Ji Ting fixed his eyes on him, and took a long breath: "Shen Tuchuan, are you still human? In order to let your parents enjoy the blessings in the base, you choose me to go with you?"
"Let's go then?" Shen Tuchuan looked at her calmly.
Ji Ting laughed: "Let's go, I can't wait."
The corners of Shen Tuchuan's lips curled up a little, and he reached out to rub her hair: "Pack up your things."
Ji Ting nodded, found out all his things, and packed them in only half an hour. It was not time to go to bed at this moment, and the two of them sat by the bed facing a large bag of luggage on the ground, and suddenly fell silent.
After a while, Shen Tuchuan broke the silence: "Leave a note for your parents, or they will worry."
"Hmm..." Ji Ting responded softly, took out a pen and paper and sat down at the desk, not knowing what to write for a long time.
Seeing her not moving, Shen Tuchuan said calmly after a long silence: "Tell them to take care of their health. We will come back to see them when we have a chance."
"...Okay." Ji Ting pursed her lips and wrote as he said, and her eyes began to turn sore as she wrote.
She is an orphan, and she has never felt the love of her elders since she was a child. She did not expect to meet her parents who were very good to her after going through the book. After more than a year of getting along, she has long regarded Shentu Shu and Jiang Yu as her own. Parents are gone, and now you have to be separated from them, it is inevitable that you will feel sad.
She sniffed, and although the movement was slight, it was very clear in the quiet room. Shen Tuchuan moved his fingertips, but in the end he didn't come forward to comfort her, nor did he say anything to ask her to stay.
For him, Ji Ting is completely different from his parents. No matter how long it takes, parents are still parents, and their love for him will not be reduced by half, but Ji Ting is different, she is too young, once he keeps her in the base, I am afraid she will forget him in a short time, and then marry someone else have children.
As long as he thought that there might be another man next to her in the future, he would start to feel impetuous. Shen Tuchuan stared fixedly at Ji Ting's back, his eyes were full of possessiveness.
The hands of the clock on the wall slowly slid, and when Ji Ting's mood gradually calmed down, the letter had already been written. She carefully folded the letter into a rectangle, and pressed it on the most conspicuous place on the table with a cup, so that Jiang Yu and the others could Find it immediately.
After doing all this, it was already eleven o'clock in the evening. Shen Tuchuan walked up to her and put his hand on her shoulder: "Go to sleep for a while, and I will call you when you leave."
"Um."
Ji Ting obediently followed him to the bed and lay down, squeezed his fingers with one hand and closed his eyes. Although he was not sleepy, he forced himself to fall asleep. When she was sleeping, she was worried for a moment that Shen Tuchuan would leave alone while she was asleep, but after thinking about it, this person was reluctant to leave her in the base for a blind date and marriage, so he must take her away.
She thought about Shen Tuchuan for a while, and her parents for a while, her mind was in chaos, and even when she fell asleep, she didn't sleep well. After an unknown amount of time, she woke up suddenly, and when she opened her eyes, she found that there was no one beside her.
Ji Ting was in a mess for a moment, jumped out of bed barefoot and searched the house, but found nothing, she rushed out the door in a panic.
When she was about to grab the doorknob, a sudden force strangled her waist, and she flew into the air in the next second. Sensing the bitter coldness of the person behind him, Ji Ting suddenly relaxed, and then a burst of anger rose: "Why did you go?!"
"I went out for a while," Shen Tuchuan said, putting her on the bed, looking at her red feet, and frowned displeasedly, "Who told you not to wear shoes in such a cold day?"
"If you didn't disappear, I would be so anxious that I forgot to put on my shoes?" Ji Ting looked at him coldly, obviously his anger still persisted.
Shen Tuchuan paused for a moment, then turned around and closed the window he jumped over just now, blocking the cold wind outside: "I'm sorry, I didn't expect you to wake up suddenly." After speaking, he took her feet and put them in his arms.
