When the chasing zombies were dealt with, Hou Ying drove his car to the off-road military vehicle.
Hou Ying has seen this kind of military off-road vehicle in some military news, it is made in China. It has a simple shape and is like a truck. It has a width and height of almost two meters and a length of five meters. It looks very sturdy, at least is much better than his nearly scrapped business car.
The one Gongsun Jing called ‘Lao Er’ at the beginning and was moving very fast was introduced as Qiao Daye1. And the man in charge of the clean-up also jumped off the roof, holding a gun. He hung the gun around his neck, unceremoniously grabbed a bottle of water in Hou Ying’s car, and drank it.
Jiang Tao, the oldest of the four, told Hou Ying that his name was Li Xuanyuan.
A very domineering name, a good gunner of their special forces, and more powerful in close combat. Hou Ying’s gaze turned to his face to only retract it back a second later, but it was still discovered by Li Xuanyuan. The latter threw the bottle of mineral water aside, stared at him sharply and asked, “Are you gay?”
Hou Ying’s scalp tightened and felt embarrassed, but he quickly calmed down and didn’t respond to him. Instead, he said to Jiang Tao, “My destination is Yecheng. If it is different from you, I can go to Jianghai service area with you, after all, I still need to change a car. I can also tell you about the situation on the way there. Are you okay with that, Brother Tao?”
Jiang Tao said, “Since you can replace your car there, this one is not needed. Move the supplies from your car to ours. Don’t worry, we won’t grab your things when you are leaving.”
Unlike Hou Ying, he didn’t freely tell him their own plan.
Judging from the reaction of this child named Meng Hanghai, these materials should be mainly obtained by the young man named Hou Ying precariously. They can take a little for an emergency, but they can’t monopolize other people’s property.
This insults the dignity of soldiers, not to mention, Hou Ying also said that there are still a lot of supplies in the Jianghai service area and there’s no need to do such an immoral thing.
Jiang Tao arranged for the child to get in the car first. Hou Ying moved the supplies with them. He couldn’t help but feel a little uncomfortable when he heard Jiang Tao telling Qiao Daye to suck out the gasoline in the car for later use. They were stingy with the supplies to this point showing that the situation outside was worse than he thought.
In any case, these soldiers have strong combat power and guns in their hands, which are much more reliable than ordinary citizens. Hou Ying feels a little more at ease.
When they saw the five barrels of gasoline in the trunk, several people paid attention at Hou Ying more seriously.
Hou Ying didn’t shy away from their looks, even if he later found out that it might not be difficult for him to get these things from the zombies, but he still risked his life getting this.
Later, he saw several people dismantle all the things that could be used in his business car, such as the navigator and small refrigerator, and he felt that he hadn’t yet adapted to this apocalypse.
After moving things and jumping into the car, Hou Ying found that there was a comatose person lying in the back of the car, he didn’t know if it’s just because of tiredness or illness. No wonder that the child was stuck in the corner since he got in the car and didn’t dare to move.
Gongsun Jing also got in the car. Qiao Daye still jumped on the roof of the car, in charge of probing. Jiang Tao drove, while Li Xuanyuan was in the front seat, holding a gun for defense. Therefore, in the spacious compartment at this time, apart from the materials that had just been brought up and some weapons and equipment originally owned by Jiang Tao, there were only Hou Ying, Meng Hanghai, Gongsun Jing and the unknown unconscious person.
Gongsun Jing closed the rear door tightly, the light inside the compartment suddenly dimmed, but there are two small ventilation windows on the roof, and the light comes through and it didn’t take long for them to get used to the lighting.
“Don’t be afraid, he was not bitten.”
Gongsun Jing said when she saw that the two of them were afraid to approach their unconscious comrades. Then, according to Jiang Tao’s hint to her, she said straight to the two of them, “Tell me about your situation more carefully. You know, it’s not easy for us to meet survivors and it’s also not easy for you to meet us. We may be together for a long time, it’s best if we get to know each other better.”
