In the evening, before everyone rests, it is customary to have one open post and two dark posts, and a group of people will be changed every three hours.
Without waiting for Sun Yan to arrange the shift, Chi Xiaochi said: "From 11:00 to 2:00, Lan Lan is the bright whistle, and Gu and I are the deputy team of the dark whistle."
Gu Xinzhi, who was cleaning up the barbecue grill, heard the words, quickened the cleaning action in his hands, hugged all kinds of utensils, and hurried out.
The players looked at each other.
For Gu Xinzhi, they couldn't feel the pulse at all.
After being acquainted with them for so long, Gu Xinzhi has always stayed away from them, and in his eyes and hearts, he just put down a Ding Qiuyun.
Over time, although the team members got used to it, they still couldn't help but feel chills in their backs when they heard him talk about killing new humans in a nonchalant manner.
However, Gu Xinzhi could not understand the feelings of the players.
To be precise, he lacked empathy and could not feel the stagnation of the atmosphere at that moment.
In his opinion, he just put forward a feasible suggestion for Ding Qiuyun's reference. Since Ding Qiuyun is not happy, then he does not say it.
The supermarket is only two stories high, and Ding Qiuyun and Gu Xinzhi squatted at the commanding heights on the top of the building.
It was extremely cold tonight. Ding Qiuyun wore a long scarf, and the boss was lying under his feet to warm his feet. The soft fur was lightly against his ankles, it was a natural heater.
Holding a roasted sweet potato, he shared the meal with the boss.
Half of him, half of the boss.
The leopard rubbed his ankle like a big cat and called softly, "Ow."
Chi Xiaochi communicated with it softly, as if he could really understand what it said: "It's delicious, sweet."
Sweet potatoes are really sweet, and most of the meat inside is roasted and turned into sugar juice. When biting, you need to be careful not only to prevent scalding but also to prevent overflow, so Chi Xiaochi eats it very carefully.
The boss didn't have such concerns, he swallowed the sweet potatoes while they were cold, and the rest of the time was watching Chi Xiaochi eat and cleaning up the sweet potatoes that flowed on his fingers.
Chi Xiaochi moved his ankles and showed off to 061: "Look at the sixth teacher. My automatic warm water bag."
He stretched out his hand again and let it lick his mouth lightly: "… automatic hand sanitizer."
After that, he put his hand in the leopard fur again: "Automatic dryer."
… The words are full of pride for his multi-functional boss.
061 laughed, carefully clasping Chi Xiaochi's cold hand, his smiling voice sounded quiet and low in the dark: "Well. That's great."
Gu Xinzhi knew that the coal boss and Ding Qiuyun had a good time.
At the beginning, he hated this leopard very much, but he didn't even dare to show his "disgust" and "jealousy".
Because he couldn't take the risk of losing Ding Qiuyun any longer.
Ding Qiuyun loves it so much, in order to make himself feel better, he can only try to appreciate it.
After a long period of self-hypnosis, Gu Xinzhi reluctantly fell in love with this leopard.
At least it can protect Qiuyun and become a shield for Qiuyun.
But he is different, he is Qiuyun's gun, the one and only one.
Everyone went to sleep.
The bright post was set at the main entrance of the supermarket. The branches were burning below, and there was a beeping sound. Yan Lanlan sat by the fire and took thick branches to compact and gather the surrounding stones. With her movements, the silver bell on her wrist issued a thin beep. Ding bell.
Gu Xinzhi asked Ding Qiuyun softly: "Call me up, is there something?"
Ding Qiuyun deliberately called his name and kept the secret whistle with him. He guessed that Ding Qiuyun wanted to tell him something.
Sure enough, Ding Qiuyun, who was pulling the boss's two front paws to play against each other, turned his back to him and said, "Well. It's the national-level weapon we talked about just now."
Gu Xinzhi didn't speak again, his expression remained the same, but his fingers tightened the corners of his clothes nervously.
He silently waited for Ding Qiuyun's rebuke to him.
Ding Qiuyun's tone was still the cold and indifferent tone he was used to: "At that time, I told you not to talk about it because I knew what you would say next. You hate new humans so much?"
Gu Xinzhi frowned incomprehensibly: "The new humans are different from us. They are another species."
Chi Xiaochi asked directly, "What if one day I also got cancer."
