The earth was plunged into darkness, and the stars in the sky were hidden. In this quiet night, in a dry canal two kilometers away from the small factory, two dark shadows groped their way out.
"Did you see who they are?"
A low male voice said. His voice was not loud. Even in this quiet night, a fart could travel far. Only his companion beside him could hear him.
"It's the army. They are driving military vehicles, and they are equipped with machine guns. The people in the vehicles are all from the People's Liberation Army. They are wearing military uniforms, helmets, and rifles," the man's companion said.
The man's companion spoke. His voice was strangely hoarse, like the voice of a young boy in his puberty period. Clearly, this man was not very old.
"Yutou, did you see how many people there are?"
The man asked again.
"No … I don't know … I have been lying here, not daring to move. I can't see clearly because they are too far away. They have more than ten military vehicles, and I think there are at least a hundred people …"
Hearing Yutou's answer, the man was silent for a while, and then he said, "That's strange … What is the army doing here? A hundred people is like a regiment in the past. Is there something here?
I have lived here for more than 30 years, and I have never heard of anything like that. "
"Uncle Yun, you see them passing by here from time to time. Are they just staying here temporarily?"
Yutou gave the most realistic reason. Uncle Yun hesitated after hearing it, but in the end, he shook his head.
"Didn't you say those military vehicles drove over your head?
They have guns, heavy machine guns, and those two-barrel cannons. With these things, they can't spend the night anywhere else, but they still came here to spend the night. I think there must be something wrong with them, "the man said.
The more he said, the more he thought he was right. He could not help but raise his voice.
"Uncle Yun, lower your voice, don't let them hear you."
Yutou warned Uncle Yun as he looked at the small factory two kilometers away. He did not expect that even if he sang loudly, his voice might not reach two kilometers away.
Hearing Yutou's warning, Uncle Yun lowered his voice and muttered.
"Even if there's something here, it has nothing to do with us. They have guns and cannons. We'll die if we go up. Besides, even if the thing is right under our noses, they can just say that it's the country's property. We can only stare at it. Don't forget, last time …"
"Let's stop talking. Let's go back and ask the party secretary first. He is a university student and knows more than us. Damn it. Everything belongs to the country. Even our ancestral graves belong to the country. They dug it up and said it was archaeology. F * ck their balls."
The two streaks of Black Silver once again descended into the canal. Following the canal, they quickly moved forward. In this pitch-black night, their speed was actually the same as if they were moving forward with a flashlight. As the two figures moved forward, they moved further and further away from the small factory. Half an hour later, they climbed out of the canal.
"Bang … Bang bang … Bang … Bang bang …"
In front of a small mound, a figure was knocking on a metal pipe that was exposed on the surface of the soil. The metal sound with a special rhythm spread far and wide in the silent night. After three cycles, the knocking stopped.
Then, a hole about the size of a water tank emerged from the mound. Two men carrying kerosene lamps walked out of the hole. They carefully observed their surroundings before leading the two men who had gone out to investigate into the hole.
The inside of the cave was dark and deep. Under the weak light, on both sides of the cave walls, some small lumps of soil rustled as people walked past. Steel bars or wooden beams of different thicknesses were propped up on both sides of the tunnel. Those were the load-bearing beams erected to prevent the cave from collapsing.
The four people walked silently in the long and narrow tunnel. Apart from the strong smell of soil, they could smell nothing else. The air was also very turbid. From time to time, they could see bamboo tubes buried in the soil above their heads. The other end of these bamboo tubes were exposed in a hidden place outside. These were the ventilation holes.
The tunnel was not long, and it did not take long for them to descend into a spacious hall. This hall was completely different from the simple and crude tunnel. The floor and walls were all paved with green bricks, and there were some mottled ancient murals on the walls. Although they could no longer see any people or scenery, from the high hats and wide sleeves, and the long robes and jade belts, it was clear that the murals here were people from hundreds or even thousands of years ago.
This was an ancient tomb. The funerary utensils in the tomb had long disappeared. There was a huge coffin in the middle of the tomb. The coffin inside the coffin had already been moved away. Wooden boards of uneven thickness were laid on top of the huge stone coffin. On top of the coffin were all kinds of miscellaneous items.
The tomb used to be the home of the dead, but now it was the home of the living. Under the illumination of the kerosene lamps hanging on the walls, hundreds of simple mattresses were laid in the corners. Most of the people were sleeping under their blankets. Some of the more alert ones raised their heads to look at the four men who had just entered. Seeing that they were familiar people, they went back to sleep.
The four men did not stop in the hall. They carefully walked over the messy mattresses on the ground, stepped over the sleeping men and women, and entered a tunnel that was also made of green bricks.
The tunnel was not long, only about 20 meters long. On the left and right side of the tunnel, there were two stone doors. They stopped in front of one of the stone doors. The two men who led the way nodded to the two men who were scouting. Then, they carried the kerosene lamps and walked back to the hall.
The stone door was open. The inside was also lit up by the kerosene lamps. The faint light from the inside shone on the two men outside the door, revealing their appearances. The age gap between the two men was very big.
One of them was in his thirties. His face was wrinkled, his forehead was slightly sharp, and his eyes were muddy. His mouth was slightly open, revealing two rows of yellow teeth. There were some black spots on them, which were obviously the kind of nicotine that had accumulated for many years. This man should be a heavy smoker.
The other man was a bit taller than the old smoker. His body was very thin. Compared to the old smoker, the old smoker had to be two times taller. Although his face was full of mud and dirt, one could still see the immaturity of his face. At this moment, he was very nervous, as if there was a prehistoric beast hiding behind the stone door.
The two men looked at each other and swallowed their saliva at the same time. They looked at the door and took a deep breath. Then, they braced themselves and walked in with heavy steps.
Entering the door was like entering a different world. The outside was an ancient tomb, and the inside was a ghost realm. This room used to be the burial chamber of the tomb owner's wives and concubines. Originally, the decorations on the inside were the same as the outside, but now, they were all gone. A thick layer of lime powder covered the entire wall.
This was nothing, but after the wall was covered with lime powder, it was covered with decorations. These decorations were the most worthless things in the post-apocalyptic world, zombies.