Chapter 171: Milk Candy for Little Brother
I've always thought that these two identities are not contradictory, and zombies that retain memories and humanity can be considered survivors as well.
Ye Lei tightened his arm when he heard this, I guessed he wanted to use the ability, this was a knee-jerk reaction, but in fact there was no further action.
"Hello, my name is Xia Jinyan, be cautious in your words and deeds." Ye Lei's companion only paused, then smiled and stretched out his hand to me.
"Ye Lei."
I was embarrassed to joke about myself so formally, so I gave my real name and invited them to come with me by the way.
The two glanced at each other and nodded, their teammates were already gone, and the enemies had also ended up in the same fate, honest conservatives like Wang Yuanzheng were forced to take a long risk, so it can be seen that they have no way out of the black market, so there is another way to choose in front of them, and there is nothing to hesitate about.
After accepting my invitation, Ye Lei took out the cloth bag in his arms and handed me the source stone, saying that he was grateful for my life-saving grace.
As far as I know, the source stone can't be absorbed by humans, and it's useless for them to hold it, I naturally know that this is what they exchanged for their lives, and after taking the source stone, he quickly took out a small bag of toffee and stuffed it into Ye Lei's hand.
Ye Lei was stunned, I looked at his and Xia Jinyan's almost thin faces, and pretended to be arrogant: "I'm afraid that you will starve to death halfway, and the little brother will starve to death, wouldn't it be embarrassing for me, the boss?" โ
Xia Jinyan thanked him gratefully, Ye Lei still looked blank, but his hand holding the toffee was a little shaky, I saw that his heart was soft like this, and he was embarrassed to tease him again, and said gently: "Eat quickly, the body is the capital of the revolution." โ
Ye Lei's first impression to me was fierce, his eyes were like some kind of big cat, even if he was in a weak position when he was besieged by Team Liu, he never lowered his head, and he was just forced to reluctantly retract his claws.
Now he lowered his head because of a bag of toffee, like a poor big child, he and Xia Jinyan didn't look very old, maybe they were tempered by the harsh environment and had some vicissitudes.
Ye Lei doesn't like to talk, and all the tasks of chatting are done by Xia Jinyan, but fortunately, they are small, and Xia Jinyan is all clear about Ye Lei's situation.
The two are 19 years old this year, just a sophomore, and during the first mutation tide, Xia Jinyan had a high fever, but it was not the kind of high fever that would turn into a zombie, he was just unlucky to catch a cold.
It was the weekend, Xia Jinyan hated going to the hospital the most, Ye Lei accompanied him to the small clinic to hang a drip, fortunately, the small clinic was opened in a residential building, and those patients with high fever went to a regular hospital.
Listening to Xia Jinyan talk about his memories, it was like watching a fragment of a movie, I have heard many people tell about their experiences when the disaster broke out, and when the experiences of different people are spliced and combined in my mind, a picture of the end of the world seems to be displayed in front of me.
"And then?" I asked, because Xia Jinyan stopped when he talked about missing the military's rescue and being trapped in a zombie-infested city.
"Later, Aunt Pan was bitten in order to save us, and Leizi awakened the healing ability, but the person who has been infected ......"
I can feel their grief, that Aunt Pan is the nurse who gave him the injection, gray hair, kind face, and her son is working in other places, several years older than Ye Lei and the others.
At first, the three of them were trapped in the clinic and did not dare to go out, and they were hungry for two days before they went upstairs and downstairs to the neighbor's house to look for food, and then the military dropped leaflets to inform the survivors in the city to find a way to gather outside the city on their own.
It was the survivors who were also trapped who saved them, and strictly speaking, it was the group of survivors who couldn't stand the hunger and rushed out in teams, attracting most of the zombies' attacks.
The three of them took this opportunity to escape, but unfortunately there were still a small number of zombies chasing them, and Aunt Pan was bitten to stop that small number of zombies.
"It's me who is too weak." Ye Lei, who had not spoken for a long time, suddenly spoke, and his tone revealed a thick sense of self-blame.
Xia Jinyan also kept silent, estimating that he had the same thoughts as Ye Lei, thinking that he was incompetent and failed to save the kind-hearted Aunt Pan.
"What about your family?" I wanted to change the subject and pull them out of their frustration, but when I saw their even more gloomy looks, I realized it was a stupid question.
If their families were still there, Xia Jinyan would not have said that they had nowhere to go just now, and he didn't even mention the request to go back to the village, obviously he didn't care.
"Don't be depressed, I didn't despair when I became a zombie, you two big boys, do you want to be so weak?"
"It's fragile, isn't it?" Xia Jinyan raised his head to correct, and his self-esteem, which seemed to be a man, was hit.
I swept the bodies of the two of them, they are not short, they are too thin, Ye Lei is fortunate to have a large skeleton and wide shoulders, Xia Jinyan is not good, he is as thin as a bamboo pole, I am afraid that a gust of wind will blow into the sky.
