Although Yue Zheng clearly knew that Xu Song was referring to Luo Wen’an and the others, he insisted on diverting the topic to an unrelated woman. Without a doubt, the person in his arms was doing it on purpose.
Provoked by someone, Yue Zheng naturally wouldn’t let him off easily. He turned over and pressed down, adding a bit of tickling and teasing.
Xu Song laughed almost breathlessly, and all his weak points had long been known by someone, leaving him with no strength to resist at the moment.
After some playful teasing, Yue Zheng’s stifled mood finally eased. Quietly holding Xu Song, he buried his face in his neck. “I got their contact information. The time was tight back then. We’ll contact them after dealing with the base matters.”
“Okay, are they all okay?” Xu Song raised his hand to hug him, placing his hands on Yue Zheng’s back. Yue Zheng’s back was broad and strong, giving a sense of reassurance.
“Yeah, Luo Wen’an and the others, including Wang An, and there’s also a boy who’s seventeen or eighteen. He looks somewhat familiar, but I don’t have a clear impression. Maybe you’ll recognize him when you see him.”
Xu Song nodded, suddenly feeling a bit itchy on his neck. One hand also slipped inside his waistband. “Don’t mess around… we have a mission tomorrow.”
Yue Zheng made a sound of acknowledgment but didn’t stop his actions. After a while, the clothes on the person in his arms ended up on the floor.
Thinking about the mental pressure he endured today, Xu Song decided to sacrifice a bit of his ego to warm his beloved. So, he obediently stopped resisting—after all, resisting wouldn’t do any good against him.
The next morning, Yue Zheng and Xu Song got up early and left the bed together. Besides feeling a bit sore in the waist, Xu Song was fortunate not to have any other adverse reactions.
After Mother Xu got up and packed things in the room, she went into Yue Zheng’s room. She found that the dinner left for Yue Zheng last night hadn’t been finished, and she paused for a moment, immediately guessing some reasons. Looking at Yue Zheng’s current expression and demeanor, and then glancing at the extra marks on her son’s neck… well, as long as everything returned to normal, it was good.
After putting away the things in the room, Mother Xu took the two children back to the car. Yue Zheng and Xu Song went to the gathering point, and as the gate opened, they started dealing with the remaining birds outside.
In the base, the air-raid shelters with available forces all opened their gates simultaneously and began unified operations.
Since Yue Zheng and the others had cleared many birds lurking around the air-raid shelters yesterday, the task at hand was relatively easy. However, the buildings and streets that the birds had damaged made the routes difficult to navigate.
Divided into various small teams, most of them held instruments to detect body temperature while advancing. Due to the special nature of their abilities, Yue Zheng and Xu Song didn’t need such tools. They relied on Xu Song’s sensing ability and Yue Zheng’s hearing to locate all the birds in the base.
After realizing the current situation of being outnumbered by survivors, these birds wisely retreated. Except for a few who were too fixated on food or reacted too slowly and were killed on the spot, most of the birds flew away.
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The new layout had been finalized, and the upper level of the base had broadcasted a notice to all surviving members this morning. Although many buildings in the base were damaged, the conflicts and issues in various air-raid shelters had already been laid bare. Separating ability users and ordinary people was the most optimal choice for the current survivors.
Therefore, people didn’t complain much. If ability users had non-ability relatives, they could pay a certain amount of points to live in the East Zone with their family members.
Of course, because both zones were divided into high, middle, and low grades, no one could say for sure whether ability users or skilled ordinary people were doing better in the end. It was a world where only the fittest survived and the strong ruled.
After parking the car, ordinary people outside quickly returned to their original residences, transferring out anything valuable they could find. The base provided a time limit – only one day. By tomorrow noon, Zones B, C, D, and G would cease to exist, and all houses would be demolished for reconstruction.
Upon leaving the air-raid shelter, many people learned about the heavy casualties in some of the shelters. The belongings of these people who suffered had now become unclaimed items, right? So, it was best to go early and maybe snatch some things back!
After the nationwide earthquake, most people gained extensive experience in finding good things from the rubble. Now, after leaving the air-raid shelter, the first thing to do was to find useful items.
Yue Zheng and the others didn’t have time to contact Luo Wen’an and the rest. They unloaded the small pickup truck that had been stored in the cargo compartment of the large truck before and drove out.
Mother Xu issued a command, “Go and see if our big piece of leather is still there. If it is, bring it back. It can be quite useful, and it saves us from making another one in the future.”
So, the two youngsters had to follow orders. They drove the small pickup truck, returning to their original residence to see if there was anything useful.
As the car drove on the streets, the debris was quickly cleared due to the efforts of the cleanup crew. The car smoothly reached Zone G, and along the way, they could see people everywhere fighting over things.
“The shed is gone… I wonder if it collapsed or…” Xu Song saw in the direction of where they used to live from afar. The large shed made of rat skins was nowhere to be seen.
