I take skeletons to the apocalypse

"Xia Xi?" Jing Lan's voice sounded a little shaken.

Xia Xi could vaguely hear some engine and brake sounds through the microphone, as if in a car.

Xia Xi talked about her own situation: "I was in Lanshu, and I was kidnapped by a man named Liu Peng before, he..."

"He wants to kill me?" Jing Lan interrupted him.

"You, know?" Xia Xi unconsciously exerted a little more force on the hand holding the phone.

"His people followed me and were caught by me. He has already confessed everything." Jing Lan said lightly.

Xia Xi pursed his lips. He wanted to ask the other party, since you knew that I was kidnapped, why didn't you come to rescue me or contact me?But when the words came to his lips, Xia Xi didn't know how to ask again.Now Jing Lan has forgotten him, in the eyes of the other party, he is a stranger, how can he ask the other party to save him?

"I called you before." Xia Xi said, "When I was taken away, I thought about escaping, so I should tell you."

"Well, I see." Jing Lan's tone was still very light, appearing a little careless.

He seems to know everything, knows everything, but he doesn't worry about Xia Xi at all, or in other words, he doesn't care about Xia Xi's life or death at all.

He clearly had the voice he was most familiar with, but he was already like a stranger.Xia Xi found it a little difficult to accept.

There was silence on the phone for two seconds.

"Just hang up if you have nothing to do." Jing Lan obviously lost the patience to continue waiting.He also didn't want to continue to communicate with Xia Xi.

When Xia Xi heard this, he couldn't help but get angry, mixed with an inexplicable grievance, his voice softened, like a cat that had been bullied and meowed non-stop at its owner: "Why is it all right? I almost died, I was kidnapped because of you, you should..."

"If you can make a call, it means you're fine. There's no need to ask." Jing Lan explained his question.

Xia Xi was taken aback by this explanation.Immediately, a nameless anger surged up, burning his spiritual wisdom to the ground.

When he was a minor prince, the etiquette teacher taught him to control his emotions at all times.But now, he pressed a questioning tone to a person who knew he had forgotten him: "What if there is no phone! What if I die? Are you going to ask me after I die?"

There was silence on the other end of the phone, and after a few seconds, when Xia Xi thought that Jing Lan would not answer him, a calm and waveless answer came from the other side: "Many people will die in the last days."

Xia Xi shut up.

Xia Xi understood what Jing Lan hadn't said.That's right, many people will die in the last days, so if he can't handle even one kidnapping, he will die in the last days sooner or later.

If he really died, Jing Lan would not feel sorry for him.He doesn't care at all.

Xia Xi is not angry anymore, he seems to be stripped of his emotions, he can't feel his anger, and he can't feel his other emotions, he seems to be divided into two halves, one half is still thinking, and the other half is acting on instinct .

"Will you still come to me?" Xia Xi heard herself asking.He still wanted Jing Lan to come.Even if the other party doesn't remember, he won't be able to get rid of the habit of relying on Jing Lan for a while.

He wanted to eat Jinglan's cooking, and wanted Jinglan to bandage his wound. He missed the other person's voice and body temperature, and he wanted the sense of security of falling asleep in the other person's arms.

Reason told him not to ask, and there was no result, but he asked anyway.It was like an abandoned stray cat, wandering at the door of its former owner, knowing that it was impossible to get in, but Huai couldn't help poking his head out.

"If you ask, yes. But not now." The voice on the other side was calm as if it were negotiating.

The other party agreed?

But Xia Xi was not happy at all.

What is he still looking forward to?The original owner of the cat was gone, and the new cat owner was afraid that he would freeze to death, so he opened the door for him out of humanitarianism.

Xia Xi hung up the phone and closed her eyes.He had said enough, and if he continued, he didn't know what nonsense he would say again.

Jing Lan has been following him all these years, so he never knew that Jing Lan had such an embarrassing ability.

