Chapter 22 : C22
Thinking of the girl who went back and forth to bring her food and weapon, Sister Li’s hand holding the gun trembled slightly.
She thanked her in her heart…
Three days after leaving the safe zone, Chi Ying’s focus in the previous few days had gradually shifted from making the cross in the car to observing Zhang Bin.
In the previous few days, she felt that this person was very strange…
First, when she handed him the rice bowl on the first night, she found that his body temperature was not like that of a normal person, but very cold, as if the body temperature of a person who had been dead for a while.
And later, it was his voice when he spoke. Although Zhang Bin explained that he had a cold, his voice sounded a little hoarse…
But according to Chi Ying’s observation, although his voice was similar to the nasal voice of human beings when they were sick, there was still a slight difference. For example, his hoarse voice seemed to be accompanied by the panting sound of “ho ho”.
After discovering that, she began to pay attention to Zhang Bin’s state intentionally. Originally, she didn’t think too much about it until the previous night…
When he was with everyone during the day, Zhang Bin was still very normal, but the previous night, when everyone was resting, his behavior could be called weird.
In the middle of the night, Zhang Bin got up secretly and left the place where they camped.
And because of her good hearing, she woke up when she heard the sound, and followed him secretly.
They hadn’t reached the city yet, they stopped on a side road, which Gu Chi said was the shortest way to the headquarters.
Even though the road was blocked by trees, Chi Ying followed with trepidation because Zhang Bin seemed to be very cautious, as with every few steps he would look back to see if anyone woke up.
He walked very lightly, as if to prevent others from hearing, and relaxed only after walking several hundred meters away. He looked around, as if about to start some kind of mysterious ritual.
Chi Ying squatted behind the tree. The silvery moonlight hit the treetops, spilled down along the gap, and landed on her unblocked shoes, which was a bit conspicuous at first glance. Seeing it, she hurriedly retracted her legs carefully.
Fortunately, Zhang Bin was too focused and didn’t realize that there was a little tail behind him.
He spread his arms, turned his neck, and barely stopped until his head was almost parallel to the ground.
Chi Ying couldn’t help wondering if his cervical spine was still fine.
After all, that was really not like the arc that a human neck could bend.
She thought quite seriously if he believed in any religion. It might be the reason why he ran out in the middle of the night and made this inhuman posture to perform some kind of ritual.
Seeing his pious energy, the Virgin Mary should let him be.
While she was thinking wildly, Zhang Bin suddenly opened his mouth wide, and the space in his throat was compressed and made a small sharp sound.
Chi Ying watched in surprise as he maintained that posture for a full five minutes.
She frowned.
It didn’t feel like a sacrifice, but rather like sending some kind of message…
However, did humans also have that way of transmitting information, why had she never heard of it?
Zhang Bin’s strange posture had returned to normal. He also looked around, turned and returned to the camp they set up next to the car.
Afraid of being discovered by him, Chi Ying stayed where she was for a while longer. After more than ten minutes passed, she stood up and went back quietly.
That person was really not right…
She thought about it, and decided to find a time to tell Gu Chi. Maybe he could understand the meaning of that scene.
*
The next day in the morning, Chi Yang struggled to get up early.
She didn’t feel it in the game before, but since she became a real person, being able to sleep more was simply a great joy in life.
Gu Chi was not in the same car as her, and their lunch was all portable fast food, which was settled hastily in the car. In other words, if she didn’t catch him at that time in the morning, she might not have the chance to find Gu Chi to discuss what happened the previous night alone all day.
In the early morning of summer, even in the apocalypse, its beauty was amazing. The four cuckoo cries mixed with crickets were the unique sounds of summer before the apocalypse.
But in the apocalypse where zombies were rampant and human beings were in a critical situation, the voice they heard was the same as before, which inevitably made people feel dazed for a while.
It was very noisy, but Gu Chi rarely felt that there was a bit of tranquility in the apocalypse.
“Gu Chi!”
Gu Chi gritted his back molars reluctantly.
No matter how many times, he was still not used to Chi Ying calling his name directly.
“Um.”
“I want to tell you something,” Chi Ying was afraid that Zhang Bin would wake up suddenly, so she whispered.
“Before that, I want to ask you a question.”
Chi Ying was taken aback, but still nodded.
“How old are you?”
Um?
Chi Ying was puzzled. She wondered why he was asking that question all of a sudden.
“…I am eighteen.”
In fact, she was set in the original game as a two-hundred-year-old fairy…
However, she was always young, as beautiful as a flower.
However, since the game was launched, it had only been about 20 years, and it was not too much to say that she was eighteen years old.
The corner of Gu Chi’s mouth twitched, and he said with a serious face, “Tell me the truth.”
“……Twenty.”
It had indeed been almost twenty years since she had become conscious.
Twenty……
Gu Chi pursed his lips tightly. Almost ten years younger than him.
No wonder he couldn’t understand this girl’s behavior, and always thought it was like performance art.
He thought deeply, ‘So this is the generation gap of ten years apart?’
Sure enough, ordinary people said that the generation gap was insurmountable, and now it made sense.
“What’s wrong?” Chi Ying asked.
“You call me by my name, but I’m ten years older than you.”
Chi Ying tilted her head. Did he think it was impolite to call him so?
“Then… Brother Gu?” She hesitated for a few seconds, then said, “Gu, Uncle Gu?”
Gu Chi took a deep breath and said, “It’s okay, just pretend I didn’t say anything.”
He originally wanted Chi Ying to change the way she addressed him. It still sounded awkward when a girl ten years younger than him called his name.