"There are so many of them?" Zheng Xiaojie was surprised when she saw a torch outside. It was the fifth day that she and Brother Zhen took turns waiting for the thieves, and a large crowd surrounded their improvised houses with torches.

"How do I know!" Brother Zhen was extremely nervous, he had never been through a real battle, his heart was beating wildly, as if he was about to jump out of his throat and die: "Damn, we are surrounded!" ”

With its back to the rock wall, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but it also cuts off its own retreat. At that time, I chose to lean against the rock barrier, mainly considering that it was convenient and reliable, and how much it could shelter from the wind and rain, because I thought that no one else here would do it.

"What do they want to do?" After all, Zheng Xiaojie has experienced battles to some extent, so she is slightly better than Brother Zhen. She observed for a while, and saw that these people were just surrounding them and did not attack, so she planned to talk to the other party.

"What do you want!" She shouted at the top of her voice.

No one answered.

"Damn, I'll kill a few of them first!" Brother Zhen couldn't bear it anymore. He started to aim, but Zheng Xiaojie stopped him.

"Don't!" Zheng Xiaojie pressed Brother Zhen's hand and said. Looking at the torches, there are more than two dozen of them, and there are at least three times the number of people who do not carry torches. That is to say, there were nearly 100 people who surrounded them. Once fired, even if the opponent only had sticks in their hands, the two of them had no chance of winning.

"Can you tell me who you are?" Zheng Xiaojie continued to shout: "We just wandered here, and we don't want to stay for a long time, we will leave after winter." If you are offended, please raise your hand! ”

She shouted several times, and finally someone answered, but it was a rhetorical question.

"Who are you, and where did you come from?"

"We're here from the dungeon," Zheng Xiaojie shouted.

"What a dungeon, I haven't heard of it!"

"Oh, by the way......" Zheng Xiaojie suddenly remembered that when the Central City was in turmoil, there was no dungeon at all. These people don't know the dungeon if they were the ones who fled during the chaos in Central City: "We're here from Central City!" ”

"You're from Central City, and you've been running for more than ten years to get here?"

"We've been in other places for a long time, and we've only recently come here," Zheng Xiaojie knew that she couldn't explain clearly, so she casually made up a lie: "You guys are also from Central City?" ”

"Yes, so do we...... Okay, since you are all fallen people in the world, then you can come out! ”

"Sister, do you believe it?" Brother Zhen asked in a low voice.

"What can I do if I don't believe me?" Zheng Xiaojie also whispered: "I'll go out first, don't move, and don't shoot casually!" ”

"What should I do if they want to kill you?" Brother Zhen said. He had already begun to calm down: "I think you better not go out yet, let's wait until dawn before deciding what to do!" ”

"If I don't go out, what if they attack?" Zheng Xiaojie couldn't think about it anymore. If you go out and the other party doesn't say a word and gives you a shot, wouldn't it be worthless to die? But if they insist on not going out and they attack, it will be tantamount to doing it directly.

"That's better than getting killed as soon as you get out!" Brother Zhen said: "We don't know what they want to do, we can't die in vain!" ”

Brother Zhen's words made sense, Zheng Xiaojie thought about it for a moment and said, "That's okay!" ”

"Everyone outside the door," seeing that Zheng Xiaojie agreed, Brother Zhen shouted first: "It's snowy and the road is slippery in the dark, even if we want to escape, we can't go far." Why don't we wait until dawn and then come out, okay? ”

When he shouted, the people outside didn't move. Both of them sneaked to the door to look outside, and found that the torches were still there, and the people outside had not left. Several people got together, as if they were discussing something.

They were nervously on guard, waiting.

"You have men?" After a long moment, the voice that had just spoken asked. She didn't answer Brother Zhen's proposal, but instead paid attention to the fact that there was a man inside.

"Yes!" Brother Zhen didn't hide it anymore: "I'm a man!" ”

"Are you Colonel Shu?" The voice asked, "How did you get here?" ”

At this time, Zheng Xiaojie and Brother Zhen didn't know how to answer. When those people outside fled to the north in the Central City chaos, Brother Zhen's father was still the commander-in-chief of the Central City ** Army. And now, Colonel Shu has disappeared into the wormhole, but these people obviously don't know.

"How do we answer?" Zheng Xiaojie couldn't think about it. At first, she wanted to say yes, after all, Shu Yunpeng, as the commander-in-chief of the ** army, has a certain deterrent effect. But it's not right to think about it again, pretending to be Shu Yunpeng may soon be exposed, and it will be difficult to speak at that time. What's even more inappropriate is that if it is the opponent and the person who hates Shu Yunpeng, wouldn't he kill himself?

"Let's get straight to the point!" Brother Zhen said, shouting loudly: "I'm not Colonel Shu!" ”

"That's weird! Who are you if you're not Colonel Shu? The voice outside said, "Is there another time-traveler?" ”

"No, I'm not a traverser, I'm a ......"

Before Brother Zhen finished speaking, Zheng Xiaojie hurriedly grabbed the conversation. Without knowing the details of the other party, it is unwise to easily reveal her identity, so she didn't let Brother Zhen say: "We hope to come out again tomorrow, is it okay?" ”

"No need for tomorrow, I'll come in!"

