Abnormal survival in the end times

Chapter 145 Things have changed

Jiang Minglang and Bai Li were unaware of Li Nan's hesitation and entanglement. They slept until 2:30 in the afternoon and were still awakened by a sudden thunder.

The wind blew violently and thunder rumbled.

Jiang Minglang suddenly opened his eyes, then stood up and walked to the window, opened it, and suddenly a cool breeze came in, which was even cooler than the room with the air conditioner on.

He turned and walked to the bedside table, picked up the remote control and turned off the air conditioner.

Bai Li opened her eyes dazedly and was about to ask him what happened when suddenly a 'click' sounded beside her ear, and then the bright sky outside the window suddenly darkened, a flash of lightning streaked across the sky, followed by another 'click' and a rumbling sound coming from far away.

Bai Li's hazy eyes suddenly became clear. She sat up from the bed and looked out the window with a serious expression, "Is the weather going to change?"

It rained continuously in Su City before the apocalypse, and it also rained in the first few days after the apocalypse. Whether it was the humans infected with the zombie virus or the mad animals, it always seemed that they were more or less related to the rain.

This speculation was confirmed every time I returned to Pengcheng, when the anomalies occurred during thunderstorms.

And now, it's about to rain again.

"It's getting colder. Find some thicker clothes to wear."

Jiang Minglang gave Bai Li a warning, then turned around and closed the open window again. He then put on his pants and went to the rooftop balcony while still wearing his shorts.

At this time, he was not the only one standing on the rooftop balcony. Xu Bo, Bai Yang and Bai Xiangtian had already arrived there first.

In addition, Lao Sheng and Ren Bin, brothers Zhou Lei and Zhou Hui, who lived in a two-story building in the southeast corner of Yunxi Village, as well as Liu Er and three other powerful people, were all on the rooftops of their respective houses with nervous looks on their faces.

After taking a look around, Jiang Minglang raised his eyebrows. It seemed that everyone woke up earlier than him.

"In just a short while, the temperature dropped by about 20 degrees."

Bai Yang was still wearing shorts and a short-sleeved shirt. He was so cold that he couldn't help rubbing the goose bumps on his arms. Bai Xiangtian slapped him in the face and told him to go down and put on his clothes.

"Boss, look over there."

Xu Bo suddenly widened his eyes and pointed in the direction of Pingjiang. No, to be precise, he was pointing at Pingcheng opposite Pingjiang.

Because of the high temperature in the past few days, flowers, plants and trees everywhere withered badly, and many were sunburned or dried to death. So now when you look towards Pingcheng, apart from the weeping willows near Pingjiang, there are very few trees that can provide shade. Therefore, you can see the running animals spreading towards Pingjiang like billowing dust.

The defense army that set Zhoujiazhuang as its base now sounded loud and sharp whistles.

Jiang Minglang's face changed, and he called Xu Bo, "Let's go over and take a look."

He took Xu Bo, Zhang Shaoda and Ren Bin with him, and the four of them drove to Pingjiang, arriving in just five minutes.

"Ah! Ah!"

Bai Li was just about to go to the village entrance with Bai Yang to guard it when Feng Bao suddenly let out two sharp and short barks. She turned her head and saw the sound of dogs barking suddenly rising in the village.

Along with the barking of dogs, a series of screams from humans were soon heard.

Bai Li's face changed and a bad premonition arose in her heart.

"Wang!"

"Wang Wang!"

Two familiar dog barks were heard, and the two generals Heng and Ha rushed towards Yunxi Village like arrows.

After being stunned for two seconds, Bai Li came back to her senses and suddenly realized that she had not seen her son since the weather changed.

"Qiqi? Grandpa, have you seen Qiqi?"

"I went to his place with Gigi."

"Let your second uncle go find them."

The old man and the old lady spoke at the same time. The two old people were very self-aware. When the strange change happened, they returned home early from outside. Now they were standing at the door of the main room, looking outside with worry on their faces.

By taking good care of themselves, they are helping the children.

"Okay, I'll go over and take a look. You two elders, please close the doors and windows and don't stand at the door. Siyun, you stay here. I'll leave the house to you."

The iron gate of the front yard was locked. Bai Li went out from the backyard and closed the gate tightly.

The wind was growing stronger, the thunder in the sky was getting louder and louder, the lightning was flashing one after another, and the people were panicking, always worried that the sky would be torn in two at the next moment.

"Mother."

"Auntie."

Bai Li met her second uncle with Qiqi and Jiji on the way. Du Qiuyan, who was leaving for the gate, told the two children to come to the Bai family villa, but Qiqi felt uneasy.

