After listening to Fang Yuan's words, Jing and I exchanged a glance, both of us harboring doubts.
But we didn't rush to voice our doubts.
Fang Yuan continued, "That's all I know. As for other things, I don't know anything else."
I asked, "Where are your people? When we met before, you were surrounded by quite a few people. Where did they go?"
Fang Yuan said, "We all got separated. That night, I knew we couldn't escape the raider squad's pursuit, so we scattered. Actually, at that time, the dozen or so of us were just survivors who had only recently met. Many of them had also been robbed by the raiders, and after we met, we simply ran away together."
"After we got separated, the raiders split into two groups and started chasing us. Almost all of those who escaped with me died. As for the others, I don't know if they are still alive."
I then asked, "What about your previous companions? Those companions you had before you encountered the raiders?"
Fang Yuan's eyes revealed pain as he spoke after a long silence, "They're all dead. When the raiders came, they took a lot of our things. We even planned to secretly fight back, try to get our things back, and steal their weapons too. But..."
At this point, Fang Yuan choked up and couldn't continue.
I patted him on the shoulder and said, "Did you guys fail in the end?"
Fang Yuan wiped away his tears and said, "No, at first we went very well. We ambushed a raider team and almost wiped them all out. But at the time, none of us expected that this raider group would be so large, so my men were ambushed by other raider teams."
"At that time, I was the only one who escaped; they... they were all dead."
Come to think of it, when Fang Yuan first encountered the raider team, he thought it was just a small group, but little did he know that it was just one of them.
The situation at that time was so desperate to think about.
I felt the same despair when Zhou Liang captured us.
Once he had calmed down, he looked at me and asked, "By the way, have you encountered those raiders?"
I shook my head and said, "No."
Jingjie said, "I saw them at the gas station yesterday, but they didn't notice us."
Fang Yuan glanced around and asked, "I... am I in a hospital?"
I said, "You don't need to worry about where you are right now, as long as you're safe."
Fang Yuan said, "I'm just afraid that those plunderers will find this place, and then I'll be dragging you down with me."
I said, "If you really feel like you're dragging us down, then when those looters come, you can just go with them."
Fang Yuan carefully considered what I said, and finally nodded, saying, "Don't worry, I will definitely not implicate you. If those raiders really come, I will leave with them."
Neither Jingjie nor I responded to his words. If he's serious, then so be it.
After Fang Yuan finished telling us about his situation, we arranged a room for him to rest. He was still very weak and needed to rest more.
Afterwards, Lu Yun kept pestering her sister, wanting to know if the person who came yesterday was indeed Li Jiaming.
In the end, Jingjie couldn't resist her sister's insistence and had to reveal that the other party was Li Jiaming.
Then Lu Yun excitedly wanted to ask the other party for an autograph, but was ultimately stopped by Sister Jing.
What kind of world is this? What's the use of getting an autograph?
Although Lu Yun was very unhappy, she still listened to her sister and did not go to Li Jiaming.
Before dinner, I went to the door of Li Jiaming's room and knocked. Li Jiaming opened the door, and when he saw me, his eyes were completely expressionless.
I said, "Can I come in?"
"Okay." Li Jiaming opened the door and let me in.
I closed the door and got straight to the point: "Li Jiaming, I came here for no other reason than to know about the little girl. Sister Jing said you saw her a week ago, but didn't have any contact with her for some reason, is that right?"
Li Jiaming nodded and said, "Yes, she was in conflict with another team at that time, so I didn't dare to go over."
"You're talking nonsense!" I yelled as soon as he finished speaking. "You can fool Sister Jing and Fei Lichao with your words, but you can't fool me! You said you saw the little girl clashing with another team in the distance. How can you be so sure that what you saw was the little girl? What if you were wrong? Li Jiaming, I don't want you to talk nonsense with me anymore. I'm giving you one chance. Tell me the truth. Did you really see the little girl?"
A look of panic appeared in Li Jiaming's eyes. He was an actor, very good at acting, but it was precisely because his acting was too deliberate that I became suspicious.
Seeing that he didn't speak, I said, "You're not going to talk? So you just made up that story about seeing a little girl? You're trying to deceive us so we'll think you're still useful and keep you here?"
"No!" Li Jiaming denied decisively, "I know where the little girl is!"
"Then tell me!"
Li Jiaming said, "Yes, what I told Lu Jing and Fei Lichao before was indeed a lie, but I didn't lie to you about the little girl's situation in Ninghai. It's just that it's a little different."
I asked, "What's different?"
Li Jiaming lowered his head and said, "The little girl is indeed in Ninghai, and I even lived with her for a while. However, later I did something stupid, which caused great losses to the little girl's team, and two important people died, so they kicked me out!"
I frowned. "Then why didn't you tell the truth before? Why did you have to make up a lie for us?"
Li Jiaming looked up at me, his eyes red. "Because I'm scared! I'm scared that if I tell you, you'll think I'm a nuisance and kick me out! I really don't want to go out alone anymore. I'm afraid to sleep every night when I'm out, afraid that I'll be eaten by zombies after I fall asleep!"
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Voice Recorder Diary 11:
"It's the 13th, and Li Fei's condition seems to be getting worse. Apparently, he collapsed in his room this morning, and if someone hadn't found him in time, it could have been a serious problem. Li Fei seems to have been taken to the hospital by the research institute, but I don't know his exact condition. I can only pray he doesn't get hurt. Today is the fourth group's experiment, and there are about two weeks left to submit the research results, so they accelerated the research progress. But the situation seems very bad. Because of the acceleration, the fourth and fifth groups' research both failed, and they have to start over overnight. Anyway, I hope everything goes well."
(End of this chapter)
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