Chapter 163: One Wave Subsides, Another Rises

After the time it takes to smoke two cigarettes, six hundred jin of rice and flour arrived.

"Zhuzi, did you watch them pack it?"

Zhang Su felt that the two going and coming back was too fast.

"No." Zhao Dezhu shook his head: "It was ready and placed in the warehouse."

"Boss Zhang, don't worry, this grain is all new rice and flour from this year, guaranteed to be fragrant!" Ma Changshou explained hurriedly.

"Bo-zai, check the goods!"

Zhang Su nodded at Lu Yubo.

"Haha, alright!"

Lu Yubo was energetic.

After the car's tail was out of sight, villagers finally started talking.

Similar to the situation in Shuiwa Village, Xidaying Village took in survivors and grain from many nearby villages. The distribution of supplies was very complicated, and no one was willing to bear the loss of today.

"I'm really speechless. Seeing them with men, women, old, and young, and even people with broken arms, I thought they were soft persimmons. Damn, what kind of people are these..."

"Old Qiu, do you not understand what it means to share weal and woe? You guys are not distinguishing between yours and mine after merging into Xidaying Village, so why are you haggling with me?"

"Oh, that's right!"

"Quick, help Boss Zhang load the car!"

Lu Yubo scratched his head, hurriedly put away the grain sampler, took out a utility knife to cut open the mouth of the burlap bag, opened it, and it was indeed white rice. Then he checked the flour.

"Isn't that so... It's really crazy to dare to rob these people. Village Chief Ma, don't tell me this six hundred jin of grain is to be shared equally!"

Zhang Su didn't say much, drove the car across the bridge, and drove slowly toward the north, leaving a group of villagers standing on the bridge in a daze.

"Boss Zhang!" Seeing Zhang Su ready to leave, Ma Changshou suddenly called him.

These grains didn't count for much to Xidaying Village. Less than one in ten of the people in the village died, and the grain was extremely abundant.

The villagers very enthusiastically moved it to the car and stacked it neatly, their service attitude was simply first-class.

"Damn, the military camp is so densely populated, wouldn't it be full of zombies?"

Zhang Su's mouth twitched, hurriedly stopping Lu Yubo, saying: "Are you crazy? What are you using this thing for, stabbing into the rice and flour? Do we still want to eat it!"

"Boss Zhang!" Seeing Zhang Su ready to leave, Ma Changshou suddenly called him.

"If those guys were all real, there's only one possibility... they swept a military camp."

"Alright, no problem. Village Chief Ma is very honest. Come, load the car."

Ma Changshou was a very shrewd person. Since there was no conflict today, there was a possibility that the two sides could become friends. The other party was clearly very powerful; this was a thigh that could be tried to be hugged!

When he pulled out the grain sampler, the fellow villagers of Xidaying Village had their brains withered. What kind of team was this, why were they carrying this kind of thing?

"We haven't planned yet, let's find a place with fields and water. We'll meet again!"

Zhang Su looked back at Ma Changshou: "Does the Old Village Chief have any advice?"

"That's right, if we hadn't taken in you people from Baihe Village, you would have all died!"

"Don't be ungrateful!"

The villagers of Xidaying Village started to refute after hearing this, and they argued on the bridge...

Zhang Su's side naturally couldn't hear the villagers' arguments. He was looking at a high-speed train stopped on the railway track on the railway bridge in a daze.

"This is also... too desperate."

At a distance of twenty or thirty meters, everyone in the car could see the situation on the high-speed train. Zombies were wandering in the carriages, and the silent train was filled with the smell of death. It just lay on the railway track. If there were no accidents, there were no survivors on the whole train.

"This should be the high-speed train to Jingcheng... Damn, the real-life version of Train to Busan. No, this is Train to Jingcheng." Wu Lue said with a grin.

"Let's go..."

Driving slowly under the railway bridge, even though they were used to life and death, everyone couldn't help but substitute themselves into the train. It was hard to imagine the situation in the carriage at that time. That kind of despair of being surrounded by zombies must be unforgettable.

"Increase vigilance, entering the town ahead!"

Zhang Su shook his head and threw those negative emotions out of his mind.

Continuing forward, they entered a place called Beidong Town. Dense shops began to appear on both sides of the street, but without exception, they were all looted. Even the shops selling small electric scooters were in a mess, not worth stopping to loot supplies.

"Something is wrong..."

Zhang Su slowed down and scanned the shops on both sides of the street, saying to the people in the car: "Do you think this town is a bit too quiet?"

