Chapter 30 A Small "Transaction" (Ask for Recommendation Votes on Monday)
Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao and others did not urge Tian Erhe, but lit the fire and sat quietly, as if they were concentrating on waiting for dinner.
After about ten seconds, Tian Erhe's focus of sight recovered, and he shook his head with a low smile:
"The city is full of corpses, and there are 'mindless people' who have lost their minds, this is true on the streets, in the community, and in shopping malls.
"Those 'heartless ones' eat corpses, with bloody mouths, like the most ferocious beasts, they can even climb the curtain walls of high-rise buildings like monkeys, suddenly swing down from a height of nearly ten meters, appear behind you, and they will also use guns......
"There were eight or nine of us in total at the time, and after encountering such a situation, half of them died quickly.
"Maybe I was young, short, and unnoticeable, and I didn't get attacked in the first round, so I survived.
"We panicked and ran like crazy and got into a nearby police station.
"Luckily, those 'heartless people' can shoot and change magazines, but they don't take the initiative to search for weapons, and we found a lot of guns and bullets on some bodies in the police station."
Speaking of this, Tian Erhe smiled and said to Bai Chen and Jiang Baimian:
"Do you think that we finally broke out of the encirclement with those weapons?
"No. A few of us, including our elderly uncles and aunts, don't know how to use guns, and the sound of gunfire attracts more 'unintentional people'.
"At that time, I thought I couldn't hold on anymore and cried.
"Fortunately, fortunately, those uncles and aunts had a strong desire to survive, and they didn't abandon me, so they moved all the way to the parking lot.
"There was an off-road vehicle there, with the door open and the key inserted, but the owner was gone.
"Relying on this off-road vehicle, we knocked a few 'heartless people' away and rushed into the street.
"There are not many 'heartless people' in that area, so we seized the opportunity and rushed all the way out of the city. When you get to the suburbs, it's much safer."
Tian Erhe sighed:
"Before leaving Shui Wai Town, I thought about going home to see if my father and mother were there, but as a result, in short, I never saw them again."
After sighing, Tian Erhe looked at the iron pot that was gradually steaming up, and continued:
"We had to go back the same way, collecting some food and clothes along the way.
"Then, abandoning the off-road vehicle, taking what I had collected, I crossed the broken road and retrieved the two cars that had been driven out of town.
"In this way, we returned to Shuiwei Town.
"Because it was already winter and rescue had not come, we all decided not to consider the subsequent earthquake and began to requisition the town's fairly intact buildings. People can't hold on to freezing themselves to death, right?
"Thanks to the Chinese New Year, every household has New Year's goods, and there are many things in several supermarkets, so we didn't worry much about food all winter.
"However, some uncles and aunts suggested that it is not very good to distribute food like this, it is easy to develop inertia and waste precious time. They offered to exchange labor for food.
"Most people agree. Before spring really came, we divided the buildings here into many small rooms, repaired the walls, maintained the water canals in the fields outside the town, built the water tower on the side of the waterworks, and became proficient in the use of firearms......
"It turned out that these things were very important, whether it was dealing with famine or defending against the beasts, bandits and 'heartless ones' who fled over, they all played a big role."
Tian Erhe's eyes were a little divergent again, and he seemed to have returned to the year of collective labor.
His voice lowered a little unconsciously:
"When the weather warms up and the spring cold ends, we finally determine one thing:
"Rescue will never come......"
Tian Erhe raised his head, pulled out a slight smile and said:
"You should be able to guess what happened after us.
"It is nothing more than taking advantage of the large number of deaths of the 'heartless people' in winter, and began to explore the ruins of several surrounding cities, collecting food, clothing, guns, ammunition, batteries, fuel and other materials from them.
"How is it? Do you still want to listen?"
Jiang Baimian nodded slightly:
"I want to hear it!"
After saying that, she showed a bright smile:
"You can talk while eating, and we will listen while eating."
The braised beef in the pot is almost hot.
At this time, Shang Jianyao touched his stomach:
"I'll go to the toilet first."
"I'll go too." Long Yuehong stood up next.
"Okay, wait for you to come back." Jiang Baimian understood these two team members who had just arrived on the surface.
When she left the company for the first time and entered the Kuronuma Wilderness, she was also resistant to solving it on the spot, and she couldn't hold it back, and she was unwilling to drill into the groves and hide behind the bushes.
Among them, the trumpet is okay, the time is shorter, the impact of the environment is not so great, and the shame is not so strong, so the tuba really needs to muster up courage.
Since going out this time, according to her observation, neither Shang Jianyao nor Long Yuehong have untied the tuba.
Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong followed Tian Erhe's guidance, passed through the cluttered area of various buildings, and walked towards the public toilet parallel to the side wall.
During this process, they smelled all kinds of smells, which were mixed together, making it impossible to tell what it was, only knowing that it smelled very bad, and they had to hold back forcibly, otherwise they would inevitably retch.
Shang Jianyao also saw several families gathering together to share a stove to cook to save charcoal, and saw someone squatting at the door like that, drinking thin, not white enough porridge, seeing a sick person lying in a building with the door ajar, groaning in pain and holding a spittoon, seeing a mother holding a baby who must be less than 1 year old, because she didn't have time to return home, she could only let the child urinate on the spot......
As they walked, amidst vigilant, defensive, and curious eyes, Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong arrived at the public toilet.
