Chapter 37: The World Outside

“Mr. Zhang,” Ren Xiaosu said politely to Zhang Jinglin, “I hope to be able to have you allow Six Yuan and Sister Xiaoyu to stay at the academy during the time I’m away.”

Zhang Jinglin looked at Ren Xiaosu and queried, “Is it already confirmed that you have to go?”

Ren Xiaosu thought for a moment and said, “I’m afraid there’s no way to refuse them anymore, you’ve also seen the end of Zhang Baogen, you and I now have the power of life and death in the hands of this group of people in the barriers, if I take the initiative to go and encounter danger I can avoid it in time, or even sacrifice someone else to save myself, but if I stay here and refuse them I’m afraid that they’ll move to use despicable methods to greet us.”

“Is there no better choice?” Zhang Jinglin asked.

“I’m afraid there isn’t,” Ren Xiaosu shook her head, “But don’t worry, Mr. Zhang, it’s possible that if they all die out, I might not be alright.”

As a matter of fact, Ren Xiaosu initially just didn’t want to wade through the muddy water, now with his physical fitness and then with his past experience of surviving in the wilderness, Ren Xiaosu wasn’t worried that he wouldn’t be able to come back.

Moreover, the other party’s return conditions did not satisfy him, if he, Yan Liuyuan and Xiaoyu had three places to enter the refuge barriers, it would be more or less the same, otherwise it would be meaningless.

He did want to enter the refuge barriers, but he couldn’t leave Yan Liuyuan and Sister Xiaoyu to go in alone.

What Ren Xiaosu didn’t tell Yan Liuyuan was that for some reason after possessing his ability, when tossing and turning one night, he had also longed for the bigger world outside.

The town was too small, so small that he could see the end of it at a glance when he stood on a high place, so small that he could hear the voice of a widow scolding hooligans in the west when he was in the east side of the town.

He had also wanted to go out and take a look.

The only thing that Ren Xiaosu was worried about now was what to do if he left the safety of Xiaoyu and Yan Liuyuan.

If Zhang Jinglin did not promise Sister Xiaoyu and Yan Liuyuan boarding, then Ren Xiaosu could not follow the band in any way.

“It seems like you have a number in your own heart, you let your sister Xiaoyu and Liuyuan board over at night, I will clean up the house for the two of them,” Zhang Jinglin nodded, in the wilderness, Zhang Jinglin felt that the people in the entire market town were not more experienced than Ren Xiaosu, so he, the school teacher, saw that the other party had his own backbone, so he didn’t say anything.

Ren Xiaosu was relieved to see Zhang Jinglin agree, “Sir, I have 5000 yuan saved recently here you take it, just consider it as the boarding fee for Sister Xiaoyu and Yan Liuyuan.”

“Take it back,” Zhang Jinglin shook his head and said, “I’m a gentleman of the academy, I only charge tuition.”

“Don’t excuse yourself, sir, it’s good to take it to buy some cigarettes,” said Ren Xiaosu.

Zhang Jinglin hesitated for a moment, “Ahem, then I’ll charge a thousand, just as rent.”

Ren Xiaosu did not dwell on it, immediately gave Zhang Jinglin point a thousand out, he is usually really stingy, but he has never been in the big things on the grind, should give Yan six yuan to spend the money Ren Xiaosu never hesitate.

The rest of the four thousand, Ren Xiaosu intends to directly hand over to Xiaoyu sister.

This money can not be given to Yan Liuyuan, in case Xiaoyu sister has any thoughts about this money, the big deal is to take the money and walk away, but will not have any bad intentions towards Yan Liuyuan.

But if the money is on Yan Liuyuan’s person, then Yan Liuyuan’s safety will be threatened.

At this time, Ren Xiaosu still retained a trace of defense against Sister Xiaoyu, this kind of thinking may be wrong, a little bit sorry for Sister Xiaoyu, but this must be the least likely to leave any regret and pain in the choice.

To be honest, Ren Xiaosu still felt that their time with Sister Xiaoyu was too short, not that he now suspected that Sister Xiaoyu had any agenda.

