After returning home, Li Fugui took a shower, put on clean clothes, and stood by the window staring out the window in a daze.
The morning light is hazy on the horizon, and the yellow and white street lights in the city are extinguished.
As the morning light gradually became clearer, a few faint clouds were reflected in red.
Li Fugui didn't sleep all night, or he didn't dare to sleep at all.
The dark eve he saw last night made Li Fugui feel a great sense of oppression, even though he had prepared sufficient resources and even weapons in the past few days.
But the oppressive feeling of darkness was too great. The bugs and monsters in the darkness were like a nightmare, which made Li Fugui breathless.
"Hello?"
Li Fugui answered the phone. It was the vendor of compressed biscuits that he had ordered before.
"Boss Li? I'm sorry to call you so early. I'm the biscuit seller. When will you take the time to come over?"
"Okay, I'll come over now and meet you at the agreed place."
Li Fugui hung up the phone, and the sun outside the window slowly rose from the horizon, getting brighter and brighter.
The sun will never be seen again.
Li Fugui turned around and put on his coat. He hesitated for a while, but still put the pistol he had taken from Wan Guopeng on his waist.
Pushed open the heavy iron door and walked down the stairs.
It was already dawn, and Li Fugui arrived at the place agreed upon with the vendor, which was at the back door of a supermarket.
People were coming and going in the alley behind the supermarket, and a few young guys were struggling to unload goods from a small car.
"Boss Li, do you want to smoke?" The vendor took out a pack of unknown brand cigarettes, took out a cigarette and handed it to Li Fugui with a smile.
Li Fugui didn't refuse. After all, he smoked all the cigarettes he carried with him last night. In the sunny era, no one would poison you. If you don't smoke, it will be useless.
The vendor lit up the cigarette in his hand, and when he took a sip, most of the cigarette was suddenly gone.
However, when Li Fugui smoked it, he choked. The cigarette was so powerful that it looked like a product of the Dark Ages.
To describe it in one word, it is very clumsy.
"Hahaha, Boss Li, am I smoking well?" The vendor bared his teeth and looked at Li Fugui's embarrassment, feeling like a child who had succeeded in his prank.
Li Fugui smiled and said nothing, continuing to smoke the cigarette in his hand.
Cigarettes in the Dark Ages were very expensive, and even those cigarettes circulating on the market were extremely inferior.
The cigarette in my hand now is much easier to smoke than those cigarettes.
The vendor watched Li Fugui leisurely smoke the cigarette in his hand, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes, and then the surprise in his eyes turned into respect and appreciation.
"Boss Li." The vendor exhaled a puff of smoke and called Li Fugui.
"Huh? What?"
"Si~" the vendor took a deep breath and said slowly, "When I was young, my father told me something: Those who can afford the most powerful and powerful cigarettes are the real men."
"Later I realized that it was something only poor men would say. They couldn't afford good cigarettes."
In the smoke, the merchant's eyes narrowed slightly, as if he remembered something, and then the conversation changed.
"Boss Li, there is a tradition in our hometown."
"Only when you meet a respectable friend will you give your real name."
"My name is Klebelton Zatouba. You can also call me Zatouba."
After Zatuba finished speaking, he fell silent.
"Li Fugui." Li Fugui just smoked a cigarette and didn't say much.
Li Fugui doesn't believe in these, he doesn't believe in friends, and he doesn't believe in those feelings.
Maybe there really are those most precious things in the world, but Li Fugui didn't believe it.
Having lived through those dark times, it is somewhat funny to talk about this.
Li Fugui only believes in human nature and interests.
Even now in the Sunshine Age, no matter how sincere Zatuba's tone is.
"Boss Li, don't you need help?" Zatuba glanced at the loaded hand-pulled jack and asked.
"No need." Li Fugui said.
Just before coming, Li Fugui called Xiao Yang and woke up Xiao Yang who was half asleep.
Li Fugui was not going to ask anyone for help with moving the goods.
Because once darkness comes, the most inconspicuous food during the sunshine period will become the scarcest resource.
And those who know where Li Fugui lives will probably target him immediately.
In the dark, the most dangerous thing is to attract attention.
People always need to rest and slack off, and this is the most dangerous time, and those dangers often happen at this moment.
After waiting for a moment, Xiao Yang's figure appeared in the alley.
"Brother Li, what have you been doing recently?" Yang Xiaoshu asked with a yawn, "I played games all night last night and I haven't even woken up yet."
"Let's go." Li Fugui threw away the cigarette butt in his hand and stood up.
"Boss Li, let's go slowly!" Zatuba smoked the last cigarette in his hand and put on his smiling expression again.
"Help me." Li Fugui pointed to Yang Xiaoshu and pointed to the hand-pulled jack.
"Okay, okay." Yang Xiaoshu pulled the jack, with reluctance written all over his face, "Why did you buy so many compressed biscuits?"
"Let's go, find a place to have breakfast." Li Fugui pushed the jack while holding the compressed biscuits.
"Wow! It's so heavy!" Yang Xiaoshu complained.
After walking out of the alley, the two walked in tandem for a long time, and finally found an open breakfast shop.
"I'm so exhausted!" Yang Xiaoshu sat down on the plastic stool, breathing heavily.
Li Fugui placed stones before and after the jack to prevent it from sliding, and then sat aside.
"What do you want to eat?" Li Fugui took out his chopsticks from the chopstick basket and asked.
"Two cages of steamed buns first, I'm almost starving to death!" After Yang Xiaoshu finished speaking, he rolled his eyes and added, "I didn't bring any money, so you're treating me today!"
"I'll give you my treat." Li Fugui smiled, turned around and said loudly, "Boss, please bring two steamed buns and two bowls of porridge."
"Okay!" The boss responded and opened the steamer in the white mist.
When the buns were served, Yang Xiaoshu couldn't wait to pick up a bun and stuff it into his mouth. Li Fugui slowly made a hole in the bun and poured the chili sauce on the side into it.
"Brother Li." Yang Xiaoshu suddenly stopped eating and stared at Li Fugui in front of him.
"What?" Li Fugui picked up the bun and put it in his mouth.
"I feel like you have changed as a person." Yang Xiaoshu frowned, not knowing what he was thinking, "But I can't tell you where you have changed. I just feel that you are different from before."
Li Fugui swallowed the bun in his mouth, and then asked slowly: "Xiao Yang, do you believe in the end of the world?"
When Yang Xiaoshu heard this, he almost spat out the hot porridge he just drank.
"It's not Brother Li, why do you believe this?" Yang Xiaoshu took out a piece of paper and wiped the corner of his mouth, "I'm telling you, don't listen to those rumors on the Internet. It's impossible. I tell you, you must believe in science! "
Li Fugui didn't say anything, he just looked at Yang Xiaoshu quietly, which made Yang Xiaoshu feel scared.
Looking at Li Fugui's eyes, Yang Xiaoshu suddenly remembered the phone call last night.
Yang Xiaoshu swallowed and felt his lips were dry: "Brother Li, what do you mean?"
"Xiao Yang, if I tell you now, you may not understand." Li Fugui lowered his voice and said, "But things are going to change soon."
"Darkness is coming."
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