So, I went back to my friends and told them clearly about this matter.

The only thing I remember clearly in my mind is the "City Center Island" that the bespectacled man said, where there were many predators who formed another group and dominated the area, and from time to time harassed the surviving civilians nearby.

"So why do they accumulate so much food?" Lao Lan asked while lying on the bed playing with bullet casings. At this time, he had changed his clothes and taken a cold shower.

I looked at them. Mr. Wei was still chewing his breakfast, while Yana was huddled under the sheets and quilt, shivering all the time. I guess they must have been brave enough to take turns taking a cold shower while I was out.

Taking a cold shower in this winter, I guess these people must have yelled at me no less than ten times in the bathroom.

"What other reason could there be? Of course it's to eat! Just like us..." I twisted my mouth and answered without thinking.

"Then there's no need to come out in groups to look for food, unless they really form a big community." Wei Lao was particularly interested in this.

"Then these people will use whatever means they can to start plundering food and people's wealth?" I laughed at Wei Lao's analysis. The world is not full of such people who kill without blinking an eye.

As far as I know, not all civilians will choose to plunder other people's materials. People with some brains will carefully plunder storefronts on the street or food in restaurants. They will not attack other people unless their personal safety is threatened.

You only do this if you have no choice.

"Then you will know after you go, not everyone is as blind as you." Mr. Wei gave me a roll of his eyes, as if he thought my temper would burn him out at any time.

"Oh! Man!" I laughed out loud, even though I knew it was a silly joke. "Come on, I'm used to turning a blind eye. Not everything needs us to wipe our butts. We just need to pay attention to the results.

!" I reminded him.

"Wipe your own butt, please." Wei Lao threw away the food bag that he had finished and said gloomily. In his eyes, I always pursue food and shelter blindly. In fact, it is

Judging from the current situation, there is nothing wrong with this. We can take care of ourselves, and food and defense mechanisms are guaranteed. But I don’t want to be like this. I can’t persist in this situation. I can’t just walk around looking for food.

It doesn't solve our needs.

"Wow! Has he been staring at my ass for a long time?" I smiled bitterly and made an unfunny joke to the guys who were still on the bed.

"Indeed...it's been a long time..." Lao Lan yawned in response to my embarrassing joke.

Before Wei Lao went out and drove the armored vehicles here, I encouraged them to find a decent place to live. In my ideal category, it was like a community, and there were always people interacting with each other and helping each other. They just started

I don't care, what these partners need is not unrealistic ideals or fantasies, they are more focused on the present than me. They think we should find a place nearby, rest for a few days, and then set off.

But there are too many natural enemies here. I met two patrol teams one after another in the morning. Staying here is not a good choice. And everyone agrees with my analysis. For the time being.

So, we drove the armored vehicle and started heading towards the central island blockade.

On the way to move the blockade area, we met this type of people: ordinary citizens wandering around the city like us. There are very few of them, their ammunition is very limited, and they almost never bring food with them. I have seen these people.

Many times, sometimes we just pass each other without saying hello, because we are afraid that the other person will hurt us.

However, on this section of the road, we met several civilians who were extremely hungry. I stopped the armored vehicle at a dead end of the street, and then got out of the car to check the situation. In fact, these people really needed help. They had not had water for a day.

The clothes were full of sweat and stink, and there was almost no protective equipment or weapons around us. Under their begging, Lao Lan and I did not hesitate to put the food and weapons in the metal storage compartment on the armored vehicle.

Give some to them.

Well, the food I gave was not much, but it was not too little. This bag was enough for them to eat for three days. As for weapons, I was not so generous as to distribute high-quality weapons such as guns and crossbows.

For them, the guns thrown away were all sticks or long-handled knives picked up from the enemies, or a few extra pistols and stab-proof clothing (although they were not able to prevent the attack) from the corpses of several patrollers discarded on the roadside.

It can't be used against bow and arrow arrows or pistol bullets, but I believe it's more than enough to deal with some knives and sticks).

I opened the cabin door, picked up a small bag of food, and jumped out of the armored vehicle.

"Thank you!" The leader, a middle-aged man, lowered his head and thanked me: "We are worried about having nothing to eat. Thank you very much!"

"You're welcome, we are all victims, and we should take care of each other!" I replied.

"Wow, man, that's cool!"

"Uh? What? You mean?"

"Of course it's your armored vehicle, it's so cool!" He looked at the armored vehicle parked in the corner, his eyes full of color.

"Ah? Ah! This is a private car, used for transporting things!" My smile disappeared fleetingly, "It's nothing, really!"

He noticed the abnormality in my expression and looked away, "Oh, that's really good, right?"

"Yeah! That's good!" My smile started to become awkward.

Just when our conversation was getting stiff, Lao Lan's shout came from the other side:

"Man! Come up and eat these compressed biscuits! Don't be in a daze!" He said a little impatiently, and at the same time he glanced at me and realized that I was talking to the man.

"Oh! I'm sorry to interrupt your conversation, sir!" Lao Lan said, tilting his head.

"Ah! It's nothing. You guys look very busy. I should be the one disturbing you!"

"Well, let's help together. I believe these things will be of great use to you, right?" I smoothed things over, then stretched out my hands to catch the food box that Lao Lan sent from the car.

"Thank you very much! It's really great to meet you!" He nodded and looked at everything with relief.

