18. Harunae Refuge (Ask for Recommendation Votes!)
The atmosphere around is oppressive and sad.
Lao Hu's pain was deeper than Chi Chuan imagined, and even if he didn't say anything more, the tears still couldn't stop flowing.
He stroked Nikki's head gently, trying to straighten out the messy strands of hair.
"Actually, having gone through so much, I have treated her as my family, my own sister. Even if we've only met a few fake neighbors in the past. β
Ikekawa didn't answer, just listened quietly.
He knew that these words seemed to be for himself, but they were actually for Nikki.
"She is a very kind girl and very simple. We started with a team of 18 people, and on the surface it was a team, but in fact everyone had their own agendas, guarded against each other, and would not share their precious materials with others.
"She was deceived very badly. A little girl, at the instigation of her mother, often pretended to be pitiful and asked her for food, but it didn't take long for her to run out of food. β
Lao Hu paused at this point, looked at Chi Chuan and said, "That's why when you said that you wanted to give food to the atavists that day, she resisted a little. β
I see. Ikekawa was quite emotional.
Lao Hu continued: "After that, she could only eat some disgusting insects and grass roots, so of course she could not maintain her physical strength, and soon became a burden to the team. Just as they were discussing leaving her, I gave her a piece of bread......"
"You are also very kind. Ikekawa chimed in.
"Nope. The corners of Lao Hu's mouth were bitter, and he shook his head, "I'm not a kind person at all, and that piece of bread was originally hers." β
"Oh?" Chikawa wondered.
"Because I killed the woman. It's the little girl's mother. β
Chi Chuan was surprised, feeling that Lao Hu was not this kind of person.
"That woman is really hateful, she instigated her daughter to lie to others, and instructed her to steal things, and stole them from me, and I got all the stolen goods. Then the woman said that the child is not sensible, and asked me to forgive me, and not to be knowledgeable.
"If this kind of thing was placed before the end of the world, I really wouldn't care about her, but the situation was different at that time, what she wanted to steal was my life!
"I can't let her go. And I, who have always been silent, seem to have become an object of bullying at will in the eyes of some people, and I must let them see my cruelty.
So the next night, while it was convenient for me to go out, I followed her and pushed her down the cliff. In fact, everyone knew it, but they just pretended not to know, and pretended to have looked for that woman.
"First, she is really annoying, and second, she provoked me first. Again, my methods have shocked some people. I took the woman's supplies, threw half of them to her daughter, and took out a piece of bread from the rest and gave it to its original owner, Niki. What I didn't expect was that it was this act that saved my life. β
"What do you say?" Chikawa was a little curious.
Lao Hu didn't speak directly, but first pulled up one trouser leg, only to see that on his left calf, there was a hideous scar of about ten centimeters.
Then he said: "Once we encountered several atavists, and in the process of escaping for my life, I fell and left this wound, because it was not treated properly, and I quickly became infected, and I did not know medical science at all, and I did not think to bring medicine before leaving the city. In addition, there was a lack of materials at that time, and I couldn't even exchange things with people.
"It's Nikki, she got me anti-inflammatories. β
Chi Chuan scratched his head and asked, "Didn't her supplies be consumed before you, how did you get the medicine?"
"Body. β
Lao Hu said in a deep voice: "She slept with others, there are few women in our team, and she is the most beautiful among them." β
Ikekawa was silent, never expecting this kind of means.
When I looked at Niki's body again, I felt that she was not only very simple and kind, but also great.
After all, Lao Hu just gave her a piece of bread, or the bread that originally belonged to her.
This is probably the so-called return of the grace of dripping water.
"You know, she didn't do this when she was so hungry that she ate bugs, but she tried to save me...... At that moment I told myself that as long as I lived, I wouldn't let anything happen to her. But......
"I broke my promise, Ikekawa-sama!"
Lao Hu buried his head and cried, crying silently.
Ikekawa's lips furled, not knowing how to comfort him.
He had only known Niqi for a few days, and he had already accepted this woman from the bottom of his heart, and he was deeply saddened by her death.
