Chapter 56 Thoughts
After the fog cleared, the convoy set off again.
"They want to change knives?"
Qiao Yu was held in Jiang Zhan's arms, eating ice cream with Luo Zhenzhen while listening to Cheng Sinian talking about Pan Yu coming to see him today.
"Yes." Cheng Sinian was driving, afraid that Qiao Yu couldn't hear clearly, so he tilted his head slightly, "I didn't refuse, but I told her that I need to talk to you about this matter."
Qiao Yu scooped a spoonful of matcha ice cream into Jiang Zhan's mouth and asked Cheng Sinian casually, "What do you think?"
"Me?" Cheng Sinian asked uncertainly, "Are you asking about the knife-changing issue, or about these three people?"
"Ask all of them."
Pan Yu discussed this matter directly with Cheng Sinian. With Cheng Sinian's insight, it was impossible that he had not observed anything.
"I think it's okay to exchange knives. Since they said they want to help, let them help. Besides, they don't take the knives for nothing. Although we are not short of supplies, we should not refuse something that is delivered to our door! As for people..." Cheng Sinian curled his lips, "They are clever, but their intentions are not very upright. It's better to be on guard against them."
"What a coincidence." Qiao Yu spoke a little unclearly with ice cream in his mouth, "I thought so too."
Qiao Yu and Jiang Zhan rarely got out of the car along the way. Even if there were alien species, as long as there were not many, they would basically let Lin Yingjie and his team deal with them. At most, Cheng Sinian and Luo Zhenzhen would get out of the car to help.
Jiang Zhan wasn't one to listen to gossip, and Cheng Sinian wasn't the type to bother caring... So after bringing Fang Lin and the others out of the gas station, Qiao Yu knew very little about them except for Luo Zhenzhen occasionally telling her some gossip.
But even so, Qiao Yu still found clues in Luo Zhenzhen's retelling.
——They seem to always be around men.
According to common sense, women are more likely to resonate with each other.
But Fang Lin and the others, no matter what problems they have, will avoid women and turn directly to men for help.
If it happens once or twice, it can be said to be a coincidence, but if it happens every time, it is something that makes people think deeply.
Their behavior made Qiao Yu feel that they were doing two things - gathering information and establishing an image.
First, find out as much information as possible about all the male mutants in the team, and then establish an image in front of them that best suits their taste.
Then the ultimate goal is self-evident.
"But I have some doubts about one thing." Cheng Sinian recalled Pan Yu's obvious emotional ups and downs when he mentioned Qiao Yu to her. "Do they...have sex with both men and women?"
"...Hmm?" Qiao Yu was stunned. Could it be that her previous analysis was wrong?
Can't it?
They don't look alike...
Qiao Yu frowned, "Why do you have such a guess?"
"Actually, it might not be the three of them, but just Pan Yu. Because when I mentioned you to Pan Yu today, her expression was a little..."
Cheng Sinian was halfway through his speech when he suddenly felt a chill on his back, so he wisely shut up and held back the word "ripples" that he had not yet uttered.
Jiang Zhan's eyes were gloomy.
He quickly extracted the key point from Cheng Sinian's words: there was a woman who wanted to snatch Qiao Yu from him.
"Ah Zhan, don't be angry, don't be angry..." Qiao Yu turned around and hugged Jiang Zhan's neck, smiling ingratiatingly, "Don't listen to Cheng Sinian's nonsense, he must have seen it wrong!"
“…”Okay, he’s the one taking the blame again.
So, under Qiao Yu's persistent questioning, the four decided to keep a close eye on the movements of these three women in the future.
Especially the woman named Pan Yu.
"That knife... do we need to change it?" Luo Zhenzhen asked softly while biting the spoon.
"Change it." Qiao Yu nodded, with a somewhat sarcastic look on her face, "If they don't change it, they won't be able to continue this play."
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In the evening, the convoy arrived at today's camp.
At Qiao Yu's instruction, Luo Zhenzhen and Cheng Sinian took three machetes and went to negotiate with the three women.
"Here are the knives." Luo Zhenzhen held three knives in one hand and placed them in front of them. "What do you want to exchange for them?"
