Chapter 180 Farewell to South China Sea Island
After Youxi completed the transaction with Zhou Ningyuan, she drove the silver RV and started the daily "barter" business of Xingxingwu.
However, the first stop of this business was on the beach outside the hotel where she, Fan Qi and Youfeng were staying.
In addition to their own home, there were only Wei Jie's team of more than 20 people living in the hotel nearby, so today she came for Wei Jie and her team.
The people in Wei Jie's team have been very upset recently. Although they were wrongly accused of robbing food by Shao Liang's team before, they were very angry and left the Cliff Hotel overnight. But the more unrestrained they were when they left, the more panicked they were afterwards.
Most of the hotels nearby were damaged by plants, and the outer walls were damaged and occupied by mutant animals.
They were attacked on the night of their check-in. It was a huge owl that somehow sensed the people in the building and threw itself on the balcony, banging on the glass window desperately, breaking half of the glass.
When the team members who lived in this room woke up, they found that the owl's head was stuck in the glass frame and was trying to drill in.
This scene scared them. Unlike hotels and inns, the rooms facing south not only have many windows for beauty, but also large windows and sliding doors. Even if they found a room with unbroken glass and closed the doors and windows, they still couldn't avoid such a thing. Sister
Wei, who heard the noise, stopped the team members from using knives to deal with the owl, and finally drove the owl away with fire.
However, they did not dare to stay in this room anymore, and went to spend the night with other team members.
Sure enough, the owl came again that night, but it still stared at the original room. This time, there was no one in the room, and it finally succeeded in breaking into the room.
Later, at dawn the next day, the team members were ready again and carefully explored the room, and found that the owl had left, and the sliding door of the balcony was torn into pieces by it. They carefully searched the room and finally found a clue.
The balcony door of this room had been open before they came, so the owl probably used this house as a nest. There were many scattered feathers and leftover bones of small animals in the corner of the balcony. They checked in hastily last night without checking carefully, which was equivalent to living in the owl's nest. No wonder they were attacked by it in the middle of the night.
So they re-checked the temporary room and reduced the original seven scattered rooms to four, so that more people could gather in the same room to deal with the enemy when the night came.
But with so many people crowded together, the quality of life has dropped significantly. In addition, the hotel is too large and connected in all directions. Many hidden corners may hide mutant creatures that they don't know about.
Since they checked into the hotel, they haven't had a good sleep at night. Even during the day, Sister Wei and the others were worried that all the young men would leave to search for supplies. In contrast, the Youxi family, who also lived in the hotel, seemed particularly powerful.
Someone in the team once said that they should ask the other party for help, or move to the same floor next to them so that they can take care of each other.
But this proposal was rejected by Sister Wei.
What's the point of saying they can take care of each other? With the combat effectiveness of their team, if they move there, it would be equivalent to relying on the other party for more than 20 people, big and small, and letting the other party take care of their own team one-sidedly.
Sister Wei couldn't do such a shameless thing, not to mention that if the other party was really angry and moved away directly, they would really have no one to ask for help in a critical moment.
Fortunately, they have enough food for the time being, so they have something to eat even if they don't go out. So in the past few days, Sister Wei has been taking a few capable assistants to check other nearby shelters. First, after the incident with Shao Liang, they have to find a reliable new shelter. Second, there must be a shelter that can accommodate more than 20 people, big and small, or the other party is willing to accept them.
Unfortunately, the slightly more solid buildings nearby or places with fewer mutated plants and animals are already overcrowded, and she has been running around for several days without any progress.
After getting up that day, she studied the map with her team members, and circled it on the map, indicating that she wanted to try her luck somewhere farther away.
As a result, they just stepped onto the beach and saw the silver RV lying on the beach.
On the long table near the window of the RV, there is an induction cooker, and the owner of "Xingxingwu" is frying fragrant egg pancakes in a frying pan.
When the oil is hot, the white round frozen pancakes immediately make a pleasant sizzling sound. The other party slowly cracks two eggs on the pancakes, sprinkles some salt and pepper, sprinkles some chopped green onions, and then turns the pancakes over, making another sizzling sound, which makes them shed tears.
"Sister Wei! It's the Star House! Great, we haven't seen the Star House around here for days! And it's open right outside the hotel where we're staying. Did they know we don't have much food and come to save us? The egg pancakes smell so good!"
"Sister Wei! Go ahead! The owner wrote on the sign that you can get an egg pancake if the transaction is successful. Although the owner cuts a pancake into four pieces, one piece is still very big!"
"Wuwuwu, Sister Wei, rush towards the egg pancake!"
Sister Wei: ...
In the end, she couldn't convince her teammates, so they returned to the hotel again, took out some mutant fruits they had found the day before, and went forward to exchange them.
Youxi accepted the fruits they handed over, but did not give them the food and fresh water they imagined. Instead, she handed over an envelope.
Inside the envelope was an admission permit, which stated that a group of 22 people led by Sister Wei could use this permit to move into the official shelter on the other side of the city.
