Chapter 86 Village

Chapter 86 Village

The team moved forward slowly on the official road. After walking a few hundred meters, two roads appeared on the official road ahead, leading to two directions.

Lin Youcai walked over quickly to ask for directions. Lin Zisu looked at the navigation arrow pointing to the left.

Lin Zisu: “On the left.”

The team walked to the left road, and after 4 miles, there was another fork in the road.

Lin Youcai, who was walking behind, trotted over to ask for directions. Lin Zisu opened the window and waited for his father.

As soon as Lin Youcai showed up, Lin Zisu said, “To the right.”

The team headed towards the right road again, stopping and starting along the way, the snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the traces of the way there were covered by layer after layer of snow.

Everything that happened on the official road was buried under the snow.

The escaped criminals returned to their hiding place half dead. The first and third bosses were already dead, and the second boss, who was lucky enough to survive, cursed his bad luck, saying that they were such a tough bunch.

I lost more than I gained, and most of my brothers were killed or injured. I shouldn't have listened to those thieves. If they hadn't died on the road, I would have skinned them and used their blood to offer sacrifices to my eldest and third brothers.

It was getting dark and there was another fork in the road ahead.

The car was given to the injured person. Lin Youcai walked with weak legs and heavy breathing. He could not remember how many forks in the road he encountered. He slowly moved towards the RV, "Where are you going?"

"Dad, why don't you get on the bus and squeeze in. Or go to the right!" Lin Zisu looked at her father and became worried.

Shen Xianglan: "I'll go downstairs, you come up and sit down."

Old Lady Wang turned around and looked at her daughters-in-law. "You've been riding in the car all the way. Go down and walk. Let your men get in the car and rest for a while."

The three daughters-in-law, Lu, Yang and Feng, didn't say anything and followed Shen Xianglan out of the car.

Lin Youcai told Shen Xianglan not to go down because it was getting dark and it was too dangerous.

"Let the boys get on the bus. It's getting dark, and we'll have to stop soon. I'm wearing a raincoat and boots, so I'm not afraid of mud and water, and the snow won't freeze me." Shen Xianglan called on all the men and boys from the Lin and Shen families who didn't have a bus to get on the bus. Except for Old Lady Ye, Old Lady Wang, and the two children, everyone else got off.

Lin Xianwen and his two cousins ​​squeezed into the bathroom. It was warm in the car and they fell asleep leaning against each other.

The men got in the car, and four of them squeezed into the double sofa, with half-grown children sitting on the adults' laps, one on top of the other. The bed was covered with a straw mat, with the mattress and quilts folded away. The extended bed was full of people, all drowsy from the car's heater.

Two old ladies were holding their two children and sitting on the front passenger seat, and two half-grown boys were squeezed in to sit on one side. Even the aisle was filled with people, and the car was packed with people.

We walked until dark, and as soon as the RV stopped, the navigation system prompted us to go forward.

Everyone took turns taking the bus and walking, without distinguishing between who was from whom, and walked with gritted teeth until after 22pm.

After washing her hair, Lin Zisu just stopped to rest for a while and wiped the water with a towel. She didn't have time to use a hair dryer to dry her hair.

We drove all the way, but ended up being dried out by the heater in the car. We set out at around 22pm, and walked for more than 9 hours until pm.

When the HUD projected the image onto the windshield, the arrow on the 50-meter-wide D map pointed to a small road on the left side of the road. Not far ahead on the road, a village-like image appeared. Lin Zisu's guess along the way had a vague answer.

It was dark and the people in the team couldn't see the scene clearly. Lin Zisu saw clearly from the 3D map that it was a village at the foot of a mountain.

When the team reached the village entrance, the navigation arrow disappeared. Lin Zisu realized that she was right.

The horn was honked and the team stopped. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and felt like their whole bodies were numb from the cold.

Lin Zisu patted her father to wake him up, "Dad, wake up!"

Lin Youcai woke up bleary-eyed, blinked, and rubbed his face with both hands, "What's wrong?"

"We have arrived at a village. Let's go down and take a look at the situation. We will give some money and see if the villagers can vacate a few houses for us to stay for one night."

Everyone in the car was awakened. They put their knives behind their waists, lit torches and walked towards the village.

The village road was covered with thick snow, with no signs of anyone having walked on it.

Lin Youcai thought that it was snowing, the villagers were all sleeping in their houses, and the snow was heavy, so there were no traces on the village roads.

The light from the torches was limited, so everyone started by asking the first house at the entrance of the village. They knocked on the door for a long time, but no one answered.

Everyone waited for a while, thinking that the host might not want to get up so late at night, or that it would take some time to get dressed even if he did.

Tian Daniu was so cold that he shrank his neck and knocked hard on the gate. With a creak, the wooden door opened.

The people standing in front of the door were stunned and took a few steps back.

Tian Daniu stepped forward, pulled out a knife and poked the gate open a little. The snow on the ground reflected the dark house, and it felt like there was no trace of life in the yard late at night.

Lin Youcai: "Don't go in yet, let's go to other houses and knock on their doors."

Everyone went from the village entrance to each house and knocked on the doors, but no one answered. The doors were not locked, some were open, and some were ajar.

Everyone felt even colder, their scalps tingling and their backs chilled.

Tao Mingyuan said in a trembling voice: "It's an empty village..."

Lin Youcai took a deep breath, exhaled white gas, took out the flashlight from his pocket, and turned it on to the highest brightness. "Maybe just like us, everyone in this village has fled, and the village is now empty."

In the bright light of the flashlight, the village was not very big and there didn't seem to be many households. We would have to wait until daybreak to see it.

Lin Youcai: "We have hundreds of people, we are not afraid! Let's stay in a few houses at the village entrance tonight! We need to bandage and apply medicine to our wounds."

The group returned to the first house they knocked on at the entrance of the village, pushed open the gate and more than 20 people walked in. Under the light of the flashlight, they could see the situation in the yard and the house clearly. The expected body did not appear, and everyone quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

There was still some firewood piled up in the yard. In the house, there were some dusty, rotten tables and stools, as well as a dusty wooden bed. Everything was clearly visible.

Lin Youcai: "It looks like they have moved away. The big things couldn't be taken away, but the rest that could be taken away were taken away. I will check the village again tomorrow morning."

The men came down and the women went back to the RV to keep warm.

Lin Zisu was sleepy and hungry. "Why haven't you come back yet? Could it be that the village is unwilling to take us in for one night?"

Old Lady Wang frowned, looking worried. "It's snowing outside all the time. What are we going to do tonight?"

Lin Youcai and his team visited several households at the head of the village. They all had walls made of mud and stone, and their houses were also made of stone and mud. Two of the houses had tiles on their roofs, but the rest had thatched roofs.

After they came back from the inspection, they told everyone about the situation. A family could only accommodate dozens of people at most, so everyone moved into the houses of the five families at the village head in batches.

Get through tonight and wait until dawn.