Quick travel: the life of smuggling is so exciting

Winter has passed, but spring has not yet arrived.

This heavy snow lasted for four months, and even though it should have been spring and blooming flowers, the snow had not melted yet.

However, 7 days ago, after the snow stopped, the long-awaited sunshine began to shine on the earth, bringing a touch of warmth to people.

From that day on, Lin Xia resumed his daily meditation, but the number of purple light spots was far less than that during the drought and scorching sun.

Seeing that a week had passed and the snow was still piled high, Lin Xia made up his mind to find a way out of the mountain before the snow melted and the snow surface became hard. Otherwise, if such thick snow melted completely, there would be another mountain flood, blocking the road.

Having made up her mind, Lin Xia began to prepare the food.

The mushrooms and vegetables had already been eaten, leaving only four pounds of dried bamboo shoots, twelve fish, and a large amount of bear meat. Lin Xia had used up the bones in a soup, and even after more than a month of meticulous consumption, she still had seventy or eighty pounds of pure meat. There was no other way; she couldn't bear to throw it away, so she just tried her best to take it with her.

The meat yield of the dried meat was about one third, and in the end, more than 20 kilograms of dried meat were obtained, occupying half of the backpack.

She kept two of the remaining fish and threw away the rest. The fish in the pond here are okay to occasionally improve their diet, but they are not good if you eat too much. They have many bones and are fishy. She has no shortage of food now, so she can afford to throw them away.

Fine-tune the proportions of space, with one-quarter used for warm water, the remaining half for food, and the other half for miscellaneous items.

In the end, the weight was still more than 30 kilograms.

However, she didn't just gain weight in these four months. She now has back muscles, chest muscles, biceps, and abs. She is no longer the weakling she used to be.

This weight, control it!

The stars are twinkling and the full moon is high in the sky.

It was another fifteenth day, and the date was exactly mid-March. She had entered the mountains during the heavy rain in September and left when the snow stopped in mid-March. She had been in the mountains for more than half a year.

This time, Lin Xia didn't dare to be careless. She paid attention to her position at all times and made corrections continuously.

Half a month later, the sun sets.

The orange-red sunlight shines on the earth. On one side are mountains with white stars in the emerald green, and on the other side is a wasteland with dots of green in the withered yellow.

At this time, a little man wearing a black animal skin coat, black knee pads, a black fur hat, a silver sword in his hand, and a yellow backpack on his back emerged from the forest at the junction of the two.

"Woo~"

The "wild" man in the forest suddenly let out a long roar, opened his arms, closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and his fair face gleamed in the setting sun.

"I, Hu Hansan, am back again!"

He roared and looked around.

no one.

Fortunately.

Lin Xia patted her chest lightly. Fortunately, no one saw it, otherwise she would have been killed on the spot.

Two minutes of excitement.

Lin Xia calmed down and her face regained its calm expression.

The earth before my eyes was silent, the snow on the ground had completely disappeared, and the once withered grass was full of vitality.

On the vast earth, facing the setting sun, Lin Xia's tall figure disappeared into the horizon.

Lin Xia walked south for a few days and found that although there was no one, there were occasional naked corpses on the roadside. Some were swollen and rotten, some were intact, and some were incomplete.

Especially those with mutilated and intact bodies, most of them were naked.

It seems that the extremely heavy snow had frozen many refugees to death, and the survivors had taken away the clothes and part of the dead bodies.

They didn't deal with it and just threw the body along the way until it was buried by the snow, and then taken out again when the snow melted.

I just don't know if it happened recently or a few months ago?

The temperature was too low before, as evidenced by the accumulation of snow in the forest, and the plains outside were not much better.

As long as the dead people died in the snow, they could be preserved for a long time. Even now the temperature is not high, probably in the single digits, so most of these bodies have not rotted.

Hopefully it doesn't happen anytime soon, but if it does, that's not good.

As I was thinking, suddenly, an idea came to me.

The corpse’s clothes were robbed…clothes!

Lin Xia realized that her clothes were inappropriate. She was used to wearing fur coats and almost forgot that she was a refugee. Her clothes were too eye-catching. If she met a crowd of people, she would be robbed in minutes, even her body would be snatched away.

It is often said that it is not cold when it snows, but when the snow melts. At this time, the snow on the ground has not melted for long, and there are even small clumps of snow in some places. Even though it is April, the cold wind is still biting.

It was impossible for Lin Xia not to wear animal skins, so she could only wear the animal skins inside.

Ancient clothes were very loose and could barely cover the entire animal skin.

After all, a black bear is not a brown bear. It is not that big, and its fur is just enough for clothing. In addition, Lin Xia is thin, so she wears the fur on the innermost layer and covers it with tattered clothes on the outside. Apart from being a little too bloated, you can't tell that the clothes inside are precious.

After changing the order of clothing, he was still wearing the same tattered jacket. Judging from his appearance, he looked like he could go begging with a broken bowl at any time.

At first glance she looks like a beggar, but when you get closer you'll find that she has a straight posture, a sharp temperament, a rosy complexion, is full of energy, and holds a big knife in her hand. She doesn't look like a beggar at all, and it's obvious that she's not someone to be messed with.