Ji Ting paused, and her anger subsided a lot. She pursed her lips and pulled her feet back: "Forget it, you don't even have body temperature, the more you cover it, the colder it gets."
Shen Tuchuan saw that she had calmed down, and looked at the clock on the wall: "It's almost two o'clock, let's go."
"Now?" Ji Ting hesitated.
Shen Tuchuan looked at her: "When do you want?"
"...No, I just think it's a bit too fast," Ji Hearing sighed after finishing, "Forget it, now is the best time to leave, Mom and Dad must not sleep well tonight, I guess we should get up before dawn gone."
She wasn't ready yet, but if she didn't leave at this time, she might not be able to leave.
Shen Tuchuan glanced at her, and helped her put on her socks without saying a word, Ji Ting took a deep breath, and started to put on her clothes on her own initiative. It took less than ten minutes for the two of them to pack up and jump out of the window.
When sitting in the driver's seat, Ji Ting was still in a trance, feeling that all this was like a dream, but the cold air, the closed street lights, the empty base square at the moment, and the co-pilot sitting next to him Shen Tuchuan told her that she was not dreaming, and that she was indeed leaving this place where she had lived for more than a year.
She took a deep breath, held the steering wheel with one hand, and was about to start the car when there was a sudden commotion, and then she saw a faint fire in the northwest direction. Realizing that it was the direction of the research institute, Ji Ting unbuckled his seat belt and was about to jump out of the car, but the moment he opened the door, Shen Tuchuan grabbed his wrist.
She froze for a moment, and then it was as if a bolt of lightning struck her mind, and she suddenly understood: "You set the fire?!"
"No." Shen Tuchuan said flatly.
Ji heard that Yan Xuanqi's heart relaxed a little, but before he could speak, he heard Shen Tuchuan add: "It was made by the zombie I saved yesterday."
Ji Ting forgot to breathe for a moment, and said with difficulty for a long time: "Why..."
"That research institute has been developing medicine to eliminate zombies, right?" Shen Tuchuan was a little annoyed. According to the plan, the fire in the research institute should have happened after they left, but the fire spread as soon as they got in the car.
Although he was upset, Shen Tuchuan reluctantly explained: "Once those medicines are developed, they will attack indiscriminately. At that time, all zombies will die, including me. I will not let them succeed."
The noise in the ear was getting louder and louder, many people heard the movement and ran out of the house, holding tools and running towards the research institute, and Ji Ting's vehicle was like a lifeless sculpture at the moment, watching indifferently This human self-help.
Although he has always known that the degenerate Shen Tuchuan has stood on the opposite side of human beings, but when there is a day of confrontation, Ji Ting still has a bitter taste in his mouth. The people in this base have survived untold hardships, and everyone has flesh and blood. She can no longer treat them as NPCs in a novel. Now watching them rushing towards the fire scene, the pain in her heart cannot be expressed .
"Those materials are their hope..." Ji Ting's voice was hoarse.
Shen Tuchuan looked at her calmly: "I am also the hope of all zombies."
"But... didn't you say that they are to you what monkeys are to humans?" Ji Ting looked at him intently.
"But now the zombies are beginning to evolve wisdom."
Shen Tuchuan's words were like a bomb falling on Ji Ting's ear, Ji Ting's ears roared, and it took a long time before he could barely hear his own voice asking: "What did you say?"
"They have already begun to become intelligent. With intelligent monkeys, can humans still treat them as monkeys?" Shen Tuchuan said, his eyes turned slightly cold, "It's not a day or two for them to appear intelligent. The so-called Dr. Li in your mouth must know better than me, but he still uses them for experiments and uses them to the utmost."
"When did it happen? It wasn't a large-scale evolution, otherwise I wouldn't have known about it." Ji Ting panicked.
Shen Tuchuan looked at her: "No, only those that are closer to me have evolved."