That was also the official base closest to them. At the same time, the permit stated that the elderly over 60 years old and children under 14 years old in the team could receive official material subsidies every week.
The problem that had troubled them for many days was solved in an instant.
Sister Wei and several team members were stunned when they looked at the permit.
How did "Star House" know what they needed most?
How did they get the base admission permit? And those subsidies for the elderly and children, Sister Wei knew that only the team that had contributed to the base could get such preferential treatment!
But they haven’t even gone to the base yet, how could it be possible -
Sister Wei calmed down, looked at the other party and said, "Actually, we are not twenty-two people, there are three others, can they go together?" She knew that Youxi's family didn't like private shelters because they disliked the noise and crowds.
But this is an official base with troops stationed there, and the safety factor is completely different!
"They don't need it, you should plan the route carefully and get your team safely into the base first." Youxi didn't expect that at this time, Sister Wei would still think about her family.
She thought about it, then took out a 30L portable fuel barrel from the RV (Xingwu Warehouse), and handed it directly to another team member, "These should be enough, find a car yourself, there are quite a lot of buses and minibuses nearby."
"Ah?" The other party took the oil barrel, opened his mouth in surprise, and didn't know what to say for a moment.
Another team member responded and hurriedly thanked him. He was quick with his words and threw a lot of flattery. Youxi found it a little funny, and directly put the egg cake that had just come out of the oven and cut into four pieces into a disposable box and handed it to the other party.
Sister Wei looked at the other party, and an inexplicable emotion surged in her heart, which was gratitude and touching.
Since the end of the world, she has met and come into contact with all kinds of people. It is very rare to be able to talk about principles and do what they say, and to have equal exchange.
Like such a one-sided giving, or such inestimable help, she didn't know what to say to express her feelings at the moment.
But Youxi didn't need the other party to thank her for doing these.
This is her native world. When the end of the world came, she and her parents watched others struggling to survive under the onslaught of mutated plants and animals. If they were reluctant to give any help while ensuring their own safety, they would not even be able to make it through this level.
Xing Min said that as long as she didn't die, her native world would not be invaded by the system tower and would not fall into the mission world.
Therefore, this world had already become a part of her mission without her knowing it.
She was not the kind of saint who sacrificed herself and devoted herself blindly. She could not save everyone on the planet and distribute supplies to everyone. But she was willing to help those who saw what was happening around her.
This was something she wanted to do, so there was no need to thank her.
You Xi smiled at the other party: "Have a good trip."
Then, the silver RV and herself disappeared on the beach.
**
In the following days, "Star House" continued its daily barter business, but she calculated the remaining time and knew that she didn't have much time left on Nanhai Island, so she didn't spend all her time busy running the store. Instead, she used seawater and plants to repeatedly practice ice control (floating ice fishing for seafood) and plant affinity (looking for delicious mutant fruits). During this
period, she went to the vicinity of the base and contacted Zhao Xuefei with a transparent mobile phone. The other party made an appointment with her.
Youxi guessed that the other party asked her to meet this time to talk about leaving, so she drove the off-road RV to the vicinity of the base again the next day.
"Are you sure?"
Youxi was actually a little surprised by Zhao Xuefei's decision, and couldn't say much. In her heart, the probability ratio of Zhao Xuefei leaving with them and staying was: 5.5:4.5.
The difference of 0.5 is that she didn't expect that in just three or four months, the other party has already gained friends and comrades who are hard to give up.
Humans are social animals. Although the material living conditions in the base are not so good, the comrades who can accompany her through life and death and comfort her with a smile when she is depressed obviously make up for the material gap in spirit.
What's more, now that the cancer in the base has been cleared, the new planting plan is in full swing, and with the mutant plant notes she left behind, life here will definitely get better slowly.
And Yu Li also has a brand new life and people she cares about here. Zhao Xuefei feels that she can't let go of all this and leave with You Xi and the others.
"Well, if it was when the animals and plants had just mutated, I might not hesitate at all and would take my mother and go with you. Even if my mother and your mother would quarrel in the future, that is a matter for the future. But it's different now... I have finally learned to rely on myself, and now I sleep soundly every day. My mother and I have become accustomed to this kind of life... We can live well."
You Xi looked at each other: "But if you follow us, life will be more comfortable. There are some things I can't say for the time being, but I think you know that what you are giving up may be a life without any worries at all." "
I know what I'm giving up." Zhao Xuefei looked at her with bright eyes. If it was just a guess before - a guess observed from some details of You Xi's cooking and making coffee and milk tea, now that the other party said this, she could almost confirm it.
So, where in the world are there any strangers who can give her a sense of security and familiarity?
The reason why she felt a reassuring familiarity when she first met him was because he was her relative.
But this should also be You Xi's biggest secret. Once it is leaked, it will bring endless troubles to her and her parents in the future.
Therefore, even if there is such a guess, Zhao Xuefei did not ask.
Everyone has their own opportunities, she has it, and the other party has it too.
You Xi looked at her and smiled slowly: "Thank you." Thank you for having a guess, but not asking questions to the end.
