After a day of working in the fields, in the evening, the three of them gathered in the living room to chat, and Xiaoya talked about her husband's work in a mine before he disappeared. The name of that mine, Kai Ming, is very familiar, it is run by the fat man's classmates.

Kaiming promised Xiaoya a trip to the mine tomorrow to see if she could find her husband's whereabouts.

The SUV was driving in the fog in the early morning, he paid attention to the debris in front of him, and then looked at the sleepy-eyed Angel next to him, "You should stay at home and sleep for a while." ”

She leaned her head against the window, "I tried, and I couldn't sleep in a nervous state." ”

"It's okay, we'll find a way to solve the food problem. Kemin turned on the car radio, only to hear the latest report that the world's population had plummeted to one-fifth in the disaster, and that the government had lost control of the situation and was alerting the people to their own safety.

"To put it bluntly, it's anarchy. ”

Keming turned off the radio and the off-road vehicle drove through the potholes and dirt roads into the mine.

A man stood in the way, holding a rifle in his hand, "This is a private place, please leave immediately." ”

Kai Ming stopped the car and glanced at the man, who was about 1.8 meters tall, with a straight nose and prominent eyebrows......

"Fatty. ”

The man looked left and right, and there was no one else, "What's the stupid name, who's the fat man?" I'm the master here, and I asked for my gun before I wanted to hit the mine. "He pulled*, clicked, and aimed his gun at the people in the car.

"Fatty, I'm Kaiming. "Although he is much thinner now than when he was a child, his eyes and movements are the same as before.

"Kaiming......" The fat man was stunned, put away the handle of the gun, and walked to the car window, "It turns out that it's really you, buddy." ”

Kaiming pushed the car door and hugged him, "Fatty, I haven't seen you for many years, not only have you lost weight, but you have also become handsome, I almost don't recognize you." ”

The fat man touched his head and smiled, feeling like he was back when he was a child. Hearing that the two of them had come to look for the missing worker, he patted his chest, "You saved my life when I was a child, and this is always a trivial matter on me." ”

As they walked, the three said that the mine had stopped quarrying and had been converted into a resort, and that the pit at the foot of the mountain had become an artificial lake, and that a row of white houses could be faintly seen on the shore with willow trees.

The fat man said that half a year ago, he did hire a group of workers, planning to dig through the cave that collapsed due to the earthquake, he fell in love with the underground hot spring, if the spring water is brought out, it will immediately become a hot spring resort, the economic potential is immeasurable, but because of the rumors of the end of the world, the tourism industry is sluggish, the excavation work is terminated, and the workers are all sent home.

As for the disappearance of workers, he did not know that the work was outsourced to an outside company.

The three of them walked to the entrance of the cave, and the excavated mound was four meters high outside. Shine a flashlight into the cave and find a large amount of stagnant water, and the fat man said that after the ice disaster, the melted water flowed into the hole.

Angel sees a bubble coming out of the water, and then a human hand rises, and the screams draw Kaiming and the fat man.

"There's someone in the water. She pointed to her hand in the muddy water.

Kaiming shone a light on the hand, and the nails of that hand were black, "He won't live." ”

The fat man found two pumps, full of horsepower, and discharged eighty tons of stagnant water and silt, and a man's body gradually came to the surface.

Kaiming put on rubber gloves and scooped up the corpse and dragged it out of the cave, its face was already rotting, its skin was black and swollen, and it had been soaked in water for a long time, and it was long unrecognizable. The clothes are exactly the same as Xiaoya's description, and it is estimated that this is her missing husband,

The body was so decomposed that it had to be buried nearby.

Bang

A loud bang was heard in the cave, and a large cloud of dust rushed out of the cave. The fat man arrived as soon as possible, shone it with a flashlight, and found that after the stagnant water was drained, the stones blocking the cave had collapsed, revealing a gap half a meter wide.

He glanced at Kaiming, who had arrived from behind, and remembered the adventures they had had in the cave, and the reunion became precious, and the three of them returned to the resort together, where he fished a large carp in the lake to entertain the two guests.

"Fatty, are you the only one living in the entire resort?" Kaiming saw a row of white rooms, only this one with the lights on.

The fat man nodded, "Since the rumors of the end of the world spread, the workers have gone home to accompany their relatives, and there has not been a single guest in the resort. ”

"Where's your family?"

His eyes sank, and he replied for a long time: "They were all killed by a gang of murderers called the Black Panther Gang, and that night, they broke into my house and killed everyone they saw, and I was the only one who escaped, and since then I have lived alone in the resort." In order to cope with the troubled times, I built an oil depot, purchased a generator, and converted the green area into a vegetable field. ”

Keming glanced around and saw that the resort was surrounded by a three-metre high-speed iron wire fence and had a semi-enclosed lookout on the roof, which was nothing short of a fortress.

The fat man heard about the condition of his old classmates and offered to let them live in the resort so that they could take care of each other. This is undoubtedly a good thing, there is a vegetable garden on vacation, fish are raised in the lake, and there is no need to worry about food anymore.

Kaiming drove back to the mountain village and picked up Xiaoya's mother and daughter.

