44. Chapter 44
Under the bright lights of the supermarket, the supermarket is completely different from other places, and with the air stove in the tent, the ingredients brought out of their own homes when they escaped or collected from the ownerless houses in the past two days are finally useful.
The people who own the tents have started to cook, the women are busy in the kitchen, and the men are squatting in the aisle between the tents and tents with their rice bowls, happily holding the bowls and eating the long-lost hot soup and hot rice, while chatting with each other.
There are also occasional flickering candles in the shops around the supermarket, which is not the jurisdiction of the supermarket, so there are frequent conflicts in the competition for territory, but they all settle down before dark, most of the people sitting in the dark are nibbling on the cold and hard dry food they brought out from home, and a small number of people who have nothing to bring are nibbling on the cookies they bought from the supermarket, and of course, there are people who have no food at all, so they can only starve with red eyes.
Although they ate differently, they all had one thing in common, and that was staring at the brightly lit supermarket outside the window, and the people who were coming and going in the tents with smiles on their faces in the supermarket lights - hmph, sรจ, I can afford a tent tomorrow!
At this moment, the desire/desire in many people's hearts doubled strongly.
He Guang'an's tent was set up in the inner circle of the tent group, Meng Hangfan and his little girlfriend Duan Lingling lived next to He Guang'an together, He Guang'an's wife Zhu Jiayi was the chef, Duan Lingling helped, and made a sumptuous and delicious dinner together, and the four of them set up a small table "borrowed" from the store next to them, and set up a dining table in the middle of the two tents.
Duan Lingling ate a mouthful of hot rice again after two days, and her tears came down in an instant, realizing that everyone else at the table was frightened by her, she hiccuped and explained:
"Hug, I'm sorry, I am, I just suddenly remembered my mother, wow!"
It's okay if she doesn't explain, as soon as she explains, tears like rain immediately turned into crying, Meng Hangfan swallowed the food in his mouth silently, and his eyes moistened, he and Duan Lingling grew up together, and the parents of the two families have joked about them since they were children, and they are very familiar with each other.
On the day of the apocalypse, he was walking with Duan Lingling on the way to school, and when they realized that something was wrong, they immediately hid, and hid all day, and the two people who were hungry and scared decided to take a risk, leaving the hiding place and running into a supermarket across an intersection. Today, Meng Hangfan plucked up the courage and walked out of the supermarket behind He Guangan, and now they finally got temporary safety, but the situation of their relatives is unknown. The sadness can be imagined at the thought that when they eat this hot meal, their loved ones may not even have food.
He Guangan and his wife glanced at each other, both with the same grief in their eyes, and they didn't know how to comfort them for a while. Fortunately, Duan Lingling tried hard to control her feelings, and the girl who was just seventeen years old was forced to grow up quickly in just two days, she grabbed Meng Hangfan's arm, looked at He Guang'an, and asked with pleading in her eyes:
"Brother-in-law, can I follow you to kill zombies tomorrow? I, I want to earn crystal nuclei too! โ
"Lingling!?"
Meng Hangfan was shocked and eagerly spoke out to dissuade, how could she blindly make such a serious decision?
Duan Lingling, who has been staying in the supermarket, is not clear, but Meng Hangfan, who is on the front line, knows very well, just today, more and more survivors are driven by others to choose to kill zombies to obtain crystal nuclei, although most of them are a team of four or five people to face a zombie together, both in terms of numbers and wisdom, but this does not mean that the process of killing zombies is completely smooth sailing.
The actual situation is that some people leave the supermarket only after they are psychologically prepared and ready for battle, but there are also people who just blindly follow the trend and go out in a daze. On the battlefield, I am really not afraid of god-like opponents, but I am afraid of pig-like teammates, these pig teammates who become soft and weak in their hands and legs when they face zombies, have no combat effectiveness, and even only help pig teammates, how many survivors have been injured, infected with corpse poison, and reduced to zombies?
Even if there is no pig teammate's involvement, accidents can happen all the time, as soon as he thought of the several heart-wrenching and angry accidents he had witnessed, Meng Hangfan was even more anxious, holding Duan Lingling's hand with his backhand, and pressed his heart to persuade anxiously:
"Lingling, it's really not fun outside, and it's not easy, don't let me worry, okay to stay here?"
"But I want to go home!" Duan Lingling's bright eyes stared at Meng Hangfan, without flinching, "I also want to have a weapon and the ability to protect myself, I want to go home and take a look, I want to know if my parents, uncles and aunts are doing well!" โ
Meng Hangfan was speechless for a while, he knew his little girlfriend too well, once she made up her mind, she would be so stubborn that the nine cows couldn't pull it back. The helpless Meng Hangfan had no choice but to turn his head to He Guangan for help, he hoped that the eldest brother who personally led him out of the supermarket and taught him to learn to attack zombies could persuade Duan Lingling, he was really reluctant to let her go out on an adventure.
"I want to go too!"
At this time, another firm voice also interjected, and before He Guangan could think about how to help his new apprentice, he heard the voice of his wife beside him, and immediately turned his head to look at his wife in surprise.
"Brother Guang'an, take me with you."
Zhu Jiayi was staring at her husband calmly, in fact, it was a decision made by her and Duan Lingling together after discussing with the two men tomorrow, even if there is a big gap between women's body quality and that of men, they may not have an advantage when they are against zombies at first, however, zombies will not treat women more gently and kindly, in this case, instead of waiting for one day to have no resistance against zombies by accident, it is better to take the initiative now and strengthen yourself.
He Guangan and Meng Hangfan were silent, He Guangan could persuade the other survivors to recognize the reality and walk out of the supermarket, but it really fell on the person closest to him, he still hesitated, so he simply waved his hand and urged:
"Eat first, eat first, and then talk about other things after eating."
A table of four people enjoyed a delicious dinner in silence, and after the meal, He Guangan lit a cigarette and continued to smoke in silence, but Duan Lingling and Zhu Jiayi did not let him go, they all sat next to him, looking at him eagerly.
"Okay, let's go, Xiaohang and I will take care of you together."
Finally, He Guang'an's reason defeated emotion and said the answer that Zhu Jiayi and Duan Lingling wanted, and Duan Lingling said directly excitedly:
"I can't wait for tomorrow, let's go now!"
"Are you crazy?"
Meng Hangfan rolled his eyes, thinking in his mind how to pass on all the experience he had gained from rolling on the edge of life and death this day to his little girlfriend, who made him feel uneasy.
But He Guang'an, on the other side, changed his face directly after hearing this, and he stood up and looked around, the table was accidentally brought down by him, fortunately, the meal was eaten so that there was not even a mouthful of soup left, and the tableware was a special material in the tent, not afraid of beating, otherwise it would be really distressing.