Chapter 10

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Speaking from his conscience, Shen Shanwu felt that his mouth was not picky at all. He could eat everything from onions, to ginger, garlic, and coriander, and it was a cinch to chew a houttuynia raw. Besides, compared to Xiao Jiang Huan, who was just picked up by him, he was really easy to feed.

He still remembered that one afternoon, Xiao Jiang Huan weakly pulled his cuffs and said he was hungry. Shen Shanwu looked at his pitiful face and pulled out the cold steamed buns left in the morning for him. As a result, Jiang Huan frowned and shook his head, saying that he wanted to eat cranberry chocolate cookies. At that time, Shen Shanwu really wanted to punch him into cranberry cookies.

Perhaps it was because Shen Shanwu’s expression was too terrifying. Jiang Huan never dared mention cookies later, but he couldn’t help sobbing and choking in his dreams: “Mom, I want to eat caramel pudding…”

Even if Shen Shanwu chopped up so many zombies, he couldn’t make caramel pudding…

In desperation, he slaughtered most of the zombies on the top of the mountain for a farm, and finally got three eggs that were not radiated, asked for some salt, and steamed Jiang Huan a bowl of fragrant egg custard.

When Jiang Huan ate, he didn’t leave him a mouthful, and the soup at the bottom of the bowl was licked clean like a dog.

“Are you full?” Seeing Shen Shanwu, Jiang Huan licked the corners of his lips in satisfaction and asked.

Shen Shanwu nodded, “I’m full!”

After receiving a positive answer, Jiang Huan lowered his eyes again and continued to look through the books on his knees.

Yao Wuque looked around and felt that it was really boring in the car 1. Zhong Yin and he still had an appointment to play later. “I’m going back to play cards.” He left a word and was about to leave, but he didn’t expect to be stopped by Jiang Huan as soon as he turned around.

“Yao Wuque, take Jiang Tong with you.”

“What?”

Jiang Huan raised his head and said under Shen Shanwu’s gaze, “It’s boring here, so you and your brothers can go to Car 2 to play cards.”

When it comes to card skills, Shen Shanwu was really good. He wanted to play in the university chess and card clubs and almost represented the school in the provincial competition, but now he wanted to completely separate the two people, ’Jiang Tong‘ and ‘Shen Shanwu’. What if Jiang Huan suddenly woke up one day and realized that Jiang Tong and Shen Shanwu had so many similarities and thought that they could be the same person?

So he shook his head decisively and refused, “I don’t know how to play cards.”

“Then go and watch them play and learn from them.”

“I—”

“You are limited to one afternoon to learn the rules of the poker game they play; otherwise you will only have compressed grains for dinner.”

Shen Shanwu: “…” After giving the candy, he started to take the whip, right? Who did he learn all this from?!

Shen Shanwu followed Yao Wuqu to the second car with a dead heart and exchanged places with the lieutenant in the first car, while Yao Wuque despised himself. Why would he say a word to him?

But he didn’t expect that the real pain was still behind. For two hours, Shen Shanwu was forced to watch Yao Wuque’s dilapidated card skills up close. He was cured of low blood pressure for many years, but he couldn’t say anything.

It was hard to watch the cards, but Zhong Yin’s skills and Yao Wuque’s were really a natural match, and Shen Shanwu almost vomited blood.

The key was that this group of energetic young people were still making trouble. Playing cards was like fighting, so noisy that he couldn’t sleep at all. When he opens his eyes, he‘ll be angry, but when he closes his eyes, he’ll still be angry.

In the afternoon, the off-road vehicle completely drove out of the area under the jurisdiction of the Central Alliance and entered the public domain. The ground had been uncleared and uncared for all year round. The ground was overgrown with weeds, which made it very bumpy and uneven. Fortunately, it was an armored vehicle with a high chassis and high stability. The seats were soft, otherwise everyone in the car would have had their buttocks blooming.

Halfway through, the convoy encountered a small group of zombies, about fifty or sixty. Hearing the sound of the engine, they rushed towards the off-road vehicle in a weird, aggressive, and ecstatic manner, like fans who saw their idols.

