The scorching sun is rising and the smoke is spreading.
The temperature contrast after the disaster was huge.
It was only early in the morning, and the rolling shutter door was already hot to the touch.
More than half an hour ago, Xiao Leng and the others woke up one after another.
They are not unconscious, but unable to move. The effect of this kind of drug is somewhat similar to the anesthetic used for surgery.
They witnessed everything that happened last night.
The van drove out slowly, and I turned on the steering wheel and lit a cigarette.
I asked Xiao Leng and the others to stay in the factory while I drove to the delivery location alone.
Xiao Leng hugged me at first and was unwilling to let me take risks.
But I still have too many doubts about exchanging people for resources.
What can I do if I want someone to go there?
And why don't they catch it themselves?
Who is doing this business, I have to go and see to find out.
Taking Xiao Leng and the others there, firstly, the van could not fit in, and secondly, it was unsafe.
I can run when encountering changes, but if I take them with me, I may not be able to escape unscathed.
The agreed location was not far from the factory, on the hillside on the side of the road outside the factory.
The wheels jolted over scattered entrails.
The three people who ran out last night were eaten beyond recognition. Only the skulls were still intact, but the bloody severed heads were left on the roadside, which looked hideous and terrifying.
After turning the steering wheel, the van entered the forest mountain road.
The sun was a little hot on my face, and at the top of the hillside, I saw an off-road vehicle.
I slowed down and approached cautiously.
"You will deliver the goods, right?"
The man rolled down his window and spoke to me.
I threw away the cigarette butt and opened the van door.
To my surprise, there were two cars parked on the hillside.
There was also a pickup truck parked behind the SUV.
My eyes swept over and I turned my gaze to the man in front of me.
Listening to his voice, it was the one contacted on the intercom.
"Yes, nine people in total."
I responded, turned around and opened the back door of the van.
The back seat of this van was specially modified to accommodate people, and I crammed nine people into it.
Including Luo Yanwen, they were all gagged.
Pulling up a rope, someone dying inside fell out.
Luo Yanwen was stuck by the door, stretching his neck and trying hard to breathe.
"They're all here, come and take a look." I greeted the man.
He twisted his wrist and walked towards me with his leather boots on.
He didn't seem worried that I would take action.
When the man saw the group of people tied up in the back seat of the van, he suddenly looked up at me with a strange look in his eyes.
"Did you do all this alone?"
I frowned, "What's the problem?"
"Haha, no... no problem."
The man smiled playfully, stretched out his hand and lifted up the rope, like lifting a group of pigs, and pulled several people out of the car.
Luo Yanwen also fell from the car. When he looked up and saw the man's face, his eyes suddenly widened and he struggled excitedly.
"Uh! Uh-huh..."
Luo Yanwen obviously knew him.
However, the man looked down at him with no emotion in his eyes.
He raised his head and said, "The medicines and meat you want are in my car. Follow me to get them."
After saying that, the man waved to the back and the two of them jumped out of the pickup truck.
Seeing this, I stepped back quickly, placing my palm on the pistol behind my waist to prevent any changes that might happen at any time.
At this moment, the man looked cold and stared at my waist.
But then, he shook his head and said, "You are a ruthless person who can kidnap people like Luo Yanwen and use them as goods. Are you afraid of me, the two people who move the goods?"
At that moment, I felt murderous intent from his body.
Murderous aura is not an illusory thing. That look in my eyes gave me a chill and gave me the feeling of being targeted by danger.
"It's always better to be cautious," I responded.
The man turned around and said, "Because you are a newbie and don't know the rules, I won't argue with you this time."
"No matter what weapons you have, you are not allowed to take anything with you when you get out of the car to deliver goods. If I find out again, I will kill you."
His tone was calm but left no room for doubt.
I didn't answer and just followed him.
After walking around the off-road vehicle, the door of the pickup truck was open and there were many bags piled inside.
"I packed the medicines you asked for with disinfectant and penicillin. I also got a lot of bandages and hemostatic agents, plus ten pounds of dried meat. Don't say I treated you badly."
The man held out a black cloth bag and grinned at me.
I opened the bag and found that there were not many medicines inside, but there were seven or eight rolls of bandages.
"Nine people, that's all?"
I frowned. Even if each of the nine strong men weighed 100 jins each, they still weighed 900 jins.
Is the result worth it?
The man lit a cigarette and leaned against the door, "Don't be too little, the supplies will only become less and less."
"You can still search for some medicine and food in the city outside now, but in another month, all the supplies will be plundered, and countless people will be grabbing this stuff." He pointed at the bag in my hand, smiling. Seems a little helpless.
"Do you smoke?" He looked at me.
I waved my hand, "I have a question."
"you say."
"Who are you?"
The man chuckled, "Is this important? Wouldn't it be nice to just get the things?"
He didn't want to explain more.
"There is nuclear radiation everywhere now. You don't want to take refuge, but you go everywhere to catch survivors. Why?" I continued.
This is the doubt that bothers me.
It is clear that supplies are already in short supply, so what is the point of exchanging supplies for people?
He took a drag on his cigarette and said, "You are the first one to ask me this question."
"Seeing as you are a ruthless person, let me give you some hints."
The man grinned, stood up and approached me.
I backed away cautiously, but he whispered not far away, "Since you survived this disaster, you must have experienced many things, right?
"For example, the kind of monster that only appears in the dark."
"Like, a nuclear bomb going off."
"But the really important people are often not dead." The man said after a pause, "Those who died can't see their bodies."
"Do you know why?" the man asked, smiling at me.
I shook my head, feeling like I had caught something from the man's words, but it seemed like I hadn't caught anything.
"To give you another hint, where did the bodies of the dead go in areas that used to be densely populated by people? Have you noticed that there are a lot of monsters in those places?"
As soon as I finished speaking, a bolt of lightning passed through my mind.
"You! You mean..."
"Um?"
At this moment, I suddenly realized why the whole city was like a dead city.
It stands to reason that there are many areas that are not at the center of the nuclear explosion. In those places, even the buildings did not collapse, but there were no survivors.
On the contrary, those residential buildings or commercial streets have been occupied by those compound-eyed monsters.
And in the alley of the residential building, we saw the dark flesh ball with our own eyes, like a thick flesh beating like a heart.
Wear it all, and there's only one answer.
People turned into monsters...
The chill in my heart gradually grew, and the sound of footsteps in the distance came closer.
The two people dragged the nine trapped people toward the back of the pickup truck.
"Not too stupid."
The man smiled and said that the cigarette in his hand had burned down to the end of the cigarette holder.
"So, the person you want is..."
Before I could finish speaking, the rear window of the off-road vehicle suddenly opened.
A blond man knocked on the car door.
'Bang bang——'
The car door made a dull metallic sound.
The person sitting in the back seat of the car is actually a foreigner?
He waved this way, "chop chop!!" (Hurry, hurry up)