Ajie frowned, his expression became a little strange, and he looked at me as if he wanted to say something but stopped.

I didn't care about it at all. Instead, I leaned lazily on the sofa and chuckled softly.

"Why, is there something wrong with my answer?"

Ajie smiled when he heard that, his expression was complicated and hard to understand. He sat on the wooden bed, clasped his hands together, put his fingers together, rubbed them gently, and replied in a low voice.

"No, that answer is more convincing than I thought."

"If a person is not happy in life, then isn't that a waste of life?"

Ajie lowered his eyebrows, he seemed to find it a little funny, and said in a low voice while laughing.

"I never think about these things when I'm hungry. Only when I'm full can I think about this problem."

"Our instinct is to think about survival first, and there's nothing wrong with that."

"But instinct is not interesting. It doesn't care about whether it's fun or not. And I... also want to live a happy life."

When he said this, Ajie raised his head, looked at me calmly, and said lightly.

"Count me in on what you're going to do."

"Qu Yunliu and I also have some accounts to settle."

I was a little surprised, as if it was the first day I met Ajie, and I looked at him carefully, but after a moment, I smiled and said what I meant briefly.

"Okay."

A gleam of light flashed in Ajie's eyes. He rubbed his palms expectantly and asked me.

"How many manpower do you have now? You have to plan this matter carefully."

Under Ajie's expectant eyes, I pointed at him and then at myself.

Seeing this, Ajie's face froze and his eyelids twitched wildly. He stared at me blankly for a long time before asking me in a somewhat dry voice.

"You don't want to say... just the two of us."

I spread my hands and replied frankly.

"That's it for now."

"..."

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became awkward. Ajie looked at me as if I were a fool, clenching and unclenching his fists.

I laughed happily, stood up from the sofa, and said with a smile while carrying my backpack.

"Don't worry, I won't let you die."

"I also know that it's impossible for the two of us to take down the Shield Stronghold alone."

"so……"

I put on my backpack, Liu Yong's hideous face appeared in my mind, and I whispered.

"We have to occupy the ancient city stronghold first."

"Ancient city stronghold?"

Ajie looked confused, as if he had never heard of the name Ancient City Stronghold, and I just smiled and patted his shoulder.

"Don't think too much. Get some rest. You still have to lead the way tomorrow. Take me to the Shield Stronghold."

Upon hearing this, Ajie immediately stood up and stared at me with a strange look on his face.

"Go to the Shield Stronghold? Do you want to work as a laborer there?"

I shrugged slightly and replied nonchalantly.

"Why are you so excited? I'm not going to cause trouble."

"So what are you going to do?"

I grinned, showing my straight teeth, and whispered back.

“Selling Coke.”

After saying that, I pushed the door open and walked out without caring about Ajie's reaction.

In the corridor, the well-behaved Tongtong was still waiting for me. I naturally took Tongtong's hand and walked downstairs.

Today's training was much shorter than previous ones. It's not because I wanted to be lazy, but because I haven't taken a walk with Tongtong for a long time.

I held Tongtong's little hand and walked down the stairs step by step. Now we were in the shadows, looking forward.

In front of us, the sun was shining brightly. A gentle breeze blew, ruffling Tongtong's long hair. I gently held Tongtong's little hand and stepped into the light in front of me.

……

Under the same sky, there are also no clouds, but when the rain falls on some people, it only scorches them.

In the cultivated field of Wei Shield Stronghold, countless people were crawling on the ground, using awkward tools to clear the land.

This field is planted entirely with corn, which has now grown to the size of two adult palms and is growing well.

But at the same time, side buds also grow on the sides of the corn, which will divide the nutrients of the corn. When the nutrients in the soil are insufficient, it is necessary to manually pull out the side buds one by one.

Compared with the large fields in the Shield Outpost, the number of people working in the fields seems somewhat pitiful.

At this time, it was noon, and the people working in the fields finally had their first and only meal of the day.

In the field, a girl with a ponytail held a bowl in both hands, frowned, and ate the food in the bowl carefully.

There were some grass roots and plants that were either wild vegetables or weeds floating in the soup in the bowl.

Suddenly, two men slowly approached the girl and sat down around her.

The girl glanced at the two thin men, lowered her brows, and spoke in a low voice.

"What are you two doing here? Be careful to get whipped."

The two men looked at each other, then looked at the guards in the distance, secretly took out a piece of meat and put it in the girl's bowl.

"This is the field mouse that Li Yi and I caught yesterday. Eat it quickly and don't let anyone see you."

The girl was stunned when she heard this, looked at the pieces of meat in the bowl, bit her lips lightly, and said in a low voice.

"Give them all to me, what about you two?"

Hearing this, the taller man of the two sighed and spoke while holding the bowl.

"Eat, Zixuan."