Xia Xi always felt that she didn't care much about Jing Lan.But at this moment, I feel very blocked in my heart.

Xia Xi doesn't know if he likes Jing Lan. In the past three years, Xia Xi has always been stingy with giving her emotions, but she is also greedy for Jing Lan's company and care.He is like a spoiled cat, enjoying delicious food and a warm fire, but being stingy with his feelings. The cat thinks he has domesticated a biped.But in fact, from the day the cat came home with people, it has already stepped into the trap of human tenderness.

Xia Xi was stunned for a while, his exhausted thoughts drifted away, and finally became a mess of miscellaneous threads that couldn't be sorted out.He put his phone aside wearily, got into the quilt, shrunk his hands and feet with extreme insecurity, and wrapped himself tightly in the [-]-degree heat at the end of summer.

He was so tired that he fell into a coma almost as soon as he touched the pillow, until he was awakened by a loud noise.

There was a violent banging sound outside, and it sounded like something had slammed heavily on the rolling shutter door.

Xia Xi picked up the phone and glanced at the time. It was already 03:30 in the afternoon.He put on his pajamas, which had become dirty and tattered, and walked outside.

The closer you got to the door, the clearer the sound of the door slamming, and Xia Xi could vaguely hear someone talking outside the door.

The shop has no windows facing the street, and the outside situation cannot be seen through the rolling shutter door.Xia Xi subconsciously looked for Zhang Lin's figure.

He saw Zhang Lin rushing out of the kitchen, holding a fruit knife tightly in her hand, and nervously opened the rolling door from the inside.

A man and a woman stood outside the door.The man is slightly fat, about 40 years old, wearing a shirt, trousers, leather shoes, and hairspray on his head.It's just that the shirt on his body has been soaked with sweat at this moment, and his hairstyle is messed up, making him look a little greasy.

The woman looked less than thirty, with average looks and a perfect figure. The t-shirt is the most popular tight-fitting style nowadays, wrapping it to reveal a narrow waist, and wearing a short skirt underneath, revealing slender legs.

"Why are you smashing the door of my shop?" Zhang Lin shouted angrily at the two of them while heaving a sigh of relief.

Both of them were taken aback when they saw Zhang Lin, obviously they didn't expect that there were still people in the store.

The woman smiled awkwardly, and the man put down the fire ax in his hand, and muttered, "What, it took me a long time to find someone! I thought there was no one."

Zhang Lin looked at the traces on the rolling shutter door, and then at the ax in the man's hand, her anger still persisted: "You can smash my shop door without anyone?"

"Hey, this is not a special situation. My car is stuck in the city, and there are monsters everywhere on the road. We ran around the street for a day, and Xiaoxue said that she was hungry and wanted to eat cake. Seeing the sky also It's getting dark, we have to find a place to rest, and we saw your shop."

After the man explained to Zhang Lin, he said, "What are you shouting for? Isn't it just a broken door? I'll pay you as much as you want. But you have to let us live here. Of course, it's paid... a thousand a day, how about it?" ?”

"No!" Zhang Lin curled her lips: "What is a broken door? Every piece of furniture here is carefully selected by me. If you smashed my door, if you don't apologize, do you think my door is broken?"

"Hiss..." The man raised his head and took a step forward, as if he was about to quarrel.

The woman who was traveling with him hurriedly stopped him, shook her head, and persuaded in a low voice: "Brother Cao, Brother Cao!"

Then she looked at Zhang Lin again, and said with an apologetic smile: "Don't be angry, beauty, Brother Cao, he didn't mean that. He doesn't speak very nicely, but he has no bad intentions. He just wanted to say that the door is broken. I can accompany you, we really didn't mean it, the current situation, the street is very chaotic, we have been hungry for a day, and finally watched the family buy food, and we lost our sense in a hurry. I'm sorry."

