After returning from Slave Town, Gu Xinzhi has changed a lot.
This kind of change is seen by others.
One day, Sun Yan took a night train, and when he returned to town in the morning, he met Dinggu and the two who came to practice and jog in the morning.
He threw a pack of cigarettes to Gu Xinzhi, and received an indifferent "thank you".
Sun Yan was stunned for a while: "... Vice Captain Gu, what did you say?"
Gu Xinzhi raised his head, his voice a little flat: "Thank you."
Sun Yan: "..." Whom did he thank? Who is thanking me? Thanks for what
When Sun Yan was messing around, Gu Xinzhi put a white towel on his shoulders and ran away behind Ding Qiuyun.
Gu Xinzhi listened to Ding Qiuyun's words very much and tried to chat with the children in the town, but almost all ended in failure at the beginning.
The only people who are willing to talk to him are He Wanwan, who is a new human, and Jing Yiming, who loves to play with Sister Wanwan.
"They are afraid of me, not Qiuyun, nor his leopard." Gu Xinzhi asked He Wanwan and Jing Yiming in confusion, "Why?"
Jing Yiming hid behind He Wanwan like a little rabbit, looked at Gu Xinzhi cautiously, and did not dare to speak.
He Wanwan was taken by Ding's parents and Ding's mother for all these years, and she spoke in a serious and serious tone: "Well, I think maybe you are too serious. You don't like to laugh, you have to laugh like Brother Ding."
Gu Xinzhi frowned slightly: "Is this important? No one smiled at me when I was a child, and it was no big deal."
He Wanwan old-fashionedly touched his shoulder: "Then you are so pitiful."
Gu Xinzhi was caught off guard by the little girl's comfort, and after thinking carefully about how to deal with it at this time, she took a cigarette out of her arms and gave it to He Wanwan.
Ding Qiuyun happened to see this dirty deal, so everyone, one big and one small, was punished to stand on the wall for five minutes.
Gu Xinzhi was not discouraged.
He was very motivated, cut dozens of pieces of cardboard into circles, held them in front of Chi Xiaochi, and briefly explained his thoughts.
After hearing his thoughts, Chi Xiaochi was a little surprised, but he still drew several sets of different cartoon pictures for him.
Gu Xinzhi took the picture and went to the little boys who were playing together in the town. He sat beside them and distributed the cards. It was concise and to the point: "Take pictures, play?"
Most of the half-aged children are used to playing VR games, and almost never played the ancient street games such as making pictures and playing marbles. They were quickly brought into the pit by Gu Xinzhi.
In less than half a week, the streets and alleys were filled with the sound of children making pictures.
As someone rides a bicycle through town, the bell rings from east to west, accompanied by a drawn-out shout: "Let-go, be careful!"
Chi Xiaochi felt that Gu Xinzhi's trick was not bad.
But after two days, he realized that something was wrong.
... As the initiator of the game, Gu Xinzhi actually competed with the children seriously.
When Chi Xiaochi took the boss to the children's pile to catch him, there was a stack of cards beside him. The children who played cards with him were tearful, sobbing and playing cards with the strength of milk, but they still couldn't fight. The ingenuity of Xinzhi casually raises his hand and presses his wrist.
The scene and atmosphere were almost in tears, tragic.
Gu Xinzhi had already heard Ding Qiuyun's footsteps.
He turned his head and looked up at him.
The other party rolled his eyes and motioned for him to come out.
Gu Xinzhi put the picture in his pocket, stood up, and approached in confusion: "I don't smoke."
He hasn't done it since the last time Ding Qiuyun said he was not allowed to smoke in front of the children.
... He has never cared about the eyes of the world, but if Ding Qiuyun cares, he can learn to pretend to care.
I have to say that Gu Xinzhi is a good student, cherishes his grades very much, and earnestly studies the social etiquette that he has never cared about before.
Since he was deducted five points last time, he has been very disciplined, so he didn't understand the purpose of Ding Qiuyun calling him out until he heard the other party ask, "How much did you win?"
