The man explained hesitantly, "He's seen me before, but he doesn't recognize me."
Yu An: "Heh!"
He doesn't believe it!
After Yu An rushed over, his other teammates followed.
Without hesitation, the teammates called the police. The man was taken away, and Yu An and his group also had to give statements. Their presence on the streets during a weekday attracted the attention of a female police officer who questioned them.
Yu An couldn't explain what he did for a living, and the young woman whispered a lecture to him: "You look so young, did you drop out of school?"
Yu An hesitated for a moment, then ordered.
He attended a human school.
The young woman said with a regretful look, "Even if you dropped out, you should still find a proper job. Although you did a good job on the road this time, you can't just wander around on the road every day."
The young lady was quite talkative. When talking to Yu An, who was about the same age as her younger brother, she said, "Look, the newly opened hotel up ahead is hiring greeters. They pay 300 yuan a day! You could go and earn some money."
Yu An was stunned.
He subconsciously looked ahead: "Three hundred a day? That's a lot of money."
He's been online a lot these past few days and has learned that everyone has to work.
A daily wage of 300 yuan would amount to 9,000 yuan a month.
He asked Xie Chiyuan, and he learned that if he wanted to join the army, he would receive a yearly allowance of one thousand yuan.
Upon hearing Yu An express envy for the hostess's salary, Song Jun immediately lowered his voice and said, "Yu An, don't let your thoughts stray from the right path. You can make a lot of money in our line of work."
"Let me give you a little secret: our Instructor Xie has enough savings to buy several courtyard houses in Beijing!"
Upon hearing this, Yu An hugged the child in her arms tightly and dared not utter a sound.
Xie Chiyuan's wife had exchanged her savings for chips at the casino, and to make matters worse, the casino closed down, but the money in his wife's savings was returned.
I have to say, magicians are a trap.
After taking the man who was trying to abduct the child to the police station, Officer Yu An also put down the child who was clinging to his neck.
The child stared at him without blinking and reached out to hug him.
Strangely enough, this little boy became very clingy to him after he picked him up. Just now on the way, the little boy whispered in his ear, "It feels so good to be held by you."
Yu An patted his head, hugged him, and said, "Brother still has things to do. Be good here and wait for your family to come and pick you up."
"Hug me."
The little boy, who was quiet and reserved around others, said softly to Yu An, "Come hug the bug."
Yu An felt that he was quite popular with children. This little bug ignored everyone at the police station, but he was the only one who wanted to hold him.
Ke Yu'an entered the training ground, not to coax the children.
After going through all that trouble, he and his teammates finally emerged from the police station.
The insect crawled on the glass of the police station, its eyes still fixed on Yu An's back. It whispered, "Senior is wrong. It feels so good to hug you."
As Yu An walked out of the police station, he glanced at his watch and reminded the officer, "Captain, it's already time."
The training lasts 24 hours a day, and they can't afford to waste any more time.
Yin Feng frowned, looking around, increasingly uneasy. They'd been inside for so long, and they hadn't seen a single zombie.
Since the city was peaceful, they kept an eye on transportation options in advance.
"Run forward," Yin Feng said. "Let's go to Linxi Garden first."
"yes!"
Yu An used to be weak and would often fall while running. Now, after training for so long, he can run several kilometers without falling.
Some time after they left, an ordinary-looking middle-aged couple walked into the police station.
They came to pick up their lost son.
The police were somewhat surprised when they saw them: "Are you Chongchong's parents? The young man who brought Chongchong here just now said that Chongchong has parents."
Bug Mom smiled and said, "It might be a misunderstanding. I really am Bug Mom."
Chongchong's dad also smiled and said, "Yes, officer, we are locals, living in 602, Linxiyuan East District, Peanut Road. Chongchong is our child."
After the police verified the information, they were relieved and handed the listless insect back to them, telling them that someone was trying to kidnap the insect.
The couple continued with the procedure.
On the other side, Yu An and his group had already run to the intersection of Linxi Garden and bumped into the auntie who had set up the barbecue stall earlier.
The auntie was very friendly to them and asked, "Would you like some barbecue? My dipping sauce is a secret recipe, it's especially delicious!"
Yu An looked at the sold-out octopuses and shook his head firmly.
That's too cruel, he won't eat it.
Song Jun did want to eat it, but he was currently on a mission and couldn't go to buy it.
