A candle was lit in the living room as the only lighting tool. The light in the room was very dim, and the faces of the people sitting in the room flickered because of the candlelight.
"You mean you want to attract all these teenagers?" The third brother held an unlit cigarette in his hand. He was extraordinarily graceful in this respect. He would never light a cigarette in a room with a lady present. He stared at the Cheng Ming: "We have discussed this before. Our current conditions are even worse than that time. Gu Ning's space has been closed, which means that we have lost a lot of materials. All our materials now support Not long."
No one else spoke, Gu Ning lowered his eyes, thoughtful.
Cheng Ming pursed his lips tightly, moved his mouth a few times, and said, "Is there really no other way?"
"Wu Sen can already go out with us. He He and Zuo Zuo performed very well at the gate of the base a few days ago. There are a few other children in the group that are also good. They can be taken out after a while." Gu Ning, who was silent, suddenly said something that seemed to have nothing to do with what they were discussing, then changed the subject, and said to the third brother: "How about setting up a youth reserve team? With a one-month deadline, we will discuss with other juniors. Do training with the children, and let them become official players if they pass the assessment. Before becoming an official team member, board and lodging... "
Gu Ning paused. Although he was indoors, the big man like Shi Luolong was still wearing a padded jacket, but the boy named Li Yi was still wearing a thin autumn coat. With such freezing weather and lack of sunshine, those skinny teenagers would definitely not be able to survive the long winter. Moreover, in such weather, how difficult is it for these teenagers to go out to find food by themselves? But the hand that had been frozen red still stubbornly returned the supplies that could support him for a long time in this cold winter... Gu Ning remembered those stubborn black eyes, and then said: "Talk to the management Let me tell you, rent the empty house on the second floor to us, and then let them move indoors. As for the supplies, even if we add these people, our supplies are enough to survive this winter. There shouldn’t have been excessive raids in the west area, after a period of adjustment, we can go out and collect some supplies and come back.”
There was silence in the room.
Sister Hong paused the knitting in her hands, raised her head and said, "There are more than 100,000 people in this base, even if there are orphans of this age who are unattended, let alone tens of thousands, there must be one or two thousand. We are Do we need all of them or just these few? If there are more people, our supplies will not last long. When we were in good condition, we did not admit new people. Now we need to add new people. I think we need to think about whether It's not affordable." Sister Hong didn't directly object, but raised a problem that cannot be ignored, but seriously, she still disagrees with Gu Ning's decision.
"Why don't you make a compromise?" Papa Gu said, "Before we became an official team member, we only provided accommodation for those children. We didn't provide supplies. We can only help one person. We just try our best. What do you think?"
Cheng Ming said: "For a while now, they can save some supplies by helping to move zombies outside. The base occasionally releases some tasks that they can do to earn supplies. Basically, we don't need to bear anything in this regard."
The gauze on Jia Daochang's head had already been taken off, and he made a fur hat somewhere to wear it, and said, "We brought all these small ones here, and I'm not afraid to bring a few more."
Zhong Xu, who had been silent all this time, suddenly smiled and said: "If my brother is still alive, I also hope that there will be such a team that can help him."
After silence.
The third brother patted his thigh and stood up: "Then it's settled. Xiaobai Cheng Ming, you go to the management office and get the keys to the second floor. Then bring those little ones back by the way, if they are willing."
Cheng Ming breathed a sigh of relief, stood up and said gratefully to the whole room, "Thank you."
Zhang Xiaobai laughed and said, "Why are you thanking me? It's not your relatives. This is a joint decision. Don't waste time, let's go." He said, wrapping the red scarf next to him around his neck, and pulling Cheng Ming went out the door.
Wait for Zhang Xiaobai and Cheng Ming to leave the door.
Sister Hong raised another question while knitting: "What are you going to do with the few people you brought in from outside a few days ago?"
What Sister Hong was talking about was naturally the few people brought back from the base by the third brother that day, Chen Wen, Lin Zihao, three girls, a woman, and a ten-year-old child. Because of the urgency of the matter, those people were brought back by the third brother and the others, and followed the third brother and the others upstairs. At that time, Method was shot, and the others were in a mess, and they had no time to talk to them. Unexpectedly, they found a room and unlocked it. Just lived in the vacant room.
It's been a few days, and they have no time to chase people away because they are busy with base affairs. Now that Sister Hong suddenly said something, they were all taken aback for a moment.
There was some mockery in Sister Hong's voice: "I think they are quite used to living here, but don't get used to it and be reluctant to leave."
The third brother frowned and said, "Zhong Xu, go and tell them. If you want to continue living here, you have to pay rent. If you don't want to, then go out and live in a tent."
"Why let me talk about it!" Zhong Xu's boss was unwilling, his buttocks stuck to the sofa and refused to get up: "I didn't bring this person back... Besides, they are all girls, I am embarrassed to say."
Sister Hong said empathetically, "Forget it, you guys are thin-skinned. I'll talk about it later."
