Volume 1 Steady the Waves Chapter 36 The Simplicity of Human Nature
"What's going on?"
Old Man Kong's fingers trembled as he held the cigarette, and the long ash broke and fell to the ground.
He really couldn't accept it. Wasn't it just a broken flower with little danger? Why did another difficult thing suddenly appear?
Does God still want these people to live?
"Why?"
Li Wu picked up the water that rolled to his feet, raised his head and took a sip, then explained to him: "The meteorite we found is too far away from the sea of flowers, so it is absolutely impossible for that flower to be caused by that meteorite."
Infected by a virus in the meteorite."
"And based on the size of that meteorite, it is very likely that there is a zombie in the town that is not weaker than that flower."
"Really?" Old Man Kong continued to ask, but his eyes were always on Wei Lai, who was silent, wanting to hear a definite result.
"Eighty percent!"
Wei Lai raised his head and closed his eyes. After careful consideration, he said a heart-wrenching sentence that directly broke all Old Man Kong's illusions.
"Then let's..."
"Find it and kill it!"
Before Old Man Kong could lower his voice and want to ask more questions, Wei Lai, who was sitting on the chair next to him, suddenly stood up. His eyes no longer had the hollowness just now, and he completely returned to his usual calmness and determination.
"Anyway, we can't just leave it to threaten us in the dark. And we don't need to tell other people about it, and they won't be able to help."
"Tell them that from now on, no one is allowed to go near the flower base when looking for supplies."
"And Kong Yue, from now on you don't have to go out with us to look for supplies." After coming back to his senses, Wei Lai made a final summary of this trip.
"ah?"
Kong Yue, who was standing at the door obediently, suddenly became nervous when her name was suddenly called. She stepped into the house in two steps and stammered, "I'm not afraid today...really...I'm just...just..."
"I know, you don't need to say so much."
Wei Lai didn't say anything else to comfort Kong Yue, who rushed to him, aggrieved and about to cry.
He even raised his hand to interrupt Old Man Kong who wanted to say something nice for her: "From tomorrow on, your job will be to stay and assist Uncle Kong and lead the villagers in daily training."
"And I don't care what method you use, but within three days, I want to see those who have not experienced combat be able to kill a complete gray-eyed zombie independently. Remember, it is a complete zombie!"
"Me?" Kong Yue pointed at herself with some suspicion.
"It's not you or me!" Wei Lailai kept a straight face when he said this. As he said this, he grabbed Old Man Kong's shoulders and came to the door. Then he gently pushed out and continued to talk to Kong Yue: "
Go and study hard with your Uncle Kong."
The anxious look on his face almost made it clear that he was closing the door to thank customers.
"If you work hard, you will be the next Village Chief Kong!"
Li Wu, who was in the room, then stepped out of the room and patted Kong Yue's shoulder very solemnly. What he said always felt a bit mean.
But as soon as he finished speaking, he got a kick on the butt.
"Hey, Uncle Kong, why did you kick me?"
"You are the one who is kicking me. I'm not old yet, so I want to fight for power. Besides, I don't need you to arrange people for me!"
"Uncle Kong..."
As everyone left one by one, Wei Lai inside the room closed the door with his backhand. With his ears finally clear, he leaned against the door and lit a cigarette, feeling the smoke flowing through his lungs.
Listening to the noise coming from the corridor outside and the slight breathing coming from the corner next to it.
He suddenly felt a little lucky for no reason...
Fortunately, I was trapped in the small county town of my hometown when the zombies broke out. I was fortunate that I met Gardenia, Li Wu, and everyone after that.
Big cities are good, and the people there naturally have their own advantages. But people like them who have lived in small counties all their lives have a kind of simplicity that is about to disappear in big cities.
Even if life is like duckweed, never forget to strive for self-reliance!
No matter when, as long as they are alive, they still have the motivation to survive. And that...may be the bottom line that they have not completely lost hope.
Now that the doomsday is approaching, I don’t know how many people will choose to extinguish their own light of hope with their own hands because of their inability to resist the invasion of zombies and the drastic changes in human nature.
This also makes the tenacity, which was already ravaged by fate, become increasingly rare and valuable.
After thinking about this, I just finished smoking a cigarette...
The fingers holding the cigarette were burned by the cigarette butts. Wei Lai, who quickly regained consciousness, put down the slightly raised corners of his mouth. He not only lamented that he had thought too far this time.
If you have this time, you should first think about the unknown zombie hiding in the dark, who will pop out and choose people to eat at any time.
But when he thought that the guy on the other end might be beyond his knowledge, his face no longer looked as relaxed as before.
