sunk in yesterday

Guan Yu's boat hand withdrew from mid-air without much hesitation: "Okay, I'll go get it."

Seeing the person leave the edge of the bed, it took a few seconds for Jane to react: "Eh, eh? Now?"

Although there was only one door between the two rooms, after all, they were all trespassers. She was afraid that something unexpected would happen after Guan Yuzhou left the room that the owner didn't want to step into.Looking back at the two dead bodies not far away, Jian Ran shuddered: "Why don't we go together, and we can have a caretaker."

Xia Zhuo tilted his head to look at her, and said teasingly, "Is it really for taking care of each other, classmate Baby Fat?"

Seeing that she was exposed, Jian Ran didn't flinch, and said in a stuttering manner: "Then, of course, my brother and I will guard you, Brother Guan just needs to be bold and steal!"

Xia Zhuo asked strangely: "Can you take it out? How can it be called stealing if you can't take it out?"

Jian Ran quickly changed her words: "Let's take a look, let's take a look."

"No need." Guan Yuzhou shook his head: "If you stay here, you will cause me trouble if you come out."

Having said all the words about making trouble, the remaining three naturally didn't dare to pester them any more.

The siblings were reluctant to change the flashlights, and they could only rely on the one Guan Yuzhou put in Xia Zhuo's hand to continue their lives.

After Guan Yuzhou stuck to the door to listen to the movement, Xia Zhuo also dawdled and got out of bed.He used the quilt as a cloak, and dragged a large part of it on the ground. The beam of light kept sweeping over the door bolts and gaps, dangling to and fro, making the two people behind them dazzled, "Is there any movement?"

Guan Yuzhou made room for some space, "You come."

Xia Zhuo leaned forward, held his breath and waited for a while.He and Guan Yuzhou faced each other face to face, and if they got closer, they could feel the heat from each other's breath brushing against their cheeks.

Guan Yuzhou was about to ask about the situation, and what he saw in front of him was Xia Zhuo leaning forward with a smile and pouted.

"..." He lowered his eyes helplessly, "Is there any movement outside?"

"It was very quiet, as if no one was there."

After the latch rotated and rubbed and made a muffled creak, the door was pulled open a crack.Looking at the dark hall, Xia Zhuo shrank her neck, and took a step back in silence: "Then I'll just stay on the bed, you really don't want a flashlight?"

Guan Yuzhou closed the door again without looking back: "You stay well, don't see you vomit again when I come back."

The door of the room directly opposite the old lady and Lai Lai was closed tightly, and the door bolt of the main room was firmly hung from the inside. Darker shades.

He came to the corner in the general direction described by Xia Zhuo, raised his foot and pushed the thin woven bag aside, revealing the yellow leather book below, with a few fingerprints left on the cover, which should be from Xia Zhuo's previous work. left.

Guan Yuzhou twisted a strand of dust on the cover with his fingertips, and the long-term dreaming allowed him to adapt to the dark environment as quickly as possible.His eyes turned around in the main room, skipped over the red paint on the wall that was obviously darker, and finally stopped at the door leading to the courtyard directly opposite.

Then he narrowed his eyes, pushed the door out, and stepped into the mist and rain.

"Brother Xia," Jian Ran in the room pinched her nose, took advantage of Guan Yuzhou's absence, and chatted with Xia Zhuo who retracted on the bed: "Brother Guan, is it true that many girls are chasing after you in reality? Those people in our class I just like this one that is cold and cool and doesn’t talk much.”

"Cold?" Xia Zhuo wondered why this word could not be used on Guan Yuzhou. Thinking of the mark on the other party's finger, he couldn't help shaking his head, "No, he is already married."

"Huh? I can't tell... Don't they say that married men have beer bellies and oily faces?" After hearing this, Jian Ran changed her mind and asked, "What about you, are you married too?"

Xia Zhuo laughed and said, "Why, do you want to marry me?"

"Brother Xia." Jian Ran choked, and after a few seconds she frowned and asked, "Did no one tell you not to go out and flirt? Are you responsible for flirting?"

Xia Zhuo showed a standard scumbag smile: "Of course I'm not responsible."

