"What are you looking at? Let's go!"
Seeing that two big troubles were about to get him into trouble, Father Chu gritted his teeth and woke up the dazed Mother Chu with a low shout.
The two men walked very quickly and squeezed out of the crowd in less than a minute. Their faces looked uglier than each other.
Before the virus outbreak, the couple were both respectable people with status in society. They were either flattered or treated politely by others. Therefore, even though they had prepared themselves mentally before coming and tried hard to remind themselves to be thick-skinned, even if Chu Hang said something unpleasant, they had to pretend to be sad and cry to gain sympathy from others.
But now...
The gap between reality and imagination was too big. Not only did Chu Hang not have any mutant beasts, but he also had a six or seven-year-old child with him. The psychological gap between the couple was so huge that even though they had made sufficient preparations, they couldn't keep a straight face for a while.
Looking at Chu Hang and that little burden, with his eyes sparkling and looking like he really wanted to get involved with them, Chu's father gritted his teeth and his face turned ashen.
"Hey, uncle, uncle! Aunt, aunt! Why are you walking so fast?! Brother Chu and I really want to live with you in Longquan Base! Don't run~" Xia Ruanruan shouted at the top of her voice, pretending to want to squeeze out of the crowd and catch up.
Hearing Xia Runruan's shout, Chu's father and mother walked faster. Chu's mother almost stumbled because of Xia Runruan's shout. At this moment, the couple did not look like someone was calling them, but rather like they were being chased by a group of mutant dogs and running away at a high speed.
Yang Fan and others: "..."
The crowd around: "..."
The onlookers watched helplessly as the whole situation took a sudden turn in less than ten minutes, leaving them all dumbfounded. Especially those who had spoken up for Chu's father and mother just a few minutes earlier, their cheeks flushed with anger as they cursed the bad luck inwardly.
If the survival base did not allow survivors to fight privately, there would definitely be a few hot-tempered ones who would want to pin the Chu couple to the ground and rub them.
It seems that these two people don’t care about their son at all, but are thinking about how to benefit from their son!
"Fuck! Who are these people? They just said they missed their son, but when they heard Chu Hang was just an ordinary person, they ran away without a trace."
Huang Haichao scratched his head and cursed, "How dare these two guys call themselves human parents? I think even Huskies are more reliable than them!"
"Forget it, forget it... These days there are too many people who rely on their status to take advantage of others. Chu Hang is just unlucky to have met a pair of unreliable and selfish parents."
Yang Fan patted Chu Hang on the shoulder and said comfortingly, like an older brother: "In this world, some people have deep ties with others, while others have shallow ties. Don't overthink it. Come back with us to the shelter. There are hundreds or even thousands of people there, and we'll definitely be able to find someone suitable! I'll find you a partner in the shelter. Once you two have a good time together, I guarantee you'll never remember this terrible pair of parents again!"
"That's right, that's right! If I'm not welcome here, I'll find somewhere else that will. It's their loss if they don't want you. We'll find you a wife and give birth to two kids. After you get married, we'll have a family of four living together. I guarantee you'll be happy every day!" Wu Wenhua was no longer afraid of Chu Hang's cold expression. He stretched out his arm, grabbed Chu Hang's arm and said casually.
Wu Wenhua had noticed over the past few days that Little Boss had a very good relationship with this stranger they'd met along the way, even closer than they were with Yang Fan and the others. This kid would have Little Boss's protection from now on, and with Little Boss's help connecting him with the mutant beasts in the shelter, there were still good days ahead! That couple would regret it later!
Thoughts raced through Wu Wenhua's mind, and he had already begun secretly planning to bring Chu Hang and a number of mutant dogs to give the Chu couple a slap in the face next year.
Even standing on the stairs of the hotel, Xia Runrun could no longer see the backs of Chu's father and mother. She tilted her head and blinked her big eyes with some regret. She had not yet used her final killer move, and these two people escaped so quickly.
Tsk!
