As the saying goes, Lao Wang sells melons and boasts of himself.
When it comes to bragging about himself, Tang Mingzhong thinks that he has never convinced anyone in his whole life. But today, when he met Zhang Fengyu, who could brag ten times better than him, Tang Mingzhong was really ashamed.
In the past, Tang Mingzhong would be a little embarrassed when he licked his face and boasted about how he was doing.
But Zhang Fengyu really didn’t blush and his heart didn’t beat.
He told how outstanding he was back then and how he was valued. When he talked about his rise, he even gave Aunt Zou a feeling of "I wish I could fall in love with myself."
Aunt Zou has met a lot of men. In her opinion, the most difficult person she has come into contact with so far is Tang Mingzhong, an "old gangster" who is nearly twenty years older than herself. She has seen Zhang Fengyu's boastfulness.
After writing her autobiography, Aunt Zou suddenly felt that Tang Mingzhong was no longer so annoying.
Sure enough, everything must be viewed relatively.
Chen Shuang, who was still immersed in drinking and eating without saying a word, suddenly interrupted Zhang Fengyu's memories in the middle of listening. She counted on her fingers and said: "That's not right, if what you just said is your true resume.
, then you must be at least... um... eighty years old now, right? Are you that old? "
Tang Mingzhong and Aunt Zou, who were looking gloomy, also realized the problem. Almost at the same time, they looked at Zhang Fengyu, the man who had teased them as fools.
Zhang Fengyu said without changing his expression: "I was born in January 1985, so far... at least..."
"What! When did you say you were born?!" Tang Mingzhong slammed his wine glass and stood up, with a look of disbelief on his face, and of course more of an anger.
Seeing that Tang Mingzhong was so excited, Zhang Fengyu quickly took out his antique ID card and handed it to Tang Mingzhong and said: "Don't get excited yet. I'm not lying. I was indeed born in 1985. My ancestral home is Shandong, and my mother is from Jiangsu.
When I was young, I joined the army with my brother and was later selected to participate in international-level training as a special forces soldier. In 2022, I joined the Chinese branch of the National Security Department. At that time, I served as the commander of the special operations company of the branch. I was mainly responsible for protecting the then Chinese branch of the National Security Department.
Li Shaoan, Minister Li.”
With his eyelids twitching and the corners of his mouth twitching, Tang Mingzhong handed his identity document to Aunt Zou who was standing aside. Chen Shuang also dropped his chopsticks and ran over to watch.
Then the three of them looked at Zhang Fengyu as if they were looking at monsters. He was telling the truth about his past, and he didn't look like he was telling lies. But the truth about Zhang Fengyu's life experience was still not so easy for Aunt Zou to accept. She held her forehead.
I couldn't get enough energy for a long time.
"Oh my god... I'm a little dizzy... I have to go out and get some air..." Aunt Zou stood up and left the table. She did feel waves of chest tightness.
Tang Mingzhong was okay, but he kept smiling bitterly while sitting in front of the table. He probably felt that the shocking secret that was suddenly revealed was too much for him to chew. In comparison, Chen Shuang was much calmer. She read the identity document
Then he sat back in his seat and said, "I didn't expect that after so many years, you still carry these things with you."
Zhang Fengyu took back the identity document that could definitely be called an antique and said: "If you live for too long, you need some objective support. It is like my totem, telling me who I am at all times, so I always carry it with me.
I’m willing to throw it away.”
After carefully collecting his ID documents, Zhang Fengyu took out a stack of photos and handed them to Chen Shuang beside him: "There are some other photos here that I think are quite good. Maybe you will be interested."
Chen Shuang was a little surprised, but she was happy to pry into the secrets of the past.
Most of the people in the photos are unfamiliar to Chen Shuang, but it can be seen that the people of that era were very energetic, and everyone was smiling when they looked at the camera.
Zhang Fengyu's photography skills are very poor. Many of the photos are not from good angles and look like snapshots.
When he saw a photo of a girl with an ice field and a huge stone door in the distance as the background, Chen Shuang asked: "Where is this? It looks... a little familiar."
