I am the barbarian king

Chapter 342 Meaning
Zhang Fan restrained his expression and didn't say anything.

Seeing Zhang Fan's rare embarrassment, Liu Yining was not worried that Zhang Fan would get angry because of this, but covered his mouth and smiled secretly.

The old man also said with a smile.

"However, you are still kind to us."

Hearing what the old man said, Zhang Fan knew that this small village in a city should be under his jurisdiction at present.

Zhang Fan knew that there were too many ordinary survivors who relied on him to survive, but there was still no disturbance in his heart.

In the beginning, this was just a means to retain outstanding ability users and let them sign a contract with him!
The team has grown to the size it is today, and Zhang Fan no longer knows how many ordinary survivors there are in the team.

Dawn has a special department in charge of them, and Zhang Fan does not need to manage them himself.

As for Liu Yining's main purpose for bringing Zhang Fan here today, Zhang Fan didn't figure it out either.

Liu Yining was still chatting with the old man.

"Abbe, I remember that you don't pray at a fixed time every week? What day is it today? It seems that you were praying just now."

Zhang Fan interrupted and asked.

"Why, do you still have faith?"

The old man raised his head and laughed.

"What belief does not believe! It's the end of the world, who will believe in God!"

Zhang Fan continued to ask, "Seeing what you were talking about in the church just now, Liu Yining said that you were praying, so you couldn't be reciting Buddhist scriptures in the church, right?"

The old man laughed again.

"Prayer is just a way of saying, we are just reporting the situation."

"Report the situation?"

Zhang Fan frowned, unable to understand what the old man was saying.

"Who are you reporting to?"

"Whoever can hear it will report it to him!"

Zhang Fan was still puzzled, but the old man obviously didn't want to continue the topic just now.

Instead, he looked at Liu Yining and said.

"Okay, it's time for me to go play cards with my old friends. The children are probably playing everywhere in the village. If you want to see them, go find them yourself!"

Liu Yining nodded obediently after listening, and then left the church with Zhang Fan.

After Zhang Fan was pulled out of the church, he finally couldn't bear to shake off Liu Yining's hand, and asked.

"No, Liu Yining, what on earth are you bringing me here for?!! Wasting time?"

Liu Yining quickly explained.

"No, Lord Barbarian, I brought you here just to meet the people here."

After finishing speaking, he asked Zhang Fan again.

"You chatted with Uncle Li just now, didn't you find anything?"

Zhang Fan was a little impatient, and replied with a frown.

"It's just a survivor without any ability, and I didn't find anything special!"

Liu Yining said with a smile.

"Don't worry, let's talk to other people, anyway, there is nothing important today, so let's play it!"

Liu Yining spoke lightly, but Zhang Fan didn't want to mess around with Liu Yining anymore.

"No matter how the people here are, what does it have to do with us?"

After speaking, Zhang Fan wanted to go back.

Liu Yining took Zhang Fan's arm forcibly and presumptuously, which was rare!
"No, Lord Barbarian, you have to meet other people to know the answer and meaning of being alive!"

Zhang Fan frowned.

The answer and meaning of fart!
Before Zhang Fan could say anything, Liu Yining dragged Zhang Fan to start walking around the village in the city!
"Lord Barbarian, you may not know it. Counting and checking the health of these ordinary people is also part of my current job. Today, you will be working with me!"

Zhang Fan was even more inexplicable.

"No, Liu Yining, why don't I remember assigning you such a task? How can it be your job to check the health of ordinary people?!?"

Liu Yining couldn't help laughing out loud.

"Master Barbarian, have you forgotten again? We have set up a special department for ordinary survivors. In addition to my duty of being by your side, I also have positions in the ordinary survivor department."

"So, I came out this time with two tasks. In addition to completing the tasks assigned by you, I also have to complete the tasks sent by the camp headquarters!"

"Actually, it's not just me, Xiao Lingwei should also have other tasks like me."

After Liu Yining finished speaking, it was Zhang Fan's turn to be dumbfounded.

He was a little ashamed. The camp had explained these things to him before he set off.

Except for Black Lotus King and Huo Xiaoyu, the team members are directly managed by the captain.

