Chapter 43: Brother and Sister
Whew, whew, Ma Xiaofeng ran out of breath, looked back in horror from time to time, and saw that no one was chasing him, so he breathed a sigh of relief. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Brother Huo's kick, the power was too great, even if he was ready when he was hit, he was still injured, and his internal organs were indescribably uncomfortable. And after running out of the school for a few miles, he was tired and lay down, the school could not go back, if Brother Huo and others found their traces, I am afraid they would not be able to let him go. The surviving students can no longer be relied on, and their rout at the last moment can only show that they are completely frightened by Brother Huo, and it is completely impossible to expect them to do something.
Outside the school there are hills, and then there is a road to the town and from the town to Fuling. There are some bits and pieces of farmland on the side of the road, and the corn in it is just growing into fresh and tender at this time, Ma Xiaofeng took some corn and raised a fire to roast a few to fill his stomach. There are cornfields that stretch for several kilometers, and it seems that there is no shortage of food for a while, but it is not a problem to eat corn all the time.
Now that Ma Xiaofeng is alone, he is really unsure of what to do next, if he wants to go to a certain camp mentioned on the radio, he will not be able to go alone anyway. Ma Xiaofeng decided to find a place to live no matter what.
Ma Xiaofeng spotted a three-story building with a red roof, this house is far away from the road, in the woods at the foot of the mountain, relatively hidden, surrounded by cornfields, it should not be difficult to get food, there is a small stream next to it, and the water quality should be good.
It's just that what is worrying is whether there will be zombies inside, Ma Xiaofeng has no experience in fighting zombies alone so far, if it's one, it's fine, but what if the whole family inside becomes zombies?
He walked to the iron door of the small building, holding his breath and quietly listening to the movement inside, but there was no sound that could make people vigilant come from inside, and the iron door was mottled red, and it was difficult to tell whether it was rust or blood.
Gripping the fire axe tightly, he quietly walked into the house, and Ma Xiaofeng was extremely cautious at every step. The room is well lit, there is no dark place or visual blind spot, after entering the iron door is a stairwell, there are two doors on each floor, some closed and some open. Ma Xiaofeng didn't dare to explore them one by one, he stayed on the first floor for a while and then returned to the iron gate. Then there was a slam bang on the iron door, and the iron door clattered. He was going to lure the snakes out of the hole, and if there were zombies in the house, he would be attracted by the movement, and if they rushed down, he would use the space of the iron door to kill them one by one.
A small head came out of the stairs on the second floor, startling Ma Xiaofeng, and the little head suddenly shrank back after knowing that he had been discovered by Ma Xiaofeng.
"It's..." Ma Xiaofeng wasn't sure if it was a human or a zombie, except for the appearance of this little head, there was no other abnormality in the room, and Ma Xiaofeng decided to go up and take a look. Wiping the sweat from his forehead, he went upstairs step by step, and came to the second floor, where the two doors were open, Ma Xiaofeng walked into the one on the left, which looked like a dining room, and there were some moldy leftovers on the table, which were full of flies.
No one? Then go to the other room, the one on the right is a living room with two small rooms, one room is the bathroom, and the other is a bedroom.
Ma Xiaofeng pushed open the bedroom door, and something squirmed in the quilt on the big bed inside.
"Hmph... Monsters don't eat me, don't eat me, I'm not delicious, I haven't taken a shower for many days, it's smelly, it's smelly..." There was a girl's voice in the quilt.
Ma Xiaofeng suddenly lifted the quilt, and inside was a six or seven-year-old girl crying and saying that she was not delicious.
"Whew~, you're scared to death." Ma Xiaofeng patted the little girl and said.
Hearing someone speak, the little girl opened her eyes tremblingly, and when she saw Ma Xiaofeng smiling at her, the tears could not be stopped.
"How can Big Brother be in my house?" The little girl asked.
"I'm a survivor like you, I'm here to take refuge, by the way, what's your name?" Ma Xiaofeng said.
"My name is Qingqing, what about you, big brother." Qingqing, who was wearing a princess dress, asked.
Ma Xiaofeng felt that this little girl was very cute, and in an instant she had the desire to protect, with big eyes and a pink little face, she was really a cute baby. It's just that I haven't taken a shower for a few days, and the white skirt is red and yellow, and it's all stains.
Looking at the red circles in the little girl's eyes, Ma Xiaofeng was very heartbroken, such a young girl has to experience the unacceptable cruelty brought about by the end of the world. The little guy hasn't seen other living people in the past few days, and after seeing Ma Xiaofeng, he was a little restrained at first, but then he felt that Ma Xiaofeng was not bad, so he gradually became cheerful and talked to Ma Xiaofeng intermittently about some of the things that happened these days.
