86_86324 Walking back to the road, Lao Chen and we returned to our respective cars. He lowered back into the trunk of the wagon, made a difficult turn on the not too wide road, and drove behind us. Changan cars are shorter than trucks, and it is very simple to make a U-turn on such a road. Uncle Wang quickly changed the front of the car and followed the truck.

I turned my head to look out the window, and I could see the stars dancing in the trees. I didn't put out the fire when I left, so I guess I didn't burn the forest. But when I think about it again, there is a flat ground next to the pit, there is nothing flammable, and when everything that can be burned in the pit is burned, the fire should be extinguished.

Not long after the drive, the truck driven by Lao Chen stopped again. This time, we should have helped too, and it must have been to his residence. Lao Chen came out of the darkness, knocked on our car window, and motioned for us to get out of the car.

Getting out of the car, I looked around and saw that we were back in town. I searched hard to see the lighted building again, but found nothing. I don't know if the people in the building were asleep, turned off the lights, or if they were obscured by other buildings.

"Come with me." Lao Chen said, and then led us to the sidewalk across the road. Walking onto the sidewalk, I leaned over to the stainless steel railing and looked out. Sure enough, there was a wide river, flowing quietly below me. On the other side of the river, you can still see the shadows of buildings. However, the sidewalk we are on is supposed to be used for citizens to walk, and when we look at the row, we don't see any houses.

Maybe it was because I couldn't see things clearly in the dark, so I couldn't help but ask Lao Chen, "Where do you live?" ”

"Down there, go here." Lao Chen replied, then bypassed a street tree and walked down a staircase. We followed him up the stairs and down the stairs. After a dozen steps of stairs, we stood on a small stone path. The stone path runs along the river, with stone guardrails and some carvings on it, so it seems that this is the real place for walking.

Lao Chen led us to walk by the river for a while, and then I felt something covered above my head. I looked up, and although it was dark and I couldn't see clearly, I could feel that we were under a bridge.

"This is it." Lao Chen turned to us and said.

"Is there a flashlight?" Lao Chen asked again.

"Yes." I replied, then took out my flashlight and handed it to him.

Lao Chen took the flashlight and pressed it in his hand, and when he turned it on, a beam of light immediately lit up in the darkness. He moved the beam to the bottom of the bridge, and we saw that at the corner of the bridge, there was a concrete house.

This small house is covered with tiles and looks quite delicate. Lao Chen motioned for us to follow, and when I got closer, I saw that there was a triangular yellow warning sign printed on the two gray iron doors.

The words written under the sign are: There is a danger of electricity.

It dawned on me that this was not some exquisite cottage by the river, but a transformer room. Lao Chen went over to open the door, but the door was not locked at all. After walking in, I saw through Lao Chen's flashlight that there were several machines wrapped in metal shells, and the shells were painted with gray-white paint.

The machine is full of colorful buttons and operating instruments, which should be circuit transformers. Now that the whole city is out of power, the pile of machines has become scrap metal, which is neither useful nor threatening.

The space in the entire transformer room is still quite large. Lao Chen made full use of the space in the room and set up a floor shop on the ground. But it can be seen that Lao Chen just uses this place as a sleeping place, and there is nothing else on the ground except a sheet and a pillow. During the day, he may be busy digging pits and burying the dead, and then come back here at night and simply sleep, this is his life in the last days.

"If you want to live in the city and you can't smell the stench, you have to sleep here." Lao Chen said.

I took off my backpack and piled it next to the transformer, and he said, "It's a nice place, it's protected from the sun and the rain, and it's not easy to be spotted." ”

"It's better than on the construction site anyway." Zhou Zhihong said.

Lao Chen grabbed his hair and said, "Then you will sleep on the ground, the land here is big, enough." ”

"Okay, thank you, Master Chen." Wu Linyu took off his helmet and said. I don't know why Wu Linyu always likes to wear a helmet.

Sleeping on the ground is already commonplace, as long as you can sleep peacefully, it is enough. But I am still envious of the fact that there are a group of people in this city who are enjoying the light brought by electric lights and the comfort brought by hotbeds.

