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Chapter 12 Dry Land Barren Years (1)

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This was Qin Huai's first feeling about this land.

The sun hangs in the sky, scorching the earth, and the dazzling sunlight makes people almost blind. The land was as hard as stone, cracked irregularly, and there was no trace of green in the deep cracks. The wind brought only heat waves and sand, and even the sky was covered with a layer of fiery red.

A thousand miles away, Qin Huai had such a profound understanding of this word for the first time.

Qin Huai touched the ground. It was hard and rough, but he could not feel the temperature. He deliberately kicked the stone with his foot. The stone did not move at all and his feet felt no pain.

Very good, I am probably just a spectator in this dream.

But where is the protagonist?

This is a wilderness, with only boundless loess as far as the eye can see, a few dead trees and monotonous colors that make people feel suffocated. There are not even big rocks that can obscure the view. There are no people, no animals, not even weeds. , there is no place to hide even if you want to.

Qin Huai was confused.

It can't be that the system deceives you into a dream and then lets you start to survive in the desert, right?

There was no need to survive, and I didn't feel it. The sun was so strong in the sky that I couldn't feel the heat. A normal person would probably faint from heatstroke if he stayed in such a place for dozens of minutes.

Suddenly, the ground under Qin Huai's feet moved.

A small bag bulged.

Qin Huai:! !

With a scream, Qin Huai jumped to the side, the bag grew bigger and bigger, and his head burst out of the ground.

This adjective may be strange, but it really breaks the ground. The man's hair and face were covered with dry dirt, and there was also dirt in his mouth. The man who broke out of the earth said "Bah, bah, bah" several times without spitting out. In the end, he just broke the jar, closed his mouth, swallowed it, and struggled to get out. The natives just came out of nowhere.

"Why is it still daytime?" The voice was a young female voice, which sounded familiar at first glance.

I saw the man touching his even dirtier face with his dirty hands, coloring his face, peeling off a lot of dirt, and barely revealing his facial features that could be recognized as a person.

Chen Huihong.

The younger version of Chen Huihong.

Although the person is young and does not look very human, Qin Huai definitely did not admit his mistake. This is Chen Huihong!

Qin Huai looked at the younger version of Chen Huihong who was more than a little lively, and silently uttered two words: "Awesome."

Rich people are different. When they dream, they usually dream of getting rich overnight.

Chen Huihong dreamed that surviving on dry land would be buried in the soil, which was only a little worse than zombie siege battle royale.

"No one is there yet." Chen Huihong looked around, "I have moved to three or four places and I haven't seen anyone. Could it be that I went to the wrong place?"

"No, it's going south."

After saying that, Chen Huihong looked up at the sky: "Southeast...this is...Dongzai...where should I go?"

After talking to herself, Chen Huihong shook her head and denied herself. Her fingers restlessly clicked everywhere, wishing she could make 800 small movements per second.

"This way!" Finally, Chen Huihong successfully pointed to the south, "Let's go for 10 days and see if we can meet anyone."

Qin Huai:?

Loess marathon?

This dream is too hardcore.

Then Chen Huihong really started to leave.

The kind that never stops.

Walking from day to night, I didn't eat or drink. I just found a slightly flatter place to lie down on the ground after the moon hung on the branches. I slept for a few hours. When I woke up, I took out a thin, narrow piece of clothing from my clothes. The narrow piece of bark was rolled into a ball and stuffed into his mouth. He chewed it hard in two mouthfuls and then continued walking.

This physical strength, this endurance, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is superhuman.

Chen Huihong was gone like this for 6 days.

If Chen Huihong was fleeing famine, from an environmental point of view, she should have gone in the right direction.

Although the land is still dry and cracked, the sun is still hot, and the dust and heat waves in the air have not diminished, Qin Huai saw a hidden secret in the arid land, dry rivers, abandoned farmland, dilapidated mud houses, and abandoned old wells. of vitality.

This place was once inhabited.

