Chapter 20: The Morning Star

The blazing flames gently licked the skinned wild dogs, and the blood-colored flesh turned brown after being roasted for a long time. The grease turned into crystal water droplets and fell into the fire, making a stabbing sound.

The enticing aroma that filled the air made the two salivate.

After coming out of the forest, it was getting late, so Zhou Nan and Ye Zi had to find a sheltered slope and rest for the night.

Carefully calculated, Ye Zi has not entered a drop of water for four or five nights since the crash, and only escaped after the white sun fell into the cracks in the ground, and she fought with the Spider King without a moment's rest, if it weren't for her strong will, far beyond ordinary people, she would have been unable to support it.

And Zhou Nan was the same, he didn't feel it when he was struggling with life and death before, but after the two of them started a fire and rested, the unbearable hunger began to destroy their nerves. It is still unknown whether this thunder heart fruit can be eaten, so the two hit it off and immediately found a clean puddle to remove the dead dog's hair and heart, and made a delicious barbecue!

"Gollum ......" Zhou Nan's eyes lit up, staring at the golden yellow color and fragrant barbecue, and he couldn't help but pounce on it and bite it immediately. "It's only today that I really understand what it's like to eat tree bark when you're hungry."

"Hehe~" The leaves slowly flipped over the roasted whole dog, and from time to time they cut delicate openings with the blade. "The bark isn't as bad as you think......"

"Oh, have you ever eaten tree bark?" Zhou Nan was a little curious, "The country shouldn't abuse the people's soldiers like this, right?

Ye Zi frowned, and his tone was a little unkind, "How do you know that I am a child of the family?"

Zhou Nan carefully tore off a strand of golden shredded meat, put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly with a pilgrimage-like mood. There was an expression of extreme enjoyment on his face. "Heh, the people of the whole country know that female soldiers are not good, and they can't be selected without two brushes at home, especially a soldier of your level, if you want to say that you don't have a background or anything, I don't believe it at all!"

Ye Zi was silent with a complicated expression and did not refute.

"The living environment of the children of the family is not as superior as you think, and many times the things we bear on our shoulders are beyond the imagination of ordinary people. ”

"Maybe, no one has a choice anyway, right?" Zhou Nan said disapprerovingly. "Let's talk about the bark, you popularize it for me, which bark tastes good and doesn't hurt the body, and now I have to gnaw the bark one day if the world is not in order!"

Zhou Nan's words caused Ye Zi to sigh in his heart, "You...... How do you think you will survive in the future?" she asked.

Ye Zi's question made Zhou Nan, who was reincarnated like a starving ghost, suddenly fall silent, and after a while, he said in a low voice, "Heh, it depends on how crazy the living people can be after losing order......

"Maybe it will be extinct, maybe it's ......," Zhou Nan turned his head and stared at the fluorescent forest not far away, and said thoughtlessly.

Ye Zi understood what he meant, and muttered, "What the hell is it that can't get along with us!" But the figures of those comrades-in-arms who died innocently and tragically appeared in Ye Zi's mind, and the flame of anger burned out the unknown fear, "No matter what it is, no matter what the reason, I will make countless innocent human beings lose their lives like this, and I will make it pay the price one day!" Ye Muyun swore loudly!

"Why do you make people pay? Do you rely on a mouth?" Zhou Nan was a little amused. "Don't think about things so far away, it's ...... to live by yourself" Zhou Nan didn't continue, and the dark faces of Guizi and Lao Lai suddenly appeared in his mind again, and the brilliance of the personalities of these two kind peasant men gently brushed away some of the dust on Zhou Nan's heart.

Ye Zi tilted his head to look at Zhou Nan through the flames, and suddenly remembered the crazy expression on the man's face when the two fell into the crack, and the desperate ruthlessness he showed when the two first met, and the somewhat cynical selfish man sitting in front of him was like two people.

Zhou Nan was stared at by Ye Zi's scrutinizing gaze, and he was a little uncomfortable, "What's wrong?, is there anything strange about me?" he asked puzzled.

"It's nothing, I just feel that there is something contradictory about you......" Ye Zi retracted her gaze, she carefully avoided the flames and elegantly cut off two pieces of scalding oil-stained roast meat with a blade, and after giving one to Zhou Nan, she also began to feast.

Although there are no condiments, the grilled dog meat is still very delicious, and the meat inside is very delicate when you bite into the golden crispy skin that has been grilled. If you chew it slowly, you can feel the subtle salty flavor of the gravy, which is caused by the salt in the blood of the alienated wild dog. The roasted whole dog the size of a Tibetan mastiff was eaten half by the two of them after a while.

............

"Brother Chenxing, do you think we can really find something to eat? Will we starve to death?" the half-grown child asked the young man leading the crowd in front of him with bright eyes and a little fear of death.

The young man stopped when he heard the simple question behind him, turned around and touched the child's head, "Don't worry, Xiaotie, we will definitely survive, let's find a small village to rest first, and then my brother will go fishing and give you food, okay?"

