“S City?!” The man was taken aback. They had intended to come up to rob them directly, but when they heard that they came from S City, they hesitated.
S City was not close to here, and they were planning to go to the safe zone in S City. How did these four people manage to come all the way here? They must have encountered many dangers and casualties along the way.
“Yes, what about you?” Yue Zheng noticed the slight change in their expressions and speculated that they were cautious and might not immediately take action.
“We are all from Z City in L Province, and we were planning to go to S City. How is the situation there? Why aren’t you staying in the safe zone and instead came here?” The “leader” of the group stepped forward a few steps.
“We are heading to B City to find our relatives. Why aren’t you going to B City and heading south instead?”
“B City? It’s impossible to go there now!” One of the men in the group suddenly exclaimed. The leader turned around and glared at him, and the man quickly shrank his neck, afraid to speak further.
“What’s the problem with B City?” Yue Zheng raised an eyebrow and asked the man who was clearly the leader.
“Oh, we’re not really sure about the situation in B City. It’s just that all the main roads heading north from here were blocked due to landslides caused by the previous earthquakes. We couldn’t pass through, so we had to head south to the safe zone in S City.”
The leader chuckled. “Not only those roads near the mountains but also the bridges on the canal collapsed. We had no choice but to head south. Since you all came from S City, could you please tell us about the situation there?”
Yue Zheng and the others established a rapport with them. Xu Song glanced at the time and estimated that they probably wouldn’t be able to continue their journey today. It seemed that the other group had similar thoughts or perhaps they believed that it would be better to prepare for rest before attempting a robbery.
As expected, after the others finished their discussion, Yue Zheng turned around and said, “Let’s rest here for today and continue in the morning.”
The other group made the same decision. Several men returned to their van and took out cooking utensils and ingredients. Two women who had not shown their faces before followed and got off the vehicle.
Xu Song glanced briefly at them and then lowered his head to gather firewood with Yue Zheng. Surprisingly, their vehicle had a gas stove and cooking equipment. Having a vehicle was indeed convenient.
However, their vehicle required gasoline and electricity, and over time, their battery life would definitely become an issue. There were no solar panels installed on their roof, so in the future, gasoline may still be found, but the power generation equipment will definitely not be used.
Yue Zheng took out a small bag of mutated rice stored in his bag. This rice was grown when Mo Tiancheng experimented with his abilities. Mutated rice was different from regular rice. Each grain was the size of a jujube, and it was easy to peel the husk even without tools; it could be done easily by hand.
This bag of rice was prepared by them during their rest time. They also left a considerable amount of unpeeled rice with Mo Tiancheng to be used as seeds.
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After a while, one of the women timidly walked over, wearing a nervous smile on her face. She asked, “Um, may I ask, your vegetables are…”
Xu Song raised his head to look at her. This woman was very beautiful, and there was an indescribable charm in her innocence. The other woman who was cooking noodles and occasionally glanced over here was also similarly beautiful, but she had a mature and seductive appearance.
“Collected from the roadside.”
“Roadside? Can you eat vegetables from the roadside?!” The woman widened her seemingly innocent eyes.
Xu Song nodded and pointed to several plants that were not completely covered by dense vegetation by the roadside. “Those ones.” They knew that if they revealed what they were eating, the other group might become suspicious and inquire about it, so they took the opportunity when others weren’t paying attention to let Mo Tiancheng secretly plant some along the roadside. They were common vegetables like spinach and rapeseed, just slightly different in appearance after the mutation.
The man who previously sat in the front passenger seat stuck out his tongue. “They are so bold. Don’t they know that those mutated plants can be deadly?”
The leader glared at him. “Mind your own business!”
The woman returned with her head down, whispering an explanation to the others. The leader nodded and asked her to go back and continue cooking.
The man in the front passenger seat whispered, “Shouldn’t we take action? There are only four people, and two of them are children, while the other looks like a college student.”
The leader swept his eyes over the “dried sparrows” hanging on Yue Zheng’s bicycle handle. “They can handle mutated animals. Maybe one of them has an ability. You all better behave and wait until midnight to decide.”
Everyone felt relieved only then. Although they were hesitant to eat the mutated plants, they were greedy for mutated animals, matches, and the value of the four bicycles. In some places, cars would never be able to pass, and the value of these four bicycles was higher than that of their van.
“Stay vigilant at midnight; they might take action.” Yue Zheng quietly instructed while serving the porridge to the others.
“Brother Yue, they said the plants can be deadly… what’s the matter?” The man who spoke earlier with a slightly louder voice caught Xu Song’s attention, and he overheard it. Moreover, the woman who came to ask about the vegetables had a significant change in her face after learning that they were eating mutated plants and quickly turned away.
“Perhaps some of the plants have become highly toxic after mutation. At least our vegetables are fine,” Xu Song responded. “We have been eating these vegetables and rice throughout the journey, and if there were any issues, they would have surfaced long ago. Besides, in City S, these foods have already become popular.”