Gu Xinzhi was stunned for a few seconds, then frowned deeply, and his tone became cold: "You won't."
"'if'."
"Without this if."
Ding Qiuyun turned a deaf ear to his stubborn rebuttal, and said to himself: "Then I will also become a new human being, the 'another species' you said."
Since Gu Xinzhi doesn't understand what empathy is, in order to facilitate his understanding, he can only take Ding Qiuyun, the only one who can establish an emotional connection with him, as an example.
Sure enough, Gu Xinzhi stopped talking.
He was thinking about what Ding Qiuyun would look like after he became a new human being, but unexpectedly found that as long as that person was Ding Qiuyun, it would not be so difficult to accept.
This discovery surprised Gu Xinzhi.
Ding Qiuyun seemed to be able to grasp the moment when his heart was shaken: "At that time, you will kill me because I am a new human?"
Gu Xinzhi couldn't hear this sentence the most: "No way!"
… and it’s a one-shot break.
Ding Qiuyun changed his tone freely again, this time much softer, but every word was full of oppression: "Old human beings like us, maybe one day they will become new human beings. If you shoot down, you will be killed. I might be one of them."
Gu Xinzhi's heart tightened.
"However." Ding Qiuyun said, "Your proposal is not too bad."
In Ding Qiuyun's last life, apart from meeting Gu Xinzhi, a Tiankeng-level 25th boy, he suffered from a shortage of weapons and backward equipment.
Chi Xiaochi knew too much about the shortcomings in his heart, so he always wanted to make up for him.
Chi Xiaochi initially robbed the arsenal, and later entered many military bases one after another, took away many weapons, and laid an indestructible firepower loop for his town.
But he was not satisfied.
Whether it is Ding Qiuyun and Chi Xiaochi, they all know too much that if they want to survive in the apocalypse, the short-term peace that they exchange for consumables cannot be called real peace.
Therefore, Chi Xiaochi has been eyeing the national-level arsenal from a long time ago.
When the catastrophe occurred, people working in the relevant departments immediately realized that something was wrong, and invariably physically destroyed all the connections between weapons and networks, including the internal military network.
This has to be said to be a wise move. Once destroyed, all the high-end weapons turned into iron lumps waiting to rust in the parking garage.
But they are, after all, extremely important and precious weapons that must be fought for.
Most of the old humans only care about escaping for their lives and finding water to survive, and they also need to beware of the attacks of evolved animals and plants. It is barely surviving. Most of the new humans also have their own families. Some of them don’t want to trust AI anymore and choose to flee. Others choose to work for AI in order to protect their families.
AI naturally wants to snatch these weapons and truly hold the back of the human destiny, but is often beaten back by those responsible for guarding the arsenal.
On the one hand, these soldiers have responsibilities, and on the other hand, they want to stay by the side of the weapons.
Before meeting Gu Xinzhi, Chi Xiaochi had contact with these people guarding the arsenal.
They are all old human beings and need to maintain the most basic life, so they also organize special material collection teams to go out to collect food.
AI wants to cut off their source of supplies, making them starve to death, and collapse without a fight. Therefore, their material vehicles often become the main target of new humans under AI’s command, and every trip is a real uphill battle. .
Once, Chi Xiaochi took a few able-bodied team members on a long-distance trek for nearly half a month, which was aimed at a military base that was closest to him.
He squatted on the side of the road and acted as the oriole after catching the cicada mantis. He waited for work, helped the soldiers repel the attacking new human, collected the weapons of the new human, and sent some supplies to the soldiers for free.
Chi Xiaochi followed suit and did similar things at least three times, all because of "passing by", and he had gained a lot from the new humans.
061 once made fun of him, saying that he had to take two pieces from the charcoal basin, not just giving charcoal in the snow.
That being said, giving a helping hand is always more impressive than the icing on the cake.
Chi Xiaochi dared to make a promise, and after these three times of helping in the snow, he had already put a number on the commander of the base, and the impression must be positive and trustworthy.
After such a long time, the inside of the guards has been almost consumed by hunger, cold, battle damage and death, and it is time to find a way to cooperate with others.
And Chi Xiaochi was waiting for such an opportunity.
The establishment and consolidation of the town took a lot of his energy, and he didn't want to reveal his intentions too early, so he kept it hidden.
