Chapter 15 A Skill
Some people fall in love at first sight, and some people become close friends once they meet.
Gao Yuan and Luo Xingyu are definitely not just companions who work together to survive, they are definitely more than that.
Gao Yuan and Luo Xingyu naturally became companions of life and death. They were not friends, lovers, or family members, but they both cherished each other to the extreme, and would not hesitate even to say that they were willing to sacrifice themselves for each other, and this was also
It only took a short day.
It might even be that when Gao Yuan handed the box of cans to Luo Xingyu, the two were inseparable.
But Xiang Weiguo is different.
Just one night apart, Gao Yuan and Luo Xingyu became an inseparable whole, but two days after Xiang Weiguo arrived, they were still just neighbors.
In fact, Gao Yuan wanted to develop a closer relationship with Xiang Weiguo, because Xiang Weiguo is indeed a good person, and he is indeed a very great person.
But in the past two days, Xiang Weiguo's attitude has always been aloof from Gao Yuan and Luo Xingyu.
For two days, Xiang Weiguo has been focusing on building his old house, but at night he would rather sleep in the old house without a roof than share a room with Gao Yuan and the others.
When it's time to eat, Xiang Weiguo will also share the wild boar meat with Gao Yuan unceremoniously, but he will take the initiative to cook the meat, but he will basically not talk during the meal. After eating, he will continue
Renovating his old house.
Gao Yuan has not left the shelter in the past two days. He has not even checked his trap because he needs to stay and take care of Luo Xingyu. Then, he will also help Xiang Weiguo with some chores.
But when working together, Xiang Weiguo never had anything to say. Even if Gao Yuan took the initiative to stir up the topic, Xiang Weiguo would remain silent most of the time.
After listening to the radio, Xiang Weiguo seemed to be a completely different person than when he first appeared.
Today is the third day. After covering the windows with plastic sheets, Xiang Weiguo has a simple but complete home.
The plastic sheet was pressed with wooden sticks, and the wooden sticks were fixed with wooden nails. After knocking the last wooden nail into the crack of the stone, Xiang Weiguo breathed a sigh of relief.
He handed the ax in his hand to Gao Yuan and said seriously to Wei Guo: "Thank you for the tool, and thank you for your help."
Gao Yuan did not take the axe. He smiled and said: "I'll give you the axe. How can you live in the mountains without an axe?"
Xiang Weiguo was not polite. He took back his axe, looked at Gao Yuan quietly for a few times and then suddenly said: "The house is repaired, let's start from today."
Gao Yuan was stunned for a moment and said: "Start with what?"
"Start training."
In the past three days, Xiang Weiguo never mentioned anything he wanted to teach Gao Yuan. Even if Gao Yuan asked insinuatingly, he would avoid answering, but now, Xiang Weiguo finally took the initiative to mention it.
"Training, good!"
Xiang Weiguo continued to say calmly: "Xiaoyu is still too weak now, but she is young after all. She will recover quickly if she has enough food to supplement her nutrition. Then you can take her to practice together. In this world, learn more about self-defense."
Things are always good.”
"Thank you, Uncle Xiang, thank you!"
Xiang Weiguo obviously hesitated and then said: "I didn't want to eavesdrop on what you and Xiaoyu said about despair and hope two days ago. I just wanted to borrow some tools from you after I calmed down a little.
So I heard it anyway, and then..."
"What?"
Xiang Weiguo said helplessly: "Despair, as a soldier, I can't play any role in this war. If this is a war, then what is a soldier who has no role?"
Gao Yuan didn't answer, and he couldn't answer either.
Xiang Weiguo sighed lowly and said: "As a soldier, if I can fight with powerful aliens, even if I will die immediately, I will never hesitate at all. However, I am most afraid of
I just don’t know what I can do.”
Gao Yuan whispered: "All we can do now is try our best to survive. Maybe there is really some hope."
He nodded to Wei Guo and said: "Back then, our company commander said that bending the inchworm is to gain trust, and the sting of the dragon and snake is to survive. If you stay alive, you will have hope. This is correct."
Gao Yuan was stunned for a moment and said: "Foodie... what does it mean, I don't understand."
Xiang Weiguo smiled and said: "It's not a foodie, it's an inchworm, a kind of insect. It is said that the inchworm bends its body to move forward, and the dragon and snake hibernate to preserve their lives. This sentence comes from the Yi Zhuan."
Gao Yuan said sincerely: "Uncle Xiang, you are so knowledgeable!"
Xiang Weiguo shook his head and said: "This is what our company commander told me. He is truly knowledgeable and talented. I didn't know what this sentence meant at first. The company commander explained it to me but I didn't remember it at the time.
, Later, when I was recovering from my injuries, I asked someone to look up what it meant, and then I recited it many times before I remembered it. So it’s not that I’m knowledgeable, it’s just that this sentence is very important to me.”
"Why is it important?"
Xiang Weiguo looked at Gao Yuan and whispered: "Because the company commander is dead and I am alive."
Xiang Weiguo, who was lost in memories, looked a little sad.
After a long time, Xiang Weiguo finally looked at Gao Yuan and said softly: "You are different from the young people I have met."
"What's different?"
