Ch. 33

Yin Chong glared at Xia Xing and said, "I'll settle the score with you later."

After saying that, Yin Chong nodded at Meng Langlang, without even looking at Lou Ai, and turned away.
　　

Yin Chong's adjutant was sitting in the tent next to the truck. When the adjutant saw Yin Chong, he was surprised and asked, "Why are you back so soon?"
　　

"Don't mention it, you little bastards. Have you forgotten the military orders and discipline? On the first day they joined the army, I told them that they were not allowed to leave the team without reason." Yin Chong said angrily. The adjutant next to him was holding a bowl, trembling with fear. "But the two of them just ran into someone else's team casually!"
　　

"Brother Yin, calm down, calm down. These are just a bunch of new recruits who haven't been through much training. How can you expect them to be obedient?" The adjutant tried to comfort him while eating. "We are short of people. Those two are young, so it's not surprising that they are a little rebellious. What did they say to you?"
　　

"Humph, they are not young anymore. Isn't there someone younger than them in our team? How come they are so obedient?" Yin Chong curled his lips. "What are you talking about? Xia Xing said that an expert calculated that our trip would be dangerous. That expert, I mean, is so tall and so thin, not much older than those two kids. They told me that she is an expert! Can you trust her? How can you trust her? She is a liar!"
　　

"Xia Xing might have been influenced by the old leader. Isn't he a Taoist?" The adjutant analyzed calmly, "You probably didn't agree to let that girl join the team, did you?"

"Of course not. I'd be crazy to let her join the team. The Datian County we're going to is large and sparsely populated, and the survivors have been rescued early on. There are only a few zombies left, so we let a group of new recruits go there to practice. What danger can there be?" Yin Chong shook his head, vented his anger, and sat down to eat.
　　

"What did the master say?"
　　

"I didn't listen either and just left. I felt like all the good omens before I left were ruined!" Yin Chong said depressedly after finishing his meal.
　　

"Okay, stop nagging, it's time to leave." The adjutant took the bowl away and said, "I'll go and set things in order."
　　

Lou Ai sat in the passenger seat of Meng Langlang's car and listened expressionlessly to the officer next to her rectifying the discipline: "...You know that you have to report to the army if you want to leave the team. The army is not an orphanage where you can join the army just by saying so. We are a regular army. To join the army, you must pass a strict assessment. After the assessment is over, and you pass it, you are eligible to join the army..."
　　

Meng Langlang sat in the driver's seat, trying hard to hold back her laughter. She turned her head to face Lou Ai, her eyes full of smiles.
　　

"Okay, do you think that this way I won't be able to see you laughing at me?" Lou Ai said helplessly.

"I'm sorry, I really didn't expect it. In fact, I don't believe what the master said. I always thought it was a lie to deceive us, but I didn't expect it to be real." Meng Langlang smiled. After a while, she finally picked up her conscience under Lou Ai's gaze, "You are just worried about the two children. Then you can sit here with peace of mind. Our convoy is also going to Datian County. Lin Ze's mission is to safely pick up a doctor of medicine who lives in Datian County. The mission location is very close."
　　

"This is the only way." Lou Ai nodded.
　　

Around seven in the morning, both convoys finished their rest and set off.
　　

After walking for about two hours, Meng Langlang followed the convoy in front and turned into another highway built against the mountain. Looking down from the highway, she could see the jungle below and the houses in the village not far away. Datian County was much larger than Xingzhuang Village and consisted of several villages close to each other.
　　

"Go this way and you will reach Datian County after getting off the highway. We are going to the nearby Xiaxixi Village, and Xia Xing and the others are going to Shangxi Village. Do you see that river? It is the river that divides the Shangxi and Xiaxi Rivers. The distance is very close, so there is no need to worry that they will get into danger and we won't be able to get there in time." Meng Langlang said to Lou Ai.
　　

"Yeah, okay." Lou Ai looked down from the car window. The arrangement of the various villages below was far less beautiful than that of Xingzhuang Village. Most families had small courtyards, as well as chicken coops and duck coops for raising chickens and ducks. Lou Ai could see very far now. She could even see a group of big geese poking the zombies by the river and swimming in the river in a show of force. However, it seemed that there were only this group of big geese left in several villages.

Lou Ai found no trace of other animals, flies, mosquitoes, or even the chirping of cicadas and frogs that were common in Xingzhuang Village.
　　

"We're here, get off now." All the trucks stopped at the entrance of the village. Meng Langlang ran out of the car and stretched. "Places with lots of green plants have fresh air. If we can't kill all the zombies in the future, it would be nice to find a place with beautiful scenery like this to spend the rest of my life!"
　　

"If there is a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters..." Lou Ai got out of the car, and the tragic sound of a cat lingered in her ears, "Meow! Meow meow meow!!"
　　
"Did you hear any sound?" Lou Ai asked.