However, the famine caused by drought forced people to leave their homes and families. Chen Huihong is like a leisurely player who accidentally enters a wilderness survival game. Every time he passes a village, he has to search for something in it.

Of course, nothing good can be found.

There was definitely no clothes or food. Some water could be drawn from the deep well, but it was all extremely filthy. Chen Huihong poured the water back after drawing it once.

A bowl, a spoon, a chopstick, and a piece of wood in an ordinary farmer's house are all precious possessions. All Chen Huihong could find in the house was discarded rotten wood that even the firewood didn't want to burn well enough, withered grass that could be spread on the ground to barely keep warm, and broken pieces of wood. Shi He couldn't tell what it was like, it was burned into a ball of garbage.

Of course, it’s not without bonuses.

Chen Huihong dug out a few copper plates from the cracks in the wall of a brick house where the landlord obviously lived, and picked up two broken wooden toys - a vaguely humanoid wooden man with missing arms and legs, and a horse. The wooden pony is only half its body, and there are still red paint residues on the pony's body. It can be seen that it was once a delicate toy.

Chen Huihong carefully put these good things into her clothes and kept them close to her body. Just like the players who ventured into the game world, she wanted to pick up everything she saw and stuff it into her backpack.

In this way, Chen Huihong walked and picked up for 13 days.

Qin Huai also followed Chen Huihong and walked for 13 days.

If you want to ask Qin Huai what he thinks, he really doesn't have any ideas. This is Chen Huihong's dream. He will not be thirsty, hungry, tired, or sleepy. Except that the plot is a bit boring and the scenes are too real, it is no different from watching a movie. Moreover, Qin Huai did not find anything in these 13 days. He found that Chen Huihong seemed to be learning something.

Chen Huihong has been looking for traces of people, but she is not obsessed with finding people. It can be seen from her route that if she really wants to find someone to integrate into the large army, Chen Huihong should take the high road. No matter what, she must follow the small road trodden by people. But Chen Huihong didn't want to. She insisted on taking those "roads" that seemed to lead to barren mountains and remote places, and even the bad maps would not show a road.

Fortunately, this area was so dry that no weeds grew. Otherwise, Chen Huihong would have to walk deep into the mountains and old forests with his walking method.

Chen Huihong is not obsessed with finding people, but is very interested in the environment in which people live.

As long as she finds a village, she must go to every house to check carefully, including the stove, bed, woodshed, and courtyard. Even if the earthen wall has been burned and has collapsed and most of the original traces are not visible, she must still check it carefully. Take a closer look at the ruins.

This feeling is a bit like humans observing small animals. I don’t know, I don’t understand, but I’m very interested.

So weird.

Another night.

The clouds covered the moon, and blindness became a real adjective. Chen Huihong lay on the ground and slept with her eyes closed. The little wooden horse hanging on her waist fell to the ground and made a slight sound. Chen Huihong didn't hear it, turned over, and went back to sleep.

Soon, a new sound came from the distance.

It's footsteps.

Very light, but seems very messy.

Qin Huai stood up and looked in the direction of the sound. Through the very weak moonlight, he vaguely saw a small black shadow, staggering. It seemed that the fawn, which had not learned to walk yet after being born, stumbled towards the direction where Chen Huihong was.

The deer is getting closer.

When the deer was only four or five meters away from Chen Huihong, Qin Huai realized that it was not an animal, but a child, a very thin child that could not stand up and could only use its hands and feet to half run and half crawl forward.

Chen Huihong woke up.

She sat up and immediately picked up the little wooden horse that fell on the ground. She tilted her head and stared at the child not far away from her. The child also saw Chen Huihong standing up and did not dare to move for a while. The two of them were in a stalemate. Until Chen Huihong said: "Who?"

It's a female voice.

Only then did the child dare to move. He stood up tremblingly and raised his head to see clearly who was in front of him. However, because it was too dark, he could clearly see a black outline. It was bulging and looked tall and strong.

Of course, the reason why she is tall and strong is because Chen Huihong stuffed a lot of dead grass that she carefully selected into her clothes. As an excellent scavenger, she did not even let go of the dead grass.

