Chapter 2 Human cubs seem to die easily
The man took Xingxing and held her in his arms.
Zhou Xiangyang only has one complete arm, and it is this arm, strong and powerful, that holds Xingxing firmly.
"Brother Dong, thank you. I'm still selling vegetables today and don't have time. I'll wait until next time when you're free..."
The man who came with Xingxing interrupted him and waved his hand, "Stop, stop, stop. Don't be polite to me. I'm just doing something that happens to me. Someone is coming to pick vegetables from your stall. You should take the child over quickly. I have to go home too. Your sister-in-law is waiting for me to go back for dinner."
After saying that, he left. Before leaving, he stuffed a small piece of cake into Xingxing's arms, saying that it was originally bought for his son and it was no longer fresh, so he would buy a new one on the way back.
After he left, Zhou Xiangyang looked down at the child in his arms.
"I asked you to wait at home but you refused. Are you hot?" he asked as he walked towards his stall holding Xingxing, and from a distance he began to greet the customers who were picking and choosing vegetables at his stall.
He put Xingxing on the ground and gave his small stool to Xingxing. He stood aside, handing bags to customers with one hand, and used his tall body to block the dazzling hot sunlight in the evening for the children behind him.
Qiuqiu stayed quietly above Xingxing's head and didn't make any sound from beginning to end.
Because it knows that the systems responsible for salvation in the Quick Travel Bureau and the General Administration have different functions. The Salvation Department is to guide and accompany the host in his growth, while the function of the Quick Travel Department is to issue tasks and restrict the host from doing anything illegal.
In this case, the less it speaks, the less restriction it places on the star.
It hopes that Xingxing can truly understand the feelings of human cubs and the emotional ties between them and their loved ones.
It hopes that the stars can receive and feel more love.
And the stars are always quiet.
From the time they met until now, he has never taken the initiative to call Zhou Xiangyang "Dad".
It’s not that he can’t shout, it’s just that Xingxing doesn’t understand what father and mother mean to humans.
Xingxing once thought that he had a mother, but in fact, how could a little zombie have a human mother who abandoned him?
And the existence of my father... is even more unfamiliar.
Xingxing sat on a small stool with her knees bent, her two little hands on her knees, supporting her little face, and she tilted her head to look at the busy Zhou Xiangyang quietly and silently.
Fragments of memories about this human kept flashing through my mind.
Xingxing captured many memory fragments, but they all belonged to the original Zhou Chenxing. Xingxing was in the perspective of an observer and could not empathize with him.
"Why are you so well behaved today?" A hand suddenly fell on my head and my hair was rubbed twice.
Xingxing raised her little face, and her dark and clear eyes reflected Zhou Xiangyang's familiar yet unfamiliar appearance, as well as the other's slightly frowning and slightly worried look.
"dad?"
Xingxing tentatively called out these two unfamiliar words softly.
But it made Zhou Xiangyang smile with a relaxed expression. The man half-knelt in front of him and pinched his delicate cheek with his rough fingertips, not daring to use too much force. He said with a smile: "Why, is Xingxing meeting daddy for the first time today?"
He was joking, but Xingxing was nodding seriously.
"Dad, hug me~" The child sat on a small stool and opened his arms to him.
It was their first meeting, but they were destined to be a family for the rest of their lives. Xingxing felt that she could express her love for each other with a hug.
Because in the doomsday, every human who likes the little zombie star will hug it like this. Even on the way to escape, it rarely walks a few steps on the ground by itself.
Zhou Xiangyang didn't know what the little guy was thinking, but at this ordinary yet unusual moment, after a slight pause, he chose to indulge the child's sudden intimacy.
He used his only left hand to hug the stars on the small stool.
Xingxing skillfully stretched out her little hands and put them around his neck to steady her body, and then in the scorching smoke of the food street, among the dense crowds of people, the father and son just sat on a short bench, as if they were destined to depend on each other for the rest of their lives.
This is Xingxing’s first day as a human.
It was also the first time that Xingxing lived as a human being in peacetime.
He was very quiet, curled up in the arms of his new father, staring curiously at every passerby with his beautiful, clear eyes, and silently observing their behavior.
He has to learn how to be a human being, not just a human cub, but also how to grow up and become an adult human being in the future.
Occasionally, pedestrians would stop in front of their small vegetable stall, squat down to ask about the price of vegetables, ask dad Zhou Xiangyang for a plastic bag, bargain in different tones to get a lower price, and even scan the code with their mobile phones to pay...
When the first customer came, Xingxing crawled out of Zhou Xiangyang's arms by herself without disturbing his business.
"Xingxing, do you want to help?" Qiuqiu watched Xingxing for a long time and finally couldn't hold back his chatterbox nature.
Hearing its question, the child shook his head gently.
"Then do you want to watch cartoons?" Qiuqiu pulled out the light curtain, not wanting Xingxing to be bored.