"Softโweak." I deliberately bit the word 'soft' and was happy.
Xia Jinyan chewed the toffee vigorously, grunted without speaking, and his current small body did not refute my conditions at all.
He goes on to talk about the aftermath of the Black Market, where they flee to the vicinity of the Black Market, where they are chased by a mutant beast and encounter a wild party that happens to come out to hunt.
The wild team took them in, and the two finally lived a few days of peace, and they got along well with the team members, but since the mutant beast became stronger and the surrounding resources decreased, the nightmare began again.
Until their captain decided to cross the safety line, they chased a mutant beast into the mountain, and finally blocked the beast in a cave.
The two sides launched a vicious fight, the result was that more than half of the human team was killed and wounded, and the mutant beast was hit hard and actually fled to the depths of the cave, Xia Jinyan said, there was a bottomless pit at the end of the cave, and the mutant beast jumped into the hole without even a sound of landing.
They couldn't go down, but they found a crystal in the hay nest of the mutant beast, and the two seriously injured teenagers were still breathing, and they died halfway through.
According to him, there should be ten people in their team, five died in the battle with the mutant beasts, the remaining two were seriously injured, and one had a broken leg, only Ye Lei and Xia Jinyan, the two auxiliary abilities, were the least injured, because they had to stand behind the team.
I don't need to talk about the rest of the matter, these two people always seem to be lucky and unlucky, and I can't help but feel a little sympathetic.
"How did you become a zombie?" Ye Lei suddenly asked me.
"Fever, don't worry, I don't eat people, other camps don't welcome me, so I built my own."
"Are you really a zombie? I thought you were kidding. Xia Jinyan recovered from the small blow and stared at my face, as if he could see a flower.
"Look." I stretched out my fingertips and poked Ye Lei's elbow, the sleeve in that place was soaked in blood, which should have oozed out of Ye Lei's arm after being injured, I dipped my fingertips with some blood on the fabric, and then took it into my mouth.
The so-called original form is just a change in the color of the eyes, one blue, one red, and there is no appearance of green fangs, so Xia Jinyan's face clearly put on the word 'disappointed'.
"My grandmother's Persian cat is the same." Xia Jinyan said very shamelessly.
Ye Lei smiled rarely, I almost blew up, but fortunately I couldn't bear it, otherwise I would really let the surname Xia say it.
Do zombies have to be weird and ugly? The corpse world is also a world of faces? My heart is filled with sorrow.
"No matter what you are, you're our boss." Xia Jinyan said that after 'despising' the leader, he put on a sincere smiling face to show his determination, which is also a talent.
Ye Lei gritted his teeth and smiled when he saw me, staggered a few steps to the front of my right, and Xia Jinyan guarded left and right, "Boss, the wind is strong." โ
The two of them blocked me left and right, blocking a little cold wind for me, maybe we were not a few years old, and my attitude towards them was like friends, so the two of them were more relaxed in the face of me.
I pressed the shoulders of both of them, and they were so thin that they were still blocking the wind, and I couldn't bear it, so I grabbed them and teleported out.
Wang Yuanzheng and their hiking speed was very slow, it didn't take long for me to lead people to catch up with them, Wang Yuanzheng was very surprised to see Ye Lei and Xia Jinyan.
Of course, he and his teammates didn't just look surprised when they saw me, and one of the team members shouted "Youkai" in a low voice.
"Don't talk nonsense." Although Wang Yuanzheng also had doubts in his expression, he did not agree with the man's statement.
Hu Tao stood beside Wang Yuanzheng, he was next to Li Duo, and when he saw me come back, the two of them smiled at me, we have left the safe range of the black market, and I don't want to disguise myself as a backpack anymore.
"Captain Wang, I am a friend of Hu Tao and Li Duo, are you interested in joining my camp?" I'll get straight to the point.
Wang Yuanzheng first looked at Hu Tao, and then at Li Duo, his eyes seemed to say, 'There is a conspiracy', Hu Tao smiled apologetically: "I'm sorry Team Wang, I lied before, I came out with the head of our camp on a mission." โ
When I said 'Boss', Hu Tao's eyes glanced at me, I nodded, and said, "The mission has been completed, and now we officially invite you to join our camp." โ
Although the words are simpler, my smile is full of sincerity, of course, Wang Yuanzheng will not be persuaded just because of a sincere smile, he has many questions.
It just so happens that I also want Ye Lei and Xia Jinyan to hear about the camp in the small town, so I will answer all the questions raised by Wang Yuanzheng.
Moreover, Wang Yuanzheng is a person who knows how to measure and what not to ask, and his questions are not difficult to answer.
We chatted on the spot for a while, Ye Lei and Xia Jinyan also told them what happened to them, and Wang Yuanzheng showed a little shame after listening to it.
Seeing him like this, Xia Jinyan hurriedly said that he could stand up and fight for their chances of survival, and he and Ye Lei were already very grateful, so let Wang Yuanzheng not think about it.