Abnormal survival in the end times

Chapter 73 Moral Kidnapping
She hadn't eaten for nearly four days, so even though Bai Li was very hungry, she still restrained herself and only ate a box of self-heating hot pot and drank half a cup of warm water.

She stood up and stamped her feet, stretched her limbs, then looked up at the gloomy sky and said to Zeng Sujie and Zhou Hui, "We have been delayed for a few days, let's set off now."

Zhou Hui nodded, and pointed to the van parked in the corner behind him. "Put the things in there and put everything that can fit in the car. I've already filled up the gas tank, enough for us to drive for a day."

Without Bai Li, they would not have been able to obtain those spoils. They had eaten and drunk everything from there these days, which was considered a bargain.

So the remaining things were all at Bai Li's disposal, and they would take away what she couldn't fit.

Bai Li didn't hesitate to pick out some food and daily necessities and stuff them in the car, then left most of them for them.

It's not that she is generous, she just can't fit it in.

Her car was already quite full when they left Su City. Even when they met Zhou Hui and his family of four later, they didn't eat much of her food, so they stuffed a lot more along the way.

So until now, the trunk has been in a saturated state.

"Bang bang bang-"

A few people had just packed up and were about to open the door and get in the car to leave when someone suddenly knocked on the factory's big iron gate.

Maybe it was because Bai Li woke up. When they saw someone coming again, Zhou Hui and Zeng Sujie were not nervous at all, but just cautious.

"You all get in the car, I'll go over and take a look."

Zhou Hui, leaning on a crutch, limped to about three meters away from the gate and stopped.

"Brother, what do you think?"

It turned out to be the young man who had given him the address before.

In order to prevent them from using force, he did not say anything definite but only said he would consider it.

But I didn't expect to find him again so soon.

Zhou Hui found a lame excuse to refuse, "Sorry, I have a family to support, so it's not convenient. I won't go."

The young man raised his eyebrows upon hearing this, stared at him for three seconds, and then smiled, "Everyone has their own aspirations, very good. Then. See you later."

After saying this, he turned around and left without waiting for Zhou Hui to reply.

It was quite efficient and there was no further entanglement.

After he could no longer see anyone through the crack in the door, Zhou Hui opened the door, waited for Zeng Sujie to drive over, opened the passenger door and got in.

The car drove onto the road, Zeng Sujie pulled over to the side, and Bai Li still walked in front.

"Brother Xiao, are you just going to let them go like this?"

Not long after Bai Li and the others left, a car turned over from an intersection not far from the factory.

The person who spoke was the short-haired man sitting in the driver's seat, while the young man who had just been sitting in the passenger seat was looking thoughtfully at the two cars that had left, muttering in a low voice, "They can't leave."

The flat-headed guy turned his head and looked at the factory. "The mainlanders disappeared in this area. We have searched all other places except this factory. Brother Xiao, do you think it is possible..."

"You'll know if you go in and take a look."

"Good."

Five minutes later, they found more than a dozen bodies piled up in the factory workshop. In addition, in a corner not far from the workshop, they saw a pile of abnormally green green radishes, with spots of black spots on them, like blood?

The young man looked at the almost identical blood holes on the necks of more than a dozen people, and his pupils trembled!

At the same time, Jiang Minglang, Bai Yang and Zhang Shaoda had returned to Yunxi Village, their hometown in Pengcheng.

But what drove him crazy was that Bai Li and Qi Qi didn't come home.

The good news is that my grandparents, father-in-law, uncles and aunts are all safe.

Seeing Bai Yang coming out of Jiang Minglang's car, Aunt Li Xiu went forward and hugged him, tears streaming down her face uncontrollably.

I've been worried for so many days. I want to go find him but I'm afraid of taking the wrong path with him. If I don't go, I'm worried that he won't come back.

Caught in a dilemma, Li Xiu had not had a good night's sleep during these days of agony.

"Hmm? Minglang, where are Litchi and Qiqi?"

Bai Xiangtian saw his nephew coming out of the car and thought his daughter and grandson were also inside, but when he looked inside, no one was there.

Bai Xiangqian also looked at Jiang Minglang, his face turned pale, and he asked with trembling lips, "Minglang, where are her mother and daughter?"

Bai Li's grandmother's legs went limp and Grandpa Bai held her up, so she didn't fall to the ground. However, Grandpa Bai's face didn't look good either.

The whole family looked at Jiang Minglang with pale faces. Even Li Xiu didn't care about crying while holding her son. She quickly let go and slapped him, "Where's your sister? Where's Qiqi?"

