Chapter 2753 Zhou Xiuyun
No matter how much Thangka and Chu Zhiyun pretended to be cold and mature, they were still thirteen or fourteen-year-old boys and girls, and they were completely helpless in front of this unkempt woman who looked like a beast.
"You, who are you?"
Chu Zhiyun was stunned for a long time before taking a deep breath, barely recovering his frosty face, and pretending to be calm, "Who else is there, just your daughter?"
"Yes, it's just me and my daughter, there is no one else. We are hungry. We dare not come out after being hungry for a long time. Adults can bear it, but children can't bear it. I will come out to find something to eat for my daughter. children to eat."
The woman raised her hands high and said pitifully, "Please forgive us, let my daughter go!"
She staggered back towards the depths of the cold storage.
Thangka and Chu Zhiyun stared at her with arrows and daggers, and approached her step by step.
In the cold storage, the stench was overwhelming, and the perishable frozen seafood had already turned into puddles of turbid and suspicious liquid. It made people want to stay for half a second, no wonder the children couldn't help but burst into tears.
Hearing her mother's voice, a little girl, at most two or three years old, crawled out from behind a pile of frozen meat in the corner, laughing through her tears.
This little girl looks completely different from her mother. Even after spending several days in the dark, damp and rotten cold storage, she can still be called "carved with jade". The little girl is still at an unexamined age. She doesn't know how to speak, but only knows to be called "Mom" and "Hungry", and doesn't know what kind of dangerous situation she is in. She giggled and crawled towards her mother cheerfully, using both hands and feet.
The middle-aged woman hugged the child in her arms, kissed and kissed again, and couldn't help but shed two lines of tears, but she didn't want to scare the child, so she shed tears silently while making an ugly smile, and whispered softly in her daughter's ear: " Be good, baby, it's okay, Mommy is here to find you something to eat, we'll have dinner later, be good, don't cry, don't cry..."
"Mother……"
The little girl widened her black and white eyes, staring at Thangka and Chu Zhiyun intently, she didn't know the ugliness of the world, she just thought the clothes worn by these two big brothers and sisters were beautiful, "Flower, flower! "
"Save my daughter!"
The middle-aged woman begged again, "I beg you!"
Thangka and Chu Zhiyun took a deep breath at the same time, trying to calm down the turbulent waves in their brains.
"Who the hell are you, why are you hiding here, how long have you been hiding, and what did you see!"
Thangka shook his dagger at the woman, pretending to be fierce, "Speak out!"
"Clack!"
The light reflected by the dagger reflected in the eyes of the little girl. The little girl was very interested in this shiny toy, and while smiling, she reached out to grab it.
Thangka's face turned red immediately, and he put down the dagger at a loss, not knowing where to put his hands.
Fortunately, the middle-aged woman didn't notice Thangka's panic, and honestly revealed her identity.
She said that her name was Zhou Xiuyun, and this was her daughter, Xiao Tiantian. The child's father was a low-ranking officer in the Houtu Garrison, and she came to Houtu Realm with her husband.
Zhou Xiuyun is a woman with ill-fated fate. She was born in a border world of the True Human Empire. Although she is from a cultivating family, she has not awakened her spiritual roots. Her husband's family married two husbands in a row, both low-level cultivators, and had to live a life of fighting and licking blood with knives, and lost their lives one after another.
Fortunately, immortal cultivators have no superstitions in marriage. Although she has not awakened her spiritual roots, her birth to an immortal cultivator family proves that she has strong enough genes. The chances of her offspring becoming immortal cultivators are always slightly higher than ordinary people. Soon, she found her third husband. Of course, she was not a rich man, but just a nouveau riche who made great achievements in battle with his bravery and good luck.
The third husband didn't treat her too badly, but her husband's family has no foundation, and her mother's family can't help too much. She has no background and influence, and no matter how much credit she makes, she can't be promoted. After decades of messing around, he is still firmly locked by the glass ceiling, and can only go around among a few grassroots positions.
Just at this time, there was news that the expeditionary army was recruiting manpower. The lord of Zhou Xiuyun's hometown was also ambitious and formed a half-commercial and half-colonial army to go to the front line to get a piece of the pie and recruit a large number of experienced officers. The position with both risks and benefits was tailor-made for Zhou Xiuyun's husband, and he signed up without even thinking about it.
Going to the front line, it is very likely that they will stay for decades or even a lifetime. Most of the officers are poor children who are depressed in their hometowns. They don't have much concern and nostalgia. After moving to Houtujie and Black Castle, the officers were stationed in the military bases, and these family members of the army became citizens of civilian towns like "Xinle City".