After Zhang Lin heard the woman's words, her face softened a lot, and she heard that they were outside and hadn't eaten for a day, showing some sympathy.With the chaos outside, the man and woman looked disheartened.Apparently it wasn't an easy day.So he let go and said, "It's not impossible to stay, but you can't destroy things anymore."

"How much do you want?" The man immediately took out his wallet after hearing Zhang Lin's agreement.

"Let's talk about the money later." Zhang Lin waved her hand, not seeming to care too much: "I don't know how long it will take for this situation to subside. You can stay if you want. There are many people and there is mutual support. But I only have one bed here, you If you want to live, you can only play on the floor."

The man was a little dissatisfied, and was about to say something, but the woman beside him said to Zhang Lin first: "The floor is also fine, please."

She smiled at Xia Xi and Zhang Lin, and introduced in a delicate voice: "My name is Qi Xiaoxue, and this is my husband Cao Jin."

Cao Jin frowned, obviously not happy with Qi Xiaoxue's behavior of stealing his words.A nod is a greeting.

"Zhang Lin."

Zhang Lin let the two into the store, and then carefully locked the door.

As soon as the two entered the door, they saw Xia Xi sitting on the sofa.He has rare silver hair, but it doesn't make people feel ostentatious, instead it is fluffy and soft like the fur of some small animal.Wearing a shabby pajamas, the exposed wrists and calves looked extraordinarily white and tender.There are some wounds on his body that have been bandaged. The upper half of his body is sunken in the sofa leisurely, and his two long legs are folded in front of him, stretching forward.

Qi Xiaoxue and Cao Jin's eyes flashed with astonishment.

"Who is this?" Qi Xiaoxue stared at Xia Xi and asked.

"He also came to borrow. He encountered some bad things before and got hurt a little bit." Zhang Lin said.

"Hello, I'm Xia Xi."

Xia Xi didn't like socializing with strangers, so after saying hello, she lay down on the fabric sofa in the shop and dozed off.His sleeping posture has nothing to do with elegance, he curled up into a ball very unsafely, his eyes narrowed into a line, like a cat that hasn't woken up.

This is a habit developed when wandering in the desert. The night in the desert is very cold, and only by curling up and sleeping can we preserve more body temperature.This posture is also convenient for him to get up as fast as possible to deal with desert monsters, bandits and storms that may appear at any time.

But Xia Xi didn't fall asleep, or she couldn't fall asleep at all because of the noise from the two extra people.

It took Qi Xiaoxue a while to coax the angry Cao Jin.Then the two began to hug each other, kissing, hugging, and talking about love like no one else was there.

It wasn't until Zhang Lin came out with the food that the two who were stuck together like Siamese twins finally separated.

There were four small dishes of pasta on Zhang Lin's tray, including Xia Xi's.

Although the portion is small, the taste is very fragrant. The bright red tomato sauce is wrapped in the firm noodles, exuding a tempting aroma, and there is a golden fried egg on each of them.

Xia Xi thanked her and picked up her fork.After a day's sleep, he was indeed hungry, and the small piece of cake in the morning was not enough to support his daily consumption as an adult.

The tomato pasta is very strong, and the tomato meat sauce on it is full of tomato flavor, unlike the ready-made meat sauce sold in supermarkets on weekdays, it should be specially fried.

"It tastes good." Xia Xi took a sip and praised sincerely.

Zhang Lin sat opposite, the food on the table didn't move much, but kept watching Xia Xi eat: "Have you ever taken a special etiquette class?"

"What?" Xia Xi blinked, not understanding what Zhang Lin meant.

"You have a good temperament, and you look pleasing even when you eat."

"I don't remember, maybe I learned it when I was a child." Xia Xi gave an ambiguous answer.

Of course he took etiquette lessons.When he was still the little prince of the deserted country.Although the country was ruined and his family died later, he also became a wandering necromancer.However, under the influence of the childhood environment, Xia Xi still engraved some of the demeanor belonging to the royal family into his bones, and it became a part of the habit.