Xiao Lingwei and Liu Yining were the only ones who had other positions in the headquarters.

Since Daiyu is Zhang Fan's personal assistant, naturally she has no other job.

But Xiao Lingwei and Liu Yining...

He had indeed forgotten.

It's also because Xiao Lingwei and Liu Yining didn't show that they have other tasks to do.

After making excuses for himself, Zhang Fan finally agreed to Liu Yining's request.

The two of them seemed to be walking aimlessly in the village in the city, but in fact, Liu Yining knew exactly who and where to look for them.

After passing through countless abandoned small stores and dilapidated houses.

Liu Yining led Zhang Fan around to the back of the church.

As Liu Yining said, next to the church is a small supermarket!

Or, it can also be called a large convenience store!

Above the store door, there are still some dilapidated store signs.

"Limin Grain and Oil Supermarket"

The shutter door of the convenience store was pulled down, and some pits and some blackened stains after being hit by something can still be seen on it!

"I heard from the old people in the village that one day when they came to the supermarket to pick up things, they accidentally made a noise, and the zombies outside the door slammed on the door frantically."

"They almost thought that they would not be able to survive that day, but they didn't expect those zombies to be so stupid. There was a school in the village with an old-fashioned bell, and when the bell rang when the time came, they all rushed towards the school! "

Zhang Fan kept frowning while listening to Xiao Lingwei talking to him.

Couldn't help but complain.

"How do you feel that this is not the same type of zombie as the one I faced at that time!"

Liu Yining also nodded.

"Yes! That's right, I felt the same way when I listened to them. But the people in the village have never seen other zombies, so for them, those stupid zombies are already hell-level horror zombies !"

The corners of Zhang Fan's mouth twitched, but he stopped talking.

Liu Yining led Zhang Fan into a very narrow alley between the supermarket and the church.

The alley was less than half a meter wide, and Zhang Fan had to turn slightly sideways when walking in it.

"Where is this going?"

Liu Yining didn't look back, but replied.

"Go find the children!"

Zhang Fan sighed unhappily.

"Why, are those children you're talking about mouse sons?"

Liu Yining giggled.

"Children, they like to drill these alleys. Didn't you like to play like this when you were young?"

Zhang Fan was at a loss for words.

as a child?
He doesn't remember what it was like when he was a child!
After living two lifetimes, childhood was really too far away for him.

It was so far away that he felt that his entire life began on the day when the end came!

And the previous life was just blank.

Zhang Fan didn't speak, Liu Yining looked back at Zhang Fan, Zhang Fan was lowering his head, his face was full of loneliness.

The alley was deep and narrow, with only a little light coming in.

Liu Yining suddenly felt a strange feeling.

The man behind her.

At this time, it was not the formidable Lord Barbarian, but her peer, Zhang Fan!

Liu Yining suddenly stopped and turned to look at Zhang Fan.

His eyes seemed to see through Zhang Fan!

"how?"

Zhang Fan also stopped and asked.

"Bar... Lord Barbarian King..."

Liu Yining opened her mouth, then suddenly lowered her head and shook her head, and when she raised her head again, her eyes were full of caution.

"Sometimes I feel like you're lonely."

Liu Yining said tentatively.

"That kind of loneliness makes me feel that you don't seem to belong to this apocalypse..."

Zhang Fan was startled...

Seeing the change in Zhang Fan's expression, Liu Yining quickly lowered her head, and turned back into that weak and cowardly girl again.

"Yes... I'm sorry... Lord Barbarian... I'm talking too much..."

Zhang Fan's eyes dimmed again.

Yes, he is the barbarian king.

Liu Yining's boldness today almost made him think that someone around him was going to see through him...

After laughing self-deprecatingly, Zhang Fan said.

"What? At first, he didn't have the guts to pull me out forcefully. Why would he feel discouraged again?"

Liu Yining's face was flushed.

She didn't know what was going on with herself either.

In the past few days by Lord Man Wang's side, it seems that the relationship with Lord Man King has become a little closer.

That's why I dared to make such an outrageous move today.

But just now...

At that moment...

It was as if something woke him up all of a sudden!
Obviously feeling a little bit worse, you can really walk into the heart of the barbarian king...

