Chapter 51 My Partner Knocks on the Door
The village road the car was driving on was not wide to begin with, and with the damage caused by the earthquake, the road was extremely bumpy. It was okay as the truck was carrying more weight, but it was torture for the people to drive off-road for more than an hour, especially as the weather was hot and the windows could not be opened. The stuffiness and body aches made the group move forward instinctively, with almost no communication at all.
Fortunately, more zombies appeared in the rural roads, which could divert some attention.
The weather in July and August is very hot, and the necrotic skin on the zombies' bodies gradually began to rot, with pieces of rotten flesh everywhere. It was obvious at a glance that something was wrong, and a foul smell began to spread in the air.
As it was almost noon, it suddenly started to rain heavily. The road became even more muddy and the vision was directly affected. The few people who had originally planned to just refuel and leave had to drive the car in.
The supplies in the two large trucks restricted them from finding a place to stay. After making a circle, the leader Li Zhuang parked the car at a half-collapsed government office building.
There were four or five cars parked randomly in the yard. Li Zhuang didn't pay much attention to them at first. After he dealt with the zombies in the yard and closed the door and went in, he found that more than a dozen people had gathered in the hall.
Three women and two children were sitting in the corner. A man in his thirties or forties was holding a weak man with a knife across his neck. Several other men were trying to snatch something from the arms of a boy lying on the ground.
Li Zhuang's sudden entry caused a pause in the hall, and several men looked over vigilantly.
"Hide from the rain." Li Zhuang glanced and turned his sight to the empty space. Antonio and Dean, who came in shortly after, also glanced and followed Li Zhuang without interfering.
Seeing that the newcomer had no intention of interfering, the men turned their attention back to the boy on the ground.
The man holding the hostage signaled the people who were surrounding him to move aside, picked up the boy who seemed to be so weak that he was only breathing his last breath, and walked up to him, "If you don't hand him over, I will kill him."
"Yes, little brat, take out the things quickly."
"Hurry up, or I'll make you bleed"
Several men were talking to each other, and the boy lying on the ground raised his head and glared at everyone fiercely, like a little wolf cub. Seeing that the knife in the man’s hand was about to cut the boy’s neck, he quickly took out a black backpack from his arms and said, “Let…let him go.”
"It would have been better if you handed it over earlier." A man closest to him quickly pulled the bag over.
The leading man pushed the person in his hand onto the boy, and the boy got up and quickly hugged the person in his arms.
A few men seemed unsatisfied after snatching the bags. They looked at the two large trucks outside, huddled together and whispered, glancing at Li Zhuang from time to time. Li Zhuang met their gazes with a smile.
The leading man didn't listen to the men's grumbling. He took out a piece of bread from the stolen backpack and handed it to the woman and child sitting in the corner. He threw the remaining biscuits to the other men to share.
At this time, several people had come in one after another, shaking off the water on their clothes. Lu Weiyi, the last one to come in, had a towel that Lin Yimu took out of his backpack covering his head. He walked in slowly under Lin Yimu's urging voice.
Looking around, he immediately recognized the bag in the man's hand and raised his eyebrows, "Hey! Where did you get this bag?"
The hall remained calm for the time being, but everyone looked over at once after hearing his words.
Before the man holding the bag spoke, Li Zhuang asked, "You stole it. Why is this bag special?"
"Mine," Lu Weiyi replied.
"If you say it's yours, then it's yours? Even if you wrote your name on it or called out your name, I still said it was mine." An old lady who looked a little older in the corner grabbed the bag and hugged it tightly to her chest.
"It's really written, LWY in the right corner, custom-made by *, 160,000 each." Lu Weiyi said expressionlessly, and when he saw several people's faces changed, he asked again, "Where did it come from?" He remembered that this bag was given to the man who went to visit him in prison together with another one.
"Where was it robbed?" Li Zhuang raised his chin towards the corner.
Lu Weiyi looked over and saw a young boy sitting there. His bare upper body was covered in bruises and his face was also wounded. The corners of his mouth were cracked and bleeding. He was hugging someone tightly in his arms, who was wrapped tightly in a coat and it was impossible to tell whether it was a man or a woman.
"Where are you from?" Lu Weiyi asked again.
When the people over there heard what he meant, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
“I…I…”
"Mine," Lu Weiyi said again.
"I...Brother Sa's," the boy finally said with difficulty.
Lu Weiyi pursed his lips, "Where did he get it from?"
"He...he...his friend...gave it to me."
A gift from a friend?
I didn't give it to anyone?
Lu Weiyi reacted for a moment and tentatively asked the boy, "Xu Sa?"
The boy’s eyes suddenly lit up, like a puppy seeing food, “Help…help…”
"Well, I know it's him, where is he?"
"...Save him," the boy said, and lifted a corner of the tightly wrapped man's clothes, revealing Xu Ergou's androgynous face.
Lu Weiyi was quite annoyed by this communication without any tacit understanding. Li Zhuang on the side simply laughed without giving him face, but after being glared at by Lu Weiyi, he restrained himself a little.
Lu Weiyi walked a few steps to the two of them, squatted down, patted Xu Sa's face, and shouted: "Xu Ergou? Xu Ergou?"