But that's not surprising.
Ding Qiuyun liked Shanggu Xinzhi at the beginning, but it was not because he had a heart-to-heart relationship with him for a while and intended to make a contract.
It's just that Ding Qiuyun at that time was too trusting in Gu Xinzhi, and he didn't find the unbridgeable gap between him and Gu Xinzhi, which was like a mountain and sea.
Gu Xinzhi was stunned for a long time before he understood the meaning of the person in front of him: "You... think I'm right?"
"The first half of the conversation is still human." Ding Qiuyun shrugged, "In the second half, I think with my heels and know that you can't spit out any ivory."
Gu Xinzhi pursed his lips and smiled.
He has a deadly cold youthful feeling about him, and even smiles with a hint of innocence that makes people heart-pounding, but Ding Qiuyun didn't put his eyes on him, took out the small wine pot from his arms, unscrewed the lid, and drank it. Warm up with a sip of wine.
Ding Qiuyun said plainly: "I have important people to protect, and I can't expose them to danger. But I know that what can truly protect peace is not kindness, not human feelings, but fear. So I want weapons and Overwhelming power, everything. We don't take the initiative to kill, but we must be the strongest."
Gu Xinzhi stared at Ding Qiuyun without saying a word, his eyes were full of infatuation.
Although he couldn't understand what kind of grand ambition it was, since it was Ding Qiuyun's wish, it must be very important.
Naturally, he took the initiative to ask: "Let me handle this matter, okay?"
Ding Qiuyun glanced at him: "Let's talk about it. I'll think about it again."
The atmosphere between the two was rarely harmonious. One smoked and the other drank. Although they were still silent, there was no dispute or confrontation. This made Gu Xinzhi happy and secretly looked at Ding Qiuyun.
Ding Qiuyun seemed to be aware of the presence of his gaze, and tilted his head to look at him, while Gu Xinzhi quickly turned his gaze away, stroking the line of his cuff a little nervously, without changing his face, his heart was beating wildly.
He wanted to say something to Gu Xinzhi, but he was afraid that one of his words would be inappropriate and ruin such a good atmosphere.
After a long time, he mustered up his courage and said, "Team Ding, go to sleep."
Ding Qiuyun took a deep breath of the icy air in the late night, and his tone had returned to a lukewarm and sarcastic tone: "Deputy Gu, we are the secret whistle. There is no reason for the sentinel to sleep."
Gu Xinzhi likes Ding Qiuyun to call him so: "Team Ding—"
Before he finished speaking, the black panther, who had been sitting safely at Ding Qiuyun's feet, suddenly lit up his half-squinted gray-blue eyes, let out a dull roar, and ran away from Ding Qiuyun's side, running down the stairs for a few seconds. The shadow disappeared.
At the same time, 061 lowered his voice and said, "Xiaochi, there is a situation."
After two years of independent combat experience, the already keen Gu Xinzhi's reaction was no different from that of a beast. When the boss issued a warning, he immediately turned over and exposed his head from the hiding place, and his expression changed suddenly after just one glance—
Dozens of fluorescent green moving light spots silently and quickly surrounded the bonfire.
… hyenas.
Swarms of hyenas.
What's worse is that Yan Lanlan, who is a bright whistle, is probably too warm on the fire, and thinking that there are two reliable secret whistles to rely on, she fell asleep with her head down.
Chi Xiaochi also saw this scene, and his spirit was instantly tense. While reaching out to touch the gun, he had already calculated several possibilities. Between the lightning and flint, his heart became even colder.
Those hyenas must be very hungry, otherwise they would not choose places where black panthers live to risk hunting.
They are already too close to Yan Lanlan. If they shoot, it is difficult to guarantee that the ricochet will not hurt Lanlan, and it is even more difficult to guarantee that they will launch a rapid attack under the pressure of the gunfire and quickly bite Yan Lanlan's throat.
The teamwork of hyenas cannot be underestimated.
To make matters worse, these hyenas evoked extremely bad memories of Ding Qiuyun in his mind.
… a blood-stained hand with a silver bell stretched out desperately from the hyena’s bite, as if trying to grab something, but it couldn’t.
The extreme tension caused a severe migraine in an instant. Chi Xiaochi gritted his teeth and held it back, and pointed the gun with the safety on diagonally downward: "Teacher Liu, help me aim..."
