453: Zhao Ling left and arranged for Nie Xiaoqiao

"Buzz buzz buzz~"

While flapping his wings, Nie Fangping flew somewhat unsteadily around the room.

The slight movement drew the attention of the three Zombies in the room.

However, after discovering it was just an insignificant bug, the three Zombies returned to their calm state.

Really, he had really turned into a bug!

Flying out from the collapsed doorway, Nie Fangping arrived at the supermarket's second-floor hall.

Under the dark rainy night, everything was so quiet.

He flew from the stairwell down to the first floor.

Around the dozen or so collapsed shelves, those Zombies were still lingering there.

And on the ground, two Zombies were still gnawing on the corpse of a search team member.

It was the Middle-aged Man with the machete.

Nie Fangping's feeling was very strange.

Normally, he wouldn't even dare to get within a hundred meters of these Zombies.

Now, however, he could rely on his identity as a bug to shuttle around these Zombies without any reservations!

As for the supplies and food in this supermarket, for him as a locust, there was absolutely no need to worry!

Using the cold light reflecting off the puddles in the rainy night, Nie Fangping saw a row of packaged meat on a collapsed shelf.

Packaged chicken legs.

This was something his younger sister loved to eat the most!

In the three months since the apocalypse began, he and his younger sister had never eaten their fill, not even half their fill.

As for delicious snacks and the like, they didn't even have the right to choose.

Flapping his wings, Nie Fangping grabbed onto a packaged chicken leg with his limbs.

The search team encountered a great disaster today, so the people at the subway station probably don't have much to eat either.

And his younger sister must also be hungry.

He would take this chicken leg and let her fill her stomach first.

With him around in the future, he wouldn't let his younger sister go hungry anymore!

"Buzz buzz buzz~"

The food, weighing over a hundred grams, was lifted into the air by Nie Fangping with great effort.

An ordinary locust definitely couldn't do this.

After discovering his unusual strength, Nie Fangping also vaguely felt that he wasn't just an ordinary locust.

As a chicken leg flew into the air, the surrounding Zombies' gazes instantly converged!

However.

Afterward, they began wandering around blankly again.

The Zombies' virus-infected brains clearly couldn't comprehend the scene before them.

The virus in their bodies had only one directive: to find a host - Humans.

It was raining heavily outside.

As soon as Nie Fangping flew out, he was swaying left and right under the impact of the rain curtain.

After his wings were soaked by the rain, it added even more weight.

However, Nie Fangping was enduring all of this through clenched teeth.

He didn't relax his grip on the chicken leg at all.

This was his younger sister's dinner, something that Child had longed for for who knows how long.

...

...

Subway station.

Zhao Ling came this time only to take a few people away, and didn't plan to stay overnight.

It was raining now, and with the sound of the rain providing cover, it was just the right time to take advantage of the night and set off for Yishan Base in one go!

However, to travel like that in one go, one needed to be physically sound and able to keep up with the team.

But now.

Zhao Ling frowned as he looked at the girl in front of him, his tone softening: "I know your Older brother, he is a hero."

When the girl heard Zhao Ling's words, a little more emotion appeared in her empty gaze: "My Older brother... is he really dead?"

This hopeful question was like a bubble blown from soap powder, difficult to form, yet so easily popped.

Zhao Ling sighed and nodded.

Then, after fumbling around on himself for a moment, he handed a piece of paper to the girl.

"This is what your Older brother left behind before he died."

On the paper were clearly the last words Nie Fangping left before being infected by the virus.

"Your Older brother hoped you could go to Yishan Base with me." Saying this, Zhao Ling shook his head again: "But your physical condition, I think you should know yourself."

"There are too many dangers along the way, and you might even encounter evolved mutated Zombies, I cannot protect you."

Hearing Zhao Ling's words, Nie Xiaoqiao lowered her head with a dimmed gaze and unfolded the paper in her hand.

"Take my younger sister to Yishan Base, let her live, please."

