Xie Ling carried a crossbow in one hand and a backpack on her shoulder, jumping and jumping briskly in front, and the tail of the pony behind her head also swayed with her footsteps.

Wang Lu dragged his footsteps behind, with a beast clamp in one hand and a woodcutter in the other, a bulging backpack was upright behind him, and there were too many things stuffed in the bag, and a piece of ham was warped out of the mouth of the bag, exceeding the top of Wang Lu's head and pointing to the sky.

It was already some distance away from Yinjiang Town, and the pace of both of them slowed down, and when they passed a sandy beach, Wang Lu suddenly stopped: "Rest for a while." ”

Xie Ling hesitated for a moment and nodded.

The two got off the road along the river and rested on the beach.

Xie Ling put down her backpack and put the crossbow on a piece of dry sand far away from the water, and the steel wire string of the crossbow should pay attention to waterproofing, which was Xie Ling's experience when she played crossbow before. Then, Xie Ling took off her shoes again, dipped her feet in the water, and sighed softly when she felt the coolness of the river.

Behind him, there was the sound of Wang Lu putting his backpack on the beach, followed by the clashing of woodcutters and animal traps thrown on the sand.

Xie Ling didn't look back, but she knew that Dao Wang Lu was watching her from behind, this was not some intuition - she was Dao Zhilu!

There was a long silence between the two, only Xie Ling's feet were touching the water for a while, making a slight splashing sound.

For a moment, it seemed that this silence would last forever.

Behind him, Wang Lu's slow voice came, very plain and emotional, just like saying to the proprietress at the breakfast stall, "Bring me a pancake and add two eggs", even the tone is not undulating.

"When I escaped from my home with Chen Wei and Wang Bi'an, I met a man who was holding a bamboo pole and wanted to overturn the boat that our family was sitting on, just because he wanted to monopolize an island in the middle of the lake; Later, when I was killing zombies in this town, I met a woman who wanted to poison our family, because she wanted to use our family's meat to feed her son, who had become a zombie. From that time on, I swore that I would kill every living person who came before me. ”

Xie Ling's back was motionless, no surprise, no sigh, no anger, no fear, it's just that her feet stopped at some point, immersed in the water, without a trace of ripples.

Of course, this is all a rhetoric of excitement. In such troubled times, our family of three is like a lonely boat, and there is no way to grasp the direction of our own progress. Whether we will meet more living people in the future, what kind of thoughts the people we meet will have, and what to do if the other party has malicious intentions, there are no answers. ”

"I don't want you to say it, the life of our family and Hele that you saw on Yashan is just a false appearance, the zombies in a small township have exhausted me to deal with, not only did I almost die, but also endangered Chen Wei and Wang Bi'an. I need helpers, I need more survivors, and I need to fight zombies together. However, I had to touch every living person who appeared in front of me with the greatest malice. ”

"When I saw you recover and get out of bed, my first thought was, if this woman has ill intentions towards our family, when is the best chance for you to kill our family. At night? Although you can kill Chen Wei and Wang Bi'an while they are sleeping, you will definitely not be able to deal with me sleeping in the main hall, and in the face of my anger, you will only die faster. If you want to kill Chen Wei and Wang Bi'an, you have to kill me first. ”

"The best chance to kill me is when I'm fighting zombies. So, I deliberately created an opportunity for you to go down the mountain with me. I just didn't expect that you would offer to come down the mountain with me, originally, I had prepared a lot of excuses, even if you didn't want to, I had to take you down the mountain. ”…,

"Of course, it's not that I'm not unprepared, I deliberately picked on the time when your body was just recovering, and deliberately borrowed it to stumble with you, instead of giving you weapons and equipment. That way, even if you want to attack me, I can fight back at the first opportunity. ”

"After entering the town, I created countless 'opportunities' to test you, remember the zombie lying on the bed under the skylight? I deliberately stood by the glass skylight, and if you reached out and pushed me, I would smash the skylight and fall - of course, you don't know it, I was ready to catch you by the foot and drag you down the stairs as soon as I made a move. Then, I will throw you to the zombies, and when I borrow the zombies to eat you, I will hack them to death with a woodcutter. ”

"Even being taken away by you and almost shooting the arrows is a temptation, that is actually the best chance for you to kill me, I deliberately sit in front of you, as long as you snap the machine, I will die. Of course, this is also a trap, I sit very close to you, and if you do aim the crossbow at me, I can get out of the way with just a deflection of my head, and I will stab you with it. It's just that what I didn't expect was that your crossbow shot so well that I almost forgot that there is only such a thing as arrows. ”

"Along the way, I pretended to be crazy, stupid, half-stupid, and half-crazy, and teased you with words from time to time, just to let you expose your true emotions under the gaffe."

