I take skeletons to the apocalypse

"Then you have to ask first." Zhang Lin pushed Qi Xiaoxue away, passed Xia Xi and walked to the door: "My cousin said that the school is in a mess now, and she wants to live with me. Maybe she ran over."

She walked to the door, raised her voice, and asked again: "Who is it?"

The voice outside sounded weak and old: "Xiao Zhang, it's me, Lao Yuan."

"Uncle Yuan?" Zhang Lin showed some surprise, and immediately opened the rolling door.Standing outside the door was an old man with gray hair, thin body and stooped waist.He was leaning on a cane with one hand, a lot of blood was stained on his body, and there was a rotten stench.

Zhang Lin rushed forward to help the old man into the house, and asked, "Why are you here? It's so dangerous outside, why don't you stay at home with your aunt, and come out to run around?"

"Is this someone you know?" Cao Jin asked, covering his nose with one hand, with vague dislike in his eyes.

"This is my neighbor and a regular customer. He often comes to buy cakes from me." Zhang Lin explained for the old man.

Xia Xi didn't like the smell too much, like a rotting corpse.But his upbringing didn't allow him to do something as impolite as covering his nose in front of his elders.He just took a breath by throwing the coffee pot out, and deliberately chose a seat farther away when he came back.

Over there, Zhang Lin had already seated Uncle Yuan by the arm, and asked him why he came.

Uncle Yuan tremblingly took out a wad of cash and said, "I want to buy a cake, just fresh cream. Your aunt likes to eat that."

Zhang Lin discussed with the other party embarrassingly: "Uncle Yuan, our store is closed today. It's too messy outside. Let's wait until the matter is over. I will make a [-]-inch cake and send it to your home. I will visit my aunt by the way. Can you see it?"

"Your aunt just wants to eat today." Uncle Yuan pleaded, "Xiao Zhang, I know you are a kind-hearted girl. I also understand that my request is not at the right time. But... you just treat it as Do Uncle a favor, okay?"

When Zhang Lin was hesitating, Cao Jin couldn't help but interjected: "If she wants to eat, she has to eat today? Then I still want to eat. I said, aren't you an embarrassing old man? You don't know what's going on now. It's just me Zhang Lin refused to sell me a piece of cake even if I offered three times the price today. Why do you ask her to make it for you just by talking about it?"

Uncle Yuan was dumbfounded, but he refused to leave, with tears in his eyes, and suddenly knelt down on the ground with a plop.

Zhang Lin was startled, and while helping Uncle Yuan up, she shouted: "Hey, Uncle Yuan, what are you doing! A cake is not a big deal, I'll make it for you, just make it for you."

Two lines of tears flowed from the corners of Uncle Yuan's eyes: "Girl, uncle didn't mean to embarrass you, but a centipede with the length of chopsticks crawled into the house today, and it would rot wherever it crawled. I am old, slow to respond, and have no defense. Hold on, your aunt can't move her legs and feet, and the centipede climbed to her chest. When I finally drive the centipede out of the house, your aunt won't be able to do it either."

The more he talked, the more tears flowed: "Your aunt loves to eat the cake you made. She told me that she wanted to eat it a few days ago. I was always afraid that she would eat too much and her blood sugar would be high, so I didn't buy it for her... Now I just thought, before letting her go, eat some delicious food, and go on the road happily."

Uncle Yuan put the money in Zhang Lin's hand: "I have the money here, as much as you want, please, Xiao Zhang, uncle knows you are kind, please help uncle, please help uncle."

Zhang Lin's eyes turned red when she heard it: "Uncle Yuan, I know, you don't need money, it's all neighbors, you can do it here and rest for a while, I'll finish it later."

"Hey." Uncle Yuan replied.

Zhang Lin closed the door, turned around and went to the back kitchen to make cakes.

Xia Xi didn't want to stay in the front hall, so she followed to the kitchen, rolled up her cuffs, showing a thin white wrist: "Do you need help? I don't know how to make cakes, so I can help you."

Zhang Lin put on the apron for making the cake, and washed her hands in the nearby sink: "No, the materials are all ready-made, and they will be ready soon. If you want, sit here and talk to me for a while."

Xia Xi found a chair and sat down beside her.

"I have been here for five or six years. When the store first started, I encountered many difficulties. Thanks to the help of these old neighbors, I passed the most difficult time smoothly. Especially Uncle Yuan and Auntie, they were very special to me. Take care, the old couple has no children, and they treat me like a half-daughter." Zhang Lin talked about the past, with a look of nostalgia in her eyes, and she looked extraordinarily gentle under the warm yellow light.

While making the cake in an orderly manner, she continued to talk to Xia Xi about the next thing: "Auntie has been in poor health. The year before last, she stepped on the empty stairs and broke her leg. Since then, she hasn't been to the store. I think Uncle Yuan came to buy cakes for her. Although life is a bit difficult, the two of them are always happy, and I have always envied them."

