Chapter 499: Returning to Hometown (4)
85_85483 "I'm here to beg for food!" ”
"Huh?" The short man's words were an understatement, but they were taken aback by the ears of the survivors.
Especially Wang Qiang, he blurted out: "Are you a beggar? ”
After the words were closed, he felt a pain in his back, and it turned out that his brother Tang Xiaoquan stabbed him with his fingers.
It's just that the short man is used to this, and he didn't show much disgust, and smiled indifferently: "Beggar? Hehe, don't say it so literately, I'll beg for food, if it weren't for begging, I wouldn't be stupid and stuck here! ”
"Stupid don't you chirp? Stuck here? Listening to the short man's slightly complaining words, Tang Xiaoquan and others who didn't understand the situation became more and more inexplicable.
In this regard, Xu Renjie completely saw it, and immediately explained the ins and outs of the whole thing to everyone in detail.
It's just that everyone has come to understand the short man's statement.
But Tang Xiaoquan didn't have the heart to know about the short man's past at the moment, there was only one thing he urgently needed to know, and that was what happened in the town.
After throwing this question out, the short man abruptly stopped what he was doing, then shook his head and sighed, "You ask what happened in the town?" Hehe, as you can see, it was set on fire. ”
"Set fire? Who set the fire? There is no doubt that through the tone between the lines of the short man's words, Tang Xiaoquan concluded that the short man must have known what happened.
The short man raised his hand and pointed to Xu Renjie on the side, and replied casually: "Just like him, he was released as a soldier." ”
"What?" Hearing this, Xu Renjie frowned slightly: "You say...... These were put by soldiers? ”
Regardless of the authenticity of this news, but since the outbreak of the apocalypse, this is the first time in Xu Renjie's military career that he has heard that the army set fire to the town.
Could it be that this town in Tang Xiaoquan's hometown has some ulterior "secrets".
Thinking of this, Xu Renjie continued to ask: "You said that you were released as a soldier." When was that? ”
"When?" The short man scratched his head with his hands: "Estimated 3 months, oh no, 4 months......"
"How many months!?" Lao Xu was obviously in a hurry. The tone of questioning couldn't help but strengthen a little. "This ...... I really don't remember exactly, I put aside my worries every day. I'm worried that the public security will come to arrest me, and I'm afraid that those monsters will eat people, in short, it was a long time ago to burn the town. “
The short man looked bitter, not as if he was faking.
And if it was a long time ago, as the short man said, then this is really a problem.
Because the end of the world broke out, Lao Xu knew that the task assigned by the whole army was to protect the safety of party and government organs and important facilities, and to put it bluntly, it was to maintain stability.
So in such a juncture with the rhythm of "maintaining stability" to burn the town, doesn't that add chaos to the top?
Xu Renjie intuitively thought that it should not be the work of the army. But what the short man said was true, not like a lie.
This made him draw a big question mark in his heart.
"Brother, why are you so sure that they are soldiers?"
"This ...... They're wearing military uniforms, huh? ”
"What kind?" Xu Renjie did not give up.
But it's not a joke to ask a beggar to describe the appearance of the military uniform, so naturally, the short man replied ambiguously after a long time: "It's green, the military uniform worn by the soldiers." ”
There is no doubt that this is nonsense, and the idea of looking for flaws in the outfit had to be abandoned, Xu Renjie turned to ask: "What about the military uniform." What else can prove their identity? ”
Now it's the turn of the short man to understand, in his opinion, isn't wearing a military uniform a soldier. Why do you need other proof?
However, due to the ruthlessness of Lao Xu Shicai, he still replied honestly: "Yes, yes, when they came, they shouted from the loudspeaker that they were from the army, and asked the people in the town to go with them and say what shelter to go." ”
"What! What did you say! ”
Hearing the word shelter, Tang Xiaoquan, who was thinking about it, suddenly seemed to grasp a life-saving straw, and walked to the short man: "Shelter!" You just said shelter? ”
"Well, yes...... Yes. What's wrong? Wei Shi was startled by the young man's proximity for no reason, and the short man directly dropped the backpack in his hand to the ground.
"Where? Where's the shelter? ”
Aggressive posture. Affected by the whereabouts of his parents, Tang Xiaoquan became obviously different from usual.
See this. Hu Xiaodong walked over silently, patted the young man's shoulder, and then said to the short man: "Brother, don't be surprised, Xiao Tang is like this because his parents are from this town, and now it is ...... Well, tell us about the situation. ”
The human heart is made of flesh, and who has no parents?
After understanding the real situation, the short man also sighed lightly with empathy: "Actually, I don't know the specifics, I just arrived in this town not long ago, and I encountered a monster bite incident when it was over, I killed the other party out of self-defense, and I hid in the back mountain when it was over, I can't remember when the troops came, they came quickly, and they burned all the way, I'm it, I vaguely heard what the horn said that there was a shelter in the direction of JZ, and I really don't know the rest." ”
"JZ County!" After silently repeating the direction of the shelter mentioned by the short man, Wang Qiang raised his arm and beat Tang Xiaoquan's chest, who was standing still: "Brother, do you hear, there is a shelter in JZ County, I think my uncle and aunt must have been picked up there by the army." ”
"Yes, judging from the current situation, a shelter that can accommodate survivors of this scale is definitely not weak, hehe, Quanzi, you should relax now, your parents are probably safer than us." Hu Xiaodong was sincerely happy for Tang Xiaoquan.
But after a short period of excitement, Tang Xiaoquan glanced at the short man who was leaning over and squatting on the ground, and then asked noncommittally, "Why didn't you leave?" Why didn't you go with the rescue force? ”
The short man saw the distrust in the other party's eyes, and he looked a little innocent about it: "Who doesn't want to go?" When I was carrying a human life on my back, I was you, I killed someone, and when I saw the army in an unknown situation, would you follow? Besides, as soon as I ask for food, who cares if I live or die! ”
The short man's words were sad to hear, and at the same time, Tang Xiaoquan felt a little guilty: "I'm sorry, brother, I, I just wanted to confirm the authenticity of what you said, after all, this is related to the whereabouts of my parents, please don't take it to heart, I don't mean anything else." ”
At this moment, Tang Xiaoquan had already approved of the short man's story, although he was not sure that his parents were in that team, but at least he had this hope.
"Big brother, since you don't have a place to live, then just go with us, we have a villa in this outskirts!" These are the few words that Wei Dazhuang has said since he traveled.
But after the short man heard his suggestion, he almost didn't want to refuse: "No! I'm used to it here. ”
"Got used to this? Where do you live? ”
"It's on the other side of the hill! We lived in the mountains behind us. Raising his hand and pointing to a mountain forest behind the town with only half of the trees left, the short man replied quickly.
But it was this answer that made Xu Renjie hear that something was wrong. (To be continued).