Chapter 44: Surrender
The delicious fish soup made from five or six golden barbels is more tempting than gold to those who are often starving.
The fifty survivors all ate their fill.
While drinking their soup, they carefully looked at Mo Fei and the person who walked in behind her.
Mo Fei wore a misty blue sun-protection jacket and black cropped jeans, with his lips slightly raised, looking approachable.
The short hair not only did not diminish Mo Fei's appearance, but made her look like a college student who has not yet entered the society.
But anyone with a discerning eye could see Mo Fei's status among the group of people who came in.
Some of them stood beside Mo Fei, and some stood behind her, protecting her from almost every direction.
Lai Zi had dealt with Mo Fei before, so he was considered familiar with him.
At this moment, he was happily introducing everyone to Mo Fei and the others.
"This is Wei Xuemin, he used to be our town's Chinese teacher."
"This is Li Wei. He knows a lot. He is a long-term worker on the construction site. He can lay bricks, do plumbing, and do carpentry."
"This is Zhao Xinxin, the proprietress of an Internet cafe. The Xinghuo Internet Cafe in town was hers, but it's all rotten now."
Laizi introduced the people one by one, and stood up every time he introduced someone.
The awkwardness of the scene was comparable to the first day of school when all the students in the class took turns introducing themselves.
The monkeys in the crowd quickly lowered their heads.
He had a grudge against Mo Fei and others. What if she tried to kill him at this time?
"Don't look at me, don't look at me..." the monkey prayed mutteringly.
He had bandaged the wound on his wrist by tearing off some clothes himself, and there were many scratches and bloody scabs on his face and body, which looked like they were caused by fingernails, which was quite scary.
The two women beside him were not much better.
These two women were the ones who served Ding Hao that day. They were attracted by the monkey's cry and angered Ding Hao. After their right hands were crippled, they were locked up in a small dark room with the monkey.
Ding Hao originally wanted to let the three of them kill each other, and then only give the medicine to the survivors.
Each of the three men had one hand disabled, and they used their other hands to fight each other.
Before the winner was decided, the door of the small dark room was found to be opened from the outside.
They thought they were doomed, but unexpectedly other survivors came to save them.
Other survivors told them that the blue sky was dead and the yellow sky should be established.
Now it's time to change the pier.
The monkey was just about to use his eloquent tongue to lick the new mayor, but when he looked closely, he saw that it was Mo Fei's group.
He was recklessly teasing Mo Fei, and the wound on his hand was still painful, so he didn't dare to bring bad luck upon himself.
The two women nearby saw his look and decided to put aside their past grudges for the time being. They looked at each other and kicked the monkey out together.
The monkey was caught off guard and screamed "Ah" and fell directly at Mo Fei's feet.
Mo Fei looked down at the monkey, and before he could say anything, the monkey started to hold his head:
"Ahhh, you are so magnanimous, please don't kill me. I will get out of here right now."
Mo Fei: “…”
Why is she so popularly portrayed as a bully? That's great!
The monkey ran out wailing, and the beggar tried to hold him back but failed, and just kept stamping his feet behind him.
Just after this incident, the survivors who had been somewhat relaxed became alert again, waiting for Mo Fei's next move.
Is Mo Fei the next Ding Hao?
But Mo Fei just said lightly:
"This fish soup is my welcome gift to you. I will not occupy the ancient well alone. The high temperature will not last much longer, so you can take care of yourselves. If you want to leave, go ahead. I will not stop you."
After saying that, he turned and left.
Mo Fei and his friends settled down in Hexi Town.
Some of the old houses in the town have collapsed and are no longer habitable.
But there are still some single-family houses built in recent years that are ready for move-in.
"Uncle Lin, my mother asked me to ask you what you would like to eat for dinner today?"
Mo Jiayue lay on the wall and talked to the yard next to her.
The place where they live now was a house that two brothers in the town had built together, one on the left and the other on the right.
There was only a low wall built in the middle as a symbolic gesture, which even a child could climb over.
These two brothers must be doing well. Although they have renovated the house, they have never had the time to come back and live there.
This house has been idle for a long time, but fortunately everything inside is still complete.
There are all the necessary furniture and appliances.
After the natural disaster evolution period, the yards of the two houses were filled with heat-resistant and drought-resistant weeds, and even some strange-shaped mushrooms and unknown insects.
It took Mo Fei, Lin Jiyuan and their colleagues a whole day and night just to weed and drive away insects.
I cleaned and disinfected the house again before moving in.
Lin Ji was originally practicing boxing in the yard, but stopped when he heard Mo Jiayue's voice:
"Either is fine. Eat both."
Mo Jiayue likes to talk to handsome uncles, and then asked:
"Why don't I see Brother Lin and the other three?"
Perhaps because he was facing a child, Lin Jiyuan was more patient:
"I blasted him out to fight zombies."