Hou Ying thinks it makes sense.
Although the military uniform gave him a lot of security and natural trust, after all, Hou Ying just woke up and suddenly found that he was missing a crucial memory, faced an unexpected apocalypse, and an ordinary person fleeing with a child, to boot. He’s caught unprepared.
The current situation is not the kind of travel companions that are put together by tour groups and can’t ask each other’s privacy. It is an alliance that may face danger at any time or fear of being abandoned at any turn. Even if it is only temporary, you must be certain of each other’s character.
Hou Ying readily said, “I used to be a manager in an online game company.”
He introduced his company’s two most widely promoted games on the market in the past two years. Seeing that the other party had no impression, he knew that their army life might be relatively closed so he did not introduce any more, just continued.
“On the 22nd, I went from Yecheng to Jiangcheng to discuss business, as a result, there was an employee riot in the cooperative company. Maybe they were the first to be infected by the zombie virus. My driver and assistant were injured. I know some self-defense, so I wasn’t injured by those people. I still have work to do in the company so I set off for Yecheng at noon that day, but I have been circling around the road and can’t fight my way out at all…”
“This is normal.”
Gongsun Jing saw that he was still puzzled about this, so she interrupted and explained, “Many people died after the earthquake and the case of Hucheng virus is too aggressive and infectious, so on the 22nd at two or three pm, all the expressways to Hucheng were blocked, and the satellite guidance was also set up so those vehicles that entered by mistake would be guided back to the original place.”
“I see.”
No wonder he can’t get out that day.
Hou Ying sighed, “I’m quite familiar with this part of the road, so I didn’t turn back when I found something was wrong with the navigator and just kept trying to find Yecheng’s road instead. I was stuck on the road for two days. I didn’t know the situation at the time, it also doesn’t help that I didn’t see any person along the way, so I thought I really encountered a ghost hitting the wall…”
He chose to conceal his unexplainable two-day memory loss, and said with a wry smile, “Later, my car ran out of gas and there’s nothing to eat in the car, so I just followed my memory to the Jianghai service area. Then I met this kid.”
Hou Ying is a veteran at the negotiating table. He’s well-versed in mixing lies to the truth and making someone believe the lies are the truth. Therefore, in his natural statement, even Gongsun Jing, who has minored in psychological counseling, found nothing wrong.
Hou Ying continued, “At that time, I stopped at the gas station to refuel. As a result, I saw a lot of people surrounding the child’s car. I couldn’t receive Internet signals so I didn’t know it’s the end of the world or there are zombies…”
Hou Ying paused in distress, and then briefly described his and Meng Hanghai’s five-hour horror experience with astonished sadness.
Gongsun Jing nodded to express her understanding.
This unpleasant experience would seriously frighten anyone but seeing that his psychological safety line has not collapsed, she doesn’t waste time comforting and counseling him, but focused on Meng Hanghai. If this kid doesn’t have abilities or special protection, he won’t be able to survive up to this point.
Meng Hanghai is also worthy of being a good child who can live for two days without dying or going crazy surrounded by zombies. Being asked by strangers like this, although he was flustered for a moment and had to grab Hou Ying to feel relieved, he easily said what he knew and what he had experienced.
Because he had spoken to Hou Ying before, so although he was still terrified of the facts and didn’t want to remember, he finally said it well.
Through the Bluetooth earpiece, the three people outside the compartment also heard their statements.
Meng Hanghai is young and his language isn’t logical, but several people realized from his narration that the child’s father is definitely not as simple as an ordinary hospital chief physician.
The first time an infectious disease case occurs, he can go to school and take away Meng Hanghai who is still in class. It’s almost like escaping from Hucheng. He must have a certain understanding of the infectivity and harmfulness of zombie virus and maybe also knows things that ordinary people don’t know.
It’s a pity that this person has been killed under the zombies’ claws, there is no way to ask, and his son knows very little.
