Chapter 52: What's the Situation
The largest face value of the ticket is ten yuan, and the smallest is five cents, all of which are banknotes, neatly rolled together, adding up to a few hundred yuan, the old man carefully took out the money roll, took off the tied string, and handed the money to me even though it was flattened.
I hurriedly avoided it, and resolutely could not accept his money, as can be seen from the layout of the two rooms in this house, the old man's life is very simple, and he has collected hundreds of dollars so carefully, it is sad to see.
"Grandpa, don't be like this, you have suffered such a big disaster, it is a blessing to survive, I helped Nini by the way, you have already thanked you." I pushed away his arm and said, "I'm sending her back because I have something to do lately, so you two will hide here for the time being, and when I come back from my errands, I'll take you to a safe place." ”
The old man's strength is not as strong as mine, and the speed is not as fast as mine, I pressed his arm and let go and immediately retreated to the door, there is a big sense that he will flash me if he insists on me, seeing my attitude so resolute, the old man suddenly covered his eyes, cried in a low voice, and kept saying thank you in his mouth.
In this case, I can still make a few jokes with my peers to resolve it, saying no thanks, who made me Lei Feng, but in front of this old man, I can only comfort in a whisper.
When the old man's mood was stable, I went out of the village with my bag on my back, and the place where the corpse herb would open was unpredictable, and I didn't really come out to look for it, but went to the nearest town to the village, where I took some vegetable seeds from a seed store, and found bags of dried ginger powder, soy sauce and starch in a small supermarket, mixed all the ingredients with my blood, and then kneaded them into small pills and put them into a small medicine bottle.
The vegetable seeds can be seen on the surface of the pill, and the taste of blood is also masked by ginger powder and soy sauce, if there is no Long Tao's sense of smell or take it to test it with an instrument, it should be no problem to deceive the old man.
I used a tricycle to pull back ten bags of white noodles, which I found at the town's grain and oil store, as well as soybean oil and five boxes of dried noodles, and my hiking bag was also full of canned food, and I transported the things back to Nini's house, and when I saw that there was not a single firewood next to the stove, I walked around the village and found that the firewood in other people's houses had also been burned.
It doesn't matter if the firewood is burned out, I have removed all the courtyard walls that can be demolished, and many people still use wooden planks to make fences, and these woods can be burned until they fill the yard, and I pushed through a farm truck to block the hospital door, fortunately, the courtyard wall of Nini's house is brick, if there are no special circumstances, such as corpse vanilla opening in the courtyard again, then the two of them can live in peace for a few days.
The old man sent me out with tears in her eyes, Nini called Mom, Mom, looked like she was going to cry, I told her to come back to pick her up in a few days, this Nizi held back her tears, her growth rate is staggering, but this is a good thing, after all, today's world cannot tolerate innocence.
"Han Xinni, you are a brave warrior, protect your grandfather!" Before turning around, I took Nini's little hand and gave her a command, her name was told to me by the old man - I liked the name very much, its meaning was full of hope, it reminded me of the sentence 'old swallow and new mud', spring returns to the earth, and everything is a new beginning.
"Hmm~" Nini pursed her mouth, her expression was still a little resolute, but a little like Gu Yu.
I didn't go back to the hotel directly after leaving the village, I lost Nini after a trip in such a short time, Fu Yan must have doubted it, otherwise he just said yesterday that he wanted me to take care of the overall situation, Nini would be gone today, how could things be so coincidental.
To make people believe that I went out to find corpse herbs, I had to go to a distant place to get some evidence, and the last time I ate the one in Nini's yard was long past the deadline for the next plant to open.
It seems that I have been unlucky lately, so I walked for half a day to the farther villages and towns, trying to avoid the city, because this trip was to send Nini, so there was no need to take the risk.
I was going to pick up a few cans of milk powder and baby food in the farthest county town where I could reach my feet, so that I could say that I had an accident when I was looking for food.
