Ruan Ning originally just wanted to close his eyes and take a short rest, but who would have thought that he actually slept for two full hours, and they were almost back to Hope Base.
I stayed up too late at the training center last night, and encountered too many zombies on the road today. I was exhausted, and I was mentally relaxed, so I fell asleep directly.
"Brother, why didn't you wake me up..." Ruan Ning rubbed her eyes, and her watery almond-shaped eyes looked at the familiar signpost not far away with a little confusion. Because she had just woken up, her voice was soft and sticky, and it sounded like she was acting coquettishly.
"I saw that you were sleeping soundly, so I didn't have the heart to disturb you." Gu Yicheng saw that she was sleeping soundly in her seat, so he naturally would not wake her up.
As for the other people in the team, Ruan Ning was one of the few girls in the Dawn Team and Captain Gu's sister, so no one would care about her resting in the car.
Even when she never got out of the car to kill zombies, no one in the team would say anything to her. Her healing ability played a much greater role and contributed to the team than killing zombies. Even when she got out of the car to kill zombies with everyone, everyone would still worry whether she would get hurt.
To some extent, it is not an exaggeration to say that Ruan Ning is the darling of the Dawn Squad.
After arriving at the Hope Base, Ruan Ning also woke up. She glanced at the flower bones next to her and paused for a moment. Oh, why does it feel like this flower is better than the one she just got from Yu Yiyi? It's time to get older.
It must be her illusion...
Ruan Ning took it without thinking too much, and at the same time put the bag of crystal cores next to the flower pot into the space, and got out of the car with the others.
During the two days they were away, the team was managed in an orderly manner by Xue Chen and nothing happened. However, a major incident occurred at Base No. 3, thousands of miles away.
At 4:30 this morning, when it was just getting light, Base No. 3 in City B was attacked by a swarm of thousands of zombies.
This is also the first time outside of China that a large base has encountered a swarm of zombies.
However, the No. 3 base was able to grow to such a large scale in the apocalypse, and its reaction and adaptability were much faster than many small and medium bases. Their patrol team discovered the zombies when they were still three miles away from the base, and sent people back to report to the base in time. They prevented the zombies from approaching the base and destroying the base's walls. They quickly assembled dozens of teams of superpowers to fight the zombies, and in less than an hour, they eliminated thousands of zombies.
Apart from the psychics who were killed or injured in the fight with the zombies, there were no other losses at Base No. 3, let alone damage to the foundation of the base.
The victory of Base No. 3 this morning brought exciting news to the surrounding bases, and even to all the bases in China. In recent days, we have heard too much about certain bases being annihilated by zombies, and our mood has been low. The victory of Base No. 3 is also a victory for mankind, which has greatly boosted the morale of the human side.
This time in the battle between humans and zombies, they finally won back a round.
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Ruan Ning placed the pot of flowers she brought back from the Chaoyang base on the balcony, poured some clean water over it, and said softly, "Just stay here and bask in the sun. I'll remember to come and water you every day."
Knowing that the mutated plant in front of him had spirituality, Ruan Ning subconsciously treated it like a child.
After she said this, the flower bud seemed to understand and came over and rubbed her fingers.
Seeing this, Ruan Ning smiled with her eyebrows curved and her eyes filled with laughter. For some reason, the more she looked at this little thing, the more she liked it. If it weren't for the colorful petals on it, this small flower bud would look like the small wild flowers that can be seen everywhere on the country roads.
However, she will not dislike it.
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After Ruan Ning placed the gift from Yu Yiyi, he went downstairs and saw that a "special" guest had come to their villa today.
"Gu Yicheng, you said you had something to do and rejected my invitation last time, but you can't be absent this time. Next Monday is my aunt's birthday, I hope you can come then." Cui Xiaoling looked at the handsome man opposite her and handed him a red gold-embossed invitation.
A hint of subtle sarcasm flashed across Gu Yicheng's eyes, and he was about to open his mouth to reject this person.
Ruan Ning walked down from the upstairs with small steps and said softly, "Brother, there are guests."
Gu Yicheng had no intention of introducing Cui Xiaoling to Ruan Ning, and casually said, "Yes, she was a former classmate of my brother."
Cui Xiaoling noticed that the man beside her had all his attention attracted by another person. She looked in the direction he was going, and saw a young girl in a black sweater and jeans. She had delicate features and porcelain-white skin. At first glance, she looked clean.
