After all, the corpse man was only the least combat-effective part among the dark creatures. Gerald was gnawed off a large piece of flesh on his shoulder. He howled in great fury, swung his hunting knife and chopped over the corpse man around him, and rushed out with his backpack. It has to be admitted that this kind of courage indeed gave Harvey and Lida the courage to despair. The corpse man indeed looked ferocious, but his strength was not as strong as that of humans. With the idea of ​​not wanting to be eaten alive and rather die than struggle, they rushed out of the camp and soon met Gerald, who had bandaged his wounds not far away.

It was very difficult to find another camp. Relying on the large rocks, three people who escaped from death built a simple shack with dead branches. A few days later, the communicator rang again, and Charlie still passed the message in a very sorry tone, but the supplies were still unable to be delivered. Although he said sincerely and repeatedly claimed that this was a difficulty that no one expected, Harvey completely lost the interest in listening to his excuses and just sat alone on the ground in a daze.

In just a few days, things had changed dramatically. Corpse men appeared in several directions, and they were not alone, but gathered in groups. Harvey drew a simple map on the sand and found that the road back to Redstone was blocked by corpse men. They were originally not many in this area, and God knows what exactly attracted them? Maybe it was Bob's corpse? Or the signal sent by gnawing over the corpse men that night? In short, the originally empty wilderness is now full of this dark creature. They salivate and stagger in the wilderness, and anything moving will attract their attention.

Gerald is an absolute idiot.

This guy has no brain at all, and his head seems to be covered with muscles. Although he rarely leaves Red Rock City, Harvey has heard many people say: If he is not sure to leave quickly, he must not shoot the corpse nearby. This idiot Gerald should know about this, but he aimed a corpse man more than ten meters away with a rifle and pulled the trigger directly.

The corpsemen move slowly, but they are not sculptures, and there are connections between them that humans cannot understand. The corpsemen scattered in the wilderness began to gather, very slowly, but inadvertently formed a dense and dense net. Harvey found in despair that the road to Redstone City was completely blocked. Of course, he could choose to circumnavigate from a further place, but who knew whether these terrifying dark creatures would follow them? They would follow wherever they went.

People who came out of Red Rock City were never picky about food. Bob's meat had already eaten up, and Harvey also tried to find edible parts from the corpse. Together with Lida, he cut off the head of a corpse with a machete, but when he dragged the corpse to a secluded position, Harvey completely gave up the idea of ​​taking meat from this monster.

The body of the corpse man appeared an abnormal light gray. They were still elastic, odorless, and did not rot, and looked no different from normal people. Just as Harvey used a knife to cut the skin of the corpse man's arm, he found that dozens of very small insects crawled out from under the gray skin. They were like shrinking earthworms squirming back and forth under the muscle fibers and cortex. As the area of ​​the peeled skin continued to increase, the number of worms became more and more, and gradually climbed everywhere.

Harvey and Lida completely lost their appetite and ran away from the corpsemen as if they were running away. Many things, they were always much better than hearing about them with their own eyes. At least now Harvey finally understood why there are no corpsemen selling meat and other things in Red Rock City? Because they cannot be used as food at all. God knows how those bugs came from? No one wants to have more inexplicable things in their stomachs.

Occasionally, Harvey also thinks of Su Hao and the young man who was driven away on the first night.

Where will he be?

Have you returned to Red Rock City?

Or are you still wandering in the wilderness like yourself?

But no matter what the problem was, the rumbling abdomen was more realistic. Harvey felt that his stomach bag was about to be burned with acid, and the strong sense of hunger prompted him to do something.

Although it was daytime, the wind was strong. The strong wind speed did not drive away the hot high temperature at all. The rocks on the ground were hot. It was already past four o'clock in the afternoon. In the past few hours, Harvey, Lida and Gerald could only stay in the shadow of the back of the large rocks. Harvey himself forgot which camp he had changed in the days? Anyway, those corpses always appeared around. Just seeing one means that a group of them would soon come. Even if a few of them were killed, they would be surrounded by a steady stream of corpses. The ammunition received from Charlie was not much, and only twenty rounds were each consumed a few days ago. In this case, melee combat would only kill himself. The safest and safest way was to escape as far as possible.

"What are you thinking about?"

A thick and heavy female voice sounded beside Harvey, very small, only enough for him to hear it alone. The voice was right in Harvey's ears, and he could even feel the moisture and warmth transmitted to his brain along his skin.

"We must start now, otherwise we will starve to death in the wilderness even if we are not killed by corpses."