She had thought before that if the couple really intended to spend a lot of money and buy them permanent resident status with food first, then she would just let 666, Xiaolu, Dahei and the others come to her house for meals every day, and brag about how good her relationship with these little guys is every day, so that Chu's father and mother would quickly collect another batch of sky-high-priced food to buy Dahei and the others!
If you don’t have food to buy the black bastards, just let them eat you out of money!
If you have food to buy the big black guys, then take the big black guys and run away with the food!
It was a relief for Xiaobai to vent his anger over the years. It was a shame that this couple was so stingy that they weren't even willing to provide a small amount of food for the permanent resident quota, and they even wanted to trick Xiaobai into going back to work for them. How petty!
"You don't even understand the old saying that you can't catch a wolf without sacrificing a child..." Xia Runrun muttered softly. When she looked up, she was a little worried that Xiaobai would be sad again because of this unreliable couple.
Unexpectedly, when she looked up, she saw a pair of eyes with a slight smile.
The man was between the age of a young man and a teenager. There was a slight smile in his pair of eyes that were cold and dark in the past. His skin was slightly sickly pale, the most attractive cold white skin before the virus outbreak. Coupled with his handsome and deep facial features, this smile was like spring coming back to the mountains, and it instantly seeped into Xia Ruanruan's heart.
Xia Ruanruan: "..."
Xia Runrun subconsciously stretched out her little paw to touch her slightly beating heart, "Bang, bang, bang...!" The rapidly beating heart seemed completely out of her control and wanted to rush out of her chest cavity quickly.
Harmful!
Xia Runrun lowered her head with red ears. It was so easy to commit a crime with a man who had every aspect of his personality conforming to her own aesthetic standards.
It's a pity. Thinking about her identity as a time traveler and her small body of only 7 years old, Xia Runrun silently suppressed the urge in her heart to rush forward to ask for someone's WeChat account. Not to mention that their height conditions are not matched now, just from the appearance point of view, if she really succeeded and accomplished such a great thing now, she would suspect that Xiaobai was a copper smelting addict.
Alas~
Xia Ruanruan sighed deeply in her heart.
"You're still holding my hand. Aren't you going back to eat?" Chu Hang raised his wrist that was being held.
Xia Ruanruan: “……??!!!”
Wow! I didn't expect my body to be faster than my brain!
"Eat, eat, why don't you eat?!" Xia Runrun quickly let go of Chu Hang's little paw and ran away to the restaurant in embarrassment.
They had just come out of the restaurant and hadn't finished their meal yet! She was starving!
…
Underground low-rent housing, room 1230 on the -16th floor.
"Bang!——" With a loud noise, Chu's father's face turned ashen. He pushed open the wooden door of his house with force. The heavy wooden door hit the wall next to it, making an unpleasant noise.
The two households living next to the Chu family’s low-rent housing immediately started shouting and cursing.
Father Chu looked at the two doors next door that were not open but were still filled with cursing and had no sound insulation at all. He snorted coldly, as if he didn't hear anything. "Bang!" He slammed the door of his own house shut, and even increased the force because of the cursing.
After the virus outbreak, plants grew and reproduced on a large scale, urban industry almost stagnated, there was no car exhaust and various industrial pollution, and a large number of plants grew and reproduced every day. Today, the ground air is so fresh that it is comparable to the former national forest park.
However, people living in underground low-rent housing cannot enjoy such treatment. Not only is it damp and humid, but the high population density also leads to poor ventilation. Coupled with the dim environment and the cramped rooms that feel oppressive at all times, it makes people feel even more uncomfortable to live here.
Father Chu punched the wall hard.
He was really fed up with underground rooms like this!
"What do you think we should do now? Chu Hang doesn't have any mutant pets at all, and he's carrying a six or seven-year-old child. It's not like we thought before that he can lead us to a good life." Chu's mother's face was not very good either.
In the small room, the dim light from the chandelier quietly fell on Chu's mother's face, making her already bluish complexion even paler and uglier.
