Chapter 22: Arrival
As soon as he walked out of the door of the room, Li Yang smelled a scorched smell, and looked downstairs, the hall on the first floor was smoky at the moment, like a fairyland.
Li Yang was shocked: "! It's on fire?"
Quickly ran downstairs, quickly opened all the windows downstairs, and used spiritual power to quickly send the smoke and dust out of the room.
"Ahem...... Ahem"
A cough came from the kitchen, and Li Yang looked in the direction of the sound.
Ruxue ran out with a spatula in her hand, a cartoon-patterned apron tied around her waist, and her mouth covered with her other hand.
"You...... You are. ”
I have to say that Ruxue's appearance at the moment really has the appearance of a housewife, but the speckled scorched black on her body makes the housewife look a little embarrassed.
At this time, there is still a little bit of the appearance of a cold goddess, but it looks a little ...... Lovely.
Looking at Ruxue's embarrassed appearance, Li Yang wanted to laugh, but felt impolite, so he tried his best to restrain the urge to laugh in his heart, and said to Ruxue: "Is the kitchen on fire?"
As he spoke, he walked into the kitchen to check on the situation.
As soon as he entered the kitchen, the scene in front of him completely refreshed Liyang's perception of the kitchen.
Looking back at Ruxue and said, "You...... Did you meet the bad guys and fight in them? ”
Ruxue just stood silently in place, of course, he also saw Li Yang's smile just now, and said in a very calm tone: "If you want to laugh, laugh."
Suddenly, Ruxue felt a burst of warmth on her forehead, and it turned out that Li Yang didn't know when he had brought a clean towel, and he carefully wet it with hot water.
Although Liyang is two years younger than Xue, he is a head taller than Xue.
Helped Ruxue wipe the invisible places on her forehead, then handed the towel to Ruxue, and said with a smile: "It's okay, when I see that you don't usually cook, it's normal to miss."
Then silently walked into the kitchen and began to clean up.
Ruxue took the towel and looked at Liyang who was silently cleaning up in the kitchen, and felt a feeling that had disappeared for many years in her cold heart...... Warm.
After watching it for a while, I went back to my room to clean up.
Li Yang didn't know that his small gesture warmed the lonely heart of this iceberg goddess who had been dusty for many years.
This is indeed Ruxue's first time cooking, because the food here is usually taken care of by the mountains. But today, the mountain is gone, and Ruxue suddenly wants to try it himself.
But because the business is really unskilled, it has led to a series of chain reactions in the kitchen.
When Ruxue came to the hall after taking a shower and changing clothes, she found that the kitchen had almost been cleaned up by Liyang.
A simple two dishes and one soup have been prepared on the table.
Seeing this scene, she couldn't help but feel even more impressed with Li Yang.
When he was a child, Li Yang's father Li Zhengtian had to guard the city defense army camp for a long time, and only his mother took him and his sister at home.
Li Yang has been very sensible since he was a child, he will help his mother with housework, take care of his sister, and do laundry and cooking, so this little thing is nothing at all.
"Let's eat."
Li Yang stretched out his hand and motioned for Ruxue to sit down.
"Ahh
At the dinner table, both of them were a little embarrassed, and Li Yang didn't know what to say, so he simply lowered his head and picked up the rice.
But Li Yang didn't expect that the goddess of iceberg would take the initiative to talk to him.
"You're delicious."
Li Yang didn't expect Ruxue to praise him, scratched his head a little embarrassed, and smirked: "Actually, it's gone, it's just that my father was often not at home before, my mother got off work very late, and my sister was still young, so only I did it."
Ruxue agreed: "Oh."
The atmosphere was awkward again.
Soon, Ruxue finished eating, but he didn't leave, but waited for Liyang to finish eating and cleaning up together before leaving............
Li Yang returned to the room and was about to close the curtains, but when he arrived at the window, he found that the lights in the courtyard of the villa next door were still bright, and Shangguan Banmeng was constantly carrying a bunch of things in the yard alone, and he didn't know what it was.
Seeing Shangguan's half-dream, Li Yang couldn't help but recall the scene that happened between the two in the Phoenix Mountain Range, running for their lives together, chatting under the moon...... and Shangguan Banmeng's crazy appearance riding on him......
He shook his head vigorously, trying to throw Shangguan's half-dreaming figure out of his mind.
But the more I didn't think about it, the clearer those images came to mind.
There was no way, Li Yang finally had to go to the bathroom to take a cold shower, which made his heart barely calm down, sat on the bed, and began to meditate.
………… Nothing was said all night.
As soon as it was dawn, Li Yang slowly opened his eyes and retreated from his meditative state.
After washing up, I went downstairs to the kitchen and started breakfast.