"My brother and I wanted to go, too. But mom said we were still kids and couldn't do such an important job."
Mo Jiayue has now grown to 1.6 meters tall, and apart from her baby face, she doesn't look like an eight-year-old child at all.
"Your mother is right. You should listen to her."
Lin Jiyuan was silent for a while and replied.
"We listen to our mother the most. I'm going to help her soak the kelp first, or my brother will say I'm lazy. I'll tell you in secret that we'll have cold kelp salad tonight!"
After saying this, Mo Jiayue turned around and ran away.
Lin Jiyuan smiled unconsciously.
Sometimes when he looked at Mo Jianian and Mo Jiayue, he would think of his brother when he was a child.
Lin Jiye must have been this cute when he was a child.
He is twelve years older than Lin Jiye. In fact, when Lin Jiye was young, their relationship was not very deep.
When he was a child, Lin Jiye had a baby voice and was like a white dough ball. He liked playing with racing car toys and singing loudly.
I prefer to leave a voice message to Lin Jiyuan, asking him if he had eaten today and if he was happy today.
Lin Jiyuan lived a life full of gunpowder and it would take him a month or two to see these messages, so he never responded.
At that time, Lin Jiye thought that his brother hated him and was always very sad.
Lin Jiyuan never explained.
Lin Jiyuan was still working abroad until his parents died accidentally in a gas explosion.
When he rushed back, he heard that his ten-year-old brother had secretly slept under the bed where his parents' bodies were placed in the morgue for three days and three nights.
He didn't know how Lin Jiye spent those three days.
But since then, my cheerful brother seems like a different person.
Sometimes he is lively and outgoing, and sometimes he is silent and has cold eyes.
The silent and cold side of him is becoming more and more like Lin Jiyuan.
Sometimes I even sleepwalk in the middle of the night.
There were several times when Lin Jiye would have jumped straight off the balcony if Lin Jiyuan had not discovered him.
In order to take care of his younger brother, Lin Jiyuan stayed in China for three years and even moved into a house with a completely enclosed balcony.
They didn't leave until Lin Jiye no longer had sleepwalking symptoms and was attending high school boarding school.
It was during those three years that the relationship between the two brothers became very good.
Lin Jiyuan never revealed his job to his brother at that time, but he had a vague feeling that Lin Jiye had guessed it.
Because sometimes Lin Jiye would suddenly smile and ask him, what does it feel like to kill someone?
Lin Jiyuan couldn't describe how he felt when he heard this question.
He never minded immersing himself in darkness, but he didn't want to drag his closest family members into it.
It was not until Lin Jiye went to college, joined the student union and joined clubs, and was busy every day, that Lin Jiyuan felt a little relieved.
But later I received news that my younger brother was also sleepwalking in the dormitory at night...
If he could do it again, Lin Jiyuan hopes to spend more time with his younger brother when he was younger.
Instead of trying hard to make up for it and take care of him over the years.
In Hexi Town, there are still many zombies locked in various houses, which are hidden dangers of all sizes. Since they have decided to stay here temporarily, they must eliminate the hidden dangers. After all, no one wants to hear zombies banging on the door when they are sleeping well at night.
Lin Jiye walked with his brother's long sword in his hand, looking very heroic and confident.
Peng Yuan and Lan Chengyin both thought that their special abilities were better than Lin Jiye's, so they walked ahead of Lin Jiye, chasing and hacking zombies everywhere.
"We are so lucky today. These zombies knew they were running towards us from a few hundred meters away. We didn't even have to lead them."
Peng Yuan wiped the sweat from his forehead.
Lan Chengyin took a breath and said, "Who said it wasn't true? I was afraid that too many people would come running over at once, and they would all come to die one by one like the Calabash Brothers trying to save their grandfather. Where's Xiaoye? Wasn't he just behind us?"
His little wooden vine was just as exhausted as he was.
They turned around and found Lin Jiye squatting beside the zombie's head, holding a long knife in his hand, eager to try.
Seeing his friends looking at him, Lin Jiye stopped hesitating and thrust his long knives into the zombies' heads.
He dug and dug, rummaging through a pile of brain matter, and finally found a piece of supernatural crystal core.
“Oh my god!”
"What a cruel person! Ugh..."
In the past few days, they have been running around in Hexi Town and have harvested the following: 6 mutant wild dogs, 12 mutant wild cats, 2 mutant frogs, 1 mutant mantis, 1 mutant longhorn beetle, 3 mutant earthworms, and 15 zombies.
Because of what Lin Jiyuan said, after killing these evolved creatures, they would turn them over promptly, and they actually found seven or eight small crystal cores as big as beans.
But I still feel a little reluctant to kill a zombie. After all, it is still a humanoid creature that looks similar to me.