"Antarctica, Lake Donjuan, the place where humans discovered the 'Dead Sea Gate'." When Zhang Fengyu talked about the secret behind this photo, he felt like he was dreaming back a hundred years ago.
"At that time, there were many little girls about your age in our team, but they were all weak women with no strength, and many of them were even students. But it was this group of people who devoted themselves to research one after another.
Not afraid at all." Zhang Fengyu said with a smile.
Chen Shuang looked at the girl wearing thick winter clothes in the photo and asked, "What's her name?"
"Chu Yanran, the precious granddaughter of Professor Chu Hongjun, was also the core figure in our research team at that time."
"Chu Yanran...this name is so nice." Chen Shuang touched the well-sealed photo, as if he was touching the past.
Tang Mingzhong also saw it, he stretched out his hand and said: "Girl, give me a few pictures too."
Chen Shuang immediately divided half of it and handed it over.
Outside the house, Zi Zixin brought Zhang Miao to the door quietly. They looked at Zhang Fengyu in the room secretly. After looking at Zhang Miao for a while, Zhang Miao turned back and said, "Yes, there are many things about him.
Special taste..."
Zi Zixin has never understood Zhang Miao's expressions sometimes, but she can also hear that Zhang Miao believes in what Zhang Fengyu said. But... why does a person who has lived for more than 160 years still look like
He only looks like he is in his early thirties? Is there really an elixir of immortality in this world?
Tang Mingzhong, who had seen several photos, was about to pick up a glass of wine and take a sip when suddenly his eyes lit up. He put down the glass and asked, "I said...Zhang Fengyu, has this girl been to our shelter before?"
Zhang Fengyu looked up when he heard this, and then immediately took the photo back.
Tang Mingzhong was a little surprised, and then heard Zhang Fengyu say: "You'd better forget about this person... She is very dangerous, and she is not a person that ordinary people can contact."
Tang Mingzhong actually had an average impression of the girl in the aqua blue dress in the photo, but maybe it was the girl's waterside temperament that made him unforgettable, so he remembered it.
Chen Shuang was also a little surprised, but she was very conscious and didn't even ask.
Tang Mingzhong saw that Zhang Fengyu didn't want to say anything and warned himself, so he wisely didn't ask. However, he had no interest in the other photos and only said: "These things can indeed prove a lot of things... But I still think it's too much."
It’s a bit unbelievable...are you really over one hundred and sixty years old?"
Zhang Fengyu was slightly startled when he heard this, then sighed deeply and smiled bitterly: "Actually...sometimes I feel very unreal...I also look in the mirror in a daze and ask myself, have you really lived that long? And
Just...why do you want to live so long?"
Zhang Fengyu's words came from the bottom of his heart, but unfortunately, no one here can understand them.
However, Chef Ye, who had been outside the door but had not come in, said suddenly: "When heaven is about to entrust a great responsibility to this people, they must first work their bones and muscles, starve their skin, and deplete their bodies... So, maybe
God has something very important for you to do."
When I hear this sentence, I can't tell whether it is sarcasm or explanation.
In short, Zhang Fengyu just laughed it off. He took a deep breath, picked up the wine glass and said, "Come on, brother, let me toast you."
Tang Mingzhong quickly picked up the wine glass and said with a smile: "You are the elder, it's my turn to respect you. If you break the rules, my old man who has been buried will not be able to live out his anger."
Zhang Fengyu thought about it, so he didn't care about the gains and losses. After the two drank a glass of slightly bitter blended wine, Zhang Fengyu said: "Brother..."
"Call me brother!" Tang Mingzhong said with a straight face.
Zhang Fengyu smiled awkwardly: "Hey... I'm really not used to it... Then let's go to Old Tang."
Only then did Tang Mingzhong feel more comfortable.
"You said before that you actually knew that I was a capable person, but you didn't know whether I was reliable or not. And I also confessed that I have experienced a lot in the past one hundred and sixty years.
I have taken responsibility for things, escaped from them, and even..."
"Yes, you are still a rapist? What's going on?" Chen Shuang suddenly mentioned a past tense that made Zhang Fengyu feel very embarrassed.
