CH 46

Posted by LIVANONYMOUSLY on AUGUST 14, 2021

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In the steamy bathroom, hot water spurted from the shower and poured onto their skin, dispersing the cold brought by the rain.

Lian Ru Ning turned her back to Hao Jian and washed her hair while Hao Jian also rubbed the dirt off her body. Both of them did their own things. They didn’t look at each other or talk, but the atmosphere wasn’t weird.

Because of Hao Jian’s openness, Lian Ru Ning relieved a lot of pressure from her heart.

Although there are similar bathhouses in many places in the North, it isn’t uncommon for people of the same sex to see each other naked openly.

But she is, after all, a native of the South. Even in the public pool’s shower rooms, they’re separated with cubicles, so she isn’t really used to showering and seeing other people’s bodies when turning around.

While she was still thinking about it, Hao Jian had already taken a shower and changed into clean clothes.

If it were under normal circumstances, she would have taken a bath for half an hour, but she didn’t know whether Peng Mao could watch Shi Gong Dui for long, so she cut the time in half and only washed her hair once because of her wound.

The gauze on her wound had been removed and had scabbed over, so she wasn’t worried that getting it wet would cause inflammation again. The effect of the medicine bought from the system will certainly be better, otherwise her would would’ve taken several more days to scab.

Seeing that Hao Jian had finished washing up, Lian Ru Ning rushed to wash the foam off and followed her our after a few minutes.

She saw that Hao Jian was cooking something in the kitchen and her hair was still dripping wet, so she grabbed a towel and wiped her wound, “When did you remove the gauze? Are you not afraid of it being infected and getting inflammation again?!”

Hao Jian slightly lowered her head and was able to meet her serious eyes. At this angle, looking at her from above, she could see Lian Ru Ning’s slightly moist red lips after taking a shower. Somehow, Hao Jian’s mind kept circling back to the words of gaining 1 experience for a kiss.

While they were still inside the bath earlier, she had accidentally caught a glimpse of Lian Ru Ning’s back. Because they couldn’t eat three full meals a day these days, not to mention the limited sleeping time, she would also often wake up because of the worries in her heart. Both her body and spirit are exhausted so it was no wonder that people would lose weight very quickly.

Lian Ru Ning never complained, so under her image of ‘killing zombies bravely’, no one knew that she had become thinner.

Hao Jian felt pity for her in her heart, as well as the slightest feelings of affection that had existed a few days ago.

Although she didn’t resist nor was she surprised that she was falling in love with Lian Ru Ning, she is still not a person who would treat her feelings casually. She especially doesn’t want to be like her parents, who started a relationship and then made the other party wait because of danger or for other various reasons. Waiting, keeping hope that doesn’t know when to end it.

“Don’t be afraid, it’s scabbed over.” She smiled slightly.

After Lian Ru Ning’s actions, she turned to help her wipe her hair, “It can still be inflamed even after scabbing. You’re our main force, so you can’t have an accident.”

“But we all listen to Xiao Meimei.”

Lian Ru Ning gave her an angry look.

Who’s actually listening to whose command?

“What are you cooking?” Lian Ru Ning glanced at the pot.

“Egg and ginger syrup to replenish energy and drive away the cold.”

“Where did you get the eggs, ginger, and sugar?”

Of course she bough them. Three eggs cost her 30 points, but the ginger and sugar her fortunately not particularly expensive. However, she couldn’t seem to tell Lian Ru Ning the truth, but she was a little tired of thinking about excuses.

“Do you trust me?” Hao Jian asked.

Lian Ru Ning hesitated for a while because of this question. She didn’t understand why Hao Jian asked such an obvious question, but when she thought about it, Hao Jian’s question must be more than simple. The trust she asked was just that – absolute trust.

Although the four of them have experienced a lot of life and death experiences in the past few days, she still doesn’t trust Xin Ting and Peng Mao 100 percent.

But what about Hao Jian?

Lian Ru Ning didn’t think about it for too long and answered, “I trust you, so I won’t ask.”

Trust it mutual. The reason why Hao Jian didn’t say where these things came from meant that she had her difficulties, but she is also unwilling to lie and deceive Lian Ru Ning.

This is the trust Hao Jian has for Lian Ru Ning, so Lian Ru Ning will naturally give Hao Jian her full trust.

After drinking the warm ginger syrup, Lian Ru Ning felt much warmer and after eating an egg to replenish her protein, her hunger wasn’t as strong anymore.

Xin Ting came downstairs and saw Lian Ru Ning holding a bowl of food to eat while Hao Jian was standing in the kitchen cooking noodles. She froze for a moment and asked, “Where did you find the eggs?”

