When Qin Renhao heard Ruan Ning say that she would not go back to the safe zone with them, but would go directly to the imperial capital, he exclaimed in surprise, "Are you going to leave the safe zone and never come back?!"

"Hmm." Ruan Ning looked at him puzzledly, not understanding why he had such a big reaction.

Qin Renhao finally calmed down his inner shock, but he was still a little out of shape. A trace of disappointment flashed in his eyes, and he said in a daze: "I thought you were just out on a mission like me, going to the imperial capital... that should be very far..."

If Ruan Ning stayed in the safe zone, then as long as they were both alive, they would meet sooner or later. But if the person in front of him went to the imperial capital, then the possibility of them meeting again in this life was really close to zero.

"The capital is quite far from S City, but I have reasons to go there." Ruan Ning said. She had to follow the lead of the male protagonist unswervingly.

Qin Renhao looked at the girl beside him with a complicated expression, and moved his lips. In the end, he did not say out the obscure thoughts in his heart, but changed the topic and said, "Then I wish you a safe journey."

If it weren't for this predicament, perhaps Qin Renhao would have told Ruan Ning all about his love for her, but what other use would it have if he said it now except to cause trouble to the other party?

His parents were still in critical condition, so he had to stay in the safe zone of City S and wait for news from them. So he couldn't go to the capital with her, and he had no right to ask her to stay, and he didn't have enough ability to protect her.

Moreover, Qin Renhao could see that Ruan Ning had not yet developed the same feelings for him as he had for her. Although he was somewhat unwilling, it was best not to say it out loud.

"Then I'll take your good wishes." Ruan Ning gladly accepted Qin Renhao's blessing.

She didn't continue chatting with him for too long. Before leaving, Ruan Ning gave the remaining iodine and Yunnan Baiyao to Qin Renhao. She thought he might be able to use these medicines in the future.

But she hoped that he would not have the opportunity to use this again.

…

During the time when Ruan Ning was applying medicine to Qin Renhao, the pile of junked cars blocking the road had been cleared by the strength-type psychic to create a passable road. As long as their team finished repairs, they could immediately set off for the gas station.

Because they were outside, zombies could appear at any time, and the conditions were no more convenient than in the safe zone, so they did not set up a iron pot to cook lunch today. Instead, they just had a quick meal, eating bread and biscuits with water like everyone else.

The bread they eat after the apocalypse is not the kind sold in cake shops with a shelf life of only two or three days and sprinkled with a thick layer of meat floss or icing sugar. Instead, it is the ordinary small bread sold in supermarkets, which is fortunately filled with a lot of preservatives, otherwise it would have expired long ago.

But in a few months, no one will care whether the food is spoiled or not. As long as there is food to eat and it can fill the stomach, who cares whether the food will give you diarrhea after eating it?

The more Ruan Ning thought about it, the more pitiful he felt that he had traveled to such a world.

She found a quiet corner in the car 4S store where no one was and sat down, eating the small bread in front of her with a listless look on her face, which had only a little sweetness.

Alas! When will this kind of life end?

Originally, Ruan Ning had slowly gotten used to this kind of hard life in the apocalypse, and she would not choke even when eating coarse grains. However, ever since she drank the seafood porridge sent by the hero that night and tasted the delicious taste again, her delicate stomach began to rebel again.

Just like now, Ruan Ning felt that this bread was really not delicious at all, dry and she couldn’t tell what it tasted like... She really wanted to take out the snacks stored in the space to suppress her surprise.

Ruan Ning knew that he couldn't eat much, and was afraid of wasting food, so he only took a bag of bread from the car, and didn't even bother to add the jam next to it. Anyway, it was just to fill his stomach, so what else could he do? He would just eat it in batches.

Halfway through the meal, Ruan Ning thought to herself that the compressed biscuits eaten by the rescue team were much more unpalatable than the bread in her hand. Ruan Ning had also put away a lot of them when she went to the supermarket because she heard that they were easy to fill up. But the taste was really hard to describe.

"Why are you alone here?" A magnetic voice with a hint of smile sounded from above, and Gu Yicheng appeared in front of Ruan Ning without knowing when.

Why does the male lead walk silently?

"Brother." Ruan Ning tilted her head slightly and looked at the man who was still much taller than her when he sat down.

"Is the bread not tasty?" When Gu Yichen was there, he noticed that she had not finished the bread in her hand after almost ten minutes.

No one else in the team complained, so even if Ruan Ning really couldn't eat it, he couldn't say it out loud.

So she shook her head and said, "No."

Ruan Ning sighed and stuffed the remaining half of the bread into his mouth. He swallowed it without even chewing it.

