Sou!

The arrow burst out of the wind under the powerful force of the metal crossbow string, and let out a slight scream that tore through the air, and in a flash of black light, the front of the arrow pierced deep into the tree.

Seeing this situation, Liu Chang hurriedly ran forward to check his results - he saw that the 40-centimeter-long crossbow arrow had sunk into the tree, and the body was 30 centimeters long, and only the tail of the crossbow arrow was still exposed. He stepped forward and grabbed the tail of the arrow with one hand, and he tried dozens of times before he pulled the crossbow arrow out of the tree little by little.

"That's a lot of energy!" Liu Chang looked at the deep hole in the tree, and the juice flowing out of it, and sighed: "It is much more powerful than that police pistol, if you count the mass, the power of this crossbow arrow is really greater than the power of a military rifle bullet within thirty meters!" ”

"It's a pity that the trajectory is really a little worse." Liu Chang checked the hole in the tree and found that the place where he shot was slightly lower than the place where he was aiming - this shows that the ballistic trajectory of the crossbow arrows is arc-shaped, because the weight of the crossbow arrows themselves is too heavy, and their ballistic trajectories are more difficult to grasp than that of bullets. And also because of the weight, although at medium and short ranges, it is indeed more powerful than rifle bullets, but when the crossbow arrow leaps more than 50 meters, the power will be greatly reduced.

But fortunately, in this red mist weather, even Liu Chang himself could hardly see anything eight meters away - so he never considered the problem of fifty meters away.

All he had to do now was to test the caste of the crossbow arrows and the skill of the crossbow, and at the same time train himself to shoot his prey at close range.

Therefore, the afternoon passed like this, and his experience in the afternoon made countless holes in the body of that big tree - of course, if that big tree evolved an attack surname, Liu Chang, the culprit who caused all this, would have been torn apart by the angry it.

Unfortunately, it was a few beats slower in its evolutionary journey than its terrible counterparts that had taken root throughout the underworld - it hadn't become that gigantic and terrifying monster, it was still the same tree, just a little thicker than before.

This afternoon's test made Liu Chang gain a lot. He was now proficient in winding his bow in the shortest possible time, and he understood the difference between the trajectory and power of long and short crossbow arrows, and he could roughly grasp the shooting distance within ten meters - everything seemed to be so smooth.

After the sky gradually darkened, Liu Chang's visual distance in the dense fog became shorter and shorter, and when the visual distance was shortened to less than three meters, Liu Chang decisively left here, put away the crossbow arrows and went home.

All the way through the black and red world, the surrounding fog slowly flowed past him, Liu Chang stirred the dense fog around him like a mouse in a soup pot, and walked all the way to the interior of the dormitory.

Back in front of the door of his room on the first floor, Liu Chang's sensitive nose asked a familiar smell of corpses from the room. Then, his heart tightened - if there is a smell of corpses, it means that there are corpses, and if there are corpses, it means that someone is dead, and the dead are from his own house.

Who died then, Liu Chang probably guessed it.

Pushing the door into the house, he saw a corpse covered with a white sheet, the corpse of an old man, on the only bed in the family of three, the sheet covered most of her body, leaving only her head exposed to the air. There was also a dying old man lying next to the corpse, and the faint breath he exhaled was not much stronger than the lifeless corpse next to him, it was really "dying", "dying", "one" and "resting".

Guarding the two old men was the single woman who had never spoken—she was now sitting on the edge of the bed like a puppet, with no expression on her face, no tears, no sadness, only the occasional wipe of the sweat from the other old man's head.

There was no sadness on her face, but the aura she exuded was as sad as it could be.

"Ugh." With a sigh, Liu Chang walked into the room that exuded a strong smell, walked past the old man's corpse, and sat on his bed next to the corpse, and a sense of sadness rose in his heart.

He was still hesitating to make a bed for the two old men last night, and today one of the two old men is gone. Liu Chang couldn't help but think with some regret in his heart, if he made a bed for the two of them yesterday, although he couldn't prevent the fate of their weak death, would it be able to bring the last bit of warmth to their lives before the end.

But he thought about it again, if he hadn't rested well last night, would he still be able to avoid the countless "life and death lines" when facing the giant dog today, and even by mistake, would he be able to see the giant dog hit the prey? Can we finally sit here alive?

If you give yourself a chance to choose again, will you change your original choice? So, he fell into a deep contradiction and entered a logical circle.

At that moment, a large hand patted him on the shoulder.

Liu Chang looked up - it was Li Qingshui.

"Let's go, go out and smoke a cigarette with me." Li Qingshui said, then took out a crumpled cigarette case from his butt pocket that he didn't know where to get it, took out one from it and handed it to Liu Chang.

Holding the tobacco in his hand, Liu Chang saw that even the dry cigarettes were already a little moldy in this terrible world, and the original white cigarette paper had turned yellow and green, just like the old man lying on the bed.

"Let's go."

"Okay."

The two didn't talk much, took cigarettes, and left the dormitory one after the other.

Walking into the aisle and leaning on the bed, Liu Chang took the lighter and lit his cigarette: "Do you know when I last lit a cigarette?" ”

"I don't know."

"When Liu Tao died." Liu Chang reached out and touched the finger bone necklace on his chest, and said, "On the first day of the red mist, he asked me for a cigarette, but I didn't. Later, we went to the hospital together to find medicine because of the wound infection on our body, and then we ...... Then we found the medicine and ate it, and I survived, but he died. When I woke up, I lit one for his corpse. ”

After saying this, Liu Chang took a puff of his cigarette.

"Are you a little sad that the old man of that family died?" Li Qingshui didn't answer Liu Chang's words, but glanced at him and asked other questions.

"It's a little, but it can't be called sad...... spitting out the smell of tobacco in his lungs, Liu Chang thought for a while and said: "It should be called uncomfortable, after all, I haven't had any intersection with her, so I can only be regarded as sympathetic." ”

"Sympathy is a good word, I pulled you out to tell you about it." Li Qingshui grabbed one of Liu Chang's words and said: "I just want to tell you, it's best not to have sympathy for this kind of emotion, it will affect your survival and positive surname." ”

"Why?" Liu Chang was puzzled.

"Because sympathy for the weak is essentially a betrayal of nature." After Li Qingshui was silent for a moment, he said something that made Liu Chang stunned for a while.

Then he seemed to feel that his tone was not strong enough, and added: "What kind of world is it now?" It is no longer the previous world of human society, and we have returned to the most primitive state of natural man. Natural selection, the choice you made last night was definitely the right choice, don't let this incident affect your judgment of survival in the future. Next time, you must not be influenced by compassion and make the wrong choice! Because those who are going to be eliminated will eventually be eliminated, don't let those who should not be eliminated because of your wrong judgment! ”

“……”

Li Qingshui's words made Liu Chang fall into deep thought, and there was a moment of silence in the aisle.

"Thank you......" After a while, Liu Chang raised his lowered head and said with a wry smile: "But I don't even have sympathy, isn't that a betrayal of the surname?" ”

"Don't think about things as complicated as surnames, then you'll fall into a philosophical circle. As long as you live well, it is not a betrayal of yourself and your family, nor is it a betrayal of me, the fat man and the little girl. Not a betrayal of one's own life! ”

After Li Qingshui finished talking about this plan, he smoked all the remaining cigarettes in one gulp, slammed the cigarette butt on the ground and stepped on it, then turned around and pushed the door into the dormitory.

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