Chapter 31: Faith
Originally, the number of people traveling together changed from three to five, but they were divided into two groups.
Zhong Yiyi, Jiang Xue, Li Lan and Zhong Bo walked together tightly, and Zhou Guan followed alone behind.
Zhong Bo didn't bother to care if Zhou Guan would be unfavorable to him, he couldn't beat him anyway, could he let him go behind, he would do something to hurt himself, and he still needed a sneak attack?
People are like this, they can't resist, it's the norm to be rotten directly, it's not about human nature, it's just reality.
After walking like this for a few more minutes, there was a dark light and shadow on the road ahead, and the crowd was alert on the light-lit wall.
Cautiously and slowly walked forward, what he saw was a girl sitting against the wall with her knees crossed.
It's just that under the light, there is no movement, and it should be dead.
Zhou Guan ignored it, he was used to seeing this kind of roadside corpses, so he naturally didn't care, and directly surpassed the five people who were walking slowly, walked past the corpses leaning against the wall, and walked forward.
He didn't want to waste any more time by procrastinating with them.
Walking in front also means to be vigilant for everyone.
There is a corpse here, and there is a high probability that an infected person will appear in front of it.
Zhong Yiyi and the others are actually not very interested in this corpse, after so many days of disaster, they have seen more corpses, and even more broken corpses.
Only Zhong Bo felt a little strange, because he thought more about it: there were many intact infected people, and broken corpses were everywhere, but this was the first time he had seen a complete corpse.
Just as the four of them staggered past the "corpse", the little "corpse" suddenly moved and coughed twice.
"She's not dead!"
Jiang Xue cried out in surprise, turned around, and walked towards the little girl, even Zhou Guan, who had already walked to the front, stopped and looked back.
"Ahem...... Ahem...... Hungry...... Call...... Hoo...... Hungry! ”
The little girl raised her head, her childish face dirty, and she was only twelve or thirteen years old.
Perhaps she was illuminated by the light, her eyes were half-open, her expression was sluggish, her voice was hoarse and dry, she was very weak, and she breathed very quickly, and she took several intermittent breaths to finish her sentence.
After hearing this, Jiang Xue looked back at Zhong Bo, and saw that he put down his backpack, squatted on the ground and began to rummage, so she sat down next to the girl, leaned her against her, and comforted softly:
"It's okay, it's okay...... We have something to eat! ”
Then he took the bread handed by Zhong Bo, carefully tore it into small pieces, and fed it to the girl.
The girl, who already had no strength, immediately chewed a few times and swallowed the bread crumbs after it entered her mouth, and snatched the bread in Jiang Xue's hand and began to bite it, so fast that Jiang Xue didn't even react.
cough cough cough ......
The little girl suddenly grabbed her neck, apparently choking, but even so, she was reluctant to throw away the bread in her hand.
"Water ......"
Jiang Xue looked at the little girl's uncomfortable appearance and shouted at Zhong Bo, who was holding the water.
Two sips of mineral water went down, and just after relieving himself, he nibbled on the bread in his hand again.
Three loaves of bread and a bottle of water went down, and the little girl slowly stopped, as if she had just regained her senses at this time, and said a little embarrassed: "Thank you, sister......"
looked at Zhong Bo who was standing there timidly: "Thank you, brother......"
Zhong Bo smiled and didn't say anything, but Jiang Xue asked the little girl:
"Why are you here alone, your mom and dad?"
The reason why she asked this was because it was not close to the subway station here, and it was so strange for a little girl to be alone in this dark place.
Of course, she didn't think that the little girl ran here from the subway station, but she also had to wonder if there was a subway stranded in front of her, and the little girl escaped from that side, whether there might be danger in front.
Hearing Jiang Xue ask about her parents, the little girl's originally calm expression suddenly became excited, and with tears streaming down her face, she washed the dust on her face out of the Dao White Seal, and cried sharply:
"Daddy...... Mommy...... Killed by those uncles and aunts......
They kept biting Mom and Dad, and they were biting me.
Mom and Dad pushed them hard, hugged them, told me to run, let me run this way.
I was so scared, I was scared to death, so I ran this way......
I ran for a long time, and I couldn't hear them anymore......
I'm so scared, I can't run,
I was so scared that I walked back again, but I couldn't walk anymore and broke my foot......
I can only sit here, waiting for my mom and dad......
Whining......
Daddy...... Mommy...... They were killed by those people! ”
The little girl threw herself into Jiang Xue's arms and cried sadly, venting her fears and grievances in her heart.
Li Lan on the side looked at the little girl crying in Jiang Xue's arms in a daze, she was already in tears, she thought of the younger brother who was about the same age as the little girl, she must have been so afraid at that time.
