It's rare to have someone who doesn't get in the way. Yuan Sui lowered his head and walked alone on the bank of the river with his feet sticky after the rain, but because he was too inattentive, he almost tripped over a raised stone.

Waving his hands back and forth, finding his sense of balance in the attention of a few passers-by, Yuan Sui smiled wryly, squatted down as if nothing had happened, and washed his face in the clear river water.

Confirming that the ink on his hands had been cleaned, Yuan Sui exhaled lightly and began to memorize the knowledge points that had been summed up in the past few days in his heart.

This nameless town nestled among the mountains was first built about fifty years ago. Most of the brick and timber houses have undergone multiple repairs, mainly in strips along the sides of Horseshoe Creek, but most of them live in more secluded and safe basements. The food in the town is basically self-sufficient. Perhaps taking into account the man-made destruction once every three months, the most common crop to be planted is bean sprouts that can be cultivated indoors, and Yuan Sui has witnessed the twenty practices of this humble vegetable in the past few days. Some, such as clothing or electronics, are apparently purchased from outside sources, and the channels for exchanging goods are unknown.

The most noteworthy thing is that there are about 70 permanent residents in the town, and the ratio of men and women is basically balanced, but most of them are children under the age of 20, or even under the age of 15. There are very few adults, and more than half of them are clearly guarded by some. In contrast, it was the younger children who treated outsiders like her more kindly, and Liu Xia was a special case of being too close to her, and it could not be completely ruled out that this white girl had deliberately behaved in exchange for her trust. In addition, other foreign adults seem to be reluctant to have any private contact with Yuan Sui, perhaps to avoid suspicion.

This is unusual.

Since humans have experienced a series of radiation from the six fingers, it has become almost impossible to conceive naturally without the help of artificial technology. Because medical equipment is not widely available in remote areas, this is the essential reason for the continuous decline of human beings compared to small-scale wars scattered throughout the country. So theoretically, it should not be possible for the number of children in an area to be much larger than the number of adults.

In particular, none of these guys are ordinary "kids".

It was already May, and the morning breeze by the stream still exuded a moist coldness. Yuan Sui covered his mouth and sneezed two loud sneezes in quick succession, then crossed his hands and rubbed the goosebumps on his arms, trying to sort out the mess in his brain.

A young man with a fishing rod walked up to her face to face. Yuan Sui glanced up at the guy, who had no features other than small eyes, and kept walking, only moving slightly to the left.

The other party did not seem to pay much attention to her, but stopped halfway to himself, and set up a simple folding bench on the narrow passage on the shore, and crudely buttoned a straw hat above his head.

It's really unqualified. When he had to stagger by, Yuan Sui had to step into the mud after the rain.

Mixed minds. She stretched her face and scraped the dirt on the soles of her shoes on the stones at her feet, but the small-eyed man behind her screamed in hindsight: "You-"

Yuan Sui turned around and said with a self-evident face, 'It's too late to apologize now, so don't talk nonsense'.

"Fresh faces." The small-eyed man who looked to be about thirty years old temporarily took off his hat, and his voice seemed to be hoarse by nature, "Oh, I remember, you're the one who was brought in in in last week in a coma." ”

The first suspected outsider who took the initiative to talk to her. Yuan Sui restrained his irritability after being interrupted as much as possible, and let out a very casual "um" in his mouth.

Don't come and talk to me, I'm still under observation. She couldn't help but scorn vigilantly.

The man obviously sensed her impatience, stared at Yuan Sui's eyes and asked slowly, "It's just after seven o'clock in the morning, ...... are you here alone?" ”

almost blurted out the sentence "Take care of yourself", Yuan Sui turned his back: "I'm upset, I want to walk alone, can't I?" Or do you still want to ask why I'm upset? Do you need to ask? ”

The noisemaker behind him was quiet for a moment, then replied flatly, "Yes." ”

Yuan Sui took a breath and continued to walk alone along the almost straight path, but suddenly heard a movement behind him.

The unknown wind only had time to ruffle a few strands of her hair. Yuan Sui quickly lowered his body, rolled forward a few times, and then bit his lip and wiped the mud on his arm, looking at the slender fishing rod close at hand with a cold face.

The small-eyed man shook his wrist slightly, kicked the small bench behind him into the grass, and then leaned forward, continuing to swing the slender weapon and stab her in the face.

Yuan Sui snorted coldly as she stepped back, and countless thin lines had densely extended forward from the shadows behind her.

The man whose ankles were firmly entangled instantly lost his balance and fell crookedly in the direction of the stream. Yuan Sui frowned, and was thinking about whether he shouldn't make such a big move, when he saw the man squint his already small eyes that couldn't see clearly, and then threw the fishing rod in his hand at her horizontally.

It is said to be "throwing", but the speed is more than a star and a half faster than when it is waved in the hands of a man. Yuan Sui barely had time to see a slender shadow flying towards her, and a slight tingle broke out from his left cheek in response to the sound of the wind.

The splash instantly attracted the attention of many people. Yuan Sui turned around with a complicated expression, picked up the fishing rod that had been stuck straight into the dirt, and gently rubbed the scraped skin on the side of his face with the back of his hand.

"The response was pretty fast." The man propped his hands on the shore, turned over neatly, clenched the hem of his clothes unhurriedly and twisted a handful of water, "People from the military academy?" ”

"You guessed it right, but I can't represent the level of those great alumni." Yuan Sui saw that the figure of the young man who seemed to be in case was rushing quickly, and immediately put on his usual smiling face, and decided to take the first step to calm down, "I should have apologized for taking a cold shower early in the morning, but considering that it was not me who did it first, if my tone at this time is not sincere enough, I hope you don't be surprised." ”

"It's fine. It's really the stubble I found first. The man stretched out his hand to the bewildered passers-by to say "don't come closer", and then reacted quickly to catch the fishing rod that Yuan Sui threw back with some force.

"Alas...... Later, if I am questioned together, please see that I am a girl who is new to life and is not familiar with life, don't reverse black and white......"

Yuan Sui was brewing an explanation in his heart, and he saw that in case of a storm, he picked up the crowd all the way, and ran all the way to the man's side with a black face.

"Boss...... You're back? How did it come to this? In case his gaze switched back and forth between Tong Siyuan, who had a calm face, and Yuan Sui, who opened his mouth wide and couldn't speak, "You too, since you're back, you won't go to rest at this time, and you won't come to me to hand over the general affairs...... So what's going on now? ”