"Even if we can't squeeze any money out of that brat, we can't continue living here. This damn place is so damp it's not even suitable for human habitation!" Father Chu touched his rheumatic leg, his brow furrowed. "How many times has Chu Xing done that? That woman surnamed Jiang comes to bother him every day. We don't know how much medical expenses we've paid these days, and we don't know how many full meals we've had from that food! I don't know how you, a woman, could have given birth to these two abominable little bastards! One is cold-blooded, and the other tortures cats. If it weren't for that little bastard Chu Xing torturing cats for no reason, I wouldn't have ended up like this!"
As Father Chu spoke, he began to grit his teeth.
"So what do you think we should do?"
Mother Chu's face turned grim. "I didn't give birth to this child by myself. Can you blame me for them growing up like this? Besides, we already abandoned Chu Hang before. Do you want me to abandon Xingxing now? We only have this one son now. Can you bear to give him up?!"
"I can barely survive now, what else can I be reluctant to give up?!"
Chu's father gritted his teeth and waved his hand, "We've taken care of Chu Xing for so long, we've done him a disservice. Even when he was at the survival base, we've still been supporting him for such a long time. While we both have some points, we'll move in a couple of days! This house will be left to him, and we'll find another one on a floor closer to the ground. House—hehehe!"
But before Father Chu could finish his words, a sharp steel spike had already pierced through the back of his neck. Father Chu covered his torn throat, his pupils dilated, and blood gushed out of the wound quickly, instantly staining his entire shirt red...
The strong smell of blood filled the entire room.
“You, you, you—!”
Mother Chu's face was filled with horror. For a moment, she was almost frightened silly by the scene before her. She couldn't utter a second word except "you".
The door, which had been tightly shut, was quietly opened from behind Chu's father. Chu Xing, holding a bloody steel spike in his hand, looked at them expressionlessly, his voice low and deep: "You abandoned Chu Hang before, and now you want to give up on me. How can you expect everything to be so perfect? I've suppressed myself for so many years in Base City for you, and you still dare to treat me like this?"
“No, no… Xing, Xingxing, you, you calm down… I… I… Aaaah!!!”
Mother Chu stammered, retreating continuously as she watched Chu Xing approach her. Unfortunately, before she could even utter a word of begging for mercy, the sharp steel spike had already pierced her chest. Her scream of pain instantly exploded, echoing throughout the entire -16th floor...
…
"Wow! Goodbye, my delicious vermicelli! We are going back today!"
Several survivors from Xia Ruanruan's team finished their morning vermicelli dinners, sighing with happiness and looking on in sorrow. Even though they had brought back a vermicelli maker, capable of completely filtering out the hard-to-chew fiber impurities from the mutant plants, the art of cooking vermicelli and the various accompanying dishes were beyond the current capabilities of the shelter.
"It's okay. If everything goes well, we may come here again next year and let you eat your fill then." Yang Fan smiled and patted the survivors, and called on everyone to quickly and carefully tie all the exchanged supplies on the backs of the mutant dogs, and don't wait until they go back to find out that something was missing.
The survivors of the team moved quickly, carefully tying the things that had been packed long ago to the mutant dogs. For a while, everyone in the team was extremely busy.
Xia Runrun was swinging her short legs as she sat next to Gugu with the two birds. Egg Yolk was lying beside her, leisurely wagging her tail, waiting for the team to set sail.
But at this moment, at the intersection of the underground building not far away, there were sudden exclamations and gasps of shock. A waiter in the hotel work uniform wiped the sweat from his forehead and ran quickly into the hotel.
The waiter was a little late today and was stopped by the hotel manager at the door before he even stepped into the hotel.
"What happened over there? Why is it so noisy at the entrance today? And why are you late too?" the hotel manager asked, raising his chin.
"Hey! Manager, don't mention it. People died on the -16th floor last night! Two of them were shot and stabbed to death!" The waiter was stopped by his boss and immediately told the whole story.
It turned out that last night in the low-rent housing area, a parent and son became enemies and both parents were killed by their son.
