In the shadows of the city, Wei Laosan rummaged through the package, took out the last piece of hard pastry, carefully broke it and handed it to his old lady's mouth.

Since that day I saw the boy on the city wall, and gave the old lady medicine according to his method, the old lady's face has been better day by day - of course, there is also the credit of these foods, fortunately the road has been very hungry, but it is still a tall man, so that in the middle of the night someone touched and grabbed something and wiped his neck.

It's just that I haven't dared to close my eyes and get a good night's sleep for many days.

The old lady swallowed the pastry with difficulty, Wei Laosan hurriedly handed over the water boiled in a broken bowl, and waited until the old lady fell asleep again, then straightened up and let out a sigh.

The hell on earth outside the city is still a hell on earth, no different from the days before, the old people are estimated to have died almost, and probably see clearly the thoughts of the people in the city who wish they refugees to die quickly, compared to the continuous cry of pleading and miserable at the beginning, there are now a lot more scolding.

Kicking a refugee who had slept on the side last night, Wei Laosan was about to go under the city wall again to see if he could meet the kind son, but the stiff touch made him frown.

turned around, and sure enough, he was dead, and half of his face was so rotten that he couldn't recognize it.

Wei Laosan secretly scolded unlucky, and he didn't know if it was a coincidence or a dead eye, the refugee's still intact half of his face, his cloudy eyes were open and looked at Wei Laosan, as for the gums exposed under the miserable white lips, and the skinny appearance that can make people have nightmares at night, Wei Laosan didn't have any diaphragm.

He muttered under his breath, "... Don't look at me, what's the matter? God wants to send disasters, aren't I and my mother also miserable? ”

He reacted: "You want me to help you collect the body?" ”

Wei Laosan was a little embarrassed all of a sudden, after all, he had been a soldier with blood on his hands, and he was really not afraid of ghosts, but when he went out to find food, this refugee helped him take care of his wife a few times, which was considered a grace.

He looked up and saw that the roadside was full of refugees who had died of hunger, some of whom were lying on the ground and could not tell whether they were alive or dead, and as far as he could see, there were many corpses lying on the ground like wood and intertwining into shadows.

No one collects the corpse when it's dead...

Wei Laosan glanced at his mother, then at the extremely high pile of corpses in the distance, and sighed.

People pay attention to entering the ground for peace, if there is no son, maybe it is his wife who is lying here today, how do you say those old sayings? Do good deeds and accumulate virtues, and repay kindness...

He touched the trampled ground and muttered, this kind of ground is harder than iron when dug down! Even an old ox who was accustomed to crop work could not pull the plow, and if he dug it by hand, he was afraid that he would not be able to dig a pit that could bury people for several days.

The barking of a group of wild dogs and the screams of people suddenly attracted Wei Laosan's attention, and he tried his best to look, only to see a few wild dogs chasing a person on the official road farther away from the densely resting refugees.

Suddenly, an old man next to him lamented: "The world is no longer good, wild dogs want to eat raw people, this is said in the yellow calendar, this wild dog wow..."

Wei Laosan couldn't listen to it anymore, he only felt a little chill in his body.

The food given by the boy has been eaten; Although the old lady's illness has improved, I don't know if it will get worse again; I haven't been infected with it, probably because I have taken a good fortune, but if I also fall ill...

In this world, maybe something is really wrong?

......

Digging from early morning to afternoon, he only dug a square dirt pit, during which Wei Laosan's mother also woke up once, and after asking what her son was doing, not only did not complain about his waste of strength, but also praised him for learning how to be a good person.

When he finally dug a pit that could barely bury people, Wei Laosan straightened up and gasped, the sky was a little cloudy, and his face turned blue, thinking that he and his mother would inevitably not be able to escape this fate, he was hesitating to dig two more pits.

Before he could make a decision, everything around him was quiet, the rancid smell of the wind lingered in his nose, Wei Laosan turned his head suspiciously, the gate of the city that had been closed for a month, slowly... A slit was opened.

Somebody shouted, and all the refugees who had reached the point of dying fell into a frenzy, and everyone waved their arms and rushed to the slowly opening city gate, which they saw as the hope of survival.

But soon the refugees at the front stopped, because what was waiting for them was not acceptance, but the soldiers in full armor, and the cold light in their hands... Spears.

"Holy shit, back off! If anyone dares to rush forward again, grandpa will cut off his head! ”

"What the fuck are you crazy about? Still want to get into the city gates? ”

"There is an order from above, and those who dare to storm the city gate will be shown to the public! A little later, the government has hired a doctor for you! ”

Probably it was the phrase "doctor" that calmed the minds of the refugees a little, or maybe the soldiers really showed an awe-inspiring murderous aura, the crowd gradually dispersed, and through the gap in the city gate opened, a group of people dressed in extremely strange clothes walked out.

The white robe draped on the outside is somewhat like a Confucian shirt, but on closer inspection, it is completely different; Each had a mask over his face and tied behind his ears with strings; It was a hot summer day, but they were all wearing gloves, and almost only their eyes were exposed.

“... Don't look at me like that, I don't have a problem with aesthetics, and the reason why they dress like this is to reduce the risk of them getting infected. ”

On the city wall, Gu Huai, who was dressed in a green shirt, looked down and was explaining something to Qingming, and he was obviously relieved to find that there was no worst chaos as expected.

"The masks are soaked and disinfected with spirits, the gloves are to prevent physical contact, and as for the white coat... That's my personal feeling, it took half a month to train such a person who can vaccinate refugees with penicillin, and one less will be much less efficient. ”

Qingming's gaze swept over Li Di, who was busy commanding in front of the city gate: "You have found a good person to come forward." ”

"Right? I don't drag my feet, and I know how to trade time with compromises, and I don't have the brute strength of a novice official... It's just that the sense of justice is too strong, and he almost turned his face with me. ”

"Flip the face?"

"It's not really, it's just a few things, after all, everyone knows that I need him to come forward, he needs me to supply medicine, and this relationship is difficult to change before the epidemic is over."

Gu Huai walked on the city wall with the petite maid, looking down at the people who had begun to line up and be inspected under the persecution of the soldiers, and his thoughts drifted away:

"Now I can only hope that there will be no moths on the government side..."