"There's an electric light in that building just now, what's going on?" I sat down against the transformer and asked him.

Lao Chen turned off the flashlight, and his answer came from the darkness: "There, that's where they live." ”

"Only Zhou officials are allowed to light lamps, and people are not allowed to eat." Zhou Zhihong said angrily, "They can even afford to use electric lights, so we just took some small things in the supermarket, and those people were unhappy, which made us nervous for a day." ”

Wu Linyu yawned and said, "Don't say it, I'll leave tomorrow anyway, it's their business that they have electric lights, I don't have lights, I can live well." ”

Are you living well? I asked myself in my heart.

"Lou Li, what time is it?" Wu Linyu turned his head and asked me again.

I looked up at my watch, the glowing hands of the luminescent hands, letting me know the time in the dark.

"It's past eight." I say.

"Then I'll sleep, sleep well, and only tomorrow will I have the energy to continue walking." Wu Linyu said, then stacked the helmet on the backpack and leaned on the pillow.

Zhou Zhihong tore open a bag of potato chips and asked Wu Linyu, "Aren't you going to eat dinner?" ”

"Those little snacks of yours, I might as well chew on compressed biscuits." Wu Linyu replied, "You can eat it yourself, I won't eat it." ”

I think of snacks and I don't have much of an appetite to speak of. But the aroma of potato chips tempted my taste buds. I had to ask Zhou Zhihong for a few packs of snacks, and I ate a fine light with Duan Ke.

Uncle Wang was not interested in the snacks we were eating. Zhou Zhihong joked that Uncle Wang is old, and his body's digestive function has weakened, so there is no problem if he doesn't eat for two or three days. Uncle Wang smiled and did not answer. He gave us cigarettes and smoked himself in the corner.

"However, if Uncle Wang doesn't smoke for a day, it will be worse than being hungry." Zhou Zhihong continued to add.

Lao Chen didn't talk much since he came in, maybe he usually slept early by himself. Duan Ke put his hand to my ear and whispered a few words to me. I tilted my head and listened carefully, and after listening to it a few times, I understood, and she wanted to go to the bathroom.

"Let's go." I took her hand and said to her.

"Where to go?" Zhou Zhihong couldn't see clearly in the dark, and mistakenly thought that I was calling him.

I gave him a blank look and said, "I didn't call you." ”

"How can you understand this matter between men and women." Wu Linyu muttered with a smile in the dark.

"Stay safe." Zhou Zhihong said another pun to me.

I shook my head helplessly in the dark and said, "What do you want, I'm just going out to the toilet with Duan Ke and I'll be back in a while." ”

"When you say that, I think about it too." Zhou Zhihong said very seriously.

Hearing this, Wu Linyu laughed again in the dark and said, "I said you don't mess around, the two of you finally have a time to be alone." If you want to get on, hold it first, and I'll accompany you later,"

Walking out the door, it was a little scary to get dark outside.

"I can't find the toilet, I'll find you a place where no one is around." Duan Ke and I walked back to the stone path and said to her.

Duan Ke stomped his feet in place, looking anxious. She said, "Isn't there no one here, hurry up, hurry up, you can show me, as long as it's not on the way." ”

When I saw him, I thought it was a little funny, so I climbed over the stone fence and stepped on the muddy ground by the river.

"Then here, don't slip." I laughed, and picked her up from the stone path.

"Go back by yourself and go farther away." Duan Ke looked around and said to me, "But don't be too far away, I'm afraid alone." ”

"Okay, okay, take your time." I replied, and climbed over the stone fence and went back into the stone path.

I walked out more than ten meters at random, then lit a cigarette and enjoyed the vague river scenery in front of me. I didn't take a few puffs before I heard Duan Ke calling my name. I had no choice but to put aside this leisure and elegance and walk back.

"Done?" I saw her come back from the stone fence on her own.

"Or else?" Duan Ke said that when he saw me walking back, he leaned his head into my arms and said to me.

"Okay, it's cold outside, let's go back to sleep." I said, then shook off the cigarette butt, put my arm around her shoulder, and walked back