Doomsday rat

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"Hey, little bastard, you dare to play with me with knives. Come and see whose knife is faster!" Xiao Ma didn't immediately scare the group of children away after passing by, but instead attracted confrontation.

Two older boys actually took out palm-length knives and threatened viciously, which made Xiao Ma a little dumbfounded. With a flick of his arm, he took a dagger with a cold light in his hand, switching back and forth between his fingers Location.

"Foreigner, you are in trouble, don't leave if you have the ability..."

This really stunned the children. They looked at each other and no one dared to go up, but their momentum was not weak at all. They cursed and left the little girl lying on the ground, and walked towards the opposite side of the street with three steps and three turns. It's all Chi Guoguo's hatred.

"Boss, have another bowl of noodles!" Hong Tao waved at Xiao Ma, motioning him to bring back the little girl who was curled up on the ground, then turned his head and shouted at the booth next to him.

"Okay, a bowl of noodles...several, those kids are not easy to mess with, hurry up and leave after eating, it's very troublesome to be watched by them." The boss brought the noodles over, muttering in a low voice while bowing his head to collect the money After a few words, regardless of whether the guest heard it clearly, he immediately went back as if nothing had happened.

"Come on, wipe your hands first, eat the noodles... eat it, tell me what you are doing for making cigarettes after eating." Hong Tao didn't smile this time, took out the toilet paper and handed it to the little girl, and then pushed the noodles over.

"Damn it, you were a soldier in your last life!"

What happened next surprised Hong Tao again. The little girl didn't give in. After confirming with her eyes that the adults were not making fun of her, she immediately launched a general attack on the opposite bowl.The one that is eaten is called fast. You don't need chopsticks at all, you just grab it with your hands, and you don't chew it. You can eat it as fast as you grab it with your hands.

"Can the rest be taken away? I've caught them all, dirty!" The little girl stopped suddenly after eating about halfway, sticking out her little tongue to lick the sauce off her mouth, and took out a small iron from her bosom. After opening the box, there seemed to be half a bun inside.

Chapter 674 Les Miserables

"Tell me what the cigarettes are for first, and these noodles will be yours." Having learned the lesson just now, Hong Tao didn't dare to show the slightest smile, and deliberately spoke with a straight face.

"... for money, five sticks for ten cents..." The little girl thought for a while, and felt that the deal was fair, and finally told the truth.But when she took out the two hand-rolled cigarettes from her pocket, tears welled up in her eyes.Both cigarettes were broken, and the shredded tobacco was thrown away.

There was a moment of silence around the table. Although the tiger, the ox, and the pony did not cry, the muscles on their cheeks were all squirming.Their hearts were as strong as iron, and they killed people without blinking an eye, but they were all shattered by the little girl's silent tears.

"Don't cry, didn't you just say it, tell me what the cigarettes are for, these two cigarettes are yours!" As expected of a hero, Hong Tao remained expressionless, took out two cigarettes and handed them over.

"Thank you, uncle. I'm going back. Mom hasn't taken her medicine yet..." The little girl licked her lips, raised her face and smiled at Hong Tao.Even with tears on his face, he still smiled sweetly.

Then he took out a small iron box that was exactly the same from his arms, and when he opened it, there were some shredded tobacco inside, which should have been removed from the cigarette butts.Judging from the color, she took it apart very carefully, without any trace of burnt, and put the two cigarettes in it carefully.

"Your mother is sick?" Hong Tao took out two more cigarettes and put them on the table.

"Well, she got very sick and vomited blood... The grandpa at the grocery store on the street said that he would spend money to buy medicine. Mom has no money, and neither do I..." This time the little girl didn't reach for the cigarette, even though her eyes Full of longing, he still stood up, put the noodles into a small iron box, and stuffed it into his arms.

"I like your small tin box that contains shredded tobacco very much. If you give it to me, I will give you some pills. Maybe it can cure your mother's illness!" Seeing that the cigarettes are not easy to use, Hong Tao thought again Out of the second transaction.