Peng Yuan and Lan Chengyin both felt somewhat resistant and could not get over that hurdle for the time being.
Most of the 15 zombies killed were killed today and were piled at Lin Jiye's feet.
When zombies are still jumping around, they can withstand high temperatures, like robots. But once they die, their bodies will rot very quickly. In less than half an hour, pus has already begun to seep onto the ground.
They didn't expect Lin Jiye to be so brave and do this. They were so disgusted that they almost vomited their lunch.
Lin Jiye picked up a dead leaf that was blown by the roadside, put the energy crystal core in it and put it in his pocket:
"What are you standing there for? Come on, there's a locked iron door over there, let's go in and take a look."
There were more than 2,000 people living in Hexi Town before, but Ding Hao did not have anyone search every house.
For example, if there is a large locked iron door downstairs, there is a high possibility that there are some usable supplies inside.
Even if it's not food, it's better to find some daily necessities than nothing.
Now toilet paper alone is in short supply.
Those who don’t have the conditions can only go back to their ancestors’ way of life and use fallen leaves or sticks to solve the problem, which is so painful.
Ever since Peng Yuan awakened his gold-related supernatural power, he has been responsible for breaking into doors.
Peng Yuan had just broken the lock with great effort when the three of them heard excited voices coming from afar.
"Xiao Ye, it seems those people are going to our house?"
Lan Chengyin put his hands over his eyes and squinted.
I saw a group of people walking in a mighty procession on the long street in the distance.
The three of them were afraid that these people would come to their house to cause trouble, so they didn't even bother to search the building and ran back home in a hurry.
They are all people with special abilities, and their running speed is much faster than ordinary people who have only evolved the ability to withstand high temperatures.
Almost at the same time, the two groups arrived together.
The person walking in front of those people turned out to be a man with a square face.
The square-faced man is called Zeng Gaoming, and he is not a person with special abilities.
But before the natural disaster, he was a coach in a gym. Because he was bigger and stronger than ordinary people, he was spotted by Ding Hao and became a pawn.
After Ding Hao and several others died, several survivors in Hexi Town ran away.
Many of them had previously helped Ding Hao to do evil and bully others.
Zeng Gaoming naturally did some bad things, but fortunately he never killed anyone.
He swore to heaven that he would mend his ways, and instead of running away with those people, he stayed in Hexi Town.
Help this person with something or that person with some work from time to time.
Lin Jiye had seen Zeng Gaoming several times. This man always hung around their doorstep, but every time he asked him what he was doing, he ran away without saying a word.
Lin Jiye remembered him.
I didn't expect Zeng Gaoming would bring so many people here today.
There was a dark crowd, and there seemed to be at least twenty strong men.
Could it be that he has something big in mind and wants to instigate these people to fight them to the death?
Lin Jiye's eyes turned cold.
Zeng Gaoming saw Lin Jiye and the other two running over with their knives drawn, and cold sweat broke out. He quickly waved his hand behind him:
"Push it over here, push it over here."
As soon as he finished speaking, four strong men came over from behind the crowd, pushing two carts.
The cart was densely packed with supplies.
There are rice, flour, grain, oil, milk, instant noodles, four-piece bedding, drinking water, toilet paper, mosquito coils, floral water...
There were also some watermelons, cabbages and frozen meat that didn't look very fresh.
They even thoughtfully brought in brand new washbasins, buckets, kettles and other utensils. It felt like they were decorating a new home.
"Hurry up and tell me..." Laizi followed Zeng Gaoming and urged him.
The people behind them also looked expectant.
Zeng Gaoming asked with sweat on his forehead, "Mo, is Miss Mo here?"
Mo Fei was preparing food in the kitchen, sweating profusely, when she suddenly saw Lin Jiye running in to find her:
"Sister Mo! There are a lot of people looking for you outside!"
"Looking for me? What do you want from me?" Mo Fei didn't understand.
"You'll know when you get there." Lin Jiye pulled her out.
"Hey, hey, hey... I haven't put down the kitchen knife yet."
When Mo Fei came out, he was shocked by the situation outside the house.
She was so focused on cooking that she didn't notice there were a lot of people standing outside.
"What happened?" Song Yi and Mo Zhicheng were roasting sweet potatoes in the back room, and they shouted over here.
"It's okay!" Mo Fei also responded loudly.
She looked towards the yard next to her and saw that Lin Jiyuan had probably heard the noise and came out, looking towards her.
Their eyes met.
Seeing Lin Jiyuan there, Mo Fei felt a little relieved.
She pushed the door open and walked out, frowning: "What do you want from me?"
"Sister Mo. We found the place where Ding Hao stored the supplies today. Everyone took a little bit. These... these are what we prepared for you. One car for you, and one car for Brother Lin." Zeng Gaoming touched the back of his head and smiled.
