Chapter 233 Staying Temporarily

Song Hongmu didn't know why Lu Xingtang did this, but he refused: "We are a group and cannot be separated! I have been separated from my family for ten years, and these few days are not a big deal! If there is something to be resolved, let's resolve it and leave together! We will never separate!" Unless a natural disaster forces them to separate.

"There must be many survivors in FJ Province. If we're unlucky, we might never come back. Then all these supplies will be given away for nothing. I don't want to waste them! So, Tangtang, let's not separate!"

Song Hongmu insisted, and others disagreed. If they separated during the apocalypse, it was very likely that they would really separate.

Lu Xingtang had no choice but to agree to let them all stay until she had resolved the matter and then leave together.

When the villagers knew they were going to stay, they were very frightened, fearing that Lu Xingtang would cause trouble for them. Lu Xingtang asked them to go back and not stay and disturb their rest.

Everyone took turns to rest. During the rest time, Lu Xingtang and Ji Yanmo left for a while, and asked Su Cheng to keep an eye on everyone and take good protection. After all, this was an unfamiliar area and they still had so many supplies.

Su Cheng and the others looked at Lu Xingtang and Ji Yanmo as they left in confusion: "What does Tangtang have to do? Why didn't you react at all before?"

"It's not that she didn't react. She reacted when she heard the name Xie Zhenchuan. So who is Xie Zhenchuan?" Su Cheng told them that Lu Xingtang was very angry when she heard the name Xie Zhenchuan because Xie Zhenchuan had bullied her. Because her child's name was the same as Xie Zhenchuan, she suddenly remembered the past.

"Before the apocalypse, Tangtang was bullied by many people. Xie Zhenchuan must have bullied Tangtang the worst. That's why, even after ten years since the apocalypse, he's still angry when he hears someone with the same name."

"It's all our fault for being incompetent and failing to protect Tangtang!" At school, they have tried very hard to protect Tangtang and do not allow anyone to bully Tangtang. Because of Tangtang's musical ability and gentle personality, like a dodder, many people like her very much and are afraid of crushing this porcelain doll.

Su Cheng chatted with the loyal dog assistant and the fox special assistant for a while. Everyone remembered meeting someone with the surname Xie, but they had never heard of the name Xie Zhenchuan.

Ji Yanmo took Lu Xingtang away from everyone's sight, then quietly returned to the village and went to the woman's house.

When the woman returned home, she put the child to bed, and went to another room, hugged her pillow and cried loudly, crying very miserably and heartbroken.

Lu Xingtang and Ji Yanmo ignored the woman, gently pushed open the door, and looked at the little Xie Zhenchuan who was sleeping soundly. Xie Zhenchuan was very thin, with dark skin and no flesh at all. Lu Xingtang reached out and gently picked up the child. Then they both returned to the space and came to the space hospital. Lu Xingtang examined the child for a while, and found nothing except weak spleen and stomach, lack of qi and blood, and malnutrition.

They couldn't prove that the child was Xie Zhenchuan himself!

"Amo, it's better to kill him by mistake than to let him go. Just kill him!" Lu Xingtang's words were very cruel, but his tone was full of uncertainty. After all, this was a three-month-old child and was very innocent.

Ji Yanmo lowered his head and looked at the child who was sleeping soundly. "Wait a moment!" Ji Yanmo didn't want Lu Xingtang to feel guilty. "Wait for a while. If we are sure that this is Xie Zhenchuan, we will kill him!" Before it is confirmed, let him live.

Lu Xingtang gritted his teeth and said, "Then wait for a while!" He quickly sent the child out of the space and put him back on the bed. The woman was still crying. Lu Xingtang and Ji Yanmo left quietly and the woman did not notice.

After Lu Xingtang and Ji Yanmo came out of the woman's house, they wandered around the village. When the villagers saw them, they were so scared that they quickly hid in their homes and closed the doors.

Lu Xingtang and Ji Yanmo didn't take it to heart at all. From that day on, they temporarily lived in the village, waiting to see if the child would be adopted by GJ. They also asked Su Cheng and others to secretly build good relationships with the people in the village and inquire about FJ's situation and the situation of the Haicheng base.

Unfortunately, the villagers didn't dare to talk to them and just wanted them to leave quickly.

On June 1st, Lu Xingtang heard a woman crying and got out of the car. He saw the woman running towards them with the child in her arms. "Please help me check on the child! He's dead! He's dead!"

"Dead?" Lu Xingtang was shocked and immediately took the initiative to check the child. The child was indeed dead, starved to death. The little body was stiff and it was unknown how long he had been dead.

So this child just has the same name and surname as Xie Zhenchuan, and is not the Xie Zhenchuan they are looking for?

"I'm sorry, the child is gone." Lu Xingtang returned the child to the woman. The woman hugged the child and cried for a long time before she stopped: "I knew I couldn't support the child. I'm incompetent and useless. Husband, I'm sorry..." The woman went home weakly holding the child.

Since the child died, Lu Xingtang didn't plan to stay any longer and decided to leave the next day.

It took them another three days to reach Song Hongmu's hometown, but they didn't meet any family members. His home was in an ancient town by the sea. The town was full of dried silt, and many parts of the town had collapsed. There was no one alive in the town, which made Song Hongmu feel a little depressed.

"We live by the sea. The Fucheng base was destroyed by the backflow of river water. The backflow of seawater will also destroy our town. My family is definitely gone!" Song Hongmu had never held much hope and was feeling a little sad and depressed. He quickly cheered up: "This is good, it's better than turning into a biped!"

Lu Xingtang patted Song Hongmu on the shoulder and said, "I think this ancient town is well-maintained. Let's stay here for a while. We've been traveling a lot and it's very tiring. We've had enough rest. Let's discuss whether to stay or go to the Haicheng base."

Song Hongmu knew that Lu Xingtang and the others just wanted him to stay in his hometown for a few more days. Otherwise, they wouldn't have entered FJ Province and come to his hometown. "I'm sorry to bother you, but I learned fishing from my father and grandfather when I was a child. After we settle down, I'll take you fishing."

So everyone drove to Song Hongmu's house, fetched water, cleaned the house, had a simple dinner, and chose a larger room. With Lu Xingtang and Ji Yanmo as the center line, everyone separated the men and women and slept together. It was quite a feeling.

The next morning, everyone got up very early and the girls were forced to stay behind to make breakfast because the tide rose at 1:36 am and receded at 7:46 am.

Song Hongmu said that after the tide receded, there would be a lot of sea fish on the beach, such as oysters, ground bream, abalone, yellow croaker, white eel, clams, etc. When it came to seafood, everyone's eyes lit up. Except for Lu Xingtang and Ji Yanmo, who had stocked up in advance due to space reasons and could eat seafood, they hadn't eaten seafood since the apocalypse broke out and wanted to go to the sea.

(End of this chapter)