I pick up trash at the end of the day

It is different from the slum where Yu Ge lived.

The buildings in the residential area basically follow the normal architectural structure and design style. They are generally low-rise buildings. The outside does not look very gorgeous and luxurious, but the basic perfection and safety can still be guaranteed.

The lives of the people living here are relatively stable, not to mention that everyone has a job, but at least they have the means to make ends meet, and living a poor life is not precarious.Everyone's clothes are more or less patched, but they look clean and complete.The faces are not rosy, but they are basically healthy. From time to time, you can hear some children chasing and fighting in the streets and gossips among neighbors.

If it weren't for the tall walls towering all around, no one would feel that the world they live in has been occupied by zombies.Still, it's not without its problems in terms of acclimatization and smooth living here.

Yu Ge walked across the street to the small square in the center of the residential area.The entire square is a circular structure, with straight roads protruding all around, and a stone pillar stands at each intersection, a total of twelve, corresponding to twelve hours.There is a large circular flower bed in the center of the square. In the center of the flower bed is a statue carved with a sentinel standing in the crowd of zombies and fighting bravely.

It is said that it was the first sentinel.

After the Sentinel's death, such a statue stood in the center of every keep, commemorating the beginning of humanity's hope that, amidst the miracles he had wrought, the catastrophe would be quickly resolved.

It's a pity that nearly a hundred years have passed, and the hordes of zombies are still alive, and even if human beings have brave and skilled sentries, they still live under the high wall, living a life that seems to be stable, but in fact it is in fear.

At this time, many people had already gathered in the square, and Yu Ge was too late to leave early, so he could only stay at the outermost edge of the crowd.

He didn't want to get too close, because there was a group of soldiers maintaining order in the center of the square, led by sentries who rarely appeared in public.

When they appear here under the pressure of being mentally tortured, it means this day...

It's the day of the obituary announcement.

After the outbreak of the zombie virus, many infrastructures built by humans were destroyed or abandoned, one of which was the communication system.

Today, although the communication system has been restored to a certain extent, the high cost of use has made it a resource exclusive to the military and the upper class. If ordinary people want to know real-time information, they must pay attention to the bulletin board in the center of the square. It is basically impossible to send a message or contact relatives who are far away.

Yesterday, the sentry repelled the zombie wave, and the news that they returned from the safe zone had already spread in the fortress. At the same time, the news that there were no survivors in the safe zone also reached the ears of the residents living in the city. The people who gathered in the square today People came to confirm the news and receive the relics and pensions of their loved ones.

Yu Ge found a corner with few people, leaned under a tree and watched the people gathered in front of the obituary. They carefully searched for the names of their relatives on the obituary.

After finding it, some people cried bitterly, some smiled under the cover of crying, but some did not shed tears at all, but cheered as if they had won the lottery.

Regardless of their purpose or their relationship with the person on the obituary, these people can receive the relics and pensions of the deceased as long as they can provide proof of any blood or spouse relationship with the person on the obituary .

However, ordinary people who are also living in the apocalypse, if they really have a relic worth a few dollars, how can they be willing to leave their families and go to the front line, becoming a lonely ghost in the mouth of the zombies.So in order to get the small amount of military pay every month, and to leave some savings for relatives after death, so many people insist on sticking to the safe zone and separating from their relatives knowing that they will never return.

"next."

While checking the list of the deceased, Ling Xiang handed over the cloth bag containing the relics and pensions of the deceased to their relatives, and then called the next person.

David sat with his feet crossed beside Ling Xiang, shaking his legs in boredom and annoyance: "Damn, we still need to do this kind of thing? It's not that no one is doing the work, we have to be sentinels to do this kind of thing, I don't know Can't our mental strength take it?!"

"If you have any opinions, you should go to the higher-ups to respond. Don't say gossip here that makes people hate it."

"Humph."

At this time, a middle-aged woman came to them with her child who was only thirteen or fourteen years old. Ling Xiang sighed and glanced back and forth on a large list: "Certificate, let me tell you the serial number of the deceased."

The woman tremblingly put a crumpled little red book on the table, restrained her crying, and said, "Here is the certificate, number 410277, I am his wife."

