Doomsday Bandits and Tramps

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"200 meters ahead, turn right at the next intersection."

Pullin looked at the road on the map and instructed Xiu to drive.

Xiu held the steering wheel, and when he thought about what happened in the morning, his mind was in a mess. He didn't hear what Pullin said at all, and he was driving entirely by muscle memory.

"Turn right, Xiu, it's time to turn right."

Pullin yelled several times, Xiu nodded his head in a daze, turned the steering wheel to the right, as if he had lost his soul in a daze.

In the morning, upon waking up, Xiu saw Seth's face so close that it was almost touching him!

Not only that, he found himself sleeping in Seth's arms, and the two of them were covered with the same thin blanket!

Xiu's brain crashed on the spot, and he was stunned for two seconds, then he pushed Seth away with all his strength, and then, there was someone's miserable howl...

"Hey, drive hard, be steady, if you continue to sway like this, I will lose my neck."

Seth was lying on the back seat with his legs crossed, gesticulating leisurely: "I'm thirsty, bring me some water."

"It's true."

Pullin flicked the map in dissatisfaction, and threw the water bottle to Seth.

"Open the lid."

With a sullen face, Prin got up from the co-pilot, took the water bottle in Seth's hand, opened it, and waited for him to drink it with a smile on his face. Then he tightened the bottle cap hard, stuffed it into the side seat, and picked up the map again.

"I'm hungry, bring me something to eat."

Pullin said blankly: "It's in the trunk, you can get there when you get up."

"I'm injured." It's useless to be arrogant, Seth began to pretend to be wronged again, "I am now a wounded person and need to be taken care of."

Pullin gritted his teeth angrily, almost tearing the map with his hands.

Guiltyly looking at the rearview mirror, Xiu suggested, "Why don't you stop and rest for a while."

"it is good......"

"No," Prince interrupted, "Xiu, you drive your own, don't worry about this guy."

"Hey, hey, is this how you treat the wounded?"

"You're an ass wounded, you come to torment us when you sleep with a stiff neck? You deserve it! You didn't break your neck, you should be grateful to Dade and thank me and Xiu."

"Yeah, I should really thank some people."

Xiu heard that the red root was red, and his heart broke out in a cold sweat. If Prin knew what happened in the morning, he would not be able to explain it even if he opened eight mouths.

"You don't have to be weird here."

Plin was kept in the dark, thinking that Seth was playing tricks again in his spare time, so he took the initiative to defend Xiu: "There's still so much bullshit after being injured, either shut up or get out of the car, it's early in the morning, don't worry."

"Yeah, my big brother is not as good as my little brother. Hey, the world is getting worse and people's hearts are not old. Is there any reason~~~"

The more Xiu listened to it, the more embarrassed he panicked, wishing he could find a hole in the ground and crawl into it.

For a whole morning, Xiu was caught between Seth's "verbal molestation" and Prin's righteous words. He had never felt such torment.

On the way, Pullin asked him several times why he was blushing, whether he was hypoxic or poisoned, and Seth also said "concern" a few times, but he could only force himself to deal with it, then sneaked a glance at Seth, and then The old man smiled happily and gave him a wink from time to time, which made people angry, annoyed and ashamed, and there was nothing he could do about it.

In fact, a dumb person who eats Coptis chinensis can't tell the pain.

"Okay, that's all."

At noon, Pryn lit a bonfire, and because someone was complaining about a neck pain along the way, they could only stop for a short rest.

Xiu dug out the cereal and jerky from the trunk, and went to the campfire with the bucket.

"Thank you, Xiu, I have to let you drive today."

"Should be."

As Xiu said, he looked back at Seth who was still lying in the car.

"It's okay, just leave him alone," Princip pulled Xiu to sit beside him, "If you go back now, you may be called around by him again."

Xiu was a little worried: "He sprained his neck, and it's still not convenient for him to move."

"Fart, I guess nine times out of ten it's just pretending, it's just a stiff neck, how serious it can be, before he..."

In the middle of speaking, Prin suddenly swallowed back his words, poked the bonfire with a branch, and dug out the roasted sweet potatoes: "In short, you don't need to worry about him, he will be brilliant with some sunshine, and he has thick skin, so he can't die. Come on. , try it quickly, be careful it's hot."

Xiu nodded, patted off the ashes from the sweet potato, carefully held it in his hand, and opened it. The bright red color of the fire exuded the unique sweet aroma of the potato after grilling. Xiu couldn't wait to blow on it, and took a bite. Tongue trembling hot.

"Hiss, good, so sweet."

"Of course, this kind of wild sweet potato is the best."

Pullin also broke open a sweet potato and gnawed it with relish. While setting up a pot on the bonfire, he grabbed a handful of grains, washed them, threw them into the pot, added water to boil them, and picked two raw sweet potatoes, peeled and cut them into pieces and threw them into the pot. , Cover the pot, then cut off a few pieces of dried meat, and roasted it next to the campfire.

Xiu looked at the well-organized Purin from the side, and couldn't get his hands in at all. After a while, the aroma was overflowing, the sweet potato porridge was boiling and bubbling, and the jerky was roasted with a burnt aroma.

"Okay, it's time to eat."

