Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Seven: Just to Live
“Sister, Huayibai said that the people from Qingzhou University are almost here,” Lin Jiayao did not take her hand back from her sister’s face, but subconsciously scratched her sister’s chin lightly with her finger, and continued to ask, “Do you want to go together?”
Perhaps because she was used to rubbing Huayibai’s chin, Lin Jiayao didn’t realize for a moment that there was anything wrong with her current action.
Her sister’s personality was not like Huayibai’s. She attached great importance to the identity of “older sister” and had always acted like a reliable older sister.
Feeling her sister’s finger frivolously scratching her chin, while her sister’s eyes were drifting away, Lin Xiwan’s eyes narrowed slightly.
“Yao—”
Lin Xiwan drew out her voice and called, pulling her sister’s attention back.
Seeing her sister look at her, her eyes still a little confused, seemingly not knowing what her sister was calling her for, looking cute, Lin Xiwan’s anger instantly disappeared.
She didn’t intend to do anything, just to scratch back twice as much, but for the sake of her sister being so cute, she would let it go this time.
Holding her sister’s right wrist, she took her sister’s hand away from her face, and at the same time, Lin Xiwan also grabbed her sister’s left wrist.
Under her sister’s puzzled gaze, Lin Xiwan slowly moved her hands upwards, grabbing her sister’s hands, moving from the wrists to the back of her hands.
Her sister also cooperated very well, opening her palms following Lin Xiwan’s movements, letting her sister’s slightly larger palms cover the back of her hands, their fingers overlapping.
This action obviously aroused her sister’s attention, and she no longer drifted off.
Lin Xiwan just like this, led her sister’s hands and slowly rose.
“Smack—”
Lin Xiwan slowly exerted force with both hands, pressing her sister’s hands, and “pia” pressed them on her sister’s face, squeezing her sister’s face into a grimace.
“Hahaha~”
Seeing her sister’s appearance, Lin Xiwan, like a child who threw a firecracker in a can, let go of her sister’s hands and stepped back while laughing.
But as soon as she stepped back, Lin Xiwan remembered that her sister, who couldn’t move her legs, couldn’t catch up to “take revenge”. She almost forgot in the playfulness.
Lin Xiwan stopped her retreating footsteps, took two steps forward, and squatted back in front of her speechless sister with a smile.
“Okay, okay, don’t be angry, I’ll pinch it back for you.” Lin Xiwan grabbed her sister’s hands again and put them on her face.
But soon, Lin Xiwan felt her sister pinch her face hard, and said with disgust:
“Hehe, it’s all sweaty, I won’t pinch.”
“Okay, okay, no pinching, no pinching.” Lin Xiwan patted her sister’s head, and said with a smile, “I’ll go wipe my body, and we’ll go together later.”
After speaking, Lin Xiwan rubbed her sister’s head again, and then hummed a song and walked downstairs.
Although her sister was usually very beautiful and cute, Lin Xiwan still preferred her sister’s awkward appearance just now.
That state was the state that her sister should have at this age, looking silly, throwing a little tantrum, and the classic saying no but meaning yes.
Whenever Lin Xiwan saw her sister showing this kind of “disobedient” and “naughty” state before the apocalypse, she felt more at ease.
A child who was too obedient would make people feel too distressed.
Lin Xiwan had just found a puddle and was preparing to wipe the sweat off her body and wash her face when she saw Huayibai already pushing the wheelchair and coming to find her.
Hearing the “thump thump” sound not far away, Lin Xiwan also knew that her sister had already called the building-tree guard in advance.
After Lin Xiwan washed her face and zipped up her clothes, she held her sister in one hand and Huayibai in the other and jumped onto the top of the building-tree guard that was already waiting.
Now with the building-tree guard as a means of transportation, their travel speed in the city had obviously increased.
But she still had to mark out a road specifically for the building-tree guard to walk on.
Otherwise, with the building-tree guard’s huge physique, stepping into a puddle with each step, the whole city would be filled with mud pits and puddles in a short while, and it would also trample many plants and fungi to death.
But these were all for later. In less than five minutes, they had arrived at the ash area from the library of the research institute.
Learning from the last lesson, when they arrived at the ash area, Lin Jiayao let the building-tree guard slow down and not splash too much ash.
What surprised Lin Jiayao a little was that a large area without ash had been cleared in the current ash area, and most of the ash had been filled into several large pits.
It seemed that there might be an Awakened related to wind abilities in this camp. Maybe they didn’t have any combat ability, but they came in handy in this situation.
