There are hundreds of thousands of dilapidated villages like this on this planet.

They became a place for scavengers to survive.

An old-looking man walked on a mountain of garbage in the middle of the village.

Some of the objects here have been there for more than ten years, and there are still a lot of bones, rats, mosquitoes and flies flying around.

And the rats and the bigger flies are the food.

It's just that these things are not easy to grasp.

They also seem to have some minor mutations in the apocalypse.

The flies, a few meters away from them, flew away, as if they could sense the smell of the crisis.

And the rats are even smarter, and when they are far away, they are obviously running around everywhere, but when they get up to this garbage heap, why can't they see any of them?

"Hey monk, you can't eat again today, right? Call me sir, and I'll share it with you. ”

A boy of twelve or thirteen years old appeared in front of the monk with a proud face.

He was young, strong, and could make traps, so he managed to catch four rats early in the morning, and he also found a nest of rats and caught a dozen cubs, which was a good thing.

Pre-apocalyptic rats have become animals that cross the street because of their super reproductive ability, the bacteria they carry, and their nature of stealing food.

It's about the same as a cockroach spider.

People never imagined that after the apocalypse, these disgusting animals would allow almost one percent of the world's survivors not to starve to death, but to survive.

The middle-aged man who is called a monk is actually not a monk, he has long hair, a long beard, a long face, covering his facial features, and it seems that he has not had a haircut for many years.

"Lin Xi, you have to learn to be polite."

"Polite fart! The master has been a gangster since he was a child, and he grew up in this apocalypse, my mother sold herself around in order to support me, and now she is sick and is going to die, you let me be polite? Master won't at all! ”

"Your mother went to see it last night, it's not a big problem, it's just that she has been malnourished for a long time, and the food she eats is unhygienic, so she is weak, if she can have good conditions to cultivate, she will slowly get better."

"Old monk, what are you? Healer? ”

"Doctor, also called Doctor, Lin Xi, you really should learn more words with me, whether it is Chinese or English, your expression is very poor."

"Get out of the game! Do you think the master can't even speak? ”

"Of course you can say it, but it's not very good."

"Fart! The master sees that you are pitiful and wants to give you something to eat, now count the ball! , don't be an eyesore here, you can't catch the mice, you'll scare them away. ”

The man called the monk sighed, turned around, and walked down.

Leaving the garbage heap, walking on the broken and grassy path, bypassing a few small dilapidated houses, walking past an abandoned agricultural parking lot, passing through a few empty granaries with a grain of rice, passing a small windmill square, of course, the phoenix cart has long been unable to turn.

Finally, the monk came to a house that was dilapidated, but had apparently been repaired many times.

The door was unlocked, and a gap opened.

The monk went over and opened the door and walked inside.

The house has two rooms, and the living room outside is pitch black.

This is normal.

When people choose a place to live, they will seal the windows, maybe they will wake up to zombies outside, if it is just a window, they may not be able to escape the sight of zombies, and it will be safer to nail them with a wooden plank.

The living room is full of all kinds of things, all of which Lin Xi picked up from the garbage heap, and it can't be useful to say anything, and most of the time, they are just garbage.

The monk walked to the bedroom door and knocked gently.

"Monk?"

"Ahh

"Dude, come in."

The monk pushed the door in, and the woman in the room was about to get up.

She looked forty years old, with wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, a thin body, and a sallow face, and she could see that she should have been a beauty when she was young, but eleven years after the end of the day, her miserable life smoothed everything out of her, making her what she is now.

The monk hurried over, told her to lie down quickly, and said softly:

"Don't get up, be polite with me."

"yes, we've been neighbors for three years."

"Hmm."

"Did you see Lin Xi's child?"

"See, he's good today, four mice, and a small litter."

"That's nice, you'll eat it later."

"No, I'm going to look further afield."

"Further afield?"

The woman's face deteriorated, and her brows furrowed slightly.

"Will you ever come back?"

The end times are like this, once you go to a distant place, even if it is ten kilometers away, you may not be able to come back, especially for scavengers who don't have any rough stones.

"Of course, I'm just going to look for something to eat."

"Hey, monk, don't be angry with that child, I never educated him like that, I always made him respect you, but you know, children who grow up in the apocalypse, they know what they want, they have their own values, and they are different from us."

"I know, in fact, I have always thanked you, in the most difficult time, it was your mother and son who gave me food."