He slowly brought his fingers together, held the cigarette butt that was about to burn out between his fingertips, and stubbed it out with all his strength, and the last bit of light in the room disappeared.
downstairs…
Old Man Kong, who had regained his serious look since he passed the corner of the corridor, cleared his throat on the steps. Looking at the villagers who came over after hearing the noise, he said: "Well... everyone is doing their job."
Stop for a moment, I have something to inform you."
When he opens his mouth, he has the very familiar style from the village head loudspeaker.
He waved behind him and called Kong Yue who was walking behind him: "Xiao Wei said, starting from tomorrow, let Kong Yue lead those of you who have not killed zombies to train for three days.
Within this period, everyone has to kill a complete zombie with their own hands. It only takes three days!"
"If you can't do it, you'll have nothing to eat. Did you hear that?"
As soon as Old Man Kong finished speaking, a man's voice came from the crowd next to the fire: "Since it was Xiao Wei who said it, don't worry, Uncle Kong, we will also help Xiao Kong."
of."
"Yes, don't worry, Uncle Kong"
"Don't worry, Xiao Kong, we will definitely practice well!"
The hall was dark, and it was hard to tell who was speaking just now, but then several more mixed voices sounded.
Oops!
Li Wu was a little surprised to hear so many pandering voices at once. He really didn't expect that Wei Lai's name would be so deeply rooted in people's hearts in such a short period of time.
At the same time, a female voice came from the darkness: "Thank you everyone!"
A kind word made everyone wave their hands, regardless of whether they could be seen in the dark environment.
Li Wu, who was left alone, didn't expect that the matter would be settled so easily. There was no need for him to stand up and put on a red face. So he suddenly had nothing to do and walked down the steps directly. Only then did he see
Clearly, the first person to speak just now was actually the fifth brother from Yushan Village.
He diligently threw a few pieces of firewood into the fire in front of him. When he had nothing to do, he sat down next to Fifth Brother and asked curiously: "Fifth Brother, what did you do before? I see your brother
These boys are not only energetic, but also courageous."
"It's... I've only been a migrant worker on a construction site. How could I not be afraid of something like this?" Fifth Brother sighed, and his face fell at that moment.
Li Wu handed over a cigarette: "Then what..."
After taking the cigarette, Brother Wu took out a burned branch from the fire and lit it with his head tilted sideways. "At that time... I worked really hard every day. The happiest time every month was when I got paid.
.Looking at those hundred-dollar bills in my hands, I couldn’t be happier.”
"Although the work at the construction site is tiring, I work hard. As long as I work one more day, I can buy a house for my son in the city one day earlier. By then, he will get married and have a wife. It is best to be there before he is born.
A big fat boy. Then even if I die, I can still have the face to see my child’s mother.”
Brother Wu, who seemed to have been recalled, spoke very slowly, and Li Wu and others listened very seriously.
"But who could have imagined that this shitty world would change so quickly. Overnight... my son is gone, and so is our family."
Just as he was talking... Fifth Brother's eyes suddenly turned red, and the cigarette between his fingers was almost broken in the middle due to the sudden increase in strength in his hand.
"At that time, I felt like the sky was falling. I didn't care about being afraid at all. I just thought about how to kill the thing that ate my son and chop that man-eating monster to pieces."
Seeing the increasingly agitated Fifth Brother, Li Wu, who knew he had said the wrong thing, suddenly regretted asking him this.
But fortunately, Fifth Brother's mood calmed down quickly. He winked and said, "Uncle Kong and his people rescued me at the critical moment. Since then, I am no longer afraid of those things."
Li Wu nodded silently. He was about to say sorry, but was interrupted by the fifth brother who smiled reluctantly: "Don't be so useless. I'm fine. It's all over."
Seeing Brother Wu's forced smile flashing in the dim firelight, Li Wu suddenly felt a sense of admiration for him from the bottom of his heart.
After half a lifetime of hard work, my dreams were shattered in one night.
Now he was able to swallow all the pain into his own stomach, and took the initiative to take on the responsibility of searching for supplies and protecting others before Wei Lai appeared.
What is a man?
Perhaps this is the best interpretation of this word by a rural man!
After speaking, Fifth Brother raised his hand to wipe away the tears that had flowed to the corner of his mouth for some time. He sniffed, looked at the crowd around him and continued: "I'm not afraid now. Don't we already have children?"
Wei, he will definitely be able to protect us."
"And what if there is a more powerful monster? If we risk our lives, we can always help him. Don't you think so?"
"That's not...
"With Xiao Wei here, what are we afraid of?"
Looking at these villagers who never left Wei Lai, Li Wu finally understood why they trusted Wei Lai so much. Because whether it was Old Man Kong who was sitting silently on the other side, or most of this group of people who had their families broken up and their families were ruined.