Chapter 2: Discovery of Conscience

Zhang Qiru was in a heavy mood, and the pain of losing his loved ones swept through his heart again.

Suddenly, a group of unidentified people appeared in front of them. Days of exhaustion and scrambling had completely obscured the color of their bodies, and all of them were ragged and embarrassed, with no way of knowing who they were, and there was no way to know where to go in this chaotic world.

When they approached, there were more than 400 people, carrying different burdens of all sizes, as if they had broken into the Kanto region. They walked past Zhang Qiru one after another, without any words, as if for them, Zhang Qiru did not exist, and even everyone around them did not exist.

Numb living walking corpse...... Zhang Qiru thought of a most appropriate description.

"Uncle of the People's Liberation Army, Uncle of the People's Liberation Army!"

A childish voice came, and Zhang Qiru felt that someone was shaking his arm. He looked down and saw that it was a teenage girl. For some reason, Zhang Qiru tried his best to put away his cold expression, and replied in a more gentle voice:

"What's the matter?"

The little girl burst into tears. Heh, Zhang Qiru's voice did not look "gentle" at all, although he wanted to correct it.

The little girl's cry touched Zhang Qiru's nerves, and he remembered his little sister, who was also more than ten years old. Zhang Qiru suddenly felt a sense of heartache.

"Don't cry, will you give you candy?" Zhang Qiru took out a bag of chocolates from his waist bag. He didn't bring anything else, only sweets with higher calories. At this moment, Zhang Qiru's voice finally carried a hint of gentleness.

Perhaps feeling the changes in Zhang Qiru and the temptation of the aroma of chocolate, the little girl stopped crying, staring at the chocolate in Zhang Qiru's hand with big watery eyes, and she didn't feel like she swallowed her saliva.

"Eat." Zhang Qiru squeezed out a smile.

Seeing that the little girl just took the chocolate but didn't eat it, Zhang Qiru then asked, "Why don't you eat it?" ”

"I'm going to give it to my brother, he likes chocolate." The little girl suddenly became brighter, and then began to dim again, "But I am separated from my parents. Uncle, can you help me find my dad? ”

The little girl looked up at Zhang Qiru, her eyes full of hope. She still doesn't understand that there are no good people in this last days, and she naively thinks that those in military uniforms are righteous warriors.

Zhang Qiru looked at the little girl. After a long time, Zhang Qiru agreed like a god.

"Little girl, when did you get separated from your family? At that time, these uncles, aunts, grandparents were not there? Zhang Qiru took the little girl's hand and asked.

"Well, they're all here. My brother was sick, and my parents said that he was going to take my brother to the doctor and asked me to wait for them here. But I'm in such a hurry, I want to be with my brother. Tears welled up in the little girl's eyes again.

Zhang Qiru listened to the little girl's description and probably had an idea in her heart. The little girl was not separated from her family, but abandoned by her parents. There is nothing surprising that this is a world without humanity, where parents abandon their young children, children abandon their elderly parents, husbands abandon their weak wives, and wives abandon their injured husbands...... All this is now commonplace, everyone knows that this is an irreparable disaster, a disaster that destroys civilization, so why care if you are heinous or not?

Zhang Qiru didn't intend to tell the little girl all this, or it was already very difficult, let alone just a defenseless little girl? Perhaps, in a few minutes, whether it is the little girl or himself, or even the hundreds of people in front of him, they will turn into fertilizer for this land.

"Oh, then your parents shouldn't have gone far, let's go find it together." Zhang Qiru pretended to be relaxed and said to the little girl.

"Well, thank you, uncle!" The little girl is very polite.

Zhang Qiru didn't know what the little girl's parents looked like, he just tried a little hard to give the little girl some hope.

After a few hours, it was getting dark, and the crowd began to agitate. The night is always scary, especially in the last days. It is estimated that many people now know that in addition to the walking corpses who move slowly during the day, at night, there are also some night demons who are agile, although the number is small, but the lethality is huge.

Zhang Qiru was naturally not nervous, on the contrary, he really hoped that he could slaughter a night demon with his bare hands, after all, he still hoped to meet a sharper opponent. Zhang Qiru plans to find a good place to rest tonight, although there are night demons, but after all, the number of night demons is small, and most of them are hidden in high-rise buildings in the center of the city. Because Daredevil doesn't like daylight, they are only better suited to tall buildings with larger floors. It's not very common to see the Night Demon in the wild - of course, it can't be ruled out that some Night Demon will mix in the normal walking corpse during the day and come out to forage for food at night - the Night Demon just doesn't like the day, but they are not afraid, they will become similar to the normal walking corpse during the day.