After dinner, due to the presence of those people, they didn’t engage in their usual post-meal exercise, which was martial arts training taught by Yue Zheng. After digesting their food, they simply tidied up and rested.
They laid out the bedding they had prepared on the back racks of their bicycles, just in case they needed it when it wasn’t convenient for the sapling to grow larger. As expected, they needed it now.
They spread out a plastic sheet and a waterproof mat, and the four of them huddled together to rest. The room in the nearby RV was dark, indicating that there was no electricity available at the moment, but at least it had a roof.
Now that the sapling couldn’t grow larger to shield them, they looked at the RV and then at themselves. Xu Song and the others felt a profound sense of desolation.
“Ah, indeed, having a roof makes a difference.” Sleeping outdoors occasionally could still be bearable, but if they had to live like this for an extended period, humans would feel extremely insecure. Moreover, there would be dew every morning, making it much colder than the entire night.
Yue Zheng didn’t say anything but gently touched Xu Song’s hair. He would give him a home, but it wasn’t possible yet. They still had to continue their journey, and it was more convenient to travel by car than by bicycle.
Once they settled down, even if it meant building a house with their own hands, he would create a home for them.
Feeling Yue Zheng’s comfort, Xu Song looked up at him and blinked. “Wake me up later.”
He knew that if he didn’t sleep now, those people wouldn’t dare to make any sudden moves. So they took the opportunity to rest for a while, relying on Yue Zheng’s sharp senses. If those people made any noise, it wouldn’t escape his ears.
Yue Zheng smiled and nodded, seizing the chance to lightly kiss Xu Song on the cheek.
Indeed, Yue Zheng’s ears didn’t miss any sound coming from the RV. However… the noise was quite significant.
Listening to the chaotic sounds from the vehicle, Yue Zheng furrowed his brow slightly. The two children, who were still rubbing their eyes, were awakened by the… uh, the extremely disharmonious noises!
“Daddy… What’s that sound?”
“Are there animals coming to eat people?”
Xu Song’s face turned red, and he hurriedly covered the ears of either his older or younger son. “Be good and go back to sleep, there’s nothing wrong.”
Yue Zheng also regretted it a bit. If he had known that those people couldn’t even hold out for one night, he would have chosen a camping spot farther away. This was really corrupting minors!
When Xu Song saw the two women in the evening, he suspected that they were probably girlfriends brought along by one of the men in the RV. However, it turned out that the women did belong to them, but they were not specifically with one person; they were… shared by all five of them.
Since they were used for gratification, they cooked during the day and were “attended to” by the others at night… ahem. Now, the people in the RV were engaging in their routine activity for the evening, and the voices of those two women were as loud as soprano singers, completely unhindered by the soundproofing of the RV.
Fortunately, it seemed like they still remembered the four lambs waiting to be slaughtered under the vehicle, so they finished much earlier than usual, taking only about an hour.
Afterward, they waited for a while longer, until the five people in the RV regained their strength and thought that the four people outside must have fallen asleep, before quietly getting up and approaching them.
Perhaps fearing that the opportunity would slip away, all five of them acted together, afraid of making any mistakes.
They held several watermelon knives in their hands, walking lightly and quietly towards their target, intending to strike with a single fatal blow.
“So slow, I nearly fell asleep again,” Xu Song yawned, holding back his frustration.
The two energetic young men on this side couldn’t fall asleep easily while listening to the… well, such discordant noises. Xu Song was leaning in Yue Zheng’s arms, as long as he thinks of this… having a reaction was quite normal, right?
After calming down their impulses not long ago and starting to feel a bit drowsy, the five people came down!
Yue Zheng patted Xu Song’s shoulder reassuringly and instructed the two little boys, who were rubbing their eyes. “Stay put, don’t run around.”
The two small heads vigorously nodded, got up, and walked to where the bicycles were stored, still wrapped in the blankets Xu Song had given them.
The “leader” had an uncertain expression on his face. He didn’t expect them to be prepared already, but…
“Hehe, both of you, if we can avoid taking lives, we don’t want to resort to it either.” The leader always felt that something was odd about these two individuals, but he couldn’t pinpoint exactly what was peculiar.
However, these two men were able to bring two children all the way from City S to this place, so they must be extraordinary. “Since you can discern which plants are edible and suitable for hunting, leave everything behind and take the children with you. We don’t want to resort to extreme measures.”
Xu Song raised an eyebrow, looking at the “leader” with a speechless expression. “Robbing us of everything is not extreme??” How cold would it be tonight? If they left everything behind, they would freeze to death!
“Tch, it’s already generous enough that we’re sparing your lives. I have countless people’s lives on my hands!” A tall and muscular man suddenly laughed coldly, and in the darkness, his hands gradually became stronger, forming a layer of grayish hard shell.
I can’t wait for the beating, thanks for the chapter
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Huh. But have you met my friend the human torch? Hahahaha Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🦗🌳
Hahahhahahah the RV group has rolled 1 in intelligence for the day … Or maybe instead of having post-exercise clarity, they have post-exercise brainrot hahaha