"It's the meow of a cat. It might be the cry of a little wild cat being chased by zombies. You don't know that when we visit various places to pick up people, we often see zombies chasing various animals to suck fresh blood and flesh when they can't find humans. There was even a strange zombie that hugged a tree trunk and bit it." Meng Langlang smiled and shook her head, "It seems that zombies are not only able to eat human flesh. It's not that scary when you think about it!"
　　

The optimal food for zombies is always humans. What Meng Langlang saw only showed that animals and plants were gradually integrating into the food chain. When the entire food chain was developed, humans were destined to be weak. No, what she wanted to say was that humans were destined to become strong again.
　　

Lou Ai smiled and said, “You’re right.”
　　

The soldiers got off the truck one after another and quickly set up tents around the truck. Among them, three middle-aged men were strictly protected. Among the three men, Lou Ai also saw a scientist who would become quite famous in later generations. He was the first to propose the concept of plant crystal nuclei.
　　

"Are those three the people you picked up?" Lou Ai asked.
　　

"Well, actually we picked up more than ten people, but only these young professors survived when they arrived at the place. Those with relatively weak bodies died in the disaster." Meng Langlang laughed, "But there are still three who survived. It would be cruel if no one was left. When we were looking for people, the first six scientists had all died, which made us very worried."
　　

"Thank you for your hard work." Lou Ai patted Meng Langlang's shoulder.

　　

"It's all over." Meng Langlang had a bright smile on her face. "I don't have anything to do next. Lin Ze will take people to find the old professor. I'm the one guarding the base. There are several team leaders in the team who are all superpowered. Don't worry."

"How many days will Xia Xing's army training take?" Lou Ai asked.
　　

"Two days, maybe. If we can't find the person the first time, we might wait until the next day and search the entire village."
　　

"Then I'll go take a walk around the neighborhood." Lou Ai said.
　　

"Okay, it's just right for me to sort out the team's affairs." Meng Langlang said.
　　

Meng Langlang looked at Lou Ai's back as she walked away, her smile unchanged.
　　

"Sister, how is she? Don't be on guard against her. I don't think she is a bad person." After Lou Ai left, Meng Linlin came up.
　　

"Has Lin Ze brought people to pick her up?" Meng Langlang asked, touching the small bow rubber band on her wrist.
　　

"They took people away at the last intersection. If they can reach the research institute smoothly, they should be able to pick them up soon." Meng Linlin put her arm on Meng Langlang's shoulder and leaned on her shoulder like a boneless person.
　　

"That's good. I also think she has no ill intentions, but we have to be on guard." Meng Langlang exhaled, "Don't you think about the kind of people you meet on the road? People who eat human flesh, people who are determined to bring a few important people with them, people who believe in □□, and people like those in Changchun Research Institute who are dedicated to luring scientists into their own research institute."
　　

"We've already solved it the cannibals. Someone also wrote a reminder in the abandoned house. Don't worry about it." Meng Linlin said.

　　

"Well, the evil spirit on Lou Ai is not much worse than that of a cannibal." Meng Langlang lowered her eyes, "And the identity of the master she represents. I received a satellite call from the Wei army yesterday. Because of the words of the master, the special ability team managed by the Academy of Sciences was sent to drive out the animals in the Qiang'an base."

Meng Linlin laughed: "That's amazing. I remember the captain of the superpower team really hated superstition. He must be mad."
　　

"Who knows? But Lou Ai was able to achieve this in just over ten days. I'm afraid that the people in our team will be fooled by this master." Meng Langlang shook her head.
　　

"No wonder you were with her the whole time." Meng Linlin muttered.
　　

*
　　

Lou Ai walked around the river upstream.

　　

Meng Langlang and Meng Linlin talked about her behind her back, not because she was so smart, but because Meng Langlang's attitude towards her was different from that in her previous life.
　　

Obviously she didn't trust her too much.

This is probably the aftereffect of becoming powerful.
　　

Lou Ai did not enter Shangxi Village, but just went around the river and figured out all the ways to leave the village.
　　

She closed her eyes and carefully felt the distribution of zombies around her. Compared with the distribution of zombies in Xingzhuang Village, there were too few zombies in Shangxi Village and Xiaxi Village. She walked around the entire village and was able to contact only ten zombies. They were all very resistant to coming here.
　

It's so abnormal, just like a single-celled organism that has been hurt by a stone tens of thousands of times and finally remembered that the stone cannot come over.
　　

Lou Ai squatted down, looked at the grass in front of her, and gently pinched the leaves.

There were traces of animals gnawing on the green leaves, which were half the size of a palm.

But apart from the geese, Lou Ai did not find any animals around, and she did not see the cat that she heard at the beginning.

“Ahhh~”

Suddenly, a rustling sound came from behind Lou Ai.

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