The towns in the southern part of China are connected by a series of streams and undercurrents, as is the case in Rongcheng, a long moat runs across the periphery of the town, and the real city gate of the base is set up on the opposite bank of the river.
When she came out of the dense forest, Yin Yiliu and Jin Yang were in a higher position, and she could see the sparkling lake surface with the opposite of the water at a glance. Infiltrated into the surrounding soil, forming a thick swamp area.
From a distance, the long river has almost no fluctuations. It was noon at this time, and the fierce sun shone on the lake surface to form a faint halo. From the depth visible to the naked eye, only some large swimming fish could be seen on the lake surface. Wandering back and forth, there is peace.
There is a not-so-wide road far from the lake. After walking out of the dense forest, you can walk directly to the gate of the Rongcheng base by stepping on this road.
At this time, there were other pedestrians coming and going at the fork in the road, Yin Yiliu took a look, then raised his head and said to Jin Yang who was beside him: "Let's go and have a look first, let's find a place to rest."
Jin Yang had no objection, nodded slightly and followed Yin Yiliu towards Rongcheng.
Under the barrier of the city base, Yin Yiliu could see a layer of light moss growing on the outside of the wall, like seeds that had been attached to the moss by the nearby water vapor. The city wall was dark green, and some The puffy walls and cracks are completely incomparable to super bases like Z City and B City.
The city gate was wide open, and when the two of them walked in, they did not find any patrolling garrison, but there were many residents in the small base, bustling with ordinary people from various wasteland eras, and the atmosphere of life was very strong. .
And its environment is not very clean, some crumbling rotten sheds can stand beside the floor, clinging to become the foothold of a homeless person, and some discarded iron is thrown in the nearby haystacks that have not been cleaned up. Shelves and clutter make the whole base a bit crowded.
This is a little different from other city bases. The old and useless plaques on both sides of the road are still placed, and the small flags that are missing a corner can still fly on the beams. Everything has the shadow of the peaceful era, but the barren scene is different Peacetime is a stark contrast.
After Yin Yiliu and Jin Yang entered Rongcheng, they first found a guide and used a first-class stone to roughly understand the basic information in the base.
The person leading the way was a thin middle-aged man with a slight bruise on his face. He seemed to have just had a conflict with someone. At this time, he looked at the young men and women who were dressed in expensive clothes and described as outstanding with thief eyes. Much friendlier.
"Looking at your eyes, it should be the first time to our Rongcheng. I will tell you a good story."
He wiped the tip of his nose with clear water and snot, and wiped it on his dirty clothes, "Our base, except for those who are not human, everything else is fine, and no one cares about you. More is just a little mess, and it shouldn’t have any effect on a big man like you.”
It was the first time that Yin Yiliu heard the residents of the base express their dissatisfaction and disgust with the lord so straightforwardly.
From this person's mouth, they learned that the lord of the Rongcheng base is a sixth-level evolutionary person. In addition, the leaders of some large-scale evolutionary groups rarely exist at the fifth level, and the overall strength of the entire base is not very high. high.
After the end of the world, after the last group of garrisoned troops in the base left Rongcheng, this place has become what it is today. As long as no life is lost, no matter what happens in this base, it is not uncommon.
Because their lord is simply a local emperor who doesn't care about the world and only knows how to enjoy it, and he issues some infuriating orders every day, making people in this base scold behind his back.
The thin middle-aged man glanced at Yin Yiliu's face, then looked at him a second time without realizing it, and then turned his head to face the eyes of the man who was staring at him coldly, as if he was killed by a poisonous snake. Tangled, my heart shivered.
He shyly smiled and waved his dirty palms and said, "I don't mean anything else, that is, if this beauty has stayed in our base for a long time, she should not wander around the city too much, our lord is not a good thing. ."
As he spoke, an angry expression suddenly appeared on his face, "As far as I know, there is a little girl across the street, she is very handsome, she was only fifteen years old three months ago, and then she was attacked by that beast's subordinates. Take it away. I haven't even seen a shadow now, I don't know if I'm living a good life, or I'm dead."
