Chapter Eighty-Six: The Shelter
The fat man just laughed when he heard Suotian's words, waved his hand and motioned to us: "It's so inconvenient to talk here, let's go in and talk." ”
After hearing this, my heart was finally completely relieved.
Suo Tian politely answered him for a few words, and then took me and walked towards the middle-aged man.
Uncle Ga Zi hugged Zhuyun and followed behind, staring at me and Suotian with a puzzled face.
I looked back apologetically at Uncle Gazi, this old man has always regarded me and Suotian as an ordinary young couple who are trying to survive, and this will make a fuss, which probably makes him start to doubt the identity of me and Suotian.
The conscience of heaven and earth, I, Chen Yangke, was once a good citizen. The doubtful person is... I squinted at Suotian, who was talking to a middle-aged man in a low voice.
"How's it going?" When Suo Tian walked up to the middle-aged man, although his hand was still holding me, it was obvious that his attention was no longer on me.
I was also happy to be idle, and followed the crowd into the big black iron gate.
"Two dead." I've always felt that the way this middle-aged man talks is sometimes very similar to locking the sky. Speak straight to the point, rarely procrastinating.
After entering the iron gate, I began to look at the structure of the community, after crossing the black iron gate, there is a door in front, it seems that it should be the door of the previous community, it is the kind of automatic control, the disadvantage is that it is too short. If the walking corpses come in, this door will be useless at all, and it will be of no use at all.
But at the moment there was still an old man with hair sitting in the guard's room, and when we arrived, he was reading with a pair of glasses on his face and a thick Bible.
When I saw the old man's Bible, my first impression of him was very good.
As I said before, I am very Christian.
The fat man and his party walked in front of us, and took the lead in attracting the attention of the old man with glasses, he put down the book in his hand, stood up and walked out of the guard room and said with a smile: "Fat cow, what is going on outside so lively today?" There was no shortage of people going out at this meeting. ”
The fat man pointed at me, Suotian and Uncle Gazi and said, "I've added a few new people to come in, it's not a big deal." ”
The old man lifted the reading glasses on his face, followed the fat man's finger and looked at us, and after a quick two seconds, he seemed to have found some surprise: "Yo, here is another bad old man, this can be regarded as a companion." ”
Uncle Ga Zi hugged Xue Yun and estimated that he was distracted, and when he heard the old man with glasses coldly, he immediately said unhappily after reacting: "Who do you say is the bad old man?" ”
The old man with glasses smiled and said, "Isn't that just you?" Could it be that the two young dolls? ”
I pursed my lips and wanted to laugh.
The fat man waved his hand to interrupt the conversation between the two of them, and said, "Uncle Zhao, these people have just arrived, and they have to bring a familiar environment and arrange to stay, so I won't talk to you first." ”
After hearing this, the old man with glasses still smiled and said: "Go, go, let's go, I'll go back and find the chess and chessboard before. After finishing speaking, he didn't wait for the fat man to answer, but he really ran back to the guard room.
I guess I'm really going to find that chessboard.
I smiled and asked Uncle Gazi, "Do you know how to play chess?" ”
Uncle Ga Zi probably had doubts about our identity, and he didn't answer me with a smile like before, but just responded lightly: "We are old, and we will have some of them, and we usually compete with a few bad old men in the village when we are fine." ”
I nodded, I didn't answer Uncle Gazi's words, it seems that I really have to find an opportunity to explain the current situation to Uncle Gazi, the old people's thoughts are always deeper than the young people, and the more they think about it, the more they care, I like Uncle Ga Zi very much, and I don't want to affect his opinion of me and Yangyang who will meet in a while because of such inconsequential things.
After crossing the gate room, I completely entered the community, probably surrounded by a large circle of walls outside, and the small park I saw when I first entered the community did not give me a feeling of relaxation and joy, but I felt a little stuffy.
After all, it is estimated that no matter who you are, you will not feel much comfortable surrounded by high walls.