It was just that he had struggled hard to survive for so long in this wasteland, every day of his life was fought for with his own hands, and every step seemed to take the ground out of blood.

With a life like this, how could he easily entrust his fate to someone he had only known for a few days?

Ren Xiaosu brought Yan Liuyuan back to the clinic to pack up his things, he did not expect to just get a “new home” will be idle again, Wang Fugui said next to him, “Don’t worry, this courtyard I will keep an eye on it for you, and will definitely not let anyone else live in it.”

“OK, thanks in advance,” said Ren Xiaosu.

“In fact, you don’t have to let them live in the academy ah, there is me in it what are you afraid of,” Wang Fugui laughed.

“I’m not even guarding against you,” Ren Xiaosu ruthlessly rejected Wang Fugui’s proposal, in this market town, only the schoolhouse is the safest place.

Wang Fugui is not angry, he knows what kind of person Ren Xiaosu is, so Ren Xiaosu is even defending him together that is expected.

Sister Xiaoyu and Yan Liuyuan didn’t say anything the whole time, they just stuffed their heads and packed up their things until everything was packed up, Yan Liuyuan asked in a low voice, “Can’t we not go?”

“I’ll be back, that road isn’t dangerous as long as you take it right, if it’s really dangerous I’ll leave them behind and run back,” Ren Xiaosu said, he didn’t answer Yan Liuyuan’s question, instead he directly shoved all the money to Sister Xiaoyu, “I don’t have anywhere to spend money on going to the wilderness anyway, you can keep this money. ”

“Well,” Sister Xiaoyu agreed, “You bring more dry food, it’s too hard to rely on luck to find food on the wilderness.”

“No need,” Ren Xiaosu shook her head, “If we don’t consider taste and tolerance, as long as we get past the dozens of kilometers ahead, food is still easy to find.”

However, Sister Xiaoyu’s words reminded Ren Xiaosu, since he could take the pill bottle back into his mind palace at any time, could he do so with other things?

Since the pill bottles were real existence objects with mass, that meant that the palace was also a strange space ah.

If this is really the case, Ren Xiaosu would like to sneak the well in the market town away, after all, the water source outside does make people feel uneasy about drinking it.

The so-called well away from home, probably this is the meaning of it?

Thinking of this Ren Xiaosu secretly tried to hand a piece of the nest to be organized into the palace, the results of the next moment the magical thing happened: the nest did not move ……

The palace issued a sound: “Did not obtain the authority to accept.”

Ren Xiaosu froze for a moment, it turned out that it was really possible to stow things into the palace, it was just that he didn’t have this qualification yet!

He asked in his head, “By what can I obtain the permission to stow?”

“No permission to answer,” the palace fell silent and did not answer Ren Xiaosu’s question.

Ren Xiaosu suddenly felt that this palace did not seem to have a consciousness of its own, it was just issuing a specific task to Ren Xiaosu based on some kind of logic, and its role …… seemed to be merely to guide Ren Xiaosu in the direction of his behavior.

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Ren Xiaosu placed Sister Xiaoyu and Yan Liuyuan in the school hall and then turned around and left without hesitation, Sister Xiaoyu and Yan Liuyuan stood at the door of the school hall and looked at Ren Xiaosu’s back as he left in the night, Yan Liuyuan suddenly asked, “Sister Xiaoyu in fact, you know why he gave all of the money to you, right?”

“Uh-huh,” Sister Xiaoyu answered calmly.

“Then would you blame him?” Yan Liu Yuan looked at Sister Xiaoyu.

“No,” Sister Xiaoyu smiled.

Ren Xiaosu walked far away before he finally looked back in the direction of the academy, when the sky above the dome of the sky was vast and the stars were like a sea.

He turned around and walked firmly towards the clinic to greet the guests that would be arriving.

Often people look back at the moment in their lives and realize that maybe it was just a small decision made at a certain time, but that could have been the fork in the road where fate changed dramatically.

To the left or to the right are in their own thoughts, and then made the decision to run to the unknown future without hesitation.

At that time, I thought it was just an ordinary day in my life.