"What are you talking about?" After Guan Yuzhou pushed the door in with his notebook in hand, what he saw was Jian Ran's face bulging into a puffer fish.

"I was talking about why you have been away for so long." Xia Zhuo looked up at him, a little surprised: "Why is your hair wet?"

"It's nothing." Guan Yuzhou went to the main room and brought not only the record book, but also some old cloth and woven bags on the ground.He walked around to the window to cover the corpse, and then walked back to Xia Zhuo's side: "It just took a while to get things."

The two siblings leaned forward with their heads hooked, Guan Yuzhou flipped through the book hastily on the spot, his eyes widened after only one glance at Xia Zhuo.

The page that had no handwriting on it was a bit messy at the moment. The pens used for recording were black, blue, and red, and the handwriting was different, as if it was circulated in each family in turn for daily notes.Now there is only such a family left in the village, so it is only natural that the book will be put on hold here without the following.

Guan Yuzhou noticed his gaze, and explained gently: "Because the plot didn't arrive, you couldn't see the content after you found it."

"Oh..." Xia Zhuo crossed his arms, fiddled with the metal switch on the flashlight with his fingernails, and watched Guan Yuzhou's page-turning movements: "Lai Lai talked a lot this morning, I think I want to talk about what happened in the village It's not hard to guess what happened."

Guan Yuzhou raised his eyelids: "Tell me?"

Xia Zhuo straightened out her thoughts: "The famine started ten years ago, and gradually food shortages began, and the surplus food in each household could not feed everyone. In the photo we found earlier, the old lady's daughter's hair started to turn gray. It should be about ten years old. At that time, her husband and another child disappeared. This happened a few years ago. A few years later, her daughter also got married and gave birth to two children. Although everyone in the family photo was smiling, they looked very reluctant, not at all happy because there were new members——afterwards, her daughter, son-in-law, and grandson also disappeared.”

Jian Ran and Jian Shu haven't seen the photos, so at this moment, half of their thoughts can only be kept on the notebook in Guan Yuzhou's hands, and the other half of their thoughts are on what Xia Zhuo said.

Xia Zhuo paused, and suddenly asked a question: "Let's do a multiple-choice question? If you live alone in a forest hut where dangers are buried everywhere, one day you picked up a magic lamp, and after rubbing it, three things popped out. Individuals. The first person is a strong man who can help you hunt and chop firewood and keep you safe at night; the second person is a young woman who can't go out and can only stay at home and do some manual work ;The third one is a child who can’t walk very well. He has infinite possible futures but is weak and requires you to spend a lot of energy and materials to take care of him. The magic lamp said, you can leave one person, at this time you Who will you choose?"

Jian Ran and Jian Shu felt a little strange about his question. After looking at each other, Jian Shu replied: "If it were me, I would choose a strong man."

Xia Zhuo blinked, then looked at Jian Ran: "Fatty, what about you?"

"...Who would you call me like that! I'm still an adolescent girl!" Jane was obviously not happy with his address, she tilted her head and dropped two words angrily: "Man."

"Normal people will choose a strong man, because it is more important to have material and personal safety than what to wear." Xia Zhuo continued: "You left a strong man, after a few days Finally, the magic lamp was turned on again. The magic lamp said: You can also take one of the two remaining people here. At this time, there is still a woman who can make clothes for you and a child who needs your care. Who will you choose?"

Jian Shu didn't hesitate: "Choose a woman."

"Living in the forest itself is not safe. Compared with children, adults must be more reliable." Jian Ran muttered: "Why are you asking this at this time..."

The paper kept flipping in Guan Yuzhou's hands. He didn't know what he saw, and he frowned slightly.Xia Zhuo noticed his strangeness, but he didn't ask immediately, but continued the topic just now: "Then let's change the situation. You are watching a special episode of Survival on a Deserted Island, and this time you were transported to a deserted island There are three types of people—"

"Wait a minute, wait a moment..." Jian Ran became more and more confused as she listened, and could not help interrupting him: "Brother Xia, is the question you are asking now related to dreams? Why do I feel that you are chatting again..."

