Chapter 2: The Story of the Campfire
In the leeward corner of the hillside, a bonfire was burning, and a whole wolf was on the bonfire, and the wolf oil dripped on the bonfire below from time to time to make a crackling sound, and the smell of meat wafted in the air.
Seven people sat around the bonfire and waited quietly, only Luo Zhigang stood up from time to time, took out salt, black pepper, cumin, and chili noodles from the small bag in his hand from time to time and sprinkled them on the wolf meat.
"Brother Luo, you are so professional in barbecue!" Li Xiaofei looked at the wolf meat in front of him and swallowed his saliva and said.
Luo Zhigang patted the spice foam on his hands, then slowly sat down and said, "You, Brother Luo, I, were originally a chef, but fate made people take a few of them around." ”
With the beating of the flames, Luo Zhigang slowly told his story.
Before the outbreak of the virus, I opened a beef noodle restaurant in the county seat, because of the sincerity and the use of materials, the business of the restaurant was also smooth, and I also married a beautiful girl in her 20s in the provincial town as the proprietress of the hotel. After the outbreak of the virus, I was usually as strong as an ox and I collapsed, others were either cured or died in 3 to 7 days, and I was in a coma for more than 10 days and did not get better, and my breath became weaker and weaker.
On the twelfth day, my mother-in-law conspired with the hotel's front office manager to bury me unconscious, and when I woke up, I found myself in a coffin, and in my excitement, I awakened and crawled out of the grave by myself. When I got home, I found two people rolling on the bed, and I was angry......
"You killed both of them?" Xiaofei interjected curiously.
"Nope." Luo Zhigang got up and flipped the wolf meat again, and continued: "I just discounted the leg of my front office manager, and then let the two of them roll. After such a fuss, the chef and waiter died and scattered, and the restaurant couldn't go on, and in the end, only Yan Jie was left with me and refused to leave. Luo Zhigang said and patted the shoulder of the young man who had frequently shot fireballs in the battle just now.
The young man smiled shyly, his swarthy face showing white teeth.
Luo Zhigang continued to talk to himself.
After the nuclear war, my noodle shop took in more than 100 people because of some food stock, and as a result, several of them died due to infighting due to uneven distribution. I've died once, what are you afraid of, go to him for a ball, I burned down the whole restaurant in a fit of anger, and then took Yan Jie around blindly.
As a result, on the way around, I met two argali, which fought to the death for courtship, these two sheep were obviously different from other sheep, jumped up a few feet high, and the two horns collided together like thunder, and finally when the two sheep were defeated, I caught both sheep and ate meat, and found two crystal nuclei in the sheep's head. Luo Zhigang said and suddenly stopped and looked at Chi Hua, "I don't know what you call that mysterious little thing, anyway, I call it the crystal nucleus." ”
"Crystal nucleus? Energy blocks? Chi Hua pondered repeatedly, "Well, it's good, it's appropriate!" ”
Luo Zhigang then continued, "How else to say that fate makes people, I mistook it for something like Yang Bao at the time, but I ended up eating one with Yan Jie, and it turned out that my ability had improved, and Yan Jie awakened the ability to control flames." ”
"You said that ordinary people will awaken their abilities after eating the crystal nucleus?" Chi Hua asked in surprise.
"That's right! I used to wander around without a goal, but after suddenly discovering the effect of the crystal nucleus, I was able to pursue the goal again. Wasn't it true that I used to work hard to make my life better, but now although I am in this troubled world, I want to make myself and my brothers and friends live better! Just as you used to be rich and live comfortably, now having strength is the foundation for living better, so I formed this adventure team composed of all evolutionaries, and met Zou Lang, Qin Yurou and Xie Xiaodan successively. Luo Zhigang said as he pointed to the man with wings, the petite girl, and the last girl with a cloak.
Chi Hua and Li Xiaofei only noticed the girl who hadn't said a word at this time, the girl's pointed little face, small eyes, single eyelids, and dozens of shallow freckles on both sides of her nose, her appearance could only be regarded as medium, because they had never seen the girl make a move from beginning to end, and the two had always thought that the girl was just an ordinary person. As soon as Luo Zhigang said that, the two of them noticed a detail, the girl held Zou Lang's injured wing pound from the moment she sat down, and her hand brushed the cyan feathers on the wings from time to time, and the two naturally thought that the girl was Zou Lang's girlfriend or wife, and now they suddenly noticed that after such a while, Zou Lang's wing injury has been healed for the most part, and the girl's ability is to heal!
"The wolf meat is roasted, let's do it!" Luo Zhigang began to beckon everyone to eat meat.
Li Xiaofei, who had been waiting anxiously, was the first to pounce and chop off a wolf's leg with a knife. Everyone also gathered around, and the men and women all began to feast regardless of their image.
Luo Zhigang took out a bottle of liquor from behind him like a trick, took a big sip of it himself, and then handed it to Chi Hua. Chi Hua's eyes couldn't help but light up, it had been almost two months since the nuclear war, and he hadn't drunk a sip of wine, so he had already been slandered, Chi Hua picked up the wine bottle and poured it up, and then handed it to Zou Lang next to him, but he didn't want to be snatched by Li Xiaofei halfway and took a sip first. The wine bottle was passed between several men, and later Qin Yurou also joined in.
