Desperate Night

In the dense woodland.

In the dark green grass, a tall figure wearing stab-proof clothing and a helmet was walking quickly towards a certain direction of the forest.

After a while, the figure would stop, bend down and pull off some weeds on the ground, and stuff them into his cloth bag.

The figure wore leather gloves, hard leather boots, and a helmet that was tightly wrapped, revealing only a pair of eyes and a pair of nostrils, like a fully armed knight in the Middle Ages.

He had a short knife on his waist, and his eyes kept scanning the surrounding environment vigilantly.

Not long after, a gray-white stone house slowly appeared in front of the figure.

There was a circle of circular wooden fences around the stone house.

A taller and stronger short-haired man in camouflage clothes was arranging something in the fence.

Seeing the approaching figure, the man showed a habitual smile on his face.

"Brother Yu, are you here again?"

The man walked to the fence and stopped. It was Yu Hong who came out of the cave again.

"I've been around for a long time and didn't find the existence of the evil shadow." Yu Hong said in a muffled voice.

"After losing the carrier of infection, the traces of the evil shadow will disappear under the light after more than three days. In addition, if you find the carrier of the evil shadow, such as clothes, or items with black handprints, you can burn them at high temperature, but remember, don't watch nearby when burning." Li Runshan explained.

"Why?" Yu Hong was puzzled.

"Because when burning, the evil shadow will reappear for the last time. As long as there are living people within 20 meters nearby, it can burst into attack. As long as new living people are killed, it can repeat a new round of infection. In many places, because there is no way to completely eradicate the traces of the evil shadow, they can only choose to migrate. This is the case in the town near you." Li Runshan sighed.

". No wonder." Yu Hong understood. "There are too many dark corners in the town, and it is too easy to hide the traces of the evil shadow."

"Yes, and the traces of the evil shadow will move by themselves." Li Runshan walked to the black fire where the clothes were burned before, and kicked the residue inside with his boots.

"This pile of things wanted to move towards me before, and I was the closest to it. Unfortunately, I burned it in time and blocked it outside the door. Of course, you have to be careful. After all, evil shadows are a new type of ghostly hazard, and new species may appear. A lot of experience is slowly tested through human lives."

"So Brother Li is still in contact with the higher-ups?" Yu Hong guessed. If they hadn't kept in touch, this latest information about evil shadows would never have been so easily known to Li Runshan.

"That's right. Actually, I won't hide it from you." Li Runshan smiled, "My main task here is to guard the origin here, and at the same time guard the pyroxene mine, and report the details of the changes here at any time. Of course, there are also benefits. Every once in a while, a supply team will pass by here and give me supplies. In terms of intelligence, I also have a newly developed enhanced communicator that can directly contact the post office."

Yu Hong nodded. If it weren't for such a guarantee, people like Li Runshan would not be likely to bring a child to such a dangerous place.

"There are not many people here. It's good for us that Brother Li can come. Otherwise, we may really have to choose to move." He sighed.

"I came here alone and I need everyone's help and cooperation. We help each other. However, before I came, I thought there were at least five or six families here, but I didn't expect that there were only two of you." Li Runshan was a little helpless when he said this.

"Okay, let's not talk about this. I came here to ask Brother Li to help me send a letter." Yu Hong said, and he took out the wooden board letter he had written in advance.

Because there was no paper, he could only use a thin wooden board instead.

He wrote some of his specific situation on it, and tried to put a piece of ordinary talisman wooden board behind it.

If the talisman can be sent over, it would be the best, and it would not be a waste to help the little stutterer.

But if the talisman is lost halfway, he will try another way next time.

After taking out the wooden board, Yu Hong also covered it with a piece of cloth.

There are two wooden boards, both put together and connected with wooden nails. It seems to be just a simple thickened structure. But only Yu Hong knew that the thickened board below was actually the talisman wood board.

It was just that the side of the talisman was sandwiched between two boards and could not be seen by outsiders.

"Sending a letter, the price may be a bit expensive. After all, I have to wait for the supply team to come before I can send a letter." Li Runshan touched his chin and took the board.

"Then can I ask how long the supply team will arrive?" Yu Hong said quickly.

"The planned time for me is once a month, but there will definitely be changes. This time I just settled here. The supply team promised to arrive within two weeks. Calculated, it should be a few days." Li Runshan estimated.

"Then can we trade with the supply team?" Yu Hong asked.

"Of course not. The supply team can only trade with postmen, and no one else is qualified." Li Runshan shook his head.

"Okay." Yu Hong was a little disappointed, but he still understood. The postal system here seems to have formed a screening mechanism with postmen as the core. Postmen have become the most basic distributors in various places. Holding huge profits.

From this point of view, it is no wonder that Li Runshan's daughter has a greasy face. There is a reason for this.

"Okay, do you have anything else to do? If you mail it, it is just a letter, and the cost is one silver tower silver dollar. But if you don't have it here, you can use dried meat instead. The amount you had before is ten dollars per bag, and you need a total of twelve bags."

"What!? How much!?" Yu Hong's eyes widened, thinking he heard wrongly.

