Only then did I realize that a young woman, who was not a few years older than me, had walked out from behind a small park just across the road from where they lived, carrying a bag of something resembling cabbage.

They seemed to see us from afar, and when they got closer, they glanced in the direction of the door with some confusion, and when they looked at us again, they asked, "Who are you?" ”

During the period when she spoke, my mother just got out of the car every day, I don't know if I haven't seen a child younger than herself for a long time, every day this will hold a rainbow candy in her hand I don't know how long it has been treasured, and handed it to the two children very generously: "Give, little brother and little sister." ”

The two children are still young, and they can't take their eyes off the delicious food if they don't know how to refuse, so they will grin happily and come to Tiantian's side, chirping and stuffing sugar into their mouths.

There was a candy that the little boy didn't hold and rolled into the snow, and the little guy immediately ran over to pick it up and eat it.

"Nono! You can't eat anything that falls to the ground! When the woman saw this, she immediately stopped her.

I quickly picked up the little boy named Nono: "Little one, you can't eat anything on the ground." ”

It was probably my mother who showed up with the child, and the woman lowered her guard, and after taking Nono from my arms, she asked us again: "You didn't live here before, did you?" ”

"Yes." I nodded truthfully: "The place where we live was washed into by the walking corpses, and I couldn't find it here, but I didn't expect it to be inhabited." ”

When the woman heard this, she immediately laughed: "Then you are also fateful, not to mention that there are really no fewer people in the past two days." ”

"How?" I wondered, "Do you have a lot of people living here?" ”

"Isn't it?" It can be seen that this woman is the kind of lord who is kind-hearted to a certain level, and she will not be defensive against people at all, which will also be familiar with a group of strangers to us: "I lived here before, with my husband and two children." After the appearance of the walking corpse virus, the community was isolated, and it didn't take long for Brother Hu to live here with people, they were all soldiers who had just been discharged from the army, and we were lucky, they were in good shape, there were no people in our community on weekdays, and they checked it after they came, and then they were responsible for the safety of our community. Anyway, my husband and I have also seen the news before the power cut, and we can see the walking corpses outside the gate from a distance on weekdays. ”

No wonder she has no defense against people, she has never had serious contact with the outside world at all, she has not seen and understood the bloody horror of the walking corpse, and it is not difficult to understand that she is relieved to let her children play outside.

"Then can you please take us to meet that big brother Hu? You see, it's so late today, and it's really hard for us to go out and find a place to stay. ”

"Just call me Zhang Ping, come with me, why can't you leave, there are many places here, tell Brother Hu to find an empty house for you to live in, and go out to find something." As she spoke, she led us to the laundry houses.

After Chen Wei and I glanced at each other, I nodded slightly, turned back to my parents and said, "Parents, you go back to the car and wait first, and Chen Wei and I will go over." ”

It's not that we don't believe Zhang Ping, after all, the heart of guarding against others is indispensable.

Even in the past, we couldn't be sure that the person with the right smile in front of us was necessarily a good person, let alone now.

In the past, the news showed that a young girl met a pregnant woman who pretended to be unwell on the side of the road and kindly sent her back, but the pregnant woman tricked her into going home to her husband.

The forest is big, and there are all kinds of strange species.

It was inconvenient for Zhang Ping to take the two children, so I simply bent down and hugged the little girl into my arms, these two children are dragon and phoenix fetuses, the boy is called Nuo Nuo, and the girl is called Nuo Nuo.

With different words of the same name, both children look like tigers and are very likable.

I'm not afraid of life, glutinous came to my arms, tilted my head and chatted with me inarticulately, and I laughed all the way with innocent words.

Stopping in front of a house closest to the side of the road, Zhang Ping shouted through the door: "Brother Hu, I'm Zhang Ping, I'm bothering someone to open the door." ”

It didn't take long for footsteps to come from the house, and a burly man walked out of it, obviously stunned when he saw me and Chen Wei, from the entrance to the front of the courtyard gate, his two eyes were like scanning a QR code, and Chen Wei and I were swept up and down I don't know how many times.

Before opening the door, he asked Zhang Ping vigilantly: "Who are these two people?" ”

Zhang Ping looked back at the two of us with a smile: "Oh, the people who escaped from outside will talk to Brother Hu for a while, and let them live in, and it is not easy to take the elderly and children." ”

The big man's face was obviously unsightly after hearing Zhang Ping's words, and he frowned twice and then said with displeasure: "There are other people?" ”

"Well, wait on the road outside, I said that you Cheng Liang should open the door! My arms are sore when I hold my child! ”

It turned out that the big man's name was Cheng Liang, and he searched me and Chen Wei twice before he finally opened the door.

