Mo Chen, arms crossed, watched her furtive expression with a hint of amusement.
"It really is!" Someone produced a small knife previously reinforced by Luo Xiao Le, its tail gleaming with a faint silver light, discreetly engraved with the shape of a planet.
"Who would have thought, besides Mo Chen the 'Eagle Eye,' Luo Xiao Le, your eyesight is quite good too, you can actually see this!" Zhou Xiao Jun exclaimed in surprise.
Xu Ling Yan inadvertently caught Mo Chen glancing at Luo Xiao Le a few times.
She silently rolled her eyes at Luo Xiao Le, thinking, she really knows how to take credit!
It was clearly the weapon expert's items that were useful, what did it have to do with her!
She increasingly felt Luo Xiao Le was a show-off, an empty suit.
After confirming the zombies outside could not break in, everyone silently breathed a sigh of relief.
The male student they had dragged in, still shaken, finally spoke.
"Come in with me," he said, stepping into the convenience store first.
Luo Xiao Le nervously tugged at her clothes, expecting to see her uncle and brother.
She took a deep breath and stepped inside the store, only to see a few young men and women, dressed in youthful university attire, huddled fearfully around the counter.
???
Luo Xiao Le quickly looked around.
The convenience store, while not small and quite presentable, had its end in sight beyond the counter.
There was no place to hide people.
Her aunt's last words were that they would take the ring to the young master, so where was the young master?
Was he one of these people inside?
Then why weren't her uncle and brother here?
Could the ring's location indicator be faulty, and this was a trap?
Luo Xiao Le's mind raced with questions, causing her to freeze in place.
Luo Shu, following behind, saw her stiffen and remembered her earlier words about rigidity indicating danger.
He immediately jumped three feet in the air!
He pulled out the knife from his pocket, assumed a standard horse stance, and planted himself in front of everyone, brandishing the small knife with a vigilant expression.
These people weren't good comrades, something was wrong!
The people inside the convenience store looked at him in terror as he suddenly acted like this.
They quickly grabbed brooms and baseball bats nearby, standing up tremblingly.
They hadn't fallen into the hands of zombies, only to let in looters.
The standoff suddenly reached a fever pitch.
Luo Xiao Le stared at Luo Shu's actions, her expression cracking.
She slowly turned her head, her eyes looking at Luo Shu, her lips parting slightly, "Old Luo, what are you doing?"
???
Luo Shu was also dumbfounded.
The squad leader wasn't rigid?
He was the clown himself?
Luo Xiao Le instantly understood what Luo Shu was thinking.
She closed her eyes with a hint of amusement.
It seemed that even when she was thinking, she needed to keep moving...
It was all because of rigidity...
"What are you guys doing?" Zhou Xiao Jun asked from behind, unable to suppress his laughter.
"Cough, cough... Nothing, I was just, testing your reaction speed. Very good, very good." Luo Shu quickly and awkwardly extricated himself, "I apologize, we are not bad people, please don't be afraid."
The few people inside refused to put down their makeshift weapons until the baseball-clad boy from before walked back unharmed. Only then did they relax.
...
The misunderstanding cleared, everyone could finally sit together and exchange information.
After a brief introduction of each other.
Luo Xiao Le could no longer hold back and began to probe.
"Perhaps, have you seen a middle-aged man and a young man acting together?" she urgently needed an answer.
The people inside the convenience store thought hard, "We've been in the convenience store since the zombie outbreak, we've seen a few waves of people fleeing past.
They thought for a moment, then continued, "But we really haven't seen the combination you described."
Luo Xiao Le carefully observed their expressions, they didn't seem like they were lying.
Her doubts grew even stronger.
"There have been some strange things though..." a girl recalled.
"I don't know if you saw our companion just now. He didn't eat enough this morning, got angry this afternoon, and suddenly went berserk, knocking Li Wen out!"
Li Wen was likely the one in the baseball uniform.
"Yes... we've never seen him like this before, but after he got angry, he seemed to change completely..." Li Wen's voice sounded somewhat muffled.
Luo Xiao Le silently noted this.
Getting angry, being temperamental, whether this was related to zombification, needed further observation...
"Also... if you had arrived a little earlier, you would have seen it," the girl said with a wry smile.
"Seen what?" others asked curiously.
"Our classmate Qin Ming Yang was picked up by a group of special forces soldiers with firearms this afternoon. The scene was quite grand," Li Wen continued, his eyes showing a hint of excitement and longing.
Hearing the name, Zhu Hui, standing nearby, reacted strongly.
"Qin Ming Yang, he's alright, isn't he! He was picked up? Picked up where?" Zhu Hui's eyes seemed to sparkle.
Luo Xiao Le gave her a knowing glance, seeming to understand who Zhu Hui had been infatuated with.
"It seems they went towards the school... I don't know why they'd go back there..." Li Wen replied.
Qin Ming Yang... surname Qin...
Luo Xiao Le again thought of the bodyguard she found in the living room on the first day of the apocalypse, who was also from the Qin family...
This couldn't be a coincidence...
"Is the Qin Ming Yang you're talking about from the Qin family? The wealthy merchant?" Luo Xiao Le pressed.
Mo Chen beside her looked at Luo Xiao Le with a hint of confusion.
Why was she so interested in that person?
"Yes, yes! I used to not believe that money could make the world go round, but now it's the apocalypse, and that Qin family still has its own influence, even managing to send special forces with heavy weaponry to try and pick up their only young master..." Li Wen's tone was full of envy.
"If only I could be like that... We wanted to go with him then, but they said they couldn't take us, only protect the young master...
However, two of the people carrying weapons seemed rather clumsy, like it was their first time using them, and almost injured us."
Luo Xiao Le glanced at Li Wen. This person seemed to greatly envy those with money...
But the pieces of information seemed to be connecting.
Luo Xiao Le's crescent moon ring suddenly vibrated again.
She quickly got up, feigning a need to use the restroom, and went into the convenience store's bathroom, closing the door.
Indeed, a moment later, the map unfolded before her eyes, and the light spots converged again.
Luo Xiao Le looked and was startled.
The location displayed by the ring had changed!
It had gradually moved from this convenience store to the school!
It seemed to be in a rather distinctive-looking teaching building.
Luo Xiao Le slapped her thigh. It matched!
It looked like her uncle and brother had taken the ring to Qin Ming Yang, and he had put it on but didn't know how to activate it.
Her uncle and brother were then mistaken for his accompanying soldiers and mixed into the group.
Their attire was the same, so no one paid them any special attention.
Her parents'遺物 had fallen into someone else's hands so brazenly.
Luo Xiao Le clenched her fist.
So, the next objective was to get into the school and find that teaching building!
...
She quickly rejoined the group.
But everyone was exhausted from running all day.
They were all dozing off, and some had already fallen asleep instantly, sprawled haphazardly.
This time, they hadn't even managed to arrange anyone for guard duty.
Luo Xiao Le saw the people from the convenience store sleeping nearby.
She had observed that these people didn't seem to have any handy weapons.
An idea suddenly struck her.
She tiptoed away, placed some items not far from them, and then set up a small arrangement.
Afterward, she returned to her group, pretending to be asleep, propped herself up, took out the crumpled piece of paper she had just made, and flung it towards the group from the convenience store.
A girl was hit by the paper and woke up from a light sleep, opening the paper in confusion.
It read: Look to the side.
She looked to the side and saw several large hammers, screwdrivers, and other tools there...
She quickly woke her companions.
The people from the convenience store heard about strange items and followed the girl's gaze.
They saw several large characters written on an A4 paper on top of the pile of items.
"Perhaps, you need weapons?"