Lu Yuan carried the girl on his back and followed behind the veteran, while Xi Wen carefully followed at the very back with his gun.
Suddenly, the veteran raised his hand sharply, and Lu Yuan almost bumped into the back of the other man.
"Wait a minute, it's the patrol!"
Lu Yuan quickly put the girl on the ground, then followed the veteran and hid behind a collapsed wall.
Sure enough, the sound of a bicycle came from afar, followed by several people shouting loudly.
"Go check ahead! Those people can't have gone far!"
Then, the cycling team immediately dispersed and searched in all directions.
The beams of flashlight swept back and forth, but they still couldn't find Lu Yuan and his group's hiding place.
The veteran calmly checked his equipment, then took a chocolate from his pocket and handed it to the back of the soldier.
"Eat something to replenish your energy! Just a little bit each is enough!"
Lu Yuan took the chocolate and saw that the thumb-sized chocolate had been bitten with teeth marks, each mark looking like it had been shaved with a razor.
"for you!"
Lu Yuan didn't eat it; instead, he handed the chocolate to the girl.
The girl was starving. When Lu Yuan was carrying her on his back, he could clearly feel her stomach moving around and occasionally making gurgling noises.
The girl gently accepted the chocolate, swallowed hard, and tears welled up in her eyes once again.
The girl gently bit a tiny bit of chocolate with her teeth, then closed her eyes and savored the taste.
Immediately afterwards, the girl handed the chocolate to Xiwen behind her.
Although Lu Yuan and his group lost a lot of equipment, they weren't particularly short of food. They still had plenty of chocolate, but Lu Yuan hadn't brought any food in his backpack this time because he had his own dimensional space, and getting food was just a matter of a thought.
"Thank you, but I'm not hungry! You eat!"
The girl blushed slightly, glanced at the three of them, then closed her eyes and stuffed all the chocolate into her mouth.
Looking at the girl's satisfied expression, Lu Yuan couldn't help but feel a little emotional. Just now, this girl had almost become food for those wild beasts, and now she had suddenly been reborn. Only she herself could understand the feeling of this.
Just then, the sound of the bicycle in the distance slowly faded away. Since they hadn't found anyone, they each went their separate ways to search new locations.
Seeing that the person had left, the group breathed a sigh of relief.
The veteran reached behind him and said, "Are you finished eating? Give it to me!"
Lu Yuan was taken aback. He then remembered that Liu Feichen had told him that the veterans' camp had been without water and food for a long time, and their lives were very difficult. Getting something to eat had become extremely difficult. This small piece of chocolate was probably his food for several days. He didn't expect that he would give it all to the girl without noticing.
A look of embarrassment immediately appeared on the girl's face.
"Excuse me... I... I've finished eating." The voice grew softer and softer until it seemed only she could hear it.
The veteran glanced back, a hint of frustration flashing in his eyes.
"Damn it, I forgot to tell you, I only brought this one piece of chocolate! Why didn't you guys use it more sparingly!"
The girl apologized again, but the veteran raised his hand to stop her and sighed.
"Alright, alright, we've finished eating, we need to hurry back! You... go back!"
A pleading look immediately appeared in the girl's eyes.
"Uncle, take me with you! I'll go with you! I'll do anything as long as you give me some food!"
The veteran was speechless for a moment, then waved his hands repeatedly.
"No, no, no! We lack food and clothing where we're from. If you go there, you'll just starve! I'm so sorry, I can't take you with me! Really!"
After saying that, the veteran stood up to leave.
The girl immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, pleading, "Uncle, please, I can't go back! My family is gone! If I go back, they'll just take me back anyway. Please, save me!"
The veteran gritted his teeth, then turned around and helped the girl up.
"Don't do this, I really have no other choice. Go back, at least there's food there. Be careful and don't wander off!"
At this moment, Lu Yuan stood up and stopped the veteran.
"Brother, I have the technology to cultivate catalyst solutions! Could you take us there? I can teach you this technology!"
The veteran was stunned when he heard Lu Yuan's words.
"What? You say you have the technology to extract catalysts? Are you telling the truth?"
Lu Yuan nodded. Although the technology was not yet fully mature and had been jointly researched by Chen Yan and her team, the extraction rate was extremely low, far inferior to the level in the Fifth District Laboratory. However, Lu Yuan possessed a dimensional space, and he secretly helped them build their own breeding farm, fields, and ponds.
As the major shareholder of Future Minerals, Lu Yuan has full access to information about this technology.
Xiwen, who was standing nearby, quickly added, "That's right! Mr. Lu is from District 5. He's the owner of Future Minerals Company in District 5! He has the catalyst formula, and I can vouch for that!"
The veteran's eyes lit up with delight as he looked Lu Yuan up and down.
"No wonder you all look so good! So you have this technology! That's great! Now our comrades are saved!"
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