Chapter 44: Asking
Chen Mu and others can understand her feelings. You can imagine how she felt when she suddenly had a mouthful of hot food after not eating anything serious for so many days.
While He Ying and Sun Yuan were enjoying the rare food, Dong Junwei made a gesture to Chen Mu and Tang Jing and stepped aside.
"Do you want He Ying to join us?"
After hearing about the abilities of the other two, Dong Junwei's first thought was to recruit them.
In fact, this idea has always been in everyone's mind.
If you want to develop and restore human civilization, of course you cannot rely on these nine people.
Chen Mu and the other three have discussed this issue many times, and there are only two answers. One is to recruit people by ourselves and continue to grow the team, and the other is to join other survivor teams.
If possible, of course the former is more ideal.
The abilities of He Ying and the two of them are obviously helpful to the team. At least they are much better than having horns on their heads and bags on their bodies.
"We have to slowly grow our team, He Ying...at least we know the basics." Tang Jing agreed.
"I have no opinion.".
Chen Mu brought He Ying back with the intention of recruiting her, but of course he still had to discuss this matter with other people, and Dong Junwei's idea was already within his expectation.
"It's just that they have three companions who must go to pick them up." Tang Jing said.
"It's nothing. The farthest is near the cafeteria. At worst, I'll go there again. Now everyone is a resource, and those who haven't awakened are also potential stocks. The No. 1 Middle School seems to be quite large, and I don't know why. The hostility is very Shen, if we remain content with the status quo, we will just sit back and wait for death."
Since Chen Mu came back, the sense of crisis in his heart has also intensified. Even if he hasn't asked He Ying carefully about other people's information, he still has an ominous premonition.
After roughly unifying their views, Chen Mu and the others returned to the crowd again.
at this time.
He Ying and Sun Yuan have eaten three rice cakes in a row.
If I didn't feel so rude, I would still want to eat it.
"Don't worry, there will be something more delicious later." Tang Jing looked at the awkward expressions of the two people who still had something to say but were embarrassed to ask for more, and smiled softly.
He Ying calmed down at this time and said to Chen Mu: "I promised you that I will know everything." Chen Mu
nodded and immediately asked: "How did you and your previous companions get together? ?”
“When the disaster happened, I was on my way from the classroom to the playground. There were many people around. It took me a long time, gathered dozens of people, and a lot of effort to calm everyone down. , but before I could figure out my next step, I met a mouse..."
He Ying said this with a look of fear and sadness on his face.
"Actually, not many people were actually eaten by rats, but everyone was frightened and ran away. Many people jumped directly into the grass. I don't know what happened to them. In short, there were only sixteen of us left in the end. Together."
Chen Mu asked: "Do you have headaches?"
"Yes, everyone has them, and it was before the mice appeared."
"Didn't anyone wake up on the spot?"
"Awakened?" He Ying was stunned.
"We call gaining superpowers awakening." Chen Mu explained.
"Oh." He Ying said he understood, and added: "Not at that time, maybe everyone was in panic and didn't realize it at all."
Chen Mu nodded, thinking of people like himself, if Wei Dalei hadn't vented his anger on the ground After a punch, I'm afraid he wouldn't realize the existence of the superpower so quickly.
He asked again: "When did you discover your ability?"
"When the mouse appeared, I was so scared that I could only run away desperately. I didn't pay attention at first, but I soon discovered that I kept everyone a long way away."
He Ying seemed a little embarrassed when he said this, pursed his lips, and then said: "As you know, my physical fitness has always been good, and I can run pretty fast. , but it was not that I could throw away all the boys so much. I felt a little floating at the time, but I didn’t think much about it. I just thought it was because I was too scared and my steps were uncoordinated. However, I realized after I rode Juechen for a long distance. Something seems wrong."
"Is that mouse... big?" Du Jiajia suddenly asked.
"It's big."
"How big is it?"
"Quite big..." He Ying thought for a long time, but couldn't find any words to describe it.
Everyone was speechless after listening to the two people's meaningless questions and answers.
Chen Mu quickly took over the conversation: "Where did the remaining dozen of you go?" "
We were panicked at the time and had no long-term plan. Some people wanted to enter the grass, but I stopped them, and then we walked along the I kept walking along the main road, wondering if I could meet anyone coming out of the classroom, but I didn't meet anyone along the way." "
No one?" Chen Mu was confused.
"Yes, it happened to be five minutes after the break. Everyone had either gone to the playground to watch the exchange activities with No. 1 Middle School, or stayed in the classroom. There were not many people on the road." "Then you all went to the cafeteria
. ?"
"Everyone thinks that there is food in the cafeteria. Even if it never changes, at least it will not starve to death." "
This idea is right." "
We should be the first people to arrive in the cafeteria. I think as time goes by, here There will definitely be all kinds of rats and reptiles, so let everyone bring enough food at once and find a place to hide outside the canteen." "
Where are you hiding?" Chen Mu asked.
He Ying hesitated for a moment, then said: "Outside the canteen, inside a floor-standing distribution box."
"Distribution box?"
"Well, the ventilation hole on it is just big enough for a person to climb in, which can keep out mice and the like. Large animals."
"That's a good idea."
"Not bad, at least we haven't been attacked by animals since."
"But why were there only five of you left in the end?" Dong Junwei asked.
"They all died at the hands of those people from No. 1 Middle School." When He Ying said this, he gritted his teeth unconsciously.
"Why did they kill people?"
"I don't know. The first time we met was when we were getting water."
"Where to get water?" Chen Mu asked.
"There is a faucet for watering flowers just outside the canteen. It can't be closed tightly and it keeps dripping." He Ying replied.
Chen Mu thought that Dong Junwei had suggested going there to get water, but he didn't expect someone to get there first.
He Ying continued: "We don't have a container to hold water, so we can only go out to drink water as a group every time we are thirsty. As a result, we happened to meet people from No. 1 Middle School. There were not as many of them as us, but there was someone among them who seemed to be He awakened the ability to aim, and was particularly accurate in throwing stones. A group of us were overwhelmed by him and could not lift our heads. At that time, only me and another sophomore boy in high school had... awakened.
"That boy had an ability similar to that of copper skin and iron bones. He could withstand beatings very well, so he volunteered to come to the rear. But when I finished escorting the others, I looked back for him, only to find that he was already dead on the road, covered with blood. Ants..."
He Ying said this, full of sadness and self-blame.
(End of chapter)