Chapter 439: Talking about the Past at Night
"Why do you feel this way?"
"I don't really want to eat mutants, I want to eat ......"
"Do you remember what it was like to eat people?"
"Well, I think so."
Teng Rui's cheerful answer stumped me, I had only tasted blood, and my craving for human flesh was not so strong.
Nini is the only one in our team who has eaten human flesh, but it is dead human flesh, and she has not shown any interest in human flesh since she inherited my bloodline.
"Don't make a fuss, as long as you can hold back, it's not a big deal." I'm afraid of causing some psychological burden to Tengrui, so I can only make things lighter.
And this is not purely comforting, he no longer remembers what happened to Teng Rui during his detention, and it is likely that he ate people out of compulsion.
If he can resist this impulse, those past events will be allowed to pass, and even if someone comes to ask for a 'debt for human life' in the future, it will be a matter for the future.
Teng Rui glared at me angrily, I was stared at inexplicably, and glared back at him innocently, the two eyes were frozen for a few seconds, Teng Rui couldn't help but say:
"Cannibalism is no trivial matter!"
He had a serious look in his eyes and a serious expression, and I realized that this was not something that could be fooled by casual comfort, and he seemed to mind it very much.
I have never encountered a similar problem, and when it comes to 'human life', I can't explain it clearly in a few words.
To be reasonable, there is only the truth of killing people to pay for their lives in the world, and when it comes to flexibility, even I think it's wrong to eat people, so how can I make him accept this matter calmly?
Besides, Teng Rui is an adult, and he may not be able to listen to him when he talks to him.
I put myself in their shoes and wondered, would I forgive myself if it was me who ate someone in a particular situation?
"As long as it's a stranger who eats, I'll forgive myself." I organized the language a few times, and in the end I just threw out a single sentence.
No matter how much he says, no matter how beautiful it sounds, facts are facts, Teng Rui must have his own judgment, and I have no intention of reversing his thoughts, so I will say what I think in my heart.
A hint of surprise flashed on Teng Rui's face, he probably didn't expect me to say it so bluntly, whether it was cold or selfish, anyway, I wouldn't kill myself because I ate a stranger.
Of course, it is also necessary to distinguish whether there is sanity when eating, like Song Enru, after being infected into ordinary zombies, they have no reason and memory at all, and they rely on instinct to compete for food.
They only have 'food', no 'people', and no 'I am human', they are no longer themselves.
I think Teng Rui knows this truth, but he can't get over that level in his heart.
A strong person must learn to bear hardships and move forward bravely.
Whether to stop or continue to move forward depends on whether Tengrui can figure it out.
Teng Rui's gaze turned to the river, he knew that Xiao Zhang was also a high-level zombie, he moved his lips, his face was entangled.
Finally, he couldn't help it and asked in a low voice, "What about them?" ”
I didn't speak, I nodded slightly, Teng Rui's eyes dimmed, and he asked again, "What about you?" ”
Teng Rui is in dire need of a sense of belonging right now, and he must be afraid of being an outlier, but I must be honest: "A little blood." ”
"You're lucky."
"That's right."
"The other zombies in the camp... Forget it, I don't want to know. ”
"Tengrui, I can only say that under normal circumstances, you can't crave human flesh."
"Well, thank you."
Looking at Teng Rui's lonely face, I admit that I am a lucky person, but I can't always be lucky, just like sunshine and shadow go hand in hand, luck and bad luck are also inseparable good partners.
He may envy me for not eating anyone at the moment, but if he knew that I had been through it, he would certainly not envy me.
I thought he would want to be alone, but he suddenly opened his mouth and asked me to tell me about my experience.
Xiao Zhang washed the prey and walked back to the stove pit, put the cut meat pieces on the barbed wire, Song Enru and Xiao Yang picked up two large bundles of firewood and came back, Xiao Zhang built a fire, and roasted the barbed wire with the meat pieces on the fire.
Teng Rui didn't want to be interrupted by them, so he urged me to tell my experience, we barbecued around the fire silently, ate silently, and when we finished eating, Teng Rui looked at me with a blank eye, as if signaling that I could tell a bedtime story.
My experience is not a state secret, and I am not afraid to tell them about it, so I started from the time I was held up by my parents with a pickle jar, and told them all the interesting or tense or terrifying experiences I had encountered, like telling a story.
The process of turning into a zombie was not brutal and bloody, and I still think it's funny to look back on, and that's where I'm lucky.
It's just that later, I suffered a lot of sins and suffered a lot in life and death, and I was spurred on by crises and difficulties all the way to today.
I don't think my abilities would have improved so quickly without those lives and deaths.
Saiong lost his horse, and he didn't know if it was a blessing, and Teng Rui's expression changed several times in the process of my narration.
He said that the people, corpses, and monsters I encountered were more novel and terrifying than what he had seen in the movies.
"Young people, movies are people's imagination, but reality is always beyond people's imagination." I said slowly.
Teng Rui was unconvinced, and said, "I just forgot, my ability to survive in the last days is definitely no worse than yours!" ”
I was not convinced, and said, "You must not have as many types of monsters as I am." ”
"Not necessarily, didn't you say there are a lot of weird things in Deathland? Maybe you're just the tip of the iceberg, but I'm an in-house employee......"
