Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

When Fu Yunlan woke up again, he felt that there was more than one person in the room, but their conversation was just a meaningless buzz to him. It took a long time before his eyes could barely focus and distinguish who is the person.

Coulson carefully took out the precious box of anti-inflammatory drugs from the medicine cabinet, and finally confirmed it with Celeste: "Have you thought about it yet?"

Celeste nodded.

Coulson still wanted to persuade him not to do such a meaningless waste: "You spent all your money on medicine, what will you eat in the next winter, you also know that everyone is very difficult, and no one will give up because of you." You'll get your share of good deeds. If you change your mind now, I'll pay you some money to fix the machine."

"I'll find a way," said Thurlist.

"...Okay." Coulson sighed and took out the syringe.

"Wait." Celeste looked at the syringe, feeling uneasy, "This is used, do you have a new disposable syringe?"

"It costs money, too," Coulson said.

Although those empty syringes were very cheap disposables before the war, in the wasteland after the war, after all, one is used and one is missing.

"I can get you some potatoes and turnips, there's some left over in the fridge."

"... Forget it, keep it for yourself." Using food as currency to barter is also very common in the wasteland, but Coulson really can't bear to take away their remaining rations , he dug out the unopened disposable syringe from the medicine box, and began to inject Fu Yunlan with anti-inflammatory drugs.

The persistent high fever left Fu Yunlan without a trace of strength, and his throat was already swollen to the point where he could not speak. When the medicine was slowly injected into his vein, the only thing he could do was to roll his eyeballs and watch silently. With Thurlist.

All the money bought him medicine, how can this child survive this severe winter.

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Not long after Fu Yunlan woke up, he fell into a coma again. He was weaker today than yesterday. Celeste could only wet his lips with cotton wool, and fed him half a glass of water in this way.

Fortunately, at night, Fu Yunlan's fever finally subsided temporarily.

In the past, he was physically strong, and he was never afraid of the cold, so he was always covered with a quilt that was not very thick, and he never bought electric blankets or anything like that, but the situation is different now, Fu Yunlan was unable to keep up due to serious injuries and blood loss. With a normal body temperature, he unconsciously curled up in the bed.

Celeste touched his hand and felt that Fu Yunlan's body temperature was a little too low, so he hugged his own quilt from upstairs and covered Fu Yunlan's body, then took off his coat and got into the bed.

He stayed up all night last night in order to take care of Fu Yunlan, so Celeste fell asleep not long after lying down. He didn't dare to lean on Fu Yunlan for fear that he would accidentally bump into Fu Yunlan if he didn't pay attention in his sleep. However, because of the cold, Fu Yunlan unconsciously leaned towards the heat source beside her while she was drowsy.

Because of sleeping for too long, Fu Yunlan woke up earlier than Celeste. After he opened his eyes, he was in a daze for a while before realizing the current situation - Celeste's soft hair almost touched his The tip of his nose, and one of his hands was still around Celeste's waist.

Fu Yunlan has always disliked getting too close to people, let alone sleeping in the same bed, but now he didn't want to let go of the boy in his arms at all. Maybe it was because it was too cold, which made him yearn for the boy from The warmth of another body, perhaps because he didn't find the smell of Thelister offensive.

Fu Yunlan's sense of smell is better than that of ordinary people, as long as other people get close to him, he will always smell an unbearable smell, but strangely, Celeste's smell does not arouse his disgust.

You know, most people in the wasteland almost never take a bath or wash their faces, their hair is greasy and matted, their faces are covered with dust and dirt, their fingernails are full of old mud, and the cuffs and cuffs of unwashed clothes The necklines are all black and shiny, and the strong body odor from them can be smelled from a long distance away.

In fact, many people do not want to be so sloppy, but because clean water is a very precious resource, and it is too extravagant to wash their faces and bathe. We can only use the old machines more than ten years ago for simple water treatment. The water flowing out of the water pipes always has an uncomfortable rusty yellow color and emits an indescribable strange smell. With so much chemical pollution, heavy metal pollution and nuclear pollution, bathing in such water is probably worse than not washing at all.

The distilled water specially used for drinking is extremely expensive, and ordinary people can only save it as much as possible. The poor can only drink rusty yellow tap water to quench their thirst, which is tantamount to worsening their health.

Fu Yunlan has always been extravagant in this regard, because he has a cleanliness habit, he may consume dozens of times as much pure water as others alone, and Celeste can also get some light, and his body is always cleaner than others.

Now, they definitely can't afford so much pure water, and they don't know how long this cleanliness can last.

