Chapter 14: Absurdity
Ten miles outside the firmament forest, a few hunters sat on the muddy ground a little decadently, letting the damp ground soak them, and the strange sensation of their skin touching their cold, damp pants might have sobered them up.
In the past few days, they have not caught a single rabbit, not even the shadow of the rabbit, and they entered the forest early this day, and it is almost noon, and it is still the same.
They looked at the thorny woods ahead of them, as if they knew they were coming back to block their way, and they couldn't help but think that there must be something strange in the woods.
"Let's go, even if you sit on the ground and cry, no rabbit will sympathize with you and hit the stake." The eldest hunter snuffed out the cigarette in his hand and shouted at the hunters sitting on the ground.
"Is it because the cold wave came so fast that the hares didn't want to come out?" A hunter asked unrelentingly.
The old hunter glanced at him silently, and replied calmly: "Perhaps, the cold wave is coming too fast, and it is estimated that the world will also change." ”
Meanwhile.
The atmosphere of the cabin is much warmer, there is no low pressure, and the air is full of fragrance.
"Sister Lin, you just stay here, you don't have to worry about food or clothing here, and there are free furries for you to touch, I heard Sister Bai Lingxi say that human society has to go to the regular store to touch these things." Dongfang Qingyu's face was flushed, and she was tired of Lin Bingling.
Lin Bingling touched her little head, a little regretful: "No, sister, I still have important things to do, there are people waiting for us outside." But I promise you, I'll come back to see you later, okay? ”
She turned to look at He Qixuan, who had just come out of the room, and He Qixuan asked strangely, "What are you two talking about when you talk about feelings?" ”
He was still nervous in his heart, for fear that Lin Bingling would wave his hand and smile at him and say the classic line: You came at the right time.
Lin Bingling said: "You came at the right time...... Why do you look at me with this expression, don't you say hello to Qingyu before leaving? ”
"Ahh He Qixuan knew that he would be wrong, and he returned to the same as before.
Dongfang Qingyu said: "I know now, Sister Lin must be a good person, but you, it always makes me dizzy, so I have to think about it." ”
"Consider what? He Qixuan, what did you tell her? Lin Bingling looked at him.
He shrugged his shoulders and told him everything about the previous events, but some of the details were automatically ignored.
Lin Bingling was heartbroken: "She's still a child, how can you teach her this kind of thing?" ”
"Isn't it the same in the morning and in the evening? At least I'm not too late to make amends. If it wasn't me who appeared this time, but someone else who was the same as the previous two times, wouldn't everything they had done be ruined? He Qixuan explained casually.
But the seemingly casual words made Lin Bingling unable to refute, because it was true.
He Qixuan continued: "Qingyu little girl, I can't call you a little girl. Qingyu girl, teach you another truth, the grace of a drop of water will be reciprocated by a spring, and if someone offends me, it should be returned a hundred times. When someone slaps you, you kick him to the point, and when someone pours cold water on you, you heat it up and throw it back. ”
In this world, there is no room for good people, and repeated tolerance will only make the bully worse.
Dongfang Qingyu nodded, Lin Bingling frowned, and stopped the exit.
Because they're going back.
She also needs to grow.
Before leaving, He Qixuan handed over the star meteorite to Dongfang Qingyu, the energy it had absorbed over the years was enough for them to rebuild their home in a short period of time, but the original home was no longer inhabitable.
They are going to go deeper into the forest, and there may be scattered beasts for dozens of miles outside, and they are not the real inhabitants of the firmament forest, maybe someone will know, maybe no one will know.
In any case, they firmly believe that in the near future, the term community of life will be celebrated by the world.
He Qixuan hung the container bottle on his waist again, it was full, he shook the container bottle intentionally or unintentionally, and smiled at Lin Bingling: "Team Lin, you have to give me some commission, right?" ”
"Yes, but I don't have cash, I can only call your card, or can you give me a contact information, and I can transfer it directly to you through this, rest assured, it's definitely only a lot." Lin Bingling said with a smile.
He Qixuan nodded and said, "That's good." ”
The two arrived at the outpost just as dusk was approaching.
