Chapter 37: Return to Normal Life
Three days later.
Checkpoint off-site transit center.
A bus full of members had just left the bus stop, and another bus next to it was making final preparations before departure, and the station was crowded with people, but not many people seemed to be in a hurry to get on the bus.
The attendant waved his hand to the side, and the ragged young man who was close to the bus hesitated again and again before slowly getting on the bus.
Su Yi knew very well what these people were thinking, most of these survivors were citizens of the original C City, just like her, and once they left the original city, they would become confused, and it was normal for them to find a place to go for a while.
During those days in the examination center, the days were extremely cold, and in addition to eating the food delivered to me regularly, I just sat in a daze. It's not uncommon for people to be killed because of infection, but no one cares.
After successfully passing the inspection, the world seems to have changed dramatically in an instant.
Before entering the transit center, there is a long aisle lined with volunteers in red vests, who set up stalls on both sides like roadside vendors, with all kinds of food on offer, all for free, of course.
At the end of the day, there will be someone to provide cash, although it is not a lot, but it is enough to cover your food expenses for a few days.
Those survivors who have experienced City C have changed from expressionless indifference to bowing and thanking, as if none of the previous killings had happened, and it is completely impossible to connect them with the dead and alive who would have fought for a piece of bread before.
Ma Rui couldn't help but sigh, sure enough, only when they are protected, people will take into account the feelings of others, and desperate situations will only expose the worst side of human beings.
"What do we say. Will you go up next one? Feng Yibo looked at the bus in front of him, although people were getting on the bus intermittently, it was almost full.
"Let's get the next one, then." Qin Kai stood in place and kicked the concrete floor with his toes.
"After I get out of here, I'm going to find a phone booth and make a call home, because they think I'm dead." Ma Rui joked, but it sounded incredibly true.
After a few horns, the engine began to sound louder, and then the bus slowly drove out.
Then the bus, which had already been lined up for a long time, drove forward for some distance and stopped again in front of everyone's eyes.
Feng Yibo looked at the few people next to him, and then hesitantly took a step forward.
"Dididi!" The horn of the car sounded from the back of the bus, and the people around them cast their eyes.
I saw a business car appear in everyone's sight, and at a closer glance, it was still a Toyota Alpha, and the characteristic of the business car was the bloated shape.
If you don't look closely, you can't see the difference between this million-level car and an ordinary minivan.
Moreover, it is unlikely that anyone in an ordinary person's family will buy such a car. Coupled with the current environment, the identity of the person sitting in the car at this moment must be extraordinary.
The van eventually bypassed the bus and stopped in front of the crowd.
Immediately after that, the rear door was pushed open, and a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes came down, and the middle-aged man also wore a pair of sunglasses and a little gray hair on his sideburns.
She was followed by a woman wearing a pink dress, a rabbit-shaped satchel around her waist, and a fashionable straw hat embroidered with sunshade on her head.
Everyone looked at them, but they were only attracted by the movement, and after a cursory glance, they quickly returned to their previous state.
However, Ma Rui stared at it for a long time, and the expression on his face gradually changed from unintentional to confused, and finally began to smile.
"Ye Yao!" Sue shouted first.
Ye Yao trotted towards them in the crowd, beckoning, and the pink skirt was also shaking irregularly.
"I bet the guy next to me is her dad." Qin Kai whispered beside Ma Rui.
"I don't need you to say it, I know it." Ma Rui tilted his head towards Qin Kai.
Ye Yao trotted forward all the way and hugged Su Yi, who was the first to come into contact, and then came to Ma Rui's side.
When Ma Rui was still hesitating whether to choose the meeting ceremony of shaking hands or hugging, Ye Yao took the lead in hugging Ma Rui, and then quickly moved away and said to the middle-aged man behind him:
"Dad, that's them."
When the middle-aged man heard this, he put away his sunglasses and inserted them into his breast pocket, then suddenly bent down and bowed to a few people at ninety degrees, and then spoke:
"I really don't know how to thank you, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't have seen my precious daughter."
Seeing the other party bowing like this, several people also shrank for a while, and Ma Rui hurriedly took over and said, "You don't need to say anything thanks, after all, we are all friends." ”
As he spoke, he also glanced at Ye Yao, and the other party looked very happy, always smiling.
Before he could say a word, another person came down from the passenger seat of the commercial car, also wearing a straight suit, a pair of black sunglasses, and a bullet hairstyle, which gave people a very capable feeling at first glance.
