from my heart [last days]

Zhou An was not in the bathroom, Pei Ze went down to the third floor, he was standing in the corridor smoking a cigarette, seeing Pei Ze coming down, a look of unnaturalness flashed across his face, and then he seemed to realize that the expression at this moment was inappropriate, embarrassing smiled.

Pei Ze walked over, took out the cigarette case from his pocket, bit one out and put it in his mouth, and was about to take the lighter, but Zhou An suddenly leaned over and lit him with his own cigarette butt.

The faces of the two of them were less than [-] centimeters between the cigarette butts. Pei Ze raised his eyelids and looked at him silently. His deep pupils showed no waves, but they were enough to show his attitude. Zhou An sighed slightly, and quickly turned back to his body and backed away.

Pei Ze took down the cigarette and stuck it between his fingers, and didn't smoke any more.

He is always like this, refusing quickly, and all ambiguity will not work.Zhou An smiled helplessly, and the two of them leaned side by side on the railing of the corridor, behind them was the red and green playground, and looked up at the clear and cloudless sky. After the end of the world, they have been traveling all the way, and they have never had such a leisurely time for a long time.

The only thing that is not so pleasant is the vaguely rotten smell wafting from nowhere.

"It's impossible that no one in the school was infected," Zhou An said, "The security guard buried all the corpses in the sandpit, right?"

Pei Ze threw away the cigarette in his hand and stamped it out, took another one and lit it, "Maybe."

Zhou An looked at him from the side. Pei Ze's side face was more attractive than his front face, especially when he was smoking a cigarette, the curvature of his jaw was always just right.

In fact, what Xie Congxin said was not wrong.

The enemy's power is unknown, and sending him back to Beijing safely is their top priority.

But at the moment of tension, he couldn't make any concessions, for the sake of everyone who might be alive upstream and downstream.It doesn't matter if he is not self-aware, but he is not as smart as Xie Congxin, unable to make the best judgment on the choice of interests, so calm to the point of indifference.

He turned his face away, and the two of them remained silent for dozens of seconds, until the second cigarette was burned to the end, Zhou An said: "Academician Xie is also a member of the circle."

Pei Ze shook his fingers.

"Accident?"

"……No."

"People like us have a good radar for each other," Zhou Andao, "and that student named Xie, I like Academician Xie."

He knew about it, Xie Congxin mentioned it that night in Chongcheng.But using the word "like" might not be appropriate, Pei Ze thought, Xie Yiming's gaze towards Xie Congxin was more of fanatical admiration rather than uncontrollable love.

Zhou An turned around, put his arms on the guardrail, and slowly exhaled a smoke ring, "He is very interested in you."

This "he" undoubtedly refers to Xie Congxin, Pei Ze bit his cigarette and did not answer.

He didn't feel that Xie Congxin looked at him differently than when he looked at others. He was not interested in it. He was more inclined to see it as Xie Congxin's observation of others, or to be on guard, because Xie Congxin didn't care about Yu Lei. Trust them completely.

But he didn't think it was necessary to explain to Zhou An.

He thought this topic should stop here, but Zhou An said: "Pei Ze, you can't accept me, and you won't accept him, right?"

Pei Ze frowned, why would you ask such a question?Him and Xie Congxin?

Zhou Andao: "I always feel that if you can like a man, you might like him like that."

Even he doesn't know what he likes, why does Zhou An think so?Pei Ze said: "...you think too much."

"Really?" Zhou An smiled self-deprecatingly, shaking off the ashes, "Really."

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Cheng Yinshang and others came back.

The retractable door was out of power. Fan Zheng used the key to unlock the emergency lock and pushed the door open so that Peng He could drive the car to the downstairs of the teaching building. Everyone came out to help move things.

There is a trunk full of food, drink, bits and pieces, and some warm clothes.After autumn, the temperature drops rapidly, and children are not resistant to freezing, so be prepared.

Pei Ze and Zhou An moved several boxes of drinks into the cafeteria, Xie Congxin walked to Cheng Yinshang, "Did you find the medicine?"

"I found it. Thirty boxes of granules and ten boxes of capsules." Cheng Yinshang dug out a large plastic bag from the co-pilot. Inside was the forty boxes of oseltamivir that Xie Congxin wanted. He pried two pharmacies to find them all. .

Xie Congxin said: "Leave the granules, but we will take the capsules away."

Cheng Yinshang agreed, then took out a paper bag from the back seat, handed it to Xie Congxin, and said, "The captain told me to look for it, saying that your coat is too thin, I think it should fit in this size, Academician Xie, let's try it."

Xie Congxin raised his eyebrows and took it. It was a brand new black jacket.

The style is neither good-looking nor too ugly to accept, Xie Congxin shook his head and put it on.

He is like a natural clothes hanger, and his skin is also fair. He can add color to anything he wears. Cheng Yinshang smiled and said, "It's pretty pretty."

Pei Ze went into the cafeteria, Xie Congxin was noncommittal, and said "Thank you" to Cheng Yin.

In addition to these, Peng He also brought back two 20kg bags of rice and threw them on the ground with a loud noise, as if showing off the hard-won spoils.

The children were very excited. The older ones carried the plastic bags, while the younger ones jumped up and down behind, carried the things they used up the stairs, and left the food in the cafeteria.