Hearing this, Yin Yiliu frowned slightly, what kind of beast could attack a fifteen-year-old girl, she probably had an idea of the lord of Rongcheng in her heart.
Before the apocalypse, a loser who may have had a bad career or was looked down upon by others, but after the apocalypse was lucky enough to have the ability to evolve, he occupied a small base to make a fortune, and the resources that invaded the base bullied ordinary women.
The man wiped his nose, which was constantly running, and said angrily: "Actually, this is the way the world is, and that girl has no other choice, but those little arms and legs are also pitiful, as thin as a pole..."
Yin Yiliu glanced at the mumbling middle-aged man. In fact, he himself was as thin as a bamboo pole, looking at the yellow-faced and thin-skinned man.
Along the way, the man seemed to be energized, and he entered Rongcheng's parents and various iconic characters to Yin Yiliu and Jin Yang, telling them the distribution of sections in the city, and finally took them to the largest hotel in the base. .
The man seemed to be crawling and dirtying the clothes of the two of them, and kept a distance from them until he reached the door of the hotel. protect yourself."
Yin Yiliu was amused by his winking expression, "Don't worry, sure."
Just when the man was about to escape from here, Jin Yang, who had been silent for a while, suddenly stretched out his hand and threw a small stone into the middle-aged man's arms.
The man hurriedly took it, holding his hand a little bit, but he didn't look at it immediately, and after repeatedly thanking him, he walked from a nearby alley to a sparsely populated corner, and spread out what he was holding.
It was a small red pebble, similar to the one he had just obtained in his pocket. He hurriedly took it out and put it in his hand to compare it. Obviously, the color was more intense, and there were very few impurities in it.
His heart was beating very fast, what grade of Ningshi is this, grade two or three
The man put the small stone into his arms, suppressed the ecstasy on his face and got into the twisted alley.
The largest hotel in Rongcheng not only rents out some small single rooms specially used for pedestrians to live in, but also rents out a separate platform. When Yin Yiliu and Jin Yang came to the door, there was a small bell hanging in front of the shop, which was blown by the wind. Jingle.
The owner is a muscular man with a beard. At this time, he was sitting in the yard basking in the sun. He heard the wind chimes in front of the door ringing. He opened his eyes and glanced at the door. He just got up and saw Jin clearly. After Yang and Yin Yiliu dressed up, their faces suddenly turned cold and they sat on the chairs motionless.
The bearded man supported his legs with his sturdy forearms, and waved at the two of them impatiently, as if to drive them away.
"Alright, alright. Although you two look alike, don't talk nonsense. Get out of my shop and don't interfere with my business."
After the handsome man squinted his eyes and finished speaking, he glanced at Yin Yiliu and Jin Yang with a strange expression, and muttered in his mouth.
Yin Yiliu has a good hearing and can hear him say: "You look so handsome to do these sneaky things." She was at a loss.
Seeing that the two were unwilling to go out, the handsome man said "hey", "How about pretending?"
He pointed to Jin Yang who covered his face beside Yin Yin Liu and said, "You won't tell him it's Jin Yang, will you?"
Yin Yiliu: ... he is Jin Yang
The boss pointed to the outside of the shop, and motioned for the two to turn around to have a look. Yin Yiliu turned around and looked at it for a long time, and finally found that something was wrong.
A man and a woman facing the store happened to be wearing similar equipment to them. What's more interesting is that in this era when cold weapons are not popular, the female evolutionary person outside even has a sword attached to her waist. equipment is the same.
Since more than a month ago, Li Zhenjiang, the base in Z City, openly rejected the forces of other bases that outsiders wanted to win over, and stated that the Fallen Killer was no longer in Z City, and people have imitated Jin Yang and Yin Yiliu's dresses one after another. There are those who are deceived and deceived, and there are those who simply want to walk outside to shock and deter those with bad intentions, and there are those who simply find it interesting to worship.
Let’s just say that the base next door was the first among the southern bases to have liars. The lord was stunned by the two swindlers, and he treated them as guests. When it was a mutant beast, the legs of the two liars were frightened, and the female swindler was carrying a fake wooden sword sharpened by a knife.
