Chapter 223: Patriarch
More than a dozen guards then remembered that there was a big killer standing beside him, Yang Pingfan released a dangerous aura, a small man jumped out of the armed personnel and ran forward, and the others also sideways to get out of the way, Yang Pingfan strode forward, and the others followed behind with a hula la, which made him sigh in his heart, he really didn't have any precautions at all.
Yang Pingfan chatted with Tu Qi as he walked, "How much do you know about the outside world?"
"I don't know," Tu Qi lowered his head, "I was born on this island, this island is my home, and everything here was made by the patriarch with everyone."
Those tunnels were also excavated by the patriarch with everyone, mainly to carry supplies from the city, and to observe the movements of the living dead. β
Tu Qi's narration made Yang Pingfan fall into a great shock, it seems that the end of the world has happened for at least nearly twenty years, and those living people have become living dead people who have been wandering in the city for so long, what happened in it?
They quickly walked to the rockery in the center of the island, Yang Pingfan looked up, the rockery was more than ten meters, and the inside was hollowed out, forming a strange building about three stories high, the little man who ran in front of him was standing at the foot of the rockery with low eyebrows at this time, at the mouth of the cave, a middle-aged woman who looked like she was in her fifties standing there staring at him, and there was a little girl who looked only four or five years old beside her.
"This is our patriarch, the one next to her is the child of the former captain of the island, the child died in childbirth when her mother gave birth to her, and the captain also died during a mission, so the patriarch adopted her. β
Tu Qi explained in a low voice beside him.
Yang Pingfan was very shocked, he didn't expect that the leader of this gathering place, the legendary patriarch, was actually a woman.
He looked at each other curiously, the middle-aged woman was not tall, she was not one meter six when she wore shoes, she looked ordinary, her face was sallow, her hair was full of silver threads, her eyes were very deep, and there was a faint coldness, in addition, Yang Pingfan couldn't see any leadership temperament in her when she looked left and right, but this ordinary eldest sister gave people a sense of steadfastness, which made people feel very secure at the first glance.
It is inappropriate to describe a woman with a sense of security, Yang Pingfan has traveled through various time and space, witnessed all kinds of complex human nature, and knows that giving a woman a sense of security will make him suspect of eating soft rice, because for women, what they have been pursuing is a sense of security, especially in this era that seems very dangerous, and men are more needed to provide this feeling, which is an instinct formed in the process of evolution for tens of millions of years.
A sense of security is a very abstract thing, 10,000 women have 10,000 kinds of cognition, some women think that a man's honest duty is a sense of security, some women think that a man is knowledgeable is a sense of security, and some women think that men are financially superior, or physically strong and tall, can become a sense of security.
But for men, there is only one explanation for security, being strong, being strong in oneself, being able to shelter those around you, being able to give people confidence, and being able to make others respect in their hearts, and in this inexplicable last days, it is not surprising that this quality can appear in the head of the gathering place, but it is very special to appear in a middle-aged woman.
The middle-aged woman was also looking at Yang Pingfan, her eyes were solemn, her demeanor was not arrogant or humble, even if Yang Pingfan was a whole head taller than her, her whole body was covered with all kinds of equipment, and her teeth were armed, but it still didn't cause her any mood swings, but the little girl next to her kept saying that she was pulling the corners of her clothes, biting her nails and looking up at Yang Pingfan, who was as majestic as a giant, with little stars in her eyes.
Yang Pingfan's first impression of this woman with a child was very good, far more real than the woman standing at the window and looking down at him in the air.
The perception ability on his body was fully opened, and the woman was a hidden transformed person, and Yang Pingfan came to a conclusion for the first time, which made him even more shocked.
Yang Pingfan can feel the unpretentious outside of women, the strange power fluctuations hidden in the body, this is a strange sixth sense, since he unlocked the gene, as long as he touches the transformed person, he can feel it, especially since he crossed into the Gotham battlefield, this feeling has become more and more sensitive, allowing him to quickly distinguish the hidden transformed person in the crowd.
Yang Pingfan's eyes swept to the little girl's admiration for him, and he couldn't help but puff up his chest, it felt really good to be regarded as an idol, he took out a piece of military chocolate as a ration and threw it into the child's arms, his face was still flat, but the corners of his mouth were slightly curled.
