Chapter Twenty-Eight: Li Xia's Awakening
Under the dual psychological influence of self-blame and unwillingness to be just a vase, Li Xia turned out to be unexpectedly strong. She secretly carried Wu Ming on her back and traveled back and forth from that secret passage to and from the Fallen Zone, speeding up the speed of absorbing vitality. In three days, she had already absorbed more than four units of vitality, and she was only two units away from awakening.
In this way, it will only take two days at most for her to awaken.
Naturally, in this process, she also encountered some troubles, for example, a few times, she met a lonely insect man, but when a woman launched a ruthless attack, the consequences were also extremely terrifying. Li Xia relied on the second form of insect beetles on her body and the bullets she secretly exchanged from the soldiers with some food, combined with Wu Ming's words and deeds in the previous ten days, she actually killed a few insect people alone, if Wu Ming knew, he would definitely be shocked.
To be honest, although Wu Ming also found that Li Xia was haunted in the past few days, he didn't care too much. Now Wu Ming's mind is full of thoughts about how to make the most of the resources at hand.
In bed for the past few days, Wu Ming sorted out in a small book the production methods of some basic cards he knew in his memory, as well as the sources of some cards, which may be Wu Ming's greatest wealth.
Among them, Wu Ming sorted out all the information related to the 'giant', but found a very embarrassing thing. First of all, Wu Ming doesn't know how to make those high-level cards, and the cards he can make are all low-level cards, so even if he has a high-level material like the Giant's Broken Arm, he can't actually play the maximum role in a short period of time.
This made Wu Ming very annoyed, and the secret path knew that he had learned more about the production of advanced cards in his previous life, and he would not be able to play its role in guarding Baoshan like now.
Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Li Xia had not come back yet, and it was still the same after six o'clock, you must know that Li Xia came back at five o'clock in the past.
Wu Ming only felt a little bad at this time, the injuries on his body were almost healed now, although he couldn't fight with all his strength, but there was nothing wrong with ordinary walking. When I found the landlord Uncle Zhao and asked, I dared to love Li Xia's girl who had gone out since the morning, obviously Uncle Zhao and the aunt didn't know.
"Hey, the world is so chaotic now, what should you do if you say a girl's family is in danger outside?" Aunt Zhao has also been very good with Li Xia these days, and she is also worried at the moment.
"I'll look for it!" Although Wu Ming was also worried, he knew Li Xia better.
This girl is not very bold, but she has a strong personality and a sense of justice, but don't think she is stupid, if Wu Ming is not reborn, he can be 100% sure that Li Xia will be better than him in this environment.
Because the safety zone is overcrowded, at this moment, there are people sleeping in the corridor of every residential building, although it is a corridor, but it is better than being exposed to the wind and rain at the outer door.
And now the military will also send a bowl of gruel per head every day, if you lie still to reduce consumption, it can alleviate hunger. So when Wu Ming opened the door and went out, he saw that the corridor was crowded with people, and there was no place to even put his feet.
It's just that Wu Ming is already used to it.
At this time, seeing someone coming out, a girl about twenty years old seemed to muster up the courage to walk towards Wu Ming and said in an almost pleading tone: "I...... I'll stay with you for one night, you'...... Can you give me something to eat? ”
The girl is young, although she is a little thin, but she is quite beautiful, fair-skinned, and has a good figure. But now, in order to fill her stomach, she even does not hesitate to sell her body.
The small bowl of gruel distributed every day at the food distribution point is not enough to eat, and it is okay not to eat it, but if you eat it, you will be even hungrier. The stomach is empty, and there is only the hunger of the burning stomach acid, which is absolutely impossible to understand without experiencing it firsthand.
In the catastrophic years before liberation, there were even human tragedies where people were hungry and ate strange children, which shows that people can really do anything in order to fill their stomachs.
Looking at this young girl who was obviously the first time and had the courage to say that, Wu Ming was stunned for a moment, then shook his head, and before he could speak, a young woman rushed over from the side and grabbed Wu Ming.