"You are not that energetic. You think too much, and you are not like a young man. This is not a shortcoming or an advantage. I just mean that you are different from other young people."
"Maybe I'm a little more neurotic." After smiling self-deprecatingly, Gao Yuan said with an embarrassed look: "I have indeed been different from other children since I was a child. I am very contradictory and like to go against others.
When I am optimistic, I am pessimistic, and when others are pessimistic, I am an optimist again.”
Xiang Weiguo said seriously: "When everyone thinks it's okay, you can think there is a risk, but when others fall into hysterical despair because the danger is really coming, you can still remain optimistic. This is just because
You have never been influenced by others. People like you are born to be a consultant."
"Staff officer? I thought you would say a general, or a soldier."
Xiang Weiguo laughed and said: "It is not easy to become a general. Your characteristics are very valuable, but if you can become a general with such characteristics, then becoming a general will be too easy. As for soldiers,
Soldiers only need to obey orders and don't need to think about anything else. It doesn't matter whether their character is pessimistic or optimistic..."
Gao Yuan accompanied Xiang Weiguo and laughed a few times, and then said lightly to Xiang Weiguo: "It's very hard to practice with me. I don't like to give up halfway. If I start teaching you seriously, don't give up halfway.
I won’t do it, so have you made up your mind?”
"Think about it, I don't like to give up halfway."
"Young people are ambitious!"
Xiang Weiguo first gave Gao Yuan a thumbs up, and then patted Gao Yuan's shoulder cordially. But for some reason, when Xiang Weiguo patted Gao Yuan on the shoulder, he suddenly had an ominous premonition.
"First touch your bottom and tell me, what do you know?"
Gao Yuan thought for a long time, and then he said helplessly: "I can make knives, and I have also practiced martial arts, but I joined a martial arts club when I was in college. Well, if it is just skills, then I will follow your requirements.
And standards, I don’t know anything..."
"It's true that you don't know anything, let alone martial arts. When you took action just now, I found that you didn't know how to fight with others at all. I was very curious. Since you are a survivalist, why did you prepare so many things?
But don’t you know how to train your body to be stronger and train yourself to be more powerful?”
Gao Yuan said helplessly: "It's not that I don't want to, it's that I don't have the conditions. Of course I'm also lazy, but I have to go to school. It's impossible to put aside my studies and concentrate on practicing fighting skills. After I graduate, I have to work to make money. I don't even have to eat.
I barely have the time and energy to practice anything else. I’m so exhausted every day. The most I do is run. Compared to my colleagues, I’m pretty self-disciplined.”
He nodded to Weiguo, looked into the distance, then pointed to a tree in the distance and said: "Run over as fast as you can, touch that tree and come back."
Gao Yuan knew this was a test, but he didn't expect the test to start so soon.
"Uh, Uncle Xiang, I suddenly remembered something, that is, I am good at..."
"Don't worry about what you are good at, just finish what I say first! Run as fast as you can, run!"
Gao Yuan was stunned again, then he put down what he was holding and ran towards the tree pointed to Wei Guo as quickly as possible.
Xiang Weiguo told him to run as fast as he could, so Gao Yuan ran as fast as he could in a short sprint. But halfway through, he felt that his legs began to weaken, and his speed naturally slowed down a lot.
By the time he touched the tree and ran back to Xiang Weiguo, Gao Yuan was already out of breath.
Xiang Weiguo made no comment, just looked at Gao Yuan and said with a kind and kind face: "Your performance is very poor, but now you can say what you are good at."
Gao Yuan took a few breaths and said, "Does throwing stones count?"
"Throw stones?" Xiang Weiguo was stunned for a moment, then he frowned and said, "You throw a stone first and let me see."
"Come this way."
Taking Xiang Weiguo to the place where he practiced throwing stones every day, Gao Yuan picked up a stone and threw it towards the target.
The target would fall every time. When Gao Yuan threw the fifth stone, Xiang Weiguo finally stopped.
"Please stop for a moment."
Xiang Weiguo looked at Gao Yuan up and down as if he had seen an alien.
"How's it going? Well, why are you looking at me like that?"
Xiang Weiguo shook his head and said: "It's nothing. You are very good at this skill. It is considered a skill. How long have you practiced it?"
"After hiding in the mountains for nearly two months, I wanted to hit pheasants with stones, so I started practicing."
Xiang Weiguo looked surprised and said: "Two months?"
"It's less than two months, but it's about the same."
Xiang Weiguo took a deep breath, and then he nodded first. After thinking for a moment, he nodded again and said: "Well, it's good. Keep practicing. I have to keep practicing this, but..."
Xiang Weiguo looked at the ground for a few times, then he picked up a stone from the pile of stones that Gao Yuan had picked up, weighed it, threw it away, picked up a smaller stone, weighed it for a few times, and put it in Gao Yuan's hand.
, said: "From now on, you can use this to practice, using stones of similar size and weight."
Gao Yuan took the stone and said curiously: "Why? Is there any difference?"
Xiang Weiguo smiled and said: "This stone weighs the same as an 82 hand grenade. Just practice with this."
"Does this count as throwing a grenade? Although there are no grenades... but that's fine, Uncle Xiang, if I count this as throwing a bomb, how is my level?"
Chapter completed!