As soon as this happened, it suddenly became a joke around.
The lord next door was so angry that he hung a pair of liars upside down on the city wall for three days. It is said that the two were dying when they were put down.
Generally, the evolutionary people who walk outside will form a small group, or follow the caravan organization. There are rarely lone wolves or two-person groups, let alone such a clear-cut two-person group.
Yin Yiliu was a little helpless. She didn't expect that one day she would be regarded as her impostor. After repeatedly explaining that she would pay, the boss stood up suspiciously.
Rongcheng's boundaries are not large, like some remote uninhabited places are forcibly occupied by some rogue vagabonds, they will break the windows and smash the doors, causing many places originally used for leasing to be occupied.
In the end, Yin Yiliu chose a bungalow next to a low building, and after paying a top of Ningshi as a deposit for their residence, the two moved into it.
The facilities in the room are very simple. There is a small courtyard. It seems that because no one lives all the year round, the courtyard is full of various wastes.
Just cleaning and tidying wasted an afternoon for the two of them.
The buildings in Rongcheng are generally not high, and there are no towering plants in the city like other cities. The lords here seem to hate mutant plants and cut down the plants in the entire base. There is also a thick stump left after a mutant tree was cut down in the yard.
There were no plants to block the sight, which caused the sun with the sunset glow to pour over the base without reservation. The golden peripheral light made the huge sun even more brown. It seemed that you could raise your hand. to the sky.
Yin Yiliu's face was also plated with a layer of golden light, she got up and stretched her waist, and then looked at Jin Yang who was stunned.
Jin wears only a thin black shirt on his upper body, buttoned up to the neckline, lining his indifferent and handsome brows and eyes, he feels a little ascetic, but he wears a lace-printed apron from under his thin waist. It broke the feeling of alienation in him and made it a little more cute.
Seeing that his eyes were a little straight, Yin Yiliu put on rubber gloves and shook it in front of his eyes, "What's the matter? Are you tired?"
Jin Yang came back to his senses and shook his head gently, smiled at Yin Yiliu very lightly, and suddenly swept her heart like a small feather.
"I just... thought of something from the past."
Yin Yiliu suddenly thought of Jin Yang's somewhat xenophobic character, and also thought of some of the words Jin Rumeng said hesitantly at that time, and suddenly became a little curious about Jin Yang's past. She propped up the shelf that she had wiped halfway in front of her with her hands, approached Jin Yang and asked, "What are you thinking about, so engrossed in your thoughts?"
The smile on Jin Yang's face did not catch his eyes. He said a few words vaguely, but Yin Yiliu knew that he must be hiding something from himself, or that there was something he didn't want to let him know.
Maybe it's his past, maybe it's something he hates in his heart.
After thinking about it, Yin Yiliu didn't want their pleasant trip to be so unpleasant, so she deliberately was a little surprised and said, "Wait, when I raised my hand just now, it was on your face. Splash a few drops of foamy water, and I'll rub it off for you."
She took the opportunity to put some more white foam on the rubber gloves, pretending that she was actually wiping it on Jin Yang's tall nose bridge several times. She had a smile on her face, and her expression was also very smart, as if she had done bad things successfully. 's little pleasure.
Jin Yang smiled helplessly, and continued to wipe with a pile of funny foam.
His five senses are so sensitive, how could he not find that water stains splashed on his face, he knew that Tutu was doing it on purpose, but he still allowed her to play freely.
Looking at the smile on Yin Yiliu's face, Jin Yang couldn't help but curl his lips slightly, and his gloomy mood gradually became clear.
He did think of something just now, something from his childhood.
At that time, he was only twelve years old and Jin Rumeng was nine years old, but they were treated differently in the Jin family of Nuoda University.
Twelve-year-old Jin Yang is not tall, he is thin and small, and his delicate face is abnormally pale, which is caused by long-term malnutrition. There was a bloody hole in the corner of his mouth, and at this time, a scar that was somewhat purulent was formed, and there were varying degrees of bruises on his neck and face.
