66. Distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors
"Ah, that's a great help, I really don't know how to put those piles of stuff in the car if you're not here, all in all, thank you."
After gently putting the sleeping Xiaoxue in the passenger seat and letting the safety belt be secured, Ankang said to Ke Jing and Ji Rui.
Ke Jing and Ji Rui hurriedly waved their hands very synchronously, and said that it didn't matter.
"Then Brother Ankang, our car is on that side, wait and go along the way? Just now you said that the place where you live now is just a street away from where Ji Rui and I live now. ”
When Ke Jing was helping Ankang move the things he bought, he was also chatting softly with Ankang, including some recent situations and his current contact information and residential address. And Ankang himself was surprised to find that Ke Jing's current residence was just a street away from the area where Ankang lived, which was relatively close.
And from Ke Jing's mouth, he also learned that most of the refugees who seemed to have escaped on the earth, if they did not have or had no place to go for the time being, were settled in New Hangzhou and the other two habitable zone colonies, which could be regarded as relatively concentrated.
Seeing Ke Jing and Ji Rui leave, An Kang got into the driver's seat. Looking sideways, Xiao Xue was still sleeping very well, probably because Ankang and Ke Jing Jirui deliberately kept their voices low when they spoke, so they didn't wake up Xiao Xue.
Staring at his adopted daughter's cute little face for two or three seconds, An Kang subconsciously wanted to reach out and repeatedly take a look at Xiao Xue's jet-black hair, which was now up to her waist, but worried about waking her up, An Kang's hand stopped in mid-air.
Then the hand withdrew and gently hammered himself [I can't be too intimate now, probably...] After thinking about it, he started the hovercar and set up a place to go home.
As soon as they walked out of the underground parking garage, Ankang saw a sports sedan-type hovercar that was different from Ankang's style of station wagon following Ankang through the rearview equipment.
But at this time, he received a communication from Ke Jing: "Mr. Ankang, we are behind you." After saying this, the rear-view device showed a hand sticking out of the window of the car behind Ankang and shaking it.
"Hey, Ke Jing, it's dangerous to stretch out your hand like this!"
"It's okay, it's okay, there's no car around." During the communication, Ke Jing showed a big little face and hung up the communication.
On the way, the city has gradually turned on the night mode as it gradually enters dusk, and the retro-style street lamps and various more advanced public lighting equipment are in operation, and the soft but bright light is gradually appearing in the streets and alleys of the city.
The traffic seems to be a little more than when it came, and Ankang thinks that it may be the reason why a group of people get off work, but it does not cause congestion.
Towards dusk, basic public lighting facilities such as street lamps in the city are gradually turned on, and if you look at it from above, you will find that "light paths" are gradually emerging, dividing the city into blocks one after another. But the bright signage and illumination of the city's various high-rise buildings, shops and huts have not yet been turned on, and only a few lights are dotted in the middle of the areas divided by the light path. But this also highlights the natural fiery red background of the setting sun - the light of the setting sun shines through the glass on Xiaoxue's face, making Xiaoxue's little face even redder.
Of course, Ankang is not really this kind of short period of time when the city has not yet fully entered the nightlife mode at sunset, because Ankang feels that there is a lonely and bleak atmosphere.
But today, this lonely atmosphere is much less, and the strange feeling of silence that Ankang felt very strange during the short time that was close to dusk has now been broken by some people.
Even on the suspension lane, along the way, Ankang saw a lot of people wearing engineering power armor, buttocks or around a large number of engineering drones reinforcing the suspension vehicle, and building something on both sides of the ground road.
Passing by several civil defense projects, you can also see material trucks and workers wearing engineering power armor coming and going.
After a short distraction, Ankang suddenly saw that the thing in front of him seemed to rise suddenly, the road in front of him suddenly disappeared, and then the hovercar in front of him suddenly seemed to be raised, and the tall buildings in the distance also disappeared from sight, but then returned to normal levels after just a few seconds, making Ankang stunned.
When I opened the rearview equipment, it turned out that a team of personnel was working on the suspension lane, so they set up a temporary suspension lane directly above the construction site, so that the suspension vehicle could fly directly over the head of the construction drone.
Entering the community where his house is located, Ankang roughly recalled and found that he had experienced the scene at least 8 times along the way, every few kilometers, and not only the suspended lane, but also the ordinary ground lane.
It gives people a situation where the construction period is piled up.
However, for Ankang, the slightly noisy and abrupt construction scene diluted the lonely atmosphere in the dusk, after all, the hot construction site is still very sunrise. Although most of the construction is carried out now, it is drones.
