After I took over driving, the little girl kept trying to contact Sister Jing and the others, but there was still no news, which made me a little anxious.
We're almost at Jiushui Town now. If we still can't contact Sister Jing when we get there... I really don't know what to do. Maybe they've already gone back, or maybe something happened to them?
I dare not think about it.
Hopefully, Sister Jing and the others have already gone back.
Half an hour later, we entered the area of Jiushui Town. Jiushui Town is not big. After driving north for more than ten minutes, we arrived at the meeting point that Sister Jing had mentioned.
But the surrounding area was desolate, there was no one there, and they had only seen one or two zombies.
I stopped the car and looked around, but I couldn't find Sister Jing and the others.
The little girl asked, "Brother Xiaonan, were Sister Qingya and the others waiting for us here?"
I nodded and said, "Sister Jing said she would wait for us here, but since they're not here, I think they must have already gone back."
"Oh, I see." The little girl nodded, and after a moment, she said, "Brother Xiaonan, look over there, there seem to be words on the electrical box over there."
I looked in the direction the little girl was pointing and saw that there were indeed words on the electrical box. I limped over and came to the electrical box, where I saw the words written on it.
The handwriting is Jingjie's; I recognized it immediately.
The note read: "Xiao Nan, some raiders are following us. We're heading back now. Don't worry, they haven't found us yet."
These characters are not large, and they are usually not noticed if you are not paying attention.
I don't know if the raiders who chased after Sister Jing and the others discovered these writings, but even if they did, it wouldn't matter. Sister Jing and the others had already left and would definitely try to create some false traces to lure them away.
Just in case, I crossed out the writing with a stone.
I said, "Jing and the others should have gone back by now. Let's go back too."
We got back on the bus and left Jiushui Town.
On the way, the little girl kept trying to contact them with the walkie-talkie, but still without success. It seemed that Sister Jing and the others were almost back at the research institute.
Before we knew it, it was almost noon.
I said, "How about we take a break and have lunch?"
The little girl nodded: "Okay, I'm starving."
I smiled slightly. To be honest, driving with my left foot is really not my style. After more than an hour, I was completely stiff. I stopped the car and went outside to stretch my muscles.
Then he opened the trunk of the car, which was filled with a lot of things.
I grabbed two bottles of water and two packets of instant noodles. When the little girl came to my side, I opened the instant noodles, intending to eat them dry. But she said, "Aren't you going to cook them? It's such a waste to eat them dry like this."
I looked at the instant noodles in my hand and thought that I wasn't in a hurry, and it would be more comfortable to eat something hot than just cold water.
I said, "Okay, then let's cook it."
Half an hour later, my daughter and I were able to eat hot instant noodles.
"It's so delicious!" the little girl said with a satisfied look on her face.
"Eat more," I said with a smile.
Watching the little girl eat her noodles warmed my heart. I remembered how desperately I wanted to find her back then; it almost broke my heart. Now that she's here with me, I feel like things will only get better from now on.
But to be honest, sometimes you really can't be too optimistic.
When you think too highly of things, bad things always seem to happen.
For example, right now.
While we were eating noodles, a car suddenly appeared in the distance. Before my daughter and I could react, the car was already in front of us.
I put down my chopsticks, pulled out the pistol from behind me, and hid behind the car, watching the suddenly appearing vehicle warily. The car looked somewhat familiar.
It seems like I ran into them yesterday.
After the people got off the car, I realized they were the same looters I had encountered yesterday!
They were carrying standard assault rifles. The middle-aged man wearing sunglasses got out of the car, glanced at me, and then laughed, "Hey, brother, we meet again, what a coincidence!"
Seeing that it was them, I still held the gun in my hand and said, "Yeah, what a coincidence, we've run into each other again."
Practice makes perfect.
A middle-aged man wearing sunglasses walked over and laughed, "Haha, what a coincidence! I didn't expect to run into you yesterday, and now I'm running into you again today. It seems we really are destined to meet."
I glanced at them and noticed that one of them was missing; there were only three of them left.
The middle-aged man looked at my car and asked, "By the way, why are you alone? Where are your other two? Did they die in Ninghai?"
At that moment, the little girl crawled out from behind the car.
Upon seeing the little girl, the middle-aged man exclaimed in surprise, "Holy crap! Who is this?!"
I looked at him and said, "She's my sister. To tell you the truth, I went to Ninghai yesterday to find my sister. As for my other two people, we got separated in Ninghai for some reason, and I don't know where they are now."
The middle-aged man chuckled and said, "See? I told you yesterday not to go to Ninghai, but you insisted on going anyway, and now look what happened. So what are you planning to do now? Are you going to take your sister there?"
I shook my head and said, "I don't know, I'll just go with the flow."
The middle-aged man nodded. "Hey, I can see you've had a tough time too. I lost a member yesterday, and now there are only three of us left. I knew you were here when I saw your car, so I came over. Also, I have an idea of mine, I wonder if you'd like to hear it?"
Looking at his face, I knew what he wanted to say, so I chuckled and said, "You don't mean to ask me to join you, do you?"
The middle-aged man's eyes lit up, and he said, "Brother, it seems we really are destined to meet. You even guessed what I was thinking!"
"..." His words left me speechless. I said, "I don't even know your names, let alone what kind of people you are. Similarly, you don't know anything about me. Do you think it's appropriate for you to let me join you so rashly?"
The middle-aged man said, "Let's get acquainted now. My name is Song Muyuan, the one with slightly longer hair is Zhou Jie, and the one with the buzz cut and a scar on his face is Fu Chen. And you, brother, what's your name?"
I said, "My name is Lu Xiaonan, and this is my younger sister, Zhong Linyun."
The middle-aged man shook hands with me and laughed, "Haha, now we're acquainted, Brother Lu."
I said, "You want me to join you, you must have some ulterior motive, right? Are you eyeing some place and planning to rob it?"
Song Muyuan smiled, raised an eyebrow and said, "Brother Lu, you really know what's going on. You guessed my purpose right away."
(End of this chapter)
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