One car took the lead in the battle, and the sound of bullets piercing the skull came one after another. After a round of shooting, only half of the zombies approached.

Everyone who had been playing cards together also became serious in an instant. They put on their protective equipment as quickly as possible, and then got out of the car to kill the zombies under the order of the captain. Yao Wuque coldly warned Jiang Tong to stay in the car honestly and not to move. He was the last one to jump out of the car, and then calmly closed the car door.

Shen Shanwu put his face on the car window and watched as several team members neatly pulled out their umbrella knives, slashed off the heads of the zombies with one slash, and then mercilessly inserted them into their skulls.

After watching for a while, he found that the Shanhai Team had more than enough to deal with this group of zombies, and it was not his turn to take action. Shen Shanwu yawned and planned to sit back in place. But at this moment, he suddenly caught a glimpse of something in the corner of his eyes, and when he looked back, it turned out to be a small zombie. He didn’t know if it got lost or got separated; it actually went around from the back of the car to the window where Shen Shanwu was.

This was still a girl zombie in a tattered little red dress. Her big black and red eyes were facing Shen Shanwu’s gaze. The face that was originally as cute as a white peach was now only sunken black skin and a skeleton, and only the strawberry hairpin on the weed-like hair that no longer had color, showed that its owner was once a cute and favored female baby.

The little zombie opened her mouth wide, showing her sharp teeth to pounce on the ‘human’ in the car.

Shen Shanwu waved his hand in disgust, “Go! Go!”

The zombie paused for a while, and actually left dangling.

Mutants cannot communicate with zombies, but zombies can perceive the smell of mutants. Just as human breath means food and attacks them, the smell of mutants means distance and danger.

Looking at it this way, the mutants were really an embarrassing existence on both sides. Humans fear and dislike them, and zombies even reject and dislike them.

Before the girl took two steps away, a bullet whizzed through her head, knocking her out and ending her last ‘life’. Shen Shanwu looked along the trajectory and saw Jiang Huan in an army green combat uniform, his white cloak hunting behind him, while his arms were holding his pistol steadily and the muzzle was still vaguely smoking.

Will this cloak still change color? When the temperature was high, it gradually turned white to keep warm, and when the temperature was low, it turned black to keep warm, but he didn’t know if the owner would change colors when he was sad or happy.

After the fierce battle, the people in car 2 returned to their previous cheeky look, gathered in front of the car door to disinfect, wash the zombie liquid contaminated on their clothes, and brag to each other that they had just killed a few zombies.

Shen Shanwu noticed Jiang Huan approaching. He was wearing a mask and stood upright, like a tall green pine, with a white cloak drooping meekly and softly, covering his body.

He glanced into the car from a distance, as if looking at his team members, and as if looking for something.

Shen Shanwu immediately put his helmet on his head and jumped directly from the car. He trotted over to Jiang Huan and looked up at the man who was nearly 50 centimeters taller than him. Before he could speak, Jiang Huan half knelt down and pressed his shoulder with one hand, “Were you scared just now?”

What should he be afraid of? Shen Shanwu took a slow shot before he reacted. Jiang Huan asked him if he was afraid of coming into contact with a zombie at close range just now.

He wasn’t afraid at all of zombies or something. There’s nothing scarier than Yao Wuque and Zhong Yin’s card skills…

Shen Shanwu nodded and asked in a low voice, “A little bit. I have learned the rules of playing cards, can I come back?”

“…” Jiang Huan did not answer, but his hand on Shen Shanwu’s shoulder obviously increased his strength. After a while of silence around him, Jiang Huan nodded, “Then you and the lieutenant can change back.”

The lieutenant learned that Jiang Tong was “crying and making trouble” and wanted to change back to the first car, and he said with a sigh, “Doesn’t this little guy have quite a personality? Why is he so sticky after not seeing the captain for one night?”

Xiaowen shook her head, “Why do I feel that Jiang Tong is purely unwilling to see Wuque?”

