Chi Xin put all his attention on the crystal clear tree in his hand, and felt that it looked so beautiful no matter how bright it was or how dark it was.
Jing Xiubai's voice came in and out of his left ear, and Chi Xin raised his head dully: "...What did you just say?"
"..." Jing Xiubai closed his mouth.
Probably not important.
Chi Xin didn't care much, she turned the angle and looked at it for a while, and then she happily put it away when she heard that Yu Xiang was looking for two people on the other side.
"Do you really like it?" Jing Xiubai wanted to stretch out his hand to push the bridge of his nose again, but this time he realized it ahead of time and put his hands on his sides stiffly, standing like a primary school student listening to the dean's instructions. .
Chi Xin nodded, "I've been in the apocalypse for so long, I almost forgot what life actually looks like."
"Life?"
"Drink afternoon tea, raise animals, and collect some pretty, little practical things." Chi Xin smiled, "I'm not talking about you being a tree."
Jing Xiubai was thoughtful.
"Cricket-Cricket-where are you?"
"coming!"
Chi Xin responded there, looking into Jing Xiubai's eyes, for the first time there was a sparkling light, like a little squirrel that found a pine cone.
She opened her mouth, just as Jing Xiu Bai Man was looking forward to it.
"So this is friendship?" Chi Xin said expectantly, "You good brother, I recognize it!"
"…?"
"Good Brother" Jing Xiubai looked at Chi Xin's face with the words "Praise me, praise me quickly", and was subtly silent.
The thin red on the ears gradually disappeared in this silence.
He was always taciturn, and Chi Xin didn't return, and thought happily that if the male protagonist really likes Congyun in the future, as Congyun's best friend, he might be able to help.
She waved her hand, threw Silent Jing Xiubai on the spot, returned to Yu Xiang's shout, and circled back in front of Mushroom.
"Where's Xiu Bai?" Yu Xiang tilted his head and looked back through Chi Xin, "What are you two talking about while hiding?"
Chi Xin was about to speak, but when he thought of Jing Xiu Bai's ears turning red, he thought that he probably rarely cared about his servants and was shy.
It's better for people to think about her, or not to expose other people's privacy. Chi Xin changed the conversation, "It's nothing, he just asked me if I didn't turn it on yet."
Hearing this, Jiang Congyun, who was making the bed in the tent, also showed his head and looked at her nervously.
Chi Xin looked at these two nervous faces, and then walked out slowly behind him. He had regained his calm expression, Jing Xiubai, as if a hot towel had been pasted inside, making the ironing hot.
"No." She gave a big smile.
It's not the mechanical ruthlessness during battle, nor the empty space that always looked at them from a distance when they were always away when they were with each other.
Chi Xin seems to have moved from legend to reality, from the omnipotent goddess of war among countless people to a normal person who can laugh and be sad.
"I'm very lucky to meet you in this world."
"I don't have any relatives anymore." Her voice, accompanied by the dark night wind over the Gobi Desert, lingered into the ears of several people, "You are the only thing that ties me up."
Jiang Congjun flew out of the tent like a homing swallow, and hugged Chi Xin's neck.
Chi Xin clearly saw that Yu Xiang coughed dryly and turned his face away, a glittering glitter flashed across his face.
"Okay, rest."
There was nothing wrong with Jing Xiubai's expression and tone, "We have to get up early tomorrow to find our way. Without the guidance of local people, it will be difficult for us to enter the city."
This is a bit unpleasant, but he is such a person, and what he said is reasonable, and everyone agrees.
Chi Xin took Jiang from his shoulders back to the tent, and the two men also walked towards their tent.
However, Chi Xin was about to get into the sleeping bag, and Yu Xiang's loud voice came from the other side.
"Xiu Bai! Why are you crying—?!"
Chi Xin stopped for a while and looked up in surprise, but couldn't see anything through the two layers of tents.
She was about to go out to have a look, when Jiang Congyun pulled her out at once.
"Don't go." Jiang Congjun sniffed, "If you don't go, he might be able to stop."
Chi Xin looked at her, her head full of shit.
