Chapter 258: Xiaoyi's father
"That's right, this is a fragment of the remnant, but it's not clear which timeline this fragment belongs to."
659 replied softly, his fingers reaching forward, holding down the shards of metal that kept moving towards the blade, dragging them back in front of the little girl.
When the little girl saw 659 return the fragments as promised, she immediately reached out to cover the fragments of the blade on the table, carefully put them away, and put them away closely.
"You said before that the little girl's mother died?"
Watching the little girl put away the fragments, 659 turned his gaze to Bai Donggu's face beside him, and asked.
"That's right, I don't know if this child is lucky or unlucky, after Xiaoyi's mother died of illness, the child should have become an orphan who was left unattended, but it didn't take long for a man to adopt her."
"Adoption?"
There was a noticeable hint of strangeness in 659's eyes.
"That's right, adoption, don't you think it's incredible?"
Bai Donggu smiled, but this smile fell on 659's eyes very reluctantly.
"In today's post-apocalyptic environment, everyone lives a life with today and no tomorrow, for ordinary people, in addition to worrying about the attack of zombies and strange beasts, they also need to consider daily food consumption."
"Because food can't fall from the sky on its own, if you want to get it, you have to risk your life to search the city, but as time goes by, the food stored in the city gradually decays and deteriorates, and only a few shelters can barely survive on the granary."
"The shortage of food, coupled with the threat of being in the end times, most people have given up the standards of life before the catastrophe, and some of the shelters established by the people have even appeared to be eaten by children."
"It stands to reason that in such an environment, there should not be such a noble act of 'adopting' as taking care of the young for the same kind."
Speaking of this, Bai Donggu gave 659 a look, as if to ask him if he agreed with his statement.
"That's right, the darkest hour in human history."
Without too much expression on his face, Zhang Heng-659 remained calm and affirmed softly.
But he seems to have only said half a sentence.
"But despite this, there are still many examples of 'adoption', and some scumbags with special fetishes will adopt fair-looking little boys or girls in the name of 'adoption'."
"What seems to be a noble act of kindness is actually to satisfy one's own dirty and filthy desires."
Speaking of this, the complexity in 659's eyes became more and more intense, and the green tendons on his neck faintly appeared, as if he had imagined the fate of the little girl in front of him after being 'adopted' by scum.
The subtle expression on 659's face naturally couldn't escape the eyes of Bai Donggu, a person with the ability of the brain domain enhancement system, and he saw the corner of the smile on the corner of his mouth as the man in the sergeant's uniform spoke.
"Indeed, under the weight of the disaster, many people have abandoned their humanity in order to survive and re-embraced animal nature, for whom it is more important to live than anything else."
"But Xiaoyi's father is an outlier, an outlier who insists on human nature."
Speaking of this, a warm smile appeared on Bai Donggu's face, as the general of the dungeon, he had seen too many dirty things, if it was in the past, he would definitely not hesitate to raise his hand and correct these scumbags one by one.
But now that it is the end of the world, the number of surviving humans has decreased dramatically, and who cares about those 'details', which have already fallen from the former domination to the cockroaches that survive in the cracks.
Being able to live is already the greatest luxury.
"Insist on the heterogeneity of human nature...... This statement is really a bit sad......"
Hearing the words in Bai Donggu's mouth, 659's face also showed a hint of relief.
People who can stick to their hearts in such a bad environment deserve his sincere admiration.
"Oh, that's right......"
The smiling Bai Donggu seemed to remember something, the smile on his face suddenly closed, and he turned his head to ask the little girl.
"Xiaoyi, I didn't see your father when I was on the trading floor before, he went out hunting?"
Hearing Bai Donggu ask, the little girl's restrained face froze suddenly, and the little blood left on her face disappeared almost instantly
His face turned pale.
"Daddy, Daddy, he'......"
Nervousness and panic filled the little girl's heart, like an invisible hand, slowly choking her throat.
"Don't be nervous, take your time, there's no one else here."
The white general pushed the water cup on the table forward very intimately, and motioned to the little girl to drink saliva first to calm down and organize the language.
659, the closest to the girl, pulled over the chair sideways, took a half-step back and sat down.
There is a safe distance between people, and if strangers who are not close to each other are too close, it is easy to cause a lot of oppression.
I don't know if she was thirsty or really listened to Bai Donggu's words, the little girl was anxious in place for a long time, and finally held the iron cup on the table with both hands, and drank the slightly turbid half of the water.
After a few chaotic breaths, the little girl seemed to have finally cleared her mind and spoke.
"Dad, he was injured in the last hunt, and he has been resting in the dungeon to recuperate, and he plans to continue hunting when the injury is healed."
"But Dad seems to be seriously injured this time, although he stays at home every day to rest, the wound still has not scabbed, and it is very slow."
"I couldn't go out hunting, and business in the trading market was not good, so my family's savings soon bottomed out."
"In order not to let me go hungry, my father insisted on going out hunting despite the fact that the wound had not healed, but he still did not come back today......
At this point, the little girl was already crying anxiously.
In fact, her heart has always been very anxious, but just now the white general seemed to be discussing something very important with the big brother with a metal left arm in front of her, which made her temporarily forget the purpose of her coming here.
was already a burden to her father, and she would only consume a small amount of food rations at home, and now that her father didn't know whether he was alive or dead, she almost forgot about this important thing.
Anxiety mixed with guilt made the girl Xiaoyi's heart feel like a thousand knives, and she couldn't wait to fly out of the base in the next second and go outside to find her father's traces in the wilderness.