Zhang Qiru finally rested on the edge of a small grave on the side of the road, and now there is nothing taboo or taboo. He found some firewood and grass, and it was already autumn, and it was always a little cool at night.

After lighting the firewood and grass, Zhang Qiru realized that he didn't go to collect food today, and seeing the little girl staring at the chocolate for a long time but reluctant to eat it, Zhang Qiru had to give her two more pieces and told him that he could eat whatever he wanted.

I have to say that chocolate is definitely a treasure now, because Zhang Qiru vaguely saw that many people were staring at the little girl, as well as his own ...... of the waist bag. Zhang Qiru didn't care very much, he didn't care about food at all.

After a while, the little girl yawned, and she slowly fell asleep under Zhang Qiru's coaxing, but she kept muttering about her parents.

Zhang Qiru sighed secretly and took out the cigarettes in his backpack - he used to be a non-smoker, but now, it doesn't matter, he won't live for a few years anyway, and he doesn't care if he will get lung cancer. As soon as the Furong King got up, the aroma began to spread, but Zhang Qiru really couldn't taste the difference between these cigarettes.

The firelight reflected Zhang Qiru's face, and it returned to its previous coldness, and even the raging flames could not melt a bit. He thought of his family again, the hellish picture on earth, but this time, he didn't go crazy, just calmly recalled, the cigarettes in his hand one after another. Looking at the sleeping little girl, he suddenly thought of his brother. Probably, my brother is also gone, after all, this is purgatory on earth, and there are very few people who survive - it's just that there is still a glimmer of hope in his heart, and his brother is still alive, but he doesn't dare to have such a glimmer of hope, because he can't bear the last person close to him to leave.

Suddenly, Zhang Qiru stood up. Several people appeared around, both men and women, looking like they were asking for guilt. Zhang Qiru secretly thought that this group of people definitely came for his own pockets, and it was not the first time he had encountered this kind of thing.

"It's him, a human trafficker, who kidnapped my daughter." A female voice said.

Sure enough, although the fire was dim, Zhang Qiru vaguely felt that this woman was very similar to the little girl.

"Damn, no wonder my baby daughter is gone, it turned out to be you, a human trafficker, beat him to death for me!" Another male voice said.

The group of people didn't move, although they said it powerfully, but when they saw Zhang Qiru's hand pressed on the dagger, they looked a little cringe.

"There are human traffickers here! Come on, everyone! A middle-aged woman howled, and unsurprisingly attracted a large crowd of onlookers. Oh, there's a trafficker who kidnapped my precious granddaughter, if we hadn't found out in time, we wouldn't know what was going on, come and catch him! The middle-aged woman was crying.

"Daddy, Mommy!" The little girl was also woken up by the crying of several people, and was very happy to see her relatives, and threw herself into her mother's arms with a cry.

Perhaps in order to cooperate with the acting, the woman held the little girl tightly in her arms and stared at Zhang Qiru viciously.

Zhang Qiru didn't care, just smiled slightly, and didn't plan to explain anything, just planned to walk away silently. But it was obvious that these people were not here for the little girl, how could they stop without getting Zhang Qiru's things.

"What, you want to go? How can it be so easy! You're a trafficker, and you're not going to be caught! The man raised his voice.

"Dad, Dad, Uncle is not a human trafficker, he still helps me find you!" The little girl also knows what a human trafficker is, and she knows whether Zhang Qiru is a good person.

"Guoguo, don't speak, you don't understand the affairs of adults, he is a bad person." The woman said to the little girl.

"Uncle is not a bad person, he still gives me candy to eat!" The little girl tried to argue about something.

"Shut up!" The middle-aged woman scolded, so frightened that the little girl stopped talking. "Don't hurry up and kneel down and admit your mistakes, otherwise, the big guy won't be able to spare you!"

"That is, to avoid the pain of flesh and skin!" The man also threatened, and shook the steel bar in his hand.

However, Zhang Qiru, as the party concerned, remained motionless, looking at the clumsy performances of several people in front of him without saying a word. Immediately afterwards, he glanced at the people around him who were watching the excitement, and found that everyone didn't care much about them, just a state of watching the excitement. Also, in the days when there was only escape, it was still good to watch some excitement.

"Damn, you can't hear me, do you? Obediently compensate us for our losses, kneel down and apologize, otherwise ......"

The man was a little impatient, and the threat between his words became more and more intense. Zhang Qiru looked at the man with interest, and replied coldly,

"Otherwise, what can you do?"