Chapter 5 The night is dark and the wind is high

The cold wilderness is awakened by torches. Looking down on the desolate land from the sky, the firelight on the wilderness outside civilization echoes each other, just like the history of human beings, step by step, a solid footprint.

We have to sigh at the great race of mankind.

In the ancient flood famine, human beings struggled to survive under the threat of many poisonous insects and beasts. Now that the time has passed, the light of neon lights has spread across the earth, and we are standing in the fortress of civilization and singing. Those former rivals.......

"Oh, I'm sorry sir, the zoo is closed today, because there are another batch of precious wild animals, and our zoo needs to be expanded! Yes, that piece of land was supposed to be used to build a house, and we bought it at a high price!

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Now, the tough barrier is torn apart by the mysterious black hand, and the human being is like a girl blocked in a dark alley by a few big men, and her beautiful body is ravaged by others.

The smell of blood in the air grew stronger, and in the shadows that no one noticed, a pair of eyes with murderous intent were eager to choose people.

~~~~~The temperature at night is very low, and although the green fields linger like ocean waves, they have the bleakness of late autumn. Children are always forgetful, and they play in the wilderness. The desperation of the flood was nothing more than an exciting game for them. The adults gathered in a circle, sadness and fear still flooding their hearts, and the strange natural disaster ruthlessly took away their loved ones.

The fire flickered, and they mourned their wives and husbands, their young children and their dying parents.

What does the future hold?

The wind of freedom is whispering, please stop the useless sorrow! The elimination of the weak has just begun, and the darkness has not yet fallen.

The dusty child rushed back to his mother to be coquettish, and what made him strange was that his mother, who loved him so much in the past, did not react at all, but looked at the beating flames numbly, and let him shake his body vigorously. After a while, the bored child muttered, wiped the false tears from the corners of his eyes and leaned against his mother's side.

"Mom! I'm hungry, I'm going to eat chicken!"

Like a calm lake floating by the breeze, the uneasiness of the crowd spreads. Many people cautiously looked at the bags of the crowd on the left and right. The people with food wrapped tightly in their coats, their heads bowed, not daring to show the slightest trace.

More milk swallows are returning to their nests, and they are chirping around in front of their elders for food.

Oh, children are always so innocent, and so cruel!

The wind is heavy......

A few kilometers away from the crowd, three smokers struggling to dig a pit just to avoid freezing to death on this cold night.

is not as tough as Guizi and Wang Laolai, after working for a while, Zhou Nan, who couldn't stand the pain in his waist, straightened his waist and let out a long breath.

"Hoo ........" The smoke and water vapor were mixed together and dispersed around, and Zhou Nan was quite speechless, "Hell, the weather!"

Guizi smiled, "Little boss, where is your home?" While asking, the work in hand is not delayed at all, although digging with steel pipes is an unconventional rough work, but for the noble son and Lao Lai who have been doing this kind of work for a long time, they are still neat, unlike someone who is disabled like Zhijian.

Zhou Nan held the steel pipe with his hand, his chin rested on the back of his hand, and the cigarette in his other hand like a man tired of digging soil in the field........

"I'm a local!"

"Oh, then you ....... your parents......" seemed to think of something, but the noble son looked sad and did not ask.

"When I was very young, my mother was not around, and the neighbors around me liked to point fingers at me when I was a child, saying that my mother ran away with a rich old foreign man. Oh....... maybe that's why my father was a heavy drinker when I can remember, and he cheated money all day long to smoke, drink, and gamble!"

said that this week, Nanyang raised his cigarette butt and grinned, "So I learned to smoke when I was young, every time my father lost money, he came back and beat me fat, I was kicked by him with his foot when I was a child, I was pinched, hung up and beaten." Anyway, I've tried every kind of play you can think of........"

Guizi's eyes were moist, this was because Zhou Nan was no longer a young and ambitious "little boss" in his eyes, but a poor child.

"And then?"

