Don't Pick Up Boyfriends From The Trash - Chap 144
In the evening, before everyone rested, the customary practice was to set one bright sentry and two dark sentry, with a new group of people every three hours.
Without waiting for Yan Sun to arrange the shifts, Xiaochi Chi said, “From 11:00 to 2:00, Lan Lan was on the open post, and Gu and I were on the dark post.”
Xinzhi Gu, who was packing up the barbecue grill, heard the words and speeded up the packing action, carrying all kinds of utensils in one piece, and then rushed outside at a fast pace.
The team members looked at each other.
They could not feel the pulse of Xinzhi Gu.
Having known them for so long, Xinzhi Gu has always been outside of them, with only one Qiuyun Ding in his eyes and heart.
Over time, the team members are used to it, but in hearing him say things like blasting new humans with a nonchalant attitude, they still can’t help but get chills down their backs.
Xinzhi Gu, however, could not understand the feelings of the team members.
To be precise, the lack of empathy he simply could not feel the momentary stagnation of the atmosphere.
In his opinion, he was proposing a feasible suggestion for Qiuyun Ding’s reference, and since Qiuyun Ding was not happy, he would pretend that he had not said it.
The supermarket was only two stories high, and Qiuyun Ding and Xinzhi Gu were on the roof of the building together, crouching at the high point.
It’s extra cold tonight, so Qiuyun Ding is wearing a long scarf and the boss is lying at his feet to warm his feet, with the soft fur pressing against his ankles, which is a natural heater.
He held a baked sweet potato, and shared it with the boss.
He is one half, the boss is one half.
The leopard rubbed against his ankle like a big cat and purred tenderly, “Ow.”
Xiaochi Chi communicated with it in a gentle voice, as if he could really understand its words: “Isn’t it delicious and sweet?”
The sweet potatoes are really sweet, and the flesh inside is baked to the point that most of it turns into sugar juice, so you have to be careful when you bite into them, both to prevent burning and spillage, so Xiaochi Chi eats them with extra care.
The boss didn’t have such worries, so he swallowed the sweet potatoes before they got cold, and spent the rest of the time watching Xiaochi Chi eat and cleaning the sweet potatoes on his fingers.
Xiaochi Chi moved her ankle and showed off to 061: “Look, Teacher Six. My automatic water-warming bag.”
He reached out again and let it lick his tiger lightly: “…… automatic hand sanitizer.”
After saying that, he stuffed his hand in the leopard fur again: “Automatic dryer.”
…… words are full of pride in his family’s multifunctional boss.
061 gave a laugh and cautiously covered Xiaochi Chi’s somewhat cold hand, his smiling voice seemed quiet and low in the dark night: “Well. That’s nice.”
The coal boss and Qiuyun Ding play well, Xinzhi Gu already knew.
At first, he hated the leopard, but he didn’t even dare to show his “disgust” or “jealousy”.
Because he could no longer afford to risk losing Qiuyun Ding.
Qiuyun Ding so spoiled it, in order to make themselves feel better, they can only try to appreciate it.
After a long period of self-hypnosis, Xinzhi Gu reluctantly fell in love with the leopard.
At least it can protect Yun Qiu and become a shield for Yun Qiu.
But you are different, you are Yun Qiu’s gun, the unique one.
The people went to bed.
Lanlan Yan sat by the fire with a thick branch to compact and gather the stones around her, and as she did so, the silver bell on her wrist emitted a thin tinkling sound.
Xinzhi Gu asked Qiuyun Ding softly, “Calling me up, what’s the matter?”
He guessed that Qiuyun Ding wanted to talk to him about something.
As expected, Qiuyun Ding, who was playing with his boss’s two front paws, turned his back on him and said, “Well. It’s about the national weapon that we talked about just now.”
Xinzhi Gu did not say anything more, his expression remained the same, but his fingers tightened the corners of his shirt with some tension.
He waited in silence for Qiuyun Ding’s cross-examination of him.
Qiuyun Ding’s tone was still the same cold and bland one he was used to hearing: “At that time, I asked you not to go on because I knew what you would say next. Do you hate new humans that much?”
Xinzhi Gu frowned incomprehensibly, “The new humans are not like us. They are a different species.”
Xiaochi Chi asked directly and rhetorically, “What if one day I get cancer too.”
