#254 - Chapter 254: The Ultimate Plan
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—
On a relatively flat open space, the helicopter slowly descended.
Li Bowen and the other team members quickly jumped out of the helicopter. After he made a gesture, Xia Yan pulled the helicopter up and flew away in a certain direction.
"Let's get out of here quickly!"
He shouted. The others didn't speak, but responded with action. The group of ten ran quickly.
Roar!
Less than a few minutes after they left, several zombies, attracted by the noise of the helicopter, appeared here.
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On a small hill, Li Bowen was carefully examining a map, but because he was surrounded by trees, he couldn't pinpoint his location.
"Captain, what do we do?"
Yao Lei looked at the map beside him, but couldn't make anything out of it, so she asked.
"There's no good way. The location described for this armory is next to this village, with a cement road passing through it, but now the surrounding vegetation has grown up, making it difficult to find that path."
"How about this, we split into five groups and spread out to look around. Theoretically, the location of the armory should be relatively hidden. Everyone should pay attention to unusual places!"
"Also, see if there are any survivors nearby. If there are, they might know something!"
With no better option, he decided to have everyone search the area thoroughly.
If this place for storing weapons and ammunition was in the mountains and forests, it would generally be hidden in a location that is difficult for ordinary people to find, unlike armories in cities that are heavily guarded.
The team members quickly formed pairs and dispersed. Everyone wore walkie-talkies, so they could contact each other at any time as long as they weren't too far apart.
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Yao Lei and Zhou Xin walked along a dirt path, both with their eyes and ears open, each holding a crossbow and a silenced pistol, watching out for possible dangers.
They searched in one direction after leaving the team.
This is a remote village in Yucheng, more than twenty kilometers from the nearest urban area, making it somewhat desolate.
Helicopters flying in the sky can't see the details clearly, so it's unrealistic to find the target directly by helicopter.
"Lei Lei, look, there are some footprints here!"
Suddenly, Zhou Xin stared at the ground and said softly.
Yao Lei looked in the direction of the sound and saw several obvious shoe footprints on the dirt road!
It's been half a year since the end of the world. If humans had walked this way before, the footprints should have been slowly erased by rain or snow.
"These footprints must have appeared recently! The stride distance between the footprints is not large, and they will spread out when encountering puddles and stones! Survivors must have recently passed by here! Let's go and take a look."
Zhou Xin briefly explained to her sister and analyzed that they were not zombie tracks. After obtaining her consent, the two carefully followed the footprints again.
Finding survivors in such a place provides an opportunity to obtain useful information from them.
The two women continued to follow the footprints for nearly a kilometer, crossed a desolate farmland, and finally arrived near several dilapidated rural earthen houses.
"Be careful!"
Zhou Xin stopped her teammate from continuing forward and pointed to a thin rope in front of them, with some glass bottles and bells tied at both ends.
"There are things set up here, there must be survivors ahead!"
Yao Lei nodded, she had also seen it just now.
The two looked at each other, discussed briefly, and then cautiously passed through the rope obstacle and came to the building.
"Hello! Is anyone there? We are survivors passing by here."
Yao Lei shouted directly towards the earthen house.
If there was anyone inside now, they would likely hear her shout.
Sure enough.
In less than half a minute, a head popped out from a corner of the earthen house. It was a young man in his twenties, who was cautiously looking at the two of them.
"Hello, we would like to take up a few minutes of your time to ask a few questions, is that okay?"
Zhou Xin raised her hands and asked the man who came out in a charming voice.
The two women had already put away their weapons in handy positions. They were wearing windbreakers and carrying tactical backpacks, looking like people who had just escaped to this area.
They looked harmless no matter how you looked at them.
The man observed for a while, and seemed to confirm that there were only these two women. He breathed a slight sigh of relief and said in a deep voice:
"I advise you to leave quickly. There is nothing of value in this rural area!"
Instead of answering the two women, he was chasing them away.
But Yao Lei and Zhou Xin obviously didn't plan to let go of this person they had finally encountered.
The two began to slowly walk towards the man and the earthen house.
"Don't come over! This is not a place for women!"
The man waved his hands anxiously and shouted.
But it seemed to be too late, and three or four more men came out from behind.
"Wei Shan! What nonsense are you talking about!? What are you stopping these young ladies from coming over!?"
One of the men with a hooked nose kicked the young man who spoke out first, and then smiled at Yao Lei and the others:
"Two beauties, are you escaping? It's very safe here. You can come to our house to rest and have a cup of tea."
His enthusiastic tone made it seem like it wasn't the end of the world, but he was greeting friends from afar.
The other men behind him were also burly men in their thirties and forties. They pulled the young man behind them and stood in front of the two women with malicious intentions.
Zhou Xin and Yao Lei seemed to not notice that something was wrong. They still maintained their smiles and continued to ask in a relaxed tone:
"That's right, we escaped here to find a place called Daliang Mountain. There is a small road that goes there, but we don't know the place. We wanted to ask if any of you know about it?"
At this time, they were less than ten meters away from the group of men, which was considered a very close range.
"Oh! Daliang Mountain, right! Of course we know! It's just that the location is a bit remote and difficult to describe. How about this, you come into our house to rest for a while, and I'll draw a detailed map for you."
The hooked-nose man replied enthusiastically, as if he really wanted to help the two women. The other companions also put on smiles, almost writing 'welcome' on their faces.
"Don't come! Run! If you don't leave, you're doomed!!"
The young man named Wei Shan, who had been pulled behind, saw that these two women were unprepared and didn't leave, and even wanted to enter this devil's den, and couldn't help shouting anxiously.
"Uh… um…"
The people next to him quickly covered his mouth with unfriendly looks on their faces.
The hooked-nose man glared at him fiercely, and then turned his head and smiled apologetically at Yao Lei and the two women:
"I'm sorry, my brother here has some problems and likes to talk nonsense. Please don't mind."
As he spoke, he pointed to his head.
"It's okay, you can just tell us here. I have a map here. If possible, please help me draw the route, thank you."
Zhou Xin seemed to not have seen what happened just now. She still had a smile on her face and took out a piece of paper from her pocket, which seemed to be a map that she wanted them to give directions on.
Seeing that the two women didn't really walk over, the smile on the hooked-nose man's face faded a lot, and his enthusiasm was gone, and his tone became colder.
"Let's come inside and sit down."
As he said this, he had already started to approach, and his companions also surrounded the two women in tacit understanding.
The man behind him saw this scene, hugged his head and muttered, 'It's over, it's over'.
"Beauty, look, let's go to our house and have some fun."
At this moment, the hooked-nose man revealed his true colors and stopped pretending, looking like he had them in his grasp.
(End of chapter)