... so it's just that the research zombies in the base have evolved? Ji Ting heaved a sigh of relief, then realized his own reaction, and couldn't help laughing bitterly. Under the premise that the situation had gotten so bad, she actually didn't think it was too bad.
Shen Tuchuan noticed her reaction, and there was sarcasm in his eyes: "Zombies have no wisdom, are you relieved?"
"... They are intelligent, which is not a good thing for human beings." Although Ji Ting answered frankly, he was still a little embarrassed in front of the zombie king.
Shen Tuchuan glanced at her, and calmly looked at the dwindling flames ahead: "According to the trend of evolution, after gaining wisdom, it will not be long before they recover their memories. When they have a complete emotional system, they will remember their own Are your family and friends considered complete zombies?"
Humans hate zombies, because they lost their family and friends because of zombies, but they never thought that zombies were once human beings, and becoming zombies was not what they wanted. Even if he was saving his family one second before becoming a zombie, once he became a zombie, he would become an enemy of his family in an instant.
Human beings are simply the most hypocritical existence. A sarcasm flashed in Shen Tuchuan's eyes.
"No..." In the silence, Ji Ting said slowly, "The moment a human being transforms, he is actually completely dead. Even if the zombies later develop wisdom and remember everything when they were human, they can only move. corpses, their bodies will still rot, and they will still have the urge to destroy when facing living people... "
"You mean, you have always regarded me as a moving corpse?" Shen Tuchuan interrupted her in a cold voice.
Ji Ting was silent for a moment, and smiled bitterly: "It's not a corpse, and it's not the same as before." She loves Shen Tuchuan, no matter what he becomes, she loves him, but she has to admit that the former one was kind-hearted and self-sacrificing. He is really gone.
Shen Tuchuan heard the meaning of her words, and a burst of anger suddenly rushed into his heart. He grabbed Ji Ting's collar suddenly, lifted his foot to the driver's seat and held her down: "Why, you haven't left yet, Do you regret it? Do you think I'm not as good as before, or did you suddenly see my true colors?"
"...Xiao Chuan, I'm just a little sad." Unlike his raging anger, Ji Ting's voice was soft, and she didn't reject him at all. Until this time, she still expressed her sadness to him very frankly.
The watery light in the corner of her eyes was like a bullet, hitting Shen Tuchuan's heart hard, and the anger was drawn out along the hole of the bow, no matter how unwilling it was. He hugged Ji Ting weakly, put all his strength on her, and gave himself out without reservation.
After a while, he whispered in Ji Ting's ear: "Let's go to a secluded place where no one is around. As long as we stay away from the zombies, they will not be affected by me, and they will not evolve again. As for the rest, we will leave it to fate." Bar."
If fate wants human beings to perish, then no matter whether there is him or not, human beings will perish. If fate is not right, then human beings will find new ways to kill all the zombies that no longer evolve.
"Okay..." Ji Ting agreed softly, covering his back with both hands, and patted him gently like coaxing a child.
Shen Tuchuan closed his eyes, surrounded by the faint scent of lemon, and gradually relaxed himself. For the first time, he felt lazy, he didn't want to do anything, he just wanted to be hugged by her like this, but after a short hug, he noticed that Ji Ting froze suddenly.
He looked up at Ji Ting, paused after seeing the astonishment in her eyes, and turned to see Jiang Yu outside the car.
Shen Tuchuan was silent for a moment, then got out of the car.
"All the materials of the research institute were destroyed, Dr. Li's research for more than a year was destroyed, did you do it?" Jiang Yu's voice trembled slightly when he asked this sentence.
Shen Tuchuan didn't deny it, but just looked at her calmly.
Jiang Yu's eyes turned red, and she slapped him on the face. As soon as Ji Ting got out of the car, she heard a crisp sound, and hurriedly ran over to stand in front of Shen Tuchuan: "Mom, calm down, Xiaochuan, Xiaochuan..."