As soon as they came out, they saw groups of hunters standing at the edge of the firmament forest and looking into the depths of the forest, as if waiting for something.
After Lin Bingling came out, he contacted Qin An and the others as soon as possible, they did not leave, and when they heard that the two had returned safely, they squeezed out of the hunter's pile, but they only saw Lin Bingling alone, and He Qixuan did not know where to go.
"What about He Qixuan's person?" Qin An asked seemingly casually.
Lin Bingling raised his head and gestured to the hotel behind him: "Go back to change clothes, he fell so hard in the forest that one of his hands was broken, and it will take a long time to drag him back." ”
"Is this all right?" Qin An was speechless, and immediately lost his breath, "If you fall well, it can be regarded as a little retribution for him leaving the team without permission." ”
Lin Bingling just nodded and said no more.
Long ago, the two of them had a good confession, He Qixuan's hand would not be good for a while and a half, Lin Bingling used rattan and thick leaves to fix it with a simple bandage, he used the bandages and splints sold at a high price in the black-hearted boss of the inn to fix, his teeth bited the end of the bandage and cursed the bandages for two hundred, and after about half an hour, he was ready to go downstairs.
When night falls, the bonfires are brilliant.
They're celebrating today's loss of money.
Many hunters stood on the border for a long time, and then quietly withdrew and joined the campfire party.
Lin Bingling sat a little farther away, and Qin An and the others sat beside him.
The containers and bottles had all been reloaded back into their backpacks, and they returned with a full load.
When Qin An helped load it into the backpack, he found that some of the blood was still fresh.
Lin Bingling coughed lightly, and his eyes moved to the bonfire: "When I was looking for He Qixuan again, I encountered a lot of living beasts, and I collected them easily, maybe because my aura is relatively strong, they are quite cooperative." ”
Everyone was even more in awe of Lin Bingling, and sure enough, the people in the special class were different, and it was really right to find this foreign aid.
After a while, He Qixuan came to everyone's position and said apologetically: "I'm sorry for causing you trouble." ”
Qin An chose to ignore it, and several girls politely detached themselves and said it didn't matter, Lin Bingling still looked at the bonfire and asked him to find a place to sit down.
"Have you eaten? If I don't invite you to dinner, I won't pay for it. He Qixuan said.
"No."
"It can be."
Several people finally gave the decision to Lin Bingling, who got up silently, glanced at He Qixuan, who was still sitting in his position and refused to get up, looked forward to the street not far away, and motioned for him to get up and lead the way.
He Qixuan smiled, and didn't care what they thought, whether they felt that they were hypocritical, or that they felt repentant, they knew that they were human beings.
Paying too much attention to what other people think will only make life cluttered and boring.
The first thing to do is to be yourself.
There are not many shops on this street, all of which have been stepped on by He Qixuan, and at this time, the location of the restaurant has become the biggest problem, perhaps because he had talked to the owner of the restaurant before, he decided to take them there to fill his stomach.
As they walked around the campfire and passed through the hunter procession, Lin Bingling suddenly patted He Qixuan on the shoulder, and his eyes motioned for him to look at the corner.
There sat a man, padded in a sack of a young carcass of a blue-horned mastiff, whose horns had not yet been formed, but which could be sold for a good price.
He Qixuan suddenly understood why the adult blue-horned mastiff cow was like that, but this touch of the scene seemed late and desolate.
"What are you looking at? Oh, the stall you saw had big guys the other day, and the hunters were scrambling to buy it. I heard that the stall owner was also a miserable man, and that his brother had died at the hands of the big guy, and he had to bury him with his own hands. ”
When Qin An said this, he sighed sadly: "Hey, it's not easy to do it now, and hunters are also at risk of being hunted." ”
The man in the stall was grinning and arguing with the bargaining hunters, sometimes laughing, sometimes sad, He Qixuan didn't even think about why he made such an expression.
Ironically, across the street, there is a row of eye-catching warnings in yellow on a red background: If your hands are stained with human blood here, your heart will change, and you will no longer be tolerated by society, so hunters, please don't let go of your nature as a human being, which will be the boundary that distinguishes you from humans and beasts.