There were many construction waste buried under the ash area, which was much more difficult to deal with than ash, and it would take more time to clean up.
What made Lin Jiayao a little curious was that in one area, there were many car exhaust shells piled together, the roofs of the cars were cut off, leaving only the body shells, forming a good enclosure.
And the cut-off roofs were placed neatly inside the enclosure formed by these car bodies.
But now, what attracted Lin Jiayao’s attention even more were the dozen or so flapping-wing insects that had been neatly parked.
The size of these flapping-wing insects was not as large as the one that Huayibai had transformed into in Wisconsin, but they were definitely not small for ordinary people.
Now people were constantly carrying things down from the abdomen of the flapping-wing insects, but most of them were silently looking around curiously.
As for the people from the original Panlong Square camp, they were now standing at the edge of the oasis area, looking at the newly arrived people coming down from the flapping-wing insects, with nervous and vigilant faces.
They really wanted to negotiate or drive away the “foreign invaders”, but reason told them that they couldn’t deal with the flapping-wing insects in front of them at all.
It wasn’t until they heard the familiar heavy footsteps from inside the oasis area that they breathed a sigh of relief.
At this time, Lin Jiayao also let the building-tree guard stop at the edge of the oasis area, and slowly sank, hitting the ground.
This time, Lin Jiayao let Lin Xiwan take her with her.
After all, Lin Jiayao could be considered to have met the Qingzhou University Camp a few times, and it was quite relaxing to meet acquaintances in the apocalypse.
As for the matter of retaining evolution, Lin Jiayao had not continued after being interrupted by her sister before, and planned to select again after dealing with the matter in front of her.
After telling her sister that she also wanted to go and have a look, her sister readily agreed.
Letting Lin Xiwan face a large group of people alone, she was still a little nervous, but with her sister by her side, she was not so afraid.
On top of the building-tree guard, Lin Jiayao made a soft wheelchair made of vines and mycelium, and then let her sister put her on it.
Finally, Lin Xiwan, carrying Huayibai and Lin Jiayao’s wheelchair, jumped off the building-tree guard together and pushed Lin Jiayao slowly forward.
As for Huayibai, she followed behind the two, a little absent-minded.
After dividing her body into too many parts, Huayibai’s movements began to have obvious “lag” and “delay”, as if the CPU was overloaded.
As soon as Lin Xiwan pushed her sister to the edge of the ash area, she saw the leader of the Panlong Square territory, who had already rushed over, with a nervous face.
“Leader… there are many big bugs outside, and many people have come down. We don’t know their intentions, so we dare not act rashly…”
Because Lin Xiwan had not said her title, the original camp leader used the word “leader”.
You could tell at a glance that he was a worker within the system before the apocalypse.
“It’s okay, I called them.” Lin Xiwan nodded slightly and reassured him.
Lin Xiwan’s words obviously relieved them.
But it seemed that she didn’t like the word “leader”, so Lin Xiwan said again: “Don’t call me leader, just call me Lin Xiwan in the future.”
Lin Xiwan didn’t have any official addiction and had to use titles to show that she was a high-level person. She had never even regarded herself as a high-level person. In her eyes, she had always been just her sister’s spokesperson.
But others didn’t see it that way. In the eyes of the people in the Panlong Square camp, Lin Xiwan was a spokesperson pushed out by a large organization, and her weight was not small. She might even be one of the high-level people.
How could they dare to call her name directly?
As for the beautiful girl she was pushing, she looked a bit like the relative or sister of the high-level person who called herself “Lin Xiwan”, and their looks were somewhat similar, but they were beautiful in their own ways.
In the apocalypse, they were two extremely eye-catching scenery.
“Okay, Sister Lin.” Although he knew that the other party’s age must be very young, the leader of the original Panlong camp still used an honorific title.
Lin Xiwan didn’t resist this title, after all, she had been called this for several years.
Pushing her sister past the crowd, Lin Xiwan walked towards the people from Qingzhou University Camp.
After getting off the “plane”, the people from Qingzhou University Camp were basically in a daze. They just stayed where they were and waited, and few people noticed Lin Xiwan’s arrival.
Soon, Lin Xiwan saw Wan Zi in the crowd, and a few familiar faces.
But these people were all in a circle, not knowing what they were doing.
“Wanzi!” Lin Xiwan still had some goodwill towards the camp leader who had helped her and her sister, and waved her hand in Wan Zi’s direction.
