Lu Yuan nodded slightly: "Yes! What, don't you want to earn this money?"
Upon hearing this, the other person quickly shook their head: "No, no, no, I'll do it! I'll take you there right now!"
"Alright! Then lead the way!"
Then the other party led Lu Yuan towards the outside of the crowd.
Unlike Wang Mingming, this young man was not good with words, was more timid, and appeared to have injuries.
The other party didn't say a word the whole way, keeping their eyes fixed on the road ahead, and had no intention of introducing their business at all.
However, Lu Yuan was quite interested in him, so he asked softly, "How old are you?"
When Lu Yuan suddenly asked about his age, the man stumbled and almost fell, clearly not expecting his "customer" to ask him a question.
"I...I'm fourteen...seventeen! I'm an adult now!"
Lu Yuan smiled slightly. The other party was obviously not seventeen years old. Fourteen years old was more in line with the other party's age. But then he thought about it. The other party was fourteen years old this year. Five years ago, when the apocalypse began, he was only nine years old. According to this age, he should have been in the second or third grade of elementary school at that time.
With a soft sigh, Lu Yuan stopped asking questions.
After walking for about half an hour, they finally followed the other person to a five-story building in the slums.
The building was very dilapidated, with most of the windows broken. The once white walls had turned gray and black. There was a stinking ditch in front of the building, with several corpses in it, but no one paid any attention to them.
There was a small bridge made of wooden planks over the stinking ditch, and the young man walked across it with ease.
However, after they passed by, the young man seemed to remember something. He turned his head to look at Lu Yuan's strong body and whispered a reminder: "Big brother, this...this wooden plank isn't very sturdy. You...you have to be careful!"
Lu Yuan smiled and said, "By the way, what's your name?"
"ah?"
The other person was slightly taken aback: "Oh, I... I'm called Xiao Si! That's what everyone here calls me."
"What's your full name?"
The other person seemed to have thought about it for a long time but still couldn't remember their own name.
"I...I forgot..."
Hearing the other person's words, Lu Yuan felt a pang of sadness. Such a young child had become like this after experiencing several years of the apocalypse, and had even forgotten his own name.
"call!"
Lu Yuan took a deep breath, suppressed the frustration in his heart, and gently stepped over the two-meter-wide stinking ditch.
Xiao Si's eyes showed a hint of shock, but then he regained his composure. He seemed to understand why Lu Yuan had jumped over so easily; it must be a mutant.
Then Xiao Si led Lu Yuan to the front of the building and pointed inside: "It's...it's on the fourth floor."
Lu Yuan nodded, then thought for a moment, looked around at the people, and took out a piece of bread from his pocket and handed it to the other person.
"Eat up! I need to go somewhere else after I finish eating! I'll give you the ten thousand yuan reward later!"
Xiao Si's eyes widened when she saw the snow-white bread handed to her by Lu Yuan, and drool dripped from the corner of her mouth.
However, he hesitated for a moment and still refused Lu Yuan's bread because he thought Lu Yuan was a mutant, but he didn't want to become the kind of mutant who would suffer from various ailments every few days.
Lu Yuan glanced at the other party's reaction and immediately understood.
"You don't believe this is bread? You think it's poisoned?"
The other person was stunned for a moment, unsure how to respond to Lu Yuan's question.
But then Lu Yuan took a small bite of the bread and said, "It's not poisonous! Eat it!"
The other person then took the bread, looked at Lu Yuan for a long time, and finally mustered up the courage to take a big bite.
The sweet aroma of the bread sent a shiver down Xiao Si's spine. He hadn't eaten a single piece of bread since the apocalypse began, and he had long forgotten what it felt like.
While eating, tears streamed down Xiao Si's face. He started sobbing, and after taking a bite, he put the bread in his pocket.
"Alright! Wait for me here!"
After saying that, Lu Yuan went straight upstairs.
There weren't many people upstairs; business didn't seem to be very good.
When they arrived on the fourth floor, they saw a tall, thin man walking over.
"What are you doing here? Departure procedures aren't handled here!"
Lu Yuan said in a low voice, "I'm looking for your boss! Where is he?"
The other person was slightly taken aback: "You're looking for our boss? Who are you? I've never seen you before."
"Heh! I have a big project I need to discuss with your boss! What? Are you planning to make the decision for your boss?"
The other party quickly waved his hand, then glanced at Lu Yuan again: "Wait here! I'll go and inform them right away!"
After saying that, the other person looked at Lu Yuan warily, then patted his pocket, revealing a bulging object. Clearly, the other person was indicating to Lu Yuan that he had a gun and advising Lu Yuan not to make any rash moves.
Lu Yuan smiled and didn't say anything, then sat down in the seat next to him.
Seeing that Lu Yuan didn't take him seriously, the other party was immediately annoyed, but after looking at Lu Yuan's demeanor, he felt that he might not be his match.
The other person then turned around, walked to an office, pressed a doorbell, and said into the intercom, "Boss, someone wants to talk business with you!"
"You want to talk business with me? Tell him to wait!"
Then the tall, thin man turned his head and saw that Lu Yuan was still sitting obediently in the chair, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
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