CH 42

Hao Jian’s father, Hao Kan, and her mother, Chen Xiuzhu, were high school classmates. Hao Kan was tall, versatile, and as handsome as his name suggests. He was the popular school boy that was paired with the school flower at the time.

Although Chen Xiuzhu is of average birth and appearance, her family education is very good and is also known as a very talented girl.

Like the beginning of a very cliched story, these two people see eye to eye. At that age, they were at the time of spring and they lacked the correct sex education guidance. So when they were about to take the college entrance examination, they played around and created life.

At the time, there was no abortion and the two families felt ashamed so they got married in a hurry. However, after the new marriage law came out and the legal age for marriage was changed, the both of them failed to obtain a marriage certificate. They could only invite relatives and friends to have a banquet.

Soon after the marriage, the collage entrance examination followed after. Chen Xiuzhu’s mental condition was not very good due to her pregnancy. In addition, due to her physical conditions, her examination performance failed. In the end, her plan to originally go to Southern City University didn’t follow through ang could only choose a city school while Hao Kan went to the College of Geology of Ocean University.

At the College of Geology, Hao Kan joined the mountaineering club and has been fascinated by the climbing ever since. Whenever he was on vacation, he would go climbing with the members of the club. From gentle slopes to the steep peaks full of crisis and challenges.

He has reached the summit of Jade Everest, which is more then 6,100 meters high. He has also successfully climbed the summit of Mount Everest, so he is very famous. Finally, she challenged Mount McKinley – the highest peak in North America, and Aconcagua – the highest peak in South America. . . .

As Hao Jian remembered, when people around her talked about her father, they all praised him with a thumbs up. Whenever she sees him in TV or newspaper, he would either be the leader of a team climbing a certain famous peak, or being a commander-in-chief of a mountaineering team.

Whenever he came home, he would bring a lot of medals and many mountain models to Hao Jian. He would also tell her stories about his climbing experiences, making her both nervous and excited.

But because he was often away from home and wasn’t able to provide much for their home for a year, the burden of raising the family fell on Chen Xiuzhu’s shoulders. She did not complain because whenever she sees her husband telling her daughter his stories, her daughter’s eyes would light up. Seeing this picture, she felt that no matter how hard or tiring it was, it was still worth it.

Later, when Hao Kan’s parents died one after another, he blamed Chen Xiazhu for not taking care of his parents. The two broke out into their first argument ever since they were married for so long. Hao Kan then packed up his things and left home the next day.

At this time, Hao Jian was already in high school and she had already understood a lot of things she didn’t understand compared to when she was still a child. And watching her mother take care of this family and she felt very sad knowing how her grandparents belittled her. At the same time, the image of her father, who she once respected in her mind, seemed to gradually collapse.

It seems that she couldn’t accept the collapse of her father’s image that she wanted to do something to prove that her father was still perfect. To do so, she took out her hiking bag given to her by her father and packed her things and went to Hao Kan.

She inherited Hao Kan’s good skin, and was influenced by Chen Xiuzhu to like reading. No matter how she looked at it, she was a quiet literary girl. But when she inherited Hao Kan’s skin, she also inherited his temperament. Sometimes, she was very stubborn.

If it wasn’t because of Chen Xiuzhu’s illness, Hao Jian was afraid that Chen Xiuzhu would really go to Mount Everest to see Hao Kan.

However, when Hao Kan left home this time to climb Mount Everest, he never came back.

In the past, it usually takes a long time for any news about Hao Kan to arrive after going out once, but after two months of not receiving any news, Chen Xiuzhu was starting to panic.

She didn’t believe that he would be in danger, so she asked around for any news about Hao Kan. However, Hao Kan’s friends didn’t know much about him and they knew less about his itinerary, They all said, “I know he’s going to Mount Everest but he has successfully climbed the top, so sister-in-law shouldn’t be too worried. But if you’re really worried, why don’t you go to the police?”