How funny.
He Qixuan couldn't help laughing.
Unfortunately, this is the outpost, and the body has not been brought back.
Qin An thought He Qixuan laughed at himself, and said dissatisfiedly: "Isn't it? The hunter profession is recognized as a high-risk profession, and it can kill at any time. ”
He Qixuan laughed even louder.
This attracted the attention of many onlookers, including the man in the stall, he saw He Qixuan and then Lin Bingling, and the movements in his hands couldn't help but stop, because he understood the words between Lin Bingling's lips and teeth: It's a pity.
He didn't dare to look at her again, but looked at He Qixuan, He Qixuan also stared at him, and then, He Qixuan faintly turned his head to look at the banner warning, his pupils shrank sharply, and looked at the hunter who was still bargaining on the side: "Okay!" Just give it as you say, I'm going back in a hurry, I'll wipe you a change, hurry up! ”
The hunter's face was dazed, why was the stall owner who was still earning a high or low with him just now suddenly so generous?
Maybe it's empathy, after all, he also lost his relatives in the past, although it is not his own brother, but he is like a brother, since the month after his brother's death, he can't sleep at night, washing his face with tears every day, now he is still prosperous, and he also wants to make his brother's family live better, so after he saw that there are blue-horned mastiff cow juveniles for sale, he did not hesitate to come in and bargain.
The young body of the blue-horned mastiff cow is delicious, and there are rich substances required by the human body, all in all, they eat every year to live longer, and eat every year to live a long life.
But this stall owner is not a good stubble, and when he bargained, he moved his family, and after they collided, the stall owner really moved his heart of compassion.
Good guys!
He couldn't help but think that when he transferred the money, he gave the stall owner an extra hundred, which he called salvation money, and then he gave good news to his brother's family, and went further and further.
He Qixuan and Lin Bingling watched the man leave, he didn't do it because of the difference in strength, and Lin Bingling didn't do it because he respected and respected the laws of human society.
Some things, when viewed from another perspective, are always so absurd.
They left, and stopped in front of the restaurant, the iron curtain door was half-hidden, and the fog generated by the great difference between the temperature inside and outside the house was billowing out, and He Qixuan tentatively knocked on the iron curtain door.
"Boss, are you still in business?"
After a half-ring in the door, there was a sound of footsteps, the iron curtain door was opened, and the boss invited a few people in with a smile.
"Do, how not to do it. Rich don't make money, huh? You didn't team up with the guy I was talking about, did you? Or does she look down on you? ”
"Boss, why don't you turn on all the lights, the light is too dim, it's not good for your eyes."
"Hey, why are you saying I'm blind? I saw it, but I didn't say it was a person! After the boss finished scolding, he returned to the back kitchen, and then came a loud question.
"What do you want?"
He Qixuan suddenly realized that he had made a mistake, and he was embarrassed.
However, this is also too coincidental.
He Qixuan stepped forward, opened the corner of the back kitchen curtain, and ordered a few dishes with the boss.
"Don't come in, you little ghost, haven't you heard that idlers in the kitchen are exempt from entering?" The owner was unceremoniously ous.
"Okay, then order so much first, collect the juice and collect the eight, and leave some bottom."
"Hey, you're a cook, I'm a cook?"
"You come, you come." He Qixuan returned to his seat.
They were also comfortable sitting in this kind of down-to-earth restaurant, Qin An took a few bottles of wine and wanted to share them with others, but was stopped by Lin Bingling.
"Persuade others not to drink, but to drink for themselves."
Everyone else agreed, but it was only a small episode.
Young people, there will always be such ambitions, dreams, futures, plans, they occasionally have boundaries, but whether they put them into action or not, it varies from person to person.
The dishes were ready, and the boss also thoughtfully turned up the heating by a few degrees.
"It's only October and it's only October, and in a few years it could be September and then August, and the Ice Age is coming." Qin An teased.
The boss rubbed his hands, nodded with a smile: "It seems that several guest officers also pay attention to the weather, tonight's cold wave is really coming, and tomorrow it will really be a few degrees below zero!" ”
"When?" Qin An was a little confused, how could he not know that the real cold wave had not yet come?
