Chapter 161: Gains and Losses
It's been quite a while since I woke up.
The man looked at the vast field of ashes in front of him, he shook his head, and casually fanned away the smoke and dust in front of him.
"It's gray everywhere, but it's good that the sun is out now!"
Looking at the early sun in the sky, a little ruddy, the man laughed, and his dirty face showed relaxation and freehand.
"Looks like it's time to get out of this damn shitty place, it's bare, there's no water, no mountains, no flowers and trees, nothing but ashes, it's still ashes! Even the food is almost gone! ”
He grumbled, and walked knee-deep ash on the ground, leaving deep footprints on it.
In the man's hands, he also carried a few gray fruit, a plant similar to the sweet potato, which grew under the ashes and had long, narrow leaves that could easily be missed if not carefully discerned.
The fruit is edible, and although it tastes bad, it will always have a smell of plant ash when it is steamed or made by other methods.
Despite the difficulty of ingesting, men also had to feed on it.
Because under the ashes, everything is silent, the animals have become corpses, and people can only find food from the ashes.
Looking back, the road he walked over was already covered with large and small footprints, and the man shook his head and sighed again and again.
"This place, it's really unlivable! Hey? It's all this time, it's time to go back! ”
He muttered to himself as he looked around, and saw that there was nothing but a gray expanse of earth.
He had no choice but to stretch out the index finger of his right hand, curl it slightly, hold it in his mouth, and blow violently.
After a whistle, there was a distant barking similar to that of a dog, but the sound was noticeably thicker and more powerful.
"Wang! Whew! ”
With the howl of a wild beast, a huge dog with shiny hair came running from a distance, and it ran and jumped as it went, raising countless clouds of dust behind it.
The giant dog ran to his side, flicking its tail and circling him, sniffing back and forth with its nose on his body.
The giant dog didn't seem to be very afraid of the smoke and dust here, and the heavy breath that erupted from its nose was full of heat and dampness, and a lot of dust was washed away by the surrounding air currents as soon as it approached its nose.
"Finger, you're finally back! Why haven't you found anything? You're going hungry today! ”
Hearing the man's words, the giant dog stopped aggrievedly and looked at him with a look of resentment.
The dog had been taken in by the man not long ago, and when he first met it, it was covered in smoke and dust, covered in dirt, and holding a red and black flaming sword in its mouth. The man thought the dog was spiritual, so he took it in.
Unexpectedly, after the dog's physical condition eased up, its natural hobby of pranks and some crazy personality were displayed.
The man found that this dog was simply difficult to domesticate, it was obviously a dog, and it always liked to make wolf howls, and its character was also a little stupid and crazy.
But it was quite loyal, after all, at that time, there was only one girl with an indifferent face by the man's side besides it.
Speaking of that girl, the man couldn't help but have a headache, the other party always looked cold, didn't laugh, and didn't get angry. No matter how much he teased, she would always be the one who didn't get close to her.
The man didn't know the girl's origin, he only knew that when he woke up, the other party was already by his side.
At that time, both of them looked unclothed, he fell there, and the girl sat on top of him, and the other party did not react or express anything about his body and the situation of the two, which made him a little overwhelmed.
In short, he is living a good life now, a little messy, and everything is confused.
Thinking of this, the man couldn't help but sigh and slapped the dog on the head that was grinning at him.
"Laugh at the fart, you eat ashes at noon today!"
"Whew, woohoo!"
The finger made a dissatisfied sound, but seeing that its master had left the place, it had no choice but to fall on its tail and follow.
With great difficulty, a man and a dog walked through the ash area towards a hill.
The terrain here is slightly higher, and after a few strong winds, the originally bare, gray hills are now partially exposed.
However, due to the long time of being covered by ashes, the surface of the land here has long been barren, without the moisture of rain, no vegetation, only dry and hard soil.
"We're back!"
The man walked halfway up the hill and shouted into a gap in the boulder.
Above the hills there are two protruding rocks, which just form a natural cave, shallow, but enough for them to shelter from the wind and rain.
The girl was now sitting on the outer edge of the boulder, and when she heard the man's call, she turned around, stepped forward, and took the gray potato from his hand.
"That's all we have for food today! I have been all around, I have gone through everything, there is nothing to eat, I have seen today, we have to consider changing places, or we will stay any longer, there is no food, no water, I am afraid it will be difficult to live again! ”
The girl didn't say anything, but nodded expressionlessly.
After taking the gray potato, he turned and walked to the hole formed by the boulder, where there was a bonfire, burning slowly, emitting a light that was not very hot.
The girl was covered only by the fur that had been stripped from the body of an unknown beast.
The man simply folded the skin in half and made three holes in it, which was a piece of clothing, even the one he himself was wearing.
As for the shoes, as well as decent trousers, I'm sorry, there is nothing here, and he can't sew with needle and thread.
Gray potatoes are a kind of food, they are cooked very quickly, and after a while, the man smells a scorching smell of soot, and he is lying there, and as soon as he looks up, a pair of gray little feet appear in the field of vision, looking up, huh...... The two ripe gray potatoes were the same color as the ashes on the ground.
The man took the fruit from the other man's hand, sat up, and just wanted to bite it down, when he raised his eyes again and saw the girl's pursed lips and throat that was being swallowed, he shook his head and sighed, and handed the fruit back in his hand.
"You eat first! The rest is mine! ”
The girl did not respond, nor did she take the gray potato he handed over again, but looked at him stubbornly, unresponsive.
"Eat! When we are full, we have the strength to hurry, wait for us to rest for a while, and then leave here, I don't know how far the distance is out, in case you are hungry along the way, and there is no food to eat, it is easy to faint. Don't blame me for not reminding you, now we don't even have much water, and it's already good to have a bite to eat! ”
Rao is like this, the girl is still stubborn and does not take over.
The man couldn't help but feel a little depressed, so he reached over and forcibly stuffed the gray potato into her arms.
This time, the other party has no reason to refuse.
But she didn't accept it, so the two gray potatoes fell directly to the ground, stained with a lot of dust.
"Do you like to eat or not?"
The man was a little angry, so he shook his hand and left the cave and went outside to bask in the sun.
The girl stared at the gray potatoes that had fallen to the ground, her eyelids drooping.
At an angle that the man could not see, the girl leaned down and picked up the gray potatoes on the ground, she blinked, her eyes turned red, she seemed to be a little sad, but she did not cry, but tried to restrain her tears and not let them fall to the ground.
On the other side, the man under the sun took off the animal skin on his body and shook off all the ashes on it.
"It's terrible, this feeling, by the way, I seem to be calling Lin Yu, from Xuanhuang Country!"