Pale Silence

Chen Mo took root in Jiushan County, cleaned up the zombies bit by bit, laid traps and nets nearby, and turned the small county town into an impenetrable base.

They want to live here, live here.

The base managed by Chen Mo does not have many people, only 400 to [-] people, some were brought out from the safe zone, and some are survivors who have been hiding in the nearby mountains until now.

Human survival is always stronger than disasters.

When Xia Kai saw these survivors in the mountains for the first time, he was so shocked that he almost shot, thinking that there were zombies here.

For more than ten years, they have been hiding here, carefully avoiding the attention of zombies, living off wild fruits and hares in the mountains.

It wasn't until Chen Mo took people into the mountains to search that they were found.

Chen Mo didn't say anything. After expressing his kindness, he took these people down the mountain and settled them in the student dormitory that had been cleaned up.

There are still some quilts here, although they are old and dusty, but they can give people a rest overnight.

Xia Kai was shocked by the appearance of this group of people, and he didn't recover for a long time.

Chen Mo came out of the student dormitory and looked at Xia Kai expressionlessly: "What's wrong?"

Xia Kai was stunned for a long time before slowly saying: "I never thought... I didn't expect... There would be people living like this..."

Chen Mo was silent for a while, then whispered, "Xia Kai, you were too young at that time, you didn't know what the end of the world means to ordinary people."

Xia Kai said: "I still remember what happened at that time. My dad covered my head with a towel and ran out of the house with me. There were screams everywhere."

Chen Mo said, "And then?"

Xia Kai blinked blankly: "Huh?"

Chen Mo said: "You don't remember, Xia Kai. You are the luckiest person. The old world didn't leave too many impressions in your mind, and you grew up in a safe zone, so you didn't experience too much. Up and down. You don't know what the end is. The end is...destruction, everything is completely destroyed, all the bonds you have with this world for the first half of your life are destroyed. Family, friends, mobile phones, computers, potato chips, coke, even What you never noticed, the bed. Everything is destroyed, all the hard work you put in for life in the first half of your life becomes worthless. Some people have worked hard, some have studied hard, but when the end comes , 'click', the world is cleared, and it becomes meaningless at all."

Xia Kai listened to Chen Mo's words with half understanding.

He knew that Chen Mo was in a bad mood.

Chen Mo is a person who is used to blaming himself.

No matter what happened, Chen Mo would always blame himself first.

Song Jian died. He completely mutated in front of Chen Mo, and then disappeared without a trace in the explosion.

Chen Mo didn't say anything, but he already took all the responsibility on himself, silently tortured his heart, and refused to let himself go.

It was for this matter that Yang Tianhu transferred him and Fang Yingchen.

With their two brats around, Chen Mo could be more open-minded.

But Xia Kai felt that he and Fang Yingchen were useless here.

Chen Mo's heart knot is not with them, nor will it be untied because of them.

Jiushan County was calm, they led groups of zombies into the valley, and killed them all with bombs placed in advance in the valley.

Chen Mo went in to detonate the bomb, while Xia Kai and Fang Yingchen stood guard at the valley entrance, cleaning up the fish that slipped through the net.

They used this method to clean up a batch of zombies every few days, and quickly cleared out a clean land tens of kilometers away from Fang Yuan.

Without the commanding corpse king, the zombies can only rely on hearing and eyesight to hunt down the approaching prey, and there will be no more large-scale migration activities, and they have become a loose sand that can be lured and used by humans.

Jiushan County is completely safe.

Chen Mo is very busy. Every day, he takes people to search for supplies from room to room, takes out all the usable things, and cleans them up.

He wants to open up a piece of land that is safe enough to grow crops and raise livestock.

It was too troublesome to transport piglets and chicks back to the safe area. Chen Mo simply took people into the mountains to catch pheasants and wild boars. Forced breeding.

The team in the safety zone finally cleared out the old city. They searched through thousands of corpses, but they still couldn't find Song Jian.

Yang Tianhu comforted Chen Mo, maybe Song Jian left by himself.

Song Jian had to die so many times in his life, and this time he must be lucky and not just die like this.

Chen Mo didn't say a word, copying the wheat planting techniques under the dim candlelight.

Yang Tianhu was a little anxious and said, "Momo, just say a word, I'm afraid something will happen to you."

Chen Mo said, "I'm fine, just listen."

Yang Tianhu scratched his head while drinking wine in the safe area, and said, "Momo, you can come back after Jiushan County becomes more stable. It's poor and chaotic outside, do you have a cigarette?"

Chen Mo said: "I am the only one in Jiushan County who is addicted to cigarettes, and some smoke."

Yang Tianhu sighed: "Momo, I will definitely find Song Jian, and I will give you an explanation whether it is dead or alive."

Chen Mo stopped writing, rubbed his dry eye sockets, and said, "Hang up, let's chat, we have to go through four or five transfer stations in the middle, it's so late, if you don't sleep, I won't sleep, and the people at the transfer station have to wait." sleeping."

Yang Tianhu sighed sadly and had no choice but to end the short call.