The young man showed a warm smile, which seemed to be the sun rising in the darkness, dispelling the anxiety and sadness in the hearts of the team members.

"What if we can't catch a fish?" Uncle Ye told me that if we don't have food, we will eat weeds and tree bark...... I don't want to eat the bark!" the child, known as Little Iron, cried, and his immature hands shook the corners of Morning Star's clothes.

"Lao Ye, you are really, why are you scaring other people's children!" The young man named Morning Star looked dissatisfied, complaining about the big man who was more than 1.9 meters tall on the side.

"Haha, I'll just joke with him, who thinks he is serious!" Lao Ye raised Xiao Tie to his chest and said with a smile, "Xiao Tie, don't cry, if you really can't find anything to eat, uncle, I'll cook the belt for you to eat, okay?" My belt is cowhide!"

Xiao Tie fluttered in the air and cried, "Don't, I don't want to eat your belt, don't eat your cowhide!"

"Oh, why don't I cook the shoes for you to eat? I'm a little reluctant, my shoes are crocodile skin, haha!"

Xiao Tie cried even harder, and the child's shrill cry spread far and wide in the darkness.

Bang! Morning Star kicked Lao Ye dissatisfiedly, "If you do this again, I'll be angry!" said as he snatched the little iron from Lao Ye's hand and hugged him in his arms and comforted him softly.

"I said Lao Ye, Xiao Tie doesn't eat your belt, I'll eat it, you contribute it for everyone to taste, I'm really hungry and can't stand it!"

"Get out! I won't give you this stuffy dead dog if I throw it away!" Lao Ye rolled his eyes and sarcastically.

"Hey, how can you scold people? My name is Han Dog, not Dead Dog, don't be mistaken! In the past, I didn't help you less in the factory, why can't I even give you a leash now?" The man who called himself Han Dog scolded dissatisfiedly. The face covered with acne marks pulled out a yin owl smile, "Or do you want to give the belt to Gu Li?" Then you are dead to this heart, our little beauty is not interesting to you, people like our brother Chen!, right, Gu Li?"

"Since you still have the strength to talk so much nonsense, why don't you go around and find something to eat for everyone......" The girl in tight jeans and a white T-shirt scolded the dog, and walked to the crying Xiao Tie with an expressionless face, helping Morning Star to comfort the child.

"See, they all said that you are out of play, Nie Feng, do you say that is the case?"

"......" was the expected silence.

Hangou smacked his lips and said dissatisfiedly, "You said that your parents gave you this name, why are you like a stuffy oil bottle!"

"Hmm......" The man who had been quiet behind the crowd said in response.

"Hey, I didn't save you!" the dog patted his head.

"Don't be ugly here, I didn't see you say so much when I was there in Zhang Yuan before, but now that a few of us have escaped, you are majestic!" Lao Ye replied mercilessly sarcastically.

Hangou squinted his eyes slightly, "Zhang Yuan, this GOU day is really not a thing, if it weren't for Brother Chen's lack of wanting to conflict with him, I would have wanted to open the scoop for him at that time!

An old Ye who likes to fight with a simple dog rarely did not refute, but just sighed heavily.

"Don't worry, everyone, I, Morning Star, have always said and done! As long as we don't give up, we will definitely be able to live. To put it mildly, even if we do starve to death outside here in the end, it's better than being with those brutes!"

Everyone nodded, and even Nie Feng, who had always been withdrawn, rarely agreed.

"In this way, after crossing the hillside in front, you take Xiao Tie to rest there first, and I'll go around here to see if I can find some voles and hares for everyone to bring back!"

"Brother Morning Star, I'll go with you!" Gu Li lifted the wisps of green silk scattered in front of him behind his ears, and looked at Morning Star with shining eyes.

"Heh, it's too dangerous for you to be a girl at night, you better stay with everyone, they are all rough men, I don't worry about letting them take Xiaotie!"

Gu Li stubbornly looked at Morning Star without saying a word, but the firmness in his eyes made Morning Star smile bitterly.

"Okay, okay, don't flirt here, okay? Hurry up and find a place to rest, the labor and management are all hungry and hallucinating, and the nose is full of the smell of barbecue!"

"Hey, Uncle Hangou, do you smell the fragrance too?" I thought it was an illusion?" Xiao Tie, who was lying in Morning Star's arms, quickly turned his head and asked!

Suddenly, everyone fell silent, quietly feeling the fragrance in the air!

Lao Ye Gulu swallowed his saliva with disbelief, "I smell it too!

"There!" the silent Nie Feng suddenly pointed in a direction, and everyone looked at each other.

At this time, the mentally exhausted people noticed that there was a faint flash of fire not far away, and the breeze was blowing with an alluring atmosphere!

The breathing of several people was a little heavier, and everyone looked at Morning Star with urgency in their eyes.

"Let's go over and have a look!" Morning Star, who had a warm smile and a warm smile, flashed a different color in his eyes, and quickly rushed to the hillside with a few people!