Space rebirth: I was targeted by the doomsday boss

Chapter 44 44. Gift

Luo Tong and his team rested at the factory for one night and went to the village to look for survivors as planned the next day. For safety reasons, several children, including little Lucky, were left behind in the factory.

At Luo Tong's suggestion, they were divided into two teams, with the Lu family in one group, Luo Tong and his parents together, and Xu Haoyu.

As expected, no survivors were found in the village.

Death comes too easily in the apocalypse, and the residents here are basically composed of the elderly and children, so the chance of survival is even slimmer.

More than three hours later, the two groups gathered together.

Probably because they had seen too many tragic scenes, everyone looked bad.

"Let's cremate all those corpses." Aunt Juan said with a heavy expression.

"Too many...it's not necessary." Lu Xiao replied.

"...What should we do with those children? What should we tell them?" As a mother, Jiang Huiying couldn't bear to tell the truth to several children.

"Let me tell you."

When Luo Tong takes on this arduous task, she won't beat around the bush and will tell the children directly.

If they cannot accept reality, they will not be able to survive in this apocalyptic world.

In the factory, little Lucky was curled up by the fire alone, with several other children sitting around. It seemed like she was being squeezed out due to her introverted personality.

When he saw the group of people coming back, Little Lucky immediately found Lu Xiao and hugged his legs tightly, like a relative he hadn't seen for several years.

Of course, only Lu Xiao received this kind of special treatment. The other little girls would not even look at her.

Seeing the expectant expressions on the children's faces, Luo Tong said to the others.

"Mom, Dad, Uncle Lu, you go out first and I'll talk to them."

After waiting for the people to leave, Luo Tong walked up to several children and glanced at their dirty little faces one by one.

"No one alive was found. Everyone in the village is dead."

This sentence was like a bomb that destroyed the hopes of several children.

"Wow!" a girl cried, wailing.

"My grandfather, uncle, and the village chief...are they all dead? Did those monsters kill them?!"

Yu Qiang desperately held back tears, not believing what Luo Tong said.

"All dead, no survivors."

"I'm going to kill those monsters!!! I'm going to kill them!" Yu Qiang roared angrily, raising his legs to rush out.

Luo Tong slapped the boy's head to the side.

The boy was stunned and stared at her.

"Just you!? You can't even deal with a dog, how can you deal with those monsters!? Are you afraid of pain? But those monsters are not afraid! Are you afraid of death, but those monsters are not afraid! Even if you stab them and chop off their hands and feet, they

Still can't die!

By the way, those monsters have a name, zombies!

It’s not just your village, there are zombies everywhere, and their food is people! Eat people! Do you understand! Are you going to send yourself to them?!"

The boy was frightened by Luo Tong's words, confused and at a loss, and his bright black eyes were covered with mist.

"Do you still want to live?"

"I...I don't want to die." The boy's voice was trembling.

Luo Tong breathed a sigh of relief and stopped talking.

After a series of blows, these children need some time to digest.

After a long silence, Luo Tong took out a bag of candies from his pocket, peeled them open one by one, and stuffed them into each child's mouth.

"Is it tasty?"

Several children still had dumbfounded expressions.

"Do you want to live? But living will be very difficult... but dying will be easy. If you die, you will have nothing. You won't grow up, you won't be sad, and of course you won't be happy. You will never be able to eat delicious food again.

Candy, even the rice dumplings you are tired of eating."

"But..." a boy suddenly said, "But we are still children, how can we defeat those zombies?"

"Sister, will you stay and protect us?" A girl blinked her big wet eyes and looked at Luo Tong.

"No one can protect you all your life, only you can protect yourself."

Luo Tong opened his hand and held a handful of crystal cores.

"What's this."

"This is... the last gift given to you by the grandparents in the village. With this, you can run faster and become stronger... just like this."

Luo Tong walked to a mechanical baling machine. This machine weighed a thousand pounds. She easily lifted it with one hand, leaving several children stunned.

"Can we be so powerful!?" Yu Qiang asked impatiently.

"able."

A girl asked, "These were really given to us by the village chief and the others? But didn't you say they were all dead?"

"They died and turned into zombies. These are taken out of zombie bodies."

A girl came over and said, "Sister, I want three, one for grandpa, one for grandma, and one for my brother."

"Do you all want it?"

Several children gathered around.

Luo Tong washed the crystal core with water and distributed it to all the children.

"Be sure to wash it thoroughly before swallowing it. Your grandparents will always be with you and give you strength."

"Just swallow it like this? Will it make you stronger if you swallow it?"

"Well, I can only eat one pill a day, otherwise I won't get a stomachache."

The children all ate the crystal cores, and soon they were holding their stomachs and wrinkled their little faces in pain.

Several people waiting outside heard the noise and couldn't help but ran in to take a look and saw the children lying on the ground in pain.

"What's going on!?" Luo Zhiguo asked.

"I gave them crystal cores to eat."

At this moment, the children got up again one by one, their little faces still wrinkled.

"Sister, I'm so hungry."

"Well, let's eat!"

"I'll get the stove and pot." Jiang Huiying turned around and walked out.

"I'll help you." Aunt Juan also ran to help.

Soon, the children devoured it.

The children's appetite was no less than that of the adults. Each of them ate two large bowls of glutinous rice balls and three rice dumplings.

As soon as he was full, Yu Qiang couldn't wait to jump up and down, picked up the iron pipe on the side and waved it.

"Really! I feel like I'm much better than before!"

His face was flushed with excitement, and he had long forgotten what happened earlier. He was still just a child after all.

"Everyone felt a stomachache just now. Eating too much will make it more painful. So there is a maximum of three pills, don't eat more. And..." Gu Yun explained how to hunt zombies and how to find crystal nuclei.

"Do you remember everything?"

"Remember." Several children replied in unison.

"Yu Qiang, are there other villages near your village?"

"Yes, there is another village to the north."

"The county seat is also in the north." A little girl said weakly.

Luo Tong found a map and showed it to several children. Unfortunately, none of the children could understand it very well and could only identify the general direction from the children's words.

"We will leave tomorrow. The village is safe and we can find food and water."

"Oh..." The excitement on Yu Qiang's face disappeared, replaced by reluctance.

"Remember, you have to clean it before you eat it. You can only eat three pills a day." Luo Tong warned again.

(End of chapter)