Chapter 187: Being Captured
"Ah? You're talking about me. I'm mixed-blood." Fu Bao smiled innocently, "I also know a foreign language."
"Foreign language?" Fang Xiaoling murmured with a trembling voice, "Is it zombie language?"
"Yeah, you can do it too?" Fubao immediately made a clicking sound and said a few words of zombie greeting to her.
Fang Xiaoling shook her head repeatedly, "I can't."
Fu Bao looked regretful, "That's such a pity."
She thought she had finally met a zombie that didn't have a foul mouth.
Fubao entered the house, put the bucket at the door, and put Fang Xiaoling on the ground.
Xia Ke was busy asking others to sit down. When she turned around, she saw Fang Xiaoling standing upright at the door and hurriedly said, "Come here."
She smiled and explained to everyone: "Xiaoling is a little socially anxious. Although she has superpowers, she will still be attacked by zombies, so she never goes out and stays here all the time."
Luo Jiu smiled and said, "We are sorry to bother you by coming here."
Fang Xiaoling said hurriedly: "No, it's just that I haven't met so many people and... mixed-race people for a long time."
Feng Qi laughed, "Don't worry, Fubao is just like us, he doesn't bite people."
As he was talking, Xia Ke had already brought a container, an iron can, a wooden can, and a glass jar. These must be the things Xia Ke usually picked up when she went out to collect scraps.
She looked at Fang Xiaoling and said, "Xiaoling, get them some water."
Everyone refused in unison, "We are not thirsty."
Xia Ke smiled and said, "Have a drink, you're welcome."
Seeing Fang Xiaoling go to pick up the bucket, Fubao hurriedly said, "I'll help you."
Fang Xiaoling smiled and shook her head, "This water is not clean. You can't drink it directly."
As she spoke, she sat on the ground, holding the bucket in her arms, and rubbing her hands through the transparent plastic bucket.
Everyone looked at Fang Xiaoling's strange behavior with curiosity. After a few minutes, Zhong Jialing said in surprise: "Look, the water seems to have become clearer!"
Xia Ke said, "This is Xiaoling's ability. She can take water from the ground and purify it into drinking water.
Every time I went out to find food, she would go to the basement and fetch water little by little. Although it wasn’t much, it was enough for us and Cheng Yang to use together.”
As she spoke, she took out a rice bowl, then took out half a bag of instant noodles from a very high cabinet, broke off half of the noodles and put them into the rice bowl. She turned around to look at the crowd and gritted her teeth to add the rest of the noodles in.
By the time Xia Ke was done, Fang Xiaoling's water was also purified and was clean, just like purified water.
Xia Ke poured water into the bowl until it covered the noodles, and suddenly remembered, "Xiaoling, go call Cheng Yang over and have dinner together."
Fang Xiaoling went out. Xia Ke held the bowl of noodles and exerted force secretly. After a few minutes, the water in the bowl began to steam.
Xia Ke chatted with them while cooking noodles.
Xia Ke, Fang Xiaoling and Cheng Yang were originally university alumni, and became colleagues while interning at the same company.
The day the apocalypse broke out happened to be a weekend. The three people were working overtime in the company. When they realized something was wrong, they took a taxi and escaped together.
Unexpectedly, a taxi was inexplicably struck by lightning on the road, the driver died on the spot, and the three people strangely possessed different superpowers.
Xia Ke can make fire to heat things up and won't be attacked by zombies, so she is responsible for going out to find food.
Fang Xiaoling can draw water from the ground, purify it, and be responsible for the drinking water for the three people.
Cheng Yang can generate a small amount of electricity, which is usually used to charge the mobile phones of three people or to power some small electrical appliances.
Recently, Cheng Yang is studying how to increase electricity so that if he encounters strange weather again, he can power the air conditioner to make the room temperature more suitable for survival.
Everyone talked for a while, and the instant noodles in Xia Ke's hand were finally cooked. She opened a new pair of disposable chopsticks and handed them to them, "You are the guests, you eat first."
Feng Qi held the chopsticks and said in shock: "Is this what you usually eat?"
Xia Ke smiled and said, "We usually try not to eat, because it has been a long time since the end of the world, and the food is getting less and less. But it's rare to meet you today, thank you for sending me back, you guys can eat."
Feng Qi sighed. With so many people here, this half bowl of noodles is not even enough for her to fill her stomach.
Feng Qi handed the chopsticks to Zhong Jialing, "You eat."
Zhong Jialing has mysophobia. She saw with her own eyes what the water looked like before. "I'm not hungry."
Cheng Yaoyao returned the chopsticks to Xia Ke, "You guys eat, we have all eaten."
Xia Ke swallowed and put down the bowl, "I'll wait for those two to come and eat together."
Luo Jiu asked her: "Did you buy this house?"
“No, I rented it, but right after the apocalypse, the landlord turned into a zombie.
A few days ago I saw him following the zombie group heading north, probably heading to another city."
She looked at the door and said curiously, "Cheng Yang is on the fifth floor. I don't know why Xiao Ling is so slow. I'll go up and take a look."
As soon as she left, Luo Jiu sighed, "It seems that ordinary people in the last days have a very difficult life. If they didn't have superpowers, they wouldn't have been able to hold on until now."
Zhong Jialing couldn't help but complain, "But their abilities are really a bit... a bit limited. It takes them so much effort to cook noodles. I think they are so thin that they are staggering when they walk."
"Yes," Luo Jiu smiled and said, "To put it simply, their abilities are human-shaped water purifiers, human-shaped lighters, and human-shaped chargers.
Their lives were not easy, and it was very generous of them to use their only water and noodles to treat us.
After a while, Yaoyao put a box of instant noodles in the car and said that we would give them the remaining ones.”
Cheng Yaoyao nodded. After waiting for a while and seeing that they still didn’t come down, everyone went upstairs to look for them.
As soon as Luo Jiu came up, he saw Xia Ke and Fang Xiaoling searching everywhere in the corridor. Luo Jiu asked, "Where is Cheng Yang hiding?"
Xia Ke: "He doesn't hide normally. Zombies have visited here many times, but he hasn't been here for a long time. He usually just locks the door of that room and hides inside to do research, but for some reason, the door was open when we came up."
Cheng Yaoyao: "Could it be that he went out and will be back soon?"
Xia Ke: "No, he sprained his foot a few days ago and he was limping and had difficulty going downstairs by himself. And he couldn't have gone out without telling us."
Fang Xiaoling: "He helped me charge my phone this morning and didn't say he was going out."
Luo Jiu entered Cheng Yang's room. The interior was simply decorated with a large table in the middle, on which were some electrical wires, iron wires, circuit boards, light bulbs, some tools, and so on.
Luo Jiu held his chin and silently observed everything in the room.
Everyone searched other places and then came back here.
Feng Qi: "How can a living person disappear out of thin air?"
Luo Jiu: "He didn't disappear out of thin air, he was captured."
Xia Ke asked in surprise: "How do you know?"
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