"Later, hehe, I heard that I lost too much and ran away, and sold me to creditors. Just as the creditors were discussing how to exchange me for money, the police came again. Serve these brutes to a pot. ”

"Hey........" Zhou Nan glanced at Guizi secretly, and sighed heavily. "In the end, I was sent to an orphanage, and I survived!"

Hearing the end, Uncle Guizi couldn't stop crying. He stretched out his hand to comfort the poor child, but he was afraid that his roughness would hurt his fragile body.

The old man on the side rolled his eyes, threw the cigarette butt aside, and then frothed at the mouth, and then slapped the back of the head of the noble son who couldn't extricate himself.

Uncle Guizi, who was in pain, looked back and roared angrily, "You Hazi!!!" said with his big iron hand and hugged Lao Lai. Lao Lai's face was speechless, "You stupid man! A lot of old live dogs have gone up, you give me a good look!" Guizi didn't know why he looked back to seek an explanation, but found that Zhou Nan was already sitting on the ground and laughing.

"Hahahahaha........" Zhou Nan wiped tears from laughter.

After a long time, the noble son turned the corner and blushed. "You......... You ..... you cultured person, why are you bullying me this uneducated honest person!" Guizi raised his hand and accused Zhou Nan "angrily", but he didn't dare to raise his hand too high.

"Stupid is stupid! What an honest man with no culture, don't drag me on!" Lao Lai pushed down the noble son and was anxious to clear up the relationship with him.

"Oh....... I'll go!" Zhou Nan couldn't stop sighing, "No wonder you can only do hard work, now in this era, even children will fake falling and cheating candy to eat, Uncle Guizi, you have to send it home quickly to earn some money from your social experience, don't you know it?

Zhou Nan's ridicule made the noble son embarrassed, and Lao Lai was still joking on the side, which made him even more embarrassed. It took a long time before he shouted at Zhou Nan: "I believe in you...... I believed your nonsense!"

The fat man was still laughing heartlessly on the side, but the smile on Zhou Nan's face froze, the corners of his mouth gradually relaxed, and his heart was mixed.

What a wonder! Unfortunately, there are no stars or moon in the sky tonight.

The grave had been dug up, and the old man shook off the weeds pulled out of the surrounding area and threw them into the pit.

"The rain drowned so many people, and the grass grew so well!" the fat man shivered a few times to drive away the cold. Speaking of unintentional listeners, Zhou Nan looked thoughtfully at the weeds in the wilderness. In just two or three days, these weeds, which used to grow no more than the legs of an adult, can now reach his waist.

Maybe the world is really different, that dream .......... Zhou Nan paused his thoughts, his face was cold and terrifying, he immediately turned around and swept with an iron rod, and the wind was magnificent!

"Bang!" A loud bang was heard, followed by the man's screams of pain and the woman's whispered pleading! Guizi and Lao Lai hurriedly stepped forward and looked at the men and women rolling on the ground in front of them in surprise.

The man's suppressed pain rolled on the ground, and the wound on his forehead hit by the iron rod was bleeding like a shocking thing. The woman knelt on the ground and sobbed quietly, and her arm was also swept by Zhou Nan's iron rod, and the pain was unbearable.

Zhou Nan looked at the seriously injured two people with expressionless faces, as if it was another person who had just teased Guizi with lies. The moment he turned around, his mind was full of thoughts, and he already understood the purpose of the man who was secretly approaching them.

But Zhou Nan was still shocked in his heart, he could stop the moment he made a move. But even though he understood that these two people did not have deep malice towards the three of them, Zhou Nan still waved his stick without hesitation. Zhou Nan was shocked by his ruthlessness and decisiveness, looking at the two who whispered for mercy, he didn't have any pity in his heart.

Growing up under the red flag, born in the socialist world, looking at the bright red blood falling between the sticks, and feeling the indifference and no twists and turns in his heart, Zhou Nan found for the first time that he was so strange to himself.

"What are you two doing!" Uncle Guizi was angry, angry and afraid, and asked the two with trembling hands. The fat man hurriedly grabbed a few tender grasses from the side, rubbed them in his hands, and carefully applied them to the man's forehead.

Zhou Nan behind him watched coldly, and neither Guizi nor Lao Lai dared to look back at Zhou Nan at the moment. At this moment, this young man made them very awe-struck.

