Chapter 37: After the Catastrophe
"Oh, I said Aunt Julina, how do you know so much?" Chen Dabeard said strangely.
Julina took out a small piece of black slimy from her bosom, ate it alone, and said as she ate, "First of all, I want to correct you, bearded brother, you should call me little sister, because I am younger than you." Secondly, I want to tell you that I know a thing or two about guns. I saw the wreckage of those mammoth tanks that were blown up, there were some fragments of missiles on them, do you know the market price of a surface-to-surface missile right now? Take a thermally guided missile as an example, the price on the black market is probably more than 50,000 yuan! The average small team simply can't afford to use such a lethal weapon. At present, the owners of missiles that can be used on a large scale are in the entire north, except for the Northern Army, there are only a few large mercenary groups. ”
Everyone listened to Zhu Lina's eloquent conversation, and they thought that Zhu Lina was a knowledgeable sniper. If this were the old days, Julina would have been an intellectual woman with a strong scholarly demeanor, but unfortunately she was born in a brutal and inhumane apocalypse, and talking about the lethality of weapons in this way is no different from a butcher's argument of killing pigs.
Everyone wandered all the way, walked on the national highway, continued to rush after sleeping overnight, and finally in the afternoon of the next day, the majestic shadow of Black Mountain City appeared in front of them.
When passing through the Wall of Ten Thousand Corpses, it was still an inspection, but this time Wang Qiang was clever and did not cause a stir and chaos under the city wall.
After successfully passing through the city wall, Chen Dabeard took the bearded team and Wang Qiangfeifei and others to say goodbye and returned to their residence.
Unexpectedly, when I returned to Zhang Feifei's residence in District 18, I saw my beast off-road parked in the carport.
"Ah, Brother Mang must have come back safely!" Zhang Xiaosan exclaimed.
"Yes, look at our car, it's back too!" Zhang Xiaomei exclaimed.
At this time, the window door of a small towering attic in the shantytown opened, and the sleepy-eyed man stood on the small balcony with a toothbrush in his mouth, ready to brush his teeth. Hearing the exclamation below, Brother Mang fixed his eyes and immediately laughed: "Ahaha, Feifei, you are back!" ”
Brother Mang didn't have time to lift his pants, so he ran downstairs with a mouth full of foam and came to Fei Fei.
"I can't believe you can come back safely, it's incredible!" Brother Mang sighed.
Zhang Feifei was also very happy, and even said, "Brother Mang, we thought you were dead, by the way, there are dead people everywhere on the national highway, why are you okay." Not only are you fine, but even the car is back! It's amazing. ”
Brother Mang touched his beard, and recalled with fear: "Feifei, don't you know, at that time, the people of the Kaishan Battalion were using explosives to break through the rock mass, intending to open the national highway and continue to move forward. Suddenly, a lot of missiles flew from the sky! These missiles were all pointed at the tank groups on the front line, and in an instant the sky was shaking and shaking, and there was a sea of fire in front of us. ”
Brother Mang said a few words, his face flushed, he took out half a cigarette butt from his trouser pocket, put it in his mouth tremblingly, and then took out the lighter and wiped the fire, but his trembling hands did not ignite the flame for a long time.
Wang Qiang hurriedly asked, "Then how did you escape?" ”
Brother Mang finally lit the cigarette, took a deep breath, and said slowly: "You don't know, the first bombing was aimed at the armored battalion of the Huangquan Mercenary Regiment, and our miscellaneous squad is not the target of others' attention at all." It also gave me a chance. Seeing that the situation was not right, I immediately drove off the national highway in an off-road vehicle and rushed into the wilderness next to me. Half a minute after I drove into the wilderness, the convoy left behind by the corpse hunting squad and bounty hunters on the national highway was also bombed! The sound of the explosion behind me was so horrible that I still have blood scabs in my ears now. At that time, it was fortunate that I reacted quickly and slipped away decisively, otherwise Fei Fei would have to burn yellow paper for me this time next year. ”
Brother Mang said that the last big man couldn't help crying, it seems that escaping death did not give Brother Mang much comfort to the trauma in his heart.