Lin Xia had been prepared to meet refugees, but in the end, not only were there no people, there were even no corpses. This perfectly illustrates the saying, "There is no human habitation for a thousand miles, and no roosters crowing for ten thousand miles."

Continuing forward, Lin Xia climbed up the small hill in front and looked down, and was stunned.

Before my eyes was a vast plain shaped like a swamp, with shimmering waves and rippling water.

If you ignore the ruins of the houses in the water, it is indeed a beautiful natural scenery.

A winding river runs through the center of the "swamp". The river water spreads, destroying many houses and endless farmland. There are no traces of human activities around.

I wonder where the villagers went to avoid the flood and the snow?

Maybe he went to the county town. Human beings will always find a way out for themselves.

Lin Xia didn't know what to do next. If she wanted to go south, she had to wade through this water area and cross the river.

But obviously, she couldn't do it.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Xia decided to go to the county town, perhaps there was a way to cross the river there.

Lin Xia walked along the path by the river. The deserted village was left there. The vegetation by the river was getting less and less, and there were signs that it had been cut down. When he walked to the back, there were only bare yellow hills left. The only green was the grass with new sprouts.

She walked for half a day and found a new village on a hillside surrounded by mountains on three sides and water on one side.

The situation of this village is not much better than the previous one. Apart from not being in the water, the damage is extremely severe. From a distance, it looks like an abandoned village with no one in sight.

As she got closer, Lin Xia was horrified to find that the villagers had not moved, but something had happened!

A large number of houses collapsed in the village and a few bodies were found on the roadside.

Although the whole village was deserted, farmland was abandoned, and no one collected the bodies, Lin Xia still believed that there were still people living in the village because many courtyard doors were closed, which did not seem to be empty.

Lin Xia walked to a house that was in good condition and saw that the door was closed. She knocked on the door, but no one answered. She couldn't push it open either, as it was locked from the inside.

I knocked on the remaining intact houses again and again, but the doors were also closed and no one responded.

Lin Xia randomly walked into a yard without a door. When she looked inside, she found a family of corpses huddled in the corner, with only a pile of burnt ashes left.

She had a rough idea of ​​what was going on.

The power of the previous heavy snow was much greater than she had imagined. The ancient people were simply unable to cope with such a terrible natural disaster. They were short of food and clothing, and all the trees within a ten-mile radius were cut down. In the end, they ended up with a tragic ending of freezing to death at home.

No one in the entire village was spared. Some were crushed to death inside their homes when their houses collapsed under the heavy snow, while others died outside after trying to escape. Even those whose houses were of decent quality had their doors blocked by the heavy snow and were unable to go out, and eventually froze to death in their homes.

Lin Xia did not search the village for supplies and turned away.

There were dead people in every household in this small village, and they looked very poor. There were only twenty or thirty households in the village, and it was not worth the risk of bacterial infection to find something, and she was not short of anything for the time being.

After moving away from this village, we saw several more villages one after another.

Those villages were not big, so they were not wiped out in one fell swoop. However, the situation was still not good. Every household with living people hung white flags and closed their doors.

Lin Xia originally wanted to go forward and ask for directions, but she smelled the aroma of meat. She knew that the people who were alive were either wealthy or cruel-hearted, so she decided not to deliver the goods to their door.

After walking around the village and along the main road for two hours, the world suddenly became normal.

Some people are busy farming and sowing.

Lin Xia observed from a distance for a moment and confirmed that they were authentic farmers. There were a large number of houses with blue bricks and black tiles standing on the hillside in the distance. It looked like a large and powerful village.

After finishing the observation, Lin Xia put on a friendly smile on her face and walked up to call the auntie closest to her. Unexpectedly, when the auntie saw her, she started calling her friends, and the other villagers gathered around when they saw her.

Lin Xia saw that something bad was going to happen, so she decided to avoid a setback.

He glanced at the other woman looking at the knife in his hand, realized that she might be misleading, and quickly put away the knife.

Said: "Auntie, I have no ill intentions, I just want to ask for directions."

The others gathered together, holding various farm tools in their hands, and looked at her quietly, muttering a few words. Finally, the woman stood up and asked, "Where are you going, stranger?"

It's a dialect with a heavy accent, but I can barely understand it.

"Auntie, can you tell me where I can cross the river? I want to go to the other side. Or how far is the county town from here? I can also go to the county town."

The lady on the opposite side reacted for a few seconds, then turned back and muttered to the villagers for a long time, as if they were arguing, and finally came out and spoke again.

"Stranger, are you alone? We have a boat in our village." Then he glanced at Lin Xia's clothes and added, "It costs ten cents."

Lin Xia was pleasantly surprised. The other village seemed very powerful, with so many people surviving.

"Auntie, I'm traveling alone. I don't know where to take the ferry?"

When the old lady heard that Lin Xia wanted to cross the river, her expression relaxed. She then called out a dark-skinned old man and a young man and said, "Follow them."

Seeing the two unarmed people, Lin Xia made up her mind and agreed decisively.