Xie Ling's feet swayed in the river again, startling a group of wicker fish that quietly circled around her bare feet.

"I'm trying to figure out what kind of thoughts you have on our family. What I didn't figure out after all my calculations was that a monster-killing zombie show that I originally wanted to act turned out to be a real battle, a battle for life and death side by side with you. ”

"If I said that I originally wanted to conduct an assessment this time when I went down the mountain, I don't know who is the examiner, who is the candidate, and what the result of the exam is."

There was silence between the two again.

I don't know how long it took, Xie Ling took off the reed strips tied in the ponytail and let the long strands of hair hang down the sides of her cheeks.

Gently, her words came from the wind on the river: "When my classmates and I hid in a small mountain village in order to avoid zombies, some girls cried and cowered all day long, in order to survive, grovel to her boys, but that's it, they were beaten at every turn, and some girls were greeted in every way, no matter what excessive requirements the other party made, she was willing to do it, and even found a middle school student's school uniform from nowhere, put it on her body, snorted her throat, and learned from the little girl to speak, do you know the way, this really works, that boy, Really gentle with her, of course, just a little. ”

"When I woke up on the cliff mountain, I didn't know what was waiting for me. I don't understand what you want to save me, do you need me to do something, or do you need me as a person? ”

"I dressed myself up as an ignorant girl who didn't understand the world, so that I could observe your family. I soon discovered that only you in this family really held the power of life and death over me. Wang Bi'an, he just welcomes me as a beautiful sister with the innocence of a child, and your wife Chen Wei, although she cares for me very much, is only out of a woman's natural kindness, but I understand that as long as you say a word, she will not blink an eye, and she will drive me down the mountain. In her eyes, children and husbands always come first. ”

"If I want to live, I must gain your trust, and I must let you know that I am useful."

"Even if you don't mention the descent from the mountain, I'll try to turn the conversation to that. I believe in my own strength, and this is not the first time I've faced zombies. I will tell you by my own actions that it is worth it to keep me alive and keep me. ”…,

"Do you know the truth? Along the way, I intentionally or unintentionally teased you, deliberately pretending to be a little girl, I know that many men eat this. Even, I thought about it, if you take me down the mountain, just to avoid the eyes of Chen Wei and Wang Bi'an, find a secluded place, and want to violate me, I, I also admit it. As long as you think I'm useful, as long as you're willing to give me a bite to eat, so that I can have a place to live. ”

Behind Xie Ling, Wang Lu's breathing suddenly became a little heavier.

Xie Ling's voice still floated over gently: "But I found that although you have a flowery mouth and a little cheap from time to time, there is no desire to 'want me' in your eyes." I'm not a child, I understand the way men look at me, and even, it's their physical changes. ”

"You don't know how scared I was when I found out about it. I'm afraid you don't need me, I'm afraid you're going to leave me alone. ”

"When I shot the first zombie, I saw your strange eyes, and I finally knew what you needed from me."

"As long as I stand by your side and fight, I am what you need, and I am the one you will not give up."

"You don't know the way, but how happy I am when I know it. In the past, in the eyes of other men, I was just a beautiful girl who was needed by their lower body, and when they got tired of playing or had a new goal, they would kick me away. Only you, what you need, is my fight. As long as I'm shooting, you'll stand shoulder to shoulder with me. ”

"I'm trying my best to show myself and prove to you with more zombie corpses that it's worth keeping me."

"I just don't know what to do, what I did at first just to show my merits, and in the end it became a life-and-death battle. Do you know that when I jumped down from the second floor, I didn't think about 'did that man see me fighting so hard?' but 'go kill the zombies, hurry up and hurry up'. ”

"If I hoped that you would 'need' me when I followed you down the mountain, now I find that I actually need you, my family. Let me know that in this world, no matter how deep the night is, there is a door to a home that will be kept for me. Let me know that when I need it, you will shed your blood and fight for me. Because if you don't work hard, you and I will die. ”

There was a long silence again.

Suddenly, Wang Lu stood up and patted the sand on his buttocks: "Let's go, go home." ”

Xie Ling withdrew her feet from the river and put on her shoes: "Wait for me." ”

After a while, the two of them packed up their equipment, got back on the road, and walked towards Yashan not far away.

The Yinjiang River flows by, and it seems that the conversation between the two on the riverside has never happened ......,