Lida lay on Harvey's shoulder, staring at a place more than ten meters away with her wide eyes. Gerald was lying on the side of another rock. The wound on his arm was already infected, and in this environment where there was no medical treatment or medicine, there was no rehabilitation. The severe temperature difference had a great impact on Gerald. The wound had long rotten, and it could smell a disgusting odor from a distance. No matter where he went, there were always a group of mosquitoes and flies flying around him. If he hadn't felt that he had to be brought with him, it might have come in handy at critical moments. Harvey would have long thrown Gerald, who was slow to move, to the corpse.

Gerald's injured arm was already destroyed. The large-scale infected wound even affected his brain. Gerald has been talking nonsense these days. His current location has entered the connection between the gray area and the black area. There are fewer and fewer dry grounds and more and more swamp wetlands. In such places, it is difficult to find Yujing and clean water sources. Harvey and Lida are better, able to maintain their rationality, use containers to clarify the sewage before drinking. Gerald is disturbed by the pain and often loses his mind, dive into the dark pool to drink happily. Every time Harvey pulls him out of the sewage puddle, his body is covered with mud, and even unknown blood-sucking bugs are crawling on his face.

Since the day before yesterday, Lida has been chattering endlessly, asking Harvey to lose Gerald. This will reduce the burden of escape, and the two of them can also have a few full meals.

"It's easy to kill him."

Harvey did not directly agree to Lida's request, but frowned and asked uncertainly: "The question is what should we do in the future? How can we get out of here?

Even Harvey himself didn't know when he forgot that damn mission.

The idea of ​​leaving the wilderness alive has occupied the entire brain. The rifle has been thrown away, and without ammunition, its value is not as valuable as a fire stick. The fighting knife is the standard weapon configuration for residents of Redstone City, and this thing can be used at any time. The problem is that Harvey and Lida alone cannot break through the encirclement of the corpse. It is not the time when they were in the gray area at the beginning. If they had given up their mission at that time, they would have definitely returned to Redstone City. It was driven by greed that Harvey and the others went deeper into the wilderness step by step and could never look back.

Harvey had always wanted to bypass the most dense part of the corpse and find a way home. He soon discovered that this approach was futile. There were too many swamps nearby, and in order to bypass the trap, he sometimes had to go further. On several occasions, Harvey found that he had lost his direction at all. If he had not relied on the guidance of the sun, he would probably not be able to determine the specific direction.

In this case, the value of Gerald's life must be much greater than the value of his death.

Although the food is scarce, it is not completely missing. Harvey has caught a few mice, and Lida has also caught two snakes in the puddle. Although the taste is really not very good after roasting, they can at least eat it and are rich in protein needed by the human body.

Lida is very attached to Harvey. She always sticks to Harvey at any time. Even when she is resting, she has to grab Harvey's hand and stuff it directly into her clothes, allowing him to caress his shrinking breasts. When she is hungry, neither men nor women are interested in doing that kind of thing, but it does not hinder physical touch. This to some extent also means women's acceptance of men and affirmation.

Harvey often finds Lida watching Gerald drool while constantly doing things like swallowing her throat. Whenever that happens, Lida becomes very scary. Her eyes emitted a wolf-like green light, and she can't help but open her mouth, revealing her teeth covered with tartar, biting her own fingers hard, and gnawing hard on her nails in a daunting way.

"He raped me the first day."

"He is a cruel and savage guy and will not have any sympathy for others. If it were you, he would have cut off your head long ago.

"Please kill him, I would rather have a full meal than be hungry again."

Lida nagged in her ears every day, but Harvey always disagreed. He felt that Gerald's use is not as simple as serving as food. As long as you find the weak point in the encirclement of corpses, that is the most correct time to kill Gerald. Gerald must be used as bait. Just lift the chopping of one thigh, which is enough for him and Lida to share food on the road, and can recover their strength in a very short time and then escape back to Redstone City.

People in desperate situations will seize every seemingly hopeful opportunity. Because of this, neither Harvey nor Lida threw away the communicator. Just last week, Charlie's voice came out again. This time it was good news: the supply convoy had arrived in the wilderness, but they did not find the hunters in the designated location. Charlie kept asking where Harvey and Lida were? When he heard the current situation of the two people and the death of Bob and others, Charlie was silent and promised in the communicator: "As long as you come back alive, I will definitely give you and Lida a reward of ten gold coins as promised at the time."

These words made Harvey and Lida have an unprecedented desire to survive. Charlie asked them to keep communication open and must carry communicators with them. Because rescuers have arrived from the edge of the gray area. Only by determining their location can they meet.

The most urgent task is how to avoid dense corpses?

