Wilderness Redemption Tour

"If you hadn't told me, I would have forgotten..." Hosea smiled faintly, with a nostalgic look on his face. "In the first few years after the gang was founded, everyone lived a fulfilling and happy life every day. It was a great feeling..."

"Yeah..." Arthur had the same expression at first, but it soon dimmed: "It's a pity that we can't go back..."

"Hey, why are you talking about such a sad topic?" Hosea wiped his thin face and talked about another topic. "I told Dutch about Marybeth's departure last night. Although he said it was nothing, I can see that he still cares about it. So in order to avoid unnecessary conflicts, we should try to make the next persuasion work more covert, and those who want to leave should not leave in front of Dutch."

"Alas!" Arthur sighed. "When Dutch was away, everyone was waiting for him to come back. Now that Dutch is back, seeing how he is now, I'm afraid most people won't have any expectations anymore. Even if we don't say anything, with Marybeth and other people's experience as examples, I believe most people know what to do next."

"When are you going to leave?" Hosea asked Arthur.

Arthur touched his nose and answered ambiguously: "I'm waiting to give Dutch an explanation."

"What about you?" Arthur asked back.

"Me?" Hosea chuckled. "After losing Bessie, this gang is everything to me. I'm old now, where else can I go?"

The two of them tacitly did not ask Lin Yan. In their eyes, Lin Yan was an extremely outstanding but slightly eccentric young man. His purpose of joining the gang was not pure, but that was not the point. Most gang members did not have pure purposes when they joined the gang. As long as Dutch nodded, anyone could become a member of them. The strange thing was that Lin Yan, the newcomer, was too concerned about the gang, and sometimes even the two old men felt inferior to him. They knew that Lin Yan was completely kind-hearted, so they just let him be.

After the conversation, Lin Yan found that there seemed to be nothing to do after rushing back so early. Dutch and Micah went out, and most of the others were asleep. It was true that it was not only the four of them who worked all night last night, but almost everyone stayed up all night. After moving to this place this morning, everyone also forced themselves to stay awake and did not rest until the camp was set up.

Lin Yan walked around the new camp and finally found his bed next to the supply wagon. It was fine anyway, so Lin Yan wanted to lie down and take a nap, but Arthur came to him again.

"Ah? Go for a walk around the neighborhood? Why?" After hearing the reason Arthur came to him again, Lin Yan was very confused.

Arthur explained: "We don't know how many strongholds the Murfree family has. If there are other members of theirs nearby, we will be sitting ducks for them. So we'd better make sure this place is safe enough."

"Okay." Lin Yan agreed readily, and then rubbed his eyes and shook his head while Arthur turned around, trying to keep himself awake. Although he could predict the safety of everyone, it was better not to tell others about this ability.

The three people who went to patrol the area were the same group that entered the cave last night. Sadie was still sleeping at this time, so Arthur did not call her.

To the west of the camp is the north-south Kamassa River, and to the east is the densely populated Annesburg. There must be no strongholds of the Murfree family in these two directions, so after the three of them came out of the camp, they walked directly north along a path outside the camp. Charles, a master of wilderness survival, was in the team, so Lin Yan was not worried that they would miss anything. As a result, they walked all the way to the alluvial plain south of the Kamassa River and Roanoke Valley, and the three did not find any signs of human habitation.

After ruling out this direction, Lin Yan and Arthur, led by Charles, went downstream along the Kamassa River and came to a small lake called "Paradise Pool" south of the camp.

“Help…Help…Help!”

The three of them walked up to the lake and were about to change direction and go back when they heard a few faint cries for help from the woods not far away, followed by the clear barking of a few dogs.

Lin Yan put his hands to his ears and listened carefully in the direction where the sound came from. "It sounds like someone is calling for help."

Arthur immediately turned his horse around. "Let's go over and take a look. Maybe it's the person we're looking for."

The three of them rode their horses at full speed and soon arrived at the place where the sound had just come from. Under a big tree with a thick trunk, two strange animals that looked like wolves but not wolves, and dogs but not dogs were biting a ragged man desperately. The man had given up resistance just now, but when he saw Youlu heard his cry for help and was riding towards him, he resisted again as if he had a last breath. The two strange "wolf dogs" that were besieging the man were obviously suffering from a skin disease, and their bodies were covered with disgusting scabies. When one of them heard the sound of horse hooves and turned back to look at Lin Yan and the others and bared its teeth at them, Lin Yan felt full of malice from its bloody jaw and its red eyes.

What the hell is this...

While Lin Yan was staring at this strange animal, Arthur and Charles had already taken out their weapons. They didn't care what kind of monsters they were. One of them fired a gun and the other shot an arrow. They were so decisive that they didn't care whether they would hit the man under the tree. In their opinion, the man covered in blood was probably in danger, so it didn't matter if they hit him. They could just help him get rid of it.

At this time, the two men were already quite close to the two animals, and as expected, the bullets and arrows shot by the two men hit their respective targets.

Under the tree, the man who was bitten and covered in blood saw the two monsters that besieged him fall straight down. He immediately collapsed to the ground, muttering in a low voice: "Thank God... Thank God..."

"Sir, are you... okay?" Arthur looked down at the man who was lying on the ground in the same position as the two monsters.

"No... No... It's in my body, they're still in my body... Help... Help me, help me!"

As he spoke, the seriously injured man climbed up in an unreasonable posture, holding his stomach, and staggered towards Arthur who was asking the question. As he walked, he raised his other hand and pointed in a direction: "Butcher River Village... Butcher River Village..."

Lin Yan looked at the man, then at the two terrifying "wolf dogs" lying dead on the ground. An idea unconsciously formed in his mind: Resident Evil...