And the family background of this child is definitely not ordinary. A car that can support two days under the attack of zombies, almost as strong as the military armored car they are currently riding, ordinary people can never have it.
After Jiang Tao listened, he tapped a few times on the Bluetooth using their secret signal, and asked Gongsun Jing to inquire about Hou Ying.
Hou Ying found that after waking up, his hearing has become very powerful. He could even hear the knocking sound from such a highly private military Bluetooth, it’s just that he doesn’t understand what those secret words mean. However, Gongsun Jing quickly solved his doubts, she said straightforwardly, “Hou Ying, you said your skill was just average but how did you get so much food and successfully escape when so many zombies surrounded you?”
She already had a certain sense of trust in Hou Ying, who still chose to rescue a child he never knew in such a critical situation, and she didn’t think that Hou Ying was still guarding against them, so there’s no beating around the bush.
Hou Ying was very grateful for her directness when he heard this, though did not reply immediately. He was torn for a while before considering, “Actually I am not sure. At that time, I took gas from the storage room and used an iron rod to knock the zombie out.”
After a pause, he said, “I found that the zombies seem to be particularly sensitive to sound, so I detonated a lighter to distract them. Later, I went to the convenience store, and there were three or four zombies inside. I thought I was going to die there, but those zombies seemed… very slow? At least their speed is not at the same as the zombie who grabbed my car. It could be something else, but they didn’t do anything to me so I took the things, got into the car and ran away.”
Not only himself, but even those who were listening felt lucky for him.
Gongsun Jing breathed out and said, “You have good fate and you are also very smart. According to the speculation of some departments and our experience, apart from being sensitive to sound, the most flexible of the five senses should be the sense of smell. They smell the scent of living people and then prey on them.”
After hearing this, Hou Ying and Meng Hanghai suddenly showed horrified expressions.
Meng Hanghai was fortunate that he had been hiding in the car, and when they went back to get supplies, Hou Ying also protected him in the car. He was afraid and leaned against Hou Ying, subsequently, becoming more dependent on Hou Ying. After being touched by him, Hou Ying came back to his senses, showing an ugly soothing smile, and said, “It’s okay, you are not alone now.”
Hou Ying was upset in his heart!
If a zombie hunts by smelling a living person, then what is he? Why do the zombies seem to be unable to smell him? The fact that they rushed up as soon as the car door was opened at the time proved that the sense of smell of the zombies is absolutely working, they all smelled the smell of Meng Hanghai!
Why is he special?
Isn’t the smell on him… not the smell of a living person?
Hou Ying shuddered for a while.
Now he doesn’t plan to tell others about his peculiar skill. After all, human beings are always an exclusive species, and he doesn’t want to be unique and cause unwarranted doubts.
Fearing that she would show her cloven foot in silence, Gongsun Jing had already asked, “By the way, do you have any abilities in your body?”
Abilities?
They both looked puzzled.
When Gongsun Jing saw this, she thought about her words and said, “For example, shooting fire with your hands, or controlling plants, in short, it is a super power that we humans could not have before.”
Meng Hanghai shook his head, and Hou Ying said, “I have found that my hearing seems… to become stronger.”
He turned out to be a hearing ability user, several people thought.
Translator’s Note:
- I rearranged this sentence, sorry if it doesn’t seem right. This part is confusing in the raw vers. becoz I thought they were introducing QD but they were actually talking about the ML. I was about to delete this part but then I remembered they still haven’t introduced QD, just a nickname, so I tried fitting it in this sentence.
This update is a little late because my family have to evacuate because there’s a typhoon coming, came actually, it already landed and still moving away from the country. Anyway, as I would like to encourage myself, I made a promise to myself that every time I didn’t update on schedule, I would add a bonus chapter. So you’ll get three chapters updated in this story today!! Are you happy? Are you excited? Because I do!!
One down, two more chapters to go!!
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