There are patrolling mercenaries responsible for severely punishing violators who steal other people's ores and food. No one in the square will risk their lives and violate the rules.
The distribution of food is very efficient, because the staff who distribute the food and the hungry people who exchange the food want to finish it as soon as possible. Just when the long dragon was about to disperse, a rumble of thunder suddenly sounded in the dark clouds in the sky.
"Please Dongyu, hurry up on the first few moves!" the leading man urged loudly.
After the first few hungry people exchanged their food and left, it began to rain heavily in the east. The staff quickly loaded up the few remaining foods, covered baskets of fluorite with tarpaulins, held up worn-out umbrellas for each other, and quickly left the dilapidated square that was about to be flooded by rain.
"Boss Zhou, let's go back too." A young man with dark skin and a strong body, who was also carrying a basket full of ore, held up an umbrella and walked to the leading man to cover Zhou Qing who had not yet left the shed. Good for the coming rain.
Zhou Qing seemed to be thinking about something. They couldn't tell whether he was actually thinking about the lines he had just imitated in a comfortable tone. After the young man shut up with him, he looked ahead and nodded.
The dark clouds poured heavy rain mercilessly between the old buildings, not giving any dignity to the mercenaries' old umbrellas. When the young man was finally sent back to his residence by Zhou Qing and hid under the eaves, their military green mercenary uniforms and trouser legs were all wet. Rainwater got into the seams of the boots, and the unbearable feeling of dampness flowing between the toes told the two of them whether they had better go inside and take off their socks.
Zhou Qing took out the key and inserted it into the keyhole. He turned it and pushed the old-fashioned iron sliding door to the left. He then used a few thick legs to fiddle with a small copper key in the thin wire key ring and opened it. External wooden door.
"Boss Zhou is back."
The young man walked out of the eaves holding an umbrella. The rainwater sliding from the eaves hit the top of his umbrella. He turned around and smiled cheerfully, watching Zhou Qing enter the room.
A whining stomach growl suddenly broke into the ambient sound of clattering. Zhou Qing turned around and glanced at the young man outside the door. The young man looked at his belly and smiled awkwardly.
Zhou Qing frowned slightly, then relaxed his brows and said, "It's raining too much, and my home is not close to there. I might as well have dinner at his house before leaving."
The young man beamed with joy: "Really?"
"Um."
Zhou Qing took the initiative to invite him, and of course the young man didn't want to refuse. He took off his wet boots at the door in a matter of minutes, and stepped into Zhou Qing's house on the plastic slippers handed by Zhou Qing.
Zhou Qing pulled the light switch cord at the east door, and a bright yellow light lit up on the ceiling of the small living room. The yellow lights illuminated every corner of the small home in an instant, allowing the two people who had just "escaped" from the heavy rain to breathe a small sigh of relief.
"I'll leave Meng An casually while he goes to the kitchen to get something to eat." Zhou Qing took off his wet mercenary uniform and threw it on the sofa, walking into the kitchen as he spoke.
"Thank you, Boss Zhou!"
The young man named Meng An shouted back, and then walked to the big sofa in the living room without restraint.
Zhou Qingfu is the current boss of the safe zone, and the place he lives in is naturally the best house in the safe zone. The total area of the house is about 100 square meters. The walls and corners are well sealed and there will be no water leakage in rainy days. It is said that the drainage system of the toilet is also very good. Unlike Meng An's house, there is always no need to repair this or that. . The furniture was also purchased from the base, so it is certainly not comparable to ordinary houses.
Meng An looked around Yidong, envious but not jealous at the same time. When he looked up, he saw a Winchester shotgun hanging in the most conspicuous place on the wall opposite the sofa.
Meng An had not seen Zhou Qing use the Wincheston shotgun for a long time. The rough and violent firearm hung in the most conspicuous place of his house, as if it was just a decoration. Bu Nao Meng An knew that this was one of the things Zhou Qing valued most, and it was a relic of the peace of being the boss of the safe zone.
Meng An will be 19 years old next year. When he was 16 years old, he was honored as a sentinel in the safe zone. From then on, he changed from a hungry man who collected herbs every day and was hungry for three days to a lucky man who protected the safety of the residents of the safe zone and had guaranteed food and housing. Meng An worked hard and was afraid of the danger of being a sentry. After Lidong made several achievements, he gradually became a mercenary from the sentry to Zhou Qingdong's mercenary who maintained security in the safe zone.
16-year-old Meng An has a skinny figure and a look of malnutrition on his face. Now he has a strong build. He is fortunate enough to have been injected with the first-level strength-enhancing and first-level defense-enhancing gene-enhancing drugs, and he has the qualifications to wear a 9mm caliber leg gun.
Even though his life was not superior and even in a harsh environment, Meng An still had a cheerful personality. He always believed that the year he was 16 was his lucky year, but the goddess of luck glanced at him inadvertently.
Because that year he met the person he admired and got a life-changing opportunity. And Meng An's lifelong dream is to cross the wilderness to the G011 base and find the mercenary group called "Black Guns" to join.
When Meng An saw the Winchester shotgun again, he also knew that there were many people in that safe zone, and their existence would forever stop at the age of 16 when he felt the luckiest.
The 19-year-old youth is precocious, but sometimes he will be silently sad.
Not long after, Zhou Qing returned to the dining table with hot tomato soup, a plate of canned meat, and liquid vegetable porridge. He invited Meng An to come over to eat, and Meng An actively took the bowls and chopsticks to the dining table.
The bright and beautiful soup of hot tomato soup has a dazzling red mist on the surface. Meng An felt it was very fragrant when he smelled it. He first took a spoon and scooped a bowl for Zhou Qing, and then scooped a bowl for himself. Then he couldn't wait to pick up the bowl and drank it all.
fragrant! Sure enough, food heated in a microwave oven is different!
Seeing Meng An's satisfied face, Zhou Qing smiled slightly and used his chopsticks to eat:
"Eat slowly, don't be in a hurry. The liquid tea porridge is very hot when it's cold."
"good."
It turned out that the liquid Ming porridge had not had time to cool down for four minutes before it was put into the stomach by two strong and strong adult men with huge appetites.
The heavy rain outside the window did not get lighter as it went east, and Meng An was ready to say goodbye to Zhou Qing and go home after dinner.
But having a meal at the home of Mr. Zhou, whom he respected and liked, was already very satisfying.
"Remember not to let the gun get wet in the rain." Zhou Qing walked Meng An to the door and warned him like an elder.
Just as Zhou Qing was bidding farewell to Meng An, an alarm bell rang from the central broadcaster in the residential area and reached the ears of Zhou Qing and Meng An across the pouring rain.
Then he said no again.
The alarm bell is turned on or off to the east by the sentry guarding the gate of the safe area. Three consecutive alarm bells represent an enemy attack, and two alarm bells represent a visit from outsiders.