As night fell, it rained lightly all day and finally stopped.
As the light rain stopped, the new moon in early August quietly climbed up into the night sky, swimming in the starry river, like a slow-moving boat.
After having dinner with Mo Xi at home, Zhang Zhe took a bag of canned meat, cigarettes and other items that he had asked for from the Xuanjia guards in the afternoon, and walked along the corridor of the second courtyard to the first courtyard.
go in the direction.
He wanted to deliver this bag of things he got for free to the big man who lived at the gate of the first courtyard. If the big man hadn't helped him, it would have been really difficult for him to handle this matter in the afternoon.
This bag of things that I got for free should be regarded as a favor that I paid back to the big man in advance!
As for how much compensation the five Xuanjia Guard soldiers received from Deputy Station Commander Liu, that was not what he should be concerned about.
Oh, at the very least, they will ask Deputy Webmaster Liu to compensate them according to the price, right?
When passing by the teaching building of the first hospital, Zhang Zhe saw that the classroom on the first floor, which was used as the kitchen, was brightly lit by candles, and there were voices from time to time.
I guess those guys from Xuanjia Guard are having dinner inside, right?
I wonder if it would be a bit unreasonable for me to go to them again and ask for some assistance at this time?
Thinking of this, Zhang Zhe walked quickly along the corridor towards the gate of the inn with a wicked smile under the moonlight.
Walking along the corridor, you can see the dim candlelight flickering in the concierge room where the big man is in the distance.
Arriving at the outdoor door of the concierge, Zhang Zhe looked through the door glass and saw the big man sitting at a table in the room, drinking a glass of white wine with two cans of meat on the table.
Before he even raised his hand to open the door and enter the room, Zhang Zhe had already passed through the half-open door and smelled the strong aroma of wine.
After reaching out to push open the door, Zhang Zhe, holding a bag of things in his hand, stood at the door and said with a smile to the big man in the room who had just picked up his wine glass and took a sip of white wine.
"Brother, are you drinking?"
"Brother, I didn't disturb you, did I?"
The big man put the wine glass in his hand on the table, reached out to open the drawer of the table, and said with a smile to Zhang Zhe who was standing outside the door.
"Fuck! Brother, what are you talking about?"
"Come on, come on in. Brother, I'm drinking wine by myself here, and I'm still thinking about you!"
"I didn't drink enough with you last time, and I was just thinking about finding another time to spend more time with you. And yet you came!"
With that said, the big man sitting at the table immediately took out another wine glass from the drawer.
After Zhang Zhe entered the room, the big man took out a two-pound wine barrel from under the table and filled the two wine glasses on the table.
After passing one of the glasses of wine in front of Zhang Zhe, the big man smiled and said to Zhang Zhe who was standing aside.
"Brother, get yourself a chair and sit on it. Don't be polite to me."
"Brother, let me pour you the wine. Don't say anything. Let's have a fucking glass first!"
With that said, the big man immediately picked up his own glass of white wine towards Zhang Zhe.
Zhang Zhe, who was sitting next to the big man, drank a glass of white wine with the big man, and then picked up his backpack while the big man poured wine into their glasses.
After placing the backpack in front of the big man, Zhang Zhe said to the big man with a smile.
"Brother, this is a backpack of things I asked for from those Xuanjia guards in the afternoon."
"There are a total of ten cans of canned meat, twenty packs of cigarettes, and eighteen compressed biscuits. I brought them all to you, brother."
"I won't say anything unnecessary, brother. Anyway, thanks to you for helping me."
After staring expressionlessly at Zhang Zhe beside him for a long time, the big man raised the left corner of his mouth and snorted coldly to Zhang Zhe.
"Hmph! Brother, who do you think I am? Am I someone who covets this little thing from you?"
"I'm helping you just because I want to leave a way out for myself in this apocalyptic world. Who doesn't have a high saddle and short stirrups? I'll help you today, and maybe you'll help me tomorrow."
"To put it bluntly, I just want to be your brother, and I don't care about you."
After saying this, the big man reached out and opened the backpack in front of him.
After reaching out and taking out two packs of cigarettes from his backpack, the big man returned the backpack to Zhang Zhe and said to Zhang Zhe with a serious expression.
"Brother, I will keep these two packs of cigarettes. I accept your wishes."
"Take the remaining things back. Use those things to get a note for you and your siblings."
When he said this, the big man suddenly changed his expression, picked up the wine glass on the side, and said to Zhang Zhe with a smile.
"But I really didn't expect that, brother, you would be so good at playing."
"Not only did he beat up the captain of the Xuanjia Guard, but he actually took these things out of their hands. I have to say, you are really a talent!"
