Chapter 45: I want to know
Rebecca instinctively felt that Cheng Bin had something to say, but on the one hand, she was not good at psychology, and on the other hand, she was not in a good mood now, so she really didn't want to spend time on Cheng Bin, so she simply fell silent and only wiped her hair carefully with Cheng Bin's handkerchief, and it seemed that she was struggling with her hair, and she was not finished wiping it.
Cheng Bin looked at her for a while, got up and walked over, took out a piece wrapped in tin foil from his pocket and handed it to Rebecca, "Eat this." He said.
"I'm not hungry." Rebecca said sullenly. It's not that she's angry, she really doesn't feel hungry now, usually speaking, people who have just vomited can't feel hungry quickly, and the stomach is not so low.
"I'll be hungry soon." Cheng Bin stuffed the things in his hand into Rebecca's hand, and then sat down beside her, looking at the bonfire and not knowing what he was thinking.
Rebecca subconsciously shrank when he sat down, and found that after Cheng Bin was looking at the fire in a daze, she returned to normal, and her eyes fell on the paper bag in her hand.
She pinched the thing in her hand and asked, "What is this?" Rat meat? ”
To be honest, the feel and shape of this thing are similar to the vole jerky that Cheng Bin took out, but Rebecca remembers that those jerky are packed in cigarette boxes, at least in terms of packaging, which is completely different, and usually the individually packaged ones are a little more expensive, so this may not be a vole, maybe a bat?
"Chocolate." Cheng Bin looked at the bonfire, raised the lunch box in his hand, took a sip of water, and said, "I think you need this." ”
Of course, Rebecca knows what chocolate is, and at the same time, she also knows that it is not produced in the wasteland, so at least in the wasteland, pure chocolate is a luxury, and the vast majority of civilians have never heard of it, let alone eat it.
She glanced at Cheng Bin suspiciously, slowly peeled off the packaging of the chocolate, and found that the tin foil had the iconic mark of the royal capital.
She frowned and asked, "Where did this come from?" ”
"Oak Town Special." Cheng Bin said indifferently.
Rebecca gave him a suspicious look and said casually, "Those mercenaries are treated really well. ”
She knew that the pursuers that Cheng Bin killed were mercenaries from Oak Town, so after hearing that it was a special supply from Oak Town, it was logical that she felt that it was found from those mercenaries. So I think Oak Town is really good for mercenaries, you must know that chocolate is not something that can be bought with money, basically from the royal capital to the wasteland, only the cargo airships of the two companies SOD and Woodpecker will communicate regularly, they have too many things to transport, and they will not take out the precious warehouse to transport chocolates.
So to get chocolate in the wasteland, you need not only money, but also channels.
She put the chocolate bar peeled off from the tin foil to her mouth and took a gentle bite, feeling the refreshing sweet fragrance melt from the tip of her tongue, and couldn't help but hum comfortably.
"Don't make strange noises when eating." Cheng Bin looked at the fire and said. Rebecca didn't notice that he hadn't looked at Cheng Bin since he sat next to her, and of course he hadn't moved, and had been in a squatting posture instead of the cross-legged one he often adopted.
"Do you want to eat?" Rebecca didn't swallow the chocolate in her mouth, but let it melt slowly in her mouth, feeling the sweetness to the fullest, a skill she learned from her mother when she ate chocolate as a child.
She handed over the paper bag in her hand and said to Cheng Bin, "Do you want it?" ”
"No, I don't like sweets." Cheng Bin shook his head and said.
He took another sip of water and said slowly, "You like to read?" ”
He asked, "What types of books do you like?" ”
Rebecca took another cautious bite of the chocolate bar and said with some nostalgia: "Read everything, usually, I don't have much choice." ”
She looked sideways at Cheng Bin and said, "I know you know how to read, do you also like to read?" ”
"Not much." Cheng Bin said: "I don't know if I like it or not, in my time, some books must be read, whether you like it or not." ”
Then he turned to look at Rebecca, his gaze sweeping over her wet red lips, not lingering.
He said, "Have you read a history book? Tell me about what happened in the last years of prehistory. ”
Rebecca was stunned for a moment, looked at Cheng Bin and said, "You don't look like a person who likes history." ”
"It's hard to say." Cheng Bin said softly: "You don't seem to be a wanderer. ”
"Okay." Rebecca said, "It looks like we're not here to the standard. ”
She thought for a moment while holding the chocolate bar and said, "At the end of prehistory, there were many countries in the world, and two of them were the most powerful, and one of them was the land under our feet. ”
Cheng Bin snorted, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't speak, listening to Rebecca continue: "At that time, the periodic global economic crisis came, and another big country began to spread the plague all over the world in order to consolidate its position, and the country where we are is has started a war against that big country for peace and justice. ”
"And then?" Cheng Bin was silent for a while, and then asked, "What happened?" ”
"Then the prehistoric era ended." Rebecca said, "The world is destroyed without the victory of good over evil." ”
"You know what?" Cheng Bin said slowly: "I just happened to know another version. ”
He stared at the bonfire in front of him and said, "The plague originally appeared in this land, and the leaders of this country were worried that the plague would be confined to their own land and would create opportunities for other countries to surpass them, so they tried to spread it. ”
"Then the plague swept the whole world, except for another great country," he said. ”
"Why is there another big deal?" Rebecca was astute in pointing out the loophole in Cheng Bin's story, "If another big country is big enough, there's no reason for it to be exceptional, unless it's prepared." ”
"No, no one can be prepared." Cheng Bin said: "It's just because the government of that country is more efficient, and because the people of that country are more disciplined and responsible. Cheng Bin said nostalgically: "So after the initial chaos, they controlled the plague. ”
"But then the plague spread around the world, and all countries were devastated, including the land under our feet, and those politicians could not tolerate decline and united to declare war on another great power."
He let out a long sigh, "You know. He said, "It's the kind of thing that if I'm going to die, you don't want to live happily." ”
Rebecca listened to his words silently, and only said after a while: "It's terrible, how can there be such a person?" ”
"You don't believe it, it's just because status limits your imagination." Cheng Bin said: "What else do you know about the outcome of that war? ”
"I don't know." Rebecca said: "If you want to know, I guess you can only go to the royal capital." It is said that there are scholars there who specialize in prehistoric times. ”
She looked at Cheng Bin curiously and said, "Why do you know this?" If you know this, why do you even ask me? ”
Cheng Bin fell silent, and just after Rebecca thought he wouldn't answer her question, she heard Cheng Bin say, "Of course I know. But what I want to know most is what the final outcome of that war was. ”
He looked up into the distance, his gaze seemingly able to cut through the darkness.
"I wonder how the other big country is doing now."