After a while, the pain subsided. The man glanced at Zhou Nan and explained in a low voice, "We have no malicious intent!" He pointed to the place where the firelight gathered in the distance, and said earnestly, "I saw that you also have firelight here, and guessed that there might be someone here, so I brought my wife over to try my luck to see if you have anything to eat here, we escaped from Badu, and we rushed all the way, and the little food we picked up had already been eaten up, and we both had been hungry for a day, and there was really no way to get rid of this," the man cried with a sad face.

"Hey, what a big deal, you're still sneaky!" turned around and walked a few steps, and took out a few bags of compressed biscuits from the black bag hidden by Zhou Nan.

"Whew... Zhou Nan walked in front of him, blocking the fat man, not looking at the fat man's surprised eyes.

"Gon ........." is only one word, there is no superfluous explanation, and the cold heart and blood make Zhou Nan feel uncomfortable.

Knowing which of the three was the one who had the right to speak, and regardless of the fact that the two of them were much older than this young man, the man covered his wounds and begged bitterly, "Little brother, please, we are really starving to death, I didn't think that there was any malice towards you, you just give us a little food, and we will be gon immediately!"

The woman nodded on the side like a chicken pecking rice, "That's it, you guys will save your life, everyone is a local person, it's a big deal, we will buy you with money~~~•" As she spoke, she took out a small red plastic bag hidden in her arms, and took out a few red tickets tremblingly. It seemed that he was distressed, took too much and blushed and took two back.

The husband snatched the money in her hand and kicked the woman hatefully, and handed it over like Zhou Nan with a sincere and urgent expression.

Zhou Nan was unmoved, and slowly raised the iron rod with both hands, "I'll say it again, Gon! immediately!" The momentum was terrifying.

At this moment, a weak figure in the grass rushed out and protected the husband and wife. Zhou Nan's sharp eyes saw that it was a child, so he didn't make a move.

"Wow, don't bully my mom and dad, I'm hungry and begging my mom and dad to find me something to eat!" the boy cried with pear blossoms and rain.

"Who let you out! Didn't I tell you to hide!" the woman burst into tears and hugged the boy. The husband on the side was ashamed, lowered his head and held the money high.

The last days are cruel, aren't they........

Guizi couldn't stand this scene anymore, and he blocked the indifferent Zhou Nan and the iron rod that was about to fall in his hand. Pressed the man's money back. "Don't be sad, big brother and sister, everyone is fleeing, we should help each other!" Lao Lai nodded in the gang, but after seeing Zhou Nan's ugly face, he was so frightened that he immediately stopped. For some reason, Zhou Nan, who was obviously the weakest of the three, made the most powerful old man a little afraid.

Not as stingy as a fat man, Guizi pulled out a big black bag full of it directly from the grass, and the somewhat angry Guizi gently pushed Zhou Nan away and stuffed the bag into the man's arms.

The joy on the face of the boy hiding in his mother's arms flashed.

"Give! Big brother, who hasn't been in trouble yet, you can save some food and enough for you to last a few days! Everyone will find a way for the rest of the way, I don't believe that people with hands and feet can still starve to death?"

The man who had endured it for a long time finally shed tears, and he held the black bag tightly in his arms as if he was holding his life, and patted Guizi's arm. "Thank you, brother, thank you so much! You saved our family's life!"

The children and women also thanked them repeatedly, and they couldn't wait to bow down at the feet of their son. Lao Lai couldn't help but step forward to comfort the family.

Zhou Nan stood in the embrace of the night, and at this moment he was forgotten by everyone.

Guizi and Lao Lai happily bid farewell to the family of three, and the two sides were reluctant, as if they had experienced a wonderful meeting.

The child had an innocent smile on his face, light and pure.

"May I ask a question?" Zhou Nan, who had been a transparent person on the side for a long time, raised his head and said.

The family of three who had already turned around and left paused, turned around and smiled, and the man cautiously said, "Of course you can, you say ......"

Zhou Nan looked at the man with the same sincere smile, "Yes......... Do you want to ask the names of your wife and children......."

The blue sea was rippling, and the jolly air was whizzing through the broken car windows, and they were laughing.

The "family" fled in the wilderness........

The last days ....... cruel, aren't they.........