"I'm here to beg!"
"Huh?" The short man's words were an understatement, but when they fell into the ears of the survivors, they were surprised.
Especially Wang Qiang, he blurted out: "Are you a beggar?"
After he stopped talking, he felt a pain in his back. It turned out to be his brother Tang Xiaoquan who stabbed him with his finger.
It's just that the short man is used to this, so he didn't show much disgust. He smiled calmly and said: "Beggar? Haha, don't say it so politely, I am just a beggar. If it weren't for the sake of food, I would be a beggar." I won’t be so stupid as to be trapped here!”
"Are you stupid? Are you stuck here?" Listening to the short man's slightly complaining words, Tang Xiaoquan and other people who didn't understand the situation became even more confused.
Xu Renjie saw this completely, and immediately explained the whole incident to everyone in detail.
That's all, everyone finally understood what the short man said.
But Tang Xiaoquan has no intention of knowing about the short man's past right now. There is only one thing he urgently needs to know, and that is what happened in the town.
After raising this question, the short man suddenly stopped what he was doing, then shook his head and sighed: "You ask what happened to the town? Haha, as you can see, it was set on fire. "
"Set the fire? Who set the fire?" Without a doubt, through the short man's tone of voice, Tang Xiaoquan concluded that the short man must know what happened.
The short man raised his finger and pointed at Xu Renjie beside him, and casually replied: "Just like him, he was released as a soldier."
"What?" Hearing this, Xu Renjie frowned slightly: "You said... these were released by soldiers?"
I don’t care whether this news is true or not, but since the apocalypse broke out, this is the first time in Xu Renjie’s military career that he has heard that troops set fire to a town.
Could it be that this small town in Tang Xiaoquan's hometown has some ulterior "secrets"?
Thinking of this, Xu Renjie continued to ask: "You said you were released as a soldier. When was that?"
"When?" The short man scratched his head: "I guess three months, oh no, four months..."
"How many months?" Lao Xu was obviously anxious, and his tone of questioning couldn't help but become a little stronger.
"This... I really can't remember. I'm worried every day. I'm worried about the police coming to arrest me, and I'm afraid of those monsters eating people. In short, it was a long time ago that the town was burned down."
The short man's expression was bitter, and he didn't seem to be faking it.
And if it was a long time ago as the short man said, then this really becomes a problem.
Because the apocalypse broke out, Lao Xu knew that the task assigned by the entire army was to protect the safety of party and government agencies and important facilities. To put it bluntly, it was to maintain stability.
So at such a juncture when the rhythm of "maintaining stability" is to come and burn the town, wouldn't it be adding chaos to the superiors?
Xu Renjie intuitively believed that it was not the work of the troops, but what the short man said was true and did not sound like lies.
This made him couldn't help but draw a big question mark in his heart.
"Brother, why are you so sure they are soldiers?"
"Um...are they wearing military uniforms?"
"What kind?" Xu Renjie said reluctantly.
But it's not a joke to ask a beggar to describe the appearance of a military uniform, so naturally, after hesitating for a long time, the short man answered ambiguously: "It's green, the uniform worn by soldiers."
There is no doubt that this is nonsense. The idea of finding flaws in the costumes had to be given up. Xu Renjie turned to ask: "In addition to military uniforms, what else can prove their identity?"
Now it was the short man's turn to be confused. In his opinion, if you wear a military uniform, you are not a soldier. Why do you need other proof?
However, due to Lao Xu Shicai's harshness, he still answered honestly: "Yes, yes. When they came, they shouted from the loudspeaker that they were from the army, and they also asked people in the town to follow them. What did they say? Shelter.”
"What! What did you say!"
Hearing the word "shelter", Tang Xiaoquan, who was hanging his head in thought, suddenly seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw and ran to the short man with a quick step: "Shelter! Did you just say shelter?"
"Well, yes...yes, what's wrong?" The short man was really startled by the young man's unprovoked approach, and the short man dropped the backpack in his hand to the ground.
"Where is it? Tell me where the shelter is?"
Influenced by his aggressive attitude and the whereabouts of his parents, Tang Xiaoquan became obviously different from usual.
Seeing this scene, Hu Xiaodong walked over silently, patted the young man's shoulder, and then said to the short man: "Brother, don't take it off. Xiao Tang is like this because his parents are from this town. Yes, it seems that four months have almost passed. I finally came back, but now...well, tell us about the situation."
The human heart is made of flesh, so who doesn’t have parents?
After understanding the real situation, the short man also sighed with empathy: "Actually, I don't know the details. Not long after I arrived in this town, I encountered a monster biting incident. I was acting in self-defense. I accidentally killed the opponent, and then hid in the back mountain. I can't remember exactly when the troops came. They came very quickly, and they were on fire all the way. For me, I vaguely heard the loudspeaker saying that there was a shelter in the JZ direction. For the rest, I really don’t know.”
"JZ County!" Silently reciting the direction of the shelter mentioned by the short man, Wang Qiang raised his arm and punched the chest of Tang Xiaoquan, who was standing dumbly: "Brother, did you hear that, there is a shelter in JZ County, I think My uncle and aunt must have been taken there by the army."
"Yes, judging from the current situation, the defense of a shelter that can accommodate such a large number of survivors is definitely not weak. Haha, Quanzi, you should relax now. Your parents are probably safer than us. ." Hu Xiaodong was sincerely happy for Tang Xiaoquan.
But after a brief moment of excitement, Tang Xiaoquan glanced at the short man squatting on the ground, and then asked noncommittally: "Why didn't you leave? Why didn't you leave with the rescue team?"
The short man saw the distrust in the other person's eyes, and he seemed a little innocent about it: "Who doesn't want to leave? When I was carrying a life on my back, it was you who killed someone, and saw the army without knowing the situation. , will you follow? Besides, I am just begging for food, who cares about my life and death!"
The short man's words were heartbreaking, and they also made Tang Xiaoquan feel a little guilty: "I'm sorry, brother, I just wanted to confirm the authenticity of what you said. After all, it is related to the whereabouts of my parents. Please Don’t take it personally, I don’t mean anything else.”
At this moment, Tang Xiaoquan had already agreed with the short man's story. Although he was still not sure that his parents were in that team, he at least had this hope.
"Brother, since you have no place to live, you might as well come with us. We have a villa in the outer suburbs!" This was one of the few words Wei Dazhuang said since his trip.
But after hearing his proposal, the short man refused without even thinking: "No! I'm used to being here."
"Are you used to it here? Where do you live?"
"It's on the top of the mountain over there! We'll live in the back mountain." He raised his finger and pointed to a mountain forest behind the town with only half of the trees left, and the short man quickly replied.
But it was this answer that made Xu Renjie sense that something was wrong. (To be continued.)