He heard the barking and screaming of dogs in the village. Even though the two generals Heng and Ha had passed by, the barking of the dogs became even louder and did not diminish at all.

Qiqi pleaded, "Mom, let me go to the village to check. I have Xiaowu, Xiaoheng and Xiaoha, so everything will be fine."

When Gigi heard this, she decided not to take him with her?

I was just about to say that I would go too and would not hold them back.

Unexpectedly, Aunt Bai asked Second Grandpa to take him home first, and said, "Jiji, Grandpa and Grandma need your protection. Aunt Cheng is the only one at home, and she is also with Youyou, so she can't protect so many people. Aunt trusts you, and I'll leave the house to you."

Being entrusted with an important task, Ji Ji suddenly felt a sense of responsibility. He nodded heavily, "Don't worry, Auntie. I will definitely protect Grandpa and Grandma."

While it was still raining, the mother and son took Xiaowu and quickly ran into Yunxi Village.

Including the original residents and those who moved in later, there are now a total of 198 households in Yunxi Village, 68 of which keep dogs and 72 keep cats.

In other words, not counting Xiaowu and the two generals Hengha, there were at least 68 dogs and 72 cats in Yunxi Village at this time.

Of course, the real number is far more than this, because many cats and dogs have given birth in the past two months. Qiqi had previously recorded the numbers door to door with a small notebook. If he remembered correctly, the total number of dogs and puppies was 99, and the total number of cats and kittens was 85.

Why are there many cats at the beginning, but the number becomes smaller after they give birth to kittens?

That's because a female dog gives birth to at least two puppies in each litter, sometimes three or even four.

But I don’t know what’s going on with cats. Either they don’t give birth to kittens, or if they do, they only give birth to one, just like Zhou Lei’s cat.

"Grandpa, Grandpa, Dad, Dad, save me."

Suddenly, a crying cry for help was heard. Bai Li recognized that the voice came from the Bai family's old house, and the owner of the childish voice was obviously Bai Wei's youngest son, Bai Xi.

Bai Li's face changed. The mother and son were originally planning to go to the house where the screams were the loudest, but now they had to change direction and drag Qiqi towards the Bai family's old house.

Fortunately, she saw Zhou Lei running past the intersection and heading forward.

The door of the old house was tightly closed. Bai Li pushed it but it didn't budge. The heavy door was tightly closed. Apart from Bai Xi's crying, she couldn't see anything. She took out a piece of green ivy vine from her pocket, threw it over the wall, and then the vine grew longer.

Through the perspective of the vines, Bai Li could barely see part of the situation inside. Five-year-old Bai Xi was firmly protected by his grandfather Bai Xiangyuan, and Bai Xiangyuan's body was covered in blood, especially his back, where a large piece of flesh was torn off, revealing two ribs.

He covered his grandson completely under his body, blood was spitting out of his mouth, his face was pale, and he looked lifeless, obviously dying.

Bai Li frowned. Even though she had disliked this uncle in the past, he was still her great-grandfather's only son and her grandfather's nephew. When it came to a matter of life and death, she felt bad.

Not far from the grandfather and grandson, Bai Wei, with bloodshot eyes, was chopping a colorful cat with two heads and a body as big as a golden hair with a knife. The cat's eyes were red, and it was obvious that it had fallen into a state of madness.

But Bai Wei was obviously no match for the two cats. His arms and chest were injured, and blood was flowing all over his body. Just as he was about to die, a vine suddenly came from the side and tied up the two cats.

"Meow!"

The bound cat raised its head and cried out angrily, and both cats opened their mouths at the same time. The cry was like an echo, and it made people's scalps numb.

One of its front paws broke free from the vines, grabbed the green plant and pulled it hard, and the vine broke with a sound.

Bai Li narrowed her eyes, and the vines that were broken into several pieces quickly grew longer, from one to several. One vine lashed at the cat's head, and the others rolled towards the cat's body from all directions. Even though it jumped and dodged left and right, it was quickly tied up.

The vines continued to grow longer, tightly binding the cat's head and limbs, and the binding became tighter and tighter.

This process seemed very long, but in fact it was only about ten seconds. Even after he was tied up tightly, Bai Wei came back to his senses from his daze and quickly understood what had happened.

However, he had no time to appreciate the captured mutant cat. Anger filled his whole body. He raised the simple long knife in his hand and swung it down fiercely. With a "puff" sound, blood splattered all over the ground, and a cat's head slammed onto the concrete floor in the yard.

"Meow!"

The remaining cat head let out a scream, but soon it could make no sound because the second head was chopped off soon after. When it hit the ground, it rolled together with the first cat head, and at the same time, the body also fell to the ground with a bang.

