Did they all retreat?
Did they have another base camp, or were they going to find that Cheng Ge?
And was Wang Hao taken away by them too?
Luo Xiaole, Luo Shu, and Zhu Hui exchanged bewildered glances.
She opened her phone with some confusion, wanting to see if anyone in the group knew any clues.
To her surprise, WeChat kept showing "Cannot connect."
She looked at the top right corner of her phone and realized the signal had been lost at some point...
All sources of information, after holding out for so long, were finally cut off.
The world had officially descended into an isolated apocalypse.
What made it worse for Luo Xiaole was that she could no longer make transactions via phone.
And thinking about it, hardly anyone would be carrying cash these days.
If she wanted to trade, she would probably have to exchange goods with others.
"So, what do we do now..." Luo Xiaole said with distress...
"Let's go," Luo Shu said decisively after a moment's thought. "Wang Hao brought it upon himself. Everything is up to fate! We can't find him right now anyway."
That was indeed true. No one knew where the Azure Dragon Gang had taken Wang Hao.
They should continue with their original plan.
Heading towards the supermarket.
However, they did not see a man with a cigar in his mouth in the window of a high-end apartment building nearby.
He was currently holding a precision telescope, watching their every move through the glass.
"They've left."
His deep voice sounded particularly sinister over the intercom.
...
Going down from the fourth floor to the first was not as difficult as before.
With Luo Xiaole's weapons, everyone who could get out had fought in the hallways, and there were not many zombies left.
Since it was difficult to find food in the zombie-infested supermarket, many people had found ways to leave the residential area.
Luo Shu led the way, and the three of them stumbled along.
When a zombie suddenly darted out from the stairwell, Luo Xiaole froze for a moment. After overcoming her initial shock,
the three of them finally managed to step out of the building's entrance and crawled their way to the path beside the supermarket.
"Xiaole, this sudden freezing you get... is there any cure for it..." Luo Shu asked, resting his chin on his small round face, looking at their nominal "leader" with some worry...
He didn't find protecting her troublesome. After all, without Luo Xiaole, he wouldn't have gotten such powerful weapons or had such a high survival rate.
He was just worried, what would happen if this "leader," who froze whenever she encountered a zombie, couldn't be protected and really perished one day!
Luo Xiaole didn't know how to explain. At that moment, she could only pat the chubby boy's shoulder with a heavy expression, like an old parent.
With a mature tone, she comforted him, "It will be resolved."
As long as they earned money, this problem would be resolved!
Luo Xiaole shouted inwardly.
...
"This path leads to the side entrance of the supermarket," Luo Xiaole said seriously to her two companions, observing carefully.
"I heard from someone before that after the passage behind the side door is the supermarket warehouse. Let's go directly to the warehouse to get supplies," Luo Xiaole's eyes shone.
"But wasn't it said that the warehouses have specially made large doors? Ordinary people can't open them. Do you know the password, Xiaole? You're good. You're not secretly the supermarket owner's daughter, are you?" Luo Shu asked excitedly, as if he had uncovered a secret.
Luo Xiaole looked helpless and pouted, "What are you thinking! I have my ways. We'll just figure out how to get in."
Luo Xiaole looked up. The supermarket entrance was densely packed with zombies that had poured out last time.
They milled about in front of the supermarket like ants moving house.
Even the dried dark red bloodstains on the ground, now baked into dry skin under the sun, puffed up in layers as the zombies brushed against them.
It caused an inexplicable sense of unease.
Fortunately, the group of zombies was far enough away not to trigger Luo Xiaole's freezing.
"...Let's crawl," Luo Xiaole thought miserably, but she didn't say it.
This was the only way to reach the side entrance without alerting the zombies at the front.
The green belt along this path was very dense, and the grass could mask the sounds of their movement.
"Alright..." The other two nodded. They had no better options at the moment.
The three of them immediately dropped to all fours, their backsides in the air, heads held low, and crawled forward on the grass.
Luo Xiaole's heart was already aching. None of her joints were in good condition. Rainy days made them hurt even more. Now, with all her strength on her limbs, her joints were already starting to ache faintly.
Not to mention that her small, bony arms had already lost a layer of skin from the scraping.
The pain made her grimace.
But she had no choice. This was the only way to get there. She gritted her teeth and forced herself to crawl forward!
She wanted to end the suffering as quickly as possible.
No one noticed that Zhu Hui, crawling behind them, suddenly spotted a glittering bottle in the grass.
Her eyes lit up instantly, as if she had found a treasure. She suddenly crawled towards that patch of grass, gradually falling behind...
Luo Xiaole, seeing that they were nearing the end, took out her phone and saw that they had only crawled for five minutes.
But why did it feel like fifty minutes of torment?
She let out a very soft "ouch," supported her arm, and was about to continue crawling forward. They were only a few meters away.
Suddenly, there was an extremely faint sound of footsteps from ahead.
Footsteps?
Luo Xiaole froze abruptly.
She thought she was going to freeze again.
But she didn't.
However, the end of the small path ahead was hidden in shadow, and she couldn't see anything.
If she didn't freeze... there shouldn't be... any danger ahead?
Her expression relaxed for a moment.
"Aren't you afraid?" a pleasant yet somewhat deep voice sounded.
It sounded a little familiar.
Immediately afterwards, a pair of shoes, almost unnaturally clean, appeared before Luo Xiaole's eyes.
Someone stepped out from the shadow and stood in front of her.
Luo Xiaole suddenly looked up and saw the young man who had suddenly appeared in the sunlight.
His dark hair seemed so dense that even the sun couldn't penetrate it, with the scorching sunlight only outlining a faint golden edge on his strands.
Beneath his perfectly placed bangs were those deep eyes that seemed both pure and unblemished, yet capable of absorbing everything.
Mo Chen!
How could she have run into him here!
Were they also here to get supplies?
Since they could be here, was this alley temporarily safe?
Luo Xiaole's brain seemed to short-circuit for a moment, and she blurted out these questions.
Mo Chen's expression flickered for a moment.
But then, as if it were inevitable, he gently curved his lips.
Luo Xiaole even felt that seeing him smile was an illusion.
"Mo Chen, why are you out here? Weren't we hiding well inside?" a young man with yellow hair asked in a low voice, as if he were stealing, bending over as he followed Mo Chen, confused.
The yellow-haired youth saw Luo Shu behind Luo Xiaole and exclaimed with surprise, "Yo!" as if he couldn't believe it.
"Little Fatty! Why are you here too? Are you here to get supplies? Sorry, we got here first." He said with a smug expression.
Luo Shu finally crawled to the end and stood up, not to be outdone. "What do you mean you got here first? There are so many supplies here, can you possibly carry them all? Don't be so stingy!"
The yellow-haired youth scanned Luo Xiaole and the others and asked curiously, "Where's your big sister? Didn't she come with you?"
Luo Xiaole, the "big sister," kept quiet beside them, feeling a moment of embarrassment.
"Stop worrying about things that don't concern you. Let's focus on getting supplies!" Luo Shu quickly changed the subject.
Mo Chen, however, spoke up, which was highly unusual.
"Why are there only two of you?"
???
What did he mean, only two of them?
There were clearly three.
Luo Xiaole was instantly horrified and turned her head sharply.
The space behind them was empty.
Where had Zhu Hui gone!