Chen Xiuzhu had no choice but to call the police. However, the police believed that it would take for him a long time to come back after going out, so he may have gone to climb another mountain again. She shouldn’t worry too much and simply wait.

Her wait lasted for three years. Chen Xiuzhu spent a lot of effort to inquire about him, but her years of labor added with her poor health, she was diagnosed with cancer.

In order to find Hao Kan, her family’s situation wasn’t so good. They also spent a lot of money for her illness. Seeing that Hao Jian had to drop out of school to work and earn money for her illness, Chen Xiuzhu felt ashamed and guilty and later became more and more depressed. In the end, she didn’t want to become a burden to Hao Jian, so she committed suicide and left a suicide note.

“I would rather have my mother believe that he died seven years ago so that she stop spending time and energy in finding him and give up.”

Lian Ru Ning was silent. She heard that more than 300 corpses had been fount at Mount Everest in the past 40 to 50 years, and there were still many missing climbers. Although they were only reported missing, but people know that their hope of survival is very small.

However, it is very difficult to launch a search and rescue operation and many people would die in the process of the operation. Even if the remains are found, it is still difficult to carry down the remains, so many people will not spend this time and energy.

After Chen Xiuzhu’s death, Hao Jian buried all Hao Kan’s medals, including the model mountain he sent, and his notebook was buried in front of Chen Xiuzhu’s tomb. Except for the hiking bag, all traces of left by Hao Kan were erased by her, as if in her heart, this person no longer exists.

“I’m sorry to have evoked your sadness.” Lian Ru Ning said guiltily.

Hao Jian ‘puffed’ a laugh and said, “As I mentioned, one has been missing for seven years, while the other has been dead for four years. It was sad and painful in the beginning, but most of all the pain and sadness had faded, so it isn’t as sad anymore. I usually don’t mention it. I just find it very boring.”

Lian Ru Ning realized suddenly. Hao Jian is indeed not a person who get hurts in the spring and feels sad in autumn. Her experiences had also allowed her to become strong and independednt.

“I remember that you were from the School of Sociology and Anthropology. What is anthropology?” Lian Ru Ning asked curiously.

“I only studied for one semester and it was only basic theories like introduction to Anthropology, so I can’t answer you. But it is said that even after studying for four years, one may not be able to answer what ‘Anthropology’ is.”

Literally, Lian Ru Ning felt that Hao Jian was quite suitable for studying anthropolgy.

In the afternoon, Hao Jian and the others went to train for a few more hours. When they returned, Peng Mao and Xin Ting had already packed up their things as if they were ready to leave tonight.

“What’s the matter?” Lian Ru Ning asked.

During the day, Hao Jian felt that since they decided to follow them to the Southern City, it would definitely be irresponsible to their lives if they didn’t have some self defense skills, so she asked Yi Gao to find someone to teach some some fighting skills.

After teaching them some fighting skills, she also taught them how to use slingshots. Guns are not easy to find, but slingshots are easy to make.

Xin Ting didn’t dare go near them at all and Peng Mao said, “Can we find a place to day in a nearby residential building? It’s already our third day here and I still didn’t line up to fetch water and take a bath.”

When he said that, Lian Ru Ning also felt that she also felt sticky. She obviously took a bath last night but it was a pity that she had been training under the scorching sun for a day and her clothes had never been dry. When it dries, it will probably be full sweaty smell.

She looked at Hao Jian, and Hao Jian said, “I can’t bear it, I really can’t bear it. There is so much water in this river for you to bathe in.”

They also didn’t have any water to take a bath because they had already used it to wash last night. Not to mention that they had shortage of water resources. They were embarrassed to take too many resources, so they could only wipe their bodies and change their clothes.

Hao Jian threw away the clothes that were too bad to wear and then bought new ones to wear. Nowadays, the shopping mall has the function of being able to buy daily necessities. There are also clothing items for sale. A t-shirt costs only 5 points, which is cheaper than food.

Hao Jian even played the idea of being a travelling merchant, but thinking that she is not very short on money and that there are people around her like Lian Ru Ning. If she’s too obvious, she might expose the existence of the system.

