I am in the last days, I can connect to reality

After two days of trekking, at noon on the third day, everyone climbed a small hill. Standing on the top of the hill, a breeze blew on their faces, bringing a hint of coolness, but also blowing away everyone's fatigue of the past few days.

At the top of the hill, everyone stopped. On the other side of the hill was a quiet little village at the foot of the mountain.

Looking from the top of the mountain, the entire village is in sight, like a pearl lost in the mountains and forests, emitting a quiet and simple light.

"This village is called Xuli. It's said to come from a poem by Tao Yuanming: 'The distant village is hazy, the smoke from the village lingers.'"

As Qin Zhong was gazing at the small village, Wang Boshen beside him said, "The base is in the mountains behind this village. It's very close. We often come to the village to buy some supplies, and we have a good relationship with this small village!"

"Yeah!" Qin Zhong responded. It was really not easy to come this far, and now he was finally closer to his destination.

"Let's go down and take a look!" Qin Zhong called out to everyone and took the lead to walk towards the village.

The buildings in this village are almost all brand new small buildings. The buildings are arranged in a staggered manner. The exterior walls are painted light yellow or beige, and the roofs are covered with blue-gray tiles. Under the sunlight, they appear particularly warm and peaceful.

The road in the village is winding and lined with trees. It is winter and the leaves have fallen, but the bare branches are still upright. The sunlight shines through the sparse branches, creating a mottled and colorful scene, adding a touch of poetry to the mountain village.

Everyone came to the small road at the entrance of the village. Wang Boshen seemed a little impatient. Qin Zhong did not go to appreciate the pastoral scenery of the small village. He looked around with his sharp eyes.

"Wait, Old Wang, how many people are there in this village?" Qin Zhong looked around for a while and felt something was wrong, so he pulled Wang Boshen and asked.

"This one……"

Wang Boshen tilted his head and thought for a moment, then said, "There aren't many people in the village, but there are probably a few hundred or so." After saying that, he looked at Qin Chong hesitantly, not knowing why he asked this.

"Oh, attention, everyone on alert..."

After hearing Wang Boshen's words, Qin Zhong immediately issued an alert order to everyone. Wang Boshen's eyes showed a hint of contemplation, and asked: "Are you worried that this place has already..."

Nodding, Qin Zhong pointed at the quiet little village and said, "Haven't you noticed that with so many of us arriving at the village entrance, the noise is quite loud, but we haven't seen a single zombie yet?"

After hearing Qin Zhong's words, everyone who had walked up came to their senses and felt that it was indeed quite unusual.

After all, there are quite a few of them and the noise is quite loud. Logically speaking, in a mountain village with several hundred people, the number of zombies would be at least hundreds. It is impossible that there is not a single zombie to be seen until now.

This is obviously a bit unusual, no wonder Qin Zhong is cautious!

While being on guard, everyone walked cautiously into the mountain village. Along the way, they saw that there were less than a hundred small buildings in the village. The buildings were distributed relatively widely, and unknown trees were planted along the gravel paths.

Next to the trees are small empty vegetable troughs, and in the middle of the troughs, you can often see small ponds without a drop of water.

Although everything in the mountain village seemed normal and not much different from the mountain village before the apocalypse, this normality became the biggest anomaly in the apocalypse.

In the past, people would encounter zombies whenever they entered the village, but now there was not a single zombie to be seen. What surprised everyone the most was that not only were there no zombies to be seen, but there wasn’t even a single zombie corpse to be seen.

As they walked along, the whole village was silent, as if all the indigenous people had suddenly disappeared overnight.

……

"Could it be that the villagers here haven't mutated, and they're scared when they see us coming, so they hide?"

Xiao Yingyong told Qin Zhong an answer he himself didn't believe. Although no one else believed it, Wang Boshen hesitated and said, "How about we call them? I know most of the people in the village, so maybe I can allay their concerns."

Qin Zhong hesitated. To be honest, the situation here was very strange. What if he shouted loudly and attracted something?

After much deliberation, Qin Zhong rejected Wang Boshen's idea and said, "It's better not to shout so loudly. If we attract some uncontrollable monster, we'll be in trouble."

"so……"

Qin Zhong turned his head to look at Gao Leng and Zhou Luosen and said, "Gao Leng, Lao Zhou, take your men and go around the village. If you find anything unusual, open fire and sound the alarm!"

Hearing Qin Zhong's instructions, Gao Leng and Zhou Luosen nodded. According to the pre-arranged grouping, the two groups quickly followed the path and walked into the corners of the mountain village to look for survivors.

Qin Zhong, Wang Boshen and Xiao Yingyong stayed with the others, waiting for the search results of the other two teams, so that they could provide timely reinforcements if any problems arose.

When the group arrived at the open space in the center of the village, the stone stage, it was also quiet and deserted. Qin Zhong looked at the ground and said to Wang Boshen, "Old Wang, look, no one has walked here for a long time. The stones on the ground are covered with dust. If there were people, their soles would have carried away the dust."

Wang Boshen also noticed this problem and nodded solemnly. After the end of the world, he was the first to receive the order to lead the team to the Magic City, and there were only a few soldiers left at the base.

Logically speaking, this mountain village is very close to the base, and the comrades who stayed behind should come to the village from time to time, but looking at the current situation in the village, it seems that no one has been there for a long time.

This situation can only mean that not only has something happened in the village, but there may also be problems in the base.

Soon, with the first gunshot, gunshots were heard from several small buildings one after another. Qin Zhong and others quickly rushed to the place where the gunshots were heard, only to see that everyone had walked out unharmed.

Each of them was carrying a few pieces of smoked meat, and when they walked up to Qin Zhong, they could still smell the rancid smell of the smoked meat.

Because it was summer, the smoked meats that were left unattended had already gone a bit awry. But in the end times, no one would dislike supplies. As long as they didn't kill people, they wouldn't mind the smell of the meat.

"Brother Qin, there were two zombies in the house, but they've been cleared out. There wasn't much to eat, but we found a few pieces of bacon."

This team was led by Gao Leng. When he saw Qin Chong coming, he quickly reported what happened in the small building.

Qin Zhong glanced at the smoked meat that was still dripping with oil. In the apocalypse, such resources were also very important, especially meat. He glanced at Lu Gaoleng and others and ordered, "It's getting late. Hurry and look around. There's no danger. Don't shoot!"

Gao Leng agreed and headed towards several other small buildings with his three team members.