CHAPTER XXIII

"So you're the only one left in this family area?"

The fat man and the son-in-law of the Li family stood on the balcony on the third floor, watching the smoke coming out of their mouths, and looking at the lights of thousands of homes in Wenhao City at the edge of the city. Zhou Han's confused eyes seemed to be already worrying, what kind of emergencies they would deal with tomorrow.

"Originally, there was still a family, but the day before yesterday, all their families were killed." Sima Yan extinguished the cigarette in his hand, looked at the self-built houses of different heights around him, every family with a surname has contributed to the development of Wenhao City, but now the sudden decline makes him feel very uncomfortable every time he stands here.

"How is Andong City doing now?" Zhou Han took off his shirt, revealing two pectoral muscles that had been exercised for a long time, and the summer nights were always hot and irritable.

"Andong City has been razed to the ground by bombs." The fat man never thought that Mayor Xu Xiong's decision did not play any role. It's said to be 'razed to the ground', but the people out of control and the buildings are still just there and falling. In the face of Wenhao City, which was also indirectly harmed by the residents of Andong City, the fat man didn't have much to say.

"Wenhao City doesn't know when the power will be out, and this summer may not be too easy." Zhou Han had no choice but to change the topic, and there was no blame in the conversation between men.

"That'...... Are you not leaving because of the old man and the child? ”

"That's the reason for most of it." Sima Yan replied: "Dad, although he is healthy, after all, he is an old man and is not suitable for long-term movement. Those of us who are younger generations can't leave the old people alone, right? ”

Sima Yan's joking tone made their conversation a lot easier.

The whole family of the Li family is on the second floor, so it is convenient to provide timely support in case of emergencies, so they vacate the third floor and the first floor and squeeze into the same floor to eat and live.

The night darkened the room, and only the thin moonlit curtains poured in. She rolled over and looked at the ceiling shrouded in darkness. The originally quiet room sounded the deafening snoring of the fat man, and Liu Xin gradually lost any sleepiness.

At the stairs on the first floor, Sun Zichu opened the locked door. I saw that on the bed in the room, which was almost a meter above the ground, a person was lying on it and moving slowly. The white mosquito nets were already stained with blood, and they solidified and turned black. Sun Zichu looked at the warm yellow-red lamp on the head of the bed, and was about to reach over and close the face of the person who was thrown out of the mosquito net and fell to the ground in fright. The door that was originally closed by Sun Zichu suddenly opened, and he turned his head on the ground to look at the back of his bulging belly.

"How do you know?"

I saw that the man hurriedly walked into the room and locked it, squatting on the ground with great effort to pull Sun Zichu up.

"Li Xiaoman?" Sun Zichu couldn't believe his ears, and Li Xiaoman's tone didn't carry any blame at all. With curious eyes, he looked at Sun Zichu's next move.

In the dimly lit room, the person on the bed was constantly writhing, and it seemed that something was stuffed in his mouth and could not make any sound. There has always been a very strange smell in the room, as if it was hiding something. The two looked at each other and exchanged glances in the dim light, as if they were exchanging information. But Li Xiaoman seems to be a smart person, and she can see the purpose of her grandson Chu entering this room.

"This smells like bamboo charcoal, right?" Sun Zi Chu's eyes instantly had a creepy sharpness, and his wise eyes were extremely shrewd. seems to be seen through by the woman in front of him, and he has no need to pretend.

"If we didn't use bamboo charcoal to cover the corpse stench, I'm afraid this house would have been uninhabitable for a long time." Li Xiaoman sat on the edge of the bed, and saw that the person tied up on the bed was still moving violently, she patted the person on the bed and said, "Are you studying medicine?" ”

Sun Zichu looked at the neatly arranged furniture in the room, without a little breath of life. The photo of Li Gushan and a strange woman on the bedside table made him confirm the conjecture in his heart.

"I used this last time to reduce the smell of corpses." After speaking, Sun Tzu Chu opened the white mosquito net.

I saw a woman with little gray hair left on her head, her body tied to the bed in a big figure, and her mouth was stuffed with clothes. The bare gums clenched tightly to the clothes, and the teeth seemed to have been artificially treated and became incapable of biting. Sun Zichu looked at it carefully, and saw that the woman's eyes were white, and she lost her vision without her pupils. The sensitive nose sniffed back and forth in the direction of the food, constantly squirming to break free from the restraints of his hands and feet.