If he was six or seven years old, he might still feel sad because of the pain in his body and hunger in his stomach, and cry a lot. Now he has learned that crying is the most useless solution.
Because no one will sympathize with him, he is not Jin Rumeng, and when he is beaten and kicked in a dark room, he will not suffer less because of tears, but will cause even more crazy beatings.
So he learned to wrap himself with indifference and indifference, and wrapped a thick shell on his heart, so that even when he was beaten, scolded and bullied, he could live better.
He was actually very afraid of the dark, because the dark reminded him of countless times when he was locked up and starved, and the servants in the house were also villains who saw the wind and steered the rudder. Twisting the flesh on his body with his nails, venting the abuse he received in this big mansion.
At that time, Jin Yang yearned for the dawn every day. He felt that as long as there was sunshine, there would be a warm feeling.
The boy will shrink himself into the cold cot and silently look at the dark night outside the window, and his heart is as silent as the night. When the first morning comes, he will feel the long-lost warmth. and liberation.
The young man's body is weak, and his years of loss and mental tension still made him collapse after an unprecedented beating. On his back and stomach, he felt dark in front of his eyes, and two tubes of blood flowed from his nose.
And the woman stood in the sun with a frightened Jin Rumeng in her arms and looked at him silently. Jin Rumeng wanted to scream in fear, but her mother covered her mouth.
So Jin Yang also learned to cover his mouth with his thin little hands, so as not to let out a cry of pain.
Before she fainted, the woman's terrified scream still lingered in her ears.
"Don't hit my dear! Hit him again and he'll die..."
When the twelve-year-old Jin Yang opened his eyes again, he was in a clean and spacious ward, surrounded by the smell of disinfectant that made him nauseated, mixed with the scent of flowers on the head of the bed.
It's ridiculous, when one gets used to the rotten, musty stench, one feels that clean and beautiful things are unpleasant in one's bones.
He moved his eyelids, and he could hear the doctor's suppressed angry growl outside the closed door, mixed with the man's angry growl.
"Let me fucking teach my son what's wrong? Almost died... If I hadn't died, I would have sent this place to give you money? Don't teach me here, believe it or not I can make this happen with the touch of a finger. The hospital kicked you out, what you don’t want to do is that people want to…”
The doctor's excited rebuttals gradually became weak, and finally returned to silence. There was only the man's angry scolding in the corridor, but no one dared to step forward to stop it.
Jin Yang's heart was empty, like a deep black hole.
It was evening when he woke up in the hospital bed, and the scorching sun in the sky shed a large swath of warm golden light, all of which shone on him.
There was only a small bulge on the hospital bed, and the quilt was warm, but the boy felt like he was in a piece of icy sea water, and he couldn't catch anything except the suffocation-like weightlessness.
The window is open, and the sunset in the sky is one after another. It is the kind of warmth that he hopes for the last time in his heart. It is the scene that he silently stands by the window and hugs his knees to watch every day. , as if you can reach out and touch it.
The boy moved his fingers, but found that his arm was so painful that he couldn't lift it up, and even when he moved his abdomen, his abdomen was throbbing, as if a huge needle was digging into his internal organs.
At this moment, the door of the room was pushed open, and the middle-aged man with an irritable face and bloodshot eyes was still wearing a suit, looking at the handsome, romantic and successful career.
But no one would have imagined that such a super rich man with abilities, looks, and a wealthy family in the eyes of outsiders would turn out to be a demon who abused his own children for more than ten years and killed his original spouse.
At this time, his red eyes stared at the dead boy on the bed, looking at his bruised face, his chest heaving slightly, as if he was thinking about something that was unacceptable and extremely disgusting to him.
He looked at Jin Yang with no joy at all, nor did he care about his son as a father, as if he was looking at a commodity, but it was much better than before.
In the past, he looked at it with the eyes of his enemies, wishing to let this child die, but he didn't dare.
Just now, he almost killed the child he hated so much.
No matter how much he hated this child before, but from now on, this child is the only person who can and is qualified to inherit the Jin family. This cognition makes it difficult for the man to accept, and he hates Jin Yang even more in his heart.