Fu Yunlan had no strength and didn't want to move, so she lay quietly in the bed and waited for the time to pass. Not long after, Celeste woke up.

When he found that Fu Yunlan was holding him, he carefully moved Fu Yunlan's arm away, and when he was getting ready to get dressed, he realized that Fu Yunlan was awake.

"Do you feel better?" Celeste touched his forehead, it seemed that Fu Yunlan didn't have a fever today.

"Hmm..." Fu Yunlan tried to make a sound, the edema in his throat seemed to have subsided a little, and he could barely speak.

"I'll go make you something to eat."

"it is good……"

He has already bought all the medicines, and Fu Yunlan doesn't want to worry about whether he should or should not, what to do in the future and other nonsense. All he can do now is to survive hard and not let Celeste's hard work go to waste. If he can get better, Celeste's livelihood will naturally not be a problem, but until he gets better, the burden of maintaining the two of them can only be borne by this 15-year-old boy alone.

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Although Fu Yunlan didn't have much appetite, he still managed to eat something. He had to eat to recover his strength, but he also noticed that Celeste ate much less than usual today, it must be because there was not much food left So I can only eat less, so as not to run out of food in a few days.

Fu Yunlan felt a little uncomfortable, and he said to Celeste, "My body armor should still be at the doctor's place, you go and get it back, and go to the bar to exchange for some food."

"...Okay." Celeste packed up his things and went out.

When Celeste came out of the clinic holding Fu Yunlan's bulletproof vest, Li Kailin was patrolling the main street. Although she had more than a dozen guards under her command, she always set an example. Arrange for yourself to be on duty.

Although it was daytime, the streets were empty. No one wanted to stay outdoors at minus ten degrees. The sewage in the puddles had turned into hard ice. Celeste carefully walked forward leaning against the wall, but Li Kailin still noticed him.

"Cherister, wait a minute." She took a few steps to catch up.

"Captain Li, what's the matter?" Celeste and Li Kailin had never met each other, and he didn't know why Li Kailin came to stop him.

"I heard that you spent all the money left by Lan on anti-inflammatory drugs." Li Kailin bit the fingertips of the glove and took it off with difficulty, reached into the inner pocket of the coat and took out a gold bar that was still warm. "My income is not much, you can buy some food for Lan with this money - don't tell him I gave it to him."

"Uh...why?" Celeste asked in confusion.

"Don't ask too much, just do it." Li Kailin slapped the gold bar in Celeste's hand without any explanation, turned around and left.

Celeste looked at Li Kailin's back inexplicably. Whether it was the rumors in the town or her own performance, Li Kailin always hated Fu Yunlan, and she didn't know why she wanted to send him money at this time.

"Mars." Celeste put on the earphones and called out to his artificial intelligence system, "Do you know why Li Kailin helped us?"

"Hey! I can't even guess what the master is thinking. How can I understand what that woman is thinking? A woman's heart is a needle. Although she doesn't look like a woman, she is a woman after all."

"I give 0 points for this humor." Celeste said, "Didn't you claim to know everything? You know everything I do these days, what kind of past they have had, Don't you know anything about it?"

"I don't know everything. If I give you the illusion that I know everything, it's just a little calfskin I'm blowing to show that I have excellent performance, versatility, and high quality and low price." Masi said very He said, "I know everything about the master because I have been paying attention to the master. Their old grievances have nothing to do with me, but according to my summary from the chats of the residents of Hummingbird Town According to gossip, they used to have a good relationship. When Fu Yunlan was seventeen or eighteen years old, Li Kailin showed love to him, but he cruelly rejected him on the grounds of 'I have always regarded you as a brother'. Since then, Li Kailin The attitude towards him was not good, and until today, they have not shown any signs of reconciliation."

"...I seem to understand." Celeste said.

"Oh? Does the master know the reason? Tell me quickly, so that I can enrich my database."

"You're a robot, you won't understand."

"To be precise, I'm not a robot, but an artificial intelligence system. Besides, what's wrong with the robot? Is the owner discriminating against my performance? I'm not happy, I have a little mood, I decided to strike for 3 minutes, if there is nothing important Don't come looking for me."

"Mass..."

"It may be too late for you to say something pleasant to coax me now. I have always been more magnanimous, and I will forgive you soon."

"...No, I was just thinking, how could I create an artificial intelligence system like yours." Celeste stopped suddenly, "Wait, I seem to have said something by accident just now... you I made it myself?"

"...I don't have the authority to answer this question." Marth pretended to be dead in a very mechanical voice.

Celeste was almost at the Crimson Bar, so he ignored the convulsive system, took off his earphones and pushed open the door of the bar.