Pullin sniffed the aroma, and filled a bowl of steaming sweet potato porridge for Xiu with full of pride.

"Thank you."

Xiu took a sip of the thick and sweet sweet potato porridge, served with hot barbecue. Although the taste is a bit rough, and the cooking method is also very simple and primitive, but in the last days, you can drink a mouthful of hot porridge and eat a bite of barbecue, and you will feel happy from the bottom of your heart Overflowing, as if a fire was lit in my heart.

"Delicious, really delicious."

"Haha, as long as you like it."

Pullin smiled and divided the remaining porridge into two different bowls: "The further north you go, the colder you feel. Although you can cook a big pot at once, I still think it's best to cook as much as you eat. Fresh and not wasted."

Xiu drank the porridge, feeling warm from head to toe: "I didn't expect you to be so good at cooking."

"Hey, I don't have any skills, so I can do whatever I want."

Prin was embarrassed by the praise, and said shyly: "Food shortages are common in the last days. It is very important to learn how to preserve food, and it is more important not to waste food. You have never tasted something made by my elder brother. My God, that is completely It’s just ruining the food, so I’m the only one to make the food.”

"Is it difficult for Seth to cook?" Xiu asked curiously.

"Heh, it's not just unpalatable. Let's use this as an example. If you know this bowl of porridge, he's cooking porridge. If you don't know, you might think he's refining medicine to poison someone."

Prince trembled all over just thinking about it, which made Xiu burst into laughter.

"I seem to hear someone calling me handsome?"

In the car, Seth's voice suddenly came: "Do you have the heart to let an injured handsome guy starve?!"

"Yes, yes, you are the most handsome in the world."

Pullin made a face at the car, picked up Seth's porridge and barbecue, motioned for Xiu to eat slowly, and delivered it to him himself.

When he came back, he saw Xiu holding the bowl, poking the sweet potato in the porridge absent-mindedly, the heat almost dissipated.

"Xiu, you can't eat anymore, or is it not to your liking?"

"Oh no, no."

Xiu Lian scooped up a few mouthfuls of porridge and stuffed it into his mouth, chewed and stopped again: "Prin, can I ask you something?"

"Yes, you can ask whatever you want, and I will tell you everything."

Xiu held the bowl, hesitated again and again, and asked, "Do you know someone named Carol?"

Prin's hand holding the spoon froze suddenly, and the smile on his face disappeared instantly: "Who are you talking about?"

"Carol," Xiu glanced at the direction of the car, and said in a low voice, "He is Seth's comrade in arms, but he has already died."

"How do you know him?"

Prin stared at Xiu, his expression made Xiu feel a little strange.

"Seth told me," Xiu said, "when he helped me sneak into the city of Thinis, he used this ID called Carol."

Hearing what Xiu said, Prin was silent for a moment, put down the bowl in his hand, and seemed to have lost his appetite.

"Sorry, I shouldn't have asked this question."

Pullin shook his head, and after a long time, he said slowly: "Seth, my elder brother never mentions this, and no one dares to mention the name 'Carol' in front of him. Every time someone mentions him, my elder brother I will get angry, and my face is as black as if I want to eat people. When we first arrived in the dark alley, we originally wanted to make a living as private mercenaries, but a group of bandits found out about our origin from nowhere and deliberately took this The news provoked my elder brother, but the next day, my elder brother found their lair and burned them all into coke."

"Does he care about Carol?"

"Children who were born and raised in the temple tower, many parents died in the wild. Seth did, and so did Carol. They grew up together, like brothers, but Seth is a supernatural being, and Carlo I'm just a normal guy."

Pullin held the bowl in a daze: "Supernatural beings are the targets of the military's efforts to cultivate, but ordinary people will be thrown into the battlefield early. Carol's first mission was 16 years old, and Seth was 17 at the time. Received training in the military camp. Every time Carol left the city of Tinis, Seth was so worried that he could not sleep and eat. In order to go to the battlefield one day earlier, he did not hesitate to redouble his training, forcibly compressing the military courses, and taking the military graduation exam in advance. result......"

As a result, Carol died in front of him, and Seth could only watch helplessly as the beast's claws pierced his chest.

Thinking of this, Xiu's heart seemed to be blocked by something.

"You know Carol, my elder brother must have told you that he used to be a soldier."

"En." Xiu nodded.

"After Carol's death, my elder brother carried his body back to Tinis City. They found out afterwards that he himself was also scarred. He fainted outside the city gate and was in a coma for seven days. The temple tower was completely destroyed. He has the strength to snatch him back from the death line several times. After waking up, his temperament changed drastically, he was irritable and suspicious, always felt that someone was trying to harm him, locked himself in the room every day, self-harmed, and always said that if I Just move faster, move faster... Until now, I don't think he's quite out of it."

As Prin said, he choked up several times and couldn't continue.

Xiu put his arms around his shoulders, comforting him gently.

Prince shook his head slightly, calmed down, and continued: "After my elder brother's situation improved, he resolutely left the temple tower, chose to bear the infamy of a traitor, and started working as a bandit in a dark alley. Actually, it's a pity. Now the general of the temple tower thinks highly of my elder brother, if he stays in Tinis City, he might already be the commander of the army."