Almost at the same time as the sun sank completely, a thin figure appeared at the mouth of the pit. Zhang Yuan carried a basket of crystal stones almost as tall as himself on his back and staggered out.

Veteran Tom's eyelids jumped a few times, and he remained silent as he watched as the thin boy dragged the crystal stone on his back over the scales, and then poured it on the hill-like pile, and then walked slowly over with a note written by the foreman. The strip of cloth wrapped around Zhang Yuan's body has been dyed with a large piece of blue with mineral powder.

Seeing Zhang Yuan coming over, the veteran Tom walked around to the back of the house. There, against the tin house, there was a large shed, and Jerry, a lame man who was missing half a leg, struggled to move his body of more than 100 kilograms, and shouted, "Boy, come here! ”

Zhang Yuan walked under the shed and handed over the note. Cripple Jerry glanced at it, couldn't help but whistle, and said, "The kid is not bad! More than a lot of adults. Come on, here's the list, see what you want to exchange. Are you literate? Oh, yes, that's amazing! I only recognize most of the words on this list. Hey, don't look over there, you can't afford to change it right now! Look down from here. ”

Jerry used his thick finger to swipe in the middle of the long list, and Zhang Yuan looked at the list. His gaze stayed on the "wheat porridge" and "canned corn soup" columns, and then looked up again until Jerry's thick fingers blocked his view.

"This is it." Zhang Yuan pointed to the list with his fingers wrapped in strips of cloth.

Jerry cried out, "Aha! 'Wheat porridge' and 'canned corn soup'! That's a rarity! Now only large bases can establish heavily guarded grain growing areas, and such expensive canned food can be made. It can be seen that these things are precious, but boy, this thing is not anti-hunger! You must be a nobleman, I heard that the nobles' bodies are so tender that they can only eat liquids! ”

"This is it." Zhang Yuan pointed to the list, and his voice was so flat that there was no fluctuation at all, which made people a little skeptical that this would be an artificially synthesized sound.

Jerry shrugged his shoulders, took out a can of drink that was also undated from a pile of wooden boxes behind him, and threw it to Zhang Yuan. 'Give!' 'Wheat porridge' and 'canned corn soup' and drinking water, what a luxury boy. ”

Zhang Yuan carefully put the food and water into the blanket, turned around to leave, the cripple Jerry scratched his head, took the fist-sized, hard as a stone, regenerated organic food, threw it to Zhang Yuan and said: "Boy, mining is a hard work, you can't eat anything!" Take this, remember, you owe Cripple Jerry 0.2 dollars, and tomorrow it will be deducted from your wages! ”

Zhang Yuan took the organic food, put it into the blanket with the same care, and then bowed deeply to the lame Jerry, and then walked into the darkness.

In the dark wilderness, dozens of pairs of wolf-like eyes stared at Zhang Yuan, whispering one after another. "That kid seems to have done a lot today, why don't we go over and see what he's changed? Maybe it's ten pounds of organic food. ”

"I bet he must have a big piece of roasted Zerg puppy meat in his arms!"

A lazy but murderous voice next to him took over: "Hey! A few rookies over there, don't you know the rules of veteran Tom? On his turf, no one can grab what he has been gained. ”

The previous voice was clearly unconvinced: "Veteran Tom? What can he manage? I can fight ten of this kind of old man! The lazy man laughed and scolded, "It's up to you? It's not worth licking the ass of veteran Tom! ”

The person who was scolded as a rookie was still not convinced, and was about to argue, but who knew that the other party suddenly lost his patience, whistled, and shouted: "Boys, chop up this guy who wants to make trouble and feed it to the puppy!" More than a dozen black shadows rose up in response and surrounded him. After a brief scream, the wilderness returned to silence.

And the others, no one paid attention to those unlucky people, whether it was a human race or a god human race, they had to hurry up and rest, and they could only carry an extra basket of crystal stones out tomorrow.

In the barn, the lame Jerry could no longer see Zhang Yuan's figure, he grabbed the head that had no hair left, and muttered, "Where is this kid going?" If he gets eaten by a puppy, my two cents will be wasted. Hey, veteran Tom, you're saying my money won't go to waste, right? Tom, the veteran soldier who had been leaning on the stilt, spread his hands and said, "God knows." ”

Crippled Jerry struggled to his feet and began to gather the food and record list on the workbench. His remaining thighs were thick and powerful, enough to support his body of more than a hundred kilograms to jump around the barn without the use of crutches.

He picked up the last note handed over by Zhang Yuan, and was about to throw it away, when he suddenly remembered something, looked at it again, and said to himself: "Canned liquid food, I really don't know what he wants this for?" Veteran Tom took the note from Jerry's hand, glanced at the numbers, crumpled it, and threw it into the fire pit outside the barn.

Veteran Tom coughed a few times, spat out thick phlegm, and said, "Jerry, go back and tell Harry, the iron rooster, that from tomorrow onwards, the amount of ten kilograms less per basket will be deducted from that child." If he can work here for a month, give him the real weight. ”

Jerry said, "It seems a little bit out of line. "He's raising children." Veteran Tom lit a half-baked cigarette and spoke in a muffled voice. Jerry looked up in some surprise and said, "What? How old is he, how can he raise a child? ”

Veteran Tom exhaled a smoke ring and said, "Children under the age of one, if they can't find a woman to nurse their children, need to be fed with nutritious liquids, and canned porridge and corn soup are cheap and nutritious liquids." ”

Jerry raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh my God! I thought my child wouldn't be able to live without milk, but how do you know that? Looking at the sky, veteran Tom said calmly, "Because I have also raised children." ”

Jerry was taken aback and said, "You've never talked about that. How old is he? He should be in his teens or twenties, God forbid, he must not be as ugly as you. ”

Veteran Tom smiled and said, "I was late in marriage and late in childbearing, when the war had just ended, and his mother had just died after giving birth when she was hit by a piece of ceiling that was shaken down by violent explosion fluctuations. I couldn't find enough liquid food because the supplies weren't as abundant as they are now, so at two months, my baby didn't make it through because I only had regenerative organic food that babies couldn't digest. ”

Jerry didn't know what to say for a moment, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Sorry, old fellow, I shouldn't have said this." You know, I've never met a woman in my life, and I've never had the opportunity to raise a child. ”

Veteran Tom took a heavy drag on his cigarette, looked out the window at the reddish-purple night sky, and said, "Man, you never had to tell me this. If it weren't for you, I would have become a puppy offal food, and it would not be my turn to sit in the position of the acting manager of the mining area of the group army. ”

Jerry picked up a nearly fifty-kilogram supply box, supported it on one leg, jumped more than a meter high, gently placed the supply box on the highest shelf, scratched his head again, and said: "I didn't mean to save you, you know I was wearing heavy armor at the time, but you didn't have any equipment at the time, and it can bite half of your body in one bite!" ”

Veteran Tom handed Jerry a small half of the cigarette in his hand, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Man, go to bed early, are you waiting for a woman?" After the end of the war, there were very few women trapped here, and our mining area here was remote, so there would be no women here. ”

Jerry took a hard drag on the cigarette and held it in his lungs until he couldn't hold it anymore. Veteran Tom had returned to the iron house, only to hear the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, indicating that he had thrown himself on the bed. Cripple Jerry looked at the ceiling, but his eyes were a little moist. As a high-tech combat class, who wants to be stranded on a planet full of Zerg remnants?

No matter how many new Terran and Protoss strong men in the wilderness came, and no matter how many of the original Terran and Protoss strong men disappeared inexplicably, the sun always rose as usual.