86_86324The two people walking on the national highway were stunned for a moment when they heard Uncle Wang's words. They didn't look back, they were stunned for a few seconds, and then continued into the darkness.

In less than a minute, the two of them disappeared from my vision and Uncle Wang, as if swallowed by darkness.

I hope they can have a safe journey, looking at the darkness in front of me, I said to myself. These two people aren't too bad, they're just a little neurotic.

Uncle Wang asked me for the Bayi automatic rifle in my hand, and then squatted by the campfire with the gun in my hand, looking through it in my hand.

"How many bullets do you have there?" Uncle Wang took out the magazine of the Bayi automatic rifle and asked me.

"Not much," I said near the fire, "and there's still a box of magazines." ”

It's a lot warmer to have a fire on this winter night. I stretched out my hand to bake the fire and thought, it would be nice if I had a mobile phone, just call Wu Linyu and them over, and Uncle Wang and I don't have to take that cold and dark national highway anymore.

Uncle Wang nodded, he looked at the Bayi rifle in his hand and said, "I have shot this gun once, and the accuracy is very good, if you have more bullets left, I will use it." ”

After saying that, Uncle Wang threw the gun into the bonfire.

"What are you doing here?" Seeing Uncle Wang's behavior, I was surprised, and I wanted to pick up the rifle as I spoke. I said in my heart that even if it was cold, I wouldn't use the gun as firewood. It's not a luxury, but it's a waste. But we don't have any luxury capital to waste.

"It's burned, is there a problem?" Uncle Wang stood up and asked me.

"No," I swallowed, looking at the rifle in the campfire, "we can keep it, why burn it, maybe it will work." ”

After hearing this, Uncle Wang bent down and stretched out his hand towards the fire. I thought it was my words that alerted him and wanted to pick out the rifle. As a result, Uncle Wang's outstretched hand was pinched two cigarettes. He didn't even look at the rifle in the fire, he was just lighting a cigarette with the fire. Maybe he really used his rifle as firewood.

The handguard of the Bayi rifle began to react under the flames, and a puff of smoke rose up, basically helpless.

The two cigarettes in Uncle Wang's hand were lit by the bonfire, and he gave one to me, then picked up the other and put it in his mouth.

I took the cigarette and didn't mean to smoke it. I picked up the cigarette butt and took a few puffs in my mouth to keep it from going out. Uncle Wang took a few puffs of "let's da, da", making the flame end of the cigarette extremely red. He took a few puffs of cigarette and said, "We already have a gun, but we lack bullets, and it is a burden to carry too much of this thing." ”

Uncle Wang pointed to the rifle in the fire and said, "You see, this gun without bullets is actually a pile of wood and iron, if there is no gun, people will be much more peaceful, we have weapons in our hands that can defend ourselves, and if we can break one of them, it is one." ”

"If you want to destroy the world's weapons, it's not easy, I saw a movie before, and it said that if you average all the weapons in the world, there will be a rifle for almost every twelve people." I said coldly to Uncle Wang.

After speaking, Uncle Wang turned his head to look at me, as if he was a little surprised by my answer. I was secretly happy in my heart, Uncle Wang must have been dizzy by the number I listed, so next time I pick up a gun, let's keep it away, breaking a gun will have no effect on the quantity, but it will be a loss to us.

"Why didn't you count Lao Chen when he saw him move the corpse, how many dead people are there in this world?" Uncle Wang took a puff of cigarette and said without looking at me.

I was speechless.

"That's different, it's two different things." In order not to lose momentum, I lowered my head and retorted.

"A lot of things are the same in this world, it depends on how you think about it." Uncle Wang probably didn't want to continue, so he ended the topic with a simple philosophical sentence.

After that, Uncle Wang used his feet to carry away the flammable materials next to the fire, and then used the heels of his leather shoes to make a circle mark next to the campfire, probably to isolate the fire source from the surrounding environment.

"Let's go, my stomach is empty, it's time to go back." Uncle Wang patted me on the shoulder, put the submachine gun on my back and said.

I answered him and checked my surroundings. After the two robes were taken off, they were piled next to the rear wheels of the jeep. I felt that this thing looked unlucky, so I was disgusted, so I took up two robes, crumpled them together, and threw them into the fire.

On the way back, I stared at the moon hanging high in the night sky, thinking about what Uncle Wang had just said. After thinking about it, I couldn't come up with a name. In short, my idea is that although Lao Chen makes me admire, he will never be able to clean up many corpses by himself. In the same way, even if Uncle Wang yearns for peace, the number of guns in the world is beyond his imagination.

Am I thinking a little too negative?

From afar, I saw a glimmer of fire peeking through the window in the darkness. Estimate the distance again, and the place where the fire comes out should be the shed next to the excavator. The thought of being able to eat on the fire in this prefabricated house made me quicken my pace.

Just a few steps after accelerating, Uncle Wang and I were hit by a beam of flashlights.

Subconsciously, I reached out to cover my face, trying to block the bright light from entering my pupils. As soon as the eyes were closed, the light was gone. Wu Linyu's voice sounded in the dark: "I've just come back, I'm ready to go out to find you with my injuries." ”

Listening to the voice, this kid should be on the second floor of the shed. Uncle Wang told him to turn on the flashlight, and we couldn't see anything down there.