However, before 061 could answer, the people around him silently supported the edge of the rooftop with one hand and jumped down!
The falling airflow recoiled onto Chi Xiaochi's face, causing him to freeze instantly, his fingers were completely stiff on the trigger, and his body shook uncontrollably.
061: "… Koike?"
The hyenas' sneak attack plan was completely broken by a Gu Xinzhi who fell from the sky.
Gu Xinzhi had no intention of intimidating, and silently pulled out the dagger from his waist, raised his wrist and pierced the head of a hyena!
The piercing sound of the air and the splashing blood made Yan Lanlan wake up. She was in a daze, seeing a green light in front of her eyes, and an alarm bell rang in her heart. Pick up two of them, wave them around, trying to drive them away, and quickly decide which way to break through.
How could the hyenas let go of their prey? Two of them took advantage of Yan Lanlan to turn half of his shoulders, jumped up from different directions, and bit Yan Lanlan's throat and arms!
Just as one of them took off, it was shot in the head by a cold gun from the second floor.
But he couldn't stop the other one.
It lit up its snow-white fangs dripping with saliva, and bit down on her forearm!
But that mouthful fell on an iron pipe.
At the same time as the tingling sound of teeth breaking, Gu Xinzhi swung the steel pipe in his hand, crossed a beautiful semicircle in the air, and smashed the hyena's body to the ground.
Due to the excessive force, the steel pipe broke in half.
Gu Xinzhi's eyes and hands were quick, grabbing half of the steel pipe that was about to fly away, holding a flower in his hand, turning the broken tip down, stabbed the pipe into the hyena's upturned belly, grabbed the hyena's neck with one hand, and cut it downward. , opened it directly.
Blood splattered on his lips.
Two more shots were fired upstairs, killing one and injuring one, and the tragic howls of the dying hyenas, who were disemboweled in an instant, successfully frightened the few surviving hyenas to flee.
Gu Xinzhi stood up, wiped the blood from the corner of his lips with the back of his hand, and twisted the blood-stained iron pipe with his clothes.
Ding Qiuyun was no longer there.
The sound of gunfire awakened the team members who were sleeping peacefully in the supermarket. When everyone rushed out of the supermarket, Yan Lanlan stood at the same place at a loss with the still burning branches and leaves.
Ding Qiuyun walked out of the supermarket with a sniper rifle: "Yan Lanlan, let me ask you, what is Ming Whistle?"
Yan Lanlan's face turned pale: "I..."
Ding Qiuyun threw the gun into her arms and shouted loudly: "Who let you sleep?! You're dying?!"
Yan Lanlan had just gone through the front line of life and death, and her back was sweating wildly, and then being stirred by the cold wind, goosebumps came up one after another: "Team Ding, I'm sorry..."
"What are you sorry for? Who are you sorry for?" Ding Qiuyun kicked the fire into flames, "You are sorry for yourself!"
Yan Lanlan was frightened by the furious Ding Qiuyun, but she knew she had made a big mistake, so she could only bow her head and be punished.
Sun Yan and the others had never seen Ding Qiuyun make such a fuss, so they all came up to smooth things out: "Team D, Team D, calm down."
"Lanlan is young and doesn't know the importance. Don't be angry."
"Lanlan, come here and say something nice to Team Ding."
Gu Xinzhi felt a little distressed for Ding Qiuyun, and took the initiative to lean over: "Qiuyun..."
Without saying a word, Ding Qiuyun slapped him with a wave of his hand.
Gu Xinzhi was directly stunned, and looked up at Ding Qiuyun in surprise.
"What are you looking at?! It's you who was hit!" He heard a slight trembling in Ding Qiuyun's voice, "Why are you jumping down? You're dying? You're also young? Showing your ability and ability? "
After all, he pushed aside the people who were blocking him, turned around and returned to the supermarket, took a few steps upstairs, and locked the door on the roof.
Everyone could see that Ding Qiuyun was getting angry.
After this scene, who is still sleepy.
Yan Lanlan didn't cry when she was besieged by hyenas, but now she was scared to cry. She sobbed and patted the door on the top of the building to admit her mistake. After begging for a long time, she came back without success.
She turned back with tears in her eyes, and threw herself down after eating one more person, crying even harder.
