Volume 1: The Age of Rebirth Chapter 5: The Warm and Cold World
When Li Zimu walked back to the rented apartment, it was almost 10 o'clock at night. His apartment is not far from Shushan University, and in fact, most of the way he sent Chen Xi back to the dormitory was a stop. Both are located on the outskirts of S City, and Li Zimu's apartment is more remote.
Sitting at a familiar and unfamiliar computer desk, he lit a cigarette and smoked in silence. Cigarettes are not common in the last days, although Li Zimu has no addiction to smoking, he is a little depressed at the moment, and he wants to smoke one.
He opened the window to ventilate, and a wave of heat hit him instantly. S City at this time, even if it's 11 o'clock at night, it's still very hot. However, Li Zimu was not aware at all, and adjusted the air conditioner to 17 degrees with his backhand. It's such a luxury. Anyway, I won't be able to use it in a few days.
He didn't really understand why he had helped the girl again and licked her back to the dormitory like a dog.
Perhaps, it is because the girl's body seems to have a kind of vitality called endless, she does not show how sunny and cheerful, nor does she say that there is still a warm soul chicken soup. But every time Li Zimu gets close to her, he will have an amazing sense that life is growing tenaciously.
When his mind was decadent, when he saw Chen Xi, he would feel very encouraged.
Perhaps, reaping the kindness of a powerhouse destined for level 9 in the last days will be a big bargaining chip in the near future.
Even if this future level 9 powerhouse will most likely not recognize him in his heart, but when he needs her help, he will give a little relief?
At this time, he subconsciously ignored that he was still living and dying before, lamenting the meaninglessness of life.
If you can pick up a small kindness along the way, it will also be considered a merit, well, you should make up for the merit book that you have suffered a lot in the last days in your previous life.
Human nature is contradictory, and Li Zimu's human nature is still vacillating many times in addition to contradictions.
Most people, when they are still safe and have choices, always subconsciously tend to do something good to satisfy their sage merits. And when there is no other choice, they often burst out into the dark side of their own disgusting. Since he was a child, his parents taught him that being kind to others is being kind to life, and he once wanted to practice it to the end. But it was only at the last resort that he saw his cowardice and selfishness.
Parents.......
In my memory, it is difficult for my parents to talk about making themselves proud, and my father is an ordinary migrant worker, honest and does not like words. The mother's small-bellied chicken intestines are mean. And the level of cultural quality is really not high.
After graduating from high school, he went to college, and after graduating from college, he went to work in S City, and he didn't have much time to go home every year, and he didn't miss them. He has been a somewhat cold person since he was a child.
At the end of his last life, he remembered that after he escaped from the hospital, he stayed in S City for two years. After reaching level 4, I remembered my parents. So he hid and sneaked 500 kilometers away and returned to his hometown. Stand in front of the old house.
A wasteland, lifeless.
Later, he heard that when the end came, the small fishing village had been flooded by a tsunami that had destroyed all the houses. No one was spared.
After listening to what the man said, he thanked him softly, and then left silently and returned to S City. By the time he stepped through the gates of the human base, he had been badly wounded and in a skeletal state.
After the cigarette was finished, Li Zimu's thoughts were pulled back with difficulty. He looked at the phone in his hand for a moment. An address book screen appears on the screen with only one name on it: "Bo Zheng".
After thinking about it for a long time, he made up his mind to press the dial button. Father is not very good at words, but he is so disgusted with his mother's verbosity that every time he calls her, he is so annoyed that he wants to hang up the phone directly, so let's call my father first. Although he did not intend to save his parents.
The reason brought about by seven years of life in the last days told Li Zimu that he was not capable of saving his parents, and he did not intend to do so by force.
Because in the end times, elderly people like their parents, who are nearly old, often can't survive the attacks of mutated zombie viruses and surviving humans, even if they survive the flood. They are likely to face even greater fear and despair. But he wanted to call his family and hear the sound.
The phone beeped for a long time before it was connected, but it turned out that it was still his mother's voice on the other end of the phone, which made Li Zimu roll his eyes.
