Bai Xiaolu was ready to be ridiculed, reprimanded, and even ate a bottle of wine from Boss Jinya.
Unexpectedly, the golden tooth boss was silent for a moment, and then answered his question.
"once."
The overlord of the wasteland said, "There used to be."
"That… "
Bai Xiaolu didn't know how to speak anymore, he knew he shouldn't continue asking.
"She is the prettiest girl in all the farms, a hundred times prettier than Old John's wife, and she can sing many, many songs, and when she sings, her hair shines like the brightest sunshine."
Jinya Laodao, "She is also a good worker. She can do any job on the farm. She has always wanted to own a winery of her own. It doesn't need to be big or famous. Even a winemaking workshop is fine. on the line.
"We have already saved a lot of money, and the winery is also optimistic. As long as I complete the task of 'capturing Yuri', I can leave the army and start a new life. On the parting night, she told me that she was pregnant and waited for me to come back. Everything will be different.
"However, hehe, you already know the next thing, I became—like this."
The golden tooth boss spread his index finger and middle finger, pointing at his two scarlet prosthetic eyes.
"sorry."
The white deer lowered its head.
"No, even if I'm not captured by Yuri, the result will be the same. A nuclear war will break out, our winery will be razed to the ground, and the situation will be even worse."
The golden tooth boss whispered, "At least for now, I'm still alive."
"What about them?"
Bai Xiaolu blurted out, and regretted it very much after speaking.
"I have no idea."
Boss Gold Tooth slowly shook his head, "I was imprisoned in Yuri's X Camp for ten years, and I struggled in the wasteland for another ten years. When I came back here, the old farms and fields had long been turned into rolling yellow sand. Everything is gone, my wife and... kids, who knows?"
"don’t worry."
Bai Xiaolu didn't know how to comfort people, and said clumsily, "Auspicious people have their own destiny, they must still be alive, and you can definitely find them."
"Alive, hehe, alive."
Gold Tooth Old Daoist, "So you are stupid, brat, you are also 'living' in this wasteland, do you really think that living like this is better than dying
"I don't want them to be alive. I hope they are already dead. At the moment when the nuclear war broke out, in their ignorant sleep, they were completely melted in the high temperature of thousands of degrees—this is the happiest result."
"Maybe they escaped to the ground in time and lived carefree in the underground city?"
Bai Xiaolu said dryly, "You are an elite Navy SEAL, a martyr who died for the motherland on a dangerous mission. Your family members should be treated preferentially, right?"
As soon as this remark came out, the golden tooth boss choked all the wine out of his nostrils.
"Hahahaha, sacrifice, hahahaha, martyr, hahahaha, preferential treatment!"
He shook off the wine bottle and stared at Bai Xiaolu, the red light in his eyes turned into extremely dangerous flames, "Little devil, didn't you hear what I just said? For several years, I was brainwashed by Yuri and became a For his minions and killing machines, help him carry out the dirtiest and bloodiest tasks! So, in the eyes of the 'above', I am not only a self-sacrificing martyr, but a despicable 'traitor', the most dangerous 'betrayer' ', how can I give my family a little bit of preferential treatment
"What's more, hum, hum, hum, even if it is really a family member of the victim, without special circumstances, don't even think about entering the underground city and becoming an underground tribe."
"why?"
Bai Xiaolu said strangely, "It's not fair!"
"fair?"
Boss Jinya sneered, "As the scale of the war becomes larger and larger, the casualties of the countries involved in the war are calculated in tens of millions. How many family members do they have? The underground city has only so much space and so many resources. The families of the victims, what about those people?"
Bai Xiaolu said: "Wh-Who are they?"
The gold-toothed boss growled: "Those people on Wall Street, those 1% people, those people waving flags, those people in suits and ties, those people who are dignified, those who sit comfortably in the office, blowing the air conditioner, and those who operate computers. People, those who talk about 'fatherland' and 'sacrifice'!"
Bai Xiaolu didn't know what to say anymore, he really wasn't a very chatty person.
"Forget it, don't talk about me."
The golden tooth boss waved his hand dejectedly, "What about you, brat, besides the elder brother who shares the same body with you, what relatives do you have, where are your parents?"
"I also have a twin sister, she's normal, I mean she's separate from us, but she's not doing well right now, and as for the parents—"
Bai Xiaolu shouldn't have said this, but he hesitated for a while, and said it anyway, "Our mother died very early, just like many women in the wasteland. As for the father, we, we don't have a father."
"You don't know who your father is?"
The golden tooth boss smiled, "It's okay, it's normal, nine out of ten children in the wasteland don't know who their father is."
"no."
Bai Xiaolu shook his head, "We either 'don't know who our father is' or 'we don't have a father', at least that's what my mother said when she was alive."
"What's the meaning?"
The golden tooth boss wondered, "What do you mean 'no father'?"