There are not many supplies left in the town, but it is not enough to support less than [-] people.Before, Fan Zheng was alone and his legs were inconvenient, so he couldn't get much back every time he went out.This time, with the help of Peng He and Cheng Yinshang, the whole car was directly filled, and saving some food should be enough for the children to live for half a month.

Peng He closed the emptied trunk, and said with a smile, "I picked up a few barrels of gasoline from the broken down car. Brother Fan said they didn't need it, so they put it in the car for us."

During the conversation, Fan Zheng just walked in from the outside. Before the person arrived, they heard a chaotic "ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Cheng Yinshang said: "It jumped out suddenly on the way back, almost crushed to death, fortunately Peng Peng braked, let's kill it tonight."

Peng He was more excited than the children, rubbing his hands together, "Good luck, good luck."

Fan Zheng was divorced in his middle age, and the child was awarded to his ex-wife. For many years as a bachelor, he relied on the cafeteria for meals, so naturally he couldn't cook. Peng He ran to find Pei Ze with the chicken.

They stayed in the wild for a long time, and they ate all kinds of animals. Most of them were done by Pei Ze. Although they had never encountered domestic chickens, they had killed many pheasants, but they were all about the same.

Pei Ze took the knife and went to the backyard to kill chickens.

After so many days in the end of the world, the rooster is still quite energetic. With one hand holding its wings, its two paws are kicking desperately. Pei Ze raised the knife and landed. The blood spurted from the rooster's neck splashed all over the ground, and then there was a long and tragic cry , tragically ended his life.

Cheng Yinshang brought a basin of boiling water, Pei Ze drained the chicken blood, and threw the chicken into the basin to soak.

Cheng Yinshang squatted beside him to watch his movements, and said in a low voice: "Captain, let Peng Peng stay, I'll go with you."

As soon as the water was boiled, Zhou An had conveyed this decision to him.

Pei Ze paused, then said, "No need."

"It's safer to go with one more person," Cheng Yin said, "It's too dangerous for you and Brother Zhou to go alone."

Pei Ze remained silent and did not answer, the flame on the cigarette flickered on and off. They did not come to a final conclusion in the afternoon, but Zhou An told Cheng Yinshang like this, as if forcing him to make a decision.

Cheng Yinshang thought that he disagreed, and said: "There are so many tasks, we all came here together, and there is no task that is easier than this."

He had been in the third team for a long time. He joined the army and followed Peng He's father with Pei Ze.Until the old captain Peng retired from the army a year and a half ago, Pei Ze was promoted from the deputy team, and Zhou An and Peng Peng made up for it. After all, he spent a lot more time with Pei Ze than Zhou An. When not left alone.

Of course, he also understood what Pei Ze meant.

So far, their encounters with the infected have all been in open terrain with vehicles as cover, and they have not encountered too much danger.As Xie Congxin said, the dam is narrow and unpredictable, so you may not be able to escape unscathed.As he and Peng He were young, Pei Ze didn't want to take them on an adventure.

But it was possible before, why not this time?

Cheng Yinshang was waiting for his answer, but Pei Ze started tearing apart chicken feathers.

It wasn't until the chicken's feathers faded, the rooster's pinkish-white flesh was exposed from its neck to its belly, and the smoke in its mouth was burned out, Pei Ze said: "Yin Shang, this is the time to send Academician Xie back to Beijing." task."

Cheng Yinshang said: "I know, but..."

"This matter is a decision I made without authorization. It does not belong to the task of the team. You don't need to be responsible for this matter." Pei Ze interrupted him. When Cheng Yinshang wanted to say something, there were footsteps behind him. Looking back, it was Xie Congxin.

The conversation came to an abrupt end.

Xie Congxin didn't seem to notice what he interrupted. He squatted down in front of the two of them and looked at the chicken. Seeing that both Pei Ze and Cheng Yinshang were looking at him, he pointed to the chicken and said, "Captain Pei, go on, no need Leave me alone."

Pei Ze continued to pluck the hair, and quickly peeled the chicken clean.

Xie Congxin took out two off-white medical plastic gloves from his pocket and put them on, starting from the comb, carefully observing every inch of skin, neck, wings, belly, chicken feet, and even the chicken buttocks.

"... What is Academician Xie doing?" Cheng Yinshang asked puzzled.

"Check," Xie Congxin lifted the chicken out of the pot by its neck, spun it around in the air, and said after confirming that there were no surface lesions, "Cut it open and have a look."

Pei Ze cut open the chicken belly with a sharp knife.

Xie Congxin covered his mouth and nose with the back of his hand, and said, "All the internal organs have been taken out."

Pei Ze did as he did, tearing open the belly of the chicken with his bare hands, pulling out the heart and kidney, rinsed the blood in the water, and handed it to Xie Congxin.

Xie Congxin didn't answer, so he turned over his hands one by one, finally took out a light pen, and took another light on the chicken's abdominal cavity, with an expression very much like a cold surgeon at the operating table.

After confirming that the surface of the chicken cavity was bright red and the color was normal, he took off his gloves and said, "There is no infection, it can be eaten."

"Are you afraid of virus infection?" Cheng Yinshang recalled, "Can animals be infected too?"

"Why not?" Xie Congxin raised his eyebrows at the chicken that died in the water, "Or do you think chickens raised on feed will have higher immunity than humans?"

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