Chapter 304: The Last White Rabbit Candy
After throwing the woman with a broken neck aside, the man turned his stiff body and stared at the girl curled up in the corner with his eyes as light as moonlight.
Being stared at by his empty eyes, the girl's body trembled even more violently. She subconsciously picked up a stone at hand and pointed it at him: "No, don't come over... Woo..."
She bit her lip tightly, trying not to appear too cowardly, as she forced herself to swallow back her whimper of fear.
She was so unlucky. After returning to the Zhang family, she was tortured and harassed. After finally diverting their attention from her, she was captured and brought to a place like this. She had to face this monster that she didn't know whether it was a human or a zombie...
After almost eating, the man walked around the bloodstains on the ground and came to the girl. In her frightened eyes, he reached out and lifted her up by the clothes on the back of her neck.
He moved quickly and reached the cabin in a flash and threw the man in.
He...he doesn't eat her?
Falling to the ground, the girl turned around in shock, and the heavy wooden door behind her slammed shut, blocking out the last ray of light.
He locked her up here? Why didn't he just eat her? He couldn't... couldn't he be hoarding food?
Damn it, I must find a chance to escape and can’t just sit there and wait to die!
…
After hearing the news of his sister's disappearance, Shi Yuzhi remembered what she had said to him in the evening and hurried to the garden.
The nobleman who lived in the cabin had gone out to do some business. The four men who were responsible for feeding him stood beside the woman's stiff body, and they did not come back to their senses for a long time.
Wasn't that the little girl from the Zhang family that they threw in? How did it become...
"Yu Jiao!"
A cry of surprise came from behind the four people, and before they could turn around, they were pushed away by the person who came.
Shi Yuji staggered to her sister and hugged her.
"Why are you here? Who allowed you to come in like this? You idiot!"
The man cursed while checking his sister's breath and pulse. After making sure that she was really dead, he leaned over her and burst into tears.
…
After walking for a day, we found a house to stop and rest in the evening.
Jiang Ran simply fried three dishes and called the two people at the door to come in and eat.
Huo Lingyin was already starving. Upon hearing this, she strode into the living room and stood by the dining table: "Finally, we can have dinner. I was starving."
"You haven't starved to death yet." Jiang Ran handed her the bowl of rice and mocked her, "You ate three pieces of bread at noon!"
Huo Lingyin curled her lips: "I am a person with special abilities, and my physical strength is depleted quickly."
Jiang Ran didn't bother to pay attention to her. He looked up at Si Xu who was standing still at the door: "Si Xu, is there something going on outside?"
The young man turned around.
Against the light, Jiang Ran couldn't see the expression on his face for a moment.
When he walked to the table and sat down, his expression was as cold as ever.
"What's wrong?" Huo Lingyin knew what he was looking at. "Is it still wrong?"
Jiang Ran picked up a piece of his favorite spareribs for the young man and asked in confusion: "What's wrong?"
"He kept saying something was wrong today." Huo Lingyin tapped Si Xu with her chopsticks. "I checked around, and there's nothing wrong."
There's nothing wrong with the surroundings, so the problem is with the road they're walking on. Jiang Ran looked at Si Xu: "Si Xu?"
"I don't know." The man showed a rare confused expression, "I just feel... very strange." But he couldn't tell what was strange exactly.
"I always feel like there's something watching us from the dark."
His experience in the laboratory had trained his intuition to be as sharp as a wild animal. If he said something was wrong, then something must have gone wrong.
Jiang Ran said: "How about we continue our journey after dinner?"
There was something wrong with this place, so they left first as a courtesy.
"No need." Si Xu gave the girl a soothing look. "It's even more dangerous to travel at night. Let's rest here and set off early tomorrow morning."
Driving at night and attracting hordes of zombies or mutated plants is also a hassle. Moreover, they have been walking for a whole day and it is time to stop and rest.
…
Because there were only three of them, they did not go back to their rooms, but gathered in the living room to rest.
The shifts are still divided into the first and second half of the night. Si Xu guards the first half of the night, and the two girls guard the second half of the night.
As Huo Lingyin curled up on the sofa and yawned, she heard the man dragging the little girl to express his dissatisfaction: "Jiang Ran, why don't you keep watch with me?"
The girl patiently comforted him: "You are so capable, I am relieved - Huo Lingyin is a girl, it would be pitiful to have to keep watch alone at night."
"Isn't it pitiful that I'm alone?" He tried to play the victim.
Jiang Ran laughed: "Am I not right next to you?" Why are you alone?
"But I want to keep watch with you." He failed to act pitiful, so he tried to act cute instead, "Jiang Ran..."
She was getting more and more helpless with him: "Okay, you keep watch and I'll accompany you, okay?"
He was still dissatisfied, but he also knew how to considerately let her rest: "You can sleep here." He patted the sofa beside him, "I can use my legs as a pillow for you."
Jiang Ran lay down as he was told: "Thank you, Si Xu."
"Hmm." The man paused and muttered softly, "It would be better if she wasn't here... Hmm."
This "she" is Huo Lingyin, who is as quiet as a chicken.
Huo Lingyin, who was almost jealous of the two, said: "..." Bastards! If there was only one car, she would have parted ways with these two people!
…
The little girl rested her head on his legs and tossed and turned restlessly.
Thinking she wasn't sleepy for the time being, Si Xu took out a White Rabbit candy from his space and said, "Here, dessert."
Jiang Ran, who hadn't eaten White Rabbit Candy for a long time, was stunned when he saw the familiar wrapping paper.
For some reason, her eyes suddenly turned red.
"Jiang Ran?"
"...I don't want to eat it anymore." She dodged his hand, turned sideways and didn't look at the candy in his hand, muttering, "Si Xu, I don't want to eat White Rabbit anymore."
Without asking her why she suddenly changed her mind, Si Xu put away her big white rabbit, put one hand on the girl's head, and whispered, "Go to sleep."
Jiang Ran closed his eyes.
After a moment's silence, she said in a hoarse voice, "Si Xu, I will send him back to Xiling and bury him with my mother in Jiangning."
Jiangning is his former residence and also where she lived since childhood.
Fallen leaves return to their roots, and returning there is a perfect end to his life full of suffering.
…
The moonlight is cool and the breeze is gentle.
During curfew, the entire Yancheng base fell into darkness.
Chen Yao was flipping through the book in her hand by candlelight. When she heard the footsteps gradually becoming clearer in the corridor, she pursed her lips and looked up at the door.
The man knocked on the door, and without waiting for her to respond, he pushed it open and walked in.
"Haven't you rested yet?" His tone was very natural, as if the two of them were old friends, familiar and intimate.
It had been a while since I last saw him. Shen Yao put down the book and stood up: "Get ready for bed."
"Oh." He put down the thing in his hand, "I just came back from the Dongchao base and brought this for you."
What he placed on the table was a bunch of lush green jasmine flowers, the white buds emitting a refreshing fragrance.
Unexpectedly, he actually went to the Dongchao base. Shen Yao didn't know how to respond, so she could only say dryly: "Thank you, Qin Huai."
"You're welcome." The man responded with a smile, his light golden eyes staring at her, and he smiled softly, "Chen Yao, I have good news for you."
"What?"
The young man lazily leaned against the table and said word by word: "Si Xu and Jiang Ran got the virus vaccine left by Jiang Yize."
(End of this chapter)
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