[Waiting for the end of the world] Dongli chrysanthemum

Natural disasters, fleeting years are unfavorable.

The most common type of people at this time is beggars.

They take all their belongings with them from one place to another.

They are homeless people who suffer from starvation, hunger, cold and disease.

They are also the toughest kind of people, with a better ability to survive than most people.

Eleven and Yan Changnian walked beside their grandparents from left to right, passing through one desolate town after another. They didn't bring anything, and they didn't wear much clothes. Although they were very clean, few beggars came ——Their eyes are very poisonous, and people with cleaner pockets than them, what can they get?Might as well save your energy and wait for the next possible benefactor.

Especially when they saw that Eleven was still holding on to a long whip, they were even more afraid to go forward.

This is Eleven's main weapon to drive away wild animals and radiation rats.When I first saw Ning An using a whip, I thought it was very useful—it was long enough to chop, pierce, draw, stroke, block, throw, point, stab, sweep, pan, board, poke, block, tease, poke, and squeeze. Wrapped around the waist when not in use, or use Gengjin Jue, it can be used as a super long stick——

In order to learn the whip, I was often whipped on the eleventh day - I whipped myself, and I was tied up from time to time - that time I practiced in the Dongli space, and Yan Changnian saw it, and at that time, I was so beastly that I wanted to play with him. In the end, Eleven tied him up. Yan Changnian only saw him in the most embarrassing state, but he didn't see him use a long whip so well that he was tied up by Eleven accidentally , In fact, that ordinary whip couldn't tie him at all, but Eleven showed a half-smile expression: "If it breaks, you can imagine the consequences yourself."

This is a blatant threat!

Knowing that Eleven is a bluff, Yan Changnian is willing to accept it.

Yan Changnian was in a trance when he was tapped on the shoulder by Eleven with a long whip: "Where is the fugue? Do you want to drink water?"

He shook his head.

They had already reached the fork in the town. Grandma was a little confused for a moment, not knowing which way to go, and the clever child asked, "Where are you going?"

Grandma told her the name of a village, and the child gave directions, but his eyes kept looking at the mineral water bottle in Eleven's hand.

There was still half a bottle of water in the bottle, Eleven threw the bottle to her, and the four of them set foot on the concrete road.

Grandma said: "At that time, it was still a yellow mud road, but it has become a cement road..."

Over the past few decades, not only the roads, but even the size of the village have changed a lot, otherwise there is no need to walk step by step, if you know the location, you can directly look down from the sky with Yujian to find it.

The village that grandma mentioned has only a dozen households, but the "village" in front of me must be described as a small town. I have repeatedly confirmed that it is my grandma's hometown, but it was changed from a village to a town 30 years ago. Come to ask, I heard that grandma was married decades ago, and now she is looking for her natal family, those old people are more enthusiastic, and there is an old man in her [-]s or [-]s who will guide them.

This town is larger than Bei'an Town, and it used to be more prosperous than Bei'an Town. The pond in grandma's memory has been filled, and the surrounding area has become a bustling commercial street.

The old man heard from his grandmother that she was married in the 50s, and his yellow eyes suddenly became suspicious: "Sister, don't joke, you are only in your fifties or sixties. Could it be that you were married when you were born, and you got married?!"

Grandma waved her hand and didn't say much.

The old man took the four of them to an intersection, pointed at a certain building from a distance, and told them that it was just to the east of that building, and they would never go past it again.

Eleven they didn't know the reason, but since they knew where it was, they didn't force it, and Yan Changnian secretly gave the old man a few catties of rice and some water. The old man's pupils dilated, and his chapped lips trembled slightly due to thirst. Then, he took the rice and water, bowed slightly, turned around and left quickly.

Xiaolan, look at him.Eleven gave orders, Xiaolan was above the sky, and after receiving the sound transmission from Eleven, he followed the old man. Sure enough, someone was eyeing the old man and wanted to snatch him, but the old man fled in a hurry. , straddling in front of him, a cry made several men go limp, and they could only watch helplessly as the old man ran away from the path.

