Chapter 140: Old Man Lu
Lu Jing handed her back the remaining half bottle of mineral water, and said: "If you still want to get food, you will definitely not be able to find it in those places that are obviously easy to find, and it must be hidden and dangerous, and it is possible in areas that ordinary people can't go." ”
Tong Le nodded in agreement on the side.
There is nothing wrong with this analysis, but I am afraid that the resources they will get after the risk will not be proportional to what they have paid.
Lou Lan rubbed her forehead with a headache, and said, "Come on, let's talk about this kind of thing when we get to Q City to see the plot, have you finished eating, and after eating, hurry back to sleep for me." ”
"I'm done." Tong Le suddenly smiled very flatteringly, took Lou Lan's hand, and discussed: "Lord Tuhao, can the little ones eat such a sumptuous supper every night in the future." ”
At this time, Lu Jingdu had already walked to the door, and when he heard this, he looked back at him with a strange expression.
Lou Lan glanced at him slantedly, and said with a smile: "It depends on the efficiency of the person you are looking for to cultivate the sword. ”
"Come on, promise to do your best." With that, he immediately turned around and ran out in a hurry, as if he could run errands in the middle of the night.
"You should go back to sleep quickly, it's rare to be able to sleep peacefully these days, and when you get out of City B, you have to worry about it all day long." Seeing that Lu Jing hadn't left yet, Lou Lan reminded.
Nodding, Lu Jing had a thoughtful expression, and also opened the door and went out.
Sending away the two who came for supper, Lou Lan breathed a sigh of relief, took bread and milk from the space casually, and ate them hastily. Barely filled the empty stomach.
Then he lay on the bed and fell asleep in a daze.
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Time always flies.
Eating and waiting for death in Tong's house every day, in addition to no computer, there are two people who come to eat supper at a fixed time every night, Lou Lan's life is quite comfortable, and it is the best few days after the end comes.
That afternoon, Lou Lan was bored lying on the sofa reading a book, and Amber was not in the cat bag, and she was rarely picked up and put on her knees.
There was no one in the family except her.
Tong Le went to find a way for her to repair the sword, while Lu Jing said that he wanted to go out and "see the world" to make up for the regrets of the first half of his life.
But this is only the "official word" in words. The devil knows what he's doing.
Come to think of it. Lou Lan couldn't help but roll her eyes. It is said that she has rolled her eyes a little more recently, and she doesn't know if she will become three white eyes if she rolls again.
She was bored, amusing herself and thinking.
At that moment, the chiming bell on the wall rang. "Dangdangdang" four times. The delegate is four o'clock in the afternoon. According to the convention, it was the time when Tong's mother came back with Mai Chuan to buy vegetables.
There was the sound of the door opening the door, but what Lou Lan saw first was not any one of Tong's mother and Mai Chuan.
"Children's Fun? Why are you back so early today? Lou Lan was surprised.
Whether it's children's music or land realm. These two people usually don't come back until dinner in the evening, and they haven't seen Lu Jing today, but Tong Le actually came back earlier than Mother Tong and Mai Chuan.
"That's it."
Lou Lan was stunned for a moment, and only after a moment did she realize that he was talking about sword cultivation, and said in surprise: "Really? Where? ”
"Don't say more." Tong Le looked so anxious that he didn't even change his shoes, and stood at the entrance and urged: "Hurry up, that person is very busy, I found a lot of people, so I asked him to spare two hours and leave quickly." ”
"Ah, right away." Lou Lan was stunned for what he said, subconsciously put down the book, put the amber back in the cat bag, and then immediately ran to the door to put on his shoes.
Without preparing anything, the two walked out directly empty-handed, and soon walked to the door of the "compound".
"Oh, where are you two going in such a hurry, I'm going to make dinner." It was the mother Tong who went to buy groceries.
It's really unfortunate, usually Tong's mother usually comes back at half past four, but today it was early.
Lou Lan and Tong Le looked at each other, such a thing as sword cultivation must not be said, and Tong's mother probably can't accept it.
"Lu Jing said that if he found something outside, he would go to Q City with us." Helpless, Tong Le could only find a casual reason to perfunctory his mother, and by the way, he dragged Lu Jing, who was nowhere to be seen, into the water.
