Song Kaiji ran out of the room, wanting to be alone. But there were zombies everywhere outside, so where could he go? He could only walk around the stairwell for a few laps, kicking the wall and sulking.
Shen Qing followed behind and watched for a while, and actually found it a little funny.
Yes, there are some people in this world who are born to be decisive and swift in killing, but there are also some people who, even if they are unhappy, are concerned about the degree of propriety and the overall situation and will not leave this small building easily.
"What are you laughing at? Do you also think that Li Liang is right and that I am incompetent?" Song Kaiji did not turn around, but squatted facing the wall, with his back to Shen Qing, and asked sullenly.
After saying that, he quickly regretted it. Why would he take out Shen Qing for the anger he suffered from Li Liang? Song Kaiji turned slightly to the side: "...I didn't mean that. I was just in a bad mood...I know you are definitely not laughing at me."
"I understand." Shen Qing walked over and squatted next to him facing the wall: "I am laughing at you because you have not seen many people. People like Li Liang can make you uneasy with just a few words."
Squatting was tiring, so Shen Qing simply sat down cross-legged. In Shen Qing's opinion, people like Li Liang deserved to be beaten. If he were in their village, he would have been beaten up countless times and slapped in the face. What about the group of people in the old Shen family, how about old lady Wang, and how about Wang Liuzi? Each of them was more shameless, more difficult to deal with, and more advanced than Li Liang. If Shen Qing was depressed like Song Kaiji when someone said this, he would have died of anger!
However, this may also be because Song Kaiji and Li Liang used to live in a civilized, polite, and legal world. So Li Liang was so rude but never got beaten, because beating people in their world was against the law, and they couldn't just punish them as they did in their village; Song Kaiji didn't experience many difficult people and things, and the closest and worst person to him was Li Liang.
Civilized society protects them all very well.
Shen Qing had seen the beautiful past of this world through the videos on his phone. In those TV dramas, it seemed that the biggest trouble for people was that someone tripped them up at work or that the person they liked didn't like them. This was unimaginable and very envious to Shen Qing, who had never had enough to eat and never had a good set of clothes since childhood.
But he would not be jealous of Song Kaiji, or think that Song Kaiji was weak: Shen Qing already thought that Song Kaiji was remarkable for having lived in a beautiful world since childhood and being able to survive and gradually adapt to the end of the world. It takes time for people to grow up, doesn't it?
"Didn't I tell you before that my mother was in danger?" Shen Qing was not very good at comforting people. After thinking about it, he brought up his own story: "There was a person who was even more unreasonable than Li Liang. He relied on the fact that he had many sons... Well, it's like he had four superpowers in his family." Shen Qing scratched his ear and clumsily described his own situation: "When I was not at home, he wanted to rob my house. When I caught him, he turned the tables and said that there was something going on between me and his son." When Shen Qing mentioned this, his brows furrowed tightly. This was just him. He didn't care much about his reputation. If it was another unmarried young man in the village whose reputation was ruined like this, he would want to jump into the river!
"You said that you were so upset by Li Liang's words. If you met someone like that, you would be so angry that you would die. If you take everyone's words to heart, you would not be able to live."
Song Kaiji also knew that Shen Qing was right, but he was just... more fragile? Even when Shen Qing comforted him at this moment, he felt his eyes were hot. "It's not that I feel uncomfortable when he scolds me, I just feel... I feel that I am really useless."
Shen Qing was silent. This was also a big problem that had been bothering him recently. After a long while, he sighed, "Yes, it's hard to become stronger."
Although he was getting stronger, stronger than before - when he was in the old Shen's house, he only had to guard against Shen Zhigao beating up the Miao family, and guard against Shen's mother and Zhao Aiye bullying the Miao family. But when they moved out of the Shen's house, when he could deal with these people calmly, when they were no longer scary, new problems and new dangers arose.
Is this what they call "there are always people better than you"? Shen Qing pondered, if he opened a workshop and a shop in the city, would he encounter new and more difficult problems as he became stronger?