Jiushan County will gradually settle down, but Chen Mo doesn't want to go back to the safe zone.

He has been in the safe zone for a long, long time, so long that it seems to have passed his entire life.

Now, if Jiushan County can settle down, he wants to leave for a while, and he wants to go to the old town in person to find Song Jian's whereabouts.

If Song Jian was still alive, no matter whether it was dead or alive, he couldn't just end like this.

Song Jian had promised to give him a home, and this man had lied to him many times. This time, Chen Mo didn't want to be a fool who suffered silently.

The weather is getting hotter and it's raining heavily.

The piles of corpses in the valley smelled strangely, and the whole town was shrouded in stench.

Chen Mo had no choice but to take people to the mountains to dispose of the corpse.

They planned to blow up a nearby mountain wall with dynamite, and let the shattered and falling stones bury the body.

Too many people died, and the survivors were unable to give them a decent funeral.

There was heavy rain in the sky, and the steep mountain face was slippery.

Chen Mo walked ahead, carrying explosives in his waterproof bag as he struggled up the steep hillside.

Xia Kai shouted from behind: "Brother Chen! Brother Chen, slow down! The road is very slippery!"

Chen Mo had no choice but to stop and wait for these little kids to follow him.

Exploding a mountain in heavy rain is a big project. They have to lay a long lead wire, but they also need to do waterproof work in heavy rain.

Because the lead wire always went out in the rain, Xia Kai simply suggested that he climb to the other side of the mountain wall and start shooting.

How could Chen Mo let the kid be responsible for such a thing, he took Xia Kai's gun without hesitation, and told everyone to wait here, and he went over to ignite the explosives.

Chen Mo braved the heavy rain and slowly climbed to the other side of the cliff. Standing on the edge of the cliff, he aimed at the hole where they planted the explosives, and gestured to his companions in the distance to keep them away.

Watching his companions retreat further away, Chen Mo aimed at the explosives and pulled the trigger.

Gunshots sounded, and explosives exploded one after another on the mountainside, blasting a large amount of rubble into the valley, burying a large number of corpses piled up there.

Chen Mo braved the rain and said on the intercom: "Fang Yingchen, you go to the north and put another batch of explosives, and the burial will be secure."

Fang Yingchen led people to run to the north mountain wall, carrying an electric drill to drill holes for explosives.

Chen Mo waited in the heavy rain. His thin raincoat couldn't hold back too much rain, and he was completely drenched.

Fang Yingchen and Xia Kai were still setting up explosives in the distance, while Chen Mo was lying on the edge of the cliff alone, a little distracted.

The rain was so heavy that the trees and stones in the distance were blurred in the heavy rain, shaking in the wind and rain, and everything looked like a human figure.

Song Jian's body is not in the old town, so where did it go?

Is he dead, or wandering around a corner like other zombies?

Fang Yingchen's voice sounded through the earphones: "Brother Chen, the explosives are loaded."

Chen Mo aimed his gun at the mountain wall in the distance. Just as he pulled the trigger, the hillside behind him began to tremble amid successive explosions, and a big rock rolled over from behind Chen Mo.

Fang Yingchen exclaimed: "Brother Chen! Be careful behind you!!!"

Chen Mo hurriedly got up to avoid the rolling stones behind him, but his foot slipped and he accidentally fell down the cliff.

At the foot of the cliff was a pile of rotting corpses. Chen Mo fell into the corpses in embarrassment. Before he could feel the pain, he was dizzy from the stench coming from his nostrils, and almost passed out when his eyes went dark.

One after another, stones rolled down from the top of the mountain. Chen Mo stepped on the corpses all over the ground to avoid being smashed into a pulp, but he was completely buried underneath.

The heavy rain was still falling, and the crevices of the rocks gradually filled with water, and the speed of infiltration could not keep up with the speed of the heavy rain.

Fang Yingchen yelled on the intercom: "Brother Chen, let's go and save you!"

Chen Mo said: "Don't come here, there will be danger here... and you can't move such a big stone..." Chen Mo's breathing gradually became heavy, and he said with difficulty: "Go, go to the nearby village Find the excavator, go!"

Xia Kai stepped on the slippery and steep mountain road and quickly ran to the nearby village: "I'll go right away!"

But he had just taken two steps when he was shocked to see an excavator speeding up the mountain from the narrow mountain road, and rushed into the valley without hesitation.

What a good excavator, driven like an off-road race car by this guy.

The excavator rushed forward two steps, then backed up quickly. When it passed by Xia Kai, the person in the excavator leaned out half of his body suddenly, snatched Xia Kai's walkie-talkie, pinned it on his collar confidently, and then He drove into the valley where Chen Mo was buried.

Chen Mo hid under the rock, and used the barrel of his gun to prop up a space that could accommodate him.

The stones above his head were no longer falling, but the trouble was that the rain had been accumulating under his feet, and it would soon cover his head.

At this time, a familiar yet unfamiliar deep voice suddenly sounded in Chen Mo's earphones: "Momo, listen to the sound of the tractor engine, judge your location and tell me."