"Because you were afraid of death, you chose to walk on the left?"
Little Loli squinted her eyes and looked at Lu Yu who was driving with more and more confusion.
"Yeah, if you're afraid of death, just hit Yao Ling. Because I'm naturally timid, I ran to the police station."
"Forehead……"
Hearing Lu Yu's very inappropriate answer, Xiao Ran felt like three black lines suddenly appeared on his face.
"Do you want to spend the night at the police station?"
"Well, you guessed it right, Xiaoran is so smart!"
Holding the steering wheel with one hand, Lu Yu turned his gaze and wanted to reach out and pinch the tender flesh on the little girl's face.
Xiao Ran hid slightly, slapped away the pig paw that Lu Yu extended with a hint of disgust, and continued to speak.
"Then have you ever thought that the police station might be the hardest hit area by the virus..."
"Hehe, of course I have thought about it, but at the moment, apart from the Chengxi Police Station, the only places I am familiar with are the companies where I usually work. I can't go back to the print shop..."
I thought it was a prudent choice, but unexpectedly it was Lu Yu's helpless move.
There is no way, who makes this twenty-seven-year-old young man a road fool.
"Let's not mention why you are so familiar with the Chengxi Police Station. Why don't you go to your company?"
With her arms folded in front of her chest, Xiao Ran turned her head away, no longer looking at Lu Yu, and continued to ask.
"Why are we going to the company? The company is in the east of the city, which is completely opposite to the west of the city. Didn't Zhang Tiehua say at the beginning that the intersection leading to the Siming Mountain Refuge is in the west of the city. If I turn back now, won't I waste a lot of gasoline?"
As he spoke, Lu Yu patted the steering wheel and motioned Xiao Ran to look at the oil level on the dashboard.
The electronic instrument panel showed that the vehicle still had nearly half of its fuel reserve.
Although this small amount of fuel storage is not enough to cause the car to break down after driving very little, it is definitely not rich.
Considering that every next step was full of uncertainty, Lu Yu could only make careful calculations.
"Okay, that makes sense, so let's talk about why you are so familiar with the Chengxi Police Station."
Xiaoran's questions were like questions asked in class, except that the girl played the role of a teacher, while Lu Yu played the role of a student.
"As a good, law-abiding citizen, why are you so familiar with the way to the police station?"
After the body was successfully immune to the viral infection, Xiaoran's intelligence level has reached the level of an adult, and there are even signs of far exceeding it.
During the few days she spent with Lu Yu, the girl naturally observed the young man's words and deeds intentionally or unintentionally, and made corresponding judgments about his character based on her previous memories.
Xiao Ran knew very well that although Lu Yu looked hard to offend on the surface, he was softer than ordinary people on the inside.
Although all the words he said and the behaviors he showed were selfish, in the end he would still lend a helping hand at critical moments.
At the beginning, Xu Xiaoxiao came to the door with a knife, and then Zhang Ning fell from the sky behind.
There are even survivors who have never met.
As long as the other party did not infringe on Lu Yu's interests, the young man would eventually help.
It was these examples that made Xiaoran make a judgment in his heart that Lu Yu would never be the kind of person who committed crimes.
That's why when Lu Yu showed that he was familiar with the Chengxi Police Station, little Loli became confused.
After all, the young man never mentioned anything about the police station to her.
Facing Xiaoran's doubts, Lu Yu took a deep breath, and then slowly spoke as if he had made some decision.
"You know my father died in a car accident, right?"
Somehow, Lu Yu suddenly mentioned his father.
"Yes, I heard you mention it."
Xiao Ran nodded.
The mother disappeared and the father died in a car accident.
That's all she knows.
During the time he spent with Lu Yu, the young man rarely mentioned his parents. Even if he mentioned them, it was only a brief sentence and a cursory mention.
It felt to Xiao Ran that Lu Yu was trying his best to avoid the past and trying to get out of the haze of losing his parents.
"Alas, my mother disappeared two years ago. On the same day my mother disappeared, my father also had a car accident and left this world forever."
Sighing softly, Lu Yu slowly recounted the painful memories.
"For two years, I waited every day for my mother to come home, waiting for her to tell me what happened, but every day was the result of disappointment."
"The neighbors, including your parents, all think that the tragedy that happened in my family was just a coincidence."
"But I don't think so."
"So for two years, I basically went to the Chengxi Police Station every week. I asked about the investigation of the disappearance case and the whereabouts of the truck driver who killed my father and fled."
Looking at Lu Yu's expressionless face, Xiao Ran murmured in her heart.
It turned out that he was not trying to avoid or break away, but was trying hard to find the truth.
"It's been two years. I've been running to the police station in the west of the city for two years, but there are no clues. The escaping truck driver and my mother are like grains of sand sinking into the endless sea. It's hard to find any trace. trace."
"But you still haven't given up, right?"
