Today is the fifth day that Tang Xue has come to Jingyuan's house, and the small chilblains on her legs have basically scarred and fallen off, probably because of the careful care she has taken care of for several days, the newly grown skin is very smooth, leaving no traces.

Her ankles and calves have also become swollen, and all that remains are some large wounds on her thighs, which she cut with a knife herself, and it is estimated that she will have to take care of them for seven or eight days.

Kyungwon helped her to her feet and slowly let go.

"Does the wound hurt?" Kyungwon asked.

"It's a little itchy." As she spoke, she propped herself on the bed and took two steps to the left, fine sweat oozed from her forehead, and she gasped lightly and sat down on the bed again.

It was still too early for her to walk, and Kyungwon pushed the wheelchair again, picked her up, and put her on the bench.

"If you hadn't climbed into the snow, your injuries might have healed by now."

"yes, but I haven't seen Lamei in years."

"Why don't you just want to trust me?"

"Because Mr. Kyomoto, what you said is simply a fantasy, do you know what kind of life the survivors in the north are living? They boiled the grass seeds of the dog's tail grass into porridge, peeled off the bark, and if they were lucky, they could dig up some grass roots and cook them together, because they ate these things, and they often heard that people died of constipation.

The food left by the army has been consumed, there are no vegetables on the beach at all, we can't even grow coconuts on the beach here, we can catch some fish a few years ago, and the fish caught later have become that weird and disgusting look, someone was bitten by a fish, and the guards took him away and executed, and no one dared to approach the beach anymore.

Later, some brave people organized and went to the city to search, but most of them did not return, and nine out of ten of those who came back gave up halfway through, and those who did not come back did not know whether they were dead or unwilling to come back after finding food.

And I don't know when some people started a sect, they got together every day to pray, they had a sect called Death Worship, and those who joined the Death Worship Sect did not go back to the gathering place, they cut out their tongues, gouged out their eyes, and put a paper bag on their heads, and the Death Worshippers did nothing but go to the beach and kneel and wait for death.

At first, there were hundreds of people in the gathering place, and everyone was united, but later it was divided into seven or eight small gathering places, and the number of people in the escort team became smaller and smaller, except for the regular roll call and the elimination of people with a tendency to be infected, everyone went their own way, no one cared about the life or death of others, and even if there was an escort team in charge, there were also people who did evil regardless of the rules.

No one has an easy life, they don't know why they want to live, what is the point of living, if you stay in that kind of place for a day, you will know why I don't believe you, those who gather together to cry, those who gnaw the bark and eat grass seeds, they can no longer be called 'people', it is not an exaggeration to call them the walking dead.

I was no different from them, so when I saw the plum plant, I thought, "Oh good, I can smell the plum blossoms." ”

After listening to Tang Xue's description, Jingyuan was silent for a long time, sighed, and understood more deeply what kind of disaster this was.

If he had lived in that environment, he might have suicidal thoughts.

Tang Xue turned her head sideways and looked at the lamp next to the bedside table that emitted white light.

"Do you think it's a dream?" Kyungwon asked.

"I don't like to dream, and if I have a dream one day, whether it's a good dream or a nightmare, I'll hold on to it, and I'll bite my fingers until I think I can't dream."

Kyungwon touched her head and, as usual, took her downstairs to make a fire in front of the stove to cook.

"Speaking of which, the Zhoushan City Rehabilitation Center is here in the southern suburbs, where does your grandfather live? Maybe I can take you back and see. ”

"Is this the southern suburbs?"

"Yes, we are now in the villa area in the southern suburbs, is your grandfather also living in the villa?"

"No, grandpa likes that kind of old house, he never lives in a bungalow, my father bought an old house with a yard at the foot of the mountain for him to live in, and there should be some distance from the villa area."

"So, do you want to go back and have a look?"

“.” Tang Xue was silent for a moment: "If you have a chance, please take me to have a look." ”

"You don't have a good relationship with your grandfather, right?"

"When I was a child, my grandfather often hugged me, in front of him, my father didn't dare to teach me, I would come here when I had time, if one day I didn't want to go to class, I would skip class and take the bus alone, even if the teacher told my father that I skipped class, as long as I heard that I was here with my grandfather, my father would only say that I would come back early tomorrow, and my father was very afraid of my grandfather."

"Your grandfather. Have you ever contacted him? ”

"Before the world became like this, my grandfather was already in the grave, and he died of a sudden cerebral thrombosis."

"I'm sorry. Mention your sadness. ”

"No, in fact, what I think of, are all good things, no matter when I come here to find grandpa, he will give me pocket money, let me buy what I like, I remember the way he spoke, he asked about something, always had to repeat the words of the person who answered him twice, for example, he asked me what time it was, I said it was already four o'clock, he would say, it's four o'clock, well, it's four o'clock, he is a little slow to react because of cerebellar atrophy."

"Elderly, that's right."

"When he was young, he was very powerful, he often showed me his badges and awards, as well as his tattered old military uniform, he said that the brothers of their regiment, in the end, more than 20 people lived, all of them survived from the rain of bullets, grandpa was very strict with others, would make my father kneel in the ancestral hall, whip him, grandpa said that the Tang family should talk about the rules."

"You must have been very sad when he died."

"After the funeral, I didn't go to school for three days, and now I think, at least grandpa doesn't have to face this gray world, and I don't have to worry about him becoming a monster, the first half of his life was very bumpy, but in the second half of his life, I think he lived a happy life, and when I see him, he is always smiling."

"Do you remember where that house was?" Kyungwon took out the map.

"Yes." Tang Xue pointed to a place at the foot of the mountain.

Kyungwon just marked the approximate location of the house on the map, and planned to explore the road first when it cleared up.

Tang Xue said that there were two jujube trees in front of the house and a stone lion, which were very conspicuous and could be seen at a glance.

She said she might find some guns and ammunition there, and that her grandfather kept them as a souvenir of the year, and he loved guns himself.

The country seems to allow private ownership of firearms, but the review is very strict, and basically only military or police can get a license.

Kyung Won thought, it would be nice if he could find some bullets, he didn't have much ammunition left, the bullets for pistols and rifles, adding up to a total of 60 rounds, for more than 90 days, he couldn't find any additional bullets, of course, this is also related to the fact that he hasn't gone to the police station or anything like that.

With more bullet reserves, you always have to feel at ease, after all, no matter how hard the eggplant knife is, compared to a gun that can attack from a distance, it is still a big difference.

(End of chapter)