The family of three reacted to my words in different ways. The girl, Wen Yue, didn't seem to have any thoughts, but looked at her parents with a puzzled look in her eyes.
As for Wen Guochao, he looked at his wife, and it seemed that he trusted her more in this matter.
Zhang Xuexiu frowned slightly, exchanged a glance with Wen Guochao, and seemed lost in thought; her expression was rather unpleasant.
I wondered if there was something they were having trouble telling us, or if they simply didn't want to tell us.
Could it really be because of the destination?
Zhang Xue hesitated for a long time before finally looking up at us and saying, "Do you want to know where we're going?"
"Mm." I nodded.
Zhang Xue asked, "But I don't understand why you think we have a destination. Maybe we're just wandering around like you, without any destination at all."
I smiled and said, "We were just guessing before, but now your words make me think that you do have a clear destination."
Zhang Xue was taken aback, gave a wry smile, and, not paying much attention, asked, "How did you guess that?"
I said, “It’s not hard to guess, is it? From the first time I met you, my impression of you was that you were homeless people. Then the second time I met you, you said you wanted to find a place to settle down, but I knew you were lying at the time, so I didn’t call you out on it. It wasn’t until the third time I met you that I was sure you were not homeless people, but people with a clear destination. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be risking being eaten by zombies to wander around outside.”
Zhang Xue nodded and said, "Is that so? I see."
I said, "So, would you be willing to tell us where your destination is?"
Zhang Xue looked at me and said, "Actually, this isn't a secret. I believe many people know about this, but I don't understand why you don't."
"What is it?" I asked.
Not only me, but Jingjie and Fei Lichao were also puzzled. The three of us had come to Jiajiang from Hangzhou together, intending to go to the safe zone, but it was gone. Zhang Xue's words surprised us; what did she mean?
Zhang Xue frowned and said, "Don't tell me you really don't know this news?"
"What news?" I asked again.
Zhang Xue said, "It's news about the zombie cure!"
"A zombie cure?!" I was completely stunned. A zombie cure? What the hell?! "Wait, can you explain more clearly what this zombie cure is all about?"
Seeing our puzzled expressions, Zhang Xue said, "It seems you really don't know. Let me tell you from the beginning."
"Um."
Zhang Xue said, "Actually, we only found out about this a month after the zombie outbreak. At that time, we hid with some neighbors, hoping that the army would come to rescue us, but after a month there was no movement, and we were a little desperate. Then, at that time, a message came over the radio."
"The message said that they had developed a vaccine for the zombie virus, but because the research institute was located on the outskirts of Mingzhu City, they said that they couldn't transport the vaccine to other places, and that living people would have to go to the research institute themselves. So when we heard that, we set off directly towards Mingzhu City."
"Because it was so far away, it took us almost half a year to get here. At first, we had a lot of people with us, but they died later."
Upon hearing this, Lu Yun asked in surprise, "Half a year! You actually traveled for half a year to get here? Don't you know how to drive?!"
Zhang Xue said, "We can drive, but we don't know how to get a car. Besides, those zombies are too scary, and we don't dare to risk our lives, so we've never thought about driving. Also, driving would be too noisy and would easily attract zombies, so we don't dare to do that."
Lu Yun had no idea. "So you just spent half a year traveling to get here!"
“Yes.” Zhang Xue nodded. “We have no other choice but to do this. We’re not far from Mingzhu City now, so if you’d like, you can come with us to that research institute.”
graduate School?
Upon hearing those three words, I suddenly felt a strange sense of familiarity, as if I had seen them somewhere before.
Jingjie asked from the side, "Are you sure the broadcast you heard was real?"
Zhang Xue nodded: "Yes, it's definitely true, there's no doubt about it."
Jingjie asked, "Do you know how to get to the research institute?"
Zhang Xue said, "We only know a general area. We only know that the biological research institute is in the suburbs of Mingzhu City, but we don't know the exact location."
Lu Yun exclaimed in surprise, "The suburbs! The suburbs of Mingzhu are so big, how long will it take us to find them?"
"The Institute of Biology," I exclaimed in surprise.
My exclamation startled almost everyone present, and they all stared at me in surprise.
Lu Yun looked at me as if I were mentally ill and said, "Lu Xiaonan said you're crazy! Why are you making such a fuss? You scared me to death!"
Jingjie asked curiously, "Xiaonan, did you think of something?"
Biological Research Institute! Holy crap, no wonder I felt so familiar with the research institute when Zhang Xue mentioned it earlier, so that's what it is!
Lu Yun seemed to have thought of something and asked, "Yes, Lu Xiaonan, you're a doctor, haven't you thought of something?"
I said, "Wait for me, I'll be right back."
As I spoke, I decisively ran upstairs to my room, opened the suitcase that had been packed earlier, and pulled out a cell phone that was turned off.
I took this phone from a zombie a while ago, and since it still looked somewhat usable, I kept it.
I never expected it would actually come in handy now.
After I turned on the computer, I went downstairs and returned to the living room.
"Why did you bring your phone over?" Lu Yun asked curiously.
"Don't worry, you'll see after it's turned on," I said.
The phone booted up slowly; it took two minutes for it to fully boot up.
I immediately unlocked the screen, went into my phone's photo album, opened a picture, placed it on the coffee table, and everyone looked down at their phones. I pointed to the picture and asked, "Zhang Xue, is the biological research institute you mentioned the one on this map?"
Zhang Xue took a close look at her phone and nodded, saying, "It seems so! When I looked at the map before, this research institute was also located in this area."
I said, "If there are no other biological research institutes on the outskirts of Pearl City, then I think this is the place you should go to."
(End of this chapter)
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