While I was busy carrying things, I took advantage of the cool breeze blowing from the north and wiped the sweat from my forehead with the back of my hand. Then, I saw a girl. Let’s put it this way, among the group of them, there were

There were only 5 people, 3 boys and 2 girls, but this girl was the youngest, and of course she looked about the same age as me. She was wearing a gray skirt, tattered stockings, and scratches all over her arms. But she was different from the others.

What's more, she seems to be very afraid of strangers and doesn't dare to approach a group of us.

I stared at her, and she seemed to have noticed me.

"Ahem!" I pretended to be carrying something and quickly turned my eyes elsewhere.

"Old Han!" Mr. Wei called me: "Give this bag to the girl! We have to be in a hurry, so be quick!"

Oh, come on, isn't it? That girl, what a joke!

I carried the bag of supplies and walked slowly to the side of the girl. She seemed to be afraid of strangers, maybe she was really afraid of strangers. When she saw me coming from a distance, she couldn't help but stuff herself into a corner and hide herself.

.Oh! Don’t be surprised. If you are looking for supplies on this kind of battlefield, you will probably be like that girl. Well, the key is that you have to be a girl.

"Hi..." I said hello to her bravely. At this time, I was standing in front of her, carrying the bag of supplies.

She looked warily at the Type 79 submachine gun I carried behind me and lowered her head.

"We are not soldiers, don't worry, I'm here to help you." I looked at her and showed that confident smile.

The girl looked at me and replied shyly: "I'm afraid of those things..."

"Me too..." I squatted down side by side with her and put the supplies next to her. "Me too."

"So you're not that group of gunmen who robbed the food?"

"Them?" I sighed, "Those guys just have different ways of living, and besides, these guys just take advantage of the chaos to commit crimes."

"..." I felt a hint of embarrassment in the atmosphere. After I finished saying this, the girl lowered her head again. When I glanced sideways, I realized that she was actually choking, as if

I remembered something bad.

"You seem... not familiar with these friends." I noticed that the girl deliberately distanced herself from others and squatted alone in a corner next to her.

"But I don't want to get involved. I'm not familiar with them. Ever since I met these people, I've always been alone." She responded to me with a hint of sadness. Her face was full of traces of smoke and dust.

, but I can clearly see through her face that her heart is not lifeless.

She looked at me and whispered: "Are you like this too?"

I also looked at her, with the corners of my mouth raised slightly, and responded to her with a smile: "I'm not, you see, I have a partner, I have something I rely on, what about you?"

She was very shy because we were so close, but I felt subtly that she did not choose to avoid it. Instead, she seemed to be looking for shelter, and moved closer to me involuntarily. I only heard her whisper: "

They were all taken away by that group of people, and I have nothing to rely on...".

I frowned and watched the girl sitting on the ground uncomfortably, then slowly buried her head between her legs.

"Oh my god……"

I can't believe that the information I got from these civilians is true. According to what joker and the young volunteer said before, there is really a group of forces on the central island in the city. They often come out armed to rob food, and also forcibly snatch girls for them.

For fun, they kidnapped strong men to do hard labor for them. If I hadn't heard what these people in suffering said with my own ears, I would still be ignorant and not take these people seriously.

So I asked the girl a topic that I shouldn’t ask:

"What about your parents? Are there any relatives or good friends around here?"

She lowered her head, not knowing how to respond.

"Maybe we can help you find..."

At this time, the girl had begun to cry. I knew I was going too far, but from beginning to end, I have always been a very inhumane person, and a guy who doesn't care about the feelings of strangers around me.

"They are all gone..." The girl choked and struggled to answer my question.

"I'm afraid... I don't want to live such a homeless life..." She cried even harder.

"Be strong, girl," I comforted her: "It will get better..."

"Those people destroyed my home! They killed my parents! They took away everything from me!..." She began to become depressed and even mentally unstable. Seeing this, I gritted my teeth and held hands.

I held her hand, which was full of dust and scars, and tried to comfort her.

"I'm sorry, ma'am..."

After the girl's temper gradually stabilized, I calmly looked at the ruins of the city in the distance and explained to her calmly: "But this is already a fact. You have to bear these things, and so do I. You need someone to accompany you.

But sooner or later you have to learn to be independent..."

"Then...will you go with us?"

The girl blushed even harder. She didn't have a more euphemistic way of saying it. She hoped we could accompany her. I also knew that she needed to be protected and relied on.

But she didn't.

"We..." Faced with her question, I choked. To be honest, I really want to take this girl with me, really. I will arrange a place for her in the armored car, and she will be safe with us. But I

Lie, we can't take her, I can't take her, we are in danger from the beginning to the present. And our goal is not to simply survive, but to find a place suitable for survival.

"No...it's too dangerous." I shook my head gently. She looked at me with that eager look, but I still shook my head.

I watched tears begin to well up in her eyes. She was crying hard, "I still have unfulfilled missions elsewhere..." I explained to her.

In the end, we hugged each other and said goodbye. I comforted her and told her to be strong. But this was just me comforting myself. In the end, I lied, saying that if there was another chance, we would meet, and I would definitely bring it with me by then.

She. I swear, we will come back.

Girls are really timid and have no courage.

I am the complete opposite of her, but who can know? I lied to her, I will not come back, I am going further and further on my own path.

"Boom..." The armored vehicle's engine roared. I climbed onto the armored vehicle while being waved by the five people. Each of them sincerely thanked us for our help, even though this was just a small episode in the trip.

But it impressed me deeply.

The girl held her hands together, covering her chest, and looked up at me. And I was looking at her.

The armored vehicle drove away.

Maybe she was praying.
Chapter completed!