Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

On the second day, Fu Yunlan's situation was still not optimistic. Celeste fed him some semi-liquid food while he was awake, then put on his coat and went out.

As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the Crimson Bar, Celeste was attracted by the bustle of the square. A large circle of people were watching the big show, and the one-eyed Tooke he was looking for was the protagonist.

Celeste walked over there. It was a fountain pool that had been abandoned for many years. Now it is the place where prisoners are executed in Hummingbird Town. One-eyed Took, with his face bruised and purple, obviously just received a severe beating, held a shotgun in his hand, and pointed his gun at the Mole with a look of rage on his face, looking like he was going to kill.

"Oh, what are you doing!" Mayor Li Jiesi held the barrel of the gun to prevent him from aiming at the mole, trying to be a peacemaker, "It's easy to discuss things, don't hurt the peace with those who use knives and guns. "

"Discuss what! I already knew that this kid's hands and feet are not clean. I didn't expect that he would be so brave to steal into my Tuke's house." One-eyed Tuke said loudly to the surrounding people, "He pried open My safe, if I hadn't found it in time, all the money and valuables would have been stolen."

People from the mercenary group also came at this moment, and Heita asked Mole with a look of embarrassment: "What do you have to say? If he wrongs you, we will help you."

As he spoke, he secretly winked at Mole, who knew that Mole didn't understand his meaning at all, spat out a mouthful of blood and said, "There's nothing to say, I'm so unlucky."

Mole himself admitted to the theft, and it was even more difficult for the members of the mercenary group. One-eyed Tuke groaned and said: "According to the rules set by Fu Yuanshan before, anyone who steals more than ten gold coins will be shot. Shouldn’t the team leader not admit it if he changed his team!”

"Oh, why bother, you haven't suffered any losses anyway." Li Jiesi still tried hard to be a peacemaker, "Everyone lives in a small town, and you don't see anyone who looks up, so why make it so ugly? ?”

"Stop talking nonsense, let go!" Not only is Fu Yuanshan gone, Fu Yunlan is also dying, and One-Eyed Tuke doesn't take the mayor's words seriously any more, "If I let him go today, it's like telling Everyone, the property of my One-eyed Tooke family can be easily touched by thieves."

Li Jiesi just didn't let go: "I'm doing this for your own good. What good will it do you if you offend the mercenary group?"

"Mercenary regiment?" One-eyed Tuke sneered, looked at the few remaining people in the mercenary regiment, his contempt was beyond words, "Could it be that members of the mercenary regiment can steal things casually and don't have to obey the rules? If you want me to let him go as if nothing happened, why don't you just tell me who else in the town has the privilege of committing a crime, and next time I see them committing a crime, I will never say a word."

Of course Li Jies couldn't say such a thing, he could only look to the left and then to the right in embarrassment. It's an attempted theft and should be exiled, but don't push people too far."

"As long as I know that criminals won't get away with it, I have no objection." One-eyed Tuke was already satisfied with the result, and even though the mercenary group was no longer what it used to be, he didn't want to really confront the remaining veterans.

Heita stepped forward and untied the rope on Mole's body, and Mole grinned and rubbed his bruised wrist: "Thanks."

"Do you want to go home and pack your things?" The cowboy seldom opened his mouth to care about his teammates.

"Well, I have nothing personal to take," said the Mole. "Give me back my tool-bag, and leave the rest to you."

A few mercenaries forced One-Eyed Took with their eyes, and One-Eyed Took muttered and took out the small bag from the mole and threw it to the mercenaries.

Celeste also followed the crowd until he watched the thin figure of the Mole walk out of the gate of Hummingbird Town, and the iron gate slammed shut behind him.

No one knew where the mole would go or whether it would survive, and they were not in the mood to care so much, so they all dispersed after whispering for a while.

The mercenary regiment, which was originally not many people, now lost one person. On the way back to the regiment headquarters, everyone was a little depressed.

"Looking at his haughty look, I really want to put a bomb under his pillow." The bomber said bitterly, "If Lan wasn't injured, how could One-Eyed Tooke be so arrogant."

"Stop talking." Heita sighed, "Stop talking, let's go."

A mercenary said: "Speaking of which, how is Lan doing now?"