Gu Xinzhi vaguely understood something, and said vaguely, "I didn't win much."
Ding Qiuyun pointed it out directly: "You are a former soldier, fighting with children?"
Gu Xinzhi calmly defended: "That's because they can't do it, they don't know the skills."
Ding Qiuyun didn't talk much like him either, and spread out his hand at him.
Gu Xinzhi clenched his trouser pocket tightly and said, "I won this."
At certain times, Gu Xinzhi was terribly mature, but at other times he was stubborn and stubborn like a child, especially obsessed with things he loved.
Ding Qiuyun stared at him calmly, and raised his flat hands up: "... Deputy Gu."
Gu Xinzhi was still halfway up, and his heart was already cold.
He has a lot of trophies marked with Ding Qiuyun. Past, present, all.
Ding Qiuyun had just bought the socks that he had not had time to put on once; the potato chips he had left over and forgotten in the corner of the drawer; and the camouflage army jacket he had put on for his fake sleeping self. This is the only grace and light in Gu Xinzhi's life. He is reluctant to throw it away, so he collects it, occasionally takes it out, and puts it in front of him. Just looking at it, his heart is full.
Now that he wants to return the spoils to Ding Qiuyun, he is really reluctant.
Gu Xinzhi's eyes drooped down for a while, before holding a glimmer of hope, he made a wish that was impossible to achieve: "I will return these to you, and you will draw me a set."
Ding Qiuyun said, "Okay."
Gu Xinzhi laughed at himself, and it took a few seconds to understand what Ding Qiuyun meant.
His eyes widened slightly, and he was stunned for a moment. Before he could even laugh, he hurriedly made a request, for fear that Ding Qiuyun would regret it: "I want 'The Little Prince'."
"No." Ding Qiuyun refused clearly.
"Why?"
Ding Qiuyun smiled half-smilingly: "Deputy Gu, don't force me to say bad things."
Gu Xinzhi stopped talking, and his expression didn't change much. He obediently took out the stack of cards he had accumulated and handed it to Ding Qiuyun.
But only Chi Xiaochi knew that his remorse was rising little by little, from 60 to 65 all the time.
… Every little difference from the past reminds Gu Xinzhi that they will never be able to return to Ding Qiuyun and Gu Xinzhi in the past.
Chi Xiaochi took the card, but did not leave, nor did he distribute the cards directly to the children. Instead, he came to the group of children just now, sat down with his legs crossed, and joined the battle naturally: "Who's turn?"
A little girl with short hair said softly, "It's Brother Gu."
She took out a card and glanced at Gu Xinzhi again: "Isn't Brother Gu coming to fight?"
Chi Xiaochi said, "He gave me the card. I am his captain, and he is afraid of me."
The children exclaimed in awe: "Ah—"
After all, Chi Xiaochi drew a card in a smart manner. The hand came up and fell, and the sound was loud enough, but it failed to shake any of the cards over.
children:"… "
Chi Xiaochi: "…"
He showed an embarrassed look on the occasion, and the children laughed.
Chi Xiaochi scratched his scalp and said a little unconvinced, "Come again."
After more than a dozen rounds, all the cards in his hand were reasonably lost.
The children laughed at his weakness. He not only accepted all the orders, but also showed a small expression of embarrassment and dissatisfaction, and his earlobes were red.
The smell of cooked rice came from the neighboring house, and the children hopped away in the sunset with the cards they had won.
Ding Qiuyun patted Leng Ash behind him, got up and walked back to Gu Xinzhi, and asked with a smile, "Can you see how you're going to lose?"
The soft sunlight passed through the fog and enveloped Ding Qiuyun around him.
He asked Gu Xinzhi, who never refused to admit defeat to anyone, and did not expect to get an answer from him. He reached out and touched the head of the black panther who had been squatting obediently behind the children, and then went to the motorcycle with his boss. Going in the direction of the car, Gu Xinzhi was left behind.
Gu Xinzhi was smart enough, so he understood what Ding Qiuyun meant.