Shen Qing turned his gaze to Song Kaiji again: "Why don't you cry for a while? After you're done crying, we can continue to become stronger."
It is true that we are not strong enough, but we should not be too obsessed with it. Life must go on even if we are sad for a while.
Song Kaiji was finally amused by him: "What about you? Have you solved your problem? Or..." He proposed his idea to Shen Qing: "Otherwise, bring your mother to our place. It is quite safe in the base. If not, we can rent a villa in the inner city, and she can keep Aunt Tang company." The inner city of the base is inhabited by official senior officials and larger supernatural teams, and is equipped with more comprehensive security, which is incomparable to the outer city.
"Hmm... I'll think about it." Shen Qing didn't want the Miao family to come here unless it was absolutely necessary. No matter what happened in their village, there were no zombies, which was a hundred times better than the Hongcheng base. Shen Qing still hadn't figured out whether he was the only one who wouldn't be attacked by zombies, or whether everyone on their side wouldn't be attacked by zombies - he didn't have a chance to figure it out, he couldn't bear to use his own mother as an experiment!
Also, even if the zombies don't attack him, his last experience at Yucai Middle School told him that mutant plants would! He couldn't be too careless in this world... Shen Qing was still thinking when he heard Song Kaiji ask, "Also, what do you mean by what happened between you and her son?"
Is this "what" what he meant? Shen Qing... likes boys? Song Kaiji was more and more confused. According to Shen Qing's description, there were many people where his mother was. What place was it? Another base?
"She slandered me! I don't like his son, rushing to my house..." Shen Qing suddenly stopped, he forgot that there are no men in this world! But then he thought of those men in the south city who were flirting and receiving customers like women: Can men be together in this world?
"Anyway, there's nothing between him and me." Shen Qing said, and glanced at Song Kaiji again: "Do you think it's strange for a man... um, a man to be with another man?"
How could Song Kaiji feel that way? Song Kaiji was eager to do so! He had already been attracted to Shen Qing, and he could not ignore it no matter how slow he was. But he did not know whether Shen Qing could accept homosexuality, so he did not dare to show any signs. Now that Shen Qing said this, Song Kaiji was simply ecstatic!
But before he could say anything, he suddenly saw a green corner on the glass of the stairwell. Song Kaiji, who had encountered the mutant wisteria before, immediately became alert: "Be careful!"
Shen Qing also turned around quickly, and the two pulled each other back into the room. Looking closely, there was a very thin vine outside, sneaking towards the glass, as if it had discovered that Song Kaiji and Shen Qing had seen through it - this vine seemed to be intelligent, including the purple wisteria at Yucai Middle School, like a spirit!
Song Kaiji flipped his hands, and two Tang swords appeared in his palms. They each took one, shoulder to shoulder, guarding the surroundings, and slowly moved towards the room: Song Kaiji regretted it very much at this time, why did he run out? He couldn't stand Li Liang's nonsense, so why not throw Li Liang out!
The seemingly thin vine raised its tail and poked the glass fiercely. The glass that looked very solid and thick was easily poked into a hole as big as the tip of a finger, and the surrounding glass instantly shattered into spider patterns. The vine gently tapped the spider patterns a few more times, and the broken glass fell down like hail.
The human smell spread out, and the zombies outside suddenly became agitated, rushing to the window and flapping and jumping non-stop.
The vine stopped attacking the glass and slowly shrank back, disappearing from Shen Qing's sight.
How terrifying! Shen Qing thought about it and felt terrified! This vine is so smart: it doesn't need to do it itself, it just needs to break the glass and let the zombies kill the people inside, and there will always be some bones and meat left to feed it!
No wonder when they arrived at the gas station, although the room was in a mess and there were some traces of blood, there was no rotten meat or body parts.
Although this window is at the corner of the stairs between the first and second floors and the zombies cannot climb up for a while, Shen Qing is terrified by the wisdom of the vines.