"You know this too, right... You, you, didn't intend to separate from the beginning. What you promised me yesterday was all lying to me. You planned to leave together from the beginning, right..." Jiang Yu looked at her , Ji Ting suddenly lost his voice, Jiang Yu was stunned for a moment, and his expression suddenly became painful, "Listen! Why have you become indistinguishable from right and wrong?! Dr. Li's research can save all mankind, but now it is all ruined! "
"...but that medicine will kill Xiao Chuan." Ji Ting said in a low voice.
Jiang Yu roared in pain: "I would rather he is dead than be a traitor to mankind!"
After she finished talking about Shentu Shu, she ran over, paused for a moment when she saw Ji Ting and Shen Tuchuan, supported Jiang Yu with a cold face, and said indifferently to Shen Tuchuan: "The surveillance at the research institute shows that it was a zombie who did it. Yes, no one has found your trace... You go, this time your mother and I can say nothing out of conscience, but only this time, from today onwards, we will pretend that we never gave birth to you. One day we meet on the battlefield, and we will show no mercy to you."
"Dad..." Ji Ting took a step forward.
Shen Tushu looked at her: "Are you going to go with him?"
Ji Ting bit his lip, acquiescing.
"Okay, you can go too, take care of yourself," Shentu said expressionlessly, and his voice was extremely indifferent, but his eyes were filled with water, "From now on... don't come back again."
Ji Ting's hands clenched tightly into fists, and tears fell down like broken beads. She silently hugged Shentu for a while, and then hugged Jiang Yu. Jiang Yu, who was originally suppressing her emotions, sobbed, and hugged Ji Ting tightly in her arms.
"Mom is sorry for you... Mom is sorry for you..." She repeated this sentence over and over, and couldn't say anything else.
Ji couldn't help shaking his head, sobbed and told Jiang Yu a few words, and then let go of her: "Dad, Mom, you must live well, you must live well..."
"Let's go!" Jiang Yu turned away cruelly.
Ji Ting cried and walked to Shen Tuchuan's side, and gently held his hand. Shen Tuchuan, who had been indifferent from the beginning, bent his knees after moving his Adam's apple, solemnly kowtowed to the elder opposite him a few times, and then pulled Ji Ting and turned around to get into the car.
When Ji Ting started the car, her eyes were blurred and she could hardly see the road ahead. She needed to wipe away her tears in order to drive normally.
The car slowly drove out of the base and headed towards an unknown direction. Ji Ting didn't know where the destination was, but just kept driving in one direction.
After his mood stabilized a little, Ji Ting glanced at the silent Shen Tuchuan next to him, and asked softly after a long time: "Are you sad?"
"I don't know," Shen Tuchuan looked at the front lightly, "it's just a little boring, a little empty, and a little lost in direction."
Ji Ting held his hand, and forced a smile for a long while: "It's the first time I'm so glad you don't have an emotional system." Without emotions, there is no need for too much pain.
Shen Tuchuan interlocked her fingers and did not speak for a long time.
The car kept driving forward, and when it was tired, it stopped directly on the side of the road to rest, and continued to drive after the rest. At first, Ji Ting was worried about Shen Tuchuan's driving skills, so he kept driving by himself. Later, when he couldn't hold on anymore, he handed over the steering wheel to him, and he lay down on the co-pilot to sleep.
She hardly slept all night, and fell asleep as soon as she closed her eyes. Before going to sleep, she saw the sun hanging in the air, and when she woke up, she found that it was still in that position.
"Why can't you fall asleep?" Ji Ting looked at the sun lazily, feeling extremely confused for a moment.
Shen Tuchuan glanced at her: "It's been almost twenty-four hours, and you still haven't fallen asleep?"
Ji Ting paused, and when he understood what he meant, he was a little surprised: "I slept all day and all night?"
Shen Tuchuan stopped the car: "It's up to you to drive."
"...you won't be tired, why do you let me drive?" Ji Ting muttered, but still changed places with him.
