The convoy arrived at the B City base in a grand procession. Lin Ruo did not follow them inside. She drove away from the convoy and parked the truck a few hundred meters away from the gate of the B City base.
Then she picked up the walkie-talkie and said to Ye Lin, "The food has been delivered. I'm waiting for you here."
Ye Lin was slightly taken aback, then picked up the walkie-talkie and replied, "Aren't you going in?"
Lin Ruo didn't say anything more, her attitude was very clear: she didn't want to enter the base and didn't want to have any involvement with the base other than a transaction.
Jiang Yue, who was driving, chuckled, "It's enough that our official base is being looked down upon like this."
Ye Lin rolled her eyes at him. She had originally wanted Lin Ruo to meet the base commander and have a chat with him, but she didn't expect that Lin Ruo wouldn't even be willing to enter the base.
He picked up the walkie-talkie and replied to Lin Ruo, "Okay, I'll send someone to bring it to you in a bit."
Lin Ruo leaned back in the driver's seat and closed his eyes to rest. Afu and Ashou had already jumped out of the car and were running and jumping around chasing each other. Although there were many people outside the B City base, they didn't care. Their owner was in the car, and they felt extremely safe.
She spread her mental energy towards the B City base, and found that more than half of the B City base was empty. Why was that?
"Are these Afu and Ashou? They've grown so much!"
A voice suddenly sounded outside. Lin Ruo recognized the voice and withdrew her mental energy, opening her eyes.
She turned her head and looked out the car window, and saw a group of people standing a dozen meters away from Afu and Ashou. Afu and Ashou ignored them and continued running away.
The other party was wrapped up tightly, but Lin Ruo used her mental power to immediately see their appearance. She raised her eyebrows slightly and realized that it was Zhao Hui and Li Wei from Longyuan.
Although she knew them, she didn't plan to get out of the car to say hello or have any further interaction with them.
But she didn't want to get out of the car to exchange pleasantries; there were always people who wanted to exchange pleasantries with her.
Li Wei had already spotted the military truck parked nearby. The point-collection system implemented at the B City base these days had caused many people in the base to consider leaving. Even some of his former teammates couldn't resist and chose to leave.
The team was short-handed, and just then he encountered Zhao Hui's team, who were facing the same problem. They hadn't met since entering the B City base and living there for half a year, but they had a dramatic encounter a few days ago.
So they decided to merge the two teams to do the mission. Unexpectedly, when they returned from the mission today, they ran into Afu and Ashou, whom they hadn't seen in a long time.
Looking at Afu and Ashou's enormous size, Li Wei sighed inwardly. It had been four months since he last saw Ashou, and they had grown so much bigger. How much mutated beast meat must they be eating every day?
“If Afu and Ashou are here, then Sister Ruo must be nearby too,” Zhao Hui said, his eyes sparkling as he walked toward the huge truck.
Li Wei tried to stop him, but Zhao Hui acted faster than he could speak, already reaching the truck door and knocking twice.
Lin Ruo rolled down the car window, looked at Zhao Hui below, and asked in a flat tone, as if he were a complete stranger, "What's up?"
Zhao Hui was taken aback, then turned to look in the direction of Li Wei behind him. Li Wei was standing still and had not followed at all. Only then did he remember Lin Ruo's departure without saying goodbye.
"Sister Ruo, do you remember me? I'm Zhao Hui. We met at Longyuan." Zhao Hui asked tentatively.
"I remember, and then?" Lin Ruo nodded, looking intently at Zhao Hui, waiting for him to continue.
Zhao Hui choked up. In this post-apocalyptic world, without any means of communication, the probability of running into acquaintances is actually very small. Just like him and Li Wei, although they both stayed in this B City base, they only recently met again.
Because of this, people would usually exchange a few pleasantries with acquaintances, but Lin Ruo didn't give off that same sense of warmth.
"Sister Ruo, I have to thank you for warning us last time, otherwise we might not be alive today."
If Lin Ruo hadn't warned them, and they hadn't sealed off the entire building, they probably wouldn't be alive today.
Lin Ruo looked away, remembering the cockroaches she had left for them. "It's nothing."
"Well..." Zhao Hui hadn't finished speaking when he heard someone call Lin Ruo's name from the side.
"Lin Ruo, you can go now."
Jiang Yue was driving a military jeep with Duan Kejia in the passenger seat. The vehicle quickly approached Lin Ruo's train and stopped with a squeak next to Zhao Hui. He opened the window and looked at Lin Ruo.
Lin Ruo nodded, "I understand."
She turned to Zhao Hui and said, "I have something to do, I'll be going now."
After saying that, she looked up at Afu and Ashou, who were still playing, and said, "Afu and Ashou, let's go!"
Afu and Ashou, who had been sniffing something on the ground with their heads down, suddenly perked up their ears upon hearing this and ran towards Lin Ruo's direction.
As the giant mutated beast drew ever closer, Zhao Hui silently took two steps back. The gap between them and Lin Ruo was already like a chasm, insurmountable and insurmountable; they were from two different worlds.
Afu and Ashou quickly jumped into the car. Ashou even barked twice at Lin Ruo to let her know they were seated properly.
Jiang Yue felt a surge of desire as he watched. These two dogs were truly intelligent and perceptive, even more so than the military dogs at the base.
Lin Ruo also heard Ah Shou's call, chuckled twice, then started the truck and drove at the front.
Jiang Yue's car followed closely behind, and the two cars quickly disappeared from everyone's sight.
At this moment, Li Wei walked over and patted the somewhat dejected Zhao Hui, "Do you know who that man was just now?"
Zhao Hui nodded. He had been in this base for half a year, so how could he not know Jiang Yue? "His name is Jiang Yue. After Ye Lin became the deputy base commander, all of his soldiers were handed over to Jiang Yue."
Li Wei patted him on the shoulder again and said earnestly, "Didn't you see how Jiang Yue treated Lin Ruo just now? His eyes were full of admiration when he looked at Lin Ruo. How is that any different from those people who followed you in Longyuan before?"
"If someone like this treats Lin Ruo like this, then Lin Ruo and we are no longer from the same world. She has her own path."
Zhao Hui is a very smart person. This can be seen from the fact that he was able to seize the opportunity to recruit his own team at the very beginning of the apocalypse. He must understand the reason behind it.
He opened his mouth and smiled at Li Wei, "I naturally understand this principle, Brother Li, don't worry, I won't overestimate myself and try to get close to him."
"I was just thinking that since Sister Ruo is also a superhuman, maybe there's a possibility of a deal between us."
Li Wei nodded, feeling somewhat relieved. He felt that the past few months at Longyuan hadn't left any mark on Lin Ruo's heart. She was someone who hated trouble, and if Zhao Hui kept clinging to her, she would definitely kill him without hesitation.
Lin Ruo drove quickly towards the northern suburbs. Once she got the grain, she could go home. These past few days had been absolutely terrible!
After nearly two hours of driving, Lin Ruo used her mental energy to find an empty office building and parked the car. Jiang Yue, following behind, naturally stopped as well.
After getting out of the car, he looked around. What kind of place was this? The building wasn't tall, and it was located in the far corner of the northern suburbs. Did Lin Ruo live here?
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