In the morning, Zuo Zhi took four of his men to the ruins of Niujia Village, but the place was now deserted and there was nothing but broken bricks and tiles everywhere.
Later, George went to a mountain close to Niujia Village. The five people searched the mountain for most of the day, but they couldn't find where the people from Niujia Village were hiding.
At noon, the few people were tired and hungry, so they picked some wild fruits on the mountain to fill their stomachs, and started looking for people again in the afternoon.
But this mountain is very big, and with only five people searching, the search area is really small. What's more, the mountain they are looking for and the mountain where the villagers of Niujia Village are staying are basically two different mountains.
Although the two mountains are very close to each other, they are not in the same place, so even if Zuo Zhi and his companions find them before dark, it will be in vain!
"Let's go! Let's go back first and go to the nearby mountain tomorrow. I don't believe that these villagers can hide anywhere else!"
Zuo Zhi and his four men picked some wild fruits and took them back to eat in the evening.
It was already dark when they returned to the cave where they lived.
"Team Leader Zuo! Why haven't we started a fire in our cave yet at this late hour?"
The men walking in front discovered something wrong with their cave.
"Everyone, spread out first and slowly walk towards the cave entrance through the surrounding grass."
After Zuo Zhi finished speaking, he also flashed into the dense forest. Something was definitely wrong here today. Not only was it dark and there was no fire in the cave, there was not even anyone coming out to greet him.
The cave was very quiet, and it didn't look like there were a dozen people inside.
Several people carefully touched the entrance of the cave, and Zuo Zhi was the first to discover the two flying swords of Zhong Yeqing. The two swords were now lying alone on the grass at the entrance of the cave.
"Boss's sword! Why is it at the entrance of the cave?"
The men no longer cared to hide and surrounded Zuo Zhi together.
Zuo Zhi frowned, having a bad feeling in his heart.
These two daggers have never left Nakano Aoki. He usually carries them with him when he takes a bath or goes to bed. Now they are just thrown in the bushes, unless the boss... ?
Zuo Zhi at the back didn’t dare to think too much about it. He picked up his dagger and led his men into the cave quickly.
"Boss! Are you in the cave?"
Zuo Zhi called out softly, but no one in the cave responded.
It was pitch black everywhere, and one of the men even accidentally kicked a rock in the cave.
"Light the fire first!" Zuo Zhi suppressed his panic and said to his men around him.
"Yes! Team Leader Zuo!" One of them hurriedly found the flint, and the others squatted down and fetched some hay in the cave to start a fire.
About two minutes later, there was finally light in the cave.
Zuo Zhi and his companions saw three brothers lying on the ground motionless, looking like they were dead.
After checking, it was found that these three brothers had indeed been dead for a long time.
"What should we do, Team Leader Zuo? Someone is attacking here! The other party has a gun. I wonder what happened to the boss?"
Several younger brothers took out their bayonets, and everyone formed a circle, with their eyes wide open, looking around vigilantly.
"Don't be nervous! There's no one here! And the fact that the bodies of Boss and Chen Jie are missing in the cave means they have escaped."
"The fact that the boss can still take that woman Chen Jie with him means that it is not a matter of life and death yet. Light a few more fires, and let's look in the cave to see if there is any message left by the boss?"
"Yes!" The four men hurriedly went outside the cave to pick up some firewood. Soon, they started fires in several corners of the cave.
"Team Leader Zuo! I found something here!"
One of the men discovered that there were traces of branches scratching the sand on the ground, but the cave was too dark to see before. After they stepped on it back and forth, the words could barely be made out.
"Meet at the base!" Zuo Zhi held a torch and squatted on the ground for a long time before finally seeing the words clearly.
"The boss is at our original base, that's great!"
"You two, pick up those scattered radishes on the ground!"
"The other two, put out the fire, and we'll go down the mountain to find the boss!"
Knowing that Zhong Yeqing was fine, Zuo Zhi finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The five people packed up briefly in the cave and walked towards the previous base surrounded by mountains on three sides with torches.
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Since escaping, Nakano Ao has come to their original base.
Except for the dried-up water here, everything else remains the same as it was after the hurricane damage.
Pieces of wood were flying everywhere, and the tattered RV was still there. Nakano Qing didn't dare to stay in a conspicuous place, so he hid in the nearby woods and waited for Zuo Zhi.
Having squatted in the bushes for too long, Nakano Ao gradually relaxed his vigilance and even fell asleep.
So when Zuo Zhi and his group came to the base to look for him, they searched around for a long time but couldn't find him.
"Boss! Where are you? We are coming!"
"Boss! Are you still here?"
Zuo Zhi asked his men to try not to make too much noise, as he didn't know whether it was safe here.
"Zuo Zhi?" Zhongye Qing suddenly woke up from his sleep. The blue sky and white sun above his head had turned into twinkling stars.
"I...how could I fall asleep!"
Nakano Qing found it a little unbelievable. Perhaps he was too tired. That woman was really scary.
It was not until the voices of his men were getting closer that Nakano Qing was sure that Zuo Zhi had really brought people to find him.
"Stop yelling! I'm here!"
In the bushes in front of Zuo Zhi and the others, Zhong Yeqing's pigtails had already fallen apart, and there were still a few weeds in his hair.
"Boss! How are you?"
It was the first time in Zuo Zhi’s life that he saw Nakano Qing in such an embarrassed state. He quickly asked two of his men to help their boss slowly walk out of the bushes.
"You won't die for now! Stop talking! Come with me and turn over that overturned RV. We'll stay inside tonight."
"Yes! Boss!"
The men were very fast. As soon as Nakano Qing gave the order, they ran out from the bushes and turned over the broken and leaky RV in a few seconds.
"Let's go! Let's go to the RV first, clean up, and get some food so we can talk while we eat. I haven't eaten for a day, do you have any food?"
Nakano Qing and Zuo Zhi were walking behind. As he spoke, he touched his stomach, which was rumbling. It had been rumbling since he woke up.
All the glass windows of this RV have been shattered, and the sofas, tables, chairs and benches inside are missing parts and are in a dilapidated state.
Zuo Zhi asked people to clear out all these things, so that the entire RV had a much larger space.
The two younger brothers were already using flints to make a fire. They also found an uncovered frying pan in the RV, sliced the radishes they brought with a knife, and boiled them.
The six men used their bayonets to pierce the radish slices and started eating them in big mouthfuls.
Zuo Zhi took the opportunity to hand the two swords he picked up at the entrance of the cave to Nakano Qing.
"I didn't expect you would return to my hands!"
Nakano Qing muttered to himself while holding the two swords, with a look of excitement in his eyes of having recovered what he had lost.
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