"Lao Gu escaped with me in a jeep, but his car was not good, and he was overturned by the air wave caused by the missile bombardment, and he was injured, I got him back, and now he is probably still recuperating at home." Brother Mang said.
Zhang Feifei's hanging heart finally let go of a little bit, this time, Uncle Chen contributed to the effort, and also broke Xue Ying's life, if Lao Gu also died, then Uncle Beard would be too much of a loss.
Thinking of this, Zhang Feifei's apology in her heart decreased slightly. Although Xue Ying's death had nothing to do with everyone, it was because he was too greedy, but this time it was Uncle Beard who took the initiative to help him, if he didn't insist on taking this task, I'm afraid there wouldn't be so many tragedies.
Escaping from death, not reuniting with death, everyone's mood is like a roller coaster, just driving through the trough and flying into the sky. So he didn't say anything else, Zhang Feifei asked Xiao San to tell his teammates in the beard team that he would get drunk at Feifei's house at night, and then Zhang Feifei generously took out his shriveled purse, took out a large amount of new currency from it, raised it to Wang Qiang, and said: "Let's go, let's go buy some delicious food, don't get drunk at night and don't return!" ”
So Brother Mang's mood instantly rose, if he has wine today, he should be drunk today, and he will die another day, just if he has wine, Brother Mang was so happy that he ran home, picked up the pots and pans, and ran to Fifiga to start manipulating.
Zhu Lina took a leave of absence and said that she wanted to go back to the 17th district to see her little daughter who was alone at home, her daughter was only five years old, and she had been at home alone for several days, so she couldn't rest assured. Wait for the evening to bring my daughter over for dinner.
So everyone went their separate ways and got busy for the evening party.
Besides, Chen Dabeard returned to his residence in the 15th district, and when he saw Lao Gu lying on the bed with hanging needles, he was so excited that he burst into tears, and couldn't help but pounce on Lao Gu and hugged Lao Gu and kissed him a few times, until Lao Gu, who was injured all over his body, wailed. Talking about the sudden attack on the national highway line and the vicious battle on Falling Hammer Mountain, everyone sighed.
Not long after, Zhang Xiaosan came to the residence to invite an evening dinner, and everyone was in a much better mood, so they agreed to go happily.
In the evening, everyone came to Fei Fei's residence one after another, Brother Mang and Little Sister had already shown their skills, a table of good dishes was steaming fragrantly, and the two altars exuded a strong mellow fragrance for a long time, waiting for everyone. The first to arrive was the greedy cat knife, then Chen Dabeard and two other comrades-in-arms, Lao An and Lao Yu, and the servants came to visit the door with Lao Gu wrapped in zongzi, and then Zhu Lina and her five-year-old daughter Zhu Zhu also knocked on the door. Everyone in the rest of their lives after the catastrophe, it is worth celebrating, full of a glass of wine, open their stomachs to eat, talk about their feelings, sometimes cry and sometimes laugh, so unhappy!
"Come, this cup, we respect Xue Ying in the kingdom of heaven, this kid is good at everything, but he is a little too greedy and cheap, and he is greedy now. Lao Tzu told him not to go up, but he didn't listen, didn't listen, and kept ......" Chen Dabeard raised the wine glass in his hand, tears in his eyes.
Wang Qiang thought of the red-haired young man who occasionally showed contempt and hatred for himself, and suddenly realized that this person was no longer there.
"Hey, Lao Chen, if you want to talk about Xiao Xue, I also understand. His old man died in our business, leaving behind a blind old lady, and now he is gone, and the poor old woman may not have a place in the future. Lao Gu said.
The high-spirited atmosphere in the living room was instantly filled with a sense of pathos......
After a cup of stomach, it hurt when she heard the words, and even Zhu Lina, who had just joined Feifei's team, couldn't stop wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes.