As a people's teacher, I don't know how many lying students I have seen, and Tong's mother should have seen at a glance that they were lying. It's a pity that a "Q City" stumbled all of her mind.
When it comes to her son's future safety, she chooses to subconsciously believe it.
"Well, you'll be back early in the evening."
At this time, Tong Le and Lou Lan had already walked a few meters away, and when they heard this, they hurriedly replied: "You can eat dinner by yourself, we came back late, so we ate outside." ”
After that, the two didn't care about Mother Tong's reaction, turned around and ran, for fear that Mother Tong would pull the two of them to ask something again.
"Alas, these two children." Tong's mother sighed and led Mai Chuan home.
Mai Chuan, who was only 8 years old, had a calm face at this time, and asked expressionlessly: "Auntie, what Brother Tong said, do you really believe it?" ”
"Oh, you kid always has a straight face, it's not cute anymore." Mother Tong first pinched his little face, and then sighed: "The children have grown up, I can't take care of it, they have their own judgment and can take good care of themselves." ”
Mai Chuan held her hand, which was no longer smooth, lowered her head, and said a thoughtful and soft "um".
Here, Lou Lan and Tong Le didn't know that their tricks had already been debunked by Tong's mother. The two of them were sitting in a small jeep, and they drove quickly to one place.
The jeep is extremely fast, the driver starts to hang the second gear, but the speed of 1 minute is up to 50, and fortunately it is in the small road, if it is on the densely populated avenue, there would have been an accident.
In the car.
Lou Lan and Tong Le sat side by side in the back seat.
"Who are you looking for?" Lou Lan said curiously.
"It is a full-time cold weapon designer and manufacturer hired by the state, and it is a high-ranking person." Tong Le explained succinctly.
In the previous life, plus in this life, Lou Lan didn't know when City B had a master who specialized in cold weapons. However, this does not rule out that her class in her previous life was too low to have access to the high-ranking people.
"That's not right." Lou Lan thought of a suspicious point again and asked, "Now that it's the end of the world, how can there be people who specialize in refining refrigeration weapons, aren't they all trying their best to make the thermal weapon of firearms?" ”
"Smack." Tong Le patted her head lightly, looked at the driver's expression through the rearview mirror, and then said, "It's because of the end of the world that I started refining cold weapons." You think about it, those firearms, except for weapons of mass destruction. Ordinary small pistols. Even sniper rifles, they can only kill one zombie at most with one bullet, and there are thousands of zombies, and bullets can't be consumed at all. But cold weapons are different. When you sweep it over, it's a big piece. And as long as the sharpness is enough. The level of wear and tear will also be much reduced, and a knife will be enough for an average person to use for a month. ”
That's just as well. Lou Lan nodded to show that she understood. After the apocalypse, because a large number of cities were overrun by zombies. Therefore, many of the mechanical manufacturing processes distributed in various cities have basically stopped. City B used to be the capital of country Z, but it was not famous for manufacturing, so there were very few tools that could make firearms.
Now the bullets and guns produced by City B every day can only maintain the daily consumption of the army, and it is impossible to take the initiative to go out to encircle and suppress zombies.
In contrast, the manufacture of cold weapons is much more convenient, as long as there are masters who can be so skilled, plus hundreds of apprentices, some rudimentary props such as melting furnaces, a large number of swords can be produced every day.
Although the quality of these cold weapons has greatly decreased due to mass production, it doesn't matter, the most people in country Z are people, and weapons like swords, as long as they are not broken into powder, they can be rebuilt when they are brought back, and they will be a "good man" after they come out.
Thinking all the way, when Lou Lan came back to her senses, she found that the car had stopped, and Tong Le had even gotten out of the car and was calling her outside.
"It's coming, it's coming." She hurriedly responded. This is not a little distracted, and I don't know if it is the sequelae of mental illness.
As a result, as soon as he got out of the car, Lou Lan was shocked by the building in front of him.
The imaginary tall cold weapons factory or anything else does not exist at all. The building in front of me is a house, and it is considered to be lifting it. It's just a combination of several brick walls, and the top cover is pressed with ordinary tile covers, revealing a "back to basics" ...... A sense of shabby.
