Qin Qing watched the car drive away without any complaints in his heart.
But she remembered that her current direction was different from everyone else's, and if she continued on the main road, it would definitely arouse suspicion. After all, there were some smaller roads from the national highway to her suburban warehouse. After checking the map and confirming the route, she turned a corner not far ahead.
At this time, Li Xiong and his team were driving a large truck on the national highway. Shortly after Qin Qing turned onto the side road, Li Xiong and his team drove past here.
"Dad, what if my sister comes to find us?" Cheng Xinxin said unhappily with her head down.
Cheng Chuan was silent for a moment after hearing his daughter's words. Then he patted her head and said, "Uncle Li has left a note. If you see it when you come back, come back to the base to find us. Besides, you might be waiting for us at the base."
After hearing what he said, Zhou Shan punched the steering wheel, causing the car to emit a long groan.
Seeing this, Li Xiong turned his head away sadly and blinked hard to prevent the moisture in his eyes from flowing out.
They hurried back to the warehouse and waited there for Qin Qing for four days. During those four days, they dared not even step out of the warehouse, their hearts filled with torment. However, as time passed, their hope gradually turned to despair, thinking back to the countless zombies they had encountered when they broke free from the zombie encirclement.
They couldn't imagine whether Qin Qing could come back alive.
Seeing everyone's heavy expressions, Wang Xiaobao couldn't help scratching his head and said, "Is it possible that Qin Qing followed that team to the base?"
After hearing his words, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. This possibility was not impossible, and a glimmer of hope suddenly ignited in their hearts. After all, when surrounded by zombies, following the troops to break through was the wisest choice.
The adults gathered together to discuss and decided to go to the base first. However, the van's front was already on its way back, having been smashed to pieces by the zombies.
The only vehicles that could be driven from the warehouse were large trucks filled with supplies. When Zhou Shan said this, everyone was silent for a moment. After all, this truckload of goods was all Qin Qing had worked so hard to collect. If they drove away without permission, it would be unacceptable no matter what.
But what if Qin Qing is really at the base? Leaving these supplies here would just be giving them away for free, or even going to waste! It would be better to let them go; at least they wouldn't be wasted.
When Qin Qing arrived at the warehouse and saw no one there, and the vanished truck, her face darkened and she pursed her lips. Then she saw the note Li Xiong and the others had left. Qin Qing picked it up, staring down at it for a long moment... then smiled silently...
This is actually the best option...
This is good. It is much more convenient to go to those shops in the city to collect jade by myself.
Qin Qing turned and ran towards the city center of S City. Traveling light and alone, she reached East City in just half a day. She first entered the jewelry store and stored all the jade, regardless of quality, into her space.
By the afternoon, she had frantically ransacked all the jewelry stores in Dongcheng District.
During the search, Qin Qing also encountered a few scattered zombies, but unfortunately they were all ordinary zombies without crystal cores.
After finding a department store, Qin Qing slipped in and went directly into the space. He saw a mountain of jade piled up next to the well, with a wide variety of bracelets, jade pendants and pendants.
Qin Qing sat down and took each piece of jade in his hand, feeling its energy. Although none of the jade in this pile was better than the last time, the sheer quantity was still unmatched.
When he opened his eyes again and saw that the space had become much larger again, Qin Qing's depressed mood finally improved a lot.
It seemed that collecting the mutant zombies' crystal cores was imperative! After all, there were so few jade stones that held so much energy. She stood up and threw all the remaining useless jade stones out of the space.
Just as Qin Qing left the space, he heard a voice coming from outside.
"Xiao Yi, wait for me...!" A man pushed the door open from the glass door of the department store with an impatient look on his face.
Following closely behind him was a girl no more than ten years old, wearing a princess dress. After they entered, the people outside also squeezed in, including four strong men, a couple and an elderly person, and three students aged fifteen or sixteen.
When Qin Qing saw Xiao Yi, she couldn't help but frown. If she had no impression of this man at first, it was hard for her to forget him after the jade pendant incident.
"Mr. Xiao, several zombies outside this mall have been killed. It looks like there should be people inside." One of the leaders, a burly man with a shaved head, whispered to Xiao Yi.
As Sun Ping spoke, he looked up and around.
The four brothers were sent by their boss to pick up Xiao Yi, but they didn't expect to run into the eldest daughter of the Ma family along the way. Ma Yanbao had been chasing after Young Master Xiao since they were in City B. Her annoyance with her was one of the reasons Xiao Yi left City B. Unexpectedly, after Young Master Xiao secretly came to City S, she had also found her way here.
The Ma family had no idea that she had secretly followed Xiao Yi to City S. After the apocalypse, the Ma family couldn't find her and assumed it was a political enemy's doing. This caused a rift in the seemingly harmonious relationship between the Lu, Zheng, and ****** families. This was especially true for Ma Kun, the eldest son of the Ma family, who loved his sister dearly. Without telling the Ma family head, he secretly sent his men to investigate, but to no avail.
Although Xiao Yi was usually careless, that didn't mean he was a fool. After hearing Sun Ping's words, he let go of Ma Yanbao's arm and slowly moved forward with his gun in hand.
It was nearly evening, and the faint sunlight filtering through the mall's windows cast a gray veil over the entire place. Regardless of whether the mall was occupied by humans or zombies, they would be in trouble if they waited until nightfall. The power had long been cut off throughout downtown S, so at nightfall, the entire city was essentially shrouded in darkness.
In the dark, it is always difficult for people to move around, especially since there is not only the troubled woman around, but also children and the elderly.
Seeing Xiao Yi's expression, the man in the couple couldn't help but ask, "Brother Xiao, why don't we hurry on our way before it gets dark?"
When his wife heard her husband say this, she was so scared that she grabbed his arm tightly and nodded repeatedly.
"No, it will be dark soon, and we won't have enough time to leave the city. If we don't find a place to clean up and rest, we might run into zombies along the way. It's really unsafe to travel in the dark."
Sun Ping said with a stern face without waiting for Xiao Yi to speak.
If the couple and the old man hadn't dragged their feet when they should have left and panicked when the bell rang when they shouldn't have, they wouldn't have been delayed until now and still haven't left the city.
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