"Last night, the murderer escaped for a long time. The entire basement, from the 20th to the 10th floor, was practically brightly lit, fearing another loss of life. He was finally apprehended by Miss Jiang, who works for the base's SWAT team. "Look, Brother Zhang, the murderer is right there!" The waiter craned his neck and pointed at a young man covered in grime and in a state of disarray. He was bound with metal handcuffs, making it difficult for him to walk. Nearby, a dashing girl, accompanied by two mutant cats, urged him on.
Even though the young man opposite looked much thinner than Xiaobai and was covered in dirt and blood, Xia Runrun could tell at a glance that this man was Xiaobai's younger brother whom she had met before!
Could it be that it was Chu's father and mother who died last night? !
Xia Runrun was startled and subconsciously turned to look at Chu Hang who was helping Yang Fan and others bundle up the supplies.
Chu Hang, who had been working diligently, had stopped what he was doing and was staring at the crowd without blinking...
"Are you okay? Do you want to go see them..." Xia Runrun pursed her lips and looked at Chu Hang cautiously, her eyes full of worry.
Even if Chu's father and mother were wrong, as a son, he would probably be very sad to see his parents die.
Yang Fan and the others looked at the captured Chu Xing, then looked at Chu Hang's appearance, and after hearing what Xia Runrun said, they all seemed to have figured out the matter, and they all put down their work and said nothing to each other.
They didn't expect that something like this would happen in just one night.
"How about... we stay in the hotel today, and you go see them, and then decide when we'll go back?" Xia Runrun stretched out her hands and held Chu Hang's left hand tightly. She felt that Xiaobai might need some comfort at this time.
However, she, who used to be quite eloquent, didn't know what to say at this moment and could only comfort him a little with her actions.
When someone held his cold left hand, he felt a burst of warmth. Chu Hang looked down at the small hand in his palm, and then looked at the small hand covering the back of his left hand. Both hands were small and chubby, but they brought warmth to his heart.
Seeing the little girl's eyes full of worry and concern, Chu Hang held Xia Ruanruan's small hand, and then held her other hand.
He half-knelt down, put on a faint smile, rubbed the little girl's head, and said in a cold voice: "Don't worry, I'm fine."
"There's no need for you to stay for another day waiting for me. Let's leave today..." Chu Hang turned his head to look at the handcuffed and disheveled young man in the crowd. When their eyes met, Chu Xing subconsciously turned his head to the other side, but the hatred in his eyes never disappeared from beginning to end.
"Chu Xing has never liked me since he was a child, and even now his eyes are filled with hatred. But if he had rushed over last night and killed me, I would have admired him as a man." Chu Hang's voice was low, as if he was narrating, but also as if he was whispering.
"But he's only ever been brave enough to deal with the vulnerable, from kindergarteners to stray cats to his elderly parents... He's never been a strong young man. He's just a coward from the beginning."
And now, the cowardly villain who framed him has received the punishment he deserved, and the kindness and bad intentions his parents had towards him have also been blown away by the wind with death.
"Let's go, let's pack up and go back to the shelter today." Chu Hang turned and said to the others.
Since you have decided to break up, then break up completely.
Chu Hang once again felt that the emotional apathy he once disliked wasn't such a bad thing. At least at times like this, it could keep a person calm and rational, and wouldn't make him lose control for those who weren't worth it.
Chu Xing stared at Chu Hang's back as he turned around.
He never expected that the guy who was fooled by him would one day look down on him in such a condescending manner, watching him in such a miserable state and being thrown into prison mercilessly.
Seeing himself living like this now, Chu Hang must be very proud. A ball of anger squeezed in his chest, and the flames were almost burning out his sanity. His vision seemed to go back to the time when the virus just broke out and he sent the unconscious Chu Hang to the underground laboratory.
Damn it! Why didn't this guy die completely?
"Chu, get out of here! Don't drag your feet here! You killed two people last night. According to Base City law, you're guilty of a capital crime! Your death will serve as a tribute to those children you slaughtered!" Miss Jiang pushed Chu Xing, who was barely moving forward, from behind. "You deserve this fate!"
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