When the car drove to the door of the house, Ke Jing's car, which was following behind, also followed to the gate of Ankang's house.
After the car stopped steadily, Ankang picked up Xiaoxue, who was still asleep, and walked into the door. After the door opened, Ankang whispered to the computer housekeeper to assign the housekeeping robot to carry the purchased things and ingredients in his car.
Before entering the door, Ankang turned his head to look at Ke Jing and Ji Rui who got off their car and whispered, "Come in and sit?" ”
Although the voice was relatively small, Ke Jing's hearing beyond ordinary people still made him hear Ankang's voice, so he nodded and took Ji Rui's hand and followed Ankang in.
Walking into the house, Ankang originally wanted to carry Xiaoxue directly to the second floor and put it on the bed in her own bedroom, after all, although this kind of blank house has not undergone further personalized decoration, it has everything that should be there, and the bed and bedding computer housekeeper have just cleaned and dried it before Ankang moved in, which means that it can be used directly.
But when you think about it, if a child wakes up and finds that the ceiling is an unfamiliar ceiling, and then there are no familiar people around, it must be very scared and lonely.
Although Ankang felt that according to Xiaoxue's intelligence, she would definitely react that this was her current home, and Ankang was downstairs, but for this little girl who was traumatized by the war, Ankang was unwilling to let her suffer a little bit of uneasiness and grievance.
So after hesitating for more than a second, Ankang walked through the living room with Xiaoxue and came to the exit of the courtyard, as one of the transition areas between the inner room and the courtyard, here is composed of floor-to-ceiling glass and glass sliding doors to form a space surrounded by glass locks, and there is also a set of sofas and small tables here, you can see the people in the living room and the kitchen when you look sideways, but there is still a slight distance between the two places, which makes the communication in the living room not affect it too much.
After pulling over a pillow, Ankang gently placed Xiaoxue on the sofa, and then covered her stomach with a thin blanket.
"Alright, Ke Jing, welcome to my home."
Ankang, who had placed Xiaoxue, strode towards Ke Jing and Ji Rui, who were sitting on the sofa in the living room.
"I'm sorry to just move in today, so there's nothing to entertain. Do you want to drink something? It's a pity that there is only water and milk bought today. ”
"Water will do." x2
Ke Jing: The two of them are very synchronized.
"Actually, Brother Ankang, you don't need to be polite to us, you came here inexplicably, it's rude for us to say it." Ji Rui said to Ankang after taking the water sent by the housekeeping robot.
"Huh... Well, then you're welcome. Ankang took a breath and took a deep breath: "Eh, I suddenly feel like I should go cooking, you see, it's five o'clock... When Xiaoxue wakes up, she will definitely feel hungry! ”
"Brother Ankang, I'll help you." Ji Rui took a sip of water and stood up and followed An Kang to the open kitchen next to the dining room.
"I'm here to help, too!" Ke Jing trotted over.
With the strengthened physical fitness, Ke Jing's knife skills are now very powerful and stable, so he can still have leisure chatting when he can cut ingredients quickly.
"There's a question, Brother Ke Jing, who is Xiaoxue now?"
Ji Rui, who was preparing vegetarian dishes on the side, also instantly pricked up his ears and listened.
An Kang grinned and replied in a tone that seemed a little helpless: "Legally speaking, I should be Xiaoxue's adoptive father now..."
Silence of the Mystery
Handing the cut meat to An Kang, Ke Jing broke the silence that lasted for about half a minute
"In a sense, it's really unexpected news, Brother Ankang. I remember that Brother Ankang seems to have said that he guessed he was 19 years old..."
"That's right, 19 years old is still a virtual age."
"It feels like a novel, an anime, or a game." Putting the lid on the pot, Ji Rui thought for a while and spoke.
"Don't talk about that. How's Doujia'er? ”
"His words were taken away by the police here when he came here, but it should be fine, it is said that he received a two-day ideological education, and the army even confiscated his demon god Z, and it was parked in the parking lot of the new Hangzhou Police General Bureau here."
Ke Jing, who cut the meat and then helped Ji Rui wash the vegetables, was very clear about Dou Jia'er's whereabouts: "I pulled that guy off that plane, otherwise it would be a little troublesome for the police to arrest him." ”
"Well, that's the case, are you going well on Mai Er? Later, I heard a briefing on the completion of the mission, and saw that unidentified creatures had invaded Mai Er's hull. ”
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