Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Cost of Survival

Seeing Chen Yating's pitiful appearance, I couldn't help but feel soft in my heart, I also know what she came to ask for, Chen Jiancheng has also sent out a lot of people to look for materials recently, but they don't have the strength and support of us, let alone the courage of us, just searching for those scattered materials in places where zombies are rarely infested, but with the increase in the range of zombie activities, their harvest has become less and less, and now it is even unsustainable. This time, Chen Jiancheng sent his daughter over to ask for the materials we got, but although it was very unpleasant to watch a little girl whisper and beg each other, I couldn't agree to her, because we had worked hard to get these things, and there was really no reason to give them to others.

"I came this time to ask Brother Wu to help us with some food, now our food is seriously insufficient, and I am afraid that we will run out of food in two days, so please Brother Wu must support us some." Chen Yating accompanied her and whispered pleading, I didn't rush to answer her but casually observed the expressions of Wang Tao and Li Chao, Wang Tao wrote all his hatred on his face as always, although he tried his best to endure but the fierce light in his eyes flashed irrepressibly, and Li Chao was completely a kind of outsider, and whenever he met my eyes, he was a pleasing smile, compared with him, I actually had some good impression of Wang Tao, at least Wang Tao is a principled and consistent person.

"Brother Wu, we really have no choice, you see ......." Seeing that I didn't speak, Chen Yating asked me in a low voice a little crampedly, but I interrupted her before she could finish speaking.

"Miss Chen, if you asked me for some weapons just now, maybe I can help you, but you disappointed me, you only want food, I can't agree to such a request, I'm very sorry, you better please go back." I categorically refused Chen Yating's request.

Seeing that I refused my request so resolutely, Chen Yating looked a little overwhelmed, her originally fair face was flushed, and even her breathing became a little short, but she still tried her best to suppress her emotions and pleaded: "Actually, we don't need too much food, as long as we can survive these few days, we will go out to collect it ourselves, so ......." ”

I interrupted her with another wave of my hand, looked at her weeping face, and sighed: "This food is what my brothers and I have worked so hard to get back for the winter, and if it is given to you, it means that my brothers and I will have to venture out again, do you think it is necessary for me to put my own brothers in danger for the sake of a group of unfriendly neighbors?" ”

Chen Yating looked at me a little stunned, and said in a low voice: "However, it is not dangerous for you outside, don't you come back safe and sound every time?" ”

I could only roll my eyes helplessly for Chen Yating's childlike way of thinking, and then I realized that I was actually a child who had not grown up, maybe when she wanted to come to us, it was nothing for us to easily get these materials to help them, I really had nothing to do to deal with such a naïve child, fortunately, Wen Na was by my side, although she didn't say anything just now, but now she had to speak: "Yating, what you think is too simple, every time we go out, we risk our lives, last time Rocky almost had an accident." , This time Wu Fei is even more close to death, every harvest we have is in exchange for our lives, although Wu Fei is the captain, he can't send things out at will, I hope you can understand his difficulties. ”

Chen Yating was really a little stunned when she heard Wen Na say this, after all, she also knew that even a little life-saving material in such a shijie needed to be exchanged for her life, let her open her mouth again to ask for the materials that others exchanged for their lives, this little girl who was just sixteen or seventeen years old couldn't open her mouth, Wang Tao beside her saw Chen Yating biting her lip and being speechless, and stepped forward and said: "Isn't it a bit alarmist for Ms. Wen to say this, you don't go out once or twice, and every time you don't return with a full load, And we didn't lose any manpower, so can't Weishenme help us? ”

"Hmph" After listening to Wang Tao's almost scoundrel words, I snorted coldly and said: "I helped you this time, so what about next time?" What about next time? I don't need to raise you directly, and watch your happy life! Do you live in a fairy tale shijie yourself? ”

Wang Tao was stunned by me, I glanced at the three people in front of me and said, "Do you know what the biggest difference between you people and us is?" ”

Without waiting for the three of them to answer, I continued: "The biggest difference between us is that my people and I have been living in a ruined shijie, while you people only live in your own small shijie, in your opinion, as long as you hide in this dam, everything will be fine, you don't dare to face any danger, just blindly hide here, even the liliang that you should have has been given up, you give me a reason now, A reason for me to help you! "Speaking of zuihou, I'm already yelling.

