Zhang Fan calmed down his expression and didn't say anything.
Seeing Zhang Fan's unusual defiance, Liu Yining was not worried that Zhang Fan would get angry because of this, but instead covered her mouth and snickered.
The old man also said with a smile.
"However, you are still kind to us."
Zhang Fan heard what the old man said and knew that this small village in the city should be under his jurisdiction now.
Zhang Fan knew that there were too many ordinary survivors who relied on him to survive, but he still didn't feel any emotion in his heart.
In the beginning, this was just a way to retain outstanding superpowers and get them to sign contracts with themselves!
The team has grown to its current size, and Zhang Fan has long lost track of how many ordinary survivors there are in the team.
Shuguang has a special department responsible for them, and Zhang Fan does not need to manage them personally.
As for the main purpose of Liu Yining bringing Zhang Fan here today, Zhang Fan didn't understand it either.
Liu Yining is still chatting with her old man.
"Abo, I remember you don't pray at a fixed time every week? What day is it today? It looks like you were praying just now."
Zhang Fan interjected and asked.
"Why, do you still have faith?"
The old man raised his head and laughed.
"What kind of belief or disbelief is there? It's the end of the world, who will still believe in God!"
Zhang Fan asked again, "Then I saw what you were saying with your heads down in the church just now. Liu Yining said you were praying. It couldn't be that you were reciting Buddhist scriptures in the church, right?"
The old man laughed again.
"Prayer is just a way of saying it. We are just reporting the situation."
"Report the situation?"
Zhang Fan frowned, not understanding what the old man was saying.
"Who are you reporting to?"
"Whoever can hear it, report it to him!"
Zhang Fan was still puzzled, but the old man obviously no longer wanted to continue the topic.
Instead, he looked at Liu Yining and said.
"Okay, it's time for me to go play cards with my old friends. The children are probably playing everywhere in the village. If you want to see them, go find them yourself!"
Liu Yining nodded obediently after hearing this, and then left the church with Zhang Fan.
After Zhang Fan was pulled out of the church, he finally couldn't bear it and shook off Liu Yining's hand and asked.
"No, Liu Yining, what on earth did you bring me here to do?! Are you wasting your time?"
Liu Yining quickly explained.
"No, Lord Barbarian King, I brought you here just to meet the people here."
After speaking, he asked Zhang Fan again.
"You were chatting with Uncle Li just now, didn't you find anything?"
Zhang Fan was a little impatient and answered with a frown.
"It's just a survivor without any abilities. I didn't find anything special about him!"
Liu Yining said with a smile.
"Don't worry, let's go talk to other people. Anyway, there's nothing important today, let's just treat it as fun!"
Liu Yining said it briskly, but Zhang Fan didn't want to mess around with Liu Yining anymore.
"No matter how good the people here are, what does it have to do with us?"
After saying this, Zhang Fan was about to go back.
Liu Yining took Zhang Fan's arm by force in a rare and arrogant manner!
"No, Lord Barbarian King, you have to meet other people to know the answer and meaning of living!"
Zhang Fan frowned.
The answer and meaning of fart!
Before Zhang Fan could say anything, Liu Yining pulled Zhang Fan and started walking around the village in the city!
"Lord Barbarian King, you may not know something. Counting and checking the health of these ordinary people is also part of my current job. Today, you can work with me!"
Zhang Fan was even more confused.
"No, Liu Yining, why don't I remember assigning you such a task? Why is it your job to check the health of ordinary people?!?"
Liu Yining couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"Lord Barbarian King, have you forgotten again? We have established a special department for ordinary survivors. In addition to my duty to accompany you, I also serve in the ordinary survivors department."
"So, when I come out this time, I have two tasks. In addition to completing the tasks assigned by you, I also need to complete the tasks sent by the camp headquarters!"
"In fact, not only me, Xiao Lingwei should also have other tasks like me."
After Liu Yining finished speaking, it was Zhang Fan's turn to be stunned.
He was a little ashamed. The camp had explained these things to him before setting off.
Except for Black Lotus King and Huo Xiaoyu, the team members are directly managed by the captain.
The only others who still have positions in the headquarters are Xiao Lingwei and Liu Yining.
