Cheng Zhen was usually cold and hard, but he was inexplicably vulnerable in front of her. He unconsciously revealed a sorrowful expression and said, "Old Chen is dead."
"Dead?"
Jiang Wan was very surprised, "How could that be?"
She clearly saw that Old Chen seemed to be in good condition. Although he fell into the abyss, Cheng Zhen rescued him in time. He couldn't have bumped or hurt himself anywhere. How could he suddenly die?
Let alone Cheng Zhen, even Jiang Wan couldn't accept it for a while.
"You know that none of the battalion commanders in the three major military regions have superpowers, right?"
Cheng Zhen had a lot on her mind and wanted to confide in someone. "So Old Chen hid his superpower, but he still had a backup plan. After he found out that my superpower was a copy, he let me copy his superpower."
“Over the years, he has never used his superpowers, so naturally he doesn’t need crystals.”
"But this time, almost half of the survivors in the safe zone were his doing..."
He couldn't continue after that.
However, Jiang Wan realized that Old Chen had severely overdrawn his superpowers this time, directly sacrificing his own life.
Jiang Wan really wanted to ask, was it worth it?
Cheng Zhen wiped his face with his large hand and said, "Are you also thinking that it's not worth it?"
Jiang Wan remained silent. The man was already dead; why rub salt into his wounds?
"He has cancer."
Cheng Zhen's eyes showed pain, "I didn't even know! I only found out just now! His life was already on a countdown!"
That's why he overdraws his superpowers and is willing to risk his limited life to save more people!
Jiang Wan admired him greatly. Old Chen was a true man who loved the people like his own children. Even Lord Bi, who had successfully left the earthquake zone, couldn't compare to him by a fraction.
The two sat in a haphazardly arranged off-road oxygen storage vehicle. The vehicle was silent for a moment, except for the little Mobo and little Mobi slowly flying around inside, making "poof" sounds.
After Cheng Zhen finished speaking, he was still very depressed. Old Chen was both his mentor and friend, but he never expected that Old Chen would leave so suddenly.
The car sped through the turbulent ruins, the body jolted, and a dull thud came from the trunk.
Jiang Wan looked at Cheng Zhen with surprise and said, "I'm going to take him to the safe zone to properly handle his affairs after he's gone."
In an oxygen-deficient post-apocalyptic world, if corpses are left unattended, they are very likely to turn into zombies.
He is Lao Chen, and Cheng Zhen will not allow such a thing to happen.
Even in an apocalyptic world lacking oxygen, or in the event of a natural disaster like an earthquake, Old Chen deserves a proper burial.
Jiang Wan suddenly asked, "That Yu Fen..."
She had always found Yu Fen's feelings for Lao Chen strange, and now that Lao Chen had suddenly died, she could easily imagine how devastated Yu Fen must be.
However, she couldn't understand why. If he was a talent scout, shouldn't Yu Fen's talent scout be Cheng Zhen?
Cheng Zhen paused for a moment, then sighed: "Yu Fen is Old Chen's only son."
"Then why does he have the surname Yu?"
It's truly a case of one surname leading to another astray. One is surnamed Yu, the other Chen; who would have thought they were father and son?
"Old Chen loves his wife very much, so he let his son take his sister-in-law's surname."
Jiang Wan was quite shocked by the love between Old Chen and his wife. Just as she was about to say something, she turned around and saw that he had fallen forward headfirst, his eyes closed, and he had fainted!
Just thinking about how Old Chen had died from exhaustion of his superpowers, Jiang Wan's heart couldn't help but race!
She rushed over to him across the control panel and slapped his face hard: "Cheng Zhen! What's wrong with you?! Wake up!"
No matter how hard she tried, Cheng Zhen didn't react at all, letting her knead and shape him as she pleased.
Thinking of a certain possibility, Jiang Wan couldn't help but hold her breath and reach out to touch his nose; there was a warm breath!
Jiang Wan breathed a sigh of relief. It's good that he's alive!
It should be like Jiang Xiaoxin last time, after overusing her superpowers, she fell into a deep sleep to repair herself, right?
He's in this state, and Jiang Wan can't just leave him like this, but returning to Xiangcheng is impossible; the earthquakes there are intensifying. But they can keep moving forward…
Along the way, there were countless mutated plants and zombies, and it was completely impossible for her to handle them all by herself!
After much thought, Jiang Wan decided to remain unchanged and wait for him to wake up. At least the place where he had chosen to park his car had no mutated plants and no zombies attacking for the time being.
She took out all nine "Potato Shooter" seeds from her spatial storage and planted them around the oxygen storage vehicle, along with the "Potato Shooter" seeds that had already been planted in the pot.
In order to be reusable and move around anytime, Jiang Wan found empty flower pots in the tree hole space and planted them all in the pots.
Worried that the car would be cold, she brought out a down comforter to cover him, placed the solar generator on the roof, connected a heater to the car, and then connected an induction cooker to boil water and cook porridge. She made a fragrant seafood and vegetable porridge, cooked until it was soft and melted in his mouth, and then put it all into the tree hole space.
After doing all this, it was already dark outside without me even realizing it.
But Cheng Zhen still showed no signs of waking up. The car was pitch black, so Jiang Wan connected an incandescent light and hung it in the corner of the roof for illumination.
After finishing all that, she finally breathed a sigh of relief and was about to sit down and have something to eat when she suddenly looked up and saw a face lying outside the window. The face had sunken eyes, dull pupils, and a pale complexion. The face was wide open, and the person was unconsciously banging on the car window with both hands, making a "thump thump" sound.
We've encountered zombies!
Jiang Wan's heart tightened suddenly; what she feared most had come to pass!
Fortunately, this military off-road vehicle was made of explosion-proof materials, so one or two zombies outside wouldn't pose a significant danger!
Jiang Wan took out a powerful flashlight and shone it around in all directions. She found that there were no other zombies around, and the "potato shooter" in the direction from which the zombie had come was indeed dead!
Beside the flowerpot, there was a zombie corpse.
So, this zombie in front of us can be considered a lucky find?
She didn't think there was any danger and even had the leisure to analyze the situation.
"Knock knock!"
"Bang!"
"Sizzle!"
The sound became increasingly peculiar, and ever closer.
Jiang Wan suddenly stared at the zombie outside the window, her face instantly turning pale and tense.
She turned around sharply to look at the back seat of the car, and there was a corpse just one seat away!
And now, from there came a series of sounds, growing louder and louder, and right before her eyes, a hole was suddenly pierced through the back of the car seat!
Her pupils couldn't help but shrink several times; no matter how much she didn't want to admit it, she had to face reality!
Old Chen's corpse in the trunk has mutated!
"Cheng Zhen!"
Jiang Wan subconsciously called out to Cheng Zhen, but there was no response whatsoever; he was still fast asleep!
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