"..." The little girl's logical thinking ability seems to be developing faster than her age, and she has not been fooled.

"..." Hong Tao winked at the scalper.

"Can I exchange two iron boxes for two pieces... I can clean the box!" When the scalper took out the anti-inflammatory medicine sold by the alliance from his pocket, the little girl's eyes suddenly lit up.She obviously knew the medicine, or had seen the packaging, and immediately took out the two small tin boxes.

"That's great, I just like a pair. It's just that you take the pills back, what if they snatch them halfway?" Hong Tao finally laughed, as if he had picked up a big leak in the antique market.

But soon he frowned again, and pointed behind him.There is no need to look back, Xiao Ma has already hinted with his eyes that the group of children did not go far, hiding in the shadows across the street.

"..." This time the little girl really has no choice, or she is not old enough for her to think too carefully.

"How about this, we'll take you back home. When we get home, I'll give you the pills, and I'll give you the iron box, how about that?" Until then, Hong Tao came up with the only seemingly reasonable solution.The little girl was naturally caught in the trap, even though she was still reluctant to bring a stranger home, the temptation of two pills was too great!

"Hide halfway, follow those children..." Hong Tao whispered in Tiger's ear when he got up to leave.

The little girl's house is really not close. It takes more than 50 minutes to walk north from Fifth Avenue, which is almost 3 kilometers.This is Hong Tao's excuse to go back early to take medicine for his mother, and to hug her and leave quickly.If she used her short legs and physical strength to slow down, the time to get home would probably be doubled.

In addition to being far away, it is very broken!In fact, the further north you go, the dilapidated the houses that are inhabited along the road.This is not too surprising. The innkeeper introduced that the living environment in the Jinmen Port Industrial Zone is distributed in order from south to north, from rich to poor.

The area near the Haihe River in the south is the richest, where the families of the military, managers and skilled workers in various factories and their families live, and there are also many foreign merchants who do business here all the year round.

With TEDA Plaza as the dividing line, to the north is the residential area for ordinary workers and their families.From Ninth Avenue to the north, it belongs to the slums, such as small merchants with uncertain income, temporary workers, refugees who have just arrived, old, weak, sick and disabled without care, and the bottom of society, etc. all live here.

How to evaluate it, that is, it is a little more regular than the refugee area outside the Redeemer base, there is a street light not far from the main road, and some people dare to wander outside after dark, and the rest is basically the same.The doors and windows of the houses are broken, the streets are full of sewage and muddy, and the smell of urine and raw feces is everywhere.

The tiger disappeared before leaving the market, and its exact location is unclear.The pony is at the head, Hong Tao is holding the little girl seven or eight meters diagonally behind, and the scalper is at the end.

Seemingly random, this formation is actually the most advantageous form of defense in a city.The sight of the three people will not be blocked by their companions, and they can draw their guns to shoot at the front, back, left, and right targets at any time, and at the same time they will not be knocked down by intensive shooting from any side.

It's a pity that the people here are not very knowledgeable. They stared blankly at the three men who obviously didn't belong here in their clothes and hugged a little girl who obviously belonged here. There was neither surprise nor doubt in their eyes, nor even curiosity.

"It's... the second floor!" Fortunately, there is no need to go through too complicated and dark alleys and alleys. The little girl's home is above a house not far from the street.That's right, it's above, she said the second floor, but there is no building here, it's nothing more than a layer of iron sheets and wooden boards built on the roof, it can be called a pigeon cage.

"Mom...Mom...I have medicine..." The staircase hangs at the back of the house, and it is a frame welded with steel pipes and angle irons and covered with wooden boards.The little girl struggled to climb up on her short legs, shouting as she climbed.

"You who have suffered thousands of knives, howling! Go back and tell your mother, don't live if you don't pay the rent. If you die, die outside, don't ruin the Feng Shui here. I... I... Who are you looking for! "

Before the little girl reached the roof, as the stairs trembled, a fat old man with an unshaven beard appeared at the top of the stairs, with his hips akimbo blocking the way, cursing loudly.Just as he was about to reach out to grab the little girl, he suddenly found someone below, and was immediately stunned.

