Chapter 226: What’s wrong with my eyes
When Zhang Xiao Qiang entered, Yang Ke’er was holding onto the little girl and playing with toy blocks on the table, Yuan Yi was dressed in her apron and walking in and out of the kitchen while Shangguan Qiao Yun was maintaining her Garand Rifle and M1911A1.
The moment Yang Ke’er caught sight of Zhang Xiao Qiang coming in, she prepared herself to pounce onto him, but his tired look caused her to stop. Zhang Xiao Qiang nodded towards the people in the house before returning to his room…. When Zhang Xiao Qiang woke up, it was already in the wee hours of the night, the entire house was pitch black. He groped about for the handphone light that he had not used for a long time.
The bootup sound came out, followed by the appearance of the icon of China Telecom. An adorable, angel-like pretty girl appeared on the screen. Looking at her bizarre yet adorable appearance, Zhang Xiao Qiang sighed, “Fucking apocalypse.”
He used the light from his phone to shine and grope for his clothes. Zhang Xiao Qiang switched off the phone and placed it back into his rucksack. When Zhang Xiao Qiang arrived outside, the 100 incandescent lights were long extinguished.
The valley was peaceful and quiet, with the occasional spotlight from the watchtower by the perimeter wall, following the afterglow of the searchlights, Zhang Xiao Qiang was able to see an AA gun standing tall.
By the gun were two night sentries, machine gunners who were seated down. One of them had his head nodding away as he napped, the searchlight wobbling and swaying weakly. At this point, Zhang Xiao Qiang became furious.
The first thing to be completed was the 18m tall watchtower situated at the wall. Originally, the base had no searchlights and the night sentry team members would carry torchlights to patrol the outside. After obtaining the large searchlight from the prison’s watchtower, the night guards no longer need to be fearful of being blind in the night and could take turns resting in the watchtower. But due to this benefit, those who were not supposed to sleep also took advantage and fell asleep.
Zhang Xiao Qiang walked lightly with the intention to go up to teach the lazy people a lesson. After a few steps, Zhang Xiao Qiang suddenly stopped and looked towards the watchtower in disbelief.
That’s right, the two men at the Type 54 AA guns were napping while the gun barrel of the AA gun stood still with the neatly arranged 12.7mm bullets hung around the barrel. Under the dim light from the searchlight, the bullets faintly released its gold brilliance.
Zhang Xiao Qiang rubbed his own eyes and looked again. It was the same as before, the people were people, the gun still a gun. He could still see the bullets as clear as day.
Zhang Xiao Qiang turned around and looked towards the hill. The pavilion at the top looked as though it had been pulled close by a pair of binoculars. Although it was night time and he could not make out the paint color, Zhang Xiao Qiang was clearly able to see the sculptures at the corner of the house. If it was Zhang Xiao Qiang just the day before, much less the night, he would only be able to see a blur in the day.
Zhang Xiao Qiang no longer had the mood to care about the men goofing off on the watchtower. He kept looking around, that’s right, he felt as though his vision had become stronger. Even in the dim night, he could see many things clearly. He did not know what had happened to his body, but he knew that it was definitely due to eating the weird colloid-gelatin from the rat’s brain.
He climbed the hill in the darkness, the cement faintly white even in the dark. Zhang Xiao Qiang under the bamboos that rustled from the wind. Although they were in the apocalypse and the leaves had long withered, Zhang Xiao Qiang felt joy simply from seeing the fine hairs on the bamboo trees.
Ever since he drank the rainwater from the cave, Zhang Xiao Qiang realized that his vision kept getting better. It was not an instantaneous thing but a gradual effect. It got better day after day until his vision returned to 1.0, which made him extremely satisfied. But for his vision to become even stronger by a few times, it made Zhang Xiao Qiang so happy to the point that he could not describe.
Standing at the top of the hill, Zhang Xiao Qiang looked to the plains in the distance. Although he was surrounded by darkness, he could still differentiate the brown colored ground, he greedily looked around him until his vision moved to the top of another mountain. The pavilion there had been brought down and many graves and tombstones were arranged neatly together. At the very top was a standalone grave, all of which were made with cement. The tombstones had the names of the people who died.
At this point, Zhang Xiao Qiang’s mood dropped. He quietly looked towards the graves. After an unknown period of time, he turned and walked down the hill.
Zhang Xiao Qiang walked to the entrance of the watchtower, where a machine gun fort made out sandbags resided and an M1919A6 HMG was installed and aimed outwards. The machine gunner slept by the side, while the assistant machine gunner did not notice Zhang Xiao Qiang.
Zhang Xiao Qiang walked towards the machine gunner when a faint sound came out from behind him. With a quick swerve, Zhang Xiao Qiang pointed the Desert Eagle straight at the figure’s head.
The person who had come forward was the assistant machine gunner. Her helmet pressed down her fringe. She saw the pistol at her face and opened her eyes wide in fear, her right hand stuck at the Type 77 pistol on her waist. She was too slow in drawing her weapon and seeing the large caliber pistol aimed straight at her, she froze up.
Only after identifying the lady did Zhang Xiao Qiang put down his Desert Eagle. After clarifying that the man was Zhang Xiao Qiang, the assistant machine gunner heaved a sigh of relief and greeted him.
“What’re you doing?” Zhang Xiao Qiang questioned.
“I…I heard….something there….I wanted to take a look.” The lady was shocked by Zhang Xiao Qiang’s solemn tone, she pointed towards where Zhang Xiao Qiang was previously from.
Hearing her words, Zhang Xiao Qiang was surprised. The location where the lady had pointed to was where he had accidentally stepped onto a tree branch and caused a noise. Zhang Xiao Qiang thought that it was a mistake, and looked at the machine gunner sleeping soundly,” You weren’t asleep?”
“Our machine gun team take turns for the night sentry, I slept in the day and can’t really sleep at night, so….” The assistant machine gunner looked at the machine gunner in deep slumber and muttered, she so badly wanted to kick his face, he had wasted his sleeping time in the day fawning upon women only to be caught sleeping during his sentry duty.
Zhang Xiao Qiang nodded his head. Without waking the snoring man up, he looked at the assistant machine gunner:
“You’ll be the leader for the night sentry guards from now on. You will announce to all of them tomorrow, all of whom did duty tonight will have their rations canceled. I’m increasing yours by half, aside from that, inform the entire team of my spot check.”
With that said, Zhang Xiao Qiang turned and left. The lady watched Zhang Xiao Qiang leave until she could no longer see his figure before turning and looked at the snoring machine gunner. Of course, she did not dare tell Zhang Xiao Qiang the truth that she was awoken by the man’s snore, but so what? She had just become the pig’s leader.
“Bang…” The snoring man received a kick in the stomach. All of his sleepiness dissipated as he jumped up from the ground and pounced to his machine gun and looked around. Half a second later, he turned and looked at the assistant machine gunner unkindly.
The lady simply said, “Leader Zhang just came and left, he heard your snoring….”
