81: Chapter 81 I'll tell you after you've eaten.

After the helicopter finally stabilized, Ye Qingqing brought Ah Huang back into the space...

Through this repeated process, Ye Qingqing was amazed to discover that she seemed to have already grasped how to pilot the helicopter.

Excitement shone in Ye Qingqing's eyes. After all, this was a helicopter, not just any ordinary thing.

Mastering this helicopter meant the journey ahead would be much smoother.

After practicing flying several times within the space and feeling she was ready, Ye Qingqing glanced at Ah Huang beside her.

She found that Ah Huang was also prepared, even excitement visible in his eyes.

Ye Qingqing took a deep breath, concentrated her mind, and instantly exited the space.

However, the environment outside the space was different from inside.

As they neared the shore, the wind howled, mixed with rain.

It looked no different from a rainy day before the Post-Apocalyptic World.

But Ye Qingqing couldn't help feeling her heart tighten with apprehension.

Because she discovered that with this rain, the helicopter would sway from side to side while she was piloting it.

Ye Qingqing carefully gripped the control stick and looked down below the aircraft.

She saw that the zombies waiting for her on the shore were looking up in the direction of her helicopter as if they possessed some intelligence.

Some zombies, hearing the sound of the helicopter's rotor, even started chasing after it, moving towards Ye Qingqing.

Ye Qingqing checked the road ahead, stopped worrying about the zombies here, fixed her gaze on the tall buildings in front, and slowly increased her helicopter's altitude.

"Woof!" Ah Huang, having no experience looking down from high altitude before, now had excitement in his eyes and wagged his tail happily.

"Ah Huang, tell me, which way should we go?"

For some reason, Ye Qingqing inexplicably wanted to ask Ah Huang this question.

But after asking, she felt she had probably gone mad.

Couldn't she just look for herself? Why ask a dog?

Ah Huang looked at Ye Qingqing, his dog eyes rolling a few times.

As if he understood Ye Qingqing's meaning.

He directly pawed in a direction.

Looking at Ah Huang, Ye Qingqing, for some inexplicable reason, chose to trust him this once.

After all, a dog's intuition is often quite accurate.

Ye Qingqing didn't have a map and wasn't quite sure exactly where this place was.

Looking down from high altitude, below was a stretch of ruins, with almost no trace of living people visible.

All that wandered below were zombies.

Compared to the south, this place was somewhat better.

Ye Qingqing thought to herself that she couldn't pilot the helicopter for too long; she needed to land once she found a place with fewer zombies.

Then switch to traveling by land. After all, in these circumstances, anyone still piloting a helicopter would essentially be announcing themselves as a target.

Meanwhile, while on a mission, Lu Huan suddenly received a report.

"Sir, we've detected an airborne object."

The soldier making the report, holding a printed photo, found Lu Huan.

Lu Huan took one look and his heart skipped a beat. The more he looked at this helicopter, the more familiar it seemed. It was unmistakably the same helicopter they had piloted back in Haicheng.

Except, when they escaped, they hadn't taken the helicopter with them.

For some reason, seeing this helicopter, Lu Huan had a faint feeling this might be an opportunity for Huo Sixian.

During these past few days since arriving at the Capital City, Huo Sixian had shut himself in his room day after day, driving Huo Cunsheng to distraction.

Hope rose in Lu Huan's eyes. Even the slightest news related to Ye Qingqing would be a lifesaving message for Huo Sixian right now.

Lu Huan hurriedly took the paper and ran to Huo Sixian's residence.

Huo Cunsheng was currently standing at Huo Sixian's room door, knocking while holding a meal.

But Huo Sixian paid no attention at all, as if the person inside had vanished.

Seeing this, Lu Huan's tone also grew urgent.

He walked to Huo Sixian's room door and said,

"Boss, someone has spotted that helicopter from Haicheng."

At this moment, Huo Sixian was lying on the bed, his face showing a sickly pallor, dark circles shadowing his eyes.

Hearing Lu Huan's voice, a sudden sharp light seemed to gather in his eyes.

He sat up with a jolt, but due to the excessive force, Huo Sixian felt the world spin violently in his head.

Losing his balance getting off the bed, he fell directly to the floor.

A spark of hope ignited in Huo Sixian's eyes.

Because he had indeed seen with his own eyes before how Ye Qingqing had made that helicopter disappear.

In fact, Huo Sixian had always harbored a suspicion that Ye Qingqing possessed something called a 'space'.

During the days on the Warship, Huo Sixian had voraciously caught up on Post-Apocalyptic fiction.

All the descriptions about spaces matched exactly what he had seen.

They even mentioned zombies.

For a moment, Huo Sixian wondered if the world they were in now was actually a novel.

But when this thought surfaced, Huo Sixian again felt he had probably gone mad.

How could something so fantastical possibly happen?

Huo Sixian stumbled his way to the room door, black spots dancing before his eyes.

He knew his body had reached its limit.

In the days since Ye Qingqing jumped from the Warship, Huo Sixian had also thought about just letting himself sleep forever.

At least in his dreams, he could still see Ye Qingqing.

Lu Huan had no idea that if his intuition hadn't been so sharp, Huo Sixian might have truly allowed himself to continue down that path.

Even dying, Huo Sixian felt it didn't matter.

After all, in the days without Ye Qingqing, everything felt the same to him—life was flat and uneventful.

When Huo Sixian opened the room door, both Huo Cunsheng and Lu Huan were greatly startled.

Because Huo Sixian now looked as if he had lost twenty pounds, his appearance gaunt and altered.

Huo Cunsheng's eyes held heartache, mixed with a sense of regret—regret that his grandson had turned into such a lovesick fool.

If it were another family, Huo Cunsheng might think such deep affection showed character.

But Huo Sixian was different, and a trace of worry surfaced in Huo Cunsheng's heart.

Seeing Huo Sixian like this, Lu Huan immediately handed him the paper.

The helicopter they had piloted in Haicheng before was very distinctive.

As it was a private aircraft belonging to a wealthy boss, the helicopter's exterior was even adorned with a gold trim.

"Yes, it's this aircraft. Where was it spotted?"

Huo Sixian's voice brimmed with joy, his chest heaving violently with excitement.

Lu Huan's expression turned serious, and he let out a long sigh.

"I'll tell you after you eat."

Hearing this, Huo Sixian immediately took the meal from Huo Cunsheng's hands and began eating in large mouthfuls.

Having not eaten for so long, as soon as the food entered his mouth,

Huo Sixian felt as if knives were stabbing his throat.