Xinzhi Gu froze for a few seconds, then wrinkled his brow deeply, and his tone was cold and hard: “You won’t.”
“‘If’.”
“There’s no such thing as if.”
Qiuyun Ding turned a deaf ear to his stubborn retort and said to himself, “Then I will also become a new human, a ‘different species’ as you say.”
Since Xinzhi Gu does not know what empathy is, he has to take the example of Qiuyun Ding, the only person with whom he can establish an emotional connection, in order to facilitate his understanding.
Sure enough, Xinzhi Gu stopped talking.
He wondered what Qiuyun Ding would look like after becoming a new human, and unexpectedly found that as long as that person was Qiuyun Ding, it wasn’t that hard to accept.
Xinzhi Gu was slightly surprised by this finding.
Qiuyun Ding seemed to be able to catch the moment when his defenses were shaken: “When the time comes, you will kill me because I am a new human?”
Xinzhi Gu is most uncomfortable with the phrase: “No!”
…… is a hit or miss.
Qiuyun Ding changed his tone again, this time much softer, but every word was oppressive: “Old humans like us, we can’t say that one day we will become new humans. I may be one of the people you kill with one shot.”
Xinzhi Gu’s heart is tightening.
“But.” Qiuyun Ding said, “That offer of yours wasn’t too bad.”
In his previous life, Qiuyun Ding, in addition to his encounter with Xinzhi Gu, a sinkhole level two-five, lost in the shortage of weapons, equipment backward.
Xiaochi Chi is aware of his heart’s lack, so he has always wanted to make it up for him.
Xiaochi Chi initially robbed the military-fire depot, and in later years entered a number of military posts one after another, taking many weapons and creating an impenetrable ring of firepower for his town.
But he was not satisfied.
Both Qiuyun Ding and Xiaochi Chi know all too well that to survive in the post-apocalyptic world, the short-lived peace that can be obtained in exchange for consumables can never be called true peace.
As a result, Xiaochi Chi has been eyeing national-level arsenals since early on.
When the disaster occurred, those working in the relevant departments immediately realized that something was wrong and coincidentally destroyed all weapons connections to the network from the physical level, including the internal military network.
This has to be considered a wise move. With one destruction, all the highly sophisticated weapons were turned into iron lumps waiting to rust in the parked storage.
But they are, after all, extremely important and precious weapons that must be fought for.
Most of the old humans are only concerned with fleeing for their lives and looking for food and water, but also to guard against the evolution of plant and animal attacks, surviving is already barely. Most of the new humans also have their own families, part of them no longer want to trust the AI, choose to flee; another part in order to protect their families, choose to work for the AI.
The AI naturally wanted to grab these weapons and really strangle the back of the neck skin of human destiny, but every time they were managed to be repelled by the people in charge of holding down the arsenal.
These soldiers on the one hand, the responsibility of the body, on the other hand, want to guard the weapon next to, also counted a solid rely on, naturally is bowed to.
Before he met Xinzhi Gu, Xiaochi Chi had contact with the men who guarded the arsenal.
All of them are old humans who need to maintain the most basic living, so they also have organized special supply collection teams to go out and collect food.
The AI wanted to cut off their source of supplies, telling them to freeze and starve to death and to collapse without a fight. Therefore, their supply trucks often became the main target of the new humans under the AI, and every trip was a real and hard battle.
On one occasion, Xiaochi Chi took several strong members of his team on a long trek of nearly half a month to one of the nearest military headquarters.
He crouched by the side of the road, as a cicada catching mantis after the yellow bird, to wait for the soldiers to help repel the incoming new humans, collected the new human weapons, and sent some supplies to the soldiers for free.
Xiaochi Chi has done the same thing at least three times, all for the reason of “passing through”, and has gained a lot from the new humans.
061 had made fun of him, saying that he didn’t just send charcoal in the snow, but also had to feel away two pieces from the charcoal pot.
That said, a gift in the snow is always more impressive than the icing on the cake.
Xiaochi Chi dare to guarantee that after these three snowy days, he has already hung in the heart of the commanders of that base, and the impression is certainly positive and trustworthy.
So much time has passed, and the watchmen are almost consumed by hunger, cold, battle damage and death by disease, it is time to seek cooperation with people as a way.
And Xiaochi Chi is waiting for such an opportunity.