The male protagonist's character design, is there a hidden crying bag
She didn't have any part in the vigil tonight. With this shocking doubt, Chi Xin fell asleep with a lot of worry, and when he woke up the next morning, he deliberately stared at Jing Xiubai a few times.
However, the male protagonist's face is like ice and snow, as handsome as ever, and he can't even see a red blood in his eyes.
Chi Xin can only sigh, it is indeed an artistic image, with unique physical fitness.
Chi Xin felt that she was more considerate and would not take the initiative to reveal other people's scars. Seeing that no one mentioned it, she swallowed the shock and continued on the road.
Only this time, after Jing Xiubai got into the car and put on his helmet honestly, Chi Xin coughed lightly and said to Yu Xiang, "Let's ride slower today."
As soon as these words came out, Yu Xiang felt like he had seen a ghost.
"Protect the vulnerable." Chi Xin muttered in a very low voice, and no matter what other people looked at her, he put on his helmet with a serious expression.
hum - hum -
Familiar with the sound of the accelerator, the two locomotives started at the same time, but this time, the speed was indeed much slower than usual.
Chi Xin was slightly relieved when he felt that his hands on his waist were finally tense.
Care for the disadvantaged group program, success.
However, although Chi Xin slowed down, due to her arrogance before, they only ran for about half a day, and Chi Xin's alarm system beeped.
At this time, the road was vast, with no end to the front and back, and no boundaries to the left and right. The only source of danger could only be that she was riding this car.
She sighed helplessly, made a gesture to Yu Xiang, and stopped the car on the side of the road.
"What's wrong?" Yu Xiang took off his helmet.
"I don't know, maybe the tire is finally scrapped."
Upon hearing this, Yu Xiang got out of the car immediately, bent over to take a look, and came to the conclusion, "It's really useless. Does anyone of you have spare tires?"
Chi Xin just wanted to speak, but suddenly she looked stagnant for a moment, and turned her head to look in the direction of the road ahead.
Several people already knew her well. Seeing her doing this, Jing Xiubai asked, "Anyone here?"
Chi Xin nodded, the sound was not quite right, it didn't look like a car, and it didn't look like a locomotive like them. It was light and trembling, and it sounded weird.
"Be vigilant." Jing Xiubai said.
Because the sound was very light, Chi Xin was not very far away when he could hear it, and within a few minutes, a trembling figure appeared on the road and ran towards him.
"That's... a little electric donkey?" Chi Xin stared at it for a long time and asked uncertainly.
"It seems so." Yu Xiang wasn't quite sure.
The man riding on the little electric donkey had apparently seen them, and he shook the handlebars, as if hesitating between turning around and running forward.
After this hesitation, the little electric donkey rushed forward a few meters, enough for the two parties to see each other clearly.
This is a thin and small man, with no age at all, with a dark monkey face on his face, a kind of roe-headed mouse-like feeling, which makes people uncomfortable.
Chi Xin frowned, leaned on his locomotive, and watched the other party approach.
In the apocalypse, it would be very strange to see a person traveling alone, not to mention that he was fully clothed, and although he was thin, his demeanor did not look like that of someone who had been starved and frozen for a long time.
Such people are often the most vigilant.
When the other party saw their appearance clearly, the hesitation between his eyebrows disappeared in an instant. He looked at the four people's faces for a moment, then glanced at the two locomotives, and his eyes flashed and became shrewd. and coveted.
The four of the pool core did not move.
Sure enough, this person did not continue to move forward, but stopped in front of several people. After these few steps, a smile had already been squeezed out of his face.
"Hello everyone." His voice was rough, "Why did so few people come to the Great Gobi Desert, are you looking for someone?"
"Yeah." Yu Xiang said with a smile, "This eldest brother sees you coming from the front, are you a local?"
Just like meeting passers-by before the end of the world, they spread out harmonious greetings.
Chi Xin, who needs to move her mouth, is not good at it, so she acted as a little mute, looked at them with her arms folded, and opened the edge of her windbreaker, revealing the black gun holster tied to her thigh.
The thin man glanced over there, his eyes did not change at all, with a cheerful look, he got out of the car and came to them.