The few girls outside the door were not very interested in Zhang Fengyu's other past, but they were very sensitive to the word rape.
Zhang Fengyu also knew that since he said it, it would be impossible to get away with it. He was silent for a while and said: "That's actually... an accident..."
"Accident? Having sex after drinking?" Chen Shuang asked.
Zhang Fengyu thought for a while and said: "You may not know... In fact, before this seemingly peaceful world encountered this unprecedented catastrophe, it was threatened by some weird, indescribable and incomprehensible things every day.
...and I am like a magnet, no matter where I go, these things will follow me...and that time...it was a rainy night..."
…
Twenty-five years ago.
Xuzhou Old Town.
One rainy night, Zhang Fengyu was accustomed to going out to buy things at this time as usual. Of course, it was not because he liked rainy days, but because there would be few people on the road in the old city at this time, which could avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble.
Most of the residents in the old city are unemployed people without jobs, but these people are not as miserable as the outside world imagines. On the contrary, they have become their own style in the old city after leaving the framework of the super city.
, a small ecology is more conducive to the living life of these people.
However, the security situation in the old city is really worrying. Just a few days ago, a horrific rape-to-death case occurred in an alley less than fifty meters away from Zhang Fengyu's residence. The deceased was said to be a big city girl who came to visit distant relatives.
, fair-skinned and beautiful, but she was brutally attacked just one day after arriving. It is really a pity and anger.
Zhang Fengyu didn't think much of these things. After all, since the environment has continued to deteriorate and a large number of social problems have begun to break out in recent years, there have been countless similar things, and he simply can't care about them.
The old umbrella was thrown outside the door. Zhang Fengyu took off his hood and entered the small shop he usually visited.
The shop owner is a gray-haired man who is actually only thirty-five years old. He previously worked in a black workshop to make bionic components for some high-precision thinking cores. As a result, those components were too toxic, and his body aged to seven years at a young age.
He looks ten years old. He used his own savings to open this small store. It is a small place and has a lot of stuff. It is the first choice shopping place for people nearby.
The air conditioner in the store was turned on low today, so Zhang Fengyu felt a cool breeze blowing on his face as soon as he entered the door. However, it was not the cold wind that made Zhang Fengyu pause. In fact, even if Zhang Fengyu was thrown directly into the Antarctic continent, he would not feel it.
what is the problem.
The key is that Zhang Fengyu smelled a deep smell of blood in the store.
"Hey, pretty boy, what do you want to buy today?" The boss stood up from behind the counter. He usually liked talking to Zhang Fengyu, but of course, the main reason was that only Zhang Fengyu would be happy to listen to his chatter.
Zhang Fengyu looked around: "Buy something and go back to eat hot pot."
"Hot pot? Hot pot is good! Hey, over there, there are fresh vegetables, frozen meat and seafood, as well as some meatballs and sterile eggs. By the way... I remember there is also a piece that a friend gave me a few days ago.
When I wait for the beef, I can sell it to you as well."
Zhang Fengyu didn't say anything. He walked over and selected what he needed. When he saw the piece of beef that had obviously been bitten, he asked: "Has anyone been in the store before?"
The boss was playing a game. When he heard this, he paused the screen and stood up and said, "No, I don't know what happened today. You are the first customer."
Zhang Fengyu frowned slightly, put down the beef, then carried the things and walked back to the counter.
The boss looked at the things in his vegetable basket and said with a smile: "They are all vegetarian dishes. Why don't you buy some meat dishes, handsome? I can give you a 30% discount."
Zhang Fengyu glanced at the boss after hearing this, then turned around and brought back some meat dishes.
The boss kept smiling with his eyes narrowed, and after pricing everything, he said: "It's three hundred and forty-two yuan in total, you can just pay three hundred, or you can pay seven credits."
Zhang Fengyu silently took out the money to pay the boss. Just as he was about to leave, the boss suddenly asked again: "Don't you feel lonely eating hot pot alone?"
Zhang Fengyu was stunned for a moment.
Half an hour later, the boss brought all the ingredients to the table with a smile.