Xia Xi wanted to comfort her and said: Don't be envious, you will live happily in the future.

But he opened his mouth, and suddenly remembered the prophecy of the end times, the disaster will not end, it will only intensify.In such an environment where survival is a problem, who else can obtain happiness?

"Actually, I'm very scared." Zhang Lin said suddenly.

"Huh?" Xia Xi looked up in surprise.

Both cream and cake embryos are ready-made. Zhang Lin moves quickly. An eight-inch cream cake has been formed. Zhang Lin is holding a piping bag in her hand, and outlines the shape of a peony flower on the surface of the cake. Her hands are very steady. , but the voice trembled slightly: "You said, is it really possible to end this situation outside?"

Zhang Lin has always been calm, and has been optimistically planning to wait for the chaos to end.Xia Xi didn't expect that she was not as calm as she appeared.But Xia Xi couldn't comfort her.

Xia Xi knew very well.The disaster will not end, it will only get worse.

After discovering the supernatural crystal nucleus, Xia Xi understood.

A new power system is awakening, and a new evolutionary race has started between species.Humans do not have any advantage in this game.Even in the early stage of not mastering the cultivation method at all, they will lose to plants, insects and animals that are closer to supernatural elements, and will be completely reduced to the bottom of the food chain.

This dark stage has appeared in the history of Wuer continent thousands of years ago.If it weren't for the appearance of several magisters and high-ranking warriors, they resisted the attack of powerful monsters and established a defensive formation.Now in Wuer Continent, there may have been no traces of human beings alive.Whether the human beings in this world can survive to the end in this subversive evolutionary competition, Xia Xi also cannot predict.

When Zhang Lin looked up, she saw Xia Xi's frowning expression. She softened her heart, put away her uneasiness, raised a bright smile, and comforted Xia Xi in turn: "Look at me, what are you doing? What's in the future?" , who can tell. After all, if you live a day, you will live a good day."

Xia Xi followed her and also smiled: "Yeah!"

Zhang Lin has painted a lot of peonies on it. Although it looks old-fashioned, she knows that this is her aunt's favorite pattern.She put the cake into a box, tied a beautiful bow on it, took it out from the kitchen, and handed it to Uncle Yuan.

"Can you go back alone?"

"Cheng Cheng!" Uncle Yuan took the cake: "This road is only 20 meters away from home, and I will arrive there as soon as I turn the corner."

Zhang Lin: "I'm talking about the next few days. I don't know how long this situation will last. Wait... Auntie is gone. You are at home alone. Why don't you come to my shop and I will cook for you every day. It's good to have someone to take care of you." .”

Uncle Yuan still shook his head: "It's a burden for the old man to stay here. I won't make trouble with you. Besides, my wife and I have been together for so many years. Even if we die, we want to die together. We are not alone."

Zhang Lin took Uncle Yuan's arm and continued to persuade: "Uncle Yuan, don't be so pessimistic, maybe you will be fine in a few days. You still have a long life."

Uncle Yuan patted Zhang Lin's hand: "Good boy, don't be stupid. I've lived for so many years, and I've never seen such a disaster. It won't get better, it will only get worse. The days to come will be difficult. Yuan Uncle is getting old and can't stand it any longer, so it's good to go with your aunt now, it's easy."

Zhang Lin opened her mouth and didn't try to persuade her again: "Then you, take good care of yourself."

Watching Uncle Yuan's back disappear outside the rolling shutter door, Xia Xi stroked the supernatural spar in his hand, thinking about what Uncle Yuan had just said.

In memory, the same is true of the father and the queen.At that time, the capital of the deserted country had been breached, and all the elder brothers died in the front line, leaving only myself who was not old enough to participate in the war.That day, my father dismissed his subordinates and called himself and his mother.

He left a retreat for the two of them, a secret passage away from the palace. After going out from there, the most loyal and powerful guards would come to pick them up and take them away on the fastest wild wolf in the desert.

But my mother changed her mind at the last moment.

Xia Xi remembered that on that day, the wind and sand were very small, and the surrounding area was clear and clear, which was a rare good weather.Mother stood in the shadow at the end of the tunnel, turning herself to the sun, the boundary between light and shadow was like an enchantment, separating life and death on both sides.The mother asked the elder brother guard to guard him well, and went back to the palace without hesitation.

She said: "I can't leave your father to die alone in the empty palace, that would be too lonely."

After becoming a necromancer, Xia Xi wandered alone for many years, but he didn't understand the kind of loneliness his mother said.I also don't understand this kind of determination to die with people without leaving the road of life.

Until now, he still doesn't understand why his mother abandoned him, gave up her way of life, and returned to her father.Why is the old man obsessed with a cake regardless of his life?He just thinks it's really hard to like someone, and those who like others are fools.It is indeed a very lucky thing to be liked by people.

He also had such an unreserved love before, which was given to him by Jing Lan.But now, it's gone.