"Lizhi is fine, dad. Qiqi is fine too. Don't think too much. Don't think too much."

Jiang Minglang scratched his head in annoyance. How come he had overtaken them again after all the efforts he made?
He sighed helplessly, "We took the wrong road. When I arrived in Sucheng, they had just left, and I chased after them, but I didn't expect that after chasing them all the way, I missed them again. Dad, second uncle, you take good care of grandpa and grandma, I will go back to find them now."

After saying that, Jiang Minglang turned around and was about to get in the car.

"I'll go with you."

"I'll go as well."

Bai Xiangtian and Bai Yang shouted at the same time, the former glaring at the latter, "With your tiny body, where are you going? Just stay at home."

Bai Xiangtian is fifty-four this year. He has not neglected exercise since he retired from the army at the age of thirty-five. He is physically strong and has a very good physical condition. In addition, after he returned from the army, he contracted two orchards and worked in the fields all year round. He is indeed not comparable to Bai Yang, who is delicate and tender.

Even if he could compete, Bai Yang wouldn't dare to refute his uncle, he was afraid of him!

Bai Yang looked at Jiang Minglang for help, hoping that he could say something for him. He really wanted to find his sister.

But Jiang Minglang didn't take anyone with him. He said, "Dad, when I entered the village, I saw that our village was not very stable. You can't leave. You have to stay at home to protect grandpa and grandma. Don't worry, with Da Zi and I here, we can definitely bring her and her mother back safely."

After saying this, Bai Xiangtian really stopped insisting.

Because what Jiang Minglang said was true, their village was indeed unstable.

On the first day of the apocalypse, Bai Xiangtian was originally going to the city to deliver vegetables to the street vendors. He had already packed them up and loaded them on the truck, but before he set off, the engine had problems.

While repairing his car in the backyard, he suddenly heard screams coming from the village. His home was at the northernmost end of the village, right next to his orchard and vegetable field. There were not many people in the houses in front of him. Their children all worked in the city, leaving only the elderly to look after the house.

But the screams did not come from the houses in front of his house, but from further ahead, as if there was some commotion in the middle of the village.

At first, Bai Xiangtian thought that two families had a dispute or a fight.

This kind of thing has happened before. His father, as the retired principal of the village primary school, is often asked to judge right and wrong.

I've refused countless times, but people still invite me. It's really annoying.

To prevent anyone else from coming, Bai Xiangtian, who was still holding a wrench in his hand, ran into the front yard without putting it down and told his father Bai Qiming, "I'll lock the door. Don't open it no matter who comes. Remember this. We don't get involved in other people's affairs, okay?"

"I know, I know. Lock it up, lock it up."

Bai Qiming was also very annoyed. Most of the time he didn't want to go, but the brigade secretary was his nephew, and he came to invite him, so he had to give him face, right?

"Xiangtian, this sound doesn't sound right to me."

Grandma Bai, He Xueyan, was standing in the yard hanging clothes. She pricked up her ears to listen to the screams one after another, frowning and saying, "Why doesn't it feel like a fight?"

"I'll go over and take a look. Don't go anywhere, just stay home."

Bai Xiangtian also heard something wrong. He put the wrench in his hand on the ground, got on the electric bike in the yard and went out.

However, when they arrived at the door, they still locked it. The old man is already 77 years old this year. Although he looks still strong, he can't always be tormented by them.

When we built the new house, we chose the northernmost location because it was far away from the village and quiet!

Bai Xiangtian would never have imagined that when the end of the world came one day, just because they were far away from the village, they and their family would be well protected.

No one knew who was the first to bite someone, but when Bai Xiangtian went over to check the situation, the road in the middle of the village had been stained red with blood, and the village was in chaos.

From the second day to the fifth day, except for those who had turned into zombies or were bitten to death, every household closed their doors. Everyone was terrified and at a loss, not knowing what to do.

After all, Bai Xiangtian had served in the army, so he was much more receptive than ordinary people. Moreover, during the few minutes when the network was connected, he received a WeChat message from Jiang Minglang, which gave him a general understanding of the emergency.

On the third day, he reinforced the gate to ensure that even zombies could not get in, then drove around the village and took the northern road to the high school in town to pick up his younger brother and his wife.

Fortunately, on the first day of the apocalypse, Bai Xiangqian and his wife had no classes. They quarreled over a math problem and neither of them was willing to let the other out, so they avoided the first wave of zombie attacks.

It also allowed them to wait for Bai Xiangtian safely.