The establishment and consolidation of the town really consumed and occupied too much of his efforts, and he did not want to reveal his intentions too early, so he kept his intentions hidden, but he did not expect Xinzhi Gu to hit the nail on the head, and he thought of the same thing.
But that’s not surprising.
When Qiuyun Ding first fell in love with Xinzhi Gu, it was not because he had a heart-to-heart and a good intention.
It’s just that Qiuyun Ding was too gullible and didn’t realize the unbridgeable gap between him and Xinzhi Gu.
Xinzhi Gu froze for a long time before he understood what the person in front of him meant: “You …… think I’m right?”
“The first half of the sentence is still human.” Qiuyun Ding shrugged, “The second half, I think with my heels also know you can not spit out any ivory.”
Xinzhi Gu pursed his lips and smiled.
He has a very deadly sense of cool teenage boy, smiling even with a touch of heart-thumping innocence, but Qiuyun Ding did not put his eyes on him, took out the small wine jug from his arms, screwed open the lid and took a sip of wine to warm up.
Qiuyun Ding said plainly: “I have important people to protect, and I can’t let them be exposed to danger. But I am clear that what can truly guard the peace is not kindness, not human kindness, but fear. So I want weapons, I want overwhelming power, I want everything. We don’t initiate massacres, but we must be the strongest.”
Xinzhi Gu stared at Qiuyun Ding, not saying a word, his gaze full of infatuation.
Although he could not understand what kind of ambition it was, since it was Qiuyun Ding’s wish, it must have been important.
Naturally, he volunteered, “Can you leave this to me?”
Qiuyun Ding gave him a look, “Let’s talk about it. I’ll think about it.”
One smokes, the other drinks, and although they remain silent, there is no argument, no confrontation, which fills Xinzhi Gu with joy as he sneaks a peek at Qiuyun Ding.
Qiuyun Ding seems to be aware of the presence of the gaze, tilting his head to look at him, while Xinzhi Gu is extremely fast to turn away, a little nervous to stroke the cuff line, face unchanged, heart beating wildly.
He wanted to say something to Qiuyun Ding, but was afraid that he might say something wrong and ruin such a good atmosphere.
After a long time, he gathered his courage and said, “Team Ding, you sleep.”
Qiuyun Ding took a deep breath of the icy air of the late night, and his tone had returned to a nonchalant flirtatious accent: “Lieutenant Gu, we are a secret sentry. There is no reason for a sentry to sleep.”
Xinzhi Gu likes Qiuyun Ding to call him this way: “Team Ding–”
Before the words fell, the panther that had been peacefully perched at Qiuyun Ding’s feet suddenly lit up its half-squinted gray-blue eyes and let out a dull low growl, running straight away from Qiuyun Ding’s side, running down the stairs and disappearing in a few seconds.
At the same time, 061 sank his voice and spoke, ” Chi Xiao , there is a situation.”
Two years of independent combat experience, the original keen Xinzhi Gu’s reaction has been no different from that of a wild animal, in the boss gave warning, he immediately rolled over from cover to reveal his head, only a glance down, the face suddenly changed greatly —
A dozen fluorescent green moving points of light silently and quickly surrounded the campfire.
…… hyenas.
Packs of hyenas.
What’s worse, Lanlan Yan, who was the open sentry, was probably too warm from the fire, and remembered that there were two reliable secret sentry to rely on, so he fell asleep with his head hanging.
Xiaochi Chi also saw the scene, the spirit instantly tense, reaching out to touch the gun at the same time has calculated several possibilities, between the lightning, the heart more cold a few points.
Those hyenas should be very hungry, otherwise they would not choose the place where the panther is perched to risk hunting for food.
They were already too close to Lan Lan Yan, and if they fired, it was hard to guarantee that the ricochets would not hurt Lan Lan, and it was even harder to guarantee that they would not be forced by the sound of gunfire to launch a rapid attack and quickly bite off Lan Lan Yan’s throat.
Team action hyenas, their solidarity must not be underestimated.
What’s worse, these hyenas, evoke extremely bad memories of Qiuyun Ding in the mind.
…… A bloodied hand wearing a silver bell reached out desperately from the tearing sound of the hyenas, as if to grab something, but nothing.
The extreme tension instantly triggered a severe migraine, Xiaochi Chi gritted his teeth and forced himself to bear it, pointing the open safety of the gun downward: “Six teachers, help me aim ……”
However, before 061 could reply, the man beside him silently braced himself on the edge of the rooftop with one hand and crossed down!