When we went in, we cautiously asked, "You don't have any weapons on you, do you?" ”

To tell the truth, I was very unhappy by his thief-looking eyes, and when I heard the words, I said: "Can you not take some guys with you if you don't want to die outside?" ”

It seems that I didn't expect me to talk back suddenly, Cheng Liang was stunned for a moment, and then waved his hand to signal us to enter the house.

Chen Wei didn't speak, looking left and right at this small courtyard of dozens of square meters.

I leaned my head over and asked in a low voice, "What are you looking at?" ”

After a pause, he replied, "It's nothing, just take a look." ”

When I entered the house, I was still confused by a room full of people.

The living room of the house is very large, at least sixty or seventy square meters, there is a row of sofas against the wall, and there are many other stools and chairs, almost all of which are sitting on people, and it is roughly estimated that there must be at least thirty or forty people.

After Zhang Ping came in, he shouted at one of the slightly fatter men: "Brother! What are you doing! Why don't you come over and pick up the baby? ”

When the man heard this, he immediately stood up and came over to take Nuo Nuo from my arms, during which I clearly heard Nuo Nuo call the man 'Daddy'.

Immediately, I was stunned by the chaotic shouting between them.

Later, I learned that the man was Zhang Ping's husband, but he was five years older than Zhang Ping, so Zhang Ping began to call him brother from the beginning of falling in love. Now that I have children, this title has not changed.

The arrival of me and Chen Wei did not cause excessive tension in the room, the people in the room were not as vigilant as Cheng Liang just now, and it was probably the reason why there were many of them, after a group of people stared at the two of us for a while, one of the men with a height estimated at one meter and nine feet stood up from the sofa, walked in front of us, and said in a very polite tone: "Hello, I am Hu Yongqiang, everyone calls me Lao Hu, or Brother Hu." After speaking, he glanced back at everyone and then said with a smile: "I am currently the captain of the community security team." ”

Everyone in the room was amused by him, Chen Wei pursed his mouth twice, and reached out to shake him: "Chen Wei." After a pause for two seconds, I didn't know what to think, and pointed at me and said, "This is my wife." ”

"Hello, Brother Hu." When I said hello to him, I unconsciously appeared in my mind the face of the star Hu Ge, looking at the appearance of the person in front of me, the two are really different.

After a brief greeting, Hu Yongqiang began to ask a few questions seemingly unintentionally, such as how many people we came, who we were, and what is the relationship between each other.

At this time, I found out why Chen Wei said that there were quite a lot of people in our group, and coming to such a place that was somewhat similar to a small organization was the most likely to arouse their vigilance, especially if they knew that our group of people had only gathered together later, it would make them guess whether we would be some kind of outlaws.

And if it can be involved with kinship, then it's a different matter.

A fleeing family is always more believable than a group that has just formed.

When I didn't see them before, I thought that a group of people could let the two children play in the community must not be a reliable person, but I didn't expect that they were actually very thoughtful.

I asked Chen Wei and me a lot of questions, all of which seemed to be unintentional small questions, but they could be used to analyze many situations.

After Hu Yongqiang lowered his voice to the two of us and asked, "Have you ever killed anyone?" I suddenly felt a strong sense of familiarity.

I always feel that this line seems to have been heard somewhere.

"Nope." Chen Wei's face did not change from the beginning to the end, and his tone was also light, as if he had carried out the face of the late mother to the end.

After staring at Chen Wei for a while, Hu Yongqiang's originally stern face finally showed a smile: "Okay, I'll take someone to check if your people have been bitten, if you don't live in Building 7 in Area B tonight, if you don't think it's appropriate, you can walk around the yard by yourself tomorrow and see where you like to move over." ”

"Don't bother others with this kind of work, just let me take them there." When Zhang Ping heard this, she immediately asked for help.

Zhang Ping's husband dragged her with a smile: "You can do anything, let Brother Hu decide, don't sign up randomly." ”

Glancing back at Zhang Ping, Hu Yongqiang laughed a few times: "Cheng, brother and sister don't bother to bring Liangzi, Longzi and a few of them go together." ”

"Okay, okay, you can watch the child here. I'll take them there first. Zhang Ping was elated when she heard this, and when she shoved the child into her father's arms, she jumped over and pulled me and started to walk out.

During this time, several men in the room who were also shaved got up and came out with them.