"Mom, why are you crying?" Xiao Zhuzhu was ignorant, but she was also thorough, looked at her mother, and asked stupidly.
Julina hugged her daughter and said that her mother was not crying, and that there was sand in her mother's eyes. Chen Dabeard drank the wine in his cup and said indistinctly: "Don't worry, my team and my soldiers, I am responsible!" I will go to Xue Ying's house tomorrow, from now on, his wife will be my mother, and I will bear the life in the future!"
The gathering came to an end amid the remembrance of the deceased and the celebration of the rest of life.
Wang Qiang's alcohol consumption is not good, and he doesn't know when he fell. But a drunk party is a drunk party rest, when he was fished out from under the sofa by Zhang Feifei the next day, the sun had already risen high.
Wang Qiang washed his face indiscriminately, only to find that the cups and plates in the living room were messy, except for Zhang Xiaosan and Xiaodao, who were still lying on the sofa and snoring on the ground, everyone else had quietly left.
"Let's go, let's go to the Mercenary Management Association, pay the task, and by the way, see what tasks the military can take, this time we won't call Chen Dabeard them again, I don't want to go." Fei Fei said.
"Okay, I'll listen to you." Wang Qiang said.
"Then, go to the eleventh district early to buy some weapons and ammunition, go shopping by the way, and don't buy you a set of clothes that fit while you have money in your hand, you can't let others know, you are messing with the old lady, and you are still dressed in a mess." Zhang Feifei looked at Wang Qiang's tattered combat uniform and said.
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Zhang Feifei drove an off-road vehicle to the 19th District Mercenary Management Association, handed over her squad ID and the mission completion certificate approved by the Huangquan Mercenary Group Office, and successfully received a reward of 2,000 Singapore dollars from the association's window.
By the way, at the bounty office of the military headquarters, he sold the zombie claws in the trunk in exchange for a bounty of 300 new dollars. This time, it's all here.
Wang Qiang calculated, one thousand Singapore dollars was the remuneration of the beard team, because of Xue Ying's death, Wang Qiang felt that he should give more to the beard team, and the extra money should be used as Xue Ying's pension, so it made sense.
So Wang Qiang and Zhang Feifei discussed and decided to hand over 1,300 new coins to Chen Dabeard.
When Chen Dabeard got the money, he was a little excited. Indeed, in this chaotic society, a dead person is not much different from a dead pig and a dog, Fei Fei can still give Xue Ying a pension, and it is two hundred yuan higher than the non-commissioned officer pension of the soldiers of the 11th Division, which is really righteous.
So Chen Dabeard decided to invite Fei Fei and Wang Qiang to Xue Ying's house and send the money to Xue's mother.
Wang Qiang decided to take a look, and Zhang Feifei also had a lot of guilt in Xue Ying's death, so the two gave up their plan to go to the office of the 11th Division to see the bounty task, and followed Chen Dabeard to Xue Ying's house.
Xue Ying's family lives in an old-fashioned community with a relatively good environment in District 15, and the space is many times better than the shantytown in District 19 where Zhang Feifei is located. It's just that there is a lack of clean-up in this community, littered everywhere, and the overgrown weeds look desolate.
"Xue Ying's father used to be a well-known bounty hunter, and he also had a good appeal in our circle, and the older generation of bounty hunters and even some mercenary groups knew about his father." Chen Dabeard said as he walked.
This house is the savings of his father who has worked hard for most of his life, and later in a battle, Xue Ying and his father died in the wild, and this house became the last support of Xue Ying and her mother. Xue Ying, this kid, won the title of second-level gene warrior by luck with a secondary gene potion obtained by his father's mission, but his foundation is not good, he only improves the basic strength of his body, and he does not gain any ability, so he is not good at mixing. Chen Dabeard came to a unit building and motioned for people to live on it.
The three of them came to the second floor and knocked on a door, which soon opened, and it was opened by a young woman with a cold face.
"Who are you looking for?" The woman asked coldly.