After I shared my ideas with Sister Jing and Hu Fei, Sister Jing quickly cooperated with my plan and started packing her things in preparation for departure.

But Hu Fei was stunned and asked in disbelief, "Really? Is that person that powerful?"

I frowned and said, "No matter what, we can't let our guard down. If he really finds us and brings people to surround us, do you think the four of us can beat them? Even if my deduction is wrong, just in case, we can't stay here and wait to die. That's too dangerous."

Hu Fei couldn't persuade me otherwise, so she had to agree and started packing her things.

In less than ten minutes, we grabbed what we needed and came downstairs.

It was quiet downstairs; apart from the sound of the wind and the howls of some nearby zombies, there was no other noise.

Fei Lichao leaned against me, looked around, and said, "There's no one around, let's go."

Hu Fei got on his own Harley and set off first.

The three of us got in the car, and I sat in the driver's seat, following behind Hu Fei's Harley.

Jingjie and Fei Lichao sat in the back seat.

Hu Fei's Harley is very loud, it rattles the streets all the way, and it really annoys me.

I glanced at the dark area behind me in the rearview mirror and saw that apart from some zombies following behind, no one else was coming.

Seeing my actions, Fei Lichao said, "Don't worry, there was no one around when we set off. If there had been, I would have known."

I asked curiously, "It's so dark, you can't see anything at all, how could you know?"

Fei Lichao laughed, but the movement aggravated his wound, causing him to wince in pain and howl, "Damn it, it hurts like hell!"

After he finished speaking, he replied, "How else could I know? Intuition, of course. Back when I was just a lowly soldier, I went to the border with my unit. It was a really chaotic place there. Once a fight broke out, everyone was a suicidal idiot. So I developed an intuition back then. If there's someone in the bushes ahead, I'll definitely know. Because that feeling of being watched by someone is really unpleasant, you know?"

I frowned, not understanding; his intuition seemed too vague.

Seeing that I didn't speak, Fei Lichao continued, "You'll understand intuition once you've experienced more death. When you reach that point, you can understand what the other person is thinking and what they're going to do just by looking at them. That's intuition. Pu Weichao is such a person. He's been in the business world for so long, and he's the best at reading people's expressions."

Speaking of Pu Weichao, I sighed inwardly. If he were around, our lives would probably be a little easier.

Half an hour later, we had arrived at the Honghu District.

The entire Jiajiang area consists of two districts: Xiulin District and Honghu District.

We don't know much about the situation in Honghu District; we've only been there once before.

Hu Fei knew the area well. He came to a relatively secluded street, then drove his Harley directly into the store.

I parked the car outside, and after I got out, Hu Fei took out a flashlight to illuminate everything in the store. After the three of us went inside, we saw him take out two small flashlights from the drawer and hand them to us.

He closed the door on the first floor and said, "Let's go upstairs."

I asked curiously, "Where is this place?"

Hu Fei smiled and said, "It's my own company!"

...

Just an hour after we left, a van and a pickup truck appeared below Lu Jing's safe house.

Three people got out of the car first: Li Ming, Sister Yu, and the injured Zhang Long. In addition to the three of them, several more people got out of the van behind them, as well as quite a few people from the pickup truck. Upon closer inspection, there were more than a dozen people.

Sister Yu asked Zhang Long, "Are you sure this is the place?"

Zhang Long nodded: "This is the place, but I don't know which floor it is. We'll search each floor carefully, and they definitely won't be able to escape!"

They then gave orders to send men up to search, and even those rooms whose doors couldn't be opened were forcibly broken down and searched.

Ten minutes later, all the people who went up to search came down, and one by one they said they had not found any trace of them.

Li Ming looked at Zhang Long and asked, "Could they not be here? Or have you come to the wrong place?"

Zhang Long glared at Li Ming and said angrily, "I can't be wrong, they're definitely here!"

Sister Yu was getting a little impatient and said, "They're definitely not here. Look downstairs, there isn't even a car. How could they be here? I reckon even if they were here, they would have already escaped by now."

Using the flashlight, Zhang Long carefully surveyed the situation. Then, frowning, he ran outside the residential area, looked northeast, and said, "You're right, they've already run away."

Sister Yu snorted coldly, "They ran away, so what? I don't believe they won't come back. When they do, we'll kill them! Let's go back."

...

"Your company!" I exclaimed in surprise.

Sister Jing glanced at the office in front of her, which wasn't very big. There were very few things in the office, just a desk, a few chairs, and a sofa, nothing else.

"This must be your studio, right? You used to be a designer?" Sister Jing asked.

This time it was Hu Fei's turn to be surprised. "Wow! Sister Jing, how did you guess that!"

Sister Jing laughed and said, "I used to do graphic design for a while, but I didn't have much talent and I didn't earn much money, so I quit. I think the decoration here is quite nice; you must have designed it yourself, right?"

Hu Fei laughed and said, "Yes, I designed it. Isn't it beautiful?"

Jingjie said, "It is quite beautiful."

Fei Lichao then remarked, "Looks good my foot! They didn't even paint the walls. Aren't they afraid of hurting their hands?"

"..."

I gave a wry smile and told Fei Lichao to lie down on the sofa and rest.

We were exhausted after a long day, so we ate something quickly and rested. Hu Fei went downstairs to keep an eye on things outside.

In the middle of the night, I went to relieve him.

The next day, as I watched the sun rise in the east, I suddenly remembered the circumstances of Li Qiming's death.

It was early morning when he jumped from upstairs with his dead son in his arms. His body was then devoured by the surrounding zombies.

Just thinking about this makes me feel so suffocated.

I checked the time; it was six in the morning.

Suddenly, footsteps came from upstairs. Sister Jing rushed downstairs and said, "Xiaonan, something bad has happened! Fei Lichao seems to have been infected!"

"What did you say!" I exclaimed in surprise and quickly ran upstairs.

When I got to the sofa, I saw that Fei Lichao was breathing heavily. I unwrapped the gauze on his shoulder and found that there was redness and swelling around his wound, and it seemed to be pus!

(End of this chapter)