Chapter 2 Conscience Discovery
Zhang Qiru was in a heavy mood, and the pain of losing his relatives swept his heart again.
Suddenly, a group of unidentified people appeared in front of them. The fatigue and struggle of many days had completely covered up the color of their bodies. Everyone was ragged and embarrassed. There was no way to know who they were once, and there was no way to know where they should go in this chaotic world.
They approached, with more than 400 people carrying bags of different sizes, as if they were going to the Guandong. They walked past Zhang Qiru one by one without any words. It seemed that to them, Zhang Qiru did not exist, and even everyone around them did not exist.
The numb living zombie... Zhang Qiru thought of the most appropriate description.
"Uncle of the People's Liberation Army, Uncle of the People's Liberation Army!"
A tender voice came, and Zhang Qiru felt someone shaking his arm. He looked down and found that it was a girl in her teens. For some reason, Zhang Qiru tried to put away his air-conditioning expression and turned to reply in a gentle voice:
"What's up?"
The little girl suddenly started crying. Haha, Zhang Qiru's voice did not look "generally gentle", although he wanted to correct it.
The little girl's crying touched Zhang Qiru's nerves. He remembered his little sister, who was also in her teens. Zhang Qiru suddenly felt heartache.
"Don't cry, can you give you candy?" Zhang Qiru took out a bag of chocolate from his waist bag. He didn't bring anything else, but only had candy with higher calories. At this moment, Zhang Qiru's voice finally brought a gentle breath.
Perhaps because of feeling the changes of Zhang Qiru and the temptation of the chocolate fragrance, the little girl stopped crying, staring at the chocolate in Zhang Qiru's hand with big watery eyes, and she felt like she was swallowing.
"Eat." Zhang Qiru squeezed out a smile.
Seeing that the little girl just took the chocolate but didn't eat it, Zhang Qiru continued, "Why don't you eat it?"
"I want to give it to my brother, he likes to eat chocolate." The little girl suddenly became more and more energetic, and then began to fade away. "But, my parents and I have separated. Uncle, can you help me find my father?"
The little girl looked up at Zhang Qiru, her eyes full of hope. She still didn't understand that there were no good people in this end of the world, and she naively thought that people in military uniforms were just warriors.
Zhang Qiru looked at the little girl. After a long time, Zhang Qiru agreed in a strange way.
"Miss, when did you get separated from your family? Are these uncles, aunts, grandparents there at that time?" Zhang Qiru asked holding the girl's hand.
"Well, they are all here. My younger brother is sick. My parents said that he would take my younger brother to see a doctor and ask me to wait for them here. But I was in a hurry and I wanted to be with my younger brother." Tears surged in the little girl's eyes again.
Zhang Qiru probably had an idea in his heart after hearing the girl's description. The girl was not separated from her family, but was abandoned by her parents. There was nothing to be surprised about. This is a world with inhumanity. Parents abandoned their young children, children abandoned their elderly parents, husband abandoned their weak wife, and wife abandoned their injured husband... All of this is common now. Everyone knows that this is an irreversible disaster, a disaster that destroys civilization. If that is the case, why bother to care whether they are unforgivable?
Zhang Qiru did not intend to tell the little girl all this, or it was already very difficult, let alone just an unarmed little girl? Perhaps, in a few minutes, no matter the little girl or himself, or even the hundreds of people in front of her, they would turn into fertilizer for this land.
"Oh, then your parents probably haven't gone far. Let's go find it together." Zhang Qiru said to the little girl with a relaxed look.
"Well, thank you uncle!" The little girl was very polite.
Zhang Qiru didn't know what the girl's parents looked like, so he just tried a little harder to give the girl some hope.
After a few hours, the sky gradually became dark and the crowd began to get restless. The night is always scary, especially in the doomsday. It is estimated that many people now know that in addition to the slow-moving zombies during the day, there are also some agile night demons at night. Although there are fewer numbers, they have huge lethality.
Zhang Qiru naturally would not be nervous. On the contrary, he hoped that he could kill a night demon with his bare hands. After all, he still hoped to meet a sharper opponent. Zhang Qiru planned to find a good place to rest tonight. Although there were night demons, the number of night demons was small, and most of them were hiding in the skyscrapers in the center of the city. Because the night demons did not like the daytime, they were only suitable for them in some tall buildings with relatively large floors. Generally, they were not very suitable for them in the wild. Of course, it is not ruled out that some night demons were mixed in the group of ordinary zombies during the day and came out to find food at night. The night demons just didn't like the daytime, but were not afraid. They would become similar to ordinary zombies during the day.