"Do you want to use her to deal with the bully who came out this afternoon to collect protection money?" Li Xiaoman stood up, unable to look directly at the woman on the bed and said, "I also mentioned this to my sister at the beginning, but she vetoed it. ”

Speaking of this, Li Xiaoman couldn't help but recall the conversation with Li Fu a few days ago. The family motto of the Li family has been passed down from generation to generation, which has created their character of 'good old man'. This made Li Xiaoman, who did not want to submit to the rule of the bad guys, unable to endure such oppression. Whether it is the payment of protection money after the riot or the power of the former family, it is impossible to get rid of the fact that they can't do anything harmful. The woman on the bed was none other than Xu Jin, the mother of their Li sisters and Li Gushan's wife.

In order to prevent her mother from breaking free and biting, they had to let Sima Yan and Zhou Han pull out her teeth. But unexpectedly, the person who was bitten grew at a different rate than ordinary people, so they had to extract her teeth every two days. ”

"Why didn't you kill her?" Sun Zi Chu looked at Li Xiaoman, his eyes were full of hatred, and he stroked the unborn child in his belly.

"But my father wouldn't." Li Xiaoman said, sat on the edge of the bed and began to untie the ropes that bound Xu Jin's limbs and said: "He thinks that since my mother is not dead, there is still a trace of humanity. ”

As soon as the words fell, Xu Jin suddenly sat up as the rope was untied, and was about to pounce on the two of them when he was pressed on the bed by Li Xiaoman. The slender nails scratched the quilt on the bed like a kitten, and Xu Jin, who had lost the look he should have, wanted to get up from the bed like a hungry wolf.

"Your decision doesn't necessarily work." Li Xiaoman squeezed Xu Jin's hands stiffly, not at all like the submissive woman that Sun Zi Chu saw in the afternoon. "My mother's strength is not as strong as the runaway you have encountered, you can see this thin hand, right?"

"If you don't try, how do you know she can't?"

Sun Zichu has no confidence in Li Xiaoman's mother, but out of fear, maybe there is nothing wrong with taking a gamble. Thinking like this, the two worked together to tie Xu Jin's hands behind their backs, and under the leadership of Li Xiaoman, the two walked out of the Li family's compound and walked on the street.

Under the warm yellow street lamp, the figures of the three people looked a little weak. A figure suddenly appeared on the quiet and empty street, and Li Xiaoman was stunned for a second before he realized that this figure was very familiar.

"Xu Yue?"

Only then did Sun Zichu see Xu Yue's appearance clearly, and a childlike smile appeared on his originally serious face, which even made people feel that there was an unknown face under this simple smile. It seems that there is no need for Li Xiaoman to introduce it, this Xu Yue is her cousin, the taciturn Xu Yingsong's younger brother.

"Why are you still on the street so late?" Li Xiaoman didn't seem to be surprised, and he didn't have a taboo at all, Xu Yue would mind that they were now tied to Xu Jin.

Xu Yue looked at Xu Jin and said, "Do you really plan to send your aunt to Scar Zhang without telling your uncle?" ”

"If this is done, that Scar Zhang will no longer disturb the peace of our Li family. You don't want to worry about protection money every day, do you? "Although Wenhao City has fallen for less than a week, the people in the city who selfishly want to survive have already gradually turned into bad people, burning and killing robbers. Scar opened his mouth to say protection, but he only relied on his own power to suppress it, and it would not stop other thugs from breaking into the house and robbing it.

Xu Yue nodded, and seemed to acquiesce to Li Xiaoman's cousin's approach. Walk behind them, wary of the runaways around you.

Arriving at the scarred temporary shelter across the street, Li Xiaoman walked to the door and gently tapped on the door. It didn't take long for a soft call to be heard inside: "Who? ”

"I, Li Xiaoman. I'm here to give you protection money, and I hope you don't blame us. ”

"Big brother, they came over to apologize."

I only heard the clear laughter of the scar man inside, and the two little minions opened the door, and what came into view was Xu Jin, who had already been untied. Xu Jin looked at the smell of human flesh that rushed into his nose, and his thin body jumped and instantly threw a man at the door to the ground. The newly erupted new teeth struggled to bite the man's neck, and the major arteries instantly dyed Xu Jin's face red. Seeing this, Xu Yue let out a loud shout and pulled Li Xiaoman to jog not far away. I saw the surging 'crowd' that came from the sound, and the screams gradually made this quiet night lively.