Seeing that I was angry, the three of them all took a step back, and Wang Tao muttered a little unwillingly: "We don't have the strength of yours, how dare we go out and take risks." ”

"Strength?" I sneered and looked at Wang Tao and said, "Do you think I had such strength from the beginning?" It's a pity that you didn't see me trembling with fear trapped in a hut, and you didn't see me walking out of the door with a kitchen knife in fear in order not to starve to death, you won't know how much I have paid for having the strength I have today, how many bloody battles, how many times I have survived, you can't imagine how many companions around us have sacrificed themselves for the survival of others, you have been living in an ivory tower, When you think you are strong, you don't care about other people's feelings and take it for granted, and now you are the weak party and you come to ask for help with peace of mind, do you really not know what kind of shijie you live in? ”

Looking at the stunned three people, I paused and continued: "Do you know how lucky you are, guarding such a place and only encountering some evolutionary beasts that are not strong, you spread the location of this place everywhere, but you did not attract the group of guys who live by cannibalism, compared to you, we are like abandoned by God, those things we encounter are unimaginable to you, but God is always fair, we have encountered misfortune but understand the survival law of this shijie, Now if you don't understand the rules of survival of this shijie, I'd be happy to watch you disappear from this shijie, so that at least some of our survival space can be freed up. ”

"Then what is the survival rule of this shijie?" Chen Yating stared at me and asked nervously.

"Fight!" I replied without hesitation: "Only fighting is the only law of this shijie today, only by fighting can you get a chance to survive, if you don't even have the courage to fight, then you are not qualified to survive on this shijie." ”

"But we don't have advanced weapons like yours, and we don't have the strength of yours, how can we fight? That's just sending people to death. Li Chao whispered on the side.

I looked at him with disdain and said: "The most important thing to fight is courage rather than weapons, two days ago you led more than 30 people to harvest wheat in the wheat field in the east, and suddenly two zombies appeared, you ran away with people without even the least resistance, and three people died, what kind of weapons do you say people like you give you so that you can fight like a warrior?" ”

Li Chao was not surprised when he heard that I exposed his ugly deeds, and looked at Chen Yating and Wang Tao a little unnaturally, and found that these two people looked at him with suspicion, Li Chao hurriedly said: "The situation was critical at that time, if I didn't retreat, more people would die, and I had no choice but to run away with people." ”

"If the two zombies are properly organized, no one can be eliminated without dying, but if you don't have the courage to face how many people should die, since you don't have the courage to fight, you don't have the qualifications to survive, just ask you if you don't even have the qualifications to survive, don't I help you to make trouble for yourself." I said with a sneer on my face.

Li Chao was speechless by what I said, but Chen Yating seemed to be injected with a liliang, she looked at me with a firm gaze and said: "I understand Brother Wu's words, if we want to survive on this shijie, we can only rely on ourselves, but now we are too short of weapons, I hope that Brother Wu can lend us some weapons, and we will use the food we can pay for these weapons, is it okay?" ”

I smiled and nodded, "If you have the courage, I don't care to help you." Saying that, I shouted to Guo Jiaming, who had been organizing the transportation of materials: "Old Guo, bring twenty sets of armor and five thousand rounds of ammunition here." ”

Guo Jiaming has actually been paying attention to the movement on our side, and when he heard me shouting, he didn't hesitate to send what I wanted, pointing to the armor and bullets stacked on the ground, I said to Chen Yating: "I don't need you to pay back these things, but this is the first time that zuihou supports you, if you can't use it well, then you can only wait for death slowly." ”

Chen Yating thanked her and said: "Anyway, I want you today, it was you who taught us the rules of survival on this shijie, we will no longer only know how to hide in the dam and survive like before, we will also fight until we have the right to survive on this shijie." ”

Then he turned to Wen Na and smiled: "Sister Na, you and Sister Baolin haven't been to see me for a long time, you must come to see me when you have time." ”

Wen Na took her hand and smiled: "You can come over often when you're fine, you must be careful when you're outside, if it's too dangerous, you must not be reckless, you must retreat, as long as you keep yourself is the greatest hope." ”

Chen Yating nodded and said, "Xiexie, your sister, I remember, I'll come back to see you later." ”

Wen Na smiled, "Okay, you must be careful. ”

Chen Yating asked people to bring back the materials I provided to him, and looked at their busy backs, Wen Na said to me: "Are you too harsh on a little girl?" ”

I shook my head and said: "Standing in front of us is a little girl, but behind her is her Lao Tzu, if he succeeds this time, we will be busy in the future, and besides, I am better to teach people to fish than to teach people to fish, instead of giving them food, it is better for them to learn to find food by themselves." ”

Wen Na shook her head helplessly and smiled: "It's all crooked, but aren't you afraid that their strength will surpass us in the future?" ”

I looked at the door that was gradually closing on the separation wall, scratched my head and said, "I thought I could control everything, but today I realized that this shijie is not at all something that a small human being like me can control, since I can't even control myself, what qualifications do I have to control others?" Now I need all the people around me to be strong, and if they are strong enough to surpass me, then I'm waiting for them to surpass me. ”

Wen Na just shook her head and smiled, but she also knew that such a thing would be difficult to happen.