"The phone just popped up, you should have it too, right?" The boss explained.
Five minutes later, several people did indeed receive the news that a cold wave was coming.
Several people in the team didn't expect the cold wave to come so violently, and it seemed that the world was really changing unexpectedly.
After the dinner, a few people chatted here, probably because the restaurant was ajar and the door was ajar, and no one else came in.
The night train still shuttles in and out of Anseong, tickets are already booked, and there is still some time left for them to prepare.
Lin Bingling solemnly said to He Qixuan: "You performed well this time, although you were injured, but you can be regarded as having completed the task, I will call you as soon as possible for medical expenses and remuneration, rest assured, we will not be missing what the exchange values." ”
"That's good, thank you." He Qixuan burst into tears and was grateful.
The rest of the people were expressionless, only Lin Bingling's eyes twitched intentionally or unintentionally.
This guy can't blush when acting?
After bidding them farewell, He Qixuan bought a train ticket back at two o'clock in the morning.
Lin Bingling's movements were extremely efficient, and she received He Qixuan's transfer information before she got on the train.
Long-term transactions emphasize fairness, openness, mutual benefit and win-win results, and efficiency is also an indispensable part.
Four hours ago.
Inside the restaurant.
He Qixuan and the others left, and the boss carelessly took the dishes back to the back kitchen.
In the back kitchen, the landline telephone microphone is placed aside, and there is no sound inside.
The boss washed his hands unhurriedly, then shook it and wiped it on his trouser leg before picking up the microphone.
"I don't think so." The boss's voice was calm and magnetic.
There was still no sound on the other side.
After a while, the boss put the microphone to his mouth and yelled, "Are you asleep?" ”
Immediately after that, the microphone came out with the sound of the teacup falling to the ground, which seemed a little hasty, and the voice on the other side coughed lightly twice, explaining: "What about the toilet, don't worry, haha." ”
Heh, you're drinking tea in the toilet, aren't you?
"Did you hear me clearly?" The boss didn't have a good air.
The other side said conclusively: "I must have heard it clearly!" ”
"Then you repeat it."
“…… Ha ha. ”
"Huh."
The attitude of the other side suddenly became cautious: "You tell me your thoughts again, didn't he come to you just now?" ”
"I don't think he's." The boss explained lightly, "Listening to them talk about him falling down the slope and breaking his bones, this should be true, and the attitude of other people towards him ...... Not friendly. The only suspicion was that he was running around the woods, but this seemed to be because he was in dire need of money. ”
"That is, if there is a doubt, if there is a doubt, you can't let it go. We are merciful that we did not rather kill by mistake than let go like they did. If you keep an eye on the Firmament Forest for a while, the organization has already sent someone to disguise the hunter to enter, if that thing is gone, his suspicion is really big......"
The boss slid his thumb against the table and drew a mark: "Then do as you say." But what I can be sure of is that in Tianjing City alone, there are no less than two pairs of eyes staring at this place, and there are countless eyes looking at other places. ”
"Heroes emerge in troubled times, and heroes follow the times. Ignore them first, let's kick the-stirring stick out of the game first, so as not to muddy the water in the pond of Tianjing City, and the fish in the pond will have the courage to come out of the mud. The fingers on the other end of the phone tapped rhythmically on the table, and then he smiled hoarsely and slightly evilly: "Hey, maybe that's pretty good." ”
The boss hummed lightly: "Take a step and look at a step." ”
He seemed to think of something, and added: "There is another thing, there are two people, a man and a woman entered the firmament forest, it seems that they are looking for something, they are very young, about twenty, but their strength is not bad, the woman is equal to me, and I can't see the man, but it gives me a threatening atmosphere." ”
"Tsk, everyone has to get involved, right?" There is some dissatisfaction on the other side.
The boss smiled and propped his hand on the table: "They are not simple guys, I also heard by chance that they are all from the "Galaxy" guild. ”
The other party was silent.
After a long time, he made a sound, followed by three consecutive sounds, and his tone became unclear.
"That's it, that's fun!"