"My name is Hui Niang." The child said with a trembling voice. I don't know if it was because of fear or something, but the voice was very hoarse.

Chen Huihong looked at Hui Niang and said, "Come here."

Hui Niang didn't dare to move.

"Why are you here?" Chen Huihong asked next.

"I...I..." Hui Niang tilted her head slightly, as if she wanted to see if there was anyone else around. She mustered up the courage after making sure that Chen Huihong was alone, "My parents and I got separated."

Seeing that Chen Huihong didn't answer, Huiniang asked again: "Sister...sister, are you also...separated?"

Chen Huihong still didn't answer. The two of them, one large and one small, just sat quietly. You looked at me and I looked at you. No one could see the other clearly and no one dared to move. They looked like two stone sculptures under the moonlight. Qin Huai, a bystander, was very out of place.

Finally, Chen Huihong spoke: "Yes, I got separated too."

Hui Niang instantly became happy, as if she had found someone of the same kind. She stood up and walked cautiously towards Chen Huihong. Seeing that Chen Huihong didn't move, she became more courageous. She moved directly to Chen Huihong and sat face to face with her.

"Is sister also from Yu County?" Hui Niang asked with wide eyes.

"No." Chen Huihong shook her head and thought for a moment, "I am... next door."

Hui Niang was obviously a fool, and such a confused answer received a positive nod from her, and then asked: "Then where is sister going?"

"have no idea"

"Where are you going?" Chen Huihong asked.

Hui Niang was silent.

Under the moonlight, Qin Huai felt that the outline of Huiniang's face was somewhat familiar.

"I don't know." Hui Niang's voice became hoarse, "My parents and I got separated."

"Why were they separated?" In just a few words, Chen Huihong took the initiative.

"I was too hungry and couldn't walk, so I fell asleep." Hui's mother's voice was trembling, "When I woke up, my parents were gone."

"I was so hungry and thirsty. I wanted to find my parents, but it was too dark and I couldn't see. I seemed to have gone the wrong way, and then I met my sister."

Chen Huihong looked at the thin and small figure in front of her, thought for a while, took out a small piece of bark from her clothes, hesitated for a moment, tore off a small piece and handed it to Huiniang.

"That's all."

"There is an abandoned well nearby. It should still be able to produce water. You can dig it yourself at dawn...I will help you think of a solution." After saying that, Chen Huihong lay down and said, "Go to sleep and don't disturb me."

Seeing Chen Huihong lying down straight like this, Hui Niang froze on the spot, glanced at the bark in her hand and hesitated for a moment, then stuffed the bark into her mouth and chewed it hard before swallowing it, then she carefully lay down next to Chen Huihong, uneasy. He stared at her until he heard Chen Huihong's steady breathing and was sure that she had fallen asleep, then he lay down and closed his eyes with peace of mind.

Soon, Hui Niang fell asleep.

It was already dawn, and Chen Huihong, who was supposed to be asleep, opened her eyes, looked at Hui Niang carefully in the weak sunlight, turned over, took the pony that had fallen down again, and continued to sleep.

Behind Chen Huihong was Qin Huai, whose eyes were as wide as bells.

No matter how weak the sunlight is, it is still clearer than the moonlight, enough for Qin Huai to see Huiniang's face clearly.

This is a standard face of a child who comes from a poor family, is thin, small, and very dark. Extremely malnourished, his facial features are not open. He cannot be called ugly, but he is definitely not good-looking.

But this face was too familiar to Qin Huai.

This is Chen Huihui!

When I first saw the child in the daytime, he was still wearing ponytails and a dress, fair and cute, obedient and sensible, lively and cheerful, and sunny. He often dreamed of his mother's good boy.

In her mother's dream, she became a refugee.

Looking at the sleeping refugee mother and daughter, Qin Huai couldn't help but sigh: "This is really..."

"A dream of a loving mother and a filial son."

(End of chapter)