"We help each other to persevere, and we don't thank each other. It's just that Lin Xi is a little unhappy because I gave you some food, but please believe that the child's nature is actually very good. ”

"I know, boys, you have to be a little territorial, I know everything. Okay, okay, I heard that you're not in good health, so come and take a look. Yuan Na, you must persevere, only by living can there be hope! ”

The woman smiled and nodded, and said:

"Lin Xi is my hope."

"Hmm."

The man got up and walked out.

When he came to the door, the woman suddenly spoke again.

"Monk, you are also my hope."

The monk stood still and did not look back.

The woman sat on the bed and didn't look at him, with a little happy smile on her face.

"In those years to feed Lin Xi, I did not hesitate to pay any price, and the whole person was numb. Three years ago, Lin Xi and I were surrounded by zombies, and if you hadn't lured the zombies away, we would have died. After that, I found this place to live and depended on each other, and I think this life was the best I experienced in the apocalypse! Scavengers have stories of scavengers, who are reluctant to go to human gathering areas for various reasons, and now we can't go, people who don't have rough stones, the best ending is to become slaves, or beggars, we don't want to be slaves, there is no freedom. We don't want to be beggars, because we will be bullied. It's good to be like this now, I have Lin Xi, and you...... Monk, you don't have to say anything to me, and I don't need you to say anything to me, I am an unclean woman, what I hope is that Lin Xi will grow up well, and you will always be by my side. ”

The monk's body trembled slightly.

After a long time, he said softly:

"Yuan Na, you are a good woman, you raised Lin Xi very well, he has a great ability to survive, this is very great...... My hope to live, or strength, comes from hatred, I have a deep hatred and blood marks, if I don't report it, I will not die, you have always been a good woman, but I am not good enough. ”

Yuan Na was stunned when she heard this.

In her impression, the monk is just an honest man, but she didn't expect that there is still hatred?

If you want to say that she also has hatred, such as those years, those homeless people, those fat old men with rough stones, and those seemingly kind women who deceived her.

They were all her hatred.

But now that she has forgotten everything, what is more important than being alive, she can raise Lin Xi alive, this is the best.

When Yuan Na was thinking about these things, she suddenly found that she was the only one left in the room, and the monk was gone.

She sat there stunned, thinking about the monk's hatred.

What is it exactly, and why can't he let it go?

"Mom!"

As soon as the door rang, Lin Xi came back.

"Son."

"Haha, I got five mice, a litter of small ones, which is enough for our two to eat."

"Five? Your monk uncle said there were four. ”

"Cut, I have the ability, I got one in a while, and the monk is here again?"

"Lin Xi, I told you to respect him, he once saved our lives."

"Last year he starved to death, and on two occasions, we gave him food to keep him alive, so we don't owe him a favor!"

"You can't think so, if he hadn't saved us in the first place, we would have died three years ago."

"Okay, okay, I know, leave one for him, let's eat two each!"

"No, mom can eat one, you have two, mom's meal is small, you can raise the small litter, raise it and eat it when it's bigger."

"Say what? What to raise? I'm going to eat it tonight, I'm growing up, but let's be half of us. ”

"Heh, you can eat it all, Mom doesn't want it."

"Okay, then I'm not polite to you, Mom, how do you feel? Still dizzy? ”

"It's fine."

"Lie down, I'll go out to get it later, dinner hasn't settled yet."

"Mom eats one meal a day, my body is not good, I can't digest too much."

"I'll go out and get wild vegetables and get you wild vegetable soup to drink."

"Don't go, I know that everything you can eat within a few kilometers has been eaten by other scavengers, and I don't want you to go too far"

"Don't worry too much, we're a human activity area, not a zombie territory."

"But zombies still come here, that's why people have built walled cities, and I don't trust humans, you're still a child."

"Haha, I'm a doomsday child, and I'm almost fourteen years old, okay, don't worry about me, let's keep these mice first, I'll come back at noon to roast."

Lin Xi really has a lot of ideas.

And he is a man of the thick and the thin.

Mom was seriously ill, and he didn't seem worried on the surface, but he was grinning.

But in fact, I care a lot.

Last night, my mother suddenly fainted and vomited blood, he quickly diluted the blood with water, then wiped it clean, and buried the bloody rag in the soil, very afraid of attracting zombies, he handled it so calmly, like a professional veteran, he never showed too much worry about his mother fainting, and he still looked relaxed when talking to his mother.

Only he knew that in the second half of last night, he had been crying, feeling that he might be losing his mother, which made him scared and trembled from the heart outward!