"Ms. Ruan, your classmate has woken up."
Not long after Ruan Ning woke up, Xu Chi also woke up.
People hung a few battery-powered night lights in the unfinished building where they lived. The brightness of the night lights was just enough to allow people to see the road clearly without being too conspicuous in the dark.
When Li Bao came over to tell her the news, Ruan Ning was sitting on a chair, chin propped up, lazily watching Gu Yicheng and Xue Chen sitting around the table studying the route map.
In order to get rid of the group of little zombies during the day, their route had already deviated a little. In addition, no one knew what happened in the east. The whole street was covered with gravel and the previous road was completely blocked, so they had to temporarily change their route.
Temporary route changes are very common in the end times. Unless you have walked on it, no one will know what the current condition of a road that should have been unobstructed before the end times is like.
Fortunately, everyone had already made sufficient mental preparations for this unexpected situation, and after a short discussion, they readjusted their route for tomorrow.
Hearing that the person had woken up, Ruan Ning breathed a sigh of relief.
Since Xu Chi has awakened now, it means that he has not turned into a zombie, and he even has superpowers. She is really happy for him.
To be honest, Ruan Ning was particularly afraid that she would wake up and suddenly hear the news that this person had turned into a zombie. It was not because of her relationship with him, but because they were both human beings, and she couldn't help feeling a bit disappointed.
Seeing a normal human being turn into a zombie due to infection is a completely different feeling when it happens to someone around you and when you hear about it from others.
Ruan Ning followed Li Bao to their car. In the last row of seats, a young man with dyed yellow hair was rubbing his wrist silently with his head down. There was also a bundle of hemp rope scattered on the ground. It was the rope that Lin Yang took from their car during the day to tie someone up.
"Xu Chi, how do you feel now?" Ruan Ning asked with concern.
She never wears a mask when she is alone with the male protagonist.
When Xu Chi saw Ruan Ning, he was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't recognize who she was for a moment, and then he said, "It's just a little more bleeding, there's nothing serious wrong with your body."
When he was scratched by the zombies and then fainted on the roadside due to excessive blood loss, he was actually ready to die. He never thought that he would have a chance to wake up again. In the moment he opened his eyes, if he had not immediately realized what he was doing in the car, he would have almost thought that there really was such a place as hell in this world.
He didn't die, nor did he turn into the zombie monster that you can see everywhere on the streets nowadays!!
Before notifying Ruan Ning, Li Bao had already explained to Xu Chi the general process of rescuing him. So Xu Chi understood why he was rescued and appeared here.
Xu Chi was not very familiar with Ruan Ning, or rather, he was not familiar with anyone in the entire Class 1 of Grade 3.
Class 1 of the senior year is a key class. In No. 1 Middle School, where students are divided into classes and seated according to their academic performance, Xu Chi is an outlier. Fighting and skipping classes are common to him. He has only attended a few classes in the entire semester, and when he did, he would just lie on his seat and sleep. His reputation had spread throughout No. 1 Middle School when he transferred here as a sophomore. Most people avoided him, and a good girl like Ruan Ning would naturally not take the initiative to communicate with him.
And the last time Ruan Ning went with Qin Renhao, she was wearing a mask, so Xu Chi didn't associate her current face with her name.
"Thank you." Xu Chi had never said thank you to anyone since he was a child, so the tone of this sentence sounded a little stiff.
Ruan Ning didn't help him for the sake of his gratitude or anything. If he suddenly changed his attitude towards her 180 degrees because of this, she would feel uncomfortable.
But surprisingly, Xu Chi did not awaken his superpowers!
"Superpowers? Do you mean that I will awaken superpowers?" Xu Chi looked at the palm of his hand blankly, nothing appeared there.
It stands to reason that anyone who can survive the zombie virus will awaken superpowers. Ruan Ning is a special case, and she still doesn't know if she is a superpower. Unexpectedly, Xu Chi is even worse than her, and there is no sign of awakening superpowers at all.
At the same time, Ruan Ning didn't want to use this to hit him, so he didn't bring up the topic again and asked him about his future plans instead.
They were planning to go to City B. If Xu Chi still wanted to go back to the safe zone, they would probably part ways here tomorrow.
"I don't know. Since I haven't died at the hands of the zombies, let's find a place to settle down first." Xu Chi didn't know where to go. His parents went abroad to discuss business before the outbreak of the apocalypse. Even if they were still alive, they were so far away from each other that he didn't know if they could return to China.