Sun Bin went to coax her, Uncle Luo neatly packed the hyena dog meat and planned to store it for rations, while Sun Yan fiddled with the fire and said to Gu Xinzhi: "Deputy Gu, the Ding team is just angering you, don't take it to heart. go with."
Gu Xinzhi was speechless.
Thinking of Ding Qiuyun just now, the expression on his face was clearly nervous and worried, and Gu Xinzhi's heart was sweet, how could he care about such trivial matters.
On the top floor, which was isolated from everyone, Chi Xiaochi leaned against the guardrail and buried his face between his knees. The hand that had just hit Gu Xinzhi trembled slightly.
061 called him softly: "Xiaochi?"
Chi Xiaochi straightened his hair: "I'm sorry, it's too deep into the play."
061 said: "Well, I know."
He guessed what Chi Xiaochi had in mind.
In the orphanage of the last world, Chi Xiaochi had a more serious reaction when faced with a similar scene.
... He couldn't see the "people falling down the stairs" thing.
061 also knew that it was true that Chi Xiaochi was angry with Yan Lanlan.
But his anger at Gu Xinzhi was completely intentional,
He knew that Gu Xinzhi would misunderstand and misunderstand the meaning behind the slap, thinking that "Ding Qiuyun" was caring about him, and he would even be happy about it.
So he simply took advantage of it.
Because Chi Xiaochi knew too well, the only person he served was Ding Qiuyun.
Limited by Gu Xinzhi's character, in order to make sure nothing goes wrong, before Chi Xiaochi left, the person who handed it over to Ding Qiuyun must be a Gu Xinzhi who was dead on to him.
To put it simply and rudely, even if Ding Qiuyun wanted to return to his body, the first thing to do was to kill him, then Chi Xiaochi had to guarantee that Gu Xinzhi at that time was willing to hand over his back to Ding Qiuyun with all his heart and trust.
However, that slap was also a vent of his emotions.
When he saw Gu Xinzhi jumping downstairs, he was really scared.
Chi Xiaochi was tossed into a cold sweat by the migraine caused by the palpitation.
He wrapped his coat and scarf tightly, and whispered, "Teacher Six."
061: "Well, I'm here."
He squeezed out a vague chuckle from his throat: "Fortunately, Brother Lou can't see me like this."
Gu Xinzhi jumped down from the upstairs just now, making Chi Xiaochi think of himself when a similar incident happened last time.
At that time, crying, panicking, kneeling on the ground and begging Lou Ying not to die, not to throw away his Chi Xiaochi, has become what it is now, and even the emotions that strike immediately can be used, used and calculated on others.
It was rare for Chi Xiaochi to be dominated by such self-loathing emotions. While his hands were shaking, a vigorous black figure silently jumped in front of Chi Xiaochi from the roof next door.
Meanwhile, 061 said, "No. I think... he'll like it."
He really likes Chi Xiaochi, who is cunning, smart, and full of crooked ideas.
While Chi Xiaochi was slightly startled, two warm front paws rested on Chi Xiaochi's knees.
Chi Xiaochi looked up and found that the boss had cleaned himself up.
And the hyena bodies that escaped from the sneak attack just now were lined up and placed on the roof next door, frozen and air-dried.
The leopard's warm forehead pressed against his, rubbing gently and softly.
And 061's pure and warm voice also sounded in his ears at the right time: "Okay. Okay. Don't think so much, just hug it more if you're afraid."
In a trance, Chi Xiaochi felt that the sentence "OK", as if the boss was saying it to him.
He hugged the boss silently, buried his face in the fur on his shoulders, and thought, just let it go for a while, just a little while.
He lay there quietly, and did not cry. He just let his whole body empty, leaning on this warm animal body, so that his long-weary spirit could be relaxed.
The black panther also leaned against him, quietly doing his support.
At this moment, Chi Xiaochi felt a tingling sensation similar to the passage of a small electric current from the ring finger of Chi Xiaochi's right hand, which was buckled on the waist of the black panther.
Immediately afterwards, a voice signal came from the ring: "Mr. Chi? ... Mr. Chi? Are you-"
The signal connection was only for a moment. When Chi Xiaochi came back to his senses, the voice and the numbness in his fingertips disappeared together.
… What's this? Delusion