Chapter 74: Secret Observation
After eating something on the spot, a few people continued driving to Jiangcheng.
The thugs tied to the trees were originally discouraged and thought they were dead, but suddenly they saw a man dressed in black from head to toe walking out of the woods.
Their eyes widened instantly, and they struggled and shouted, "People over there! Come over and help us! Help us untie the ropes!"
The man walked up to them, looking down at them condescendingly, with a hint of smile in his voice.
"Help you?"
The thugs looked up and realized that the man was not very old, obviously a teenager.
However, under the black brim of his hat, most of his face was covered by a black mask. Only a pair of gray eyes could be seen on the slightly pale half of his face.
Those gray eyes were filled with coldness and death, which seemed to be disconnected from his voice.
But right now, they have no one else to turn to except this person.
One of the thugs shouted angrily: "Just now, some strange people beat us up and stole our things!"
"Oh? Really?"
The young man seemed to be in a good mood and laughed, "Just a few people with special abilities, nothing surprising."
The thugs were stunned for a moment: "A person with superpowers?"
The boy raised an eyebrow: "Why, you don't even know about people with special abilities?"
The thugs frowned and said, "That kind of thing doesn't matter. Just untie the ropes for us!"
The boy's grey eyes curved slightly, he stood up straight, a silver folding knife appeared in his hand, and his voice became gentler.
"Okay, I'll come and help you."
Several thugs were waiting patiently for the young man to untie the ropes for them.
However, when the young man approached them holding the silver folding knife, one of them finally felt something was wrong: "What on earth are you..."
Before he could finish his words, he felt a chill in his throat and blood spurted out.
A crow flapped its wings and flew away. The boy wiped off the remaining blood on the silver folding knife, then looked down at the people whose throats were cut with a knife, with a contemptuous tone.
"A bunch of rubbish."
He raised his eyes and looked in the direction where the car had just left.
It seems that the place this car is going to will pass by the "oasis".
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After the car drove away from that place, Gu Qinyuan suddenly remembered something: "Just now, there was a person with special abilities who was secretly observing us."
Yan Chu was stunned: "Observing secretly?"
"Well," Gu Qinyuan lowered his eyes, "He was very far away and didn't make a move, so I ignored him."
"Is he the only one?" Yan Chu asked.
Gu Qinyuan nodded: "Just him."
"It's normal for a person to be cautious," Yan Chu said casually, "There are more and more people with special abilities, and not all of them are good people."
At this time, Hu Zi interrupted: "It's getting dark. Shouldn't we find a place to rest quickly?"
Yan Chu looked out the window. The sun had already sunk to the horizon, and the clouds in the distance were dyed with a layer of light orange glow.
There are still endless fields and forests here, with no human habitation at all.
"Is there no town or something nearby?" Yan Chu asked.
Hu Zi looked at the offline map on his phone: "I don't know either... Eh? There's an oasis village up ahead, do you want to go?"
It’s called Oasis?
Yan Chu glanced at the map and saw that there was indeed an "Oasis Village" sign on it.
After all, it is a novel world, maybe this is how the villages in the novel are named.
She thought for a moment and said, "Then let's go and take a look."
If there is any danger, the people in their car are all strong and should be able to handle it.
After the sun completely sank into the horizon, the sky became completely dark.
After the vehicle drove to the "Oasis Village" area marked on the map, the houses on both sides of the road became visibly denser, and it seemed that this was indeed a village.
And the closer they got to the center of the village, the stranger it seemed.
Unlike other places where the doors and windows are not closed, there are many people walking back and forth on the streets. Some people eat with their doors open and lights on, and some wash clothes by the river. Everyone is living a normal life.
There was no expression of fear on people's faces, as if the end of the world had never happened here.
Hu Zi's car slowed down unconsciously, and he was almost stunned: "Are there... no zombies here?"
Yan Chu was also confused. Could it be that this place was too remote and the zombie infection had not spread here?
It doesn't seem impossible.
When their car passed by an "Oasis Hotel", Hu Zi pointed in surprise at the hotel which was still brightly lit.
"Isn't that place still open? How about going to check it out?"
After everyone in the car agreed, Hu Zi turned around and drove towards the hotel.
After they parked the car in the open space in front of the hotel, a middle-aged woman immediately ran towards them enthusiastically: "Do you want to stay overnight?"
The people in the car looked at each other and nodded.
The middle-aged woman attentively introduced them: "There are plenty of empty rooms, just stay as you please. It's the off-season now, so the prices are very favorable!"
Lu Yuanze: "Off-season?"
"Yeah, I don't know what happened in the past month, but business has been really bad," the middle-aged woman said, shaking the palm-leaf fan in her hand helplessly. "I don't know what's wrong with the internet, and there's no TV to watch. Life is unbearable!"
Lu Yuanze frowned: "Don't you know there's a zombie outbreak?"
"Zombies? What are those?" The middle-aged woman shook her head in confusion.
Lu Yuanze narrowed his eyes slightly: "In this month, you have never left this village? And no one else has passed by here?"
"No, the village chief told us that there was a plague outside and asked us not to go out."
The middle-aged woman sighed and continued, "No one has come to the village in the past month. Can't you see that my hotel business is almost going bankrupt?"
Yan Chu looked the middle-aged woman up and down. Was she really completely unaware of the zombie outbreak?
Even if the news is blocked, it shouldn't be so isolated from the world, right?
The middle-aged woman said this, and suddenly glanced at them suspiciously: "You keep asking all sorts of questions, are you going to stay here or not?"
Hu Zi immediately smiled and said, "Let's live here."
After getting off the bus with their luggage, several people followed the middle-aged woman into the Oasis Hotel.
"How many rooms do you want and how many nights do you want to stay?" the middle-aged woman asked casually.
Gu Qinyuan and Lu Yuanze said in unison: "Two rooms, one night."
As soon as the words fell, the two of them looked at each other subtly.
The middle-aged woman took out a registration book from a drawer and said, "One hundred per night, two hundred in total."
Lu Yuanze nodded: "Two rooms, one for Yan Chu and one for the three of us."
Gu Qinyuan raised his eyebrows and said, "No, Yan Chu and I will share a room, and you two will share a room."
Lu Yuanze’s face suddenly darkened: “…Don’t even think about it!”
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