The light of the flashlight radiates from the second floor of the prefabricated house, like a spotlight on the stage, and we can find the way ahead. Walking past the excavator and then over a cement pile, Uncle Wang and I returned to the shed. Under Wu Linyu's verbal guidance, the two of us went around to the side of the board house, followed the guò staircase, and walked up to the second floor of the shed.

Walking on the top, this prefabricated house is not as loose as I imagined, but it feels quite sturdy.

"Come here." Wu Linyu turned off the flashlight and said, and then the sound of boots stepping on the board sounded.

Without him to lead the way, I could already see a firelight beating in the innermost room on the second floor, and I could also hear the sound of Duan Ke and Chen Lishan chatting.

"You're all right, I heard a gunshot just now." Wu Linyu stood at the door and turned around to ask the two of us.

I cast my eyes indoors and saw Duan Ke, Chen Lishan, and Zhou Zhihong sitting around a brazier. The brazier was an ordinary metal basin with some combustibles in it.

"All right," I replied, "we've learned a few things, and I'll tell you later." ”

"Did you find those two ghost guys?" When Duan Ke saw me enter the door, he stopped communicating with Chen Lishan and looked up to ask me.

"Of course I did." I said, and put the gun against the wall.

From the range of the firelight, it can be seen that the interior we are in should be an office or something. There are only two wooden tables in a few square meters, and on one table is a computer, and under the computer there are many ballpoint pens and ledgers. The other table was covered with drawings, all of the kind drawn by cartographic tools. There is no title written on the drawing, so I don't know what is drawn. When I see drawings like a non-engineering graduate, I am naturally like an illiterate dictionary.

"And where did they go? Won't come back, right? Duan Ke asked me cross-legged.

"Of course not." I pulled the plastic chair next to the table and sat down, picked up a drawing, looked at it and replied absentmindedly.

I heard the sound of Zhou Zhihong dragging his backpack, he unzipped it and said, "Everyone has arrived, you can eat." ”

Wu Linyu took out a pack of green-packaged compressed biscuits from his backpack, and he asked me while tearing them open: "What do you know, tell me quickly." ”

Uncle Wang was on the other table, picking up the ledgers and looking at them. According to the usual practice, Uncle Wang will definitely not speak, and I can only tell what I have seen and heard. I said bluntly: "The last time we put cold guns in the city, the result is that they, you see, have all been confiscated by us. ”

When I said this, I remembered that since I knew who the person who put the cold gun was, I didn't have to worry about Foreman Li and them. Should we go back to the city once and tell Foreman Li about this, lest they be left in tension with an imaginary enemy all day?

After speaking, I took out the four boxes of magazines and handed them to Wu Linyu, and this bullet could only be used by his gun. Then I told Uncle Wang about the idea.

"No," Uncle Wang said, sitting down on the wooden table, "it's not a bad thing to make them nervous." ”

"Cold guns? Magazine? Sue sù Li foreman? Chen Lishan frowned and wondered, "What are you talking about, why can't I understand it at all?" ”

Duan can almost understand the general situation of this matter from our mouths. So she said to Chen Lishan: "Don't worry, I'll tell you later." ”

Wu Linyu put the four boxes of magazines on the floor and chewed the compressed biscuits, it seemed that he didn't care too much about this matter.

"By the way," I added, "those two men have discussed you, saying they have seen you." ”

"Seen me?" Wu Linyu looked up and asked me.

"yes, I heard from them."

"Where?"

"Of course I don't know, but they seem to have mentioned it, as if they were in some town, and they used you as a rescue team." I struggled to recall.

Wu Linyu chewed the biscuit in his mouth, thought for a while, and then nodded: "I remember, it was the two people I met after I left the army, didn't they still call me to go to the big city with them at that time, but I refused." ”

"Didn't I tell you about it?" Wu Linyu looked at me and said.

"Is there such a thing?" I shrugged my shoulders and said, "I can't remember anyway." ”

"Yes," Zhou Zhihong interjected, "Brother Bing also said that he didn't join them because he thought the city smelled bad." ”

"Yes." Wu Linyu nodded to Zhou Zhihong and said, "I didn't expect them to come out and pretend to be ghosts, I should have taught them a lesson at that time." ”

After filling their stomachs, the six of them gathered around the brazier and chatted. To be exact, it should be five people, because Uncle Wang basically didn't say a few words. I was expecting that Uncle Wang would be able to tell some of the things he had encountered in Vietnam in the dark of night, by this brazier. But Uncle Wang didn't have the idea of telling a story tonight, and our topic didn't go in that direction, we were all discussing what we would encounter when we entered the city tomorrow.

A dreamless night.

The next day, we woke up from the shed. Today is a cloudy day, and the sky overhead is covered with a layer of clouds, and the shadow of the sun is not visible. The wind was bitterly cold, and it was very cold, so we had to put on our down jackets to keep out the cold. I don't know if it snows in the winter.

Long story short, the team packed up their gear and set off on the national highway again.

"G318, Longfeng Dam 3km, Enshi Urban Area M, Grand Canyon 68km." - Blue signs on national highways remind us of the distance we are about to travel.

Finally, at noon, the shadow of the city began to appear in the field of vision. The heavy camouflage backpack weighed me down. When I saw the city, I couldn't help but feel a little excited. I put down my bag, took off my down jacket and coat, lit a cigarette and looked out at the city surrounded by mountains in the distance.

Another city. [This picture was taken by the author in the second year of high school, and an enthusiastic reader reminded me that it was very suitable for this chapter].