But the child still shook his head.
Qiuqiu stopped asking questions. After putting away the light curtain, he squatted on the child's head again and watched the vivid atmosphere of the world with him.
When Zhou Xiangyang was busy, he would occasionally look back at his son.
Seeing that the little guy was always sitting on the small stool obediently with his chin propped up, and was neither as lively and mischievous as usual, nor did he feel bored and want to buy snacks from other stalls, I couldn't help but feel a little worried.
Did this kid get confused during his nap today?
Why does he look so quiet, as if he has replaced his son with another one?
Could it be that he is sick?
But when he was free, Zhou Xiangyang touched the little guy's forehead with his hand. If it weren't for the sun heating up the little guy, he would have suspected that this kid had his own constant temperature system, so that he was warm in winter and cool in summer.
He thought of what others had said: If a child is quiet, he must be up to something.
While weighing dishes and settling bills for customers, Zhou Xiangyang was thinking about all sorts of things in his head. This was his first time being a father, and seeing his child acting so abnormally, he felt a little uneasy.
So after seeing off a customer, he simply took out five dollars from his pocket and handed it to the dazed little guy.
“?” Xingxing looked up blankly.
Zhou Xiangyang stuffed the money into his son's hand and said, "Don't sit here and bask in the sun. It's so hot. Go buy some snacks with your own money. Don't be greedy for the cool air. If you have a stomachache, I can't give you an injection."
When in doubt, give money.
Although he was very poor, he was always poor himself and not his son.
Even though he worked hard to earn these five dollars, if this money could buy his son a happy smile, Zhou Xiangyang would willingly work hard to earn more five dollars.
However, the little fellow didn't jump up and run away like he did before after taking the money. Instead, he held the money and looked at him with his head tilted. After a long while, he nodded slowly, and slowly got up and left.
Looking at his son's small back, Zhou Xiangyang smiled and shook his head. This brat...
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"Xingxing, this is money." Qiuqiu answered the questions of the confused child.
The reason why Xingxing had been staring at Zhou Xiangyang just now was because she didn't understand what he was giving her. Later, she found the money from the memory fragments, and then she nodded and left a little slowly.
But memories are just memories, so Qiuqiu still said to him: "This money is the most important trading currency in peacetime, but the purchase amount of money in each world is different. Let's go to the supermarket first to see what snacks we can buy."
In the apocalypse, money is less useful than toilet paper. Xingxing is not a human cub and has never lived in the human world. The transactions it sees are basically barter or purchases with gold, gems and crystal cores.
This is the first time that Xingxing has taken money from humans.
The two little ones walked into a nearby small supermarket.
As soon as he entered the door, the coolness of the air conditioner hit him in the face. Xingxing was not unfamiliar with supermarkets, but this was the first time he had seen a supermarket with such neatly arranged shelves and such densely arranged items.
With the help of the ball, the child, who was not even as tall as the cash register, walked into the supermarket right under the boss's nose, looking curiously at everything in sight.
"Let me see...what I can buy with 5 yuan..."
The ball of light flew in the supermarket and quickly scanned every priced item in it, and then displayed them to the stars using a light curtain.
"This spicy noodle looks delicious, but the stomach of a human cub is very fragile. Maybe it will give you a stomachache after eating it?"
"And this water, the color looks so beautiful! But my database says that there are a lot of technological tricks in human drinking water. It might not be good for children to drink too much, right?"
“This candy…”
Qiuqiu chattered with Xingxing about many kinds of snacks and drinks that he had never seen or eaten before. In the end, he asked back in frustration and disbelief: "Why do human cubs seem to be unable to eat anything, but also seem to be able to eat a little bit of everything?!"
Not only was it shocked, but the stars that heard it muttering were also stunned.
Human babies...why do they seem to be so easy to die, yet so hard to die?
The child lowered his head, raised his hand and touched his heart where he could clearly feel its beating, pursed his lips and thought for a few seconds, then turned and walked to the refrigerator, opened the door, and stood on tiptoe to take out two bottles of slightly cool mineral water.
"Can I drink this?" Xingxing asked Qiuqiu carefully.
In a curious yet cautious tone.
"After testing, this is the safest and most non-toxic product in this supermarket. It should be safe to drink, right?" Qiuqiu was not too sure.
After all, Xingxing used to drink spiritual spring water...
After getting the answer, Xingxing breathed a sigh of relief, hesitated for a moment, holding the two bottles of mineral water, then stood on tiptoe and put one bottle back.
"Auntie, buy some water~" Xingxing walked to the boss behind the cashier with the water and money.
When he came out of the supermarket, he had a bottle of mineral water in his arms and two dollars and fifty cents in coins in his pocket.
"Cub, why don't we go find that grandma first..."
Qiuqiu couldn't help but feel sad for her son: "In the story, she seems to be a little richer than you, her father."
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