Chapter 29: The ruthless mountain torrent
"Instead of worrying about her, think about the two of us."
Zhang Yan never worried about whether Gu Luan would have an accident.
From the first time she brutally killed those people, he knew that she was no ordinary person.
He wanted to team up with her to get through this difficult time.
However, he could see that she was cold and aloof and didn't like to get along with others.
So, he wisely didn't bother her anymore.
"What are you thinking about?"
Tan Tao is also a simple-minded person.
He has always liked to solve problems with force and doesn't like to use his brain, so how could he know what Zhang Yan was trying to say.
"Are you going to the base?"
Zhang Yan looked at Tan Tao and remembered the message he received in the morning.
"And you?"
"Yes, but I want to wait a little longer."
Thinking of what Gu Luan said, and looking at the weather which seemed calm but was actually dangerous in the past two days, Zhang Yan wanted to wait a little longer, as he was afraid that something might happen on the way.
"Then I'll wait too."
Tan Tao agreed with Zhang Yan’s words. He knew that Zhang Yan was also a smart person, and that only by teaming up with smart people could one live longer.
After leaving the community, Gu Luan found an empty place and changed to a speedboat, then put the rubber boat and the things on it into the space.
Wearing a thick down jacket and a life jacket, with a large backpack on his back.
Gu Luan filled the speedboat with fuel, started it and left quickly.
This time, she chose to take the other route to Bai City to see if she could find supplies along the way.
Gu Luan opened the offline map downloaded on his mobile phone and sped up.
Her speedboat arrived at the foot of the mountain, and she saw from afar the mother and her two children who were trading herbs with her.
The woman, her son, and her twelve-year-old daughter were bent over chopping wood.
There were still many people near the mountain, all keeping a distance from each other for fear of being ambushed.
The soil on the top of the mountain was quietly loosening.
In just a moment, without anyone noticing, it turned into a mudslide and instantly rushed towards the people who were looking for food or cutting firewood on the mountainside.
"ah!"
Some people screamed in panic. They wanted to escape, but there was no way to escape the power of nature. In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen people were buried.
A mother and her two children who were chopping wood halfway up the mountain ran away pale-faced. The mother held her two children's hands tightly and fell to the ground in panic.
"Jiaojiao, Xuanxuan, run."
Seeing that the mudslide was about to catch up with them, the woman shouted at the two children.
She sprained her foot and her body was so weak from not eating for a long time that she couldn't even get up. She just hoped that her child could escape this disaster.
"Mother!"
The little girl took her brother's hand and wanted to grab her mother's hand and run together.
"Run, leave mom alone."
The woman's eyes were red and she lay on the ground with a look of grief and despair on her face.
"Mom, let's run together."
The two children squatted down and supported the woman.
"Run, run!"
The woman struggled in pain, and she didn't know if it was the greatness of maternal love that made her full of strength at this moment. She got up from the ground and rushed forward holding her two half-grown children.
The mudslide buried all the nearby hillsides in an instant, and the flood in the mountain was like a beast out of a cage, sweeping across most of the mountain.
The woman placed the two children on a safe hillside, a happy smile appearing on her muddy face.
But the next moment, all her strength was drained away. She had no strength to hold on any longer. Her body leaned backwards and was directly swept into the flood.
At the last moment, her gaze fell on the two children with affection and reluctance.
"Mother……"
The tearing sound resounded through the sky, and the two children watched their mother being swept away by the flood, unable to do anything.
Gu Luan was sitting on the speedboat and saw this scene.
She was too far away from the others and had no way of getting there. Even if she could go, she couldn't save the woman.
Natural disasters are merciless and can take away countless lives in an instant.
Having been through a lot in the apocalypse, I should have been accustomed to this kind of scene, but every time I see it, I still can't help but feel sad.
The woman was still talking to her a few days ago, digging herbs to exchange for food, and asked her when she could exchange herbs.
"Sister, we don't have a mother anymore."
The boy, who was only ten years old, hugged his sister and cried loudly.
The twelve-year-old girl's eyes were red, and no matter how upset she was, she still whispered to comfort her brother in her arms.
"Don't cry, don't cry. I will protect you from now on."
The girl could no longer hold back her tears, and stared with empty eyes at the place where her mother disappeared.
A slender figure stood in front of the two of them, and Jiaojiao and Xuanxuan looked up.
"Sister Gu."
When Jiaojiao saw Gu Luan, she shed even more tears than before.
"Sister Gu, I don't have a mother anymore. My mother is dead."
Xuanxuan looked up at Gu Luan and cried in despair.
"Come on, I'll take you back."
Gu Luan did not comfort the two of them, because comfort is the least valuable thing in the end times.
She didn't know whether the two children who had lost their mother could survive. She hoped they could, but she also knew how slim the hope was.
Perhaps they are still alive one moment and starve to death the next, or they may be targeted by demons.
Although she felt sympathy, Gu Luan couldn't possibly keep them around. There were too many people like them in the world and she couldn't take care of them all.
Being able to send them back was already the greatest help she could offer.
"Thank you, Sister Gu."
Jiaojiao pulled her brother and bowed to Gu Luan to express her gratitude.
At this moment, she seemed to be growing rapidly.
"Let's go."
Gu Luan turned around and strode towards his speedboat.
After asking the two about the location of their residential area, Gu Luan drove the speedboat quickly there.
Jiaojiao huddled aside holding her brother. The two children's stomachs kept growling and they lowered their heads shyly.
Gu Luan looked at the two children, and saw that they were dirty and thin, and sighed silently.
He took out two compressed biscuits and a bottle of mineral water and handed them to them, "Eat."
"Sister Gu, I'm not hungry."
Jiaojiao knew how precious food was nowadays and didn't dare to take it.
"Eat it. Don't make me say it for the third time."
Gu Luan put the things aside and turned away without looking at the two of them.
It was a while before they heard any movement. Gu Luan looked ahead with sharp eyes.
When they arrived at Jiaojiao's neighborhood, Gu Luan parked the speedboat, glanced at the two children, and said, "Live well."
After saying this, he left quickly without waiting for them to thank him.
"Sister, can we still see Sister Gu?"
Xuanxuan leaned in Jiaojiao's arms and asked in a low voice.
Jiaojiao looked at the place where Gu Luan left and said, "Yes, I will."
When Gu Luan was traveling through the flood, he had to observe the water surface from time to time, for fear of hitting any buildings or undercurrents in the water.
She had left her two children behind, and what she had to do now was to rush to the White Market and get the black stone.
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