Lin Jiyuan didn't expect that he also had it, and raised his eyebrows.
They had heard from Laizi a long time ago that Ding Hao killed the couple who ran the supermarket, emptied the supermarket and hid it.
It’s just that they have been busy setting up their new home recently and have no shortage of food, so they haven’t thought about this for the time being.
Half of these people have no special powers, so it must take a lot of effort for them to find these supplies.
Neither Mo Fei nor Lin Jiyuan expected that they would think of sending one.
Moreover, Mo Fei took a casual look and found that the things sent by these people were basically of good quality.
Does this mean you want to seek asylum from them?
In fact, neither Mo Fei nor Lin Jiyuan are good people.
Mo Fei just wants to take care of his own family, accompany his parents in their old age, watch his two children grow up happily, cook in his spare time, and live a good life.
The same is true for Lin Jiyuan.
They chose to settle in Hexi Town because Mo Fei suddenly said that she had a dream, in which she said that the high temperature would soon pass and a new natural disaster was coming.
If the new natural disaster is an earthquake or flood, they might die on the way.
They couldn't think of a safer place than Hexi Town for the time being, so they chose to stay here.
Mo Fei and Lin Jiyuan didn't want to care about the other survivors left in the town.
Those two big pots of fish soup were the best that Mo Fei could do.
These people couldn't expect her to keep providing them with food, could they?
Even though Lin Jiyuan and his team had originally brought a lot of supplies out in the RV, they still go out to search for supplies every day and constantly bring things back for Mo Fei.
It was basically the meat of mutant animals, for fear that Mo Fei, a skilled cook, would be unable to make a meal without the necessary ingredients.
I didn't expect these people to be so proactive.
Zeng Gaoming saw that Mo Fei was frowning and silent, and he thought that Mo Fei was dissatisfied with the amount:
"Sister Mo, don't get me wrong. There are more than that. We only found two carts. I'll load a few more for you later."
Mo Fei raised his head: "You told me that you found the supplies in the supermarket, aren't you afraid that I will rob all your supplies?"
Obviously, Zeng Gaoming and his team had already thought about this possibility.
They did not show any dissatisfaction with Mo Fei's words.
Zeng Gaoming mustered up the courage to continue, "We are not afraid. In fact, there are several villages and small processing plants nearby. There used to be about a hundred people living here, so they must have stored food at home, and almost every household has built a cellar, so the food is not easy to spoil. These villages are remote, and there were many poisonous insects, rats and ants before the natural disaster. I don't know how serious they became after the natural disaster. Ding Hao wanted us to take the lead, but we refused. He killed a few people but still no one went, so he gave up. I'm sure no one has been to those places yet."
Lin Jiyuan, who had been silent, spoke up: "You want us to go?"
"If you have the ability to kill Ding Hao, you can definitely take back the food from these places."
Someone in the crowd said.
"Yes. We can help you lead the way. We will go together, you take the big part and we take the small part, how about that?" Laizi and Zeng Gaoming said at the same time. The other survivors also echoed. In fact, many of these people did not know each other. When they got together, they were afraid of wolves in front and tigers behind. They were originally a group of scattered sand. Even if they knew where the supplies were, they still needed a leader to lead them.
There is no one more suitable than Mo Fei and his team. After a few days of observation, they found that Mo Fei and his team were indeed not the same kind of people as Ding Hao and his team. They can now choose where to live and fetch water from the ancient well at will. They don't have to hand in the supplies they occasionally find. They won't be forced to go to dangerous places.
Anyone with a discerning eye could see that Mo Fei and the others really just wanted to stay in this town and would not interfere with what they did. This was truly a case of keeping one’s distance from another.
But in the final analysis, it was Mo Fei who rescued them from dire straits, and now they are asking for help from others, so one cannot be ungrateful.
People are not afraid of what others want from you, but they are afraid that others do not want anything from you.
After hearing these people's intentions, Mo Fei breathed a sigh of relief.
The small supermarket in town really doesn't stock much.
People will not die if they don’t take a bath or wash their hair, but they will die if they don’t drink water or eat.
Even the things in her space are only enough for their family to live on for twenty years.
According to the prompts during the recent space upgrade, natural disasters will only continue in the future.
No one knows what the future will be like. It is better to stock up now.
"I agree, I agree..." Laizi was very happy. He nudged Zeng Gaoming's hand with his elbow and said, "Don't just stand there. Keep talking."
"In fact, we all brought some food here, and we want you to cook something for us, so that it won't be in vain..."
Everyone raised the “food allowance” in their hands.
A moment later, Mo Fei was overwhelmed by a pile of heat-resistant mutated wild mushrooms, wild fruits, as well as cured pork feet, bean curd sticks, vermicelli and other long-lasting foods.
The taste of those two big pots of fish soup is still unforgettable to these people.
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