Then, she choked.

"Cough! Cough cough!" Ruan Ning coughed painfully several times, and a few physiological tears welled up in the corners of her eyes. At that moment, she felt that all the air in her lungs was almost coughed away by her.

Gu Yicheng frowned, squeezed the bottle of mineral water next to him and handed it to her. At the same time, he patted Ruan Ning on the back to comfort her and said helplessly, "Eat slowly. No one is competing with you for the food."

I'm not afraid that you will rob me, I'm just worried about your well-being.

Ruan Ning took several sips of water before he finally swallowed the food that was stuck in his esophagus and he hadn't had time to swallow it.

"How come you are still so impatient even though you are so old?" Gu Yicheng said, handing her the canned fruit he had prepared. "Didn't you say you wanted to eat canned fruit? Here it is for you."

…and her favorite flavor is yellow peach.

But how did he know that I like to eat this?

Ruan Ning suddenly remembered that she seemed to have mentioned casually in the car before that she wanted to eat canned food, and it would be even better if it was yellow peach flavored.

Many brands in this world, including food, are almost the same as those in the real world. Ruan Ning has eaten this brand of canned food in the real world before, and it tastes sweet and refreshing.

Ruan Ning stared at the can of yellow peaches in the male protagonist's hand for a long time, feeling a little conflicted.

In the end times, not many people would choose to collect canned food, which is fragile and difficult to store. Just like Xue Chen and his friends, they only took some light and easy-to-carry food and did not pay much attention to the taste.

The shops nearby are all related to car repair, so there is no way you can find canned yellow peaches there.

This was probably taken from the male protagonist's space.

It is said that a person who has received a favor will be soft-hearted, and a person who has received a favor will be grateful... But she has no idea how many good things the male protagonist has used, so this time shouldn't be a big deal, right?

Ruan Ning successfully convinced herself with this reason, and then took the can from the male protagonist with a smile on her face.

She decided that she must be nicer to the male protagonist in the future!

This man is simply Doraemon walking in the end times.

*****

After having enough rest, Ruan Ning and his group had to hurry up and set off.

Before leaving, Qin Renhao came over and gave Ruan Ning something.

It was a amulet, which he said was given to her as a thank you gift for treating his wound just now. He hoped that the amulet could protect her from getting to the imperial capital safely.

He said so, Ruan Ning seemed to have no reason to refuse this gift. So she could only wear the amulet around her neck under Qin Renhao's hopeful gaze.

Qin Renhao stood there, watching Ruan Ning get into the car with a lost look on his face, and then the car left his sight.

However, when he thought that there would be a amulet to replace him by her side in the future, Qin Renhao's sense of loss was alleviated a little.

I really hope they can meet again one day.

…

Maybe the road was not smooth today. They had not driven far this time before they encountered a small problem and had to stop.

"Captain, there seems to be a person lying in the middle of the road."

After the apocalypse, the most common thing people saw was corpses.

Xue Chen was just about to say that there was nothing to be surprised about when he heard Dacheng, who was driving the car, add, "It seems that this person is still alive."

Xue Chen looked through the windshield in front of the car. The person lying on the ground as Dacheng mentioned had a normal human complexion on the exposed half of his face, without the swelling and ugliness of a zombie.

However, the blackened wounds on this man's back, caused by zombie scratches, were also very obvious.

Even though Xue Chen had seen many deaths and lives in the past half month, he still couldn't kill a person who might turn into a zombie in advance. But he couldn't save everyone.

Xue Chen sighed and said, "Move him to the side of the road, and then... put some food and water next to him. If this man is lucky enough to survive, these supplies should be useful to him."

Although not all people who are scratched will turn into zombies, in the final analysis, those who are able to avoid being infected are the minority.

Just like Xie Fei before, when he was scratched by zombies, even though Mr. Gu said he might not be infected, everyone in the team had already prepared for the worst.

Now that this boy, who looked even younger than Xie Fei, had been scratched by a zombie, he was probably in serious danger.

Ruan Ning had not taken it seriously when he heard Xue Chen say on the intercom that someone was lying in the middle of the road and they were going to go down to deal with it. It was not until he caught a glimpse of the person lying on the ground and thought he looked familiar that he quickly said, "Wait, I know this person!"

The walkie-talkie was not turned off yet, and Ruan Ning's voice could be heard in the car over there.

At the same time, the three people in the car she was in also looked at her. Ruan Ning smiled sheepishly and explained, "His name is Xu Chi, and he is my classmate."

Ruan Ning didn't expect that in just a few hours today, she would meet two people she knew in two different places.