the base turned into zombies without any warning. Although none of the three soldiers showed any aggressiveness, the atmosphere in the base suddenly became tense.

On the afternoon of the third day, when the soldiers on duty in Linjiang Town returned to the base, five of them had corpses. All five of them had suffered open wounds during the previous day's conflict.

On the fourth day, thousands of people around the base surrounded the barracks, saying that there were many zombies outside, and asked to enter the air force base for refuge. The danger of forcing the palace.

No drug will work on dead soldiers.

In order to prevent more soldiers from being infected, Cheng Yuanyang ordered the soldiers who turned into corpses to be sent separately to the underground parking lot dug during the global catastrophe five years ago.

Then, Cheng Yuanyang convened a high-level meeting of the base and asked the second chief of the base to be in charge of the base affairs temporarily. He would take a few vehicles and half of the military doctors of the base to Xiling and Gaofeng to pick up the guard company.

The reason why Cheng Yuanyang wanted to go in person was because this decision contradicted the order of the Western Theater Command. In the future, the command will hold him accountable, and he doesn't want to implicate others.

Cheng Yuanyang would do the same even if he blatantly violated the orders of his superiors. It was definitely not just to protect his shortcomings.

It only took five days for Gao Zhi to turn into hundreds of corpses from the first case of living corpses. So what happened to Xiling and Gaofeng where thousands of corpses were turned into ten days ago overnight? And know.

The most frightening thing is that there is no drug that is effective against the corpses of living people. Ten days have passed, and the country has not issued any guidance on the infection of corpses of living people, let alone specific drugs or vaccines.

That is to say, the spread of human corpses cannot be stopped. Under such circumstances, the guard company of Gaozhi Air Force Base stayed in Xiling and Gaofeng, where the epidemic was severe, and it was useless except to accompany him in.

Maybe as a soldier, Cheng Yuanyang's thinking is not noble enough or even selfish, but he just can't watch his subordinates make such unnecessary sacrifices.

Cheng Yuanyang called 25 twin brothers of Big Baby and set off in the early morning of the seventh day after Shen Wei left. Under normal circumstances, at the speed of Big Baby, it would take up to three hours to reach Xiling County, but they arrived at Lanshan County After entering the territory, the speed of vehicle damage increased rapidly. After entering Xiling County within [-] kilometers, all vehicles turned off almost at the same time.

Beside the scrapped babies, there are piles of black-gray garbage with unknown raw materials and a few zombies with dark skin and withered skin, dull eyes, and stiff and slow movements that came out of nowhere.

Cheng Yuanyang stood on the road for a while, and ordered all the logistics personnel to return immediately and leave Xiling County as quickly as possible; the pilot walked forward with him.

Speaking of this, Di Ying pointed to several people on both sides of Cheng Yuanyang: they are all pilots, and their physical fitness is better than ordinary people.

Shen Wei and Wei Buzheng nodded, did not speak, and continued to listen while inputting their warm wood-type Qingling for the pilots around them.

Di Ying pointed to herself and Xiao Zheng again. Besides them, there were me and him, and Teacher Dong Jimin, who was also a doctor. The three of us asked to follow Stationmaster Cheng to Xiling, but Stationmaster Cheng refused. came after him.

We are doctors, not like other support staff.

Shen Wei said, "You are all the best soldiers."

Di Ying continued.

Cheng Yuanyang and the others found the base guard company on the municipal square in Xiling County. There were only more than 40 of them, all of whom had been turned into corpses. Seven of them had lost their active consciousness and would only follow their familiar comrades in the square by habit. wandering.

Di Ying's fellow villager and good friend Su Jiaxing was also among them. Di Ying felt a strong desire to cure him when he saw him. He just instinctively felt that since it was a special ability inspired in the last days, it should be useful for diseases caused in the last days.

Cheng Yuanyang was ecstatic about Di Ying's ability. He arranged for three pilots to stay and protect Di Ying, let him continue to use the ability to protect his corpse comrades, and took the other three pilots to Gaofeng County.

But Cheng Yuanyang and the others did not reach Gaofeng County, because the other half of the soldiers of the guard company did not reach Gaofeng County at all, and they were all corpses.

It took half a month for Cheng Yuanyang and the three pilots to return to Xiling County with the other half of them who had been severely mutilated. After rendezvous, they immediately set off on their way back to the base.

However, severely zombified people have very poor mobility. They travel for about [-] hours a day, and they can only walk about [-] kilometers.

Di Ying and Xiao Zheng couldn't remember how many days they walked before they reached the eastern part of Xiling. When they saw the boundary between Xiling and Lanshan, they, who were still awake, almost burst into tears.

But their happiness only lasted less than two hours, and a team of supernatural beings frantically chasing and killing zombies extinguished their good mood.

The group of supernatural beings turned around and left immediately after seeing the dozens of zombies being chased and killed running to the purgatory-like boundary of Xiling.

And those dozens of zombies who were acting as usual quickly turned into zombies, and the dozen or so zombies with wounds died soon.