"Looking for her mother... Are you the landlord here?" The other party was obviously not a child, and he didn't need to be coaxed, Hong Tao was finally able to laugh, and asked with a smile while baring his two half front teeth.

"Yes, yes... Oh, no, I am looking after the house for the third master. Her mother may not be able to afford the money. No, she has not paid a penny of the rent for two months. Let me tell you, she is afraid No, coughing up blood every day, skinny..."

This smile made the old man seem to see more darkness in the dark night, and he stuttered a bit when he spoke.Even so, there is nothing less to say. It can be seen that the problem of talkative tuberculosis really does not depend on whether the situation is urgent or not. The more nervous it is, the more severe it is.

"You have to see people when you live, and you have to see corpses when you die. This is the rule! Either you get out of the way, or you can lead the way. I don't have so much time to talk nonsense!" Obviously, the old man regarded himself as a debt collector, and Hong Tao also Don't explain, let's go down the donkey.

"It has nothing to do with me, it really doesn't matter...Go, son of a bitch, lead the way!" The old man shrank his body back as soon as he heard this, and stepped aside to get out of the way of the stairs.

"Come on, girl, take uncle to give your mother medicine!" The passage on the roof is very narrow, and the two people will stagger their bodies.Hong Tao didn't intend to go too deep, so he stood guard at the stairs.The scalper took out the medicine box and pulled the little girl in. The pony was even more ruthless. He simply went down the stairs and retreated into the shadows behind the house.

"What does this child's mother do?" Seeing the fat old man staring at the scalper's back and rolling his eyes, Hong Tao knew that he also recognized the medicine box.

"Hi, I'm a surrogate. When this child was born, the family didn't give me the final payment because it was a girl. Then I gave birth to another one. I had some money, and I went to work part-time in the factory. I was able to live a good life." The old man Hearing the question, he quickly closed his eyes, and after a few perfunctory sentences, he turned around and wanted to leave.

"Then what's wrong with her?" Hong Tao made a wrong step and just blocked the way in.

"This, this... I don't know, anyway, I'm seriously ill..."

"Mom, mother... woo woo woo..." At this moment, the heart-piercing cry of the little girl suddenly came from inside the passage.

Chapter 675

Hong Tao frowned, and suddenly reached out and grabbed the fat old man's neck.Just now this guy's eyes flickered and he hesitated to speak, he must not be telling the truth.Now what happened to the little girl, you can know without asking, so this is the only person who knows.

"Hey... Don't do it, don't do it, I'm the third master... Hey, hey, good, good, I said, I said, it was Bai Liu's subordinates who beat her, he, they fell in love with this girl, and wanted to buy it and raise it .”

"The mother of this child will not sell her life or death. As a result, as a result, she was beaten when she was off work more than a month ago. Friends, friends, I really have nothing to do here. I am just a bad old man who helps to look after the house... "

Sure enough, the fat old man knew everything immediately after he felt his neck being held up by a cool, hard object. His expressive ability was not bad, and he explained the whole story clearly in a few sentences.

"Who is Bai Liu and where does he live?" Hong Tao continued to press without removing the knife.

"Brother Mouse..." At this moment, the scalper showed up at the end of the passage, and slowly shook his head.

"What disease?"

"The ribs are broken, I'm afraid there are internal injuries, like falling, or... being beaten!"

"Take the child down and wait for me... Old thing, this child's mother owes Brother Long a lot of money. If I go back in such an unreasonable manner, I will lose an ear if I don't talk about it. Think about it, it will make my ears suffer. It’s still yours. Ask me one last time, who is Bai Liu and where does he live!”

Now Hong Tao believed it, winked at the scalper, and then pushed the fat old man against the wall, and slowly moved the dagger against his face to the base of the ear, and the skin was broken without any force.

