The group slept on a large bed, which was a bit crowded. But this allowed Xie Chiyuan to hold Yu An even tighter. Yu An nuzzled his chin, said nothing, and simply closed her eyes gently.
That night.
They slept very peacefully. The little ones woke up early, and after waking up, the two little ones spontaneously grabbed Yu An and Xie Chiyuan respectively.
They thought their eldest brother was about to be strangled to death by Xie Chiyuan.
Before the two could be separated, everyone involved was alerted.
Yu An couldn't figure out what the kids were doing. He reflexively patted each of their heads and then nudged Xie Chiyuan, saying, "Hmm, they're waking up."
They got up early and didn't stay at the base for breakfast.
These teenagers have a hard time making a living together, and they don't need to mooch off the children's food.
We arrived at the entrance of the base.
Chen Nan and Yang Xiaohui, who had been on guard all night, looked very tired. Chen Nan wanted to persuade Yu An to stay a little longer: "Do you want to stay a little longer? There are lots of fun things in our base, and there's even a library."
Yu An thanked her for her kindness: "We have urgent matters to attend to. We'll come to see you again when we're done."
Chen Nan nodded, looking at Yu An and Xie Chiyuan with reluctance, and offered them the things in her hands: "Brother, you gave us supplies back then, and we also wrote an IOU."
"Now, we should return the items."
Chen Nan was clean and tidy; she was a very pretty girl. Her hair was naturally curly, and paired with her bright black eyes, she had a very elegant air about her.
When Yu An gave out the supplies, he never expected them to return them.
Fearing that Chen Nan would insist, he took a different approach and politely declined: "We have an urgent mission and can't bring so much stuff. You can give it to us next time we come to the base, okay?"
Chen Nan hesitated for a moment, then said okay.
She felt increasingly embarrassed that she hadn't returned the supplies or even treated him to breakfast.
"elder brother."
Chen Nan bit her lip, and when she looked up again, her eyes were shining: "Thank you for your kindness. Don't worry, I won't let you down! I will be a kind person like you!"
Young girls are always prone to sentimentality, and Chen Nan is no exception.
She mustered her courage, took two steps forward, and hugged Yu An, but didn't dare to hug Xie Chiyuan.
Xie Chiyuan looked at Yu Anruan without hesitation.
"Brothers, I'll be waiting for you to come next time!"
The little girl whispered a promise to Yu An, and after making the promise, she insisted on walking them a few steps.
They hadn't gone far when the people who had gone out returned from a short distance away. They were accompanied by several children wrapped in coats, looking desolate; it was clear they had been picked up from outside again.
Yu An opened the back door and put the babies inside.
He looked at the group of people, and for some reason, the two children who had been taken in looked somewhat familiar.
Yu An thought about it for a while, but couldn't come up with a solution.
He shook his head, sat back in the car, and stopped thinking about it.
When he and Xie Chiyuan were out and about, they would occasionally encounter survivors. It was perfectly normal for there to be children among the survivors. He probably recognized them because he had seen them before.
Xie Chiyuan didn't pay any attention to the child who had been taken in. He started the car, turned his head, and told Yu An, "Fasten your seatbelt."
Yu An replied, "Okay."
The car drove off.
Yu An's eyes inadvertently swept across the rearview mirror, and in the mirror, the child who had been rescued also saw him.
For a fleeting moment, Yu An felt that the child's eyes in the mirror were somewhat eerie.
It was as if they hated them to the core.
Before Yu An could take a closer look, the image in the mirror disappeared as the car started moving.
He opened the window and looked back.
pity.
I couldn't see anything clearly.
Xie Chiyuan gripped the steering wheel and casually asked Yu An, "What are you still looking back for? What, you want to live in the high school student alliance too?"
Speaking of this, Xie Chiyuan suddenly became curious.
He asked, "An'an, have you ever taken the college entrance examination?"
Yu An shook his head.
Xie Chiyuan smiled and said, "The college entrance exam is quite interesting. I'll take you to try it out after we settle down."
Yu An refused: "No."
He added, "I never took the college entrance exam, but I did take the exam papers, and they weren't difficult at all. I scored 730 points. My dad said he used to score higher than me."
After Yu An finished speaking, an eerie silence fell over the car.