Ling Xiang didn't even look at the certificate, and said coldly: "I don't have this number, next one."

When the woman heard this, her already ugly complexion turned completely white: "How could it be! I, my husband died on the battlefield, so how come I don't have his number!"

Ling Xiang originally wanted to ask someone to chase this woman away, but when she looked up, she met her broken and desperate eyes, and couldn't bear to scan the list again.

"Sorry, I don't have this number, please leave now."

It is not uncommon for the number of the deceased to not appear on the obituary. Some of them are due to lack of verification or some mistakes in cleaning the battlefield, and some are indeed scoundrels who want to defraud the pension, so this is why The reason why Sentinels had to do the job.

"No, no! My dad is clearly in the safe zone. He said he is my hero! He will stay in the safe zone to protect our home even if he dies! Now that the safe zone is gone, it is impossible for him not to be there It's on the list! Sister, I beg you to take a closer look!"

"Listen, little brother, your father's number is not on this list, I repeat, please leave now, don't cause unnecessary trouble."

Ling Xiang looked at the mother and son in front of her. She didn't think their swollen eyes and tired expression were deceiving, or she didn't want to believe that the mother and son were liars, but whether they were or not had nothing to do with her.

Outside the high wall, zombies are still wandering around.

Every day the crisis is not resolved, people will die in the wilderness every day.

It is impossible for them to waste time on these dead, let alone whether the person who came to receive the pension is a liar or not.

Certificate, number, list on obituary.

For one-to-one correspondence, the pension will be given to you; if one item is missing, please leave.

Ling Xiang explained patiently, even though her mental strength had begun to agitate, she tried her best to bear it: "The obituary over there clearly stated the number of each person guarding the safety zone. No, do you understand? Next."

"No! No, did you miss it! Please, can you check the list again, my husband is gone, if there is no pension, we mother and son should..."

"It's annoying, old woman!"

David put his feet on the table, and the loud sound of his heels falling frightened the mother to hold the child tightly in her arms.

"If you say no, you don't have it, and you have to emphasize it a few times! Hurry up, don't think that a woman and a child can get a pension by pretending to be a mother and child. I have seen many liars like you."

"You are the liar!"

Hearing this, the boy stared and shouted angrily: "My father died on the battlefield, why can't we get the pension! Why can't we get my father's relics!"

"Tch, there is no such thing as sacrifice on the list? In my opinion, it is likely that he ran away as a deserter."

"David, shut up."

Ling Xiang wanted to stop him from continuing, but he was immersed in the shocked expressions of the mother and son: "In the end, your father is just an ordinary person, whether it is greedy for life or fear of death, or being a deserter, it is not something to be ashamed of." , maybe your heroic father is lying at home right now, waiting for the pension you cheated to live on."

"You, you fart! My dad is a hero! He is not a deserter! Not a deserter!"

"Enough, stop talking and let's go back."

The mother tried to pull her son away with tears in her eyes, but the son stared at David, clenched his teeth, and the veins bursting out of his temples looked like an angry little beast.

"What? You little brat, how dare you mess with me? What kind of look is that in your eyes? It seems that I won't be able to teach you a lesson today."

David got up, grabbed the boy by the collar and was about to drop his hand, but was held tightly by his mother: "No, please don't hurt him, he is just a child, and he said these things out of nowhere. My husband If I die, all I have left is this child."

"What are you? How dare you touch me! Get the hell out of here!"

With a wave of David's hand, the mother was thrown out like a broken dead leaf, and her back hit the pillar beside her heavily.

"mom!"

The boy yelled and rushed to his mother: "Mom, are you okay? Where did you hurt?"

"It's okay, it's okay," the mother wiped her tears, pulled herself up and hugged the boy tightly, "it's okay, mom is okay, let's go, let's go back."

With tears in his eyes, the boy slowly helped his mother up and left the square together.

David looked at the mother and son who had left, spat hard, sat back on the chair, and made two startling bang bang bangs when the tripod returned to the table.

"Tch, it's a liar again, it's really fucking annoying."

"Be quiet."