"Meeting is fate, my name is Paleto, what do you call them?"
Yu Xiang grabbed his outstretched hand and said, "Hello, Big Brother Ba, my name is Yu Xiang, it's a pleasure to meet you."
Jing Xiubai coughed softly.
The smile on Barreto's face froze, "Brother, my name is Barreto, not Ba."
The smile on Yu Xiang's face was also stiff: "Oh, that's it."
Barletto looked away from him, looked at the two girls, and glanced at the locomotive leaning against the core of the pool, "Where are you looking for someone? I'm here. , I can point you in the right direction.”
Jiang Congjun continued: "We're looking for Umr. Brother Barreto, do you know which way to go?"
"Umr?" Paleto's eyes flickered, "Do you have any old friends there?"
"Yeah," Yu Xiang said, "My old uncle worked there before, but now our base has been destroyed, so I have no choice but to come to him."
Chi Xin glanced at Yu Xiang in astonishment, but he didn't expect him to have big eyebrows and big eyes, and he looked like a nonsense.
"Oh?" Barletto asked in a questioning tone, with a look of embarrassment on his face, "Look, my brother doesn't want to lie to you, after all, it's not easy for you young people to come here from thousands of miles, but now Now, as you all know, Umr is no longer the original Umr, and I can't tell if your uncle is still there."
"Is that so?" In Chi Xin's surprised eyes again, Jing Xiubai cooperated with a hint of anxiety, "We are all separated from our parents in the apocalypse, his uncle is our only hope, big brother, look... "
He was about to stop talking, showing a look of eagerness to ask for help, embarrassed to say it, like a jerky young man just entering the society.
"Yeah, yeah." Yu Xiang was even more worried about his concubine, "Brother, do your best, or show us the way first, no matter if anyone is still there, you have to go and have a look first."
They pretended to be so similar, plus Jiang Congyun had been shrinking back all the time, with a shy look that didn't dare to raise his head, and quickly dispelled Palerto's vigilance.
"That's it."
The smile on his face was a little more meaningful, and it was visibly relaxed to the naked eye. His eyes swept across the faces of Jing Xiubai and Yu Xiang, and just caught a glimpse of Chi Xin.
Chi Xinzheng was stunned by the acting skills of the protagonist group, his expression on his face was a little distorted before the panic and amazement.
It's an equally timid little girl. Barreto judged in his heart. Seeing that she was so frightened that she lost control of her face, even if she had a gun, she would still be useless.
"Brother, please help." Jing Xiubai pretended to be anxious, and took a step forward to grab Paleto's hand, "We've been going around here for several days, and we really can't find a way."
Paletto was startled, and immediately stepped back, unable to see the core when he looked up.
He was short, and his eyes were full of Jing Xiubai's shoulders.
He stiffened, "It's not impossible..."
"As long as I find my old uncle, I can give you any money!" Yu Xiang said immediately.
A look of contempt flashed in Paletto's eyes, "Young man, money is the most useless thing these days. It depends on what materials you have as a reward?"
At this point, he has gradually faded away from the pretense of the kind uncle, and his tone has become utilitarian and indifferent.
Seeing that he finally began to show his true colors, Chi Xin was relieved.
Just now they came and went with fake smiles, which gave her a headache, but this kind of conspiracy on the bright side was more suitable for her.
Jing Xiubai said calmly, "Then eldest brother, do you see...?"
Barletto's eyes showed undisguised covetousness, he strode over Jing Xiubai and touched Chi Xin's face.
"Ah, you have such good resources, so you have to know how to use them..."
At the same time as the air-conditioning behind him surged, Barletto saw Chi Xin smiling slightly at him in front of him.
Just as Chi Xin was about to kick off the head of a high-level zombie, he raised his leg and kicked Barreto's outstretched hand, but when he looked up, he saw Yu Xiang's hands swaying wildly from side to side.
This is the only living person they have met, and they can only ask him where Umr is located!
Chi Xin understood his anxiety, and the expression on his face changed instantly, from calm to pitiful and frightened.
"This eldest brother, did you mean—"
She didn't put down her raised legs, but twisted her body around half a circle as if she was shy.
