As soon as he said this, Yu Siqi realized that he seemed to have said the wrong thing. In just a few words, the atmosphere around the old man exuded an unnatural chill like frost.

I saw the old man slowly turn his face to him, and took off his hat with his free right hand.

'OMG'! What a face it was, a few strands of hair stuck to the blood-stained scalp, and a scar that began at the center of his eyebrows and slashed downward divided his face into two areas. There are no eyeballs in the left eye socket, only a silver bullet that penetrates deep into the skull. The mutilated bridge of his nose and torn left cheek revealed that it had been cut off by a sharp weapon, so much so that Yu Siqi could even see thick, fat maggots burrowing through the gaps between his palate and cheeks.

The old man squeezed out a cruel smile, which just caught the maggots that were half-drilled, and splashed a little slurry on his face. But he apparently didn't mind, but put his hat back on, turned back to the front, and said, "Now you know what we've been through." ”

To be honest, Yu Siqi probably already had a certain idea, but he lacked effective clues and information to fill his guess, so he decided to ask the old man to find out what was going on.

"Can you tell me what the hell is going on?"

"You're not afraid of the way I look?" The old man avoided Yu Siqi's question, and instead asked himself: "Isn't my appearance scary enough?" Or are you simply bolder than others? ”

It didn't mean that Siqi explained that he was not afraid, but he was just 'well-informed', and the old man spoke again: "Okay, anyway, things have happened, and I'm not afraid of what you know." Have you read the news? You always know that it rains! ”

"I've seen that, and it's said to have caused a mudslide?" Yu Siqi asked.

"The mudslide is fake, kid... The old man lit another cigarette and said, "I happened to be swimming in the river with my eldest son, and suddenly it rained heavily. We hurried home, and the wind that night was so strong that it almost blew off the tiles of my house. It was very noisy at night, and there were strange and scary sounds everywhere, so that we didn't dare to go out of the house for half a step..."

"Tell me how you got to be like this, and by the way, what happened to the others." Yu Siqi snatched the old man's words and put forward his own opinion.

"I'm really in a hurry, I still have twenty minutes to get to the place, why be so frizzy." The old man shook his head and said, "You ask me how I got into this way, and I tell you that you people in the city made it." Those soldiers in military combat uniforms, with guys in their hands, knocking, slamming doors, and breaking into doors from door to door, and when they see us, they don't speak, they just point a gun at your head. And then I died, I didn't feel anything, everybody was like that. Some people heard the news and fled to the school at night, not knowing if they survived. Anyway, I came back to life the day after I was killed, and I was still able to eat, sleep, and work in the fields. Barry Sr. says that we are cursed by this land, and that it is not a wonderful thing to live in this world as undead. You see, although my heart is still beating and the blood in my veins is still flowing, I can always feel that my body is withering and rotting. This kind of thing that goes against common sense shouldn't happen to ordinary people like us, let alone in Tangjiawan. ”

You mean, you don't know what kind of transformation you've been through. Anyway, you just can't die? Yu Siqi asked in a little surprise.

"Yes, in the true sense of the word, you can't die. My second son asked my wife to cut off his head last night, but in the early hours of this morning he put his head back on his own, and he had to sew a circle around the broken hole with a needle and thread so that it would not fall to the ground. The old man laughed a few times dryly: "My family is not normal after experiencing these things, but fortunately, they didn't make any trouble." ”

"Is that the same for everyone else?" Yu Siqi asked concernedly.

"I don't know, I don't go to town very often, this time I happened to meet you on the way back to buy some seeds." The old man said lightly: "Spring is about to begin, and I have to sow the seeds as soon as possible." ”

"In town?" Yu Siqi subconsciously asked, "There won't be a place similar to the town of the living dead, right?" ”

"The town of the living dead? It's a fitting nickname, but unfortunately it has a more 'orthodox' name, called ——。 The old man smiled and said, "I'm kind of looking forward to what old Barry will look like when he sees someone name his town 'Town of the Living Dead.'" ”

"Is there a lot of people in town?" Yu Siqi asked, "I mean, people like you..."

"There are not many alive, but there are many dead." The old man waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, you are not the first living person to rashly contact us, and we are not some fierce freaks. Everyone is the same as when they were born, what they should do. ”

"Are you just that—" Yu Siqi's brain was a little unable to process so much information for a while, so much so that he didn't even know what to say.

"Yes, though we are dead, we have become not like people, and ghosts are not like ghosts. But we still maintain our humanity, which is the most important thing to live in this world. The old man pointed to the town in front of him and said, "That's it, from here on, you will officially come to the entrance of Tangjiawan." Come, I'll take you to meet old Barry, and there's no knowledge here that old Barry doesn't know. Besides, if you want to walk freely, you still need to ask for his consent. ”

Pick-up trucks roam the narrow and dirty streets, many of which are lined with mutilated buildings, like 'pedestrians' on the streets. Although the 'living dead' were dressed like ordinary people, they could easily distinguish between dead and alive in form and limbs. However, when these 'aborigines' saw Yu Siqi, a living person, they didn't show any surprised expressions on their faces, as if they had seen it no longer strange, which was really strange.

Eventually, the car drove into the compound at the end of the road, where two very old 'living corpses' were playing chess outside the guard at the gate. After they heard the old man's car horn, they didn't raise their heads and said, "Be quiet, you guy who doesn't know the rules."

The buildings in the courtyard had long since collapsed completely, but the owner seemed to like it, as he had built several large canopies among the rubble.

When the car officially stopped in the open space in front of the canopy, a 'fat living corpse' with a scalp cut off came out of it. He happily patted his belly, hunched over the front cover of the car with one hand, and said, "I was still wondering when Shibo would arrive, but you not only came, but also brought a follower!" ”

"He's not my henchman, Barry." The driver, who was known as Shibo, got out of the car and said, "I just happened to meet him on the road, and he said that he was looking for something here, and I thought it was quite interesting, so I brought him here." ”

"Looking for something in the 'Dead Man's Pile'?" Barry raised his head and asked, "If I hadn't known that you don't like jokes, I'd have doubted that I had misheard." ”

"You heard me right, I was exactly what he said." Yu Siqi got out of the car, stood in front of Barry and said, "I hope you won't mind too much." ”

"Mind that? Why should I mind, in this 'land of freedom' you can do whatever you want, as long as it doesn't get in the way of others. Barry turned to Sebo and said, "I'll take you to load the seeds into the cart first, Sebo, don't miss the farming time because of small talk!" ”

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