"What's wrong?" Jiang Yanxin asked when she saw Chen Wan looking at them.
"It's nothing. I was just thinking about our trip to the base tomorrow. Four women with outstanding looks, holding a three-year-old child, it's hard not to attract attention." However, Chen Wan was just sighing. The strength of their team was still very good. Instead of thinking about it, it would be better to deal with it when the time comes.
"That's true, but there's nothing we can do about it. It's indeed dangerous to go to the base this time, but we don't know how long we'll be gone, so we have to bring the baby with us." Jiang Yanxin thought for a while and said.
"Don't worry, there are so many of us, nothing will happen." Qin Ke also spoke.
"Well, let's talk about it when we get there tomorrow. Let's go and walk around this street to see if we can find anything else." Chen Wan said as he walked into a hardware store next to him.
Chen Wan glanced around the store. It was obvious that all the useful items on the shelves had been emptied. Only a few long-handled pliers were left, as well as a lot of screws, nails, wire and other things.
Yiyi took a look and started moving things. "Come and help! These nails, wires, and other things will be needed to repair Yanyan's new body. I said before that it consumes a lot of things like steel. Making a delicate body doesn't necessarily require tons of steel. Let's move them back to the car first. We can use them later."
Qin Ke was the first to rush into the place where the wires were kept in the store, and took all the wires that were placed on large reels into his arms. Chen Wan and Jiang Yanxin took large bags and put all the nails, screws and some tools that Chen Wan didn't know what they were into the bags. After all, the four of them worked fast together, and they only transported the things from the trunk of the RV once, and there was basically nothing left in the store.
Afterwards, Chen Wan and his friends entered a 24-hour convenience store. The items inside were searched more thoroughly than Chen Wan's face. They just took a quick look around and then left.
Chen Wan sighed and looked at the three people around him: "It seems that the supplies in Funan City have been almost searched out. There is nothing left in the shops in the small county town."
"It should be someone who passed by here on his way to the base like us, searching for melons. Let's look for it again. If we don't find it, we'll go back to the RV." Yiyi explained.
After that, Chen Wan and his team went into two more restaurants. Basically, everything inside had been searched, but the four of them still got two kitchen knives and a few whetstones. In the staff lounge of the small restaurant, they found two boxes of toilet paper, a few bottles of unopened shampoo, two boxes of sugar cubes and a box of instant coffee. Chen Wan put these things away.
They were all taken away.
A few of them were walking and chatting, thinking that since they were already out, they might as well search the whole street, so they came to a small clinic. Of course, all the medicines on the medicine shelves had been cleared out, but there were still a lot of saline and glucose for infusion, as well as disposable tubes for infusion. Chen Wan thought that these bottles were inconvenient to carry, so no one was moving them.
"It's not a wasted trip. Let's take all these away. What if they are useful in the future? Especially the glucose, it's completely fine to drink it as water." Since there was still room in their RV, they might as well move it.
Several people quickly carried the saline solution and glucose from the small clinic, and also cleared out the disposable infusion tubes. Then they put the four boxes of things into the compressed space of the RV. They basically didn't get anything useful on this trip, and they returned to the RV without even spending an hour.
The baby hadn't watched many cartoons when he saw his mother and the others came back. He was so happy that he went straight to Jiang Yanxin for a hug.
Chen Wan and the others made a simple dinner and ate all the crystal cores, then they went to rest. But it was hard for Yiyi, as she didn't need to rest, so she had to go upstairs by herself.
Chen Wan woke up at around six in the morning as usual relying on her biological clock. After getting up, Chen Wan felt that the RV was moving. She washed up quickly and went out, only to see Yiyi already sitting in the driver's seat driving the car. Qin Ke had just woken up and was washing up in the bathroom outside.
Chen Wan walked over to the stove and cooked a large pot of eight-treasure porridge. He asked Yiyi, "What time did you get in the car?"
Yiyi replied while driving, "I don't need to sleep anyway. I'm bored so I'll drive away at 5 o'clock. We have another three hours and we'll be there by 9 o'clock."
"Okay, then I'll heat up the porridge, eat something, and take a look at the situation at the base in Bunan City." Chen Wan said as he stirred the porridge in the pot with a spoon to prevent it from sticking to the bottom of the pot.
"The base in Bunan City is in the city center. I plan to park the RV in the north of Bunan City, and then the five of us can just get a car on the road and go over there." Yiyi told Chen Wan about her plan.
"Okay, then we have to find a good place for the RV. It's our life-saving capital." Chen Wan said while stirring the eight-treasure porridge.
"Well, when the time comes, find an inconspicuous place to park the car. Don't worry, I'm very reliable in this regard." Yiyi smiled and said.
When Qin Ke came out, Chen Wan's breakfast was already ready. Even Jiang Yanxin and Zizi were awake today.