Watching his parents being torn apart by the infected, or he was torn apart alive by the infected.
"Huh...... How? You don't want to carry this oil bottle with you, do you? ”
The voice did not carry a trace of emotion, but it was Zhou Guan who had already walked back. He looked at the little girl, his expression was even disgusted, and he looked at Zhong Bo again, as if to remind:
"It's enough for you to bring three women, and if you bring a child who is weak like this, are you not burdened enough, or are you too comfortable to live?"
Zhong Bo subconsciously retorted:
"Or else? Let him stay here and die? ”
Zhou Guan replied as a matter of course:
"Definitely!
Children, the elderly, and even women will only drag their feet, in addition to wasting food, can he help you deal with the infected?
You have to figure it out, it's the end times!
It is no longer the era of peace where you can eat and wear without worrying and allowing you to shine kindness at will!
The elderly and children are only a drag, they will not only distract you and eat your food, but also attract more infected people, I have seen too many of these things! ”
Zhong Bo was stunned after hearing this, and couldn't help but think of Xiang Xin and Zhao Ming's mother and son when they first met, and then remembered the drag of Li Lan in the school later, it seemed that this was indeed the case.
Now it's indeed the end of the world, there are dangers everywhere, think about it, if you don't have their drag, it is indeed safer, and even if you only bring Zhong Yiyi, you can barely cope with it.
But is that all there is to it? Just to live, do you have to give up what you can to save the people you can save?
If this is the case, in the future, will he give up even Zhong Yiyi in order to live, and finally become a person who lives just to live?
So what's the point of living like this?
If this is the case, in the end, it depends on whether you can really live to the end.
If everyone is like this, giving up the elderly, giving up the children, and giving up the woman, then in the end, can humanity survive?
Thinking of this terrible consequence, Zhong Bo, who was originally confused by Zhou Guan's words, immediately sobered up and said resolutely and firmly:
"Maybe you're right, the old man and the child are indeed a drag on ......"
Hearing this, Zhou Guan thought to himself that Zhong Bo had finally opened his mind, and he had figured it out, and he was relieved.
Presumably, he will never make these moves to save some useless people in the future, after all, he was destroyed because of this later, and he really planned to mess with him.
It's just that before he can rest assured, Zhong Bo's next words made his thoughts turn over, and he doubted his previous cognition.
"But have you ever thought that if people just want to live, they have to give up the original goodness of human nature, and give up the useless old people and children.
And when you also become useless, will you also be abandoned? Won't anyone come to the rescue? All care about yourself?
Today you give up the useless old man, tomorrow you give up the useless child, then you give up the useless woman, and finally give up the useless partner, when the human race only cares about itself, the only thing left behind may be the prime of life.
So where is the future of humanity?
Is it doomed? ”
Hearing this, Zhou Guan's heart was turbulent, because as Zhong Bo said, human beings are indeed like this.
In order to live in the last days, they have become selfish, and without the constraints of morality and law, the laws of human life have completely returned to the jungle ecology.
Abandon the old and weak, leaving the young and strong......
But the selfish species are not like animals, just to be full and reproduce, they have to live better than others in addition to living for themselves, so they go back to plunder, go back to kill their own kind.
Later, there were fewer and fewer human beings, and the women and children were almost dead, and they didn't seem to realize what was wrong, maybe some people realized it, and pretended not to know, after all, other people's business, what does it matter to him?
Therefore, after more than 20 years of the last days, that is, more than a generation later, mankind is already on the verge of extinction.
Zhou Guan stood there dumbfounded, pondering.
Zhong Bo ignored him, and had already checked the little girl's legs.
The hand was heavy, and there was a long cut on the calf, which had begun to suppurate, but fortunately it did not hurt the bones and meridians.
Zhong Bo treated her briefly with iodine wine, squeezed out the pus until blood flowed out, wrapped the wound with gauze, and then picked her up and continued to hurry, ignoring Zhou Guan, who looked at him with a complicated expression on the side.
The tunnel is long, and the darkness ahead is endless, like the future of humanity.
The little girl hugged Zhong Bo's neck tightly, and had already fallen asleep, but Zhou Guan was still far behind the team, and seemed to be a little afraid to fit in.
Roar......
A hoarse roar rang out, the familiar roar of the infected.
Zhong Bo put the little girl down and prepared to meet her, but a figure rushed forward faster than him.
Under the constantly shaking light, it was his figure holding a grooved weapon, it was Zhou Guan.
Stunned for a moment, he turned his head to look at Zhong Yiyi, who was coming over to take over the little girl, smiled, made a reassuring expression, followed Zhou Guan, and ran towards the roar.
They can't be allowed to be harmed.