"He...he...he..." The boy wanted to say something anxiously but couldn't. He slapped himself in anger.
"I have a fever, I felt it out"
Gu Qingyue walked over and took out a small box from his bag in front of several people's surprised gazes. He opened it and found a stethoscope and thermometer inside. He clipped a thermometer on Xu Sa and tapped Xu Sa's body while smiling, "It's a professional habit."
"Very powerful." Lu Weiyi waited for him to finish percussion and looked at the thermometer.
39 degrees 5.
"You're almost becoming a fool," Lu Weiyi said as he handed the thermometer to Gu Qingyue.
"Let's reduce the fever first. Do we have any medicine in the car?" The supplies they found were just food and daily necessities. There was really no medicine at all. It depended on whether there was anything at Lu Weiyi's house. Gu Qingyue asked Lin Yimu who was packing up.
"I have some at home," Lu Weiyi said, and went out to the car, took out a medicine box from the space, stuffed a pill of antipyretic into Xu Sa's mouth, and directly poured some water into it.
"Cough cough cough... cough cough..." Xu Sa started coughing due to choking, but the boy covered his mouth with his hand to prevent him from spitting out the medicine, "Eat... eat it."
Xu Sa opened her eyes slightly in a daze and saw Lu Weiyi.
"Take medicine," Lu Weiyi spoke first.
Xu Sa blinked her eyes, and under the boy's half-force, she swallowed the pill and fell asleep again.
Lu Weiyi asked the boy to feed him some water, then looked at him, "I'm his childhood friend, Lu Weiyi, what's your name?"
"Liu Rui"
"How did you get to know him?"
"Prison... cellmate"
"How long has he been ill?"
"One...one week"
While Lu Weiyi was asking Liu Rui about the situation, Li Zhuang looked at the men opposite and said, "Brother, you've taken the things, so just pack them up and return them."
The old lady was obviously unwilling, and was pulled over by the man next to her and thrown towards Li Zhuang. Fearing that they would unite to cause trouble, she lowered her posture and said, "The woman and children haven't eaten for two days. We really had no choice."
Do you have to cut off other people's lives when you have no choice?
Li Zhuang stretched out his hand and grabbed it steadily without even looking at him. He flipped through it and said, "Oh, this really has our kid's name on it. You must keep it well." He turned around and threw it to Lu Weiyi, who took it and gave it back to Liu Rui.
The man was humiliated, but he was able to bend and stretch. He didn't say anything else. He sat next to the children with a knife in hand, and while he was cutting their food, he was on guard against them teaming up to do something bad.
In fact, Lu Weiyi didn't pay any attention to their intentions. As the saying goes, in the end times, only the strong survive, the big fish eat the small fish and the small fish eat the shrimps. Moreover, compared to those who killed and robbed people, it was already very good that he only robbed things.
Liu Rui had difficulty speaking. Seeing that he was eager to express himself, Lu Weiyi handed him a bottle of water and motioned for him to speak slowly, even though the cut on his mouth had started to bleed and he was still talking with great effort.
Liu Rui took a small sip and talked for a long time, repeating a word several times, and finally he made it clear.
When Xu Sa first received the things from Lu Weiyi, he found it quite strange. After all, with the help of Zhuang Mingxu, he had received textbooks, mobile phones, computers, cigarettes, alcohol, etc., but he had never received a pack of instant noodles, ham or compressed biscuits.
These things were sent to him immediately after the earthquake. Although Xu Sa complained to his little follower Liu Rui that they were sent all these things, he was actually very happy to be remembered.
When the communication was cut off and there was no sign of it being restored, and the surrounding prisoners began to escape again, Xu Sa realized that something was wrong and quickly hid his things secretly.
It wasn't long before he was released from prison. Xu Sa didn't run away like others. At the beginning, he helped the prison guards control the situation. It was not until a few days later when there was still no rescue and zombies appeared that he felt it was no longer safe.
At that time, he was thinking of going to the community to find him as Lu Weiyi had instructed, but he ended up falling ill.
Liu Rui was a stutterer from the countryside. He was uneducated and had trouble speaking to others. In such a chaotic place, no one was willing to spend time listening to him ask for directions, so they simply took him and escaped with a group of inmates.
At first, Liu Rui wanted to take him to the Ping'an Safety Base to see a doctor, but everyone in the base was in danger and sick people were not allowed to enter at all. They almost treated him as a zombie. Liu Rui could only take him to hide from place to place, and the hardship involved was self-evident.
You have to be on guard against zombies as well as people. Fortunately, Liu Rui later awakened his fire ability, which scared away some people. But there were more and more zombies, and their lives remained unchanged. Plus, Liu Rui couldn't drive, and Xu Sa couldn't let him carry a burden across half the city to find someone. His body also got worse from the initial weakness.
Liu Rui witnessed the night when Ping An base was attacked by zombies. He saw a team leaving the city that day, and he spent a lot of supplies to exchange two seats for someone to take them. However, he developed a high fever and fainted on the way. The owner of the car said that he would not take them with him no matter what, and even returned some of their things, leaving the two of them here.
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