Chapter 66 Missing
Qiao Yu was thinking about Dr. Yu when she suddenly noticed Jiang Zhan pinching her waist.
Qiao Yu came back to her senses and looked at Jiang Zhan, thinking that he was dissatisfied with her for ignoring him for several minutes. Just as she was about to explain, she heard the sound of running in front of her, and a panicked male voice came into her ears:
"Oh no—Dr. Yu is missing!"
"What?" The village chief's face changed drastically. He pushed the man away and hurriedly ran to the center of the village.
Most of the villagers who were originally following Qiao Yu and the others also ran away with the village chief, leaving only five people who stopped with Qiao Yu and the others with anxious looks on their faces.
More panicked cries were faintly heard in the distance.
Qiao Yu, Cheng Sinian and Luo Zhenzhen all looked at Jiang Zhan immediately with questioning eyes.
Jiang Zhan smiled at Qiao Yu and glanced upwards suggestively.
Sky?
Qiao Yu was silent for a while, and her beautiful eyes suddenly widened.
It's that Eagle variant!
Why did he kidnap Dr. Yu?
Cheng Sinian raised his head slightly and looked at the sky with a complicated expression, obviously thinking about a similar question.
"Why did Dr. Yu disappear?"
Qiao Yu soon heard the deliberately lowered voices of the five villagers talking to each other.
"What should we do? Dr. Yu is missing. What should we do? The medicine is all with Dr. Yu..."
"Shh—stop talking! Be quiet and wait for the village chief to come back..."
Haha, I was so worried that I didn’t even go with him.
Qiao Yu sneered in his heart, these people were indeed left behind by the village chief to monitor them.
But... I just heard them mention "medicine".
What medicine? Did Dr. Yu do any drug research here?
"Boss Qiao..." Qiao Yu's contemplation was interrupted by Deng Minglang's slightly anxious voice, "Look at this..."
Qiao Yu followed his gaze and glanced at Lin Yingjie, Lin Chi, and Lin Han, who were being carried by the Lin family. He sighed inwardly, "Let's get back to the car first."
Judging from the situation, they probably won’t be able to see Dr. Yu today.
When the five villagers who stayed behind saw them about to leave, a man in gray immediately stopped them, saying, "No, you can't leave!"
Another man pointed his gun at Qiao Yu and shouted, "Dr. Yu disappeared just after you entered the village. Maybe you're the one behind this!"
? Black eats black?
Qiao Yu put his hands into the hem of his down jacket, put his back behind his back, pretended to take out two guns from his waist, and pointed the two black muzzles of the guns at the man without fear, with a stern expression on his face.
She hated it most when someone pointed a gun at her. Who were they trying to scare?
"I advise you to put down your gun now."
Qiao Yu's voice was cold and threatening. Her eyes narrowed slightly, and her expression was somewhat cruel.
The other party obviously didn't expect Qiao Yu to have a gun in his hand. The man was frightened by the aura emanating from Qiao Yu, his body stiffened, and he took two steps back in fear.
He glanced over and saw Jiang Zhan staring at him with the same gloomy expression. His scalp went numb and his hands began to tremble.
"I say..." Cheng Sinian stood behind Qiao Yu with his hands in his pockets, glancing at them with a sidelong glance, his tone full of sarcasm, "I don't know who forced us to leave, and now they have the nerve to say it was us who did it?"
As soon as Cheng Sinian finished speaking, the man's gun was pressed down by the man in gray.
"Let's talk it over, let's talk it over..." The gray-clothed man changed his previous arrogant attitude and said to Qiao Yu in a gentle voice: "This... Boss Qiao, my brother was in a hurry and offended many people. Please don't make a fuss about it. We..."
"Bang bang bang bang—"
Without waiting for him to finish his words, Qiao Yu pointed the gun downwards and fired several shots at the feet of the five people.
The deafening gunshot and the warmth of the bullet approaching their ankles frightened them so much that they quickly retreated, looking at Qiao Yu in horror.
After Qiao Yu finished firing, he ignored their reactions and sneered at them, saying, "If you don't want us to get back to the car, then find us a place to rest. Why are you just leaving us hanging here? Is this the way Dama Village treats guests?"