Her leg kicked out in an instant and stumbled right under Paleto's feet.
"?!"
Paleto's site was unstable, and he leaned aside to the locomotive.
And this locomotive, before this, was equipped with many steel spikes.
"what-"
In Barreto's scream, the tip of a pointed cone poked straight at his eyeball.
Chi Xin let out a feigned surprise, moved the car slightly backwards, avoiding Paletto's key point, but left a deep hole in his hand.
"—Is this a modified locomotive?"
She bent down and looked at Paleto with a worried look on her face.
"you you… "
Paleto was speechless in pain. He covered his injured hand and looked at the others at random.
Jiang Congyun buried himself behind Yu Xiang, his shoulders trembling slightly.
Barletto looked at the girl who seemed to have been frightened and cried, and at the guilt and fear on Chi Xin's face, a ruthlessness flashed in his eyes.
He took a deep breath and stood up by himself.
"This locomotive can indeed be used as a reward." He said firmly.
"Oh, that's great."
Just as the scene just now didn't happen, Yu Xiang enthusiastically sold the locomotive, which had basically been scrapped, "Brother Barreto, as long as you take us to Umr, this locomotive will be yours!"
Barletto's face didn't have the kind smile he had before, he turned cold and stared at Chi Xin a few times.
Chi Xin clearly felt that his eyes swept past him like an awl, with guilt and cruelty.
In this regard, the pool core said-
"It's not a big problem."
She slowly rode the locomotive that was about to be scrapped, looked at the swaying little electric donkey in front, and whispered to Jing Xiubai behind, "I'm not afraid that he will be exposed, but I'm afraid that he has been pretending, I'm not smart, until Sometimes he hesitates and feels guilty for not blaming him."
Jing Xiubai didn't say a word, but under the hot weather, a strong cold air was released from him, making Chi Xin's back cool.
"Okay." Chi Xin knew that he was wrong, and rarely softened his tone, "I know I shouldn't be so impulsive to reveal my strength just now, I will pay attention later."
I don't know why, but Chi Xin felt that there was more air-conditioning behind.
She didn't dare to speak, so she shrank her neck and continued to walk forward with the mobile refrigerator in the car.
It has been proved that with the local people leading the way, the Gobi Desert, which looks the same everywhere, is indeed much easier to walk.
Whatever Barreto's purpose, he had to bring them back to his chassis before he could make the next move.
Chi Xin and the others acted dutifully as silly and sweet. No matter where Palerto went, they would never raise any objection, trying their best to minimize Palerto's vigilance.
Barletto really had no doubts, and even worried that a few people had run away in the middle of the journey, and he turned to look at them after walking for a while.
A towering and solemn ancient city wall appeared in front of him.
Most of the western borders are cities that have been inherited from ancient times. In order to preserve history and culture, people in this world deliberately did not remodel these ancient cities and still retain their original form.
"Come on, keep up," Barletto urged.
"Wait, big brother." Yu Xiang showed a worried look, "Should we just go like this? In case there are zombies inside..."
Paletto gave him a contemptuous look, "Young man, is this courage?"
Yu Xiang sneered: "It's not that I'm scared by zombies."
Barletto said: "Don't worry, there are only a few people here. Coupled with this big city wall, when the whole world is in a zombie crisis, we are still very safe. Now it is called the last pure land on earth. ."
Leaving aside what kind of person Paletto is, when he mentioned his hometown, the pride and bragging in his tone could not be concealed.
Chi Xin pouted in his heart.
If that "market" is really related to the laboratory, how could they allow the virus to break out in the city closest to them? That's not self-destruction.
Thinking of this, she cooperated with a look of amazement, turned her head to meet Jiang Congjun's eyes, and the two secretly made a "vomit" expression together.
Barreto didn't see it, and when he turned around, Chi Xin had returned to a well-behaved expression.
"Get out of the car, there is a detection person in front of you, follow the instructions."
Just like when I was at Base L before, someone was holding a detector in front of the heavy gate. I haven't seen this thing for a long time, and Chi Xin's eyes flashed with a hint of nostalgia.
