Sun Mo immediately followed the direction of the gunfire and rushed over.
In the birch forest, there stood a seven or eight-year-old little girl, holding a shotgun and hurriedly loading the bullet. Not far from her, there was an injured radioactive ghost that was rushing towards her with its bloody mouth open.
.
Sun Mo quickly put the butt of the gun on his shoulder, raised the rifle, and fired cleanly.
Ta-ta-ta!
The radioactive ghost's head was blown open and his skull flew out.
Blood spattered on the little girl's face. Instead of being afraid, she pointed the loaded shotgun at Sun Mo.
Very cautious!
"Hello, I mean no harm!"
Sun Mo put down his rifle.
"Sun Mo, why are you running so fast? Are you a rabbit?"
Yunyao arrived, panting, holding on to a birch tree to catch her breath.
"Where are your adults?"
Sun Mo didn't believe that a child could survive alone in this apocalypse.
"I……"
The little girl's voice was interrupted by the sound of a gunshot.
A bullet grazed Sun Mo's head and hit the tree trunk next to him. The broken wood chips hit his face, which was a little painful.
"Stay away from my granddaughter!"
An old man with gray hair walked out, holding a gun and aiming at Sun Mo.
"Grandpa, he saved me!"
The girl explained.
"Come here!"
The old man shouted at his granddaughter, then took out ten more bullets and threw them at Sun Mo: "This is a thank you gift for you. We don't owe each other any more."
"You keep it!"
Sun Mo shrugged his shoulders, turned and left.
He saves people purely because he is kind-hearted, not seeking reward.
Yunyao followed. If the old man hadn't had a bad attitude, according to her character, she would definitely have given him a box of bullets. After all, it would be difficult for the elderly and children to survive in the apocalypse.
This scene made the hostility disappear from the old man's eyes.
These are two good people.
You must know that in these days, bullets are hard currency, and those who are willing to give up are definitely those with a bottom line.
"I'm sorry, I overreacted just now. Do you want to stay and have a casual meal?"
The old man invited.
…
The old man's food was all wild game, and his barbecue skills were also good. Yunyao's mouth was filled with oil, and he was so addicted that he even drank a small bottle of white wine.
"It's cool!"
There is nothing more comfortable than drinking white wine in the winter, so Yun Yao, who was feeling dizzy, could not speak clearly.
“Let’s look for ‘Tinder’ again.”
Yun Yao spilled the beans and was thinking about how to make up for it, but the old man shook his head.
"Tinder? Then you are too late. It was taken away three years ago."
Yunyao was so drunk that she suddenly woke up.
"Who?"
Sun Mo asked.
"Grandpa, stop playing tricks on them!"
The little girl covered her mouth and snickered, and used a dagger to cut a piece of barbecue for Sun Mo: "We don't know what fire is, but there is a storage warehouse here, but the supplies have been moved out long ago. If you are looking for it, you may be disappointed.
And he’s back.”
"No way?"
Yun Yao looked at Sun Mo with a bitter look on her face: "The fire is gone, what should I do?"
Seeing that Yunyao didn't ask about the reserve and was still struggling with the fire, the old man's eyes flashed with surprise.
"What is fire?"
The little girl's name was Su Ji. She blinked her innocent and curious eyes and looked at Yunyao.
Yunyao was simple-minded, and to put it bluntly, she was a bit stupid. She felt that there was nothing to keep secret about fire, and besides, the grandfather and grandson did not look like bad people, so she said so.
"Uncle Zhang is an ideal man!"
After hearing this, Su Ji's eyes flashed with tears: "I hope nothing happens to him!"
…
After dinner, Su Ji and Yunyao went to bed, but Sun Mo found the old man.
"Aren't you ready to have a showdown with me?"
In Sun Mo's hand, he held the pistol with the safety on.
"That's why I hate dealing with smart people!"
The old man curled his lips and took a sip of wine: "Want some?"
"No!"
Sun Mo shook his head.
"Who are you?"
The old man was curious: "There is always an aura about you that is incompatible with us."
"I am the savior sent by God!"
Sun Mo boasted.
The old man felt strange because people in the last days have to struggle for survival. One bite of food may cause conflicts and anyone may become an enemy. But Sun Mo was too friendly towards food and strangers.
"hehe!"
The old man smiled, then his expression became serious: "I don't know where the fire you found is, but I know where Eden is!"
"Eden?"
Sun Mo frowned.
"The power of the country is beyond your imagination. Even though things like the Third World War broke out suddenly, the country will have emergency response plans. Eden is this kind of paradise, which preserves various technologies and genes of various species.
, plant seeds, and maybe even a group of people living there.”
The old man explained.
"Since you know Eden, why don't you go?"
Sun Mo stared at the old man suspiciously.
"In the end of the world, any survival resources are precious. Why should people make exceptions for me, an old man?"
The old man laughed at himself.
"Actually, it's because you don't have to worry about food and drink, right?"
Sun Mo sneered.
"In the middle of winter, supplies are scarce, but you two, grandfather and grandson, have not lost any weight, and you are very generous in using supplies. I don't believe you if you say there is no fixed source of supplies."
"So I said, I hate talking to smart people."
