Ye Xiao felt relieved after confirming that the person he liked cared about him. He looked at Lin Tan's face. Since he already understood his feelings, he should not hesitate. Although this temporary brick house was not a good place, and although the group of dirty rats on the ground that had eaten themselves to death were a bit of a spoilsight, and although he was not prepared, Ye Xiao always did things quickly and efficiently.
After some deliberation, he suppressed his slightly turbulent emotions and said, "Let's talk."
Lin Tantan was secretly worshipping the powerful wind energy in his body and hummed when he heard that.
"There's something I want to tell you."
Lin Tantan looked up and saw Ye Xiao's serious expression. His heart skipped a beat, sensing a major announcement. He straightened his back and looked at him intently, "What is it? Is there anything you want me to do? Just tell me, as long as I can do it, I'll do it."
She almost patted her chest to make a promise.
Well, I didn’t take a picture probably because my hand was on Ye Xiao’s arm and I had no free hand.
There was a smile in Ye Xiao's eyes, and Lin Tantan was a little stunned. It was so warm and handsome to see the male god smile like this!
Ye Xiao took a deep breath and said, "It's a matter of feelings. Let's talk about it. I..."
Lin Tantan's expression deflated when he heard the word "feelings." "This again? Did Meimei tell you something? I'm telling you that Zhou Yan and I really have nothing to do with each other. I've never even met him. I've only heard he's not a good person. Seriously! Don't worry, I've turned over a new leaf. Didn't you say I'm still young and now isn't the time to be thinking about these things? I think you're absolutely right."
Ye Xiao: “…”
Ye Xiao said with some difficulty: "Do you really think so?"
"Yeah, and now that things are so precarious, who has the mood to think about anything else? Anyway, until life is stable, until I have enough food and drink and a house and a car, I won't think about those trivial things."
Lin Tantan thought that if she wanted a completely stable life with good food, drinks, luxury cars and a mansion, it would be almost the end of the world. With such a firm attitude, her idol wouldn't have to worry about her being kidnapped every day, right?
She praised her own wit, and then saw Ye Xiao looking at her dimly with a complicated expression, not looking very happy. Lin Tan Tan: "?" Did she say something she shouldn't have said?
Ye Xiao nodded slowly, with an expression as if he had suddenly realized something: "You are right. If you can't even give the other person a stable life, what qualifications do you have to talk about anything else." He lowered his eyes slightly, then stood up, "I'll go out and take a look." After saying that, he left, and his back looked a little desolate.
Lin Tantan scratched his head. What happened?
Suddenly, a light flashed in her mind. Oh my God, he wouldn't listen to me and have some thoughts like "how can I return home when the country is in crisis", and then he would become stalemated with Bai Cheng, right?
Thinking about the fact that they hadn't officially been together in the seventh year of the apocalypse, she felt that he might have had such thoughts in mind. Now, after hearing what she said...
Lin Tantan suddenly felt like a huge sinner. She jumped up, scaring all the mice on the ground. She chased after them, but didn't even see their backs.
"Oh, you're so quick-witted." She turned back in frustration, unable to help but wonder, was Ye Xiao bringing up this topic because he wanted to talk to her about his troubles? After all, apart from Bai Cheng, the others were either rough or unsuitable for discussing such matters, so it wasn't impossible for Ye Xiao to talk to her.
The more she thought about it, the more annoyed she became. What should she do now? Ye Xiao seemed to have been hit hard. She patted her forehead and sighed.
A group of mutant rats looked at her curiously, and the movement of their food crunching in their hands did not slow down at all.
The mutant rats were well fed and Lin Tantan was in no mood to care about them. He sent them out of the high wall and took a few boxes of biscuits, bread, nuts and ham from Bai Cheng, and asked them to take them out to the mutant rats that had not come in.
When Lin Tantan went to Bai Cheng to get food, he hesitated and asked, "Did Ye Xiao come to see you?"
Bai Cheng asked curiously, "I just came here and discussed the rotation for the second half of the night. What happened?"
Lin Tan Tan asked, "Is he okay? Is he showing any special symptoms?"
Bai Cheng thought for a moment and said, "I can't tell. What do you mean?" He thought to himself, there was something different about Ye Xiao just now. Could it be that he was being harassed by the little girl? He studied Lin Tan's expression.