"Twelve bags." Li Runshan said easily, "This is a discounted price. After all, new customers in a new place always have to give some discounts. In other places, the price is usually fifteen pounds of dried meat."

"." Yu Hong was speechless.

After being silent for a while, he suddenly remembered a silver dollar he had plundered from two soldiers before. He immediately searched around on his body and quickly took out the silver dollar.

"Silver Tower Silver Dollar, is this it?" He showed the other party the silver dollar.

"Ah, yes, yes, that's it. If you have it, then it will be easy." Li Runshan nodded repeatedly, with a smile on his face again.

"Then use this. Also, do you sell long-distance contacts here? I bought a solar generator there before, which can be recharged." Yu Hong asked again.

"I don't have this for now, but when the supply team comes, I can ask you. There are still a lot of people who want this. There are some big gathering points, and everyone likes to sell this." Li Runshan nodded in agreement. "By the way, if you find someone passing by nearby, you can persuade them to stay and settle down. The more people there are, the easier it will be for us to be self-sufficient, right? Otherwise, we have to do everything ourselves, which is still too tiring."

"Okay." Yu Hong nodded.

Leaving the stone house of the post office, he took one last look at the window of the stone house.

A chubby little head was quietly staring at him from the window, his bright black eyes full of curiosity.

"What's wrong, why are you staring at her?" Li Runshan walked to the window and reached out to rub his daughter's hair.

"That uncle looks a little weird." Aisena replied in a low voice.

"What's weird? He's one of the few normal people. It's rare to meet a normal person these days. People in many places are a little abnormal after living alone for a long time." Li Runshan said with a smile.

He also looked at Yu Hong, watching the figure slowly go further and further away, until it completely disappeared into the depths of the forest, then he looked back at his daughter.

"I don't know, but I just feel that no matter who he looks at, that uncle always feels like a stone." Aisena shook her head, not knowing how to describe it.

"Stone?" Li Runshan thought carefully, but he couldn't imagine what it felt like.

"It's just that I'm not afraid of anything. I feel very confident." Fat girl Aisena frowned and squeezed out another sentence.

"Well, if you say so, it's true. He looks normal on the surface, but compared to people in other places, he is a bit too normal and doesn't have the feeling of fear." Li Runshan nodded, thoughtfully.

"That's it!" Aisena nodded quickly.

"It's okay, no matter what kind of person he is, as long as dad is here, I will protect you." Li Runshan smiled again.

"Dad is the best." Aisena narrowed her eyes and rubbed her face on the other person's hand.

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Yu Hong walked slowly on the way back. He had just stopped by to see Doctor Xu Xu Ruoying. The guy had recovered a lot and he also gave her a portion of her homemade herbal powder.

Yu Hong also gave the other party a large pyroxene in return. It's an exchange.

There were only a few living people around, and the environment outside was getting worse and worse. After all, he still hoped that the other party could persist in living.

On the way back, he quickly arrived at the location where Eve's clothes were. He held the silver talisman board in one hand and took out a short knife with the other. He rummaged around on the ground but found no whereabouts of the clothes.

Only then did he truly believe that the traces of the evil shadow had been solved by Li Runshan.

'Judging from this man's reaction, it seems that this is not the first time he has dealt with the evil shadow traces. He seems to be very relaxed. In addition, he dared to bring his daughter with him. His daughter’s name is not in the style of his country. It is obvious that the other half may be a foreigner.’

Yu Hong speculated in his mind, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that Li Runshan was not simple.

But he soon changed his mind and thought, no matter whether the other party is simple or not, as long as it does not endanger himself, he has no control over what the other party does.

Even the stronger the opponent's ability, the safer they are.

We soon returned to the cave. Not only were there evil shadows, but we didn't even see any treacherous shadows along the way. It was extremely peaceful.

Yu Hong closed the door and looked at the countdown carefully. There were still more than three days to strengthen his leg skills.

He suppressed the expectations in his heart, drank a glass of water first, then ground the Dahuite into powder to make Dahui graphite, and then started to produce new talisman array wooden boards.

While the black mark was strengthening, he couldn't be idle.

After making a few wooden talisman arrays, he got up again, cooked a pot of protein bar sweet soup, and studied the talisman drawing methods of the silver talisman array while drinking it.

The silver talisman array has obvious depth and shallow scale requirements, and is far more difficult than the large pyroxene talisman array, so he has not been able to reproduce it until now.

After eating the food, it was already afternoon in a blink of an eye, and he got up again and began to exercise Gaoshan in the house.

Two hours of physical training every day was a fatal task he set for himself.

After finishing, rest for more than half an hour, wipe off sweat, replenish food, and even take a nap. These are all normal procedures.

But today, after finishing the exercise, while wiping away his sweat, Yu Hong suddenly felt a body tremble.

He felt some small pockmarks in his abdomen gathering rapidly, and soon they gathered on a new stream of cold air.

‘The fourth cool air! It's getting thicker. ’ Yu Hong felt happy. The thicker the cold air, the more confident he was.