With a clang, Bai Wei's knife fell to the ground. His legs went soft and he fell to his knees. All the strength in his body was gone. With red eyes, he slowly crawled towards his father and son.

"dad"

His father's eyes were wide open, motionless, Bai Wei's tears fell in big drops, he crawled to his father's side, tremblingly grabbed his hand, his lips moved, and he whispered, "Dad, Dad, wake up."

"grandfather."

Bai Xi finally realized what was happening and burst into tears. He struggled to get out from under his grandfather, looked at his grandfather, then turned his head to look not far away, "Grandma, Mom, Sister."

Bai Li's heart sank. She was only paying attention to this side and hadn't noticed a figure lying at the door of the main hall ten meters away.

No, it would be more accurate to say that there were two figures lying there rather than one. Her aunt was lying on top of her sister-in-law Wen Ting. The two of them were in a superimposed posture. It looked like her aunt was protecting Wen Ting?

As for Bai Duoduo.
Bai Li looked around the yard from the perspective of a vine, but didn't see the little girl.

She sighed in her heart, raised her hand and banged on the door, while shouting, "Xixi, it's my aunt, come and open the door."

To Bai Duo and Bai Xi, Bai Li is the elder aunt and Bai Hua is the younger aunt.

Bai Wei looked at the nephew who had lost his ability to move and was immersed in pain. It would be better to rely on his nephew than on him to open the door.

"Auntie"

Hearing Bai Li's cry, Bai Xi ran to the door with his short legs while crying. After struggling to open the door, the little guy threw himself into Bai Li's arms and said aggrievedly, "Aunt, Grandpa can't move. There is so much blood on his body."

If it was before the apocalypse, such a young child would definitely not understand death. But in the days after the apocalypse, people died in the village almost every day. No matter how well Bai Xiangyuan protected him, he still knew some things.

Especially since his sister had specifically told him about it.

So, Bai Xi knew about death.

He also almost understood that grandpa and grandma were probably dead.

"Xixi, where's your sister?"

Bai Li had no time to take care of the adults and wanted to find Bai Duoduo first.

'Boom dong dong'

At this time, a dull sound came from a certain direction. Bai Li looked up suddenly, quickly determined the direction, and took the two children, Qiqi and Bai Xi, through the front yard to the backyard.

As mentioned before, the Bai family's old house has a history of a hundred years. Even if it was reduced and reduced again, the yard is still as big as two entrances and a side yard. Next to the study in the backyard is a dark room with stone walls.

No matter how bloody and violent the situation is outside, as long as they hide in here, their family will be safe.

This is also the reason why Mr. Bai is not worried about his nephew's family no matter how many strange changes there are.

He had promised his eldest brother that he would leave the best for his bloodline.

But who could have thought that this time their family didn't have time to hide inside because something strange happened to their cat.

The dong dong sound came from the dark room, and someone was knocking outside.

Bai Li tapped on a square stone brick next to the darkroom door, and the door slowly opened. When it was only one-third open, a pink figure jumped out from inside.

“Hee hee.”

"elder sister."

Bai Xi burst into tears again when he saw his sister.

Qiqi was annoyed by what he heard and couldn't help but scold, "Shut up! You're a boy, why are you crying?"

Bai Xi's crying stopped abruptly. He turned his head to look at Qiqi, then turned back and buried his head in his sister's arms. His little shoulders trembled, but he dared not make any sound.

Duoduo didn't blame Qiqi. Although she didn't know the situation in the front yard yet, she understood that it was wrong for her brother to cry all the time. First, it would easily attract inexplicable things, and second, it would delay things.

Everyone is busy, who has time to coax him?

The moment she saw Duoduo, Bai Li breathed a sigh of relief. Then, seeing that her niece was still calm, she felt both sad and relieved.

Because he was still unsure about Wen Ting's situation, he found Duoduo and took her to the front yard while asking, "Duoduo, why are you the only one in the dark room? Why didn't your grandfather and the others hide in here at the beginning?"

During the previous few incidents, their family hid in the dark room and nothing happened.

"I was pushed in by my grandmother. She told me to stay here while she went to bring my mother and brother over."

She paused for a moment, then said sullenly, "When the thunder started, our cat was giving birth. Grandpa asked Mom and Dad to take my brother and me into the dark room, but Dad was worried about Dahua, so he wanted to bring the cat in as well. My brother followed him and ran over, and then..."

When she said this, fear appeared in Bai Duo's eyes, and she couldn't help but hold Bai Xi's hand tighter.

Bai Xi had a similar reaction and hugged her arms, obviously scared.

　good night!
　　(End of this chapter)