For those who know the identities of me and Nini, they say that they are looking for corpse vanilla, anyway, corpse vanilla is so rare, and it is normal to encounter accidents if you can't find it.
On the way, I always think of the new paradise that Mr. Han said, there is no water that can cure diseases for the time being, just say that the geographical location is excellent, Changbai Mountain is rich in natural resources, there is no man-made destruction and logging, and there should be nothing missing for long-term residence.
It's just that the head of there is also greedy, I'm afraid it's not a good place to go at the moment, and it will inevitably be looted and exploited if you go.
I returned to the hotel when it was almost dark, and in order to enhance the credibility of Nini's death, I did not sneak back to my room, but went straight to the main entrance.
As soon as I entered the hall, I saw a room of people, Fu Yan was not there, there were several soldiers standing at the front desk, all of them were wearing official ranks, and the people in the hall looked dressed as survivors, and the group that was rescued from the city had been sent away, and these people were all fresh faces.
"Are you Sang Rou?" An officer spotted me.
His tone made me very uncomfortable, contemptuous and condescending, and I was not his subordinate, nor did I rely on him for anything, should he be polite?
"Yes." I answered lukewarmly.
"Fu Yan has been transferred back to the headquarters, I will take over here, I heard that you have a special child, we want her to assist in the work, where is she?" He took it for granted, so I said angrily:
"Dead."
As I spoke, I threw my bloodstained backpack to the ground, the milk powder cans in the bag slammed into the marble floor with a clattering sound, and a small jar of baby grope puree rolled out, which was quickly picked up by a female survivor in the hall and stuffed into her clothes.
This woman, dressed in dirty cotton clothes, with only one clean face on her body, took my things and glared at me, as if she would bite me to death if I dared to ask her for return.
Man dies for money, and birds die for food. When money is useless, people will work hard to eat.
I just glanced at her, silent, and frowned at the officer who spoke to me, who didn't look like he was feeling sorry or upset for me, but obviously because of my displeasure.
The female officer next to him didn't seem to see what was going on here and me, so she said to him, "Captain Ji, how do you think we can settle these people?" ”
As soon as the people in the hall heard this, they all turned their faces to look at this Captain Ji, and one of them stood up a woman, choked up and said, "Please, go and save the others, that place is terrible, people are beaten to death and starved to death every day...... Woo......"
I saw that this woman was a little familiar, so I stared at her for a while, her hair was a little messy, and her nose was a little dirty, but these did not make her look down, but made her look pitiful.
"You! You're not the one in the underground parking lot? "Moe? Yes, Ouyang Mengmeng! I remember her, it was I who pulled her cocoon away, and we talked.
I didn't see her in the last group of survivors, and I thought she was killed by thugs on the way to the hotel with Fu Yan, but I didn't expect her to appear here.
Ouyang Mengmeng wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, stared at me for two seconds, and then said in surprise: "It's you, you're fine, great!" ”
Captain Ji ignored my existence and said to Ouyang Mengmeng: "We are short of manpower, and the rescue must be considered in the long run, you explain the details of that place to Instructor Xie, and the others will have a room for men and women, two people in one room, and if you have any questions, you can find Deputy Team Liu alone." ”
Instructor Xie is the female officer who just spoke, and Deputy Team Liu is the short man next to Captain Ji, I looked at them, and said in my heart that this is to set Gu Yu in the air, and if he doesn't transfer away when he comes back, wouldn't his position here be very embarrassing?
Gu Yu and Fu Yan did a good job, the sudden change of person in charge must be a special reason, I thought about asking Ah Ying or Zhou Li, and as soon as I raised my leg to leave, Captain Ji looked at me and said, "You go back to the room first, you can't move freely without my permission." ”
I was stunned by the words, restricting freedom? What does this mean? I have a bad feeling in my heart, but I have to hold back my temper until things are clear.
I didn't want to talk nonsense with him, so I went straight back to the room, and Ah Ying, who said that I was going to cover for me, was not there, I wasn't sure if she was in my room, and I wasn't sure if she was alone, so I didn't use teleportation rashly.