"I'd like to talk to you individually and get some information. Of course, it's not for nothing, and I promise to do something for you in return. β
Yang Pingfan got straight to the point, shrugged his shoulders, and let the other party notice the machine gun behind him, he used standard Mandarin, the middle-aged woman heard Yang Pingfan's pronunciation, and her eyes that had not fluctuated had a trace of waves, only to see her biting her lip, and with a wave of her hand, the island guards who were not far away retreated, and took Yang Pingfan into the rockery.
"What do you want to know about us?"
The two sides sat down in a cluttered but well-organized hall, and the middle-aged woman poured a glass of water for the two of them, and the woman asked.
"What is the Cataclysm? What happened here in Suzaku, or in this world?"
Burst!
Yang Pingfan's first question asked the patriarch to squirt water, and she looked at Yang Pingfan with surprise, "Are you sure you're not joking?"
Yang Pingfan waved his hand, "My origin is more complicated, I can't tell you for a while, but I have absolutely no ill will towards you, I need to know what is going on in this world now, so I found you." β
Yang Pingfan stared at the patriarch and said word by word.
The patriarch didn't have much expression, but the corners of her mouth were slightly upturned, and her mind turned quickly, although the origin was unknown, but a person with outstanding ability and no knowledge of this dangerous world, if he could save it, he could bring great vitality to this small island.
Yang Pingfan saw that the middle-aged eldest sister's eyes were rolling, and her lips were slightly open, she didn't expect that the other party was already thinking about how to fool herself to stay, she just thought that the other party was organizing the language, and she didn't bother, and looked around.
The little girl who had been following the middle-aged woman took the chocolate that Yang Pingfan threw to her and sniffed hard, but she didn't know how to tear open the package, Yang Pingfan beckoned to her, the little girl hesitated for a moment, ran to him, Yang Pingfan took the chocolate, tore the package and handed it back, the little girl took a bite gently, and an intoxicated smile immediately bloomed on her face, as if she had never eaten such a delicious thing.
The patriarch saw Yang Pingfan's actions, and even more agreed, there is not much pressure on the island for the time being, and the food saved is enough for the people here to live, and the most difficult thing is the people's mental problems.
Most people feel hopeless in this day-to-day struggle, surrounded by cities, as if sentenced to life imprisonment, no one has hope for the future, no one feels the meaning of living.
It's strange that human beings crave food, they want to be safe, they do everything they can to survive, and once they have these things, they crave more, not necessarily materially, spiritually, the same need, or a hope, or a different life.
In general, people's emotions are complex and changeable, and once they lose hope and desire to live, it is time for them to destroy themselves.
The patriarch has been working hard for nearly twenty years to survive as a family on the island, but the place is too small and there is no entertainment, which has caused many people to self-destruct due to emptiness and despair.
This tendency is the most normal in the last days, if there is no restraint, there will be robbery, abuse, killing, force x and even destruction and other violence, but the patriarch will not let these things happen in his own home, she sees everything here as her own home, a small home that is not warm, but can make her feel at ease, once someone has a violent tendency or a tendency to destroy, she will be expelled, none of the expelled people can survive, which causes greater depression on the island, fewer people to speak, no one has a smile, and there are more people who commit suicideγ
At this time, a high-value man from outside, with a certain amount of ability and good health, appeared here, and at the same time, he could bring news to Kojima, break the same lifelessness, and inject some nectar into the dry hearts of the people on Kojima.
There was a noise outside the rockery, Yang Pingfan looked, and saw a group of children surging up on the grass, the children were of different ages, the big ones were more than ten years old, the small ones were only three or four years old, and even one or two years old, the big children took the children, took out all kinds of handmade small toys on the grass and began to play, they didn't dare to make a sound, just silently played their own small games.
The movement of the children playing pulled the patriarch's thoughts back from drifting farther and farther away, and the patriarch sent the little girl beside him out, looked at Yang Pingfan deeply again, and began to tell the story of this time and space.
About 20 years ago, at that time, the patriarch was not the patriarch, but a high-achieving student who came out of the countryside and graduated from Suzaku Normal School, and had just found a job as a kindergarten teacher in a municipal kindergarten.
The patriarch didn't know what the reason was, but he vaguely remembered that it was a morning, and the people around him suddenly went berserk, frantically attacking all living things, and then the crazy crowd increased rapidly and spread at the speed of light, and before the national public emergency plan could be activated, the rapid growth of the living dead destroyed the entire administrative system, and the end of the world came.
The survivors are cowering like rats in every corner under the threat of countless living dead, and the sudden disaster destroys the administrative system and also destroys the moral system, and all kinds of evil and darkness continue to breed, and human nature becomes a joke.