Before coming here, Qiao Yu told them that Luo Zhenzhen should be the one taking the lead in this transaction.
Before Fang Lin and the others spoke to Cheng Sinian, he just had to observe quietly.
Fang Lin glanced at Cheng Sinian, who was standing silently behind Luo Zhenzhen, and took out the bag she had prepared in advance and handed it to Luo Zhenzhen. "Here are five cans of luncheon meat, five cans of canned fruit, and ten bags of instant noodles. Can we use these to exchange?"
Luo Zhenzhen opened the bag and took a look, confirming that the quantity was correct, but only gave them two knives.
"These things can only be exchanged for two knives. If you want to exchange them for three, you must add at least two cans of luncheon meat, two cans of canned fruit, and five bags of instant noodles."
Qiao Yu said that in order to leave a good impression on them, the three of them would definitely not "bid" too low, so she only needed to "increase the price" by about half on the basis of the items they offered.
"This..." Fang Lin widened her eyes when she heard this, as if she didn't expect they would ask for so much.
These things have been their food rations for more than a week.
They hadn't taken much from the gas station to begin with. Qiao Yu only gave the three of them enough to last them two months.
She was really reluctant to ask them for so many supplies at once.
“Isn’t it a bit too expensive?”
Although Fang Lin was speaking to Luo Zhenzhen, her eyes were glancing towards Cheng Sinian, with a hint of pleading in her expression.
Luo Zhenzhen's expression darkened slightly upon seeing this. She shifted her body, blocking Fang Lin's view, and said coldly, "I've already set the price. It's up to you whether you want to change it or not."
When Cheng Sinian saw Luo Zhenzhen standing in front of him, his heart was moved and his mouth suddenly felt a little itchy.
But thinking of Qiao Yu's instructions, Cheng Sinian felt that for now he should try his best to be mute for a while.
The three of them looked at the sullen Luo Zhenzhen and the silent Cheng Sinian, and their hearts gradually sank.
After a moment of silence, Fang Lin turned and exchanged glances with Wei Sisi and Pan Yu. Finally, she gritted her teeth and nodded, "Let's switch!"
It’s okay if it’s a bit more expensive.
Fang Lin comforted herself in her heart: weapons are a scarce resource, so it is understandable that they ask for a high price.
What's more... As the saying goes: You can't catch a wolf without risking the child!
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When Luo Zhenzhen and Cheng Sinian returned to the RV with the exchanged supplies, Qiao Yu was nestled in Jiang Zhan's arms reading a comic book.
There are many different kinds of books in her space, all prepared by Jiang Zhan before the end of the world. She would flip through them when she had nothing to do to pass the time.
When Qiao Yu saw them put the things they were holding on the table, he flipped through them.
"Zhenzhen, you can do it!" Qiao Yu's expression was somewhat relieved. "I was worried that you would be soft-hearted, but I didn't expect you to complete the task so well!"
"you do not say."
Cheng Sinian pulled Luo Zhenzhen to sit beside his bed, and with a sly smile on his face, he chimed in, "Our Zhenzhen is amazing."
"We are Zhenzhen."
The deep and magnetic voice carries Cheng Sinian's unique lazy tone, sounding like the whispers between lovers.
Luo Zhenzhen awkwardly scratched the corner of her clothes, her ears reddening as she unskillfully changed the subject: "Qiao, Sister Qiao, they just asked if we could teach them how to kill aliens..."
Qiao Yu stuffed a grape into his mouth and said, "Okay, since they want to learn, then I'll teach them."
Luo Zhenzhen was slightly stunned. "How do I teach?"
Can't this thing just be dealt with by chopping it with a knife?
Qiao Yu chuckled softly, "Zhenzhen, do you know why many people who originally couldn't swim suddenly learned to swim just by being thrown into a river or sea and taking a few sips of water?"
“Because practice makes perfect?”
"Yes, but not entirely." Qiao Yu smiled meaningfully. "Practice is certainly important, but more importantly, the instinct for survival will unleash the human body's enormous potential."
So to kill alien species, just have more contact with them.
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