Since Daiyu is Zhang Fan's personal assistant, she naturally has no other job.
But Xiao Lingwei and Liu Yining...
He indeed forgot.
It's also their fault that Xiao Lingwei and Liu Yining didn't show that they had other tasks.
After Zhang Fan made a lot of excuses for himself in his heart, he finally agreed to Liu Yining's request.
The two of them seemed to be walking aimlessly in the village in the city, but in fact, Liu Yining knew exactly who she was looking for and where to look.
After passing through countless abandoned small stores and dilapidated houses.
Liu Yining took Zhang Fan around and went to the back of the church.
Just like what Liu Yining said, next to the church is a small supermarket!
Or, it can also be called a large convenience store!
Above the store door, there is still a somewhat worn store sign hanging.
"Limin Grain and Oil Supermarket"
The rolling shutter door of the convenience store is pulled down, and you can still see some pits and some black stains on it after it was hit by something!
"I heard from the old people in the village that one day when they came to the supermarket to pick up something, they accidentally made a noise, and the zombies outside the door smashed at the door crazily."
"They almost thought they wouldn't survive that day, but they didn't expect those zombies to be so stupid. There was a school in the village with an old-fashioned bell. When the time came, the bell rang, and they all rushed towards the school!
"
Zhang Fan kept frowning as he listened to Xiao Lingwei telling him this.
I couldn't help but complain.
"Why do I feel like this is not the same type of zombie as the zombie I faced at that time!"
Liu Yining also nodded.
"Yes! That's right, I felt the same way when I listened to them. But the people in the village have never seen other zombies, so to them, those stupid zombies are already hell-level terrifying zombies.
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The corners of Zhang Fan's mouth twitched and he stopped talking.
Liu Yining took Zhang Fan into a very narrow alley between a supermarket and a church.
This alley is less than half a meter wide, and Zhang Fan has to turn slightly sideways when walking in it.
"Where are we going?"
Liu Yining did not look back, but replied.
"Go find the kids!"
Zhang Fan sighed angrily.
"What, are those children you are talking about mice sons?"
Liu Yining chuckled.
"Children like to go into these alleys. Didn't you like to play like this when you were a child?"
Zhang Fan was speechless for a moment.
As a child?
He no longer remembers what it was like when he was a child!
After living two lives, his childhood was really too far away for him.
It was so far away that it made him feel that his entire life began on the day when the end came!
The life before was just blank.
Zhang Fan didn't speak. Liu Yining turned around and looked at Zhang Fan. Zhang Fan was lowering his head with a look of loneliness on his face.
The alley was deep and narrow, with only a little light coming in.
Liu Yining suddenly had a strange feeling.
The man behind her.
At this time, it was not the formidable Lord Barbarian King, but her peer, Zhang Fan!
Liu Yining suddenly stopped and turned to look at Zhang Fan.
His eyes seemed to want to see through Zhang Fan!
"how?"
Zhang Fan also stopped and asked.
"Barbarian...Barbarian King..."
Liu Yining spoke, then suddenly lowered her head and shook her head. When she raised her head again, her eyes were full of caution.
"Sometimes I feel like you are lonely."
Liu Yining said tentatively.
"That kind of loneliness makes me feel that you don't seem to belong to this apocalypse..."
Zhang Fan was shocked...
Seeing the change in Zhang Fan's expression, Liu Yining quickly lowered her head and turned back into that weak and timid girl.
"Yes...I'm sorry...Master Barbarian King...I am too talkative..."
Zhang Fan's eyes dimmed again.
Yes, he is the barbarian king.
Liu Yining's boldness today almost made him think that someone around him was going to see through him...
After smiling self-deprecatingly, Zhang Fan said.
"What? You didn't have the courage to force me out at first, but now you feel like you are discouraged."
Liu Yining's face turned red.
She didn't know what was happening to her.
In the past few days when I have been with Mr. Man King, my relationship with Mr. Man King seems to have become a little closer.
That's why I dared to make such an outrageous move today.
But just now...
That moment...
It's like something woke me up all of a sudden!
It seems that if you are a little closer, you can really get into the heart of Lord Barbarian King...
Just a little bit different!
