"Not really." Lin Tantan said.
"We met once," the man replied. He looked at Lin Tan and said, "After that day, I took your advice and found a place to rest. It was a great experience. I wanted to find you later. If I had known you were here, I would have come here sooner."
Ye Xiao at the side: "..." One of his antennae went up, he squinted slightly and examined the man, he was less than 30 years old, good looking, and had a good temperament. Compared with those college students, although he was a bit older, he was obviously more likable, and he was also a person with superpowers... So, he was flirting with the girl in front of him?
Then he said, "Oh, I haven't introduced myself yet. My name is Zhou Li. I don't know your name yet?"
Then Ye Xiao saw the little girl's eyes widen slightly, and she looked at Zhou Li with a bit of surprise for several seconds: "Zhou Li? Which Li?"
Zhou Li said, "Li, as in etiquette. You know me? That's not surprising. I graduated from XX University in South University City. You were a student there too, right? Which school are you from? Maybe you're even my junior."
In the blink of an eye, they became senior and junior students... Ye Xiao endured for two seconds, his eyes swept across the two people's hands that had been holding each other for too long, and took out a pair of orange... small loquats from his pocket.
Lin Tantan's gaze was immediately drawn away: "Ah, loquat."
Two days ago, they ate a plate of loquats, which tasted especially good. Lin Tantan was still not satisfied, but unfortunately Bai Cheng had no more. Those fruits were brought from the underground supermarket, and because they took up too much space, Bai Cheng did not put them in the space. So all the ones he put in were distributed as welfare and daily snacks for the elderly and children.
Loquat is one of them. Of course, there were not many of them. Lin Tantan felt it was a pity when he saw the empty fruit plate.
Ye Xiao smiled and handed her the loquat. She naturally reached out to take it: "For me?"
"Well, I passed by a fruit store today and found two good ones, so I just took them."
Lin Tan Tan looked at it happily. She didn't know what kind of fruit it was, but it was round, the size of an egg, and had a rich color. It looked delicious. Of course, what made her even happier was that her boyfriend remembered her even when he passed by a fruit shop.
Suddenly remembering something, she asked, "Does Brother Bai have it?"
Ye Xiao didn’t quite understand what she meant. What did this have to do with Bai Cheng?
Lin Tan Tan knew at a glance that there was no share for Bai Cheng. She secretly complained that there were only two loquats. Although they were not something special, it was unacceptable that she didn't save some for Bai Cheng first. She said with pain: "I saw that he liked eating this the other day. Hey, you should keep it for him."
Ye Xiao: “???”
If he took out two loquats from his pocket specifically for Bai Cheng... it's really hard to imagine that scene.
Seeing the loquats being sent back, he didn't take them for a while. Seeing his dull and inexplicable look, Lin Tan Tan felt very anxious for him. He sighed and said, "Forget it, I'll put it away first."
Then she was about to put it in her pocket, but the zipper was on her coat pocket, and it was difficult to open it with two loquats in one hand. Ye Xiao bent down to help her open it, and after she put the things in, he zipped it up for her.
Zhou Li and his followers were caught off guard by the show: "..."
What's going on?
Zhou Li's followers looked at Lin Tan with a strange look in their eyes. It seemed that Ye Xiao was the boss here. The fact that the boss could personally help her zip up her pocket meant that their relationship was obviously not ordinary.
Zhou Li's gaze also became somewhat meaningful, and then he noticed that something was wrong with Lin Tantan's left hand.
Lin Tantan had been wearing a large, fluffy down jacket these days, the kind that allowed her to tuck her hands inside without them being visible. As a result, no one had noticed that she only had one hand left. However, Zhou Li spotted it immediately: "Your hand..."
Lin Tantan smiled and said, "There was an accident. Oh, my name is Lin Tantan." She looked at Zhou Li again. She felt that the name sounded very familiar, but she couldn't remember it for a moment.
Ye Xiao was about to say something more to Zhou Li, but he didn't want to say anything more at this time. He said a few words to let him manage his own people and select people to stand guard later, and then he took Lin Tan Tan and left.
After they left, a follower came to Zhou Li and asked in a low voice: "Brother Zhou, what do you think of this man?"
Zhou Li watched the two walk away calmly before saying, "Compared to the last time we met, he gives me a stronger sense of oppression."
The follower was surprised: "How could that be? He is a wind type!"
It has been more than ten days since the end of the world, and the national Internet has been paralyzed, but some radio channels are still working. The country has also broadcast basic information about psychics and crystal cores. Now psychics can more clearly distinguish what kind of psychics they have, and they have also ranked these psychics from strong to weak.
