Chapter 1125 The Returnee's Notes 199
As for the prey, Xie Ning chose to go into town with the old man to sell it for money, partly to observe Qing Shi Town.
"Grandma, are you going?"
Xie Li was clearly not interested in this. "You go by yourself."
Seemingly remembering something, he advised, "Just be natural."
At first, Xie Ning didn't understand, but when they arrived in Qing Shi Town, she realized what Xie Li meant.
She truly hadn't expected that after leaving the village, which felt like a real world, the outside world would seem so strange.
It feels like the image quality is blurry.
It's like a blurred painting, where the faces are indistinct and even the sounds are inaudible.
No, there were also buildings. The surrounding buildings were obviously illusory, making it impossible to see the details. Only then did Xie Ning have a real sense of the old man's memories.
This place feels like a memory, like a dream, an illusion.
However, the old man and other people from Shangxi Village who came to the town for the market talked to other people who couldn't see, just like normal people.
Xie Ning could only guess what those whose faces he couldn't see were saying from the villagers' conversations and expressions.
They followed the old man to a person whose face was blurred. Although the person's face was not clear, his clothes were easy to identify.
It was obvious that they were dressed better than the old man and the others.
Xie Ning glanced inside the door. This should be the backyard of the restaurant. If he was not mistaken, this person should be the manager of the restaurant.
He was examining Xie Ning's prey when he noticed the bamboo rat with a missing tooth and seemed to feel a little sorry for it.
Although he couldn't hear anything, Xie Ning still handed over his prey with a natural expression, letting the old man and the man bargain.
After successfully exchanging some money, Xie Ning counted the copper coins and silver pieces in his small purse and asked, "Uncle, do you know where the butcher shop is?"
The old man gestured for Xie Ning to get in the car, and casually asked, "Young lady, are you going to buy meat?"
"Yes, Xuancao and the others have helped me a lot, so I should treat them to some meat. Uncle, you also took in my grandmother and me, so we deserve your thanks."
The old man laughed upon hearing this, "Meat is very precious, young lady, are you willing to part with it?"
"Of course, if the old man is willing to part with it, why wouldn't I?"
"Yes, why?" the old man murmured, his eyes filled with sadness and self-mockery.
In the following days, Xie Ning went hunting in the mountains with her and then sold the meat in town, successfully buying meat so that the little girl could have a few meals of meat.
And because of the meat Xie Ning gave her, the old man's family treated her very warmly, especially his eldest daughter-in-law, who often gave Xie Ning some wild fruits to eat.
It's not particularly good, and it's not as expensive as meat extract, but it's still something that took some thought.
Seeing Xie Ning's calm and composed demeanor, Xie Li was somewhat satisfied and said, "The time to leave is approaching."
Xie Ning was somewhat puzzled. "Can this really be deduced?"
"Of course, most people leave the 'realm' on the day the city falls and everyone dies." After all, everyone is gone.
They arrived only a little over a month after the start of the war.
She had already entered the "realm" once, so she remembered the day the city fell.
It was only because the old ghost they encountered was benevolent that they were able to proceed so smoothly and without any danger inside. If they had encountered an evil ghost, the situation would have been very different.
A few days later, the rain soaked the land and the sky was washed clean, becoming very clear.
The old man drove the car. Xie Ning had caught quite a few prey in the past few days, including a wild boar, so his income had increased considerably.
After all, Xie Ning was very generous with the money for the car.
Seeing Xie Ning looking down at the ground, the old man simply said, "Child, are you homesick?"
"Huh?" Xie Ning was a little confused.
"Uncle knows that the drought is severe where you are, and the fields are cracked into pieces. There's nothing we can do about it, but after suffering disaster, good fortune is sure to follow. Things will get better and better for you in the future."
Xie Ning's eyes curved into a smile. "Yes, we will all get better and better."
But she couldn't be happy, because their fate was already sealed.
Suddenly, a figure appeared ahead, leaning on a cane. He was dressed in tattered clothes and had no straw sandals on his feet. Seeing the old man driving his cart, he reached out to stop him. "Uncle, could you tell me how to get to Qing Shi Town?"
The old man looked him up and down. "A refugee, huh?"
He said the exact same words as when he first met Xie Ning and the other person, except that Xie Ning was standing by the car back then, but now he was sitting in the car, his eyes fixed on the refugee of medium build.
As it grew late, they were told to rest temporarily in Shangxi Village, and then be taken to Qingshi Town in a couple of days for the market.
The other party disguised himself very well, but the calluses on his hands couldn't lie.
That wasn't the hand holding a hoe, but the hand holding a pen.
And there's another very important point: there wasn't a single black speck of dirt under his fingernails. This isn't a refugee; even the cleanest person wouldn't become clean after being stranded for so long.
But the old man didn't notice this. Instead, he chatted with the man with a smile, asking where he came from and whether it was a natural disaster or a war.
Xie Ning knew in her heart that this person was definitely not right, but should she tell the old man?
The man seemed not to see Xie Ning at all, and only spoke to the old man.
In fact, Xie Ning had also noticed these past few days that some people in the village and town were indeed very spiritual, as if they were real, while others seemed to be unconscious NPCs, mechanically repeating the tasks at hand, and acting as if they could not see Xie Ning's calls.
Xie Ning had asked Xie Li about this, but Xie Li didn't know the reason either. She only guessed that it might be because Lao Gui's abilities were insufficient, but she herself had encountered the same phenomenon when she came in before.
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