After the man finished speaking, he took the initiative to raise the gun, then handed it to the person next to him, and began to walk towards the simple room. Zheng Xiaojie hurriedly told her to avoid the trap at the door, and then opened the door.

A man wrapped in his whole body, leaving only his eyes exposed, entered. The person who came in the door, glanced at Brother Zhen, and kept staring at Zheng Xiaojie.

"Are you...... Zheng Xiaojie? ”

"Yes, I'm Zheng Xiaojie," Zheng Xiaojie was taken aback, and hurriedly replied, "May I ask who you are?" ……”

The visitor untied his wrapped head, revealing the face of a woman in her fifties. Zheng Xiaojie borrowed the torch in the hand of the visitor, carefully identified it, and shouted in surprise: "You are Mama Li?" ”

"Yes, I am!"

Li Ma is a person from the Lovers Fortress, which was besieged by the rebels led by Zhao Mengyao and suffered heavy losses, surviving more than 3,000 people. Due to the complete destruction of the Lovers' Fortress, after the war, Yi Qianya let all the people of the Lovers' Fortress move into Central City, and Li Ma was one of the three thousand survivors.

"So happy!" Zheng Xiaojie was overjoyed. She didn't expect that they had traveled thousands of miles to the north, and the first person they saw was actually a person from the Lovers' Fortress, who was really an old friend in a foreign land: "I really didn't expect to see you again!" ”

"I didn't expect it," Li's mother said, "Your sudden appearance really scared me...... Who is he? ”

Mother Li suddenly turned to ask Zheng Xiaojie, this man is very young, and he is definitely not a traverser.

"He's ...... He is the son of Colonel Shu," Zheng Xiaojie said, "His name is Qin Haoyang!" …… Mama Li, do you remember Qin Huaiyu, Haoyang is her son! ”

Brother Zhen opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything. He didn't understand why Zheng Xiaojie said that he was Qin Huaiyu's son.

"Really?" Mother Li was surprised and said, "Huaiyu's son? Are they all so big? ”

"Yes, he is seventeen years old," Zheng Xiaojie simply shortened Brother Zhen's age by two years: "It's been so many years, and the children have grown up." ”

"Looks like you're twenty-five years old!" Mama Li looked at Brother Zhen and seemed to be very concerned about him.

"That's it, I'm in a hurry," Zheng Xiaojie pushed the boat down the river: "It's not as beautiful as his mother." ”

The two exchanged pleasantries, and then began to talk about their experiences. The two women chatted and chatted, and Brother Zhen couldn't interject at all. Zheng Xiaojie knew from Li's mother's mouth that there were about 10,000 people in this vicinity, all of whom fled during the chaos in Central City. On the west side, there were quite a few more people. But because of the competition for territory, they often fight with Li's mother.

"Really?" Zheng Xiaojie was surprised, but it was right to think about it carefully. When the catastrophe came, many people in the central city began to go crazy, and naturally there were some who didn't make a fuss. When the mad people start to slaughter people indiscriminately, they are afraid that they will kill them, and the only option is to escape from Central City as soon as possible: "How many people will there be?" ”

"I estimate that there are no less than 100,000 people in this area!" Li's mother said: "I don't know if it's farther." ”

There were tens of millions of people in the central city at that time, and only 100,000 people fled to the north, not many. After chatting, Li's mother told Zheng Xiaojie that they had a camp and could go to them, and Zheng Xiaojie agreed.

"Go to us, you can have a care," Li Ma finally said, "You pack up your things and wait." I'll go back now, and I'll send someone to pick you up after dawn. ”

"Okay! Thank you, Mama Li! ”

Mother Li left with someone, and when the two of them were left, Brother Zhen, who couldn't interject just now, asked impatiently, "Do you know her?" She's the man of the couple's fortress? ”

"Yes, he was an old man at the beginning."

"Since I am the old man of the Lovers Fortress, then why do you say that I am Qin Haoyang?" Brother Zhen naturally didn't understand, his mother was the chairman of the Lovers Fortress Management Committee, but he wanted to say that he was Qin Huaiyu's son.

"Your mother is the head of the couple's fortress, very powerful," Zheng Xiaojie smiled bitterly: "But your mother is in charge of power and has offended many people." I say this for your safety, so that no one will trouble you! ”

Brother Zhen was puzzled: "So Haoyang's mother hasn't offended anyone?" ”

"Haoyang's mother is not a person from the Couple's Fortress, and she is kind, and the people in the Couple's Fortress like her!" Zheng Xiaojie said: "But your mother is different, she has offended many people. ”

"My mother offended Li's mother?"

"Yes! And the offense is not light! Zheng Xiaojie said: "Remember, you will be Qin Haoyang in the future, seventeen years old, don't say anything about leaking!" ”

"Then when you meet Haoyang, won't you show your stuffing?"

"Are we going back?" Zheng Xiaojie asked rhetorically: "Will you still meet Haoyang?" ”

"That's ......" Brother Zhen looked at Zheng Xiaojie, he knew that Zheng Xiaojie definitely didn't want to see people in the dungeon again, including his mother, so as not to be embarrassed. But he was still a little unimpressed, why did he have to use someone else's name? Of course, he also knew that he really didn't understand the situation, so he didn't say anything more: "Okay, I remember." ”