Chapter 138 After Tracking
"what ever."
"Who said I followed you? I just happened to be going out, okay?"
Chen Jingan didn't expect that he still wouldn't admit it after he pointed it out. "So where are you going?"
"I...I, my family arranged it. How should I know where to go? I'll go wherever this plane goes!"
"Okay, then let someone else handle it!" Chen Jing'an had no choice but to tell the driver that the new person on the bus had nothing to do with him and asked him to report it.
Ten minutes later, the airport staff on duty came over with a cell phone.
Chen Jing'an looked at the person on duty and said something. Then, the man who had been stubborn since the beginning took the phone reluctantly and went to the corner.
A few minutes later, the other party came back with an expressionless face and stuffed the phone into Chen Jingan's arms. The video call interface showed the couple he had met yesterday.
"Xiao Qi, I'm so sorry that Ah Cheng has caused you trouble."
Chen Jing'an was always polite to his elders. He shook his head and said, "It's nothing. He just quietly followed me. I guess he didn't tell my family. If he went out like that and something happened, it would be hard to explain."
"Yes, yes, it's a good thing you found him." The woman also looked scared. "I just quarreled with him. Even if I want to play with you, you can't just leave without saying anything..."
Chen Jing'an didn't think he was trying to play along. After all, he hadn't said a single kind word to him since they'd met yesterday. But since his elders said so, he just listened. But what Chen Jing'an hadn't anticipated was that his silence would land him in big trouble.
"...He just told me that he wants to see the train, but your uncle and I have other things to do, so we can't go with him. We're also worried about him going alone, so could you please take him with you?"
"Just take him on the train. Don't worry about anything else. We'll send bodyguards over later..."
The woman spoke slowly and gently, just like the kind of female elder Chen Jing'an liked most. So when he came to his senses, he found that she had already nodded.
Since he has agreed, there is nothing he can do. Chen Jing'an can only accept this follower.
He handed the phone to the person on duty who had been waiting for a long time, and said to the yellow-haired man, "I can take you there, but you have to listen to me along the way, understand?"
The other party seemed a little indignant, but the look in his eyes was a little nostalgic, which gave Chen Jing'an goosebumps.
But fortunately, the other party nodded in the end.
Although Chen Jing'an was not sure whether the other party would follow his lead as promised, it was a good thing that the other party was willing to nod.
The Li family seemed to have already communicated with the pilot, and after they agreed, the helicopter took off directly.
Half an hour later, the helicopter landed at the airport opened in the urban area of City A.
Ever since a station was established in the urban area of City A, the scope of the safe zone here has been continuously expanding. The population in the safe zone has also increased, and more supplies are needed. A lot of helicopters need to take off and land every day.
Therefore, in order to reduce the disturbance to urban residents and to make it more convenient for helicopters to take off and land, the rescue team cleared out a nearby school and used the school playground and the roof of the teaching building as a helipad.
He had already memorized the route when he went home. After getting off the plane again, Chen Jing'an took his people and walked directly to the station.
Although the safe zone had been surrounded by iron fences and the people in the safe zone had been screened several times, Chen Jingan and his bodyguards still did not dare to relax for a moment while walking on the road.
Fortunately, I was worried that some people might cause trouble on the road, so I followed them obediently. The journey was easier than expected.
Arriving at the station, Chen Jing'an took out his crystal core and bought tickets for all four of them. After buying tickets for a whole day, his backpack, which had originally been bulging, suddenly became much emptier.
The man who hadn't spoken much along the way glanced at the ticket being stuffed into his hand, raised his head and said, "I was in such a hurry to go out today that I forgot to bring the crystal core. When my bodyguard arrives, I'll cover the tickets for the rest of the trip."
Chen Jing'an glanced at him. Although he didn't care about the two crystal cores because of the relationship between his family and his own, since he said so, Chen Jing'an didn't stop him.
"what ever."
The Li family's assets are no smaller than his own, so naturally they won't be short of a few crystal cores for the younger generation in the family to ride in.
Chen Jing'an didn't care after he said it. He turned around and waited for the train to come. He didn't see the face behind him that puffed up like a pufferfish after hearing what he said.
After boarding the bus, Chen Jing'an found their room with familiarity. The single room had four beds, which the four of them could fill perfectly.
Li Cheng had just put down his bag and was about to take a break when he saw Chen Jing'an leaving with a bodyguard.
He panicked, "Where are you going?"
Chen Jing'an turned around and shook the backpack in his hand, "Saving money? Are you going?"
Although Li Cheng didn't know what they were talking about, he didn't want to be left alone, "I'll go too."
Chen Jing'an didn't know if this was possible. This kid looked like a beloved child, someone who'd been pampered since childhood. He might even be living on the train for the rest of his life, so there was nothing wrong with getting him familiar with the train beforehand. Besides, Chen Jing'an had a feeling this would become his responsibility sooner or later.
After going out and leading the people to the end of the carriage, Chen Jing'an took them directly into a small separate room.
"Have you ever been to a bank? What about an ATM? Have you used it?"