People often say "friends with wine and meat", but what you need most in ordinary daily life is precisely these friends who can be touched, can be seen, and sit with you without scruples to drink and eat meat!
No matter how powerful the ability is, it can't violate the law of conservation of energy, and the fight just now consumed a lot of energy, and in the blink of an eye, a wolf was left with only a bare skeleton, which was cleaner than a wolf!
Through the strong wine, through the beating flames, it seems that there is a spiritual connection between the flames and the story narrated, and the story continues.
From Chi Hua to Zou Lang, to Yan Jie, Qin Yurou, Xie Xiaodan, and even Li Xiaofei, everyone told their own stories, and everyone listened with relish to a half-grown child talking about his resistance to his father's second marriage and a teenager's dream of rivers and lakes! So people got to know Chi Hua's adventures in the story, how Zou Lang changed from a hard-working IT man to a free-flying birdman, and Qin Yurou, a girl with a quiet appearance, got to know the ancient way in her heart, and got to know ......
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In the early morning, everyone woke up to the embers of a bonfire.
A night of chatting made Chi Hua and Xiaofei feel cordial when they faced everyone again. Yan Jie began to process the wolf meat, removing all the inedible head, tail, and internal organs, leaving only the wolf skin and the meat on the torso, and others also went over to help, while Luo Zhigang once again made a bonfire and began to cook porridge for everyone.
Yan Jie deserved to come out of the restaurant, skillfully pinching the head and tail, disemboweling and disemboweling, and cleaning up a wolf in five or six minutes, and the eighteen wolves harvested a total of about 900 catties of meat.
At breakfast, Chi Hua made a few dishes and chopsticks, which amazed everyone who had never seen Chi Hua show his abilities.
Luo Zhigang suddenly put down the porridge bowl in his hand, looked at Chi Hua solemnly and said: "It will take three days for us to send this meat back to the base, and it will take a few days to tann the wolf skin, I am afraid that you will have to stay with us for the past few days, why don't you join our team?" ”
Everyone also put down the dishes and chopsticks and looked at Chi Hua.
Chi Hua put down the porridge bowl in his hand, looked at Luo Zhigang seriously, and said, "Give me a few reasons to convince yourself." ”
"Actually, I said part of it last night, although our adventure team is wandering around, it is actually hunting mutant animals everywhere, pursuing the improvement of strength, and at the same time doing chivalrous justice, maybe we can't help more people, but we will get rid of a lot of evildoers, and use our way to maintain the justice and justice of this last world!"
When he heard the chivalrous deeds, Li Xiaofei's eyes lit up obviously, maybe what Luo Zhigang said about wandering around is exactly what the young man wants to wander the rivers and lakes. But as an adult, Chi Hua was obviously unmoved.
Seeing that Chi Hua didn't say anything, Luo Zhigang continued: "I believe you should know that it will be difficult to be a lone wanderer in the last days, and when our forces are gathered together, we will live better than the vast majority of people!" Join us, you are the vice-captain! ”
Luo Zhigang is worthy of being a businessman, and he began to talk about "profit" when the "righteousness" could not impress Chi Hua enough.
Xiao Fei secretly stabbed Chi Hua, the little fat man was obviously moved, but he didn't know if he was more moved by Luo Zhigang or Qin Yurou.
Chi Hua seemed to be unaware of Li Xiaofei's movements, and kept rubbing his chin with one hand, as if he had not yet made up his mind.
Seeing this, Luo Zhigang continued to lure, "I heard that the two brothers want to go back to their homes in the north to have a look, and when our team strength is a little stronger, we will accompany you back together, anyway, our team is also wandering around." And the welfare of our team is good, three meals a day are cooked by me, the chef, and the base can also take hot showers. ”
Luo Zhigang's seemingly casual sentence "I can take a hot bath" finally touched Chi Hua's itch, from the itch in his heart to the itch all over his body, the itch that can't be stopped! As a modern person who is accustomed to taking a bath once a day, the pain of not taking a bath for two months is simply indescribable, and the previous rush and fight may have deliberately concealed this inner need, but when it is brought up again, this itchy desire can no longer be restrained.
Chi Hua decided not to be reserved anymore, in fact, he had already made a decision in his heart, not to be a lone ranger was Chi Hua's creed, pretending to hesitate was nothing more than Chi Hua, the little fox, was increasing his bargaining chips, "the harder the girl to chase, the more cherished" Chi Hua has heard and witnessed countless times.
Chi Hua stood up and stretched out his hand to Luo Zhigang with a smile.
Everyone also got up, and everyone's hands were tightly clasped together!
Chi Hua solemnly swept over the faces of each of his teammates one by one, and when he passed by Qin Yurou and Xie Xiaodan, his heart couldn't help but move, these two girls couldn't also be deceived by the temptation of Luo Zhigang to take a hot bath!