He walked up to the middle-aged man, put it in his ear and said a few words, the middle-aged man frowned slightly, and then waved his hand, signaling him to step back first. Then he put on a smiling face and said to Ma Rui and the others:
"I have some things to deal with here, and I'm really sorry that I can't stay here longer, but I have asked Ye Yao to arrange your next trip, please be sure to give me someone Ye a face." The middle-aged man looked at Ye Yao again as he spoke, and his expression suddenly became serious: "You have to entertain them well." ”
After saying that, he immediately smiled again.
"Knowing Dad, you can go and get busy first." Ye Yao pushed his back. The middle-aged man took a few steps forward, and in retrospect, he turned around and bowed to everyone again, and the others also bent down when they saw this.
"If you don't say how you are the mayor, if you look at the quality of others, it obviously feels different." Feng Yibo couldn't help but say.
"Looks like we're going to go with you next?" Ma Rui looked at Ye Yao and said.
Ye Yao always kept a smile, then nodded, and then another business car appeared in front of everyone.
Several people glanced at each other, and then followed Ye Yao into the car.
"It's good that we just waited at the station for a while and didn't get on the bus, otherwise we would have missed out on something good." Qin Kai said after getting in the car and sitting down.
"Don't worry." Ye Yao said playfully: "Even if you leave by bus, I will arrest you one by one." ”
"By the way, where are you taking us?" Feng Yibo asked.
"Of course, I'm going to take you to eat, drink and have fun."
"Huh? It's just a good way to escape death, right? I'm still thinking about going home and reporting first, but I haven't been in touch with my family so far. Feng Yibo also said Ma Rui's heart, this is the first time he has homesick thoughts when he goes out.
"This is easy to do, when you get to the place, you can call back first, if you are in a hurry, you can also call now." Ye Yao said as she took out her mobile phone from her satchel.
"It's better to forget it first, it's not too late to rush for a while, and it's not too late to fight when you get to the place." Marry pretended to be nonchalant and swept his gaze away from Sue's face on the left.
Although she didn't show any abnormality, she must have felt very uncomfortable when she heard them mention her family, Ma Rui thought to herself.
And in such a situation, if she said something comforting, it would attract the attention of others, which would make her seem more and more uncomfortable, and it would be better to say nothing at all.
After about half an hour, the car stopped after passing the corner of an intersection.
Through the car window, I have seen a three-story villa, which also has a circle of walls, and the double-open large iron gate at the wall is not completely closed, and you can clearly see the situation inside through the large iron gate.
It is quite similar to the place where Xiao Ke lives, but it is not as large as him, but the layout is more dignified and exquisite, especially the hierarchy between the floors, which looks like a small castle.
After getting off the bus, Ma Rui found a man in a suit with gray hair standing at the door, and two middle-aged women dressed as maids stood next to the man. Seeing everyone getting out of the car, the man immediately smiled and bowed, and the maid next to him made the same action.
This immediately reminded Ma Rui of the appearance of a rich housekeeper in the TV series.
Sure enough, Ye Yao began to introduce.
"This is Steward Mei, if you need anything during your stay, just look for him." When Ye Yao introduced on the side, Steward Mei was half-hunched from beginning to end, and he didn't stand up straight until Ye Yao finished speaking.
"As Miss said, if you have any needs, please do not hesitate." Steward Mei copied a standard Mandarin and said in a straight voice.
The few people who watched this formation were also stunned, and they didn't know what to say for a while, so they could only nod stupidly.
Then Steward Mei led everyone into the villa.
While everyone was walking into the house, Ye Yao tugged Ma Rui's arm, and the moment the two made eye contact, Ye Yao gave him a look.
Marley quickly broke away from the crowd.
Qin Kai, who was walking behind Ma Rui, noticed the actions of the two, but without thinking about it, he followed the person in front of him and walked in.
"What? Looking for me? After breaking away from the crowd, Marry asked.
"It's Sue, what's the situation now?" Ye Yao also looked inside the big iron gate as he spoke.
"What's going on?"
"It's the situation at her family, we all know very well, what will she do in the future?"
"I asked before coming here again, she doesn't seem to have any familiar relatives, she doesn't seem to have any plans, I asked her to come home with me first." Ma Rui spread his hands.
"Coming back with you? So what happens after that? ”
"I didn't think about it either, who knows, I can only take one step at a time."
"Or..."