Chapter Ninety-Nine: Tavern Encounter
Three minutes later, Doudou drove a minivan down the road, singing loudly along the way.
The car was really full of cuteness, and even if Doudou pressed the accelerator all the way, it could only slowly maintain a speed of 80 kilometers per hour. But Doudou isn't in a hurry - as long as she has a vehicle, even if it's just a bicycle, she can get to safety before she runs out of medicine. What's more, only by driving such a car, in this barren land, can she feel that she is not a little girl who has fled, but a happy tourist who has come to enjoy the thousands of miles of Gobi.
The unchanging bleakness of the surrounding scene can no longer hurt Doudou's fragile mind, and the cute and powerful van isolates all negative elements, and Doudou transforms from the role of a resentful woman to the illusion that beneath her ass is a weathered old horse, and that she is a sheriff who battles wits with the outlaw cowboys who have been wanted for years.
The setting is perfect for a Western, with scruffy cowboys and handsome sheriffs, barrels of brandy and prostitutes with white thighs......
and a dilapidated building marked "Sin Town" in front of it.
The town is located on the edge of the second safe zone, stuck right on the side of the fastest road into the safe zone, and on the map, it's the intersection of four roads, a land of right and wrong.
Beanie stopped her kawaii van far away, pulled out a pack of bandages, and began to regain health.
She only needs to walk a few dozen meters further before she completely leaves the range of the poisonous gas, but the town in front of her strongly reveals the evil aura from both the name and the terrain, Doudou did not dare to enter rashly, and decided to fill up the health before making plans - anyway, she was about to enter the safe zone, and she was not stingy with her medicine, and Gollum poured down two bottles of energy drinks to replenish the health and energy together.
Then, with some weakness, she started the car and slowly slid into the safety zone.
The town is small in size, with a dozen houses piled up in a circle around the intersection of four highways—more like a small settlement of pioneers in the West than a small town.
Since it is a settlement, it is natural that cowboys' favorite bar is indispensable, and as soon as Doudou drove over, he immediately saw a dilapidated bar standing at the intersection.
This bar, like the rest of the house, is deadly silent, but the quieter it is, the more scared Doudou becomes, walking on thin ice, she keeps stepping on the accelerator and trying to rush through here in one fell swoop, but at the same time she can't stop complaining in her heart that the sound of the engine is too loud, she is driving on the street, and even the sound of the car can be clearly heard at the end of the street.
Somehow, Doudou suddenly felt a fluster, she felt like a street rat, and a street rat beating gongs and drums and setting off firecrackers.
It was still quiet on both sides, but Doudou's heart was getting more and more anxious - no matter from which point of view, this town should not be without people, but the truth is that in the windows of the black holes on both sides of the road, no one poked their heads out to rush at her.
And what Doudou hopes most now is that someone can shoot a few shots, even if the target is her - in a place where there should be a lively fight, quiet as a wilderness, this potential danger is much more terrifying than bullets.
This terrain is like a canyon that Cao Cao passed by when he defeated Huarong Road, as long as he pointed to the front and hummed a few words "I laugh at Zhuge Liang's resourceless and resourceful ......", a group of people will be killed on the side of the road, and maybe there will be a handsome little brother who will immediately block the front......
"Whatever!" The people and horses lying in ambush on both sides of Doudou's mind were not killed for a long time, and she gradually lost her vigilance. After staying with Duan for a long time, Doudou also had a somewhat casual mentality, and the van drove all the way like Thomas's train, and finally stopped at the door of the tavern.
Doudou poked his head in the car and glanced at it, and was completely sure that there was no one around, so he got out of the car and walked into the tavern.
There is still some time before the next safety zone appears, Doudou doesn't want to watch the car go around on the road, let alone enter the safety zone early and scuffle with people, after all, Sister Zuimeng has already ordered Doudou before going down the mountain, "Be careful when you go down the mountain this time, don't quarrel with others." And Doudou, a little junior sister who has never seen the world, naturally has to obey the eldest sister's words, since there is no one in this evil town, and there is an inn and teahouse on the side of the road, as a chivalrous guest, he naturally has to rest.
In addition to reading those unnutritious comics on weekdays, Doudou occasionally reads a few martial arts novels with Duan Mo, the inn restaurant in the novel is like a portal in modern society, no matter what messy news can be inquired, as long as you spend a few taels of silver, order a pot of Huadiao and two catties of sauce beef, sit from dawn to dark, the affairs of the entire rivers and lakes are well understood, even if the trivial things are as trivial as Qiao's gang leader's wife has a pockmark on her face, she is also in control.
However, what Doudou didn't expect was that what was waiting for her in the tavern was not such a thing as "Qiao's gang leader's wife has pockmarks on her face", but a major event that completely rewrote her fate.
The tavern was empty, the few broken round tables were gone, only the lone shelves were lying on the ground, and the wooden staircase leading to the second floor was rotten like coffin boards that had been buried in the ground for many years, and the slightest touch of it squeaked in pain*. The few windows in the tavern were nailed crookedly by wooden planks, blocking the only source of light, making the entire tavern look like a tomb.
There were still a few dusty bottles of wine on the wine cabinet behind the bar, which could be barely seen, and in front of the wine cabinet, a figure who was out of place with the surrounding atmosphere was trying to wipe a wine glass.
"Miss from afar, what do you need?" The man asked with a smile in the shadows.
Doudou was immediately startled by this voice, she had already subconsciously thought that there were no living people in this town, but she heard someone talking in this tavern that was so dilapidated that homeless people didn't want to live?
She searched for prestige, and in the shadow behind the bar stood a man standing upright, the man was wearing crisp trousers, a pair of new leather shoes that looked like they had just been bought, and the waistcoat on the upper body perfectly outlined the healthy body of an adult man, in addition to a pair of gold-rimmed black-rimmed glasses, shining in the dark.
Doudou was stunned for a moment, and didn't pull out the gun, because the man in front of him - where did she seem to have seen it?
The sunlight poured in through the nailed window, sprinkled on the man's face one by one, and finally illuminated the man's face.
"Brother! Why are you here?! ”
Hua Shixiang was almost hit by Doudou's bear hug, and the smirk on his face that had not changed for thousands of years finally faded at this moment, revealing a real, natural smile.
"I just saw that the status bar showed that you killed two enemies, so I knew you were in the same game as me, and I thought to myself, this is a traffic artery, you probably passed through here, and then I rushed over and cleared the other enemies in the town by the way......"
"No, I mean, why are you in the game world? I remember the day I was pulled into the game, you and Dad went to talk about business! Doudou raised his head, his eyes full of doubt.
"This ghost game doesn't matter if you're talking about business or not, in short, you're inexplicably sucked in." Hua Shixiang looked down at his sister, who was only up to his chest, and touched her head very dotingly.
"So that's ......" Doudou immediately believed Hua Shixiang's words, "Then we met by chance today?" What a coincidence! ”
"yes...... What a coincidence. Hua Shixiang decided to tell a lie - he actually knew about Doudou's existence before he entered the game.
Doudou was so excited that he didn't know what to say, so he could only rub his head into the arms of Hua Shixiang - in this case, when he met his relatives, Doudou really didn't know whether it was good or bad.
Hua Shixiang didn't interrupt this silence, he gently patted Doudou's back, sighed in an inaudible voice, and waited for Doudou's mood to stabilize.
But Doudou didn't know what to think, but began to sobbed softly, "Brother, I think, I want to go home......"
The body of the flower elephant suddenly froze.