After the disappearance of Zheng Jieming's mother, the quality of life of the two siblings plummeted, and with the pensions issued to them by the military, the two of them lived a difficult life.

Even so, there are a lot of people who play their minds.

Huan Tan, the next-door neighbor, once came to the door and "negotiated kindly" with Zheng Zhilan.

"You give me the real estate certificate at home, and if you need to pay the property fee or something in the future, I will help you pay it, and I will take care of the two of you in life, in addition to the pension issued to you by the military every month, I can also give you a sum of money every month, and you two can get more study materials or something."

Zheng Zhilan was fifteen years old at the time, but she already had a lot of experience in how to protect her interests, and when she heard Huan Tan mention the real estate certificate, she immediately knew in her heart that this man wanted to take the opportunity to defraud the house.

"Thank you, but no, I can take care of myself, and my brother can take care of himself, so I'm sorry for you." Zheng Zhilan stood at the door, not letting the man who was a head taller than herself enter the house, and she was about to close the door.

"Hey, wait a minute? Otherwise, I think you guys are quite pitiful, you still have to go to school, and you have to do other things in life, your brother Zheng Jieming is right, I can go to school and take him home in the future? Huan Tan continued.

Zheng Zhilan thought about it and felt a chill rise from behind.

"No, he doesn't have any problems going back and forth on his own now. I'm going to rest, forgive me! ”

Huan Tan is in the courtyard, and he is not a kind and enthusiastic uncle, but a well-known gangster. He was a worker in the factory at the beginning, and he was tired of doing it for a while, so he didn't do it and came out to do business. I was tired of doing business for a few days, so I didn't do it, and since then I have been mixing at home, living on my wife's salary. He just wanted to make up his mind to cheat the Zheng family's house.

After that, Zheng Zhilan worried that her thirteen-year-old brother would be in danger of going back and forth to school, and specially stuffed a knife in his school bag.

"The knife is not given to you to fight. Don't let anyone find out you have a knife in your bag at any time! But if a stranger wants to maliciously kidnap you -- I'm not talking about a fight between classmates, but an adult who wants to kidnap you and stab him!! When Zheng Zhilan said these words, there was a chill in her eyes, which made Zheng Jieming feel frightened at that time.

"Beware of the Huantan next door, that uncle is a gangster, after my mother disappeared, this person has always been thinking about our house. The other upstairs and downstairs neighbors are pretty good, nothing is wrong, but the heart of defense is indispensable. Zheng Zhilan continued.

Zheng Jieming just listened quietly, and at that time he felt as if there was danger hidden everywhere around him.

"Got it?" Zheng Zhilan asked Zheng Jieming.

"Understood." Zheng Jieming said. In fact, he didn't understand it at all, he knew that his parents were gone, and he was sad and sad in his heart, but he was not full of hostility and a sense of crisis towards everything around him like his sister.

After Zheng Jieming went to college, he looked back to his sister Zheng Zhilan, and he thought of a word - victim paranoia.

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Zheng Jieming put down the photo in his hand and continued to check the situation in the room. The house is almost decorated, continuing the style of childhood. After his sister also ran away from home, of course, he didn't have any intention to take care of this house, with white walls and stone floors, without any uniqueness, but it was also easy to clean.

"Why isn't your house decorated at all? It looks weird. Jin Hu said, he looked at the window, it was still the kind of window with iron frame. The radiator is also the most traditional iron sheet, but the furniture is new.

"I've been like this since I was a kid, and I've lived here by myself since I was very young." Zheng Jieming said, "I haven't had any intention of changing anything. It wasn't until I worked on my own that I slowly disposed of the house and replaced it with some old furniture. ”

"It's better to sell it and change it." Wei Zilong said.

"I live in this house, and I feel uncomfortable." Zheng Jieming said, "But ...... At that time, I always thought that my mother and sister would show up one day, so I didn't sell it. ”

Zheng Jieming didn't say anything more, packed up the box, and brought the letter and bank card with him. And the album was tossed aside by him, and most of the thick album was empty.

"Go back, you've got almost everything." Zheng Jieming said, the group was about to go out, but on the side wall of the gate, they saw a big word - death!

"This is left by the people who came to your house to do evil." Zhou Jitang looked at this word, turned around and asked Zheng Jieming, "It seems that your family has a feud?" ”

"Feud? Hmph, my father died at an early age, and he definitely can't make any enmity, I'm afraid it has something to do with my sister......" Zheng Jieming thought in his heart, he suddenly thought, since Zheng Zhilan appeared in Lan Yuting before and seemed to be the leader of a group of people, it was entirely possible that she had come back.