At night, An Minghui took the traffic line network map of Jiang City and showed them, “The road conditions in these parts are not good. If you want to go to the southern city, you can choose these roads. . .”

The roads on this are crisscrossed, although most of them are paralyzed but there are still useable. By letting them know about these things early, they can avoid detours and reduce risks.

The Jiangxin Island refuge base has helped Hao Jian and the others so much. Before leaving, Hao Jian thought for a while and decided to send something to the guards. Of course, the guards didn’t seem to be short of what Hao Jian had. If it was food, she couldn’t deliver much.

In the end, she left a letter for Yi Gao and said, “Wait for us to leave before opening it!”

Although Yi Gao was curious, he wasn’t in a hurry.

The car that Hao Jian and the others drove when they came was still parked to where they left it. Because there were no living things in the surroundings, Hao Jian’s group was not enough to be targeted by zombies. Unfortunately, when the guards cleaned up the zombies in their operations, they seemed to have accidentally hit the window of the driver’s seat and the glass was shattered.

“. . . Let’s just go!” Hao Jian said in a sigh of relief.

They left behind the guards who went out to carry out the search and rescue work. After reaching the intersection of the road indicated by An Minghui, they separated from the guards.

Once Yi Gao couldn’t see Hao Jian and the others in the rearview mirror, he remembered the letter Hao Jian gave him. So before he went back to his work, he opened the letter and read it.

After reading, he almost told Kong Yingcheng, who was driving the car, to turn back around and find Hao Jian. Kong Yingcheng didn’t know why he looked as such and asked, “Sir, we can’t go that way. What’s written on it?”

Yi Gao turned the wireless walkie-talkie to convey to An Minghui the news he got from Hao Jian, “Report to the commander-in-chief immediately and ask him to contact his superiors to confirm whether the information is accurate! Also inform the refuge base where Lei Mu and the others are being held and increase the intensity of the interrogation of ‘Wugui’ to make sure they reveal more information!”

An Minghui was also taken aback when he finished talking about the contents of the letter left by Hao Jian. Hao Jian said that when she got into the conference center the day before yesterday, she inadvertently heard people mention that now it seems that someone up there had already started the research of detecting the zombie virus and it was all because of the details found from the sensitivity of arthropods to the zombie virus.

Such as mosquitoes and insects. If the human body carries the zombie virus, then they will generally avoid the infected person and go after a healthy person and such its blood instead.

If an arthropod is infected with a zombie virus, it will die.

Because this discovery had not yet developed the relevant tools to detect the virus, no news has come out for the time being.

But if Hao Jian said it was from the side of ‘Wugui’, they have to pay attention to two questions. First is that how did ‘Wugui’ forces infiltrate an important institution?

Second, why can ‘Wugui’ deliver information faster than the officials?

Therefore, Yi Gao needs to immediately go to his superiors to ask for confirmation and at the same time to give a warning to the research institution about the infiltration of ‘Wugui’.

Moreover, Yi Gao vaguely felt that the reason why Hao Jian knew about this matter was not necessarily from ‘Wugui’. After all, she knew it was difficult for them to verify it.

If she didn’t hear it from ‘Wugui’, where did she learn about it?

Did she ask him to open the letter after they left because she was worried they would question her?

So what’s the origin?

But no matter what, if this matter is proven to be true, then there will be much more progress for human beings to prevent infected individuals from having to keep people in quarantine rooms for two or three days!

At this progress, maybe next time, a relevant antidote can be developed?

So this discovery is enough to inspire and boost moral. He is very grateful to Hao Jian who brought them this hope.

Without knowledge that the upper echelons of the escort teams in Jiang City’s are having a heated debate because of a letter from Hao Jian, Lian Ru Ning and the others were also very curious about what Hao Jian had written, and Hao Jian said, “Thank you letter. But if there was a banner, I might not be so stingy to give only a letter.”

Lian Ru Ning and the others, ‘No, even if you give a banner, you are still very stingy.’