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Chapter 32: The Farmer and the Snake

"But it's quite normal to dream about people you've met before. Just like when I was in coma, I dreamed about my parents." Xiao Ran was not that surprised, and had a normal look on his face.

"But what I dreamed about seems to be someone I have never seen before..." Xu Xiaoxiao raised his head thoughtfully, with a few noodles hanging from the corner of his mouth that he had not had time to eat.

"This is interesting. It turns out that we are all dreaming..." Lu Yu seemed to suddenly think of something and asked Xiao Ran.

"What was the last thing that happened in your dream before you woke up?"

"My parents turned into zombies in front of me and rushed towards me." Xiao Ran was silent for a while and then said first.

"My dream was that my body was swapped by a monster, and I woke up after that. I told Xiaoran just now." Xu Xiaoxiao bit her chopsticks and told her dream.

"It's weird, I dreamed that my head was bitten off by an unknown creature, and in the dream, Zhang Heng also shouted at me not to kill myself, but the next second I burped...

"Lu Yu picked up a piece of beef and put it into his mouth. Unexpectedly, it was so hot that his tongue stuck out.

"So in the dreams of the three of us, we are all dead." Xiao Ran inserted the chopsticks into his face and frowned in thought.

"Isn't this normal? There are just a few ways to wake up from a dream, including weightlessness, fright, and death." Xu Xiaoxiao fished in the pot for a while, and seeing that there were no more chunks of beef, he simply picked up the pot.

Pour soup into your own bowl.

"You said that in your dream, Zhang Heng asked you not to kill yourself, but you died the next second?" Xiao Ran asked Lu Yudao with a thoughtful look on his face.

"Yes, as soon as he finished speaking, my head was bitten off." Lu Yu shrugged and confirmed this detail again.

Xiaoran lowered her head and thought again. She had a vague judgment in her mind, but she couldn't grasp it.

"Maybe it's just a coincidence." Xiaoran sighed slightly and continued to eat noodles.

For a moment, the three of them remained silent, and only the sound of slurping and eating noodles echoed in the living room.

"Dong dong dong", just as the three of them were concentrating on eating noodles, a rhythmic knocking sounded outside the door.

"Is the owner of 2901 here?"

Lu Yu and Xiao Ran immediately stopped eating noodles, glanced at each other, and quietly walked toward the door. Xu Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment, and also stopped the chopsticks in his hands, looking at the two of them in confusion.

Look.

As if he had a premonition that Xu Xiaoxiao would have questions, Xiao Ran turned around and made a silencing gesture to the confused girl, signaling her not to speak.

"I don't mean any harm. If there is someone inside, please open the door."

The voice outside the door continued, his tone very sincere.

Lu Yu skillfully opened the surveillance screen next to the door. A middle-aged man with a slim face and a black T-shirt appeared on the screen. He smiled fawningly at the screen, obviously knowing that the owner inside was watching through the monitor.

Hold him.

"What are you going to do?" Lu Yu didn't open the door, but shouted directly to the door. His voice was neither soft nor loud, just enough to be heard by the middle-aged man in black outside the door.

"Well, as you know, the communication network has been down for a long time. The national emergency broadcast has been repeatedly broadcast on TV, saying not to go out and stay at home..."

The man in black outside the door hesitated for a moment. Seeing that Lu Yu had no intention of opening the door, he had no choice but to say to the door.

"I live in Building 1304, Building 15, which is the building opposite yours. I saw you and a little girl pushing three carts into this building that day. There were so many crazy people outside.

People just gnaw, I'm really hungry, please give me something to eat."

When the man mentioned the zombies on the street, his mood suddenly fluctuated violently, and his words became incoherent. Fortunately, he still said what he wanted to express.

Lu Yu was silent for a while, but did not agree to the request of the man outside the door, but continued to ask, "How did you know we live on the 29th floor?"

The man outside the door was startled, as if he did not expect Lu Yu to ask so carefully, and answered quickly.

"I didn't know you lived on the 29th floor, but I saw you going up from the east elevator entrance, so I thought you should be a resident on the east side. After going downstairs, I looked at the floor display on the elevator.

It showed the 29th floor, so I came up here to try my luck..."

"Fuck..." Lu Yu cursed secretly in his heart and looked back at Xu Xiaoxiao, who looked innocent.

Lu Yu did use the elevator to transport the trolley when he went upstairs, but after using it, he pressed the elevator back to the first floor, thus preventing anyone from finding his residence directly.

But Xu Xiaoxiao's intrusion did come directly by taking the elevator. Naturally, it was impossible for him to cover up his whereabouts by pressing the elevator back to the first floor as carefully as Lu Yu did.

"We don't have enough food. There are too many mouths at home!" Lu Yu responded coldly, without any emotion in his tone.

He said this, firstly, he wanted to show his attitude, and he did not want to be a good person who was willing to do good things. Secondly, it was a bit of a bluff. When he and Xiaoran returned from collecting supplies, they had already been noticed by this man, so they were very interested.

Maybe he realized that he and a little girl were the only ones at home, so he came to ask for food. If the middle-aged man had seen three muscular men at that time, Lu Yu was sure that he would not dare to come to beg for food like this.

Sure enough, after hearing Lu Yu's words, the middle-aged man outside the door began to look panicked and slowly backed away. He seemed to have the urge to leave, but he hesitated for a long time and finally rang the door of Lu Yu's house again.

gate, shouted.