"You did this, and you scared deputy station director Liu half to death. He spent the whole afternoon in the office worried about whether you, the internal security guard, were here to investigate him!"
"Haha... Now thinking about his restless expression, I feel so relieved. Come on, brother, drink!"
After the two drank the wine in each other's glasses, just when the big man picked up the wine barrel again and was about to pour wine into their glasses, the two heard a soft sound coming from the door outside the concierge.
knocking.
Although the sound of knocking on the door was not loud, it seemed particularly clear in the quiet night.
"Dang...dang...dang..."
Just when they heard the two people knocking on the door and were stunned, a soft call came from the door on the side of the concierge.
"Big man, come and open the door. I'm Xiaofu, I'm back."
"Big man, open the door quickly. I'm safe, I'm fine. I can sing. Can I sing Two Tigers to you?"
"Two tigers, two tigers..."
Hearing the voice of Xiao Fu singing "Two Tigers" coming from outside the door, he immediately spoke to Zhang Zhe beside him.
"Damn it! It's that girl Xiaofu who's back."
"Brother, let's go. You accompany me and I will open the door for Xiaofu."
After saying that, the big man immediately stood up and walked quickly outside the concierge.
"...One has no ears, one has no tail..."
When the two came to the front door, the big one asked in a low voice to Xiao Fu who was still singing "Two Tigers" outside the door.
"Xiao Fu, are there any zombies outside?"
"If not, should I open the door?"
As soon as the big man finished speaking, Xiaofu yelled softly in a somewhat anxious tone.
"Damn! Are you stupid, big man?"
"If there are zombies outside, how the hell would I dare to sing outside?"
"Hurry up and open the door for me. Just open the small door, no need to open the big door."
After hearing Xiao Fu's words, the big man asked Xiao Fu outside the door with a slightly doubtful tone.
"Why don't you open the door?"
"Your carriage..."
Before the big man could finish speaking, he had already reached out and unlocked the latch of the small door on the door.
As soon as the latch of the small door was opened by the big man, Xiao Fu immediately opened the small door from the outside and stepped in.
As soon as Xiao Fu entered the door, she rolled up the sleeves of her left and right arms and said to the big man who was leaning his head outside the door to look for the carriage.
"Big man, look, you can see clearly, I have never been bitten by a zombie!"
As soon as Xiao Fu finished speaking, the big guy who couldn't find any sign of the carriage outside the door closed the small door again, glared at Xiao Fu beside him, and shouted angrily in a low voice.
"You can still sing. Of course I know you haven't been bitten by a zombie."
"Let me ask you a question, where is the carriage?"
"You little girl, don't you know what the consequences will be if the carriage is lost? Do you really want to be kicked out of the inn and struggle to survive alone outside?"
After being yelled at by the big guy, Xiaofu shed tears and yelled at the big guy in front of her unwillingly.
"The carriage is ruined and the horse is frightened. What the hell do you want me to do alone? I am alone. How can I stop the frightened horse?"
"Besides, don't I want to live? I'm not afraid of death. Isn't my life life? It's great that I can come back alive today. If that bastard wants to drive me away, what the hell?
Leave right away."
"Damn it, he's awesome, just let him go. I think he'll even care about the carriage when he encounters that thing?...Ugh..."
At this point, Xiaofu, who looked extremely aggrieved, burst into tears.
Looking at the aggrieved and crying Xiao Fu in front of him, Zhang Zhe already guessed that this little girl must have encountered something dangerous on the way back.
After reaching out to take the aggrieved and helpless Xiao Fu into his arms and comforting her with words, Zhang Zhe held Xiao Fu, who was still crying in his arms, and said to the big man standing aside with a gloomy face and silent expression.
"Brother, I know you blame Xiaofu for Xiaofu's own good."
"In my opinion, we should first ask what happened to Xiaofu and then discuss how to report Xiaofu's lost carriage to Deputy Station Master Liu."
After saying this, Zhang Zhe immediately asked Xiaofu softly in his arms.
"Xiao Fu, Big Man and I are all on your side!"
"You have to tell us how you lost your carriage, so that we can know how to help you?"
After hearing Zhang Zhe's words, Xiao Fu left Zhang Zhe's arms and told Zhang Zhe and the big man with sobs what she had experienced on the road.
It turned out that today, when Xiaofu was driving the carriage back on her original route alone in the light rain, she was attacked by a giant python on a road at the junction of City K and City Z.
I heard from Xiaofu that the giant python was as thick as a water tank and more than ten meters long. It had rotten scars on its body and had a disgusting rancid smell. It suddenly jumped out of the woods on the side of the road.