“Let’s go and check. Maybe it fell inside the wall?” Yue Zheng smiled without much hope.
The tall wall had collapsed in some places. The two of them opened the gate with difficulty, and inside, it was a mess.
“This trace doesn’t look like it was damaged in the past few days.” Xu Song turned around, standing next to the collapsed wall with a slightly darkened face.
Yue Zheng was also speechless. The yard was now completely gone, even the bamboo frame they had set up to store things was gone. Everything, useful or not, and even some things that were thrown in the corner as garbage, were all gone without a trace.
Moreover, judging from the traces, these things had been missing for a while. It was estimated that the people in the base, after realizing that their group no longer lived here, boldly came in and took away these things.
As for the huge shed on top? Heh, even the frame was gone. Where would they find the leather on top?
“Let’s go.” Yue Zheng smiled and patted Xu Song on the shoulder. Fortunately, they went directly to Area A after returning this time. Otherwise, they would have been very angry when they saw this situation when they returned home. Moreover, even the wall had collapsed. Without earth ability users among them, how could they live here?
With a resentful kick on the gravel on the ground, Xu Song turned around and walked towards the pickup truck. They came out empty-handed, and they would return home empty-handed. When the two drove back to Zone A and approached the vicinity of the RV, they found Mother Xu with a black face confronting several soldiers.
“What’s going on?” Yue Zheng immediately drove the car over, got out, and asked.
A soldier, who seemed to have interacted with Yue Zheng before in previous actions, saw that he had returned and smiled awkwardly. “There was a little conflict just now. This… Auntie’s temper is a bit…”
“What’s a bit? Just say that I have a bad temper?”
Mother Xu crossed her arms in front of her chest, snorted, and raised her chin, “What, others bully us, and I’m not allowed to fight back? Others come to snatch our things, and if you don’t come to maintain order, you wait until they’re gone and then come looking for trouble with us?!”
Xu Song raised his eyebrows, closed the car door, and released his psychic power. Although there were many people around, it seemed difficult to determine who had just provoked them.
However, it didn’t matter if he didn’t find out; he believed Tianyou had probably already locked onto the target. He would check the situation when he got back into the car.
Several soldiers responsible for maintaining order had to quickly speak kind words. After listening for a while, Yue Zheng signaled to Xu Song, who understood and led his mother back to the RV. Yue Zheng continued to communicate with the soldiers.
Tiancheng and Tianyou were side by side, peeking out the window together. When Xu Song returned, they turned their heads simultaneously, revealing mouths missing a couple of baby teeth… Yes, these two little guys were currently in the process of losing their baby teeth.
Xu Song raised his chin towards the outside, hinting at whether they remembered the people who had just caused trouble.
Tianyou nodded his little head.
That’s good.
In a short while, Yue Zheng also turned around and got into the car. Mother Xu still sat on the sofa with a sullen face. After confirming that there were no people around, Yue Zheng asked, “What happened just now?”
Outside, there was another large pit on the ground, clearly created by an earth ability user. It should be Mother Xu’s masterpiece.
“Just now, a few people sneaked over here and threw tear gas at Abu and the others. I got angry and threw a thunderbolt at them.”
“Who are these people? Came in from outside?”
“Outside?” Mother Xu sneered, “Wearing military clothes, military boots, military pants, with a gun at the waist, holding a tranquilizer gun in their hands, wearing a gas mask on their faces—this equipment is quite complete, from outside? What kind of people outside can have such good equipment?”
Yue Zheng frowned and looked at Tianyou, “Can you feel their current position?”
Tianyou nodded, pointing towards the northeast, “Not far, just over there, about one or two hundred meters away.”
“All of them are there?”
“Yes, five people in total, all over there. In addition to them, there seem to be others inside a building over there.”
Having a residence in Zone A, and with a considerable number of people, who else could be there besides the residents of Zone A?
Yue Zheng and Xu Song exchanged a glance and immediately concentrated their minds to sense what was going on over there.
Were those people too audacious? Or did they simply not care about a small team like theirs?
They openly attempted to rob in broad daylight. After failing, they directly fled back to their residence? Moreover, that building was so close to the location where Xu Song and the others were! It was a place covered by both Xu Song’s psychic sense and Yue Zheng’s hearing!
Xu Song noted the location of that building, its layout, the approximate body sizes of each person, and the rough number of people related to this incident.
Yue Zheng could directly listen to all the conversations inside. What surprised him was that these people were overly confident. The windows of the room weren’t even closed.
It was worth noting that all the houses in Zone A were soundproofed. Once the windows were closed, even Yue Zheng would need some effort to barely hear the sounds inside. Moreover, with the current distance between the two locations, if they closed the windows and spoke in a lower voice, Yue Zheng could only catch about thirty to forty percent of what was being said inside.
Some people need a beating to remind whom are they messing with 🤦
Time for a reminder… hahahahaha. Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🌳🦮🦔🦗🐝