3. Safe Zone
Yebi is the younger sister of Yezhu, the sister of a compatriot. Yazhu is a serious and responsible general. But Yebi, she is eccentric, and because Yezhu is too protective of her, she has an unrealistic naivety, and is full of curiosity about the outside, outside the safe zone. Usually Yezhu keeps her firmly by his side, and when Yezhu goes out, he entrusts Yebi to me to take care of her.
I've mentioned the dangers of her protection to Yogisa many times, but I don't know what happened to Nagisa before she joined Jingle Bell. What did these two sisters go through that made her have this deformed view of sisterhood. I have no intention of knowing, nor am I allowed to be known.
"Did anyone see her before they dispersed?"
"Painted bridge saw. It was said that they were walking north in a group, and other tribes saw that they had crossed the Yangtze River. ”
"North?!" I had a premonition that something was wrong, and when I looked at Yezhu again, she bit the corner of her mouth, obviously restraining the irritability in her heart.
I patted her on the shoulder and informed all the team members gathered in the courtyard of the news:
"Last night, it was tough. We were first besieged by the leopards, and unfortunately we were seriously injured and died, although we were eventually defeated by the leopards, and one leopard ran away with a limp. However, because I didn't know what the enemy was, I, as the commander, blindly gave the order to disperse and break through, so that there are still three members of the team who have not yet returned to the team, and the situation is unknown. This is my responsibility. So, after eating, I need three fighters to help me find the missing members. I paused slightly, signaling to Yanagisa who had raised her hand to sign up that she could not participate in the operation, glanced at Shenyu, signaled that she could prepare the meal, and continued, "While I was away, Yazhu served as the commander of the security zone. Everyone must pay attention to safety, in case of emergencies, urgent need to evacuate, go straight to evacuate, and then we have our own way to find Ding Dong. ”
While eating, Yazhu leaned over.
"I asked to participate in this operation. Yebi is my sister, and I don't worry about her. ”
I took a few bites of fried green beans and chewed them hard, I hated eating beans the most. It's dry and hard, and its mouth is full of broken particles, and I can't swallow it, and my throat is uncomfortable when I swallow it. But what can be done? Shenyu knows that we are going, who knows when the next meal will be eaten. Beans are the most hungry-resistant food you can find right now. Her intentions, I know. It was the early spring, and the vegetable patch behind the house did not grow my favorite small greens.
Seeing that I ignored her, Yezhu's voice became a little louder: "Commander Xingchen! I ask to participate in this action! "The teammates who were eating, their eyes were all shooting to this side.
Dear, you just don't give up, right?
I dropped the bowl as well, and the only four or five beans left in the bowl flew out.
"General Yezhu, Yebi is your sister, but look behind you, which one is not your sister? We're going to the north, and the people sitting here, I'm most familiar with the north, and there's no one better suited to lead this operation than I. ”
"I'm not going to be a leader! I just want to participate! Yazhu's eyes were a little red.
"Then look back! Besides me, who is the strongest fighter here?! If I'm not there, neither are you! So what to do when the leopards come back? What if the enemy presses up? ”
Yazhu was silent. Everyone put down their dishes and chopsticks.
I know that we were born in a "new world" that was least suitable for women. The emergence of this era began to sprout two centuries ago. Since 2020, after more than a century of negative growth in the world's population growth, the demographic dividend has completely disappeared. Mankind is faced with a sharp decline in the total population, the labor force has declined to the point that it is impossible to maintain the normal operation of agriculture, economy, science and technology, and other aspects, and the world economy has come to an end all at once. Disasters do not come alone, and countries that still retain their strength have begun to openly buy and sell human beings by the government, and at the beginning they introduced women of childbearing age with high salaries. Later, with the increase in bonuses, buying and selling young women turned out to be the world's number one and only breadwinner. This made the world, which was already on the verge of chaos, collapse all at once. Finally, after two centuries of negative population growth, in 2220, World War III broke out, and this war for population was the main purpose of the war, which ended in less than two years. The reason is that everyone found that the war consumed less people than the plundered population. The end of the war was accompanied by the concept of "state" and "government", and the end of the Third World War caused the already crumbling country to decline rapidly. Small countries have quietly disappeared, and most of the former large countries have also announced their dissolution. And just like that, the whole world really came to the brink.
However, humanity has not yet reached the edge. We still have to live, no matter how hard it is.