However, the number of zombies in the town was beyond their expectations, and they went through a lot of twists and turns before returning home.

On the sixth day, Bai Xiangtian took the axe from home and went out to clean up the zombies.

Their village is not very big, with less than two hundred households in total, excluding some of those who have gone out to work, so it is not difficult to clean up.

The difficulty lies in the fact that once you start cleaning, people will attribute it to you, and if you don’t finish cleaning, they will say you are lazy and scold you.

Bai Xiangtian didn't have a good temper, so when he was cleaning up on the third day, he was ordered by someone through the courtyard wall to clean up the zombies next door to his house, but he refused to do it.

Afterwards, the village party secretary, who was also his cousin, asked him to clean up the zombies trapped in the house under the slogan of "those who are capable should do more work", because at that time, almost all the zombies hanging around outside had been cleaned up by him.

Bai Xiangtian ignored it.

To be honest, if it weren't for his own grandfather and grandmother, he wouldn't care about those outside. His daughter's family hadn't come back yet, and he was very upset. He started to clean up the zombies to divert his attention and to train himself so that he could better protect his family in the future.

But I didn't expect that it would be taken for granted and morally blackmailed.

As expected, human hearts are the most unpredictable.

When Jiang Minglang came back, he happened to see a group of people gathered in the village. One of them was pointing in the direction of his home with an unfriendly look on his face.

He recognized that it was his father-in-law's cousin, the village party secretary Bai Xiangyuan.

I usually have a good relationship with their family, so what happened?
Jiang Minglang didn't have time to ask about the details, he just told Bai Xiangtian to be careful of the villagers.

But when he was leaving, he was stopped by Bai Xiangyuan.

"Minglang, why are you leaving again after just coming back?"

"I'm not leaving. I'm going to pick up Bai Li. I'll be back soon. Uncle, is there anything?"

"Didn't Litchi come back with you?"

"We got separated on the way, but she's driving now, so she should be home soon."

"Is that so? Uncle, can I ask you a favor?"

Jiang Minglang narrowed his eyes and said calmly, "You say."

"Our Xiaohua hasn't come back yet. Go pick up the lychees and go to Jiangcheng to pick up our Xiaohua. Minglang, uncle knows that you are capable. This shouldn't be difficult for you, right?"

Jiang Minglang was so angry that he laughed.

Jiangcheng is in the south of Sucheng, and their hometown Pengcheng is in the north of Sucheng. He said that Bai Li had left Sucheng and returned to her hometown. She might be close to Pengcheng now. Why did he still let him go to Jiangcheng?
"I'm sorry, uncle. I can't go to Jiangcheng. I have to go find Lizhi and Qiqi first. Please move aside."

Bai Xiangyuan didn't move. The smile on his face faded, but he said with a choked voice, "Minglang, Lizhi has been smart and capable since she was a child. Unlike our Xiaohua, who is dull and stupid, and in poor health. She is not as capable as her sister, and can't take care of herself. Even if you don't go to pick up Lizhi, she will find a way to get home safely, but our Xiaohua can't do that. She needs..."

"Uncle," Jiang Minglang's face turned cold, and he asked, "Is your son not at home?"

Bai Xiangyuan was an experienced man. He understood what Jiang Minglang meant when he heard him ask this question, but he did not respond and continued to play the victim. "You are her brother-in-law. Isn't it normal for a brother-in-law to save his sister-in-law? Besides, you are going out anyway, so it doesn't matter if you run a little more distance, so uncle is leaving it to you."

Zhang Shaoda couldn't listen any longer, so he leaned over to interrupt him, "Uncle, I don't think you need to ask my brother to go to Jiangcheng to pick up your daughter. Do you know why?"

".Why?"

"You just said your daughter is in poor health, right? That's it. On the first day of the apocalypse, almost all those with poor physical fitness turned into zombies. Even those who turned into zombies directly without being infected by the virus would be bitten and turned into zombies if they couldn't protect themselves. Moreover, Jiangcheng has a large population. If your daughter couldn't take good care of herself, she would probably have turned into a zombie by now.

"Please accept my condolences! But it doesn't matter. After all, even if you lost your daughter, you still have your son. I won't let you die alone, right?"

Bai Xiangyuan:
He was so angry that his face turned blue, but he didn't know what to say for a moment.

Taking advantage of his distraction, Jiang Minglang stepped on the accelerator and drove around him.

Even from a distance, he could still hear Zhang Shaoda's voice, "Uncle, if you have the chance, go buy some gold ingots and paper money and burn them for your daughter."

(End of this chapter)