The downward flow of air rushed back to Xiaochi Chi’s face, causing him to freeze instantly, his finger completely stiffened on the trigger, and his body actually shivered uncontrollably.
061: “…… Chi Xiao ?”
The hyenas’ plan to sneak up on them is completely shattered by a Xinzhi Gu who falls from the sky.
Xinzhi Gu has no intention to intimidate, silently draws the dagger at his waist, raises his wrist and nails a hyena straight through the head!
The ear-splitting sound and the splattering of flesh and blood woke Lanlan Yan up, she was dazed and saw a light green fluorescent light in front of her eyes, her heart alarmed, without much doubt and hesitation, immediately copied two from the nearby fire, waving them around with the intention of driving them away, and quickly determine which way to break out.
The hyenas were not willing to let go of their prey, and two of them leapt up from different directions when Lanlan Yan turned half of his shoulders, and bit Lanlan Yan’s throat and arms!
One of them just jumped and was shot in the head with a cold shot from the second floor.
But he could no longer stop the other one.
It lit up its snow-white, drooling fangs and took a vicious bite at her little arm!
The bite, however, landed on an iron pipe.
The sound of numbing teeth breaking sounded at the same time, Xinzhi Gu swung the steel pipe in his hand, in mid-air through a beautiful half circle, the body of the hyena fell hard to the ground.
Because of excessive force, the steel pipe from which broke in half.
Xinzhi Gu quick eyes, grabbed the half of the steel pipe about to fly away, in the hands of a flower, the broken tip down, a pipe stabbed – into the belly of the hyena upturned, one hand pinching the neck of the hyena, cut down, directly to it opened the rifle.
Blood splattered on the corner of his lips.
Two more shots were fired upstairs, killing one and wounding the other, while the gruesome howls of the dying hyenas that opened up in an instant managed to scare the surviving few into flight.
Xinzhi Gu stood up, wiped the blood from the corner of his lips with the back of his hand, and wrung the blood-stained iron pipe with his shirt, ignoring Lanlan Yan, who was stunned by hindsight, and looked up to the top floor.
Qiuyun Ding is no longer there.
The sound of gunfire woke up the team members who had been sleeping peacefully in the supermarket, and when they rushed out of the supermarket, Lanlan Yan was standing in place, carrying the still-burning branches and leaves, not knowing what to do.
Qiuyun Ding walked out of the supermarket with a sniper – shotgun upside down:” Lanlan Yan , I ask you, what is the bright post?”
Lanlan Yan blushed white: “I ……”
Qiuyun Ding threw the gun into her arms and bellowed, “Who told you to sleep? Do you want to die?”
Lanlan Yan just experienced a life-or-death line, the back of the cold sweat flowing wildly, and then by the cold wind, goose bumps a burst of up: “Ding team, I’m sorry ……”
“What are you sorry for? Who are you sorry for?” Qiuyun Ding kicked the fire and sent sparks flying, “What you are sorry for is yourself!”
Lanlan Yan was frightened by the furious Qiuyun Ding, but he knew he had made too big a mistake, so he had to keep his head down and take a lecture.
Yan Sun, who had never seen Qiuyun Ding get so angry, came up to round up: “Ding team, Ding team, take it easy.”
” Lan Lan She is young and doesn’t understand the importance, don’t be angry.”
” Lan Lan , come on over here and put in a good word for Team Ding.”
Xinzhi Gu is a little bit distressed by Qiuyun Ding, and takes the initiative to come over: ” Yun Qiu ……”
Qiuyun Ding Without saying a word, he gave him a slap on the hand.
Xinzhi Gu was directly confused and looked up at Qiuyun Ding in amazement.
“What are you looking at?! It’s you that’s hitting!” He heard a slight tremor in Qiuyun Ding’s voice, “What are you jumping down for? You also do not want to die? You are also young? Show that you have the ability and ability?”
After saying that, he pushed away the people who blocked him, turned around and returned to the supermarket, took a few steps upstairs, and put the door on the roof directly to the lock.
Everyone could see that Qiuyun Ding was angry.
After this mess, who has the desire to sleep.
Lanlan Yan didn’t cry when she was mobbed by hyenas, but now she cried from fear. She sobbed and went to the door of the roof to apologize for her mistake, but begged for half a day, but to no avail.