So what's more, Lao Hu, who has experienced many hardships with her and shared life and death?
After a long while, Lao Hu raised his head and glanced at the door, his expression full of endless anger.
"Lord Chikawa, Niqi is gone, let me kill him, I want to avenge Niqi with my own hands!"
If the person lying on the ground was Ba Wei, Chi Chuan really didn't mind, he also wanted to break the other party's body into pieces.
"Lao Hu, he is not the one who leads the fishing rod, that person is dead, he died very miserably, this is the little glasses. β
"Dead?"
Lao Hu was stunned before he said: "That's the same, they are a gang, they are all murderers!"
Chi Chuan sighed secretly, glanced at Yo You next to him, and replied, "These little glasses are not bad in nature. β
Immediately, he told the story of the other party's intention to leave a bag of candy when he searched the room.
"Lord Chikawa, this doesn't mean anything, maybe he was frightened by Yo Yo's actions at that time, when we first met Yo Yo, wasn't it the same and very jealous?"
Although Lao Hu's words are not unreasonable, Chi Chuan feels that this should not be the case.
"Lao Hu, in fact, it doesn't mean much to kill him or not. β
"Why?" asked Lao Hu with red eyes.
"Because he seems to have been bitten by an atavist. β
Lao Hu was stunned for a moment, and then laughed, "Retribution!"
Immediately after that, he got up and walked over to check, because Ikekawa-sama was not sure.
After discovering that there was indeed a bite mark on the right shoulder of the little glasses, the killing intent in his heart gradually dissipated.
At this moment, I only heard a soft hum, and the little glasses woke up.
"Boy, I heard that the process of transformation is very painful, so you can enjoy it, and you can also taste the suffering of Niqi. Old Hu said with a cruel smile.
The little glasses were stunned, and he reached out to touch his shoulder, and then his eyes were glazed and his face was colorless.
"Kill me. β
He said suddenly, in a calm tone.
"No, I'm not going to kill you. β
With a sickly smile on his face, Lao Hu shook his head and said, "Originally, I did have this plan, but now I have changed my mind." Letting you be a monster is the biggest punishment for you. β
"I was forced!"
Little Glasses said in a trembling voice, "I beg you, it's okay, kill me!"
When Lao Hu was about to say something, Chi Chuan paced over and waved him off.
There are some things he really wants to ask the little glasses, before the other party is transformed.
"I ask you, the one with the fishing rod in your lead......"
"His name is Bavi. β
Little Glasses is now bent on death, so he thinks and knows everything, so that the other party can be satisfied, so as to achieve his goal.
Ikekawa was satisfied with his attitude and nodded, "Okay, Bavi." How the hell did he do it?"
He believed that Little Glasses understood what he was referring to.
After the end of the world, he awakened an ability that any fishing rod in his hand, as long as the hook is thrown out, he can catch a random target within 100% distance of the fishing line, and then easily drag it to his side. β
Can it still be like this?
Not to mention that Chi Chuan looked shocked, even Lao Hu next to him widened his eyes in surprise.
"How did heβhow did he wake up?" Ikekawa asked.
Xiao Glasses shook his head slightly, "I don't know this, I already had this ability when I met him, and it is precisely because of this that we can survive, and we can only look ahead." So what he commanded, I couldn't resist at all. β
The world is getting weirder and weirder!
Ikekawa thought to himself.
The vast majority of humans have declined into savages, and some of the survivors seem to have evolved to acquire superhuman-like abilities.
What is the reason?
A plague?
How could there be such a strange plague?
"I'll ask you again, even if Bavi had this ability, Knickie...... It's our female companion......"
"She's dead. Glasses chimed in.
"You know?" said Ikekawa's eyes.
The glasses trembled instinctively, but quickly calmed down again.
"I can't be sure, because this is the first time I've seen Bavi do anything to people, and he used to fish, but his hook was too scary, custom-made, and had eight heads. β
Ikekawa suddenly recalled the previous scene, no wonder Bavi held the hook in his hand when he took it out, and didn't show them at all.