At three o'clock in the middle of the night, I lifted the quilt and looked out of the window, the willows were swaying in the wind, and a figure was holding a spear in his hand, and the flashlight was swaying by the lake.

Kaiming put on his coat and pistol stuck in his belt, braving the cool mist and approaching the man.

The two bumped fists under the willow tree, and a misty rifle was handed to Kai Ming, and the fat man rubbed his eyelids and said, "Old classmate, I will rely on you in the second half of the night, the wind is cold at night, wear more clothes." ”

"Okay, I haven't seen you for many years, how to get grinding, go back and rest. Cumming patted him on the shoulder and walked along the lake.

In the moonlight, fish swim in the water, the surface of the lake is covered with silver ripples, and under the barbed wire, a lightning bolt is hung every ten meters.

It's forty kilometers from town, and I don't think anyone will make trouble. After making a round, Kaiming climbed a willow tree and hung his feet on the fork.

The night was silent, and he held his gun, shaking his body from time to time to prevent him from falling asleep.

Rustling

There was a noise in the vegetable patch, and he was afraid that he had entered the vegetable thief, so he tightened his grip on the handle of his gun, jumped to the ground, and walked on tiptoe.

Bending down to push away the carob vine, I saw a white-haired dog digging the soil, and the hind feet repeatedly kicked the dirt, and a deep pit had been opened, and it took out a sweet potato and bit it on the ground.

"Okay, you vegetable thief, see me shoot you, add vegetables tomorrow. Cumin muttered under his breath, his eyes on the crosshairs, his fingers on the trigger.

This little thing can't survive the disaster, maybe it's the last dog in the world, and they will be wiped out with one shot.

Kaiming hung down the handle of the gun, grabbed the dog's neck from behind, and pulled it off the ground, this little thing weighed more than ten pounds, and its four feet were kicking wildly. "The next time you dare to sneak in and steal something, I'll break your dog's legs. ”

He put it back on the ground, and the dog ran to the gate with a smoke, and the sweet potato on the ground was bitten out of shape, and he picked it up and threw it at the door, and the dog picked it up and got out of the iron gate.

At noon, hearing someone talking outside, Kaiming pushed off the quilt on his body and walked into the window. Angel and Xiaoya squatted in the vegetable patch with baskets, and the two talked in the sun, sometimes smiling.

Compared to the depressed mountain villages and chaotic cities, this is a pure land.

Kaiming walked over and saw that they were picking beans, two baskets full of them.

"It's too much, isn't it? ”

They looked up at him and said that how much could be made into capers and stored, which was better than rotting in the ground, "The method must have been thought up by Xiaoya." Anqi grew up in the city since she was a child, and she didn't even know housework, let alone farm work, "Living in this troubled world, if there is no woman around you who knows how to take care of housework, I don't know what life will become." ”

Angel flattened her mouth and said, "What do you mean by that?"

"I'm complimenting Xiaoya. ”

"Praise it, why step on me by the way. ”

"Did I step on it?"

"Hmph. She saw that Xiaoya had been snickering beside her, and turned her back to block her breath.

Xiaoya couldn't help but smile and said to her, "Okay, okay, Anqi is also helping with picking, and it's a lot of credit." ”

"Of course. ”

The two women spoke in unison, and there was no longer any room for him to speak, looking to the side, the fat man and Xiaoya's daughter were cleaning up the weeds on the barbed wire.

The girl pointed to the lightning sign, "Uncle, why is this sign hung on the iron net?" ”

The fat man put the rifle on his shoulder, squatted down and said, "Peach, this is the power grid, if it is turned on, it will be electrocuted into roast pig's trotters as soon as you touch it." ”

Peaches swoops and retracts her hand.

The fat man smiled and touched her head, "It's not powered yet, if Uncle pulls the electric switch, you can't touch it again." ”

She nodded.

"Looks like you're getting along well. ”

The fat man turned his head and saw Kaiming standing behind him, "You mean something else. ”

His head tilted towards the vegetable patch, "Xiaoya is a good woman, look at your age, you should also find a companion." ”

"Go, the end is near, I really don't have the heart to think about that kind of thing. The fat man stood up and turned his gaze to the iron bar, thousands of mountains away, "I have experienced the pain of bereavement, and I don't want to try the pain of losing again, I would rather wait for the end to come alone." ”

In this kind of world, the people who survived have lost their relatives, and maybe the next moment the people around them will leave again, fat man, Xiaoya, everyone is busy with life and death, and they can't take care of anything else.

"It's so remote here, do we need to be on guard all day?"

He asks Momoko to return to her mother, touching the new silver barbed wire, "Danger often comes from what you think is the safest. ”

I hope this is his excessive worry about the loss of his loved ones, everyone can no longer afford the loss, and there are fragile hearts surrounded by iron fences.

The fat man pointed to the resort and said, "We have fish and vegetables here, the house is not bad, I believe it will not be long before they come to the door, these guys have a very smart dog nose." ”

"Who are they?"

"You'll know when the time comes. He gripped the handle of his gun and stared at the end of the crooked mountain road.