Even Xie Chiyuan, the top student back then, didn't get such a high score. Meanwhile, the kids in the back seat, sitting cross-legged, munching on potato chips, innocently asked their older brother, "Big brother, is 730 a really, really high score?"
Yu An thought for a moment and nodded: "I guess so."
Bazai was the first to respond: "Then I'll take the exam too, big brother, I want to get 1000 points!"
Xie Chiyuan coughed and bluntly retorted, "The maximum score is only 750."
Bazai wasn't afraid at all: "Then I'll go and get a perfect score!"
Xie Chiyuan chuckled: "Very good, that's ambitious. I hope you'll still maintain your ambition to get full marks when I send you to kindergarten in a while."
Chiu Chiu, munching on potato chips, is wide awake.
He crunched on potato chips, his cheeks puffing out: "I don't want to take exams, I don't want to go to kindergarten."
He wants to be a shut-in and not go anywhere except his home.
The group chatted in the car.
Yu An still couldn't forget the look in his eyes that he had just seen in the mirror, and at the same time, an indescribable unease rose in his heart.
"Xie Chiyuan, did you see those two kids who were picked up earlier?"
"I glanced at it, what's wrong?"
Yu paused for a moment, then recounted what she had seen in the eyes of the two children in the mirror: "I don't know if I'm seeing things, but they gave me a very uncomfortable feeling."
After Yu An finished speaking, he wanted to hear Xie Chiyuan's opinion.
But suddenly.
Xie Chiyuan immediately turned the car around.
His expression was grim: "We met those two kids on our way to the East District for investigation. We gave them food, and their parents insisted that we take them with us."
Not to mention that they had a mission at the time, their vehicles alone couldn't possibly carry so many people.
So they only provided the supplies and refused their request to get on the bus.
The fact that only these two children are here means their adults are most likely gone. The way these two children are glaring at Yu An with such hostility shows they're still holding a grudge about what happened last time.
If it's just jealousy, that's one thing, but what's worrying is that these kids might have malicious intentions.
Xie Chiyuan drove the car very fast.
Chuchu's potato chips were flung to his feet, and he frowned slightly. Then, not wanting to waste them, he picked them up and poked Bazai.
"It's dirty."
He pointed to the potato chips.
Bazai glanced at him, his tone disdainful: "The car isn't dirty, you're just being dramatic!"
Chirp didn't say anything, just stared at the potato chips she had picked up.
The little bastard impatiently stretched out its tiny tentacles, rolled up the potato chip, and ate it clean in a few bites.
"Okay, no more dirty potato chips."
"Thank you, Bazai."
Polite Xiao Qiu also shared an unopened jelly, handing it to Ba Zai: "This is for you."
The kids were entertaining themselves, while the adults in front were not in a very relaxed mood. They had exchanged contact information with the high school student base, but they had left it in Chen Nan's name.
Yu An called several times, but no one answered until the call ended.
"We've arrived."
As soon as they arrived at the base entrance, Yu An opened the car door and walked into the base, saying, "Let the kids stay here, let's go in and take a look."
"OK."
The car door was closed again, and Yu An and Xie Chiyuan's hearts jumped into their throats when they saw that the base gate was not closed.
Before they left, the base gates were either tightly closed or guarded by someone at the gate.
But right now, the door is half open, and no one is guarding it.
"Chen Nan!"
Yu An called out Chen Nan's name and, upon entering the base, witnessed a fight taking place. The main protagonists of the fight were clearly the two children they had brought back.
The child looked completely different from a moment ago.
Their original human characteristics have visibly disappeared, and their faces clearly resemble those of zombies, with murky eyes and teeth covered in blood and flesh.
Besides these two children, there are other zombies in the base.
Yu An didn't know exactly what had happened, but he knew that the most important thing right now was to resolve the chaos.
"Xie Chiyuan, kill them!"
"good."
The number of superhumans in the base was ultimately too small, and they were unable to control the situation for the time being.
With a single move, Xie Chiyuan wiped out all the zombies in less than ten minutes with his bone blade. The last to die was the child Yu An had seen in the mirror; the child was fierce and had almost bitten Xie Chiyuan.
Yu An shielded Xie Chiyuan from the attack.