1. A weak teenager
The most fantastic scenery in the world is the morning sun and the sunset. One is full of hope at the beginning of life, and the other is the afterglow of regretting the fading sun. Both of these things, birth and death, are full of pleasing beauty.
"Li Xuan, don't forget what day it is."
With the creak of the wooden door, the tired boy was awakened. The women were dressed in thin clothes and held dripping clothes in their hands. That's her job in Longyin Village.
"Got it." Li Xuan rubbed her fluffy and messy hair, but her body shrunk tighter in the quilt, this year seems to be colder than last year.
As if smelling the smell that was difficult to dissipate in the closed room, Xuan Ruobing looked at Li Xuan, who was curled up in the quilt, and couldn't help but tremble slightly, "Hurry up, you still have to line up early." ”
The crying voice that was suppressed with all his strength seemed a little trembling.
Li Xuan sighed when she heard this, patted her forehead, and seemed to have evoked bad memories of her mother again.
Today is March 15th. The fifteenth day of each month is the day when the village chief distributes grain. As a resident of Longyin Village, and since Li Xuan's father Li Cong's disappearance eight years ago, Li Xuan, who is only ten years old, has taken on the responsibility of receiving food.
And his nightmare began that year.
Li Xuan shook his head slightly, early in the morning, he didn't want to be affected by this bad past to affect the good mood of the day. With lightning speed, after the rapid grooming, I didn't forget to put on a thick wrap. The quilts that were stacked almost all over the room were stacked, and the cold wind blowing in his face opened the only window on the side of the wall.
I blamed myself for not ventilating after the all-night workout last night, which caused the sweat smell in the house to be unable to vent. even made his mother, after realizing it, began to secretly hurt again.
"I must find my father!" Looking at the topless children playing outside the window, Li Xuan clenched his fists.
He didn't understand why he was the only one in the entire Longyin Village who was afraid of the cold.
Longyin Village is located in the North Pole. It is the second coldest place on the whole earth, and compared to the severity of the South Pole, it seems that only the North Pole can make Li Xuan survive here.
Since the mechanical crisis hundreds of years ago, humanity has begun to die out in a large way, and in order to escape the increasingly powerful mechanical beasts, and even to this day, the survivors have gathered at the poles of the earth. The severe cold can greatly reduce the activity intensity of the automatons. But it's also so grim that people can't survive. But in a way, human beings are indomitable and powerful creatures.
Li Xuan stared blankly at the temperatureless sun in the sky, but what caught his eye even more was the black sphere next to the sun. It seems to be where all the great powers of the earth are gathered, and their so-called supplies are sent down from the unknown sphere.
And this so-called supply is the fundamental reason why human survivors can be naked in this cold environment.
And he began to develop "resistance" to the so-called supplies in the second year of his father's disappearance, and even felt cold year by year.
Li Xuan clenched his fists, although he was locked up at home and training day and night, it seemed that he had not been improved at all. If it goes on like this, how did you get out of the village gate of Longyin Village. But it seems that if you don't find your father, you won't get an answer.
"I'm leaving!"
Li Xuan tidied up his clothes and tried his best to look full of energy, but looking at his mother who was washing piles of clothes in the hall, the smell of sweat that could be smelled through the air couldn't help but make him nauseous, and he wanted to say something, but his heart couldn't help but tremble slightly, yes, Longyin Village doesn't raise idlers.
"Remember to visit your father." Xuan Ruobing washed her clothes by herself, today's task is not light.
When a person has been missing for seven years, he is considered dead by default. This is the old rule of Longyin Village.
"There are not many strange things, there are many strange things, eighteen-year-old Li Xuan is still running ...... in the village"
seemed to be waiting for Li Xuan's probe, and this nursery rhyme full of banter pierced Li Xuan's ears clearly. The fat black boy standing at the entrance of the alley on the side was obviously only thirteen years old, but he was already stronger than him. The wall behind him poked out a few immature heads, full of fear.
Obviously, compared to them, the black fat boy is much bolder.
Xuan Ruobing washed her dirty clothes by herself, and the tears in the corners of her eyes inadvertently disappeared next to her cheeks buried by her long hair. Compared to the men of other people's families working day and night, this is the only thing she can do for Longyin Village, and the only way to get supplies.
Li Xuan glanced at her working mother, her eyes sank, she gently closed the door, and pursed her lips, full of powerlessness and sadness.
I vaguely remember my own resistance when the nursery rhyme first came out, recalled the scene when I was pressed to the ground and beaten by young children, and recalled the village chief's complicated eyes telling them not to bully the weak.
"Damn!" Li Xuan clenched his fists, turned around and left. He wanted to teach them a hard lesson, but whenever he thought of his mother's sad eyes......
"Hey, Li Xuan!"
The crisp and pleasant voice in front of him pulled back Li Xuan's thoughts, and he seemed to hold back a smile and look up like a reflex. The fat black boy who was originally going to catch up and humiliate himself saw the person who came, so he had to retreat in a sneer, he couldn't afford to provoke the two people who came.
