"Yeah." There were indeed people. Liu Chang's eyesight had greatly improved after the drug catalyzed it. Through the cracks in the trees, he could see a few people more than a hundred meters away—several women, all aged between forty and Between the ages of fifty.
"It looks like a rural woman in the suburbs." Li Qingshui observed more carefully. A person's temperament can reveal his character and origin, especially in front of a person like Li Qingshui who is very capable of collecting and analyzing micro information. , you can see your situation in the past twenty years at a glance.
"En." Liu Chang listened to Li Qingshui's words, and nodded - the women in front really looked like rural women with a low level of education in the outskirts of the city. Knowledge and cognition concept.
After all, after the apocalypse, schools almost no longer exist, and things such as Internet, computer, and TV to communicate with the outside world do not exist. Therefore, what people are usually like before the apocalypse is still the same after the apocalypse, and nothing has changed.
Walking closer, Liu Chang and Li Qingshui both set their sights on this group of ordinary women - it stands to reason that such women are very common and should not attract their attention, but they still stopped here for a long time.
Because of what these women did.
"They are picking willow fruits." Standing 20 meters away from several women, Liu Chang and Li Qingshui stopped in place - along the way, they were in the willow forest, and they did not see the last raid in Jinan The bright red apple-like fruit picked by the team members. Liu Chang originally thought that this fruit was originally a trap for the willow tree to target humans, so it should grow around the city.
Now, as expected, they saw large patches of bright red fruits around Cangzhou City.
"It's only been a few days, and people have already started to eat willow fruit!" Liu Chang imagined that there would be a lot of fruit around the city, and that many people would eat this kind of fruit in the near future, but what he didn't expect was that , this "future" will come so fast!
"It shouldn't be. When the willow tree came, there should be a lot of movement. These people should be terrified. Unexpectedly, in less than a month, some people stopped being afraid of these willow branches and started eating willow trees. This kind of situation reminded Liu Chang of going to the countryside to catch small animals when he was a child, as long as the animals were really hungry, he would eat what you sprinkled, regardless of whether it was dangerous or not.
Unexpectedly, the same goes for people.
"In their values, it's good to be able to live, and it's understandable not to think about such a long-term thing." Li Qingshui looked at several women picking fruits, and shook his head, "What's more, these willow fruits are very important For them, there is really no danger for the time being. Let's go into the city to see how popular this fruit is and what's going on underground."
"Well, there is no grass growing on the other side. This is different from the situation in Shandong." Liu Chang nodded - when they entered the willow forest from the ordinary jungle in Shandong, although there was a fairly clear dividing line between the tree species , but the other side of the willow grove is not barren.
"There are roots of willow trees under the city, but they just haven't grown branches." Li Qingshui walked out of the jungle and stepped on the "desolate" land that is rarely seen after the end of the world, and said, "It only takes a few minutes to grow branches again. Then in the blink of an eye, the whole city can be destroyed!"
The two talked, walked out of the jungle to a "sunny" place outside, and then walked a few hundred meters away from the "dividing line" and entered the outskirts of Cangzhou.
Liu Chang had never been to Cangzhou before, and he had only seen it on a map, so he didn't know whether the dilapidated house he came to was the suburb of Cangzhou City or a small county town around it, but it didn't matter, he and Li Qingshui came to Here we mainly look at the local conditions and customs of ordinary human beings under the area "covered" by willow trees.
Because these customs represent the attitude of the willow tree to human beings—and the attitude of the middle and lower class residents to the giant willow tree.
After walking all the way to the outskirts of the city, Liu Chang found that this place, like other places after the end of the world, is a lackluster place - the shape and style of the houses still retain the appearance before the end of the world, but after five years of natural and man-made destruction, although here The building has not changed, but it is much, much dilapidated than it was five years ago.
Apart from the collapsed houses and the broken signboards, there are also relatively few people—Cangzhou used to be a large and medium-sized city with a population of more than six million. Now, Liu Chang only saw three or two kittens along the way. The population of the city is also ten to nine out of ten.
After walking two or three kilometers forward, Li Qingshui and Liu Chang finally came to a place that was fairly prosperous. The two walked from the periphery of the city to a place that looked like a fringe commercial street. There was a small water fountain here. Square—Of course the fountain has already been broken, and half of the sculpture on the fountain has fallen off. You can only see a statue of a beautiful woman with half of her butt exposed and only her lower body.
"There's someone up there!" Sniffing his nose in the cold wind, Liu Chang pointed to the circular building at the end of the commercial street. More than half of the building's signboard had fallen off, and a faint "Is it right" could be seen under the lower half of the signboard? "Word, it looks like it should have been an Internet cafe before.
"There are a lot of people inside, about several hundred." Liu Chang smelled the human smell in the air and said: "After all, it is an inland city, no matter how depressed it is, the survival rate of people is still much higher than that of seaside cities!"
When Liu Chang went to Qingdao for the first time, he walked for several blocks to find a small tribe with only a few hundred people, and even a few scattered people were missing. But now in Cangzhou, not only idle people can be seen on the streets, but there are also many small communities.
After all, after the apocalypse, the living environment on the seaside is ten times worse than that in the inland area, and those who are a little bit capable have fled. Therefore, when Liu Chang first arrived in Qingdao a few months ago, it almost became an empty city—and here in Cangzhou. , Even if the willow trees have been covered, there should still be hundreds of thousands of people left.
"Go in and have a look." Li Qingshui said, and took the lead to walk towards the prototype Internet cafe building at the end of the fountain square.
The prototype building is divided into three floors, and there should be an underground floor. It stands to reason that the weather is cold now, and the basement should be the most popular existence. However, when Liu Chang and the two walked to the door of the building, they found out that most of the people here actually They all live in the Internet cafe on the first and second floors of the building.
This community living in Internet cafes does not have guards to keep their hands outside—in fact, in the weather of minus 60 to 70 degrees outside, if an ordinary person keeps his hands outside for more than two hours, he will definitely freeze, so now except for the army, very few Few people can see the "guardian" outside the building.
So, facing the unguarded rolling gate, Liu Chang and Li Qingshui easily opened it, pushed the door and walked in.
The cold wind poured into the warm building, and Liu Chang saw groups of human beings warming up around the iron bucket inside.