Chapter 53 Clothes stolen, man reveals himself, it turns out to be him!
The rain gradually subsided. Looking at the time, there were still more than three hours until dark, so Zuo Shan and Pan Duole decided to go back.
The man they pulled up like a big fish was still unconscious. If they left him alone in the wild, he probably wouldn't survive.
Left with no other choice, Zuo Shan had to cut some sturdy vines covered with thick leaves and make do with a stretcher.
Two vines were tied to the front of the stretcher so that it could be dragged forward. Although the people in the wasteland were relatively strong, it was still too much for them to carry a big man for a long time.
Moreover, Pan Duole is only a ten-year-old girl, and Zuo Shan felt sorry for her if she was exhausted.
Compared to a half-dead stranger, she certainly cared more about Pandora.
The ground was covered in water. Pandora had brought rain boots, but Zuo Shan hadn't. To prevent water from getting into her plastic shoes, she had to add a layer of waterproof leaves to the soles and uppers of her shoes and tie them with hemp rope before leaving the cave.
It had just rained, and the weather was unusually cool. Zuo Shan slung a vine over his shoulder and dragged the stretcher, while Mao Li hid behind and extended his invisible mechanical arm to help push. Unaware of the situation, Pan Duole also took a thinner vine and put it on the stretcher to help.
The journey wasn't too tiring. Pan Duole chuckled and said, "Sister Fan, this man looks quite sturdy, but he's actually not very heavy. I guess his bones are light!"
The unconscious man: You're the one with weak bones! Believe me or not, I can crush you with one finger!
The baby in my belly is very active today. It started gurgling and wandering around in my belly not long after I entered the cave. However, Zuo Shan is busy and doesn't have time to pay attention to baby A Chen, so she can only let it move around.
When we were about a kilometer away from our camp, a person suddenly jumped out from under the shade of the bushes and blocked the middle of the road.
"You two, hurry up and leave him here, he's my relative!" The speaker was a burly man with a fierce face, dark yellow skin, and a mouthful of yellow teeth, quite an eyesore.
Looking at his empty half-sleeve, Zuo Shan suddenly thought of someone: "Are you Boss Tong?"
"That's right, you do have some sense. I'm in a bad mood today, so you'd better behave and get out of here!" Boss Tong puffed out his chest and glanced at Zuo Shan with a disdainful look.
Pan Duole tugged at her sleeve: "Sister Fan, give him to him, let's go!"
“You say you’re his relative, but do you know his name? When he was lucid before, he said that as long as we take him back to the base and contact his family, an ambulance will come to take him to the hospital,” Zuo Shan said, his eyes darting around.
She didn't want to hand this man over to him. She had gone to so much trouble to drag him back, and if he were taken away by Boss Tong, he would most likely be stripped naked, stabbed, and then dumped in the wilderness.
"You bitch, stop trying to fool me! He's in such a sorry state, he'll never wake up. If he were, he would have already contacted someone to pick him up."
"Judging from the high-end anti-radiation suit he's wearing, his wristwatch must also be high-end; it can connect to the internet even in high-radiation areas," Boss Tong said, pointing at Zuo Shan's nose and cursing.
He had worked in a mercenary group for many years, unlike those ignorant scavengers. He immediately noticed the loopholes in Zuo Shan's words.
"You, you, fine, all you want is his clothes, right? How about I take them off right now and let you have him? When he wakes up, I'll say he was naked when I found him," Zuo Shan pleaded.
"Alright, hurry up and strip me off, clothes, pants, and hood, not a single thing can be missing!" Old Master Tong said.
He was actually a little scared. If he accidentally killed this person, he would be in big trouble if his friends, family, or teammates came looking for him.
After all, secrets don't stay hidden forever. Killing an unconscious genetic warrior and also taking down these two scavengers from District 50 for a set of clothes isn't worth it.
It wasn't that he was afraid to kill, nor that he was merciful; rather, he was worried that some scavenger might be hiding in the shadows at that moment, and if someone witnessed this scene, the secret would no longer be a secret.
The scavengers in District 50 would secretly report him for ten silver coins, let alone the fact that he had offended many scavengers recently, who would be happy for him to die sooner.
Left with no other choice, Zuo Shan hurriedly began to undress the man. After removing his clothes and pants, she looked at Boss Tong with a miserable expression: "I really don't know how to take off this hood. Why don't you do it yourself?"
"Tch~ What an ignorant country bumpkin! Look, the key is here!" He squatted down, flipped the man's head over with one hand, and pointed to a thin line behind his ear, with a small silver protrusion near his neck.
He gently pressed on the protrusion, and the hood automatically flipped open along the fine line, allowing him to easily remove it. Holding it in his hand, he saw a thin layer that looked somewhat like the human skin mask seen on television, except it was silver.
Zuo Shan quickly turned the man's head around, and upon seeing what he did, she was so shocked she almost screamed.
Good heavens! It's...it's that Modilan Shield!
Ah Chen's biological father!
No wonder this little one has been making gurgling noises in my belly all day; it turns out he sensed the familiar bloodline.
Zuo Shan didn't know whether she should regret it now. If she hadn't been so impulsive and had let that big silver fish go, she didn't know where she would have been swept away, or even if she would be alive.
If he dies, Ah Chen will be all hers, and she won't have to worry about a biological father popping up and taking the child away from her anymore.
But he is, after all, Ah Chen's biological father. If he stands by and does nothing, what will happen when the child grows up and finds out? Will he resent her?
Definitely, she would complain too.
So she should still be saved. As long as she is careful enough, he shouldn't find out that the baby is his. After all, in the original owner's memories, he didn't open his eyes at all during that one and only time.
Tong Laoda got a set of high-grade anti-radiation clothing and left satisfied. Even if the clothes were old, they could be exchanged for at least 100,000 silver coins on the black market, which would be enough for him to live comfortably for several years.
Even if you raise another girl, it will be enough to last for at least two years. Girls in District 50 are very cheap. In the extreme cold, you can play with them as long as you give them some of the cheapest dried wild vegetables.
After Boss Tong left, Zuo Shan quickly grabbed two more burlap sacks and covered the man's naked body.
Fortunately, although people were watching her on this last stretch of road, they all turned away and scoffed when they saw that she was dragging a half-dead man.
This woman is really stupid. She was tricked into getting pregnant but refused to marry him, and then she casually rescued someone and brought him home. Not to mention anything else, the medical expenses alone could squander her last house!
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