After more than 40 minutes, someone knocked on my door, I put away my nervousness, walked to the door and opened the door, and met the eyes of outsiders with an expressionless face.
With neat short hair and a capable temperament, Instructor Xie outside the door fits all my fantasies about a female soldier in person, but she is a member of Captain Ji's team, and I really can't have a good impression of her when I think of that unfriendly commander and her attitude of ignoring me.
"Hello, I want to talk to you." Although Instructor Xie's tone was not as lofty as that of Captain Ji, there was also a kind of strength that could not be disobeyed, which made me very annoyed.
"Not available." I deliberately waited, waiting for her to ask politely, it would give her some face, but she only used a statement sentence, and I didn't be polite to her.
Instructor Xie frowned, stretched out his hand to push the door that was about to close, and said coldly with a rather displeased look: "Miss Sang, I think you should be clear about one thing, it is Gu Yu who personally took you in, it is not a safe zone, but this is a command post set up in a safe zone, we can ask you to leave at any time." ”
I raised my eyebrows slightly, I want to say that Gu Yu didn't report to the security zone? I've helped a few people before I say I'm not my own?
But I couldn't help it, thinking that Gu Yu might have hidden from his superiors that I was a high-level zombie, the emotion in my heart was actually greater than the doubt, maybe he only said in the report that he was expected to find a way to identify the corpse, maybe he gave a gag order to his subordinates who knew my identity, at least judging from the attitude of Captain Ji and Instructor Xie towards me, they didn't know that I was a zombie.
"Let's talk about it, what do you want to talk about?" I waved my hand widely, but had no intention of inviting her into the house.
"I heard that you rescued Zhou Li and took him to escape from the underground parking lot, what did you do before?" Instructor Xie's tone is the same as that of a police officer interrogating a suspect on TV.
"Extreme survival enthusiast, zombie movie fan, profession is a student." I replied lazily.
"Love sports? That physical fitness should be good, we are in urgent need of manpower now, there is a mountain in the west of thirty kilometers away, there is a quarry there, Ouyang Mengmeng and they escaped from there, the situation inside is very bad, Captain Ji arranged for you to enter the first batch of rescue teams, and set off in half an hour. ”
"I'm going to wait for Gu Yu to come back." But after two faces, I've had enough of the new guys, not only arrogant, but also talking to myself, I just want to talk to Gu Yu at the moment.
"The superiors have other arrangements for him, you are not his soldier, if you want to enter the safe zone, you have to contribute to everyone." Instructor Xie accentuated his tone, and there was a little bit of threat.
"I'm not going!" See what she can do?
"Miss Sang, if you refuse to obey the organization's arrangement, then unfortunately, you can't stay here." Instructor Xie's eyes flashed, and for a moment, I felt that she wanted me to go.
She wants me to go, but I don't want to go, at least I can't go in a daze, "What about Hu Tao and Ah Ying?" Where are they? ”
"They have a secret mission, and I can't reveal too much information."
I gritted my teeth secretly, she was obviously deliberately not letting me meet Gu Yu's people, and separating us, Gu Yu must be in trouble, I have to help him.
It's easy to leave, but I first have to find out why Captain Ji and the others are isolating us, especially for me, whether it is Captain Ji or Instructor Xie's attitude, there is obvious rejection and disgust.
I don't care if they hate me, I only care if Hu Tao and Ah Ying are safe, if Gu Yu is in trouble, with the ability to camouflage cells, it is no longer a problem for me to blend into the safe zone, and I stay for the partner I just made.
Thinking that it was to save people anyway, not to harm people, and that I would flash people if the situation was not good, so I decided to promise her, maybe I could get more information, no matter how I said it, there was no loss to me.
I pretended to be embarrassed and thought for a while, and nodded reluctantly, and the instructor took me to a meeting when he achieved his goal, I guess it was a mobilization meeting, or arranging tasks or something, and when I arrived at the small conference room, I found that there were only three people sitting inside, and Captain Ji was not counted.