Xia Zhuo shrugged and said meaninglessly: "I'm just chatting. Anyway, Guan Yuzhou is watching so fast, and the two of you can't keep up with his speed. Why don't you chat to relieve boredom and lower your fear value to change your mood."

"...Well, you go on."

Xia Zhuo cleared his throat: "There are three types of people transported to the deserted island this time. The first type is the middle-aged man who can climb trees and pick fruits, and who can fish along the coast. ;The second type of person is a young woman who can weave nets horizontally, dry salt, and grow and reproduce vertically; the third type of person is an old man who is too old to work and is weak. The official special invites you to bet and guess which of these three people is most likely to live to the end?"

Jian Ran didn't even think about it this time: "If I want to choose, I should choose a man first... Then a woman, after all, both of them are capable."

Jian Shu thought for a while longer than his sister: "Brother Xia... The key to your questions lies in the attributes given to the selected object."

"Yes, I haven't said the third question yet." Xia Zhuo raised her eyebrows, "But whether it's choosing a partner or choosing a bet, everyone will choose the more reliable or capable side. And here In the two questions, the children and the elderly actually only refer to those who are weak and easy to be eliminated. When there is not much food, what they want to eliminate is naturally a type of people who are too weak to survive-the developing And kids who have a lot of food needs."

Guan Yuzhou changed his posture slightly when he heard this.He deftly turned the page to the page that he had just folded a corner, revealing a scribbled meeting minutes.

This meeting record is sandwiched in the front of all the papers. It should be that the famine has been going on for some time. Not only does the content report the remaining food storage from door to door, but there is also a red marked at the bottom of the record. Handwriting: The child can have again, and strive to tide over the difficulties.

"Roughly read it." Guan Yuzhou handed the book to Xia Zhuo, "As you said, the first ones they choose to give up are the children. During the meeting, the villagers discussed many methods, and the first group of people put the youngest in the family The children were taken out of the village to be killed and buried, which reduced the number of people who could eat at home.”

One adult and one child.

On this day, adults allow children to take their favorite toys, saying that they will lead them out to find something to eat and take them out to play.They left at dawn and returned at dusk, and every time there was only one adult with red eyes left.

Sometimes another child in the family would ask the adults: Is my brother tired from playing? Why are you carrying your brother behind your back?

During those days, the adults were often frightened, but they also proved the "helpless" that the old lady sighed yesterday-they were infamous for survival.

One day, a group of able-bodied people finally couldn't stand the days of gnawing bark and grass leaves in the village to feed their hunger. They got on the bus that came and went only once a season, and decided to leave the village to find food and bring it back.On those days, not only this village was in trouble, but many surrounding villages were unable to eat and wear warm clothes. Their trip this time was purely in the dark, and they couldn't see any lights.

And something strange happened on this day.

The bus drove up the mountain at night, and the driver was a skinny old man.

After entering the village, he was in a trance, chanting strange words and sentences all the time, as if he was not conscious.

The villagers thought that he might be tired, so they brought water to quench his thirst, but they alarmed the driver, who yelled to leave and never come again.

After saying this, many young people who were still thinking about home and refused to leave also hesitated to get into the car. In fact, to put it bluntly, they were caught up.

The name of the person who left that day was written down on the paper, and the lower corner mentioned that every household left a man in his prime, leaving basically only a group of women and children in the village.The group of people who left carried hope and waved to their wives who were standing on the slope looking out, promising that they would bring a bag full of food when they came back, so that the smell of pancakes would spread from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain.

However, the car that left early in the morning turned back in the evening.

In the middle of the night, the harsh sound of brakes pierced the sky, and lights were turned on from house to house.A woman who was sitting in the yard filtering sewage looked over and saw the car parked in front of the station, and the headlights illuminated the ten-meter road in front of the car.She was a little puzzled, and knocked on the door of the house next door. The two women walked on the dry road and arrived at the station, but there was no one on the car. The frame and seats seemed to be covered with a layer of dark red paint. It exudes a strong fishy sweetness from a distance.

What about the people in the car?Why did the car turn back?What's wrong with the car?

If there is no one... Who is driving the car?