Wind-types don't rank high on the list. Zhou Li's team, for example, has two Wind-types. They're nothing more than a gust of wind, wielding a few not-very-sharp wind blades. But the explosive Fire-type, the sharp Metal-type, the sharp, cold Ice-type—which one isn't more lethal than the Wind-type? Not to mention Zhou Li himself is the most lethal Lightning-type.
So when he met Ye Xiao and his group in the city a few days ago, seeing that the leader Ye Xiao was only a wind-type, and there was only one space-type, and the others seemed to have no special abilities, Zhou Li did not take them seriously, even though they were soldiers and had a very powerful aura.
No, he actually wanted to recruit these people into his own team.
But he also knew that it was impossible. As soon as he saw Ye Xiao, he knew that he could not control this person, and he himself did not want to be inferior to others, so he did not agree to come to the west of the city.
This time I really couldn't stay in the city anymore. I also heard that there are tens of thousands of people here and it has always been safe without any accidents.
But he would never have thought that in just a few days, the distance between him and Ye Xiao not only did not get closer, but became even bigger.
Zhou Li narrowed his eyes, then smiled. "So what if they're wind-type? They can be very powerful, just like the two wood-types in our team. They can only deal minor scratches, but that Lin Tan, do you know how powerful her abilities are?"
Speaking of this, the man next to him gasped, his expression a little sour: "That day, she looked like a reckless little girl, and in the blink of an eye... I should have known better and built a good relationship with her."
This man was the one who was driving the SUV that day. He saw how Lin Tan Tan jumped onto the car and used things to knock the zombies down. He thought he was just nimble and brave, but he didn't expect him to have such a good fortune.
This time, they had come here because they'd heard there was a particularly powerful psychic in the west of the city. It was said he was a dual-element psychic, skilled at killing zombies and healing people, and also very good at leading psychics. The psychics in the west of the city were either trained by her from the beginning, or even those who joined later would report to her. As long as they could get her guidance, they would improve rapidly.
The man felt a little annoyed and regretful, and Zhou Li was also a little disappointed. In fact, he came here with the hope of poaching, otherwise why would he have said so much just now? But after seeing the interaction between the two people, he felt that this possibility was somewhat slim.
However slim the chances are, we have to give it a try. A powerful healing psychic, a dual-system psychic, anyone with a brain would know how valuable they are.
…
Zhou Li knew this truth, and Ye Xiao certainly knew it too.
He thought about asking Lin Tantan to hide her abilities or conceal her existence, or at least not to show off her outstanding abilities in public like she does now, so as to reduce her presence and protect her, but he rejected all these ideas.
Lin Tantan is a person who is very willing to help others (Lin Tantan:?), and he cannot restrict her from helping others just because he has her friendship and help. She has such ability and such kindness, and there are too many people around her who need her help. He can't stop her and doesn't want to stop her.
The only thing he could do was to provide her with an environment that was as safe and quiet as possible. People like Zhou Li, who clearly had some purpose, had to be observed and guarded against.
He looked at Lin Tantan, who was walking beside him with a thoughtful expression, and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
"I'm thinking about Zhou Li."
Ye Xiao: “…”
Lin Tantan said, "I always feel that this name is very familiar. I have seen it somewhere."
She was very sensitive to the surname Zhou because she really disliked some aspects of Zhou Yan and his descendants, but the name Zhou Li did not seem to be on the list of those she disliked.
So where does this sense of familiarity come from?
Suddenly remembering something, she stopped and grabbed Ye Xiao's arm, lowering her voice and shouting, "Ahhh, I remember, it's him! Zhou Yan's brother, Zhou Yan is his younger brother!"
Ye Xiao was dragged so hard that he almost lost his balance. He was surprised by the sudden burst of strength from Lin Tantan, and then he asked, "Who is Zhou Yan?"
"Zhou Yan, Zhou Yan is..." Lin Tantan's face wrinkled together, and her remaining claws were clenched together as if scratching. She looked particularly gritting her teeth, making people feel that if Zhou Yan appeared in front of her, she would pounce on him and tear him to pieces in minutes.
But in the end, she didn't say it for a long time. She hesitated for a long time and still didn't say it. She lowered her head and said, "It's okay, it's nothing."
Ye Xiao frowned and looked at her: "Is he someone you know? Does he have a bad relationship with you? Or has he bullied you? Tell me, and I will help you solve it."
Lin Tantan wanted to say something, but she really couldn't. She was so depressed that she sighed and shook her head with a vicissitudes of life.
He refused to say anything, and Ye Xiao couldn't do anything about him. He thought about how she had deliberately sent him away last night to have a "secret" with Bai Cheng, and that she wanted to ask him for help again.
Ye Xiao frowned even more tightly. Did he look particularly unreliable, or was it difficult to gain the girl's trust?
After talking with Lin and leaving, he thought about it and went to find Mei Baisheng.