Blue Mountain is more than 80 kilometers from east to west, and there are still more than 30 kilometers after entering Gaozhi. This is still a straight-line distance. The real distance is at least twice as long in the plateau and mountains. For such a long journey, zombies with very slow thinking and actions are not at all. Maybe escape the pursuit of the supernatural beings.

Cheng Yuanyang and the others knew very well that they would never be able to wait for rescue.

On the second day after Dong Jimin arrived in Xiling, the dead body changed. Cheng Yuanyang, the six pilots, Di Ying, and Xiao Zheng, the eight living people, decided that since they could not bring their subordinates (comrades in arms) home safely, they would stay here. , stay with them.

The cemetery-like camp just appeared, and it became a refuge for the escaped zombies in Lanshan County. They would rather become stiff and dull here day by day than be killed by the supernatural beings before digging out their brains.

There was no food, the water was stinky and turbid, their own clothes had long since rotted and disappeared, and the not-so-rotten clothes they found by chance on the road also slowly disappeared in the harsh environment. Fortunately, they were all men, and everyone was just so naked.

But when winter comes, wearing thick cotton clothes can't keep their feet warm, so they have to find a way.

The pilots had to go to the mountain more than ten kilometers away to collect firewood every day before they were corpses. The zombies who fled here would also work very hard to find food and firewood before they turned into very slow-moving zombies.

They can't live too close to the mountains and forests, because the supernatural beings will quickly rush to attack and kill them. The distance now is decided by Cheng Yuanyang, which is just on the bottom line that the supernatural beings are very afraid of.

Zombies need very little energy, but zombies and normal people need to eat, grass roots and leaves become their most important food.

The pilots died one after another two months after the establishment of the camp. Cheng Yuanyang was the last one. He persisted for more than three months. Before he lost his ability to think, he said to Di Ying and Xiao Zheng: "I am their Commander, it is my responsibility to guard them, you two are not, seal this door with soil, you go away quickly."

Di Ying and Xiao Zheng did not leave.

Cheng Yuanyang said the same thing to the six pilots countless times, but they didn't leave either.

After several months of practice, Di Ying discovered that his abilities could keep his zombie comrades alive. In addition to looking for food and heating, his daily life was to deliver abilities to his comrades one by one.

He once fainted because of excessive overdraft of abilities, and because of him, Xiao Zheng trained his wood-type abilities to become the strongest of the five abilities.

The body woodification happened about a year ago. After the snow melted, they dragged their extremely weak bodies to the mountains to find food. Because of hunger and fatigue, Xiao Zheng fainted under a big tree. When he woke up, he found Di Ying Holding him, the two of them lay on the ground together, their bodies had a special feeling, comfortable and... tense, and they didn't feel so hungry anymore.

When the two wanted to sit up, they couldn't turn over after trying several times. Then, the two found that the place where the other's body touched the ground had grown white beards, just like... the green radishes in the bottle. root.

When Di Ying and Xiao Zheng were extremely hungry and tired, they really thought more than once that it would be great if they could absorb nutrients by inserting their feet into the ground like a tree. Unexpectedly, their dream came true.

But it is unacceptable to grow tree roots all over the body. The two of them said in their hearts every day not to, as long as their feet can absorb nutrition, they dare not lie on the ground to sleep. woke up.

I don’t know if God heard their voices, their hair changed, their arms and hands changed, and roots grew harder and harder on their feet, but they never appeared on their bodies again.

It is Xiao Zheng's ability to blend plants evenly and softly, but his ability is not as good as that of wood-type abilities. Mixing a piece of cloth ten centimeters wide and half a meter long can give him a headache for a long time .

Di Ying and Xiao Zheng ran between the camp and the forest every day. Although they tried their best to deliver abilities to their comrades every day, the vitality of their comrades was still slowly declining.

However, Di Ying and Xiao Zheng accidentally discovered in the rainwater pit that they had already changed beyond recognition and turned into half-human, half-tree monsters.

And as their bodies became more and more lignified, their movements became more and more sluggish, and the attraction of the land to them increased exponentially.

Starting about half a year ago, every time they wanted to leave the forest, Xiao Zheng had to use the metal ability to cut off the roots of the trees on their feet, and every time they felled, it was a living Lingchi.

Three months ago, they realized that their time might be numbered, too.

They can die, but before they die, they have to prepare a piece of clothing that can cover their bodies and a relatively complete grave for Chief Cheng and his comrades, so that they can die with dignity.

They began to go back and forth between the camp and the forest almost day and night, cutting branches, mixing fabrics, and making doors for earthen nests... Their thinking and movements became more and more slow. Now, it takes them two days to go back and forth to the forest. sky.

They thought that they would never have enough clothes and graves for their comrades, and this thought made them very sad...

Wei Buzheng patted Di Ying: "In the future, I will wrap their clothes round. As for the tomb, let them prepare it themselves. They have decades of time, and they will definitely be able to design a practical, strong and beautiful tomb."

Shen Wei patted Xiao Zheng: "In the future, you don't have to think about death, just think about how to spend 1 years happily with Di Ying."