"Near the village where we live together, a very strange meteorite fell a long time ago. The plants near the meteorite grow very lush, and there are often many strange and small animals that have never been seen before."
Bai Xiaolu said, "One time my mother strayed into the depths of the 'meteorite forest', she seemed to have slept under the meteorite, and when she came back... there was us."
"what!"
The golden tooth boss couldn't help laughing out loud.
"We also found it ridiculous and wondered why my mother would make up such a lie."
The white deer blushed and said, "This kind of thing is very common in the wilderness - people are always born like wild animals, die like wild animals, and reproduce like wild animals. Nine out of ten children don't know who their father is. What does it matter? At least, there must be a father. I really don't understand why my mother would tell such a lie. It's not a shameful thing.
"My sister and I have repeatedly asked our mother—it doesn't matter who it is, we can accept who it is, even if she doesn't remember, at least tell us that there is a father, and we will be satisfied.
"But my mother insisted that there was no such person, she got pregnant only after touching the meteorite, and said that our three brothers and sisters were all 'sons of the meteorite', really, alas, she became a little crazy after that, and died not long after.
"You know, Boss, there was a time when I hated my mother so much, hated the crazy things she said, why did she have to fool us with such ridiculous jokes? Why did she have to say we 'didn't have a father'
"If we have a father, even if we don't know who he is, we can imagine that he may be an invincible hero, or he may be a villain who does evil but is very powerful, an evil and terrifying devil king, a wanderer The passer-by, or the handsome underground tribe, that's fine, right, that's fine.
"But, 'son of the meteorite'? A piece of broken rock that fell from the sky! This joke is not funny at all!"
"It's not funny."
Jinya said, "But don't hate your mother, maybe she has some difficulties."
"Of course, we don't hate her long ago, we just think she is very pitiful."
Bai Xiaolu sighed, "Anyway, we have nothing in the wasteland, even if we don't have a 'father', it doesn't matter."
Having said that, the two fell silent again, not knowing what to say.
Perhaps it was a coincidence that their eyes were cast on the center of the carpet at the same time, the "Strong Chess" played by Old John and his son.
His eyes were very sticky, and he couldn't break free for a long time.
"Little ghost, if one day you find your father."
Gold tooth old road, "What and what do you want to tell him?"
"I don't know, what about you?"
Bai Xiaolu shook his head, "If you found your child, what would you say and do to him?"
"I don't know either. I never thought of such a thing. They should have died a long time ago."
The golden tooth boss finally withdrew his gaze, exhaled a foul breath, and waved his hands weakly, "You should rest, and I should also take a good rest."
"… it is good."
Bai Xiaolu struggled to move his footsteps, and moved inch by inch to the door. He stood for a long time holding onto the door frame, then suddenly turned around and said in a trembling voice, "Boss, boss, is "Strong Hand Chess" fun?"
"… Maybe."
The golden tooth boss sat up and looked at Bai Xiaolu, "Maybe it's fun."
"Then, can you teach me how to play?"
Bai Xiaolu felt that he was about to cry.
He thought that the golden tooth boss would refuse, or at least hesitate.
Unexpectedly, the lines of the golden tooth boss became soft all of a sudden.
"Come here, brat."
The golden tooth boss waved, smiled, and tapped on the carpet beside him, "Sit down, I'll teach you how to play."
…
They played "Strong Hand Chess" for a long time.
I agreed to only play one game, but in the end I played one game after another. Probably "Strong Hands Chess" is really fun.
"This is the 'opportunity card', and this is the 'public fund card'. When you reach this question mark, you have to draw a card, understand?"
"Ha, I own the waterworks and the railroad, and you're dead, kid!"
"In this way, if you buy all three plots of the same color in this way, the rent can be doubled, isn't it, boss? Then you have to pay me, isn't it, boss?"
"Hey, hey, escape card!"
"What, what, and income tax? There is such a thing!"
"I won, I won again this time, right, boss, hahahaha, boss?"
They played game after game, and the two chess pieces wandered and wandered on the "streets" that had long been turned into ruins. They possessed and lost again and again. Purgatory.
"Come again, come again!"
The boy was blushing, waved the toy banknotes and land deeds, and shouted excitedly, "I will beat you this time!"
This time, the golden tooth boss spread his fingers, held the chess pieces and dice, and shook his head at the boy.
"Enough, kid, it's over."
The golden tooth boss smiled, his voice hoarse.
Bai Xiaolu was stunned, the smile and blush on his face gradually froze, stiffened, and dissipated.
"Can't we play another game? Just one game!"
The boy begged, and he wanted to cry again.
"If you play another round, it will still be over."
Boss Jinya spread his palms, let the chess pieces and dice roll and collide in his palms, and murmured, "Everything is coming to an end. Listen, the music is over."
The singing of "Yesterday Reappeared" stopped at some point, and in the small living room, only the boy was left sobbing uncontrollably.