While the two were talking, Cao Jin had already finished eating the pasta in two or three bites, but he was not full, so he turned to look at Zhang Lin: "I said, this is too little, right? I'm a grown man and I haven't eaten all day Well, you just let me eat these two bites? Are you going to starve me to death?"

Zhang Lin put down her chopsticks: "Everyone has the same amount, and Xia Xi is also an adult man. He didn't say anything."

"Then we are different. He looks like a woman." Cao Jin lingered critically at Xia Xi's thin arms and legs and pretty face, his eyes were both amazed and regretful And unwilling: "Tsk, what a pity."

Xia Xi who was lying on the ground for no reason: ...

He thinks that his facial features are fairly tough, and his height is close to 1.8 meters, but he is a little thinner and his skin is a little fairer.It has nothing to do with femininity.

He didn't quite understand what Cao Jin was pitying. Women are also very good, and his mother is a very good woman.But he didn't think it was a pity that he was a man.

"I'll give you the money, what price are you selling these things for? I'll pay three times!"

"It's not about money. No one can say how long it will take for the situation to return to normal." Zhang Lin said, "So food must be rationed."

"But the allocation is not enough to eat!" Cao Jin patted the table dissatisfied.

"The shop is mine, and the things are also mine. I can divide them as I say. If you are not satisfied, you can leave. Find a place where you can eat." Zhang Lin refused to budge.

"Why let me leave, I said I can give money!"

"I also said, it's not about money at all!"

Seeing that the atmosphere between the two was tense, Qi Xiaoxue quickly stood up and persuaded in a soft voice: "Sister Linlin, calm down, Brother Cao didn't mean that. He is such a big man, and his appetite is indeed bigger than ours. These noodles are indeed I can’t get enough to eat. Of course, I understand what you mean. It doesn’t matter if we are hungry. But you think, and it’s not safe outside now. Brother Cao is stronger than us. He eats a little more in case of any danger. , can also protect us, can't it?"

"Okay, eat more and work more." Zhang Lin let go, took out a bag of instant noodles from the cardboard box and threw it to Cao Jin: "After eating, you are responsible for cleaning up the pots and bowls. Sweep the floor and clean the kitchen."

"Why do you ask me to wash the dishes? I have never washed the dishes when I grow up. What's your attitude?" Cao Jin said unhappily after taking the instant noodles.

"I'll do it, I'll do it." Qi Xiaoxue pressed Cao Jin's shoulder and said to Zhang Lin, "I'm the best at doing housework, and I'm sorry if I let Sister Linlin do the work. In the future, Sister Linlin has something to clean up." You can leave it to me.

Then she said softly to Cao Jin: "Honey, I'll make the noodles for you. You should eat more. If monsters come, you have to protect me!"

Cao Jin looked good now, and squeezed Qi Xiaoxue's leg: "You are my woman, of course I will protect you."

"Husband..." Qi Xiaoxue leaned forward.The two of them became greasy and sticky again.The sour smell of love permeates the whole bakery.

Xia Xi looked away, and clicked his tongue irritably.Inexplicably a little upset.Fortunately, Qi Xiaoxue had something to do, and the two of them didn't stick together for too long.

In the evening, there was a regular knock on the shutter door.

"Duk tuk tuk tuk tuk tuk."

The sofa that Xia Xi was sitting on was not far from the door, and she vaguely felt a very weak wave of supernatural power.Like a mutant beast that has just mutated.Xia Xi straightened her body and looked at the door warily.

"Who is it?" Zhang Lin approached the door and asked.

But no one answered outside.

Two seconds later, the knock on the door rang again.

"Who, I won't open the door if you don't speak." Zhang Lin asked again.

There was still no answer outside the door.

Zhang Lin curled her lips and ignored it.

But the knocking on the door from outside was persistent, as if as long as the people inside didn't open the door, they were going to knock until the end of time.