"Please, I have a 5-year-old child at home. It doesn't matter that my wife and I have nothing to eat. Can you please give my child some food? Just a little bit. Children don't eat much..."

The man seemed to have thrown away his last bit of dignity and begged. Lu Yu even saw a little sparkling tears from the corners of his eyes.

Xiao Ran glanced at Lu Yu expressionlessly, as if he wanted to see Lu Yu's attitude, but Lu Yu still stared at the screen coldly without saying a word.

"I said it! We don't have enough food, so you can leave." About 30 seconds later, Lu Yu said these cold words.

When Xiao Ran heard Lu Yu's cold words, there was still no expression on her delicate face. She just nodded silently to express her attitude.

"I say you two are too cold-blooded! I just want a little bit of food for the children!"

At this time, Xu Xiaoxiao, who had been keeping quiet behind the two of them, could no longer sit still. The middle-aged man spoke loudly at the door, so even Xu Xiaoxiao, who was sitting at the dining table, could roughly hear that there was someone else in the man's home.

A 5-year-old child was suffering from hunger. The kind-hearted Xu Xiaoxiao finally stood up with a snap.

Grabbing a few packs of compressed biscuits from the box, Xu Xiaoxiao strode to the door, ignoring Lu Yu and Xiao Ran's surprised looks, and opened the door.

"These are for you!" Xu Xiaoxiao called out to the middle-aged man who was about to leave, stuffed the biscuits into his hands, ran back into the house again, and took a few more packages of chocolates and handed them to the man.

Finally, Xu Xiaoxiao closed the door triumphantly amidst the man's gratitude, returned to the chair, and continued to eat the instant noodles in the bowl.

Lu Yu and Xiao Ran looked at each other, and neither of them spoke. They both returned to their seats in silence, as if what happened just now had not happened, and continued to eat noodles.

Xu Xiaoxiao, who was slurping noodles, seemed to have noticed something was wrong in the atmosphere and deliberately broke the silence.

"It's for the sake of the children. We have so much food, why don't we give a little to others?" He glanced at Lu Yu and Xiao Ran intentionally or unintentionally as he spoke.

However, Lu Yu and Xiao Ran remained silent and had no intention of paying any attention to Xu Xiaoxiao.

On the other side, the middle-aged man took the elevator downstairs after getting the food. However, he did not walk towards the No. 15 building opposite Lu Yu's house. Instead, he staggered towards the building facing the street.

Go to Building 7.

"When you were at home, could you see what was happening on the street?" Lu Yu asked suddenly after finishing the last noodle in the bowl.

"Me, me? Of course you can't see it. Although our building No. 15 is opposite your house and closer to the street, there is a No. 7 building on the street blocking the view. You can't see the street at all." Xu Xiaoxiao thought about it.

After a while, he said it naturally.

"Then did you listen to what the man just said, where does he live?" Lu Yu continued to ask, his eyes fixed on the girl in front of him, his expression gradually becoming colder.

"I heard that, Room 1304 in Building 15 is my downstairs neighbor..." Xu Xiaoxiao saw Lu Yu's eyes slowly turning cold, and felt uneasy in his heart, but he still pretended to be calm and said.

"You live on the 26th floor, and you can't see the scene on the street because it's blocked by Building 7. That man lives on the 13th floor, which is much lower than your floor. Why would he know that there's a street outside?

Are they all lunatics who chew on everyone they see?" After Lu Yu said this softly, he remained silent again, even looking away from Xu Xiaoxiao's face and looking at Xiao Ran beside him.

"What are your countermeasures?"

"The number of people on the other side is unclear, and I can't think of a good way..." Xiao Ran sighed and replied quickly.

Xu Xiaoxiao, who was sitting opposite the two of them, was completely confused at this time. Why could she understand every word of Lu Yu and Xiao Ran's words, but she couldn't understand them at all when they were strung together into words.

"Wait, why do we need to discuss countermeasures? Why are there too many people on the other side? Is there anything wrong with that person living on the 13th floor?" Xu Xiaoxiao is not a person who is good at hiding his words in his heart, so he threw out his words like beans from a bamboo tube.

doubt.

"Oh, sister Xiao Xiao, you are too impulsive, and you will cause big trouble this time." Xiao Ran said to Xu Xiaoxiao with an old-fashioned look.

After listening to Xiaoran's words, Xu Xiaoxiao became even more confused. Didn't he help a poor middle-aged man? Why did he get into big trouble now?

Seeing that Xu Xiaoxiao still looked confused, Xiao Ran patiently explained.

"That man said earlier that he lived in Building 15, but he also said that he could see crazy people on the street who would eat people when they saw them. Can't you hear such an obvious inconsistency?"

"Well, maybe he went to Building 7 to see it. That doesn't mean anything." Xu Xiaoxiao's face turned red and he hurriedly defended.

"Another point is that if this man really has a child, he will definitely mention his child from the beginning, instead of telling him about his child after Lu Yu refuses." Xiao Ran paused.

His expression was a little gloomy. "After all, as a parent, the first thing you think about must be your own children."

"Then this man..." No matter how slow his reaction was, Xu Xiaoxiao noticed that something seemed wrong with this middle-aged man.
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