That night, they rested in a residential building.

There were not many zombies in the residential building, and they quickly cleared out an empty building.

At night, everyone still does what they should do as before.

"Brother, you, you..."

Ruan Ning looked at the handsome man who suddenly hugged her when no one was around. Her long eyelashes swept across her eyelids. She thought of what happened that day at the Yancheng base, and her expression was a little uneasy.

Her face turned red, and she didn't know whether it was because she was angry or embarrassed.

"Don't move, I'll hold you for a while." After hugging the person next to him, Gu Yicheng felt a sense of fullness in his arms, and his mood suddenly improved a lot.

Ruan Ning raised her hand to push him away, but after hearing the fatigue in his tone, she paused. She remembered that Gu Yicheng had been worrying about everything in the team for the past two or three months. As the soul of the Dawn Team, he was much harder working than her, who was idle all the time.

Ruan Ning put down his hand.

…Forget it, just hug me, it’s not like I haven’t hugged her before anyway, and it won’t hurt anything to let him hug me, Ruan Ning thought.

Gu Yicheng also knew that the girl was still obsessed with the sibling relationship between them that had no blood relationship, and was somewhat resistant to his approach.

So he held her for only a few minutes and then let go, but his eyes were always on her, passionate and possessive.

"Were you scared during the day?" he asked in a gentle voice.

Ruan Ning shook his head, and after he let go of his hand, he took a step back without leaving a trace. Although it was not clear whether he was asking about the explosion of the cross-river bridge or the encounter with the mutant animals on the river while on the boat.

"Are you so afraid of me?" Gu Yicheng noticed her movements, his lips slightly raised, with a hint of helplessness in his eyes, but he was not too angry. He knew that the girl didn't like anyone else in her heart, but she just couldn't accept it for a while, and he was willing to give her time.

Because no matter she accepts it or not, she is destined to stay with him.

Hearing Gu Yicheng's question, Ruan Ning nodded, then quickly shook her head.

She couldn't say she was afraid of him, but she was worried that something that shouldn't happen would happen to them. When she thought about the man in front of her, whom she had finally accepted and treated as a brother, suddenly expressed his feelings to her overnight and wanted to develop a relationship with her that she had never thought of, Ruan Ning felt very uncomfortable from the bottom of her heart.

But because of the time they had spent together, she had become accustomed to Gu Yicheng's care, so she couldn't completely resist his approach. Of course, she didn't have the courage to treat him coldly.

The current result makes her look like she is playing it hard, but she really doesn't want to play it hard. She just hopes to find a way to have the best of both worlds, so that Gu Yicheng can give up on wanting to fall in love with her and treat her as a sister again.

"...Brother, it's wrong for us to do this! And, if Uncle Gu knew, he would definitely be angry." Ruan Ning said with a stern face to show that she was serious this time. She really had no other choice, so she brought up Gu Yicheng's biological father Gu Huasheng, who was also her other golden thigh in this world as a shield.

However, the relationship between the man in front of her and his father was not very good, and she didn't know if this method would work. But apart from this method, she couldn't think of any other more useful methods.

The other two methods she had thought of before, namely, making a feint to the east and attacking in the west, and besieging Wei to save Zhao, had not made any progress. She always felt that what she had done in the past few days was just like a petulant child in Gu Yicheng's eyes, and he didn't take it to heart at all.

This made Ruan Ning feel deeply frustrated.

If this continues, she won't be able to hold on any longer.

The girl was not very good at hiding the emotions on her face, and Gu Yicheng could basically guess about 70% of what she was thinking.

"Why do you care whether he agrees or not?" Gu Yicheng's narrow eyes slightly raised, and his tone was a little more rebellious and arrogant, "It's useless for him to get angry. You know, I have never listened to him since I was a child, and he doesn't really recognize me as his son."

It seems so. It seems that Gu Huasheng's plan to put pressure on him will not work at all. When Ruan Ning heard what Gu Yicheng said, he was immediately frustrated and looked unhappy and listless.

"Ningning, are you still worried that I will do to you what I did that day? Huh?" Gu Yicheng's voice suddenly became a little hoarse. Ever since he had a taste of the girl, although it was only a brief taste, he could not forget it. Every time he wanted to get closer and closer.