To deal with these children, we must learn how to win and how to lose.
Even if he can't understand it, he will study hard in the future.
Thinking like this, he raised his hand and stroked his chest.
… He also had three cards hidden in his chest.
Those were some of his favorites, so he picked them up and kept them with him. They were a rabbit, a carp, and a rose.
There was a rabbit with a rose in his mouth, and he wanted the fish on the bottom to accept his heart.
It doesn't know how to tell its love, how to get the fish to accept him, so it can only jump around anxiously, even jumping into the water, making it embarrassed, but the fish still refuses to approach him, only Swim around not too far from him.
The rabbit had been restless and painful, but he gradually found that swimming in this pool seemed to be quite comfortable.
It gradually understood why the fish liked to stay in the water and refused to go ashore with him.
So this rabbit made up his mind to learn to swim and let the fish see himself every day until one day, he was willing to take his rose.
at the same time.
061, who witnessed what just happened, was dumbfounded.
He can vouch for Chi Xiaochi with a personality, he is not pretending, he is a real dish.
For the first time in his life, he saw that after a fiasco based on strength, a person can still walk like a rainbow, and even find excuses so beautifully that he wanted to pinch Chi Xiaochi's face.
So after jumping on the motorcycle, the black panther crouched on Chi Xiaochi's back, gently touched his side face with his claws, and carefully retracted the tips of his claws, for fear of hurting him.
The leopard's pads were too soft, so Chi Xiaochi couldn't help pulling it over and pinching it several times, and slapped his vertebrae a few times.
After a few hands, the "disobedient" leopard was coaxed away, and the frustration of Chi Xiaochi's repeated defeats just now disappeared a lot. He put on his helmet and started his motorcycle.
The leopard was still lying on his back, simulating a human hugging posture, the strength exerted by his arms slowly gathered, and the whole person in front of him was embraced in his arms, his movements were hidden, but gentle and unusual.
A few days later, Ding Qiuyun's team set off again, the purpose was still to collect supplies.
In an unfamiliar city, they met a long-lost man-eating ivy.
Fortunately, they already have experience.
Three well-stocked gasoline guns spewed orange-red flames and swept across, forming an extremely dense attack net. The burnt ivy couldn't stop screaming as a child, leaving behind scorched twigs and fleeing away.
After clearing the obstacles, Chi Xiaochi and the others did not dare to slack off. After driving for more than half a block, they chose a 24-hour automatic convenience supermarket that was already empty.
The freezer in the supermarket is full of melons and fruits that have lost their moisture from freezing, as well as some sushi rice balls that have long been inedible.
Just like dealing with monsters, the team members stopped collecting materials indiscriminately as they did in the early days.
They took out the barbecue grill from the truck, took out half a fan of fresh venison and some potatoes, cut it into small pieces with a saber, sprinkled with rosemary spice, brushed with the black pepper sauce made by Sister Jing, put it on the rack, took Saltpeter ignites the oven.
The meat juice and sauce dripped down the iron frame, gradually exuding a strange fragrance.
Before the meat was cooked, Yan Lanlan and a few teammates went to scavenge for other supplies in the supermarket. The few people who stayed had nothing to do and began to discuss how to deal with AI and those new humans.
After Chi Xiaochi gained a firm foothold, he immediately removed all the AI base stations within two hundred miles of the town. Otherwise, the AI would not regard the town as a thorn in its side, and would often send new humans to harass it.
However, the sentry system established by Chi Xiaochi is extremely militarized. In addition, it has accommodated a group of AIs who have goodwill towards humans, as well as the guidance of 061. They have established their own AI base station, which is a rival to the new humans with AI support. The trend, forcibly opened up a place outside the law in the apocalypse.
Even so, no one dared to relax easily.
Although AI is intangible, they have controlled the entire human race after all.
This small town is still too small after all. Even if they now have Shu Wenqing as an ally, it is still not enough.
Chi Xiaochi tended to take Ding Qiuyun's team to go further and look for other places outside the law.