Needless to say, this house is naturally the residence of Qingqing's family, originally a family of four should be harmonious and beautiful, but as a result, the catastrophe came, at the dinner table that afternoon, Qingqing's sister county changed into a zombie, and then bit her father to death, and her mother took Qingqing to run out of the house for help, but the police did not find it, but the father and sister turned into zombies, and knocked open the iron door and came out of the house.
In order to protect Qingqing, her mother was also bitten to death by her father and sister, and the little girl watched the whole family either die tragically or become a man-eating monster, and she hid in the cornfield to escape. Then, because the helicopter passed over the area, her father and sister, who had become zombies, were led away, and she went back to hiding at home, living on some leftovers in the refrigerator for the past few days.
After Ma Xiaofeng knew this, he couldn't help but sigh, why should he have met with the same fallen people, the little guy and his situation are similar, they were orphans overnight, and they became helpless, where can they go from now on?
However, for Ma Xiaofeng, the appearance of Qingqing made him seem to be less lonely and less disappointed, the two depend on each other, and there may be new hope in life. He suddenly had the idea of guarding the little girl to grow up, which even felt strange to him, but sometimes human emotions really made us unpredictable.
Unconsciously, Ma Xiaofeng has regarded Qingqing as his own sister, the boy teases the girl to talk and smirk, he can see that the little girl's heart has left a very thick shadow, and he himself can only slowly dilute those things in the process of interdependence, or be crushed by pain and fright and become a neurotic.
In those post-apocalyptic novels, the innocent descriptions of children are all deceitful, and even many adults will go crazy overnight after witnessing the collapse of the world, let alone children, whose young hearts are already full of cracks, and I don't know how many years it will take to heal them.
Qingqing is still young after all, and she can only think about these things through the most intuitive feelings, that is, her parents, mothers and sisters will not come back, some of them have become monsters, and some have gone to distant places.
"Mom told me to hide at home, there will be a police uncle to rescue me, big brother and I wait?" Qingqing wanted Ma Xiaofeng to stay, and his five-year-old child needed to be taken care of.
"Uncle Policeman won't be coming, but I can stay here with you." Ma Xiaofeng naturally wouldn't leave her, and there was nowhere to go for the time being.
Qingqing was a little disappointed with the news that the policeman's uncle was not coming, but Ma Xiaofeng comforted her that as long as she lived, she would be rescued one day, and the little guy didn't have a clear concept of life and death, so he just nodded ignorantly.
Then Qingqing took out some bread from the refrigerator that had already had the power out: "Brother, you are a guest of my family, let you eat these breads." ”
Seeing the little guy's sensible appearance, Ma Xiaofeng was very moved, he would rather Qingqing never experience the experience of fighting for life and death outside with flesh and blood outside.
Because since you have to stay at Qingqing's house for a while, you naturally have to be careful about food and materials, and you can't be as casual as the little girl when she was alone, and she even ate a lot of expired food, and now she can't get sick, once she gets sick, it means that there is a high probability of death, because there is no doctor and there is not enough medicine.
Ma Xiaofeng counted all the food and supplies in Qingqing's house, and found that it was still abundant, just for the sake of food hygiene in the future, it was inevitable that he would have to make a fire every day to cook and boil water.
Then he repaired the iron gates, which were able to be shut up to protect against the dangers outside, and he reinforced some of the windows of the house, and he knew very well that these things were careless, and that only careful care could ensure longevity.
The corn in the corn field could not be left alone, and Ma Xiaofeng spent a lot of time harvesting all the corn within his reach, eating as much as he could, and at the same time considering what else could be planted in these fields.
In this way, it was July, the weather was hotter, and there were no outsiders during this period, only Ma Xiaofeng and Qingqing lived together, and even many times Ma Xiaofeng felt that he was like Robinson living on an isolated island, living a self-sufficient life, carefully caring for his small home.
He also wanted to go to the school a few times, but whenever he got closer, he immediately gave up, because he was very worried that if something happened to him, Qingqing would become unattended, although she had such a period of time before, but it was very lucky that the little girl survived, if he hadn't seen her earlier, maybe something had happened now.
But the things in the school still affect his heart, he wants to know what happened to those students, how Brother Huo dealt with them, and what happened to Brother Huo's ability to control the flames, he was full of these problems, and often didn't rest well at night. However, although Qingqing can sometimes see that the little girl is very depressed, as long as the two of them are together, they can still smile at each other.