Xiaoran's eyes drifted into the distance and asked softly.
"Yes, how could I give up? My mother is missing, not dead. She must still be alive. I have a hunch!"
When she said this, the girl clearly noticed the tremor in Lu Yu's voice, but she did not speak. She just looked at the receding buildings outside the window quietly, waiting for Lu Yu to adjust his emotions.
"Let me tell you, my mother is very smart and very capable. She must have encountered some difficulties, so she disappeared. She must still be alive."
As if to emphasize what he was thinking, Lu Yu repeated it somewhat verbosely.
Xiaoran nodded and hummed softly. After a moment of silence, he looked at Lu Yu who was driving with a dull expression.
"To shock you, I feel that you alone will not be able to find your missing mother."
Lu Yu, who was still immersed in sadness, was slightly startled by the sudden venomous tongue. What did Xiao Ran mean by this? Could it be that he was mocking himself?
Lu Yu turned his gaze and immediately saw a sweet smile on the little Loli's face.
"But it's different with me. I'm so smart, I will definitely be able to help you find your mother."
Hearing this, the surprise on the young man's face was instantly washed away by joy. His mouth was open for a long time, but he couldn't spit out a single word.
"Drive carefully, be careful of the secondary infected in front of you!"
Xiaoran stretched out his palm, pushed Lu Yu's cheek back to its normal position, and added angrily.
The silver-gray car accelerated again, barely avoiding the secondary infected body standing in the middle of the road, and drove smoothly towards the road ahead...
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Chengxi Police Station, detention room.
Fifteen days, exactly fifteen days!
Police officer Xiao Gu was huddled in the corner of the detention room, dumbfounded.
He stared blankly at the corridor beyond the iron fence.
It had been fifteen days. Except for the monsters wandering outside the detention room, Xiao Gu had not seen any other living creatures.
Not to mention that there will be humans who can save him from fire and water.
Xiao Gu's ability to survive today is also thanks to the snacks and water he brought with him when he was working the night shift.
Without food supplements, people can last at least a week based on their own fat reserves.
Yawenba
If there is no water source, he will die of thirst in less than three days.
Although there wasn't a lot of food and water in Xiao Gu's black bag, with reasonable distribution, it still kept him going for more than ten days.
The water in the large steel thermos bottle had been consumed a few days ago, and now the bottle contained Xiao Gu's urine. In order to retain as much water as possible, the police officer had begun to take extreme measures.
But the world seems to have forgotten him. There are no miracles and no rescuers.
Since he hadn't eaten anything in the past few days, and the supplementary water still came from urine, Xiao Gu's physical condition and mental state were already very weak.
"It seems like it's already past noon...it's time to add a drink of water..."
A brain without nutritional supplies was like a car stuck in the mud. Xiao Gu slowly and tremblingly stretched out his palm to hold the thermos bottle next to him.
As if he felt that one hand could not hold it firmly, Xiao Gu stretched out his other hand and slowly brought the cup in front of him.
When he opened the lid, the smell of urine hit his nostrils, but there was no expression on Xiao Gu's numb face. He was used to it. Hunger and thirst had blunted his five senses. In order to survive, he had no choice.
"One quarter left..."
After swirling the urine in the bottle, a trace of bitterness appeared on Xiao Gu's face.
This is like a countdown to his life. When the urine in the bottle is exhausted, he can only wait for death.
Maybe it would be a good choice to ask Xiaoya, who has become a monster, to help him.
The thoughts in his mind were chaotic. After screwing the lid, Xiao Gu leaned over and lay down on the ground again.
The best way to reduce energy consumption in the body is to sleep, lie on the floor and do nothing except breathe.
"Maybe after I close my eyes this time, I won't be able to open them again. Haha, sleeping to death seems more comfortable than being killed by Senior Sister Xiaoya..."
His eyelids closed heavily, and his consciousness fell into darkness again.
It was already the fifteenth day, and no one should be coming to save him.
There was only the sound of the monster's feet stepping on the ground, and it seemed that the only thing left in the ruined world was this melody, which was monotonous and annoying.
Just when Xiao Gu was about to let his consciousness fall silent, his dull ears suddenly caught a sound that had not been heard before.
"Squeak--boom!"
It's the sound of rubber scraping against asphalt, and it sounds like an incompetent driver trying to stop a fast-moving car.
And in the end, before it could stop successfully, it hit something with a bang.
"I'm so hungry that I'm hallucinating...but this driver is a donkey cart driver...it's too rough..."
Using his only consciousness to complain, Xiao Gu fell into a deep sleep.
And in this groggy moment, he seemed to hear a young man swearing, and the content seemed to be...
"Damn it! There's an ambush..."
Then he vaguely heard a passage of unknown meaning.
"Xiao Ran! Don't shoot it in the head, shoot it in the Achilles tendon!"
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