"You are a laborer who was arrested, and your range of activities is limited, so you can't run out of your one-third of an acre~"
Teng Rui grinned angrily, obviously still unconvinced, I don't understand why he is so persistent about the monsters he sees, maybe it's the boy's competitiveness.
But he really didn't remember the experience of working for others and guarding Deathland, so he couldn't find anything to refute me, so he stalked his neck and didn't say anything in the end.
Teng Rui, who has lost the memory of the end times, has obviously talked more than before, and since he joined our team, he basically doesn't talk about the past.
Now that I've heard about my experience, he's also starting to talk about him, such as where he goes to school, what sports he likes, and who his best friends are.
That's when I learned that his biological father had died in a car accident when he was very young, and he had little memory of his biological father.
Later, his mother soon remarried, and his stepfather was a loyal and honest man, who treated him like his own son, and often took him out to sea to play.
He learned that they were not father and son when his stepfather was dying, when his stepfather had cancer and died three months later, and then disaster broke out and his mother was also infected.
Bonfires have a special charm, as if this warm light can shine into people's hearts and let people pour out the stories that have been buried in their hearts for a long time.
Teng Rui had never talked about his family situation in detail before, but now that I heard him say this, I remembered that when he was forced to tell him the whereabouts of Old Joe, he only said that his father died when he was very young.
Later, he drove a speedboat to take us to Taiwan Province, and said that he had learned to sail with his father at the age of twelve, and it turned out that the two fathers were not the same person.
Teng Rui also said that because his mother was busy with work and his father often went to sea, he was always placed at the neighbor's aunt's house from kindergarten to primary school.
I heard him talk about Aunt Wan, and there was only gratitude between the words, and there was no ambiguity, and I felt a little touched for a while.
Some romances only arise under special circumstances, such as a closed environment, a strong sense of loneliness, which can make people feel that there is only each other left in the world, and it is estimated that this is the case for the two of them.
Teng Rui didn't ask me about his relationship with this Aunt Wan again, and he didn't mention it to me if he didn't ask.
The silent night turned into a story assembly, and we took turns telling our stories one after another.
Song Enru also talked about her experience, including the love triangle, when she mentioned Luoluo and her brother, there was only sadness in her eyes, no resentment.
I think she has let go of that relationship, no matter what the purpose of her going to Africa was in the first place, and then she really threw herself into that job.
We talked not only about the post-apocalyptic experience, but also about the past, which gave us a better understanding of each other.
The warm light of the fire reflected on everyone's faces, and we seemed to be friends who got together by chance, talking about interesting topics in their lives.
However, chatting and chatting, the topic jumped from the past to the present, and on the way, Song Enru had already told Xiao Yang and Xiao Zhang that she was going to Xindu to inquire about her parents.
Xiao Yang and Xiao Zhang naturally wanted to follow her to the end, so the three of them began to discuss how to infiltrate the new capital, and who to ask for news after blending in.
It's hard for others to infiltrate the new capital, but Song Eunru's ability is simply prepared for breaking into the new capital, so I told them that they don't have to worry about the first step and can directly discuss the next problem.
As the three of them continued to discuss, Teng Rui quietly asked me a question: "Haven't you thought about participating in the freshman meeting?" ”
"No, you think I should go?"
"Everybody's... Maybe ......"
"There is still hope for humanity, maybe everything can be done again."
"You can guarantee that you will be able to find that space-time tunnel, those documents may have been destroyed long ago, if you can't find it for decades, then this world will already be a world of zombies."
"The worst outcome is that zombies rule the world, so why not try?"
"Well, that's right, it's a big deal to destroy the earth, hey~ Maybe I just don't like the feeling of working in vain."
"You're younger than me, a little bit energetic, okay? Juvenile! ”
"Before you grow old, you don't have a young lady and you are hot-blooded."
"What a young lady, called the boss."
"Why do you look the same as her?" An abrupt voice interrupted our conversation.
A few of us were stunned, and we all looked sideways at the woman lying on the rock.
She turned her head to us with her eyes open and her eyes fixed on my face.
She seemed to have just woken up and didn't hear our story or me talk about my experience.
So, I simply repeated to her the reason why Alpha has the same appearance as me.
She seemed much calmer, and when she woke up, she didn't cry or fuss, and I was secretly relieved that she was finally starting to pay attention to things other than men.
But then she said something that surprised me deeply, and her gaze swept over the others, and the question was directed at them.
"You believe what she says?"
Everyone else was stunned, and Song Enru asked rhetorically, "Is there a need for her to lie?" ”
"What if they're the same person?" The woman asked again.
The question was absolutely appalling, and the woman was the only one of them who had seen me and Alpha appear at the same time.
As a result, she actually asked such a question, I really couldn't understand her brain circuit, and secretly wondered, could it be that when I knocked her unconscious, I accidentally smashed her brain stupidly?
Song Enru's expression was indifferent, and she asked, "What is the basis for your suspicion of her?" ”
"I know what the freshman leader's ability is."