Mei Bosheng has almost recovered now. On the surface, he looks no different from a normal person. These days, he said that he felt that superpowers were coming. When asked why he had this feeling, he said it was based on intuition.
Anyway, Ye Xiao felt that this guy was very unreliable, but he couldn't resist Lin Tantan and got along well with him.
He found Mei Baisheng and said a few words. After hearing that, Mei Baisheng saluted and said, "I guarantee to complete the task!" Then he went to talk to Lin.
Mei Bosheng and Lin Tan were chatting and talking nonsense, and the topic turned to Zhou Li's convoy.
"...They don't have any standard meals. If you want anything, you have to fight for it. They don't keep useless people, so the overall level of work is quite high. They all have fierce eyes and carry the smell of blood." Mei Bosheng said, "But if they can't kill zombies, they have to do logistics, heavy labor like washing clothes and cooking, and they eat leftovers, just like slaves in the old society. Tsk tsk, that Zhou Li is quite thoughtful. By widening the class gap, it seems that the strong have special benefits and high status, which makes them particularly cohesive."
Lin Tan said casually, "Of course he's powerful." A year after the apocalypse, Zhou Li had already established a base. He was a lightning-type psychic with strong abilities and a good mind, and he had built a very good base. Zhou Yan, living under his brother's wing, had a comfortable life. This comfortable life had given him a penchant for plotting and forming cliques, and he later murdered Zhou Li.
There is no evidence to support this, but based on historical materials unearthed in later generations, scholars have speculated that Zhou Li was killed by Zhou Yan.
Mei Bosheng said, "You seem to be very familiar with Zhou Li?"
Lin Tantan looked at Mei Bosheng's heartless face and moved closer: "Meimei, can you help me find out something?"
"What's the matter?" Mei Baisheng suddenly became excited.
"Go and ask if there's anyone named Zhou Yan in Zhou Li's convoy."
The name matched. Mei Bosheng touched his chin and said, "That's fine, but you have to tell me why you're asking about him, right?"
…
Ye Xiao had waited for less than half an hour when Mei Baisheng came running back, "Boss, I found out everything."
Ye Xiao paused for a moment: "Have you asked everything?"
"Yeah, that Zhou Yan is a real piece of shit. Tan Tan says he's a total con man, a swindler, a schemer, full of black water, evil as hell, loves to take credit for other people's work, and is incredibly hypocritical. Do you think she's been cheated before?"
Ye Xiao: "..." Ye Xiao didn't want to talk much. Mei Baisheng asked and he found out the answer, but in front of him, he bit his lips tightly like a clam.
He felt something strange in his heart, an uncomfortable emotion, so much so that he began to dislike Mei Bosheng's incessant talk.
"Tan Tan said, let me go find this guy. If I find him, we'll find an opportunity to put him in a bag and beat him up. We won't stop until he can't take care of himself!"
Mei Bosheng didn't notice at all that his boss's eyes had become somewhat dangerous. After he finished speaking, he asked again, "Boss, do you think I should be ruthless when the time comes?"
Ye Xiao asked coldly, "Do you still want to show mercy?"
"No, isn't it because I'm afraid Tan Tan is just angry?" He hesitated for a moment, looked around, and leaned close to Ye Xiao and whispered, "Well, before, Tan Tan told me that she had someone she liked. Her tone was very firm and I thought it was that Chen Zhihao, but that Chen guy is really not good enough. Tan Tan's taste can't be that bad, right? Looking at the way she gritted her teeth when she mentioned Zhou Yan just now, I figured, is she actually talking about this? Zhou Li is good-looking, and his brother should be handsome too. He can be a good match for Tan Tan. If a young couple quarrels, can I get involved?"
Before he could finish his words, he saw his boss suddenly stand up, then stop. After a moment, he looked at him with a sullen look and said, "She told you everything."
Mei Bosheng, that idiot, chuckled complacently, "Of course, we can get along. Boss, you're just too serious. Talking about business is fine, but I don't even dare to tell you the truth from the heart, let alone talking about girls. Not to mention the generation gap between you two."
There is a generation gap...
There is a generation gap...
Generation gap...
Ye Xiao was silent for a moment, then slowly smiled at Mei Baisheng. Mei Baisheng shrank his neck, and belatedly felt a chill on his neck.
The author has something to say: Ye Xiao: She tells everything to others but not to me!
Meimei (happily): bababa
Ye Xiao: Baby is unhappy
Meimei (continues happily): bababa
Ye Xiao (dangerous eyes): She really told you everything.
Meimei (continues to be proud): bababa
Ye Xiao: The weather is getting cold, let’s kill the pigs.
Talk: I heard I'm having another scandal? Why are there always people trying to ruin my reputation? (sharpening the knife, handing the knife)
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