"He's the biggest kid in the area. I really don't know where he lives. You know, those who work in their profession hide very deeply and don't get in touch with outsiders easily." The fat old man was really scared, and he knew it well. What kind of people are asking for debts for others, and they hurriedly told everything they knew.

"...Then do you think Bai Liu will send someone to watch this child?" Hong Tao thought for a while, and felt that the fat old man was not lying.But I still don't want to just let him go, I have to squeeze again.

"Yes, yes, there is a group of children wandering around the neighborhood. This girl has come back from the outside several times with injuries on her body and face. They should be the ones who beat them. We can't afford to mess with those people, and we can't get rid of them if they get involved. .” The old man felt that this was a life-saving straw, and quickly nodded to express that it was very reliable.

"The people inside..." Hong Tao pouted again into the passage.

"Don't worry, I know the rules. I'm sure I won't talk too much. I'll report to the security team at dawn. I'm sick... I'm really sick!" said the fat old man. I understand the connotation.

"Well, it's harmless to keep your mouth shut. It's best not to tell the third master what happened today. He's so busy, so he doesn't have the time to take care of it. It's done, go back, don't send it away!"

Help the little girl's mother collect the body?Hong Tao really didn't intend to do that, it would be too eye-catching, and he would immediately reveal that he was not a debt collector.Besides, if one day I die, it is a question of whether someone can collect the body, let alone a miserable woman who has never even met.

After leaving the little girl's house, Hong Tao and the three returned to the inn without haste.The little girl was crying in the ox's arms at first, but she became tired after a while and fell into a deep sleep.

"My friend's child, ask us to take it to Caofeidian." This was the explanation given by Hong Tao and the innkeeper. Of course, the innkeeper might not believe it all, mainly because the little girl's clothes and face were a bit dirty.But he was very good at being a man, and he didn't say anything, but looked at Hong Tao with deeper eyes.

"..." Hong Tao didn't go upstairs, but sat in the lobby smoking a cigarette.About an hour or so, the tiger came in hurriedly with a whole body of water droplets.After seeing Hong Tao, he was slightly taken aback, then sat opposite and nodded.

"If the rooster crows three times and I haven't come back, you go first. If you pay attention to safety, don't mention it. When something happens, turn your head around more. Don't just think about fighting and killing. When you go back, don't come here again, go forward more. Find a post for the night."

Hong Tao took out a map from his pocket and spread it on the table, took out a pencil and handed it to Tiger, motioning him to mark it on the map.This guy was playing anti-tracking just now, and he has been wearing a tail that acts as a tail all the time. Now he should have found the lair of the group of children.

"Brother Mouse, let me go with you. There are at least four adults living there, and there are probably guns." Ever since he was hinted to follow him, the tiger knew what the boss was going to do.Who is this?The hero Yuluo who made the Redeemer panic when he heard it in northern Xinjiang.

Although he has never been a hero since he left Xinjiang Province, a hero is a hero after all, when he sees an injustice, he yells, and he will act when it is time to act.Although this incident today may not seem like a big deal, it is quite heartwarming. It doesn't seem too far-fetched to kill a few really damned guys for this.

"Our transportation team will continue. It's not easy to find a suitable job. You, the big brother, have to think about the collective first in everything. It's your job to lead everyone to live a good life. You hate evil like hatred, live a chic life, and be happy and kind." Enmity is Yuluo's responsibility, basically has nothing to do with you, sorry..."

Hong Tao got up and patted Tiger on the shoulder, and taught him how to be a qualified big brother with earnestness and earnestness, but he picked himself up completely.It means that being a big brother should endure the humiliation and forge ahead, while he can let himself go and do whatever he wants.

"Aren't you also our big brother?" Tiger is not stupid at all. Although he didn't understand the logical problem here for a moment, he immediately realized a problem. Why are we all big brothers, and the treatment is so different!

"I'm a temporary worker, and now I'm fired..." Hong Tao had already reached the door, but he didn't turn his head back when he heard the words. He buckled the hood of his windbreaker and slipped into the rainy night.