After receiving a positive answer, Chen Jing'an knew that this was a rich second-generation with some life experience, so he continued to speak.
"This place is like a train bank. Since we spend a lot of money on the train and it's inconvenient to carry crystal cores, we have this."
As Chen Jing'an spoke, he poured all the crystal cores in his backpack into the voting slot. Then, a black bracelet fell onto the counter.
He put the bracelet on his hand and showed it to Li Cheng.
"This is like a bank card. The crystal cores you just used are converted into digital data and stored in it. You can use it to buy food in the dining car, buy things from vending machines, and even buy tickets for the next leg of the journey. As long as there's a balance in it, you can buy anything you want. Of course, you can also exchange it for a crystal core when you get off the bus. This thing is linked to your personal identity information, so if someone else picks it up, they can't use it..."
This thing was recently developed by Jiang Qian and the system to facilitate people like Chen Jing'an who live on the train for a long time.
Since the decision was made to move the train stations southward, the construction of stations along the way south can be said to be "advancing by leaps and bounds"!
Unlike the Jiang family who always hesitated for a long time before deciding where the next site would be, since the rescue team took over this matter, the most experienced planning masters in the country were gathered together. Not long after obtaining the right to locate the first site, the locations of the remaining sites were arranged one after another.
Half a month ago, the southernmost train station had reached the south of the Changhe River. Now, the train has set up several stations south of the Changhe River.
The area south of the Changhe River is already home to many rivers, and was severely affected by heavy rains. Although some preparations were made in advance, under the power of nature, those preparations were of little use.
Therefore, compared to the north, the situation in the south was even worse. In addition to the damage caused by floods and mutations, three months ago, a large-scale plague broke out in the south. At that time, Chen Jing'an's fifth brother, Chen Jingming, was going to the Jiangnan region for this matter.
Many people lost their lives as a result of the various disasters that occurred simultaneously, but thanks to the efforts of rescue teams and individuals, some people were lucky enough to survive.
The Jiangnan region boasts numerous waterways, and a dozen coastal cities developed early as ports for foreign trade, reaping significant benefits in the early years. These early-developing cities subsequently spurred rapid development across the entire Jiangnan region, allowing many southern cities, once mere granaries, to forge their own paths through prosperous commerce, even surpassing several major steelmaking hubs in the north.
Although it has been developing business since then, the Jiangnan Plain, as a well-known grain production base in the country, has never forgotten its mission of feeding half of the country's population.
Even because of their developed business, their food production industry is famous all over the world.
Thanks to the country's advance planning, this time, even in the midst of heavy rain and floods, the raw materials and finished products stockpiled by many food production companies were preserved.
At the beginning of the disaster, a large part of this batch of well-preserved supplies became life-saving food distributed to the people.
However, due to transportation difficulties and frequent bird attacks later on, these rescued materials did not fully play their due role until these problems were resolved. They were shipped to various places and most of them could only be stored in local warehouses.
But now, bird repellent has been developed, and trains can now go directly to the south bank of the Changhe River. Most of the original problems have been solved, and the route for transporting materials has also been unblocked.
Because their own warehouse stocks were requisitioned and the rescue team needed insiders to confirm the addresses of all warehouses and factories, the bosses and their families of large and small food, daily necessities and pharmaceutical production companies who were rescued in advance by the rescue team were able to safely pass through the dangerous period and were able to safely leave the already devastated south and embark on the journey north.
Although most of these bosses' businesses are in the south, they also have a lot of assets in the north.
They originally thought that the situation in the north was better than in the south, and that they could rely on their industries in the north and exchange some things to settle down. However, they did not expect to be shocked before they even got off the train.
Most of their properties are still in zombie dens. Although the rescue team has arranged accommodation for them, most of them are in newly cleared areas. Not only are the rooms small, but from time to time they can hear gunshots and roars from zombies outside.
These bosses and their families have always lived a good life. Even though they have suffered a little in the past few months after the incident, that is only compared to their previous lives. The rescue team has already arranged everything for them.
So they couldn't accept, or rather, couldn't bear such living conditions again. In the end, most of these bosses from the south chose to live on the train permanently.
Although the rescue team requisitioned their property in an emergency, it was not free. At least, they were generous in giving them the crystal cores they needed for the ride.
These bosses, both large and small, had plenty of crystal cores and large families, so they all bought single-room tickets after boarding the train. Their generosity was enviable, so Jiang Qian even asked the system to exchange a few more carriages for them to stay in.
【Author’s words】
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The next chapter will be updated at an uncertain time. I will revise this chapter tomorrow.
I wanted to update more this week, because I wrote 30,000 words in advance for the new book I opened last week, and I felt that I was in a better state and felt that I could do it again. But after switching back to this book, I found that my writing state was different from that book.
While writing this book, I still had random thoughts, easily falling back into the negative emotions of the past: sadness, self-blame, depression, guilt, anger, and regret. I felt like I was drowning. But when I was writing that book, I had fewer random thoughts and was in a very positive state. I don't know why. Is it because that book was a story full of warmth? But this book isn't without warmth either. Obviously, I love every story I write.
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