The old man sighed and broke the news: "That's right, I have a reserve to myself."
"What are you going to ask me to do?"
Sun Mo asked.
"Talk to smart people and you'll save your worries!"
The old man sighed with emotion: "My request is very simple. I will give you the real coordinates of Eden, but you must take Susu there."
"Why me?"
Sun Mo was puzzled.
"I'm sick and I'll probably die within a year or two. When the time comes, Susu will have no one to take care of me."
The old man looked lonely. He didn't care about life, old age, illness or death, but he was worried about Su Su's future.
"Aren't you afraid that I will abandon Susu after knowing the coordinates of Eden? After all, a child like her will be a burden in the apocalypse."
Sun Mo's expression was cold, but he was pretending because he wanted to find out the old man's true plan.
"First of all, judging from Yunyao's situation, you are a good person. Furthermore, you have sufficient equipment and materials. It seems that you have obtained the reserve. You will not harm Su Su for my 'savings'. After all, you have raised her.
It doesn't cost much food, and besides, I have no choice."
The old man doesn't have much time left. It's rare that he meets Sun Mo this time. If he doesn't show his cards, it will be even harder to meet a traveler with better conditions next time.
"Are you a scholar?"
Sun Mo noticed that there were many books in the old man's luggage, and Su Su also did some math problems before going to bed.
It was very difficult, and Sun Mo didn't understand it anyway.
"Do you know this?"
Sun Mo handed the old man a piece of paper with the coordinates solved by Brother Zhang on it.
"Know!"
The old man nodded: "When nuclear bombs swept the land, the country gave some encrypted coordinates to different people."
To put it bluntly, the more important the identity of a person, the more precious the coordinates they know.
With the coordinates like Brother Zhang's, we found a larger reserve than the previous one, which could feed more armed people.
But the old man's coordinates point directly to Eden, because his grandfather is an academician and an indispensable talent.
"Let's go to Eden together?"
Sun Mo suggested.
"No, I will still be here, waiting for people like you. If they are kind and worthy of entrustment, tell them the location of Eden."
The old man didn't say that he had lived here for thirty years, but there were only seven people worthy of telling his coordinates, and they were all people with glorious humanity in the last days.
…
The next week, the old man took his granddaughter Suji to have a lot of fun. He also took her to dangerous places that Suji had not been allowed to go to before.
Then, it was time to say goodbye.
"Grandpa, why don't you come with us?"
Suji cried. She was a smart girl and had already guessed certain possibilities from her grandfather's change in attitude.
"I still want to be a guide here. This is a great job."
The old man rubbed the girl's head.
"Don't cry, you have grown up and should be strong!"
"grandfather!"
Su Ji hugged the old man tightly and was reluctant to leave.
"Let's go, find Eden, turn yourself into firewood, and try your best to rekindle the fire of human civilization."
The old man pushed his granddaughter away: "Sun Mo, take her away!"
The jeep was refilled with gas and went on the road. Looking at it disappearing at the end of the road, the old man burst into tears.
He didn't go together because he didn't want to see Su Ji die, or Su Ji see him die. It was better to separate on a beautiful day, and both of them would hope in their hearts that the other would live happily.
…
With the supplies and the correct coordinates, Sun Mo drove the jeep towards Eden at a fast speed.
Along the way, we also encountered a lot of troubles. In addition to a large number of radioactive ghosts, there were also apocalyptic natives who blocked the road and robbed us.
When the gas ran out a month later, Sun Mo and the other two started walking on foot, and the situation became even more dangerous. After all, they couldn't run fast with a seven-year-old girl.
"Brother, why don't you leave me?"
Seeing the radiation ghost chasing behind him, Su Ji, who was lying on Sun Mo's back, started to struggle.
Yunyao slapped Su Ji on the forehead: "What nonsense are you talking about? Are Sun Mo and I the kind of cold-blooded people?"
"If you don't want everyone to die together, just move around!"
Sun Mo finally escaped, but his left arm was bitten by a radiation monster and tore off forcefully.
Nine months later, Sun Mo and the others traveled through mountains and rivers and arrived at a hilly area.
In the mountains, they found a cave, entered it, and walked for half a day, and finally saw a metal door.
"Is this Eden?"
Sun Mo opened the metal door based on the secret key given by the old man.
The three of them continued walking in, but not long after, they were blocked by a door, and there were dense symbols on it that Sun Mo didn't recognize.
"It's over!"
Sun Mo had a headache. He would definitely not be able to untie this kind of thing, so he looked at Su Ji: "Did your grandpa tell you how to open this door?"
Su Ji shook his head.
Why!
Sun Mo sighed. He actually guessed that Su Ji had nothing to do.
He used to think that in order to prevent him from abandoning Su Ji, the old man would definitely give her a heavy price that would prevent him from abandoning him in a critical moment. However, along the way, the three of them established a deep relationship, and Su Ji even went so far as to save Sun Mo.
He Yunyao wanted to give up his life.
If there was a key, she would have told me about it.
"No, there must be something I overlooked!"
Sun Mo pondered, the old man must have put some message somewhere he didn't notice, otherwise what's the use of an Eden that can't be entered?