There are a total of six high-rise buildings of equal height in this community, three on one side of the double parallel, a main road in the middle of the floors on both sides is connected, the greening in the community is very good, although it is still winter, but you can still see green shrubs everywhere.
There's even a small pond in the park.
Our group crossed the park and stepped onto the main road, and the fat man introduced us to the two outermost buildings for storing supplies.
I asked a little strangely: "This building is more than a dozen floors high, how many materials are stored in these two floors?" ”
After listening to my question, the fat man turned his head and glanced at me and said, "Originally, it was not needed, but now it is necessary to store these two buildings, and you will know the specific situation later." ”
Crossing the two buildings in front where the supplies were stored, the two buildings in the middle were the survivors' residences, and the middle-aged man said that there were 23 families living in these two buildings, a total of about 50 people.
When we arrived at the innermost two buildings, the fat man paused, looked at us with a strange face and said: "Building No. 6 is now your place, you can live in it at will, but we have made it clear before that your supplies are all handled by yourself, and our shelter does not provide your supplies." ”
After the fat man finished speaking, the middle-aged man whispered to Suotian and explained: "Boss, the day we came, we used some methods to grab Building No. 6, this person really didn't cooperate, we can only come tough." ”
Suo Tian replied: "This place is abandoned? ”
I didn't understand the meaning of the question of locking the sky, but the next middle-aged man's reply made me understand the beginning and the end instantly.
"Yes, according to the survivors here, it seems that two months ago, after the last supply was brought in by helicopter, it was completely cut off from ZF, and even they themselves don't know what happened. But according to my speculation, nine times out of ten, it was abandoned. The current situation does not allow ZF to have spare time to continue to manage such a small place. ”
Listening to the words of the middle-aged man, I looked up at the fat man in front of me wearing a military coat, and instantly felt that he didn't seem to be so annoying.
But after knowing that even they themselves were poor creatures who had been abandoned for so long, a feeling of empathy immediately rose in their hearts.
They had cut off contact with ZF for two months, but they still insisted on not leaving, regardless of whether they didn't leave because they felt that it was safer than outside, at least for the time being, the more than fifty survivors were still under their protection.
I suddenly remembered the old man with glasses in the guard room just now, and hurriedly asked the middle-aged man, "Who is the old man outside just now?" ”
The middle-aged man obviously didn't expect me to ask him suddenly, and he was stunned for a moment before responding: "It's just an ordinary survivor, who used to guard the door in the community, and now although the outside is surrounded by a fence, there is no need to guard the dispensable door, but he seems to insist on himself, unwilling to go, unwilling to move into a residential building, and has to guard the small gate guard room." ”
I nodded, then turned my head and glanced at the guard room from a distance, and a strange feeling rose in my heart.
This apocalypse, this chaos, produces something that makes people feel more than just the walking dead.
The biggest problem lies in the fact that all of us who are alive, including me and Suotian, seem to be just living for the sake of living, completely losing the mentality of pursuing all kinds of things before, we only think about how to fight the walking dead, how to fight the living, how to win safe shelter for ourselves, how to win more supplies for ourselves.
And the reason why the old man with glasses insisted on guarding the door that he didn't need for a long time was probably a kind of self-psychological suggestion from him, he wanted to make himself feel that he still had a certain value and necessity to live in this world.
After the fat man briefly said some simple rules of the shelter, he didn't enter Building No. 6, and left in a hurry with his camouflage uniform.
As soon as he left, he immediately let go of his hand and asked the middle-aged man, "How is the situation?" ”
I listened to their conversation on the sidelines, and the middle-aged man knew how to lock the sky very well, and immediately knew what the lock wanted to ask, and responded: "Two died, one car was damaged, and the two guns were not returned." After finishing speaking, the middle-aged man glanced at me intentionally or unintentionally, and then said, "Two people in Miss Chen's team broke up with us, and they haven't come back yet. ”
When I heard this, I was immediately stunned.