"Yes." There were indeed people. Liu Chang's vision had improved greatly after the drug catalysis. Through the gap in the trees, he saw more than a hundred meters away. There were indeed several people - several women, all in their forties. to the age of fifty.
"She looks like a rural woman from the suburbs." Li Qingshui observed more carefully. A person's temperament can reveal his character and origin, especially in front of someone like Li Qingshui who is very capable of collecting and analyzing trace amounts of information. , you can see your situation in the previous twenty years at a glance.
"Yeah." Liu Chang nodded after listening to Li Qingshui's words - the women in front of them do seem to be rural women with a low level of education in the suburbs. After the apocalypse, in fact, most people still retain the same culture as before the apocalypse. knowledge and cognitive concepts.
After all, after the apocalypse, schools almost no longer exist, and things such as Internet, computers, and televisions that communicate with the outside world do not exist. Therefore, what ordinary people are like before the apocalypse will remain the same after the apocalypse, and nothing has changed.
When they came closer, Liu Chang and Li Qingshui both focused on this group of ordinary women. Logically speaking, such women were very common and should not attract their attention, but they still stopped here for a long time.
Because of what these women did.
"They are picking the fruits of the willow trees." Standing 20 meters away from the women, Liu Chang and Li Qingshui stopped where they were - along the way, they were in the willow jungle, and they did not see what they saw in Jinan last time. The bright red apple-like fruit collected by commandos. Liu Chang originally thought that this fruit was a trap for humans by the willow tree, so it should grow around the city.
Now it¡¯s true. They saw large tracts of bright red fruits around Cangzhou City.
"It's only been a few days, and people have already started eating the fruits of the willow tree!" Liu Chang imagined that a large number of fruits would be produced around the city, and that many people would eat this kind of fruit in the near future, but what he didn't expect was , this "future" will come so quickly!
"It shouldn't be. When the willow trees came, there should be a lot of movement. These people should be scared enough. Unexpectedly, in less than a month, some people began to no longer be afraid of the branches of these willow trees and began to eat the willow trees. Something!" This situation reminded Liu Chang of the time he went to catch small animals in the countryside when he was a child. As long as the animal is really hungry, he will eat what you sprinkled, regardless of whether it is dangerous or not.
"In their values, it's good to be alive, and they won't think about things that are so far away. This is understandable." Li Qingshui looked at several women picking fruits and shook his head. "What's more, these willow fruits are indeed not dangerous to them for the time being. Let's go. Let's go into the city to see how popular this fruit is and what's going on underground."
"Well, there is no grass growing on the other side. This is different from the situation in Shandong." Liu Chang nodded - when they entered the willow jungle from the ordinary jungle in Shandong, although there were fairly clear distinctions between tree species, boundary, but the other side of the willow jungle is not barren.
"There are willow roots under the city, but they have not grown branches." Li Qingshui walked out of the jungle and stepped on the "desolate" land under his feet, which is rare after the apocalypse, and said: "I want to grow branches again. It only takes a few minutes. Then in the blink of an eye, the whole city can be destroyed!"
The two of them talked and walked out of the jungle to a "sunny" place outside. Then they walked a few hundred meters away from the "dividing line" and entered the suburbs of Cangzhou.
Liu Chang has never been to Cangzhou before and has only seen it on the map. Therefore, he didn't know whether the place with dilapidated houses he came to was the suburbs of Cangzhou City or the surrounding small counties, but it didn't matter. He and Li Qingshui came here mainly to see the customs and customs of ordinary humans in the area "covered" by willow trees.
Because these customs represent the attitude of the willow tree towards humans - and the attitude of the current middle- and lower-class residents towards the giant willow tree.
After walking all the way to the outskirts of the city, Liu Chang found that this place, like other places after the apocalypse, was a lackluster place - the shape and style of the houses still retained their appearance before the apocalypse, but after five years of natural and man-made destruction, here Although the building has not changed, it is much more dilapidated than it was five years ago.
In addition to the collapsed houses and broken signboards, the number of people seemed relatively sparse - Cangzhou used to be a large and medium-sized city with a population of more than six million. Now, Liu Chang only saw three or two kittens along the way. The city's population has also been reduced to nine out of ten.
After walking for two or three kilometers, Li Qingshui and Liu Chang finally arrived at a relatively prosperous place. They walked from the periphery of the city to a place that looked like a fringe commercial street. HereThere is a small fountain square - of course the fountain has long been broken, and half of the sculpture on the fountain has fallen off. Only a statue of a beautiful woman with half of her butt exposed and only her lower body can be seen.
"There's someone in front of you!" Liu Chang twitched his nose in the cold wind and pointed at the circular building at the end of the commercial street. Most of the building's signboard had fallen off, and a "Bar" could be faintly seen under the lower half of the signboard. "", it looks like it used to be an Internet cafe.
"There are a lot of people inside, probably hundreds." Liu Chang said, smelling the human smell in the air: "After all, it is an inland city. No matter how depressed it is, the survival rate of people is still much higher than that in seaside cities!"
When Liu Chang went to Qingdao for the first time, he walked around several blocks before finding a small tribe with only a few hundred people, and even the scattered people were missing. But now in Cangzhou, not only idle people can be seen on the streets, but also many small groups.
After all, after the apocalypse, the living environment at the seaside will be ten times worse than inland, and even those with a little ability have fled. Therefore, when Liu Chang arrived in Qingdao a few months ago, it almost became an empty city - and Cangzhou Here, even if it is covered with willow trees, there should still be hundreds of thousands of people.
¡°Let¡¯s go in and have a look.¡± Li Qingshui said, taking the lead to walk towards the prototype Internet cafe building at the end of Fountain Square.
The prototype building is divided into three floors, and there should be a basement level. It stands to reason that the weather is cold now, and the basement should be the most popular place. However, Liu Chang and the two walked to the door of the building and discovered that most of the people here , they all live in the Internet cafes on the first and second floors of the building.
This community living in the Internet cafe does not have guards keeping their hands outside - in fact, with the weather outside now at minus 60 or 70 degrees, if an ordinary person leaves his hands outside for more than two hours, he will definitely freeze, so now except for the military, It's rare to see a "guardian" outside a building.
Therefore, facing the unguarded rolling shutter door, Liu Chang and Li Qingshui easily opened it, pushed the door open and walked in.
The cold wind poured into the warm building, and Liu Chang saw the small groups of humans inside, warming themselves around the iron bucket.