An old man calling her granddaughter?

Cheng Mengyun intuitively felt that there might be something hidden in it: "Qiaoqiao, do you still remember when the old man taught you?"

Qiaoqiao recalled with plum sugar in her mouth, "When I was very young."

Cheng Mengyun asked how old the child was, and was told 10 years old by the other party. Since the child said that he was very young, it must have been four or five years ago. This grandfather should be an aborigine of Longevity Village. After all, the content of the poem is closely related to Longevity Village. .

When I asked the girl carefully, I learned that the other party really didn't know the meaning of the poem in the book, but the old man taught her seriously, and she happened to remember how to recite it.

The specific meaning of this poem should also follow the desertion of Longevity Village, and it is completely difficult to interpret.

Cheng Mengyun and three "prospective Longevity Villagers" began to try to interpret.

"Long live forever, the snake fairy lights the lamp.

"There are no friends above, no old men below.

"The black clothes have fine lines, and the meat eats my body.

"If you will regret it, you will not succeed."

Zhao Qinghan borrowed the white candle in the car and said: "The first sentence should just be a local folklore in D City, or in other words, longevity is related to the snake fairy."

"Aren't the last three sentences talking about becoming a state after immortality? You can't have friends, and you won't become an old man." Cheng Mengyun frowned as he looked at the deleted and revised lines in the notebook.

Yinhua sat alone in the front row, still resting his hands on the back of his head, his peach blossom eyes guarding the periphery of the car.

He said: "The third sentence is very obvious. People who live forever should have black stripes on their bodies, and they will not eat normal meat. Ms. Ye in the coffin has black stripes on her body, and I have them too. I suspect that the so-called people who live forever are refer to..."

Except for Qiaoqiao, the three said in unison: "Half human, half corpse."

The three of them looked at each other, and they all felt that this speculation should be correct.

"The last sentence cannot be regretted. It should mean that it is impossible for a 'long-lived person' to return to the original state. It is basically impossible for a half-human and half-corpse to return to a human being." Cheng Mengyun said all the analysis in his heart , At the end, the voice was a little choked up.

She raised her head from the notebook, and saw Yinhua in the driver's seat, casting a comforting look.

Cheng Mengyun closed the book at a loss.

Qiaoqiao didn't disturb the three of them, she seemed to know that the adults were discussing important matters, and she was making curious gestures with her mobile phone by herself.

Children of this age are more lethargic. She handed the phone to Zhao Qinghan who was beside her after playing for a while, and after obediently saying good night to everyone, she leaned on the back seat and passed out.

Covering Qiaoqiao with a small blanket and making sure that the other person is really asleep, Cheng Mengyun made a gesture.

Yinhua and Zhao Qinghan approached her knowingly, this gesture should mean that Cheng Mengyun has something to discuss with everyone.

"You guys also noticed, this Longevity Village should have been..." Cheng Mengyun lowered his voice, and while speaking, he watched Qiaoqiao who was sleeping deeply from the corner of his eye.

The three of them were as busy as dogs during the day, killing big snakes, destroying corpses and destroying traces, and their worldview was severely impacted, so they could analyze it quietly at night.

"Doing human experiments. And at least for many years." Zhao Qinghan also whispered, her slender eyebrows were tightly frowned.

Yinhua nodded, summing up the various abrupt factors in Longevity Village: "The people in the coffin are wearing white coats, books on biological science are placed on the desks of the first house, the iron cages where the zombies are held, and the public canteen."

"I'm very surprised why you call zombies waste products, so there should be good finished products, right?" Cheng Mengyun said in a low voice.

After she finished speaking, she suddenly turned her head to look at the girl who was sleeping soundly in the back seat, and muttered in her mouth: "The half-human half-corpse who has been in a stable state, and is suspected to have speed and strength abilities, this kind It can indeed be called... a finished product.”

This can also explain why the researcher who is "Sister Ye" is so kind to Qiaoqiao.

"I have been instilling wrong ideas all the time, and I have taught people to be as docile as a tiger that has had its teeth pulled out, without teaching knowledge," Yinhua said in a cold voice, "It is clear that I hope children can't do without them."

The moment Cheng Mengyun heard it, all kinds of tragic cases in reality whizzed through his head, such as pua who brainwashed people so that they couldn't leave each other.

Qiaoqiao's basic three sentences are inseparable from "Sister Ye". She is so docile and has no temper. Although she is 10 years old, she acts like a young child whose mental age is only a few years old.

