They parked their vehicles on the largest asphalt road in the village, with houses on both sides, making it easy for zombies to hide.
The ability users from the three teams dismounted and checked the environment. Li Yanting and Da Kun split up, maintaining a close distance and the largest patrol range as usual.
However, today Li Yanting walked into a courtyard and found a stone pier to sit down. Da Kun, in the neighboring courtyard, didn’t understand why. He thought Li Yanting was just tired and didn’t want to move, so he took Li Yanting as the center and went to patrol the surrounding households.
Li Yanting sat in the courtyard for a while and waited for someone as expected.
It was the man named Ji Hui.
“Is Chief Li waiting for me?” Ji Hui first looked around the small courtyard. He didn’t find a stone pier to sit down like Li Yanting, but instead straightened his clothes, maintaining an elegant posture.
Li Yanting: “I just wanted to see what a lone beast that doesn’t want to travel alone looks like.”
“Since Chief Li is getting straight to the point, I won’t hide anything.” Ji Hui said, “I admire Chief Li’s strength and character and am willing to form an alliance. I wonder what Chief Li thinks?”
Some fighting sounds came from the backyard. Li Yanting listened carefully and confirmed that Da Kun could handle it alone, then asked, “What counts as an alliance?”
Ji Hui: “You have strength, and I have brains. We can join forces to get out of the predicament and find a refuge city to take root, support each other, and take care of each other, so we won’t have to worry about livelihood in the future.”
Although Ji Hui only said half of his words, Li Yanting also heard the subtext. This gentle and refined Mr. Ji Hui had great ambitions. “Finding a refuge city to take root” was just a thought of replacing it, wanting to find himself as a thug.
“I didn’t ask Duan Zhanfeng the same question.” Ji Hui added when he saw that the person didn’t respond, “I saw that you were not in harmony. I’m a smart person and won’t cause trouble for myself.”
Finally, Ji Hui asked, “Need any help?”
When Lan Duo saw Hesheng coming over, a little unnaturalness appeared on her face. Hesheng also roughly understood what was going on. She didn’t take the initiative to speak, but simply sat aside and watched her take out the cooking utensils and ingredients from her ability space one by one, cleaning and preparing them.
Lan Duo felt uncomfortable being stared at like this. After enduring it again and again, she finally couldn’t help it. She threw the instant noodle bag in her hand, widened her eyes, and looked at Hesheng: “What are you looking at? You’re not helping, you’re just making trouble!”
“I’m making trouble?” Glancing at Duan Zhanfeng who was looking over here, Hesheng pretended to stand up and leave, “Then I’ll go back to the car.”
“Wait!” Lan Duo blurted out. After stopping the person, she didn’t know what to say.
“What’s wrong?” Hesheng asked.
Lan Duo hesitated: “You… were you really trying to save Brother Ting yesterday?”
“Yes!” Hesheng smiled and admitted generously, the crystal core spinning in her palm.
Lan Duo couldn’t figure it out and was a little inexplicably angry, so she simply asked directly: “Why? Don’t you hate him? Why did you suddenly change? You even cut Brother Ting’s lifeline the day before.”
This question was a dead end. No matter how Hesheng explained, it wouldn’t make sense. She could only deal with it vaguely and then change the subject: “The things in the past were too complicated, and I can’t explain it to a little girl like you…”
Lan Duo interrupted: “Then do you have other plans? I’m telling you, don’t hurt Brother Ting, otherwise I won’t let you go!”
“He’s my fiancé, why would I hurt him? There used to be misunderstandings between us. I was just being difficult. Now that the misunderstandings have been resolved, we’ve made up, and of course we’re in love.”
Hesheng was a little guilty. The misunderstandings between her and Li Yanting had not been resolved, and what she had done to Li Yanting could not be covered up by a single sentence of “being difficult.”
What’s more, they had never really started, so how could they make up.
“Hmph, who knows if what you’re saying is true!” Lan Duo warned angrily, “I’ll be watching you all the time. If you dare to hurt Brother Ting, I’ll be the first to not let you go!”
Lan Duo had a baby face, and her serious look was a little cute. Hesheng tried hard to hold back her laughter and accepted her warning: “I remember, we’ll be very, very good, don’t worry.”
“What am I worrying about!” Lan Duo realized that she had actually taken herself out of the game and quickly tried to make up for it, “I haven’t given up on Brother Ting yet! I want to compete fairly with you!”
“Welcome to the battle, but think about it, we’re engaged, so it’s not fair for you to compete with me.”
Her relationship with Li Yanting was already easing, and she was confident that she could be with Li Yanting well, and she wasn’t afraid of any fair competition.
“Hmph, would I be afraid of you!” Lan Duo snorted.
“I know you’re not afraid.” Hesheng was coaxing a girl for the first time. Although agreeing to her competing with her for her fiancé was a bit strange, it was quite interesting.
“This is for you.” Hesheng handed the crystal core in her palm to Lan Duo. Seeing her stunned with a surprised look, she directly stuffed it into her hand.
“You, why are you giving it to me…” Lan Duo looked at the person in front of her, feeling a little uncomfortable in her heart.
Her ability was space-type, and she could do logistics work with ease. When she really encountered zombies, her combat power was almost the same as ordinary people. It had always been difficult for her to get crystal cores that could help her improve her ability, so she especially cherished every crystal core.
“You’re the only space-type ability user in the team. Who else would I give it to?” Hesheng asked rhetorically, “Could it be that I’m going to give it to another team to do good deeds?”
“No! That’s not what I meant!” Lan Duo retorted, but she didn’t know how to say it.
She had just issued a challenge to compete with her, and now she was taking her crystal core for nothing. No matter what, she was in the wrong.
“You should compete however you want. The crystal core has nothing to do with the competition. I’m also thinking about the interests of the team. If your ability can be improved and advanced, it will be more helpful to the security of our entire team.”
Hesheng patted Lan Duo’s shoulder, glanced at Duan Zhanfeng who was peeking over again, told Lan Duo that she was going to find supplies in the houses, and walked into a farmer’s house facing the street.
Duan Zhanfeng, who had been paying attention to her movements, immediately plunged into the nearest alley, climbed over several walls, avoided everyone, and found the one that Hesheng had entered.
The farmer’s house that Hesheng entered was dilapidated and looked like it had been swept through several times by survivors. There was nothing to take. She picked out a few pieces of wood that could be used as firewood, just found something to wrap them up, and heard the sound of climbing over the wall behind her.
“Hesheng.”
Duan Zhanfeng stood by the wall. Hesheng was facing away from him, and the clothes belonging to another man on her body made him feel very Eye.
“Didn’t you promise to lead Li Yanting to the east of town? We’re about to enter the town now. If you don’t hurry up and take action, I won’t be able to help you. Or is it that you’ve fallen in love with Li Yanting in just a few days?”