Ruan Ning couldn't help but remain silent after hearing this. This situation was indeed very uncomfortable. But she was not a person who was particularly good at comforting others, so she could only end the conversation between the two of them and leave the space alone for Xu Chi.
**
The next day.
Xu Chi's mental state today is much better than yesterday. Young people have strong recovery abilities. In addition, the team uses the best medicines and there is a doctor in the team. Xu Chi's back injury was quickly brought under control.
In fact, Ruan Ning originally wanted to try her healing ability on him, to see if this ability could help others besides herself. But she was stopped by the male protagonist. He said that her healing ability has not yet fully awakened, so it is not advisable to use this ability too much.
She still had to listen to the male protagonist, so Ruan Ning could only give up the idea.
However, Xu Chi finally stayed in their team, and the male protagonist also agreed.
Ruan Ning curiously asked Gu Yicheng the reason. Gu Yicheng did not hide it and said that he had heard about Xu Chi being scratched by zombies but not awakening his superpowers. There should be a way to help him, but the conditions are not enough at present. It was also because of this that Xu Chi decided to go with the team.
Ruan Ning knew that the male protagonist had heard about this from others, and he must have seen such a situation in his previous life. It seems that the male protagonist knows something about the inside story, and maybe it was written in the book, but unfortunately she didn't read it carefully and knew nothing about it.
…
To go to City B, you definitely cannot take the highway no matter what.
So they took that path.
I don’t know where the male protagonist and his friends got so much information. Ruan Ning studied the road map of City B in the past and had no idea that there was such a route.
The team was very strong, and as long as it wasn't a mutant zombie or a large group of zombies, everyone didn't even have to get out of the car. They usually used the old method, either ramming into it directly or staying in the car and using their special powers to solve it directly.
As for the zombies that were killed, they all turned into crystal cores in Ruan Ning's space.
Holding so many crystal cores, Ruan Ning felt very satisfied. The crystal cores in her hands were not ordinary crystal cores, they were all life-saving elixirs.
After a night, her body still showed no abnormalities, nor any signs of zombification, so Ruan Ning was completely relieved. It seemed that she would not become a zombie.
And although her heart rate was still very fast, it was not as high as at the beginning. It basically remained at around 150.
Ruan Ning realized that the high heart rate did not threaten his life, so he just let it go.
In the afternoon, they drove to a gravel road that was rarely seen in the city. The road was a bit difficult to drive on, but fortunately it was wide enough to not delay their driving.
"Please, give us something to eat."
When their car passed the entrance of a village, they saw a woman standing on the side of the road. She was about thirty years old and holding a child wrapped in a quilt in her arms. Her clothes were dirty, as was her face. She looked very downcast and pitiful.
Ruan Ning glanced around the seats and found that the people in the car were indifferent, and even seemed to avoid and dislike him.
She didn't think that people were cold-hearted or anything, she just thought it was a little strange. Ruan Ning got to know everyone better after getting to know them.
She saw that even Xue Chen and the others in the car in front didn't react at all, which meant that there must be something strange about this matter.
What was strange to her was that she didn't see anything special about the woman holding the child.
Gu Yicheng saw the puzzlement in the eyes of the girl next to him, and said to Jiang Jingchao who was driving, "Chaozi, stop the car."
Jiang Jingchao glanced at the back seat in surprise, but he didn't say anything and immediately stopped the car. However, An Yi, who was standing next to him, yawned and asked, "What are you stopping for?"
By the way, because Xu Chi was sitting in Xue Chen’s team’s car, Dr. An could only sit with Ruan Ning and the others.
As soon as their car stopped, the woman standing on the road holding the child trotted over.
At Gu Ge's signal, Lin Yang rolled down the window on his side. The woman was standing next to the car and glanced at the supplies they placed next to the car seats. A trace of greed and desire flashed in her eyes. She swallowed and begged, "Little brother, you see, my child and I haven't eaten for several days. Can you give us something to eat? It doesn't matter for me as an adult, but the key is the child. He is so young. If there is no food, he will starve to death here with me..." As she spoke, the woman began to cry softly.
Ruan Ning didn't notice the clues just now, but now he sees them clearly.
She glanced at the child held by the woman, and saw that the child had not moved for a long time in her arms. Even if it was true as she said, that the child just fainted from hunger, which mother would cover the child's entire face with a quilt? Wouldn't it suffocate the child?
Unless this child has already...
Ruan Ning thought of this possibility and felt a chill in his heart.