In a village full of old people and children, wisps of smoke gradually rose from a courtyard.
When everyone saw the wisp of smoke from the kitchen in the distance, they knew it was time for dinner, so they walked towards the yard in groups of three or four, or holding hands with their young children.
"Old Li, why don't you just have some porridge? You haven't gotten the whole-grain steamed buns over there yet!"
An old lady who was serving food said this.
But the old man Li just waved his hand and said: "If you don't want to eat it, give it to me. I'm not hungry."
There were many elderly people who acted like Old Li. They just glanced at the place where they received the mixed-grain steamed buns, then squatted by the courtyard wall with a bowl of porridge and started drinking.
"Why!"
The aunt who was serving the food wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes.
Everyone here knew that the food in the shelter was limited, and most of it was food that Xing Taian and his group of pre-apocalyptic soldiers had exchanged their lives for. She looked at those emaciated old people and felt particularly uncomfortable.
"Grandma, let's eat together"
A little boy broke open a yellow steamed bread and handed it to a white-haired old man.
"Good boy, eat now. Grandma is old and can't eat much, so she loves to drink this porridge! Only when you are full can you grow up quickly and be as brave as those uncles."
The old man stroked the boy's hair as he spoke.
The boy shook his head, broke the half steamed bread into small pieces and put them into the old man's porridge.
“This way, grandma can eat more.”
The boy then began to eat his half of the steamed bread with satisfaction.
…
Su Jin, Lu Hao and others looked at the situation in the courtyard and finally understood how difficult the food problem here was as Xing Taian said.
"It's so pitiful"
Lin Xiuyuan said with a bitter expression that it was fortunate that Lin Yunguo and Li Xiuying were not allowed to come out and see this scene, otherwise the two elders would definitely be sad for a while.
"There are many people who are more pitiful than them, but we just don't know them," said Su Jin.
In her previous life, she had seen many people starved to death, and many people who were unable to run due to hunger and were eventually eaten by zombies or mutated animals and plants. These people were really lucky to meet people like Xing Taian.
"But we won't stay here forever," Lu Hao said.
The elderly can only spend the last part of their old age here, and if the children are lucky enough to grow up, they will definitely leave here one after another.
“This is already very good.”
Su Jin said that she felt this was the best ending.
The few of them walked forward for a while. The village was too quiet. Many old people were sitting quietly in front of their doors. However, there were children running around laughing, which added a bit of vitality to the place.
There were always elderly people and children stopping on the road to ask if they had seen someone named so-and-so outside.
They all listened patiently, but they really had never heard of those people.
Seeing everyone walk away disappointed, a few of them prepared to go back. This place should have been just a small village before the end of the world. It would only take about ten minutes to walk from the beginning to the end of the village.
When they were almost at their residence, a gunshot was heard in the yard next door.
"Ah! Another one died"
A skinny old man passing by Su Jin shook his head and said.
"Uncle, what's going on?" Ren Yingjie couldn't help but ask.
"This team that goes out to get crystal cores to exchange for food, almost every time they come back, there are people who have been eaten outside, or transformed into zombies here."
The old man looked towards Xing Taian's courtyard with his cloudy eyes, and tears could be seen in the corners of his eyes.
At this time, Xing Taian also walked out with red eyes, holding a pistol in his hand. He leaned weakly on the gate railing at the entrance of the courtyard and saw several people not far away.
"We have never been willing to use the bullets in this gun. I left them to my brothers. It is a luxury to be killed by it in the end."
Xing Taian said with a wry smile.
Lu Hao walked up to him, patted his shoulder, and said, "You have done something that most people cannot do. It is really great."
…
At night, Su Jin and Lu Hao secretly went to find Xing Taian.
"Crystal core?"
Xing Taian was a little surprised. Could it be that these two people wanted to borrow the crystal core from him?
"Well, I'm a space-based mutant. If you have enough crystal cores, you can buy food from me. It should be more cost-effective than exchanging food at the base," Su Jin said.
"Really?! You have food?"
Xing Taian stood up excitedly and asked Su Jin and the others.
"Well, I've collected some before, but they'll inevitably go bad if left for too long, so why not replace them with crystal cores?"
Lu Hao also explained.
Xing Taian believed Lu Hao's words without a doubt. He had also learned during their previous conversation that Lu Hao was also a former soldier, and he had an inexplicable sense of trust in the soldiers of his motherland.
"Okay, I must change it, I must buy it!"
Xing Taian was about to call someone in after he finished speaking.
"There is another problem, we don't want to make this public."
Su Jin looked at him and said.
Xing Taian nodded and replied, "I understand. No one would want others to know. You are willing to sell it to me, which means you think highly of me, Xing."
Xing Taian simply called the space ability user in their team and asked him to take out all the crystal cores in the space.
"All of it? Captain, are you serious?"
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