It was raining outside, and hot pot was being eaten inside. The atmosphere was really indescribably warm and comfortable. Zhang Fengyu hadn't had a meal with others for a long time, which made him slightly uncomfortable and nostalgic.
The boss took out a can of dark beer from his private collection and handed it to Zhang Fengyu: "When my parents were still alive, whenever we had free time, we would sit together and eat hot pot or stew. Thinking about it now, it was so noisy at that time.
I feel upset because now I can’t get something I only dreamed of.”
Zhang Fengyu is well aware of the boss's verbosity, but he doesn't hate the boss. The main reason is that the boss rarely talks nonsense.
"By the way, pretty boy, you seem to be a loner all the time. Do you also live alone?"
Zhang Fengyu nodded. He picked up a piece of half-cooked frozen meat, took a bite and threw it back into the pot. This detail was seen by the boss. Zhang Fengyu was a little embarrassed, but the boss didn't care at all.
"The human touch is quite nice." The boss said to himself. He picked up the wine glass and said, "Here, have a drink."
Zhang Fengyu nodded, clinked glasses with him and drank it all in one gulp.
Then the two of them began to eat in silence. During the whole process, apart from the clinking of glasses, the only sound was the clinking of bowls and chopsticks.
More than an hour later, Zhang Fengyu, who was full of wine and food, stood alone in front of the door, watching the rain getting heavier and heavier outside the house. Only then did he notice that his broken umbrella had been washed away by the rain at some point.
The rainy night in the old city is as eerie as a world in a horror movie, with no life at all.
Only the little light in this small shop is fighting against the darkness.
The boss packed up his things and came to the door. He handed the three hundred yuan back to Zhang Fengyu and said, "It's my treat. Come and buy ingredients next time."
Zhang Fengyu glanced at the boss and said he was not polite. He took the money and asked, "Have you heard any noise from the roof?"
The boss looked at the rain curtain outside the house and nodded: "I've heard it a long time ago. It's crawling around, and I don't know when it will come down and kill me."
Zhang Fengyu smiled, and so did the boss.
The two of them continued to chat word by word with a tacit understanding.
In fact, from the moment Zhang Fengyu entered the house, the boss knew that he was generally safe. He put down his gun, stood up, and specifically mentioned the piece of beef when introducing his ingredients to Zhang Fengyu.
Zhang Fengyu can be regarded as a good person and did not refuse the boss's invitation.
The friendship of three hundred yuan had to be in the past. Based on Zhang Fengyu's understanding of this extremely stingy boss, how could he return the money to Zhang Fengyu? He was just expressing his need for help by paying back the money.
The rain is still falling, getting heavier and heavier.
Zhang Fengyu walked slowly into the rain without an umbrella, and soon he was soaked.
And in the dark night, the blood-red eyes that had been peeping at him and the boss for a long time suddenly lit up. It couldn't wait any longer, it was too hungry.
The boss couldn't see Zhang Fengyu's movements clearly, he only knew that the fight outside was very lively.
Perhaps because he felt that this battle had nothing to do with him, the boss yawned and closed the door to continue playing the game. But when he turned around, he found that there was another one in the room at some point.
It was a woman, a woman with a large piece of flesh and blood bitten off her neck, shortness of breath, and pale skin.
The boss was stunned for a second and then immediately rushed to the counter.
However, how can he save himself at his speed?
In the blink of an eye, the cozy cabin turned into a bloody hell. Zhang Fengyu, who was fighting with the enemy in the rain, could do nothing even though he sensed the danger from his boss. He could only watch the door and windows of the shop being splattered with blood.
Full, dyed red.
That night was the most terrifying night Zhang Fengyu had ever experienced since he obtained this strange power. The monster that appeared out of nowhere was more powerful than any monster Zhang Fengyu had ever encountered before. The two sides fought from late at night until dawn.
In the early morning after the heavy rain stopped, Zhang Fengyu finally unscrewed the monster's head, but was still bitten by the monster.
That bite almost broke Zhang Fengyu's neck.
Then... Zhang Fengyu didn't remember what happened... He only knew that when he woke up more than a month later, he was already locked in a special ward where criminal suspects were detained, and his life label had the addition of "rapist"