Cheng Mengyun suddenly feels sorry for this child who has only known him for less than a day.

"I even suspect that the outbreak of the apocalypse a month and a half ago may also be caused by the zombie riot here 66 days ago. Some zombies escaped from the village. The timing is relatively consistent." Yinhua lingered in his mind for a long time today. Spit it out.

Cheng Mengyun hissed: "Good guy, I also think that we are quite fierce, and we even encircled a birthplace of the end of the world."

Zhao Qinghan was worried, and touched his red nails unconsciously: "What do you say, what is the purpose of their human experiments?"

"I want to live forever or want to be a super soldier," Cheng Mengyun shrugged, "It's always shown on TV."

The three once again expressed their doubts and speculations about Longevity Village, exchanged opinions, and finally ended with Cheng Mengyun's words:

"The end of the world has happened, no matter what the reason is, what we have to do is to live happily."

The vigil was still taking turns throughout the night until the sun rose, and the night was extremely peaceful.

After a brief wash, the four of them finished their breakfast and were ready to enter the village again.

Standing in front of the entrance of Longevity Village again, Cheng Mengyun looked at the deserted village. She was still nervous yesterday, but today her mood has turned into excitement and joy in an instant.

"I solemnly declare that the village chiefs of Longevity Village are four of us!" Cheng Mengyun said loudly to the big rock at the entrance of the village.

Before that, they were outsiders who broke into the village by mistake. After yesterday's unanimous agreement to live thereafter, today they decided to become the new owners of this deserted village!

Cheng Mengyun took the lead in applauding, Yinhua and Zhao Qinghan echoed with great face, Qiaoqiao looked at the three adults ignorantly, and applauded together.

After the simple announcement ceremony, Cheng Mengyun strode into the village with an ax in hand, forgetting all fear and panic.

She has lived in a haunted house many times, and it is not uncommon to live in a more evil house than this one. She did not blink when she saw the common talisman papers and strange designs. Knowing that the coffins were made by the children around her, Cheng Mengyun Even more fearless.

The 4 people first came to the house where there was a well before.

The door was still locked on the outside, but when it was opened, the wooden cover above the well had been directly destroyed by violence, and the stones on top should have been pushed aside by the huge force in the well.

There were traces of snakes crawling in the yard. Yesterday, the zombie snake in the well should have broken through, climbed over the wall and climbed to the other side. On the way, happened to bump into Cheng Mengyun walking out of the house.

After confirming that there was nothing else in the well, the four decided to seal the well again if they had time, and then continued to search the remaining houses in Longevity Village. After all, if you want to live for a long time in the future, you have to find out the village clearly.

With Qiaoqiao, the leading party, there is no need to carefully and repeatedly search for tools to clear obstacles, and the closer to the small attic, the more houses collapsed and destroyed. The search progress of the 4 people is fast, and the rest of the houses in the village were searched in one morning. .

There are four rows of mud houses in Longevity Village, with a total of 44 houses. Counting the collapsed houses, there are only 32 houses that are actually inhabitable.

The search found that there are more than a dozen houses with completely different layouts. It is no longer a one-bedroom + two iron cage layout. Among them, there are three houses next to the small attic on the second floor. The three rooms inside are empty, but the ground has The traces of the compaction of heavy objects may be some huge objects placed in these rooms before.

The ground inside several houses was covered with shattered glass shards, mixed with black and red blood.

There is an abandoned house that is even more strange. It is full of old objects and wooden furniture. Unlike other modern machines in Longevity Village, this place is more like an old house from the last century. And it has a basic living room, a kitchen, a bathroom and two bedrooms.

The door copper ring in front of this house is wrapped with a thick chain. Judging from the dust inside the house and on the chain, no one should have visited for a long time.

Knowing from Qiaoqiao's mouth that Sister Ye and others have never entered this house, Cheng Mengyun is a little curious.

After a simple lunch, the four of them began to discuss which house to live in the village.

Zhao Qinghan does not recommend that four people live separately, so that even if there is an unexpected situation, it will not be easy to come back. It is best to live in a big house. Cheng Mengyun felt that the small attic and the house with iron cages were scary, so he didn't want to live very much. Yinhua and Qiaoqiao didn't care, they stood aside and waited for the arrangement.

In the end, the four decided to live in the old house full of old objects that had been unoccupied for a long time.

Because there is a basic kitchen and bathroom, there are just two bedrooms in a house.

Now that the house to live in has been finalized, the four of them decided to clean up and move the things in the car.