Jiang Yanxin woke up particularly early. In fact, she had been worried about her parents and sister since last night. The closer she was to knowing the actual situation of her relatives, the more uncertain she felt. Therefore, Jiang Yanxin woke up as soon as Chen Wan got up.
Sitting on the bed and thinking for a while, Jiang Yanxin became more and more confused. She simply woke up Zizi. The little one was so sleepy that her eyes narrowed into slits, but she was still obediently taken to wash up by her mother. After washing up, Zizi regained her usual energy. But when she saw her Aunt Yiyi driving, she pouted her little mouth. She wanted Aunt Yiyi to play with her because Aunt Yiyi could speak better than her mother, mommy and Aunt Qin Ke!
It was only seven o'clock in the morning when everyone finished breakfast. Chen Wan simply sat on the passenger side and looked at the road conditions ahead. Perhaps because of the special treatment by the military, there were no abandoned vehicles on the road, and even the zombies were only a few scattered around, posing no threat to people at all.
Two hours later, Chen Wan and his friends' RV had entered the northern part of Funan City. Yiyi parked the RV in an ordinary residential area. There were only four buildings in that residential area, and it was not close to the street, so the RV was not conspicuous in the community.
Chen Wan and the other adults each carried a backpack, with Chen Wan holding the baby in his arms. Qin Ke had already gone to check out the vehicles parked in the community, preparing to find one with gasoline to drive to the base.
The community was very desolate. Many corpses of zombies and humans had already rotted on the roads in the community, emitting an indescribable stench. However, such an environment was very common in the apocalypse, and Chen Wan and the others had long been accustomed to it. However, when Zizi saw the situation outside, he thought of some bad memories, and his little body buried itself pitifully in Chen Wan's arms, trembling.
Chen Wan patted Zizi's back and comforted him softly, "Don't be afraid, Bao'er. I'm here. We'll be fine, okay?"
Zizi could only nod her head obediently. She knew that talking loudly outside would attract bad guys. Once before, she cried too loudly and her mommy almost abandoned her. The fear of being abandoned had been planted in Zizi's little heart. Although she was no longer afraid of Chen Wan in the RV, when she was in a specific environment, the fear deep in the little guy's heart was still brought out, and she could only dare to be obedient and not make any sound.
Qin Ke had already started an SUV and waved to Chen Wan and the others. Chen Wan held Zizi and Jiang Yanxin and sat in the back of the vehicle. Yiyi switched seats with Qin Ke, letting Qin Ke sit in the passenger seat to make it more convenient for her to drive.
The three of them acted quickly and drove the SUV out of the north road.
After getting on the national highway to the city center, Chen Wan kept looking out the window while silently memorizing the topography of Funan City in his mind. Qin Ke did the same. The special nature of their previous jobs made them more alert. Jiang Yanxin also kept looking out the window silently, and even Yiyi rarely spoke.
The cub in Chen Wan's arms lowered her head, and only dared to lean her little face in Chen Wan's arms, being so obedient that she didn't make a sound. It took a lot of effort for her mommy to like her, and she didn't want to be abandoned again.
Half an hour later, Yiyi drove the car to the safe zone in the center of Funan City. As soon as she drove into the street, she saw at least hundreds of survivors queuing in front of the gate of the safe zone. Those who drove there could only hand over their vehicles to the military two hundred meters away from the gate. There were checkpoints set up by the military there, and vehicles could not drive in anymore. The same was true for the street on the other side.
Yiyi then drove the car over, and when they arrived at the checkpoint, someone gestured to everyone in the car to get out.
Chen Wan and his companions did not hesitate and got out of the car. However, the soldier was stunned when he saw the five people getting out of the car. Among them were two alphas, a beta, an omega, and a child who was only a few years old. The soldier was obviously a little puzzled as to how such a group of them could survive in the apocalypse until now, and they were also so beautiful.
Seeing the soldiers staring at them, Chen Wan frowned and walked forward: "Hello, is there anything I can help you with?"
"No, you guys go in and line up. You have to pass the security check of the machine before you can actually enter the base." The soldier was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that the woman in front of him didn't show any fear at all.
"Okay, thank you." Chen Wan thanked him, picked up Zizi and led the other three people to the long queue.
The soldiers who had just been checking security were discussing quietly, "Just wait and see, there's bound to be trouble again. They're really brave. If you ask me, since they're so pretty, they might as well find a place to stay nearby. The safe zone isn't necessarily safe either."
"Liuzi, don't talk nonsense. You will be punished if someone hears it." A man older than Liuzi warned in a low voice.
Liuzi frowned and muttered again: "To be honest, we low-level soldiers do have to do a lot of things every day, but isn't the safe zone still full of smoke and chaos? Who knows what will happen if they go in. No, I have to remind them again, otherwise I will feel bad."!
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