He knows that there are still many old humans and new humans who yearn for peace in certain places, but because of the blockade of information, like Robinson on an isolated island, he can only stay in place, waiting anxiously and uneasy for a certain place. Signals from allies.
They want to unite this group of people and gradually expand the territory belonging to human beings.
When Chi Xiaochi was talking to himself and unilaterally conveying his ideas to Ding Qiuyun, Gu Xinzhi suddenly said, "If I want to solve those AIs, I have a solution."
Gu Xinzhi had never expressed any opinion on the design of tactics before, but this time he suddenly spoke, and everyone, including Chi Xiaochi, turned their attention to him.
Gu Xinzhi said: "Before entering the global winter, AI had already controlled almost every corner of the world. However, they failed to successfully control thermal weapons. It stands to reason that in our small town, only a tiny missile can be used. Can be razed to the ground. Team Ding, you know why."
Chi Xiaochi was silent for a moment.
Ding Qiuyun was a soldier, he naturally knew it.
National-level and military-level weapons are supplemented by AI, controlled by humans, and are equipped with high-precision firewalls to prevent AI problems and cause a series of serious chain problems.
After the catastrophe, the AI that evolved intelligence tried to attack the arsenal, but it was soon discovered by the people in the emergency early warning agency, who immediately chose to cut off all network lines, directly cutting off the possibility of an attack on the physical level.
Over the years, new human beings have been trying to reconnect the disconnected network, but they have never been able to do so.
Having said that, Chi Xiaochi had already guessed what Gu Xinzhi wanted to say.
He wanted to stop him, but Gu Xinzhi continued to say: "Sun Bin knows this very well, just find a few more relevant technical talents, find a way to restore the use of heavy weapons, occupy the absolute high point of firepower, use heavy weapons Bombs or missiles bomb several new human settlements, and the new humans will know who they should cooperate with. It is only a matter of time before they can use their hands to destroy the base station."
The surroundings were silent, and Sun Bin, who was named, was even more stunned.
After tasting the amount of information contained in this speech, Sun Yan took a deep breath: "...What kind of solution is this?"
Chi Xiaochi directly rejected his proposal: "It's the way. But it's not the way people should think."
Gu Xinzhi shrugged, as if the proposal just now was just a joke he casually mentioned: "If you don't like it, forget it."
Gu Xinzhi's speech made everyone a little uncomfortable until Yan Lanlan ran over holding something: "Team Ding, see what I found!"
What Yan Lanlan found was indeed a treasure.
It was an older Polaroid with a power cord, which should have been dropped by the previous supermarket owner during his hasty escape.
Everyone swept away the rigid atmosphere just now, started chatting, and quickly forgot about making a counter-offensive plan.
While they were eating, they charged the Polaroid with the hand-cranked generator they carried.
After the meal, Yan Lanlan confirmed that there was still photo paper in the Polaroid, and said, "Everyone get together, let's take a photo too."
Everyone had enough to eat and drink, and they were all young people. Naturally, they had a playful heart. They gathered together, combing their hair, combing their hair, and arranging their clothes.
They didn't have a support frame, so they put the Polaroid on the table, and everyone chose an angle for a long time before they all squatted down.
Ding Qiuyun was naturally at the very center.
Gu Xinzhi pushed the others away and squatted down beside him.
Yan Lanlan set a ten-second delay for the camera, and immediately rushed back to the group, saying "Everyone is laughing", so everyone laughed. Everyone couldn't grasp the opportunity, and everyone laughed a little too exaggeratedly.
Only Chi Xiaochi still maintained an excellent sense of the camera. He put his left hand on the boss's back and his right hand on his right knee. With Ding Qiuyun's face, he showed a bright smile.
But he didn't realize that neither the man on his right nor the Panther on his left was looking at the camera.
Gu Xinzhi tilted his head, his eyes stayed on Ding Qiuyun's perfectly curved jawline and the tip of his nose, the corners of his lips raised uncontrollably.
The black panther, with its gray-blue eyes, looked at the young man's face under the skin tenderly.