"Xiao Tang, Xiao Tang, come and block the folding fan window." Shen Qing shouted twice. Before, they only blocked the broken window, but now that they found this mutant plant, it would be better to block all the windows. It would be better to sacrifice some light, but safety is the most important thing.
Tang Wenjie responded from the room, and seemed to have put down his lunch box and was about to come out. In just such a short moment, Shen Qing felt his eyes blurred, and there was a zombie in the zombie group that looked different. It stepped on the head of its kind, stretched out its long hands to grab the window frame, and jumped into the stairwell in a few steps!
This zombie's limbs were much longer than those of ordinary zombies, and it was taller. Its thin arms hung down past its knees, and its hands were like two large suction cups, which allowed it to climb and jump very flexibly. Its body was also different from other zombies, which were rotting and oozing pus, with some pieces of meat falling off its body as it walked. Instead, it was like smoked bacon, mummified, and even somewhat rubbery.
The zombie swung out its left arm, and its suction-cup-like palm immediately sucked the Tang sword in Song Kaiji's hand, and threw it far away, and then pounced on the two. Song Kaiji was shocked. This zombie actually knew to take his weapon first! If he used teleportation at this moment, he would have a chance to escape, but Shen Qing - Song Kaiji had not tried whether he could teleport with others, and he did not dare and was unwilling to leave Shen Qing alone to escape!
This is Song Kaiji's shortcoming, but also his advantage: you can say that he can't make decisions when necessary, protect himself, and put himself first, or that he is too soft-hearted. He is such a soft-hearted and emotional person. He may drag himself into the abyss, but he can't let go, not to mention that the person in front of him is the one he likes!
However, he was still hesitating whether to try teleporting with Shen Qing: this was risky. If it failed, he would die if he moved Shen Qing away! Or should he face this strange zombie head-on?
Shen Qing used all his strength and pushed Song Kaiji behind him.
Song Kaiji's eyes widened: "Shen Qing!" At the critical moment of life and death, Shen Qing actually pushed him away and stood in front of him!
But then, Song Kaiji's eyes widened even more: the zombie actually changed direction, passed Shen Qing, and chased after him? ?
"Why don't you teleport? Run!" When the zombie ran past him, Shen Qing raised his Tang Dao and chopped it down from behind. The zombie seemed to have evolved its skin, and Shen Qing raised his sword and chopped off the zombie's head, but it didn't get chopped off, but only one-third of it.
The zombie seemed confused, and slowly turned its body towards Shen Qing, but did not attack. It quickly turned around again, waving its suction-cup-like arms to grab Song Kaiji.
Fortunately, Tang Wenjie finally arrived at this moment, and several steel needles flew into the zombie's brain, finally ending the battle.
"Are you all right?" Tang Wenjie didn't notice anything unusual, but was afraid that he came out too late. He stepped forward and took a look at the zombie whose brain was pierced by steel needles: "My goodness, what is this? How come it is so resistant to attack?"
The other people in the room also ran out. Looking at the zombie corpses on the ground, Tang Wenjie and Qu Weiwei both remembered the zombies they saw picking up crystal cores to eat at Yucai Middle School that day. Their faces turned ugly: "Is this what the zombies look like after eating the crystal cores and evolving?"
They don’t even know if zombies will only become like this after evolving, or will they evolve in a variety of directions like human mutants?
However, Song Kaiji still had a look of ecstasy. When he saw Shen Qing move, his eyes rolled around: "You, you..."
Shen Qing sighed. Of course he knew that he shouldn't reveal to Song Kaiji that he wouldn't be attacked by zombies, but at that moment, Song Kaiji couldn't bear to leave him, and he couldn't leave Song Kaiji either.
There were a hundred warnings and threats in his mind, telling Song Kaiji not to say anything, but when they came to his lips, Shen Qing could only smile bitterly: "We are indeed too weak, don't you think?"
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