Zhang Qiru finally rested on a small tomb on the side of the road. Now there is no taboo or not. He found some firewood, and it was already autumn and there was always a little cold at night.
After lit firewood, Zhang Qiru realized that he had not collected food today. Seeing the little girl staring at the chocolate for a long time but was reluctant to eat it, Zhang Qiru had to give her two more pieces and told him that he could eat whatever he wanted.
I have to say that chocolate is definitely a treasure now, because Zhang Qiru vaguely saw many people staring at the little girl and his own... bags. Zhang Qiru didn't care much, he didn't care about food at all.
After a while, the little girl yawned. After Zhang Qiru coaxed her, she slowly fell asleep, but she kept muttering her parents.
Zhang Qiru sighed secretly and took out the cigarette from his backpack - he used to not smoke, but now it doesn't matter. He can't live for a few years anyway, so he doesn't care if he will get lung cancer. As soon as the hibiscus king lit up, the fragrance began to spread. However, Zhang Qiru really couldn't taste the difference between these cigarettes.
The fire reflected Zhang Qiru's face and returned to the coldness of the past. Even the raging flames could not melt at all. He thought of his family, the hell-like picture on earth, but this time, he was not crazy, but just calmly recalling the cigarettes in his hand one after another. Looking at the sleeping girl, he suddenly thought of his brother. Perhaps, his brother had left too. After all, this is the hell on earth, and there were very few people who survived - but he still had a trace of hope in his heart. His brother was still alive, but he didn't dare to have such a trace of hope because he could not bear the departure of the last person close to him.
Suddenly, Zhang Qiru stood up. Several people appeared around him, including men and women, who seemed to be seeking a crime. Zhang Qiru secretly thought that this group of people was definitely coming for his own pockets, and it was not the first time he had encountered such a thing.
"It's him, a personal trafficker, who kidnapped my daughter." A female voice said.
Sure enough, although the fire was dim, Zhang Qiru vaguely felt that this woman was very similar to the little girl.
"Damn it, no wonder my baby daughter is gone. It turns out that it was you, a human trafficker, beat him to death!" another male voice said.
The group of people did not move. Although they said it was amazing, they seemed a little timid when they saw Zhang Qiru's hand pressing on the dagger.
"There are traffickers here! Come quickly!" A middle-aged woman howled and attracted a large number of people to watch. "Oh, there is a personal trafficker here. I kidnapped my baby granddaughter. If we hadn't discovered it in time, we wouldn't know what happened, come and catch him!" The middle-aged woman cried.
"Dad, Mom!" The little girl was also woken up by the crying of several people. She was very happy to see her relatives and shouted and threw herself into her mother's arms.
Perhaps in order to cooperate with the acting, the woman hugged the little girl tightly and stared at Zhang Qiru viciously.
Zhang Qiru didn't care, just smiled slightly, and didn't intend to explain anything, but just planned to walk away silently. But it was obvious that these people did not come for the little girl, so how could they give up without getting Zhang Qiru's things?
"Why, I want to leave now? It's not that easy! You human trafficker, you're not surrender!" The man raised his voice.
"Dad, dad, uncle is not a human trafficker, he will help me find you!" The little girl also knows what human traffickers are, and even knows whether Zhang Qiru is a good person.
"Guoguo, don't talk. You don't understand the adult affairs. He is just a bad person." The woman said to the little girl.
"Uncle is not a bad guy, he even gives me candy!" The little girl tried to argue.
"Shut up!" The middle-aged woman scolded, scaring the little girl so much that she stopped talking. "Why don't you kneel down and admit your mistake quickly, otherwise, everyone will not be able to spare you!"
"That's right, avoid the pain of flesh and blood!" The man also threatened and shook the steel bars in his hand.
However, Zhang Qiru, as the person involved, was still motionless, watching the clumsy performances of the few people in front of him without saying a word. Then, he glanced at the people watching the fun around him and found that everyone was not very concerned about these things, but just a state of watching the fun. Also, on the days when they were only escaping, it was still good to watch some fun.
"Damn, you can't hear it, right? Pay attention to our losses, kneel down and apologize, otherwise..."
The man was a little impatient, and the threatening meaning became stronger and stronger in his words. Zhang Qiru looked at the man with great interest and suddenly replied,
"Otherwise, what can you do?"
Chapter completed!