"What do you do?" Liu Yan asked.
"Me?" the man said.
Liu Yan asked: "Well, what kind of occupation do you have? Are you the only one?"
The man said: "I'm a network administrator, I work in the city, and my parents are out of town..."
Liu Yan signaled that there is no need to say more, and ordered: "The next one."
"Where's the food?!" the network manager said in amazement.
Liu Yan said: "You don't... meet our conditions, sorry, I can't give you food. You can walk along this road and try your luck towards the west..."
Lin Musen said: "Liu Yan! If you explain such a series of words to everyone, it will probably be finished in three months!"
"Get out of the way! Don't block the road!" The younger brother pushed and shoved roughly.
"At least give me some biscuits! I haven't eaten or drank for a whole day!" The man was about to struggle angrily, Lin Musen put a gun to his temple without saying a word, and said coldly:
"Go or not, or you will be killed if you don't."
The line was silent, and the man had no choice but to turn around and leave.
"Next." Liu Yan sighed.
"What do you do?" Liu Yan asked.
"I'm unemployed." The man in front of him said: "Little brother, you and them are not on the same road, I can tell. Please give me a box of instant noodles. I have a big family with me. They are still on the road. They haven't eaten. Yes, there is no drink, everything along the road has been looted, many people died in Yuzhen, everything was looted, I don’t know what happened, and I can’t buy anything... My mother is seventy years old... The old man is not in good health and can’t hold on I’m hungry. I’ll figure it out by myself, give me something to eat, okay? If you survive in the future, I’ll definitely find a way to repay you. Give me something to eat, and I’ll leave right away.”
Liu Yan was quiet for a moment, Lin Musen came over, Liu Yan had no choice but to say: "Next."
"Don't go with them!" The man changed his tone.
"What are you doing!" Someone at the table immediately came over and pushed the man away.
"What are you doing? What are you doing?! You are breaking the law!" The man left the team and said angrily: "Did you buy all the food?! I'm afraid it may not be so! How many people did you kill in Yu Town?!! Along the road Those dead people who came here, what kind of robbery is the whole Yuzhen by you? Do you really think that no one will know about these outrageous things?! You are a group of outrageous robbers! There are zombies killing people outside, and you actually attack the living compatriots! "
Lin Musen acted in accordance with the law, pointing a gun to the back of his head, the man said: "Everyone here heard it! You have the guts..."
There was a bang behind him.
The man's brains exploded all over the floor.
Lin Musen said coldly: "It's really arrogant, let's see who is arrogant?"
The four boys dragged the man's body and threw it into the river behind the factory, and someone came out with a bucket to mop the floor.
Liu Yan was silent for a moment, but said nothing.
Liu Yan: "Next one, what occupation?"
"Express..." the man said.
Liu Yan said: "Next."
The man trembled and turned away.
After half an hour:
"What do you do..." Liu Yan was as numb as a repeater.
The girl in front of her introduced herself: "My name is Ding Lan, and I major in accounting. I am in charge of bookkeeping and warehouse management in a small supermarket."
Liu Yan twitched his eyebrows and said, "We are short of someone to manage the warehouse, would you like to stay?"
"I do!"
"I!"
Someone in the team immediately shouted: "I am also in logistics! I am better than her!"
Liu Yan looked into Ding Lan's eyes solicitingly, and Ding Lan nodded.
"Young man, brother, big brother." Someone said: "What can you do if you let a woman manage the warehouse? You need a man!"
Liu Yan said: "Because she is at the front."
After finishing speaking, Liu Yan tore off a note, wrote the word "warehouse", and handed it to Ding Lan: "They will give you food, take you to the back, go get food and water first, you are welcome to join us."
Ding Lan nodded, walked out of the line, but did not leave, standing aside, as if waiting for something.
Liu Yan: "Next one, what do you do?"
Another girl.
"My name is Xie Fenghua, a student." The girl pushed back her thick glasses, she looked about the same age as Liu Yan and Meng Feng: "This is my student ID card."
"Graduate student?" Liu Yan opened it and took a look: "It's still from the University of Political Science and Law."
Xie Fenghua nodded and said, "You too? I don't seem to have seen you before."
Liu Yan said: "You know someone named... named..."
Liu Yan thought of Li Song's younger brother, but didn't know his name, so he had to give up, and said, "What is your profession?"
Xie Fenghua said: "Department of Philosophy, it says on the student ID card."
Liu Yan: "Graduate student in the Department of Philosophy... I'm sorry, Ding Lan, what are you still standing here for?"
Ding Lan said: "We are neighbors, Fa Xiao, can't she stay? Why?"
Liu Yan said: "I'm sorry, her major is useless to us."