He knew that Niqi would not survive.
Damn it!
Seeing that he hadn't spoken for a long time, Xiao Glasses took the initiative to speak: "You ask, I can tell you anything you want, but I beg you, you must kill me, I don't want to become an atavist!"
Chi Chuan was silent, glanced at Lao Hu, and then looked at Yo You.
"Lao Hu, you discuss and decide with Youyou, you don't seem to want him to die, and you don't want to do it now. I...... As you see fit. β
With that, he paced away, walked up the stairs, and then went up to the second floor alone.
He didn't know if he was doing the right thing, Lao Hu obviously wanted to punish the little glasses. And such a thing as killing people...... It doesn't seem right either.
I accidentally caught a glimpse of the framed mirror on the wall of the living room, fixed on the man with the brimmed hat.
Chikawa muttered to himself, "Uncle Policeman, what would you do if it were you?"
......
Beiqi County.
Chunmiao Experimental Primary School.
Now, perhaps it would be more appropriate to call it a "spring sprout shelter".
This aristocratic school, which was fully enclosed before the end of the world, was favored by a group of survivors because of its three-meter-high courtyard walls, and was stationed here.
Because it is an elite education route, and it is a primary school that does not need to live in school, there are not many buildings in the school, but the playground is quite large.
There is also a teaching building, an administrative building, and a canteen.
In Room 302 of the Administration Building, a tall figure stood next to the windowsill, with the help of the moonlight overhead, his eyes crossed the courtyard wall, looking at a dark city in the distance, and his expression was very complicated.
If Ikekawa was here at the moment, he would definitely recognize this person at a glance.
Compared with the photo, there is a sense of mulberry on the face, plus the left side of the forehead, there is a strange round thorn-shaped scar, the size of a marble, and I don't know how it was caused.
Knock knock!
There was a knock at the door, interrupting the man's thoughts.
"Come in. β
An inch-headed young man with a dagger hanging on his side, an iron crossbow and a few arrows on his back, and a blood stain on his body that had not yet dried up, paced in.
"What, you're in danger?" said the man on the windowsill, shrugging the tip of his nose and concerning.
"Well, when I came back, I made some noise and alarmed a few atavists, but it was cleaned up and there were no casualties. β
The man sighed.
But before a smile appeared on his face, the inch-headed young man said again: "But Brother Ming, the old couple in the riverbank villa are dead. β
The man who was called Brother Ming raised his eyebrows, clenched his fists and said, "I know!"
The elderly couple had been discovered the other day and had invited each other to the shelter, but they were unwilling.
How is it possible for two old people to survive in such a world?
After a long sigh, he asked, "There should be some supplies, right?"
Now that the people are dead, the remaining supplies must be brought back, and now the most lacking thing in the entire shelter is food.
"Herein lies the problem. β
The young man frowned and said: "They were shot, we found that the door of the villa was open, when we went in to check, the body was still warm, and there was a bullet hole in the forehead of one person, it seems that it should be a pistol, equipped with a silencer, we didn't hear any movement before." β
"Shooting?" Brother Ming's face changed instantly, he thought it was an atavistic person.
In the JosΓ© Union, firearms are absolutely prohibited items and cannot be possessed by ordinary people.
And in the current several shelters in the county, he knows exactly who has a gun in his hand.
It was the Blue Charm Shelter that several of his colleagues had set up in the past.
There was previously a bar, on the basement floor of an express hotel.
When the plague broke out in the county, the men teamed up to loot the armory in the garrison hall and quickly took over the Blue Charm Bar.
Seeing that Brother Ming walked towards the door without saying a word, the young man with a small head hurriedly pulled him back, "What are you going to do?"
"Let go, Xiao Wu, I can't ignore this matter. β
"Brother Ming, forget it. Xiao Wu smiled bitterly: "Now that the social order has collapsed, I can't manage so much." β
"I may be able to ignore others doing this, but they, I must ask the reason face to face, are they still worthy of the oath they once made to protect the country and the people with their lives?