At this time, Wan Zi seemed to notice someone coming, turned her head and looked in Lin Xiwan’s direction, and then stared at Lin Xiwan and Lin Jiayao for a few seconds.
“Ha… it really is you.” Wan Zi smiled bitterly and shook her head, parted the crowd, and walked in Lin Xiwan’s direction.
After Wan Zi made way, Lin Xiwan saw where Wan Zi and the others were surrounding just now, which seemed to be a stretcher placed on the ground.
“Long time no see, Lin Xiwan, and Sister Lin Jiayao.” After walking to Lin Xiwan and Lin Jiayao, Wan Zi had completely put away her previous emotions and looked at the sisters with a smile.
At this time, Wan Zi finally understood why these two sisters didn’t join a self-sufficient and not dangerous camp. They were originally from a large organization.
And Wan Zi also probably understood why they, as members of a large organization, would leave a pair of twin sisters in their camp in advance.
Because these two sisters had already known that they would experience a great battle when they returned, they left the two children without any combat power behind in advance.
Wan Zi was very glad that she had always taken special care of these sisters since they arrived at the camp. The people in the camp were also very good to them, and they also had the friendship of helping to adopt two children.
If any one of these links was missing, Wan Zi felt that she would not have been invited and brought here.
Looking at this whole piece of ruins, Wan Zi could imagine the fierceness of the battle…
But now the important thing was not these, but how to communicate to get normal treatment and conditions for their camp.
After all, Wan Zi was not representing herself, but representing the ordinary people and Awakened of the entire camp, and she could not mix too much personal emotion.
Just as Wan Zi finished greeting and prepared for the upcoming negotiations with great concentration, the woman opposite spoke under Wan Zi’s gaze.
“Eh? What were you doing just now? Is the person lying on the ground a wounded person? Need help?”
Lin Xiwan looked at the direction behind Wan Zi and asked with some curiosity.
The material preservation in Kun City was still good, and the medical supplies were naturally abundant, and there was no need for her sister to take action.
And Lin Xiwan was also a little resistant to letting her sister use her awakening ability to save others… After all, she knew how to use her sister’s abilities, and even needed to use body fluids and saliva.
You could say that Lin Xiwan was selfish, but she just didn’t want to see her sister treat anyone other than herself.
Fortunately, her sister was not the kind of person who liked to help others, so she definitely would not take the initiative to say that she wanted to help others.
“He… he’s dead, he didn’t make it,” Wan Zi was silent for a while, and then sighed softly, continuing, “He was injured to save my life, he was one of my subordinates…”
“Ah… mourning,” Seeing Wan Zi’s sad expression, Lin Xiwan sighed and comforted, “Sorry… If you weren’t in a hurry to transport them by flying insects, if you used other means of transportation…”
“No, it’s not your fault,” Wan Zi shook her head, smiled bitterly, “Even if he stayed there, he couldn’t hold on. If we changed to a car, he might have been shaken to death on the road in a few days.”
“At least with these flying insects… let him see the oasis here before landing.”
Speaking of this, Wan Zi was silent for a while, and suddenly laughed as if she had let go, and said: “He asked me ‘Have we arrived?’ after getting off, and I replied ‘Yes, it’s safe’, and then he passed away…”
“He held on, just wanted to see the camp he had been protecting survive safely. Before he left, he saw it.”
Wan Zi blinked, slightly raised her head, sniffed, and after a while, lowered her head and looked at Lin Xiwan again, showing a smile.
“Can I trust you?”
Although she was asking this question now, Wan Zi already had the answer in her heart.
If it wasn’t for trusting them, she wouldn’t have taken the entire camp onto the flying insect that looked like a mutated zombie.
Looking at this short-haired woman who had always been strong, but now her eyes were red, Lin Xiwan’s heart gradually sank from relaxation.
She felt the pressure on her shoulders.
Since she had brought these camps here, she had to take responsibility for them.
“It’s okay, you can treat this place as your home…” Lin Xiwan raised her right hand, reached forward, and said seriously, “I will try my best to help you rebuild here.”
“Live.”
Hearing the last word, all the worries and anxieties in Wan Zi’s heart instantly vanished.
Yes, weren’t all the actions and struggles of ordinary people and ordinary Awakened in the apocalypse just to live?
These two simple words, one word, showed the attitude of Lin Xiwan, the spokesperson of this organization, and also dispelled all Wan Zi’s worries on the road.
“Yes, live.” Wan Zi smiled relievedly, and also extended her right hand, holding Lin Xiwan’s hand.
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