Back bite

The way back was the same as the way we came. There was no one around the ruins, but the way seemed clearer than usual.

Cheng Wei looked up at the sky, the moon was hiding behind thin clouds, and then looked at the street lamps on both sides of the road, only to find that the original bent lamp poles had been straightened, and the brand new bulbs emitted a soft yellow light at night .

Although the road surface is still uneven, the feeling of stepping on it is much more comfortable than the day when they first landed on the island. The tall shadows of the two were cast obliquely on the gravel and rubble by the light, and both sides held guns in their outer hands. The two hands next to each other were holding hands, not interlocking fingers, but Xue Xunye's close limbs hooked Cheng Wei's palm tightly.

"You really agreed to this deal." Xue Xunye said.

Almost at the residence, Cheng Wei slowed down so that the sound of the conversation would not disturb Tan You's rest: "Accepting this deal does not mean that I choose to trust him, and it is not harmful for us to recognize the first priority."

"I don't think he has any sincerity, so I proposed to carry his mattress away and he immediately broke down. He couldn't even meet this small request." Xue Xunye hooked a pistol and twirled it between his fingers, "You Well, what did you see in his drawer just now?"

Cheng Wei was a little surprised by Xue Xunye's observation ability. He always thought that Xue Xunye was stupid, but he didn't expect to notice his subtle movements and facial expressions: "How do you know? I'm already very cautious."

"As I said, even if my eyes are fixed on other places, I will look at you from the corner of my eye." Xue Xunye showed him a demonstration, turning his head and looking at the other side, "I don't seem to be looking at you." To your face, but I know you're blinking, two...three."

What he said was exactly the same as what Cheng Wei did. Cheng Wei turned his head and said, "I'm in the blind spot of your peripheral vision, can you really see it?"

Xue Xunye looked down at his dark eyes: "Even if I can't see you, I can feel you."

"A new skill?" Cheng Wei smiled and fiddled with Xue Xunye's eyelashes.

"No, the old one." Xue Xunye blinked his eyes because of being teased, "When you can't see you, insomnia means you are forgetting me, and the beating of the veins in your left palm can feel that you are depressed, but now you don't Insomnia, I know you remember me all the time."

Cheng Wei realized that Xue Xunye was referring to the most difficult ten years.

He bit the flesh of his lower lip and grinded it, and after a while, he pulled Xue Xunye's left palm and rubbed his palm: "Then, are the tendons here beating now?"

"Yes," Xue Xunye resolutely said, "So I know you are homesick, maybe the big urchin that competes with me, or maybe you are thinking about work, and your heart doesn't want to stay here for a long time."

"Hmm." Cheng Wei scratched Xue Xunye's palm, otherwise he wouldn't have rashly agreed to Chi Xia's ridiculous deal when they also didn't know the exit of the ruins.

"There were more than one missing person notices in Chi Xia's drawer, and he took back the missing billboard, hiding it in the gap between the table and cabinet and the wall." Cheng Wei said, "It's not ruled out. He's trying to get you out of the base faster than anyone else, but it's also possible he-"

"The person who made the billboards and missing person notices?" Xue Xunye was rare and clever, "What he did was called throwing bricks to attract jade."

Cheng Wei was speechless: "Don't use words indiscriminately."

Before entering the house, the two checked the time with their mobile phones. The correct time showed that it was 2:12 on February 23.

As soon as he pushed the door, Cheng Wei was almost choked, and the closed room was filled with the smell of snail powder. Tan You curled up on the lower bunk and slept in the dark, indifferent to the sound of their pushing the door.

"S-level pheromone, the snail has evolved." Xue Xunye opened the door to let the smell go, "The child is very promising."

Cheng Wei walked around the room, emitting a trace of edelweiss pheromone to purify the air with every step. Finally, he walked to the bedside and squatted down. First, he touched the back of Tan Tanyou's neck. After the swelling subsided, he touched his forehead with the back of his hand, but there was no fever.

"The physique is not bad, I have to assign him something to do." The temperature in the past two days has been relatively cold, Cheng Wei dug out a coat from Tanyou from the suitcase and put it on his stomach, "Let him find a way to communicate with the outside world tomorrow." contact with."

"Basically it can't be done," Xue Xunye closed the door and walked over, "The lord has blocked the external signal, and only the lord can unblock it."

"Then let the snails conquer the Lord's base system." Cheng Wei stood up on his knees and took two steps towards the bathroom. Seeing that Xue Xunye was still standing still, he urged, "Shall I take a bath? I need hot water .”

With someone by my side, the days at the killing base went by especially quickly. During the day, Cheng Wei and Xue Xunye went outside with guns to snipe people, and at night they looked for the exit of the ruins, and Chi Xia would be involved in all their actions.

There are also exceptions. Sometimes Chi Xia will let them dove to find no one, and the next time they meet, he will tell them that he did not wake up the day before. As a writer, he often sits in the long late night to sort out the continuous inspiration in his mind. I took up a pen and wrote it at dawn, and then fell asleep.

When explaining these words to them, Chi Xia's eyes were indeed dizzy and dull, but the thick eyelashes made his eyes look very energetic.

There was only one thing that made Cheng Wei still not trust Chi Xia. Chi Xia said that his marksmanship was average, but the spear calluses on his hands were very thick, and they all grew where they should be.

"Let's go." Chi Xia waited for them at the old agreed place, a milk tea shop next door to the theater. He usually sat behind the counter, holding his chin and looking at the road scorched by the sun, revealing a wisp of dust pheromone from time to time. , in order to reduce their sense of existence.

The higher the level of dust pheromone, the higher the hiding ability. Because of this, even if Chi Xia's marksmanship is not good, as long as he finds the cover and places himself in a position where the enemy cannot see, he is confident that he will not hinder his teammates.

The Tasman Sea, which is approaching in March, is not far from autumn, but this summer seems to be extraordinarily long. Xue Xunye didn't feel any difference, but Cheng Wei had to separate out pheromones for himself to keep his skin dry.

"The staff of the base always repair the city without our knowledge," Chi Xia walked on the road and looked around. This is his habit, and every seemingly ordinary corner can be conceived in his mind. Story, "Before it was in ruins, this was a beautiful but empty city. If it hadn't stood in the midst of the killing base, I think I would have enjoyed living in this city. But it is full of never-ending gunfire, which is its best. A fatal failure."

Not only Chi Xia, Cheng Wei has also noticed that the ruins are quietly undergoing changes, the most obvious is the street lamps on the road back to the residence, their poles are straight, illuminating the road in front of the door brightly , Occasionally Cheng said that when he got up at night, he would step on a small piece of light that leaked in through the crack of the door.

The reason why these changes are not obvious is that they are not repaired suddenly. The buildings on the street will fill in a ruined wall or a few steps every day.

Chi Xia twisted his neck and looked around, probably straining his muscles, he subconsciously raised his hand to rub the position of his left shoulder.

"Writer, you are younger than me, so you have frozen shoulder?" Xue Xunye asked.

Chi Xia froze for a moment, shrugged and joked with himself: "It's an old problem."

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