"Yeah, before, we could always see some zombies on both sides of the road. Why is it empty after entering the town?"

Zhong Xiaoshan also felt something was wrong.

Yu Wen said: "The towns under the jurisdiction of Qin City generally have between thirty and fifty villages, with a population between thirty thousand and eighty thousand. Calculated according to the infection situation we analyzed, Beidong Town should have at least twenty thousand zombies, and if there are many, I'm afraid there are fifty or sixty thousand. Even if they are distributed in various villages, the town shouldn't be so quiet..."

"Could it be... the local villagers killed all the zombies?" Zheng Xinyu asked in disbelief.

Zhang Su shook his head: "That's too difficult, unless..."

Just as the vehicle drove to the middle of the main street of the town, the roar of a farm tractor suddenly rang in Zhang Su's ears. Immediately after, he saw two tractors fully loaded with wood appearing and blocking the road, blocking the way tightly.

Not only that, after the tractors stopped steadily, four people jumped out of the driver's seat and skillfully pulled a rough nail strip on the street. It wasn't as exquisite as the police ones, but the long nails were more deterrent!

If it were just two broken tractors, Zhang Su would have planned to use the vehicle's own weight and strong horsepower to rush through, but the nail strip on the ground made him directly dispel this idea.

Steel nails as long as an adult's index finger—even if the RV had explosion-proof tires, it couldn't withstand them. Special specification tires, he didn't know where to find them now!

"Brother Su, they are surrounding us from behind too!"

Just as Zhang Su stopped the car, he saw more than ten farm three-wheelers driving slowly from both sides of the street. In addition to the driver, there were two strong men on each three-wheeler.

These people were all holding weapons. Various farm tools, machetes, etc., went without saying. Some also had homemade crossbows hanging on their shoulders, and there was no lack of homemade fire guns!

Soon, more than ten three-wheelers surrounded the three vehicles. The skilled process showed they were habitual offenders. Compared with these people, Xidaying Village was much gentler.

"We've been surrounded, haha."

Zhang Su looked at the battle formation of being attacked from front and back and couldn't help laughing.

"Damn, can't we have a peaceful journey?"

Zhao Dezhu saw the people walking toward them through the window and felt very annoyed. They just wanted to find a place to settle down. Was it that difficult?

"It's all for survival, but unfortunately they shouldn't have provoked us..." Zhang Su spread his hands, lowered the car window, and greeted the leader who walked up: "Master, what does this mean?"

"Isn't it obvious? Robbery. If you are sensible, get down quickly. These three vehicles belong to our United Village!"

The man was in his forties. In terms of appearance, he was a bit kinder than Ma Changshou of Xidaying Village. He belonged to the kind of good old man who looked very easy to talk to. Unfortunately, people couldn't be judged by their appearance. The first sentence was extremely inconsistent with his appearance, quite overbearing.

Zhang Su scanned the people holding long-range weapons and saw that they were all calm and had no intention of doing anything, so he didn't move either, rubbed his chin and said: "United Village, several villages united to rob. Will there be contradictions in the distribution of supplies?"

The leader frowned and said: "Your nonsense is too much. Get out of the car quickly, don't force us to do it. Everyone makes money in harmony, no need to cause deaths!"

"Xidaying Village, which guards the bridge, only charges toll fees per head. You guys in United Village are badass, directly plucking the wool. If you take everything, how are we supposed to live?"

Zhang Su asked with a flat face.

"Xidaying Village? Those guys are sharks. They occupy a bridge but don't know how to use it well. But fortunately, they only charge toll fees, otherwise we wouldn't have any oil and water."

"How you live is your business, but I can point you to a path. Our United Village is recruiting labor. Men can work in the fields in United Village to earn work points and exchange for food!"

The leader carried a homemade crossbow and said very proudly, quite like God pitying the world.

"What about women?"

Zhang Su asked curiously.

The leader looked back at his subordinates and smiled: "Women are even easier to handle. They can be wives for our brothers who are bachelors. Some to play with, some to have fun with, enough to eat and drink, haha!"

"Good, hahaha!"

The leader's words caused a small part of the villagers to respond actively. Many people didn't have too much emotional fluctuation and didn't seem interested.

"Hahaha..."

Zhang Su accompanied the other party in laughing, while sideways taking out the walkie-talkie, smiling and saying: "Semi-automatic point-fire ready, wait for my notification to fire!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 164 =====