I'm afraid that crazy woman is also planning this way, she has long planned to give the Jin family's property to his son.
The middle-aged man calmed his heart and walked slowly to the boy's hospital bed. A dark shadow pressed on the bed, blocking the golden light of the sunset that shone in.
Jin Yang closed his eyes slightly, his world turned into darkness again.
A big cold hand held his drooping palm like a snake, and the man who was punching and kicking him when he opened his eyes had a gentle smile on his face. Meng's expression was the same, but now he just felt as if he was being dragged into a deeper abyss by a hand.
"Good boy, you know that your father loves you. I only have a son like you. If you want to blame it, you have a mentally ill mother. You don't know what she did to me. She ruined my life!"
The expression on the man's face was uncontrollable when he mentioned the woman he resented in his heart. After he calmed down a little, he pretended to be a loving father again. Looking at the dark eyes of the young man, what he wanted to say was a little dumb. Suddenly unable to speak in the throat.
I don't know since when, my son's eyes have become dead and cold, looking at his eyes as if silently accusing himself, and looking at him suddenly made him feel a little guilty.
Looking at Jin Yang's eyes, the man thought of his mentally ill mother, who also stared at him with such cold eyes.
The man didn't think there was anything wrong with his abuse and beatings for so many years. He was a father and a victim of their mother and son's conspiracy. There was nothing wrong with returning the humiliation he suffered.
He would only think that Jin Yang was a gloomy child, and that he had a neurotic bloodline and was not normal in his heart. He couldn't remember at all that the little milk bag was such a cute child who longed for his father's love.
He bite the bullet and hugged Jin Yang, "Don't worry, you will move to a big house in the future, Dad will send you to study, and find the best teacher to teach you noble etiquette. I remember if you like Dream For the bed in that room, my father will let my sister give it to you when you go back, or just set up a new one for you…”
Hearing the chatter in his ears, the boy's heart skipped a beat.
It turned out that the man didn't love Jin Rumeng as much as he thought. In his eyes, Jin Rumeng might just be a gadget to express his father's love for entertainment. The things he once dreamed of were all in his hand at this time, but he didn't. Feeling cold inside.
My father's embrace was like the fangs of a viper and the claws of a beast.
Jin Yang completely changed his fate when he was twelve years old. Everything he once wanted came one after another, such as expensive and exquisite food, gorgeous clothes, comfortable residence, and famous teachers taught him equestrianism. Sitting on the leather sofa, he looked at his humiliated stepmother like a pitiful creature. At this time, he also held back to please, and let his arrogant sister come to play with him.
But again, he lost something completely this evening.
He no longer yearns for the light in the early morning, nor does he chase the afterglow of the sunset.
Because he fully understood that his world is dark and without light, even if there is light between his fingers, it does not belong to him, and it will eventually pass silently.
Everyone was under the sun, but he was trapped in the quagmire and could not extricate himself.
With Yin Yiliu's laughter in his ears, the unbearable and dark past in front of Jin Yang seemed to be dissipated in an instant. He was like drowning water being suddenly pulled out of the deep sea, and he saw a touch of light.
In a silent black hole, a warm shimmer slowly penetrated from the crack, warming his internal organs.
Yin Yiliu turned her back to the light at this time, and smiled at him with her almond eyes, and her eyes were full of vividness. Behind her was the radiance of the sunset, and the wind ruffled her hair. This scene slowly overlapped with the memory of the twelve-year-old.
Exactly the same Xiaguang, but people are not the same, the mood is not the same.
That day, Jin Yang's heart sank into a black hole, feeling that he would rot in a deep quagmire for the rest of his life; but now Jin Yang suddenly had an idea.
Maybe there is still sunshine in his life.
"By the way, let's go to the market in Rongcheng after we pack up. It's quite interesting to see a lot of gadgets on the way here." Yin Yiliu didn't notice Jin Yang's emotional state. changes, and enthusiastically proposed.
Jin Yang replied with a light smile, "Okay."