Ling Xiang poked the list with a pen, and made a slight but powerful clicking sound: "Staying here is already a torment, can you calm down for a while, don't make trouble for nothing."

"Ah? What do you mean I'm looking for trouble?" David rolled his eyes at Ling Xiang, mocking her pretended indifference, "You women are all benevolent women, and your hearts soften when you see women and children. You should thank me, if I hadn't acted, would those two liars have left obediently?"

"Thank you? Thank you, coward?"

Ling Xiang clutched the pen, folded her hands around her chest, and snorted coldly: "I only dare to attack women and children, and I have never seen you work so hard when killing zombies on the battlefield."

"Huh? Did I hear you right?" David frowned, squinting at Ling Xiang, "I don't work hard, so do you? To put it nicely, it is a great credit to flatter you twice?"

Ling Xiang didn't speak, but the pen in her hand was broken into two parts abruptly.

"Give you a chance to take this back to me."

"Yo, what's the matter? Did you poke your young lady's sore spot?"

David sneered, and poked Ling Xiang's heart every word: "Or do you think that if no one reminds you, you are not a big vase? Hehe, you are obviously a woman, so don't think that being a sentinel is great. Women should be honest with Gao Inside the wall, it is your duty to wait for the man to come back honestly."

As soon as the words fell, Ling Xiang's mental body jumped out. The black snake spit out a scarlet letter, and its tail trembled and made a piercing sound of 'rustling'. David's mental body also came out, and the gorilla kept tapping Holding his chest, his voice was even more intimidating.

The two looked at each other coldly, and the murderous aura immediately drove away the nearby soldiers and residents, fearing that they would become the last spark to detonate the explosives and turn the square into a cemetery for indiscriminate fighting.

"Tch, are they a group of brainless barbarians, Sentry? Hehe, that's all."

Yu Ge leaned against the big tree, holding grass roots in his mouth, enjoying everything in front of him comfortably, until he saw the mother and child leaving the square, then got up and followed slowly.

"Hey, wait a minute."

"Huh?" The boy turned his head and looked at Yu Ge vigilantly, "You, what do you want?"

"Don't be afraid, I'm not here to cause trouble." Yu Ge took out a letter and a dog tag from his arms and handed them to the mother and son. "These...someone asked me to pass them on to you."

When my mother saw these two things, tears flowed down her eyes unconsciously.

The boy's eyes widened, and he looked at the scratched dog tag repeatedly: "This, this is my father's thing! Brother, why do you have this!"

Yu Ge bent down and looked at the boy: "Your father entrusted me to hand this over to you."

"Me, my husband..."

Yu Ge looked at the mother and son and shook his head silently.

The mother could no longer bear the grief and covered her face and cried bitterly. The boy clutched the dog tag tightly, tears of sorrow swirled in his eyes, but he couldn't erase his anger.

Yu Ge sighed softly, squatted down, put his hands on the child's shoulders, and looked straight into his eyes: "Remember, your father is a hero, he was thinking about you until the last moment of his life, thinking about how to protect you , so that you can live in peace. You must remember and not forget him, do you hear me?"

The boy sniffed, wiped away the tears from his eyes, and nodded stubbornly.

Yu Ge rubbed the boy's hair, took out two gold coins from the inner pocket of the leather jacket, and handed them to his mother, letting her hold them tightly.

"You take this."

"No! I can't take it, you can help us send these back, we are already very satisfied, we can't take this anymore."

"Shh..."

Yu Ge gently compared his fingers, and pressed his mother's hand firmly: "Take it, this is what you all deserve."

After appeasing the sad mother, Yu Ge finally looked at the boy, and said: "Your father is gone, and you will be the pillar of the family from now on. You must protect your mother. Did you hear me?"

"Well, thank you brother."

"Okay, let's go back quickly, be careful on the road, and put these things away."

While the mother and son were thanking each other repeatedly, Yu Ge watched them leave, then looked up at the blue sky, sighed a long time, and a voice gradually emerged in his mind.

"Yu Ge, in the days to come, you have to live strong alone..."

"Remember, mom and dad will always love you... will always bless you in heaven..."