That's it, don't think about it yet, transport the supplies back first, and a group of people are still waiting to be fed in the express hotel.

The four of them quickly moved everything back to the Express Hotel. Everyone had eaten their own food, and no one had the heart to move anymore.

"Let's stay here, the bed here is very comfortable." Zheng Jieming saw that everyone was reluctant to leave, so he made a decision along the way, "After all, we have been running, fighting, and camping for so many days, and we have not rested for a moment, and almost everyone is suffering from insomnia. ”

Zheng Jieming's decision is definitely in line with the people's will, and everyone happily agrees. The newly collected food will last you for at least two days, and most importantly, this hotel usually has a water tank on the roof in order to prepare for the water outage!

In the afternoon of the same day, Zhou Jitang found Chang Bing again and wanted to establish a relationship with her.

"Chang Bing, talk to you." Zhou Jitang walked to the room where Chang Bing and Fang Xinping were and called Chang Bing out.

"What do you want to say?" Chang Bing was still hesitating in her heart, she wanted to have someone to rely on, but she didn't really want to do anything, she had an extremely strange ambivalence.

Zhou Jitang smashed it, tilted his head, grabbed Chang Bing's left hand, took her out of the room, and closed the door with his hand.

"What I mean to you is obvious, you won't be unaware of it." Zhou Jitang spoke bluntly.

"Now this situation ......"

"What's going on now?" Zhou Jitang interrupted her, "In the current situation, you need someone to protect you in the name of righteousness." ”

"......" Chang Bing didn't speak, her heart was still hesitating, according to her regular standards, Zhou Jitang was not the type she liked. But she really can't bear it anymore, she can't bear the fear anymore, and hopes that there will be one more person in her life who can rely on her whole heart, to share the fear of the end of the world, to share the fear that only comes from her heart, not just the risk faced by the whole team.

Zhou Jitang saw that Chang Bing didn't talk, so he directly pulled her to his side and kissed her arrogantly.

Chang Bing's body stiffened, and his eyes widened nervously, looking at Zhou Jitang. Her teeth were tightly closed, not letting Zhou Jitang get too close.

Zhou Jitang moved his mouth away and looked at Chang Bing, Chang Bing also looked at Zhou Jitang, the strong kiss just now made her feel breathless.

"I know you'll take me sooner or later." Zhou Jitang said a little condescendingly.

Chang Bing shook his head, and Zhou Jitang held Chang Bing in his arms again. This time, Chang Bing did not resist stiffly.

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Night.

Insomnia still plagues everyone, and at night, there are always a few people who can't close their eyes at all, their eyes are wide open, and they seem to shine in the dark, like owls.

However, during the day, people with insomnia symptoms can fall asleep, sleep soundly like a baby, and wake up with a great recovery of energy.

There was a man standing in the hallway, talking to himself like a ghost.

This person is none other than Xie Wuzi.

After the end of the world, he lived alone for a long time, and his mental state seemed to be deteriorating, and the biggest problem was loneliness. This loneliness made him unable to sleep at all, and he couldn't sleep the whole night.

That night, he sat up from his bed again, and as he listened to his surroundings, he sensed an indescribable fear.

It was a fear that came from absolute silence.

This silence enveloped him, as if he was gradually moving away from the world and into another dimension.

At this moment, a voice came from my ears again.

"Xie Wuzi, Xie Wuzi ......?"

It seemed to be a woman's voice, calling him from the underworld.

"Here we go again!! This sound!! Xie Wuzi had a splitting headache and listened to this nasty voice.

He was afraid of loneliness, and even more afraid of the auditory hallucinations that often appeared in the silence.

"Xie Wuzi, what are you doing? Can't you sleep again? ”

This voice echoed in Xie Wuzi's ears.

"Xiaobai! Xiaobai!! Where are you? Xie Wuzi panicked, he knew that the voice would soon start cursing at him. At this time, only Xiaobai's appearance can help him resist this panic.

"Little White !!!" Xie Wuzi shouted loudly, he had forgotten that in the next room, Zheng Jieming and other companions lived.

"What are you shouting? What are you afraid of? That voice echoed around Xie Wuzi.

"Are you afraid of death? Are you afraid of turning into a zombie? ”

"Aren't you afraid of death? Aren't you able to survive alone? ”

The voice gradually changed from a whisper to a hurried question, and the tone sounded more and more fierce.

"You go die!!!! You go die!!!! ”

The voice eventually turned into a loud roaring curse that filled Xie Wuzi's eardrums.

"Ah!!!h Xie Wuzi fell to his knees, covered his head, and fell to the ground.