The gray sky, dark clouds, and the sunlight passed through a large dark cloud in the shape of a carp, struggling to sprinkle a faint light onto the earth, trying to preserve the last of its dignity before the storm arrived.

Three-level urban area, slum.

On an old street, which is neither wide nor narrow, stands on both sides of the road with all the broken wooden houses, all of which are tattered and loose, as if they had been put together with wooden planks that had been put together from east to west, and they would fall down when they were pushed.

Many of the houses were blackened wood, covered with moss, and had rotten bottoms that looked to be years old.

Nearly all the doors, windows, walls, and roofs of the hut were intact, and a large hole was more or less broken, and passers-by could clearly see the few pieces of furniture on the rudimentary floor, and the dark eyes that hid in the shadows and were wide open with panic.

Three gray figures walked through the deserted streets, and the breeze blew, bringing with them a puff of dust.

The girl in the white mask in the middle tugged at the backpack strap on her chest, and her beautiful eyes quickly glanced through the mask's eyeholes at the thin and sallow little figures huddled in the darkness of the wooden house, and the disturbing peeping-like pupils, swallowed dryly, and involuntarily quickened her pace.

The other two seemed much calmer, only to see that the masked man on the left was calm as water, with steady steps, and the masked woman on the right was also quite calm, looking not strange.

The anxious Xia Xi couldn't help but walk to Xiao Shi's side, and deliberately lowered his voice a few degrees to ask: "Xiao Shi, are you sure the black market is here?" ”

Although Xiao Shi's expression was covered by a mask, Xia Xi saw a hint of impatience from the two brown eyes she revealed, but despite this, she still lowered her voice and replied cooperatively: "This is it, go straight ahead, you can see a small shop, and the boss will take us in." ”

Xia Xi subconsciously asked, "You seem to be familiar with this place, do you come often?"

Xiao Shi rolled his eyes abruptly, didn't answer, didn't pay attention to her, just silently widened the distance between the two.

Xia Xi was a little inexplicable, where did she provoke her?

It is only 300 meters away from the small shop, and it is there in a blink of an eye.

Xia Xi's eyes reflected in surprise as he stared at the shop, and along the way, there were some dilapidated wooden houses as far as his eyes could see, and it was not an exaggeration to call them ruins if they sounded good.

And although the house in front of me is also wooden, it is much better than those houses, first of all, it is complete, there are no holes, and there is no decay. The store is clean and meticulously cleaned, and there is a pot of delicate roses at the door, and a few crystal clear water droplets are parked on the petals, which seems so out of place with the surrounding environment.

What a very poignant comparison! Xia Xi thought to herself, the second-level urban area with inconvenient transportation and the same gray tone of brick and cement houses that she had always disliked was simply one day and one place compared to this slum, and the gap was suffocating.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but think of the figures huddled in the corner, judging by the size, most of them should be children, and adults may have gone out to work, leaving them to guard their dilapidated homes.

She had heard of the poverty of the people in the slums, but she didn't expect the reality to be even more shocking, if she hadn't awakened the ability, maybe she would have huddled in a broken house like these hungry and thin-skinned children, and she didn't have a meal......

Under the apocalypse, the law of the jungle is reflected everywhere, the weak eat the strong, although Xia Xi sympathizes with them, but she can't do anything, don't look at her now, she seems to have money now, but this is all prepared for the corpse tide and beast tide in more than a month.

Although she won't die, she doesn't want Xiao Shi and Mu Ling to die, these two people have been with her the longest, since she has made her clear goals, she is no longer as heartless and defenseless against them as before, and now she is more like testing them, testing whether they are worthy of being her real partner.

After all, under the end of the world, it is still quite lonely to be alone, and everyone else is dead, so what's the fun of living alone......

Xia Xi's eyes darkened, and it was conceivable that once the corpse tide and beast tide broke out, and the city gate was broken, even hunters with special abilities would not be able to retreat with their whole body, let alone these ordinary people who couldn't eat enough and had little strength.

Her own destiny is in her own hands, Xia Xi can only silently bless them in her heart, if one day she has a lot of strength, maybe she will find a way to change all this.

Xiao Shi saw that Xia Xi was unusually silent as soon as he saw this room, his face was depressed, his eyes were shining, and he silently withdrew his gaze, not knowing what he was thinking.

The owner of the commissary was a scrawny old man in a blue overalls, with high cheekbones on both sides, sunken cheeks, dark yellow skin, and a pair of reading glasses with silver wire rims.

As soon as he saw someone coming, he first lifted the frame of his glasses, put down the tea in his hand, and then raised two small eyes full of nasolabial folds at the corners of his eyes to look at the visitor, and his tone was as leisurely as if he was chatting: "The three of them came from afar, and they came to buy things?" ”

"Yes, come and buy Tieguanyin." Xiao Shi took off his mask, revealing a beautiful face, and said lightly.

"Oh, we're not selling it." The old man glanced at Xiao Shi, took a sip of Pu'er tea, and said leisurely.

"If you don't sell it today, you have to sell it, if you don't sell it, I'll smash your shop!" Xiao Shi said with a smile, although it was a threat, but there was no anger in his tone.

Who knows, the old man squirted out a mouthful of tea without any image, hurriedly wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, lifted his reading glasses again, looked at Xiao Shi helplessly and said, "Xiao girl, what you said is not right!" You should have just said, 'Buy Pu'er tea without Tieguanyin'! ”

Xiao Shi pursed his lips, put on his mask, picked up a box of candy from the shelf and played with it, and pretended to be angry and said, "You old man, you obviously recognize me, why do you still pretend?" ”

Wanxiang smiled, stood up, and said as he walked inside: "What are the professional habits......

Xiao Shi quickly stuffed the candy into his pocket, and his eyes motioned for the two to follow.

Wanxiang walked very slowly, looked back at Xia Xi who was wearing a mask, and said faintly: "Xia Yatou didn't say hello when she saw me, alas~Young people now~"

Xiao Shi threw a piece of candy into his mouth, chewed it twice, and said naturally, "She has a brain problem." ”

Hearing the conversation between Wanxiang and Xia Xi, Xia Xi's expression instantly became weird, how did this old man recognize her through the mask? And you look very familiar?

Combined with Xiao Shi's previous reaction, she suddenly had a bold guess in her heart:

Would she and Xiao Shi have been here before? And judging by the familiar tone of this old man, who doesn't seem to be fake, they still seem to be regular customers?

Just as he was thinking, the old man had kindly opened an iron door, revealing the dimly lit staircase inside......

Xiao Shi's chin raised slightly, and he just wanted to leave, but he didn't expect the seemingly ignorant old man to stop in front of her quickly, and spread out a palm, squinting and smiling: "You haven't paid the entrance fee yet!" Also, Xiao girl, you just took away a box of candy from me, don't think that the old man didn't see it clearly because I was short-sighted! ”

"Cut ......" Xiao Shi threw the two banknotes to Wanxiang, and there were words in his mouth, "You old man, everyone is so familiar, you will die if you are free once!" ”

Wanxiang counted the money like a fan of wealth, and his eyes bent into crescent moons: "No more, no less, exactly forty!" Look at what you said, my brother still has to settle accounts, you and I are not relatives, how can we be treated specially! ”

"Forget it! Don't bother with you old man who is about to go to the ground! ”

Xiao Shi said, and walked into the door one step ahead.

Wanxiang stood at the door and watched the three of them leave, shook his head, and muttered to himself: "This girl is still so open-mouthed......"