"It seems that towns and other areas where people are concentrated are very chaotic." Eleven said that since they learned how to control the sword, they have spent most of their time flying with the sword, except for the fact that they have witnessed the city in the era of strong radiation in S city. How depraved, I have almost no impression of other cities, but my guess is the same.It's just a guess, but I still feel shocked when I see it with my own eyes.

The building the old man was referring to was a certain shopping mall, and to the east was a hotel, which is still open. Of course, the scale is much smaller than before, but it is still open at this time, which shows the power and strength of the store nearby. Not small.

All the windows of the hotel were tightly closed, and thick curtains were hung, and some were even nailed to death with wooden boards.

There have been no outsiders in the town for a long time, so the eleven people have been watched since they entered the town, but they didn't pay attention to them.

The hotel owner may have heard the news a long time ago. When they were standing in front of the hotel on November [-], there was a single sofa next to the store door. A man who was about [-] years old was sitting in a big way, with his right leg bent and resting on his left. On the lap, shaking his legs, chewing gum in his mouth, wearing a pair of black toad mirrors on his face, his beard is very clean, showing his chin with blue stubble.

In the night, a large oil lamp was lit on the lintel of the shop door, and the wick occasionally made a beeping sound, the flame danced, and the shadow of the person shook.

"...That old man." The man murmured, showing a disgusted expression, not too embarrassing for Eleven and the others, but just gave grandma an extra look.

There have been "recognition of relatives" before, but this is another story. In short, since the end of the world, people of all kinds have come to the town, claiming to be his third uncle or someone his father had disappeared. Son or grandson—turns out to be liars without exception.

But it was the first time that he recognized his relatives and recognized his immortal great-grandfather.

Maybe I really don't want to get some benefits from them.Everyone knows that the blind and immortal over a hundred years old is not favored by his children and grandchildren.But, who knows what is going on, the old man has not been expelled, and he still lives with his children and grandchildren, but the place where he lives is not very good, and he still has food and drink every day. As for whether he is full or not , this year, how many people can eat enough?It's all about living.

Grandma's father is still there, he is the old man in the mouth of men, and grandma's mother fell to her death because of overwork more than 20 years ago when she went out.All the funerals are very simple, and the married daughter is not notified-grandma naturally has no way of knowing.

Grandma's old father is already very old, with thinning white hair, he is estimated to be about sixty or seventy catties thin, he is really skinny, his bones and joints protrude terribly, and his clothes are very tattered, maybe for many years I haven't washed it so I can't tell what color it was.

Just a walking skeleton.There is no flame of life beating in the eyes.

His children and grandchildren use the bowls fed to dogs every day to serve him leftover leftovers. The old man can't see it, and he can't tell the good from the bad. He swallows it whole and survives starvation.

Not only grandma, but even grandpa and Shi Shi find it unacceptable that there are such heartless children and grandchildren in the world!

Grandma was crying at that time, but she didn't dare to hug her when she wanted to.Her old father sat numbly on the cold concrete floor, he didn't know whether he understood or not, or maybe he had let his spirit get rid of this shackles long ago, and all the sorrows of other people had nothing to do with him.

Only two of grandma's brothers are still alive. The third and fifth are old people in their [-]s and [-]s, but they all have a ruthless expression on their faces, which is a long-term habit. , can't get away from it.They were extremely surprised to see their sisters and sisters whom they hadn't seen for decades, and their brother-in-law who also looked young made the old man unable to accept it for a while.

At first, the man sitting outside the store was Lao Wu's little grandson, and it is said that he also has an older brother, but he got lost with adults on the street during Chinese New Year when he was a child, and he has not been found until now.

The two brothers, grandma, have been born with double snobbish eyes since they were young. From the time they greeted the waiter in the store to make tea and order food at the same time, and to treat them well, grandma knew that her two brothers had no idea what the hell they were planning. No need to think about it, it is definitely a matter of harming others and benefiting oneself.