Xie Fenghua smiled and said: "It's understandable, stop talking, Ding Lan, sir, can you give me something to eat?"
Ding Lan said: "Let's go together, it's agreed..."
Xie Fenghua said: "No, I have already agreed, Ding Lan, you stay."
Liu Yan's nose was a little sore, and he raised his eyes to look at Meng Feng. Meng Feng's eye sockets were also a little red, as if he remembered the things they grew up together when they were young.
Liu Yan: "Next."
"Wait." Regardless of Xie Fenghua's obstruction, Ding Lan came over and asked, "This factory is very big, can't we give her a place to live? She doesn't eat much, and she doesn't bother..."
"Enough!" The younger brother came over to pull Ding Lan and Xie Fenghua away.
Meng Feng held the younger brother's arm and said coldly: "Speak up if you have something to say, don't be rough on women."
Liu Yan: "She can't live in the factory building. I don't care what I say. I'm sorry..."
Ding Lan: "Then who has the final say? I'll ask."
Liu Yan: "If I were you, I wouldn't go to him. You should be glad that he's gone now. Didn't you see him when he killed someone just now?"
Ding Lan fell silent, Meng Feng said: "Let's go, you guys have wasted too much time, there will be trouble when the boss comes back later."
Xie Fenghua said: "If I stay downstream of the creek, or across the road, it shouldn't hinder you, right?"
Liu Yan thought for a while and replied, "This is not a conflict."
Xie Fenghua said: "Thank you." Then he whispered: "Ding Lan, this is a rare opportunity, I will stay with you, this place is not good, let's go together again."
With tears in her eyes, Ding Lan reluctantly nodded, turned and went into the garage, and went to the factory to report with a note.
"Next." Liu Yan said, "What occupation."
"Private detective." The young man said.
Liu Yan said: "Let me see the employment certificate."
The young man said: "Without a license, you know that this is a secret profession."
No matter how Liu Yan looked at it, the young man said again: "Don't look at me as tall and thin, I can fight, and I think quickly, logically and rigorously."
Liu Yan narrowed his eyes and said, "Really? Do you think he looks like him?"
Meng Feng raised his gun and pressed it against his forehead: "To be honest, three."
Liu Yan knew that it was impossible for Meng Feng to shoot and kill him, but the young man's face immediately turned pale, and said: "Medical personnel, but they don't have a license, do you need doctors..."
Meng Feng: "Two."
Young man: "Writer!"
Liu Yan: "Next."
The young man said: "I am also a screenwriter, I can make up stories for you to relieve boredom, and I can rehearse plays..."
Liu Yan said: "No, I don't want to hear the story, and they probably don't want to hear it either. We are living in a long and helpless story right now."
The young man sighed, bowed his head, nodded and said, "Everyone enters a story that they have to accept when they are born."
"You can go to the northwest to try your luck." Liu Yan said.
The young man said helplessly: "It's too cramped, I can't walk anymore. Brainworkers always eat up groups in disaster movies."
Xie Fenghua comforted: "Hope is a tough crutch, and patience is a travel bag. Carrying them, one can embark on the journey of eternity."
The young man smiled: "Thank you."
Liu Yan said: "Wrap him with biscuits."
The young man took the biscuit, Lin Musen looked at it from a distance for a moment, then came over and said, "Liu Yan, I didn't let you sit here to waste food."
Liu Yan was quiet for a moment, and then said: "Okay, then take it back."
The young man quickly opened the biscuit, spit inside, licked it again, and said, "Oh, I'll give it back to you."
"You!" Lin Musen said angrily.
Meng Feng said, "Forget it, brother Sen, one child."
The young man walked under the tree, opened the biscuits, struck up a conversation with the girl from the Philosophy Department, Xie Fenghua, gave her half a pack, and the two began to drink water and eat biscuits.
Meng Feng commented: "Very energetic, a literary young man."
Liu Yan said expressionlessly: "The next one, can the spirit be eaten? What he sells are words, not faces."
Meng Feng: "Huh? Jealous? Actually, you are not bad."
Liu Yan said: "The one over there is the child. Is there any food in our car? Give him some water. It's very pitiful."
There was a teenager squatting under the tree, who looked like a half-grown junior high school student.
He is the youngest living person that Liu Yan has seen during the escape journey these days—no matter how young a child is, or his physical strength is weak, or he runs slowly, he either dies in the zombie tide or is exhausted on the road. Unlike hunger, cold and other difficulties, few wild flowers and weeds can survive tenaciously.
The young man's hair was a bit messy, but he was neatly dressed in a shirt and trousers. He squatted under the tree and looked at them silently.