Shen Tuchuan leaned on the seat relaxedly: "You have been sleeping for so long, move your eyes."
Ji Ting pouted and continued to drive forward. The two of them drove day and night alternately like this. If they encountered a gas station on the way, they would try their best to fill up the gas and continue on.
After driving for nearly ten days, the two finally arrived at a sparsely populated city. They did not choose to go to the city, but went directly to a wider countryside, hoping to find a place where there were no zombies or humans.
It's not easy to find this kind of place. At least the first few days when the two arrived in this city, they found nothing. Just when Ji Ting felt discouraged and the dry food they brought was almost finished, the two found a plantation .
The plantation is full of greenhouses. Except for the ones that were crushed by the snow, the others are all in good condition. When Ji Ting and Shen Tuchuan entered, the crops inside grew wildly. What surprised Ji Ting the most was that there There are also many animals such as chickens and pigs.
Ji Ting turned around and understood what was going on. There were few employees here, and most of them degenerated into zombies after the outbreak of the zombie wave. Since there are many greenhouses here, and the temperature inside the sheds is relatively high, it is not as hard to rot as the zombies outside, and has long since turned into bones.
As for those chickens, ducks and pigs, because no one has been feeding them, they broke through the fence, ran directly into the plantation house, and found the feed warehouse to eat and drink, so they have survived until now.
Ji Ting went to check the feed warehouse. Most of them were wheat and corn. Things that were not rare before seemed so precious now.
"I think this place is tailor-made for us." Ji Ting was so moved that he almost burst into tears.
Shen Tuchuan glanced at her: "Are you so happy?"
"Of course, you've seen what we usually eat, even the pigs here are inferior," Ji Hearing swallowed, "Speaking of pigs, I haven't eaten pork since the zombie wave started. , I'm so hungry."
Shen Tuchuan paused: "Have you eaten before the zombie wave?"
Just as Ji Ting wanted to say that of course he ate it, he heard Shen Tuchuan say quietly: "At that time, the price of pork went up, and the school cafeteria didn't even have ribs, and the only pork buns left were more than twice as expensive."
Although he can't resonate with the previous memories now, he still has instinctive resentment when he mentions the days when he didn't eat ribs.
Ji Ting, who had the same experience, expressed deep sympathy: "It's okay, now we have a lot of pigs and spare ribs for you to eat, so I'll just make some braised pork and crispy pork."
"I don't eat now." Shen Tuchuan gave her a sideways glance.
Ji Ting: "..." That's right.
She feigned embarrassment for a moment, then said falsely: "Then what should I do, just let me eat by myself?"
"If you know how to butcher pigs." Shen Tuchuan said calmly.
Ji Ting paused for a moment before realizing that the road ahead is full of difficulties. But she is not worried, after all...
"What do you think I'm doing? I won't help you." Shen Tuchuan said seriously.
Ji Ting laughed: "Well, I know." Even if some people become zombies, they are quite duplicity.
After admiring the property that the family now owns, the two went to the small villa on the plantation together, buried all the bones inside, and then started cleaning.
Although no one has been here for more than a year, the house is not too dirty, and the two of them cleaned it up quickly.
Ji Ting collapsed on the sofa, looked at this well-decorated small villa, and said for a while: "I knew it would be so smooth when I came out, so I brought my parents along."
Shen Tuchuan sat down beside her: "Parents probably won't leave the base," he paused after speaking, "I burnt down the research institute, they feel ashamed, so they will stay to protect the base."
Ji Ting didn't want to mention this matter again, so he put his legs on his knees, thought for a while and said: "Xiao Chuan, you see, we have settled down here, should we think about other things? "
"What?" Shen Tuchuan's attention was indeed attracted.
Ji Ting looked serious: "I have nothing to do anyway, why don't we take advantage of this time to give birth to a little zombie."
"..."
The author has something to say: Speaking of pork... My biggest dream at the moment is to eat a pork rib stewed winter melon...