When Ruan Ning heard what he said, her eyes widened and her pupils were watery. Now she didn't care whether he would see through her or not. She quickly stepped back, her face tense and on guard, "I, I'm not worried!"

Why is this person playing by the rules more and more now? Damn!

Seeing her frightened look, Gu Yicheng chuckled softly, suppressed the urge in his heart, and said slowly, "Don't worry, Ningning, I won't do anything to you again until you give me an answer. It was my fault that day, I couldn't help myself..."

So, as long as she didn't give an answer, she wouldn't have to worry about the situation she was worried about happening. Ruan Ning suddenly had an idea and thought of this possibility. She felt hopeful, but the man next to her soon ruthlessly shattered her plan with one sentence -

"I can give you some time before our team arrives at the imperial capital. I hope you can give me a satisfactory answer by then."

Gu Yicheng walked closer and closer, bent down, and met her eyes, but he didn't get too close, still keeping a distance of more than ten centimeters from the girl. But this distance made Ruan Ning feel that she had no way to retreat, and the warm breaths of the two collided with each other.

"Mr. Gu, I brought the map that we will use tomorrow--" a hearty male voice came from the side, but soon stopped suddenly.

When Ruan Ning heard the familiar voice, he came back to his senses abruptly and looked up. He then noticed that it was Xue Chen who walked in from the door with a map in his hand. He must have known that Gu Yichen was here, so he came to discuss with him the route map for the team's march tomorrow.

At this moment, he was standing there in a daze looking at them.

Seeing how close the man and the girl were, and the atmosphere between them, all of this made Xue Chen have a subtle premonition in his heart, but then he shook his head and gave up the idea. It shouldn't be possible. After all, the two of them were brother and sister in name only. How could it be like what he just thought?

He must be overthinking it.

Although he thought so, the scene he just saw still gave Xue Chen a subtle feeling in his heart.

"Mr. Gu, I didn't know you and Miss Ruan had something to talk about here. Am I disturbing you?"

"It's okay. We've finished talking here. I'll go next door with you to discuss tomorrow's affairs."

Gu Yicheng looked normal, and nothing could be revealed from his expression.

Ruan Ning's psychological quality was not as good as his. After she looked up and saw Xue Chen's figure, her heart beat very fast. This time she was completely scared.

Fortunately, this was in a room in a residential building, with only moonlight from the window shining in, and they were standing in a corner where not much light reached, otherwise her obviously abnormal facial expression would have revealed everything.

"Ningning, good night, have a good rest." Gu Yicheng instructed Ruan Ning as usual, and then followed Xue Chen to the next room.

Ruan Ning, who was left alone there, reached out and touched her hot cheeks, bit her lip, and thought of the deadline that Gu Yicheng had just told her, and fell into another dilemma.

**

The Yancheng base is located in a city bordering Province G and Province Y. After passing this city, they can enter Province Y.

The next morning, they got up before dawn and set out without any rest. They continued their journey in one go and entered the territory of Province Y that afternoon.

Province Y was the largest province they had passed through on their journey of thousands of miles from City S. It was also the last province they would pass through before entering the imperial capital.

As long as they can pass through this province smoothly, they will reach the imperial capital.

Once we reach the imperial capital, Hope Base will naturally not be far away.

In Province Y, Ruan Ning and his group met more and more survivors and survivor teams on the road who were heading to Hope Base together.

In the previous provinces, even though the Hope Base in the Imperial Capital was considered safer than other bases in the eyes of the general public, its location was simply too far away.

Therefore, many people are worried that they may die on the way before reaching the Hope Base. If this is the case, they might as well find a base closer, so that with a shelter, they will have a better chance of survival.

It is precisely because of this that most of them will be discouraged by the difficulty. There are only a few people who can really implement the plan to go to the Imperial Capital Hope Base, such as the Dawn Team. This requires not only strength but also supplies, courage and luck.

However, the situation in Province Y is quite different.

Although this province is large, there is no famous base here, so the capital of the neighboring province has become the light of hope for the survivors in this place. Each of them wants to go to the Hope Base and live a more stable life.

Rather than the survivors from Province Y, since they have already arrived in Province Y, their determination is greater than many survivors who cannot even leave their own city. Such people can be more determined to go to the imperial capital and the Hope Base.