“Just now. We rummaged around the house after we took a shower. They don’t stink yet. You can eat one too!” Lian Ru Ning naturally helped Hao Jian in finding an excuse.

Xin Ting didn’t expect Lian Ru Ning to lie for Hao Jian so she naturally didn’t suspect anything. Although they had just searched the kitchen and there was no food, Shi Gong Dui had hidden so much food. When someone searched for them, there was always something left behind, and maybe Hao Jian and Lian Ru Ning found it?

The three of them ate an egg each and only gave Peng Mao a bowl of ginger syrup. Peng Mao looked at the egg residue floating on it and couldn’t help but accuse them of being heartless, “You guys are too much! Just leaving me a bowl of syrup.”

“Who told your d**k to catch a cold1? We left you ginger syrup to drive away the cold. That’s already considered very conscientious. Eat noodles! When you’re full, go downstairs and take watch. There’s still a bit of noodles in the pot, if you’re still hungry, go and eat as you take watch.” Hao Jian pushed a bowl of noodles to him.

When Peng Mao heard that there were still noodles left for him, he naturally went downstairs without second thought.

Shi Gong Dui, who was drinking coke, almost choked by the coke when he heard Hao Jian say ‘d** to catch a cold’ in a straight face.

Hao Jian pulled a chair and sat down before asking, “Uncle, let me ask you, do you know what’s going on in the city right now?”

Shi Gong Dui was chewing potato chips when he heard her address him and was slightly dissatisfied, “I’m only twenty-eight, what uncle?”

Hao Jian clicked her tongue, “Uncle, no. Brother, why don’t you look at your sloppy appearance. How is it like a young man? Besides, twenty-eight years old already belong to the middle-aged ranks.”

Shi Gong Dui scratched his face, “I’m worried that someone will break in while I’m taking a shower!”

under everyone’s disgusted eyes, he put down the potato chips, “Okay, okay. I’ll go clean myself up later!”

“It has nothing to do with us whether you tidy up or not. I’m asking you if you know about the situation in the city?” Although Hao Jian broke into someone’s house, she didn’t feel the slightest guilt. Instead, she looked like a bully.

Since Shi Gong Dui had already treated them as the kind of people who robbed him, why don’t she use Shi Gong Dui’s fear to ask what she wanted to know?

Shi Gong Dui said, “I’m not very clear.”

Lian Ru Ning thought about it for a while and asked, “I remember you said that you often hand around various forums. Is there no relevant news in the forums?”

When Shi Gong Dui heard Lian Ru Ning’s gentle and beautiful voice, a large part of her resistance disappeared and he cheerfully said;

“Before the internet was disconnected, I only know that many posts about the appearance of zombies were constantly being reported and blocked in the forums. Some were even stamped as rumors. However, a lot of people who work in the city have returned to their hometowns. Because of this, there were a lot of accidents on the highway, so much so that the intersections were blocked.”

“We all know this.”

Shi Gong Dui saw Lian Ru Ning’s disappointment so he hurriedly tried to prove his abilities, “But, who am I? I used to be an electronic information engineer, I’m not troubled by things like disconnection! I used to help the government with their affairs so I still have access to information here.

I considered that during the apocalypse, base stations can be easily destroyed and officials may also block civil communications including wireless networks. But, officials still have to use the LAN to send emails, fax communications, etc., so I quietly hacked into their network domain. . . .”

He thought that they would show curious gazes, but his wishful thinking fell flat. Not only did Lian Ru Ning show no admiring eyes, she also asked suspiciously, “Then, you did something illegal before?”

“I–” Shi Gong Dui choked, Why are their brain circuits different from others? Aren’t the girls in the anime and mangas admire hackers like him the most?

“Since you’re in this business, don’t you know how to install UPS for the surveillance?” Hao Jian asked.

“I didn’t install the surveillance, my parents did. They said that the villa is so big that it would be noticed by thieves, so they installed it at the door and in the living room. They also don’t understand what a UPS is or anything. I generally don’t care about these things and didn’t interfere, but how did you find out that the surveillance was installed in the corner?”

“Well, normal people who live ins such a large villa with no nearby neighbors will certainly be worried about burglars, so they will generally install some surveillance. In this way of thinking, I paid special attention when I came in and found the infrared light, proving that the cameras are still operating.”

Unexpectedly, the other party was careful so Shi Gong Dui could only let a disappointing, “Oh.”

Suddenly, Xin Ting whispered to Lian Ru Ning, “Ru Ning, he can access the internet here. Does it mean that we can use the internet here to contact our family?”

Lian Ru Ning shook her head, “I thought about it just now, but what’s the use of the internet here if our families doesn’t have internet and has no way to obtain signal?”