Lin Tantan sighed and looked at Bai Cheng with an apologetic look: "I may have said something inappropriate. Don't worry, I will find a way to make amends."
Bai Cheng: “?” What is there for him to worry about?
But Lin Tantan couldn't find a good time to talk to Ye Xiao for a while. The next two days were very busy, with more and more survivors, more and more zombies and zombie animals.
Finally, on January 18th, the rescue team that everyone had been looking forward to finally arrived in Yang City.
This is a force of nearly two divisions, almost 20,000 people. When the news of the army's arrival was received, although Lin Tantan didn't know about other places, the entire west side of the city was excited. However, when people learned that there were only less than 20,000 people coming, they looked at each other in confusion.
This number was obviously far from what they had imagined.
Everyone longs for rescue and help from the national army, but in the west of the city alone, there are now as many as 150,000 people. Almost everyone has family members, teachers, friends or colleagues still trapped in the city, and they are looking forward to the arrival of the army to rescue the people they care about.
But what can 20,000 people do?
…
The army arrived at the west of the city first. Ye Xiao took people out to greet them, saluted the commander of the other army, and welcomed them in.
There is limited space inside the high walls, so those vehicles can only stay outside.
Lin Tantan and many others stood on the high wall, looking at the huge and solid military trucks and off-road vehicles. Some of the vehicles were equipped with long guns and short cannons. Some soldiers stayed in the vehicles, while others got off. Some of them were holding guns and guarding around, while most of them were resting and eating.
Historically, this unit had clashed with Ye Xiao and his men, allegedly because they were unwilling to obey the orders of their commander. Mei Baisheng had died at the time, and Ye Xiao and his men had to bow to Major General Chen Laomin in exchange for the arrival of this unit. They were already furious, and now they were expected to obey orders obediently. Wasn't that nonsense?
Well, it probably has something to do with Cai Chengliang.
By the way, that kid has been locked up all the time, and no one knows what he looks like now.
I don’t know if there will be another conflict this time. Anyway, Lin Tantan looked at these cars and people with vigilance in his eyes.
After about twenty minutes, those who were discussing things came out. Ye Xiao began to mobilize manpower, and the officers also arranged the soldiers. Then military vehicles and civilian vehicles drove out one after another. These vehicles and people divided the troops into several routes and went to various towns in Yang City to bring out all the people they could.
Lin Tantan looked for a while, then came down from the high wall and walked through the busy crowd.
Then she heard two people talking.
"Just as the commander said, Ye Xiao's team is very unruly. Brother Xing asked them kindly for some manpower support, but out of the seven of them, only Ye Xiao and Zhong Xiong came forward. The others continued to do their own things. I wonder why Brother Xing was so polite to them? We have the commander's documents in our hands, so they should just follow orders!"
This was the angry voice of a young man. Another older voice said, "Didn't they send quite a few people? I think those citizens are pretty good, and there are quite a few people with special abilities among them."
"Speaking of psychics makes me even more angry. Just now, Brother Xing asked how many psychics there were here and wanted to meet them, but Ye Xiao refused without a word. They weren't his soldiers, so he was worried that we were going to steal them! What on earth does he want to do?"
Lin Tantan walked around a car and saw two people standing there talking. They were both wearing military uniforms, though a bit slovenly, their clothes were not clean. The younger one was less than thirty years old, with a haircut like a hedgehog, a sharp and arrogant look between his eyebrows. The older one was in his thirties, slightly plump, and looked more amiable.
However, Lin Tantan looked at both of them with displeasure. The younger one continued, lowering his voice, "It's not like other cities don't handle their own rescue operations, but Ye Xiao is the most capable. There are a full 150,000 or 160,000 people here, and they've managed to turn it into a small security base. It's only been a few days... Seven soldiers, dozens of psychics, and hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens, and from beginning to end, not a single zombie has crossed the security line, and no one has caused any trouble... If a vicious wolf like this were to be allowed into our base, do you think the commander could control it?"
He didn't say anything else, revealing an expression that made his companions understand. The older one frowned and said, "You're overthinking it. They're going back to the capital."
"What if they stay in our base and refuse to leave?"
Lin Tan said to himself, "Fuck you! I haven't even gone to that base yet, but I'm worried that he won't leave. That's heaven!"