"Fuck..." Tiger felt that he had been tricked again, but he couldn't refute it.

In fact, this hero only said to bring everyone here to find a new life, but he never said that he wanted to be a big brother.The ranking of the twelve zodiac signs is only for the convenience of calling each other in front of outsiders, and has no other meaning.

"Guest officer, the weather outside is not very good. I guess no one will come to lodge. For everyone's safety, the store will be locked soon. Your companion..."

The shopkeeper has been picking and pulling the abacus beads behind the counter, but his ears and eyes are not idle. Although he didn't hear most of the conversation between these two people, he heard clearly the last sentence that the temporary worker was fired.

It's not the first time I've seen such a drama of breaking up halfway, why, who is right and who is wrong is not what he needs to pay attention to, and he doesn't want to ask, but there is one thing that must be clarified, whether to keep the door?

"...Help find a buddy to keep an eye on. My brother likes to gamble. When I don't eat, I see a casino and insist on playing a few games. I can't persuade you. Sigh...Let him go, who is going to play these days? It’s not about having a good day.”

Tiger didn't want to talk to the shopkeeper at first, but stopped when he was about to go upstairs, tilted his head and thought for a while, then turned back to the counter, took out a dollar from his pocket and handed it over.

This is the first time for him to act according to the usual behavior of the hero Yu Luo, and the nonsense made up is a bit unsmooth, and the expression is even more blunt, with twinkling eyes, blushing and thick neck.

"Who says it's not? It's really hard to pull goods in the wind and rain, Wudong Lixia, and you should have some fun. But, you still have to persuade this brother to stop when enough is enough, nine times out of ten bets!"

But in the shopkeeper's eyes, his appearance is not a beginner's practice, but the embarrassment of being a joke by outsiders.Not only did he believe it, but he also offered words of comfort.Of course, I didn't forget to take a tip of one yuan, so it's hard to say whether I will give overtime work.

Chapter 676 The Cold Rain

Hong Tao didn't leave immediately after he went out, but turned around and went to the stables behind, handed over the license plates for the horses and carriages to the watchman, lied that he wanted to repair the axles, went straight into the factory building, and pretended to climb to the carriage. Fiddle around.

After waiting for a little guy, after the guy left, he opened the hidden slot and took out the thermal imaging scope, night vision goggles, battery box, muffler, and spare magazines, and stuffed them into the body armor one by one.He took out a thin blanket to keep the horses warm from the pack horse's saddle bag, put it under his arm and left.

The tiger followed the group of children farther than the little girl's home. From the map, it has reached No. 12 Street, which is almost the northernmost end of the industrial zone.There is a small lake there, and the black dot painted by the tiger is in a factory building on the east side of the lake.

Instead of heading north along Dongting Lake Road, Hong Tao first went west to find Bohai Road and then went north.This place is already close to the edge of the living area, separated by a piece of dilapidated factories and warehouses is the railway line.There are few street lights and fewer residents. On the streets, there are only the patter of raindrops on the leaves and the patter of boots in the stagnant water.

Ever since he got out of the inn and entered Bohai Road, Hong Tao took off his windbreaker and stuffed it into a broken warehouse by the side of the road. He put the blanket with red and yellow patterns on his shoulders and let the cold rain fall on his face. Shoot randomly.

Tiger was right to complain. As the leader of the team, he should not risk himself, especially when he is in an unfamiliar environment and has no knowledge of the local security situation and gang forces, let alone be so impulsive.

The innkeeper also said that those children are not easy to mess with.Listen, even the local dealers say it's not easy to mess with, so it must be not easy to mess with, and there may be some kind of interest implicated behind it.

But Hong Tao didn't accept his fate. He had seen many tragedies in the world over the years, but most of them were adults.Among the survivors, the number of children is even smaller than that of young women. In order to restore the population as soon as possible, most of the forces have taken protective measures for children, and there is no chance to bully them.

