The next day, just as dawn was breaking, Chi Xiaoyu began fiddling with the parts inside her backpack.
Qiao An'an went to the fifth-floor rooftop to observe the situation in the safe zone, so as not to miss the rescue vehicles coming out of the safe zone.
Ya Ya sat obediently next to Qiao An'an, holding a comic book she had picked up from the school library. She didn't know many words, and when she encountered a word she didn't recognize, she would tug at Qiao An'an's sleeve and ask, "Mommy, how do you pronounce this word?"
Qiao An'an patiently explained to her: "This character is pronounced 'feng,' meaning 'abundant harvest.' In autumn, farmers harvest the grain they planted throughout the year, filling the granaries to the brim, which is called a bountiful harvest."
Ya Ya nodded, then carefully read the character "δΈ°" three times and four times to make sure she recognized it before continuing to read.
While Qiao An'an and Ya Ya were observing the safe zone from the rooftop.
Grandpa Yan had already had a good sleep and was now up and had prepared breakfast for everyone. Ye Jing skipped over to the rooftop and called out, "Sister An'an, time to eat!"
Qiao An'an pushed Ya Ya next to Ye Jing: "Someone needs to guard this place during the day. It would be bad if we didn't see the people from the safe zone come out. You take Ya Ya down to eat first, and then I'll take over after you've finished eating."
Zombies are extremely sensitive to light.
Driving at night without lights makes it difficult to see, so under normal circumstances, no one would drive at night and would choose to go out during the day.
Therefore, if people in the safe zone want to come out to rescue others, they will only do so during the daytime.
Ye Jing nodded.
After taking Ya Ya downstairs, he ran back up shortly after. Qiao An'an noticed that there was still a fine layer of sweat on his forehead, indicating that he had run up there in a frenzy: "Sister An'an, let me take over for you."
Qiao An'an quickly shook her head: "Come up after you've finished eating."
Ye Jing: "I've finished eating."
Qiao An'an was a little surprised. So fast?
After Qiao An'an went downstairs, Grandpa Yan handed her the warmed rice: "That brat Ye Jing didn't eat much so he could go up and relieve you sooner. I've almost finished eating too, so I'll take the rest of the rice up to him."
At first, Qiao An'an really disliked Ye Jing and even considered sending him away. Now, she thinks it was the right decision not to send Ye Jing away. This child not only didn't go astray but also learned to care about others: "This child lied to me and said he was full in order to take my place. Then I'll trouble Grandpa Yan to send him over."
While Qiao An'an was eating, Yan Ling and Chi Xiaoyu had also almost finished eating. After finishing her meal, Yan Ling went back to her room. She hadn't practiced her boxing for a long time, and she felt that her technique when killing zombies yesterday wasn't as refined as before. She planned to practice her boxing for a while in her room.
After finishing breakfast, Chi Xiaoyu continued to study communication equipment.
Only Qiao An'an, Ya Ya, and Xu Ruoyu remained at the dinner table.
Ya Ya ate very quickly, and after she was full, she went to Chi Xiaoyu's room to find Chi Xiaoyu: "I want to see Sister Xiaoyu assemble things."
Qiao An'an reminded Ya Ya: "What Sister Xiaoyu is doing is very important to us. You can go and see it, but you can't disturb Sister Xiaoyu."
Ya Ya: "I promise I won't bother you."
Although Ya Ya is a little younger than Xu Ruoyu, Xu Ruoyu has become Ya Ya's follower these days. When she saw Ya Ya about to leave, she immediately followed and said, "I want to go too."
Ya Ya said with disdain, "You cry too easily, don't follow me."
Xu Ruoyu pouted, about to cry again.
Qiao An'an was afraid that if she really started crying, it would attract all the zombies nearby. Although the doors to the hall and all the security doors were locked, it wouldn't be enough to stop a large number of zombies from rushing in. She quickly pulled Xu Ruoyu and said, "Auntie has comic books in her room. Why don't you come with me to her room and read some comics?"
With red eyes, Xu Ruoyu shook her head frantically: "No, I want to play with Yaya."
Yan Ling heard Xu Ruoyu's voice from inside the room. She impatiently poked her head out and said, "If you don't want to go to the room with Aunt An'an to read comic books, then come in here!"
Xu Ruoyu was very afraid of Yan Ling.
She went straight into the room with Qiao An'an: "I'm going to read comic books."
After everyone had finished eating, and when Grandpa Yan came downstairs to clean up, Li Jianguo finally got out of bed. After getting up, he started looking for food on the table: "Where's my breakfast?"
Grandpa Yan put the empty self-heating rice and instant noodle cup into a plastic bag: "I thought you weren't going to eat them, so I didn't heat them up for you."
Li Jianguo took out a box of self-heating rice from his backpack where he kept his food and started heating it up himself: "I just got up a little late, and you won't even heat up my food?"
Grandpa Yan: "Can't you get up earlier?"
Li Jianguo: "I also want to get up early, but you snore so loudly at night. If we didn't live on the fifth floor, I would suspect that zombies could be attracted by your snoring. It's one thing to snore, but you also set a rhythm, sometimes high, sometimes low, sometimes whistling. It's so noisy that I can't sleep at all. I only fall asleep when it's almost dawn. How can I get up early?"
Grandpa Yan simply couldn't believe he snores: "I used to sleep in the car, and I never heard them say I snore. Why are you making such a fuss?"
Li Jianguo scoffed: "Is it possible that you're afraid the car will be attacked by zombies, so you're too scared to sleep soundly?"
Grandpa Yan scratched his head: "Really?"
Ye Jing stood guard on the rooftop for two hours, and Yan Ling came to relieve him after finishing his boxing practice.
Not long after Yan Ling stood on the rooftop, she saw several cars driving towards the safe zone in the distance. She excitedly said to Ye Jing, "Quickly, go and call everyone up!"
Ye Jing immediately went downstairs and called everyone up.
Qiao An'an and the others carefully examined the cars driving towards them. They saw that the tires of those cars were as tall as a person, and the bodies of the cars were made of very sturdy steel plates. The whole car looked like a large tank. It was obviously a specially treated anti-zombie vehicle. People with such advanced equipment must be from the relevant departments.
Just as everyone was about to ask a passing car for help.
Chi Xiaoyu, with her sharp eyes, noticed that the person sitting in one of the cars was her father, Chi Ming. She reminded Qiao An'an and the others, "Take a look at the person in the second car."
Everyone followed Chi Xiaoyu's gaze and looked over. Apart from Grandpa Yan and the two children, everyone else was shocked.
Unexpectedly, Chi Ming, who deliberately abandoned Nan Qiao and the others, is still alive.
He was even sitting in a car with the search and rescue personnel from Beijing.
Li Jianguo was terrified by the people in J City: "Could the people in the capital's safe zone be bad people too?"
Qiao An'an squinted at the car approaching them and gestured for everyone to crouch down to avoid being seen by the people in the car: "The relevant departments can't be bad people, but the people below can be. What I mean is it's best not to expose us now."
Yan Ling agreed with Qiao An'an's words: "I agree too. A few days ago, the broadcast from the capital said that the relevant departments severely punished a group of people who abandoned their teammates. Now that we have been exposed, Chi Ming may use underhanded tactics to eliminate us in order to cover up the crimes he committed back then."
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