Cui Xiaoling has always been the prettiest girl in her class, even when she grew up and went to college. However, due to the special environment of the end of the world, even if she applied some expensive skin care products every day, she could not stop her skin from getting worse and worse. Although it was difficult to see anything from the outside, she could feel that it was not as smooth and delicate as before when she touched it. Fortunately, everyone else around her was like this, and there were even people who were not as good as her. She was still the most conspicuous person in the crowd. Wherever she appeared, she would definitely be the focus of everyone's attention.
However, the girl in front of her seemed to have never experienced the hardships of the end of the world. Not only did she look good, but her skin looked like a peeled egg.
There is always a competition between beautiful women, either in this aspect or that aspect. When Cui Xiaoling found that she was inferior to this man in appearance, especially in front of the person she liked, her face became much uglier. After a long time, her demeanor returned to its original reserved state, revealing a decent and generous smile.
"You must be Ruan Ning, hello. I'm Cui Xiaoling, your brother's college classmate and a friend since childhood."
Ever since she ran into Gu Yichen on the street last time and discovered that there was a girl with him whom she had never met and who seemed to be behaving very intimately, Cui Xiaoling has been trying her best to find out about this girl.
She used her connections and finally found out that Gu Yicheng actually had a sister who was not related by blood, but few people knew about it. At the same time, she also found out the girl's name. It was the same name she heard that day. In other words, the relationship between the girl and Gu Yicheng was not what she thought, but brother and sister.
However, last time, the girl was wearing a large peaked cap that covered most of her face, so Cui Xiaoling couldn't see her appearance clearly. After seeing her today, she finally understood where her sense of crisis came from last time.
——This girl is so beautiful!
She is so beautiful that even Cui Xiaoling feels jealous from the bottom of her heart when she sees her now.
She was just a person who had no blood relationship and was lucky enough to be adopted by the Gu family. Cui Xiaoling comforted herself that even after being adopted for so long, Ruan Ning was not allowed to change her name to the Gu family's, which showed that the Gu family recognized her existence. So what if she was pretty? Her family background and other aspects were much better than this person.
"Hello." Ruan Ning nodded slightly and greeted her, then pretended to be not good at speaking, smiled shyly, and never spoke to her again.
I don’t know if it’s because of the preconceived image of her as a bad person, but even though Cui Xiaoling is friendly to her now, Ruan Ning always feels that she seems to be hiding a trace of hostility towards her that she doesn’t express?
It seems that the original owner didn't know her before? And the last time when Gu Yicheng and I ran into her and another man on the street, they didn't say a word to each other.
Of course, Ruan Ning didn't want to have anything to do with this person who had plotted against Gu Yicheng in her previous life, so as to avoid having to suppress her disgust and talk to her for the sake of so-called politeness.
Just like today.
If she had known that the guest in the living room downstairs was her, she would not have chosen to come down.
"You don't mind if I call you Ningning like your brother in the future, right? Ningning, I just told your brother that I want to invite him to my aunt's birthday party. I think you have been in the base for so long and have never attended these parties. Why don't you come with your brother this time? It will be lively and there will be more people around." Cui Xiaoling did not reveal her jealousy in front of others. On the contrary, she was particularly enthusiastic about this person and even took the initiative to invite her to her aunt's birthday party.
"I may not have time next Monday." Ruan Ning declined, and at the same time felt very awkward about this person's closeness.
"Is that so?" Cui Xiaoling heard this with a hint of regret in her tone, "Then I'll leave you an invitation as well. If you're free that day, come with your brother."
Ruan Ning glanced at the person standing still as if a mountain, then nodded, indicating his agreement.
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Ruan Ning took the hot-stamped invitation that Cui Xiaoling left behind before she left, opened it and took a look at it. Thinking about what she had just said about this being her aunt's birthday, she curiously asked who Cui Xiaoling's aunt was.
"Cui Xiaoling's aunt Cui Hongzhuang is the youngest daughter of the old patriarch of the Cui family. She is only five years older than her niece. After the apocalypse, many people in the Cui family died, and the original patriarch did not survive, so she became the current patriarch..." Gu Yicheng omitted the content of the Cui family siblings fighting for power and briefly analyzed the situation with the girl beside him, "She invited everyone to her birthday this time. I'm afraid she is going to do something big."
The Cui family suffered a great loss of vitality due to the stranger, so logically they should have rested for some time. But this time they suddenly made such a big move on the birthday, there must be something fishy here.