Let’s Squander A Billion First!

Chapter 1196: Chapter 1196: Dark Descent (Part 16)

Captain Shan didn’t expect Chuzheng to find a baby and throw this bomb to them.

But they couldn’t refuse.

A group of grown men faced with a wailing baby were at a loss, the baby cried so heartbreakingly and desperately that even Jiang Rushuang couldn’t bear to watch.

In the end, she couldn’t help but quietly brought the child back.

Chuzheng sat in the passenger seat, glanced at her, but didn’t say a word.

-

The fact that the convoy was attacked is factual, saying anything else now is useless.

Captain Shan and others fell silent for a while, then started to organize the convoy’s materials.

When they were almost done tidying up, the people looking for Gu He in the county came along and did not find them.

With heavy hearts, Captain Shan and others set off again.

Ji Lin was still sitting in the passenger seat, reaching for a bottle of milk.

Jiang Rushuang let out a weak protest: ”That’s... that’s for Lele.”

Ji Lin bit on the straw: ”Who’s Lele?”

Jiang Rushuang pointed to the child she was holding.

Earlier she heard that woman call the child Lele.

She didn’t know what the real name was.

Ji Lin glanced at the baby, clicked his tongue, and said maliciously: ”He’s riding in my car and I’m not allowed to drink a bottle of milk? This milk isn’t his anyway, I saw it placed here by Little Deadpan.”

Chu·Little Deadpan·Zheng: ”...”

What did that little thing call her!

Who the heck is Little Deadpan!

Who’s deadpan!

This is aloofness, do you get aloofness or not!

Chuzheng silently accelerated, the car swiftly overtaking the convoy ahead.

Ji Lin was caught off guard and almost thrown against the car window.

He steadied himself and glanced at Chuzheng, who remained expressionless as she sped up, leaving Captain Shan’s car far behind.

”...”

Ji Lin swallowed.

Because there was a child, and Chuzheng didn’t want to hold the child, there were only Chuzheng and Ji Lin left driving the car.

Ji Lin drove sometimes fast, sometimes slow, the speed entirely depending on his mood.

”Where are you planning to go?” Ji Lin, having nothing to do, chatted with Chuzheng.

”Where are you going?”

”Capital City.” Ji Lin didn’t hesitate, then flashed Chuzheng a smile: ”Haven’t found my boyfriend yet.”

Chuzheng’s tone was flat, with an undercurrent of menace: ”I’ll help you find him.”

Ji Lin: ”...”

After a moment, Ji Lin dryly asked: ”Are you going to the Capital City with me?”

”Is there a problem?”

”...” Ji Lin adjusted his posture to appear as serious as possible: ”Little... Miss Chuzheng, we’re just strangers crossing paths, why are you determined to follow me?”

Chuzheng: ”You’ve asked this before.”

”You really fancy me?”

Chuzheng glanced sideways at him: ”You’re honored.”

”I hope Miss Chuzheng extends this honor to someone else, like Captain Shan behind us, though he may not be as handsome as me, he’s not bad either. What do you think, Miss Chuzheng?”

”Do you really think so?”

Ji Lin gave Chuzheng a sincere smile.

Ji Lin noticed Chuzheng’s eyebrows growing colder, her whole body seemingly starting to exude chill.

”I refuse.” Chuzheng raised a hand on Ji Lin’s shoulder: ”What I give you, you have to take.”

Not liking it is fine, you’ll like it eventually.

Ji Lin felt a coolness on his shoulder, as if it would be dislocated in the next second.

He slightly inhaled and struggled: ”I like men.”

”Hmm, doesn’t prevent you from being mine.” First get the person! If that fails, make them lose their memories!

”...”

Who’s yours?

How am I yours?

You haven’t even pursued...

Damn it!

This is a freak, right!

All because of his beauty.

Ji Lin communicated unsuccessfully with Chuzheng, perhaps afraid she would say something else to provoke him, he fell silent, continuing to drive peacefully.

-

The road ahead was free from danger.

The base was gradually getting closer, yet Captain Shan and others weren’t happy because they had saved many people only for it to end like this.

Ji Lin didn’t plan to enter the base, taking advantage of Captain Shan and the others’ inattention, he veered the car off directly toward the other side.

”We’re... not entering the base?”

Jiang Rushuang asked cautiously.

Ji Lin: ”If you want to enter, I can drop you off.”

”But... Lele.” Jiang Rushuang’s voice was meek.

Lele cooperatively hummed twice.

The soft, mellow sound was very pleasant.

”...”

The carriage fell into a strange silence.

Ji Lin knew that if he turned the car around now, Captain Shan and others would surely catch up and not let him leave.

”Let’s take him along.” Ji Lin finally said: ”We’ll drop him off at the next base.”

”Oh.”

Jiang Rushuang quite liked Lele, but she also knew that carrying a child in the apocalypse wasn’t realistic, so she had no objection to leaving the child at the base.

Currently, being able to carry Lele made her naturally happy too.

These days of interaction had already fully activated Jiang Rushuang’s maternal instincts.

Chuzheng didn’t want to express any opinion and had thoughts of getting rid of the little cub that cried intermittently.

The Capital City Base wasn’t far from here, but due to bad roads and constantly encountering various messy situations, their progress was slow.

Normally they could reach in two days, but with detours, fighting zombies, collecting supplies, searching for gasoline... it took nearly a month and they still hadn’t arrived.

Now they were trailing behind a convoy.

This convoy seemed to be a mixture of various forces cobbled together along the way.

[Mainline Task: Please possess three barrels of gasoline within two hours.]

The long dormant Bastard suddenly appeared, issuing a task.

Chuzheng: ”...”

Mineral water bottle?

[Miss, do you have some misunderstanding about the word barrel?]

”...” Get lost!

Chuzheng discovered a few days ago while killing zombies that crystal cores had started to form in their heads.

Chuzheng felt the Bastard was a bit abnormal this time.

Even if crystal cores became the currency in circulation in this world, with Bastard’s setting that anything tradable can become currency, it shouldn’t be this quiet.

Of course, it’s possible the Bastard was having a menopausal fit.

[...] Miss, that personal attack was too much!

”You’re not a person anyway.”

[...] Calm down, remain calm, offer a smiling service, no need to stoop to Miss’s level.

While King’s Account was self-soothing, the vehicles ahead gradually stopped.

-

”Brother Wang, are we really taking those oil bottles behind us?”

”Annoying, this freaking apocalypse has been going on for so long and they scream at the sight of a zombie like their mom just died.”

”Totally, almost caused trouble yesterday, Brother Wang, I think we shouldn’t take them.”

Several modified off-road vehicles stopped in the middle.

One vehicle door was open, and a man in his thirties was sitting there, looking slightly sinister, definitely not a good guy.

Surrounding the car door were a few people, all wearing vests, tall and brawny, without the messy tattoos that societal people usually have, but the feeling they gave wasn’t good either.

These people were all talking at once to Brother Wang.

Brother Wang lit a cigar, puffed for a while, and said: ”Taking them along offers extra security, no harm in it.”

”Ah...”

The back erupted with women’s screams.

One of the men glanced that way, irritably tapping the car with the steel pipe in his hand: ”Freaking stop that here, take it farther away!”