"Little brother, this girl is just a chick, if you want someone to accompany you, you might as well find me, sister, I have rich experience, don't worry, just two pieces of bread."
In this special period, it is already extremely common for women to exchange their bodies for food, and in the eyes of these homeless, cold and hungry refugees, anyone who has a house to live in is worth their attention.
"I ...... I just need ...... Just one piece, okay? The young girl before was obviously a little anxious, and Wu Ming could even see that there were tears in her eyes.
Wu Ming sighed, in the previous life, he had seen too many similar things, now the safe zone is safe for the time being, people are only facing hunger, and when the safe zone falls, it will be called hell on earth.
He is not a savior, nor is he a great good man, and he cannot save everyone. However, Wu Ming still took out a piece of delicious bread from his arms, then broke it and gave it to the two women.
Wu Ming naturally didn't plan to engage in special play double flying, this was just a simple giving, and Li Xia hadn't come back yet, and Wu Ming couldn't have time to think about anything else.
Playing the two girls, Wu Ming got rid of the entanglement of more people, and then went downstairs and walked outside.
Wu Ming didn't know where Li Xia went, but he had some guesses in his heart, and secretly said in his heart that this girl is usually a ghost, why is she stupid at this time, with her potential, she doesn't need to go to the fall zone, she only needs to stay in the safe zone for another seven or eight days to wake up.
Out of the community, the outside is still overcrowded, this safe zone is only three or four kilometers long, but it is crowded with 800,000 people, you can imagine how crowded it is.
There are still long queues at the recruiting points, while the queues at the food pick-up points are even longer, stretching for several kilometers one after another. Here, as long as there is food and shelter, it is the uncle, you can get the enjoyment that you couldn't think of before, even if it is an ugly beggar, as long as you are willing to provide a full meal, there will be beautiful women to give you a hug.
Morality and ethics are not as good as a piece of rancid steamed bread in the face of hunger.
Just when Wu Ming was about to take a detour to the secret passage that could lead to the occupied area, he saw a large group of people not far away, and there were trash cans stuffed with wood-lit braziers around, one to keep warm, and the other to illuminate, and you could see where there were people from afar, and there was a faint sound of quarrels.
Wu Ming is different from others, he doesn't like to watch the excitement, no matter what it is, fighting, or even killing, it is not uncommon to be in the safe zone, and there is no need to watch it. And just as Wu Ming was about to walk over, a voice in the crowd made Wu Ming stop immediately.
It turned out to be Li Xia's voice, there was a sense of anger in her voice at the moment, as if she was arguing with someone.
Wu Ming squeezed over to take a look, and found that it was really Li Xia, at the moment she was protecting a person, and around, there were six or seven men surrounding her with fierce faces, these people were all holding guys in their hands, some were fruit knives, some were iron rods, on the ground, there was still a person lying on the ground, his right arm showed an unnatural twist, obviously fractured, and he was snorting in pain there.
Although Li Xia was surrounded by people at the moment, she was not particularly panicked, this is normal, in the past ten days, she and Wu Ming have been in the occupied area every day, and she will fight with the insects almost every day, compared with being surrounded by more than a dozen insects, these people are not worth mentioning at all.
"Stinky, do you really plan to be the enemy of our Yujiang Gang? Don't think that if you have a lot of strength, this is a private matter in our gang, I advise you to get out of the way, don't meddle in things, otherwise when a large number of our brothers come, you can't run if you want to! A man with an iron rod yelled with a hideous face, but this guy was like a vegetable, and it was obvious that he hadn't eaten enough for several days.
The others were the same, and although they surrounded the woman, they did not dare to rush forward.
Wu Ming hasn't figured out the current situation yet, but the person lying on the ground should have been injured by Li Xia, and at this moment, Li Xia exuded a very special temperament.
This temperament is completely different from her before, at this time Wu Ming found that Li Xia was vaguely holding a card in one hand, and combined with the special aura on her body, Wu Ming suddenly had an idea.
Li Xia has awakened!