When I first came to this world, the days are still vivid in my mind, Rong Feng, Xiao Li, Yang Yang... They don't know what's going on now.
"Drip." "Green."
The person in charge of the inspection was lazy, just glanced at a few new faces, and when he saw that it was Barreto who brought them, he couldn't help showing a bit of sympathy.
They entered Umr without a hitch.
Surprisingly, the life here seems to be no different from before the end of the world.
There were vendors on both sides of the road, and most of the various shops were open. The sign "Wushi Hotel" was still flashing with colorful neon lights, hanging in front of a building.
"Don't walk around, or you will provoke people you shouldn't, don't blame me for not reminding you." Paletto warned.
He naturally had two men to deal with, Chi Xin ignored him at all, and was looking around the city curiously.
Whether in the past or this life, this is the first time that Chi Xin has come to the city in the Gobi. Everything here retains the primitive and primitive flavor. The edges of the ancient earthen city walls are old and weathered, and some of them have become part of nature. , the feeling of incompleteness is more real.
This reminded her of the ancient city of Pompeii in the previous world.
"Umr is the largest city in the west, and its inheritance has been unbroken since ancient times. It is called 'living history' by inland people." Jing Xiubai whispered, "This place has always been very mysterious, and I always feel affectionate. It's not as simple as Paletto said, local people may have some means of making a living, so be careful."
"Understood." Chi Xin also replied in a low voice.
"What are you mumbling about?" Paletto glanced back at them. "We're here."
Chi Xin looked up, and they came to the "Wushi Hotel" that they had seen before.
"That, Big Brother Barreto." Yu Xiang sneered and said, "Since we have entered Umr, we should go to my old uncle, so we won't go and sit."
There was a weird smile on Barreto's face.
"Don't worry." He said, "Brother, you don't know something, we have an organization, but today Umr is the largest organization with the most people. Maybe your uncle is in our organization? Or take a step back, we There are so many people, so I can help you find someone."
His fox tail became more and more lazy to cover it, and Chi Xin looked at each other.
At this time, several men in the Wushi Hall saw them and immediately came out to check.
"Barreto?" One of the men with a cigarette raised his eyebrows, his eyes fell on the four Chi Xin and the locomotive beside them, his face changed instantly, "Where did you find it...?"
"Hey, Lao Diao, I'll talk about this later." Barletto winked, "These children want to find someone, let's help them."
"Looking for someone?" Lao Diao glanced at him with a half-smile, sneered, took off the cigarette, and threw it on the soles of his feet to crush it, "Okay, let's come first."
"Brother Barreto, let's go directly, it's nothing, right?" Yu Xiang said tremblingly.
The eyes of the men around them fell on them, and it was no different from looking at a naked lamb waiting to be slaughtered.
The corner of Chi Xin's mouth twitched, but fortunately, she was already familiar with pretending to be weak, and in order to pretend to be more like, she followed Jiang Congyun's way, grabbing Jing Xiubai's clothes and shrinking behind him.
Lao Diao took them to the hotel elevator, and in the small space, he asked with a half-smile, "Looking for someone?"
"Yes." Yu Xiang said, "Find my uncle."
Lao Diao laughed and stopped talking.
The elevator arrives at the floor.
This hotel also looks very period, at least in Chixin's impression, it seems that it will only be decorated in the 1990s.
The lower half of the wall is dark green, and the upper half is white. The posters in the style of Hong Kong Stars that have been greatly faded are haphazardly pasted on the wall, covering the spider web-like cracks behind.
It doesn't look like a place to do good things.
Chi Xin withdrew his gaze and followed Jing Xiubai in a proper manner, hanging down, only her and Jing Xiubai's legs were moving back and forth.
"Squeak."
Lao Diao opened an old wooden door.
The moment he saw the people inside, Chi Xin clearly felt that Jing Xiubai's back was upright and stiff, and even though he quickly returned to normal, this momentary strangeness still made Chi Xin's heart shudder.
Something unexpected happened.
Just as she thought so, Yu Xiang's surprised voice had already sounded over there.
"Boss Lin?"