Chapter 69 Chapter 69 Zombies
Child?
He Junxia raised her eyebrows: "Call me brother."
Probably not expecting his reaction like this, the dusty child was stunned for a long moment before lowering his head and whispering, "Brother."
His voice was hoarse as if he hadn't spoken in a long time.
He Junxia frowned slightly and said, "You are a person with special abilities."
His firm tone made the child unsure of how to respond for a moment. He paused before nodding slightly.
"What kind?"
He Junxia softened his tone, a look of pity appeared in his eyes, and he obviously relaxed his guard.
The child stammered, "I, I can control the wind."
He Junxia was surprised. "This is my first time seeing a wind-type mutant. Can you let me take a look?"
The child obediently spread out his hands, and a small tornado immediately rose from his palms.
"Gurgle~" "Gurgle gurgle~"
At the same time, there was a rumbling sound in his abdomen. He Junxia's expression and tone became softer. He sighed and said, "Are you hungry? Come and eat something."
The child didn't move, but just looked at the person in front of him timidly, swallowing from time to time.
He Junxia thought he hadn't heard clearly, so she repeated it softly. The child finally seemed to realize what was happening and shook his head, "Brother, I'm not hungry."
"Gurgle, gurgle" "Gurgle, gurgle"
The moment the words fell, protests from his abdomen began to appear, and He Junxia couldn't help but smile.
He asked doubtfully, "Where is your master?"
But as soon as he said it, he felt a little regretful, and a look of regret appeared on his face.
After all, if the child's parents were nearby or were reliable parents, the child would not have become so dirty and skinny.
As expected
The child lowered his head and said timidly, "My mother is gone, and my father and aunt don't want me anymore."
He Juanxia frowned and muttered dissatisfiedly, "As expected, if there is a stepfather, there will be a stepmother."
He stood up and handed the child the bowl of crab roe noodles and chopsticks, his voice becoming gentler. "Don't be afraid, I'm not a bad person. Take your time eating. When you're done, there's more. I'll go get another pair of bowls and chopsticks."
However, after leaving the child's sight, the smile on He Junxia's face disappeared instantly, replaced by vigilance and thought.
When he came to the supermarket, he did not find any obvious signs of human activity, which means that the child did not come to the supermarket often, or it was his first time.
This area is the city center of City A, with countless business districts and a bustling and prosperous environment. It is also the place with the highest density of zombies when the end of the world comes.
A child who could live alone outside the base for nearly half a year and still avoid the zombies outside and enter the supermarket safely could definitely not be such a cowardly person.
As for the child's statement that his mother had left and his father and aunt no longer wanted him, He Junxia didn't completely believe it.
Although hatred involuntarily flashed in the child's eyes when he mentioned his father, he was still a person with special abilities after all, and the four major bases in City A provided much better benefits to people with special abilities than to ordinary people.
Whether from a human or personal perspective, a normal person wouldn't easily abandon a son with special abilities, unless the situation was urgent or someone offered a higher price.
He Junxia thought of the scar he had just seen when he approached the child, and his expression was so cold that ice chips could fall out of it - that was the mark left by the craniotomy, which he had seen during his internship in the hospital.
Where He Junxia couldn't see, the child didn't even look at the crab roe noodles in his hand, but quickly looked around and analyzed the surrounding environment.
As his eyes fell on the cooked crab shell, he felt a mixture of nervousness and envy. If he were just as strong, he wouldn't have to worry about being captured by bad guys again.
He didn't want to be locked in a small room and have his blood drawn.
“Isn’t it delicious?”
He Junxia approached with new dishes and chopsticks.
The child took a large chopstick of crab roe-covered noodles and stuffed it into his mouth, mumbling, "Good word."
He Junxia smiled: "If it tastes good, eat more."
He poured the remaining crab roe noodles in the pot into the bowl and used chopsticks to mix the golden and shiny crab roe with the curly noodles, making sure that every noodle was covered with sauce.
As soon as you put it in your mouth, the salty and delicious crab roe first fills your mouth. After a slight chew, the soft and elastic curly noodles squeeze in, bringing richer layers and taste.
After taking a few big mouthfuls of noodles, He Junxia picked up a large piece of chewy and tender crab meat from the pot of spicy crab.