"This is where the high-ranking people stay?" Lou Lan pointed to the "thatched house" and didn't believe it, such a dilapidated house, even in the suburbs of City B, is difficult to see, and now it is still preserved in the city center.
"yes." Tong Le didn't look like he was not at ease at all, he walked inside, and it didn't look like he was coming for the first time, and he said as he walked: "This master has a strange temper, he has to build such a house, rare talents, and those people above will allow it." Wait and speak carefully, don't offend him. ”
Helpless, Lou Lan could only follow him in disbelief.
Surprisingly, the layout of the room didn't quite match the dilapidated exterior. Although it is small, there are electric arc furnaces, melting pools, quenching tables, etc., which can be described as "small sparrows".
Tong Le walked in familiarly, shouting as he walked: "Master Lu, Master Lu, are you still there, I am Tong Le." ”
"What are you shouting, my old man is not deaf yet." An old man's voice, although it has a sense of the vicissitudes of time, is full of energy, and the owner who can hear the voice must be in good health.
But after hearing this voice, Lou Lan's expression suddenly became very weird.
At this time, a bamboo curtain suddenly opened on a wall. The light in the room was not strong, and the bamboo curtain had long been blackened by the smoke wafting out day and night and blended with the wall, so the two of them ignored it, and finally watched an old man walk out from behind the bamboo curtain stupidly.
An old man with a gray beard and hair, who looked to be no more than sixty years old, walked vigorously, and when he saw them, his eyes suddenly lit up, as if he had seen something interesting.
Tong Le hurriedly greeted him and said respectfully, "Master Lu, what I want you to help with is her sword." He pointed to Lou Lan behind him.
But the gray-haired old man ignored him, just stared at Lou Lan all the time.
"Grandpa Lu, how could it be you." After a while, Lou Lan spoke helplessly first.
"You know each other?!" Tong Le was startled, his gaze rolling back and forth over them.
That's right, this old man who came out from behind the bamboo curtain is the old man who helped Lou Lan open the rainbow before!
"Hey, hey." Old man Lu laughed and said, "I knew this girl much earlier than you. ”
Children's Music: "......"
He and Lou Lan have basically known each other since they wore open crotch pants, from childhood to adulthood, this old man said that he had known each other for longer than him, that can only be because Lou Lan was familiar with them as soon as he was born, or that this old man knew each other unilaterally.
Looking at Lou Lan, Tong Le found that she was just laughing, and she didn't deny it, thinking that what the old man said was true.
"This kid said that there is a sword for me to repair, it can't be the one you asked me to open last time." Old man Lu suddenly asked straight to the point.
Lou Lan suddenly became even more embarrassed, she didn't dare to hide it and pulled Liuhong out of the space, handed her hands to Old Man Lu, and said in a sincere tone: "Because some accidents have become like this, can you still be saved." ”
For her to take the sword out of thin air, Old Man Lu was just surprised, calmed down very quickly, and then took the flowing rainbow, looked at it carefully for a moment, and said, "This is still a sword?" ”
Seeing that he looked at it so carefully, Lou Lan was still happy in her heart, thinking that she could save it, but this sentence directly beat her to hell.
She barely pulled out a smile, and just wanted to speak, but Tong Le beside her couldn't wait to ask: "How can this not be a sword, look at this line, look at this length, how to see how it is a sword." ”
Old man Lu glanced at him and sneered: "You can only say that it used to be a sword, and now, it is estimated that a firewood knife is more useful than it." ”
In this sentence, the straightforward Tongle wanted to kick him, if it weren't for the face of the elders, he would have started it a long time ago.
"Come on." Lou Lan stopped Tong Le, who still wanted to defend himself, and sighed and said: "You can do it, if you can fix it, you can fix it, you can't rest, that's also the will of God." ”
"Hmph, providence." Old man Lu snorted coldly, didn't look at them, turned his head and lifted the curtain and went to the small hidden room he had just come out of.
'There's a play! Lou Lan immediately gave Tong Le a look. For Old Man Lu, although she has not had much contact, she can still see such an obvious "tsundere" performance.
As for why she knows "tsundere" so well, God knows that everyone knows.
Tong Le was hesitant, and the party comrade Lou Lan said "hehe" to his behavior. (To be continued......)