"The boss is gone, the two of us have to at least protect you."

When the girl heard the man call her "boss", tears welled up in her eyes. She said nothing more, lowered her head, and wolfed down the meat in the bowl.

Yes, these two men and one woman are the remaining three members of Wang Quan’s group of four, Gao Lian, Li Yi, and Wang Quan’s sister, Wang Zixuan.

Seeing Wang Zixuan wolfing down the food, Gao Lian and Li Yi couldn't help swallowing, but they could only pick up the bowl of strange-tasting noodles and drink it in big gulps.

The field mouse meat was raw and had a strange earthy smell, but it was the best thing Wang Zixuan had eaten in the past few months.

"There is less and less stuff in the soup now. Someone got poisoned after eating it yesterday."

"If we continue like this, we will die here sooner or later."

Gao Lian held the empty bowl and sighed weakly.

"It's either starving to death or dying of exhaustion. This is not a solution."

"Zixuan, I have discussed this with Li Yi."

Gao Lian looked around vigilantly, then lowered his head and spoke in a deep voice.

"The two of us are going to give it a try."

A hint of worry flashed across Wang Zixuan's eyes, and she smiled wryly as she advised Gao Lian and the other man.

"How can you fight? You two are so skinny, how can you have the strength to fight with others?"

"Not to mention, he has a gun in his hand, so there's no need for him to compete with me."

Li Yi, who had been silent all the time, tightly grasped a handful of soil, looked sad, and spoke in a hoarse voice.

"You're going to die anyway, so you might as well choose how you want to die."

Chapter 49: A glimpse of the leopard

"You're going to die anyway, so you might as well choose how you want to die."

Resentment, unwillingness, and despair that could not be hidden appeared on Li Yi's face at the same time.

Wang Zixuan was speechless for a moment and her nose felt a little sore. If her silly brother were still alive, he would definitely be able to persuade Gao Lian and the other two.

Gao Lian looked gloomy and spoke to Wang Zixuan with some determination.

"Tomorrow night, the two of us plan to fight it out. I think there's no chance of survival."

"So Zixuan, no matter what sound you hear, don't come out."

"Do you understand?"

Upon hearing this, Wang Zixuan lowered his head and spoke softly in a hoarse voice.

"Count me in."

Hearing this, Gao Lian and Li Yi's faces changed. They were about to persuade Wang Zixuan, but they saw Wang Zixuan raised her face and said with a smile.

"You're right. Living like this... is really boring."

Before Gao Lian and Li Yi could say anything, the guards in the distance had already waved their whips and shouted loudly.

"Stop being fucking lazy! It's time to get to work!"

"What are you guys doing squatting there? Do you want to be whipped?"

A hint of resentment flashed across Gao Lian's eyes, but he could only stand up with Li Yi, pick up his tools, and continue working.

Wang Zixuan put the dirty bowl aside, squatted in the field, and continued to remove the side shoots of corn.

The moisture from the soil fell on her trouser legs, making her legs colder and colder, while the sun on her back cast its scorching rays, burning her back.

She thought of her brother and the day Wang Quan died.

That day, Wang Quan seemed to know his death in advance. Before being taken away by the people in the stronghold, he said his last words to Wang Zixuan.

"Live like a human being."

Wang Zixuan lowered her head, and a tear fell on the corn leaf, in the shape of a water drop, sliding down.

Do I look like a human being now?

It would be better to have a good time and then die.

No one can answer Wang Zixuan's question, and the so-called answer does not exist.

Just like that sentence that sounds like nonsense, the only truth is that the truth is not unique.

A strong wind suddenly blew up, blowing a small grass that fell on the roadside all the way up to the sky.

The blade of grass floated up and down into the clouds. The sun on the top of the clouds set, and the moonlight, like a jade plate, slowly rose.

After a night of cold wind, the silvery white moon gradually dimmed, and finally its light completely disappeared, and a ray of rosy glow appeared from the east.

When the sun rises, a day and a night have passed.

The wind blew, the clouds dispersed, and the blade of grass fell from the clouds, lightly landing on the ground, and finally landed on the side of the road, where it was crushed into the mud by a speeding pickup truck.

"This shield stronghold is quite good at hiding."

I was sitting in the passenger seat of a pickup truck, looking into the distance and making these exclamations.

Ajie sat in the driver's seat, looking around vigilantly and whispered to me.

"I'm taking a long way around, so of course I'm slow."

I don’t know what kind of shadow the Weidun stronghold left on Ajie, but he insisted that I should go to the Xise stronghold first, and then show me the way to the Weidun stronghold.

After driving for another twenty minutes, Ajie finally stopped the car in front of a valley.

Ajie carried the cans I had prepared, opened the car door, pointed deep into the valley, and said to me.

"This is the Xisai stronghold. I'll get off here and say hello to the elderly people."

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