In dangerous environments, you must maintain enough physical strength. Without food, the best way to maintain physical strength is to minimize activity. Although the day is best for escape, the hot high temperature and dazzling sunlight have exacerbated the evaporation of water. As a last resort, Harvey can only sleep soundly in the shadow of the rock and wait for the dusk to act again.

Harvey was awakened by a strong aroma of barbecue.

In his sleep, Harvey saw many delicacies that were placed in front of him but could not reach out to get. This indescribable desire eventually turned into fear, awakening him, and the reality he saw was even more terrifying. Harvey saw Gerald lying on the ground with his back to the sky, his intact arm and two thighs were cut off, strung on the branches, and barbecued on the fire. Although there was a lack of food and nutrition for this period of time, Gerald's burly body was rapidly thinning, but his subcutaneous fat was still a thin layer. After being roasted by the fire, the skin on the surface quickly turned brown, cracked and fine gaps. The grilled oil penetrated from the bottom of the cortex, and the steaming thick shimmering oil beads continued to explode one after another, and continued to emerge.

"Bitch, stinky bitch, you...what exactly are you?"

Harvey had no appetite at all. He rushed over as fast as possible, grabbed Lida who was barbecuing beside the bonfire and slapped several times. The power was too great, and Lida was immediately dizzy and fell heavily, with bright red blood seeping from the corner of her mouth.

She was not afraid of Harvey, but instead raised her head and stared at the man with a hatred and angry face.

"If you don't want to do it, I can only kill him."

Lida's long hair was flying in the cold wind, like a pile of weeds that were blown. Her voice was hoarse, mixed with the vague noises in her wounded mouth: "We haven't eaten something decent for several days. We didn't even have anything yesterday. I know it's useful to keep that bastard, but have you ever thought about it? We don't have the strength to go out, what's the use of keeping him? Even if there's really the opportunity you said, how far can we get in the face of so many dark monsters coming over?"

Her voice was obviously crying.

Lida is actually considered Harvey's woman. During the time he was wandering in the wilderness, Lida confessed to Harvey that she was indeed not a good woman.

Lida's original crime was fraud.

Her mother gave birth to Lida at the age of seventeen. In her childhood, the most impressive thing about Lida was that her mother had to interact with different men every day. She was dressed very revealingly and always had intimate with other men in front of her without any scruples. She looked ordinary, but she was more relaxed in bed than anyone else. God knew who her father was? Maybe it was just a man who stayed after having fun and had not been removed in time that the residue finally became Lida. Why did she give birth to herself? Lida's mother herself could not explain this question. Even when Lida was older, she always vaguely asked about such questions, and used sentences such as "I thought it was fun to have a child at that time" to make excuses.

When he was fourteen years old, one day, Lida got her mother drunk and sent her to an underground brothel, selling fifty imperial silver coins.

Lida didn't think there was anything wrong with this. The woman never fulfilled her responsibilities as a mother. She taught herself to smoke, drink, gambling, and even go out to the streets, which were all step-by-step "education". When she first received a customer, her mother sold herself as a virgin. The man rode on her, and she was there to be a live guidance. Perhaps she was born to be suitable for this business, Lida didn't feel that it was so painful, but she felt it was not cost-effective afterwards. Her mother only gave herself ten silver coins as a reward, and according to the official exchange numbers, each gold coins could be exchanged for 100 silver coins.

Surviving in this damn world is really difficult. Because everything requires money. Especially when you feel that you need something urgently and don’t even have a copper plate in your pocket, the extremely strong desire for material things is indeed the best catalyst for sin. There is no need for others to instigate or induce. You will have a crazy awareness of grabbing a stone from the ground and rushing into the mall to smash and rob.

I want

But I don't

This is the most primitive source of motivation.

Lida can only be used for sale, but being a prostitute is not as simple as it seems. You need to put on makeup and spend money on clothing, from high heels to sexy underwear. Men have no interest in naked women. They like the type that is half-covered and half-wrapped, and they want to welcome them the most. You must clean your face and make yourself fragrant. Otherwise, you can smell the sweat odor of your body from a distance, and you will be willing to go to bed with you, let alone pay for it.

Fifty silver coins were not too much. Lida just couldn't stand the despicable behavior of her mother making money from her hands at any time. She became addicted to drugs, and the expenses in this area alone required a lot of expenses every day. Killing this woman or selling her, the two ideas lingered in Lida's mind for a long time. She finally chose the second one. The reason is very simple. Doing so can at least bring some benefits to herself, and she doesn't have to bear the terrible charge of killing her biological daughter.
Chapter completed!