Grandma said: "Food is very expensive these days, and everyone's life is hard, so don't spend money. I just haven't heard from my parents these years. Come and see. I haven't seen each other for many years. I will take my father to live with me. day."

Neither the third child nor the fifth child wanted to release him. They haven't found any news from grandma, so how could they release him easily?

Lao Wu hurriedly greeted the man, and he should have called him by his nickname: "Left, please greet your aunt well. I came all the way, I haven't seen you in these years, let's have a good sit down."

The last sentence was told to grandma. Grandma didn't know whether she didn't hear it or ignored it. Grandpa wanted to take off his coat and put it on for his father-in-law. Eleven hurriedly stopped him and handed over his coat.

The remaining man had already taken off his sunglasses and hung them on his chest. The room was warmer than outside. He took off his coat, revealing the pullover inside. His sleeves were rolled up. There were old tattoos on his wrists, poorly crafted and blue all over. , it can be vaguely seen that it is a rose and a sword.

Staring at the tattoo on Eleven, the faded memories of more than ten years ago came to mind, it was this hand, it was this hand!

His eyes were too cold, and he raised his head and raised his eyebrows, a little perplexed and a little startled.

Eleven tapped the rose with the whip in his hand: "Oh, so you are here."

The voice was extremely low and deep, like a cool wind blowing past the ears.

It is rare for him to speak in such a deeply sarcastic and angry tone, at least Yan Changnian has never heard of it.

There was a flowing wind in the enclosed space, which made everyone's hair messy.

There was no reason to panic.

He is a gangster, he started messing around in the society before he graduated from junior high school, and he has been messing around until today, not to mention, in this town, no matter men, women, young or old, they would call him brother when they saw him, but he was stared at by Eleven. He wanted to use the aura of the past to push back, but found it was useless. The tattooed skin seemed to be burning under the gaze of Eleven, and he hissed, "Who are you!"

"Who am I? Ha, you forgot? You forgot, but I have never forgotten." Eleven whispered, flicking the whip in his hand, making a crisp sound, "Remind you. 16 years A while ago, in the county town, a group of you gangsters were fighting on the street, remember how you used this hand to stick a steel awl into my neck? You bastard!"

Eleven suddenly roared, "Bastard" like a thunderbolt in the clear sky, left trembling all over, his pupils dilated.

He finally remembered.

In other words, he never forgot, but just pressed the unbearable past to the deepest part of his heart.

At that time, Yu was only a teenager. Although he was called a gangster, he was still young. Fighting and other things were common, and there were some bloody ones, but nothing like that had ever happened. On the neck of a boy who was about the same age, he pulled out the steel cone and ran away. He heard the screams of passers-by and the voices calling for help. Beating the drum, the drum beat became more and more urgent and louder, and he even felt that his heart would burst because of it.

He hurriedly climbed into a hired car, only to find out half an hour later that the car had already driven to the city, and he still had some money on him, so he simply changed the car in the city, left Qilong City, and went to seek refuge with an unknown For half a month, my relative was in a state of trepidation, even in his dreams, he was afraid that the police would suddenly come to his door and take him away in handcuffs.

He didn't dare to tell his relatives what happened, so he hid for more than half a year, and every night he dreamed of a boy with blood dripping from his neck screaming "Give me back my life" with a ferocious face!

He didn't know if anyone saw his appearance clearly at that time, and whether those so-called brothers would betray him. He was outside for many years, got married and had children, and never dared to come back. Home.

Most of the "brothers" who lost contact with each other got married and started businesses, and those things in the past were almost forgotten, together with the strange boy whose life and death were later unknown.

In fact, before he plunged the steel awl into the boy's neck, someone had already called the police, and as soon as he fled, the others scattered as well. For various reasons, no one knew that he had put a man of his age on the verge of death Walking a tightrope indirectly made this peer look blank and ridiculed for more than ten years.