Clean and refreshing single ponytail, tight clothes highlight the graceful figure, the perfect image of an eighteen-year-old girl, the medicine box clamped next to her, with the white complexion, it looks even more sacred and solemn, and Li Xuan's eyes are straight when he looks at him. Compared with the young man on the side, he also looks burly and strong, holding a rope stick under his powerful arms, and his honest face can't see the slightest temperature.
"Xue Meng, Yu Xia." Li Xuan waved his hand. Xue Meng and Yu Xia are Li Xuan's youngest at the same age, and they are also his only friends in Longyin Village now.
"What do you want?"
"Today is our first day as a member of the foraging team, going out to collect supplies." Xue Meng's tone was full of excitement.
Looking at their clothes, Li Xuan immediately understood that this subconscious inquiry was undoubtedly just to find guilt for himself again.
The supplies were randomly distributed from the sphere in the sky, and the lights flashing in the sky at this moment were the flying machines that distributed the supplies. Although it settles in the cold Arctic, there is also the threat of automatons, and each village also has a special power grid barrier to defend it.
Foraging squads are the people in the village who risk their lives to go out in search of supplies.
The villages of the survivors are scattered and in danger. In the face of the challenge of survival, it is natural that there will be some open and secret battles.
Looking at Li Xuan's gloomy expression, Xue Meng seemed to remember something, and said, "I'm sorry!" ”
"It's fine!" Li Xuan snorted, "It's been dead for so long, don't care." ”
Li Cong disappeared eight years ago as a member of the foraging team.
"Aunt Bing, my mother said to clean up my clothes and change my clothes to help you!" Seeing that the topic of the two gradually became dull, Yu Xia shouted coldly at Li Xuan's house.
"We have to go to the village entrance to gather, let's go first!" I don't know if I was telling Li Xuan, or if I deliberately didn't wait for Xuan Ruobing to open her mouth and refused, Yu Xia glanced at Xue Meng and signaled to leave.
"......"
Xue Meng, who was about to refuse, saw the figure gradually emerging behind Li Xuan, his face changed slightly, and he pursed his lips, "Then today's supplies from the ghost mother-in-law, I will trouble you to collect it alone." ”
"Oh!" Li Xuanmu nodded, the two of them seemed to be a little abnormal today.
Looking at the figure of the two walking side by side, Li Xuan gritted his teeth, once upon a time, it was obviously three people. Today's Xue Meng seems to be half a head taller than him, and Xu Xia is not the cowardly and inferior teenager, he is in charge. It seems that there is only himself, still staying in place, no, to be exact, he should be abandoned by this world.
Thinking of this, Li Xuan shook his head slightly, damn it, now is not the time to think about this, compared to giving Gu Ying self-pity, it is time for him to report the results of his training to the ghost mother-in-law, after all, it is the person who gave him a rebirth.
"Yo, isn't this the former village chief and young master?" Just as Li Xuan turned his head and was about to go to the end of the village, he was coincidentally pounced on by this yin and yang monster.
"Liu Yin!" Li Xuan frowned, looked at the young man with sword eyebrows and small eyes in front of him, and clenched his fists, this Liu Yin seems to still hate the bullying he treated him when he was a child, almost every time they meet, they have to be cynical, if it weren't for the help of Yu Xia and others, I'm afraid things wouldn't be as simple as cynicism.
"Alright, Liu Yin." Compared with Liu Yin's gloom, the young man on the side seemed to have a slight scholarly atmosphere, giving people a clean and comfortable feeling, but Li Xuan didn't think so. He always felt that there was an indescribable anger in the eyes of Liu Changchun, who was full of scholarly atmosphere.
Since the disappearance of the previous village head, Li Congzero, the young man Liu Changchun, who spoke later, is the son of the current village head, Liu Changqiu. This is also the reason why Liu Yin will scold him so much.
Since Liu Changchun had spoken, Liu Yin couldn't continue to make trouble, so he playfully raised his middle finger at Li Xuan and bypassed him.
Looking at the departing people, Li Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, and then pursed his lips, once upon a time, the little brother behind him was also as much behind Liu Changchun as he is now, and he also spoke and acted like him, which also made many people fall into the trough because of themselves.
This may also be retribution. Li Xuan thought so, at least he could make his heart feel more relaxed.
At the moment when Liu Changchun appeared, he also understood the reason why Xue Meng and the others were in a hurry to leave. Liu Changchun has admired Xue Meng since he was a child, Yu Xia is strong, Liu Changchun does not dare to provoke easily, if he sees himself so intimate with her, I am afraid that he will inevitably find trouble for himself.
"It's already like this, are you still causing trouble for others?" Li Xuan smiled self-deprecatingly, then took a deep breath and ran towards the ghost mother-in-law's house at the end of the village, the ghost mother-in-law who gave herself new hope, I don't know if the gift she promised to herself was ready.