Don't need her to tell you what happened after that, Thangka and Chu Zhiyun also knew about it.
The soldiers of the Holy League fleet pressed down on the border, and the thick soil garrison of the empire collapsed at the first touch. Even Xinle City was wiped out by the Holy League within three days, and most of the civilians were captured and taken away.
However, in such a large town, with row upon row of high-rise buildings and underground pipelines extending in all directions, it is not surprising that there are occasionally a few fish that slip through the net.
Zhou Xiuyun told Tangka and Chu Zhiyun that she was originally an employee of this supermarket, and when she heard the rumble of gunfire from the suburbs, she hurried to find her daughter and wanted to escape.
At that time, most of the civilians wanted to run outside the city, and several main roads were crowded. Zhou Xiuyun originally wanted to escape from the city, but fell on the way and broke his leg. Unable to move, panicked and at a loss, he had no choice but to flee back to the supermarket he was most familiar with, and hid in the cold storage.
She originally took a lot of food from the shelf and moved it to the cold storage, but unfortunately, in a panic, she forgot to take water, and with cold water alone, the milk powder and rice cereal the child ate could not be melted, and The environment in the cold storage was extremely harsh, and the child was faintly showing signs of illness. The mother and I had been in the cold storage for a few days, but she couldn't stand it anymore, so she ventured outside to get some heaters and some medicine. He bumped into Thangka and Chu Zhiyun.
This introduction made Thangka and Chu Zhiyun look at each other, dubious.
"Even if we are willing to let you go, where can you go if this place is surrounded by the army? Do you want to hide in this cold storage for the rest of your life?"
Chu Zhiyun narrowed his eyes and asked coldly.
"No, no, I originally wanted to escape from the city after my leg injury recovered."
Zhou Xiuyun pulled up her trousers and showed her leg injury to two boys and girls. There were indeed traces of fractures on her leg, but it was firmly fixed with gel and dressing. Seven or eight.
Zhou Xiuyun told Thangka and Chu Zhiyun that the imperial army had a huge shelter outside the city, which was specially equipped for emergencies. Only the family members of them, the officers, knew that it contained rich supplies and the air And the water purification circulation system is also readily available, let alone three to five years, even if you hide in it for thirty or fifty years, it will not be a problem.
She should have hid in the shelter a long time ago, but on the one hand, her legs and feet are inconvenient, and on the other hand, she doesn't know what the situation is like outside, so it has been delayed until now.
"Really, what I said is true, if you don't believe me, take a look!"
Zhou Xiuyun said, and took out a small and exquisite magic weapon like a compass from her arms, "I have a map, and I have a map to the refuge!"
Tangka and Chu Zhiyun looked at each other, Tangka took the "compass" and fumbled for a while, but couldn't find a way.
"Ah, it needs my fingerprint to open it, and only the fingerprints of the family members accompanying the army can open it."
As Zhou Xiuyun said, she pressed her middle finger on the back of the "compass". Immediately, a three-dimensional light curtain rose from above the "compass", outlining a three-dimensional maze-like town terrain, and accurately locating their direction. , and instantly planned the most reasonable route.
A meandering red line took them out of the town, leading to somewhere in the no man's land.
Although the distance is not close, it is not very far either. It is within the range of adequate material preparation and long-distance travel.
If you can find some means of transportation, it will be more convenient, and you can arrive within a day.
"what to do?"
Thangka asked Chu Zhiyun in a low voice, who was looking at the shining refuge on the map, thinking.
"Squad leader, we should... report to the instructor?"
Seeing that Chu Zhiyun was silent for a long time, Thangka asked again tentatively.
"don't want!"
Zhou Xiuyun raised her voice, her face full of horror, "I beg you, please let us go, we are just civilians, we don't know anything, we don't know anything."
"Mommy mommy!"
Seeing her mother's panic-stricken look, the little doll also became nervous, her little face wrinkled together, and cried "wah-wah" again.
There was a mysterious light in Chu Zhiyun's eyes, and he looked at the crying child in a daze.
"really weird."
Chu Zhiyun suddenly said something inexplicable to Thangka, "The children of our Holy League seem to have stopped crying a long time ago."
"Why?"
Thangka didn't understand, "Squad leader, what are you talking about!"
"Bring me the map."
Chu Zhiyun bit his lip and said, "Let them stay in the cold storage for now, and give them the heater and medicine."
"this……"
Thangka said with some embarrassment, "It doesn't seem to conform to the 'purification process', what if it is discovered?"
"Stop talking nonsense, I find that you don't listen to me more and more."
Chu Zhiyun narrowed his eyes, with a dangerous light in his eyes, and stared at Thangka, "What's going on?"