After sending the lieutenant, Xiaowen returned to the car and saw Jiang Tong sitting honestly next to Jiang Huan, while Jiang Huan was afraid that he would be bored, and brought him a large stack of books and seriously asked him which one he wanted to read.

Xiaowen took a look. The first three books were “Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance”, “A Brief History of Time”, and “Sun Tzu’s Art of War”. The corner of her mouth twitched, “Uh…Captain, I think Jiang Tong might…”

“I can’t read.” Shen Shanwu’s reaction was faster than Xiaowen’s, and he opened his mouth and said, “I’m going to sleep!”

Jiang Huan grabbed the person and led him back to his original position, “Then I will read it to you.”

Shen Shanwu: “……”

What’s wrong with this person?! Was this how he coaxed a child?! He also read to Jiang Huan many years ago, but what did he read? “One Thousand and One Nights”, “Aesop’s Fables” and “Andersen’s Fairy Tales”, what was Jiang Huan reading to him now?

“In the eighth year of King Xian of Zhou, Duke Xiao ordered Guozhong to say: In the past, I, Duke Mu, cultivated morality and practiced martial arts from Qi and Yong… “

Xiaowen, Shen Shanwu: “…”

Ten minutes later, Jiang Huan put down his book and drank. When he raised his eyes, he saw Jiang Tong and Xiaowen all lying asleep on the table. He didn’t have any sense of pity for Zhang Xiaowen. He put on a coat and only silently stared at Jiang Tong’s side face in a daze.

Really like that person…

Whether it was the thick eyebrows and the curvature of the corners, or the thinness of the lips, the shape of the eyes, or the fullness of the earlobes, they were all very similar to that person. If Jiang Tong grows up, he will definitely be as handsome and graceful as that person.

If there was no blood relationship, were there really two people who were so similar in this world? Jiang Huan still believed that Jiang Tong was a relative of that person; maybe it was just that Jiang Tong didn’t know it.

Then, he must take good care of Jiang Tong and must not lose the last trace of ties with that person.

When he woke up again, it was already dark, and Shen Shanwu opened his eyes in a daze. Half of his face was flushed, and there was still crystal saliva hanging from the corners of his mouth.

Before he could react, Xiaowen took the initiative to put on a breathing mask for him. At the same time, the speed of the car slowly decreased. He looked up and saw the person in the main driver’s seat open the window and lean in front of a gate to communicate with someone.

First, he showed off the team logo on his arm, talked a few words, and then took something and handed it over. After a while, the window closed again, and the guardrail in front of the car door was manually lifted. The person in the driver’s seat stepped on the accelerator and drove the car into the ground.

This was a rest stop and supply point set up along the way to facilitate humans who needed long-distance transfers from all over the world. The rest point where they temporarily live tonight was called the Island, which was converted from the underground garage of an unopened shopping mall before the end of the world.

On the way from the Central Alliance to the coast, unless it was a similar rest point, there would be basically no living people.

The huge armored off-road vehicle was too magnificent, and a group of people stopped to watch when they got out of the car. In addition to the ‘travelers’ who temporarily stayed for one night and would leave tomorrow, there were also permanent residents at the rest point.

The living conditions at the rest point were extremely simple, because it was underground, there was no sunlight all year round, there was a damp and decadent smell everywhere, the walls were patchy, and the original white paint had long become black and yellow, peeling off out of shape, but the biggest problem lay in the food.

Most of the food for permanent residents comes from the travelers who come to the rest stop every day, and they must come up with attractive enough items or conditions to get food from these travelers.

However, apart from the body, what else could these people in a remote corner trade for?

When Shen Shanwu came out of the disinfection room, he found that most of the people watching them were women, and some even had rough makeup. When those flaming lips touched his sight, they immediately pouted and gave him a flying kiss.

In the next second, a black figure stood in front of him. Shen Shanwu raised his head and saw Jiang Huan deliberately slowing down, blocking him behind his cloak and blocking the eyes of all onlookers.

The author has something to say:

Jiang Huan: Who do you think I learned it from?

Shen Shanwu:…could it be me?