She was so angry that her teeth were itching. She raised her finger and shot out a golden spike, which pierced the young soldier's butt.
The young soldier cried out in pain and immediately turned around, but he only saw people coming and going in the distance, no suspicious figures. He touched his buttocks, but there was nothing there, but it hurt terribly, as if something had pierced into the bone. He gasped, his face pale with pain, and said in a trembling voice, "Old Zhou, can you please take a look at what's stuck in my buttocks?"
The older one looked at it and said, "No, stop talking here. We have a lot of things to do too."
…
Lin Tantan, holding his breath, walked to the temporary command camp. Bai Cheng was arranging tasks for people, and Mei Baisheng was also there, sorting through several thick rosters.
Seeing her come in with a gloomy face, Mei Bosheng asked her: "What's wrong? Who made you angry?"
Just then, the outsiders left, leaving only Bai Cheng and Mei Bosheng. Lin Tan Tan told them what he had just heard and then asked, "Are we going to that base together?"
Bai Cheng's face was a little cold, and Mei Bosheng immediately jumped up and down: "You bastard, I'm going to chop him to death! I don't care if his butt is a little bigger!"
He turned to Bai Cheng and said, "Old Bai, they don't welcome us, why should we go and get looked down upon? They go their way, and we go ours! Let's part ways with them now!"
Bai Cheng frowned and said, "If we leave now, what will happen to these 150,000 people? Let them go on the road in a disorderly manner? We just need to keep this matter in mind. Don't make it public yet. Let's leave Yang City first. The attitude of one person does not represent the attitude of everyone. If everyone has this attitude..." He didn't say anything else, but that expression and that look made Lin Tantan and Mei Baisheng feel a chill.
The two looked at each other and thought, "Oh, we can't afford to offend this person."
Lin Tantan suddenly felt that he was worrying and angry for nothing. Would Bai Cheng, such a person, allow his own people to suffer losses?
Mei Bosheng said, "Then let's go distribute the number plates first." Then he pulled Lin Tantan away.
Distributing number plates actually meant handing out slips of paper with numbers written on them to the survivors in the west of the city, and registering them on a roster. Tomorrow morning, or rather, early in the morning, they would board the bus according to the number on the slip of paper, organize the convoy before daybreak, and then set off.
There are now many cars in the west of the city, all of which are intentionally collected, big and small, comfortable and uncomfortable. Different people sit in different cars. For example, if there are seats, the elderly, children and the injured will be given priority. If they need to squeeze into a car bed, then the young people will go.
There are many things to pay attention to, so issuing a number plate is also a big project.
Fortunately, Mei Baisheng doesn't have to do it himself. The people who do this are arranged to do it, so he just needs to keep an eye on it.
As people from each building came down to collect their number plates, Mei Bosheng started complaining to Lin Tantan, "That guy named Xing is the commander of these 20,000 people. He was originally at the same level as our boss, but this time, to be worthy of being the leader of 20,000 people, he jumped two ranks and became a major general. He's lucky for his age, but I don't like that. He seems to respect people a lot, but he always speaks in official language, saying things like he hopes for your full cooperation. When the boss says we can't do without him, his face falls."
"Besides him, I don't recognize anyone else. I probably don't know the boss, Old White, very well either. We all used to work abroad, so we're not familiar with these things back home. I just saw that hedgehog-like guy you mentioned, but I don't know his name. If I get the chance, I'll beat the hell out of him."
Lin Tan Tan said, "I just gave him an injection. It's enough to hurt him for a long time."
Mei Bosheng patted her shoulder and said, "Well done. It's convenient to have superpowers. When will I have superpowers?"
As he looked at his hand, he suddenly noticed that the area around his palm was dark. He was startled and asked, "What's this?"
Lin Tan Tan looked over and saw that the space around Mei Bosheng's palm was pitch black, which looked very strange. She reached out and carefully touched the darkness. She didn't touch anything, but it felt like a sticky substance, which increased the resistance on her palm.
The author has something to say: Ye Xiao: I am really stupid, really, I want to marry a beautiful woman without a car or a house, but reality teaches me a lesson
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Tan Tan: It’s over, he won’t really wait until he has a car and a house and the world is at peace before being with Bai Cheng, waiting for the sweetness to come
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