This was a common thing in Liyang's previous life, and Liyang would usually get up early to help his mother and sister make breakfast, just to see the happy smiles on their faces as they ate their own breakfast.
When Ruxue came to the hall, Li Yang was just finished.
Looking at the breakfast that Li Yang made for her, the strange feeling in Ruxue's heart appeared again, Dashan used to make breakfast for everyone, but there was no such feeling, and Ruxue herself couldn't say why.
After breakfast, the two were ready to leave, and just before leaving, Ruxue took out several large boxes from her bedroom, which contained all food.
Li Yang looked at Ruxue in surprise: "We, we don't have to bring so much food!"
Ruxue shook her head, not for her own food, but for those in the slums.
Li Yang suddenly said: "So that's the case."
What Li Yang didn't know was that in fact, every once in a while, Ruxue would bring a lot of food to people in Jiangxin District, because she was also from there.
And just like that, the two set off with a cartload full of food.
Jiangxin District is more than 500 kilometers away from Ji'an, and it takes more than an hour to drive at the speed of Liyang.
After arriving in Jiangxing District, Li Yang saw the checkpoint, which was the first time Liyang had to go through a checkpoint to go to an area.
There is no way, it is to organize people in Jiangxin District to run out without permission, affecting the normal life of people in other areas.
But on the surface, the meeting of the Human Alliance still left hope for the humans here, and they can go to the checkpoint to interview for jobs, but the interview job requires taking an exam, and after passing the exam, you can get out of the slums. However, I can't eat enough, so where can I still have the heart to study?
After Liyang and Ruxue showed the identity of the city defense army, they successfully passed the checkpoint.
After officially entering Jiangxin District, Liyang's first feeling was that it was another world.
Unlike the bustle outside the walls, it was more like the ruins left over from the previous human wars, with dilapidated buildings, muddy roads, garbage everywhere, and starving, scrawny people everywhere, their eyes cloudy and listless......
Although the Council of the Human Alliance will regularly put a certain amount of food, it is far from satisfying the needs here.
Although there are people in the society who are dissatisfied with the actions of the Human Alliance Council, they have no better way but to buy some food spontaneously and send it over.
To put it mildly, in this era, the people in it are abandoned.
As the vehicle continued to move forward, Li Yang saw some city guards on the side of the road collecting the bodies of those who had starved to death on the side of the road.
Every once in a while, the city defense soldiers would regularly come to collect the corpses and then go to the centralized disposal, otherwise they would accumulate too much, and the stench emitted would affect the people in the surrounding districts.
Li Yang was surprised to find that many of those corpses were incomplete, some lacked arms and legs, and some had bare intestines, which was very infiltrating.
Li Yang, who was watching, felt sick in his heart, and said curiously: "They, were they attacked by something, why did they die so miserably."
Ruxue turned his head to look at Li Yang's innocent appearance, and suddenly he began to envy Li Yang, because Li Yang had never experienced this kind of human purgatory.
Then he said lightly: "Sometimes, it is not necessarily the spirit beast that attacks humans, but also us humans themselves, and when people are extremely hungry, they want to eat people."
Only then did Li Yang understand that the missing parts of the corpses had been eaten.
Since entering the checkpoint in Jiangxin District, Ruxue has been driving, and the speed is very slow due to the uneven road.
Li Yang had been observing the situation outside, and he really couldn't figure out what kind of force could make the city defense army disappear one after another in a place like this.
After driving for more than ten minutes, Ruxue stopped, because there was no road ahead, and what blocked the way was a muddy river with a width of six or seven meters.
Ruxue parked the car in a forest, which was a wood, but it was a forest without leaves or bark.
"You wait here for me, take care of what's in the car. I'm going to call someone. ”
After getting out of the car, Ruxue jumped over, crossed the river, and after a few steps, disappeared from Liyang's field of vision.
Looking at Ruxue's departing back, Li Yang couldn't help but wonder in his heart, and muttered: "Why is she, she seems to be familiar with this place, does she come often?"
Not knowing how long it would take for Ruxue to come back, Li Yang began to look around at his surroundings.
Since there are not many human buildings, there are mountains, rivers, and some plants with only trunks left......
Desolation, endless desolation, no other word to describe this place than desolate Liyang.
A gust of yin wind blew, and Li Yang only felt a whole coolness coming from behind him, of course he didn't feel cold with Li Yang's physique, but this desolate scene with this yin wind made him feel a little numb.
Hurry back to the car and wait like snow.
Ruxue went for twenty minutes before returning, and she brought three men with her.
The three men, though emaciated, looked a little more energetic than the ones they had seen when they first entered.
Walking to the river, Ruxue jumped back again, but the three men didn't have the ability to fly over.