Meng Feng went to his and Liu Yan's car, brought him a bottle of water and chewing gum, and he took it silently without saying anything.
Liu Yan: "What do you do?"
He absently listened to the words of the person in front of him, but glanced at the young man under the tree.
He squatted there feeling very abrupt, like a landscape that doesn't blend in with the road, and his silent appearance made him distinct from the people around him, not like a human... Of course it can't be a zombie, Liu Yan also said Not sure what that thought was.
Meng Feng gave him biscuits and water, and a man in the line turned his head and shouted at the boy with a smile: "Baby, remember what to say?"
"Thank you." The boy said, his eyes fixed on Meng Feng's gun.
Meng Feng gestured to the person calling out to the team, then turned around and asked, "What's your name?"
The strange teenager started to eat fruit juice gum, and then fell silent again. Meng Feng said, "Is that your brother in line?"
"My dad." The boy said.
Meng Feng nodded in understanding, it seemed that the young man was a bit repelled talking to strangers, so he had to turn around and go back to Liu Yan.
Liu Yan: "Are you a dock worker?"
The strong man smiled honestly: "If you don't have a daughter-in-law, you're just a bachelor. If one person is full, the whole family is not hungry. What's the matter?"
Liu Yan: "Are you willing to stay?"
The sturdy man said: "Of course! If you can do some physical work, take care of your stomach, just call me."
Liu Yan nodded, wrote down the word "prepare" on the paper, handed it to him, and said, "It may not be enough to eat."
The man said, "It's fine if you have something to eat."
Liu Yan: "Next one, what do you do? My God! Sister! I thought you were dead!"
"No... Liu Yan, why are you here?" The girl cried and stepped forward, hugged Liu Yan across the table, choked up and said, "Where is your senior brother?"
Liu Yan's tears rolled back and forth in his eyes, panting: "He got on the bus when the last batch of buses were retreating, now is not the time to talk, you go to the factory with the note, someone will receive you, let them Take you to find Cui Xiaokun, he will explain in detail."
The girl's name is Fang Xiaolei, and she is Xiao R's girlfriend. She graduated from the School of Chemistry and worked as a counselor in the School of Biology of another school. Liu Yan didn't meet her that day.
"You fucking bastard! This is someone you know, let her in!" Someone in the line immediately shouted: "What's going on! What can that woman do!"
Liu Yan said: "This has nothing to do with you. The next one!"
"It doesn't matter!" Someone cursed again: "Everyone wants to survive! What right do you have to let your acquaintances go through the back door!"
For a while, the crowd was raging, yelling at Liu Yan.
"What?" Lin Musen's voice sounded from behind, Ben was patrolling outside, and the noise drew him over.
Liu Yan recovered from the sadness of the old friend's reunion, and realized in an instant, knowing that at this time, he must not say half a sentence wrong.
Liu Yan: "My senior sister is here, she is in chemistry."
Lin Musen: "So?"
Liu Yan: "So I let her in. This is a chemical factory, her professional knowledge can help you a lot, mixing explosives, loading traps, if you are not satisfied, you can let her try."
Lin Musen nodded and said, "Yes."
The team fell silent again, each looked at Liu Yan with hatred.
Liu Yan: "Next."
"Next person… "
"The next one... Don't block, I'm sorry, don't cry... I can't help it... Yes, I also have a mother... Stop talking, let's go..."
"No no... I'm really sorry... This is not a shelter... You have to go northwest to find a rescue station..."
Three hours later, there were five notes left in Liu Yan's hand, and less than a quarter of the team in front of him remained.
Lin Musen turned back again: "No doctors? No medical professionals? What about soldiers?"
Liu Yan shook his head regretfully: "No, doctors save lives and heal the wounded. When infectious diseases break out, they are almost on the front line, let alone soldiers..."
Lin Musen nodded, dissatisfied with the result, but there was nothing he could do about it, and said, "Hurry up and go back to have lunch."
Liu Yan nodded, and asked the person in front of him, "What do you do?"
"Hi brother, my name is Zhang Min." The man stretched out his hand, and Liu Yan shook hands with him.
Liu Yan said: "Oh, it's you... I remember you, who is that child?"
Zhang Min said: "My son."
Liu Yan had a headache, Zhang Min said: "That brother is your friend? Thank him for giving Cassia."
Liu Yan: "You're welcome, forget it, we can't... bring family members here, I'm sorry."
Zhang Min: "What's the situation now? I can't receive the radio, and the mobile phone can't get through. I drove here from City F, and the road is completely deserted."
Liu Yan: "The provincial capital has also fallen?"
Zhang Min nodded, his eyebrows furrowed tightly.