This is the case for the Redeemer and the Beijing Safety Zone, but not for the Jinmen Port Industrial Zone.There are actually a large number of illegitimate children here, and they are the kind whose grandma doesn't love their uncles, who can't be controlled by the government, and whose family doesn't care.Growing up with snacks, Baijiafan, I had to earn my own food before I reached school age.

If it's just child labor, Hong Tao doesn't have any objections even if he is exploited a little bit harder.Times, in this end-of-life world where everything is waiting to be done, the future is uncertain, and resources are severely scarce, adults can only barely survive, and it is simply treason to pay too much attention to the protection of minors.

But the current problem is much more serious than exploitation and abuse. There are actually people organizing and training these children behind the scenes to become professional beggars and rogue thieves, and profit from it!No matter what others think, in Hong Tao's mind, this is a beast, not at all better than Sun Dacheng's behavior back then, even more despicable, unworthy of being a human being.

Since they are not human anymore, the hero Yuluo represents the sky, the land, and the justice of the world. Does killing a few animals need to weigh the pros and cons, have good thoughts, and take a holistic view?If he hesitated at this time, then the people from Youlong Company would die too unjustly, and he just killed innocent people indiscriminately, which is completely unexplainable and even more illogical.

Sometimes, Hong Tao feels that he is living in an independent logic, and this logic has seriously affected his judgment of everything in the world, which makes him disagree with ordinary people on many issues and is out of tune.

When he was calm, he also deliberately suppressed this strange logic, deliberately self-corrected, trying to make it more popular.But the effect is not complete, especially when the underlying logic is touched, all previous efforts are in vain.

After passing Ninth Avenue, there is a Y-shaped fork in front of you, and Bohai Road is still on the right, leading directly to No.12 Avenue.To the left is an unnamed path with low woods on both sides.The map shows that this road leads to a warehouse of a logistics company, and the railway happens to make a circle here.

After thinking about it for a while, Hong Tao took out the night vision device from his pocket and put it on, then put a blanket over his head, slowed down his stride and accelerated the frequency, and walked silently to the path on the left.

There is almost no light here, and it is my favorite environment.Although a group of bastards who only bully children are unlikely to have a too strict defense mechanism, but the ancients said it well, predict victory before defeat.It doesn't hurt to think of your opponents as stronger when doing things, just treat them as the adjudicators!

"Brush..." When passing the second railway, Hong Tao suddenly lay down under the roadbed, and after tens of seconds, he slowly raised his head and looked in the direction of the road.

In the field of vision of the night vision device, three figures were walking with their legs high and light, looking around as they walked, as if they were looking for something.Just when he turned into this path, Hong Tao heard movement behind him.Obviously, someone discovered his whereabouts and followed him.

"Where did that kid go?" The three of them walked to the first railroad track and stopped. One of them stood on the railroad track and looked down, but the surroundings were completely dark and they couldn't see anything.

"I guess it's still ahead. I saw him walking all the way from the south, wearing something on his head and covering it with a cloak at the intersection. He doesn't look like a poor man, and he's wearing such high boots!"

"Hush... Keep your voice down! Could it be someone from the Tao? Why don't we ask the third master first and ask him to send someone over to look!" One can take advantage of it.

"Bah, who doesn't know that this is the territory of the third master, so sneaking here in the middle of the night will definitely not be a good thing. Follow the past to have a look, and if the idea is hard, then it's not too late to inform the third master. If you don't have such a big background... Hehehe, let's Maybe you can make a small fortune!"

There are also some people who are bold, or who are called money fans, and feel that there is no need to think too much about advancing and retreating on their own territory, and delaying things instead.

"biubiu..." Two flames suddenly flashed from five or six meters away, and the guy standing on the railroad track seemed to be hit by an invisible locomotive, and his body flew backwards two or three meters away.

"嘡啷...嘡啷...嘡啷..." At this time, the crisp metal impact sound came to the ears, and accompanied by the continuous flashing of the fire, the impact sound followed up rhythmically.