The meat of mutated animals is more tender than that of ordinary animals. Even the strong smell of chili peppers cannot cover up the sweetness, tenderness and chewiness of the crab meat.
While eating, He Junxia did not forget to pick up a few steamed crab legs for the child.
I don't know if it was because of his casual attitude or because of the temptation of food, but the child was not as nervous and afraid when eating as he was when I first saw him. He ate so voraciously that it looked like he hadn't had a full meal in hundreds of years.
He Junxia asked: "Do you want more?"
This mutant crab is very big. Its claw alone is bigger than an adult's face. Even though its appetite has doubled compared to the beginning of the apocalypse, it still needs several meals to finish it.
Multiple little ones are totally fine.
"Brother, I'm full, thank you."
The child put down his clean bowl, an unconcealable satisfaction revealed on his timid face, and he subconsciously licked the corner of his mouth covered with sauce.
He Junxia couldn't bear to watch it anymore.
"Don't move."
The child subconsciously stopped moving, with his tongue still against the corner of his mouth, but he didn't even dare to blink.
If it weren't for the subtle movement of his nose and chest, He Junxia would have thought he was a humanoid doll.
The child looked at He Junxia nervously, but he only saw him take out a small pack of wet wipes from the pocket of his jacket and handed it to him.
"Come and wipe your hands and face."
His tone was as calm and gentle as always.
The child's tense muscles hidden under his dirty clothes gradually relaxed. He looked at his dirty black paws, then at the boy's clean white palms. He pursed his lips and carefully took the wet wipes without any skin contact.
He opened the seal and pulled out a wet wipe. The part of the wipe that was pinched by his fingers immediately turned black and was so dirty that his original appearance could not be seen.
He Junxia withdrew her gaze and stopped staring at the child.
Judging from his height, he should be about seven or eight years old, which is about the age where he needs to be more concerned about his reputation.
When the child found that the person who had been looking at him had turned away, he breathed a sigh of relief without leaving a trace. He took out several wet wipes and wiped his hands and face quickly and carefully.
He Junxia frowned again.
Unlike the stunning beauty of the heroine in novels and TV dramas who is revealed after wiping off the dust, the child's cheeks appear even thinner after being freed from the dust, with flesh sticking to the bones without any excess fat.
It is visibly in very bad condition.
The back of the hand that had been wiped clean was covered with dense pinholes, new, old, and half-new, as if there was no time for the skin to breathe, which made people think of a terrible word.
——Experimental subject
A flame of anger suddenly rose in He Junxia's heart. He didn't dare to imagine how much suffering this child had endured to become what he was now.
He Junxia took a deep breath and suppressed his anger.
He asked, "What's your name?"
The child looked at him intently and begged, "Brother, I don't have a name. Can you give me a new one?"
Even though she knew that he was acting, He Junxia couldn't help but feel soft-hearted.
"Then I'll call you Chaoyang."
"It represents a new day and a new beginning."
He Junxia couldn't help but reach out and touch Chaoyang's head. The child stared at his hand and didn't look away.
Then He Junxia got his hands covered in dust.
The two looked at each other, and the child's ears turned red.
He Junxia suppressed the corner of her mouth that was about to turn upward and asked, "Where do you live now? Do you have any companions?"
The child shook his head.
He refused to say anything, and He Juanxia was too lazy to ask, so she just said, "Do you want to follow me, or I can take you to the base?"
"But let me make it clear first, I don't keep idlers here. If you want to eat, you have to work."
You can say he was careless or that he was too chaste.
His conscience would not allow him to leave a clearly malnourished child in a dangerous environment if he was able to do so, even if the child might not be that weak.
He Junxia believed that even if his parents knew about it, they would still support him in doing this, and he also wanted to know how far the experiment had progressed so that he could take precautions.
"It's okay if you don't want to. I won't stay in the supermarket for long. You can use this as a supply station and take good care of yourself."
"I'll go with you."
The child mustered up the courage to speak, his eyes full of trust in the person in front of him.
"Okay, let's go."
He Junxia put on her backpack, carried the packed crab shells and crab meat, and took her child to the clothing area to choose clothes.
He couldn't wait to give the child a bath.
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