She turned back with tears in her eyes and ate another chestnut from one of them, crying even more.
Bin Sun went to coax her, while Uncle Luo was cleverly packing up the hyena dog meat, intending to store it for rations, and Yan Sun was fiddling with the fire, saying to Xinzhi Gu, “Vice Team Gu, Team Ding is just angry with you, don’t take it personally.”
Xinzhi Gu is silent.
Thinking of Qiuyun Ding just now, the expression on his face was clearly nervous and worried, Xinzhi Gu’s heart was sweet, so he would not care about such trivial matters.
On the top floor, isolated from the crowd, Xiaochi Chi leaned against the parapet, his face buried between his knees, the hand that had just struck Xinzhi Gu trembling slightly.
061 called him softly, ” Chi Xiao ?”
Xiaochi Chi smoothed her hair: “Sorry, I got too deep into the drama.”
061 said, “Well, I know.”
He guessed what Xiaochi Chi had associated with it.
In the previous world’s Welfare Institution, Xiaochi Chi had a more serious reaction to a similar scenario.
…… He couldn’t see the “people falling down from the building” thing.
061 likewise knows that Xiaochi Chi’s anger towards Lanlan Yan is real.
But his anger at Xinzhi Gu was completely intentional.
He knew that Xinzhi Gu would misunderstand, misinterpret the meaning behind that slap, thinking that ” Qiuyun Ding” was caring for him, and would even be willing to pay for it.
So he simply took advantage of it.
Because Xiaochi Chi knows too well that the only person he serves is Qiuyun Ding.
Due to Xinzhi Gu’s character, Xiaochi Chi had to give Qiuyun Ding a Xinzhi Gu who was devoted to him before he left to make sure nothing would go wrong.
To put it simply, even if the first thing Qiuyun Ding does when he gets his body back is to kill him, Xiaochi Chi has to make sure that Xinzhi Gu is willing to give his back to Qiuyun Ding with full trust.
That slap, however, was also an emotional outburst for him.
He was really scared when he saw Xinzhi Gu jumping off the building.
Xiaochi Chi was tossed into a cold sweat by a migraine triggered by panic attacks.
He wrapped his coat and scarf tighter and whispered, “Teacher Six.”
061: “Well, I’m in.”
He squeezed a fuzzy soft laugh out of his throat, “Fortunately, Lou can’t see me like this now.”
Just now Xinzhi Gu jumped down from the building, reminding Xiaochi Chi of himself when he last faced a similar incident.
At that time, Xiaochi Chi, who was crying, panicking, on her knees begging Ying Lou not to die and not to leave her behind, has become what she is now, able to use and calculate others even when her emotions flare up instantly.
Xiaochi Chi was rarely dominated by such self-loathing, and while his hands were shaking, a sturdy black figure leapt silently from the roof of the next room in front of Xiaochi Chi.
Meanwhile, 061 said, “No. I think …… he’ll like it a lot.”
The cunning, clever and full of crooked ideas Xiaochi Chi , he really likes.
While Xiaochi Chi was slightly stunned, two warm front paws rested on Xiaochi Chi’s knees.
Xiaochi Chi looked up and found that the boss had cleaned himself up.
And just now those sneak attack failed, fled away from the hyena carcasses lined up, was placed on the next roof, was frozen and air-dried.
The leopard’s warm forehead rested lightly against his, rubbing tamely and softly.
And 061’s clear, righteous and warm voice sounded in the ear at the right time: “All right. It’s okay. Do not think so much, afraid to hug it more.”
In a trance, Xiaochi Chi felt as if his boss was saying “Okay” to him.
He embraced his boss wordlessly and buried his face above the fur at its shoulder, thinking, “Let yourself go for a while, just a while.
He quietly ambled there, and did not shed a tear, but simply emptied himself wholeheartedly and leaned against the warm animal body so that his long-weary spirit could relax.
The panther also leaned by him, quietly doing his support.
At that moment, Xiaochi Chi clasped his right ring finger around the Panther’s waist with a tingling sensation similar to the passage of a small electric current.
Immediately afterwards, a voice signal came from inside the ring: “Mr. Chi? …… Mr. Chi? Are you in–”
The signal connection was only a momentary one, and by the time Xiaochi Chi regained consciousness, the sound and the tingling sensation in his fingertips had disappeared.
…… What is this? An illusion?