Yinhua was in charge of physical work, moving the things on the car, because there were many coffins blocking the road and the road was narrow, it was not easy to drive the car directly to the front of the house. He also helped boil water.

Cheng Mengyun was in charge of unpacking and washing the bedding, and by the way, took out and washed the bedding that had been well stored in the cabinets before.

Zhao Qinghan was in charge of sweeping the floor and clearing the dust.

Cheng Mengyun originally wanted to signal Qiaoqiao to play, but the other party was very sensible to help, such as carrying buckets or wiping things up together.

When Cheng Mengyun, who was sweating profusely, complained that she wanted to take a bath, Qiaoqiao ran to get a pile of wood and a pile of materials that were as high as her head, and began to squat in the yard and began to beat.

When Cheng Mengyun finished washing the bed at the speed of light and put it on the clothesline that Yinhua had pulled up, she turned her head and saw that Qiaoqiao had already made the prototype of half a bathtub in a short while.

Although the shape is a bit like a deformed coffin, from square to round.

Qiaoqiao has great strength and is very skilled in manual work.

Cheng Mengyun watched and felt that he was employing child labor, and wanted to persuade the other party to take a break, but Qiaoqiao said pitifully, "I just want to help my brothers and sisters."

How could Cheng Mengyun stand up to this kind of cuteness offensive, and was immediately defeated. After she finished washing the bedding, she joined Zhao Qinghan and Yinhua in their big business of cleaning the interior of the house.

Today is a sunny day, the warm sun scorching the ground.

The 4 people were so busy that when it was dark, they slumped on wooden chairs dragged from the living room of the house.

Zhao Qinghan was too tired to raise her hands, but when she saw the brand new house, she felt a sense of accomplishment in her heart.

The clothesline was connected between the door of the house and the old locust tree in the yard, and the sheets hanging on it were blown up by the wind and stuck to Cheng Mengyun's face.

She didn't bother to move, her erratic heart suddenly settled down. She and Yinhua had traveled around in many places before and rarely stopped.

Although there are many secrets in Longevity Village, she unexpectedly has a sense of belonging to this eccentric village.

Just basked in the sun for a while, and simply finished dinner.

"I ate bread and biscuits almost to the point of death, I must cook a big meal tomorrow!" Cheng Mengyun took a bite of the pineapple bun viciously.

"You can cook?" Zhao Qinghan glanced at her in surprise.

"Hmph, I call myself a master of home cooking," Cheng Mengyun said with a smile, "Sister Zhao, can you cook?"

Zhao Qinghan took a mouthful of wafer biscuits, and said calmly: "No, I also fried the kitchen. The kind that blows up the range hood."

"Bull." Cheng Mengyun gave a thumbs up.

After gagging for a while, the four of them were exhausted today and decided to go to bed early.

Until then, wash it for nothing.

That's right, in one afternoon, Qiaoqiao had already made a bathtub at the speed of light, and moved it to the bathroom inside the house with Yinhua's help.

Yinhua took over the task of boiling water on her own initiative, using the rainwater collected before, and Qiaoqiao usually also collects it in containers.

I decided to wash Qiaoqiao first, Cheng Mengyun really couldn't stand Qiaoqiao's messy hair and the white linen wrapped in many black and red stains.

Before that, Cheng Mengyun had already washed Qiaoqiao's own clothes, using the cleaning supplies left over from a mud hut used as a large bathhouse.

Those small clothes were found in the closet of "Sister Ye"'s dormitory. They had been washed and turned white, and were thrown in the corner of the closet at will.

The bathroom is quite large and covered with old white tiles. Although the decoration of the whole earthen house is outdated, it basically has everything that should be there.

Putting the lighting candles on the sink next to them, Cheng Mengyun and Zhao Qinghan helped Qiaoqiao take a bath together. As for Yinhua, he was still burning a new round of water in the kitchen outside the house.

The tub was stuffed in the huge bathroom, and it didn't look crowded. The water inside was still steaming.

Cheng Mengyun carefully lifted off the white linen cloth of Qiaoqiao who was standing by the tub, revealing the thin body inside.

She removed the white linen cloth hanging down to her ankles, and she and Zhao Qinghan standing beside her were stunned.

The girl was extra thin and was wearing a dirty white dress.

Countless black fine lines spread all over the body, entwined like spider webs, and invaded the neck. There is a thin layer of muscle on her limbs, but there are countless pinhole-like marks on it, and old wounds of various sizes, as if they had been cut to the flesh, and new tender flesh grew.