"Did your dad go out hunting with an injury? How long have you been there? ”
Hearing the little girl say this, Bai Donggu instantly understood most of it, and asked directly without thinking.
"Sixty-eight hours ago...... Counting the current time, about seventy hours have passed......"
"Seventy hours, almost three days and three nights...... By the way, General Bai, I heard that the rotation of day and night on the earth in this timeline is 1,200 hours, so how long has it been since it got dark? ”
659 asked, if you want to understand how the world works, you must start with the most basic things.
You must know that within timeline 659,
"Hmm...... Nearly eighteen hours have passed...... I haven't come back yet, so it's possible that I'm in danger......"
Stretching out his hand, Bai Donggu glanced at the electronic watch on his wrist and gave a precise answer.
In this dark dungeon, since there is no day-night change of sunrise and sunset, ordinary people wear watches to measure the passage of time.
Although most watches need to be powered by electricity, the batteries produced before the catastrophe were enough to support these timers for a long time, and after the catastrophe, all luxury goods became garbage and value was redefined, so watches became very common.
For example, the little girl in front of her is wearing a dark green watch on her wrist, and the style should be the more expensive Rolex green water ghost before the catastrophe.
The delicate and wide dial contrasts with the girl's slender wrist, and the loose strap hangs from the base of the girl's palm, covered with scratches from scratches.
"Hunting? Is this little girl's father a capable person? ”
659 looked at the little girl who was already crying, and his heart trembled inexplicably.
"That's right, the girl's father is named Zhang Ning, if I'm not mistaken, it should be a physical enhancement ability, well, it seems to be a second-order ......"
Bai Donggu recalled everything about the girl's father, not noticing the rapidly changing expression on 659's face beside him.
"Zhang Ning?!"
Thunder exploded in 659's heart, this
The name is too familiar to him, and if you rule out the possibility of having the same name, isn't it his great-grandfather?
Although the timeline is different, it can only be regarded as a variant of 659's great-grandfather in the Red Moon World in the strict sense.
"What to do...... White, white generals...... Can you help me find my dad...... I'll give you half of the goods......"
The little girl's face was covered with tears, and her little face, which was already pale and bloodless, became more and more pitiful.
Hearing the girl's plea, Bai Donggu also sighed lightly, as if he was afraid that he would be soft-hearted, and deliberately turned his eyes away.
"Xiaoyi, it's not that I'm ruthless, your father may be dead...... Even if he didn't die, with the current armament strength of the dungeon, it would be difficult to send people out to carry out rescue missions......"
"And...... Your dad is only a second-order ability...... Not yet joined the Avengers ......"
Bai Donggu's hands drooped, hiding his left hand with white gloves under the half-shoulder cape, and only his right hand with black gloves was still exposed.
Although his words were as tactful as possible, they still made the little girl understand the cruelty of the truth.
"All! I'm willing to give you all the goods, please save my father......"
The girl's voice suddenly raised, and her eyes were full of despair.
In fact, Bai Donggu understands that although the girl's goods are valuable, the value is really not high, otherwise they would not have been placed in Exchange Square for so many days and not sold.
Even if the girl paid double the price of the goods and asked the dungeon to search and rescue them, it would not be enough at all.
"Plop!"
The muffled sound of bones hitting the stone surface echoed in the small room, and the girl saw the expression on Bai Donggu's face clearly, and knew that it was hopeless to ask the white general to lead someone, so she turned around and knelt down towards 659 on the side.
"Big brother, please, save my dad......"
"Save your dad......"
Seeing that the little girl turned the direction of the distress call, 659 was not surprised, after all, the little girl would rely on him when he was in Exchange Square, and it was estimated that he had guessed his special identity.
A person who can be taken seriously by a middle-level general is definitely not a mediocre person.
With the alertness of a little girl, it is naturally not difficult to guess this.
"I'd be interested in meeting your father, but ......"
Speaking of this, 659 deliberately lengthened his voice while observing the expression on the little girl's face out of the corner of his eye.
I saw that the despair in the girl's eyes was gradually dispelled, and a light called hope appeared.
"Anything goes, the goods can give you half! Oh no, it's all, it's all for you! And this ......"
The little girl knelt and took two steps forward, skillfully removed the green water ghost from her wrist, and handed it to 659.
"This watch is also very valuable, although it was before the cataclysm, but it is now very accurate, my father said that it has not slowed down for more than half a minute......"
Looking at the Rolex, with its delicate dial but scratched strap, a smile appeared on Zhang Heng-659's face.
"The First Evolution"
"I don't want your goods, and I don't want your Rolex watch."
659's body slowly squatted down, and his gaze was soon level with the little girl kneeling on the ground.
"You want that shard, don't you?"
The hope in the girl's eyes did not disappear, but there was a little more hesitation.
"No, that shard isn't of any use to me."
To the girl's surprise, 659 didn't show much interest in the remnant shards.
It was as if the fragment had lost its value after the composition had been determined, and had become worthless in the eyes of the Elder.
"So what do you want...... I...... I don't have anything else, food? But I don't have any food......"
The girl who was called Xiaoyi by Bai Donggu lowered her head, and her voice became softer and softer.
If 659 could see the girl's face at this time, he could see that the other party's face was full of tangled and hesitant expressions.
After a few silent breaths, the girl seemed to have made up her mind, raised her head, and looked firmly at 659 Dao in front of her.
"I ...... I can accompany you for once......"