Chapter 88: A Farm Full Of Traps Everywhere
It might be a four-wheeled cart for farm hauling, or it might be a two-wheeled hand-pulled cart.
Is it a refugee who mistakenly entered the farm like them, or a monster in the farm?
This place is remote and quiet. In the apocalypse, it’s an excellent spot with food and drink, and outsiders can’t find it.
But, if they really want to hole up here for the long haul, how could they leave a wooden sign by the roadside? Isn’t that asking for death?
It could be that the sign was left by the monster mentioned in the instance.
A monster with intelligence—that’s very terrifying.
“Wait.” Yu Jiang called out to the few people preparing to set off. “Haven’t you noticed we’ve had it too easy all the way here? Be careful, let’s go around half a circle from the side. Take wooden sticks and iron rods to scout first.”
Seeing the few people’s gradually serious expressions, she continued,
“Since we’re going to scout the inside and outside of the farm first, this little time won’t matter.”
“Number 1 girl is right. This place is eerily quiet—it’s a bit scary.”
Number 2 Big Sister shrank her neck and took out the tree branch picked up by the roadside earlier. “Better be careful, in case we step on a mutated viper.”
Number 5 Lingering Fear clung tightly to her boyfriend, hands gripping the two-prong farm rake, and nodded along.
Just like that, the group took long stick-like weapons and spent quite a while circling to the side of the white wooden house facing outward.
Number 3 Leather Jacket and Number 4 Lingering Fear took the lead, while the remaining four people backed against each other and slowly moved forward to explore.
The supplies here are truly abundant. Yu Jiang casually dug up two dandelions, one purslane, and a bit of medicinal wild vegetables.
By now, everyone really believed her when she said she did gathering and manufacturing.
With the farm right in front of them, she didn’t let even these minor roadside finds go.
Because she spotted it first, and these things weren’t much anyway—dandelions are edible but not tasty, bitter, and eating too much could cause diarrhea or bloating, health value decrease.
With so many supplies in the farm, who would bother fighting over this stuff? It all went to her.
Clang!
Suddenly, a metallic impact sound came from ahead. Number 5 Lingering Fear’s palms were heavily jolted by the farm rake.
“What happened? Did something go wrong?” Number 4 Lingering Fear asked worriedly.
“There’s something in the grass.”
Lingering Fear pulled out the rake and parted the wild grass beside it, revealing a black animal trap in front of everyone.
“No one should be living in the farmhouse, so why is there an animal trap?” Number 10 Uncle voiced his doubt.
And it’s this large-sized animal trap, not the kind for rats—clearly for large prey.
“Maybe it was set when people still lived here. Look how crude the farm’s fence is—wild beasts can easily get in,” Number 2 Big Sister speculated.
The animal trap was already closed; reopening it would take a lot of effort. Thinking there were more supplies in the farm, no one bothered.
Lingering Fear used the rake to push the animal trap aside, and the group proceeded even more cautiously.
In the instance, a leg injury meant death wasn’t far off.
Not a long distance, but it took them half an hour to finally approach the farm fence.
Yet the unease in Yu Jiang’s heart grew stronger.
This place was too off—they had already found several traps by the time they got here.
Right in front of the fence, at about shin height, a steel wire with blades was stretched taut. Parting the obstructing weeds revealed iron wire connected on both sides to wooden stakes half-buried and fixed in the ground.
Yu Jiang poked it with a wooden stick—immovable. This trap was simple but securely fixed.
And the blades on top were very sharp; whether poisoned or not was uncertain—the light screen couldn’t scan it.
Positioned just outside the fence—if unseen and collided with, the faster you ran, the worse the injury. Just thinking about it made her shins phantom ache.
And who knew how many such crude traps were in this grassland.
Who placed the traps here was no longer important—what mattered was: in a panicked run, you couldn’t check.
The others thought of this too. The relaxed expressions from the start were gone; everyone felt their backs soaked in cold sweat.
Number 3 Leather Jacket took a deep breath. “This isn’t the main gate. Once we sneak in, as long as we find the main door, we shouldn’t encounter these traps.”
That made sense—if the so-called monsters could think and had intelligence, they wouldn’t set this stuff at their own front door; that’d be sabotaging themselves.
“The path we just took has been checked for danger. Let’s leave a mark—in case something happens, we’ll know how to run. But this thing is a bit hard to dismantle.”
Number 3 Leather Jacket frowned as he spoke; he’d hacked at it several times with his Nepalese army knife but couldn’t cut it.
It was steel wire—without pliers, of course it was hard to dismantle.
In the end, several people fiddled with it for half a day before removing the trap from one end of the wooden stake. Everyone was quite envious of this blade steel wire, but it was just too hard to dismantle.
It wasn’t impossible that everyone was holding back, not showing their true strength or good tools.
Yu Jiang was—she had a scavenger crowbar; no matter how tough or hard the steel wire trap, she could recover it.
But not in front of others; it wasn’t convenient to use, so she had to go along with the most laborious and time-consuming method.
She felt that among these people, there were definitely some hiding their strength—like Purple Butt Can Do It, who was accidentally selected in, were the minority.
They found an inconspicuous rag and tied it to the side, on the wooden stake fixing the fence iron wire, marking it as a safe direction to exit.
If there was more time, they would definitely scout the entire grassland first.
The workload was too huge; behind the fence to the middle of the wooden house was another patch of grassland. In a place full of traps with obstructed sight, it couldn’t be cleared in a day.
Moreover, sounds came from inside the farm—rumbling, like a diesel generator, and wind blowing sheet metal roof, sounding a bit scary.
The oncoming cold wind also carried a faint strange smell.
Stench of trash, and a faint bloody smell.
At this moment, Yu Jiang thought of a problem: if the trap-setter was the monster inside, with a group of them, they had the conditions to keep watch from the second or third floor of the house.
Standing at the wooden house upstairs window, they could overlook this entire grassland and, once spotting prey, circle behind them.
“Ah!” Lingering Fear suddenly exclaimed.
Leather Jacket, about to step over the fence iron wire, paused and turned his head. “What?”
“I, I’m not sure—the grass over there seemed to move just now. Don’t know what passed by.” Lingering Fear’s tone carried unease.
“Let’s get inside first—there’s places to dodge in the farm.” Leather Jacket said, speeding up his movements.
Over the fence, still probing with a wooden stick first, opening a rusted animal trap before passing.
The next second, he lowered his voice and cursed, “Fuck! Unbelievable! There’s more stuff underground.”
Jumping aside simultaneously, everyone then saw sharp iron sheets, glass, and those extra-long iron nails embedded in the ground—his shoe sole was pierced through.
It was also at this time that everyone heard a ‘creak,’ unable to tell the direction.
Soon, the front weeds rustled, and a humanoid creature in tattered, filthy, somewhat distinctive clothes grinned wickedly, raising a harpoon gun with barbs.
!!!
The monster actually had such good equipment! This thing could pierce fish—or people!
Yu Jiang hurriedly dodged to the side, avoiding the harpoon gun’s attack path.
It was also at this time that they saw the message sent by the other team.
Yu Jiang: Got it, this equipment is mine now.