Xin Ting wondered a bit and seemed to have reached the same conclusion, but Hao Jian said, “You can leave them a message, maybe they can also get a network signal? When that time comes, they will know that you guys are still alive.”

Shi Gong Dui, who heard their conversation was secretly happy that they would finally have a use for him.

However, before he could start talking Joe, Hao Jian pit a knife on his neck, “Don’t even think about using this as an excuse to blackmail us. Although we only intended to come here and stay overnight, we didn’t say that we aren’t bandits. This knife has killed countless zombies. If you don’t want to be infected with the virus, think carefully.”

Shi Gong Dui greeted Hao Jian’s family dozens of times in his heart and said, “Official studies have found that the zombie virus can’t survive in the air for a long time. So even if your knife kills thousands of zombies, even if you hurt me, there’s a high probability that the virus will not infect me.”

“It seems that you’re not lying when you said that you have invaded the government’s LAN since you can obtain such information.”

Shi Gong Dui felt slightly smug, but he soon realized that something was wrong. He had learned these news through the official channels. Then who was Hao Jian and why was she not surprised at all when she heard it? Did she know about it too?

He was uncertain in his heard, but he still honestly went and helped Lian Ru Ning and Xin Ting send news to their families that they were still alive and are planning to look for them.

Lian Ru Ning and Xin Ting also took this opportunity to smooth out what happen during this period in time from the news.

Hao Jian took advantage of them still browsing the previous news to ask Shi Gong Dui, “Then you should also know the official order of establishing refuge bases now. Why didn’t you go to the refuge base?”

Shi Gong Dui spread his hands and said, “If it weren’t for those people who took my food, would I still need to go to the refuge base? And not that my food has been robbed, my car was also taken away by the, how can I go to the refuge base? Although the refuge base is not far from here, the people in all towns and villages are now on guard!”

After hearing his words, Hao Jian recalled the roadblock on the national highway and asked, “Did some survivors organize to set up a roadblock to stop outsiders?”

Shi Gong Dui looked a little weird, “Yeah. This place is surrounded by mountains and it’s not easy for zombies to get in, not to mention many people have fled to this place. Some of them are carrying zombie viruses so people in these towns organized themselves to deal with the zombies from the outside to make this place a paradise.”

Hao Jian keenly discovered the loopholes in Shi Gong Dui’s words but didn’t show it in her face, “Xanadu. It seems that there aren’t many people who have become zombies here.”

“How could it not be too many? Everyone doesn’t know that there are other ways to spread the zombie virus aside from being scratched or bitten, so one or two of them have been caught by the virus without even knowing about it . . .”

Speaking about this, he deliberately made a pass and Hao Jian sneered, “What you’re saying is that sex – intercourse can also spread the virus?”

Shi Gong Dui was quite humiliated, muttering in his heart, “It seems that they already know this information I have received. They already know everything.”

He also no longer hid it, “Yes! Everyone has seen the movies and knows that you can’t be bitten or scratched by zombies, but who knew that sex can also spread the virus? But this thing is more poisonous than AIDS or syphilis. At least there’s a possibility of not contracting AIDS after doing it once, but this thing ah, it only needs to be done once! Because people don’t have this awareness to prevent it, not many people know that they have been hit by the zombie virus.”

Seeing that Shi Gong Dui seemed to be quite resentful about this, Hao Jian laughed, “You don’t have any enthusiasm. If you only squat in a house like this and not go outside, there’s really little chance of you getting infected since you can only jerk by yourself!”

Shi Gong Dui was quite dissatisfied with Hao Jian’s statement, “Why do you talk like that? Maybe someday, a girl will come to my house and seek shelter?”

The actual fact is that the survival environment for women during the apocalypse of zombies is very difficult. Don’t they basically have to rely on strong people to survive?

Thinking inside, he quietly glanced at Lian Ru Ning and Xin Ting.

Hao Jian followed his gaze and glanced at him. She then immediately came to his ear, “If your eyes are still looking at them, revealing unwelcome thoughts that shouldn’t be there, I will dig your eyes out for you!”

With that said, the back of the knife struck hard in between his thighs and he screamed with pain.

Lian Ru Ning and Xin Ting turned around and Hao Jian smiled faintly, “He’s not being honest so I have to use some tactics. You guys can continue.”

“Oh.” The two really did not hesitate to go back in collecting information.

Shi Gong Dui covered his legs and burst into tears. He really didn’t dare to provoke Hao Jian any further. There is no more delicate and charming appearance at all in Hao Jian’s murderous look!

He glanced at Hao Jian and found that her eyes were still sharp, so he continued to tear up, “I swear I’m only interested in 2D girls!”

If all the girls outside were like Hao Jian, he felt that he would shrivel up.