The Lonely City of the End Times

Chapter 44 Chu Xinghai

The tavern is not very big, with classical decoration, a lot of high chairs beside the semi-curved bar, seven or eight tables in the outer space, and the chairs beside the tables are messy.

There are all kinds of wine on the wine cabinet inside the bar, and there is a small door leading to the back beside the bar.

Originally, Chen Xinyi planned to leave after taking the wine and go to other places to have a look, but when he passed the bar, he suddenly found that the bar was very clean.

Along the way, every room was covered with dust, but the bar counter of this bar was so clean. This strangeness made Chen Xinyi feel strange.

Chen Xinyi took out his black gun from behind, years of fighting made him very vigilant in everything he did.

After walking around the bar, he didn't find anything wrong, but it was a little strangely clean.Looking around, he finally looked at the small door leading to the back.

Generally speaking, the back of the small door is either directly to the back street, or it is its own warehouse, or a kitchen. This tavern does not look big, so it should be a door leading to the back street.Chen Xinyi walked into the small door slowly.

Taking a closer look, he found that the door handle was very clean, obviously because of frequent use.All the muscles in his body were mobilized, and he slowly put his hand on the doorknob.

"click"

The small door was gently opened, and the back was not leading to the back street as Chen Xinyi imagined, but a small room of about ten square meters, with more than a dozen wooden barrels in the room, which seemed to be a small wine storage.A small window in the roof shone faintly in the small room.

The small room could be seen at a glance, there was no one at all, Chen Xinyi couldn't help frowning.Holding a black gun in his hand, he planned to exit the small room.

Before going out, Chen Xinyi glanced at the small room.It was just this glance that made him discover something different.

"Is that a hidden grid?"

It turned out that Chen Xinyi's eyes fell on the floor under the wine barrel, but found that the floor at the edge of the wine barrel was a little different from other places.

The edge of the ground there was obviously worn, and the floor looked much cleaner than the one on the other side. Chen Xinyi walked over, squatted down, and ran his fingers along the edge of the floor. He could clearly feel the air flow flow out of the crevices.

Chen Xinyi's eyes were bright, and he moved the wine barrels above, and moved five or six large wine barrels to the side. There seemed to be a lot of wine in the wine barrels, which felt quite heavy.

After moving the wine barrel away, a two-meter-square floor appeared in front of Chen Xinyi. There was a grooved ring buckle on the floor. This kind of buckle can easily place the wine barrel on it without any skew.

After careful inspection, no mechanism was found, so Chen Xinyi grabbed the grooved buckle and exerted force with one hand.

"crunch."

The floor was opened, and there was a small staircase in front of it, and it was so dark that nothing could be seen inside.Chen Xinyi frowned, although he could see at night with his abnormal eyesight, but the basement was too dark.

He could only put down the floor, went to the tavern outside, removed the legs of a high stool, wrapped some cloth strips, sprinkled some wine, and made a simple torch.

Holding the lit torch, Chen Xinyi opened the floor again.Walk down the stairs slowly.

Chen Xinyi didn't go down very far, the torches illuminated the space, but what he could see made Chen Xinyi stunned.

The underground space is very wide, it seems to be a bit bigger than the tavern above, not far from where Chen Xinyi came down, there are several tables with a big pot beside the table.Further to the side are several wooden frames with chains tied on them.

There are a lot of skeletons piled up beside the wooden frame, and Chen Xinyi can tell at a glance that they are human skeletons.

Clenching the black gun in his hand a little bit, Chen Xinyi took a few steps inside.

"Boom. Boom. Boom."

The screams of zombies came over, it seemed that because of Chen Xinyi's approach, the zombies rushed towards Chen Xinyi, but the zombies were locked in the cage at the moment, and hit the cage all of a sudden.

The torch in Chen Xinyi's hand illuminated the scene inside.

There were two rows of iron cages. There were many zombies in one row of cages, but the scene in the other row made Chen Xinyi angry.There were many women curled up in that row of cages, as well as many children.Everyone looked at Chen Xinyi who came over in horror.

Many of the women in the cages were half-clothed and looked haggard.And those children were all sallow and thin, with deep fear in their small eyes.

Suppressing his anger, Chen Xinyi crouched in front of the cage, and asked softly, "Why are you locked up here?"

Most of the women and children were squeezed into a corner of the cage.Only a little boy who looked to be seven or eight years old sat on the ground without moving.

The little boy fixed his eyes on the black gun in Chen Xinyi's hand, and when he heard Chen Xinyi's question, the little boy asked weakly, "Uncle, do you come from somewhere else?"

"Huh? Well, yes, I just arrived in this town, can you tell uncle what happened?" Although Chen Xinyi was a little surprised at the little boy's question, he still answered, and wanted to know something from the little boy's mouth.

"Then uncle, can you rescue us?"

Chen Xinyi tried his best to show a smiling face: "Well, uncle will rescue you now."

The little boy suddenly said again: "If uncle wants to save us, he must hurry up. They should be coming."

Chen Xinyi's heart moved: "They? Uncle rescued you, can you tell uncle who they are later?"

The little boy nodded, Chen Xinyi didn't ask any more questions, stood up, swung the black gun, and the lock on the cage shattered.

Opening the cage, Chen Xinyi motioned for all the women and children to come out, but to his dismay, no one came out, and instead wanted to hide from him like a plague god.Except that little boy.

Chen Xinyi frowned, squatted down and asked the little boy, "Why don't they come out?"

The little boy turned his head to look at the women and children behind him, shook his head helplessly, then turned his head and said to Chen Xinyi: "They are all scared, they are too scary, I am afraid that you will not be able to beat them, uncle, and you will not be able to save them. Because they escaped and suffered more torture."

Chen Xinyi was confused, but he still asked patiently: "Who are you talking about?"

"They... are scary." The little boy still trembled when he mentioned them.

"Uncle killed them, so you are no longer afraid?" Chen Xinyi was slightly murderous.

The little boy looked at Chen Xinyi's black gun again, and nodded with a serious face.

"Okay, then you guys wait here. Uncle goes outside and waits for them to come, kill them and then kill you." After Chen Xinyi finished speaking, he was ready to go outside.

Just as he was about to leave, he felt his trousers being caught by something, and when he looked back, the little boy was grabbing himself vigorously with his little hands.

"Uncle, may I go with you?"

Chen Xinyi was a little surprised, he didn't expect the little boy to be so courageous.After hesitating for a while, Chen Xinyi still squatted down, picked up the little boy and walked outside.

Two people, one big and one small, sat in the tavern, Chen Xinyi took out some dry food from the bag he was carrying, and put it in front of the little boy.

Looking at the food in front of him, the little boy swallowed, but he didn't stretch out his little hand.

"Eat." Chen Xinyi motioned to the little boy.

"Thank you uncle." After saying thank you, the little boy picked up the food in front of him and ate it.

Chen Xinyi looked at the little boy who didn't gobble it up, but secretly felt surprised in his heart. This little boy is only seven or eight years old, but his mind is like an adult.

More importantly, the little boy is not only courageous, but also polite.If it weren't for the end of the world, this little boy's achievements in the future would definitely not be low, this was what Chen Xinyi thought.

"What's your name?"

This is the first time Chen Xinyi asked someone's name. Since the end of the world, he has not had the experience of asking someone's name.

"Uncle, my name is Chu Xinghai."

(End of this chapter)