Her Older brother's handwriting was crooked and messy, his writing was always this ugly.

If she had seen it before, she would definitely have laughed at this guy, a university Student whose writing wasn't even as good as hers.

But now... this was a will!

Even in his will, he was thinking entirely of her!

The girl only felt that her heart ached so much, aching to the point her whole body trembled!

"Sob!" Afraid of attracting Zombies, the girl habitually suppressed her voice.

The tears streaming down spoke of the fact that her tears had not run dry.

It was just that the pain that drew forth more tears had only just arrived!

Zhao Ling stood up with a slight sigh.

His gaze fell upon the survivors in the subway station before him.

He announced that he was going to set off for Yishan Base.

As this news came from his mouth, the surrounding survivors were in a panic.

Zhao Ling was leaving?

If he left, who would find food for everyone?

Only he could kill the Zombies outside!

If he left, what would they do if Zombies broke in?

What could they, ordinary people, use to stop them?

Thinking of this, many people immediately began to dissuade him.

However, regarding these dissuasions, Zhao Ling shook his head firmly: "Among you, who wants to go to Yishan Base? You can come with me now."

As these words fell, the crowd quieted down slightly.

The next moment, a mother and daughter walked out.

It was very clear that these were Sister Lin and her daughter, whom Zhao Ling had greeted when he first arrived.

And these two acquaintances were also the main people Zhao Ling had come to pick up.

"Yishan Base is so far away, isn't going there just courting death?"

Someone in the crowd whispered.

And it was these words that plunged the entire subway station into silence.

"Can I... go?"

From the back of the crowd, Nie Xiaoqiao timidly raised her hand.

Even though Zhao Ling had already shown his attitude towards her before, she still wanted to try and fight for it.

Her Older brother wanted her to go to Yishan Base, he wanted her to live.

She wanted to live, carrying her Older brother's wish, to live and see the end of the apocalypse.

However.

Regarding this, Zhao Ling rationally shook his head: "Sorry... I cannot take care of you along the way."

This answer could be said to be cruel.

But from Zhao Ling's perspective, there was nothing wrong with it.

The journey of over two hundred kilometers was already full of dangers.

Bringing along a burden who couldn't even walk would greatly delay his speed.

Nie Xiaoqiao also seemed to understand that she was a burden, curling up by herself, her eyes swollen from crying dimming with timidity.

"Lu Chao." Zhao Ling turned his head and beckoned to someone in the crowd.

"Boss Zhao? What is it?" A Man with dark skin and a simple, honest appearance walked out from the crowd.

This Man named Lu Chao was clearly one of the three surviving search team members.

In Zhao Ling's impression, this simple and honest Man had a pretty good relationship with Nie Fangping.

While thinking this, Zhao Ling pointed at Nie Xiaoqiao in the distance in front of the Man: "This Child is entrusted to you to look after."

"Ah? Entrusted to me?" Lu Chao's face was full of difficulty: "Boss Zhao, I can't even take care of myself, how can I possibly support someone else!"

Zhao Ling frowned, looked at the people around him, and then took Lu Chao and Nie Xiaoqiao from the corner outside the subway station.

Under a shed, four bags of fifty catties of rice were placed there.

"These are your compensation, enough for you and this Child to eat for a long time. Two months from now, I will come back to pick people up." Zhao Ling patted Lu Chao's shoulder and said, gesturing towards the two of them.

And Lu Chao looked at the rice in the shed ahead, his breathing suddenly becoming rapid.

"These, these are for me?!"

"It's for you two." Zhao Ling frowned and reminded him.

"Okay, okay, okay!" Lu Chao's simple and honest face was full of excitement: "Boss Zhao, don't worry, I will definitely take good care of this Child!"

Seeing the Man's promise, Zhao Ling nodded.

Taking her to Yishan Base now was impossible, but finding someone to take care of this little girl could be considered doing right by the guy who sent the map out.