He came out and smashed the carriage driven by Xiao Fu with his huge body.
And at that moment, the black horse pulling the carriage was frightened and ran away quickly. The giant python originally wanted to attack Xiao Fu, but Xiao Fu fell down after the carriage was smashed.
After landing on the ground, he immediately climbed up from the ground and plunged into the woods nearby.
After Xiaofu ran all the way in the woods for a long time, she escaped the pursuit of the giant python. Then she walked all the way back to the inn.
After listening to Xiaofu's story, Zhang Zhe felt that what Xiaofu said was strange. City K and City Z were not in the south, so how could there be pythons?
Of course, Zhang Zhe didn't think that this girl Xiaofu was lying. Looking at the girl's still frightened expression, it just looked like she was lying.
Then there is only one possibility, the giant python Xiaofu mentioned is real!
But this giant python is not just a giant python in name.
Just when Zhang Zhe was thinking this, the big man standing aside asked Xiao Fu with a suspicious look on his face.
"Fuck! Xiaofu, are you sure you're not lying?"
"City K and City Z are not tropical rainforests, so how could they have the kind you mentioned..."
Before the big man could finish speaking, Xiaofu, who was standing aside with lingering fear, sobbed and explained to the big man.
"Big man, why can't you understand?"
"That's not a living python, that's a zombie-turned python. Why the hell can't you understand what I'm saying?"
After hearing Xiaofu's words, the big man looked at Xiaofu and said again with doubts on his face.
"But even if it is a zombie python, we all know that zombies will not attack animals, right?"
"You have horse manure on your body again, it..."
As soon as the big man finished speaking, Xiao Fu, who had tears on her cheeks, shouted angrily at the big man.
"You ask me, who should I ask?"
"The hell did it attack me? You just don't trust me and you just don't want to help me. I'll go find the deputy station chief myself and tell you that I don't need you anymore. You can't believe it!"
After saying this, Xiao Fu, with her mouth pouted and an angry look on her face, walked along the corridor towards the teaching building of the first hospital with tears on her face.
Seeing this, the big man hurriedly spoke to Zhang Zhe who was standing aside.
"Brother, I will treat you to a drink another day."
"You go back first, I'll go help this girl Xiaofu and talk to the deputy station chief about the situation!"
Saying that, the big man quickly chased after Xiao Fu who was ahead.
Looking at the back of the big man chasing Xiao Fu, Zhang Zhe hurriedly spoke.
"Brother, I leave Xiaofu's affairs to you!"
As soon as Zhang Zhe finished speaking, in the dark corridor where the big man's back could no longer be seen, a loud, unclear response came.
"rest assured!"
After returning to the second hospital, Zhang Zhe was not in a hurry to return home. Instead, he sat on the steps below the teaching building, lit a cigarette for himself, and quietly waited for Xiaofu's return.
An hour later, under the bright moonlight in the night sky, Zhang Zhe, who was sitting downstairs in the teaching building, saw Xiao Fu's figure appearing on the corridor of the second hospital.
When Xiaofu came downstairs, she saw Zhang Zhe sitting on the steps downstairs smoking a cigarette. She looked at Zhang Zhe who was smiling at her and asked lightly with a disappointed expression.
"Brother Zhe, are you waiting for me?"
After flicking the cigarette that was about to burn out in his hand with his fingers, Zhang Zhe stood up from the steps and said to Xiao Fu with a smile.
"Fool, if I don't wait for you, who else can I wait for?"
"Tell me, how did things go?"
After hearing Zhang Zhe's words, a smile appeared on Xiao Fu's face, which was still disappointed.
But that smile was like a stone thrown into a pool of stagnant water. After splashing a few ripples, it immediately returned to calm.
After the smile on her cheeks disappeared for a moment, Xiao Fu, who regained her lost expression, looked at Zhang Zhe in front of her and spoke calmly.
"Thanks to the big help, that bastard didn't punish me for losing the horse."
"But that bastard asked me to deliver another batch of goods to the military base in City L tomorrow. But this time, this time..."
When she said this, Xiaofu lowered her head and whispered.
"Brother Zhe, that bastard, asked you to accompany me to deliver the goods this time."
"He clearly knows that it's very dangerous now. He, he wants us both to die. I can't escape, but Brother Zhe, you should find a reason tomorrow..."
Before Xiao Fu, who had her head lowered, could finish speaking, Zhang Zhe, who was standing on the steps, said with a nonchalant smile.
"I'm just going to deliver some goods, what's the big deal?"
"Anyway, I'm bored here. It would be nice to go out for a walk with you. Of course, it would be even better if you are lucky enough to see the giant python you mentioned!"
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