After going around, that person was standing in front of me!

Or his aunt's grandson!

Eleven is taller than Leftover, he half-cast his eyes, staring at Leftover coldly, Leftover feels very cold, cold to the marrow of his bones.

The third child and the fifth child never thought that the two of them still had such a past, but they were used to being villains, and they were on their own territory, so they immediately laughed and said: "If you don't fight, you don't know each other, if you don't fight, you don't know each other! Leftover, with you My apologies, brother, this is just..."

Eleven didn't give him any face, and said with a sneer, "No need! I've never had such a brother! For this account, we have to settle, settle, calculate, settle."

When he said this, his face was expressionless, and his tone was understated. When did the family of the third child and the fifth family in this town, with a radius of dozens of miles, experience such a bird?His face sank at that moment, as black as the bottom of a pot.

The previous hypocrisy has also been put aside, what kind of brother-sister relationship, they say they have it, and they don’t have it: "Young people nowadays are really getting more and more impetuous. What's the matter? Want to settle accounts with us? Are you qualified? "

Eleven let out a long laugh: "It's not up to you whether you are qualified or not!"

He didn't talk nonsense, the whip in his hand had already been thrown away, and he tied up Liu as quickly as lightning, and he struggled and was dragged to the ground by him: "Be obediently let me beat you to vent your anger, maybe I will let you go. must."

Left was dragged out of the hotel gate by him, the youngest and the fifth scolded angrily, and asked everyone to pick up sticks and knives and surround them.

There were people who came to eat and the neighbors who lived nearby poked their heads. The first bully in the town was tied up at the door today. The news spread quickly, but no one dared to look uprightly. move.

Yan Changnian was already protecting his grandparents and standing in the street. Others only saw the third and fifth leading a group of vicious younger brothers, but no matter what, they couldn't get close to the eleven or so people, surrounding them as if they were just acting.

Eleven took the whip back, and before Liu could get up, he swung a whip in the air, and with a crisp cracking sound, the next whip landed on Liu's back. land.

"He's fucking..." His curse was stuck in his throat, Shi Yi was merciless, whip after whip, and the sound of the whip hitting the flesh continued to sound, as if accompanied by the sound of the heartbeat. The rhythm makes the hearts of those around you involuntarily tighten.

The elders, the elders, the fifth, and the rest of the family witnessed the whipping, but they couldn't take a step forward. Several women started screaming, and the crying and howling attracted more people.

Old Wu's old face was bruised, and he gritted his teeth and said, "I see if you can leave this town today!"

Eleven whipped more than a dozen whips, but there was no sign of stopping. Except for Lao Wu and others, no one else asked him to stop.

Grandparents and Yan Changnian naturally wouldn't say how much suffering they suffered because of throat problems during the eleventh year, how could a single beating be able to offset it?

Eleven finally stopped. Leftover had already collapsed on the ground. I don't know if it was because he was pumping so hard that he couldn't get up. Eleven squatted in front of him and used the handle of the whip to pick up Leftover's chin: " Today's newspaper."

"I really want you to experience the pain I suffered back then." Eleven ignored the remaining angry eyes, turned to Lao Wu and said, "Don't you want to see how we get out of this town? Then please open your eyes." Keep your eyes open!"

He whistled, big gold, little yellow and little blue landed on a leafless camphor tree by the side of the street, their feathers reflected moonlight, starlight and lights, like night elves.

"Grandma, let's go." He pointed at the whip in his hand, and the impenetrable crowd suddenly parted a path, and watched them walk out step by step.

As early as when Dajin and the others showed up, someone exclaimed in a low voice: "The golden eagles of Yunyin Village!"

Yunyin Village is three or four hundred miles away from this town.

"Welcome to Yunyin Village to take revenge. I will be happy to find an excuse to teach you again." Eleven's voice came from a distance in the night. Lao Wu led a group of people to chase them, but he couldn't get closer. Instead, he seemed to be sending them off. Leave like, "Happy New Year."