"Thank you for what, sister, I don't understand what you are talking about."
You Xi pressed the other party's head and told her that Zhou Ningyuan owed her a promise.
In Youxi's view, this is a golden ticket to avoid death. At the critical moment, when it is most needed, it gives Zhao Xuefei a way out.
As long as Zhou Ningyuan is alive, she will always have a way out.
**
After making the decision and speaking it out, Zhao Xuefei also put down the stone that was weighing on her heart.
Afterwards, the two of them discussed it, and Zhao Xuefei took Youli out of the base and went to the off-road RV waiting nearby to meet You Feng and Fan Qi.
It was only the day before the meeting that Youli was told by her daughter that she had accidentally met her eldest brother and his wife.
After learning that the other party was safe and sound and had met with Zhao Xuefei a few days ago, Yuli hit her daughter for the first time: "What are you thinking? Why did you wait until now to tell me? Why? Are you afraid that I, your mother, will still be angry with your elder brother at this time!"
"I know you, they are doing well, much better than you and me, and I am afraid that you will be angry again..."
"You are saying that I am petty and jealous in a roundabout way, right!" "
Then you have to prove it with facts and convince me."
"Stinky girl! Just wait!" Yuli was so angry that she held her breath, determined to prove that in such a big environment, she would only feel touched and happy when she saw her relatives again.
But she was shocked when she saw the giant steel RV for the first time.
"Wow, this RV is quite big... There's even a lift terrace. This must be a small two-story apartment!... Well, it's really convenient to have a refrigerator. The meat can be frozen for a long time..."
Fortunately, after the initial novelty wore off, Yuli was more relieved to see her relatives again.
That day, the reunited relatives gathered together and had a reunion dinner. However, Yuli did not stay in the RV. In the evening, she returned to the base with Zhao Xuefei.
To her, the RV is good, but nothing is better than her own doghouse. The small room she and Zhao Xuefei live in at the base is much better than the collective bunk beds that other people in the base sleep in. At
least they have a room of their own. Her daughter has become confident and happy, laughing every day. She is also very capable and has completed many tasks. Now when she walks in the base, any teammate who knows Zhao Xuefei will call her "Auntie" affectionately when they see her.
Every time other team members call her affectionately like this, other refugees in the base will look at her with envy.
She looked at those envious eyes, as if she saw her former self. Now, Zhao Xuefei has also become "someone else's child" in the mouths of others, and she has become the envied mother of everyone.
The rest of the days passed very quickly.
Opening a shop, occasionally taking Fan Qi and You Feng out for training, meeting Zhao Xuefei... You Xi spent almost every day of her remaining days rich and fulfilling.
The rumors of "Star House" have slowly spread, and she occasionally meets two people who come from far away and want to do business with "Star House".
Those people are survivors with special difficulties and have no personal connections with the authorities. You Xi will first identify the authenticity of the other party's difficulties and then provide help.
These people are asking for medical supplies, such as injections for diabetics, heart disease drugs, etc.
Fortunately, You Xi has a rich variety of supplies here, especially after the last world, when she lived in the hospital, she stocked up a lot of medical drugs.
Therefore, this kind of response to every request once again pushed "Star House" to a miraculous height.
On April 4, she posted a message outside the "Star House" that she would close her business on Nanhai Island, and then disappeared in an instant with her car.
On April 5, Zhao Xuefei went to the agreed location again and met her in the off-road RV.
For Youxi, this was the last time they saw each other before leaving. She once again prepared a backpack for her, which contained some common medicines, several boxes of rechargeable bullets, and several bags of chocolate and candies of various flavors.
After she left, it was difficult for Zhao Xuefei to eat desserts, so she prepared this large-portion, small-packaged chocolate for her so that she could eat it slowly.
Zhao Xuefei felt something was wrong and asked Youxi if it was time to say goodbye.
"Yes, it is indeed goodbye. We will meet again if we have the chance in the future." As long as she can solve the problem of crossing the ocean, she will definitely be able to come to Nanhai Island again.
"Sister, be careful. The more secrets there are, the more you cannot let your guard down. I hope you and your uncle and aunt are all fine. We can go camping by the sea again next time, have a barbecue at sunset, and fall asleep while looking at the stars and chatting together..."
"Yes, I will. You take care of yourself too, and protect yourself and your aunt."
Some memories are beautiful because they are not easy to come by.
After separation and hardship, it will be especially beautiful when you reunite again.
The joy and warmth of camping by the sea that day will remain in their memories forever.
**
At midnight on April 6, in the simulated apartment, the world mission was delivered.
[The eighth apocalyptic world:
Difficulty: Advanced.
World type: Seven Hells.
World identity: Vice President of the group.
World mission: 1. Survive for one year. (Complete to get 1,000 star coins), 2. Randomly refresh the mission. (Divided into optional and non-optional, the number of star coins you can get after completing it depends on the selected mission).
Failure of world mission: Death.
Youxi was stunned.
Advanced apocalyptic world? !
Seven Hells?
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