Luo Long suddenly said: "That empty room is useless for us. They are all girls, and there is a child, why don't we let them live first? They don't have much supplies, so we will leave the more to us." .”
What he said was strange, and the others all cast inexplicable eyes, and then suddenly seemed to understand something, and the eyes became weird.
Zhong Xu smiled strangely: "Luo Long, be honest, have you hooked up with a girl?"
Luo Long immediately shouted: "What?! No way, don't talk nonsense! I've only met him a few times, what hooking up?! How can you say something so ugly?"
"Okay, okay! It's not hooking up, so do you have a crush on someone?" Zhong Xu quickly changed his name: "Is it the one named Chen Wen? I seemed to see you yesterday to deliver water to others. In the corridor Have you been talking for a while?"
Luo Long was overwhelmed by the words, his dark face that lacked sun protection turned red: "I just think it's pitiful for a little girl to have no relatives and no reason..."
The soldiers burst into laughter, and started making fun of Luo Long.
After the laughter, Sister Hong said with a smile: "Since you like that little girl, let them live first. What time is it now? If you like it, tell the girl boldly."
Luo Long struggled and said: "I really didn't..." No matter how I heard it, I felt guilty.
It drew boos instead.
Gu Ning was a little surprised, and felt that it was justifiable. After all, the team is full of young guys, and there are only two girls in the team, she and Huang Mengyao. Thinking about it this way, Gu Ning realizes that there usually seem to be a few girls in the team who often They revolved around Huang Mengyao. I didn't think about it usually, but now that I think about it, if I really succeed, in this cold world full of shadows of death, maybe it can bring people a glimmer of hope for survival.
Six jittery teenagers were taken to the third floor. Li Yi is the leader and the oldest among them. He is fourteen years old this year. The boy who talked to Cheng Ming is Yang Yang, he is twelve years old this year, and there are three other boys who are all twelve or thirteen years old. A little girl who looks to be six or seven years old is tightly held by Li Yi pull.
Li Yi said: "She's called a girl, I picked it up on the road, she's seven years old." He paused, stared at Gu Ning and said, "Do you really want to give us a place to live and teach us how to kill zombies? ?”
After receiving the confirmed answer, Li Yiqiang suppressed his excitement and said seriously: "We will definitely study hard!"
Gu Ning nodded and said: "Well, very good. If you pass our assessment after a month, you can really stay."
This Cheng Ming had already told several teenagers on the road, but they still felt excited when he said it from Gu Ning's mouth again.
Gu Ning had piled up a lot of bottled water in the room before, plus the water that Zhong Xu usually stored, it was enough. The children's bodies were really dirty, there was no clean spot on their bodies, and their clothes were all reflecting light. Mother Gu boiled a large pot of hot water for the children, let them take a hot bath, and thoughtfully prepared new clothes that were about the same size as them to change into. A few teenagers only showed their facial features after being washed, and Yatou is an extremely cute little girl. Take them to the second floor and settle down.
A few well-washed teenagers lay in the soft and warm quilt, feeling an unprecedented sense of satisfaction spontaneously.
"It's like a dream." Yang Yang said in a low voice.
The other teenagers nodded silently in the dark, and at the same time secretly made up their minds that they must pass the assessment in a month's time and stay here.
"Ning Ning."
When lying in the quilt at night, Gu's mother suddenly called Gu Ning.
"Ok?"
Mother Gu asked, "Do you like any of the boys in our team?"
Gu Ning was stunned for a moment, and then realized that the incident just now had touched Gu's mother again. She smiled in the dark: "I just want to live in peace with you now. I don't think about anything else."
Gu's mother said: "Oh, I have to think about it. I think the method is good, and Cheng Ming is also very considerate. I think they all like you. It's good to pick any one of these two. You don't like it." of?"
Gu Ning turned over, lay flat and looked at the ceiling, and said, "Mom, I'm so sleepy, I'm going to sleep first." Then she fell silent.
Mama Gu let out a long sigh.
Gu Ning didn't feel any drowsiness at all. She stared at the ceiling with her eyes open, and the anxiety in her heart didn't decrease at all. She didn't know when the door of the space would open. She had been trapped in this world for four days. When she returned to that World, how to explain to Ji Jiuze? For a person like Ji Jiuze, if there is a slight loophole in her words, he will be caught by him. What's strange is that she has always been inexplicably certain in her subconscious mind that the door of space will open again, but she doesn't know when it will be.
She had very little contact with Ji Jiuze from Doomsday's side, and basically never met face to face. He shouldn't be able to stay in Zhongnan Base for long. After all, he came here specially for Zhuang Chenyi, and now they are confirmed. It is safe for him to return to the capital soon, and Zhuang Chen and Yi Shaoqing must also leave. Thinking of this, Gu Ning felt a little lost.
She closed her eyes and sighed silently in her heart. The moment she closed her eyes, a familiar golden light passed by without warning——