Everyone looked at each other, and there was an awkward silence.

Bomber scratched his head: "Didn't anyone visit him after that day?"

"Didn't you go too?" The cowboy gave him a sideways look.

"Ahem..." Bomber coughed in embarrassment twice, and suggested, "How about... let's go see him?"

"Forget it, so what can we do if we go and have a look." Heita looked so dejected that he seemed to be shorter, "We can't do anything except watch him die slowly."

"Speaking of which, the little boy he adopted before is still trying to take care of him." The cowboy said, kicking the stones under his feet.

"What a good boy." Bomber praised.

"Yeah, what a good boy." Heita repeated.

Then there was silence again.

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When One-Eyed Took returned to the bar after finishing his work, Celeste followed in.

One-eyed Tuke turned his head and saw him coming, and was a little surprised that he didn't notice the young man who followed him all the way: "Oh, it's you."

"It's me." Celeste replied without hesitation.

One-eyed Tooke thought for a while: "Your name is... Celeste, right?"

"I'll get the agreed upon reward." Celeste didn't want to stay outside for too long, so he straightforwardly explained the reason for coming.

"It's still hard for me to believe that you actually fixed the CD player." One-eyed Tucker looked at the childish but unfathomable boy in front of him with complicated eyes, "But since Meeks has said so, the Tuke family You won’t renege on your debts, I heard that you repaired the hospital’s CT machine, aren’t you good at repairing machines?”

"Okay."

"What if it's not an electrical appliance? Can you fix it?" One-eyed Tucker said, "The water purifier in the bar has been broken for a while, and the water it makes has a strange smell. Let's see if you can fix it."

Celeste said blankly: "There will be another payment."

"Of course, of course I will give you extra money." One-eyed Tucker took out three gold bars the size of chocolate bars from the safe and handed them to Celeste to show his sincerity, "This is the compensation for repairing the CD player, you get it first on."

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Fu Yunlan's injuries were a bit repeated, and his mind was sometimes clear and sometimes blurred. He no longer had the sense of time, and he didn't know how many days had passed. with food and water.

He still vaguely remembered that Doctor Coulson came several times to change the dressing on his wound and inject the remaining anti-inflammatory drugs into his arm.

Celeste sometimes takes care of him at home, feeds him, helps him up to go to the bathroom, and sometimes disappears for a long time. Fu Yunlan knows that he is working hard outside in exchange for the supplies necessary for survival, but he has never known that he What exactly are you doing.

Celeste is not in good health, so he is definitely not able to do heavy work. In this increasingly difficult environment, what other work can allow him to support two people?

When Fu Yunlan woke up from the drowsy state again, Celeste was lying down beside him and fell asleep.

Fu Yunlan looked out the window, it was about three o'clock, maybe four o'clock, the whole town was as quiet as ice in the night, he didn't want to wake up Celeste, so he quietly watched the quiet by the dim light of the street lamp Sleeping boy.

It wasn't until dawn began to appear in the sky that Celeste turned over, as if he was about to wake up, that Fu Yunlan looked away and pretended to be asleep.

Celeste opened his eyes, and for some reason, he somehow felt that Fu Yunlan was awake.

He tried to poke Fu Yunlan: "Lan, are you awake?"

"...En." Fu Yunlan responded, "Why did you get up so early?"

"I always get up early." Celeste said that the lack of sleep is also one of the side effects of his "super power". Fu Yunlan didn't sleep with Celeste before, so I don't know. He always Only sleep for four or five hours.

Hearing that Fu Yunlan's voice was a little hoarse, Celeste got out of bed and poured a glass of water over. After thinking about it, he poured it back and put it on the induction cooker to heat it up, and then brought warm water to Fu Yunlan to drink.

Fu Yunlan tried to sit up by himself, he took two sips from the cup, the cup was still filled with expensive purified water, but he clearly remembered that the bucket of water he bought earlier was almost used up before he was injured.

"What kind of work are you doing? Why does it seem that your income is not bad?" Fu Yunlan couldn't bear to ask about it curiously.

"It's just...helping people fix things." Celeste helped him to lie down, and wrung out a towel to wipe his face.

"...Can you repair things?" Fu Yunlan always felt that something was wrong, "How did I remember that your mother studied biological science?"