Just a little bit!

but……

I'm still the one who doesn't have the courage...

Liu Yining lowered her head, feeling desolate in her heart.

"It's okay, thank you."

Zhang Fan sighed lightly.

"I know your intentions today, so let's continue to complete your task."

Zhang Fan thought of the surprise and faint worry in Liu Yining's eyes when he asked Liu Yining the meaning of life today.

She brought herself to this urban village where only the old and the young were left.

Probably to tell myself.

Living is a meaningful thing.

On the way here, in the eyes behind those broken doors and broken windows.

Zhang Fan had vaguely seen the answer.

In the church, in those cloudy but hopeful eyes.

Zhang Fan also realized some truths.

Although this is not enough to offset Zhang Fan's growing sense of boredom recently.

However, it can be regarded as a little consolation.

Old people and children here.

What is the meaning of their life?
Maybe life is meaningless.

But for their lives, those who chose to sacrifice themselves gave meaning to their lives!

Live, no longer just live for yourself.

It is even more for those who died, those who protected themselves!

Sacrifice for them is not a sacrifice in vain, so, be full of hope and work hard to live!

This is the meaning of life for the people here!
Liu Yining still took Zhang Fan to find the children's secret base.

There are a dozen children, the oldest is only a teenager, and the youngest is only four or five years old!

When they saw Liu Yining, they all ran over with a smile and called "Sister Ah Ning".

Liu Yining checked them one by one, and took care of all minor bumps and scratches.

Finally, as if by magic, small biscuits and candies were distributed to each child.

Everyone is laughing.

There is light in everyone's eyes.

In Liu Yining's eyes, Zhang Fan clearly saw a different feeling.

On the way back, Zhang Fan asked Liu Yining.

"Do you like children very much?"

Liu Yining nodded, then shook his head again.

Under Zhang Fan's confused eyes, Liu Yining told Zhang Fan about her past for the first time.

Liu Yining grew up in a small southern village far away from Long'an City.

The town is small and everyone lives close together.

Neighbors are also very close.

Liu Yining had a group of friends when she was a child. Everyone would gather in the small ditch in front of the town to catch shrimps, run around to play ghost hunting, and play hide-and-seek in the evening.

The girls danced rubber bands and threw sandbags, and the boys played cop games and bullfighting.

At dinner time, the old people in the family would stand at their door and call them to go home for dinner!

That's right, there are almost only old people and children in this small village.

And adults, all go out to work to make money.Just to give the children better living conditions and give the old parents a better old age.

Liu Yining has learned from her grandparents since she was a child that parents love themselves and their families, so they endure the sorrow of missing relatives and go to the outside world to work hard.

Not only she knows, but other children in the village also know this truth.

Therefore, even if I lack the company of my parents, fortunately, I have grandparents who love me equally.

Everyone's childhood had a great time!

When Liu Yining came to this urban village for the first time, what she saw were children chasing and running in twos and threes, and old people gathering together to play chess leisurely!
It was clearly the end of the world, but Liu Yining was brought back to that childhood with cicadas singing and frogs singing!
After the end came, Liu Yining was alone in this city with no relatives.

She never dared to think about what would happen in her hometown thousands of miles away.

She couldn't accept the worst outcome she could think of!
Therefore, for so long, Liu Yining has always suppressed her inner guesses, don't think about them!Don't mention it!
But!When she came here, the line of defense in her heart was broken through in an instant!
She thought of her elderly grandparents, her parents she hadn't seen for a long time, her younger brothers and sisters who didn't know much about the world...

They're all in that little village...

The end is coming... who will protect them...

In the past, she didn't dare to think about this question.

But now, she knows.

Someone will protect them...

Even if you sacrifice yourself, you have to exchange for the people you care about to live in this world...

Even if this world is not what it used to be...

The eyes of the children in the villages in the city are full of hope.

Even, they will share their wishes when they grow up with Liu Yining!

The fat little boy is named Yuan Bao, and his wish is to open a bun shop after the end, so that everyone can eat delicious meat buns...

The little girl with dimples on her face is named Qingqing. Her wish is to learn to dance in the future, because she wants to dance on the stage when she grows up and becomes a bride...

(End of this chapter)