The voice I heard was a woman's voice.
The woman struggled to her feet and tried to rush toward Li Jianguo.
Shen Zhou was originally going to knock the person unconscious with a karate chop, but after realizing she was a woman, he changed it to pinning her hands behind her back: "Don't be impulsive, we didn't mean to hurt the child!"
Hearing Chen Zhou say that he would not harm the children.
The woman finally gave up struggling, but still relentlessly shouted at Li Jianguo, "You scumbag, let go of the baby!!!"
Li Jianguo didn't immediately let go of the child. He felt that the woman in front of him was even fiercer than Yan Ling. If he let go of the child, the woman would probably go crazy again. He didn't want to hit a woman. He grabbed the child by the back of his clothes, making the child face the woman whose hands were tied behind her back by Chen Zhou, and said, "You attacked us first. We didn't say anything. How dare you call me scum?"
The woman struggled violently, the hood of her hoodie falling down to reveal her face. Her hair was completely white, and the wrinkles on her face made her look at least fifty or sixty years old: "You were the ones who trespassed on my territory first!!!"
Seeing that the woman was such an old mother-in-law.
Chen Zhou unconsciously reduced the force in his hands, afraid of breaking his mother-in-law's bones.
It's true that they hid the cruise ship in this cave.
However, no markings were made.
Moreover, they had originally stolen this cruise ship from someone else.
So now that the old woman and her grandson have settled in, it's practically their home. They, in a way, have intruded. Chen Zhou's voice softened slightly: "It's like this, the cruise ship said we were hiding here before, we didn't know you were staying here..."
The woman struggled violently as she got up.
Later, when she saw that Li Jianguo had not harmed her child, Shen Zhou even patiently reasoned with her, unlike the bad people she had encountered before.
She gave up struggling.
But more than a decade of wandering and over a year of survival in the apocalypse made her unable to trust anyone. She stubbornly asked Chen Zhou and the others, "Speak, what do you want?"
Shen Zhou wanted to say that they wanted to go back to the cruise ship, but that would leave the old woman and her grandson homeless. If it were before, he would have readily taken the cruise ship and the woman back with him. But with his past experiences, he didn't dare to take them back so easily and didn't know how to answer for a moment.
Li Jianguo didn't have many reservations: "We want a cruise ship."
Knowing she was no match for the three men in front of her, the woman, despite her reluctance to leave this place she had just found, decided to give up, hoping only to escape unscathed with her child: "As long as you don't hurt the baby, you can take the cruise ship as you please."
After releasing his grip on her, Chen Zhou said, "You can take the things inside the cruise ship."
The women lived on this cruise ship for two reasons: firstly, its location was relatively secluded, with no zombies nearby; and secondly, the ship had a seawater separator to solve their freshwater problem, as they usually ate fish and shrimp caught from the sea and had nothing worth taking with them.
The woman entered the cruise ship, packed a few changes of clothes and the last of her food, filled all the usable bottles with drinking water, and then came out, pulling her child along to leave the cruise ship.
The child, only two or three years old, cried pitifully, "I...I won't leave!!!"
The woman comforted the child as she led him down the yacht: "Good boy, don't cry. Grandma will find you a better place."
As the two were disembarking from the yacht, they bumped into Ye Jing and Yan Ling, who were about to board.
Chen Zhou looked at Ye Jing and Yan Ling, who were boarding the yacht, with some surprise: "Why are you here?"
Yan Ling went up to them: "We were worried because you haven't returned from your cruise ship for so long, so we came over!"
Ye Jing stared at the woman and child: "Who are they...?"
Li Jianguo: "They are preparing to leave now."
As Ye Jing stared at the woman and child, the woman also kept staring at Ye Jing, her gaze seemingly trying to see right through him.
The next moment, the woman suddenly let go of the child she was holding and lunged at Ye Jing.
Considering that these two people were probably kicked off the cruise ship by Li Jianguo and his group, Yan Ling was afraid that the woman would go crazy and hurt them, so she reached out and blocked Ye Jing behind her, revealing a dagger. If this woman dared to hurt anyone, she wouldn't hold back: "What do you want to do?"
The woman didn't even look at Yan Ling or the dagger in his hand, but stared straight at Ye Jing: "Do you have a butterfly birthmark on your lower back?"
Why does this person ask others if they have birthmarks as soon as they meet them?
The group looked at each other in bewilderment.
Ye Jing was the only one who was very surprised, because he did indeed have a butterfly mark on his waist, but how did this woman he had never met know about it? "Who are you? How do you know about the birthmark on my waist?"
Upon hearing the affirmative answer, the woman burst into tears, sobbing, "I'm your mother..."
Upon hearing this, everyone was taken aback again.
This woman with a full head of white hair must be in her fifties or sixties. They had never heard Ye Jing mention having a mother of such an advanced age.
Ye Jing's initial surprise turned into disgust. In his memory, his mother was young and beautiful, and even after more than ten years, she could not possibly have become an old woman.
The only possibility is that this woman wants to claim kinship and then stay with her grandson: "You're talking nonsense, my mother isn't an old lady!"
Hearing Ye Jing call her an old woman, she cried even harder: "I'm not an old woman, I'm your mother, I really am your mother!!!"
Seeing that no one believed her, the woman quickly pulled a printed photo from her pocket.
The A4-sized photo was worn and curled at the edges, and the colors had faded considerably, but it was still possible to make out that the child in the photo was three or four years old. The child's features were clearly a miniature version of Ye Jing's. Below the photo was a line of text: Ye Jing, born on June 30, 2009, went missing at the age of three years and ten months, remembers her own name and her parents' phone number, and knows that her neighborhood is called Furong Neighborhood...
Everyone was stunned when they saw this A4 sheet of paper.
This looks like a missing person notice for Ye Jing.
Ye Jing was also somewhat moved. He still clearly remembered the name of his neighborhood, which was indeed Furong Neighborhood. However, he couldn't conclude that this person was Ye Jing's mother based solely on a missing person notice.
What if this person found her on the street? "That doesn't prove you're my mother. My mother isn't that old!"
When Ye Jing called her old, the woman paused for a moment before pulling out her ID card from her wallet: "I just look a little old..."
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