"Xiao Mu, why did you call home so late, is there anything wrong, the work has been going well recently, right? Your dad told me yesterday that he should call you, but I think you're busy working in a big city and I'm afraid I'll be annoyed and won't bother you. Last time on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, you said that you said two sentences, and you were angry and went back to S City, and you didn't take the things I packed with you. It's been so hot lately, Mom, I want Xiaojie to send you a few packs of herbal tea, you can drink it when you're usually fineγγγγγ What's wrong Komaki. What's wrong with you? β
"Mom, I'm fineγγγγγγ"
"It's such a big child, how can you cry when you say it. Well, don't cry, you're not like that. Did something happen? You really have to talk to your mother about something, it's okay Xiaomu, there is no hurdle in life that you can't overcome. I really can't get by, so can you just come back home? Mother Li comforted her son, but accidentally choked herself. She glared fiercely at the man who was smoking next to her, and then said into the phone, "I'll let your dad talk to you." β
With that, he handed over the phone.
"Hey." Li Bozheng said sullenly.
"Dad, can you and your mother come to S City tomorrow morning?" Li Zimu said softly.
Female dormitory 705 of Shushan University.
Chen Xi was lying on a bunk single bed, with two small fans on in the room, and a small fan in her hand, but she was still hot and couldn't sleep badly.
There was no air conditioning in her dormitory, and the girl shook her fan weakly, glanced at the closed window, wanted to open the window for ventilation, and gave up, she didn't dare to open the window when she slept, and she didn't dare to turn off the light.
What did you think he was going to say, but he ended up saying those inexplicable nonsense and deceiving children? Who has heard of the virus lockdown and water and power outages? And almost all of them checked my family background along the way, so they asked me about my measurements, and I must have ulterior motives.
But if he really asks me about my measurements, should I answer them truthfully? The girl's thoughts habitually diverged again.
Then she pressed her head to the lowest with some difficulty, and only then did she see the small hill that was a little too low on her chest.
Hey, how can you tell others about such a private thing as Sanwei data? Just make up a number to fool that big pervert.
As for whether the data will be reported lower or higher at that time, the girl ignored this issue intentionally or unintentionally.
It's just bitter, Li Zimu has been labeled as a big pervert for no reason.
She simply couldn't sleep, so she took out her mobile phone hidden under the pillow again, opened WeChat, and looked at the work group in WeChat. There are more than a dozen groups at the top, and she currently has three jobs, a flower shop in the morning and a moon in the well in the afternoon. Sometimes she also doubles as an e-commerce model. Then these three jobs have each derived a bunch of shift groups, health inspection groups, training groups, monthly goal motivation groups, and a large number of small groups of colleagues.
There is almost no private chat window. She has almost no friends in her study life, few of the same sex, and a lot of the opposite sex, and nine times out of ten she is still a suitor, but she has clearly rejected them one by one. Over time, there wasn't even a private message chat window.
He didn't even ask me for WeChat, but the bad thing is that I forgot about it.
Along the way, except for Li Zimu, she replied. The rest of the day was spent walking one after the other in an awkward silence. Only now did she suddenly remember that she didn't have any information about Li Zimu, except for the phone number that she had memorized in her head when she was in Jing Zhongyue.
She quickly searched by phone number, and sure enough, she found a WeChat name called "Junzi Zimu", with a black and white cartoon and a very cute Serena dog.
Cut ~ The name and avatar are a scumbag at a glance, and the girl commented silently, and then tried to add it, and it was approved without applying. directly jumped out of a private chat dialog box, so frightened that Chen Xi sat up from the bed with a soft snort, the temperature in the room became even hotter, and her face was a little red.
"You don't even have to apply directly, it's really a scumbag Sea King." The girl complained in disgust.
After a long pause, she overcame her reserve and sent a sentence of "Hello, I am Chen Xi".
After another two minutes, there was no response from the other side.
The girl suddenly rolled her eyes, put down her phone and decided to sleep well, and she would have to get up at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning to go to work at the flower shop. What could be bigger than earning tuition? This summer, I will save another 20,000 yuan, and I will move to an air-conditioned rental house next semester.