Their left hand is painted with a woman in a skirt, and on the right is a man in a stick figure.
As soon as they turned to the right, Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong's eyes straightened.
This public toilet was completely different from what they imagined, and compared to the public toilet inside the "Pangu Creature", it was so simple that it didn't look good.
The front wall is a long urinal trough, and the back wall is the same length but appears to be wider.
They rely on the device at the junction with the women's toilet to flush regularly, without any blocking in the middle, and can flush the entire part in one flush.
It's like moving two streams in.
The only thing that made Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong happy was that Shuiwei Town paid attention to the hygiene of public toilets, and they were cleaned relatively cleanly.
"Up?" Long Yuehong hesitated a little.
"Up." Shang Jianyao took the lead, picked a position, took off his pants, and squatted down.
Long Yuehong chose a place that was far away from him and dodged to untie his belt.
"This, it feels a bit strange......" He couldn't help but look sideways at Shang Jianyao.
There was no cover between the two of them.
Shang Jianyao pinched his nose:
"You've been a bit angry lately."
"......" Long Yuehong was speechless.
Just when they thought this was the most embarrassing scene, a group of townspeople from Shuiwei Town rushed in from outside.
They looked at Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong for a few moments, some went to the urinal, and some found a place to squat.
"This is even more strange." Shang Jianyao expressed Long Yuehong's heart.
Then, his thoughts turned to strange places:
"If Mayor Tian is also squatting here, if someone comes in, he will come in front of him and shout to the mayor......"
The townspeople of Shuiwei Town next to Shang Jianyao said subconsciously:
"There is a separate toilet in the mayor's room."
In this way, the two chatted in a strange environment, which made Long Yuehong breathe.
Finally, Long Yuehong solved her personal problems, put on her pants, and went to the sink outside to wash her hands.
He took a deep breath of relatively fresh air and once again deeply confirmed one thing:
Compared with the wandering settlements outside, the underground buildings of "Pangu Creatures" are as beautiful as heaven.
After a minute or two, Shang Jianyao also came out and washed his hands.
They didn't talk about the situation of the public toilet, but remained silent tacitly, and once again walked through the chaotic area with brick houses, mud houses, and tents.
Suddenly, a little girl ran in front of Shang Jianyao.
She was about seven or eight years old, her hair was still soft, and she wore a pale green sweater with many balls and two obvious holes, and a jacket that was almost knee-high, washed white, and had a few patches.
She was wearing pants with unrecognizable materials, gray-blue pants with patches of other colors, and a pair of black shoes tied with rags on the bottom.
The little girl held a pile of miscellaneous items in her hands: wire heads, rags, faded buttons, broken headbands, glass balls with petals embedded in them, empty matchboxes, and balls of plasticine.
She raised her head and looked at Shang Jianyao eagerly:
"Brother, can I exchange these for something you eat? Just a little, is that okay? Is that okay?"
In the corner where there was a wooden shed, the aroma of braised beef wafted over.
Shang Jianyao looked at the little girl in silence for two seconds, and before she spoke again, he squatted down, stretched out his fingers, and pulled a few times in the pile of clutter.
He picked out a transparent glass ball with yellow petals embedded in it, and stood up with a smile:
"That's it."
「…… Thank you, brother, thank you." The little girl was stunned for a moment, and then thanked her repeatedly.
Shang Jianyao turned his head and looked at the wooden shed where Jiang Baimian and others were:
"Let's go over."
The little girl hummed twice and followed closely behind him.
Long Yuehong didn't know what to say, so she glanced left and right, and strode along.
Soon, they returned to the Jeep area.
"She?" Jiang Baimian looked at the little girl and expressed his doubts.
Shang Jianyao said with a clear smile:
"She exchanged a piece of braised beef with me with a very good thing."
He immediately sat down and picked up his dishes and chopsticks:
"Can we start?"
"Yes." Jiang Baimian and Tian Erhe looked at each other.
Shang Jianyao quickly picked up a piece of beef, put it in a bowl, and handed it to the little girl.
The little girl swallowed her saliva and hurriedly took it, about to stuff the whole piece of beef into her mouth.
But at this moment, Shang Jianyao took the bowl and chopsticks back.
The little girl quickly looked up at him, dazed and aggrieved.
"Be careful of the burning." Shang Jianyao whispered expressionlessly.
As he spoke, he put his thighs together, put the bowl there, and then held a chopstick in one hand, slowly but seriously tore up the large piece of beef, dividing it into several small pieces.
After completing this matter, he picked up a piece of beef and handed it to the little girl's mouth.
The little girl's eyes lit up, she took a bite and chewed quickly.
"Is it delicious?" Shang Jianyao kept watching her finish this small piece of beef.
The little girl nodded heavily:
"Delicious!"
Shang Jianyao suddenly smiled and pinched another piece.
When Jiang Baimian saw this scene, he couldn't help but sigh:
"You......"
In exclamation, she pointed with her chin into the distance.
Shang Jianyao looked up and found that in the square where various houses were built in chaos, dozens or twenty children were approaching eagerly, all holding a pile of miscellaneous items in their hands.
Shang Jianyao's body suddenly stiffened.
Tian Erhe said "hey", turned his head with a smile, and roared:
"Go back! Go back!"
The children suddenly showed unconcealable disappointment and walked back to their home three times.
PS: Update in advance on Monday to ask for recommended tickets, and the second watch is at 12:30 noon~
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