Liu Yan said: "What industry are you in?"
Zhang Min: "My late father was a Chinese medicine practitioner. I originally joined the army. After retiring from the army, I inherited a little... family business. I know a little bit about it. I opened a pharmaceutical company in city f."
Liu Yan frowned, Zhang Min said: "This is my discharge certificate."
Liu Yan looked at the young man in the distance and asked, "His name is Jue Ming? You don't look old."
Zhang Min smiled and said: "I am twenty-eight, Ju Ming is fifteen, and I am his guardian."
Liu Yan said to Meng Feng: "Come here, take my place for a while, Zhang Min, come with me."
Liu Yan and Zhang Min walked under the tree by the side of the road, Zhang Min took out a pack of cigarettes and took out one for Liu Yan to light.
"You have double standards!" Meng Feng shouted angrily from a distance: "You told me to quit smoking, but you still smoke! Do you think I'm a fool?"
"I'm under a lot of pressure! If I don't smoke a cigarette, I'll go crazy!" Liu Yan shouted to Meng Feng, who was about to quarrel, "All right, big brother!"
Meng Feng fell silent.
Liu Yan turned his head and asked Zhang Min: "Do you know how to bandage trauma and treat internal medicine?"
Zhang Min replied: "This... I don't have enough medicinal materials. I may not be able to completely cure the patient. What's wrong? Is someone sick here? I can show the patient."
Liu Yan shook his head and asked again: "What are your plans?"
Zhang Min sighed, obviously a little tired, and said: "I don't know, can I stay for one night? Our car came from home, and there was no gasoline at the upper intersection, and most of the gas stations along the way were empty. Cassia is weak. , I want to find a place to rest here for a night, and then go north to see how the monsters are doing?"
Liu Yan: "You're quite optimistic. To be honest, it's not very good. It's dangerous everywhere."
"I don't know what to do, so I dare not sigh in front of him." Zhang Min said: "Jaeming has a very sensitive personality. If he doesn't say anything, he is afraid of dragging me down. If he gets up and runs away after sleeping, I will die somewhere." Don't live."
"It's understandable." Liu Yan said.
Zhang Min stroked his forehead hair, very annoyed, and after thinking for a long time, he said: "Cherry Ming and I can take advantage of the light to live here."
Liu Yan also wanted to talk about this question, but what can that young man do? Most likely, Lin Musen would not agree, and he had doubts about the senior sister earlier, if Zhang Min were to stay, he had to find a way to reflect his indispensable role, to convince Lin Musen, let him take one more and do nothing people.
Zhang Min said: "I'm a veteran, and my marksmanship is not bad; although I'm not proficient in medicine, I can treat minor ailments. I can identify herbs, cook, play the guitar, treat livestock diseases, manage them well, and get a haircut..." As he spoke, he made a movement of scissors and scissors: "Dirty work, I will take care of the tiring work. Or this, I will try to talk, I will do the work of two people, and I will get more food? There is a Zhang It’s fine to sleep on the bed, and we can squeeze together.”
Liu Yan did not speak.
Seeing the difficulty, Zhang Min changed his mind and said: "Either I will do the work of two people, get a share of food, give it to my son, and I will take care of the leftovers... three meals for you are not enough."
Liu Yan said: "It wasn't much in the first place. If you want one person's meal for two people, then there is only... you don't eat anything every day, and you become a superman."
Zhang Min: "..."
Zhang Min: "We also brought some food, which are all in the car, but there is no gasoline, and we can last ten days and a half months after moving here..."
Liu Yan thought for a while, and said: "Don't be busy, so, you take a note to report, I will take your son to find a place for him to hide first, and let him wait until the people are almost gone in a few days. come out."
"Try to hide for a few more days. Once you get to know Brother Sen, everything will be easy. He seems unreasonable. If you are useful to him, he won't make things difficult for you."
Zhang Min felt relieved: "Well, thank you so much, I'll go tell Cassia Ming, he's very sensible."
Zhang Min suddenly thought of something again, and said, "Do you want to check the wounds on your body?"
Liu Yan: "We don't have a doctor, and now all the newcomers are concentrated in the side warehouse, can you..."
"Yes. I know the general condition of the infected person, so I don't need to take off my clothes." Zhang Min said, "But what should I do? Find a place to take off for you to take a look at?"
Seeing that Zhang Min was doing as usual, Liu Yan thought for a while and said, "No need, where's your son? He's not injured, is he?"
Zhang Min smiled and said, "No, none of us were infected."
Liu Yan said: "Then come with me, you are considered healthy, you are responsible for checking other people... Come, I will ask Lin Musen to gather people together."