The team successfully entered the residential area and stood under Building 6. Even Xiao Yang, the least talkative member of the team, couldn't help but speak up: "Captain, is there a problem with the setup of our training ground this time?"
He joined in, and the others echoed his sentiment: "Yeah, it's been so long, we haven't even seen a single zombie since."
"Captain, could there actually be zombies here?"
The team members had been holding it in for so long, but now they couldn't hold it in any longer.
To give them experience in dealing with zombies, the training grounds usually set up a zombie outbreak shortly after the start of the course.
How come they encountered even the slightest danger this time, just when they were about to find their mission objective?
Faced with the team members' doubts, Yu An looked at the captain and then at the building number on the top floor.
He said slowly, "Since we're already here, let's find the person first."
Building No. 6 is a very old building, and opposite it is a newly built building. The aunt who sells barbecue and her daughter live across from Building No. 6.
“An’an is right. Since we’re already here, let’s go inside.”
Yin Feng looked up, glanced at the number on Building 6, and stepped inside first.
Building 6 is an older building, but it has an elevator.
When they went inside, they found the building quiet. It was midday, and there should have been people cooking in the building. The lady at the barbecue stall across the street was packing up to go home and cook for her daughter.
However, after checking, Song Jun found that all the floors were currently occupied by people.
They climbed up to the 6th floor, where there were a total of 6 households, and the west-facing unit was 602.
"An'an, why are you looking at the door frame of 602?"
The house was clearly the oldest and most dilapidated building, yet it still had a combination lock. The teammates didn't know the combination, so they started pressing the key on door 602.
They pressed the doorbell for a long time, but no one came to open it.
As Yu An listened to his teammate ringing the doorbell, his eyes were fixed on the combination lock of room 602.
The walls of apartment 602 were covered with common small advertisements and some cartoon images. One cartoon image, a small blue fish, was pasted on the door frame.
"An'an, are you stupid?"
“I just saw a small fish here.”
Yu An pointed to the cartoon fish on the door and said to Song Jun.
Song Jun smiled and said, "What's the big deal? Look at the swimming and gym ads on the door. I guess they just put up a little fish there for advertising purposes, just to fit the occasion."
Yu An said "Oh," and then turned her gaze back to the little fish.
602's door was closed, and they couldn't easily climb through the window during the day.
The group reached a stalemate.
The training grounds in the ruined city of Elm City are filled with zombies, monsters, and everything in between. Even mission objectives have appeared there.
Yin Feng had a vague sense of unease.
He left one person here to keep watch, while the others went out with him to gather information.
There are people living in Building 6.
There are people living in room 602.
From day to night, the information they gathered indicated that someone lived in Building 6.
It's not like people know who lives there. The property management ignores these unidentified people. The auntie selling barbecue can't even name her neighbors, let alone the residents of another building.
Time passed little by little.
Yu An squatted at the entrance of Building 6, watching the team leader try every possible way to contact the instructors. They pooled their money to buy a phone from a local mobile phone store—a local phone.
"Instructor Xie's number is not in service."
Song Jun put his phone away, numb from waiting for the zombies. The original plan was for them to kill the zombies, protect the target, and then leave the training ground the next day.
But now, I feel completely lost.
On the small island.
Xie Chiyuan was having a video call with Chi Niao. Chi Niao was dressed in black casual clothes, sitting in a wide chair, and had a very refined and harmless appearance.
He leaned back lazily, patiently answering Xie Chiyuan's question: "The magician, no, you made him lose face in the old city last time. He went to find Little Octopus, um, he's going to beat you up with Little Octopus."
Xie Chiyuan's expression was cold and stern.
Even the little octopus that the magician found has mutated into A08.
"I can guarantee that this time it was not the magician's doing. We are about to cooperate with Ruan Ke. In this situation, the magician might pick a fight with you to vent his personal anger. But he's not stupid enough to kill a whole batch of your people."
What Red Bird said made some sense.
However, Xie Chiyuan could not completely trust him.
"If it's not a magician's spatial ability, then who is it—"
“The North District once hired us to bring a small aberration from the Saint Er Laboratory. This small aberration was very timid, not like the notoriously weakling A09. He was timid and had been a homeless person before we found him, like a pitiful little thing.”
"When I handed the little aberration over to the North District, the little aberration tugged at my clothes and told me his name."
"His name is Chongchong, the 'Chong' in 'worm'."