Before the apocalypse, Dama Village was a poor village with poor transportation. It was a small village nestled in the mountains at the border of two provinces.
There aren't many big game animals in the mountains, and the crime rate around here wasn't high before the apocalypse. Guns shouldn't exist.
The man holding the gun was holding a sniper rifle, but his posture was not professional, and he didn't even pull the safety.
Their reactions to the shooting were also very panicked, and they didn't look like they used guns often.
This can only mean one thing - these guns did not originally belong to them.
"Ah... Oh! Okay, okay!" The five men were obviously frightened by Qiao Yu's ferocity. They didn't dare to refute at all. They nodded their heads like pounding garlic, fearing that they would anger this yaksha again.
But it was also an unexpected gain.
The five of them were still worrying about how to keep Qiao Yu and the others, but they didn't expect that they would take the initiative to propose it.
Qiao Yu put away his gun and asked them to lead the way.
This group of people must have some purpose in wanting to keep them.
Looting supplies? Or looting people?
Qiao Yu didn't know.
But since the village chief has already extended a "warm invitation", they have no choice but to "decline it with disrespect".
Several villagers took Qiao Yu and his friends to a house not too far from the village entrance.
There are exactly three rooms in this house.
Three families, one house each.
"No one lives in this house. The three rooms are idle and you can use them as you like." The man in gray used the key to help them open the door, but he stood at the door and did not go in.
"It's already very late, and the daybreak is almost here. Everyone, please go to bed early. Something happened in the village today. If we haven't been able to provide you with adequate hospitality, please forgive us..."
After the man in gray finished speaking, he took the four villagers away and never mentioned treating Lin Yingjie and the others' injuries.
That’s right, after all, Dr. Yu is missing.
There was a large earthen kang in the room that could accommodate five or six adults, and it was covered with some old sheets.
Jiang Zhan frowned, a hint of disdain flashed in his eyes, and he said to Cheng Sinian and Luo Zhenzhen indifferently: "The bed is yours."
Then a double capsule-shaped space bed was placed in the open space in front of the earthen kang.
“…”
The three of them were stunned.
"Do you like it?" Jiang Zhan glanced at Qiao Yu, who was also stunned in the same place, and found it adorable. He took her over and kissed her on the cheek, explaining, "I saw it while preparing supplies and thought it might be useful, so I bought it. I just forgot to tell you."
"I like it." Qiao Yu came back to his senses, nodded, and a sweet smile appeared on his face.
Jiang Zhan looked at her lovingly, kissed her forehead again, and said softly, "Go play, I'll make the bed first."
“…”
Cheng Sinian also disliked the earthen kang. Due to the lack of water, the sheets couldn't be washed, so they looked unclean.
Cheng Sinian thought about it and took out a pile of plastic bags from the space.
He unfolded the plastic bag and spread it flat on the earthen kang, then took out a thick double mattress from the space and placed it on top.
Cheng Sinian stood in front of the mattress, shaking out the sheets and saying to Luo Zhenzhen beside him, "You go and play too. I'll make the bed."
“…”
So the two idle "kids" started strolling around together.
Qiao Yu first looked around the house casually and found that someone must have lived in it before.
There are many daily necessities in the house, and there is almost no dust.
Many of the tools bore relatively recent signs of use, suggesting they had been in use no more than two weeks prior.
While delivering medicine to the Lin family, Qiao Yu also took a look around their house.
Traces of more recent habitation were also discovered.
Qiao Yu's brows furrowed slightly again.
After the plants mutated, most of the houses on the ground were severely damaged.
When Qiao Yu first entered the village, he took a quick look and saw that there were indeed many collapsed houses around.
Dama Village had no alien or mutant beasts, so the current population should be relatively stable. Furthermore, compared to other places, the number of survivors here was not small.
Correspondingly, the number of houses should be very tight for the villagers of Dama Village.
But the villager who had just brought them in said... all three rooms in this house were vacant...
The housing supply is obviously very limited and the houses show signs of recent use, so why are they idle?
And where did the people who lived here go before it was idle?
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