Gradually, Yuan Chuyi, who was driving, also noticed something was wrong. He looked at Zheng Shuang, who was covering her ears, through the rearview mirror, coughed twice, and asked, "Is it that bad? Why did you hide in the back?"
Zheng Shuang smiled and said, "It's not just that it sounds bad, it sounds extremely bad."
"Alright, I'm not singing anymore," Yuan Chuyi said, pretending to be angry.
Zheng Shuang said in a coquettish tone, "Okay, don't be angry anymore. Why don't you learn from me how you used to work?"
Yuan Chuyi said indignantly, "What's there to say? I'm just a lowly employee, and your Sister Yan is a capitalist. It's that simple."
Zheng Shuang looked very interested and said, "Tell me quickly, what's the story of the junior employee and the domineering female CEO?"
As the vehicle moved along, bursts of laughter occasionally rang out inside the base vehicle, and time flew by.
Zheng Shuang pointed to the intersection not far ahead and said, "Brother Yuan, turn left onto the road ahead and get on the highway. After getting on the highway, it will take about two hours to reach Shangzhi County."
But just as the vehicle rounded a bend, a row of footprints the size of basketballs was spotted by the sharp-eyed Yuan Chuyi.
He carefully parked the car on the side of the road and said to Zheng Shuang, "Let's get out and take a look."
A row of animal footprints was clearly visible on the snow, which was several centimeters thick, by the roadside.
After observing, Zheng Shuang asked, "Are these elephant footprints?"
As Yuan Chu walked, he said, "There are no elephants in the Northeast, unless they escaped from a zoo."
Yuan Chuyi looked at the footprints, which led straight to a distant mountain. He turned to Zheng Shuang and said, "Let's go. Perhaps there's no one left in this area."
Zheng Shuang looked at Yuan Chuyi with a puzzled expression and asked, "Did you discover something?"
"If I'm not mistaken, those footprints belong to a tiger, and a mutated one at that. Judging from the size of the footprints, this tiger is at least seven meters long, and when it stands up, it can touch the height of a three-story building."
Zheng Shuang opened her mouth slightly and said, "It's so big, so you mean the whole village was eaten by tigers?"
Yuan Chu nodded and said, "It's not impossible."
Just as the two returned to the base vehicle, a gurgling sound came from Zheng Shuang's stomach.
Yuan Chuyi looked at the embarrassed Zheng Shuang and said, "Why didn't you say you were hungry earlier?"
Zheng Shuang patted her full stomach and said, "Now I feel better, we can go."
Because the highways were covered in snow, the two did not arrive in Shangzhi County until dark.
Zheng Shuang looked at the three long-unseen characters of Shangzhi County through the moonlight, feeling excited but also worried about news of her mother.
As she lived in the apocalypse for longer, Zheng Shuang had long since given up hope that her mother was still alive. However, now that she was in Shangzhi County, she still held onto a sliver of hope.
Just as Zheng Shuang was trying to figure out the direction, a series of roars came from a gas station not far away.
Just as Yuan Chu got out of the car and was about to launch an attack, he heard Zheng Shuang's voice from behind: "Wait for Brother Yuan, let me do it."
Zheng Shuang easily and swiftly dispatched the dozen or so ordinary zombies.
Yuan Chuyi looked at the bright car headlights and said to Zheng Shuang, "Now that we're in the county town, I think we shouldn't be too conspicuous. We're here to find someone, and being too high-profile might be detrimental to our search."
After getting out of the car, Yuan Chu put away the base vehicle and took out an ordinary off-road vehicle from his spatial storage and started it up.
Yuan Chuyi said, "Our first step now is to find the survivors, and then find out the current power distribution in the county, or where the survivor camp is. Let's go to your house first."
The vehicle drove along without seeing a single survivor, but encountered quite a few zombies of all sizes.
Looking at the home she had lived in for six or seven years, Zheng Shuang couldn't help but shed tears.
Yuan Chuyi gently patted her shoulder and said, "Let's go, let's go up and take a look."
Zheng Shuang stared in surprise at Yuan Chuyi, who was fiddling with the iron wire in the lock. A moment later, with a soft "click," the door was opened by Yuan Chuyi.
Looking at the furnishings of the house she remembered, Zheng Shuang's tears fell one by one.
After inspecting every corner, Zheng Shuang plopped down on the sofa in the living room.
Yuan Chuyi, however, advised, "I think your mother left at the beginning of the apocalypse." As she spoke, she pointed to a cell phone on the coffee table.
Distracted, Zheng Shuang then noticed the phone and eagerly picked it up to turn it on.
Yuan Chuyi took out a power bank and charging cable from his space and handed them to Zheng Shuang, saying, "It's been months since the apocalypse, and my phone has been out of power for a long time."
Zheng Shuang anxiously plugged in her phone and turned it on, then opened her mother's phone. Seeing the rows of missed calls, tears streamed down her face again.
Yuan Chuyi took the phone and fiddled with it by himself. Suddenly, he asked, "Who is the person whose last four digits are 0810?"
Zheng Shuang looked at Yuan Chuyi with a puzzled expression.
Yuan Chuyi pointed to the phone's call log and said, "Look at the call log time for this number 0810."
Zheng Shuang suddenly said, "This is the first day of heavy rain in the apocalypse."
Yuan Chu nodded and said, "This is the person your mother spoke to last. Do you know who this person is?"
Zheng Shuang said, "I don't know who it is, but August 10th is my mother's birthday, so maybe I can guess who it is."
She glanced at Yuan Chuyi and continued, "He might be my mom's first boyfriend."
Yuan Chuyi said, "I think it's most likely that they're together. There should still be missed calls from him in your mother's shop. Given their relationship, do you know where he lives?"
Zheng Shuang shook her head and said, "I don't know exactly where he lives, but I do know that he is also in Shangzhi, and his name is Fang Jianjun."
"That makes things easier. Let's go out and inquire again tomorrow. At least we have a direction now."
As he spoke, he took out an electric stove from his spatial storage and plugged it into his power bank.
As the room temperature gradually rose, Zheng Shuang took off her coat and said, "Stay at my place tonight, and we'll go out to search first thing tomorrow morning."
The soft moonlight shone into the small room, and slowly an invisible atmosphere began to form between the two of them.
Zheng Shuang clutched the hem of her clothes and asked hesitantly, "I heard from Sister Yan that you can only develop skills by doing that kind of thing, is that true?"
Yuan Chuyi was about to deny it, but then he thought that with this speed of development and Tang Yan's attitude, Zheng Shuang would be his person sooner or later, so he simply said "Hmm..."
Zheng Shuang whispered, "I'm going to take a shower."
Yuan Chuyi was about to stop her and suggest that they take a shower in the base vehicle when she remembered that the three women had recently stored a lot of hot water and some essential items for women in their spaces, so she didn't stop her.
Soon after, the sound of washing and scrubbing water came from the bathroom.
Then, Zheng Shuang, wearing a leopard print top and black stockings, appeared at the bedroom door.
Yuan Chuyi, who had just taken a sip of water, spat it out when she saw Zheng Shuang's outfit.
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