But……
I am still the one without courage...
Liu Yining lowered her head, feeling desolate in her heart.
"It's okay, thank you."
Zhang Fan sighed lightly.
"I know your intention today, so let's go on and complete your mission."
Zhang Fan thought of the surprise and faint worry in Liu Yining's eyes when he asked Liu Yining the meaning of life today.
She brought herself to this urban village where only young and old people were left.
Probably I want to tell myself.
Living is a meaningful thing.
On the way here, I saw pairs of eyes behind those broken doors and broken windows.
Zhang Fan has already vaguely seen the answer.
In the church, in those cloudy but hopeful eyes.
Zhang Fan also realized some truth.
Although this is not enough to offset Zhang Fan's growing sense of boredom recently.
However, it is somewhat of a consolation.
The elderly and children here.
What is the meaning of their lives?
Maybe, life has no meaning.
But those who chose to sacrifice themselves for the sake of their lives gave their lives meaning!
Living is no longer just for yourself.
It’s even more for those who died, those who protected me!
Your sacrifice for them is not in vain, so live your life with hope!
This is the meaning of life for people here!
Liu Yining still took Zhang Fan to find the children's secret base.
There are about a dozen children, the oldest is only a teenager and the youngest is only four or five years old!
When they saw Liu Yining, they all ran over and called "Sister Aning" with a smile.
Liu Yining checked their bodies one by one and took care of any minor bumps and bruises.
Finally, like magic, cookies and candies were distributed to each child.
Everyone is laughing.
There is light in everyone's eyes.
Zhang Fan clearly saw a different feeling in Liu Yining's eyes.
On the way back, Zhang Fan asked Liu Yining.
"Do you like children?"
Liu Yining nodded, then shook her head.
In Zhang Fan's confused eyes, Liu Yining told Zhang Fan about her past for the first time.
The place where Liu Yining grew up is a small southern village far away from Long'an City.
The town is small and everyone lives close together.
Neighbors are also very close to each other.
When Liu Yining was a child, she had a group of friends. They would gather in the ditch in front of the town to catch shrimps, run around to play ghost hunting, and play hide and seek in the evening.
The girls danced with rubber bands and threw sandbags, while the boys played cops and robbers and bullfighting.
At dinner time, the elderly people in the family would stand at their door and call them to go home for dinner!
That's right, there are almost only old people and children in this small village.
As for the adults, they all go out to work to make money, just to give their children better living conditions and to give their elderly parents a better old age.
Liu Yining learned from her grandparents since she was a child that because her parents loved herself and their family, they endured the sorrow of missing their loved ones and went to work hard in the outside world.
Not only did she know this, but other children in the village also knew this.
Therefore, even though I lack the company of my parents, fortunately I have grandparents who love me equally.
Everyone had a great time in their childhood!
When Liu Yining came to this urban village for the first time, what she saw were children chasing each other in twos and threes, and old people gathering together to play chess leisurely!
It was obviously the end of the world, but it suddenly brought Liu Yining back to her childhood with cicadas and frogs chirping!
After the doomsday came, Liu Yining was alone in this city without any relatives.
She never dared to think about what it would be like in her hometown thousands of miles away.
She couldn't accept the worst outcome she could imagine!
Therefore, for so long, Liu Yining has always suppressed her inner conjectures, not thinking about it! Not mentioning it!
But! When she came here, the defense line in her heart was suddenly broken!
She thought of her elderly grandparents, her parents whom she had not seen for a long time, and her younger brothers and sisters who were still unfamiliar with the world...
They are all in that small village...
The end is coming...who will protect them...
In the past, she didn't dare to think about this problem.
But now, she knows.
Someone will protect them...
Even if you sacrifice yourself, you have to exchange for the people you care about to live in this world...
Even though this world is no longer the same world as before...
The eyes of the children in the urban villages are full of hope.
They will even share with Liu Yining their wishes when they grow up!
A fat little boy named Yuan Bao. His wish is to open a steamed stuffed bun shop after the apocalypse so that everyone can eat delicious meat buns...
The little girl with dimples on her face is named Qingqing. Her wish is to learn to dance in the future because she wants to dance when she grows up and becomes a bride...